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Exclusive: Lincoln Child’s New York Times bestselling book series Jeremy Logan, is being put into feature development at Amazon MGM Studios with Safehouse Pictures producing.

Jeremy Lott and Cory Goodman are writing the script. The film will follow Jeremy Logan who is a self-proclaimed “enigmatologist,” an investigator who works to debunk the paranormal and unexplained using modern science. The Jeremy Logan books include the Child’s novels Deep Storm, Terminal Freeze, The Third Gate, The Forgotten Room, Full Wolf Moon, and Chrysalis.

The film will fall under Safehouse Pictures’ first-look film deal with the studio, with Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell producing.

Goodman and Lott are currently adapting the comic series Proof for Fox. They have also landed several seven-figure spec deals including Lore for Warner Bros. starring Dwayne Johnson, and Hood for Sony with Jerry Bruckheimer producing. Separately, Goodman wrote Priest and Underworld: Awakening for Screen Gems, The Last Witch Hunter for Lionsgate,...

Exclusive: In a competitive situation, 20th Century Studios has won rights to Test Drive, an original action spec from Matt Venne, to be produced by Safehouse Pictures.

While plot details are under wraps, sources said Venne secured a healthy mid-six against seven figure deal for his script. The spec had no talent or director attachments and caused a stir on the back of its concept and writing alone, in a scenario not too commonly seen these days.

Director of Development of Safehouse, Austin Bowman, found the spec. We’re told Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell will produce.

Currently staffing on Showtime’s Dexter spin-off series Dexter: Resurrection, Venne is a prolific genre writer who previously adapted Stephen King’s Bag of Bones as a limited series for A&e. He sold his series Cruel Summer, based on the same-name novel, to Legendary TV, with David Goyer boarding to produce, and also...

Starz has announced the movie and TV titles that will be available on the service in September. The Starz September 2024 schedule includes the premiere of Three Women, a limited series based on the New York Times bestselling book that explores female desire through the compellingly raw and honest stories of three women on a crash course to radically change their lives.

Part Two of the final season of Power Book II: Ghost will also premiere. On the film front, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Imaginary, Arthur the King, Knock at the Cabin, The Strangers: Chapter 1, Training Day, Ant-Man, and several other notable titles will join the Starz app this month.

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Power Book II: Ghost Season 4 Part 2

The second half of the fourth and final season of “Power Book II: Ghost” premieres on Friday, September 6, at midnight Et on the Starz app. On linear, it will air on Starz at 8:00 p.

More than just a series set in the Monsterverse, focused on Titan creatures such as Godzilla and other MUTOs, Apple TV+’s new series “Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters” focuses on the more human/familial aspects of the universe that spans over many decades.

The main thread of the series is the story of two siblings learning about their father’s secret life and his ties to a mysterious organization called Monarch. They end up discovering much more than they anticipated in regard to their father’s research, new Titans, and their tie to the origins of Monarch.

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We recently sat down for an exclusive interview with “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters” producer Tory Tunnell to talk about her word on the series. Tunnell’s husband Joby Harold is also an executive producer on the series. Together both Tunnell and Harold run the production company Safehouse Pictures.

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Last year, as the industry was looking to lift itself out the pandemic’s purgatory at the box office, SXSW lit the wick on A24’s Everything Everywhere All at Once, which wound up dynamiting the 18-34 hipster moviegoer set in what became the highest-grossing indie film of 2022, the best ever for the New York-based distributor, and now a potential Oscar Best Picture winner.

As such, it’s often been said that SXSW has been a place to launch big studio horror titles and comedies before genre-friendly crowds rather than sell them and discover frosh talent; it’s here where eventual Shang-Chi and the Legend of the 10 Rings filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton first made a big splash with the Brie Larson drama Short Term 12. Still, that slow rhythm has never deterred sellers from utilizing the Austin festival as place to launch fresh talent directly to a zeitgeist demographic, away from...

Amazon Studios has closed a three-year first look film deal with Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell’s Safehouse Pictures.

Founded by Harold and Tunnell in 2005, Safehouse Pictures is producing the sci-fi thriller Atlas, starring Jennifer Lopez, Sterling K. Brown and Simu Liu, for Netflix, and is currently in production on Apple’s live-action Godzilla and Titans Monsterverse series, starring Kurt Russell and Wyatt Russell. The company’s past credits include Spinning Out, Underground, My Blind Brother and King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.

