Meghan Markle’s acting career didn’t make her a household name. But Meghan’s movies and TV shows did raise her profile enough to where she met Prince Harry and became one of the most famous people in the world.
Meghan hasn’t acted since marrying Harry in 2018. Despite the renewed popularity of her TV drama Suits, the duchess has limited her on-screen appearances to interviews, documentaries, and a commercial cameo.
Showbiz Cheat Sheet’s guide to Meghan Markle’s acting career covers every one of her movie and TV appearances. It also answers where you can see Meghan’s acting in 2024.
‘Married…With Children’
Meghan Markle’s first acting role was in the classic sitcom Married…With Children. Like so many other actors, Meghan got her start as an uncredited extra in just one episode.
Meghan appeared in season 9 episode 28 titled “The Undergraduate,” which aired in 1995. It’s...
Meghan hasn’t acted since marrying Harry in 2018. Despite the renewed popularity of her TV drama Suits, the duchess has limited her on-screen appearances to interviews, documentaries, and a commercial cameo.
Showbiz Cheat Sheet’s guide to Meghan Markle’s acting career covers every one of her movie and TV appearances. It also answers where you can see Meghan’s acting in 2024.
‘Married…With Children’
Meghan Markle’s first acting role was in the classic sitcom Married…With Children. Like so many other actors, Meghan got her start as an uncredited extra in just one episode.
Meghan appeared in season 9 episode 28 titled “The Undergraduate,” which aired in 1995. It’s...
- 2/21/2024
- by Matt Moore
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Launched in 2021, Inevitable Foundation is a non-profit that invests in disabled writers and filmmakers so they can achieve artistic and financial freedom and use film and television to destigmatize disability and mental health globally. The organization announced the selection of Jenn Lloyd, Marc Muszynski, and Sheridan O’Donnell as its 2023 Accelerate Fellows.
All three were previously selected as members of Elevate Collective, Inevitable’s professional development program for disabled screenwriters, a decision that reflects the robust pipeline of disabled screenwriters that Inevitable Foundation is building with their interconnected programs. The winners join previously awarded Accelerate Fellows Monica Lucas, David Dineen-Porter, Sam Dunnewold, Anton Ray, Shaina Ghuraya, Greg Machlin, Aoife Baker, Kalen Feeney, and Shani Am. Moore.
“We couldn’t be more excited to welcome Jenn, Marc, and Sheridan to the Accelerate Fellowship,” said Inevitable Foundation co-founders Richie Siegel and Marisa Torelli-Pedevska. “The Fellowship is laser-focused on investing in disabled creatives to...
All three were previously selected as members of Elevate Collective, Inevitable’s professional development program for disabled screenwriters, a decision that reflects the robust pipeline of disabled screenwriters that Inevitable Foundation is building with their interconnected programs. The winners join previously awarded Accelerate Fellows Monica Lucas, David Dineen-Porter, Sam Dunnewold, Anton Ray, Shaina Ghuraya, Greg Machlin, Aoife Baker, Kalen Feeney, and Shani Am. Moore.
“We couldn’t be more excited to welcome Jenn, Marc, and Sheridan to the Accelerate Fellowship,” said Inevitable Foundation co-founders Richie Siegel and Marisa Torelli-Pedevska. “The Fellowship is laser-focused on investing in disabled creatives to...
- 10/26/2023
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
The Sun Valley film festival announced Emilio Estevez is set to receive the Pioneer Award at the festival’s upcoming pioneer party.
Estevez joins previously announced Sun Valley film festival honorees including Variety‘s 10 Producers to Watch, Josh Brolin, Sophie Thatcher and Nina Yang Bongiovi, who are set to receive the Vision Award, the Rising Star Award and the Variety Creative Impact Award in Producing, respectively.
On March 31, Estevez will receive his Pioneer Award, and on April 1, will host a special screening of his 2011 feature, “The Way.”
After collaborations “The War at Home” and “Nightbreaker,” Estevez joined his father Martin Sheen once more for “The Way,” a feature that Estevez not only starred in, but also directed, produced and wrote. “The Way” follows Tom (Sheen) as he embarks on a pilgrimage throughout the El Camino de Santiago after his son Daniel (Estevez) died while traveling through that very path. Estevez...
Estevez joins previously announced Sun Valley film festival honorees including Variety‘s 10 Producers to Watch, Josh Brolin, Sophie Thatcher and Nina Yang Bongiovi, who are set to receive the Vision Award, the Rising Star Award and the Variety Creative Impact Award in Producing, respectively.
On March 31, Estevez will receive his Pioneer Award, and on April 1, will host a special screening of his 2011 feature, “The Way.”
After collaborations “The War at Home” and “Nightbreaker,” Estevez joined his father Martin Sheen once more for “The Way,” a feature that Estevez not only starred in, but also directed, produced and wrote. “The Way” follows Tom (Sheen) as he embarks on a pilgrimage throughout the El Camino de Santiago after his son Daniel (Estevez) died while traveling through that very path. Estevez...
- 3/16/2023
- by Charna Flam
- Variety Film + TV
1987's "Wall Street" was released in theaters two months after Black Monday: the day the real stock market took a dive. In the timely film, Charlie Sheen plays Bud Fox, a young stockbroker who admires underhanded corporate raider Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas). Bud pursues Gekko as a client with non-stop calls and contraband Cuban cigars, and when he finally makes contact, his entire life changes. Under the influence of Gekko, who famously utters the line "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good," Bud does some terrible things, including offering up insider information that could destroy his blue-collar father, played by Charlie Sheen's real-life dad, Martin Sheen.
The film, which won Douglas an Academy Award for Best Actor, was directed by Oliver Stone, who allowed the young actor to pick the person who would play his father in the film. He was given the choice between Jack Lemmon or...
The film, which won Douglas an Academy Award for Best Actor, was directed by Oliver Stone, who allowed the young actor to pick the person who would play his father in the film. He was given the choice between Jack Lemmon or...
- 2/12/2023
- by Jenna Busch
- Slash Film
Warner Bros. Television is in talks to develop a limited series based on the life of silent film star Buster Keaton. The project would star Rami Malek as Keaton.
“The Batman” director Matt Reeves would direct the limited series and produce via his 6th and Idaho Productions banner, which is under an overall deal at Warner Bros. TV. Malek and David Weddle also produce, with Ted Cohen in talks to serve as executive producer and writer. James Curtis’ 2022 biography “Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker’s Life” may serve as source material for the series, as the studio is negotiating the rights for the book.
Keaton, who lived from 1895 to 1966, is thought of as one of the most prominent stars of the silent film era aside from Charlie Chaplin. He got his start as a child in vaudevile acts alongside his parents, who were traveling performers, before transitioning into film in the late 1910s.
“The Batman” director Matt Reeves would direct the limited series and produce via his 6th and Idaho Productions banner, which is under an overall deal at Warner Bros. TV. Malek and David Weddle also produce, with Ted Cohen in talks to serve as executive producer and writer. James Curtis’ 2022 biography “Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker’s Life” may serve as source material for the series, as the studio is negotiating the rights for the book.
