Update 3 Pm: The filming and broadcast will be directed by David Horn, executive producer of public television’s Great Performances. Earlier: The Roundabout Theatre Company’s lauded Broadway revival of the musical She Loves Me will be telecast live June 30, bringing Broadway a step closer in line with popular pay-per-view ventures as NTLive, produced by the UK’s National Theatre, and Live From the Met, produced by the Metropolitan Opera. The cost to stream the show…...
- 6/15/2016
- Deadline TV
Averaging over $60,000 — not record-breaking, yet above all but a handful of 2015 releases, and reduced a little by capacity issues — "Carol"'s (TWC) stellar performance adds to the smaller-than-usual awards titles needed to fill arthouses in coming months. Among the earlier strongest openers, both "Spotlight" (Open Road) and "Brooklyn" (Fox Searchlight) showed continued crossover promise and traction to maintain presence in the incredibly competitive period ahead, although neither is yet the kind of breakout success that often appears by this time in November. But continued careful handling and positioning to ride the awards track suggest that both have only taken in a small fraction of their eventual haul. Outside the usual mix of grosses, a couple of offbeat entries scored, including Fathom's Saturday-night-only "Live from the Met" presentation of "Lulu," which grossed $637,000 yesterday. Meanwhile, Jacques Rivette's 13-hour, 1974...
- 11/22/2015
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Thompson on Hollywood
Director Julie Taymor has finished the film version of her widely acclaimed, visually stuffed production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (which ran earlier this year at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn). “Many people wanted to tour, but it’s completely impractical,” Taymor told Vulture this week at a screening of Boyhood at BAMcinemaFest. “There were 17 children and 15 principals. It will probably never see the light of day again as a live production, so I feel very good about the film."Taymor says this project is similar to her 1992 TV film Oedipus Rex, shot during a Japanese production of Stravinsky's opera-oratorio. Like on Oedipus, Taymor directed the Midsummer film, shot by Frida cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto during the last four performances of the play. “It’s not like Live From the Met,” Taymor says. “This is even more thorough. We shot all performances straight through, putting cameras in different positions...
- 6/20/2014
- by Katie Van Syckle
- Vulture
Veteran TV journalist Garrick Utley, whose far-ranging career included anchoring duties as well as reporting from more than 70 countries, has died of cancer at 74, NBC said Friday.
Utley began at NBC News in 1963, and for three decades handled a wide variety of assignments. Early on, he reported from Vietnam on the escalating conflict. In later years, he moderated Meet the Press.
In between, Utley anchored Weekend Today and the Sunday Nightly News, as well as two different newsmagazines in two different decades with four different titles.
“I may have been the only person at NBC News who did every type...
Utley began at NBC News in 1963, and for three decades handled a wide variety of assignments. Early on, he reported from Vietnam on the escalating conflict. In later years, he moderated Meet the Press.
In between, Utley anchored Weekend Today and the Sunday Nightly News, as well as two different newsmagazines in two different decades with four different titles.
“I may have been the only person at NBC News who did every type...
- 2/21/2014
- by Associated Press
- EW - Inside TV
NBC News says veteran reporter Garrick Utley has died of cancer. He was 74. Utley began at NBC News in 1963, where for three decades he handled a wide variety of assignments. Early on, he reported from Vietnam on the escalating conflict. In later years, he moderated Meet the Press. In between, Utley anchored Weekend Today and the Sunday Nightly News, as well as two different newsmagazines in two different decades with four different titles. "I may have been the only person at NBC News who did every type of programming as host or anchor," he told the Associated Press in 1993, adding...
- 2/21/2014
- by Associated Press
- PEOPLE.com
Lights, camera, arias! Sell-out shows bring in new audiences and serious cash for leading opera houses
Tonight, most British cinema audiences will be settling down with a Coke and a carton of popcorn for the weekend's big movies: the latest in the Narnia franchise, perhaps, or Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie in The Tourist.
But not all of them. In around 80 UK cinemas, audiences will instead be preparing themselves for a performance, beamed in live by satellite from New York's Metropolitan Opera, of Verdi's Don Carlos.
You'd be lucky to get a ticket though, despite the £25 price tag (reflecting the double cinema slot occupied by these often lengthy works). Tickets are sometimes snapped up in just two hours for a screening nine months away, according to Lyn Goleby, managing director of the independent cinema chain Picturehouse. "Opera in cinema is," she says, "a phenomenon."
The Royal Opera House, eager...
Tonight, most British cinema audiences will be settling down with a Coke and a carton of popcorn for the weekend's big movies: the latest in the Narnia franchise, perhaps, or Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie in The Tourist.
But not all of them. In around 80 UK cinemas, audiences will instead be preparing themselves for a performance, beamed in live by satellite from New York's Metropolitan Opera, of Verdi's Don Carlos.
You'd be lucky to get a ticket though, despite the £25 price tag (reflecting the double cinema slot occupied by these often lengthy works). Tickets are sometimes snapped up in just two hours for a screening nine months away, according to Lyn Goleby, managing director of the independent cinema chain Picturehouse. "Opera in cinema is," she says, "a phenomenon."
The Royal Opera House, eager...
- 12/11/2010
- by Charlotte Higgins
- The Guardian - Film News
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