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Amazon MGM Studios is continuing to lock up its cast for the forthcoming comedy feature Judgment Day from director Nicholas Stoller.

Heidi Gardner and golfer Bobby Ray have joined the cast for the movie that is set to star Will Ferrell and Zac Efron. Other previously announced castmembers include Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Jimmy Tatro, Michael Peña, Fortune Feimster, Bill Camp, Billy Eichner, Tyler Lofton, Rachel Hilson, Rory Scovel, Bobby Cannavale and Regina Hall.

Judgment Day focuses on a young convict (Efron) who gets out of prison and takes an unscripted TV courtroom hostage, as he blames the egomaniacal judge (Ferrell) for the ruling that destroyed his life. Details regarding Gardner and Ray’s roles have not yet been shared for the movie that had previously been untitled. A release date has not been announced.

Stoller reunites with Amazon MGM after directing Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon for the studio’s You’re Cordially Invited,...

Despite having an integral role and a promising future in the ABC police procedural, Afton Williamson departed from The Rookie after season 1. The series debuted in 2018 with a premise following John Nolan (played by actor Nathan Fillion), a 45-year-old Pennsylvanian divorcee who pursues a new career as a police officer in the LAPD. His late occupation shift makes him the oldest rookie on the force, and The Rookie explores his determination to overcome ageist skepticism and the dangerously unpredictable nature of the job. In The Rookie season 1, Nolan courageously begins training in the LAPD's rookie program.

Under Afton Williamson's training officer, Talia Bishop, Nolan begins to learn the ropes and, at times, is allowed to take charge out on the field. Bishop is not only essential to Nolan's growth in the LAPD, but she also has important goals of her own - to rise in the ranks and eventually become Chief of Police.

Homes.com actress Heidi Gardner had a big moment in the Super Bowl Lvi commercials alongside Dan Levy, Lil Wayne, and Jeff Goldblum. Gardner, from Kansas City, took part in the ads with real pride, as a known supporter of her hometown sports teams and charity events. The Homes.com commercials featured stunning CGI, stunts, and celebrities, making them stand out during Super Bowl Lviii.

While many who saw the Super Bowl commercial will recognize Dan Levy, some may not know who Heidi Gardner, the Homes.com actress, is. Super Bowl Lviii took place on February 11, 2024, between the San Franciso 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs, with the Chiefs winning their third Super Bowl and taking over the NFL conversation now that Tom Brady and the Patriots saga has ended. Some people won't care at all about any of that, however, and are only interested in the Super Bowl Lviii commercials.

The LA film festival scene just got a bit brighter.

The Los Angeles Festival of Movies (Lafm), co-presented by Mubi and Mezzanine, announced the full lineup for its inaugural festival taking place April 4-7, 2024. The new festival will screen 11 titles including one world premiere, three 4K restorations, plus a featured artist talk, documentary series, and a curated short film program. Passes are currently on sale, and single film tickets go on sale March 14.

Per the festival’s organizers, Lafm was created to redefine Los Angeles as a destination for independent film. There are many film festivals in LA, primarily led by AFI Fest in the fall, but rarely do they make independent film their only focus.

The festival’s screenings will all take place at three recently opened venues on the east side of Los Angeles: Vidiots in Eagle Rock, 2220 Arts + Archives in Historic Filipinotown, and Now Instant Image Hall in Chinatown.

Settle into your binge-watching comfy clothes and fire up some popcorn, a new Netflix thriller series has arrived. Starring Michelle Monaghan as a pair of twins who have traded identities since childhood, “Echoes” builds a propulsive, twisty mystery.

It’s also got a cast full of recognizable faces alongside new discoveries — and with an overlapping triple-timeline narrative about two twins constantly pretending to be each other, you might need help keeping track of the characters too.

For a complete (and spoiler-free) guide to the cast and characters in Netflix’s “Echoes,” read on.

Michelle Monaghan as Gina and Leni Netflix

Michelle Monaghan pulls double duty in “Echoes” as twins Gina and Leni, who have swapped lives and identities (frequently) since childhood. However, when one of them goes missing, both lives quickly begin to unravel as long-hidden secrets and their tangled web of deception threatens to come to the surface. If...

Exclusive: Molly Bernard (Younger) has signed on to star in the indie Best Man Dead Man, marking the feature directorial debut of Verner Maldonado.

The film is set in the middle of nowhere, watching as a bachelor party turns into a night of murder and mystery when the best man ends up with a knife in his head. Friends quickly become suspects and only an eccentric, local private eye can solve the mystery. Everyone is asking the same thing: Who is the killer? And, more importantly, is it okay if we keep drinking?

