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ANORASection: Special PresentationsDirector: Sean BakerLogline: Sean Baker's latest casts Scream star Mikey Madison as a sex worker named Anora. She may live in a shabby Brooklyn apartment, but every night she glams up and puts on a flirty smile for the men at a local strip club. A chance encounter with…

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…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: Y'lan Noel (The First Purge), Mikey Madison (Better Things) and Brett Gelman (Stranger Things) are set as leads opposite Natalie Portman and Lupita Nyong’o in Lady In The Lake, Apple TV+’s limited series adaptation of Laura Lippman’s book, created and directed by Alma Har’el (Honey Boy) and produced by…

EXCLUSIVE: Dylan Minnette, Mason Gooding and Mikey Madison are set to join in Paramount and Spyglass' new Scream pic. Other actors rounding out the cast include Kyle Gallner, Jasmin Savoy Brown and Mikey Madison. Marley Shelton has closed a deal to reprise her role that she played in previous installments. They join…