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Saif Ali Khan revealed Hollywood-inspired Race ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

If you are a fan of Bollywood movies, then I am sure you have seen Race and Race 2. It

It was a rage in 2008, but did you know another movie inspired it?

The action-thrilling love story was inspired by a Hollywood movie. If you love movies, then you must know, and if you don’t, then let’s get down to business and see what movie it was based on.

Saif Ali Khan revealed that Race was copied from a past movie.

There is an old video on the Internet in which the Saif Ali Khan revealed that a famous movie inspired the plot of the iconic Race. In conversation with the cast members, the the actor discussed the film’s inspirations and noted striking similarities to a movie called Goodbye Lover that came out in 1998.

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Top 8 Lgbtqia+ shows you must watch (Photo Credit – Facebook)

Hollywood has increasingly embraced LGBTQ+ representation in movies and shows and has come a long way in reflecting a broader societal shift toward inclusivity. From groundbreaking movies like Moonlight to TV shows like Pose, the stories offer diverse perspectives and authentic portrayals of LGBTQ+ experiences. Now, viewers can stream exclusive shows and films about sexuality and relationships as many great dramas of all time feature LGBTQ+ characters, including The Last of Us, Mad Men, Game of Thrones, and Twin Peaks. If you’re looking for more similar dramas, here are the top 8 LGBTQ+ TV shows.

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The most prominent reality program of the 21st century is RuPaul’s Drag Race, which has continued its success after sixteen years. Despite the changes in network and technical aspects, the show has remained influential and engaging. The show spawned various popular spin-offs,...

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Canary Black is a spy action thriller film directed by Pierre Morel from a screenplay by Matthew Kennedy. The Prime Video film follows Avery Graves, an exceptional CIA agent whose husband is kidnapped by terrorists to blackmail her into stealing sensitive information that would betray her country. Canary Black stars Kate Beckinsale in the lead role with Rupert Friend, Ray Stevenson, Saffron Burrows, Ben Miles, and Michael Brandon starring in supporting roles. So, if you loved the explosive action, thrilling story, and compelling characters in Canary Black here are some similar movies you should check out next.

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Salt is a spy action thriller film directed by Phillip Noyce from a screenplay by Kurt Wimmer. The 2010 film follows Evelyn Salt, an exceptional CIA agent who is wrongfully accused of killing the Russian president.

Hunter Parrish has joined Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis in “Scarpetta,” an upcoming mystery thriller series from Blumhouse Television that has already been greenlit for two seasons by Amazon Prime Video.

The “Weeds” alum joins an ensemble that also includes Ariana DeBose, Bobby Cannavale, Simon Baker, Rosy McEwen and Jake Cannavale.

The series, an adaptation of Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta novels, hails from Blumhouse and Amazon MGM Studios. Liz Sarnoff will serve as writer, executive producer, and showrunner.

According to the logline, the show “follows Kay Scarpetta (Kidman), the chief medical examiner, as she returns to Virginia and resumes her former position with complex relationships, both personal and professional – including her sister Dorothy (Curtis), with plenty of grudges and secrets to uncover.”

Parrish will recur as the younger version of Benton Wesley, presumably in flashbacks. Benton is an FBI profiler who strikes up a romance with Kay in the books.

Exclusive: The Institute, MGM+‘s thriller series based on the 2019 Stephen King novel, has rounded out its cast. Brendan Beiser (The Boys) is set as a series regular, and Mary Walsh (Resident Alien) and Jordan Alexander (Gossip Girl) have been tapped for recurring roles in the series from director/executive producer Jack Bender, writer/executive producer Benjamin Cavell and MGM+ Studios. Production will begin in Nova Scotia later this year.

They join previously announced Mary-Louise Parker, Ben Barnes, Simone Miller and Jason Diaz, along with Joe Freeman, Fionn Laird, Hannah Galway, Julian Richings, Robert Joy, Viggo Hanvelt, Arlen So, Birva Pandya, Dan Beirne, Martin Roach and Jane Luk.

In the eight-episode The Institute, when 12-year-old genius Luke Ellis (Freeman) is kidnapped, he awakens at The Institute, a facility full of children who all got there the same way he did, and who are all possessed of unusual abilities.

Stephen King fans, get ready! Another of the legendary author’s spine-chilling stories is making its way to the small screen.

Based on King’s 2019 novel, The Institute is an upcoming limited series set to air on MGM+ and promises to be just as suspenseful and gripping as the book.

With a stellar cast, a talented creative team, and a storyline full of psychic powers and sinister secrets, this upcoming thriller has all the makings of a must-watch.

