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Three-time Emmy winner Julia Garner is boarding New Line’s Weapons opposite Josh Brolin. The pic comes from writer-director Zach Cregger. who made the 2022 New Regency horror film Barbarian.

Barbarian, released via 20th Century Studios, opened at No. 1 after pulling in a 93% Rotten Tomatoes critics score. The pic grossed 10 times its production budget of $4.5 million totaling more than $45M worldwide.

Garner won three Supporting Actress Drama Emmys for her turn as Ruth Langmore in the Netflix series Ozark. She is currently in production opposite Christopher Abbott on Blumhouse/Universal’s Wolf Man from filmmaker Leigh Whannell. Garner also stars in Paramount’s upcoming psychological thriller Apartment 7A.

Deadline recently scooped that she was joining the cast of Marvel Studios’ Fantastic Four as the iconic comic book character Silver Surfer opposite Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn and Ebon Moss-Bachrach.

Her other feature credits count Bleecker Street’s The Assistant, Neon...

Julia Garner won two consecutive Emmy Awards for her performance as Ruth Langmore in Netflix's "Ozark." With a spitfire Missouri accent that permanently bonded itself to the character by accident during her audition, Ruth is a role Garner fully inhabits, so much so that it might surprise some viewers to learn the actress grew up in the Bronx.

To get into Ruth's headspace, Garner did more than just adopt an accent. According to Rolling Stone magazine, she also wrote a diary from Ruth's perspective, as she had done with her Mormon teen character when she had her first lead role in the 2012 independent film, "Electrick Children."

For Garner,...

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IndieWire’s Instagram Live interview series will continue this week with Julia Garner, the Primetime Emmy Award-winning star of “Ozark” and of Kitty Green’s “The Assistant,” in which she stars as the coordinator for a Harvey Weinstein type. Garner will discuss her career on screens big and small, quarantine, and more with IndieWire’s Executive Editor and Chief Film Critic Eric Kohn on IndieWire’s official Instagram page beginning at 12 p.m. Pt/3 p.m. Et on Wednesday, April 29. Previous IndieWire Instagram Lives have featured interviews with Barry Jenkins, Diego Luna, Ethan Hawke, Mark Duplass, and Rose McGowan.

Julia Garner broke out as the member of an abusive cult in Sean Durkin’s 2011 independent film “Martha Marcy May Marlene,” followed by celebrated turns in “Electrick Children,” “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” “Not Fade Away,” and “We Are What We Are.” She has appeared on television in the series “Waco,...

Julia Garner has signed a first-look deal with Mrc Television, the studio behind “Ozark” and “House of Cards.”

Under the deal, the actress, who plays Ruth Langmore on “Ozark,” which won her an Emmy last month for outstanding supporting actress in a drama series, will develop and executive produce television projects.

“I’ve had the privilege of working closely with Mrc on Ozark where they have offered me a rich playground of material as an actress,” Garner said. “I’ve now been afforded an opportunity with Mrc to build on a rewarding and collaborative experience and I look forward to establishing a creative partnership in the future.”

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“Julia is phenomenally talented with a remarkable versatility of range that she brings to every project she works on, as evidenced by her well-deserved Emmy win for Ozark,...

“Ozark” producer Media Rights Capital (Mrc) Television has entered into a first-look deal with series star Julia Garner.

Under the deal, Garner will work with Mrc to develop and produce television projects. She recently won the Emmy Award for best supporting actress in a drama for her work on the third season of “Ozark,” which streams on Netflix.

“I’ve had the privilege of working closely with Mrc on ‘Ozark’ where they have offered me a rich playground of material as an actress,” Garner said. “I’ve now been afforded an opportunity with Mrc to build on a rewarding and collaborative experience and I look forward to establishing a creative partnership in the future.”

Garner is currently in production on Season 3 of “Ozark.” Beyond that show, she recently appeared in the Amazon anthology series “Modern Love” and the feature “The Assitant.” Her other credits include the first season of the...

Julia Garner is an actress who has played some diverse roles , including the part of Ruth Langmore on Ozark. However, tonight, Bravo viewers will get to see a different side of her as she takes on the role of Terra Newell in Dirty John, a show based on a real-life story. Despite only being 24 years old, Garner has an impressive resume. She starred in Martha Macy May Marlene from 2011 at the age of 17. She would later star in Electrick Children, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, We Are What We Are, Hair Brained, Grandma, The Americans, […]

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Stranger Things director Rebecca Thomas has landed another high-profile movie directing gig. A couple weeks ago it was announced that she would be developing a James Wan-produced sci-fi-thriller called Malignant.

