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The ‘Succession’ creator is crafting a new original movie for HBO, with an eye-popping cast.

The drama of the Roy family may be over with the end of “Succession,” but the show’s creator Jesse Armstrong hasn’t put down his pen. In fact, he’s at work on a new original movie for HBO, the original channel that hosted “Succession”. We’ll fill you in on all the details we have about the movie so far below, including whether or not you’ll be able to watch it on the HBO sibling streamer Max.

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The 2025 edition of Mubi Fest is almost here. IndieWire can announce the global dates of international experience Mubi Fest, starting with its return to Chicago April 26 to 27. This year, Mubi Fest expands to to 11 cities globally, concluding in Glasgow from November 28 to 30.

The U.S. branch will have a special screening of Alex Ross Perry’s “Pavements,” with Perry in-person for a Q&a. Amalia Ulman’s “Magic Farm” will also be among the previews at the Salt Shed and The Music Box Theatre. The full festival schedule will be announced soon.

Perry’s “Pavements” is a faux documentary about the real band of the same name. The film stars Joe Keery, Fred Hechinger, Nat Wolff, Jason Schwartzman, Logan Miller, Griffin Newman, Tim Heidecker, Michael Esper, Zoe Lister-Jones, and Kathryn Gallagher. “Pavements” will be released by Utopia May 2.

“Magic Farm” also stars Wolff, along with Chloë Sevigny, Simon Rex, Camila del Campo,...

HBO’s untitled Jesse Armstrong movie about billionaires, which is being shot in Park City with Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Cory Michael Smith and Ramy Youssef, has added seven to the supporting cast: Hadley Robinson (Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty) as Hester, Andy Daly (Lessons in Chemistry) as Casper, Ali Kinkade (Lessons in Chemistry) as Berry, Daniel Oreskes (A Real Pain) as Dr. Phipps, David Thompson (It’s What’s Inside) as Leo, Amie MacKenzie (Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story) as Janine and Ava Kostia (The Stairwell) as Paula.

From the multi-Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated Armstrong, the movie follows a group of billionaire friends who get together against the backdrop of a rolling international crisis.

The HBO Original film is written, EP’ed and directed by Armstrong. It’s also EP’ed by Frank Rich, Lucy Prebble, Jon Brown, Tony Roche, Will Tracy, Mark Mylod, and Jill Footlick.

Alex Ross Perry is chasing “Pavements” — that is, the fictionalized version of the band that his very real faux music documentary is about.

The “Her Smell” director helms the movie within a movie about Pavement, the ’90s American alternative group. The official synopsis reads: “‘Pavements’ is a movie about Pavement the band — among other things. The latest film from acclaimed director Alex Ross Perry is a documentary that may or may not be entirely true, may or may not be totally sincere, and may or may not be more about the idea of the band — or any band — than a history of the short-lived, passionately loved, commercially marginal ’90s American alternative group Pavement. This unconventional film about a highly unconventional band incorporates a stage musical, rock biopic, gallery exhibition, archival footage, and contemporary observational footage to create a film as irreducible, uncharacterizable, and entertaining as the band and its music.

"We were big on MTV!" Utopia has revealed an official trailer for the film Pavements, the latest creation from NYC indie filmmaker Alex Ross Perry. This is sort of a documentary, or not, more of a mockumentary, but it's also kind of real, and kind of a fictional film. Does this band actually exist? Is this doc about their return or about them not being a real band? Who knows? Pavements is a doc film about the American indie band Pavement, which combines scripts with images of the band & a musical mise-en-scene composed of songs from their discography. It's a prismatic, narrative, scripted, musical, metatextual hybrid. Showing the band preparing for their sold-out 2022 reunion tour while tracking the preparations for a musical based on their songs, a museum about their history, and a big-budget Hollywood biopic. Anchored by Pavement's slacker-sage-sphinx, Stephen Malkmus, the film features actors Joe Keery, Jason Schwartzman,...

Today, Utopia released the trailer for Alex Ross Perry’s Pavements, an innovative portrayal of the iconic ’90s indie rock band Pavement. The film blends documentary footage, scripted scenes, and a musical stage play featuring songs from the band’s discography. The fictional biopic within the film, Range Life, stars Joe Keery as Stephen Malkmus, alongside Jason Schwartzman, Fred Hechinger, Tim Heidecker, Logan Miller, Griffin Newman, and Nat Wolff. Out of last year’s New York Film Festival, Slant writer Brad Hanford described it as “Perry’s Cubist portrait finds a fitting balance between reverence and mischievousness.”

