Agatha regresa. © Disney
Durante la presentación Upfront de Disney, Marvel Studios ha revelado por fin el título oficial de la tan esperada serie centrada en Agatha: “Agatha All Along”. Y eso no es todo, la serie ya tiene una fecha de estreno confirmada en la plataforma de streaming.
La serie ha pasado por varios títulos: “Agatha: House of Harkness”, “Agatha: Coven of Chaos”, “Agatha: Darkhold Diaries” e incluso “Agatha: The Lying Witch with Great Wardrobe”. Todo era parte de una estrategia de Marketing y resultó que siempre fue Agatha quien estaba detrás de todo.
Kathryn Hahn retomará su papel como Agatha Harkness en este spinoff de “Wandavision Además de Hahn, el elenco contará con Aubrey Plaza (“Emily la Estafadora”), Joe Locke (“Heartstopper”), Patti LuPone (“Beau Tiene Miedo”), Sasheer Zamata (“Spree”), Ali Ahn (“Amor y Letras”), Emma Caulfield Ford (“Wandavision”), Maria Dizzia (“El Ángel de la Muerte”), Miles Gutierrez-Riley (“The Wilds...
Durante la presentación Upfront de Disney, Marvel Studios ha revelado por fin el título oficial de la tan esperada serie centrada en Agatha: “Agatha All Along”. Y eso no es todo, la serie ya tiene una fecha de estreno confirmada en la plataforma de streaming.
La serie ha pasado por varios títulos: “Agatha: House of Harkness”, “Agatha: Coven of Chaos”, “Agatha: Darkhold Diaries” e incluso “Agatha: The Lying Witch with Great Wardrobe”. Todo era parte de una estrategia de Marketing y resultó que siempre fue Agatha quien estaba detrás de todo.
Kathryn Hahn retomará su papel como Agatha Harkness en este spinoff de “Wandavision Además de Hahn, el elenco contará con Aubrey Plaza (“Emily la Estafadora”), Joe Locke (“Heartstopper”), Patti LuPone (“Beau Tiene Miedo”), Sasheer Zamata (“Spree”), Ali Ahn (“Amor y Letras”), Emma Caulfield Ford (“Wandavision”), Maria Dizzia (“El Ángel de la Muerte”), Miles Gutierrez-Riley (“The Wilds...
- 5/15/2024
- by Marta Medina
- mundoCine
Exclusive: Michael Stahl-David (Cloverfield), Scottie Thompson (Crown Vic) and Michael Weston (Home Before Dark) are in production in Ohio on Down to the Felt, an indie dark comedy with action elements from filmmaker Jon Osbeck. The trio joins a cast that also includes Jo-Ann Robinson and Cullen Douglas.
Written and produced by Dino Tripodis, Ralph Scott, and Osbeck, Down to the Felt tells the story of Paul (Stahl-David), a down-on-his-luck compulsive gambler who makes a desperate deal with a psychopathic hitman (Weston) to kill him in two weeks. But then he meets Erica (Thompson), a mystery woman, and life suddenly starts dealing him aces.
Previously co-directing the award-winning military drama Minus One, Osbeck is also producing Down to the Felt through his production shingle Big Deal Pictures, alongside Douglas.
Stated Osbeck, “It’s truly an embarrassment of riches to be working with both Michaels and Scottie. Their roles all demand...
Written and produced by Dino Tripodis, Ralph Scott, and Osbeck, Down to the Felt tells the story of Paul (Stahl-David), a down-on-his-luck compulsive gambler who makes a desperate deal with a psychopathic hitman (Weston) to kill him in two weeks. But then he meets Erica (Thompson), a mystery woman, and life suddenly starts dealing him aces.
Previously co-directing the award-winning military drama Minus One, Osbeck is also producing Down to the Felt through his production shingle Big Deal Pictures, alongside Douglas.
Stated Osbeck, “It’s truly an embarrassment of riches to be working with both Michaels and Scottie. Their roles all demand...
- 5/9/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
It seems you can’t throw a rock without hitting a free ad-supported TV (Fast) channel from NBCUniversal these days. The company has done an excellent job distributing its streaming channels across the Fast landscape, and this week Google TV and Android TV are getting in on the party.
A total of four new NBCU Fast channels are now available on Android TV and Google TV devices. Users will see the channels in the Live tab on Google TV as soon as they pull their device out of the box, with no downloads required. The additions have helped to bring the integrated Fast channel count on Google TV devices to over 100.
The new channels available now on Google TV and Android TV devices are:
“Murder, She Wrote”: The classic detective series starring Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher, a mystery writer who is called upon to solve actual crimes in her small town.
