Sean Baker on ‘Red Rocket,’ Casting Simon Rex, and Making Movies in Polarized America

Red Rocket (★★★★☆), isn’t the cleverest liar, but he knows how to sprinkle just enough truth on his lies to make them believable. And if one lie doesn’t work, he always has another, or a ready excuse, a joke, or a compliment, whatever he thinks might ingratiate him with whomever’s on the receiving end of whatever angle he’s working.

There was a “Riverdale” wedding this weekend! Casey Cott tied the knot with his fiancée, Nichola Basara, and shared a photo from their big day to Instagram.

wedding this weekend! Casey Cott tied the knot with his fiancée, Nichola Basara, and shared a photo from their big day to Instagram.In the black-and-white image, Cott flashes his wedding ring while kissing his bride. The ceremony, held at the Four Seasons in Whistler, Canada, was a star-studded affair as Cott's co-stars, Drew Ray Tanner, Camila Mendes, KJ Apa, Lili Reinhart, and Madelaine Petsch, were all in attendance.Mendes even shared a moment from the nuptials on her Instagram Story,

Holdovers Drive My Car, Red Rocket and The Scary Of Sixty First looked good in limited runs on a weekend with few new specialty releases and even fewer numbers. Streamers – which presented The Lost Daughter (Netflix), Swan Song (Apple) and The Tender Bar (Amazon), don’t reveal them and smaller distributors often report early in the week.

Casey Cott is officially a married man!

Celebrating with family and friends! During Casey Cott’s romantic wedding to fiancée Nichola Basara, he made sure to invite many of his Riverdale costars — who couldn’t stop gushing over the special event.

How does Sean Baker do it? No, we’re not questioning his writing or directing talent. Over the past decade, he’s consistently demonstrated he’s one of the most exemplary American auteurs working today.

Javier Bardem is not having it! The actor is defending his role as Desi Arnaz in Being the Ricardos. In a recent cover story for The Hollywood Reporter, the 52-year-old actor and his costar Nicole Kidman opened up about people’s reaction after they were cast to portray iconic I Love Lucy’s Arnaz and Lucille Ball.The Oscar winner told the publication that playing the Cuban-American star or other characters is the whole point of his job.

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Sean Baker’s Red Rocket, the highest-profile specialty opening to report numbers this weekend (i.e. not distributed by a streamer) posted a solid $96,953 for a per screen average of $16,158 in six theaters in New York/Los Angeles.

William Earl Although pornographic films have been around since the late 1800s, even having a near-mainstream surge in popularity in the early ’70s thanks to films like 1972’s “Deep Throat” and provocateurs like Andy Warhol, major films about the pornography business took a lot longer to gain mass appeal. Early works, like Paul Schrader’s 1979 “Hardcore,” treated the industry as dark and sinister.

trailer and read below for how you can catch a screening of “Red Rocket.”“Red Rocket” premieres on December 10. “Red Rocket” is playing exclusively in theaters nationwide.

A24 presents Red Rocket in six theaters this weekend ahead of a limited expansion in New York and LA, adding Chicago, Austin and San Francisco next weekend with a wider rollout over the holidays to several hundred screens.

NEW YORK -- Simon Rex, in town for the recent Gotham Awards, where he was nominated for outstanding lead performance in “Red Rocket,” was comparing today’s pandemic-scarred New York with the city he knew in the 1990s as a VJ on MTV.“Times Square was like pimps and sex booths and then it became Disneyland. Now it feels kind of sketchy again and I kind of like it,” Rex says, smiling.

Mikey Saber, the antihero of Sean Baker’s new film, has a bit of a problem during job interviews. He has a hole in his resume — stretching some 20 years.He explains to the bosses at Dollar General or the local diner that he was “self-employed” or was in “entertainment.” The prospective employers just want to know what he was doing for so long.

EXCLUSIVE: Red Rocket breakout Bree Elrod has signed with Anonymous Content for representation.

In a year full of breakthrough performances, one actor who is getting a little lost in the periphery is Suzanna Son. The singer and actress landed her film debut in Sean Baker’s “Red Rocket.” In fact, Baker first spotted Son at the now-closed Arclight Cinemas in Hollywood.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorSean Baker’s “Red Rocket” utilizes *NSYNC’s 2000 pop song “Bye Bye Bye” throughout the movie in various forms, but it wasn’t easy for “The Florida Project” director to secure rights to use the track as he searched for the perfect breakup song.At one point, Strawberry (Suzanna Son) plays a stripped-down version on her keyboard.