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On the heels of the second season premiere of Shrinking, Apple TV+ today announced that the critically acclaimed, Emmy Award-nominated comedy has landed a renewal for season three. Co-created by Jason Segel, Bill Lawrence, and Brett Goldstein, the first two episodes of Shrinking season two are now streaming globally on Apple TV+, and new episodes premiere every Wednesday.

The news was announced at New York Comic Con, where creators Segel and Goldstein and stars Christa Miller, Jessica Williams, Luke Tennie, Michael Urie, Lukita Maxwell, and Ted McGinley took the Main Stage for a special discussion around the new season.

“I’m so lucky to work on ‘Shrinking’ with actors, writers, and a crew so talented that they all elevate the material,” said co-creator and executive producer Bill Lawrence. “I’m even luckier that they are people I’d want to spend time with anyway. Huge thanks to Apple TV+ and...

“Shrinking” has been renewed for Season 3 at Apple TV+.

Co-created by Jason Segel, Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein, the show follows “grieving therapist Jimmy (Segel), who starts to break the rules and tell his clients exactly what he thinks. Ignoring his training and ethics, he finds himself making huge, tumultuous changes to people’s lives … including his own,” per the official description.

In addition to Segel, “Shrinking” stars Harrison Ford (as Paul) in one of his first television roles, Christa Miller (Liz), Jessica Williams (Gaby), Luke Tennie (Sean), Michael Urie (Brian), Lukita Maxwell (Alice) and Ted McGinley (Derek). Goldstein also makes a guest star appearance in the second season.

The news of the renewal was announced Thursday at New York Comic Con, where creators Segel and Goldstein, along with members of the “Shrinking” cast, appeared for a special discussion around Season 2. The first two episodes of the latest season are...

Shrinking has booked more sessions at Apple.

The therapy comedy starring Jason Segel has been renewed for a third season at the streamer. The news comes on the heels of Tuesday’s season two launch.

Created by Segel with Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein — the latter, who joined the cast in a key guest role for the second season — the cast also includes Harrison Ford in one of his first television roles.

The renewal news was announced Thursday at New York Comic Con when Segel and Goldstein — along with castmembers Christa Miller, Jessica Williams, Luke Tennie, Michael Urie, Lukita Maxwell and Ted McGinley — took the Main Stage for a discussion around season two, which is now streaming its first two episodes.

“I’m so lucky to work on Shrinking with actors, writers and a crew so talented that they all elevate the material,” said co-creator and executive producer Lawrence in a statement.

Today, Apple TV+ revealed the trailer for the second season of its acclaimed, Emmy Award-nominated comedy Shrinking, starring Emmy Award nominee Jason Segel and multi-award winner Harrison Ford, and created by Emmy Award winners Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein, and Segel.

The 12-episode second season will premiere globally on Apple TV+, with the first two episodes on Wednesday, October 16, followed by one new episode weekly, every Wednesday until December 25, 2024.

The Shrinking series follows a grieving therapist (played by Segel) who starts to break the rules and tell his clients exactly what he thinks. Ignoring his training and ethics, he makes huge, tumultuous changes to people’s lives … including his own.

In addition to Jason Segel and Harrison Ford, Shrinking stars Emmy Award nominee Christa Miller, Emmy Award nominee Jessica Williams, Luke Tennie, Michael Urie, Lukita Maxwell, and Ted McGinley. Brett Goldstein will appear as a special guest star in season two.

Apple TV+ has unveiled the premiere date and a first look at the 12-episode second season of Shrinking, starring Emmy-Award nominee Jason Segel and multi-award winner Harrison Ford, and created by Emmy Award winners Bill Lawrence, Brett Goldstein (Ted Lasso), and Segel.

Shrinking season two will premiere globally with the first two episodes on Wednesday, October 16, on Apple TV+. The premiere will be followed by one new episode weekly every Wednesday until December 25, 2024.

Shrinking follows a grieving therapist (played by Segel) who starts to break the rules and tell his clients exactly what he thinks. Ignoring his training and ethics, he finds himself making huge, tumultuous changes to people’s lives … including his own.

In addition to Jason Segel and Harrison Ford, Shrinking stars Emmy-Award nominee Jessica Williams, Luke Tennie, Michael Urie, Lukita Maxwell, and Ted McGinley, with Emmy-Award nominee Christa Miller. Brett Goldstein will appear as a special guest star in season two.

Exclusive: Havana Rose Liu (Bottoms) is the newest addition to the cast of Power Ballad, John Carney’s musical comedy for 30West and Likely Story, which stars Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas, as we were first to tell you.

