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Apple TV+’s latest series order will explore the world of high-end art, with two A-list stars attached.

Jessica Chastain and Adam Driver will star in The Dealer, which the streamer landed with a straight-to-series pickup following a bidding war with several other outlets. The two leads will also be executive producers. The show hails from The Morning Show and Pachinko producer Media Res and will be executive produced by Tony Award-nominated playwright Lucas Hnath, Sam Gold and Sarah Lunnie, all of whom collaborated on Hnath’s play A Doll’s House, Part 2.

The Dealer is described as “a biting exploration of power, class, seduction and culture set inside the glittering world of the high-end art market, told through the eyes of an aspiring super gallerist (Chastain) and the tangled relationship with her most gifted and unnerving artist (Driver).”

The series will be the second at Apple TV+ for Chastain, who...

Disney+ UK is about more than Marvel and Star Wars stuff. Here’s a bunch of underappreciated films on the service.

Many of us subscribed to Disney+ to always have a bunch of Disney productions at hand.. You know, in case I simply need to watch The Lion King at 2am and can’t find my DVD in the dark.

But the streaming service offers so much more than just the well known favourities. There’s a whole sea of incredible films to discover – but with such extensive libraries, they can be hard to find. We’ve done our best to highlight 19 underrated films that you should give a chance to. This’ll be updated over time, too.

Here they are:

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Ella (Dianna Agron) doesn’t want kids. She never has, even though everyone around her seems to be pressuring her, insisting that she does. It...

“In the Lost Lands” director Paul W.S. Anderson is used to his movies getting released, being under-appreciated and then finding their audience years — or sometimes decades — later.

“I’m British, we are used to considering ourselves being rubbish,” Anderson said. But he is aware that even movies considered flops do sometimes come back in a big way. “You release the movie and no one likes it and then 10 years later they go, ‘That was a great movie.’ Could you not have told me that 10 years ago?” he added.

Anderson started his career in England. He made the low-budget thriller “Shopping” in 1994 which starred a then-unknown Jude Law. The British press was ruthless. Anderson still remembers that one outlet branded the film “a reckless orgy of destruction.” “That was supposed to be a criticism and I loved it so much that we stuck it on the poster,” Anderson said. It was a source of pride.

It didn’t take long after the conclusion of The Twilight Sagafor Robert Pattinsonto prove that he was a truly experimental actor who was willing to risk embarrassment by playing oddball characters; by teaming up with acclaimed filmmakers like David Cronenberg, the Safdie Brothers, Robert Eggers, Claire Denis, and James Gray among others, Pattinson has been able to prove that he is much more of a chameleon-like character actor than a traditional heartthrob. Although Pattinson has done great work playing offbeat weirdos in films like Damsel and The Devil All The Time, it's still within the confines of rather serious stories, in which his performance is intended to be the outlier. Mickey 17finally gives Pattinson the opportunity to do a straight-up comedy, and the brave performance that he gave proved to be perfect for the idiosyncratic vision of Bong Joon Ho.

Believe it or not, once upon a time, Robert Pattinson was not considered a top-notch actor. Sad but true! To be fair, there were a lot of mitigating factors surrounding this, chief among them the fact that he exploded onto the scene as the male lead in the "Twilight" saga, finding himself at the epicenter of that dubious pop-cultural phenomenon. Despite hordes of screaming young fans going wild for the English actor based on his beauty, the dismissal of Pattinson by snooty folks at the time helped teach us a valuable lesson later, one which we keep failing to learn: teen girls do tend to have good taste.

After all, almost immediately following his tenure in the "Twilight" films, Pattinson used his newfound clout to become a star to be reckoned with. He doubled down on a collaboration with the cerebral Canadian provocateur David Cronenberg, appearing in both "Cosmopolis" and "Maps to the Stars.

With Anne Hathaway, Adam Driver and Jeremy Strong on board, James Gray’s Paper Tiger is about to start filming.

James Gray has a filmography that includes the likes of Ad Astra and The Lost City Of Z. He has appeared in a special episode of our podcast too. His latest film, 2022’s Armageddon Time, was an absorbing coming-of-age film set in New York in the 1980s.

The filmmaker is turning his creativity towards the crime genre next, having scripted Paper Tiger, his next directorial outing. Furthermore, he’s bringing two actors from Armageddon Time into his next project, with Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong set to star in the new movie.

Adam Driver has also signed up to complete the leading trio, with the film focusing on two brothers who end up on the hitlist of the Russian mafia.

Read more: Podcast | In conversation with James Gray

According to World Of Reel,...

