A panel of top principals from classic 1989 coming-of-age romantic comedy Say Anything… celebrated the film's 30th anniversary and its refreshingly timeless sensibility during a Tribeca Talks event Tuesday night in New York. Beyond the nostalgic embrace of the familiar from the sellout crowd (a loud ovation during the…

John Cusack is set to star opposite Sasha Lane and Rainn Wilson in Utopia, Amazon's straight-to-series adaptation of the British drama, written by Gone Girl author and screenwriter Gillian Flynn. Utopia follows a group of young adults who meet online that are mercilessly hunted by a shadowy deep state organization…

EXCLUSIVE: Two companies — Minds Eye Entertainment and Sky VR — have produced a scripted, live-action 360 cinematic VR experience tied to the release of the Christina Ricci and John Cusack film Distorted. To get an idea of what this means, click on the trailer above and you will be able to move the footage to see the…

EXCLUSIVE: Jacob Artist, best known for his role as Jake Puckerman in Fox’s musical series Glee, has booked the lead alongside John Cusack in Misfortune. Ellar Coltrane and Willa Fitzgerald co-star in the thriller directed by Lucky McGee with Lee Nelson and David Buelow of Envision Media Arts as producers. Written by…

John Cusack is in advanced negotiations to star in Misfortune, a chase thriller for which Radiant Films is handling overseas rights at Cannes. The pic will be directed by Lucky McGee with Lee Nelson and David Buelow of Envision Media Arts as producers. Cusack will play Miller, a sharp, quick-witted businessman who has…

Spike Lee, John Cusack and Nick Cannon came to the Berlinale today in support of Lee's Chicago-set anti-gun-violence musical satire Chi-Raq. The Amazon-backed pic is making its international premiere out of competition in Berlin, a festival with a strong political bent. That was in evidence today with a press…

While Paul Dano caught our attention playing a mostly silent Nietzsche-obsessed teenager in 2006's Little Miss Sunshine, the 31-year old actor has actually been practicing his craft since childhood: he made his Broadway debut at the age of 12 opposite Oscar-winner George C. Scott and Charles Durning in Inherit the Wind…

Chi-Raq, Spike Lee’s latest joint, is an update of Aristophanes’ anti-war comedy Lysistrata, otherwise known as the play where all the women of Athens stop having sex with their husbands in an effort to bring the devastating Peloponnesian War to an end. Set in the modern day south Chicago Urban war zone nicknamed…

EXCLUSIVE: John Cusack has signed with ICM Partners. The veteran actor, whose work spans Say Anything, Being John Malkovich, High Fidelity and most recently the Brian Wilson biopic Love & Mercy, had been repped by UTA…

Five years after it bowed in China, Shanghai, director Mikael Håfström’s neo-noir set during the Japanese occupation of China in World War II, will finally see theatrical release in the United States, The Weinstein Company has announced. Though it hit Chinese theaters in the summer of 2010, the film has never been…

In many ways, director Bill Pohlad’s Brian Wilson biopic Love & Mercy is a much riskier proposition than the usual showbiz biography. Although it features much of the feel-good Southern California sounds of the Beach Boys, the movie itself is a very dark, rather harrowing look into mental illness — at least as far as…

Once you know the story,” the Love & Mercy trailer tells us, “you’ll never hear the music in quite the same way.” Nicely put. The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson comes to the big screen in all his messed-up glory in Love & Mercy, with the flawed genius played in early years by Paul Dano and later by John Cusack. The pic…