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Exclusive: Tony-nominated Lily Rabe has signed with Gersh for representation in all areas.

Rabe is known for her multiple roles in Ryan Murphy’s FX anthology series American Horror Story, for which she received a Critics Choice TV nomination, her recurring role as Meg in Apple’s Shrinking and her role as Dr. Liz Rush opposite Jake Gyllenhaal in Presumed Innocent, also for Apple.

Rabe also starred in, co-produced and co-directed Downtown Owl with her husband Hamish Linklater, which premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival. She won Special Jury Recognition for Best Actress at SXSW for her role in the film Miss Stevens opposite Timothée Chalamet. Other film credits include Adam McKay’s Vice, The Tender Bar opposite Ben Affleck and directed by George Clooney, and All Good Things with Ryan Gosling. Rabe can soon be seen in romance drama A Big Bold Beautiful Journey opposite Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell.

Timothée Chalamet hasn’t even turned 30, but that isn’t stopping the American Cinematheque from embarking on a week-long retrospective of the Oscar-nominated actor’s red-hot career.

“He’s an extraordinary talent,” says Imani Davis, film programmer at the American Cinematheque in Los Angeles. “I can’t think of many other times where we’ve highlighted the work of someone so young, but he’s already done a lot of amazing work and really established himself.”

Davis says that tickets for the three screenings that Chalamet will appear at in person sold out nine minutes after they went on sale, a record for the organization. “The demand has been incredible,” she reports.

And it’s not just Chalamet who will be popping up at post-screening Q&a’s. Andrew Garfield will moderate a conversation with Chalamet and Luca Guadagnino on Jan. 9 tied to a double feature of the actor and director’s two collaborations,...

On a chilly January day in 1961, a boy with tousled hair and a beloved guitar case arrives in New York. He is surrounded by the city’s vibrant, bustling downtown—cafes, shops, and rough-around-the-edges drinking holes across the Village. He is Bob Dylan, setting foot on one of the world’s most consequential islands,...

Bob Dylan has no qualms about Timothée Chalamet’s portrayal of him in James Mangold’s upcoming A Complete Unknown.

“There’s a movie about me opening soon called A Complete Unknown (what a title!),” Dylan wrote on social media on Wednesday. “Timothee Chalamet is starring in the lead role. Timmy’s a brilliant actor so I’m sure he’s going to be completely believable as me. Or a younger me. Or some other me.”

Mangold’s film is set in the summer of 1961, when a 19-year-old Dylan arrived in New York City from Minnesota with little else than his guitar. The movie is based on the 2015 book Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties by Elijah Wald, which explores the controversy surrounding Dylan’s switch to electrically amplified instrumentation.

Dylan wrote on Wednesday that the book is “a fantastic retelling of events...

Timothée Chalamet is on his way to becoming a legend. Shifting his skin like water, he goes from one character to another effortlessly. Fans have seen him grow into a true artist, embodying the essence of every film he has been a part of, regardless of how significant his role is.

Timothée Chalamet in Little Women | Credit: Sony Pictures Releasing

Going from Lady Bird to the Dune franchise, his presence on the scene was impactful in both projects. Now, Chalamet is taking a new step in his professional life, starring in a film about Bob Dylan titled A Complete Unknown.

Looking at this, one cannot help but notice the similarities between the actor and the music legend, specifically when Chalamet is so evidently pointing them out.

Timothée Chalamet and Bob Dylan Were Rejected From Their Dreams

Recently, Timothée Chalamet gave an interview with Apple Music where he went into great detail about his upcoming film,...

While reflecting on his career, Timothée Chalamet said there were certain doors that were closed to him in the industry based on his looks.

In a new interview with Zane Lowe promoting his Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown for the first time, the Oscar nominee said he related to certain outsider elements the legendary musician contained, as he’s been somewhat typecast for roles.

“I’ve had a life experience, I don’t want to say it’s weird, but I can relate to some of these things he went through,” he explained. “Bob wanted to be a rock & roll star — Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Elvis Presley — that was the sort of, depending on your point of view, the sort of rice crispy pop, rock & roll music that was saturated and marketed to kids in the late ’50s. Equally, I wanted to be a big movie actor.”

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Timothée Chalamet once had an agent tell him he needed to gain weight, the actor recalled this week. Though weird at the time, memories of the experience helped Chalamet prepare to play Bob Dylan in James Mangold’s upcoming A Complete Unknown.

“If I auditioned for The Maze Runner or Divergent, things of that variety that were popping when I was coming up, the feedback was always, ‘Oh, you don’t have the right body,” Chalamet told Zane Lowe in an interview released Tuesday. “I had an agent that called me and said, ‘You got to put on weight,’ basically, not aggressively, but you know.”

