After more than a year on the New York Times Bestseller List, Maria Semple’s novel Where’d You Go, Bernadette is coming to the big screen with the help of filmmaker Richard Linklater and actress Cate Blanchett. The first trailer for the film arrived this morning. The story follows the lives of one family after the odd […]
Oscar-nominated actor John Lithgow (The Crown) has been cast by Annapurna Pictures to take the lead role of Roger Ailes in the upcoming drama surrounding the sexual harassment scandal at Fox News that ended his career according to Variety. Fair and Balanced is described mostly as an ensemble piece, with the majority of the focus being on Roger […]
Having won a Best Picture Oscar for his last film, Moonlight director Barry Jenkins returns with his third feature If Beale Street Could Talk which is set to roll out this Fall across the film festival circuit. An adaptation of James Baldwin’s novel, the story follows a newly engaged and heavily pregnant Harlem woman who […]
Several key new release date changes have been announced in the last few days. First up, Annapurna Pictures have set an April 19th 2019 release for Missing Link, the fifth feature from Oscar-nominated animation studio LAIKA (Kubo and the Two Strings, Paranorman, Coraline) which follows the last living remnant of Man’s primitive ancestry (Zach Galifianakis) who enlists […]
Annapurna Pictures has released the new red-band trailer for the Lakeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson and Armie Hammer-led comedy Sorry to Bother You. Stanfield plays a lackadaisical telemarketer who realizes he has the power to speak with a ‘white voice’ (voiced by David Cross). Armed with this new skill, he becomes a rising star at his […]
Animation studio LAIKA has announced its fifth and most ambitious film yet, The Missing Link, which is targeting a Spring 2019 release through Annapurna Pictures in the United States. In the film, the charismatic Sir Lionel Frost (voiced by Hugh Jackman) considers himself to be the world’s foremost investigator of myths and monsters. The trouble is […]
Annapurna Pictures has released the first trailer for the upcoming Sorry to Bother You, a new comedy starring Lakeith Stanfield (Get Out, Atlanta) and Tessa Thompson (Annihilation, Thor: Ragnarok). Watch the Sorry to Bother You trailer below. Set in an alternate present-day version of Oakland, Sorry to Bother You follows telemarketer Cassius Green (Stanfield) who discovers a magical key to professional success, propelling him […]
Variety reports that Olivia Wilde is set to make her directorial debut with Booksmart and she’s enlisted the help of two bright up-and-comers to star in it. Beanie Feldstein (Lady Bird) and Kaitlyn Dever (Last Man Standing) have been cast as the two leads in Wilde’s film at Annapurna Pictures. Chelsea Barnard, David Distenfeld, and Megan Ellison will produce for […]
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Annapurna Pictures have formed a new joint venture for theatrical distribution in the United States. The movie is both a return to U.S. theatrical distribution for MGM, and a continued expansion of Annapurna who launched their marketing and distribution arm earlier this year. That latter includes plenty of executives who’ve worked with MGM […]
Tyler Perry has been cast as Colin Powell in Adam McKay’s upcoming untitled Dick Cheney biopic at Annapurna. Powell is the four-star general who was involved in the case for the 2003 Iraq invasion. He also served as the Secretary of State under George W. Bush. Christian Bale stars as former Vice President Dick Cheney, […]