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The ongoing musical collaboration between Talking Heads icon David Byrne and Paramore singer Hayley Williams is set to venture into as-yet-uncharted territories: animated feature adaptations of beloved Roald Dahl books.

The two — who have already recorded with one another, with Williams set to appear on Byrne’s upcoming album “Who Is the Sky?,” and have previously covered each other’s songs — have come together again to write the newly announced track “Open the Door,” set to be the end credits song for Netflix’s upcoming film “The Twits.” The streamer has now given the film a release date of Oct. 17.

Byrne has also written and produced three original songs for the film — “We’re Not Like Ev’ryone Else,” “Lullaby” and “The Problem Is You” — which will be performed by the cast.

Speaking of the cast, Netflix has a number of additional names, including lead voice stars Maitreyi Ramakrishnan and Ryan Lopez,...

There are quite a few names thrown around when fans are asked who should play the Caped Crusader in the Dcu. Jake Gyllenhaal, Armie Hammer, Ben Barnes, Ben Barnes, and Alan Ritchson are some big ones, arguably the most commonly thrown around name is Brandon Sklenar. Known for his roles in Midway, The Offer, Green and Gold, It Ends With US, and 1923, Sklenar isn't quite a household name yet, but he's definitely known among Batman and DC fans.

In a new interview with ScreenRant's Andy Behbakht, Sklenar is well aware of how popular a choice he is among fans to play Bruce Wayne, and he is one hundred percent on board with the idea.

“I mean, for Batman? Let's keep running with that! That's something I've wanted to do since I was a little kid -- and I've never even talked about it -- It just started happening and I was like,...

The Green and Gold movie is now playing in select cities, leading many to wonder when it will get a full theater release and then come to streaming.

The new drama from Anders Lindwall, financed in part by the American fast-casual restaurant chain Culvers, follows a family who bets their farm on the Green Bay Packers going all the way to avoid foreclosure by the bank.

The film stars It Ends With Us' Brandon Sklenar and Incredibles voice actor Craig T. Nelson among many others.

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Green and Gold explores resilience through a story set on a Wisconsin dairy farm in 1993. Buck Strom (Craig T. Nelson), a determined farmer struggling against economic challenges, faces potential foreclosure. He makes an unlikely bet on the Green Bay Packers—a wager that transcends financial concerns and speaks to resistance against change.

The story examines complex ideas: What defines the value of tradition? How can one respect history without becoming trapped by it? Director Anders Lindwall presents these reflections with genuine emotional depth.

Lindwall crafts his feature debut with restrained skill, allowing visual landscapes to communicate as powerfully as dialogue. Cinematography captures rural Wisconsin in warm, golden tones, transforming the setting into an almost mythical space where determination might reshape destiny.

Nelson delivers a nuanced performance, capturing Buck’s complex character with remarkable subtlety. Madison Lawlor’s character Jenny, conflicted between agricultural roots and musical aspirations, creates emotional tension. M. Emmet Walsh...

Green and Gold warms your soul with an inspirational true story of Midwestern fellowship, unbreakable family bonds, and die-hard fans of the Green Bay Packers. The venerable Craig T. Nelson stars as Buck Strom, an old-school Wisconsin dairy farmer struggling to make ends meet in the early '90s. He's up to his eyeballs in debt with greedy bankers circling like vultures. This hard luck tale isn't a fantasy or uncommon occurrence. The working poor who fill our fridges and dinner tables are often the first casualties of economic insecurity. But Buck and his community are resilient people. They're not easily pushed around with a steadfast faith in God, each other, and of course, football.

Green and Gold is seen from the perspective of Jenny (Madison Lawlor), Buck's beautiful and talented granddaughter. She's up early every morning with Buck and Grandma Margaret (Annabel Armour) tending to their cows. Buck has...

No Other Land, Academy Award-nominated for Best Documentary Feature, opens today in New York at Film Forum from mTuckman Media/Cinetic Media with a limited theatrical expansion next weekend.

The doc is written, directed, produced and edited by a collective of Palestinian and Israeli activists and filmmakers — Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor. It premiered at Berlin, winning Best Documentary, followed by a widely decorated festival sweep. It sits at 100% with Critics on Rotten Tomatoes (57 reviews). Deadline’s Matthew Carey interviews the filmmakers here.

The release started circulating against the backdrop of the brutal Israel-Hamas war, currently in a period of ceasefire. It predates the war but explores root causes of enmity as the filmmakers chronicle the Israeli military’s incremental expulsion of the West Bank community of Masafer Yatta — home to 20 ancient Palestinian villages.

Over a period of five years (2019–23), Masafer Yatta resident and Palestinian...

Craig T. Nelson is an extremely fine and too often underappreciated actor, and it’s difficult not to be at least mildly impressed by his absolutely fearless lead performance in “Green and Gold.” In director Anders Lindwall’s ponderous and predictable drama, he plays Buck, a debt-ridden Wisconsin dairy farmer who’s way too proud and tradition-bound to change his ways, and ultimately so desperate that he literally agrees to bet the farm in order to save it. To put it bluntly, Nelson gives this clichéd indie a lot more than it ever gives him.

Buck is not always an easy man to like, and it’s obvious that neither Nelson nor Lindwall wants to make him any more likable than he has to be. Lean and leathery, with a stoic grimace as his facial expression of choice, Buck is a salt-of-the-earth guy who loves Margaret (Annabel Armour), his supportive...

It's not uncommon to feel that the pace of modern life is just too fast. Everything has got busier, more frantic, and technology has engulfed our very existence. Weren't things better back in the day? Hell, even Socrates went on a whole "kids today" rant. This is the general sentiment of Anders Lindwall's Green and Gold, the story of an old-school farmer struggling to retain his legacy in the face of commercial cynicism. More than that, it's my sentiment towards the movie. It feels straight out of the mid- 2000s, from a time that still valued the truest human forms of storytelling. There is something so wonderfully pure about Green and Gold, and the way it approaches its characters and themes, that makes me long for a time when movies weren't so cynical, self-aware, and snarky.

"You still believe in what we're doing?" "More than anything,." Fathom has debuted an official trailer for a down home Americana drama called Green and Gold, marking the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Anders Lindwall. This is opening in theaters nationwide at the end of January, a few weeks before the actual Super Bowl game in early 2025. Starring legendary and multiple Emmy and Golden Globes-nominated actor Craig T. Nelson as farmer Buck, joined in the cast by Brandon Sklenar, Annabel Armour, Madison Lawlor, and the late M. Emmet Walsh in his final performance. Lindwall's Green and Gold tells the story of a fourth-generation dairy farmer fighting to preserve his family's land and legacy against overwhelming odds and foreclosure pressure. Featuring music by Jackson Browne and S. Carey, the movie highlights the resilience of small-town America. A struggling family farmer wagers everything on a high-stakes Super Bowl bet in favor of...