Exclusive: French film industry veteran Nicolas Royer, who was line and executive producer on Coralie Fargeat’s Cannes buzz title The Substance, has boarded Catherine Hardwicke’s upcoming feature A French Pursuit, starring Toni Collette.
The production, which is remake of Caroline Vignal’s 2020 French hit My Donkey, My Lover & I (Antoinette Dans Les Cévennes), starring Laura Calamy, is due to shoot in the Cévennes region in south-central France this summer.
Royer will line and executive produce the movie, which is lead produced by Christopher Simon at New Sparta Productions and Collette under her Vocab Films banner.
The new production will be first official gig for Royer’s company Voulez-Vous Production Services, which he created in 2023 to build on his work on The Substance.
Royer was line and executive producer on the body horror, lead produced by the UK’s Working Title and starring Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley and Dennis Quaid.
The production, which is remake of Caroline Vignal’s 2020 French hit My Donkey, My Lover & I (Antoinette Dans Les Cévennes), starring Laura Calamy, is due to shoot in the Cévennes region in south-central France this summer.
Royer will line and executive produce the movie, which is lead produced by Christopher Simon at New Sparta Productions and Collette under her Vocab Films banner.
The new production will be first official gig for Royer’s company Voulez-Vous Production Services, which he created in 2023 to build on his work on The Substance.
Royer was line and executive producer on the body horror, lead produced by the UK’s Working Title and starring Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley and Dennis Quaid.
- 5/23/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: T-Street filmmakers Rian Johnson and Ram Bergman have set Katie McNeill to become a producer at their independent studio. McNeill joins the film side of the company alongside producers Ben LeClair, Leopold Hughes and Nikos Karamigios.
McNeill joins T-Street on the heels of a big year for the company in both film and TV, where they produced the highly acclaimed films American Fiction and Fair Play, from first time writer/directors Cord Jefferson and Chloe Domont, respectively. American Fiction this week got five Oscar nominations including Best Picture. MRC/T-Street collaborated on the film, which was acquired by Orion and released by Amazon MGM.
Fair Play was acquired by Netflix in a bidding war at last year’s Sundance Film Festival launching the breakout writer/director Domont.
T-Street is gearing up to make the third installment of the Benoit Blanc franchise for Netflix later this year. The yet to...
McNeill joins T-Street on the heels of a big year for the company in both film and TV, where they produced the highly acclaimed films American Fiction and Fair Play, from first time writer/directors Cord Jefferson and Chloe Domont, respectively. American Fiction this week got five Oscar nominations including Best Picture. MRC/T-Street collaborated on the film, which was acquired by Orion and released by Amazon MGM.
Fair Play was acquired by Netflix in a bidding war at last year’s Sundance Film Festival launching the breakout writer/director Domont.
T-Street is gearing up to make the third installment of the Benoit Blanc franchise for Netflix later this year. The yet to...
- 1/25/2024
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
’What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report’ offers comprehensive viewing data.
Marking a step towards greater data transparency, Netflix has published the first in a planned series of biannual reports revealing viewing numbers across more than 18,000 titles.
The data is the most comprehensive to be released by any streaming platform and compares for the first time the number of hours viewed on original and licensed content.
Viewership between January and June 2023 for the thriller series The Night Agent: Season 1 starring Gabriel Basso leads the way on 812.1m hours, according to What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report.
The top four...
Marking a step towards greater data transparency, Netflix has published the first in a planned series of biannual reports revealing viewing numbers across more than 18,000 titles.
The data is the most comprehensive to be released by any streaming platform and compares for the first time the number of hours viewed on original and licensed content.
Viewership between January and June 2023 for the thriller series The Night Agent: Season 1 starring Gabriel Basso leads the way on 812.1m hours, according to What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report.
The top four...
- 12/12/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
’What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report’ offers comprehensive viewing data.
Marking a step towards greater data transparency, Netflix has published the first in a planned series of biannual reports revealing viewing numbers across more than 18,000 titles.
The data is the most comprehensive to be released by any streaming platform and compares for the first time the number of hours viewed on original and licensed content.
Viewership between January and June 2023 for the thriller series The Night Agent: Season 1 starring Gabriel Basso leads the way on 812.1m hours, according to What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report.
The top four...
Marking a step towards greater data transparency, Netflix has published the first in a planned series of biannual reports revealing viewing numbers across more than 18,000 titles.
The data is the most comprehensive to be released by any streaming platform and compares for the first time the number of hours viewed on original and licensed content.
Viewership between January and June 2023 for the thriller series The Night Agent: Season 1 starring Gabriel Basso leads the way on 812.1m hours, according to What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report.
The top four...
- 12/12/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Actor Charlize Theron ended up feeling harassed while immersing herself in her Oscar-nominated role for North Country. To help relieve her own stress with some of the film’s scenes, she quipped that she acted out against the film crew.
Charlize Theron ‘grabbed asses’ while filming ‘North Country’ after feeling harassed Charlize Theron | Marilla Sicilia/Getty Images
North Country was a 2005 drama directed by Niki Caro and starring Charlize Theron. In the film, Theron played miner Josey Aimes, who upset many of her male colleagues for working the same profession as them. As a result, Josey and many other female miners experienced sexual harassment at the hands of their male co-workers. This resulted in a historic sexual harassment lawsuit, which is based on true events.
To prepare for the role, the blockbuster superstar met the actual miners who North Country was based on. Doing so made the movie all too real for the actor.
Charlize Theron ‘grabbed asses’ while filming ‘North Country’ after feeling harassed Charlize Theron | Marilla Sicilia/Getty Images
North Country was a 2005 drama directed by Niki Caro and starring Charlize Theron. In the film, Theron played miner Josey Aimes, who upset many of her male colleagues for working the same profession as them. As a result, Josey and many other female miners experienced sexual harassment at the hands of their male co-workers. This resulted in a historic sexual harassment lawsuit, which is based on true events.
To prepare for the role, the blockbuster superstar met the actual miners who North Country was based on. Doing so made the movie all too real for the actor.
- 8/26/2023
- by Antonio Stallings
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Netflix has released its weekly global top 10 chart for the week of June 5, showing how movies and television series have been doing on the streamer. Jennifer Lopez‘s “The Mother” has been dominating the English language film chart for weeks, and it finally dropped out of the top spot, but not before taking sixth place in the all-time movie chart. Read on for this week’s analysis.
Library films were the name of the game this week as “Dune” director Denis Villeneuve‘s 2013 thriller “Prisoners” and Mark Wahlberg‘s “Shooter” from 2007 were the top two movies in the English language film chart with 13.9 million and 12.8 million hours viewed, respectively. The 2011 Taylor Lautner action-thriller “Abduction,” directed by the late John Singleton, entered the chart in third place with 9.6 million hours viewed, then followed by “The Mother” in fourth place with 8.4 million viewing hours. “Prisoners” and “Abduction” were helped greatly by being...
Library films were the name of the game this week as “Dune” director Denis Villeneuve‘s 2013 thriller “Prisoners” and Mark Wahlberg‘s “Shooter” from 2007 were the top two movies in the English language film chart with 13.9 million and 12.8 million hours viewed, respectively. The 2011 Taylor Lautner action-thriller “Abduction,” directed by the late John Singleton, entered the chart in third place with 9.6 million hours viewed, then followed by “The Mother” in fourth place with 8.4 million viewing hours. “Prisoners” and “Abduction” were helped greatly by being...
- 6/14/2023
- by Edward Douglas
- Gold Derby
Sarah Polley is in talks to direct a live-action remake of Walt Disney’s “Bambi,” TheWrap has learned. Details on the project are scarce, but she will work off a recent screenplay draft penned by Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster and the film will be a musical featuring music from Kacey Musgraves.
The news comes as Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” is lighting up the box office and could follow in the footsteps of the photoreal CG-filled “The Lion King” and “The Jungle Book.” While those films were blockbusters, it has not been confirmed as to whether this seemingly less epic offering will be intended for theaters or, as we saw with “Pinocchio,” “Lady and the Tramp” and “Peter Pan and Wendy,” Disney+.
Sarah Polley is coming off an Oscar win for Best Adapted Screenplay for the critically acclaimed “Women Talking,” which was her first directorial effort in over a...
