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Brilliant Minds is a medical drama series created by Michael Grassi. Inspired by the Oliver Sacks books The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and An Anthropologist on Mars, the NBC series follows the story of Dr. Oliver Wolf, a brilliant and eccentric neurologist suffering from a rare condition that gives him a unique perspective on how to care for his patients. When he is fired because of his methods of treatment, he takes his methods and tries to pitch them to a new hospital where he will lead a group of young interns to solve some of the most complex psychological cases. Brilliant Minds stars Zachary Quinto in the lead role with Tamberla Perry, Donna Murphy, Aury Krebs, Teddy Sears, Ashleigh Lathrop, Kira Guloien, and Spencer Moore II starring in supporting roles. So, if you...

If you’re in the mood for a new medical drama, NBC has your back. The new series Brilliant Minds premieres on Monday, Sept. 23.

It’s another medical drama based on true events. The series follows stories that the real neurologist Oliver Sacks wrote about his patients in the books The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and An Anthropologist on Mars. The books are a collection of essays, allowing for plenty of stories to tell in Brilliant Minds.

The premiere will introduce us to the main characters, with Zachary Quinto taking the lead as Dr. Oliver Wolf. Wolf is a neurologist who has a different way of dealing with patients. However, the hospital he’s working at doesn’t appreciate his unique approach, leading to him being fired.

Well, he goes off in search of a new job. It wouldn’t be a series to watch if he didn’t get that,...

NBC is filling the medical drama void left by the end of New Amsterdam with Brilliant Minds, based on the life of author/neurologist Oliver Sacks (The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat). Starring Zachary Quinto as Dr. Oliver Wolf, the one-hour drama joins NBC’s primetime lineup on September 23, 2024 at 10pm Et/Pt.

“In many ways, our show is a love letter to Dr. Sacks, a man who dedicated his life to destigmatizing mental illness, telling stories about people living with neurological conditions in a way that was accessible to the world,” stated series creator, writer and executive producer Michael Grassi. “Our core theme embodies the message that defined Sacks’ life: No matter how ‘other’ you may feel, you are not alone.”

Season one also stars Tamberla Perry as Dr. Carol Pierce, Ashleigh Lathrop as Ericka Kinney, Alex MacNicoll as Dr. Van Markus, Aury Krebs as Dr.

Five actors have been cast in Obsession. The upcoming psychological thriller series, based on Catherine Ryan Howard's 56 Days novel, is headed to Prime Video. Patch Darragh, Kira Guloien, Celeste Oliva, Jesse James Keitel, and Matt Murray will all appear in recurring roles.

Dove Cameron, Avan Jogia, Dorian Missick, and Karla Souza have been previously cast in the Obsession series. It tells the story of a couple who fall in love very quickly. Flash forward to 56 days later, and a homicide detective arrives at one of their apartments to find a brutally murdered and very decomposed body. What happened, and did one of them kill the other?

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Atomic Monster, the production company headed up by genre regular James Wan, is teaming with Amazon Studios to produce a psychological thriller series based on the best-selling novel 56 Days, by Catherine Ryan Howard (pick up a copy Here). Titled Obsession, this adaptation of Howard’s work got an official series order at the end of last year, and over the last couple of months, casting announcements have been revealing the names of the actors we’ll be seeing on the show. Dove Cameron of Schmigadoon! and Descendants and Avan Jogia, who dealt with zombies in both Zombieland: Double Tap and Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, have been cast in the lead roles, and now Deadline has revealed that they’ll be sharing the screen with Kira Guloien (The Good Doctor), Celeste Oliva (Julia), Jesse James Keitel (Big Sky), Matt Murray (Snowpiercer), and Patch Darragh (Long Bright River).

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Exclusive: Prime Video is rounding out cast for Obsession, a thriller series produced by Amazon MGM Studios and Atomic Monster, starring Dove Cameron and Avan Jogia. Patch Darragh (Long Bright River), Kira Guloien (The Good Doctor), Celeste Oliva (Julia), Jesse James Keitel (Big Sky) and Matt Murray (Snowpiercer) are set for recurring roles, written and executive produced by Lisa Zwerling and Karyn Usher.

In addition to Cameron and Jogia, they join previously announced Dorian Missick and Karla Souza.

Based on Catherine Ryan Howard’s 2021 international bestseller 56 Days, the story follows Oliver (Jogia) and Ciara (Cameron), who, after meeting randomly in a supermarket, fall for each other fast, and dangerously hard. 56 days later, homicide investigators arrive at Oliver’s apartment to find an unidentified body — brutally murdered and intentionally decomposed. Did he kill her? Did she kill him? Intercutting between an intense single day in the present investigation and the...