Also starring Jack Reynor, Power Ballad is currently in production in Dublin. While plot details are being kept mostly under wraps, the film is described as an uplifting, music-driven story about a wedding singer, a rock star, and the song that comes between them.

Carney and Peter McDonald wrote the script. Producers include Anthony Bregman and Peter Cron for Likely Story, Robert Walpole and Rebecca O’Flanagan for Treasure Entertainment, and Carney, all of whom produced Carney’s most recent film, Flora and Son, for Apple TV+. 30West has fully financed the project and is handling domestic sales along with WME Independent and UTA Independent Film Group. WME Independent is also handling international,...

When Ben DeBacker (Corey Fogelmanis), the nonbinary protagonist of Tommy Dorfman’s charming directorial debut I Wish You All the Best, decides to come out to their parents, the results are disastrous.

The conversation is rendered in flashes, adding a suspenseful layer to the melancholic moment. We see Ben reviewing notes on an index card; we watch them shuffle nervously to the kitchen. Before we know it, Ben is calling his estranged sister Hannah (Alexandra Daddario) for help. The North Carolina teen is crouched in a corner of a gas station grocery store with no shoes and holes in their socks. It’s only when Hannah shows up — worried and out of breath — that the gravity of the situation sets in.

Premiering at SXSW, I Wish You All the Best follows Ben as they recover from the emotional trauma of coming out to their parents and adjust to a new...

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I am Valerie Complex, an associate editor and film writer at Deadline. Today I’m chatting with Ji-young Yoo, who has some anticipated performances on the horizon. It’s no wonder Variety named her one of the 10 Actors to Watch for 2023.

Ji-Young stars as a co-lead in the six-part limited series Expats, which is based on the Janice Y.K. Lee’s international best-selling novel, The Expatriates. Directed by Lulu Wang (The Farewell), the series also stars Nicole Kidman and Sarayu Blue. Set in Hong Kong 2014, the story centers on three American women – Margaret Mercy and Hilary – whose lives intersect after a sudden tragedy. The series made its debut at the 2023 Toronto Film Festival and was released on Prime Video in January.

The actress attended Sundance 2024 for the premiere of the immersive film Freaky Tales alongside Pedro Pascal and Jay Ellis. From Captain Marvel...

Oscar winner Nicole Kidman leads the cast of Prime Video’s Expats, based on Janice Y. K. Lee’s bestselling novel The Expatriates. The limited series’ official trailer introduces the three women at the heart of the story – Kidman as Margaret, Sarayu Blue (Never Have I Ever) as Hilary, and Ji-young Yoo (The Sky is Everywhere) as Mercy.

The six-episode season’s cast also includes Brian Tee (Chicago Med) as Margaret’s husband, Clarke, and Jack Huston (House of Gucci) as Hilary’s husband, David. Amelyn Pardenilla plays Puri, Ruby Ruiz is Essie, Will Orr is Tony, and Bonde Sham plays Charly.

Lulu Wang created the series and serves as writer, director, and executive producer. Additional executive producers include Daniel Melia, Nicole Kidman, Per Saari, Alice Bell, Theresa Park, Stan Wlodkowski. Bell, Vera Miao, Gursimran Sandhu, and author Lee are involved as writers alongside Wang.

Brian Tee and Nicole Kidman...

Prime Video has released the trailer for Expats, the six-part limited series directed by Lulu Wang and based on the internationally best-selling novel The Expatriates by Janice Y. K. Lee. The series will premiere with two episodes on January 26, 2024, with new episodes launching weekly until the finale on February 23, 2024. Expats stars Academy Award- and Emmy-winning actor Nicole Kidman, Sarayu Blue, Ji-young Yoo, Brian Tee, and Jack Huston. Kidman and Lulu Wang also serve as executive producers on the series. Set against the vibrant and tumultuous tapestry of 2014 Hong Kong, Expats centers on three American women—Margaret (Nicole Kidman), Hilary (Sarayu Blue), and Mercy (Ji-young Yoo)—whose lives intersect after a sudden family tragedy. The series interrogates privilege and explores what happens when the line between victimhood and culpability becomes blurred. Brian Tee plays Margaret’s husband Clarke and Jack Huston plays Hilary’s husband David.

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Prime Video has released the trailer for ‘Expats,’ the six-part limited series directed by Lulu Wang and based on the internationally best-selling novel The Expatriates by Janice Y. K. Lee.

