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We know what we'll be watching on Christmas Day 2025. The upcoming thriller flick The Housemaid, starring Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried! Lionsgate just announced its official theatrical release date, which is set for Dec. 25, 2025. Other movies slated to hit theaters that month are Five Nights at Freddy's 2 and Avatar: Fire and Ash.

The Housemaid is a film adaptation of the New York Times bestselling thriller novel of the same name by Freida McFadden. Paul Feig, who is best known for being behind movies such as Ghostbusters (2016) and A Simple Favor, will direct the project. Archive 81's Rebecca Sonnenshine will write the script.

The film centers on Millie, a young woman seeking a new beginning after a string of misfortunes. She finally sees hope when she secures a job as a housemaid for a wealthy couple, Nina and Andrew. But as she settles into her new position, Millie soon uncovers...

Movies based on books have plenty of opportunity to turn out well since books often serve as great blueprints for screenplays. Will that be the case for an upcoming movie called The Housemaid that’s been adapted from a best-selling novel written by Freida McFadden? Director Paul Feig has a vision in mind for The Housemaid, and only time will tell if the movie honors the book the way avid readers are hoping for. Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried are starring in the film. Here’s what you should know.

Sydney Sweeney And Amanda Seyfried Are Starring In The Housemaid Together

If you’re curious to know the genre of The Housemaid, look no further. It’s a psychological thriller that will leave you on the edge of your seat! It shouldn’t come as a surprise that actresses like Sydney and Amanda would agree to star in a psychological...

The New York Times bestselling thriller novel The Housemaid by Freida McFadden is finally getting a film adaptation, and two amazingly talented actresses are set to star. A well-known filmmaker is also attached to the project to direct.

Lionsgate is behind this upcoming thriller. The entertainment company has reportedly finalized an agreement for Emmy Award-nominated actress Sydney Sweeney to star in the film. The company is also reportedly in the last stages of negotiations for Golden Globe Award-winning actress Amanda Seyfried to join the cast as another lead.

Sweeney is best known for starring as Cassie Howard in the hit HBO teen drama series Euphoria. She's also known for her roles in other shows such as The Handmaid's Tale, Sharp Objects, Everything Sucks! and The White Lotus. Her most recent acting gigs were starring in the rom-com Anyone but You, the superhero film Madame Web and the horror flick Immaculate.

Director Paul Feig is helming an adaptation of bestselling novel The Housemaid, and the Lionsgate thriller has found its leads in Immaculate star Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried.

The screenplay is by “The Boys” scribe Rebecca Sonnenshine, based on the hit novel by Freida McFadden.

In the film, “Millie (Sweeney), a struggling young woman who is relieved to get a fresh start as a housemaid to Nina (Seyfried) and Andrew, an upscale, wealthy couple… but soon learns that the family’s secrets are far more dangerous than her own.”

“I’m thrilled to have The Housemaid join our upcoming slate. A great filmmaker and a great cast with a great script from a great book is a terrific place to start. My prior work experiences with Paul and Amanda have been nothing short of spectacular, and Sydney is as talented and compelling as can be,” said Adam Fogelson, chair, Lionsgate Motion Picture Group.

It Ends With Us is out now in theaters and audiences are about to fall in love with rising star Alex Neustaedter, who plays the role of Young Atlas.

The 26-year-old actor brings a sweet and touching quality to Atlas’ high school years in his scenes with co-star Isabella Ferrer, who plays Young Lily.

While Alex has been working for years, this might be your first introduction to him. So lets fill you in on what you should know!

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Alex grew up in Kansas and relocated to Los Angeles with his family when he was 13 so he could pursue acting. His big break came in 2015 when he landed the lead role in the indie film Ithaca, directed by Meg Ryan.

“I told my mom before the audition with Meg, ‘If I don’t get this, I feel like I might want to take it easy on continuing,...

Exclusive: Academy Award-nominated filmmakers Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman (Succession) have been tapped to helm the first two episodes of The Four Seasons, Netflix’s new comedy series based on the same-name 1981 film, from Tina Fey, Lang Fisher and Tracey Wigfield.

As previously announced, Fey, Steve Carell, Colman Domingo, Kerri Kenney-Silver, Erika Henningsen and Will Forte will star. While a logline for the series hasn’t been provided, the film The Four Seasons follows three couples who vacation together every season, only to see their worlds upended when one of them divorces. Alan Alda directed from his script and starred opposite Carol Burnett, with Martin Bregman producing.

Hailing from Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, and Fey’s production company Little Stranger, Inc., The Four Seasons will be exec produced by Fey, Fisher, Wigfield, David Miner, Eric Gurian and Jeff Richmond. Alda and Marissa Bregman will produce,...