Bernard will play Debra Carnegie, the lead detective with flowing red hair, purple trench coat, green umbrella, and personality to match it all. It’s as if David Bowie and a 1940s detective had a baby; a baby born to solve murders. David Gridley (The Last Ship), Ben Fernandez (Deputy), Jonny Cruz (Seis Manos), Dayana Rincon (The Last Ship...

Exclusive: Angela Bassett, the Oscar nominated What’s Love Got to Do With It actress, has boarded Netflix’s fantasy film Damsel, which also stars Millie Bobby Brown.

In the movie from Oscar nominated filmmaker Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, a princess is shocked to discover that she’ll be sacrificed to the kingdom’s sacred cave dragon, after being married to her prince charming. She must survive long enough until someone comes to save her – only no one is coming.

Bassett will play Lady Bayford in Damsel, the stepmother to Brown’s Elodie. Dan Mazeau wrote the movie. EPs are Brown for Pcma Productions, Mazeau, Zack Roth, Chris Castaldi and Sue Baden-Powell. Producers are Joe Roth and Jeff Kirschenbaum. Emily Wolfe is Co-producer.

Bassett recently shot Disney/Marvel’s highly anticipated sequel, Black Panther 2: Wakanda Forever. She was last seen in the Studio Canal feature, Gunpowder Milkshake, written and directed by Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado,...

Exclusive: HartBeat Productions, Kevin Hart’s production company, has made a round of promotions and new hires across its film and TV divisions.

Additionally, Hbp expands its corporate suite roster to bring on a COO, SVP of Finance & Operations and a co-ceo alongside Hart. As the company grows, the new leadership positions will help the company scale and produce content for mass global audiences.

Coming off the heels of Hart’s multi-picture feature film and first-look deal with Netflix, Hbp has hired two new executives to round out the film department and promoted two employees on the TV side to senior positions.

On the film side, Patricia Braga has joined the company as Hbp’s Senior Production Executive, while Wayne Horton joins as Senior Production & Development Executive. Both will report directly to HartBeat president Bryan Smiley.

HartBeat’s TV division has promoted Mike Stein to Head of Television, reporting directly to Smiley.

Exclusive: Emmy nominee Kate Mulgrew (Orange Is the New Black) is set for a recurring role on Showtime’s upcoming anthology series The First Lady (wt). Additionally, Oscar winner Cathy Schulman (Crash) has been named showrunner of the series starring Viola Davis, who also executive produces, Michelle Pfeiffer and Gillian Anderson. Susanne Bier (The Undoing) will direct and executive produce.

The First Lady (wt), created by Aaron Cooley and produced by Lionsgate TV and Showtime, is a revelatory reframing of American leadership, told through the lens of the women at the heart of the White House. Season 1 focuses on Eleanor Roosevelt (Anderson), Betty Ford (Pfeiffer) and Michelle Obama (Davis).

Mulgrew will play Susan Sher, a longtime friend of the Obamas who worked with Michelle in Chicago health care. Sher was originally hired as the President’s associate counsel but then rejoined Michelle Obama as her closest confidante and chief of staff.

Exclusive: Molly Bernard, known for her role as feisty publicist and social media guru Lauren Heller on Darren Star’s hit Paramount+ series Younger, has signed with APA for representation.

Bernard has starred as fan-favorite character Lauren since the beginning of the series, which is now wrapping up its seventh and final season on the ViacomCBS streaming service.

Bernard also stars in and serves as executive producer on the upcoming Milkwater, the heart-warming indie film that premiered at the Brooklyn Film Festival. She plays the lead role of Milo, a millennial in search of meaning in a film that explores the complexities and vulnerabilities of having children in a gay relationship.

Bernard’s other recent television credits include co-starring as medical student Elsa Curry on NBC’s Chicago Med, portraying the flashback version of Judith Light’s Shelly Pfefferman character on Amazon’s Transparent, a recurring role on Amazon’s Alpha House opposite John Goodman,...

Natalie Morales (“The Little Things”), Amy Landecker (“Transparent”) and Alice Lee (“Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist”) have been cast in TikTok star Sarah Cooper’s single-camera CBS comedy inspired by her book “How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men’s Feelings.” Cooper serves as co-writer and executive producer of the untitled project along with showrunner Cindy Chupack (“Otherhood”).

The pilot, which is described as a look into three women at different stages in their careers at a male-dominated company, hails from CBS Studios and PatMa Productions.

Morales is set to play Joanna, a conflict-averse, people-pleasing middle manager at small tech firm Lucent Muse. New hire Elyse (Lee) challenges her “go along to get along” career philosophy. She lives with her boyfriend of two years — a sweet, loyal guy who might be too sweet and loyal for her. In addition to starring, Morales will serve as a producer on the “Untitled Sarah Cooper/Cindy Chupack” pilot.

