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Neon released the teaser trailer for the forthcoming film Together today. The film stars Alison Brie and Dave Franco and will be released in theaters on August 1, 2025.

Synopsis: A couple’s move to the countryside triggers a supernatural incident that drastically alters their relationship, existence, and physical form.

Alison Brie and Dave Franco in “Together.” Photo by Courtesy of 1.21 – © 1.21.

About The Film

Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi Starring: Alison Brie, Dave Franco, Damon Herriman Director: Michael Shanks Screenplay: Michael Shanks Produced by: Alison Brie, Dave Franco, Erik Feig, Julia Hammer, Tim Headington, Max Silva, Andrew Mittman, Mike Cowap

Together is only in theaters on August 1, 2025!

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Neon has released the trailer for the highly anticipated body horror film Together, which will open in theaters on August 1, 2025. The film premiered in the Midnight section of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival on January 26.

Years into their relationship, Tim and Millie (Dave Franco and Alison Brie) find themselves at a crossroads as they move to the country, abandoning all that is familiar in their lives except each other. With tensions already flaring, a nightmarish encounter with a mysterious, unnatural force threatens to corrupt their lives, their love, and their flesh.

Michael Shanks wrote and directed the film. In addition to Dave Franco and Alison Brie, Together stars Damon Herriman as Jamie. 30West, Tango Entertainment, and Picturestart produced and financed the film.

The producers include Mike Cowap, Andrew Mittman, Erik Feig, Julia Hammer, Tim Headington, Max Silva, Alison Brie, and Dave Franco. Emma Fitzsimons, Laura Waters, Kai Dolbashian, Micah Green, Daniel Steinman,...

Dave Franco and Alison Brie have collaborated onscreen with a slew of projects, but in body-horror satire “Together,” the real-life partners put their relationship to the test.

Written and directed by Michael Shanks, “Together” stars Franco and Brie as Tim and Millie, a couple who relocate across the country and find themselves more reliant on each other than ever. The twist? Tim physically cannot be away from Millie, and the confounding sickness seems to be rotting him inside out.

The official synopsis reads: “Years into their relationship, Tim and Millie (Franco and Brie) find themselves at a crossroads as they move to the country. Abandoning all that is familiar in their lives except each other. With tensions already flaring, a nightmarish encounter with a mysterious, unnatural force threatens to corrupt their lives, their love, and their flesh.” Damon Herriman co-stars.

“Together” debuted at Sundance, where the indie was acquired by Neon.

Dave Franco and Alison Brie are dealing with something much darker than just relationship drama in the newly released trailer for Together.

The footage, set to a peaceful piano melody, depicts something quite less tranquil than its respective music as the body horror romance sees the couple being put to the test by a mysterious, unnatural force, leading to the ultimate nightmare.

“I love you,” a weathered Franco says at the end of the trailer released Wednesday, to which a tearful Brie responds, “I love you too.”

“Years into their relationship, Tim (Franco) and Millie (Brie) find themselves at a crossroads as they move to the country. Abandoning, all that is familiar in their lives except each other. With tensions already flaring, a nightmarish encounter with a mysterious, unnatural force threatens to corrupt their lives, their love and their flesh,” the film’s official logline reads.

The movie was written and directed by Michael Shanks,...

The 2025 Sundance Film Festival was largely seen as a mutated affair, with a line-up focused on discovery over commerciality. But for producer-financier Tango Entertainment, where credits run the gamut from Oscar-nominated Aftersun to Weird Al Yankovic movie Weird, and its head Lia Buman, the festival was particularly notable.

With three films in the line-up, Tango landed the most moneyed deal to date out of Sundance, when Together, the supernatural horror starring Alison Brie and Dave Franco, sold to Neon for a reported $17 million. Another title, Sorry, Baby, the directorial debut from Eva Victor, became one of the best reviewed movies of the festival and landed distribution with A24. And then there was the Chloe Sevigny starrer Magic Farm, which was acquired by Mubi ahead of the fest.

At a time in the industry, in particular in independent production, when market forces are causing many to pull back, the six-person team at Tango doubled down,...

Sony Pictures Classics has released the official poster for the forthcoming film On Swift Horses, which will be in theater this April! Check out the poster below!

Synopsis: Muriel and her husband Lee are beginning a bright new life in California when he returns from the Korean War. But their newfound stability is upended by the arrival of Lee’s charismatic brother, Julius, a wayward gambler with a secret past. A dangerous love triangle quickly forms. When Julius takes off in search of the young card cheat he’s fallen for, Muriel’s longing for something more propels her into a secret life of her own, gambling on racehorses and exploring a love she never dreamed possible.

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Genre: Drama Starring: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Jacob Elordi, Will Poulter, Diego Calva, Sasha Calle Director: Daniel Minahan Screenplay: Bryce Kass Produced by: Mollye Asher, Michael D’Alto, Tim Headington, Daniel Minahan, Theresa Steele Page,...

