Carrie Preston is an acclaimed actress, producer, and director. She has a long list of roles and projects but is most known for her roles as Arlene Fowler in the HBO drama True Blood and Elsbeth Tascioni in the CBS drama The Good Wife.
She won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her work on The Good Wife.
After The Good Wife, she played the same character in the Paramount+ spinoff, The Good Flight.
Now, with the expanding multiverse of The Good Wife, Preston has gone from an accessory to the main event with her role on CBS's Elsbeth as Elsbeth Tascioni.
It is about time Preston is front and center, and we are here to celebrate her long and delightful road to lead lady!
Early Career
Preston started acting in 1985 as Mint Jennifer in the movie Just a Friend. She was also part...
She won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her work on The Good Wife.
After The Good Wife, she played the same character in the Paramount+ spinoff, The Good Flight.
Now, with the expanding multiverse of The Good Wife, Preston has gone from an accessory to the main event with her role on CBS's Elsbeth as Elsbeth Tascioni.
It is about time Preston is front and center, and we are here to celebrate her long and delightful road to lead lady!
Early Career
Preston started acting in 1985 as Mint Jennifer in the movie Just a Friend. She was also part...
- 5/17/2024
- by Eve Pierpont
- TVfanatic
Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone will come to Broadway in the new comedy, The Roommate, by Jen Silverman.
The play, directed by Jack O’Brien, will begin performances on Aug. 29, with an official opening night on Sept. 12, at the Booth Theatre. This marks LuPone’s first return to the stage after giving up her Actors’ Equity membership after the run of Company ended in 2022. Farrow was last on Broadway in 2014, in the A.R. Gurney play Love Letters.
“It’s always a big decision to return to the stage, and I certainly had no intention of being back on Broadway so fast. But when I read the play and heard Mia was attached, it became the easiest decision of my life. I’ve always been a fan of Mia’s work and she is a treasured friend. We’re going to have a blast,” LuPone said.
“The Roommate is funny, quirky and brilliantly written,...
The play, directed by Jack O’Brien, will begin performances on Aug. 29, with an official opening night on Sept. 12, at the Booth Theatre. This marks LuPone’s first return to the stage after giving up her Actors’ Equity membership after the run of Company ended in 2022. Farrow was last on Broadway in 2014, in the A.R. Gurney play Love Letters.
“It’s always a big decision to return to the stage, and I certainly had no intention of being back on Broadway so fast. But when I read the play and heard Mia was attached, it became the easiest decision of my life. I’ve always been a fan of Mia’s work and she is a treasured friend. We’re going to have a blast,” LuPone said.
“The Roommate is funny, quirky and brilliantly written,...
- 5/2/2024
- by Caitlin Huston
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Ronald Colman: Turner Classic Movies' Star of the Month in two major 1930s classics Updated: Turner Classic Movies' July 2017 Star of the Month is Ronald Colman, one of the finest performers of the studio era. On Thursday night, TCM presented five Colman star vehicles that should be popping up again in the not-too-distant future: A Tale of Two Cities, The Prisoner of Zenda, Kismet, Lucky Partners, and My Life with Caroline. The first two movies are among not only Colman's best, but also among Hollywood's best during its so-called Golden Age. Based on Charles Dickens' classic novel, Jack Conway's Academy Award-nominated A Tale of Two Cities (1936) is a rare Hollywood production indeed: it manages to effectively condense its sprawling source, it boasts first-rate production values, and it features a phenomenal central performance. Ah, it also shows its star without his trademark mustache – about as famous at the time as Clark Gable's. Perhaps...
- 7/21/2017
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
The advertising promised a surfeit of sleaze -- but the film is a superior thriller about a real-life, low-rent serial killers from back in the late 1940s. Tony Lo Bianco and the great Shirley Stoler are Ray and Martha, mixed-up lovers running a Merry Widow racket through the personals ads in romance magazines. Leonard Kastle's film is dramatically and psychologically sound, while the disc extras detail the true crime story, which is far, far, sleazier. The Honeymoon Killers Blu-ray The Criterion Collection 200 1969 / B&W / 1:85 widescreen / 107 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date September 29, 2015 / 39.95 Starring Shirley Stoler, Tony Lo Bianco, Mary Jane Higby, Doris Roberts, Kip McArdle, Marilyn Chris, Dortha Duckworth, Barbara Cason, Ann Harris Cinematography Oliver Wood Film Editor Richard Brophy, Stanley Warnow Music Gustav Mahler Produced by Warren Steibel Written and Directed by Leonard Kastle
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
The ad campaign for this crime shocker...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
The ad campaign for this crime shocker...
- 9/29/2015
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Exclusive: Is This Keith Urban's Raciest Music Video Yet? Behind the Scenes of 'Somewhere In My Car'
Et will have more from the set on Wednesday's show.
Looks like things got pretty hot and heavy on the set of Keith Urban's new music video!
ETonline has an exclusive look behind the scenes of Urban's "Somewhere In My Car" shoot, featuring models Jehane Paris and Rodrigo Calazans. See the steamy photos below.
"The story [of "Somewhere In My Car"] is what I would call melancholy," said Urban. "So for me, the video had to be centered around the present and the past, but focused on the intoxicating emotion of 'those nights.'"
Pics: Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman are Crazy in Love!
The result: a video that is being touted as Urban's most provocative to-date. And while the models might be getting all the action on screen, Urban is also included in the video via performance footage from the Cincinnati stop of his recently-completed "Raise 'Em Up" summer tour.
"Somewhere In My Car" re-teams the singer with "Cop Car...
Looks like things got pretty hot and heavy on the set of Keith Urban's new music video!
ETonline has an exclusive look behind the scenes of Urban's "Somewhere In My Car" shoot, featuring models Jehane Paris and Rodrigo Calazans. See the steamy photos below.
"The story [of "Somewhere In My Car"] is what I would call melancholy," said Urban. "So for me, the video had to be centered around the present and the past, but focused on the intoxicating emotion of 'those nights.'"
Pics: Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman are Crazy in Love!
The result: a video that is being touted as Urban's most provocative to-date. And while the models might be getting all the action on screen, Urban is also included in the video via performance footage from the Cincinnati stop of his recently-completed "Raise 'Em Up" summer tour.
"Somewhere In My Car" re-teams the singer with "Cop Car...
- 9/23/2014
- Entertainment Tonight
By Scott Feinberg
The Hollywood Reporter
As much as anything, Gregory Mosher‘s new Broadway revival ofA.R. Gurney‘s 1988 dramedy Love Letters — which opened Thursday night at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, will be running there through Feb. 15 (see THR‘s review) and may well contend for Tonys next spring — made me think about the wide variety of ways in which the passage of time can be conveyed through the different art forms.
Read the rest of this entry…...
The Hollywood Reporter
As much as anything, Gregory Mosher‘s new Broadway revival ofA.R. Gurney‘s 1988 dramedy Love Letters — which opened Thursday night at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, will be running there through Feb. 15 (see THR‘s review) and may well contend for Tonys next spring — made me think about the wide variety of ways in which the passage of time can be conveyed through the different art forms.
Read the rest of this entry…...
- 9/19/2014
- by Anjelica Oswald
- Scott Feinberg
By Anjelica Oswald
Managing Editor
Every year, the glittering lights and unique experience of Broadway lures Hollywood actors to the East Coast; some are veterans of the stage and others are making their Broadway debut. Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad), James Franco (This is the End) and Chris O’Dowd (Bridesmaids) all made their Broadway debuts earlier this year, with O’Dowd receiving a Tony nomination for Of Mice and Men and Cranston winning a Tony for All The Way. Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother), who hadn’t been on Broadway since his 2004 run in Assassins, scored his first Tony nomination and win for Hedwig and the Angry Inch this summer.
The Broadway lineup for the end of the year hosts a number of Hollywood actors making their Broadway debuts, and they are joined by an illustrious group of Broadway vets returning to the stage.
Michael Cera (Arrested Development) and Kieran Culkin,...
Managing Editor
Every year, the glittering lights and unique experience of Broadway lures Hollywood actors to the East Coast; some are veterans of the stage and others are making their Broadway debut. Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad), James Franco (This is the End) and Chris O’Dowd (Bridesmaids) all made their Broadway debuts earlier this year, with O’Dowd receiving a Tony nomination for Of Mice and Men and Cranston winning a Tony for All The Way. Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother), who hadn’t been on Broadway since his 2004 run in Assassins, scored his first Tony nomination and win for Hedwig and the Angry Inch this summer.