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So, what can we expect from The Institute? Here’s everything we know so far.

What is The Institute About?

The story centers on 12-year-old genius Luke Ellis, who is kidnapped and wakes up in a mysterious facility called The Institute.

Like Luke, the other children at The Institute have been abducted and possess extraordinary abilities like telekinesis and telepathy. Under the direction of the ruthless Ms.

The Bay Area’s newest film festival has a curious dress code.

“No blue, green, orange, gray or all-white clothing,” reads an email sent to attendees by an event organizer. White is allowed if combined with other colors, but all black is always safe, the instructions continue. Open-toed and open-backed shoes are not permitted.

Rules like that come with the territory when you’re planning the world’s first-ever film festival inside a prison.

The San Quentin Film Festival, taking place Oct. 10-11 at the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, aims to help “system-impacted people to be seen, heard and felt,” says co-founder Rahsaan “New York” Thomas. A documentary filmmaker whose career began while he was incarcerated at San Quentin, Thomas directs the festival alongside his close friend, screenwriter Cori Thomas (no relation), whom he first met in 2016 when she visited the prison to conduct research and reporting for a podcast...

Stephen King‘s novel The Institute (which can be purchased Here) reached store shelves on September 10, 2019 – and that same day, it was announced that David Kelley and Jack Bender, the duo behind the King series adaptation Mr. Mercedes, were working on a limited series adaptation of The Institute. Nearly five years have gone since then and Kelley has dropped off the project along the way, but The Institute is moving forward at MGM+ – and Deadline has learned the names of eleven more cast members who have signed on as series regulars. They are: Julian Richings (Supernatural, pictured above), Fionn Laird (Under the Banner of Heaven), Hannah Galway (Sex/Life), Robert Joy (Land of the Dead), Viggo Hanvelt (Our Christmas Mural), Arlen So (Something Rotten), Birva Pandya (The Umbrella Academy), Dan Beirne (Ginny & Georgia), Martin Roach (Suits), Jane Luk (Streams Flow from a River), and – in the lead role of Luke Ellis – Joe Freeman.

Exclusive: The Institute, MGM+‘s thriller series based on the 2019 Stephen King novel, has added 11 to its cast, joining previously announced Mary-Louise Parker, Ben Barnes, Simone Miller and Jason Diaz. Joe Freeman (Doctors), Fionn Laird (Under the Banner of Heaven), Hannah Galway (Under the Banner of Heaven), Julian Richings (Beau Is Afraid), Robert Joy (Julia), Viggo Hanvelt (Our Christmas Mural), Arlen So (Something Rotten), Birva Pandya (The Umbrella Academy), Dan Beirne (Ginny & Georgia), Martin Roach (Suits) and Jane Luk (Streams Flow From A River) join as series regulars in the series from director/executive producer Jack Bender, writer/executive producer Benjamin Cavell and MGM+ Studios. Production will begin in Nova Scotia later this year.

In the eight-episode The Institute, when 12-year-old genius Luke Ellis (Freeman) is kidnapped, he awakens at The Institute, a facility full of children who all got there the same way he did,...

In today’s troubled political times, “The West Wing” feels even more quaint and nostalgic than it did when it premiered 25 years ago, which means we need it now more than ever. An idealized vision of a Presidential administration functioning at its very best despite Washington’s many complications, the Aaron Sorkin-created series captivated audiences with its whip-smart dialogue and dense storytelling. In honor of its 25th anniversary, let’s take a look back at 20 of its greatest episodes, ranked worst to best.

“The West Wing” centered on the ins and outs of a White House staff, with Martin Sheen front and center as the noble, dedicated President Jed Bartlet. There’s Chief of Staff Leo McGarry (John Spencer), Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman (Bradley Whitford), Communications Director Toby Ziegler (Richard Schiff), Deputy Communications Director Sam Seaborn (Rob Lowe), Press Secretary C.J. Cregg (Allison Janney) and Deputy...

Utilizing plot devices like temporal shenanigans to serve up a critique of life, self-acceptance, and mortality isn’t too unique concept in sci-fi narratives anymore. In that context, Omni Loop is a simple story of a dying physicist trying her desperate best to grapple with her fate. What elevates the movie compared to other stories with a similar premise is the way it uses the concept as a means of providing clarity and understanding, building up relationship dynamics, and charting the transformation in the psyche of the characters. Additionally, Mary-Louise Parker and Ayo Edebiri do a remarkable job as the mentor-protégé duo trying to de-mystify the concept of time travel in order to get another shot at their lives, and it feels good to have female leads for a change in a movie like this. as it offers a new perspective. The only major drawback is probably the fact that...

