Noah Baumbach is writing and directing a new movie for Netflix, and he’s bringing along a few famous friends. The Oscar-nominatedfilmmaker is teaming up with George Clooney(!) and Adam Sandler(!!) for a new film that’s described as a funny and emotional coming-of-age film about adults. Also coming along for the ride are Laura Dern (reteaming with Baumbach after her Oscar-winning turn in Marriage Story), Billy Crudup (Gypsy), and Riley Keough (Logan Lucky).
Baumbach previously wrote and directed The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected),Marriage Story,and White Noisefor Netflix; his prior work includes The Squid and the Whale, Greenberg, Margot at the Wedding, Frances Ha,and Mistress America. This new film is co-written by actor Emily Mortimer (who previously wrote episodes of Doll & Em and The Pursuit of Love)and produced by Amy Pascal and David Heyman.
Oscar winner Clooney last starred in Ticket to Paradise and...
Baumbach previously wrote and directed The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected),Marriage Story,and White Noisefor Netflix; his prior work includes The Squid and the Whale, Greenberg, Margot at the Wedding, Frances Ha,and Mistress America. This new film is co-written by actor Emily Mortimer (who previously wrote episodes of Doll & Em and The Pursuit of Love)and produced by Amy Pascal and David Heyman.
Oscar winner Clooney last starred in Ticket to Paradise and...
- 3/6/2024
- by John DiLillo
- Tudum - Netflix
Having escaped punishment for White Noise, Noah Baumbach will continue a Netflix deal with perhaps the highest-profile casting of his career: Adam Sandler (reuniting from Meyerowitz) and George Clooney will lead an untitled, “funny and emotional coming-of-age film about adults.” This ostensibly describes, say, every single film Noah Baumbach’s ever made; what’s more interesting is that this feature’s co-written with Emily Mortimer, whose only previous scripting credits are the TV series Doll & Em and The Pursuit of Love. Seems casting her kids in White Noise proved fruitful? [Deadline]
Making for an especially good day in a certain New York household is word Greta Gerwig will lead next year’s Cannes jury. Given her cinephilic interests, one can presume she’s a strong choice. As the Barbie awards tour continues––thus far yielding the revelation Baumbach’s initial response to the film was “you have to get us...
Making for an especially good day in a certain New York household is word Greta Gerwig will lead next year’s Cannes jury. Given her cinephilic interests, one can presume she’s a strong choice. As the Barbie awards tour continues––thus far yielding the revelation Baumbach’s initial response to the film was “you have to get us...
- 12/15/2023
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
George Clooney and Adam Sandler will team up in a new Noah Baumbach movie for Netflix that’s still untitled, Variety has confirmed.
Baumbach co-wrote the script with actor Emily Mortimer, who also created the series “Doll and Em.” Baumbach is producing with Amy Pascal and David Heyman.
Under his exclusive deal with Netflix, Baumbach has already made “The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected),” in which Sandler also starred, as well as the best picture nominee “Marriage Story,” with Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson, and “White Noise,” adapted from the Don DeLillo novel and starring Drive and Greta Gerwig.
Clooney most recently directed “The Boys in the Boat,” which bows in theaters on Dec. 25, starring Joel Edgerton and Calum Turner. He’ll star with Brad Pitt and Amy Adams in Apple’s “Wolfs,” which is planned for a 2024 release with Jon Watts directing.
Netflix had no comment. The company’s...
Baumbach co-wrote the script with actor Emily Mortimer, who also created the series “Doll and Em.” Baumbach is producing with Amy Pascal and David Heyman.
Under his exclusive deal with Netflix, Baumbach has already made “The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected),” in which Sandler also starred, as well as the best picture nominee “Marriage Story,” with Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson, and “White Noise,” adapted from the Don DeLillo novel and starring Drive and Greta Gerwig.
Clooney most recently directed “The Boys in the Boat,” which bows in theaters on Dec. 25, starring Joel Edgerton and Calum Turner. He’ll star with Brad Pitt and Amy Adams in Apple’s “Wolfs,” which is planned for a 2024 release with Jon Watts directing.
Netflix had no comment. The company’s...
- 12/15/2023
- by Pat Saperstein and J. Kim Murphy
- Variety Film + TV
John Malkovich (The New Pope), Emily Mortimer (The Pursuit of Love) and Claes Bang (The Northman) are set to star alongside Ben Mendelsohn, Juliette Binoche and Maisie Williams in Apple TV+’s The New Look, a World War II-set drama about fashion icons Christian Dior and Coco Chanel.
The project comes from Bloodline and Damages co-creator Todd A. Kessler and Apple Studios.
Written, executive produced and directed by Kessler, The New Look is set against the World War II Nazi Occupation of Paris when Coco Chanel’s reign as the world’s most famous fashion designer ends and Christian Dior rises. Inspired by true events and filmed exclusively in Paris, The New Look centers on the pivotal moment in the 20th Century when Paris led the world back to life through its fashion icons: Christian Dior (Mendelsohn), whose creations dominated world fashion in the decade following World War II. The...
The project comes from Bloodline and Damages co-creator Todd A. Kessler and Apple Studios.
Written, executive produced and directed by Kessler, The New Look is set against the World War II Nazi Occupation of Paris when Coco Chanel’s reign as the world’s most famous fashion designer ends and Christian Dior rises. Inspired by true events and filmed exclusively in Paris, The New Look centers on the pivotal moment in the 20th Century when Paris led the world back to life through its fashion icons: Christian Dior (Mendelsohn), whose creations dominated world fashion in the decade following World War II. The...
- 6/2/2022
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
John Malkovich, Emily Mortimer, and Claes Bang are set to star in the upcoming Apple drama series “The New Look.”
