Exclusive: Emmy Award-winner Tammy Blanchard has been cast in FX’s American Sports Story, the new FX anthology limited series from creator Stu Zicherman, in a series regular role, sources tell Deadline.
American Sports Story, a new extension of Ryan Murphy’s “American Story” franchise, focuses on a prominent event involving a sports figure and re-examines it through the prism of today’s world, telling that story from multiple perspectives.
The first installment charts the rise and fall of NFL superstar Aaron Hernandez, played by Josh Andrés Rivera, and explores the connections of the disparate strands of his identity, his family, his career, his suicide and his legacy in sports and American culture. Season 1 is based on the podcast Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc. and hails from the Boston Globe and Wondery.
Blanchard will portray the mother of the disgraced football star and convicted murderer, Terri Hernandez, we hear.
American Sports Story, a new extension of Ryan Murphy’s “American Story” franchise, focuses on a prominent event involving a sports figure and re-examines it through the prism of today’s world, telling that story from multiple perspectives.
The first installment charts the rise and fall of NFL superstar Aaron Hernandez, played by Josh Andrés Rivera, and explores the connections of the disparate strands of his identity, his family, his career, his suicide and his legacy in sports and American culture. Season 1 is based on the podcast Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc. and hails from the Boston Globe and Wondery.
Blanchard will portray the mother of the disgraced football star and convicted murderer, Terri Hernandez, we hear.
- 2/27/2024
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
Kevin Haney, an Oscar- and Emmy-winning make-up artist with credits from Driving Miss Daisy to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3; and Ora T. Green, an Emmy-nominated hair stylist whose work includes Star Trek: Nemesis and Blade, will receive Lifetime Achievement Awards Feb. 18 during the 11th annual Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards.
In addition to an Academy Award for Driving Miss Daisy, Haney received six Primetime Emmys, for Primetime Glick, Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows, The X Files, Kissinger and Nixon, The Show Formerly Known as the Martin Short Show and Mark Twain and Me.
His feature credits include Dungeons & Dragons, Honor Among Thieves; Iron Man; Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull; The Shawshank Redemption and Dick Tracy. His TV work includes Perry Mason, Legion, Star Trek: Phase ll, Friends and The Mandalorian. He has been the personal artist to Bette Midler,...
In addition to an Academy Award for Driving Miss Daisy, Haney received six Primetime Emmys, for Primetime Glick, Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows, The X Files, Kissinger and Nixon, The Show Formerly Known as the Martin Short Show and Mark Twain and Me.
His feature credits include Dungeons & Dragons, Honor Among Thieves; Iron Man; Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull; The Shawshank Redemption and Dick Tracy. His TV work includes Perry Mason, Legion, Star Trek: Phase ll, Friends and The Mandalorian. He has been the personal artist to Bette Midler,...
- 11/16/2023
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The legendary Judy Garland, one of the greatest entertainers of the 20th century, would have turned 100 on June 10, 2022. To celebrate her career, tour our photo gallery looking back at her greatest film performances.
Known as the little girl (she was only 4’11) with the big voice, Garland was a rare true triple threat, holding her own with such great dancers as Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire, twice receiving Oscar nominations in acting categories, as well as leaving behind a legacy of record-breaking concerts, a Grammy-winning gold album and recordings of iconic songs that no one else has ever been able to capture in quite the same way.
Born Frances Ethel Gumm on June 10, 1922, in Grand Rapids Minnesota, Garland was the youngest of three girls. They would eventually form the vaudeville act “The Gumm Sisters” when baby Frances was only two years old. After almost a decade of touring with her sisters,...
Known as the little girl (she was only 4’11) with the big voice, Garland was a rare true triple threat, holding her own with such great dancers as Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire, twice receiving Oscar nominations in acting categories, as well as leaving behind a legacy of record-breaking concerts, a Grammy-winning gold album and recordings of iconic songs that no one else has ever been able to capture in quite the same way.
Born Frances Ethel Gumm on June 10, 1922, in Grand Rapids Minnesota, Garland was the youngest of three girls. They would eventually form the vaudeville act “The Gumm Sisters” when baby Frances was only two years old. After almost a decade of touring with her sisters,...
- 6/3/2023
- by Susan Pennington, Chris Beachum and Misty Holland
- Gold Derby
By this fall Jessica Chastain could be three-quarters of the way to Egot. She won an Oscar last year for “The Eyes of Tammy Faye.” She’s a Tony contender for her Broadway role in “A Doll’s House.” And she has a good chance of winning the Emmy for Best Movie/Limited Actress for playing country legend Tammy Wynette in “George and Tammy.”
“George and Tammy” is a Showtime limited series that explores the lives and careers of country music supercouple Tammy Wynette and George Jones (played by Michael Shannon). The performance earned Chastain a Golden Globe nomination for Best TV Movie/Limited Actress, which she lost to reigning Emmy champ Amanda Seyfried (“The Dropout”). But then Chastain pulled off an upset by beating Seyfried at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. The SAG Awards are presented by industry peers just like the Emmys are, so that was a significant result.
“George and Tammy” is a Showtime limited series that explores the lives and careers of country music supercouple Tammy Wynette and George Jones (played by Michael Shannon). The performance earned Chastain a Golden Globe nomination for Best TV Movie/Limited Actress, which she lost to reigning Emmy champ Amanda Seyfried (“The Dropout”). But then Chastain pulled off an upset by beating Seyfried at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. The SAG Awards are presented by industry peers just like the Emmys are, so that was a significant result.
