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Kumail Nanjiani, who was nominated for a best original screenplay Oscar for his romantic comedy The Big Sick, will star opposite Dave Bautista in Stuber, an action comedy from Fox.

Michael Dowse, who helmed the hockey movie Goon, is directing the feature that is being produced by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley.

Nanjiani will play a mild-mannered Uber driver named Stu that picks up a grizzled cop (Bautista) who is hot on the trail of a brutal killer. The driver finds himself thrust into a harrowing ordeal where he has to keep his wits, his life and his five-star...

Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired North American rights to Amy Scott’s Hal Ashby documentary “Hal,” which premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival.

Oscilloscope will release the film theatrically in 2018. Ashby directed “Harold and Maude,” “The Last Detail,” “Shampoo” and “Being There.” He won an Oscar for editing “In the Heat of the Night” and was nominated for directing “Coming Home” and editing “The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming.” He died in 1988 at the age of 59.

Scott’s portrait uses archival materials, interviews, personal letters, and audio recordings to reveal a passionate, obsessive artist.

“We cannot imagine a more perfect home for this film,” Scott said. “‘Hal’ is as much a love letter to Hal Ashby as it is a testament to the indefatigable spirit of independent filmmaking, and no one celebrates true independent cinema like Oscilloscope.”

Dan Berger of Oscilloscope said, “As a true film geek,

Last week we were all blown away by the news that writer-director Rob Zombie has already begun filming his sequel to House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil’s Rejects. The third entry is fittingly called 3 From Hell and today, we have new casting updates! Zombie recently announced via Instagram that not only has genre legend Dee Wallace (The […]

Opening this weekend is a film that might just be your dark horse candidate for "Best Comic Book Adaptation of the Year." No, it's not one of the stories of caped superheroes hailing from either Marvel or DC Comics, nor is it a big-budget production from a major studio. But the fact that I Kill Giants might not yet be on your radar actually plays to the smaller film's benefit because there's a much better chance you'll be surprised by the story's heart, imagination, and incredibly compelling characters. You can get a hint of …

“Hearts Beat Loud” will open in limited release on June 8, Variety has learned exclusively.

The dramedy about a father’s complicated relationship with his college-bound daughter was an audience favorite at this year’s SXSW and Sundance Film Festival. It was picked up by Gunpowder & Sky, a global content studio launched by Van Toffler, the former CEO of Viacom Media Networks Music Group, following its Sundance premiere.

“Hearts Beat Loud” will debut in limited release before expanding in the following weeks. The film stars Nick Offerman (“Parks & Recreation”) and Kiersey Clemons (“Dope”). It also boasts a cast of veteran character actors, including Ted Danson, Sasha Lane, Blythe Danner, and Toni Collette.

“Hearts Beat Loud” centers on Offerman, a widower who presides over a failing record store in Brooklyn. After writing a poppy song with his daughter (Clemons), he experiences a flush of digital era popularity when his music is embraced by the Spotify community.

Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Mati Diop's Atlantiques (2009) is showing March 21 - April 20 and Snow Canon (2011) from March 22 - 21, 2018 in the United Kingdom as part of the retrospective The Present Is Woman, the Woman Is Present....of these fifteen, so miraculously saved, life constituted the sole possession, being literally stripped of everything. —Jean-Baptiste Sevigny and Alexandre Corréard, Narrative of a Voyage to Senegal in 1816From the delirium of joy, we fell into profound despondency and grief… —IbidMati Diop is a master of the low-key shock-cut. In Atlantiques (2009), a nonfiction experimental short she made while attending Le Fresnoy, a single edit midway through the film simultaneously opens its world and closes it up around us. In Snow Canon (2011), her half-hour fiction follow-up, a night-to-morning jump-cut changes a two-shot of women in a bed into an image of adolescent confusion, longing, isolation—and much more besides.

If you’re a child that grew up in the United States and didn’t watch “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” then I feel sorry for you. One of the greatest children’s shows of all time, ‘Mister Rogers’ ran for a total of 31 seasons and over 900 episodes, led by its star, and everyone’s favorite neighbor, Fred Rogers. In the new trailer for “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

As “Justice League” hits Blu-ray, the four-month, global theatrical run for the superhero blockbuster has finally come to a close. During that time, the Warner Bros. film grossed $657.9 million worldwide, making it the lowest-grossing film at the box office out of five DC films. While $678 million sounds like a massive number, keep in mind that this film still won’t turn a profit after its theatrical run.

