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The beloved annual Provincetown International Film Festival (Piff) is having a big moment with its buzzy 2025 lineup. IndieWire can announce that leading horror auteur Ari Aster will be honored with the Filmmaker on the Edge title at the festival, which will take place from June 11 to 15 in Provincetown, Ma.

Aster will be in Provincetown to receive the award and participate in conversation with resident artist John Waters on Saturday, June 14, ahead of the nationwide release of his new film “Eddington” on July 18. The secretive 2020-set dark comedy “Eddington” will debut at Cannes; the feature reunites Aster with his “Beau Is Afraid” star Joaquin Phoenix, as well as Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, Austin Butler, Luke Grimes, Clifton Collins Jr., and more.

“Ari Aster’s films weave grief, beauty and dread into unforgettable cinematic experiences,” Anne Hubbell, Piff’s Executive Director, said in a press statement. “We’re excited to welcome Ari...

Exclusive: Francesca Gregorini’s long-gestating Anna Nicole Smith biopic Hurricanna will be on sale at the upcoming Cannes Market with Millennium Media and UTA.

Millennium has boarded the project to handle international, while the UTA Independent Film Group represents North American distribution rights.

Produced by Cassian Elwes (The Butler), Alix Madigan and Rory Koslow, Hurricanna is executive produced by Matthew Helderman and Luke Taylor of BondIt Media Capital (Terrifier 3).

The film stars Holly Hunter, Mark Duplass and Sylvia Hoeks. The plot follows the chaotic final 24 hours in the life of Anna Nicole Smith. Told from the fragmented and colliding perspectives of Smith, her psychiatrist, and her former lover, the film explores themes of fame, codependency and self-destruction in a fractured American psyche.

Gregorini (Killing Eve) directs from a script by Rachel and Matt Sarnoff. The film was previously on sale in international territories with Sierra/Affinity.

“Francesca brings an intense...

Margot Robbie is reportedly being lined up to play Anna Nicole Smith in a new biopic.The film is being put together by two of the tragic model/actress' real life friends - fashion designer Pol’ Atteu and TV producer Patrik Simpson - who have written the script and they have declared the 'Barbie' star, 34, is their number one choice for the starring role.Patrik told The Sun newspaper: "We are eyeing Margot and I think she is our Anna Nicole. After we saw the 'Barbie' movie, Margot was at the screening and I said: ‘That’s our Anna.’"The way she embodied Barbie, and Pol used to always tease that Anna was the living Barbie. So who better to play her than Margot?"Pol added: "I can tell you when we met her, we felt something electric and it was such a beautiful moment."Patrik...

Exclusive: Actor Iqbal Theba (Glee) has signed with Buchwald for representation. The actor was previously signed to A3 Artists Agency, which recently shut its doors permanently.

Stated Theba, “I am beyond excited to sign with Buchwald, an agency with decades of experience and history, and a group of dedicated agents who truly care about their clients.”

Best known for his role of Principle Figgins on Fox’s hit series Glee, which ran for six seasons and brought him a SAG Award as part of the ensemble, Theba has appeared in more than 100 film and TV projects over the course of his decades-long career, including the Best Picture Oscar winner Green Book from filmmaker Peter Farrelly.

Other notable credits include The Illegal, Playing for Keeps and Transformers: Dark of the Moon, along with such series as Mira, Royal Detective, Messiah, Community and The Blacklist. Most recently, Theba signed on to star in Days with Dandekar,...

Exclusive: Danny Ramirez is set to star in the pic Pursuit of Touch, which Ramirez also wrote with Slave Play creator Jeremy O. Harris producing. Ramirez, Niv Gafny and Tom Culliver will also produce through their Pinstripes banner as will Harris’ partner Josh Godfrey. They will produce through their bb² company. No director is attached yet.

Ramirez plays a reclusive Afghanistan War veteran who discovers his favorite cam girl is involved in a dangerous conspiracy and sets out to save her. What starts as a bizarre man-on-a-mission movie becomes a strangely moving tale of human connection in a digital world.

Ramirez recently wrapped production on Captain America: Brave New World and HBO’s The Last of Us. He will next be seen leading Todd Haynes’ next movie. His recent works include the dark comedy Winner, the critically acclaimed Top Gun: Maverick, and Black Mirror: Mazey Day.

Harris is best known...

Exclusive: Iqbal Theba (Green Book) will produce and star in Days with Dandekar, a new indie written and directed by Emmy nominee Leena Pendharkar.

The project marks Theba’s first producing credit and his second collaboration with sister producers Pallavi & Keertana Sastry, on the heels of the drama Land of Gold, which premiered at Tribeca in 2022.

The film tells the story of a man named Dandekar (Theba), who, after getting laid off from his job of over 35 years, goes on an existential journey, searching for the beloved ’87 Volvo that his well-intended family has traded away. On the way, he connects with longtime neighbors and strangers alike, who help him define a sense of himself.

