Variety's Awards Circuit is home to the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars from Film Awards Editor Clayton Davis. Following Academy Awards history, buzz, news, reviews and sources, the Oscar predictions are updated regularly with the current year's contenders in all categories. Variety's Awards Circuit Prediction schedule consists of four phases, running all year long: Draft, Pre-Season, Regular Season and Post Season. Eligibility calendar and dates of awards will determine how long each phase lasts and will be displayed next to revision date.
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2021 SAG Awards Predictions:
Best Performance By A Female Actor In A Supporting Role In A Motion Picture
Updated: Apr. 1, 2021
Awards Prediction Commentary: The unpredictable supporting actress race continues and this is where we could see a “favorite” emerge in the race. If Maria Bakalova (“Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”) wins,...
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2021 SAG Awards Predictions:
Best Performance By A Female Actor In A Supporting Role In A Motion Picture
Updated: Apr. 1, 2021
Awards Prediction Commentary: The unpredictable supporting actress race continues and this is where we could see a “favorite” emerge in the race. If Maria Bakalova (“Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”) wins,...
- 4/1/2021
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Glenn Close scored her eighth Oscar nomination on Monday for her role in “Hillbilly Elegy” — just days after the Razzies named the same performance one of the year’s worst.
This is only the third time an actor has been nominated for both an Oscar and a Razzie for the same role. The first was James Coco in 1981’s “Only When I Laugh,” and the second was Amy Irving for 1983’s “Yentl.” Neither Coco nor Irving won either award.
Close stars as Appalachian grandmother Bonnie “Mamaw” Vance opposite Amy Adams in “Hillbilly Elegy,” which was largely panned by critics upon its release last year. The actress is still looking to take home her first Oscar statue, and was nominated for best actress in a supporting role alongside Maria Bakalova (“Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”), Olivia Colman (“The Father”), Amanda Seyfried (“Mank”) and Yuh-Jung Youn (“Minari”).
Meanwhile, Close was nominated for worst supporting...
This is only the third time an actor has been nominated for both an Oscar and a Razzie for the same role. The first was James Coco in 1981’s “Only When I Laugh,” and the second was Amy Irving for 1983’s “Yentl.” Neither Coco nor Irving won either award.
Close stars as Appalachian grandmother Bonnie “Mamaw” Vance opposite Amy Adams in “Hillbilly Elegy,” which was largely panned by critics upon its release last year. The actress is still looking to take home her first Oscar statue, and was nominated for best actress in a supporting role alongside Maria Bakalova (“Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”), Olivia Colman (“The Father”), Amanda Seyfried (“Mank”) and Yuh-Jung Youn (“Minari”).
Meanwhile, Close was nominated for worst supporting...
- 3/15/2021
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
Variety's Awards Circuit is home to the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars from Film Awards Editor Clayton Davis. Following Academy Awards history, buzz, news, reviews and sources, the Oscar predictions are updated regularly with the current year's contenders in all categories. Variety's Awards Circuit Prediction schedule consists of four phases, running all year long: Draft, Pre-Season, Regular Season and Post Season. Eligibility calendar and dates of awards will determine how long each phase lasts and will be displayed next to revision date.
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2021 Oscars Predictions:
Best Supporting Actress
Updated: Mar. 4, 2021
Awards Prediction Commentary: The win for Jodie Foster at the Golden Globes for “The Mauritanian” was just the boost she needed at this moment, likely getting many more voters to watch the film before voting. With her moving up,...
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2021 Oscars Predictions:
Best Supporting Actress
Updated: Mar. 4, 2021
Awards Prediction Commentary: The win for Jodie Foster at the Golden Globes for “The Mauritanian” was just the boost she needed at this moment, likely getting many more voters to watch the film before voting. With her moving up,...
- 3/4/2021
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Variety's Awards Circuit is home to the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars from Film Awards Editor Clayton Davis. Following Academy Awards history, buzz, news, reviews and sources, the Oscar predictions are updated regularly with the current year's contenders in all categories. Variety's Awards Circuit Prediction schedule consists of four phases, running all year long: Draft, Pre-Season, Regular Season and Post Season. Eligibility calendar and dates of awards will determine how long each phase lasts and will be displayed next to revision date.
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2021 Oscars Predictions:
Best Makeup And Hairstyling
Updated: Mar. 4, 2021
Awards Prediction Commentary: This category ended up taking a different shape than we thought, especially with “Promising Young Woman” out of the race. “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” remains the presumptive favorite but this is one of...
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2021 Oscars Predictions:
Best Makeup And Hairstyling
Updated: Mar. 4, 2021
Awards Prediction Commentary: This category ended up taking a different shape than we thought, especially with “Promising Young Woman” out of the race. “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” remains the presumptive favorite but this is one of...
- 3/4/2021
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
When it comes to the estimable career of Glenn Close, there are myriad stunning scenes that come to mind: sobbing in the shower in “The Big Chill,” the bathroom brawl in “Fatal Attraction,” those final wordless moments in “Dangerous Liaisons” in which she smears the makeup off her face and leaks tears as the screen fades to black. Few actors are as bold and brave as the seven-time Oscar-nominated Close, this year’s recipient of Variety’s Creative Impact in Acting Award. Close will be honored on Feb. 26 as part of its virtual 10 Directors to Watch event with the Palm Springs Intl. Film Society.