When tackling the thorniest and most complicated subjects of contemporary American life in film, we must call in the services of our most fearless actor, Jeremy Strong. Following his tour de force on HBO as the heir apparent to CEO of Waystar Royco in Succession, Strong quickly announced himself as a perennial film actor with his equally triumphant and mesmerizing performance in The Apprentice. While the film was treated as a hot-buttoned, inflammatory look at Donald Trump, released about a month before he was elected President of the United States, it was Strong's performance as Roy Cohn that stole the show. Two years earlier, Strong also dabbled in commentary on the Trump family in Armageddon Time, an overlooked coming-of-age drama that looks at the family more abstractly, but James Gray's film is just as biting.

Now that the gold dust is settling on a long awards season, it is time to look forward to what’s next.

For Kieran Culkin that means heading to Broadway for the most recent staging of Glengarry Glen Ross, while this summer is likely occupied with filming on the third Dune movie for Timothee Chalamet. Elsewhere, awards break-outs like Anora’s Mikey Madison and Yura Borisov have yet to announce their next projects but are getting a lot of interest from studios and directors.

Here’s what the best actor and actress nominees have coming up.

Monica Barbaro (A Complete Unknown)

Next up for Barbaro is the second season of the Netflix action comedy series Fubar and the Don Winslow film adaptation Crime 101 at Amazon MGM.

Yura Borisov (Anora)

One of the biggest stars in Russia, he has three TV series and a movie in postproduction with several on deck in his native country,...

Walter Salles, Johnnie To, Lav Diaz, Darius Khondji and Anna Terrazas will serve as Qumra Masters at the 11th edition of the Doha Film Institute’s annual talent and project incubator.

They follow in the wake of some 50 top cinemas figures who have also taken up the role over the past 10 editions, including Claire Denis, Leos Carax, Tilda Swinton, Gael Garcia Bernal and James Gray.

The event, running from April 4 to 9, will invite the producers and directors of some 40 projects supported by the Doha Film Institute (Dfi) for six days of development support and networking.

Brazilian director Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries) will be in attendance at the meeting fresh from his buzzy awards season with his Oscar-nominated drama I’m Still Here.

Filipino director Diaz brings his vision of a special brand of slow cinema which includes films such as The Woman Who Left and Evolution of a Filipino Family.

Iranian-French...

Jeremy Strong, star of the HBO hit series Succession and recent first-time Oscar nominee, is set to play a Nazi hunter in a new adaptation of the conspiracy thriller novel The Boys from Brazil, according to a report from Deadline.

The Netflix series will be executive produced by The Crown showrunner Peter Morgan. Strong will play Yakov Liebermann, the lead character loosely based on real-life Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal. The role was previously portrayed by Laurence Olivier in a 1978 feature adaptation of the novel.

The story chronicles Liebermann's attempts to uncover a secret project launched by notorious Nazi officer Josef Mengele, who was nicknamed "the Angel of Death" due to his sinister experiments during the Holocaust. In the novel, Mengele has successfully planted dozens of genetic clones of Adolf Hitler in an attempt to rebuild the Third Reich.

The project may be intended as a contemporary political commentary. Strong received...

Jeremy Strong is going Nazi hunting.

The Succession Emmy winner is set to star in a series adaptation of Ira Levin’s novel The Boys From Brazil at Netflix. The Crown creator Peter Morgan is adapting the novel, which was previously made into a 1978 feature film starring Laurence Olivier and Gregory Peck.

Netflix reps hadn’t returned a request for comment as of publication time.

The role will be the first series work for Strong since Succession ended its four-season run on HBO in 2023. He’s set to play Liebermann, a Nazi hunter who receives a tip that Dr. Josef Mengele, the infamous “Angel of Death” from the Auschwitz concentration camp, is living in Brazil. Liebermann travels there, uncovering a conspiracy to rebuild the Nazi regime. (The real-life Mengele did, in fact, flee to South America after Nazi Germany’s defeat in World War II and lived in Brazil for...

Hollywood icon Ke Huy Quan-led Love Hurts and Josh Ruben's Heart Eyesopen strong but still can't outpace Dog Man.

Per Variety, DreamWorks Animation's Dog Man is still dominating the box office in its second weekend in theaters, even in spite of the releases of both the action comedy Love Hurts starring Ke Huy Quan and director Josh Ruben's new slasher comedy, Heart Eyes. While Heart Eyes has already brought in over $3.7 million in preview screenings and Friday showings, that only barely outpaced Dog Man's second Friday earnings of $3.2 million. Preview screenings and Friday showings of Love Hurts brought in $2.6 million, with forecasts for the weekend putting it at around $6 million, whereas Dog Man is on track to pass earnings of over $54 million within its first ten days, giving it an $18 million projection for its second weekend in theaters.