The Broadway lineup for the end of the year hosts a number of Hollywood actors making their Broadway debuts, and they are joined by an illustrious group of Broadway vets returning to the stage.
Michael Cera (Arrested Development) and Kieran Culkin,...
- 9/16/2014
- by Anjelica Oswald
- Scott Feinberg
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have finally tied the knot!
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have finally tied the knot!
The A-list stars got engaged in April 2012 and two years later, they're officially husband and wife, The Associated Press reports. The couple reportedly wed in Chateau Miravel, France on Saturday, their rep confirmed to AP.
Photos: 2014 Celebrity Weddings
The private, nondenominational civil ceremony took place in a small chapel and was attended by family and friends. Jolie walked down the aisle with her eldest sons Maddox and Pax, while Zahara and Vivienne threw petals as the flower girls. Their other two kids, Shiloh and Knox, served as their ring bearers, according to the couple's spokesperson.
Pitt and Jolie obtained a marriage license from a California judge, and the judge also conducted their wedding in France.
News: Brad and Angelina Write Love Letters to Each Other
Brangelina met in 2005 while on set of their film Mr. & Mrs. Smith...
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have finally tied the knot!
The A-list stars got engaged in April 2012 and two years later, they're officially husband and wife, The Associated Press reports. The couple reportedly wed in Chateau Miravel, France on Saturday, their rep confirmed to AP.
Photos: 2014 Celebrity Weddings
The private, nondenominational civil ceremony took place in a small chapel and was attended by family and friends. Jolie walked down the aisle with her eldest sons Maddox and Pax, while Zahara and Vivienne threw petals as the flower girls. Their other two kids, Shiloh and Knox, served as their ring bearers, according to the couple's spokesperson.
Pitt and Jolie obtained a marriage license from a California judge, and the judge also conducted their wedding in France.
News: Brad and Angelina Write Love Letters to Each Other
Brangelina met in 2005 while on set of their film Mr. & Mrs. Smith...
- 8/28/2014
- Entertainment Tonight
Mia Farrow was honored on 8 August with the Festival’s Leopard Club Award, which pays tribute to someone in film whose work has left a mark on the collective imagination.
Jay Weissberg, film critic for Variety, speaks with Mia Farrow about her career, passions, the art and craft of acting, her upcoming role on Broadway and growing up in Hollywood royalty. An engaging and smart storyteller, she has a self-effacing sense of humor and deep honesty. The hour-long talk was held in Locarno on 9 August in a packed auditorium – the backdrop of which could have reflected a movie scene, as lights flickered during torrential rains and thunderstorms raged.
Weissberg: With your father a director and mother an actress, did you fall into acting?
Farrow: No, I had a lot of other plans as well. I was going to be a fireman. A fighter pilot -- why I don’t know. And I wanted to be a nun. I got all the best parts in plays in high school. I grew up in Beverly Hills, my mother had come from Ireland and all her colleagues had come from across America and Europe too. This town of Beverly Hills was a town of making films not a town of generations who had lived there for a lot of time. All the kids I grew up with were growing up in films. George Cukor was my godfather. My parents for pragmatic reasons -- Luella Parsons was my godmother. It was political…they were buying her praise or silence, as the case was needed.
Weissberg: When you first began acting was it, ‘Oh sure I can do it’ or a concern ‘Oh this is a craft I need to study?
Farrow: Definitely the latter. I was 16, on Broadway, my father just died. My brother had been killed in an airplane crash. I began auditioning and got this part in Importance of Being Earnest. I sat in on many classes; Wynn Hammond, Uta Hagen, the Actors Studio. I didn’t commit to any of them; I sat in on as many classes as I could. I got Summer stock. I learned on my feet.
Weissberg: On "Rosemary’s Baby" there was a clash between John Cassavetes, known for naturalism and spontaneity and Polanski, a rigid filmmaker.
Farrow: Their two styles could not have been more different. With Polanski there was the precision, exactness, mapping out his shots, that he required of his actors. (Farrow demonstrates) If you had a glass that was a little too up to the right - you ruined that shot. Cassavetes did handheld stuff, he was free to say what he wanted, and there was a lot of adlibbing. Cassavetes quickly found he was not comfortable with the confines, the rigidity of these extraordinary shots that Polanski mapped out.
Weissberg: It’s extraordinary over your career your ability to surprise us. Just when we, the public or industry has typecast you, you turn around and do something unexpected. "Broadway Danny Rose" and earlier on in "Rosemary's Baby" and "John and Mary." Let’s talk about change for your characters internally and externally.
Farrow: That’s part of the job. There are actors who didn’t change characters whom I admire like Spencer Tracy and Yul Brynner. Yul said he had a different walk in every film. He thought he was a different character. If you can successfully convey that then you have to find it in yourself to make that person real. In "Broadway Danny Rose" I patterned it after the wife of a friend of Frank Sinatra’s and a woman in a restaurant. I knew how she should look and talk. There was an assistant in one of the offices and I said, ‘Can you read my lines and I can tape you to get that accent right?’ I had to change that timbre. I tried to gain the weight but still had to fake everything. Now you can’t do that part and stay in the part and do "The Purple Rose of Cairo," too (which was shot at the same time). I was in the Royal Shakespeare Academy; you can’t Not change. It’s part of the way of my training.
Weissberg: You’re going back to Broadway next month in Love Letters. What made you want to come back to the stage?
Farrow: I’ve been saying to myself, that I don’t want to act again because drama is enough in life, but I’m still earning a living. Then I wondered if that’s true; that I don’t want to act. It’s only one month on Broadway and I should see before I make definitive statements about anything. One of my sons said, ‘Don’t make these statements; acting is something you can do that can be meaningful. Don’t be so cavalier with something you were given.’
Weissberg: Did your mother give you any acting advice?
Farrow : She gave advice about acting and being truthful. ‘Don’t ever do your hair in the style of the times unless there’s a real point to looking a certain way. Choose simple clothes and hair, so people can see your role ten years from now, unless you’re deliberately trying to convey it.’ I think in "Rosemary's Baby" that was ‘me’ in that situation, I had to imagine myself in that situation and then I tried to have her look not so sixties not so anything in particular.
In response to a question about organizing a full and complicated life while juggling all the balls in the air.
Farrow: It’s better not to think of them as balls in the air otherwise I would probably drop everything. I have multiple interests and I’ve always been like that. You’ll see on Twitter what my interests are. (Farrow talks about Unicef trips to Central African Republic and the genocide there.) I try to bring some attention there to a neglected crisis.
In response to a question about Frank Sinatra
Farrow: I would say in essence a shy man who was extremely empathetic, and a shy man who took pains to cover his shyness with a toughness you saw. There were many aspects of his childhood growing up in Hoboken; his mother’s only son, skinny, he wanted to be singer and the guys in his school were tough, he got a lot of bullying. We all carry our six year-old self, and that self, that essential self, was a very sensitive and essentially shy person. He was fascinated about a lot of things. I am very glad to have known him. He was a good friend. I loved him very much.
Weissberg: Is the legend true that Prudence is your sister from the Beatles’ song ?
Farrow: I wish the song was called Dear Mia. The Beatles wrote the White Album when we were all in India. My sister Prudence was a meditator years before we went to India. Each of us was mired in our own particular nightmares. We get to the Himalayas, and she goes into meditation 24-hours a day and I have a short attention span. You get a mantra from the guru and you learn; you bring flowers and fruit. It’s a ceremony. Well, I have a little bout with hay fever – the guru has a wreath around his neck and he carefully tells me my secret word and I sneezed! I didn’t hear it properly. I asked him, “Would you mind repeating it?” Guru said, “No you have heard it.’ I said, “No really, I don't think so.” He never would repeat the word. That's probably why I never achieved that karmic bliss. The Beatles were outside our door, asking Prudence (and Farrow sings) “Won’t you come out and play?”(Upon hearing the song back in the U.S.) Prudence doesn’t like getting anything that’s prideful. Me -- I would have had Dear Mia tee shirts made!
Weissberg: Hollywood is not a comfortable place for a woman past 40.
Farrow: It’s okay I don’t look 20 anymore. Judi Dench looks like Judi Dench and we love the way she looks. And we love Maggie Smith. We love all the Maggie Smiths of her lifetime. We love all the Sally Fields and we hope she will go on to impress us. There is a residual fear from the olden days, except Katherine Hepburn, women [over 40] disappeared into their mansions because they thought they would disappoint fans. Or went to surgeons. There was a lot of fear of growing old. That’s not on the top of my one millions fears.
