Comic book author Brian Michael Bendis has set a first-look deal with Amazon is already developing three TV series under the new pact based on his previous works: “Jinx,” “Murder Inc.” and “Pearl.”
“Jinx” is a crime-ridden love story unfolding on a high stakes treasure hunt, per Amazon’s series description. Our players are: Jinx Alameda, a bounty hunter at the top of her game who’s tired of her grimy life; Goldfish, a charming con man and wanted felon who falls head over heels for Jinx; and Columbia, Goldfish’s loose-cannon partner, who has big criminal dreams. Their paths join when they’re pulled into a search for missing mob money — a payout so big that it lures them away from the familiar streets of Cleveland, into a dangerous, unpredictable misadventure that will change the course of their lives.
“Jinx” is executive produced by Bendis along with showrunners Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon.
“Jinx” is a crime-ridden love story unfolding on a high stakes treasure hunt, per Amazon’s series description. Our players are: Jinx Alameda, a bounty hunter at the top of her game who’s tired of her grimy life; Goldfish, a charming con man and wanted felon who falls head over heels for Jinx; and Columbia, Goldfish’s loose-cannon partner, who has big criminal dreams. Their paths join when they’re pulled into a search for missing mob money — a payout so big that it lures them away from the familiar streets of Cleveland, into a dangerous, unpredictable misadventure that will change the course of their lives.
“Jinx” is executive produced by Bendis along with showrunners Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon.
- 2/27/2024
- by Jennifer Maas
- Variety Film + TV
Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Chabon and Tony-winning playwright David Henry Hwang are among a group of writers that filed a class action lawsuit against Meta in San Francisco federal court for having “copied and ingested” their works to train its LLaMA AI platform.
Plaintiffs also including authors Matthew Klam, Rachel Louise and Ayelet Waldman are seeking class action status for the suit, which says their copyrighted books appear in the dataset that Meta has admitted to using to train LLaMA.
“Plaintiffs and Class members did not consent to the use of their copyrighted books as training materials for LLaMA,” said the group, which filed a similar suit last week against ChatGPT parent OpenAI.
Comedian Sarah Silverman sued Meta and OpenAI this summer for copyright infringement.
As AI grows, so do lawsuits by the creative community against its large language model. That’s an AI software program designed to produce convincingly natural text in response user prompts.
Plaintiffs also including authors Matthew Klam, Rachel Louise and Ayelet Waldman are seeking class action status for the suit, which says their copyrighted books appear in the dataset that Meta has admitted to using to train LLaMA.
“Plaintiffs and Class members did not consent to the use of their copyrighted books as training materials for LLaMA,” said the group, which filed a similar suit last week against ChatGPT parent OpenAI.
Comedian Sarah Silverman sued Meta and OpenAI this summer for copyright infringement.
As AI grows, so do lawsuits by the creative community against its large language model. That’s an AI software program designed to produce convincingly natural text in response user prompts.
- 9/12/2023
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
San Francisco, Sep 12 (Ians) Microsoft-backed OpenAI has been sued by another group of writers, claiming that the Sam Altman-run company illegally used their works to train its chatbot called ChatGPT. Authors Michael Chabon, David Henry Hwang, Rachel Louise Snyder and Ayelet Waldman alleged in the lawsuit that OpenAI benefits and profits from the “unauthorised and illegal use” of their copyrighted content.
The lawsuit is seeking class-action status.
“OpenAI incorporated plaintiffs’ and class members’ copyrighted works in datasets used to train its Gpt models powering its ChatGPT product,” read the lawsuit.
“Indeed, when ChatGPT is prompted, it generates not only summaries, but in-depth analyses of the themes present in plaintiffs’ copyrighted works, which is only possible if the underlying Gpt model was trained using plaintiffs’ works,” it added.
The lawsuit alleged that “OpenAI’s acts of copyright infringement have been intentional, willful, and in callous disregard of Plaintiffs’ and Class members’ rights.
The lawsuit is seeking class-action status.
“OpenAI incorporated plaintiffs’ and class members’ copyrighted works in datasets used to train its Gpt models powering its ChatGPT product,” read the lawsuit.
“Indeed, when ChatGPT is prompted, it generates not only summaries, but in-depth analyses of the themes present in plaintiffs’ copyrighted works, which is only possible if the underlying Gpt model was trained using plaintiffs’ works,” it added.
The lawsuit alleged that “OpenAI’s acts of copyright infringement have been intentional, willful, and in callous disregard of Plaintiffs’ and Class members’ rights.
- 9/12/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Exclusive: The epic, years-long battle between Al Capone and Eliot Ness, who clashed on the biggest stage in the world on their way to becoming ultimate American enemies, is the subject of a new TV series in early development at Showtime, from Alex Kurtzman’s Secret Hideout, run by Heather Kadin, and CBS Studios where the company is based.
Written by Ben Jacoby, the project is based on Max Allen Collins and A. Brad Schwartz’s nonfiction book Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness and the Battle for Chicago.
A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year, Scarface and the Untouchable, published in 2018 and optioned by Secret Hideout, chronicles the lives of gangster Al Capone and his lawman nemesis, Eliot Ness in Prohibition-era Chicago. Described by publisher HarperCollins as “the new definitive history of gangster-era Chicago,” the book “draws upon decades of primary source...
Written by Ben Jacoby, the project is based on Max Allen Collins and A. Brad Schwartz’s nonfiction book Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness and the Battle for Chicago.
A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year, Scarface and the Untouchable, published in 2018 and optioned by Secret Hideout, chronicles the lives of gangster Al Capone and his lawman nemesis, Eliot Ness in Prohibition-era Chicago. Described by publisher HarperCollins as “the new definitive history of gangster-era Chicago,” the book “draws upon decades of primary source...
- 5/3/2021
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Michael Chabon, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his 2000 novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and worked for years with producer Scott Rudin on an unrealized film adaptation, has written a lengthy mea culpa – titled Apology of a Rudin Apologist – in which he expresses shame and regret for “enabling Scott Rudin’s abuse.”
In a nearly 1,400-word essay posted today on Medium, Chabon writes of both witnessing and receiving the producer’s abuse.
“I heard stories of Scott’s tantrums and vindictiveness, but not of smashed hands and people pushed out of moving cars,” writes Chabon, whose first screenplay was optioned by Rudin in 1994. “But I knew enough. I regularly, even routinely, heard him treat his staff, from the new kid doing the coffee run to the guy just under Scott on the Srp organizational chart, with what I would call a careful, even surgical contempt, like a torturer...
In a nearly 1,400-word essay posted today on Medium, Chabon writes of both witnessing and receiving the producer’s abuse.
“I heard stories of Scott’s tantrums and vindictiveness, but not of smashed hands and people pushed out of moving cars,” writes Chabon, whose first screenplay was optioned by Rudin in 1994. “But I knew enough. I regularly, even routinely, heard him treat his staff, from the new kid doing the coffee run to the guy just under Scott on the Srp organizational chart, with what I would call a careful, even surgical contempt, like a torturer...
- 4/23/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
This column is a collaboration with DoubleBlind, a print magazine and media company at the forefront of the psychedelic movement.
Would you care for a drop of LSD in your morning tea? A capsule of psilocybin-mushroom dust with your daily vitamins? Such is the daily regimen for those who’ve taken up microdosing, reporting anecdotally just how much this new psychedelic trend has changed their lives. Over the past decade, researchers have delved into how taking small amounts of psychedelics help people combat depression, trauma, attention deficit disorder, and even physical pain.
Would you care for a drop of LSD in your morning tea? A capsule of psilocybin-mushroom dust with your daily vitamins? Such is the daily regimen for those who’ve taken up microdosing, reporting anecdotally just how much this new psychedelic trend has changed their lives. Over the past decade, researchers have delved into how taking small amounts of psychedelics help people combat depression, trauma, attention deficit disorder, and even physical pain.