Keaton, who lived from 1895 to 1966, is thought of as one of the most prominent stars of the silent film era aside from Charlie Chaplin. He got his start as a child in vaudevile acts alongside his parents, who were traveling performers, before transitioning into film in the late 1910s.
- 1/20/2023
- by Selome Hailu
- Variety Film + TV
Barry Alexander Brown, the filmmaker and editor long known for his association with Spike Lee, is to receive two lifetime achievement honors this year during the Cannes Film Festival.
Lee is present in Cannes as president of the competition jury.
The AFI World Peace Initiative and the Better World Forum will honor Brown and Lee as iconic pioneers for their body of work promoting inclusion, diversity and social justice, and laud Brown for race-relations drama “Son of the South,” which was released this year.
The prizes to Lee and Brown will be presented at the Better World Fund Gala on July 12 in Cannes. They will be handed over by Better World Forum founder and president Manuel Collas de Laroche and Forum ambassador H.R.H. Princess Angelique A. Monet.
Brown will additionally receive the Embrace Award at the AFI World Peace Initiative — World Peace and Tolerance awards ceremony the following day,...
Lee is present in Cannes as president of the competition jury.
The AFI World Peace Initiative and the Better World Forum will honor Brown and Lee as iconic pioneers for their body of work promoting inclusion, diversity and social justice, and laud Brown for race-relations drama “Son of the South,” which was released this year.
The prizes to Lee and Brown will be presented at the Better World Fund Gala on July 12 in Cannes. They will be handed over by Better World Forum founder and president Manuel Collas de Laroche and Forum ambassador H.R.H. Princess Angelique A. Monet.
Brown will additionally receive the Embrace Award at the AFI World Peace Initiative — World Peace and Tolerance awards ceremony the following day,...
- 7/5/2021
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Brandon Thomas Lee (The Hills: New Beginnings), Jackson Rathbone (Twilight) & Diane Gaeta (Adopt a Highway) will co-star opposite Chance Sanchez in his debut feature, Zero Road, which recently wrapped production.
The dramatic feature examines a preternaturally intelligent young man’s (Sanchez) descent into an underbelly of drug running and violence. It’s based on the writer-director’s experience growing up in poverty in the American Midwest, with a mother who suffered from meth addiction.
In the film, produced by Sanchez, Colin Floom and Mark David, Lee plays Russ, a small-time drug dealer with magnetic charm, who guides Sanchez’s protagonist into the criminal underworld he’s made his home.
Rathbone plays Gene, a mysterious auto mechanic masterminding a drug operation out of his shop, with an inexplicable intellect that reveals a calamitous past.
Then, there’s Gaeta, who plays Sanchez’s tortured mother, Laura.
Lee has appeared, on the film side,...
The dramatic feature examines a preternaturally intelligent young man’s (Sanchez) descent into an underbelly of drug running and violence. It’s based on the writer-director’s experience growing up in poverty in the American Midwest, with a mother who suffered from meth addiction.
In the film, produced by Sanchez, Colin Floom and Mark David, Lee plays Russ, a small-time drug dealer with magnetic charm, who guides Sanchez’s protagonist into the criminal underworld he’s made his home.
Rathbone plays Gene, a mysterious auto mechanic masterminding a drug operation out of his shop, with an inexplicable intellect that reveals a calamitous past.
Then, there’s Gaeta, who plays Sanchez’s tortured mother, Laura.
Lee has appeared, on the film side,...
- 6/29/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Editor Barry Alexander Brown had completed his film “The War at Home” and had returned to Atlanta to research a project when he was first introduced to Spike Lee through a mutual friend. At the time, Lee was at New York University working on a cable TV project.
The year was 1981, and later, Brown and Lee were back in New York. It was Brown who offered the aspiring filmmaker a part-time job at First Run Features to check prints. “I was making deliveries going to the post office with 35mm cans,” Lee recalls.
It marked the beginning of their 40-year and counting collaborative friendship and working partnership.
Lee with be presented with the Golden Eddie filmmaker of the year award on April 18 during the 71st American Cinema Editors (Ace) Eddie Awards.
Brown is Lee’s go-to editor. Together, they have worked on a number of the director’s most memorable...
The year was 1981, and later, Brown and Lee were back in New York. It was Brown who offered the aspiring filmmaker a part-time job at First Run Features to check prints. “I was making deliveries going to the post office with 35mm cans,” Lee recalls.
It marked the beginning of their 40-year and counting collaborative friendship and working partnership.
Lee with be presented with the Golden Eddie filmmaker of the year award on April 18 during the 71st American Cinema Editors (Ace) Eddie Awards.
Brown is Lee’s go-to editor. Together, they have worked on a number of the director’s most memorable...
- 4/15/2021
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: LA-based indie production and sales company Clear Horizon is expanding into domestic distribution with the acquisition of civil rights drama Son Of The South.
The film, which debuts tonight at the American Black Film Festival, is written and directed by Oscar-nominated editor Barry Alexander Brown (BlacKkKlansman), well known for his long-running collaboration with Spike Lee.
Brown has edited Spike Lee movies including Oscar-winner BlacKkKlansman, She’s Gotta Have It, Do The Right Thing, Malcolm X and Inside Man. He also co-directed Oscar-nominated documentary The War At Home.
Lee is an executive producer on Son Of The South, which stars Lucas Till, Lex Scott Davis, Lucy Hale, Cedrick the Entertainer, Julia Ormond and the late Brian Dennehy. Producers are Colin Bates, Eve Pomerance, Bill Black, Stan Erdreich, and River Bend Pictures.
Based on the Bob Zellner autobiography The Wrong Side Of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement,...
The film, which debuts tonight at the American Black Film Festival, is written and directed by Oscar-nominated editor Barry Alexander Brown (BlacKkKlansman), well known for his long-running collaboration with Spike Lee.
Brown has edited Spike Lee movies including Oscar-winner BlacKkKlansman, She’s Gotta Have It, Do The Right Thing, Malcolm X and Inside Man. He also co-directed Oscar-nominated documentary The War At Home.
Lee is an executive producer on Son Of The South, which stars Lucas Till, Lex Scott Davis, Lucy Hale, Cedrick the Entertainer, Julia Ormond and the late Brian Dennehy. Producers are Colin Bates, Eve Pomerance, Bill Black, Stan Erdreich, and River Bend Pictures.
Based on the Bob Zellner autobiography The Wrong Side Of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement,...
- 8/26/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
TV veteran Lyle Waggoner, a key cast member on The Carol Burnett Show who also co-starred with Lynda Carter on Wonder Woman, has died at the age of 84.
Waggoner died on Tuesday after battling an illness, according to our sister site Deadline. (TMZ was the first to report the news.)
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Waggoner died on Tuesday after battling an illness, according to our sister site Deadline. (TMZ was the first to report the news.)
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The actor landed early roles on shows like Gunsmoke and Lost in Space — and was...
- 3/17/2020
- TVLine.com
Lyle Waggoner, the 1960s and ’70s heartthrob known for his work on The Carol Burnett Show and TV’s Wonder Woman and later founded the set trailer business Star Waggons, has died peacefully Tuesday at his home after battling an illness, according to TMZ, which was first to report his death. He was 84.
