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Ethan Hawke is an actor who always chooses interesting projects. Sure, sometimes he’ll jump on a Marvel project or a horror film, but he will also lend his talents for an indie thriller such as the forthcoming “The Last of the Tribe.” READ MORE: ‘The Sensitive Kind’: Ethan Hawke To Star In Sterlin Harjo’s New FX Drama Series As reported by Variety, Ethan Hawke is set to star in Claudio Borrelli’s new film, “The Last of the Tribe.” In the film, Hawke plays an ex-Chicago cop who is now a corporate gun-for-hire.

EXCLUSIVE: Higher Ground is stepping up its TV series efforts. President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s media company, which just re-upped its Netflix deal with a multiyear first-look film and TV agreement, has brought in Showtime’s Jessie Dicovitsky as Head of Television. This marks the first time Higher Ground has had a dedicated senior TV executive.

Filmmaker Richard Linklater is on a tear. Earlier this month, he released his “Hit Man” film on Netflix, and just a few weeks ago, according to recent interviews, he finished shooting his French New Wave movie, “Nouvelle Vague,” which should be ready for some time in 2025, but there’s more: a new project called, “Blue Moon” which will reunite him with longtime collaborator Ethan Hawke.

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Classics has acquired worldwide rights to Blue Moon, the new film from Academy Award nominee Richard Linklater (Hit Man), on which we were first to report, and which will be his next effort after all, with production commencing in Dublin, Ireland this summer.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Warner Bros. Pictures has acquired Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language film debut “The Room Next Door” for key international territories, including the U.K., Spain, Italy, Germany and Latin America. Starring Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton and John Turturro, “The Room Next Door” will also be released by Warner Bros.

(and !) attended the 2024 Literacy Partners Gala at Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers on Monday, June 10, in an ivory bustier and matching mid-rise pants with an unbuttoned jacket featuring sculptural sleeves. Her metallic silver clutch matched her shoes, and she completed the look with a gold bangle and red nails.The event raises funds to support literacy education efforts focused on the parents of young children, with free classes and other tools, per .

Viola Davis wore a daring outfit for her latest appearance!

EXCLUSIVE: Ethan Levy (Watchmen, Law & Order) has signed with Joshua Sassanella at Ann Steele Agency in New York, which represents artists on Broadway, Television, and Film. Amongst their clients is renowned character actor Gene Jones (No Country for Old Men, Killers of the Flower Moon).In his career, Levy has worked with filmmakers such as Ron Howard (Hillbilly Elegy), Steven Soderbergh (Full Circle), and Danny McBride (The Righteous Gemstones). His other television credits include Monarch, Queens, To Catch A Killer and Lodge 49.Born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in New Jersey, he attended West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South. Alumni include Christopher McQuarrie (Mission Impossible), and Ethan Hawke (Training Day, Dead Poets Society). He later attended Montclair State University’s Filmmaking program, as well as Rider University’s Theatre program. Upon graduating, he continued his training with Penny Templeton and Upright Citizens Brigade in New York. 

A.D. Amorosi Singer, songwriter and actor Maya Hawke speaks quickly, but thoughtfully, when discussing her new musical work.

The Times of London.The term “nepo baby” refers to celeb children who’ve gotten a leg up in the entertainment industry because of their famous parents.Hawke also said that her not taking advantage of her situation “wouldn’t help anyone.”“I saw two paths when I was first starting, and one of them was: change your name, get a nose job and go to open casting roles,” she explained.“It’s okay to be made fun of when you’re in rarefied air. It’s a lucky place to be.

Lexi Carson Maya Hawke is fine with being called a “nepo baby.” Hawke, the daughter of Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke, recently admitted to the Times of London that she believes her family ties influenced her casting in Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” as Flower Child, one of Charles Manson’s followers. “I’ve been wildly made fun of for this clip when I said, on the red carpet, that I auditioned,” Hawke said of “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” “I never meant to imply that I didn’t get the part for nepotistic reasons — I think I totally did.” Hawke got her big break playing Robin Buckley in the Netflix series “Stranger Things,” and her other credits include “Do Revenge,” “Asteroid City” and “Maestro.” While talking about if she deserves the opportunities she’s had, Hawke said, “‘Deserves’ is a complicated word…there are so many people who deserve to have this kind of life who don’t, but I think I’m comfortable with not deserving it and doing it anyway.

