Joe Biden was joined by members of the Kennedy family in Philadelphia today to promote their endorsement of the president, a conspicuous rebuke of the independent bid of Robert Kennedy Jr.
Kerry Kennedy, Rfk Jr.’s sister, introduced Biden at the event, noting that “nearly every grandchild of Joe and Rose Kennedy supports Joe Biden. That’s right, the Kennedy family endorses Joe Biden for president.”
She was joined by 14 other relatives. They include siblings Rory, Joe, Chris, Max and Kathleen, as well as Joe Kennedy III, who serves as a special envoy to Northern Ireland.
Kerry Kennedy said that “in 2024 there are only two candidates with any chance of winning the presidency. We know that well.”
Rfk Jr.’s campaign could prove consequential to Biden’s prospects, especially if he is able to secure ballot access in key swing states and siphon votes way from the president’s reelection effort.
Kerry Kennedy, Rfk Jr.’s sister, introduced Biden at the event, noting that “nearly every grandchild of Joe and Rose Kennedy supports Joe Biden. That’s right, the Kennedy family endorses Joe Biden for president.”
She was joined by 14 other relatives. They include siblings Rory, Joe, Chris, Max and Kathleen, as well as Joe Kennedy III, who serves as a special envoy to Northern Ireland.
Kerry Kennedy said that “in 2024 there are only two candidates with any chance of winning the presidency. We know that well.”
Rfk Jr.’s campaign could prove consequential to Biden’s prospects, especially if he is able to secure ballot access in key swing states and siphon votes way from the president’s reelection effort.
- 4/18/2024
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Robert Kennedy Jr. confirmed to The New York Times that NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers and former Minnesota governor and professional wrestler Jesse Ventura were on the top of his shortlist to serve as his running mate in his independent presidential bid.
Rodgers, who shares Kennedy’s opposition to the covid vaccine, would be an unconventional choice, to say the least, as he is still an active NFL player, expected to start for the New York Jets this fall.
Ventura, who served one term as Minnesota governor, has in the past considered his own independent presidential bid. Since leaving office, he has hosted a reality television series focused on conspiracy theories, but he urged people to get the vaccine during the covid crisis, and even bemoaned those who did not wear masks. He introduced Kennedy at a voter rally in Arizona last month.
“We must end the duopoly of Republican and Democrat control in Washington,...
Rodgers, who shares Kennedy’s opposition to the covid vaccine, would be an unconventional choice, to say the least, as he is still an active NFL player, expected to start for the New York Jets this fall.
Ventura, who served one term as Minnesota governor, has in the past considered his own independent presidential bid. Since leaving office, he has hosted a reality television series focused on conspiracy theories, but he urged people to get the vaccine during the covid crisis, and even bemoaned those who did not wear masks. He introduced Kennedy at a voter rally in Arizona last month.
“We must end the duopoly of Republican and Democrat control in Washington,...
- 3/12/2024
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
About an hour into the brief and dazzling Bushman, the central character announces, “I need a hamburger,” and then the screen goes black for a few seconds. When the movie resumes, it’s no longer a drama enlivened by a streetwise documentary sensibility, but a work of straight-up nonfiction. Relying on stills in this last stretch but maintaining the visual fluency of the preceding story, the final 10 minutes recount why director David Schickele stopped filming for a year: He was working instead on securing a release from prison for his wrongfully imprisoned leading man.
There are strong parallels between Gabriel, the onscreen outsider, and Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam, the man who plays him. Both grew up in a Nigerian village. Like Gabriel, Okpokam was a graduate student at San Francisco State College. Schickele’s screenplay was to have ended with Gabriel being deported after falling into trouble with the law.
There are strong parallels between Gabriel, the onscreen outsider, and Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam, the man who plays him. Both grew up in a Nigerian village. Like Gabriel, Okpokam was a graduate student at San Francisco State College. Schickele’s screenplay was to have ended with Gabriel being deported after falling into trouble with the law.
- 1/31/2024
- by Sheri Linden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
On Jan. 29, 1964, a triple premiere — in New York, London and Toronto — launched one of Stanley Kubrick’s signature masterpieces into the chilly Cold War atmosphere: Dr. Strangelove, with the marquee-challenging subtitle Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Kubrick described it as a “nightmare comedy.” Sixty years later, the comedy still works, but the immediacy of the nightmare may be missed.
Shot in Shepperton Studios outside of London from February through November 1963, Dr. Strangelove was conceived and realized in the shadow of a real-life nightmare scenario that no one laughed at: the Cuban Missile Crisis, which unfolded over 13 terrifying days in October 1962.
On Oct. 14, 1962, a U-2 spy plane detected facilities for the launching of nuclear ballistic missiles from Cuba, a Soviet client state since 1959. President John F. Kennedy convened an executive committee of the National Security Council to consider options. The consensus from the Joint Chiefs...
Shot in Shepperton Studios outside of London from February through November 1963, Dr. Strangelove was conceived and realized in the shadow of a real-life nightmare scenario that no one laughed at: the Cuban Missile Crisis, which unfolded over 13 terrifying days in October 1962.
On Oct. 14, 1962, a U-2 spy plane detected facilities for the launching of nuclear ballistic missiles from Cuba, a Soviet client state since 1959. President John F. Kennedy convened an executive committee of the National Security Council to consider options. The consensus from the Joint Chiefs...
- 1/29/2024
- by Thomas Doherty
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Last October, White House hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a decision to switch parties in his presidential bid by exiting the Democratic party and running as a third-party Independent. The move was quickly denounced by members of his own family, including Oscar-nominated documentarian Rory Kennedy, who joined her siblings in posting a family statement.
“The decision of our brother Bobby to run as a third party candidate against Joe Biden is dangerous to our country. Bobby might share the same name as our father, but he does not share the same values, vision or judgment. Today’s announcement is deeply saddening for us. We denounce his candidacy and believe it to be perilous for our country,” read the Instagram post signed by Rory Kennedy, Kerry Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy II and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, a group that totals four of the 11 children shared by Ethel and Robert Kennedy.
Rory...
“The decision of our brother Bobby to run as a third party candidate against Joe Biden is dangerous to our country. Bobby might share the same name as our father, but he does not share the same values, vision or judgment. Today’s announcement is deeply saddening for us. We denounce his candidacy and believe it to be perilous for our country,” read the Instagram post signed by Rory Kennedy, Kerry Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy II and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, a group that totals four of the 11 children shared by Ethel and Robert Kennedy.
Rory...
- 1/19/2024
- by Chris Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A multi-part docuseres about Jimmy Hoffa is in development at Village Roadshow Unscripted Television, Variety has learned.
