Michael Pitt: Last News

Michael Pitt was taken into police custody and restrained before being wheeled off to hospital last week. According to TMZ, 911 received a call alerting them to a male who was pelting objects at passersby in New York City. And although the troubled star was taken into custody on Friday (09.

Gregg Goldstein Jack Huston is no stranger to the movie business. So when the longtime actor and grandson of filmmaker John Huston launched his directorial debut — the boxing drama “Day of the Fight” — to good reviews at last year’s Venice Film Festival, he knew it would still be tough to find distribution in today’s theatrical marketplace. But he had no idea how tough a fight it would be.

Jack Huston (Expats, Boardwalk Empire) will star as a series regular opposite Nicolas Cage in Spider-Noir, the upcoming MGM+ and Prime Video live-action series based on the Marvel comic Spider-Man Noir.

Carole Horst Tucked in the beautiful countryside north of San Francisco, Mill Valley has been home to artists, musicians, filmmakers, writers, and all sorts of dreamers. Thus it makes sense that the local film festival, celebrating 46 years, has programmed the best of the fest circuit and buzzy premieres — and mixed it up with art and music events. The event runs Oct.

In the murky realms of Grant Singer’s Reptile, audiences delve into a tale woven with intrigue, and mystery. Penned by Singer, Benjamin Brewer, and Benicio Del Toro, the film attempts to entangle the  viewer in a web of murder and corruption, manifesting through the gritty lens of a small-town investigation. Del Toro is flanked by supporting actors including Alicia Silverstone, Michael Pitt, Ato Essandoh, Justin Timberlake, Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz, Eric Bogosian, and Domenick Lombardozzi,. However, the atmospheric tension conjured by the film echoes of potential left unexplored, marking it as a journey through familiar terrains desperately grasping for an identity of its own.

Naman Ramachandran The 31st edition of London’s Raindance Film Festival will open with the U.K. premiere of British actor Jack Huston’s directorial debut “Day of the Fight.” The film comes to Raindance fresh off its Venice debut, where Huston was honored by Variety as a breakthrough director. The story of a once-renowned boxer who takes a redemptive journey through his past and present on the day of his first fight since he left prison stars Michael Pitt alongside a cast including Ron Perlman, Joe Pesci, and a cameo from Steve Buscemi.

Jaden Thompson Jack Huston’s directorial debut “Day of the Fight” will make its North American premiere as the opening film for the 46th Mill Valley Film Festival on Oct. 5. The film debuted at the Venice Film Festival, where Huston was honored with Variety’s Breakthrough Director Award.

There’s been a lot of jealous talk about nepotism in the film world lately, but who would really want to come into the movie world as a, what, fourth-generation Huston? There are likely swords already being sharpened for Jack Huston, the handsome, charming, 40-year-old nephew of Anjelica, grandson of Jack and great-grandson of Walter. But his directing debut, Day of the Fight, which premiered this week in the Venice Film Festival’s Horizons Extra section, is certainly worthy of the family name. It’s a little earnest, sometimes a bit too style-conscious, and Huston is inclined to put performance before story every time. But the emotional input really earns its payoff in a confident, imaginatively mounted calling card.

For his feature directorial debut, Day of the Fight, Jack Huston has reteamed with his former Boardwalk Empire colleague Michael Pitt to tell the story a once celebrated boxer who takes a redemptive journey through his past and present on the day of his first bout since leaving prison.

William Earl Variety and the Golden Globe Awards continue their tradition of festival events with an exclusive invite-only party celebrating Italian cinema and talent attending the Venice Film Festival. The event will take place on Aug.

Netflix‘s crime thriller Reptile has landed, and features Sky Ferreira – check it out below.The film is Grant Singer’s debut feature, and also features the likes of Justin Timberlake, Benicio Del Toro (who also co-writes), Alicia Silverstone, Michael Pitt and Eric Bogosian.A synopsis for the film reads: “A hardened small-town detective uncovers a complex web of deception as he digs for the truth behind the brutal murder of a young real estate agent.”It will land on Netflix on October 6 after premiering at next month’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).Check out the trailer below.Discussing the film, Singer said: “I think the movie will be exciting to people who like to watch something where you don’t know where it’s leading you, where a film is going to have twists and turns and deceive you.“People who like things that are intense and visceral and suspenseful, I think they’ll find something exciting in this. I didn’t want to make something that felt cold and clinical and sterile.