- 3/30/2023
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
In 2019, the Best TV Movie and Best Limited Series PGA Awards categories were introduced as replacements for a consolidated one that had existed since 1995. Prior to the split, the organization honored 12 telefilms, almost all of which are based on true stories. Of the few proper biopics in that group, only 2013’s “Behind the Candelabra” – which stars Michael Douglas as Liberace – focuses on the life of a musician. Now, after nearly a decade, the HBO movie is expected to gain some company in that distinction since The Roku Channel’s “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” is the odds-on favorite to take this year’s made-for-tv movie prize.
Naturally, “Weird” differs significantly from a typical biopic in that it parodies the genre’s traditional formula at every turn. Al Yankovic, who co-wrote the script with director Eric Appel, gets across the main beats of the story of his career beginnings while taking increasingly outlandish liberties,...
Naturally, “Weird” differs significantly from a typical biopic in that it parodies the genre’s traditional formula at every turn. Al Yankovic, who co-wrote the script with director Eric Appel, gets across the main beats of the story of his career beginnings while taking increasingly outlandish liberties,...
- 2/24/2023
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
Over the course of 27 years, a total of 16 individuals have each received solo and cast Screen Actors Guild Awards for a single film, with the most recent case having involved “Coda” supporting actor Troy Kotsur. This year, Angela Bassett (“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”) and Jamie Lee Curtis (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”) appear primed for a dual face-off in the Best Supporting Actress and Best Ensemble categories, and either could plausibly take both prizes. If one of the sexagenarians does become the 17th entrant on said list, she will be the oldest performer in the group by a margin of four years.
Curtis and Bassett, who are both 64 years old, presently rank second and third on Gold Derby’s Best Film Supporting Actress SAG Award predictions list. The frontrunner is Kerry Condon, while the last two slots in our current top five are filled by Janelle Monáe and Jessie Buckley.
Curtis and Bassett, who are both 64 years old, presently rank second and third on Gold Derby’s Best Film Supporting Actress SAG Award predictions list. The frontrunner is Kerry Condon, while the last two slots in our current top five are filled by Janelle Monáe and Jessie Buckley.
- 1/10/2023
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
During the last two decades of her life, Judy Garland appeared as herself on over 40 TV programs and earned a pair of Emmy nominations as the star of her eponymous single-season variety show. 32 years after her untimely death, she was portrayed by Tammy Blanchard (24) and Judy Davis (45) in the ABC limited series “Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows,” which racked up 13 Emmy bids. Both actresses were honored for their work, with Blanchard triumphing in the Best TV Movie/Limited Series Supporting Actress category and Davis prevailing as the series lead.
20 years after her win, Blanchard remains the fourth youngest victor in the history of her category, and she currently ranks as its 10th youngest nominee after initially placing ninth. Two of the actresses who place higher on the list earned their bids prior to turning 17, with one having held the overall record for youngest acting winner for nearly four decades.
20 years after her win, Blanchard remains the fourth youngest victor in the history of her category, and she currently ranks as its 10th youngest nominee after initially placing ninth. Two of the actresses who place higher on the list earned their bids prior to turning 17, with one having held the overall record for youngest acting winner for nearly four decades.
- 9/9/2022
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
During the last two decades of her life, Judy Garland appeared as herself on over 40 TV programs and earned a pair of Emmy nominations as the star of her eponymous single-season variety show. 32 years after her untimely death, she was portrayed by Tammy Blanchard (24) and Judy Davis (45) in the ABC limited series “Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows,” which racked up 13 Emmy bids. Both actresses were honored for their work, with Blanchard triumphing in the Best TV Movie/Limited Series Supporting Actress category and Davis prevailing as the series lead.
20 years after her win, Blanchard remains the fourth youngest victor in the history of her category, and she currently ranks as its 10th youngest nominee after initially placing ninth. Two of the actresses who place higher on the list earned their bids prior to turning 17, with one having held the overall record for youngest acting winner for nearly four decades.
20 years after her win, Blanchard remains the fourth youngest victor in the history of her category, and she currently ranks as its 10th youngest nominee after initially placing ninth. Two of the actresses who place higher on the list earned their bids prior to turning 17, with one having held the overall record for youngest acting winner for nearly four decades.
- 9/9/2022
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
Theater, film and television writer-director Robert Allan Ackerman died Jan. 10. He was 77.
Nominated twice for Golden Globes and five times for Emmys, Ackerman also received numerous theater directing awards.
Ackerman started out directing at the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theatre. In the 1980s his theater productions included Martin Sherman’s Tony nominated “Bent,” starring Richard Gere and David Dukes; John Byrne’s “Slab Boys,” starring Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon and Val Kilmer and William Mastrosimone’s “Extremities” starring Susan Sarandon. He went on to direct Peter Allen in “Legs Diamond” and Al Pacino in Oscar Wilde’s “Salome.”
When reached for comment, Al Pacino said, “I love Bob. I loved being around him, his aurora, his steady peace. To work with him was joyous. He understood the language of theater art and communicated it with such ease. His gift was intangible and there’s no way of understanding how he created.
Nominated twice for Golden Globes and five times for Emmys, Ackerman also received numerous theater directing awards.
