Tom McCarthy is readying his first film since 2021’s “Stillwater,” and he’s brought together quite the ensemble cast for it. Deadline has the details.

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The outlet reports that McCarthy’s still-untitled new project will star Paul Rudd, Evan Peters, Amy Ryan, Paul Giamatti, John Turturro, Tatiana Maslany, and Jason Clarke.

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Filmmaker Noah Segan lets the camera linger a little longer than might be expected on a penny in his directorial debut, “The Only Living Pickpocket in New York.” The coin serves as a vintage tool for John Turturro’s petty criminal Harry Lehman to jimmy open a car lock. But between the film’s production and release, the U.S. Treasury officially stopped minting pennies, adding another layer of meaning to an insert shot already loaded with associations about extinction and obsolescence.

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Paramount Pictures has shared with us a new trailer for their psychological thriller and sports drama “The Cut,” which sees British actor Orlando Bloom playing a professional boxer on the road to reclaim some redemption after a career-ending bout that saw him defeated in the ring.

Releasing on September 5, “The Cut” hails from director Sean Ellis with a screenplay penned by Justin Bull and a story from Mark Lane.

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Whenever we see that an actor or filmmaker has left a TV show or film, there is always a reason given. Most of the time, we see the dreaded “scheduling conflict” or something along those lines. And believe it or not, a lot of the time when they talk about scheduling not working, they’re typically hiding a deeper reason. That appears to be the case when it comes to the recasting of Carmine Falcone in “The Penguin.”

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According to a new interview with Variety, John Turturro talked about his role in “The Batman” as Carmine Falcone, and he also gave a reason why he didn’t show up in the TV spinoff, “The Penguin.” Originally, when showrunner Lauren LeFranc talked about why Turturro didn’t return, she chalked it up to a scheduling conflict and quickly mentioned how they love being able to replace him with Mark Strong as Falcone.

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Notice to all Lumon employees: it’s time to return to the office. Taking audiences by storm in the winter of 2022, Apple TV+’s acclaimed Emmy and Peabody-winning series, “Severance,” finally returns for a second season in early 2025. Hailing from director and executive producer Ben Stiller and creator, writer, and executive producer Dan Erickson, “Severance” stars Emmy Award nominee Adam Scott, Britt Lower, Tramell Tillman, Zach Cherry, Jen Tullock, Michael Chernus, Dichen Lachman, Emmy Award winner John Turturro, Academy Award winner Christopher Walken and Academy and Emmy Award winner Patricia Arquette.

Continue reading ‘Severance’ Season 2 Trailer: The Lumon Staff Returns To Work On Jan 17, 2025 at The Playlist.

Maya Hawke is a young actress on the rise, but is she a leading lady yet? “Wildcat” will change that, as Hawke plays novelist Flannery O’Connor. But “Wilder & Me” will solidify the position for the actress, arguably her biggest role yet. As Hanway Films starts sales for the picture, the package for “Wilder & Me” should get people’s attention fast.

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While it’s a bummer that Phoebe Waller-Bridge walked away from the upcoming series adaptation of “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” Donald Glover is still starring, and Maya Erskine (“Pen15”) signed on to replace Waller-Bridge. And now, it appears the Amazon Prime series is adding even more star power to the cast.

READ MORE: Maya Erskine Replaces Phoebe Waller-Bridge In ‘Mr.

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In these seemingly unending days of COVID, the boundaries between work and life haven’t just blurred; they’ve dissolved altogether to make a morass of our waking lives. Now, what if that boundary was not only back in place but also induced by a medical procedure, so our professional and personal lives remain permanently divided?

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That’s the crux of “Severance,” a new series coming to Apple TV+ next month.

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Nobody loves New York like filmmaker Spike Lee, obviously. We know this because of his many, many films so intrinsically tethered to New York City, Da People’s Republic of Brooklyn, and the five boroughs, his many photo ops courtside at home team NBA games, and his larger than life presence in Fort Greene (arguably kind of quiet, actually, but his vibrant 40 Acres & A Mule HQ is hard to miss). We also know that because Lee has to ask seemingly every one of the over 200 interview subjects of his new four-part doc series, “NYC Epicenters: 9/11→2021½,” about their allegiance to the Knicks or the Yankees and whether or not someone is a Red Sox fan (the series begins airing this weekend on HBO, Sunday, August 22, and then ends, fittingly enough, with the final episode on September 11, 2021, on the 20th anniversary of the fateful day).

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To understand the reception to Spike Lee’s “Jungle Fever” when it hit theaters 30 years ago, it’s important to understand the evolution of Lee himself – not just as a filmmaker, but as a public figure. When he burst onto the scene five years earlier with his debut picture, “She’s Gotta Have It,” he was dubbed, by more than one publication, “the Black Woody Allen.” It was a reductive label, to be sure (and these days, an insulting one), but it wasn’t a complete stretch; it was based on one film, and that was a black-and-white, jazz-scored, New York-set picture with a keen interest in the male/female dynamic.

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The cast of Guillermo del Toro’s stop-motion animated version of “Pinocchio” has been reported about for a while now. But we have yet to hear an official word from the filmmaker or Netflix about the full all-star cast, until now.

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According to Netflix, Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming version of “Pinocchio” is going to have a pretty great cast, including some newcomers and some A-list veterans.

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“I stick my neck out for nobody. The problems of this world are not in my department,” Humphrey Bogart’s Rick Blaine famously says – having made a mantra and a reputation out of the statement – in the World War II classic, “Casablanca.” The patriarchal figure at the center of David Simon and Ed Burns’ scorching adaptation of Philip Roth’s alternate history novel, “The Plot Against America,” a man of principle named Herman Levin (Morgan Spector), has the exact opposite problem, sometimes sticking his neck out for his ethnic community even when the anti-Semitism threatens the safety of his family.

