'The Nest' Director Sean Durkin On How You Make A Thriller Feel Haunted [Interview]
In our The Nest director interview, filmmaker Sean Durkin talks about his new thriller and how you make a movie feel haunted.
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'The Nest' Trailer: Jude Law And Carrie Coon Fall Apart In Sean Durkin's Simmering Drama
Jude Law and Carrie Coon are both excellent in the newest film from the director of the indie hit Martha Marcy May Marlene. Watch The Nest trailer here.
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'The Nest' Review: Jude Law And Carrie Coon Star In A Smoldering Drama [Sundance 2020]
Carrie Coon and Jude Law turn in terrific performances in Sean Durkin's long-awaited second film. Read our The Nest review from the Sundance Film Festival.
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The Streamer's Guide To Sundance 2020: What Non-Festgoers Can Watch At Home
Here's our Streamer's Guide to Sundance 2020, allowing you to play along at home even if you aren't attending this film festival.
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Michelle Williams In Talks To Star In Director Sean Durkin's Janis Joplin Biopic
Director Sean Durkin's Janis Joplin biopic may star Michelle Williams, who's in talks to play the soulful soulful singer who tragically passed away at 27.
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'Martha Marcy May Marlene' Director Sean Durkin Heads To 'Little House On The Prairie'
Sean Durkin will direct the Little House on the Prairie movie from Sony and Scott Rudin. He is known for his 2011 feature debut Martha Marcy May Marlene.
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'Fantastic Four' Screenwriter Working On 'The Exorcist' TV Series
A TV series based on The Exorcist has been in the planning stages for a while, with Martha Marcy May Marlene director Sean Durkin once set to oversee the development of a ten-episode series that would be directly linked to William Friedkin's film. That actually seemed like a pretty great idea. Now some things have…
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'Martha Marcy May Marlene' Helmer Sean Durkin To Direct 'Joplin' Biopic, Tony Winner Nina Arianda To Star
Despite plenty of attempts, Hollywood's had quite a bit of trouble getting a Janis Joplin biopic off the ground. But that's not going to stop enterprising young filmmakers from trying anyway. The latest director to take a stab at bringing the rock icon's story to life will be Sean Durkin, director of last year's indie…
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'The Exorcist' Being Adapted For Television By 'Martha Marcy May Marlene' Director
The Exorcist is a landmark movie. Along with Psycho, it legitimized horror as a genre -- what had previously been relegated to drive-in and second-feature filler was now big business. William Friedkin's adaptation of William Peter Blatty's novel (scripted by Blatty) scored a Best Picture Oscar nomination and nine other Oscar nods. (Best Picture went…
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'Martha Marcy May Marlene' International Trailer And Deceptively Sunny Poster
One of the big favorites among Sundance attendees this year was Martha Marcy May Marlene, in which Elizabeth Olsen plays a young woman dealing with the aftereffects of cult brainwashing. Fox Searchlight has released a US trailer for the film, which will open in October, but now there is a UK trailer that offers a…
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Two Trailers And Posters: 'Martha Marcy May Marlene,' Fox Searchlight's Sundance Sensation
If the title Martha Marcy May Marlene is too hard to remember, call it "The Four M's." That's what virtually everyone who was in Park City, UT for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival did and the phrase was on everyone's lips. Many felt "The Four M's" was one of, if not the, best films at…
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First Toronto Festival Announcements Include New Work From George Clooney, David Cronenberg And Francis Ford Coppola
If you're more interested in the typical fall slate of festival entrees than summer's glut of tentpole action fare, this is a great week. The Toronto International Film Festival announced the first wave of films that will play the fest in September. This is a batch of about 50 titles, which makes up only a…
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'Martha Marcy May Marlene' Trailer: Just What Did John Hawkes Do To Elizabeth Olsen's Mind?
YES. One of the most-praised films at Sundance this year was Martha Marcy May Marlene, an effort from first-timer Sean Durkin which stars Elizabeth Olsen as a young woman who escapes from a cult (led by John Hawkes) and tries to begin the process of finding a normal life, only to find that the cult-induced…
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'Martha Marcy May Marlene' - A Devastating Portrait Of Cult Brainwashing [Sundance Review]
There are few movies that fill me with so much discomfort that I can’t wait to leave the theater, even while I’m watching them. Martha Marcy May Marlene, which premiered yesterday at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, is one of those films, a portrait of cult brainwashing that is so discomfiting, I would have walked…
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12 Projects Chosen For January 2010 Sundance Screenwriters Labs
Sundance has announced the 12 projects they have chosen for the 2010 January Screenwriters lab. Why should you care? Well because the Sundance Institute Feature Film Program has hand picked some of the most original filmmakers of the last 28 years. Here are some of the films that have come out of the program: Quentin…
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