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Kathryn Hahn is currently having her big moment in Hollywood following her scene-stealing performance as Agatha Harkness in WandaVision, followed by her standalone show Agatha All Along. Therefore, with the Ohioan actress holding onto her headlines all year long, let’s take a look at her early life and discuss a few things that people might not know about this witchy wonder.

Kathryn Hahn in Agatha All Along (2024) | Image: Disney+

Considering how Kathryn Hahn showcased her iconic performance in the MCU spinoff series, it’s for sure that the actress isn’t new to the industry. Actually, she has had ample opportunities to flex her acting prowess, since Hahn has been a top-tier performer for well over a decade. But her acting skills aren’t all that’s interesting about Hahn. This treasure trove of talent has more to her than you might know.

1. Kathryn Hahn is an Ivy Leaguer...

Kathryn Hahn has always been more than happy to take on a supporting role. Her comedic career blossomed in the early 2000s with bit parts in Adam McKay films like “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy” and “Step Brothers,” and she also garnered dramatic bonafides with Sam Mendes’ “Revolutionary Road” and M. Night Shyamalan’s “The Visit.” Most recently, she’s helped fill out ensembles in live-action projects like “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” and animated ones such as “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.” As her career has developed in the last decade, so too has her center-stage appeal, with roles in HBO’s “Mrs. Fletcher” and Tamara Jenkins’ “Private Life” placing her in lead position. Now, it seems, Marvel is taking notice as they’ve decided to spin her side character from “WandaVision” off into her own Disney+ show with “Agatha All Along.”

Speaking with Emmy Magazine for a recent interview,...

Exclusive: Only Murders in the Building is expanding its recurring cast with Desmin Borges (You’re The Worst), Siena Werber (Brand New Cherry Flavor) and newcomer Lilian Rebelo (Our Dear Drug Lord).

They join stars/executive producers Steve Martin, who also co-created the hit Hulu series, Martin Short and Selena Gomez as well as new recurring players Zach Galifianakis, Molly Shannon, Eva Longoria and Eugene Levy and returning Meryl Streep in the upcoming fourth season.

All new characters will be integral to the twists and turns of the investigation into the murder of Sazz Pataki (Jane Lynch), Charles-Haden Savage’s (Martin) stunt double from his years on the series Brazzos and its 2020 revival.

Disney Television Group President Craig Erwich revealed in a recent Deadline interview that the Only Murders In the Building trio, Charles, Oliver (Short) and Mabel (Gomez), will kick off the new season with a trip to Los Angeles...

Hollywood’s always got its share of surprises, especially when it comes to spill-the-beans moments behind the scenes. Paul Giamatti, the big-name actor with quite a few Oscar nods under his belt, dropped a bombshell recently about his gig on Private Time with Kathryn Hahn.

Paul Giamatti in The Holdovers

Brace yourself, as it turns out, that the 56-year-old spilled the beans and that he was hitting the bottle pretty hard during the whole shoot. But what’s got everyone buzzing isn’t just the booze confession; it’s what Giamatti blurted out to Hahn during the shoot. Rumor has it that those were some of the most iconic last words ever. Curious much? Let’s spill the tea.

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The Palm Springs Film Awards will honor Paul Giamatti with the Icon Award for his performance in “The Holdovers.” He will receive the award at the Jan. 4 event at the Palm Springs Convention Center.

“In ‘The Holdovers,’ Paul Giamatti inhabits a complex character who is both challenging and rewarding, and ultimately reminds us of what it means to be connected as human beings,” festival chairman Nachhattar Singh Chandi said in a statement. “For his storied career of quintessential cinematic roles, it is our honor to present the Icon Award to Paul Giamatti for this career-best performance.”

In Alexander Payne’s “The Holdovers,” Giamatti portrays a grumpy New England prep school teacher who forms a bond with a troubled student and the school’s head cook, who is grieving after the loss of her son. Giamatti currently stars in Season 2 of “30 Coins” and the final season of “Billions.” His other...

Paul Giamatti talks about finding the heart in the protagonist of Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers.

He is rightly known for his versatility, but Paul Giamatti has a special knack for principled, witty curmudgeons. “It seems to come to me,” he says of the personality type, “and it is hard for me to know whether I manifest it for myself or it’s something people have seen me do. They are interesting characters to play for sure though.”

The latest in the US actor’s line of acerbic grumps is at the centre of The Holdovers, the awards-contending comedy-drama from...

Paul Giamatti turned in one of the best performances of 2004 in Alexander Payne‘s “Sideways.” He played Miles, a depressed writer who takes a trip to Santa Barbara County to celebrate his friend’s (Thomas Haden Church) engagement. He reap bids at the Critics Choice, SAG and Golden Globes awards. It was shock when he was snubbed at the Oscars in favor of eventual winner Jamie Foxx (“Ray”) plus Don Cheadle (“Hotel Rwanda”), Johnny Depp (“Finding Neverland”), Leonardo DiCaprio (“The Aviator”), and Clint Eastwood (“Million Dollar Baby”).