A man in Birmingham, United Kingdom died after getting his head stuck in the footrest of a reclining movie theater seat. The Birmingham Mail first reported the freak accident, which occurred March 9 at the Vue cinema complex at the Star City entertainment center.

According to reports, the man dropped his phone in between two seats and bent down to pick it up, only for the electric seat’s footrest to clam down on his head. The man’s partner realized he was stuck under the footrest and called for help. Movie theater staff and other moviegoers tried to get his head out from under the footrest but they struggled to set him free immediately.

After the theater’s staff broke the chair to free the man, he suffered from cardiac arrest and was taken to Heartlands Hospital. Paramedics successfully restarted his heart, but the man died several days later due to effects from the accident.

Cannes predictors start your engines. While it’s not confirmed, the season starts right now with the trailer to David Robert Mitchell’s latest film, “Under The Silver Lake.” Mitchell, the director of “The Myth of the American Sleepover” and the indie horror hit “It Follows” has an affinity for stories about adolescents and youth and applies those skills neo-noir crime thriller genre with “Under The Silver Lake.” And yes, his third film, to be distributed by A24 in the summer, is being heavily tipped to premiere at Cannes in May.

“It Follows” fans have been anxiously waiting for director David Robert Mitchell to return to the big screen, and now A24 has provided the first look at his new film, “Under the Silver Lake.” The Los Angeles-set neo-noir stars Andrew Garfield and Riley Keough and is a major contender to world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May.

Garfield plays an aimless young man who falls in love with his neighbor, played by Keough. After the woman mysteriously vanishes, the man sets out on an odyssey throughout the underworld of Los Angeles in order to find her. If you’re thinking the plot sounds like a spiritual cousin to “Inherent Vice,” just wait until you see the trailer.

“Under the Silver Lake” will be released in select theaters June 22. Watch the first trailer below.

Sally forth and talley ho! It’s time for an apparently long-gestasting (and at least eponymously “honest”) look inside the full filmography of Wes Anderson. This time, the filmmaker’s entire oeuvre is up for examination, from “Bottle Rocket” to “Fantastic Mr. Fox, “Rushmore” to “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” and everything in between.

In the nearly seven-minute-long video, the Honest Trailers team unpacks Anderson’s many quirks and obsessions — emotionally stunted men, fraught familial relationships, kicky duds, just really meticulously made sets — and finds still more connections. Watch out: you’re about to hear to the word “disaffected” approximately 342 times.

As is so often the case with Honest Trailers, the findings are a mix of the pointed and the just kind of polite, and while Anderson’s style is ease to spot, the video does amusingly point out a few of his tropes you might have forgotten about over the course of eight films (listen,

[Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers from the “Fresh off the Boat” Season 4 finale, “King in the North.”]

While “Fresh Off the Boat” has been exploring how Nicole (Luna Blaise) is navigating what it means to be a gay individual this season, much of it has been focused first on coming out and then approaching the girl she’s been crushing on. On Tuesday’s season finale though, the high school student is forced to question where she draws the line when it comes to homophobic discrimination and her own self-expression.

Nicole, Eddie (Hudson Yang), and their close group of friends decide to attend the school dance as a group, since they’re all currently single. In order to express their solidarity, they decide to wear matching outfits: the orange and powder blue tuxes from “Dumb & Dumber.”

Read More:‘Fresh Off the Boat’ to ‘One Day at a Time’ Are the Family-Friendly Shows Leading the Charge for Youth

“The Walking Dead” is a show famous for teasing out game-changing deaths — leaving beloved characters in limbo as the credits roll, and perhaps even teasing out their fates for longer than necessary. (Never forget Season 7’s decision to make Glenn into Schrodinger’s cat.) But right now, the fate of one of “The Walking Dead’s” best-established romances currently hangs in limbo.

[Editor’s note: Spoilers for “The Walking Dead” Season 8 Episode 12, “The Key,” follow.]

