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My Old Ass is a coming-of-age sci-fi comedy-drama film written and directed by Megan Park. The Prime Video film follows Elliott, an 18-year-old who takes mushrooms on her birthday and comes face-to-face with her wisecracking 39-year-old. Soon, she is contacted by her older self who gives her life advice which makes Elliott forces to rethink everything from family to love. My Old Ass stars Maisy Stella, Percy Hynes White, Maddie Ziegler, Kerrice Brooks, and Aubrey Plaza. So, if you loved the coming-of-age drama, comedic tone, and compelling characters in My Old Ass here are some similar movies you should check out next.

The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (Prime Video) Credit – Amazon Studios

The Map of Tiny Perfect Things is a sci-fi romantic comedy-drama film directed by Ian Samuels from a screenplay by Lev Grossman. Based on Grossman...

Chongdol Dew Sukulworapat and Noppharat Ramwong’s “Love Stuck” riffs on a time-loop romance. It tries to amp up charm, innocence, and relatability while invoking sci-fi elements. The mix of science fiction and romance doesn’t yield great results. It’s an inchoate balance that is not as arresting and playful as it should be. There’s no sparkle, just a routine, repetitive, and colorless string of loop-like incidents that promises inventiveness but delivers little. It’s too unsatisfying and the thinly stretched narrative keeps going in circles. This doesn’t work despite it being the undergirding conceit.

A story like this demands surprise and innovation, formally weaving it within the intricacies of recurring narrative elements and tricks. The film rests on romance as crafting a tender, strong, and binding way out of the destabilizing mess of the time loop. It becomes a soothing, grounding presence amidst the suffocating tension of the situation.

Kathryn Newton received the flak from fans last year for her role in the disappointing Ant-Man 3. But fans may have been a little too harsh on her after she just proved how much of a sweetheart she really is. After a photo of her with a fan was posted on social media, fans are now praising her for how she handled the fan’s request.

Kathryn Newton as Lisa Swallows in Lisa Frankenstein | Credits: Focus Features

In the photo, the fan is seen carrying Newton in his arms. After her stint as Cassie Lang in Ant-Man 3, Newton made a comeback with her performance in the horror comedy film, Abigail. She also starred as the eponymous character in the Zelda Williams-directed film Lisa Frankenstein.

Kathryn Newton’s Interaction With A Fan Puts Her On A Special Pedestal For Fans Kathryn Newton as Sammy in Abigail | Credits: Universal Pictures...

Exclusive: Lionsgate Television and 3 Arts Entertainment have preemptively acquired the rights to bestselling The Magicians author Lev Grossman’s new novel The Bright Sword for series development.

Set to be published July 16, The Bright Sword is described as “the first major Arthurian epic of the new millennium steeped in tradition, full of duels and quests, battles and tournaments, magic swords and Fisher Kings.”

Search is underway for a showrunner who will executive produce the potential series alongside Grossman and 3 Arts Entertainment’s Erwin Stoff.

The Bright Sword follows a gifted young knight named Collum who arrives at Camelot to compete for a spot on the Round Table, only to find that he’s too late. King Arthur is dead, and only a handful of the knights of the Round Table survive. They’re the oddballs of the Round Table, and this ragtag fellowship will set out to rebuild Camelot...

Exclusive: Sofia Carson (Purple Hearts), Kyle Allen (A Haunting in Venice), Sebastian De Souza (Fair Play), and Connie Britton (The White Lotus) have signed on to star in The Life List, a new Netflix rom-com from writer-director Adam Brooks.

Based on the 2013 novel by Lori Nelson Spielman, The Life List‘s logline is as follows: When Alex Rose’s (Carson) mother sends her on a quest to complete her childhood bucket list, it takes her on a journey that will make you both laugh and cry as she uncovers family secrets, finds romance, and discovers herself along the way.

Liza Chasin is producing for 3dot Productions. The film falls under Chasin’s first-look deal with the streamer, announced in 2019, which also covers her upcoming Morocco-set love story Lonely Planet starring Laura Dern, Liam Hemsworth, and Diana Silvers. Exec producers of The Life List include Hutch Parker,...

Camila Mendes delivers a great performance in Upgraded, elevating the material. Upgraded is a cozy comfort watch for fans of traditional romantic comedies, with a strong supporting cast. While it hints at socially relevant topics, it never delivers on them, and the film can feel derivative at times and doesn't follow through on its potential.