The academy can finally rectify that oversight as Giamatti and Payne have reunited for “The Holdovers,” which Focus Features is releasing on Oct. 27. Giamatti is a curmudgeon of a teacher forced to stay behind and look after students staying at his school throughout the holiday period. Dominic Sessa and Da’Vine Joy Randolph are great in supporting roles but it’s Giamatti who is the star of the picture.

It seems there is nothing Molly Shannon cannot do. She can zing in a stylized satire like “The White Lotus” and a broad comedy like “The Other Two.” She also grounds her comedic sensibility with great emotional depth in intimate dramas, as she did in “Private Life” and “Other People.” And it’s no surprise that she brings her unique oddball sensibility to quirky indie comedies like “The Little Hours” and “Year of The Dog.” Her resume reads like a fairly comprehensive roster of interesting comedy and independent film over the last two decades.

Shannon’s latest dramatic outing is Zach Braff’s drama “A Good Person,” in which she plays opposite Florence Pugh in another heavy lift. Despite the loaded circumstances, Shannon finds a way to bring levity to the film’s darker moments.

In the film, she plays Diana, a wine-swilling New Jersey mother who finds herself at...

George Harrison would have turned 80 years old today. Though he died over two decades ago, his work continues to inspire people all across the globe.

Just this week, Yusuf, a.k.a. Cat Stevens, covered “Here Comes the Sun” and signed with Harrison’s label, Dark Horse Records. “While most of my generation were just into the music, I was a bit like George, where music became the key to something much higher,” he said. “I’m happy to sing one of his songs, especially as it represents the returning...

Lionsgate has released the first image for Adele Lim’s “Joy Ride,” a comedy feature starring Oscar nominee Stephanie Hsu, Ashley Park, Sherry Cola and Sabrina Wu.

The film is set to release in theaters June 23.

“Joy Ride” tells the raunchy story of how four unlikely friends embark on a once-in-a-lifetime international adventure. After Audrey’s (Park) business trip to Asia goes doesn’t go according to plan, she recruits her childhood best friend, Lolo (Cola), her college friend turned Chinese soap star, Kat (Hsu) and Lolo’s eccentric cousin and Deadeye (Wu). “The four friends’ epic experience becomes a journey of bonding, friendship, belonging, and wild debauchery, ultimately revealing the universal truth of what it means to know and love who you are.

“Joy Ride” was written by Cherry Chevapravatdumrong and Teresa Hsiao. The film was produced by director Adele Lim, writers Chevapravatdumrong and Hsiao, and Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg,...

Exclusive: Lana Condor (To All the Boys films), Desmin Borges (The Time Traveler’s Wife) and Callan Mulvey (The Gray Man) have signed on to star alongside Chase Stokes in Monarch Media’s thriller Valiant One, which goes into production in Vancouver this month.

The first feature directed by Monarch’s Steve Barnett watches as a U.S. helicopter crashes on the North Korean side of the Dmz. With tensions between the North and South already on the verge of war, the surviving U.S. Army non-combat tech soldiers must work together to protect a civilian tech specialist and find their way across the Dmz, without the possibility of U.S. military support.

Condor will play Selby, a hard-as-nails and highly capable but very inexperienced Medic Specialist who joined the U.S. military after becoming a citizen to give back to her new homeland. Borges is set for the role of Josh Weaver,...

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Focus Features has picked up Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers, a dramedy that reunites the director with Sideways lead Paul Giamatti.

The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed Focus nabbed the worldwide rights to the Miramax pic, excluding the Middle East. The Holdovers project is being shopped at the Toronto Film Festival as part of an informal market and outside the main festival lineup.

The film, written by David Hemingson and set in 1970, sees Giamatti play the role of Paul Hunham, an unlikeable professor who remains at an academy over the Christmas holidays, only to find himself with a trouble-making 15-year-old student.

Sideways, released in 2004, was nominated for five Oscars, which included a win for adapted screenplay for Payne, and brought in 72 million domestically at the box office. The comedy also provided a bump for the wine and tourism trade in Santa Barbara.

Payne also...

Primetime Emmy winner Tobias Menzies has boarded the Nicole Holofcener directed and written feature Beth & Don opposite Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

Cameras roll this week on the movie, which A24 acquired all US rights on out of AFM last year.

Also rounding out the cast are Michaela Watkins, Arian Moayed, Owen Teague, Jeanne Berlin, Bill Camp and Elizabeth Marvel.