In 1965, Waggoner tested for the title role in the 20th Century Fox/ABC series Batman but lost the job to Adam West. Instead, he landed a guest role on the Western series Gunsmoke in 1966.
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A year later, he began a seven-year stint on The Carol Burnett Show, first as an announcer. Producers later began to incorporate him into the show as a comedy sketch partner...
In 1965, Waggoner tested for the title role in the 20th Century Fox/ABC series Batman but lost the job to Adam West. Instead, he landed a guest role on the Western series Gunsmoke in 1966.
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A year later, he began a seven-year stint on The Carol Burnett Show, first as an announcer. Producers later began to incorporate him into the show as a comedy sketch partner...
- 3/17/2020
- by Denise Petski and Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Lyle Waggoner, who starred on “The Carol Burnett Show” and in the 1970s “Wonder Woman” series, has died at 84, Variety has confirmed.
In a statement released by Waggoner’s family it was revealed that the “loving husband, father, grandfather, entrepreneur, and actor passed away peacefully at home on March 17th at the age of 84 with his wife at his side. The cause of death was cancer.”
Waggoner may have become best known for his roles on “The Carol Burnett Show,” where he started as the announcer in 1967 but stayed on with the sketch show through 1974. Some of his most notable sketches include being interrogated by a Nazi and his finger puppet and playing a love-lorn man in “As The Stomach Turns,” a slave master in “The Oldest Man,” Olympian Mark Spitz to Burnett’s Charo, and an alien known as the Jolly Green Thing.
But that show was hardly his only claim to fame.
In a statement released by Waggoner’s family it was revealed that the “loving husband, father, grandfather, entrepreneur, and actor passed away peacefully at home on March 17th at the age of 84 with his wife at his side. The cause of death was cancer.”
Waggoner may have become best known for his roles on “The Carol Burnett Show,” where he started as the announcer in 1967 but stayed on with the sketch show through 1974. Some of his most notable sketches include being interrogated by a Nazi and his finger puppet and playing a love-lorn man in “As The Stomach Turns,” a slave master in “The Oldest Man,” Olympian Mark Spitz to Burnett’s Charo, and an alien known as the Jolly Green Thing.
But that show was hardly his only claim to fame.
- 3/17/2020
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
Lucy Hale and Lucas Till are starring in Spike Lee’s civil rights drama “Son of the South,” Variety has learned exclusively.
“Son of the South” is based on the Bob Zellner autobiography, “The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement.” Zellner, an Alabama native and grandson of a Ku Klux Klan member, is pulled into the center of the civil rights movement in 1961.
Till (the “X-Men” franchise) is starring as Zellner and Hale as Carol Ann, Zellner’s college girlfriend. Lex Scott Davis (“Superfly”) is also starring along with Julia Ormond as Virginia Durr, Cedric the Entertainer as Reverend Ralph Abernathy and Sharonne Lanier as Rosa Parks. Brian Dennehy plays Zellner’s grandfather. Chaka Forman is portraying his activist father Jim Forman.
Lee is executive producing with his longtime editor Barry Alexander Brown directing from his own screenplay. Lee won the Academy Award for...
“Son of the South” is based on the Bob Zellner autobiography, “The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement.” Zellner, an Alabama native and grandson of a Ku Klux Klan member, is pulled into the center of the civil rights movement in 1961.
Till (the “X-Men” franchise) is starring as Zellner and Hale as Carol Ann, Zellner’s college girlfriend. Lex Scott Davis (“Superfly”) is also starring along with Julia Ormond as Virginia Durr, Cedric the Entertainer as Reverend Ralph Abernathy and Sharonne Lanier as Rosa Parks. Brian Dennehy plays Zellner’s grandfather. Chaka Forman is portraying his activist father Jim Forman.
Lee is executive producing with his longtime editor Barry Alexander Brown directing from his own screenplay. Lee won the Academy Award for...
- 4/16/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Spike Lee has infiltrated the Oscars in a big way with “BlacKkKlansman,” which earned six bids including Best Picture and Best Director. It recounts the true story of Ron Stallworth (John David Washington), a black police detective who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan with the help of his Jewish partner (Adam Driver). Gold Derby recently spoke with Driver, screenwriters Charlie Wachtel and David Rabinowitz, film editor Barry Alexander Brown, and composer Terence Blanchard about their nominated work.
See Will ‘BlacKkKlansman’ win Spike Lee his long overdue Oscar?
Though it’s set in the late 1970s, the film uses D.W. Griffith‘s Kkk-glorifying 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” and the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va, to draw parallels between our past and our present. Driver believes that context shows “how much [racism] has been a part of the conversation in this country for so long.” For his role as an...
See Will ‘BlacKkKlansman’ win Spike Lee his long overdue Oscar?
Though it’s set in the late 1970s, the film uses D.W. Griffith‘s Kkk-glorifying 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” and the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va, to draw parallels between our past and our present. Driver believes that context shows “how much [racism] has been a part of the conversation in this country for so long.” For his role as an...
- 2/22/2019
- by Zach Laws
- Gold Derby
Gold Derby has conducted exclusive video chats with dozens of this year’s Oscar contenders across a wide variety of categories. That includes nine of this year’s nominees for Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, and Best Visual Effects. Will they get a Gold Derby bump when the envelopes are opened on Sunday, February 24? Follow the links below to be taken to their full interviews.
Barry Alexander Brown: Spike Lee‘s longtime editor earned his first nomination in this category for this fact-based drama about an African-American police detective (John David Washington) who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s. This film also brought Brown a bid at the Ace Eddie Awards. Before he joined forces with Lee he previously picked up an Oscar nom for Best Documentary Feature for “The War at Home” (1979). (Click here to be taken to his full interview)
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Barry Alexander Brown: Spike Lee‘s longtime editor earned his first nomination in this category for this fact-based drama about an African-American police detective (John David Washington) who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s. This film also brought Brown a bid at the Ace Eddie Awards. Before he joined forces with Lee he previously picked up an Oscar nom for Best Documentary Feature for “The War at Home” (1979). (Click here to be taken to his full interview)
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- 2/21/2019
- by Zach Laws
- Gold Derby
Before Rami Malek, 37, played rock star Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody — even before he appeared as the morphine-shooting, hoodie-wearing Elliot on USA's Mr. Robot — he portrayed Kenny on Fox's The War at Home. (Reaching even further back, he played an overeager Seventh-Day Adventist on Gilmore Girls in his 2004 television debut.)
A multicamera sitcom, War at Home ran for two seasons, from 2005 to 2007, and centered on the Golds, a somewhat dysfunctional Long Island Jewish family. The Hollywood Reporter was not thrilled with what it saw when the show premiered in the time slot after The Simpsons. "You know ...
A multicamera sitcom, War at Home ran for two seasons, from 2005 to 2007, and centered on the Golds, a somewhat dysfunctional Long Island Jewish family. The Hollywood Reporter was not thrilled with what it saw when the show premiered in the time slot after The Simpsons. "You know ...
- 2/12/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Spike Lee is executive producing the civil rights drama “Son of the South,” with his longtime editor Barry Alexander Brown directing from his own screenplay, Variety has learned exclusively.