Canadian filmmaker Director X is revealing how his new Global original series, “Robyn Hood”, came about.

Director X — whose real name is Julien Christian Lutz — chatted to Et Canada’s Brittnee Blair ahead of the show’s premiere next month.

The show “follows Robyn Loxley and anti-authoritarian masked hip-hop band, The Hood, as they call out injustices and fight for freedom and equality in the city of New Nottingham.”

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The eight-episode, one-hour series stars an up-and-coming cast featuring Jessye Romeo, Nykeem Provo, Idrissa Sanogo Bamba, Ksenia Daniela Kharlamova, Jonathan Langdon, Sydney Kuhne, Ian Matthews, Kira Guloien, Manuel Rodriguez-Saenz and Lisa Michelle Cornelius.

Lutz said of what it was about this project that made him want to take it on: “I mean, it was an idea. I was in London shooting a music video, and it just kind of hit me like,...

Sarah Polley won her first Oscar for her Women Talking.

“First of all, just want to thank the Academy for not being mortally offended by the words women and talking with so close together like that,” she said as her film won the award for Writing (Adapted Screenplay).

“Miriam Toews wrote an essential novel about a radical democracy in which people who don’t agree on every single issue managed to sit together in a room and carve out a way forward together free of violence. They do so not just by talking but also by listening,” she added.

Related: ‘Women Talking’: Read The Screenplay By Sarah Polley That Takes On Remaking “A Broken World”

Women Talking, which came from Orion Pictures/United Artists Releasing, beat All Quiet on the Western Front, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Living and Top Gun: Maverick in the category.

The win prevented...

Zaib Shaikh, Canada’s Consul General to Los Angeles, hosted the country’s annual Canada at the Oscars soiree Thursday at his official residence in Hancock Park.

The event was the first stop of the night for many Oscar-nominated Canadians including “Women Talking’s” Sarah Polley, Sheila McCarthy and Kate Hallet. Polley was headed to the Macro party. Other attendees were going to the Oscar Wilde Awards or the South Asian Excellence Pre-Oscars Celebration.

Also in attendance were “Turning Red’s” Domee Shi, who landed an Oscar for best animated feature, Brendan Fraser and “The Whale” prosthetics makeup designer Adrien Morot.

The night celebrated Canadian Oscar winners and nominees, past and present.

Last year’s nominated makeup artist for “Dune,” Donald Mowat, spoke with Variety about his upcoming work with frequent collaborator Jake Gyllenhaal. On the TV series, “Presumed Innocent,” Mowat said, “He gets to be a heartbroken lawyer with...

The Film Independent Spirit Awards selected A24’s Everything Everywhere All at Once as its Best Feature on Saturday to culminate its 38th edition, one of seven wins for the metaverse-set pic that solidifies its frontrunner status in one of the last major awards stops ahead of March 12’s Academy Awards.

Everything, which had a leading eight nominations coming into daytime ceremony on the beach at the Santa Monica Pier, also scored wins for Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Stephanie Hsu in the awards’ inaugural gender-neutral performance categories across film and TV. The film also won for The Daniels’ directing and screenplay, and for Paul Rogers’ editing.

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(l-r) Rooney Mara stars as Ona, Claire Foy as Salome, Judith Ivey as Agata, Sheila McCarthy as Greta, Michelle McLeod as Mejal and Jessie Buckley as Mariche, in director Sarah Polley’s film Women Talking. An Orion Pictures Release. Photo credit: Michael Gibson. © 2022 Orion Releasing LLC. All Rights Reserved.

There is a lot of talk about Women Talking – awards talk. The title of this electrifying ensemble drama may suggest something tame but the fiery Women Talking is no polite, quiet chat but a deep, sarcastic, no-holds-barred, even funny, and thought-provoking discussion among a group of Mennonite women who are meeting secretly in a barn to talk about what to do after a series of brutal attacks on them.

Women in the colony have been waking up beaten, bloody and in pain, with no memory of what had happened. The men tell them they are being attacked by the devil, or...

Content warning: This article contains references to widespread sexual assault depicted in the film "Women Talking."

Do nothing. Stay and fight. Or leave. Those are the three choices the women of "Women Talking" are faced with. Based on a true story, the new film by writer and director Sarah Polley tells the story of women in a fictional Mennonite colony who learn that some of the men in the community have been secretly drugging them and assaulting them during the night for years. When a woman would wake up confused, in pain, or bleeding, the men would tell them they'd been attacked by devils or demons. At the beginning of the movie, the women finally learn the truth. Police arrest the eight men responsible, and when almost all the colony's men head to town to bail them out, the women have to decide what to do, leaving them with the three choices.

