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Wilson Chapman editorLena Dunham’s medieval kids comedy film “Catherine Called Birdy” is set to make its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival this September.Based on the 1994 children’s novel by Karen Cushman, “Catherine Called Birdy” is set in England during the year 1290, and focuses on Lady Catherine (Bella Ramsey), the youngest child of Lord Rollo (Andrew Scott) and Lady Aislinn (Billie Piper). When Catherine’s parents attempt to fix their financial woes by marrying her off to a wealthy man, she counteracts by scaring off her potentials suitors, resulting in tension between the spirited and independent young woman and her traditional parents.The cast also includes Lesley Sharp, Sophie Okonedo, Joe Alwyn, Isis Hainsworth, Dean-Charles Chapman and Paul Kaye, with Dunham appearing in a supporting role.
Dunham directed, wrote the screenplay and produces via her Good Thing Going Banner. Working Title Films is also backing the project, and Eric Fellner, Tim Bevan and Jo Wallet produce alongside Dunham.
The film has been described as a “passion project” for Dunham, who first announced her plans to adapt Cushman’s novel in 2014. “Catherine Called Birdy” is the second Lena Dunham movie to debut this year, after her third feature “Sharp Stick” premiered at Sundance this January, with a theatrical release via Utopia set for July 29.
The two films are a major return to film from Dunham, 12 years after her acclaimed sophomore feature “Tiny Furniture” premiered before her HBO comedy “Girls” and other television projects. “Sharp Stick,” which stars Kristine Froseth and Jon Bernthal, received mixed reviews out of Sundance, with Variety chief film critic Owen Gleiberman calling the film Dunham’s “First
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Writer/director/producer/actor Lena Dunham has had a couple of quiet years. Maybe that’s because she became Internet persona non grata from oversharing on social media and perhaps including a little bit too many TMI personal details in her books.
EXCLUSIVE: The Flight Attendant‘s Zosia Mamet has signed on for a role in S.J. Clarkson’s Sony Pictures film Madame Web, based on the Marvel comics by writer Denny O’Neil and artist John Romita Jr. She joins an ensemble led by Dakota Johnson, which also includes Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Merced, Emma Roberts, Celeste O’Connor, Tahar Rahim, Mike Epps and Adam Scott, as previously announced.
Lena Dunham failed her audition for the film Riding In Cars With Boys after she refused to smile “on command”.The actor and writer, best known for HBO series Girls, recalled the audition on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show, when she was asked if she’d met anyone connected to one of Dunham’s favourite films, A League Of Their Own.She explained that she previously encountered director Penny Marshall during an audition, aged 12, for her 2001 film Riding In Cars With Boys. Her role, however, was given to someone else after she refused to cooperate during an introductory task.“I understand why I didn’t get the role,” Dunham said.
Manori Ravindran International EditorTransatlantic talent management company YMU Group has launched a U.S. literary division under the leadership of Aram Fox.The launch of a U.S.
Lena Dunham has high praise for her co-star Jon Bernthal, referring to him as «gentle» and «thoughtful» during their sex scenes.In an interview with , the 36-year-old actress, writer and director was asked about particular challenges she faced while making the dramedy that she hadn't previously encountered in other projects. Dunham, at first, opened up about scenes that she described as «anxiety-inducing» even though she wrote them in the script herself, but then pivoted on how she met those challenges with the help of an unsung hero: Bernthal.«I knew the ways I’d felt, even when I was directing myself — overexposed, or scared, or not seen,» she said.
The Jess Cagle Show.She continued, “I was treated actually really well. There was no cruelty.
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Lena Dunham reveals she had a major audition fail as a young actress during a recent discussion with SiriusXM’s Jess Cagle.
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Jon Bernthal has inked with CAA for representation.
Lena Dunham is back. Sharp Stick — the writer/director/actor’s follow to HBO series Girls and her first film since Tiny Furniture (2020) – opens in LA at Landmark’s renovated single-screen NuArt Theatre and at the Quad Cinema in NYC. It expands to 40 to 50 screens next weekend, heading to about 100 thereafter – a mix of AMC, Alamo, Laemmle and Harkins circuits and top U.S. arthouses.
Simply put, Lena Dunham’s “Sharp Stick” is a film about sex. But sex for a very naive, innocent, fearless, infertile, 26-year-old virgin woman is more than just sex, and the implications of the many encounters and decisions made by Sarah Jo (the luminous Kristine Froseth) on her journey of self-discovery can be dizzying in their sheer number and magnitude.
The time has come to bid farewell to the South by Southwest Film Festival. Well, the name, at least.
Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal are reteaming to star in and produce the upcoming Spanish-language Hulu limited series “La Máquina,” from Searchlight Television. “La Máquina,” which got a straight-to-series order, follows an aging boxer (Bernal) whose crafty manager (Luna) secures him one last shot at a title.
Joe Otterson TV ReporterDiego Luna and Gael García Bernal are teaming to star in a Spanish-language limited series at Hulu produced by Searchlight Television.The pair will star in the drama series “La Maquina,” which hails from writer Marco Ramirez. It follows an aging boxer (García Bernal), whose crafty manager (Luna) secures him one last shot at a title. But to make it to fight night, they must navigate a mysterious underworld force.Both Luna and García Bernal will produce under their La Corriente del Golfo banner.
Lena Dunham and her husband, Luis Felber, are seen out on the red carpet, but the premiere of her movie certainly called for the occasion!The 36-year-old actress and Felber were spotted at her premiere Monday night at Brain Dead Studios LA in Los Angeles. The star looked elegant in a shiny silver gown.
Sharp Stick in Los Angeles on July 25.Felber, a British-Peruvian musician, did the music for the movie, which was written and directed by Dunham, her first feature since 2010's indie breakout Tiny Furniture. The pair are celebrating ten months of marriage after tying the knot in an intimate but chic ceremony in London in September of last year. You may remember .For the occasion, chose a silvery silk dress, chunky platform Mary Janes and a stack of bracelets.
Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaDolly de Leon, who recently earned rave reviews for her work in Ruben Östlund’s “Triangle of Sadness,” has signed with Jennifer Beaton at Gersh. The signing comes after de Leon scored some serious Oscar buzz after “Triangle of Sadness,” a darkly comic exploration of class and inequality, which debuted at Cannes, where it won the Palme d’Or.