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EXCLUSIVE: 2022 Emmy nominee John Turturro (Severance) has come aboard the WWII documentary Potentially Dangerous as an executive producer. The first feature from director Zach Baliva is next set to screen at the Ferrara Film Festival in Italy on September 11th. Potentially Dangerous unveils 80-year-old secrets and…

EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American right to Genevieve Adams’ dramedy Simchas and Sorrows, along with worldwide rights to Peter Curtis Pardini’s doc The Last Band on Stage, and North American rights to Jaclyn Bethany’s queer thriller, The Falling World. The Anthem Sports…

There are moments in the latest entry in Warners and DC’s Batman franchise when I thought this is going to turn into a variation of what we experienced in the reimagined Saw series sequel, Spiral — in which Chris Rock played a detective trying to solve a series of grisly, graphically presented murders in a city run…

The Apple TV+ drama Severance is set to premiere on Feb. 18 via its streaming service. A first look trailer featuring stars Adam Scott, Patricia Arquette, John Turturro, Britt Lower, Zach Cherry, Dichen Lachman, Jen Tullock, Tramell Tillman, Michael Chernus, and Christopher Walken can be found above. Severance—from…

John Turturro is set as a lead alongside Adam Scott, Patricia Arquette, Tramell Tillman, Jen Tullock, Zach Cherry and Britt Lower in Severance, Apple's upcoming workplace thriller drama directed by and executive produced by Ben Stiller. Severance takes place at Lumen Industries, a company that's looking to take…

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 — 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)  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…