Upgraded, not to be confused with Leigh Whannel's 2018 R-rated action movie Upgrade, is the latest entry from Prime Video as their major Valentine's Day weekend tie-in. Starting in 2021 with the release of The Map of Tiny Perfect Things, the streamer has released yearly romance movies as a viewing option for couples over the romantic holiday that in the past likely would have been mid-budget theatrical releases. These have yielded mixed results, from 2022's delightfully funny I Want You Back to the well-intentioned but tonally confused Somebody I Used to Know in 2023. Upgraded feels like...

15 years ago Diablo Cody and Karyn Kusama joined forced to deliver "Jennifer's Body," a genuine cult classic that went from mismarketed box office failure maligned by critics who didn't understand its brilliance, to the reclaimed favorite that became one of the selling points in the marketing for "Lisa Frankenstein." Cody returns to the teen horror comedy space alongside Zelda Williams (in her feature directorial debut) with a zany, heartfelt, and unapologetically odd story about a particularly peculiar high school outcast named Lisa (Kathryn Newton) who goes on a murderous adventure with the reanimated corpse of a young man — whose grave she hangs out at — in search of new limbs, a sense of autonomy, and maybe even love.

Set against the backdrop of the candy-coated neon bubblegum of the 1980s, "Lisa Frankenstein" makes no qualms about being for weirdos, and by weirdos. It's the resulting lovechild of a raucous orgy between "Edward Scissorhands,...

Kathryn Newton’s feature film career continues to bear fruit.

Just five years ago, she was a series regular on two hit television series, HBO’s Big Little Lies and Netflix’s The Society, but when the pandemic played a role in the un-renewal of the latter, Newton wasted no time amassing an impressive slate of films. First up was Christopher Landon’s well-received slasher comedy, Freaky, that made three times its $6 million production budget during the height of the pandemic. She then followed that up with Ian Samuels’ hidden time-loop gem, The Map of Tiny Perfect Things, on Amazon Prime Video. In between these two films, she also received a career-altering offer to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Ant-Man’s daughter, Cassie Lang, beginning with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023) and potentially a Young Avengers movie at some point.

That brings us to her busy 2024, as Newton made...

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All the Light We Cannot See (Netflix)

Synopsis: The story of Marie-Laure, a blind French teenager, and Werner, a German soldier, whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.

Bio: Tobias Schliessler‘s career has included “Patriots Day,” “Beauty and the Beast,...

A young and innocent love that sparks from being in a time loop together — a love story that faces different hurdles than most. A 2021 romantic-time loop film called The Map of Tiny Perfect Things explores just that. Two young adults, Mark (Kyle Allen) and Margaret (Kathryn Newton), are the only ones who realize they are stuck in a time loop, and they decide to take advantage of it.

While the movie isn't the first about people stuck in a time loop, and it won't be the last, it is one that stood out to audiences because it's based on a short story. It resonated with viewers and critics so much that it was nominated for a Critics' Choice Award.

If you are confused about the ending of The Map of Tiny Perfect Things, here is everything you need to know.

How It Started

Focusing also on grief and love, the...

Kenneth Branagh looks all set to continue his love affair with the world of Agatha Christie this year, with the pending release of A Haunting in Venice, Branagh's third adaptation of Christie's Hercule Poirot detective novels. Christie's most famous crime-solving creation has been played on TV and in film by a host of world-famous actors over the years, including stars of House Hugh Laurie, Alfred Molina, and Albert Finney, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in the 1974 version of Murder on the Orient Express.

However, the most successful portrayal was that of David Suchet, who first took on the role for the British TV channel ITV in 1989 and proved so successful with audiences that he went on to play the part for the next quarter-century, retiring only in 2013 after filming 13 series and 70 episodes based on Christie's works, alongside such luminaries of stage and screen as two-time...

"I've been trying to get out more, and put myself out more." This short film premiered years ago but it's just now showing up online and it's worth a watch - it's just under 15 minutes. Some really impressive puppet work for the main character. Myrna the Monster is written and directed by Ian Samuels, who went on to make the feature films The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (which I really enjoyed) for Amazon, and Sierra Burgess Is a Loser for Netflix. Myrna first premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and it also played at the SXSW, Dallas, Nashville, and Montclair Film Festivals. A heart-broken alien dreamer from the moon named Myrna transitions into adult life in Los Angeles like any other 20-something. It's actually a touching little story about loneliness and connection. With the voice of Kathleen Hanna and Victor Yerrid as the puppeteer for Myrna, and animation by Ethan Clarke.