Though he may not have become the face of any dystopian teen dramas that peppered the 2010s, Chalamet’s career turned out to be just fine. Now, as he prepares for the release of A Complete Unknown next month, the actor says his experience felt...

Timothée Chalamet said he was advised to gain weight when he was coming up as a young actor auditioning for big movies.

“If I auditioned for ‘The Maze Runner’ or ‘Divergent,’ things of that variety that were popping when I was coming up, the feedback was always, ‘Oh, you don’t have the right body,'” Chalamet said in an interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe. “I had an agent that called me and said, ‘You got to put on weight,’ basically — not aggressively, but you know.”

Chalamet related his experience of having to find his own route in Hollywood to that of Bob Dylan during his early years in Minnesota. Chalamet is playing Dylan in the upcoming music biopic “A Complete Unknown.”

“I found my way into these very personalized movies,” Chalamet said. “For [Dylan], it was folk music. He couldn’t keep a rock and roll band because...

Timothée Chalamet is by far one of the most promising young actors working in Hollywood today, after his standout performances in films like Call Me By Your Name, Little Women, and Dune. The actor has become one of the biggest stars in the film industry and after his recent performance as Duke Paul Atreides in Dune: Part Two, he is sure to become a household name worldwide. So, if you love Chalamet’s performances here are the best movies Chalamet has appeared in and just to warn you, we didn’t include Interstellar in this list because Chalamet’s role in Christopher Nolan was not that big or significant.

10. Wonka (Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Warner Bros.

Chalamet takes on the challenging role of the iconic Willy Wonka. Directed by Paul King, Wonka is a musical fantasy film and it follows a young Wonka before he was running the chocolate factory.

Dune 2 Star Timothee Chalamet Movies Ranked As Per Rotten Tomatoes. (Photo Credit – IMDb)

Timothee Chalamet is being lauded for his fantastic performance in Denis Villeneuve’s epic saga Dune 2. The film was released in the theatres on Friday, and it’s a visual treat for moviegoers. The film is one of the top-rated ones across various platforms, but Chalamet, over his short career span, has given several high-rated films.

Chalamet won hearts with his lively performance as Willy Wonka in last year’s Wonka. It became his career’s highest-grossing film as a leading man. But it seems Dune 2 might take away that title soon. He is essaying the character of Paul Atreides, and his ascension in this part has been remarkably shown. Scroll below for more.

Timothee Chalamet’s character Paul seemed a bit lost in the first film but understood his purpose and became a leader in Dune 2.

Exclusive: Julia Hart is set to direct an adaptation of the 2019 Samantha Downing novel My Lovely Wife at Netflix. Hart will also co-write the script with Jordan Horowitz, who is producing through his Original Headquarters banner along with Brian Kavanaugh Jones and Fred Berger for Automatic and Roy Lee and Miri Yoon for Vertigo. Downing, Sean Berard and Barbara Poelle are exec producing.

Netflix had no comment.

Described as Mr. and Mrs. Smith meets Dexter, the story follows ordinary suburban spouses who keep their relationship alive by committing serial murders and getting away with it.

Hart beat out a number of directors for the coveted job. She got her first big break after directing Miss Stevens starring Lily Rabe. Other recent credits include Stargirl and Fast Color.

Hart and Horowitz are repped by CAA and Lichter Grossman Nicholas Adler Feldman & Clark. Downing is repped by Grandview. The novel is repped...

“The Undoing” and “The Underground Railroad” regular Lily Rabe has been cast opposite “Fargo” and “Black Mirror” star Jesse Plemons in the HBO Max original limited series “Love and Death.” The show follows two church-going couples, enjoying small-town family life in Texas (at least they do until somebody picks up an axe). The series is based on the true story of Texas housewife Candy Montgomery, who murdered her friend from church, Betty Gore, with an axe in 1980.

Rabe will play Betty Gore, wife to Allan Gore (Plemons). Her murderer will be portrayed by Elizabeth Olsen. Patrick Fugit has been cast as Candy’s husband, Pat Montgomery. The series, produced by Lionsgate, is inspired by the book “Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs” and a collection of articles from Texas Monthly.

Rabe is best known for her recurring role in Ryan Murphy’s anthology series “American Horror Story,...

Over the course of four films, Julia Hart and Jordan Horowitz have carved out a unique niche: bending both genre and expectations to craft stories that break the mold of what a “female-centric” story can (and should) look like. From superheroes to high school students, the women that populate the couple’s films — which Hart directs from scripts the couple write together — find drama and emotion in unexpected, and often otherwise untapped places. All of that is by design.

“With all of our movies, it’s something that we think about a lot, making female characters feel like real women, as opposed to a female character that fits into a formula that everybody is comfortable with,” Hart said in a recent interview with IndieWire.

