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Lena Dunham is back. Sharp Stick — the writer-director-actor's follow-up to the HBO series Girls and her first film since Tiny Furniture (2010) – opens in LA at Landmark's renovated single-screen NuArt Theatre and at the Quad Cinema in NYC. It expands to 40-50 screens next weekend, heading to about 100…

Utopia today unveiled a red band trailer for Lena Dunham’s Sundance-premiering comedy Sharp Stick, which is slated for release in New York and Los Angeles on July 29. Dunham’s first feature since her 2010 breakout Tiny Furniture centers on Sarah Jo (Kristine Froseth), a naive 26-year-old living on the fringes of…

Amazon today unveiled the first clip from its Lena Dunham film, Catherine Called Birdy, also announcing that it will hit theaters on September 23, in advance of its Prime Video debut on October 7. The film written and directed by Dunham is based on Karen Cushman’s children’s novel of the same name. It’s set in the…

Utopia has taken U.S. rights to writer-director-producer Lena Dunham's latest directorial Sharp Stick which made its world premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. A theatrical release is planned for later this year. The pic marks the Girls creator’s return to feature filmmaking a decade after the start of that…

Over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, filmmaker Lena Dunham threw herself back into watching movies, including “the female-led films of the ’70s” that she’d spent ample time focusing on in college, finding within their depictions of female sexuality the seed of the idea for her next film, Sharp Stick, which…

Lena Dunham hasn't made a feature film since Tiny Furniture 12 years ago, but she has some plausible excuses— running Girls for six seasons, conceiving another series, writing two books, acting here and there. It took the pandemic to get her behind the camera again and, lo and behold, the resulting film is about…

The 2022 Sundance Film Festival begins today, the second in a row to be done virtually. Buyers and sellers won't miss the cold, altitude and avoiding what could have turned into an Omicron super-spreader event as the highly catchy Covid variant continues to hobble the business. It is surreal to once again not gather…

The ongoing pandemic can’t stall the fountainhead of cinematic creative bursting from the Sundance Film Festival’s 2022 lineup, which was unveiled Thursday. Sundance festival director Tabitha Jackson told Deadline that the upcoming lineup of 82 features for the virtual and in-person Park City event is “doubling down…

The story of Anna Genovese, the second wife of infamous crime boss Vito Genovese who broke Cosa Nostra law when she spilled the illegal dealings of her husband in divorce hearings, is being turned into a limited series for HBO. The WarnerMedia network is developing Mob Queens with Ruth Wilson set to star as Genovese…

Micro-doll Polly Pocket is getting amplified for the big screen in a new live-action Mattel and MGM movie that Golden Globe Girls winner Lena Dunham will write and direct, with Lily Collins set to star as the title character as well as produce. Dunham's production company Good Thing Going will also produce the movie…

EXCLUSIVE: Joe Alwyn and Dean-Charles Chapman have joined the cast of Catherine Called Birdy, which has Lena Dunham writing and directing. Andrew Scott and Bella Ramsey are also on board. The project is a Working Title Films production in association with Good Thing Going with Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Jo Wallett…

UPDATE, with Generation trailer: From executive producers Daniel Barnz, Zelda Barnz and Ben Barnz, Generation is the new kid on the HBO Max block. The new series may deal with the authentic lives of the modern teenager, from social media to sexuality and gender identity, but Generation is no Euphoria, said star Justice…