The series will be led by Ben Mendelsohn and Juliette Binoche, with Maisie Williams previously announced as a cast member. “The New Look” is set against the World War II Nazi Occupation of Paris when Coco Chanel’s (Binoche) reign as the world’s most famous fashion designer ends and Christian Dior (Mendelsohn) rises helping return spirit and life to the world with his ground-breaking, iconic brand.
Malkovich will star as Lucien Lelong, President of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture whose influential eponymous fashion house employed Dior and Balmain during the Occupation.
Mortimer will play Eva Colozzi, a friend, confidante and style inspiration to Coco Chanel.
Bang will appear as Spatz, a.k.a Hans Von Dincklage, a Nazi operative stationed in Paris to both seduce and spy on the Parisian female elite.
The series will be led by Ben Mendelsohn and Juliette Binoche, with Maisie Williams previously announced as a cast member. “The New Look” is set against the World War II Nazi Occupation of Paris when Coco Chanel’s (Binoche) reign as the world’s most famous fashion designer ends and Christian Dior (Mendelsohn) rises helping return spirit and life to the world with his ground-breaking, iconic brand.
Malkovich will star as Lucien Lelong, President of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture whose influential eponymous fashion house employed Dior and Balmain during the Occupation.
Mortimer will play Eva Colozzi, a friend, confidante and style inspiration to Coco Chanel.
Bang will appear as Spatz, a.k.a Hans Von Dincklage, a Nazi operative stationed in Paris to both seduce and spy on the Parisian female elite.
- 6/2/2022
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Evan Rachel Wood will star alongside Daniel Radcliffe in Roku’s Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, stepping into the role of Madonna.
Roku made the announcement via Instagram, sharing a first-look photo captioned: “First look...
Roku made the announcement via Instagram, sharing a first-look photo captioned: “First look...
- 3/2/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between.
And today the one-and-only Alessandro Nivola returns to the podcast, currently starring as Dickie Moltisanti in The Many Saints of Newark. The Sopranos prequel film is currently in theaters and available on HBO Max. Nivola is generous as ever with his time, discussing in depth the character discovery that went into manifesting Dickie, as well as his myriad upcoming projects, including Noah Baumbach’s White Noise (starring his children!), the upcoming David O. Russell picture, and The Brutalist, the new Brady Corbet film currently in pre-production.
We also chat about his and Emily Mortimer’s underrated show Doll & Em (which needs a streaming home people!), the Netflix thriller The Red Sea Diving Resort, and A Most Violent Year...
And today the one-and-only Alessandro Nivola returns to the podcast, currently starring as Dickie Moltisanti in The Many Saints of Newark. The Sopranos prequel film is currently in theaters and available on HBO Max. Nivola is generous as ever with his time, discussing in depth the character discovery that went into manifesting Dickie, as well as his myriad upcoming projects, including Noah Baumbach’s White Noise (starring his children!), the upcoming David O. Russell picture, and The Brutalist, the new Brady Corbet film currently in pre-production.
We also chat about his and Emily Mortimer’s underrated show Doll & Em (which needs a streaming home people!), the Netflix thriller The Red Sea Diving Resort, and A Most Violent Year...
- 10/19/2021
- by Dan Mecca
- The Film Stage
The Pursuit of Love just wouldn’t leave Emily Mortimer alone. Much like its protagonist, the doggedly romantic yet free-spirited Linda Radlett, the novel followed Mortimer across time and space, waiting half a lifetime after their first meeting to present itself again, extend a hand, and ask her to go on a rousing adventure. Mortimer initially encountered the book as a teenager, “as a lot of girls in England do,” she says, projecting just above the Sunday-morning din of an espresso maker and chatter at a restaurant near her Brooklyn brownstone.
- 8/3/2021
- by Maria Fontoura
- Rollingstone.com
Exclusive: Raffey Cassidy, Sam Nivola and May Nivola are in in negotiations to join Noah Baumbach’s next film at Netflix adaptation of Don DeLillo’s White Noise. They join Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig, who are also in negotiations to star with Baumbach writing and directing. Netflix had no comment.
The project was the first film announced under Baumbach’s new exclusive deal with Netflix following Oscar-nominated work on Marriage Story, which also starred Driver. The film would be his third overall with the streamer, having also done The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) for Netfflix.
Cassidy first broke out onto the scene in the Yorgos Lanthimos thriller The Killing Of a Sacred Deer. She would follow that up as a younger version of Natalie Portman’s character in Brady Corbert’s Vox Lux. She is repped by UTA.
For Sam and May, this marks their first major feature film.
The project was the first film announced under Baumbach’s new exclusive deal with Netflix following Oscar-nominated work on Marriage Story, which also starred Driver. The film would be his third overall with the streamer, having also done The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) for Netfflix.
Cassidy first broke out onto the scene in the Yorgos Lanthimos thriller The Killing Of a Sacred Deer. She would follow that up as a younger version of Natalie Portman’s character in Brady Corbert’s Vox Lux. She is repped by UTA.
For Sam and May, this marks their first major feature film.
- 4/14/2021
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s safe to say Film and Book Twitter erupted with the news that Noah Baumbach’s next film would be an adaptation of Don DeLillo’s seminal novel White Noise. With Adam Driver set to star alongside Greta Gerwig, marking what will be her first on-screen role in six years, more of the cast has been unveiled ahead of a summer shoot––and it’s going to be a family affair.
