Although Kieran Culkin isn’t a proponent for method acting, sometimes there’s just no competing with the real thing. Following a 2012 interview in which Mark Ruffalo revealed a “naughty young actor” once got him high on stage when switching a prop joint for the real thing during a play, the A Real Pai…

Kieran Culkin’s first professional acting gig was A Real Pain, to say the least. On a new episode of Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett’s Smartless podcast, the Succession star was prompted to discuss his inaugural filming experience at age 6 — a commercial helmed by someone who clearly didn’t…

Celebrity documentaries are commanding lofty price tags at the moment, even though “star power” itself seems to be losing its sizzle. The facts are nasty: Superstar endorsements carried zero clout in the presidential elections. Further, studios have…

SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains plot details for the film A Real Pain If you can believe it, writer-director and star Jesse Eisenberg never meant to hurt you with his latest dark comedy, A Real Pain. Centered around two cousins, David (Eisenberg), a buttoned-up online ads salesman, and Benji…

Deadline's Read the Screenplay series highlighting the scripts behind this year’s awards-season movies continues with A Real Pain, Searchlight’s buzzy Sundance dramedy marking the sophomore feature directing effort of actor-filmmaker Jesse Eisenberg. The The Social Network star also penned the script…

A record-breaking Thanksgiving frame is lifting all boats, tentpoles the most evident, with boom, boom, boom for Moana 2, Wicked and Gladiator II. Some 30 million moviegoers went to see one of these. In the weird post-Covid shift, tentpoles can slay, and indies can disappear. This weekend, however, they…

Although the final season of Succession earned him his first Golden Globe, Kieran Culkin has yet to fully enjoy the fruits of his labor. The actor recently admitted he still hasn’t seen the series finale of the HBO series, which bowed out last year after four seasons while Culkin was abroad, shooting…

J Smith-Cameron played one of the great modern roles for a woman in her 60s in Succession, and she’s backing more breakout parts to emerge in the entertainment industry. Quizzed on whether there are more roles for older women in theater than on screen during an interview with the Guardian, she…

Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk and Bill Burr will hit the Broadway stage next year in a revival of David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play Glengarry Glen Ross. Set for a spring 2025 opening, Glengarry Glen Ross will mark a return to Broadway for Culkin (This Is Our Youth, 2014) but…

Searchlight Pictures on Tuesday unveiled the first trailer for A Real Pain, the buzzy Sundance dramedy marking the sophomore feature of actor-turned-filmmaker Jesse Eisenberg, which hits theaters on October 18. In the film, also scripted by Eisenberg, he and Kieran Culkin play cousins David and…

Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg talked, quipped, traded barbs and compliments and debated process in an hourlong wacky Tribeca Festival conversation tonight, having clearly bonded over A Real Pain. They star as mismatched cousins on a fraught road trip in the buzzy Sundance comedy set for fall…

Searchlight Pictures announced on Tuesday that its dramedy A Real Pain, marking the sophomore feature of actor-turned-filmmaker Jesse Eisenberg, will hit theaters in the thick of awards season, on October 18. Eisenberg stars opposite Succession Emmy winner Kieran Culkin in the buzz title, which…