Pavements is scheduled to premiere in New York on May 2, followed by Los Angeles on May 9, with a nationwide release on June 6. See below for the film’s trailer.

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Pavements, Alex Ross Perry’s experimental biopic-documentary on the band Pavement, has received its first official trailer.

Arriving in theaters around the US on June 6th, Pavements combines elements of the traditional musical biopic with that of a rock documentary. The film captures all five members of Pavement in 2022 as they launched their reunion tour, their own museum, and a musical based on their catalogue. All the while, Joe Keery stars as frontman Stephen Malkmus in a fictitious documenting of the band’s history, alongside fellow actor/musician performers Jason Schwartzman, Nat Wolff, Tim Heidecker, Zoe Lister-Jones, and more.

This biopic-style presentation of the band’s origins story was captured as Range Life: A Pavement Story, which is both its own separate companion movie as well as the “film within a film” portion of Pavements. Range Life received its first trailer earlier this month, though it does not have a...

Pavements, Alex Ross Perry’s experimental biopic-documentary on the band Pavement, has received its first official trailer.

Arriving in theaters around the US on June 6th, Pavements combines elements of the traditional musical biopic with that of a rock documentary. The film captures all five members of Pavement in 2022 as they launched their reunion tour, their own museum, and a musical based on their catalogue. All the while, Joe Keery stars as frontman Stephen Malkmus in a fictitious documenting of the band’s history, alongside fellow actor/musician performers Jason Schwartzman, Nat Wolff, Tim Heidecker, Zoe Lister-Jones, and more.

This biopic-style presentation of the band’s origins story was captured as Range Life: A Pavement Story, which is both its own separate companion movie as well as the “film within a film” portion of Pavements. Range Life received its first trailer earlier this month, though it does not have a...

Six years since his last solo directing feature, Her Smell, Alex Ross Perry returned to the world of rock in a very different way with Pavements. A tribute to Stephen Malkmus’ group, the film jumps between band documentary, biopic (and the making of the biopic), Broadway-musical creation, museum exhibition, and more to try containing the genius of this influential group. After its fall festival premiere, Utopia will give it a release this year, beginning on May 2, and they’ve now released the first trailer after we got a fun teaser at the film within the film. Along with Pavement members, the film also features Joe Keery as frontman Stephen Malkmus, alongside Jason Schwartzman, Fred Hechinger, Tim Heidecker, Logan Miller, Griffin Newman, Nat Wolff, and more.

Here’s the synopsis: “Pavements is a movie about Pavement the band—among other things. The latest film from acclaimed director Alex Ross Perry (Her Smell...

Not many artists can assume the impact of their work before it’s released out onto the world, but from Wes Anderson’s early days, he knew how special everything that goes into his films would one day be to the masses. From Max Fischer’s sports jacket and beret in “Rushmore” to Auggie’s camera and pipe in “Asteroid City,” every detail in an Anderson film is intricately and thoughtfully designed, so much so that Cinémathèque Française in Paris has decided to honor the Texas-born auteur with his first career retrospective.

As per The New York Times, Anderson has been carefully storing and keeping track of his films’ paraphernalia ever since Columbia Pictures sold materials off his first feature “Bottle Rocket” without his consent. For two-and-a-half years, curators from Cinémathèque Française and the Design Museum in London pored over a treasure trove of items locked away in Anderson’s storage facility in Kent,...

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The Residence is a murder mystery comedy-drama series created by Paul William Davies. Inspired by the 2015 book The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House by Kate Andersen Brower, the Netflix series is set mainly in the White House, and it follows eccentric but brilliant detective Cordelia Cupp as she investigates a murder that happened during a state dinner. The Residence stars Uzo Aduba, Giancarlo Esposito, Susan Kelechi Watson, Jason Lee, Ken Marino, Edwina Findley, Randall Park, Molly Griggs, Spencer Garrett, and Mary Wiseman. So, if you loved the thrilling murder mystery, hilarious comedy, and compelling characters in The Residence, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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What would movies be about if not for love? Since well before the days of Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in “Casablanca,” romance has driven countless classic stories, setting up some of the highest highs in cinematic history to follow. Be it Cary Grant and Grace Kelly seeing stars in “To Catch a Thief” or Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal disturbing diner patrons in “When Harry Met Sally,” the 20th century was chock full of iconic romances that helped humanity fall in love with the movies. Of course, those titles were dominated by white artists telling largely heteronormative tales — meaning many (but not all) of the best and most inclusive romances have arrived this millennium.

Now, the best romance movies of the 21st century both resonate and surprise, showing audiences characters they might recognize from their own lives in new and surprising ways. Yes, finding “the one” is exceedingly well-frequented thematic territory,...