I ask Farrow about the disparity of women directors working in the industry
Farrow cites Kathryn Bigelow as a success story and hopes the situation changes.
Farrow: I haven’t worked with women directors yet but I would like to. Women are capable of doing anything. We’ve had some big hits. I hope one day when I do another film if I have the time to work with a woman director. I would love to work with women. We are better communicators.
In response to Farrow’s relationship with social media
Farrow: I love Twitter; my son taught me. It’s a great way to use information, to convey information for me as a human being and as Un ambassador. I told my children, ‘With knowledge comes responsibility.’ I feel if I can convey that information, maybe people can act upon it. It’s about all of us using what is in our arsenal to try to make the world a little more peaceful or compassionate.
Award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker, Susan Kouguell presents international workshops and seminars on screenwriting and film. Author of Savvy Characters Sell Screenplays! and The Savvy Screenwriter, she is chairperson of Su-City Pictures East, LLC, a consulting company founded in 1990 where she works with over 1,000 writers, filmmakers, and executives worldwide. www.su-city-pictures.com, http://su-city-pictures.com/wpblog .
Jay Weissberg, film critic for Variety, speaks with Mia Farrow about her career, passions, the art and craft of acting, her upcoming role on Broadway and growing up in Hollywood royalty. An engaging and smart storyteller, she has a self-effacing sense of humor and deep honesty. The hour-long talk was held in Locarno on 9 August in a packed auditorium – the backdrop of which could have reflected a movie scene, as lights flickered during torrential rains and thunderstorms raged.
Weissberg: With your father a director and mother an actress, did you fall into acting?
Farrow: No, I had a lot of other plans as well. I was going to be a fireman. A fighter pilot -- why I don’t know. And I wanted to be a nun. I got all the best parts in plays in high school. I grew up in Beverly Hills, my mother had come from Ireland and all her colleagues had come from across America and Europe too. This town of Beverly Hills was a town of making films not a town of generations who had lived there for a lot of time. All the kids I grew up with were growing up in films. George Cukor was my godfather. My parents for pragmatic reasons -- Luella Parsons was my godmother. It was political…they were buying her praise or silence, as the case was needed.
Weissberg: When you first began acting was it, ‘Oh sure I can do it’ or a concern ‘Oh this is a craft I need to study?
Farrow: Definitely the latter. I was 16, on Broadway, my father just died. My brother had been killed in an airplane crash. I began auditioning and got this part in Importance of Being Earnest. I sat in on many classes; Wynn Hammond, Uta Hagen, the Actors Studio. I didn’t commit to any of them; I sat in on as many classes as I could. I got Summer stock. I learned on my feet.
Weissberg: On "Rosemary’s Baby" there was a clash between John Cassavetes, known for naturalism and spontaneity and Polanski, a rigid filmmaker.
Farrow: Their two styles could not have been more different. With Polanski there was the precision, exactness, mapping out his shots, that he required of his actors. (Farrow demonstrates) If you had a glass that was a little too up to the right - you ruined that shot. Cassavetes did handheld stuff, he was free to say what he wanted, and there was a lot of adlibbing. Cassavetes quickly found he was not comfortable with the confines, the rigidity of these extraordinary shots that Polanski mapped out.
Weissberg: It’s extraordinary over your career your ability to surprise us. Just when we, the public or industry has typecast you, you turn around and do something unexpected. "Broadway Danny Rose" and earlier on in "Rosemary's Baby" and "John and Mary." Let’s talk about change for your characters internally and externally.
Farrow: That’s part of the job. There are actors who didn’t change characters whom I admire like Spencer Tracy and Yul Brynner. Yul said he had a different walk in every film. He thought he was a different character. If you can successfully convey that then you have to find it in yourself to make that person real. In "Broadway Danny Rose" I patterned it after the wife of a friend of Frank Sinatra’s and a woman in a restaurant. I knew how she should look and talk. There was an assistant in one of the offices and I said, ‘Can you read my lines and I can tape you to get that accent right?’ I had to change that timbre. I tried to gain the weight but still had to fake everything. Now you can’t do that part and stay in the part and do "The Purple Rose of Cairo," too (which was shot at the same time). I was in the Royal Shakespeare Academy; you can’t Not change. It’s part of the way of my training.
Weissberg: You’re going back to Broadway next month in Love Letters. What made you want to come back to the stage?
Farrow: I’ve been saying to myself, that I don’t want to act again because drama is enough in life, but I’m still earning a living. Then I wondered if that’s true; that I don’t want to act. It’s only one month on Broadway and I should see before I make definitive statements about anything. One of my sons said, ‘Don’t make these statements; acting is something you can do that can be meaningful. Don’t be so cavalier with something you were given.’
Weissberg: Did your mother give you any acting advice?
Farrow : She gave advice about acting and being truthful. ‘Don’t ever do your hair in the style of the times unless there’s a real point to looking a certain way. Choose simple clothes and hair, so people can see your role ten years from now, unless you’re deliberately trying to convey it.’ I think in "Rosemary's Baby" that was ‘me’ in that situation, I had to imagine myself in that situation and then I tried to have her look not so sixties not so anything in particular.
In response to a question about organizing a full and complicated life while juggling all the balls in the air.
Farrow: It’s better not to think of them as balls in the air otherwise I would probably drop everything. I have multiple interests and I’ve always been like that. You’ll see on Twitter what my interests are. (Farrow talks about Unicef trips to Central African Republic and the genocide there.) I try to bring some attention there to a neglected crisis.
In response to a question about Frank Sinatra
Farrow: I would say in essence a shy man who was extremely empathetic, and a shy man who took pains to cover his shyness with a toughness you saw. There were many aspects of his childhood growing up in Hoboken; his mother’s only son, skinny, he wanted to be singer and the guys in his school were tough, he got a lot of bullying. We all carry our six year-old self, and that self, that essential self, was a very sensitive and essentially shy person. He was fascinated about a lot of things. I am very glad to have known him. He was a good friend. I loved him very much.
Weissberg: Is the legend true that Prudence is your sister from the Beatles’ song ?
Farrow: I wish the song was called Dear Mia. The Beatles wrote the White Album when we were all in India. My sister Prudence was a meditator years before we went to India. Each of us was mired in our own particular nightmares. We get to the Himalayas, and she goes into meditation 24-hours a day and I have a short attention span. You get a mantra from the guru and you learn; you bring flowers and fruit. It’s a ceremony. Well, I have a little bout with hay fever – the guru has a wreath around his neck and he carefully tells me my secret word and I sneezed! I didn’t hear it properly. I asked him, “Would you mind repeating it?” Guru said, “No you have heard it.’ I said, “No really, I don't think so.” He never would repeat the word. That's probably why I never achieved that karmic bliss. The Beatles were outside our door, asking Prudence (and Farrow sings) “Won’t you come out and play?”(Upon hearing the song back in the U.S.) Prudence doesn’t like getting anything that’s prideful. Me -- I would have had Dear Mia tee shirts made!
Weissberg: Hollywood is not a comfortable place for a woman past 40.
Farrow: It’s okay I don’t look 20 anymore. Judi Dench looks like Judi Dench and we love the way she looks. And we love Maggie Smith. We love all the Maggie Smiths of her lifetime. We love all the Sally Fields and we hope she will go on to impress us. There is a residual fear from the olden days, except Katherine Hepburn, women [over 40] disappeared into their mansions because they thought they would disappoint fans. Or went to surgeons. There was a lot of fear of growing old. That’s not on the top of my one millions fears.
I ask Farrow about the disparity of women directors working in the industry
Farrow cites Kathryn Bigelow as a success story and hopes the situation changes.
Farrow: I haven’t worked with women directors yet but I would like to. Women are capable of doing anything. We’ve had some big hits. I hope one day when I do another film if I have the time to work with a woman director. I would love to work with women. We are better communicators.
In response to Farrow’s relationship with social media
Farrow: I love Twitter; my son taught me. It’s a great way to use information, to convey information for me as a human being and as Un ambassador. I told my children, ‘With knowledge comes responsibility.’ I feel if I can convey that information, maybe people can act upon it. It’s about all of us using what is in our arsenal to try to make the world a little more peaceful or compassionate.
Award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker, Susan Kouguell presents international workshops and seminars on screenwriting and film. Author of Savvy Characters Sell Screenplays! and The Savvy Screenwriter, she is chairperson of Su-City Pictures East, LLC, a consulting company founded in 1990 where she works with over 1,000 writers, filmmakers, and executives worldwide. www.su-city-pictures.com, http://su-city-pictures.com/wpblog .