The time loop film is an exciting subgenre of sci-fi that’s grown even more popular after Covid brought us all into our own Groundhog Day. Writer/director Bernardo Brito offers the latest interpretation of the genre in Omni Loop, a more sentimental twist on the genre about an aging woman living the same week over and over in an attempt to prevent her soon-coming death. Led by an excellent Mary-Louise Parker and a solid Ayo Edebiri, this certainly isn’t the most entertaining film of its subgenre, but it offers plenty to chew on.

Omni Loop Review Mary-Louise Parker and Ayo Edebiri in Omni Loop, a Magnolia Pictures release. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.

Zoya Lowe (Parker) is dying. We open in the hospital, where she sits awaiting a wild prognosis: her heart has a small black hole growing in it. Realistic? Probably not. After a half hour of melodrama,...

The movies do not deserve Mary Louise Parker. Her work in the New York theater scene since the 1990s has been rightfully praised from Broadway to the Battery, and the serialized nature of television has allowed her to flex character-developing muscles and play the emotional scales several times over; say what you will about those later seasons of Weeds, the Showtime dramedy that cast Parker as a pot-selling suburbanite, but she always managed to throw in a look, an offbeat line reading or a bit of business that provided a nice second-hand high.

In this week’s episode of The Discourse, host Mike DeAngelo goes back in time over and over again to discuss the sci-fi indie “Omni Loop.” The film follows a woman who lives the same week over and over in order to try to save her own life. The Bernardo Britto-directed (known for “Los Espookys”) film stars Mary-Louise Parker, Ayo Edebiri, Hannah Pearl Utt, Chris Witaske, and more.

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The film’s stars, Mary-Louise Parker and Ayo Edebiri, join the podcast to discuss their roles in the existential time travel film.

Continue reading ‘Omni Loop’: Ayo Edebiri & Mary-Louise Parker On Their Time Loop Drama, ‘The Bear’ Season 4, A Failed ‘Weeds’ Revival & More [The Discourse Podcast] at The Playlist.

One of the projects at the Sundance Institute’s 2017 Screenwriters Lab was a film called ‘Omni Loop Blues.’ Flash forward into 2024 and Bernardo Britto‘s Omni Loop premiered at the 2024 SXSW Film Festival and is about to launch theatrically via the Magnolia Pictures folks. Britto was born in Rio de Janeiro, grew up in the U.S. and gave us some award-winning shorts prior to his 2016 directorial debut Jacqueline (Argentine) (a Sundance Next Section selection – see our trading card for him). Here is our interview with the filmmaker at the Sundance directly after the labs:

A quantum physicist (Mary-Louise Parker) finds herself stuck in a time loop, with a black hole growing in her chest and only a week to live.…...

Prolific screenwriter and producer Jenji Kohan is not on board with Paramount+ With Showtime’s long-rumored Weeds sequel, calling the idea a “money grab.” Kohan served as the creator and showrunner of the Showtime comedy-drama series Weeds, which aired from August 8, 2005, to September 16, 2012. The series centers on Mary-Louise Parker‘s Nancy Botwin, a widowed mother of two boys who begins selling marijuana to support her family. Speaking at the Seriesly Berlin TV conference in Germany, the Emmy-winning writer questioned the relevancy of Weeds now that marijuana has been legalized in almost 40 states. “I don’t really know if there’s more story to tell,” she said, per Deadline. “I think Weeds was done, and I think [a sequel] be a money grab.” She continued, “They can do what they want, but this wouldn’t be associated with the team that made [the original series]. And I think there are many other stories to be told.

The creator of Weeds is not enthused by the idea of a sequel series that is in development at Showtime.

The original series premiered in 2005 and came to a close in 2012. A few years later, it was announced that Starz was developing a sequel with franchise star Mary-Louise Parker returning to star and executive produce. In 2023, the project moved networks.

While at the Seriesly Berlin TV conference, Weeds creator Jenji Kohan explained that she didn’t think a spinoff series made sense at the time, going as far as to call it a “money grab.”

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“I feel like now that pot is legal [in many places] that I don’t really know if there’s more story to tell,” she explained, via Deadline. “I think Weeds was done, and I think it’d be a money grab a little bit, and I’m not involved with it.