“It’s been nearly 40 years since Glenn Close first began enchanting movie lovers with attention-grabbing performances in films such as ‘The World According to Garp’ and ‘The Big Chill,’” says Steven Gaydos, Variety Senior VP Global Content and Executive Editor. “It’s no exaggeration to say...
“It’s been nearly 40 years since Glenn Close first began enchanting movie lovers with attention-grabbing performances in films such as ‘The World According to Garp’ and ‘The Big Chill,’” says Steven Gaydos, Variety Senior VP Global Content and Executive Editor. “It’s no exaggeration to say...
- 2/25/2021
- by Malina Saval
- Variety Film + TV
Variety's Awards Circuit is home to the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars from Film Awards Editor Clayton Davis. Following Academy Awards history, buzz, news, reviews and sources, the Oscar predictions are updated regularly with the current year's contenders in all categories. Variety's Awards Circuit Prediction schedule consists of four phases, running all year long: Draft, Pre-Season, Regular Season and Post Season. Eligibility calendar and dates of awards will determine how long each phase lasts and will be displayed next to revision date.
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2021 Golden Globe Predictions:
Best Actress In A Supporting Role In A Motion Picture
Updated: Feb. 24, 2021
Awards Prediction Commentary: The Golden Globes nominations were announced on Feb. 3, with Netflix’s “Mank” from David Fincher leading with six nods. As the ceremony approaches on Feb. 28, the...
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2021 Golden Globe Predictions:
Best Actress In A Supporting Role In A Motion Picture
Updated: Feb. 24, 2021
Awards Prediction Commentary: The Golden Globes nominations were announced on Feb. 3, with Netflix’s “Mank” from David Fincher leading with six nods. As the ceremony approaches on Feb. 28, the...
- 2/24/2021
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Photo: ‘Hillbilly Elegy’/Netflix 'Hillbilly Elegy' - An Anticipated Debut Ron Howard’s latest drama, Hillbilly Elegy, finally debuted on Netflix after much anticipation and intrigue, with the film even garnering Oscar-buzz ahead of its release. The film’s notable stars, Glenn Close and Amy Adams, transform themselves into an impoverished and troubled mother-daughter duo. Collectively sharing 13 Oscar nominations and zero wins, the two actors were helmed as strong contenders for next year’s Academy Awards, both women believed to be long overdue for the elusive award by industry standards. Hillbilly Elegy has an undeniably strong premise. Based on the memoir by author J.D. Vance, Vance’s life is portrayed by Owen Asztalos and Gabriel Basso throughout the film’s time-shifting narrative, as Bev Vance (Amy Adams) struggles as his drug-addicted mother, and Mawmaw (Glenn Close), J.D.’s grandmother, does all she can to hold the broken family together.
- 12/2/2020
- by Les Almourzaev
- Hollywood Insider - Substance & Meaningful Entertainment
Once in a while, this critic feels as if he goes against the grain of the entire movie critique establishment. That is firmly the case with Hillbilly Elegy.
The J.D. Vance book of the same name was a huge hit and, supposedly, was an introduction to Trump’s America and an explanation for how the country voted in 2016. I prefer to think of it is a memoir about a boy who grows up and does good, despite the anchor pulling him down that is his family.
Ron Howard has brought Hillbilly Elegy to life for Netflix, and it features two Oscar-worthy turns by two actresses who have long been overlooked for an Academy Award, Amy Adams and Glenn Close. They play mother and daughter, with Adams also portraying the maternal role to Vance (Gabriel Basso). Well, at least she tries.
More often than not, Vance is the more mature one in this relationship.
The J.D. Vance book of the same name was a huge hit and, supposedly, was an introduction to Trump’s America and an explanation for how the country voted in 2016. I prefer to think of it is a memoir about a boy who grows up and does good, despite the anchor pulling him down that is his family.
Ron Howard has brought Hillbilly Elegy to life for Netflix, and it features two Oscar-worthy turns by two actresses who have long been overlooked for an Academy Award, Amy Adams and Glenn Close. They play mother and daughter, with Adams also portraying the maternal role to Vance (Gabriel Basso). Well, at least she tries.
More often than not, Vance is the more mature one in this relationship.
- 11/12/2020
- by Joel Amos
- TVfanatic
When J.D. Vance’s memoir hit shelves in 2016, it became a surprise bestseller, a controversy magnet, and an impromptu state-of-the-nation address — the must-read if you wanted insight into why Donald Trump was able to harness rage and frustration of the white underclass into a single presidential win. A tale of Down South struggle and upward-mobility ambition, it regaled readers with one man’s roots in the backwoods of Kentucky, his family’s migration to Rust Belt Ohio, and his hardscrabble journey through an Ivy League institution’s hallowed halls. This...
- 11/12/2020
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Adapted by Oscar nominee Vanessa Taylor (“The Shape of Water”) from J.D. Vance’s bestselling memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy” is exactly the sort of mainstream heart-tugger that many moviegoers and Oscar voters embrace. Ron Howard knows what he is doing. He’s been to the Oscar party many times, from “Apollo 13” to “Frost/Nixon” and “A Beautiful Mind,” which all featured actors in top form.
