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
Measuring just 5ft 0 (152.4 cm), AnnaSophia Robb is much shorter than the average American woman. She wears a shoe size 5 (US), which translates to a UK size 2.5 or 3, a European size 35, and a Japanese size 21.
Anna Sophia Robb looks tiny standing next to Gherardo Felloni at the 37th Annual Footwear News Achievement Awards at Cipriani South Street on November 29, 2023, in New York City (Credit: Media Punch / INSTARimages)
AnnaSophia’s Perspective on Height and Perception
“Everyone always says that guys are intimidated by me,” she told Teen Vogue in 2013, “but I seriously doubt it. I mean, I’m five-foot-nothing!”
“I think I must make a stank face,” she joked. “I loved high school,” AnnaSophia added.
“Everyone always asks me if the other kids treated me differently because of my career, but they didn’t. If you act weird, people are going to treat you weird, but if you’re just yourself, people respond to that.
Anna Sophia Robb looks tiny standing next to Gherardo Felloni at the 37th Annual Footwear News Achievement Awards at Cipriani South Street on November 29, 2023, in New York City (Credit: Media Punch / INSTARimages)
AnnaSophia’s Perspective on Height and Perception
“Everyone always says that guys are intimidated by me,” she told Teen Vogue in 2013, “but I seriously doubt it. I mean, I’m five-foot-nothing!”
“I think I must make a stank face,” she joked. “I loved high school,” AnnaSophia added.
“Everyone always asks me if the other kids treated me differently because of my career, but they didn’t. If you act weird, people are going to treat you weird, but if you’re just yourself, people respond to that.
- 5/14/2024
- by Roselle Kwan Mariano
- Your Next Shoes
AnnaSophia Robb has been cast in a lead role of the NBC drama pilot “Grosse Pointe Garden Society,” Variety has learned.
NBC ordered the pilot back in February. The logline states, “Four members of a suburban garden club, all from different walks of life, get caught up in murder and mischief as they struggle to make their conventional lives bloom.”
Robb will star as Alice, described as “your favorite high school English teacher, a dreamer whose best dreams are crashing down on her. She’s a longtime member of the Grosse Pointe Garden Society.”
Robb’s recent credits include Season 1 of “Dr. Death” at Peacock as well as both “The Act” and “Little Fires Everywhere” at Hulu. Her other TV credits include “Mercy Street” and “The Carrie Diaries.” In features, she has starred in projects like “Lansky,” “Words on Bathroom Walls,” “Soul Surfer,” “The Way Way Back,” and “Bridge to Terabithia.
NBC ordered the pilot back in February. The logline states, “Four members of a suburban garden club, all from different walks of life, get caught up in murder and mischief as they struggle to make their conventional lives bloom.”
Robb will star as Alice, described as “your favorite high school English teacher, a dreamer whose best dreams are crashing down on her. She’s a longtime member of the Grosse Pointe Garden Society.”
Robb’s recent credits include Season 1 of “Dr. Death” at Peacock as well as both “The Act” and “Little Fires Everywhere” at Hulu. Her other TV credits include “Mercy Street” and “The Carrie Diaries.” In features, she has starred in projects like “Lansky,” “Words on Bathroom Walls,” “Soul Surfer,” “The Way Way Back,” and “Bridge to Terabithia.
- 4/8/2024
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Jim Rash is set to direct his script Miss You, Love You, a drama that will star Allison Janney and Andrew Rannells. Madison Wells, The Walsh Company and Nat Faxon will produce a film that will begin production next month in New Mexico. Gigi Pritzker, Kevin Walsh are producing with Rash.
In the film, Janney will play a woman whose husband has passed away. With a funeral to plan and grieving to be done, she reaches out to her estranged son. He refuses to come home, choosing instead to send his personal assistant to help make the arrangements. The widow is forced to process her grief in the presence of a complete stranger.
Oscar-winner Janney reunites with Faxon and Rash, Pritzker and Walsh after they teamed on The Way Way Back, the 2013 comedy that set a record at Sundance in 2013 with domestic and international sales deals totaling nearly $12M...
In the film, Janney will play a woman whose husband has passed away. With a funeral to plan and grieving to be done, she reaches out to her estranged son. He refuses to come home, choosing instead to send his personal assistant to help make the arrangements. The widow is forced to process her grief in the presence of a complete stranger.
Oscar-winner Janney reunites with Faxon and Rash, Pritzker and Walsh after they teamed on The Way Way Back, the 2013 comedy that set a record at Sundance in 2013 with domestic and international sales deals totaling nearly $12M...
- 1/18/2024
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Paul Walter Hauser as Dark and Jacob Tremblay as Orion – DreamWorks Animation © 2023
We’re just weeks away from getting to watch the brand new DreamWorks Animation movie that features a script written by Charlie Kauffman. In anticipation of its release, Netflix has confirmed the full cast lineup for Orion and the Dark plus released a new trailer and stills.
Announced last year at the Annecy Film Festival, this will mark DreamWorks Animation’s second major Netflix Original movie for the streamer following Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans from Guillermo del Toro.
Based on the book by Emma Yarlett, the movie comes from director Sean Charmatz and is about a young elementary school kid who is afraid of everything, including bees, the ocean, clowns, and countless other things. Amongst the biggest things he’s afraid of is the dark, which comes alive and whisks Orion away on an adventure.
Here’s...
We’re just weeks away from getting to watch the brand new DreamWorks Animation movie that features a script written by Charlie Kauffman. In anticipation of its release, Netflix has confirmed the full cast lineup for Orion and the Dark plus released a new trailer and stills.
Announced last year at the Annecy Film Festival, this will mark DreamWorks Animation’s second major Netflix Original movie for the streamer following Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans from Guillermo del Toro.
Based on the book by Emma Yarlett, the movie comes from director Sean Charmatz and is about a young elementary school kid who is afraid of everything, including bees, the ocean, clowns, and countless other things. Amongst the biggest things he’s afraid of is the dark, which comes alive and whisks Orion away on an adventure.
Here’s...
- 1/11/2024
- by Kasey Moore
- Whats-on-Netflix
In 2015, producer Kevin J. Walsh was clearing out a last-minute parking lot location for Manchester by the Sea’s most memorable scene, and just seven years later, he found himself on one of several battlefields that would define Ridley Scott’s latest historical epic, Napoleon.
Financed by Apple Original Films and distributed by Sony, the Joaquin Phoenix-led film just outperformed expectations with $32.7 million over the five-day Thanksgiving window, and Walsh believes that Napoleon’s production and distribution arrangement is the ideal way forward for streamers who want to make big-budget plays. With the possible exception of Netflix, the remaining streamers haven’t been able to justify the expense of streaming-exclusive blockbusters, but Napoleon has now established that streaming services and traditional studios can work together in mutually beneficial ways.
“We have two studios that are the best at what they do, and they’re working together. So, for us,...
Financed by Apple Original Films and distributed by Sony, the Joaquin Phoenix-led film just outperformed expectations with $32.7 million over the five-day Thanksgiving window, and Walsh believes that Napoleon’s production and distribution arrangement is the ideal way forward for streamers who want to make big-budget plays. With the possible exception of Netflix, the remaining streamers haven’t been able to justify the expense of streaming-exclusive blockbusters, but Napoleon has now established that streaming services and traditional studios can work together in mutually beneficial ways.
“We have two studios that are the best at what they do, and they’re working together. So, for us,...