Ackerman started out directing at the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theatre. In the 1980s his theater productions included Martin Sherman’s Tony nominated “Bent,” starring Richard Gere and David Dukes; John Byrne’s “Slab Boys,” starring Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon and Val Kilmer and William Mastrosimone’s “Extremities” starring Susan Sarandon. He went on to direct Peter Allen in “Legs Diamond” and Al Pacino in Oscar Wilde’s “Salome.”
When reached for comment, Al Pacino said, “I love Bob. I loved being around him, his aurora, his steady peace. To work with him was joyous. He understood the language of theater art and communicated it with such ease. His gift was intangible and there’s no way of understanding how he created.
- 1/13/2022
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
Robert Allan Ackerman, the director whose television work scored five Emmy nominations and who directed acclaimed Broadway productions including Bent and Extremities, died Jan. 10 of kidney failure at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. He was 77.
His death was announced by family through a spokesman.
“I love Bob. I loved being around him, his aurora, his steady peace,” said actor Al Pacino, who starred in Ackerman’s 1992 Broadway staging of Oscar Wilde’s Salome. “To work with him was joyous. He understood the language of theater art and communicated it with such ease. His gift was intangible and there’s no way of understanding how he created. When an artist has that special gift it is unexplainable, it just happens. When he stopped directing, he started writing again and his writing also had that same magic. He will be missed.”
In 2016, Pacino would re-team with Ackerman in a Pasadena Playhouse production of God Looked Away,...
His death was announced by family through a spokesman.
“I love Bob. I loved being around him, his aurora, his steady peace,” said actor Al Pacino, who starred in Ackerman’s 1992 Broadway staging of Oscar Wilde’s Salome. “To work with him was joyous. He understood the language of theater art and communicated it with such ease. His gift was intangible and there’s no way of understanding how he created. When an artist has that special gift it is unexplainable, it just happens. When he stopped directing, he started writing again and his writing also had that same magic. He will be missed.”
In 2016, Pacino would re-team with Ackerman in a Pasadena Playhouse production of God Looked Away,...
- 1/13/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
When James Brolin was first approached by producers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan to play Ronald Reagan in their 2003 miniseries “The Reagans,” he said he wasn’t interested.
“Neil and Craig are old friends and I immediately said to them, ‘I guess everybody else turned it down,” Brolin recalls. “But they said, ‘No, we think you’re the guy.’ I wouldn’t even read it. I thought me playing Reagan was absurd.”
Zadan, who passed away in 2018, and Meron eventually convinced Brolin to read the first 20 pages of the script. “It just tickled me,” Brolin says. “I went, ‘Wow, this isn’t just saying some lines. There’s something more to this.’”
There certainly was. What Brolin nor anyone involved with the project could have predicted at the time was the political storm that “The Reagans” would create. The CBS series was still filming Reagan loyalists and GOP pundits attacked...
“Neil and Craig are old friends and I immediately said to them, ‘I guess everybody else turned it down,” Brolin recalls. “But they said, ‘No, we think you’re the guy.’ I wouldn’t even read it. I thought me playing Reagan was absurd.”
Zadan, who passed away in 2018, and Meron eventually convinced Brolin to read the first 20 pages of the script. “It just tickled me,” Brolin says. “I went, ‘Wow, this isn’t just saying some lines. There’s something more to this.’”
There certainly was. What Brolin nor anyone involved with the project could have predicted at the time was the political storm that “The Reagans” would create. The CBS series was still filming Reagan loyalists and GOP pundits attacked...
- 11/24/2020
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
Ryan Murphy‘s suspenseful drama, “Ratched,” premiered on Netflix on September 18 and was viewed by 48 million people in its first four weeks. The hit psychological thriller tells the origin story of asylum nurse Mildred Ratched, a character first portrayed by Louise Fletcher in her Oscar-winning performance in the 1975 Best Picture, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” In this prequel to the film, the title character is brilliantly played by Emmy winner Sarah Paulson, who leads a cast so deep in accolades, they seem shoo-ins for a SAG nomination for Best Drama Ensemble. So why are so many of us underestimating their chances?
As of this writing, “Ratched” is sitting in ninth place in our overall odds for a SAG ensemble nomination. But that goes against all the rules we’ve come to expect from the diverse guild of actors. It’s a series filled with both film and television stars...
As of this writing, “Ratched” is sitting in ninth place in our overall odds for a SAG ensemble nomination. But that goes against all the rules we’ve come to expect from the diverse guild of actors. It’s a series filled with both film and television stars...
- 11/3/2020
- by Denton Davidson
- Gold Derby
Regina King now has double Emmy bookends. As expected, the “Watchmen” star won Best Limited Series/TV Movie Actress at Sunday’s Primetime Emmy Awards, making her the first actress to have multiple wins in the lead and supporting limited categories.
The Oscar winner took home her first two Emmys in supporting for “American Crime” in 2015 and ’16, and triumphed in lead for “Seven Seconds” in 2018. This is her fourth Emmy in six years.
With her second victory for “American Crime,” King became one of five women to have won the supporting category a record two times, alongside Jane Alexander, Judy Davis, Colleen Dewhurst and Mare Winningham. She is the only one to do so consecutively. The other four have been shortlisted in lead, but only Davis has ever won there, in 2001 for “Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows” on her fifth of seven bids in the category.
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The Oscar winner took home her first two Emmys in supporting for “American Crime” in 2015 and ’16, and triumphed in lead for “Seven Seconds” in 2018. This is her fourth Emmy in six years.