Amanda Seyfried to star in ‘Long Bright River’ (Photo Courtesy of Peacock)

Emmy winner Amanda Seyfried’s following up starring roles in The Dropout and The Crowded Room limited series with Peacock’s Long Bright River. Seyfried will also serve as an executive producer on the suspense thriller based on Liz Moore’s New York Times bestselling novel.

Author Moore and Nikki Toscano (The Offer) are writing the limited series and will executive produce, along Pascal Pictures’ Amy Pascal and Original Film’s Neal H. Moritz, Pavun Shetty, and Amanda Lewis. Toscano is guiding the series as showrunner, and Hagar Ben-Asher (Dead Women Walking) is directing and executive producing the first episode.

“Long Bright River tells a story about the collective power of an underserved community,” said Liz Moore and Nikki Toscano. “We are thrilled that Amanda Seyfried will lead this series about how those initially perceived as victims can...

Exclusive: Isabela Ferrer and Alex Neustaedter have joined the cast of Wayfarer Studios and Sony Pictures’ film adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling novel It Ends With Us. They will play Young Lily and Young Atlas, respectively.

The film stars Blake Lively as Lily, Justin Baldoni as Ryle and Brandon Sklenar as Atlas, with Baldoni directing. Jenny Slate and Hasan Minhaj are also starring.

Sony Pictures is releasing the film theatrically on June 21, 2024, with Alex Saks producing for Saks Picture Company along with Jamey Heath on behalf of Wayfarer.

Executive producers are Steve Sarowitz, Andrew Calof and Baldoni on behalf of Wayfarer Studios, which is also co-financing, along with Lively, Hoover and Andrea Ajemian. Christy Hall has penned the current screenplay and is also producing.

The film follows Lily Bloom, who though coming from a complicated past has always known the life she wants. While living in Boston, she meets...

"Things Heard & Seen" is a relationship drama disguised as a horror film, exploring the unraveling marriage of Catherine and George. The spirits haunting Catherine and George's home are former residents who suffered tragic deaths at the hands of their husbands. Catherine's interactions with the ghost of Ella Vayle serve as a warning about George's true nature, leading to a tragic ending for Catherine.

The Things Heard & Seen ending explained it's a relationship drama masquerading as a horror film. Based on a famed book by Elizabeth Brundage, Things Heard & Seen follows a young married couple, Catherine (Amanda Seyfried) and George (James Norton), as they relocate to a small town in upstate New York, so George can work as a professor at the local college. Though the pair, who have a young daughter named Franny, seem relatively happy and hopeful for the future, there's palpable tension bubbling beneath the...

The Amanda Seyfried-starring Netflix horror movie "Things Heard & Seen" may have been obliterated by critics and audiences alike, but the story's blending of a traditional ghost story and a true crime tragedy has fans fascinated with how the film came to be. Based on the Elizabeth Brundage book "All Things Cease to Appear," the tale centers on a woman named Catherine Clare who moves to a small rural town with her husband and daughter who begin to suspect their new home may have been the site of some gruesome events. The family begins to witness supernatural entities throughout the house, going so far as to conduct a seance to try and get to the bottom of the hauntings. However, things take a turn for the damned when Catherine realizes that the true horror in her home is still among the land of the living.

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Filmmakers Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini got their start with a documentary about a famous Los Angeles restaurant called "Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's," but broke through the world of narrative features with "American Splendor," a comedy biopic starring Paul Giamatti about the underground comic book writer, Harvey Pekar. At the 93rd Academy Awards, Amanda Seyfried snagged a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her work in "Mank," David Fincher's biopic of Herman J. Mankiewicz released by Netflix. In the year that followed, Berman and Plucini linked up with Seyfried and Netflix to make "Things Heard and Seen" based on the novel "All Things Cease to Appear" by Elizabeth Brundage.

Seyfried was cast as the star, but she was joined by "Stranger Things" favorite Natalia Dyer, "Better Call Saul" standout Rhea Seehorn, Karen Allen of "Indiana Jones" fame, Academy Award-winner F. Murray Abraham, Academy Award-nominee Michael O'Keefe,...

Acclaimed BBC thriller series Happy Valley finally returned for season 3 this year after a 6-year hiatus, and has just begun playing for American and Canadian viewers on Acorn TV. Screen Rant is proud to present a clip from this week's episode, in which Catherine learns of a painful betrayal close to home. Created by masterful storyteller Sally Wainwright (Gentleman Jack), Happy Valley depicts the life and career of Catherine Cawood.

