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Dakota Fanning (The Equalizer 3) has added to an already stacked dance card, closing a deal to lead the buzzy supernatural thriller The Watchers, which will mark the feature debut of writer-director Ishana Night Shyamalan.

EXCLUSIVE: Studiocanal has acquired rights to develop Peter Cameron’s well-received 2020 novel What Happens At Night into a feature film, with Martin Scorsese aboard to produce and Oscar nominee Patrick Marber (Notes On A Scandal) adapting the screenplay.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent The Venice Film Festival will honor “The Night Porter” director Liliana Cavani and Tony Leung Chiu-wai, the Hong Kong star of “In the Mood for Love” and Marvel’s “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” with its 2023 Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement. Cavani first attended Venice in 1965 with the historical doc “Philippe Pétain: Processo a Vichy,” which won the Lion of San Marco for best documentary. She was back the Lido in 1966 with her TV movie “Saint Francis of Assisi,” and, again, in 1968, with “Galileo,” followed by Patricia Highsmith adaptation “Ripley’s Game,” starring John Malkovich, in 2002 and “Clarisse,” a doc about an order of cloistered nuns in 2012.

EXCLUSIVE: Ripley, an upcoming Showtime drama starring Andrew Scott, has found a new home at Netflix. Deals are still being finalized but the limited series from The Night Of’s Steven Zaillian, based on Patricia Highsmith’s bestselling quintet of Tom Ripley novels, is headed to the global streamer, I hear. Reps for Netflix and Showtime declined comment.

Manuel Betancourt The highest compliment one can pay Jennifer Kaytin Robinson’s viciously delectable “Do Revenge” is that it should stand alongside the many iconic teen flicks it both cribs from and pays homage to. The premise, which follows two teenage girls opting to seek revenge on one another’s rivals sounds, upon first inspection, like “Strangers on a Train” at a posh private school. But that’s too simplistic a take. After all, Robinson’s project owes less to Hitchock’s infamous classic than to the likes of “Heathers,” “Mean Girls” and “Cruel Intentions” — influences the film wears proudly on its stylish and appropriately throwbacky Y2K-era sleeves. You can see why Robinson (“Someone Great”) and co-writer Celeste Ballard (“Space Jam: A New Legacy”) would want to take up Patricia Highsmith-via-Hitchcock’s narrative and ensnare it in the world of petty high school politics. The intrigue of two strangers, in this case Drea (“Riverdale” star Camila Mendes) and Eleanor (Maya Hawke of “Stranger Things”), conjuring wildly outlandish plans aimed at taking down their respective bullies (“We should team up and do each other’s revenge,” as they put it, ergo the film’s title), gets a much needed jolt when framed within the world of queen bees and wannabes. No one is more ruthless than a teenage girl, especially one recently scorned.

Nicholas Evans, the author of the bestselling novel The Horse Whisperer, has died. He was 72.

Nicholas Evans, the author of the bestselling novel The Horse Whisperer, has died. He was 72.

Landmark’s E Street Cinema screens a classic film as part of its “Retro Replay” series, and each month brings a different organizing theme.On Tuesdays in July, for example, the venue screened a different road movie in its #RoadLife series, with films as varied as Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, The Hangover, and Mad Max: Fury Road.August brings with it a celebration of Sir Alfred Hitchcock’s cinematic achievements, not least for the fact the Master of Suspense was born on the 13th of the month in east London.Kicking off the “Happy Birthday, Mr. Hitchcock” series at downtown D.C.’s E Street Cinema is a screening of one of the filmmaker’s most ambitious and entertaining works, North by Northwest (1959).Cary Grant plays a Madison Avenue ad man who is mistaken for a CIA operative by some very bad men, led by the silken-voiced James Mason, while Eva Marie Saint steps into the role of blonde femme fatale. A thin, equine Martin Landau is chilling as Mason’s No.

EXCLUSIVE: Zeitgeist Films and Kino Lorber have acquired North American rights to Eva Vitija’s documentary Loving Highsmith, which takes as its focus Carol and The Talented Mr. Ripley author Patricia Highsmith. Zeitgeist will release the film theatrically this September.

From book to screen! Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas briefly found love on the set of Deep Water, the 2022 film adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s 1957 novel about a mysterious married couple.

Ben Affleck finished a cigarette and a canned beverage before picking up his son Samuel from school in Santa Monica.The 49-year-old actor was spotted pulling up to his son's school in his Tesla, before finishing his cigarette and his beverage.He also donned a mask while walking hand-in-hand with his 10-year-old son on Thursday afternoon. Finished: Ben Affleck finished a cigarette and a canned beverage before picking up his son Samuel from school in Santa Monica.The actor was spotted wearing a navy blue button-down dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows.He was carrying a purple beverage can while talking on the phone as he got out of his vehicle and walked towards the school.

Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas new erotic thriller Deep Water has left critics sparring ahead of its debut on Hulu on March 18.The film, which is directed by the the English thriller specialist Adrian Lyne, received praise for Affleck and de Armas' performances, which were partly filmed while the two were dating.However, several critics found the plotting to be uncharacteristically shallow compared to the filmmaker's biggest success, and some criticized it for missing the subtleties of the original novel, written by The Talent Mr. Ripley scribe Patricia Highsmith.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticThere’s something missing from Adrian Lyne’s “Deep Water,” and it’s not just the body of Martin McRae, the last unfortunate rival to get a little too friendly with Vic Van Allen’s wife. Vic (Ben Affleck) and Melinda (Ana de Armas) have an open marriage, but her … distractions have a habit of disappearing, and so do pretty much all ties to recognizable human behavior in the “Fatal Attaction” director’s unexpectedly cool-headed adaptation of the 1957 Patricia Highsmith novel for Hulu.

Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas, is set to debut on Hulu on March 18, and only ET has an exclusive sneak peek at the film — in which the former real-life couple play a toxic married pair, whose mind games continue to escalate until there are deadly consequences for those around them.ET's sneak peek sees Vic (Affleck) and Melinda (de Armas) sitting down to dinner with a guest — whose discomfort grows throughout the scene as the couple intentionally push each other's buttons.First, Melinda asks for a bite of their guest's grilled cheese, insisting she doesn't like lobster bisque, which is what Vic cooked for them.«Melinda kind of has the palate of a 12-year-old,» Vic sneers at his wife. «Our first date, I took her to the best restaurant in the city, she ordered mac and cheese.»«It's like he was ashamed to be with me,» Melinda says to their guest, to which Vic snipes back, «No, I just realized you were ordering off the children's menu to save more room for alcohol.»Later, when his wife tells him that she wishes «all the time» that he were more normal, Vic addresses the elephant in the room: «If I were normal, I don't think Joel would be over here having dinner with us.»See the full clip above.

Prime Video just released the latest trailer for “Deep Water”.

Ben Affleck and Ana De Armas’ new film,. On Monday, fans got a closer look inside the lives of Vic (Affleck) and Melinda (de Armas) Van Allen with the release of the full trailer for the Hulu original film.The trailer starts where the erotic sneak peek of the film left off, with a steamy moment in the park, where Melinda asks her husband, «Why are you the only man who wants to stay with me?” before going deeper into the lives of the seemingly perfect couple.  Melinda’s escapades are put on display as she sneaks away at a party with a man, played by Finn Wittrock.

The trailer and new poster and stills for Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas‘ movie Deep Water has just debuted online.

Amazon Prime Video is set to keep you rather occupied throughout March, 2022.The new offerings will feature a selection of brand new Amazon original series and films, as well as Oscar-nominated films and adaptations from classic novels.Thrill-seekers and racing enthusiasts will be treated to all the action from MotoGP as MotoGP: Unlimited series one will be available for Prime Video subscribers to watch from Monday, March 14.Meanwhile, sci-fi fans can get stuck into Star Trek: Picard Series 2 from Friday, March 4.Here's everything you can look forward to throughout the month, and exactly when the shows, films and documentaries will be available to watch.Fans of zombie drama The Walking Dead will be able to stream the penultimate series on Prime Video this month, which sees the group preparing for the war against the Whisperers.Patrick Stewart will be reprising his role as a now-94-year-old Admiral Jean-Luc Picard as and his crew race into the past to save the galaxy's future.This brand new Amazon Original series features eight stories from The Boys' universe, with the story from each animated episode created by a different writer.Series two of Amazon Original Upload is on its way this month as the futuristic show continues to follow the lives of Nathan, Nora and Ingrid. Created by Greg Daniels of The Office, this one's well worth getting stuck into.Adrenaline junkies can look forward to seeing all the action from the 2021 MotoGP World Championship in this new docuseries.

While the rest of the world celebrates Valentine's Day, Hulu has taken a different approach, releasing a teaser trailer for their forthcoming psychological thriller film , starring (Gone Girl) and (Knives Out).Deep Water, a film version of Patricia Highsmith's 1957 novel, has been in the works since 2013, but it only got momentum in 2019 when de Armas and Affleck signed on as protagonists. It was supposed to debut in November 2020, however there were a few setbacks owing to the coronavirus outbreak, as per Screenrant.

Sometimes a real-life romance can benefit a movie, and the box office can benefit from the heat of the celeb romance behind the scenes that everyone is talking about.