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Based on the book of the same name by Ernest Cline, "Ready Player One" takes viewers to 2045, where Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) dives into a video game world of the Oasis to track down the Easter egg hidden by late creator James Halliday (Mark Rylance). Finding the egg will make the player rich and give them ownership of the virtual world that millions occupy for hours each day. 

Wade has spent years searching for a path to the item, and he keeps coming up short until he meets a player named Art3mis (Olivia Cooke), who works with him to find the clues and the three challenges that lead to highly coveted keys. Their success is threatened by Nolan Sorrento (Ben Mendelsohn), an evil businessman and former employee of Halliday, who uses his team of Sixers to track down the Easter egg for his betterment.

Stranger Things star Joe Keery makes his hilariously melodramatic debut as indie rock great and leader of the “slacktivism” movement, Stephen Malkmus, in the new trailer for Alex Ross Perry’s Pavement movie, Range Life: A Pavement Story.

The film is kind of a mix of, well, everything — rock doc, biopic, jukebox musical, museum exhibit, performance art piece — all of it treated with the irreverent suspicion one would expect from a Pavement film. Case in point: The new trailer is a perfect send-up of overwrought, self-serious biopic trailers, set to...

Six years since his last solo directing feature, Her Smell, Alex Ross Perry returned to the world of rock in a very different way with Pavements. A tribute to Stephen Malkmus’ group, the film jumps between band documentary, biopic (and the making of the biopic), Broadway-musical creation, museum exhibition, and more to try containing the genius of this influential group. After its fall festival premiere, Utopia will give it a release this year and they’ve now released the first trailer for the fake biopic Range Life within the film. The “film” stars Joe Keery as frontman Stephen Malkmus, alongside Jason Schwartzman, Fred Hechinger, Tim Heidecker, Logan Miller, Griffin Newman, Nat Wolff, and more.

David Katz said in his review, “Perry’s film, one of his most accomplished and complete-feeling to date, exists in both a past and conditional tense. It gives a brilliant précis of one of indie music...

“Succession” creator Jesse Armstrong is making his way from the small screen to the big screen, with an untitled feature film about a group of billionaire friends at HBO Original Films and Max that is set to begin shooting this month in Park City, Utah.

This group of extremely wealthy friends gets together in the wake of a mysterious and influx international crisis.

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The saga of Alex Ross Perry’s weird, meta Pavement film project continues with the official teaser trailer for a movie titled Range Life: A Pavement Story starring Joe Keery, Jason Schwartzman, Tim Heidecker, Nat Wolff, and more.

Range Life is the biopic aspect of Perry’s hybrid biopic/musical/documentary Pavements. It stars Keery as frontman Stephen Malkmus, telling an embellished story of the band through a self-aware lens, with “For your consideration” jokes abound. Says distributor Utopia in a statement: “On the heels of this year’s Oscars ceremony, there’s already one frontrunner emerging for 2026’s Best Actor from a musical biopic… Joe Keery as Stephen Malkmus.”

What we know so far about the movie Pavements, which premiered at the 2024 Venice Film Festival, is that Keery and his co-stars are depicted as fictional versions of themselves in “behind-the-scenes” footage on the set of Range Life, more preoccupied...

The saga of Alex Ross Perry’s weird, meta Pavement film project continues with the official teaser trailer for a movie titled Range Life: A Pavement Story starring Joe Keery, Jason Schwartzman, Tim Heidecker, Nat Wolff, and more.

Range Life is the biopic aspect of Perry’s hybrid biopic/musical/documentary Pavements. It stars Keery as frontman Stephen Malkmus, telling an embellished story of the band through a self-aware lens, with “For your consideration” jokes abound. Says distributor Utopia in a statement: “On the heels of this year’s Oscars ceremony, there’s already one frontrunner emerging for 2026’s Best Actor from a musical biopic… Joe Keery as Stephen Malkmus.”

What we know so far about the movie Pavements, which premiered at the 2024 Venice Film Festival, is that Keery and his co-stars are depicted as fictional versions of themselves in “behind-the-scenes” footage on the set of Range Life, more preoccupied...

Succession creator Jesse Armstrong is making his directorial debut with a cast including Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Cory Michael Smith and Ramy Youssef.

Production on the untitled feature begins in Utah later this month and will premiere on Sky in the UK and HBO in the US later this spring.

The story centres around a group of billionaire friends who get together amidst an international crisis.

