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One of the most important and unusual shows of the 21st century, the sci-fi drama The Oa, was canceled after its second season. And this is probably the worst decision Netflix has ever made.

In 2016, the world of television was very different than it is today: auteur series were still a rare exception to the rule. Breakthroughs like Paolo Sorrentino's TV arthouse The Young Pope only set the stage for David Lynch's magnum opus, the 18-hour Twin Peaks Season 3, released a year later.

The Oa Was One of the Biggest TV Events of 2010s

And even against this backdrop, the first season of The Oa stood out for its mystery, its sincerity, and its uncompromising pressure on the viewer to believe in the most fantastic things.

It's no exaggeration to say that the "Netflix presents" credits, which appear more than 50 minutes into the pilot episode against the backdrop of a snowy forest,...

Fans of A Murder at the End of the World rejoice! Brit Marling, who created the show with her longtime collaborator Zal Batmanglij, is game to take the limited series further. Possibly as far as Tokyo…

Marling is my guest this week on 20 Questions on Deadline.

She also starred in and co-created Netflix hit series The Oa and the films Sound of My Voice, Another Earth and The East with Batmanglij, and in this episode of the podcast, we discuss if there’s a next chapter for the End of the World protagonist Darby Hart—an amateur sleuth played by Emma Corrin.

At the end of the limited series on Hulu, Darby solved the murder of her ex-boyfriend Bill (Harris Dickinson) at an Iceland retreat run by tech billionaire Andy Ronson (Clive Owen). Marling, who, apart from writing and producing, also directs and stars as Ronson’s wife Lee Andersen,...

To mark the festival’s fortieth anniversary all 16 of this year’s jurors are festival alumni.

Lena Waithe, Mira Nair and Shaunak Sen are among the 16 jurors who will choose award winners in six competitive sections at this month’s Sundance Film Festival.

To mark the fortieth edition of the US festival, which runs January 18-28 in Park City and Salt Lake City, all 16 jurors are festival alumni. In addition to serving on juries they will participate in talks, panels and other events to mark the festival milestone.

Awards for feature films in five competition sections of the festival will...

A Murder at the End of the World creators Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij are a resilient duo. Instead of letting disappointment linger, the longtime creative partners quickly rebounded after the cancellation of their beloved genre-bender The Oa and channeled its many profound takeaways into their next story. The Netflix series struck a deep chord in viewers around the world, and seeing firsthand the community and energy that had formed around their work, Marling and Batmanglij further trusted their storytelling instincts until a new name rose to the top of their collective mind: Darby Hart.

Their FX on Hulu limited series chronicles past-and-present Darby (Emma Corrin), who’s an amateur sleuth turned true-crime author. She combines the hacking and investigative skills of Mr. Robot’s Elliot Alderson and Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’s Lisbeth Salander, with the death-adjacent upbringing of Six Feet Under‘s Claire Fisher. Despite those familiar comps,...

"You're just another guest on a retreat. So as long as you play the part." FX Networks / Hulu have debuted a second trailer for the mystery thriller series A Murder at the End of the World, arriving for streaming soon. It's the latest creation of filmmakers Brit Marling & Zal Batmanglij, creators of "The Oa" series and collaborators on Sound of My Voice & The East previously. Emma Corrin stars as Darby Hart, a Gen Z amateur sleuth, who attempts to solve a murder at a secluded retreat. In this Hulu series, which puts a new spin on the classic whodunit, Darby and 11 other guests are invited by a reclusive billionaire to participate in a retreat at a remote and dazzling location. When one of the other guests is found dead, Darby must fight to prove it was murder against a tide of competing interests. This was shot in Iceland (and in...

The mystery limited series A Murder at the End of the World (read our review Here) is set to premiere with two episodes on November 14th on FX, and with just a few days to go until that date arrives we have gotten our hands on a new trailer for the show. You can check it out in the embed above.

Created and directed by Brit Marling with Zal Batmanglij, the duo that previously brought us The Oa, this limited series sees Emma Corrin of The Crown and My Policeman taking on the role of a Gen Z amateur sleuth and hacker named Darby Hart. Darby is one of several guests invited to a retreat by a reclusive billionaire. When one of the other guests is found dead, Darby uses all of her skills to prove it was murder against a tide of competing interests and before the killer takes another life.