Several months ago, we heard that production had wrapped on an A24 project called Death of a Unicorn (it originally had an E at the end its title), which stars Paul Rudd (Ant-Man franchise) and Jenna Ortega (Wednesday), was executive produced by Hereditary/Midsommar/Beau Is Afraid director Ari Aster. We’re anxious to see how this one has turned out – and thankfully, we don’t have much longer to wait. A24 will be giving Death of a Unicorn a theatrical release on March 28th. With one month to go until that date arrives, a new trailer for the film has dropped online and can be seen in the embed above.

Said to be a dark comedy, Death of a Unicorn marks the feature debut of writer/director Alex Scharfman, who co-founded the production company Secret Engine and has produced films like Blow the Man Down and Resurrection. The story...

Mubi, the distributor behind The Substance and Queer, has picked up the highly anticipated gay romance drama The History of Sound for North America. Meanwhile, Focus Features and Universal Pictures International (Upi) have secured the film’s international rights.

Directed by Oliver Hermanus, the movie wrapped production earlier this year and is set for a theatrical release in 2025 after a yet-to-be-announced world premiere.

Originally announced in 2021, The History of Sound was the first project Paul Mescal filmed after Gladiator II. The movie follows Lionel (Mescal) and David (Josh O’Connor), two young men living in the aftermath of World War I, who set out to record the voices, music, and stories of Americans. As their journey unfolds, the two fall in love.

The film is based on Ben Shattuck’s award-winning short story, which he adapted into the screenplay. Mescal is also an executive producer, marking his first production credit.

The...

“The Substance” and “Queer” distributor Mubi is continuing its acquisition streak, picking up “The History of Sound,” the anticipated gay romance drama starring Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor, for North America. Focus Features and Universal Pictures International, meanwhile, have acquired international rights for the film.

Directed by Oliver Hermanus, the feature finished production earlier this year. Mubi says it’s planning a theatrical release for 2025, following a world premiere to be announced in the coming months.

Announced back in 2021, “The History of Sound” became the first project Mescal shot after his starring role in “Gladiator II” and follows two young men, Lionel (Mescal) and David (O’Connor), in the shadows of WWI who are determined to record the lives, voices and music of Americans. As they begin to log the events, the two fall in love.

The film was penned by Ben Shattuck, adapted from his own award-winning short story.

Following its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival last year, where it was acquired by Sony Pictures Classics, Daniel Minahan’s adaptation of Shannon Pufahl’s 2019 novel “On Swift Horses” will be released in the U.S. on April 25, 2025.

The film is set during the 1950s and stars Will Poulter as a returning Korean War vet, Lee, who decides to make a new life for himself and his wife, Muriel (Daisy Edgar-Jones), in California. This plan is challenged when Lee’s brother, Julius (Jacob Elordi) — also a vet — decides to join them out west. As Lee and Muriel explore parts of themselves they’d kept hidden, their lives become the kind of gamble both can’t seem to let go of. Watch the new trailer for the film below.

In our review out of TIFF, IndieWire wrote of the film, “‘On Swift Horses’ is a stunning tableau of almost-romances,...

One of the hottest sales titles at TIFF 2024 is finally hitting theaters. Sony Pictures Classics will release “On Swift Horses,” the period war drama and romance from director Daniel Minahan this April, after it closes out the SXSW Film & TV Festival next month.

“On Swift Horses” features a cast that’s as buzzy as it gets with Jacob Elordi, Daisy Edgar-Jones, and Will Poulter, and is based on a novel by Shannon Pufahl with a screenplay by Bryce Kass. The film also stars Sasha Calle and Diego Calva.

The film follows Muriel and her husband Lee as they are beginning a bright new life in California upon Lee’s return from the Korean War. But their newfound stability is upended by the arrival of Lee’s charismatic brother, Julius, a wayward gambler with a secret past. A dangerous love triangle quickly forms. When Julius takes off in search of the...

In the wake of news that On Swift Horses is closing SXSW, Sony Pictures Classics has set an April 25 theatrical release for the Jacob Elordi and Daisy Edgar-Jones drama.

Based on the novel by Shannon Pufahl, the film is directed by Daniel Minahan (Deadwood: The Movie) and follows Muriel and her husband Lee as they are beginning a bright new life in California upon Lee’s return from the Korean War. But their newfound stability is upended by the arrival of Lee’s charismatic brother, Julius, a wayward gambler with a secret past. A dangerous love triangle quickly forms. When Julius takes off in search of the young card cheat he’s fallen for, Muriel’s longing for something more propels her into a secret life of her own, gambling on racehorses and exploring a love she never dreamed possible. Will Poulter, Sasha Calle and Diego Calva also star.

The...

The highly-anticipated Daisy Edgar-Jones and Jacob Elordi romance “On Swift Horses” will make its U.S. premiere at the 2025 SXSW Film & TV Festival. The film’s start marks the festival’s end.