THR is now reporting that she has been hired by Amblin Entertainment to direct another sci-fi film called Intelligent Life. The original script for the film was written by Colin Trevorrow (Jurassic World, Star Wars: Episode IX) and Derek Connolly. Thomas will do some work on the script as well.

The story centers on a U.N. delegate tasked with being Earth's representative when humanity makes contact with alien life, and then he falls in love with a mysterious woman who turns out to be an alien.

This certainly sounds like the kind of film that Amblin would make. Trevorrow and producer Frank Marshall offered a joint statement, saying:

"Rebecca beautifully captured the alienation we often feel amongst our...

Rebecca Thomas has been lining up some high-profile and promising projects, including Universal’s The Little Mermaid. The director of Electrick Children and an upcoming episode of Stranger Things has just signed on to direct an Amblin picture co-written by Colin Trevorrow (Jurassic World) and Derek Connolly. Frank Marshall (Indiana Jones) is producing the sci-fi film, which is titled Intelligent Life. Below, learn more about the Rebecca Thomas Amblin […]

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Rebecca Thomas, the filmmaker behind Electrick Children and a season two episode of Stranger Things, is attached to direct an adaptation of Boom! Studios’s Malignant Man. Director James Wan, co-writer Michael Alan Nelson, and illustrator Piotr Kowalski tell the story of a man who believes he has cancer, but who really has an alien parasite providing him with powers to […]

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Stranger Things director Rebecca Thomas has just landed a feature film directing gig for producer James Wan. She will be directing a sci-fi action thriller titled Malignant which is based on the Boom! Studios comic book Malignant Man, which Wan co-created.

The story focuses on Alex Gates, a patient dying of a terminal disease who is resigned to his fate … until it’s discovered that his malignant tumor is actually a mysterious alien parasite. Now imbued with some incredible powers and a renewed purpose, Gates is tasked with fighting a secret army lurking behind the veils of society while also peeling back his own secrets.

Sounds like it could make for a fun movie! It's set up at 20th Century Fox and the script is being written by Zak Olkewicz, who was a producer on the horror film Lights Out.

Brad Peyton (San Andreas) was previously attached to direct the...

As announced in The Hollywood Reporter, Rebecca Thomas, one of only three directors whose last name isn’t “Duffer” to have helmed an episode of Stranger Things, will take on a big-screen adaptation of the Boom! Studios graphic novel Malignant Man. A sci-fi thriller about a man whose tumor turns out to be an alien parasite that grants him otherworldly powers, the book was co-written by James Wan, the director and creator of Saw whose since moved on to lead The Conjuring, Furious 7, and the upcoming Aquaman movie. Wan, along with Boom! bosses Ross Richie and Stephen Christy, are producing the movie, which will be titled simply Malignant, for 20th Century Fox.

Thomas’ Stranger Things episode is set to debut in October of as part of season two. She made her feature debut with Electrick Children, a 2012 indie drama about a Mormon teenager who thinks she’s been ...

For the Us filmmaking duo, developing their sci-fi nostalgia-trip TV series Stranger Things was the culmination of a well-spent youth.

Growing up in North Carolina in the 1980s, twins Matt and Ross Duffer developed a love for genre and sci-fi with a particular passion for Steven Spielberg movies and Stephen King novels.

In a formative life event, echoing the plot of Jj Abrams’ Spielberg-inspired Super 8, the pair were gifted a video camera during third grade and began making amateur films.

Relocating to California to study film at Chapman University, the duo graduated in 2007 and immediately began taking steps into the movie business, collaborating on a series of short films and feature screenplays. Warner Bros optioned their post-apocalyptic horror script Hidden in 2011, and hired the brothers to direct Alexander Skarsgard and Andrea Riseborough in the film, which was released in 2015. While that project did not instantly propel them to stardom, the script...

Among many other things, part of what made Netflix’s Stranger Things a super smash-hit when it arrived last summer on the streaming service was how much it leaned into its numerous horror movie influences.

At the crux of this, of course, was the terrifying creature nicknamed the “Demogorgon” by Mike, Eleven and their friends, which hails from the mysterious realm called the Upside Down. An unstoppable monster with a face like a Venus flytrap, it won’t be easy to top in the second season. Still, the showrunners think they might have actually managed it.

Stranger Things producer Shawn Levy spoke to YouTuber GoldDerby about the new season recently and promised that things will get much darker and more dangerous when the hit series returns.

“Will Byers is very much at the center of several intersecting challenges, threats in season two and I think overall the forces of evil...