When they’re breaking a story, Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij — a creative team who’ve been together since their first short film in 2007 — tend to work in the bedrooms of their Los Angeles homes. “We live in small houses on the Eastside,” Marling says during a visit to New York, “so we don’t have room for offices or studies.”

In the first of many times one of the pair picks up the other’s ideas and runs, Batmanglij jumps in. “It feels like pantomime to have offices with assistants, and the assistant asks you if you want a bottle of water — the performance of it,” he says. “Take it back to when you were a kid, building a fort.”

In the months before the pandemic, Marling, now 41, and Batmanglij, now 42, were doing some fort-building — trying to pin down an idea they’d had the year before, and make...

Orphan Black: Echoes is a sci-fi thriller series created by Anna Fishko. The AMC series is a spin-off to the 2013 series titled Orphan Black, which was created by John Fawcett and Graeme Manson, the series is set in 2052 and it revolves around Lucy, a woman who doesn’t know anything about her past. Orphan Black: Echoes is set in the same universe as Orphan Black and it stars Krysten Ritter, Keeley Hawes, Amanda Fix, and Avan Jogia. So, if you loved Orphan Black: Echoes and will be waiting for Season 2, here are some similar shows you could watch until then.

Orphan Black (AMC+ & Prime Video Add-On) Credit – BBC America

Synopsis: Orphan Black is a Sci-Fi thriller starring Tatiana Maslany in the lead role of Sarah, an outsider and orphan whose life changes dramatically after witnessing the suicide of a woman who looks just like her. Sarah hopes that cleaning out...

Bodies is a British sci-fi murder-mystery series created by Paul Tomalin. Based on the DC Vertigo comic and graphic novel of the same name written by Si Spencer, and illustrated by Dean Ormston, Tula Lotay, Meghan Hetrick, and Phil Winsdale. The Netflix series follows four different detectives in four different time periods trying to solve the same murder in London. Bodies stars Stephen Graham, Amaka Okafor, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Shira Haas, Kyle Soller, Tom Mothersdale, and Synnove Karlsen. So, if you loved the Netflix series here are some similar shows you could watch next.

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Netflix’s mind-bending German thriller series Dark is the best sci-fi and time-travel series of all time and that is a statement that millions of people will agree with. Dark begins with the disappearance of two children which later on evolves into a sinister conspiracy that involves time travel and connections that tie the whole town together.

"I think there is something going on here... that we don't fully understand." You don't say? FX Networks / Hulu have revealed the main official trailer for a crime thriller mystery series called A Murder at the End of the World, arriving for streaming this November. It's the latest creation of filmmakers Brit Marling & Zal Batmanglij, creators of "The Oa" series and collaborators on Sound of My Voice & The East previously. They're sticking with TV once again for another twisty series. Emma Corrin stars as Darby Hart, a Gen Z amateur sleuth, who attempts to solve a murder at a secluded retreat. In this Hulu series, which puts a new spin on the classic whodunit, Darby and 11 other guests are invited by a reclusive billionaire to participate in a retreat at a remote and dazzling location. When one of the other guests is found dead, Darby must fight to prove it...

Ragnarok is a Norwegian fantasy thriller series created by Adam Price. The Netflix original series is set in a small Norwegian town and it tells the story of a high school who slowly realizes that he is the reincarnation of the Norse god Thor himself. Ragnarok stars David Stakston, Theresa Frostad Eggesbø, Synnøve Macody Lund, Herman Tømmeraas, Jonas Strand Gravli, and Emma Bones. So, if you loved the first two seasons of Ragnarok here are some similar shows you could watch while waiting for Season 3.

The Protector (Netflix) Credit – Netflix

Synopsis: The series follows the epic adventure of Hakan, a young shopkeeper whose modern world gets turned upside down when he learns he’s connected to a secret, ancient order, tasked with protecting Istanbul. At the story’s start, Hakan couldn’t be further from a hero — just an ordinary guy in this city of 15 million, where East meets West and past meets present.

Emma Corrin and Harris Dickinson in ‘A Murder at the End of the World’ (Photo Credit: FX)

FX’s murder mystery Retreat starring Emma Corrin has a new official title. The limited series has been renamed A Murder at the End of the World and has released the first two photos.