Howard’s stock-in-trade studio drama is harder to come by these days. Always a canny Hollywood player (with his Imagine Entertainment partner Brian Grazer), Howard pivoted over the past decade to more indie-minded projects such as “Rush” and documentaries like “Rebuilding Paradise.”
Netflix backed “Hillbilly Elegy,” a resonant family story that will likely lure far more viewers than the movie might have generated in theaters, Covid or no. In fact, it’s likely that no studio would have backed this, even with two of the great...
Howard’s stock-in-trade studio drama is harder to come by these days. Always a canny Hollywood player (with his Imagine Entertainment partner Brian Grazer), Howard pivoted over the past decade to more indie-minded projects such as “Rush” and documentaries like “Rebuilding Paradise.”
Netflix backed “Hillbilly Elegy,” a resonant family story that will likely lure far more viewers than the movie might have generated in theaters, Covid or no. In fact, it’s likely that no studio would have backed this, even with two of the great...
- 11/10/2020
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Adapted by Oscar nominee Vanessa Taylor (“The Shape of Water”) from J.D. Vance’s bestselling memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy” is exactly the sort of mainstream heart-tugger that many moviegoers and Oscar voters embrace. Ron Howard knows what he is doing. He’s been to the Oscar party many times, from “Apollo 13” to “Frost/Nixon” and “A Beautiful Mind,” which all featured actors in top form.
Howard’s stock-in-trade studio drama is harder to come by these days. Always a canny Hollywood player (with his Imagine Entertainment partner Brian Grazer), Howard pivoted over the past decade to more indie-minded projects such as “Rush” and documentaries like “Rebuilding Paradise.”
Netflix backed “Hillbilly Elegy,” a resonant family story that will likely lure far more viewers than the movie might have generated in theaters, Covid or no. In fact, it’s likely that no studio would have backed this, even with two of the great...
Howard’s stock-in-trade studio drama is harder to come by these days. Always a canny Hollywood player (with his Imagine Entertainment partner Brian Grazer), Howard pivoted over the past decade to more indie-minded projects such as “Rush” and documentaries like “Rebuilding Paradise.”
Netflix backed “Hillbilly Elegy,” a resonant family story that will likely lure far more viewers than the movie might have generated in theaters, Covid or no. In fact, it’s likely that no studio would have backed this, even with two of the great...
- 11/10/2020
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Falling squarely into the melodramatic Oscar-bait category that director Ron Howard revisits every now and again, Hillbilly Elegy, adapted from the bestselling novel by conservative writer J.D. Vance, is a shockingly amateurish adaptation. Despite a heavy-hitter cast and Oscar winning screenwriter (The Shape of Water‘s Vanessa Taylor), Elegy dials up the theatrics, asking its players to cry, scream, and punch on cue, offering little besides decontextualized scenes that might be at home on an acting reel, but never add up to a coherent narrative.
Unfurling in two timelines, the main narrative follows a law-school-aged J.D. attemping to juggle rounds of interviews in hope of landing a prestigious summer internship, with the help of his girlfriend Usha. Interrupting Vance’s social climb, his mother Bev (Adams) has relapsed again, with his sister Lindsay (Bennett) unable to continue to take care of her. While traveling to Ohio to get Bev back in rehab,...
Unfurling in two timelines, the main narrative follows a law-school-aged J.D. attemping to juggle rounds of interviews in hope of landing a prestigious summer internship, with the help of his girlfriend Usha. Interrupting Vance’s social climb, his mother Bev (Adams) has relapsed again, with his sister Lindsay (Bennett) unable to continue to take care of her. While traveling to Ohio to get Bev back in rehab,...
- 11/10/2020
- by Christian Gallichio
- The Film Stage
“It didn’t start with her.” That’s the most penetrating thing said about Bev (Amy Adams), the frazzled maternal trainwreck who makes everyone’s life miserable in Ron Howard’s “Hillbilly Elegy.” Bev is a parasite, an addict, a narcissist, and a desperate user of others, notably her own family. In a word, she’s a mess. Her son, J.D. (Gabriel Basso), attends Yale Law School and is in the midst of auditioning for a summer internship, but now he’s got to go back to Middletown, Ohio, the Midwestern backwater he’s from, and jump through hoops to get his mother into rehab. He foots the bill for a week-long stay on four credits cards, only to learn that Bev has no interest in going into rehab. A former nurse who trashed her career when she roller-skated, high as a kite, through the corridors of a hospital,...
- 11/10/2020
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
First published in the summer of 2016, J.D. Vance’s timely “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of Family and Culture in Crisis” became a bipartisan bestseller for obvious reasons: It lent conservatives the moral cover that some of them needed to support Trump, and offered “I would have voted for Obama a third time” liberals the performative satisfaction of making a good-faith effort to understand how anyone could. Here was a book that tapped into failings on both sides of the aisle to paint a mutually agreeable picture of the forgotten people in the middle of the country; a Randian self-portrait of a poor Ohio kid with Appalachian blood who pulled himself up by his bootstraps, defied the gravity of the learned helplessness that he saw in the people around him, and fulfilled the American Dream of going to Yale Law before launching a Tolkien-inspired venture capital fund with hall of fame bloodsucker Peter Thiel.