Harold most recently wrote and exec produced Obi-Wan Kenobi for Disney+ and co-wrote Transformers: Rise of the Beasts and The Flash, both of which are slated for release next year. He also recently wrote the script for Disney’s live-action adaptation of Space Mountain, which Safehouse will produce with Rideback. His previous credits include John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum and Edge of Tomorrow.

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Safehouse Pictures, the outfit from screenwriter Joby Harold and producer Tory Tunnell, has inked a first-look deal with Amazon. The three-year deal encompasses films that Safehouse intends to produce.

Safehouse’s features credits include Spinning Out, My Blind Brother, and King Arthur, as well as the upcoming Godzilla and the Titans series at Apple and sci-fi thriller Atlas for Netflix, starring Jennifer Lopez, Sterling K. Brown, and Simu Liu.

“We are thrilled to be collaborating with Amazon Studios­­­—who are not only ambitious and forward-thinking content creators—but also lovely and inspiring people to boot,” said Harold and Tunnell, the former behind the screenplays for upcoming titles like Transformers: Rise of the Beasts and The Flash.

“We are incredibly excited to join forces with Joby, Tory, and the entire talented team at Safehouse Pictures,” added Julie Rapaport, head of movies at Amazon Studios.

There’s a euphoria among film sellers and buyers as SXSW finally convenes Friday in Austin, Texas after a three-year pandemic shutdown.

With the last two editions of the Sundance Film Festival being virtual, and the hybrid edition of TIFF seeing reduced capacities, few industry execs, and a muted atmosphere, SXSW marks the return to packed, receptive audiences; actual live pulses which can trigger good reviews and social media wattage, culminating in what some believe could be an active sales market here in Texas’s capital.

SXSW has a knack for programming comedies, genre, and genre-twisted features; titles which are best experienced by a reactive audience. Sellers previously told Deadline that virtual viewing of such fare at recent fests doesn’t really help their cause. While SXSW is enforcing vaxx cards and mask-wearing indoors, screenings will be at full capacity. In 2019, SXSW drew a reported 73K attendees alone to the...

Exclusive: Roadside Attractions and Vertical Entertainment have prevailed in a bidding war surrounding the Sundance thriller Emily the Criminal, starring and produced by Aubrey Plaza, claiming North American rights. They’ve slated the film for an exclusive theatrical release this year, with Redbox joining the partnership for home entertainment distribution.

John Patton Ford’s feature directorial debut follows Emily (Plaza), who is saddled with student debt and locked out of the job market due to a minor criminal record. Desperate for income, she takes a shady gig as a “dummy shopper,” buying goods with stolen credit cards supplied by a handsome and charismatic middleman named Youcef (Theo Rossi). Faced with a series of dead-end job interviews, Emily soon finds herself seduced by the quick cash and illicit thrills of black-market capitalism, and increasingly interested in her mentor Youcef. Together, they hatch a plan to bring...

Today is a good day for fans of crime dramas as Netflix just renewed Narcos Mexico for a third season. The series, which was conceived as both a spiritual successor and a sequel to the original Narcos, sports an admirable 88% certified fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, indicating audiences will be happy to see it return to the small screen for yet another round of drug trading.

The show first aired on Netflix back in 2018. Starring Michael Peña alongside Diego Luna, Tenoch Huerta Mejía and Alyssa Diaz, it centers on the illegal drug trade in Mexico during the origin of the modern day War on Drugs. Tension arises from economic and personal conflict between various cartels, as well as the government forces trying to apprehend them.

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Exclusive: Indie film producer and financier Low Spark is moving into television with the launch of a new TV division, which has struck a first-look deal at CBS Television Studios.

Low Spark Television is a division of Low Spark Entertainment, the Cleveland, Ohio and Los Angeles based parent company of Low Spark Films, which specializes in the production and financing of feature films for the worldwide market. The company, led by producer Tyler Davidson, has produced such indie features as Take Shelter, The Kings of Summer, Galveston, The Signal, Compliance, My Blind Brother, and The Land.

“CBS Television Studios shares our love for bold, original storytelling, and we couldn’t be more excited for the opportunity to work with their stellar team, bringing the skills and relationships we have homed in indie film to television,” said Low Spark in a statement.

Low Spark is repped by ICM Partners.

Exclusive: Deadline has learned that Amblin Partners has signed a two-year first look deal with Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell’s Safehouse Pictures.

