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ROYAL HOTEL Section: Gala Presentations Director: Kitty Green Screenwriter: Oscar Redding, Kitty Green Logline: Two American girls (Julia Garner and Jessica Henwick) run out of cash while backpacking around Australia. To get home, they take a job in a rowdy pub in a remote mining…

In 2019, Australian documentary filmmaker Kitty Green made her first narrative movie, a piercing almost cinéma vérité-style movie focused on an office assistant in a Tribeca film company run by a not-so-thinly disguised Harvey Weinstein. The male culture there and the sexual acts of the boss made it…

New works by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Kitty Green, and Christos Nikou are among the titles that have been set to play in competition at the upcoming 67th edition of the British Film Institute's (BFI) London Film Festival. Scroll down for the full list. Eleven films will screen in the official competition…

Neon said Wednesday that it has acquired North American rights to The Royal Hotel, the social thriller that marks the next film from The Assistant writer-director Kitty Green. Her Assistant star Julia Garner will topline the pic alongside Jessica Henwick. Hugo Weaving also stars. The pic, which will start shooting…

Jessica Henwick (The Matrix Resurrections) and Hugo Weaving (Patrick Melrose) have joined the cast of The Royal Hotel, Kitty Green's social thriller following two friends backpacking in Australia. Julia Garner (Inventing Anna) also stars, having previously fronted director Green's breakout pic The Assistant. Garner…

EXCLUSIVE: Inventing Anna and Ozark star Julia Garner isn’t looking to slow down, as she is set to star in The Royal Hotel, sources tell Deadline. The film reteams Garner with Kitty Green, who helmed The Assistant, which earned Garner an Independent Spirit Award nomination. Green is directing Royal Hotel and…

I was lucky enough to be among the very first people, particularly among journalists, to see The Assistant, even before its world premiere at the 2019 Telluride Film Festival which was before it had been sold to a distributor. I did the first interview with its writer and director Kitty Green, previously best known…

Without flash or melodramatic tendencies, documentarian Kitty Green makes an impressive narrative debut with The Assistant, a quietly effective roman à clef clearly inspired by the scandals surrounding Harvey Weinstein. First seen at the Telluride Film Festival over Labor Day and screened last week at the Sundance…

Bleecker Street has acquired U.S. distribution rights to The Assistant, director Kitty Green's drama that has taken as its inspiration the Harvey Weinstein scandal. The pic, which stars Ozark‘s Julia Garner and had its world premiere at Telluride, will now hit theaters on January 31, 2020. The plot follows one day in…

EXCLUSIVE: This does not promise to be a very good holiday weekend for Harvey Weinstein.  Ursula MacFarlane’s scathing documentary on the Weinstein scandal, Untouchable, debuts on Hulu on September 2, while on Friday a new movie, The Assistant, a fictional narrative film clearly inspired by the revelation of Weinstein…

EXCLUSIVE: Matthew Macfadyen (Succession), Kristine Froseth (Sierra Burgess Is a Loser) and Makenzie Leigh (Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk) have joined Julia Garner in writer-director Kitty Green’s untitled movie based on a day in the life of one of Harvey Weinstein’s assistants. James Schamus (Brokeback Mountain)…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a promising update on an intriguing project: Ozark’s Julia Garner is in negotiations to play the lead in Kitty Green’s (Casting JonBenet) upcoming movie charting a day in the life of one of Harvey Weinstein’s assistants. Due to shoot in New York next year, the as-yet-untitled narrative feature is…