- 12/10/2020
- by Shelby Hartman and Madison Margolin
- Rollingstone.com
Over 100 actors, directors, writers, and more have signed an open letter protesting tonight’s NBC town hall with Donald Trump. The event is scheduled to begin at 8pm Et and air in direct conflict with ABC’s town hall with Joe Biden. The Trump town hall is set to run for 60 minutes and will cut into the first hour of Biden’s 90 minute town hall. The petition letter is signed by the likes of Seth Rogen, J.J. Abrams, Ava DuVernay, Sarah Silverman, Adam McKay, Kumail Nanjiani, Aaron Sorkin, and more.
“We have been devastated to learn that [NBCUniversal] has chosen to air President Trump’s town hall this Thursday night at 8 p.m., directly opposite Vice President Biden’s town hall,” the petition states. “This is not a partisan issue. This is about the political health of our democracy.
Trump and Biden were originally scheduled to take part in an in-person debate tonight,...
“We have been devastated to learn that [NBCUniversal] has chosen to air President Trump’s town hall this Thursday night at 8 p.m., directly opposite Vice President Biden’s town hall,” the petition states. “This is not a partisan issue. This is about the political health of our democracy.
Trump and Biden were originally scheduled to take part in an in-person debate tonight,...
- 10/15/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
More than 100 writers, actors, directors and producers are speaking out against NBC’s plan to air a town hall with President Donald Trump tonight at 8 Pm directly opposite the Joe Biden town hall on ABC.
In an open letter to Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell and NBCU News Group chairman Cesar Conde, the Hollywood heavyweights are asking for the Trump town hall to be shifted from the time slot. The list of those who signed the letter include the creator and cast of NBC’s flagship drama This Is Us, Law & Order: Svu star/exec producer Mariska Hargitay as well as Aaron Sorkin, J.J. Abrams, Ryan Murphy, Greg Berlanti, Ava DuVernay, Seth MacFarlane, Damon Lindelof, Kenya Barris, Phil Lloyd & Chris Miller, Adam McKay, Courtney Kemp, Tom McCarthy, Billy Porter, Seth Rogen, Ben Stiller, Allison Janney, Robert Kirkman, Julianne Moore and Amy Schumer.
Originally, the second Presidential debate was scheduled for tonight.
In an open letter to Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell and NBCU News Group chairman Cesar Conde, the Hollywood heavyweights are asking for the Trump town hall to be shifted from the time slot. The list of those who signed the letter include the creator and cast of NBC’s flagship drama This Is Us, Law & Order: Svu star/exec producer Mariska Hargitay as well as Aaron Sorkin, J.J. Abrams, Ryan Murphy, Greg Berlanti, Ava DuVernay, Seth MacFarlane, Damon Lindelof, Kenya Barris, Phil Lloyd & Chris Miller, Adam McKay, Courtney Kemp, Tom McCarthy, Billy Porter, Seth Rogen, Ben Stiller, Allison Janney, Robert Kirkman, Julianne Moore and Amy Schumer.
Originally, the second Presidential debate was scheduled for tonight.
- 10/15/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Here we go, people.
We have the entire list of nominees and winners for the 2020 Emmy Awards.
Find out who got a prize!
Outstanding Actress, Comed
Winner: Catherine O’Hara, Schitt’s Creek
Tracee Ellis Ross, Black-ish
Christina Applegate, Dead to Me
Linda Cardellini, Dead to Me
Issa Rae, Insecure
Rachel Brosnahan, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Actor, Comedy
Winner: Eugene Levy, Schitt’s Creek
Anthony Anderson, Black-ish
Don Cheadle, Black Monday
Ted Danson, The Good Place
Michael Douglas, The Kominsky Method
Ramy Youssef, Ramy
Outstanding Supporting Actor, Comedy
Winner: Dan Levy, Schitt’s Creek
Mahershala Ali, Ramy
Alan Arkin, The Kominsky Method
Andre Braugher, Brooklyn Nine-Nine Sterling K. Brown, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
William Jackson Harper, The Good Place
Tony Shalhoub, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Kenan Thompson, Saturday Night Live
Outstanding Supporting Actress, Comedy
Winner: Annie Murphy, Schitt’s Creek
Betty Gilpin, Glow
D’Arcy Carden, The Good Place
Yvonne Orji, Insecure
Alex Borstein,...
We have the entire list of nominees and winners for the 2020 Emmy Awards.
Find out who got a prize!
Outstanding Actress, Comed
Winner: Catherine O’Hara, Schitt’s Creek
Tracee Ellis Ross, Black-ish
Christina Applegate, Dead to Me
Linda Cardellini, Dead to Me
Issa Rae, Insecure
Rachel Brosnahan, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Actor, Comedy
Winner: Eugene Levy, Schitt’s Creek
Anthony Anderson, Black-ish
Don Cheadle, Black Monday
Ted Danson, The Good Place
Michael Douglas, The Kominsky Method
Ramy Youssef, Ramy
Outstanding Supporting Actor, Comedy
Winner: Dan Levy, Schitt’s Creek
Mahershala Ali, Ramy
Alan Arkin, The Kominsky Method
Andre Braugher, Brooklyn Nine-Nine Sterling K. Brown, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
William Jackson Harper, The Good Place
Tony Shalhoub, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Kenan Thompson, Saturday Night Live
Outstanding Supporting Actress, Comedy
Winner: Annie Murphy, Schitt’s Creek
Betty Gilpin, Glow
D’Arcy Carden, The Good Place
Yvonne Orji, Insecure
Alex Borstein,...
- 9/21/2020
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
It’s Emmy Sunday, and that can only mean that our talented and blunt Gold Derby forum posters — many of whom are industry insiders hiding behind cyber handles — are busy giving us their reactions to the 72nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards. They don’t not mince words when it comes to their thoughts on TV’s biggest night.
The ceremony had many cheering but left just as many infuriated when it came to the night’s winners and losers in the TV movie and limited series categories. What were the upsets that left them absolutely bewildered? Which winners were they cheering for the most? And which defeats struck our users the hardest?
Below, you can take a look at a sampling of the praise and pointed criticism that was leveled at this year’s ceremony. Read more and have your say here.
See 2020 Emmy winners: Full list in all 23 categories...
The ceremony had many cheering but left just as many infuriated when it came to the night’s winners and losers in the TV movie and limited series categories. What were the upsets that left them absolutely bewildered? Which winners were they cheering for the most? And which defeats struck our users the hardest?
Below, you can take a look at a sampling of the praise and pointed criticism that was leveled at this year’s ceremony. Read more and have your say here.
See 2020 Emmy winners: Full list in all 23 categories...
- 9/21/2020
- by Luca Giliberti
- Gold Derby
After a most unconventional awards season, the Emmys finally took place on Sunday. The 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards was a night of numerous firsts.
“Schitt’s Creek” became the first series to win every major comedy award. “Watchmen’s” limited series win marked the first time a comic-book adaptation has taken home a top prize at the ceremony. Zendaya also made history with her win for lead drama actress, becoming the youngest-ever winner in the category (she turned 24 a few weeks ago) and being the first Black actor to take this trophy since “How to Get Away With Murder’s” Viola Davis in 2015.
The two series, along with “Succession,” dominated the comedy, limited series and drama fields, respectively, including nabbing the three top outstanding series trophies.
The show, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, was held virtually for the first time.
Here’s the full winners list:
Drama Series
“Better Call Saul” (AMC...
“Schitt’s Creek” became the first series to win every major comedy award. “Watchmen’s” limited series win marked the first time a comic-book adaptation has taken home a top prize at the ceremony. Zendaya also made history with her win for lead drama actress, becoming the youngest-ever winner in the category (she turned 24 a few weeks ago) and being the first Black actor to take this trophy since “How to Get Away With Murder’s” Viola Davis in 2015.
The two series, along with “Succession,” dominated the comedy, limited series and drama fields, respectively, including nabbing the three top outstanding series trophies.
The show, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, was held virtually for the first time.
Here’s the full winners list:
Drama Series
“Better Call Saul” (AMC...
