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Dakota Johnson and Adria Arjona to Star in Marriage Comedy ‘Splitsville’ for Neon and Topic Studios
Dakota Johnson and “Hit Man” breakout Adria Arjona will star in a new comedy about navigating an open marriage called “Splitsville” for both Neon and Topic Studios. 'The Killer' Review: John Woo's Straight-to-Peacock Remake of His Own Action Classic Is Shockingly Good “Splitsville” is being directed and written by Michael Covino and also stars both Covino and his writing partner Kyle Marvin, who are reuniting after working together on “The Climb” from 2019. The film stars Marvin as Carey, who is asked for a divorce by his wife Ashley (Arjona). When Carey seeks advice from his friends Julie (Johnson) and Paul...
‘Exhibiting Forgiveness’ Trailer: André Holland and Andra Day Reunite Their Family in Artist Titus Kaphar’s Semi-Autobiographical Feature Debut
Writer/director/producer Titus Kaphar’s semi-autobiographical feature debut is one step closer to opening in theaters. 'Penelope' Trailer: Mark Duplass and Mel Eslyn Co-Write Teen Wilderness Coming-of-Age Series The first trailer for Kaphar’s “Exhibiting Forgiveness” introduces André Holland as Kaphar’s onscreen surrogate Tarrell, who is a famous painter grappling with his estranged parents. Andra Day stars as his wife who encourages him to reunite with his family. The official synopsis reads: “Tarrell (Holland) is an admired American painter who lives with his wife, singer Aisha (Andra Day), and their young son, Jermaine. Tarrell’s artwork excavates beauty from the anguish of his youth, keeping...
‘Penelope’ Trailer: Mark Duplass and Mel Eslyn Co-Write Teen Wilderness Coming-of-Age Series
Mark Duplass and Mel Eslyn are venturing into the wilderness with teen runaway tale “Penelope.” All the 'Bridgerton' Books, Ranked Worst to Best The independently-financed series, which premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, has found a home at Netflix. Duplass Brothers’ production banner head Eslyn is the showrunner of the series, which she co-wrote with Mark Duplass. “Little Fires Everywhere” alum Megan Stott leads the show. The official synopsis reads: “Feeling out of place in the modern world, 16-year-old Penelope (Stott) finds herself almost cosmically drawn to nature. With no plan in place, she leaves her family behind for the beguiling wilderness...
‘Frasier’ Season 2 Trailer: Kelsey Grammer Is Back on the Air — and in Seattle
It’s time to tune in once again as Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer) is back on the radio, finally.2024 Emmy Predictions: Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series Season 2 of the “Frasier” Paramount+ reboot marks the beloved psychiatrist’s return to hosting a radio show at KACL in a Seattle-themed episode. Produced by CBS Studios, “Frasier” follows Frasier Crane (Grammer) in the “next chapter of his life after he returns to Boston to face new challenges, forge new relationships and — with hope — finally fulfill an old dream or two,” per the official synopsis. The series is filmed in front of a live studio...
Zoë Kravitz Tried to Tap Into Something ‘Ancient’ with Her Feature Directorial Debut ‘Blink Twice’
Although Zoë Kravitz long had the hunger to write and direct, the actual process of creating “Blink Twice” was led by fast instincts. “I didn’t have a plan,” she tells IndieWire over Zoom. “I started writing the story because I just wanted to write it, and I felt the emotion behind it.” She did not know at first that she was writing a screenplay, but just the process of writing down these ideas and feelings she was processing was therapeutic.'In the Summers' Trailer: A Father and His Growing Daughters Bond in Sundance U.S. Grand Prize Winner Only upon completion was Kravitz...
‘My Brilliant Friend’ Trailer: The Fourth and Final Season of Elena Ferrante’s Saga Returns to Naples
The fourth and final season of HBO’s sumptuous 20th-century saga “My Brilliant Friend” brings us back to Naples one more time. HBO has released the trailer for the last 10 episodes of the series, based on Elena Ferrante’s worldwide-bestselling quartet of Neapolitan novels, with Season 4 adapting the last book, “The Story of the Lost Child.” Watch below.Prolific Producer Greg Berlanti to Receive Governors Award at 2024 Emmys The series is created by Saverio Costanzo, who hands directing duties over to “Sworn Virgin” and “Daughter of Mine” filmmaker Laura Bispuri. Costanzo’s partner and Bispuri’s longtime collaborator Alba Rohrwarcher joins onscreen as...
