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Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore are set to star in Rocket Science’s May December for Carol director Todd Haynes. The screenplay was written by Samy Burch with the story by Burch and Alex Mechanik. Rocket Science is handling international sales beginning at the Virtual Cannes Market, where UTA Independent Film Group and CAA Media Finance are representing U.S rights.

The lineup for the 2021 edition of the Cannes Film Festival has been unveiled. After taking a pause due to the pandemic in 2020, this year’s festival will take place with an in-person event in July with several high-profile titles, including Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch”, the Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard musical “Annette” and new works from Oliver Stone, Todd Haynes, Francois Ozon, Sean Penn, and more.

Mackenzie Nichols Staff WriterMillicent Simmonds is at the forefront of a cultural movement to hire more actors with disabilities.

Also Read: 'Two of Us' Film Review: Older-Lesbian Love Story Doesn't Hold Together“Two of Us,” France’s entry in this year’s Best International Feature Film category at the Oscars, was nominated for four awards and won one, for Best First Film.Thomas Vinterberg’s “Another Round,” another international Oscar contender, won the foreign-film award over nominees that included Sam Mendes’ “1917” and one American film, Todd Haynes’ “Dark Waters.”The awards were the first since last year’s stormy Cesar

Billie Eilish is in early talks to be an executive producer on a Peggy Lee biopic, Fever.The film, set to be helmed by Carol director Todd Haynes, will star Michelle Williams as Lee.According to Billboard, Eilish is in early talks to executive produce the film alongside her mother Maggie Baird, and Darkroom founder and CEO Justin Lubliner.Last year, Eilish took part in an online panel celebrating the life and career of the late Peggy Lee, marking the centennial of the singer’s birth.Lee, who

The artistic sensibilities of filmmaker Todd Haynes and Michelle Williams seem perfectly matched. And the collaborations have happened—the two previously partnered on “I’m Not Here,” and “Wonderstruck,” but these were all minor supporting parts.

Michelle Williams has signed on to play Peggy Lee in a biopic for the legendary singer, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. The biopic will be directed by Todd Haynes.

Building her résumé! Billie Eilish is in talks to executive produce a Peggy Lee biopic with two people near and dear to her heart, Deadline reports.

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment WriterMichelle Williams is on board to portray another entertainment icon, in the Peggy Lee biopic “Fever” for director Todd Haynes, Variety has confirmed.

Michelle Williams is playing Peggy Lee!

EXCLUSIVE: The long-in-development Peggy Lee biopic Fever, not only looks to have found a new studio to call home but a new star to play the legendary singer. Sources tell Deadline MGM is in talks to come aboard the Peggy Lee biopic Fever, with Academy Award-nominee Todd Haynes set to direct and four-time Academy Award nominee Michelle Williams on board to star.

In 1991, Sundance took place at the height of the AIDS epidemic, which, unlike the COVID-19 pandemic, was propelled by a disease that is sexually transmitted and was predominantly killing gay men. (By year's end, the U.S.

It's the latest musical do pick-up for Apple. The streamer has landed the Todd Haynes-directed doc about theVelvet Underground.

A modest French cousin to Erin Brockovich and Todd Haynes’ recent Dark Waters, Red Soil (Rouge) once again pits a tireless underdog against the forces of corporate greed and looming environmental catastrophe. The hook this time is that the underdog, played by the talented Zita Hanrot (Fatima), is fighting too close to home, with her own father a longtime worker at the factory that’s been dangerously polluting their region.

The 2020 Environmental Media Association awards were presented in a virtual ceremony on Friday night. Todd Haynes' Mark Ruffalo-starring legal thriller Dark Waters, ABC's Mixed-ish and Shark Tank, and HBO's Chernobyl and Last Week Tonight With John Oliver were among the high-profile winners.

The Stooges‘ track ‘Fun House’ by members of Sonic Youth and Mudhoney has been shared online – you can listen to it below.Back in 1997, director Todd Haynes put together a supergroup called Wylde Ratttz to soundtrack his glam-rock inspired film Velvet Goldmine.The band was comprised of The Stooges’ Ron Asheton, Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore and Steve Shelley, Mudhoney’s Mark Arm, The Stooges and Minutemen’s Mike Watt, Sean Lennon, Don Fleming and Jim Dunbar.Over two decades later, Wylde Ratttz’s

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Golden Globe- and two-time SAG Award-nominated actor Dennis Haysbert has signed with Paradigm Talent Agency.Haysbert is best known for his role as President David Palmer on Fox’s hit Emmy-winning series 24, for which he received his first Golden Globe nomination, and two Screen Actors Guild award nominations, as well as his role as Raymond Deagan in the Oscar-nominated film Far From Heaven, from writer/director Todd Haynes.His television credits

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticOren Moverman began his career as a screenwriter, scripting such landmarks of independent film as “Jesus’ Son” and (with Todd Haynes) “I’m Not There.” In 2009, he made his directorial debut with “The Messenger,” an Iraq-war homefront drama that attracted major critical acclaim as well as two Oscar nominations (for best original screenplay and for Woody Harrelson as best supporting actor).

[Note: In the wake ofthe Tribeca Film Festival's cancellation this year,The Hollywood Reporteris reviewing select entries that elected to premiere digitally.] With his chameleonic capacity for self-reinvention, his eclectic musical palette and elegant extraterrestrial freakdom, David Bowie would seem ideal subject matter for the kind of freewheeling, stylistically fragmented biopic treatment Todd Haynes gave Bob Dylan in I'm Not There.

Concordia Studio — the recently launched outfit from Davis Guggenheim and Jonathan King — has addedYasmin Hormozi and Patrick Callan to the studio as vps of narrative film and television. Hormozi previously worked with King at Participant Media, where she served as director of narrative film.

Todd Haynes is perhaps one of the most reliable filmmakers working today; from the soul-igniting Carol to the thrilling Safe and more peculiar Wonderstruck, each of his films offer something different from the last. For his latest, he tackles capitalist horror for invigorating drama Dark Waters.