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The Help director reportedly has stepped in to direct Voltage Pictures’ Eve after the project’s original helmer exited. Matthew Newton left the production after news resurfaced about his pleading guilty to assaulting his girlfriend 11 years ago in his native Australia. Eve reunites Chastain with…

Matthew Newton has exited as director of the Jessica Chastain-starring Eve, a character-driven action movie that the Aussie also wrote. Chastain announced the film August 1 which she is producing via her Freckle Films along with Voltage Pictures. The news of Newton’s hire caused a backlash against the project and…

Working with Julianne Nicholson last year on indie drama From Nowhere, Australian writer-director Matthew Newton seems to have found a kind of muse in the actress, casting her as the lead in his Toronto Film Festival-premiering Who We Are Now. Like Outside In—another TIFF title—the film focuses on an individual…

EXCLUSIVE: Julianne Nicholson, Emma Roberts and Zachary Quinto have been set to star in Who We Are Now, the follow-up movie for writer-director Matthew Newton after his SXSW-winning pic From Nowhere. The new pic, which reunites Newton with his From Nowhere star Nicholson, has just started shooting in New York. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Following the film’s successful South By Southwest Film Festival debut, From Nowhere director Matthew Newton has signed with Varun Monga, Martin To and Paul Alan Smith’s Equitable Stewardship For Artists (ESA) for representation in all areas. Co-written by Newton and Kate Ballen, From Nowhere follows three…