Antebellum is clearly a horror film — of sorts — that tries hard but largely fails to be the socially relevant take on systemic racism that it sets out to be. Jordan Peele set a very high mark for this subgenre with his Oscar-winning Get Out and follow-up Us. Those movies (which came from some of the same producers as…
Hunger Games actress Jena Malone and American Gods’Pablo Schreiber are attached to as leads in Lorelei, the first feature written and directed by AFI graduate Sabrina Doyle. The Florida Project producers and Freestyle Picture Company partners Kevin Chinoy and Francesca Silvestri are producing the pic with Moonlight…
Setting out in the development of The Public, his latest feature, Emilio Estevez knew he faced an uphill battle — particularly in terms of financing. “Obviously when you're talking to studios and independent companies about making a film about the library, and about mental illness and homelessness, you can just watch…
EXCLUSIVE: Freestyle Digital Media, the digital film distribution arm of Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios, has secured the U.S rights to horror thriller Angelica, written and directed by Mitchell Lichtenstein. The film, which stars Jena Malone, Janet McTeer, Ed Stoppard, and Tovah Feldshuh, will be released in…
Alec Baldwin, Taylor Schilling, Jena Malone and musician Che “Rhymefest” Smith have signed on to co-star in the Emilio Estevez-directed socially conscious ensemble dramedy the public. Currently in preproduction, the film is set to begin principal photography in mid-January on location in Cincinnati.
Written by and…
Diane Kruger has been set to star in Fatih Akin's In the Fade (Aus Dem Nichts), the helmer’s next film after Why We Took The Car. It will mark the first German-language project for Kruger (Inglourious Basterds, FX’s The Bridge), who was born in Germany. It begins shooting in the fall in Akin’s hometown of Hamburg…
Brenton Thwaites has been set to star in Office Uprising, a zombie action comedy being directed by Steven C. Miller from a script by Ian Shorr and Peter Gamble. The Exchange has boarded to sell the pic worldwide at the upcoming European Film Market in Berlin.
The pic centers on of the world’s leading arms…
Nicholas Braun (The Perks Of Being A Wallflower) has joined Tina Fey and Margot Robbie in Paramount's Fun House, an adaptation of Kim Barker’s wartime memoir Taliban Shuffle. Fey plays a journalist and self-confessed adrenaline junkie who recounts her six years of reporting on terrorism and international affairs in…
EXCLUSIVE: For Ellen helmer So Yong Kim has set Jena Malone and Riley Keough to lead Lovesong, the tale of best friends Sarah (Keough) and Mindy (Malone) who take off on an impromptu road trip with Sarah’s young daughter in tow and see their deep BFFship develop into a surprising romance – despite the fact that Mindy…