- 9/21/2020
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
The virtual Emmys are in the books, and in a first for 2020, not much went wrong! (Especially for “Schitt’s Creek.”)
Sunday’s first trophy went to Catherine O’Hara, who won Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the final season of “Schitt’s Creek.” The Pop TV sitcom (by way of the CBC) then won the next six awards.
You read that right: “Schitt’s Creek” won all seven of its seven possible Emmys tonight. Insane.
The final Emmy of the evening, Outstanding Drama Series, went to HBO’s “Succession.” Showrunner Jesse Armstrong also won for writing on the series, and star Jeremy Strong took home Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. Additionally, Andrij Parekh won an Emmy for directing on “Succession.”
HBO’s “Watchmen” also had a strong Sunday, winning four Emmys, including Outstanding Limited Series.
See all of the night’s winners and nominees below.
Outstanding Lead Actress...
Sunday’s first trophy went to Catherine O’Hara, who won Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the final season of “Schitt’s Creek.” The Pop TV sitcom (by way of the CBC) then won the next six awards.
You read that right: “Schitt’s Creek” won all seven of its seven possible Emmys tonight. Insane.
The final Emmy of the evening, Outstanding Drama Series, went to HBO’s “Succession.” Showrunner Jesse Armstrong also won for writing on the series, and star Jeremy Strong took home Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. Additionally, Andrij Parekh won an Emmy for directing on “Succession.”
HBO’s “Watchmen” also had a strong Sunday, winning four Emmys, including Outstanding Limited Series.
See all of the night’s winners and nominees below.
Outstanding Lead Actress...
- 9/20/2020
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
It may not feel like it, but it’s Emmys day! Tonight, TV’s top drama will come down to “Better Call Saul,” “The Crown,” “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Killing Eve,” “The Mandalorian,” “Ozark,” “Stranger Things” and “Succession.”
“Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Dead to Me,” “Saturday Night Live,” “Insecure,” “The Kominsky Method,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Schitt’s Creek” and “What We Do in the Shadows” are the Television Academy’s nominees for top comedy.
A reminder of all the other nominees up for statuettes tonight can be found below. The 72nd Emmy Awards, a virtual celebration hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, begin this evening at 8 p.m. Et/5 p.m. Pt on ABC.
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
Andre Braugher, “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”
William Jackson Harper, “The Good Place”
Alan Arkin, “The Kominsky Method”
Sterling K. Brown, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”
Tony Shalhoub, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”
Mahershala Ali, “Ramy”
Kenan Thompson,...
“Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Dead to Me,” “Saturday Night Live,” “Insecure,” “The Kominsky Method,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Schitt’s Creek” and “What We Do in the Shadows” are the Television Academy’s nominees for top comedy.
A reminder of all the other nominees up for statuettes tonight can be found below. The 72nd Emmy Awards, a virtual celebration hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, begin this evening at 8 p.m. Et/5 p.m. Pt on ABC.
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
Andre Braugher, “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”
William Jackson Harper, “The Good Place”
Alan Arkin, “The Kominsky Method”
Sterling K. Brown, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”
Tony Shalhoub, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”
Mahershala Ali, “Ramy”
Kenan Thompson,...
- 9/20/2020
- by Tony Maglio and Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
EntertainmentWhile mainstream cinema is slowly changing its portrayal of gender norms, it's nowhere close to what's available online.Tnm StaffThe explosion of content on Over-the-Top (Ott) platforms has meant that there's a wide variety of options when it comes to entertainment. Whatever be the genre or language, viewers are spoilt for choice on online streaming platforms. It's no different when it comes to feminist content. Mainstream cinema in India has largely been disappointing when it comes to the representation of women, mostly conforming to gender norms and patriarchal attitudes. While this is slowly changing, it's still nowhere as close to the kind of content that's available online. Here's a list of web series that will make a feminist viewer happy, and not want to tear their hair out. Churails (Zee5): This show is from Pakistan and is about a motley group of women in Karachi who come together to start a detective agency.
- 9/16/2020
- by Sowmya
- The News Minute
One of the best examples of how Hollywood is moving toward being a place for more inclusive storytelling might be this year’s limited series Emmy race. All five of the nominees in that category tell stories about female characters; most specifically concentrating on depictions of women who have traditionally been marginalized both on and off screen.
“Unbelievable” showrunner Susannah Grant sums it up by saying that “it’s great to see stories of people who have historically been voiceless getting such a big platform.”
Grant’s Netflix series — which is inspired by reporters Ken Armstrong and T. Christian Miller’s Pulitzer-winning news story — stars Merritt Wever and supporting limited series/TV movie actress nominee Toni Collette as police detectives tasked with solving a serial rape case several years after a survivor’s (Kaitlyn Dever) accusations were not taken seriously.
“So many people in our culture have been used to...
“Unbelievable” showrunner Susannah Grant sums it up by saying that “it’s great to see stories of people who have historically been voiceless getting such a big platform.”
Grant’s Netflix series — which is inspired by reporters Ken Armstrong and T. Christian Miller’s Pulitzer-winning news story — stars Merritt Wever and supporting limited series/TV movie actress nominee Toni Collette as police detectives tasked with solving a serial rape case several years after a survivor’s (Kaitlyn Dever) accusations were not taken seriously.
“So many people in our culture have been used to...
- 8/18/2020
- by Whitney Friedlander
- Variety Film + TV
“Unbelievable” showrunner Susannah Grant says that when she first read the ProPublica article on which the Netflix limited series is based that she immediatley wanted to tell the story on screen. “I thought for a moment about doing it as a feature,” she explains, “but there was so much there that we decided it would just be better if we had a lot of time to really explore all the nuances of it.” Now it’s nominated for four Emmys including two for Grant as both an executive producer and a writer. Watch our exclusive video interview with her above.
See‘Unbelievable,’ ‘Watchmen’ lead Television Critics Association Awards nominations
The series is based on the true story of an investigation into a serial rapist and the experiences of one of his victims, Marie Adler (played by Kaitlyn Dever), who was disbelieved and even charged with filing a false police report...
See‘Unbelievable,’ ‘Watchmen’ lead Television Critics Association Awards nominations
The series is based on the true story of an investigation into a serial rapist and the experiences of one of his victims, Marie Adler (played by Kaitlyn Dever), who was disbelieved and even charged with filing a false police report...
- 8/10/2020
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Inclusion and parity are all the rage right now — a process that has been long in coming and is far from over — but creating an equal environment among colleagues in the entertainment industry isn’t as easy as it might seem. That includes the Emmy candidates for directing and writing. Actors are traditionally divided by gender, but not so with the other categories.
As Frank Scherma, chairman and CEO of the television academy, remarked before host Leslie Jones kicked off the virtual socially-distanced reading of the nominees, “This year we are also bearing witness to one of the greatest fights for social justice in history, and it is our duty to use this medium for change. That is the power and responsibility of television — not only delivering a multitude of services or a little escapism, but also amplifying the voices that must be heard and telling the stories that must be told.
As Frank Scherma, chairman and CEO of the television academy, remarked before host Leslie Jones kicked off the virtual socially-distanced reading of the nominees, “This year we are also bearing witness to one of the greatest fights for social justice in history, and it is our duty to use this medium for change. That is the power and responsibility of television — not only delivering a multitude of services or a little escapism, but also amplifying the voices that must be heard and telling the stories that must be told.
- 8/6/2020
- by Susan Wloszczyna
- Gold Derby
Women landed one third of all the Primetime Emmy nominations in the seven directing categories, a record high for the Television Academy.
In total, 16 women were recognized this year out of 48 total directing nominations — a big jump from last year, when nine out of 49 directing nominees (just over 18%) were women. And this year, a woman was nominated in every single directing category, after two straight years of no female directors getting a nod for a reality series and one year without a woman picking up a nom for a variety series.
Before this year, female directors had the highest representation in 2013, when eight of the 33 nominees — or 24% — were women. That was when there were still just six directing categories, as reality series had not been added to the list at that time.
In the writing categories, women landed 33 nominations out of a total of 120 nominees, or 27.5%. That’s a slight...
