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At first glance, you wouldn't think that a movie about a bunch of improv actors becoming police informants would strike a chord with so many people, but that's just what Prime Video's latest, Deep Cover, has done. Premiering yesterday, June 12, the British action comedy directed by Tom Kingsley has landed a stellar 92% rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, and fans are equally impressed with the new film, as they've rated it 82% on the Popcornmeter.

"Deep Cover is exactly the type of twist-filled action comedy with gags, guns, and gangsters that will delight fans who enjoy movies that have the madcap spirit of Guy Ritchie's early films," said Carla Hay from Culture Mix in her review. Guy Ritchie's early films, you say? Sign us up! Glenn Kenny from the New York Times is another critic who had high praise for the movie, adding:

"The ensemble is packed with seasoned acting professionals across the board,...

Kate Mara is glad she and sister Rooney Mara waited until now to collaborate.The siblings play twins in Werner Herzog’s ‘Bucking Fastard’ and Kate, 42, who is two years older than sister Rooney in real life, revealed they waited so long because they wanted to settle on a director they were both happy with.She told The Hollywood Reporter: “We’ve been looking for something to do together for a while, and we have been sent things that were interesting. Playing sisters or not wasn’t actually important to us. We wrapped [‘Bucking Fastard’] a couple weeks ago, and it now makes so much sense that this was the one that was waiting for us. We read Werner’s email that asked us to be in it, and we’re both such massive fans of his. So the first hurdle was finding a filmmaker that we both like,...

Kate Mara was unacquainted with Tim Robinson’s brand of comedy when filmmaker Andrew DeYoung offered her the chance to star opposite the maestro of cringe in Friendship. Mara plays Tami Waterman, a loving mother, self-employed florist and cancer survivor who’s dangerously close to becoming Craig Waterman’s (Robinson) walkaway wife. Tami hasn’t been given the attentiveness she deserves from her tone-deaf husband, and the issue is magnified when Craig forms a fast friendship with their new local weatherman neighbor, Austin Carmichael (Paul Rudd).

Craig ultimately jeopardizes his new relationship, first by going too far during a casual boxing match, and then eating a bar of soap as a form of self-punishment in front of Austin and his other friends. This is the kind of unconventional humor that DeYoung’s feature directorial debut possesses in spades, but Mara still treated the unusual black comedy as seriously as she...

Kate Mara didn’t know exactly what she was getting into with Tim Robinson before joining the cast of “Friendship.” She wasn’t familiar with “I Think You Should Leave,” the absurdist Netflix sketch comedy created by Robinson and Zach Kanin – and “Friendship” very much plays like a 97-minute version of the series.

Thankfully, the screenplay by writer-director Andrew DeYoung painted a clear picture for Mara. “It was all on the page,” the “House of Cards” alum tells Variety. “It was such a great script, so funny. My reaction was, ‘Wow. Why did he think of me?’”

It’s a fair question. Mara, known largely for her work in drama series like “House of Cards” and “A Teacher,” hasn’t gotten to flex her comedy chops as much. In “Friendship,” she plays Tami, the wife to Robinson’s lonely marketing executive, Craig. Tami isn’t outwardly funny at first, serving largely as a straight-man,...

Real-life siblings Rooney and Kate Mara are set to appear in Werner Herzog's upcoming movie. The film is titled Bucking Fastard, and it is being presented to potential distributors at this year's Cannes Film Festival. The sisters will be playing twins in the movie, marking the first time they have ever appeared on-screen together. Orlando Bloom and Domhnall Gleeson are also set to join the Maras in the film.

Per the report by IndieWire, the Mara sisters will play Jean and Joan Holbrooke, twin siblings who have a strange relationship that puts them in the spotlight. Herzog has said that the film is based on the true story of the Chaplin sisters, Freda and Greta, who became international sensations after standing trial in a harassment case. The Chaplin twins were known for dressing identically and speaking in unison.

Deadline reports the following logline:

Set in both the contemporary urban...

Focus Features has set an October 3 awards corridor release date for Anemone, the much anticipated drama that will mark Daniel Day-Lewis’ return to the screen after eight years.

Day-Lewis’ son Ronan Day-Lewis makes his directing debut on the project and father and son co-wrote the screenplay, which deals with the complex ties between brothers, fathers and sons.

Sean Bean, Samuel Bottomley, Safia Oakley-Green and Samantha Morton star alongside the elder Day-Lewis. Plan B is producing.

The project shot last autumn in the north of England and Wales with Ben Fordesman serving as director of photography, Jane Petrie as costume designer...

