Looking to make a push into higher profile original programming, news of an Elizabeth Olsen Facebook series has just surfaced with The Spectacular Now director James Ponsolt and Z: The Beginning of Everything writer Kit Steinkellner involved.
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Watch The Circle trailer. Emma Watson, Tom Hanks, and John Boyega star in a sci-fi thriller about a mysterious and powerful tech company.
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James Ponsoldt is busy with The Circle, but he may soon write and direct Wild City for Disney. Learn more about the James Ponsoldt Wild City project.
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A24 has set The Spectacular Now/The End of the Tour director James Ponsoldt to develop a I Want My MTV movie based on the bestselling book.
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Find out who Channing Tatum's Forgive Me Leonard Peacock writer will be. The Matthew Quick drama will be Tatum's feature directing debut.
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Read about the Ellar Coltrane The Circle casting. The Boyhood actor joins Tom Hanks and Emma Watson in the new thriller from James Ponsoldt.
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Get details on the Patton Oswalt The Circle casting. Oswalt joins Tom Hanks, Emma Watson, John Boyega, and Karen Gillan in the thriller by James Ponsoldt.
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It's official: we're in our mob wife era. Even if you choose not to participate in the trend, you're still bearing witness to it.
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The Circle movie cast expands by one, with The Force Awakens star John Boyega joining the adaptation of Dave Eggers' satirical novel.
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Read all about the Emma Watson The Circle casting. Watson joins Tom Hanks in James Ponsoldt's tech thriller, replacing Alicia Vikander.
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Get details on the James Ponsoldt F Scott Fitzgerald movie in the works. Ponsoldt is looking to direct an adaptation of Stewart O'Nan's West of Sunset.
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Watch James Ponsoldt's The End of the Tour trailer, starring Jason Segel as late writer David Foster Wallace and Jesse Eisenberg as journalist David Lipsky.
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Read up on the Alicia Vikander The Circle casting. The Ex Machina actress joins Tom Hanks in the upcoming techno-thriller by James Ponsoldt.
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One of the big hits of the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, The End of the Tour, just got a release date. Read about the End of the Tour release date.
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Jason Segel and Jesse Eisenberg chomp on dialogue in James Ponsoldt's amazing film about David Foster Wallace. Read our The End of the Tour Review
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James Ponsoldt has adapted the Dave Eggers book, The Circle, and he's got one of the biggest stars along for the ride. Read about Tom Hanks Circle here.
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The David Foster Wallace estate has come out against the biopic The End of the Tour. James Ponsoldt is directing with Jason Segel starring.
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Get your first look at Jason Segel playing David Foster Wallace in James Ponsoldt's The End of the Tour. Jesse Eisenberg and Ron Livingston also star.
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In an age when the phrase "teen drama" suggests hardscrabble dystopias or lovelorn werewolves, what's extraordinary about The Spectacular Now is how ordinary it is. The leads are two kids that could be from any town in America, and their romance is neither epic nor star-crossed. Stories like this one surely play out dozens of…
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I'm as big a fan of actor Jason Segel and writer David Foster Wallace as anyone in this world. But are they two great tastes that taste great together, as the Reese's slogan goes, or are they better kept separate? We'll find out when James Ponsoldt's The End of the Tour gets underway. Segel is…
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Briefly: Lionsgate may be the studio to make a Hillary Clinton film. James Ponsoldt could direct as his follow-up to The Spectacular Now. The script, called Rodham, was written by Young Il Kim, and ended up on the Black List of popular unproduced screenplays in 2012. Deadline reports that the script "covers Hillary when she…
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As a thank you to all our glorious /Film readers, we're offering free tickets to see James Ponsoldt's lovely, impressive coming of age story The Spectacular Now in a city near you. The film stars Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley and opens August 2 in New York and Los Angeles, and nationwide August 23. We have…
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In James Ponsoldt's last film, Smashed, binge-drinking helped tear two married people apart. In his new one, The Spectacular Now, it brings two very different teens together, albeit in an unexpected way. Miles Teller stars as popular, hard-partying Sutter, who drinks himself to oblivion one night after getting dumped by his girlfriend. He wakes up…
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Carey Mulligan is unmistakably British, but her recent roles have brought her more and more frequently to this side of the Atlantic. Her most recent role saw her playing one of American literature's most iconic dream girls, and her next release puts her in the middle of the '60s folk scene in New York City. Now…
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Who's ready to think about next year's Oscar race? Paramount has just announced a November 15 release for Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street, putting the crime drama right in the thick of prestige pic season. It already has some stiff competition lined up for that day, including Ridley Scott's The Counselor, Bill Condon's…
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A few days after the kickoff the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, deal-making is in full swing. The well-reviewed drama The Spectacular Now, by Smashed director James Ponsoldt, is headed to newish distributor A24, while the crowdpleasing comedy Austenland, from Napoleon Dynamite writer Jerusha Hess, is nearing a deal with FilmDistrict. Michael Winterbottom and Steve Coogan's The…
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At the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, I was blown away by a film called (500) Days of Summer. When I interviewed director Marc Webb in Park City that year, he exclusively revealed that he was working with the 500 Days writing team of Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber on a adaptation of Tim Tharp's…
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