Catherine is a police sergeant in Northern England raising her grandson Ryan (Rhys Connah) following the death of her daughter Becky, who tragically took her life after being sexually assaulted. Happy Valley became a huge hit with audiences and critics alike, with the main cast including Siobhan Finneran as Catherine's sister Clare and James Norton (Things Heard & Seen) as Ryan's father and Becky's rapist. Now back for the first time since 2016, Happy Valley season 3 finds Catherine pursuing new cases,...

“Better Call Saul” breakout Rhea Seehorn will be joining Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in the untitled fourth “Bad Boys” film, TheWrap has confirmed. Details of her character – and anything else pertaining to the plot of the movie – are being heavily guarded but no doubt will occur somewhere in Miami.

Seehorn played lawyer Kim Wexler for 60 episodes on Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould’s “Better Call Saul,” a spinoff of the popular “Breaking Bad” that is the rare example of a spinoff being just as good (if not better) than the original.

Seehorn has also been in several movies, everything from the Tim Allen version of “The Shaggy Dog” back in 2006, to the Netflix horror movie “Things Heard & Seen” with Amanda Seyfried (from “American Splendor” filmmakers Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini), but this fourth “Bad Boys” will definitely be her biggest movie yet.

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With production on the action sequel Bad Boys 4 currently underway, the cast has expanded with the addition of an Emmy nominee. Rhea Seehorn, who is best known for her fan favorite role as Kim Wexler in Better Call Saul, has just boarded the cast of Bad Boys 4. The news of Seehorn's casting comes to us from Deadline, though as of now, no details have yet been revealed about her character.

Of course, the film will reunite Martin Lawrence and Will Smith to reprise their roles from the franchise as Detectives Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey. Along with Seehorn, another newcomers to come into the series with Bad Boys 4 include Eric Dane (Euphoria) and Ioan Gruffudd (Fantastic Four). Tasha Smith (Empire) is also taking over the role of Marcus's wife, Theresa, who was previously played by Theresa Randle. Another returning franchise stars include Paola Nunez, Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig,...

While it is looking increasingly unlikely that Tom Hardy, Idris Elba, or Henry Cavill will be the next James Bond, there is a range of stars who could still play 007 in Bond 26. It is never easy for franchise producers to find the next James Bond actor. Famously, Pierce Brosnan almost became the fourth James Bond in the mid-‘80s before his commitments to TV's Remington Steele stopped the arrangement By the time Remington Steele was canceled a mere 6 episodes later, Timothy Dalton had accepted the part, and it would be another decade before Brosnan got his shot at playing 007.

Given this messy history, it is understandable that the James Bond franchise’s producers haven’t been in any rush to announce Bond 26’s new star. Since Daniel Craig’s James Bond debut Casino Royale was critically acclaimed, it will be tough for the eighth canonical 007's...

From its debut to its conclusion, the Better Call Saul cast was one of the many reasons the spinoff was such a hit. Before Saul Goodman was laundering Walter White's dirty cash in Breaking Bad, he was the aspiring, young Albuquerque lawyer known as Jimmy McGill, fighting tooth and nail to forge a career in the legal world. Better Call Saul has shown Jimmy's ever-so-gradual transition into the Saul Goodman Breaking Bad fans know and love, and season 6 marks the final leg of that journey. Though he is at the center of the spinoff, the overall Better Call Saul cast and characters are undoubtedly among its greatest strengths.

Blending Breaking Bad favorites with newcomers who are just as compelling, Better Call Saul season 6 reveals what becomes of those characters who don't appear in Breaking Bad and adds new context to the characters fans already knew. Because season 6 brings the story...

The 2021 horror-thriller movie Things Heard & Seen focuses on the toxic marriage between Catherine (Amanda Seyfried) and George Claire (James Norton), and Natalia Dyer's minor role significantly alters the story. The movie, adapted from Elizabeth Brundage's book All Things Cease to Appear, follows the couple as they move to the Hudson Valley and Catherine wonders if their old home has ghosts. Dyer played Willis Howell, a college student whom George meets at his town's library. Willis is intelligent, friendly, and warm-hearted, and she makes the mistake of becoming involved with George, who is hiding demons from his wife and is therefore dangerous.

Dyer is known for playing the whip-smart Nancy Wheeler in Stranger Things and for smaller roles in the movies Tuscaloosa and Yes, God, Yes. Like Nancy, Willis is a character who listens to her gut instincts. In Things Heard & Seen, characters like Willis, orbit around the main couple,...

