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Three-time Oscar-nominated actor Sigourney Weaver will receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 81st Venice International Film Festival.

Weaver said, “To be gifted this award is a privilege I share with all the filmmakers and collaborators I have worked with throughout the years. I proudly accept this award in celebration of all who have helped bring these films to life.”

Venice’s director Alberto Barbera, whose mandate was just renewed, said, “An actress of the caliber of Sigourney Weaver has few rivals. Strengthened by her significant theatrical training, she won over the great film-going public with ‘Alien,’ directed by Ridley Scott, soon becoming an emblematic figure of the 1980s.”

“During the course of that decade, she forged the image of a heroine unprecedented in the action film genre, able to victoriously rival the male models who, up to that point, had dominated epic and adventure movies. Not satisfied...

Ever since Phoebe Waller-River’s Fleabag became a sensation, there have been tons of female-oriented stories being experimented with, with women as the leads giving commentary about their lives to the camera. The breaking of the fourth wall has become the norm in basically every show or movie of this genre. The only good thing about such content is that female-driven stories are on the rise. Catherine Called Birdy and The Good House are examples of stories being told from a female perspective. Queenie, however, is something similar that is based on a young girl in her twenties navigating through trauma and life. Based on the novel of the same name, the miniseries was created for Channel 4 and Hulu by the author Candice Carty-Williams.

Queenie Jenkins is a young social media assistant with a local news website who was in a relationship with Tom, who had begun to have issues with her personality.

Winter Haunts runs for the second time in 2023, bringing together an exciting array of authors from the world of ghost stories, Gothic and supernatural fiction for a day of workshops, interviews and panels on the 11th November this year. A collaboration between Alex Davis Events and Writing Magazine, this year’s event looks a must-attend for writers and readers in the genre alike.

Authors taking part in the interview and panel thread on the day include Mariana Enriquez, Catriona Ward , Alix E Harrow, Tananarive Due, Stuart Turton, Jess Kidd and many more.

Joining us for workshops on the day will be Dan Coxon, Rachel Knightley, Anna Mazzola, Carly Reagon, AC Wise and Ally Wilkes, with topics including Writing Gothic Fiction, Generating Uncanny Stories, Researching Supernatural Historical Fiction and many more.

The event will be taking place online via Google Meet, giving attendees the opportunity to attend from anywhere in the world.

“Trump was indicted yesterday — and again — as Paula likes to remind me,” said Jane Rosenthal as she kicked off her speech Friday afternoon at the ninth annual Chanel Through Her Lens luncheon. The remark drew a roomful of boisterous cheers at New York’s The Odeon restaurant. “So, this seems like a good day for women.”

Paula is Paula Weinstein, and this pair of powerful women and best friends are the venerated one-two punch of the Tribeca Film Festival. Rosenthal, whose producing work includes The Irishman and The Good House, is one of the festival’s co-founders, while Weinstein — the producer behind The Perfect Storm, Grace and Frankie and other hits — has been the executive vice president at Tribeca Enterprises since 2013. For anyone wondering if Rosenthal’s Trump comment went over well, consider that this annual festival luncheon, to celebrate the Chanel-sponsored Through Her Lens program, is rooted in a philosophy of empowering women,...

Exclusive: Rob Delaney (Catastrophe) has closed a deal to return for Deadpool 3, joining the Ryan Reynolds-led ensemble of the threequel that Shawn Levy will direct and produce for Marvel Studios.

Reynolds and Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige will also produce, as previously announced, working from a script by Reynolds, Levy, Paul Wernick, Rhett Reese and Zeb Wells.

While Deadpool 3‘s plot is under wraps, past installments have followed the misadventures of Wade Wilson (Reynolds), the foul-mouthed mercenary who transforms into the immortal superhero known as Deadpool following a disfiguring science experiment.

Delaney’s character Peter joins Deadpool and Weasel (T.J. Miller) as part of their mutant-heavy new team X-Force in Deadpool 2, despite the fact that he’s a run-of-the-mill human with no powers or special skills to speak of. His agenda in the second film is to aid Deadpool in the rescue of young mutant Russell Collins...

Exclusive: Roadside Attractions has acquired North American rights to The Last Rider, the story of cycling legend Greg LeMond, who came back from a near death experience to win his sport’s greatest race.

LeMond remains the only American man to win the Tour de France, a feat he accomplished three times – in 1986, 1989 and 1990 (Tour victories by Americans Lance Armstrong and Floyd Landis were vacated after they admitted using banned performance-enhancing drugs). Remarkably, LeMond’s second and third Tour de France wins came after he was nearly killed in a hunting accident, in which his brother-in-law accidentally blasted him with a shotgun, hitting LeMond with 60 pellets. He lost 65 percent of his blood, but somehow survived.

