A24 And Steven Spielberg Developing Adaptation Of James McBride’s ‘The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store’

Alex Ritman Andrea Arnold’s initial inspiration for her Cannes competition entry “Bird” was perhaps not what many people might have been expecting. “A very long time ago, I had the image a tall, thin man with a long penis, standing on a roof,” she explained at the press conference for the film on Friday when asked about her initial visual prompt. “But I didn’t know if he was good or bad or what he was.” From this bizarre starting point, Arnold crafted a social realist drama about a family on the fringes of society living by British seaside and an unexpected visitor who becomes close to a young girl entering puberty.

Spoiler alert! This story contains details from the series finale episode of Young Sheldon on CBS.

Jim Jarmusch’s anticipated next film, “Father Mother Sister Brother.” They’re joining Cate Blanchett and Vicky Krieps, who were previously rumored to be starring after being photographed on set. “Father Mother Sister Brother” recently wrapped production in Paris following shoots in Dublin, Ireland and in the Northeastern U.S. Post-production has begun New York, and the film is expected to be finished later this year.

Back in March, reports emerged that Aaron Taylor Johnson had landed the coveted role of James Bond in the upcoming 007 movie.

, arrived for the season three premiere in full viscountess glam. If she’s ever looked better, well, we can’t remember the time.The British actor stunned in a custom Prada gown that, when it catches the light, seems to be made of strings of diamonds.

Bleecker Street and ShivHans Pictures will co-release Love Me, a cosmic romance starring Kristen Stewart (Love Lies Bleeding) and Steven Yeun (Minari) that world premiered at Sundance at top of year, where it was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize. Written and directed by Sam & Andy Zuchero, in their feature debut, the film is slated for a nationwide theatrical release in early 2025.

Katcy Stephan Bleecker Street and ShivHans have partnered to tak U.S. rights to the cosmic love story “Love Me,” written and directed by Sam and Andy Zuchero, and starring Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun. Bleecker Street will co-release the film with ShivHans Pictures, with a U.S.

Manchester United's modern-day malaise has had a major impact on just about everyone associated with the club - and that includes past greats.

Annika Pham Paris-based The Party Film Sales and Heather Millard of Iceland’s Compass Films have reunited with “When the Light Breaks” Rúnar Rúnarsson on his next poetic filmic venture ‘O’. The Icelandic film “When the Light Breaks” is due to open Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section May 15.Headlining Iceland’s major international star Ingvar E.

Selena Kuznikov “Twisters” executive producer Steven Spielberg didn’t want Anthony Ramos to use a Southern accent for his role, according to the actor. Ramos, who plays storm chaser Javi in “Twisters,” said in an Entertainment Weekly interview that he originally thought his character should have a Southern accent. “Then I heard Steven [Spielberg] was like, ‘No, I want him to do it in his dialect,'” Ramos recalled.

A woman was found living inside the sign on top of a Michigan grocery store late last month. We’ll repeat that, inside the sign. And as crazy as that is, it’s just the beginning. Because as it turns out, she’d been living up there for a full YEAR. Seriously!

EXCLUSIVE: Northern Irish actor and author Ciaran McMenamin’s 2018 novel Skintown has been set for a big screen adaptation from Keeper Pictures and recent IFTA award winners Cyprus Avenue Films with Anthony Boyle (Masters of The Air) and Josh Finan (Say Nothing) signed on to star. 

Director Brian Levant reveals in a new interview that John Goodman did not want to reprise his role of Fred Flintstone in a sequel to the 1994 film, The Flintstones.

EXCLUSIVE: On April 18th of this year, at a parole board hearing in New Hampshire, convicted murderer James Parker was granted parole for his role in the brutal 2001 stabbing murders of Half and Suzanne Zantop, a pair of married Dartmouth professors. After acquiring rights to Judgment Ridge, a work of nonfiction detailing the chilly story of those murders, producers Randy and Steven Toll have enlisted Matthew Gentile (American Murderer) to direct a feature adaptation from his own script.

Brent Lang Executive Editor “Pam & Tommy” stars Sebastian Stan and Lily James will reunite to star in psychological horror thriller “Let the Evil Go West.” The film sounds very different from Stan and James’ previous collaboration, which saw them playing Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson in a Hulu mini-series. In “Let the Evil Go West,” a railroad worker stumbles upon a fortune under deeply disturbing circumstances. As horrifying visions and manifestations drive him toward madness, his wife becomes convinced that an evil presence has attached itself to their family.

UPDATED with name of film, details: The first of two new films — working title Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum — will be directed by and star Andy Serkis (Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle), with Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens set to write the screenplay, along with Phoebe Gittins and Arty Papageorgiou (Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim). The film will be executive produced by Ken Kamins, with Serkis and The Imaginarium’s Jonathan Cavendish.

Eurovision entry Bambie Thug has been forced to change their pro-Palestine message by the competition’s organisers.The non-binary contestant has become Ireland’s first finalist in the Eurovision Song Contest since 2018, winning a place in Saturday’s final (May 11) with a performance of their track ‘Doomsday Blue’ at yesterday’s (May 7) semi-finals.However, the artist, whose real name is Bambie Ray Robinson, has criticised the competition’s organisers after being forced to change their pro-Palestine message ahead of the final. Originally, they wore body paint in Ogham script – an early Medieval alphabet – which translated to ceasefire and freedom.

Brent Lang Executive Editor Steven Quale, best known for his work on “Into the Storm” and “Final Destination 5,” has been tapped to direct Capstone Studios and Hammerstone Studios’ “Black Box (Flight 298).” The upcoming supernatural thrilleris based on an original screenplay from Stephen Susco, a horror writer whose many genre credits include “The Grudge,” “The Grudge 2,” “Texas Chainsaw 3D” and “Hell Fest.” According to the logline, the film follows the supernatural events surrounding Vero Airlines Flight 298 from New Orleans to Seattle. Hammerstone Studios’ Alex Lebovici (“Barbarian”) and Jon Oakes (“The Guilty”) will produce alongside Capstone’s Christian Mercuri and David Haring (“Bill & Ted Face the Music”), Warren Zide (“The Final Destination” and Susco.

EXCLUSIVE: Entertainment Squad (Paper Spiders, and Tribeca’s audience award winning dramedy, Cherry), has acquired SXSW’s premiere film, Peak Season, and set a theatrical release for August 2.Helmed by Henry Loevner and Steven Kanter, who previously collaborated on the critically acclaimed The End of Us, Peak Season is an exploration of personal discovery and the road less traveled set against the stunning backdrop of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The film stars Claudia Restrepo, Derrick DeBlasis, and Ben Coleman, Fred Melamed (A Serious Man, Hail, Caesar!) and Stephanie Courtney who is famously known as “Flo” in Progressive commercials.Both a bittersweet romantic comedy and a clever social commentary, Peak Season follows a burnt-out New Yorker who travels to Wyoming with her fiancé, but then falls for a handsome, yet troubled ski-bum, and questions whether to leave her city life behind.

Kyra Sedgwick has some advice for those who work with her on set: "If the trailer’s rocking, don’t come a knocking." "The Closer" actor, 58, who has been married to Kevin Bacon for nearly 36 years, joked about getting frisky with her husband after a fan asked her on Andy Cohen’s "Watch What Happens Live" if she and the "Footloose" star had "fooled around" in her trailer when they’ve worked together. "If the trailer’s rocking, don’t come a knocking. It’s a great line, right? Sorry I botched it," she joked to laughter after accidentally reversing "rocking" and "knocking." Sedgwick told the fan she and her husband had "absolutely" mixed it up in her trailer.