Exclusive: Sinqua Walls (American Soul) is set as a series regular in At That Age, NBC’s ensemble drama pilot from Carla Banks-Waddles, Malcolm D. Lee, Debra Martin Chase and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.

Created, directed and based on an original idea by Lee and written by Banks-Waddles, At That Age is an exploration of an African-American family’s legacy. After the Cooper family’s golden child suffers a catastrophic event, seven family members face a foundational shift, make life-altering decisions and deal with deep secrets coming to light.

Walls will play Layton Cooper, the youngest of the siblings. Rough around the edges, but still has the Cooper charm.

Banks-Waddles executive produces with Lee via his Blackmaled Productions, and Chase as part of her deal with Universal TV.

At That Age was ordered to pilot in January 2020, but put on hold due to the coronavirus-related production shutdown.

Anthony Mackie will produce and star in Netflix’s upcoming action-adventure “The Ogun” from producer Jason Michael Berman.

“The Ogun” centers on Mackie’s character Xavier Rhodes, who takes his teenage daughter to Nigeria to find a cure for the rare genetic condition that he passed on to her. When his daughter is kidnapped, Rhodes goes on a rampage through the criminal underworld to find her before it’s too late.

No director is yet attached to “The Ogun,” written by stuntman-turned-screenwriter Madison Turner. Turner previously set up his Blacklist script “The Liberators” at Warner Bros. with Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society and Safehouse Pictures attached. He is currently rewriting an adaptation of Ed Brubaker’s “Kill or Be Killed” for Thunder Road.

Berman is producing “The Ogun” for Mandalay Pictures. He and Mackie collaborated on the sci-fi drama “Io,” which starred Margaret Qualley, Mackie and Danny Huston, and...

Exclusive: In a competitive situation, CBS has given a script commitment with penalty to How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men’s Feelings, a single-camera comedy inspired by TikTok star Sarah Cooper’s book. The project hails from Cooper, Cindy Chupack (Sex and the City), Nina Tassler and Denise Di Novi’s PatMa Productions and CBS Television Studios.

Thanks to her breakout online video lip-sync impressions of President Donald Trump, Cooper has emerged as the “it” comedy talent of the moment. She just set her first comedy special at Netflix, which is slated to premiere this fall.

Co-written by Cooper and Chupack, How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men’s Feelings revolves around three women at different stages in their careers at a male-dominated company who help one another navigate modern gender politics in their careers and in their personal lives.

Cooper and Chupack, who also serves as showrunner, executive produce with PatMa’s Tassler,...

Exclusive: Multiple Grammy award-winning recording artist Alicia Keys is attached to produce a currently untitled Netlfix romantic comedy that explores the bonds of love and family. Christina Milian, Saturday Night Live alum Jay Pharoah, and Sinqua Walls will star in the film, which is being directed by Steven Tsuchida, who has directed episodes for Dear White People, Younger, and On My Block.

The script was co-written by Stella Meghie, Dana Schmalenberg and Rheeqrheeq Chainey. It centers around an aspiring pop star, Erica, who ends up as the entertainment at her ex-fiancé’s wedding after reluctantly taking a gig at a luxurious island resort while in the wake of a music career meltdown. She tries to keep their past relationship a secret from his bride-to-be Beverly, but Erica rediscovers her feelings for her ex, Jason, despite his brother Caleb’s attempts to keep them from falling back in love. The question...

Felicity Huffman plays a woman at her wits’ (and life’s) end in her new movie, Tammy’s Always Dying.

The Amy Jo Johnson-directed film stars the Desperate Housewives actress as the self-destructive and alcoholic mother Tammy to Anastasia Phillips’ grown (and fed-up) character, Catherine.

Their dysfunctional relationship only becomes more strained when Tammy is diagnosed with terminal cancer and is told she only has six to ten months left to live. The news forces Catherine to become her mother’s primary caretaker throughout Tammy’s last days.

“Taking care of me is the only thing you’ve ever been good at,...

Showtime has given a straight-to-series order to one-hour drama First Ladies, whose first season stars Viola Davis as former first lady Michelle Obama. Davis also executive produces the series, which was put on fast-track development at the premium cabler last August with a three-script commitment.

It hails from writer Aaron Cooley, Davis and Julius Tennon’s JuVee Productions, Cathy Schulman’s Welle Entertainment (Otherhood), Jeff Gaspin’s Gaspin Media (LA’s Finest) and Brad Kaplan (The Intruder). Showtime and Lionsgate TV co-produce.

