Terry Gilliam has been to Cannes with three of his own films since 1983, but one of his favorite memories of the festival takes him back to that very first time, at the 36th edition, as the co-writer and co-star of Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life. Along with Graham Chapman and the film’s director Terry Jones, he’d emerged from the Carlton hotel’s iconic entrance, then bedecked with promotion for the upcoming Bond movie Octopussy, to encounter a camera crew. Jones started grabbing people at random, shouting, “Who Ees Monty Python???” in a ridiculous foreign accent, and got so carried away that, when they reached the hotel’s famous terrace, he accidentally did it to Gilliam too.
The crowd loved it, and the day only grew stranger. Out on the Carlton’s jetty, they gave an interview to British news channel ITN, with Jones hiding behind Graham...
The crowd loved it, and the day only grew stranger. Out on the Carlton’s jetty, they gave an interview to British news channel ITN, with Jones hiding behind Graham...
- 5/20/2024
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Meryl Streep says that a meeting is “imminent” where she’ll hear about the proposals for her to return for a third helping of Mamma Mia!
The acting legend, honored with an Honorary Palme d’Or at an emotional presentation Tuesday night during the Cannes Film Festival’s opening ceremony the Grand Théâtre Lumière, confirmed that “of course, I want to do it,” but first she wants to hear how producer Judy Craymer has resolved the issue of how Streep’s character Donna Sheridan can return for MM3 when it was revealed during the during the 2018 sequel Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again that Donna had died.
Will there be some sort of resurrection, I wondered. “I don’t know how they’re going to do it. They have an idea. I haven’t heard it yet but it’s in [my diary] and I’m going to hear about it pretty soon,...
The acting legend, honored with an Honorary Palme d’Or at an emotional presentation Tuesday night during the Cannes Film Festival’s opening ceremony the Grand Théâtre Lumière, confirmed that “of course, I want to do it,” but first she wants to hear how producer Judy Craymer has resolved the issue of how Streep’s character Donna Sheridan can return for MM3 when it was revealed during the during the 2018 sequel Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again that Donna had died.
Will there be some sort of resurrection, I wondered. “I don’t know how they’re going to do it. They have an idea. I haven’t heard it yet but it’s in [my diary] and I’m going to hear about it pretty soon,...
- 5/15/2024
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi achieved notoriety in 1962 with the sensationalistic documentary Mondo Cane, a globetrotting exposé of bizarre rites and other human grotesqueries that opened the floodgates for a deluge of Mondo titles. When the release of their 1966 film Africa Addio (a.k.a. Africa: Blood and Guts), a despairing look at the continent’s decolonization movements, led to accusations of racism, Jacopetti and Prosperi sought to address the charges by revealing (some would say reveling in) the history of slavery in America. The resulting film, Goodbye Uncle Tom, is an extremely disturbing, at times almost unwatchable, descent into the inferno of an unpardonable institution.
Goodbye Uncle Tom leaves any pretense of objectivity behind in the dust. Using a conceit similar to such Peter Watkins classics as Culloden and The War Game, Jacopetti and Prosperi’s film brings modern-day documentary technology back into a historical setting, using it in...
Goodbye Uncle Tom leaves any pretense of objectivity behind in the dust. Using a conceit similar to such Peter Watkins classics as Culloden and The War Game, Jacopetti and Prosperi’s film brings modern-day documentary technology back into a historical setting, using it in...
- 4/13/2024
- by Budd Wilkins
- Slant Magazine
On Tuesday evening, Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline and Peter MacNicol hosted a special screening of Sophie’s Choice at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, presented by Lanvin, in celebration of the recent 40th anniversary of Alan J. Pakula’s seminal work.
“We’re a few of the only ones standing that made this film,” Streep said when introducing the movie alongside her co-stars. “There are a few still here: my hair and makeup artist, Jo. Roy Helland, and I believe my wardrobe woman, the great Alba Schipani. But the visionaries for Sophie’s Choice are not: the great writer William Styron, the beautiful soul that was Alan Pakula, and the master of light, Nestor Almendros, cinematographer, not here.”
MacNicol then shared a surprising anecdote about Almendros. “[He] was legally blind and wore eyeglasses that were as thick as Coke bottles,” the actor recalled. “I used to go up to the Thalia...
“We’re a few of the only ones standing that made this film,” Streep said when introducing the movie alongside her co-stars. “There are a few still here: my hair and makeup artist, Jo. Roy Helland, and I believe my wardrobe woman, the great Alba Schipani. But the visionaries for Sophie’s Choice are not: the great writer William Styron, the beautiful soul that was Alan Pakula, and the master of light, Nestor Almendros, cinematographer, not here.”
MacNicol then shared a surprising anecdote about Almendros. “[He] was legally blind and wore eyeglasses that were as thick as Coke bottles,” the actor recalled. “I used to go up to the Thalia...
- 2/7/2024
- by Tatiana Tenreyro
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Like much better dressed students, Ethan Hawke, Cate Blanchett, Claire Danes, Holland Taylor and Sarita Choudhury filed into the basement theater at the Museum of Modern Art on Tuesday to honor an acting legend. It was the fortieth anniversary of “Sophie’s Choice,” the movie that helped launch Meryl Streep into the cinematic firmament. It was a role that she campaigned for, learned to speak note-perfect German and Polish for and, somehow, managed to completely transform into another person for, in this case a refuge who can’t escape the horrors of the Holocaust even as she tries to establish a new life for herself in Brooklyn.
And there Streep was, flanked by her co-stars Peter MacNicol and Kevin Kline, to reminisce about making the movie and to honor their late collaborators. It was a trio of fallen friends that included Alan J. Pakula, the film’s director, producer and writer,...
And there Streep was, flanked by her co-stars Peter MacNicol and Kevin Kline, to reminisce about making the movie and to honor their late collaborators. It was a trio of fallen friends that included Alan J. Pakula, the film’s director, producer and writer,...
- 2/7/2024
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Steven Spielberg had tackled serious subjects before, but none of his previous work had the power and artistic vision of “Schindler’s List,” which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. Based on the book by Thomas Keneally, “Schindler’s List” relates the true story of Nazi party member and war profiteer Oskar Schindler, who ended up saving 1,000 Jews from the Nazi death camps during World War II. Shot in black-and-white-save for a little girl wearig red coat- ‘Schindler’s List” is often a difficult watch, but it’s message of “Never Forget” is particularly relevant today with the rise of anti-Semitism and the white power movement. The epic stars Liam Neeson as Schindler, Ben Kingsley as the Jewish manager of Schindler’s factor and Ralph Fiennes, terrifying as a ruthless Nazi commandant Amon Goth.
The reviews were laudatory and despite its length — 3 hours 15 minutes — “Schindler’s List” made over $322 million worldwide. Nominated for 12 Oscars...
The reviews were laudatory and despite its length — 3 hours 15 minutes — “Schindler’s List” made over $322 million worldwide. Nominated for 12 Oscars...
- 12/18/2023
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Oscar-nominated director Matthew Heineman and late filmmaker Nancy Buirski will be honored at the Hamptons Doc Fest in New York next month.
