After the release of Road House, star Jake Gyllenhaal’s Nine Stories banner has signed a three-year, first-look film deal with Amazon MGM.
Under the pact, Amazon MGM Studios will have a first look on narrative features Nine Stories intends to produce for both theatrical and streaming.
Road House, according to Amazon MGM, is the most watched film debut for a studio-produced title. According to Amazon, Road House attracted 50 million viewers to date, though it did not clarify details on how it calculated that number (i.e., if watching just a few minutes of the movie and turning it off counts).
Gyllenhaal previously starred in Amazon MGM title Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant.
“I’ve worked with Amazon MGM on two films this past year, and they’ve been a wonderful partner both times,” said Gyllenhaal in a statement. “Their dedication to filmmaking is contagious, and I so admire their...
Under the pact, Amazon MGM Studios will have a first look on narrative features Nine Stories intends to produce for both theatrical and streaming.
Road House, according to Amazon MGM, is the most watched film debut for a studio-produced title. According to Amazon, Road House attracted 50 million viewers to date, though it did not clarify details on how it calculated that number (i.e., if watching just a few minutes of the movie and turning it off counts).
Gyllenhaal previously starred in Amazon MGM title Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant.
“I’ve worked with Amazon MGM on two films this past year, and they’ve been a wonderful partner both times,” said Gyllenhaal in a statement. “Their dedication to filmmaking is contagious, and I so admire their...
- 4/2/2024
- by Mia Galuppo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
(Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they've been watching, why it's worth checking out, and where you can stream it.)
The Movie: "Shrek the Musical"
Where You Can Stream It: Prime Video, YouTube
The Pitch: Full disclosure, I don't like "Shrek." The original 2001 film just never did it for me. Maybe it was the animation, maybe it was the aggressively anti-Disney overtones, maybe both. Eventually, DreamWorks won me over with "Shrek 2," which can only be described as a masterpiece, but that's not the second chance I want to talk about right now. We're here for "Shrek the Musical," a stage production that has no right being as good as it is, and how it got me invested in a smelly ogre's origin. The musical follows Shrek (Brian D'Arcy James) as he goes on a quest with Donkey (Daniel Breaker) to...
The Movie: "Shrek the Musical"
Where You Can Stream It: Prime Video, YouTube
The Pitch: Full disclosure, I don't like "Shrek." The original 2001 film just never did it for me. Maybe it was the animation, maybe it was the aggressively anti-Disney overtones, maybe both. Eventually, DreamWorks won me over with "Shrek 2," which can only be described as a masterpiece, but that's not the second chance I want to talk about right now. We're here for "Shrek the Musical," a stage production that has no right being as good as it is, and how it got me invested in a smelly ogre's origin. The musical follows Shrek (Brian D'Arcy James) as he goes on a quest with Donkey (Daniel Breaker) to...
- 1/28/2023
- by Cameron Roy Hall
- Slash Film
Exclusive: A new, exclusive partnership between the prominent theatrical P.R. agency Dkc/O&m and the newly formed production services outfit Built Productions was announced today, formalizing a collaboration that’s been responsible for some of Broadway’s splashiest opening night events this season.
From the confetti-covered opening of Company to a Times Square marching band heralding the arrival of The Music Man, the Dkc/O&m-Built collaborations have been among the most attention-getting events welcoming Broadway back after the Covid shutdown. Under the new arrangement, Built Productions will work under Dkc/O&m’s creative division O&m Etc., now run by longtime entertainment industry publicist Gerilyn Shur.
The announcement was made today by Dkc/O&m’s Rick Miramontez and Built Productions’ Jaron Caldwell.
In addition to Company (produced in conjunction with Stark Production Group) and The Music Man, other recent Broadway opening events designed by...
From the confetti-covered opening of Company to a Times Square marching band heralding the arrival of The Music Man, the Dkc/O&m-Built collaborations have been among the most attention-getting events welcoming Broadway back after the Covid shutdown. Under the new arrangement, Built Productions will work under Dkc/O&m’s creative division O&m Etc., now run by longtime entertainment industry publicist Gerilyn Shur.
The announcement was made today by Dkc/O&m’s Rick Miramontez and Built Productions’ Jaron Caldwell.
In addition to Company (produced in conjunction with Stark Production Group) and The Music Man, other recent Broadway opening events designed by...
- 5/19/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Audiences viewing Steven Spielberg’s new “West Side Story” will see many differences from the 1961 version, including a younger cast, revised screenplay and new choreography. What hasn’t changed is the music by Leonard Bernstein, the result of four high-profile experts who teamed up to record the score anew.
Oscar-nominated composer David Newman oversaw all of the arrangements and orchestrations; Tony-winning songwriter Jeanine Tesori supervised all of the vocal performances; Grammy-nominated producer Matt Sullivan was on set throughout, supervising the music during shooting; and world-renowned conductor Gustavo Dudamel conducted the Bernstein score with both the New York Philharmonic and Los Angeles Philharmonic.
The involvement of Dudamel and Newman were legendary composer John Williams’ idea. Williams, who has been Spielberg’s musical partner for 47 years, recalls Spielberg initially asking him to be music director on the film, “and I said, ‘you should get Gustavo to conduct the score. He’s done...
Oscar-nominated composer David Newman oversaw all of the arrangements and orchestrations; Tony-winning songwriter Jeanine Tesori supervised all of the vocal performances; Grammy-nominated producer Matt Sullivan was on set throughout, supervising the music during shooting; and world-renowned conductor Gustavo Dudamel conducted the Bernstein score with both the New York Philharmonic and Los Angeles Philharmonic.
The involvement of Dudamel and Newman were legendary composer John Williams’ idea. Williams, who has been Spielberg’s musical partner for 47 years, recalls Spielberg initially asking him to be music director on the film, “and I said, ‘you should get Gustavo to conduct the score. He’s done...
