From buzzy horrors to difficult dramas, this year’s low-key, mostly virtual festival offers a restricted yet intriguing selectionEven in any normal year, trying to predict what will and won’t land at the Sundance film festival is something of a fool’s errand. It’s a lineup filled with small, often totally unknown films, most of which don’t […]
Continue reading“The Last Thing He Wanted” was doomed from the start. Hopes were high at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival for director Dee Rees’ follow-up to the Academy Award-nominated “Mudbound,” but the film immediately suffered scathing reviews, dimming all hopes for its Netflix premiere. In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Rees talked about how she’s […]
Continue readingNetflix revealed on Monday that “Love Is Blind” is currently the top TV series on the streaming service in the U.S., while its No. 1 film among domestic subscribers is “The Last Thing He Wanted.”That news came courtesy of Netflix’s “Top 10” lists feature, which launched earlier today and allows users to see the “most […]
Continue readingMudbound director Dee Rees is headed back to Netflix with her new film. Rees will adapt Joan Didion’s book The Last Thing He Wanted for the streaming platform, with Anne Hathaway set to star. Dee Rees’ Mudbound was one of the best films of last year, so the more movies she makes, the better off […]
Continue readingNetflix is definitely not a company that is going to let a good thing go. After the monster critical success of “Mudbound,” the streaming service wants to stay in the Dee Rees business, and it looks like they’re going to do just that.The Hollywood Reporter says that Netflix has signed on to distribute the new […]
Continue readingNetflix has picked up the worldwide rights to the thriller “The Last Thing He Wanted,” based on the Joan Didion novel.Anne Hathaway will star in and Dee Rees will direct, produce, and co-write the movie.Hathaway will portray the hardscrabble journalist Elena McMahon, who finds herself on dangerous ground as the Iran-Contra Affair’s arms for drugs […]
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