- 11/29/2023
- by Brian Davids
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Boogie Nights: Exarchou Doses Summertime Sadness in Achy Melodrama
For anyone who’s ever wondered what life might be like for employees at any tourist trap destination, Greek director Sofia Exarchou offers up something rather disconcerting with her sophomore film, Animal. Sure, there are other films exemplifying the tight-knit bond which exists between these makeshift families in carnivalesque environments, but these usually exist on categorical extremes. For every tantalizing toxic cousin of Nightmare Alley, there’s the sun-dappled sentiment of Adventureland (2009) or The Way Way Back (2013). Exarchou instead paints a painful character portrait of less easily defined ennui in the inherent stagnation of seasonal employment, the kind enhanced in settings intended for adult entertainment, where boundaries are easily blurred, breeding despair for participants who eventually are diminished by their self-inflicted purgatory.…...
For anyone who’s ever wondered what life might be like for employees at any tourist trap destination, Greek director Sofia Exarchou offers up something rather disconcerting with her sophomore film, Animal. Sure, there are other films exemplifying the tight-knit bond which exists between these makeshift families in carnivalesque environments, but these usually exist on categorical extremes. For every tantalizing toxic cousin of Nightmare Alley, there’s the sun-dappled sentiment of Adventureland (2009) or The Way Way Back (2013). Exarchou instead paints a painful character portrait of less easily defined ennui in the inherent stagnation of seasonal employment, the kind enhanced in settings intended for adult entertainment, where boundaries are easily blurred, breeding despair for participants who eventually are diminished by their self-inflicted purgatory.…...
- 8/3/2023
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
It’s time to get the hot cocoa boiling and the holiday decorations up! It’s almost December and nearly every streaming service has consumers covered with both seasonal content and new shows to carry them into the new year. Amazon’s Prime Video service has a few new series debuting, including “Riches.” Starring Deborah Ayorinde, from “Them,” the series is described as “a high-stakes family drama about the exploits of the stylish, privileged, and super-successful Richards siblings vying for control over the family business.”
The streamer also brings actor John Krasinski back into the world of Tom Clancy with the third season of “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan.” This installment finds CIA officer Jack Ryan wrongly accused of treason and on the run from his own government as he races against the clock to stop a global catastrophe. The season hits December 21.
If you’re in the market for classic television,...
The streamer also brings actor John Krasinski back into the world of Tom Clancy with the third season of “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan.” This installment finds CIA officer Jack Ryan wrongly accused of treason and on the run from his own government as he races against the clock to stop a global catastrophe. The season hits December 21.
If you’re in the market for classic television,...
- 11/18/2022
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Academy Award winner Jim Rash (Bros) has signed on to star alongside Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum in Project Artemis — the high-profile Apple Original, to be directed by Greg Berlanti.
Specifics as to the film’s plot have thus far been kept under wraps, though we hear that it will be set against the space race of the 1960s.
While unconfirmed, sources say that Rash will play Lance, a fashionable, chic commercial director. Flamboyant and determined to create art, Lance is known for constantly going over budget on set, being incredibly opinionated and is perpetually un-hirable.
Apple acquired the hot package for upwards of 100M when it hit the market this past spring, as we told you first. Jason Bateman had at that point been set as director, with Johansson’s Avengers co-star Chris Evans tapped for Tatum’s role, though both have since departed — Bateman, due to creative differences,...
Specifics as to the film’s plot have thus far been kept under wraps, though we hear that it will be set against the space race of the 1960s.
While unconfirmed, sources say that Rash will play Lance, a fashionable, chic commercial director. Flamboyant and determined to create art, Lance is known for constantly going over budget on set, being incredibly opinionated and is perpetually un-hirable.
Apple acquired the hot package for upwards of 100M when it hit the market this past spring, as we told you first. Jason Bateman had at that point been set as director, with Johansson’s Avengers co-star Chris Evans tapped for Tatum’s role, though both have since departed — Bateman, due to creative differences,...
- 9/14/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
While best known as Michael Scott, “The Office’s” softhearted blockhead of a boss, Steve Carell has quietly carved out quite a resume in the oft-generic genre of father-son stories. For heart-tugging dramas “Beautiful Boy” and “Last Flag Flying,” he’s the heroic father, stopping at nothing to do right by his son. Carell makes an about-face in the 2013 indie “The Way Way Back” as the belittling step-father; a hostile intruder to his unwanted son (played by Liam James) and the film’s barely tolerated villain. Even as a mere figure of a father, Carell comes full circle in “Foxcatcher,” transforming into the torturous wrestling coach John E. du Pont, who assumes predatory dominance over the young athlete who lives on his estate.
Earning mugs engraved with “Best Dad” and “Worst Dad,” all within the last 10 years, is a feat unto itself, and proves the funnyman from “The 40-Year-Old Virgin...
Earning mugs engraved with “Best Dad” and “Worst Dad,” all within the last 10 years, is a feat unto itself, and proves the funnyman from “The 40-Year-Old Virgin...
- 8/22/2022
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
“Bros,” one of the first romantic comedies from a major studio to feature an almost entirely 2Slgbtqia+ cast, will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The film stars Billy Eichner of “Billy on the Street” fame. Eichner wrote the script for “Bros” with Nicholas Stoller, who also directs. Stoller also directed “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” and “Get Him to the Greek,” and, like those films, “Bros” is produced by Judd Apatow. Universal is distributing the movie, which centers on two gay men with commitment issues who find themselves gradually falling in love. Luke Macfarlane (“Killjoys”) plays the object of Eichner’s affection. In another milestone, Eichner is the first openly gay man to co-write and star in his own major studio film.
“Bros” opens in theaters on Sept. 30, 2022. Toronto runs from Sept. 8 through Sept. 18 and is looking to return in-person with a major Hollywood presence. Last year,...
The film stars Billy Eichner of “Billy on the Street” fame. Eichner wrote the script for “Bros” with Nicholas Stoller, who also directs. Stoller also directed “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” and “Get Him to the Greek,” and, like those films, “Bros” is produced by Judd Apatow. Universal is distributing the movie, which centers on two gay men with commitment issues who find themselves gradually falling in love. Luke Macfarlane (“Killjoys”) plays the object of Eichner’s affection. In another milestone, Eichner is the first openly gay man to co-write and star in his own major studio film.
“Bros” opens in theaters on Sept. 30, 2022. Toronto runs from Sept. 8 through Sept. 18 and is looking to return in-person with a major Hollywood presence. Last year,...
- 7/15/2022
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
What's summer all about?
It's about beaches, baseball, camping, road trips, amusement parks, treasure hunting, globetrotting to exotic locations, and sharing a pitcher of margaritas with friends.
These films and TV shows capture the essence of summer.
Blue Crush
Set in Hawaii, Blue Crush is about women surfers working to achieve the dream of surfing the famed North Shore.
Blue Crush balances the glamorous -- a pro-football player romances the lead character -- with the not-so-glamorous -- the heroines spend their days' training and working as hotel maids.
Most of all, it has plenty of surf action and waves -- those gigantic, gorgeous North Shore waves. You can stream Blue Crush on Redbox, Amazon Prime Video, or Tubi.
Burn Notice
Or you could travel to the other side of the United States with Burn Notice.
Michael Weston is a burned spy stranded in Miami. This means reconnaissance missions and fights go down in nightclubs,...
It's about beaches, baseball, camping, road trips, amusement parks, treasure hunting, globetrotting to exotic locations, and sharing a pitcher of margaritas with friends.
These films and TV shows capture the essence of summer.
Blue Crush
Set in Hawaii, Blue Crush is about women surfers working to achieve the dream of surfing the famed North Shore.
Blue Crush balances the glamorous -- a pro-football player romances the lead character -- with the not-so-glamorous -- the heroines spend their days' training and working as hotel maids.
Most of all, it has plenty of surf action and waves -- those gigantic, gorgeous North Shore waves. You can stream Blue Crush on Redbox, Amazon Prime Video, or Tubi.
Burn Notice
Or you could travel to the other side of the United States with Burn Notice.
Michael Weston is a burned spy stranded in Miami. This means reconnaissance missions and fights go down in nightclubs,...
