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There was a time when actress Lois Smith fuzzed her age. Not out of vanity. After all, when the top of her dark hair turned shocking white, she kept it. "Nature just decided to gray me that way," says Smith. "I really liked the way it happened." Until then, the problem was she looked younger than her driver's license…

“I probably have never been as excited about a new play as I was when I read that,” veteran actress Lois Smith said of Marjorie Prime, the Pulitzer Prize-nominated Jordan Harrison play on which Michael Almareyda’s film of the same name is based. Breaking out at Sundance, where the indie auteur won the Alfred P. Sloan…

Acting for the stage and screen for six decades—and sharing the screen with James Dean in East of Eden, her first big gig—Lois Smith may have found the role of a lifetime in Michael Almereyda's Sundance-premiering indie, Marjorie Prime. But to be clear, the actress' first experience with the material was on stage in…

Some actors are just blessed. That is certainly the case with Geena Davis and Lois Smith, award-winning veterans of different generations who find a way to keep working consistently in a business that often throws talent away. They currently are co-starring as daughter and mother in the film adaptation of Marjorie Prim…

The Los Angeles bow of Gook from Samuel Goldwyn Films had the best per theater average among the weekend's slew of new Specialty films. The Sundance fest title, directed by second-time feature director Justin Chon, grossed a combined $31K from two locations. Amazon Studios/IFC Films' Crown Heights opened in three…

Eighty-six year-old actress Lois Smith will receive an awards push for her portrayal in Marjorie Prime, which opens this weekend via FilmRise, the distributor that picked up the Sundance fest title last spring. Marjorie Prime, which also stars Jon Hamm, Geena Davis and Tim Robbins, is among a fairly crowded slate of…

The new emotional and unsettling trailer for FilmRise’s Marjorie Prime evokes some Black Mirror vibes and has drawn comparisons to Spike Jonze’s Her. Even so, the film based on the acclaimed Jordan Harrison play stands on its own as it has received high marks when it bowed earlier this year at the Sundance Film…

EXCLUSIVE: FilmRise has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Marjorie Prime, the Michael Almereyda sci-fi pic starring Lois Smith and Jon Hamm. It bowed this year at Sundance, where it won the festival’s Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Feature Film Prize. FilmRise plans a mid-2017 theatrical release and an awards-season…

"The hope for technology, I think, is that it helps us," said Marjorie Prime actor Jon Hamm this week at the Sundance Film Festival. "The reality is often that it has unintended consequences, but I think that our film actually deals in the more hopeful part of that," the Emmy winner added. "Which is nice, honestly…

Sundance Institute and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation revealed the winners of $60,000 worth of grants today, and Michael Almereyda's Marjorie Prime won the Feature Film Prize. Jon Hamm, Geena Davis, Lois Smith and Tim Robbins star in the film set in a near-future time of artificial intelligence. Marjorie is 86 and has…

Veteran producer Uri Singer has opened a new production company, Passage Pictures and the set Marjorie Prime, Singer's second collaboration with director Michael Almereyda, as the first film released under the new label. The sci-fi drama will premiere at Sundance next month and stars Geena Davis, Tim Robbins, John…

EXCLUSIVE: Director Michael Almereyda is teaming with producer Uri Singer on Tesla, a biopic about legendary inventor Nikola Tesla, whose real-life inventions and exaggerated public image have inspired future scientists as well as countless works of fiction, from comics to novels and films including The Prestige. Tesla…