10. Booksmart (2019)
Not all sacrifices are necessary, no matter what you’re told. Two bookworm high school grads learn that their classmates also got accepted to colleges, meaning they have been sacrificing their social lives for nothing all these years. In a dire attempt to make up for that time, they decide to at least make their graduation memorable. You can watch Booksmart on Netflix, Apple TV, and Prime Video.
9. Coda (2021)
Some teenagers need to make hard choices early in life. A young girl is the only hearing member of her deaf family and is used to helping them. When the family business is under attack, they need her more than ever — but she also has a unique, one-and-gone chance to pursue her dreams at a college of music…
You can watch Coda on Netflix, Apple TV, and Prime Video.
8. The Breakfast Club (1985)
As punishment for their misdeeds, five teenagers have...
Not all sacrifices are necessary, no matter what you’re told. Two bookworm high school grads learn that their classmates also got accepted to colleges, meaning they have been sacrificing their social lives for nothing all these years. In a dire attempt to make up for that time, they decide to at least make their graduation memorable. You can watch Booksmart on Netflix, Apple TV, and Prime Video.
9. Coda (2021)
Some teenagers need to make hard choices early in life. A young girl is the only hearing member of her deaf family and is used to helping them. When the family business is under attack, they need her more than ever — but she also has a unique, one-and-gone chance to pursue her dreams at a college of music…
You can watch Coda on Netflix, Apple TV, and Prime Video.
8. The Breakfast Club (1985)
As punishment for their misdeeds, five teenagers have...
- 5/28/2024
- by dean-black@startefacts.com (Dean Black)
- STartefacts.com
The Fantastic Four is gearing up to begin shooting later this summer and Marvel Studios has now enlisted a cinematographer in Jess Hall.
He's no stranger to period pieces and previously worked with director Matt Shakman on WandaVision and Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. Other credits include Chevalier, Ghost in the Shell, Hot Fuzz, and The Spectacular Now.
The news that he'll serve as The Fantastic Four's Director of Photography comes our way from Hall's website. Shakman and Hall reteaming isn't a surprise, and based on her work in WandaVision, he won't struggle to make this movie look visually distinct.
In other news, Hollywood insider Matt Beloni recently weighed in on Marvel Studios' upcoming projects in an edition of his podcast titled, "The Best and Worst Media Mergers of the 21st Century."
"The future of Marvel seems to be in exploiting these Fox Marvel properties like Fantastic Four and X-Men and Deadpool,...
He's no stranger to period pieces and previously worked with director Matt Shakman on WandaVision and Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. Other credits include Chevalier, Ghost in the Shell, Hot Fuzz, and The Spectacular Now.
The news that he'll serve as The Fantastic Four's Director of Photography comes our way from Hall's website. Shakman and Hall reteaming isn't a surprise, and based on her work in WandaVision, he won't struggle to make this movie look visually distinct.
In other news, Hollywood insider Matt Beloni recently weighed in on Marvel Studios' upcoming projects in an edition of his podcast titled, "The Best and Worst Media Mergers of the 21st Century."
"The future of Marvel seems to be in exploiting these Fox Marvel properties like Fantastic Four and X-Men and Deadpool,...
- 5/20/2024
- ComicBookMovie.com
Exclusive: Billy Rosenberg is exiting his post as Senior Vice President of Comedy, Hulu Originals.
Rosenberg joined Hulu in 2016. Throughout his time at the streamer, he helped to shape the comedy brand and oversaw the development and production of Hulu Originals series such as Pen15, Ramy, Only Murders In The Building, Pam & Tommy, This Fool and Solar Opposites.
Previously, Rosenberg ran The Lonely Island’s company Party Over Here. In his two years there, Rosenberg produced a number of pilot presentations under the company’s deal when it was with Fbc, including I’m Sorry that was ordered to series at TruTV, and the Freeform pilot Alone Together starring Esther Povitsky and Benji Aflalo.
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Rosenberg also produced the feature Brigsby Bear and collaborated with writer-director Joe Swanberg and was a co-producer on the Netflix series Easy.
Prior to Lonely Island, Rosenberg was with...
Rosenberg joined Hulu in 2016. Throughout his time at the streamer, he helped to shape the comedy brand and oversaw the development and production of Hulu Originals series such as Pen15, Ramy, Only Murders In The Building, Pam & Tommy, This Fool and Solar Opposites.
Previously, Rosenberg ran The Lonely Island’s company Party Over Here. In his two years there, Rosenberg produced a number of pilot presentations under the company’s deal when it was with Fbc, including I’m Sorry that was ordered to series at TruTV, and the Freeform pilot Alone Together starring Esther Povitsky and Benji Aflalo.
Related: 2024 TV Series Cancellations & Renewals
Rosenberg also produced the feature Brigsby Bear and collaborated with writer-director Joe Swanberg and was a co-producer on the Netflix series Easy.
Prior to Lonely Island, Rosenberg was with...
- 5/11/2024
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
Hulu comedy head Billy Rosenberg is exiting the streamer after more than seven years. Rosenberg, who most recently served as senior VP of comedy for Hulu Originals, has not yet been replaced.
Rosenberg’s tenure at Hulu came with the elevation of the streamer’s comedy brand, as he developed hits including “Pen15,” “Ramy,” “Only Murders In The Building,” “Pam & Tommy,” “This Fool” and “Solar Opposites.”
He initially joined as director of comedy at Hulu Originals. Prior to being tapped by Hulu, Rosenberg ran The Lonely Island’s comedy Party Over Here, as head of development and production. Working closely with Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone for two years, the television and film producer executive produced a number of pilot presentations under their Fox deal. He also produced the feature film “Brigsby Bear” with then-“Saturday Night Live” cast member Kyle Mooney, and collaborated with Joe Swanberg on his Netflix series “Easy.
Rosenberg’s tenure at Hulu came with the elevation of the streamer’s comedy brand, as he developed hits including “Pen15,” “Ramy,” “Only Murders In The Building,” “Pam & Tommy,” “This Fool” and “Solar Opposites.”
He initially joined as director of comedy at Hulu Originals. Prior to being tapped by Hulu, Rosenberg ran The Lonely Island’s comedy Party Over Here, as head of development and production. Working closely with Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone for two years, the television and film producer executive produced a number of pilot presentations under their Fox deal. He also produced the feature film “Brigsby Bear” with then-“Saturday Night Live” cast member Kyle Mooney, and collaborated with Joe Swanberg on his Netflix series “Easy.
- 5/11/2024
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
Shailene Woodley, Ben Foster and Pablo Schreiber will join the previously announced Alan Ritchson in the action thriller “Motor City.”
Potsy Ponciroli will direct the picture. Production begins July 10 in New Jersey and AlUla, Saudi Arabia as part of Stampede Ventures’ 10-picture slate deal with Film AlUla.
Greg Silverman and Jon Berg will produce for Stampede Ventures, alongside Rohini Singh, Paramdeep Singh and Manmeet Singh of Astro Lion Pictures, and Cliff Roberts and Chad St. John, who also penned the script. Mike Tadross Jr. and Eric Hedayat will executive produce.
Black Bear represents international rights with WME Independent co-representing domestic rights with Stampede, and Sacker Entertainment Law overseeing production legal.
“Motor City” follows John Miller (Ritchson), a Detroit auto-worker whose life and girlfriend (Woodley) are taken away from him when he’s framed by a local gangster (Foster) and sent to prison. On his release, Miller unleashes a maelstrom of...
Potsy Ponciroli will direct the picture. Production begins July 10 in New Jersey and AlUla, Saudi Arabia as part of Stampede Ventures’ 10-picture slate deal with Film AlUla.
Greg Silverman and Jon Berg will produce for Stampede Ventures, alongside Rohini Singh, Paramdeep Singh and Manmeet Singh of Astro Lion Pictures, and Cliff Roberts and Chad St. John, who also penned the script. Mike Tadross Jr. and Eric Hedayat will executive produce.
Black Bear represents international rights with WME Independent co-representing domestic rights with Stampede, and Sacker Entertainment Law overseeing production legal.