Brown is up for an Academy Award for editing “BlacKkKlansman.” Lee received Oscar nominations for best picture, director, and adapted screenplay for “BlacKkKlansman.”
“Son of the South” will begin principal photography in Montgomery, Ala., in March. The producers are Colin Bates (“Maggie”), Eve Pomerance (“As Good as Dead”), Bill Black (“Bayou Caviar”), Stan Erdreich, and River Bend Pictures (“Coming Through the Rye”). The cast has not yet been announced.
“Son of the South” is based on the Bob Zellner autobiography, “The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement.” The Alabama native and grandson of a Ku Klux Klan member is pulled into the center of the civil rights movement in 1961. He was inspired by Rev. Martin Luther King,...
Brown is up for an Academy Award for editing “BlacKkKlansman.” Lee received Oscar nominations for best picture, director, and adapted screenplay for “BlacKkKlansman.”
“Son of the South” will begin principal photography in Montgomery, Ala., in March. The producers are Colin Bates (“Maggie”), Eve Pomerance (“As Good as Dead”), Bill Black (“Bayou Caviar”), Stan Erdreich, and River Bend Pictures (“Coming Through the Rye”). The cast has not yet been announced.
“Son of the South” is based on the Bob Zellner autobiography, “The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement.” The Alabama native and grandson of a Ku Klux Klan member is pulled into the center of the civil rights movement in 1961. He was inspired by Rev. Martin Luther King,...
- 2/6/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
After snagging nominations at the Golden Globe, Critics’ Choice Awards, SAG Awards, BAFTAs and more, Spike Lee‘s “BlacKkKlansman” has emerged as one of the leading contenders in the Oscar race for Best Picture. It tells the true story of Ron Stallworth (John David Washington), a black police detective who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s with the help of a Jewish officer (Adam Driver). Gold Derby recently spoke with Driver, screenwriters Charlie Wachtel and David Rabinowitz, cinematographer Chayse Irvin, production designer Curt Beech, film editor Barry Alexander Brown, composer Terence Blanchard and hair stylist Lawanda M. Pierre about their work.
See Will ‘BlacKkKlansman’ win Spike Lee his long overdue Oscar?
“There’s obviously an importance to the story overall that you want to get right,” says Driver. Though it’s set in the late 1970s, Lee makes direct references to both our past and present, from D.W. Griffith...
See Will ‘BlacKkKlansman’ win Spike Lee his long overdue Oscar?
“There’s obviously an importance to the story overall that you want to get right,” says Driver. Though it’s set in the late 1970s, Lee makes direct references to both our past and present, from D.W. Griffith...
- 1/18/2019
- by Zach Laws
- Gold Derby
When Spike Lee sent his longtime editor, Barry Alexander Brown, the script for “BlacKkKlansman” he was immediately “excited, and could see how this could be something pretty interesting.” That may be a bit of an understatement since the film recounts the improbable true story of Ron Stallworth (John David Washington), an African-American police officer who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in the late 1970s. Watch our exclusive video interview with Brown above.
See Adam Driver: ‘BlacKkKlansman’ shows how racism ‘has been part of the conversation in this country for so long’ [Exclusive Video Interview]
If it weren’t true, the premise would seem absurd, so the film walks a delicate line between humor and tragedy. “Both Spike and I like to use comedy,” Brown explains. “It certainly is part of entertainment, but it also brings in a level of reality, quite frankly. If everything is just flat and dramatic, then there isn’t ups and downs.
See Adam Driver: ‘BlacKkKlansman’ shows how racism ‘has been part of the conversation in this country for so long’ [Exclusive Video Interview]
If it weren’t true, the premise would seem absurd, so the film walks a delicate line between humor and tragedy. “Both Spike and I like to use comedy,” Brown explains. “It certainly is part of entertainment, but it also brings in a level of reality, quite frankly. If everything is just flat and dramatic, then there isn’t ups and downs.
- 12/20/2018
- by Zach Laws
- Gold Derby
"This is Hometown, America in revolt..." Catalyst Media has debuted an official trailer for a restored 4K re-release of a classic documentary titled The War at Home, which was nominated for Best Documentary in 1980 (though it lost to Ira Wohl's Best Boy). The film is an intimate look at the impact of the war in Vietnam on one American city, using Madison, Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin as a microcosm for the 1960s national Antiwar Movement. From Metrograph: "Stereotype-busting interviews with student activists, police, and Vietnam vets illuminate a treasure trove of rare archival film. Featuring footage from the earliest antiwar protest in 1963 to the bombing of the Army Math Research Center in 1970 to the end of the U.S. war in Vietnam, this impassioned, vital work of politically charged non-fiction is newly restored in 4K and re-released in yet another period of American political conflict and turmoil.
- 10/9/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
With protests happening regularly nowadays, whether they’re regarding Supreme Court justices, the National Anthem, or gun law reform, there probably couldn’t be a timelier film to hit theaters than Glenn Silber and Barry Alexander Brown’s “The War at Home.” And thanks to the folks at IndieCollect and Catalyst Media Productions, the Academy Award-nominated 1979 documentary gets a beautiful new restoration and will roll out to theaters nationwide showing an era of protest that defined a nation.
Continue reading ‘The War At Home’ Exclusive Trailer: 4K Restoration Of The Oscar-Nominated Doc Hits Nyff This week at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘The War At Home’ Exclusive Trailer: 4K Restoration Of The Oscar-Nominated Doc Hits Nyff This week at The Playlist.
- 10/8/2018
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
When curating the recent retrospective “NY Indie Guy: Ira Deutchman and the Rise of Independent Film” – a Columbia University exhibit honoring the 40-year career of a leading American independent film producer, marketer, and distributor – programmers Rob King and Jack Lechner made an upsetting discovery: Many of the films they picked to screen were unavailable in any form.
This sent Deutchman into detective mode, to discover what happened to many of the films he helped introduce to the world. He walked away from his initial examination shocked by the situation and with a grim assessment: We are in danger of losing many of the films that defined recent movements in American independent film.
“During the height of in the independent boom back in the ’80s and into the 90s, it was always considered the holy grail for independent filmmakers that to be truly independent they would eventually get back the rights or control the rights,...
This sent Deutchman into detective mode, to discover what happened to many of the films he helped introduce to the world. He walked away from his initial examination shocked by the situation and with a grim assessment: We are in danger of losing many of the films that defined recent movements in American independent film.
“During the height of in the independent boom back in the ’80s and into the 90s, it was always considered the holy grail for independent filmmakers that to be truly independent they would eventually get back the rights or control the rights,...
- 9/25/2018
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Barry Alexander Brown first met Spike Lee while researching his follow-up documentary to his 1979 film, “The War at Home.” Lee, a recent Morehouse grad who was then enrolled in NYU’s graduate film program, jumped at Brown’s job offer to clean and ship film prints for First Run Features. Back in New York, the two quickly bonded over their very similar way of thinking about movies. “We both wanted to make movies that had something to say, but we also were just interested in the cinematic experience,” Brown told IndieWire. “He was really the only one around who I knew in the New York film scene who just could love cinema for cinema, entertainment for entertainment. That idea that movies could be both pulled us closer and closer together.”