- 7/12/2022
- by Becca Newton
- TVfanatic
Adam Sandler really, really loves basketball, and — in his post-“Meyerowitz Stories” era — he also seems to be interested in making good movies. At the very least, he no longer seems actively opposed to the idea. With “Hustle,” those two passions come together (again) in a grounded, affecting, and immaculately made dramedy that has far more in common with “Jerry Maguire” and “The Way Back” than it does any of the other Happy Madison productions on Netflix.
If it falls a bit short of those other movies by opting for easy lay-ups over more ambitious field goals, “Hustle” still drives to the net hard enough to seem like the second coming of Madison 23 Productions, the short-lived subsidiary that Sandler created for his more serious work (and then euthanized after “Reign Over Me” and “Funny People” both flopped).
It’s also the best film that LeBron James and Maverick Carter’s...
If it falls a bit short of those other movies by opting for easy lay-ups over more ambitious field goals, “Hustle” still drives to the net hard enough to seem like the second coming of Madison 23 Productions, the short-lived subsidiary that Sandler created for his more serious work (and then euthanized after “Reign Over Me” and “Funny People” both flopped).
It’s also the best film that LeBron James and Maverick Carter’s...
- 6/3/2022
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Erin Young’s recently published crime thriller The Fields is in the works for the small screen. Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories (Big Little Lies), Jennifer Todd Pictures and Endeavor Content have acquired the rights to the book to adapt into a television series, with Kate Brooke attached as writer/showrunner.
Young is the pseudonym of bestselling historical novelist, Robyn Young, and The Fields is her crime thriller debut.
Per the book’s description: The Fields starts with a body – a young woman found dead in an Iowa cornfield, on one of the few family farms still managing to compete with the giants of Big Agriculture. When Sergeant Riley Fisher, newly promoted to head of investigations for the Black Hawk County Sheriff’s Office, arrives on the scene, an already horrific crime becomes personal when she discovers the victim was a childhood friend,...
Young is the pseudonym of bestselling historical novelist, Robyn Young, and The Fields is her crime thriller debut.
Per the book’s description: The Fields starts with a body – a young woman found dead in an Iowa cornfield, on one of the few family farms still managing to compete with the giants of Big Agriculture. When Sergeant Riley Fisher, newly promoted to head of investigations for the Black Hawk County Sheriff’s Office, arrives on the scene, an already horrific crime becomes personal when she discovers the victim was a childhood friend,...
- 6/2/2022
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
John Aylward, the veteran character actor best known for his long stint on the hit medical drama ER, has died at the age of 75.
Aylward’s agent Mitchell Stubbs confirmed Aylward’s death to Deadline; while the cause of death was not revealed, Aylward died Monday in his native Seattle after a period of declining health.
“I was shocked. He was a wonderful actor and a phenomenal human being,” Stubbs told Deadline. “He was a dream client, a friend and a dream person.”
Aylward spent 12 seasons at ER’s County General hospital,...
Aylward’s agent Mitchell Stubbs confirmed Aylward’s death to Deadline; while the cause of death was not revealed, Aylward died Monday in his native Seattle after a period of declining health.
“I was shocked. He was a wonderful actor and a phenomenal human being,” Stubbs told Deadline. “He was a dream client, a friend and a dream person.”
Aylward spent 12 seasons at ER’s County General hospital,...
- 5/19/2022
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
John Aylward, the actor best known for his recurring roles in popular NBC dramas “ER” and “The West Wing,” died Monday in Seattle from natural causes, his agent Mitchell K. Stubbs confirmed to Variety. He was 75.
Born and raised in Seattle, Aylward graduated from the University of Washington’s school of drama in 1970. He got his start as a theater actor, founding Seattle’s Empty Space Theatre in 1973. He served as a regular in Seattle Repertory Theatre for 15 years.
After getting his start in television with small roles on television films — including “The Secret Life of John Chapman,” “Stamp of a Killer,” “Third Degree Burn,” “Child in the Night” and “With a Vengeance” — Aylward began working more frequently on television in the ’90s, starting with a recurring role on “Northern Exposure.” Other television shows he had notable recurring and guest spots on over the course of his career included “Grace Under Fire,...
Born and raised in Seattle, Aylward graduated from the University of Washington’s school of drama in 1970. He got his start as a theater actor, founding Seattle’s Empty Space Theatre in 1973. He served as a regular in Seattle Repertory Theatre for 15 years.
After getting his start in television with small roles on television films — including “The Secret Life of John Chapman,” “Stamp of a Killer,” “Third Degree Burn,” “Child in the Night” and “With a Vengeance” — Aylward began working more frequently on television in the ’90s, starting with a recurring role on “Northern Exposure.” Other television shows he had notable recurring and guest spots on over the course of his career included “Grace Under Fire,...
- 5/19/2022
- by Wilson Chapman
- Variety Film + TV
John Aylward, an actor best known for his portrayals of Dr. Donald Anspaugh on ER and former DNC chairman Barry Goodwin on The West Wing, died this week at his home in Seattle. He was 75.
Aylward’s death overnight Monday was confirmed by his wife Mary Fields to his longtime agent, Mitchell K. Stubbs. He had been in declining health, according to Fields.
“I was shocked. He was a wonderful actor and a phenomenal human being,” Stubbs told Deadline. “He was a dream client, a friend and a dream person.”
Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2022: Photo Gallery
Born and raised in Seattle, Aylward appeared in dozens of television series over the course of his more than four-decade career, but he is perhaps best remembered for his role as Dr. Donald Anspaugh in ER. Aylward joined the NBC series in the third season in the heavily recurring role and appeared in more than 70 episodes over 12 years.
Aylward’s death overnight Monday was confirmed by his wife Mary Fields to his longtime agent, Mitchell K. Stubbs. He had been in declining health, according to Fields.
“I was shocked. He was a wonderful actor and a phenomenal human being,” Stubbs told Deadline. “He was a dream client, a friend and a dream person.”
Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2022: Photo Gallery
Born and raised in Seattle, Aylward appeared in dozens of television series over the course of his more than four-decade career, but he is perhaps best remembered for his role as Dr. Donald Anspaugh in ER. Aylward joined the NBC series in the third season in the heavily recurring role and appeared in more than 70 episodes over 12 years.
- 5/19/2022
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Ben Affleck has been having quite the career rejuvenation in front of the camera as of late, with admirable turns in acclaimed films like "The Last Duel," "The Way Back," and "The Tender Bar." But just because it's been a handful of years since he's stepped behind the camera, let us not forget that Affleck has established himself as quite the impressive director. His second feature effort was the 2010 heist flick "The Town," which also saw him playing the lead role of Doug MacRay, in addition to his duties as director and co-writer.
Time has been extremely kind to "The Town,"...
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- 4/28/2022
- by Ryan Scott
- Slash Film
It’s been six years since Ben Affleck last stepped behind the camera––in the interim giving some career acting highlights in The Way Back, The Last Duel, and Deep Water––and now he’s set his next directorial effort, reuniting once again with Matt Damon.
Deadline reports Affleck will direct and star alongside Damon in a currently untitled film surrounding the real-life story of Nike’s quest in signing Michael Jordan. Backed by Amazon Studios, Skydance Sports and Mandalay Pictures, the script comes from Alex Convery and it made the 2021 Black List under the title of Air Jordan. Damon and Affleck, who reunited for The Last Duel some two decades after Good Will Hunting, will take another pass on the script.
In the film, Damon will play sports marketer Sonny Vaccaro, whose signing of Jordan in the mid-80s was, of course, a major coup for the company and forever changed their global reach.