The documentary directed by Alex Holmes will be released in theaters on June 23.

Greg LeMond races in the Tour du Pont in Washington, DC May 14, 1992.

“Deeply personal and raw,...

Roadside Attraction’s Moving On grossed an estimated $798k at about 800 theaters, about status quo this weekend for a specialty sector that’s better but still looking to break out.

The audience for the Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin-toplined comedy was, not surprisingly, 63% female and 82% over 35. Some 64% were 50+. It played best on the coasts. Estimated per theater average for the Paul Weitz film that also features Malcolm McDowell and Richard Roundtree is just over $1k.

Fonda and Tomlin play estranged friends who reunite to seek revenge against the husband of their recently deceased best friend. The film had trailer time before 80 For Brady where the duo played alongside Rita Moreno and Sally Field (and Tom Brady). That wide-release opening Paramount pic, now down to 168 screens in week 7, has grossed $39 million.

Roadside Attractions co-president Howard Cohen called the opening number “positive” with word of mouth good and noted that midweek...

Santa Monica-based mini-studio Lionsgate has struck a deal with Canada’s Cineplex Pictures that will see Lionsgate’s 2023 theatrical slate released in Canadian cinemas.

The lineup spans 11 feature films over the course of the year, of which three release in the first quarter: “Plane,” starring Gerard Butler and Mike Colter; “Jesus Revolution,” starring Kelsey Grammer; and the highly anticipated “John Wick: Chapter 4,” starring Keanu Reeves.

The full 2023 slate also includes: “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret,” “About My Father,” “The Blackening,” an untitled Adele Lim comedy, “White Bird: A Wonder Story,” “The Expendables 4,” the next installment of the “Saw” horror franchise, and “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” the prequel to the multibillion dollar “Hunger Games” franchise.

Cineplex Pictures is the genre film releasing subsidiary of the Cineplex stock market-listed Cineplex conglomerate that also includes some 170 cinemas. Its recent releases included “The Good House,...

Lionsgate has entered into a theatrical distribution agreement with Canada’s Cineplex Pictures for its 2023 slate which counts 11 titles.

Starting with Gerard Butler’s Plane on Jan. 13, Cineplex Pictures will release throughout Canada such movies as Jesus Revolution starring Kelsey Grammer and John Wick: Chapter 4 starring Keanu Reeves. There’s also Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, About My Father, The Blackening, the untitled Adele Lim comedy, White Bird: A Wonder Story, The Expendables 4, the next installment of the billion-dollar box office Saw franchise and The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.

“We’re delighted to expand our collaboration with our partners at Cineplex in this key theatrical market,” said Lionsgate President of Worldwide Theatrical Distribution David Spitz. “With Cineplex’s name recognition, distribution prowess and expertise in the Canadian marketplace, our slate is in great hands in Canada.”

“Cineplex has a longstanding relationship...

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“The Power of the Dog” (The Criterion Collection): Jane Campion’s Academy Award–winning adaptation of Thomas Savage’s dark novel is reminiscent of her earlier acclaimed film, “The Piano.” Both are stories of trouble people in troubled landscapes, but here Campion’s attention is on men and the ways they wield power over each other. Starring Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons, Benedict Cumberbatch and Kodi Smit-Mcphee, it’s the story of men who don’t understand their own desires and the violence that can result. This handsome Criterion edition in 4K provides all the usual bonus extras dedicated cinephiles have come to expect from the label.

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“Ainbo: Spirit of the Amazon” (Shout Factory): A vibrant animated feature about a young girl determined to save her rainforest home.

“Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons” (DC/Warner Bros): The tween superkids of...

Lionsgate swung to a loss of 1.8 billion in its most recent fiscal quarter, which it attributed to restructuring charges around Starz and its international operations. The movie and television studio initially planned to sell a stake in Starz, but has signaled that it may spin off other parts of the company instead. At the same time it has rebranded Starzplay, its international streaming service, as Lionsgate+. In an effort to streamline its business, it announced it will leave such foreign markets as France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Benelux, the Nordic regions and Japan, moves which came with write downs.

“These charges are an acknowledgement of current market conditions and the challenges in our environment,” Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer said in his remarks to analysts after earnings were unveiled. “But they also represent an opportunity to stabilize our Starz business [and] reset expectations.”

Lionsgate recorded revenue of 875.2 million, a drop of more than...

20th Century Studios has released a new trailer for “Avatar: The Way of Water” a few weeks ahead of the hotly anticipated sci-fi sequel’s Dec. 16 release date.