It’s a bond that led to Brown trying to help Lee scrape together funds for his early features — at...
It’s a bond that led to Brown trying to help Lee scrape together funds for his early features — at...
- 8/28/2018
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Korin Huggins and Monique Nash have signed a two-project development deal with Universal Cable Productions via their Kronicle Media. Under the pact, Kronicle Media will develop original scripted programming with Ucp for the NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment portfolio, as well as for external networks and streaming services.
Co-founded by Huggins and Nash, Kronicle Media creates content for and about women from diverse perspectives.
“We’re delighted to be in business with Korin D. Huggins and Monique Nash,” said Kate Fenske, Senior Vice President of Development, Universal Cable Productions. “As smart, resourceful women with great taste, they’re an excellent addition to our Ucp family. We look forward to working with them under their Kronicle Media banner, and know their contributions will evolve and diversify our development slate in exciting ways.”
The deal marks a return to Ucp for Kronicle Media’s CEO Huggins, where she previously served as manager of development.
Co-founded by Huggins and Nash, Kronicle Media creates content for and about women from diverse perspectives.
“We’re delighted to be in business with Korin D. Huggins and Monique Nash,” said Kate Fenske, Senior Vice President of Development, Universal Cable Productions. “As smart, resourceful women with great taste, they’re an excellent addition to our Ucp family. We look forward to working with them under their Kronicle Media banner, and know their contributions will evolve and diversify our development slate in exciting ways.”
The deal marks a return to Ucp for Kronicle Media’s CEO Huggins, where she previously served as manager of development.
- 6/22/2018
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Before she was a royal fiancée, before she was the star of Suits, Meghan Markle was just an actress trying to make it big in Hollywood. And that dream came with plenty of guest star stints and background parts in movies before Meghan worked her way up to leading roles in Hallmark movies, a quick role in a Jennifer Aniston film and of course, Suits, her big break.
Curious about Meghan’s cinematic life before Harry? We’ve chronicled each and every last one of her on-screen roles — and found where you can watch them, too!
1. General Hospital.
Like so many other actors,...
Curious about Meghan’s cinematic life before Harry? We’ve chronicled each and every last one of her on-screen roles — and found where you can watch them, too!
1. General Hospital.
Like so many other actors,...
- 11/30/2017
- by Diana Pearl
- PEOPLE.com
Meghan Markle was destined to be a royal!
The 36-year-old actress and Prince Harry announced their engagement this week, and she will soon be by his side to work together on causes dear to their hearts.
Markle may be known for her role as Rachel Zane on Suits, but the brunette beauty has also been giving back to the community and fighting for women's rights long before her ties to Prince Harry and her expected soon-to-be royal duties.
Her humanitarian and philanthropic work began prior to her becoming an actress. It all began with her mother, Doria Ragland, who has a master's degree in social work and works as a psychotherapist. In an interview with Glamourearlier this year, Markle listed her mom as one of the women who changed her life.
"My mom's a yoga instructor, but she does social work, as well, and she works specifically with the geriatric community," she stated. "For me...
The 36-year-old actress and Prince Harry announced their engagement this week, and she will soon be by his side to work together on causes dear to their hearts.
Markle may be known for her role as Rachel Zane on Suits, but the brunette beauty has also been giving back to the community and fighting for women's rights long before her ties to Prince Harry and her expected soon-to-be royal duties.
Her humanitarian and philanthropic work began prior to her becoming an actress. It all began with her mother, Doria Ragland, who has a master's degree in social work and works as a psychotherapist. In an interview with Glamourearlier this year, Markle listed her mom as one of the women who changed her life.
"My mom's a yoga instructor, but she does social work, as well, and she works specifically with the geriatric community," she stated. "For me...
- 11/30/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
After winning an Emmy for playing a laconic cyber security hacker on Mr. Robot, Rami Malek now has the challenge of portraying the flashy frontman for Queen, the late Freddie Mercury. Malek dished to Et about how deep he's diving into the role.
"I will sing a little bit," Malek told Et's Kevin Frazier at the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday. "Why not?"
Read: Sacha Baron Cohen Drops Freddie Mercury Movie
While Malek might not share Mercury's legendary four-octave range, his Mr. Robot co-star, Christian Slater, assured us that Malek will do more than hold his own.
"We share dressing rooms, and I put a cup up and I hear him singing in there," Slater explained. "It's going to blow everybody away."
This won't be the first time Malek sings on camera. The 35-year-old actor once belted out "Put on a Happy Face" on the canceled Fox sitcom, The War at Home.
"I'm stoked...
"I will sing a little bit," Malek told Et's Kevin Frazier at the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday. "Why not?"
Read: Sacha Baron Cohen Drops Freddie Mercury Movie
While Malek might not share Mercury's legendary four-octave range, his Mr. Robot co-star, Christian Slater, assured us that Malek will do more than hold his own.
"We share dressing rooms, and I put a cup up and I hear him singing in there," Slater explained. "It's going to blow everybody away."
This won't be the first time Malek sings on camera. The 35-year-old actor once belted out "Put on a Happy Face" on the canceled Fox sitcom, The War at Home.
"I'm stoked...
- 1/13/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Twenty years ago this week - Feb. 9, 1996 - the romcom-dramedy Beautiful Girls first opened in theaters. The film centers around Willie (Timothy Hutton), who returns home for his high school reunion in a small Massachusetts town. It's funny, it's heartwarming, and it features one of the better ensemble casts of the 1990s. In honor of the film's 20th anniversary, we're pulling out the yearbook and looking up the film's cast to what they've been up to over the past 20 years. Timothy HuttonHutton won Best Supporting Actor in 1981 for Ordinary People when he was only 20. To this day he's the youngest-ever...
- 2/9/2016
- by Drew Mackie, @drewgmackie
- PEOPLE.com
“I know what it’s like to be different. I’m very different, too.”
That confession, uttered by protagonist Elliot on Mr. Robot‘s series premiere, might just be the understatement of the year.
As we quickly learn in the USA Network hacker drama, which premiered Wednesday, Elliot (Rami Malek, The War at Home) is exceedingly unique. A cybersecurity engineer by day, Elliot spends his nights as a vigilante hacker, prying into the computer files of pedophiles and cheaters who don’t want anyone to know they’re pedophiles and cheaters. (Case in point: Elliot kicks off the pilot episode...
That confession, uttered by protagonist Elliot on Mr. Robot‘s series premiere, might just be the understatement of the year.
As we quickly learn in the USA Network hacker drama, which premiered Wednesday, Elliot (Rami Malek, The War at Home) is exceedingly unique. A cybersecurity engineer by day, Elliot spends his nights as a vigilante hacker, prying into the computer files of pedophiles and cheaters who don’t want anyone to know they’re pedophiles and cheaters. (Case in point: Elliot kicks off the pilot episode...
