EXCLUSIVE: Broadway and Disney+ actor Andrew Barth Feldman has landed what we hear is a big role opposite Jennifer Lawrence in the Sony Pictures’ R-rated comedy No Hard Feelings.
02.09.2022 - 17:21 / variety.com
Brent Lang Executive Editor “Causeway,” a new drama starring Jennifer Lawrence as a soldier adjusting to life after returning home to New Orleans, will premiere on Apple TV+ on Nov. 4. The streaming service also announced that “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues,” a documentary about one of the founding fathers of jazz, will hit Apple TV+ on Oct. 28. Both films are world premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival, where the company is screening five features, the largest number of Apple Originals to debut at a single film festival. The Canada-bound Apple lineup also includes “Sidney,” a documentary about Oscar-winning actor and barrier-breaking star Sidney Poitier that is produced by Oprah Winfrey and directed by Reginald Hudlin; “Raymond & Ray,” which features Ewan McGregor and Ethan Hawke as half-brothers; and “The Greatest Beer Run Ever” with Zac Efron and Russel Crowe in a new dramedy from “Green Book” director Peter Farrelly.
Apple will also use the event to shine a light on “Gutsy,” an eight-part docuseries following Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton as they honor the women artists, activists and leaders who inspire them. The two Clintons will appear as guest speakers during the festival’s Industry Conference Visionaries program. “We’re thrilled to be debuting such a diverse spectrum of Apple Originals at this year’s festival,” said Matt Dentler, Apple’s head of features. “From documentaries about icons to dramas from Academy Award-winning filmmakers and actors, TIFF audiences are in for a treat. We look forward to giving movie lovers from around the globe a first sneak peek in Toronto.” Apple is riding high after scoring an Oscar for Best Picture for “CODA,” so it enters awards season with a
EXCLUSIVE: Broadway and Disney+ actor Andrew Barth Feldman has landed what we hear is a big role opposite Jennifer Lawrence in the Sony Pictures’ R-rated comedy No Hard Feelings.
Toronto Film Festival returned in spectacular fashion after two years of virtual premieres or limited capacity screenings. The parties were packed (which may lead to COVID outbreaks down the road, but… that’s showbiz?), the red carpets were glittering and the atmosphere was electric, bordering on euphoric, as director Rian Johnson’s acclaimed sequel “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Story,” Steven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical “The Fabelmans” and the Harry Styles-led romantic drama “My Policeman” debuted to blockbuster-starved audiences in Canada. Hollywood seemed eager to make up for lost time. So, as the curtain comes down on TIFF, here’s a look back at the major trends and takeaways from the 10-day festival.
Zac Efron is back on the red carpet for the first time in more than three years!
Oprah Winfrey is back on the red carpet at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival!
Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic “Causeway,” starring Jennifer Lawrence as a U.S. Army soldier recovering from injuries that are physical, mental, and spiritual, is the furthest thing from a genre film. Yet it belongs to what I’ve come to think of as a genre: the slow-burn non-verbal indie gloomfest. In saying that, I don’t mean to make light of the subject. Lawrence plays Lynsey, a member of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers who returns from Afghanistan after riding in a vehicle that was struck by a bomb, which caused her to have a cerebral hemorrhage. At the start, she’s seated in a wheelchair, waiting for the home health-care worker (Jayne Houdyshell) who’s going to look after her as she undergoes rehab. Tentatively, Lynsey starts to walk, but for a while she struggles to bathe, drive, remember things. The brain injury has smashed and weakened her; she’s a person in fragments.
attended the premiere of her upcoming film Causeway at the Toronto International Film Festival wearing a stunning off-the-shoulder Dior Haute Couture dress with a corset-inspired bodice. Lawrence wore the sheer, long-sleeved gown over a pair of high-waisted black briefs and topped off the look with a pair of emerald and diamond Kwiat earrings and strappy black sandals. Similar to her from recent months, Lawrence wore her beachy blonde hair down and swept to the side and kept her makeup look fresh with glowy skin and a classic nude lip. US actress Jennifer Lawrence arrives for the premiere of Causeway during the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto, Canada, on September 10, 2022. Causeway is a psychological drama starring Jennifer Lawrence as a US soldier recovering from a traumatic brain injury while deployed in Afghanistan. This marks Lawrence's first film premiere in 2022, as well as her first major public appearance since welcoming her first child with husband earlier this year.In a new published in September, the Causeway star revealed that her son's name is Cy and about meeting her baby boy.