- 8/11/2014
- by Susan Kouguell
- Sydney's Buzz
Hot on the heels of a triumphant tour of North America in support of their acclaimed fourth album Love Letters, Metronomy have announced a series of new live shows. The much lauded British four-piece will be returning to these shores in September to perform in several cities around the country, including Chicago, New York, Boston, Austin, Los Angeles, Seattle and more. Metronomy is giving their fans the first opportunity to buy tickets on this tour through a special fan presale. Presale tickets will be available beginning Tuesday, June 24th at 10am local. Click Here to register for the Metronomy presale. The first two singles from the band's career defining new album Love Letters (Because Music/Elektra Records). - "I'm Aquarius" & "Love Letters" - have leapt to success at radio...
- 6/24/2014
- by Pietro Filipponi
- The Daily BLAM!
The Book of Life
The first photos are out from Jorge Gutierrez's stylized 3-D animated feature "The Book of Life" which deals with the Mexican Day of the Dead holiday.
Guillermo del Toro produced the story about love triangle among three childhood friends Manolo (Diego Luna), Maria (Zoe Saldana) and Joaquin (Channing Tatum) who are stirred up after the unpredictable gods wager on which man will win Maria's heart. [Source: USA Today]
The Good Luck Of Right Now
"Little Miss Sunshine" directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris have dropped out of directing the film adaptation of "Silver Linings Playbook" author Matthew Quick's "The Good Luck Of Right Now" at DreamWorks.
Currently in pre-production, the departure is said to be due to creative disagreements over the ensembles casting process. Mike White penned the script of the adaptation. [Source: Deadline]
Dracula Untold
Giant screen exhibitor IMAX have announced that they will digitally re-master and release...
The first photos are out from Jorge Gutierrez's stylized 3-D animated feature "The Book of Life" which deals with the Mexican Day of the Dead holiday.
Guillermo del Toro produced the story about love triangle among three childhood friends Manolo (Diego Luna), Maria (Zoe Saldana) and Joaquin (Channing Tatum) who are stirred up after the unpredictable gods wager on which man will win Maria's heart. [Source: USA Today]
The Good Luck Of Right Now
"Little Miss Sunshine" directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris have dropped out of directing the film adaptation of "Silver Linings Playbook" author Matthew Quick's "The Good Luck Of Right Now" at DreamWorks.
Currently in pre-production, the departure is said to be due to creative disagreements over the ensembles casting process. Mike White penned the script of the adaptation. [Source: Deadline]
Dracula Untold
Giant screen exhibitor IMAX have announced that they will digitally re-master and release...
- 5/28/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: Fox 2000 has optioned Ava Dellaira’s debut novel Love Letters to the Dead. Producing are Temple Hill‘s Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen, who produced the upcoming The Fault in Our Stars. The author will write the script, under the supervision of Fox 2000 execs Elizabeth Gabler and Erin Siminoff will oversee for Fox 2000. The book was published in April by Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers, to much acclaim. The story follows Laurel, a high school student whose beloved older sister has died under mysterious circumstances. Emotionally frayed by the loss, she unexpectedly finds catharsis in an assignment from her English teacher: write a letter to a dead person. Instead of handing in the assignment, though, she begins an ongoing series of letters to an eclectic group of rock stars, poets, and popular icons such as Kurt Cobain, Judy Garland, Amelia Earhart, and Amy Winehouse. She writes...
- 5/27/2014
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
FX released three new trailers for the fourth season of Louie this week, and the promos together create a sort of melancholy triptych love letter to New York City.
All three brief clips are shot in moody black and white, and each features the series' creator, writer, director and star Louis C.K. from the back, taking in some essential New York landmark. The first one is reminiscent of the iconic Queensboro Bridge scene in Woody Allen's Manhattan, with C.K. sitting on a bench and gazing out across the river.
All three brief clips are shot in moody black and white, and each features the series' creator, writer, director and star Louis C.K. from the back, taking in some essential New York landmark. The first one is reminiscent of the iconic Queensboro Bridge scene in Woody Allen's Manhattan, with C.K. sitting on a bench and gazing out across the river.
- 4/5/2014
- Rollingstone.com
On March 10, Metronomy will release their new album called Love Letters, and what better way to promote the new release than by releasing a video directed by one of the all-time great music video directors, Michel Gondry. Gondry has previously worked with artists such as Daft Punk, The White Stripes, Radiohead and Beck. The new video features the band performing inside and around typically Gondry-esque contraption cardboard props with Gondry’s camera circling the band through various backdrops. The song is taken from the band’s new album of the same name, which is set for release on March 10. Watch the video below. Enjoy!
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- 2/11/2014
- by Kyle Reese
- SoundOnSight
Director Michel Gondry has directed now classic music videos for Daft Punk, Beck, The White Strips, Radiohead and other major musical acts. In his latest music video, for Metronomy's boppy "Love Letters," the band performs the catchy tune inside a colorfully painted club house with cut-outs as a 360-degree camera slowly spins around them. In their matching maroon outfits, the band looks a bit like an older, more diverse Partridge Family - and the music is just as cheerfully cheesy. Some hardcore Gondry fans are disappointed in the video, calling it "Gondry for beginners" in the comments section on the band's YouTube page. Check it out for yourself below:...
- 2/11/2014
- by Paula Bernstein
- Indiewire
In the video for "Love Letters," Metronomy plays from inside a perfectly Michel Gondry—esque contraption. A 360-degree camera slowly spins around the six-sided painted box with cutouts resembling ones you might pose in at a state fair: Metronomy inside your computer screen (doubly so, if you're watching the YouTube video on your laptop), performing on stage, having a road-trip sing-along, serenading the creatures in a forest. Meanwhile, is tambourine the new ukulele? Discuss.
- 2/11/2014
- by Lindsey Weber
- Vulture
French director turns his attentions back onto music videos for Love Letters, the latest single by the British lounge-poppers
• Metronomy's Joseph Mount: 'I wouldn't want to be like Coldplay'
When he's not making whimsical films like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind or the forthcoming Mood Indigo, Michel Gondry often makes visionary music videos.
His videos to date - such as Daft Punk's Around the World and the Chemical Brothers' Star Guitar - matched the musician's rhythm tracks with surreal visuals in total alignment, while his various creations for Bjork have visualised her liminal dreamworlds perfectly.
His latest interpretation is for Metronomy's new single Love Letters, taken from the excellent forthcoming album of the same name.
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The song is a forthright Abba-ish number, where strident disco is given a slightly stiff-limbed gait as Joseph Mount sings of desperate love. Gondry sticks...
• Metronomy's Joseph Mount: 'I wouldn't want to be like Coldplay'
When he's not making whimsical films like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind or the forthcoming Mood Indigo, Michel Gondry often makes visionary music videos.
His videos to date - such as Daft Punk's Around the World and the Chemical Brothers' Star Guitar - matched the musician's rhythm tracks with surreal visuals in total alignment, while his various creations for Bjork have visualised her liminal dreamworlds perfectly.
His latest interpretation is for Metronomy's new single Love Letters, taken from the excellent forthcoming album of the same name.
Reading on mobile? Click here for video
The song is a forthright Abba-ish number, where strident disco is given a slightly stiff-limbed gait as Joseph Mount sings of desperate love. Gondry sticks...
- 2/11/2014
- by Ben Beaumont-Thomas
- The Guardian - Film News
Photos from Prisoners, Vampire Academy, The Zero Theorem, Grudge Match, Joe, Night Moves, McCanick, and Parkland.
Posters for A Single Shot, Parkland, Plush, Filth, Blue Caprice, Escape Plan, Mother of George, Wadjda, Morning, Disneynature's Bears, C.O.G., and A Promise.
A full graphic novel prologue to this week's art house drama "Aint Them Bodies Saints" has gone online over at EW.
"Sony Pictures Classics has picked up Bennett Miller's 'Foxcatcher' starring Channing Tatum and Steve Carrell, and have given it a release date of December 20th this year…" (full details)
"The 'ghosts on a plane' thriller '7500', starring Ryan Kwanten and Amy Smart, looks like it will finally be scoring a release sometime this October…" (full details)
"CBS Films has acquired Bethany Ashton Wolf's script 'Other People’s Love Letters' and attached Tom Bezucha to direct. The story follows the intertwining storylines of four romances,...
