Glenn Close recently received her record eighth Oscar nomination, so far without a win, for her brilliant portrayal of Mamaw in Hillbilly Elegy, a role in which her maternal character must deal with her daughter’s tragic drug addiction. In her new film, Four Good Days, she again is in the same situation, this time at…
Debuting filmmaker BenDavid Grabinski is a self-proclaimed fan of rom-coms and The Twilight Zone. With his first feature he has managed to blend the two, even throwing in a bit of Billy Wilderesque black comedy to make a film that satirically puts marriage, long-term romance and the slippery slope of relationships on…
EXCLUSIVE:Â We have learned that Marc Maron and Stephen Root have boarded the real-life inspired drama To Lesliewhich stars Andrea Riseborough as a West Texas single mom who wins the lottery, spends it fast, leaving a world of heartbreak in her wake.
Maron will play Sweeney, a lonely motel manager living a quiet life…
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…
EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off his Emmy nomination for HBO comedy Barry, Stephen Root is joining Glenn Close and Mila Kunis in Rodrigo Garcia’s drama Four Good Days, about a mother helping her daughter work through four crucial days on the road to recovery from substance abuse.
Launched at Cannes this year, the project is due…
EXCLUSIVE: Freestyle Digital Media, the recently acquired digital film distribution division of Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios, has acquired the North American rights to director/co-writer Nathan Adloff's Outfest audience award winner Miles for theatrical and digital distribution June 9. The film stars Tim…
“For me, what's interesting is the stories that societies tell themselves—and that people tell themselves—in order to live, in order to get on, in order to survive, stories which make them the central figure, the hero, the victim,” The Man in the High Castle star Rufus Sewell said Friday night, at an Amazon panel…
Amazon Studios said today that Stephen Root has landed the title role in The Man in the High Castle, its adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s alt-history novel about life in the former United States after the Allied Powers lost World War II.
He’ll play the mysterious figure tied to the Resistance movement who collects the…
Stephen Root has booked a spot in Fox’s supernatural thrillerThe Empty Man, written and helmed by David Prior. Based on Cullen Bunn's graphic novel from Boom! Studios, the pic follows an ex-cop who discovers a sinister presence around him while investigating the disappearance of a friend's teenage daughter. Root…
Danny Jacobs (Growing Up and Other Lies) has booked a recurring role and Stephen Root (King of the Hill) and Romy Rosemont (Glee) will guest star on the fourth season of Showtime’s drama series Masters Of Sex.
Starring Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan as real-life pioneers of human sexuality, William Masters and…