Emily Mortimer and Alessandro Nivola’s children, the 11-year-old May and 17-year-old Sam, have joined the ensemble, as revealed in this month’s Bazaar UK. A campus satire / oddball marriage comedy / horror story about industrialization, White Noise concerns Jack Gladney (Driver), professor of Hitler studies at the university referred to only as (again: campus satire) The-College-on-the-Hill. His life as teacher of Hitler, husband to Babette (Gerwig), and father to four children / stepchildren is torn asunder by “the Airborne Toxic Event,...
Emily Mortimer and Alessandro Nivola’s children, the 11-year-old May and 17-year-old Sam, have joined the ensemble, as revealed in this month’s Bazaar UK. A campus satire / oddball marriage comedy / horror story about industrialization, White Noise concerns Jack Gladney (Driver), professor of Hitler studies at the university referred to only as (again: campus satire) The-College-on-the-Hill. His life as teacher of Hitler, husband to Babette (Gerwig), and father to four children / stepchildren is torn asunder by “the Airborne Toxic Event,...
- 4/7/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The actor and screenwriter on her dog, her neediness and pinching a policeman’s bottom
Born in London, Emily Mortimer, 48, studied at Oxford University. She co-wrote and starred in the television series Doll & Em and her films include Lovely & Amazing, Shutter Island and Mary Poppins Returns. Relic, her latest, has just been released. She lives in New York with her husband, Alessandro Nivola, and their two children.
What is your greatest fear?
Shouting out something inappropriate in a theatre – as an audience member or an actor.
Born in London, Emily Mortimer, 48, studied at Oxford University. She co-wrote and starred in the television series Doll & Em and her films include Lovely & Amazing, Shutter Island and Mary Poppins Returns. Relic, her latest, has just been released. She lives in New York with her husband, Alessandro Nivola, and their two children.
What is your greatest fear?
Shouting out something inappropriate in a theatre – as an audience member or an actor.
- 10/31/2020
- by Rosanna Greenstreet
- The Guardian - Film News
Following her breakthrough role in Catherine Hardwicke’s “Thirteen” (2003), Evan Rachel Wood became Hollywood’s go-to actress for a certain kind of irresistible archetype: The wise-beyond-her-years teenager with heaps of attitude masking a deep well of vulnerability. Now, nearly two decades later and comfortably mid-career (she started so young), Wood has weathered the transition from promising child-actor to serious Hollywood player about as gracefully as anyone could.
Following back-to-back roles in two critically acclaimed films — Julie Taymor’s “Across the Universe” (2007) and Darren Aronofsky’s “The Wrestler” (2008) — Wood shrewdly rode the wave of peak TV on HBO’s pedigreed shoulders. Following two seasons as a Sapphic vampire in “True Blood” and a self-satirizing turn in the savagely brilliant “Doll & Em,” she landed the role that would bring her not only international acclaim, but two Emmy nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama.
The role, of course, is Dolores Abernathy,...
Following back-to-back roles in two critically acclaimed films — Julie Taymor’s “Across the Universe” (2007) and Darren Aronofsky’s “The Wrestler” (2008) — Wood shrewdly rode the wave of peak TV on HBO’s pedigreed shoulders. Following two seasons as a Sapphic vampire in “True Blood” and a self-satirizing turn in the savagely brilliant “Doll & Em,” she landed the role that would bring her not only international acclaim, but two Emmy nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama.
The role, of course, is Dolores Abernathy,...
- 6/26/2020
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Following her breakthrough role in Catherine Hardwicke’s “Thirteen” (2003), Evan Rachel Wood became Hollywood’s go-to actress for a certain kind of irresistible archetype: The wise-beyond-her-years teenager with heaps of attitude masking a deep well of vulnerability. Now, nearly two decades later and comfortably mid-career (she started so young), Wood has weathered the transition from promising child-actor to serious Hollywood player about as gracefully as anyone could.
Following back-to-back roles in two critically acclaimed films — Julie Taymor’s “Across the Universe” (2007) and Darren Aronofsky’s “The Wrestler” (2008) — Wood shrewdly rode the wave of peak TV on HBO’s pedigreed shoulders. Following two seasons as a Sapphic vampire in “True Blood” and a self-satirizing turn in the savagely brilliant “Doll & Em,” she landed the role that would bring her not only international acclaim, but two Emmy nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama.
The role, of course, is Dolores Abernathy,...
Following back-to-back roles in two critically acclaimed films — Julie Taymor’s “Across the Universe” (2007) and Darren Aronofsky’s “The Wrestler” (2008) — Wood shrewdly rode the wave of peak TV on HBO’s pedigreed shoulders. Following two seasons as a Sapphic vampire in “True Blood” and a self-satirizing turn in the savagely brilliant “Doll & Em,” she landed the role that would bring her not only international acclaim, but two Emmy nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama.
The role, of course, is Dolores Abernathy,...
- 6/26/2020
- by Jude Dry
- Thompson on Hollywood
Exclusive: Downton Abbey and Baby Driver star Lily James is to front an Emily Mortimer-penned and directed adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s classic novel The Pursuit of Love for BBC One.
The British public broadcaster has ordered a three-part series based on the 1945 book from BBC Studios-backed Moonage Pictures and Open Book, the Charles Collier-founded joint venture between BBC Studios, Original Talent and Tavistock Wood.
The Pursuit of Love is the first book in a trilogy about an upper-class English family between the First and Second World Wars. The comedy deals with issues of growing up and falling in love among the privileged and eccentric.
The Pursuit of Love follows the travails of the Radlett family, focusing on Linda, the most beautiful and wayward Radlett daughter, played by James, who falls first for a stuffy Tory politician, then an ardent Communist, and finally a French duke named Fabrice,...
The British public broadcaster has ordered a three-part series based on the 1945 book from BBC Studios-backed Moonage Pictures and Open Book, the Charles Collier-founded joint venture between BBC Studios, Original Talent and Tavistock Wood.