News of the show comes ahead of the 50th anniversary of Hoffa’s disappearance, which occurred on July 30, 1975. The series is being made with the full cooperation of the Hoffa family, including the assistance of his son and daughter. It will also feature access to Hoffa’s personal archives and previously unseen files, as well as audio tapes, personal films, and declassified FBI files. Erik Nelson will produce and direct.
“What caught our attention about Jimmy Hoffa’s story is that it is a compelling topic of interest and point of intrigue still for many,” said Shannon Perry, Village Roadshow Television’s executive vice president of reality & production services. It has all the elements of a captivating drama with power struggle, corruption, and a high-profile disappearance that also aligns with the kinds of impactful stories about notable,...
News of the show comes ahead of the 50th anniversary of Hoffa’s disappearance, which occurred on July 30, 1975. The series is being made with the full cooperation of the Hoffa family, including the assistance of his son and daughter. It will also feature access to Hoffa’s personal archives and previously unseen files, as well as audio tapes, personal films, and declassified FBI files. Erik Nelson will produce and direct.
“What caught our attention about Jimmy Hoffa’s story is that it is a compelling topic of interest and point of intrigue still for many,” said Shannon Perry, Village Roadshow Television’s executive vice president of reality & production services. It has all the elements of a captivating drama with power struggle, corruption, and a high-profile disappearance that also aligns with the kinds of impactful stories about notable,...
- 1/18/2024
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Uipdated with statement from Rfk Jr gala organizers: The arguably greatest fictional TV Potus ever is not endorsing the White House bid of Robert Kennedy Jr., and Martin Sheen sure as hell isn’t showing up as a warm prop at any Rfk Jr fundraiser anytime soon.
About a week ago, invites went out for a self-described “gala” on January 22 to celebrate the independent candidate’s 70th birthday. Sheen, Mike Tyson and Dionne Warwick were reported to be attending the event as “well-wishers.” On Thursday, some of President Jed Bartlet’s old West Wing staff have gone public to declare their old boss has no intention of attending.
In fact, via Bradley Whitford and Mary McCormack, Sheen says he remains an avowed supporter of incumbent Joe Biden, not Rfk Jr.
There’s a story going around saying that Martin Sheen is supporting @RobertKennedyJr for president. The story is incorrect. Martin...
About a week ago, invites went out for a self-described “gala” on January 22 to celebrate the independent candidate’s 70th birthday. Sheen, Mike Tyson and Dionne Warwick were reported to be attending the event as “well-wishers.” On Thursday, some of President Jed Bartlet’s old West Wing staff have gone public to declare their old boss has no intention of attending.
In fact, via Bradley Whitford and Mary McCormack, Sheen says he remains an avowed supporter of incumbent Joe Biden, not Rfk Jr.
There’s a story going around saying that Martin Sheen is supporting @RobertKennedyJr for president. The story is incorrect. Martin...
- 1/4/2024
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
In 2020, young voters broke turnout records — more than half of 18 to 29 year olds cast ballots, according to the U.S. Census Bureau — and those young voters broke, overwhelmingly, for Joe Biden. The question haunting Biden’s reelection campaign is whether that critical cohort of voters will show up again in 2024. According to a new survey from the Institute of Politics at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, the campaign is right to be concerned.
The Harvard poll shows President Biden has a 15 point lead over Trump among likely voters under...
The Harvard poll shows President Biden has a 15 point lead over Trump among likely voters under...
- 12/5/2023
- by Tessa Stuart
- Rollingstone.com
The coveted Lumière Classics label is today as sought-after in the heritage film industry as any prestigious film festival label for contemporary film fare.
Launched back at the 2019 edition of the Lumière Film Festival, Europe’s leading classic film event, the label was created to showcase a carefully curated selection of restorations of 20th century films with the aim of highlighting the work carried out by archives, cinematheques, rights holders and foundations around the world.
“’Lune Froide’ [‘Cold Moon’] was selected among many other films, so it’s extremely gratifying for us. Lumière is the heritage film festival that fights to restore these films to their former glory and develop the public’s appetite for classic cinema,” explains Anne-Laure Brénéol, co-founder and co-director of Malavida.
The Paris-based niche vintage arthouse movies outfit is bringing two titles to Lumiere this year: 1991 cult movie “Cold Moon” by French actor-director Patrick Bouchitey, and rediscovered gem “Bushman,...
Launched back at the 2019 edition of the Lumière Film Festival, Europe’s leading classic film event, the label was created to showcase a carefully curated selection of restorations of 20th century films with the aim of highlighting the work carried out by archives, cinematheques, rights holders and foundations around the world.
“’Lune Froide’ [‘Cold Moon’] was selected among many other films, so it’s extremely gratifying for us. Lumière is the heritage film festival that fights to restore these films to their former glory and develop the public’s appetite for classic cinema,” explains Anne-Laure Brénéol, co-founder and co-director of Malavida.
The Paris-based niche vintage arthouse movies outfit is bringing two titles to Lumiere this year: 1991 cult movie “Cold Moon” by French actor-director Patrick Bouchitey, and rediscovered gem “Bushman,...
- 10/14/2023
- by Lise Pedersen
- Variety Film + TV
Between the bongo drums and saxophone, the guy hawking buttons featuring a shirtless Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (“Fit to Be President!”), the men darting around in dark suits and sunglasses (stand-ins for the Secret Service detail Kennedy has still not received), the throngs of jubilant supporters, and the giant tour buses bearing the candidate’s grinning countenance, the entire spectacle would have made a convenient diversion for anyone planning an elaborate heist of the Declaration of Independence.
Unfortunately, Philadelphia’s National Constitution Center was selected for a different reason: to serve as a corny metaphor.
Unfortunately, Philadelphia’s National Constitution Center was selected for a different reason: to serve as a corny metaphor.
- 10/10/2023
- by Tessa Stuart
- Rollingstone.com
White House hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Monday a decision to switch parties in his presidential bid by exiting the Democratic party and running as a third party Independent. The move — revealed during a rally held outside the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia that featured remarks by his actress wife Cheryl Hines of Curb Your Enthusiasm fame — was quickly denounced by members of his own family.
“The decision of our brother Bobby to run as a third party candidate against Joe Biden is dangerous to our country. Bobby might share the same name as our father, but he does not share the same values, vision or judgment. Today’s announcement is deeply saddening for us. We denounce his candidacy and believe it to be perilous for our country,” reads a post shared on Instagram by his sister, Oscar nominated documentarian Rory Kennedy.
The sister of Rfk Jr. is...
“The decision of our brother Bobby to run as a third party candidate against Joe Biden is dangerous to our country. Bobby might share the same name as our father, but he does not share the same values, vision or judgment. Today’s announcement is deeply saddening for us. We denounce his candidacy and believe it to be perilous for our country,” reads a post shared on Instagram by his sister, Oscar nominated documentarian Rory Kennedy.
The sister of Rfk Jr. is...
