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Silo is a sci-fi dystopian thriller drama series created by FX’s Justified famed Graham Yost. Based on the Silo trilogy of novels by Hugh Howey, the Apple TV+ takes us to a dystopian future where the last ten thousand surviving humans live in a deep underground Silo, and they are told that the outside world is uninhabitable but skepticism about that statement is baked in from the start both in the characters and the audience. The one rule in the Silo everybody has to follow is not to say that someone wants to go outside because if they do they will be sent outside to die alone. Silo stars Rebecca Ferguson, Rashida Jones, David Oyelowo, Common, Tim Robbins, Harriet Walter, Avi Nash, and Rick Gomez. So, if you loved the thrilling mystery, dark dystopian world, and compelling...

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Hellbound is a South Korean dark fantasy horror thriller series directed by Yeon Sang-ho from a screenplay by Choi Gyu-seok. Based on the webtoon of the same name by Sang-ho, the Netflix series is set in a world where unearthly creatures appear and condemn people to hell. Soon after their appearance, religious groups begin forming on the ideology of divine justice. Hellbound stars Yoo Ah-in, Kim Hyun-joo, Park Jeong-min, Won Jin-ah, and Yang Ik-june. So, if you loved the dark fantasy elements, intensely thrilling story, and compelling characters in Hellbound here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Sweet Home is a South Korean apocalyptic action horror series written by Hong So-ri, Kim Hyung-min, and Park So-jung. Based on the Naver webtoon of the same name by Kim Carnby and Hwang Young-chan,...

Atx TV Festival has announced the first round of events for the 2025 event, set to take place in Austin from May 29-June 1, including reunions of “The Leftovers” and “UnREAL” and a peek inside the world of Bill Lawrence.

On Monday, the festival announced “The Leftovers” will reunite during Season 14 with co-creators Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta, director and executive producer Mimi Leder, and cast members Justin Theroux, Carrie Coon, Amy Brenneman, Christopher Eccleston, Ann Dowd and Kevin Carroll. Head of Max Original Programming Sarah Aubrey will moderate.

A+E Studios will present a retrospective for Lifetime hit “UnREAL,” featuring co-creator Sarah Gertrude Shapiro and cast members Shiri Appleby, Constance Zimmer, Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman and Craig Bierko.

This year’s festival will also include Bill Lawrence returning for “Bill Lawrence & Friends,” a panel with collaborators from some of his current and past projects such as “Bad Monkey,” “Shrinking,” “Ted Lasso,” “Scrubs,” “Cougar Town” and more.

Get the cameras rolling, this is great stuff: The stars and co-creator of the savage reality TV satire UnREAL will reunite at next year’s Atx TV Festival for the show’s 10th anniversary.

Stars Shiri Appleby (Rachel), Constance Zimmer (Quinn), Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman (Jay) and Craig Bierko (Chet) will join co-creator Sarah Gertrude Shapiro for a retrospective “to reflect on the show’s exploration of the dark side of reality TV, the complex antiheroes at its center, its most memorable character moments and one-liners, and how the show’s recent debut on Netflix has led to a resurgence with both original fans and new viewers,...

Finally, some happy news on Heroes Day: “The Leftovers” reunion is officially a go.

For its 2025 event, Atx TV Festival has announced plans to host the cast and creatives behind HBO’s acclaimed drama series. Co-creators Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta will be joined by director and executive producer Mimi Leder, along with cast members Justin Theroux, Carrie Coon, Amy Brenneman, Christopher Eccleston, Ann Dowd, and Kevin Carroll for a panel discussion led by moderator Sarah Aubrey, an executive producer on the series and the current head of Max Original Programming. Per the Atx release, the group will “reflect on the show’s emotional three-season journey, its most memorable moments, and enduring themes more than 10 years later.”

“The Leftovers” tracks the extended Garvey family three years after a global tragedy, when 2 percent of the world’s population vanished without a trace on October 14, 2011 (a date later commemorated as Heroes Day...

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Dystopia is one of those sub-genres that lends itself to some interesting philosophical ideas and TV show creators take full advantage of that. In the history of cinema, many great directors and storytellers have created some of the most iconic movies set in dystopian societies like Blade Runner and Total Recall. Max (formerly known as HBO Max) hosts almost all of the brilliant HBO and Max shows and some of those are great dystopian shows. So, we decided to compile a list of the best dystopian shows you can watch on Max right now.

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Station Eleven is a post-apocalyptic dystopian drama series created by Patrick Somerville. Based on the 2014 novel of the same name by author Emily St. John Mandel, the HBO Max series is set twenty years after a flu pandemic destroyed...