Andrew Stanton, the director of Pixar's Finding Dory and Finding Nemo will helm two episodes of Stranger Things season two. Like the rest of the world, Stanton is a big fan of the series, so he called up executive producer Shawn Levy, who told EW:

“Andrew called me out of the blue and said, ‘I love it. I would be honored to be part of it.'”

So they hired him to direct episodes five and six of the second season. I think it's great that Stanton is taking another crack at a live-action project. He previously made the movie John Carter for Disney, which I thought was a good movie, but it didn't do very well with most critics and it completely bombed at the box office.

There's been a lot of great Stranger Things season two news released this past week that's worth checking out. To catch up...

“Stranger Things” will have a very special guest behind the camera in season 2. According to EW, Pixar’s Andrew Stanton, director of hits like “Wall-e,” “Finding Dory” and “Finding Nemo,” will helm two episodes of the Netflix original sci-fi/horror series.

Read More: ‘Stranger Things’ Season 2 Plot Revealed: New Townies, Villains, and Twists!

Executive producer Shawn Levy told EW that it was Stanton — a fan of the series— who reached out wanting to be part of the show. “Andrew called me out of the blue and said, ‘I love it. I would be honored to be part of it,'” Levy said. Stanton will direct episodes 5 and 6 of the upcoming season.

Another director who will be joining the world of Hawkins and the Upside Down is Rebecca Thomas (“Electrick Children”), who will tackle episode 7. The show’s creators, the Duffer Brothers, will direct episodes 1, 2, 8 and 9, and Levy will do 3 and...

Day by day, we’re beginning to get a better sense of what to expect from Stranger Things season 2. There’s the Eggos, the ’80s references, along with a whole new breed of supernatural horror, which together form part of Matt and Ross Duffer’s strategy of balancing the old with the new.

Yes, as much as the Duffer Brothers and executive producer Shawn Levy would like to keep a lid on things, excitement for the show’s Halloween return has spread like wildfire since the unveiling of Sunday’s Super Bowl trailer, and already we’ve caught wind of some of the weird and wonderful fan theories to appear online. Behind the scenes, Levy and the Duffer Brothers will leverage directing duties between them, but that doesn’t mean the show’s creative trio can’t call on help from other filmmakers. Per EW, Rebecca Thomas (Electrick Children) has...

At just 19 years old, Chloe Moretz has 55 movies under her belt, starting her acting career at just 7 years old. The actress appeared at the Deauville Film Festival last week to accept the Rising Star Award, where she also revealed she's starting to slow down, having dropped out of all of her film projects recently. The actress revealed she had a "Come to Jesus moment" that lead her to take a break from acting.

The Hollywood Reporter caught up with the actress at Deauville where she revealed that making several films a year had caused her to lose focus of why she got into acting in the first place. She found herself focusing more on box office performance, and so, after wrapping two back to back projects, November Criminals and Brain on Fire, she decided to take a step back. Here's what she had to say below.

"So I pulled the...

While Brie Larson may have been announced as Captain Marvel at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, there’s still no word on who will direct the highly anticipated movie. Meg LeFauve (Inside Out) and Nicole Perlman (Guardians of the Galaxy) are penning the screenplay, but it appears as if Marvel Studios is taking their time when it comes to finding the right filmmaker for the job.

However, following the news that the shortlist had been whittled down to three names, Mashable reporter Jeff Sneider brings word that another contender may be in the mix.

That would be Rebecca Thomas, a filmmaker best known for directing 2012 Indie movie Electrick Children. She has a higher profile job coming up in the form of Universal’s upcoming Little Mermaid movie starring Chloë Grace Moretz, so it’s easy to see how she may have ended up on the radar of Kevin Feige...

Last week, we reported that there were three directors that were potentially up for the directing gig for the upcoming Marvel Studios film, Captain Marvel. The names on that list were Lesli Link Glatter (Homeland, The Newsroom), Niki Caro (Whale Rider), Lorene Scafaria (Seeking a Friend For the End of the World), all of whom were more than qualified to take on the task.

However, a new rumor from Jeff Sneider, senior film reporter at Mashable, states that there may be another name in contention for the position: Rebecca Thomas.

Also, the mystery contender to direct Captain Marvel is Rebecca Thomas, who I was hinting at months ago on the show. https://t.co/YDF2TMBkUm

— Jeff Sneider (@TheInSneider) August 26, 2016

At a glance, this is a name that doesn't quite ring any bells, and even after looking into her name, there wasn't a whole lot to look at. So far,...