While other films and filmmakers might be hung up on building stories around easily digestible and readily recognizable formulas, Hart and Horowitz relish the chance to...

Six acclaimed film producers will reveal details behind their projects when they join Gold Derby’s special “Meet the Experts” Q&a event with key 2021 guild and Oscar contenders this month. Each person will participate in two video discussions to be published on Wednesday, January 20, at 5:00 p.m. Pt; 8:00 p.m. Et. We’ll have a one-on-one with our senior editor Daniel Montgomery and a group chat with Daniel and all of them together.

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“I’m Your Woman” (Amazon Prime): Rachel Brosnahan and Jordan Horowitz

Brosnahan is an Emmy winner and four-time nominee as an actress. Horowitz...

Whatever the future holds both for theatrical distribution and for at-home streaming, 2020 will no doubt mark the pivot point in which the destinies of both would forever change. But where and how one sees films will inevitably be less important than the films themselves, and even in this year of turmoil, there was always something to recommend, wherever it was available to be seen.

Notable Runners-Up: “The 40-Year-Old Version,” “Ammonite,” “Another Round,” “And Then We Danced,” “The August Virgin,” “Birds of Prey,” “Da 5 Bloods,” “Emma.,” “The Half of It,” “Happiest Season,” “House of Hummingbird,” “I’m No Longer Here,” “I’m Thinking of Ending Things,” “The Invisible Man,” “Kajillionaire,” “Let Them All Talk,” “Lingua Franca,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” “Madre,” “Miss Juneteenth,” “The Nest,” “Nomadland,” “One Night in Miami,” “The Photograph,” “The Secret Garden,” “She Dies Tomorrow,” “A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon,” “Shirley,” “Sorry We Missed You,” “Tigertail,” “The Truth,...

Rachel Brosnahan stars as a young wife and mother who has almost no idea where she’s going next in Amazon’s “I’m Your Woman,” and director Julia Hart excitingly puts the audience in a similarly unpredictable position. It’s a road trip, it’s a story of a woman in trouble, and it’s about fleeing the scene of the crime, but the film refuses to follow the established path audiences might be expecting.

Many contemporary filmmakers shoot for that gritty yet personal sweet spot of 1970s “New Hollywood” honesty and intensity, but few have captured it with the finesse of Hart, who shares screenwriting credit with her husband Jordan Horowitz. A talented filmmaker who’s not being talked about nearly enough — her last two credits were the incisive and humane “Miss Stevens” and the arthouse superhero saga “Fast Color,” both acclaimed yet underseen — Hart has created a film...

To kick off a brand new month, we have a brand new batch of horror and sci-fi titles coming home this week on Blu-ray & DVD. If you missed it earlier this year, you can check out Antebellum this Tuesday when it hits 4K Ultra HD, Blu, and DVD. Rlje Films is getting into the holiday mood early with their release of Christmas Presence, and the entire series of Game of Thrones is getting the 4K treatment as well.

Other releases for November 3rd include Lake Michigan Monster, The Veil, They Reach, Let's Scare Julie, and V for Vendetta in 4K.

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Successful author Veronica Henley (Janelle Monáe) finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality that forces her to confront the past, present and future – before it’s too late.

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Like so many other festivals unspooling in recent months, this year’s AFI Fest has opted to roll out as a virtual event, all the better for film fans to catch the best the Los Angeles-based festival has to offer from just about anywhere. One of the last big festivals on the fall circuit, this year’s AFI Fest boasts a wide range of both films and events for everyone to enjoy.

The fest opens on Thursday night with the world premiere of Julia Hart’s “I’m Your Woman” and, over the course of the next week, will also play new films from filmmakers Errol Morris, Heidi Ewing, Mira Nair, Florian Zeller, Werner Herzog, and many more. This year’s complete AFI Fest program includes 124 titles of which 53 percent are directed by women, 39 percent are directed by Bipoc, and 17 percent are directed by Lbgtq+.

The virtual event is accessible...

"I just thought you should be prepared for what comes next." Amazon Prime Video has released an official trailer for a 1970s crime thriller titled I'm Your Woman, the latest from acclaimed filmmaker Julia Hart. In this 70s crime film, a woman is forced to go on the run after her husband betrays his partners, sending her and her baby on a dangerous journey. The film draws on signature '70s crime dramas to offer a compelling portrait of the women who are often left at home in those stories. "The primary inspiration for wanting to set in the '70s was to reclaim a bit of that period and that genre for a female protagonist," Hart tells EW. Rachel Brosnahan stars with Marsha Stephanie Blake, Arinzé Kene, James McMenamin, Marceline Hugot, Frankie Faison, & Bill Heck. It's premiering at AFI Fest this month before debuting on Amazon in December. This...