A total of four new NBCU Fast channels are now available on Android TV and Google TV devices. Users will see the channels in the Live tab on Google TV as soon as they pull their device out of the box, with no downloads required. The additions have helped to bring the integrated Fast channel count on Google TV devices to over 100.
The new channels available now on Google TV and Android TV devices are:
“Murder, She Wrote”: The classic detective series starring Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher, a mystery writer who is called upon to solve actual crimes in her small town.
- 8/24/2023
- by David Satin
- The Streamable
NBCUniversal is expanding its free ad-supported streaming offerings this summer with nearly 50 new channels, featuring programming that includes “Saturday Night Live,” “The Real Housewives” franchises, “Top Chef” and “Keeping Up With the Kardashians.”
Also joining the NBCU’s Fast lineup is Spanish-language entertainment and news from Telemundo including “Historias de Amor,” “Lo Mejor de Telemundo” and “Telemundo al Día,” library titles like “Little House on the Prairie,” “Murder, She Wrote” and “Saved by the Bell” and genre-based sitcoms, action, crime, westerns and monster movie content.
“In this ever-growing entertainment landscape, we are proud to be a company that offers an extensive library of beloved film and tv series to fulfill the appetite of every viewer,” NBCUniversal global distribution president and chief revenue officer Belinda Menendez said in a statement. “With decades worth of titles from various genres, audiences will now have more ways to find our popular content through this...
Also joining the NBCU’s Fast lineup is Spanish-language entertainment and news from Telemundo including “Historias de Amor,” “Lo Mejor de Telemundo” and “Telemundo al Día,” library titles like “Little House on the Prairie,” “Murder, She Wrote” and “Saved by the Bell” and genre-based sitcoms, action, crime, westerns and monster movie content.
“In this ever-growing entertainment landscape, we are proud to be a company that offers an extensive library of beloved film and tv series to fulfill the appetite of every viewer,” NBCUniversal global distribution president and chief revenue officer Belinda Menendez said in a statement. “With decades worth of titles from various genres, audiences will now have more ways to find our popular content through this...
- 6/29/2023
- by Lucas Manfredi
- The Wrap
NBCUniversal is continuing its push into free, ad-supported television (Fast) by rolling out nearly 30 new channels to be distributed at launch on Amazon Freevee and Xumo Play.
Many of the offerings from across the NBCU Television & Streaming portfolio and NBCUniversal Global Distribution library will be available to viewers on demand for the first time at no charge. Viewers with antennas can get linear signals over the air for free, of course, but the always-on nature of the Fast channels makes the initiative unprecedented.
The channels include curated programming from Saturday Night Live, The Real Housewives franchise, Top Chef and Keeping Up with the Kardashians. Also in the mix are Spanish-language entertainment and news selections from Telemundo, including Historias de Amor, Lo Mejor de Telemundo and Telemundo al Día. Library series including Little House on the Prairie, Murder, She Wrote and Saved by the Bell, along with genre-based sitcoms, action, crime,...
Many of the offerings from across the NBCU Television & Streaming portfolio and NBCUniversal Global Distribution library will be available to viewers on demand for the first time at no charge. Viewers with antennas can get linear signals over the air for free, of course, but the always-on nature of the Fast channels makes the initiative unprecedented.
The channels include curated programming from Saturday Night Live, The Real Housewives franchise, Top Chef and Keeping Up with the Kardashians. Also in the mix are Spanish-language entertainment and news selections from Telemundo, including Historias de Amor, Lo Mejor de Telemundo and Telemundo al Día. Library series including Little House on the Prairie, Murder, She Wrote and Saved by the Bell, along with genre-based sitcoms, action, crime,...
- 6/29/2023
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
NBCUniversal is cracking open its TV and movie archives to launch around four dozen free, ad-supported streaming TV (Fast) channels — significantly expanding its footprint in the free streaming space.
In July, the company said, it will launch the new portfolio of Fast linear channels, with content from across the NBCU Television & Streaming and the NBCUniversal Global Distribution library, on Amazon Freevee and Xumo Play (the streaming platform operated as a joint venture between Comcast and Charter).
The lineup includes dedicated free streaming channels for “Saturday Night Live,” “The Real Housewives” franchises, “Top Chef” and “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” along with Spanish-language entertainment and news from Telemundo including “Historias de Amor,” “Lo Mejor de Telemundo” and “Telemundo al Día.” NBCU’s Fast channels also include those for older TV series “Little House on the Prairie,” “Murder, She Wrote,” “Saved by the Bell” and “The Lone Ranger,” plus genre-based channels for sitcoms,...
In July, the company said, it will launch the new portfolio of Fast linear channels, with content from across the NBCU Television & Streaming and the NBCUniversal Global Distribution library, on Amazon Freevee and Xumo Play (the streaming platform operated as a joint venture between Comcast and Charter).
