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While moviegoers await the arrival of big titles in theaters this summer, Netflix has added some new options to its catalogue to stream in June 2024. Newcomers to the streamer’s slate offer options for young adults, history buffs, book adaptation lovers and adrenaline junkies that like action-packed…

A searing historical drama set in mid-19th century Bologna, and a TIFF award winning coming-of-age story open in limited release. The fascination with female conductors continues in doc Maestra. Netflix starts a small run with Richard Linklater comedy Hit Man. A24’s I Saw TV Glow is steady on under 400…

Director Richard Linklater rues that Hollywood has taken to creating sexless characters and superheroes without genitalia. The writer/director of films including the Before trilogy and Boyhood is behind Netflix's Hit Man, one of the standout successes at last year's Venice Film Festival. Linklater…

Netflix has dropped a trailer for Richard Linklater's latest film Hit Man, starring Glen Powell, Adria Arjona, Retta, Austin Amelio, Molly Bernard, and Mike Markoff. Written by Linklater, Powell, and Skip Hollandsworth, Hit Man follows a professor moonlighting as a hitman of sorts for his city police…

Title: HIT MAN Netflix Director: Richard Linklater Screenwriter: Richard Linklater, Glenn Powell LOGLINE: Inspired by an unbelievable true story, a strait-laced professor discovers his hidden talent as a fake hit man. He meets his match in a client who steals his heart and ignites a…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix closed a $20 million deal on Hit Man, making the biggest deal at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival and of the year for that matter. After the Richard Linklater-directed noir comic thriller debuted to raves at Venice, the film was expected to fetch the biggest deal of the fall…

Depending on who you speak to, Aggro Dr1ft has either been a hideous blight on the fall festival circuit or… Well, currently, there's not exactly a consensus on what there is to love about Harmony Korine's in-your-face fantasia, a nightmare vision of Florida made all the more hellish by its refusal to…

HIT MAN Section: Special Presentations Director: Richard Linklater Writers: Richard Linklater and Glen Powell Logline: Prolific indie auteur Richard Linklater reunites with Everybody Wants Some!!‘s Glen Powell for a sorta-true crime comedy thriller about role-play, romance and the…

Richard Linklater brought his Hit Man to the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday, world premiering the comedy thriller out of competition to a six-minute ovation inside the Sala Grande. The crowd’s response to the pic was notably enthusiastic, with one scene in particular between star Glen Powell and…

It was 22 years ago that Skip Hollandsworth wrote a Texas Monthly article about Gary Johnson, a school teacher who moonlights as a hit man who doesn’t kill people. Now if that doesn’t sound like the formula for a hit movie, you may understand why it has…

On its surface, a comedy about a college professor who becomes a phony hitman for the police department to catch criminals hoping to whack a stubborn spouse or bothersome business associate might seem an odd fit for a European festival noted for heavy dramas and extended runtimes. It helps, of course…

Richard Linklater's Hit Man debuts out of competition in Venice this evening, and while the story follows a professional killer, the filmmaker told the press corps today, "I'm pretty sure movies invented hitmen, they aren't real." His theory, "Have you ever heard of a hitman being arrested? You hear…