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We haven’t even had the world premiere of his latest film, “The Card Counter,” but it appears that Paul Schrader is ready to move onto his newest project, titled “Master Gardener.” According to Deadline, Paul Schrader is putting together the cast for his new film, “Master Gardener,” and has enlisted talented folks such as Joel Edgerton and Sigourney Weaver to appear.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorSince 1976’s “Taxi Driver,” filmmaker Paul Schrader says he has been looking for certain problems that he could place within a metaphor. In that case, he says, “It was a young man’s sense of loneliness, and the yellow taxi car was the metaphor.

EXCLUSIVE: One day before Paul Schrader’s The Card Counter premieres at the Venice Film Festival, I can reveal that the filmmaker’s next project is already gathering pace.

The latest film from Paul Schrader, the new thriller, “The Card Counter,” finds itself in a similar position as many features from the last year. The film was greenlit and began production prior to the massive worldwide outbreak of COVID.

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“Poker is all about waiting.”

The Card Counter has been released.The film is Paul Schrader’s latest since First Reformed, which earned the filmmaker an Oscar nomination. Martin Scorsese is on board as executive producer.The trailer shows Isaac as William Tell, an elusive poker player with a talent for counting cards.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterOscar Isaac is seeking redemption — and revenge — in the first trailer for “The Card Counter,” a tense thriller written and directed by Paul Schrader.The movie, co-starring Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan and Willem Dafoe, centers on an ex-military interrogator turned gambler named William Tell, who is haunted by the decisions of his past.

Shortly after being announced as part of the lineup at the 78th Venice Film Festival, the latest feature from Paul Schrader (“First Reformed”), “The Card Counter”, finally has its first trailer, and looks like audiences don’t even have to wait until the festival is done to see it. Starring Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan and Willem Dafoe, the film is about, well, a card counter, who gives guidance to a young man who is out for revenge against a mutual enemy.

After its restricted but still strong 77th edition, the Venice Film Festival is back with a vengeance, with what might be its most exciting line-up in years – a far cry from the bizarre announcements of this year’s TIFF (which boasts… “Clifford the Big Red Dog,” of all things). This morning in Rome, the line-up of the forthcoming 78th edition was announced in full, ahead of its planned opening on 1 September.

A new trailer has arrived for the Sundance film “The Evening Hour” (via The Film Stage), and this new teaser gives us a first real look at the upcoming drama. “The Evening Hour” cast includes Philip Ettinger (known for HBO‘s “I Know This Much is True” and Paul Schrader‘s “First Reformed“), Stacy Martin, Cosmo Jarvis, Kerry Bishé, Lili Taylor, Michael Trotter, Marc Menchaca, Ross Partridge, Frank Hoyt Taylor, and Tess Harper.

A new trailer has arrived for the Sundance film “The Evening Hour” (via The Film Stage), and this new teaser gives us a first real look at the upcoming drama. “The Evening Hour” cast includes Philip Ettinger (known for HBO‘s “I Know This Much is True” and Paul Schrader‘s “First Reformed“), Stacy Martin, Cosmo Jarvis, Kerry Bishé, Lili Taylor, Michael Trotter, Marc Menchaca, Ross Partridge, Frank Hoyt Taylor, and Tess Harper.

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

Before establishing himself as a Hollywood megastar thanks to leading roles in the likes of “An Officer and a Gentleman” and “The Cotton Club,” Richard Gere set a whole generation’s pulses racing as male escort Julian Kaye in Paul Schrader‘s 1980 noir thriller, “American Gigolo.” Now, Jon Bernthal (“The Punisher,” “Those Who Wish Me Dead“) is set to follow suit as the lead of Showtime’s small-screen adaptation of the classic ’80s thriller.

The idea of how long it should take for someone who is the subject of misconduct accusations to come back to their career in Hollywood is a touchy subject. Some of the people that have been accused of sexual misconduct (but haven’t been put on trial) have been content with just fading into the background and not trying to revive their careers.

novelist Sjón. The film’s producers are Lars Knudsen, Mark Huffam and New Regency and is a co-production of Focus Features and New Regency.Eggers broke onto the scene with “The Witch” in 2015 that provided a breakout role for Taylor-Joy, and he last directed “The Lighthouse” last year that was a psychological, nightmarish, acting tour-de-force for Dafoe and Robert Pattinson.Focus Features recently set release dates for “The Card Counter” from Paul Schrader for Sept.

novelist Sjón. The film’s producers are Lars Knudsen, Mark Huffam and New Regency and is a co-production of Focus Features and New Regency.Eggers broke onto the scene with “The Witch” in 2015 that provided a breakout role for Taylor-Joy, and he last directed “The Lighthouse” last year that was a psychological, nightmarish, acting tour-de-force for Dafoe and Robert Pattinson.Focus Features recently set release dates for “The Card Counter” from Paul Schrader for September 10 and “Mrs.

