Rian Johnson, Barry Jenkins, Nia Vardalos & More Mourn Closure Of Arclight Cinemas: “Sending Love To Every Usher, Manager And Projectionist Who Rocked That Blue Shirt”

Moonlight and If Beale Street Could Talk helmer Barry Jenkins will bring audiences back to the antebellum South for Amazon’s The Underground Railroad. Amid accounts of police brutality against members of the Black community and Hollywood’s attempts to correct hurtful and racist imagery, the showrunner spoke about the care he, his cast and crew took to address America’s dark history on-screen.

T-Street — the production banner run by director Rian Johnson and Ram Bergman — and Knives Out studio MRC Films have launched a new label to produce low-budget films from emerging filmmakers. The venture, which was announced by the T-Street principals and MRC's Brye Adler and Jonathan Golfman, will produce three to four features a year from up-and-coming filmmakers, with creative and financial backing from the companies.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterT-Street, the production company formed by filmmakers Rian Johnson and Ram Bergman, are partnering with MRC Films for a new label supporting low-budget indie films.The unnamed venture has set a mission of supporting emerging filmmakers “who have a singular voice and a distinctive point of view,” an announcement said.The label hopes to streamline the complicated process of producing low-budget indies, making three to four films per year to start with modest

MRC Film and Rian Johnson and Ram Bergman’s T-Street are hatching a new label designed to tap emerging filmmaking voices and support up and coming artists with distinctive points of view. The new venture was unveiled this morning by MRC Film Co-Presidents Brye Adler and Jonathan Golfman and T-Street cofounders Rian Johnson and Ram Bergman. T-Street’s Ben LeClair will oversee day-to-day management.

EXCLUSIVE: MRC and the Knives Out tandem of Rian Johnson and Ram Bergman are back in business.

Despite a fair number of teasers already released, the new trailer for “The Underground Railroad,” from director Barry Jenkins, is the best look yet at the overall plot of his upcoming Amazon Prime series. The show is based on the acclaimed novel from Colson Whitehead and tells the story of a woman, Cora Randall, who is desperate to find freedom in the antebellum South and attempts to escape a Georgia plantation on a mission to find the rumored Underground Railroad.

 is coming to life onscreen thanks to. The Oscar-winning director is turning the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel into a 10-part limited Amazon Prime series starring newcomers and as well as, and.

Also Read: Arclight and Pacific Theaters Close Permanently“After shutting our doors more than a year ago, today we must share the difficult and sad news that Pacific will not be reopening its ArcLight Cinemas and Pacific Theatres locations,” Pacific Theaters, parent company of Arclight and Pacific Theatres, said in a statement.

Claudia Eller Co-Editor-in-ChiefI’m still trying to get my head around why Netflix would pay a jaw-dropping $468 million for two “Knives Out” sequels — plus the right to make a third if writer-director Rian Johnson signs on.Yes, the original campy murder-mystery hit, produced by MRC and released by Lionsgate in 2019, earned $311 million in global ticket sales, returning a tidy profit for a movie that cost about $45 million to make.And yes, I understand that Netflix wants and needs a big,

Though “Knives Out” would go on to have some awards recognition and become a sleep box office hit, during the marketing campaign for the Rian Johnson film, the classic whodunnit seemed like a fun little side-project for the cast and crew in between other, more lucrative jobs. I mean, the film had a modest $40 million budget and seemed to be filmed, edited, and released in quick succession as Daniel Craig had a small window before going into the filming of his final James Bond film.

Just over a year ago, it looked like an open-and-shut case. In February 2020, Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer said during a quarterly earnings call that the company was officially moving ahead on a sequel toKnivesOut, the surprise box office and critical smash whodunnit starring Daniel Craig and written and directed by Rian Johnson.

Knives Out sequel.Earlier this month, it was announced that Netflix had acquired the rights to the next two Knives Out films in a deal reportedly worth $450 million (£327 million).A sequel to Rian Johnson’s original 2019 film, which was a massive box office success, earning $311.4 million (£226 million) on a $40 million (£29 million) budget, was officially announced back in February 2020.However, Curtis, who starred as Lynda Drysdale, the daughter of wealthy mystery writer Harlan Thrombey

Earlier this week, it was revealed that there are more Knives Out films coming!

When Andrea Riseborough joins the cast of your film, you know people will have to pay attention, which is exactly why I’m now a lot more interested in Netflix‘s adaptation of “Matilda,” which has cast Riseborough and Stephen Graham as the parents of the titular character.

Barry Jenkins is one of the most exciting voices in American film working today. That’s pretty undeniable.

Pastel, the filmmaking collective founded by Barry Jenkins and The Underground Railroad producers Adele Romanski, and Mark Ceryak, have struck a first-look television deal with HBO and HBO Max and A24.

Cynthia Littleton Business Editor“Moonlight” writer-director Barry Jenkins and his partners in Pastel have set up shop with HBO and HBO Max under a first-look deal that calls for A24 to executive produce all projects with the Pastel trio.Jenkins and Pastel partners Adele Romanski and Mark Ceryak had previously been under a first-look pact at Amazon Studios.

Knives Out is heading for full-fledged franchise status. Two sequels to Rian Johnson's critically acclaimed whodunit movie have landed at Netflix in a massive nine-figure deal.