Screen Media Films has released the first full trailer for The Jesus Rolls, John Turturro’s return to playing his famous The Big Lebowski character, the decidedly un-Dude but master bowler Jesus Quintana.
Turturro wrote and directed the spinoff of sorts, which is half Coen Brothers homage and half tribute to the…
What would The Jesus do? John Turturro’s creepy-fun Jesus Quintana didn’t have much screen time in The Big Lebowski —Â the Coen brothers will do that to us. But he delivered and was the recipient of some memorable lines, most of which aren’t exactly seemly for this family publication. Now The Jesus takes the wheel in a…
Will John Turturro be getting back into the eczema skin of The Night Of‘s New York City criminal attorney John Stone soon?
In the series’ debut season, Stone was thrust into the biggest case of his career defending Pakistani-American college student Nasir (Riz Ahmed)Â accused of murdering his one-night stand. Now the…
The Cannes Film Festival winning actor-director and two time Golden Globe nominee is joining Matt Reeves’ The Batman as Mafia cappo Carmine Falcone.
Reeves made the news public on his Twitter handle today.
Falcone’s nickname is The Roman and he has a grip on Gotham City’s organized crime scene. Tom Wilkinson played…
Screen Media has acquired North American rights The Jesus Rolls, the movie from John Turturro that returns his Big Lebowski character Jesus Quintana to the big screen more than 20 years later. Turturro wrote, directed and stars in the pic, which the indie distributor now plans to release in early 2020.
The movie…
In 2013 Chilean director Sebastian Lelio won raves, and his star Paulina Garcia won awards, for Gloria, a movie set in Santiago that did well on the art house circuit and was released domestically by Roadside Attractions. One of those who really admired it was then-newly minted Oscar winner Julianne Moore (2014’s Still…
Acclaimed foreign movies usually go on from TIFF to be remade by American studios—they rarely arrive as English-language indie remakes. Yet in the case of Gloria Bell, an intimate study of a middle-aged divorcee, not only is the film a Los Angeles-set retelling of a 2013 arthouse hit—Berlin Jury Prize winner Gloria—it…
SundanceTV has boarded The Name of the Rose, a limited international drama series based on Umberto Eco’s acclaimed novel, that stars John Turturro (The Night Of), Michael Emerson (Lost, Person of Interest) and Rupert Everett (Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children).
AMC Networks’ cable network as well as Sundance…
EXCLUSIVE: Norwegian actor Anders Danielsen Lie, star of Paul Greengrass’s upcoming thriller Norway and Netflix series Nobel, has joined Greta Gerwig, John Turturro and Mia Wasikowska in the cast of Mia Hansen-Løve’s Bergman Island, I can reveal.
Shoot is due to get underway July 16 in Farö (the remote island in…
John Turturro (Transformers franchise), Jeanne Tripplehorn (Criminal Minds), Michael Cera (Molly’s Game), Brad Garrett (Everybody Loves Raymond) and Holland Taylor (Mr. Mercedes) have signed on to co-star opposite Julianne Moore in director Sebastian Lelio's re-imagining of his 2013 Chilean-Spanish drama, Gloria.
This…
My Best Friend's Wedding star Rupert Everett and The Night Of'sJohn Turturro’s Italian TV adaptation of Umberto Eco's crime novel The Name of the Rose has found an international distributor.
Germany’s Tele Munchen Group has acquired international rights outside of Italy for the eight-part series, commissioned by…
Riz Ahmed took the Emmy home tonight for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for HBO’s The Night Of. Bowing early in the season last year, The Night Of felt like it was trailing the race as more recent shows made big impacts. But Ahmed’s performance as Nazir ‘Naz’ Kahn, a Pakistani/Iranian-American…