Sunday night’s episode, “The Key,” exposed perhaps one of the show’s most iconic characters to violence on a life-ending scale. Yes, this might have proven ironic, given how much death has come thanks to this character, but we were still relatively shaken up by this oh-so-important question: Is Lucille the baseball bat okay?

We should have known that Lucille the baseball bat was in for a rough night based solely on our experience with this show, and the

It turns out that “Silicon Valley” the show isn’t too far off from the real life Silicon Valley. The relevance of the series to the constantly evolving world of technology was a common theme at Sunday night’s PaleyFest panel, which was held at the Dolby Theater and hosted by Vulture editor Stacey Wilson Hunt. The event kicked off with a special treat: a screening of the first episode from the upcoming fifth season. Without spoiling too much, it’s safe to say that the laughs haven’t slowed down and that the Richard Hendricks-Gavin Belson rivalry is alive and well. Also, there’s lots of pizza.

Present for the panel were stars Thomas Middleditch, Zach Woods, Kumail Nanjiani, Amanda Crew, and Martin Starr. They were joined by series creator Mike Judge and executive producer Alec Berg. Everybody got in on the action as they reflected on the show’s real-world similarities and implications.

Netflix has been science-fiction crazy in 2018 with efforts like “The Cloverfield Paradox,” “Altered Carbon,” and the upcoming “Lost in Space” reboot, and now the streaming giant has offered up its first look at another sci-fi offering, “The Titan.” The Lennart Ruff-directed movie stars Sam Worthington and Taylor Schilling and looks to successfully mix evolution with body horror.

The official synopsis from Netflix reads: “In the near future, a military family uproot their lives so they can participate in a ground-breaking experiment to accelerate man’s genetic evolution. The goal? To relocate humanity to another planet and avoid extinction.”

“The Titan” will be available to stream starting March 30. Watch the trailer below.

Sean Penn’s debut novel “Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff” doesn’t hit bookshelves until the end of the month, but excerpts from the satirical book have been released by numerous media outlets, including Deadline. The novel reportedly includes commentary on current events such as Donald Trump and the #MeToo movement, plus a section that blatantly references Penn’s involvement with notorious drug lord El Chapo.

The novel is inspired by the gonzo storytelling of Hunter S. Thompson. The plot concerns the titular Bob Honey, a “modern American man, entrepreneur and contract killer who sells septic tanks to Jehovah’s Witnesses and arranges pyrotechnic displays for foreign dictators.” Honey decides its time to retaliate against the intelligence service employing him as an assassin.

Through the character, Penn is able to cover a wide range of talking points. During one part of the book, Honey writes a letter to U.

Steven Spielberg purists, you can breathe easy.

The legendary director, best known for films that wowed generations of audiences and influenced countless filmmakers, has learned his lesson. After digitally touching up his classic film, “E.T.: the Extra-Terrestrial” in 2002, for the 20th anniversary, Spielberg has vowed never to do it again.

In an interview with Screen Rant, the website asked the director if he’d ever go back and digitally alter his films to improve special effects or change scenes, much like his good friend George Lucas did to the original “Star Wars” trilogy.

Filmmaker Brillante Mendoza doesn’t have a huge following in the United States, just yet. While foreign film fans are definitely familiar with the highly prolific, award-winning director, Mendoza’s films haven’t had huge releases in the U.S. But it looks the latest project from the Filipino director will get a release all around the world. However, just not in theaters.

Netflix recently announced that “Amo,” a twelve-part miniseries, would be released worldwide through their streaming service.

Money can buy you a pretty nice car, but according to Netflix, it can’t buy you speed.

The streaming service’s latest addition to their unscripted series, “Fastest Car” centers on the premise of pitting three “sleeper” cars (rundown, unassuming models built to go at incredible speeds) against a supercar (flashy, sought-after vehicles modified for design and performance) in competitive racing.

Pride and bragging rights seem to be the most at stake in this new trailer, as blunt working-class people square off against lofty millionaires. The “sleeper” drivers want to prove that a minivan is just as fast as a Lamborghini. The supercar drivers don’t want to be beaten by something that looks like it was made for an adult soapbox derby.

There also seems to be no option for begrudging admiration. Though the drivers acknowledge that they come from “different walks of life,” there’s a sense