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The New York Times. According to the Times, Winslet said she rejected several posters for the show that she felt were too airbrushed and insisted “Mare of Easttown” director Craig Zobel keep a “bulgy bit of belly” that Winslet shows in a sex scene with co-star Guy Pearce.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla The “Mare of Easttown” finale on March 30 drew four million viewers across Memorial Day Weekend, with nearly three million viewers Sunday night on all HBO platforms, marking a series high for the WarnerMedia premium cabler’s linear and digital outlets.

More power to her!

HBO’s “Mare of Easttown” just ended its run and has quickly become one of the best series to arrive in 2021. You can’t discount lead actress Kate Winslet’s effect on that verdict, as she is the primary reason the drama is as hard-hitting and enjoyable as it is.

Mare may have been the talk of Easttown these past few weeks, but now all anyone wants to know is if Kate Winslet is ready to return to the character.

The series finale of Mare of Easttown airs tonight on HBO, and while fans might have already figured out what the end result will be, most are still wondering if the show might expand to a second season.

A versatile filmmaker, who has moved from the world of celebrated Sundance moral dilemma indies like “Compliance” and “Z for Zachariah” into mainstream films, director Craig Zobel has shown an aptitude for shaping his filmmaking style towards the material. 2020‘s “The Hunt” was a big provocative satirical thriller, and it went for broke, but in his TV work (“The Leftovers,” “Westworld”), he really showed an affinity for balancing genre with the emotional human element.

WARNING: SPOILERS FOR MARE OF EASTTOWN AHEAD!

Spoiler alert! Do not proceed if you haven’t watched Sunday’s episode of “Mare of Easttown”. 

. Mare Sheehan's (Kate Winslet) case has slowly started to unravel on the HBO crime drama — until this week's episode. «It certainly did feel like the time to remind everybody that it still was a thriller, not a murder mystery,» Craig Zobel tells ET.

“Doing something great is overrated,” a cynical and embittered Mare Sheehan says at a crucial moment in HBO’s “Mare Of Easttown,” an outstanding and deeply human drama and crime procedural.

Ethan Shanfeld In today’s TV news roundup, HBO released a trailer for “Mare of Easttown,” and Combate Americas announced a partnership with Univision.HBO released a trailer for “Mare of Easttown,” the seven-part limited series premiering April 18 on HBO. Kate Winslet stars as Mare Sheehan, a small-town Pennsylvania detective who investigates a local murder as life crumbles around her, with Craig Zobel directing.

The last time Kate Winslet worked on an HBO mini-series was over a decade ago, but it was an overwhelming success. Her lead performance in Todd Hayne‘s “Mildred Pierce” was a star turn on every account and garnered Winslet several Best Actress wins at the Emmys, the Golden Globes, the Satellite Awards, and the SAGs.

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Craig Zobel has been tapped to direct a yet-to-be-titled modern sci-fi thriller, which is set up at New Line. Evan Spiliotopoulos (Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins, Beauty & the Beast) wrote the original script, while Andrea Berloff (Straight Outta Compton) penned the latest draft.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.YOU'D expect a film Donald Trump claimed was “made to inflame and cause chaos” ahead of its release to have something important to say.Alas, the political satire doesn’t bite quite as hard as it should in bloody thriller The Hunt.In fact, the movie in general is more bark than bite as director Craig Zobel and writers Damon Lindelof and Nike Cuse choose to go down the comedy path every bit as much as

Joe Otterson TV ReporterDavid Kopple is joining Management 360 from CAA, where he has worked since 2010. He currently serves in the agency’s motion picture lit department.Among the clients joining Kopple at Management 360 are José Padilha, Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, Craig Zobel, Pablo Trapero, Peter Sollett, Adam Robitel, Joe Swanberg, Emily Jerome, and John Curran.

Jean Smart has, in her own words, a “first world prissy acting problem.” Like many in the entertainment industry, she was in the middle of production on a project when the first stay at home orders hit in March. That project, the Craig Zobel-directed limited series “Mare of Easttown” with Kate Winslet, was only 80-85% completed when filming was halted.

By Peter Debruge, Variety.com

Last summer, even before the public had gotten a chance to see it, humans-hunting-humans thriller “The Hunt” became a target for pundits on both sides of the gun control debate, when a pair of mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, prompted critics to consider the media’s role in glorifying violence. In response, Universal ripped director Craig Zobel’s movie from its original Sept.

Scheduled for release back in September of 2019, The Hunt went on hiatus due to a number of tragic shootings Stateside. Although there are plenty of violent films, and numerous shootings throughout the year, The Hunt was unfairly targeted due to it focusing on a plot that sees wealthy liberals hunt the right-wing. However, after seeing The Hunt, it all seems rather daft; this is social satire, but with so much tongue in cheek and over the top gore, that surely nobody will be taking it seriously.

By Mike Fleming Jr