An Iowa dog is the latest canine to make it to the big screen. Bing, a 6-year-old Great Dane from Newton, has made his film ...

I’ve never seen — not just a Great Dane but any dog — this good ... Key to the dog’s performance was Watts willingness to ...

The film is an adaptation of Sigrid Nunez’s National Book Award-winning novel of the same name, made by filmmaking duo Scott McGehee and David Siegel (“What Maisie Knew”). Its appeal isn’t mysterious ...

The Friend” is about animals, and humans, and grief, and understanding. The Monitor’s critic says the film, based on an award ...

Co-starring an enormous, soulful Great Dane named Bing, this literary Manhattan drama gives Watts and Bill Murray a forum for ...

An adaptation of Sigrid Nunez's novel, Watts plays a bereaved writer who is bequeathed a giant dog named Apollo by her friend, who died by suicide. "With his regal bearing and understated elegance, ...

Even bigger than his fellow actor Naomi Watts. Quite literally: The newcomer, Bing, is the Harlequin Great Dane at the center of “The Friend,” the new film based on Sigrid Nunez’s National ...

Bill Murray plays a cherished mentor to Naomi Watts’ character in ‘The Friend’ — he leaves her his Great Dane upon his deathCourtesy Everett Collection Firm protocols around who could ...

IT’S ABOUT THE DOG. THE MOVIE STARS BIG NAMES LIKE BILL MURRAY AND NAOMI WATTS. A BOY AND BING. THE 150 POUND GREAT DANE IS NAMED APOLLO IN THE FILM BAD DOG. HE MAY HAVE BEEN PORTRAYED AS A ...

Naomi Watts ensured that all eyes did a double take ... t alone — by her side was her four-legged co-star, Bing, a Great Dane with a coat so striking it could have been plucked straight from ...