According to Mashable's Jeff Sneider, there's another contender to help Captain Marvel for Kevin Feige and Marvel Studios.  Rebecca Thomas, best known for directing 2012's Electrick Children, a surreal indie drama about, "a young Mormon girl living in an isolated compound who listens to music for the first time and believes she's become pregnant and must find the father of her miracle baby."   Thomas seems to be a coveted up-and-comer as she's also attached to Universal's live-action Little Mermaid film starring Chloë Grace Moretz. Previously announced contenders for the Captain Marvel directing gig include Niki Caro (Whale Rider), Lesli Linka Glatter (Ray Donovan) and Lorene Scafaria (Seeking a Friend for the End of the World).  However, we should all remember that Marvel has frequently hired actors and directors that never emerged on anyone's shortlist.  Without a finished screenplay and the focus presently on Avengers: Infinity War, Marvel isn't expected to...

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Disney adds Snow White and Mulan to its list of live action takes on its animated features...

You’ve probably noticed the influx of live action fairytales gracing cinemas in recent years. This isn’t about to stop any time soon, since re-spinning a recognisable fantastical yarn with real people instead of animated ones always makes big money for the studio behind it.

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This process has become so popular that there are currently more of these live action fairytales in production than Marvel Studios, DC Entertainment or Star Wars movies. That’s a lot of films.

We've recently learned that two movies based on or around Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs are now in development at Disney.

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When to expect all the upcoming live action fairytale movies, including Dumbo, Beauty And The Beast and two Jungle Books…

You’ve probably noticed the influx of live action fairytales gracing cinemas in recent years. This isn’t about to stop any time soon, since re-spinning a recognisable fantastical yarn with real people instead of animated ones always makes big money for the studio behind it.

This process has become so popular that there are currently more of these live action fairytales in production than Marvel Studios, DC Entertainment or Star Wars movies. That’s a lot of films. (A whopping 21 by our count.)

Although it wadsn’t the first movie of this kind, Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland – and its worldwide gross of over a billion dollars – can surely take the credit for kick-starting this trend. Here are all the in-development movies trying to repeat its success,...

For the Trees: Zada’s Moody Locale Squandered by Feeble Narrative

We’ve come to expect studios to unbosom their less desirable horror trinkets during the dawning of every new year, and the annual tradition is alive and well with the equivocally titled The Forest from first time director Jason Zada. On a positive note, it’s a return to more traditional formatting, a move away from the found footage items we usually find released in this quarter (The Devil Inside; Devil’s Due), and it’s also not a remake or a dubious sequel (The Last Exorcism Part II). But Zada’s film is the second English language film revealed over the past year to waste its singularly spooky locale, Japan’s Aokigahara Forest at the base of Mt. Fuji (the first being Gus Van Sant’s Cannes blooper, Sea of Trees, which may explain this horror film’s...

Six months after Sofia Coppola walked away from Universal’s live-action retelling of The Little Mermaid, a new director has climbed aboard. Rebecca Thomas (Electrick Children) will be taking over at the helm of the fairy tale, which already has Chloë Grace Moretz set to star. More details on the new Little Mermaid director after the jump. TheWrap reports Thomas is […]

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Universal's take on The Little Mermaid, with Chloe Moretz in the title role, may finally be closing in on a director. The up-and-coming Rebecca Thomas (Electrick Children) is being eyed to sit in the director's chair for the live-action film based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale. It appears a recent meeting with Moretz, in which the pair hit it off, was enough to bring a deal to a close,... Read More...

Rebecca Thomas is in early talks to direct Universal's live-action Little Mermaid movie.

The film adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson’s fairy tale will be penned by Love Actually scribe Richard Curtis, and is set to star Chloe Grace Moretz as the titular character.

Thomas first gained attention for her 2012 indie Electrick Children, starring Julia Garner and Rory Culkin. Recently, she was tapped to direct the adaptation of the John Green's beloved Ya novel Looking For Alaska. The project is currently in pre-production.

Last year, THR named Thomas one of ten of the next generation of great Hollywood directors.

Sofia ...

Rebecca Thomas is in early talks to direct Universal's live-action Little Mermaid movie.

The film adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson’s fairy tale will be penned by Love Actually scribe Richard Curtis, and is set to star Chloe Grace Moretz as the titular character.

Thomas first gained attention for her 2012 indie Electrick Children, starring Julia Garner and Rory Culkin. Recently, she was tapped to direct the adaptation of the John Green's beloved Ya novel Looking For Alaska. The project is currently in pre-production.

Last year, THR named Thomas one of ten of the next generation of great Hollywood directors.

Sofia ...