- 10/9/2023
- by Chris Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis is talking up the prospect of Democrat and Joe Biden rival Robert Kennedy, Jr., serving in his administration.
In a new interview with right-wing commentator Clay Travis, DeSantis was asked whether he’d consider the anti-vax conspiracy theorist Kennedy as a running mate. DeSantis, who has campaigned vigorously (and fecklessly) to appeal to vaccine skeptics, downplayed that idea, arguing that the Democrat was “averse to our base” on 70 percent of the issues.
But the Florida governor was warm to Kennedy serving in the Cabinet, because...
In a new interview with right-wing commentator Clay Travis, DeSantis was asked whether he’d consider the anti-vax conspiracy theorist Kennedy as a running mate. DeSantis, who has campaigned vigorously (and fecklessly) to appeal to vaccine skeptics, downplayed that idea, arguing that the Democrat was “averse to our base” on 70 percent of the issues.
But the Florida governor was warm to Kennedy serving in the Cabinet, because...
- 7/26/2023
- by Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
In modern world history, few single years have been as tumultuous as 1968. The Vietnam War continued to drag on and had reached an unprecedented level of unpopularity. The assasinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy shocked the world. Protests against the war, for civil rights, and at the Democratic National Convention raged in the streets. On movie screens, another revolution was taking place that reflected the values of the passionate youth movement and rejected the “old ways” of filmmaking. In the years 1967-68, the studio system was taking its last gasping breaths and films like Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, Cool Hand Luke, The Producers, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Bullit, and If…. were changing the game in Hollywood and Britain by taking after New Wave movements in France and Italy. The horror landscape was changing as well. Gothic horrors were giving way to modern films both in setting and subject.
- 6/30/2023
- by Brian Keiper
- bloody-disgusting.com
The Jerry Springer Show was one of the most controversial TV talk shows of its time, and it’s hard to believe it was on the air for 27 years. Jerry Springer died in April 2023, but his legacy lives on. And he certainly made a lot of money from the infamous series. So, how much money did Springer make per episode of The Jerry Springer Show? Here are our estimates.
Estimate of how much money Jerry Springer made per episode of ‘The Jerry Springer Show’ Jerry Springer on ‘The Jerry Springer Show’ | Ralf-Finn Hestoft/Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images
Jerry Springer made the bulk of his income from The Jerry Springer Show. The salacious TV series ran from 1991 to 2018 and raked in more viewers than Oprah Winfrey’s talk show during certain seasons. So, how much money did Springer make per episode of The Jerry Springer Show?
His per-episode income isn’t made publicly available,...
Estimate of how much money Jerry Springer made per episode of ‘The Jerry Springer Show’ Jerry Springer on ‘The Jerry Springer Show’ | Ralf-Finn Hestoft/Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images
Jerry Springer made the bulk of his income from The Jerry Springer Show. The salacious TV series ran from 1991 to 2018 and raked in more viewers than Oprah Winfrey’s talk show during certain seasons. So, how much money did Springer make per episode of The Jerry Springer Show?
His per-episode income isn’t made publicly available,...
- 4/27/2023
- by Lauren Weiler
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Jerry Springer’s eponymous talk show may have been tasteless, but you can’t say that Springer himself didn’t have taste.
“I would never watch my show,” he commented to Reuters in 2000. “I’m not interested in it. It’s not aimed towards me.”
He may not have been interested, but plenty of people were. The hugely successful tabloid show, one of the pioneers of trash television, notched nearly 5,000 episodes during its 27-season run from 1991 to 2018. During the peak of its popularity in the mid ‘90s, it even beat The Oprah Winfrey Show in the ratings in many cities.
You could say that Jerry Springer was the anti-Oprah Winfrey Show; if aliens monitored our broadcasts in those days, they would have been hopelessly confused about whether mankind was worth preserving or not.
Springer, who died on Thursday at 79, was such an iconic figure that he even became the subject...
“I would never watch my show,” he commented to Reuters in 2000. “I’m not interested in it. It’s not aimed towards me.”
He may not have been interested, but plenty of people were. The hugely successful tabloid show, one of the pioneers of trash television, notched nearly 5,000 episodes during its 27-season run from 1991 to 2018. During the peak of its popularity in the mid ‘90s, it even beat The Oprah Winfrey Show in the ratings in many cities.
You could say that Jerry Springer was the anti-Oprah Winfrey Show; if aliens monitored our broadcasts in those days, they would have been hopelessly confused about whether mankind was worth preserving or not.
Springer, who died on Thursday at 79, was such an iconic figure that he even became the subject...
- 4/27/2023
- by Frank Scheck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Talk show fans young and old know Jerry Springer well. As the host of the infamous television series The Jerry Springer Show, Springer became a household name in wild daytime TV. Sadly, Springer died on April 27, 2023. What was Jerry Springer’s net worth at the time of his death? Here’s what we know.
What was Jerry Springer’s net worth at the time of his death? Jerry Springer | Albert L. Ortega/WireImage
Jerry Springer died with a net worth of $60 million, Celebrity Net Worth reports. According to TMZ, Springer’s family said he died of a “brief illness,” though other sources confirm it was pancreatic cancer.
He’s infamously known as the host of The Jerry Springer Show, but he had humble beginnings before the show began. Springer worked as a broadcaster at a college radio station while getting his undergraduate degree at Tulane University. After college, he started a political career.
What was Jerry Springer’s net worth at the time of his death? Jerry Springer | Albert L. Ortega/WireImage
Jerry Springer died with a net worth of $60 million, Celebrity Net Worth reports. According to TMZ, Springer’s family said he died of a “brief illness,” though other sources confirm it was pancreatic cancer.
He’s infamously known as the host of The Jerry Springer Show, but he had humble beginnings before the show began. Springer worked as a broadcaster at a college radio station while getting his undergraduate degree at Tulane University. After college, he started a political career.
- 4/27/2023
- by Lauren Weiler
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Meghan Markle will receive an award for her Archetypes podcast. The Duchess of Sussex says her win is a “shared success.”
Meghan Markle will be honored with an award for ‘Archetypes’ Meghan Markle and Prince Harry | Ben Birchall – Wpa Pool / Getty Images
Meghan’s Archetypes podcast was launched in August 2022. The duchess is being honored with a Gracie Award. The awards, which are overseen by the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation, place a spotlight on the achievements of women in the media.
Meghan included her team when speaking about the honor. On the Archewell website, she wrote, “Thank you to the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation for this prestigious honor. This is a shared success for me and the team behind Archetypes—most of whom are women—and the inspiring guests who joined me each week.”
When Archetypes launched last year, Meghan expressed how grateful she was to...
Meghan Markle will be honored with an award for ‘Archetypes’ Meghan Markle and Prince Harry | Ben Birchall – Wpa Pool / Getty Images
Meghan’s Archetypes podcast was launched in August 2022. The duchess is being honored with a Gracie Award. The awards, which are overseen by the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation, place a spotlight on the achievements of women in the media.