The Pursuit of Love is the first book in a trilogy about an upper-class English family between the First and Second World Wars. The comedy deals with issues of growing up and falling in love among the privileged and eccentric.
The Pursuit of Love follows the travails of the Radlett family, focusing on Linda, the most beautiful and wayward Radlett daughter, played by James, who falls first for a stuffy Tory politician, then an ardent Communist, and finally a French duke named Fabrice,...
- 12/9/2019
- by Peter White and Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Griffin Matthews (Dear White People) is set as a series regular in HBO Max’s thriller drama series The Flight Attendant, starring and executive produced by Kaley Cuoco.
The Flight Attendant is a story of how an entire life can change in one night. Cassie (Cuoco) is a flight attendant who wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a dead man – and no idea what happened. Sonoya Mizuno, Michiel Huisman, Colin Woodell, Zosia Mamet, Merle Dandridge also star.
Matthews will play Shane Evans, Cassie’s flight attendant “work friend” and fellow nightlife compatriot. Their friendship is put to the test when Cassie’s life begins to unravel.
The dark comedic thriller is based on the novel by New York Times best-selling author Chris Bohjalian. Greg Berlanti, Cuoco, Sarah Schechter, Steve Yockey, Meredith Lavender and Marcie Ulin are executive producers. Yes, Norman’s Suzanne McCormack is co-executive producer.
The Flight Attendant is a story of how an entire life can change in one night. Cassie (Cuoco) is a flight attendant who wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a dead man – and no idea what happened. Sonoya Mizuno, Michiel Huisman, Colin Woodell, Zosia Mamet, Merle Dandridge also star.
Matthews will play Shane Evans, Cassie’s flight attendant “work friend” and fellow nightlife compatriot. Their friendship is put to the test when Cassie’s life begins to unravel.
The dark comedic thriller is based on the novel by New York Times best-selling author Chris Bohjalian. Greg Berlanti, Cuoco, Sarah Schechter, Steve Yockey, Meredith Lavender and Marcie Ulin are executive producers. Yes, Norman’s Suzanne McCormack is co-executive producer.
- 11/8/2019
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
The actor and co-creator of Doll & Em, who starred alongside Melissa McCarthy in Can You Ever Forgive Me?, talks about becoming a director
The writer, actor and now director Dolly Wells moved to New York in the summer of 2014, leaving London, where she was born. It was for family reasons – her husband, who is half-American, missed home – but it coincided with a new phase of her career. That same year, the first season of the much-missed comedy Doll & Em aired on HBO. She wrote and starred in it with her best friend, Emily Mortimer, and after years as a largely comedy actor, it established her as a writer worthy of serious attention.
Brooklyn gave her the material she needed to make her big-screen directorial debut, Good Posture. “I felt in quite a bit of pain, moving to America, leaving my brothers and sisters, my mum, whatever my identity was,...
The writer, actor and now director Dolly Wells moved to New York in the summer of 2014, leaving London, where she was born. It was for family reasons – her husband, who is half-American, missed home – but it coincided with a new phase of her career. That same year, the first season of the much-missed comedy Doll & Em aired on HBO. She wrote and starred in it with her best friend, Emily Mortimer, and after years as a largely comedy actor, it established her as a writer worthy of serious attention.
Brooklyn gave her the material she needed to make her big-screen directorial debut, Good Posture. “I felt in quite a bit of pain, moving to America, leaving my brothers and sisters, my mum, whatever my identity was,...
- 10/3/2019
- by Rebecca Nicholson
- The Guardian - Film News
Here’s the latest episode of the The Filmmakers Podcast, part of the ever-growing podcast roster here on Nerdly. If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out previous episodes on the official podcast site, whilst we’ll be featuring each and every new episode as it premieres.
For those unfamiliar, with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro budget indie films to bigger budget studio films and everything in-between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their film making experiences from directors, writers, producers, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and distributors. They also shoot the breeze about their new films, The Dare, World of Darkness,...
For those unfamiliar, with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro budget indie films to bigger budget studio films and everything in-between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their film making experiences from directors, writers, producers, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and distributors. They also shoot the breeze about their new films, The Dare, World of Darkness,...
- 10/2/2019
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
The Boondocks could be headed back to TV: “A complete re-imagining” of the Adult Swim series is in development, according to Sony.
Per EW.com, the studio made the announcement at the 2019 Annecy International Animated Film Festival on Wednesday, calling original creator Aaron McGruder’s new take one “for the modern era.”
The comic-strip adaptation, which premiered in 2005, followed the adventures of the Freeman family as they settled into the white suburb of Woodcrest. It featured the voices of Regina King, John Witherspoon, Gary Anthony Williams and Cedric Yarbrough.
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Per EW.com, the studio made the announcement at the 2019 Annecy International Animated Film Festival on Wednesday, calling original creator Aaron McGruder’s new take one “for the modern era.”
The comic-strip adaptation, which premiered in 2005, followed the adventures of the Freeman family as they settled into the white suburb of Woodcrest. It featured the voices of Regina King, John Witherspoon, Gary Anthony Williams and Cedric Yarbrough.
Ready for more of today’s newsy nuggets? Well…
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- 6/12/2019
- TVLine.com
Don Cheadle, Emily Mortimer & Helena Howard To Star In Quibi Sci-Fi Drama Series ‘Don’t Look Deeper’
Don Cheadle, Emily Mortimer and Helena Howard are set to star in Don’t Look Deeper, a sci-fi drama series for Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman’s short-form video platform Quibi. The series is a co-production between New Form, a Whistle-owned company, and Doug Liman’s 30 Ninjas for Quibi. Catherine Hardwicke is attached to direct and executive produce.