Safehouse’s upcoming slate includes the Michael B. Jordan WW2 movie The Liberators, Battle of Britain, which Ridley Scott is attached to direct, and 70’s drama Love Canal which is set to be Patricia Arquette’s directorial debut. Harold recently came off the success of Lionsgate’s John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum which has accumulated over $252M at the WW box office. He was also an Ep on Doug Liman’s Edge of Tomorrow. Together Harold and Tunnell produced King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, the documentary Trumbo and comedy My Blind Brother, among other film and television titles.

“Joby and Tory have an incredible understanding of how to create crowd pleasing movies with broad appeal across all genres, making them a great partner for Amblin. We look...

Amblin Partners has signed a two-year first-look deal with Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell’s Safehouse Pictures.

Harold executive produced Lionsgate's John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, and along with Tunnell produced King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Trumbo and the comedy My Blind Brother, among other film and TV titles.

"Joby and Tory have an incredible understanding of how to create crowd pleasing movies with broad appeal across all genres, making them a great partner for Amblin. We look forward to their passion and experience being reflected in the films that we develop with them,” Amblin Partners ...

Amblin Partners has signed a two-year first-look deal with Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell’s Safehouse Pictures.

Harold executive produced Lionsgate's John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, and along with Tunnell produced King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Trumbo and the comedy My Blind Brother, among other film and TV titles.

"Joby and Tory have an incredible understanding of how to create crowd pleasing movies with broad appeal across all genres, making them a great partner for Amblin. We look forward to their passion and experience being reflected in the films that we develop with them,” Amblin Partners ...

Svetlana Efremova (The Americans) is set as a regular and Charlie Hewson (Upload) will recur in Spinning Out, Netflix’s upcoming drama series set in the world of competitive figure skating.

Created by Samantha Stratton (Mr. Mercedes), a former competitive figure skater herself, Spinning Out centers on Kat Baker (Kaya Scodelario), an up-and-coming, high-level single skater who’s about to turn in her skates after a disastrous fall took her off the competition track. When Kat seizes an opportunity to continue her career as a pair skater with talented bad-boy partner Justin (Evan Roderick), she risks exposing a fiercely kept secret that could unravel her entire life. On and off the ice, Kat and Justin will face daunting odds, injury to body and soul, financial sacrifice, and even potential mental breakdown on their way to realizing their Olympic dream.

Efremova will play Dasha Glushenko, the sharp-tongued Russian skating coach who...

The story about the murder of JFK’s lover, American painter Mary Pinchot Meyer, is being developed by Warner Bros TV as a potential limited series. The project hails from Oscar-winning writer David Seidler (The King’s Speech) and Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell’s Safehouse Pictures.

Written by Seidler and based on Peter Janney’s book Mary’s Mosaic, the drama/murder mystery explores different theories about the killing of Meyer while also exploring her secret romantic relationship with President John F. Kennedy.

Seidler executive produces for Studio Seven 13, which he co-founded with Clara Hendon, along with Tunnell and Harold for Safehouse. Studio Seven 13’s Hendon is a producer. Safehouse, Studio Seven 13, and Warner Bros TV co-produce.

Meyer, who lived in Washington, D.C., was married to Central Intelligence Agency official Cord Meyer for 13 years and became romantically involved with Kennedy after her divorce from Meyer in 1958. She was...

Netflix has given a 10-episode series order to Spinning Out, an edgy drama set in the world of competitive figure skating starring Emma Roberts (American Horror Story), from Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell’s Safehouse Pictures (Underground).

Created by Samantha Stratton (Mr. Mercedes), a former competitive figure skater herself, Spinning Out centers on Kat Baker (Roberts), an up-and-coming, high-level single skater who’s about to turn in her skates after a disastrous fall took her off the competition track. When Kat seizes an opportunity to continue her career as a pair skater with a talented bad-boy partner, she risks exposing a fiercely kept secret that could unravel her entire life. On and off the ice, Kat and her new partner will face daunting odds, injury to body and soul, financial sacrifice, and even potential mental breakdown on their way to realizing their Olympic dream.

Stratton and Lara Olsen (90210) executive produce...