The lineup includes dedicated free streaming channels for “Saturday Night Live,” “The Real Housewives” franchises, “Top Chef” and “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” along with Spanish-language entertainment and news from Telemundo including “Historias de Amor,” “Lo Mejor de Telemundo” and “Telemundo al Día.” NBCU’s Fast channels also include those for older TV series “Little House on the Prairie,” “Murder, She Wrote,” “Saved by the Bell” and “The Lone Ranger,” plus genre-based channels for sitcoms,...
- 6/29/2023
- by Todd Spangler
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: UTA has signed actorJohn Magaro, who landed a Gotham Award nomination for his starring turn in Kelly Reichardt’s 2019 Western First Cow, for representation in all areas.
Magaro will next be seen on the film side in Celine Song’s drama Past Lives, opposite Greta Lee. He also stars opposite Michelle Williams in the Cannes-bound art world dramedy Showing Up, which reunites him with his First Cow director, Reichardt.
The actor is currently shooting a role in George Tillman Jr.’s as-yet-untitled George Foreman biopic for Sony. He recently played a supporting role in the Sopranos prequel film The Many Saints of Newark from Warner Bros. and New Line, which reunited him with David Chase following his role in Not Fade Away.
Magaro was previously a co-lead in Eytan Rockaway’s Lansky, opposite Harvey Keitel and Sam Worthington. Previously, he appeared in Adam McKay’s The Big Short for Paramount,...
Magaro will next be seen on the film side in Celine Song’s drama Past Lives, opposite Greta Lee. He also stars opposite Michelle Williams in the Cannes-bound art world dramedy Showing Up, which reunites him with his First Cow director, Reichardt.
The actor is currently shooting a role in George Tillman Jr.’s as-yet-untitled George Foreman biopic for Sony. He recently played a supporting role in the Sopranos prequel film The Many Saints of Newark from Warner Bros. and New Line, which reunited him with David Chase following his role in Not Fade Away.
Magaro was previously a co-lead in Eytan Rockaway’s Lansky, opposite Harvey Keitel and Sam Worthington. Previously, he appeared in Adam McKay’s The Big Short for Paramount,...
- 5/12/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Josh Radnor, the actor best known for How I Met Your Mother, Hunters, and his film Liberal Arts, will put out his first solo release as a musical artist on April 16th. The One More Then I’ll Let You Go EP, which is available for preorder, will be available digitally and as a signed 12-inch pressed to clear vinyl via Flower Moon Records.
He’s previewing the record with “The High Road,” a gently lilting ballad about the breakdown of a friendship on which he sings, “I wanna take the high road,...
He’s previewing the record with “The High Road,” a gently lilting ballad about the breakdown of a friendship on which he sings, “I wanna take the high road,...
- 3/10/2021
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
With the acclaimed A24 title First Cow coming to VOD next week, now seems like a perfect time to re-post the chat I had with star John Magaro. We talked plenty about the movie, to be sure, but also just about what interests him as an actor. Sitting down in a Manhattan coffee shop with him, we spent over a half hour talking about not just his career, but the directors he’s worked with, how he sees the job of an actor, and what the future of the industry might hold. He was even a bit surprised to hear how fond I was of his roles in Liberal Arts and Not Fade Away, two performances that helped put him on the map, along with high profile films like The Big Short. It was a wide ranging chat, but one enjoyed by both sides. First Cow (review found here) is...
- 7/13/2020
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
While the 2020 SXSW Film Festival has been canceled due to the coronavirus, IndieWire is reviewing select titles from this year’s edition.
Filmmaker Kris Rey (formerly known as Kris Swanberg) has long trafficked in stories about compelling women who temper awkward moments by bonding with inappropriate new pals. In her most widely seen feature to date, 2015 Sundance entry “Unexpected,” she matched up a pregnant high school teacher with an expecting student with illuminating results. That concept takes on more amusing results with “I Used to Go Here,” Rey’s best film, which still smacks of her usual obsessions. However, armed with her funniest material to date and a winning performance from Gillian Jacobs,
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As with other Rey-scripted heroines, “I Used to Go Here” finds its leading lady...
Filmmaker Kris Rey (formerly known as Kris Swanberg) has long trafficked in stories about compelling women who temper awkward moments by bonding with inappropriate new pals. In her most widely seen feature to date, 2015 Sundance entry “Unexpected,” she matched up a pregnant high school teacher with an expecting student with illuminating results. That concept takes on more amusing results with “I Used to Go Here,” Rey’s best film, which still smacks of her usual obsessions. However, armed with her funniest material to date and a winning performance from Gillian Jacobs,
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As with other Rey-scripted heroines, “I Used to Go Here” finds its leading lady...
