Palm Springs, the comedy written by Andy Siara, directed by AFI grad Max Barbakow in his feature debut and starring a cast including Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti, made history a year ago when it broke all sales records at the Sundance Film Festival. It was picked up instantly in a bidding war won by Neon and Hulu…
EXCLUSIVE: Palm Springs arrived with a bang at January’s Sundance Film Festival, when the romantic comedy with an existential twist (and turns) was acquired for a fest-record $17.5 million. Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti star in the pic, which Max Barbakow directed from a screenplay by Andy Siara.
Barbakow and Siera…
For editor Matt Friedman, Palm Springs was undeniable from the get-go.
Stemming from a script by Andy Siara that was "so tight, so smart, and so clever," the genre-bending comedy allowed him to work with metaphysics, along with pitch-perfect performances from stellar actors.
Starring Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti…
Neon, which distributed 2019’s Todd Douglas Miller-directed Emmy- and Peabody-winning documentary Apollo 11, said Thursday it will release Miller’s new short film Apollo 11: Quarantine in Imax theaters beginning January 29. The distributor said it will mount an Oscar campaign for the short, which will be co-presented…
A busy 2020 for Elisabeth Moss kicked off at Sundance with Josephine Decker's Shirley, in which she stars as seminal horror writer Shirley Jackson. Next, the actress saw blockbuster success with The Invisible Man, a modern adaptation of the H.G. Wells classic. Launching her own production company in July, she then…
UPDATED with video: For his documentary Notturno, Italian director Gianfranco Rosi did the unthinkable—spend most of his time in the field without a camera.
"I remember my producer saying, ‘Are you crazy? …If something important happens you’re going to miss it!'" he recalls at Deadline's Contenders Documentary…
UPDATED with video: Neon's documentary Totally Under Control paints a devastating picture of the Trump administration's response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
"There are moments that we look at in the film where the administration could have sort of righted the ship, released more funds, released the Defense Production…
UPDATED with video: The Neon documentary The Painter and the Thief begins with a surprising "meet cute." After two paintings are stolen from artist Barbora Kysilkova in Oslo, Norway, she encounters one of the suspected thieves in court. Instead of feeling angry at the accused, Karl-Bertil Nordland, he excites her…
UPDATED with video: Russian-born director Viktor Kossakovsky says it was a monumental struggle to make his documentary Gunda, starring the title character: a sow raising her litter of piglets on a farm in Norway.
"I spent 20 years to find a producer," Kossakovsky reveals during the panel for the Neon film at…
UPDATED with video: Director Philippe Lacôte is back as the representative from Ivory Coast for the International Feature Film Oscar with Night of the Kings, a story about storytelling. It's set in the notorious La Maca prison in Abidjan where prisoners rule the roost.
As a red moon rises, a new inmate, designated…
UPDATED with video:Andrei Konchalovsky's acclaimed historical drama Dear Comrades! is inspired by the true story of a state-sponsored massacre in the Russian city of Novocherkassk in the early 1960s.
We follow the story through the personal experience one of the city's Communist Party officials whose views go through…
Apple Original Films has released the first trailer for the R.J. Cutler-directed documentary Billie Eilish: The World's A Little Blurry which takes a look at the meteoric rise of the singer to global stardom. The feature docu will be released in theaters by Neon and globally on Apple TV+ February 26, 2021.
Billie Eilis…