Numerous fascinating concepts can be found in sci-fi and fantasy, and one of the most interesting ones that occasionally gets used is the time loop (temporal loop). Movies that fall under this category normally feature characters being forced to relive the same day or experience again due to circumstances beyond their control. As such, they frantically try their best to get out of it.

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The resetting of time normally happens as a result of a specific action, such as a character's death, a wish, or the clock striking a certain minute. As for the origins, the earliest instances of repetitive events can be found in P. D. Ouspensky's 1915 best-selling novel, Strange Life of Ivan Osokin, but the idea has been used more in film and television ever since.

Boss Level (2020)

In Boss Level, Frank Grillo delivers yet another incredible performance as the former Delta Force member,...

Kathryn Newton, Angus Cloud, and Will Catlett have been set for Universal Pictures’ untitled monster thriller from Radio Silence. The pic has been set for an April 19, 2024 release.

The trio join Melissa Barrera, Alisha Weir, Dan Stevens, and Kevin Durand in the thriller. Radio Silence is comprised of Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett. Chad Villella is producing alongside William Sherak, Paul Neinstein and James Vanderbilt at Project X Entertainment. Script was written by Stephen Sheilds, with revisions by Guy Busick.

In the vein of Uni’s recent films like The Invisible Man and Renfield, this untitled monster thriller provides a unique take on legendary monster lore and will rep a fresh, new direction for those classic characters.

Tripp Vinson will produce as well with Radio Silence and Project X, who are recently coming off the $169M global grossing success of Scream VI that Bettinelli-Olpin & Gillett directed, Project X produced and...

Universal’s upcoming monster thriller, directed by “Scream” and “Scream VI” filmmakers Radio Silence, has added to its buzzy cast, with Kathryn Newton, Angus Cloud and Will Catlett signing on for the film.

The trio join “Scream VI” star Melissa Barrera, Alisha Weir, Dan Stevens and Kevin Durand in the yet-to-be-titled movie, which is set for release on April 19, 2024.

Hot off the success of their “Scream” films, which reinvigorated the franchise and set box office records, Radio Silence’s Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett will direct the project from a script by Stephen Sheilds, with revisions by Guy Busick. Radio Silence’s Chad Villella serves as producer alongside William Sherak, Paul Neinstein and James Vanderbilt at Project X Entertainment. Tripp Vinson will also produce.

Details of the plot are being kept under wraps but the movie is described as in the vein of Universal’s most recent monster movies, “Renfield” and “The Invisible Man,...

The new live-action TV series "Saturdays", created by Norman Vance Jr., stars Danielle Jalade ("Yes Day") as 'Paris Johnson', Daria Johns ("Nappily Ever After") as 'Simone Samson', Golden Brooks ("Girlfriends'') as 'Deb Johnson', Omar Gooding ("Barbershop") as 'Cal Johnson', Jermaine Harris ("The Map of Tiny Perfect Things") as 'London Johnson', Peyton Basnight ("Sudden Sisters") as 'Ari' and Tim Johnson Jr. ("Ballers") as 'Derek "D-Rok', streaming March 25, 2023 on Disney+:

"...'Simone' and 'Ari' hone their roller skating skills on the cool parquet floor of 'Saturdays', a local skating rink in Chicago. Together they form the 'We-b-Girlz' skate crew and are determined to show and prove they have the hottest skate routines on the planet..."

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Before her most recent role as Cassandra Lang in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Kathryn Newton has had a long career starring in both lead and supporting roles in film and television. With small roles in the Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Lady Bird, and Big Little Lies, and lead roles in films like Detective Pikachu and The Map of Tiny Perfect Things. But her most impressive performance was her short-lived role as Allie Pressman in The Society, a Netflix original series that was canceled after its first season as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Warning: This post contains major spoilers for Ant-Man and the Wasp: QuantumaniaAnt-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania officially kicks off the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Phase Five, and it’s got a cast full of familiar faces and new ones. Directed by Peyton Reed from a screenplay by Jeff Loveness, Quantumania is the first MCU film to feature Kang the Conqueror, who previously made his debut in Loki season 1 as He Who Remains.

Scott Lang is living his best life after the events of Avengers: Endgame. He’s back with his daughter Cassie, and he’s even written a book about his adventures with the Avengers. But this happiness doesn’t last for too long because he, Cassie, and the Pym family are sucked into the Quantum Realm. Together they must face Kang and stop him from leaving to wreak havoc on the multiverse. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania wraps up...