Deadline reports Affleck will direct and star alongside Damon in a currently untitled film surrounding the real-life story of Nike’s quest in signing Michael Jordan. Backed by Amazon Studios, Skydance Sports and Mandalay Pictures, the script comes from Alex Convery and it made the 2021 Black List under the title of Air Jordan. Damon and Affleck, who reunited for The Last Duel some two decades after Good Will Hunting, will take another pass on the script.
In the film, Damon will play sports marketer Sonny Vaccaro, whose signing of Jordan in the mid-80s was, of course, a major coup for the company and forever changed their global reach.
- 4/20/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Chicago – The Oscars are this upcoming Sunday, March 27th, and one of the great performances of the year – nominated for Best Actress – is Jessica Chastain as Tammy Faye Bakker in “The Eyes of Tammy Faye.” The producer of the film is Gigi Pritzker.
Jessica Chastain in ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’
Photo credit: Searchlight Pictures
“The Eyes of Tammy Faye” is remarkable because of Chastain, who portrays the infamous televangelist from college age to advanced middle age (with the use of prosthetics). The film is a balanced and nuanced story of Tammy Faye, making significant commentary on the state of America and religion during her reign of influence. The ending of the film is an artistic use of cinema – by director Michael Sholwalter – and Jessica Chastain simply kills it.
The veteran producer of the “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” is Gigi Pritzker, who previously had guided Oscar nominated films like...
Jessica Chastain in ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’
Photo credit: Searchlight Pictures
“The Eyes of Tammy Faye” is remarkable because of Chastain, who portrays the infamous televangelist from college age to advanced middle age (with the use of prosthetics). The film is a balanced and nuanced story of Tammy Faye, making significant commentary on the state of America and religion during her reign of influence. The ending of the film is an artistic use of cinema – by director Michael Sholwalter – and Jessica Chastain simply kills it.
The veteran producer of the “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” is Gigi Pritzker, who previously had guided Oscar nominated films like...
- 3/23/2022
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Exclusive: Glynn Turman (Women of the Movement), Bob Balaban (The French Dispatch), Ron Funches (Undateable) and Jimmy O. Yang (Space Force) are the latest additions to the cast of the upcoming film 80 for Brady, from Paramount Pictures and Endeavor Content. They join an ensemble that includes 7-time Super Bowl Champion Tom Brady, as well as Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno, Sally Field and Sara Gilbert, as previously announced.
The film is inspired by the true story of four best friends and New England Patriots fans who take a life-changing trip to the 2017 Super Bowl Li to see their hero Tom Brady play, and the chaos that ensues as they navigate the wilds of the biggest sporting event in the country. Details with regard to the characters the newest additions to the cast will be playing have not been disclosed.
Kyle Marvin, who co-wrote and starred in Sony Pictures Classics’ The Climb,...
The film is inspired by the true story of four best friends and New England Patriots fans who take a life-changing trip to the 2017 Super Bowl Li to see their hero Tom Brady play, and the chaos that ensues as they navigate the wilds of the biggest sporting event in the country. Details with regard to the characters the newest additions to the cast will be playing have not been disclosed.
Kyle Marvin, who co-wrote and starred in Sony Pictures Classics’ The Climb,...
- 3/17/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Contains spoilers for Pieces of Her episodes one to four
Netflix’s thriller Pieces of Her is based on a novel by the aptly named best selling author Karin Slaughter. Though it’s set in America, the whole of the series was shot in Australia with the majority of filming taking place in 2021, and many of the cast are Antipodeans and Brits as well as Americans.
It’s a twisty tale of a mother who carries out an act of bravery which suddenly exposes her to a world she had long since left behind, and a daughter who discovers she really doesn’t know her mum at all. Pay attention! But in case you’re distracted by the niggling sense of ‘where do a recognise them from?’ we’re here to remind you.
Pieces of Her. Toni Collette as Laura Oliver in episode 105 of Pieces of Her. Cr. Mark Rogers...
Netflix’s thriller Pieces of Her is based on a novel by the aptly named best selling author Karin Slaughter. Though it’s set in America, the whole of the series was shot in Australia with the majority of filming taking place in 2021, and many of the cast are Antipodeans and Brits as well as Americans.
It’s a twisty tale of a mother who carries out an act of bravery which suddenly exposes her to a world she had long since left behind, and a daughter who discovers she really doesn’t know her mum at all. Pay attention! But in case you’re distracted by the niggling sense of ‘where do a recognise them from?’ we’re here to remind you.
Pieces of Her. Toni Collette as Laura Oliver in episode 105 of Pieces of Her. Cr. Mark Rogers...
- 3/6/2022
- by Rosie Fletcher
- Den of Geek
Exclusive: Lawrence Gilliard Jr., Sam Trammell, Erica Tazel, Matthew Glave and Al Sapienza are the latest additions to the cast of George Tillman Jr.’s untitled George Foreman biopic for Sony Pictures and Affirm Films.
They join an ensemble led by Khris Davis that also includes Sullivan Jones, Forest Whitaker, Jasmine Mathews, Sonja Sohn, John Magaro and Shein Mompremier, as previously announced.
Tillman Jr.’s latest will follow the remarkable life and times of Foreman (Davis), from Olympic Gold medalist to World Heavyweight champion, the Rumble in the Jungle fight with Muhammad Ali in Zaire, to finding his faith, retiring, and becoming a preacher. When financial hardship hits his family and church, he steps back in the ring and regains the championship...
They join an ensemble led by Khris Davis that also includes Sullivan Jones, Forest Whitaker, Jasmine Mathews, Sonja Sohn, John Magaro and Shein Mompremier, as previously announced.
Tillman Jr.’s latest will follow the remarkable life and times of Foreman (Davis), from Olympic Gold medalist to World Heavyweight champion, the Rumble in the Jungle fight with Muhammad Ali in Zaire, to finding his faith, retiring, and becoming a preacher. When financial hardship hits his family and church, he steps back in the ring and regains the championship...
- 2/28/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
With so many options available to prospective viewers at a given moment – everything from weekly episodes to binge-watches to even memes on social media – how do some of the most celebrated writers in Hollywood consider the audience when sitting down to write a script? It depends, say the writers on our “Meet the Experts” Writers Guild Award nominees panel – including Josh Gondelman from “Desus & Mero,” Brad Ingelsby from “Mare of Easttown,” Brett Goldstein from “Ted Lasso,” Little Marvin from “Them” and Paul Simms from “What We Do in the Shadows.”
Watch the lively panel roundtable discussion above. Click on each name above to watch an individual interview with that person.
“We think about the show within the framework of late night. That’s how a lot of people watch it,” Gondelman says. “But I think it’s also fun to create these [viral] moments. And we have a really wonderful...
Watch the lively panel roundtable discussion above. Click on each name above to watch an individual interview with that person.
“We think about the show within the framework of late night. That’s how a lot of people watch it,” Gondelman says. “But I think it’s also fun to create these [viral] moments. And we have a really wonderful...
- 2/2/2022
- by Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
Few actors have done as much to reinvent their acting personas over the last two years as Ben Affleck. After scoring some of the best reviews of his career for 2020’s “The Way Back” – a performance that stayed on the fringe of last year’s awards conversation thanks to his Critics Choice Award nomination in Best Actor – Affleck backed up the praise with lauded supporting work in 2021 features “The Last Duel” and “The Tender Bar.” The result of his good work – and some very well-timed press coverage this year – has Affleck trending toward his first-ever Oscar nomination for acting following wins as a screenwriter (for “Good Will Hunting”) and producer (for “Argo”). He is currently in ninth place in the Gold Derby odds in what is a wide-open Best Supporting Actor race.
Those rooting for Affleck as Oscar voting opened on January 27 are not without standing. Affleck and his candidacy...
Those rooting for Affleck as Oscar voting opened on January 27 are not without standing. Affleck and his candidacy...
- 1/28/2022
- by Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
After spending the past five years as president of Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Productions, Kevin Walsh is leaving for a multi-year deal with Apple TV+ to produce film and television for the streamer.
