I was lucky enough to be among the very first people, particularly among journalists, to see The Assistant, even before its world premiere at the 2019 Telluride Film Festival which was before it had been sold to a distributor. I did the first interview with its writer and director Kitty Green, previously best known…
Without flash or melodramatic tendencies, documentarian Kitty Green makes an impressive narrative debut with The Assistant, a quietly effective roman à clef clearly inspired by the scandals surrounding Harvey Weinstein. First seen at the Telluride Film Festival over Labor Day and screened last week at the Sundance…
Bleecker Street has acquired U.S. distribution rights to The Assistant, director Kitty Green's drama that has taken as its inspiration the Harvey Weinstein scandal. The pic, which stars Ozark‘s Julia Garner and had its world premiere at Telluride, will now hit theaters on January 31, 2020.
The plot follows one day in…
EXCLUSIVE: This does not promise to be a very good holiday weekend for Harvey Weinstein. Ursula MacFarlane’s scathing documentary on the Weinstein scandal, Untouchable, debuts on Hulu on September 2, while on Friday a new movie, The Assistant, a fictional narrative film clearly inspired by the revelation of Weinstein…
EXCLUSIVE: Matthew Macfadyen (Succession), Kristine Froseth (Sierra Burgess Is a Loser) and Makenzie Leigh (Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk) have joined Julia Garner in writer-director Kitty Green’s untitled movie based on a day in the life of one of Harvey Weinstein’s assistants.
James Schamus (Brokeback Mountain)…
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a promising update on an intriguing project: Ozark’s Julia Garner is in negotiations to play the lead in Kitty Green’s (Casting JonBenet) upcoming movie charting a day in the life of one of Harvey Weinstein’s assistants.
Due to shoot in New York next year, the as-yet-untitled narrative feature is…
Casting JonBenet filmmaker Kitty Green is in pre-production on her next film, a feature-length fictional work, that tells the story of the day in the life of one of Harvey Weinstein’s assistants.
The new film, currently untitled, is produced by the same team that made Green’s Casting JonBenet: Scott Macaulay, and Jame…
“It was the biggest thing to happen to Boulder in a very long time,” says a voiceover, in remarkable understatement, near the beginning of Netflix’s newly released trailer for Casting JonBenet, Kitty Green’s documentary-hybrid of the murder of 6-year-old beauty pageant darling JonBenet Ramsey. Netflix picked up…
Ahead of its world premiere Sunday in the U.S. Documentary Competition at Sundance, we’re getting a first look atCasting JonBenet, which looks at the JonBenet Ramsey murder case.
Directed by Kitty Green, the documentary is a sly and stylized exploration of the sensational murder of the six-year-old beauty queen…
Netflix has acquired worldwide rights to Kitty Green’s documentary Casting JonBenet, which will have its world premiere in the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. The film will launch on Netflix and in limited theatrical release this spring.
Casting JonBenet is a sly and stylized…
EXCLUSIVE: One of the most upsetting child murder cases in recent memory is the subject of a provocative feature film. Meridian Entertainment is financing, and James Schamus’ Symbolic Exchange is producingCasting JonBenet, a film that is part documentary, part narrative feature, directed by Kitty Green (The Face of Uk…
