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Earthquake Underground (2/29)

When a massive earthquake submerges several subway cars underground, a group of misfit passengers band together to get to the surface or die trying.

Vice News Presents: Mass Shooting America (2/7)

An unflinching look at the true scope and scale of gun violence in America, as told by those who’ve experienced it first-hand.

Love You To Death: Mommy’S Missing (2/14)

The case of a missing mother reveals twisted family secrets that leave a trail of flames, arrests, and deaths in their wake.

TMZ No Bs: Miley Cyrus (2/24)

Harvey Levin and his team of TMZ experts discuss Miley Cyrus’ meteoric rise to fame and debate her biggest scandals and successes.

Love You To Death: For Love Or Money (2/28)

The shooting of a beloved Cleveland firefighter leads detectives to uncover a shocking plot for money gone very wrong.

In 1961, a key architect of the Holocaust, Adolf Eichmann, was tried in Israel and sentenced to death. An odd thing happened. Officials didn’t want to bury him and risk creating a shrine, so they decided on cremation. That is strictly against the Jewish religion and there were no crematoria in the country.

So Shlomi Zebco (played by Tzahi Grad), a former Israeli paramilitary soldier who owns a commercial oven factory, was asked by the government to make one big enough to incinerate Hitler’s former top lieutenant, handing him a manual with instructions – in German. Zebco’s assistant realized with horror the model was used in Nazi death camps.

The story is told from three points of view: of a 13-year-old Jewish Libyan boy who is kicked out of school, finds a job at the factory and helps build the oven; Eichmann’s guard, a Moroccan Jew tasked with...

"Some truths... have to wait patiently to be discovered." Cohen Media Group has unveiled an official trailer for a film titled June Zero, which has been awaiting a release for a few years. June Zero is co-written and directed by filmmaker Jake Paltrow, of the films The Good Night and Young Ones before. It premiered in 2022 at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival but hasn't been given a US release until now. This captivating film examines Adolf Eichmann's trial in 1962 in Israel, showing the empathy & humanism amidst the atrocities during the Holocaust. Told from three different perspectives of regular people involved in his imprisonment and execution. Entirely shot on 16mm film, this "vividly textured work brings to life the varied experiences of these characters, emphasizing that the same historical events are often perceived differently by people... As the film delves into the complexities of the human experience during this pivotal trial,...

This coming month, the free streamer Tubi is adding dozens of new titles to its library, from Academy Award-nominated genre-bending thrillers like 2019’s “The Lighthouse” to rom-coms that have dominated culture for decades, such as Nora Ephron’s quintessential “When Harry Met Sally.”

Check out The Streamable’s picks for the best of Tubi’s February additions, and find out everything coming to the platform this month!

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Barry Jenkins follows up his Oscar-winning “Moonlight” with another Oscar nominee in this adaptation of James Baldwin’s novel of the same name. KiKi Layne and Stephan James lead the cast as Tish and Fonny a devoted couple who have been friends since childhood who dream of a future together but whose plans are derailed when Fonny is arrested...

Simon Pegg is best known for his starring roles in the spoof films of the Three Flavors Cornetto Trilogy, but the actor has appeared in plenty of other great movies (and some not-so-great ones). Pegg first rose to prominence as the co-creator and star of the Channel 4 sitcom Spaced. He reunited with director Edgar Wright, co-star Nick Frost, and a handful of other cast members from Spaced for the Cornetto movies that launched him to stardom: zombie-infested romcom Shaun of the Dead, “buddy cop” slasher Hot Fuzz, and body-snatching sci-fi adventure The World’s End.

Since the Cornetto movies made Pegg a recognizable star, he’s acted in such lucrative blockbuster franchises as Ice Age, Star Trek, and Mission: Impossible. He’s acted alongside A-list stars like Tom Cruise, Chris Pine, and Thandiwe Newton and worked with such legendary directors as Steven Spielberg, John Landis, and J.J. Abrams. Some of...

Exclusive: In honor of National Space Day today, Amazon Original Films has dated their Ryan White directed documentary Good Night Oppy for theatrical release on Nov. 4 with a worldwide drop on Prime Video on Nov. 23.

The movie produced by Jessica Hargrave, Darryl Frank, Justin Falvey, Brandon Carroll, and Matthew Goldberg tells the inspirational true story of Opportunity, a rover that was sent to Mars for a 90-day mission but ended up surviving for 15 years. The film follows Opportunity’s groundbreaking journey on Mars and the remarkable bond forged between a robot and her humans millions of miles away.

EPs are Max Wagner, Stephen Neely and Ryan Schiavo.