After three Emmy-winning seasons of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” Amazon has figured out nobody can work a period costume like Rachel Brosnahan. While “Mrs. Maisel” made Brosnahan a household face, she has yet to break out on the film side in the same way. While she’s appeared in films by Craig Gillespie and Joachim Trier, Brosnahan is leading the crime thriller “I’m Your Woman,” which positions her as a mob wife who becomes unwittingly embroiled in her husband’s affairs. “I’m Your Woman” is the opening night film of the upcoming AFI Fest, and Amazon has released a first trailer in anticipation of the film’s festival debut.

Per AFI Fest’s official synopsis: “Suburban housewife Jean (Brosnahan) lives a seemingly easy life, supported by husband Eddie’s (Bill Heck) career as a thief. But when Eddie betrays his partners, Jean and her baby are forced to go on the run,...

Director Julia Hart has wowed us with her work in Miss Stevens, Fast Color, and, most recently, this year's Stargirl. Now, we've been gifted with not one but two 2020 releases from Hart, the second being I'm Your Woman starring The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel's Rachel Brosnahan. Amazon Prime Video released the official trailer for I'm Your Woman this week. Over the course of the trailer, we're teased with a story about a young woman and 1970s housewife whose life is upended when her thief husband disappears and she's forced to go on the …...

“Being young is so painful…its almost too much to feel”

Written and directed by Richard Tanne, here’s the gut-wrenching preview for Chemical Hearts starring Lili Reinhart, Austin Abrams, Sarah Jones, Adhir Kalyan, Kara Young, Coral Peña, C.J. Hoff.

The movie debuts on Amazon Prime Video August 21st.

The film is based on the book “Our Chemical Hearts” by Krystal Sutherland.

Seventeen-year-old Henry Page (Austin Abrams) has never been in love. He fancies himself a romantic, but the kind of once-in-a-lifetime love he’s been hoping for just hasn’t happened yet. Then, on the first day of senior year, he meets transfer student Grace Town (Lili Reinhart) and it seems all that is about to change. When Grace and Henry are chosen to co-edit the school paper, he is immediately drawn to the mysterious newcomer. As he learns the heartbreaking secret that has changed her life, he finds...

Grab the tissues! Richard Tanne’s “Chemical Hearts” is here to break your own. Starring Lili Reinhart of “Riverdale” fame opposite Austin Abrams of “Euphoria,” the new romantic drama from the writer and director of 2016’s “Southside with You” arrives on Amazon Prime Video August 21. Watch the trailer below

The official “Chemical Hearts” synopsis from Amazon reads: “Seventeen-year-old Henry Page (Austin Abrams) has never been in love. He fancies himself a romantic, but the kind of once-in-a-lifetime love he’s been hoping for just hasn’t happened yet. Then, on the first day of senior year, he meets transfer student Grace Town (Lili Reinhart) and it seems all that is about to change. When Grace and Henry are chosen to co-edit the school paper, he is immediately drawn to the mysterious newcomer. As he learns the heartbreaking secret that has changed her life, he finds himself falling in love with...

Who were you before the world beat you down? That so-called inner child that therapists and astrologers are always on about, how have you let them down? We’ve all let the pressures of popularity, society, and conformity mold and shape us into more palatable versions of ourselves. After all, that’s what becoming an adult is. At least, that’s what the perils of high school socialization led us to believe. How might your life have been different if someone who was so utterly and wholly themselves swooped in to remind you of your precious inner magic?

That’s the question at the heart of “Stargirl,” a tender and offbeat coming-of-age indie premiering this week on Disney+. The film is based on the 2000 novel by Jerry Spinelli, a unique young adult novelist who specializes in crafting grounded, reality-adjacent universes with a comedic flare and just a hint of otherworldliness.

Since its late 2019 launch, fledgling streaming service Disney+ has only released a handful of original films, from projects initially bound for theatrical releases (like the Willem Dafoe-starring dogsledding adventure “Togo”) to those expressly made for the service (like the live-action remake of “Lady and the Tramp”). When filmmaker Julia Hart and her husband and co-writer Jordan Horowitz signed on to make “Stargirl,” the streaming service was still almost two years away from its public debut.

It was something of a leap of faith for the “Fast Color” and “Miss Stevens” team. They had no idea what Disney+ was going to look like, but they knew it would be big (Disney big!) and that it offered them a chance to scale up their production in a way that independent filmmaking might not be able to provide.

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The Rachel Brosnahan-led indie “I’m Your Woman” has rounded out its cast and filming has commenced in Pittsburgh, Pa.

The actress, who is the streamer’s most decorated star thanks to her Emmy and Golden Globe-winning work on “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” welcomes a slew of actors on the drama about a woman and her child on the run from the sins of her husband.