IndieWire can announce that the epic from “Fellow Travelers” director Daniel Minahan is the Closing Night feature for SXSW. As previously confirmed, “Another Simple Favor” will make its world premiere as the Opening Night selection; Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s Apple TV+ series “The Studio” is the Opening Night TV premiere. Check out the full SXSW Film & TV Festival lineup here.

“On Swift Horses” stars Elordi as veteran Julius, who upends his brother’s (Will Poulter) newlywed bliss after he returns from the Korean War, as his appearance sparks something unexpected in his new sister-in-law (Edgar-Jones). “On Swift Horses” is based on the 2019 novel by Shannon Pufahl, and Bryce Kass adapted the novel for the screen.

“On Swift Horses...

South by Southwest has rounded out its film lineup for the 2025 edition, while also announcing that Daniel Minahan’s On Swift Horses will close the Film & TV Festival in its U.S. premiere.

Daisy Edgar-Jones, Jacob Elordi and Will Poulter starring movie follows Muriel (Edgar-Jones) and her husband Lee (Poulter) as they are about to begin a bright new life, which is upended by the arrival of Lee’s brother. Muriel embarks on a secret life, gambling on racehorses and discovering a love she never thought possible. The Sony Pictures Classics romance also features Diego Calva and Sasha Calle. Pic was produced by Peter Spears, Daniel Minahan, Tim Headington, Mollye Asher, Theresa Steele Page, Michael D’Alto and written by Bryce Kass. On Swift Horses made its world premiere at TIFF back in September.

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Making its world premiere is Jillian Bell’s feature directorial debut Summer of 69 which the...

A24 is closing on Eva Victor’s Sundance hit Sorry, Baby, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed on Sunday.

Victor’s film — which she wrote, directed and starred in — tells the story of a college professor recovering from sexual assault. Per the logline, “Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on… for everyone around her, at least.”

A24 noted that bidding was an incredibly competitive situation, but that the studio is closing on acquiring worldwide rights to the movie. The final price tag is still unknown.

Naomi Ackie, Lucas Hedges, John Carroll Lynch, Louis Cancelmi and Kelly McCormack co-star, with Moonlight‘s Barry Jenkins, Adele Romanski and Mark Ceryak as producers. The movie took home Sundance’s Waldo Salt Award for Screenwriting, and earned a 100 percent critics score on Rotten Tomatoes. THR’s Jon Frosch called it “a winning, at times strikingly strong big-screen debut.”

The film also landed on THR...

Sexual violence in film has often been framed in stark binaries — stories of victims and villains, of clear crimes and easy resolutions. But real life is rarely so simple. Eva Victor’s Sorry, Baby, produced by Barry Jenkins, exists in the gray spaces, the moments after, the time lost, the things that are never said out loud but press into every interaction. This is a film about aftermaths, not just of sexual assault, but of friendship, ambition, and the quiet, bureaucratic violence of institutions that fail women in their most vulnerable moments.

Victor, who writes, directs, and stars as Agnes, crafts a film that is both structurally unconventional and emotionally raw. Told in a series of vignettes with titles like “The Year with the Baby,” “The Year with the Bad Thing,” and “The Year with the Good Sandwich,” Sorry, Baby understands trauma as something nonlinear, moving in fits and starts,...

As Sundance Film Festival kicks off, the next major American film festival has unveiled its lineup. SXSW 2025’s slate includes the premieres of the latest films from Michael Bay, Chad Hartigan, Flying Lotus, Mimi Cave, Jay Duplass, Babak Anvari, Rodney Ascher, and more. But first, last year’s SXSW winner of the Grand Jury Award and Audience Award in the Narrative Feature categories, Tracie Laymon’s Bob Trevino Likes It, will arrive on March 21 and Roadside Attractions has unveiled the first trailer.

John Fink said in his review, “A crowd-pleasing film inspired by director Tracie Laymon’s experience talking with a stranger online at a low point in her life, Bob Trevino Likes It is a moving story that proves good people do exist in this world. With two wonderful performances by Barbie Ferreira and John Leguizamo––playing two strangers who share the same last name but are otherwise unrelated...

This year’s SXSW Film Festival, taking place in Austin, TX, has unveiled its lineup this afternoon and it’s another insanely packed year for horror premieres.

While the Midnighter section is dedicated to the genre lovers, SXSW 2025 has filled its Headliner section and beyond with buzzy, highly anticipated titles including Flying Lotus‘s sci-fi horror movie Ash, Christopher Landon‘s ode to Brian De Palma in Drop, and A24’s Death of a Unicorn. Also look for Clown in a Cornfield, the film adaptation of Adam Cesare’s YA slasher novel.

Read on for the genre titles included in SXSW 2025’s lineup, and stay tuned for additional programming announcements.

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Big names, big talent featuring red carpet premieres and gala film events with major and rising names in cinema.