- 3/12/2020
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Earlier this week, I was honored to meet up with actor John Magaro for a wide ranging conversation. Sitting down in a Manhattan coffee shop with him, we spent over a half hour talking about not just his career, but the directors he’s worked with, how he sees the job of an actor, and what the future of the industry might hold. He was even a bit surprised to hear how fond I was of his roles in Liberal Arts and Not Fade Away, two performances that helped put him on the map, along with high profile films like The Big Short. Now, he has a new project hitting theaters in a few days, as well as a huge role in The Many Saints of Newark later this year. That prequel to The Sopranos should establish him as a household name, but for the moment, he may very well...
- 3/4/2020
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Andrew Blair Nov 23, 2018
Alas, the geek idols of my youth have fallen...
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
"Hi Rob. You f**king asshole."
Rob Gordon is a great example of a character not having to be likeable to be interesting and entertaining (He made it to number 16 on our totally definitive list of the Top 50 assholes in cinema).
Yet you can’t help but root for Rob, because he’s played by John Cusack, and John Cusack can make hitmen sympathetic. Plus, as evidenced by the first article I linked to, I am in no position to criticize anyone for making endless lists. As you are reading a website called Den of Geek, there’s a chance you can also relate to Rob’s obsessive behaviour.
In both Nick Hornby’s novel and the adaptation, the characters are both funny and tragic. In the hands of less...
Alas, the geek idols of my youth have fallen...
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
"Hi Rob. You f**king asshole."
Rob Gordon is a great example of a character not having to be likeable to be interesting and entertaining (He made it to number 16 on our totally definitive list of the Top 50 assholes in cinema).
Yet you can’t help but root for Rob, because he’s played by John Cusack, and John Cusack can make hitmen sympathetic. Plus, as evidenced by the first article I linked to, I am in no position to criticize anyone for making endless lists. As you are reading a website called Den of Geek, there’s a chance you can also relate to Rob’s obsessive behaviour.
In both Nick Hornby’s novel and the adaptation, the characters are both funny and tragic. In the hands of less...
- 11/23/2018
- Den of Geek
Exclusive: Michael Mayer, who recently directed the Annette Bening-Saoirse Ronan movie, The Seagull, has come on board to direct the feature take on Vanessa Diffenbaugh’s New York Times bestseller The Language of Flowers. Kiersey Clemons, star of Open Road’s cult comedy Dope and the upcoming Warner Bros./DC Flash movie is in talks to star in the lead role of Victoria.
The Language of Flowers tells the story of a young woman who, after being released from the foster care system, finds work in a flower shop. There she changes the lives of others while working to overcome her own troubled past with her foster mother. The book spent 69 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list and has sold over 2M copies worldwide in 40 languages. Previously set up at Fox 2000, the novel was then developed by Bcdf with a new screenplay by Peter Hutchings.
Claude Dal Farra,...
The Language of Flowers tells the story of a young woman who, after being released from the foster care system, finds work in a flower shop. There she changes the lives of others while working to overcome her own troubled past with her foster mother. The book spent 69 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list and has sold over 2M copies worldwide in 40 languages. Previously set up at Fox 2000, the novel was then developed by Bcdf with a new screenplay by Peter Hutchings.
Claude Dal Farra,...
- 7/27/2018
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Four-time Emmy winning The Simpsons producer David Mirkin is set to direct the feature film comedy The Hating Game, based on the USA Today bestselling novel by Sally Thorne.
Christina Mengert adapted the book. Claude Dal Farra, Brice Dal Farra, and Brian Keady of Bcdf Pictures are producers.
The Hating Game tells the story of kind-hearted Lucy Hutton and her cold-efficient nemesis Joshua Templeton. Resolving to achieve professional success without compromising her ethics, Lucy embarks on a ruthless game of one-upmanship against Joshua, a rivalry that is impossibly complicated by her growing attraction to him.
Mirkin’s directing credits include Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow cult classic Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion and Heartbreakers which starred Gene Hackman, Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Zach Galifianakis and Sarah Silverman. Mirkin is a longtime writer/producer of Fox’s The Simpsons and also co-wrote The Simpsons Movie...
Christina Mengert adapted the book. Claude Dal Farra, Brice Dal Farra, and Brian Keady of Bcdf Pictures are producers.
The Hating Game tells the story of kind-hearted Lucy Hutton and her cold-efficient nemesis Joshua Templeton. Resolving to achieve professional success without compromising her ethics, Lucy embarks on a ruthless game of one-upmanship against Joshua, a rivalry that is impossibly complicated by her growing attraction to him.
Mirkin’s directing credits include Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow cult classic Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion and Heartbreakers which starred Gene Hackman, Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Zach Galifianakis and Sarah Silverman. Mirkin is a longtime writer/producer of Fox’s The Simpsons and also co-wrote The Simpsons Movie...
