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Eternals star Gemma Chan's period drama with a 90% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes is about to make its Hulu debut. The Actor, in which Chan co-stars with Chan co-stars with American Horror Story's André Holland, will start streaming on Monday, June 30.

The Actor combines mystery and thriller elements within its story of a New York actor (played by Holland) who becomes stranded in a 1950s Ohio town with no memory of how he got there or his past life. The movie is based on iconic crime writer Donald E. Westlake's novel Memory, which was written in 1963, but not published until 2010.

Duke Johnsonadapted Memory into The Actor from a screenplay he co-wrote with Stephen Cooney. Speaking to Collider, Chan explained why she signed on for the movie. "I watched and really loved the stop-motion animation film [Johnson] did, Anomalisa. And then I read the script and spoke to him...

Exclusive: The Revisionist, the drama starring Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman (Rain Man), Alison Brie (Glow), André Holland (Moonlight), and Tom Sturridge (The Sandman), is heading to the Cannes market with Palisades Park Pictures handling international sales.

We first told you about writer-director Alex Vlack’s feature film debut late last year and the movie is now in post. WME Independent will handle North America rights.

In The Revisionist, “Elise, a successful novelist, does what so many writers do: she manipulates and transforms the people in her life into the characters she needs for her story. As she blurs the line between fiction and reality, her world descends into secrets, lies, and outright betrayal. The project is an exploration of the psychological lengths to which a writer will go to achieve their art.”

Pic is produced by Arielle Elwes, Veronica Radaelli, Fiona Robert, Sophia Robert, Zachary Spicer and Alex Vlack. Executive producers are Cassian Elwes,...

Even as California Gov. Gavin Newsom tries to halt a production exodus from Los Angeles with a pledge to double the film and TV tax incentive from $330 million to $750 million a year, producers are finding abundant new and cheaper soundstage options in far-flung locations. That’s judging by the number of film studios, lots and facilities under construction throughout North America and in Europe, many hoping to capitalize on Hollywood projects that are on the move. Even stateside, it’s not just established rivals Georgia, New Jersey and New York — a trio cited by studio execs recently polled by ProdPro as among preferred locations this year — that California needs to worry about.

Take Louisville, Kentucky, not exactly known as a production hub. Gus Van Sant’s upcoming crime feature Dead Man’s Wire and Dustin Hoffman drama The Revisionist nabbed incentives to shoot in the locale. And plans are underway for...

André Holland is a busy man. His recent TV series The Big Cigar and Terminator Zero were great, and his new film The Actor is a personal favorite, a film noir masterpiece. He is also starring in this year's The Dutchman, Once Again... (Statues Never Die), and Love, Brooklyn, along with the film The Revisionist, which stars Holland alongside Dustin Hoffman, Alison Brie, and Tom Sturridge. Like The Actor, The Revisionist deals with the blurring of lines between art and life, truth and fiction, identity and performance; Holland plays the titular actor in The Actor and a writer in The Revisionist. Though, as Holland told MovieWeb in a recent interview, the two films are different in many ways.

"It's completely different, and it's still very much [happening]," said Holland (who is also currently attending Harvard Divinity School). "We just finished maybe six weeks ago, something like that, or maybe two months.

André Holland & Gemma Chan discuss their remarkably unique new film 'The Actor,' written and directed by Duke Johnson ('Anomalisa'). The pair discuss the liberation and challenge of filming in such a surreal, allegorical world, discuss their theories of the mysterious film, and touch on future projects such as 'Josephine' with Channing Tatum and 'The Revisionist' with Dustin Hoffman. See 'The Actor' in theaters starting March 14, 2025, from Neon.

Based on the novel 'Memory' by Donald E. Westlake, 'The Actor' finds Paul Cole (André Holland) stranded in a mysterious small town with no memory of who he is or how he got here. Without a sense of identity or purpose, he starts from scratch and begins courting a local costume designer Edna (Chan). As bits and pieces of his past slowly emerge, he attempts to find his way home, but time is slippery,...

Chicago – Take a picture it will last longer/Cause Two Thousand and Twenty Four/ Was a year in which democracy/Now has one foot out the door. Will my business still thrive/In TwentyTwentyFive?/I guess it all depends/Cause who can afford a 50 percent tariff/On a brand new Canon lens?

Politics aside, I present with pride My annual Top 25 list,

That poetically embraces some of the celebrity faces,

That hopefully my camera kissed.

Editor’S Note: Presenting the Top 25 Celebrity Portraits and prose poetry by Photographer Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com. He’s the best in the biz. Now back to the article …

Self Portrait: Photographer Joe Arce

Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com

25. Lead Actor of Dandelion, KiKi Layne

KiKi Layne

Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com

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