If you don’t live in Charlotte, North Carolina, you may not have heard of Jeffrey Manchester, the egregious robber who broke into 45 McDonald’s establishments between 1998 and 2000 by breaking through their roofs, earning him the moniker of “Roofman.” He was eventually caught, but he figured out a clever way to escape from jail…
©Courtesy of Miramax Roofman : Based on an unbelievable true story, Roofman follows Jeffrey Manchester (Channing Tatum), a former Army Ranger and struggling father who turns to robbing McDonald’s restaurants by cutting holes in their roofs, earning him the nickname: Roofman. After escaping prison, he secretly lives inside a Toys “R” Us for six months, surviving undetected…
After a hiatus of eight years, Derek Cianfrance is finally ready to direct a new film, declares Jeff Sneider in his insneider newsletter. Titled Roofman, it’s based on the true but quirky story of Jeffrey Manchester, an oddball serial robber who broke into more than 60 McDonald’s outlets around the country. The brazen franchise-filcher carried…
Check out more of CinemaDaily US’ video interviews on our YouTube channel Titus Kaphar’s Exhibiting Forgiveness is a powerful and moving personal story that the artist-turned-filmmaker made after having conversations with his own father. It stars André Holland (Moonlight) as Tarrell, an artist whose estranged father La’Ron (John Earl Jelks) comes back into his life…
Titus Kaphar has achieved quite a few high points as one of the more successful contemporary fine artists, but with Exhibiting Forgiveness, he makes his foray into feature filmmaking. The drama premiered at the Sundance Film Festival back in January, and it made enough of an impact that it was then programmed as part of…
©Courtesy of Netflix His Three Daughters : From writer-director Azazel Jacobs (French Exit, The Lovers) comes this bittersweet and often funny story of an elderly patriarch and the three grown daughters who come to be with him in his final days. Katie (Carrie Coon) is a controlling Brooklyn mother dealing with a wayward teenage daughter;…
@Photo by USA Network/Peter Kramer/USA Network – © 2017 USA Network Media, LLC Christopher Abbott is slated to replace Ryan Gosling in the next Wolf Man movie, scheduled for release on October 25, 2024, just six days before Halloween. Abbott most recently appeared in Poor Things, and starred opposite Tom Holland in the Apple miniseries The…
2024 Sundance Film Festival Announces 91 Projects Selected for the Feature Films, Episodic, and New Frontier Lineup for 40th Edition All Eyes on Independents In-Person and Online Ticket Packages and Passes Currently On Sale; Individual Ticket Sales Begin January 11 Top L–R: Girls State, Seeking Mavis Beacon, The American Society of Magical Negroes, Layla. Center L–R:…
TRIBECA FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2021 JURY COMPETITION AND ART AWARD WINNERS The Novice, Brighton 4th, and Ascension Take Top Honors in U.S. Narrative, International Narrative and Documentary Competitions Chanel James and Taylor Garron Receive the Nora Ephron Award for As of Yet First-Ever Winners for New Award Categories: Geography of Robots Receives Tribeca Games Award; Vermont…
The 93rd Academy Awards were handed out tonight, in a ceremony that featured in-person nominees in a variety of venues including Union Station in Los Angeles. There was clearly excitement around the idea of people being in the same room and getting to gather together, though some of the staging of the ceremony was awkward,…
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