Measuring end-of-life anxiety with an open heart if not the most disciplined head, science-fiction-tinged drama Omni Loop serves up a couple nice moments for its lead performers, but otherwise relies on a viewer’s offscreen feelings about mortality to supply its punch. The result, pleasant enough but frustratingly bland, exists in a soupy,...

Weeds creator Jenji Kohan is here to harsh your sequel series buzz.

Speaking at the Seriesly Berlin TV conference in Germany, the Emmy Award-winning scribe sounded less than enthusiastic about Paramount+ With Showtime’s long-gestating follow-up to the pot dramedy. Now that weed has been legalized in nearly 40 states, “I don’t really know if there’s more story to tell,” she said, according to Deadline. “I think Weeds was done, and I think it’d be a money grab.

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American actor Billy Crudup has been in the acting business since the 1990s, with his debut movie being Sleepers. He then went on to participate in several well-acclaimed and high-profile movies. Most recently, the actor has been making headlines for his Emmy win for The Morning Show. In his speech, he made sure to give a lovely shoutout to his wife, Naomi Watts.

Billy Crudup in The Morning Show || Credits: Apple TV+

The duo has been married for a year now, tying the knot in 2023. But long before he met Watts, the actor was involved in a major scandal, which involved his 7-months-pregnant girlfriend, Mary-Louise Parker.

Billy Crudup’s Scandalous Love Life Before Naomi Watts

In Hollywood, love stories work in mysterious ways. The same was the romance of Billy Crudup and actress Naomi Watts. The duo dated each other for 6 years before tying the knot at a Manhattan courthouse...

When doctors tell Zoya Lowe (Mary-Louise Parker), the quantum physicist at the center of Omni Loop, that she has a black hole growing inside her chest and little time left to live, she seems oddly unfazed. A montage speeds us through the next few days of her life as she’s taken home from the hospital, then to the beach by her family, who surprise her with a candle-covered cake two weeks ahead of her actual birthday, which she likely won’t live to see.

Throughout each of those scenes, Zoya sits in the center of the frame, staring forward with a placid look on her face. It would be fair to assume that hers is a state of shock—the look of a woman who’s unable to process the finality, maybe even the absurdity, of her diagnosis. In truth, though, Zoya seems so unmoved because she’s seen all of this before.

Exclusive: The musical stars are coming out for Kevin Costner and Morgan Freeman’s The Gray House.

Leslie Greif opened the series’ playlist exclusively for Deadline and there is serious star wattage in there, including an original song performed by country music legend Willie Nelson, which closes the series. Elsewhere, Shania Twain, Killer Mike and Yolanda Adams are among those to feature, and Jon Bon Jovi co-writes one of the show’s songs.

“My idea was, instead of having one [end] title song, I’m going to have eight different songs by Grammy-winning artists and in different genres of music, which are written for our show and are going to tell a story of that episode,” said Greif, who exec produces and wrote the script with Darrell Fetty, and John Sayles.

Nelson’s “Heart of America” was penned by Erin Enderlin, Jim ‘Moose’ Brown and Jeff Fahey. It closes the limited series,...

Summer’s over. Looks like it’s time to get back to work. And by work, we mean some serious movie watching. Luckily September doesn’t disappoint. We have everything from the highly-anticipated Megaopolis, the self-funded opus from Francis Ford Coppola, to the star-studded Netflix affair His Three Daughters, to the return of the king of tight, gnarly thrillers, Jeremy Saulnier, with his new one, Rebel Ridge. Oh, and a doc about psychics from a Fast-Track alum, with Lana Wilson’s Look Into My Eyes. Looks like the fall is shaping up to be quite the movie season. Now get out there and start watching!

A Different Man

When You Can Watch: September 20

Where You Can Watch: Theaters (Limited)

Director: Aaron Schimberg

Cast: Sebastian Stan, Renate Reinsve, Adam Pearson

Why We’re Excited: Yet another selection in this month’s Film Independent Presents series, writer-director Schimberg’s latest offering is...

The recently released film adaption of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling novel “It End with Us” was a lot of things and has certainly gotten a lot of people talking. It’s unfortunate, however, that the most important subjects at its center — that of domestic violence and emotional abuse — have not been top-of-mind for most conversations regarding the film, but rather alleged personal riffs between star Blake Lively and director/co-star Justin Baldoni. When domestic violence and abuse have been discussed in reference to the film, it has typically been with criticism over how the film and its rollout have avoided more thoughtfully grappling with these themes, rarely reaching for a narrative that goes any deeper than a casual beach read.

