This story about “Armageddon Time” first appeared in the Race Begins issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine. You can count James Gray among the recent directors looking to their past for inspiration. In ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Filmmaker James Gray at Cannes Film Festival screening of ‘Armageddon Time’ with cast: Jeremy Strong, Gray, Banks Repeta, Jaylin Webb and Anne Hathaway. Getty Images EXCLUSIVE: Director James Gray has ...

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 ...