In the movie, Beth is a New York novelist in an unbelievably happy marriage to Don, who loves her and supports her in every way. One day, when Beth overhears him admitting that he hasn’t liked her writing in years, it threatens to undo all that’s good in their lives.

Ben & Don is produced by Likely Story’s Anthony Bregman and Stefanie Azpiazu, Louis-Dreyfus and Holofcener. Bregman and Azpiazu produced Enough Said, and are longtime collaborators with both Holofcener and Louis-Dreyfus.

FilmNation Entertainment is handling international sales and the following buyers with respective territories: Sony Pictures’ Stage 6 Films – Germany, Spain, All Eastern Europe, Cis, Benelux, Greece, Iceland, Middle East, Scandinavia, Switzerland, Turkey, Latin America, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, and South Africa, Vertice Cine (Italy), Lev Cinema (Israel), Prisvideo (Portugal), and Roadshow distribution (Australia/New Zealand).

Menzies is about to shoot the lead role in Manhunt for Apple TV+. He won an Emmy for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series and was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama Series for his work in Netflix’s The Crown as Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. On the film side, Menzies’ notable credits include Anna Foerster’s Underworld: Blood Wars and Richard Eyre’s King Lear. Recent television credits include Aisling Bea’s The Way Up; Game of Thrones as ‘Edmure Tully’; and the hit Starz series Outlander, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role. Menzies is represented by WME, Cognition, and Conway Van Gelder Grant. Moayed is repped by Gersh, Kipperman Management and Schreck Rose Dapello Adams Berlin & Dunham. Watkins is repped by Haven Entertainment, UTA and Patti Felker. Marvel is represented by Innovative Artists and Viking Entertainment. Camp is repped by Innovative Artists and Franklin, Weinrib, Rudell and Vassallo, and Teague is with CAA.

Exclusive: Guy Burnet (Counterpart) and Danny Deferrari (Shiva Baby) are the latest additions to the cast of Christopher Nolan’s film Oppenheimer for Universal.

They join an ensemble led by Cillian Murphy that also includes Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Rami Malek, Benny Safdie, Josh Hartnett, Dane DeHaan, Jack Quaid, Matthew Modine, Dylan Arnold, David Krumholtz, Alden Ehrenreich, David Dastmalchian, Olli Haaskivi, Jason Clarke, James D’Arcy and Michael Angarano, as previously announced.

In Nolan’s latest, which is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and the late Martin J. Sherwin, Murphy plays the theoretical physicist whose work on the Manhattan Project led to the atomic bomb. The film is a paradox of the enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world in order to save it.

Nolan is directing from his own script...

Exclusive: The Anne Hathaway and Thomasin McKenzie feature, Eileen, based on Ottessa Moshfegh bestseller, which just wrapped in New Jersey, is being sold at EFM by Endeavor Content and WME Independent.

Deadline has learned that Marin Ireland and Owen Teague are also starring in the Endeavor Content, Likely Story, Omniscient Productions, Film4 produced film. They join previously announced, Shea Whigham, in the William Oldroyd directed movie.

In the film, Eileen (McKenzie) is a peculiar young woman – aloof and unphased by the gloomy nature of her job at the local youth prison. But something in her changes the day that the new counselor, Dr. Rebecca St. John (Oscar winner Hathaway) arrives. She is instantly captivated by Rebecca’s glamorous, enigmatic presence. As the two women grow closer, Eileen is inspired to explore new facets of her own personality and desires. But her metamorphosis...

Marvel fans are about to get a whole lot more of Agatha Harkness.

A “WandaVision” spinoff centered on Kathryn Hahn as the powerful witch is reported to be in development at Disney+ from Marvel Studios. Variety first reported the news of a spinoff series. IndieWire has reached out to Disney representatives for comment.

Hahn will reprise the role of Agatha Harkness in the series, which has been described as a dark comedy a la “WandaVision,” the limited series that won three Primetime Emmys and became one of the biggest Disney+ hits ever. Per reports, “WandaVision” head writer Jac Schaeffer will serve as the writer and executive producer, which will make the series her first project since she set up an overall deal with Marvel Studios and 20th Television in May 2021.

Per Deadline, the spinoff is part of an overall deal Hahn set up at Marvel Studios earlier this year.

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Kathryn Hahn has been a much-admired actor’s actor for years. The 48-year-old wife and mother of two has done standout work in art house indies (Afternoon Delight, Private Life), in big-studio comedies (Step Brothers, Bad Moms) and on Peak TV (Transparent, I Love Dick). But nobody — least of all her — imagined that this would lead her to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, as it did when she was cast as the nosy neighbor Agnes — who turns out to be more than meets the eye — on the Disney+ limited series WandaVision, for which she has received some of the best reviews of her ...