Christening his producing shingle The Walsh Company, Walsh will bring in and set up projects of his own, while helping package product already at Apple, where film is run by head of film Matt Dentler and Apple TV+ chiefs Zack Van Amburg & Jamie Erlicht. After getting an Oscar nomination for producing Manchester By The Sea, Walsh joined Scott and oversaw worldwide development and production of Scott Free’s film group. Walsh produced over a dozen films in that time, including most recently House of Gucci (alongside Giannina Scott), The Last Duel, All the Money in the World, Death on the Nile, Naked Singularity, Jungleland, Earthquake Bird, Our Friend, American Woman and Zoe.
Walsh will continue his...
Christening his producing shingle The Walsh Company, Walsh will bring in and set up projects of his own, while helping package product already at Apple, where film is run by head of film Matt Dentler and Apple TV+ chiefs Zack Van Amburg & Jamie Erlicht. After getting an Oscar nomination for producing Manchester By The Sea, Walsh joined Scott and oversaw worldwide development and production of Scott Free’s film group. Walsh produced over a dozen films in that time, including most recently House of Gucci (alongside Giannina Scott), The Last Duel, All the Money in the World, Death on the Nile, Naked Singularity, Jungleland, Earthquake Bird, Our Friend, American Woman and Zoe.
Walsh will continue his...
- 1/18/2022
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Nearly 3,500 people predicted the SAG Awards film nominations at Gold Derby, and Ryan Lapierre came out on top with an eye-popping 80% accuracy score. (View the leaderboard to see what he got right and wrong.) Since this user is eligible for Gold Derby prizes, he’ll receive a $100 Amazon gift card for winning our contest. Lapierre was the only person to correctly pick 20 of the 25 nominees on the film side, with his proudest accomplishment being going five-for-five in the ensemble cast category: “Belfast,” “Coda,” “Don’t Look Up,” “King Richard” and “House of Gucci.” Those first four nominees weren’t surprises, but “House of Gucci” was way down in ninth place in our racetrack odds, so what made Lapierre predict it?
“Going big on ‘House of Gucci’ [helped] put my score over the edge,” Lapierre reveals to Gold Derby. “‘House of Gucci’ is an audience favorite, and its box office performance proved that it was watched by many.
“Going big on ‘House of Gucci’ [helped] put my score over the edge,” Lapierre reveals to Gold Derby. “‘House of Gucci’ is an audience favorite, and its box office performance proved that it was watched by many.
- 1/15/2022
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
Video Version of this Article Photo: Ben Affleck Ben Affleck is undoubtedly a legend in Hollywood and has collected over 70 awards for his film and television producing, directing, and acting since the beginning of his acting career. Acting was always an interest of Ben Affleck’s from the very young age of seven he starred in a family friend’s independent film ‘The Dark End of the Street’ in 1981. By age eight, he was already being featured in a television show called ‘The Voyage of the Mimi.’ He continued to be featured in a variety of television shows growing up and really has never stopped since then. Ben Affleck Ben Affleck has received over 70 award wins and over 100 award nominations since the beginning of his career. Though his acting has always impressed fans, he has also continued to impress viewers and fans with his directing and producing talents. More recently,...
- 1/4/2022
- by Chelsea Black
- Hollywood Insider - Substance & Meaningful Entertainment
Class is in session as the creator and cast of the Netflix comedy series “The Chair” joins Gold Derby for a special spotlight roundtable discussion. The panel will include showrunner Amanda Peet, series star and executive producer Sandra Oh and actors Bob Balaban, Jay Duplass, Nana Mensah and Holland Taylor. Watch their 30-minute chat with contributing editor Tony Ruiz.
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“The Chair” follows Professor Ji-Yoon Kim (Oh), an English professor at a prestigious university who is named the chair of her department. Ji-Yoon must navigate her role as the the first woman chair of the department while trying to manage her own personal life as well as the egos and idiosyncrasies of her colleagues.
Oh is a 12-time Emmy nominee who won both...
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“The Chair” follows Professor Ji-Yoon Kim (Oh), an English professor at a prestigious university who is named the chair of her department. Ji-Yoon must navigate her role as the the first woman chair of the department while trying to manage her own personal life as well as the egos and idiosyncrasies of her colleagues.
Oh is a 12-time Emmy nominee who won both...
- 11/24/2021
- by Tony Ruiz and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
As cinematographer Eduard Grau was seeking his next project after “The Way Back,” he wanted to work with a director whose vision was to elevate the material into something intellectually profound.
Actor Rebecca Hall, making her directing debut with “Passing,” proved to be the ideal partner. “She was already going in that direction, and focused on making a movie with visually striking poetry,” Grau says.
Hall decided the adaptation of Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel would be shot in black and white. At the heart of the story are two Black women, Irene (Tessa Thompson) and Clare (Ruth Negga), who can “pass” as white women but choose to live on opposing sides of the color line. With colorism as a theme, alongside sexism, race, class and gender, Hall gravitated to monochrome — in particular, to remove the idea of complexion and give greater visual freedom to the storytelling.
Hall and Grau looked...
Actor Rebecca Hall, making her directing debut with “Passing,” proved to be the ideal partner. “She was already going in that direction, and focused on making a movie with visually striking poetry,” Grau says.
Hall decided the adaptation of Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel would be shot in black and white. At the heart of the story are two Black women, Irene (Tessa Thompson) and Clare (Ruth Negga), who can “pass” as white women but choose to live on opposing sides of the color line. With colorism as a theme, alongside sexism, race, class and gender, Hall gravitated to monochrome — in particular, to remove the idea of complexion and give greater visual freedom to the storytelling.
Hall and Grau looked...
- 10/29/2021
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
The Geanco Foundation will hold its annual Hollywood fundraiser on Friday, October 29 at The 1 Hotel to rally support for vulnerable women and children in Nigeria.
Expected guests include actor, comedian & podcaster Whitney Cummings, Dania Ramirez (Netflix’s Sweet Tooth), Denzel Whitaker (Black Panther), Jimmy Akingbola, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Tehmina Sunny, Will Ropp (The Way Back), Joshua Uduma (Little America), director & Oscar-nominated writer Billy Ray, Oscar- and Emmy-winning producer Mark Johnson, and legendary Nigerian actress Omotola Jalade Ekeinde.
Oscar nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor, Golden Globe nominee David Oyelowo, and B.J. Novak serve as Honorary Gala Chairs. Previous Gala Honorees include Charlize Theron, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Forest Whitaker. Sponsors include Showtime Networks, Netflix, the Zegar Family Fund, Latham & Watkins Llp, Somesuch, the Archibong Family, Star Beer USA, Lolea Sangria and Graphic Design Partner Misfit.
Gala proceeds will support Geanco’s David Oyelowo Leadership Scholarship for Girls, which provides tuition, healthcare, and social & psychological support...
Expected guests include actor, comedian & podcaster Whitney Cummings, Dania Ramirez (Netflix’s Sweet Tooth), Denzel Whitaker (Black Panther), Jimmy Akingbola, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Tehmina Sunny, Will Ropp (The Way Back), Joshua Uduma (Little America), director & Oscar-nominated writer Billy Ray, Oscar- and Emmy-winning producer Mark Johnson, and legendary Nigerian actress Omotola Jalade Ekeinde.
Oscar nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor, Golden Globe nominee David Oyelowo, and B.J. Novak serve as Honorary Gala Chairs. Previous Gala Honorees include Charlize Theron, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Forest Whitaker. Sponsors include Showtime Networks, Netflix, the Zegar Family Fund, Latham & Watkins Llp, Somesuch, the Archibong Family, Star Beer USA, Lolea Sangria and Graphic Design Partner Misfit.
