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The Australian drama series The Artful Dodger will return for a second season on Hulu, it was announced today. The second season will be filmed in 2025 at the historic Callan Park in Sydney, Australia.

The eight-episode Season 2 stars Thomas Brodie-Sangster as Jack Dawkins, aka The Artful Dodger, David Thewlis as Fagin, and Maia Mitchell as Lady Belle Fox. They team up with a full ensemble of Australian and New Zealand cast members and several new faces in cameo roles.

Series co-creator James McNamara (The Outrageous True Story of Milky Moor) is leading the writing team, with Kate Mulvany, Dan Knight (Irreverent), and Miranda Tapsell also on board.

Ben Young and Gracie Otto serve as directors with Jeffrey Walker consulting.

The Artful Dodger Season 2 will pick up where the heart’s desires of Dodger, Fagin, and Lady Belle left off, promising more cunning thievery, snappy humor, life-and-death surgeries, and romance with a twist.

Actress Camila Morrone (“Daisy Jones & the Six”), the new ‘face’ of Chanel, poses for the French fashion house’s latest ‘Pre-Collection’ campaign for Fall 2024, photographed by Karim Sadli:

A former magazine cover model, Morrone made her acting debut in the feature “Bukowski” (2018) followed by the action film “Death Wish” (2018)…

…and the indie features “Never Goin' Back” (2018) and “Mickey and the Bear” (2019).

Her role as ‘Camila Alvarez-Dunne’ in the Amazon Prime Video limited series “Daisy Jones & the Six” (2023) earned her a nomination for a ‘Primetime Emmy Award’.

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Leonardo DiCaprio’s Ex Camila Morrone Replaces Elizabeth Debicki In The Night Manager Season 2, Diego Calva Also Joins The Cast ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

Eight years after The Night Manager premiered, work has begun on the second season of the hit thriller series. The show has now made an exciting addition to its ensemble, casting actress Camila Morrone in a prominent role for the new season.

Morrone will reportedly replace The Crown star Elizabeth Debicki, who played Jed in the first instalment. The 26-year-old actress is known for starring in the Prime Video series Daisy Jones & the Six and grabbed the limelight for her former relationship with Leonardo DiCaprio. Another actor who is joining the cast is Narcos: Mexico star Diego Calva.

Camila Morrone and Diego Calva Join the Cast of The Night Manager Season 2

While the details about Camila Morrone’s character in The Night Manager season 2 have been kept under wraps,...

Actress Camilia Morrone (“Daisy Jones & the Six”) poses for the Calvin Klein Spring 2024 collection, photographed by Annemarieke Van Drimmelen:

A former magazine cover model, Morrone made her acting debut in the feature “Bukowski” (2018) followed by the action film “Death Wish” (2018)…

…and the indie features “Never Goin' Back” (2018) and “Mickey and the Bear” (2019).

Her role as ‘Camila Alvarez-Dunne’ in the Amazon Prime Video limited series “Daisy Jones & the Six” (2023) earned her a nomination for a ‘Primetime Emmy Award’.

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Exclusive: Emmy nominee Camila Morrone has signed with Brillstein Entertainment Partners for representation.

Morrone is coming off the hit Amazon limited series Daisy Jones & The Six, for which she received a Best Supporting Actress Emmy nomination for her role as Camila Dunne, and the Patrica Arquette-directed Gonzo Girl, which recently premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. Up next she can be seen starring opposite Joe Keery in the independent film Marmalade, directed and written by Keir O’Donnell.

She received critical praise for her starring role as a Montana teenager caring for her father, a veteran with a substance abuse problem, in Annabelle Attanasio’s indie film Mickey and the Bear. She also starred in A24 and Augustine Frizzell’s comedy Never Goin’ Back and in Death Wish, the Eli Roth-directed remake of the 1974 Charles Bronson film for MGM.

Morrone continues to be repped by WME, Nue Group, Hansen,...

"Daisy Jones and the Six" actress Camila Morrone poses for the Brilliant Earth brand, noted for its 'ethically-sourced' fine jewelry:

Morrone made her acting debut in the feature "Bukowski" (2013). In 2016, she posed for the "Victoria's Secret" lookbook and walked the runway for Moschino.

Since then, she has appeared in the action thriller "Death Wish" (2018), as well as the indie features "Never Goin' Back" (2018) and "Mickey and the Bear" (2019). 

Her role as 'Camila Alvarez-Dunne' in the Amazon Prime Video limited series Daisy Jones and the Six (2023), earned her a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award.

