Eleven years old, a little shrunken-looking in his beige uniform, nothing to hook your gaze if he isn’t your brother or son, but all eyes on him now because he’s the one at bat, bases loaded, his parents and two brothers in the stands, his mother wringing a lump of yarn because it’s agony watching him hit (or try to hit, he never hits), her emotions cliché to anyone who’s read a book or seen a movie about children playing sports and how their mothers feel, and yet-how is this possible?-fiercely specific: a wish to pluck him from that spot and spirit him away to a place where she can protect him a craving to hold him like she did when he was newly born and smelled like milk (his first smile, a tiny sputter of lightning across his face, a thing she often recalls) a hope that he won’t be dwarfed forever by his older brother, who moves through the world as if it were a receiving line a plea to someone, something, that her boy’s uniqueness, so manifest to her lovestruck eyes, be revealed to all: a singularity that, were there justice in the world, would rearrange the present scene and cause a beam of light to fall directly onto his head. Egan is repped by CAA.There’s no mystery about this creature: a human boy. Wilde is repped by CAA and attorney PJ Shapiro. Wilde also is attached to direct and develop an untitled Marvel film centered on Spider-Woman for Sony and Pascal Pictures and is developing a Christmas buddy film at Universal that she will also direct. Her 2019 debut film, Booksmart, earned an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature, a GLAAD Media Award for Best Film, a Writers Guild Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay and a Golden Globe nomination for lead actress Beanie Feldstein, among many other accolades. It was the third-highest-grossing film by a female director in 2022. box office, going on to earn nearly $90M worldwide. Wilde most recently directed, starred in and produced Don’t Worry Darling, which debuted at the Venice Film Festival and opened at No.
While A24 dominated the Oscars last month, its television unit also has been delivering acclaimed hits, most recently with the Netflix series Beef that premiered last weekend. Wilde has become one of the more in-demand directors in town, and this will mark her first major venture into television as a director. A24 Posts Deals For Cannes Palme D'Or Hot Favorite 'The Zone Of Interest'
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