Maya Hawke has admitted that she is “comfortable with not deserving” the life she has because of her parents’ background.The Stranger Things actor and musician is the daughter of Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman and emphasised that her relationship with them is “positive” which “supersedes anything anyone can say about it”. She has also worked with them, having starred opposite her mother in The Kill Room and was directed by her father in the drama Wildcat, both of which came out last year.“Deserves is a complicated word,” she told The Times.

Maya Hawke opened up about the role that nepotism has played in her career.

Maya Hawke has addressed the “nepo baby” phenomenon head on, saying the reason she was cast in a big film role was totally for “nepotistic reasons.”

Leave The World Behind, starring Julia Roberts, has been revealed as Netflix’s most-watched film of 2023.Earlier this week, the streaming platform published the second part of its yearly What We Watched engagement report, capturing viewing figures from July to December 2023.The report revealed that the Sam Esmail disaster thriller generated 121 million views, making it the most-streamed film of the year, and also the platform’s fifth most popular movie of all time.Based on the 2020 novel by Rumaan Alam, Leave The World Behind follows a family who rent out a luxury house in Long Island, only to be interrupted by a man and a woman who bear news of an impending cyberattack. The strangers also claim to be the actual owners of the house, raising tensions as the threat of a potential global crisis grows.Alongside Roberts, the film also stars Ethan Hawke, Mahershala Ali, Myha’la, and Kevin Bacon.Following the release of the film, Tesla CEO Elon Musk was mocked on social media for seemingly misunderstanding one of the movie’s most memorable scenes.The moment concerns a scene in which Roberts and Hawke’s characters are chased by malfunctioning Tesla cars, which are moving without drivers.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Dystopian thriller “Leave the World Behind” was the most-watched film — and title overall — on Netflix globally in the second half of 2023, while anime-inspired live action series “One Piece” led on the TV side. The data comes from Netflix’s second edition of “What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report,” reflecting viewership on the streamer from July-December 2023 covering 99% of all viewing on Netflix. Subscribers across the world watched about 90 billion hours of Netflix in the second half of 2023, compared with 93 billion hours in the first half of the year.

Selena Kuznikov Renovo Media Group has launched a new studio and facility in Clear Lake, Iowa, set to be led by Lisa Crnic as president, Aaron Wiederspahn as head of scripted, and Ben Parrish as head of unscripted. The group is led by chairman David Kingland. Renovo Media Group will develop, finance and produce feature films, scripted and unscripted docs and series and commercial productions.

Rebecca Rubin Senior Film and Media Reporter Freddy Fazbear will return to haunt multiplexes in 2025. Universal and Blumhouse’s “Five Nights at Freddy’s 2,” a horror sequel set in the haunted Chuck E. Cheese-esque establishment known as Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, will land in theaters on Dec.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Four-time Academy Award-nominated Ethan Hawke is attached to star in “The Last of the Tribe,” a jungle thriller set in Brazil’s Amazon. Written by Mark Bailey (“Downfall,” “The Volcano”), “The Last of the Tribe” is produced by Brazil’s Academy Award-nominated Fernando Meirelles (“The Two Popes,” “City of God”) and Academy Award-winning producer Ed Saxon (“Silence of the Lambs,” “Adaptation”). Hawke is set to play William Phelan — a washed-out Chicago cop turned corporate gun-for-hire — who finds himself in a wildly unfamiliar landscape, his assignment the murder of the last surviving member of an uncontacted Indigenous tribe.

Ethan Hawke has chastised young people for “not watching more movies” in a new interview.Speaking to MovieMaker, the actor said he can’t understand why they aren’t watching more movies at a time when they are readily available on streaming platforms.He told the publication: “The thing that I don’t understand — and this makes me sound old — but what I don’t understand about young people today is why they don’t watch more movies.“I mean, they’re perfectly willing to binge watch, for weeks of their life, something they know is really super okay, and the Criterion Channel is right there. Like, they could be watching Badlands as we speak,” he told the publication.He also went on to say that he thinks there is a lack of education surrounding great filmmakers.“They don’t know who Fassbinder is and they don’t know who Éric Rohmer is and they don’t know who Kurosawa is.

You would think finding out your dad is in a music video with Taylor Swift would be the coolest thing ever! However, Ethan Hawke’s youngest daughters weren’t as hyped after all…