Gala proceeds will support Geanco’s David Oyelowo Leadership Scholarship for Girls, which provides tuition, healthcare, and social & psychological support...
- 10/25/2021
- Look to the Stars
Exclusive: Patton Oswalt (A.P. Bio), Nat Faxon (The Way Way Back), Erinn Hayes (Childrens Hospital), Patrick Walker (The Resident), Carlos Valdes (The Flash) and Raphael Sbarge (Once Upon a Time) are set for heavily recurring roles opposite Julia Roberts and Sean Penn in Starz’s Watergate drama Gaslit. Also joining in recurring roles are Anne Dudek (House), Chris Conner (Altered Carbon), Brian Geraghty (The Hurt Locker), Nelson Franklin (Veep), Reed Diamond (Moneyball), Johnny Berchtold (The Wilds), Adam Ray (The Heat) and Billy Smith (Sully).
Based on the first season of the Slate podcast Slow Burn, Gaslit is a modern take on Watergate that focuses on the untold stories and forgotten characters of the scandal – from Nixon’s bumbling, opportunistic subordinates to the deranged zealots aiding and abetting their crimes to the tragic whistleblowers who would eventually bring the whole rotten enterprise crashing down.
The story will center on Martha Mitchell...
Based on the first season of the Slate podcast Slow Burn, Gaslit is a modern take on Watergate that focuses on the untold stories and forgotten characters of the scandal – from Nixon’s bumbling, opportunistic subordinates to the deranged zealots aiding and abetting their crimes to the tragic whistleblowers who would eventually bring the whole rotten enterprise crashing down.
The story will center on Martha Mitchell...
- 10/15/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
The last time George Clooney and Ben Affleck worked together on a project, the result was “Argo.” It won them both Oscars as producers when the 2012 drama steamrolled to a Best Picture victory at the 85th annual Academy Awards. But now, nine years, the two Hollywood icons have teamed up on something new, and with a new dynamic: an adaptation of the best-selling memoir “The Tender Bar,” in which Affleck stars and Clooney directs.
“It’s been a long few years and it’s been pretty divisive and pretty mean-spirited, in general, for all of us. I’ve been part of it; I’ve been angry,” Clooney said at a special screening of the Amazon Studios release in New York this week. “This felt kind and gentle, and I was ready to do something like that and I felt like maybe some people would be willing and ready to see...
“It’s been a long few years and it’s been pretty divisive and pretty mean-spirited, in general, for all of us. I’ve been part of it; I’ve been angry,” Clooney said at a special screening of the Amazon Studios release in New York this week. “This felt kind and gentle, and I was ready to do something like that and I felt like maybe some people would be willing and ready to see...
- 10/14/2021
- by Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
Exclusive: The Purge franchise architect James DeMonaco has crafted a personal film, which is an ode to cinema, based in his hometown of Staten Island, entitled This Is the Night and the Blumhouse release has a one-week theatrical run starting this Friday, Sept. 17 at Angelika’s Village East in New York City before hitting PVOD on Sept. 21 via Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.
“I conceived this film as a love-letter to cinema. This is the Night is a passion project I’ve been waiting to make. A story based in my hometown of Staten Island, the film serves as a PSA: Movies bring us–people, families–together. There’s no time like the present to celebrate movies and how they inspire us,” DeMonaco tells Deadline.
“James has a real knack for prescient storytelling, and working with him on this picture – which is such a departure from our usual type of collaborations...
“I conceived this film as a love-letter to cinema. This is the Night is a passion project I’ve been waiting to make. A story based in my hometown of Staten Island, the film serves as a PSA: Movies bring us–people, families–together. There’s no time like the present to celebrate movies and how they inspire us,” DeMonaco tells Deadline.
“James has a real knack for prescient storytelling, and working with him on this picture – which is such a departure from our usual type of collaborations...
- 9/13/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Actress-comedian Leslie Jones is coming on board HBO Max’s pirate comedy Our Flag Means Death.
The SNL and Ghostbusters actress will be a recurring guest star on the series, which stars Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok) as a pampered aristocrat who abandoned his life of privilege to become a pirate.
In addition, actor Nat Faxon (The Way Way Back) has also been added to the cast of the series.
Previously announced cast members include Ewen Bremmer, David Fane, Nathan Foad, Joel Fry, Samson Kayo, Guz Khan, Rory Kinnear, Matt Maher, Kristian Nairn, Con O’Neill and Vico Ortiz. The project is from series creator and showrunner ...
The SNL and Ghostbusters actress will be a recurring guest star on the series, which stars Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok) as a pampered aristocrat who abandoned his life of privilege to become a pirate.
In addition, actor Nat Faxon (The Way Way Back) has also been added to the cast of the series.
Previously announced cast members include Ewen Bremmer, David Fane, Nathan Foad, Joel Fry, Samson Kayo, Guz Khan, Rory Kinnear, Matt Maher, Kristian Nairn, Con O’Neill and Vico Ortiz. The project is from series creator and showrunner ...
Actress-comedian Leslie Jones is coming on board HBO Max’s pirate comedy Our Flag Means Death.
The SNL and Ghostbusters actress will be a recurring guest star on the series, which stars Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok) as a pampered aristocrat who abandoned his life of privilege to become a pirate.
In addition, actor Nat Faxon (The Way Way Back) has also been added to the cast of the series.
Previously announced cast members include Ewen Bremmer, David Fane, Nathan Foad, Joel Fry, Samson Kayo, Guz Khan, Rory Kinnear, Matt Maher, Kristian Nairn, Con O’Neill and Vico Ortiz. The project is from series creator and showrunner ...
The SNL and Ghostbusters actress will be a recurring guest star on the series, which stars Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok) as a pampered aristocrat who abandoned his life of privilege to become a pirate.
In addition, actor Nat Faxon (The Way Way Back) has also been added to the cast of the series.
Previously announced cast members include Ewen Bremmer, David Fane, Nathan Foad, Joel Fry, Samson Kayo, Guz Khan, Rory Kinnear, Matt Maher, Kristian Nairn, Con O’Neill and Vico Ortiz. The project is from series creator and showrunner ...
Is it possible to stand out and disappear at the same time? Matt Damon makes a convincing case study in Stillwater. As roughneck Bill Baker, he wears the signifiers of a blue-collar Oklahoman—a thick goatee, a camo-colored baseball cap, an eagle-clutched skull tattoo, a sturdy pair of jeans. He strides with a cowboy’s gait and talks in muttery, southern tones. After a long day of working construction, cleaning up houses wrecked by tornadoes, he chews on a cigarette and pulls his pickup into the local Sonic drive-thru. At home, he says a small prayer, quietly eats his hot dog, and falls asleep on the couch.
It’s a transformation—in look and presence—that occurs so immediately and comprehensively that it seems like an optical illusion. At first glance, he comes across as a Middle America cosplayer, treading close to the edge of parody. But the intrigue of...
It’s a transformation—in look and presence—that occurs so immediately and comprehensively that it seems like an optical illusion. At first glance, he comes across as a Middle America cosplayer, treading close to the edge of parody. But the intrigue of...
- 7/27/2021
- by Jake Kring-Schreifels
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Al Madrigal is expanding his relationship with CBS Studios. The multi-hyphenate writer, producer and actor has signed a multi-year overall deal with the Studio to develop new series for broadcast, cable and streaming services.
Madrigal is currently co-writing, producing, and starring in Guerrillas, a CBS Studios-produced single-camera comedy from Madrigal and Jenny Snyder Urman’s Sutton Street Productions in development at ABC. The series revolves around a lonely efficiency expert (Madrigal) for an oil company who gets kidnapped in South America and ends up working for a disorganized group of guerrilla soldiers to earn back his freedom.