Related'i'm Gonna Sink': Robert De Niro Reveals the...

Smallvillestar Tom Welling opens up about losing his composure on the set of the hit Superman prequel series.

Per SportsKeeda, Welling discussed the experience during his latest appearance of fellow Smallville star Michael Rosenbaum's Inside of You podcast. "We had to stop when they were rolling and back and forth," Welling recalled. "I lost my composure, and I went out there, and I raised my voice toward a crew who I know... I know all their names ... and another crew member comes and says, 'Tom, Tom, Tom, I need you to...,' and I'm like, 'I'm not gonna calm down."

RelatedJulia Roberts Developing New Film That Puts a Major Twist on Murder Mystery Stories

Julia Roberts and James Gray are teaming up to take on Peter Swanson's next novel that is set to put a new spin on classic murder mysteries.

Welling portrayed a pre-Superman version of Clark...

Academy Award-winner Robert De Niro opens up about struggling on the set of Netflix's Zero Day.

Per Variety, De Niro described the experience of filming Zero Day as akin to "doing three features back to back." De Niro discussed his work on the upcoming political thriller, adding, "I was in most of it. And so I had to keep up with everything, even as simple as knowing the lines. So I likened it to being in the English Channel - swimming to England from France, looking behind me and not seeing France, looking ahead, not seeing England. I gotta keep going, otherwise I'm gonna sink."

RelatedHappy Gilmore 2 Teaser Reveals Behind the Scenes Look at Netflix Sequel

Netflix takes audiences behind-the-scenes of Happy Gilmore 2 for a look at all the action on the set of the hotly-anticipated Adam Sandler sequel.

Directed by Lesli Linka Glatter and co-created by Noah Oppenheim,...

James Gray knows his next project after “Paper Tiger.” THR reports that Gray will direct “Kill Your Darlings,” an adaptation of Peter Swanson‘s upcoming novel, with Julia Roberts set to star. The project comes from Scott Stuber‘s rebooted United Artists banner via Amazon MGM Studios.

Read More: James Gray To Direct ‘Paper Tiger’ Starring Adam Driver, Anne Hathaway & Jeremy Strong

A film adaptation for a book that’s not even out yet?

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Hollywood icon Julia Roberts and Ad Astra's James Gray are bringing Kill Your Darlings to the silver screen.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, Julia Roberts has officially signed on as the latest star involved in the live-action feature film adaptation of author Peter Swanson's upcoming novel - Kill Your Darlings. The film is slated to be produced by Roberts alongside partners Lisa Gillan and Mirsa Yeres Gill via Red Om Films, Jane Rosenthal and Berry Welsh via Tribeca Studios, and Scott Stuber and Nick Nesbitt via United Artists.

RelatedHappy Gilmore 2 Teaser Reveals Behind the Scenes Look at Netflix Sequel

Netflix takes audiences behind-the-scenes of Happy Gilmore 2 for a look at all the action on the set of the hotly-anticipated Adam Sandler sequel.

Per HarperCollins' official synopsis for the novel, Kill Your Darlings follows Thom and Wendy Graves, a married couple of 25 years who spend their time together in...

Julia Robert is teaming up with James Gray to tackle an adaptation of New York Times bestselling author Peter Swanson’s forthcoming novel, Kill Your Darlings.

Scott Stuber’s rebooted United Artists label, as well as its big brother Amazon MGM Studios, have picked up the powerhouse package that also comes with a bevvy of producers

Roberts will star and produce with partners Lisa Gillan and Marisa Yeres Gill through their Red Om Films banner, as well as Tribeca Studios’ Jane Rosenthal and Berry Welsh. Stuber and partner Nick Nesbitt are also producing.

The book, from HarperCollins, doesn’t come out until June, but Amazon and Stuber acted quickly to take the book off the Hollywood market. The story is a murder mystery told in reverse.

Darlings centers on Tom and Wendy Graves, a couple married for over 25 years who appear to have a picture-perfect life, but beneath the surface,...