Armstrong also penned the screenplay and serves as executive producer alongside Frank Rich, Lucy Prebble, Jon Brown, Tony Roche, Will Tracy, Mark Mylod and Jill Footlick. All apart from Footlick also worked on Succession.

The Office star Steve Carell has officially joined the cast of Jesse Armstrong's upcoming movie for HBO, starring alongside an ensemble cast filled with heavy hitters.

Per Variety, Carell will star alongside Jason Schwartzman (Asteroid City), Ramy Youssef (Poor Things) and Cory Michael Smith (Saturday Night) in Armstrong's untitled film for HBO, which is expected to begin filming this month in Utah. Armstrong served as executive producer and showrunner of HBO's Emmy-winning juggernaut Succession, which concluded its run back in 2023. The untitled film follows " a group of billionaire friends who get together against the backdrop of a rolling international crisis." His upcoming untitled film for HBO serves as his feature directorial debut.

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Gold Derby's top news stories for March 4, 2025. A24 sets release date for Celine Song's Materialists

Materialists, Celine Song's first film since the Oscar-nominated Past Lives, will hit theaters on June 13, A24 announced. Written, directed, and produced by Song, Materialists stars Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans (whose birthday is June 13), and Pedro Pascal. It follows a New York City matchmaker (Johnson) who's torn between the perfect match and her imperfect ex. The cast includes Zoë Winters, Marin Ireland, Dasha Nekrasova, and Louisa Jacobson. A24 also released the film's poster:

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Steve Carell to lead Jesse Armstrong's HBO film set for spring premiere

Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Cory Michael Smith, and Ramy Youssef will star in Jesse Armstrong's new HBO film that will premiere in the spring, making it eligible for the Emmys.

HBO is reteaming with Succession creator Jesse Armstrong for a new project that will serve as Armstrong's feature directorial debut. The currently untitled film is heading in front of the cameras soon, and will feature an ensemble cast that includes Steve Carell and Jason Schwartzman.

Per a press release from Warner Bros., Armstrong's feature will be an original movie for HBO that begins filming this month in Park City, Utah and will premiere this spring. In addition to Carell and Schwartzman, the film also stars Cory Michael Smith and Ramy Youssef and its official logline reveals that the movie follows "a group of billionaire friends who get together against the backdrop of a rolling international crisis." Armstrong, who is also writing and executive producing the project, had this to say about reuniting with HBO:

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Jesse Armstrong, the creator of the HBO series Succession, is working on his first-ever movie!

The Emmy-winning writer will make his feature film directorial debut with a new movie that will debut on HBO in spring 2025.

The untitled project will star Steve Carell and more cast members have also been announced. There will be a tight turnaround for the project as it’s first starting filming this month in Park City, Utah, according to Variety.

The movie “follows a group of billionaire friends who get together against the backdrop of a rolling international crisis.”

Jesse said in a statement, “I’m intrigued to discover whether being around so many brilliant actors and directors on Succession has in any way rubbed off on me. Let’s hope so. I’m grateful to Casey Bloys, Francesca Orsi and the whole HBO team for backing this film so wholeheartedly and helping me pull...

It's been less than two years since Jesse Armstrong brought the Roy family saga to an end with Succession Season 4, sealing his series' place among the greatest TV shows of all time in the process. But if you thought the prolific writer might be inclined to rest on his laurels and take a bit of a break after dominating last year's Emmy awards, then you're sorely mistaken. Just two months after Deadline exclusively revealed that Armstrong is gearing up to make his directorial debut with an original HBO movie, today it's been confirmed (via a snow-strewn Instagram post) that said film is heading our way this spring — with Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Cory Michael Smith, and Ramy Youssef set to star.

Written by Armstrong himself, precious little is known at this point about what exactly the filmmaker's debut behind the camera will entail, but the rough description shared by Deadline...

Jesse Armstrong, the creator of Succession, is one of the hottest tickets in Hollywood after the booming success of his enthralling HBO drama. Any network or studio would be lucky to have him, and HBO knows this. In the interest of keeping one of their best and brightest talents close, Armstrong’s next project, a star-studded feature film about billionaires caught in an international crisis, is on the fast track to audiences who crave nail-biting drama and unforgettable characters. Today, we’ve learned that Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Ramy Youseff, and Cory Michael Smith will lead the cast of Armstrong’s Succession follow-up, making the project all the more enticing.

According to the movie’s logline, Jesse Armstrong’s upcoming feature revolves around “a group of billionaire friends who get together against the backdrop of a rolling international crisis.”

While the film has yet to reveal its title, an image...