- 11/10/2020
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Based on a memoir by former Marine and Yale Law student J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of Vance’s family, a sprawling clan who live in southern Ohio and also have deep roots in Kentucky. The movie focuses on both Vance’s childhood and his formative years as an adult, with the emphasis on the impact of two women on his life: his troubled, drug-addicted mother Bev (Amy Adams) and his stern, no-nonsense, foul-mouthed grandmother Mamaw (Glenn Close).
Directed by Ron Howard, the film is clearly meant to be empathetic to these Appalachian folks even as it studiously avoids any hint of the divisive politics that have set blue states and red states apart for decades. But that evasion robs the movie of any context or wider background commentary. Perhaps this is done as a way to make it more palatable to general audiences, but it nevertheless giving...
Directed by Ron Howard, the film is clearly meant to be empathetic to these Appalachian folks even as it studiously avoids any hint of the divisive politics that have set blue states and red states apart for decades. But that evasion robs the movie of any context or wider background commentary. Perhaps this is done as a way to make it more palatable to general audiences, but it nevertheless giving...
- 11/10/2020
- by Don Kaye
- Den of Geek
Exclusive: “My mom was from a very small town and my dad was a farm boy, and when I read this book I recognized that I had really been looking for a story that I could tell that would allow me to apply my own sensitivity to this aspect of our American culture that I really relate to through my family in a way these folks think and communicate and make the decisions that they make and live by the codes they live by,” Ron Howard told me earlier this week just before one of his Hillbilly Elegy stars Glenn Close joined us on a conference call to talk about their much anticipated new film that will be debuting on Netflix November 24th right in time for Thanksgiving (it will also begin a theatrical run two weeks earlier). “I just understood all of that, and I’ve been looking for...
- 10/30/2020
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Hillbilly Elegy Trailer — Ron Howard‘s Hillbilly Elegy (2020) movie trailer has been released by Netflix and stars Glenn Close, Amy Adams, Gabriel Basso, Haley Bennett, Owen Asztalos, Gianna Desch, Tierney Smith, Bo Hopkins, Freida Pinto, Sunny Mabrey, Dylan Gage, and Stephen Kunken. Crew Vanessa Taylor wrote the screenplay [...]
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- 10/15/2020
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
'Hillbilly Elegy' trailer is out now.
Netflix released the first official trailer for the upcoming family drama 'Hillbilly Elegy' on Tuesday.
Based on J.D. Vance's memoir of the same name, the film follows three generations of an Appalachian family now living in Ohio.
'Hillbilly Elegy' stars Gabriel Basso as Vance, Amy Adams as his mother, Bev, and Glenn Close as his grandmother, Bonnie.
Close and Adams play a mother and daughter who are struggling to find work, while raising their multi-generational family.
The movie is told from the perspective of Adams’ character’s son, J.D. Vance (Gabriel Basso), a former Marine from southern Ohio and current Yale Law student who is forced to return to his hometown.
Directed by Academy Award winner Ron Howard, 'Hillbilly Elegy' also stars Haley Bennett, Freida Pinto, Bo Hopkins and Owen Asztalos.
Vanessa Taylor, the...
Netflix released the first official trailer for the upcoming family drama 'Hillbilly Elegy' on Tuesday.
Based on J.D. Vance's memoir of the same name, the film follows three generations of an Appalachian family now living in Ohio.
'Hillbilly Elegy' stars Gabriel Basso as Vance, Amy Adams as his mother, Bev, and Glenn Close as his grandmother, Bonnie.
Close and Adams play a mother and daughter who are struggling to find work, while raising their multi-generational family.
The movie is told from the perspective of Adams’ character’s son, J.D. Vance (Gabriel Basso), a former Marine from southern Ohio and current Yale Law student who is forced to return to his hometown.
Directed by Academy Award winner Ron Howard, 'Hillbilly Elegy' also stars Haley Bennett, Freida Pinto, Bo Hopkins and Owen Asztalos.
Vanessa Taylor, the...
- 10/15/2020
- by Omkar Padte
- GlamSham
Netflix has debuted the first trailer for Ron Howard feature ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ featuring Amy Adams and Glenn Close.
Based on J.D. Vance’s #1 New York Times Bestseller, the story follows J.D. Vance (Gabriel Basso), a former Marine from southern Ohio and current Yale Law student is on the verge of landing his dream job when a family crisis forces him to return to the home he’s tried to forget. J.D. must navigate the complex dynamics of his Appalachian family, including his volatile relationship with his mother Bev (Amy Adams), who’s struggling with addiction. Fueled by memories of his grandmother Mamaw (Glenn Close), the resilient and whip-smart woman who raised him, J.D. comes to embrace his family’s indelible imprint on his own personal journey.
Directed by Ron Howard, the film stars Amy Adams, Glenn Close, Gabriel Basso, Haley Bennett, Freida Pinto, Bo Hopkins and Owen Asztalos.