With one of last year’s Sundance intoxicatingly cute natured discoveries in Lola Kirke (from Noah Baumbach’s Mistress America) toplining, the reasonable five-year morphing phase into a larger feature film canvas, and the welcomed addition of actress Breeda Wool who got to work with the same character, we could easily see this slice of Lgbt grab a coveted spot. While it might have the queer factor working for it, Awol, the feature film version actually stems from a 2011 Sundance premiered short of the same title. Production took place at the very beginning of the year with major thumbs up support from Tribeca Film Festival where the film (not yet finished) landed the Iwc Filmmaker Award and this past summer, Deb Shoval‘s feature debut was submitted to Champs-Elysées Film Festival’s Us in Progress. Chosen for Film Independent’s Fast Track and Ifp’s Narrative Completion Lab, Shoval...

MTV has set the cast and directors for comedy pilots Little Darlings (working title) and Untitled Kaplan/Elfont Project. Rebecca Thomas (Electrick Children) will direct the pilot for Little Darlings (wt) and Michael Blieden (Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll) will helm the pilot for Untitled Kaplan/Elfont Project. Additionally, Amanda Lasher (Gossip Girl) will join Little Darlings (wt) as Executive Producer and showrunner. From Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, Little Darlings centers on two…...

It’s almost September and that means Netflix is about to refresh their content, for better or worse. Some of the notable titles leaving include: High Fidelity, Anchorman 2, and The Skeleton Twins. So if you haven’t seen some of these titles, plan your nights accordingly. We of course can look forward more than a few new titles including The Monster Squad, Moonrise Kingdom (pictured above), and The Walking Dead: Season 5.

Available 9/1

72 Dangerous Animals: Australia: Season 1

Arthur: Season 17

Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher (2014)

Battle Creek: Season 1

Blackbird (2014)

Capital C (2014)

Combustion (2013)

Da Jammies: Season 1

Divorce Corp. (2014)

Giggle and Hoot’s Best Ever! (2014)

Hamlet (1990)

Hardball (2001)

Heather McDonald: I Don’t Mean To Brag (2014)

Lawrence of Arabia: Restored Version (1962)

Los hombres también lloran: Season 1

Masters of the Universe (1987)

Mississippi Damned (2009)

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood: Volume 1

Mouk: Season 1

Our Man in Tehran (2013)

Pandas: The Journey Home (2014)

Person of Interest:...

As you've likely heard, a slew of high-profile movies, including "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" and "World War Z" are leaving Netflix in September, thanks to the expiration of a deal with Epix.

Also going bye-bye, TV series including "Coach," "Undeclared," and Britcom "The It Crowd."

Leaving September 1

"Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London" (2004)

"Bratz: Rock Angelz" (2005)

"Care Bears: Big Wish Movie" (2005)

"Care Bears: Journey to Joke-a-Lot" (2004)

"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" (2000)

"Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey!" (2009)

"Doomsday Preppers": Season 1-3

"Electrick Children" (2012)

"FernGully: The Last Rainforest" (1992)

"Ink Master": Season 2

"Jackie Brown" (1997)

"Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" (1998)

"Mortal Kombat: The Movie" (1995)

"Patch Adams" (1998)

"Perfume: The Story of a Murderer" (2006)

"Rugrats in Paris: The Movie" (2000)

"Rules of Engagement" (2000)

"Rumpelstiltskin" (1987)

"Sarah's Choice" (2009)

"School of Rock" (2003)

"She's the One" (1996)

"Sleepless in Seattle" (1993)

"The It Crowd": Series 1-4

"The Lost Boys" (1987)

"Total Recall" (1990)

"W." (2008)

Leaving September 2

"Cheech & Chong's Hey Watch This...

The 50 Shades of Grey sequel is closing in on a director to oversee Christian and Anastasia's further big screen exploits.

House of Cards and Glengarry Glen Ross filmmaker James Foley is reportedly the frontrunner to replace Sam Taylor-Johnson on the erotic blockbuster sequel, 50 Shades Darker.

According to Deadline, Foley may also get signed up to direct the closing film in the trilogy 50 Shades Freed, and shoot both movies back-to-back.

Foley, who's also directed Halle Berry's Perfect Stranger, has emerged as the top choice for the job ahead of Mark Pellington (Arlington Road), Tanya Wexler (Hysteria) and Rebecca Thomas (Electrick Children).

50 Shades Darker will be written by Niall Leonard, the husband of series creator El James.

James is said to have clashed heatedly with Taylor-Johnson during the making of 50 Shades of Grey, leading to the director walking away from the follow-up.

Both Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan will be returning...