With her second victory for “American Crime,” King became one of five women to have won the supporting category a record two times, alongside Jane Alexander, Judy Davis, Colleen Dewhurst and Mare Winningham. She is the only one to do so consecutively. The other four have been shortlisted in lead, but only Davis has ever won there, in 2001 for “Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows” on her fifth of seven bids in the category.
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- 9/21/2020
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
Before Regina King won her Oscar for “If Beale Street Could Talk” (2018), she took home three Emmys in four years. She could make it four in six years in September if she nabs Best Limited/TV Movie Actress for “Watchmen,” and if she does, she’d also carve out her own slice of Emmy history as the first actress have two wins each in the lead and supporting limited categories.
King prevailed in this category in 2018 for “Seven Seconds.” The star also has double statuettes in supporting, going back to back for the anthology series “American Crime” in 2015 and ’16.
At the moment, King is one of five women to have won the supporting category a record two times, alongside Jane Alexander, Judy Davis, Colleen Dewhurst and Mare Winningham. King is the only one to do so consecutively. All of the other four have been nominated in lead, but only Davis has ever won there,...
King prevailed in this category in 2018 for “Seven Seconds.” The star also has double statuettes in supporting, going back to back for the anthology series “American Crime” in 2015 and ’16.
At the moment, King is one of five women to have won the supporting category a record two times, alongside Jane Alexander, Judy Davis, Colleen Dewhurst and Mare Winningham. King is the only one to do so consecutively. All of the other four have been nominated in lead, but only Davis has ever won there,...
- 4/22/2020
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
To riff off LL Cool J, don’t call it a comeback, she’s been with us for years. After a six year break from the big screen between 2010-2016, Renée Zellweger storms back into awards season with a tour de force turn as the tormented, but resilient, Judy Garland in the third act of her career in Roadside Attractions/Ld Entertainment’s Judy. It was 1968 and the Wizard of Oz actress was penniless, with no choice but to become the marquee act at London dinner theater Talk of the Town; her personal life coming apart at the seams and drugs and alcohol continuing to take their toll, even eating into her onstage performance. Zellweger disappeared into the part with the same granular nuance and pitch perfect detail she has delivered previously in her rounded repertoire of characters including her best supporting actress Oscar winning turn as Ruby Thewes in Cold Mountain,...
- 12/6/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Renée Zellweger performs miracles playing Judy Garland: singing her heart out, baring her bruised soul and acting with a ferocity that ultimately rises to a state of grace. Yes, Judy, the well-meaning but wobbly biopic that can barely contain her take on the late Star Is Born star, is pure Oscarbait — ready made for an Academy campaign and rarely soaring to the level of a portrayal that’s a dazzling, deeply felt tribute from one artist to another.
Garland died of an accidental drug overdose in 1969 when she was...
Garland died of an accidental drug overdose in 1969 when she was...
- 9/24/2019
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
If it’s taken so long for a bigscreen biopic of Judy Garland to come to fruition, perhaps it’s because the lady herself warned off any attempts with one of her most famous quotes: “Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” It is not, admittedly, a saying that has deterred Hollywood from its ongoing fascination with famous people playing other famous people, though it’s a practice that yields more successful Oscar campaigns than for-the-ages performances: Prosthetically enhanced impersonation, for the most part, isn’t a repeatedly dazzling trick. Yet director Rupert Goold and resurgent star Renée Zellweger have pulled off something unusual and affecting in “Judy”: a biographical portrait in which performer and subject meet halfway, illuminating something of each other in the process.
Set in the final year before Garland’s death in 1969, “Judy” covers the shambolic London...
Set in the final year before Garland’s death in 1969, “Judy” covers the shambolic London...
- 8/31/2019
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Most Oscarologists are aware that half of the Best Picture winners so far this decade have been biopics or truth-based tales featuring real-life people. The titles? “The King’s Speech,” “Argo,” “12 Years a Slave,” “Spotlight” and “Green Book.”
But did you realize that Emmy’s limited series contest also has a long-held fondness for truth-based tales. Looking at the Gold Derby combined odds list, I realized that five out of the top six contenders are either biopics or accounts of an impactful real-life event. Showtime’s “Escape at Dannemora,” the front-runner for now before the Emmy nominations are announced on Tuesday, is based on a 2015 prison escape in Upstate New York (see photo above). HBO’s historical drama “Chernobyl” zeroes in on the 1986 nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union.
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Netflix’s “When They See Us” is...
But did you realize that Emmy’s limited series contest also has a long-held fondness for truth-based tales. Looking at the Gold Derby combined odds list, I realized that five out of the top six contenders are either biopics or accounts of an impactful real-life event. Showtime’s “Escape at Dannemora,” the front-runner for now before the Emmy nominations are announced on Tuesday, is based on a 2015 prison escape in Upstate New York (see photo above). HBO’s historical drama “Chernobyl” zeroes in on the 1986 nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union.
SEEWhat is the secret behind Patricia Arquette’s riveting ‘Escape at Dannemora’ performance
Netflix’s “When They See Us” is...
- 7/15/2019
- by Susan Wloszczyna
- Gold Derby
“It is Michelle Williams, who is overdue for a peer group award — come on, Hollywood! — versus Patricia Arquette, who has swept the derby so far in this race for Best Movie/Mini Actress. Who’s going to win?” asks Gold Derby editor-in-chief Tom O’Neil about one of the Emmys’ closest contests this year between Williams for her role as Gwen Verdon in the showbiz series “Fosse/Verdon” and Arquette for playing Tilly Mitchell in the true-crime tale “Escape at Dannemora.” Watch him debate the race with senior editors Joyce Eng, Daniel Montgomery and Susan Wloszczyna above.