Few Hollywood stars have had quite as wild of a career trajectory as Mark Wahlberg, who managed to erase his pop star persona entirely by working alongside brilliant filmmakers like James Gray, Martin Scorsese, Paul Thomas Anderson, and David O. Russell. Although Wahlberg has spent the last few years making streaming films within the action, comedy, and family genres, he has also grown more active as a producer behind projects that speak to his own interest in activist causes. It is evident that religion is something he takes seriously, as Wahlberg gave one of his most transformative performances as a priestin the biographical drama Father Stu, which served as one of his first collaborations with Mel Gibson.

Welcome to Oscar Experts Mailbag, a rebranded version of Oscar Experts Typing and a spin-off of Awards Magnet, in which Gold Derby editors and experts Joyce Eng and Christopher Rosen answer your burning questions of the week. Questions have been edited for length and clarity. Email your questions to slugfests@goldderby.com.

JudasOfficial writes:

Hi Joyce and Chris,

I saw Nosferatu despite never seeing Nosferaone, and I loved it. I was blown away by the original cinematography, costumes, etc. — you know, the “craft categories.” But Lily-Rose Depp’s acting was no doubt the heart and soul of the movie, achieving manic tonal shifts that affected not only everyone in her scenes but the world around her. Is it crazy to have her as a dark horse for Best Supporting Actress?

Chris: Depp as our final “heart and soul” award nominee of the season feels right. She can join Yura Borisov,...

James Gray is a filmmaker who has consistently shown an ability to capture human frailty, regardless of the genre that he is working in. Although he made a science fiction epic with Ad Astra, a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story with Armageddon Time, and a haunting mafia thriller with We Own The Night, Gray has managed to examine complex, relatable characters with every film that he has directed. The prospect of Gray making an adventure film was somewhat surprising, as he is not exactly a filmmaker that seemed well-suited to making a swashbuckling crowd-pleaser like Raiders of the Lost Ark or The Princess Bride. However, The Lost City of Z is a harrowing epic about a real discovery mission that went awry and deserves to be heralded as one of the best films of the 21st century.

Mubi has unveiled their first streaming lineup of the new year and they are kicking things off in a major way with the streaming debut of Víctor Erice’s masterpiece Close Your Eyes. Additional highlights include the first digital release of Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias’ Berlinale and NYFF selection Pepe, with the debuts of Luca Guadagnino and James Gray also in the lineup. After releasing the biggest album of 2024, one can get a deeper glimpse into the life and work of Charli Xcx with the documentary Charli Xcx: Alone Together.

Recently naming Close Your Eyes one of the best films of 2024, Z.W. Lewis said, “Eríce’s latest is the ultimate cinephile catnip: the triumphant return of a director known to only make masterpieces, a film filled with in-group references and nods to cinema history (including a lengthy performance of a song from a Howard Hawks film), and...

Wedding bells are stinging (sorry) in a new action comedy starring Anne Hathaway and Dave Bautista. Jonathan Tropper, who wrote 2014's This is Where I Leave You and The Adam Project in 2022 (and was the creator and showrunner of Banshee) is scripting the new film for Amazon MGM Studios and Agbo. In an exclusive Deadline report, the outlet says that the two stars have signed onto the project and will co-produce with each of their respective companies.

The story is based on a wild series of actual events where two FBI agents played a couple in order to infiltrate a criminal enterprise in, you guessed it, New Jersey. The sting operation came to a head at the couples' staged wedding, where the criminal bosses were arrested as they checked in for their table assignments. While it sounds like a plan slightly more sophisticated than a free boat giveaway that would nab Homer Simpson,...

Maura Delpero’s lushly told, moving mountainside World War II epic “Vermiglio” kept a low profile at the 2024 Venice Film Festival as one of a handful of Italian films in the competition. To some’s surprise — only because most eyes were on quote-unquote buzzier films like “The Brutalist” and “Babygirl” and “Queer” — this story of a repressed rural community upended by the arrival of a handsome stranger (Giuseppe De Domenico) won the Silver Lion prize, second only to the Golden Lion, from the jury led by Isabelle Huppert. Now, “Vermiglio” represents Italy in the 2025 Best International Feature Film Oscar race — and should land a spot on next week’s shortlist after nods from the Gothams and Golden Globes.

“I was happy when they nominated the [Venice] jury because of Isabelle, but also because of the other members,” Delpero told IndieWire of the filmmaker-heavy jury that included James Gray, Agnieszka Holland, Andrew Haigh,...

“Have you ever wondered what makes a Christmas story a Christmas story?”