Written by Cooley, First Ladies is set in the East Wing of the White House, where many of history’s most impactful and world-changing decisions have been hidden from view, made by America’s charismatic, complex and dynamic first ladies. The series will peel back the curtain on the personal and political lives of our most enigmatic heroes,...

The Golden Globes are known for being one of awards season’s best parties and after the broadcast wrapped, stars and executives were ready to loosen their bow ties, kick off their heels and celebrate.

Variety reporters and editors were inside all the best bashes to deliver what went down after everyone left the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles:

Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Official Viewing & After Party

Wilshire Garden

For all of the A-list guests buzzing about the Beverly Hilton on Sunday night, there was no spot more star-studded than at the engraving station inside the bash.

There were still a few categories to go when “Fosse/Verdon” winner Michelle Williams arrived, smiling as she watched her statue go through the five-step process of having her name engraved. After she received her now-personalized trophy, Williams’ smile only got wider as a staffer handed her the coveted HFPA slippers that attendees received at the party.

Mario Cantone has joined the cast of Universal Pictures’ bittersweet tale “All My Life.”

The film is inspired by the true story of Jenn Carter and her husband, Solomon Chau, a young couple who, as they planned their wedding found out that Chau had liver cancer. In the face of their devastating news, Chau and Carter moved the date up and raised more than $52,000 through a GoFundMe account to ensure they got the wedding of their dreams. They were married four months before he died on the day they were originally supposed to be married.

Cantone’s role was not disclosed, but the leads will be played by “Crazy Rich Asians” and “Glee” star Harry Shum Jr. (Chau) and “Happy Death Day’s” Jessica Rothe (Carter). Chrissie Fit, Jay Pharoah, Marielle Scott and Kyle Allen also recently joined the cast.

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Netflix has disclosed its viewership figures for original films and television shows released over the past year.

The streaming juggernaut, which reportedly has more than 158 million subscribers worldwide, released its viewership data from October 2018 to September 2019 to shareholders on Wednesday, and the report was obtained by The New York Times and Deadline.

By Netflix’s data, a single viewership qualifies as someone having watched at least 70 percent of a movie or episode.

With 80 million views, Bird Box easily took the no. 1 spot for Netflix’s programming. The film, starring Sandra Bullock, was released in December to huge numbers from the start.

Streamer forecasts lower year-on-year subs growth, cites price changes, “new forthcoming competition”.

With the streaming wars about to start in earnest, Netflix beat earnings forecasts in the third quarter and narrowly missed its subscriber growth target on a net gain of 6.8m members worldwide.

The streamer beat financial forecasts on $1.47 a share, ahead of the $1.04 Wall Street had predicted, and way ahead of 89 cents one year ago. Revenue was $5.245bn against $5.25bn expected, and operating income doubled to $1bn.

Once again, most of the subscriber growth came from international markets, with the streaming giant adding only 0.52m subscribers in the...

Ladies and gentlemen, please enjoy this new episode of The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we examine movies from established movie stars that have flopped at the box office, been forgotten by time, or remain hidden gems. These aren’t the films that made them famous or kept them famous. These are the other ones.

From strong early work in masterpieces like Boyz n The Hood and Malcolm X to her recent work in Netflix’s Otherhood and Fox’s television show 9-1-1, Angela Bassett has done it all. Here we focus on Kathryn Bigelow’s Strange Days, Wes Craven’s Vampire in Brooklyn, Walter Hill (er Thomas Lee)’s Supernova and John Sayles’ Sunshine State. It’s an eclectic foursome that reflects Bassett’s dynamic range.

Other digressions include Eddie Murphy blaming the failure of Vampire in Brooklyn on his wig and Angie confidently declaring that she...

Exclusive: TriStar Television is developing Alpha Girls, a Silicon Valley drama series based on Julian Guthrie’s praised new book, Alpha Girls: The Women Upstarts Who Took on Silicon Valley’s Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime.

The rights deal, orchestrated by producer Cathy Schulman, is said to be TriStar TV’s biggest since TriStar Pictures President Hannah Minghella added oversight of the TV unit in January. Margaret Nagle (The Good Lie) will pen the adaptation for what is being eyed as an ongoing TV series. Schulman executive produces; Guthrie serves as a co-producer.

Schulman’s Welle Entertainment originally landed the rights to the nonfiction book by Guthrie, a New York Times best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize nominee, in 2017 in a bidding war that included Amazon, Universal and Smokehouse, among others.

Alpha Girls, released in May by the Crown Publishing Group, tells the true story of four...