In speaking on adapting Hoover’s novel for the screen in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Baldoni acknowledged his interest in focusing on how Lively’s character, Lily Bloom, overcomes her circumstances,...

Stephen King‘s novel The Institute (which can be purchased Here) reached store shelves on September 10, 2019 – and that same day, it was announced that David Kelley and Jack Bender, the duo behind the King series adaptation Mr. Mercedes, were working on a limited series adaptation of The Institute. Nearly five years have gone since then and Kelley has dropped off the project along the way, but The Institute is moving forward at MGM+ – and it has just been revealed that Simone Miller (Detention Adventure) and Jason Diaz (The 100) have been added to the cast.

Miller and Diaz join previously announced cast members Mary-Louise Parker of Weeds (and Mr. Mercedes) and Ben Barnes of Shadow and Bone.

Set to run for eight episodes, The Institute will tell the following story: When 12-year-old genius Luke Ellis is kidnapped, he awakens at The Institute, a facility full of children who all got there the same way he did,...

The Legend of Vox Machina will continue to be told on Prime Video.

The streamer has released a trailer for Season 3 of the animated fantasy series, which will premiere Wednesday, Oct. 3 and drop three episodes per week for four weeks.

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“Everything is at stake” in the highly anticipated third season, as the Chroma Conclave’s path of destruction...

Published in 2019, Stephen King‘s novel The Institute is getting a TV series adaptation from MGM+, with Deadline reporting on the latest casting news this afternoon.

Simone Miller (Run The Burbs) and Jason Diaz (Vampire Academy) have joined a cast that includes Ben Barnes (Shadow and Bone) and Mary-Louise Parker (Weeds).

Deadline details in today’s report, “Miller plays Kalisha, a sarcastic-but-friendly Institute inmate, who becomes one of Luke’s closest allies. Diaz plays Tony, the most sadistic of the Institute’s orderlies, who delights in wielding his power over the children.”

The Institute comes from director/executive producer Jack Bender (Lost, Mr. Mercedes), writer/executive producer Benjamin Cavell and MGM+ Studios.

In the eight-episode series, “When 12-year-old genius Luke Ellis is kidnapped, he awakens at The Institute, a facility full of children who all got there the same way he did, and who are all possessed of unusual abilities.

Exclusive: Simone Miller (Run The Burbs) and Jason Diaz (Vampire Academy) have been cast alongside Mary-Louise Parker and Ben Barnes in The Institute, MGM+’s thriller series based on the 2019 Stephen King novel, from director/executive producer Jack Bender, writer/executive producer Benjamin Cavell and MGM+ Studios.

In the eight-episode The Institute, when 12-year-old genius Luke Ellis is kidnapped, he awakens at The Institute, a facility full of children who all got there the same way he did, and who are all possessed of unusual abilities. In a nearby town, haunted former police officer Tim Jamieson (Barnes) has come looking to start a new life, but the peace and quiet won’t last, as his story and Luke’s are destined to collide.

Miller plays Kalisha, a sarcastic-but-friendly Institute inmate, who becomes one of Luke’s closest allies.

Diaz plays Tony, the most sadistic of the Institute’s orderlies,...

Exclusive: Daughters, the award-winning Netflix documentary set behind the walls of a Washington DC prison, will serve as the closing night selection of a new film festival taking place at California’s San Quentin Rehabilitation Center.

The film, winner of the Festival Favorite Award as well as the Audience Award for U.S. Documentary at Sundance, centers on a special “Daddy-Daughter Dance” where incarcerated men and their daughters participate in a unique and emotional bonding experience. It will screen October 11 at the San Quentin Film Festival, a two-day event on the grounds of the prison that houses upwards of 4,000 men.

‘Daughters’

“We are honored to have Daughters screen as the Closing Night film in San Quentin!” said Natalie Rae, who directed the documentary with Angela Patton. “To connect incarcerated fathers...

The Bear's Ayo Edebiri star continues to rise as she takes a central role in time loop film Omni Loop, opposite Mary-Louise Parker.

Excuse the poor time travel gag, but what is it about time loop movies that never gets old?

We’ve seen the narrative conceit bolted on to almost every genre imaginable at this point, but it’s an idea that still feels fresh even though the decades since 1993’s Groundhog Day have given us Edge Of Tomorrow, Palm Springs, Happy Death Day, Source Code and more. There’s a whole range of genres in that list alone and the list of time loop movies goes way beyond that smattering of titles.

Get set for another entry in the genre, with the arrival of Omni Loop in September. The film premiered at South by Southwest in March of this year. Ahead of the film’s release in the US next month,...