The official photos feature Emma Corrin and Harris Dickinson. The cast also includes Clive Owen, Brit Marling, Alice Braga, Joan Chen, Raúl Esparza, Jermaine Fowler, and Ryan J. Haddad. Pegah Ferydoni, Javed Khan, Louis Cancelmi, Edoardo Ballerini, Britian Seibert, Christopher Gurr, Kellan Tetlow, Daniel Olson, and Neal Huff also star.

The seven-episode series was created by Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, with the frequent collaborators directing and executive producing. Andrea Sperling, Melanie Marnich, and Nicki Paluga also serve as executive producers.

Marling and Batmanglij co-wrote 2011’s Sound of My Voice, with Batmanglij directing and Marling starring. The duo handled...

Emma Corrin of The Crown and My Policeman stars in an upcoming mystery limited series that’s being produced by FX – and The Hollywood Reporter has been able to confirm that the seven-episode show will be released through the Hulu streaming service sometime in August. They have also learned that, while the show was previously going by the title Retreat, it is now known as A Murder at the End of the World.

Corrin is joined in the cast of A Murder at the End of the World by Clive Owen (Children of Men), Harris Dickinson (Where the Crawdads Sing), Brit Marling (Sound of My Voice), Alice Braga (Queen of the South), Joan Chen (The Last Emperor), Raúl Esparza (Hannibal), Jermaine Fowler (Coming 2 America), Ryan J. Haddad (The Politician), Pegah Ferydoni (The Last Berliner), Javed Khan (Lapwing), Louis Cancelmi (Please Be Normal), Edoardo Ballerini (Malevolent), Britian Seibert (The Knick...

Legacies Follow the Sound of My Voice Trailer — The CW‘s Legacies: Season 4, Episode 11: Follow the Sound of My Voice TV show trailer has been released. Cast Legacies stars Danielle Rose Russell, Aria Shahghasemi, Kaylee Bryant, Jenny Boyd, Quincy Fouse, Chris Lee, Ben Levin, and Matthew Davis. Series Plot Synopsis Legacies‘ plot [...]

Continue reading: Legacies: Season 4, Episode 11: Follow the Sound of My Voice TV Show Trailer [The CW]...

FX has set the cast of its new murder mystery series “Retreat,” which already has “The Crown” alum Emma Corrin set in the lead role. Joining Corrin in the limited series will be Clive Owen, Harris Dickinson, Brit Marling, Alice Braga, Jermaine Fowler, Joan Chen, Edoardo Ballerini, Raúl Esparza, Pegah Ferydoni, Ryan J. Haddad and Javed Khan.

“Retreat” is described as a “radical conceptualization” of the whodunit with a new kind of detective at the helm. Corrin plays a gen Z amateur sleuth named Darby Hart who, along with 11 other guests, is invited by a reclusive billionaire to participate in a retreat at a “remote and dazzling” location. But when one of the other guests turns up dead, Darby must fight to prove it was a murder “against a tide of competing interests before the killer takes another life.”

The original series hails from Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, who wrote,...

Shelley H. Surpin, a longtime entertainment lawyer and partner at Surpin, Mayersohn & Coghill in Los Angeles, has died. She was 72. Her firm said Surpin died September 3 of complications following a stroke.

A champion for independent film, helped with the careers of such filmmakers as Greg Araki, Nicole Holofcener, Paul Mazur, Allison Anders, Zal Batmanglij, Brit Marling, Mike Cahill and Tom Flynn, among many others.

Surpin began practicing entertainment law at Pollock, Rigrod and Bloom (later Bloom Hergott), eventually becoming partners with Andy Rigrod and founding Rigrod and Surpin.

She produced writer-director Batmanglij’s dramatic feature Sound of My Voice, a 2012 Fox Searchlight release that earned Indie Spirit Award noms for supporting actress Marling — who also co-wrote the pic — and Best First Feature. Surpin also executive produced the feature Jake Squared, which premiered at the 2013 Raindance Festival in London.

Surpin received her law degree from Boalt Hall School of Law at Uc Berkeley,...

Shelley Surpin, the entertainment lawyer who produced a half-dozen movies and championed such independent filmmakers as Allison Anders, Nicole Holofcener and Gregg Araki, has died. She was 72.

Surpin died Friday in Santa Monica of complications from a stroke, her law firm, the Century City-based Surpin, Mayersohn & Coghill, announced.

