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Exclusive: Georgina Campbell and Paul Gross are among the stars of indie pic The Fallers, which has wrapped shooting in Canada.

They lead the cast alongside David Klein, Rebecca Liddiard, Robert Bazzocchi, Dan Abramovici and Paula Brancati. Shooting just completed in Hamilton and Toronto.

Directed by Will Bowes, the pic is a voyeurism-themed drama that follows Annie, the daughter and sole caregiver of troubled architect Carl. She escapes her past by trespassing into the homes her father designed, but is forced to confront it and her father’s legacy when the watcher becomes the watched.

The filmmakers say it deals with “deep familial patterns of codependency, the cost of neglect, and the architecture of care,...

The nominations have been revealed for the 2025 GLAAD Media Awards, and one critically acclaimed LGBTQ+ film is notably absent from the pack of nominees.

The annual awards ceremony will return for a 36th year in 2025. According to GLAAD, it’s goal is to “recognize and honor fair, accurate, and inclusive representations of the LGBTQ community in an ever-expanding and media landscape.”

On Wednesday (January 22), the organization revealed the crop of nominees that would be honored at the ceremony. While projects such as Wicked and Queer were notably featured, Netflix’s Emilia Perez was left off the list.

The snub comes after GLAAD declared that the movie, which stars Zoe Saldana, Selena Gomez and trans actress Karla Sofia Gascon, was “not good trans representation” in a November 2024 essay. The story included reviews from transgender film critics and noted that “inauthentic portrayals of trans people are offensive and even dangerous.”

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GLAAD has unveiled the nominees for its 36th annual GLAAD Media Awards, with Variety securing two noms for outstanding print article (senior entertainment writer Adam B. Vary’s piece on Joe Locke) and magazine overall coverage.

Other nominees include “Wicked,” “Queer,” “Love Lies Bleeding,” “My Old Ass,” “Abbott Elementary,” “Hacks,” “What We Do in the Shadows,” “Fancy Dance,” “Mother of the Bride,” “Baby Reindeer,” “Selling Sunset,” “Queer Eye” and “Real Housewives of New York City.” There are a total of 318 nominees across 33 categories at this year’s Awards.

The GLAAD Media Awards is a yearly event that honors outstanding, accurate and inclusive representations of LGBTQ+ people and issues in film, television, gaming, publishing, stage productions, music, journalism and more.

“The GLAAD Media Awards were created nearly four decades ago to champion LGBTQ stories amid a deeply hostile and unsafe time for our community,” said GLAAD president and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis.

“Wicked,” “Queer,” “Mean Girls” and “My Old Ass” are among the movies that have been nominated as Outstanding Film at the 36th annual GLAAD Media Awards, which announced its nominations on Wednesday. Other nominated projects included “Cuckoo,” “Drive-Away Dolls,” “Love Lies Bleeding” and “Problemista.”

GLAAD, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer media advocacy organization, leaned heavily toward smaller independent films in its nominations, with “Wicked” and “Mean Girls” the most high-profile films in the top category. It did not nominate “Emilia Pérez,” the Netflix film about a Mexican drug lord (played by transgender actress Karla Sofía Gascón) who undergoes gender-affirming surgery.

Television nominees included “Abbott Elementary,” “Hacks,” “Loot” and “Shrinking” in the comedy category, “9-1-1: Lone Star,” “Arcane” and “Interview With the Vampire” in drama and “Agatha All Along,” “Diarra From Detroit” and “Palm Royale” in the Outstanding New Series category.

GLAAD also nominated documentaries, reality programs, children’s programming,...

We have the nominees for the 36th annual GLAAD Media Awards, which honor fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community in film, TV, music, videogames, podcasts, journalism and more.

But the noms don’t include one of the most talked-about films of 2024 or its trans star. More on that below.

Vying for the Outstanding Wide-Release Film prize are Cuckoo, Drive-Away Dolls, Love Lies Bleeding, Mean Girls, My Old Ass, Problemista, Queer and Wicked. Up for the Limited-Release Film award are 20,000 Species of Bees, Backspot, Before I Change My Mind, Big Boys, Close to You, Crossing, Fitting In, High Tide, Housekeeping for Beginners and A Place of Our Own.

Noticeably absent from the GLAAD noms is Jacques Audiard’s Oscar contender Emilia Pérez, which won the Golden Globe this month, and its trans star Karla Sofía Gascón, who also won a Globe and is...