Agatha All Along star Kathryn Hahn has a portfolio of diverse roles where she stole the scene whenever she could. For her lead role in Mrs. Fletcher, Hahn didn’t stop herself from completely transforming into the s*xually-driven divorced mother. It also meant that she could no longer let her son Google her name, concerned that he could find the screen grabs or clips from the series out of context.

Kathryn Hahn in a still from Agatha All Along | Credits: Marvel Studios

Hahn started out as a supporting character in films and continued to remain in such a capacity for a couple of decades. Her rise to the lead role came very late in life, thanks to projects like Mrs. Fletcher. After playing the villain Agatha in WandaVision, Hahn is back as the witch in Agatha All Along.

Kathryn Hahn Prohibited Her Son From Googling Her Name Kathryn Hahn in a still from Mrs.

Agatha All Along star Kathryn Hahn has been in a handful of brilliant movies and TV series, but she has hardly gotten the recognition she truly deserved. Having played supporting roles in several films, the actress has built up quite an impressive filmography, spread across different genres, including the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Kathryn Hahn in the MCU | Credit: Marvel Studios

Apart from playing the supportive assistant in the iconic rom-com How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days or the drug-induced Bad Moms, Hahn had one of her most risky roles on HBO’s Mrs. Fletcher. More than just an X-rated miniseries, it would have turned out to be a lot more difficult if it wasn’t for one thing— intimacy coordinators.

Kathryn Hahn’s Riskiest Role in Mrs. Fletcher Could Have Been More Challenging Kathryn Hahn in Mrs. Fletcher | Credit: HBO

Kathryn Hahn has been in several movies and series,...

The X-Files is one of the biggest series of the 1990s, also regarded as one of the most influential series the Fox series follows Fox Mulder and Dana Scully investigating the most mind-bending paranormal activities. The series’ original run was for 9 seasons with the series being revived in 2016 for two more seasons making the total season number 11 seasons. So, if you miss the amazingly mind-bending stories, compelling characters, and thrilling mysteries in The X-Files here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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The Twilight Zone is a sci-fi horror fantasy anthology series created by Rod Serling. The CBS series is a collection of mystical stories with sci-fi, horror, and fantasy elements, and in each episode, we get a new standalone story with a new set of characters. The Twilight Zone stars Rod Sterling, William Shatner, Burgess Meredith, Elizabeth Montgomery, Robert Redford, George Takei,...

Alexander Payne’s Election is a movie whose reputation seems to be growing more and more each year. With a new Criterion Collection edition in stores (and the film celebrating its 25th anniversary), Payne and the film’s writer, Jim Taylor have recently been exploring a potential sequel. The original film was based on a novel by Tom Perrotta, and the sequel would be based on his most recent novel, Tracy Flick Can’t Win.

According to a recent interview in Deadline, Payne is seriously considering teaming with Payne to adapt the sequel, saying, “There is talk and Jim Taylor and I are conceding that now,” with him adding, “If there were to be a sequel to Election, what would that look like?”

The original film starred Matthew Broderick as a high school Social Studies teacher who becomes hellbent on destroying her campaign for student body president at her high school.

Two-time Academy Award winner Alexander Payne (“The Holdovers”) teased the upcoming sequel to his beloved black comedy “Election” Sunday in Sarajevo while dishing on his desire to dabble in genre, sharing more details of an upcoming Western while also expressing his hopes “to do a good car chase film.”

Payne, who’s appearing at the Sarajevo Film Festival to receive a lifetime achievement award, gave an update on the anticipated sequel to his 1999 adaptation of the novel by Tom Perrotta, starring Reese Witherspoon as the ruthless go-getter Tracy Flick.

Paramount is reported to be developing a sequel for streaming service Paramount+, “Tracy Flick Can’t Win,” based on Perrotta’s follow-up novel, published in 2022, with Witherspoon reprising her iconic role and Payne tapped to direct.

“There is talk. Jim Taylor and I are conceiving that now,” Payne said on Sunday, describing conversations with his longtime collaborator, also in attendance. “If...

Alexander Payne touched down at the Sarajevo Film Festival on Sunday where he shed some light on his next project – a Western which will reunite the writer-director with The Holdovers scribe David Hemingson.

Speaking at a masterclass at the Bosnian Cultural Center, Payne, whose last project The Holdovers earned five Oscar nominations, told the audience that he wanted to explore different genres from the types of films he has made so far.

“The one genre I’ve wanted to do is a Western,” said Payne. “So, right now while Jim [Taylor] and I are talking about a sequel to Election, with a different writer – the guy who wrote The Holdovers [David Hemingson], we have been conceiving a Western for years now.”

He added: “It would be nice to take a kind of realistic-slash-naturalistic approach to a Western and also using landscape. In as much as sense of place is important…part of my...