Surpin was a producer on The Doom Generation (1995) and Nowhere (1997), both written and directed by Araki; Louis & Frank (1998), written and directed by Alexandre Rockwell; Prague Duet (1998), written and directed by Roger L. Simon; Sound of My Voice (2012), directed and co-written by Zal Batmanglij and starring Brit Marling; and Jake Squared (2013), written and ...

Shelley Surpin, the entertainment lawyer who produced a half-dozen movies and championed such independent filmmakers as Allison Anders, Nicole Holofcener and Gregg Araki, has died. She was 72.

Surpin died Friday of complications from a stroke, her law firm, the Century City-based Surpin, Mayersohn & Coghill, announced.

Surpin was a producer on The Doom Generation (1995) and Nowhere (1997), both written and directed by Araki; Louis & Frank (1998), written and directed by Alexandre Rockwell; Prague Duet (1998), written and directed by Roger L. Simon; Sound of My Voice (2012), directed and co-written by Zal Batmanglij and starring Brit Marling; and Jake Squared (2013), written and directed by Howard ...

Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, who co-created The Oa and also collaborated on the films The East and Sound of My Voice (seen above), are reuniting for a new project at FX. Once again, Marling will star, Batmanglij will direct, and the pair will co-write the limited series, Retreat, which aims to deliver a fresh take on the murder mystery formula. […]

The post ‘Retreat’ Will Reunite the Folks Behind ‘The Oa’ and ‘Sound of My Voice’ for an FX Series appeared first on /Film.

It was FX's time to shine at the Television Critics Association summer press tour on Friday, and there were some big reveals.

We'll start with Retreat, a new limited series from Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij that follows an amateur sleuth as she attempts to solve a murder at a secluded retreat, it was announced today by Gina Balian, President, Original Programming.

Marling and Zal Batmanglij will write the series and both will direct.

Marling will also be seen on-screen as she is set to play a pivital role on the series.

Retreat is executive produced by Marling, Batmanglij and Andrea Sperling (Transparent).

“Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij have delivered a suspenseful story that updates the classic mystery genre with a bold new character for our times," said Balian.

“We are thrilled that Brit and Zal and the rest of the creative team will bring this series to life...

Constance Wu has been cast in the upcoming Amazon thriller series “The Terminal List,” Variety has learned.

She joins previously announced series lead Chris Pratt and recently announced fellow cast member Taylor Kitsch. The series follows James Reece (Pratt) after his entire platoon of Navy SEALs is ambushed during a high-stakes covert mission. Reece returns home to his family with conflicting memories of the event and questions about his culpability. However, as new evidence comes to light, Reece discovers dark forces working against him, endangering not only his life but the lives of those he loves.

Wu will star as Katie Buranek, a risk-seeking war correspondent who uses her byline to speak truth to power. Katie left her desk at a prestigious news outlet to pursue high-impact stories on her own terms. Now at a crossroads in her career, Katie finds an unlikely ally in rogue Navy Seal James Reece.

“Linda and the Mockingbirds,” a documentary about Linda Ronstadt making a journey to Mexico to explore her musical roots there, has been picked up for worldwide rights by Shout! Studios, the distribution and production division of the Shout! Factory home video company.

The film was originally slated to premiere at the Telluride Film Festival over Labor Day weekend. Shout! is promising that the doc will be out later in 2020 via various distribution platforms.

In a follow-up to last year’s Ronstadt documentary “The Sound of My Voice,” “Linda and the Mockingbirds” narrows in on a road trip undertaken by Ronstadt, Jackson Browne and a group of younger musicians made to the Mexican town of Banámichi in the state of Sonora, the birthplace of Ronstadt’s beloved grandfather.

It’s said to deal with border politics, racism and other personal or hot-buttontopics affecting Ronstadt’s and Browne’s companions on the...

Actress, writer, and producer Brit Marling’s most artistically successful vehicles have been the ones she driven herself, from films like “Another Earth” and “Sound of My Voice” (which she wrote and starred in) to the Netflix series “The Oa,” which she co-created with Zal Batmanglij (and also wrote and starred in). That’s because, as she revealed in a recent New York Times op-ed, other roles she’s either lost out on or declined have fallen into a category she’s working to resist: the Strong Female Lead.

“She’s an assassin, a spy, a soldier, a superhero, a CEO. She can make a wound compress out of a maxi pad while on the lam. She’s got MacGyver’s resourcefulness but looks better in a tank top,” Marling writes. Indeed, the complicated, often messy women she’s written and portrayed in her films and on “The Oa” (cancelled...

