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Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel to headline David Lowery’s pop-music movie Mother Mary

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How’s this for a set of headline acts? A24 and David Lowery are getting the band back together for an epic pop melodrama starring Michaela Coel and Anne Hathaway. Deadline reports that The Green Knight collaborators are teaming up for Mother Mary, which has also been written by Lowery, and is described as an epic pop […]

Sandra Oh and more join Robert Downey Jr. in espionage thriller The Sympathizer

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The espionage thriller series The Sympathizer has added more to its cast. Joining Robert Downey Jr. (Avengers: Endgame) in the HBO and A24 series is Sandra Oh (Killing Eve), Kieuh Chinh (Dynasty) and Nguyen Cao Ky Duyen (Paris By Night).The Sympathizer is “an espionage thriller and cross-culture satire about the struggles of a half-French, half-Vietnamese communist spy […]

Peacock orders Friday the 13th prequel series Crystal Lake from Bryan Fuller and A24

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With the long-running legal saga over the rights to the original Friday the 13th now seemingly behind us following last year’s court ruling, Peacock has announced that it has given a straight-to-series order to Crystal Lake, a prequel to the 1980 slasher classic from A24 and showrunner Bryan Fuller (Hannibal).“I discovered Friday the 13th in […]

Nicolas Cage joins Ari Aster-produced A24 comedy Dream Scenario

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Following some of the best notices of his career for self-deprecating comedy The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Nicolas Cage is set to remain in the business of making people laugh by signing on for A24’s Ari Aster produced Dream Scenario. Deadline reports that Dream Scenario will be written and directed by Kristoffer Borgli, whose directorial […]

Sebastian Stan shares a first look at his prosthetic-covered face in A Different Man

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Sebastian Stan continues to forge a very interesting career away from the big-budget gloss of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and that’s none more so evident than in the image he shared from his latest film A Different Man. Posted to his Instagram account, the picture shows Stan covered in prosthetics for his role in A Different […]

A24 erotic drama The Governesses enlists Lily-Rose Depp, HoYeon and Renate Reinsve

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Lily-Rose Depp (Wolf), HoYeon (Squid Game) and Renate Reinsve (The Worst Person in the World) have been cast in The Governesses, an erotic drama from A24 and director Joe Talbot (The Last Black Man in San Francisco).Based on the novel of the same name by Anne Serre, the film see Depp, HoYeon and Reinsve as […]

Mandy helmer Panos Cosmatos to direct “phantasmagorical fantasy nightmare” Nekrokosm

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Mandy director Panos Cosmatos has lined up his next project, with the filmmaker set to direct and co-write a science-fiction fantasy romance entitled Nekrokosm for A24.Described as a “phantasmagorical fantasy nightmare” the film will take place “deep within a strange galaxy where two lovers are torn apart as they try to survive a malevolent invasion”.Cosmatos […]

Rashida Jones to star in Apple TV+ and A24 dark comedy series Sunny

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Rashida Jones (Parks and Recreation) is set to lead Sunny, a dark comedy series from Apple TV+ and A24, which has been created by The Affair’s Katie Robbins.Sunny is based on the novel Dark Manual by Colin O’Sullivan and follows “Suzie, an American woman living in Kyoto, Japan, whose life is upended when her husband and son disappear in […]

Ti West puts Mia Goth, Brittany Snow and Scott Mescudi through the wringer in the terrifying trailer for A24 horror X

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As Martin Henderson’s adult filmmaker says to one of his young cast members – “people’s eyes are gonna pop out of their damn skulls when they see this” – and judging by the look of this first trailer the same might apply to Ti West’s return to big-screen horror with X.Borrowing heavily from Texas Chainsaw […]