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A trio of moderate releases – One Life, The American Society Of Magical Negroes and Knox Goes Away join Janus Films’ celebration of master musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, and César award winning The Animal Kingdom as the next wave of 2024 indie films rolls out post-Oscars. Focus Features' American Societ…

Many may not know the name Shirley Chisholm, but it is not for lack of Hollywood trying to keep her flame alive. The seven-term Brooklyn congresswoman, who became the first African American woman elected to Congress when she won in 1968, also became the…

Netflix has dropped a trailer for Oscar-winning writer/director John Ridley (12 Years A Slave) newest film Shirley. The film stars Oscar-winning actress Regina King (If Beale Street Could Talk), Lance Reddick (John Wick franchise), Lucas Hedges (Manchester by the Sea), André Holland (Passing), Terren…

The industry is still reeling from the sudden passing of Lance Reddick. However, his eloquent presence will continue on in several upcoming film and TV projects which the prolific actor had completed before his death at age 60. Over the past week, Reddick had been doing interviews in support of John W…

EXCLUSIVE: Lance Reddick (John Wick franchise), Lucas Hedges (Manchester by the Sea), André Holland (Passing), Terrence Howard (Empire), Christina Jackson (Swagger), Michael Cherrie (Home Again), Dorian Missick (For Life), Amirah Vann (Underground), W. Earl Brown (Deadwood) and newcomer Ethan Jones Romero have joined…

Oscar winner Regina King will portray America’s first Black Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm in the John Ridley written and directed feature Shirley which Participant will produce. King has expressed publicly for some time her desire to play Chisholm, and that opportunity is finally happening. Cameras will roll later…

"It's rare that you find a female character who is so challenging," Elisabeth Moss says of her role as writer Shirley Jackson in the deeply fictional Shirley. "Challenging as to me as an actor and challenging to the other characters in the film and has so much vulnerability and so many soft spots, but is also so…

A busy 2020 for Elisabeth Moss kicked off at Sundance with Josephine Decker's Shirley, in which she stars as seminal horror writer Shirley Jackson. Next, the actress saw blockbuster success with The Invisible Man, a modern adaptation of the H.G. Wells classic. Launching her own production company in July, she then…

We’ve seen Elisabeth Moss take on corporate male toxicity in Mad Men, a ghost of a man in The Invisible Man, Gilead in The Handmaid’s Tale and punk rock in Her Smell. This weekend we’ll see her as a horror author who tries not to unravel as she goes through her creative process in the Josephine Decker-directed…

It is not surprising to see Neon behind the indie film Shirley. The movie won acclaim at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and has a sterling cast led by Elisabeth Moss, Michael Stuhlbarg and Logan Lerman, plus subject matter that should thrill the art house crowd. Coming on the heels of the hot distributor’s…

Neon, fresh off riding Parasite‘s awards-season run that ended with the Best Picture Oscar, has taken the wraps off the trailer for Shirley, its Sundance Film Festival pickup that stars Elisabeth Moss and Michael Stuhlbarg. It hits VOD and digital on June 5. The Josephine Decker-directed thriller, which won the U.S…

EXCLUSIVE: Hours after making Oscar history on Parasite‘s dual Best Picture and Best International Film Oscar, Neon has closed a deal for the Sundance Film Festival buzz title Shirley. Deal is for North American rights and went for low seven figures. Directed by Josephine Decker from a script by Sarah Gubbins, the…