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Ryan Murphy sat down with the female cast members of The Watcher to reflect on the true crime genre and discuss who may have been the true voyeur who inspired his Netflix limited series. But first, Murphy was happy to take credit for accomplishing what few — if any — Hollywood projects try to…

Amazon has unveiled a trailer for its film Goodnight Mommy, based on the Austrian psychological thriller of the same name, which will launch globally on Prime Video on September 16. The Goodnight Mommy reimagining follows a pair of twin brothers (Cameron and Nicholas Crovetti) as they arrive at their mother’s (Naomi…

EXCLUSIVE: Chloë Sevigny has been tapped as a lead opposite Naomi Watts in Feud: Capote's Women, the second installment of FX’s anthology series from Ryan Murphy and Plan B. Reps for FX and 29th Television, which is behind the Feud franchise, declined comment. Jon Robin Baitz is writing all eight episodes and serving…

EXCLUSIVE: Ryan Murphy and Plan B have set a second installment of their FX anthology series Feud. Titled Capote’s Women, the project will star two-time Oscar nominee Naomi Watts as Babe Paley who ruled the glamorous world of New York society in the 1960s and 70s. Two-time Oscar nominee Gus Van Sant is set to direct…

You probably don’t know the name Pam Bales, but this New Hampshire nurse, mother and search-and-rescue mountain guide is a hero by any definition. Naomi Watts, no stranger to roles requiring great physical skill and authenticity, plays Bales at perhaps the most challenging moment of her life and career as a simple day…

Bleecker Street today unveiled a trailer for its Naomi Watts thriller Infinite Storm, from director Małgorzata Szumowska (Never Gonna Snow Again), which it is releasing wide on March 25. Watch it above. The film is based on Ty Gagne’s Reader’s Digest article “High Places: Footprints in the Snow Lead to an Emotional…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Naomi Watts is set to star in The Friend, based on Sigrid Nunez's hit book about a woman’s bond with her Great Dane. Nunez’s 2018 novel, which won the U.S.’s National Book Award For Fiction, charts the story of a writer who adopts a Great Dane that belonged to a deceased friend and mentor. The…

EXCLUSIVE:  One of the few titles up for sale at TIFF this year was Phillip Noyce’s thriller Lakewood starring Naomi Watts, and Vertical Entertainment and Roadside Attractions have landed North American rights to the the female-driven thriller. The movie, which was fully financed by Boies Schiller Entertainment and…

The global pandemic has provided filmmakers opportunities to get creative in order to make films in unusual circumstances. Already at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, we have seen The Guilty with Jake Gyllenhaal in what is essentially a one-man show connected to the outside world simply by a phone in…

EXCLUSIVE: Naomi Watts and Bobby Cannavale are set as the leads in The Watcher, a Netflix limited series from Ryan Murphy and his frequent collaborator Ian Brennan. No one would comment, but I hear The Watcher follows a married couple (Watts, Cannavale) whose move into their dream home is being threatened by…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominee Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda), rising actor Billy Howle (Outlaw King), Tony-winner Denis O'Hare (American Horror Story) and Southside With You breakout Parker Sawyers have joined Naomi Watts in survival thriller Infinite Storm. Malgorzata Szumowska’s (Never Gonna Snow Again) feature is based…

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed Oscar-nominee Naomi Watts for representation in all areas. The two-time Academy Award nominee next stars in Penguin Bloom, which she also produced and will be released on Netflix January 27th. Watts recently filmed Lakewood for director Phillip Noyce. CAA Media Finance represents the film's…