Co-written by Lost co-creator Jeffrey Lieber, who also serves as showrunner, and Charlie McDonnell, Don’t Look Deeper is set in Merced, California, “fifteen minutes into the future.” It centers on a high school senior who can’t seem to shake the feeling that something about her just isn’t right. And that something is… she’s not human… not one of us. This revelation of what she really is, where she comes from,...
Co-written by Lost co-creator Jeffrey Lieber, who also serves as showrunner, and Charlie McDonnell, Don’t Look Deeper is set in Merced, California, “fifteen minutes into the future.” It centers on a high school senior who can’t seem to shake the feeling that something about her just isn’t right. And that something is… she’s not human… not one of us. This revelation of what she really is, where she comes from,...
- 6/12/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Michelle Pfeiffer, Lucas Hedges, and Tracy Letts will headline French Exit, a surrealist comedy that Azazel Jacobs is directing. The pic, which will be presented at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival, is based on the international bestselling book of the same name by Patrick deWitt, who also adapted the screenplay. deWitt is the author behind The Sisters Brothers, which was recently adapted into a film starring John C. Reilly, Joaquin Phoenix, and Jake Gyllenhaal.
Thorsten Schumacher is financing and producing the film, via his Rocket Science label, along with Elevation Pictures. Rocket Science and Wild Bunch are handling international sales, beginning in Cannes, while CAA Media Finance reps the U.S. rights.
The pic follows 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price (Pfeiffer), whose plan to die before her money ran out doesn’t pan out. Her husband Franklin has been dead for 20 years and with his vast inheritance gone, she...
Thorsten Schumacher is financing and producing the film, via his Rocket Science label, along with Elevation Pictures. Rocket Science and Wild Bunch are handling international sales, beginning in Cannes, while CAA Media Finance reps the U.S. rights.
The pic follows 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price (Pfeiffer), whose plan to die before her money ran out doesn’t pan out. Her husband Franklin has been dead for 20 years and with his vast inheritance gone, she...
- 5/3/2019
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Friendships rarely start on terms more passive-aggressive than an intergenerational one does in “Good Posture,” writer-director Dolly Wells’ roughly drafted feature debut that manages to be just affable enough. Navigating the bookish streets of New York again after playing a kindhearted bookstore owner in “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” — this time, behind the camera in present-day Brooklyn — Wells swaddles her film with her soft artistic spirit; an aura she also infused into Marielle Heller’s melancholic drama. The result is a genial slice-of-life comedy, a female-driven, late-coming-of-age tale in the tradition of Lynn Shelton’s “Laggies,” exclusively brewed and bottled among the tree-lined sidewalks of Bed-Stuy.
While sufficiently charming, “Good Posture” would have been mostly unremarkable if it weren’t for sensational “The Meyerowitz Stories” actor Grace Van Patten, who plays recent college graduate Lilian, an entitled and thoroughly privileged brat who hides her aimless existence behind her noticeable beauty.
While sufficiently charming, “Good Posture” would have been mostly unremarkable if it weren’t for sensational “The Meyerowitz Stories” actor Grace Van Patten, who plays recent college graduate Lilian, an entitled and thoroughly privileged brat who hides her aimless existence behind her noticeable beauty.
- 5/1/2019
- by Tomris Laffly
- Variety Film + TV
A sketchy comedic drama about two very different (yet oddly similar) women who harness the mystical powers of passive-aggressiveness in order to straighten each other out, Dolly Wells’ “Good Posture” struggles to find a central focus even as lived-in characters and an excellent cast help this debut capture life’s transitional phases with the kind of toothpaste-on-the-bathroom-mirror messiness they sometimes demand.
It helps that Wells is as humane behind the camera as she tends to be in front of it. A warm and casually brilliant actress whose performance in “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” is starting to merit her the attention she’s long deserved, the London native has always had a way of mining empathy from exasperation, and — even though she never appears onscreen — that’s still perhaps the greatest strength of her otherwise patchy first effort. Sure, the screenplay hinges on an entitled brat who constantly dares the...
It helps that Wells is as humane behind the camera as she tends to be in front of it. A warm and casually brilliant actress whose performance in “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” is starting to merit her the attention she’s long deserved, the London native has always had a way of mining empathy from exasperation, and — even though she never appears onscreen — that’s still perhaps the greatest strength of her otherwise patchy first effort. Sure, the screenplay hinges on an entitled brat who constantly dares the...
- 4/28/2019
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Emily Mortimer is to reboot classic British series Rumpole of the Bailey – the legal drama originally created by her father John Mortimer.
The Newsroom and Mary Poppins Returns star is in the early stages of development with the remake, which will be produced by her own indie King Bee and eOne.
The series, which ran on ITV predecessor Thames Television between 1978 and 1992, starred Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an elderly barrister in London who defended a weird and wonderful mix of clients. It started as a radio play on the BBC before making the move to television.
The reboot was revealed at a Deadline-moderated Banff Connect event in London by Polly Williams, eOne’s head of scripted development in the UK. The Designated Survivor studio has a first-look deal with Mortimer’s company, which she runs with her husband Alessandro Nivola.
Williams told Deadline that Mortimer has “reimagined” the series...
The Newsroom and Mary Poppins Returns star is in the early stages of development with the remake, which will be produced by her own indie King Bee and eOne.
The series, which ran on ITV predecessor Thames Television between 1978 and 1992, starred Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an elderly barrister in London who defended a weird and wonderful mix of clients. It started as a radio play on the BBC before making the move to television.
The reboot was revealed at a Deadline-moderated Banff Connect event in London by Polly Williams, eOne’s head of scripted development in the UK. The Designated Survivor studio has a first-look deal with Mortimer’s company, which she runs with her husband Alessandro Nivola.