“I just think it’s hers to lose,” says Wloszczyna about Williams. The real Verdon was a theater legend, but she’s not as well known to audiences as she once was, and certainly not as well known as her husband Bob Fosse. Nevertheless, Williams “is filling in the blanks in her life so beautifully.
“I just think it’s hers to lose,” says Wloszczyna about Williams. The real Verdon was a theater legend, but she’s not as well known to audiences as she once was, and certainly not as well known as her husband Bob Fosse. Nevertheless, Williams “is filling in the blanks in her life so beautifully.
- 6/20/2019
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
The new teaser trailer for the biopic Judy was released on Friday, featuring Renée Zellweger as Hollywood icon Judy Garland.
The film takes place in winter 1968, six months before Garland’s untimely death; the singer and actress arrives in London to perform a five-week sold-out run at famed nightclub The Talk of the Town. In 2012, a Broadway play titled End of the Rainbow, starring British actress Tracie Bennett as Garland, covered similar territory and attempted to tap into the Garland worship that still persists among many gay men. Judy Davis...
The film takes place in winter 1968, six months before Garland’s untimely death; the singer and actress arrives in London to perform a five-week sold-out run at famed nightclub The Talk of the Town. In 2012, a Broadway play titled End of the Rainbow, starring British actress Tracie Bennett as Garland, covered similar territory and attempted to tap into the Garland worship that still persists among many gay men. Judy Davis...
- 5/10/2019
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
Beloved Hollywood icon Judy Garland has gotten the biopic treatment many times before, from “Rainbow: The Stormy Life of Judy Garland,” an early made-for-tv movie that followed her initial forays into the industry, to the not entirely flattering miniseries “Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows,” but Rupert Goold’s upcoming “Judy” promises to explore a different part of her storied life. Starring Renee Zellweger as the “Wizard of Oz” star, the awards season biopic will likely offer a sober, emotional look at a strange time in Garland’s life.
Per the film’s official synopsis, the film will pick up in “Winter 1968 [when] showbiz legend Judy Garland arrives in Swinging London to perform a five-week sold-out run at The Talk of the Town. It is 30 years since she shot to global stardom in ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ but if her voice has weakened, its dramatic intensity has only grown.
Per the film’s official synopsis, the film will pick up in “Winter 1968 [when] showbiz legend Judy Garland arrives in Swinging London to perform a five-week sold-out run at The Talk of the Town. It is 30 years since she shot to global stardom in ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ but if her voice has weakened, its dramatic intensity has only grown.
- 5/10/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Rob Heaps (Imposters), Zach Roerig (The Vampire Diaries) and Paul Fitzgerald are set as series regulars opposite Willa Fitzgerald, Herizen Guardiola and Marlo Kelly in the USA Network pilot Dare Me, from Universal Cable Productions and Film 44. In addition, Joyful Drake (Let’s Stay Together), Tammy Blanchard, Antonio J. Bell (Nigerian Prince) and Alison Thornton (Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce) round out the cast in key recurring roles.
Based on the acclaimed novel by Megan Abbott, who serves as writer and executive producer along with Gina Fattore, Dare Me is an unflinching exploration of volatile female friendships, jealousy, loyalty and the dynamics of power in a small Midwestern town. Peering behind the all-American façade, the series dives into the cutthroat world of competitive high school cheerleading, following the fraught relationship between two best friends after a new coach (Fitzgerald) arrives to bring their team to prominence.
Based on the acclaimed novel by Megan Abbott, who serves as writer and executive producer along with Gina Fattore, Dare Me is an unflinching exploration of volatile female friendships, jealousy, loyalty and the dynamics of power in a small Midwestern town. Peering behind the all-American façade, the series dives into the cutthroat world of competitive high school cheerleading, following the fraught relationship between two best friends after a new coach (Fitzgerald) arrives to bring their team to prominence.
- 8/14/2018
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
“How could you not want to tackle that?” says producer Neil Meron about taking on the story of the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, in the Lifetime original movie “Flint.” The film follows a “group of women who actually were the whistle-blowers” who helped expose the dangerously high levels of lead in the drinking water due to government cost-cutting. “They were soccer moms or just people with families that were economically challenged, and then having this put upon them inspired them to action.” Watch Meron discuss “Flint” in our exclusive video interview above.
Meron and his producing partner Craig Zadan have “taken on some social and political issues” in their work in the past. That includes “Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story” (1995) about a lesbian’s legal fight after being discharged from the military, and the controversial “The Reagans” (2003), about Ronald Reagan‘s family and presidency. “We do like...
Meron and his producing partner Craig Zadan have “taken on some social and political issues” in their work in the past. That includes “Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story” (1995) about a lesbian’s legal fight after being discharged from the military, and the controversial “The Reagans” (2003), about Ronald Reagan‘s family and presidency. “We do like...
