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Evan Jonigkeit and Dermot Mulroney join ‘The Hunting Wives’ (Photo Credits: Tommy Agriodimas and Storm Santos / Provided by Starz)

Starz’s The Hunting Wives has added Dermot Mulroney and Evan Jonigkeit as season one series regulars. They join Malin Akerman and Brittany Snow in the eight-episode drama, based on May Cobb’s novel.

Filming’s expected to begin this spring in North Carolina. Starz hasn’t announced a target premiere date.

Hightown‘s Rebecca Cutter is adapting Cobb’s novel and will serve as showrunner and executive producer. Additional executive producers include Author Cobb and 3 Arts Entertainment’s Erwin Stoff (The Serpent Queen).

The Hunting Wives “tells the story of Sophie and her family’s move from the East Coast to deep East Texas, where she succumbs to socialite Margo Bank’s irresistible charms – and finds her life consumed by obsession, seduction, and murder,” reads Starz’s synopsis. “Mulroney will play Jed Banks,...

"Weak Layers" is a new ‘ski’ sports comedy feature, written and directed by Katie Burrell, starring Burrell, Jadyn Wong and Chelsea Conwright, now playing in theatres:

“…after getting evicted, three party-loving best friends set out to win a ski-movie competition. The prize money covers their rent, but they'll have to beat out professional skiers and filmmakers…”

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It’s quiet for specialty openings after the holidays, in the thick of awards season. But one film needed this weekend — Abramorama documentary A Storm Foretold by Danish director Christoffer Guldbrandsen about the Maga movement and the Jan. 6 insurrection. The filmmaker captured footage over years of on-and-off access to Roger Stone.

It’s booked for over 20 rolling playdates in the next two weeks so far including the Quad Cinema in New York where Guldbrandsen will be holding Q&As all weekend.

Stone was former president Donald Trump’s closest political confidante and the film spans several years through Jan. 6, 2021. As Congress gathered that day to approve the election and declare Joe Biden the winner, less than a mile away, Donald Trump was urging a crowd to march towards the Capitol. Hours later, five people were killed and 141 wounded. With Stone as its central character, A Storm Foretold sees the storming...

Exclusive: Greenwich Entertainment announced today the acquisition of North American distribution rights to Katie Burrell’s feature debut Weak Layers.

The film is directed and co-written by Burrell (who also stars), and Andrew Ladd, also stars Chelsea Conwright and Jadyn Wong. Weak Layers will arrive in theaters in top 50 markets and in select mountain towns on January 5, and on VOD on February 6, 2024.

The three women star as evicted roommates who enter a ski-movie contest to resolve their living situation. Set in Lake Tahoe, these three passionate and lovably rowdy local women go on a quest to win a world-famous 72-hour short ski film competition. A progressive throwback to the cult classics, the film dissects modern, male-driven ski culture while championing the tight-knit local communities found in ski towns throughout the world.

“I love anything that upends a trope and this movie is full of the kind of teasing satire that satisfies the rebel in me.