Heineman, whose latest film, American Symphony, premiered to acclaim at the Telluride Film Festival, will receive the prestigious Pennebaker Career Achievement Award, named for the legendary filmmaker and pioneer of “direct cinema” D.A. Pennebaker. Heineman is expected to be on hand to receive the honor, which has previously gone to Richard Leacock, Susan Lacy, Barbara Kopple, Stanley Nelson Jr., Alex Gibney, Liz Garbus, Sheila Nevins, Frederick Wiseman, Dawn Porter, Sam Pollard, and to Pennebaker and and his wife and filmmaking partner Chris Hegedus.
Jon Batiste in ‘American Symphony’
Hamptons Doc Fest will screen American Symphony, which has been acquired by the Obamas’ production company Higher Ground through the former first couple’s deal with Netflix. The documentary about Grammy-winning musician Jon Batiste and his wife, the musician Suleika Jaouad,...
Heineman, whose latest film, American Symphony, premiered to acclaim at the Telluride Film Festival, will receive the prestigious Pennebaker Career Achievement Award, named for the legendary filmmaker and pioneer of “direct cinema” D.A. Pennebaker. Heineman is expected to be on hand to receive the honor, which has previously gone to Richard Leacock, Susan Lacy, Barbara Kopple, Stanley Nelson Jr., Alex Gibney, Liz Garbus, Sheila Nevins, Frederick Wiseman, Dawn Porter, Sam Pollard, and to Pennebaker and and his wife and filmmaking partner Chris Hegedus.
Jon Batiste in ‘American Symphony’
Hamptons Doc Fest will screen American Symphony, which has been acquired by the Obamas’ production company Higher Ground through the former first couple’s deal with Netflix. The documentary about Grammy-winning musician Jon Batiste and his wife, the musician Suleika Jaouad,...
- 10/21/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
A trio of docs and a wider-than-usual run for a Vertical thriller populate a specialty weekend with fewer new openings as theaters stick with Asteroid City and devote screens to Indiana Jones and Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken. Call it jittery Friday as the indie community like the rest of Hollywood awaits news from SAG-AFTRA as the guild’s contract is set to expire tonight.
Opening: Julie Cohen’s documentary Every Body from Focus Features arrives on 250+ screens. Produced in partnership with NBC Studios, the exploration of the intersex experience through personal stories premiered at Tribeca last month. This film follows three individuals who have moved from childhoods marked by shame, secrecy and non-consensual surgeries to thriving adulthood after each decided to set aside medical advice to keep their bodies a secret and,...
Opening: Julie Cohen’s documentary Every Body from Focus Features arrives on 250+ screens. Produced in partnership with NBC Studios, the exploration of the intersex experience through personal stories premiered at Tribeca last month. This film follows three individuals who have moved from childhoods marked by shame, secrecy and non-consensual surgeries to thriving adulthood after each decided to set aside medical advice to keep their bodies a secret and,...
- 6/30/2023
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
"Informative and enlightening." Greenwich Entertainment has revealed an official trailer for a documentary film titled In the Company of Rose, a new biopic doc about an intriguing woman. The film premiered last year at Doc NYC and played at the Cleveland Film Festival a few months ago, with a final release set for June this summer. Here's the brief intro to the film via Doc NYC: "On Martha's Vineyard, three-time Tony-winning playwright and director James Lapine meets Rose Styron, the widow of the great American novelist William Styron. Over six years of periodic meetings, Rose shares the fascinating story of her complex life as a poet, journalist, human rights activist, and a life partner to William. The result is the tale infused with life wisdom for all ages." This sounds fascinating, and I always think there's some worthwhile wisdom to glean from these kind of people who have so many stories to tell.
- 6/7/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
When you think of unadaptable novels, what's the one that comes to your mind? "Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace? "To the Lighthouse" by Virginia Woolf? For a select few of you out there, you might think about Saul Bellow's 1959 novel "Henderson the Rain King," a humorous yet deeply philosophical story about a middle-aged man's quest to figure out the meaning of life. Well, that's the most abstract way I could probably describe it, as he navigates this question after accidentally becoming the messiah of an African village. Yeah.
If you're not familiar with the novel, that may already cause a bevy of red flags to be raised, and we don't blame you for that. While the novel ends in a way that skeptical readers may not have anticipated, it's understandable why studios have been hesitant to greenlight an adaptation of Bellow's work.
That doesn't mean there haven't been attempts in the past.
If you're not familiar with the novel, that may already cause a bevy of red flags to be raised, and we don't blame you for that. While the novel ends in a way that skeptical readers may not have anticipated, it's understandable why studios have been hesitant to greenlight an adaptation of Bellow's work.
That doesn't mean there haven't been attempts in the past.
- 1/14/2023
- by Erin Brady
- Slash Film
Rebecca Halpern on Chef Charlie Trotter: “He loved very challenging films like Fitzcarraldo by Werner Herzog. And he loved books by people like Ayn Rand, which are not that popular frankly.” Photo: courtesy of Greenwich Entertainment
Rebecca Halpern’s revealing and savoury Love, Charlie: The Rise And Fall Of Chef Charlie Trotter features on-camera in-person interviews with Wolfgang Puck, Emeril Lagasse, Grant Achatz, Norman Van Aken, Carrie Nahabedian, Rick Bayless, Della Gossett, Michelle Gayer, David LeFevre, Guillermo Tellez, Reggie Watkins, Rahm Emanuel, Gordon Sinclair, Art Smith, farmer Lee Jones, and Trotter’s ex-wife Lisa Ehrlich.
Rebecca is also the producer of Danny Lee’s Who is Stan Smith?, executive produced by LeBron James.
Rebecca Halpern with Anne-Katrin Titze on Charlie Trotter’s: “His vegetarian dishes were beautiful and multi-layered and nuanced and remarkable.”
I spoke with Chef Mauro Colagreco (featured in Vérane Frédiani and Franck Ribière’s...
Rebecca Halpern’s revealing and savoury Love, Charlie: The Rise And Fall Of Chef Charlie Trotter features on-camera in-person interviews with Wolfgang Puck, Emeril Lagasse, Grant Achatz, Norman Van Aken, Carrie Nahabedian, Rick Bayless, Della Gossett, Michelle Gayer, David LeFevre, Guillermo Tellez, Reggie Watkins, Rahm Emanuel, Gordon Sinclair, Art Smith, farmer Lee Jones, and Trotter’s ex-wife Lisa Ehrlich.
Rebecca is also the producer of Danny Lee’s Who is Stan Smith?, executive produced by LeBron James.
Rebecca Halpern with Anne-Katrin Titze on Charlie Trotter’s: “His vegetarian dishes were beautiful and multi-layered and nuanced and remarkable.”
I spoke with Chef Mauro Colagreco (featured in Vérane Frédiani and Franck Ribière’s...