Set against the vibrant and tumultuous tapestry of 2014 Hong Kong, Expats centers on three American women—Margaret (Nicole Kidman), Hilary (Sarayu Blue), and Mercy (Ji-young Yoo)—whose lives intersect after a sudden family tragedy. The series interrogates privilege and explores what happens when the line between victimhood and culpability becomes blurred. Brian Tee plays Margaret’s husband Clarke and Jack Huston plays Hilary’s husband David.

The series stars Academy Award- and Emmy-winning actor Nicole Kidman, Sarayu Blue, Ji-young Yoo, Brian Tee, and Jack Huston. Kidman and Lulu Wang also serve as executive producers on the series.

Lulu Wang serves as a creator, director, and writer for Expats. Wang also executive produces the series with Daniele Melia for Local Time.

Grief takes many forms. It gets inside your bones and could change you after siphoning your energy and reducing you to a shadow of your former self. In today’s Expats trailer, Margaret (Nicole Kidman) encounters a level of grief no parent should suffer, and as her emotions pull her into an abyss, loved ones attempt to remove her from the brink of darkness. Expats, the six-part limited series from the brilliant directorial eye of Lulu Wang (The Farewell), comes to Prime Video on February 23, 2024.

“Set against the vibrant and tumultuous tapestry of 2014 Hong Kong, Expats centers on three American women—Margaret (Nicole Kidman), Hilary (Sarayu Blue), and Mercy (Ji-young Yoo)—whose lives intersect after a sudden family tragedy,” reads the official Expats synopsis. “The series interrogates privilege and explores what happens when the line between victimhood and culpability becomes blurred. Brian Tee plays Margaret’s husband Clarke, and Jack Huston...

Demi Lovato is bringing the Xmas spirit to Roku.

A Very Demi Holiday Special, in which the singer performs Christmas classics and a few of her own original hits, will debut Friday, Dec. 8 on The Roku Channel.

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Poster for Prime Video’s ‘Expats’

Expats, based on the bestselling novel The Expatriates by Janice Y. K. Lee, will premiere on Prime Video on January 26, 2024. The streaming service’s premiere date announcement was accompanied by the first teaser poster for the six-episode limited series.

Expats stars Oscar and Emmy Award winner Nicole Kidman as Margaret, Sarayu Blue (Never Have I Ever) as Hilary, and Ji-young Yoo (The Sky is Everywhere) as Mercy. The ensemble also features Brian Tee (Chicago Med) as Clarke, Jack Huston (Fargo) as David, Amelyn Pardenilla as Puri, Ruby Ruiz (Iska) as Essie, Will Or as Tony, and Bonde Sham (MidNight Lila) as Charly.

Lulu Wang created the limited series and serves as writer, director, and executive producer. Vera Miao (Two Sentence Horror Stories), Gursimran Sandhu (Game of Thrones), Alice Bell (The Beautiful Lie), and author Lee also serve as writers. Additional executive producers include Bell,...

Apple Original Films is back with another original film after Killers of the Flower Moon and Napoleon. Fingernails is a sci-fi romance that explores the idea of love in the digital age, starring Jessie Buckley, Jeremy Allen White, and Riz Ahmed. The film is directed by Christos Nikou, who made his English-language debut with this project.

Fingernails is set in a world where scientists have developed a test that can prove whether two people are in love or not. The test involves pulling out a fingernail from each person and scanning it with a machine that measures their happiness. Anna (Buckley) is a woman who works at an institute that conducts this test on couples who are desperate to find out the truth about their relationship. She secretly embarks on a new assignment with Amir (Ahmed), her co-worker and love interest, who is also in a relationship with Natasha (Murphy). Meanwhile,...

Prime Video has released first-look images for ‘Expats,’ the six-part limited series based on the internationally best-selling novel ‘The Expatriates,’ by Janice Y. K. Lee.

The Lulu Wang-directed series stars Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning actor Nicole Kidman, Sarayu Blue, Ji-young Yoo, Brian Tee, and Jack Huston.

Set against the vibrant and tumultuous tapestry of 2014 Hong Kong, Expats centres on three American women—Margaret (Nicole Kidman), Hilary (Sarayu Blue), and Mercy (Ji-young Yoo)—whose lives intersect after a sudden family tragedy. The series interrogates privilege and explores what happens when the line between victimhood and culpability becomes blurred. Brian Tee, who plays Margaret’s husband Clarke and Jack Huston, who plays Hilary’s husband David also star in the series.

Lulu Wang serves as a creator, director and writer for Expats. Wang also executive produces the series with Daniele Melia for Local Time. Nicole Kidman serves as an executive...