- 7/25/2018
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The San Andreas and True Detective star is attached to headline and executive produce the feature adaptation of Sophie Kinsellas New York Times 4 million-copy bestseller Can You Keep a Secret? with Elise Duran directing.
Alexandra Daddario will play Emma Corrigan, a girl with a few secrets. On a turbulent plane ride, thinking she's about to die, Emma spills them all to the handsome stranger sitting next to her. At least, she thought he was a stranger. But then Jack Harper, her company's young and elusive CEO, arrives at the office. It's him. And he knows every single humiliating detail about Emma.
Peter Hutchings is adapting and Claude Dal Farra, Brice Dal Farra, and Brian Keady of BDCF Pictures are producers. Charles Miller is serving as EP with Daddario. Embankment Films is selling foreign.
Can You Keep a Secret? was previously set up at Paramount. The...
Alexandra Daddario will play Emma Corrigan, a girl with a few secrets. On a turbulent plane ride, thinking she's about to die, Emma spills them all to the handsome stranger sitting next to her. At least, she thought he was a stranger. But then Jack Harper, her company's young and elusive CEO, arrives at the office. It's him. And he knows every single humiliating detail about Emma.
Peter Hutchings is adapting and Claude Dal Farra, Brice Dal Farra, and Brian Keady of BDCF Pictures are producers. Charles Miller is serving as EP with Daddario. Embankment Films is selling foreign.
Can You Keep a Secret? was previously set up at Paramount. The...
- 7/24/2018
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
In today’s film news roundup, “Hush, Hush” is heading for the big screen, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Anna Diop are cast in Jordan Peele’s “Us,” and Paris Jackson gets a part as a singer.
Director Hired
Television veteran Kellie Cyrus has been tapped to direct a movie adaption of Becca Fitzpatrick’s bestselling supernatural romance saga “Hush, Hush,” Variety has learned exclusively.
Cyrus will direct from an adaptation by Peter Hutchings. Producers are Claude Dal Farra, Brice Dal Farra, and Brian Keady of Bcdf Pictures, along with Irfaan Fredericks of Kalahari Film & Media. Fitzpatrick, Hutchings, Simon Swart, and Kalahari’s Michael S. Murphey are the executive producers.
“Hush, Hush,” published in 2009 as the first of a four-title series, was a New York Times Bestseller for more than 50 weeks. It has sold over five million copies worldwide and has been translated into over 35 languages. All four books — “Hush,...
Director Hired
Television veteran Kellie Cyrus has been tapped to direct a movie adaption of Becca Fitzpatrick’s bestselling supernatural romance saga “Hush, Hush,” Variety has learned exclusively.
Cyrus will direct from an adaptation by Peter Hutchings. Producers are Claude Dal Farra, Brice Dal Farra, and Brian Keady of Bcdf Pictures, along with Irfaan Fredericks of Kalahari Film & Media. Fitzpatrick, Hutchings, Simon Swart, and Kalahari’s Michael S. Murphey are the executive producers.
“Hush, Hush,” published in 2009 as the first of a four-title series, was a New York Times Bestseller for more than 50 weeks. It has sold over five million copies worldwide and has been translated into over 35 languages. All four books — “Hush,...
- 7/20/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
So Yong Kim has come on board to direct the independent drama “The Pecan Man,” based on the novel by Cassie Dandridge Selleck, Variety has learned exclusively.
Claude Dal Farra, Brice Dal Farra, and Brian Keady of Bcdf Pictures are the producers. Joseph Muszynski adapted the book and is an executive producer.
Described as “To Kill a Mockingbird” meets “The Help,” “The Pecan Man” tells the story of a small 1970s southern town after a homeless black man is hastily charged with the fatal stabbing of the police chief’s son. A white widow and her black housekeeper struggle with what they know of the crime as the tragedy creeps into their lives.
Kim’s debut feature, “In Between Days,” won the special jury prize at Sundance. Her two films, “For Ellen” and “Lovesong” also premiered in competition at Sundance. She has been nominated for four Film Independent Spirit Awards,...
Claude Dal Farra, Brice Dal Farra, and Brian Keady of Bcdf Pictures are the producers. Joseph Muszynski adapted the book and is an executive producer.
Described as “To Kill a Mockingbird” meets “The Help,” “The Pecan Man” tells the story of a small 1970s southern town after a homeless black man is hastily charged with the fatal stabbing of the police chief’s son. A white widow and her black housekeeper struggle with what they know of the crime as the tragedy creeps into their lives.
Kim’s debut feature, “In Between Days,” won the special jury prize at Sundance. Her two films, “For Ellen” and “Lovesong” also premiered in competition at Sundance. She has been nominated for four Film Independent Spirit Awards,...