In total, 16 women were recognized this year out of 48 total directing nominations — a big jump from last year, when nine out of 49 directing nominees (just over 18%) were women. And this year, a woman was nominated in every single directing category, after two straight years of no female directors getting a nod for a reality series and one year without a woman picking up a nom for a variety series.
Before this year, female directors had the highest representation in 2013, when eight of the 33 nominees — or 24% — were women. That was when there were still just six directing categories, as reality series had not been added to the list at that time.
In the writing categories, women landed 33 nominations out of a total of 120 nominees, or 27.5%. That’s a slight...
- 7/28/2020
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
The life of entertainer and activist Lena Horne is to be turned into a limited series by Showtime with Alex Kurtzman and Horne’s granddaughter Jenny Lumet.
The ViacomCBS-backed cable network is developing Blackbird: Lena Horne and America and will tell her story from dancing at the Cotton Club when she was 16, through World War II and stardom of the MGM years, McCarthyism, the civil rights movement and her triumphant return to Broadway.
It will explore her relationships with Paul Robeson, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Joe Louis, Billie Holiday, Hattie McDaniel, Ava Gardner and Orson Welles and look at how she navigated stardom during Jim Crow as a direct descendant of slaves and their enslavers.
The series will be produced by CBS Television Studios and Secret Hideout and Heather Kadin, who worked with Kurtzman on Star Trek: Discovery, will also exec produce alongside Lumet, who wrote Rachel Getting Married...
The ViacomCBS-backed cable network is developing Blackbird: Lena Horne and America and will tell her story from dancing at the Cotton Club when she was 16, through World War II and stardom of the MGM years, McCarthyism, the civil rights movement and her triumphant return to Broadway.
It will explore her relationships with Paul Robeson, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Joe Louis, Billie Holiday, Hattie McDaniel, Ava Gardner and Orson Welles and look at how she navigated stardom during Jim Crow as a direct descendant of slaves and their enslavers.
The series will be produced by CBS Television Studios and Secret Hideout and Heather Kadin, who worked with Kurtzman on Star Trek: Discovery, will also exec produce alongside Lumet, who wrote Rachel Getting Married...
- 7/8/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Authenticity was key for both women in making Netflix’s real-life rape-investigation drama.
Showrunner Susannah Grant knew it would be hard for viewers to engage with the real-life subject matter of Unbelievable – a rape investigation that is woefully mishandled by the police – but was also aware audiences would lose interest if the show bore the hallmarks of Hollywood storytelling.
“Sexual assault is something people spend tons of energy running away from, and I couldn’t give people one reason to turn away,” says Grant of the Netflix show, which is both a gripping procedural and an indictment of a...
Showrunner Susannah Grant knew it would be hard for viewers to engage with the real-life subject matter of Unbelievable – a rape investigation that is woefully mishandled by the police – but was also aware audiences would lose interest if the show bore the hallmarks of Hollywood storytelling.
“Sexual assault is something people spend tons of energy running away from, and I couldn’t give people one reason to turn away,” says Grant of the Netflix show, which is both a gripping procedural and an indictment of a...
- 7/8/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Madeleine L’Engle once wrote: “Truth is what is true, and it’s not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing.” It’s a quote I return to often while thinking about Netflix’s stellar limited series “Unbelievable” for a variety of reasons, but never so much as when mulling over how the series managed to take inspiration from real events to create something even greater than the sum of its parts. It takes something factual and makes it true.
For Susannah Grant, who served as co-creator, writer, and director on “Unbelievable,” the process of adapting “An Unbelievable Story of Rape,” originally published by ProPublica and The Marshall Project, was all about being more faithful to the truth than the facts. “You’re going for the authenticity of someone’s experience,” Grant said in a phone interview with IndieWire, “And you obviously can’t incorporate every life moment that added up to that,...
For Susannah Grant, who served as co-creator, writer, and director on “Unbelievable,” the process of adapting “An Unbelievable Story of Rape,” originally published by ProPublica and The Marshall Project, was all about being more faithful to the truth than the facts. “You’re going for the authenticity of someone’s experience,” Grant said in a phone interview with IndieWire, “And you obviously can’t incorporate every life moment that added up to that,...
- 7/7/2020
- by Libby Hill
- Indiewire
Themes of racial and social injustice, war, the current world and even an upside-down one are key in the winners of the 2020 Peabody Awards, which on Wednesday unveiled its annual list of the 30 most compelling and empowering stories released in broadcasting and digital media in 2019.
PBS with its documentary series Pov and Indepenedent Lens led the way placing seven shows on the list, and also saw its Frontline, along with Fox’s The Simpsons, take this year’s Institutional Awards. HBO and Netflix scored four wins each. First-time winners include Apple TV+ for Dickinson and Own for Tarell Alvin McCraney’s David Makes Man.
The Peabody Awards are based at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. In addition to its annual winners, the group said today it is partnering with PBS on a roundtable program with all 10 directors of this year’s winning documentaries,...
PBS with its documentary series Pov and Indepenedent Lens led the way placing seven shows on the list, and also saw its Frontline, along with Fox’s The Simpsons, take this year’s Institutional Awards. HBO and Netflix scored four wins each. First-time winners include Apple TV+ for Dickinson and Own for Tarell Alvin McCraney’s David Makes Man.
The Peabody Awards are based at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. In addition to its annual winners, the group said today it is partnering with PBS on a roundtable program with all 10 directors of this year’s winning documentaries,...
- 6/10/2020
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Independent bookstores aren’t just places to peruse and buy your new favorite books, they’re also community spaces in a time to gather, discuss, and share. And, in this time of “social distancing,” they are one of the many vital cultural and community institutions that are in danger.
Some have started taking action to ensure that indie bookstores aren’t left behind in this health and economic crisis. Speculative fiction authors, io9 co-founders, and co-hosts of the Hugo Award-winning podcast Our Opinions Are Correct, Charlie Jane Anders and Annalee Newitz are part of a group that is organizing fundraisers for their local (Sf/Bay Area) indie bookstores, and they’ve got some pretty cool events lined up.
First up? A conversation between Star Trek: Picard Season 1 showrunner Michael Chabon and fellow Picard writer Ayelet Waldman. (The two also happen to be married.) Chabon and Ayelet will be chatting on April 8th.
Some have started taking action to ensure that indie bookstores aren’t left behind in this health and economic crisis. Speculative fiction authors, io9 co-founders, and co-hosts of the Hugo Award-winning podcast Our Opinions Are Correct, Charlie Jane Anders and Annalee Newitz are part of a group that is organizing fundraisers for their local (Sf/Bay Area) indie bookstores, and they’ve got some pretty cool events lined up.
First up? A conversation between Star Trek: Picard Season 1 showrunner Michael Chabon and fellow Picard writer Ayelet Waldman. (The two also happen to be married.) Chabon and Ayelet will be chatting on April 8th.
- 4/1/2020
- by Kayti Burt
- Den of Geek
Editors note: The Star Trek: Picard Podcast is a weekly series of in-depth and informed discussions with the stars and creative team behind CBS All Access’ series on the ideas, strategies and geopoetics behind the 10-episode first season of the Patrick Stewart-led sci-fi drama. The podcast is sponsored by CBS All Access and hosted by Deadline’s Senior Editor Dominic Patten.
“He has no idea where he is at, because he has no idea what the future now might hold for him,” Sir Patrick Stewart says of where the former Enterprise captain is at the end of the Star Trek: Picard Season 1 finale, which just dropped on CBS All Access. “Which is what I think makes the matter of Season 2 so exciting,” he adds on our podcast today of where things could go for Picard and his crew next.
With the 10-episode first season behind them, with thoughts for friends lost, some verse from the poet Horace, mortality and this time of coronavirus, listen here to Sir Patrick and Picard Ep Akiva Goldsman on “Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2”:
No extended recaps, but helmed by Oscar winner Goldsman, the conclusion of the two-part Picard finale finds Jean-Luc revitalized and heading into the galaxy with Jeri Ryan, Alison Pill, Michelle Hurd, Isa Briones, Santiago Cabrera and Evan Evagora at the very end. How the 94-year old Starfleet Admiral got there in the Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman penned ender is, of course, as Picard and William Shakespeare say “such stuff as dreams are made on.”
