Alamo Drafthouse Hosts ‘Dazed and Confused’ Reunion (EXCLUSIVE)

Matthew McConaughey fell in love with soccer over time, thanks to his wife, Camila Alves.The Oscar winner is co-owner of the Major League Soccer club Austin FC, and on Saturday, McConaughey's new club will take the field for the first time opposite his buddy Will Ferrell's Los Angeles FC team.«I played a little a bit of soccer as a youngster but soccer was not my game,» McConaughey tells ET's Kevin Frazier. «But then I marry this woman and she is from Brazil.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaIFC Midnight has acquired North American rights to Wyatt Rockefeller’s “Settlers.” The film, which marks Rockefeller’s feature narrative debut, stars Sofia Boutella or “Kingsman: The Secret Service” fame, and Brooklynn Prince, who first captured audiences’ hearts in “The Florida Project.” Ismael Cruz Córdova, Nell Tiger Free, and Jonny Lee Miller round out the cast. IFC Midnight will release the film in summer 2021.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaSister has acquired “Never Far Away,” the new novel from bestselling author Michael Koryta, and will develop it as a feature film. Oscar-winning producer Cathy Schulman, who previously oversaw “Crash,” will produce the thriller for the company.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaScreen Media has acquired North American rights to “The Birthday Cake,” a mob crime drama that boasts a murderer’s row of talent.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaThe Traveling Picture Show Company (TPSC) has acquired the rights to two series from best-selling author Kennedy Ryan.The company will develop “Hoops” and “All the King’s Men,” totaling six books, into two limited series for television.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaBound Entertainment is collaborating with Stacey Lee to develop a series adaptation of the young adult author’s coming-of-age novel, “The Downstairs Girl.”The book, a best-seller, is set in 1890 Atlanta. It will follow a seventeen-year-old named Jo Kuan who lives with her guardian, Old Gin, secretly inside a basement.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaCatalin Tolontan wasn’t ready for his close-up.The Romanian sports journalist whose investigative work provides the spine of the Oscar-nominated documentary “Collective,” initially turned down director Alexander Nanau’s offer to capture him at work as he sought to expose widespread fraud and corruption.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaAbramorama has acquired worldwide theatrical and digital distribution rights to “Upheaval,” a documentary about former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaMagnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, has acquired U.S rights to “Yakuza Princess,” an action thriller starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Japanese American singer Masumi.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaDiscovery Plus has acquired “Citizen Penn,” a look at the humanitarian efforts of Sean Penn and a team of volunteers to help Haitians in the wake of the devastating 2010 earthquake.The documentary will premiere on the subscription streaming service on May 6. “Citizen Penn” was written and directed by Don Hardy and produced by Hardy and Shawn Dailey.

, the CBS drama starring Rebecca Breeds as FBI Agent Clarice Starling, just featured a major reunion for two pivotal characters. In episode six, “How Does It Feel to Be So Beautiful,” Starling is forced to come face to face with Buffalo Bill survivor Catherine Martin (Marnee Carpenter) during an intense dinner between the two women and Catherine’s mother, US Attorney General Ruth Martin (Jayne Atkinson), as they confront memories about what happened one year prior.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaUri Singer has obtained the rights to “Hocus Pocus” by legendary author Kurt Vonnegut. He is developing the 1990 novel as either a film or a limited series.Singer is currently producing a film adaptation of another literary giant, Don DeLillo’s “White Noise,” which Noah Baumbach is directing for Netflix with Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig attached to star.

Alamo Drafthouse was riding high.The Austin, Texas-based theater chain had managed the difficult feat of expanding its footprint nationally, popping up in major metropolises such as New York and Los Angeles without losing its indie spirit. Its unabashed love of all things cinema, menus crammed with craft beer and locally sourced snacks, and themed events with A-list talent like Wes Anderson and Rian Johnson made Alamo the envy of the exhibition industry.

Woody Allen in which he again denies Dylan Farrow's claims he molested her when she was a child. The director also addresses Hollywood's public response to the allegations, deeming actors who have expressed regrets about working with him "well-meaning, but foolish."Though it was just released Sunday, March 28 (via Paramount Plus), the sit-down shows Allen, 85, speaking to Lee Cowan for "CBS Sunday Morning" last July.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaIFC Films has acquired U.S. rights to “The Beta Test,” a new digital-age thriller that was written, directed by and starring Jim Cummings and PJ McCabe.The film was an official selection for this year’s Berlin International Film Festival.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterAfter a brutal year of pandemic-related movie theater closures, a reprieve is coming for film lovers in Texas. Alamo Drafthouse, the cinema chain known for in-theater dining, is opening a new location in east El Paso.The venue will be open and operational for staff training on March 26 before officially welcoming customers on March 31.

Matthew McConaughey is looking forward to reprising his role.The actor starred in the 1996 movie as Jake Brigance, a man who defends Carl Lee Hailey (Samuel L. Jackson), a Black father who killed the two white men who raped his daughter.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and Media“The Heist,” the true story of the theft of Willem de Kooning’s iconic “Woman-Ochre” from an Arizona art museum, is in the works from “The Love Bugs” director Allison Otto. Nonfiction studio XTR will back the new documentary in partnership with Roots Productions’ Jill Howerton and Josh Kunau, the team behind “Biggest Little Farm,” Museum + Crane’s Caryn Capotosto, the maker of “Won’t You Be My Neighbor.