Nicole Kidman stars in ‘Expats’ limited series (Photo Credit: Courtesy of Prime Video)

Nicole Kidman, Sarayu Blue, and Ji-young Yoo star in Prime Video’s upcoming limited series Expats, based on Janice Y. K. Lee’s bestselling novel The Expatriates. The streaming service just released the first batch of photos from the six-episode season, along with details on the plot and the cast list.

The first photos from the 2024 release include scenes with Oscar and Emmy Award winner Nicole Kidman as Margaret, Sarayu Blue (Never Have I Ever) as Hilary, and Ji-young Yoo (The Sky is Everywhere) as Mercy. Additional photos feature Brian Tee (Chicago Med) as Clarke, Jack Huston (Fargo) as David, Amelyn Pardenilla as Puri, Ruby Ruiz (Iska) as Essie, Will Or as Tony, and Bonde Sham (MidNight Lila) as Charly.

Lulu Wang created the limited series and writes, directs, and executive produces. Vera Miao (Two Sentence Horror Stories...

One of the final comedy films of the summer has arrived — Emma Seligman’s “Bottoms” (2023). Co-written by Seligman, who directs, and Rachel Sennott, who stars as one of the main characters, the queer comedy film watches two unpopular teens plot a way to win over their popular crushes. They ultimately decide that a fight club is the best way to do this.

The antics of the Rockbridge Falls football team take a subplot to this main thread, until, of course, the two leading players realize what the club scheme is really all about. Some other conflicts of interest arise as the film goes on.

Here are the cast and characters of “Bottoms”:

Rachel Sennott as Pj in “Bottoms”

Pj (Rachel Sennott)

Pj, who loves overalls and suspenders, has a huge crush on Brittany (Kaia Gerber), and her hopeless romanticism combined with her refusal to quit leads her to take this crush to extreme lengths.

Havana Rose Liu recently had her breakthrough role playing the lead in the Hulu thriller No Exit (read our review Here) – which was an okay movie, but underwhelming in comparison to the awesome Taylor Adams novel it was based on. Now Deadline reports that Liu is returning to the thriller realm with a role in in director Chris Weitz’s horror film They Listen. Liu joins a cast that includes the previously announced Katherine Waterston (Alien: Covenant), John Cho (Searching), Lukita Maxwell (Shrinking), and Riki Lindhome (Wednesday). Details on her characters, and in fact on every character in the movie, are being kept under wraps.

They Listen is coming to us from Sony, Blumhouse, and Depth of Field. Weitz is producing the film with Jason Blum and Andrew Miano. Bea Sequeira, Dan Balgoyen, Britta Rowings, and Paul Davis serve as executive producers. Filming was already underway in Los Angeles back in December.

Exclusive: The cast for Blumhouse Sony’s horror pic They Listen grows louder with the addition of Havana Rose Liu in the Chris Weitz directed and written title.

Liu joins John Cho, Katherine Waterstone, Greg Hill, Riki Lindhome, Lukita Maxwell, Keith Carradine, and Ben Youcef in the Depth of Field production.

They Listen will open theatrically on August 25.

Jason Blum, Andrew Miano and Weitz are producers on the film. Bea Sequeira, Dan Balgoyen, Britta Rowings and Paul Davis are EPs.

Liu broke out as the lead in Hulu’s thriller No Exit, from director Damien Power and producer Scott Frank. Next up, she stars opposite Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri in Emma Seligman’s MGM feature, Bottoms, which is making its world premiere at SXSW. Previous credits include A24’s The Sky is Everywhere for director Josephine Decker and a recurring role on Netflix’s The Chair opposite Sandra Oh for producers Benioff and Weiss.

Apple+ will release its newest comedic TV series, ‘Shrinking,’ on January 27th, 2023. This series follows a widowed therapist attempting to cope with some of his own feelings by helping his patients tackle their challenges. ‘Shrinking’ has a cast full of actors and actresses who own the screen and bring the story to another level of authenticity and reliability. The cast includes Jason Segel, Harrison Ford, and Jessica Williams, who have all been in many films and other productions seen on Hollywood’s big screens. Jason Segel not only portrays the main character and therapist Jimmy, but he also is one of the writers behind the beautiful story. From ‘The Muppets’ to ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall,’ Jason has made a name for himself in the entertainment industry through both his acting and writing skills. Take a look into Jason Segel’s career and how his experience will prove itself to be a great addition to ‘Shrinking.

(Welcome to Under the Radar, a column where we spotlight specific movies, shows, trends, performances, or scenes that caught our eye and deserved more attention ... but otherwise flew under the radar. In this edition: Rebecca Hall soars in "Resurrection," "The Roundup" hits hard, and "On the Count of Three" leaves a lasting impression.)