After starring in five films and eleven TV series last year, Ayo Edebiri’s 2024 is just slightly less crazy. Following up The Bear and Inside Out 2 this summer, she’ll next be seen in Omni Loop, a sci-fi feature that premiered at SXSW earlier this year. Now set for a September 20 theatrical and digital release from Magnolia Pictures, the first trailer has arrived.

Written and directed by Bernardo Britto, the film follows a quantum physicist (Mary-Louise Parker) who finds herself stuck in a time loop, with a black hole growing in her chest and only a week to live. When she meets a gifted student (Edebiri), they team up to save her life – and to unlock the mysteries of time travel.

Also starring Hannah Pearl Utt, Chris Witaske, Carlos Jacott, Harris Yulin, Steven Maier, and Eddie Cahill, see the trailer and poster below.

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"Let's solve time travel." Okay, sure, let's do it! Magnolia Pictures has revealed the official trailer for a sci-fi comedy called Omni Loop, the latest feature film by Brazilian writer / director Bernardo Britto, who most recently was writing episodes of "Los Espookys". This initially premiered at the 2024 SXSW Film Festival earlier this year, and it's set to arrive to watch (on VOD) in September this fall. A 55-year-old woman from Miami, Florida decides to solve time travel in order to go back and be the person she always intended to be. One day she meets Paula, a young woman studying time at a lab in the local university, and together they decide to try and solve time travel so Zoya can actually go back— back into her past, back to a time before she settled, back to when her whole future was still wide open in front of her. With...

What would you do if you only had a week to live? Well, in “Omni Loop,” you go back in time and relive the same five days over and over again.

As seen in the trailer, “Omni Loop” is about a quantum physicist who takes a pill that sends her back in time to a week before she is supposed to die. She then teams up with a student to help solve her health crisis and save her life.

Continue reading ‘Omni Loop’ Trailer: Mary-Louise Parker & Ayo Edebiri Star In A Time Loop Drama at The Playlist.

“Groundhog Day,” but make it about an inescapable terminal illness. In writer/director Bernardo Britto’s “Omni Loop,” Mary-Louise Parker plays a quantum physicist who learns she has only a week to live. Except she learns that many times over, and as she says in the trailer, “This has happened before. Many times.” IndieWire shares the exclusive trailer for “Omni Loop,” which premiered at SXSW and will hit theaters from Magnolia this fall, below.

Here’s the official synopsis: “A quantum physicist (Mary-Louise Parker) finds herself stuck in a time loop, with a black hole growing in her chest and only a week to live. When she meets a gifted student (Ayo Edebiri), they team up to save her life — and to unlock the mysteries of time travel.”

The cast also includes Hannah Pearl Utt, Chris Witaske, Carlos Jacott, Harris Yulin, Steven Maier, and Eddie Cahill.

At SXSW, Mary-Louise Parker...

If you could choose to be in a Groundhog Day scenario with any two actors, who would you choose? You could certainly do a lot worse than Mary-Louise Parker and Ayo Edebiri, the stars of the new time travel dramedy Omni Loop. To lean into millennial parlance, this is a...

Get ready for an adventurous family adventure film starring the guy from Shazam and Chuck, Zachary Levi. Based on a 1955 children’s picture book of the same name by Crockett Johnson, Harold, and the Purple Crayon is directed by Carlos Saldanha from a screenplay co-written by David Guion and Michael Handelman and it follows the story of a grown-up Harold, who can make anything come true by drawing it with his crayon in his book. When he draws himself into real life he goes on numerous comedic adventures but his power soon falls into the wrong hands. If you loved the comedic hijinks, fantastical adventures, and imagination in Harold and the Purple Crayon here are some similar movies you could watch next.

Christopher Robin (Disney+ & Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Walt Disney Studios

Christopher Robin is a live-action and animated hybrid fantasy comedy-drama film directed by Marc Forster from a...

Exclusive: Army of the Dead and Cha Cha Real Smooth actor Raúl Castillo has been set as the lead in William Atticus Parker’s third film, The Auction, which we told you about earlier this month.

Today, we can tell you a little more about the suspense science-fiction tale, loosely inspired by Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None. The film is set at the Aztec Corp., a company that auctions off ancient antiquities and semi-distinct wild exotic animals. Castillo will portray the newest sales representative, David Valdez, with Ben Vereen appearing as his father and K. Todd Freeman as the head of the corporation.

The previously announced cast also includes Audra McDonald, Mary-Louise Parker, and Richard Kind. Details about their specific roles are not being released yet.

