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Reed Morano To Direct The Charlie Kaufman-Written ‘Memory Police’ For Amazon

October 8, 2020 4:44 pm

Coming off his surreal mind-bender “I’m Thinking of Ending Things,” for Netflix what is Charlie Kaufman doing next aside from contemplating its Oscar chances next year? Well, per his usual downcast temperament...

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Reed Morano In Talks To Direct Jennifer Lopez’s Upcoming ‘Godmother’ From ‘The Departed’ Screenwriter

Charles Barfield

April 17, 2020 11:24 am

News

Earlier this year, the film industry was pretty shocked that Jennifer Lopez didn’t score her first Oscar nomination for her performance in the critically-acclaimed drama, “Hustlers.” Having acted for decades n...

‘Pretty Things’: Nicole Kidman To Star In & Produce Yet Another Limited Series

Charles Barfield

April 2, 2020 12:24 pm

News, Television

It’s pretty obvious that Nicole Kidman absolutely loves doing limited series TV work nowadays. Sure, she’s doing feature films still—recently seen in last year’s “Bombshell” and will have starring roles in bot...

Reed Morano To Produce & Direct A New Amazon Limited Series, ‘Stolen Kids Of Sarah Lawrence’

Charles Barfield

March 20, 2020 12:40 pm

News, Television

While she may not have scored a massive hit with the film, “The Rhythm Section,” director Reed Morano has consistently proven that she’s one of the better up-and-coming filmmakers working today. And it appears...

‘The Rhythm Section’ Producers Are “Proud” Of The Film Despite Being “Disappointed” By The Terrible Box Office

Charles Barfield

February 3, 2020 2:23 pm

Box Office, News

To call the box office debut of “The Rhythm Section” a disappointment is a gross understatement. While the official results are still not released, the film is estimated to have earned a paltry $2.8 million ov...

‘The Rhythm Section’: Blake Lively Deglams The Tired Spy Genre With A Heavy Dose Of Trauma [Review]

Charles Barfield

January 29, 2020 1:37 pm

News, Reviews

Following Tom Cruise's superheroic badassness in the "Mission: Impossible" franchise and the smooth slickness of the 'Bond' series, the spy genre desperately needed a shake-up in the early ...

New ‘Rhythm Section’ Trailer: Blake Lively Is Out For Revenge In Reed Morano’s Action Thriller

Drew Taylor

January 21, 2020 10:21 am

News, Trailers

“The Rhythm Section” should have felt like a true event. It is, after all, the first non-James Bond movie produced by Eon Productions, the team of Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, who are behind the Jam...

52 Movies Directed By Women - Most Anticipated 2020

52 Films Directed By Women To Watch In 2020

Lena Wilson

January 19, 2020 2:03 pm

Features, News

Academy snubs be damned, 2019 was a spectacular end to a decade of outstanding films directed by women. Joanna Hogg reinvented visual memoir with “The Souvenir,” Lulu Wang challenged American conceptions of fa...

Zoe Saldana Teaming With Director Reed Morano & The Writer Of ‘The Departed’ For Thriller ‘Sabaya’

Charles Barfield

November 19, 2019 12:45 pm

News

For years Zoe Saldana has been one of the most underrated actresses in Hollywood. Despite having quite a few films under her belt, including appearances in the massive Marvel Cinematic Universe and "Avatar," sh...

‘The Rhythm Section’ Trailer: Blake Lively Turns Revenge-Seeking Assassin For Director Reed Morano

Jake Naturman

September 19, 2019 9:19 am

News, Trailers

Last year, Jason Blum’s comments about female directors (for which he has since apologized) represented a much broader issue at play - the idea that “there aren’t that many female directors.” It's a fallacy tha...

New ‘I Think We’re Alone Now’ Teaser Shows Elle Fanning & Peter Dinklage Work Together As Sole Survivors

Charles Barfield

August 24, 2018 12:23 pm

News, Trailers

To say the first two trailers for Reed Morano’s post-apocalyptic “I Think We’re Alone Now” have been cryptic is an understatement. The first teaser featured some haunting sparse narration as we watch Peter Dink...

‘I Think We’re Alone Now’ Teaser: Peter Dinklage And Elle Fanning Deal With The Post-Apocalypse

Charles Barfield

July 24, 2018 1:30 pm

News, Trailers

Reed Morano is a name that you see thrown around for a lot of big-budget films. The director, who won an Emmy for her work on Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” is branching out into feature films, after an impressi...

‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Director Reed Morano To Helm Anne Frank-Based Film ‘Keeper of the Diary’

Jordan Ruimy

March 29, 2018 9:45 am

News

Cinematographer-turned-director Reed Morano broke out in a major way last year with her work on the hit Hulu series, “The Handmaid’s Tale,” which garnered critical acclaim and earned the director an Emmy award....

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Guillermo del Toro Takes The Top Prize At The 2018 DGA Awards

Gregory Ellwood

February 4, 2018 1:45 am

Awards, Awards Campaign, News

The 2018 DGA Awards were held Saturday night in Los Angeles and marked the final major guild honor to be handed out after "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" took the SAG Ensemble honor and "The Shape o...

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‘I Think We’re Alone Now’ Is Beautiful And Evocative Until It’s Not [Sundance Review]

Gregory Ellwood

January 22, 2018 11:35 am

Awards Campaign, Festivals, News, Reviews

PARK CITY – Trying to mine something new out in the post-apocalyptic genre isn’t easy. It’s been a stable of sci-fi films and television for almost 40 years. In that context, the fact that director Reed Morano ...

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