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04.02.2023 - 01:55 / deadline.com
Animated fairy tale The Amazing Maurice voiced by Emilia Clarke, Hugh Laurie, David Thewlish, Gemma Arterton and Himesh Patel, jumps from Sundance to 1,700 screens via Viva Pictures, the distributor’s widest release to date and a big one for any independently produced animated film.
And Civil War drama Freedom’s Path starring Gerran Howell, RJ Cyler, and Ewen Bremner, debuts at 128 AMC and Regal Cinemas. In limited release, Let It Be Morning by the director of The Band’s Visit resurfaces, Kit Harrington is back in Baby Ruby and Call My Agent’s Laure Calamy stars in Full Time.
Maurice, directed by Toby Genken and written by Terry Rossio, a family action/comedy from the U.K., follows a streetwise cat and his gang of rats who come up with a perfect moneymaking scheme. Based on the novel The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Sir Terry Pratchett, it’s produced by Emely Christians, Andrew Baker, Robert Chandler. The pic premiered at the Manchester Animation Festival last November and was released in the U.K. in December by Sky Cinema. It screened in competition in the Sundance Kids section.
Xenon Pictures presents Freedom’s Path, the feature debut from writer/director/producer Brett Smith, which opens along with Black History Month. A Union soldier fleeing from battle is rescued by a free Black man and his friends, who take him deep into the woods to safety. This community of freed slaves, who run a portion of the Underground Railroad, are discovered by a ruthless slave catcher who conspires to bring them down.
Byron Allen’s streaming platform HBCU GO is partnering with the producers to promote the film’s message throughout the month. A part of ticket sales will be donated to underfunded Historically Black Colleges
Don Lemon is taking some time to better himself.
All the delights and debaucheries of old Hollywood are coming to people’s living rooms.
Carla Renata During the pandemic, podcasts boomed with popularity, with alternative platforms like Clubhouse, Anchor and YouTube adding to the discussion. Around the globe, more than 400 million podcasts listeners have tuned into over 2 million independent podcasts for all sorts of content.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences may have appallingly snubbed Till this year when it came to Oscar nominations, but the President of the United States today had nothing but accolades for the Chinonye Chukwu directed film about the 1955 lynching of civil rights activist teenage Emmett by racists and his mother’s relentless fight for justice.
Poorna Jagannathan is teaming up with George Clooney and Brad Pitt in their latest Apple TV+ thriller “Wolves”.
Don’t wear blackface! It’s disrespectful! And especially don’t put blackface on a bunch of preschool kids!!!
Ines de Ramon looked joyful as she carried around a bouquet of pink flowers on Valentine’s Day. de Ramon, who’s been spotted repeatedly with Brad Pitt, was photographed leaving her office in Los Angeles. Brad Pitt and George Clooney spotted in all-black outfits on the set of ‘Wolves’ in NYCDiego Calva’s mom didn’t stop crying at ‘Babylon’ screeningThe photos show de Ramon walking around LA with a bouquet of pink flowers in a white vase.
A closet full of memories! Gwyneth Paltrow gave fans a tour of her “storage facility,” which houses a collection of archival clothing — including outfits she wore while dating Brad Pitt.
of vintage fashion from the ‘90s includes designer shoes she’s saving for Apple, a biker jacket she wore in the movie Flesh and Bone, and a Calvin Klein dress from when she was still dating Brad Pitt. Remember that?The took viewers into her “storage facility” in a video on Goop's YouTube channel that was part closet tour, part trip down memory lane. “This is a ‘90s Calvin Klein dress I think I wore to a premiere or something when I was going out with Brad Pitt,” Paltrow says casually, pulling out a white shirtdress.
The avant-garde video artist Nam June Paik gets his own adulatory portrait in Amanda Kim’s documentary “Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV.” An act of biographical recovery that also, somehow, flattens a controversial artist, Kim’s film provides just enough contextual information to maintain interest, even if it’s never as radical as its titular subject. READ MORE: 25 Most Anticipated Films At The Sundance Film Festival Moving succinctly from birth to death, Kim provides a broad overview of Paik’s history and aesthetic interests.
EXCLUSIVE: Academy Award-nominee and SAG Award-winner Amy Ryan is set to star alongside George Clooney and Brad Pitt in an Apple Original Films’ upcoming feature film written, directed and produced by Jon Watts.
Caught somewhere between a movie and a series, “Willie Nelson & Family” doubles down on the history and mythology of its namesake to stretch the latter into what would have been better served as the former. Honest, introspective, yet rarely revelatory, the anthology often mistakes the comprehensive for the essential, and while it succeeds in explaining Willie Nelson to its audience, that’s about all it does.
In writer/director A.V. Rockwell’s feature directorial debut, “A Thousand and One,” Inez (a deeply felt Teyana Talyor) has returned to Harlem after spending a year in Rikers Prison.
This is “a place of mountains and myths,” we’re told as a montage of Central Appalachian imagery fills the frame. The mists, buffalo, ferns, and flowing waters intercut with the coal-filled mountains and mining towns that grew up around them.
There is no shortage of stories about fathers and their kids, specifically sons. But in Justin Chon’s (“Gook,” “Ms.
“Scrapper” starts in a dreary English flat with a child all alone but not incapable. That seems to be the M.O.
Few writers have as much of a hold on adults’ childhood selves as Judy Blume. Even if you’ve never read her books, her impact, especially with her most influential novels decades ago, is felt in how YA fiction is laid out today.
After growing up on a steady diet of “Law & Order: SVU,” Dianey Bermeo wanted to be like Olivia Benson, helping victims of sex crimes by bringing their assailants to justice. She gave up on that dream after police investigators in her college town failed to find the man who she said impersonated an officer and sexually assaulted her.
The "Thoroughbreds" and "Bad Education" filmmaker's sci-fi/comedy finds him working on a larger canvas, but to lesser effect.