You know how it goes. The doldrums of the late summer months typically equate to a similar sense of malaise at the box office. Blockbusters, previously a constant presence at multiplexes wherever you turn, are suddenly nowhere to be seen. Meanwhile, smaller movies languish because if a rising tide lifts all boats, the opposite would have to prove unenviably true. After all, if conventional thought has any merit, the lack of event movies has to mean that there's nothing whatsoever worth going out to support ... right?

Well, the circumstances surrounding the release (and supremely disheartening performance) of...

Rachel Sennott (Shiva Baby), Ayo Edebiri (Big Mouth), Marshawn Lynch (Murderville), Ruby Cruz (Castle Rock), Havana Rose Liu (No Exit), Kaia Gerber (American Horror Story), Nicholas Galitzine (Cinderella), Miles Fowler (Winning Time), Dagmara Dominczyk (Succession) and Punkie Johnson (Love Life) have signed on to star in Bottoms, an upcoming high school sex comedy that Emma Seligman (Shiva Baby) is directing for MGM’s Orion Pictures and Brownstone Productions.

The film written by Seligman and Sennott follows two unpopular queer girls in their senior year who start a fight club to try to impress and hook up with cheerleaders. Elizabeth Banks, Max Handelman and Alison Small will produce for Brownstone Productions, with production kicking off this spring.

Bottoms joins a slate of films at Orion that includes Billy Porter’s directorial debut, Anything’s Possible, set for release this summer; Women Talking—with Plan B Entertainment, and starring Rooney Mara, Claire Foy,...

Harrison Ford has found his next role — and on the small screen, no less.

The “Indiana Jones” icon is officially joining the Apple TV+ comedy “Shrinking” as a series regular. The 10-episode series is written by Jason Segel, who also executive-produces alongside Emmy Award-winning “Ted Lasso” co-creator Bill Lawrence and Emmy Award-winning “Ted Lasso” star, writer, and co-executive producer Brett Goldstein. “Shrinking” follows grieving therapist Jimmy (Segel), who starts telling his clients what he really thinks about them.

“Ignoring his training and ethics, he finds himself making huge, tumultuous changes to people’s lives…including his own,” the official series description reads.

Ford, meanwhile, is set to play another psychologist, a “blue-collar shrink” who is blunt in his therapeutic approach. “Phil (Ford) is a pioneer in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy who has built a successful practice over the years that he shares with his two young proteges, Jimmy and Gaby,” the character description states.

Exclusive: Producers Denise Di Novi and Margaret French Isaac of Di Novi Pictures have partnered with author Amanda Kloots to turn her memoir Live Your Live into a feature film.

Amanda Kloots and her sister Anna Kloots penned the book and are adapting the screenplay themselves. No financier has been set yet.

In Live Your Life, Kloots reflects on love, loss, and life with her husband, Broadway star and Tony-nominee Nick Cordero, whose public battle with Covid and tragic death made headlines around the world. In the early spring of 2020, Cordero was hospitalized for what he and his wife believed was a severe case of pneumonia. Entering Cedars-Sinai, there was no indication that Cordero would never return home. Diagnosed with Covid, Cordero – who only a few days earlier was the picture of health – soon deteriorated. Suffering a series of complications – minor heart attacks, an amputation, sepsis – he was kept alive for weeks,...

(Welcome to Under the Radar, a new column where we spotlight specific movies, shows, trends, performances, or scenes that caught our eye and deserved more attention ... but otherwise flew under the radar. In this edition: Steven Soderbergh captures our new normal in "Kimi," "The Afterparty" continues to embrace its medium, the triumphs of Joachim Trier's "The Worst Person in the World," and "The Sky Is Everywhere" isn't afraid to get a little flashy.)

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When addicts lead stories, they’re not often heroes, and their arcs rarely stray from Sisyphean struggles against their drug(s) of choice. Those narratives are important in their own right, but it can also be refreshing to see addicts — who are, after all, just people — do something else.

Hulu’s “No Exit,” the second feature from director Damien Power (“Killing Ground”), offers its addict protagonist plenty to do, but it also puts her through an entirely different, at times garishly absurd, kind of hell.

The victim in question is Darby, a cynical young woman in the revolving door of recovery who busts out of rehab in Sacramento when she finds out her mother is dying in a Salt Lake City hospital. Just a few days sober and driving in a stolen car, her nerves are already worn thin by the time she’s stopped and directed to a rest...

