Exclusive: Apple TV+ has rounded out the cast for Jessica Chastain-led The Savant, its eight-episode limited series from writer/executive producer/showrunner Melissa James Gibson, Fifth Season and Anonymous Content.
Jordana Spiro (Ozark), Trinity Lee Shirley (Da Bottomz), newcomer Toussaint Francois Battiste (Waiting for Godot), Cole Doman (Mutt), Hannah Gross (The Adults), David Wilson Barnes (George & Tammy), Michael Mosley (The Sinner) and Dagmara Dominczyk (Succession) join previously announced Chastain, Nnamdi Asomugha and James Badge Dale, who recurs.
Chastain, who also executive produces, plays a top-secret investigator known as the Savant, who infiltrates online hate groups to take down the most violent men in the country. Asomugha plays her husband.
Inspired by a true story published by Cosmopolitan, the storyline and additional character details are being kept under wraps.
Chastain and Kelly Carmichael exec produce through her Freckle Films banner. James Gibson exec produces, with Matthew Heineman directing and exec producing.
Jordana Spiro (Ozark), Trinity Lee Shirley (Da Bottomz), newcomer Toussaint Francois Battiste (Waiting for Godot), Cole Doman (Mutt), Hannah Gross (The Adults), David Wilson Barnes (George & Tammy), Michael Mosley (The Sinner) and Dagmara Dominczyk (Succession) join previously announced Chastain, Nnamdi Asomugha and James Badge Dale, who recurs.
Chastain, who also executive produces, plays a top-secret investigator known as the Savant, who infiltrates online hate groups to take down the most violent men in the country. Asomugha plays her husband.
Inspired by a true story published by Cosmopolitan, the storyline and additional character details are being kept under wraps.
Chastain and Kelly Carmichael exec produce through her Freckle Films banner. James Gibson exec produces, with Matthew Heineman directing and exec producing.
- 4/3/2024
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: On the heels of her debut feature In the Summers‘ world premiere at Sundance, where it won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Directing Award in U.S. Dramatic competition, writer-director Alessandra Lacorazza has signed with UTA for representation in all areas.
Based in Brooklyn, Lacorazza’s work deals with personal and cultural memory, and incorporates themes of migration, alienation, community, and resilience. The queer Colombian American filmmaker’s In the Summers spans the formative years in the lives of two sisters, watching as they navigate their relationships with their loving but volatile father during their yearly summer visits to his home in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Pic’s cast is led by René Pérez Joglar (aka Residente), Sasha Calle, and Lio Mehiel, the breakout star of Mutt, who last year won a Sundance Special Jury Prize for Performance.
In 2020, Lacorazza was a WGA-East FilmNation NY Screenwriters Fellow...
Based in Brooklyn, Lacorazza’s work deals with personal and cultural memory, and incorporates themes of migration, alienation, community, and resilience. The queer Colombian American filmmaker’s In the Summers spans the formative years in the lives of two sisters, watching as they navigate their relationships with their loving but volatile father during their yearly summer visits to his home in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Pic’s cast is led by René Pérez Joglar (aka Residente), Sasha Calle, and Lio Mehiel, the breakout star of Mutt, who last year won a Sundance Special Jury Prize for Performance.
In 2020, Lacorazza was a WGA-East FilmNation NY Screenwriters Fellow...
- 4/1/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Former Mosaic manager Cullen Conly has joined Anonymous Content’s literary department as a manager and producer, based out of the company’s New York office.
Conly started his career in the mailroom at WME before holding positions at Paramount Vantage, Sundance Institute’s Feature Film Program and at ICM Partners, where he was a Motion Picture Literary agent in the company’s New York office. At Mosaic, he was based in LA.
His client list of filmmakers and TV writers includes Oscar-winning filmmaker Sian Heder (Coda), Emmy-winning filmmaker Cory Finley (Landscape with Invisible Hand), Andrew Ahn (Fire Island), Dean Fleischer Camp (Marcel the Shell with Shoes On), Kat Candler (Queen Sugar), Laura Moss (Birth/Rebirth), Lindsey Ferrentino (National Theatre at Home: Ugly Lies the Bone), Chad Hodge (Single All the Way), Logan Kibens (The Power), Matt Lutsky (On Becoming a God In Central Florida), Michael Lannan (Looking), Rhys Ernst...
Conly started his career in the mailroom at WME before holding positions at Paramount Vantage, Sundance Institute’s Feature Film Program and at ICM Partners, where he was a Motion Picture Literary agent in the company’s New York office. At Mosaic, he was based in LA.