HBO will debut an original film, written, directed, and executive produced by seven-time Emmy winner and Oscar-nominated Jesse Armstrong (HBO’s Succession), this spring. Production on the film begins this month in Park City, Utah, and will be Armstrong’s feature directorial debut.

In the film, a group of billionaire friends get together against the backdrop of a rolling international crisis.

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The cast includes Oscar and eleven-time Emmy-nominee Steve Carell as Randall, Jason Schwartzman as Hugo Van Yalk (Souper), Cory Michael Smith as Venis and Emmy-nominee Ramy Youssef as Jeff.

The HBO original film is executive produced by Jesse Armstrong, Frank Rich, Lucy Prebble, Jon Brown, Tony Roche, Will Tracy, Mark Mylod and Jill Footlick.

“We’re ecstatic to be back in business with the singular talent Jesse Armstrong coming off our fruitful collaboration on ‘Succession.’ Jesse once again raises the bar with a bold examination of modern greed,...

Succession creator Jesse Armstrong has found the team that he'll return to HBO with. Following the success of his four-season Emmy juggernaut about the dysfunctional Roy family's struggle for control of their media empire, he'll make his feature directorial debut with a previously-announced, yet-untitled film now set to premiere on the network this spring. The project now has a quartet of stars at the top of the call sheet, including Oscar and Emmy nominee Steve Carell, alongside Jason Schwartzman, Cory Michael Smith, and Ramy Youssef. Filming is slated to begin this month in Park City, Utah.

The movie that will serve as Jesse Armstrong’s follow-up to Succession has announced its lead actors and is set to begin production soon. It even has a rough premiere date — HBO says it’s set to air sometime in the spring.

Steve Carell (The Office, The Patient) Jason Schwartzman (Bored to Death, Megalopolis), Cory Michael Smith (Saturday Night) and Ramy Youssef (Ramy, Poor Things) will star in the film, playing “a group of billionaire friends who get together against the backdrop of a rolling international crisis,” per the movie’s logline.

What the film doesn’t have yet — or at least, isn’t being revealed yet — is a title. HBO released an image of the first page from Armstrong’s script (see it below), but the title is obscured as if the ink has bled from getting wet.

Jesse Armstrong script

Filming is slated to start later this month in Park City,...

Jesse Armstrong’s HBO movie has found its cast.

Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Ramy Youssef and Cory Michael Smith have joined the “Succession” creator’s untitled film, which is his feature directorial debut.

The movie follows a group of billionaire friends who get together against the backdrop of a rolling international crisis. It marks Armstrong’s first project since the “Succession” series finale in May 2023.

The movie starts filming this month in Park City, Utah, and will debut on HBO this spring. Carell plays Randall, Schwartzman plays Hugo Van Yalk (aka “Souper”), Smith plays Venis and Youssef plays Jeff.

Armstrong is the writer and director of the film, and he executive produces with Frank Rich, Lucy Prebble, Jon Brown, Tony Roche, Will Tracy, Mark Mylod and Jill Footlick.

“I’m intrigued to discover whether being around so many brilliant actors and directors on ‘Succession’ has in any way rubbed off on me.

Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Ramy Youssef and Cory Michael Smith will lead Jesse Armstrong’s upcoming HBO film.

The four actors will star as a group of billionaire friends who get together against the backdrop of a rolling international crisis, per the official logline.

The film, the title of which is currently remaining under wraps, marks Armstrong’s feature debut, as well as his first project since HBO’s “Succession,” which wrapped up its fourth and final season in May 2023. Armstrong will write, direct and executive produce the new film.

The movie is set to begin production this month in Park City, Utah, and will debut on HBO later this spring.

Carell will star as Randall, while Schwartzman stars as Hugo Van Yalk. Michael Smith will star as Venis while Youssef stars as Jeff.

“I’m intrigued to discover whether being around so many brilliant actors and directors on ‘Succession...

Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Cory Michael Smith and Ramy Youssef are starring in the feature directorial debut of Succession creator Jesse Armstrong, with that movie set to air this spring on HBO.

Deadline first told you about the project which follows a group of billionaire friends who get together against the backdrop of a rolling international crisis. Cameras will roll this month in Park City, Utah.

In addition, a cover of Armstrong’s screenplay was dropped with the title smudged out by snow. In addition to writing and directing, Armstrong is EP.

Francesca Orsi, the EVP of HBO Programming, Head of HBO Drama Series and Films said, “We’re ecstatic to be back in business with the singular talent Jesse Armstrong coming off our fruitful collaboration on ’Succession.’ Jesse once again raises the bar with a bold examination of modern greed, power and male ambition. That this feature serves as...