The news comes as Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” is lighting up the box office and could follow in the footsteps of the photoreal CG-filled “The Lion King” and “The Jungle Book.” While those films were blockbusters, it has not been confirmed as to whether this seemingly less epic offering will be intended for theaters or, as we saw with “Pinocchio,” “Lady and the Tramp” and “Peter Pan and Wendy,” Disney+.
Sarah Polley is coming off an Oscar win for Best Adapted Screenplay for the critically acclaimed “Women Talking,” which was her first directorial effort in over a...
- 6/13/2023
- by Scott Mendelson
- The Wrap
It seems like Sarah Polley is ready to focus on Disney animals talking.
The “Women Talking” writer-director is currently in early talks to helm the live-action adaptation of Disney’s “Bambi,” IndieWire has confirmed. Polley won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for her 2022 feminist film “Women Talking.” The news was first reported by Deadline.
Disney first announced a live-action “Bambi” adaptation in 2020, with Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Lindsey Beer set to write the script. Depth of Field production company was attached to produce. As of now it is unclear if all parties are still behind the project, which is still in the early stages of development.
“Bambi” was the fifth animated feature film to ever be released by Disney. The 1942 movie was an adaptation of Felix Salten’s novel about a young, motherless deer who befriends fellow woodland creatures. Disney’s “Bambi” earned Oscar nominations for Best Sound, Best Song,...
The “Women Talking” writer-director is currently in early talks to helm the live-action adaptation of Disney’s “Bambi,” IndieWire has confirmed. Polley won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for her 2022 feminist film “Women Talking.” The news was first reported by Deadline.
Disney first announced a live-action “Bambi” adaptation in 2020, with Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Lindsey Beer set to write the script. Depth of Field production company was attached to produce. As of now it is unclear if all parties are still behind the project, which is still in the early stages of development.
“Bambi” was the fifth animated feature film to ever be released by Disney. The 1942 movie was an adaptation of Felix Salten’s novel about a young, motherless deer who befriends fellow woodland creatures. Disney’s “Bambi” earned Oscar nominations for Best Sound, Best Song,...
- 6/13/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Exclusive: After winning the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for Women Talking, Sarah Polley is on to the most epic undertaking of her filmmaking career thus far, as Deadline understands that the filmmaker is in talks to helm a live-action take on Bambi in very early development at Disney.
Multiple sources tell Deadline that the project is a musical to feature music from six-time Grammy-winning country star Kacey Musgraves. Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster (Transparent) wrote the most recent draft of the script, and Chris and Paul Weitz’s Depth of Field will produce.
The studio first signaled its intention to adapt Bambi for live-action back in early 2020, bringing Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Lindsey Beer aboard as writers and Depth of Field to produce in January of that year. No word yet on when the project might be put in motion, given unpredictable strike conditions, for starters.
The film is of course the coming-of-age story of Bambi,...
Multiple sources tell Deadline that the project is a musical to feature music from six-time Grammy-winning country star Kacey Musgraves. Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster (Transparent) wrote the most recent draft of the script, and Chris and Paul Weitz’s Depth of Field will produce.
The studio first signaled its intention to adapt Bambi for live-action back in early 2020, bringing Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Lindsey Beer aboard as writers and Depth of Field to produce in January of that year. No word yet on when the project might be put in motion, given unpredictable strike conditions, for starters.
The film is of course the coming-of-age story of Bambi,...
- 6/13/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s probably not getting an Oscar nominations anytime soon, but “The Mother” has bested Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” where it counts: Netflix viewership metrics. Jennifer Lopez’s thriller film has entered the streamer’s list of Top 10 most popular English-language films at No. 8, knocking Scorsese’s three-and-a-half hour mobster epic out of the upper echelon.
Netflix announced the news on Tuesday, along with the release of viewership numbers for the week of May 29 to June 4. “The Mother,” which has streamed for four weeks after premiering on Netflix May 12, has now been watched for a total of 229.30 million total hours by Netflix subscribers. That’s enough to place it between “Extraction” (231.340 million hours) and “Purple Hearts” (228.69 million hours) on the all-time list, and bump “The Irishman,” which peaked at 214.57 million hours viewed after its first 28 days on the streamer, from the list.
Netflix’s all-time Film list now looks like this:
“The Mother,...
Netflix announced the news on Tuesday, along with the release of viewership numbers for the week of May 29 to June 4. “The Mother,” which has streamed for four weeks after premiering on Netflix May 12, has now been watched for a total of 229.30 million total hours by Netflix subscribers. That’s enough to place it between “Extraction” (231.340 million hours) and “Purple Hearts” (228.69 million hours) on the all-time list, and bump “The Irishman,” which peaked at 214.57 million hours viewed after its first 28 days on the streamer, from the list.
Netflix’s all-time Film list now looks like this:
“The Mother,...
- 6/6/2023
- by Wilson Chapman
- Indiewire
A strong debut in the domestic North America market and a weaker one internationally is the verdict on ’The Little Mermaid’ remake.
Worldwide box office May 26-28 RankFilm (distributor) 3-day (world) Cume (world) 3-day (int’l) Cume (int’l)Territories 1. The Little Mermaid (Disney) $163.8m $163.8m $68.3m $68.3m 52 2. Fast X (Universal) $110.2m $507.2m $87.2m $399.3m 85 3. Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 (Disney) $45m $731m $25.1m $431.6m 53 4. The Super Mario Bros. Movie (Universal) $19.3m $1.2bn $13.1m $717.8m 82 5. Godspeed (various) $6.8m $146.6m $6.8m $146.6m 7 6. The Machine (Sony) $4.9m $4.9m - - 1 7. About My Father (Lionsgate) $4.5m $4.5m $0.3m $0.3m 16 8. Sword Art Online: Progressive -...
Worldwide box office May 26-28 RankFilm (distributor) 3-day (world) Cume (world) 3-day (int’l) Cume (int’l)Territories 1. The Little Mermaid (Disney) $163.8m $163.8m $68.3m $68.3m 52 2. Fast X (Universal) $110.2m $507.2m $87.2m $399.3m 85 3. Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 (Disney) $45m $731m $25.1m $431.6m 53 4. The Super Mario Bros. Movie (Universal) $19.3m $1.2bn $13.1m $717.8m 82 5. Godspeed (various) $6.8m $146.6m $6.8m $146.6m 7 6. The Machine (Sony) $4.9m $4.9m - - 1 7. About My Father (Lionsgate) $4.5m $4.5m $0.3m $0.3m 16 8. Sword Art Online: Progressive -...
- 5/29/2023
- by Charles Gant
- ScreenDaily
“The Mother” remains Netflix’s biggest opening weekend of 2023 with 83.71 million hours viewed since its premiere. One of the shining moments in the Netflix action thriller is the largescale hallway fight The Mother (Jennifer Lopez) embarks on in the Mexican compound of baddie Hector (Gael Garcia Bernal). To the tune of Massive Attack’s “Angel,” Lopez goes from room to room, offing bad guys while trying to rescue her daughter.
The song was always a part of director Niki Caro’s extended vision for the movie. “The thing about that sequence was I designed it to that song,” she told TheWrap. “I always had that song playing in my head. I sent the song to the second unit director and stunt coordinator with the storyboards and I’m like, ‘This is the song.'” That meant that the trip hop band would have to allow Caro to use the song which,...
The song was always a part of director Niki Caro’s extended vision for the movie. “The thing about that sequence was I designed it to that song,” she told TheWrap. “I always had that song playing in my head. I sent the song to the second unit director and stunt coordinator with the storyboards and I’m like, ‘This is the song.'” That meant that the trip hop band would have to allow Caro to use the song which,...
- 5/22/2023
- by Kristen Lopez
- The Wrap
Lift, the forthcoming action comedy teaming Kevin Hart with director F. Gary Gray (Straight Outta Compton), has pushed its Netflix premiere date to January 12, 2024, the streamer revealed on Monday. Also unveiled was a first look photo for the film, at one point set to open on August 25, 2023, which you can view above.
A heist pic written by Daniel Kunka, Emerald Fennell and Simon Kinberg, Lift watches as an international crew is recruited to prevent a terrorist attack, and must pull off the heist on a plane mid-flight.
Additional cast for the film, teased today as part of Netflix’s upcoming slate of action films and series, includes Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Vincent D’Onofrio, Úrsula Corberó, Billy Magnussen, Jacob Batalon, Jean Reno, Sam Worthington, Viveik Kalra, Yun Jee Kim, Burn Gorman and Paul Anderson.