Said White, “We worked closely with our partners at Industrial Light & Magic to create visual effects that will transport audiences to Mars, so I am thrilled that Good Night Oppy will play both in theaters and on Prime Video. Oppy and her human...

Films Boutique and ICM Partners have launched sales on Jake Paltrow’s upcoming drama June Zero, with Films Boutique handling international rights and ICM overseeing distribution in North America.

Paltrow’s first foreign-language production explores true stories surrounding the execution of Holocaust organizer Adolf Eichmann in 1962 Israel, through three characters intimately involved in the nation-defining event: David, a precocious 13-year-old Libyan factory worker looking to belong; Haim, Eichmann’s main prison guard, tasked with protecting this dead man walking; and the Police Investigative officer of the Eichmann trial, Micha, on his first trip back to Poland since surviving Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he tries to make sense of the future of the Jewish homeland’s soul post-execution.

Shot on Super-16mm film in Israel and Ukraine under strict Covid regulations, June Zero was written by Paltrow and Tom Shoval. Miranda Bailey (God’s Country), David Silber (Incitement) and Emmy winner Oren Moverman (Bad Education) produced,...

Jake Paltrow’s forthcoming feature film “June Zero” has been picked up for sales by ICM Partners in North America and Films Boutique for the rest of world.

Written by Paltrow and Tom Shoval, “June Zero” explores true stories surrounding the 1962 execution of Adolf Eichmann — one of the key architects of the Holocaust — in Israel through three characters intimately involved in the nation-defining event: David, a precocious thirteen-year-old Libyan factory worker looking to belong; Haim, Eichmann’s main prison guard, tasked with protecting this dead man walking; and the Police Investigative officer of the Eichmann trial, Micha, on his first trip back to Poland since surviving Auschwitz-Birkenau — where he tries to make sense of the future of the Jewish homeland’s soul post-execution.

“June Zero” was shot on Super-16mm film in Israel and Ukraine under strict Covid-19 regulations, and represents writer-director Paltrow’s first foreign language production. The filmmaker...

Veteran producer Joel Silver (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang), Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey’s Team Downey and Amazon Studios are partnering to develop a series of feature film and television projects based on Donald E. Westlake’s series of highly popular Parker crime fiction novels, written under the pseudonym Richard Stark.

The first project emerging from the deal will be the film Play Dirty, in which Downey Jr. (Marvel’s Avengers franchise) is set to star as Parker, a professional thief who approaches his job with a straightforward, no-nonsense work ethic. He’s a craftsman. He’s brutal, brilliant. He’s also deadly. He’s whatever it takes to get the money and get away clean. The Parker character was first introduced in 1962’s The Hunter from Pocket Books and featured in 23 other titles from Westlake, subsequently serving as the basis for such films as Parker with Jason Statham,...

I had the wrong idea about this book. I feel like I say that a lot in this blog, but why not say it if it’s true? We all come into new experiences with expectations and ideas, and we’re all wrong a lot of the time. There’s no shame in saying so.

I expected Good Night, Hem to be a standalone graphic novel about Ernest Hemingway. Since it’s by the Norwegian cartoonist Jason, I thought there might be a genre element of some kind, or that it might be told slyly in some other way: I didn’t expect a straightforward biographical story.

I wasn’t far wrong, but I’d forgotten that Jason had already written about Hemingway and his Paris circle of the 1920s in The Left Bank Gang – well, sort-of, since those characters had the names of the Lost Generation circle but were...

The weird, wonderful and sometimes sad world of actors who make a living as lookalikes of Bollywood superstars is the subject of Geetika Narang Abbasi’s documentary “Urf,” world premiering in the Cinema Regained strand of the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

The actors are known by the names of the stars they portray, with the prefix Jr. – short for Junior. “Urf,” which translates as also known as or alias, follows several lookalikes, but mainly focuses on Kishore Bhanushali a.k.a. Jr. Dev Anand, Firoz Khan a.k.a. Jr. Amitabh Bachchan, and Prashant Walde, a.k.a. Jr. Shah Rukh Khan.

“I was very intrigued by the whole phenomenon of imitation, of assuming a star’s personality and being a ‘reflected’ star. Soon I realized how it is also unique to our films – there have been mainstream films with lookalikes in the lead and then, of course, they feature...

One of the stars of Guillermo del Toro’s new noir, he has been a captivating character actor for 40 years, but is rarely put up before the press. We find out why …

Fugitives facing the firing squad have looked more relaxed than David Strathairn does right now. One of the most perspicacious character actors of the past 40 years, he has been exceptional so often on screen that any attempt to list the highlights runs the risk of simply transcribing his IMDb page: Nomadland, LA Confidential, The River Wild, Sneakers, a batch of rigorous dramas by his longtime friend John Sayles (including Matewan and Limbo), a fling with Carmela on The Sopranos, a career-best performance as a predatory teacher in the indie gem Blue Car, and an Oscar nomination for Good Night, and Good Luck. Today the 72-year-old, who resembles a lean, lined Cary Grant, is sitting bolt upright and strangely...