The second installment in the franchise sees the return of Stephen Lang’s villain character Colonel Quaritch — who is seemingly revived through a Na’vi avatar form — once again at odds with Pandora native Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña) and her mate Jake Sully (Sam Worthington).

Set over a decade after the original film, which took place in 2154, the newly released trailer shows glimpses of Jake and Neytiri cozying up as a family. Viewers are given a deeper look at the couple’s Na’vi children: Neteyam (Jamie Flatters), Lo’ak (Britain Dalton), Tuktirey (Trinity Bliss) and Kiri.

“The story is about family, about our families trying to stay together [and] the lengths to which we all go to protect each other and protect the place where we live,...

Using release strategies we haven’t seen in a long time, “TÁR” (Focus) and “Triangle of Sadness” (Neon) showed us that nearly three years of punishing blows didn’t kill off specialized films.

As we resume our Sunday specialized analyses after a 30-month absence, it’s time for a PSA: Nuance matters and opening weekends can be misleading, but initial results matter both for what they indicate as well as for their influence on future coverage.

The excellent news is that both films, going slightly different directions to start need no excuses. Each showed decent or better signs of initial interest, not only compared to recent releases but also to similar titles pre-pandemic.

“TÁR” opened in two traditional New York platform locations (Lincoln Square and Angelika) and two in Los Angeles (Grove and Century City). It came in with 160,000, or 40,000 per theater. This is the best limited initial PTA since...

The Good House Review — The Good House (2021) Film Review, a movie directed by Maya Forbes and Wallace Wolodarsky, written by Thomas Bezucha, Maya Forbes and Wallace Wolodarsky and starring Sigourney Weaver, Kevin Kline, Morena Baccarin, Rob Delaney, David Rasche, Rebecca Henderson, Molly Brown, Kathryn Erbe, Kelly AuCoin, Georgia Lyman, Oliver Boyle, Adrian [...]

Continue reading: Film Review: The Good House (2021): An Intriguing and Affecting Drama with Solid, Likable Performances...

There are some actors who require no introduction. Over the course of her career, Sigourney Weaver has played badass sci-fi heroines, horror babes, and historical figures. She has been a standard-bearer for drama, comedy, and so much more. Shockingly, Sigourney Weaver has not starred in a film as the top-billed actress in over a decade despite having been in one of the highest-grossing movies of all time. With the sequel to Avatar on the horizon, Sigourney Weaver is the star of a new comedy-drama debuting this weekend, The Good House.

Based on the novel of the same name by Ann Leary, The Good House is the story of Hildy Good, a New England realtor and descendent of a Salem Witch. Living life as a divorcee with two adult children, Hildy undergoes an intervention about her drinking. Through a series of fourth-wall-breaking conversations, we learn about Hildy and whether or not...

Plot: The Good House follows Hildy Good, a wry New England realtor and descendant of the Salem witches, who loves her wine and her secrets. Her compartmentalized life begins to unravel as she rekindles a romance with her old high-school flame and becomes dangerously entwined in one person’s reckless behavior. Igniting long-buried emotions and family secrets, Hildy is propelled toward a reckoning with the one person she’s been avoiding for decades: herself.

Review: Believe it or not, it has been over a decade since Sigourney Weaver was the lead in a feature film. While she has acted steadily in major supporting roles or as part of an ensemble, Weaver’s last top-billed performance was in 2007’s The Girl in the Park. At 72, Weaver has had key roles in James Cameron’s Avatar franchise and was even a Marvel villain in Netflix’s Defenders series, but The Good House...

Sarigama Cinemas’ Ponniyin Selvan: Part One crashed the weekend box office at no. 6, looking at 4+ million on 500 screens for a per theater average of 8,260, the biggest of the top ten.

The Tamil-language historical epic being billed as India’s Game of Thrones is based on a Tamil history book series that’s read in schools, full of succession battles, blood and betrayal. It’s not a fictional Westeros, but the actual Chola empire that ruled much of southern India from the 9th to the 13th century.

The strong numbers come with film doing great in Tamil, but less so in other Indian language dubs. Part 2, currently in post, has a release planned by mid-2023.

According to Imax, the Lyca Productions’ film directed by Mani Ratnam reps its third highest domestic opening for an Indian title with 945K from 53 domestic big screens, or 23 of the film’s nationwide total. That...

“Smile” (Paramount), an original horror title costing a reported 17 million, was the least-heralded wide studio release since Labor Day. “Don’t Worry Darling” (Warner Bros. Discovery), “The Woman King” (Disney), “Pearl” (A24), “Bros” (Universal), and the re-release of “Avatar” (Disney) each received significant entertainment press, social media, and other attentions ahead of their releases.

