Charlize Theron, winner of an Oscar for 2003’s Monster, continues to sit atop Hollywood’s actress A-list no doubt in part because of her intriguing and varied choice of roles over the years, shifting from kick-ass action to moving character studies, comedy to drama, and everything in between.
She is back in the awards…
The #MeToo movement notwithstanding, I've been worried about women lately, perhaps because I've been seeing too many movies. At a time when women are achieving more muscle in managing their lives and careers, the female characters they portray in movies lack both muscle and self-esteem. Women need a movement – any…
6th Update, Monday AM: In early morning studio reports, Avengers: Infinity War is now looking at a second weekend of $115.5M, a figure we first spotted all the way back on Friday afternoon. Note that’s -55% from the Marvel pic’s record opening. Rivals now estimate that Avengers made $37.5M yesterday, -20% from…
Coming from the director Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody, the Oscar-winning Juno writer who also penned Young Adult, we have reason to expect another smart, witty, real and watchable story peering into our everyday lives. With the terrific and unpredictable Tully, you will not be disappointed.
Perfectly timed for Mother…
“It starts with an idea in her head,” said Oscar-nominated filmmaker Jason Reitman on how the ball started rolling with screenwriter Diablo Cody on their latest feature Tully, “and this will frustrate the shit out of you, but she had two sentences of a movie and six weeks later a script showed up, and that was the…
Jason Reitman’s Tully from Focus Features is moving from its original April 20 release date to the first weekend of summer on May 4.
The comedy stars Charlize Theron as a mother of three including a newborn, who is gifted a night nanny, Tully (Mackenzie Davis) and forms a unique bond with her. Given the pic’s themes…
Night nannies “take care of the baby at night so mom and dad can get some sleep,” he says. “I don’t want a stranger in my house,” his near-comatose sister replies. “That’s like a Lifetime movie where the nanny tries to kill the family and the mom survives and she has to walk with a cane at the end.”
Parents of infants…
EXCLUSIVE: This year’s secret screening is director Jason Reitman and screenwriter Diablo Cody's Tully, a comedy which is their second collaboration with Charlize Theron after 2011’s Young Adult. The Focus Features release opens on April 20.
In Tully, Theron plays Marlo, a mother of three including a newborn, who is…
Focus Features has unveiled the first look at Tully, the comedy that reunites the Juno and Young Adult team of director Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody. Charlize Theron, who starred in Young Adult, stars in this one too, playing a mother of three — including a newborn, as is painfully clear by the first footage — who is…
Focus Features has acquired North American rights and some overseas rights to Tully, the comedy that reteams director Jason Reitman and writer Diablo Cody with Charlize Theron after their 2011 movie Young Adult. Focus has secured an April 20, 2018, release date.
Theron toplines playing Marlo, a mother of three…
Mark Duplass has joined the cast of Tully, the Charlize Theron-starring motherhood themed comedy that reunites her with the Young Adult director Jason Reitman and screenwriter Diablo Cody. Currently in production, the film follows Marlo (Theron), a mother of three including a newborn, who is gifted a night nanny by…
Nick Meyer’s Sierra/Affinity has enjoyed a strong Cannes with a number of its titles selling out on what has elsewhere been a challenging market for sales agents. Sierra/Affinity, of which Meyer’s Sierra Pictures has been boosted following a capital injection and minority stake acquisition from Entertainment One, had…