“Motor City” follows John Miller (Ritchson), a Detroit auto-worker whose life and girlfriend (Woodley) are taken away from him when he’s framed by a local gangster (Foster) and sent to prison. On his release, Miller unleashes a maelstrom of...
- 5/10/2024
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Chris Farley — the legendary comedy actor behind Tommy Boy and countless Saturday Night Live performances — is getting the biopic treatment.
Emmy winner Paul Walter Hauser will star in the project that has actor-filmmaker Josh Gad attached to direct. Saturday Night Live patriarch Lorne Michaels will produce via his Broadway video banner.
The screenplay will be written by sought after duo Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber based on the New York Times best-selling biography The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts by Tom Farley Jr. and Tanner Colby.
The project, which is currently being pitched around town, has the blessing of the Farley family.
Farley rose to fame as a player on Saturday Night Live alongside castmembers Adam Sandler and David Spade, known for his energetic and physical performances. Famous for sketches that saw him play Bill Swerski’s Superfans (“da Bears!”), an overzealous motivational speaker (“living in...
Emmy winner Paul Walter Hauser will star in the project that has actor-filmmaker Josh Gad attached to direct. Saturday Night Live patriarch Lorne Michaels will produce via his Broadway video banner.
The screenplay will be written by sought after duo Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber based on the New York Times best-selling biography The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts by Tom Farley Jr. and Tanner Colby.
The project, which is currently being pitched around town, has the blessing of the Farley family.
Farley rose to fame as a player on Saturday Night Live alongside castmembers Adam Sandler and David Spade, known for his energetic and physical performances. Famous for sketches that saw him play Bill Swerski’s Superfans (“da Bears!”), an overzealous motivational speaker (“living in...
- 4/12/2024
- by Mia Galuppo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: In a year in which the prolific Shawn Levy director turned out the upcoming Deadpool & Wolverine, and the lauded limited series All The Light We Cannot See, he has been tapped to receive the Director of the Year Award at the upcoming CinemaCon in Las Vegas.
CinemaCon Managing Director Mitch Neuhauser confirmed that Levy will be honored at the NATO convention on Aprill 11, as part of the Big Screen Achievement Awards ceremony at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace.
“Throughout his impressive career, Shawn Levy never fails to give audiences what they want – the most entertaining, enjoyable and crowd-pleasing films imaginable,” noted Neuhauser. “As one of our most talented and leading filmmakers working today, we can’t wait to see what he brings to our theaters this summer with the eagerly anticipated Deadpool & Wolverine. It’s our honor to single Shawn out as our CinemaCon Director of the Year.
CinemaCon Managing Director Mitch Neuhauser confirmed that Levy will be honored at the NATO convention on Aprill 11, as part of the Big Screen Achievement Awards ceremony at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace.
“Throughout his impressive career, Shawn Levy never fails to give audiences what they want – the most entertaining, enjoyable and crowd-pleasing films imaginable,” noted Neuhauser. “As one of our most talented and leading filmmakers working today, we can’t wait to see what he brings to our theaters this summer with the eagerly anticipated Deadpool & Wolverine. It’s our honor to single Shawn out as our CinemaCon Director of the Year.
- 2/16/2024
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
This is one of best discoveries of Sundance 2024. A knock out - loved every second of it. 2024 is a big year for the talented Taiwanese-American filmmaker Sean Wang, who is originally from Fremont, CA. Not only does he have this feature debut movie premiering at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, and it's getting rave reviews (and it won the Audience Award), he's also probably going to win an Academy Award in March for his short film Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó about his grannies (it's also streaming on Disney+ in February). Sundance has a memorably rich tradition of premiering many of the best coming-of-age films of all-time, ranging from 500 Days of Summer to Napoleon Dynamite to Little Miss Sunshine to The Spectacular Now to Clerks to Eighth Grade to Boyhood, and so many others over the years. Sean Wang's Dìdi (弟弟) instantly joins the ranks as yet another outstanding coming-of-age...
- 1/29/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Here’s your guide to every movie and TV show leaving Netflix Canada in February 2024.
In case you missed it, we also covered all the movies and TV shows leaving Netflix Canada in January 2024.
One of the biggest movies to leave Netflix is Matrix Revolutions, the fourth installment of the Matrix franchise.
Please Note: This is not the full list of everything leaving Netflix UK in February 2024. More departures will be announced throughout January 2024 and February 2024.
Movies and TV Shows Leaving Netflix Canada on February 1st, 2023 All My Life (2020) American Assassin (2017) Bending All the Rules (2002) Blow (2001) Blue Valentine (2010) Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011) Dark Shadows (2012) Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009) Fury (2014) Guilty (2015) Half Brothers (2020) Here Comes the Boom (2012) John Q. (2002) Legend (2015) Legion (2010) Love Jacked (2018) Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005) Mystic River (2003) Non-Stop (2014) The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012) Resident Evil: Retribution (2012) Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016) Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018) Son of the Mask...
In case you missed it, we also covered all the movies and TV shows leaving Netflix Canada in January 2024.
One of the biggest movies to leave Netflix is Matrix Revolutions, the fourth installment of the Matrix franchise.
Please Note: This is not the full list of everything leaving Netflix UK in February 2024. More departures will be announced throughout January 2024 and February 2024.
Movies and TV Shows Leaving Netflix Canada on February 1st, 2023 All My Life (2020) American Assassin (2017) Bending All the Rules (2002) Blow (2001) Blue Valentine (2010) Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011) Dark Shadows (2012) Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009) Fury (2014) Guilty (2015) Half Brothers (2020) Here Comes the Boom (2012) John Q. (2002) Legend (2015) Legion (2010) Love Jacked (2018) Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005) Mystic River (2003) Non-Stop (2014) The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012) Resident Evil: Retribution (2012) Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016) Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018) Son of the Mask...
- 1/11/2024
- by Jacob Robinson
- Whats-on-Netflix
After directing three “Night at the Museum” movies, Shawn Levy didn’t want to be confined to directing family comedies for the rest of his career. If you’re doing something successfully, he told IndieWire, it’s easy to be “pigeonholed” by Hollywood into that one thing.
But he’s been far from limited under the banner of his own production company, 21 Laps. Levy and his company have been prolific hit-makers since it launched in 2006, and he has produced and directed everything from indie darlings (“The Spectacular Now”), ambitious Best Picture nominees (“Arrival”), studio blockbuster satires (“Free Guy“), prestige limited series (“All the Light We Cannot See”), Stephen King horror movies (“The Boogeyman”), and the biggest Netflix show ever (“Stranger Things”), all of which depart from the family-friendly event movies on which he cut his teeth.
“You need to refuse to be limited by everyone else’s assumptions,” Levy told IndieWire during a recent interview.
But he’s been far from limited under the banner of his own production company, 21 Laps. Levy and his company have been prolific hit-makers since it launched in 2006, and he has produced and directed everything from indie darlings (“The Spectacular Now”), ambitious Best Picture nominees (“Arrival”), studio blockbuster satires (“Free Guy“), prestige limited series (“All the Light We Cannot See”), Stephen King horror movies (“The Boogeyman”), and the biggest Netflix show ever (“Stranger Things”), all of which depart from the family-friendly event movies on which he cut his teeth.
“You need to refuse to be limited by everyone else’s assumptions,” Levy told IndieWire during a recent interview.
- 12/13/2023
- by Brian Welk and Marcus Jones
- Indiewire
[This story contains spoilers from the finale of Lessons in Chemistry.]
Academy Award-winning actress Brie Larson has had supporting roles in romantic comedies like The Spectacular Now and Trainwreck. But in Lessons in Chemistry, she gets to tell a love story of her own.
“Part of my initial interest in this story is that love depictions are so sacred and so important, and how they come to you and why they come to you is part of the magic of this life,” says Larson, who stars in the lead role of Elizabeth Zott in the Apple TV+ series. “It also means it’s very hard to grapple with.”
Deciding how best to show that struggle in bringing the narrative drawn from Bonnie Garmus’ novel of the same to TV is something Larson worked on closely with as an executive producer with showrunner Lee Eisenberg, who developed the series. Embodying Zott, a chemist who can no longer rely on...
