WME Signs ‘7 Prisoners’ Director Alexandre Moratto

Berlinale FIPRESCI winner “What Do We See When We Look At The Sky?” received rave reviews at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year. Now, the enchanting sophomore feature from Georgian director Alexandre Koberidze is about to make its North American premiere at the New York Film Festival next week, followed by a MUBI premiere in November.

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Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe upcoming Fox country music drama “Monarch” has cast its final two series regulars.Martha Higareda and Emma Milani have both joined the series alongside previously announced cast members Beth Ditto, Trace Adkins, Susan Sarandon, Anna Friel, Joshua Sasse, Meagan Holder, and Inigo Pascual.The series follows America’s “first family” of country music, including mother Dottie Cantrell Roman (Sarandon), father Albie Roman (Adkins) and daughters Gigi Taylor-Roman (Ditto) and

Martha Higareda (Into The Dark: Culture Shock, Altered Carbon) and Emma Milani (Solve) have joined the lead cast of Fox’s upcoming musical drama Monarch. They will appear alongside Susan Sarandon, Albie Roman, Anna Friel, Trace Adkins and Beth Ditto.

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For his human trafficking drama coming soon to Netflix, director Alexandre Moratto looked to Brazilian star Rodrigo Santoro to play the film's menacing villain Luca. But though Santoro stands out in "Love, Actually," "300," "Westworld" and "Lost," Moratto argues that he's nearly unrecognizable in this film."Some people don’t even recognize him in this role, because he completely transforms himself for the film," Moratto told TheWrap at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Meredith Stiehm, running unopposed, has been elected president of the WGA West, becoming only the third woman to ever hold the guild’s top elected office.

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With all of Netflix‘s films at the Telluride and Venice Film Festival this year, it’s easy for the second film of an upstart director to get lost in the mix. However, based on reviews from the festival, Alexandre Moratto‘s “7 Prisoners” deserves all the recognition it can get.

The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’s Meredith Marks, 49, is teasing a lot when it comes to her storyline for season 2 after spending time focusing on family and her work with the LGBTQ community during the show’s hiatus. “Life is good,” Meredith told HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY during a taping of our new Pay Attention, Puh-Lease podcast. “I’m happy! I have no complaints right now. We’ll see what the rest of 2021 brings for me. I don’t know. Fingers crossed it’s all positive, right?”

Guy Lodge Film CriticNear the beginning of “7 Prisoners,” the illuminated high-rise skyline of São Paulo draws murmurs of admiration from a group of young rural Brazilians as a minivan ferries them into the city for the first time in their lives. They’ve never personally known their world to be so big, though within minutes of Brazilian-American director Alexandre Moratto’s accomplished, socially conscious thriller, it’ll grow smaller than they could ever have imagined.

 returns for season 2 on Sunday night, viewers may notice Meredith Marks — known for turning "I'm disengaging" into a catchphrase during the show's freshman run -- is no longer holding back when it comes to the drama."Season 1, I had literally no clue [what I was doing]," Meredith admits to ET over Zoom. «I had barely ever even watched. I was kind of going in deer in headlights, and at least this round, I had a little bit of an inkling of how things work and what happens.

Alexandre Moratto’s “7 Prisoners” opens on a happy family dinner in rural Brazil. Mateus (Christian Malheiros) is leaving home for a work opportunity in São Paulo.