His client list of filmmakers and TV writers includes Oscar-winning filmmaker Sian Heder (Coda), Emmy-winning filmmaker Cory Finley (Landscape with Invisible Hand), Andrew Ahn (Fire Island), Dean Fleischer Camp (Marcel the Shell with Shoes On), Kat Candler (Queen Sugar), Laura Moss (Birth/Rebirth), Lindsey Ferrentino (National Theatre at Home: Ugly Lies the Bone), Chad Hodge (Single All the Way), Logan Kibens (The Power), Matt Lutsky (On Becoming a God In Central Florida), Michael Lannan (Looking), Rhys Ernst...
- 12/8/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Six of the 20 UK talents have previously been named Screen Stars of Tomorrow.
Actors Bella Ramsey and Vivian Oparah, and filmmakers Adjani Salmon and Raine Allen-Miller are among 32 talents selected for the 10th anniversary edition of the Bafta Breakthrough programme.
The 2023 edition of the talent-spotting scheme includes 20 UK names, and 12 individuals from the US.
Scroll down for the full 2023 Breakthrough list
Those selected from the UK include Game Of Thrones and The Last Of Us star Ramsey, Dreaming Whilst Black creator Salmon, and Allen-Miller and Oparah, director and star of Rye Lane.
Also included are Blue Jean writer-director Georgia Oakley...
Actors Bella Ramsey and Vivian Oparah, and filmmakers Adjani Salmon and Raine Allen-Miller are among 32 talents selected for the 10th anniversary edition of the Bafta Breakthrough programme.
The 2023 edition of the talent-spotting scheme includes 20 UK names, and 12 individuals from the US.
Scroll down for the full 2023 Breakthrough list
Those selected from the UK include Game Of Thrones and The Last Of Us star Ramsey, Dreaming Whilst Black creator Salmon, and Allen-Miller and Oparah, director and star of Rye Lane.
Also included are Blue Jean writer-director Georgia Oakley...
- 11/29/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
When James Mangold took the adventuring archaeologist reins from Steven Spielberg on "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny," fans were wary for a couple of reasons. One was the simple fact that, aside from ABC's "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles," Spielberg was the series' sole director. As the "Jaws" sequels and the "Jurassic World" series proved, no one can match The Beard when it comes to terrifying and elating audiences, sometimes in the same scene. The other fear had to do with legacy. When Harrison Ford announced at September 2022's D23 expo that this was his last go-round in the fedora ("I'm not falling down for you again"), we took him at his word. He turned 81 this year, and has incurred all manner of injuries via stunts and aviation mishaps.
Given that Mangold had earned an Oscar nomination for co-writing the death of Hugh Jackman's "Wolverine" in the superb "Logan,...
Given that Mangold had earned an Oscar nomination for co-writing the death of Hugh Jackman's "Wolverine" in the superb "Logan,...
- 9/3/2023
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
2008's "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" might not be the franchise's finest moment, but it still has some cool Indiana Jones moments — the whole nuking the fridge thing aside. With the fourth film in the series, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg decided to leave the adventure serial style of the previous films behind in favor of a 1950s sci-fi B-movie sensibility. Whereas the Nazis had been the go-to villains for the previous three entries, Lucas and Spielberg's new approach saw Indy facing off against the Soviets at the height of the Cold War, in a race to recover the titular cranium in order to thwart the Russians' nefarious plans.
But before any of those grand escapades kick off, "Crystal Skull" makes sure to get a good old-fashioned chase scene in. After Harrison Ford's Dr. Jones meets his long-lost son Mutt Williams (Shia Labeouf) for the first time,...
But before any of those grand escapades kick off, "Crystal Skull" makes sure to get a good old-fashioned chase scene in. After Harrison Ford's Dr. Jones meets his long-lost son Mutt Williams (Shia Labeouf) for the first time,...
- 8/27/2023
- by Joe Roberts
- Slash Film
One of the most touching moments I've seen in a movie this year arrived at the end of "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny," when Karen Allen's Marion Ravenwood returns to help nurse our badly beat-up hero back into shape. We learn earlier in the movie that the source of their estrangement was the death of their son Mutt (Shia Labeouf), who settled a dispute with his headstrong father by enlisting in Vietnam. Indy blamed himself for Mutt's demise and took to the bottle. Unwilling to watch her husband drink himself to death, Marion left.
That the film ends on an upbeat note is hardly a surprise. The Indy films are escapist entertainments meant to send you out of the theater on a high. But a part of me worried that we might get a throwaway off-screen appearance like Holly Gennaro bawling out John McClane over a payphone...
That the film ends on an upbeat note is hardly a surprise. The Indy films are escapist entertainments meant to send you out of the theater on a high. But a part of me worried that we might get a throwaway off-screen appearance like Holly Gennaro bawling out John McClane over a payphone...