Producers on Lift include Hart and Bryan Smiley for Hartbeat; Matt Reeves and Adam Kassan for 6th & Idaho; and...
A heist pic written by Daniel Kunka, Emerald Fennell and Simon Kinberg, Lift watches as an international crew is recruited to prevent a terrorist attack, and must pull off the heist on a plane mid-flight.
Additional cast for the film, teased today as part of Netflix’s upcoming slate of action films and series, includes Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Vincent D’Onofrio, Úrsula Corberó, Billy Magnussen, Jacob Batalon, Jean Reno, Sam Worthington, Viveik Kalra, Yun Jee Kim, Burn Gorman and Paul Anderson.
Producers on Lift include Hart and Bryan Smiley for Hartbeat; Matt Reeves and Adam Kassan for 6th & Idaho; and...
- 5/22/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
You can’t deny the power of actress Jennifer Lopez. Her latest feature, Netflix’s “The Mother,” has only been out for a week and has scored Netflix’s biggest opening weekend for a film of 2023 with 83.71 million hours viewed since its premiere. But the story of a Mother, played by Lopez, determined to protect the child she gave up for adoption at any cost, was a tough sell for Netflix.
When director Niki Caro was presented with the script, she asked the film’s producer, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, if the streaming giant would be open to it. For both, they understood that the film needed to hold its own alongside the male-dominated franchises like “The Bourne Identity” or Netflix’s own “Extraction.”
“This isn’t a 25-year-old character,” Goldsmith-Thomas told TheWrap. “And this isn’t a white woman. In the old days, that would be a white 25-year-old.”
The biggest sticking point,...
When director Niki Caro was presented with the script, she asked the film’s producer, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, if the streaming giant would be open to it. For both, they understood that the film needed to hold its own alongside the male-dominated franchises like “The Bourne Identity” or Netflix’s own “Extraction.”
“This isn’t a 25-year-old character,” Goldsmith-Thomas told TheWrap. “And this isn’t a white woman. In the old days, that would be a white 25-year-old.”
The biggest sticking point,...
- 5/18/2023
- by Kristen Lopez
- The Wrap
When you debut a new movie starring a major A-lister like Jennifer Lopez on streaming, it’s likely to be successful, and that was the case with Netflix’s new action-thriller “The Mother.” It debuted atop the Netflix Top 10 (Week of May 8) viewing chart, far ahead of the second-place film “A Man Called Otto.” Read on for more analysis.
Directed by Niki Caro, Lopez’s “The Mother” hit the streamer on Friday and managed to rack up 83.7 million global viewing hours to top the English film chart over a number of non-Netflix movies. It was the #1 film in the U.S. and Canada, as well as 80 other countries, and it was in the top 10 in 93 countries total.
Tom Hanks‘ “A Man Called Otto” dropped to second place with 19.9 million hours viewed, followed by DreamWorks Animation’s 10-year-old animated film “The Croods” with 8.7 million hours viewed.
See Netflix shuts down DVD...
Directed by Niki Caro, Lopez’s “The Mother” hit the streamer on Friday and managed to rack up 83.7 million global viewing hours to top the English film chart over a number of non-Netflix movies. It was the #1 film in the U.S. and Canada, as well as 80 other countries, and it was in the top 10 in 93 countries total.
Tom Hanks‘ “A Man Called Otto” dropped to second place with 19.9 million hours viewed, followed by DreamWorks Animation’s 10-year-old animated film “The Croods” with 8.7 million hours viewed.
See Netflix shuts down DVD...
- 5/16/2023
- by Edward Douglas
- Gold Derby
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Jennifer Lopez-led “The Mother” has scored Netflix’s biggest opening weekend for a film of 2023 with 83.71 million hours viewed since its premiere.
The action thriller, which follows skilled assassin who emerges amid danger to protect her daughter, reached the No. 1 spot in 82 countries with nearly 43 million views. Directed by Niki Caro, “The Mother” nabbed the top spot on the streamer’s English films list this week, with “A Man Called Otto” and “The Croods” following in second and third place, respectively.
On the TV front, “Bridgerton” spinoff “Queen Charlotte” maintained its crown on the English TV list, pulling in an additional 158.68 million hours viewed this week as it appeared in the Top 10 in 91 countries. Now amassing 307 million total hours viewed and over 47 million views, the Shonda Rhimes-created romantic drama...
Jennifer Lopez-led “The Mother” has scored Netflix’s biggest opening weekend for a film of 2023 with 83.71 million hours viewed since its premiere.
The action thriller, which follows skilled assassin who emerges amid danger to protect her daughter, reached the No. 1 spot in 82 countries with nearly 43 million views. Directed by Niki Caro, “The Mother” nabbed the top spot on the streamer’s English films list this week, with “A Man Called Otto” and “The Croods” following in second and third place, respectively.
On the TV front, “Bridgerton” spinoff “Queen Charlotte” maintained its crown on the English TV list, pulling in an additional 158.68 million hours viewed this week as it appeared in the Top 10 in 91 countries. Now amassing 307 million total hours viewed and over 47 million views, the Shonda Rhimes-created romantic drama...
- 5/16/2023
- by Loree Seitz
- The Wrap
Just before “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” (Universal) arrives on PVOD May 16 (an unusually long 41 days after theatrical release), three films — two are new releases — ranked #1 this week.
May 12 saw the debut of two movies with similar plots. In “The Mother,” Jennifer Lopez is a retired government agent who rescues the daughter she gave up for adoption years before, while “Hypnotic” stars Ben Affleck as a cop trying to find his missing daughter. There the resemblance ends: “The Mother” is #1 at Netflix, while Robert Rodriguez’s $70 million “Hypnotic” opened in theaters to disastrous results.
The difference doesn’t lie with the couple’s respective star power, and both films draw on the same “Taken” template. However, “The Mother” seems fresher with Lopez in the Liam Neeson/Gerard Butler role and it’s a streaming original — a platform that makes it easier to attract viewers with a familiar name.
Affleck remains a viable draw.
May 12 saw the debut of two movies with similar plots. In “The Mother,” Jennifer Lopez is a retired government agent who rescues the daughter she gave up for adoption years before, while “Hypnotic” stars Ben Affleck as a cop trying to find his missing daughter. There the resemblance ends: “The Mother” is #1 at Netflix, while Robert Rodriguez’s $70 million “Hypnotic” opened in theaters to disastrous results.
The difference doesn’t lie with the couple’s respective star power, and both films draw on the same “Taken” template. However, “The Mother” seems fresher with Lopez in the Liam Neeson/Gerard Butler role and it’s a streaming original — a platform that makes it easier to attract viewers with a familiar name.
Affleck remains a viable draw.
- 5/16/2023
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
In Netflix’s new thriller “The Mother,” Jennifer Lopez plays a military-trained assassin with a complicated criminal past who comes out of hiding to rescue the daughter she gave up years earlier. The premise is essentially a pretext for a series of impeccably staged action sequences that director Niki Caro mounts with the same exceptional precision and professionalism that characterizes Lopez’s shooter; while you may have seen this kind of revenge plot before in the “Taken” and “John Wick” movies, you’ve never seen the gunplay and stunt driving filtered through Caro’s sensibility, and that makes all the difference.
Caro cut her teeth on fight scenes with the elegant martial arts choreography of Disney’s “Mulan,” a film that she credits with giving her the confidence to handle large-scale action. For “The Mother,” however, she wanted something different. “With this one, I just felt like it was gloves off,...
Caro cut her teeth on fight scenes with the elegant martial arts choreography of Disney’s “Mulan,” a film that she credits with giving her the confidence to handle large-scale action. For “The Mother,” however, she wanted something different. “With this one, I just felt like it was gloves off,...
- 5/15/2023
- by Jim Hemphill
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Production has wrapped on the Piki Films and Sandy Lane Productions (Bad Behaviour) family drama The Mountain from Kiwi filmmaker Rachel House.
The film marks House’s directorial debut. Producers are Desray Armstrong for Sandy Lane Productions and Morgan Waru for Piki Films with Carthew Neal, Taika Waititi, and Paul Wiegard serving as Executive Producers. The film was shot on location around Taranaki on New Zealand’s west coast, with support from the local Māori tribes.