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Kathryn Newton is having the opposite of a quarter-life crisis. Never one to shy away from setting ambitious goals, she told herself that “if you don’t get to be a Marvel superhero by the age of 25, get something else going—don’t quit acting, but find something else, go back to college.” So what a birthday gift it is to hit that career milestone right under the wire: The actress, who has been working in Hollywood almost her entire life, will turn 26 while jetting between premieres for Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, out Feb. 17.

Even though she’ll be boarding a red-eye to Toronto instead of blowing out candles, Newton feels very lucky to combine these personal and professional achievements. “If I’m promoting a movie or on a movie on my birthday,...

Nobody is having a better week than Paul Rudd, but Kathryn Newton’s past week comes a close second.

The Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania star just celebrated her birthday on Feb. 8 while promoting her MCU debut as Scott Lang/Ant-Man’s daughter, Cassie Lang. The role has been a long-time dream for Newton, and as much as she’s made the character her own, she still went back to reference Abby Ryder Fortson’s work as Young Cassie in Ant-Man (2015) and Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018).

“Abby was so cute and joyful and just magical in both movies. So we thought about her a lot, especially in creating what she looks like now,” Newton tells The Hollywood Reporter. “So I had a seamless transition, and … she still has that same spark of energy, that joy, that love and a big, big heart.”

Newton also starred in Christopher Landon’s body-swap slasher film,...

In a rather fitting fashion, the Groundhog Day formula has been used time and time and time again, particularly in modern rom-coms. Whether it's the Happy Death Day movies, Palm Springs, The Map of Tiny Perfect Things, or About Time, this time-honored tradition (as it were) has proven successful more often than not of late — though Hollywood has the benefit of simply trying it again, even (or especially) if it doesn't work out. Thus, it's once again time to return to the genre with Peacock's Meet Cute, a time-traveling sci-fi rom-com that allows Kaley Cuoco to perfect her meet-cute with Pete Davidson until she gets it right ... or, perhaps, perfectly wrong. And, as the trailer reveals, there's a reason why Hollywood producers love to try out this familiar format again and again and again.

Exclusive: Grammy-winning singer Sza and Euphoria breakout Chloe Cherry have signed on to star alongside Eddie Huang (Boogie) in Tuna Melt, an off-beat dramedy that he wrote and will direct for Sb Projects and Ryder Picture Company.

Tuna Melt is likened to an updated Pulp Fiction meets High Fidelity. Huang will lead the darkly comedic feature as a hitman who unexpectedly meets the love of his life soon after he completes a job. This all transpires in the aftermath of a break-up. While Sza will play Huang’s love interest, details as to Cherry’s role are being kept under wraps.

Scooter Braun and James Shin will produce for Sb Projects, along with Aaron Ryder and Andrew Swett for Ryder Picture Company. Huang is also producing, with Scott Manson serving as exec producer.

Huang is a writer, director, actor, chef and television personality who made his feature directorial debut with...

Exclusive: Prolific film and television writer-producer-director Akiva Goldsman and his Weed Road Picture have signed with Tfc Management, the boutique lit management company launched in 2020 by WME’s David Stone and UTA’s Ben Jacobson.

Oscar winner Goldsman has four series currently on the air, which he created/co-created and executive produces: Paramount+’s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, whose first season is currently running, and Star Trek: Picard, whose second season was released earlier this year, Apple TV+’s The Crowded Room, which has started production, and HBO Max’s Titans, which is filming its fourth season. Goldsman also will exec produce the upcoming series The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.

“Great partners are a rare find, and I feel tremendously fortunate to have connected with David,” said Goldsman. “Working in collaboration, Tfc is a force multiplier for us at Weed Road Pictures. We are thrilled by the prospect...

Tonight was the 27th Critics Choice Awards, and we're running down all of the TV winners!

Find out if your favorites walked away with an award.

Here we go!

Best Drama Series

Evil (Paramount+)

For All Mankind (Apple TV+)

The Good Fight (Paramount+)

Pose (FX)

Squid Game (Netflix)

Succession (HBO) - Winner

This Is Us (NBC)

Yellowjackets (Showtime)

Best Actor In A Drama Series

Sterling K. Brown – This Is Us (NBC)

Mike Colter – Evil (Paramount+)

Brian Cox – Succession (HBO)

Lee Jung-jae – Squid Game (Netflix) - Winner

Billy Porter – Pose (FX)

Jeremy Strong – Succession (HBO)

Best Actress In A Drama Series

Uzo Aduba – In Treatment (HBO)

Chiara Aurelia – Cruel Summer (Freeform)

Christine Baranski – The Good Fight (Paramount+)

Katja Herbers – Evil (Paramount+)

Melanie Lynskey – Yellowjackets (Showtime) - Winner

Mj Rodriguez – Pose (FX)

Best Supporting Actor In A Drama Series

Nicholas Braun – Succession (HBO)

Billy Crudup – The Morning Show (Apple TV+)

Kieran Culkin...