This is the underlying question to the Disney+ short film An Almost Christmas Story, and producer Alfonso Cuarón heartily laughs at the notion that he and director David Lowery were trying to settle the age-old debate about whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie or not. The 24-minute animated short — Cuarón’s third-and-final installment in his holiday collection that dates back to 2022 — is based on the true story of an owl that was rescued from the Rockefeller Plaza Christmas tree in 2020. Cuarón’s story, in tandem with Lowery and Jack Thorne’s script, teaches their young owl named Moon (Cary Christopher) what Christmas is as he seeks to reunite with his family.

Ultimately, the Oscar-winning Cuarón believes that the definition of a Christmas story doesn’t have to be broken down into an exact science. Die Hard may...

Exclusive: Here’s a hot package coming together quickly: Joseph Gordon-Levitt is set to direct an untitled AI thriller for T-Street Productions, the production company of Rian Johnson & Ram Bergman, with Anne Hathaway to star, sources tell Deadline.

No word on plot details yet, but we hear Gordon-Levitt wrote the script with Kieran Fitzgerald, who previously co-wrote his 2016 Oliver Stone movie Snowden. Both share ‘story by’ credit with Natasha Lyonne, the star of Johnson’s hit human-lie-detector series Poker Face for Peacock.

The project is the latest in a long line of collaborations for Gordon-Levitt, Johnson, and T-Street. Gordon-Levitt’s friendship and creative partnership with Johnson dates back to the latter’s 2005 directorial debut Brick, a high school neo-noir starring Gordon-Levitt, which is now a cult classic. Subsequently, Gordon-Levitt went on to star as a younger version of Bruce Willis in Johnson’s sci-fi actioner Looper, later guest starring on Poker Face.

Acclaimed cinematographer Hoyte Van Hoytema can now add a viral short film to his résumé.

The “Oppenheimer” Oscar winner, who is known for his Christopher Nolan collaborations with additional features “Interstellar,” “Tenet,” and “Dunkirk,” has shot a Volvo commercial for the brand with director Marcus Ibanez. Van Hoytema has also previously collaborated with Spike Jonze, James Gray, and Jordan Peele.

In the ad titled “Meet the new Volvo EX90,” the Dutch-Swedish cinematographer captures a woman whose life flashes before her eyes as she’s crossing the street and a Volvo driver narrowly misses running her over.

The tagline reads, “Sometimes the moments that never happen matter the most.”

Van Hoytema previously told IndieWire that he constantly is trying to reinvigorate the language of cinema.

“To a certain extent, I am always trying to come up with something new in my own eyes, but work methods are like tics,” Van Hoytema said.

Judging by the shocked faces on the European buyers and sellers attending the recent American Film Market in Las Vegas, the U.S. election didn’t end the way they had hoped. On the morning after, the most common reaction heard around the Palms Casino, where the conference took place, was “Wtf” (or a variation of) along with an eagerness to board a return flight home.

Whatever the opinions of Donald Trump across the Atlantic, the new political order could prove a

boon to Europe’s creative industries, which have flourished thanks to government-backed incentives and an exodus of U.S. talent to the Continent.

If anything, the election outcome crystallizes a shift in the way America is perceived abroad, one that has made Europe a land of opportunity for talent.

“For the longest time, the U.S. has been looked up to as a kind of ideal, a model...

Anne Hathaway is continuing her literary adaptation empire at Amazon MGM Studios. And this time, Hathaway is swapping rom-coms for psychosexual thrillers, bringing Colleen Hoover’s “Verity” to the screen.

Hathaway reunites with her “The Idea of You” director Michael Showalter for the feature, which is written by “The Act” and “A Friend of the Family” creator Nick Antosca.

“Verity” centers on struggling writer Lowen Ashleigh, who agrees to complete the remaining books in a successful series that bestselling thriller author Verity Crawford is unable to finish after a mysterious accident. Hathaway will play the reclusive titular Verity, whose latest unfinished manuscript includes chilling admissions about Verity and her family’s past. Per the logline, Lowen has to determine if Verity is a gifted fictionist or deranged psychopath.

No other casting has been announced yet for the roles of Lowen and Verity Crawford’s husband Jeremy Crawford.

Unlike streaming hit “The Idea of You,...

What happens in Vegas… heads back to Los Angeles.

After just one year of the American Film Market (AFM) relocating to Las Vegas instead of Santa Monica, seven of the top sales agencies are telling — not asking — the market’s organizers that they will not return to Sin City. And if AFM won’t move back to Los Angeles, they’re already making other arrangements.

It’s an existential moment for what’s been a keystone event for the indie film industry. For organizer IFTA — the Independent Film & Television Alliance — it’s an existential crisis.