Marsha Stephanie Blake, British actor Arinzé Kene and Bill Heck (“The Ballad of Buster Scruggs”) have all joined the project in key roles. Frankie Faison, Marceline Hugot (“Julie & Julia”), and James McMenamin (“Orange is the New Black”) have signed on for supporting roles.

The film is directed by Julia Hart, and co-written by Hart and husband Jordan Horowitz. Hart was writer-director on the 2016 SXSW player “Miss Stevens,” starring Lily Rabe and then-undiscovered talents Timothee Chalamet and Lili Reinhart. She also helmed this...

Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” did more than just conquer the box office this weekend with the director’s biggest unadjusted opening to date ($40 million domestically). On the heels of critical praise, “Hollywood” went on to dazzle the industry over its opening weekend as it earned high praise from directors like Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro. Other industry giants like Mindy Kaling took to social media to share rave reactions to “Hollywood,” which stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt as an actor and his stuntman struggling to keep up with the changing industry in 1969.

“To me, watching ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ at the New Beverly, was a beautiful experience,” del Toro wrote. “Beautifully crafted and poignant. Chokefull of yearning. A tale of a time that probably never was, but still feels like a memory. I am eagerly seeing it again next week…I miss hanging out with the characters.

“Riverdale” star Lili Reinhart has come on board Amazon Studios’ coming-of-age drama-romance “Chemical Hearts.”

Based on the novel “Our Chemical Hearts” by Krystal Sutherland, the film is currently shooting in New Jersey as an Amazon Original produced for Amazon Prime Video.

Richard Tanne is directing from his own script. Producers are Page Fifty-Four’s Alex Saks and Tanne, and the film is executive produced by Jamin O’Brien (Eighth Grade) and Reinhart, in her first executive producer role.

Reinhart will portray a high school transfer student who meets the editor of the school newspaper on the first day of the school year. The 17-year-old editor, who has never been in love, knows that everything is about to change.

“We are thrilled to work with this talented team to bring to life a beautiful story of first love and heartbreak,” said Julie Rapaport, co-head of movies at Amazon Studios. “Krystal Sutherland...

Exclusive: Rachel Brosnahan, the award-winning star of Amazon’s hit series, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, is reteaming with the studio on I’m Your Woman, a feature that she will star in and produce with Oscar-nominated La La Land and The Kids Are All Right producer Jordan Horowitz.

Horowitz wrote the script with his wife Julia Hart, who will direct the piece. Together, they founded the production company Original Headquarters.

The story revolves around the story of a woman named Jean (Brosnahan) who must go on the run with her child due to her husband’s crimes. Their lives become intertwined with a man and a woman, forming an unlikely partnership that teaches them more than just how to survive. Production is slated to begin this fall.

Brosnahan has received much praise for her performance as housewife-turned comedian Midge Maisel, which has earned her an Emmy and back-to-back Golden Globes awards.

“Fast Color” is a movie told in visual clues and whispers. A mysterious voiceover that sets the stage for this dystopian near future, followed by an unexplained flashback here, another seemingly random image there. When all the puzzle-like pieces come together, the movie’s characters, story, score and emotions soar. The pace of that progress may feel slow, but things never get too quiet. It’s a movie with a racing pulse, and you can feel its heart in every frame.

Ruth (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) is a woman on the run from a shadowy group hunting her for her extraordinary powers. As the pieces of Ruth’s life begin fit into place, the stakes become higher and more emotionally involving for the audience. I hesitate to say much more, because part of this movie’s appeal is watching the unexplained flashes of Ruth’s past make sense.

Her powers, over which...

Considering how packed the fall slate can be, distributors often hold their stranger, bolder films for a spring release when they have the opportunity to better thrive. That’s certainly the case this April, when some of the most daring releases will hit theaters, along with some promising studio fare, must-see documentaries, and more.

Matinees to See: The Wind (4/5), Suburban Birds (4/5), Pet Sematary (4/5), Sauvage/Wild (4/10), Dogman (4/12), Teen Spirit (4/12), Girls of the Sun (4/12), Wild Nights with Emily (4/12), Rafiki (4/19), Little Woods (4/19), Carmine Street Guitars (4/24), Jt LeRoy (4/26), and The White Crow (4/26)

15. Mary Magadalene (Garth Davis; April 12)

Chalk this one up to mere curiosity more than anything else. The downfall of The Weinstein Company meant that a number of films were left by the wayside, waiting to be picked up by other distributors. One that has taken awhile is Mary Magdalene, a Biblical drama from Garth Davis (Lion). After getting an Easter-timed released elsewhere last year,...

