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EXCLUSIVE: Days after announcing his next star studded comedy at Netflix, Zac Efron is continuing to build up his diversified slate as he is set to star in A24’s The Iron Claw, the latest drama from writer-director Sean Durkin. A24 is set to finance and produce the pic with Durkin writing and directing. Producing…

EXCLUSIVE: Village Roadshow Pictures has inked a multi-year first-look deal with David S. Goyer's Phantom Four Films to source, develop and produce feature films with Phantom Four’s President of Production, Keith Levine, overseeing development. Levine also will produce alongside Goyer. As part of the deal, Phantom…

There is a reason The Nest won acclaim at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. It’s good. Really good. Coming from writer-director Sean Durkin, whose only previous turn behind the camera was nearly a decade ago with 2011’s Martha Marcy May Marlene — a well-regarded debut that still left me at arm’s length in my…

A lavish new home opens doors to a marriage’s secrets in writer-director Sean Durkin’s The Nest. A 2020 Sundance Film Festival premiere, the film stars Jude Law, Carrie Coon, Oona Roche and Charlie Shotwell in what IFC Films calls “an unsettling, naturalistic drama.” The synopsis: Rory (Law), an ambitious entrepreneur…

Sean Durkin returns to the Sundance Film Festival with his sophomore feature, The Nest, a period drama starring Jude Law, Carrie Coon, Charlie Shotwell, and Oona Roche. Set in the 1980s, the plot follows a family that relocates from the U.S. to the UK as the patriarch Rory, (Law) chases career opportunities. Rory…

EXCLUSIVE: Sean Durkin is back with his second feature after a nine-year gap since the critically-acclaimed Martha Marcy May Marlene, which starred Elizabeth Olsen as a cult escapee and debuted at Sundance in 2011. His new movie, The Nest, is a drama with Jude Law and Carrie Coon playing a couple who relocate their…

EXCLUSIVE: Sean Durkin, whose sophomore feature The Nest starring Jude Law and Carrie Coon premieres at Sundance on Sunday (January 26), is already hard at work on his next film project. The Martha Marcy May Marlene filmmaker is scripting a pic that will tell the rise and fall of the Von Erich family, a dynasty of…

EXCLUSIVE: Melissa Breaux has joined Management 360 as a manager, bringing a roster of actors, writers and directors with her. She will be based in Los Angeles. Breaux’s clients include filmmakers Nicole Kassell (Claws and Watchman pilots, The Leftovers), Sean Durkin (Martha Marcy May Marlene), Antonio Campos (Simon Ki…

EXCLUSIVE: Not all the indie films coveted by buyers are in Sundance. A spirited auction is going on right now for Janis, a package for the long-awaited film about iconic ’60s singer Janis Joplin. Martha Marcy May Marlene helmer Sean Durkin is directing, and Manchester By The Sea star Michelle Williams is now firmly…

Michelle Williams is in early talks to portray Janis Joplin in a big-screen biopic, a role that has attracted and disappointed a very long list of actresses going back decades. This particular project — Janis, based on the book Love, Janis that inspired the stage musical of that name — has director Sean Durkin (Martha…

In an interesting pairing, Martha Marcy May Marlene helmer Sean Durkin will make his British TV debut with Channel 4 drama Southcliffe, based on a script by Tony Grisoni, who wrote the Red Riding trilogy for the net in 2009. Warp Films is producing the four-part Southcliffe to be aired in 2013. Following a raft of…

EXCLUSIVE: After recently winning the Tony for best actress in a play for Venus In Fur, Nina Arianda will make her screen-starring debut playing 1960s rock icon Janis Joplin. Joplin, a film that looks back on the final six months of the singer’s life with flashbacks to her early career, will be directed by Sean…