Training Day, Iron Man, The Master, Munich, Ford v Ferrari, The Bling Ring, Nightcrawler, Ray, Birds of Prey, You Don’t Mess with the Zohan, Syriana, The Conjuring 2––meet Michael Bauman, the man who’s lit it all. That’s not even a quarter of the credits to his name, almost all of which, since 1994, list him as gaffer or chief lighting technician. Different productions have different titles, but it’s essentially the same job: he’s in charge of light. Where it goes in or out of frame, how it’s sourced, how it plays on screen, the strength, the tone, the hue, the shadow, all of it. In a medium created to capture light, that’s a vital role. He characterizes frames through details that guide our viewing experience, creating thematic throughlines with color, or heightening specific moments with dynamic shading, or falsifying daylight, or something else we take for granted.

[This post originally appeared as part of Recommendation Machine, IndieWire’s daily TV picks feature.]

Where to Watch ‘The Fungies!’: HBO Max

It’s not easy to describe what exactly the Fungies are. The theme song for the animated HBO Max Original presents them as “prehistoric fungi,” though de facto main character Seth (voiced by Harry Teitelman) is basically shaded like a tomato and the inhabitants of bustling Fungietown live in giant mushroom buildings, so everything in this world follows a kind of internal children’s-show logic. Whatever adjectives you choose to use, that character design serves as the first and main draw of “The Fungies!”

Most of the creatures of “The Fungies!” function somewhere between Potato Head, putty, and whatever’s in a lava lamp. Normal day-to-day life involves detaching and rearranging limbs, getting smushed together as component parts of giant innovative apparatuses, and in the case of Seth’s siblings The Twins, existing as modular halves of a single whole.

Fund CEO Koen Van Bockstal divulges details of new treaty.

Koen Van Bockstal, the new CEO of the Flanders Audiovisual Fund (Vaf), has unveiled details in Cannes of a new co-production treaty between Flanders and Jordan.

One Flemish Belgian film is already shooting in Jordan: Rebel, produced by Caviar. This is a coming-of-age story about a family torn apart over a little boy’s future. It is directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah (pictured), the filmmakers behind Bad Boys For Life – the top-grossing Hollywood film of last year. The Vaf is one of the major investors in the project.

Belgian outfit outlines ambitions after cable outfit Telenet takes 49% stake.

Caviar, the Belgian production outfit behind Oscar nominee Sound Of Metal, has revealed fresh details on its upcoming projects following a major deal with Flemish cable operator Telenet.

Telenet acquired a 49% stake in Caviar Global last week, a move that will allow the producer to extend its international footprint and ramp up its production activities, according to Caviar CEO Bert Hamelinck.

“Caviar is global but our roots and holding company are still Belgian,” said Hamelinck, who co-founded the company in 2005 and has since opened offices in Los Angeles, London, Brussels,...

Sometimes, even being the younger brother of a movie star isn’t enough to get your film made. In 2008, Jake Paltrow had just directed his older sister, Gwyneth Paltrow, in the romantic comedy “The Good Night.” It was then that Paltrow – Jake, not Gwyneth – had the idea for his next film, one set in the future that included elements of both the Golden Age of Hollywood and American science-fiction.

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For the upcoming 91st Oscar telecast, after all the noise about the worst ratings in history, the Academy had to replace producers Michael DeLuca and Jennifer Todd. The duo did well enough their first time around (the Best Picture snafu was not their fault) to warrant returning their second, and put on a decent show within the usual constraints of a ceremony that must showcase 24 award winners.

For Oscars 2019, new producer Donna Gigliotti, who won an Oscar for Miramax’s surprise winner “Shakespeare in Love” in 1999, will pioneer new Academy rules allowing several of the tech Oscars to be handed out during the commercial break and then edited into the live show. (No one will miss their time in the spotlight; there will be a lot less walking.)

New Yorker Gigliotti will work closely with co-producer Glenn Weiss, who will also direct. If he looks familiar, he’s the unflappable...

For the upcoming 91st Oscar telecast, after all the noise about the worst ratings in history, the Academy had to replace producers Michael DeLuca and Jennifer Todd. The duo did well enough their first time around (the Best Picture snafu was not their fault) to warrant returning their second, and put on a decent show within the usual constraints of a ceremony that must showcase 24 award winners.