As superhero films dominate the Hollywood tentpole marketplace, smaller productions are finding more interesting ways to expand the storytelling boundaries of such tales. This year, Julia Hart follows up her excellent drama Miss Stevens (which was a break-out role for Timothée Chalamet) with her own take on superheroes in Fast Color. Starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw as a woman with special abilities that must go on the run, the film premiered at SXSW last year and now the first trailer has debuted ahead of a March release.

“My husband and I came up with the idea for the movie when we became parents,” Hart tells EW. “I just felt this superhuman strength that I had never felt before when I became a mother. So, the idea for the movie came from this notion that mothers are superheroes. I realized that I’d never seen a movie where there was actually a superhero who was a mother.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw has delivered strong performances in “Beyond the Lights,” “Belle,” and the Emmy-winning “Black Mirror” episode “San Junipero,” but the actress takes her talents to the next level in the upcoming “Fast Color.” The drama marks the latest directorial effort from Julia Hart, best known for her breakout 2016 debut “Miss Stevens,” starring Lily Rabe and Timothée Chalamet. For this go-around, writer-director Hart has filtered the superhero genre through a grounded, low budget independent film lens.

“Fast Color” stars Mbatha-Raw as a woman who comes into her own after discovering she has superhuman abilities. When her powers are discovered, the woman is forced to abandon her family in order to protect them. Years later, her mission to remain unseen brings her back home. Starring opposite Mbatha-Raw is an ensemble featuring Lorraine Toussaint, Saniyya Sidney, Christopher Denham, and Emmy winner David Strathairn.

In his review out of the SXSW Film Festival last year,...

Directors and film journalists are reacting in fury to the film nominations for the 2019 Directors Guild of America Awards. The DGA announced nominees earlier today for Feature Film and First-Time Feature Film, and all 10 contenders are men. Nominees for Feature Film are Bradley Cooper (“A Star Is Born”), Alfonso Cuarón (“Roma”), Peter Farrelly (“Green Book”), Spike Lee (“BlacKkKlansman”), and Adam McKay (“Vice”). The nominated directors for First-Time Feature Film are Cooper, Bo Burnham (“Eighth Grade”), Carlos Lopez Estrada (“Blindspotting”), Matthew Heineman (“A Private War”), and Boots Riley (“Sorry to Bother You”).

Filmmaker Lenny Abrahamson, who was snubbed by the DGA in 2016 but landed a Best Director Oscar nomination anyway for his drama “Room,” reacted to the nominations by telling his social media followers he was upset with the lack of recognition for two of the year’s most acclaimed women directors: Lynne Ramsay, who earned critical acclaim for “You Were Never Really Here,...

Happy Thursday, "Pretty Little Liars" fans. We've got some more, very interesting casting news to share with you guys today. It turns out that the new Perfectionists spin off has hired two, new males to play recurring roles. They've also brought on another female who's character is totally drenched in mystery at the moment. First, let's just dive right into the two male characters they're bringing on. The first male character is named Mason. He will be played by actor Noah-Gray Cabey. You guys can view photos of Noah-Gray Gabey on his official IMDb page by Clicking Here. According to the folks over on Deadline.com, Mason is described as being a "smart and athletic fellow student at Beacon Heights University. Mason is a natural born leader who can charm his way in and out of most situations, but there is something about him that keeps people guessing." Noah-Gray Cabey's...

When father and son David Sheff and Nic Sheff wrote dueling books from their individual experience dealing with Nic’s severe crystal meth addiction over the course of several years, it didn’t appear the two memoirs could one day be merged into a single motion picture. But indeed it has with the moving, and often intense Beautiful Boy, which had a successful launch at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival and now goes out into theaters through Amazon Studios.

As I say in my video review (click the link above to watch), the structure created by screenwriters Luke Davies (Lion) and Felix Van Groeningen, who also directs, is challenging to say the least but still manages to be an effective family story revolving around a son sinking into the abyss of drug addiction and a father desperately at wits’ end trying to save him. In this age of...

Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of film critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday.

This week’s question: Who is the best American actor / actress under 30, and why?

Lindsey Romain (@lindseyromain), Freelance for /Film, Vulture and Thrillist

I’ve never felt so fully attuned to a young actor than I have to Timmy Chalamet, who – even before breakthroughs in “Lady Bird” and “Call Me By Your Name” – was impressive as hell in smaller projects like “Homeland” and “Miss Stevens.” I knew right away that he was insanely and specifically talented, could recognize that raw talent, and can’t wait to see it flourish beyond his current constraints.

Kristen Lopez (@Journeys_Film), Freelance for Culturess, The Young Folks

In this landscape of increased diversity and a desire to elevate different voices I wanted to find an actor or actress who wasn’t the go-to person for this type of question.

