The director, who based the film on his personal experiences growing up as a second-generation American with Jewish immigrant parents, says calls for only casting Jewish actors can lead to ...

For Peter Kujawski, chairman of Focus Features, it was “very simple and easy” to greenlight James Gray’s drama “Armageddon Time.” Gray had written the script before the pandemic shut down of March ...

From left, director James Gray and Jeremy Strong on the 'Armageddon Time' set. Anne Joyce/Focus Features/Everett Collection Based on the director’s childhood, James Gray’s Armageddon Time tells the ...

“Armageddon Time,” writer/director James Gray’s wonderful new coming-of-age drama set in 1980s New York City, is now playing in select theaters, and in concert with the release TheWrap has an ...

The Pitch: James Gray, an experienced outer-borough tour guide, brings us closer to his own Queens past in Armageddon Time, a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age drama (though he says he wasn’t aiming ...

"I wanted to give him everything that I had," Hathaway said of playing the writer-director's mother. The autobiographical movie stars Hathaway and Jeremy Strong as Gray’s parents, who are raising ...

How to convince a studio that your own personal story is worthy of a big screen treatment? When James Gray was pitching Focus Features on Armageddon Time about his Reagan-era childhood, the filmmaker ...

Why shouldn't diamonds—and emeralds and sapphires and tourmalines and spinels—always inspire unbridled joy? This has long been the driving ethos of Caroline Scheufele, co-president and artistic ...

Two Lovers director James Gray has signed to helm a film adaptation of novel The Gray Man. The thriller project is based on the book by Mark Greaney, reports Deadline. Screenwriter Adam Cozad is ...

In Armageddon Time, the filmmaker’s New York childhood is a warning bell for our polarized present. To tell this story, Gray went as specific as he could. Armageddon Time follows the wayward sixth ...