- 7/19/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Hulu has confirmed that several of its original series will be debuting new episodes on the streaming service in July, including the first season of the highly anticipated Stephen King thriller “Castle Rock” as well as season 2 of the costume drama “Harlots” and season 4 of the comedy “Casual.”
And there will also be new to Hulu seasons of some of your favorites from other networks, including season 2 of “The Strain,” season 4 of “The Vikings” and season 8 of “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” Likewise, there will be plenty of movies making their first Hulu appearances including the first five films in the “Star Trek” franchise and the Oscar-winning “Rosemary’s Baby.”
See Netflix schedule: Here’s what is coming and leaving in July
Available July 1: TV
Alaska: The Last Frontier: Complete Season 4 (Discovery)
Deadliest Catch: Complete Season 11 (Discovery)
Deadly Women: Complete Season 6 (ID)
Dual Survival: Complete Season 5 (Discovery)
Elementary: Complete Season...
And there will also be new to Hulu seasons of some of your favorites from other networks, including season 2 of “The Strain,” season 4 of “The Vikings” and season 8 of “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” Likewise, there will be plenty of movies making their first Hulu appearances including the first five films in the “Star Trek” franchise and the Oscar-winning “Rosemary’s Baby.”
See Netflix schedule: Here’s what is coming and leaving in July
Available July 1: TV
Alaska: The Last Frontier: Complete Season 4 (Discovery)
Deadliest Catch: Complete Season 11 (Discovery)
Deadly Women: Complete Season 6 (ID)
Dual Survival: Complete Season 5 (Discovery)
Elementary: Complete Season...
- 7/1/2018
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
Sneak Peek images of actress Elizabeth Olsen, aka 'Scarlet Witch', in Marvel Studios' "Avengers: Infinity War" posing for "Vogue" (Italia) magazine, photographed by Tom Munro:
Olsen debuted as Marvel Comics' mutant, 'Scarlet Witch' in "The Avengers" sequel, "Avengers: Age Of Ultron", followed by "Captain America: Civil War":
By the age of eleven, Olsen had played small roles in series including "How the West Was Fun".
This was followed by appearing in her sisters' straight-to-video series "The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley".
She filmed the movie "Red Lights" in 2011, then starred in Josh Radnor's film "Liberal Arts".
Olsen then co-starred in "Very Good Girls" (2013), followed by Spike Lee's remake of "Old Boy".
Olsen was cast as 'Edie Parker', in "Kill Your Darlings" and nominated for the 'BAFTA Rising Star' Award.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek 'Scarlet Witch'...
Olsen debuted as Marvel Comics' mutant, 'Scarlet Witch' in "The Avengers" sequel, "Avengers: Age Of Ultron", followed by "Captain America: Civil War":
By the age of eleven, Olsen had played small roles in series including "How the West Was Fun".
This was followed by appearing in her sisters' straight-to-video series "The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley".
She filmed the movie "Red Lights" in 2011, then starred in Josh Radnor's film "Liberal Arts".
Olsen then co-starred in "Very Good Girls" (2013), followed by Spike Lee's remake of "Old Boy".
Olsen was cast as 'Edie Parker', in "Kill Your Darlings" and nominated for the 'BAFTA Rising Star' Award.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek 'Scarlet Witch'...
- 10/29/2017
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
It’s gone slightly under the radar, but after a few underwhelming efforts Elizabeth Olsen is hitting a peak point in her career. After her breakthrough in “Martha Marcy May Marlene” six years ago, she starred in a number of forgettable indies (“Liberal Arts,” “I Saw The Light”) and a summer blockbuster most viewers probably don’t remember she was even in (“Godzilla”). She was fortunate enough to land the role of Wanda Maximoff aka The Scarlet Witch in Marvel Studios “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” however, and reprised her role in the very well received “Captain America: Civil War” a little over a year ago.
Continue reading Elizabeth Olsen On Watching Tom Holland Watch ‘Avengers’ Footage, ‘Wind River’ And ‘Ingrid Goes West’ [Interview] at The Playlist.
Continue reading Elizabeth Olsen On Watching Tom Holland Watch ‘Avengers’ Footage, ‘Wind River’ And ‘Ingrid Goes West’ [Interview] at The Playlist.
- 8/9/2017
- by Gregory Ellwood
- The Playlist
Take another look @ actress Elizabeth Olsen, aka 'Scarlet Witch', appearing in Marvel Studios' "Avengers: Infinity War" posing for "Vogue" (Italia) magazine, photographed by Tom Munro:
Olsen debuted as Marvel Comics' mutant, 'Scarlet Witch' in "The Avengers" sequel, "Avengers: Age Of Ultron", followed by "Captain America: Civil War":
By the age of eleven, Olsen had played small roles in series including "How the West Was Fun".
