James Ponsoldt is expecting this question. Why did the guy who made films like “Smashed,” “The Spectacular Now,” and “The End of the Tour” — dark, ...

The script by James Ponsoldt and Ben Percy beautifully captures a sense of longing and loss, giving the girls and their mothers distinctive voices (all of the characters are female, setting ...

James Ponsoldt (“The Spectacular Now”) keeps his film permanently trapped in a liminal space between childhood and adolescence, where magic is real but intangible and largely metaphoric.

In Summering, James Ponsoldt‘s return to cinema following several years of episodic television work, four young girls, best friends about to enter different junior high schools, find their final ...

EXCLUSIVE: James Ponsoldt is in negotiations to direct 3000 Pictures’ Nothing to See Here, based on Kevin Wilson’s New York Times bestselling novel. Ponsoldt will reteam with Scott Neustadter ...

The director of the critically successful The Spectacular Now talks about the essence of teen-focused films and the simple point of it all--feeling something.

James Ponsoldt is preparing to move from one author to another, as the filmmaker behind the David Foster Wallace movie “The End of the Tour” is in negotiations to direct the F. Scott ...

James Ponsoldt has signed on to write the big-screen adaptation of the musical Pippin for The Weinstein Company. Polsoldt’s most recent credits include directing the 2013 Sundance Film Festival ...

James Ponsoldt, whose indie Spectacular Now debuts Friday at Sundance, has been tapped to adapt Pure, the YA trilogy set up at Fox 2000 and being produced by Karen Rosenfelt.

“We are so f*****” are the last words to come out of Tom Hanks’s mouth in director James Ponsoldt’s new film, “The Circle.” Audience members should also speak these words as they enter ...

When I met James Ponsoldt in the lobby of a Marriott hotel Thursday morning, just off Park City, Utah’s Main Street, he looked like he was absolutely glowing. You see, The Spectacular Now ...

James Ponsoldt directs and writes a new film where four young girls about to start middle school bond on a summer day when they stumble on to a dead body in the woods. Skip to main content.