- 11/17/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
After a decade of sensational work in New York City theater (for which he won two Tony Awards), Kevin Kline was at last ready to make his motion picture debut. He couldn't have chosen a buzzier project than Alan J. Pakula's "Sophie's Choice," a shattering drama based on the National Book Award-winning novel by William Styron. Pakula had been wowed by Kline's bravura performance in the 1981 Broadway revival of "The Pirates of Penzance," and believed the effervescent actor could capture the alternating charm and terror of Nathan Landau, a seemingly brilliant chemist engaged in an abusive love affair with Sophie, a Polish immigrant haunted by a horrible sacrifice she was forced to make during the Holocaust.
For the part of Sophie, Pakula was torn between the brilliant Norwegian actor Liv Ullman and the unknown-in-the-u.S. Slovakian performer Magdaléna Vášáarová. Unfortunately for these two, Meryl Streep had serious designs on the role,...
For the part of Sophie, Pakula was torn between the brilliant Norwegian actor Liv Ullman and the unknown-in-the-u.S. Slovakian performer Magdaléna Vášáarová. Unfortunately for these two, Meryl Streep had serious designs on the role,...
- 9/21/2022
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
WME has inked stage director, playwright, screenwriter and librettist James Lapine in all areas.
Lapine wrote the book for and directed Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, Passion, and the multi-media revue Sondheim on Sondheim.
He also directed Merrily We Roll Along, as part of Encores at New York City Center. With William Finn, he teamed on March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland, later presented on twice Broadway as Falsettos; A New Brain; Muscle, and Little Miss Sunshine.
He has also directed on Broadway David Henry Hwang’s Golden Child; The Diary of Anne Frank; Michel Legrand’s Amour, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, the 2012 revival of Annie, and his stage adaptation of the famous Moss Hart autobiography Act One, which premiered at Lincoln Center Theater on the Beaumont stage.
With Frank Rich, he co-produced and also directed the HBO documentary Six...
Lapine wrote the book for and directed Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, Passion, and the multi-media revue Sondheim on Sondheim.
He also directed Merrily We Roll Along, as part of Encores at New York City Center. With William Finn, he teamed on March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland, later presented on twice Broadway as Falsettos; A New Brain; Muscle, and Little Miss Sunshine.
He has also directed on Broadway David Henry Hwang’s Golden Child; The Diary of Anne Frank; Michel Legrand’s Amour, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, the 2012 revival of Annie, and his stage adaptation of the famous Moss Hart autobiography Act One, which premiered at Lincoln Center Theater on the Beaumont stage.
With Frank Rich, he co-produced and also directed the HBO documentary Six...
- 11/16/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
The words most associated with it are “never forget.” But with the Holocaust’s disappearance from too many curriculums — some 60% of young Americans are said to either not know what it was, or they think there were “only” 2 million murdered — forget forgetting. Let’s get back to remembering, on April 8, specifically, we have Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The timing merges with our country’s disturbing divisions. Some of the rioters storming the Capitol sported messages like “Camp Auschwitz” and “six million weren’t enough.” And then there’s that QAnon thing about Jewish space lasers. Museums (such as Steven Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation) and synagogues, of course, will be recalling those lost. The Shoah has now taken oral histories to a new level with its Dimensions in Testimony. Multiple cameras, 3D, and holograms allow visitors to press a button of choice and ask a survivor what daily life was like in a camp.
The timing merges with our country’s disturbing divisions. Some of the rioters storming the Capitol sported messages like “Camp Auschwitz” and “six million weren’t enough.” And then there’s that QAnon thing about Jewish space lasers. Museums (such as Steven Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation) and synagogues, of course, will be recalling those lost. The Shoah has now taken oral histories to a new level with its Dimensions in Testimony. Multiple cameras, 3D, and holograms allow visitors to press a button of choice and ask a survivor what daily life was like in a camp.
- 3/31/2021
- by Michele Willens
- The Wrap
Mark Harris has written two remarkable books, both about important moments in Hollywood history. The first, “Pictures at a Revolution,” dealt with the Oscar race of 1967 and how that year’s Best Picture nominees represented the past, present and future of the industry. Then there was 2014’s “Five Came Back,” about the A-list directors who left their careers behind to take part in WWII — and how their work changed upon their return.
Now, Harris has written almost 600 pages about one man only, and it may be the best biography of an artist in a very long time. That man is performer-turned-director Mike Nichols, the winner of one Oscar, two Emmys and eight Tony Awards. “In the last two books, I had the luxury of going back and forth between main characters,” said Harris, who titled his work “Mike Nichols: A Life.” “In this one, I had no one else to cut to.
Now, Harris has written almost 600 pages about one man only, and it may be the best biography of an artist in a very long time. That man is performer-turned-director Mike Nichols, the winner of one Oscar, two Emmys and eight Tony Awards. “In the last two books, I had the luxury of going back and forth between main characters,” said Harris, who titled his work “Mike Nichols: A Life.” “In this one, I had no one else to cut to.
- 1/28/2021
- by Michele Willens
- The Wrap
The writer seated across from me seemed at once pleased but tense. “I want to be sure you understand that I have no personal knowledge of the characters I’ve written about,” he cautioned. “I have never met a member of the Mafia. I come from an Italian family but we talk about books, not hit jobs…. My insight into the Mafia comes from the library.”
On behalf of Paramount, I had just paid Mario Puzo $35,000 to option The Godfather. Neither of us could realize that the deal would set the stage for an historic bestseller and movie. But Mario Puzo’s cautionary comments of 50 years ago seem persuasively relevant to a controversy that’s spilling over today from publishing to TV and film.
Its cause is a bestselling novel titled American Dirt that has stoked both praise and vitriol by focusing attention on this toxic issue: Does a non-Latinx...
On behalf of Paramount, I had just paid Mario Puzo $35,000 to option The Godfather. Neither of us could realize that the deal would set the stage for an historic bestseller and movie. But Mario Puzo’s cautionary comments of 50 years ago seem persuasively relevant to a controversy that’s spilling over today from publishing to TV and film.
Its cause is a bestselling novel titled American Dirt that has stoked both praise and vitriol by focusing attention on this toxic issue: Does a non-Latinx...
- 2/7/2020
- by Peter Bart
- Deadline Film + TV
The Independent Filmmaker Project announced on Wednesday that it has tapped film producer Jeffrey Sharp as the institution’s new executive director.
Sharp, an award-winning producer for “You Can Count on Me,” will bring decades of experience to Ifp, including his other work producing films such as “Boys Don’t Cry,” “Evening and The Yellow Birds” and digitally publishing authors such as William Styron, Pat Conroy and Pearl Buck as co-founder and president of Open Road Integrated Media.
“We are delighted to have Jeff join Ifp as its leader. His credentials and background are a perfect fit with our organization,” Ifp co-chairs Anthony Bregman and Jim Janowitz said in a statement. “He has developed and produced prestigious independent films. He has extensive non-profit experience as a co-founder and Chair of the Hamptons International Film Festival Advisory Board. He has broad contacts across foundations, arts organizations, and government.”
“I am tremendously...
Sharp, an award-winning producer for “You Can Count on Me,” will bring decades of experience to Ifp, including his other work producing films such as “Boys Don’t Cry,” “Evening and The Yellow Birds” and digitally publishing authors such as William Styron, Pat Conroy and Pearl Buck as co-founder and president of Open Road Integrated Media.