Sarah Polley’s Women Talking features a large ensemble of accomplished and award-winning actresses, so it would not have been a surprise to see one (or several) take the stage Thursday at the Palm Springs Film Awards, where Polley was honored with a director of the year prize.

But instead it was Eric Idle, the Monty Python star, who presented Polley with her award. His appearance was especially profound for Polley as it provided a public reunion for the two co-stars from Terry Gilliam’s The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. “About 34 years ago, I was on the set of a movie in Rome and I said farewell to a little girl of 8 who starred in the movie,” Idle said. “We had all been scarred on this movie … going on nine months before we’d been able to escape.” Idle called some of the scenes “life-threatening.”

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Stars: Kira Guloien, Oona Chaplin, Ramón Rodríguez, Liane Balaban, Alex Karzis | Written by Alex Greenfield, Ben Powell | Directed by John R. Leonetti

Lullaby is the latest film from genre director John R. Leonetti, This time, working from a script by former WWE writer Alex Greenfield and Ben Powell, who also co-wrote The Sand, he’s unleashing the wrath of Lilith on new parents Rachel and John.

As the film opens the couple gets a package of baby things from Rachel’s mother. They belonged to Rachel’s sister Vivian who lost both her baby and her husband under strange circumstances. Why her mother would send them and why they would actually use them is one of life’s great mysteries.

But use them they do, especially a hymn found in an old book which seems to be the only thing that will calm baby Eli down. It’s not long...

The following article includes references to domestic abuse and sexual assault. Please proceed with caution.

Sarah Polley has consistently been one of the most outspoken activists in Hollywood, and her directorial work often reflects her tireless dedication to justice. Her latest film, "Women Talking," is a confident, oftentimes difficult-to-watch drama about a group of Mennonite women in an isolated colony who are struggling with their faith and dedication to their religious practices after learning that they have all been repeatedly drugged and raped by the men in their community. Based on Miriam Toews' 2018 novel of the same name, "Women Talking" is tragically, loosely based on real-life events that took place at the Manitoba Colony in Bolivia. "Women Talking" has been buzzing since the early casting announcements of France McDormand, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, and Rooney Mara, but MGM has released a new trailer ahead of the film's release that should certainly keep everyone talking.

Just three weeks remain here in 2022, and though the new horror releases are starting to slow down considerably, the good news is that the new horror content never actually stops.

This week, in fact, Six brand new horror movies are being released!

Here’s all the new horror arriving December 13 – December 18, 2022.

After being released in theaters just last month and biting into 13 million worldwide, Luca Guadagnino‘s cannibal romance Bones and All is already coming home in time for Christmas.

Bones and All is now playing in theaters and is Now Available on Digital!

Suspiria director Luca Guadagnino and writer David Kajganich reteam for the new genre film starring Timothée Chalamet, which is an adaptation of Camille DeAngelis‘s novel.

Taylor Russell (Escape Room) stars alongside Chalamet.

The film is a “story of first love between Maren, a young woman learning how to survive on the margins of society, and Lee,...

Have you checked the baby?

From John R. Leonetti (Annabelle) comes Vertical Entertainment and Alcon Entertainment’s Lullaby, a new horror movie In Theaters and On Demand beginning December 16, 2022.

The upcoming horror movie follows a new mother who discovers a lullaby in an ancient book and soon regards the song as a blessing…

But her world transforms into a nightmare when the lullaby brings forth the ancient demon Lilith.

Oona Chaplin (Game of Thrones), Rámon Rodríguez (The Affair), Liane Balaban (You Can Live Forever), Kira Guloien (Women Talking) and Moni Ogunsuyi (The Umbrella Academy) star.

Bloody Disgusting has an exclusive clip from the film in which a mother catches the demon Lilith on her baby monitor.

The post ‘Lullaby’ Clip Catches Something Horrific on a Baby Monitor [Exclusive] appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

"She's strong… but she's not as strong as faith." Vertical Entertainment has released an official trailer for an indie horror thriller titled Lullaby, directed by the Dp / filmmaker John R. Leonetti - who doesn't exactly have the most impressive filmography. Landing in theaters in just a few weeks. A new mother who discovers a lullaby in an ancient book and soon regards the song as a blessing. But her world transforms into a nightmare when the lullaby brings forth the ancient demon Lilith — from the Hebrew phrase "Lilith-Abi" which translates to "Lilith, begone." Lullaby stars Oona Chaplin, with Rámon Rodríguez, Liane Balaban, Kira Guloien, and Moni Ogunsuyi. This looks like a mostly derivative, generic horror without anything new to offer us. I feel like some of these exact shots have been in other films before this. It still might have a few good scares? ›››

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Women Talking Review — Women Talking (2022) Film Review, a movie directed by Sarah Polley, written by Miriam Toews and Sarah Polley and starring Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Ben Whishaw, Frances McDormand, Judith Ivey, Emily Mitchell, Kate Hallett, Liv McNeil, Sheila McCarthy, Michelle McLeod, Kira Guloien, Shayla Brown, Vivien Endicott Douglas, August [...]