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Earlier this year, Max announced it would be housing over 200 episodes of AMC Networks’ television at no additional cost to subscribers beginning in September.

That two-month window is coming to an end, so you’ll want to catch up on “Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire” Season 1; “Dark Winds” Season 1; “Gangs of London” Seasons 1 and 2; “Fear the Walking Dead” Seasons 1-7; “Killing Eve” Seasons 1-4; “A Discovery of Witches” Seasons 1-3; and “Ride with Norman Reedus” Seasons 1-5 while you still can.

A number of great horror titles are leaving at the end of October as well, including: “A Cabin in the Woods,” “Beetlejuice,” “Eight Legged Freaks,” “From Hell,” “It” and “It: Chapter 2,” and several more. They’ll be great to put on while you host your Halloween bash.

Here’s everything leaving Max in October 2023.

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Scheduled to theatrically release on July 28, 2023, Sympathy for the Devil is a psychological thriller film directed by Yuval Adler. While none of the characters are given actual names, the film stars Nicolas Cage as The Passenger and Joel Kinnaman as The Driver. The story follows a man who finds himself in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse after he’s forced to drive a mysterious passenger around who’s holding him at gunpoint. It soon becomes clear that not everything is as it seems.

The film has garnered significant anticipation among movie-goers with its intriguing premise and talented cast lineup. Along with Cage and Kinnaman, Kaiwi Lyman, Alexis Zollicoffer, and Cameron Lee Price star. With that, here is the cast and character guide for Sympathy for the Devil.

Nicolas Cage as The Passenger

The Passenger is a mysterious character who holds a taxi driver at gunpoint while forcing him...

Actress Camila Morrone ("Daisy Jones & The Six") poses for the June 2023 issue of "InStyle" (Mexico) magazine, photographed by Graham Dunn:

As a young model, Morrone made her acting debut in the feature "Bukowski" (2018)...

...and subsequently appeared in the films "Death Wish" (2018)...

...and "Never Goin' Back" (2018). 

She played 'Mickey Peck' in the feature "Mickey and the Bear" (2019).

She played 'Ruby' in the feature "Valley Girl" (2020) 

After being cast as 'Camila Dunne' in "Daisy Jones  the Six" (2023), Morrone indicated she would focus her career on acting rather than modeling.

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Exclusive: The Gotham Film & Media Institute has today named the fellows set for the 2023 edition of its Festival de Cannes Producers Network Program, scheduled to take place in person at Cannes from May 17-22. The list includes independent filmmakers Maria Altamirano, Liz Cardenas, Leah Chen Baker, Yoni Golijov, Emma Hannaway Nikkia Moulterie and Carlos Zozaya.

Running concurrently with the Cannes Film Festival and the Marche du Film, the program is specifically designed for experienced producers to build up their international networks and learn more about international production, financing, legal and packaging. As its sole U.S. partner organization, The Gotham annually selects U.S. fiction and nonfiction producers to participate.

“The 2023 Gotham/Cannes Producers Network Fellows are an extraordinary group of talented producers, who have demonstrated so early in their careers both the taste and acumen to bring excellent new projects to life,” said The Gotham’s Executive Director,...

If Amazon's original series Daisy Jones & The Six is your first introduction to actress and model Camila Morrone, her lead role in the A24 stoner comedy Never Goin' Back is proof that she was already on her way to success at the time of its release in 2018. Adapted from Taylor Jenkins Reid's 2019 novel of the same name, Daisy Jones & The Six follows the rise of a 1970s rock band, loosely based on Fleetwood Mac. Morrone's character is also named Camila, lead singer Billy's (Sam Claflin) caring, supportive wife (and mother of his child), who brings a calming presence to the otherwise chaotic The Six and helps keep them together on their way to global success. Never a member of the band herself, Camila's character is used to contrast that of the titular Daisy Jones (Riley Keough) and plays a mostly supporting role.

Set in the rock 'n' roll-heavy 1970s, Daisy Jones & The Six documents the rise and fall of a fictional rock band, with the characters played by a star-studded cast. The Prime original is based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Taylor Jenkins Reid, who was inspired by the career of Fleetwood Mac while writing it. The series focuses on the origins of the titular band as they carve a niche in the Los Angeles music scene following up to the events that led to their eventual breakup. It's certainly a heartbreaking and compelling story.

Apart from the songs by its fictional band, what makes Daisy Jones & The Six more interesting is the documentary format used by showrunners Scott Neustadter and Michael H Weber (both of whom co-wrote screenplays like 500 Days of Summer). The story is narrated through flashbacks by the band members as they reunited for a...

