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In the realm of religious horror, one filled with tales of divine terror, Immaculate emerges as the latest contender. Yet despite its promising setup within the shadowy confines of an Italian nunnery and a cast led by Sydney Sweeney, the film struggles to…

Neon announced on Tuesday that it will bring Academy Award nominee Ava DuVernay’s acclaimed drama Origin back to 500 U.S. theaters on February 28, for a one-night-only special screening event, featuring an exclusive pre-recorded introduction and post-screening Q&A with DuVernay. Released wide on…

When real-life couple Justine Triet and Arthur Harari set out to write Anatomy of a Fall, about a woman on trial for the murder of her husband, they built the story on relationships first and foremost. "The first embryo was the relationship between the son and the mother and the idea of the son…

Everyone knows that hotels — preferably isolated, ideally with very few guests — make the best settings for horror films. All that sad anonymity, all that provisional space ready to be filled with something really nasty. In Cuckoo, Alpenplatz, run by the excessively friendly Mr. Konig (Dan Stevens)…

While Justine Triet’s legal thriller Anatomy of a Fall has maintained a great deal of heat since its Palme d’Or win last summer as one of the buzziest big screen titles in recent memory, the filmmaker at one point contemplated reshaping her material into a TV series, at least for a moment. In…

Neon on Thursday released a red-band trailer for Immaculate, the psychological thriller starring Sydney Sweeney that it acquired last month. The distributor has set a March 22, 2024 theatrical release date. The White Lotus and Euphoria star plays Cecilia, an American nun of devout faith who joins a…

EXCLUSIVE: The Steven Soderbergh-directed and David Koepp-scripted ghost story Presence is being acquired at Sundance by Neon. The deal comes 35 years after Soderbergh's $1 million Sundance deal for sex, lies, & videotape and subsequent Palme d'Or win at Cannes followed by a box office gross of $25…

Justine Triet's Cannes Palme d'Or winner Anatomy of a Fall continued its awards-season ascent by scoring five Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and Best Director. “I'm so happy," Triet said Tuesday from her home in Paris after hearing the news. Related…

Neon is opening Origin on 130 screens and plans to expand the Ava DuVernay film, which premiered in Venice and had a excellent qualifying run in December. Neon took global rights on Origin before its Venice premiere where it received an eight-minute standing ovation and DuVernay became the first…

Theda Hammel's latest dramedy at Neon, Stress Positions, stars Hammel, John Early, Qaher Harhash, Amy Zimmer, Faheem Ali and Rebecca F. Wright. It follows Bahlul, a queer Moroccan-American model that everyone wants to meet. While moments emerge showing the…

Andrew McCarthy is getting back together with his fellow Brat Pack alums Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Jon Cryer, Ally Sheedy, Emilio Estevez and more for the feature documentary Brats, a revealing look at the cultural phenomenon they became in the 1980s and how that has impacted their lives ever…

Welcome to the Scene 2 Seen Podcast. I am Valerie Complex, an associate editor and film writer at Deadline. As schedules go, they could not record together, so we're having another double episode today, but this time with Origin director Ava DuVernay and the film's star Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor. O…