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Harry Shum Jr. and Michelle Yeoh in A24’s ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ (Photo credit: Allyson Riggs)

Everything Everywhere All At Once tops the list of 2023 Film Independent Spirit Awards nominees, earning eight nominations including Best Feature, Best Director (Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert), Best Lead Performance (Michelle Yeo), Best Breakthrough Performance (Stephanie Hsu), and two in the Best Supporting Performance category. Director Todd Field’s Tár, starring Cate Blanchett as a world-renowned composer whose life is falling apart, followed with seven nominations including ones for Field and Blanchett.

The 2023 awards will mark the first time Film Independent has switched the performance categories to gender-neutral. The 38th Film Independent Spirit Awards also introduces a new category: Best Breakthrough Performance.

“We couldn’t be more honored to celebrate this year’s exciting film nominees,” said Josh Welsh, President of Film Independent. “As the Film Independent Spirit Awards evolve with our changing industry,...

Celebrating its 38th edition, the Film Independent Spirit Awards have unveiled their 2023 nominations, with the Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Once leading the pack with eight nominations while Todd Field’s TÁR secured seven. Along with those two, rounding out the Best Feature nominations were Bones and All, Our Father, the Devil, and Women Talking. Elsewhere, some of our favorites of the year––including Aftersun, Murina, The African Desperate, The Cathedral, After Yang, All That Breathes, Saint Omer, and All the Beauty and the Bloodshed––were recognized.

Check out the nominations below ahead of the March 4 ceremony.

Best Feature (Award given to the producer)

Bones and All

Producers: Timothée Chalamet, Francesco Melzi d’Eril, Luca Guadagnino, David Kajganich, Lorenzo Mieli, Marco Morabito, Gabriele Moratti, Theresa Park, Peter Spears

Everything Everywhere All At Once

Producers: Daniel Kwan, Mike Larocca, Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, Daniel Scheinert, Jonathan Wang

Our Father, the Devil

Producers: Ellie Foumbi,...

Back in February of 2020, right before the world shut down for a while, it was announced that John R. Leonetti, director of the horror films Annabelle, Wolves at the Door, Wish Upon, and The Silence, had signed on to direct the folklore-inspired horror movie Lullaby for Alcon Entertainment, with Game of Thrones‘ Oona Chaplin attached to star. Lullaby has since made its way through production and is now ready to be released. Deadline reports that Vertical Entertainment has acquired the North American distribution rights and will be giving Lullaby a theatrical and VOD release on December 16th.

Scripted by Alex Greenfield and Ben Powell, Lullaby centers on a new mother who discovers a lullaby in an ancient book and soon regards the song as a blessing. But her world transforms into a nightmare when the lullaby brings forth the ancient demon Lilith.

Chaplin is joined in the cast by Ramón Rodríguez...

From John R. Leonetti (Annabelle) comes Vertical Entertainment and Alcon Entertainment’s Lullaby, a new horror movie In Theaters and On Demand beginning December 16, 2022.

Watch the trailer for Lullaby below. The upcoming horror movie follows a new mother who discovers a lullaby in an ancient book and soon regards the song as a blessing…

But her world transforms into a nightmare when the lullaby brings forth the ancient demon Lilith.

Oona Chaplin (Game of Thrones), Rámon Rodríguez (The Affair), Liane Balaban (You Can Live Forever), Kira Guloien (Women Talking) and Moni Ogunsuyi (The Umbrella Academy) star.

Alex Greenfield & Ben Powell wrote the script.

The post ‘Lullaby’ Trailer – An Ancient Lullaby Resurrects a Demon in ‘Annabelle’ Director’s New Horror Movie appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Exclusive: Vertical Entertainment has secured North American rights to the horror feature Lullaby, directed by Annabelle‘s John R. Leonetti, from its financier Alcon Entertainment, slating it for release in select theaters and on VOD on December 16.

