Zach Braff Reacts to Critics Turning Against ‘Garden State,’ Plus Manic Pixie Dream Girl Backlash: ‘I Can’t Really Dwell on It’

Florence Pugh has Zach Braff on her mind as her ex and collaborator celebrates his birthday.

Florence Pugh is showing Zach Braff all the 48th birthday love! On Thursday, the actress took to Instagram Story to wish her ex-boyfriend a happy birthday.«Happy happy birthday to youuuu! The birthday wish has already come true I'm sure,» Pugh wrote over a picture of Braff in action directing from the backseat of a car. «Making a f**king awesome movie and people watching it with friends and family. Thanks for being an awesome director and making such a special set for everyone.» Pugh, 27, didn't let the birthday shout-out stop there.

Variety, which first reported the news. “We have full and total confidence in Scott’s ability to run the business as interim head and know that our film team will not miss a beat as it proceeds forward with a robust slate of releases and acquisitions.”“I have big news to share,” Bocco said on her Facebook page.

Brandi Glanville is speaking out about the incident with Caroline Manzo… As you have probably heard, Manzo’s ap

Anitta is officially 30 years old!! The Brazillian singer is an Aries, born on March 30, 1993, and she has accomplished so much in her life. Anitta was a star in Brazil for years, and around 2017, she successfully became a global icon, climbing the music charts, and packing concerts.The singer, songwriter, television host, and actress, shared a gallery of photos on Instagram Thursday, which included many as a little girl.

Zach Braff says it’s important to still find humor after tragedy strikes.

Zach Braff has revealed how Coldplay got him through his depression.Speaking exclusively to NME, the Scrubs star said that he can no longer listen to the 2000 track ‘Don’t Panic’, despite it helping him get through a difficult stage of his life.“It’s the first track on [his directorial debut] Garden State and I have such a sentimental attachment to that time of my life and what that became with that film,” he said.“It’s just one of those songs that I can’t hear anymore, even though it’s one of my favourite songs ever. I just so associate it with that time of my life.

The pace of arthouse /smart-house releases accelerated this weekend as wide-for-specialty openings like The Good Person and The Lost King joined a handful of solid single-theater openings from distributors Greenwich Entertainment, Sideshow/Janus Films, Mubi, Abramorama and Cinema Guild – all set for some expansion.

need to break character, they almost need to joke around with the crew.” He continued, “Some actors obviously, as we know, are complete opposite. They want to stay in the zone of the scene the whole day, and neither is right or wrong. But I would just say, as a testament to Florence, she just has a way, almost like jumping into a hypnotic state of going to such a dark, deep, authentic place, and then kind of popping out of it, and turning to the grips and asking, you know, ‘What was the score of the game?’ or something like that.

EXCLUSIVE: Actor-filmmaker Zach Braff has signed with Range Media Partners ahead of the MGM theatrical release of his newest directorial effort A Good Person, starring Florence Pugh and Morgan Freeman.

Florence Pugh was all over New York City on Wednesday (March 22) promoting her brand new movie, A Good Person.

While Zach Braff might be best known for his comedic acting roles, his filmmaking ventures, specifically the three he’s written and directed, have primarily dealt with serious family dramas and that specific genre. Of course, everyone knows his 2007 breakout film, “Garden State,” or at least the memes, which tackles a quarter-life crisis and depression.

A wily old pro teams up with one of the most exciting young actresses of the day in the emotionally loaded drama A Good Person. Zach Braff’s third feature excels at taking the measure of how people cope with personal tragedy and does so in a vital and engaging way that’s far more invigorating than depressing. Braff essentially makes one feature film every 10 years (Garden State and Wish I Was Here came before), and while he otherwise busies himself with music, television and other pursuits, his talent is such that you’d like to see him wade more frequently and deeper into film work than he so far has.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic The drama of addiction and recovery, as it takes place in the movies, tends to come at us like a series of rituals. There’s the rule-by-rule, day-by-day protocol of 12-step programs (the meetings, the showing up, the sharing, the calls to sponsors); a lot of us may feel we know it well from movies, even if we’ve never personally undergone the experience. There are the deeply engraved patterns of addiction itself: the highs, the lows, the cravings, the exploitation of friends and family members, the descent to the bottom, the grasping for the drink or the pill or the fix (or the one that isn’t there) and, in some cases, the criminal behavior. The reaching out to save oneself is also a kind of ritual — one that some addicts would say God built into us.

Zach Braff was always aware of the criticism of his 2004 movie Garden State.

Zach Braff has nothing but mountains of praise for Florence Pugh.

Florence Pugh had a blast with her latest role.

Florence Pugh has no problem being her ex, Zach Braff's, muse. The 27-year-old actress is starring in Braff's new film,, in the lead role of Allison, which he specifically wrote for her.Pugh spoke with ET's Rachel Smith about the making of the film, calling it «such a special time.» Braff wrote the film as he was grieving the loss of several important people in his life, including his friend, Nick Cordero, who died of COVID-19 in 2020. The story, which follows Pugh's Allison as she works to overcome an opioid addiction in the wake of a tragic accident, handles a dark storyline with brevity.«We were living in that time where it was immense darkness and yet through the light of seeing our friends and laughing with our friends made it possible, and I think that's what Zach does so well is he's so good at writing people going through hard times but with that they constantly find levity and constantly find light,» Pugh shared. As for taking on a role specifically written for her, Pugh felt that slipping into the character had a different kind of ease. «Him writing for me, it's a luxury.

Zach Braff and Florence Pugh are no longer together. However, they are still friendly – so much so that they collaborated on their new movie A Good Person.

Florence Pugh gives a sweet kiss to her grandmother, Pat Mackin, at the premiere of her new movie, A Good Person.