Bruce Willis burst onto the American entertainment scene as the glib, smart-alecky detective David Addison Jr. opposite Cybill Shepherd’s Maddie Haynes in ABC’s Moonlighting, a show that helped launch the dramedy genre. Willis was not long for the small screen, though, with his his sharp tongue and sarcastic wit destined for bigger things.
More than 90 films and $5.3 billion later, Willis has played a smart-aleck New York detective in the Die Hard series, a smart-aleck oil driller-turned-astronaut in Armageddon, a smart-aleck cop in The Last Boy Scout, a smart-aleck gangster in Last Man Standing, a smart-aleck soldier in Tears of the Sun … well, you get the picture.
When he wasn’t cracking wise, Willis played many other memorable roles in films that included The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), Billy Bathgate (1991), Color of Night (1994), 12 Monkeys (1995), The Fifth Element (1997), The Sixth Sense (1999) The Story of Us (1999), Looper (2012) and Motherless Brooklyn...
More than 90 films and $5.3 billion later, Willis has played a smart-aleck New York detective in the Die Hard series, a smart-aleck oil driller-turned-astronaut in Armageddon, a smart-aleck cop in The Last Boy Scout, a smart-aleck gangster in Last Man Standing, a smart-aleck soldier in Tears of the Sun … well, you get the picture.
When he wasn’t cracking wise, Willis played many other memorable roles in films that included The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), Billy Bathgate (1991), Color of Night (1994), 12 Monkeys (1995), The Fifth Element (1997), The Sixth Sense (1999) The Story of Us (1999), Looper (2012) and Motherless Brooklyn...
- 10/16/2023
- by David Morgan
- Deadline Film + TV
Hollywood stars are sending their love to Bruce Willis and his family after revealing more details about his condition.
On Thursday (16 February), the Die Hard star’s family provided an update, almost a year after revealing he had been diagnosed with aphasia.
They said that Willis’s condition has progressed, and he has been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, which is known as Ftd.
“Unfortunately, challenges with communication are just one symptom of the disease Bruce, 67, faces,” his family shared in a joint statement, adding: “While this is painful, it is a relief to finally have a clear diagnosis.”
Calling it a “cruel disease”, they went on to say that “Ftd is the most common form of dementia, and because getting the diagnosis can take years, Ftd is likely much more prevalent than we know”.
The family said that “as Bruce’s condition advances, we hope that any media attention can...
On Thursday (16 February), the Die Hard star’s family provided an update, almost a year after revealing he had been diagnosed with aphasia.
They said that Willis’s condition has progressed, and he has been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, which is known as Ftd.
“Unfortunately, challenges with communication are just one symptom of the disease Bruce, 67, faces,” his family shared in a joint statement, adding: “While this is painful, it is a relief to finally have a clear diagnosis.”
Calling it a “cruel disease”, they went on to say that “Ftd is the most common form of dementia, and because getting the diagnosis can take years, Ftd is likely much more prevalent than we know”.
The family said that “as Bruce’s condition advances, we hope that any media attention can...
- 2/17/2023
- by Jacob Stolworthy
- The Independent - Film
French Canadian producer-distributor Datsit Sphere has acquired factual and kids production company Bgm, formerly known as Bristow Global Media, from the embattled Kew Media Group.
The acquisition of Bgm by Datsit Sphere, best known for primetime drama and comedy, marks the company’s first foray into English-language factual entertainment.
Toronto-based Bgm was formed in 2013 to create multi-genre, multiplatform content and is now headed by new CEO Marlo Miazga after founder Julie Bristow left the company in November of last year. The Bgm’s slate includes “Haunted Hospitals,” “The Story of Us,” “Paranormal 911” and the upcoming “Paranormal Nightshift.”
Bgm was bought by Canada’s Kew Media Group as part of a major acquisitions drive in early 2017 ahead its formal launch. Kew Media Group ceased trading permanently in January and was placed into administration earlier this month, with all directors exiting the company.
Fti Consulting Canada has been appointed receiver for the business,...
The acquisition of Bgm by Datsit Sphere, best known for primetime drama and comedy, marks the company’s first foray into English-language factual entertainment.
Toronto-based Bgm was formed in 2013 to create multi-genre, multiplatform content and is now headed by new CEO Marlo Miazga after founder Julie Bristow left the company in November of last year. The Bgm’s slate includes “Haunted Hospitals,” “The Story of Us,” “Paranormal 911” and the upcoming “Paranormal Nightshift.”
Bgm was bought by Canada’s Kew Media Group as part of a major acquisitions drive in early 2017 ahead its formal launch. Kew Media Group ceased trading permanently in January and was placed into administration earlier this month, with all directors exiting the company.
Fti Consulting Canada has been appointed receiver for the business,...