Fitting In stars Maddie Ziegler in one of her more emotionally demanding roles to date. It's a heartfelt and raw story from writer-director Molly McGlynn. Ziegler's character, Lindy, is diagnosed with Mrkh syndrome and quickly discovers that her body doesn't follow the same binary or script as most of her classmates. The reproductive condition throws Lindy and her life into turmoil, as it affects not only her relationships with others but also her relationship with herself. While her mom and friends try to support her, Lindy has to learn how to navigate this change in her worldview on her own.

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Director Molly McGlynnRelease Date February 2, 2024Studio(s) Nice Picture IncWriters Molly McGlynnCast Ki Griffin, D'Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai, Djouliet Amara, Maddie Ziegler, Emily HampshireRating RRuntime 105 MinutesGenres Drama, ComedyDistributor(s) Elevation Pictures

Ziegler first began to flex her dramatic muscles as one of the characters in The Fallout, the 2022 drama that...

Emily Hampshire, known for portraying Stevie Budd on Schitts Creek and Jennifer Goines on SyFys 12 Monkeys, is joining the cast of the new film Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice.

According to The Wrap, Hampshire will play a crooked cop in the high-concept buddy action-comedy movie that will be set in a criminal underworld. BenDavid Grabinski is serving as writer and director on the project. Vince Vaughn, James Marsden, Eiza Gonzlez, Jimmy Tatro and Keith David will also be in the film.

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Hampshire recently appeared in the films Humane, The Mattachine Family, Fitting In, and Self Reliance. She was in 78 of the 80 episodes of Schitts Creek, during the series six-season run from 2015 to 2020.

Fans of Schitts Creek may remember the bond between Eugene Levys Johnny Rose and Hampshires character on the series.

Writer-director Molly McGlynn’s own experience adds a new dimension to the usual tropes of virginity loss, relationships and high school politics

Older viewers may feel, well, erm, old, to see that this film comes prefaced with a wise statement – handed down as if ’twere written on tablets of stone – from the 2009 film Jennifer’s Body. (Wasn’t 2009 about four years ago?) Portentously proclaiming “Hell is a teenage girl”, it’s an apt little quote to kick off this neatly done teen movie, which unusually throws a rare biological condition into the typical mix of virginity loss, relationship drama and high school politics. Our lead Lindy (Maddie Ziegler) discovers, after a routine medical appointment, that she does not have a uterus or vaginal canal deeper than “a vaginal dimple”, making the prospect of first-time sex with her dreamy boyfriend Adam (D’Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai) more than usually anxiety-making.

For the majority of its runtime,...

Elliana Walmsley, Kendall Vertes, Brynn Rumfallo, Camryn Bridges, Asia Monet, and Cheryl Burke are all former Dance Moms cast members, and they've all gone off on their own. They have pursued various careers in dance, acting, and other fields after leaving the show. Examples of their careers include dance instruction, Broadway, podcast co-hosting, social media influencing, and podcast hosting.

Dance Moms first premiered in 2011, and followed the lives of young dancers and their mothers while they competed and trained with coach Abby Lee Miller. Anyone who ever tuned in would know that it was not only about dancing but also drama. So much drama. But the reality TV series also enjoyed immense popularity. So much so that fans are still interested in what the stars of the show are up to these days.

A lot has changed in recent years for Abby Lee's dancers from Dance Moms. For starters,...

Stars: Ashley Moore, Camren Bicondova, Gage Marsh, Shiloh O’Reilly, Andre Anthony, Christian Rose | Written by Miriam Lyapin, Helen Marsh | Directed by The Soska Sisters

Festival of the Living Dead is not only the latest Tubi Original, it’s the latest film from Jen and Sylvia Soska. That’s a bit of a come down for the sisters, who, after Dead Hooker in a Trunk and American Mary, were loudly proclaimed to be the future of horror. Dave Parker, who was in the same position some years back, recently used a Tubi Original, You Shouldn’t Have Let Me In to prove he can still make an entertaining film. Can the Soska Sisters do the same?

Ash and Iris are looking to do something to celebrate Ash’s birthday. Her boyfriend Kevin and some friends stop by with a birthday present, tickets to the titular Festival of the Living Dead.

The...

Exclusive: Upcoming Filipino crime drama series Sellblock has wrapped principal photography and is headed for MIPTV. You can see four first-look images above.

