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Featuring Francesca Scorsese (daughter of Martin) and Sawyer Spielberg (son of Steven), it’s hard not to go into Tyler Taormina’s Christmas Eve In Miller’s Point with curiosity piqued as to what the next generation might have helped to create, beside the point though that might be. Happily, Taormina’s atmospheric film turns out to be a rich slice of retro-styled Americana, replete with the classic movie flourishes of their forebears, from the distant wails of an Amtrak horn, to the precarious picket-fence perfection of a dime-a-dozen suburb.

The set-up is simple. Several generations of the Italian-American Balsano family are heading back to matriarch Antonia’s (Mary Reistetter) home on Long Island to break bread together across one long, eggnog-soaked Christmas Eve. While nominally sharing in the festivities, though, each subset has its own priorities: the little kids, never far from a fractious meltdown, are all about the...

Cannes parallel section Directors’ Fortnight has unveiled the line-up for its 56th edition running from May 15 to 23, at a press conference in Paris’ Forum des Images cultural center.

The section, launched in 1969 and overseen by the French Directors Guild, will present 21 feature films and 10 short films.

It is the second line-up overseen by Delegate General Julien Rejl, who took up the role last year.

Discoveries of his inaugural edition included Georgian director Elene Naveriani’s late coming-of-age drama Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry; U.S. indie film Riddle Of Fire by Weston Razooli, as well as Vietnamese filmmaker Phạm Thiên Ân’s 2023 Cannes Caméra d’Or winner Inside The Yellow Cocoon Shell.

The 2024 edition will open with late director Sophie Fillières’ final feature This Life of Mine, starring Agnès Jaoui as a woman whose sense of self starts to unravel as she turns 55.

Fillières died shortly after completing the shoot and her...

Holt McCallant, Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Stanley Simons, and Harris Dickinson Photo: A24 In his new movie The Iron Claw, Zac Efron, the sinewy golden boy of High School Musical and Baywatch, looks like a boulder. His bulky physique, the result of a “shocking” bodily transformation that hopefully won’t trigger insomnia and depression,...

Zac Efron (top) in The Iron ClawPhoto: A24

In his new movie The Iron Claw, Zac Efron, the sinewy golden boy of High School Musical and Baywatch, looks like a boulder. His bulky physique, the result of a “shocking” bodily transformation that hopefully won’t trigger insomnia and depression, like last time,...

Dr. Evil once said, “There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum. It’s breathtaking. I suggest you try it.” Perhaps Jeremy Allen White could have used the Austin Powers villain as a co-star while filming A24‘s The Iron Claw, as it might have made him feel better about an extreme body hair-shaving session he participated in for the highly-anticipated sports drama. Speaking with Variety about the upcoming film, White recalled shaving every inch of his body alongside co-stars Zac Efron and Harris Dickinson. “Our bodies had to be completely shaved,” White said. “We were strangers at the time. Now I know them and love them, but at the time, it was like, ‘Hi, nice to meet you and yes, they’re shaving off all of our body hair.'”

Here’s the official synopsis for The Iron Claw:

The true story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers,...

I hope you’ve brought your appetite because the stars of A24’s The Iron Claw are cooking up some fierce looks for Entertainment Weekly as part of an extensive cover shoot. The Sean Durkin-directed wrestling drama features Jeremy Allen White, Zac Efron, and Harris Dickinson as the Von Erich brothers, an unforgettable trio in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling. EW recently teamed up with the triumvirate for a stylish cover shoot that’s sure to have you craving biscuits and smelling the sweat of a hard day’s work.

Here’s the official synopsis for The Iron Claw:

The true story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who made history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s. Through tragedy and triumph, under the shadow of their domineering father and coach, the brothers seek larger-than-life immortality on the biggest stage in sports.

Not long ago, an award-winning Polish composer who’d scored dozens of films approached Ula Śniegowska about U.S. in Progress, an industry event conceived as a bridge between the Polish and American markets that runs parallel to the American Film Festival in Wrocław, Poland.

“He approached me saying, ‘I’ve done enough in the Polish market. I need an introduction to the international market. Can you, as U.S. in Progress, help me?’” Śniegowska recalls. “It seems we are a perfect matchmaker for those types of companies to have their work exposed in the U.S.”

Celebrating its 13th edition, U.S. in Progress was launched as a showcase for emerging independent American filmmakers. Each year, the event presents a curated selection of American indie titles in the final stages of production to European sales agents, distributors and festival programmers. This year’s edition takes place Nov. 8 – 10.

Since its inception,...

For months now, we've been seeing paparazzi photos of Zac Efron looking extremely beefy with a silly haircut, and hearing reports about "The Bear" star Jeremy Allen White's "gross" diet in preparation for the new A24 film, "The Iron Claw." For outsiders looking in, "The Iron Claw" looks like a wrestling drama, and many are thrilled to see the pair of actors step into the squared circle of muscle ballet. However, the average Joe's opinion of wrestling is rooted in the heyday of Hulkamania, the Attitude Era of the late '90s, or through crossover stars who have since become actors. Here's the thing: It's really cool that Allen and Efron are going to be in a wrestling movie, but if you're anticipating something like the extremely fun "Fighting With My Family" starring Florence Pugh or the deeply moving biopic "Cassandro" starring Gael García Bernal ... you're in for a hell of a rude awakening.