Academy Award-winning actress Brie Larson has had supporting roles in romantic comedies like The Spectacular Now and Trainwreck. But in Lessons in Chemistry, she gets to tell a love story of her own.
“Part of my initial interest in this story is that love depictions are so sacred and so important, and how they come to you and why they come to you is part of the magic of this life,” says Larson, who stars in the lead role of Elizabeth Zott in the Apple TV+ series. “It also means it’s very hard to grapple with.”
Deciding how best to show that struggle in bringing the narrative drawn from Bonnie Garmus’ novel of the same to TV is something Larson worked on closely with as an executive producer with showrunner Lee Eisenberg, who developed the series. Embodying Zott, a chemist who can no longer rely on...
- 11/25/2023
- by Brande Victorian
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Graphic: Images: IMDb
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Avengers: Endgame (2019)
After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War (2018), the universe is in ruins. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers assemble once more in order to reverse Thanos’ actions and restore balance to the universe.
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Avengers: Endgame (2019)
After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War (2018), the universe is in ruins. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers assemble once more in order to reverse Thanos’ actions and restore balance to the universe.
- 11/7/2023
- avclub.com
Based on the best-selling novel by Bonnie Garmus, “Lessons in Chemistry” combines science and cooking in a great experiment. Brie Larson stars as intensely intelligent Elizabeth Zott, a woman bound to make waves wherever she goes because of her high Iq as well as her beauty. Larson also executive produced the Apple TV+ drama series, whose showrunner is Lee Eisenberg. Eight episodes unfold to tell the emotional and unexpected story of Elizabeth Zott, a Hastings lab technician (and really PhD-level chemist) who transforms into a television celebrity cook.
The first two episodes landed Friday, October 13, and the show will end right before Thanksgiving, an appropriate holiday for cooking! New episodes will be released weekly on Fridays at midnight, Pacific time. Alongside Larson, the starring cast includes Lewis Pullman, Stephanie Koenig, Aja Naomi King, Kevin Sussman and more stars throughout the season.
Here are the cast and characters of “Lessons in Chemistry...
The first two episodes landed Friday, October 13, and the show will end right before Thanksgiving, an appropriate holiday for cooking! New episodes will be released weekly on Fridays at midnight, Pacific time. Alongside Larson, the starring cast includes Lewis Pullman, Stephanie Koenig, Aja Naomi King, Kevin Sussman and more stars throughout the season.
Here are the cast and characters of “Lessons in Chemistry...
- 10/13/2023
- by Dessi Gomez
- The Wrap
Clockwise from left: The Little Mermaid (Screengrab: YouTube), Raiders Of The Lost Ark (Screengrab: Disney); Star Wars:The Last Jedi (Screengrab: Disney+), Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 (Screengrab: Disney)Graphic: AVClub
Of all the streaming services, Disney+ has the most desirable IP sitting around waiting to be exploited (meaning content...
Of all the streaming services, Disney+ has the most desirable IP sitting around waiting to be exploited (meaning content...
- 9/9/2023
- by The A.V. Club
- avclub.com
Exclusive: Emmy-nominated actress Shailene Woodley has signed with CAA for representation.
Woodley, who was previously at Hyperion Talent Agency, made her film debut in Alexander Payne’s The Descendants, alongside George Clooney, in 2011. For her breakout performance in the film, she won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female and was nominated for a Golden Globe, SAG Award, and a Critics’ Choice Award.
She gained widespread recognition for her starring role in the 2014 romantic drama The Fault in Our Stars in the role of Hazel Grace Lancaster. Additionally, Woodley starred in the science-fiction film trilogy based on The Divergent Series, as well as the independent film The Spectacular Now, for which she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award.
Up next, she will star in Michael Mann’s Ferrari and Craig Gillespie’s Dumb Money on the big screen.
As Deadline revealed exclusively in May, Woodley has been cast...
Woodley, who was previously at Hyperion Talent Agency, made her film debut in Alexander Payne’s The Descendants, alongside George Clooney, in 2011. For her breakout performance in the film, she won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female and was nominated for a Golden Globe, SAG Award, and a Critics’ Choice Award.
She gained widespread recognition for her starring role in the 2014 romantic drama The Fault in Our Stars in the role of Hazel Grace Lancaster. Additionally, Woodley starred in the science-fiction film trilogy based on The Divergent Series, as well as the independent film The Spectacular Now, for which she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award.
Up next, she will star in Michael Mann’s Ferrari and Craig Gillespie’s Dumb Money on the big screen.
As Deadline revealed exclusively in May, Woodley has been cast...
- 8/29/2023
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
It is a rare thing when just the studio attached to a movie can get butts in seats, but that is just what Independent Film Company A24 has done since they were formed in 2012. From humble beginnings with the Roman Coppola directed A Glimpse Inside The Mind of Charles Swan III to break out hits like Ex Machine and The Witch. More recently the studio became the first one to ever sweep the top six awards at this past years Oscars when their films Everything Everywhere All At Once and The Whale took home Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director and Best Picture. As their latest film Talk To Me continues to put up impressive numbers at the box office, we wanted to know: What A24 releases has been your favorite? We compiled a pretty comprehensive list, but if you don’t see your favorite listed,...
- 8/13/2023
- by Brad Hamerly
- JoBlo.com
See You On a Venus is a romantic drama film directed by Joaquín Llamas. Starring Virginia Gardner and Alex Aiono, See You On Venus follows Mia and Kyle, two American teenagers who fall in love while they are traveling through Spain in order to find Mia’s birth mother. So, if you loved See You On Venus here are some shows you could watch next.
The Space Between Us (Prime Video) Credit – STXfilms
Synopsis: Sixteen-year-old Gardner Elliot (Asa Butterfield) has lived his whole life with a team of scientists on Mars. He’s always longed to see Earth to find the father he’s never known and to meet a beautiful street-smart girl named Tulsa he’s become friends with online. But when his chance finally comes, doctors discover his heart can’t withstand the Earth’s atmosphere. Eager to find his father, Gardner and Tulsa escape on a cross-country...
The Space Between Us (Prime Video) Credit – STXfilms
Synopsis: Sixteen-year-old Gardner Elliot (Asa Butterfield) has lived his whole life with a team of scientists on Mars. He’s always longed to see Earth to find the father he’s never known and to meet a beautiful street-smart girl named Tulsa he’s become friends with online. But when his chance finally comes, doctors discover his heart can’t withstand the Earth’s atmosphere. Eager to find his father, Gardner and Tulsa escape on a cross-country...
- 8/8/2023
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
A version of this story about Scott Neustadter and “Daisy Jones and the Six” first appeared in the Limited Series/Movies issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
Scott Neustadter wasn’t born when the rock ‘n’ roll scene depicted in “Daisy Jones & the Six” was taking place in Los Angeles in the late 1960s through the mid ’70s, and neither were most of the cast and creators of the limited series on Amazon’s Prime Video. But Neustadter and his writing partner Michael H. Weber, who’d written “500 Days of Summer,” “The Spectacular Now” and “The Disaster Artist” before they developed “Daisy Jones,” had to become experts in the era they recreated for the series based on Taylor Jenkins Reid’s novel.
Did they get it all right? Of course not. (Read on for some nit-picking from somebody who is old enough to have been there.) But for the most part,...
Scott Neustadter wasn’t born when the rock ‘n’ roll scene depicted in “Daisy Jones & the Six” was taking place in Los Angeles in the late 1960s through the mid ’70s, and neither were most of the cast and creators of the limited series on Amazon’s Prime Video. But Neustadter and his writing partner Michael H. Weber, who’d written “500 Days of Summer,” “The Spectacular Now” and “The Disaster Artist” before they developed “Daisy Jones,” had to become experts in the era they recreated for the series based on Taylor Jenkins Reid’s novel.
Did they get it all right? Of course not. (Read on for some nit-picking from somebody who is old enough to have been there.) But for the most part,...
- 6/20/2023
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
The Emmy race has never been more crowded for those working behind the camera on TV’s most acclaimed series.
While these directors below have never won Emmys, their work on this year’s juggernaut dramas, side-splitting comedies and affecting limited series could change that come September.
