By Antonia Blyth
04.04.2020 - 04:05 / deadline.com
By Antonia Blyth
Deputy Editor, AwardsLine
Editors’ Note: With full acknowledgment of the big-picture implications of a pandemic that already has claimed thousands of lives, cratered global economies and closed international borders, Deadline’s Coping With COVID-19 Crisis series is a forum for those in the entertainment space grappling with myriad consequences of seeing a great industry screech to a halt. The hope is for an exchange of ideas and experiences, and suggestions on how businesses
By Antonia Blyth
The festival award-winning drama Never Rarely Sometimes Always will be released on EST from Wednesday 13th May and released on VOD from Wednesday 27th May. The film is described as an urgent and poignant drama and comes to the screen by the hugely talented Eliza Hittman (Beach Rats, It Felt Like Love). The film will be available through various digital retailers such as Sky Store, Amazon Prime Video, Google Play and Apple TV, and others.
By Dominic Patten
A woman's right to choose if and when to become a mother is once again under serious attack, this time using the fig leaf of COVID-19 regulations to shut down clinics, intimidate providers and punish women. The attorney general of Texas has ruled that abortions, unless there is an immediate medical emergency, are "elective procedures" and therefore banned.
As theaters shuttered across the nation amid the coronavirus pandemic, the filmmakers of Never Rarely Sometimes Always had a tough decision to make — wait to release the movie when theaters reopen or release the film on digital platforms to capitalize on an audience confined to their homes.
Sidney Flanigan never really thought about becoming an actor, but after meeting director Eliza Hittman through tangential ties to the Insane Clown Posse, she took on the lead role in the filmmaker's latest film Never Rarely Sometimes Always with the hope of using the drama as a platform to speak out about abortion rights.
The new movie Never Rarely Sometimes Always is now available to watch at home and we caught up with the stars of the film to learn more about them!
By Dino-Ray Ramos
Only three features into her filmmaking career, writer-director Eliza Hittman has established herself as an astute chronicler of contemporary female teendom, and her new film is her most accomplished in that regard. But it had the misfortune of opening March 13, just in time for the coronavirus-necessitated shutdown of theaters.
In some ways, it feels very silly to do this annual look at the best of the first quarter of the cinematic year. After all, the world has changed and the film world especially has come to a screeching halt.