Script for Days with Dandekar was selected for the Film Independent Screenwriting Lab and Tribeca All Access. The creative team is coming off of a live reading of the script, co-hosted by Cape and...

This week’s 20 Questions on Deadline guest is Mark Duplass.

Fans of The Morning Show will be delighted to hear Duplass confirm his return “in some shape or form” for the upcoming Season 4, as put-upon producer Chip Black. Duplass also reveals that Season 4 will begin shooting a month from now.

With Season 3 showrunner Charlotte Stoudt in place once again for Season 4, how the upcoming election will be worked into the show remains to be seen. Previous seasons included rewrites to incorporate the pandemic and the #MeToo movement. Shooting this summer, Season 4 is slated to air sometime next year.

“My assumption is that we’re going to airing the show well after that election has happened,” Duplass said. “So my instinct is that while The Morning Show does chase current events, and we have historically, in the past, with the #MeToo movement and Covid, and everything that happened with women’s...

What happened to Harrison on The Young and the Restless? That’s a question on Y&r fans’ minds for several reasons.

The CBS soap had a casting switcheroo just as a storyline featuring the youngest Abbott was heating up.

After playing Harrison since the character came on the scene in May 2021, Kellen Enriquez has exited the role.

On Friday, April 12, a new actor was playing Kyle (Michael Mealor) and Summer’s (Allison Lanier) young son.

The change-up comes as Harrison goes missing, and Claire (Hayley Erin) gets dubbed as his kidnapper.

More on that later because it also has fans wondering what happened to Harrison, but first, let’s take a look at the new actor playing him.

Who is playing Harrison on The Young and the Restless?

Redding Munsell has taken over the role of Harrison Abbott from Kellen. This is Redding’s first forte into the soap world.

The Young and the Restless (Y&r) spoilers reveal that the role of Harrison Locke has been recast with Redding Munsell. Kellen Enriquez debuted in the role in 2021.

Harrison is the biological son of Kyle Abbott (Michael Mealor) and Tara Locke (Elizabeth Leiner). Munsell will be first seen in the role on April 12.

Tara went to prison for embezzlement years ago and since then Kyle and Summer Newman (Allison Lanier) have raised him. But that all ended with the couple’s breakup. Here’s what the recast means for the character and storylines going forward.

The Young And The Restless Spoilers – Will Tara Locke Come Back

Harrison came to Genoa City, Wisconsin with his mother, Tara Locke, and her then-husband, Ashland Locke.

It was later revealed that Kyle and Tara had had a fling back in the day, and eventually it was determined that Kyle is Harrison’s dad, not Ashland.

Redding Munsell will be taking over the role of Harrison Abbott, beginning with the Friday, April 12 episode of “The Young and the Restless.”

Munsell replaces Kellen Enriquez, who has played the son of Kyle Abbott (Michael Mealor) and Tara Locke since May 2021.

Enriquez appeared for the final time in the role during the Wednesday, March 20 episode, a standalone episode of the daytime drama series in which Claire (Hayley Erin) imagines what life would have been like had she never been separated from the Newman family.

Redding appeared in the film, “Red, White, and Blue,” which was nominated this year for Best Live Action Short Film at the 96th Academy Awards. The film stars Brittany Snow as Rachel, a poor single mother who has to go out of state due to a change in American law preventing her from getting an abortion in her home state. Redding plays Jake, one of Rachel’s two children.

Kal Penn admits he didn’t know much about Anna Nicole Smith’s physician, Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, before he was approached to star as the doctor in the indie adaptation of his memoir, “Trust Me, I’m a Doctor.”

“But then I read the doctor’s autobiography and found it interesting and compelling,” Penn told me Monday night at the South Asians at the Oscars party on the Paramount lot.

Variety’s Tatiana Siegel exclusively reported Feb. 23 that Penn is set to portray Sandeep in “Trust Me, I’m a Doctor,” which chronicles Smith’s final days before dying of an accidental overdose in 2007 at the age of 39. Kapoor became entangled in Smith’s death when reports surfaced that he wrote her prescriptions to addictive drugs.

Written and directed by Thane Economou (“The Wedding Party”), the movie is a “drama,” Penn said, but it will be “equal parts ridiculous” because of some...

A new biopic of Anna Nicole Smith has been announced with a title and a main star. The film is based on Sandeep Kapoor's book of the same name and focuses on events leading up to Smith's death. Another Smith biopic called Hurricanna with a different perspective is also in production.

An upcoming Anna Nicole Smith biopic sets its official title and first cast member. Anna Nicole Smith was an American model who became famous in 1993 when she became Playboy’s Playmate of the Year. Smith later died in 2007 at the age of 39 from an accidental drug overdose.

As per Variety, a Smith biopic has now been revealed with a title and lead cast member. The film will be called Trust Me, I’m a Doctor and it will star Kal Penn. Penn will play Smith’s doctor, Sandeep Kapoor, in the film.

What To Expect from Trust Me, I...