Or as Sir Patrick says on this last podcast of the first season: “I decided, if ever there was a time to live, it was right now.”
As I said, take as listen, and then please join me in thanking the whole Picard team and everyone at CBS Studios, especially, Lauri Metrose, Jennifer Verti and Bonnie Kim. Also, a massive thanks to Sir Patrick, Akiva, Alex Kurtzman, Jeri Ryan, Jonathan Frakes, Jason Zimmerman, Kristen Beyer, Michael Chabon, Jonathan Del Arco, and Hanelle Culpepper for joining us on the podcast these past 10 weeks. And a big shout out to our amazing producer David Janove for all his great work.
Thanks for listening.
Subscribe to the Star Trek Picard Podcast: Apple Podcasts, Spotify...
“He has no idea where he is at, because he has no idea what the future now might hold for him,” Sir Patrick Stewart says of where the former Enterprise captain is at the end of the Star Trek: Picard Season 1 finale, which just dropped on CBS All Access. “Which is what I think makes the matter of Season 2 so exciting,” he adds on our podcast today of where things could go for Picard and his crew next.
With the 10-episode first season behind them, with thoughts for friends lost, some verse from the poet Horace, mortality and this time of coronavirus, listen here to Sir Patrick and Picard Ep Akiva Goldsman on “Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2”:
No extended recaps, but helmed by Oscar winner Goldsman, the conclusion of the two-part Picard finale finds Jean-Luc revitalized and heading into the galaxy with Jeri Ryan, Alison Pill, Michelle Hurd, Isa Briones, Santiago Cabrera and Evan Evagora at the very end. How the 94-year old Starfleet Admiral got there in the Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman penned ender is, of course, as Picard and William Shakespeare say “such stuff as dreams are made on.”
Or as Sir Patrick says on this last podcast of the first season: “I decided, if ever there was a time to live, it was right now.”
As I said, take as listen, and then please join me in thanking the whole Picard team and everyone at CBS Studios, especially, Lauri Metrose, Jennifer Verti and Bonnie Kim. Also, a massive thanks to Sir Patrick, Akiva, Alex Kurtzman, Jeri Ryan, Jonathan Frakes, Jason Zimmerman, Kristen Beyer, Michael Chabon, Jonathan Del Arco, and Hanelle Culpepper for joining us on the podcast these past 10 weeks. And a big shout out to our amazing producer David Janove for all his great work.
Thanks for listening.
Subscribe to the Star Trek Picard Podcast: Apple Podcasts, Spotify...
- 3/26/2020
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
It takes almost no time at all when talking with Michael Chabon to realize that the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” is a die-hard “Star Trek” fan. Given that he’s the showrunner of the latest “Trek” iteration, “Star Trek: Picard,” the 56-year-old has found it particularly satisfying to engage with the vast “Trek” fandom as the first season of “Picard” heads into its finale on Thursday.
“To get people’s super nerdy and super technical questions about what kind of class of starship is meant to be in that one image that you can only see if you freeze frame, that’s been so fun,” Chabon says via Skype while sitting in his home office in Berkeley, where he’s been sheltering in place with his wife, author Ayelet Waldman, and two of their four children amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
“Picard” has been a...
“To get people’s super nerdy and super technical questions about what kind of class of starship is meant to be in that one image that you can only see if you freeze frame, that’s been so fun,” Chabon says via Skype while sitting in his home office in Berkeley, where he’s been sheltering in place with his wife, author Ayelet Waldman, and two of their four children amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
“Picard” has been a...
- 3/25/2020
- by Adam B. Vary
- Variety Film + TV
Editors note: The Star Trek: Picard Podcast is a weekly series of in-depth and informed discussions with the stars and creative team behind CBS All Access’ series on the ideas, strategies and geopoetics behind the 10-episode first season of the Patrick Stewart-led sci-fi drama. The podcast is sponsored by CBS All Access and hosted by Deadline’s Senior Editor Dominic Patten.
“I love that she is so much more free, I love that I can bring more of myself to her,” Jeri Ryan tells us today on the Star Trek: Picard podcast of the difference between playing Seven of Nine then and now. “Honestly, the hardest part of playing Seven back in the Voyager years is because she couldn’t really express emotion …and I am very emotional and very expressive,” the Trekverse star adds.
More from DeadlineStar Trek: Picard Podcast: Picking Up The 'Broken Pieces' & Shaking The Etch A SketchPete Buttigieg,...
“I love that she is so much more free, I love that I can bring more of myself to her,” Jeri Ryan tells us today on the Star Trek: Picard podcast of the difference between playing Seven of Nine then and now. “Honestly, the hardest part of playing Seven back in the Voyager years is because she couldn’t really express emotion …and I am very emotional and very expressive,” the Trekverse star adds.
More from DeadlineStar Trek: Picard Podcast: Picking Up The 'Broken Pieces' & Shaking The Etch A SketchPete Buttigieg,...
- 3/19/2020
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
The USC Libraries Scripter Awards honor the year’s best film and television adaptations, as well as the works on which they are based. This group of academics, industry professionals, and critics (for which I vote) is often predictive of the Adapted Screenplay Oscar race.
While Netflix dominated this year’s nominations with three adapted scripts, for movies “The Irishman” (Steve Zaillian adapted Charles Brandt’s “I Heard You Paint Houses”) and “The Two Popes” (Anthony McCarten adapted his own play), and Susannah Grant, Michael Chabon, and Ayelet Waldman’s limited series “Unbelievable,” the winners were Amazon’s “Fleabag” (play and series author Phoebe Waller-Bridge was in London), and Sony’s “Little Women,” whose scribe Greta Gerwig gave a heartfelt speech. This could presage another win at the WGA Awards next week and on Oscar night in the Adapted Screenplay category.
“It’s the book of my life,” Gerwig said...
While Netflix dominated this year’s nominations with three adapted scripts, for movies “The Irishman” (Steve Zaillian adapted Charles Brandt’s “I Heard You Paint Houses”) and “The Two Popes” (Anthony McCarten adapted his own play), and Susannah Grant, Michael Chabon, and Ayelet Waldman’s limited series “Unbelievable,” the winners were Amazon’s “Fleabag” (play and series author Phoebe Waller-Bridge was in London), and Sony’s “Little Women,” whose scribe Greta Gerwig gave a heartfelt speech. This could presage another win at the WGA Awards next week and on Oscar night in the Adapted Screenplay category.
“It’s the book of my life,” Gerwig said...
- 1/26/2020
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
The USC Libraries Scripter Awards honor the year’s best film and television adaptations, as well as the works on which they are based. This group of academics, industry professionals, and critics (for which I vote) is often predictive of the Adapted Screenplay Oscar race.
While Netflix dominated this year’s nominations with three adapted scripts, for movies “The Irishman” (Steve Zaillian adapted Charles Brandt’s “I Heard You Paint Houses”) and “The Two Popes” (Anthony McCarten adapted his own play), and Susannah Grant, Michael Chabon, and Ayelet Waldman’s limited series “Unbelievable,” the winners were Amazon’s “Fleabag” (play and series author Phoebe Waller-Bridge was in London), and Sony’s “Little Women,” whose scribe Greta Gerwig gave a heartfelt speech. This could presage another win at the WGA Awards next week and on Oscar night in the Adapted Screenplay category.
“It’s the book of my life,” Gerwig said...
While Netflix dominated this year’s nominations with three adapted scripts, for movies “The Irishman” (Steve Zaillian adapted Charles Brandt’s “I Heard You Paint Houses”) and “The Two Popes” (Anthony McCarten adapted his own play), and Susannah Grant, Michael Chabon, and Ayelet Waldman’s limited series “Unbelievable,” the winners were Amazon’s “Fleabag” (play and series author Phoebe Waller-Bridge was in London), and Sony’s “Little Women,” whose scribe Greta Gerwig gave a heartfelt speech. This could presage another win at the WGA Awards next week and on Oscar night in the Adapted Screenplay category.