Jennifer Aniston is in talks to star in an untitled parenting comedy for Stx Films, an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap. Sophie Goodhart (“My Blind Brother”) wrote the script and will direct. The film is about an over-scheduled and over-burdened suburban couple who go to great lengths to try to recapture the fun of their youth. Safehouse Pictures’ Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell are producing. Matt Schwartz and Douglas Banker are executive producing. Sam Brown is overseeing for Stx along with Drew Simon and Jeannette Francis. Read More See Jennifer Aniston's latest Power Move. PowerRank: 703 ...

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STXfilms is negotiating with Jennifer Aniston to star in an untitled R-rated suburban parenting comedy that Sophie Goodhart wrote and will direct. The logline: An over-scheduled and over-burdened suburban couple go to great lengths to try to recapture the fun of their youth. Safehouse Pictures’ Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell are producing. Safehouse previously produced Goodheart's My Blind Brother, which was the biggest deal at 2016’s SXSW and stars Jenny Slate, Adam Scott…...

Jennifer Aniston is in final negotiations to star in an untitled suburban-set comedy being developed by STX Films.

Sophie Goodhart, who wrote and directed the Adam Scott-Nick Kroll comedy My Blind Brother, penned the script and is sitting in the director’s chair for the project.

The story centers on an over-scheduled and over-burdened suburban couple who go to great lengths to try to recapture the fun of their youth. The goal is to make it R-rated.

STX had a big hit with Bad Moms ($113 million domestic) and is looking to keep the good times going with not just a sequel,...

The move comes as the Los Angeles-based film and TV company ramps up operations.

The Los Angeles-based film and TV company that co-financed last year’s best picture Oscar winner Spotlight has named Jason Fisher senior vice-president and head of production and Ryan Heller vice-president of acquisitions.

The new hires come as First Look Media continues to expand its programming and content team. The company has just boarded the Ben Foster drama My Abandonment with Bron Creative.

Fisher (main picture) will oversee a growing number of scripted and unscripted productions for digital, television and film, while Heller takes the lead on forging new partnerships and ramping up acquisitions to complement original programming.

Both will report to First Look Media executive vice-president of programming and content Adam Pincus.

Fisher, who began his career as a film producer, served as senior vice-president and head of production at AMC Networks where he helped create the in-house studio behind The Walking Dead, Mad Men...

Film Independent has announced the co-hosts for the 2017 Independent Spirit Awards, taking place Saturday, February 25. This year’s celebration of indie features will be emceed by Nick Kroll and John Mulaney.

“From film to television to Broadway, Nick Kroll and John Mulaney have been almost everywhere – and now their world domination will be complete when they host the 2017 Film Independent Spirit Awards,” said Film Independent President Josh Welsh. “We couldn’t think of two smarter, funnier people to host our show, and look forward to having them on the beach on Saturday, February 25.”

Read More: 2017 Independent Spirit Award Nominations: ‘Moonlight,’ ‘American Honey’ and ‘Jackie’ Lead the Way

Kroll is best known for his critically acclaimed Comedy Central series “Kroll Show,” as well as his roles in “Community,” “Parks and Recreation,” “My Blind Brother” and “Date Night,” among others. He currently stars in “Loving,” which is nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards,...

The new documentary “Do You Dream in Color?” follows four blind high school students — Conor, Nick, Sarah and Carina — as they navigate the growing pains of high school. Each have their own dreams, like becoming a sponsored skateboarder, to travel the world, to become a rock star and to be the first of their family to graduate high school, but struggle with the prospect of achieving them as well as contending with their disability. “Do You Dream in Color?” shines a light on the social and institutional obstacles faced by people who are blind and what it takes to surmount these barriers. Watch an exclusive trailer and clip from the film below.

Read More: Blind Film Critic Reviews ‘Don’t Breathe,’ Reveals Visually-Impaired Character’s One Unrealistic Trait

The film is directed by Abigail Fuller and Sarah Ivy. Fuller has previously produced the TV show “The Freshman Class” and the...

It’s hard to believe Zoe Kazan, who gained notoriety for the 2012 fantastical love story Ruby Sparks and earned an Emmy nomination for HBO’s Olive Kitteridge, is already experiencing something of a creative drought in her career.

As Kazan explains, it’s the sad reality that actresses over 30 face in Hollywood. “I had so many more auditions at 23 than I do at 33,” she tells Et by phone. “We, in our culture, tell stories about young girls and tell stories about mothers. There’s a desert in the middle.”

Even more limiting for the actress, who still passes for 16 in the Off-Broadway play Love, Love, Love, is the fact that she’s admittedly played the same ingénue part onscreen in the string of romantic comedies that followed Ruby Sparks. It’s thanks to “me looking demure and having big eyes and being kind of small and looking young,” she says.

