As POTUS Elizabeth Keane on Showtime's hit series Homeland, Elizabeth Marvel has become pretty well acquainted with the concept of female empowerment. But while he was casting his Netflix film The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), director Noah Baumbach surprised the actress by offering her the role of Jean, the…
A defining voice in American independent cinema ever since his 1995 debut with Kicking and Screaming, Noah Baumbach has a natural knack for human observation and crafting sharp dialogue that feels entirely true. These talents are on display with The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), a Netflix pic which premiered…
“It exposes race as an economic construct and exposes the fact that we're all interconnected not just to each other but to our history,” said Mudbound director Dee Rees, speaking on the contemporary message of the period film at Deadline’s The Contenders. “There is no ‘then’ or ‘will be,’ there's only now. Everything…
Flanked by co-star Adam Sandler and director Noah Baumbach, Hollywood icon Dustin Hoffman stole the show today at Deadline’s The Contenders London, during a panel to showcase the trio's new film The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), which premieres next week on Netflix.
Speaking to Deadline's Mike Fleming in…
Dustin Hoffman and Sofia Coppola will receive the Actor Tribute and Director Tribute, respectively, at November’s Gotham Awards.
The event, set for Nov. 27, is billed by its presenters at the Independent Filmmaker Project as the first awards show of the season. In addition to annual career honors, the Gothams…
Films from streaming services that premiered at Cannes and are headed to the New York Film Festival are having their day. After the trailer for Amazon/Roadshow’s Wonderstruck landed this morning, Netflix has released its full trailer for The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), the pic from writer-director Noah…
EXCLUSIVE: One of the highlights of this year’s Cannes Film Festival main competition was Noah Baumbach’s The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) which revolved around a New York family and the art exhibition of the patriarch played by Dustin Hoffman.
It was also inadvertently controversial in France as it…
WME has signed actress Grace Van Patten, who starred in Adam Leon’s romantic comedy Tramps, opposite Callum Turner, which was released on Netflix.
Van Patten co-stars in Noah Baumbach’s dramatic comedy The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), with Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller and Dustin Hoffman. It premiered at Cannes…
The Film Society of Lincoln Center unveiled the 25-picture Main Slate today for the 55th New York Film Festival with a roster that features hometown stories from U.S. filmmakers and a host of international festival award winners. Among the directors whose work will be showcased are 2017 Cannes laureates Ruben Ostlund…
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings was happy to have the fight Netflix found itself in with French theater chains this month at the Cannes Film Festival — it just gave his company’s two competition films Okja and The Meyerowitz Stories more exposure, he said today. He also doubled down against the exhibition business, again…
In 2008, seven comedy releases ultimately crossed the $100 million threshold.
Ben Stiller had one of those titles that he starred in and directed, Tropic Thunder ($110.5 million), and Adam Sandler had two in the summer comedy You Don’t Mess With The Zohan ($100M) and the family comedy Bedtime Stories ($110M).
Last…
UPDATED with corrected Wind River budget information.   As the first weekend of the 70th Cannes Film Festival winds down it has lived up to the dream of great weather, some great films, many stars, endless streaming controversy, and lots of parties. That is lots and lots of parties.
From Friday through Sunday it has…