Kathryn Hahn has been a much-admired actor’s actor for years. The 48-year-old wife and mother of two has done standout work in art house indies (Afternoon Delight, Private Life), in big-studio comedies (Step Brothers, Bad Moms) and on Peak TV (Transparent, I Love Dick). But nobody — least of all her — imagined that this would lead her to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, as it did when she was cast as the nosy neighbor Agnes — who turns out to be more than meets the eye — on the Disney+ limited series WandaVision, for which she has received some of the best reviews of her ...

Season 2 of Hulu’s comedy-drama series “Love, Victor” was recently released, giving fans another look into Victor’s life as he comes out as gay to his Catholic parents, further explores his queerness in a new relationship and possibly falls for another boy — all while navigating high school. And underscoring the show’s moving plot lines is a collection of original songs — most of which are from queer artists — that brilliantly soundtrack each heart-fluttering hand hold, emotional confession and rousing climax throughout the season.

Inspired by and set in the same world as the beloved movie “Love, Simon,” “Love, Victor” follows Michael Cimino as Victor, a half Puerto Rican, half Colombian American teen who is piecing together his identity as he juggles family, friendships and romantic interests.

George Sear stars as Victor’s main love interest, Benji, alongside Rachel Hilson, Anthony Turpel, Bebe Wood, Mason Gooding, Isabella Ferreira, Ana Ortiz and James Martinez.

Exclusive: Kayli Carter (Mrs. America) is set for a recurring role on the upcoming fourth season of Amazon’s Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

Character details are being kept under wraps.

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, from creator Amy Sherman-Palladino and executive producer Daniel Palladino, stars Rachel Brosnahan, Tony Shalhoub, Alex Borstein, Marin Hinkle, Michael Zegen, Kevin Pollak and Caroline Aaron.

In season 3, Midge (Brosnahan) and Susie (Borstein) discovered that life on tour with Shy (Leroy McClain) was glamorous but humbling, and they learned a lesson about show business they’ll never forget.

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is the winner of 20 Emmy Awards including Outstanding Comedy series, three Golden Globes including Best TV Series—Comedy, six Critics Choice Awards including Best Comedy Series, two PGA Awards, a WGA Award, and a Peabody Award.

Carter was most recently seen in FX’s limited series, Mrs. America, alongside Cate Blanchett,...

Kathryn Hahn will move from putting a hex on the Scarlet Witch to trying to outmaneuver Benoit Blanc.

She joins the ever-expanding ensemble cast of “Knives Out 2,” where she will rub shoulders and drop clues alongside Dave Bautista, Janelle Monae, Edward Norton and, of course, Daniel Craig (reprising his role as expert detective Blanc).

Netflix will release the sequel and a third installment in the whodunit franchise after agreeing to shell out $450 million for the rights. The first “Knives Out” was released by Lionsgate and became a sleeper hit, grossing $311.4 million when it opened in 2019. Writer and director Rian Johnson earned an Oscar nomination for his screenplay.

Filming is expected to start soon in Greece, with Johnson sliding back behind the camera. He will also write the screenplay. Plot details are being kept tightly under wraps, but chances are somebody will die mysteriously and there will be many, many suspects with iffy alibis,...

Kathryn Hahn has joined the cast of Rian Johnson’s “Knives Out 2,” an individual with knowledge of the deal told TheWrap.

The actress, who most recently starred in the hit Disney+ series “WandaVision,” will join Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Dave Bautista and Janelle Monáe in the film.

The casting comes two months after Johnson signed a $400 million-plus deal with Netflix to write and direct two sequels to the Oscar-nominated murder mystery film, with Craig returning as ace detective Benoit Blanc. Johnson will also produce with partner Ram Bergman, with shooting set to begin this summer in Greece.

The deal is one of the largest for a streamer in history, and it provides Netflix a franchise as competition in the streaming space has increased dramatically over the last few months.

The original “Knives Out,” a murder mystery in the vein of an Agatha Christie whodunit that was released in 2019, was...

The Film Independent Spirit Awards bestowed their nominations on Hollywood this morning, and classically, there were some glaring surprises and omissions. For the first time, the group also included nominations for television. Bestowing honors since 1985, the nominations were announced on YouTube by Olivia Wilde, Barry Jenkins and Laverne Cox.

Regina King’s powerful “One Night in Miami” was given the Robert Altman Award, which is presented to the ensemble cast, director and casting director, joining past honorees like “Mudbound,” “Moonlight” and “Spotlight.” However, when a film is given this honor, the actors are removed from consideration in the acting categories, which explains no mentions for the individual cast members, most notably, Kingsley Ben-Adir and Leslie Odom Jr. This does start to beg the question possibly coming from studios: Does anyone want to win the Robert Altman award if you’re angling for awards attention for any of your actors? With...

Production of films and TV series across South Korea is being halted as the country undergoes a resurgence of the coronavirus. Companies including industry leaders Cj Enm, Jtbc and Netflix have all confirmed disruptions to their series shooting schedules.