“We are delighted to have Jeff join Ifp as its leader. His credentials and background are a perfect fit with our organization,” Ifp co-chairs Anthony Bregman and Jim Janowitz said in a statement. “He has developed and produced prestigious independent films. He has extensive non-profit experience as a co-founder and Chair of the Hamptons International Film Festival Advisory Board. He has broad contacts across foundations, arts organizations, and government.”
“I am tremendously...
- 3/6/2019
- by Trey Williams
- The Wrap
The Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp) has announced the appointment Jeffrey Sharp as the organization’s new Executive Director. The award-winning international film and TV producer and publishing entrepreneur will succeed long-time Ifp head Joana Vicente, who announced in August that she was joining the Toronto International Film Festival as its Executive Director and Co-Head.
Sharp is best known in industry circles for producing films such as “Boys Don’t Cry,” “You Can Count on Me,” “Evening,” and “The Yellow Birds” and digitally publishing authors such as William Styron, Pat Conroy, and Pearl Buck as co-founder and President of Open Road Integrated Media. Sharp is a member of AMPAS, BAFTA, and the PGA. Sharp won an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature for “You Can Count on Me,” was nominated for a Golden Globe for “Nicholas Nickleby,” and was honored with the Andrew Sarris award in 2005 from the Columbia University School of the Arts...
Sharp is best known in industry circles for producing films such as “Boys Don’t Cry,” “You Can Count on Me,” “Evening,” and “The Yellow Birds” and digitally publishing authors such as William Styron, Pat Conroy, and Pearl Buck as co-founder and President of Open Road Integrated Media. Sharp is a member of AMPAS, BAFTA, and the PGA. Sharp won an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature for “You Can Count on Me,” was nominated for a Golden Globe for “Nicholas Nickleby,” and was honored with the Andrew Sarris award in 2005 from the Columbia University School of the Arts...
- 3/6/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Producer won Independent Spirit Award in 2001 for best first feature for You Can Count On Me.
The Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp) has appointed producer and independent stalwart Jeffrey Sharp as the new executive director following the departure last year of Joana Vicente.
The award-winning international film and TV producer and publishing entrepreneur brings decades of experience to Ifp, including his work as a producer on Boys Don’t Cry, You Can Count On Me, Evening, and The Yellow Birds.
Sharp has also digitally published authors such as William Styron, Pat Conroy and Pearl Buck as co-founder and president of Open Road Integrated Media.
The Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp) has appointed producer and independent stalwart Jeffrey Sharp as the new executive director following the departure last year of Joana Vicente.
The award-winning international film and TV producer and publishing entrepreneur brings decades of experience to Ifp, including his work as a producer on Boys Don’t Cry, You Can Count On Me, Evening, and The Yellow Birds.
Sharp has also digitally published authors such as William Styron, Pat Conroy and Pearl Buck as co-founder and president of Open Road Integrated Media.
- 3/6/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Just three years after winning an Academy Award as a supporting actress, Meryl Streep took another Oscar home as Best Actress. Watch the video above as Sylvester Stallone announces her name for the 1982 film “Sophie’s Choice,” and the pregnant Streep drops her speech at the podium before she receives the trophy. Sly refers her to as the “marvelous” Meryl Streep when opening the envelope.
SEEOscars flashback: Meryl Streep exclaims ‘Holy mackerel’ winning her 1st Oscar for ‘Kramer vs. Kramer’ [Watch]
When Streep first heard that William Styron’s novel about a Holocaust survivor who befriends two eccentric young men in New York City was being turned into a film, she knew she had to play the part. She reportedly begged writer/director Alan J. Pakula for the part on bended knee. Only after Ursula Andress, Magdalena Vasaryova and Liv Ullman proved unavailable, was Streep granted the role of Sophie Zawistowski.
SEEOscars flashback: Meryl Streep exclaims ‘Holy mackerel’ winning her 1st Oscar for ‘Kramer vs. Kramer’ [Watch]
When Streep first heard that William Styron’s novel about a Holocaust survivor who befriends two eccentric young men in New York City was being turned into a film, she knew she had to play the part. She reportedly begged writer/director Alan J. Pakula for the part on bended knee. Only after Ursula Andress, Magdalena Vasaryova and Liv Ullman proved unavailable, was Streep granted the role of Sophie Zawistowski.
- 2/27/2018
- by Jack Fields
- Gold Derby
The St. Louis Central Library downtown (1301 Olive Blvd) is teaming up with Cinema St. Louis and the St. Louis International Film Festival to present Directors Cut: The Films Of Charles Burnett.
Charles Burnett is a writer-director whose work has received extensive honors. Born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, his family soon moved to the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. Burnett studied creative writing at UCLA before entering the University’s graduate film program. His thesis project, Killer of Sheep (1977), won accolades at film festivals and a critical devotion; in 1990, it was among the first titles named to the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry. European financing allowed Burnett to shoot his second feature, My Brother’s Wedding (1983), but a rushed debut prevented the filmmaker from completing his final cut until 2007. In 1988, Burnett was awarded the prestigious John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur (“genius grant”) Fellowship. His first widely released film, To Sleep with Anger...
Charles Burnett is a writer-director whose work has received extensive honors. Born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, his family soon moved to the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. Burnett studied creative writing at UCLA before entering the University’s graduate film program. His thesis project, Killer of Sheep (1977), won accolades at film festivals and a critical devotion; in 1990, it was among the first titles named to the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry. European financing allowed Burnett to shoot his second feature, My Brother’s Wedding (1983), but a rushed debut prevented the filmmaker from completing his final cut until 2007. In 1988, Burnett was awarded the prestigious John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur (“genius grant”) Fellowship. His first widely released film, To Sleep with Anger...
- 10/14/2016
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
I was curious to see how “The Birth of a Nation” — which I first saw at Sundance, where it drew two standing ovations and won the jury and audience prizes — would play for a real audience; in this case, at UCLA Extension’s fall screening series Sneak Previews.
As I watched the film again, I recognized the power of this handsomely mounted movie. Writer-director Nate Parker carefully crafted the (mostly) historically accurate story to show how, in 1831, the charismatic and educated slave Nat Turner (Parker) preached the gospel around his Virginia county, to the enrichment of his childhood playmate and master Samuel Turner (Armie Hammer), in order to placate the local restless slave population, many of them living under far worse conditions.
He witnessed horror after horror, including the brutal gang rape of his beloved wife (Aja Naomi King), which eventually sent him on a mission of righteous vengeance from the Lord.
As I watched the film again, I recognized the power of this handsomely mounted movie. Writer-director Nate Parker carefully crafted the (mostly) historically accurate story to show how, in 1831, the charismatic and educated slave Nat Turner (Parker) preached the gospel around his Virginia county, to the enrichment of his childhood playmate and master Samuel Turner (Armie Hammer), in order to placate the local restless slave population, many of them living under far worse conditions.
He witnessed horror after horror, including the brutal gang rape of his beloved wife (Aja Naomi King), which eventually sent him on a mission of righteous vengeance from the Lord.