One of the bigger stories of recent memory is the return of German filmmaker Werner Herzog to English-langague scripted material, since 2016’s “Salt & Fire,” as he’s directing “Bucking Fastard” with quite an impressive cast that is being hyped because we’ll see, for the first time, acting siblings Rooney Mara (“The Girls With The Dragon Tattoo”) and Kate Mara (“Friendship”) co-starring in the movie.

Continue reading ‘Bucking Fastard’ First Look: Rooney & Kate Mara Star In Werner Herzog’s Latest Drama at The Playlist.

Werner Herzog is a mastermind with a camera. For decades, he has created some of the most respected films in the industry, moving past the vanity of Academy nominations and focusing on creating art. While his films do not get the most attention in the mainstream, he stands as one of the most respected and talented filmmakers in Hollywood.

With this, one can imagine that starring in any one of his films would be an honor for any actor. However, doing the same with one’s sister is indeed rare. Kate and Rooney Mara are experiencing this unique opportunity as they star in Herzog’s upcoming film, Bucking Fastard.

While the film is highly anticipated on its own, the fact that it is based on true events makes it all the more interesting.

The first look at the Mara sisters in Werner Herzog’s Bucking Fastard

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Werner Herzog’s Bucking Fastard casts real-life siblings Kate and Rooney Mara as Jean and Joan Holbrooke, twins so intertwined they tunnel through an Irish mountain range seeking the legendary Orkneys. HanWay Films released a first-look image showing the Maras in matching outfits, speaking in unison to underscore their bond.

Orlando Bloom plays Gareth Mulroney, the sisters’ unruly former lover, while Domhnall Gleeson appears as Timothy, a government-assigned social worker charged with helping the twins adjust to modern city life after their tabloid rise. Herzog wrote and directed the feature, contrasting contemporary urban scenes with Ireland’s rugged landscapes to capture the Holbrookes’ shared speech patterns and mirrored ambitions.

Producers Clara Wu Tsai, Ariel Leon Isacovitch and Agnes Chu lead a team that includes Kieran Corrigan, Emanuele Moretti and Andrea Bucko. HanWay Films will present footage from shoots in Dublin, Sligo and Slovenia at the Cannes market.

Kate Mara told...

In a film sure to break the internet, real-life sisters Rooney and Kate Mara are playing infamous tabloid twins Joan and Jean Holbrooke for Werner Herzog’s buzzy “Bucking Fastard.”

Maverick auteur Herzog writes and directs “Bucking Fastard” based on the true story of the Holbrooke sisters who lived on the fringes of society and spoke in their own twisted language, shared the same dreams, and even loved the same man. Domhnall Gleeson and Orlando Bloom co-star in the feature, which is a sales title from HanWay Films.

“Bucking Fastard” is set in Ireland, where the sisters are assigned a government-issued social worker (Gleeson) in an attempt to help them adapt to modern life. The official logline teases that Joan and Jean begin digging a tunnel through a mountain range to find an imaginary land where true love is possible; Bloom plays their shared ex-lover, Gareth Maloney.

Herzog announced that...

Bucking Fastard, the new feature film written and directed by the legendary Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man, Fitzcarraldo) and starring sisters Kate Mara (House of Cards, The Martian) and Rooney Mara (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Carol), as well as Orlando Bloom (The Lord of the Rings) and Domhnall Gleeson (Ex Machina), now has a first-look image.

It shows the sisters who star in the “deeply intertwined lead roles of Jean and Joan Holbrooke,” marking the first time they have appeared on screen together.

Bloom plays their rowdy ex-lover, Gareth Mulroney, while Gleeson portrays Timothy, their government-issued social worker/mender who is trying to help them “adapt to modern life after the two become tabloid sensations.”

A synopsis of the movie reads: “Set in both contemporary urban modernity and against the epic untamed wilds of Ireland, Bucking Fastard is about two sisters who are so close to each other that they speak in unison,...

Here’s a first-look image for Bucking Fastard, the Werner Herzog pic starring real-life sisters Kate and Rooney Mara as on-screen siblings.

The Maras can be seen in the image as Jean and Joan Holbrooke, sisters who are so close that they speak in unison, love the same man, have the same dreams and event make the same slips of the tongue. They’re based on the true story of a pair of inseparable sisters, who lived on the fringes of society.

Set in both the contemporary urban world and the untamed wilds of Ireland, the sisters are assigned a government-issued social worker, Timothy (Domhnall Gleeson), who attempts to help them to adapt to modern life after they become a tabloid sensation. In search of an imaginary land where true love is possible, the begin digging a tunnel through an entire mountain range. Orlando Bloom also stars as their rowdy ex-lover,...

