Destin Daniel Cretton, the filmmaker who co-wrote and directed the Marvel Studios movie Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and who executive produced American Born Chinese for Disney+, has launched Hisako, a new multimedia production company.
Cretton will run the banner with Jeyun Munford, formerly an executive at Universal and Lionsgate, who will act as the company’s president, running both film and television arms.
With a focus on empowering filmmakers and creatives, one of Hisako’s mission statements is a commitment to transforming the film and television landscape by highlighting marginalized stories and pushing them into the mainstream. The company is founded on the underlying conviction that storytelling has the power to unite audiences worldwide through shared emotions and experiences.
One of the first projects out of the gate for Hisako will be the big-screen live-action take on Naruto, one of the most popular mangas of all time.
Cretton will run the banner with Jeyun Munford, formerly an executive at Universal and Lionsgate, who will act as the company’s president, running both film and television arms.
With a focus on empowering filmmakers and creatives, one of Hisako’s mission statements is a commitment to transforming the film and television landscape by highlighting marginalized stories and pushing them into the mainstream. The company is founded on the underlying conviction that storytelling has the power to unite audiences worldwide through shared emotions and experiences.
One of the first projects out of the gate for Hisako will be the big-screen live-action take on Naruto, one of the most popular mangas of all time.
- 4/4/2024
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Donald Glover and Francesca Sloane are bringing Mr and Mrs Smith to the small screen, here’s the trailer.
2005 was a good year for action films. Jet Li gave one of his greatest performances opposite Bob Hoskins in Unleashed and Christopher Nolan kicked of his iconic trilogy with Batman Begins.
Another hugely successful film that year was Mr And Mrs Smith. It saw Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie play a married couple who, unbeknownst to each other, are both world class assassins. The film originally cast Nicole Kidman to star opposite Pitt, but scheduling conflicts with The Stepford Wives meant she had to drop out.
Doug Liman directed the film from a screenplay by Simon Kinberg, and while it is by no means perfect, it remains a hugely enjoyable, rollicking ride.
Now, Donald Glover and Francesca Sloane have brought the story to the small screen.
The synopsis reads as follows:...
2005 was a good year for action films. Jet Li gave one of his greatest performances opposite Bob Hoskins in Unleashed and Christopher Nolan kicked of his iconic trilogy with Batman Begins.
Another hugely successful film that year was Mr And Mrs Smith. It saw Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie play a married couple who, unbeknownst to each other, are both world class assassins. The film originally cast Nicole Kidman to star opposite Pitt, but scheduling conflicts with The Stepford Wives meant she had to drop out.
Doug Liman directed the film from a screenplay by Simon Kinberg, and while it is by no means perfect, it remains a hugely enjoyable, rollicking ride.
Now, Donald Glover and Francesca Sloane have brought the story to the small screen.
The synopsis reads as follows:...
- 12/12/2023
- by Jake Godfrey
- Film Stories
More than 200 theater writers – playwrights, composers, lyricists, librettists – have joined a nationwide letter writing campaign urging the incoming Biden-Harris Administration to prioritize its commitment to an arts community ravaged by Covid-19. Among other goals, many of the letters urge the administration to create a Department and Secretary of Arts & Culture.
Organized by the non-partisan grassroots coalition Be An #ArtsHero in partnership with The Dramatists Guild of America, the “Dear Mr. President and Madam Vice President” campaign asserts that “the Arts are vital to our nation’s soul and our collective humanity, as well as being an essential driver of the economy.”
Among those writing letters: Jeremy O. Harris (Slave Play), Anaïs Mitchell (Hadestown), Heidi Schreck (What The Constitution Means To Me) as well as V (formerly Eve Ensler), Craig Lucas, Theresa Rebeck, Sarah Ruhl, Marsha Norman, Lynn Ahrens, Zakiyyah Alexander, Jaclyn Backhaus, Bekah Brunstetter, Carla Ching, Vichet Chum, Paul Downs Colaizzo,...
Organized by the non-partisan grassroots coalition Be An #ArtsHero in partnership with The Dramatists Guild of America, the “Dear Mr. President and Madam Vice President” campaign asserts that “the Arts are vital to our nation’s soul and our collective humanity, as well as being an essential driver of the economy.”
Among those writing letters: Jeremy O. Harris (Slave Play), Anaïs Mitchell (Hadestown), Heidi Schreck (What The Constitution Means To Me) as well as V (formerly Eve Ensler), Craig Lucas, Theresa Rebeck, Sarah Ruhl, Marsha Norman, Lynn Ahrens, Zakiyyah Alexander, Jaclyn Backhaus, Bekah Brunstetter, Carla Ching, Vichet Chum, Paul Downs Colaizzo,...
