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Neon on Monday morning dropped the first trailer for Anora, its romantic dramedy from filmmaker Sean Baker (The Florida Project), which brought the company its fifth Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Starring Better Things‘ Mikey Madison, the awards contender centers on her character…

In accepting the Palme d’Or today for his latest movie Anora, Sean Baker gave a shoutout for the survival of cinema. At the Cannes Film Festival awards presser he said he hopes his movie is “certainly one step toward helping” theaters. “You see theaters closing every day unfortunately. I follow…

UPDATE: Sean Baker's New York-set romantic dramedy Anora has scooped the Cannes Film Festival's top prize, the Palme d'Or. This marked Baker's second time in the competition after 2021's Red Rocket, and tonight's win amounted to the realization of what Baker said has been his "singular goal as a filmmaker…

Better Things actress Mikey Madison goes the distance in a raw and revealing performance as a high-class stripper who is romanced, and married by, the son of a Russian oligarch in Sean Baker’s Anora. The pic is one of many in Baker’s canon, including Starlet and Red Rocket, that centers on a sex…

Sean Baker returned to the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday with Anora, his New York-set romantic dramedy about a stripper from Brooklyn who transforms into a modern Cinderella when she meets the son of a Russian oligarch. The film, playing in the official competition three years after Baker’s…

Sean Baker's previous film, 2022’s Red Rocket (2022), began with *NSYNC's Spotify-topping "Bye Bye Bye," but Anora starts with the slightly lesser-known "Greatest Days" by British boy band Take That. Musically, it's a bold choice, at odds with the frenetic spirit of what for over half its running time is…

Mikey Madison says the call from Sean Baker came entirely out of the blue. "I guess he'd seen a horror film I did, Scream [2022], on the opening weekend, and decided to call my agent the very next day. I met him and Samantha Quan, his producing partner, for coffee, and they pitched me this amazing, crazy…

Neon has acquired North American rights to the romantic dramedy Anora, the latest feature from award-winning indie filmmaker Sean Baker (The Florida Project). It will be released in theaters sometime next year. Mikey Madison, Mark Eydelshteyn, Yuriy Borisov, Karren Karagulian, and Vache Tovmasyan…

Brenda Deiss, the former secretary who was cast by Red Rocket writer-director Sean Baker to play the mother-in-law of Simon Rex's lead character Mikey Saber, died Monday at Clear Lake Hospital in Clear Lake, Texas, of complications from in a stroke last month. She was 60. A spokesperson for the film confirmed her…

Sean Baker used to be the indie world's best-kept secret, until The Florida Project opened in the Directors Fortnight strand of the Cannes film festival in 2017. Critics were immediately impressed by Baker's mix of scripted drama and intimate cinema verité-style cinematography, which were made to look even more…

Editors note: Deadline's Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year's movie awards race. Filmmaker Sean Baker (The Florida Project) had an unexpected inspiration for his latest film Red Rocket, which centers on fast-talking, washed-up porn star Mikey Saber…

Red Rocket director and co-screenwriter Sean Baker revealed that Mikey Saber, the always-hustling washed-up porn actor who returns to the Texas hometown that wasn't exactly sorry to see him go, was inspired by real-life adult-film actors he encountered and that he always envisioned as a role for Simon Rex. "My…