Cory Finley’s feature adaptation of National Book Award winner Landscape With Invisible Hand has added Clifton Collins Jr., Michael Gandolfini (The Many Saints of Newark), Josh Hamilton (Eighth Grade) and Brooklynn MacKinzie (Truth Be Told).

Production begins this week on Finley’s third movie following the critically acclaimed Thoroughbreds and Bad Education.

The new stars join Asante Blackk, Tiffany Haddish, and Kylie Rogers in the big screen take of M.T. Anderson’s novel, which is a heightened comedy set in a deeply stratified, alien future.

Plan B’s Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner are producing with Annapurna’s Megan Ellison and Sue Naegle.

Collins Jr. currently stars in Guillermo Del Toro’s Nightmare Alley and the upcoming After Yang from director Kogonada. He won the Sundance Special Jury acting award in the U.S. Dramatic section for Jockey last year, a part that’s also landed...

Clifton Collins Jr., Michael Gandolfini, Josh Hamilton and Brooklynn MacKinzie have joined the cast of Cory Finley’s “Landscape With Invisible Hand.”

The quartet join previously announced stars Asante Blackk, Tiffany Haddish and Kylie Rogers in the film adaptation from MGM, Plan B Entertainment and Annapurna Pictures.

Based on National Book Award winner M.T. Anderson’s novel of the same name, “Landscape With Invisible Hand” is described as a “heightened comedy set in a deeply stratified, alien future.”

Production on the film begins this week, marking writer-director Finley’s third movie following the critically-acclaimed “Thoroughbreds” and “Bad Education.” Plan B’s Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner are producing the project with Annapurna’s Megan Ellison and Sue Naegle.

Collins Jr. can currently be seen in Guillermo Del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley,” and will next appear in Kogonada’s “After Yang.” In 2021, the actor earned rave reviews for his leading performance in “Jockey,...

The "Masters of the Universe" live action film has a new home and a new lead. We've learned via press release that the movie, which was previously in development at Sony, has moved to Netflix. There, it'll become the most recent production sourced from a Mattel property, alongside two other He-Man related series that have recently aired.

Actor and dancer Kyle Allen will take on the role of Prince Adam, also known as He-Man. Allen had a breakout role as Balkan in Steven Spielberg's "West Side Story" and appeared in the Critics Choice nominated film "The Map of Tiny Perfect Things" in 2021....

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The live-action feature film adaptation of “Masters of the Universe” has finally anointed its He-Man: rising actor Kyle Allen.

Producer Mattel Studios and Netflix announced that the “West Side Story” actor will take up the sword and skimpy costume of the ’80s icon in a film to be directed and co-written by The Nee Brothers (of the upcoming Sandra Bullock film “The Lost City” and “Band of Robbers”).

In “Masters of the Universe,” Allen will play an orphan named Adam who discovers he is a prince destined to be the savior of a faraway land. He must quickly learn of his power and the importance of saving his true home from an evil force. Previously at Sony Pictures, the project was officially announced by Netflix after months of further development. Sony will retain release rights to the project in China, insiders familiar with the deal said.

“’Masters of the Universe...

“Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist” only won a handful of awards over the course of its two-season run on NBC, but it may be adding a few more trophies to the mantle with its new TV movie. “Zoey’s Extraordinary Christmas,” which was released by The Roku Channel on Dec. 1, is nominated at the Critics Choice Awards for Best TV Movie, where it has emerged as an odds-on favorite to win.

“Zoey’s Extraordinary Christmas” picks up where the Season 2 finale left off while also functioning as a joyful Christmas special unto itself. The film centers on Zoey (Jane Levy) as she must face the first holiday season without her father, Mitch (Peter Gallagher), and sets out to recapture the magic of Christmas past as a tribute to him. At the same time, Max (Skylar Astin) is learning what it means to have the same musical powers as Zoey, as teased in the final minutes of the finale.

The 2022 Critics Choice Awards nominations for TV were announced on December 6 with HBO’s family drama “Succession” earning eight nominations. Next in line with five bids apiece were HBO’s limited series “Mare of Easttown” and Paramount +’s drama series “Evil.” The critics’ group also created a brand new category this year, Best Foreign Language Series, no doubt in response to the behemoth that is Netflix’s “Squid Game” — the Korean drama contends there and in two other categories. See the complete list of Critics Choice TV nominations below.