- 10/7/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
I was curious to see how “The Birth of a Nation” — which I first saw at Sundance, where it drew two standing ovations and won the jury and audience prizes — would play for a real audience; in this case, at UCLA Extension’s fall screening series Sneak Previews.
As I watched the film again, I recognized the power of this handsomely mounted movie. Writer-director Nate Parker carefully crafted the (mostly) historically accurate story to show how, in 1831, the charismatic and educated slave Nat Turner (Parker) preached the gospel around his Virginia county, to the enrichment of his childhood playmate and master Samuel Turner (Armie Hammer), in order to placate the local restless slave population, many of them living under far worse conditions.
He witnessed horror after horror, including the brutal gang rape of his beloved wife (Aja Naomi King), which eventually sent him on a mission of righteous vengeance from the Lord.
As I watched the film again, I recognized the power of this handsomely mounted movie. Writer-director Nate Parker carefully crafted the (mostly) historically accurate story to show how, in 1831, the charismatic and educated slave Nat Turner (Parker) preached the gospel around his Virginia county, to the enrichment of his childhood playmate and master Samuel Turner (Armie Hammer), in order to placate the local restless slave population, many of them living under far worse conditions.
He witnessed horror after horror, including the brutal gang rape of his beloved wife (Aja Naomi King), which eventually sent him on a mission of righteous vengeance from the Lord.
- 10/7/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Nate Parker wrote, directed and stars as the lead character in the slave uprising historical drama The Birth of a Nation. It recounts the little known events of 1831 in Virginia when Nat Turner, a slave and preacher, led a two-day rebellion against white masters and their enforcers which ended in a massacre. Parker based the screenplay in part on The Confessions of Nat Turner, the 1967 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by William Styron, slave narratives and historical documents. But he named it The Birth of a Nation to “reclaim the title” from D.W. Griffith’s 1915 racist silent film. Parker brought the film...read more...
- 10/7/2016
- by Anne Brodie
- Monsters and Critics
Born Again: Parker Resuscitates Turner Narrative in Painful Labor of Love
An odd, continued legacy of unquestioned applause greets the reception of actor Nate Parker’s commendable directorial debut, The Birth of a Nation, a powerful and grotesque revival of a slave rebellion led by Nat Turner, a man who’s most revered account heretofore was a celebrated novel by William Styron.
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An odd, continued legacy of unquestioned applause greets the reception of actor Nate Parker’s commendable directorial debut, The Birth of a Nation, a powerful and grotesque revival of a slave rebellion led by Nat Turner, a man who’s most revered account heretofore was a celebrated novel by William Styron.
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- 10/5/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Telling the story of Nat Turner's 1831 slave rebellion seems to have a cursed history. In 1967, William Styron wrote the best-selling novel The Confessions of Nat Turner, which won the Pulitzer Prize. However, despite popularizing an important event in American history, the novel was met with angry criticism from some African-Americans in part because Styron, who told the story from Nat Turner's point of view, was white. Even though the novel was supported by black literary giants Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin, a book of criticism by 10 black writers was published dissecting what they deemed blatant
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- 9/9/2016
- by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In the old days, newspaper libraries, called "morgues," kept their clips in dusty manila envelopes with neat little headers typed on the front—as in the Oscar Best Picture winner Spotlight. And the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences still does. So we dropped in to see if the Herrick library had an envelope for The Confessions Of Nat Turner, a never-produced film, based on William Styron's bestselling novel of the same title. The…...
- 8/5/2016
- Deadline
The President: What’s his plan? Ohila: I think he is finishing his soup. • Hell Bent, Doctor Who Season Finale, Series 9
“Sometimes I think about what my mom told me. How I was really, really sick when I was first born and the doctors thought I was going to die. But there was this one doctor who wouldn’t give up. And sometimes, when things are really bad and fucked up, and I’m just so fucking tired of hauling myself out of the abyss one more goddamn time, I wish he had.” • Mindy Newell, On Her Depression
18 October 1990
Dear Ms. Newell,
Thanks for the letter and the story, which I liked enormously. I’m glad you liked my little book and that it may have helped in some way. I’m sure you’ll avoid your Jack the Ripper and pull through with grand success; remember that most people do.
“Sometimes I think about what my mom told me. How I was really, really sick when I was first born and the doctors thought I was going to die. But there was this one doctor who wouldn’t give up. And sometimes, when things are really bad and fucked up, and I’m just so fucking tired of hauling myself out of the abyss one more goddamn time, I wish he had.” • Mindy Newell, On Her Depression
18 October 1990
Dear Ms. Newell,
Thanks for the letter and the story, which I liked enormously. I’m glad you liked my little book and that it may have helped in some way. I’m sure you’ll avoid your Jack the Ripper and pull through with grand success; remember that most people do.
- 12/7/2015
- by Mindy Newell
- Comicmix.com
In 1960, Jean-Luc Godard’s first feature film, Breathless, would make him an icon of French cinema, inaugurating a career that has consistently expanded society’s definitions and expectations of cinema. That film alone would have reason enough to consider him an important filmmaker, but Godard went on to direct fourteen more features through 1967, culminating with his attack on bourgeois culture, Weekend.
Following this extraordinary run of films, Godard found himself at a moment of great change. His romantic and artistic partnership with Anna Karina had ended, to be replaced with a new (but short-lived) marriage to Anne Wiazemsky, who would serve as a bridge to the current youth culture. Godard’s politics had also changed considerably since the 1950s. His conservatism, a relic of his parents’s politics, had been replaced with an interest in Maoism and an increasing distaste for anything evoking America. (Classic Hollywood cinema initially got a pass,...
Following this extraordinary run of films, Godard found himself at a moment of great change. His romantic and artistic partnership with Anna Karina had ended, to be replaced with a new (but short-lived) marriage to Anne Wiazemsky, who would serve as a bridge to the current youth culture. Godard’s politics had also changed considerably since the 1950s. His conservatism, a relic of his parents’s politics, had been replaced with an interest in Maoism and an increasing distaste for anything evoking America. (Classic Hollywood cinema initially got a pass,...
- 10/25/2015
- by Brian Marks
- SoundOnSight
“…Depression… is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk… slowed-down responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to zero…the body…feels sapped, drained.” Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness, William Styron
Sorry for the skip last week, everyone, but I wasn’t up to it – I was down. As in my depression said “Hello, again!” last weekend. No, I didn’t lie in bed for 48 hours, I’ve never given in to that, even back in the day before I was properly diagnosed with this goddamn thing. So on Saturday, though I could feel it banging on the door of my psyche’s house, I did get dressed and made the usual weekend runs to the supermarket and to the laundromat…but by Sunday Elvis was in the house, and even though I got up and put on my workout gear, I blew off my free personal...
Sorry for the skip last week, everyone, but I wasn’t up to it – I was down. As in my depression said “Hello, again!” last weekend. No, I didn’t lie in bed for 48 hours, I’ve never given in to that, even back in the day before I was properly diagnosed with this goddamn thing. So on Saturday, though I could feel it banging on the door of my psyche’s house, I did get dressed and made the usual weekend runs to the supermarket and to the laundromat…but by Sunday Elvis was in the house, and even though I got up and put on my workout gear, I blew off my free personal...