- 6/13/2018
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Lifetime's "The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe" and "Grace of Monaco" each earned Emmy nominations for Best Movie/Miniseries Hairstyling; the former also contends for Best Movie/Miniseries Makeup. These telefilms tell the stories of two of the most famously glamorous women in show business history: Marilyn Monroe (Kelli Garner) and Grace Kelly (Nicole Kidman). Will one of these period pieces prevail at the Creative Arts Emmys on Sept. 12? -Break- Who are this year's famous Emmy-nominated producers: Brad Pitt, Lady Gaga ... Since 2000, the Emmys have honored four films about Hollywood legends -- "Introducing Dorothy Dandridge" (2000), "Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows" (2001), "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers" (2005) and "Behind the Candelabra" (2012) about the life of Liberace -- with Best Movie/Miniseries Hairstyling. Other films about i...
- 8/21/2015
- Gold Derby
“Two Navy fighter pilots fall in love in the ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ era.” Seems like the new movie from Lionsgate took its inspiration from of Top Gun and Brokeback Mountain, but actually the film is based on a 1992 Off-Broadway play of the same name. The new film is co-written by Dmw Greer, who wrote the original play. The cast includes Trent Ford (Gosford Park), Morgan Spector (Boardwalk Empire), Rob Mayes (The Client List) and Tammy Blanchard (Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows).
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- 4/16/2014
- by Aaron Landry
- The Backlot
Fox has begun to stock up the villains who will do battle against Jack Bauer later this season. Judy Davis (Husbands and Wives, Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows) will recur as Margo, a British national and the widow of a notorious terrorist., in 24: Live Another Day that’ll premiere in April.
Production on the limited series begins in January in London. Davis joins the previously announced Kim Raver, William Devane and Mary Lynn Rajskub, who along with Kiefer Sutherland, will reprise their 24 roles.
The reboot will begin four years after the events of 24’s final season,...
Production on the limited series begins in January in London. Davis joins the previously announced Kim Raver, William Devane and Mary Lynn Rajskub, who along with Kiefer Sutherland, will reprise their 24 roles.
The reboot will begin four years after the events of 24’s final season,...
- 12/19/2013
- by Lynette Rice
- EW - Inside TV
Award-winning actress Judy Davis will be a recurring guest star in the upcoming Fox event series, “24: Live Another Day.” Davis (“Husbands and Wives,” “Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows”) will play Margot, a British national and the widow of a notorious terrorist. As previously reported, Kiefer Sutherland, Kim Raver, William Devane and Mary Lynn Rajskub will reprise their roles on the event series spin-off. Set in London, “24: Live Another Day” will restart the Emmy Award-winning drama franchise, which will once again follow the exploits of Jack Bauer — this time, four years after the events of the...
- 12/19/2013
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
Updated: Two-time Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe- and Emmy Award-winning actress Judy Davis (Husbands and Wives, Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows) will be a recurring guest star on Fox‘s event series 24: Live Another Day, which debuts in the spring. Davis will portraying Margot, a British national and the widow of a notorious terrorist. (Earlier, the network said she would play a German arms dealer, but the character evolved since the role was conceived). As previously announced, Kim Raver, William Devane and Mary Lynn Rajskub will reunite with star Kiefer Sutherland to reprise their 24 roles in the new edition, set in London, taking up Jack Bauer’s story four years after the events of 24‘s final season and also playing out in real time. 24: Live Another Day is a production of Teakwood Lane Productions in association with 20th Century Fox Television and Imagine Television.
- 12/19/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
• Topher Grace (Spider-Man 3) is in talks to join Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar in a supporting capacity. Naturally, no details were given about the nature of the role, but we’re hoping this could be the beginning of a Topher Grace career reboot. He has a number of projects in the works including The Invitation with Zachary Quinto, The Calling with Susan Sarandon, and A Many Splintered Thing with Aubrey Plaza and Chris Evans, a.k.a. April and not Andy. [Deadline]
• Danny McBride (This is the End) has reportedly joined the cast of Cameron Crowe’s new movie alongside Bradley Cooper,...
• Danny McBride (This is the End) has reportedly joined the cast of Cameron Crowe’s new movie alongside Bradley Cooper,...
- 7/24/2013
- by Lindsey Bahr
- EW - Inside Movies
Kirk Ellis, writer/co-executive producer of the HBO miniseries John Adams, has signed with ICM Partners. He was with CAA. Ellis won an Emmy for writing the seven-part mini and shared in John Adams‘ award for best movie/miniseries. Ellis has several other projects in the works at HBO, two with John Adams‘ co-producer Playtone — miniseries 1776 and series based on the James Ellroy novel American Tabloid – as well as film The Day The Laughter Stopped, about Fatty Arbuckle’s career, which has Eric Stonestreet attached to star. Ellis’ previous credits include several ABC long-form projects — miniseries Anne Frank, Life With Judy Garland: Me And My Shadows and The Beach Boys: An American Family, as well as telefilm The Three Stooges. He also created/co-exec produced the TNT mini Into The West. Ellis continues to be managed by Thruline and repped by attorney Bob Myman.
- 11/8/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Miley Cyrus may not have as many legal problems as other certain former child stars, but now she's expected to play one of the most famous outlaws of all time. The erstwhile Hannah Montana is negotiating to play Bonnie Parker in a "Bonnie & Clyde" miniseries for Lifetime and History Channel.
The four-hour miniseries would air on both cable networks (which are both under the same overall A&E Networks umbrella) in an effort to attract a broad audience of both men and women. Although the project is still in early stages, executive producers Craig Zadon and Neil Meron are TV movie vets with credits including "Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows," The Beach Boys: An American Family" and Lifetime's upcoming "Steel Magnolias."