Slated as a three-season series, Sellblock chronicles the activities of one of Asia’s biggest drug empires operating from inside a Philippines maximum-security prison. LA’s Blue Fox Entertainment has boarded the show and will launch it at the final ever MIPTV next week in Cannes, France.

The series is produced by Manilla-based BlackOps Studios Asia, headed by Pedring Lopez, who is known for Netflix’s Maria, Darkroom and Geisha of Death and also leads Psyops8. Lopez directs all eight episodes of the first season.

Blue Fox is handling sales, including the Philippines, and will be screening the pilot episode for buyers at MIPTV as it moves into TV distribution. Filipino producer Abs-cbn was initially attached to the show, but we hear it is no longer involved.

Exclusive: D’Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai (Reservation Dogs) has landed a leading role in the previously Untitled War Movie now known as Warfare from Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland for A24.

Woon-a-Tai will portray Ray Mendoza, sources close to production tell Deadline. Mendoza joined the Navy in 1997 and served for over 16 years as a Member of Seal Team 5 and a Land Warfare Training Detachment and Bud/s instructor. He was awarded a Silver Star “for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action against the enemy while serving as Lead Communicator, Naval Special Warfare Task Unit-Ramadi, in direct support of Operation Iraqi Freedom on November 19, 2006,” according to Military Times. He co-founded War Office Producers alongside retired Army Ranger Jariko Denman.

Warfare is the second collaboration for Garland and Mendoza, who served as the military supervisor for Garland’s latest film Civil War set for release on April 12. The pair wrote and will co-direct the film.

Maddie Ziegler is opening up about her past on the reality series Dance Moms.

In a new interview for Teen Vogue, the 21-year-old Fitting In star acknowledges her past on the show and where she came from before becoming the entertainer she is today.

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“Obviously, I have my feelings about that [show], but if I didn’t do it, I would not be where I am right now at all,” she shared with the interviewer. “I wouldn’t have been found by Sia. I wouldn’t have found my love for acting through music videos, and I wouldn’t be where I am, literally, right now talking to you.”

She also touched on growing out of who she was when she was a child on the show.

“I’m not always going to be that little girl,” Maddie said. “I’m still that same goofy,...

Clockwise from bottom left: Scanners (New World-Mutual), Tremors (Screenshot: YouTube), M3GAN (Universal Pictures) Graphic: The A.V. Club I’m an IMAX projectionist. Here’s what running Oppenheimer was like during the Barbenheimer phenomenonIt’s astonishing that Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s three-hour biopic about the scientist who helped create the Atomic Bomb,...

Maddie Ziegler in Fitting In Photo: Elevation Pictures Adolescence is a tough time for just about everyone, and finding out that you’re different from your peers can only make that time worse. This is half of the wordplay inherent in the title of writer-director Molly McGlynn’s semi-autobiographical film Fitting In,...

Maddie Ziegler in Fitting InPhoto: Elevation Pictures

Adolescence is a tough time for just about everyone, and finding out that you’re different from your peers can only make that time worse. This is half of the wordplay inherent in the title of writer-director Molly McGlynn’s semi-autobiographical film Fitting In,...

Blue Fox Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights excluding Australia and New Zealand and will launch sales at EFM next month on the romance Take My Hand starring Radha Mitchell and Adam Demos.

John Raftopoulos directed from a screenplay he co-wrote with Dave Paterson about a widow who loses her job in London and returns to her native Australia where she reconnects with her childhood sweetheart. The cast includes Bart Edwards.

Blue Fox’s US distribution division has earmarked a release later this year on Take My Hand, which was produced by Blake Northfield of Bronte Pictures. Rialto distributes in Australia and New Zealand.

"You're still you. Ad I think you're pretty perfect just the way you are." Blue Fox Ent. has revealed another official US trailer for an indie coming-of-age comedy titled Fitting In, made by Canadian filmmaker Molly McGlynn (view the Canadian trailer here). This first premiered at the 2023 SXSW Film Festival, and it also played at the TIFF, Calgary, and Vancouver Film Fests up in Canada this year. A teen girl is diagnosed with a reproductive condition that upends her plans to have a sex life, propelling her to explore unusual methods. Her relationships are also challenged with everyone in her life, but most importantly, herself. This is a semi-autobiographical feature that's also executive produced / presented by Janelle Monáe. McGlynn's Fitting In stars Maddie Ziegler as Lindy, with Emily Hampshire, Djouliet Amara, D'Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai, and Ki Griffin. This is a toned down version of the other trailer, because they can't put...