Last time Patricia Arquette was staring an Emmy in the face it was 2007, and she was on her second nomination for playing Allison Dubois in Medium—the pretty mom who has it all, with psychic powers to boot. What could have been a hackneyed stereotype became, in the hands of Arquette, a nuanced and moving portrait of a woman torn. She didn’t win back then, but this year she just might, with two astoundingly challenging real-life roles under her belt: abusive mom Dee Dee Blanchard in Hulu’s The Act, and dissatisfied prison worker-turned-criminal Joyce “Tilly” Mitchell in Showtime’s Escape at Dannemora.

With the two limited series shoots, and her new Netflix film Otherhood crammed into a few months, Arquette found she leaned on the network TV training she had on Medium to run that marathon. “Absolutely it prepared me for that,” she says. “I think it gives...

Orange Is The New Black has moved to the top of Netflix’s UK charts – two weeks after launching its seventh and final season.

Jenji Kohan’s prison drama has swapped places with Stranger Things, which has moved into second. This comes a week after Netflix said that 105M have watched at least one episode, making it the Svod’s most-watched original ever.

New titles in the top ten include Otherhood, the Patricia Arquette and Angela Bassett comedy, Chris Evans spy thriller The Red Sea Diving Resort, Tom Cruise’s American Made and cooking competition Sugar Rush, which launched its second season last week.

Elsewhere, Suits moved up to seventh from eighth last week, while Another Life went from third to fifth, Jane The Virgin went from fifth to sixth and Secret Obsession went from fourth to tenth.

Netflix’s top ten list launched three months ago with weekly updates...

Just over a week after it emerged that Afton Williamson was bowing out of The Rookie, details about why the actress is leaving the ABC series are starting to emerge.

Williamson took to Instagram on Sunday morning to confirm her departure and shed light on what really paved the way for her departure.

In the post, Williamson alleges that there was racism, bullying, and sexual harassment on the set of the series and that it was largely ignored by the producers.

Williamson claims that the issues she encountered during her one-season run on the series were with the hair department and a recurring guest star.

Related: The Rookie Renewed at ABC

As such, she alleges that she turned to the showrunner Alexi Hawley, but her claims were not investigated.

What's more, the recurring guest star was given the go-ahead to return, and that's part of the reason why Williamson is bowing out of the series.

Awkward! Angela Bassett stars in the Cindy Chupack comedy Otherhood, alongside Patricia Arquette and Felicity Huffman. The film centers on three mothers who travel to New York City to reconnect with their adult sons. While the film has just hit Netflix, Huffman has been making headlines as of late for a different reason—her involvement in the college admissions scandal that broke in March. In May, the actress pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud in a plea agreement. "I am pleading guilty to the charge brought against me by the United States Attorney's Office. I am in full...

You can never quite predict what will happen when parents intrude on their kids’ lives, no matter what their ages — a fact of life that has inspired a rich subgenre of such films as “She’s Out of Control,” “Mother,” “The Guilt Trip” and last year’s surprisingly sweet “Blockers.” Based on the novel “Whatever Makes You Happy” by William Sutcliffe, director Cindy Chupack’s “Otherhood” follows three meddling mothers who travel to New York City to surprise their wayward adult sons with an unexpected visit, offers a welcome female-centered take on empty-nester syndrome in the process. Part guilt trip, part gentle ode to smothering mothers, it could be called “Why Don’t You Call Your Mother More Often: The Movie.” Despite a shaky third act, Chupack and company find great success by keeping the shenanigans grounded in a sense of pathos.

Carol (Angela Bassett), Gillian (Patricia Arquette) and Helen...

Patricia Arquette is spilling the beans on acting with a young Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

The Oscar-winning actress, 51, revealed she was the actor’s first kiss while they were both working on the 1994 film Holy Matrimony.

As Arquette described it, the film followed the story of Havana, played by Arquette, who hides out in a Protestant Hutterite community after committing a robbery with her boyfriend, Peter.

To satisfy the community’s elders, Havana and Peter get married but when he dies in a car accident, the communities biblical traditions dictate she marry his younger brother, Zeke (Gordon-Levitt), who happened to be 12 years old.

Netflix is making the end of summer a little less sad with a number of new TV shows and movies hitting the platform in August.

The Dark Crystal: The Age of Resistance, the buzzed-about prequel series to the 1982 cult classic film The Dark Crystal, is coming to the streamer in late August and features a star-studded voice cast.

The month will also bring new seasons of fan favorites like 13 Reasons Why, Glow, Mindhunter, Dear White People and Cable Girls.

Patricia Arquette, Felicity Huffman and Angela Bassett will appear in the Netflix original comedy movie Otherhood, which will be available Friday. In the ...