Parker — son of actors Mary-Louise Parker and Billy Crudup — will make his film acting debut in the pic alongside his mom Parker.

Before the age of Primetime Emmy Awards sweeps for comedy “Schitt’s Creek” and drama “The Crown” – a trend that could very well continue this year by either “The Bear” or “Shōgun” – there was “Angels in America.” The HBO miniseries adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Tony Kushner won 11 Emmys back in 2004 and famously took home the prizes in all seven top categories, making it the very first program to do so. This year’s 76th annual ceremony marks the 20th anniversary of the show’s historic night. To celebrate Kushner’s birthday on July 16, let’s flashback to that epic Emmys sweep.

The television adaptation followed just 10 years after the premiere of both plays on Broadway in 1993. Those original productions of “Millennium Approaches” and “Perestroika” nabbed seven Tony Awards combined, including two wins for Best Play, one for director George C. Wolfe, one for actor Ron Liebman as Roy Cohn,...

Exclusive: Audra McDonald (The Gilded Age), K. Todd Freeman (The Horror of Dolores Roach), Mary-Louise Parker (Weeds), Richard Kind (Only Murders in the Building) and Ben Vereen (All That Jazz) have been set to topline The Auction, a new indie from writer-director William Atticus Parker.

Described by the filmmaker as “a workplace drama with elements of fantasy and horror,” the film is a loose adaptation of Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None. Further plot details are being kept under wraps.

The son of Mary-Louise Parker, William will also make his feature acting debut in The Auction and produce alongside Sabina Friedman-Seitz (Atrabilious) and Cory Asinofsky. William’s sister, Ash Parker, will write and compose an original song for the pic, with production to kick off in New York this summer.

Currently starring on HBO’s The Gilded Age, which has been renewed for a third season, McDonald is...

The San Quentin Film Festival — the first-ever film festival held inside a prison — has named its inaugural industry jury, which includes Jeffrey Wright, Billy Crudup, Mary-Louise Parker and more.

The festival, taking place Oct. 10 and 11 at the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center in northern California, will highlight short films and pitches from current and formerly incarcerated filmmakers in front of a jury made up of entertainment industry artists and executives. Separately, an “inside jury” made up of currently incarcerated people will judge narrative and documentary feature films about the prison experience made by filmmakers who have never served prison time.

Actors on the industry jury include Wright, Crudup, Parker and Kathy Najimy.

Directors on the jury include Elegance Bratton, Taylor Hackford, Lynn Novick, Greg Kwedar, Jeff Stanzler and Joe Talbot.

Writer-producers on the jury include Sam Catlin, Lawrence O’Donnell, Piper Kerman (“Orange Is the New Black”) and J.T. Rogers.

The jury also includes Len Amato,...

Beverly Hills Cop is one of the best and most iconic franchises in the action comedy genre, and most of the credit for that goes to its leading man, Eddie Murphy. Created by Danilo Bach and Daniel Petrie Jr., the first film in the franchise came out in 1984, and now, with the fourth film coming out nearly thirty years after the third and the worst film in the franchise came out, the hype for the franchise and its iconic theme song is back on the top. So, if you loved Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, here are some more great action comedy films you could watch next.

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Bad Boys: Ride or Die is the fourth entry into the buddy cop action comedy film franchise directed by Adil & Bilall from a screenplay by Chris Bremner and Will Beall. The 2024 film picks...

Exclusive: Magnolia Pictures has acquired U.S. rights to the indie sci-film Omni Loop, starring Mary-Louise Parker (Weeds) and Ayo Edebiri (The Bear), slating it for a day-and-date release on September 20.

World premiering at this year’s SXSW film festival, the film directed by Bernardo Britto (Jacqueline Argentine) follows Zoya Lowe (Parker), a quantum physicist who finds herself in a time loop, with a black hole growing in her chest and only a week to live. But what the doctors and her family don’t know is that she has already lived this week before; so many times, in fact, that she doesn’t even know how long it’s been. Until one day, Zoya meets a gifted student named Paula (Edebiri). Together, they team up to save her life — and to unlock the mysteries of time travel.

A 2Am and Lou Filmproduction production, Omni Loop also stars Cora Bora helmer Hannah Pearl Utt,...

Jesse Malin, the New York punk legend who was left paralyzed from the waist down after suffering a spinal stroke last year, has booked a hometown comeback show December 1st at the Beacon Theatre with an all-star roster of special guests.