Though you’ll undoubtedly forget many times while you’re watching it, Prime Video’s music drama Daisy Jones & The Six is not based on a true story. At least, not really. Adapted from Taylor Jenkins Reid’s novel of the same name, this series about the titular band was inspired by the real life drama of classic ’70s rock group Fleetwood Mac.

While Fleetwood Mac is very much real (and great!), Daisy Jones & The Six is not real (though also great!). Still, that does not make the Behind the Music-esque drama they experience in these 10 episodes feel any less real. Contributing to that sense of verisimilitude is that the cast of Daisy Jones & The Six all fit their roles to a tee.

Aside from the series two eminently recognizable leads (and a bit of Raylan Givens thrown in there for good measure), this series enjoys the...

Stars: Kayla Adams, Matthew Holcomb, Chloe Berman, Bryan Roberts, Eric Alperin, Brad Worch II, Schno Mozingo | Written by Hans Rodionoff | Directed by Chris Johnston, Andy Malchiodi

Hex, not to be confused with several other films with the same title, opens with a montage of shots, old illustrations of demons, skydivers performing a risky manoeuvre, and blood being dripped on an altimeter as it’s being assembled. So it’s not a huge surprise when it ends with one of the parachutists falling to their death.

Ten years later Sarah is the new girl at the local skydiving club. Payson has been trying to get her to jump with his team, Lisa, Wade, Evan and Greg.

Why is he so insistent to add her to the crew? He wants to attempt The Hex, the risky and allegedly cursed formation jump we saw go wrong in the opening scenes.

Despite giving a...

The action horror film Hex, directed by the filmmaking duo of Chris Johnston and Andy Malchiodi in their feature debut, has been given a DVD and digital release courtesy of Lionsgate, and we’ve gotten our hands on the trailer for Hex to help you decide whether or not this is something you would like to watch. You can check it out in the embed above.

Hex was scripted by Hans Rodionoff, whose previous credits include The Skulls II, Saint Sinner, The Hollow, Man-Thing, Lost Boys: The Tribe, Lost Boys: The Thirst, Deep Blue Sea 2, and episodes of The Goldbergs. For this one, Rodionoff crafted the following story:

Six extreme thrill-seekers get more excitement than they can handle in this intense, pulse-pounding action-horror tale. Loner Sarah joins a team of skydivers to help them execute a dangerous formation jump called “The Hex,” ignoring warnings that the act may be cursed.

Augustine Frizzell is set to direct “The Invisible Life of Addie Larue,” a feature film adaptation of V.E. Schwab’s fantasy novel.

Frizzell will also write the script with her husband, filmmaker David Lowery. Schwab was initially on board to pen the screenplay from an initial draft by Britt Poulton and Dan Madison Savage. Though she’s no longer adapting her words for the big screen, Schwab will remain involved on the project as a producer.

“The Invisible Life of Addie Larue” follows a woman who makes a Faustian bargain to live forever. But in return, she’s cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. That all changes 300 years later, when Addie Larue stumbles upon a man who remembers her name. After the book was published, it remained on the New York Times bestseller list for 43 weeks and sold more than 1 million copies in its first year.

Frizzell made...

Exclusive: Spencer Stevenson (The Purge) has joined Kaitlyn Dever, Kyle Allen, Sean Teale, Isabela Merced, Minnie Driver and Bradley Whitford in the cast of Rosaline, 20th Century’s reimagining of Romeo and Juliet.

The film, based on the novel When You Were Mine by Rebecca Serle, is a modern twist on the classic Shakespeare tale. In it, we see “the most famous love story ever told” through the eyes of Juliet’s cousin Rosaline (Dever), a sharp but idealistic young woman—who happens to be Romeo’s recent ex.

Stevenson joins as Paris, Rosaline’s best friend and confidant who finds himself mixed up in the Romeo and Juliet storyline.

Karen Maine is directing Rosaline from a script by (500) Days of Summer’s Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber.

21 Laps, Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen are producing, with Emily Morris and Becca Edelman overseeing the project for 21 Laps, and Sarah Shepard overseeing for 20th Century.

‘Stillwater’ is eOne’s first theatrical release since October 2020.

Augustine Frizzell’s film of Jojo Moyes’ book The Last Letter From Your Lover leads the new titles in UK-Ireland cinemas this weekend, looking to work towards the result of previous Moyes’ adaptation Me Before You.

