Alan Ball won an Oscar for his original screenplay of American Beauty, which also took the Best Picture award for 1999. Later he made his directing debut with Towelhead in 2007, but it has taken 13 years before making his second directorial effort. With Uncle Frank, he has revisited his own Southern roots to explore…
In the 1973-set drama Uncle Frank, Paul Bettany plays the titular character who takes a road trip with his partner Wally (Peter Macdissi) and his 18-year-old niece Beth Bledsoe (Sophia Lillis) from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina where they attend the funeral of family patriarch Mac (Stephen Root).
Writer and…
Amazon acquired Uncle Frank, the Alan Ball-directed drama that has been one of the early buzz sales titles at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Deal was $12 million for worldwide rigths. This was done in competitive bidding with several others in the mix.
That matches the amount Searchlight Pictures paid late Sunday for…
Alan Ball is in Sundance today to premiere Uncle Frank, a drama set in 1973. An 18-year old and her NYU professor uncle take a road trip to their South Carolina home to bury the prof's father, who rejected his son when he learned he was gay. The trip will rear up past trauma that Frank has done his best to suppress…
In another Disney+ news reveal in Hall H at Comic-Con. Marvel boss Kevin Feige revealed the logo and news for the new series WandaVision. He brought out Elizabeth Olsen (Scarlet Witch) and Paul Bettany (Vision) to talk about the new series which will be “like nothing you ever seen before” in the MCU. After discussing…
Paul Bettany has been living in Disney’s world of late, reprising his role as Vision in Marvel’s mega-blockbuster Avengers: Infinity War and suiting up as villain Dryden Vos in Lucasfilm’s Solo: A Star Wars Story which began international rollout this week and releases domestically today. The latter is a reteam for…
That was quick. Paul Bettany is out of the running to play Prince Philip in Season 3 of Netflix’s The Crown, Deadline has confirmed.
Deadline reported over the weekend that Bettany was in active negotiations for the role as a replacement for Matt Smith, who played the character in the first two seasons.
It’s not…
Today on Force Friday, Star Wars Han Solo director Ron Howard tweeted out a photo of Paul Bettany with the message, “The Outer Rim just got a little bit wilder #PaulBettany #Force Friday”. Seth Rogen responded to Howard on Twitter saying, “If he’s just visiting he dresses funny.”
Howard followed it up with the second…
Debuting on August 1 with a two-hour premiere, Discovery's excellent and rivetingManhunt: Unabomber probes the real story of how Ted Kaczynski's 17-year reign of terror was finally brought to an end. Having killed three people and injuring nearly two dozen in mail bomb attacks spanning 1978-1995, the child prodigy…
Sam Worthington says he held off as long as possible meeting FBI agent and criminal profiler Jim Fitzgerald, whom he portrays in Discovery Channel's Manhunt: Unabomber, because Fitz, a profiler, would have been profiling Worthington, as the actor was trying to profile Fitz.
Worthington did, he said, read Fitzgerald's…
True-crime stories are all the rage on TV at the moment, and now Discovery is giving us a first look at its eight-part limited series about Ted Kaczynski’s one-man war against modern society. Here is the first trailer for Manhunt: Unabomber, which follows the FBI's famed hunt for the deadliest serial bomber in…
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