- 11/10/2014
- by Mindy Newell
- Comicmix.com
Meryl’S Masterpiece
By Raymond Benson
In 1982, Meryl Streep had already made a big splash in the motion picture industry, having won a Supporting Actress Oscar for 1979’s Kramer vs. Kramer, and securing a Supporting Actress nomination prior to that for 1978’s The Deer Hunter and a Best Actress nomination for 1981’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman. With Sophie’s Choice, the actress snapped up the Best Actress Oscar pretty much without a contest—everyone knew that if she didn’t win, then a terrible crime had been committed by the Academy. In short, in this reviewer’s opinion, Streep’s performance in Sophie’s Choice is one of the greatest pieces of acting ever presented on the silver screen. Period. Since then, Streep has gone on to prove, over and over, that she is arguably the most talented actress in the history of cinema, but Sophie remains her masterpiece.
By Raymond Benson
In 1982, Meryl Streep had already made a big splash in the motion picture industry, having won a Supporting Actress Oscar for 1979’s Kramer vs. Kramer, and securing a Supporting Actress nomination prior to that for 1978’s The Deer Hunter and a Best Actress nomination for 1981’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman. With Sophie’s Choice, the actress snapped up the Best Actress Oscar pretty much without a contest—everyone knew that if she didn’t win, then a terrible crime had been committed by the Academy. In short, in this reviewer’s opinion, Streep’s performance in Sophie’s Choice is one of the greatest pieces of acting ever presented on the silver screen. Period. Since then, Streep has gone on to prove, over and over, that she is arguably the most talented actress in the history of cinema, but Sophie remains her masterpiece.
- 7/5/2014
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
We're continuing this periodic summer project where we revisit classic sitcom episode. This week, we're returning to the 1980s for the season 5 "Cheers" episode "Thanksgiving Orphans," which you can find on Netflix, coming up just as soon as we're moving into the earth tones... The short version of "Cheers": Sam Malone (Ted Danson) is a former relief pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, and a recovering alcoholic who bought a bar during one of his drunker periods, then kept it in sobriety. At the time of this episode, the Cheers staff includes rookie bartender Woody (Woody Harrelson), a naive kid from Hanover, Indiana; single mom waitress Carla Tortelli (Rhea Perlman), as abrasive as she is fertile; and waitress Diane Chambers (Shelley Long), a pretentious aging graduate student who has been Sam's on-again, off-again love interest. Among the regular customers: unemployed accountant and one-liner machine Norm Peterson (George Wendt), whose...
- 7/2/2014
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
Samuel Goldwyn Films has released the new trailer and poster for their upcoming film The Last Of Robin Hood starring Kevin Kline, Susan Sarandon & Dakota Fanning.
Errol Flynn, the swashbuckling Hollywood star and notorious ladies man, flouted convention all his life, but never more brazenly than in his last years when, swimming in vodka and unwilling to face his mortality, he undertook a liaison with an aspiring actress, Beverly Aadland.
The two had a high-flying affair that spanned the globe and was enabled by the girl’s fame-obsessed mother, Florence. It all came crashing to an end in October 1959, when events forced the relationship into the open, sparking an avalanche of publicity castigating Beverly and her mother – which only fed Florence’s need to stay in the spotlight. The Last Of Robin Hood is a story about the desire for fame and the price it exacts.
Written and directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland,...
Errol Flynn, the swashbuckling Hollywood star and notorious ladies man, flouted convention all his life, but never more brazenly than in his last years when, swimming in vodka and unwilling to face his mortality, he undertook a liaison with an aspiring actress, Beverly Aadland.
The two had a high-flying affair that spanned the globe and was enabled by the girl’s fame-obsessed mother, Florence. It all came crashing to an end in October 1959, when events forced the relationship into the open, sparking an avalanche of publicity castigating Beverly and her mother – which only fed Florence’s need to stay in the spotlight. The Last Of Robin Hood is a story about the desire for fame and the price it exacts.
Written and directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland,...
- 6/25/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Well, this is a refreshing choice. At major festivals, the position of jury president is usually the preserve of directors and actors. At Cannes, for example, you have to go all the way back to 1983 to find a president -- novelist William Styron -- who doesn't tick either of those boxes. And while exceptions have been made for writers, it's very rare for below-the-line artists to take the top position. Production designer Dante Ferretti did the honors at the 2005 Venice Film Festival, and it's the Italians who are once more taking that route: composer Alexandre Desplat will preside over the Competition jury at Venice this year. While it's an unexpected appointment, it's hardly an undeserved one. Desplat is currently among the hardest-working craftsmen in the business, having scored over 60 features in the last decade -- his intricate compositions frequently an invaluable component of films that range from megabudget Hollywood blockbusters...
- 6/23/2014
- by Guy Lodge
- Hitfix
Having made a name for himself with his double-Oscar winning debut Crazy Heart, young filmmaker Scott Cooper returns with his sophomore production Out of the Furnace – and we had the great pleasure in speaking to talented director on the phone.
Cooper discusses the pressure that comes with making your second feature in Hollywood, following on from a rousing triumph, and why he feels the title has been somewhat polarising in the States. He also tells us about the time that William Friedkin reached out to him, and about his next, untitled project, which he’s working on with Leonardo DiCaprio…
Crazy Heart was a huge success, winning two Academy Awards. Did you feel more of a pressure on you because of that?
Yes, for sure. Your second film after your first is always pressure filled, and you live with that burden of expectations, both from an industry standpoint, and also from a personal stand-point.
Cooper discusses the pressure that comes with making your second feature in Hollywood, following on from a rousing triumph, and why he feels the title has been somewhat polarising in the States. He also tells us about the time that William Friedkin reached out to him, and about his next, untitled project, which he’s working on with Leonardo DiCaprio…
Crazy Heart was a huge success, winning two Academy Awards. Did you feel more of a pressure on you because of that?
Yes, for sure. Your second film after your first is always pressure filled, and you live with that burden of expectations, both from an industry standpoint, and also from a personal stand-point.
- 1/27/2014
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Of his seven feature length films, it’s hard to pinpoint which serves as the best entry into the visual poetry of Andrei Tarkovsky, arguably one of the cinema’s authorial titans of the past century. That said, his 1983 feature, Nostalghia, which was his first to be filmed outside the confines of the Soviet Union, may not be the wisest choice for the unprepared, but it’s certainly an unparalleled viewing experience. Though comprehending it’s somewhat impenetrable meaning feels akin to looking through a glass darkly, our earthly interpretations somehow seeming rudimentary when crafted into mere synopsis.
A Russian poet, Andrei Gorchakov (Oleg Yankovsky) has been living in Italy for the past two years, separated from wife and children back home as he researches the life of an 18th century Russian composer named Pavel Sosnovsky, a man that left Russia to live in Italy, only to return to his homeland and hang himself.
A Russian poet, Andrei Gorchakov (Oleg Yankovsky) has been living in Italy for the past two years, separated from wife and children back home as he researches the life of an 18th century Russian composer named Pavel Sosnovsky, a man that left Russia to live in Italy, only to return to his homeland and hang himself.