By Glenn Dunks

It’s that time of the year where we play musical chairs and look at some of the music documentaries that have come along because there are just too many. Not all that much connects this batch of musicians – other than I am a fan of them to a degree, I suppose – but watching the films and there is a surprising spread of style and form. Surprising, also, because the artist that comes out on top is the most unexpected of them all.

The most informal, yet ultimately least satisfying of the batch is Linda Ronstadt: Sound of My Voice. It is somewhat disappointing that Oscar-winning filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (The Celluloid Closet) decided on such a rudimentary structure considering their subject was somebody who repeatedly coloured outside of the lines of the artform.

But any film about somebody as talented and interesting as Ronstadt,...

In what is normally down time among specialized films, a few bright spots show that even off weeks can have their highlights. With three limited openings this week, the best came from the three-city debut of “Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice” (Greenwich), another documentary with a musician tie that tapped into the same audience that appreciated “Echo in the Canyon.” Meanwhile, “Ms. Purple” (Oscilloscope) had a strong single theater in Los Angeles to start. And a revival, the Alain Delon-starring 1970s “Mr. Klein” (Rialto) has one of the best classic reissue results of the year.

Meantime “The Peanut Butter Falcon” (Roadside Attractions) and “Brittany Runs a Marathon” (Amazon) both continue to find interest, rare this year among narrative features. With so many similar showing at festivals right now, this is a positive sign in a troubled market.

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Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (Greenwich) – Metacritic: 76; Festivals include: Tribeca,...

The third season of Stranger Things dropped on Netflix last Thursday, so odds are you’re already finished with it. Now that it’s over though, what’s there left to watch on the streaming service? Well, We Got This Covered has…got you covered.

Here are six shows worth binging once you return from the Upside Down:

The Oa

As far as premises go, The Oa is arguably the closest series on this list to matching the Wtf vibes of Stranger Things. Its plot follows Prairie Johnson, a young blind woman who returns from a seven-year disappearance with strange new abilities, including the capability to see again. Brit Marling, who portrays Prairie, also serves as the creator and executive producer, and Sound of My Voice director Zal Batmanglij helms every episode in its two seasons, giving The Oa a distinct, controlled feel.

Sense8

Sense8 was unceremoniously cancelled after only two seasons,...

Updated: Constance Wu is going to have a job this fall, but she doesn’t sound too happy about it. Following the news that her ABC comedy series “Fresh Off the Boat” will be returning for a sixth season on ABC, the “Crazy Rich Asians” star posted a series of Twitter updates Friday afternoon that indicated her displeasure.

Her initial comments — “So upset right now that I’m literally crying. Ugh. Fuck.” and “Fucking hell.” — were followed by a response to a Twitter follower congratulating her on the show’s renewal:

Update: Beyond Wu’s tweets, as reported by TVLine the actor also commented “Dislike” on the ABC Instagram post announcing the renewal news. The “Dislike” comment has since been deleted, as well as Wu’s “No it’s not” reply, with Wu posting the below follow-up:

That was not a rampage, it was just how I normally talk. I say fuck a lot.

If you’re flipping through Rachel Morrison’s family albums looking for an early glimpse of the groundbreaking director of photography — whose one-two punch of Mudbound in 2017 and Black Panther in 2018 made her the first woman to score an Oscar nomination for cinematography and shoot a superhero film — look for the photos young Rachel isn’t in. The four-year-old was holding the camera.

Her mother, a photography buff, was diagnosed with cancer around that time. Morrison picked up her mom’s old Olympus and dedicated herself to living behind the lens.

No one survives alone. The filmmakers behind Sound of My Voice and The East are back with a second season of “The Oa”, arriving on Netflix March 22, 2019. I’m a massive fan of both aforementioned films, directed by Zal Batmanglij which he co-wrote with leading actress Brit Marling (Another Earth). The duo are absolute dynamite when working together and deliver mind-bending genre […]...

The end of 2018 means there is only one year left before a massive wave of lists naming the best movies of the decade hits the internet. This time next year, critics will be furiously debating which film of the last 10 years stands out as the decade’s greatest achievement. While we’re still several months away from the decade lists, critics did take to Twitter over the Thanksgiving holiday to reveal their best films of each year since 2010, which is more or less a preview of the decade’s best films.