- 12/10/2021
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
The sublime “Sunday” diner scene with the Broadway legends in Netflix’s “Tick Tick Boom” has become even more tear-inducing and meta with the recent passing of Stephen Sondheim, whose “Sunday in the Park with George” musical about French pointillist painter Georges Seurat started it all. First, through Jonathan Larson’s (Andrew Garfield) tribute song, “Sunday,” set in The Moondance Diner in SoHo, where he toils as a waiter and dreams of becoming the next Sondheim. Second, through “Tick Tick Boom” director Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ambitious, even miraculous, staging of the scene in a replica of the ’90s diner on a New York soundstage.
Miranda’s idea was to not only pay tribute to Larson’s heroes of Broadway but also to his own legacy, since he tragically died before the opening of “Rent” and was unable to witness its impact on the theater world. Thus, through strict protocols and safe distancing,...
Miranda’s idea was to not only pay tribute to Larson’s heroes of Broadway but also to his own legacy, since he tragically died before the opening of “Rent” and was unable to witness its impact on the theater world. Thus, through strict protocols and safe distancing,...
- 12/8/2021
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
At this point, it’s a given that we’re living in the “golden age” of television; somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 new scripted series drop each year. With so much to choose from, that means TV can get daring, specific, and sometimes, weird as hell. Superheroes trapped inside an I Love Lucy pastiche? A creepy animatronic doll calling a murderous game of Red Light, Green Light? In the era of peak TV, grade-a oddity is only a mouse-click away.
But no show in 2021 is more weirdly specific — and specifically weird — than Centaurworld.
But no show in 2021 is more weirdly specific — and specifically weird — than Centaurworld.
- 12/7/2021
- by Jenna Scherer
- Rollingstone.com
Rehearsals are now underway for Transport Group's The Unsinkable Molly Brown, which begins performances on Saturday, February 8 at 22 at Abrons Arts Center. The show stars Tony Award nominee Beth Malone Fun Home as Molly Brown, David Aron Damane The Book of Mormon, Big River, The Life as JJ, Whitney Bashor The Bridges of Madison County as Julia, Omar Lopez-Cepero On Your Feet as Vincenzo, Alex Gibson SpongeBob SquarePants Natasha, Pierre the Great Comet of 1812 as Erich, and Paolo Montalban Pacific Overtures, The King and I as Arthur. Rounding out the cast are Kaitlyn Davidson Tyrone Davis, Jr. Gregg Goodbrod Michael Halling Karl Josef Ko Nikka Graff Lanzarone Kate Marilley Shina Ann Morris Keven Quillon and Coco Smith.
- 1/29/2020
- by TV - Press Previews
- BroadwayWorld.com
Rehearsals are now underway for Transport Group's The Unsinkable Molly Brown, which begins performances on Saturday, February 8 at 22 at Abrons Arts Center. The show stars Tony Award nominee Beth Malone Fun Home as Molly Brown, David Aron Damane The Book of Mormon, Big River, The Life as JJ, Whitney Bashor The Bridges of Madison County as Julia, Omar Lopez-Cepero On Your Feet as Vincenzo, Alex Gibson SpongeBob SquarePants Natasha, Pierre the Great Comet of 1812 as Erich, and Paolo Montalban Pacific Overtures, The King and I as Arthur. Rounding out the cast are Kaitlyn Davidson Tyrone Davis, Jr. Gregg Goodbrod Michael Halling Karl Josef Ko Nikka Graff Lanzarone Kate Marilley Shina Ann Morris Keven Quillon and Coco Smith.
- 1/29/2020
- by Jennifer Broski
- BroadwayWorld.com
There are bits of “Repo Man,” “Napoleon Dynamite” and other literally or just philosophically “punk rock” cult comedies in the DNA of Adam Carter Rehmeier’s rude yet ingratiating “Dinner in America” — and mercifully none whatsoever here of his 2011 first feature “The Bunny Game,” a shrilly monotonous “extreme” horror for which all is now forgiven. This rambunctious mix of anarchic humor and misfit romance is not always inspired in the writing department, but its uneven qualities are mostly steamrolled over by the infectiously high-energy execution.
Best of all, it’s got a knockout lead performance by Kyle Gallner (soon to headline CBS All Access series “Interrogation”), who turns an admittedly showy role into something quite likely to become the favorite movie character ever for a small but fervent minority. As the saying goes, a star is born. Though unlikely to risk a major commercial breakout, there are enough other assets...
Best of all, it’s got a knockout lead performance by Kyle Gallner (soon to headline CBS All Access series “Interrogation”), who turns an admittedly showy role into something quite likely to become the favorite movie character ever for a small but fervent minority. As the saying goes, a star is born. Though unlikely to risk a major commercial breakout, there are enough other assets...
- 1/25/2020
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
Diane Paulus, director of the new rock musical based on Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill, always knew “You Oughta Know” would be an elephant in the room.
The fiery breakup anthem was the biggest hit from Alanis Morissette’s diamond-certified 1995 album. And it’s been embedded in our brains ever since, from the moment we heard acerbic turns of phrase like “Did you forget about me, Mr. Duplicity?/I hate to bug you in the middle of dinner.” Although it’s something of an anomaly on the album — tracks like “Ironic,...
The fiery breakup anthem was the biggest hit from Alanis Morissette’s diamond-certified 1995 album. And it’s been embedded in our brains ever since, from the moment we heard acerbic turns of phrase like “Did you forget about me, Mr. Duplicity?/I hate to bug you in the middle of dinner.” Although it’s something of an anomaly on the album — tracks like “Ironic,...
- 1/24/2020
- by Jerry Portwood
- Rollingstone.com
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