Meghan included her team when speaking about the honor. On the Archewell website, she wrote, “Thank you to the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation for this prestigious honor. This is a shared success for me and the team behind Archetypes—most of whom are women—and the inspiring guests who joined me each week.”
When Archetypes launched last year, Meghan expressed how grateful she was to...
- 4/5/2023
- by Sheiresa Ngo
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Ah, 1978. It was the year that Slashfilm writer Lee Adams entered the world, and two movies changed the course of comedy forever (those landmarks are unrelated; I'm not trying to claim any credit). Those movies were "National Lampoon's Animal House" and Cheech and Chong's "Up in Smoke" — two lowbrow hits whose influences are still felt to this day.
There was lowbrow stuff before 1978, of course. Slapstick — the age-old art of falling over, breaking things, and hitting people — was still doing the rounds in the increasingly weary adventures of Inspector Clouseau. But the class of '78 was different: wild, irreverent, raucous, bawdy, subversive, counterculture comedy that delighted the kids and antagonized the squares.
The two films had their roots in the '60s. Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong developed their stand-up act in the latter part of the decade before making their break on the big screen with the granddaddy of stoner movies,...
There was lowbrow stuff before 1978, of course. Slapstick — the age-old art of falling over, breaking things, and hitting people — was still doing the rounds in the increasingly weary adventures of Inspector Clouseau. But the class of '78 was different: wild, irreverent, raucous, bawdy, subversive, counterculture comedy that delighted the kids and antagonized the squares.
The two films had their roots in the '60s. Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong developed their stand-up act in the latter part of the decade before making their break on the big screen with the granddaddy of stoner movies,...
- 3/26/2023
- by Lee Adams
- Slash Film
Packers (?) Quarterback Aaron Rodgers paid a visit to vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during a recent trip to Santa Monica.
“With @AaronRodgers12 in Santa Monica,” wrote Kennedy on Twitter Friday. Kennedy has established himself as one of the most prominent vaccine conspiracy theorists in the world and was instrumental in popularizing false claims that vaccines cause autism.
With @AaronRodgers12 in Santa Monica. My dad said it best: "Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality...
“With @AaronRodgers12 in Santa Monica,” wrote Kennedy on Twitter Friday. Kennedy has established himself as one of the most prominent vaccine conspiracy theorists in the world and was instrumental in popularizing false claims that vaccines cause autism.
With @AaronRodgers12 in Santa Monica. My dad said it best: "Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality...
- 3/18/2023
- by Nikki McCann Ramirez
- Rollingstone.com
Exclusive: Mark Wahlberg, Stephen Levinson and Archie Gips’ production company Unrealistic Ideas is teaming with producer Van Echeverri for a documentary feature about the FBI’s takedown of USC football player-turned-drug kingpin Owen Hanson.
“Unrealistic Ideas has a strong track record in the true-crime space, and the story of Owen Hanson jumped out at us,” said Unrealistic Ideas President/Partner Gips. “This is a working-class guy who worked hard to get into USC and then used the business skills he gained through his education there to create a global drug empire. We’re looking to explore how that happened and how it all fell apart.”
Hanson began dealing recreational drugs and steroids to teammates in college during the early 2000s, ultimately building a violent empire that operated in U.S., Central and South America and Australia. Arrested in September 2015 and sentenced in late 2017 to more than 21 years in federal prison,...
“Unrealistic Ideas has a strong track record in the true-crime space, and the story of Owen Hanson jumped out at us,” said Unrealistic Ideas President/Partner Gips. “This is a working-class guy who worked hard to get into USC and then used the business skills he gained through his education there to create a global drug empire. We’re looking to explore how that happened and how it all fell apart.”
Hanson began dealing recreational drugs and steroids to teammates in college during the early 2000s, ultimately building a violent empire that operated in U.S., Central and South America and Australia. Arrested in September 2015 and sentenced in late 2017 to more than 21 years in federal prison,...
- 7/6/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Mark Shields, a commentator who provided insightful political analysis on PBS NewsHour for over 30 years, has died. He was 85.
Shields died Saturday of kidney failure at his home in Chevy Chase, Md., NewsHour spokesman Nick Massella told NPR.
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Judy Woodruff, NewsHour anchor and managing editor, also confirmed the news on Twitter writing, “I am heartbroken to share this. The NewsHour‘s beloved long-time Friday night analyst Mark Shields,...
Shields died Saturday of kidney failure at his home in Chevy Chase, Md., NewsHour spokesman Nick Massella told NPR.
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Judy Woodruff, NewsHour anchor and managing editor, also confirmed the news on Twitter writing, “I am heartbroken to share this. The NewsHour‘s beloved long-time Friday night analyst Mark Shields,...
- 6/18/2022
- by Nick Caruso
- TVLine.com
“As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.” Everyone who’s seen Goodfellas at least a dozen times and can practically quote it from memory — virtually everyone who’s seen Goodfellas, in other words — knows what comes right before Ray Liotta says the line: a stabbed body, a bloody sheet, a bright-red glow coming from a car trunk. Everyone remembers what comes after it too, once the credits have rolled: A kid’s romanticized view of these neighborhood big shots, all flashy suits and fancy cars and colorful nicknames.
- 12/16/2019
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Anna Paquin is the latest actor to join the cast of Martin Scorsese's highly anticipated Netflix film The Irishman. Paquin, who is best known for her roles in X-men and True Blood, will play the daughter of Robert De Niro’s character, Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran, who is a reputed hitman suspected of being involved with the disappearance of Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa in 1975.
Deadline offers some details on the character, saying:
Paquin will play Peggy, the strong-willed daughter of Frank and Mary. She despises the lifestyle Frank has chosen for himself and over the years begins to distance herself from her father, hating everything about him. At times, Peggy lives in fear of Frank, worried to tell him about the problems in her life for fear of what he might do to the people that have wronged her. Seeing Hoffa (Pacino) as someone outside of the mob and...
Deadline offers some details on the character, saying:
Paquin will play Peggy, the strong-willed daughter of Frank and Mary. She despises the lifestyle Frank has chosen for himself and over the years begins to distance herself from her father, hating everything about him. At times, Peggy lives in fear of Frank, worried to tell him about the problems in her life for fear of what he might do to the people that have wronged her. Seeing Hoffa (Pacino) as someone outside of the mob and...
- 10/3/2017
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
It’s the summer of ’69, but Senator Ted Kennedy (Jason Clarke) didn’t buy his first real six-string or start a band with the guys from school, as the Bryan Adams song goes. Instead, he’s still mourning the tragic killing of his brother Bobby Kennedy a year earlier, while mulling his own possible presidential run. To the latter end, he’s gathered together six of the “boiler-room girls” who worked on behalf of Robert Kennedy’s presidential campaign for a party.