Williams told Deadline that Mortimer has “reimagined” the series...
- 3/7/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Just when Ray Liotta thinks he’s done playing mobsters, they pull him back in: The Goodfellas star is in talks to join the cast of the upcoming Sopranos prequel movie, our sister site Deadline reports.
The film, titled The Many Saints of Newark, is a prequel to the Emmy-winning HBO drama, set during the 1960s Newark riots. Liotta’s role has yet to be revealed, but that’s par for this course: Jon Bernthal (The Walking Dead), Vera Farmiga (Bates Motel), Corey Stoll (House of Cards) and Billy Magnussen (Maniac) have also joined the cast, but their roles haven’t been announced.
The film, titled The Many Saints of Newark, is a prequel to the Emmy-winning HBO drama, set during the 1960s Newark riots. Liotta’s role has yet to be revealed, but that’s par for this course: Jon Bernthal (The Walking Dead), Vera Farmiga (Bates Motel), Corey Stoll (House of Cards) and Billy Magnussen (Maniac) have also joined the cast, but their roles haven’t been announced.
- 2/27/2019
- TVLine.com
If any entity’s enjoyed its share of exposure in the horror genre over the past century, it’s most certainly that of Dracula. Whether it be an adaptation of Bram Stoker’s classic novel itself or something that takes the character to a completely different place, the worlds of cinema and television aren’t without this fellow for too long.
By now, you may have heard of how a new TV series is currently in the works for BBC and Netflix – and it comes to us from Sherlock creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, no less. Set to leave little room for filler due to its three-episode, 90-minute format, the show features Claes Bang in the titular role.
Obviously, the creative minds behind this thing need a supporting cast to orbit Bang, and they’re wasting no time filling it out. According to Deadline, John Heffernan (The Crown) and...
By now, you may have heard of how a new TV series is currently in the works for BBC and Netflix – and it comes to us from Sherlock creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, no less. Set to leave little room for filler due to its three-episode, 90-minute format, the show features Claes Bang in the titular role.
Obviously, the creative minds behind this thing need a supporting cast to orbit Bang, and they’re wasting no time filling it out. According to Deadline, John Heffernan (The Crown) and...
- 2/11/2019
- by Eric Joseph
- We Got This Covered
Entertainment One has acquired rights to Laura Sims’ debut novel Looker to develop as a TV series with former The Newsroom star Emily Mortimer set to executive produce via her King Bee Productions banner, part of her first-look deal with the studio. She also intends to appear in the project.
Looker, released this month by Scribner, centers on an unraveling Brooklynite, unhappily childless and recently separated, who becomes fixated on a movie star and her perfect family living in the beautiful brownstone next door. The book is described as “a brilliant debut that is a tightly coiled Hitchcockian thriller and part satire of those living their best lives in the post-gentrified, Instagram-ready city.”
Mortimer and her husband and producing partner Alessandro Nivola will produce via their King Bee. eOne will serve as the studio and distribute the project worldwide. Jacqueline Sacerio will oversee for eOne. Lizzie Nastro is the executive for King Bee.
Looker, released this month by Scribner, centers on an unraveling Brooklynite, unhappily childless and recently separated, who becomes fixated on a movie star and her perfect family living in the beautiful brownstone next door. The book is described as “a brilliant debut that is a tightly coiled Hitchcockian thriller and part satire of those living their best lives in the post-gentrified, Instagram-ready city.”
Mortimer and her husband and producing partner Alessandro Nivola will produce via their King Bee. eOne will serve as the studio and distribute the project worldwide. Jacqueline Sacerio will oversee for eOne. Lizzie Nastro is the executive for King Bee.
- 1/30/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Jon Bernthal and Vera Farmiga should start practicing their Jersey accents: The pair has been cast in New Line Cinema’s forthcoming Sopranos prequel film, The Many Saints of Newark, per our sister site Variety.
As previously reported, the film — which will be released in theaters, not on HBO — will be set in the 1960s against the backdrop of the infamous Newark riots, where vicious fighting between African-American and Italian residents caused multiple deaths and hundreds of injuries. Though specific plot details are scarce, the film is expected to feature younger versions of several Sopranos characters, including future mob boss Tony Soprano.
As previously reported, the film — which will be released in theaters, not on HBO — will be set in the 1960s against the backdrop of the infamous Newark riots, where vicious fighting between African-American and Italian residents caused multiple deaths and hundreds of injuries. Though specific plot details are scarce, the film is expected to feature younger versions of several Sopranos characters, including future mob boss Tony Soprano.
- 1/14/2019
- TVLine.com
Nicole Kidman isn’t ruling out the possibility of a third season of Big Little Lies (Season 2 of the Emmy-winning smash bows in 2019). Although the actress concedes that “it would be hard to get the whole group together” again, she tells our sister site Variety, “we would love to do it.”
Kidman also confesses that she was “terrified” working alongside new Season 2 addition Meryl Streep (who plays her character Celeste’s mother-in-law). “You’re acting opposite the great one,” she shares. “I get nervous anyway — but to be opposite her and not want her to think, ‘Who is this amateur?...
Kidman also confesses that she was “terrified” working alongside new Season 2 addition Meryl Streep (who plays her character Celeste’s mother-in-law). “You’re acting opposite the great one,” she shares. “I get nervous anyway — but to be opposite her and not want her to think, ‘Who is this amateur?...