The lists started pouring in after Twitter user @RyanDubbbya went viral for asking which films were the best of each year this decade and posting his own list, which included the likes of “Black Swan” in 2010, Xavier Dolan’s “Mommy” in 2014, and the indie “Thunder Road” in 2018. The tweet took off with critics, as reviewers from IndieWire, RogerEbert.com,...

With Rachel Morrison the first woman cinematographer nominated for a Best Cinematography Academy Award, we’re running today online from our current print issue David Leitner’s interview with her about shooting her nominated film, Dee Rees’s Mudbound. When Dee Rees’s Mudbound premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, the director was returning to the fest six years after her feature debut, Pariah, launched there. The same year also marked Dp Rachel Morrison’s first feature to be included in the festival, Zal Batmanglij’s Sound of My Voice, and she returned the following year with Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale Station; Mudbound is her eighth […]...

Brit Marling is the latest in a long and growing list of actresses and other women who say they were sexually harassed and abused by Harvey Weinstein. The actress, known for her roles in “Another Earth” and “The East,” said in an Atlantic article that the disgraced movie mogul asked her to shower with him during a 2014 meeting. Marling said her meeting with Weinstein happened after she’d co-written and starred in “Sound of My Voice” and “Another Earth.” “The industry had deemed I was legitimate fresh meat,” she wrote. Also Read: George Clooney, Matt Damon Denounce 'A-hole' Harvey Weinstein: 'It's Beyond.

Brit Marling has a Harvey Weinstein story of her own. In a candid, eloquent article for the Atlantic, the actor, writer, and director writes about a familiar scenario: being asked to meet with Weinstein, who was supposed to be in a hotel bar but was actually alone in a hotel suite. When she met him there, Marling alleges, he offered her champagne, a massage, and strawberries before asking her to shower with him.

In addition to being a first-person account of her experiences, which moved her to tears, Marling’s essay is an examination of the power dynamics that make such events possible in the first place. “Straight, white men tend to tell stories from their perspective, as one naturally does, which means the women are generally underwritten,” she writes, using the example of two characters she auditioned for: “Bikini Babe 2” and “Blonde 4.”

Eventually she reached the conclusion that, “if...

Newly minted blockbuster superstar Gal Gadot was hardly a household name when she was picked to play Wonder Woman in DC’s Extended Universe, including turns in “Batman v Superman” and “Justice League” and a starring role in the studio’s newest smash hit, “Wonder Woman.” Best known to action-loving audiences for her supporting roles in the “Fast and Furious” franchise, the former Israeli soldier is now a bonafide breakout, thanks to her work in the long-awaited and instantly beloved superhero film. Fortunately, she’s not the only actress who made the jump from rising star to tentpole leading lady.

Oscar winner Alicia Vikander is toplining the newly re-launched “Tomb Raider” franchise, while “Kingsman” and “Star Trek Beyond” standout Sofia Boutella will star in the upcoming “The Mummy” reboot and presumably continue on in the planned “Dark Universe” franchise. Daisy Ridley has handily taken over chief badass status on the...

Two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Graham Nash will be on hand to honor songwriter Jimmy Webb during a star-studded tribute concert at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday night.

Nash—who defined the early ’70s L.A. scene alongside his musical brethren David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Neil Young in the seminal supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young—will be joined by Art Garfunkel, Toby Keith, Dwight Yoakam, Judy Collins and members of the 5th Dimension. Together they will perform many of the pop standards penned by Webb, who shot to fame in the mid-’60s as the wunderkind behind hits like “Up,...

Sneak Peek new images of actress, writer Brit Marling ("The Oa"), photographed by Craig McDean for the March 2017 issue of "Interview" magazine:

Marling first gained recognition with the documentary "Boxers and Ballerinas" (2004) followed by the Searchlight features "Sound of My Voice" (2011), "Another Earth" (2011) and "The East" (2013) which she co-wrote in addition to playing the lead role.

Marling currently stars in the Netflix series "The Oa" (2016), which she co-created with director Zal Batmanglij:

"...in 'The Oa', 'Prairie Johnson' resurfaces after having been missing for seven years. Prairie now calls herself "The Oa" and can see, despite having been blind before her disappearance..."