A first look image has been released for ‘Bucking Fastard,’ written and directed by legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog.

Starring Emmy nominee Kate Mara (House of Cards, The Martian) and two-time Oscar nominee Rooney Mara (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Carol, Her) in the singular, deeply intertwined lead roles of Jean and Joan Holbrooke, the film marks the first time the sisters have appeared on screen together.

Kate and Rooney Mara are joined by co-stars Orlando Bloom (The Lord of the Rings, upcoming films Deep Cover, The Cut) as their rowdy ex-lover Gareth Mulroney, and Domhnall Gleeson (Ex Machina, upcoming films Fountain of Youth, Echo Valley) as Timothy, their government-issued social worker/mender, trying to help them adapt to modern life after the two become tabloid sensations.

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Set in both contemporary urban modernity and...

Exclusive: HanWay has unveiled a first-look image of Werner Herzog’s Bucking Fastard, starring sisters Rooney and Kate Mara (L-r).

The film is set against both a contemporary urban backdrop and an untamed wild Irish landscape, and follows two sisters who are so close to each other that they speak in unison, love the same man, and have the same dreams.

Orlando Bloom and Domhnall Gleeson also star. It marks the first time the sisters have appeared on screen together.

The Dublin and Slovenia shoot wrapped at the end of April.

Producers are Clara Wu Tsai, Ariel Leon Isacovitch, Agnes Chu,...

As your “Screen Talk” co-hosts Anne Thompson and Ryan Lattanzio pack for Cannes, we preview the hot titles for sale, the studio marketing launches, the possible Competition prize contenders, and the movies that have already released trailers. We speculate about the potential brought by President Trump’s latest proposal of a 100 percent tariff on movies filmed overseas. And we preview the summer lineup.

In new news, the already sprawling Cannes Film Festival has just welcomed a few new additions: Bi Gan’s “Resurrection” finally joins the competition after much speculation and anticipation, as well as Eugene Jarecki’s delayed Julian Assange documentary “The Six Billion Dollar Man,” which was pulled from Sundance due to developments in the story.

Among the competition titles without North American berths are Lynne Ramsay’s “Die, My Love,” starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson; Richard Linklater’s “Nouvelle Vague,” with Zoey Deutch as Jean Seberg,...

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“I don’t have a clue, and I’m not sure if anyone has a clue, what it means,” says David Garrett, CEO of Mister Smith Entertainment. “Is he going to put tariffs on independent films? Will it be a tariff on the minimum guarantee? The budget?...

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The Rule Of Three

Thomasin McKenzie and Katie Douglas to star in this horror from Smile producer Temple Hill Entertainment. James Roday Rodriguez directs and wrote the screenplay alongside Todd Harthan, which is based on Sam Ripley’s novel.

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The Lord of the Ringsstar Orlando Bloom has been cast in a new movie that features sisters Kate and Rooney Mara teaming up in their first film. Per Deadline, Bloom as well as actor Domhnall Gleeson (Ex Machina)have joined the cast of the new drama Bucking Fastard from Oscar-nominated director Werner Herzog.

Bucking Fastards wrapped filming in Europe over the weekend. Real-life sisters Kate and Rooney Mara will play Jean and Joan Holbrooke, who are described as “two sisters who are so close to each other that they speak in unison, love the same man, and have the same dreams. They even make the same slip of the tongue in unison. In search of an imaginary land, the Orkneys - where true love is possible - they start digging a tunnel through an entire mountain range.”

Bloom will play the sisters’ rowdy ex-lover, Gareth Mulroney. Gleeson will portray Timothy,...

German filmmaker Werner Herzog is making a grand return to scripted features with his new project that has the cheeky title, “Bucking Fastard,” which already features Kate and Rooney Mara, their first time sharing the screen together, with two high-profile actors joining the call sheet.

A new report hailing from Deadline has revealed that Orlando Bloom (“The Lord of The Rings”) and Domhnall Gleeson (“Never Let Me Go”) have taken roles in the new pic.

Continue reading ‘Bucking Fastard’: Orlando Bloom & Domhnall Gleeseon Tapped For New Werner Herzog Film Joining The Mara Sisters at The Playlist.

Orlando Bloom and Domhnall Gleeson will join sisters Kate Mara and Rooney Mara for what Werner Herzog says is the final film of a trilogy, Bucking Fastard. According to Herzog, Bucking Fastard is the third chapter following Fitzcarraldo and Grizzly Man. The famed filmmaker’s latest project, wrapping production in Europe this month, finds the Mara sisters appearing on screen together for the first time.