Pic follows a new mother who discovers a lullaby in an ancient book and regards the song as a blessing. But her world transforms into a nightmare when the lullaby brings forth the ancient demon Lilith. Oona Chaplin (Avatar franchise) and Ramón Rodríguez (The Affair) lead the cast, which also includes Liane Balaban (You Can Live Forever), Kira Guloien (Women Talking) and Moni Ogunsuyi (The Umbrella Academy).

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MGM and United Artists Releasing have revealed their acting submissions for all of their titles, particularly “Bones and All,” “Till” and “Women Talking.”

“Women Talking,” written and directed by Sarah Polley, has opted to put Rooney Mara up in the best actress category while the rest of her female co-stars — Jessie Buckley, Claire Foy, Judith Ivey, Sheila McCarthy, Michelle McLeod, Kate Hallett, Liv McNeil, August Winter, Kira Guloien and Shayla Brown — will campaign in supporting actress. The most prominent male actor in the film, Ben Whishaw, will be the only one campaigning for best supporting actor.

Mara enters a very stacked lead actress race that includes Cate Blanchett (“Tár”), Viola Davis (“The Woman King”) and Michelle Yeoh (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”). The universal acclaim for the film adaptation of the popular book could help propel her into the fold, especially given her two prior nominations for “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo...

Warning: The following contains references to sexual assault.

Following a strong run on the film festival circuit, Sarah Polley's drama "Women Talking" is getting a theatrical release by United Artists Releasing. This is a difficult story: It's an account of victimized women within an insular community trying to take back their power, despite being at a significant — and purposeful — disadvantage. Only men are allowed to receive an education and take leadership roles within this settlement, and as a direct result of the systemic sexism running rampant through the population, the core values of their faith have been corrupted. Men have been violently sexually assaulting the women and children, and if nothing is done, this behavior will certainly continue.

"Women Talking" is what the title implies: a story centered around women talking about their situation and trying to plan their next move. The film is an adaptation of Miriam Toews' novel of the same name,...

Writer/director Sarah Polley peels back the layers of covered-up assaults in organized religion.

Adapted from Miriam Toews’ acclaimed novel of the same name, “Women Talking” stars Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Frances McDormand, Ben Whishaw, and Judith Ivey. The film is set to make its international premiere at 2022 TIFF, followed by appearing in the NYFF Spotlight section.

“Women Talking” centers on a group of women in an isolated religious colony who reconcile with their faith after a string of sexual assaults are committed by the colony’s men. The generations of abuse come to light along with the hypocrisy of power in the name of Christ. Sheila McCarthy, August Winter, Michelle McLeod, Will Bowes, and Kira Guloien also star in the film, in theaters December 2.

Oscar-nominated screenwriter Polley, whose past features include “Away From Her” and “Stories We Tell,” previously opened up about her troubling experience as a...

Writer/director Sarah Polley peels back the layers of covered-up assaults in organized religion.

Adapted from Miriam Toews’ acclaimed novel of the same name, “Women Talking” stars Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Frances McDormand, Ben Whishaw, and Judith Ivey. The film is set to make its world premiere at 2022 TIFF, followed by appearing in the NYFF Spotlight section.

“Women Talking” centers on a group of women in an isolated religious colony who reconcile with their faith after a string of sexual assaults are committed by the colony’s men. The generations of abuse come to light along with the hypocrisy of power in the name of Christ. Sheila McCarthy, August Winter, Michelle McLeod, Will Bowes, and Kira Guloien also star in the film, in theaters December 2.

Oscar-nominated screenwriter Polley, whose past features include “Away From Her” and “Stories We Tell,” previously opened up about her troubling experience as a...

Tam Mutu, who is making his Broadway debut as the passionate Doctor and poet Yurii Zhivago, Kelli Barrett Wicked, Tony Award nomineeTom Hewitt Rocky Horror Show, and Paul Nolan Jesus Chris Superstar will be joined by Lora Lee Gayer as Tonia Gromeko, Zhivago's devoted wife, in the new Broadway musical Doctor Zhivago. Based on Boris Pasternak's Nobel Prize-winning 20th-century epic Russian masterpiece, Doctor Zhivago will feature Jacqueline Antaramian and Jamie Jackson, with Heather Botts, Wendi Bergamini, Melody Butiu, Josh Canfield, Julian Cihi, Briana Carlson-Goodman, Bradley Dean, Michael Brian Dunn, Drew Foster, Kira Guloien, Robert Hager, Ericka Hunter, Denis Lambert, David McDonald, Joseph Medeiros, Pilar Millhollen, Gary Milner, Spencer Moses, Julius Sermonia, Jacob L. Smith and Jesse Wildman in a cast of 32.