- 1/14/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: AMC has put in development Fast Company, a dramedy from Daniel Dae Kim’s production banner 3Ad Media (The Good Doctor), writer Carla Ching, and AMC Studios.
Written by Ching based on her play, Fast Company tells the story of a legendary family of con artists whose complicated history has caused them to go their separate ways, but are forced back together when one of their cons goes sideways.
Ching executive produces with 3Ad’s Kim and the company’s head of development, Rina Brannen.
The play Fast Company, an Est/Sloan Commission, has been produced by South Coast Rep, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Porkfilled Productions and Lyric Stage in Boston. It was the winner of the Edgerton New American Play Award, and Seattle Times Footlights Award for one of the year’s best New Plays on a Small Stage.
Ching wrote on Hulu’s The First from Beau Willimon,...
Written by Ching based on her play, Fast Company tells the story of a legendary family of con artists whose complicated history has caused them to go their separate ways, but are forced back together when one of their cons goes sideways.
Ching executive produces with 3Ad’s Kim and the company’s head of development, Rina Brannen.
The play Fast Company, an Est/Sloan Commission, has been produced by South Coast Rep, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Porkfilled Productions and Lyric Stage in Boston. It was the winner of the Edgerton New American Play Award, and Seattle Times Footlights Award for one of the year’s best New Plays on a Small Stage.
Ching wrote on Hulu’s The First from Beau Willimon,...
- 6/10/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
When Beau Willimon was a kid, his father would leave home for up to five months at a time. Henry Willimon was a captain in the U.S. Navy and worked as an engineer on nuclear subs. For those long stretches at sea, he couldn’t even send messages home.
“One of my earliest memories, when we were stationed at Pearl Harbor, was him taking me down into a sub,” Willimon said. “To a four-year-old kid, it’s a spaceship. You’ve never seen anything like it. You’re in this completely enclosed, high-tech environment, staring through a periscope, and you know this thing is traversing the oceans underwater for months on end.”
Willimon credits these early memories for piquing his interest in space travel, and thus his new Hulu drama, “The First.” Chronicling mankind’s first manned mission to Mars, the eight-part first season also examines a bond between father...
“One of my earliest memories, when we were stationed at Pearl Harbor, was him taking me down into a sub,” Willimon said. “To a four-year-old kid, it’s a spaceship. You’ve never seen anything like it. You’re in this completely enclosed, high-tech environment, staring through a periscope, and you know this thing is traversing the oceans underwater for months on end.”
Willimon credits these early memories for piquing his interest in space travel, and thus his new Hulu drama, “The First.” Chronicling mankind’s first manned mission to Mars, the eight-part first season also examines a bond between father...
- 10/4/2018
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
The Secret Life of Bees, a new musical based on the best-selling novel and with music by Dunan Sheik, will make its world premiere next May at the Atlantic Theater Off-Broadway. The production will be directed by Tony winner Sam Gold (Fun Home).
The musical, with a book by Lynn Nottage and lyrics by Susan Birkenhead, based on the novel by Sue Monk Kidd, is part of the Atlantic’s 2018-19 season announced today, a roster that includes The Mother, a new play starring Oscar-nominated actress Isabelle Huppert.
Sheik’s 2006 Spring Awakening won the Tony Award for Best Musical. His 2016 American Psycho, though, was a Broadway flop.
Bees would seem altogether likelier musical material than the bloody, bloody American Psycho. Kidd’s 2001 novel, set in 1964, was adapted into a 2008 film starring Dakota Fanning and Queen Latifah, and tells the story of, as the Atlantic describes it, “a restless white teenager...
The musical, with a book by Lynn Nottage and lyrics by Susan Birkenhead, based on the novel by Sue Monk Kidd, is part of the Atlantic’s 2018-19 season announced today, a roster that includes The Mother, a new play starring Oscar-nominated actress Isabelle Huppert.
Sheik’s 2006 Spring Awakening won the Tony Award for Best Musical. His 2016 American Psycho, though, was a Broadway flop.
Bees would seem altogether likelier musical material than the bloody, bloody American Psycho. Kidd’s 2001 novel, set in 1964, was adapted into a 2008 film starring Dakota Fanning and Queen Latifah, and tells the story of, as the Atlantic describes it, “a restless white teenager...
- 5/17/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Ron Hogan Sep 20, 2016
How much do you care about Ofelia's back story? Fear The Walking Dead delivers a fairly stagnant instalment this week...