Posters for A Single Shot, Parkland, Plush, Filth, Blue Caprice, Escape Plan, Mother of George, Wadjda, Morning, Disneynature's Bears, C.O.G., and A Promise.
A full graphic novel prologue to this week's art house drama "Aint Them Bodies Saints" has gone online over at EW.
"Sony Pictures Classics has picked up Bennett Miller's 'Foxcatcher' starring Channing Tatum and Steve Carrell, and have given it a release date of December 20th this year…" (full details)
"The 'ghosts on a plane' thriller '7500', starring Ryan Kwanten and Amy Smart, looks like it will finally be scoring a release sometime this October…" (full details)
"CBS Films has acquired Bethany Ashton Wolf's script 'Other People’s Love Letters' and attached Tom Bezucha to direct. The story follows the intertwining storylines of four romances,...
- 8/16/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: CBS Films has acquired Other People’s Love Letters, a script that will be helmed by Tom Bezucha. The film has a Love, Actually vibe in that it follows the intertwining storylines of four romances, each at a crossroads. The film was scripted by Bethany Ashton Wolf, and Laurence Mark is producing with Jonathan Shukat, with Tamara Chestna and Eric Bromberg exec producing. They may change the title, but it’s based on the book of the same name, which is a collection of love letters that was edited by Bill Shapiro. They’ll now go out to cast. This movie is meant to be pure romance, and Tom Bezucha is the perfect director to bring these diverse love stories to life on the screen,” said Mark. Wme-repped Bezucha helmed Monte Carlo and The Family Stone. Wolf is repped by Apa and Magnet Management. CBS execs Mark Ross and Winnie Kemp are overseeing.
- 8/15/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Chicago – Ready to feel old? It’s the 25th anniversary of “Oliver & Company,” 40th anniversary of “Robin Hood,” and 50th anniversary of “The Sword in the Stone.” Maybe I’m showing my age even further by admitting that I would rank the films in order of oldest to newest. “Sword” remains remarkably fun but “Robin Hood” is close behind. Only “Oliver” remains pretty much a waste of time.
Watching all three again was a trip back to my childhood although the journey wasn’t quite as I expected. I remember “Robin Hood” being a little more playful and visually striking. It’s still a decent flick but I found (and my kids agreed) “The Sword in the Stone” to have held up the best of the three. Yes, it’s an imperfect telling of the Excalibur legend but the music is fun and the film contains something too often missing from “lesser” Disney works — joy.
Watching all three again was a trip back to my childhood although the journey wasn’t quite as I expected. I remember “Robin Hood” being a little more playful and visually striking. It’s still a decent flick but I found (and my kids agreed) “The Sword in the Stone” to have held up the best of the three. Yes, it’s an imperfect telling of the Excalibur legend but the music is fun and the film contains something too often missing from “lesser” Disney works — joy.
- 8/8/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Have Prince George's first christening gifts been revealed? Cousin of Prince William India Hicks has created some special jewelry and is set to send the littlest prince - who was born on July 22 - a set of cufflinks. The jewelry, monogrammed with the letter G, is part of a collection the former model-turned-lifestyle guru and jewelry maker has created in her Bahamian home. There is no tradition of giving presents at birth within the royal family, but gifts are given at the christening, which is likely to happen in the fall. A goddaughter of Prince Charles, India's Love Letters line...
- 7/27/2013
- by Simon Perry
- PEOPLE.com
Bucks County Playhouse Bcp presents the world premiere of Mothers and Sons, a new play by four-time Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally. Last seen at Bucks County in Love Letters oppositeJames Earl Jones, Emmy and Tony Award-winner Tyne Daly is set to star in the production joined by Tony Award-nominees Manoel Felciano and Bobby Steggert, with direction by Tony Award-nominee Sheryl Kaller. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the production below.
- 6/18/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Bucks County Playhouse Bcp presents the world premiere of Mothers and Sons, a new play by four-time Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally. Last seen at Bucks County in Love Letters opposite James Earl Jones, Emmy and Tony Award-winner Tyne Daly is set to star in the production joined by Tony Award-nominees Manoel Felciano and Bobby Steggert, with direction by Tony Award-nominee Sheryl Kaller. BroadwayWorld has a behind-the-scenes look at the production below.
- 6/18/2013
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Bucks County Playhouse Bcp presents the world premiere of Mothers and Sons, a new play by four-time Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally. Last seen at Bucks County in Love Letters opposite James Earl Jones, Emmy and Tony Award-winner Tyne Daly is set to star in the production joined by Tony Award-nominees Manoel Felciano and Bobby Steggert, with direction by Tony Award-nominee Sheryl Kaller.
- 6/13/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
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Two years ago, Chloe Sevigny was cast as infamous alleged murderess Lizzie Borden for a HBO mini-series, but we're still waiting for that to come to fruition. In the meantime, Lifetime is doing its own version of the story, and they've cast Christina Ricci in the title role. Lizzie was accused (and eventually acquitted) of killing her parents with an axe while they were sleeping one night in Fall River, Massachusetts in 1892.
After the highly-publicized trial, Lizzie went on to have a relationship with actress Nance O’ Neill, and she is often referred to as a lesbian. Love letters she'd written to a female friend were found after her death, and she also was known to have "women's gatherings" at her home. Plus historians like to point out she did not "enjoy the company of men." All signs point to lez.
Lizzie Borden
It's unclear...
Two years ago, Chloe Sevigny was cast as infamous alleged murderess Lizzie Borden for a HBO mini-series, but we're still waiting for that to come to fruition. In the meantime, Lifetime is doing its own version of the story, and they've cast Christina Ricci in the title role. Lizzie was accused (and eventually acquitted) of killing her parents with an axe while they were sleeping one night in Fall River, Massachusetts in 1892.
After the highly-publicized trial, Lizzie went on to have a relationship with actress Nance O’ Neill, and she is often referred to as a lesbian. Love letters she'd written to a female friend were found after her death, and she also was known to have "women's gatherings" at her home. Plus historians like to point out she did not "enjoy the company of men." All signs point to lez.
Lizzie Borden
It's unclear...
- 6/8/2013
- by trishbendix
- AfterEllen.com
Blu-ray Release Date: Aug. 6, 2013
Price: Blu-ray/DVD Combo $36.99
Studio: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
The Sword in the Stone
Disney celebrates a bunch of anniversaries with Blu-ray debuts. Animated fantasy movie The Sword in the Stone turned 50 and adventure film Robin Hood turned 40 this year.
Originally released in 1963, The Sword in the Stone tells the story of young Arthur, who’s tutored by Merlin the Magician before fulfilling his destiny of becoming king.
The film was nominated for an Oscr for its music.
1973′s Robin Hood is another old English legend, about the outlaw who fights against injustices by robbing the rich to feed the poor. Robin Hood is a wily fox, his friend Friar Tuck a cuddly bear, the rich Prince John a cowardly lion and his companion Sir Hiss a slippery snake.
The movie also was nominated for an Oscar for its song “Love” by George Bruns and Floyd Huddleston.
Price: Blu-ray/DVD Combo $36.99
Studio: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
The Sword in the Stone
Disney celebrates a bunch of anniversaries with Blu-ray debuts. Animated fantasy movie The Sword in the Stone turned 50 and adventure film Robin Hood turned 40 this year.
Originally released in 1963, The Sword in the Stone tells the story of young Arthur, who’s tutored by Merlin the Magician before fulfilling his destiny of becoming king.
The film was nominated for an Oscr for its music.
1973′s Robin Hood is another old English legend, about the outlaw who fights against injustices by robbing the rich to feed the poor. Robin Hood is a wily fox, his friend Friar Tuck a cuddly bear, the rich Prince John a cowardly lion and his companion Sir Hiss a slippery snake.
The movie also was nominated for an Oscar for its song “Love” by George Bruns and Floyd Huddleston.
- 5/21/2013
- by Sam
- Disc Dish
Bucks County Playhouse Bcp Jed Bernstein, Producing Director has announced the complete casting for the world premiere of Mothers and Sons, a new play by four-time Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally. Last seen at Bucks County in Love Letters opposite James Earl Jones, Emmy and Tony Award-winner Tyne Daly is set to star in the production joined by Tony Award-nominees Manoel Felciano and Bobby Steggert, with direction by Tony Award-nominee Sheryl Kaller.
- 5/8/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Comedian, musician, actress and Peep Show star Isy Suttie has co-written and also stars in tonight's new Sky Living Love Matters one-off - the romantic musical comedy Miss Wright.