Justin Timberlake is taking on his latest dramatic role in, an upcoming crime thriller from writer-director Grant Singer.In the film, a young New England real estate agent is found dead in a grizzly crime scene, leading local law enforcement, led by Benicio Del Toro's Detective Nichols, to speculate on who in her life may have committed the brutal murder — and unravel some secrets in his own life along the way.Nichols is aided in the case by his wife, Judy, played by Alicia Silverstone, on whom the detective tests out his theories on the case — as well as bite mark patterns.«I'll go with the boyfriend,» Nichols says in the trailer, focusing on Timberlake's character as he and his fellow investigators place wagers on who they think committed the murder.«I've got the friend,» Detective Dan Cleary (Ato Essandoh) speculates, referencing a shady-looking pal of the victim, played by Sky Ferreira.«I'll take the weirdo,» says another detective, played by Michael Beasley. The «weirdo» in question is a scary-looking stranger, played by Michael Pitt, who Timberlake's character claims showed up at his house and refused to leave, just a few nights before the murder.«And I'm going with the ex-husband,» Eric Bogosian's character says of Karl Glusman, who plays the victim's ex.Watch the full trailer below:The film also stars Domenick Lombardozzi, Frances Fisher and Matilda Lutz.

EXCLUSIVE: Ashley Greene (Twilight Saga) and Shawn Ashmore (X-Men series) are set to lead horror movie It Feeds, the first in a proposed ten-picture genre slate from LA-based companies Productivity Media Inc (PMI) and Black Fawn Films.

Joe Alwyn has attended his very first event since headlines were made about his split from Taylor Swift.

Sean Penn and Tye Sheridan hit up the photo call for their new movie, Black Flies, during the 2023 Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on Friday (May 19) in Cannes, France.

Cannes Film Festival isn’t just a hub of red carpet premieres, champagne-drenched parties, and stars, stars, stars. It’s also a vibrant locus of dealmaking, with studio executives, agents and filmmakers descending on the Riviera to secure financing for their upcoming projects or to find a distributor for their latest movies. The 2023 edition is playing host to several compelling packages and potential awards contenders that could spark heated bidding wars. Here are 11 films that could leave buyers reaching for the espresso instead of the rosé as they engage in all-night battles to land the next big thing. Cast: Sean Penn, Tye Sheridan, Katherine Waterston, Michael Pitt, Mike TysonDirector: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire Agency: CAA, WMEWhy Buyers Care: Penn and Sheridan have crackling chemistry as disgruntled mentor and doe-eyed mentee in the edge-of-your-seat thriller, which takes audiences into the often harrowing, always intense reality for paramedics in New York City. A gentle warning, though, that “Black Flies” isn’t for the squeamish. Expect plenty of blood, disturbing and graphic injuries, extreme violence…and a lot of yelling.

Jack Huston is slated to direct his first feature film on a drama titled Day Of The Fight.The 40-year-old actor is writing and producing the motion picture which will star Michael Pitt, Joe Pesci, Nicolette Robinson, John Magaro and Ron Perlman, Deadline reported.The U.K. native - who married longtime partner Shannan Click earlier this year - told the outlet, 'I am both humbled and honored to be directing my first film with such an incredible cast and crew.' The latest: Jack Huston, 40, is slated to direct his first feature film on a drama titled Day Of The Fight.

EXCLUSIVE: Jack Huston is set to make his feature directorial debut with Day of the Fight, a project that will reteam him with his Boardwalk Empire colleague Michael Pitt, who will star.

Kurt Cobain have strongly criticised a recent stage adaptation of Gus Van Sant’s Last Days.Van Sant’s 2005 film is a fictionalised account of a young musician’s final days, loosely based on the Nirvana frontman, and stars Michael Pitt as protagonist Blake. Like Cobain, Blake escapes a rehabilitation facility days before he takes his own life.

Boardwalk Empire’s Michael Pitt has been apprehended following a public outburst in NYC.

Actor Michael Pitt was seen strapped down to a stretcher and taken to a hospital in New York on Friday after an emotional outburst.The star, who is best known for his work on Boardwalk Empire, had a public meltdown on a Brooklyn street which involved him throwing objects, TMZ claimed, which caused onlookers to call the police.In a video obtained by the site, Pitt can be seen without a shirt on and only wearing dark shorts with a blue scarf around his neck before police arrived on the scene.The Hollywood vet is then seen with no shoes on as he looked confused when strapped down on a stretcher as paramedics wheel him away on a sidewalk. A bad turn: Actor Michael Pitt was taken out on a stretcher in New York City on Friday.