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Filmmakers the Coen Brothers aren’t interested in sequels, it’s not their thing. But after their initial skepticism, dubiety, and indifference, they eventually relented and allowed John Turturro to reemploy Jesus Quintana, the stand out supporting character he played in their 1998 film “The Big Lebowski,” for “The Jesus Rolls.” A spin-off movie of Turturro’s own making, “The Jesus Rolls,” features the hilariously creepy bowling icon at its center.

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When it was announced, people were fairly shocked that the first real continuation of the world originated in “The Big Lebowski” would be focused on the supporting character, Jesus Quintana. But yet, that’s exactly what “The Jesus Rolls” is, and the new trailer gives us a first real look at what the plot of the film will be.

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Until now, most of the discussion surrounding “The Jesus Rolls” was focused on the early images from the film and a couple of teasers.

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Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This weekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching. 

This week brings us a much-ballyhooed new bio-doc, a fall festival favorite, an intensely personal documentary, and several noteworthy catalog titles, including a quintet of ‘90s work by one of our finest filmmakers. 

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In the realm of cult-classic films, there titles like “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” and “The Room.” But ranking right up there is the Coen Brothers’ “The Big Lebowski.” More than 20 years after the film’s release, ‘Lebowski’ is probably more popular now than ever before. And so it’s only fitting that we are just now getting the first sequel/spin-off, “The Jesus Rolls.”

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Unlike ‘Lebowski,’ the new film focuses on the supporting character, Jesus Quintana, as well as his friends Petey and Marie.

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What would America have become if FDR never won the presidency? Well, that’s a question that HBO’s upcoming series, “The Plot Against America” attempts to answer. Based on the Phillip Roth novel of the same name, the new HBO six-part miniseries tells the story of an alternate version of American history — one where the xenophobic populist Charles Lindbergh becomes president and guides America towards fascism.

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No film of 2020 has been poured over more in the last 18 months than Matt Reeves’ “The Batman,” starring Robert Pattinson as the Caped Crusader. Bloggers tried to get in on every whisper, sometimes falling flat on their face in the case of one report that said Armie Hammer had bagged the Batman role, and the trades have been jockeying for dominance in the bragging rights to scoops.

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Normally, when we share a film’s trailer that is in another language, that’s because it’s a foreign film and the international markets are releasing the project in theaters before it makes its way to North America. So, sadly, unless you speak the native language, you’re out of luck. But at least the images are great, right? Well, for “The Jesus Rolls,” the film is definitely in English, but those pesky Italian folks who are getting the film well before North America have taken it upon themselves to dub the new trailer, leaving English-speaking folks once again watching for the images.

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You wouldn’t be crazy to have forgotten that actor John Turturro wrote and directed a “Big Lebowski” spin-off film featuring his character Jesus Quintana. While it was big news when it was announced, that was way back in the summer of 2016, a full three years ago. Since then, there have been little bits and pieces, but for the most part, news has been quiet about the film, formerly known as “Going Places.” But now, thanks to Screen Media, the film, now called “The Jesus Rolls,” has a distribution deal and fans can finally learn when they might get to see the ‘Lebowski’ spin-off.

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KARLOVY VARY – When your main character is wearing makeup that makes him or her unrecognizable for an entire feature-length film it better be good. In the case of “The True Adventures of Wolfboy,” a fantastical drama that centers on a teenage boy with hypertrichosis, it needs to be stellar. In that respect, director Martin Krejci was given a gift from a substantial makeup team that delivers award-worthy work.* You also need an actor that can deliver a rich performance under such circumstances and Krejci lucked out with the immensely talented Jaeden Martell.

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The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is known by many as a Cannes catch up fest and for its star-filled tributes, but there is a fantastic competition that takes place with films such as “Zoology” and last year’s winner, “I Do Not Care If We Go Down In History As Barbarians” recently making their debuts.  It also ends up as the defacto premiere for a number of nation’s International Film Oscar submissions (last year Israel’s “The Cakemaker,” Czech Republic’s “Winter Flies,” Belarus’ “Crystal Swan” and the aforementioned Romanian “I Do Not Care” were all Karlovy Vary premieres).  

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2015 was the year that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences caught up to the reality that had set into the industry for over 20 years: Julianne Moore is one of the best actors alive. Moore finally won Best Actress for her work in “Still Alice” that year, and it was widely seen as an acknowledgment of recognition long overdue. The woman works hard and often, though, so this talent is sometimes overshadowed by the quantity over quality nature of her resume.

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Director Sebastián Lelio’s latest film, “Gloria Bell,” begs the question: Can moviegoers have too much of a good thing? This new picture is a near beat for beat remake of his 2013 critical darling “Gloria” – one of Rotten Tomatoes’s best-reviewed titles of all time. This new movie feels unnecessary. After all, if it ain’t broke? But if there’s one element here to pique viewer’s interest, it’s Lelio’s casting of Julianne Moore as the eponymous heroine.

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This category has upset written all over it. There is no contender who has won in this awards cycle at the SAG Awards or Golden Globes, although the “frontrunner,” Riz Ahmed, was nominated for both.  There are also two Oscar winners, Robert De Niro and Geoffrey Rush, another Oscar nominee, Benedict Cumberbatch, an actor who played two roles, Ewan McGregor, and a former Emmy winner who has a legendary career, John Turturro.

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