Lifetime has proven they can still lure in big audiences for TV movies, 5.8 million viewers tuned in to see Rob Lowe in "Drew Peterson: Untouchable" in January.
The four-hour miniseries would air on both cable networks (which are both under the same overall A&E Networks umbrella) in an effort to attract a broad audience of both men and women. Although the project is still in early stages, executive producers Craig Zadon and Neil Meron are TV movie vets with credits including "Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows," The Beach Boys: An American Family" and Lifetime's upcoming "Steel Magnolias."
Lifetime has proven they can still lure in big audiences for TV movies, 5.8 million viewers tuned in to see Rob Lowe in "Drew Peterson: Untouchable" in January.
- 9/28/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
The producers of Footloose, Chicago, Hairspray and TV’s Smash are taking on this year’s Academy Awards telecast.
Prepare to buy stock in dancing shoes — now!
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that Craig Zadan and Neil Meron would produce the 85th annual awards ceremony, set for Feb. 24.
They have never been nominated for an Oscar, though as executive producers of 2002′s Chicago, their film has won the top prize. They have shared eight Emmy nominations on such TV projects as 2008′s A Raisin in the Sun, 2003′s The Reagans, and 2001′s Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows.
Prepare to buy stock in dancing shoes — now!
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that Craig Zadan and Neil Meron would produce the 85th annual awards ceremony, set for Feb. 24.
They have never been nominated for an Oscar, though as executive producers of 2002′s Chicago, their film has won the top prize. They have shared eight Emmy nominations on such TV projects as 2008′s A Raisin in the Sun, 2003′s The Reagans, and 2001′s Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows.
- 8/23/2012
- by Anthony Breznican
- EW - Inside Movies
Tammy Blanchard has signed with Gersh for all areas. A TV regular, Blanchard is currently guest starring on Showtime’s The Big C with Laura Linney. On the film side, she was in last year’s Moneyball and soon will appear in the indie drama Union Square with Miro Sorvino. Blanchard just finished a stint on Broadway in How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, a performance that garnered a Tony nomination. She won a Supporting Actress Emmy in 2001 for her role in Life With Judy Garland: Me And My Shadows. Blanchard is managed by Soffer/Namoff Entertainment.
- 5/24/2012
- by DOMINIC PATTEN
- Deadline TV
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association will host its 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards this Jan. 15. Have you ever wondered how many people will be on hand that day? How big a red carpet would have to be to hold all that high-watt talent? How much all that bubbly costs? Who scored the most Globes but never bagged an Oscar? We’ve got answers! Keep reading…
250 million Estimated number of global viewers tuning in for this year’s ceremony
$3 million Value of Jennifer Lopez’s Harry Winston earrings in 2011
$850,000 Cost of the 124-karat Chopard bracelet tucked away in Christina Hendricks’ cleavage...
250 million Estimated number of global viewers tuning in for this year’s ceremony
$3 million Value of Jennifer Lopez’s Harry Winston earrings in 2011
$850,000 Cost of the 124-karat Chopard bracelet tucked away in Christina Hendricks’ cleavage...
- 1/6/2012
- by Lanford Beard
- EW.com - PopWatch
She’s gorgeous and talented — with one Emmy win and two Tony nods under her belt — but How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying’s Tammy Blanchard isn’t exactly a famous face. Yet. The Best Featured Actress in a Musical contender recently called EW to chat about feeling born in the wrong decade (she earned her Emmy for playing Judy Garland in Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows and scored her first Tony nomination for Gypsy), living in Jersey, and being constantly asked about Daniel Radcliffe.
Entertainment Weekly: You once said that you’d be a...
Entertainment Weekly: You once said that you’d be a...
- 6/7/2011
- by Aubry D'Arminio
- EW.com - PopWatch
A hilarious and uplifting Broadway classic has returned to the Al Hirschfeld Theater, with a cast that's almost too good to be true and a timeless message that is surprisingly relevant in 2011. As a Pulitzer prize winner which has been revived twice in 15 years, "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" is something of an American theater war horse. The music is sometimes romantic, sometimes comedic, and always fun. The book is fast-paced, clever, and witty. And the performances are just as charming, spirited, and silly as they ought to be for a sixties-era socially satirical musical comedy—and then some. A crowd-pleaser with something for everyone, this production of How to Succeed may be the best bet on Broadway right now for all those out-of-town friends and relatives. Moreover, it is definitely a must-see if you're a fan of any of the lead actors—and with the extraordinary celebrity heft of this cast,...
- 4/2/2011
- by Kevin Mulcahy Jr.
- We Love Soaps
Glenn from Stale Popcorn here again to discuss one of the best actresses in the world and to help celebrate her birthday. Does she not amaze?
Today is Judy Davis' birthday. You may have forgotten just how good Judy Davis can be when she really wants to be - and not fluffing about on screen in stuff like The Break-Up, but I understand the need to let go once in a while - and that, by all rights, she should be an Oscar winner, not just an Emmy/BAFTA/AFI/Golden Globe winner. She seems to have moved primarily to television since even directors like Woody Allen have ditched her for younger, hotter property. But that doesn't mean we (well, I) don't still love her!
One could say that Judy Davis has had - oh yes, I am going there - a "brilliant career". Who can forget her temperamental "Sally" in Allen's Husbands & Wives,...