Alexander Payne teased post-The Holdovers projects to an audience at the Sarajevo Film Festival on Sunday (August 18), providing an update on the Election sequel and saying he wants to make “a car chase movie.”

“Jim Taylor and I are conceiving what the sequel would look like now,” said Payne of the Election sequel, which is in the works at Paramount+. Taylor is a regular collaborator with Payne, including as co-writer on Downsizing and Sideways.

The film will be based on the 2022 sequel novel Tracy Flick Can’t Win by Tom Perrotta, who wrote the first book Election on which...

HBO’s The Leftovers starts with 2 percent of the world’s population suddenly disappearing for reasons unexplained — and the plot just gets more bizarre from there. Created by Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta — and based on Perrotta’s novel of the same name — The Leftovers starred Justin Theroux, Christoper Eccleston, Carrie Coon, and Amy Brenneman, among others, as the ones left behind when the Sudden Departure strikes. The series debuted on June 29, 2014, and ran for three critically acclaimed seasons, topping critics’ year-end lists of top 10 TV shows more than 20 times. And as The Leftovers attests, there’s no telling what will happen after one of every 50 persons on this planet — and three out of four Perfect Strangers cast members — vanish into thin air. Some people want to be (non-fatally shot) in the chest. Some opt for orgies aboard ferries. And some start heralding the return of Gary Busey. Here are...

This article contains plot details from all three seasons of The Leftovers but no finale spoilers.

What is the purpose of a great TV show? Is it to make us forget about our troubles for an hour or two while the stressors and traumas of everyday life fade into the background? Should the characters on the screen give us a blueprint for our own decisions? Perhaps a good laugh or a twisty cliffhanger provides a thrill that a boring nine-to-five corporate job simply can’t.

HBO has often elevated the television viewing experience above these simple motivators, crafting stories that evoke deeper meaning and elicit emotional responses. The Sopranos, The Wire, Game of Thrones—all these famous series jolt to the top of the network’s Mount Rushmore, but perhaps one unfathomably underrated show hurdles them all, and it just turned 10 years old this week.

The Leftovers is unlike anything...

Actress Kate Winslet is synonymous with the character of Rose from James Cameron’s disaster epic Titanic. The film saw her paired up with Leonardo DiCaprio in the doomed romance set aboard the ‘unsinkable’ Titanic in 1912. The film garnered her a Best Actress nomination at the Oscars and the film was the highest-grossing movie of all time then.

Despite earning billions, Titanic remains one of the many in Winslet’s amazing filmography. Though she is best known for her role in Cameron’s film, she has delivered far superior and mature performances since the big blockbuster. Here are three performances from Kate Winslet’s extensive filmography that are far better than Titanic.

1. Little Children (2006) Kate Winslet in Little Children | Credits: Bona Fide/Standard Film Company/New Line Cinema

Directed by Todd Field of Tár fame, Kate Winslet plays a housewife who has an affair with her neighbor played by Patrick Wilson.

Alexander Payne’s Election is making its 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray debut in time for its 25th anniversary. More details here.

Released in the midst of a glut of teen comedies at the end of the 1990s, Alexander Payne’s searing satire Election may have taken its time to find an audience, but find one it has.

As we covered on an episode of our podcast, the film came through MTV Films, and when it was release time, it wasn’t entirely clear what to do with the movie. Starring Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon, it’s also a film adaptation of a novel, that beat the novel to release. You can hear the podcast episode here.

For some reason, 2024 seems rather appropriate to celebrate the birthday of a film about elections, and Election has been the beneficiary of a 4K remaster ahead of an anniversary release on the 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray format.

Focus Features’ “The Holdovers” is one of the sweetest movies of the year and is set to become a new Christmas classic. Written by David Hemingson and directed by Alexander Payne, the 1970s-set story follows Paul Giamatti as a school professor tasked with staying behind on campus to look after students not going home for Christmas. What follows is a charming, touching tale about two foes who learn to become friends. Giamatti gives a knockout performance while Da’Vine Joy Randolph is a hot contender for Best Supporting Actress for her role as a cook mourning the death of her son. The movie’s strongest point, however, is its writing.

“Whiskey Cavalier” creator and “Black-Ish” and “American Dad!” scribe David Hemingson crafted the script. He has never been nominated for an Oscar before but we expect that that he’ll win one this year. We’re predicting he will take home...

The Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) is celebrating the cinematic contributions of Oscar winner Alexander Payne, including his latest film, “The Holdovers.”

The Queens-based MoMI is curating a special Payne retrospective, culminating in a screening of “The Holdovers” with Payne in attendance on January 10. The exhibit kicks off January 5 with Payne’s feature debut “Citizen Ruth,” which was released in 1996. The independent dark comedy stars Laura Dern as a pregnant woman being used on opposing ends of the abortion debate.