Released by Studiocanal in 550 locations, The Last Letter From Your Lover follows an ambitious journalist who attempts to solve the mystery of a forbidden affair at the centre of a series of secret love letters from 1964. A co-production between the UK’s Blueprint Pictures and Canada’s The Film Farm, it is being released by Netflix in the US.

The past isn’t just a different country, but a different movie entirely, in “The Last Letter From Your Lover,” a lushly mounted pair of love stories — one present, one past — that are faintly enmeshed but almost entirely disparate in tone, style and emotional impression. In the first, Shailene Woodley and Callum Turner fall hard for each other in an obstacle-strewn, 1960s-set romance of chance encounters, missed connections and moist-eyed rendezvous on railway platforms, channeling the vintage Hollywood melodrama of “An Affair to Remember.” In the second, Felicity Jones is a cut-glass hybrid of Carrie Bradshaw and Bridget Jones, falling only incidentally for the awkward archivist who assists her in piecing together the former story, before the narratives merge in a more British, neatly calligraphed rewrite of “The Notebook.”

Having previously made her name with the spiky, Sundance-stamped girls-gone-wild comedy “Never Goin’ Back,” director Augustine Frizzell doesn’t seem an...

You don’t have to be a sharp-edged journalist to see the obvious connection between the apparent heroines at the heart of Augustine Frizzell’s “The Last Letter from Your Lover,” including dull-edged journalist Ellie (Felicity Jones) and glamorous stifled ’60s housewife Jennifer (Shailene Woodley). Both women have been waylaid by love gone wrong, and can only hope to find true happiness by imagining — and then seizing — a new life for themselves.

It’s certainly a sweet concept for a novel, but one that never quite translates its disparate tones and stories into a cohesive cinematic experience.

But back to those different heroines. Split between two settings — and then, why not, one more — Frizzell’s film tracks the intersecting tales of Ellie and Jennifer, which are bound together by a series of wrenching love letters that captivate both of them. Jennifer was the recipient of those letters, but when we first meet her,...

Missed connections, imperfect timing and the courage required to choose love make up the thematic bulk of Netflix’s The Last Letter From Your Lover. Based on the 2010 novel of the same name by Jojo Moyes, this dreamy and atmospherically lush drama follows two women living in different periods of time, exercising sexual and romantic agency in societies bent on controlling their desires.

Directed by Augustine Frizzell (Never Goin’ Back), the film combines the nostalgic aesthetics of a Lana Del Rey music video (think “National Anthem”) with the emotional poignancy of a conventional romance flick like The Notebook. Frizzell and screenwriters Nick ...

Missed connections, imperfect timing and the courage required to choose love make up the thematic bulk of Netflix’s The Last Letter From Your Lover. Based on the 2010 novel of the same name by Jojo Moyes, this dreamy and atmospherically lush drama follows two women living in different periods of time, exercising sexual and romantic agency in societies bent on controlling their desires.

Directed by Augustine Frizzell (Never Goin’ Back), the film combines the nostalgic aesthetics of a Lana Del Rey music video (think “National Anthem”) with the emotional poignancy of a conventional romance flick like The Notebook. Frizzell and screenwriters Nick ...

Filmmaker Augustine Frizzell made her directorial debut with the 2018 indie film “Never Goin’ Back,” which was beloved at Sundance and eventually got picked up by A24. She’s quickly graduated to a bigger canvas in the sweeping romantic love story for Netflix, “Last Letter From Your Lover,” her first movie with stars and a big cast.

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The movie stars Felicity Jones, Callum Turner, Joe Alwyn, Nabhaan Rizwan, and Shailene Woodley.

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Actress turned filmmaker Augustine Frizzell makes her splashy Netflix feature debut with the upcoming romantic drama, “The Last Letter from Your Lover,” which is scheduled to drop on the streaming platform July 23. The film stars Shailene Woodley in her first major leading role since Drake Doremus’ 2019 “Endings, Beginnings” (also a romance), and she’s joined by Callum Turner, Academy Award nominee Felicity Jones, Joe Alwyn, and Nabhaan Rizwan. Along with a big international ensemble, the film also spans time periods (the 1960s and the present day) and locations (London and the French Riviera). Watch the first trailer below.

Here’s the official synopsis from Netfix: “A pair of interwoven stories set in the present and past, ‘The Last Letter from Your Lover’ follows Ellie Haworth (Felicity Jones), an ambitious journalist who discovers a trove of secret love letters from 1965 and becomes determined to solve the mystery of the forbidden affair at their center.