Netflix is making the end of summer a little less sad with a number of new TV shows and movies hitting the platform in August.

The Dark Crystal: The Age of Resistance, the buzzed-about prequel series to the 1982 cult classic film The Dark Crystal, is coming to the streamer in late August and features a star-studded voice cast.

The month will also bring new seasons of fan favorites like 13 Reasons Why, Glow, Mindhunter, Dear White People and Cable Girls.

Patricia Arquette, Felicity Huffman and Angela Bassett will appear in the Netflix original comedy movie Otherhood, which will be available Friday. In the ...

Even though it's the highest-grossing movie of all time, at least one person hasn't seen Avengers: Endgame. And this particular person was actually in Avengers: Endgame. Granted, the actress in question was only in the movie briefly, but still. Who wouldn't want to see a movie they were in, albeit briefly, when it's this much of a pop culture event? The answer is Angela Bassett, apparently.

Angela Bassett made her Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in Black Panther last year as Ramonda, the mother of T'challa and one of the leaders of Wakanda. The character briefly appears in the closing moments of Avengers: Endgame. But any screen time in the biggest movie ever is no small deal. However, in a recent interview, Bassett revealed she hasn't seen it yet. Here's what she had to say.

"It's three hours long, right? I haven't seen it."

For many McU fans, the 3 hour and...

Samuel Goldwyn Films has released the first trailer for sci-fi thriller ‘Paradise Hills’ starring Emma Roberts and Awkwafina.

Directed by Alice Waddington from a screenplay by Nacho Vigalondo, the film stars Milla Jovovich, Danielle McDonald, Jeremy Irvine and Eiza Gonzalez alongside Roberts and Awkwafina.

Also in trailers – Angela Bassett, Patricia Arquette and Felicity Huffman star in trailer for ‘Otherhood’

The film is set for a Us release in cinemas and digital November 1st.

Paradise Hills Synopsis

On an isolated island, Uma (Emma Roberts) wakes up to find herself at Paradise Hills, a facility where high-class families send their daughters to become perfect versions of themselves. The facility is run by the mysterious Duchess (Milla Jovovich) where calibrated treatments including etiquette classes, vocal lessons, beauty treatments, gymnastics and restricted diets, revolve all physical and emotional shortcomings within two months.

The outspoken Uma finds solace and friendship in other Paradise Hills residents...

IFC Films has released a trailer for the upcoming comedy ‘Ode To Joy’ starring Martin Freeman and Morena Baccari.

Directed by Jason Winer from a screenplay by Max Werner, the film also stars Melissa Rauch, Jake Lacy, Jane Curtin, Shannon Woodward and Adam Shapiro.

Also in trailers – Angela Bassett, Patricia Arquette and Felicity Huffman star in trailer for ‘Otherhood’

IFC Films will release the comedy in Us theatres and on-demand on August 9th.

Ode To Joy Synopsis Martin Freeman (The Hobbit) has fallen in love and can’t get up. A man’s fervent attempts at subverting happiness once it begins to cause him bouts of narcolepsy are put to the ultimate test when he falls in love.

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Netflix has launched a new trailer for the comedy ‘Otherhood’ featuring Angela Bassett, Patricia Arquette and Felicity Huffman.

Directed by Cindy Chupack, Jake Hoffman, Jake Lacy, Sinqua Walls, and Heidi Gardner also star in the film in which the 3 ladies play underappreciated Mothers on a journey to reconnect with their sons and themselves.

Also in trailers – Gary Oldman and Jessica Alba star in trailer for ‘Killers Anonymous’

The film hits Netflix on August 2nd

Otherhood Synopsis

Feeling marginalized and forgotten, long-time friends Carol (Angela Bassett), Gillian (Patricia Arquette) and Helen (Felicity Huffman) decide to drive to New York to reconnect with their adult sons, and in the process, they realize their sons are not the only ones whose lives need to change. A journey to relate becomes a journey of rediscovery that forces these women to redefine their relationships with their children, friends, spouses and most importantly, themselves.

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"We're not on vacation, we are on a mission! We are going to reconnect with our sons." There's life beyond motherhood! Netflix has debuted the official trailer for a comedy titled Otherhood, based on the novel of the same name written by William Sutcliffe. The effervescent film tells the story of three mothers who are long-time friends and empty nesters. They decide to drive to New York City to reconnect with their adult sons. In the process, they realize their sons are not the only ones whose lives need to change. "A journey of rediscovery that forces these women to redefine their relationships with their children, friends, spouses and most importantly, themselves." The excellent ensemble cast features Angela Bassett, Patricia Arquette, Felicity Huffman, Jake Hoffman, Jake Lacy, Sinqua Walls, and Heidi Gardner. This looks fun, but we've seen this kind of story plenty of times (although usually with men). Ladies love to live free!