Horse-drawn carriages were back on the streets of Troy, N.Y., in August, alongside equipment trucks, honey wagons and camera cranes. HBO’s “The Gilded Age” had returned to shoot scenes for the second season of the series, which explores the lives of monied families and the people who serve them in 1880s New York. The previous year, the production had covered the streets of Troy’s Monument Square with truckloads of dirt to turn it into a period-correct downtown Manhattan shopping district, and also utilized other well-preserved 19th century structures in the town, 152 miles north of Manhattan, including the Rensselaer County Court House, the Savings Bank Music Hall and the Troy Public Library, along with its Washington Park neighborhood and the Oakwood Cemetery.

“The buildings [in Monument Park] were built between the 1820s and 1880s, and many of them are perfectly restored,” says the show’s location manager Lauri Pitkus. “You can...

Amanda Seyfried is showing a topless throwback wearing an open blazer. Pic credit: ©ImageCollect.com/Kazuki Hirata/HollywoodNewsWire.co

Amanda Seyfried is throwing it back for some stylish photos on her social media.

Amanda took to social media to join the tradition of Throwback Thursday.

She treated her 5.5 million fans and followers on Instagram to a shoot from a few months ago. And although the pictures were quite recent, they still constituted a Tbt share.

The actress shared two black-and-white photos from an old shoot with Mark Seliger.

Amanda appeared stripped down and natural with minimal makeup and natural waves.

She wore a black leather jacket with multiple zippers, with the main one unzipped. She placed one hand near her chest bone and let the other fall to her side. Amanda paired the black leather jacket with a black mini skirt.

Amanda Seyfried poses topless under leather jacket

The throwback...

Exclusive: The biggest TV project to hit the marketplace in quite a while has landed with a big series commitment. Apple TV+ has nabbed the latest show from Breaking Bad creator and Better Call Saul co-creator Vince Gilligan, which has Better Call Saul star Rhea Seehorn attached to play the lead. The untitled project, described as a blended, grounded genre drama, has received a two-season straight-to-series order from the streamer.

Hailing from Gilligan’s longtime studio home Sony Pictures Television, the new series marks Gilligan’s follow-up to the back-to-back critical and ratings hits Breaking Bad and prequel Better Call Saul. It also marks Gilligan’s second collaboration with Better Call Saul star Seehorn, who landed a 2022 Emmy nomination for her performance on the show.

Gilligan will serve as showrunner and executive produce through his High Bridge Productions. Former Sony Pictures TV president Jeff Frost, who oversaw the project prior...

Exclusive: UTA has signed Rhea Seehorn in all areas.

In television, Seehorn notably stars in the hit AMC series Better Call Saul. Her portrayal of Kim Wexler earned her Emmy and Critics Choice nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress, as well as a Screen Actors Guild nomination for Best Ensemble in a Drama Series.

Seehorn’s other accolades include Emmy nominations for her roles in AMC’s short-form digital series Cooper’s Bar and Employee Training: Legal Ethics with Kim Wexler.

Additionally, she appeared in several notable series including Veep, The Act, and The Twilight Zone, among many others, and voiced a role in the animated comedy series The Harper House.

On the film side, Seehorn starred in the comedy feature Linoleum, which premiered at SXSW.

Previously, she can be seen in the Netflix thriller Things Heard and Seen, as well as Inside Man 2, I Hate Kids, Shaggy Dog, and Wyrm.

This review of “The Northman” was first published on April 11, 2022.

Sharpen the swords and prepare the funeral pyres: A Viking is out for bloody revenge in “The Northman,” and the corpses keep piling higher and higher in this trippy action epic from director and co-writer Robert Eggers (“The Lighthouse”).

Written in collaboration with Icelandic author Sjón, “The Northman” is gory, muddy, hallucinatory — and intensely entertaining. An examination of the way that violence begets violence, and a study of how a life devoted to single-minded hatred and vengeance can lead to uncomfortable truths, this is a movie that lives up to every saga comic books and metal bands ever spun about the brutal conquerors of yore.

We open on young Prince Amieth running to tell his mother Queen Gudrún (Nicole Kidman) of the return of King Aurvandil (Ethan Hawke), whose arrival is celebrated with a feast that includes japery from court...

“Sex Education” star Asa Butterfield and “Stranger Things” actor Natalia Dyer are set to take the lead roles in high concept horror thriller “All Fun and Games.” The movie follows a group of siblings who find themselves in a game with a demonic twist.

Anton, whose credits include “Greenland,” “The Night House” and “Curs>r,” is producing with Anthony and Joe Russo’s Agbo, best known for “Avengers: Infinity War” and “Avengers: Endgame,” and will present the film to buyers at the virtual European Film Market in Berlin next month.