Filmmaker/actress Augustine Frizzell‘s sophomore feature could have perhaps preemed in 2020, but it looks like 2021 was perhaps a better bet. A Netflix project based on Jojo Moyes’ best-selling novel, The Last Letter From Your Lover might preem in the same lieu Never Goin’ Back did back in 2018 – just in an altogether different program section. The set in the 1960’s project features the likes of Shailene Woodley, Felicity Jones and Callum Turner and went into production in October 2019 in Mallorca and London.

Gist: Felicity Jones stars as a journalist in contemporary London who uncovers a series of love letters which recount a star-crossed love affair from the 1960s and she becomes obsessed with tracking them down to find out how their story ended.…...

Leonardo DiCaprio and Camila Morrone just made a major couple debut at the 2020 Academy Awards.

The pair, who were first spotted together at the end of 2017 and have been very private about their relationship, were spotted sitting next to each other in the front row of the 2020 Oscars, though they posed separately on the red carpet. As Janelle Monáe, Billy Porter and more took the stage for the opening performance, cameras panned to the front row A-listers, including DiCaprio and his girlfriend together side-by-side.

Read on for everything to know about Morrone.

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Last Letter from Your Lover

Director Augustine Frizzell commenced a London-set Canadian production of Last Letter from Your Lover for her sophomore feature not much time after putting out some television work in a pair of episodes for Sweetbitter. A Netflix project based on the best-selling novel by Jojo Moyes; produced by Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin, Stephen Traynor, Simone Urdl and Jennifer Weiss, Frizzell nabs Shailene Woodley and Felicity Jones (both executive producing) to headline, with Joe Alwyn, Nabhaan Rizwan, Callum Turner and Ncuti Gatwa also in the cast. Frizzell’s first feature, Never Goin’ Back, premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and was also programmed in SXSW.…...

In “Mickey and the Bear,” Mickey is the kind of kid who’s had to grow up too fast. Looking after her father Hank (James Badge Dale) — who’s both a veteran showing signs of Ptsd and an opioid addict — after her mom’s death from cancer has forced her to take on the duties of the house and to become her father’s caretaker.

She’s the one to make sure there’s dinner on the table, money to buy supplies, and that her dad’s prescriptions are filled. While other kids at her Montana school are wondering what they might do after graduation, Mickey’s halfheartedly resigned that this is her lot in life, to pick up her drunk dad from the local jail or hospital, to worry about him constantly or to watch out for his mood swings. But a series of events close to the end...

Exclusive: Camila Morrone (Mickey and the Bear) is set as a lead alongside Riley Keough in the upcoming Amazon original series Daisy Jones & The Six, based on the best-selling novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid, and executive produced by Reese Witherspoon.

Daisy Jones & The Six is a musical drama detailing the spectacular rise and precipitous fall of a renowned (fictional) rock band in the 1970s.

Born into privilege but ignored by her selfish parents, Daisy Jones (Keough) is a spirited and enigmatic singer-songwriter who comes of age and rises to rock superstardom against the backdrop of the 1970s L.A. music scene.

Morrone will play Camila, girlfriend of lead singer Billy Dunne and the band’s center of gravity. She follows the love of her life in his pursuit of rock stardom only to discover her own potential along the way.

Daisy Jones & The Six is executive produced by Reese...

When “Mickey and the Bear” actors Camila Morrone and James Badge Dale wrapped the emotionally heavy final scenes of the indie drama, they needed a disco party and some Beyonce to decompress.

“It was taxing towards the end when we had to do those big, heavyweight emotional scenes in the last two days of filming,” Morrone told TheWrap’s Beatrice Verhoeven, to which Dale added, “With this film, it goes in a certain direction but we worked so hard to keep it light. We worked so hard to have fun on set.”

The two actors explained that they shot the last scenes of the films chronologically, so wrapping with the final shot that was the most demanding emotionally was a shock to both of them, because, as Attanasio says, there was no sense of “closure.” “It was actually quite shocking to end on that scene,” she added.

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"I'm not going anywhere..." Utopia has debuted the first official trailer for a small town indie drama called Mickey and the Bear, marking the feature directorial debut of actress Annabelle Attanasio. This first premiered at the SXSW Film Festival this year, and has also stopped by Iffb, and the Seattle, Montclair, Deauville, and Hamptons Film Festivals. Faced with the responsibility to take care of her opioid addicted, veteran father, headstrong independent teen Mickey Peck keeps her household afloat. Camila Morrone plays Mickey, with a cast including James Badge Dale as her father, Calvin Demba, Ben Rosenfield, and Rebecca Henderson. This will definitely be a career-defining role for Morrone, "she shines as Mickey" and lead her role is reminiscent of Jennifer Lawrence in Winter's Bone. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Annabelle Attanasio's Mickey and the Bear, direct from YouTube: It's April in Anaconda, Montana, and headstrong teenager Mickey Peck...