The country had seemingly been successful in controlling earlier waves of the Covid-19 outbreak through strict border controls, rapid testing and rigorous contact testing. But since the beginning of August, the number of new confirmed cases has shot up. There has been a seven-fold increase in the past week, and over 300 cases were reported on both Saturday and Sunday. Some 288 new cases were reported on Tuesday.

These have caused authorities in capital city Seoul, where the latest outbreak is centered, to increase restrictions. They have warned that they are considering upgrading the city’s alert status to level 3, the highest level on a scale of 1 to 3.

Many TV production companies have already suspended production,...

The latest in a series of writers highlighting underappreciated films available to stream is a recommendation for a trippy early-70s animation

The glorious thing about streaming, at this point in its history, is the sense that eventually everything that was lost will be eventually found somewhere, on some platform, at some point, as long as the rights holders can be traced. That is basically the idea of this series, about streaming gems, right? It’s like we’re pointing out for you, dear reader, the pretty fish and brightly coloured bits of flotsam that are swirling by in the mighty, ever-swelling, almost menacingly vast river of online content that’s gushing by our feet, threatening to pull us in, drowning us in the oblivion of inexhaustible narrative noise.

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Taking an unfortunate cue from both the Golden Globes and its own history, this morning’s Oscar nominations arrived with nary a nomination for a female filmmaker in the Best Director category, though Greta Gerwig’s “Little Women” picked up a nomination in the Best Picture race. This is Gerwig’s second nod in the Oscars’ biggest category. While few female directors managed to break through the noise of Oscars buzz in the run-up to the nomination announcement, a number of female filmmakers have already earned awards attention this season, including Gerwig, Lulu Wang, Marielle Heller, Chinonye Chukwu, Kasi Lemmons, and Melina Matsoukas.

Standouts Lorene Scafaria (“Hustlers”) and Alma Har’el (“Honey Boy”) earned Best Director nods from the Indie Spirit Awards, which takes place the day before the Academy Awards. It’s the same thing that happened last year, when the Academy overlooked a number of heavy-hitting female-directed features — including...

For the first time in its 38-year history, the American Film Market is producing a conference about what was once considered taboo at the confab’s Loews Santa Monica digs: television. The Nov. 11 event will address how indie filmmakers can cash in on the tidal wave of new streaming services — Apple TV Plus, Disney Plus, HBO Max, Quibi, Peacock, AMC Theatres on Demand and more — and cable outlets investing billions of dollars to produce and acquire films.

Variety spoke with Anthony Bregman of Likely Story, which has a first-look production deal with Netflix; Brad Feinstein of Romulus Entertainment, a producer of Apple TV Plus’ first big feature, “The Banker”; attorney Elsa Ramo; and other industry vets to find out what streamers are looking for, how producers can get in the door and how this new paradigm is impacting indies.

“We’re looking to triple our output,” says Disney Channel VP of original movies Lauren Kisilevsky,...

Annapurna Pictures’ president of film Ivana Lombardi is leaving for a new job as Netflix’s director of independent film, where she’ll oversee titles like the upcoming sequel to hit teen rom-com “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before.”

Lombardi joins Ian Bricke, who holds the same title, at the indie division. Like Bricke, she’ll report to Lisa Nishimura, VP of independent film and documentary features, when she starts the job November 6.

Nishimura was promoted to oversee the indie division in March. Prior to that, the division was led by Bricke and Matt Brodlie, who left Netflix to join Disney+ in June. Before Nishimura moved into her new role, the duo reported to Original Film head Scott Stuber and had full greenlight authority for all films budgeted under $10 million. These included titles like Tamara Jenkins’ “Private Life,” starring Paul Giamatti and Kathryn Hahn as well as made-for-streaming...

Netflix has snapped up yet another awards-friendly filmmaker, and this time it’s Alexander Payne. According to Deadline, Netflix will finance and release his next film, which remains untitled but will star Danish actor and “Hannibal” star Mads Mikkelsen.

Said to be released smack-dab in the awards-season corridor of fall 2020, the upcoming film was described to Deadline as a father/daughter story that follows a journalist (Mikkelsen) on a road trip with his teen daughter across the U.S. while working on a story.

Add Payne, the Academy Award winner for Best Adapted Screenplay for both “The Descendants” and “Sideways,” to an evolving list of auteurs, in many cases Oscar winners, lured by Netflix that include Martin Scorsese (“The Irishman”), Steven Soderbergh (“The Laundromat”), Tamara Jenkins (“Private Life”), Nicole Holofcener (“The Land of Steady Habits”), Damien Chazelle (upcoming musical series “The Eddy”), Dee Rees (“The Last Thing He Wanted”), and many more.