Anna Nicole Smith died 17 years ago this month, but the fascination with the blond bombshell continues unabated.

Kal Penn is set to star in “Trust Me, I’m a Doctor,” a film that chronicles the final days of the actress and model whose accidental overdose death in 2007 at the age of 39 sparked a tabloid feeding frenzy. “Trust Me, I’m a Doctor,” which is based on Dr. Sandeep Kapoor’s 2017 book of the same name, marks the second film about Smith to move forward in recent months. In late December, the biopic “Hurricanna” wrapped production, with Sylvia Hoeks and Holly Hunter in the lead roles.

Written and directed by Thane Economou (“The Wedding Party”), “Trust Me I’m a Doctor” follows Smith’s pain-medication doctor whose life was turned upside down when he was implicated in the wrongful death trials of the one-time Playboy centerfold. Smith became a household name when she married 89-year-old oil tycoon J.

Exclusive: Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights to writer-director Heidi Weitzer’s comedy My Divorce Party, starring Rumer Willis, slating it for release on digital and cable VOD on April 30.

Pic watches as divorcee Xan (Desiree Staples) gathers her close friends to celebrate her impending split, only to reveal she intends to burn her divorce settlement money to start fresh. Chaos ensues as each friend has a wildly different opinion on what Xan should do.

Kimia Behpoornia, Michelle Meredith, Sarah Hollis, Desiree Staples, Dionne Gipson, Laith Ashley, and Cap Peterson also star. The film is produced by Adrienne Childress and Geenah Krisht. Gravitas Ventures’ VP of Acquisitions and International Sales, Danielle Gasher negotiated the deal with Film Mode Entertainment.

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Exclusive: Iqbal Theba (Green Book) will star alongside Sylvia Hoeks, Holly Hunter, Mark Duplass and Nicholas Hamilton in the Anna Nicole Smith biopic Hurricanna.

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Exclusive: LA-based financier CaliWood Pictures has invested in Nadine de Barros’ international sales firm Fortitude ahead of the EFM market in Berlin.

The terms of the investment were not disclosed but we understand de Barros will maintain control over company direction. The backing is designed to grow Fortitude’s production and finance capabilities and provide opportunities for both outfits.

The two companies previously collaborated on Mack and Rita, starring Diane Keaton, as well as A Little White Lie, with Kate Hudson, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, and Zach Braff. They’re now prepping a slate of undisclosed projects together with the first being lined up to shoot this year.

CaliWood’s investments to date have included A Nice Girl Like You with Lucy Hale, Michael Shannon’s directorial debut, Eric Larue, with Alexander Skarsgard and Judy Greer. The company recently made last-position equity investments in Goodrich, with Mila Kunis and Michael Keaton,...

The brief, tragic life of Anna Nicole Smith is coming to the big screen. Sylvia Hoeks stars as the larger-than-life figure in the first image from the upcoming biopic Hurricanna. Deadline reports that Hurricanna is now filming, and has released the first image of Hoeks in the lead role, as she embodies the model/actress/heiress whose chaotic, turbulent life ended at age 39 in 2007.

“You never know if they like you for who you are or what you are,” Anna Nicole Smith once said before she passed away from an accidental drug overdose in 2007. The endearing model, actress, and television personality often found herself a subject of misinterpretation and ridicule when she wanted to taste life, be loved, and make people smile. Thankfully, a new biopic, Hurricanna, is now filming and aims to show the sweeter side of the beloved blonde bombshell. A first look at Sylvia Hoeks as Smith is here, prompting fans to double-take before venturing into the Uncanny Valley.

Hoeks stars as Anna Nicole Smith in the upcoming biopic, with Holly Hunter, Mark Duplass, and Nicholas Hamilton. Francesca Gregorini directs from a script by Rachel Sarnoff and Matt Sarnoff, with the story focusing on Smith’s final days before her untimely death at 39. Smith was a model, Playboy magazine centerfold star,...

Exclusive: Here’s your first look at Anna Nicole Smith biopic Hurricanna, which is now filming.

Sylvia Hoeks (See) stars in the movie alongside Oscar winner Holly Hunter (The Piano), and newly joined cast Mark Duplass (The Morning Show) and Nicholas Hamilton (Captain Fantastic).

Filming is underway on the project, which will chart the final days of pop culture icon Smith, known for her career as a model, Playboy magazine centerfold, actress and TV personality, as well as her highly publicized second marriage to 89-year-old billionaire J. Howard Marshall, and her untimely death aged only 39. Hunter plays Smith’s therapist, who tries to guide her through turbulent times.

Francesca Gregorini (Killing Eve) is directing from a script by Rachel and Matt Sarnoff. Producers are Cassian Elwes, Rory Koslow, Francesca Gregorini, Alix Madigan, Paul Robarts and Tatiana Von Furstenberg.

Executive producers are Tracy Ricketts, Matthew Helderman, Thomas Mann, Luke Taylor, Jeff Sackman,...