Utopia, the recently launched sales and distribution company, has acquired the worldwide rights to “Mickey and the Bear,” which stars Camila Morrone in a father-daughter drama, the company announced Wednesday.

“Mickey and the Bear” played at Cannes as part of the Cannes Acid section of the festival, and it made its world premiere at SXSW earlier this year. Utopia plans to release the film in the fall of this year.

“Mickey and the Bear” takes place in Anaconda, Montana, where headstrong teenager Mickey Peck (Morrone) is doing what she can to keep her single, veteran father Hank (James Badge Dale) afloat, navigating his mercurial moods, opioid addiction, and grief over the loss of his wife. Secretly, Mickey fantasizes of going to college on the west coast and finally living life on her own terms. When Hank’s controlling, jealous behavior turns destructive, Mickey must decide between familial obligation and personal...

Sexual power plays and slut-shaming are the central themes of “Slut in a Good Way,” director Sophie Lorain’s slight but amiable story of three straight teenage girls and their romantic lives. Shot in black and white and set mostly in a retail environment, the French-Canadian film gives off a “Clerks” vibe as the trio of protagonists slack off, bitch about pay, and talk about life and love.

Catherine Léger’s story starts off in a sex shop as 17-year-old Charlotte (Marguerite Bouchard) looks for a bustier that matches one she saw in one of her boyfriend’s porn clips. What she buys doesn’t have the desired effect, though it wouldn’t have mattered what she chose: Her boyfriend tells her that he’s gay. So she gets drunk on a playground with friends Mégane (Romane Denis) and Aube (Rose Adam), lamenting that he’s “perfect” and she loves him.

Summertime sisterhood stoner comedies are hard to come by...particularly when they are refreshingly biting and candid in wild impishness. Writer/director Augustine Frizzell's film feature debut Never Goin' Back is gloriously telling in its subversive skin detailing the rollicking trials and tribulations of a couple of Texan teen girls going against the conventional grid in their youthful, stillborn lives. Frizell, whose artistry has ranged from acting to costume designing, possesses an honest, irreverent and observational eye on the wayward mindset of young female-centric co-dependency attached at the hedonistic hip. Think of a junior-sized Thelma and Louise meets the hyper antics of Harold and Kumar combined with the Cheech and Chong haze and one pretty much has an idea how audacious, playfully reckless and flippant Never Goin' Back is in its acidic spunk. In short,...

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First-time writer-director Augustine Frizzell brings her wild upbringing to the big screen in her first feature, Never Goin' Back, according to the film’s stars, Camila Morrone, Maia Mitchell and Kyle Mooney. The stars of the film praised her leadership while filming in rural Texas.

“She was really confident, trusted us a lot, which was great because it is her story and a lot of what we’re doing is pulled from her life, but she was super trusting, let us take the reins and she knew exactly what she wanted,” Mitchell told The Hollywood ...

First-time writer-director Augustine Frizzell brings her wild upbringing to the big screen in her first feature, Never Goin' Back, according to the film’s stars, Camila Morrone, Maia Mitchell and Kyle Mooney. The stars of the film praised her leadership while filming in rural Texas.

“She was really confident, trusted us a lot, which was great because it is her story and a lot of what we’re doing is pulled from her life, but she was super trusting, let us take the reins and she knew exactly what she wanted,” Mitchell told The Hollywood ...

Put “Never Goin’ Back” stars Camila Morrone and Maia Mitchell in a kitchen with TheWrap’s Beatrice Verhoeven to make pancakes in honor of the movie, and you’ll get bland, deformed flapjacks and a whole lot of laughter.

“There’s a particular scene in the film where we may or may not be under the influence of a certain natural drug, and we are at work and we see pancakes,” Mitchell explained while mixing the batter.

“Never Goin’ Back,” in limited release now, stars the two actresses as best friends, who in order to take a birthday trip to the beach try to take up more shifts at work, but everything — and we mean, everything — goes wrong in the process.

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The film first premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival in...

Two specialty releases played to good opening numbers in exclusive showings over the weekend. Sundance ’18 debut Madeline’s Madeline by Josephine Decker grossed $20,225 in the three-day from its playdate at the Quad Cinemas in New York via Oscilloscope, while fellow Sundancer Skate Kitchen by Crystal Moselle opened at IFC Center via Magnolia Pictures for a $17K in the three-day estimate.