Billed as a “heartfelt drama,” the pic follows three children on a mission to find healing under the watchful eye of the Taranaki mountain and discover friendship in the spirit of adventure. House co-wrote the screenplay with comedian Tom Furniss.
House is best known for her performances in Waititi’s 2016 comedy Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Boy (2010), and Niki Caro’s Whale Rider. She also had lead roles...
The film marks House’s directorial debut. Producers are Desray Armstrong for Sandy Lane Productions and Morgan Waru for Piki Films with Carthew Neal, Taika Waititi, and Paul Wiegard serving as Executive Producers. The film was shot on location around Taranaki on New Zealand’s west coast, with support from the local Māori tribes.
Billed as a “heartfelt drama,” the pic follows three children on a mission to find healing under the watchful eye of the Taranaki mountain and discover friendship in the spirit of adventure. House co-wrote the screenplay with comedian Tom Furniss.
House is best known for her performances in Waititi’s 2016 comedy Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Boy (2010), and Niki Caro’s Whale Rider. She also had lead roles...
- 5/15/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
The Mother is a mutha of an intimately scaled action film, a violent female-centric drama about a hardened combat veteran who has great difficulty adapting to being anything other than a tough soldier, and that includes being a mother. Joining Kathryn Bigelow, Patty Jenkins, Gina Prince-Blythewood, Mimi Leder and the Wachowski siblings among women responsible for notable action features, Aussie director Niki Caro has delivered a film that could easily have veered into sentiment at any moment but instead remains tough as nails and doesn’t go soft at the end. The film would surely have an even greater impact on the big screen but, as it is, launched Friday on Netflix.
Perhaps no star as survived more ups and downs in her career than has Jennifer Lopez, and while her performance here mostly calls on her to be lacking anything akin to sentiment, she powers through...
Perhaps no star as survived more ups and downs in her career than has Jennifer Lopez, and while her performance here mostly calls on her to be lacking anything akin to sentiment, she powers through...
- 5/12/2023
- by Todd McCarthy
- Deadline Film + TV
Lucy Paez is recounting her audition for the role of Jennifer Lopez’s daughter in “The Mother”.
In 2021, the 14-year-old actress was about to head into a movie theatre to watch “Cruella”, starring Emma Stone, when she got a call from her manager about a “huge audition” for a “really big movie” with Lopez. She immediately left the theatre to go home and record her very first self-tape, which can be viewed here.
“Of course I was going to jump at the opportunity,” Paez told Tudum of the new action thriller.
Lucy Paez as Zoe in “The Mother”. — Photo: Doane Gregory/Netflix Lucy Paez as Zoe, Jennifer Lopez as The Mother in “The Mother”. — Photo: Doane Gregory/Netflix
After partaking in a few Zoom meetings with director, Niki Caro, Paez caught a flight from her home in Houston to Los Angeles to meet with Lopez.
“I normally don’t get...
In 2021, the 14-year-old actress was about to head into a movie theatre to watch “Cruella”, starring Emma Stone, when she got a call from her manager about a “huge audition” for a “really big movie” with Lopez. She immediately left the theatre to go home and record her very first self-tape, which can be viewed here.
“Of course I was going to jump at the opportunity,” Paez told Tudum of the new action thriller.
Lucy Paez as Zoe in “The Mother”. — Photo: Doane Gregory/Netflix Lucy Paez as Zoe, Jennifer Lopez as The Mother in “The Mother”. — Photo: Doane Gregory/Netflix
After partaking in a few Zoom meetings with director, Niki Caro, Paez caught a flight from her home in Houston to Los Angeles to meet with Lopez.
“I normally don’t get...
- 5/12/2023
- by Melissa Romualdi
- ET Canada
The Mother Director Niki Caro On Jennifer Lopez As A 'Primal Protection Force' [Exclusive Interview]
This post contains spoilers for "The Mother."
New Zealand filmmaker Niki Caro has been making hard-hitting, critically acclaimed motion pictures for decades. Her second feature, "Whale Rider," made Keisha Castle-Hughes the youngest Best Actress nominee in Academy Awards history at the time (although Quvenzhané Wallis eventually set a new record ten years later), and her harrowing sexual harassment drama "North Country" earned nominations for Charlize Theron and Frances McDormand for their roles as miners who embarked on a historic legal battle.
In recent years, Caro's films have become even more explosive. Her live-action remake of Disney's "Mulan" was expected to be one of the bigger hits of 2020, but its release was scuttled at the last minute due to the Covid-19 pandemic before eventually debuting on Disney+ with a premium surcharge. Now she's back with an action movie that was always intended for streaming: "The Mother," starring Jennifer Lopez as an...
New Zealand filmmaker Niki Caro has been making hard-hitting, critically acclaimed motion pictures for decades. Her second feature, "Whale Rider," made Keisha Castle-Hughes the youngest Best Actress nominee in Academy Awards history at the time (although Quvenzhané Wallis eventually set a new record ten years later), and her harrowing sexual harassment drama "North Country" earned nominations for Charlize Theron and Frances McDormand for their roles as miners who embarked on a historic legal battle.
In recent years, Caro's films have become even more explosive. Her live-action remake of Disney's "Mulan" was expected to be one of the bigger hits of 2020, but its release was scuttled at the last minute due to the Covid-19 pandemic before eventually debuting on Disney+ with a premium surcharge. Now she's back with an action movie that was always intended for streaming: "The Mother," starring Jennifer Lopez as an...
- 5/12/2023
- by William Bibbiani
- Slash Film
Here’s a look at this week’s biggest premieres, parties and openings in Los Angeles and New York, including red carpets for The Little Mermaid, Platonic, The Mother and Book Club: The Next Chapter.
The Little Mermaid premiere
Halle Bailey, Jonah Hauer-King, Daveed Diggs, Awkwafina, Jacob Tremblay, Javier Bardem, Melissa McCarthy, Noma Dumezweni and Art Malik joined director Rob Marshall at the world premiere of The Little Mermaid in Hollywood on Monday.
Jessica Alexander, Javier Bardem, Sienna King, Daveed Diggs, Marc E. Platt, Jonah Hauer-King, Alan Menken, Halle Bailey, Rob Marshall, Melissa McCarthy, John DeLuca, Jacob Tremblay, Awkwafina, Art Malik, Simone Ashley and Lorena Andrea Halle Bailey John DeLuca, Rob Marshall, Bob Iger, Halle Bailey and Disney Entertainment co-chairman Alan Bergman
Book Club: The Next Chapter premiere
Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, Mary Steenburgen and Don Johnson reunited at the premiere of the Book Club sequel on Monday in NYC.
The Little Mermaid premiere
Halle Bailey, Jonah Hauer-King, Daveed Diggs, Awkwafina, Jacob Tremblay, Javier Bardem, Melissa McCarthy, Noma Dumezweni and Art Malik joined director Rob Marshall at the world premiere of The Little Mermaid in Hollywood on Monday.
Jessica Alexander, Javier Bardem, Sienna King, Daveed Diggs, Marc E. Platt, Jonah Hauer-King, Alan Menken, Halle Bailey, Rob Marshall, Melissa McCarthy, John DeLuca, Jacob Tremblay, Awkwafina, Art Malik, Simone Ashley and Lorena Andrea Halle Bailey John DeLuca, Rob Marshall, Bob Iger, Halle Bailey and Disney Entertainment co-chairman Alan Bergman
Book Club: The Next Chapter premiere
Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, Mary Steenburgen and Don Johnson reunited at the premiere of the Book Club sequel on Monday in NYC.
- 5/12/2023
- by Kirsten Chuba
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Plot: A deadly female assassin comes out of hiding to protect the daughter that she gave up years before, while on the run from dangerous men.
Review: Since it was first announced over a year ago, I have been mildly intrigued by The Mother. With a mysterious plot featuring Jennifer Lopez as a vengeful parent, I expected this film to be a cookie-cutter action replica of John Wick and the myriad spin-offs and copycats it has spawned. Instead, this film benefits from having a gritty but realistic plot that is accentuated by bursts of violence. With a solid director and the burgeoning talent of writer Misha Green, The Mother is a solid throwback thriller that echoes the action flicks of the late 1990s. With some brutal violence and engaging character development, The Mother is a better offering than the hit-or-miss fare churned out by the Netflix machine.
The Mother starts...