For Oscars 2019, new producer Donna Gigliotti, who won an Oscar for Miramax’s surprise winner “Shakespeare in Love” in 1999, will pioneer new Academy rules allowing several of the tech Oscars to be handed out during the commercial break and then edited into the live show. (No one will miss their time in the spotlight; there will be a lot less walking.)

New Yorker Gigliotti will work closely with co-producer Glenn Weiss, who will also direct. If he looks familiar, he’s the unflappable...

Donna Gigliotti will produce the 91st Oscars telecast, with Glenn Weiss co-producing and directing the show.

The Academy Awards will air live on ABC on Feb. 24, 2019, from Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center.

“Donna and Glenn will infuse new energy and vision into this 91st awards presentation, and we are excited about a broad-based creative relationship with these two artists,” Academy president John Bailey said on Monday.

Gigliotti won a best picture Academy Award as one of the producers of 1998’s “Shakespeare in Love.” She’s been nominated in the category for “The Reader,” “Silver Linings Playbook,” and “Hidden Figures.” Her other producing credits include “Beasts of No Nation,” “Two Lovers,” “The Good Night,” and “Emma.”

Weiss has directed the last three Oscar broadcasts, winning Emmys for outstanding directing for a variety special for the 2017 and 2018 shows. He’s won a total of 14 Emmys (including for his work...

Penelope Cruz is a huge fan of her friend Gwyneth Paltrow.

The two Hollywood A-listers have known each other for over a decade, since starring in the 2007 movie The Good Night. And, it's clear the two have an admiration for each other, Paltrow interviewed Cruz earlier this month for the latest issue of Interview magazine.

Et's Carley Steel caught up with the 43-year-old Spanish actress during the Murder on the Orient Express junket at Claridge's in London earlier this week, and shared the best tips and advice Paltrow has given her.

"I've learned some things about cooking and her house is really like [a] Michelin star restaurant. She's an incredible cook!" Cruz said. "She's really, really great."

Related: Penelope Cruz Reveals Her Biggest Hurdle When Playing Donatella Versace in Interview with Gwyneth Paltrow

"I think the kind of advice and the ideas that they talk about in Goop are really good in so many ways and very brave," she...

Read More: Venice Film Festival to Pay Tribute to Brian De Palma After handling Asif Kapadia's breakout hit "Amy," indie distributor A24 is has just announced their acquisition of another insightful documentary about an icon in "De Palma." Directed by Noah Baumbach ("Mistress America," "Frances Ha") and Jake Paltrow ("Young Ones," "The Good Night"), the film paints a portrait of legendary director Brian De Palma, who is set to be honored this week at the Venice Film Festival with the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award. The documentary promises an honest and candid discussion with the one-of-a-kind director, exploring his illustrious 50-year career, in which he went from New Hollywood bad boy to highly respected film veteran, and directed celebrated and diverse films such as "Carrie," "Dressed to Kill," "Scarface," "Blow Out" and "Mission: Impossible." About...

Gwyneth Paltrow silver dress on the Oscars' Red Carpet Gwyneth Paltrow at the Academy Awards Donning a shining silver dress, Gwyneth Paltrow arrives at the 2011 Academy Awards held on Feb. 27 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. Paltrow's latest movie, Country Strong, was up for a Best Song Oscar. It lost to the Toy Story 3 ditty "We Belong Together," by Randy Newman. More than a decade ago, Gwyneth Paltrow took home the Best Actress Oscar for John Madden's Shakespeare in Love (1998), a romantic comedy-drama also featuring Joseph Fiennes (as William Shakespeare), Judi Dench, Geoffrey Rush, and this year's Best Actor Oscar winner, Colin Firth (The King's Speech). Paltrow's (moderately) gender-bending Shakespeare in Love heroine remains her only Oscar-nominated performance to date. Directed by Shana Feste, Country Strong fared decently at the U.S. box office, but not as well as some had expected. Besides Gwyneth Paltrow, the cast includes...

A new trailer for the futuristic drama Young Ones has been unveiled.

The science fiction movie takes place in a world where a teenager named Flem Lever (Nicholas Hoult) tries to protect his family by finding water, the world's most precious commodity.

Flem's journey sees him encounter many eccentric characters played by the likes of Elle Fanning, Michael Shannon and Aimee Mullins.

Young Ones is written and directed by filmmaker Jake Paltrow, the young brother of Hollywood superstar Gwyneth Paltrow.

Jake previously directed his sister in the 2007 romantic comedy The Good Night, which also starred Penélope Cruz, Martin Freeman and Simon Pegg.

His latest film Young Ones opens on October 17 in the Us.