Well Go USA launched Chinese dramedy The Island by Huang Bo in 40 locations Friday, the widest of the weekend’s new specialty releases. The Island grossed $282,500, also the highest absolute gross among the newcomers. Well Go USA also opened Erik Matti’s action-thriller, BayBust in 25 theaters, grossing $75K ($3K average).

Last weekend’s number one debut, The Miseducation of Cameron Post from FilmRise expanded to 25 runs in its second frame, grossing $108K. Along With The Gods: The Last 49 Days from Well Go USA went down to 36 theaters from its...

Is this the weirdest movie reimagining yet? In the grand tradition of nostalgic reboots like Ghostbusters, Baywatch, and Jumanji, it's now time for your favorite '90s holiday movie to be completely reworked as an R-rated comedy. And Ryan Reynolds is attached, though it sounds like he won't have a starring role.

Deadline reports that Reynolds is set to produce Stoned Alone, a reimagining of the family classic Home Alone, which swaps 8-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) with a 20-something stoner. In a plot reminiscent of the original movie, the central character finds himself flying solo for the holidays after missing a flight. He fills his time smoking weed until burglars interrupt his plans, and he finds himself having to protect his home while stoned (and paranoid). Yep, you read that right.

Fox is developing the feature from an idea by exec Matt Reilly, with a script by Kevin Burrows and Matt Mider.

Home Alone is getting the reboot treatment. But it's not what you think. This won't be a family friendly comedy that's viewed around the Thanksgiving dinner table. This will be an R-rated stoner comedy. And it's coming from one of the filthy masterminds behind Deadpool, Ryan Reynolds.

Ryan Reynolds is set to produce Stoned Alone. This new version is being called more of a reimagining. It's still coming from 20th Century Fox, the studio that gave us the original. And it appears that they're getting their rocks off and their socks off before Fox becomes swallowed up by Disney. Because we can't imagine Alan Horn being okay with this.

Stoned Alone will carry the same spirit as Home Alone. It will be a fine blend of that original John Hughes holiday classic mixed with a bunch of raunchy jokes. The movie is currently in development. But it isn't noted whether...

Home Alone is getting the reboot treatment. But it's not what you think. This won't be a family friendly comedy that's viewed around the Thanksgiving dinner table. This will be an R-rated stoner comedy. And it's coming from one of the filthy masterminds behind Deadpool, Ryan Reynolds.

Ryan Reynolds is set to produce Stoned Alone. This new version is being called more of a reimagining. It's still coming from 20th Century Fox, the studio that gave us the original. And it appears that they're getting their rocks off and their socks off before Fox becomes swallowed up by Disney. Because we can't imagine Alan Horn being okay with this.

Stoned Alone will carry the same spirit as Home Alone. It will be a fine blend of that original John Hughes holiday classic mixed with a bunch of raunchy jokes. The movie is currently in development. But it isn't noted whether...

Stoned Alone, an R-rated Home Alone re-imagining, is in the works from Fox and Ryan Reynolds.

Reynolds, who just released Deadpool 2 with the studio, will produce the comedy about a 20-something stoner who, after missing the plane for his holiday ski trip, gets high and becomes paranoid that people are breaking into his house. While high, he tries to thwart the thieves who have actually, really broken into his house.

Kevin Burrows and Matt Mider wrote the feature that will be directed by Augustine Frizzell, whose Sundance feature Never Goin' Back will soon be release by A24. Burrows and Mider ...

Director Augustine Firzzell's debut feature, Never Goin' Back is the exuberant story of two girls living day-to-day whose only aspiration is a trip to the beach. Unfortunately for them, they are broke and everyone they know is a total loser, which makes it difficult for them to get their shit together. Oh, and they are kind of fuck-ups themselves, but in a charming kinda way. Starring relative feature film newcomers, Maia Mitchell and Camila Morrone, Never Goin' Back is a coming of age story unlike any we've seen recently. Mixing the excitement and empathy of the work of Sean Baker with the warts and all view of female adolescence of Catherine Hardwicke's Thirteen, Never Goin' Back looks like a really interesting exploration of growing up....