It will be co-directed by Ari Costa, whose credits include “Extraction,” “Avengers: Endgame” and “The Internet Kills,” and Eren Celeboglu, who worked on “The Internet Kills” and “Scrubs,” in their directorial debuts. It will be written from a script they co-wrote based off J.J. Braider’s original spec that sold competitively to Agbo. Principal photography is set to begin at...

Netflix's horror drama Things Heard & Seen released this past April, adapting the novel All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage. The film shares the story of the Claire family (led by Amanda Seyfried's Catherine and James Norton's George), who move from Manhattan to a seemingly haunted home in the countryside of Chosen, New York and struggle against supernatural forces.

Related: 10 Movies Like Netflix's Things Heard & Seen, Ranked

Things Heard & Seen features an expertly cast ensemble, from the always-engaging Seyfried – best known for her roles in Mean Girls and Mank – to the delightful Natalia Dyer, who shot to fame following her role in Netflix's Stranger Things. After finishing the film, fans can revisit the filmographies of each actor involved, as many have featured in a number of other hit franchises.

Netflix fantasy series Shadow and Bone edged out the fourth season of The Handmaid’s Tale on Hulu to top Nielsen’s weekly ranking of streaming viewership in the U.S.

Shadow and Bone, an 8-episode series based on Leigh Bardugo’s bestselling novels, is produced by Stranger Things outfit 21 Laps Entertainment.

Nielsen measures only viewing through a TV set on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu and Disney+, delaying results for nearly a month by arrangement with streaming providers. Shadow and Bone, per the measurement firm, pulled in a shade less than 1.2 billion total streaming hours in the period from April 26 to May 2.

The Handmaid’s Tale totaled 1.04 billion hours from its 39 total episodes. Only the first three episodes from the current season went online in its first week, and new episodes are added one at a time on a weekly basis.

A strong No. 4 on the chart was Skydance/Paramount...

Gemma Arterton (“Black Narcissus”) and Shazad Latif (“Star Trek: Discovery”) will join James Norton (“McMafia”) in the thriller “Chasing Agent Freegard.”

“Chasing Agent Freegard” is based on the story of British conman Robert Hendy-Freegard, who masqueraded as an MI5 agent and fooled several people into going underground for fear of assassination by the Ira.

Arterton’s reps at CAA confirmed her casting to Variety.

The project is written by “The Mauritanian” writer and co-producer Michael Bronner, who also co-produced “Captain Phillips.” The film will be helmed by Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson, the duo who directed the hit BBC drama “The Salisbury Poisonings,” about the 2018 poisoning of a Russian agent and his daughter in Salisbury, U.K.

“Little Women” star Norton, who most recently appeared in Netflix chiller “Things Heard & Seen” and series “The Nevers,” will play Freegard and is also executive producing via his Rabbit Track Pictures outfit.

On VOD, Universal’s “Nobody” and the debut of the latest Liam Neeson action film, “The Marksman,” topped the charts along with “Nomadland.” The Bob Odenkirk thriller “Nobody” has been overall the top performer for its initial three weeks of $19.99 home play (with the studio collecting $16 for each rental). It is the sole title to make all four charts, placing #1 at GooglePlay and Spectrum, second and fifth at Fandango and Apple TV. Two million rentals would mean $32 million in studio rentals.

For “The Marksman,” Open Road held to the pre-pandemic 75 day window, grossing a little under $16 million in domestic theaters, before going PVOD. It took #1 at FandangoNow, #2 at Apple TV, and #3 at GooglePlay.

“Nomadland” took the final top spot, placing first at Apple TV at $5.99 after a PVOD release (and while it still runs on Hulu). It is #9 at GooglePlay and #5 at FandangoNow, where it ranks highest among non-pvod titles...

Resident Evil: Berman & Pulcini Conjure a Satisfying Genre Throwback

Studio output of the 1970s, during the golden age of New American Cinema, allowed for a particular breed of complex genre generating iconic templates also stuffed with peripheral weirdness which elevated them beyond mere exercise. In the ensuing decades, genre, like all cinema crafted to enhance consumerist ‘needs,’ has fallen into a similar stagnation of overtly glossy formula. So, it’s with great pleasure to encounter an unexpected gem from American indie helmers Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini in Things Heard & Seen, adapted from Elizabeth Brundage’s 2017 novel All Things Cease to Appear.…...