Today we have a new trailer for the upcoming "Young Ones" sci-fi thriller, starring Nicholas Hoult, Michael Shannon, Elle Fanning, and Kodi Smit-McPhee. Check it out below. Plot: Set in a near future when water has become the most precious and dwindling resource on the planet. The hardened survivors of the loss of Earth's precious resources scrape and struggle. Ernest Holm (Shannon) lives on this harsh frontier with his children, Jerome (Smit-McPhee) and Mary (Fanning). He defends his farm from bandits, works the supply routes, and hopes to rejuvenate the soil. But Mary's boyfriend, Flem Lever (Hoult), has bigger plans. He wants Ernest's land for himself, and will go to any length to get it. The new film is directed by Jake Paltrow (The Good Night), the younger brother of Gwyneth Paltrow. It's set to hit theaters on October 17th. Trailer:...

Today we have the first trailer for the upcoming "Young Ones" sci-fi thriller, starring Nicholas Hoult, Michael Shannon, Elle Fanning, and Kodi Smit-McPhee. Check it out below. Plot: Set in a near future when water has become the most precious and dwindling resource on the planet. The hardened survivors of the loss of Earth's precious resources scrape and struggle. Ernest Holm (Shannon) lives on this harsh frontier with his children, Jerome (Smit-McPhee) and Mary (Fanning). He defends his farm from bandits, works the supply routes, and hopes to rejuvenate the soil. But Mary's boyfriend, Flem Lever (Hoult), has bigger plans. He wants Ernest's land for himself, and will go to any length to get it. The new film is directed by Jake Paltrow (The Good Night), the younger brother of Gwyneth Paltrow. A release date has yet to be announced. Trailer:...

"Let us say a prayer that this piece of land, small as it may be, can be more than a symbol." Today's trailer is for an indie sci-fi/post apocalyptic film that premiered at Sundance to rather dismal buzz. It's the second feature from Jake Paltrow, younger brother of Gwyneth Paltrow, whose debut was The Good Night from 2007. This one, titled the Young Ones, is another genre-mixer set in the future, but with the tone and style of a Dust Bowl western. Kodi Smit-McPhee stars as the nomad son of Michael Shannon, and Nicholas Hoult actually plays a villain, with Elle Fanning his girlfriend. These first trailers are early promos that may not stay online, but as a first glimpse I'm intrigued to see how this looks. If you're curious, take a look. Watch the first few promo trailers for Jake Paltrow's Young Ones below, found via The Playlist:...

• Lionsgate has purchased the North American rights for Dark Blood, the last film starring River Phoenix (My Own Private Idaho) before he passed away in 1993. Directed and written by George Sluizer (The Vanishing), the upcoming thriller follows the story of Boy (Phoenix), a young widower living as a hermit on a nuclear testing site in the desert. While traveling solo on his “second” honeymoon, Boy discovers a stranded Hollywood couple. Desiring the woman, Boy decides to hold them captive because he finds himself under the impression that he can create a better world with her. The upcoming drama, set to be released via VOD,...

Isn’t this the week that indie filmmakers take the stage in Park City? Hours after Christopher Nolan came to accept Slamdance’s Founder’s Award, I’m told Steven Spielberg just sat down at the Eccles Theater for the premiere of Young Ones, the latest film written and directed by Jake Paltrow. I’m told this is Spielberg’s second trip to Sundance, and the first one was to see The Good Night, also directed by Paltrow. What gives? Spielberg is Paltrow’s godfather and obviously a big fan of the helmer’s work. Young Ones, an acquisition title, is described as a futuristic Western-style tale that takes place in a world with a scarcity of water. A 14-year-old boy is confronted with his primal instincts when he finds out his friendly brother-in-law murdered his father. The film stars Michael Shannon, Nicholas Hoult, Elle Fanning, and Kodi Smit-McPhee.

The Sundance Premieres section is “A showcase of world premieres of some of the most highly anticipated dramatic films of the coming year.”

Michael Shannon in Jake Paltrow’s “Young Ones”

Young Ones

Written and directed by Jake Paltrow

USA, 2014

It’s always a mix of delight, discomfort, and teeth-grinding tension when Michael Shannon (Bug, Take Shelter, The Iceman) takes center stage. His exacting performances often subtly build upon instability and transfix the audience as a countdown to imminent emotional combustion begins. This sci-fi drama by Jake Paltrow (The Good Night) is set to showcase Shannon and rely on his strong air of deeply held convictions to boldly deliver the film’s gritty premise of humanity’s struggle in a future deprived of water. The rest of the acting ensemble are coming of age as promising talents that may complement Shannon’s gravitas. Elle Fanning shined in Ginger & Rosa while...

The Sundance Film Festival made their final feature film line-ups with the Premieres category announcements. Sixteen films with huge name talent, returnee filmmakers and plenty of buyer interest/and future all night wheeling, and dealing.