Kate and Rooney Mara play Jean and Joan Holbrooke in Bucking Fastard, focusing on “two sisters who are so close to each other that they speak in unison, love the same man, and have the same dreams. They even make the same slip of tongue in unison. In search of an imaginary land, the Orkneys – where true love is possible – they start digging a tunnel through an entire mountain range.” Fascinating.

According to Deadline‘s exclusive report, Orlando Bloom plays Gareth Mulroney, the sisterly duo’s riotous ex-lover,...

Exclusive: Orlando Bloom (The Lord of the Rings) and Domhnall Gleeson (Ex Machina) have joined Kate and Rooney Mara in Werner Herzog’s Bucking Fastard, which wrapped filming in Europe this past weekend.

Marking the first time the Mara sisters have appeared on screen together, the film charts the story of Jean and Joan Holbrooke, “two sisters who are so close to each other that they speak in unison, love the same man, and have the same dreams. They even make the same slip of tongue in unison. In search of an imaginary land, the Orkneys – where true love is possible – they start digging a tunnel through an entire mountain range.”

Bloom will play their rowdy ex-lover Gareth Mulroney and Gleeson will be Timothy, their government-issued social worker/mender, trying to help them adapt to modern life after the two become tabloid sensations.

HanWay Films has boarded the project to...

Werner Herzog will receive the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival this August.

“I feel deeply honored to receive a Lifetime Achievement Honorary Golden Lion by the Venice Biennale. I have always tried to be a Good Soldier of Cinema, and this feels like a medal for my work. Thank you,” the director said in a Tuesday statement. “However, I have not gone into retirement. I work as always. A few weeks ago, I just finished a documentary in Africa, ‘Ghost Elephants,’ and at this moment, I am shooting my next feature film, ‘Bucking Fastard,’ in Ireland. I am developing an animated film, based on my novel, ‘The Twilight World,’ and I am acting the voice of a creature in Bong Joon-ho’s upcoming animated film. I am not done yet.”

The La Biennale board of directors selected Herzog upon the recommendation from Vff artistic director Alberto Barbera.

German director Werner Herzog will be honored with a Golden Lion lifetime achievement award at this year’s Venice Film Festival. The Fitzcarraldo and Grizzly Man director will be honored at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival, which runs Aug. 27-Sept. 6.

“I feel deeply honored to receive a Lifetime Achievement Honorary Golden Lion by the Venice Biennale. I have always tried to be a Good Soldier of Cinema, and this feels like a medal for my work,” Herzog stated. “However, I have not gone into retirement. I work as always.”

The director, whose long list of credits as a director includes Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Signs of Life, Bad Lieutenant, Port of Call: New Orleans, Nosferatu the Vampyre, and Cave of Forgotten Dreams, and as an actor turns in Jack Reacher and Disney+’s The Mandalorian, recently completed a new documentary, Ghost Elephants, is currently shooting a feature, Bucking Fastard,...

German filmmaker Werner Herzog will receive the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the 82nd Venice Film Festival (August 27-September 6).

The director has screened several films at the festival including 2009’s Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans.

Of receiving the award, Herzog said: “I have always tried to be a Good Soldier of Cinema, and this feels like a medal for my work. Thank you.

“However, I have not gone into retirement. I work as always. A few weeks ago, I just finished a documentary in Africa, Ghost Elephants, and at this moment, I am shooting my next feature film,...

The Venice Film Festival will fete German filmmaker Werner Herzog with its honorary Golden Lion at its forthcoming 82nd edition.

Accepting the honor, Herzog said: “I feel deeply honored to receive a Lifetime Achievement Honorary Golden Lion by the Venice Biennale. I have always tried to be a Good Soldier of Cinema, and this feels like a medal for my work. Thank you.”

The filmmaker, often known for his biting humor, added: “However, I have not gone into retirement. I work as always. A few weeks ago, I just finished a documentary in Africa, Ghost Elephants, and at this moment, I am shooting my next feature film, Bucking Fastard, in Ireland. I am developing an animated film, based on my novel, The Twilight World, and I am acting the voice of a creature in Bong Joon Ho’s upcoming animated film. I am not done yet.”

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The Venice Film Festival will honor iconoclastic German director Werner Herzog — whose body of work comprises “Aguirre, the Wrath of God,” “Fitzcarraldo” and Nosferatu the Vampyre” — with its 2025 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.

“I feel deeply honored to receive a Lifetime Achievement Honorary Golden Lion by the Venice Biennale,” Herzog said in a statement. “I have always tried to be a Good Soldier of Cinema, and this feels like a medal for my work: Thank you.”

“However,” Herzog went on to note, “I have not gone into retirement.”