Based on J.D. Vance’s #1 New York Times Bestseller, the story follows J.D. Vance (Gabriel Basso), a former Marine from southern Ohio and current Yale Law student is on the verge of landing his dream job when a family crisis forces him to return to the home he’s tried to forget. J.D. must navigate the complex dynamics of his Appalachian family, including his volatile relationship with his mother Bev (Amy Adams), who’s struggling with addiction. Fueled by memories of his grandmother Mamaw (Glenn Close), the resilient and whip-smart woman who raised him, J.D. comes to embrace his family’s indelible imprint on his own personal journey.
Directed by Ron Howard, the film stars Amy Adams, Glenn Close, Gabriel Basso, Haley Bennett, Freida Pinto, Bo Hopkins and Owen Asztalos.
- 10/14/2020
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
“Hillbilly Elegy,” the next film from Oscar-winning director Ron Howard has released its first trailer.
Glenn Close and Amy Adams star in the drama, which focuses on a working-class family in the Appalachia region of the United States. The actors play a mother and daughter who struggle with finding work and raising their multi-generational family. The movie is told from the perspective of Adams’ character’s son, a Yale graduate who is forced to return to his hometown.
“I thought your momma was gonna be alright, be happy. I know I could’ve done better, but you gotta decide: You want to be somebody or not?” Close’s character says in the trailer, released on Wednesday morning.
The film is based on the New York Times best-selling memoir “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis,” written by J.D. Vance in 2016. He wrote about the Appalachian values...
Glenn Close and Amy Adams star in the drama, which focuses on a working-class family in the Appalachia region of the United States. The actors play a mother and daughter who struggle with finding work and raising their multi-generational family. The movie is told from the perspective of Adams’ character’s son, a Yale graduate who is forced to return to his hometown.
“I thought your momma was gonna be alright, be happy. I know I could’ve done better, but you gotta decide: You want to be somebody or not?” Close’s character says in the trailer, released on Wednesday morning.
The film is based on the New York Times best-selling memoir “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis,” written by J.D. Vance in 2016. He wrote about the Appalachian values...
- 10/14/2020
- by Jordan Moreau
- Variety Film + TV
"Be happy. I know I could've done better... But you, you gotta decide – you want to be somebody... or not?" Netflix has unveiled an official trailer for Hillbilly Elegy, a new film directed by Ron Howard. A Yale law student drawn back to his hometown grapples with family history, Appalachian values, and the American dream. Hillbilly Elegy is a "powerful personal memoir" that provides a window into one family's personal journey of survival and triumph. By following three colorful generations through their own unique struggles, J.D.’s family story explores the highs and lows that define his family’s experience. Based on J.D. Vance's bestselling book about his own life growing in Appalachia. Starring Amy Adams, Glenn Close, Gabriel Basso, Haley Bennett, Freida Pinto, Bo Hopkins, and Owen Asztalos. This looks like stereotypical Oscar-bait filmmaking, but the best part is the speech in the middle of this trailer about Terminators.
- 10/14/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Amy Adams and an unrecognizable Glenn Close act up a storm as a dysfunctional Appalachian family in the first full trailer for Ron Howard’s awards-contender “Hillbilly Elegy.”
The drama, based on J.D. Vance’s best-selling memoir, will land in select theaters and on Netflix on November 24 and is already generating awards talk.
The film follows J.D. Vance (Gabriel Basso), a former Marine from southern Ohio and current Yale Law student, who is on the verge of landing his dream job when a family crisis forces him to return to the home he’s tried to forget.
J.D. must navigate the complex dynamics of his Appalachian family, including his volatile relationship with his mother, Bev (Amy Adams), who’s struggling with addiction. Fueled by memories of his grandmother Mamaw (Glenn Close), the resilient and whip-smart woman who raised him, J.D. comes to embrace his family’s indelible...
The drama, based on J.D. Vance’s best-selling memoir, will land in select theaters and on Netflix on November 24 and is already generating awards talk.
The film follows J.D. Vance (Gabriel Basso), a former Marine from southern Ohio and current Yale Law student, who is on the verge of landing his dream job when a family crisis forces him to return to the home he’s tried to forget.
J.D. must navigate the complex dynamics of his Appalachian family, including his volatile relationship with his mother, Bev (Amy Adams), who’s struggling with addiction. Fueled by memories of his grandmother Mamaw (Glenn Close), the resilient and whip-smart woman who raised him, J.D. comes to embrace his family’s indelible...
- 10/14/2020
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Trailer: Amy Adams and Glenn Close Enter the Oscar Race in Ron Howard Netflix Film
One of the final films in Netflix’s upcoming Oscar slate has been revealed with the trailer premiere for Ron Howard’s “Hillbilly Elegy,” starring long-overdue Oscar winners Amy Adams and Glenn Close in an adaptation of J.D. Vance’s 2016 memoir “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis.” The rest of the cast features Gabriel Basso, Haley Bennett, Freida Pinto, Bo Hopkins, and Owen Asztalos. The project is Howard’s return to dramatic filmmaking after helming the “Star Wars” tentpole “Solo.”
Netflix’s official synopsis for “Hillbilly Elegy” reads: “J.D. Vance (Gabriel Basso), a former Marine from southern Ohio and current Yale Law student, is on the verge of landing his dream job when a family crisis forces him to return to the home he’s tried to forget. J.D. must navigate the complex dynamics of his Appalachian family, including his volatile relationship with...
