Remake of the original 1996 film centered around a young girl who is trying to protect her father, a recent widower, from his psychopath new girlfriend.
Amandla Stenberg
Common joins Amandla Stenberg in The Hate U Give adaptation for Fox. Common was recently seen in the surprise breakout comedy Girls Trip.
Amandla Stenberg has scored the lead in the film adaptation of The Hate U Give, the debut novel from Angela Thomas. The YA novel is inspired by the Black Lives Movement and will be directed by George Tillman Jr.
The story follows Starr, a 16-year old girl who grows up in the slums but now attends an upper class prep school in the suburbs. When she witnesses a police officer shoot an unarmed friend, her world is turned upside down.
Grand Jury Prizes and Audience Awards were handed out to the top films and three more big deals were made as the Sundance Film Festival of 2016 came to a close.
With Sundance just around the corner, we’re bringing you our picks for what’s worth watching at the festival. In the category of U.S. Dramatic Competition, the festival features domestic narrative films from up and coming filmmakers. Here’s a few of those films that caught our attention.
Follows Maddy, a teen who has severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), a rare disease that causes her to be allergic to practically everything. She has spent 17 years hiding out in her home, only seeing her mother and her nurse, Carla. But when a boy named Olly moves in next door, Maddy begins to fall in love.
Logline: A romantic drama set in 1940s Berlin that centers on the relationship between a mixed-race German girl and an SS officer.
Logline: Centers on 16-year-old Ruby, a girl with frightening abilities she can’t control, who breaks out of a government camp for people with super powers and is forced to run for her life toward the only safe haven she knows.
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Logline: Story follows a young girl who, after witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, grows up to be a stone-cold assassin, working as a hitman by day, and a terrifying vigilante by night as she searches for the mobster who killed her family.
Logline: Story takes place in a future world where young boys and girls are forced to participate in a televised battle to the death.