“Darling” and “Woman King” each opened at a respectable 19 million. The two mid-budget films seem well-positioned for eventual profitability, with theatrical exposure that provides awareness to boost home media attention.

And then “Smile” comes along to show that by appealing to core audience hungry for a bread-and-butter horror film, it could top all of them with a 22 million gross — even without stars or a director (Parler Finn) who might be recognizable by even one percent of Film Twitter.

It drew an overall audience more reflective of what breakout movies do, rather than doing well from overperforming among certain groups.

Numbers have begun trickling in and show that Paramount’s Smile is coming in with a projected 19 Million opening. This comes after a solid 8.2 Million made on Friday, including the 2 Million from Thursday preview screenings. Of course, Paramount can’t count their chickens just yet. With a B- cinemascore, a 53 definite recommend per PostTrak (which is quite low) and the fact that horror films tend to be incredibly front loaded at the box office, this well reviewed horror film may be in for a rude awakening in the weeks to come.

Last weekend’s champ: Don’t Worry Darling which also boasted a B- cinemascore is coming in second place with an estimated 7.4 Million for the weekend repping an over 60 decline in ticket sales. Those numbers aren’t as dire as it sounds when you consider the film has played quite well throughout the week pulling in over 7 figures each day.

Imax is out this Sunday with Brandi Carlile: In The Canyon Haze – Live from Laurel Canyon on 31 screens nationwide, an encore of a live event that reps a milestone for the large format exhibitor.

The concert was broadcast Thursday from LA’s storied Laurel Canyon neighborhood to 87 Imax theaters (there would have been a few more if Hurricane Ian hadn’t taken out Florida locations). More than three dozen sold out for what is the company’s top-grossing live event. It featured Carlile and her band — no live audience — performing reimagined versions of songs from her new deluxe album “In The Canyon Haze”. Filmed for Imax using Imax digital cameras, it’s the first event of its kind Imax has staged.

Early this year, the company grossed 300k from its live stream of Kanye West’s Donda 2 concert event in Miami — the closest thing to date. (It released the...

From all outside appearances, recovering alcoholic Hildy Good (Sigourney Weaver) is a pillar of her community in The Good House, having long established herself as a trustworthy realtor and loving mother to her two grown daughters. Appearances can be deceiving, however, and Hildy's romance with an old flame (Kevin Kline) brings long-buried secrets to light, both her own and others. Our exclusive clip reveals one family secret that is not so secret. At a dinner party, Hildy talks about an...

A middling movie with a must-see performance at its core, “The Good House” does something interesting with the notion of the unreliable narrator. As the unfortunately named Hildy Good, Sigourney Weaver brings deceptive self-confidence to the role of a small-town Realtor. We meet Hildy introducing a couple to the fictional New England fishing village of where the Good family has lived for so long, there’s talk of witches in their past. But Hildy can’t be trusted — not because her character is bad, but because she’s in denial.

“I can walk through a house once and know more about its occupants than a psychiatrist … could in a year of sessions,” Hildy boasts, addressing the audience directly. In truth, she’s not talking to us so much as she is rationalizing things to herself. The slyly insightful way Forbes (“Infinitely Polar Bear”) and Wolodarsky (who spent years writing for...

With the temps falling and the leaves slowly changing, lots of folks may be thinking of taking a trip to New England. Perhaps you could “hunker down” in a quaint old house by the water. Hey, if you’ve got the moola, maybe you could just buy the place, and make it your getaway, or permanent “digs”. Oh but most of us would have to do this vicariously, maybe at the movies. But who would you contact about such a fantasy home, say in a rustic lil’ village? And that is answered in this week’s star-powered release. Surely such a spot would be free of worries, “no hassles, no hustles”, right? Not really, as this film’s focus finds out. It seems you’re never safe from those “inner demons”, not even at The Good House.

That person living in such a primo place is the town’s number...

This review originally ran Sept. 15, 2021, for the film’s world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Like many an entertaining addict, Hildy Good is a great storyteller, providing withering judgments about the people in her orbit amidst all the latest gossip. But like all addicts, the stories she tells always exonerate herself and her behavior — she’s just fine, it’s everyone else who’s messed up. And so what if she sneaks wine after having already been sent to rehab? She never drinks before 5pm, so it’s not like she’s an alcoholic or anything.

Sigourney Weaver plunges herself into the role of Hildy in “The Good House,” and it’s been a while since this titan of cinema has been given a character with the complexity (and the screen time) that the actor deserves. Weaver’s droll comic style has surfaced periodically over the course of...

Sigourney Weaver stars in The Good House. Photo: Roadside Attractions Whatever good there is to say about The Good House revolves around its luminous star, Sigourney Weaver. There are moments in Maya Forbes and Wally Wolodarsky’s new dramedy when you wonder why, despite two Golden Globe Awards, three Oscar...