Lee Sung Jin
As creator and showrunner of Netflix’s limited series “Beef,” Jin guides the series from its inciting road rage incident all the way to its cliff-diving conclusion. In addition to penning several episodes, the veteran comedy writer finally steps behind the camera to make his directorial debut on the finale.
Peter Hoar
Fresh off directing Max’s “It’s a Sin,” Hoar helmed “Long, Long Time,” the third episode of HBO’s freshman hit “The Last of Us” — possibly the most-loved episode of television this year. The feature-length outing tells the sweeping tale of Bill (Nick Offerman) and Frank (Murray Bartlett...
While these directors below have never won Emmys, their work on this year’s juggernaut dramas, side-splitting comedies and affecting limited series could change that come September.
Lee Sung Jin
As creator and showrunner of Netflix’s limited series “Beef,” Jin guides the series from its inciting road rage incident all the way to its cliff-diving conclusion. In addition to penning several episodes, the veteran comedy writer finally steps behind the camera to make his directorial debut on the finale.
Peter Hoar
Fresh off directing Max’s “It’s a Sin,” Hoar helmed “Long, Long Time,” the third episode of HBO’s freshman hit “The Last of Us” — possibly the most-loved episode of television this year. The feature-length outing tells the sweeping tale of Bill (Nick Offerman) and Frank (Murray Bartlett...
- 6/17/2023
- by Hunter Ingram
- Variety Film + TV
TV’s Spanish-language Univision network will broadcast Super Bowl Lvii next year, adding a new entrant to the usual coterie of English-language outlets that show the game.
The deal was struck in partnership with the NFL and CBS Sports, which has the rights to show the game in English.
The details were released as part of TelevisaUnivision’s annual “upfront” presentation, when U.S. networks try to sell the bulk of their commercial programming ahead of their next programming cycle.
The company also disclosed that its ViX streaming outlet has more than 30 million monthly active users globally, with Pierluigi Gazzolo, the CEO of ViX noting that ” 80% of consumption on Vix is content no one else has and, importantly, 63% of users on ViX are incremental to the massive audience we serve on linear, which means greater cross-platform reach for all of you.”
In other programming highlights, Ilia Calderon, the anchor of...
The deal was struck in partnership with the NFL and CBS Sports, which has the rights to show the game in English.
The details were released as part of TelevisaUnivision’s annual “upfront” presentation, when U.S. networks try to sell the bulk of their commercial programming ahead of their next programming cycle.
The company also disclosed that its ViX streaming outlet has more than 30 million monthly active users globally, with Pierluigi Gazzolo, the CEO of ViX noting that ” 80% of consumption on Vix is content no one else has and, importantly, 63% of users on ViX are incremental to the massive audience we serve on linear, which means greater cross-platform reach for all of you.”
In other programming highlights, Ilia Calderon, the anchor of...
- 5/16/2023
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley and Richard Madden are set to headline Amazon Studios’ Killer Heat, from director Philippe Lacôte.
The film follows twin brothers who are caught in a violent love triangle on a remote Greek island. A damaged detective, known as “The Jealousy Man,” is called in to investigate.
Pic is based on Jo Nesbø’s short story The Jealousy Man, off a script written by Roberto Bentivegna (House of Gucci), with revisions by Oscar- and BAFTA-nominated screenwriter Matt Charman (Bridge of Spies; Treason). Makeready’s Brad Weston is producing the film, with Nesbø (bestselling Harry Hole book series), Niclas Salomonsson, Gordon-Levitt, Tom Karnowski and Makeready’s Collin Creighton executive producing. Makeready’s Oscar Montemayor will associate produce.
Cameras roll in May in Crete, with Faliro House serving as the local production entity.
Gordon-Levitt recently appeared in Rian Johnson’s Poker Face and will next be seen...
The film follows twin brothers who are caught in a violent love triangle on a remote Greek island. A damaged detective, known as “The Jealousy Man,” is called in to investigate.
Pic is based on Jo Nesbø’s short story The Jealousy Man, off a script written by Roberto Bentivegna (House of Gucci), with revisions by Oscar- and BAFTA-nominated screenwriter Matt Charman (Bridge of Spies; Treason). Makeready’s Brad Weston is producing the film, with Nesbø (bestselling Harry Hole book series), Niclas Salomonsson, Gordon-Levitt, Tom Karnowski and Makeready’s Collin Creighton executive producing. Makeready’s Oscar Montemayor will associate produce.
Cameras roll in May in Crete, with Faliro House serving as the local production entity.
Gordon-Levitt recently appeared in Rian Johnson’s Poker Face and will next be seen...
- 4/3/2023
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley and Richard Madden are set to star in Killer Heat, a love triangle thriller from director Philippe Lacôte for Amazon Studios and Makeready.
The film is based on Norwegian crime writer Jo Nesbo’s short story The Jealousy Man, with the screen adaptation to follow twin brothers caught in a violent love triangle on a remote Greek island. A damaged local detective with a nose for jealousy is called in to investigate a murder.
Production on Killer Heat is set to start in May in Crete.
Gordon-Levitt recently appeared in Rian Johnson’s Poker Face and will next be seen in Beverly Hills Cop: Axel Foley and John Carney’s Flora and Son. Woodley has starred in The Descendants, The Fault in Our Stars, The Spectacular Now and most recently in the series Big Little Lies.
Madden is best known for playing Robb Stark in Game of Thrones,...
The film is based on Norwegian crime writer Jo Nesbo’s short story The Jealousy Man, with the screen adaptation to follow twin brothers caught in a violent love triangle on a remote Greek island. A damaged local detective with a nose for jealousy is called in to investigate a murder.
Production on Killer Heat is set to start in May in Crete.
Gordon-Levitt recently appeared in Rian Johnson’s Poker Face and will next be seen in Beverly Hills Cop: Axel Foley and John Carney’s Flora and Son. Woodley has starred in The Descendants, The Fault in Our Stars, The Spectacular Now and most recently in the series Big Little Lies.
Madden is best known for playing Robb Stark in Game of Thrones,...
- 4/3/2023
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley and Richard Madden are set to star in the thriller “Killer Heat,” from Amazon Studios.
“Night of the Kings” filmmaker Philippe Lacôte has signed on to direct the movie, which is based on Jo Nesbø’s 2021 short story “The Jealousy Man.” The film centers on twin brothers (Madden) caught in a violent love triangle on a remote Greek island, and a damaged detective known as “The Jealousy Man” (Gordon-Levitt), who is called in to investigate.
Lacôte will direct from a script penned by Roberto Bentivegna (“House of Gucci”), with revisions by Oscar and BAFTA-nominated screenwriter Matt Charman.
Makeready’s Brad Weston is producing the film, which begins production next month in Crete, with Faliro House serving as the local production entity.
In addition to starring in the film, Gordon-Levitt will also executive produce the project alongside Nesbø, Niclas Salomonsson, Tom Karnowski and Makeready’s Collin Creighton.
“Night of the Kings” filmmaker Philippe Lacôte has signed on to direct the movie, which is based on Jo Nesbø’s 2021 short story “The Jealousy Man.” The film centers on twin brothers (Madden) caught in a violent love triangle on a remote Greek island, and a damaged detective known as “The Jealousy Man” (Gordon-Levitt), who is called in to investigate.
Lacôte will direct from a script penned by Roberto Bentivegna (“House of Gucci”), with revisions by Oscar and BAFTA-nominated screenwriter Matt Charman.
Makeready’s Brad Weston is producing the film, which begins production next month in Crete, with Faliro House serving as the local production entity.
In addition to starring in the film, Gordon-Levitt will also executive produce the project alongside Nesbø, Niclas Salomonsson, Tom Karnowski and Makeready’s Collin Creighton.
- 4/3/2023
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Anonymous Content has hired longtime literary agent and former UTA partner Bec Smith as a partner and manager in their Los Angeles-based lit team. We revealed Smith’s impending exit from UTA last month.