Suttie spoke to Digital Spy about her hopes for Miss Wright, her thoughts on musical theatre and why she used to reject men on the basis of their skincare regime...
Both Miss Wright and your recent Radio 4 show Love Letters were about romance - what is it about that subject that's so ripe for comedy?
"It's a thing that a lot of people can identify with, so regardless of their age or background, most people have had the experiences of either falling in love and it being requited, or that thing of having a crush on someone and them not even knowing…
"Or there's them rejecting you, and how horrible that can be. Or being dumped, or having to dump someone.
Suttie spoke to Digital Spy about her hopes for Miss Wright, her thoughts on musical theatre and why she used to reject men on the basis of their skincare regime...
Both Miss Wright and your recent Radio 4 show Love Letters were about romance - what is it about that subject that's so ripe for comedy?
"It's a thing that a lot of people can identify with, so regardless of their age or background, most people have had the experiences of either falling in love and it being requited, or that thing of having a crush on someone and them not even knowing…
"Or there's them rejecting you, and how horrible that can be. Or being dumped, or having to dump someone.
- 4/4/2013
- Digital Spy
A Fake Moon rises over Bristol at the Ibt festival, Philip Pullman's I Was a Rat! scurries into Birmingham, and James McAvoy tackles the Scottish play in London
North
The big opening this week is Roger McGough's new version of Molière's The Misanthrope at Liverpool Playhouse, which should be fun. Theatre meets music gigs in 154 Collective's Dancing With the Orange Dog, which is at Stockton Arts Centre on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Hairspray is out on tour again and is at the Lowry in Salford. In Manchester, meanwhile, Queer Contact celebrates the best in Lgbt art and culture this weekend. The moving first-world-war drama, The Accrington Pals, continues at the Exchange. David Copperfield begins at the Oldham Coliseum tonight. This looks intriguing: at Haphazard at Z-arts on Saturday is Word of Warning's day of live art for all ages. The Edinburgh hit, Unmythable – all the Greek myths in 70 minutes...
North
The big opening this week is Roger McGough's new version of Molière's The Misanthrope at Liverpool Playhouse, which should be fun. Theatre meets music gigs in 154 Collective's Dancing With the Orange Dog, which is at Stockton Arts Centre on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Hairspray is out on tour again and is at the Lowry in Salford. In Manchester, meanwhile, Queer Contact celebrates the best in Lgbt art and culture this weekend. The moving first-world-war drama, The Accrington Pals, continues at the Exchange. David Copperfield begins at the Oldham Coliseum tonight. This looks intriguing: at Haphazard at Z-arts on Saturday is Word of Warning's day of live art for all ages. The Edinburgh hit, Unmythable – all the Greek myths in 70 minutes...
- 2/8/2013
- by Lyn Gardner
- The Guardian - Film News
Kristen Stewart reportedly sending Robert Pattinson sweet love letters now. According to Hollywood Life and their sources, Twilight Saga hottie Kristen Stewart is now rumored to be sending her main man Robert Pattinson sweet love letters while he's filming his new "Rover" flick in the land down under, Australia. It was previously rumored that she was very upset at his lack of communication with her ,and got totally pissed at him,but it sounds like she's calmed down,now. Their sources are claiming,“Kristen wrote a long letter, explaining her love to Rob. Even if he can’t forgive her, he should know that she is closer to him than anyone else could ever be." Awww. Isn't that sweet? Anyways, they went on to report that Kristen canceled her supposed flight she was going to reportedly make down there after careful advisement from her handlers. They apparently thought she would...
- 2/1/2013
- by Andre
- OnTheFlix
She beat Meryl, she won the Golden Globe, and to cap off her week, Jennifer Lawrence proved a game, funny presence in her Saturday Night Live hosting debut. Lawrence’s opening monologue was adorkably amusing (and, for once, eschewed the show’s trend of so-so song-and-dance routines), her best moments (like Top Dog Chef) were absolutely uproarious, and perhaps most impressive of all, she even managed to score chuckles in sketches that came out of the oven only partially baked (i.e. the “’50s Diner” waitress).
Below, check out my picks (with corresponding video) for the week’s best and worst sketches.
Below, check out my picks (with corresponding video) for the week’s best and worst sketches.
- 1/20/2013
- by Michael Slezak
- TVLine.com
Bucks County Playhouse announced a special two day engagement of A.R. Gurneys Love Letters, starring theatre, television and film legends Tyne Daly and James Earl Jones. Love Letters will be performed tonight, October 20th at 730 p.m. and Sunday, October 21st at 200 p.m. at the Bucks County Playhouse 70 South Main Street. Following the Saturday evening performance, there will be a benefit reception underwritten by The Inn at Barley Sheaf Farm barleysheaf.com to honor the cast and raise money for the Playhouse.
- 10/20/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
London, October 2: Love letters, which are the most timeless way of expressing love, are facing extinction because couples have given up committing their deepest feeling to paper, a new study has found.
According to a new research, just six percent of women and four percent of men still currently write love letters.
Instead, couples are turning to more modern methods and choosing to text, email.
According to a new research, just six percent of women and four percent of men still currently write love letters.
Instead, couples are turning to more modern methods and choosing to text, email.
- 10/2/2012
- by Diksha Singh
- RealBollywood.com
Just a few days ago we let you know about the new film from director Mark Murphy. Today we have the first stills for you, both behind-the-scenes and otherwise. Read on for more and to inject a little demonic action into your weekend!
"Nearly halfway through the shoot, and luckily the only deaths and disasters are all happening on screen," says Murphy. "Today we shoot a key scene which will have people talking for years to come. Feeling like a mole man having spent so much time filming in the crypt, but we're getting gold on a daily basis. Very much looking forward to seeing this on the big screen but will sorely miss working with such an amazing cast and crew; expecting big things from Nicola Posener, Tom Leeper, Charley McDougall, Sabrina Bussandri and Lucy Drive."
From the Press Release
Principal photography began recently on British writer/director Mark Murphy’s horror movie debut,...
"Nearly halfway through the shoot, and luckily the only deaths and disasters are all happening on screen," says Murphy. "Today we shoot a key scene which will have people talking for years to come. Feeling like a mole man having spent so much time filming in the crypt, but we're getting gold on a daily basis. Very much looking forward to seeing this on the big screen but will sorely miss working with such an amazing cast and crew; expecting big things from Nicola Posener, Tom Leeper, Charley McDougall, Sabrina Bussandri and Lucy Drive."
From the Press Release
Principal photography began recently on British writer/director Mark Murphy’s horror movie debut,...
- 9/21/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
In celebration of its recent film preservation efforts, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will launch the first-ever .Film-to-Film. Festival, which will run September 27 through September 29, in the Academy.s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills and the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. A year ago the Academy Film Archive launched an ambitious effort called .Project Film-to-Film,. aimed at preserving as many films on film as possible over a two-year period. The initiative.s main goal is to take advantage of the current, but threatened, availability of film stock to create new prints of a diverse range of motion pictures, encompassing the whole history of the art form.
More than 390 new prints have already been created from the best available film elements, covering significant narrative features and documentaries, as well as experimental, animated and short film titles. The wide variety of titles range from .Navajo,. the only film...
More than 390 new prints have already been created from the best available film elements, covering significant narrative features and documentaries, as well as experimental, animated and short film titles. The wide variety of titles range from .Navajo,. the only film...
- 9/19/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
We've gotten word on a cool British horror film that is just getting underway. Writer/director Mark Murphy has just started filming The Convent in London. We'll keep you updated on this one, but for now, dig the cool promo poster.
Synopsis
The Convent tells two interconnecting stories played out in parallel, intersecting with each other. The first story follows five twenty-somethings, who, on the hunt for some excitement, break into an abandoned church/convent only to become the victims of the horrors that lurk within. The second story follows the church’s investigation into the tragic ‘accident’ that resulted in the deaths of the group that broke into the church.
From the Press Release
Principal photography began recently on British writer/director Mark Murphy’s horror movie debut, The Convent, featuring an up and coming British cast lead by Nicola Posener (Payback Season) and Mark Harris (GBH).
Produced by Yvette Hoyle,...
Synopsis
The Convent tells two interconnecting stories played out in parallel, intersecting with each other. The first story follows five twenty-somethings, who, on the hunt for some excitement, break into an abandoned church/convent only to become the victims of the horrors that lurk within. The second story follows the church’s investigation into the tragic ‘accident’ that resulted in the deaths of the group that broke into the church.