Life doesn't always go the way we planned, and the stories we tell ourselves aren't always true. In "The Good House," New England real estate agent Hildy Good, played by Sigourney Weaver, seems to have it all. She has the gorgeous house, the successful real estate business, and a potential romance with her high school flame, local construction contractor Frank (played by Kevin Kline). The only problem is that she's an alcoholic, and despite going through rehab for her daughter and convincing everyone that she's stayed sober, she hasn't. One glass of wine after dinner turns into one bottle, and before long, Hildy faces losing everything. "The Good House" is a funny, heartfelt drama with a killer cast, based on the novel of the same name by Ann Leary. 

I had the chance to sit down via Zoom with "The Good House" directors Maya Forbes ("The Polka King") and Wally Wolodarsky...

Days of Wine & Mortgage: Weaver Soars in Drama on Denial & Redemption

“It always begins with denial,” Hildy Good announces in the opening frames of The Good House, a successful New England realtor whose personal and professional life are on the wane thanks, in part, to her alcoholism. Adapted from the 2013 novel by Ann Leary, husband and wife directing team Maya Forbes and Wallace Wolodarsky (The Polka King; Infinitely Polar Bear) craft a rare narrative centered exclusively on the interiority of a woman in her sixties whose life is swiftly crumbling.

There have been plenty of classic melodramas about alcoholism, such as The Lost Weekend or The Days of Wine and Roses, but Forbes and Wolodarsky offer something unique with a narrative initially suggesting a Nancy Meyers comedy then descending into the sobering and sinister.…...

“Avatar” star Sigourney Weaver revealed some insight about James Cameron’s highly anticipated “Avatar: The Way of Water,” which premieres Dec. 16.

“The story is about family, about our families trying to stay together [and] the lengths to which we all go to protect each other and protect the place where we live,” Weaver told Variety at a special screening for her new film “The Good House” in New York City. “It’s very much based on Jim’s family and his joy in the family; and also, how vulnerable you are when you have children.”

A hit for over a decade since its original release, “Avatar” once again dominated the box office with an impressive re-release in theaters. Ahead of the upcoming sequel, the 2009 sci-fi epic wowed with 30 million worldwide in ticket sales, as reported on Sept. 25.

Weaver, who turns 73 in October, will travel back in time as she plays a...

Actors discuss their third film collaboration, an ‘elaborate hoax’ one pulled on the other and having more horny older characters

For the third time on screen, Sigourney Weaver and Kevin Kline are playing a couple in an unconventional situation.

In 1993’s cameo-packed political comedy Dave, Kline played a lookalike to the president hired to take over during an emergency, hoping to fool Weaver’s first lady along the way both in public and in private (a contemporary re-examination might label the ruse “problematic” on reflection). In 1997’s 70s-set family drama The Ice Storm, Kline’s mid-life crisis leads him to embark on an affair with Weaver’s sharp-tongued neighbour, attempting sexual liberation despite the restrictions of the time. And now in 2022’s small-town comedy drama The Good House, Weaver plays an alcoholic realtor edging towards romance with an old flame, played by Kline, despite a complicated history.

I love Sigourney Weaver! Sweet, and super down-to-earth even though, you know, she’s one of the first bad-ass women in space with the “Alien” franchise. She’s an icon! And now, she’s back on screen and in the loving arms of Kevin Kline (they’ve worked together in “The Ice Storm” and “Dave”). I spent some

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Exclusive: As a direct result of a suggestion at the September 17 Academy membership meeting, AMPAS CEO Bill Kramer and President Janet Yang told the 10,000+ group in an email this morning that Academy members without tickets for the actual Oscar show will now be allowed to serve as seat-fillers during the broadcast.

The idea came about because the AMPAS member who made the suggestion was frustrated by the annual lottery for tickets, especially affected the past two years due to restrictions imposed by Covid protocol. In their email Kramer and Yang also announced that the ticket lottery will be returning for the upcoming 95th Academy Awards, and actually already is in progress for the November 19 Governors Awards.

“Regarding the Oscars, we too loved the suggestion to have members serve as seat-fillers. We will enact this for the March 12 show and will provide information later this fall about seat-filler guidelines and protocols.

Oscar season has begun, and the race toward the major awards is starting to line up. Current favorites in the Best Picture category include Steven Spielberg’s “The Fablemans,” Sarah Polley’s “Women Talking,” Todd Field’s “Tár,” Martin McDonagh’s “The Banshees of Inisherin,” Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale” and Rian Johnson’s “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Story.”