SEEWatch our ‘Squid Game’ chats with 7 actors, creator Hwang Dong-hyuk, plus more cast and crew

The trophies for television and film will be handed out Sunday, January 9 at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles. The show will be simulcast on CW and TBS live from 7-10 p.m. Et (delayed on the West Coast). Last year, “The Crown” and “Ted...

Succession, Evil and Mare of Easttown lead the TV pack for the 27th Annual Critics Choice Awards, to be broadcast live on The CW and TBS on Sunday, Jan. 9, 2022.

HBO’s dysfunctional family drama amassed eight total nods, including seven in the individual acting categories. Paramount+’s Evil and HBO’s Mare of Easttown both netted five nominations, while Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building, Apple TV+’s Ted Lasso, Paramount+’s The Good Fight, NBC’s This Is Us and Disney+’s WandaVision each racked up four.

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Exclusive: Kyle Allen has been tapped to play Romeo in 20th Century’s Rosaline, a comedic and revisionist take on Romeo & Juliet that has Kaitlyn Dever attached to star. Isabela Merced is on board to play Juliet. The film had been at MGM but recently hit the market, and after being quickly acquired by 20th Century, the studio tapped Karen Maine to direct. 21 Laps, Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen are producing.

The script is based on the novel When You Were Mine by Rebecca Serle and is a modern twist on the classic Shakespeare tale. 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. What begins as an attempt to foil the famous romance and win back her guy becomes a journey of self-discovery as she...

The nominations are out for the 21st annual Golden Trailer Awards, which celebrate the pros who created the trailers and film marketing for new movies from the past two years. Check out the full list below.

The honors cover content created between April 2019 and April 2021 from studios, independent films and foreign films. Winners will be announced during a hybrid ceremony July 22 at the Niswonger Performing Arts Center in Greeneville, Tn. Winners in 16 categories will be honored during a livestream that starts at 7 p.m. Pt.

“We’re absolutely amazed at the talent we’ve seen over the past couple years,” said Evelyn Brady-Watters, who co-founded the GTAs with her sister, Monica Brady. “Especially with the turbulent times we’ve had, we’re honored to celebrate the incredible and entertaining work of our industry professionals, whose craft shines through and entertains us through good times and bad.”

Here are the nominees...

Exclusive: Primetime Emmy winner Kyra Sedgwick is set to direct Rebecca Banner’s 2016 Black List screenplay Space Oddity with Kyle Allen, Alexandra Shipp and Madeline Brewer starring. The pic reps Sedgwick’s second feature directorial after Story of a Girl for which she received a DGA nomination. Space Oddity is set to begin production this month in Rhode Island.

Space Oddity tells the story of Alex (Allen) who, after giving up on Earth and deciding to leave it all behind for a one-way mission to Mars, develops an unexpected romance with Daisy (Shipp), the enigmatic town newcomer, which forces him to choose between an uncertain journey to the stars and an even more uncertain journey of the heart.

Brewer will play Liz, Alex’s sister, who has reluctantly returned to the farm where she grew up.

The feature is the first movie Sedgwick and Valerie Stadler will be producing under their banner Big Swing Productions.

On the May 5, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson, and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to discuss what they’ve been up to at the Water Cooler. At The Water Cooler: What we’ve been Doing: […]

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Exclusive: FilmNation Entertainment has promoted Ashley Fox to lead the company’s film production department, we can reveal.

The appointment follows Fox’s Oscar and PGA nominations as a producer on Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman, the FilmNation and LuckyChap co-production starring Carey Mulligan.

In her new role, Fox will oversee the development and production of FilmNation’s slate including the recently-announced The People We Hate At The Wedding with Allison Janney, Annie Murphy, and Ben Platt. She will report to CEO Glen Basner and join the company’s leadership group.

Fox’s promotion follows the recent departure of longtime FilmNation Production President Ben Browning who we understand has joined Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s production company Archewell Productions in a key role, marking the company’s first senior hire (as first reported by THR). At FilmNation, Browning was a producer on movies including Late Night, The Courier and Promising Young Woman,...

Exclusive: Disney Channel has handed a pilot order to Saturdays, a single-camera comedy about a young girl and her competitive roller skating crew, from 16-year-old Black-ish star Marsai Martin via her Genius Entertainment and writer-executive producer Norman Vance Jr.. Charles Stone III will direct.