Instant attraction on New Year’s Eve – and a little white lie – lead a young couple down the poignant path from passion to heartache

Movies about love at first sight are common enough and so are movies that track the bittersweet season cycle of a relationship’s first year. Then there are movies about a relationship further down the road, brutally tested by the agony of fertility treatment – such as Tamara Jenkins’s excellent Private Life, from 2018 – involving older people who have had ample time to jettison any youthfully naive illusions they may have had about themselves, about each other and about life itself. The marvel of this Glasgow-set debut film from writer-director Harry Wootliff is to make these genres overlap. It’s a poignant and compelling Venn diagram of passion and heartache.

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While we can all agree that Netflix has been overall a great thing for movie lovers, it’s also true that scrolling through the ever-growing library searching for something to watch can be the biggest waste of time in our day.

You can see a complete list of new Netflix releases here.

Ever scrolled so long that it becomes too late to actually press play on anything? Or just decided to watch that thing you’ve seen a thousand times. Us too.

So we thought we’d make things a little easier ahead of your next session, gathering together some of the best Netflix Originals on offer, some high profile and others under the radar. They...

Netflix is expanding its New York presence with a new production hub that will include an expanded office in Manhattan and six sound stages in Brooklyn, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced today. The office will “directly create 127 high-paying executive content, marketing and production development jobs over the next five years,” according to the announcement, while the sound stages will have the capacity to “hold thousands of production crew jobs” in the same amount of time.

“Netflix is innovative, creative and bold — just like New Yorkers — and the expansion of this cutting-edge company in New York once again demonstrates the Empire State is open for business,” Cuomo said. “We’re proud Netflix chose New York to grow its business, and we look forward to the jobs, economic activity and world-class productions this project will bring.”

Netflix has previously shot “Orange Is the New Black,” “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” “The Irishman,” “Private Life,” “She’s Gotta Have It,...

Netflix is planning a major expansion of its New York City presence with a production hub that New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo says will bring “hundreds of jobs and up to $100 million in investments to the city.”

According to an announcement released by Cuomo, the production hub will include an expanded office in Manhattan that will “directly create 127 high-paying executive content, marketing and production development jobs over the next five years, and six sound stages in Brooklyn with the capacity to hold thousands of production crew jobs within five years.”

“Netflix is innovative, creative and bold – just like New Yorkers – and the expansion of this cutting-edge company in New York once again demonstrates the Empire State is open for business,” Cuomo said. “We’re proud Netflix chose New York to grow its business, and we look forward to the jobs, economic activity and world-class productions this project will bring.

Lesley Manville, Kayli Carter, Jeffrey Donovan and Will Brittain are set to join the cast of “Let Him Go,” a suspense thriller starring Kevin Costner and Diane Lane.

Focus Features has tapped Thomas Bezucha (“The Family Stone”) is set to direct from his own screenplay, based on Larry Watson’s novel of the same name. Paula Mazur and Mitchell Kaplan of the Mazur Kaplan Company will produce alongside Bezucha. Costner will executive produce with Kimi Armstrong Stein, Jeffrey Lampert and Rod Lake. Focus Features and Universal Pictures International will distribute the film worldwide.

Costner will play a retired sheriff and Lane will portray his wife. After the loss of their son, the couple leaves their Montana ranch to rescue their young grandson from the clutches of a dangerous family living off the grid in the Dakotas. When they arrive, they discover the family has no intention of letting the child go.

The 2019 Film Independent Spirit Awards are taking place today, Saturday Feb. 23, recognizing the best in independent film from 2018.

In one of the most evenly spread fields in years, "Eighth Grade,” “First Reformed,” “You Were Never Really Here” and “We the Animals” each received four nominations, while “If Beale Street Could Talk,” “Leave No Trace,” “Private Life” and “The Tale” each received three nods.

Barry Jenkins took home the best director award for his film If Beale Street Could Talk at the 2019 Film Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday. In his acceptance speech, Jenkins called on Hollywood to champion more female directors.

"I'm not gonna lie, man. I didn't want to win this damn award. With everything going on in the world, it just feels strange to be up here," said Jenkins, who beat out Paul Schrader (First Reformed) and three female directors, including Debra Granik (Leave No Trace), Tamara Jenkins (Private Life) and Lynne Ramsay (You Were Never Really Here).

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Barry Jenkins took home the best director award for his film If Beale Street Could Talk at the 2019 Film Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday. In his acceptance speech, Jenkins called on Hollywood to champion more female directors.

"I'm not gonna lie, man. I didn't want to win this damn award. With everything going on in the world, it just feels strange to be up here," said Jenkins, who beat out Paul Schrader (First Reformed) and three female directors, including Debra Granik (Leave No Trace), Tamara Jenkins (Private Life) and Lynne Ramsay (You Were Never Really Here).