Continue reading ‘Chappaquiddick’: Jason Clarke’s Ted Kennedy Drives Into A Scandal [Tiff Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Chappaquiddick’: Jason Clarke’s Ted Kennedy Drives Into A Scandal [Tiff Review] at The Playlist.
- 9/15/2017
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Jason Clarke impresses as the last Kennedy brother, whose reputation never recovered following the death of a young supporter in murky circumstances
By the end of his life, Senator Edward M Kennedy was “the lion of the Senate”, a sturdy marble column of American liberalism for close to 50 years. His final substantive act was giving the Obama daughters their pet dog. But in 1969, though he was a powerful man on paper and next in line for the presidency, family insiders knew he was a joke.
Joe Kennedy Jr, who died a war hero, was the favorite. John F Kennedy, the martyred president, had the charm. Robert Kennedy, who was supposed to be president, was the brilliant one. All this landed on the shoulders of Ted, the last living Kennedy son. He never had the respect of his father, but still lived in the glow reflected by admirers of his brothers,...
By the end of his life, Senator Edward M Kennedy was “the lion of the Senate”, a sturdy marble column of American liberalism for close to 50 years. His final substantive act was giving the Obama daughters their pet dog. But in 1969, though he was a powerful man on paper and next in line for the presidency, family insiders knew he was a joke.
Joe Kennedy Jr, who died a war hero, was the favorite. John F Kennedy, the martyred president, had the charm. Robert Kennedy, who was supposed to be president, was the brilliant one. All this landed on the shoulders of Ted, the last living Kennedy son. He never had the respect of his father, but still lived in the glow reflected by admirers of his brothers,...
- 9/11/2017
- by Jordan Hoffman in Toronto
- The Guardian - Film News
John F. Kennedy is about to make America wet all over again, 'cause his original swim trunks, jackets and other family items are up for auction ... starting at just a buck! Guernsey's auction house is selling off some of JFK's personal items in October to commemorate what would have been the late Prez's 100th birthday -- even though he was born in May. Some of the items being auctioned off include 3 of Jack's Og swim trunks,...
- 9/1/2017
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Allan B. Schwartz, a veteran producer and executive at companies including 20th Century Fox, Columbia Pictures and Fries Entertainment, has died. He was 77.
Schwartz died April 20 in Greenville, N.C., from complications related to an extended illness, a family spokeswoman said.
A native of New Haven, Conn., Schwartz started out in 1959 as a copy boy at ABC News while attending New York University. He joined NBC as a unit manager, then worked at Jules Power Productions, where he produced and directed an episode of ABC's Discovery that featured Robert Kennedy and his family on a Colorado River rafting trip.
Schwartz also...
Schwartz died April 20 in Greenville, N.C., from complications related to an extended illness, a family spokeswoman said.
A native of New Haven, Conn., Schwartz started out in 1959 as a copy boy at ABC News while attending New York University. He joined NBC as a unit manager, then worked at Jules Power Productions, where he produced and directed an episode of ABC's Discovery that featured Robert Kennedy and his family on a Colorado River rafting trip.
Schwartz also...
- 5/9/2017
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Author Jean Stein died Sunday in New York City. She was 83.
Police say the best-selling author apparently jumped from the penthouse floor of a building in the Upper East Side area of Manhattan on Sunday, according to the Associated Press. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Anderson Cooper’s brother Carter died by jumping off the balcony of his mother Gloria Vanderbilt’s apartment in the same building in 1988.
Stein was a former editor at the Paris Review. In 2016, Stein released “West of Eden: An American Place,” about Los Angeles and the Hollywood elite.
In 1970, she and editor George Plimpton...
Police say the best-selling author apparently jumped from the penthouse floor of a building in the Upper East Side area of Manhattan on Sunday, according to the Associated Press. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Anderson Cooper’s brother Carter died by jumping off the balcony of his mother Gloria Vanderbilt’s apartment in the same building in 1988.
Stein was a former editor at the Paris Review. In 2016, Stein released “West of Eden: An American Place,” about Los Angeles and the Hollywood elite.
In 1970, she and editor George Plimpton...
- 5/2/2017
- by Alexia Fernandez
- PEOPLE.com
Robert Keeling Apr 19, 2017
Kevin Costner headlined an all-star cast in Oliver Stone's JFK. It was a film that led to an act of Congress being passed...
Oliver Stone’s epic conspiracy-thriller JFK, surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the case brought about by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison in relation to his murder, was released in 1991 to an astonishing level of critical backlash. Even before JFK arrived in theatres it was being pilloried and attacked by many in the media. The attacks were kick-started by Washington Post correspondent George Lardner, an investigative reporter who wrote a piece called On the Set: Dallas In Wonderland; How Oliver Stone’s Version Of The Kennedy Assassination Exploits The Edge Of Paranoia, which was actually based solely on a leaked copy of Stone’s first draft of the script.
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Kevin Costner headlined an all-star cast in Oliver Stone's JFK. It was a film that led to an act of Congress being passed...
Oliver Stone’s epic conspiracy-thriller JFK, surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the case brought about by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison in relation to his murder, was released in 1991 to an astonishing level of critical backlash. Even before JFK arrived in theatres it was being pilloried and attacked by many in the media. The attacks were kick-started by Washington Post correspondent George Lardner, an investigative reporter who wrote a piece called On the Set: Dallas In Wonderland; How Oliver Stone’s Version Of The Kennedy Assassination Exploits The Edge Of Paranoia, which was actually based solely on a leaked copy of Stone’s first draft of the script.
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- 3/29/2017
- Den of Geek
The story of Mildred and Richard Loving could easily have become a sledgehammer epic about social injustice. Writer-director Jeff Nichols instead sticks to the facts and recounts their ordeal with a quiet subjectivity that neither exaggerates nor sanctifies. The result is a marvelously affecting demonstration of how a civilized, progressive America rights a wrong. Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton are terrific as just plain folks oppressed by an obsolete law.
Loving
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital HD
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
2016 / Color / 2:40 widescreen / 123 min. / Street Date February 7, 2017 / 34.99
Starring : Ruth Negga, Joel Edgerton, Terri Abney, Marton Csokas, David Jensen, Nick Kroll, Jon Bass, Michael Shannon.
Cinematography: Adam Stone
Film Editor: Julie Monroe
Original Music: David Wingo
Produced by: Nancy Buirski, Ged Doherty, Colin Firth, Marc Turtletaub
Written and Directed by Jeff Nichols
Growing up in the 1950s, interracial marriage was a strange subject, and major entertainments handled it with kid gloves.