This year’s AFM wrapped November 10 at the Palms in Vegas. Attendance wasn’t the issue; Vegas was. Sources told IndieWire that most attendees hated the venue, thought food and accommodations were “gross,” the hotel charged $700 to rent a coffee machine, and massive lines at the elevators made film buyers late for meetings. Turns...

Christopher Nolans Interstellar is one of the best sci-fi movies of the 2010s, and though others tried to repeat its success, theres only one other space movie that truly feels like a spiritual successor to it. Christopher Nolan has done a bit of everything in his career as a filmmaker, with his works being best-known for the recurrent themes he addresses in them. Nolans movies often touch on the topics of time, personal identity, and memory, and in 2014, he took these and others a step further in Interstellar.

Set in 2067, with humanity facing extinction due to a global blight, former NASA test pilot Joseph Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) is recruited by NASA physicist John Brand (Michael Caine) to go through a wormhole and cross the galaxy to find out which of three planets could be a new home for humanity. Interstellar was a massive critical and commercial success, and its widely...

$700 dollars to rent a coffee machine?

There were many topics of conversation at this year’s AFM, not least the market’s seismic switch from Santa Monica to Las Vegas and the (slightly more) seismic matter of the U.S. presidential elections, which just so happened to coincide with the first day of the event (in the swing swate of Nevada) on Nov. 5.

But there was also the matter of the various costs involved, including the somewhat eye-watering amount companies were being asked to pay should they want to offer guests coffee in their already expensively rented office rooms in the Palms.

Few sales companies Variety spoke made the splurge. Several — which shall not be named here — snuck their own machines in. Others stuck to water (a small bottle of which was going for about $6.50 in one hotel lobby).

But hideously expensive beverages are all well and good if buyers...

Forget jam-packed, this week's episode of the Empire podcast is positively marmaladen with great guests, folks! To kick things off, Chris Hewitt talks to Paddington In Peru stars Hugh Bonneville and Emily Mortimer (the new Mrs. Brown) about tarantulas, Paddington tantrums, and shooting in the wilds of Basingstoke [20:47 — 35:27 approx]. Then, that man Hewitt peels back the layers of magical-social-realist drama Bird with the great British director Andrea Arnold as the duo discuss working with non-actors, switching between TV and filmmaking, and shooting in Gravesend [51:56 - 1:07:39 approx]. And as if that weren't treat enough, we've also got an extended excerpt from our spoiler special interview with Agatha All Along showrunner Jac Schaeffer, in which we learn all about [Spoiler], [Bigger Spoiler] and shooting in [Spoiler] [1:34:29 - 1:50:10 approx].

Then, Chris is joined back in the podbooth by Helen O'Hara, James Dyer, and Alex Godfrey for a merry old show in which this week's listener question has the podding quartet breaking down...

Zendaya and Anne Hathaway are joining Christopher Nolan’s next film at Universal, alongside previously announced cast members Tom Holland and Matt Damon.

Nolan is writing and directing the movie, which is set for a theatrical and Imax release on July 17, 2026. Plot details are currently under wraps. Universal had no comment on the casting.

It’s a reunion for Hathaway and Nolan, who previously collaborated on the 2014 space epic “Interstellar” and 2012’s “The Dark Knight Rises.” Earlier this year, Hathaway expressed gratitude for Nolan, who cast her in “Interstellar” amidst a wave of online hate following her Oscar win for “Les Misérables.” “A lot of people wouldn’t give me roles because they were so concerned about how toxic my identity had become online,” Hathaway told Vanity Fair. “I had an angel in Christopher Nolan, who did not care about that and gave me one of the most beautiful roles...

Dos hermanos en el punto de mira de la «Mafiya» rusa.

Según informa The Hollywood Reporter, Adam Driver, Jeremy Strong y Anne Hathaway protagonizarán la película policíaca Paper Tiger, dirigida y escrita por James Gray.

Paper Tiger gira en torno a dos hermanos – seguramente los personajes de Driver y Strong – que se ven envueltos en una trama que no es exactamente lo que parece. Sus lazos se pondrán a prueba cuando se vean envueltos en un mundo de violencia y corrupción, y terminen en el punto de mira de la «Mafiya» rusa.

El rodaje comenzará a principios de 2025.

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It's a big month for Paul Mescal. Gladiator II is just weeks away, a bunch of lads in mini shorts honored him with his very own lookalike competition in Dublin, and now, he may get to start in yet another project with Ridley Scott. According to Variety, Mescal is in...

Hello Insiders. It’s been an historic week in the U.S and the implications of Trump’s election victory will be felt around the world in times to come. For now, Jesse Whittock here with the latest international film and TV news.