- 6/25/2015
- TVLine.com
By Anjelica Oswald
Managing Editor
Directed by Rory Kennedy, Last Days in Vietnam focuses on the final weeks of the Vietnam War in April 1975 and the Americans who tried to rescue as many South Vietnamese refugees that they could — against White House orders — as the North Vietnamese Army approached Saigon. Kennedy has never been nominated for an Oscar, but her 2012 documentary Ethel, about Ethel Kennedy (Rory’s mother), was nominated for five Emmys. Last Days in Vietnam, which premiered at Sundance, could garner Kennedy her first Oscar nom.
Historically, Vietnam documentaries have done well in the documentary category at the Oscars, and that may be due to many Academy members having come of age during the war. Here are 11 Vietnam documentaries that have been nominated for best documentary (in chronological order):
The Anderson Platoon
Filmed in 1966 by Pierre Schoendoerffer, a war reporter and cameraman, the film follows a 33-man...
Managing Editor
Directed by Rory Kennedy, Last Days in Vietnam focuses on the final weeks of the Vietnam War in April 1975 and the Americans who tried to rescue as many South Vietnamese refugees that they could — against White House orders — as the North Vietnamese Army approached Saigon. Kennedy has never been nominated for an Oscar, but her 2012 documentary Ethel, about Ethel Kennedy (Rory’s mother), was nominated for five Emmys. Last Days in Vietnam, which premiered at Sundance, could garner Kennedy her first Oscar nom.
Historically, Vietnam documentaries have done well in the documentary category at the Oscars, and that may be due to many Academy members having come of age during the war. Here are 11 Vietnam documentaries that have been nominated for best documentary (in chronological order):
The Anderson Platoon
Filmed in 1966 by Pierre Schoendoerffer, a war reporter and cameraman, the film follows a 33-man...
- 10/24/2014
- by Anjelica Oswald
- Scott Feinberg
The War at Home: Gaspersz’s Film is Garbage Bin Exploitation
To truly address the putrid redolence of something like the film After, of such deficient quality that it’s unfathomable people will actually pay for a ticket to see this (not to mention the validating presence of Kathleen Quinlan), one must divulge the preposterous twist that proudly unfurls in the final act. Needless to say, there will be a major spoiler alert pertaining to what’s actually going on with this blighted undertaking, but consider it to be the warning signal to keep your hours for some much more fruitful activity than experiencing the offensive nature of this veracious stink-bomb.
Welcome to the upper crust, suburban milieu of the Valentino clan, a family of WASPy scions that appear to be on the verge of unavoidable implosion due to some insidious secret. The matriarch, Nora (Kathleen Quinlan) seems to...
To truly address the putrid redolence of something like the film After, of such deficient quality that it’s unfathomable people will actually pay for a ticket to see this (not to mention the validating presence of Kathleen Quinlan), one must divulge the preposterous twist that proudly unfurls in the final act. Needless to say, there will be a major spoiler alert pertaining to what’s actually going on with this blighted undertaking, but consider it to be the warning signal to keep your hours for some much more fruitful activity than experiencing the offensive nature of this veracious stink-bomb.
Welcome to the upper crust, suburban milieu of the Valentino clan, a family of WASPy scions that appear to be on the verge of unavoidable implosion due to some insidious secret. The matriarch, Nora (Kathleen Quinlan) seems to...
- 8/4/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
For a decade or so, the schedules Fox announced during upfront week followed a predictable, amusing pattern: one schedule for the fall that would inevitably struggle, another schedule for mid-season built around the dominant presence of "American Idol," and then many, many changes made to that second schedule at a later date due to the struggles of the first. But "Idol" has slipped from being a juggernaut, to being a hit that no longer annihilated everything in its path, to being a solid utility player at best this spring — Fox president Kevin Reilly admitted to reporters on a press conference call that their "Idol" strategy is "not about turning it around," but simply making it a useful piece for the future — and as a result, Fox is finishing up one of its most problematic seasons ever, and didn't even bother announcing a mid-season schedule because they're still tinkering with how...
- 5/12/2014
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
Cartoon Network has unveiled its programming and digital slate for the 2014-15 upfront season. It includes an expanded portfolio of exclusive content for specific platforms that kids access, including television, smartphones, computers, tablets and other gaming devices.We reported on Friday that the network had greenlighted its first miniseries Over The Garden Wall. Additional new programming includes Clarence, an original animated series about an optimistic boy who wants to do everything. It’s set for an April 14 premiere. Returning series include Adventuretime and Legends Of Chima. Click over for the complete slate. New Original and Acquired Programming: • Over The Garden Wall: Headlined by an all-star voice-cast that includes Elijah Wood (Lord of the Rings Trilogy), Collin Dean (The War at Home) and Melanie Lynskey (Two and a Half Men), Over the Garden Wall is Cartoon Network’s first event mini-series, an animated comedy/fantasy story about two brothers, Wirt and Greg,...
- 3/10/2014
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
We all know Jackson Rathbone as the quiet, oddball vampire Jasper Hale in the "Twilight" Saga films. But before the actor starred in one of the biggest movie sensations ever, he started out on the small screen. In honor of his 29th birthday, take a look back at three of his biggest TV roles before landing his "Twilight" part.
"The O.C."
Rathbone showed up in the Fox soap's third season as a teenager tangled up in the web of Kaitlin Cooper -- not the pony-riding Shailene Woodley version, the sexed-up Willa Holland version.
"Beautiful People"
Here, Rathbone played another teenager, this time a privileged, "Gossip Girl"-style rich kid who falls in love with the new girl -- a scholarship kid -- at his fancy prep school.
"The War at Home"
This Fox sitcom lasted for two seasons, and Rathbone guest-starred in two Season 2 episodes as a gay teen. He co-starred alongside Rami Malek,...
"The O.C."
Rathbone showed up in the Fox soap's third season as a teenager tangled up in the web of Kaitlin Cooper -- not the pony-riding Shailene Woodley version, the sexed-up Willa Holland version.
"Beautiful People"
Here, Rathbone played another teenager, this time a privileged, "Gossip Girl"-style rich kid who falls in love with the new girl -- a scholarship kid -- at his fancy prep school.
"The War at Home"
This Fox sitcom lasted for two seasons, and Rathbone guest-starred in two Season 2 episodes as a gay teen. He co-starred alongside Rami Malek,...
- 12/14/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Arrested Development’s influence is all over ABC’s likable but unfortunately titled How to Live With Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life) (ABC, Wednesdays, 9:30). Fast cutting, cute onscreen I.D. tags, plinky-plonky music, winsome narration: It’s all here, plus Modern Family’s conventional-unconventional view of suburban life. One of the show’s three executive producers is Arrested Development vet Brian Grazer, but I doubt his presence alone explains the affinity; more likely this is just how creator-executive producer Claudia Lonow (Rude Awakenings, The War at Home) saw the story. Whatever the motivation, the result is quite likable, if knowingly obnoxious at times.Sarah Chalke plays the heroine and narrator, Polly, a recent divorcée with a young daughter named Natalie (Rachel Eggleston). She moves back in with her mom, Elaine (Elizabeth Perkins), and stepdad, Max (Brad Garrett), thinking it’ll be a temporary safe harbor, but...
