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EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Naomi Watts is set to star in The Friend, based on Sigrid Nunez's hit book about a woman’s bond with her Great Dane. Nunez’s 2018 novel, which won the U.S.’s National Book Award For Fiction, charts the story of a writer who adopts a Great Dane that belonged to a deceased friend and mentor. The…

Roadside Attractions and Gravitas Ventures are teaming on the U.S. distribution The Friend, the Gabriela Cowperthwaite-directed drama starring Jason Segel, Dakota Johnson and Casey Affleck that world premiered at Toronto. The pic is based on Matthew Teague’s autobiographical essay published in Esquire. The companies…

Deadline on Saturday kicked off this year’s edition of Nespresso presents COFFEE WITH CREATORS at the Toronto International Film Festival 2019 with The Friend, the Gabriela Cowperthwaite-directed drama that had its world premiere last night as a TIFF Special Presentation. The film is based on the true story related in…

EXCLUSIVE: Gwendoline Christie (Game Of Thrones) and Cherry Jones (Boy Erased) are among cast to have joined Jason Segel, Dakota Johnson and Casey Affleck in Gabriela Cowperthwaite's (Blackfish) feature drama The Friend, which is now underway in Fairhope, Alabama. Country artist Jake Owen, Denee Benton (Hamilton: An Am…