“Alexander Payne has always put this country’s cultural, political, and emotional realities under a microscope — while never forgetting to also make viewers laugh,” the official MoMI press statement reads. “This rare talent, coupled with an enormous skill directing actors, many of whom give career performances under his watchful eye, has carried him through all his films, psychologically acute and often poignant inquiries into the lives of taciturn American...

Alexander Payne‘s movies often fare well in the writing categories at the Oscars with four of his films so far nominated for either Best Original Screenplay or Best Adapted Screenplay.

His second movie, “Election,” was nominated for only Adapted Screenplay in 2000 after it turned Tom Perrotta’s 1998 novel of the same name into a film. Payne was nominated with his writing partner Jim Taylor, although they lost to John Irving for “The Cider House Rules.” “Sideways” then picked up five nominations in 2005 including an Adapted Screenplay bid for Payne and Taylor after they turned Rex Pickett’s 2004 novel of the same name into a hit movie. Payne and Taylor won this time around.

In 2012, “The Descendants” repeated the record of “Sideways,” matching five nominations and one Adapted Screenplay victory. This time, Payne won alongside Nat Faxon and Jim Rash. They adapted the 2007 novel of the same name from Kaui Hart Hemmings.

This article has been corrected to include Alexander Payne’s first feature film, “Citizen Ruth.”

Alexander Payne has a near-perfect record when it comes to his movies being nominated for Academy Awards. The acclaimed writer, director, and producer — one of our very best — has made eight movies so far including his latest flick “The Holdovers” and five of them have been nominated for Oscars. Here’s the breakdown.

Payne’s debut feature film was “Citizen Ruth” (“The Passion of Martin” was only 49 minutes), which follows Laura Dern as a drug-addicted pregnant woman who finds herself in the middle of an abortion debate as she weighs up her choices regarding the pregnancy. This 1996 movie was not nominated for any Oscars.

His next movie was “Election,” which stars Matthew Broderick as a high school teacher who meets his match with Reese Witherspoon‘s over-achieving student. In 2000, the film was nominated for Best...

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon is the latest spin-off of the hit series The Walking Dead and it was created by David Zabel. The AMC series is based on The Walking Dead character of the same name and it follows Daryl Dixon as he leaves The Commonwealth and washes ashore in France where he gets mixed up with a religious movement and ends up taking on a huge responsibility. Norman Reedus returns to play the iconic character and Melissa McBride, Clémence Poésy, Adam Nagaitis, Laika Blanc Francard, and Louis Puech Scigliuzzi star in supporting roles. So, if you loved The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon here are some similar shows you could watch next.

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Synopsis: The AMC Original Drama Series The Walking Dead, the worldwide phenomenon and television’s most-watched drama, tells the story of the months and years that follow after a zombie apocalypse.

Reese Witherspoon is recalling riding out the rollercoaster of being a young Hollywood star under the male gaze.

The Hello Sunshine production company founder told Harper’s Bazaar how the infamous 1996 erotic thriller “Fear” — released when she was 20 — partly inspired her to shift her career to become an “agent for change” for women in Hollywood.

Witherspoon unpacked the iconic rollercoaster scene in which her character is fingered by the sinister love interest, played by Mark Wahlberg. Witherspoon noted that she requested a stunt double for the below-the-waist scenes; the film was directed by James Foley.

“I didn’t have control over it,” Witherspoon said. “It wasn’t explicit in the script that that’s what was going to happen, so that was something that I think the director thought of on his own and then asked me on set if I would do it, and I said no. It wasn’t a particularly great experience.

The level of solidarity among striking WGA writers has been a powerful force during these first few weeks of the writers strike. Seeing it in action on picket lines is a good reminder for the industry at large that there’s a special camaraderie among those who know what it’s like to stare at a blank screen, search for inspiration and then type away at draft after draft to get the words just right.

That’s true for novelists as much as it is for screenwriters. Often those are one and the same — and because we live in an age where pre-sold IP usually makes it easier to sell a TV project, there have never been more series based on books than there are right now.

I don’t have the numbers to back me up on that, but we’re still living in peak TV times. Which means...

The HBO drama “The Leftovers” (2014 – 2017) created by Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta remains arguably one of the most Emmys-overlooked shows of all time. The series received only one Emmy nomination during its three-season run, and not even for the universally acclaimed lead performances by actors Justin Theroux or Carrie Coon. The duo might have had bad luck back then, but they’re both returning to overtake the Emmys this year in the Movie/Limited Series acting categories.