After breaking out in Park City with The Guard, John Michael McDonagh returns (alongside actor Brendan Gleeson) the much anticipated Calvary. Mike Cahill (alongside actress Brit Marling) returns with more sci-fi terrain with, I Origins. Jake Paltrow who managed to sink instead of swim with The Good Night, was again surfaces with Young Ones. And this was unexpected, but Jordan Vogt-Roberts makes it back to back years with Toy’s House (The Kings of Summer) re-teams with Nick Offerman for Nick Offerman: American Ham (which is more concert-comedy film than narrative feature).

Not surprisingly, as predicted in 4 out of the 5, Park City veterans Gregg Araki, Michael Winterbottom, Ira Sachs and Lynn Shelton all return with their latest product,...

The actor is about to appear in the return of BBC1's Sherlock and Peter Jackson's blockbuster sequel The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

There was a scene in The Office in which Tim Canterbury, the benign sales rep played by Martin Freeman, compared his life to a roll of the dice.

"My situation now may only be a three. If I jack that in, go for something bigger and better, I could easily roll a six," he told the programme's faux documentary maker. "I could also roll a one. Ok? So I think … just leave the dice alone."

Freeman, who will star alongside Benedict Cumberbatch in the eagerly awaited return on New Year's Day of BBC1's Sherlock, and as Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's blockbuster sequel The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug next week, has just rolled a double six.

It has been an extraordinary rise for the 42-year-old actor,...

Jake Paltrow’s (The Good Night, NYPD Blue, great DNA) newest project, Young Ones, is now firmly on our radar.

The film has cast Elle Fanning (Super 8), Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Road, Let Me In), Nicholas Hoult (Jack The Giant Slayer, Warm Bodies, X-men: First Class, About A Boy), and Michael Shannon (Boardwalk Empire, Take Shelter, Man Of Steel). All we know about the plot so far is that it’s a sci-fi thriller in a future where water is scarce and is the world’s most valuable resource. Violence ensues.

It's been over a year since we heard anything about the indie sci-fi film called Young Ones being written and directed by Jake Paltrow, brother of actress Gwyneth Paltrow, who directed The Good Night in 2007. The story is set in a future were water has become a rare and precious resource, and violence has erupted in this drastically different society. Now Variety has word that Nicholas Hoult, Michael Shannon and Kodi Smit-McPhee (Let Me In) have all joined the cast along with once attached Elle Fanning who has been confirmed for a role in the film looking to start production in the South African desert next month. In the story, a teenage cowboy is grieving over the death of his father when he discovers that his fathers' killer has moved in with his sister, and the introduction of some new technology threatens to claim more lives than the water shortage.

There's an interesting sounding new sci-fi thriller that's going to be made called Young Ones. The story is set in a violent future where water has become scarce, and it's the single most precious resource.

What really got me interested in the film, though, is the cast. Variety reports that Elle Fanning (Super 8), Nicholas Hoult (Warm Bodies), Kodi Smit-McPhee (Paranorman) and Michael Shannon (Man of Steel) have joined the film, which is being developed by writer and director Jake Paltrow (The Good Night). 

The movie is already shooting in the South African desert. I'm looking forward to seeing what this movie turns out to be. ...

Elle Fanning (Super 8), Nicholas Hoult (Warm Bodies), Kodi Smit-McPhee (Let Me In) and Michael Shannon (Take Shelter) have all signed up for Jake Paltrow’s long-awaited dystopian thriller Young Ones. The lesser-known sibling, Paltrow (The Good Night) will not only direct his sophomore effort, but is also writing the screenplay, which centers on a 14-year-old boy forced to use his wits to survive and ‘is set in a violent near-future where water has become the most precious—and fastest-dwindling—resource on the planet.’ Since the lead in a neo-realistic dystopian film is a 14-year-old, it can be assumed that Smit-McPhee is playing the main character. Below is...

Nicholas Hoult will be spotty poet Rik and Michael Shannon the mysteriously cool Mike in the student comedy drama... No, sorry, that's not true. The Young Ones heading into production in this case is a futuristic thriller directed by Jake Paltrow, and nothing to do with the old Rik Mayall comedy show. Hoult and Shannon have just come aboard though, along with Elle Fanning (Super 8, We Bought a Zoo) and Kodi Smit-McPhee (Let Me In, The Road).It's sounding as if Smit-McPhee has the nominal lead, since the film centers on a 14-year-old boy fighting to survive through wit and guile in a violent nea- future where water has become the most precious resource (cough-Tank Girl-cough). The roles for the other three remain unclear for now.Paltrow got his start directing for television, on the likes of NYPD Blue. His first feature was 2007's dark comedy The Good Night,...

