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UPDATED, 5:14 PM: Those wishing to see Elle and Dakota Fanning in WWII drama The Nightingale will have to wait even longer. Sony is pushing the film to Dec. 23, 2022. It previously had been moved to December 22 of this year. Elle Fanning currently is in production on Hulu/MRC’s second season of The Great.  Christmas…

Following the suit of many other major studios in the coronavirus atmosphere, Sony is hitting pause on three feature projects: the Kevin Hart-Woody Harrelson comedy The Man From Toronto, horror film Shrine by director Evan Spiliotopoulos and the World War II sisters movie The Nightingale which is starring real-life…

Sony has dated Melanie Laurent’s feature adaptation of Kristin Hannah's international bestseller The Nightingale for December 25, 2020. With the Christmas debut of Greta Gerwig’s PG-rated Little Women last year, Sony saw a multitude of women flock to that movie, which grossed more than $203 million worldwide and…

Jennifer Kent’s thriller The Nightingale has taken home a quartet of prizes at the 2019 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards (AACTA, formerly AFI) in Sydney. Kent’s period piece won Best Direction, Best Screenplay and Best Film, making Kent, who also produced, the first woman to receive awards…

Jennifer Kent's The Nightingale tops the nominations pool for film at this year's Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards (AACTA). The thriller, which debuted at Venice last year where it won a special jury prize, picked up 15 nods including best film and best direction. Australian actor Damon Herriman…

This is a packed weekend for new specialty rollouts, one of the most crowded of the summer. Neon/Topic Studios is opening writer-director Julius Onah's drama Luce with New York and L.A. runs in its opening frame. The company picked up the title starring Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Octavia Spencer and Kelvin Harrison Jr…

She’s only 21, but she’s seen enough to be capable of steely violence. Just hope it’s not you she looking for. Here is the first trailer for The Nightingale, director Jennifer Kent’s follow-up to The Babadook that won a Special Jury Prize from its world premiere in Venice last year. The chiller explores the misogyny…

When Jennifer Kent brought her first feature to Sundance in 2014, it garnered instant attention and critical acclaim, going on to become a major commercial success, for a low-budget indie horror pic. That film was The Babadook—a contemporary genre classic—and after debuting her latest in Venice, the director is in…

Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale has been acquired by IFC Films ahead of its North American premiere later this month in the Spotlight section at the Sundance Film Festival. The pic is coming off a Special Jury Prize from its world premiere in Venice, where Kent was the lone female director in the competition lineup. A…

The Venice Film Festival has withdrawn the press accreditation for a man who, at one of last night’s press screenings of Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale, hurled a sexist insult when the director’s name appeared in the credits. On its Twitter feed, the festival today called the incident “a regrettable fact” and said it…

Arriving on the Lido, The Nightingale filmmaker Jennifer Kent was primed for questions about being the only female director in the Venice Film Festival competition, something she first addressed with Deadline earlier this week. What she may not have expected at her press conference this afternoon, was to be fielding…

EXCLUSIVE: Australian filmmaker Jennifer Kent burst onto the international scene with her feature directing debut, 2014’s The Babadook. The horror pic premiered to great acclaim in Sundance, was quickly acquired by IFC and went on to win more than 50 awards, ultimately making over $10M worldwide on a reported $2M…