The acting was undoubtedly one of the strongest and most compelling assets of “The Leftovers.” The chief of police, Kevin Garvey, who goes on different levels of mental exploration, was Theroux’s first main TV protagonist role. Coon started off the series as a supporting character — grieving mother and wife Nora Durst — in season 1. She continued as the co-lead opposite Theroux until the end of the series. Despite their powerful presence on screen,...

After serving as a writer on The Big Bang Theory and its spinoff Young Sheldon, Tara Hernandez makes her debut as showrunner with Mrs. Davis, which premieres the first four episodes Thursday on Peacock.

The absurdist comedy follows Betty Gilpin’s hero nun Simone on a quest to find the Holy Grail in the hopes of destroying the all-knowing algorithm — known as Mrs. Davis — currently controlling everyone’s lives. For Hernandez, who co-created the series with Damon Lindelof (Watchmen, The Leftovers), getting a rare shot at running her own show also meant incorporating some of her passions, including a love...

Film rights to Rebecca Serle’s novel “One Italian Summer” have sold to Paramount Pictures.

The Brian Robbins-led studio won a competitive auction for the bestseller, published by Simon & Schuster’s Atria label. Temple Hill will produce a feature adaptation and Serle is executive producing with David Stone of Tfc Productions.

“One Italian Summer” follows Katy, a young woman reeling from the recent loss of her mom and best friend Carol. Katy embarks on the trip of a lifetime, meant to be spent as mother and daughter, over two weeks in Positano. Buoyed by the stunning waters, beautiful cliff sides, delightful residents and delectable food, Katy feels herself coming back to life. Things take a supernatural turn when suddenly her mother appears in the flesh — healthy, sun-tanned and thirty years old. Over the course of the summer, Katy not only discovers Carol as a young woman, but more about herself than she expected.

In 2001, director Todd Field made his directorial debut with "In the Bedroom," an intense drama based on the 1979 short story "Killings" by Andre Dubus. "In the Bedroom" is about the tenuous nature of family, class, the impossibility of emotional healing, and the horrors of justice. It boasted excellent performances from Tom Wilkinson, Sissy Spacek, and Marisa Tomei, and was nominated for five Academy Awards. It's handily one of the best films of the year. It would be five years before Field would return to directing with "Little Children," based on the novel by Tom Perrotta. That film also gazed into the suburbs and found helicopter parents, unhappy marriages, not-very-cathartic infidelity, and, most notably, a released sex criminal trying to reintegrate into a world that loathes him. That film was nominated for three Academy Awards, although it was quite a bit more mawkish and melodramatic than Field's previous effort.

That was...

Reese Witherspoon is bringing back another one of her nostalgic classics. Titled "Tracy Flick Can't Win," a sequel to the 1999 dark comedy "Election," is currently in the works, as initially reported by Deadline on Dec. 8. The follow-up film, which does not have an expected release date, is being made for Paramount+, with "The Morning Show" actor reprising her role as Tracy Flick and producing for her media company, Hello Sunshine.

Oscar Award-winning director Alexander Payne, who cowrote and directed "Election," is also returning for the movie in the same capacity. It's not yet clear if other cast members from the original film, including Matthew Broderick and Chris Klein, are involved.

Though details of the film are still scarce, "Tracy Flick Can't Win" is based on the "Election" sequel novel of the same name. Also written by Tom Perrotta and published in June 2022, the follow-up book sees Flick in her 40s...

As a self-confessed former teenage overachiever with an insufferable drive for success and a hypersexualized approach to the world around me, there are few characters in cinema that speak to me as loudly as Tracy Enid Flick. Alexander Payne's biting satire of midwest teenage politics based on Tom Perrotta's brilliant novel of the same name, "Election," remains a seminal favorite, and quite possibly one of the most honest films about the corruption of the American electoral system. While Reese Witherspoon had been acting for a few years leading up to the film's release, her performance as Tracy Flick proved that she was more than just a teen starlet, and was an acting powerhouse destined for greatness.

Released in indisputably the most significant year of teen cinema, 1999, "Election" tells the story of high school government teacher Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick) and his disdain for his precocious student, Tracy Flick,...

Reese Witherspoon fans rejoice! Tracy Flick is headed back to school for the Election sequel Tracy Flick Can’t Win for Paramount+. Alexander Payne, who wrote the original script that was based on the Tom Perrotta novel, will also be penning the script for the sequel. Payne wrote the sequel which was released in June of this year. According to the novel’s description, Tracy Flick Can’t Win centers around Tracy who is now a hardworking assistant principal at a public high school in suburban New Jersey. Still, an ambitious woman, Tracy experiences a midlife crisis as she feels stuck and under-appreciated until she receives a bit of food news when longtime principal Jack Weede announces his plans for retirement, offering her the chance to ascend to the top job. (Credit: Everett Collection) The 1999 film, which saw Witherspoon star alongside Matthew Broderick as Jim McAllister (A social studies teacher...