The respected veteran has amassed a client roster including directors and writers such as Coline Abert, Levan Akin, Jane Anderson, Benedict Andrews, Emily Atef, Anthony Chen, Eva Husson, Ellen Kuras, Katrin Gebbe, Sebastian Junger, Julia Leigh, Phillip Noyce, Joshua Oppenheimer, Jennifer Peedom, Maria Schrader, Tali Shalom-Ezer, Dawn Shadforth, Kirsten Sheridan, Goran Stolevski, Warwick Thornton and Max Werner.
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The respected veteran has amassed a client roster including directors and writers such as Coline Abert, Levan Akin, Jane Anderson, Benedict Andrews, Emily Atef, Anthony Chen, Eva Husson, Ellen Kuras, Katrin Gebbe, Sebastian Junger, Julia Leigh, Phillip Noyce, Joshua Oppenheimer, Jennifer Peedom, Maria Schrader, Tali Shalom-Ezer, Dawn Shadforth, Kirsten Sheridan, Goran Stolevski, Warwick Thornton and Max Werner.
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- 3/22/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
“Daisy Jones & the Six” has arrived. Fans of the bestselling Taylor Jenkins Reid novel of the same name have been anxiously awaiting Amazon Prime Video’s TV series adaptation of the book, and the story of this fictional 1970s rock band is unfolding over a number of weeks on the streaming service.
The story is one told in a grand flashback, as members of the titular band sit down for a documentary about their rise (and fall?) and the show then presents the story as it happened back in the ’70s. The book is a full-on oral history, but in the TV series, what we see is what actually happened – not peoples’ own versions of events – so we witness how Sam Claflin’s rocker Billy Dunne reluctantly allows aspiring songwriter and performer Daisy Jones (Riley Keough) to work on one of The Six’s songs. The resulting smash hit...
The story is one told in a grand flashback, as members of the titular band sit down for a documentary about their rise (and fall?) and the show then presents the story as it happened back in the ’70s. The book is a full-on oral history, but in the TV series, what we see is what actually happened – not peoples’ own versions of events – so we witness how Sam Claflin’s rocker Billy Dunne reluctantly allows aspiring songwriter and performer Daisy Jones (Riley Keough) to work on one of The Six’s songs. The resulting smash hit...
- 3/16/2023
- by Adam Chitwood
- The Wrap
Daisy Jones & the Six may be the most-read-about fake band in history. Taylor Jenkins Reid’s 2019 novel about a fictional seventies rock group of the same name has sold well over a million copies and has a bonkers 940,000 ratings on literary social media hub Goodreads — so the pressure to deliver a TV version is a bit higher than with most adaptions.
Fortunately, co-showrunner Scott Neustadter is no stranger to high-stakes adaptations. The Oscar-nominated screenwriter behind The Disaster Artist previously penned big-screen versions of YA smashes The Fault in Our Stars, The Spectacular Now and Paper Towns with writing partner Michael H. Weber. None of his previous projects, however, prepared him for the rigors of casting actors with no singing experience and working with a murderer’s row of songwriters to produce an original album for Daisy Jones & the Six — the latest in what’s become a regular drumbeat...
Fortunately, co-showrunner Scott Neustadter is no stranger to high-stakes adaptations. The Oscar-nominated screenwriter behind The Disaster Artist previously penned big-screen versions of YA smashes The Fault in Our Stars, The Spectacular Now and Paper Towns with writing partner Michael H. Weber. None of his previous projects, however, prepared him for the rigors of casting actors with no singing experience and working with a murderer’s row of songwriters to produce an original album for Daisy Jones & the Six — the latest in what’s become a regular drumbeat...
- 3/3/2023
- by Mikey O'Connell
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In 1978, the Kinks sang: “He just spends his life, living in a rock ‘n’ roll fantasy; He just spends his life, living on the edge of reality.” This mid-1970s sentiment of California dreamin’ foregrounds a young woman with that same impossible, crazy and ultimately disenchanting dream — singer, songwriter, flame-haired trainwreck Daisy Jones played by the perfectly cast firecracker Riley Keough, Elvis’ granddaughter, in Amazon Prime Video’s “Daisy Jones & the Six.”
It’s part the familiar saga of the rise and splatter of a band like “Fleetwood Mac,” circa the album “Rumours:” the drugs, the demons and the outsized desires of its members. And then, driven by a spectacular performance by Keough, it’s about the power of finding one’s voice and hoping the journey liberates rather than destroys the seeker.
Based on Taylor Jenkins Reid’s New York Times bestseller, a chick lit book beloved by...
It’s part the familiar saga of the rise and splatter of a band like “Fleetwood Mac,” circa the album “Rumours:” the drugs, the demons and the outsized desires of its members. And then, driven by a spectacular performance by Keough, it’s about the power of finding one’s voice and hoping the journey liberates rather than destroys the seeker.
Based on Taylor Jenkins Reid’s New York Times bestseller, a chick lit book beloved by...
- 3/1/2023
- by Thelma Adams
- The Wrap
Mary Elizabeth Winstead has signed on to star opposite Ewan McGregor in the upcoming Showtime & Paramount+ series “A Gentleman in Moscow,” Variety has learned exclusively.
McGregor was first reported to be starring in the show back in August 2022. It is an adaptation of the Amor Towles novel of the same name. Production on the limited series is now underway. It will debut on Showtime in the U.S. and on Paramount+ in additional markets around the world.
Per the official logline, the series “follows Count Alexander Rostov (McGregor) who, in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, finds that his gilded past places him on the wrong side of history. Spared immediate execution, he is banished by a Soviet tribunal to an attic room in the opulent Hotel Metropol, threatened with death if he ever sets foot outside again. As the years pass and some of the most tumultuous decades in...
McGregor was first reported to be starring in the show back in August 2022. It is an adaptation of the Amor Towles novel of the same name. Production on the limited series is now underway. It will debut on Showtime in the U.S. and on Paramount+ in additional markets around the world.
Per the official logline, the series “follows Count Alexander Rostov (McGregor) who, in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, finds that his gilded past places him on the wrong side of history. Spared immediate execution, he is banished by a Soviet tribunal to an attic room in the opulent Hotel Metropol, threatened with death if he ever sets foot outside again. As the years pass and some of the most tumultuous decades in...
- 2/22/2023
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
“I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else’s muse. I am not a muse. I am the somebody. End of fucking story.” ― that’s a direct quote from “Daisy Jones & The Six” by Taylor Jenkins Reid, a hugely popular novel that’s been turned into an all-star Amazon prime mini-series by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, who broke into the business with “500 Days of Summer,” and went on to have a lot of success with teen YA work like “The Spectacular Now,” “The Fault in Our Stars,” and “Paper Towns.”
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They’ve adapted “Daisy Jones and The Six,” which essentially looks at sex, drugs, and a Fleetwood Mac-esque fictional band rock band in the 1970s from their rise in the LA music scene.
Continue reading ‘Daisy Jones & The Six’ Trailer: Riley Keough & Sam Claflin Navigate The Sex,...
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They’ve adapted “Daisy Jones and The Six,” which essentially looks at sex, drugs, and a Fleetwood Mac-esque fictional band rock band in the 1970s from their rise in the LA music scene.
Continue reading ‘Daisy Jones & The Six’ Trailer: Riley Keough & Sam Claflin Navigate The Sex,...
- 2/15/2023
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
When Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley were cast to portray romantic interests in The Spectacular Now, they had no idea they’d form such a strong relationship off-screen. But working on the small film would spark the formation of a close friendship that still persists today. The actors have both stated multiple times that they truly enjoy working together and spending time together outside of work. But did they think they’d hit it off so well when they first met? Teller once gave his genuine first impression of Woodley.
Shailene Woodley and Miles Teller | Kevork Djansezian/MTV1415/Getty Images for MTV How many movies have Shailene Woodley and Miles Teller been in together?
To date, Teller and Woodley have starred in four films together. In Divergent, Insurgent, and Allegiant, the relationship between their characters was complex. In the best of times, they were reluctant allies; however, in the worst of times they were adversaries.
Shailene Woodley and Miles Teller | Kevork Djansezian/MTV1415/Getty Images for MTV How many movies have Shailene Woodley and Miles Teller been in together?
To date, Teller and Woodley have starred in four films together. In Divergent, Insurgent, and Allegiant, the relationship between their characters was complex. In the best of times, they were reluctant allies; however, in the worst of times they were adversaries.