- 8/22/2023
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
A breakout at Sundance, Berlinale and New Directors/New Films this year, Chilean-Serbian writer-director Vuk Lungulov-Klotz’s debut feature Mutt is as scrappy and charming as its canine title. Following a frenzied 24 hours in the life of New York trans man Feña, Mutt explores the constant micro-aggressions that trans people face daily—even in a supposedly hyper-tolerant locale, especially from loved ones—and the connections and community that make these encounters sting a little bit less. Even when Feña faces his capricious ex-boyfriend, moody tween […]
The post “This Movie Could Only Happen at This Budget in New York City”: Vuk Lungulov-Klotz on Mutt first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “This Movie Could Only Happen at This Budget in New York City”: Vuk Lungulov-Klotz on Mutt first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 8/18/2023
- by Natalia Keogan
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
A breakout at Sundance, Berlinale and New Directors/New Films this year, Chilean-Serbian writer-director Vuk Lungulov-Klotz’s debut feature Mutt is as scrappy and charming as its canine title. Following a frenzied 24 hours in the life of New York trans man Feña, Mutt explores the constant micro-aggressions that trans people face daily—even in a supposedly hyper-tolerant locale, especially from loved ones—and the connections and community that make these encounters sting a little bit less. Even when Feña faces his capricious ex-boyfriend, moody tween […]
The post “This Movie Could Only Happen at This Budget in New York City”: Vuk Lungulov-Klotz on Mutt first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “This Movie Could Only Happen at This Budget in New York City”: Vuk Lungulov-Klotz on Mutt first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 8/18/2023
- by Natalia Keogan
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
“Don’t you want to be, like, a full man?” The ditzy, coke-addled Jenny (Sarah Hermann) isn’t being figurative when she asks that question to Feña (Lio Mehiel), a trans man, in Mutt, writer-director Vuk Lungulov-Klotz’s feature debut. She wants to know whether or not Feña has a penis. “I don’t need a dick for that,” Feña answers.
The didactic cadence of that exchange is the order of the day throughout this film, in which ignorant dolts are prone to sticking their feet in their mouths, followed by Feña responding with an edifying retort. Lungulov-Klotz’s screenplay evinces an obvious sincerity, aiming to examine the difficulties of post-transition experience, but these admirable ambitions are significantly limited by the writing’s often literal-minded dramatizing of its central concerns.
Part of what’s peculiar about Mutt is how it unfolds as if trans discourse hasn’t become widespread in the past decade,...
The didactic cadence of that exchange is the order of the day throughout this film, in which ignorant dolts are prone to sticking their feet in their mouths, followed by Feña responding with an edifying retort. Lungulov-Klotz’s screenplay evinces an obvious sincerity, aiming to examine the difficulties of post-transition experience, but these admirable ambitions are significantly limited by the writing’s often literal-minded dramatizing of its central concerns.
Part of what’s peculiar about Mutt is how it unfolds as if trans discourse hasn’t become widespread in the past decade,...
- 8/13/2023
- by Clayton Dillard
- Slant Magazine
Since 2001, Cannes Film Festival has gone to the dogs — literally, as the annual Palm Dog awards ceremony has celebrated the best canine performers in cinema for the past 22 years! The yearly ceremony is held at Cannes, honoring all of the best doggy actors that were involved in films that screened at the festival, and it's probably the most important award given out besides the Palme d'Or. This year's competition was one of the fiercest in years, with numerous canines battling it out for the award, which has gone to such prestigious pups as Sayuri the Pit Bull, who played Brandy in "Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood," and Uggie the Jack Russell Terrier, who played Jack in "The Artist." But how did it all come about, and who won this year's Palm Dog?
The original Palm Dog was a bit of an inside joke, created by Palm Dog host Toby Rose...
The original Palm Dog was a bit of an inside joke, created by Palm Dog host Toby Rose...
- 5/27/2023
- by Danielle Ryan
- Slash Film
Back in 2009, when "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" was about to disappoint almost everyone, there was a barrage of new Lego sets celebrating the franchise. From "Raiders of the Lost Ark" to Indy and his new son Mutt, there were plenty of building brick playsets to bring adventure into your home. But Lego technology has improved a lot in the past decade and a half, and Lego will be bringing a new wave of classic franchise sets to shelves as we lead up to the release of "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" this summer.
Lego has unveiled their first wave of new Indiana Jones Lego sets, starting with scenes that recreate moments from both "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "The Last Crusade." Sorry to all the "Temple of Doom" fans out there, but maybe there will be some Lego sets for the sequel...
Lego has unveiled their first wave of new Indiana Jones Lego sets, starting with scenes that recreate moments from both "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "The Last Crusade." Sorry to all the "Temple of Doom" fans out there, but maybe there will be some Lego sets for the sequel...
- 3/14/2023
- by Ethan Anderton
- Slash Film
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