Photo: ‘Things Heard & Seen’/Netflix A Matter Of Family From directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, ‘Things Heard & Seen’ is the newest horror-thriller to hit Netflix. The film follows Amanda Seyfriend and James Norton, as husband and wife, as they move into a new house in upstate New York. After moving in, they soon discover something sinister in both the home and within their marriage. While fairly conventional in its premise, ‘Things Heard & Seen’ executes its premise in a creative enough way that kept me engaged throughout. Going into the film, I had no expectations or any prior knowledge of the novel the film was adapted from which I believe aided in my personal enjoyment of the film. Related article: Oscars 2021 Winners: The 93rd Show With Record-Breaking Historic Successes, Shocks and Surprises Related article: A Tribute To The Academy Awards: All Best Actor/Actress Speeches From...

There are ghosts that haunt the houses of New York’s Hudson Valley, we’re told early on in Things Heard & Seen (now screening on Netflix) — the spirits of former owners who may have unfinished business in this realm, or who may be protecting new occupants from possible danger, or who may be right evil bastards waiting to inspire the living to embrace their own inner darkness. The residents of the region, at least in the early 1980s, seem to accept this as a fact of life; some even view it as a perk.

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If you went in thinking you'd be able to fully comprehend Netflix's Things Heard & Seen because you'd read the Elizabeth Brundage novel it is based on, think again. The film - which premiered April 29 - sees the relationship between married couple George (James Norton) and Catherine Clare (Amanda Seyfried) begin to unravel after the family moves into an old farmhouse in Upstate New York. Eerie things begin happening at the house as Catherine realizes that George may not be all he says he is. These suspicions eventually result in her murder. Despite knowing who the killer is, the film's ending leaves us with more questions than answers.

Things Heard & Seen's Premise

George Clare takes a teaching position at Saginaw College and moves his family onto an old dairy farm in Upstate New York. It doesn't take long for his wife, Catherine, to start noticing odd things around the house.

Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini’s no-thrills, no-chills, ultimately shrug-worthy adaptation of Elizabeth Brundage’s 2016 well-regarded, literary novel, Things Heard & Seen, works hard to turn tired, overused tropes into a compelling, engaging, and otherwise enthralling two-hour film starring recent Oscar nominee Amanda Seyfried. Spoiler alert: Despite a promising beginning that attempts to split the difference between Spoiler alert: Despite a promising beginning that attempts to split the difference between supernatural horror and domestic drama, the by-now obligatory pre-Internet 20th-century setting (1980), and an overabundance of intriguing, weighty ideas about art, spirituality, and the afterlife, Things Heard & Seen stumbles on practically every level, including as the equivalent of a sizzle reel...

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Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about filmmakers! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between.

Today, Conor and I have an incredibly interesting and wide-ranging conversation with directing duo Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini. We chat about their new movie Things Heard & Seen (now available on Netflix), then dive back into their eclectic, accomplished career. From the serendipitous way they came to make the doc Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen’s to the unintentional development of the underrated The Extra Man, starring Kevin Kline and Paul Dano. Their HBO film Cinema Verite is briefly mentioned, a wonderful telling of the making of the groundbreaking PBS documentary An American Family from 1973.

Other topics include a failed reimagining of Bride of Frankenstein, the nightmarish post-production process on The Nanny Diaries thanks to Harvey Weinstein,...

It was 18 years ago — how time flies in the indie world — that the married directing team of Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman brought us “American Splendor,” an achingly humane, scabrously funny, miraculously playful and inventive lower-depths comedy based on the life and work of the lumpen verité comic-book diarist Harvey Pekar, played by Paul Giamatti in a performance of irascible brilliance. The movie was an audacious triumph, and going forward one wanted, and expected, more great things from Pulcini and Berman. In the years since, however, nothing they’ve done has come within miles of living up to the promise of that landmark film. The odd thing is that their earnest empathy and craft is always on display; they have an instinct for pace, for camera angles, for how to seek out three dimensions in places where too many filmmakers settle for two. Yet lightning has never struck again for them.

It’s safe to assume any movie that opens with a quote from 17th century pluralistic-Christian theologian (and big time spiritualist) Emanuel Swedenborg has a lot on its mind, and so it’s no surprise that Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini’s “Things Heard & Seen” isn’t the straightforward horror story that’s suggested by its ominous flash-forward of an opening scene. Indeed, Swedenborg’s insistence that “things that are in heaven are more real than things that are in the world” hovers over the first hour of this strange movie like a gentle hand on your shoulder, as if to say “don’t be afraid of this haunted old house in the Hudson Valley. Just because it comes with a ghost or two and a smattering of half-hearted jump-scares doesn’t mean that it’s evil. Amanda Seyfried could’ve had that freaky nightmare about pulling a...

It is truly incredible how durable the “haunted house” structure has revealed itself to be over time. Case in point: Things Heard & Seen, written and directed by Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman. Based on the Elizabeth Brundage novel All Things Cease To Appear and starring recent Academy Award-nominee Amanda Seyfried, this thriller emerges as an above-average genre programmer. Traditional beats are explored from a different angle, resulting in something quite memorable.