Loving
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital HD
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
2016 / Color / 2:40 widescreen / 123 min. / Street Date February 7, 2017 / 34.99
Starring : Ruth Negga, Joel Edgerton, Terri Abney, Marton Csokas, David Jensen, Nick Kroll, Jon Bass, Michael Shannon.
Cinematography: Adam Stone
Film Editor: Julie Monroe
Original Music: David Wingo
Produced by: Nancy Buirski, Ged Doherty, Colin Firth, Marc Turtletaub
Written and Directed by Jeff Nichols
Growing up in the 1950s, interracial marriage was a strange subject, and major entertainments handled it with kid gloves.
- 2/15/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Long before he became a household name as Steven Avery’s lawyer in the Netflix true crime series Making a Murderer, Jerry Buting was treasurer for “Ass Kickers, Inc.” — a consortium of hard-partying college pals, responsible for some of the wildest parties Indiana University has ever seen.
You’ll find this and other personal revelations early on in Buting’s forthcoming book, Illusion of Justice: Inside Making a Murder and America’s Broken System, which hits bookstores Feb. 28. What you won’t find, however, are any of Buting’s theories on who may have killed Teresa Halbach, the young photographer Avery was convicted of killing.
You’ll find this and other personal revelations early on in Buting’s forthcoming book, Illusion of Justice: Inside Making a Murder and America’s Broken System, which hits bookstores Feb. 28. What you won’t find, however, are any of Buting’s theories on who may have killed Teresa Halbach, the young photographer Avery was convicted of killing.
- 2/7/2017
- by Chris Harris
- PEOPLE.com
I Am Not Your Negro Magnolia Pictures Reviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya Grade: A- Director: Raoul Peck Written by: Raoul Peck, James Baldwin Cast: James Baldwin, Samuel L. Jackson (narrator), Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Kennedy Screened at: Critics’ DVD, NYC, 2/3/17 Opens: February 4, 2017 Buy I Am Not Your Negro on […]
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- 2/6/2017
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Let me be the last to wish you a happy new year. Actually you – and my Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mind audience – are the first people upon whom I’m bestowing these tidings. I’m writing this on Boxing Day because I’m leaving town for a week. I think I’m going to Chicago, where I shall reflexively ask Barry Crain for Sonic Disruptors pages.
While in the Windy City, I will be meeting up with my ol’ pal and fellow ComicMix columnist John Ostrander, another expatriated Chicagoan. He will be in town along with Mary Mitchell to visit (or annoy, as the case may be) a gaggle of his relatives. We will be doing at least two things together, the first of which is having a profoundly fabulous dinner with also-fellow ComicMix columnist Marc Alan Fishman and the Unshaven Comics crew, and as many wives and children...
While in the Windy City, I will be meeting up with my ol’ pal and fellow ComicMix columnist John Ostrander, another expatriated Chicagoan. He will be in town along with Mary Mitchell to visit (or annoy, as the case may be) a gaggle of his relatives. We will be doing at least two things together, the first of which is having a profoundly fabulous dinner with also-fellow ComicMix columnist Marc Alan Fishman and the Unshaven Comics crew, and as many wives and children...
- 1/4/2017
- by Mike Gold
- Comicmix.com
Conor Kennedy, the former boyfriend of Taylor Swift and grandson of Robert F. Kennedy, was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct early Thursday morning after he was in a fight with another man outside a Colorado nightclub.
But according to his cousin Matthew “Max” Kennedy, Jr. — who police say was on the scene at the time — the incident was actually a two-on-one battle with Conor defending himself from two aggressors who had earlier used homophobic slurs to offend their gay mutual friend.
In an interview with People, Max, 23, describes the events outside the Bootsy Bellows nightclub in Aspen, Colorado, as “a lot of chaos.
But according to his cousin Matthew “Max” Kennedy, Jr. — who police say was on the scene at the time — the incident was actually a two-on-one battle with Conor defending himself from two aggressors who had earlier used homophobic slurs to offend their gay mutual friend.
In an interview with People, Max, 23, describes the events outside the Bootsy Bellows nightclub in Aspen, Colorado, as “a lot of chaos.
- 12/31/2016
- by Adam Carlson
- PEOPLE.com
Taylor Swift's ex-boyfriend, John Conor Kennedy, was arrested early Thursday morning after a fight broke out at Bootsy Bellows nightclub in Aspen, Colorado.
According to police, they witnessed an altercation outside the establishment around 1:40 a.m. when they responded to a call that someone was refusing to leave the bar. The officers claim to have tried to separate the two men, who were "rolling around on the ground," and witnessed Kennedy throwing four or five punches at the head of the man.
Photos: Most Memorable Mugshots
Officer Andrew Atkinson and Kennedy -- who is the son of Robert Kennedy Jr. and the grandson of Robert Kennedy -- allegedly fell into a snowbank when the policeman tried to break up the fight. Police say a bystander assisted Atkinson in restraining Kennedy, 22, though his attorneys told CBS Denver that he was “cooperative, compliant and respectful.” No injuries were reported by either party.
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Kennedy was charged...
According to police, they witnessed an altercation outside the establishment around 1:40 a.m. when they responded to a call that someone was refusing to leave the bar. The officers claim to have tried to separate the two men, who were "rolling around on the ground," and witnessed Kennedy throwing four or five punches at the head of the man.
Photos: Most Memorable Mugshots
Officer Andrew Atkinson and Kennedy -- who is the son of Robert Kennedy Jr. and the grandson of Robert Kennedy -- allegedly fell into a snowbank when the policeman tried to break up the fight. Police say a bystander assisted Atkinson in restraining Kennedy, 22, though his attorneys told CBS Denver that he was “cooperative, compliant and respectful.” No injuries were reported by either party.
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Kennedy was charged...
- 12/30/2016
- Entertainment Tonight
Conor Kennedy -- grandson of Robert Kennedy and Taylor Swift's ex -- probably wishes he could "begin again" after getting arrested early Thursday morning after a bar fight. Cops say Kennedy was throwing punches in the street and rolling around on the ground outside Bootsy Bellows nightclub in Aspen. Kennedy told officers the fight started after the other guy called his friend the f word. According to the police report Conor was struggling with...
- 12/30/2016
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Could there be a more perfect moment than this? Sitting in the garden behind the Hotel Nacional, looking at the Cuban flag so proudly waving over the Straits of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. The same site where the defense was built during the Cuban Missile Crisis, this moment of time marks a particularly precarious balance between peaceful coexistence and military aggression as we contemplate the recent death of Castro and election of Trump, wondering how it will play out in 2017.Hotel Nacional, Headquarters of Festival de Cine Nuevo Iberoamericano, Havana, Cuba
Cuba, ten days after the death of Fidel Castro, head of state for 52 years,may be a bit more subdued, but life here goes on, even with the influx of American tourists (other tourists have always been here); there is a sense of harmony. And in spite of the scarcity of luxuries for its people, the people...