Netflix’s official synopsis for “Hillbilly Elegy” reads: “J.D. Vance (Gabriel Basso), a former Marine from southern Ohio and current Yale Law student, is on the verge of landing his dream job when a family crisis forces him to return to the home he’s tried to forget. J.D. must navigate the complex dynamics of his Appalachian family, including his volatile relationship with...
- 10/14/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
David Fincher’s Mank isn’t the only high-profile film arriving on Netflix this fall. A few weeks prior, timed with Thanksgiving, Ron Howard’s Hillbilly Elegy will arrive on the streaming platform. Starring Amy Adams, Glenn Close, Gabriel Basso, Haley Bennett, Freida Pinto, Bo Hopkins, and Owen Asztalos, the first trailer has now arrived ahead of the fall release. Based on J.D. Vance’s #1 New York Times Bestseller, the story follows three generations of a family.
“It’s a story of transformation and while it focuses on that culture, a group of people that I really really relate to given my own family background and history, and my wife’s as well,” Howard told Collider. “It really is about being your best self, finding strength in your heritage, and the lessons that you learn, but also recognizing the hurdles that some of that might represent as well, and learning how to grow beyond it.
“It’s a story of transformation and while it focuses on that culture, a group of people that I really really relate to given my own family background and history, and my wife’s as well,” Howard told Collider. “It really is about being your best self, finding strength in your heritage, and the lessons that you learn, but also recognizing the hurdles that some of that might represent as well, and learning how to grow beyond it.
- 10/14/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Ron Howard teams with Amy Adams for “Hillbilly Elegy,” a Netflix drama about a Yale law student (Gabriel Basso) who drawn back to his hometown and grapples with family history, Appalachian values, and the American dream. The first trailer for the film has arrived. “Hillbilly Elegy” stars Amy Adams, Glenn Close, Gabriel Basso, Haley Bennett, Freida Pinto, Bo Hopkins, and Owen Asztalos.
Continue reading ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Trailer: Amy Adams Turns To Appalachian Oscar-Bait For Director Ron Howard at The Playlist.
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- 10/14/2020
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
Freida Pinto, Bo Hopkins and Owen Asztalos have rounded out the ensemble of Netflix’s adaptation of “Hillbilly Elegy,” directed by Ron Howard.
Amy Adams, Glenn Close, Haley Bennett and Gabriel Basso are also on board to star.
Based on J.D. Vance’s bestselling memoir, the pic is a modern exploration of the American dream and follows three generations of an Appalachian family as told by its youngest member, a Yale law student forced to return to his hometown.
“The Shape of Water” screenwriter Vanessa Taylor adapted the script, with Howard, Brian Grazer and Karen Lunder producing for Imagine Entertainment. Julie Oh and Vance will executive produce.
Imagine has been developing the movie since it acquired the rights in 2017. Netflix boarded the project in January after winning a heated bidding war to finance the $45 million feature.
Best known for her role in “Slumdog Millionaire,” Pinto already has tied to Netflix,...
Amy Adams, Glenn Close, Haley Bennett and Gabriel Basso are also on board to star.
Based on J.D. Vance’s bestselling memoir, the pic is a modern exploration of the American dream and follows three generations of an Appalachian family as told by its youngest member, a Yale law student forced to return to his hometown.
“The Shape of Water” screenwriter Vanessa Taylor adapted the script, with Howard, Brian Grazer and Karen Lunder producing for Imagine Entertainment. Julie Oh and Vance will executive produce.
Imagine has been developing the movie since it acquired the rights in 2017. Netflix boarded the project in January after winning a heated bidding war to finance the $45 million feature.
Best known for her role in “Slumdog Millionaire,” Pinto already has tied to Netflix,...
- 6/14/2019
- by Justin Kroll
- Variety Film + TV
Our resident VOD expert tells you what's new to rent and/or own this week via various Digital HD providers such as cable Movies On Demand, Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, Google Play and, of course, Netflix. Cable Movies On Demand: Same-day-as-disc releases, older titles and pretheatrical Snatched (action-comedy; Goldie Hawn, Amy Schumer, Joan Cusack; rated R) King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (action-adventure; Charlie Hunnam, Jude Law, Astrid Berges-Frisbey, Eric Bana, Djimon Hounsou; rated PG-13) Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul (family comedy; Jason Drucker, Alicia Silverstone, Tom Everett Scott, Charlie Wright, Owen Asztalos; rated PG) The Dinner (drama; Richard Gere, Laura Linney; rated R) Cezanne et Moi (drama; Guillaume Canet, Guillaume Gallienne; rated...
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- 8/8/2017
- by Robert B. DeSalvo
- Movies.com
Author: Competitions
To celebrate the cinema release of Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul, the must see family movie this May half term, we are offering 5 lucky entrants the chance to win a Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul merchandise set including pencil toppers, a wimpy kid toy, notebook and more!
Based on the record-breaking book series and starring Jason Ian Drucker, Charlie Wright, Owen Asztalos, Tom Everett Scott and Alicia Silverstone, Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul is in cinemas this Friday.
In Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul a family road trip to attend Meemaw’s 90th birthday party goes hilariously off course thanks to Greg’s newest scheme to (finally!) become famous.