Of all the characters she's played in her career, Reese Witherspoon has a few that have stuck in the brain, such as Elle Woods. But Tracy Flick is right there with her, the Type-a focus of Alexander Payne's 1999 dark comedy drama Election. It wasn't the biggest hit at the box office, but it scored awards attention and is regarded as a cult classic. A sequel is now on the way called Tracy Flick Can't Win.

With Payne and co-writer Jim Taylor returning alongside Witherspoon (who will produce the new film), this will adapt Election novelist Tom Perrotta's follow-up book, which arrived this past June.

The story will pick up Tracy in adulthood as she continues to struggle to fight her way to the top at work. Now in her 40s, she's the assistant principal at a public high school in suburban New Jersey who is gunning for her...

Reese Witherspoon is reprising her fan-favourite starring role as Tracy Flick, 23 years after the cult-classic film “Election” released back in 1999.

The actress, who played the over-achieving student politician that ran for high school president, will step back into the character as an adult. The sequel to the film, titled “Tracy Flick Can’t Win”, is being adapted by Paramount Pictures for Paramount+, based off the critically acclaimed novel of the same name by Tom Perrotta.

The author’s latest novel- a satirical dark comedy- finds the eponymous Tracy in adulthood and still struggling to fight her way to the top. The book has been praised by reviewers as a “brilliant, biting satire” (Associated Press) and “engrossing and mordantly funny” (People).

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Reese Witherspoon in “Election” — Photo: Moviestore/Shutterstock

Perrotta is the bestselling author of...

Few ’90s comedies are as beloved as Alexander Payne‘s cult classic “Election.” Now, Deadline reports that Payne and Paramount Pictures have a sequel to the film in the works over at Paramount+, with Reese Witherspoon also on board to reprise her iconic role as Tracy Flick.

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Like the 1999 film, “Tracy Flick Can’t Win” is based on a novel by Tom Perrotta, whose sequel to his 1998 book came out in June.

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Hollywood is ready to “Pick Flick” again for an Election sequel starring Reese Witherspoon (The Morning Show) called Tracy Flick Can’t Win. The original film’s writer and director, Alexander Payne, will return for the follow-up to Witherspoon’s 1999 cult comedy. Payne is writing the sequel with Jim Taylor, inspired by Tom Perrotta’s latest novel of the same name. The story focuses on Tracy Flick, an assistant principal at a public high school in suburban New Jersey. Despite her tenacity and thirst for power, Flick still struggles to make her mark on the world and show doubters who’s boss.

Here is the official description of Perrotta’s novel Tracy Flick Can’t Win:

Tracy Flick is a hardworking assistant principal at a public high school in suburban New Jersey. Still ambitious but feeling a little stuck and underappreciated in midlife, Tracy gets a jolt of good news when the longtime principal,...

"Election" is one of those classic movies that, unfortunately, get misinterpreted far too often. The number of times I've seen people try to argue that schoolteacher Jim (Matthew Broderick) isn't portrayed as an obsessive creep, or that the film's complex framing of high schooler Tracy (Reese Witherspoon) isn't intentional is far too many to count. At the same time, however, the fact that it is so morally grey is why it is still so interesting to watch and has garnered such a passionate following.

This exact fanbase, then, will likely be glad to hear that we'll be catching up with Tracy Flick once more in the near future. Paramount Pictures has announced that a sequel to "Election," titled "Tracy Flick Can't Win," has been greenlit for Paramount+ and will see Witherspoon reprise her famous role. She is also expected to serve as an executive producer on the film under her...

The Oscar-winner will reunite with Alexander Payne for a Paramount+ adaptation of Tom Perrotta’s Tracy Flick Can’t Win

Reese Witherspoon is set to reunite with director Alexander Payne for an Election sequel.

The film will be an adaptation of Tom Perrotta’s Tracy Flick Can’t Win, his 2022 novel that follows the character of Tracy Flick as she battles to become the principal of a suburban high school. “She hasn’t fulfilled her dreams of a political career,” Perrotta said of Tracy in the book. “And she’s looking back and starting to realize that she wasn’t as extraordinary an individual as she believed. That she was a kind of representative woman rather than a unique superhero.”...

At last: some election drama we’re happy to revisit.

Reese Witherspoon will reprise her highly ambitious Election character, Tracy Flick, in a Paramount+ sequel to the 1999 film, our sister site Deadline reports.

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Tracy Flick Can’t Win will be directed by Alexander Payne, who helmed the first movie. Witherspoon also will produce.

Election is a dark comedy that stars Witherspoon as a...

