Jeff Nichols

  • EntertainmentYahoo Movies

    National Loving Day: The 'Loving' cast on the film couple's perfect and fateful last name

    Director Jeff Nichols has never had an easier time titling a movie. The filmmaker’s latest project, Loving, follows the real-life couple (Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga) whose union led the Supreme Court to strike down laws prohibiting interracial marriage. The couple’s last name — which all you law students already know — was, amazingly, Loving.

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  • EntertainmentKevin Polowy

    How foreign-born 'Loving' stars Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga united for an important American love story

    The new romantic drama Loving, based on the real-life couple whose 1967 Supreme Court trial Loving v. Virginia legalized interracial marriage, is a quintessential tale of American social justice. “I kept thinking he cast me ’cause he’s just lazy,” the Australian-born Edgerton joked to Yahoo Movies (watch above) about director and Arkansas native Jeff Nichols (Mud, Take Shelter), whom the actor had just worked with on the spring release Midnight Special. Edgerton (Warrior, Black Mass) plays Richa

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  • NewsNick Schager

    'Loving' Asks for Viewers' Vote in New TV Pitch Following Presidential Debate

    New spot debuted after presidential debate asks viewers to #VoteLoving this Fall — because, as it proclaims, “Your Voice Matters”

  • NewsMeriah Doty

    See the 'Midnight Special' Scene That Jumpstarts a Hypnotizing Sci-Fi Mystery (Exclusive)

    A low-fi sci-fi secret unfolds in Midnight Special when a boy with vexing supernatural powers becomes the target of both government officials and a group of religious zealots. Jaeden Lieberher (Masters of Sex) plays Alton, a child whose mysterious energy makes him suffer in pain, and can cause objects to rain down from sky, as seen in this exclusive scene above. Alton’s father (Michael Shannon) is desperate to help, racing against time to evade foes, including Adam Driver as an NSA agent, to g