Filmmaker Josephine Decker has been working as a director since her first short film, “Naked Princeton,” in 2005, but she’s become more recognizable and lauded in the last few years. With “Madeline’s Madeline” and “Shirley,” she has cemented herself as an individualistic and inventive filmmaker who can put her spin on each new genre she tackles, and in her latest, “The Sky is Everywhere,” she imbues a YA story with her distinct touch for the avant-garde.

Continue reading Josephine Decker Talks ‘The Sky Is Everywhere,’ Visualizing Emotions & More [Interview] at The Playlist.

Valentine’s Day is almost upon us, and for those who celebrate the holiday with a cozy movie night, “The Sky Is Everywhere” will launch just in time.

Adapted from the book by bestselling author Jandy Nelson, who also wrote “I’ll Give You the Sun,” “The Sky Is Everywhere” captures the wide range of emotions from grief to love and everything in between. Whether you fall under the ‘Young Adult’ category or not, this movie speaks to a wide range of emotions.

Avid fans of Nelson’s novel, those who follow every YA story, or those simply looking for something fresh and new will want to know how to watch this latest teen romance story. Below, all your questions on how to watch “The Sky Is Everywhere” are answered.

When Does “The Sky Is Everywhere” Come Out?

“The Sky Is Everywhere” debuts Friday, Feb 11.

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Apple TV+'s "The Sky Is Everywhere" offers a sensitive look at a teenage love story that blossoms amid a time of grief. The film, which debuted on Feb. 11, is an adaptation of Jandy Nelson's best-selling novel of the same name. Written by Nelson and directed by Josephine Decker, the movie follows 17-year-old Lennie Walker (Grace Kaufman) as she deals with the tragic loss of her older sister, Bailey (Havana Rose Liu). In the months after her sister's death, Lennie quickly falls for Joe Fontaine (Jacques Colimon) - the new heartthrob at her high school who she grows romantic feelings for while dealing with a conflicting attraction to her sister's devastated boyfriend, Toby (Pico Alexander).

". . . just reading her journey and discovering more about her, I really did fall totally in love with her."

Kaufman, who's only 19 years old, helms the movie adaptation in her first major...

Films from Belfast to Drive My Car, from The Worst Person In The World to Nightmare Alley saw ticket sales pop after Academy Award nominations and as distributors kick into high gear for this weekend and beyond, juggling theater counts and ramped up media campaigns that now have a shiny new imprimatur.

For Neon’s The Worst Person Person In The World, “TV, digital, radio, print all kick into high gear as a consumer facing academy campaign, highlighting the film’s double Oscar nomination, some of the best reviews of the year and buzzy, strong word of mouth, ” said distribution chief Elissa Federoff. “It’s always a gamble to open this late in the Oscar season, but when it works, it really works.” The Joachim Trier Best International Feature nominated film from Norway in week 2.

New specialty releases this weekend — Johnny Depp-starrer Minamata from Samuel Goldwyn, The Sky Is Everywhere from Apple and A24,...

The whimsy and imagination of a film like “The Sky Is Everywhere” is all the more impressive knowing that production took place during Covid and during California wildfire season, offering unique challenges to getting the story onscreen.

“It’s like two competing crises,” director Josephine Decker recalled in a recent interview with TheWrap. “Covid is like, only have meetings with other people outside. And then there’s California wildfires [with] ash falling in the air, and it’s like do not go outside under any circumstances, stay inside with air filters running.”

Based on the book by bestselling author Jandy Nelson, who also wrote the screenplay, the film follows teen Lennie Walker (Grace Kaufman) as she juggles feelings of grief, new love and loss in the wake of the unexpected death of her sister Bailey (Havana Rose Liu). Following the tragedy, Lennie starts experiencing romantic longing.

“The Sky Is Everywhere” is...

There’s breathless, relentless energy to the work of Josephine Decker, a trait usually accompanied by a sense of the unexpected, never quite knowing where her narrative may turn or how her characters could express their mercurial emotions. Her latest film The Sky Is Everywhere, adapted by Jandy Nelson from her own novel, features a strong sense of the former without ever offering the latter. What results is an aesthetically imaginative, narratively banal YA adaptation hitting too-familiar beats despite its relatively invigorating style.

Following the sudden death of her older sister to fatal heart arrhythmia––the same issue that claimed the life of their mother––17-year-old Lennie Walker (Grace Kaufman), a talented clarinetist, is adrift. Understandably still reeling from the loss, Lennie attempts to rebuild her life in a moment of transition when others her age are consumed by the promise of young love and limitless possibilities of the future...