Ash

Director: Flying Lotus, Producers: Nate Bolotin, Matthew Metcalfe, Screenwriter: Jonni Remmler

A woman wakes up on a distant planet...

The South by Southwest Conference and Festivals is nearly upon us. And today the festival revealed the lineup for its highly anticipated 32nd edition. Among the titles in this year’s festival include Ben Affleck sequel “The Accountant 2,” A24’s “Death of a Unicorn,” and an opening night screening of Seth Rogen’s new Apple TV+ series “The Studio” — “alongside a broad slate of Feature Films, TV projects, and Xr Experiences” (according to the official release).

Additionally, Christopher Landon’s new Blumhouse thriller “Drop” and Mimi Cave’s “Holland” will also mark festival outings this year.

SXSW is happening from March 7–March 15 in Austin, Texas. See the full lineup below.

Opening Night TV Premiere

The 2025 SXSW Film & TV Festival’s Opening Night TV Premiere is the eagerly anticipated Apple TV+ “The Studio,” starring Seth Rogen, who also serves as writer, director and executive producer alongside Emmy Award nominee Evan Goldberg.

The SXSW Film & TV Festival has unveiled the lineup for its 32nd edition, kicking off with the premiere of Apple TV+’s show biz comedy The Studio.

Co-created by and starring Seth Rogen, The Studio follows a legacy Hollywood movie studio striving to survive in a world where it is increasingly difficult for art and business to live together. The show is set to unveil its first two episodes on March 26.

At this year’s festival, films to look out for in the Headliner section include Amazon’s Ben Affleck starrer The Accountant 2, A24’s Death of a Unicorn starring Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega, Blumhouse’s horror pic Drop, and the Nicole Kidman thriller Holland from Amazon. Other notable titles screening include Searchlight’s musical drama O’Dessa starring Sadie Sink, Regina Hall and Kelvin Harrison Jr.; The Astronaut starring Kate Mara, Laurence Fishburne and Gabriel Luna...

The lineup for the SXSW film and TV festival has been announced with new projects from Seth Rogen, Ben Affleck, Jenn Ortega and Nicole Kidman set to premiere at the Austin fest.

Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s Hollywood-set comedy series The Studio will kick off SXSW as the opening night TV screening. Rogen stars as the newly appointed head of an embattled studio as he and his executives struggle to make their movies relevant.

“The same undeniable creative electricity in The Studio runs through our 2025 program — you can feel a bit of magic happening in every film, series, and immersive experience we’ve curated this year,” said festival head Claudette Godfrey. “From groundbreaking independent films to unforgettable studio premieres and documentary revelations to genre-defying experiments, this lineup celebrates the fearless storytellers who make SXSW so unique.”

Elsewhere in the Headliner lineup is Affleck’s The Accountant 2, the sequel to...

Thirteen months ago, we heard that production had wrapped on an A24 project called Death of a Unicorn (it originally had an E at the end its title), which stars Paul Rudd (Ant-Man franchise) and Jenna Ortega (Wednesday), was executive produced by Hereditary/Midsommar/Beau Is Afraid director Ari Aster, and boasts a score composed by the legendary John Carpenter, along with his collaborators Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies. We’re anxious to see how this one has turned out – and thankfully, we don’t have much longer to wait. A24 will be giving Death of a Unicorn a theatrical release in the spring of 2025, and today they have unveiled a trailer for the film. You can check it out in the embed above.

Said to be a dark comedy, Death of a Unicorn marks the feature debut of writer/director Alex Scharfman, who co-founded the production company Secret Engine...

Jenna Ortega and Paul Rudd make an unusual discovery in the trailer for the A24 movie Death of a Unicorn.

Writer-director Alex Scharfman’s feature is set to hit theaters in the spring. Will Poulter, Téa Leoni, Richard E. Grant, Anthony Carrigan, Sunita Mani and Jessica Hynes round out the cast.

Death of a Unicorn centers on a father (Rudd) and daughter (Ortega) who are headed to a weekend getaway with his billionaire boss (Grant) when the pair strike a unicorn with their car. Complications ensue when the boss realizes that the unicorn gives miraculous benefits.

“I think we know exactly what it is,” Ortega says as the group gathers around the animal. “It’s a fucking unicorn.”

When Poulter’s character learns that the unicorn appears to help cure cancer, he replies, “Cancer? That’s the biggest one.”

Ortega later implores, “Dad, please just listen to me. We need...

Thirteen months ago, we heard that production had wrapped on an A24 project called Death of a Unicorn (it originally had an E at the end its title), which stars Paul Rudd (Ant-Man franchise) and Jenna Ortega (Wednesday), was executive produced by Hereditary/Midsommar/Beau Is Afraid director Ari Aster, and boasts a score composed by the legendary John Carpenter, along with his collaborators Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies. The movie is set to be released sometime in the spring of 2025, and today a poster for Death of a Unicorn has arrived online, along with the promise that a trailer will be dropping tomorrow. You can check out the poster at the bottom of this article.