Nicholas Hoult ("Warm Bodies"), Michael Shannon ("Take Shelter"), Elle Fanning ("Super 8") and Kodi Smit-McPhee ("Let Me In") have all joined the cast of Jake Paltrow's futuristic thriller "Young Ones" for Subotica and Spier Films.

The story is set in a violent near-future where water has become the world's most precious (and dwindling) resource. The story follows a fourteen-year-old boy forced use his wits to survive.

Paltrow ("The Good Night") penned the script and is directing. Shooting got underway last week in South Africa's Northern Cape desert.

Source: Variety...

Jake Paltrow isn.t exactly what you.d call the most prolific director, having not helmed anything since 2007.s middling dream lover comedy The Good Night, which starred older sister Gwyneth. His sophomore effort, at least on paper, sounds exactly like a sophomore effort, but a bunch of big names just came raining down on the project. The water reference will make sense in a minute. Variety reports that Michael Shannon, Nicholas Hoult, Elle Fanning and Kodi Smit-McPhee have all signed up for Paltrow.s sci-fi thriller Young Ones, adding quite a bit of legitimacy to the film. Hoult has made his splash from one side of the pond to the next, with Warm Bodies performing better than expected. Shannon has been damned near perfect in everything he stars in, more recently in Boardwalk Empire and Premium Rush. The younger Fanning sister has already shown deft maturity as an actress...

Certainly less well-known that his much more famous sister and parents, Jake Paltrow has nonetheless been quietly making his own mark. In 2007 he delivered his feature debut "The Good Night," which admittedly didn't make much of a splash. But for his sophomore effort, he's certainly raising his game. Nicholas Hoult, Michael Shannon, Elle Fanning and Kodi Smit-McPhee are set to star in "Young Ones," a thriller that will not only be directed by Paltrow, but he wrote the script too. The seemingly issue-based sci-fi flick takes place in the near future when water has become a precious resource, and it centers on a 14-year-old who must "use his wits to survive." Survive what exactly isn't spelled out in Variety's report, but you already had us at Shannon and Fanning in the same movie, so we're already there. And we have to applaud everyone involved for keeping it under wraps, because...

Warm Bodies and Jack the Giant Slayer star Nicholas Hoult will star in Young Ones with Michael Shannon (Zod in the upcoming Man of Steel) and Super 8 star Elle Fanning as well as Let Me In's Kodi Smit-McPhee. Jake Paltrow directs the film set in a near future which is violent, and water has become the most previous, fastest diminishing resource on the planet. Here, a fourteen-year-old boy uses his wits in order to survive. Variety reports that the film's being produced by Tristan Orpen Lynch of Subotica and Spier Films' Michael Auret. This is Paltrow's second film after The Good Night, and started principal photography in the Northern Cape desert in South Africa on February 1st.

Warm Bodies and Jack the Giant Slayer star Nicholas Hoult will star in Young Ones with Michael Shannon (Zod in the upcoming Man of Steel) and Super 8 star Elle Fanning as well as Let Me In's Kodi Smit-McPhee. Jake Paltrow directs the film set in a near future which is violent, and water has become the most previous, fastest diminishing resource on the planet. Here, a fourteen-year-old boy uses his wits in order to survive. Variety reports that the film's being produced by Tristan Orpen Lynch of Subotica and Spier Films' Michael Auret. This is Paltrow's second film after The Good Night, and started principal photography in the Northern Cape desert in South Africa on February 1st.

Elle Fanning ( Super 8 ), Nicholas Hoult ( Warm Bodies ), Kodi Smit-McPhee ( ParaNorman ) and Michael Shannon ( Man of Steel ) have boarded writer/director Jake Paltrow's Young Ones , Variety reports. The film is described as being a sci-fi thriller set in a future where water has become scarce and a violent world treats it as the single most precious resource. Paltrow, who previously directed The Good Night , is now shooting in the deserts of South Africa. Tristan Orpen Lynch and Michael Auret are attached to produce with James Atherton, Marina Fuentes, Peter Garde, Brian O'Shea and Jan Pace executive producing. (Photo Credit: FayesVision / Ai-Wire / Dan Jackman / Brian To / WENN.com)...

Martin Freeman has spoken about his hopes for the trio of Hobbit movies. The British actor plays the lead role of Bilbo Baggins in the Peter Jackson adaptations of the Jrr Tolkien novel, starting with The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. He explained that he wanted to be successful in a top film, having starred in little-known projects in comparison such as The Good Night and Nativity. "The main thing I'm focusing on, is that I want to be good in the films," he told Radio Times. "'Cause I've made a few films that only 300 people have seen, but at least I'm proud of them. And I wouldn't have unmade them because they didn't make money. "So my first judge, my first critic, is me, as with most of us who are creative about what we do. And I want to like The Hobbit. And of course I want zillions of...