Stars: Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza, Shia Labeouf, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Talia Shire, Jason Schwartzman, Kathryn Hunter, Chloe Fineman, James Remar, D.B. Sweeney, Isabelle Kusman, Bailey Ives, Madeleine Gardella, Balthazar Getty, Romy Mars, Haley Sims, Dustin Hoffman | Directed by Francis Ford Coppola

Director Francis Ford Coppola reputedly spent 40 years making Megalopolis, raising the $120m budget by selling some of his vineyards. Sadly, both time and money could probably have been better spent elsewhere, because the end result falls squarely in the “interesting failure” camp, rather than being the epic masterpiece he undoubtedly envisioned. Still, it’s not without its moments.

The film takes place in New Rome, effectively an alternate version of New York City. Adam Driver plays genius architect Cesar Catilina, who can seemingly halt the flow of time and who has invented a miracle building material known as Megalon, with which he plans to construct a futuristic cityscape.

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Max is ready with an entertainment-packed March this year. The upcoming month will see the return of some of HBO’s brilliant original satirical comedy-drama series, The Righteous Gemstone, as well as the streaming release of Hugh Grant‘s thrilling horror drama film Heretic. Just like every month, Max is ready to overload you with great content. So, we’re here to tell you about the 5 new movies and TV shows coming to Max in March 2025.

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Few celebrities have been as denigrated throughout their career as Pamela Anderson — and so a sober, wistful character study would seem the perfect vehicle for her to prove her acting chops. The former Baywatch star gives a quite literally glittering comeback performance in Gia Coppola’s latest, The Last Showgirl, a dreamy, understated ode to the underdogs of Las Vegas. After Mainstream and Palo Alto, Coppola jettisons her usual wryly humorous tone in favour of a more pensive mood. But the drama falls slightly short of being the heavy hitter it hopes to be.

Bedecked in feathers and rhinestones, Anderson embodies a livewire energy as Shelly, a Las Vegas Strip dancer who we first see lying about her age in an audition. Cut to roughly a week before, and Shelly is informed by her sweet-natured producer Eddie (Dave Bautista) that Le Razzle Dazzle, the show Shelly has been the face of for 38 years,...

Despite rumors that Daniel Craig would star in DC Studios' Sgt. Rock, the actor is no longer attached to the project. Sgt. Rock was set to be a Queer reunion as Luca Guadagnino would reteam with former James Bond star Craig, and Justin Kuritzkes would pen the script. However, Warner Bros., DC Studios, and director Luca Guadagnino might have their eyes set on the star of The Bear to lead their upcoming film, which could enter production sooner than expected.

The Hollywood Reporter reveals that Craig is no longer attached to star in Sgt. Rock. No details were given on why he seemingly departed the project, though the Hollywood Reporter notes it might have been scheduling conflicts, while sources have alleged Craig might have lost interest after Queer bombed at the box office and failed to score an Academy Awards recognition. The search is on for a new actor, with Jeremy Allen White,...

Even a Hollywood dynasty gets tired of rewatching their iconic films.

“The Last Showgirl” director Gia Coppola, whose grandfather is iconic auteur Francis Ford Coppola, said during Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s “Dinner’s On Me” podcast that she had to eventually watch “The Godfather” with one of her pals since no one in her family was willing to revisit it with her.

Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather,” which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2022, spurred two sequels, concluding with 1990’s “The Godfather: Part III.” Yet it took Gia Coppola a few decades to even get to see the first feature.

“I haven’t seen ‘Godfather’ until much later in my life because there was like a lot of pressure and intimidation,” Gia Coppola said, “but also all my family had sort of been a part of it and seen it, so no one really wanted to re watch that with me.

Director Luca Guadagnino and star Daniel Craig's film Queer has found a streaming home and release date. Based on William S. Burroughs' 1985 novella of the same name, Queer sees Craig play a fictionalized version of Burroughs where he falls in love with Eugene Allerton (Drew Starkey), a much younger man. Queer earned positive reviews and was one of the Top 10 films of 2024 by the National Board of Review. Craig was nominated for multiple awards for his performance, including The Golden Globes, the Critics' Choice Awards, and the Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Four months after its theatrical release, Queer is finally making its way to streaming. A24 confirmed that Queer will make its streaming debut exclusively on Max in the U.S. on Friday, Mar. 28, 2025. The film will debut on the HBO linear network the following day on Saturday, Mar. 29, 2025, at 8:00 p.m. Et. Queer joins a growing library...