Cuba, ten days after the death of Fidel Castro, head of state for 52 years,may be a bit more subdued, but life here goes on, even with the influx of American tourists (other tourists have always been here); there is a sense of harmony. And in spite of the scarcity of luxuries for its people, the people...
- 12/29/2016
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Jeff Nichols’ fifth feature film (and second in 2016, after the strange and spellbinding Midnight Special) is Loving, which also looks to potentially be his big breakthrough in terms of both popular appeal and awards prestige – thanks, in no small part, to the support of his studio and producers in spreading the good word about one of Hollywood’s most promising young directors.
With the film now in limited release, producer Peter Saraf and his family visited the Princeton Garden Theater in Princeton, NJ on Friday night to discuss his latest project. Following a screening of Loving, Mr. Saraf held an open Q&A discussion with the audience, in which he touched on such topics as the film’s production process, historical authenticity, political subtext, and the reactions of real people depicted in the film.
On the origins of this project
Loving began with The Loving Story, a 2011 documentary film by...
With the film now in limited release, producer Peter Saraf and his family visited the Princeton Garden Theater in Princeton, NJ on Friday night to discuss his latest project. Following a screening of Loving, Mr. Saraf held an open Q&A discussion with the audience, in which he touched on such topics as the film’s production process, historical authenticity, political subtext, and the reactions of real people depicted in the film.
On the origins of this project
Loving began with The Loving Story, a 2011 documentary film by...
- 12/19/2016
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
There are few things more deflating than the prospect of yet another Great Man biopic, a genre that's prone to cause even the best directors to stumble. The resulting films are often too rambling, too unfocused, too unnecessary—either misguided passion projects or empty stabs at “respectability.” In that respect, Jackie (Chilean director Pablo Larraín's second foray into biopic territory this year, after Neruda) sets itself apart. Centering on Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (Natalie Portman) and largely confining its focus to the hours and days following her husband’s assassination in 1963, it’s less a biopic and more an intimate refraction of a national tragedy. And although somewhat uneven, it remains an intriguing, if frustrating affair—both a plunge into history and myth and a look at its creation, the manner by which “one brief shining moment that was known as Camelot” became embedded into a national consciousness.Opening at...
- 12/2/2016
- MUBI
With the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, America’s most iconic First Lady became America’s Greatest Widow. Jacqueline Kennedy was left in a state of shock, anguish and grief, and yet she also seems to have an intuited an important truth: The wave of suffering that threatened to overwhelm her (and the nation) counted for little against the longer obliterating tides of time and history.
It was her duty not only to mourn publicly, and properly, but to shore up the legacy of her husband’s never-to-be-completed first term.
Meanwhile — a smaller but sharper...
It was her duty not only to mourn publicly, and properly, but to shore up the legacy of her husband’s never-to-be-completed first term.
Meanwhile — a smaller but sharper...
- 12/1/2016
- by tgliatto
- PEOPLE.com
Maybe you're thinking the last thing you want to see is a TV-movie–ish take on the life of Jacqueline Kennedy. Good news. Jackie is not a damn thing like that. There's hardly a conventional biopic minute in it. Instead, you get a spellbinding look at one of the planet's most famous women through the prism of what happens right after her husband is assassinated and she cradles his bullet-shattered head in her lap. Let me mention right of the gate that Natalie Portman, in a performance that tops her Oscar-winning role in Black Swan,...
- 11/30/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Peter Sarsgaard on Jackie composer Mica Levi: "She is incredible. She did the score for [Jonathan Glazer's] Under the Skin." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Natalie Portman is First Lady Jackie Kennedy in Pablo Larraín's Jackie, screenplay by Noah Oppenheim. The film, shot by the great Stéphane Fontaine (Paul Verhoeven's Elle, starring Isabelle Huppert), features Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, John Hurt, Max Casella, John Carroll Lynch, Richard E Grant, Beth Grant and Caspar Phillipson as President John Kennedy.
On Pablo Larraín's Jackie: "You know, it's in the mind almost." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Peter Sarsgaard, who portrays Robert Kennedy told me: "Bobby was tough". He also had some thoughts on Michael Almeryda's Marjorie Prime which stars Lois Smith, Tim Robbins, Jon Hamm, and Geena Davis, after his role as Stanley Milgram with Winona Ryder in Experimenter.
Jeff Nichol's Loving, starring Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton, credits then United States...
Natalie Portman is First Lady Jackie Kennedy in Pablo Larraín's Jackie, screenplay by Noah Oppenheim. The film, shot by the great Stéphane Fontaine (Paul Verhoeven's Elle, starring Isabelle Huppert), features Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, John Hurt, Max Casella, John Carroll Lynch, Richard E Grant, Beth Grant and Caspar Phillipson as President John Kennedy.
On Pablo Larraín's Jackie: "You know, it's in the mind almost." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Peter Sarsgaard, who portrays Robert Kennedy told me: "Bobby was tough". He also had some thoughts on Michael Almeryda's Marjorie Prime which stars Lois Smith, Tim Robbins, Jon Hamm, and Geena Davis, after his role as Stanley Milgram with Winona Ryder in Experimenter.
Jeff Nichol's Loving, starring Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton, credits then United States...
- 11/28/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Warren Beatty may have played a senator in 1998’s Bulworth, but don’t expect life to imitate art when it comes to politics.
The 79-year-old actor and political activist — who has supported Democratic presidential candidates including Robert Kennedy, George McGovern and Jimmy Carter — has never run for office, and he’s just fine with that.
“What people who volunteer for public service now are subjected to in the media, I’ve grown to think that to run for office is more like running for crucifixion,” he tells People in this week’s issue. “And in some sense, I think the...
The 79-year-old actor and political activist — who has supported Democratic presidential candidates including Robert Kennedy, George McGovern and Jimmy Carter — has never run for office, and he’s just fine with that.
“What people who volunteer for public service now are subjected to in the media, I’ve grown to think that to run for office is more like running for crucifixion,” he tells People in this week’s issue. “And in some sense, I think the...
- 11/23/2016
- by Stephanie Petit
- PEOPLE.com
David Crow Simon Brew Nov 15, 2016
Natalie Portman stars in Jackie, a biopic of Jackie Kennedy. Here's the trailer for a film that's building up plenty of acclaim...
There have been biopics about many an American president, yet one of the most intriguing aspects of Jackie is in its simple title: this is Jacqueline Kennedy’s story from before she became an Onassis. And it’s about the most hellish time in her life, the days that passed like decades between President John F Kennedy’s assassination and his burial at Arlington Cemetery.
By all accounts the film is a showcase for Natalie Portman, and generally unlike a traditional biopic with its narrow, nonlinear structure. In the below trailer, you will glimpse the infamous pink dress and pillbox hat, as well as the face of a grieving woman who is obviously lost in despair, but is also reeling from how to protect JFK’s legacy.