- 1/14/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Kristen Stewart will not star in Lie Down in Darkness.
It was announced last summer that Stewart would play the suicidal Peyton Loftis in the big-screen adaptation of William Styron's novel.
Although Stewart had said that she wanted the role "more than anything I can possibly taste or touch in my life", director Scott Cooper has confirmed that she is not attached.
"There was no truth to [that story]," Cooper told Hitfix.
Jennifer Lawrence has previously expressed interest in the role of Peyton, telling W Magazine: "I am obsessed with that part. I have this feeling of protectiveness over characters I want to play."
Stewart is next lined up to star opposite Elizabeth Banks in The Big Shoe, and is also expected to return for the sequel to Snow White and the Huntsman.
Watch a clip of Kristen Stewart in On the Road below:...
It was announced last summer that Stewart would play the suicidal Peyton Loftis in the big-screen adaptation of William Styron's novel.
Although Stewart had said that she wanted the role "more than anything I can possibly taste or touch in my life", director Scott Cooper has confirmed that she is not attached.
"There was no truth to [that story]," Cooper told Hitfix.
Jennifer Lawrence has previously expressed interest in the role of Peyton, telling W Magazine: "I am obsessed with that part. I have this feeling of protectiveness over characters I want to play."
Stewart is next lined up to star opposite Elizabeth Banks in The Big Shoe, and is also expected to return for the sequel to Snow White and the Huntsman.
Watch a clip of Kristen Stewart in On the Road below:...
- 5/7/2013
- Digital Spy
The Twilight stars look particularly yearbook-y in this photo from Comic-Con.
Even the most amateur of movie biz followers knows that stars of mega-franchise movies face a huge hurdle when it comes to finding work later But then again, for every Elijah Wood or Mark Hamill, there’s an Emma Watson or Harrison Ford. Which category will the Twilight cast fall into? We’re taking a close look at all the movies our favorite vampires and werewolves have lined up here, and while we were a bit surprised to see who’s dance card is all filled up and whose IMDb page is looking a little blank at the moment, we’re also choosing to see those empty calendars as great opportunities. Especially now that casting directors must be noting all the cash that Breaking Dawn – Part 2 brought in over the weekend. In the meantime, here’s what we’re...
Even the most amateur of movie biz followers knows that stars of mega-franchise movies face a huge hurdle when it comes to finding work later But then again, for every Elijah Wood or Mark Hamill, there’s an Emma Watson or Harrison Ford. Which category will the Twilight cast fall into? We’re taking a close look at all the movies our favorite vampires and werewolves have lined up here, and while we were a bit surprised to see who’s dance card is all filled up and whose IMDb page is looking a little blank at the moment, we’re also choosing to see those empty calendars as great opportunities. Especially now that casting directors must be noting all the cash that Breaking Dawn – Part 2 brought in over the weekend. In the meantime, here’s what we’re...
- 11/19/2012
- by Sabrina Rojas Weiss
- TheFabLife - Movies
Kristen Stewart stepped out in Paris, France today for Balenciaga's spring and summer 2013 line show at Paris Fashion Week wearing printed pants and a soft yellow leather jacket. Stewart is, of course, the brand's ambassador for their Florabotanica perfume fragrance, which recently hit shelves, so her support of the line was anticipated. View slideshow: Kristen Stewart at Balenciaga show for Paris Fashion Week While at the show, Kristen Stewart spoke to Wwd about her plans for future movies, and she said that she's still hunting for her next project but that she hopes it'll be the book-to-film adaptation of William Styron's Lie Down In Darkness, in which she's been tapped to portray the complicated Peyton Loftis. Kristen Stewart's Balenciaga perfume ad Photo credit: Balenciaga Video: Behind-the-scenes of Kristen Stewart's Balenciaga photoshoot Stewart had previously mentioned her interest in the part during an interview with Elle ...
- 9/27/2012
- by thetwilightexaminer
- Twilight Examiner
Kristen Stewart Lie Down in Darkness ‘attachment’ This Kristen Stewart / Lie Down in Darkness post was written a couple of weeks ago, but, for a variety of reasons, it’s only now seeing the light of Web. Anyhow, in case you missed this Lie Down in Darkness "casting" update — "attached" isn’t the same as "cast" — here it is, in more detail… [See also Kristen Stewart: An Appreciation.] In early August, Vulture‘s Claude Brodesser-Akner asserted that Kristen Stewart had landed a key role in Lie Down in Darkness, a movie version of William Styron’s acclaimed 1951 novel. Set in the American South and [...]...
- 8/23/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Kristen Stewart beat Hunger Games Jennifer Lawrence for new Darkness drama movie. According to a new report from Collider, Twilight Saga hottie Kristen Stewart, claimed another movie role victory,and beat out her arch rival Hunger Games Jennifer Lawrence at the same time. Kristen has been casts to play character Peyton Loftis in a new,intense drama adaptation by William Styron,called "Lie Down in Darkness." Scott Cooper will be directing it. The plotline is set in 1950s Virginia, and centers on Peyton Loftis,who is a young girl whose intense physical beauty makes her the object of her frigid mother’s jealous hatred and the target of her father’s incestuous, alcoholic lust. Both K-Stew and Jennifer Lawrence really wanted the part bad. However, Jennifer is very tied down at the moment,getting ready to film "Catching Fire" and the "X-Men: First Class "sequel,so Kristen was the obvious choice.
- 8/3/2012
- by Eric
- OnTheFlix
Tags: Jessica BielKate BeckinsaleRanae HollandIMDbTotal RecallFinding Bigfoot
Good afternoon and happy Friday!
Happy birthday to Evangeline Lilly, Martha Stewart, Spinderella, Jennie McNulty and my mother Diane!
Evangeline Lilly
Photo courtesy of NBC Universal
Kristen Stewart will star in Lie Down in Darkness, adapted from William Styron’s 1951 novel of the same name. Stewart will play Peyton Loftis, “as a part of a dysfunctional and disintegrating family, Peyton is constantly compared to her crippled sister, Maudie, and her intense physical beauty makes her the object of her frigid mother’s jealous hatred and the target of her father’s incestuous, alcoholic lust.”
Jennifer Lawrence climbed a lot of trees in the Hunger Games and EW has an exclusive video of Lawrence performing her vertical workout.
Actress Julie Delpy wants everyone to know that her vagina is very muscular. Noted.
The band Train is speaking out after New Zealand's anti-gay website Family...
Good afternoon and happy Friday!
Happy birthday to Evangeline Lilly, Martha Stewart, Spinderella, Jennie McNulty and my mother Diane!
Evangeline Lilly
Photo courtesy of NBC Universal
Kristen Stewart will star in Lie Down in Darkness, adapted from William Styron’s 1951 novel of the same name. Stewart will play Peyton Loftis, “as a part of a dysfunctional and disintegrating family, Peyton is constantly compared to her crippled sister, Maudie, and her intense physical beauty makes her the object of her frigid mother’s jealous hatred and the target of her father’s incestuous, alcoholic lust.”
Jennifer Lawrence climbed a lot of trees in the Hunger Games and EW has an exclusive video of Lawrence performing her vertical workout.