Max has set Friday, March 28 for the streaming premiere of Luca Guadagnino’s romantic drama Queer, starring Daniel Craig and Outer Banks breakout Drew Starkey. The film will debut on HBO linear on Saturday, March 29 at at 8 pm Et.

Based on the semi-autobiographical 1985 novel by subversive American writer William S. Burroughs, whose work helped define the Beat Generation, the A24 film is set in 1950s Mexico City, where William Lee (Craig), an American ex-pat in his late 40s, leads a solitary life amidst a small American community. The arrival in town of Eugene Allerton (Starkey), a young student, stirs William into finally establishing a meaningful connection with someone.

Craig received nominations from the Golden Globes, Critics Choice and SAG awards for his performance.

Queer also stars Lesley Manville, Jason Schwartzman, Henrique Zaga, and Omar Apollo.

Pic is directed by Guadagnino and written by Justin Kuritzkes. Produced by Lorenzo Mieli, Guadagnino...

2024 was one of the strongest years for film in recent years. Films like Anora and Conclave took the world by storm. Dune: Part 2 dominated the box office earlier in the year, and Wicked took over at the end. And, for one of the first times in recent history, the Best Picture race truly looks like anybody's game.

However, for every movie that is going to be recognized at the Academy Awards, countless others deserve acclaim but won't get the chance to receive it. Here are the ten best movies of last year that narrowly missed out on being nominated for Best Picture.

Queer Features One of Daniel Craig's Best Performances

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QueerDramaBiographyHistoryRelease DateNovember 27, 2024Runtime135 MinutesCast

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Stars: Edward Norton, Jason Schwartzman, Jake Ryan, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jeffrey Wright, Grace Edwards, Maya Hawke, Ruper Friend, Hope Davis, Steve Park, Liev Schreiber | Written by Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola | Directed by Wes Anderson

Wes Anderson has always managed to conjure up so much joy and wonder in his films, from his early days to his most recent work. There’s always an element of childish imagination and wonder to his films that always helps you fall in love with the characters and the worlds. Beneath that style, however, has always been a maturity to his storytelling, a sense of heartache and subtle sadness that lingers through the colourful worlds. Asteroid City is like so much of Anderson’s previous work, it has the joy and wonder, it has the wonderful colour pallet and style we’ve come to expect and perhaps has deeper meanings and messages than in any of his previous work.

Wes Anderson is one of the most important filmmakers alive today, having produced an extensive and impressive catalog of projects for over 25 years. For his most recent film, The Phoenician Scheme, Anderson has once again paired up with Focus Features – who have distributed his work in the past – and set a release date for its theatrical debut.

Per Variety, Focus Features has landed the worldwide distribution rights to The Phoenician Scheme – nothing new, seeing as they have distributed two of Anderson’s most commercially successful films, Moonrise Kingdom – written by Anderson in collaboration with Roman Coppola – and Asteroid City. Released in 2012, Moonrise Kingdom grossed $68 million and was nominated for a Best Screenplay Academy Award. Asteroid City, the most recent of Anderson’s feature films, was released in 2023 and raked in nearly $54 million at the box office. In the age of superheroes and billion-dollar blockbusters, this may not seem like much,...

Since his first film, Writer/Director Wes Anderson has become known for his highly visual combination of bright colors with an older aesthetic. His costuming and set design have a very specific signature that makes it easy to identify when watching a Wes Anderson movie. With him currently working on a new film, The Phoenician Scheme, which reunites him with his muse Bill Murray, we take a look back at all his feature-length films and try to figure out where they rank. To note, his recent Netflix shorts, including the Oscar-winning The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar aren’t included.

1​1. The French Dispatch (2021)

T​he only anthology movie Anderson has done so far, this film details the final issue of The French Dispatch. The paper will be shut down, so the editor brings together his best reporters and storytellers to publish one more edition. Each reporter narrates a section of...

How did Jennifer Lawrence react to the nude fight scene in No Hard Feelings? ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

Yes, Jennifer Lawrence actually found it hilarious. “I didn’t even have a second thought,” she told Variety. “It was hilarious to me.”

The scene in question was one of the standout moments of the film, where Lawrence’s character, Maddie, goes skinny-dipping with a 19-year-old she’s hired to seduce. When some teens swipe their clothes, she doesn’t back down – she chases them and starts fighting, all while completely naked. Her Hunger Games training was on full display, even when things got awkward (she even gets punched in the groin).

Why was nudity suddenly becoming a thing again in comedies? Kristen Lopez, a film critic for The Wrap, explained it as a response to the post-covid world. “Movies are trying to bring back joy and fun after the Covid years,” she said.