- 2/13/2023
- by Abeni Tinubu
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Shailene Woodley recently put down roots in Los Angeles by purchasing a beautiful home in the Hollywood Hills. But it wasn’t so long ago that the actor was embracing a more nomadic lifestyle. Long-time fans of Woodley know that in her 20s, the Three Women actor was fond of couch-surfing. In between filming projects, she’d often crash at her friends’ places all over the world. And it seems like Miles Teller wasn’t afraid to razz her a bit for it.
Shailene Woodley and Miles Teller | Kevork Djansezian/MTV1415/Getty Images for MTV How did Shailene Woodley and Miles Teller become friends?
It’s no secret that Teller and Woodley are good friends. The pair aren’t shy about showing their support for each other and they even vacation together. The duo first met back in 2012 when they were filming The Spectacular Now. They continued to work together...
Shailene Woodley and Miles Teller | Kevork Djansezian/MTV1415/Getty Images for MTV How did Shailene Woodley and Miles Teller become friends?
It’s no secret that Teller and Woodley are good friends. The pair aren’t shy about showing their support for each other and they even vacation together. The duo first met back in 2012 when they were filming The Spectacular Now. They continued to work together...
- 2/13/2023
- by Abeni Tinubu
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
“Shrinking” is the bastard love child of “Ted Lasso” and “Scrubs.” The funny, self-aware, wonderfully cast workplace comedy centers on a small Pasadena psychological practice. From there, it moves out in spokes into the family lives, mental obsessions and dysfunction of its three main shrinks: Jason Segel, Jessica Williams and, yes, Harrison Ford.
Laughter, life lessons, hugs, jabs and serial ridiculous situations cram this ten-part comedy. “Shrinking” begins with an absurd meet-awkward between audience and therapist. We encounter central mensch-meshuggah Jimmy (Jason Segel at his most neurotic teddy bearish) in his own backyard.
The mind-doctor has reached rock bottom. He’s snorting a mix of psychiatric drugs while hanging by his backyard pool at 3 a.m., blaring music with two young sex workers mermaid-ing in the chlorinated water nearby. He’s momentarily blissed, high – and a really crappy clueless neighbor in his pricy South Pasadena neighborhood.
The sad truth is...
Laughter, life lessons, hugs, jabs and serial ridiculous situations cram this ten-part comedy. “Shrinking” begins with an absurd meet-awkward between audience and therapist. We encounter central mensch-meshuggah Jimmy (Jason Segel at his most neurotic teddy bearish) in his own backyard.
The mind-doctor has reached rock bottom. He’s snorting a mix of psychiatric drugs while hanging by his backyard pool at 3 a.m., blaring music with two young sex workers mermaid-ing in the chlorinated water nearby. He’s momentarily blissed, high – and a really crappy clueless neighbor in his pricy South Pasadena neighborhood.
The sad truth is...
- 1/27/2023
- by Thelma Adams
- The Wrap
Cameron Crowe’s “Roadies” failed to strike a chord and create a TV series about 1970s rockers on the road and tales of sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll that audiences loved. But show creators Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (“The Spectacular Now”) are hoping their similar-sounding version, starring Riley Keough, will convince you otherwise with the new Prime Video series “Daisy Jones & The Six.”
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Produced by Reese Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter for Hello Sunshine and Brad Mendelsohn for Circle of Confusion, the series stars Riley Keough, Sam Claflin, Camila Morrone, Will Harrison, Suki Waterhouse, Josh Whitehouse, Sebastian Chacon, Nabiyah Be, and Tom Wright, with a special guest appearance by Timothy Olyphant.
Continue reading ‘Daisy Jones & The Six’ Teaser: Riley Keough Does Sex, Drugs & Rock N’ Roll In New Series Debuting In March at The Playlist.
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Produced by Reese Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter for Hello Sunshine and Brad Mendelsohn for Circle of Confusion, the series stars Riley Keough, Sam Claflin, Camila Morrone, Will Harrison, Suki Waterhouse, Josh Whitehouse, Sebastian Chacon, Nabiyah Be, and Tom Wright, with a special guest appearance by Timothy Olyphant.
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- 1/25/2023
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
"You write songs about who you wish you were, not who you are." Prime Video has revealed a new official trailer for a streaming series coming this March titled Daisy Jones & The Six, about a (fictional) rock band from the 1970s. It's made by director James Ponsoldt and the writers behind 500 Days of Summer and The Spectacular Now. The series follows the rise of rock band Daisy Jones and The Six through the '70s LA music scene on their quest for worldwide icon status. While the story is presented in a documentary style, including background interviews with the band, this is an entirely fictional story that captures the essence of creativity in the erratic, wild world of the 1970s. "It's time to hear the real story." Daisy Jones & The Six stars Riley Keough as the titular Daisy, Sam Claflin, Camila Morrone, Suki Waterhouse, Nabiyah Be, Will Harrison,...
- 1/25/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Love makes people do unpredictable things, but what is amour without a touch of madness to keep things interesting? In partnership with DC and Warner Bros., Spotify announced today that the all-new audio series Harley Quinn and The Joker: Sound Mind starring Christina Ricci and Billy Magnussen, premieres on January 31, 2023, exclusively on Spotify. The 7-episode series, written and directed by Eli Horowitz, is the latest audio project bat-swinging out of Spotify’s multi-year deal with DC and Warner Bros. following the success of Batman Unburied. By the way, Batman Unburied is outstanding! You should all check it out immediately.
Here’s the official synopsis for Spotify’s Harley Quinn and The Joker podcast:
Starring Christina Ricci (Yellowjackets, Wednesday, The Matrix Resurrections, The Addams Family) and Billy Magnussen (No Time To Die, Made for Love) as our titular characters, Harleen Quinzel and The Joker, the series tells a new story from...
Here’s the official synopsis for Spotify’s Harley Quinn and The Joker podcast:
Starring Christina Ricci (Yellowjackets, Wednesday, The Matrix Resurrections, The Addams Family) and Billy Magnussen (No Time To Die, Made for Love) as our titular characters, Harleen Quinzel and The Joker, the series tells a new story from...
- 1/12/2023
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Spotify, in partnership with DC, and Warner Bros. announced today that the all-new audio series Harley Quinn and The Joker: Sound Mind, starring Christina Ricci and Billy Magnussen, will premiere with all episodes available to listeners on January 31, 2023.
The 7-episode series, written and directed by Eli Horowitz (Homecoming), is the highly-anticipated second project to be released as part of Spotify’s multi-year agreement with DC, and Warner Bros. following the global sensation, Batman Unburied.
Starring Christina Ricci (Yellowjackets, Wednesday, The Matrix Resurrections, The Addams Family) and Billy Magnussen (No Time To Die, Made for Love) as our titular characters, Harleen Quinzel and The Joker, the series tells a new story from the perspective of one of Gotham City’s most iconic villains.
When we meet Dr. Harleen Quinzel, she’s fresh out of grad school, a new psychologist at Arkham Asylum, determined to help the patients her colleagues have written off.
The 7-episode series, written and directed by Eli Horowitz (Homecoming), is the highly-anticipated second project to be released as part of Spotify’s multi-year agreement with DC, and Warner Bros. following the global sensation, Batman Unburied.
Starring Christina Ricci (Yellowjackets, Wednesday, The Matrix Resurrections, The Addams Family) and Billy Magnussen (No Time To Die, Made for Love) as our titular characters, Harleen Quinzel and The Joker, the series tells a new story from the perspective of one of Gotham City’s most iconic villains.
When we meet Dr. Harleen Quinzel, she’s fresh out of grad school, a new psychologist at Arkham Asylum, determined to help the patients her colleagues have written off.
- 1/12/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Kaitlyn Dever may embody one of literature’s most overlooked characters in “Rosaline,” 20th Century Studios’ campy and modernized retelling of William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” from the perspective of the forgotten Capulet, but the Emmy-nominated actress is anything but.