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The Film Independent Spirit Awards have come to a close in sunny Santa Monica, with “If Beale Street Could Talk” winning Best Feature, Best Director for Barry Jenkins, and Best Supporting Female for Regina King. The love was spread fairly evenly across the other major prizes, with Glenn Close of “The Wife” taking home Best Actress, Ethan Hawke earning Best Actor for his performance in “First Reformed,” and “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” winning Best Screenplay (Nicole Holofcener & Jeff Whitty) and Best Supporting Male (Richard E. Grant).

“We the Animals” led all films with five nominations, followed by “Eighth Grade,” “First Reformed,” and “You Were Never Really Here” with four apiece. There will be excitingly little overlap between today’s ceremony and tomorrow’s — for the first time since 2008, no movies are up for the top prize at both shows.

Aubrey Plaza hosted the ceremony, which aired on IFC. Full...

Winners of the 2019 Independent Spirit Awards, hosted by Aubrey Plaza, were revealed on Saturday, February 23, one day before the Oscars. Unlike years past, when many Best Feature nominees coincided with the Academy Award choices, the 34th edition of the Spirit Awards, which celebrates indie fare, had no cross-over in the Best Picture category.

The biggest winner of the night was “If Beale Street Could Talk,” which took home Best Feature, Best Director for Barry Jenkins and Best Supporting Female for Regina King, who is likely to repeat at the Academy Awards. And Glenn Close, whose little white dog Pippi stole the show, is pretty much a lock to repeat her win for Best Female Lead at the Oscars as well. Otherwise, the Spirits were pretty much spread out, save for two honors granted to the horror remake “Suspiria,” the Robert Altman Award along with cinematography, and two wins, Best Screenplay...

The 2019 Independent Spirit Awards will be handed out on February 23 during an afternoon ceremony on Santa Monica. These awards often preview the winners of the Academy Awards the following day. This year, we are predicting that both actress tipped to take home Oscars will win here first: leading lady Glenn Close (“The Wife”) and supporting player Regina King (“If Beale Street Could Talk”). But for the first time in a decade, none of the five films up for Best Feature here number among the nominees for Best Picture at the Oscars.

Scroll down to see the full list of Indie Spirits nominations. This roster of contenders was determined by committees that included film critics, film programmers, producers, directors, writers, cinematographers, editors, actors, past nominees and winners, and members of Film Independent’s Board of Directors. Only American-made movies with budgets under $20 million were eligible for consideration.

Winners will be revealed...

“Can You Ever Forgive Me?” stunned us all with a Writers Guild of America Awards win for Best Adapted Screenplay on Sunday. Can it pull off another shocker this weekend — not at the Oscars, but at the Independent Spirit Awards?

The Spirits only has one screenplay category that combines original and adapted scripts. “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”, written by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty, is in second place in our combined odds behind Paul Schrader‘s “First Reformed,” and ahead of “Private Life” (Tamara Jenkins), “Sorry to Bother You” (Boots Riley) and “Collette”. “First Reformed” is the safe pick, as the film got a co-leading four nominations, including Best Picture unlike “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”, and it’s a chance to honor Schrader, the scribe behind classics like “Taxi Driver” and “Raging Bull.”

But two of our Experts, Kevin Polowy (Yahoo) and Gold Derby’s own Tom O’Neil,...

Hannah Bonner Feb 23, 2019

We examine how despite occasional exceptions to the rule, the Oscars still ignore women directors and their films for top awards.

The collection of controversies surrounding the 2019 Academy Awards ceremony is like a perpetual revolving door, never getting us any closer to the crux of the situation and never changing the key players. Will Kevin Hart host, or won’t he? Will the award for Best Cinematography screen on air or will it not? Who will defend the anti-Semitic slur here, the homophobic joke there? The laundry list is endless and the particulars just as dirty. But the Oscars are not immune to controversy.

In February 2016, I wrote about #OscarsSoWhite, a conversation that at the time was culturally charged and prescient. In October of 2017 #MeToo proliferated all over the internet, instigating the formation of organizations like TimesUp and the ostracization of Hollywood legends like Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey,...

Barry Jenkins took home his first Independent Spirit Award for Best Director two years ago for “Moonlight,” but it looks like he’ll have to clear some room for another: The “If Beale Street Could Talk” helmer is predicted to win the same prize at Saturday’s show, which would make him just the fifth person to win the category twice.

In the Spirit Awards’ 33-year history, four people have earned a record two Best Director Awards: Joel Coen; Alexander Payne (1999’s “Election”; 2004’s “Sideways”); Ang Lee; and Tom McCarthy (2008’s “The Visitor”; 2015’s “Spotlight”). This means, should Jenkins prevail, he’d had the shortest span — two years — between his two wins.