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To celebrate the cinema release of Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul, the must see family movie this May half term, we are offering 5 lucky entrants the chance to win a Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul merchandise set including pencil toppers, a wimpy kid toy, notebook and more!
Based on the record-breaking book series and starring Jason Ian Drucker, Charlie Wright, Owen Asztalos, Tom Everett Scott and Alicia Silverstone, Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul is in cinemas this Friday.
In Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul a family road trip to attend Meemaw’s 90th birthday party goes hilariously off course thanks to Greg’s newest scheme to (finally!) become famous.
Please note: This competition is open to UK residents only
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- 5/26/2017
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Author: Scott Davis
Twentieth Century Fox has unveiled a new international poster as well as a new featurette for their summer family comedy Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul, which you can view below!
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul UK Poster
The fourth film in the series based on the record-breaking book, the franchise continues to go from strength to strength having been hugely successful at the box office. So far, the previous three films have grossed $225million worldwide from their small budgets and have also found themselves in the homes of many fans on DVD and Blu-ray.
See Also: Zachary Gordon and Robert Capron – Exclusive Interview for Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
The book in which the film was based on was first released in November of 2014 and was actually the ninth book in the series, following Hard Luck and preceding Old School.
Twentieth Century Fox has unveiled a new international poster as well as a new featurette for their summer family comedy Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul, which you can view below!
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul UK Poster
The fourth film in the series based on the record-breaking book, the franchise continues to go from strength to strength having been hugely successful at the box office. So far, the previous three films have grossed $225million worldwide from their small budgets and have also found themselves in the homes of many fans on DVD and Blu-ray.
See Also: Zachary Gordon and Robert Capron – Exclusive Interview for Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
The book in which the film was based on was first released in November of 2014 and was actually the ninth book in the series, following Hard Luck and preceding Old School.
- 4/11/2017
- by Scott Davis
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Tony Sokol Jun 15, 2019
Hillbilly Elegy may be the last film Ron Howard shoots in Georgia following the state abortion ban.
“There is a cultural movement in the white working class to blame problems on society or the government, and that movement gains adherents by the day," Trump whisperer J.D. Vance wrote in the book Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. The film adaptation is being directed by Ron Howard from a script by The Shape of Water screenwriter Vanessa Taylor. Netflix announced Freida Pinto will join Amy Adams, Glenn Close, Haley Bennett, Gabriel Basso Bo Hopkins and Owen Asztalos in the ensemble film, according to Variety.
Pinto, who is best known for her role in Slumdog Millionaire, is presumed to be playing Usha Chilukuri, the Yale Law School student who Vance marries. Pinto was most recently featured in Andy Serkis’ Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle,...
Hillbilly Elegy may be the last film Ron Howard shoots in Georgia following the state abortion ban.
“There is a cultural movement in the white working class to blame problems on society or the government, and that movement gains adherents by the day," Trump whisperer J.D. Vance wrote in the book Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. The film adaptation is being directed by Ron Howard from a script by The Shape of Water screenwriter Vanessa Taylor. Netflix announced Freida Pinto will join Amy Adams, Glenn Close, Haley Bennett, Gabriel Basso Bo Hopkins and Owen Asztalos in the ensemble film, according to Variety.
Pinto, who is best known for her role in Slumdog Millionaire, is presumed to be playing Usha Chilukuri, the Yale Law School student who Vance marries. Pinto was most recently featured in Andy Serkis’ Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle,...
- 4/10/2017
- Den of Geek
Author: Zehra Phelan
Who would have thought after seven years Diary of a Wimpy Kid could still be going strong and reaching out to younger audiences all over the world? With the fourth sequel in the seven-year run set to be released on the 20th of May a new trailer for Diary of the Wimpy Kid The Long Haul has arrived.
In the fourth sequel, we have a brand new generation of wimps lead by the Zachary Gordon lookalike Jason Drucker, who plays Greg, venturing off on a problematic road trip with his friends and family were nothing but trouble looms on the horizon. From feeding a lone seagull from the car roof to winning a pig who quite clearly has intestinal issues and even the predictable embarrassing parents moment of singing the Spice Girls Wannabe in the car. From the looks of the trailer, we have seen this all before,...
Who would have thought after seven years Diary of a Wimpy Kid could still be going strong and reaching out to younger audiences all over the world? With the fourth sequel in the seven-year run set to be released on the 20th of May a new trailer for Diary of the Wimpy Kid The Long Haul has arrived.
In the fourth sequel, we have a brand new generation of wimps lead by the Zachary Gordon lookalike Jason Drucker, who plays Greg, venturing off on a problematic road trip with his friends and family were nothing but trouble looms on the horizon. From feeding a lone seagull from the car roof to winning a pig who quite clearly has intestinal issues and even the predictable embarrassing parents moment of singing the Spice Girls Wannabe in the car. From the looks of the trailer, we have seen this all before,...
- 3/21/2017
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
"There's a new hero who dares to be... wimpy." Fox has debuted the official theatrical trailer for the latest sequel in the comedy series Diary of a Wimpy Kid, this one subtitled The Long Haul, about a family road trip. This is the fourth movie in the cinematic franchise based on the series of books by Jeff Kinney. Young actor Jason Drucker plays Greg, who convinces his family to take a road trip to attend his great grandmother's 90th birthday as a cover for what he really wants: to attend a nearby gamer convention. The cast includes Jason Ian Drucker, Charlie Wright, Owen Asztalos, Tom Everett Scott, and Alicia Silverstone. Surprisingly, this trailer is better than the teaser trailer but cuts out all the gaming convention footage. This actually looks like it might be an enjoyable road trip comedy, but I'm still not going to watch it. Here's the second...