This review contains spoilers.
2.12 Pillar Of Salt
There's an interesting phenomenon at play in Fear The Walking Dead. It feels like our characters are hundreds of miles apart, right? Nick's in his world, Maddie and Alicia are in their world, Travis and Chris are in their world, and Ofelia is streaking through the desert in a stolen pick-up truck looking for gasoline to siphon, right? Well, yes and no. Once upon a time, most people lived and died within a very small radius of the place where they were born. To travel fifteen or twenty miles is a completely different world; look at the variety of accents in England for more proof of just how different things can be in the next town over (let not even...
How much do you care about Ofelia's back story? Fear The Walking Dead delivers a fairly stagnant instalment this week...
This review contains spoilers.
2.12 Pillar Of Salt
There's an interesting phenomenon at play in Fear The Walking Dead. It feels like our characters are hundreds of miles apart, right? Nick's in his world, Maddie and Alicia are in their world, Travis and Chris are in their world, and Ofelia is streaking through the desert in a stolen pick-up truck looking for gasoline to siphon, right? Well, yes and no. Once upon a time, most people lived and died within a very small radius of the place where they were born. To travel fifteen or twenty miles is a completely different world; look at the variety of accents in England for more proof of just how different things can be in the next town over (let not even...
- 9/20/2016
- Den of Geek
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The crew of the Abigail try a risky play this week, but they can't seem to stop screwing up...
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2.5: Captive
The boaters on board the Abigail are increasingly facing tough decisions. They're trying to hold onto old-world values, but they're increasingly running into post-apocalyptic problems. An injured man isn't just an injured man anymore; he's now a liability, a ticking zombie time-bomb. Two episodes ago, Strand disposed of the ticking time bomb that was Alex (whose name has changed from Charlie during her first appearance, apparently) by cutting her loose, quite literally. As it turns out, turning your back on those in need can either save you or end you, and turning your back on family is just not something to even be considered. When you have someone who you trust to watch your back, you stick with them like glue, even...
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The crew of the Abigail try a risky play this week, but they can't seem to stop screwing up...
This review contains spoilers
2.5: Captive
The boaters on board the Abigail are increasingly facing tough decisions. They're trying to hold onto old-world values, but they're increasingly running into post-apocalyptic problems. An injured man isn't just an injured man anymore; he's now a liability, a ticking zombie time-bomb. Two episodes ago, Strand disposed of the ticking time bomb that was Alex (whose name has changed from Charlie during her first appearance, apparently) by cutting her loose, quite literally. As it turns out, turning your back on those in need can either save you or end you, and turning your back on family is just not something to even be considered. When you have someone who you trust to watch your back, you stick with them like glue, even...
- 5/10/2016
- Den of Geek
Take a look @ new footage, plus action images from the "Fear The Walking Dead" episode "We All Fall Down", written by Carla Ching and directed by Adam Davidson, airing April 17, 2016 on AMC:
"...the group seeks shelter with a survivalist family.
"Then 'Madison' tries to uncover the family's true motives.
"Meanwhile, 'Salazar' works to discover the true intentions of 'Strand'..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Fear The Walking Dead: We All Fall Down"...
"...the group seeks shelter with a survivalist family.
"Then 'Madison' tries to uncover the family's true motives.
"Meanwhile, 'Salazar' works to discover the true intentions of 'Strand'..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Fear The Walking Dead: We All Fall Down"...
- 4/20/2016
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Heroes and Villains Entertainment is expanding its TV business by bringing on manager Henry Huang and promoting coordinator Robert Watts to manager of unscripted television.
Huang will be working with clients on both the scripted and unscripted side. He began his career at ICM before moving into management at Industry Entertainment. Huang most recently worked for Global Creative/Station 3 as a manager, and brings with him a diverse client list including writers Matthew Newman (“How To Make Love Like An Englishman”), Chris Pena (“Jane the Virgin”), Carla Ching (“Graceland”), TV director Marisol Adler and on-air personalities like Kat Odell (“Eat...
Huang will be working with clients on both the scripted and unscripted side. He began his career at ICM before moving into management at Industry Entertainment. Huang most recently worked for Global Creative/Station 3 as a manager, and brings with him a diverse client list including writers Matthew Newman (“How To Make Love Like An Englishman”), Chris Pena (“Jane the Virgin”), Carla Ching (“Graceland”), TV director Marisol Adler and on-air personalities like Kat Odell (“Eat...
- 1/13/2015
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
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