See Barry Jenkins may join Coppola, Payne and more as double Oscar winners for Best Adapted Screenplay

Jenkins has 71/20 odds, but many of our pundits are split between him and No. 2 Debra Granik (“Leave No Trace”). Granik has...

As we come closer to the Academy Awards, THR has released their newest roundtable, this week focusing on the screenwriters. Included in the discussion are Oscar nominees Paul Schrader (“First Reformed”), Peter Farrelly (“Green Book”), and Eric Roth (“A Star is Born”), in addition to John Krasinski (“A Quiet Place”), Tamara Jenkins (“Private Life”), and Bo Burnham (“Eighth Grade”).

Continue reading Watch: Paul Schrader, Eric Roth, Tamara Jenkins & More Discuss Screenwriting & Influences at The Playlist.

Foxcatcher and Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind producer Anthony Bregman delivered a wide-ranging keynote yesterday at the Efm in Berlin on the subject of algorithms and how Netflix has disrupted the film business.

Delivering the industry keynote ‘Future Proofing Film Production and Finance,’ Bregman, Chairman of the Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp) Board of Directors, said that the reason Netflix managed to disrupt the film business so successfully is because they use a more sophisticated and better algorithm than the studios when deciding which films to green light.

For much of his keynote speech, the Likely Story President and CEO, spoke with a definition of algorithm on the white board behind him. He claimed that Netflix changed the game because they would pick up films rejected by studios at the same budget and make successes out of them.

Bregman said that every film is made because of algorithms, “Algorithms have always dictated what was made.

With over 50 films viewed and more coverage coming from the Sundance Film Festival, it’s time to wrap up the first major cinema event in 2019. We already got the official jury and audience winners (here), and now it’s time to highlight our favorites.

One will find our favorites (in alphabetical order), followed by the rest of our reviews. Check out everything below and stay tuned to our site, and specifically Twitter, for acquisition and release date news on the below films in the coming months.

American Factory (Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert)

When the Rust Belt was hit hard in the financial crisis of 2008, the blue-collar workers of Dayton, Ohio found a savior in a Chinese billionaire. Six years after the lifeblood that was a General Motors plant was shut down, the car-glass manufacturers Fuyao opened up their first American factory in the town, meaning thousands of new job opportunities.

The Hollywood Reporter continues their award season roundtable discussions, focusing this week on the actresses. The conversation includes Academy Award nominees Rachel Weisz (“The Favourite”), Regina King (“If Beale Street Could Talk”), Lady Gaga (“A Star is Born”), and Glenn Close (“The Wife”), in addition to actresses Nicole Kidman (“Boy Erased” and “Destroyer”) and Kathryn Hahn (“Private Life”).

Continue reading Lady Gaga, Glenn Close, Regina King & More Talk Choosing Roles And On-Set Diversity at The Playlist.

In a move that surprised few but disappointed many, this week’s Oscar nominations completely shut out women from the Best Picture and Best director races. This came in spite of a number of acclaimed films — Chloé Zhao’s “The Rider,” Debra Granik’s “Leave No Trace,” and Tamara Jenkins’ “Private Life,” to name just a few — that critics and other observers felt worthy of consideration. Among those unhappy with this year’s nominee list is “Wonder Woman” director Patty Jenkins, who told Vulture that the Academy is “still very, very limited.”

“I have no idea,” Jenkins said of the shutout, “I’ll tell you this: The Academy is working on this, but the real issue to me is that at the end of the day, no matter what movie you make and no matter how much money it makes, and no matter how diverse the audience is, the voting academy is still very,...

Unconscionable. Unbelievable. Unsurprising. Once again, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has failed to nominate even a single woman in its best director category. It is the 86th time in the Academy’s 91-year history of awarding Oscars that the membership has seen fit to nominate an exclusively male slate.

Women’s absence is remarkable not because they remain dramatically underemployed as directors — accounting for just 8% of helmers working on the 250 top films of 2018 — but rather, because in spite of the numbers, more than a few women directed films that were widely hailed as among the best of the year. On his dream ballot of Oscar nods, Los Angeles Times critic Justin Chang included Tamara Jenkins (“Private Life”), Lucrecia Martel (“Zama”) and Chloé Zhao (“The Rider”). The Independent Spirit Awards recognized Debra Granik (“Leave No Trace”), Lynne Ramsay (“You Were Never Really Here”) and Jenkins in their best director nods.

We’re a month away from the Oscars, where the top films of 2018 will be recognized with Hollywood’s top honors, but this week amidst the snowy mountains of Park City, Utah, the table is being set for 2019. The 2019 Sundance Film Festival is about to screen over 100 new films, with many hoping to be among next year’s Academy Awards nominees. Last year’s festival produced 2018 favorites like Eighth Grade, Blindspotting, Sorry to Bother You, Private Life, Leave No Trace...

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