Exclusive: Grace VanderWaal, who at 12 years old won American’s Got Talent two years ago playing the ukulele and singing her original songs, has beat out 700 other girls to take the lead in Disney’s Stargirl — one of the first original films that will go through the company’s new streaming platform. VanderWaal, who is supporting her new single “Clearly” by opening for the band Imagine Dragons’s Evolve tour today, once again stole the director and producer’s hearts.

VanderWaal is making her acting debut with this film which is being directed by Julia Hart who just finished polishing the script with her partner Jordan Horowitz from the screen adaptation by Kristin Hahn.

“I knew she was Stargirl almost immediately,” said Hart. “The world knows what a talented performer she is, and I cannot wait for everyone to see just how many sides there are to this special and magical young woman.

Set in a dry, dystopian future where a half gallon of clean water goes for $12, Julia Hart’s Fast Color is a superhero origin story about a unique family on the run that has come to back to the safest place: home. Gugu Mbatha-Raw stars as Ruth, a former drug addict who now makes ends meet doing dishes at various places in exchange for a meal. She left behind mother Bo (Lorraine Toussaint) and daughter Lila (Saniyya Sidney), outrunning a scientist named Bill (Christopher Denham), who hopes to study Ruth in a government lab.

Despite terrific technical aspects including lush dusty cinematography by Michael Fimognari and an empowering story that puts a woman of color at the center of a superhero film (something Hollywood is shamefully just starting to do on a larger scale), Fast Color never quite finds its narrative footing. Ruth’s superpowers–which include a Hulk-like ability...

The catchy spin on “Fast Color” is that it’s another black superhero movie, and a woman is the hero. Entering circulation just days after “Black Panther” crossed $1 billion at the box office. However, “Fast Color” is something far stranger and subtler than the McU, providing an allegorical story about generations of black women who are forced to suppress their strengths, and the mounting courage they find in finally taking charge.

The second feature from director Julia Hart (“Miss Stevens”) has a solemn, hypnotic quality, hovering between the profound ramifications of its intimate story and the hints of an otherworldly drama. Co-written with her husband and producer Jordan Horowitz, the movie presents a fresh variation on the superhero story, a near-future setting that may as well take place in the same dystopian landscape where “Logan” found its own wayward mutant hiding from the world. However, while the Wolverine gave up on his responsibilities long ago,...

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While Hollywood continues to struggle towards parity in the director’s chair, the film festival world is playing major catch-up. At this year’s SXSW Film Festival, the push towards parity is becoming more of a reality than ever before, as 33% of all feature films at the fest are directed by women, while the shorts section boasts 59% female directorship across its slate. It’s a stark difference to the studio side of the industry.

The USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative’s latest study, “Inclusion in the Director’s Chair? Gender, Race & Age of Directors across 1,000 films from 2007-2017,” found that, of the 109 film directors associated with the 100 top movies of 2017, 92.7 percent were male; 7.3 percent were female. Days later, the San Diego State University’s Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film followed with the “Celluloid Ceiling” study,...

With Sundance 2018 wrapped up, the next major American festival is South by Southwest Film Festival and today they’ve announced their lineup. Opening with John Krasinski’s horror film A Quiet Place, it also includes some of our most-anticipated films of the year: Jody Hill’s Observe & Report follow-up The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter (which Netflix has announced they’ll release), Andrew Bujalski’s Support the Girls, and Julia Hart’s Miss Stevens follow-up, the sci-fi film Fast Color (pictured above) starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw.

Check out the lineup below for the festival that takes place March 9-18 in Austin. It also includes many Sundance 2018 titles, and you can see our reviews of those here.

Narrative Feature Competition

Ten world premieres; ten unique ways to celebrate the art of storytelling. Selected from 1,408 narrative feature submissions in 2018.

Family

Director/Screenwriter: Laura Steinel

When an emotionally stunted 30 year-old woman is tasked...

Luca Guadagnino is sitting in a hotel in Beverly Hills, but his mind is back in Italy. The 46-year-old director is doing press duties for Call Me By Your Name, his rapturous romance about star-crossed lovers falling for each other over one memorable, wistful summer. (It hits theaters on November 24th.) And when he's asked if he's ever had a comparably whirlwind, sun-splashed fling – one that may have helped inspire his sensual, startling love story – you get the sense that the filmmaker has momentarily left the room. He is now...

When “Call Me by Your Name” screened at the New York Film Festival last month, several threads from Timothée Chalamet’s 21-year-old life wove together. Above the sold-out, 1,100-seat audience at Alice Tully Hall, he watched the second half from the balcony, seated next to the actor who plays his lover, Armie Hammer, and their director, Luca Guadagnino. Onscreen, Chalamet’s character was 17, the same age he was when Guadagnino met him. At that time, Chalamet was a student at Fiorello H. Laguardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts — the Upper West Side inspiration for “Fame” — across the street.