Said to be a dark comedy, Death of a Unicorne marks the feature debut of writer/director Alex Scharfman, who co-founded the production company Secret Engine and has produced films like Blow the Man Down and Resurrection.

A24 has unveiled the new Death of a Unicorn poster, a dark comedy formerly titled Death of a Unicorne, ahead of the trailer reveal tomorrow.

The dark comedy, according to the poster below, will arrive in Spring 2025.

Death of a Unicorn stars Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega (Scream, X, “Wednesday”). But the talent doesn’t stop there. Not only is the dark comedy produced by Ari Aster (Beau is Afraid, Misommar), but horror master John Carpenter will compose music for the film.

In Death of a Unicorn, “A father (Rudd) and daughter (Ortega) accidentally hit and kill a unicorn while en route to a weekend retreat, where his billionaire boss (Richard Grant) seeks to exploit the creature’s miraculous curative properties.”

It marks writer/director Alex Scharfman’s directorial debut. The film also stars Téa Leoni (Jurassic Park III, Spanglish), Will Poulter (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3), Anthony Carrigan (Bill & Ted Face the Music,...

United States Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will make her Broadway debut – you read that right – with a one-night-only walk-on role in & Juliet, the hit musical comedy in which the female half of Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers survives the Bard’s bloody end and takes a newfound control of her own life.

& Juliet producers say the special appearance will happen during the 8 p.m. show on Saturday, December 14. Immediately following the show, audience members can stay for a talkback with the Justice.

A new ensemble role has been created specifically for Jackson.

In her new memoir Lovely One, Jackson writes about her early love of theater: “I, a Miami girl from a modest background with an unabashed love of theater, dreamed of one day ascending to the highest court in the land—and I had said so in one of my supplemental application essays [to Harvard]. I expressed that I...

TV heartthrob, indie film hero, savior of Rome and now … producer.

Paul Mescal may be Hollywood’s newest blockbuster leading man thanks to Ridley Scott’s epic sequel “Gladiator II,” but the young Irish actor is already taking his first steps behind the camera.

On “The History of Sound,” the LGBTQ romance drama announced back in 2021 in which he stars alongside Josh O’Connor, Variety can reveal that Mescal also serves as exec producer, marking his first production credit.

The film — which finished production earlier this year and was the first project Mescal shot after “Gladiator II” — is directed by Oliver Hermanus from a screenplay by Ben Shattuck, adapted from Shattuck’s award-winning short story. Mescal has been involved as an exec producer from the outset.

Now in post-production, “The History of Sound” follows two young men — Lionel (Mescal) and David (O’Connor) — in the shadows of WWI who are determined to record the lives,...

Former Nsync member Joey Fatone is returning to Broadway for the first time in two decades as part of the cast of & Juliet, the musical comedy “sequel” to Romeo and Juliet featuring the songs of Max Martin, the record producer and writer who just happened to have worked with Nsync way back when.

Fatone will play the role of Lance beginning January 21, 2025. He’ll play a limited 9-week engagement in & Juliet through March 16, 2025, taking over the role from Tony Award-winner (and original Broadway cast member) Paulo Szot.

“I’m excited that I’ll be joining the cast of & Juliet!,” Fatone said in a statement. “I can’t wait to get out there and sing Max Martin’s amazing songs – his hits have shaped so much of pop music. And yes, I know I’ll even be singing a couple of Backstreet Boys songs. Even though my loyalty remains with Nsync,...

The feature debut of renowned music video director Colin Tilley will be shopped at the upcoming American Film Market.

“Eye for an Eye,” a sinister revenge horror set in the marshlands of Florida and starring Whitney Peak, is being launched at the market by HanWay Films, which is repping international rights. WME Independent is handling domestic sales.

Alongside Peak, S. Epatha Merkerson also stars, while the additional cast includes Golda Rosheuvel, Finn Bennett and newcomer Laken Giles. Casting was handled by Jenny Jue. The script was penned by writer and artist Elisa Victoria, who specializes in classic folklore and pop ephemera, adapted from one of her own graphic novels “Mr. Sandman.”

“Eye for an Eye” follows Anna (Peak), a young woman grieving the sudden death of her parents who relocates from New York to a small Florida town to live with the grandmother (Merkerson) she’s never met. Isolated, vulnerable and in need of friends,...

As deals continue to trickle in from last month’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Sony Pictures Classics said it has acquired North America and multiple territories to the drama On Swift Horses starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Jacob Elordi.

The company has also taken Latin America, Turkey, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia, India, Italy, Australia and New Zealand.

Daniel Minahan directed from Bryce Kass’s adaptation of the novel by Shannon Pufahl. Edgar-Jones plays Muriel, who along with her husband Lee (Will Poulter) starts a new life in the American West after Lee returns from the Korean War.

Their apparent...