Review: Since it was first announced over a year ago, I have been mildly intrigued by The Mother. With a mysterious plot featuring Jennifer Lopez as a vengeful parent, I expected this film to be a cookie-cutter action replica of John Wick and the myriad spin-offs and copycats it has spawned. Instead, this film benefits from having a gritty but realistic plot that is accentuated by bursts of violence. With a solid director and the burgeoning talent of writer Misha Green, The Mother is a solid throwback thriller that echoes the action flicks of the late 1990s. With some brutal violence and engaging character development, The Mother is a better offering than the hit-or-miss fare churned out by the Netflix machine.
The Mother starts...
- 5/12/2023
- by Alex Maidy
- JoBlo.com
The Mother is a film directed by Niki Caro starring Jennifer Lopez. With Gael García Bernal, Joseph Fiennes and Omari Hardwick.
Jennifer Lopez returns after her success (with audiences at least) in Shotgun Wedding on Prime Video. This time she switches to Netflix to star in this thriller in which JLo carries the full weight of the movie on her shoulders and takes over the entire limelight, scene after scene.
As a movie, a well-made thriller, but it looks almost made-to-order.
The Mother (2023) About the film
That Jennifer Lopez is a front-runner is clear to us and, moreover, she never stops reminding us of it. In The Mother she renders another version, equally unattainable, of a super-heroine, this time as a super-spy protecting her little girl from danger. As it begins, with are given close-ups ruling the whole scene while clearly imposing herself on her interlocutors… The rest follows this tone,...
Jennifer Lopez returns after her success (with audiences at least) in Shotgun Wedding on Prime Video. This time she switches to Netflix to star in this thriller in which JLo carries the full weight of the movie on her shoulders and takes over the entire limelight, scene after scene.
As a movie, a well-made thriller, but it looks almost made-to-order.
The Mother (2023) About the film
That Jennifer Lopez is a front-runner is clear to us and, moreover, she never stops reminding us of it. In The Mother she renders another version, equally unattainable, of a super-heroine, this time as a super-spy protecting her little girl from danger. As it begins, with are given close-ups ruling the whole scene while clearly imposing herself on her interlocutors… The rest follows this tone,...
- 5/12/2023
- by Martin Cid
- Martin Cid Magazine - Movies
Lopez plays an ex-special forces parent aiming to rescues her kid from the bad guys in this formulaic and muddled Netflix caper
There’s some real ChatGPT film-making here in this abjectly formulaic and inert Netflix thriller from director Niki Caro, although ChatGPT would have made a better, clearer job of the muddled story. This one has Jennifer Lopez rescue her 12-year-old daughter from the bad guys on a number of separate occasions, with one villain (Gael García Bernal) vanishing from the plot about halfway in, presumably left on the cutting-room floor. It’s a script which shows every sign of having had plenty of rewrites, though perhaps it could have done with a few more.
Lopez is ex-special forces, skilled in guns and knives and unarmed combat, with what an official calls an impressive number of “confirmed kills”; she bitterly regretted being drawn into gun-running and people-trafficking after leaving the army,...
There’s some real ChatGPT film-making here in this abjectly formulaic and inert Netflix thriller from director Niki Caro, although ChatGPT would have made a better, clearer job of the muddled story. This one has Jennifer Lopez rescue her 12-year-old daughter from the bad guys on a number of separate occasions, with one villain (Gael García Bernal) vanishing from the plot about halfway in, presumably left on the cutting-room floor. It’s a script which shows every sign of having had plenty of rewrites, though perhaps it could have done with a few more.
Lopez is ex-special forces, skilled in guns and knives and unarmed combat, with what an official calls an impressive number of “confirmed kills”; she bitterly regretted being drawn into gun-running and people-trafficking after leaving the army,...
- 5/12/2023
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
In a movie career that stretches back 25 years, Jennifer Lopez has on occasion done flaked-out underworld thriller romance (“Out of Sight”), capery action (“Parker”) and revenge (“Enough”). Yet she has never placed herself at the center of such a down-and-dirty, grimly overwrought, execute-now-and-ask-questions-later B-movie as “The Mother.” I’m tempted to call the film “minimalist,” because if you consider its bare-bones screenplay (by three writers!), its convoluted utilitarian set-up, its 2D villains, and its essential formulaic momentum, it’s a prime example of action filmmaking made basic.
Yet “The Mother” is a Netflix action movie, which means that it has a certain flavor of ambition mixed into its pulp stew. The movie, which should have been 90 minutes long (it’s 116), is lumpy and inflated, it’s sketchy yet a touch grandiose, and it’s full of tersely dramatized scenes that somehow feel overly broad. Lopez, as a military sniper turned...
Yet “The Mother” is a Netflix action movie, which means that it has a certain flavor of ambition mixed into its pulp stew. The movie, which should have been 90 minutes long (it’s 116), is lumpy and inflated, it’s sketchy yet a touch grandiose, and it’s full of tersely dramatized scenes that somehow feel overly broad. Lopez, as a military sniper turned...
- 5/12/2023
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Just in time for Mother's Day here comes "The Mother," an action movie where we get to watch Jennifer Lopez kill a lot of people. This is the type of actioner they used to make in the '80s and '90s, and had it been made back then it probably would've featured Steven Seagal or Jean-Claude Van Damme (it's just a little too low-rent for Arnie or Sly). Now we have Lopez stepping into the badass killer shoes, and she's fully convincing as she mows down nameless bad guys who get in her way. She's an unstoppable killing machine, and we buy it, mostly because Lopez is a good actor who clearly went through the movie rigamarole of learning how to handle firearms, lots and lots of firearms.
Lopez's character, credited only as The Mother (hell yeah), was once a military sniper. And she was good — we're told she...
Lopez's character, credited only as The Mother (hell yeah), was once a military sniper. And she was good — we're told she...
- 5/12/2023
- by Chris Evangelista
- Slash Film
In the future, every movie star over the age of 45 will get to play a role with a particular set of skills. Skills their characters will have acquired over a very long career — maybe as an assassin, possibly as a government-sanctioned operative, or perhaps just as your run-of-the-mill military badass. Skills that make them a nightmare for people like those unfortunate character actors and/or day players cast as thugs, mercenaries, and international criminal masterminds. If those bad guys had let those abducted wives/kids/partners/pets go, that would...
- 5/12/2023
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Jennifer Lopez in The MotherPhoto: Netflix
In the pantheon of female assassin films, many have shown grit and gravitas, but only a handful have nailed their targets. This is especially true in the case of original features for the streaming services. While recent international offerings from Netflix—like Kill Boksoon...
In the pantheon of female assassin films, many have shown grit and gravitas, but only a handful have nailed their targets. This is especially true in the case of original features for the streaming services. While recent international offerings from Netflix—like Kill Boksoon...
- 5/12/2023
- by Courtney Howard
- avclub.com
“The Mother” is like a lot of Netflix action-dramas of late: A mix of different genres with hints of a darker, possibly richer story, that ended up being excised due to budget and/or time constraints.
There is a lot of well-worn inspiration to be found in its familiar plot, from the survivalist parent/daughter relationship found in the 2011 feature “Hanna” to another Jennifer Lopez feature, 2018’s “Second Act” in which Lopez’s character is also at odds with a daughter she gave up at birth named Zoe.
All of this is to say a film like “The Mother” shouldn’t work, and it doesn’t completely gel 100 percent. But in the hands of Jennifer Lopez and director Niki Caro, the film as a whole mostly comes together as an action-packed (at times), contemplative (at times) and entertaining story of maternal self-sacrifice.
The audience meets Jennifer Lopez as an unnamed...
There is a lot of well-worn inspiration to be found in its familiar plot, from the survivalist parent/daughter relationship found in the 2011 feature “Hanna” to another Jennifer Lopez feature, 2018’s “Second Act” in which Lopez’s character is also at odds with a daughter she gave up at birth named Zoe.
All of this is to say a film like “The Mother” shouldn’t work, and it doesn’t completely gel 100 percent. But in the hands of Jennifer Lopez and director Niki Caro, the film as a whole mostly comes together as an action-packed (at times), contemplative (at times) and entertaining story of maternal self-sacrifice.
The audience meets Jennifer Lopez as an unnamed...