2025 Oscars: Best Editing Predictions
Nominations voting is from January 8-12, 2025, with official Oscar nominations announced January 17, 2025. Final voting is February 11-18, 2025. And finally, the 97th Oscars telecast will be broadcast on Sunday, March 2, and air live on ABC at 7 p.m. ET/ 4 p.m. PT. We update our picks throughout awards season, so keep checking IndieWire for all our 2025 Oscar predictions.'The Killer' Review: John Woo's Straight-to-Peacock Remake of His Own Action Classic Is Shockingly Good The State of the Race “Dune: Part Two” (Warner Bros.) is the early Best Editing favorite and is joined by such standouts as “Civil War” (A24), “Challengers” (Amazon...
Guillermo del Toro Knew ‘Crimson Peak’ Was ‘Doomed’ at the Box Office Due to Misleading Marketing
Well, now we know what film Guillermo del Toro was referring to when he reflected on his movies being “hobbled” at the box office by bad studio marketing. Alexander Payne Hopes 'Election' Sequel Won't Be for Paramount+: 'I Don't Want to Do That Anymore' After del Toro tweeted that in his 30-year career, he has had “three wonderful films hampered and hobbled by misguided marketing,” it turns out that “Crimson Peak” is one of them. (The other del Toro has publicly said is his 2012 animated film “Rise of the Guardians.”) Now, del Toro is reflecting on the legacy of his 2015 Gothic romance film...
Alexander Payne Hopes ‘Election’ Sequel Won’t Be for Paramount+: ‘I Don’t Want to Do That Anymore’
Alexander Payne is voting for his “Election” (1999) sequel to get a theatrical release, despite it being set up at streamer Paramount+.Paramount Likes Edgar Bronfman Jr.'s Bid Enough to Keep This Train Going While discussing the followup film “Tracy Flick Can’t Win,” the director told Deadline that he doesn’t “want to do [streaming-only releases] anymore.” The sequel to the cult classic was announced in December 2022, with lead-actress Reese Witherspoon reprising her titular role and also producing. There’s just one problem with Payne’s POV. “All I know is the deal was made for Paramount+, which is for streaming, and I don’t want to do...
Prolific Producer Greg Berlanti to Receive Governors Award at 2024 Emmys
The Television Academy has announced that producer Greg Berlanti will be the recipient of the Governors Award at the 2024 Primetime Emmys. The annual honor, meant for an individual, company or organization that has made a profound, transformational and long-lasting contribution to the arts and/or science of television, is specifically in recognition of Berlanti’s sizable impact on television, culture, and representation for underrepresented communities in iconic projects like “Dawson’s Creek,” “Riverdale,” “All American,” “The Flight Attendant,” and “You.”'Twilight of the Gods' Red Band Teaser: Revel in Zack Snyder's Hardcore Animated Series About Norse Mythology The prolific creator, writer and/or executive producer...
‘Twilight of the Gods’ Red Band Teaser: Revel in Zack Snyder’s Hardcore Animated Series About Norse Mythology
Norse gods and mortals clash in all their bloody glory in Zack Snyder’s 2D adult animated series, “Twilight of the Gods,” premiering on Netflix September 19. The streamer has released a red band teaser trailer that revels deliciously in all of the graphic gore.'Bojack Horseman' Creator Reunites with Netflix for New Animated Series 'Long Story Short' The hardcore action-adventure, which looks like a cross between “300” and Cartoon Saloon’s “Wolfwalkers” on acid, is set against a love story between badass warrior Sigrid (Sylvia Hoeks) and mortal king Leif (Stuart Martin), whom she saves on the battlefield. However, their wedding day is...
Paramount Likes Edgar Bronfman Jr.’s Bid Enough to Keep This Train Going
Paramount’s special committee has considered the competing bid from Edgar Bronfman Jr. to buy National Amusements and take control of Paramount, and it’s at least curious at what it sees. 'The Instigators' Costumes Pay Tribute to Boston and 'The Town' Paramount’s special committee announced it has extended the “go-shop period” in which other interested bidders could try and match or beat to the deal agreed to with David Ellison’s Skydance. The committee had the responsibility to consider anything that “is or would reasonably be expected to lead to a superior proposal” compared to what Skydance put on the table. It means...