Today is Judy Davis' birthday. You may have forgotten just how good Judy Davis can be when she really wants to be - and not fluffing about on screen in stuff like The Break-Up, but I understand the need to let go once in a while - and that, by all rights, she should be an Oscar winner, not just an Emmy/BAFTA/AFI/Golden Globe winner. She seems to have moved primarily to television since even directors like Woody Allen have ditched her for younger, hotter property. But that doesn't mean we (well, I) don't still love her!
One could say that Judy Davis has had - oh yes, I am going there - a "brilliant career". Who can forget her temperamental "Sally" in Allen's Husbands & Wives,...
- 4/23/2010
- by Glenn
- FilmExperience
Craig Zadan and Neil Meron's Storyline Entertainment has signed with CAA. Zadan and Meron, who were executive producers on the Oscar-winning feature Chicago, are working on the film adaptation of the musical Hairspray as well as The Bucket List. On the TV side, their upcoming credits include ABC's adaptation of A Raisin in the Sun and the network's musical revival of Peter Pan. Among the company's TV credits, which have earned multiple Emmys and nominations, are ABC's Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows and The Music Man and Showtime's The Reagans. Storyline had been with WMA for more than a decade.
Craig Zadan and Neil Meron's Storyline Entertainment has signed with CAA. Zadan and Meron, who were executive producers on the Oscar-winning feature Chicago, are working on the film adaptation of the musical Hairspray as well as The Bucket List. On the TV side, their upcoming credits include ABC's adaptation of A Raisin in the Sun and the network's musical revival of Peter Pan. Among the company's TV credits, which have earned multiple Emmys and nominations, are ABC's Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows and The Music Man and Showtime's The Reagans. Storyline had been with WMA for more than a decade.
Actor Hugh Laurie, who played Mr. Little in both Stuart Little installments, has joined the cast of 20th Century Fox's remake of The Flight of the Phoenix. The John Moore-directed action thriller, a redo of the 1965 film, revolves around a plane crash in the Mongolian desert. Laurie will play a corporate type who goes hysterical once the plane crashes. Dennis Quaid, Giovanni Ribisi, Tyrese, Miranda Otto, Tony Curran, Scott Michael Campbell and Jared Padalecki star. John Davis, Bill Aldrich and Alex Blum are producing Phoenix, with Fox's Emma Watts is overseeing at the studio for TCF division topper Hutch Parker. Laurie is repped by the Gersh Agency, the Gilbert Group and attorney Fred Toczek at the law firm Nelson Felker. His other credits include Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows, Spooks, Maybe Baby and The Man in the Iron Mask.
- 12/24/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Newcomer Alison Pill has swallowed the female lead role in Thomas Vinterberg's Dear Wendy, starring opposite Billy Elliott topper Jamie Bell. Set in a small mining town in West Virginia, Dear Wendy centers on Dick Bell), an ingenious teenager who finds a friend and confidant in a pistol after losing his father. Pill is set to play Susan, a friend of Bell's character, who is a loser often lost in a world of her own. The project, which is currently lensing in Denmark, was penned by Lars von Trier, who reportedly handed it over to Vinterberg so he could prep the third installment of his trilogy, Manderlay. Sisse Graum Olsen is producing. Pill is repped by WMA and Joanie Burstein at the Burstein Company. Her credits include Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows, What Girls Learn and the upcoming Pieces of April. She also recently completed Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen.
- 10/6/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Russell Crowe has virtually sealed his second consecutive Best Actor Oscar, after winning the category at the Screen Actors Guild Awards Sunday. Crowe added a SAG to his Bafta and Golden Globe wins this year to clinch the red-hot favorite slot at the Academy Awards on March 24th. Crowe beat out Denzel Washington, Sean Penn, Tom Wilkinson, and Kevin Kline to win. Halle Berry surprised many by picking up the Best Actress award for her role in Monster's Ball. Elsewhere it was a good night for the Brits, with the ensemble cast of Gosford Park winning the Best Cast prize, Helen Mirren (Gosford Park) the Best Supporting Actress award and Sir Ian McKellen (Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring) the Best Supporting Actor gong. Newly-knighted Sir Ben Kingsley also took home an award for Best Actor in A TV Movie or Mini-series for his role as Otto Frank in American TV movie Anne Frank. In the TV awards, it was a clean sweep for The West Wing in the drama categories - the show's stars Martin Sheen and Alison Janney claimed the Best Actor and Best Actress awards, and the show's cast won the Best Ensemble prize. The full awards list is: Film Awards: Cast of A Theatrical Motion Picture - Gosford Park, Male Actor in A Supporting Role - Sir Ian McKellen for The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring, Female Actor in A Supporting Role - Helen Mirren for Gosford Park Male Actor in A Leading Role - Russell Crowe for A Beautiful Mind, Female Actor in A Leading Role - Halle Berry for Monster's Ball. TV Awards: Male Actor in A TV Comedy Series - Sean Hayes for "Will & Grace", Female Actor in A TV Comedy Series - Megan Mullally for "Will & Grace", Outstanding Ensemble in A TV Comedy Series - "Sex & The City", Female Actor in A TV Drama Series - Alison Janney for "The West Wing", Male Actor in A TV Drama Series - Martin Sheen for "The West Wing", Outstanding Ensemble in A TV Drama Series - "The West Wing", Male Actor in A TV Movie/Miniseries - Sir Ben Kingsley for Anne Frank, Female Actor in A TV Movie/Miniseries - Judy Davis for Life With Judy Garland: Me & My Shadows, Life Achievement Award - Ed Asner...
- 3/12/2002
- WENN
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