Read More: ‘Call Me By Your Name’ Review: Luca Guadagnino Delivers A Queer Masterpiece — Sundance 2017

In kindergarten, Chalamet was a lukewarm commercial actor. His “first moment of passion” for the craft came at age 12, seeing Heath Ledger’s Joker in “The Dark Knight.” “I just had no clue what...

There are dozens upon dozens upon dozens upon dozens of new movies coming out this fall (here are 35 that we're particularly excited for) and oodles of awards season-worthy performances within them. But we've whittled that all down to these nine (9!) stars who we're pretty dang confident will break out and who you'll be hearing much more about for many years to come. So, you might as well get to know them now.

1. The Losers' Club (Chosen Jacobs, Finn Wolfhard, Jack Dylan Grazer, Jaeden Lieberher, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis and Wyatt Oleff) From It Photo: Getty Images / Warner Bros. Pictures

Age: 14 (except Lillis, who is 15) Where You've Seen Them: Lieberher co-starred with Bill Murray in the feel-good dramedy St. Vincent; Oleff played Young Peter Quill in both volumes of Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy franchise; and, of course, Wolfhard plays Mike Wheeler on Netflix's hit series Stranger Things.

Breakout Moment: Bill Skarsgård is getting plenty of attention...

Woody Allen officially revealed the cast of his new untitled feature film starring Timoth&#233e Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name), Elle Fanning (The Beguiled), and Selena Gomez (Spring Breakers). The film has already secured theatrical distribution through Amazon Studios. No production schedule or release date have been given for this new project. This will be the director's fourth time working with Amazon Studios since 2016.

Last year marked Allen's first collaboration with Amazon Studios, which acquired and released Caf&#233 Society, which starred Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Blake Lively, Parker Posey, Corey Stoll and Anna Camp. Amazon Studios financed and distributed the filmmaker's first foray into television, Crisis in Six Scenes, which the filmmaker also starred in alongside Miley Cyrus, Elaine May, Rachel Brosnahan, John Magaro, Lewis Black, Max Casella and Joy Behar. The filmmaker's third collaboration with Amazon Studios is his latest feature film, Wonder Wheel

Allen's latest completed theatrical...

2017-07-26T04:30:47-07:00'Riverdale' Co-Stars Are Dating

Riverdale shippers rejoice! It seems as though costars Lili Reinhart and Cole Sprouse (a.k.a. Betty and Jughead on the show) are real-life lovebirds.

Reinhart was spotted wearing Sprouse’s maroon blazer at Entertainment Weekly‘s Comic-Con Bash in San Diego Saturday night, and the two were later seen canoodling, holding hands and kissing.

This news will likely be music to fans’ ears since the “Bughead” romance was a surprise crowd-pleaser on the CW show’s first season.

The two have yet to go public with their relationship status, but the coupling probably comes as no surprise to the eagle-eyed fans of the two stars who started speculating about a real-life romance back in May when Sprouse shared a photo of Reinhart on his Instagram.

Read the rest of this article at People.

Lili Reinhart has...

2017-05-05T13:53:22-07:00'Riverdale' Star Responds to Online Body Shaming

Hold up! Riverdale star Lili Reinhart hit back at body shamers on social media earlier this week. The actress, who plays Betty on the hit CW show, defended herself after someone tweeted at her that they didn’t want her “talent to be overshadowed by [her] weight."

“Thank you so much for being concerned about my weight,” Reinhart tweeted back at the user, who has since deleted the post. “I’ll respond later after I finish my double cheeseburger.”

Thank you so much for being concerned about my weight, I'll respond later after I finish my double cheeseburger...

Robin Write looks at the 2016 independent entry Miss Stevens, starring Lily Rabe as a teacher chaperoning students to a state drama competition. By Robin Write Whether the flourishing Netflix platform...

Brace yourself. The annual multi-pronged South By Southwest Conferences and Festivals — SXSW, of course — is hitting Austin, Texas later this week for days and days of fresh film offerings (and music and interactive stuff, too, but we can only do so much here). With it comes the promise of a brand new season of festival-going, along with a slew of films to get excited about finally checking out (and, because it’s Austin, lots of tasty barbecue to enjoy).

From SXSW regulars like Bob Byington and Joe Swanberg to rising stars like Nanfu Wang and Laura Terruso to marquee names like Terrence Malick and Edgar Wright — and just about everything in between — this year’s SXSW Film Festival is offering up its most robust slate yet. We’ve picked out a baker’s dozen of worthy new features to add to your SXSW schedule.

Check out 13 new films from this...