Actress and frequent Sia collaborator Maddie Ziegler is a teenage girl with an unexpected crisis in the trailer for Fitting In. The film, from writer and director Molly McGlynn, stars Ziegler as a 16 year old who has been diagnosed with Mrkh syndrome.

The movie co-stars Emily Hampshire, Djouliet Amara, D’Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai, and Ki Griffin, and was notably produced by Janelle Monae, among others. It will open in theaters on Feb. 2.

The official synopsis notes, “A joyful, comedic drama, from writer/director Molly McGlynn, Fitting In is a coming-of-age story that...

Thankfully, as the film industry becomes more inclusive and diverse, we start to see new takes on Hollywood staples. Such is the case with “Our Son,” a film that takes a story we’ve seen so many times before in various family dramas, but because it’s shown through the lens of a marriage between two men, it feels unique and different.

Read More: ‘Fitting In’ Trailer: Maddie Ziegler & D’Pharoah Woon-a-Tai Star In A Coming-Of-Age “Traumedy”

As seen in the trailer, “Our Son” tells the story of a marriage falling apart and the devastation that it causes in the couple’s lives, as well as the life of their young son caught in the crossfire.

Continue reading ‘Our Son’ Trailer: Luke Evans & Billy Porter Are In A Failing Marriage In The New Family Drama at The Playlist.

Growing up is hard, but growing up with Mrkh syndrome (a rare reproductive condition that causes an underdeveloped uterus) is bloody hell. That’s the premise of upcoming coming-of-age movie “Fitting In” tackles, where Maddie Ziegler‘s teen Lindy discovers she has the condition, and it makes everything — be it her body, her sexual identity, her relationship with her mom — that much more complicated.

Read More: TIFF 2023 Announces Its Centrepiece Programme, Featuring Brian Helgeland’s ‘Finestkind,’ ‘Quiz Lady,’ ‘The Promised Land’ & More

Here’s an official synopsis for “Fitting In,” courtesy of SXSW:

Fitting In is a coming-of-age “traumedy” that follows 16-year-old Lindy who is unexpectedly diagnosed with a reproductive condition, Mrkh syndrome.

Continue reading ‘Fitting In’ Trailer: Maddie Ziegler & D’Pharoah Woon-a-Tai Star In A Coming-Of-Age “Traumedy” at The Playlist.

"To own who you are is up to you. No one should make you feel ashamed of that..." Elevation Pictures in Canada has debuted the official trailer for an indie coming-of-age comedy titled Fitting In, from filmmaker Molly McGlynn. This first premiered at the 2023 SXSW Film Festival, and also played at the TIFF, Calgary, and Vancouver Film Fests up in Canada this year. A teen girl is diagnosed with a reproductive condition that upends her plans to have a sex life, propelling her to explore unusual methods. Her relationships are also challenged with everyone in her life, but most importantly, herself. A semi-autobiographical feature written and directed by Molly McGlynn (Mary Goes Round), Fitting In stars Maddie Ziegler as Lindy, with Emily Hampshire, Djouliet Amara, D'Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai, and Ki Griffin. This looks fun and authentic, a slightly different sex comedy story about a young woman trying to figure herself out.

The Toronto Film Festival on Thursday revealed its Centerpiece program lineup that includes the Cannes Film Festival-winning Wim Wenders movie Perfect Days. The festival also revealed another couple of star-driven world premieres including Paramount’s Finestkind starring Jenna Ortega, Ben Foster and Tommy Lee Jones and 20th Century Studios/Hulu’s comedy Quiz Lady starring Awkwafina, Sandra Oh and Will Ferrell.

Finestkind comes from Oscar winner Brian Helgeland and follows two brothers who are pulled into a deal with an organized crime syndicate in Boston. The pic is playing as one of TIFF’s galas.

Quiz Lady follows a brilliant but tightly wound, game-show-obsessed woman Anne (Awkwafina) and her estranged, train-wreck of a sister Jenny (Oh) who must work together to help cover their mother’s gambling debts. When Anne’s beloved dog is kidnapped, they set out on a wild cross-country trek to get the cash the only way...

The Toronto International Film Festival has added 59 more films to the lineup of its 2023 festival, including 47 international films in the Centrepiece program, which in previous years was known as Contemporary World Cinema. New films were also added to the Galas, Special Presentations and Documentary sections.