Cassandro, Amazon Prime Video's upcoming biopic, tells the inspiring story of Saul Amerndariz, a Mexican wrestler who faced controversy as one of the first openly gay wrestlers. Gael Garcia Bernal leads the cast in this touching biopic that explores Cassandro's journey from a young wrestler to an exótico who wrestled in drag. The film, directed by Roger Ross Williams, delves into the world of wrestling and addresses the themes of identity, acceptance, and the challenges faced by Cassandro.

The adventures of Saul Amerndariz come to life in the first trailer for Cassandro, Amazon Prime Video's upcoming biopic, Cassandro, starring Gael Garcia Bernal, that will dive deep into the world of wrestling and one of the men that changed it. Born and raised in El Paso, Texas, Amerndariz spent a lot of time in Chihuahua, his family's hometown in Mexico. There, he developed his love for wrestling. At the age of...

A24 finally sets a release date for the upcoming sport drama The Iron Claw, directed by Sean Durkin (Martha Marcy May Marlene), who also wrote the script for the film that's going to tell the tragic story of the Von Erich family.

After dominating last year's award season thanks to movies like Everything Everywhere All At Once, The Whale or Aftersun, A24 wants to keep taking people to theaters, offering the audience all kind of stories starring big names within the industry. That's why High School Musical alum Zac Efron and The Bear break out Jeremy Allen White get together in The Iron Claw, coming to theaters on December 22.

With the announcement of the release date for the film, which will have to face the difficult task of competing with some major blockbusters such as Aquaman and the Lost Kindgom and The Color Purple, A24 also released a new image...

The winter holiday film niche has always been a uniquely popular one, with an array of heartwarming tales that bring families together on and off-screen for plenty of laughs and endearing moments. While we're just now getting into the summertime with some of the year's biggest blockbusters right around the corner, per a report from Deadline, a new holiday feature is already on the docket. Filming has reportedly wrapped on the upcoming holiday indie flick Christmas Eve In Miller's Point, with Michael Cera and several other notable actors rounding out the cast.

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Christmas Eve In Miller's Point is a Christmas comedy helmed by Tyler Taormina, whose previous work in the indie scene includes mystery dramas Ham on Rye (2019) and Happer's Comet (2022). He's co-writing the project with frequent collaborators Kevin Anton and Eric Berger, and co-producing alongside lead actor Michael Cera,...

We’ll be getting some American indie holiday cheer via Ham on Rye / and the just released Happer’s Comet helmer Tyler Taormina sometime next year. Deadline reports that production is now complete on a comedy titled Long Island on Christmas Eve In Miller’s Point – a project that stars Michael Cera, Elsie Fisher, Maria Dizzia, Francesca Scorsese, Ben Shenkman, Gregg Turkington, Sawyer Spielberg, and newcomer Matilda Fleming. Producers included Cera, Krista Minto, Taormina, David Croley Broyles and Duncan Sullivan. The executive producers are Jeremy Gardner, Joseph Lipsey IV, Brock Pierce and Jason Stone.

Written by Taormina, Eric Berger and Kevin Anton, the film watches as four generations of the Balsano family gather for what may be the last Christmas in the family home.…...

Oscar winner Rachel Weisz, and Rachel Weisz, dominated Canneseries on Saturday, as the audience gathered at the Lumière Auditorium in Cannes broke into spontaneous applause after the first scene of her new show “Dead Ringers.”

Premiering in main competition, the six-episode limited Prime Video series – created by Alice Birch – played with the viewers’ emotions all throughout its first two episodes, eliciting frequent laughs and delivering more expletives than Logan Roy monologues, but also causing a few walk-outs, seemingly provoked by its detailed depictions of childbirth and medical procedures.

“Dead Ringers” sees Rachel Weisz play twin sisters Beverly and Elliot.

A brand new take on the novel “Twins” by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland, later adapted by David Cronenberg in 1988 and starring Jeremy Irons, “Dead Ringers” sees Weisz as ambitious New York obstetricians – and twin sisters – Beverly and Elliot.

Introduced while verbally destroying an especially clumsy suitor they viciously nickname as...

Rites-of-passage comedy centres on bizarre ceremony at local delicatessen.

New York-based Factory 25 has acquired worldwide rights to Tyler Taormina’s Locarno Film Festival selection and coming-of-age comedy Ham On Rye.

Taormina’s feature directorial debut explores a suburban community where the fate of teenagers’ lives hinges on a bizarre ritual that takes place in the local deli. The film received its international premiere in Locarno on Aug. 10.

Haley Bodell, Cole Devine, Audrey Boos, Gabriella Herrera, and Adam Torres lead an ensemble of more than 100 performers, including non-actors, musicians, and Nickelodeon child stars from the 1990s.

Taormina wrote the screenplay...