Debuting December 2016, the series was quickly renewed for a second season that will air in 2017.

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "The Oa"...

The Discovery, Charlie McDowell’s Sundance-approved Twilight Zone weepie, fits neatly into a subgenre one might call The Brit Marling Movie. No, it doesn’t actually feature the statuesque star of Another Earth, Sound Of My Voice, and I Origins. But like those indie sci-fi brainteasers, which hit some strange middle ground between mumblecore and Ray Bradbury, it wraps a fantastical conceit around a human-scaled drama, attempting to simultaneously blow minds and connect with hearts. The Discovery comes a little closer than any real Marling vehicle to pulling off that genre tightrope act. At the very least, its central mystery keeps you guessing, right up until a final turn that’s nearly as clever as it is convoluted.

What if there was irrefutable evidence of an afterlife? What if science could prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that our consciousness goes somewhere after our body dies? That’s the...

Brit Marling rewrote the rules for making it big in Hollywood.

In The Oa — her hot new sci-fi mystery series on Netflix — Marling stars as Prairie, an abduction survivor navigating the world after years trapped in a science experiment. The rich, complex role blossomed from about four years of work on the addictive (albeit bonkers) series with co-writer/co-creator Zal Batmanglij.

And she’s hopeful the show will pave the way for more empowered, fully developed female characters, which she believes are, on the whole, lacking in pop culture today.

“You sometimes think that we’re farther along than we actually are.

Even if you haven’t seen it yet, you might’ve already heard about Netflix‘s “The Oa.” The surprise show dropped nearly unannounced on the streaming service last month, and has been earning steady buzz ever since as audiences try to unravel its knotty mysteries. The rare show that’s both mindbending and moving at the same time, “The Oa” is the latest creation from frequent collaborators writer/director Zal Batmanglij and writer/star Brit Marling, who have previously delivered “Sound Of My Voice” and “The East.” However, “The Oa” feels like the duo at their most unfiltered and pure, with the series offering a perfect marriage of their sensibilities, which draw from both arthouse and mainstream influences.

Continue reading Director Zal Batmanglij Talks Creating ‘The Oa,’ How Season 2 Will Evolve, And Much More [Interview] at The Playlist.

"I think that after we die, we become something else," Zal Batmanglij says. "The question is, 'What is that?'"

"I cannot possibly know what happens after you die," Brit Marling says. "And I feel really Ok to sit in that space of deep unknowingness."

The director and his partner-in-crime/star let their imaginations run wild on the subject when they began work on The OA, a fascinating new science-fiction series they created together that is ostensibly about near-death experiences. It stars Marling, who co-wrote most of the episodes, as Prairie Johnson,...

If there’s one rule that governs releases on Netflix, it’s that there are no rules, and “The Oa” certainly went against standard television rollouts. The new show from longtime collaborators Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij (“Sound Of My Voice,” “The East“) arrived seemingly out of nowhere on the streaming service, with only one trailer and a couple of clips landing in the days before its release last week.

Continue reading Brit Marling & Zal Batmanglij Say They’ve Got Story Ideas For More Seasons Of ‘The Oa’ at The Playlist.

“If you try to explain to someone, ‘Here’s what happened in the finale of ‘The Leftovers,” you sound insane.”

That’s Damon Lindelof talking about how he came up with the ending for Season 2 of his critically-acclaimed HBO drama. If I were to simply tell you what happened during the second season finale of “The Leftovers,” I would indeed sound insane. Absolutely. One-hundred percent. Roll out the Hannibal Lecter stretcher. After I finished explaining what would undoubtedly be a long-winded account, you probably wouldn’t want to watch the show, either (aside from my constant pleas for you to do just that). You’d simply think, “Wow, I can’t believe anyone actually made that into a TV show,” and move on.

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But here’s the thing: The nearly-feature length Season 2 finale is...

Like patience deficient children, binge watchers were allowed to unwrap a gift prior to the holidays when Netflix surprisingly unveiled Zal Batmanglij and Brit Marling’s new science-fiction drama series (although that labeling is a rather rudimentary denotation when describing the show’s scope) The Oa less than a week before its release. The streaming service is undoubtedly hoping to capitalize on the trickle down mystery brought on by recent attention grabbers like Sense8 and Stranger Things, and really, who can blame ‘em? Netflix’s latest secret is a vastly contrastive beast in tone and content when sought alongside narratives understandably thought to be its kin.