“It’s the book of my life,” Gerwig said...
- 1/26/2020
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Greta Gerwig’s script for “Little Women” has won the USC Libraries Scripter Award for best movie adaptation and “Fleabag” has taken the television award.
The winners were announced Saturday night at USC’s Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library.
“Little Women” topped “Dark Waters,” “The Irishman,” “Jojo Rabbit,” and “The Two Popes.” All but environmental drama “Dark Waters” are contending for the Academy Award in the adapted screenplay category.
Gerwig, who also directed, won the Scritper award in conjunction with Louisa May Alcott, author of the iconic 1868 novel about the lives of the four March sisters in a small New England town during the 1860s.
“This is extraordinary. I am very honored. I didn’t attend USC, but I truly love this library,” Gerwig said. “‘Little Women’ is the book of my life. I can’t recall a time when I didn’t know who the March sisters were.
The winners were announced Saturday night at USC’s Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library.
“Little Women” topped “Dark Waters,” “The Irishman,” “Jojo Rabbit,” and “The Two Popes.” All but environmental drama “Dark Waters” are contending for the Academy Award in the adapted screenplay category.
Gerwig, who also directed, won the Scritper award in conjunction with Louisa May Alcott, author of the iconic 1868 novel about the lives of the four March sisters in a small New England town during the 1860s.
“This is extraordinary. I am very honored. I didn’t attend USC, but I truly love this library,” Gerwig said. “‘Little Women’ is the book of my life. I can’t recall a time when I didn’t know who the March sisters were.
- 1/26/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
A star-studded cast including Sir Patrick Stewart, Samuel L. Jackson, Lucy Liu, Zachary Quinto, Michael C. Hall, Tony Shalhoub, Matt Bomer, Billy Porter, Judith Light and more will lend their voices to the audiobook edition of Fight Of The Century, a brand-new anthology curated by award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in collaboration with the American Civil Liberties Union to mark its 100-year anniversary.
Fight Of The Century takes you inside the landmark trials and the stories that have shaped modern life through original essays by 40 of the most influential writers at work today, including Jennifer Egan, Marlon James, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Salman Rushdie, and Jesmyn Ward. Some of the most prominent cases involving the Aclu — Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona — need little introduction. Others you may never even have heard of, yet their outcomes quietly defined the world we live in now.
Fight Of The Century takes you inside the landmark trials and the stories that have shaped modern life through original essays by 40 of the most influential writers at work today, including Jennifer Egan, Marlon James, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Salman Rushdie, and Jesmyn Ward. Some of the most prominent cases involving the Aclu — Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona — need little introduction. Others you may never even have heard of, yet their outcomes quietly defined the world we live in now.
- 1/22/2020
- Look to the Stars
When a character grows popular enough to endure for decades, at the hands of more than one writer, the difference between sequels and fan fiction can get awfully blurry. Few writers understand that messy feeling better than Michael Chabon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning fanboy at the helm of Star Trek: Picard. In the new CBS All Access series premiering January 23rd, Sir Patrick Stewart reprises his Star Trek: The Next Generation role as Jean-Luc Picard, now a Starfleet retiree running the family vineyard in France.
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- 1/18/2020
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
Last year was one for the movie-history books: 2019 gave us the highest grossing movie ever in “Avengers: Endgame,” Netflix continued to cement itself as a corporate patron of original storytelling with awards movies like “The Irishman,” and Disney’s purchase of Fox further solidified the company as the Hollywood power to be reckoned with as its movies accounted for nearly 40% of domestic grosses.
While these milestones mark success for powerhouses Disney and Netflix, dig beneath the surface and you’ll find plenty of questions about what they mean for the future health of the film industry. If “Endgame” can make $2.8 billion, why would any studio ever want to take a gamble on something that might only make a modest few million at best? If Netflix continues to grow as a go-to distributor for original prestige titles that play for just a short time in limited release, what does that mean for moviegoing’s future?...
While these milestones mark success for powerhouses Disney and Netflix, dig beneath the surface and you’ll find plenty of questions about what they mean for the future health of the film industry. If “Endgame” can make $2.8 billion, why would any studio ever want to take a gamble on something that might only make a modest few million at best? If Netflix continues to grow as a go-to distributor for original prestige titles that play for just a short time in limited release, what does that mean for moviegoing’s future?...
- 1/7/2020
- by Chris Lindahl
- Indiewire
Heading into Golden Globes weekend, the annual American Film Institute Awards is a civilized, untelevised gathering that plays into the hands of awards campaigners who nab any chance to put their contenders in front of the media. This lunch at the Four Seasons is more relaxed and convivial than most because, as AFI president Bob Gazzale pointed out, everybody’s a winner.
Each January, top players from the 10 movie and 10 TV winners know all they have to do is socialize for an hour or so, pick at their salmon, and applaud 20 clips. Actually, this year there were 22, as the juries gave special awards to two foreign imports, Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s “Fleabag” and Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite.” “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” star Brad Pitt bounded across the room to greet the director Bong and the cast of “Parasite,” whose clip earned rousing applause.
Gazzale pointed out several AFI...
Each January, top players from the 10 movie and 10 TV winners know all they have to do is socialize for an hour or so, pick at their salmon, and applaud 20 clips. Actually, this year there were 22, as the juries gave special awards to two foreign imports, Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s “Fleabag” and Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite.” “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” star Brad Pitt bounded across the room to greet the director Bong and the cast of “Parasite,” whose clip earned rousing applause.
Gazzale pointed out several AFI...
- 1/4/2020
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Heading into Golden Globes weekend, the annual American Film Institute Awards is a civilized, untelevised gathering that plays into the hands of awards campaigners who nab any chance to put their contenders in front of the media. This lunch at the Four Seasons is more relaxed and convivial than most because, as AFI president Bob Gazzale pointed out, everybody’s a winner.
Each January, top players from the 10 movie and 10 TV winners know all they have to do is socialize for an hour or so, pick at their salmon, and applaud 20 clips. Actually, this year there were 22, as the juries gave special awards to two foreign imports, Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s “Fleabag” and Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite.” “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” star Brad Pitt bounded across the room to greet the director Bong and the cast of “Parasite,” whose clip earned rousing applause.
Gazzale pointed out several AFI...
Each January, top players from the 10 movie and 10 TV winners know all they have to do is socialize for an hour or so, pick at their salmon, and applaud 20 clips. Actually, this year there were 22, as the juries gave special awards to two foreign imports, Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s “Fleabag” and Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite.” “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” star Brad Pitt bounded across the room to greet the director Bong and the cast of “Parasite,” whose clip earned rousing applause.
Gazzale pointed out several AFI...
- 1/4/2020
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
We haven’t updated the precursors in a little bit, so that’s what we’re going to do today. Most recently, the USC Scripter nominations were announced, but that comes after a rave of announcements that included a number of guilds that hold major sway over who and what will receive Academy Award nominations next month. In addition, a few days ago the Academy announced the return of their program Oscar Spotlight: Documentaries, an endeavor meant to allow a wider array of folks to see the docs hoping to be nominated. We’ve got the rest of the precursors you haven’t seen yet, guild wise, alongside those announcements. You can see all of that below, so why don’t we run that all down for you now? First up, the nominees for the 32nd-Annual USC Libraries Scripter Award: Film Dark Waters (Focus Features) Matthew Carnahan and Mario Correa,...
- 12/22/2019
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Last week, we at TVLine revealed our 20 finalists for Performer of the Year. We have since debated fiercely among ourselves to come up with a winning trio whose collective work was unbelievably affecting — Kaitlyn Dever, Merritt Wever and Toni Collette, of Netflix’s Unbelievable.