“I work as always. A few weeks ago, I just finished a documentary in Africa, ‘Ghost Elephants,’ and at this moment, I am shooting my next feature film, ‘Bucking Fastard,’ in Ireland. I am developing an animated film, based on my novel, ‘The Twilight World,’ and I am acting the voice of a creature in Bong Joon Ho’s upcoming animated film.

After a career spanning more than five decades, acclaimed German filmmaker Werner Herzog is finally dipping his toes into animation. Herzog is perhaps best known for his many documentaries, including Grizzly Man, as well as feature films like 1979's Nosferatu the Vampyre. He's also no stranger to stepping in front of the camera, having had roles in The Mandalorian and Jack Reacher.

Per Variety, Herzog will make his animation debut with The Twilight World, a feature based on his best-selling novel of the same name that was first published in German in 2021, and translated into English in 2022. Sun Creature Studio, the same company being the Oscar-nominated animated film Flee, will work to bring The Twilight World to life, while celebrated animation studio Psyop will also serve as a co-producer on the movie.

Narrated by Herzog himself, The Twilight World tells the true story of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese intelligence officer...

Werner Herzog, the celebrated German writer, producer and filmmaker behind “Grizzly Man” and “The Wrath of God,” is making his animation debut with “The Twilight World,” based on his best selling novel of the same name.

Narrated by the filmmaker, “The Twilight World” tells the true story of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese intelligence officer who refused to believe that World War II was over, and continued to fight a personal, fictitious war in the jungles of the Philippines for thirty years.

The screenplay adaptation of the book, which weaves history, war drama and dream log, was written by Herzog with Michael Arias and Luca Vitale.

Sun Creature Studio, the producers of “Flee,” the BAFTA and Oscar-nominated film, has been tapped to create for “The Twilight World” out of their France-based studio and will be working with French animation talent, while Psyop, another renowned animation studio that is based in Germany and the U.

Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. To keep up with our latest features, sign up for the Weekly Edit newsletter and follow us @mubinotebook on Twitter and Instagram.News The Blob.While moviegoing trended downward elsewhere (though box office receipts increased), France, Great Britain, Brazil, and Turkey saw an uptick in cinema attendance last year. French theater owners and analysts point to several nationally specific contributing factors: government art subsidies, distribution laws that mandate long theatrical windows, the inability for urban apartments to accommodate big home-theater setups, and the public's strong cultural connection to the cinema.As more small-town movie theaters close because of low ticket and concession sales, local residents have begun forming nonprofit organizations to save them. In 2023, Nicki Wilson of Great Barrington, Massachusetts, successfully organized a fundraiser to save the Triplex Cinema, the town’s only moviehouse. By means of donations, grants, and volunteer labor,...

Exclusive: Producer Andrea Bucko (Alpha Gang) and actress Jordan Claire Robbins (The Umbrella Academy) have officially launched film and TV development fund, finance company, and production banner Raised by Wolves.

Backed by private investments from multiple family offices, the label has already quietly invested equity in high-profile independent films including Alpha Gang, starring Cate Blanchett, Channing Tatum, Dave Bautista, Steven Yeun, Zoë Kravitz, Léa Seydoux and Riley Keough; Captivated, starring Al Pacino and Katie Holmes; and Gus Van Sant’s Dead Man’s Wire starring Bill Skarsgård, Dacre Montgomery, Al Pacino, and Colman Domingo, which recently wrapped principal photography.

Along with investing through Raised by Wolves, Bucko has also produced these films under her Sugar Rush Pictures company. Werner Herzog’s Bucking Fastard with Rooney and Kate Mara is also produced under that banner.

Producer Nini Le Huynh, former assistant to Robin Wright, will serve as creative executive for the new company,...

Werner Herzog has confirmed he is working on an animated feature adaptation of his 2021 novel The Twilight World about real-life Japanese solider Hiroo Onoda who refused to surrender for some 30 years after the end of WW2.

The German writer, producer and filmmaker is collaborating on the project with New York, L.A. and Berlin-based animation studio Psyop, in partnership with Danish-French company Sun Creature Studio, producers of the Bafta and triple Oscar-nominated film Flee.

It marks a first foray into feature animation for Oscar-nominated director Herzog after close to 80 documentary and fiction feature credits including Grizzly Man, Fitzcarraldo, and Aguirre, The Wrath of God.

Sun Creature will providing animation services for the film out of its Bordeaux-based studio, and has brokered discussions with several potential French animation directors to collaborate with Herzog on the project.

The Twilight World tells the true story of Onoda, a Japanese intelligence officer who refused...