For those familiar with what co-creators Marling and Batmanglij are capable of inciting and inflicting as collaborators or independent filmmakers, you’ll know that The Oa’s far reaching ambition is the main attraction. Contrarily, Netflix users looking for their next fix to tide...

When you’re a “network” that streams original entertainment, a “surprise” series seems like an idea that couldn’t make less sense, but that’s exactly what just hit with The Oa.

Warning – This review slightly spoils some of the first episode’s content.

The Oa centers around a woman we’re introduced to as she jumps off a bridge. The woman (Brit Marling), who initially refers to herself only as The Oa, is discovered to be Prairie Johnson, who went missing almost 8 years ago. She has strange scars on her back, doesn’t want to talk to anyone, and isn’t blind anymore.

As she tries to readjust to life, and then tries desperately not to readjust to life, she enlists some neighborhood kids, and one teacher, to listen to her story over the course of several nights and theoretically help her… with something.

It turns out that she was abducted,...

Kayti Burt Dec 13, 2016

Mysteries abound in the first trailer from this original Netflix series starring Brit Marling...

Only Netflix could get away with dropping the trailer and release date for a show only a few days before it is set to "air." That's exactly what the streaming media giant did with The Oa, a new eight-episode series from actor-writer Brit Marling (Another Earth) and director-writer Zal Batmanglij (Sound of My Voice, The East) that will launch on Netflix this Friday. Check it out...

Trust the unknown. All chapters of Netflix Original Series #theOA launch this Friday. pic.twitter.com/hTNiEPbdp9

— The Oa (@The_OA) December 12, 2016

The Oa is about a twenty-something girl named Prairie Johnson (Marling) who returns home after seven years of being missing, miraculously healed of her blindness. As Netflix reports: "Some hail her a miracle, others a dangerous mystery, but Prairie won’t talk about her seven...

After becoming a Sundance staple with “Sound of My Voice” and “The East,” Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij are bringing their talents to Netflix. The streaming service has just announced the release date for “The Oa,” a new original series co-created and -written by the duo — and it’s this Friday. Watch the just-released trailer below.

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Marling stars as Prairie Johnson, who returns home seven years after going missing with a new change: her sight has been restored. She’s never actually seen her parents before, and adjusting to that aspect of her life looks to be just one narrative thread here — figuring out how and why any of this happened will surely factor prominently into the plot as well. The vibe of the trailer is very much in keeping with Marling and Batmanglij’s previous collaborations,...

Netflix started tweeting out mysterious video of a woman jumping from the San Francisco bridge. It was shocking to some but most people realized that the streaming company would be announcing a show along with it. It didn’t take long after those initial tweets to see what Netflix was doing and, even better, we don’t have to wait long to see it.

The new show is called The Oa and it is from Brit Marling & Zal Batmanglij, who in the past created Sound of My Voice and The East and was previously announced back in March of 2015. The series debuts this Friday, December 16.

We first heard about Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij's latest collaboration "The Oa" in early 2015 when it was announced that the duo behind Sound of My Voice (review) and The East (review) had sold their series to Netflix as 8, 1 hour-long episodes.

At the time of the announcement, it was unclear what "The Oa" was about and honestly, now that there's a trailer for the show, few questions are answered though we do have a vague idea on the plot.

Marling stars as Prairie Johnson, a blind woman who returns home after mysteriously disappearing seve [Continued ...]...

Netflix has announced a new television series from Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij called The Oa. I was a huge fan of their films Sound of My Voice and The East. In fact, Sound of my Voice was supposed to be the start of a digital series but instead became a film. I’m excited to see […]

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With their built-in userbase, one of the benefits of the Netflix model is that — compared to the Hollywood strategy of previewing every notable scene from their latest tentpole before hits theaters — they can release a new movie or show with relatively little build-up and then have it explode in the culture soon after it debuts. We saw it recently on both the fiction (Stranger Things) and non-fiction side (Making a Murderer) and now they hope to have another in the same vein with The Oa.

First announced a year-and-a-half ago, after a quiet production, Netflix has revealed the mysterious series will arrive this Friday and the first trailer has landed. Our main point of intrigue is centered around its creators, Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, who last gave us the fascinating, intense thriller Sound of My Voice as well as upping their scope with the Ridley Scott-produced The East.