“We are delighted to make our relationship with Al official,” said Kate Adler, EVP Comedy Development, CBS Studios. “We have been fans of his comedy for years. Al is an extraordinary talent both behind and in front of the camera. We are convinced there is nothing he can’t do…aside from speak proficient Spanish.
Madrigal is currently co-writing, producing, and starring in Guerrillas, a CBS Studios-produced single-camera comedy from Madrigal and Jenny Snyder Urman’s Sutton Street Productions in development at ABC. The series revolves around a lonely efficiency expert (Madrigal) for an oil company who gets kidnapped in South America and ends up working for a disorganized group of guerrilla soldiers to earn back his freedom.
“We are delighted to make our relationship with Al official,” said Kate Adler, EVP Comedy Development, CBS Studios. “We have been fans of his comedy for years. Al is an extraordinary talent both behind and in front of the camera. We are convinced there is nothing he can’t do…aside from speak proficient Spanish.
- 7/19/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
To celebrate the release of Lansky, which opens in select cinemas and on-demand in the US today, we sat down with AnnaSophia Robb to discuss her role in the film and reminisce about some of her previous films.
In the film, Robb plays Anna Lansky, wife to renowned gangster Meyer Lansky (played by John Magaro in flashbacks and Harvey Keitel in the “present day), who after meeting him at a bar, over the years begins to piece together his “other life” outside of his family. Robb, who has been acting for nearly two decades, talks to us about the role, the challenges of playing a real-life person and mother, and the challenges Anna had to face in her real-life, both mental and physical.
During the chat, we could not ask her about her role in The Way, Way Back and the impact the film continues to have on audiences – not...
In the film, Robb plays Anna Lansky, wife to renowned gangster Meyer Lansky (played by John Magaro in flashbacks and Harvey Keitel in the “present day), who after meeting him at a bar, over the years begins to piece together his “other life” outside of his family. Robb, who has been acting for nearly two decades, talks to us about the role, the challenges of playing a real-life person and mother, and the challenges Anna had to face in her real-life, both mental and physical.
During the chat, we could not ask her about her role in The Way, Way Back and the impact the film continues to have on audiences – not...
- 6/25/2021
- by Scott Davis
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
“The White House Plumbers” series at HBO is rounding out its main cast.
Kiernan Shipka, Ike Barinholtz, Yul Vazquez, David Krumholtz, Rich Sommer, Kim Coates, and Liam James have all been cast in the series. They join previously announced cast members Woody Harrelson, Justin Theroux, Domnhall Gleason, and Lena Headey. The series is currently in production.
The five-episode series tells the story of how President Nixon’s own political saboteurs and Watergate masterminds, E. Howard Hunt (Harrelson) and G. Gordon Liddy (Theroux), accidentally toppled the Presidency they were zealously trying to protect. The book is based in part on public records and the book ”Integrity” by Egil “Bud” Krogh and Matthew Krogh.
Shipka will star as Kevan Hunt, the president of the Smith College Republicans and the golden child of the Hunt family.
Barinholtz will play as Jeb Magruder, deputy head of the Committee to Re-Elect President Nixon, a glad-handing...
Kiernan Shipka, Ike Barinholtz, Yul Vazquez, David Krumholtz, Rich Sommer, Kim Coates, and Liam James have all been cast in the series. They join previously announced cast members Woody Harrelson, Justin Theroux, Domnhall Gleason, and Lena Headey. The series is currently in production.
The five-episode series tells the story of how President Nixon’s own political saboteurs and Watergate masterminds, E. Howard Hunt (Harrelson) and G. Gordon Liddy (Theroux), accidentally toppled the Presidency they were zealously trying to protect. The book is based in part on public records and the book ”Integrity” by Egil “Bud” Krogh and Matthew Krogh.
Shipka will star as Kevan Hunt, the president of the Smith College Republicans and the golden child of the Hunt family.
Barinholtz will play as Jeb Magruder, deputy head of the Committee to Re-Elect President Nixon, a glad-handing...
- 5/12/2021
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Two-time Primetime Emmy winner Maya Rudolph, Yvette Nicole Brown and Jayma Mays are boarding Disenchanted, the Disney+ Enchanted sequel starring Amy Adams, Idina Menzel and James Marsden
Disney Studios’ President of Production Sean Bailey announced the sequel at Disney Investor Day back in December. Adams, Menzel and Marsden are reprising their respective roles of Giselle, Nancy and Prince Edward from the original film, with composer Alan Menken also returning. He said during a Jlgb Virtual livestream that Marsden and Menzel would be returning for Disenchanted.
The 2007 live-action movie was a satire on Disney animated princess musicals, a fish-out-of-water tale about a cartoon princess who is submerged in modern-day New York City. I hear Rudolph will play a villain in the sequel with Brown and Mays also potentially portraying evil as well.
Adam Shankman is directing for a production start later this spring. Producers are Barry Josephson, Adams, and Barry Sonnenfeld.
Disney Studios’ President of Production Sean Bailey announced the sequel at Disney Investor Day back in December. Adams, Menzel and Marsden are reprising their respective roles of Giselle, Nancy and Prince Edward from the original film, with composer Alan Menken also returning. He said during a Jlgb Virtual livestream that Marsden and Menzel would be returning for Disenchanted.
The 2007 live-action movie was a satire on Disney animated princess musicals, a fish-out-of-water tale about a cartoon princess who is submerged in modern-day New York City. I hear Rudolph will play a villain in the sequel with Brown and Mays also potentially portraying evil as well.
Adam Shankman is directing for a production start later this spring. Producers are Barry Josephson, Adams, and Barry Sonnenfeld.
- 4/26/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Maya Rudolph will star on a new comedy series at Apple TV+ from Alan Yang and Matt Hubbard, the streaming service said Thursday.
Per Apple, the untitled half-hour show, which has received a straight-to-series order, will follow “SNL” alum Rudolph’s character, Molly, “a woman whose seemingly perfect life is upended after her husband leaves her with nothing but 87 billion dollars.”
The comedy is created and written by Yang and Hubbard, who will executive produce the show alongside Rudolph through her production company, Animal Pictures, with partners Natasha Lyonne and Danielle Renfrew Behrens also executive producing. Dave Becky of 3 Arts will executive produce as well.
The series hails from Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.
This marks the second collaboration between Apple TV+ and Yang, following the anthology series “Little America.” The project would also join a growing lineup of comedy series at Apple, including the much-beloved and...
Per Apple, the untitled half-hour show, which has received a straight-to-series order, will follow “SNL” alum Rudolph’s character, Molly, “a woman whose seemingly perfect life is upended after her husband leaves her with nothing but 87 billion dollars.”
The comedy is created and written by Yang and Hubbard, who will executive produce the show alongside Rudolph through her production company, Animal Pictures, with partners Natasha Lyonne and Danielle Renfrew Behrens also executive producing. Dave Becky of 3 Arts will executive produce as well.
The series hails from Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.
This marks the second collaboration between Apple TV+ and Yang, following the anthology series “Little America.” The project would also join a growing lineup of comedy series at Apple, including the much-beloved and...
- 3/18/2021
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
‘Thunder Force’ Trailer: Netflix Gives Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer Their Superhero Tentpole
Netflix has released the first official trailer for “Thunder Force,” a new superhero comedy starring the dynamic duo of Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer. The project is the latest collaboration between McCarthy and her writer-director Ben Falcone, who previously worked together on “Tammy,” “The Boss,” “Life of the Party,” and last year’s critically panned HBO Max comedy “Superintelligence.” Here’s hoping Spencer’s fresh energy can reignite Falcone and McCarthy’s old creative spark, or at least offer something new to the mix of their predictable schtick.
Here’s what we know so far about the plot via Netflix’s official synopsis: “In a world terrorized by super-villains, one woman has developed the process to give superpowers to regular people. But when scientist Emily Stanton accidentally imbues her estranged best-friend with incredible abilities, the two women must become the first superhero team. Now, it is up to Thunder Force...