Issa Rae has revealed that fans of her HBO comedy series Insecure are demanding that she reshoot the series finale. The star admits “people are really mad” about the way the series wrapped up.

Insecure concluded in 2021 after achieving a Primetime Emmy Award win and multiple Golden Globe nominations, but some fans are apparently unsatisfied with how the show ended. The show’s series finale revolved around Rae’s character Issa Dee finally making a decision about her future with longtime love interest Lawrence (Top Gun: Maverick’s Jay Ellis) after he’d fathered a child with another woman, Condola (The Last Ship’s Christina Elmore).

Issa Rae Says Insecure Fans are Demanding More Episodes

This HBO Miniseries Based on a 39-Year-Old Real-Life Disaster Is Still Horrifyingly Relevant Today

The nuclear disaster at Chernobyl was terrifying, but what it revealed about the political system that allowed it to happen was even more chilling.

Director M. Night Shyamalan is working on a new film alongside novelist Nicholas Sparks. The mysterious project is reportedly set to star Jake Gyllenhaal.

Per Deadline, Gyllenhaal is set to star in Shyamalan's upcoming supernatural romantic thriller. Shyamalan and Sparks co-created the story and penned a screenplay along with a novel of the same story featuring the same plot line and characters. Shyamalan announced that he was working on a new film last year. However, not much else is known about the film outside its genre and creators. The film will be produced by Shyamalan's own studio, Blinding Edge Pictures, and will feature Sparks as the project's executive producer.

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Jason Schwartzman was originally cast as Donnie Darko before dropping out and being replaced by Jake Gyllenhaal in the independent cult classic.

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After a 13-year break from releasing music as Coconut Records, Jason Schwartzman has returned to his indie rock project, hinting that new music is on the way.

The soft reveal of the project’s revival was made last month, when Schwartzman’s friend and collaborator, Ben Kweller, announced his upcoming album, Cover the Mirrors, with Coconut Records listed as a featured artist on the tracklist.

Then, earlier this week, Schwartzman made like Bob Dylan and joined TikTok, adopting the username @coconutrecordsofficial and posting videos featuring old Coconut Records songs and hashtags like #jasonschwartzman and #nostalgiacore.

One video shows Schwartzman and Kweller on a FaceTime call, with the caption “Writing new Coconut Records on FaceTime be like.” Another video showed a still photo of the two together, with overlaid text reading, “Me and my friend Ben are writing and recording and we learned that if we get 1,000 followers we will be...

The year 2024 was an eventful one for the Coppola family. While the patriarch, Francis Ford Coppola, spent millions of his personal money on his passion-project Megalopolis, his nephews, Jason Schwartzman and Nicolas Cage, delivered memorable supporting performances in the films Queer and Longlegs. But that's not all; Gia Coppola, the only daughter of the late Gian-Carlo Coppola, released her third feature film, The Last Showgirl, to considerable acclaim. This weekend, the drama passed a new domestic box office milestone, even as its star, Pamela Anderson, was overlooked by the Academy.

Though he’s had a busy year having been featured in “The Garfield Movie,” “The Order,” “Juror #2,” and Robert Eggers’ reimagining of “Nosferatu,” Nicholas Hoult still had a few minutes to scour the Criterion Closet for a few of his favorite films and some he hasn’t seen in quite some time. One such choice was Danny Boyle’s “Shallow Grave,” starring Ewan McGregor and Christopher Eccleston in one of their first on-screen roles.

“This movie I haven’t seen, probably, since I was a kid. I shouldn’t have been seeing it as a kid,” said Hoult. “There’s a scene in this, I’m fairly sure, where someone, like, power-drills into someone’s forehead, and it’s seared into my memory. It’s, like, one of the most traumatic things I’ve ever seen on film.”

Shifting to something more kid-friendly, Hoult picked up the animated adaptation of...

Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse and the entire Spider-Verse franchise revealed that there are an infinite number of multi-verses, all with their own canon events. Unfortunately, our canon event is for Beyond the Spider-Verse to never hit theaters. The third installment in the Spider-Verse trilogy (which began with 2018's Into the Spider-Verse) was already meant to be released in theaters in early 2024, but was delayed indefinitely by Sony. Reports on the movie's status are conflicting, but one of its stars just gave a sour update.

During an interview with Decider, to promote his new movie, Unstoppable, Jharrel Jerome gave a disappointing update on Beyond the Spider-Verse's production. The actor, who plays the Earth-42 variant of Miles Morales, was asked if he had begun recording his lines for the movie yet. "No, I wish," was his honest response. Jerome said that pre-production is still underway on the third installment in the trilogy,...