Seyfried plays Catherine Claire, a stressed wife and mother whose reluctantly chosen to leave New York City for the rural Hudson Valley for the good of her husband George’s (James Norton) teaching career. From the jump, their marriage appears fractured. Once George thrusts a big, eerie pick-me-up of a house on them, it all gets worse. At first, their young daughter (Ana Sophia Heger) starts seeing things. Soon enough, they all are.

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A haunted house, a religious philosophy, and a horrible story of domestic abuse are at the center of this Netflix original horror-thriller, Things Heard & Seen, a movie that plays with big ideas but gets confused along the way.

Amanda Seyfried stars as Catherine, a young art restorer who moves with her lecturer husband George (James Norton) to a small town and a new house when he secures a job at a local college. Isolated from her own work and friends, and now a full time mum to their young daughter Franny, Catherine grows increasingly frustrated while George appears to be thriving, adored by his young students, popular with staff at the small college where he teaches art history, and indulging in extra curricular activities with a local girl (Stranger Things’ Natalia Dyer).

Meanwhile the house they moved into seems to have a personality and history of its own, linked to some former residents.

Three things about James Norton are true: He’s handsome, he knows it, and he knows how to express his handsomeness as utterly loathsome. For the better part of “Things Heard & Seen,” the new film from Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, Norton imagines his face as an object well-deserving of a smack, or two, or five, but takes his time building up to punching bag status.

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Far from the consistent critical glory of Sundance contemporaries like Kelly Reichardt and Debra Granik — or even the sporadic critical glory of a Lisa Cholodenko or an Ira Sachs — and not to be confused with more marketable writing-directing duo Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini have forged one of the most perplexing career paths in American independent film.

In the nearly two decades since their 2003 breakout American Splendor, nothing they’ve made has come close to delivering on that debut’s prankish promise. Efforts have included a high-profile misfire (The Nanny Diaries); a ...

Amanda Seyfried has two reasons why she's a "more nuanced" actress: her kids! Hot off of the 2021 Academy Awards, the Mank Best Supporting Actress nominee virtually sat down with E! News' Daily Pop host Justin Sylvester to discuss her latest film, Things Heard & Seen. Seyfried spills in this exclusive clip how motherhood changed her approach to acting—including even the roles she was offered! "I've never played a mother before I was a mother. How's that Hollywood? Thanks a lot," Seyfried jokes. "But it's actually...richer. It's got more nuance obviously. There's just a life experience you're getting on a...

With romantic comedies, action-packed thrillers and buzzy documentaries, Netflix’s upcoming summer film slate has a little something for every movie lover.

The streaming service on Tuesday released a preview of its 2021 popcorn season offerings, a list that includes the final chapter in the “The Kissing Booth” trilogy, Kevin Hart’s touching drama “Fatherhood,” “Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed” and Zack Snyder’s zombie heist adventure “Army of the Dead.”

The schedule kicks off with “Things Heard and Seen,” a horror movie starring Amanda Seyfried, on April 29, followed by “The Mitchells vs. the Machines,” an animated comedy from “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, on April 30.

May will see the debut of the Amy Adams-led “The Woman in the Window,” a highly anticipated adaptation about an agoraphobe that has renewed relevance after a year-long pandemic, as well as “Monster,” an intimate drama starring John David Washington...

Netflix has released the preview for their summer 2021 movie slate, with new movies premiering each week on the streaming platform between late April and August.

The schedule kicks off with Things Heard & Seen (April 29th), the Berman/Pulcini horror film starring Amanda Seyfried; and The Mitchells vs. the Machines (April 30th), the latest animated comedy produced by The Lego Movie filmmakers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, featuring an all-star cast that includes Abbi Jacobson, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Eric Andre, Fred Armisen, Beck Bennett, Conan O’Brien, Charlyne Yi, Sasheer Zamata,...

Netflix released a preview of its summer slate Tuesday, including finalized release dates, footage, photos, and other announcements from a range of films. Among the highlights: details from the animated revisionist history “America: the Motion Picture” from the “Archer” team and first-look photos from Paul Weitz’ Kevin Hart-starrer “Fatherhood” and the Melissa McCarthy-produced documentary “Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed.”

Below find Netflix’s summer movie preview sizzle, featuring some of the highlights from the nearly three-dozen films the streamer is set to release between April and the end of August. Included in the video are clips from Zack Snyder’s “Army of the Dead,” “Fatherhood,” the Jason Momoa-starring “Sweet Girl,” the Amy Adams agoraphobia thriller “The Woman in the Window,” and more.