- 5/12/2023
- by Kristen Lopez
- The Wrap
Make no mistake, the title character in the enjoyably ridiculous The Mother is given no name, but there’s never any doubt that she’s Jennifer Lopez. From the runway-ready fur hoodie she sports in the Alaskan wilderness to the flawless eye makeup and dewy complexion that withstand everything from childbirth to a knife fight in the snowbound woods, this is a performance so loaded with celebrity baggage it’s never going to be fully convincing as a deadly assassin. Yet JLo of course is the chief reason to watch Niki Caro’s action thriller for Netflix, which is better than average, as star-driven streaming features go.
New Zealander Caro got unlucky with her live-action Mulan remake, when its 2020 theatrical release was delayed and eventually scuttled by the pandemic, leaving the epic’s spectacular visuals to be diminished on Disney+. This latest feature from the director who broke out in...
New Zealander Caro got unlucky with her live-action Mulan remake, when its 2020 theatrical release was delayed and eventually scuttled by the pandemic, leaving the epic’s spectacular visuals to be diminished on Disney+. This latest feature from the director who broke out in...
- 5/12/2023
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jennifer Lopez may be singlehandedly able to revive the rom-com, but she’s here to remind us she can carry other blockbuster genres: The crime thriller. It’s been awhile since Lopez set her sights on a high-stakes action drama (as she did in Steven Soderbergh’s 1998 hit “Out of Sight”), but clearly she hasn’t forgotten her combat training. Deadly serious with a killer instinct, she is hardly maternal in “The Mother,” a tense thriller about a sharpshooter who must give up her child and go into hiding after double crossing two nefarious exes.
Directed by Kiwi filmmaker Niki Caro, “The Mother” sees two business-savvy women making a mark on the most masculine of genres — and pulling no punches. While it’s far from groundbreaking, “The Mother” is a satisfying nail-biter grounded in a genuine (albeit familiar) emotional setup. Besides, we’ve seen enough violent thrillers about lone wolf...
Directed by Kiwi filmmaker Niki Caro, “The Mother” sees two business-savvy women making a mark on the most masculine of genres — and pulling no punches. While it’s far from groundbreaking, “The Mother” is a satisfying nail-biter grounded in a genuine (albeit familiar) emotional setup. Besides, we’ve seen enough violent thrillers about lone wolf...
- 5/12/2023
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s first scripted TV series, the Jennifer Lopez-starring action film The Mother and documentaries featuring Anna Nicole Smith and Barack Obama are among the high-profile projects hitting Netflix this month.
At the end of May, the streamer is dropping the Schwarzenegger-starring spy comedy Fubar, in which the former California governor and Top Gun: Maverick’s Monica Barbaro play a father and daughter who discover they’ve each been secretly working as CIA operatives as they’re forced to team up and get to know each other’s true selves.
And earlier this month, in time for Mother’s Day, Lopez plays an assassin who emerges from hiding to protect a daughter she gave up for adoption years earlier in The Mother, streaming this Friday. The Niki Caro-directed action movie also stars Joseph Fiennes, Lucy Paez, Omari Hardwick, Paul Raci and Gael Garcia Bernal and was written by Andrea Berloff,...
At the end of May, the streamer is dropping the Schwarzenegger-starring spy comedy Fubar, in which the former California governor and Top Gun: Maverick’s Monica Barbaro play a father and daughter who discover they’ve each been secretly working as CIA operatives as they’re forced to team up and get to know each other’s true selves.
And earlier this month, in time for Mother’s Day, Lopez plays an assassin who emerges from hiding to protect a daughter she gave up for adoption years earlier in The Mother, streaming this Friday. The Niki Caro-directed action movie also stars Joseph Fiennes, Lucy Paez, Omari Hardwick, Paul Raci and Gael Garcia Bernal and was written by Andrea Berloff,...
- 5/11/2023
- by Hilary Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In The Mother, Jennifer Lopez embraces every aspect of motherhood.
On Wednesday evening, the cast and creators of Netflix’s upcoming action drama gathered in Los Angeles for the film’s premiere. The story follows Lopez as a military-trained assassin who comes out of hiding to protect the daughter she’s never met from dangerous criminals out for revenge.
“I remember when I wasn’t a mother, I didn’t understand that at all,” Lopez, who also serves as a producer on the film, told The Hollywood Reporter about becoming a parent. “I remember apologizing to friends of mine at that time who had kids — I was like, ‘Why don’t you do this and this?’ And then once I had [kids], I was like, ‘I’m so sorry; I had no idea.’
The actress continued, “This movie, in particular, I love because it really thinks about: What kind of mother are you?...
On Wednesday evening, the cast and creators of Netflix’s upcoming action drama gathered in Los Angeles for the film’s premiere. The story follows Lopez as a military-trained assassin who comes out of hiding to protect the daughter she’s never met from dangerous criminals out for revenge.
“I remember when I wasn’t a mother, I didn’t understand that at all,” Lopez, who also serves as a producer on the film, told The Hollywood Reporter about becoming a parent. “I remember apologizing to friends of mine at that time who had kids — I was like, ‘Why don’t you do this and this?’ And then once I had [kids], I was like, ‘I’m so sorry; I had no idea.’
The actress continued, “This movie, in particular, I love because it really thinks about: What kind of mother are you?...
- 5/11/2023
- by Sydney Odman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jennifer Lopez Talks ‘The Mother’ Sequels and Stunt Work, Jokes About Auditioning to Play James Bond
Jennifer Lopez and the team behind “The Mother” are already thinking about a sequel.
“I think it would be ‘The Daughter,’” Lopez told me Wednesday night at the premiere of the new Netflix action thriller.
In the film, Lopez plays a former assassin who is pulled back into her deadly work when her 12-year-old daughter’s (Lucy Paez) life is put in danger.
Paez agreed. “The sequel will definitely be ‘The Daughter,’” the young actor said.
Not only does Lopez’s character kill at least a couple dozen men in the movie, but the actor’s impressive stunt work also includes motorcycle chases and gunfights while riding a snowmobile. “I was achy, but not hurt,” Lopez said. “I don’t think I’ve ever done an action movie like this. I do a lot of my own stunts because I’m athletic. But I have kids so I’m not going to risk anything.
“I think it would be ‘The Daughter,’” Lopez told me Wednesday night at the premiere of the new Netflix action thriller.
In the film, Lopez plays a former assassin who is pulled back into her deadly work when her 12-year-old daughter’s (Lucy Paez) life is put in danger.
Paez agreed. “The sequel will definitely be ‘The Daughter,’” the young actor said.
Not only does Lopez’s character kill at least a couple dozen men in the movie, but the actor’s impressive stunt work also includes motorcycle chases and gunfights while riding a snowmobile. “I was achy, but not hurt,” Lopez said. “I don’t think I’ve ever done an action movie like this. I do a lot of my own stunts because I’m athletic. But I have kids so I’m not going to risk anything.
- 5/11/2023
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
Officially, the first day of summer in the Northern Hemisphere is June 21st… but for the Netflix streaming service, the summer season is going to start this Friday, May 12th. And with that date just a couple days away, Netflix has gone ahead and unveiled their entire summer movie slate! They say that “whether you’ve got a hankering for a massive action blockbuster, a romantic comedy or an eye-opening documentary”, Netflix will be the place to turn to this summer. So let’s take a look at this line-up:
May 12
The Mother
Genre: Action
Logline: An assassin comes out of hiding to protect the daughter that she gave up years before, while on the run from dangerous men.
Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Joseph Fiennes, Lucy Paez, Omari Hardwick, Paul Raci and Gael García Bernal
Director: Niki Caro
May 16
Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me
Genre: Documentary
Logline: From...
May 12
The Mother
Genre: Action
Logline: An assassin comes out of hiding to protect the daughter that she gave up years before, while on the run from dangerous men.
Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Joseph Fiennes, Lucy Paez, Omari Hardwick, Paul Raci and Gael García Bernal
Director: Niki Caro
May 16
Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me
Genre: Documentary
Logline: From...
- 5/10/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Jennifer Lopez felt “very empowered” by her latest role in “The Mother”.
In the upcoming Netflix film, the actress portrays “a deadly female assassin” who will do anything to save her daughter “while on the run from dangerous men,” as per the official synopsis.
For the role, Lopez, 53, took on a great amount of physical training including weapon training and fight training, as well as learning how to ride a motorcycle and a snowmobile.
She told Et Canada’s Morgan Hoffman that taking on the role of the Mother felt “very empowering.”