Trump’s Second Act

He’s back: There wasn’t really anywhere else I could start this week, was there? By the time you read this, the seismic political earthquake that hit the U.S. on on election day will be sinking in as the reality going forwards. Donald Trump is back and from January, he will be President for the second time. Read this fantastic report from our politics ed, Ted Johnson, who deftly captured the fast-moving events and the context around the result. Hollywood, one of the bluest parts of American (this week in every sense), had hoped for Democrat Kamala Harris to win and...

A real-life astronaut rates the accuracy of a scene from Brad Pitt's 2019 science fiction movie Ad Astra and points out a major error. Directed by James Gray, Ad Astra holds an 83% on Rotten Tomatoes and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing. The film follows Roy McBride, an astronaut who embarks on a mission to Neptune to discover what happened to his missing father. In addition to Pitt, Ad Astra's cast includes Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, and Donald Sutherland.

In a video for Insider, former NASA astronaut Nicole Stott watches a scene from Ad Astra, in which two groups of astronauts on separate lunar rovers get in a shootout while traveling across the surface of the moon. Stott pointed out that it's very unlikely these rovers would be able to move that fast on the moon without continuously bouncing and losing control, and eventually gave...

James Gray’s crime film Paper Tiger has already assembled an impressive trio of leads: Adam Driver, Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong.

James Gray has some heavyweight features on his resume, including Ad Astra and The Lost City Of Z. He even appeared in a special episode of our podcast.

The filmmaker is now turning his creativity towards the crime genre next having scripted Paper Tiger, his next directorial outing. Furthermore, he’s assembled quite the cast to impress potential investors at this week’s American Film Market.

No less than Adam Driver, Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong have signed up to lead the cast, which according to The Hollywood Reporter will focus on two brothers who end up on the hitlist of the Russian mafia.

Adam Driver has been having lots of fun in the past couple of years, turning his attention to all kinds of projects, whether they be prestigious dramas like Ferrari,...

Adam Driver and Anne Hathaway are teaming up for Paper Tiger, an upcoming crime movie by director James Gray. Gray's most recent film, Armageddon Time, also starred Hathaway and briefly courted awards buzz in 2022. Hathaway's most recent credit was the Prime Video romance The Idea of You, while Driver appeared in Francis Ford Coppola's hotly-debated Megalopolis. Both actors are best known for combining smaller projects with major franchises, with Hathaway having starred in The Dark Knight Rises and Driver being part of the Star Wars universe.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, Driver and Hathaway will star alongside Succession star Jeremy Strong in Paper Tiger. The film centers on two brothers whose bonds are tested when they become entangled in a scheme with the Russian mafia. The actors' roles were not specified, though it seems likely Driver and Strong will play the two brothers. Paper Tiger has begun securing production and distribution details,...

Ever since his Venice Silver Lion winning first movie Little Odessa way back in 1995, James Gray has time and again proved himself one of America's most introspective, thoughtful filmmakers. From the railroad drama of The Yards, to inner and outer Odyssean epic The Lost City Of Z, to space bound father-son fictive Ad Astra, Gray's movies are always worth paying close attention to. Now, having made perhaps his most personal film yet in the shape of 2022's Armageddon Time, the auteur is reuniting with his leads from that picture and welcoming a new face into the Gray fray for his latest. Per Deadline's reporting, Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong are set to star alongside Adam Driver in Paper Tiger, an original crime thriller directed and penned by Gray himself.

According to Deadline, the movie — which is headed for the American Film Market next week — follows two brothers (presumably but not...

Ad Astra director James Gray is beginning to round out the cast for his upcoming crime drama film, Paper Tiger, an original film that unites three of Hollywood's biggest stars.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, Adam Driver, Jeremy Strong, and Anne Hathaway are set to star in Paper Tiger, a crime drama written and directed by Gray. Paper Tiger will center around "two brothers who get wrapped up in a scheme that is not quite what it seems. Their bond is tested as they get embroiled in a world of violence and corruption, finding themselves in the crosshairs of the Russian Mafiya. Gray worked with Strong and Hathaway in his most recent film, Armageddon Time, a coming-of-age film also starring Anthony Hopkins. Production on the film is expected to begin in 2025. There is no official release date for Paper Tiger at this time.