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Every week we dive into the cream of the crop when it comes to home releases, including Blu-ray and DVDs, as well as recommended deals of the week. Check out our rundown below and return every Tuesday for the best (or most interesting) films one can take home. Note that if you’re looking to support the site, every purchase you make through the links below helps us and is greatly appreciated.

Star Trek Beyond (Justin Lin)

After the pleasant fluff of its kick-off installment and the frog march of unpleasantness that was Into Darkness, the rebooted Star Trek film series finally hits a fun median between big-budget bombast and classic Trek bigheartedness with Star Trek Beyond. Does the franchise’s full descent into action, with only the barest lip service paid to big ideas, cause Gene Roddenberry’s ashes to spin in their space capsule? Probably, but in the barren desert of summer 2016 blockbusters,...

“It might be the most daring comedy of the year!”

– Bustle

A charming comedic romance about an unexpected love triangle involving two brothers and the woman they both love, My Blind Brother stars Adam Scott (“Parks and Recreation,” Krampus), Nick Kroll (“The League,” Adult Beginners) and Jenny Slate (The Secret Life of Pets, Obvious Child) and will be available on Blu-ray™ and DVD November 1 from Anchor Bay Entertainment. Taking sibling rivalry to new heights, My Blind Brother is written and directed by Sophie Goodhart, (her feature directorial debut) and also stars Zoe Kazan (Our Brand Is Crisis, In Your Eyes). Bill (Kroll) has always lived in the shadow of his overachieving brother Robbie (Scott), an arrogant athlete and local celebrity who happens to be blind. After years of thanklessly helping Robbie achieve one goal after another, Bill finally catches a break when he finds a connection with the charming Rose...

With over a hundred credits to his name, Adam Scott has become one of the most prolific comedic actors of the last decade, perfecting the duality of his nice guy/jerk persona to create some of the most memorable scene stealers in recent comedies. After early career credits that ran the gamut from Torque to Party of Five, Scott soon became a fixture of the Judd Apatow universe earning sizable parts in films like Step Brothers and alt-comedy television landmarks like Party Down, Burning Love, and beloved network comedies like NBC’s Parks & Recreation.

These days, he’s still as impossibly busy, starring in films like the last year’s dark Yuletide comedy Krampus, creating oddities like The Adult Swim Golf Classic, and producing notable indies like The Overnight and Other People through the production company Gettin’ Rad that he created with his wife Naomi Scott. And even as his public profile is constantly rising,...

Sophie Goodhart’s charming, low-key debut My Blind Brother is a deceptively emotional experience. It’s the story of a love triangle between a deluded megalomaniac, his unappreciated brother, and a young woman who believes that she’s being punished by the universe for her recent actions, but as cartoony as that potential scenario sounds, it’s very grounded.

The two brothers in this case are Bill (Nick Kroll) and Robbie (Adam Scott). Since becoming blind at an early age, Robbie’s life has become a series of athletic feats. As we begin, Robbie has just finished running a marathon, and hours later, he’s already planning to swim the length of a local river. He’s accompanied on all of these endeavors by Bill, his brother whose life has become defined by his need to be Robbie’s sighted guide.

Their life is significantly complicated by Rose (Jenny Slate...

Sasha Lane knew something big was going to happen to her. She couldn’t have predicted the details – being plucked from obscurity by filmmaker Andrea Arnold and chosen to star in her Cannes-acclaimed feature film “American Honey” – but she had an inkling of something special waiting for her.

Lane was still just a teenager when Arnold discovered her on a Miami beach smack in the middle of spring break and cast her in the free-wheeling opus about a hard-partying magazine crew. At the time, Lane was a student at Texas State University in San Marcos, taking classes in psychology and social work, but she felt like something was missing. And she also felt like something was going to change for her once she went to Miami.

“I went on that trip because something felt like it was missing and I was just so lost and kind of hopeless, but I had a feeling,...

Regular IndieWire readers know that prolific actor-director James Franco is a regular contributor. So when we had the opportunity to interview Nicolas Winding Refn for the Blu-ray and DVD release of “The Neon Demon” (September 27), we thought Franco was the right man for the job. Franco and Refn previously collaborated on a Gucci advertisement last year, but the following interview finds the pair journeying back to Refn’s early days and working their way toward the present.