Read More: Jennifer Lopez Reveals Who Would Win In A Showdown — Her ‘The Mother’ Character Or Ben Affleck’s ‘Batman’
“You know, I would think I would have got a role like this when I was in my twenties. And to get it now is even like triple empowering,” she said. “And so doing all the fight training,...
In the upcoming Netflix film, the actress portrays “a deadly female assassin” who will do anything to save her daughter “while on the run from dangerous men,” as per the official synopsis.
For the role, Lopez, 53, took on a great amount of physical training including weapon training and fight training, as well as learning how to ride a motorcycle and a snowmobile.
She told Et Canada’s Morgan Hoffman that taking on the role of the Mother felt “very empowering.”
Read More: Jennifer Lopez Reveals Who Would Win In A Showdown — Her ‘The Mother’ Character Or Ben Affleck’s ‘Batman’
“You know, I would think I would have got a role like this when I was in my twenties. And to get it now is even like triple empowering,” she said. “And so doing all the fight training,...
- 5/5/2023
- by Melissa Romualdi
- ET Canada
Jennifer Lopez doesn’t think Ben Affleck’s “Batman” would stand a chance against her assassin character in “The Mother” if the pair were to have a showdown.
A synopsis for Lopez’s latest flick reads, “While fleeing from dangerous assailants, an assassin comes out of hiding to protect her daughter she left earlier in life.”
Read More: Jennifer Lopez Is An Assassin Protecting Her Daughter In ‘The Mother’ Trailer
While chatting to Et Canada’s Morgan Hoffman about the film alongside director Niki Caro, the host questioned whether her or Affleck’s character would win in a fight.
Lopez laughed, “You know, they have a lot of special effects in ‘Batman’,” as Caro insisted: “He doesn’t stand a chance! Against a mother?”
Lopez, who tied the knot with Affleck last summer, added, “He’s a super hero!”
“Justice League”, Ben Affleck as Batman, 2017. © Warner Bros. Pictures /Courtesy Everett...
A synopsis for Lopez’s latest flick reads, “While fleeing from dangerous assailants, an assassin comes out of hiding to protect her daughter she left earlier in life.”
Read More: Jennifer Lopez Is An Assassin Protecting Her Daughter In ‘The Mother’ Trailer
While chatting to Et Canada’s Morgan Hoffman about the film alongside director Niki Caro, the host questioned whether her or Affleck’s character would win in a fight.
Lopez laughed, “You know, they have a lot of special effects in ‘Batman’,” as Caro insisted: “He doesn’t stand a chance! Against a mother?”
Lopez, who tied the knot with Affleck last summer, added, “He’s a super hero!”
“Justice League”, Ben Affleck as Batman, 2017. © Warner Bros. Pictures /Courtesy Everett...
- 5/5/2023
- by Becca Longmire
- ET Canada
Jennifer Lopez is opening up about her latest role and how excited she was to be starring in an action-thriller.
During Thursday’s episode of The View, the Shotgun Wedding actress-producer said that while filming her upcoming movie The Mother “was a lot of fun,” it was also “a lot of work.”
In the Niki Caro-directed film, Lopez stars as an assassin who is fleeing from dangerous assailants. But she comes out of hiding to protect her daughter she gave up earlier in her life.
For the role, she had to undergo regular fight training, but she explained that it was “choreographed. We have to be efficient. I can’t be fighting eight hours a day. After like an hour, I’m like, Ok. So they had to be real efficient and they choreographed it almost like a dance, which is good for me since I’m a dancer.
During Thursday’s episode of The View, the Shotgun Wedding actress-producer said that while filming her upcoming movie The Mother “was a lot of fun,” it was also “a lot of work.”
In the Niki Caro-directed film, Lopez stars as an assassin who is fleeing from dangerous assailants. But she comes out of hiding to protect her daughter she gave up earlier in her life.
For the role, she had to undergo regular fight training, but she explained that it was “choreographed. We have to be efficient. I can’t be fighting eight hours a day. After like an hour, I’m like, Ok. So they had to be real efficient and they choreographed it almost like a dance, which is good for me since I’m a dancer.
- 5/5/2023
- by Carly Thomas
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Where to begin with this year’s summer preview?
The “big” titles, including new superhero films, another zippy entry into the “Fast and Furious” franchise, the continuing adventures of Tom Cruise running against “Impossible” odds, or even a kicky new Indiana Jones film? What about the latest picks from some of our favorite filmmakers, Wes Anderson to Greta Gerwig, Christopher Nolan to Nicole Holofcener, Paul Schrader to Niki Caro, Christian Petzold to Rachel Sennott?
Or what about the rising filmmaking stars we’ve already fallen for, like Celine Song, Laurel Parmet, Adele Lim, Charlotte Regan, and Savanah Leaf? Should we bet even bigger, noting that this summer includes at least two films we’ve already crowned some of the best of the year?
Or, better yet, how about we let the films speak for themselves? As another summer movie season beckons, we’ve dug into the calendar to pull out...
The “big” titles, including new superhero films, another zippy entry into the “Fast and Furious” franchise, the continuing adventures of Tom Cruise running against “Impossible” odds, or even a kicky new Indiana Jones film? What about the latest picks from some of our favorite filmmakers, Wes Anderson to Greta Gerwig, Christopher Nolan to Nicole Holofcener, Paul Schrader to Niki Caro, Christian Petzold to Rachel Sennott?
Or what about the rising filmmaking stars we’ve already fallen for, like Celine Song, Laurel Parmet, Adele Lim, Charlotte Regan, and Savanah Leaf? Should we bet even bigger, noting that this summer includes at least two films we’ve already crowned some of the best of the year?
Or, better yet, how about we let the films speak for themselves? As another summer movie season beckons, we’ve dug into the calendar to pull out...
- 4/18/2023
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
This week, Netflix announced that its new Jennifer Lopez action movie “The Mother” will be available to stream beginning on May 12. In the film, JLo plays an assassin on the run, who comes out of hiding to rescue the 12-year-old daughter she was forced to give up as a baby. The thriller is directed by Niki Caro and it co-stars Joseph Fiennes, Lucy Paez, Omari Hardwick, Paul Raci, and Gael Garcia Bernal.
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Netflix’s hit show “Stranger Things” is getting another incarnation — as an animated series akin to Saturday morning cartoons. While no details have been released by Netflix, it will reportedly be developed by Eric Robles and Flying Bark Productions. “Stranger Things” has already been renewed for a fifth and final season, but a London stage play and an untitled live-action spinoff, both based on the series, are also in the works.
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Netflix’s hit show “Stranger Things” is getting another incarnation — as an animated series akin to Saturday morning cartoons. While no details have been released by Netflix, it will reportedly be developed by Eric Robles and Flying Bark Productions. “Stranger Things” has already been renewed for a fifth and final season, but a London stage play and an untitled live-action spinoff, both based on the series, are also in the works.
- 4/12/2023
- by Fern Siegel
- The Streamable
Jennifer Lopez is the mother in the new Netflix thriller “The Mother” that the streaming service has fittingly scheduled for release on Mother’s Day weekend.
Directed by Niki Caro and written by Misha Green, Andrea Berloff, and Peter Craig, the film finds Lopez playing a deadly assassin who gives up her daughter to escape retribution following a job gone wrong. But 12 years later, Lopez’s character is thrust back into action after her daughter is kidnapped as part of a revenge plot. As Lopez says in the trailer, “I’m a killer but I’m also a mother.”
In an interview with People, Caro said she loved bringing Lopez back to the action genre.
“The only thing that surprised me was that Jennifer hadn’t been an action movie hero her entire career,” Caro said.
Caro added, “Jennifer brings her legendary skill and precision to the action elements, but...
Directed by Niki Caro and written by Misha Green, Andrea Berloff, and Peter Craig, the film finds Lopez playing a deadly assassin who gives up her daughter to escape retribution following a job gone wrong. But 12 years later, Lopez’s character is thrust back into action after her daughter is kidnapped as part of a revenge plot. As Lopez says in the trailer, “I’m a killer but I’m also a mother.”
In an interview with People, Caro said she loved bringing Lopez back to the action genre.
“The only thing that surprised me was that Jennifer hadn’t been an action movie hero her entire career,” Caro said.
Caro added, “Jennifer brings her legendary skill and precision to the action elements, but...