This was followed by appearing in her sisters' straight-to-video series "The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley".
She filmed the movie "Red Lights" in 2011, then starred in Josh Radnor's film "Liberal Arts".
Olsen then co-starred in "Very Good Girls" (2013), followed by Spike Lee's remake of "Old Boy".
Olsen was cast as 'Edie Parker', in "Kill Your Darlings" and nominated for the 'BAFTA Rising Star' Award.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek 'Scarlet Witch'...
Olsen debuted as Marvel Comics' mutant, 'Scarlet Witch' in "The Avengers" sequel, "Avengers: Age Of Ultron", followed by "Captain America: Civil War":
By the age of eleven, Olsen had played small roles in series including "How the West Was Fun".
This was followed by appearing in her sisters' straight-to-video series "The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley".
She filmed the movie "Red Lights" in 2011, then starred in Josh Radnor's film "Liberal Arts".
Olsen then co-starred in "Very Good Girls" (2013), followed by Spike Lee's remake of "Old Boy".
Olsen was cast as 'Edie Parker', in "Kill Your Darlings" and nominated for the 'BAFTA Rising Star' Award.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek 'Scarlet Witch'...
- 7/27/2017
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
President Donald Trump launched a deeply personal attack on Morning Joe cohosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough Thursday morning.
“I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don’t watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year’s Eve, and insisted on joining me,” Trump tweeted. “She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!”
I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don't watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came.
“I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don’t watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year’s Eve, and insisted on joining me,” Trump tweeted. “She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!”
I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don't watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came.
- 6/29/2017
- by Stephanie Petit
- PEOPLE.com
So all hail, Princess Diana! For the second week in a row, she has conquered the all mighty Box Office!
You commerce-and-finance majors might consider declaring a holiday. Liberal arts dweebs like me will be satisfied with being grateful for a genuinely satisfying movie-going experience.
There’s a lot to be said for the film and no doubt a lot of it is already being said, with, again no doubt, more to come. It’s the kind of flick that prompts après theater discussion, which is kind of rare these days, especially among those of us who have logged a load of birthdays. We were so happy with the afternoon’s entertainment that we didn’t mind not remembering where we left the car.
I’d like to focus on only one aspect of it and maybe get in some opinions about superhero movies in general. And it affords a...
You commerce-and-finance majors might consider declaring a holiday. Liberal arts dweebs like me will be satisfied with being grateful for a genuinely satisfying movie-going experience.
There’s a lot to be said for the film and no doubt a lot of it is already being said, with, again no doubt, more to come. It’s the kind of flick that prompts après theater discussion, which is kind of rare these days, especially among those of us who have logged a load of birthdays. We were so happy with the afternoon’s entertainment that we didn’t mind not remembering where we left the car.
I’d like to focus on only one aspect of it and maybe get in some opinions about superhero movies in general. And it affords a...
- 6/15/2017
- by Dennis O'Neil
- Comicmix.com
It looks like the Black-ish TV show spinoff will be ordered to series, but not at ABC. Reportedly, the still untitled comedy starring Yara Shahidi, Chris Parnell, and Trevor Jackson, and guest-starring Matt Walsh, will run on Disney-abc cable network, Freeform. Walsh will guest star on the Freeform series, because of his commitment to HBO's Veep.The Black-ish spinoff had its backdoor pilot on May 3rd, in the "Liberal Arts" episode, which follows Zoey Johnson (Shahidi) off to college. The cast of the ABC parent-series also includes Anthony Anderson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Marcus Scribner, Miles Brown, Marsai Martin, Jennifer Lewis, and Laurence Fishburne. Read More…...
- 5/11/2017
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
A cinematic guide to confronting postgrad malaise.Fox Searchlight Pictures
It’s getting to be that time of year where if you listen closely, you can hear millions of parents asking soon-to-be graduates about their plans for the future. Transitioning out of an academic setting can be tricky. And with it comes a very specific kind of funk; a strange and aimless limbo aggravated by the dreaded…so — now what?
I’ve heard that millennials are adult babies and back in the day dinosaurs walked uphill both ways and payed for their entire tuition with the quarters they earned selling lemonade during the summer. Which is to say: the financial and social pressures shouldered by recent graduates are very real existential threats. Thankfully, small comfort though it may be, the disenchanted former student has more than a few cinematic role models to choose from. The postgrad film, older sibling to the high school coming-of-age-movie, concerns...
It’s getting to be that time of year where if you listen closely, you can hear millions of parents asking soon-to-be graduates about their plans for the future. Transitioning out of an academic setting can be tricky. And with it comes a very specific kind of funk; a strange and aimless limbo aggravated by the dreaded…so — now what?