From the Press Release
Principal photography began recently on British writer/director Mark Murphy’s horror movie debut, The Convent, featuring an up and coming British cast lead by Nicola Posener (Payback Season) and Mark Harris (GBH).
Produced by Yvette Hoyle,...
- 9/16/2012
- by Doctor Gash
- DreadCentral.com
Bucks County Playhouse has announced a special two day engagement of A.R. Gurneys Love Letters, starring theatre, television and film legends Tyne Daly and James Earl Jones. Love Letters will be performed on Saturday, October 20th at 730 p.m. and Sunday, October 21st at 200 p.m. at the Bucks County Playhouse 70 South Main Street. Following the Saturday evening performance, there will be a benefit reception underwritten by The Inn at Barley Sheaf Farm barleysheaf.com to honor the cast and raise money for the Playhouse.
- 9/4/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Turner Classic Movies' Summer Under the Stars showcases many renowned actors, and this time, part of it belongs to Eva Marie Saint.
Each August, the channel presents its festival that devotes a full day to the work of a given performer, and the actress who earned an Oscar for her movie debut opposite Marlon Brando in "On the Waterfront" gets her turn Sunday, Aug. 19.
Weekend daytime host Ben Mankiewicz -- who has appeared with Saint at TCM-sponsored showings of "North by Northwest" in recent months -- will comment on the afternoon attractions, while Robert Osborne introduces the evening features.
"I've been doing some things for TCM, and it's been terrific," Saint tells Zap2it. "All the people involved are so good, and I'm so pleased about this [tribute]. You don't sit home every day looking at your resume, but even I was a little impressed by this list. All of the films stand on their own,...
Each August, the channel presents its festival that devotes a full day to the work of a given performer, and the actress who earned an Oscar for her movie debut opposite Marlon Brando in "On the Waterfront" gets her turn Sunday, Aug. 19.
Weekend daytime host Ben Mankiewicz -- who has appeared with Saint at TCM-sponsored showings of "North by Northwest" in recent months -- will comment on the afternoon attractions, while Robert Osborne introduces the evening features.
"I've been doing some things for TCM, and it's been terrific," Saint tells Zap2it. "All the people involved are so good, and I'm so pleased about this [tribute]. You don't sit home every day looking at your resume, but even I was a little impressed by this list. All of the films stand on their own,...
- 8/19/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
It would have been impossible for Mark Harmon to have been born anything less than gorgeous. His father was University of Michigan football All-American and Heisman Trophy winner Tom Harmon. His mother, Elyse Knox, was an actress and artist. With this combination of looks, beauty and brains, he couldn't miss. Thomas Mark Harmon was born September 2, 1951 in Burbank, California. He has two older sisters, actress and painter Kristin Nelson, formerly married to singer Ricky Nelson, and Kelly Harmon, actress-model who was once married to auto magnate John DeLorean. Mark attended Los Angeles Pierce College, then transferred to the University of California, Los Angeles where he became the starting quarterback for the UCLA Bruins football team in 1972 and 1973. He received the National Football Foundation Award for All-Round Excellence in 1973. In his two years as quarterback in coach Pepper Rodger's wishbone offense, UCLA won 17 games and lost only 5. He graduated from UCLA with a B.
- 8/8/2012
- by jbonadona@corp.popstar.com (Julia Bonadona)
- PopStar
“I’m gonna let them find you on their own,” Jeffrey quietly says to himself, invoking Frank, who will appear again in a few minutes. Turning away from the camera, his ear might actually hear the song on the soundtrack, Ketty Lester’s version of “Love Letters,” released as a single in 1961:
The song was written in 1945 by Victor Young and Edward Heyman, and appeared in the film Love Letters, which starred Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten. Adapted by none other than Ayn Rand (“People should be able to build what they want to build, when they want to build it, how they want to build it,” Lynch said in 2001) from the novel Pity My Simplicity, the trailer suggests Freud Gone Wild: “Buried within these bleak, forbidding walls were haunting memories, memories of violence and disaster.” Of her adaptation of the film, Rand wrote to a friend:
You want...
The song was written in 1945 by Victor Young and Edward Heyman, and appeared in the film Love Letters, which starred Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten. Adapted by none other than Ayn Rand (“People should be able to build what they want to build, when they want to build it, how they want to build it,” Lynch said in 2001) from the novel Pity My Simplicity, the trailer suggests Freud Gone Wild: “Buried within these bleak, forbidding walls were haunting memories, memories of violence and disaster.” Of her adaptation of the film, Rand wrote to a friend:
You want...
- 7/18/2012
- by Nicholas Rombes
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The latest episode of The Doomgoryum Report web-show introduces us to a fan-made vault classic based off the highly successful video game, Left 4 Dead.
In this fan made trailer/short film directed by Adrian Picardi and produced by Eric Ro known for SyFy's Resistance--we are introduced
to all our favorite game characters in one kick-ass video!
About Doomgoryums Horror Emporium
Doomgoryums Horror Emporium is a website ran by two horror fans who call themselves Axe Master and Happywax. Their web-show offers up reviews and news on all of the horror content you can stomach!
About Adrian Picardi and Eric Ro
Adrian Picardi was born and raised in South Pasadena, California. In 2006 he graduated from the Los Angeles Film School and jumped into the industry as an editor for Television. Picardi continued his directing career by independently producing a series of award winning projects. In 2008, Picardi teamed up with entrepreneur,...
In this fan made trailer/short film directed by Adrian Picardi and produced by Eric Ro known for SyFy's Resistance--we are introduced
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About Doomgoryums Horror Emporium
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About Adrian Picardi and Eric Ro
Adrian Picardi was born and raised in South Pasadena, California. In 2006 he graduated from the Los Angeles Film School and jumped into the industry as an editor for Television. Picardi continued his directing career by independently producing a series of award winning projects. In 2008, Picardi teamed up with entrepreneur,...
- 4/13/2012
- by Amanda Dyar
- DreadCentral.com
New York -- Blair Underwood's weird ride to becoming Stanley Kowalski onstage in "A Streetcar Named Desire" started four years ago with a dashed hope.
The actor had wanted to play Brick in an all-black Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," but had lost the part to Terrence Howard, fresh off his Oscar-nominated turn in "Hustle & Flow."
"What are you going to do?" Underwood says, shrugging his shoulders.
Losing the role didn't sour him on the production, which he went to see one night at the Broadhurst Theatre. He was in the lobby during intermission when Stephen C. Byrd, one of the show's producers, spotted him and introduced himself.
Would Underwood be interested in playing Stanley in a multiracial production of Williams' other masterpiece on Broadway? Of course, came the answer. And, fittingly, years later, after shaking off a challenge from Denzel Washington,...
The actor had wanted to play Brick in an all-black Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," but had lost the part to Terrence Howard, fresh off his Oscar-nominated turn in "Hustle & Flow."
"What are you going to do?" Underwood says, shrugging his shoulders.
Losing the role didn't sour him on the production, which he went to see one night at the Broadhurst Theatre. He was in the lobby during intermission when Stephen C. Byrd, one of the show's producers, spotted him and introduced himself.
Would Underwood be interested in playing Stanley in a multiracial production of Williams' other masterpiece on Broadway? Of course, came the answer. And, fittingly, years later, after shaking off a challenge from Denzel Washington,...
- 4/3/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
We recap some of the great new apps released for devices running Google Android over the past week, including a talking parrot, London bus checker and Sky TV. Cartoon Camera
What is it?: Photography app
Who made it?: Fingersoft
How much is it?: Free/paid
This excellent app allows you to turn photographs taken on smartphone cameras into cartoons and sketches. There are five effects available - Cartoon, Sepia, White Strokes, Dark Strokes and Colored Edges - and a slider adjusts the strength of the effect. You can either get the app for free with adverts, or take a paid-for version. Talking Pierre The Parrot
What is it?: Entertainment app
Who made it?: Outfit 7
How much is it?: Free/69p
From the same team who brought us talking cat app Tom's Love Letters, Talking Pierre the Parrot (who apparently lives in Tom's kitchen) listens...
What is it?: Photography app
Who made it?: Fingersoft
How much is it?: Free/paid
This excellent app allows you to turn photographs taken on smartphone cameras into cartoons and sketches. There are five effects available - Cartoon, Sepia, White Strokes, Dark Strokes and Colored Edges - and a slider adjusts the strength of the effect. You can either get the app for free with adverts, or take a paid-for version. Talking Pierre The Parrot
What is it?: Entertainment app
Who made it?: Outfit 7
How much is it?: Free/69p
From the same team who brought us talking cat app Tom's Love Letters, Talking Pierre the Parrot (who apparently lives in Tom's kitchen) listens...