- 4/11/2023
- by Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
You have to wonder why, after so many movies in which it goes very wrong for baddies, villains keep trying to threaten highly skilled operatives via their children. The latest character activating their particular set of skills to protect their spawn is Jennifer Lopez's hero in The Mother, which has a trailer online…
Yes, following on from her more comedic action thrills in Shotgun Wedding, this is J-Lo going full Taken as a deadly assassin who returns to rescue the daughter she loved from afar after years of hiding out in the Alaskan wilderness aiming to keep them both safe.
Suffice to say, it doesn't go well for those who try to kidnap and endanger her child.
With Joseph Fiennes, Lucy Paez, Omari Hardwick, Paul Raci and Gael García Bernal also in the cast, this comes from director Niki Caro and will hit Netflix on 12 May.
Yes, following on from her more comedic action thrills in Shotgun Wedding, this is J-Lo going full Taken as a deadly assassin who returns to rescue the daughter she loved from afar after years of hiding out in the Alaskan wilderness aiming to keep them both safe.
Suffice to say, it doesn't go well for those who try to kidnap and endanger her child.
With Joseph Fiennes, Lucy Paez, Omari Hardwick, Paul Raci and Gael García Bernal also in the cast, this comes from director Niki Caro and will hit Netflix on 12 May.
- 4/11/2023
- by James White
- Empire - Movies
Jennifer Lopez is out for absolute, unfettered vengeance in the wild new trailer for her upcoming Netflix action flick, The Mother.
After last year’s vague teaser, the new clip offers a way more comprehensive look at the film, in which Lopez plays an ex-assassin forced to abandon her newborn daughter and retreat to the Alaskan wilderness after botching a job that leaves her and her child in the crosshairs of some dangerous men (played by Joseph Fiennes and Gael García Bernal).
Of course, 12-years later the past finally catches...
After last year’s vague teaser, the new clip offers a way more comprehensive look at the film, in which Lopez plays an ex-assassin forced to abandon her newborn daughter and retreat to the Alaskan wilderness after botching a job that leaves her and her child in the crosshairs of some dangerous men (played by Joseph Fiennes and Gael García Bernal).
Of course, 12-years later the past finally catches...
- 4/11/2023
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Nothing can stand between a mother and her daughter.
On Tuesday, Netflix debuted the trailer for the new action-thriller “The Mother”, starring Jennifer Lopez.
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“A deadly female assassin comes out of hiding to protect the daughter that she gave up years before, while on the run from dangerous men,” the official description reads.
The trailer sees Lopez’s character making the decision to leave her daughter to be raised by someone else in order to keep her safe.
Photo: Doane Gregory/Netflix
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When that safety is threatened, the action heats up, with the mother and daughter on the run in the snowy wilderness and more.
Photo: Ana Carballosa/Netflix
Joseph Fiennes, Lucy Paez, Omari Hardwick, Paul Raci and...
On Tuesday, Netflix debuted the trailer for the new action-thriller “The Mother”, starring Jennifer Lopez.
Read More: Jennifer Lopez Poses Topless For Stunning Shot Marking Stress Awareness Month
“A deadly female assassin comes out of hiding to protect the daughter that she gave up years before, while on the run from dangerous men,” the official description reads.
The trailer sees Lopez’s character making the decision to leave her daughter to be raised by someone else in order to keep her safe.
Photo: Doane Gregory/Netflix
Read More: Jennifer Lopez And Ben Affleck Pack On The Pda As They Kiss On ‘Air’ Premiere Red Carpet
When that safety is threatened, the action heats up, with the mother and daughter on the run in the snowy wilderness and more.
Photo: Ana Carballosa/Netflix
Joseph Fiennes, Lucy Paez, Omari Hardwick, Paul Raci and...
- 4/11/2023
- by Corey Atad
- ET Canada
Jennifer Lopez plays a former assassin turned fierce mama bear who emerges from hiding in the Alaskan wilderness to protect a daughter she gave up for adoption years earlier in the official trailer for the upcoming Netflix movie The Mother.
“I’m a killer. And I’m also mother,” Lopez’s gun-toting character says at one point in the trailer while stabbing or head-butting the bad guys, or firing back from a motorcycle or snowmobile while being hotly pursued.
The latest look at director Niki Caro’s action-adventure pic opens with Lopez in a flashback giving birth to a daughter she had to give up. An FBI agent with whom she has cut a deal tells her the only way to protect her newborn from two dangerous assailants on the loose is to disappear.
“They’ll find you. Both of you,” Lopez is warned.
Fast-forward in time and the film...
“I’m a killer. And I’m also mother,” Lopez’s gun-toting character says at one point in the trailer while stabbing or head-butting the bad guys, or firing back from a motorcycle or snowmobile while being hotly pursued.
The latest look at director Niki Caro’s action-adventure pic opens with Lopez in a flashback giving birth to a daughter she had to give up. An FBI agent with whom she has cut a deal tells her the only way to protect her newborn from two dangerous assailants on the loose is to disappear.
“They’ll find you. Both of you,” Lopez is warned.
Fast-forward in time and the film...
- 4/11/2023
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
If you’re coming for an assassin’s daughter, you better be ready for that assassin to come for you. Of course, that’s kind of the bad guy’s whole intention in the first trailer for the new Netflix film “The Mother.”
That assassin is played by none other than Jennifer Lopez, and apparently, she’s ruffled more than a few feathers. As the footage opens on her in a hospital bed, she’s told that, after getting several FBI agents killed, the only thing she can do to keep her daughter safe is to leave her behind.
And so, reluctantly, she does. But, as is almost always the case with dangerous assassins, her past catches up to her — and her daughter. When the girl gets kidnapped as part of an effort to lure Lopez’s character back in, she offers an ominous warning.
“I’m a killer, but I’m also a mother,...
That assassin is played by none other than Jennifer Lopez, and apparently, she’s ruffled more than a few feathers. As the footage opens on her in a hospital bed, she’s told that, after getting several FBI agents killed, the only thing she can do to keep her daughter safe is to leave her behind.
And so, reluctantly, she does. But, as is almost always the case with dangerous assassins, her past catches up to her — and her daughter. When the girl gets kidnapped as part of an effort to lure Lopez’s character back in, she offers an ominous warning.
“I’m a killer, but I’m also a mother,...
- 4/11/2023
- by Andi Ortiz
- The Wrap
Mother’s Day is on the horizon, and it’s natural to celebrate those who give their all to their families. Mothers like Sarah Connor, Ripley, and Charlie Baltimore carry on the tradition of action heroines that are lionesses protecting their cubs from the threats of predators. Jennifer Lopez seeks to join the badass mothers with her new action thriller, The Mother. Netflix has just dropped the trailer showcasing Lopez’s new physical prowess to take down all comers threatening to hurt her daughter to get to her.
The official synopsis from Netflix reads,
A deadly female assassin comes out of hiding to protect the daughter that she gave up years before, while on the run from dangerous men.
The cast includes Lopez as the titular Mother. Lucy Paez, from films Silencio andThe Exorcism of Carmen Farias, plays Zoe, the Mother’s 12-year-old daughter. Omari Hardwick, known for Kick-Ass,...
The official synopsis from Netflix reads,
A deadly female assassin comes out of hiding to protect the daughter that she gave up years before, while on the run from dangerous men.
The cast includes Lopez as the titular Mother. Lucy Paez, from films Silencio andThe Exorcism of Carmen Farias, plays Zoe, the Mother’s 12-year-old daughter. Omari Hardwick, known for Kick-Ass,...
- 4/11/2023
- by EJ Tangonan
- JoBlo.com
Immovable objects meet unstoppable forces. Netflix may not be the best platform when it comes to promoting its original titles, but when that original film happens to feature a retired assassin played by Jennifer Lopez, odds are you don’t need to put a ton of money into the marketing budget. Audiences have been hungry for more Lopez ever since her scene-stealing turn in 2019’s “Hustlers,” and the seeds planted in that performance – and the subsequent media cycles it inspired – are being paid off in 2023 with films like “Shotgun Wedding,” and now, “The Mother.”
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In the first trailer for “The Mother,” Jennifer Lopez plays a deadly female assassin who comes out of hiding to protect the daughter that she gave up years before while on the run from dangerous men.
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In the first trailer for “The Mother,” Jennifer Lopez plays a deadly female assassin who comes out of hiding to protect the daughter that she gave up years before while on the run from dangerous men.
- 4/11/2023
- by Matthew Monagle
- The Playlist
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