The D Generation frontman will be joined on the bill by Lucinda Williams, J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr.), Jakob Dylan (The Wallflowers), Rickie Lee Jones, Adam Duritz and David Immerglück (both of Counting Crows), and Alejandro Escovedo. Actors Michael Imperioli (The Sopranos) and Mary-Louise Parker (Weeds) will serve as hosts, with more guests to be announced.

Tickets will benefit the Sweet Relief fund set up to help Malin out with his medical and rehabilitation bills. Premium and VIP tickets will be available via Sweet Relief beginning Wednesday (June 26th) at 10 a.m Et. A pre-sale for regular tickets launches at the same time via Ticketmaster using the code Patronsaints, before...

Jesse Malin gave his last headlining public performance on March 25, 2023, at Webster Hall in New York. Less than two months later, he suffered a rare spinal stroke that affected the use of his legs. Now, after more than a year of intense and ongoing physical therapy and treatment, Malin will return to the stage with a roster of all-star friends and guests.

Set for Dec. 1 at the Beacon Theatre in New York, the lineup features Lucinda Williams, Counting Crows’ Adam Duritz and David Immerglück, Rickie Lee Jones, Jakob Dylan of the Wallflowers,...

“Tuition-free” is becoming the new buzzword, as several of the world’s top drama schools plan to adopt that policy starting this fall, including the graduate programs at Juilliard and USC.

These join a number of existing free programs on The Hollywood Reporter‘s annual list of the best drama schools, as they look to expand accessibility and mitigate the debt many drama students bring into continuing education. It’s a big positive step in a year when many schools have been emerging from the pandemic era of largely online classes and leaning into more inclusive, tech-forward curriculums.

In addition to broadening access to more diverse candidates and wanting to stay competitive with recruitment, the push to go tuition-free at USC was spurred on by the writers and actors strikes. “Just knowing how volatile the industry is for these creatives, it’s extremely important that they not be saddled with...

“The Gray House” actors Mary-Louise Parker and Ben Vereen want people to wake up. Especially before the November election.

“I think they aren’t as horrified as they should be. We could potentially have a convicted felon as our President! There is a real lack of alarm,” Parker tells Variety at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival after the premiere of the Civil War series.

“Such ugliness was unleashed in our country by our previous President. It just spread, like some kind of virus. It gave people a sense of agency about their ignorance, their racism. It’s hard.”

“It’s frightening! People are not upset. There is a whole generation of ‘I don’t care,’” adds Vereen.

“There are scenes in this series that look just like the Jan. 6 [Capitol attack], don’t they. All of a sudden, it comes back into focus. You go: ‘Wow. It is happening again, now.’”

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Another terrifying work by the master of horror, Stephen King, is being adapted for the small screen. MGM+ has ordered The Institute, based on his novel of the same name. Ben Barnes (Shadow and Bone), Mary-Louise Parker (Weeds) are set to star in the thriller from executive producer/director Jack Bender (From) and executive producer/writer Benjamin Cavell (Justified).

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Morgan Freeman isn’t a fan of Black History Month.

“I detest it. The mere idea of it. You are going to give me the shortest month in a year? And you are going to celebrate ‘my’ history?! This whole idea makes my teeth itch. It’s not right,” he tells Variety.

“My history is American history. It’s the one thing in this world I am interested in, beyond making money, having a good time and getting enough sleep.”

Having exec produced Civil War series “The Gray House” alongside Lori McCreary through Revelations Entertainment, the past is very much on Freeman’s mind.

“If you don’t know your past, if you don’t remember it, you are bound to repeat it,” he says. During election year, this statement seems particularly poignant.

“Do you know this song? ‘To everything, there is a season.’ It really, really works in showbusiness.

The Monte-Carlo Television Festival has rolled out the blue carpet welcoming star guests for its 63rd edition, but it also has an eye on the future.

“We’re always working towards expanding and developing the festival. Each year, we get better and better,” executive director Cécile Menoni says.

Listing “fabulous highlights,” Menoni gushes over this year’s Crystal Nymph winner: Morgan Freeman. The award recognizes the “stellar body of work” of the veteran actor, who recently exec produced “The Gray House,” which celebrated its world premiere Friday at the opening ceremony. Mary-Louise Parker, Daisy Head, Amethyst Davis and Ben Vereen attended.

“It’s such a thrill for us to honor him,” Menoni says.

The fest will also take a closer look at rising stars, with “Bridgerton’s” Simone Ashley given the International Golden Nymph for most promising talent. Honorary Golden Nymph – “Our festival’s highest accolade” – will go to “true fan favorite” Olivier Marchal.