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Debuting writer-director Fran Kranz's years as an actor show in the powerful performances he draws from his tight ensemble in Mass, a drama of searing intimacy that trades the political for the personal in its reflections on gun violence and mental health. With laser focus and unflinching emotional candor, the film approaches the seemingly unending horror of school shootings in America from the viewpoint of devastated parents on both sides of the tragedy, six years later.

It’s hard to say if the excoriating debut film written, produced, and directed by Fran Kranz, in being an extraordinarily depressing chamber piece dealing with the long-after fallout of a school shooting, is the last film we should have expected from the wacky “Dollhouse,” and “Cabin in the Woods” alum, or exactly the film he was always going to make, setting out his stall as a filmmaker of serious intent, to be taken seriously.

In a highly impressive and explosive feature screenwriting and directing debut, Fran Kranz has crafted Mass as a highly intense, involving, moving and thought-provoking chamber piece of a film that explores the way two different sets of parents deal with the emotional aftermath of a school shooting, years after it occurred.

A Julia Child series is in the works at HBO Max!

Joe Otterson TV ReporterHBO Max has given out a series order to the drama based on the life of chef Julia Child.“Julia” is inspired by Child’s life and her long-running television series, “The French Chef,” which pioneered the now popular genre of cooking shows.

Patrick Hipes, Amanda N'Duka Passion River Films and 8 Above are teaming on the U.S. release of The Disrupted, the feature documentary debut of Sarah Colt, the Emmy-winning director of PBS’ American Experience docs about Walt Disney and Henry Ford, as well as The Polio Crusade and the Native American series We Shall Remain.The Disrupted, a look at rising income inequality in the U.S.

By Nellie Andreeva