Written by Vance, the pilot centers on Paris Johnson, played by Danielle Jalade (Yes Day), a 13-year-old girl who has spent most of her life roller-skating.

Saturdays follows Paris, who, since the age of four, has been honing her skills on the cool parquet floor of Saturdays, a local skating rink owned and operated by a former ’90s hip-hop back-up dancer. With its neon lights, galaxy-painted rink and killer D.J. spinning the latest music, Saturdays is the place to show and prove. Paris is the leader of a skate crew and is determined to take them all the way to the top.

The fantasy trope of Time Loops is all the rage again. Obviously, we all know Groundhog Day, which did it perfectly. Last year brought Palm Springs, which also did it terrifically well. Just a few weeks ago, The Map of Tiny Perfect Things also found a way to make the premise charming. Now, we have Boss Level, which decides to go in a whole other direction. Instead of being a comedy or a romantic comedy, it goes as far away from rom-com as possible. Instead, we have a violent action film, with admittedly comedic undertones. The result is something that stands out, that’s for sure. The movie is a mix of action and science fiction, with a little comedy thrown in for good measure. As we learn early on, former Special Forces agent Roy Pulver (Frank Grillo) is trapped in a time loop that will constantly repeat the day of his murder.

Frank Grillo lives the same day again and again and again in a video game-adjacent thriller that struggles to distinguish itself

As repetitive as the time loop movie might have been in the last 12 months (just like the 12 months before and the 12 months before that etc), it’s not been quite as omnipresent, or as tiresome, as the running joke that we’re all essentially stuck in one of our own thanks to the restricted routine that’s been forced on us all. But even a year ago, Boss Level, Joe Carnahan’s action movie spin on the Groundhog Day formula, would have smelled a little musty, and not just because it was developed back in 2012 and filmed back in 2018, left on a shelf ever since.

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If you've watched The Map of Tiny Perfect Things, a movie that came to Amazon Prime on Feb. 12, you've seen the (wildly attractive) actor Kyle Allen, who plays Mark. If he looked familiar to you, you might have recognized him from the Apocalypse season of American Horror Story - no spoilers - or The Path on Hulu. In addition to being an actor, Kyle is a trained ballerina (yup!) and acrobat (double-yup!) with an impressive resume. If you'd like to see more of what he can do - including his dancing skills - you have to check out the upcoming production of West Side Story. But first, learn more fun facts about his various talents by reading ahead.

In the span of five days, Kathryn Newton celebrated a birthday, released her coming-of-age time-loop movie, The Map of Tiny Perfect Things, and just so happened to golf with the godfather of time-loop movies, Bill Murray. In Ian Samuels’ take on the Groundhog Day concept, Newton plays Margaret, an aloof teenage girl who’s content with remaining in a time loop until she meets Mark (Kyle Allen), who’s also stuck in the same endless cycle. When Allen found out that Newton was going to be playing golf with Murray at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, he urged her to mention their movie to ...

In the span of five days, Kathryn Newton celebrated a birthday, released her coming-of-age time-loop movie, The Map of Tiny Perfect Things, and just so happened to golf with the godfather of time-loop movies, Bill Murray. In Ian Samuels’ take on the Groundhog Day concept, Newton plays Margaret, an aloof teenage girl who’s content with remaining in a time loop until she meets Mark (Kyle Allen), who’s also stuck in the same endless cycle. When Allen found out that Newton was going to be playing golf with Murray at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, he urged her to mention their movie to ...

What would you do if your forever was a single day? In most films about time-loops, we watch characters struggle to escape repetition and eventually find a hole in the plot allowing them to slip back into their regular lives. In “The Map of Tiny Perfect Things,” directed by Ian Samuels, this idea pivots by changing the motivations of the two teens stuck in the loop.

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With the Super Bowl behind us and the Oscars looming (and a pandemic-dampened Valentine’s Day as a marketing peg), American distributors are releasing their most robust slate of new releases in months this weekend.

Awards contenders “Judas and the Black Messiah” (about the FBI-sanctioned murder of Fred Hampton) and “Land” (starring and directed by Robin Wright) arrive in theaters, hot off their premieres at this year’s virtual Sundance Film Festival. Also on the awards-worthy indie front, A24 releases last year’s Sundance winner “Minari” on demand. Steven Yuen stars in this immigrant story with universal appeal. And if theaters are open (and safe) near you, consider catching Michelle Pfeiffer in the wickedly funny “French Exit.”

Targeting teens with Valentine’s offerings, Amazon delivers the “Groundhog Day”-esque romance “The Map of Tiny Perfect Things” to Prime subscribers, while Netflix completes its “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” trilogy with “Always and Forever.