Shortly after the release of Universal Pictures' blockbuster Fifty Shades of Grey, it was confirmed that director Sam Taylor-Johnson will not come back to make the movie sequel, Fifty Shades Darker. One month later, it was revealed that author E.L. James' husband, Niall Leonard, will write the screenplay adaptation, with the studio setting a February 10, 2017 release date. Today we have word from Deadline that filmmaker James Foley is the front runner to direct this hotly-anticipated follow-up.

This report also reveals that he may also sign on to direct the third installment, Fifty Shades Freed, which has been given a February 9, 2018 release date. The studio is still working out whether or not they should shoot both Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed back-to-back. Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan are coming back to reprise their roles as Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey.

Negotiations haven't started yet for James Foley to take the helm,...

As is the way of things, even as one John Green adaptation hits theaters, another is kicking into high gear. With Paper Towns arriving on screen this week, Paramount and director Rebecca Thomas are close to casting the leads in Looking for Alaska.

Charlie Rowe, who was at one point a contender for the role of Spider-Man, and Mitchell Hope, who’ll be seen in Disney’s Descendants later this month, are the finalists for the male lead in the coming-of-age drama, adapted from Green’s 2006 novel (his first).

Additionally, The Witch actress Anya Taylor-Joy is the frontrunner for the lead female role of Alaska Young. Immy Waterhouse, the younger sister of Insurgent actress Suki Waterhouse, is also vying for the part, along with two other actresses who are as of yet unnamed.

Thomas, who broke out with Electrick Children back in 2012, is open to casting a fresh face in the lead role,...

You haven’t even seen the second John Green book-to-screener “Paper Towns” yet (unless somehow you have, in which case we’re jeal Af), but already it’s time to go ahead and start thinking about the third. Because the author has just announced that a director has been chosen for the adaptation of his very first Ya novel, the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award-winning “Looking For Alaska.” ... Rebecca Thomas is a relative newcomer to the industry, but her indie “Electrick Children” about a devout Mormon girl who believes she’s been impregnated by music, earned her the Dire /....

After last year’s massive success of The Fault in Our Stars—a film that grossed $307 million on a budget of just $12 million—author John Green suddenly found himself a “hot item” in the movie world. The studio that produced Fault, Fox 2000, quickly put together an adaptation of Green’s novel Paper Towns with the same screenwriters (Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber) and producers (Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen) as Fault, and with Paper Towns slated for release next month, it’s apparently time to push another Green adaptation into production. Looking for Alaska was Green’s first novel, and while a film adaptation has been in development for a few years (Sarah Polley was at one point in talks to write and direct), the movie gained momentum this February when “the gang” (ie. Neustadter, Weber, Godfrey, and Bowen) got back together on the Temple Hill Entertainment project. Now...

Grandma Trailer. Paul Weitz‘s Grandma (2015) movie trailer stars Lily Tomlin, Julia Garner, Marcia Gay Harden, and Judy Greer. Grandma‘s plot synopsis: “Self-described misanthrope Elle Reid has her protective bubble burst when her 18-year-old granddaughter, Sage, shows up needing help. The two of them go on a day-long journey that causes Elle to come to terms with her past and Sage to confront her future.”

Though this has only played at film festivals thus far, and the only synopsis we have is user-submitted on IMDb, according to Slashfilm,

Elle (Lily Tomlin), a onetime successful poet, abruptly breaks up with Olive (Judy Greer), her girlfriend of four months. But before she gets a chance to get overly sentimental, her granddaughter, Sage (Julia Garner), unexpectedly shows up with an emergency that requires money. With the clock ticking, the two set out in a vintage Dodge and drop in on Elle’s old friends and flames,...

Indie actor Rory Culkin (Electrick Children, Gabriel) and Caleb Landry Jones (who’ll see Heaven Knows What receive its theatrical release at the end of the month and Gerardo Naranjo’s upcoming Viena and the Fantomes) are set to star in accomplished music video director Jonas Åkerlund’s fourth outing as a feature filmmaker. Variety reports that Lords Of Chaos is set to shoot in Norway during the fall with an impressive collection of producers onboard in Scott Free London, Rsa London and the ever expanding Vice universe. Producing are Jack Arbuthnott, Kai-Lu Hsiung, Ko Mori, Fredrik Zander and Malte Forsell, and executive produced by Shane Smith, Eddy Moretti, Danny Gabai and Vince Landay for Vice, and Carlo Dusi for Scott Free London.

Gist: Co-written with Dennis Magnusson, based on real events, this charts a dream-turned-nightmare scenario for a group of teenagers who spiral out of control. 17-year-old Euronymous is...

