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Ladies of the House: Get Ready to Uncork a New Family Drama

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By Christian Zamora

Pour yourself a glass: A new family drama is taking root at Netflix. Ladies of the House, a new series from Sweet Magnolias showrunner Sheryl J. Anderson, is officially on its way and will bring Lauren Edmondson’s novel of the same name to the screen.

So what’s being poured at this family winery? When its charismatic owner dies unexpectedly, his wife and two adult daughters must battle through their issues with each other in order to confront challenges with the business, their extended family, and the men in their lives. Good friends and good wine will aid in the journey to hang on to the winery, but what matters most is that they find a way to hang on to each other.

The series reunites Anderson with Sweet Magnolias star JoAnna Garcia Swisher. Anderson will serve as showrunner and executive producer, while Garcia Swisher and Kate Gordon will executive produce under their Rolling Clover banner. Black Label Media, the company behind La La Land and Sicario, will also executive produce.

“I’m thrilled to be embarking on this new adventure with JoAnna and Netflix,” Anderson tells Netflix. “When Jo shared the novel with me, I immediately saw the foundation for a series centered on three women grappling with the complexities of family, friendship, and romance — the kind of stories Jo and I most enjoy telling. I cannot wait to share the Richardson women and their world with Netflix’s global audience.”

“From the moment I read Lauren Edmondson’s Ladies of the House, I fell completely in love with Daisy, Cricket, and Wallis: their relationships, their messiness, their strength, and most of all, their heart,” Garcia Swisher tells Netflix. “I am beyond excited to continue to tell meaningful, female-driven stories alongside the incredible Sheryl Anderson, and to bring this to life through our production company, Rolling Clover, and with our wonderful partners at Black Label. Netflix has been my creative home for the past seven years, and I couldn’t imagine a better place, or a better team, to tell this story.”

Ladies of the House joins Netflix’s growing slate of feel-good comfort entertainment, including series such as Virgin River, Little House on the Prairie, Leanne, The Hunting Wives, and America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, as well as films like Ruth & Boaz, Remarkably Bright Creatures, and the upcoming Guarding Stars.

Stay tuned for more news about Ladies of the House.

Source: Tudum 

Jason Momoa, Tenoch Huerta, Adria Arjona & Kiefer Sutherland Join Miles Teller In John Swab Thriller ‘Copperhead’

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By Matt Grobar

EXCLUSIVE: Black Label Media has added four to the cast of its thriller Copperhead starring Miles Teller: Jason Momoa, Tenoch Huerta, Adria Arjona and Kiefer Sutherland.

Character details are being kept under wraps. The casting news comes ahead of this year’s Toronto Film Festival, where Black Bear is launching sales on the movie.

In Copperhead, when an undercover drug deal explodes into violence, a veteran detective is forced to team with a young federal agent to unravel the conspiracy within their elite task force.

Venice prize-winner John Swab is set to direct from a script by Chad Feehan and J. Todd Scott, with production kicking off in September. The project is financed by Black Label Media, which is producing alongside Teller’s Lime Tree Productions and Swab’s Milk Boy. CAA Media Finance and WME Independent are co-repping domestic rights.

Coming off of Supergirl, where he plays the bounty hunter Lobo, Momoa has also recently been seen starring opposite Dave Bautista in the Amazon MGM action comedy The Wrecking Crew, which was the fourth most-viewed film across all streaming platforms between December and June of this year, per Nielsen data. Next up for Momoa are Street Fighter, Dune: Part Three, A Minecraft Movie: Squared and Fast Forever, He is repped by WME and Edelstein Laird and Sobel.

Huerta is known for his role of Namor in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, which he’s set to reprise in the forthcoming Avengers: Doomsday. Upcoming, he’ll be seen starring opposite Taylor Kitsch in the hostage thriller Eleven Days from Peter Landesman. He is repped by WME.