- 3/11/2020
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Inside Ashley Iaconetti and Jared Haibon's Journey From Best Friends to Bachelor Nation Power Couple
In just one short year, everything can change. For months and months, Ashley Iaconetti and Jared Haibon were the best of friends. They appeared on Bachelor in Paradise together, shared similar social circles and loved spending time together. Even their social media posts would constantly spark romance rumors. But time and time again, the pair would say they are just friends. That all changed one year ago when Jared appeared on Ashley's digital web series called "The Story of Us" where they both delivered a shocking development. These two were finally dating. "We did develop a friendship on the show even though it was this weird one where she had romantic feelings for me and...
- 5/21/2019
- E! Online
Exclusive: Ronny Chieng (The Daily Show) and Susan Wokoma (Year of the Rabbit) are set as series regulars opposite Elizabeth Alderfer and David Walton in the newly retitled Super Simple Love Story, CBS’ hybrid comedy pilot from Mike Royce, Nick Stoller, Sony Pictures TV and CBS TV Studios.
Written and executive produced by Royce and directed by Pam Fryman, Super Simple Love Story is a story told through interviews and vignettes spanning 10 years about how an unlikely couple becomes an unlikely family.
Chieng will portray Harris, Kevin’s (Walton) friend and former college roommate, an atheist without a filter who “loves to debate” and mostly ruins every social interaction by getting in his own way — and everybody else’s.
Wokoma will play Abby. While friend and co-worker Morgan (Alderfer) agonizes over job and relationship fulfillment, Abby is happy to hate her job...
Written and executive produced by Royce and directed by Pam Fryman, Super Simple Love Story is a story told through interviews and vignettes spanning 10 years about how an unlikely couple becomes an unlikely family.
Chieng will portray Harris, Kevin’s (Walton) friend and former college roommate, an atheist without a filter who “loves to debate” and mostly ruins every social interaction by getting in his own way — and everybody else’s.
Wokoma will play Abby. While friend and co-worker Morgan (Alderfer) agonizes over job and relationship fulfillment, Abby is happy to hate her job...
- 3/28/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Us movie review is here. Written and directed by comedian-turned-horror-maestro Jordan Peele (brilliantly thought provoking Oscar winner for best original screenplay Get Out - his debut). Starring Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Evan Alex, Elisabeth Moss, and Tim Heidecker, the movie has opened with rave reviews in America. Us hits the Indian screens this Friday ? 29?th March 2019. Is Us worth the hype, let?s find out in Us movie review.
Immediate reaction when the end credits of Us roll
Us is beyond any doubt a modern day horror classic, the genius of Jordan Peele in this historic event in American mainstream horror cinema that witnesses a nucleus of African-American characters, is such an uncanny horror movie that tempts you to have multiple viewings. Repeated haunts are guaranteed for those who make a revisit and every visit promises a new revelation.
(Also read:?Kesari Movie Review: A roaring tale of extraordinary bravery,...
Immediate reaction when the end credits of Us roll
Us is beyond any doubt a modern day horror classic, the genius of Jordan Peele in this historic event in American mainstream horror cinema that witnesses a nucleus of African-American characters, is such an uncanny horror movie that tempts you to have multiple viewings. Repeated haunts are guaranteed for those who make a revisit and every visit promises a new revelation.
(Also read:?Kesari Movie Review: A roaring tale of extraordinary bravery,...
- 3/26/2019
- GlamSham
Exclusive: Former Disjointed star Elizabeth Alderfer and David Walton (New Girl) are set as series regulars opposite Parker Young, Vanessa Marano and Laura Marano in The Us Project (fka The Story of Us), a CBS hybrid comedy pilot from Mike Royce, Nick Stoller, Sony Pictures TV and CBS TV Studios.
Written and executive produced by Royce and directed by Pam Fryman, The Us Project is a story told through interviews and vignettes spanning 10 years, about how an unlikely couple becomes an unlikely family.
Alderfer will play Morgan, a self-described “bailer” who has drifted from job to job and now in her 30s, is experiencing alarm bells about getting serious about life. She’s concerned that her current job at a “click-hungry” website is making the world worse, and that her jiujitsu-crazed boyfriend (Young) may not be the one. Then she meets Kevin (Walton), and the next decade of her life is transformed.
Written and executive produced by Royce and directed by Pam Fryman, The Us Project is a story told through interviews and vignettes spanning 10 years, about how an unlikely couple becomes an unlikely family.
Alderfer will play Morgan, a self-described “bailer” who has drifted from job to job and now in her 30s, is experiencing alarm bells about getting serious about life. She’s concerned that her current job at a “click-hungry” website is making the world worse, and that her jiujitsu-crazed boyfriend (Young) may not be the one. Then she meets Kevin (Walton), and the next decade of her life is transformed.