James Franco: Your parents were filmmakers. Tell me a little bit about that — growing up and how you started. I also heard that you took your wife on a first date to see “Texas Chainsaw Massacre.” So what I really want to know is how you started making films out of that kind of upbringing.

Nicolas Winding Refn: Well, how did it all start? I guess it started with television. I...

Rather than take the high-end prime specialty route with initial New York/Los Angeles dates, this week’s top two releases—Mira Nair’s well-reviewed “Queen of Katwe” (Disney) and Jocelyn Moorhouse’s less welcomed “The Dressmaker” (Broad Green)—both jumped to multiple top cities.

Two of the leading Sundance 2016 films – “The Lovers and the Despot” (Magnolia) and “Goat” (The Film Arcade”) took the national bookings with day-and-date Video on Demand strategy. A third, documentary “Audrie & Daisy,” debuted on Netflix along with some minimal unreported theatrical dates (to get it reviewed in the movie section and Oscar qualified).

None of these popped with particularly impressive grosses. No doubt some of the big titles ahead will go the more conventional route and score big results. But the lay of the land gets more complicated for art houses as both their exclusivity and theatrical-only patterns are at risk.

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Most films are bound by a necessity for its lead characters to be depicted as likable individuals that audiences can root for. However, My Blind Brother dares not only to subvert that expectation across the board but to make perhaps its most unlikable figure the titular blind man played by Adam Scott. With her feature debut, writer/director Sophie Goodhart attempts to challenge the current politically correct social environment and, in doing so, reunites three comedic stars who have all appeared on NBC’s Parks and Recreation.

My Blind Brother – based on the 2003 short film of the same name created by Goodhart – centers on the rivalry between brothers Robbie (Scott) and Bill (Nick Kroll). After Bill shares a night of connection with a guilt-ridden woman (Jenny Slate), he is shocked to soon discover that she’s dating his blind brother instead. From there, the film embarks on a number of...

Think of the first word that comes to your mind when you hear the term “rom-com.” Got it? I bet it isn’t “shame.” Yet, when we spoke with Jenny Slate and Nick Kroll about their roles in Sophie Goodhart’s “My Blind Brother” (opening in select theaters today), that was one of the first words Slate used to describe the romantic dynamic between their characters.

Rose (Slate) and Bill (Kroll) are former one-night-standers who find themselves thrust back together when Rose starts dating his visually impaired brother, Robbie (Adam Scott). “They have a lot of joy and delight and they are trying to get each other’s attention, but then they’re both pushing away. It’s the regulation of that shame flow that I was interested in,” Slate said of the complicated dynamic at play.

Read More: Watch: Indie Spirit Nominee Jenny Slate on Sex and Standup in ‘Obvious Child’

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With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.

Blood Simple (Joel and Ethan Coen)

For as accomplished as Joel and Ethan Coen’s debut Blood Simple comes across as to a viewer, like any director, they can’t help but recognize their flaws. That’s not to say their newly restored debut, now available on The Criterion Collection, doesn’t look and sound gorgeous — every bead of sweat dripping down M. Emmet Walsh’s face and every...

“My Blind Brother” is a romantic comedy that spins around one central thesis: what if a blind person was a selfish prick? That’s the joke in the middle of the threadbare, laughless plot that brings together a quartet of immensely talented people — Nick Kroll, Adam Scott, Jenny Slate, Zoe Kazan — and sees them all (with the exception of the latter) playing variations of pathetic and pitiable. And it’s hard to tell if it makes the film better or worse that they all share such great chemistry and charisma together; “My Blind Brother” is certainly the best version of this script you’ll get thanks to the cast, but it’s also a painful viewing experience to see such potential so thoroughly wasted, and such magnetism dulled off.

Continue reading Adam Scott, Nick Kroll, Jenny Slate & Zoe Kazan Deserve Better Than ‘My Blind Brother’ [Review] at The Playlist.

In case you missed it, Fandango has started a new video series: Indie Movie Guide with Alicia Malone. In it, she'll share info and her thoughts on the latest in independent film. In this week's episode, Alicia reveals what's going on in the indie films Miss Stevens, Goat, The Lovers and the Despot, Swiss Army Man, My Blind Brother and The Dressmaker, starring Kate Winslet (pictured). Check it out, and let us know what you want to see in the comments below.  ...