The Apple TV+ film by Josephine Decker, adapted from the 2010 YA novel, deftly explores the confusing tangle of emotions in the aftermath of loss

The Sky Is Everywhere, Apple TV+ and A24’s adaptation of Jandy Nelson’s 2010 young adult novel, often gives what could be a rote exploration of grief the sheen of a fairy tale. Seventeen-year-old Lennie Walker (Grace Kaufman) lives in a colorful house in a northern California redwood forest surrounded by ancient trees and her Gram’s (Cherry Jones) sweet-smelling roses. A talented clarinetist, her forays into the woods are soundtracked by classical jazz; the wind carries off her poems and letters, written on leaves or looseleaf paper. There once were two sisters who explored together, she narrates, and minutes into the film, there remains only one, after the death of Lennie’s beloved older sister Bailey (Havana Rose Liu) from a heart arrhythmia – the same...

Insistently rejecting the idea that a little bit of a good thing goes a long way, “The Sky Is Everywhere” finds director Josephine Decker indulging in affectation overload in an effort to imbue her adaptation of Jandy Nelson’s young-adult novel with uplifting magic. Whereas individual moments might work on their own, however, the “Madeline’s Madeline” auteur’s latest never provides its romantic tale with room to breathe, so intent is it about operating with maximum whimsicality. Teen audiences may be enticed to give it a try when it debuts in select theaters and on Apple TV Plus on Feb. 11, but what they’ll discover is

There isn’t a look-at-me device left unemployed by “The Sky Is Everywhere,” as Decker utilizes dreamy narration, swirling and rotating camerawork, gliding edits, paper mâché-style animation, CGI flights of fancy and an eclectic Caroline Shaw score full of orchestral music, woodwinds, horns and dainty French tunes.

Recently, this critic was reminded of the existence of author Lurlene McDaniel’s sizable bibliography of young adult books focused on kids and teens dealing with horrible illnesses, ailments, and eventual death. McDaniel is hardly the only YA author to focus on such topics — though she’s certainly the most prolific — but for a generation of readers, it was McDaniel who introduced such heavy plots as something the younger set could be trusted to understand. In 2010, Jandy Nelson’s debut novel “The Sky Is Everywhere” continued the tradition, following a heartbroken sister attempting to deal with the messy emotional aftermath of her beloved big sister’s death.

Grief is a fertile, if uncomfortable topic, and Nelson’s book approached it with the kind of open-hearted honesty it deserved, wrapped up in a careful package that made it accessible enough for the teenage audience it was meant to serve. A cinematic version?...

Based on Jandy Nelson’s young adult novel, “The Sky Is Everywhere” is a candy-colored story of a young girl grieving after the death of her charismatic older sister.

Director Josephine Decker (“Shirley”) leans into the fantastical elements of the material, and this results in a poorly structured narrative that always rushes past any moment that could give the film a deeper resonance.

We are told in narration by Lennie (Grace Kaufman from Sundance hit “Resurrection”) just how close she was to her sister Bailey, who was rehearsing to play Juliet at school when she suddenly died of a heart malfunction, just like their mother did. We only learn midway through the film that the girls’ mother got pregnant through artificial insemination; it’s also not until then that we learn what relation Jason Segel’s character Big has to the sisters. Such pointlessly withheld information is just one of the problems here.

One way to look at The Sky Is Everywhere, Josephine Decker’s adaptation of a YA bestseller by Jandy Nelson, is as a caring response to two years of relentless tragedy. Did the director glance around and think that what we all really needed right now is an optimistic, whimsical take on grief? Maybe she thought it could…...

In John Cassavetes’s 1977 psychological drama “Opening Night,” star Gena Rowlands laments, “When I was 17, I…I could do anything. It was so easy. My emotions were so close to the surface.” It’s in this soil of raw, intense teenage emotional honesty that director Josephine Decker firmly plants her adaption of Jandy Nelson’s YA novel “The Sky Is Everywhere.” In both films, artists lose touch with their craft while reeling from a sudden, expected death that shakes them to their core, though one tackles this trauma with a much lighter, rosier touch.

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Everything in the world of musical prodigy, Lennie Walker (Grace Kaufman), is heightened.

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Josephine Decker knows it sounds a little weird — that the filmmaker behind such tone poems as “Thou Wast Mild & Lovely” and “Butter on the Latch” and internal dramas like “Madeline’s Madeline” and “Shirley” wanted to make an Apple-backed adaption of a popular YA novel for her fifth feature film — but it made perfect sense to her.

“I remember calling my mom when I first got the movie and I was like, ‘I’m making my first happy movie, Mom. You’re going to love it. You’re going to be so excited to watch it!'” Decker said in a recent interview with IndieWire. “She’s like, ‘What’s it about?’ And I was like, ‘It’s about a girl whose sister died.’ But it really is, by far, my happiest movie. It’s much more positive than the things I usually make, and I was really ready for that.