- 4/3/2013
- by Matt Zoller Seitz
- Vulture
Next week, Jackson Rathbone (Jasper Hale in the Twilight Saga) will guest star on an all-new episode of the television series White Collar, and a first-glimpse at Rathbone's thieving character Nate Osbourne has been unveiled. Rathbone stars as Nate, one half of a Bonnie and Clyde-style criminal duo opposite Jessica McNamee, on Season 4, Episode 14 ("Shoot the Moon") of the USA series which airs on Tuesday ... ies Aim High, Rathbone's had quite a few memorable TV guest spots on programs like The War At Home, Criminal Minds and No Ordinary Family. 'The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2' Photo credit: Summit Ent. "Everybody be cool!" Twilight fans, set your DVRs for this one! Also appearing on the small screen are Charlie Bewley on The Vampire Diaries and Valorie Curry with a recurring role on The Following! ...
- 2/11/2013
- by thetwilightexaminer
- Twilight Examiner
ABC's midseason comedy How to Live With Your Parents (for the Rest of Your Life) is staging a Knots Landing reunion.
Michele Lee, who starred as Karen on the long-running CBS soap, has been tapped to guest star in an upcoming episode of the comedy from showrunner Claudia Lonow, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively.
Photos: The 100 Fresh Faces of Fall TV
The casting marks a Knots Landing reunion for the writer-producer who co-starred as Diana Fairgate on the soap from 1979 to 1993 before segueing to a behind-the-scenes role on series including Accidentally on Purpose and The War at Home.
Sarah Chalke ...
Michele Lee, who starred as Karen on the long-running CBS soap, has been tapped to guest star in an upcoming episode of the comedy from showrunner Claudia Lonow, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively.
Photos: The 100 Fresh Faces of Fall TV
The casting marks a Knots Landing reunion for the writer-producer who co-starred as Diana Fairgate on the soap from 1979 to 1993 before segueing to a behind-the-scenes role on series including Accidentally on Purpose and The War at Home.
Sarah Chalke ...
- 10/22/2012
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
We told you back in October about Kiefer Sutherland‘s new Fox series, Touch. As networks often do, they limited the live link to their initial trailer. Have no fear, they have released another trailer and we have it for you now. Here you go:
Click here to view the embedded video.
From writer/creator Tim Kring (Heroes, Crossing Jordan) and executive producers Peter Chernin (New Girl, Terra Nova) and Katherine Pope (New Girl, Terra Nova) comes Touch, a preternatural drama in which science and spirituality intersect with the hopeful premise that we are all interconnected, tied in invisible ways to those whose lives we are destined to alter and impact.
The series follows a group of seemingly unrelated characters – beginning with a former firefighter tormented by his inability to save a dying woman, an Iraqi teenager who will go to great risks to help his family, a gifted singer...
Click here to view the embedded video.
From writer/creator Tim Kring (Heroes, Crossing Jordan) and executive producers Peter Chernin (New Girl, Terra Nova) and Katherine Pope (New Girl, Terra Nova) comes Touch, a preternatural drama in which science and spirituality intersect with the hopeful premise that we are all interconnected, tied in invisible ways to those whose lives we are destined to alter and impact.
The series follows a group of seemingly unrelated characters – beginning with a former firefighter tormented by his inability to save a dying woman, an Iraqi teenager who will go to great risks to help his family, a gifted singer...
- 11/29/2011
- by Erin Willard
- ScifiMafia
We’re pretty big fans of Kiefer Sutherland here at SciFi Mafia, ever since he was an adorable punky vampire in The Lost Boys, and of course we’re fans of Tim Kring, creator of Heroes, so we’re really pleased to be able to report about the progress of the Tim Kring/Kiefer Sutherland series Touch. In fact, it’s the best of news: Fox has officially picked up the series! Here’s the press release:
Fox has ordered 13 episodes of the new drama series Touch, created and written by Emmy-nominated Tim Kring (Heroes), it was announced today by Kevin Reilly, President of Entertainment, Fox Broadcasting Company. Touch, starring Emmy and Golden Globe winner Kiefer Sutherland, will join the schedule in the spring of 2012. The pilot was directed and executive-produced by Francis Lawrence (Water for Elephants), and the show comes from Chernin Entertainment and Tailwind Productions, in association with 20th Century Fox Television.
Fox has ordered 13 episodes of the new drama series Touch, created and written by Emmy-nominated Tim Kring (Heroes), it was announced today by Kevin Reilly, President of Entertainment, Fox Broadcasting Company. Touch, starring Emmy and Golden Globe winner Kiefer Sutherland, will join the schedule in the spring of 2012. The pilot was directed and executive-produced by Francis Lawrence (Water for Elephants), and the show comes from Chernin Entertainment and Tailwind Productions, in association with 20th Century Fox Television.
- 9/26/2011
- by Erin Willard
- ScifiMafia
Exclusive: With his HBO comedy series Entourage recently wrapping production on its final season, Doug Ellin is shifting attention to his next project for the pay cable network, half-hour pilot 40. Michael Rapaport has been tapped to star opposite Ed Burns in the ensemble comedy, which revolves around four lifelong friends who help each other navigate life at 40, which isn't all they expected it to be. Burns plays one of them, a married guy and a father who used to work at Bear Stearns making over $2 million a year but has now been out of work for almost a year. Rapaport, repped by Paradigm and Brillstein Entertainment, will play another friend, also married, who is described as a neurotic everyman. Rapaport's series credits include comedies The War at Home and My Name Is Earl and drama Prison Break.
- 8/3/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Paolo here again. Referring to the question above I wonder if any of the readers here have seen Beats, Rhymes and Life in the few big cities where it's already on.
It's strange how, in watching this documentary about the hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest, I realized I knew less about them and more about the film's director Michael Rappaport. He of course is in True Romance and eventually ended up in one of those yearly Vanity Fair photo shoots where they name the next batch of great actors. You might remember him from "The War at Home," a passable sitcom. He also happens to be a guy from Brooklyn who grew up as part of the first hip hop generation.
What I knew about Atcq was more about mixing them up with De La Soul, or their reluctant front man of a rapper Q-Tip. He released a song called "Vivrant Thing,...
It's strange how, in watching this documentary about the hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest, I realized I knew less about them and more about the film's director Michael Rappaport. He of course is in True Romance and eventually ended up in one of those yearly Vanity Fair photo shoots where they name the next batch of great actors. You might remember him from "The War at Home," a passable sitcom. He also happens to be a guy from Brooklyn who grew up as part of the first hip hop generation.
What I knew about Atcq was more about mixing them up with De La Soul, or their reluctant front man of a rapper Q-Tip. He released a song called "Vivrant Thing,...
- 7/28/2011
- by Paolo
- FilmExperience
A Tribe Called Quest is one of the most influential acts in the history of hip-hop and actor-turned-new director Michael Rapaport (star of cancelled Fox sitcom, The War at Home) never lets you forget that in his documentary, Beat, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest. For fans of A Tribe Called Quest, the film is a sentimental journey into the lives and minds of Q-Tip (Kamaal Ibn John Fareed), Phife Dawg (Malik Taylor), Ali Shaheed Muhammad, and sometimes member Jarobi White, four friends/brothers/enemies from Queens, New York. There are glimpses of their childhood, what they were like as teenagers, as aspiring rappers, and then what happened after they became the superstars of Early 90’s Rap. For those who are not as familiar with A Tribe Called Quest as the rest of us are — pretty much anyone who was born after the group’s breakup in 1998 –- Beat,...