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In case you missed it, Fandango has started a new video series: Indie Movie Guide with Alicia Malone. In it, she'll share info and her thoughts on the latest in independent film. In this week's episode, Alicia reveals what's going on in the indie films Miss Stevens, Goat, The Lovers and the Despot, Swiss Army Man, My Blind Brother and The Dressmaker, starring Kate Winslet (pictured). Check it out, and let us know what you want to see in the comments below.  ...

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Is there a current actor as skilled at modulating his charm levels as Adam Scott? Although he’s probably best-known for the offhand but immense likability of his TV roles on Parks And Recreation and Party Down, he’s been equally convincing as a hilariously loathsome alpha bro in Step Brothers and a buttoned-up cold fish in Sleeping With Other People. In My Blind Brother, Scott plays both sides of the fence as Robbie, who was blinded in a teenage accident and has dedicated much of his life since to charity work for other blind children. Perhaps not coincidentally, this charity work involves frequent displays of his athletic prowess, then giving faux-humble speeches that trade on his status as a local-news hero.

Having Scott play a blind man who’s both vaguely insufferable and also unassailable is an inspired notion and leaves the lovable underachiever role to Nick Kroll ...

Welcome back to the Weekend Warrior, your weekly look at the new movies hitting theaters this weekend, as well as other cool events and things to check out.

This Past Weekend:

Yikes. What a terrible weekend we just had, not only for the new movies released but also for the Weekend Warrior’s predictions. Clint Eastwood and Tom Hanks’ Sully won its second weekend in a row with just under $22 million, but as far as the new movies, neither Lionsgate’s Blair Witch nor Universal’s Bridget Jones’s Baby did very well, putting the last nail in the coffin (hopefully) for sequels/remakes trying to play upon nostalgia that just isn’t there. (Good luck to the Rings movie opening next month!) Blair Witch ended up with $9.6 million to take second place and both Bridget Jones’s Baby and Oliver Stone’s Snowden ended up with around $8 million, so...

Plot: Two brothers - one of them blind - face off against each other after they meet a young woman who gives her time to helping the disabled. Review: There is something very appealing about seeing actors known for comedy take on a more serious subject. Sure My Blind Brother has much to laugh about, but it is far more serious than you’d expect with a cast featuring Nick Kroll and Adam Scott. This... Read More...

In an interview with Filmmaker Magazine, Dean Fleischer-Camp described the tone of his 2014 web series “Catherine” as “The New Banality.” With “David,” he adds yet another gem to his self-described banal canon.

The five-episode series premiered yesterday on Super Deluxe and stars Nathan Fielder (“Nathan For You”) as David, a recently-fired divorcee, as we learn from an uncannily accurate Tarot reader (Sally Berman). David’s vacantly concerned psychic tells him that he has a “black stone, like a rock, growing every minute” in his chest. If he doesn’t get rid of it, his body will de-compose in five weeks — hence the five episodes.

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His search for answers leads to a therapist (who stuffs David’s last bill into an overflowing money drawer), an unhelpful priest (“Sometimes the Bible is really vague”) and a small-time baseball game. After...

While the summer had a number of gems, our sights are now set on the majorly promising fall slate as we’ve highlighted 75 to keep on your radar. For a more specific breakdown, we now have our monthly rundown, which includes some Tiff and Venice films, and much more. It should also be noted that Michelangelo Antonioni‘s restored masterpiece La Notte will get a theatrical run starting on September 16 at NYC’s Film Forum, and will expand from there. Check out our recommendations below and let us know what you’re looking forward to.

Matinees to See: White Girl (9/2), Max Rose (9/2), The Academy of Muses (9/2), Zoom (9/2), Other People (9/9). Kicks (9/9), Dancer (9/9), London Road (9/9), Come What May (9/9), The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years (9/16), My Blind Brother (9/23), Girl Asleep (9/23), Goat (9/23), The Lovers and the Despot (9/23), The Magnificent Seven (9/23), Chronic (9/23), Sand Storm (9/28), Do Not Resist (9/30), Deepwater Horizon (9/30), Miss Peregrine’s...

This year’s “X-Files” revival has come and gone, but that doesn’t mean that aliens and other supernatural entities are disappearing from TV anytime soon. Fox is developing a pilot for “Ghosted,” which Variety says has been “described as a comedic sort of ‘X-Files'”; Craig Robinson and Adam Scott will star in the potential new series.