Earning her first executive producing credit on the Hulu film (based on Rebecca Serle’s book “When You Were Mine”), the “Dopesick” star continues her ascent in Tinseltown, setting her sights on directing next and gushing about being featured opposite rom-com greats Julia Roberts and George Clooney in “Ticket to Paradise,” which debuts next week, in a recent interview with TheWrap.
“When I approached Rosaline, the way I developed the character and the process behind bringing this character to life was just really pushing any boundaries that I had been afraid of before,” Dever told TheWrap, “because Rosaline has an intensity and her intensity is the drive throughout the story in the film,...
Earning her first executive producing credit on the Hulu film (based on Rebecca Serle’s book “When You Were Mine”), the “Dopesick” star continues her ascent in Tinseltown, setting her sights on directing next and gushing about being featured opposite rom-com greats Julia Roberts and George Clooney in “Ticket to Paradise,” which debuts next week, in a recent interview with TheWrap.
“When I approached Rosaline, the way I developed the character and the process behind bringing this character to life was just really pushing any boundaries that I had been afraid of before,” Dever told TheWrap, “because Rosaline has an intensity and her intensity is the drive throughout the story in the film,...
- 10/15/2022
- by Natalie Oganesyan
- The Wrap
Rosaline is mentioned 10 times in William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” her name invoked at moments when it seems opportune to remind Romeo that, indeed, his heart did love before he set eyes on charming Juliet, and yes, his ability to drop face-first into ill-fated love affairs is kind of his thing. And while Rosaline lurks at the margins of Shakespeare’s play, she doesn’t get a single line to speak, instead reduced to jilted has-been and cautionary tale. But Romeo’s ex has not been forgotten in the intervening centuries, and her side of the story has been dramatized plenty, including the 1966 film “Juliet in Mantua,” the play “After Juliet,” the musical “& Juliet,” and the book and its adapted TV series “Still Star-Crossed” (in which she was played by rising star Lashana Lynch).
In Karen Maine’s “Rosaline,” adapted from Rebecca Serle’s novel “When You Were Mine...
In Karen Maine’s “Rosaline,” adapted from Rebecca Serle’s novel “When You Were Mine...
- 10/11/2022
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
The Booksmart star excels in a winning anachronistic retelling of Shakespeare’s tragedy from the perspective of Romeo’s ex and Juliet’s jilted cousin
Simply by invoking the name Juliet, Hulu’s Rosaline, a comic retelling of Shakespeare from the perspective of Juliet’s jilted cousin, is working in a crowded field. On the sliding scale of loose literary adaptations, Rosaline lands within the territory of the purely enjoyable modernizations – Clueless, She’s the Man, 10 Things I Hate About You. In the realm of anachronistic period comedies, it’s working in a similar lane to Autumn de Wilde’s biting Emma, Lena Dunham’s delightfully profane Catherine Called Birdy or the ahistorical feminism of the Apple TV series Dickinson. It’s certainly better than this summer’s Persuasion, Netflix’s Fleabag-inspired Jane Austen spin which flattened the novel’s abundant wit into a slangy, fourth wall-smashing drag.
All...
Simply by invoking the name Juliet, Hulu’s Rosaline, a comic retelling of Shakespeare from the perspective of Juliet’s jilted cousin, is working in a crowded field. On the sliding scale of loose literary adaptations, Rosaline lands within the territory of the purely enjoyable modernizations – Clueless, She’s the Man, 10 Things I Hate About You. In the realm of anachronistic period comedies, it’s working in a similar lane to Autumn de Wilde’s biting Emma, Lena Dunham’s delightfully profane Catherine Called Birdy or the ahistorical feminism of the Apple TV series Dickinson. It’s certainly better than this summer’s Persuasion, Netflix’s Fleabag-inspired Jane Austen spin which flattened the novel’s abundant wit into a slangy, fourth wall-smashing drag.
All...
- 10/11/2022
- by Adrian Horton
- The Guardian - Film News
Avid Shakespeare buffs might already be familiar with Rosaline. She’s not technically in “Romeo and Juliet,” but her name is briefly mentioned in the Bard’s tragedy all the same as an early romantic interest of Romeo Montague. Remember the original lover he follows into a party thrown by his family’s notorious adversaries, the Capulets, only to be struck by the sight of her cousin Juliet? Charming and witty despite being tidily formulaic and a little too tame, Karen Maine’s “Rosaline” delightfully assumes the unsung cousin’s perspective in Renaissance Italy, invading the era with a contemporary tongue and attitude amplified by stringy covers of modern tunes like “All by Myself” and “This Will Be (An Everlasting Love).”
Considering countless modernized costume dramas and TV shows in the vein of “Bridgerton,” “Dickinson” and Lena Dunham’s nifty medieval coming-of-ager “Catherine Called Birdy” — not to mention iconic ’90s...
Considering countless modernized costume dramas and TV shows in the vein of “Bridgerton,” “Dickinson” and Lena Dunham’s nifty medieval coming-of-ager “Catherine Called Birdy” — not to mention iconic ’90s...
- 10/11/2022
- by Tomris Laffly
- Variety Film + TV
It's time to get acquainted with Sydney Chandler. Fans may recognize her from the 2022 Hulu miniseries "Pistol," in which she portrays Chrissie Hynde, the founder and lead vocalist of '70s rock band Pretenders, marking her first major TV role. She also recently made her film debut in "Don't Worry Darling" as Violet, a housewife and friend of main character Alice Chambers (Florence Pugh). Up next, she'll be starring in Susannah Grant's sex-trafficking drama "Coercion." Even though she's just getting her start as an actor, Hollywood isn't a new concept to Sydney, who grew up with a famous TV coach and dad for a father.
Sydney's dad, Kyle Chandler, is a film and TV national treasure. He's starred in a litany of beloved titles, including "Grey's Anatomy," "Super 8," "Argo," "The Spectacular Now," "The Wolf of Wall Street," and the Godzilla series, just to name a few. In fact,...
Sydney's dad, Kyle Chandler, is a film and TV national treasure. He's starred in a litany of beloved titles, including "Grey's Anatomy," "Super 8," "Argo," "The Spectacular Now," "The Wolf of Wall Street," and the Godzilla series, just to name a few. In fact,...
- 10/4/2022
- by Emily Weaver
- Popsugar.com
Home to films like “Lady Bird,” “Eighth Grade” and “Mid90s,” A24 is synonymous with a certain brand of indie, auteur-driven coming-of-age story. The company’s latest is “Funny Pages,” the debut feature film from writer-director Owen Kline (who you might recognize as Frank from “The Squid and the Whale”). Set in the suburbs of New Jersey, “Funny Pages” follows Robert (Daniel Zolghadri), a talented high schooler determined to make his way as a cartoonist. When his beloved teacher suddenly passes away, he rebels against his upper-middle class upbringing and abandons future plans to attend art school.
Robert’s decision to drop out of school, rent sketchy (i.e. illegal) lodgings in a boiler room and take a low-paying assistant job bring him into the path of Wallace (Matthew Maher), a former employee at one of the comic magazines Robert idolizes. With the singular goal of getting Wallace to mentor him,...
Robert’s decision to drop out of school, rent sketchy (i.e. illegal) lodgings in a boiler room and take a low-paying assistant job bring him into the path of Wallace (Matthew Maher), a former employee at one of the comic magazines Robert idolizes. With the singular goal of getting Wallace to mentor him,...
- 8/26/2022
- by Harper Lambert
- The Wrap
Miles Teller has signed on to star in and executive produce “The Gorge” for “The Black Phone” director Scott Derrickson.
The film, which has been described as a high-action, genre-bending love story, will see the “Top Gun: Maverick” star reteam with one of the blockbuster’s producers, Skydance Media.
Derrickson is coming off of the smash success of “The Black Phone,” which has raked in over 155 million at the global box office. He will direct from a spec script penned by “The Tomorrow War” writer Zach Dean.
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“The Gorge” is the latest addition to Skydance’s stacked live-action action feature slate, which also includes...
The film, which has been described as a high-action, genre-bending love story, will see the “Top Gun: Maverick” star reteam with one of the blockbuster’s producers, Skydance Media.
Derrickson is coming off of the smash success of “The Black Phone,” which has raked in over 155 million at the global box office. He will direct from a spec script penned by “The Tomorrow War” writer Zach Dean.
