Filmmaker Guy Ritchie has a flair for assembling a truly memorable rogue’s gallery and bringing it to the screen in vivid hues of eccentricity, menace, humor, and gutter eloquence. The British writer-director did it with Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), he did it with Snatch (2000) and with Rocknrolla…
BREAKING: WME just signed Matthew McConaughey, the Oscar-winning actor.
McConaughey had been at CAA, and his move follows the exit of his longtime agent Jim Toth, who left for a big job at Jeffrey Katzenberg’s Quibi in March. McConaughey won his Oscar for 2013’s Dallas Buyers Club, and his credits include Dazed and Con…
Call it coincidence or just Oscar’s great luck.
The same year that Matthew McConaughey took home a Lead Actor Oscar win for Dallas Buyers Club in 2014, he found himself with an Emmy nomination in the Lead Actor Drama Series category for HBO’s True Detective series. This year, history repeats itself for Mahershala Ali…
The description for the R rating given Matthew McConaughey’s new film probably says all you need to know: “drugs, alcohol, nudity, sex.” That not only sums up how The Beach Bum got the R, it pretty much also sums up the plot of this movie. Actually, check that: There really isn’t a plot.
The Beach Bum is exactly what…
EXCLUSIVE: In one of the biggest deals to emerge from the 2019 EFM, STX has finalized a deal for U.S. rights to Guy Ritchie’s Miramax pic Bush — formerly known as Toff Guys — for around $7M.
Multiple suitors were in the mix for the star-studded crime-comedy, whose cast includes Matthew McConaughey, Hugh Grant, Colin Fa…
UPDATED: Though Aviron initially declined comment on this story about it not honoring the P&A spend its execs said they would make on Serenity, the distributor has now asked to comment. Here is that comment:
"We had the best intentions for Serenity. We were excited for the opportunity to release this uniquely original…
Matthew McConaughey, Kate Beckinsale and Crazy Rich Asians breakout Henry Golding have been set to star in Toff Guys, the new Guy Ritchie move that returns the director to his Lock, Stock and Snatch Brit gangster action roots.
The casting, which Deadline confirmed Wednesday, comes after Miramax Films closed a $30…
When it comes to finding unmined cinematic talent, who knew to look in a Baltimore high school principal’s office?
Such was the case on how the production of White Boy Rickfound fresh face Richie Merritt to play notorious 1980s Detroit drug kingpin and undercover law informant Rick Wershe Jr. after casting a net…
Yann Demange’s English-language debut film, White Boy Rick, is compelling stuff indeed. Coming off the Telluride and Toronto film festival debut circuit, this true story of a 14-year-old Detroit kid, Rick Wershe Jr., recruited in 1984 to be part of an undercover police operation to ferret out lowlife drug-dealing…
EXCLUSIVE: A rifle, a screaming and half-dressed young woman, squealing tires and a near-miss car incident — it’s just your typical family spat in this clip fromWhite Boy Rick, which is having its international premiere tonight at the Toronto Film Festival after bowing at Telluride last week. Typical, that is, for…
Neon has unleashed Matthew McConaughey as Moondog with the red band trailer drop for Harmony Korine’s subversive new comedy The Beach Bum. McConaughey stars as the rebellious eponymous rogue who lives life large and by his own rules.
Set to the strums of “Crimson And Clover,” the Beach Bum trailer introduces us to…