We’re back with another round-up of horror and sci-fi news, including a casting update for Hannibal’s third season, Scream Factory’s new title announcement and their revealed special features for the Exterminators of the Year 3000 Blu-ray, and also an upcoming special screening of Zombie Killers: Elephant’s Graveyard that will include a Q&A with director B. Harrison Smith and cast members Billy Zane, Dee Wallace Stone, and Felissa Rose.

TVLine reports that Tony award-winning Nina Arianda (Broadway’s Venus in Fur, Rob the Mob, Midnight in Paris) will play a recurring role on Hannibal in the third season that premieres this summer. Arianda plays a character named Molly—a strong single mother who is a romantic interest for one key character.

In other, previously announced Hannibal Season 3 casting news, Richard Armitage (Thorin Oakenshield in The Hobbit films) will play The Tooth Fairy serial killer (aka Francis...

The countryside community of Elwood has a problem, and a group of specially trained young adults are about the only ones equipped to take care of it. The problem lies with the living dead that shamble within the town’s boundaries now and then, threatening a dwindling number of uninfected humans in Zombie Killers: Elephant’s Graveyard, which Anchor Bay Entertainment is releasing on home media this winter.

Co-starring Billy Zane and Dee Wallace, Zombie Killers: Elephant’s Graveyard will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on February 3rd with a trio of behind-the-scenes featurettes. We have the official press release with full details:

“Beverly Hills, CA – The rural town of Elwood has always been a “bubble” against the backdrop of an organism-based epidemic where infected humans don’t die, instead they roam to spread the infection in a grisly, horrific way. Those who escape must survive—by any means necessary.

The recipient of the 2014 St. Louis International Film Festival’s Women in Film Award is producer Katie Mustard.

Mustard has two feature films screening at Sliff – Growing Up And Other Lies and I Believe In Unicorns.

She joins previous Women in Film Award winners Yvonne Welbon, Barbara Hammer, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Marsha Hunt, Ry Russo-Young, Pamela Yates, Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg, and Nina Davenport.

Directors Darren Grodsky & Danny Jacobs Growing Up And Other Lies stars Adam Brody (The O.C.), Josh Lawson (House of Lies), Wyatt Cenac (The Daily Show), Amber Tamblyn (Two and a Half Men). After living for years as a struggling artist in New York City, Jake is calling it quits and returning home to Ohio. On his last day in the city, he persuades his three oldest friends to help him retrace their greatest adventure together: a walk down the entire length of Manhattan. The film shows Sat.

SXSW is upon us, with the festival kicking off today. And while there are plenty of starry attractions and movies, it's always worth keeping a good eye on the smaller films making their way to Austin. And one to keep your radar tuned to is Leah Meyerhoff's debut feature, "I Believe In Unicorns." Starring Natalia Dyer, Peter Vack, Julia Garner ("Electrick Children," "The Perks Of Being A Wallflower"), Amy Seimetz ("Upstream Color," "The Sacrament") and Toni Meyerhoff, this one tells the story of a romance that blooms between the imaginative and strong-willed teen Davina and an older boy. It's a relationship that will prove potentially rocky, but as this clip from the film highlights, the passion between the pair is very real, as they navigate young love. "I Believe In Unicorns" screens in Narrative Competition at SXSW, with the first screening on Sunday, March 9th. Watch below.

Mark Kermode: eating people runs in the family in this laudable Us remake

Americanised remakes of "foreign language" horror movies (from The Vanishing to The Ring to Let Me In et al) have tended too often to gut the cultural meat of the originals, leaving nothing more than a saleably glossy reanimated husk. While this English-language "companion piece" to a modern Mexican classic may not rival the fetid air or alarming impact of its source, it makes a firm fist of respectfully reinventing the key themes of Jorge Michel Grau's ravenous gem. The result is an ambitious (if somewhat uneven) slice of downbeat American gothic which interweaves grim melancholia with pointed satire, doomy portent and moments of gnawing revulsion.

Relocating the grim action of 2010's Somos lo que hay from the teeming, hot suburbs of Mexico City to remote sodden backwoods of the Catskills, this third feature from...

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It all started with a text…and now we have a couple Scorned Blu-ray's to give away thanks to the kind peeps at Anchor Bay.

Scorned was directed by Mark Jones, director and writer of the genre favorite Leprechaun and stars AnnaLynne McCord and Billy Zane.

To enter for a chance to win a copy of Scorned on Blu-ray, simply email scornedgiveaway[at]morehorror.com with the subject title Scorned Giveaway along with your full name and physical address. You must be 18 or over, live in the Us and sorry no Po Boxes to qualify. Winners will be chosen at random. Check out the full details below about the release of Scorned, coming February 4, 2014. Good luck!