- 2/22/2012
- by By Andrew Laughlin
- Digital Spy
A mobile app that allows users to send Valentines cards to their beloved featuring a talking cat is proving popular on Apple's iPhone and iPad. According to the Official UK App Store Weekly Charts for the week ending February 5, the Tom's Love Letters app positioned second in the list of free iPhone apps, and fourth on the iPad list. The app, developed by Out Fit 7, features talking cat Tom and his feline love interest Angela. Users can send off a postcard to their Valentine featuring the cute cats. Ahead of Valentines Day on February 14, another app posted number 10 on the iPad free chart from MagicSolver, showcasing the "best 14 free apps for your love". Imangi Studios' popular game Temple Run retained the top spot on the free iPhone apps, and also unseated Apple's iTunes U app from the top of the free iPad chart. iPad (Free): 1. Temple Run (more)...
- 2/8/2012
- by By Andrew Laughlin
- Digital Spy
Producer Bec Dakin, scriptwriter Karl Mather and direct Zenon Kohler have won the Chauvel Award script adaptation as part of the Brisbane International Film Festival.
The competition, worth $40,000, aims to encourage the work of producers and writers at an early stage in a project’s life.
Dakin, Mather and Kohler have won for the adaptation of the John Birmingham novel, the Tasmanian Babes Fiasco.
The support will also see the team work closely with Screen Queensland.
Tasmanian Babes Fiasco is about a house full of misfits and a catastrophic week of adventure. It is the sequel to He Died with a Felafel in his Hand which was adapted in 2001 by Richard Lowenstein and starred Noah Taylor and Sophie Lee.
Receiving $25,000 is Brisbane scriptwriter Vicki Englund as development support of the adaptation of Painted Love Letters, based on the young adult fiction by Catherine Bateson.
Stephen Lance, Mairi Cameron and Leanne Tonkes...
The competition, worth $40,000, aims to encourage the work of producers and writers at an early stage in a project’s life.
Dakin, Mather and Kohler have won for the adaptation of the John Birmingham novel, the Tasmanian Babes Fiasco.
The support will also see the team work closely with Screen Queensland.
Tasmanian Babes Fiasco is about a house full of misfits and a catastrophic week of adventure. It is the sequel to He Died with a Felafel in his Hand which was adapted in 2001 by Richard Lowenstein and starred Noah Taylor and Sophie Lee.
Receiving $25,000 is Brisbane scriptwriter Vicki Englund as development support of the adaptation of Painted Love Letters, based on the young adult fiction by Catherine Bateson.
Stephen Lance, Mairi Cameron and Leanne Tonkes...
- 12/2/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
AudioPlayer.setup("http://www.nerve.com/files/players/audio/player.swf", { width: 350 }); Five David Lynch Songs That Could Soundtrack His Movies Where he’s from, there’s always music in the air. by Delia Pless David Lynch is a surreal Renaissance man. He makes movies, obviously, but he's also a painter, photographer, weatherman, hip Parisian nightclub owner… and now he's a recording artist. Crazy Clown Time mixes brooding electronic beats with dusty blues, a whole lot of weird noises, and Karen O's sex sounds. The weird thing is, every song feels like it could be pllayed over a scene from Blue Velvet, Lost Highway, Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive, or Eraserhead. So here are five songs from Crazy Clown Time and the David Lynch scenes they should have been featured in. 1. Blue Velvet "Love Letters" scene + "Know" In this lovely little [...]...
- 11/14/2011
- by Delia Pless
- Nerve
Vancouver, Canada – Providing a forum for independent North American Asian filmmakers, the upcoming Vancouver Asian Film Festival (Vaff) will offer audiences a diverse selection of shorts and full features.
Celebrating its 15th year, the festival’s theme for 2011, ‘Love Letters to Vancouver’, ties in with the city of Vancouver’s 125th birthday celebration. The plywood background for the program guide cover may seem familiar because it was inspired after the Canucks riot when everyone wrote their ‘Love Letters’ to the city on the plywood covering broken windows and doors.
With almost 60 films and over 60 diverse Asian filmmakers, actors and special guests scheduled to attend this year’s festival, this is the largest Vancouver Asian Film festival to date.
Here are a few Vaff 2011 films we are looking forward to:
The Opening Night Presentation – Almost Perfect
Directed by award winning writer/director Bertha Bay-Sa Pan
Thursday, Nov 3 at 7:00pm
Vancouver...
Celebrating its 15th year, the festival’s theme for 2011, ‘Love Letters to Vancouver’, ties in with the city of Vancouver’s 125th birthday celebration. The plywood background for the program guide cover may seem familiar because it was inspired after the Canucks riot when everyone wrote their ‘Love Letters’ to the city on the plywood covering broken windows and doors.
With almost 60 films and over 60 diverse Asian filmmakers, actors and special guests scheduled to attend this year’s festival, this is the largest Vancouver Asian Film festival to date.
Here are a few Vaff 2011 films we are looking forward to:
The Opening Night Presentation – Almost Perfect
Directed by award winning writer/director Bertha Bay-Sa Pan
Thursday, Nov 3 at 7:00pm
Vancouver...
- 11/1/2011
- by Marie Ferrer
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The Season 3 premiere of Glee provided an exciting glimpse into the future for those of us intrigued by the idea of Ryan Murphy creating a spinoff with Rachel Berry and Kurt Hummel pursuing their musical-theater dreams in New York City. If you somehow got sidetracked in Brittany’s time machine Tuesday night, please allow me to catch you up — in the classic “here’s what you missed on Glee” format:
Things kicked off in meta fashion, with Jacob Ben Israel grilling New Directions’ seniors about what they had planned for the future. In the process, we found out that Mercedes...
Things kicked off in meta fashion, with Jacob Ben Israel grilling New Directions’ seniors about what they had planned for the future. In the process, we found out that Mercedes...
- 9/21/2011
- by Michael Slezak
- TVLine.com
Mary Tyler Moore: 2012 SAG Award Life Achievement Award Moore showcased her dramatic talent in her Emmy-nominated depiction of TV correspondent Betty Rollins' battle with breast cancer in the 1978 CBS telefilm First You Cry. [Photo: Mary Tyler Moore and Dick Van Dyke in the television movie The Gin Game.] In 1980 Moore was nominated for an Oscar® for her riveting portrayal of Beth Jarrett, a bitter mother coping with the death of one son and the attempted suicide of another in the Robert Redford-directed drama Ordinary People. The same year she continued to explore painful subject matter onstage in the hit Broadway play Whose Life Is It, Anyway? which earned her a Tony for playing a quadriplegic sculptor fighting to determine her own destiny, a role originated by Tom Conti and rewritten for its female star in her Broadway debut. Other feature films include: Six Weeks, opposite Dudley Moore; David O. Russell’s Flirting with Disaster; and Peter Calahan's dark comedy Against the Current, opposite Joseph Fiennes and Justin Kirk,...
- 9/8/2011
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
Art Photo Credit: Kevin Mazur
48th Annual Accolade to be Presented
During the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®
Simulcast Live on TNT and TBS on Sunday, January 29, 2012
Los Angeles (September 8, 2011) – Renowned actress, producer and humanitarian Mary Tyler Moore will receive Screen Actors Guild (SAG)’s most prestigious accolade - the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. Moore created a new paradigm for female leads in television, won top honors for her courageous performances in film, television and on stage, produced some of the most lauded television programs of all time, and for thirty years, has served as a tireless advocate giving hope to all those afflicted with Type 1 diabetes.
Moore will be presented the Award, given annually to an actor who fosters the “finest ideals of the acting profession,” at the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®, which premieres live on TNT and TBS on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012, at 8 p.
48th Annual Accolade to be Presented
During the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®
Simulcast Live on TNT and TBS on Sunday, January 29, 2012
Los Angeles (September 8, 2011) – Renowned actress, producer and humanitarian Mary Tyler Moore will receive Screen Actors Guild (SAG)’s most prestigious accolade - the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. Moore created a new paradigm for female leads in television, won top honors for her courageous performances in film, television and on stage, produced some of the most lauded television programs of all time, and for thirty years, has served as a tireless advocate giving hope to all those afflicted with Type 1 diabetes.
Moore will be presented the Award, given annually to an actor who fosters the “finest ideals of the acting profession,” at the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®, which premieres live on TNT and TBS on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012, at 8 p.
- 9/8/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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