NEON Strikes Again: Sundance Deal For Elisabeth Moss-Michael Stuhlbarg-Starrer ‘Shirley’

The 2020 Billboard Latin American Music Awards are less than two months away, airing on Thursday, April 23 via Telemundo.Bad Bunny and Ozuna lead the pack as 14-time finalists with Daddy Yankee and J Balvin not too far behind.

With Asian and Asian American actors and filmmakers gaining prominence in Hollywood — the latest example: Parasite and The Farewell winning top honors at the Oscars and Spirit Awards — their counterparts in the executive suites are stepping up as well. Nina Yang Bongiovi, who runs Forest Whitaker's Significant Productions, revealed Feb.

A24 has bought North American rights to the thriller “The Stars at Noon,” starring Robert Pattinson and Margaret Qualley.

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In Season 1 of “Narcos: Mexico,” the gruesome murder of DEA agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena at the hands of drug lord Felix Gallardo (Diego Luna) was a turning point in the drug wars between Mexico and the US.

Saban Films has picked up North American rights to Calm With Horses, executive produced by Michael Fassbender.Nick Rowland’s feature directorial debut is a thriller about an ex-boxer and the feared enforcer for a drug-dealing Irish family. The pic bowed at the Toronto International Film Festival and stars Cosmo Jarvis, Barry Keoghan, Niamh Algar and Ned Dennehy."Nick Rowland’s debut shines through its cast of rising stars.

Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka is set as the subject of a Netflix documentary series. The series will cover Osaka’s pivotal year, from the US Open in August last year, on tour as Osaka plays in each of this year’s Grand Slam tournaments, and prepares for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

It wasn’t quite like . There was no rose to accept and no one wanted to “grab her for a sec.” But when Senator Elizabeth Warren asked Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley—dual citizen of the United States and #BachelorNation—to be a co-chair of her , Pressley did feel chosen.

Shirley, theElisabeth Moss-starring thriller, has been acquired by Neon in North America.The deal was in the low-seven figure range, making it the indie distributor's second (and smaller) deal at the festival after having jointly acquired Andy Samberg comedyPalm Springs with Hulu for a record-setting $17.5 million and 69 cents.Josephine Decker directed from a screenplay bySarah Gubbins, which follows a young couple, Fred and Rose (Odessa Young and Logan Lerman), that moves to a small Vermont

Neon has purchased North American rights to Josephine Decker’s “Shirley,” a drama about novelist Shirley Jackson that premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The film stars Elisabeth Moss as Jackson, a writer whose work intertwined elements of the macabre with sly social commentary, most notably in her short story “The Lottery.”

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PARK CITY, Utah — What do “Reservoir Dogs,” “Napoleon Dynamite,” “Clerks” and “Wet Hot American Summer” all have in common? The Sundance Film Festival.

It’s a rare occasion when a first-time American filmmaker embraces the metaphysical, and rarer still when said director does so without embarrassing pretentiousness, but Edson Oda thinks big and mostly pulls it off inNine Days. Uneven but stunningly crafted and concerned with nothing less than who deserves a space on the planet Earth, this is a carefully thought-out original creation that some will argue belongs in an art installation sooner than in a commercial cinema.

Narcos: Mexico is returning with its second season and we've been blessed with a trailer. The new trailer looks back at the old world and explores a new set of forbidden streets of Mexico. The new Narcos: Mexico season 2 trailer continues to follow the story of Félix Gallardo. Fans will play witness to his growing drug empire in Mexico but he has a new enemy to worry about. The new trailer informs that an American agent is on the trail of a drug king. 

By Dino-Ray Ramos