From Dali to Nolan, dreams have always been a large go-to story device and inspiration for filmmakers since the creation of the film camera. The, still relatively unknown, art of lucid dreaming (the ability to consciously control the dream state) however, has still only been approached by few iconic auteurs. This list aims to expose those movies that have challenged this often philosophical theme and how some of them have changed, and even made, cinematic history:

(Note: The films in this list have been chosen as they feature the ideas and/or discuss lucid dreaming directly in the narrative – be warned, there be spoilers ahead.).

5. The Good Night (2007)

The Idea

Featuring a fascinating, international ensemble cast from Jarvis Cocker to Martin Freeman to Penélope Cruz via Danny DeVito and [a rather obscure cameo from] Michael Gambon – this independent film from “younger brother” Jake Paltrow explores the often volatile world of middle-age frustration and human relationships.

The Good Night, and Good Luck actor/director will return to the world of politically charged television from the Cold War Era with the help of Sony Pictures in an option for the rights to David Bianculli's book Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour". A behind-the-scenes look at the rise and fall of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour — the provocative, politically charged program that shocked the censors, outraged the White House, and forever changed the face of television. Decades before The Daily Show, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour proved there was a place on television for no-holds-barred political comedy with a decidedly antiauthoritarian point of view. In this explosive, revealing history of the show, veteran entertainment journalist David...

I love some good sci-fi, as always. Found at Afm by Collider is a sales banner for an indie sci-fi film called Young Ones being written/directed by Jake Paltrow, brother of Gwyneth, who directed The Good Night in 2007. The art features what looks like a young boy—but might be a girl, as the latest casting updated on IONCinema as of March this year, had Elle Fanning attached, but maybe this is just temporary promo art. The tagline says "Not all Children have a Childhood", and there's a floating robot that resembles the Hoth probe droid from Empire Strikes Back, if it isn't just a direct lift. It's just early art, but check it out anyway. Click below to be taken back to Collider, where they've got some awesome Afm coverage. Here's the banner: There's not many details we can find about it, but here's the premise from IONCinema:...

Ann Curry, co-anchor of NBC News’ Today, America’s number one morning news program; Brian Williams, anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News, America’s leading evening newscast; and everyone’s favorite feathered friend, Big Bird, star in 24-hour preschool television channel Sprout’s first PSA created for “Kindness Counts,” the network’s new multiplatform, prosocial initiative designed support the development of empathy in preschoolers.

Two additional PSAs starring everyone’s favorite purple dinosaur Barney and Nina and Star from Sprout’s popular The Good Night ShowTM will debut on Sprout in September. All of the spots in the campaign also feature preschoolers demonstrating real acts of kindness. The “Kindness Counts” PSAs will be aired nationally on Sprout and other channels and featured online at SproutOnline.com.

In addition to this series of PSAs, the “Kindness Counts” campaign will also include digital and social media components, programming tie-ins and...

Teen slacker, George, thinks he's got it all figured out until he meets "doe-eyed" Sally in "The Art Of Getting By" -- and cue eclectic indie soundtrack. Curiously, this one features a roster of bands who seem like they are years off the apparent target demographic's playlists. With Mates of State, The Shins, Earlimart, Pavement and French Kicks, it feels more like the hit soundtrack of 10 years ago.

Leonard Cohen's "Winter Lady" adds some serious weight and is happily not mindlessly overused like another Cohen song I could name. There are also three tracks from the score by composer Alec Puro ("The Good Night"). The soundtrack is out on June 14th on Rhino and Amazon. The movie opens on June 17th. [film music reporter]

The full track list is below. Here are a couple song's from the soundtrack -- Earlimart's "We Drink On The Job" and "Pavement's classic 90's sadthem, "Here."

"The Art Of Getting By...

HollywoodNews.com: Our selected celebrity to be included in our “Hot Hollywood Celebrity Photo Gallery of the Day” is Penelope Cruz.

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Penélope Cruz Sánchez (born April 28, 1974) is a Spanish actress. Signed by an agent at age 15, she made her acting debut at 16 on television and her feature film debut the following year in Jamón, jamón (1992), to critical acclaim. Her subsequent roles in the 1990s and 2000s included Open Your Eyes (1997), The Hi-Lo Country (1999), The Girl of Your Dreams (2000) and Woman on Top (2000). Cruz achieved recognition for her lead roles in Vanilla Sky and Blow. Both films were released in 2001 and were commercially successful worldwide.