- 11/21/2018
- TVLine.com
A familiar face on British stage and television shows like Doll & Em, Some Girls, and frequent collaborations with The Mighty Boosh’s Noel Fielding, Dolly Wells takes a dramatic turn in Can You Ever Forgive Me? Playing the bookish romantic interest of forger Lee Israel, opposite fellow funny lady, Melissa McCarthy, Ms. Wells chatted with Lmd exclusively about creating on-screen chemistry, the “funny bones” she inherited from her actor/writer father, John Wells, and taking the helm of her own feature directing debut. The Lady Miz Diva: Your character, Anna, is kind of mysterious to me. What did you make of her when you read her? Dolly Wells: I thought she was like somebody with like, a few less layers of skin than...
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- 10/25/2018
- Screen Anarchy
Dolly Wells on directing Emily Mortimer, bookshops, and Jane Curtin and Melissa McCarthy in Can You Ever Forgive Me?
The Diary Of A Teenage Girl director Marielle Heller's latest film, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, stars Melissa McCarthy as Lee Israel and is based on Israel's autobiography with a screenplay co-written by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty (original book for Michael Mayer's Head Over Heels and Tony winner for Avenue Q). In the second half of my conversation at the Whitby with Dolly Wells, who plays Anna, a bookshop owner who befriends Lee, we explore the nature of their relationship.
Dolly points out a detail regarding a stolen coat, how there is "real life in those costumes" by Arjun Bhasin, directing her Doll & Em co-star Emily Mortimer in Good Posture, "real bookshops, real characters selling books", and what's under the bed.
Dolly Wells: "I only moved to...
The Diary Of A Teenage Girl director Marielle Heller's latest film, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, stars Melissa McCarthy as Lee Israel and is based on Israel's autobiography with a screenplay co-written by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty (original book for Michael Mayer's Head Over Heels and Tony winner for Avenue Q). In the second half of my conversation at the Whitby with Dolly Wells, who plays Anna, a bookshop owner who befriends Lee, we explore the nature of their relationship.
Dolly points out a detail regarding a stolen coat, how there is "real life in those costumes" by Arjun Bhasin, directing her Doll & Em co-star Emily Mortimer in Good Posture, "real bookshops, real characters selling books", and what's under the bed.
Dolly Wells: "I only moved to...
- 10/20/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Dolly Wells on costume designer Arjun Bhasin: "I mean I had worked out Anna but once I was putting on his clothes, I thought, oh my god, this is so good." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Dolly Wells, star of Doll & Em with Emily Mortimer (Isabel Coixet's The Bookshop) plays Anna, a bookshop owner in Marielle Heller's Can You Ever Forgive Me?, co-written by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty (original book for Michael Mayer's Head Over Heels and Tony winner for Avenue Q). Based on the book by Lee Israel, the film stars Melissa McCarthy as Lee Israel with Richard E Grant as Jack Hock, Jane Curtin as her agent Marjorie, Anna Deavere Smith as Israel's ex Elaine, and bookstore owners Alan and Paul, played by Ben Falcone and Stephen Spinella.
Dolly Wells on her role as Anna with Melissa McCarthy's Lee Israel: "She instructs her, which is so ironic.
Dolly Wells, star of Doll & Em with Emily Mortimer (Isabel Coixet's The Bookshop) plays Anna, a bookshop owner in Marielle Heller's Can You Ever Forgive Me?, co-written by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty (original book for Michael Mayer's Head Over Heels and Tony winner for Avenue Q). Based on the book by Lee Israel, the film stars Melissa McCarthy as Lee Israel with Richard E Grant as Jack Hock, Jane Curtin as her agent Marjorie, Anna Deavere Smith as Israel's ex Elaine, and bookstore owners Alan and Paul, played by Ben Falcone and Stephen Spinella.
Dolly Wells on her role as Anna with Melissa McCarthy's Lee Israel: "She instructs her, which is so ironic.
- 10/15/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Even though the last episode of One Tree Hill aired in April 2012, the teen drama series — which ran 9 seasons — still resonates with their diehard fans as they are chomping at the bit for some sort of a reunion. One Tree Hill alums James Lafferty and Stephen Colletti are doing exactly that…in their own special way.
The One Tree Hill gang still share a bond as some of their cast members are set to reunite for a Lifetime Christmas movie and Sophia Bush has done well for herself as a voice in Incredibles 2. But for Lafferty, who played Oth’s Nathan from the drama’s start in 2003, and Colletti, who came later in the series as Chase, they have taken their experience in being ’00s TV heartthrobs in a wildly popular series to create a pilot called Everyone is Doing Great.
Although there is absolutely nothing wrong with CW-grade angst,...
The One Tree Hill gang still share a bond as some of their cast members are set to reunite for a Lifetime Christmas movie and Sophia Bush has done well for herself as a voice in Incredibles 2. But for Lafferty, who played Oth’s Nathan from the drama’s start in 2003, and Colletti, who came later in the series as Chase, they have taken their experience in being ’00s TV heartthrobs in a wildly popular series to create a pilot called Everyone is Doing Great.
Although there is absolutely nothing wrong with CW-grade angst,...
- 6/21/2018
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Emily Mortimer, who is in Disney’s big Christmas release, Mary Poppins Returns opposite Emily Blunt, Lin Manuel Miranda, Meryl Streep and Colin Firth, has signed with UTA.
Most recently, Mortimer starred in Stacy Cochran’s drama Write When You Get Work and Sally Potter’s The Party and will next star in Isabelle Coixet’s The Bookshop — which was released in Europe earlier this year, and for which she received a Goya Award nomination.
On the television side, Mortimer created and starred in HBO’s acclaimed comedy series Doll & Em as Emily opposite her real-life best friend Dolly Wells.
Prior to that role, she starred as MacKenzie McHale opposite Jeff Daniels on Aaron Sorkin’s Golden Globe nominated series The Newsroom for HBO.