I was raped. With those three words — the first uttered by Dever’s Marie Adler — the miniseries was set in motion, almost daring you to stay tuned as it told the story of a teenage rape victim whose case was heartlessly mishandled by detectives in Lynnwood, Wash. Marie had just been violated in a multitude of ways,...
I was raped. With those three words — the first uttered by Dever’s Marie Adler — the miniseries was set in motion, almost daring you to stay tuned as it told the story of a teenage rape victim whose case was heartlessly mishandled by detectives in Lynnwood, Wash. Marie had just been violated in a multitude of ways,...
- 12/20/2019
- TVLine.com
The USC Libraries has revealed the finalists for the 32nd-annual USC Libraries Scripter Award, which honors the year’s best film and television adaptations, as well as the works on which they are based. This group of academics, industry professionals and critics (for which I vote) is often predictive of the Adapted Screenplay Oscar race.
Last year’s Scripter winners were the exception that prove the rule: “Leave No Trace” screenwriters Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini were not nominated for the Oscar; they adapted Peter Rock, author of “My Abandonment.”
The year before was more typical, as the Scripter Award went to “Call Me by Your Name” screenwriter James Ivory (who won the Oscar), and author André Aciman; past winners include “Moonlight,” “The Big Short,” and “The Imitation Game,” which all won Oscars. In fact, before 2019 eight Scripter Award winners went on to win Oscars.
Netflix dominated this year’s nominations with three adapted scripts,...
Last year’s Scripter winners were the exception that prove the rule: “Leave No Trace” screenwriters Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini were not nominated for the Oscar; they adapted Peter Rock, author of “My Abandonment.”
The year before was more typical, as the Scripter Award went to “Call Me by Your Name” screenwriter James Ivory (who won the Oscar), and author André Aciman; past winners include “Moonlight,” “The Big Short,” and “The Imitation Game,” which all won Oscars. In fact, before 2019 eight Scripter Award winners went on to win Oscars.
Netflix dominated this year’s nominations with three adapted scripts,...
- 12/18/2019
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
The USC Libraries has revealed the finalists for the 32nd-annual USC Libraries Scripter Award, which honors the year’s best film and television adaptations, as well as the works on which they are based. This group of academics, industry professionals and critics (for which I vote) is often predictive of the Adapted Screenplay Oscar race.
Last year’s Scripter winners were the exception that prove the rule: “Leave No Trace” screenwriters Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini were not nominated for the Oscar; they adapted Peter Rock, author of “My Abandonment.”
The year before was more typical, as the Scripter Award went to “Call Me by Your Name” screenwriter James Ivory (who won the Oscar), and author André Aciman; past winners include “Moonlight,” “The Big Short,” and “The Imitation Game,” which all won Oscars. In fact, before 2019 eight Scripter Award winners went on to win Oscars.
Netflix dominated this year’s nominations with three adapted scripts,...
Last year’s Scripter winners were the exception that prove the rule: “Leave No Trace” screenwriters Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini were not nominated for the Oscar; they adapted Peter Rock, author of “My Abandonment.”
The year before was more typical, as the Scripter Award went to “Call Me by Your Name” screenwriter James Ivory (who won the Oscar), and author André Aciman; past winners include “Moonlight,” “The Big Short,” and “The Imitation Game,” which all won Oscars. In fact, before 2019 eight Scripter Award winners went on to win Oscars.
Netflix dominated this year’s nominations with three adapted scripts,...
- 12/18/2019
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
The USC Libraries has revealed nominations for its 32nd annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards, which honor the year’s best film and TV adaptations along with the works on which they are based.
Finalists were chosen from 61 film and 58 TV adaptations this year, with winners to be announced January 25 during a ceremony at USC’s Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library.
The winner of the Scripter has gone on to win the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar in eight of the last nine years. Last year, was the exception, breaking a string of eight consecutive winners going on to take home Oscars as well. Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace took home the movie prize last year, while Russell T Davies and author John Preston won the TV award for BBC/Amazon’s A Very English Scandal.
Here are this year’s finalists:
Film
Dark Waters
(Focus Features)
Matthew Carnahan and Mario Correa,...
Finalists were chosen from 61 film and 58 TV adaptations this year, with winners to be announced January 25 during a ceremony at USC’s Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library.
The winner of the Scripter has gone on to win the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar in eight of the last nine years. Last year, was the exception, breaking a string of eight consecutive winners going on to take home Oscars as well. Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace took home the movie prize last year, while Russell T Davies and author John Preston won the TV award for BBC/Amazon’s A Very English Scandal.
Here are this year’s finalists:
Film
Dark Waters
(Focus Features)
Matthew Carnahan and Mario Correa,...
- 12/18/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
“Dark Waters,” “The Irishman,” “Jojo Rabbit,” “Little Women” and “The Two Popes” have been nominated as the best film adaptations of 2019 by the USC Libraries Script Awards, which were announced on Wednesday morning.
The Scripter Award celebrates both the screenwriters of film and television adaptations and the original authors of the material on which they are based – which means that the nomination for “Little Women,” example, goes both to writer-director Greta Gerwig and to 19th-century novelist Louisa May Alcott, who wrote the 1868 novel on which the film is based.
“The Two Popes” is the only nominee in which the screenwriter and original author are the same person, with Anthony McCarten adapting his play “The Pope.” His script was judged to be an original screenplay rather than an adaptation by the Writers Guild of America, but the Academy classifies it as an adaptation for Oscar contention, and the Scripters agreed.
Also Read: 'Watchmen,...
The Scripter Award celebrates both the screenwriters of film and television adaptations and the original authors of the material on which they are based – which means that the nomination for “Little Women,” example, goes both to writer-director Greta Gerwig and to 19th-century novelist Louisa May Alcott, who wrote the 1868 novel on which the film is based.
“The Two Popes” is the only nominee in which the screenwriter and original author are the same person, with Anthony McCarten adapting his play “The Pope.” His script was judged to be an original screenplay rather than an adaptation by the Writers Guild of America, but the Academy classifies it as an adaptation for Oscar contention, and the Scripters agreed.
Also Read: 'Watchmen,...
- 12/18/2019
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman are no longer proceeding with development of Ghost Ship, a TV series about the 2016 fire that broke out in a former warehouse that had been converted into an artist collective, claiming the lives of 36 people.
The project was announced last Tuesday as part of a development slate the husband-and-wife duo of Chabon and Waldman are building under a multi-year overall deal at CBS TV Studios. It sparked immediate backlash and anger by relatives of the victims, leading to Chabon and Waldman’s decision to abandon the idea for the time being.
“We believe in the power of art, and specifically of this medium, to effect change, and had hoped to harness that power not just on behalf of the victims of this tragedy but also to help to call to account those who most bear responsibility for it,” the duo said in a statement provided to Deadline.
The project was announced last Tuesday as part of a development slate the husband-and-wife duo of Chabon and Waldman are building under a multi-year overall deal at CBS TV Studios. It sparked immediate backlash and anger by relatives of the victims, leading to Chabon and Waldman’s decision to abandon the idea for the time being.
“We believe in the power of art, and specifically of this medium, to effect change, and had hoped to harness that power not just on behalf of the victims of this tragedy but also to help to call to account those who most bear responsibility for it,” the duo said in a statement provided to Deadline.
- 12/17/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
A planned TV show for CBS about the 2016 Ghost Ship warehouse fire in Oakland, California, has been scrapped after members of the Bay Area arts community expressed their outrage and reservations over the project.
The show was announced last week as part of a new deal between CBS and Berkeley-based authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman (they’re also married). The pair were set to serve as producers on the show, which would’ve been adapted by Elizabeth Weil, who previously reported on the Ghost Ship fire.
In a statement shared with 48 Hills,...
The show was announced last week as part of a new deal between CBS and Berkeley-based authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman (they’re also married). The pair were set to serve as producers on the show, which would’ve been adapted by Elizabeth Weil, who previously reported on the Ghost Ship fire.
In a statement shared with 48 Hills,...
- 12/16/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Kayti Burt Dec 11, 2019
While a second season of Star Trek: Picard has yet to be officially greenlit, should it continue, Michael Chabon will not be at the helm.