Netflix set a release date, announced the full cast, and revealed a first-look photo from “America: the Motion Picture,” a project that has been quiet...

As a bookworm, I take pride in the fact that I can usually say "Eh, the book was better." However, after viewing the trailer for Netflix's upcoming thriller, I'm not so sure that will be the case with Things Heard & Seen. The movie already looks like it'll be more fast-paced than the book it's inspired by, All Things Cease To Appear by Elizabeth Brundage. While the trailer amps up the suspense and mystery right away, the book takes a more lackadaisical approach in weaving the eerie tale. If you're curious about Things Heard & Seen, coming to Netflix on April 29, here's what to know about the book version.

The Clare Family

All Things Cease to Appear centers around an old farmhouse in Upstate New York with a gruesome past. George Clare claims his wife has been murdered and that he needs someone to call for help. Catherine Clare...

Netflix has unveiled a new trailer for Things Heard & Seen. The thriller, set to arrive later this month, stars Oscar-nominee Amanda Seyfried. The movie takes us back to the 80s and focuses on a Manhattan couple moving into a historic home, only to discover that their marriage has a sinister darkness. As we can see from the trailer, there is all manner of mystery and evil lurking in this adaptation of Elizabeth Brundage's 2016 novel.

The trailer opens with the couple at the center of our tale getting ready to leave life in New York City for a rural existence. Amanda Seyfried's Catherine is reluctant, but goes along with it to support her husband. They are happy enough at first in their new farm home, which is in need of some renovation. But Catherine discovers a book that takes her down a dark path. As it turns out, there...

When we talk about technology and inventions, a lot of times, people think of some sort of product on “Shark Tank.” But as seen in the new film, “Percy vs. Goliath,” intellectual property created in a lab also falls under that umbrella of inventions and technology.

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"Everything in the natural world, has a counterpart in the spiritual realm." Netlfix has revealed an official trailer for a mysterious thriller titled Things Heard & Seen, from filmmakers Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini. A Manhattan couple moves to a historic hamlet up in the Hudson Valley and come to discover that their marriage has a sinister darkness, one that rivals their new home's history. Oooh. Based on the acclaimed novel by Elizabeth Brundage. Amanda Seyfried and James Norton co-star, with Natalia Dyer, Alex Neustaedter, Rhea Seehorn, Michael O'Keefe, Karen Allen, Jack Gore, with F. Murray Abraham, James Urbaniak, and Ana Sophia Heger. At first glance, this looks like an American remake of Rebecca, about digging up skeletons in the closet once you marry and move. At least the talented Amanda Seyfried is leading this time. First trailer (+ poster) for Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini's Things Heard ...

If you’re a young married couple that finds a deal that is too good to be true on a farmhouse from the 19th century in a small town, then maybe you understand that evil is afoot and you should say no. Alas, the couple in “Things Heard & Seen” eagerly move into the house only to find the darkness that lives inside.

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Horror movies have taught people a number of things.

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Oscar nominee Amanda Seyfried is set to star as Elizabeth Holmes in Hulu’s The Dropout. She replaces Kate McKinnon who in February exited the limited drama series based on ABC News/ABC Radio’s podcast about the rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes and her company, Theranos.

Seyfried will also serve as a producer on the project, from Disney Television Studios’ 20th Television and Searchlight, which is eying a summer start.

Elizabeth Holmes (Seyfried), the enigmatic Stanford dropout who founded medical testing start-up Theranos, was lauded as a Steve Jobs for the next tech generation. Once worth billions of dollars, the myth crumbled when it was revealed that none of the tech actually worked, putting thousands of people’s health in grave danger. The story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos is an unbelievable tale of ambition and fame gone terribly wrong. How did the world’s youngest self-made female...

Exclusive: Jim Gaffigan and Rhea Seehorn are starring in the upcoming sci-fi comedy drama feature Linoleum which recently wrapped production in New York under Covid-19 safety guidelines.

The film, written and directed by Colin West, is about the host of a failing children’s science TV show who attempts to fulfill his childhood dream of being an astronaut by building a rocket ship in his garage, all the while struggling to mend his relationship with his wife (Seehorn) and connecting surreal clues that not everything in his life is exactly how it seems. Chad Simpson’s Brain Scratch Productions partnered with Dennis Masel’s Storm City Films and Chadd Harbold to produce.

Stand-up comedian Gaffigan, who has been transitioning into a number of dramatic roles of late including Tesla, Them That Follow, and Chappaquiddick, plays dual roles in Linoleum as Cameron Edwin, the struggling amateur rocket engineer as well as his better looking,...