Here’s what we know so far about the plot via Netflix’s official synopsis: “In a world terrorized by super-villains, one woman has developed the process to give superpowers to regular people. But when scientist Emily Stanton accidentally imbues her estranged best-friend with incredible abilities, the two women must become the first superhero team. Now, it is up to Thunder Force...
- 3/3/2021
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Match points: Channing Tatum and an almost unrecognisable Steve Carrell in Foxcatcher.
Welcome to this week's Stay-At-Home Seven - if you want more inspiration, try our recent Streaming Spotlight on archaeology on film.
A Film I Love...
The latest season of this Cambridge Film Festival initiative started on January 8 and is continuing in fortnightly chunks. The series sees British film critics offer an introduction to films which are streamed on a "pay what you can afford" basis. Among the films coming up this weekend are Olivia Wilde's bright and bawdy high school comedy Book Smart, Damian Chazelle's jazz-inflected Sundance winner Whiplash and Garrett Bradley's affecting documentary Time, introduced by Anna Smith, Amon Warmann and Simran Hans respectively. More details of how to book from the official site.
The Way Way Back, 6.55pm, Film4, Monday, January 18
Nat Faxton and Jim Rash’s sunny side up debut is filled...
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The latest season of this Cambridge Film Festival initiative started on January 8 and is continuing in fortnightly chunks. The series sees British film critics offer an introduction to films which are streamed on a "pay what you can afford" basis. Among the films coming up this weekend are Olivia Wilde's bright and bawdy high school comedy Book Smart, Damian Chazelle's jazz-inflected Sundance winner Whiplash and Garrett Bradley's affecting documentary Time, introduced by Anna Smith, Amon Warmann and Simran Hans respectively. More details of how to book from the official site.
The Way Way Back, 6.55pm, Film4, Monday, January 18
Nat Faxton and Jim Rash’s sunny side up debut is filled...
- 1/18/2021
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Four top film production designers will reveal the secrets behind their crafts when they join Gold Derby’s special “Meet the Btl Experts” Q&a event with key 2021 guild and Oscar contenders this month. Each person will participate in two video discussions to be published on Monday, December 14, at 5:00 p.m. Pt; 8:00 p.m. Et. We’ll have a one-on-one with our senior editor Joyce Eng and a group chat with Joyce and all of the designers together.
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This “Meet the Btl Experts” panel welcomes the following 2021 guild and Oscar contenders:
“I’m Your Woman” (Amazon Prime): Gae Buckley
Buckley’s career has included such projects as “Stargirl,” “Breakthrough,...
RSVP today to this specific event by clicking here to book your reservation. Or click here to RSVP for our entire ongoing panel series. We’ll send you a reminder a few minutes before the start of the show.
This “Meet the Btl Experts” panel welcomes the following 2021 guild and Oscar contenders:
“I’m Your Woman” (Amazon Prime): Gae Buckley
Buckley’s career has included such projects as “Stargirl,” “Breakthrough,...
- 12/7/2020
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
’70s Horror
A horror lineup perfectly timed for Halloween, The Criterion Channel is spotlighting ’70s classics and underseen gems, including Abel Ferrara’s The Driller Killer, Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, early films by David Cronenberg, Wes Craven, and Brian De Palma, Bill Gunn’s Ganja & Hess, and more. It’s an epic collection of essentials and the ideal way to kick off an unprecedented Halloween that should be spent in isolation. – Jordan R.
Where to Stream: The Criterion Channel
Downhill (Nat Faxon and Jim Rash)
Even though Faxon and Rash pay their respects to the original—sometimes mimicking specific scenes and capturing the claustrophobic...
’70s Horror
A horror lineup perfectly timed for Halloween, The Criterion Channel is spotlighting ’70s classics and underseen gems, including Abel Ferrara’s The Driller Killer, Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, early films by David Cronenberg, Wes Craven, and Brian De Palma, Bill Gunn’s Ganja & Hess, and more. It’s an epic collection of essentials and the ideal way to kick off an unprecedented Halloween that should be spent in isolation. – Jordan R.
Where to Stream: The Criterion Channel
Downhill (Nat Faxon and Jim Rash)
Even though Faxon and Rash pay their respects to the original—sometimes mimicking specific scenes and capturing the claustrophobic...
- 10/9/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The cast of the hit comedy series Community is reuniting for a virtual table read to raise money for coronavirus relief. Ahead of the event, Oscar-winning screenwriter Jim Rash sat down for Rolling Stone‘s “The First Time” video interview series to talk about the first times wearing an outrageous costume as the Dean Craig Pelton on NBC’s Community, as well as his experiences with the indie film The Way, Way Back, which he co-wrote and co-directed.
Remembering the movie’s 2013 Sundance premiere, Rash says: “I don’t think...
Remembering the movie’s 2013 Sundance premiere, Rash says: “I don’t think...
- 5/15/2020
- by Kimberly Aleah
- Rollingstone.com
Melissa McCarthy and husband Ben Falcone are teaming up with actors Nat Faxon and Jim Rash to raise money for The Groundlings Theater and School in Hollywood.
McCarthy, Falcone, Rash and Faxon will host limited live informational classes on Zoom video chat, with registration proceeds benefitting The Groundlings, which shut its doors in late March and is one of many small venues nationwide facing financial pressures because of the pandemic. In April, improv house Upright Citizen’s Brigade closed its New York school and theater because the group couldn’t afford to keep the location open during the pandemic.
Rash is known for his work in the NBC sitcom “Community,” and Faxon has starred in films including “The Way Way Back” and “Downhill.”
Also Read: Netflix Scores Film on 1999 Us Women's Soccer World Cup Champs
McCarthy and Falcone are both alumni of The Groundlings. The two will teach a class...
McCarthy, Falcone, Rash and Faxon will host limited live informational classes on Zoom video chat, with registration proceeds benefitting The Groundlings, which shut its doors in late March and is one of many small venues nationwide facing financial pressures because of the pandemic. In April, improv house Upright Citizen’s Brigade closed its New York school and theater because the group couldn’t afford to keep the location open during the pandemic.
Rash is known for his work in the NBC sitcom “Community,” and Faxon has starred in films including “The Way Way Back” and “Downhill.”
Also Read: Netflix Scores Film on 1999 Us Women's Soccer World Cup Champs
McCarthy and Falcone are both alumni of The Groundlings. The two will teach a class...
- 5/12/2020
- by Samson Amore
- The Wrap
"Pete ran! Pete left us..." Searchlight Pictures has debuted a new official UK trailer for the film Downhill, an English-language remake of the beloved dark comedy Force Majeure made by Ruben Östlund. This just premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and it's actually a worthwhile remake. Don't write it off. Set at a ski resort in the Alps (filmed in Austria), the movie is about a family that narrowly escapes an avalanche. Everything is then thrown into disarray as they are forced to reevaluate their lives and how they feel about each other. It's directed by Nat Faxon & Jim Rash (of The Way Way Back) and it stars Will Ferrell & Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Also featuring Zach Woods, Zoë Chao, Miranda Otto, and Kristofer Hivju. This is a better trailer than the first one, and I'm happy to report this remake turned out pretty damn good. Here's the new official UK trailer...
- 1/30/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Forget the horror films of 2019 — was there anything scarier than that first Sonic the Hedgehog trailer, featuring a disturbingly toothy rendition of the video game hero? It created such an outcry that the film was bumped to February 2020; thankfully, you’ve got a lot of other choices re: what to check out this month at the movies, from a supervillainess getting her moment in the spotlight to a few fresh literary adaptations, an ingenious new take on a classic Universal monster-movie staple and an A-list American remake of a Swedish black comedy.
- 1/29/2020
- by Keith Phipps
- Rollingstone.com
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