To celebrate the eagerly-anticipated release of The Sky Is Everywhere, the adaptation of Jandy Nelson’s acclaimed novel, we sat down with the cast and director to find out all about this magical new film.

Tucked among the magical redwood trees of Northern California and surrounded by her grandmother’s gargantuan roses, 17-year-old Lennie Walker (Grace Kaufman), a radiant musical prodigy, struggles with overwhelming grief following the sudden loss of her older sister, Bailey Havana Rose Liu). When Joe Fontaine (Jacques Colimon), the charismatic new guy at school, enters Lennie’s life, she’s drawn to him. But Lennie’s complicated relationship with her sister’s devastated boyfriend, Toby (Pico Alexander), starts to affect Lennie and Joe’s budding love. Through her vivid imagination and honest, conflicted heart, Lennie navigates first love and first loss to create a song of her own. Acclaimed filmmaker Josephine Decker directs this moving adaptation...

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Curiously absent from Sundance and Berlinale is the latest by an alum of both, Josephine Decker. Following Madeline’s Madeline and Shirley, the director is back with The Sky Is Everywhere, which was adapted by Jandy Nelson, based on her novel. Produced by A24 and Apple, it follows a high-schooler who loses her older sister and attempts to regain her footing in life. With the YA material, it looks like Decker is carving a new path; we’re curious to see the results.

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Apple and A24 has debuted a new trailer for ‘The Sky Is Everywhere’ based on the beloved novel and directed by Josephine Decker.

Tucked among the magical redwood trees of Northern California and surrounded by her grandmother’s gargantuan roses, 17-year-old Lennie Walker, a radiant musical prodigy, struggles with overwhelming grief following the sudden loss of her older sister, Bailey. When Joe Fontaine, the charismatic new guy at school, enters Lennie’s life, she’s drawn to him. But Lennie’s complicated relationship with her sister’s devastated boyfriend, Toby, starts to affect Lennie and Joe’s budding love. Through her vivid imagination and honest, conflicted heart, Lennie navigates first love and first loss to create a song of her own. Acclaimed filmmaker Josephine Decker directs this moving adaptation of the beloved novel of the same name.

The film stars Grace Kaufman, Pico Alexander, Jacques Colimon, Julia Schlaeper, Ji-young Yoo,...

Curiously absent from the Sundance Film Festival and Berlinale is the latest work from an alum of both festivals, Josephine Decker. Following up Madeline’s Madeline and Shirley, the director is back with The Sky Is Everywhere, an Apple and A24 production that will be arriving early next month. Adapted by Jandy Nelson, based on her novel, the film follows a high schooler who loses her older sister and attempts to regain her footing in life. Ahead of the February 11 release on Apple TV+ and in theaters, the first trailer has now arrived.

As the synopsis reads, “Tucked among the magical redwood trees of Northern California and surrounded by her grandmother’s gargantuan roses, 17-year-old Lennie Walker, a radiant musical prodigy, struggles with overwhelming grief following the sudden loss of her older sister, Bailey. When Joe Fontaine, the charismatic new guy at school, enters Lennie’s life, she’s drawn to him.

"The heart breaks... music escapes... that's how it gets out." Apple TV+ has unveiled the first official trailer for The Sky is Everywhere, an uplifting new film made by acclaimed filmmaker Josephine Decker - of the films Madeline's Madeline and Shirley recently. For some reason this is skipping festivals entirely and debuting directly on Apple for streaming in February. A shy, teenage musician tries to keep things together in the aftermath of her older, more outgoing sister's death. When Joe, the charismatic new guy at school, enters Lennie's life, she's drawn to him. But Lennie's complicated relationship with her sister's devastated boyfriend, Toby, starts to affect Lennie and Joe's budding love. Through her vivid imagination and honest, conflicted heart, Lennie navigates first love and first loss. Starring Grace Kaufman as Lennie, with Jason Segel, Cherry Jones, Pico Alexander, Ji-young Yoo, Julia Schlaepfer, and Jacques Colimon as Joe. Um wow this looks extraordinary!

Will Josephine Decker ever stop surprising us? While her style isn’t for everyone, there are a lot of devotees of Decker’s free-form, immersive, and deeply personal experimental dramas (including this writer). Her last film, 2020’s “Shirley,” a seethingly interior take on the biopic formula, won over critics at the Sundance Film Festival that year, who praised it as her most ambitious to date.

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So, what’s next on Decker’s docket?

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