Tag: Black Bear
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Christopher Abbott’s Best Performance Is With George Clooney in This Dark Satire
You might recognize Christopher Abbott from his new project Sanctuary, where he plays an insecure man attempting to end things with dominatrix, Rebecca (Margaret Qualley). Maybe you know Abbott from some of his other projects, like 2020s Black Bear where he stars alongside Aubrey Plaza in the psychological thriller about a filmmaker creating his muse,…
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Margaret Qualley and Christopher Abbott to Star in Zachary Wigon Dominatrix Thriller ‘Sanctuary’
Margaret Qualley and Christopher Abbott will star in the Zachary Wigon-directed thriller “Sanctuary,” which just finished shooting in New York, Variety reports.Set in a hotel room over the course of a single night, “Sanctuary” centers on a dominatrix (Qualley) and her wealthy client Hal (Abbott), who is on the cusp of inheriting his father’s fortune…
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Utopia Buys Tribeca Award Winner ‘Materna’ (Exclusive)
Utopia has acquired worldwide rights to David Gutnik’s “Materna” ahead of the film’s in-person debut at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival.The movie looks at four women, whose lives intersect during an incident on a New York City subway. Kate Lyn Sheil (“She Dies Tomorrow”), Jade Eshete (“Billions”), Lindsay Burdge (“Black Bear”), Assol Abdullina (“First Snow”),…
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From Russian YouTube to spinning on the spot: Hollywood’s tricks to playing drunk
Gone is the ‘do it for real’ approach – the stars of Mank and Another Round take a more sober approach to acting inebriatedWere there an Oscar for best on-screen drunk (which there really should be), it would be a close-run thing this year. My money would be on Aubrey Plaza, who provides a magnificent…
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Aubrey Plaza drama ‘Black Bear’ lands UK-Ireland deal (exclusive)
Twisted love triangle psychodrama debuted at Sundance.Vertigo Releasing has acquired UK and Ireland rights to psychodrama Black Bear, starring Aubrey Plaza, from Radiant Films International.The distributor plans to release the film theatrically and on digital platforms on March 5, 2021.Black Bear premiered at Sundance earlier this year and marks the latest from US writer-director Lawrence…
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‘Black Bear’: Sarah Gadon & Christopher Abbott Talk Working With Aubrey Plaza, Balancing Tension, Filmmaking & More [Interview]
Premiering back at Sundance 2020, “Black Bear” might not have made waves equal in size to some (hello “Minari” and “Palm Springs”), but it certainly caused a stir among critics. Ours called the dark meta-dramedy about filmmaking, “madly hysterical and intoxicating.” While Aubrey Plaza leads the narrative in director Lawrence Michael Levine’s film about a…
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With ‘Black Bear,’ Aubrey Plaza Becomes the Artist We Always Knew She Could Be
When filmmaker Lawrence Michael Levine gave the script for “Black Bear” to Aubrey Plaza, it included one hell of a direction in its final act: the leading lady “breaks down and gives the best performance that anyone has ever seen ever.” No pressure.“I had this moment before we started shooting, where I just felt like,…
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Back to One, Episode 134: Aubrey Plaza
From Parks And Recreation to Legion, from indie film queen to The Happiest Season, Aubrey Plaza is not done surprising us. Everybody’s favorite late-night talk-show guest and hilarious awards-show host rarely gets to show off the serious roots of her acting chops. Enter Black Bear. The Sundance hit from Lawrence Michael Levine stars Plaza as…
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Wonder Women: Producers Zoom In at the 2020 Scad Savannah Film Festival
Moderated by Megan Lombardo, a professor in the Savannah College of Art and Design’s Film & Television department, this year’s Wonder Women: Producers panel was an all-Zoom affair. And taking to the computer screen were six diverse (albeit all white) women with a variety of career stories to tell. There was Jayme Lemons, whose Dawn…
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2020 Indie Spirit Awards Winners List (Updating Live)
The winners of the 2020 Independent Spirit Awards are being announced live during today’s ceremony, hosted for the second year in a row by Aubrey Plaza (fresh off rave reviews from Sundance for her performance in the indie “Black Bear”). Unlike the Oscars where Netflix is the most-nominated studio, the Spirit Awards are dominated in…