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Hit 2022 psychological horror movie Smile is performing admirably during its streaming debut. Written and directed by Parker Finn, as an adaptation of his short film Laura Hasn't Slept, Smile follows a therapist, played by Sosie Bacon, who begins to experience bizarre supernatural occurrences after witnessing the suicide of a patient. The movie, which co-stars Jessi T. Usher, Kyle Gallner, and Kal Penn, was a box office hit, grossing a little over $217 million during its theatrical run against a production budget of $17 million. It also spawned a sequel, the highly-rated Smile 2, which hit theaters October 18.

Now, a couple of years after its theatrical run, Smile has hit streaming platforms, and is enjoying great success. The movie has debuted in the Top 5 for both Hulu and Paramount+, a major achievement given that it is on both platforms at the same time and is only a couple years old. Smile has hit the No.

Canadian twin sisters Tegan and Sara Quin are known by their music moniker Tegan and Sara, a pop duo that took indie music by storm in the early to mid-2000s. Their dedicated fans have traveled the globe to get a glimpse of the sisters as they’ve consistently performed to overwhelming crowds after releasing ten studio albums.

They were also once the victims of a catfishing scandal that posed harm to some of their fans and to Tegan and Sara’s privacy.

“Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara” is a fascinating documentary that made its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. Premiering Friday on Hulu, the film provides extensive background about the duo’s rise to fame and details the story of a hacker who catfished some of their fans and tried to take the singer-songwriters’ careers down. The movie is an investigative study into the...

Director Erin Lee Carr hates to use the term “brand” but that’s exactly what she’s cultivated when it comes to bizarre true crime stories. “People are like, ‘This horrible thing happened. Let’s call Erin Lee Carr,'” the documentarian told TheWrap.

It’s not surprising to see how Carr developed this reputation. She was behind HBO’s Gypsy Rose Blanchard documentary “Mommy Dead and Dearest” and “I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth v. Michelle Carter,” both of which went on to inspire the Hulu scripted series “The Act” and “The Girl From Plainville,” respectively. In 2021, Carr released Netflix’s “Britney vs Spears,” the same year the pop icon’s conservatorship was terminated. She’s also produced a Peacock documentary on Stormy Daniels, a Hulu docuseries on the Sherri Papini kidnapping hoax and an HBO documentary on journalist Kim Wall, who went missing after boarding Danish entrepreneur Peter Madsen’s submarine.

Hulu has released the trailer for its original documentary Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara, premiering on October 18th. The film follows the rise of the indie rock duo Tegan and Sara, known for their confessional lyrics and strong connection with the LGBTQ+ community. As they built a supportive fanbase, a dangerous incident in […]

Hulu’s “Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara” Trailer Released...

Idris Elba will help bring to the screen Chinua Achebe’s 1958 debut novel Things Fall Apart.

The Hijack and Luthor actor will star in a series adaptation which is in the works at the studio A24, our sister site Variety reports. Additionally, Elba will executive-produce alongside Gina Carter, David Oyelowo and Amanda N’Duka (of production company Yoruba Saxon), Ben Forkner, Dayo Ogunyemi and Achebe Masterworks.

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For years, fans of Tegan and Sara thought they had a unique online relationship with Tegan. They exchanged personal messages on Facebook and jokes. They felt like friends. Then they realized that wasn’t the case at all.

The trailer for the new documentary Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara — which premieres on Hulu on Oct. 18 — shows how somebody hacked into the personal information of the artists (who are sisters), including their mother’s medical history and used it to leverage relationships with their fans around 2011.

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Max has picked up a new scripted law enforcement drama from Tomorrow Studios, a joint venture with ITV Studios known for “One Piece” and “Snowpiercer.”

The untitled project, which is being developed through a first look deal with Liz Garbus and Dan Cogan’s Story Syndicate and is loosely inspired by the life story of Geraldine Hart, follows a legendary FBI agent who returns to her hometown on Long Island to clean up mob corruption and quickly finds that the rot is even deeper and darker than she thought. Before long, she finds herself facing down nefarious entities from all sides.

In addition to Hart, Garbus and Cogan, the series is executive produced by Tomorrow Studios’ Marty Adelstein, Becky Clements and Alissa Bachner, Story Syndicate’s Nellie Reed, Eileen Myers, Anne Beagan and Anne Beagan Productions’ Stacey Sherman. Myers serves as writer on the project, while Garbus directs.

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“Okay, who’s ready for a horrifying documentary?” asks director Erin Lee Carr at the Royal Alexandra Theatre Friday night. Her introduction to the world premiere of “Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan & Sara,” at the Toronto International Film Festival, is not hyperbole. Indeed, “Fanatical” is a horror and mystery rolled into one.

“If there’s one takeaway from the film, it’s to listen to your gut,” Tegan says later during the Q&a.

The film — out Oct. 18 on Hulu in the U.S. and Disney+ in Canada — is a painstaking investigation into what the Canadian indie-rock duo have endured behind the scenes for 16 years and counting. Carr and her team attempt to track down the identity of the person pretending via email and direct message to be Tegan Quin, otherwise referred to as “Fake Tegan” and “Fegan.”

Tegan and Sara Quin, 43-year-old Canadian identical twins known for such...

NewFest has announced the full lineup for the 36th edition of the New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival.

The largest queer film festival in the U.S., it will include more than 140 new features, shorts and episodic projects from 31 countries in addition to legacy screenings.

The festival runs Oct. 10 to Oct. 20 in theaters in Manhattan and Brooklyn, as well as on NewFest’s on-demand platform until Oct. 22, with venues including the Sva Theatre, The LGBT Community Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music and Nitehawk Prospect Park.

The opening film on Oct. 10 is the N.Y. City premiere of Roshan Sethi’s “A Nice Indian Boy,” which had its world premiere at SXSW. The closing night selection is Jacques Audiard’s musical drama “Emilia Pérez,” which won the Cannes Jury Prize and the best actress award for Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez, and Adriana Paz.

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