Serving as a breakout for Alexander Payne following his debut Citizen Ruth, 1999’s Election followed Reese Witherspoon’s Tracy Flick as a high school student running for the student body and Matthew Broderick’s Jim McAllister as the high school teacher who gets in her way. Now, over two decades later, the satire is getting a sequel.

THR reports Tracy Flick Can’t Win is in the works, with Alexander Payne returning to direct and script alongside Jim Taylor, and Reese Witherspoon returning to star. The development isn’t entirely surprising as Tom Perrotta’s sequel novel was released earlier this year, following Flick as an assistant principal. See the synopsis below.

Tracy Flick is a hardworking assistant principal at a public high school in suburban New Jersey. Still ambitious but feeling a little stuck and underappreciated in midlife, Tracy gets a jolt of good news when the longtime principal,...

Reese Witherspoon is reprising her role as go-getter Tracy Flick in “Tracy Flick Can’t Win,” a sequel to the 1999 political comedy “Election.”

Alexander Payne, who co-wrote and directed the original film, is returning for the follow-up, which is set to debut on Paramount’s streaming service, Paramount+. In addition to directing, Payne will write the movie adaptation with Jim Taylor.

In “Election,” based on the 1998 novel by Tom Perrotta, Witherspoon portrayed an ambitious, Type-a student whose social studies teacher (played by Matthew Broderick) attempts to sabotage her campaign to become school president. Although it wasn’t a box office draw, the movie was nominated at the Oscars for best adapted screenplay, while Witherspoon landed attention at the Golden Globes in the best actress race.

The sequel, based on Perrotta’s follow-up novel that published earlier this year, picks up with Tracy in adulthood as she continues to struggle to...

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Tracy Flick is headed back to Hollywood.

Tracy Flick Can’t Win, a follow-up to the 1999 cult favorite Election, is in the work with Reese Witherspoon set to reprise her role as Tracy Flick and Alexander Payne returning the direct.

Payne, who wrote the original film, will write the film adaptation with Jim Taylor based on Tom Perrotta’s latest novel of the same name that was published in June of this year. The book finds the eponymous character, a typer-a go-getter in high school, now a hardworking assistant principal at a public high school in suburban New Jersey and still struggling to fight her way to the top.

Witherspoon will also produce the movie with Lauren Neustadter for Hello Sunshine, alongside Election producers Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa of Bona Fide Productions. Perrotta is executive producing.

The project is set for Paramount streamer Paramount+.

Reese Witherspoon will reprise one of her most iconic early roles – and we’re not talking about Elle Woods. Witherspoon will star in and produce “Tracy Flick Can’t Win,” a sequel to her 1999 cult-classic film “Election” that’s set up at Paramount Pictures and intended for Paramount+.

The original film’s writer and director Alexander Payne is also back on board for the sequel, which is based on Tom Perrotta’s latest novel of the same name and was released earlier this year. Perrotta previously wrote the novel “Election,” which was adapted for the original film. Witherspoon will reprise her role as Tracy Flick, now a hard working but frustrated assistant principal at a public high school in New Jersey, where she is still fighting for the top job.

Both the book and the film have been described as biting, darkly comedic satires in the way that Payne’s original “Election” was.

Paramount Pictures has announced that Tracy Flick Can’t Win — a sequel to Alexander Payne’s cult classic 1999 comedy Election — is being made for Paramount+. Payne is returning as director, with the original film’s lead Reese Witherspoon to produce and reprise her starring role.

Based on Tom Perrotta’s 1998 novel of the same name, Election watches as the high school teacher Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick) finds himself on a collision course with the over-achieving student politician, Tracy Flick (Witherspoon). The satire drawing parallels between the worlds of high school and politics was Payne’s second feature on the heels of 1996’s Citizen Ruth and proved to be his breakthrough project, netting him and his collaborators three Independent Spirit Awards, a WGA Award and an Oscar nomination, with Witherspoon landing her first Golden Globe nomination.

The Election sequel is based on a follow-up novel by Perrotta, which was published by Scribner in June.

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The Film: "The Leftovers"

Where You Can Stream It: HBO Max

The Pitch: Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta's metaphysical drama begins with a hell of a premise: One day, suddenly, 2 of the world's population disappears. The Sudden Departure, as it's called, is neither a clear-cut rapture event nor an easily explainable scientific one, but it is profoundly traumatizing. That trauma, which is both global and extremely personal, is the starting point from which one of the best TV shows of the 21st century builds.

Perrotta's novel serves as the series' starting point, and the first season follows two families in Mapleton, New York as they navigate their grief and aimlessness three years after the Departure. It's as bleak as it sounds,...

