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…

Jesse Eisenberg’s bromance dramedy, A Real Pain, which has been on a tear on the awards circuit, is hitting digital platforms Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV and Fandango at Home on Dec. 31. The movie which Eisenberg directed, wrote and starred in opposite Kieran Culkin, will arrive on Blu-Ray on Feb. 4…

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…

After close to three hours of deliberation, the New York Film Critics Circle named Brady Corbet’s three-hour-plus epic The Brutalist as Best Film. The group also named the pic’s star Adrien Brody as Best Actor. A24 snapped up the movie after its premiere at the Venice Film Festival, where it earned a…

Jesse Eisenberg appears determined to do it all. Best known as an actor in such movies as The Squid and the Whale, Now You See Me, Zombieland, Adventureland, Batman v Superman, and his Oscar-nominated performance as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network…

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…

UPDATED Monday with some final grosses: Starting small on two screens but with surprising spring is animated Flow from Sideshow and Janus Films, setting the distributor's highest per screen average of circa $25.4k, or $50.8k at two theater in NY and LA. Gints Zilbalodis' feline tale, Latvia's Oscar submiss…

Hello, Love, Again, the widest domestic release for a Filipino film, now holds a record for the highest opening weekend for the same with $2.4 million and a no. 8 spot. Jesse Eisenberg's A Real Pain crossed $3 million at the box office following its expansion to more than 1,000 theaters in week 3…

It's November — a month where everyone still thinks they can win. Oscars, that is. And as usual, the campaign activity is thriving, and maybe this year the idea that anyone can win — or at least get nominated — is not that far-fetched. The lingering effects of the 2023 actors' and writers' strikes are…

Cannes Palm d'Or winner Anora went wide and A Real Pain added theaters in limited release, both nicely, with Crunchyroll's Japanese epic fantasy OVERLORD: The Sacred Kingdom and Small Things Like These at the specialty box office. Sean Baker's breakout Anora is looking at $2.55 million on 1,104…

Box office darling Anora, Sean Baker's Cannes Palme d'Or winner from Neon, goes wide Friday after a slow platform, expanding to 1,104 screens as indies continue to bust onto screens. Searchlight Pictures’ A Real Pain adds eight locations, with Focus Features' Conclave and A24's Heretic continuing, and…