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An Iconic Sci-Fi Thriller is Getting a New Spinoff From a Controversial Director

'Nanny' director Nikyatu Jusu is set to helm a follow-up to David Cronenberg's 'The Fly.'

Inverse · Nov 5, 2024

38 years after the original, David Cronenberg's body horror classic The Fly is getting a surprise follow-up, and it's not a remake

Nanny's Nikyatu Jusu is set to write and direct

Total Film · Nov 5, 2024

Prime Video movie of the day: Nanny is a horror debut with 90% on Rotten Tomatoes

Don't miss the horror movie Nanny while it's streaming on Prime Video.

TechRadar · Jul 2, 2024

New this week: 'Banshees,' Whitney Houston, 'High on Life'

This week’s new entertainment releases include an album from rapper Ab-Soul, the irreverent shoot-’em-up video game “High on Life” and rising comedian Atsuko Okatsuka debuts her first HBO comedy special called “The Intruder.”

The Independent UK · Dec 9, 2022

Anna Diop interview: In ‘Nanny,’ one immigrant story informs another

As a little girl growing up in Houston, Anna Diop devoured rerun after rerun of a particular TV program because her mother was crazy about it. That show, Diop says now, improved her English-language facility — her family relocated from Senegal to the United States when Diop was 5 —…

Chicago Tribune · Nov 29, 2022

‘Nanny’ review: Anna Diop shines in an eerie, assured feature film debut

Some movies, mostly to do with how they’re marketed, keep the audience guessing as to what the hell it is, exactly, right up until the moment the lights go down or they click the play button. Horror movies do better business, so the ads tend to play up the horror…

Chicago Tribune · Nov 28, 2022

Shipwrecks and reality checks: the films setting out to skewer the rich

Wealth, corruption and immorality are under intense scrutiny in a clutch of films being released this autumn

The Guardian - UK · Aug 23, 2022

‘Nanny,’ ‘Exiles,’ ‘Navalny’ among Top Sundance Winners

A drama about an undocumented nanny in New York City, a documentary about three exiled dissidents from Tiananmen Square and another doc about Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny won top prizes at the Sundance Film Festival. Winners were announced Friday evening in a virtual ceremony. “Nanny,” from writer-director Nikyatu Jusu…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Jan 29, 2022

'Nanny' and 'The Exiles' win top prizes at 2022 Sundance Film Festival

The 2022 Sundance Film Festival announced its award winners Friday, with Nikyatu Jusu's "Nanny" winning the U.S. dramatic competition grand jury prize and Ben Klein and Violet Columbus' "The Exiles" winning the U.S. documentary grand jury prize. The audience awards went to Cooper Raiff's "Cha Cha Real Smooth" for the…

Los Angeles Times · Jan 29, 2022

How the films of Bong Joon Ho, Guillermo Del Toro and more inspired Nikyatu Jusu's 'Nanny'

Premiering as part of the U.S. dramatic competition at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, "Nanny" combines a domestic drama with elements of folklore and horror filmmaking to create an unsettling examination of work, privilege and perseverance.

Los Angeles Times · Jan 26, 2022