If it’s Tuesday, this must be Election Day in a year when democracy itself is on the ballot. It’s a moment that Jefferson Smith – the naive but idealistic young senator played by Jimmy Stewart – could have appreciated in the Oscar-winning 1939 classic “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” from director Frank Capra. It tops the list of 25 movies that this Gold Derby editor singles out as exemplary staples of the political genre over the past 80-plus years. Most originated on the big screen, but a few were made-for-tv.

Why bring this to you today? Think of it as a distraction tactic at a time when so many of us are overloaded with anxiety over an especially consequential election that will determine control of Congress. The list features biopics, satires, historical dramas and journalism hybrid thrillers as well as fictitious allegories.

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One of the best miniseries of the past year was "Station Eleven," which tells the stories of a handful of people before and after an apocalyptic pandemic, whose storylines cross in constant unexpected ways. It's the sort of low-key, deeply emotional show that fans of "The Leftovers" would probably love, which makes sense considering there's so much overlap between the two shows' writers' rooms. 

The other key similarities between the two shows is that they're both based off a book, and neither of them are afraid to make changes from the source material. "The Leftovers" takes Tom Perrotta's novel of the same name and expands the role of major characters and has more of them cross paths. Nora (Carrie Coon) never gets to hug Holy Wayne (Paterson Joseph) in the book for instance, even though both characters still exist. The show also decides to make Nora related to Matt...

No, she’s not playing a superhero (unless you are a lifelong Tanglewood member) but Cate Blanchett is heard describing how she can stop time in the new, strange trailer for “TÁR,” the mysterious upcoming feature from Todd Field.

It’s been 16 years since Field’s last film, “Little Children,” for which Kate Winslet received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress, as did Jackie Earle Haley for Best Supporting Actor and Field himself, shared with Tom Perrotta for Best Adapted Screenplay. Prior to “Little Children” was 2001’s “In The Bedroom,” which accrued five Oscar nominations: Sissy Spacek for Best Actress, Tom Wilkinson for Best Actor, Marisa Tomei for Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay for Field and Robert Festinger, and Best Picture.

Field has spent the years since his awards-heavy films not-quite-getting projects off the ground, like a television adaptation of Jonathan Franzen’s “Purity” and a movie version of Cormac McCarthy’s “Blood Meridian.

Sixteen years since his last film “Little Children” peeled back the malaise and psychosexual dysfunction of suburbia, director Todd Field is back on the film festival stage with “TÁR.” Field has paddled around a suite of projects over the years, from a 20-hour Showtime limited series take on Jonathan Franzen’s tome “Purity” with Daniel Craig and David Hare, to a likely-never-to-happen adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s unfilmable western “Blood Meridian.” After adapting fiction for his last two films — Tom Perrotta’s novel “Little Children” and the Andre Dubus short story “Killings” for his debut feature “In the Bedroom” — Field returns to writing his own material.

“TÁR” is set to make waves at the fall festivals with stops at Venice and NYFF before Focus Features releases the whopping two-hour-and-40-minute film on October 7 stateside. Cate Blanchett stars as renowned (and highly fictional) composer Lydia Tár, in the film regarded as...

Editor’s note: This review was originally published at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival. Lionsgate releases the film in theaters and on VOD and digital on Friday, August 4.

Orson (Jon Hamm) is an upwardly mobile corporate drone who suffers from Main Character Syndrome in a Kafkaesque work environment, his arrogance so vigorously rubbing against his anonymity that the friction created between those two forces is almost powerful enough to sustain the ultra-droll office satire that “Corner Office” constructs around it. Adapted from Jonas Karlsson’s lightly surreal (but extremely Scandinavian) novella, “The Room,” Joachim Back’s feature-length debut promotes a typical skewering of corporate drudgery with the hint of a curious new twist.

Whereas stories about paper-pushing worker drones have been done to death — to the point that Back’s film can seem perversely familiar when it isn’t futzing with the blueprints of reality — the human cog at the center...

Exclusive: Fast Lane Productions, the production company run by former Universal Music Group exec Rob Lane, is ramping up its unscripted slate with a slew of projects.

The company is developing several new documentaries and live TV specials.

These include a feature documentary about comedian George Lopez, a Bollywood special and a TV adaptation of Literary Death Match.

The Lopez doc is directed by Daniel A Ramirez and will show new perspectives and give new depth to Lopez that audiences have never seen before, as it takes viewers through his colorful life as one of the most influential Latinos in America.

It is also producing the largest-ever Bollywood event – Bollywood – The Big One at Wembley Stadium, which will bring together 10 of the biggest stars on stage. The event, promoted by Farhath Hussain and produced by Harvey Goldsmith, will take place in the UK on September 3 and will be streamed and broadcast worldwide.