Another year, another “Groundhog Day” rip-off. Nearly three decades after Bill Murray got stuck in a time loop until he became a better man, the concept has spawned so many iterations that it basically exists as its own genre, mixed and mashed with other tropes to reanimate a familiar routine. Often, the deja vu of watching these movies mimics the predicaments of their characters, even when they’re halfway decent. The latest to take the rom-com approach, “The Map of Tiny Perfect Things,” offers an agreeable kind of breezy, soul-searching variation, but can’t break free of the overwhelming meta impression that we’ve seen this all before.

The movie plays like a hybrid of several recent variations: Like 2017’s drama “Before I Fall,” it’s a slick YA adaptation (sci-fi writer Lev Grossman wrote the screenplay off his short), it has some tonal similarities to the horror-comedy “Happy Death Day,...

The final installment in Netflix’s hit To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before trilogy is an improvement over the second, but still lacks the sizzle of 2018’s original

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, an unfailingly sweet update on a John Hughes movie about a Korean-American high school girl whose old love letters are accidentally delivered, was arguably the most successful of Netflix’s 2018 romcom revival. The film launched homegrown stars in Lana Condor and Noah Centineo, whose irresistible chemistry made it a beguiling streamer’s loop; it’s one of the few films I rewatched immediately, then rewatched again, then popped in and out of my favorite scenes for weeks.

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Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo reteam for a likable but throwaway comedy about two best friends going on vacation

The staggering success of 2011’s Bridesmaids – almost $300m globally, two Oscar nominations, a belated industry realisation that uh yeah women can do mass market comedies too – had an unlikely effect on its breakout star, and co-writer, Kristen Wiig. While Saturday Night Live viewers already cherished her as the show’s hit-after-hit Mvp, global audiences were now too let in on the joke and most of us waited impatiently to see what she would do next, perhaps expecting more of the same. But unlike the more obvious scene-stealer of the film, Melissa McCarthy, Wiig chose not to pursue a career headlining studio comedies, sticking mostly to the outskirts, choosing Sundance over Hollywood (she repeatedly turned down the offer to do a Bridesmaids sequel). There were muted successes but more often disappointments and...

It’s hard to find a new spin on a story that’s been told before. This week, The Map of Tiny Perfect Things seeks to traffic in material that we saw done to classic effect in Groundhog Day, not to mention brilliantly spun last year in Palm Springs. This movie could have easily been derivative and a total misfire. Luckily, the flick sidesteps nearly all of the pitfalls, finding a way to make this premise still feel unique. It may not reinvent the wheel, but if you’re looking for a solid new film to check out, this is one not to sleep on. The film is a romantic drama, with a fantasy/science fiction element thrown in for good measure. Early on, we meet teenager Mark (Kyle Allen), who is living the same day over and over again. Having mastered the day while in this endless time loop,...

Before we’re even out of the opening credits of “The Map of Tiny Perfect Things,” director Ian Samuels and screenwriter Lev Grossman waste no time clueing us into its premise revolving around a time loop that will teach its teen protagonists to accept life’s little gifts and major detours. This John Green-lite fantasy for the young-adult crowd holds many sequences that sparkle and shine, but a few that stumble and sag as well. Yet the feature’s genteel, sweet spirit and radiant lead performances rescue it from forgettable mediocrity and genre familiarity.

Seventeen-year-old budding artist Mark (Kyle Allen) begins all his mundane mornings the same way — not by choice, but because he’s trapped in a time loop. Every day he wakes up at the same exact time, sees his workaholic mom drive away, greets his dad Daniel (Josh Hamilton) and irascible younger sister Emma (Cleo Fraser) at the breakfast table,...

There’s a grammar-school-friendly version of the Sondheim musical called “Into the Woods, Jr.,” which erases all of Act Two (except “Children Will Listen”) so you can have the storybook charm without the sex or death. Amazon’s “A Map of Tiny Perfect Things” is essentially “Groundhog Day Jr.,” turning the idea of being stuck on the same day into a YA romance.

“Groundhog Day” was by no means the first story to use the idea of people in a temporal anomaly as a metaphor for being in a rut, but it launched its own sub-genre that includes Sundance hit “Palm Springs,” the Netflix series “Russian Doll,” the horror franchise “Happy Death Day,” and even the made-for-tv holiday film “12 Dates of Christmas.” All that’s left for “The Map of Tiny Perfect Things” to mine is a narrative that places teens in the center of the universe and allows...