‘The Instigators’ Costumes Pay Tribute to Boston and ‘The Town’
“The Instigators” is many things. Doug Liman’s movie starring Matt Damon and Casey Affleck is a buddy comedy, a heist caper, and a thriller — but it is also a stealth menswear stunner.Lionsgate Pulls 'Megalopolis' Trailer That Had Fake Critic Quotes: 'We Screwed Up' That might not be entirely surprising, given the internet uproar when the trailer revealed Jack Harlow’s vintage Red Sox jacket. That was thanks to costume designer Charlese Antoinette’s eye for vintage shopping (both in person and online); the rest of the workwear that fills the Apple TV+ movie was a little harder. “I couldn’t do a lot of...
Lionsgate Pulls ‘Megalopolis’ Trailer That Had Fake Critic Quotes: ‘We Screwed Up’
Lionsgate is pulling the trailer for Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” that was released this morning after the internet observed that quotes about older Coppola films like “The Godfather” and “Apocalypse Now” as attributed to film critics like Pauline Kael, Andrew Sarris, Roger Ebert, and more, all appeared to be fabricated.New John Williams Documentary Set to Open AFI Fest in October “Lionsgate is immediately recalling our trailer for ‘Megalopolis,'” a spokesman for the company said in a statement provided to IndieWire. “We offer our sincere apologies to the critics involved and to Francis Ford Coppola and American Zoetrope for this inexcusable error...
Double Emmy Nominee Jon Hamm Found the Devil in the Details for ‘Fargo’ and ‘The Morning Show’
“Sorry, my dog is escaping,” said Jon Hamm to IndieWire, breaking off an answer midway through a phone interview. “I just opened the door and he went for it.” 'Penelope' Trailer: Mark Duplass and Mel Eslyn Co-Write Teen Wilderness Coming-of-Age Series The Hollywood heavyweight is managing a lot these days. Formerly known as Don Draper from “Mad Men,” the A-list actor is juggling two Emmy nominations against the backdrop of his ever-boiling film career. The multi-faceted bad guys who Hamm plays — Sheriff Roy Tillman in FX’s “Fargo” Season 5 and billionaire tech mogul Paul Marks in Apple TV+’s “The Morning Show”...
Warner Bros. Wants to Put a Studio in the Desert
Warner Bros. Discovery has announced plans to expand its production facilities into Las Vegas, Nevada. The company will commit to spending a total of at least $8.5 billion (over 17 years) in Vegas, but under one condition: the state must significantly expand its film tax-credit program.'Strange Darling' Review: JT Mollner's Deconstructed Date Night Will Make You Love the Movies Again Nevada earmarks just $10 million in transferable tax credits for all film productions in a single year, and a single film can only receive $6 million of that. California offers $330 million in annual credits — and that’s still considered low....
Disney’s TV Businesses Still Aren’t ‘Core’ to Bob Iger, but He Knows He Shouldn’t Have Said That
Bob Iger has long been one of the more measured and eloquent speakers in Hollywood. Well, he was measured up until last summer. In a wide-ranging interview at the Sun Valley conference last summer, he lost a bit of goodwill when he said the demands of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA were “not realistic.”'Penelope' Trailer: Mark Duplass and Mel Eslyn Co-Write Teen Wilderness Coming-of-Age Series And then he lost some more — this time internally. Iger also said he thought Disney’s TV businesses, including ABC, its local TV stations, and other cable channels, “may not be core” to Disney’s bread-and-butter business. In a...
‘Strange Darling’ Review: JT Mollner’s Deconstructed Date Night Will Make You Love the Movies Again
A single line — paraphrased by countless pornos but said verbatim at a key turn in “Strange Darling” — unlocks the heart of JT Mollner’s razor-sharp psychosexual thriller.Guillermo del Toro Knew 'Crimson Peak' Was 'Doomed' at the Box Office Due to Misleading Marketing “I’ve never put it THERE before,” says someone in a scene that shouldn’t be described. This horror movie is the best kept secret to come out of Fantastic Fest 2023. Until now, almost everything the public has heard about this magnificent slasher deconstruction was an intentional and ingenious misdirect. From its opaque title to its overly slick poster, this...
‘My First Film’ Review: Zia Anger’s Origin Story Establishes Her as an Electrifying New Voice in American Indie Film
A self-reflexive origin story about creation, growth, and the myth of the lone artist, “My First Film” announces a bold, disruptive new talent in American cinema. But if the film’s release is anything like Zia Anger’s experience in the film world thus far, it will elicit a maddening whimper where it should have made a bang.Paramount Likes Edgar Bronfman Jr.'s Bid Enough to Keep This Train Going That’s because Anger, who writes and directs with fierce emotion and sincerity, has had terrible luck (if you want to call it that) on the film scene. Despite directing evocative music videos for artists...
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