- 7/8/2011
- by Mo Fathelbab
- BuzzFocus.com
Think you had first day of school jitters?
Imagine for a moment you went to school with the likes of Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Chace Crawford and Ed Westwtick. Now imagine you had been reading about their lives everyday, on the cover of every magazine, for the better part of four years. Then and only then might you get a smidgen of an idea as to what it was like to be actress Kaylee DeFer, who recently had the arguably terrifying task of stepping onto the New York based set of Gossip Girl for the first time playing Charlie Rhodes, Serena’s slightly less glamorous cousin who has been holed up with her anti-establishment mother in Florida for the better part of the past 18 years.
Thankfully for DeFer, the twenty-something year old actress who comedy fans might recognize from the short-lived Fox laugher The War At Home, she had a...
Imagine for a moment you went to school with the likes of Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Chace Crawford and Ed Westwtick. Now imagine you had been reading about their lives everyday, on the cover of every magazine, for the better part of four years. Then and only then might you get a smidgen of an idea as to what it was like to be actress Kaylee DeFer, who recently had the arguably terrifying task of stepping onto the New York based set of Gossip Girl for the first time playing Charlie Rhodes, Serena’s slightly less glamorous cousin who has been holed up with her anti-establishment mother in Florida for the better part of the past 18 years.
Thankfully for DeFer, the twenty-something year old actress who comedy fans might recognize from the short-lived Fox laugher The War At Home, she had a...
- 4/25/2011
- by theTVaddict
- The TV Addict
Tonight, Gossip Girl finally returns from its winter hiatus and will finish out the season with five new episodes full of bitchery and bling. Debuting this week is Serena’s cousin, Charlie, played by Kaylee DeFer (The War at Home). Charlie, who’s real name is Charlotte, is the daughter of Lily’s estranged sister Carol, played in season two’s Gg flashback episode by Krysten Ritter but now in the present by Sheila Kelley. So where have these two ladies been throughout the past four seasons? “They’ve been in Florida,” says executive producer Stephanie Savage. “As you may recall from the pilot,...
- 4/18/2011
- by Tim Stack
- EW - Inside TV
Gerald McRaney is set to star opposite Becki Newton in CBS' untitled Filgos family comedy pilot. It centers on Joe Reilly (McRaney), a blue-collar guy who wrestles with how to parent his unmarried grown daughter Eileen (Newton) and her 12-year-old son while sharing a house with them as well as his wife and his recently widowed mother. McRaney, who co-starred on NBC's freshman series Undercovers last fall, recently played the male lead in the TNT drama pilot Bird Dog. He is with Stone Manners Salners and Course Management. In a recasting, Dean Collins has been tapped to play the younger lead in ABC's comedy pilot Lost and Found, which centers on Jo (Jordana Spiro), a narcissistic thirtysomething New York City bartender and party girl whose life is turned upside-down when the conservative 18-year-old son (Collins) she gave up for adoption at 16 turns up on her doorstep. Collins replaced Gary Clayton...
- 3/29/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Kendra CastleberryDonna Rosenstein Casting, Los Angeles; 'Castle,' 'Happy Town,' 'October Road'Reality shows have created a new wave of celebrities, but in my opinion these people are not actors. They have not studied their craft or pounded the pavement networking or gone on countless auditions with hopes of booking just one. While being on a reality show can without question give you your five minutes of fame, it will be fleeting. TV networks and movie studios may make you offers to appear in their projects while you're in demand, but as soon as the public finds its next obsession, you will be forgotten.If you are looking to build a career in acting, a reality show will not get you there. Reality stars must continually prove that they can be more than just themselves and really inhabit a role. Actors already know they can do that.Jodi CollinsJodi Collins Casting and Productions,...
- 12/29/2010
- backstage.com
Kaylee Defer is joining Gossip Girl as a recurring character, Deadline reports.
Her character will be introduced later this season. Defer was a regular on the Fox comedy The War at Home and the WB drama The Mountain. She's also been on How I Met Your Mother, Bones, CSI: Miami and Ghost Whisperer, among other shows.
Details are sparse as to who she'll play on Gossip Girl. Any theories?...
Her character will be introduced later this season. Defer was a regular on the Fox comedy The War at Home and the WB drama The Mountain. She's also been on How I Met Your Mother, Bones, CSI: Miami and Ghost Whisperer, among other shows.
Details are sparse as to who she'll play on Gossip Girl. Any theories?...
- 12/16/2010
- by steve@iscribelimited.com (Steve Marsi)
- TVfanatic
Mandy Patinkin has been cast on Showtime's hour-long drama pilot "Homeland" as Saul, "a veteran CIA Division Chief," who is the boss and mentor of Claire Danes' character Carrie. This is Patinkin's first television appearance since starring on "Criminal Minds." He won an Emmy for his performance on "Chicago Hope." "Homeland" centers on an "American soldier taken prisoner during the invasion or Iraq in 2003. Left for dead, the soldier miraculously returns to the U.S. after years in captivity."
AMC announced they have green-lighted "Hell On Wheels," a series that focuses on a Confederate soldier on a quest to avenge his wife's death after the Civil War. His journey takes him west where he works on building the first transcontinental railroad. Anson Mount stars as the confederate soldier Cullen Bohannan. The network's senior vice president of original programming Joel Stillerman says, "We are thrilled to bring "Hell on Wheels" to series.
AMC announced they have green-lighted "Hell On Wheels," a series that focuses on a Confederate soldier on a quest to avenge his wife's death after the Civil War. His journey takes him west where he works on building the first transcontinental railroad. Anson Mount stars as the confederate soldier Cullen Bohannan. The network's senior vice president of original programming Joel Stillerman says, "We are thrilled to bring "Hell on Wheels" to series.
- 12/16/2010
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Exclusive: Kaylee Defer is joining the CW series Gossip Girl as a recurring. Her character which, like most things Gossip Girl, is shrouded in secrecy, will be introduced later this season. Defer, who was a regular on the Fox comedy The War at Home and the WB drama The Mountain, is repped by Innovative and Kritzer Levine Wilkins Griffin Entertainment.
- 12/15/2010
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
You might've already known that Jackson Rathbone ("Jasper Hale" in Twilight, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse) had experience working with some of this Twilight series co-stars long before becoming a part of the Saga with them. For instance, he worked on The O.C., which was also frequented by Cam Gigandet ("James" in Twilight), Nikki Reed ("Rosalie Hale"), and Justin Chon ("Eric Yorkie"), Jose Zuniga ("Mr. Molina" in Twilight) and Melissa Rosenberg as an episode screenwriter.
He also co-starred with Twilight series newcomer Rami Malek (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2's "Benjamin," it is thought) in The War At Home, and a ...
He also co-starred with Twilight series newcomer Rami Malek (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2's "Benjamin," it is thought) in The War At Home, and a ...
- 9/7/2010
- by thetwilightexaminer
- Twilight Examiner
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