World premieres among the new selections include “Finestkind,” a crime thriller from Brian Helgeland (screenwriter of “L.A. Confidential”) starring Tommy Lee Jones and Ben Foster; The Movie Teller,” a film set in Chile starring Berenice Bejo from “An Education” director Lone Scherfig; and Jessica Yu’s “Quiz Lady,” with Sandra Oh and Awkwafina.

The Centrepiece selections include a number of films from May’s Cannes Film Festival, among them Wim Wenders’ “Perfect Days,” Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “About Dry Grasses,” Aki Kaurismaki’s “Fallen Leaves,” Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s “Banel & Adama,” Amjad Al Rasheed’s “Inshallah a Boy,” Joanna Arnow’s “The Feeling That the...

Reservation Dogs is a dark comedy series featuring Indigenous actors and revolves around a group of young criminals living on an Oklahoma reservation. The talented cast of Reservation Dogs has been praised for their performances, bringing a sardonic sense of humor to the show. The supporting cast of Reservation Dogs includes a rich and talented group of friends, foes, and family members who add depth to the series.

The FX on Hulu series Reservation Dogs cast features a talented group of Indigenous actors who many viewers may not be familiar with. The dark comedy series is created by Sterlin Harjo and Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi, and revolves around a quartet of young criminals living on a reservation in Oklahoma. They hope to save up enough money through petty theft and odd jobs to be able to leave the reservation, which they blame for the death of their friend, and move to California.

Actress and author Emily Hampshire has a lot on her plate lately. In addition to starring in The Roku Channel’s Slip, alongside writer-director-star Zoe Lister-Jones, she’s got a handful of other projects in the pipeline, including the “funny and smart” horror film Appendage, adapted from director Anna Zlokovic’s short of the same name, and Bloody Hell, a coming of age film about sex and sexuality.

Exclusive: Principal photography has begun on Take My Hand, a romantic drama feature starring Radha Mitchell (Finding Neverland), Adam Demos (UnReal), Bart Edwards (The Witcher), Meg Fraser (Bloody Hell) and former Big Brother contestant Xavier Molyneux making his film debut.

Former Neighbours star and singer Natalie Bassingthwaite (Elvis) is also among cast.

Director Raftopolous co-wrote the screenplay with Dave Paterson (2067) based on the true love story between himself and his current wife.

Take My Hand follows vibrant young Australian woman Laura, who forges a successful banking career in London and seemingly has the perfect marriage. Her world is turned upside down when she is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and her husband starts to show his true colors. When a tragic accident leaves her a widowed mother with three sons, she returns home to Australia, and is reunited with Michael, a high school friend and a divorcee with one daughter, who...

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From the sound of its title, you might think that Bloody Hell is a violent horror film. But in fact it’s a mostly (and significantly) blood-free exploration of what it’s like to be a teenager that doesn’t quite fit in. It’s described as a “traumedy” about a sixteen-year-old girl shaken by the news of a reproductive condition that will play heavily into both her sex life and her potential to become a future mother...

Who am I? Where do I fit in? Am I some kind of misfit? Will I ever be an ex-virgin? Such questions surely occur to every adolescent at one point or another. But only one out of approximately every 5,000 female ones arrive at them for the same diagnostic reason as the heroine of “Bloody Hell.” Molly McGlynn’s second feature focuses on a 16-year-old distressed to discover she has a rare congenital disorder that considerably complicates her nascent sex life, formative sexual identity and indeed basic sexual plumbing. This SXSW-premiering Canadian seriocomedy is a bit less focused and effective than the writer-director’s prior “Mary Goes Round,” but it’s still accomplished, and similarly renders relatable the sometimes self-defeating behaviors of a protagonist who’s got a lot of issues on her plate.

Lindy (Maddie Ziegler) is a new arrival in suburban Sudbury, Ontario, with mother Rita (Emily Hampshire), a...

The two quotes used to introduce Molly McGlynn’s Bloody Hell perfectly set the tone for the story the filmmaker is trying to tell. By using a powerful passage from Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, Bloody Hell sets the stage to dive deep into complicated questions of gender and sexuality, sticking to a female perspective on these matters. In addition, a quote from Jennifer’s Body screenwriter Diablo Cody also sets expectations high for an unusual coming-of-age story set in high school. However, while Bloody Hell is undoubtedly courageous for dealing with many sensitive themes, the film struggles to find its pacing and keep the audience engaged in a story that sometimes feels too predictable.