Actress Julie Delpy wants everyone to know that her vagina is very muscular. Noted.
The band Train is speaking out after New Zealand's anti-gay website Family...
- 8/3/2012
- by Bridget McManus
- AfterEllen.com
Hotlist 2012 winner Kristen Stewart has landed the lead role in Lie Down In Darkness, an adaptation of William Styron’s 1951 novel. Stewart, who you voted Hottest Actress in this year’s Total Film Hotlist Awards, will play beautiful youngster Peyton Loftis in the film. Suffering under the jealous loathing of her mother and the lustful advances of her alcoholic father, Peyton struggles against the twisted values of her dysfunctional family. It’s a role that Jennifer Lawrence was campaigning hard for, but her commitments to...
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- 8/3/2012
- by Josh Winning
- TotalFilm
Kristen Stewart is back in the news, but not for her affair with ‘Snow White’ director Rupert Sanders. This time it is for Stewart’s new starring role in ‘Lie Down In Darkness’. Beating out Jennifer Lawrence, the Breaking Dawn star has signed on to appear in the film from director Scott Cooper. As confirmed by Vulture, the indie drama chronicles the troubles of a southern family back in the 1950′s and is an adaption of writer William Styron’s novel of the same name. Stewart has signed on to play the role of Peyton Loftis in the predictable dark thriller. Here’s a few snippets taken from the plot summary per Amazon. [ Read More ]...
- 8/3/2012
- by Sarah Anne Luoma
- ShockYa
Los Angeles, Aug 3: Actress Kristen Stewart is set to star in a movie "Lie Down In Darknes", an adaptation of William Styron's 1951 novel of the same name.
The 22-year-old, who is in the news for cheating on beau Robert Pattinson, will play the role of Peyton Loftis, whose mother is jealous of her and whose father developes incestuous feelings towards her.
Director Scott Cooper will helm the project, and the film will be produced.
The 22-year-old, who is in the news for cheating on beau Robert Pattinson, will play the role of Peyton Loftis, whose mother is jealous of her and whose father developes incestuous feelings towards her.
Director Scott Cooper will helm the project, and the film will be produced.
- 8/3/2012
- by Ketali Mehta
- RealBollywood.com
Update: While Stewart still seems likely to take the lead role, the Washington Post are reporting that her involvement isn’t yet set in stone, and that the project is very much in the early stages of development.
In a bid to put her recent personal missteps behind her, and move beyond the Twilight franchise for once and for all, Kristen Stewart (Into The Wild) has landed the lead role in Lie Down in Darkness, Vulture has learned.
The actress will play Peyton Loftis in the film adaptation of William Styron’s 1951 novel.
Lie Down in Darkness traces the betrayals and infidelities that afflict the members of a Southern family. Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart) is attached to direct, with Jeff Sharp (You Can Count On Me) set to produce.
The title is set up at Open Road Films and will likely shoot towards the end of this year.
Stewart will...
In a bid to put her recent personal missteps behind her, and move beyond the Twilight franchise for once and for all, Kristen Stewart (Into The Wild) has landed the lead role in Lie Down in Darkness, Vulture has learned.
The actress will play Peyton Loftis in the film adaptation of William Styron’s 1951 novel.
Lie Down in Darkness traces the betrayals and infidelities that afflict the members of a Southern family. Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart) is attached to direct, with Jeff Sharp (You Can Count On Me) set to produce.
The title is set up at Open Road Films and will likely shoot towards the end of this year.
Stewart will...
- 8/3/2012
- by Jamie Neish
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Kristen Stewart has scored the leading role in "Crazy Heart" director Scott Cooper's indie drama "Lie Down in Darkness", an adaptation of William Styron's 1951 novel at Open Road Media says Vulture.
The story centers on a dysfunctional and disintegrating family on the day of the funeral of one of the daughters named Peyton (Stewart).
Jennifer Lawrence was reportedly keen on the role but is occupied with sequel commitments shooting "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" and "X-Men: Days of Future Past".
Jeff Sharp will produce, but no production dates have yet been set.
The story centers on a dysfunctional and disintegrating family on the day of the funeral of one of the daughters named Peyton (Stewart).
Jennifer Lawrence was reportedly keen on the role but is occupied with sequel commitments shooting "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" and "X-Men: Days of Future Past".
Jeff Sharp will produce, but no production dates have yet been set.
- 8/3/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
• Kristen Stewart’s tabloid woes have certainly not slowed her career. She’s attached to star in Lie Down in Darkness, an adaptation of the William Styron novel about the highly dysfunctional Loftis family and their beautiful-but-neglected daughter Peyton (Stewart). Director Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart) also penned the screenplay. [Vulture/THR]
• Abraham Lincoln is totally blowing up, you guys. Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds) has signed up for The Green Blade Rises, playing the 16th U.S. president’s influential stepmother Sarah, who married Lincoln’s father in 1819 after his biological mother Nancy died from an illness. The film, produced by auteur Terrence Malick...
• Abraham Lincoln is totally blowing up, you guys. Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds) has signed up for The Green Blade Rises, playing the 16th U.S. president’s influential stepmother Sarah, who married Lincoln’s father in 1819 after his biological mother Nancy died from an illness. The film, produced by auteur Terrence Malick...
- 8/3/2012
- by Adam B. Vary
- EW - Inside Movies
You can get a look at Hugh Jackman on the set of The Wolverine in Kurnell, Sydney here and here. Dutch director George Sluizer has completed what was River Phoenix's final film, Dark Blood and it will have its premiere at the Netherlands Film Festival in Utrecht on September 27. Phoenix died of a drug overdose during filming in 1993. [Cineuropa] Kristen Stewart will star in the '50s-set indie adaptation of William Styron's 1951 novel, Lie Down In Darkness for Crazy Heart director Scott Cooper. The film sounds like a real treat as Stewart's character, Peyton Loftis, is so insanely beautiful she becomes the object of her frigid mother's jealous hatred and the target of her father's incestuous, alcoholic lust. [Vulture] Jimmy Fallon is rumored to be in negotiations to host the 2013 Oscar with "Saturday Night Live's" Lorne Michaels producing. We'll see... [Los Angeles Times] Legendary Entertainment has brought on Charles Leavitt (K-pax) to...
- 8/3/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Given the pun possibilities inherent in this one thanks to recent tabloid stories, Kristen Stewart might have been hoping that some other casting news had emerged instead. But no: Vulture reports that she’s landed the lead in Crazy Heart director Scott Cooper’s Lie Down In Darkness.Based on William Styron’s 1951 novel, the eventual film will feature Stewart as Peyton Loftis, a young woman dealing with the disintegration of her dysfunctional family. Not only is she constantly compared to her crippled sister, she’s also the source of jealousy for her cold, bitter mother and the target of alcohol-fuelled, incestuous lust by her father. But with the family home in genteel 1950’s Virginia, everything is quietly pushed under the carpet. At least at first…The novel adaptation has been in development for a while now, and Jennifer Lawrence had been interested in the lead before her blockbuster schedule got in the way.
- 8/3/2012
- EmpireOnline
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