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Writer-director Fran Kranz and cast members Reed Birney, Ann Dowd, Jason Isaacs and Martha Plimpton promised nervous audiences that their school-shooting drama Mass is a hopeful one. They spoke with Deadline's Antonia Blyth at The Contenders Film: Los Angeles event Sunday. "It's about finding a path forward," Kraz…

In a highly impressive and explosive feature screenwriting and directing debut, Fran Kranz has crafted Mass as an intense, involving, moving and thought-provoking chamber piece of a film that explores the way two different sets of parents deal with the emotional aftermath of a school shooting, years after it occurred…

Mass, the screenwriting and directing debut from Fran Kranz, captures an emotionally charged meeting between two couples, parents of both the victim and the perpetrator of a tragic shooting that took place years ago. During his time at Deadline’s virtual Sundance studio, Kranz shared how the Parkland school shooting…

4A native of New York and a playwright, Radha Blank’s The 40-Year-Old Version has been a buzzy title at Sundance. The award-winning script was chosen for the 2017 Sundance Institute Directors and Screenwriters Lab and is a story that parallels Blank’s own life. Set in New York, the comedy follows a down-on-her-luck…

EXCLUSIVE: Harry Potter alum Jason Isaacs, Emmy winner Martha Plimpton, Reed Birney and Emmy-winning The Handmaid's Tale star Ann Dowd are set to lead Mass, an indie drama from first-time feature director Fran Kranz. Kranz is best known for his role as Topher Brink in Joss Whedon’s sci-fi series Dollhouse, and was…

That remarkable actor Reed Birney, a Tony winner last season for his haunted portrayal of a dad in crisis in The Humans, plays a related role in Tracy Letts‘ Man From Nebraska, which opened last night at off-Broadway’s Second Stage. One night that has been much like any other in the life of this comfortably secure…

Before he hit 25 Reed Birney was already a Broadway star in a hit show that wasn’t even a musical. In 1977 Albert Innaurato’s blue-collar Philly with a gay-twist comedy Gemini had moved uptown to the Little Theatre, where it settled into a long run on the strength of a crass and unavoidable TV spot (“I’ll just pick!”)…

EXCLUSIVE: The latest film helmed by Jeff Lipsky, an indie distribution veteran and Adopt Films co-founder, is due for domestic theatrical release in July via Plainview Pictures. Mad Women, a dark satire, is the sixth title in Lipsky’s oeuvre, which also includes Flannel Pajamas and Molly’s Theory Of Relativity. The…

Adrian Pasdar (Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.) has joined the cast of ABC’s drama pilot The Kingmakers. Written and executive produced by Sallie Patrick, Kingmakers, from ABC Studios, centers on Eli (Gus Halper), a young man whose sister Julia is found dead during her freshman year at an elite Ivy League university…