Focus Features Sets Q1 Release For Robin Wright Feature Directorial Debut ‘Land’

Michael B. Jordan will be flexing his muscles in front of and behind the camera on , as co-star Tessa Thompson has confirmed Jordan will direct the upcoming third installment in the series.«He is directing the next ,» she told MTV's Josh Horowitz, joking of Jordan's status as the reigning Sexiest Man Alive: «It's going to be ammo, I think, for me when he is engaging with me as a director.

Written and directed by Emerald Fennell (Killing Eve), the Focus Features dramatic thriller Promising Young Woman has been a buzzy awards season title before its Christmas Day theatrical release. The Los Angeles Film Critics Association named Carey Mulligan Best Actress for her turn as the methodical Cassie who is out for revenge while Fennell received honors for Best Screenplay. The writer-director was also awarded the Milos Stehlik Breakthrough Filmmaker Award from the Chicago Film Critics.

Warner Bros. drama Judas and the Black Messiah about Fred Hampton, the Illinois Black Panther Party Chairman who was betrayed by FBI informant William O’Neal, will open on Feb. 12, 2021 in both theaters and on HBO Max.

Robin Wright is starring in the upcoming movie Land and she also made her directorial debut on the feature film!

Focus Features, which also marks her directorial debut.The film centers on Edee (Wright), a cosmopolitan lawyer who retreats to the wilderness after she faces a loss in life. “Land” also stars Demián Bichir and Kim Dickens.“Land” will have its world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival on January 31 before a wider release on Feb.

Nature can be a place for rebirth.

Robin Wright has certainly made her mark in front of the camera. She was the subject of Cary Elwes’ affection and left him—quite literally—rolling in “The Princess Bride.” She also played the same kind of role opposite Tom Hanks in “Forrest Gump,” beckoning him and generations of film fanatics to get those legs moving! And let’s not forget her portrayal of the Vice POTUS and POTUS in Netflix’s “House of Cards.” She’s done all that and much more in her 30+ year career.

While he serenaded the country alongside his U2 bandmate The Edge on The Late Late Show on Friday night, it appears Bono has been working on another project.

Focus Features has picked up the worldwide rights to Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast ahead of a 2021 release. Written and directed by the Oscar nominee, Belfast tells the story of one boy’s childhood during the tumult of the late 1960s in Northern Ireland, where Branagh is from.

Focus Features has acquired the worldwide rights to the next film from Kenneth Branagh, “Belfast,” which he wrote and directed and stars Caitriona Balfe, Judi Dench, Jamie Dornan, Ciaran Hinds and newcomer Jude Hill.The film is described as a humorous, tender and a film that Branagh describes as his most personal film yet about a boy’s childhood during the tumult of the late 1960s.

Focus Features has acquired worldwide rights to Kenneth Branagh-directed feature drama Belfast.

As Sundance director Tabitha Jackson's reign at the indie film festival gets well underway, the marquee indie U.S. film showcase has gone mostly online with a pandemic-era discovery lineup filled with work by women and BIPOC directors and more than half the 2021 program shot by first-time helmers.

EXCLUSIVE: Adam Anders, the producer of Netflix’s The Prom and the longtime executive music producer of the mutli-award winning series Glee, will make his directorial debut early next year on the Monarch Media, SPACE + ART Entertainment and STORY Collective musical feature Road To Bethlehem.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticThe Sundance Institute announced a smaller, more focused lineup for the upcoming 2021 Sundance Film Festival — down to 72 feature films from last year’s 128.

Also Read: Sundance Film Festival Goes Virtual, But Also National With Screenings in 24 StatesThe slate of 140 films is fewer than usual for Sundance, but the festival itself was shortened to seven days from its usual 11-day run.As usual, Sundance will present a small number of films on opening night, which is Jan. 28.

The 2021 Sundance Film Festival is going to be different than any other previous version of the event. Due to its winter schedule, this year, the American festival was able to come in right before COVID-19 took hold in the US and canceled a bunch of other film events in 2020.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterRobin Wright’s directorial debut “Land” will debut in theaters next year.The drama, which stars Wright and Demian Bichir, is set to release in the U.S. on Feb.