Ever since “Bridesmaids” became a phenomenon back in 2011, the last decade or so has seen an uptick in the number of female-driven buddy comedies. And keeping that trend alive is Netflix and its upcoming film “Otherhood.”

The new trailer for the film sort of says it best when it says the film is from producers of “Sex and the City” and “Bad Moms.” Basically, if you took those two films, smashed them together, with the ladies of ‘Sex’ having grown sons, you can see the basis of “Otherhood.”

Read More: WarnerMedia Gut Punches Netflix And Takes Back ‘Friends’ For Its New Streaming Service Titled HBO Max Coming In 2020

“Otherhood” tells the story of three middle-aged women that feel neglected after their grown sons don’t call them for Mother’s Day.

Continue reading ‘Otherhood’ Trailer: Netflix Brings Together Angela Bassett, Patricia Arquette & Felicity Huffman For Mom-Focused Comedy at The Playlist.

Netflix on Wednesday released the trailer for Otherhood.

The film follows longtime friends and empty nesters Carol (Angela Bassett), Gillian (Patricia Arquette) and Helen (Felicity Huffman), who decide to drive to New York City to reconnect with their adult sons because they feel forgotten. During their trip to New York, the mothers learn that they must redefine their relationships with their children, friends, spouses and themselves. 

Jake Hoffman, Jake Lacy, Sinqua Walls and Heidi Gardner round out the cast, while Sex and the City alum Cindy Chupack directed the movie in her narrative feature debut. Mark Andrus co-wrote Otherhood alongside Chupack.

The trailer ...

Netflix on Wednesday released the trailer for Otherhood.

The film follows longtime friends and empty nesters Carol (Angela Bassett), Gillian (Patricia Arquette) and Helen (Felicity Huffman), who decide to drive to New York City to reconnect with their adult sons because they feel forgotten. During their trip to New York, the mothers learn that they must redefine their relationships with their children, friends, spouses and themselves. 

Jake Hoffman, Jake Lacy, Sinqua Walls and Heidi Gardner round out the cast, while Sex and the City alum Cindy Chupack directed the movie in her narrative feature debut. Mark Andrus co-wrote Otherhood alongside Chupack.

The trailer ...

Fitz and the Tantrums have announced a new album, All the Feels, scheduled for release September 20th.

“So many highs and lows this last year but we’ll make it through together,” said lead vocalist Michael Fitzpatrick. “We are so excited to finally share what we’ve been working so hard on. ‘All The Feels’ has all the emotions. We hope you love it as much as we do.”

To celebrate the announcement, they’ve released a video for the title track, featuring Fitzpatrick suffering an unusual heart attack. A...

Women in the World and IFC Center on Thursday unveiled the lineup for their inaugural female-focused 51Fest event in New York City next month.

Highlights include the New York premiere of the Harvey Weinstein documentary Untouchable and a sneak preview of the upcoming Netflix movie Otherhood, written and directed by Sex and the City alum Cindy Chupack in her narrative feature debut, as well as the New York premieres of Kathy Griffin's Hell of a Story, which will serve as the opening night film, and the Amazon movie Brittany Runs a Marathon.

Hell of a Story focuses on the fallout from Griffin's ...

Women in the World and IFC Center on Thursday unveiled the lineup for their inaugural female-focused 51Fest event in New York City next month.

Highlights include the New York premiere of the Harvey Weinstein documentary Untouchable and a sneak preview of the upcoming Netflix movie Otherhood, written and directed by Sex and the City alum Cindy Chupack in her narrative feature debut, as well as the New York premieres of Kathy Griffin's Hell of a Story, which will serve as the opening night film, and the Amazon movie Brittany Runs a Marathon.

Hell of a Story focuses on the fallout from Griffin's ...

Julianne Moore to take part in on-stage conversation about After The Wedding.

The female-led inaugural 51Fest will open with docu-comedy Kathy Griffin: A Hell Of A Story and screen the world premiere of the first episode of limited series Unbelievable starring Toni Collette.

The festival, presented by Women In The World and IFC Center, runs in New York from July 18-21, and was established to celebrate the voice, vision and stories of women through screenings and conversations all by or about women.

Kathy Griffin: A Hell Of A Story focuses on the fallout from the comedian’s infamous photograph...

Paradigm has hired Ashley Hanley as a talent agent and promoted a trio of New York-based trainees — Valerie Champeau (Talent), Katelyn Dougherty (Book Publishing) and Rachel Ellicott (Theatre Lit & Content) — to agent status.