Coming off of Disney+’s Andor and the Neon comedy Splitsville, Arjona will next be seen starring in A24’s Onslaught, out September 4, and Michael B. Jordan’s The Thomas Crown Affair, which Amazon MGM releases in March 2027. Other projects on her slate include the Amazon series Criminal, Sarah-Violet Bliss’ erotic thriller Scorn and James Gunn’s Man of Tomorrow. She is repped by CAA, Anonymous Content, Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman.

Best known for starring as CTU agent Jack Bauer in Fox’s 24, Sutherland was recently seen in Clint Eastwood’s Warner Bros legal thriller Juror #2. Upcoming projects include Luc Besson’s Father Joe opposite Al Pacino, which is slated for a Venice world premiere; and The Horseman, opposite Barry Pepper and C. Thomas Howell. He is repped by CAA, Entertainment 360 and Lichter, Grossman, Nichols.

Source: Deadline

Miles Teller & John Swab Teaming On ‘Copperhead’ Thriller From Black Label Media

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By Matt Grobar

Miles Teller (Paper Tiger) has inked a deal to star in Copperhead, a new thriller from King Ivory helmer John Swab and Black Label Media.

Written by Chad Feehan and J. Todd Scott, Copperhead‘s plot is thrust in motion when an undercover drug deal explodes into violence in West Texas. A veteran detective is then forced to team with a young federal agent to unravel the conspiracy within their elite task force.

Black Label is financing and producing alongside Teller’s Lime Tree Productions and Swab’s Milk Boy, with production to kick off in August.

Most recently seen playing John Branca, executor of the Michael Jackson estate, in Antoine Fuqua’s Michael, which shattered opening-weekend records with a $217 million worldwide debut and is nearing $900M worldwide, Teller will next be seen starring alongside Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson in James Gray’s Paper Tiger, which premiered to critical acclaim at Cannes and will be released by Neon. He is repped by CAA and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman.

Swab is best known for writing and directing the action thriller King Ivory, starring James Badge Dale, which premiered at the 81st Venice Film Festival. Currently, he’s attached to direct the Will Smith starrer Fast & Loose for Netflix, with Jerry Bruckheimer producing. Upcoming, he also intends to direct hisscreenplay Hells Angels, based on the book Hell’s Angel: The Life and Times of Sonny Barger and the Hell’s Angels Motorcycle Club, for actor/producer Jason Momoa. Swab is repped by WME, Range Media Partners and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
Black Label Media is known for projects like Lynne Ramsay’s Cannes drama Die My Love, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson, as well as Sicario, I Wanna Dance with Somebody, Only the Brave, and others. Next up, the company will reteam with J.D. Dillard — director of the Korean War naval officer flick Devotion — for The Strange, which has casting underway. They’re also gearing up on Reenactment — marking a reunion with Reptile filmmaker Grant Singer — as well as Sicario 3.
Feehan is repped by CAA, Untitled Entertainment, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman; his co-writer Scott by Rain, Curtis Brown, and Fuse Literary.
Source: Deadline

Ana De Armas In Final Negotiations To Join Benicio Del Toro & Cameron Diaz In Grant Singer’s ‘Reenactment’ — AFM

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By Andreas Wiseman

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Ana de Armas (Blonde) is in final negotiations to join Grant Singer’s upcoming film Reenactment, joining Benicio del Toro and Cameron Diaz.

The Blonde, Knives Out and No Time To Die Star most recently had the lead in John Wick spinoff Ballerina.

Patrick Wachsberger of 193 is selling the buzzy project at this week’s American Film Market with production due to begin soon in LA. Plot details remain under wraps.

The movie reunites Del Toro, director Singer and producer Black Label Media after Singer’s 2023 directorial debut Reptile, the thriller that debuted at Toronto and topped charts on Netflix.

Molly Smith, Trent Luckinbill and Thad Luckinbill of Black Label will produce Reenactment along with Wachsberger of Legendary company 193. Black Label’s Rachel Smith will executive-produce along with Bradley Thomas of Imperative, Ashley Stern of 193 and LBI’s Rick Yorn and Scott Greenberg.

