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Christopher Vourlias Two-time Berlinale prize winner Małgorzata Szumowska (“Body,” “Mug”) will write and direct “The Gambler Wife,” a revelatory portrait of novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s wife Anna Snitkina, to be produced by Russia’s Hype Film, Variety can reveal.Adapted from Andrew D. Kaufman’s book “The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky,” the film tells the story of the courageous woman who saved the life of the Russian literary icon and, as the first Russian woman to found her own publishing house, became a pioneer in the country’s literary history.Ilya Stewart of Hype Film (“Petrov’s Flu,” “Persian Lessons”) will produce in collaboration with Polish production company Nowhere.

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Naomi Watts is set to star in The Friend, based on Sigrid Nunez’s hit book about a woman’s bond with her Great Dane.

EXCLUSIVE:  Sebastian de Souza, Eddie Marsan and Rich Sommer have boarded the Chloe Domont-directed finance world thriller opposite Phoebe Dynevor and Alden Ehrenreich.

Sony Pictures Classics has pushed back the theatrical release date for Eva Husson’s romantic drama Mothering Sunday, starring Odessa Young, by a month—from February 25 to March 25. It will open in theaters in New York and Los Angeles, on the heels of a one-week, awards-qualifying run in Los Angeles in November of 2021, before expanding to other markets over the following weeks.

Tom Holland swung into our hearts as Peter Parker (a.k.a. Spider-Man) for the first time back in 2016, apparently the British actor has a longer history with Drew Barrymore. The 46-year-old actress and talk show host took to Instagram over the weekend to share the ultimate throwback pics of herself and a teenage Holland, not to mention lots of love and support for the Marvel star. "@tomholland2013 I remember meeting you what was it? 2011? And I was so captivated by you," Barrymore captioned the post.

Anne Hathaway, Amy Adams and Audrey Hepburn may not be royalty in real-life, but you’d never know it based on some of their most famous film roles.

While it’s not a sub-genre, there’s been a handful of “active shooter” films made in the post-Columbine era. Some of them, like Gus Van Sant‘s 2003 film “Elephant,” or Brady Corbet‘s “Vox Lux,” from 2018, offer an arthouse take on these incidents.

Joyce Eliason, Emmy-nominated television writer and producer of TV miniseries and movies, including The Last Don, and The Jacksons: An American Dream, died Monday after a brief illness, according to her agent. She was 87.

Don’t turn your nose at Marvel movies with Tom Holland. The 25-year-old actor spoke out against past comments that acclaimed director Martin Scorsese, 79, had made about the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The actor explained that just as much work goes into a major superhero movie as does an Oscar-worthy motion picture during a December 24 interview with The Hollywood Reporter.

The Film Independent Spirit Awards, Hollywood’s leading indie film honors, stayed true to its name this year, bestowing a leading seven nominations to Janicza Bravo’s wild road trip saga “Zola," including best feature, best director and best female lead for Taylour Paige.

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Refresh for more info: The Film Independent Spirit Awards announced their 37th nominations today in a pre-taped reel on YouTube from Beanie Feldstein, Regina Hall and Naomi Watts.

There were so many celebs in attendance at the opening night performance of the Broadway revival of Company!

Game Of Thrones prequel spin-off series is believed to have cost HBO over $30million (£22.5million) to make.The untitled spin-off, led by Naomi Watts, was set thousands of years before Game Of Thrones and featured distant ancestors of House Stark and House Lannister.After filming a pilot episode, the series was cancelled in October 2019. This was followed by the announcement that a new spin-off, House Of Dragon, had been ordered for a full series – based on the George R.R.

axed “Game of Thrones” spinoff series, which was set to star Naomi Watts, spent a hefty $30 million making one episode, according to former WarnerMedia chairman Bob Greenblatt. “They had spent over $30 million on a ‘Game of Thrones’ prequel pilot that was in production when I got there,” Greenblatt tells James Andrew Miller in the journalist’s new oral history of HBO, “Tinderbox.” “And when I saw a cut of [the pilot] a few months after I arrived, I said to [HBO head of content Casey Bloys],

The amount of money that HBO spent trying to bring another Game of Thrones series to life has been revealed.

Clayton Davis Beanie Feldstein, Regina Hall, and Naomi Watts will serve as the 37th Film Independent Spirit Awards announcers, Variety has exclusively learned. The three acclaimed actors will announce the best of independent cinema on Tuesday, Dec.

EXCLUSIVE: We hear that The White Lotus star Jennifer Coolidge is starring opposite Bobby Cannavale and Naomi Watts in the Netflix limited series The Watcher from Ryan Murphy and his frequent collaborator Ian Brennan.

Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts and Melissa George reflect on working with Lynch as ET looks back on conversations with the director and cast. In the beginning, there was prominent resident Audrey Horne (Sherilyn Fenn), who Lynch originally envisioned for ’s first incarnation: an aspiring actress coming to Hollywood to follow her dreams. From this initial conception in the early ‘90s, the idea evolved and expanded.

New York City. They were joined by others such as Naomi Watts, Jane Krakowski, Alan Cumming, Nicky Hilton Rothschild, Michael Kors, Anna Wintour, Huma Abedin, Kelly Killoren Bensimon, Laura Patten and Luann de Lesseps.

A day of celebration! Naomi Watts honored Liev Schreiber with a special message highlighting how important he is on his 54th birthday.

Mulholland Drive is set to receive a 20th anniversary restoration.The 2001 surrealist thriller will be released as a 4K UHD limited collector’s edition this November, courtesy of Studiocanal and the Criterion Collection.Mulholland Drive starred Naomi Watts and Laura Harring in the main roles, alongside Justin Theroux and Melissa George as well.Studiocanal will re-release the film in Europe, while fans in the US will be able to purchase the new package courtesy of Criterion.#HBD, Naomi Watts!A

EXCLUSIVE:  One of the few titles up for sale at TIFF this year was Phillip Noyce’s thriller Lakewood starring Naomi Watts, and Vertical Entertainment and Roadside Attractions have landed North American rights to the the female-driven thriller.

Prince of Bel-Air”) is 72. Writer-director-actor John Sayles is 71. Guitarist George Lynch (Dokken) is 67.

Naomi Watts is opening up about her next project with Ryan Murphy.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaIt was an acting challenge that Naomi Watts couldn’t pass up.In “Lakewood,” the Oscar-nominated star of such grueling exercises in cinematic heroics as “The Impossible” and “King Kong,” spends the bulk of the movie running through the forest, struggling with spotty cellphone reception while trying to make her way to her teenage son’s school, which is under lockdown with an active shooter.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticIn “Lakewood,” Naomi Watts plays Amy Carr, who starts out in the late afternoon jogging through an upscale wooded suburb, mourning her husband’s death in a car crash the year before. The film tells the story of a woman and her partner, her significant other, the second self she can’t live without.

I’m not entirely convinced everything needs to be a movie. In this case, I don’t know that there is any way to make a film about the journey of a parent as they hear their child’s school has an active shooter without it feeling exploitative of our nation’s current epidemic of violence.

Naomi Watts had the honor of lighting the Empire State Building this week!