As usual for this point in the awards calendar, though, none of these films are available for Oscar voters to view in the Academy Screening Room, a members-only portal to aid voters in seeing the movies in contention. And the big contenders that have already played in theaters aren’t available, either: There’s no “Top Gun: Maverick,” no “Elvis,” no “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”

In fact, as of the last week of September, there are only 12 films in the Academy Screening Room. Four of them – “Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen,...

Meryl Streep may look up to Barbara Stanwyck and Vanessa Redgrave as acting inspirations, but the most-nominated Academy Award darling named Robert De Niro as the actor she most aspires to be like.

While introducing De Niro at the 65th anniversary of the A Celebration of Film gala benefitting the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, Streep recalled thinking De Niro was a Southern “non-actor” in John D. Hancock’s 1973 film “Bang the Drum Slowly.”

“We thought they must have scoured Appalachia to find this guy,” Streep said (via The Hollywood Reporter), before seeing De Niro two months later in Martin Scorsese’s “Mean Streets” and being shocked at his method acting range.

“There’s the guy, there’s the same kid,” Streep recalled thinking at the time. “And only he’s not slow. He’s not Southern. He’s a New York punk. He’s absolutely mean,...

Roadside Attractions has taken domestic rights for To The End, the follow-up film from Rachel Lears (Knock Down The House), and set a Dec. 9 theatrical-only release date.

The deal was announced by Co-Presidents Howard Cohen and Eric d’Arbeloff. The film, which premiered at Sundance, covers three years of both hope and crisis leading to the recent, historic passage of landmark climate legislation — The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.

It focuses on four exceptional women, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, on the front lines of climate policy and advocacy with up-to-the-minute material.

“We are thrilled to be releasing To The End, said Roadside VP of Acquisitions Angel An. “These are the people, four young women from diverse backgrounds, often left out of the political deal-making narrative. Yet this film makes clear how these committed activists have worked to shift the narrative on climate that led to the [Act’s] passage.”

“We always wanted this immersive...

National Cinema Day is underway with 3,000+ participating theaters offering 3 tickets, discounted concessions and a four and a half-minute preshow sizzle reel with peeks of upcoming titles from A24, Amazon Studios, Disney, Focus Features, Lionsgate, Neon, Paramount, Sony and Sony Pictures Classics, United Artists Releasing, Universal and Warner Bros.

Trailers include Avatar 2: The Way Of Water, Bros, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Don’t Worry Darling, Woman King and Black Adam among others.

Deadline has the full list of what studios are previewing below:

A24: Pearl

Amazon Studios: Catherine Called Birdy; My Policeman

Disney: Barbarian; Black Panther: Wakanda Forever; Avatar 2: The Way Of Water; See How They Run (Searchlight Pictures); The Banshees of Isherin (Searchlight Pictures); Brahmastra Part One: Shiva; Strange World; Amsterdam; The Menu (Searchlight Pictures)

Focus Features: Silent Twins

Lionsgate: Pray For The Devil

Roadside Attractions:The Good House, Call Jane

Sony: Lyle, Lyle Crocodile, The Woman King,...

Exclusive: Catastrophe star Rob Delaney has become the latest to board season six of Charlie Brooker Netflix anthology Black Mirror.

Delaney joins the likes of Industry breakout Myha’la Herrold and Signs star Rory Culkin, who Deadline has revealed in the past fortnight.

Netflix is keeping quiet on casting and details about Delaney’s role in the dystopian anthology are scarce.

The Emmy-nominated comedian is probably best known for starring opposite Sharon Horgan in Channel 4’s Catastrophe as Rob Norris, a single man whose brief business trip to London ends with a woman he meets on a one-night stand becoming pregnant. He is also starring in Prime Video’s upcoming adaptation of The Power and in Lionsgate/Roadside feature The Good House, while he has written a memoir about the death of his son entitled A Heart that Works.

Having entered production recently, the latest Black Mirror is the first...

Exclusive: Grammy-winning singer Sza and Euphoria breakout Chloe Cherry have signed on to star alongside Eddie Huang (Boogie) in Tuna Melt, an off-beat dramedy that he wrote and will direct for Sb Projects and Ryder Picture Company.

Tuna Melt is likened to an updated Pulp Fiction meets High Fidelity. Huang will lead the darkly comedic feature as a hitman who unexpectedly meets the love of his life soon after he completes a job. This all transpires in the aftermath of a break-up. While Sza will play Huang’s love interest, details as to Cherry’s role are being kept under wraps.

Scooter Braun and James Shin will produce for Sb Projects, along with Aaron Ryder and Andrew Swett for Ryder Picture Company. Huang is also producing, with Scott Manson serving as exec producer.