Del Toro is coming off an acclaimed performance in Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another. Diaz most recently appeared in the 2025 Netflix action comedy Back in Action opposite Jamie Foxx. Netflix reported that the feature was their most watched film of 2025 so far.

Black Label Media also is in development on The White Van, with Singer attached to direct. Singer is known as a top music video director and has worked with artists including the Weeknd, Taylor Swift, Sam Smith, Travis Scott, and Camila Cabelo.

Ana de Armas is repped by CAA and Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks.

Source: Deadline 

NY Times – ‘Die My Love’ Review: Jennifer Lawrence in a Mother of a Role

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A description is insufficient to describe some movies, and “Die My Love,” directed by Lynne Ramsay, is one of them. A young couple, Grace and Jackson, move to a house in the woods. They have a baby, and in the midst of fierce postpartum depression, Grace starts to lose her grasp on reality — or, some might argue, regain it. That’s the plot.

But you might as well describe Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” as “just some guy screaming”: not wrong, exactly, but totally missing the point. “Die My Love” is linear yet allusive; sometimes you’re not sure how much time has passed, and sometimes it passes in a blink. Submerged in Grace’s overheated, claustrophobic, tedious, maddening reality, we are drowning, just like her. It is full-body immersion cinema.

Its story may revolve around Grace, but “Die My Love” revolves around Jennifer Lawrence, for whom this feels like a career-defining role — not that she really required one. Lawrence has been a force for 15 years, but she dropped out of sight for a while and has been testing her range lately, first with the beautifully understated drama “Causeway” and then the bouncier sex comedy “No Hard Feelings.”

“Die My Love” is something else altogether. You’ve seen woman-on-the-verge roles; you’ve even seen Lawrence in them. (There’s one scene in particular in “Die My Love” that recalled “Mother!” just for a second, and I had to chuckle.)

But those movies tend to make us observers of a sane woman going crazy. It’s true that this movie makes us wonder early on if Grace is seeing things — the biker (LaKeith Stanfield), for instance, who keeps speeding past the house. But in this case, Grace is already a live wire when we meet her. She’s like the earth and fire elements got stirred together and molded into a woman. You can almost believe she’d be kind of erratic whether or not her hormones were raging. She’s neither sane nor crazy: She’s just Grace, and that’s what she’s like.

That is why Jackson fell in love with her — he’s a weirdo, too — and why he defends her for so long, even after her behavior starts to draw notice from his family. That’s also why Robert Pattinson is perfect in the role, and an ideal foil for Lawrence. They’re both instinctive, intuitive actors. But Lawrence is raw and naturalistic and expressive, while Pattinson is wiry and restrained and more reactive. You can see exactly why their characters, two artists with a romantic idea about making art in the woods, fell for each other, and exactly why they’d drive each other crazy: They’re like opposing elements, earth and fire trying to meld with air and water. This house in the woods is no place for these people to live, but Jackson grew up nearby. Grace might as well be an alien.

Some themes running through “Die My Love” are more suggested than outright indicated: Grace’s fondness for pretending to be an animal stalking her prey, for instance, and the notion that madness haunts these woods, or maybe just this house. And there’s Jackson’s mother, Pam (Sissy Spacek, in an excellent performance), who lives around the corner, in the house that Jackson grew up in. She has also recently lost her husband, Harry (Nick Nolte). Her own sudden slipping grip on reality is like another pole for Grace’s struggle, with the two of them wandering in the moonlit night, time and reality turned upside down.

Grace looks, at times, as if she’s in a movie from a different era — in fact, for long stretches it’s not completely clear what year it is, which adds to the film’s dreaminess. She wears filmy nightgowns and underwear, and at times her long blonde hair is styled in a way that made me wonder if it was meant to evoke Catherine Deneuve in “Repulsion,” or maybe Brigitte Bardot. Lawrence began shooting the film when she was four and a half months pregnant with her second child, which is remarkable enough on its face, but the sheer physicality of the role makes it even more so. Grace is sexual and violent and gentle and maternal and savage; she rips wallpaper and sits in her refrigerator and screams and cracks jokes at the baby. Tour de force is an overused cliché, but it was meant for roles like this.