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Following his “Armageddon Time” drama, filmmaker James Gray has been attached to direct a series about the life of Norman Mailer and a biopic about a young John F. Kennedy. Still, sometimes, projects in Hollywood come together fast, especially when there’s a hot cast attached. And that’s precisely what’s happened with “Paper Tigers,” a new project that Gray will write and direct starring Academy Award nominee Adam Driver, Emmy and Tony Award winner Jeremy Strong, and Academy Award Winner Anne Hathaway.

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James Gray has lined up an A-list cast for his next feature Paper Tiger.

Adam Driver, Jeremy Strong and Anne Hathaway are set to star in the film package that is based on an original script from Gray. Vincent Maraval and Kim Fox’s banner Veterans will oversee international sales rights next week at the American Film Market, with CAA Media Finance representing domestic rights.

Leone Film Group is fully financing the movie that Raffaella Leone is producing alongside Rodrigo Teixeira for Rt Features.

Principal photography is set to begin in early 2025 for the crime film that centers on two brothers who get wrapped up in a scheme that is not quite what it seems. Their bond is tested as they get embroiled in a world of violence and corruption, finding themselves in the crosshairs of the Russian “Mafiya.”

Driver is a two-time Oscar-nominated actor who has recently wrapped production...

Adam Driver, Jeremy Strong and Anne Hathaway will star for James Gray in the crime drama Paper Tiger, which The Veterans is introducing to buyers at AFM next week.

Leone Film Group will fully finance the project, with Raffaella Leone producing alongside Rodrigo Teixeira under his Rt Features.The Veterans represents international sales and CAA Media Finance handles US rights.

Principal photography is scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2025 on the story of two brothers pursuing the American Dream who get involved in a scheme that turns out to be too good to be true.

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James Gray, the director of “Ad Astra,” has revealed his next film, an original screenplay and crime drama called “Paper Tiger.”

Gray’s latest film, his ninth feature, will star Adam Driver and will reunite him with his stars from 2022’s “Armageddon Time,” Jeremy Strong and Anne Hathaway.

“Paper Tiger” is described as a tense and gritty story about two brothers pursuing the American Dream, only to become entangled in a scheme that turns out to be too good to be true. As they try to navigate their way through an ever-more dangerous world of corruption and violence, they find themselves and their family brutally terrorized by the Russian “Mafiya.”

The film is being launched to buyers at next week’s AFM, with CAA Media Finance handling U.S. rights and Vincent Maraval and Kim Fox’s The Veterans handling international sales. The worldwide rights to the film are available.

While it looked like James Gray was going to follow up Armageddon Time with either a John F. Kennedy biopic or the ghost story Ezekiel Moses, one of America’s great filmmakers will be instead shifting gears to a new project.

Gray will next direct Paper Tiger, based on his own script, with a cast led by Adam Driver and Armageddon Time stars Jeremy Strong and Anne Hathaway. With production kicking off early next year, Paper Tiger is described as a tense and gritty story of two brothers who pursue the American Dream, only to become entangled in a scheme that turns out to be too good to be true. As they try to navigate their way through an ever-more dangerous world of corruption and violence, they find themselves and their family brutally terrorized by the Russian “Mafiya.” Their bond begins to fray, and betrayal—once utterly unthinkable—now becomes all too possible.

It's a big casting day in Hollywood, but this might be the biggest and juiciest story so far as James Gray has assembled a sensational leading trio for his crime drama thriller, as per an exclusive report by Deadline. The outlet is reporting that Oscar nominee Adam Driver, Emmy and Tony winner Jeremy Strong and Oscar winner Anne Hathaway have all signed on to Gray's next film, Paper Tiger, which is set to go out for sale at next week's American Film Market. The genre is reminiscent of Gray's previous gritty and grounded thrillers Little Odessa and We Own The Night. The movie is set to begin shooting in the first quarter of 2025.

Exclusive: Amid a surfeit of horror projects heading to next week’s American Film Market, here instead comes a legit blue chip crime-drama-thriller in the shape of James Gray’s next movie, Paper Tiger, which will star Oscar nominee Adam Driver, Emmy and Tony winner Jeremy Strong and Oscar winner Anne Hathaway.

This is the type of project buyers we’ve spoken to this week have been crying out for. Something elevated. Five of Gray’s films have competed for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

Based on Gray’s original screenplay, the story is set to follow two brothers who pursue the American Dream—only to become entangled in a scheme that turns out to be too good to be true. As they try to navigate their way through an ever-more dangerous world of corruption and violence, they find themselves and their family brutally terrorized by the Russian “Mafiya.

Screen Internationalis rounding up the key projects launched before and during this year’s American Film Market (AFM), which runsNovember 5-10 at thePalms Casino Resort.

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