- 3/18/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Sisters Laura Marano (Austin & Ally) and Vanessa Marano (Switched at Birth) are set as series regulars opposite Parker Young in The Us Project (fka The Story of Us), a CBS hybrid comedy pilot from Mike Royce, Nick Stoller, Sony Pictures TV and CBS TV Studios.
Written and executive produced by Royce and directed by Pam Fryman, The Us Project is a story told through interviews and vignettes spanning 10 years, about how an unlikely couple becomes an unlikely family.
Vanessa Marano will play Nell, the older daughter of Kevin and Holly (Tbd), Nell is a teenager and the leader of the two daughters. Laura Marano will portray Jen, Kevin and Holly’s younger daughter who idolizes her sister Nell so much that she pretends they’re twins.
Laura Marano is best known from her role on Disney Channel’s Austin & Ally. She next will be seen in Netflix’s...
Written and executive produced by Royce and directed by Pam Fryman, The Us Project is a story told through interviews and vignettes spanning 10 years, about how an unlikely couple becomes an unlikely family.
Vanessa Marano will play Nell, the older daughter of Kevin and Holly (Tbd), Nell is a teenager and the leader of the two daughters. Laura Marano will portray Jen, Kevin and Holly’s younger daughter who idolizes her sister Nell so much that she pretends they’re twins.
Laura Marano is best known from her role on Disney Channel’s Austin & Ally. She next will be seen in Netflix’s...
- 3/8/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Imposters alum Parker Young has joined the cast The Us Project (fka The Story of Us), a hybrid comedy pilot from Mike Royce, Nick Stoller, Sony Pictures TV and CBS TV Studios. Written and executive produced by Royce, The Us Project is a story told through interviews and vignettes spanning 10 years, about how an unlikely couple becomes an unlikely family. Young will play Jared, Morgan’s (Tbd) live-in boyfriend. A new jiu jitsu fanatic, Jared practices constantly in order to excel at his first amateur tournament that’s quickly approaching and which he has no chance of winning. He lives on a diet of corn fungus smoothies and occasionally wears a strange “elevation mask” to increase lung capacity and oxygen efficiency — but it also makes him look like Bane. Although he has sweet qualities, Jared appears to be unaware that his eccentric enthusiasms are driving Morgan away from him.
- 2/27/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Updated: Veteran multi-camera comedy director Pam Fryman has been tapped to direct and executive produce CBS comedy pilots Carol’s Second Act, starring and executive produced by Patricia Heaton, and The Us Project (fka The Story Of Us), from Mike Royce and Nick Stoller.
Carol’s Second Act hails from Trophy Wife creators Emily Halpern and Sarah Haskins, Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment, Heaton and David Hunt’s FourBoys Entertainment and CBS TV Studios, where FourBoys is based. Written by Halpern and Haskins, it centers around Carol Chambers (Heaton), who after raising her two children and retiring from teaching, embarks on a unique second act: she’s going to become a doctor.
Halpern and Haskins executive produce with Heaton, Hunt and Rebecca Stay for FourBoys, Heaton’s manager, Adam Griffin, and Kaplan and Dana Honor for Kapital Entertainment. CBS TV Studios is the studio.
The Us Project is a hybrid comedy from Royce,...
Carol’s Second Act hails from Trophy Wife creators Emily Halpern and Sarah Haskins, Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment, Heaton and David Hunt’s FourBoys Entertainment and CBS TV Studios, where FourBoys is based. Written by Halpern and Haskins, it centers around Carol Chambers (Heaton), who after raising her two children and retiring from teaching, embarks on a unique second act: she’s going to become a doctor.
Halpern and Haskins executive produce with Heaton, Hunt and Rebecca Stay for FourBoys, Heaton’s manager, Adam Griffin, and Kaplan and Dana Honor for Kapital Entertainment. CBS TV Studios is the studio.
The Us Project is a hybrid comedy from Royce,...
- 2/12/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva and Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
This year’s broadcast pilot season is shaping up to be one of the leanest in recent memory as far as sheer numbers are concerned.
Among ABC, CBS, The CW, Fox and NBC, 59 pilots have been ordered so far for the 2019-20 season. That number also includes two straight-to-series orders at Fox and one at NBC. According to multiple sources, each of the networks is nearly done with its pilot orders for the season. Should the current pace of orders continue, that would put the total number of projects ordered this year in the low- to mid-60s. Compared with the 76 pilots ordered in 2018, this year will more than likely be down 10%-20% from last; that would mark the fewest number of pilot orders going back at least 7 years.
According to several agency sources, the decrease in volume is partly due to a shift in strategy by the broadcast networks,...
Among ABC, CBS, The CW, Fox and NBC, 59 pilots have been ordered so far for the 2019-20 season. That number also includes two straight-to-series orders at Fox and one at NBC. According to multiple sources, each of the networks is nearly done with its pilot orders for the season. Should the current pace of orders continue, that would put the total number of projects ordered this year in the low- to mid-60s. Compared with the 76 pilots ordered in 2018, this year will more than likely be down 10%-20% from last; that would mark the fewest number of pilot orders going back at least 7 years.