Natalie Portman stars in Jackie, a biopic of Jackie Kennedy. Here's the trailer for a film that's building up plenty of acclaim...
There have been biopics about many an American president, yet one of the most intriguing aspects of Jackie is in its simple title: this is Jacqueline Kennedy’s story from before she became an Onassis. And it’s about the most hellish time in her life, the days that passed like decades between President John F Kennedy’s assassination and his burial at Arlington Cemetery.
By all accounts the film is a showcase for Natalie Portman, and generally unlike a traditional biopic with its narrow, nonlinear structure. In the below trailer, you will glimpse the infamous pink dress and pillbox hat, as well as the face of a grieving woman who is obviously lost in despair, but is also reeling from how to protect JFK’s legacy.
- 11/14/2016
- Den of Geek
Katie Holmes makes another striking transformation into Jaqueline Kennedy for The Kennedys sequel, The Kennedys: After Camelot, and this time she’s joined by Matthew Perry. The new miniseries picks up where the last one left off after the assassination of Robert Kennedy in the late ’60s. Perry plays Senator Ted Kennedy with the help of a […]...
- 11/11/2016
- by Gavin Crisp
- ET Canada
Katie Holmes makes another striking transformation into Jaqueline Kennedy for The Kennedys sequel, The Kennedys: After Camelot, and this time she's joined by Matthew Perry.
The new miniseries picks up where the last one left off after the assassination of Robert Kennedy in the late '60s. Perry plays Senator Ted Kennedy with the help of a prosthetic nose, who is fighting the Chappaquiddick scandal in the series. The highly publicized incident took place on July 18, 1969 when a vehicle that Ted was driving veered into a body of water. Campaign worker Mary Jo Kopechne, 28, reportedly drown in the accident, while Ted swam to safety.
Pics: Katie Holmes Glows as Jackie Kennedy in Her Wedding Dress in 'The Kennedys: After Camelot'
This is just one of the many family sagas that get examined in the series, after the original stirred up controversy for its unflinching look at the lives of one of America's most prominent political families...
The new miniseries picks up where the last one left off after the assassination of Robert Kennedy in the late '60s. Perry plays Senator Ted Kennedy with the help of a prosthetic nose, who is fighting the Chappaquiddick scandal in the series. The highly publicized incident took place on July 18, 1969 when a vehicle that Ted was driving veered into a body of water. Campaign worker Mary Jo Kopechne, 28, reportedly drown in the accident, while Ted swam to safety.
Pics: Katie Holmes Glows as Jackie Kennedy in Her Wedding Dress in 'The Kennedys: After Camelot'
This is just one of the many family sagas that get examined in the series, after the original stirred up controversy for its unflinching look at the lives of one of America's most prominent political families...
- 11/11/2016
- Entertainment Tonight
Ever since the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, pundits like myself have had the biopic Loving doing some damage in the Oscar race. I currently don’t have it dominating like I once did, but this is certainly one of the bigger prestige titles of 2016. This week, Focus Features finally releases it into theaters, after its successful festival run. Without too many other biopics in the race this year, there’s a clear spot for something like this to make a dent. There are plenty of fans for the movie, so it’s going to be noticed on the precursor circuit. The question is just, to what degree? The film is a look at Richard Loving (Joel Edgerton) and Mildred Loving (Ruth Negga), an interracial couple in 1958 Virginia, back during the time of anti-miscegenation laws. When the Loving marriage is discovered, Richard and Mildred are jailed, eventually having to move out of state.
- 11/2/2016
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Construction worker and mechanic Richard Loving marries his pregnant girlfriend, Mildred. But instead of happily ever after, the couple are arrested in their bedroom; they're told to get out of state pronto or face jail time. See, he's white and she's black. This is the state of Virginia in 1958 and interracial marriage isn't just frowned on. It's a crime.
So begins Loving, in which Joel Edgerton as Richard and Ruth Negga as Mildred give performances that will be talked about for years. It's the fifth feature from writer-director Jeff Nichols,...
So begins Loving, in which Joel Edgerton as Richard and Ruth Negga as Mildred give performances that will be talked about for years. It's the fifth feature from writer-director Jeff Nichols,...
- 11/1/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Pablo Larraín on Natalie Portman's Jackie: "She had an identity crisis. She would try different dresses for him. And he was not there anymore." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
In the 50th New York Film Festival, Pablo Larraín presented No, starring Gael García Bernal. For the 54th edition he and Gael García Bernal are back for Neruda with Luis Gnecco as Pablo Neruda. A Special Us première presentation of Jackie, screenplay by Noah Oppenheim, stars Natalie Portman as First Lady Jackie Kennedy. The film shot by the great Stéphane Fontaine (Paul Verhoeven's Elle starring Isabelle Huppert), also features Peter Sarsgaard as Robert Kennedy, with Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, John Hurt, Max Casella, John Carroll Lynch, Richard E Grant, Beth Grant and Caspar Phillipson as President Kennedy. Produced by Juan de Dios Larraín, Mickey Liddell, Scott Franklin, Ari Handel and Darren Aronofsky, the director of Black Swan.
Natalie Portman as...
In the 50th New York Film Festival, Pablo Larraín presented No, starring Gael García Bernal. For the 54th edition he and Gael García Bernal are back for Neruda with Luis Gnecco as Pablo Neruda. A Special Us première presentation of Jackie, screenplay by Noah Oppenheim, stars Natalie Portman as First Lady Jackie Kennedy. The film shot by the great Stéphane Fontaine (Paul Verhoeven's Elle starring Isabelle Huppert), also features Peter Sarsgaard as Robert Kennedy, with Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, John Hurt, Max Casella, John Carroll Lynch, Richard E Grant, Beth Grant and Caspar Phillipson as President Kennedy. Produced by Juan de Dios Larraín, Mickey Liddell, Scott Franklin, Ari Handel and Darren Aronofsky, the director of Black Swan.
Natalie Portman as...
- 10/16/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Following Jackie’s screenings at the Toronto and Venice film festivals, Natalie Portman’s performance in the film as one of the nation’s most iconic first ladies is already getting Oscar buzz. Now we get a look at her turn as Jackie Kennedy in the film’s first teaser trailer, which hit the web today. Jackie focuses on the days after JFK’s assassination, and the trailer shows Portman in the blue and pink suit that would come to be stained with her husband’s blood. But we also see a few moments before that tragic day: There’s Portman’s Jackie putting on a smile as she tapes a first-of-its-kind televised tour of the White House. The ensemble Portman wears in the first look photo unveiled back in December and in the poster released today (also below) is a recreation of the red wool day dress and pearls...
- 10/5/2016
- by Emily Rome
- Hitfix
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