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Brandy Norwood Is Loving Her “Resurgence” With Her Return as Cinderella: “I’m Still Inspired”
Brandy Norwood is having quite a year, which includes returning as Cinderella more than two decades after first playing the role for Disney. Norwood starred as the storybook heroine for ABC’s 1997 television movie Cinderella, opposite Paolo Montalban as Prince Charming. The pair is back to reprise their characters in Descendants: The Rise of the […]
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Timothée Chalamet in Talks to Star in Josh Safdie’s Next Film ‘Marty Supreme’
Timothée Chalamet is eyeing the lead role in Josh Safdie’s next film. The actor is in final negotiations to star in A24’s upcoming feature Marty Supreme, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Plot details are under wraps, but the movie is said to be a fictionalized original work. Safdie is set to helm the film from […]
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Box Office: ‘Despicable Me 4’ Easily Wins With $44.7M as ‘Longlegs’ Stuns With Record $22.6M Launch
Animation continue to the be hero of the summer office thanks to Despicable Me 4 and Inside Out 2, but Neon’s Longlegs can rightly take a bow after scoring the biggest opening for an independent horror pic in a decade with $22.6 million in ticket sales. From Illumination and Universal, DM4 easily stayed atop the […]
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‘Sing Sing’ Filmmakers Paid Everyone On Set the Same, and Now Their New Company Wants to Do It Again
They say there are no more original ideas in Hollywood, but filmmakers Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar want to give something new a try. At least as far as independent film financing is concerned. The duo have directed, written and produced two films — Sing Sing, out this weekend via A24, and 2021’s Jockey — […]
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How Moses Sumney Went From Music to ‘MaXXXine’: “I Wanted to Prove Myself as an Actor”
In Moses Sumney’s first film acting role, he dies onscreen. That’s not so much a spoiler as it is an inevitability; the movie is MaXXXine, the final installment of Ti West’s beloved Mia Goth-starring horror trilogy from which nobody makes it out alive. Sumney plays Leon, a Hollywood Boulevard video store employee and the closest […]
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‘MaXXXine’ Star Mia Goth on Toplining Ti West’s Slasher Trilogy: “It Changed Me Forever”
Much has been made about how filmmaker Ti West has reinvented and refreshed the slasher genre by paying homage to the classics in his A24 trilogy X, Pearl and the upcoming MaXXXine. His leading lady, Mia Goth, agrees with the praise and adds that the back-to-back-to-back gigs have also reshaped something else — her career. […]
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‘MaXXXine’ Review: Mia Goth and Ti West’s Slasher Trilogy Wraps With a Torrid Love Letter to ‘80s Genre Filmmaking
Elizabeth Debicki, Michelle Monaghan, Bobby Cannavale, Giancarlo Esposito and Kevin Bacon also star in this Tinseltown-set follow-up to ‘X’ and ‘Pearl.’
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A24 Raises Significant New Investment Round, Valuing Company at $3.5B
A24, the Oscar-winning indie studio that has become an edgy brand name unto itself, is getting a big vote of confidence — and an influx of cash. The studio said Wednesday it has closed on an investment round led by Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital. The Hollywood Reporter has learned that Thrive invested $75 million into […]
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Hugh Grant Imprisons His Houseguests in Chilling ‘Heretic’ Trailer
Hugh Grant has a unique strategy for discouraging unsolicited visitors in the first trailer for A24’s psychological horror feature Heretic. The movie from writer-directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods hits theaters Nov. 15. Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East co-star as two Christian missionaries who are invited into the house of Mr. Reed (Grant) after knocking […]
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Jennifer Lawrence to Star in, Produce Murder Mystery ‘The Wives’ for Apple, A24
Apple Original Film, A24 and Jennifer Lawrence are reteaming for a new feature film. Landing on top of a competitive situation, Apple has acquired murder mystery package The Wives, which has Lawrence attached to star and produce. Joining Lawrence on the producing team is Justine Ciarrocchi, her partner at the duo’s Excellent Cadaver production banner, as […]
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Brandy Norwood Battles the Mother-in-Law From Hell in A24’s ‘The Front Room’ Trailer
Brandy Norwood has a tougher mother-in-law situation than most expectant parents in the first trailer for A24’s psychological horror movie The Front Room. The feature from directors Max Eggers and Sam Eggers is set to hit theaters Sept. 6. Andrew Burnap, Neal Huff and Kathryn Hunter also star in the film that focuses on a […]
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Dwayne Johnson Suffers Elbow Injury on A24 Wrestling Drama ‘The Smashing Machine’
“Any time your film is called The Smashing Machine, you’re going to kind of get smashed up.” That’s how Dwayne Johnson put it, as he revealed he suffered an injury on his right elbow while filming his new wrestling drama for A24. “I got banged up pretty good today in our scenes. There might be […]
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