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David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Don Granger will produce for Skydance, alongside Crooked Highway’s Scott Derrickson, C. Robert Cargill, and Sherryl Clark. Dean, Adam Kolbrenner and Greg Goodman will also produce.
“The Gorge” is the latest addition to Skydance’s stacked live-action action feature slate, which also includes...
- 8/25/2022
- by Harper Lambert
- The Wrap
As the summer comes to a close, catch up on new releases and library titles that hit HBO Max this month.
A new documentary revealing archival footage of Princess Diana, a coming-of-age drama surrounding an Irish family in the 1960s and a cult classic about basketball and romance are only some of the notable films that made their debut on HBO Max in August.
This month also sees the release of a slew of A24 movies onto the streaming service, including Jenny Slate’s “Obvious Child” and Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley’s “The Spectacular Now.”
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“Ex Machina” enters HBO Max this month as a part of A24’s big collection release on the platform. The sci-fi award-winner follows a computer programmer, named Caleb, played by Domhnall Gleeson, who is chosen to evaluate...
A new documentary revealing archival footage of Princess Diana, a coming-of-age drama surrounding an Irish family in the 1960s and a cult classic about basketball and romance are only some of the notable films that made their debut on HBO Max in August.
This month also sees the release of a slew of A24 movies onto the streaming service, including Jenny Slate’s “Obvious Child” and Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley’s “The Spectacular Now.”
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The Best Movies on HBO Max Right Now “Ex Machina” (Available Aug. 1) “Ex Machina” (A24)
“Ex Machina” enters HBO Max this month as a part of A24’s big collection release on the platform. The sci-fi award-winner follows a computer programmer, named Caleb, played by Domhnall Gleeson, who is chosen to evaluate...
- 8/21/2022
- by Loree Seitz
- The Wrap
If you don’t build it, they won’t come. With no new major titles this week, audiences chose to stay home this weekend — and for the next two months, that could be our new normal. “Bullet Train” (Sony) dropped 55 percent in its second week, but led the top 10 with a gross of 13.4 million — the lowest figure for a #1 film in over six months. Similarly, the 65 million weekend total for all films is the worst showing since early February.
Over the last four months, when studios release major films theaters respond with encouraging results — sometime spectacular, in the case of “Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount). Five films passed 300 million domestic, similar to 2019 (although today’s higher ticket prices made it easier).
Grosses for the year to date are about two thirds of 2019 through the same date, but that result could prove to be the high water mark for some time — and...
Over the last four months, when studios release major films theaters respond with encouraging results — sometime spectacular, in the case of “Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount). Five films passed 300 million domestic, similar to 2019 (although today’s higher ticket prices made it easier).
Grosses for the year to date are about two thirds of 2019 through the same date, but that result could prove to be the high water mark for some time — and...
- 8/14/2022
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
James Ponsoldt is expecting this question. Why did the guy who made films like “Smashed,” “The Spectacular Now,” and “The End of the Tour” — dark, knowing dramas about messed-up adults, typically with substance abuse problems and a host of neuroses — turn his attention to “Summering,” a film about four tween girls in the waning days of their favorite season?
He’s got the answer in hand: He’s a parent of three kids, his wife Megan works in the public-school system, and this is the stuff he wants to share with his family.
But the real answer? It’s still a James Ponsoldt film. It’s not as dark as its predecessors, but the filmmaker is still using his craft to ask some very deep questions. “Summering” is, after all, about a group of girls who discover a very dead body and must grapple with what to do next.
“Those...
He’s got the answer in hand: He’s a parent of three kids, his wife Megan works in the public-school system, and this is the stuff he wants to share with his family.
But the real answer? It’s still a James Ponsoldt film. It’s not as dark as its predecessors, but the filmmaker is still using his craft to ask some very deep questions. “Summering” is, after all, about a group of girls who discover a very dead body and must grapple with what to do next.
“Those...
- 8/12/2022
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
If movies have taught us anything it’s that childhood is a magical time where, if you’re doing it right, you befriend space aliens, rescue orcas, inherit chocolate factories or play every sport imaginable with an omni-talented Olympian dog.
Or, if you’re more of the melancholic type, at least you find a dead body in the woods. That’s the bare minimum anyone can ask for.
James Ponsoldt’s “Summering” is a direct descendant of “Stand By Me,” films about youngsters peppered with wispy nostalgia, in which the innocence of their youth is challenged by a corpse tucked away where only children are likely to find it. But whereas Rob Reiner’s classic coming-of-age film romanticized a decades-bygone era, Ponsoldt finds the same magically complicated mash-up of naiveté and depth in a contemporary setting. Childhood, he seems to argue, is always magical and horrifying in equal measure, no...
Or, if you’re more of the melancholic type, at least you find a dead body in the woods. That’s the bare minimum anyone can ask for.
James Ponsoldt’s “Summering” is a direct descendant of “Stand By Me,” films about youngsters peppered with wispy nostalgia, in which the innocence of their youth is challenged by a corpse tucked away where only children are likely to find it. But whereas Rob Reiner’s classic coming-of-age film romanticized a decades-bygone era, Ponsoldt finds the same magically complicated mash-up of naiveté and depth in a contemporary setting. Childhood, he seems to argue, is always magical and horrifying in equal measure, no...
- 8/11/2022
- by William Bibbiani
- The Wrap
There’s a moment within the first few minutes of Summering — James Ponsoldt’s delicate, affectionate tribute to the wonder years (or more specifically, the seasonal wonder months) between childhood’s end and teenage riots — that captures the blurred, giddy adrenaline rush of youth in full bloom. Four girls are goofing around, hiding in bathtubs and scaring each other with masks. Someone’s mom shoos them all out of the house. And then the quartet begins to sprint across a front lawn in slow motion, screaming and giggling as they...
- 8/9/2022
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Chicago – Filmmaker James Ponsoldt has earned the moniker “veteran” in front of his name, after notable hits like “The Spectacular Now,” “The End of the Tour” and “The Circle” (with Tom Hanks). He’s back with a seasonal film called “Summering,” featuring four girls going through their own “Stand by Me” moment.
Ponsoldt’s latest film was co-written with Benjamin Percey, and it’s possibly his most romantic. It’s a quasi-reimagining of the “Stand By Me” story … but this time it’s a group of girl pre-teens that discover a dead body, and are celebrating their long grade school bond right before transitioning to middle school. Instead of going to the authorities regarding their find, they decide to investigate on their own, leading to the last adventure of their summer and the path to whatever is coming next. The cast includes Sarah Cooper, Megan Mullally, Ashley Madekwe and Lake Bell as their mothers.
Ponsoldt’s latest film was co-written with Benjamin Percey, and it’s possibly his most romantic. It’s a quasi-reimagining of the “Stand By Me” story … but this time it’s a group of girl pre-teens that discover a dead body, and are celebrating their long grade school bond right before transitioning to middle school. Instead of going to the authorities regarding their find, they decide to investigate on their own, leading to the last adventure of their summer and the path to whatever is coming next. The cast includes Sarah Cooper, Megan Mullally, Ashley Madekwe and Lake Bell as their mothers.
- 8/9/2022
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
And just like that, winter has come again. HBO Max’s list of new releases for August 2022 is highlighted by the return of the king. Or more accurately: the return of the queen … of the Seven Kingdoms.
Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon is set to premiere on HBO and HBO Max on Aug. 21, just over three years after Game of Thrones concluded in controversial fashion with “The Iron Throne.” This new series is a prequel, depicting the civil war known as the Dance of the Dragons from George R.R. Martin’s lore. When dragon fights dragon, the realm will be torn asunder. But the viewer will certainly delight in all the Targaryen action.
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Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon is set to premiere on HBO and HBO Max on Aug. 21, just over three years after Game of Thrones concluded in controversial fashion with “The Iron Throne.” This new series is a prequel, depicting the civil war known as the Dance of the Dragons from George R.R. Martin’s lore. When dragon fights dragon, the realm will be torn asunder. But the viewer will certainly delight in all the Targaryen action.
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- 8/1/2022
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
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