Paul Schrader’s next film “The Card Counter,” which stars Oscar Isaac in a revenge thriller, has been set for a theatrical release on Sept. 10, 2021.

Focus Features has set Sept. 10 for the Paul Schrader’s revenge thriller The Card Counter. 

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterPaul Schrader’s crime drama “The Card Counter” is coming to theaters this year.The film, from Focus Features, has been slated to release on Sept. 10.Schrader wrote and directed “The Card Counter,” a revenge thriller about a gambler who attempts to guide a young man out for revenge against a mutual enemy.

With the lack of a Cannes (and a regular film festival circuit) in 2020 due to the pandemic, there were multiple reports that a lot of filmmakers were going to hold their work back until there could be a semi-normal event to premiere. Well, judging by early reports about which films might show up, it appears that Cannes 2021 could become a truly star-studded affair with some huge projects debuting at the event.

First Reformed director teased the news in a new interview with the New Yorker, saying he was planning the new project with Scorsese.When asked whether he would ever consider making a streaming project, Schrader said he already had one in the works.“Yeah. Well, Scorsese and I are planning something,” Schrader said.

As we’ve seen time after time in recent years, Paul Schrader has become more and more outspoken when it comes to the current state of the film and TV business. Of course, with a filmography and history in the business like Schrader, few are equally qualified to discuss these sorts of topics with any expertise.

In mid-January, writer-director Paul Schrader asked the world of Facebook if anyone cared about the Oscars. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (can we add Flim-Flam?) had vowed on Oscar’s sword that the 13.

Becoming a filmmaker is tough business. Yes, if you know anything about the film industry, it’s obvious that becoming a director that gets projects greenlit is the equivalent of winning the lottery.

The classic “American Gigolo” is strutting itself back into the modern era.

One of our most anticipated films of the year, Paul Schrader’s forthcoming drama, “The Card Counter,” was a victim of the COVID-19 film industry shutdown back in March. The frustrating part, particularly for the filmmaker, is the fact that he only had five days left of shooting before he would have been done.

Carole Horst Grandave Capital launched in June on the eve of the Cannes Marche, with Tamara Nagahiro as head of acquisitions and sales. As a third-party equity investor, Grandave is involved with Paul Schrader’s “The Card Counter,” starring Tiffany Haddish, Oscar Isaac, Tye Sheridan and Willem Defoe, with Martin Scorsese serving as executive producer.

Kamikaze Dogfight has picked up the U.S. rights to Justin McConnell's Clapboard Jungle, a documentary about five years in the life of an indie filmmaker, ahead ofrespective premieres at the Fantasia Film Festival, Frightfest and Night Visions festivals.

The sophomore feature from British sibling directors Ludwig and Paul Shammasian (The Pyramid Texts) doesn't waste any time establishing its themes. The opening moments feature a scene of workmen demolishing a church, a couple engaging in rough sex, and a fiery sermon delivered by a street preacher.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: The Card Counter, Paul Schrader’s revenge thriller which wrapped shooting today, has sold out globally.HanWay Films, which repped international rights, has closed deals in: Canada (VVS Films), Benelux (Belga Films), Germany and Austria (Weltkino), Greece (Odeon), Portugal (NOS Lusomundo), Scandinavia (Scanbox Entertainment), Turkey (Bir Film), Bulgaria, Czecha, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania (M2), Former Yugoslavia (Discovery), CIS, Baltics

Focus Features strikes again.The indie film company continued a torrid acquisitions streak, nabbing rights to Paul Schrader’s revenge thriller “The Card Counter,” one of the hottest titles available at this year’s Cannes Film Festival virtual market.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterThat’s a wrap on Paul Schrader’s The Card Counter, which saw Oscar Isaac and co recently return to film the last few remaining days on the movie after a virus-related delay.Deadline was the first to tell you that the pic was heading back on set this month after being forced to shutdown back in March when a cast member tested positive for the virus just five days away from the end of shooting.Director Schrader has now taken to his Facebook page to confirm

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Breaking Through The Lens (BTTL), the initiative set up to promote female and non-binary filmmaking voices, has selected the 10 projects that will take part in its 2020 edition during this week’s Cannes virtual market.For the event’s third edition it will partner with producer Kathryn M.

Oscar Isaac has one of the more eclectic acting careers amongst A-listers today. Over the years, he’s worked for filmmakers such as Nicolas Winding Refn (“Drive”), Zack Snyder (“Sucker Punch”), the Coen Brothers (“Inside Llewyn Davis”), Alex Garland (“Ex Machina”), and Denis Villeneuve (“Dune”), just to name several.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterHere’s your first look at Oscar Isaac in Paul Schrader’s upcoming pic The Card Counter, in which he plays William Tell, a former serviceman who lives a spartan existence playing cards before he moves into the world of high-stakes poker.As Deadline first revealed, the movie has been on production hiatus since March after a cast member tested positive for COVID-19 five days out from the end of shoot.However, I can now exclusively reveal that cameras are set to