As deals continue to trickle in from last month’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Sony Pictures Classics said it has acquired North America and multiple territories to the drama On Swift Horses starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Jacob Elordi.

The company has also taken Latin America, Turkey, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia, India, Italy, Australia and New Zealand.

Daniel Minahan directed from Bryce Kass’s adaptation of the novel by Shannon Pufahl. Edgar-Jones plays Muriel, who along with her husband Lee (Will Poulter) starts a new life in the American West after Lee returns from the Korean War.

Their apparent...

The young cast of On Swift Horses lit up the Toronto International Film Festival red carpet on Saturday for the movie’s world premiere.

Jacob Elordi, Daisy Edgar-Jones and director Daniel Minahan were in attendance at the Princess of Wales Theatre to debut their noir-ish queer love story from screenwriter Bryce Kass, based on the Shannon Pufahl novel of the same name.

Also walking the red carpet were co-stars Sasha Calle, Diego Calva, Will Poulter and Kat Cunning.

Set in the 1950s, Edgar-Jones stars as Muriel, who sets off to California with husband Lee (Poulter) to begin a new life following his return from the Korean War. But when Lee’s brother Julius (Elordi) visits, he opens Muriel up to the world of gambling and a love she never expected.

Produced by Peter Spears, Daniel Minahan, Tim Headington, Mollye Asher, Theresa Steele Page and Michael D’Alto, On Swift Horses is looking for distribution.

It is the Eisenhower era, a time of post-war promise in California, a place for new beginnings and new love. Into this setting, Shannon Pufahl placed her debut novel On Swift Horses, which was a prize winner for lesbian fiction, but in the movie version, this becomes a more complicated romantic drama, mixed with gambling, noir-ish tones, horse racing and a complex love triangle that don’t all mesh as well as they might, but give this attractive and talented cast an “A” for trying to make it all plausible.

Lee (Will Poulter), an agreeable guy has come home from the Korean War to settle down and start a dream kind of family life with his wife Muriel (Daisy Edgar-Jones), and for a short while, all seems just fine until Lee’s wayward brother Julius enters the picture after some time on the road. Lee’s hope is they all...

Summer’s over. Looks like it’s time to get back to work. And by work, we mean some serious movie watching. Luckily September doesn’t disappoint. We have everything from the highly-anticipated Megaopolis, the self-funded opus from Francis Ford Coppola, to the star-studded Netflix affair His Three Daughters, to the return of the king of tight, gnarly thrillers, Jeremy Saulnier, with his new one, Rebel Ridge. Oh, and a doc about psychics from a Fast-Track alum, with Lana Wilson’s Look Into My Eyes. Looks like the fall is shaping up to be quite the movie season. Now get out there and start watching!

A Different Man

When You Can Watch: September 20

Where You Can Watch: Theaters (Limited)

Director: Aaron Schimberg

Cast: Sebastian Stan, Renate Reinsve, Adam Pearson

Why We’re Excited: Yet another selection in this month’s Film Independent Presents series, writer-director Schimberg’s latest offering is...

Jacob Elordi is pulling double duty at TIFF 2024 with two period pieces, but only one steamy love triangle.

Elordi stars in both “Oh, Canada” and “On Swift Horses,” the latter of which just debuted its long-awaited first look. “On Swift Horses” also stars Daisy Edgar-Jones, Diego Calva, Will Poulter, and Sasha Calle. The film is directed by “Game Of Thrones,” “House of Cards,” and “Six Feet Under” helmer Daniel Minahan, and will make its world premiere at TIFF 2024 as a sales title.

“On Swift Horses” is based on the novel by Shannon Pufahl, and centers on newlyweds Muriel and Lee who are beginning a new life when he returns from the Korean War. Per the novel description, the couple’s stability is upended by the arrival of Lee’s charismatic younger brother, Julius, who is a wayward gambler with a secret. A dangerous love triangle is quickly formed, as the...

Tony Award nominee Betsy Wolfe, who originated the role of Anne Hathaway in the Broadway production of & Juliet, will play her final performance on October 20, she announced today on Instagram.

“I knew this day would eventually come and it would be a hard one. It is with a heavy, but full heart that I announce my final show at & Juliet will be October 20th, 2024,” she wrote.

“Playing Anne in & Juliet has been a lifelong dream come true. Before this show people would ask “what’s your favorite role” and I’d often say “it hasn’t been written yet.” Then I read the hilariously moving script by David West Read and the rest is history.

I perform every single night with a grateful heart knowing how blessed I am to play the incomparable Anne, alongside my amazing castmates, current and past, and for so long.

I’ve been a part...

Elizabeth Olsen, Natasha Lyonne and Carrie Coon revisit frayed relationships in the trailer for the Netflix drama film His Three Daughters.

Writer-director Azazel Jacobs’ feature is set to hit select theaters Sept. 6 and begin streaming Sept. 24 after premiering last year at the Toronto International Film Festival. Olsen, Lyonne and Coon co-star as the titular estranged sisters who reconnect in a Manhattan apartment to help their ailing father and aim to repair their tense connections with each other.