From The Press Release

William Congreve once wrote: “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” Bill, hang on to your plume because you’re about to meet Sadie… On February 4, 2014, Anchor Bay Films releases Scorned,...

• Bruce Willis (Die Hard) is set to star in the action thriller Captive, taking over for the previously rumored Arnold Schwarzenegger. Simon Brand (Unknown) is directing with a script by Benjamin van der Even (Che: Part Two) and Kario Salem (Chasing Mavericks) from a story by Nicolai Fuglsig. Willis will play a real estate developer who gets kidnapped and held for ransom while at work in Brazil. Production is set to begin in March. [Deadline]

• Glenn Close (Albert Nobbs) will play the woman who claimed to be the Grand Russian Duchess Anastasia, in Duchess. The film will be directed by Arie Posin...

Pierogis and paczkis aside, another thing we like about the Polish is the Wroclaw’s Us in Progress initiative, which is already at year three (fifth edition if you include the Paris) and reported by Screen Daily, have selected the lucky six projects (October 23rd-25th) where filmmaker/producing teams will take part in what is essentially: first looks of U.S. indie films for European buyers with a cash prize (post production coin) decided by a jury. Among the noteworthy names we have the likes of Littlerock‘s Mike Ott, Gabi on the Roof in July‘s Lawrence Levine and Onur Tukel (writer on Michael Tully’s Septien, director behind 2012′s Richard’s Wedding). Here is our researched look at the six (of which we can expect a couple of items to end up at Sundance next January).

Happy Baby

Director/Writer: Stephen Elliott

Producer: Jessica Caldwell (Electrick Children...

If you aren’t familiar with actress Julia Garner, it’s only a matter of time. You may have caught her in “Martha Marcy May Marlene” or “The Last Exorcism Part II,” but the must-see film that highlights her natural on-screen charisma and confirms that she’s a worthy talent on the rise is the March 2013 release, “Electrick Children.” And now, sure enough, Garner takes another major leap forward with her latest production, “We Are What We Are.” Garner stars as Rose Parker, a teen living a quiet, reclusive life in upstate New York with her parents, older sister Iris (Ambyr Childers), and little brother Rory (Jack Gore). When Rose’s mother suddenly [ Read More ]

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Chicago – As much as our love for Netflix continues to grow on a daily basis as the company expands its grip on the streaming empire by offering brilliant programming like “Orange is the New Black” and “House of Cards,” the interface, both on computer and iOS can be a little overwhelming. How do you find something worth watching?

Some of the personalized recommendations are good. Some are horrendous. Let us be your guide. On the first Tuesday of every month (and likely more often as the library of this service continues to grow), we’ll give you ten interesting movies to add to your queue. We’ll shoot for a mix of new and old, a variety of genres, major films and minor ones — the “something for everyone” aspect that Netflix uses so well. We’ll be brief — ten movies, ten Netflix descriptions, our brief reasons as to why these flicks made the cut,...

You may have been lucky enough to catch Jim Mickle's We Are What We Are at FrightFest over the weekend. For everyone else, here's your first look in this new Us trailer. The film, an English-language remake of Jorge Michel Grau's Mexican original, stars Ambyr Childers and Julia Garner (who were both in Electrick Children and Last Exorcism 2), with elder support from Michael Parks, Bill Sage and Kelly McGillis.As you'll have seen above, the film involves an American gothic family who maintain a ritualistic adherence to cannibalism, until a torrential storm begins to reveal the secrets buried around their property, offering new clues to investigators studying decades of disappearances.Mickle, director of the excellent Stake Land, told FrightFest's Alan Jones, "I didn't want to slavishly repeat anything from the first movie except the crucial cannibal through-line. My We Are What We Are is a reinvention, not a...

Five of the best film appearances from everybody's favourite outmoded audio format

Cassettes represent a very specific window in history, having only been of widespread popularity for about 25 years, from the 70s to late 90s. They are wrapped up in nostalgia. Film depictions of cassette tapes and their decks have been surprisingly diverse. Here's a few of the most memorable highlights – can you think of any more?

Wayne's World

Wayne, Garth and co. singing along to Bohemian Rhapsody in the car to open the legendary 90s slacker bromance. No explanation needed.

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High Fidelity

It wasn't easy to pick just one clip from this film (the Walking on Sunshine 'Monday tape' scene was a close second), but ultimately the record store owner Rob (John Cusack)'s summary of the very important and complex art of compiling a mix tapes made the cut.

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