According to several agency sources, the decrease in volume is partly due to a shift in strategy by the broadcast networks,...
- 2/7/2019
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
CBS has given a pilot green light to To Whom It May Concern, a hybrid comedy from Gail Berman’s The Jackal Group, and CBS TV Studios.
Written by Mike Metz, To Whom It May Concern centers on Evan who sets out with his group of 20-something friends to accomplish a list of challenges he wrote for himself years ago in an effort to turn around his banal life.
Berman executive produces via Jackal Group. Metz is co-executive producer. CBS TV Studios is the studio.
A decision is still pending on Berman’s other comedy set up at CBS, multi-cam The Folks with former Scandal star Kerry Washington’s Simpson Street producing.
The Jackal Group is currently producing unscripted series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo for Netflix. Its scripted television projects in development include adaptations of Ricardo Nuila’s anticipated non-fiction book The Poor Unfortunates and Chloe Benjamin’s New York Times...
Written by Mike Metz, To Whom It May Concern centers on Evan who sets out with his group of 20-something friends to accomplish a list of challenges he wrote for himself years ago in an effort to turn around his banal life.
Berman executive produces via Jackal Group. Metz is co-executive producer. CBS TV Studios is the studio.
A decision is still pending on Berman’s other comedy set up at CBS, multi-cam The Folks with former Scandal star Kerry Washington’s Simpson Street producing.
The Jackal Group is currently producing unscripted series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo for Netflix. Its scripted television projects in development include adaptations of Ricardo Nuila’s anticipated non-fiction book The Poor Unfortunates and Chloe Benjamin’s New York Times...
- 2/1/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
CBS has given out a pilot order to the hybrid comedy “To Whom It May Concern.”
In the series, Evan sets out with his group of 20-something friends to accomplish a list of challenges he wrote for himself years ago in an effort to turn around his banal life.
Mike Metz serves as writer and co-executive producer on the project, with Gail Berman of the Jackal Group executive producing. CBS Television Studios will produce.
Metz previously worked as a staff writer on the Showtime comedy “Californication.” He is repped by Gersh.
This also marks the second hybrid comedy pilot order CBS has made this pilot season. The network previously ordered “The Story of Us” from “One Day at a Time” co-creator Mike Royce. CBS has also ordered pilots for “Bob Hearts Abishola” starring Billy Gardell and Folake Olowofoyeku as well as “Carol’s Second Act” starring “Everybody Loves Raymond” alum Patricia Heaton.
In the series, Evan sets out with his group of 20-something friends to accomplish a list of challenges he wrote for himself years ago in an effort to turn around his banal life.
Mike Metz serves as writer and co-executive producer on the project, with Gail Berman of the Jackal Group executive producing. CBS Television Studios will produce.
Metz previously worked as a staff writer on the Showtime comedy “Californication.” He is repped by Gersh.
This also marks the second hybrid comedy pilot order CBS has made this pilot season. The network previously ordered “The Story of Us” from “One Day at a Time” co-creator Mike Royce. CBS has also ordered pilots for “Bob Hearts Abishola” starring Billy Gardell and Folake Olowofoyeku as well as “Carol’s Second Act” starring “Everybody Loves Raymond” alum Patricia Heaton.
- 2/1/2019
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
CBS has given a formal pilot order to multi-camera comedy Carol’s Second Act, starring and executive produced by Patricia Heaton in her return to the network after a successful nine-season run on ABC’s The Middle. Carol’s Second Act, which had a hefty series commitment, hails from Trophy Wife creators Emily Halpern and Sarah Haskins, Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment, Heaton and David Hunt’s FourBoys Entertainment and CBS TV Studios, where FourBoys is based.
Written by Halpern and Haskins, Carol’s Second Act centers around Carol Chambers (Heaton), who after raising her two children and retiring from teaching, embarks on a unique second act: she’s going to become a doctor.
Halpern and Haskins executive produce with Heaton, Hunt and Rebecca Stay for FourBoys, Heaton’s manager, Adam Griffin, and Kaplan and Dana Honor for Kapital Entertainment. CBS TV Studios is the studio.
CBS
The pilot brings...
Written by Halpern and Haskins, Carol’s Second Act centers around Carol Chambers (Heaton), who after raising her two children and retiring from teaching, embarks on a unique second act: she’s going to become a doctor.
Halpern and Haskins executive produce with Heaton, Hunt and Rebecca Stay for FourBoys, Heaton’s manager, Adam Griffin, and Kaplan and Dana Honor for Kapital Entertainment. CBS TV Studios is the studio.
CBS
The pilot brings...
- 1/29/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
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