Mortimer is also an accomplished stage actress and has appeared in productions of Parlour Song, The Merchant of Venice and The Lights, to name a few.
Most recently, Mortimer starred in Stacy Cochran’s drama Write When You Get Work and Sally Potter’s The Party and will next star in Isabelle Coixet’s The Bookshop — which was released in Europe earlier this year, and for which she received a Goya Award nomination.
On the television side, Mortimer created and starred in HBO’s acclaimed comedy series Doll & Em as Emily opposite her real-life best friend Dolly Wells.
Prior to that role, she starred as MacKenzie McHale opposite Jeff Daniels on Aaron Sorkin’s Golden Globe nominated series The Newsroom for HBO.
Mortimer is also an accomplished stage actress and has appeared in productions of Parlour Song, The Merchant of Venice and The Lights, to name a few.
- 6/19/2018
- by Anita Busch
- Deadline Film + TV
Alessandro Nivola stars with Jesse Eisenberg in Riley Stearns's The Art Of Self-Defense and Gideon Raff's The Red Sea Diving Resort with Chris Evans and Ben Kingsley Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Last year's Tribeca Film Festival Best Actor winner Alessandro Nivola, comes back this year in a new position as a co-producer with Emily Mortimer, Ron Perlman, Josh Crook, and Scott Lochmus of Shawn Snyder's To Dust, starring the dynamic, excavating duo of Géza Röhrig and Matthew Broderick. You can also find Alessandro in another highlight at the festival, Sebastián Lelio's Disobedience where he stars with Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams.
2017 Tribeca Best Actor award winner Alessandro Nivola: "Sometimes the creative process can feel more real than life itself." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Over breakfast before the start of the Tribeca Film Festival, Alessandro gave me some background on The Art of Self-Defense and The Red Sea Diving Resort.
Last year's Tribeca Film Festival Best Actor winner Alessandro Nivola, comes back this year in a new position as a co-producer with Emily Mortimer, Ron Perlman, Josh Crook, and Scott Lochmus of Shawn Snyder's To Dust, starring the dynamic, excavating duo of Géza Röhrig and Matthew Broderick. You can also find Alessandro in another highlight at the festival, Sebastián Lelio's Disobedience where he stars with Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams.
2017 Tribeca Best Actor award winner Alessandro Nivola: "Sometimes the creative process can feel more real than life itself." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Over breakfast before the start of the Tribeca Film Festival, Alessandro gave me some background on The Art of Self-Defense and The Red Sea Diving Resort.
- 4/18/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Joseph Baxter Kirsten Howard Apr 29, 2019
Netflix and BBC will team for a Dracula TV miniseries from Sherlock co-creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss.
Dracula will creep his shadow onto the peak television scene soon enough. Plans from the former Doctor Who mastermind, Steven Moffat, and his co-creator on Sherlock, Mark Gatiss, for a new TV version of Bram Stoker's iconic tome, Dracula, are about to come to fruition.
The Girl in the Spider's Web's Claes Bang will go fang as Dracula himself in the miniseries, a co-production of BBC One and Netflix, set as three 90-minute episodes to air in the UK on the former and stream in the U.S. on the latter. The plan by co-creators Moffat and Gatiss will, according to the official description, “re-introduce the world to Dracula, the vampire who made evil sexy. In Transylvania in 1897, the blood-drinking Count is drawing his plans against Victorian London.
Netflix and BBC will team for a Dracula TV miniseries from Sherlock co-creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss.
Dracula will creep his shadow onto the peak television scene soon enough. Plans from the former Doctor Who mastermind, Steven Moffat, and his co-creator on Sherlock, Mark Gatiss, for a new TV version of Bram Stoker's iconic tome, Dracula, are about to come to fruition.
The Girl in the Spider's Web's Claes Bang will go fang as Dracula himself in the miniseries, a co-production of BBC One and Netflix, set as three 90-minute episodes to air in the UK on the former and stream in the U.S. on the latter. The plan by co-creators Moffat and Gatiss will, according to the official description, “re-introduce the world to Dracula, the vampire who made evil sexy. In Transylvania in 1897, the blood-drinking Count is drawing his plans against Victorian London.
- 4/17/2018
- Den of Geek
Few actors have weathered childhood fame as gracefully as Evan Rachel Wood. From an early lead role on ABC’s “Once and Again” to a star-making turn in Catherine Hardwicke’s “Thirteen,” Wood came of age in the public eye and lived to tell the tale. Unlike many who peak young, she sustained a career spanning critical hits like “Across the Universe” and “The Wrestler” to prestige television such as “True Blood,” “Doll & Em,” and now, “Westworld.” Wood hasn’t come out entirely unscathed; in 2016 she revealed that she had been sexually assaulted multiple times in her life. In February, she testified in Congress about surviving sexual abuse.
“I never did what I did to be famous, and it’s something that can cause great anxiety in me,” Wood said in a phone interview last month. “But, I had to use it for a purpose. Otherwise, it was going to be too much.
“I never did what I did to be famous, and it’s something that can cause great anxiety in me,” Wood said in a phone interview last month. “But, I had to use it for a purpose. Otherwise, it was going to be too much.
- 4/13/2018
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
HBO is bringing Doll & Em back for a second season. The premium cable network has renewed the comedy starring The Newsroom's Emily Mortimer and Bridget Jones's Diary's Dolly Wells, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The series, an original production from broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting, will premiere first on Sky Living in the U.K. before its run on HBO. Season two of Doll will again be comprised of six episodes and this time explore the best friends writing an off-Broadway play together in a bid to do something on creative equal footing
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- 12/3/2014
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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