Jennifer Lawrence and Cooke Maroney had a parents’ night out at the Toronto International Film Festival. On Saturday, ET caught up with the actress during the premiere of her upcoming film, where she dished about motherhood. “Wonderful, thank you,” she told ET’s Rachel Smith about her motherhood journey. Although she walked the carpet sans Maroney, he was still there to support her for her first film since welcoming their son. When asked if the outing counted for date night, the 32-year-old quipped, «In the sense that we’ll both be in bed by nine.” The actress instead walked the carpet with her co-stars, Linda Emond, Brian Tyree Henry, Lila Neugebauer and Justine Ciarrocchi.Lawrence and Maroney, 38, tied the knot during a star-studded ceremony in 2019.
My favorite Toronto premiere memory was the one where eventual Best Picture winner Spotlight played to a raucous crowd reaction at the Princess of Wales Theatre, the emotion ratcheted up even further when the Boston Globe journalists who cracked the Catholic Church pedophile scandals took the stage and stood next to the actors who played them onscreen. It has been several years since TIFF has been able to show why this is such a special festival, because of the Covid epidemic and Canada’s protective lockdown of its borders. Last night marked a turning point for TIFF as a preeminent showcase for awards season movies, with the back to back Princess of Wales Theatre world premieres of Netflix’s Rian Johnson-directed Knives Out sequel Glass Onion, followed by the premiere of Amblin/Universal’s Steven Spielberg love letter to his family and a movie camera, The Fabelmans. Both of these films land squarely in the awards conversation.
Wilson Chapman editor In addition to her mega-successful career as an Oscar-winning actor and producer, Jennifer Lawrence is also famous as a “Housewives” franchise superfan. The actor has proclaimed her love for the Bravo series several times and has appeared on “Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen.” While at the Toronto International Film Festival for her film “Causeway,” Lawrence chatted with Variety about her take on “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills'” latest season, and particularly the housewife Erika Jayne. Jayne has been at the center of several controversies involving her husband, Tom Girardi, allegedly embezzling millions of dollars from victims of horrific accidents. And more recently Jayne was caught in an epic face off with current housewives Crystal Kung Minkoff and Garcelle Beauvais when it was suggested that she could pay off the alleged victims with a pair of $1.3 million earrings.
There’s water, water everywhere in “Causeway,” the strong cinematic debut of accomplished theatre mainstay Lila Neugebauer — and oh so much to think about. The laconic Lynsey (a resurgent Jennifer Lawrence in what is plainly her career’s finest performance) explains that she’s drawn to water on a deep, source-of-all-life level while convincing a pool cleaning service’s manager to give her a job skimming scum and fixing filters.
William Earl Jennifer Lawrence brought serious starpower to the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday, appearing at the world premiere of her new film “Causeway.” But despite the big, Hollywood name “Causeway” was a quieter character study. Lawrence stars in and produces the film, in which she plays a soldier returning to civilian life in New Orleans. The film also stars Brian Tyree Henry, Linda Emond, Stephen McKinley Henderson and Russell Harvard. “Causeway” is the feature directorial debut of theater veteran Lila Neugebauer, with a script written by Elizabeth Sanders, Luke Goebel and Ottessa Moshfegh.
Taking tentative steps back into living, but actually longing to get well enough to take up another tour, she gets a job as a pool cleaner much to her mother’s dismay. It is something simplistic enough that she can handle it, or at least believes so, but when her truck gives out on her she takes it to a auto repair where she meets a mechanic named James (Brian Tyree Henry), with whom she somehow forges an unlikely friendship, one that both take to awkward levels after being casual new friends, both in their own tentative ways exploring the possibilities beyond. Their connection as it turns out is the shared physical and psychological recovery process from a life-changing accident, in James’ case involving a car and the death of his nephew, and the loss of a leg. In a poignant and beautifully underplayed scene the details of his own trauma come to light as they sit by a pool she is taking care of. The fragile connection of two very fragile people, aching for some human interaction but almost incapable of letting go of themselve is heartbreaking. Both are caught in the crossroads of needing to love again, or even for the first time, but unconvinced it is something they deserve or even desire at this point in their lives.
Jennifer Lawrence is totally winning the red carpet with this look!
Jennifer Lawrence has finally revealed the name and sex of her first child. The Oscar-winning actress welcomed a baby with art gallery director Cooke Maroney, her husband of three years, in February, but she didn't share any details about her newborn at the time. However, in a cover interview for U.
Jennifer Lawrence is opening up to Vogue!
Jennifer Lawrence just revealed the name of her baby. In the October cover of Vogue, Lawrence shared that her baby is a boy and that his name is Cy.Lawrence had her baby with her husband Cooke Maroney, who had the idea to name the baby after one of his favorite artists, Cy Twombly. Jennifer Lawrence welcomes first child with husband Cooke Maroney!A pregnant and glowing Jennifer Lawrence makes her red carpet returnIn her interview with the magazine, Lawrence talked a bit about her experience being a mother and how she felt that in an instant that her entire life had changed.