Sundance Selects announced today the critically acclaimed film BLAZE, co-written, produced and directed by four-time Academy-Award®nominated actor and screenwriter Ethan Hawke, will premiere across Texas in August to celebrate the film’s Lone Star roots. To commemorate this Texas love story, Hawke and Sundance Selects will release BLAZE in Texas markets first – beginning with Austin on August 17, followed by Dallas and Houston on August 24. Additional Texas cities will be added until the film’s national release date in New York on September 7th and LA on September 14th and beyond. Read More here

‘I kept some vodka in my trailer freezer. It certainly didn’t hurt when it came to dancing My Sharona at the gas station’ Read More here

As he hits a career peak with First Reformed, we speak to the Hollywood actor about what life has taught him so far. Read More here

Fresh from his Palme d’Or triumph in Cannes, the Japanese director of “Shoplifters,” Hirokazu Kore-eda, confirmed that his next film will feature two of France’s biggest stars Juliette Binoche and Catherine Deneuve. They are to be joined by Ethan Hawke and Ludivine Sagnier (“8 Women”). “La Verite” (which translates as ‘The Truth’ in English) will shoot entirely in France in October and November this year. The film is being jointly produced by French firm 3B Productions and Kore-eda’s Bunbuku. Paris-based Wild Bunch is set as the international sales agent. A release in 2019 is penciled in, with Gaga set as the Japanese distributor and sales agent in Asia, excluding China. Read More here

An early 2019 U.S. theatrical release is planned for the Canadian indie, which is based on the true story of a 1973 bank heist and hostage crisis in Stockholm. Read More here

The actor gives a stunning performance in Paul Schrader’s new film – a part he feels his whole career has been building to. Read More here

At age 47, Ethan Hawke is finding himself with the career everyone anticipated he might have had fifteen years ago. Read More here

When Ethan Hawke was born, his great-grandmother believed he was destined to become a minister—to heed God’s calling where the other men in his family hadn’t. Looking back, Mr. Hawke believes, this was just “wishful thinking.” His grandfather, for example, served as a minor-league baseball commissioner and was elected to five terms in the Texas state legislature, but Hawke’s great-grandmother “always thought that he wasted his talents in politics, when he should have been converting souls instead of votes,” Mr. Hawke said in a recent interview with America. “I think she was just projecting that I would pick up where he had dropped the ball. Read More here

Usually when rock stars talk of their wasted lives they mean something entirely different than what’s at the plot of Jesse Peretz’s Juliet, Naked, the critically charmed new rom-com based on the novel by Nick Hornby (About a Boy, High Fidelity). Read More Mhere