Huang is a writer, director, actor, chef and television personality who made his feature directorial debut with...

"It's okay to be angry and scared, and it's okay to ask for help." Roadside Attractions has revealed a trailer for an indie film called The Good House, which first premiered at the 2021 Toronto Film Festival last year. Based on Ann Leary's novel of the same name, this dramedy is about an aging New England realtor, named Hildy Good, who begins to unravel when she hooks up with an old flame of hers from New York. Kevin Kline co-stars as her old flame, while Sigourney Weaver takes on the role of Hildy. Igniting long-buried emotions and family secrets, Hildy is propelled toward a reckoning with the one person she has been avoiding for decades: herself. The cast also includes Morena Baccarin, Rob Delaney, David Rasche, Rebecca Henderson, Molly Brown, and Kathryn Erbe. This received mixed to negative reviews from TIFF, saying "the film is as messy as her character's behavior.

Sigourney Weaver may be best known for her iconic role of Ripley from the “Alien” franchise, where she is a total badass and murders Xenomorphs like there’s no tomorrow. But that’s not the type of role you can expect to see Weaver portray in the new drama, “The Good House.”

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Well, “The Good House” could be seen as “Alien,” if you replace the Xenomorphs with glasses of wine and the escape of the Nostromo is replaced with navigating middle-aged romance in New England.

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Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions have acquired North American rights to The Good House from Amblin Partners, in association with Participant.

The comic drama, starring Sigourney Weaver and Kevin Kline in the film adaptation of Ann Leary’s book, bowed at the Toronto Film Festival in 2021. The Good House is set for a theatrical bow on Sept. 30.

The film, directed by Maya Forbes and Wally Wolodarsky, who co-wrote the screenplay adaptation with Thomas Bezucha, portrays Weaver as a New England realtor and descendant of the Salem witches who understands her neighbors’ problems and secrets but is in denial about her own.

The Good House also stars Morena Baccarin, Rob Delaney, David Rasche, Rebecca Henderson, Molly Brown and Beverly D’Angelo. The film marks Weaver’s and Kline’s third collaboration after 1993’s Dave and the 1997 drama The Ice Storm.

“Sigourney Weaver and Kevin Kline make...

Exclusive: Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting), Lenny Kravitz (Lee Daniels’ The Butler), Beverly D’Angelo (Violent Night), Colleen Camp (Back on the Strip) and Gavin Rossdale (The Bling Ring) have signed on to star alongside Vito Schnabel in the dark comedy The Trainer, which Tony Kaye (American History X) is directing from Schnabel and Jeff Solomon’s script.

The film currently in production, after nearly a decade in development, is based on an original story by Schnabel. It unfolds over eight days of sleep-deprived chaos and follows Jack (Schnabel), a down-on-his-luck fitness expert living with his mother in Los Angeles, who takes a maniacal swing at fame and fortune, trying to realize his version of the American dream.

Julia Fox, Steven Van Zandt, Taylour Paige, Stephen Dorff, John McEnroe, Gina Gershon, Luka Sabbat, Soo Joo Park, Brock O’Hurn, Bella Thorne, Laird Hamilton and Duke Nicholson are also set to star.

Exclusive: Brett Dier (Jane the Virgin), Anders Holm (Workaholics) and David Rasche (Succession) are the latest additions to the cast of the recently-wrapped Lionsgate comedy About My Father, written by and starring comedian Sebastian Maniscalco.

They join an ensemble that also includes Robert De Niro, Leslie Bibb and Kim Cattrall.

The film directed by Laura Terruso (Work It) is inspired by Maniscalco’s life and his relationship with his father. It sees Sebastian tell his old-school Italian immigrant father Salvo (De Niro) that he is going to propose to his all-American girlfriend, with Salvo insisting on crashing a weekend with her tony parents. Though cultures clash and it seems that the two families have nothing in common, by the end of the weekend, they’ll be la famiglia.

As previously announced, Bibb is playing Sebastian’s onscreen fiancée, Ellie. Dier and Holm will play her brothers, Doug and Lucky Collins,...

The Good House is roughly one-half of an utterly wonderful, character-driven comedy-drama. But one-half is insufficient to classify anything a success. That is true even when the entirety features an exceptional lead performance from Sigourney Weaver, the actor giving her most full-throttle, deep-throated, go-for-broke role in years as Hildy, a real-estate agent who erects a steely facade. Hildy’s world in the New England town of Woodhaven is in fact gripped with conflict, her current life revolving around a struggle for sobriety.