Though almost the entire creative team is made up of women, the seed for “Die My Love” originated with — oddly enough — Martin Scorsese, who read Ariana Harwicz’s 2012 novel in his book club in 2020, sent it along to the production company that Lawrence runs with Justine Ciarrocchi, and said he could see Lawrence in the lead role. They brought on the director Lynne Ramsay, who wrote the adaptation with Enda Walsh and Alice Birch, the seasoned playwrights and screenwriters.

The result, in the end, is the kind of movie that polarizes. It’s hard to imagine feeling middling about it, and some will find it infuriating. But I loved it the first time I saw it, and loved it more the second. Not only because it takes a huge swing and connects, but because this is the role I’ve been wanting to see Lawrence play since I first saw her in “Winter’s Bone” all those years ago. Watching someone go for broke and actually make it is exhilarating. And when a movie leaves me feeling as if I just swam across rapids and barely dragged myself out alive — well, that’s why I go to the movies.

Die My Love
Rated R for sex, violence, swearing and hints of child endangerment (he’s fine) and dog endangerment (he’s not). Running time: 1 hour 58 minutes. In theaters.

Source: The New York Times 

Benicio Del Toro Reunites With ‘Reptile’ Director Grant Singer On ‘Reenactment’ From Black Label Media & Patrick Wachsberger’s 193; Cameron Diaz In Talks To Co-Star

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By Justin Kroll

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off his acclaimed performance in One Battle After Another, Benicio Del Toro has found his follow-up project as he is set to star in Reenactment, with Cameron Diaz in talks to co-star. Grant Singer wrote the original screenplay and will direct.

Production is set to begin soon in Los Angeles, and plot details are being kept under wraps.

Molly Smith, Trent Luckinbill and Thad Luckinbill of Black Label will produce along with Patrick Wachsberger of 193, a Legendary company. Black Label’s Rachel Smith will executive produce along with Ashley Stern of 193 and LBI’s Rick Yorn and Scott Greenberg. Wachsberger’s 193 also will handle international sales.

This project reunites Singer with Black Label Media and Del Toro following his 2023 directorial debut Reptile. The pic had its world premiere at the 2023 Toronto Film Festival and was released by Netflix, where it topped streaming charts.

iaz most recently appeared in the 2025 Netflix action comedy Back in Action opposite Jamie Foxx. Netflix reported that the feature was the most watched film of 2025 so far. She is repped by LBI Entertainment and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.

Black Label Media also is in development on The White Van, with Singer attached to direct. He is repped by CAA, LBI Entertainment and attorney Steve Burkow.

Black Label is behind Lynne Ramsay’s Cannes-debuting pic Die My Love, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson. The film, which they also financed, premiered at Cannes, where it was acquired by Mubi in a bidding war for $24 million. It will be released in theaters on November 7. Next up, Black Label will reteam with director JD Dillard for The Strange, for which casting is underway.

193 is a stand-alone joint venture with Legendary and has support from Legendary’s resources and divisions. At its inaugural Cannes Film Festival in 2025, 193 secured international sales for four marquee films. These included the biggest sale of the festival for psychological thriller Die My Love, from four-time Cannes prize winner Ramsey.

193’s other 2025 Cannes sales drama biopic Scandalous!, the directorial debut of two-time Oscar nominee Colman Domingo, starring Sydney Sweeney and David Jonsson; action pic The Surgeon, starring Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh, from physician and acclaimed filmmaker Roshan Sethi, reuniting Wachsberger with his John Wick collaborator Basil Iwanyk; and The Toxic Avenger, a darkly comedic reimagining of the 1984 cult classic. Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner Macon Blair wrote and directed the film, which stars four-time Emmy winner Peter Dinklage alongside Kevin Bacon, Elijah Wood and Jacob Tremblay.

Source: Deadline