“It’s nice that it’s us,” Olsen tells her sisters about the three of them spending time together. “This is the way that it should be — the way he would want it.”

Later, when asked for help in writing their dad’s obituary, Lyonne quips, “Married a couple of crazy bitches, raised a few crazy bitches.”

Rounding out the cast are Jovan Adepo, Jay O. Sanders, Rudy Galvan, Jose Febus and Jasmine Bracey.

Netflix has released the official trailer and poster for His Three Daughters, the drama film written and directed by Azazel Jacobs. The movie has been rated R for language and drug use.

His Three Daughters premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 9, 2023. It will open in theaters on September 6, 2024, before launching on Netflix on September 20.

His Three Daughters is a bittersweet and often funny story of an elderly patriarch and the three grown daughters who come to be with him in his final days.

Katie (Carrie Coon) is a controlling Brooklyn mother dealing with a wayward teenage daughter; free-spirited Christina (Elizabeth Olsen) is a different kind of mom, separated from her offspring for the first time; and Rachel (Natasha Lyonne) is a sports-betting stoner who has never left her father’s apartment — much to the chagrin of her half-sisters, who share a different mother and worldview.

Continuing his...

Andrea Arnold’s Bird, Sandhya Suri’s Santosh and Karan Kandhari’s Sister Midnight are among the films to receive backing from the latest round of UK Global Screen Fund (Ukgsf) awards.

The BFI has made 19 additional awards totalling £527,563 through the £7m Ukgsf, which is financed by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (Dcms).

Cannes premieres Bird, Santosh and Sister Midnight all received international distribution awards via the festival launch track, which supports festival runs for UK films to reach global audiences.

The only film to receive an international distribution award via the prints and advertising support track in...

Andrea Arnold’s Bird, Sandhya Suri’s Santosh and Karan Kandhari’s Sister Midnight are among the films to receive backing from the latest round of UK Global Screen Fund (Ukgsf) awards.

The BFI has made 19 additional awards totalling £527,563 through the £7m Ukgsf, which is financed by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (Dcms).

Cannes premieres Bird, Santosh and Sister Midnight all received international distribution awards via the festival launch track, which supports festival runs for UK films to reach global audiences.

The only film to receive an international distribution award via the prints and advertising support track in...

Rising acclaimed filmmaker Shatara Michelle Ford has completed their highly anticipated sophomore feature, following their Indie Spirit- and Gothams-nominated debut “Test Pattern.” Ford (who uses they/she/their pronouns) will premiere their “Dreams in Nightmares” as the opening night film at this year’s BlackStar Film Festival on August 1.

Ford’s “Test Pattern,” a standout debut from 2019, also premiered at BlackStar that same year. The film was distributed by Kino Lorber and went on to be nominated for three Gotham Awards, including Best Picture and three Independent Spirit Awards, including Best First Feature. Billed by this writer as a “perceptive look at sexual assault and relationships,” Ford’s film was one of the finest of the year, and spelled the beginning of a very exciting career for the filmmaker.

Where as “Test Pattern” was, per today’s official announcement, “a tense thriller exploring the aftermath of a sexual assault...

The musical & Juliet announced the recoupment of its $17 million capitalization.

The show, which is a retelling of Romeo and Juliet set to a score of pop hits, recouped as of April 14, said producers Max Martin, Tim Headington, Theresa Steele Page, Jenny Petersson, Martin Dodd, and Eva Price. & Juliet opened at Broadway’s Stephen Sondheim Theatre on Nov. 17, 2022 and is the first new musical of the 2022-2023 season to announce recoupment.

The show has played 673 performances with an average capacity of 95.5 percent and an average paid ticket price of $144.44 across its run, according to the production, and maintained healthy grosses throughout its run.

The musical joins this season’s Merrily We Roll Along, An Enemy of the People and Gutenberg! The Musical in announcing recoupment. Musicals such as Six and Mj announced recoupment from the 2021-2022 season. However, it’s been a tough climate for many on Broadway as costs have...

& Juliet, the playful, pop-infused musical that gives Shakespeare’s lovestruck heroine a second chance at life, has recouped its $17 million capitalization, the first new musical of the 2022-23 to do so, and only the fourth new musical to become profitable since the Covid pandemic shutdown.

“We’re so proud to be part of a show that brings so much joy to so many people,” the producers of & Juliet said in a joint statement. “It’s exciting to be part of the theater industry’s continuing recovery, and join a growing list of musicals that have recouped post-pandemic, which is further proof that nothing compares to live theater and the shared experience of human connection. We’re thrilled to continue to share our story of second chances with audiences across the globe.”

The three other new musicals to recoup post-pandemic are Moulin Rouge, Six and Mj. When the Neil Diamond musical...