All good things... must come to an end. Such is the case with Michael Chabon's role as the showrunner of Star Trek: Picard. But for a good reason! Following the first season of Star Trek: Picard, Chabon will transition out of the showrunner role on that show to showrun a different TV series for CBS Studios: an adaptation of his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, which will be on Showtime.
Per Variety, Chabon and his producing partner Ayelet Waldman have signed a multi-year overall production past with CBS Studios, which includes a series commitment for Kavalier and Clay. Should Star Trek: Picard go on to a second season, Chabon will stay on as an executive producer,...
While a second season of Star Trek: Picard has yet to be officially greenlit, should it continue, Michael Chabon will not be at the helm.
All good things... must come to an end. Such is the case with Michael Chabon's role as the showrunner of Star Trek: Picard. But for a good reason! Following the first season of Star Trek: Picard, Chabon will transition out of the showrunner role on that show to showrun a different TV series for CBS Studios: an adaptation of his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, which will be on Showtime.
Per Variety, Chabon and his producing partner Ayelet Waldman have signed a multi-year overall production past with CBS Studios, which includes a series commitment for Kavalier and Clay. Should Star Trek: Picard go on to a second season, Chabon will stay on as an executive producer,...
- 12/11/2019
- Den of Geek
Kayti Burt Dec 11, 2019
Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Kavalier and Clay is finally coming to the screen.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about two cousins who create a comic book superhero during World War II, is coming to Showtime!
According to Variety, the series commitment is part of a larger, multi-year deal Chabon and his producing partner Ayelet Waldman, have signed with CBS TV. Chabon is currently making Star Trek: Picard for the studio, which will keep him busy through the first part of 2020, when he will transition from showrunning Picard to showrunning Kavalier and Klay. This means that we likely won't get any substantial updates on the Kavalier and Clay TV series until later in the year. Chabon's Picard partners Akiva Goldsman and Alex Kurtzman are also attached to Kavalier and Clay as producers.
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Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Kavalier and Clay is finally coming to the screen.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about two cousins who create a comic book superhero during World War II, is coming to Showtime!
According to Variety, the series commitment is part of a larger, multi-year deal Chabon and his producing partner Ayelet Waldman, have signed with CBS TV. Chabon is currently making Star Trek: Picard for the studio, which will keep him busy through the first part of 2020, when he will transition from showrunning Picard to showrunning Kavalier and Klay. This means that we likely won't get any substantial updates on the Kavalier and Clay TV series until later in the year. Chabon's Picard partners Akiva Goldsman and Alex Kurtzman are also attached to Kavalier and Clay as producers.
read more: Michael Chabon's Short Trek is...
- 12/11/2019
- Den of Geek
After years of failed attempts to reach the big screen, Michael Chabon‘s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay is finally getting its long-awaited adaptation – not as a movie, but as a television series on Showtime. Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, the husband and wife pair of acclaimed authors and television producers, have signed a new production […]
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- 12/10/2019
- by Ben Pearson
- Slash Film
After receiving the Pulitzer Prize way back in 2001, the novel “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” has been in development in Hollywood for the better part of two decades. However, after numerous starts and stops, it appears that the long wait will likely be coming to an end soon, thanks to Showtime and CBS Television.
According to Deadline, Showtime is developing a limited series based on the acclaimed novel, “The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.” The series is being developed and written by author Michael Chabon and his creative partner/wife, Ayelet Waldman.
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According to Deadline, Showtime is developing a limited series based on the acclaimed novel, “The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.” The series is being developed and written by author Michael Chabon and his creative partner/wife, Ayelet Waldman.
Continue reading Michael Chabon’s ‘The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay’ Coming To Showtime As A Limited Series at The Playlist.
- 12/10/2019
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay will be told by Showtime, in a limited-series adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
As part of a multi-year deal, CBS Television Studios has secured exclusive rights to produce television content created and developed by renowned novelists and production executives Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, across all platforms.
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The agreement includes a commitment for a limited series adaptation of Chabon...
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- 12/10/2019
- TVLine.com
Showtime is developing A Really Good Day, a dramedy series based on Ayelet Waldman’s book, with Anna Chlumsky, six-time Emmy nominee for Veep, attached to star. The project hails from Waldman, Michael Chabon, Film44 and CBS TV Studios.
A Really Good Day falls under an overall deal the husband-and-wife team of Waldman and Chabon just signed with CBS TV Studios.
Waldman will write the adaptation of her 2017 book, A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life, about “microdosing” with LSD.
Waldman and Chabon executive produce with Film44’s Peter Berg, Michael Lombardo and Elizabeth Rogers.
At Showtime, Chabon and Waldman also are writing and executive producing The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, a limited series adaptation of Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel novel through CBS Television Studios, which has a big production commitment.
Chlumsky recently signed on as a lead in Inventing Anna,...
A Really Good Day falls under an overall deal the husband-and-wife team of Waldman and Chabon just signed with CBS TV Studios.
Waldman will write the adaptation of her 2017 book, A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life, about “microdosing” with LSD.
Waldman and Chabon executive produce with Film44’s Peter Berg, Michael Lombardo and Elizabeth Rogers.
At Showtime, Chabon and Waldman also are writing and executive producing The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, a limited series adaptation of Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel novel through CBS Television Studios, which has a big production commitment.
Chlumsky recently signed on as a lead in Inventing Anna,...
- 12/10/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
An adaptation of Michael Chabon’s acclaimed novel “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay” has been given a series commitment at Showtime.
The series comes as part of a multi-year overall production pact which Chabon and his producing partner Ayelet Waldman have inked with CBS TV Studios. Under the agreement, CBS will have the exclusive rights to produce TV content created and developed by the husband-and-wife team across all platforms.
Chabon and Waldman will serve as executive producers and showrunners on the “Kavalier and Clay” series. The story of “Kavalier and Clay” is described as an epic tale of love, war and the birth of America’s comic book superhero obsession in big-band-era New York City. Akiva Goldsman and Alex Kurtzman are also attached to the project as executive producers. The series hails from Paramount Television and CBS Television Studios.
Chabon currently serves as an executive producer on the...
The series comes as part of a multi-year overall production pact which Chabon and his producing partner Ayelet Waldman have inked with CBS TV Studios. Under the agreement, CBS will have the exclusive rights to produce TV content created and developed by the husband-and-wife team across all platforms.
Chabon and Waldman will serve as executive producers and showrunners on the “Kavalier and Clay” series. The story of “Kavalier and Clay” is described as an epic tale of love, war and the birth of America’s comic book superhero obsession in big-band-era New York City. Akiva Goldsman and Alex Kurtzman are also attached to the project as executive producers. The series hails from Paramount Television and CBS Television Studios.
Chabon currently serves as an executive producer on the...
- 12/10/2019
- by Will Thorne
- Variety Film + TV
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay‘s twenty-year journey to the screen may finally be coming to an end. A limited series adaptation of Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel novel has been set up at Showtime through CBS Television Studios with a big production commitment. It will be written and executive produced by Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, who have signed a multi-year overall deal with CBS TV Studios.
Star Trek franchise’s Akiva Goldsman and Alex Kurtzman are also executive producing the project. It will be produced by Paramount Television, whose movie studio parent Paramount Picture owns the rights to the book, and CBS TV Studios in the first collaboration between the new corporate siblings at the merged ViacomCBS.
Under the overall pact, the husband-and-wife team of Chabon and Ayelet will create and develop projects for CBS TV Studios across all platforms, starting with The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay,...
Star Trek franchise’s Akiva Goldsman and Alex Kurtzman are also executive producing the project. It will be produced by Paramount Television, whose movie studio parent Paramount Picture owns the rights to the book, and CBS TV Studios in the first collaboration between the new corporate siblings at the merged ViacomCBS.
Under the overall pact, the husband-and-wife team of Chabon and Ayelet will create and develop projects for CBS TV Studios across all platforms, starting with The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay,...
- 12/10/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
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