Many of these elements, and their refreshing allowance for deep character flaws, are positives. And, for these, directors Maya Forbes and Wallace Wolodarsky deserve praise. But Forbes, Wolodarsky, and co-writer Thomas Bezucha made several miscalculations in their adaptation of Ann Leary’s 2013 novel—chief among these the way-too-significant amount of time spent on, well, nearly every non-Hildy onscreen. Only a local contractor and old flame of Hildy’s,...

The Toronto Film Festival marked its completion Saturday with an unfortunate milestone: No major acquisitions deals have been announced since the festival kicked off its 10-day run. It was far from a bust: Early awards contenders like Kenneth Branagh’s “Belfast” picked up steam, and on-the-ground audiences in Canada reveled in the joy of once again gathering to experience big movies like “Dune.” Nor is the overall film market lukewarm: Deals have been ironed out at a steady clip throughout the year.

It raises the question: Why was nobody buying at Toronto?

There’s certainly not one cause, though unsurprisingly Covid is an easy catchall to explain why TIFF was unable to maintain its status as the fall’s most important dealmaking venue this year.

This marked the second year in a row that TIFF was a largely virtual affair, with a lineup just one-third the size of the 300-plus...

Kenneth Branagh’s semi-autobiographical, black-and-white drama Belfast claimed the TIFF People’s Choice Award on Saturday night, affirming its status as a major player to contend with in the 2022 Oscars race.

Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye) and Benedict Cumberbatch were also big winners at the TIFF Tribute Awards ceremony, which wrapped up the 46th edition of the festival, claiming its Actor Awards.

The TIFF Ebert Director Award went to Dune‘s Denis Villeneuve, with musician Dionne Warwick (subject of the doc Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over) receiving a Special Tribute Award. Other major titles recognized in Toronto tonight included The Rescue—the latest doc from Free Solo helmers Jimmy Chin and E. Chai Vasarhelyi—and Julia Ducournau’s Palme d’Or winner, Titane.

“2021 brought an exceptional selection of films that excited Festival audiences around the world,...

We casually throw the word “icon” around with such abandon these days that it almost feels like we need a new, more potent idiom to describe those who actually fit the bill. But until we get that term, let’s say that Sigourney Weaver is an absolute icon and leave it at that — a brilliant actor equally adept at drama, action, and comedy, a three-time Academy Award nominee (two of them in the same year), the kind of screen presence who lifts just about anything she’s in.

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I am not of fan of movies that resort to breaking the fourth wall, as it were, and letting their key characters talk incessantly to the audience. It is a device that generally feels lazy, a writer’s crutch to explain away story points instead of letting us discover for ourselves. The recent annoying pandemic comedy Together, with James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan as a bickering couple who sell their sides of ongoing marital arguments directly to the camera, is an example of why overuse of this technique can be so tired. Now along comes The Good House, which just premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, and where Sigourney Weaver as a functioning alcoholic real estate agent in North Boston offers her view on the town and its people with full sarcasm intact. It is based on the 2013 book by Ann Leary, and it seems this very literary conceit was...

“I never drank alone before rehab,” cracks Hildy Good (Sigourney Weaver), a divorced, 60-year-old real estate agent whose façade of grace and stability is crumbling even faster than that of the quaint Massachusetts harbor town where her family has lived since the days of the Salem witch trials; what’s happening to Wendover isn’t what you’d call “gentrification,” but the influx of chain businesses and white-collar types buying up all the colonial houses has made the place a shell of what it used to be. Hildy is on the verge of getting priced out, herself, and she’s not taking it well.

By the time we meet her, she’s already talking to herself — or to us through the fourth wall — with the performative casualness of someone who’s about to have the rug pulled out from under them. It’s a device that helps Maya Forbes and...

Hildy Good, the whip-smart and self-deluding Realtor at the center of The Good House, spends a significant portion of screen time breaking a wall — the fourth one, that is. In lesser hands, such a narrative device could be distracting or downright annoying. But Hildy, an alcoholic who’s pretending to be in recovery, is played by Sigourney Weaver, who makes every exasperated glance, incisive put-down and dissembling excuse absolutely magnetic. Her direct-to-camera comments are not merely asides but the core of the film. And, in ways both intentional and not, Hildy’s remarks to the audience are far more compelling than what transpires ...

Hildy Good, the whip-smart and self-deluding Realtor at the center of The Good House, spends a significant portion of screen time breaking a wall — the fourth one, that is. In lesser hands, such a narrative device could be distracting or downright annoying. But Hildy, an alcoholic who’s pretending to be in recovery, is played by Sigourney Weaver, who makes every exasperated glance, incisive put-down and dissembling excuse absolutely magnetic. Her direct-to-camera comments are not merely asides but the core of the film. And, in ways both intentional and not, Hildy’s remarks to the audience are far more compelling than what transpires ...