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A red-band trailer has been released for the upcoming raunchy coming-of-age film Never Goin' Back. The movie centers around two young women, who have no idea what to do with their lives. They are a couple of irresponsible slackers who are looking for a way to escape the crappy lives that they are living. Here's the synopsis:

Never Goin’ Back is a fresh and funny look at female friendship, following Angela (Maia Mitchell) and Jessie (Camila Morrone), who dream of escaping their waitressing jobs at a low-rent Texas diner, even if it’s only to Galveston. Taking place over just a few days, the film follows their hilarious and unpredictable misadventures on the streets of suburban Dallas as they attempt increasingly madcap and wild schemes to try and raise some cash.

I had a chance to see the movie and Sundance earlier this year and while there were some funny moments,...

A24 has released the first red-band trailer for “Never Goin’ Back,” a raunchy comedy starring Cami Morrone and Maia Mitchell.

In the trailer, Angela (Mitchell) gets her friend Jessie (Morrone) a trip to Galveston, Texas, for her birthday. But of course, in the midst of preparing for their trip, everything goes wrong.

The film, written and directed by Augustine Frizzell, debuted at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. Toby Halbrooks, James M. Johnston, David Lowery and Liz Cardenas produced.

Also Read: Sundance, SXSW Comedy 'Never Goin' Back' Sells to A24

Kyle Mooney, Aristotle Abraham II and Joel Allen also star in the film.

A24 picked up the rights to the film in March, a week before the comedy was set to screen at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas.

“Never Goin’ Back” hits theaters Aug. 3.

Watch the trailer above.

Read original story Maia Mitchell, Cami Morrone Fall Off the Deep End in First ‘Never Goin’ Back’ Trailer (Video) At TheWrap...

From RedBand.Ca, Sneak Peek restricted 'red band' footage, supporting the latest teenage 'coming-of-age' feature "Never Goin' Back", written and directed by Augustine Frizzell, starring Maia Mitchell, Camila Morrone and Kyle Mooney, opening August 3, 2018:

"...'Jessie' and 'Angela', both high school dropouts, take a week off to chill at the beach. Too bad their house got robbed, rent's due, they're about to get fired and they're broke..."

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Never Goin' Back"...

"Well, well, well, look at this!" A24 has debuted the first official red band trailer for a wild teenager stoner comedy titled Never Goin' Back, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. I heard great things about this film, but didn't have a chance to catch it myself during the fest. The film has elicited some odd but accurate comparisons to American Honey or Spring Breakers, two other films released by A24 already. Jessie and Angela, high school dropouts, are taking a week off to chill at the beach. Too bad their house got robbed, rent's due, they're about to get fired, and they're broke. Maia Mitchell and Camila Morrone star, and the cast includes Kyle Mooney, Joel Allen, and Aristotle Abraham II. This looks hilarious and crazy awesome in all the most wicked, amusing ways possible. Get the bong ready and enjoy. Here's the first official...

Does Camila DiCaprio have a nice ring to it? As their Pda at Coachella attests, model Camila Morrone and Oscar winner Leonardo DiCaprio seem smitten with each other. Photos from Rihanna's FentyxPuma party at the Californian music fest show Camila with her arm around Leonardo's neck, for example. But who is this 20-year-old, anyway, and what is it with Leo dating much younger women? Hailing from Argentina, Camila is already making a splash in the modeling world. The 5-foot-9 beauty has posed for Sephora and Topshop ad campaigns, as well as Act 1 and Jalouse magazines. And she made the cover of Vogue Turkey in September 2016. A post shared by Camila Morrone (@camimorrone) on Apr 15, 2018 at 12:11pm Pdt More recently, Camila has been breaking into film. Just this year, for example, she starred in the indie drama Never Goin' Back and the thriller Death Wish — playing Bruce Willis'...

Rising director Augustine Frizzell is to direct the pilot for HBO's Kids-meets-Trainspotting pilot Euphoria. The director, whose directorial debut Never Goin' Back was picked up by A24, is overseeing the teen drama pilot, which is based on an Israeli format. It is the latest project for Texas filmmaker Frizzell, who also co-exec produce. The A24 Television-produced show, which was announced at the Intv conference in Jerusalem organized by Keshet, will be written by Sam…...

A24 founding partner John Hodges announced that he will be leaving the indie studio that he helped launch nearly six years ago, the company announced Monday. Fellow founding partners Daniel Katz and David Fenkel will continue to oversee the NYC-based indie studio, which has seen great success with Oscar-winning films such as “Room,” “Ex Machina” and last year’s surprise Best Picture winner “Moonlight.” Hodges, who previously served as head of production at the indie production company Big Beach (“Little Miss Sunshine”), did not announce any immediate career plans. Also Read: Sundance, SXSW Comedy 'Never Goin' Back' Sells to A24 “John has been a...