- 3/17/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Beauty and the Beast featurette, Diary of a Wimpy Kid trailer, Kong clips and more make our weekly round-upBeauty and the Beast featurette, Diary of a Wimpy Kid trailer, Kong clips and more make our weekly round-upGarrett McCormick2/24/2017 5:08:00 Pm
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul
Greg Heffley (Jason Drucke) is the modern day Dennis the Menace; he knows what he wants, and he'll literally do anything to get it - and we mean anything!
Dying to go to a video game convention, Greg convinces his family to go on a road trip to visit their Nana, when in all reality he intends to steer them completely off course. The loving Heffley road trip quickly turns into the road to mishap, torture and shenanigans.
The fourth installment of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid franchise...
Check out our weekly round-up featuring this week's most buzz-worthy movie news!
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul
Greg Heffley (Jason Drucke) is the modern day Dennis the Menace; he knows what he wants, and he'll literally do anything to get it - and we mean anything!
Dying to go to a video game convention, Greg convinces his family to go on a road trip to visit their Nana, when in all reality he intends to steer them completely off course. The loving Heffley road trip quickly turns into the road to mishap, torture and shenanigans.
The fourth installment of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid franchise...
- 2/24/2017
- by Garrett McCormick
- Cineplex
"A Wimp will rise." Fox has released an extended teaser trailer for the latest sequel in the comedy series Diary of a Wimpy Kid, this one subtitled The Long Haul, about a family road trip. This is the fourth movie in the cinematic franchise based on the popular series of books by Jeff Kinney. Young actor Jason Drucker plays Greg, who convinces his family to take a road trip to attend his great grandmother's 90th birthday as a cover for what he really wants: to attend a nearby gamer convention. The cast includes Jason Ian Drucker, Charlie Wright, Owen Asztalos, Tom Everett Scott, and Alicia Silverstone. Yes, this looks as campy and as absurd as you might expect for the fourth movie in the Wimpy Kid series. Not for me. Here's the first teaser trailer for David Bowers' Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul, from YouTube: In...
- 2/23/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Simon Brew Nov 2, 2016
A Diary Of A Wimpy Kid mini-reboot movie is on the way, as The Long Haul gets set for a 2017 release...
An update on the new Diary Of A Wimpy Kid that's now in production. The film has indeed been recast - given that the line-up of the first three films has selfishly chosen to grow up - and the new ensemble has been revealed in this new video...
Jason Ian Drucker, Charlie Wright, Owen Asztalos, Tom Everett Scott and Alicia Silverstone lead the ensemble this time. More on the film as we hear it...
From August 2016
The three films based on Jeff Kinney’s Diary Of A Wimpy Kid series of books to date have done solid business for 20th Century Fox. But as Kinney himself has acknowledged, the problem came when the young cast – led by Zachary Gordon – grew up. As such, we've not had...
A Diary Of A Wimpy Kid mini-reboot movie is on the way, as The Long Haul gets set for a 2017 release...
An update on the new Diary Of A Wimpy Kid that's now in production. The film has indeed been recast - given that the line-up of the first three films has selfishly chosen to grow up - and the new ensemble has been revealed in this new video...
Jason Ian Drucker, Charlie Wright, Owen Asztalos, Tom Everett Scott and Alicia Silverstone lead the ensemble this time. More on the film as we hear it...
From August 2016
The three films based on Jeff Kinney’s Diary Of A Wimpy Kid series of books to date have done solid business for 20th Century Fox. But as Kinney himself has acknowledged, the problem came when the young cast – led by Zachary Gordon – grew up. As such, we've not had...
- 8/11/2016
- Den of Geek
Jason Ian Drucker ("Every Witch Way") and Owen Asztalos ("Paterson") have been cast as the young leads of a reboot of "The Diary of a Wimpy Kid" franchise in the works at Fox and Color Force.
David Bowers, who helmed two of the three previous live-action films which ran from 2010 to 2012, is returning to direct the new feature based on Jeff Kinney's series of books - more specifically the "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul" title.
Drucker will replace Zachary Gordon as the main character Greg Heffley who convinces his family to embark on a summer road trip to attend Meemaw's 90th birthday - so he can secretly attend what he thinks is a nearby gamer convention. But the diversion takes them wildly off course, and Greg must figure out how to get his family back on track.
Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson are producing.
Source: THR...
David Bowers, who helmed two of the three previous live-action films which ran from 2010 to 2012, is returning to direct the new feature based on Jeff Kinney's series of books - more specifically the "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul" title.
Drucker will replace Zachary Gordon as the main character Greg Heffley who convinces his family to embark on a summer road trip to attend Meemaw's 90th birthday - so he can secretly attend what he thinks is a nearby gamer convention. But the diversion takes them wildly off course, and Greg must figure out how to get his family back on track.
Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson are producing.
Source: THR...
- 7/28/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
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