Hanley, who had been at Apa, will be based in Los Angeles and brings with her clients including Sinqua Walls, Parisa Fitz-Henley, Yvette Monreal, Tracy Ifeachor, Emeraude Toubia (Freeform’s Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments) and Darren Mann.

Champeau’s roster of clients include Austin Crute and Jacob Tobia, whose memoir Sissy: A Coming-Of-Gender Story is in development with Legendary TV and Michael Lannan.

Dougherty’s clients include Tim McKeon,...

Felicity Huffman pleaded guilty on Monday to the charge against her in the nationwide college admissions cheating case in federal court in Boston.

The guilty plea was expected, as the actress announced she would do so in April. Huffman pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud. Federal prosecutors recommended a sentence of four months of prison time, according to CNN. In addition, prosecutors also suggested that Huffman receive a $20,000 fine and 12 months of supervised release.

“I am pleading guilty to the charge brought against me by the United States Attorney’s Office,” Huffman said in a statement in April. “My daughter knew absolutely nothing about my actions, and in my misguided and profoundly wrong way, I have betrayed her,” she added.

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According to an affidavit,...

Exclusive: 9-1-1 star Angela Bassett has signed on to co-star in Gunpowder Milkshake, the action thriller from Studiocanal and The Picture Company. Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado are directing the film from a script that they wrote with Ehud Lavski. Bassett, whose recent credits include the smash hit Black Panther, Bumblebee, and Mission: Impossible – Fallout, is joining previously announced stars Lena Headey and Avengers: Endgame’s Karen Gillan.

The pic is said to be a high-concept female-centric assassin thriller that spans multiple generations. Angela will play Anna May, one of the unassuming leaders of a massive armory.

The Picture Company partners Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman will produce through their overall deal with Studiocanal.

Bassett, a Golden Globe winner for her iconic performance as Tina Turner in What’s Love Got to Do with It, is a mainstay on FX’s American Horror Story anthology series, which has earned her multiple Emmy nominations.

Actress Lori Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli are pleading not guilty to the two charges against them as part of the nationwide college admissions cheating case, according to the Associated Press.

Loughlin and Giannulli are each charged with one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and honest services mail and wire fraud, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. The two said in court documents filed Monday they are waiving their right to appear in court for an arraignment.

Representatives for Loughlin did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment.

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The two, along with 14 other parents, were indicted last week by a federal grand jury in Boston on money laundering charges, as part of the nationwide college admissions cheating case.

Loughlin and Giannulli, who were...

Updated: Netflix has delayed the Felicity Huffman comedy “Otherhood” after the actress agreed to plead guilty for her role in the college admissions bribery scandal.

Netflix has moved the film’s release to Aug. 2 from April 26. Huffman co-stars with Patricia Arquette and Angela Bassett in a trio of suburban mothers who show up unannounced at the New York City homes of their sons. “Otherhood” is directed by Cindy Chupack from a screenplay she wrote with Mark Andrus, based on the novel “Whatever Makes You Happy” by William Sutcliffe.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced on Monday that Huffman and a dozen other parents will plead guilty in the college admissions scandal. Huffman was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud. According to the criminal complaint, she paid $15,000 to admissions consultant William Singer in order to boost her older daughter’s Sat score. The Emmy winner and Oscar nominee...

Netflix has delayed the release of its new Felicity Huffman film one day after she pled guilty in the college admissions scandal.

The drama, Otherhood, stars Huffman, 56, alongside Patricia Arquette and Angela Bassett. It was supposed to hit the steaming platform on April 26. No new release date has been announced by Netflix.

Otherhood follows three suburban moms who struggle with feeling unloved by their sons and travel to New York City to see them.

Huffman is also starring in Netflix’s mini-series When They See Us, directed by Ava DuVernay, which follows the story of the Central Park Five — a...

“Can You Ever Forgive Me?” star Richard E. Grant, Oscar-winner Sally Field and “Mr. Robot” alum Eve Lindley have joined the cast of Jason Segel’s AMC anthology series “Dispatches From Elsewhere,” the network announced Tuesday.

Created by and starring the “How I Met Your Mother” star, “Dispatches From Elsewhere” centers on a group of ordinary people who stumble onto a puzzle hiding just behind the veil of everyday life and come to find that the mystery winds far deeper than they ever imagined.

According to AMC, the 10-episode series will involve some form of viewer engagement “across multiple media platforms.” It is set to begin production this summer.

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Segel is executive producer on the series alongside Scott Rudin, Eli Bush and Garrett Basch.

For Grant, the role comes fresh off an Oscar nomination for his role...