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Robinson will play Leroy Wright, the cynical skeptic to Scott’s more paranormally inclined Max Allison. The Underground Investigative Service enlists the pair to find out what’s really going on when a number of inexplicable phenomena occur in Los Angeles; there are, of course, larger forces at work (which may not be human in origin) that might threaten mankind. Robinson and Scott will both do double duty as executive producers on the single-camera comedy, which...

There’s this nutty old man who painted a huge Dharma on a huge sheet of paper and draws sparrows on tiny rice grains. Some may know him as Hokusai the painter, but his daughter, O-Ei, knows him as Tetsuzo.

A new trailer for Keiichi Hara’s animated coming-of-age tale, “Miss Hokusai,” has just been released, courtesy of Gkids and Japanese powerhouse Production I.G. The film follows the remarkable story of the daughter behind one of history’s most famous artists.

As all of Edo flocks to see the work of the revered painter Hokusai (voiced by Yutaka Matsushige), his daughter O-Ei (Anne Watanabe) toils diligently inside his studio. The latest trailer shows her as she begins to work on her own masterful portraits – sold under the name of her father – which are coveted by upper crust Lords and journeyman print makers alike.

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Mechanic Resurrection "Cliff Dive" Clip

Release Date: August 26th, 2016

Cast: Jason Statham, Jessica Alba, Tommy Lee Jones

Don't Breathe "Hallway Tension" Clip

Release Date: August 26th, 2016

Cast: Stephen Lang, Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette

Morgan "Lost Control" TV Spot

Release Date: September 2nd, 2016

Cast: Kate Mara, Rose Leslie, Jennifer Jason Leigh

Snowden "Make You See" Clip

Release Date: September 16th, 2016

Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Nicolas Cage

Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them International Trailer #1

Release Date: November 18th, 2016

Cast: Ezra Miller,...

I'm not the biggest Nick Kroll fan, but that's partially because he seems to be in the same acting mode all the time: total douche. (He plays a literal douche in Sausage Party and played a radio host character named The Douche on Parks and Recreation. It's sort of his "thing.") But this trailer for a film called My Blind Brother has him in a different gear, and considering it reunites him with two of his former Parks and Rec co-stars whom I love — Adam Scott and Jenny Slate — I think it's safe to say this won't be the same old thing from Kroll.

Sophie Goodhart directs this romantic comedy about two brothers, one of whom is blind, who fall for the same girl. It looks like a decent, lighthearted little movie, and we don't have long to wait to see if it's any good — the film arrives in theaters...

We’ve seen Adam Scott play the cocky jagoff sibling before (Step Brothers), and we’ve borne witness to Jenny Slate’s skill at playing relatably confused characters dealing with moral quandaries (Obvious Child). The trailer for My Blind Brother, though, offers a relatively new side of Nick Kroll. The comedian, whose characters usually ooze smarmy confidence, plays a likable schlub who is forever in the shadow of his over-achieving blind brother (Scott), with whom he winds up competing for the affections of the same woman (Slate). In his review of the film after viewing it at Tribeca, The A.V. Club’s Jesse Hassenger noted that “Kroll makes a surprisingly credible leading man,” even while lamenting some missed opportunities with Slate’s character.

This is British writer-director Sophie Goodhart’s first feature film, based on a 2003 short of the same name which which was inspired by the real-life ...

"Honestly, who cares? I can't trust my feelings." Starz Media & Orion Pictures have released a trailer for the comedy My Blind Brother, about a romantic rivalry between two brothers. Adam Scott stars as the more handsome, athletic sibling along with Nick Kroll as his brother who has always been by his side most of his life. They both fall for the same woman, comedian powerhouse Jenny Slate, causing some chaos that leads to shenanigans which is meant to make people laugh. The cast includes Zoe Kazan, Talia Tabin and Charlie Hewson. While this doesn't look as bad as it sounds, it doesn't look that great either, with a few sparse moments of genuine comedy amidst some awkward scenes of cheesiness. At least it has Jenny Slate. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Sophie Goodhart's My Blind Brother, direct from YouTube: Bill (Nick Kroll) has always lived in the...

NBC’s Parks and Recreation ended at the exact right time, but that doesn’t mean we don’t miss it now that it’s gone. So if you’re still in mourning, you may find some comfort in the new trailer for My Blind Brother. Sophie Goodhart‘s indie drama stars not one, not two, but three former Pawneeans caught in a love triangle. Nick […]

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