Exclusive: In advance of its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival, scheduled for June 6th, the supernatural horror film The Damned, marking the feature directorial debut of Thordur Palsson (The Valhalla Murders), has locked in North American distribution with Vertical. The film will be released later this year.

Written by Jamie Hannigan, The Damned follows Eva (Odessa Young), a 19th-century widow who is tasked with making an impossible choice when a ship sinks off the coast of her isolated fishing outpost during the middle of an especially cruel winter. With provisions running low, Eva and her close-knit community must choose between rescuing the shipwrecked crew and prioritizing their own survival. Facing the consequences of their decision and tormented by guilt, the inhabitants wrestle with a mounting sense of dread and begin to believe they are all being punished for their choices.

Pic’s cast also includes Joe Cole (Peaky Blinders...

Sony Pictures Classics announced on Wednesday that it will release Nathan Silver’s acclaimed comedy Between the Temples, starring Jason Schwartzman (Asteroid City) and Carol Kane (The Dead Don’t Die), in theaters nationwide on August 23.

The film will open against Zoë Kravitz’s debut feature Blink Twice (Amazon MGM Studios), the animated pic 200% Wolf (Viva Pictures), the remake of The Crow starring Bill Skarsgärd (Lionsgate), and the drama The Forge from Affirm Films.

Slated to make its New York debut at Tribeca in June, after playing both Sundance and Berlin to great reviews, Between the Temples follows Ben (Schwartzman), a forty-something cantor losing his voice and possibly his faith. Struggling to meet the expectations of his rabbi, congregation, and not one but two Jewish mothers (Caroline Aaron and Dolly de Leon), Ben finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as an adult bat mitzvah student.

The Berlin Film Festival was rocking Wednesday afternoon as Adam Sandler rolled into town with Spaceman, his latest feature for Netflix.

The Uncut Gems actor and his co-stars, including Carey Mulligan and Paul Dano, received buoyant rounds of applause as they entered the press conference for the film this afternoon in Berlin.

Adapted for the screen by Colby Day, the film is based on the novel Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfař, which was released in 2017. It picks up with Sandler’s astronaut Jakub six months into a solitary research mission to the edge of the solar system, as he realizes that the marriage he left behind might not be waiting for him when he returns to Earth. Desperate to fix things with his wife, Lenka (Mulligan), he is helped by a mysterious creature from the beginning of time, which he finds hiding in the bowels of his ship. Voiced...

Adam Sandler was faced with a new challenge on the set of his upcoming Netflix film “Spaceman”: using wires to appear like an astronaut floating in space. At the film’s Berlin Film Festival press conference on Wednesday, Sandler cheekily reflected on the experience, saying the “wires hurt me.”

“The wires were tough because my body’s not the most flexible body. The wires hurt me, they dug into me. The stuntmen who would wire me up every day, I would say ‘that hurts’ and they didn’t believe me,” Sandler said as the room erupted in laughter. “But we did it as a team. [Director] Johan [Renck] would say, ‘You don’t look like you’re floating, what are you doing?’ And then I would say, ‘Well, what should we do?’ And then they’d wire Johan up and he’d be like, ‘More like this!'”

Sandler stars in...

Over 60 films came into this year’s Sundance Film Festival looking for buyers, but many of the key players on the indie film market already had movies premiering in the festival, with many of those among the most commercial and star-studded movies making their debuts.

Last year’s market was slow, especially for documentaries, but this year’s festival market was nothing but robust in 2024. We’re tracking everything that already has a home and will update this space throughout the month with every sale that comes in.

“Good One”

Section: U.S. Dramatic

Director: India Donaldson

Buyer: Metrograph Pictures

Cast: Lily Collias, James Le Gros, Danny McCarthy

Release Plans: Theatrical in Summer 2024

Buzz: India Donaldson’s “Good One” will be the first title acquired by Metrograph Pictures, as the company known for its film restorations and SVOD platform is now getting into theatrical distribution. And they picked a good one too.

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired all rights worldwide to Between The Temples, the Sundance comedy that is set to make its international debut in the Panorama section of next week’s Berlin International Film Festival (February 16-24).

Directed by Nathan Silver and written by Silver and C Mason Wells, the film stars Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane in the story of a forty-something cantor whose world is disrupted when his school music teacher re-enters his life as an adult bat mitzvah student.

The film is produced by Tim Headington, Theresa Steele Page and Nate Kamiya for Ley Line Entertainment, Adam Kersh...

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired all rights worldwide to Between The Temples, the Sundance comedy that is set to make its international debut in the Panorama section of next week’s Berlin International Film Festival (February 16-24).

Directed by Nathan Silver and written by Silver and C Mason Wells, the film stars Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane in the story of a forty-something cantor whose world is disrupted when his school music teacher re-enters his life as an adult bat mitzvah student.

The film is produced by Tim Headington, Theresa Steele Page and Nate Kamiya for Ley Line Entertainment, Adam Kersh...