LATE BLOOMERSSection: Narrative Feature CompetitionDirector: Lisa SteenScreenwriter: Anna GreenfieldLogline: Karen Gillan plays 28-year-old-Louise, a depressed musician, recently single, who breaks her hip and winds up in physical therapy with people twice her age. There she meets cranky Polish lady…
As Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 barrels the Marvel Studios’ franchise toward its conclusion, Karen Gillan, stopping in Deadline’s SXSW studio provided a glimpse as to how life is shaping up for Thanos’ adopted daughter and Gamora’s adopted sister, Nebula, in the threequel.
“Now we’re seeing Nebula…
While Andrea Riseborough's shock Oscar nomination for the SXSW 2022 sleeper To Leslie is still being processed, it's too early to see whether it will have any effect on anything other than awards-season process. It would be nice, however, to think that it…
EXCLUSIVE: Karen Gillan (Thor: Love and Thunder) will star opposite Margaret Sophie Stein (Bullets Over Broadway), Jermaine Fowler (Sorry to Bother You), Kevin Nealon (SNL) and Talia Balsam (Divorce) in the Lisa Steen-directed comedy Late Bloomers from We’re Doin’ Great and Park Pictures, which has wrapped production…
The pandemic lockdowns had different effects on just about everyone, but writer-director-producer Judd Apatow simply embraced it, sitting down to wrote a low-budget Jurassic Park takeoff as if it was directed by Mel Brooks in the heart of Covid. This is Apatow out on a limb, and his Netflix movie is, in a nutshell, a…
Sneaking out. Hooking up. Melting down. And bottled up.
Welcome to The Bubble, Judd Apatow’s stacked-cast lockdown comedy that looks at the high stakes and high jinks involved in filming a studio tentpole movie during Covid. Check out the first trailer above.
The scenario unfolds somewhere in England during the dark…
Premiering in the U.S. Dramatic Competition section at the Sundance Film Festival, Riley Sterns’ Dual asks some real existential questions about creating life, destroying it, and how far would you go to preserve who you are. Along with Stern, Dual’s Karen Gillan (Gunpowder Milkshake), Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) and…
RLJE Films last night acquired U.S. rights to Riley Stearns’ thriller Dual in a competitive bidding situation, striking a low-mid seven figure deal for the film, which recently premiered in U.S. Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival.
XYZ Films, CAA Media Finance and UTA Independent Film Group closed the…
The influence of the Greek "weird wave," and to a lesser extent the moral mazes of Austria's Michael Haneke, have been seeping into U.S. indie cinema for quite a while now, and Riley Stearns' third feature, Dual, comfortably fits into the Sundance slot taken last year by Pascual Sisto's bizarre dysfunctional family…
EXCLUSIVE: Disney+ has put into development Rhona Who Lives by the River, an animated musical series from Suburgatory creator Emily Kapnek, with Jumanji and Avengers star Karen Gillan attached to voice the titular character and executive produce. Four-time Oscar nominee Danny Elfman will create and oversee music on…
The times they are a-changin’.
In a genre ruled by men for decades, it is clearly now the ladies’ turn to provide the action. With Black Widow leading the summer box office — the first Marvel stand-alone since Captain Marvel, both featuring female stars — plus a steady diet of movies like Atomic Blonde featuring women…
After making the jump to Netflix, Judd Apatow has set quite a cast for his next comedy, The Bubble. Karen Gillan, Maria Bakalova in her first project since her breakout role in Borat 2, Iris Apatow, Fred Armisen, David Duchovny, Keegan-Michael Key, Leslie Mann, Pedro Pascal and Peter Serafinowicz have joined the…