‘American Pickle’ Director Is Happy To Skip The “Mid-Budget Slaughterhouse” Of A Theatrical Release

Rebecca Rubin News Editor, Online“The King’s Man,” a prequel in the “Kingsman” spy series, has pushed back its theatrical debut. The movie was expected to hit theaters on Sept.

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theaters are open or closed where you live, you can still have an excellent adventure this weekend. premieres simultaneously on streaming services and in select movie theaters on Friday, Aug.

Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” is finally hitting theatres, and star John David Washington is thrilled.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefTom Hanks-starring drama “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” will join a thickening crowd of local and international films heading for Chinese movie theaters in the next six weeks.The film, about beloved U.S. TV host Mr.

to acquire North American distribution rights at the festival after the world premiere.Directed by Julie Taymor, “The Glorias” centers on Steinem, perhaps one of the most well-known feminists of all time. The film traces her journey from her time as a young woman in India to her role in the women’s rights movement that started in the 1960s.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterEXCLUSIVE: The Glorias is shifting from a theatrical release and heading straight to Amazon Prime Video. Directed by Julie Taymor, the non-traditional film chronicling the life of iconic activist Gloria Steinem is set to stream exclusively on Prime Video in U.S.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorThe Planters, a do-it-yourself dark comedy written, directed by and starring Alexandra Kotcheff and Hannah Leder in a film they crewed themselves, has scored a North American rights deal via 1091 Pictures. A September theatrical release followed by a December 8 on-demand bow is in the works.In what could be one template for making a movie during the pandemic, Kotcheff and Leder shot for 127 days entirely without an on-set crew.

We’ve said it time and time again, the release of “Mulan” in Chinese theaters is probably more important than the release in North America. With a story steeped in China’s folklore and starring an entirely Asian cast, it’s clear that Disney intended for its live-action “Mulan” remake to be a big hit in Asia.

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage, and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This weekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

According to Seth Rogen, the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is making it tougher to launch big-screen comedies.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticWhile the Hollywood studios continue to keep their tentpoles locked up till most American cinemas reopen, indie distributors are releasing a handful of smaller movies with big stars in supporting roles this week.Can’t wait to see Robert Pattinson in “Tenet”? Well, you can always catch him in the festival-anointed imperialist critique “Waiting for the Barbarians.” While the release date for “Dune” remains in question, Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård leads the

There’s a charming weirdness at the core of An American Pickle, the latest Seth Rogen star vehicle. It’s a movie that sounds like it could be either amazing or terrible, depending on the execution.

Seth Rogen spent 10 months growing out his beard just to shoot one additional scene for his new movie An American Pickle.The Pineapple Express star takes on double duty in the film, which is based on 2013 New Yorker novella Sell Out, about 1920s factory worker Herschel Greenbaum, who falls into a vat of pickles and is brined for 100 years, only to emerge in his great-grandson’s modern-day New York without having aged a day.Rogen grew out his facial hair to play Herschel first and then went

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Seth Rogen says the invisible work of two different people helped him pull off his performance in HBO Max's An American Pickle. Appearing virtually on Late Night With Seth Meyers, the actor revealed that during one table read, Ike Barinholtz played opposite him.

Seth Rogen has scripted and starred in any number of movies that have pulled inspiration from his life, but he says, the HBO Max time-travel farce adapted from a short story by Simon Rich, is perhaps the story he relates to most.The film stars Rogen as Herschel Greenbaum, a ditchdigger living in a fictional Eastern European country circa 1919.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorSarah Snook was sleeping at friend’s house in her native country of Australia when this year’s Emmy nominations were announced.“He was the one who woke me up to tell me. He ran into my room,” Snook says on Thursday’s episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast The Big Ticket.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorReconnecting with his Jewish heritage was part of the creative process for Seth Rogen on his new comedy, “An American Pickle.” For one, the actor learned to speak Yiddish for the first time for the film.“I had heard [Yiddish] my whole life, but I did not know it,” Rogen said Tuesday during the film’s virtual premiere, in a 30-minute Q&A following the screening. “I did have to learn it, basically phonetically, for the movie.