I’ve heard that millennials are adult babies and back in the day dinosaurs walked uphill both ways and payed for their entire tuition with the quarters they earned selling lemonade during the summer. Which is to say: the financial and social pressures shouldered by recent graduates are very real existential threats. Thankfully, small comfort though it may be, the disenchanted former student has more than a few cinematic role models to choose from. The postgrad film, older sibling to the high school coming-of-age-movie, concerns...
- 3/31/2017
- by Meg Shields
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
One of the more recent additions to the kingdom of TV queen Shonda Rhimes, How to Get Away With Murder follows a quintet of pre-law students score a prestigious internship with power lawyer Annalise Keating (viva Viola Davis!). Soon, they find themselves entwined in a web of secrecy and murder. Annalise's closest ally and confidante is her underling Frank Delfino, portrayed by Charlie Weber — at least, he was until the end of the second season, when she learned of a certain past betrayal and Frank skipped town with a money-packed suitcase.
- 9/29/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Written and directed by Adrian Manzano, whose first film “Sex, Love, Salsa” won several awards in the film festival circuit, “La Gradua” centers on Miosotis (Sofia Rodriguez), a Dominican 23-year old Liberal Arts college graduate who comes back to the Bronx… Continue Reading →...
- 9/28/2016
- by Vanessa Martinez
- ShadowAndAct
He rocketed to stardom in High School Musical as a clean-cut all-American kid. But Zac Efron is now notching up a string of muscular comedy performances to match his pecs
Don’t laugh, but Zac Efron is shaping up to be one of the funniest actors in American cinema today. When he starred in 2014’s Bad Neighbours as a hot-but-dim party animal whose shindigs make life hell for the nice couple next door, it was a light-bulb moment. Efron was a scream: who knew? Only a small group of cinemagoers who had seen him two years earlier as a dippy stoner in the 2012 indie comedy Liberal Arts. But it was Bad Neighbours that should be credited with inventing the Zac-com, a mini-genre that also includes Dirty Grandpa, Bad Neighbours 2: Sorority Rising and his latest, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates.
In its emphasis on preening complacency, his performance...
Don’t laugh, but Zac Efron is shaping up to be one of the funniest actors in American cinema today. When he starred in 2014’s Bad Neighbours as a hot-but-dim party animal whose shindigs make life hell for the nice couple next door, it was a light-bulb moment. Efron was a scream: who knew? Only a small group of cinemagoers who had seen him two years earlier as a dippy stoner in the 2012 indie comedy Liberal Arts. But it was Bad Neighbours that should be credited with inventing the Zac-com, a mini-genre that also includes Dirty Grandpa, Bad Neighbours 2: Sorority Rising and his latest, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates.
In its emphasis on preening complacency, his performance...
- 8/8/2016
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
A great many shows and movies are coming to Hulu next month, some more notable than others. To skip the chaff and go straight to the wheat, allow us to collate and curate a selection of the most notable titles available to stream in July:
“48 Hours” and “Another 48 Hours”
“The Aviator”
“Berberian Sound Studio”
“Broadway Danny Rose”
“The Brothers Bloom”
“Devil’s Pass”
“Dirty Wars”
“Dirty Work”
“‘Don’t Look Now”
“Escape From Alcatraz”
“Finding Neverland”
“Fish Tank”
“Flashdance”
“Gimme the Loot”
“Glory”
Read More: ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’: Reed Morano To Direct Elisabeth Moss In The Hulu Series
“Hackers”
“Hunger”
“The Hunt for Red October”
“In the Loop”
“Jimmy P”
“Liberal Arts”
“Like Someone in Love”
“The Loneliest Planet”
“Lonesome Jim”
“Manderlay”
“Me and You and Everyone We Know”
“Mommie Dearest”
“Phoenix”
“Rosemary’s Baby”
Read More: ‘Transparent’ Ratings Lag Behind Rivals on Netflix & Hulu
“Sightseers”
“Simon Killer...
“48 Hours” and “Another 48 Hours”
“The Aviator”
“Berberian Sound Studio”
“Broadway Danny Rose”
“The Brothers Bloom”
“Devil’s Pass”
“Dirty Wars”
“Dirty Work”
“‘Don’t Look Now”
“Escape From Alcatraz”
“Finding Neverland”
“Fish Tank”
“Flashdance”
“Gimme the Loot”
“Glory”
Read More: ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’: Reed Morano To Direct Elisabeth Moss In The Hulu Series
“Hackers”
“Hunger”
“The Hunt for Red October”
“In the Loop”
“Jimmy P”
“Liberal Arts”
“Like Someone in Love”
“The Loneliest Planet”
“Lonesome Jim”
“Manderlay”
“Me and You and Everyone We Know”
“Mommie Dearest”
“Phoenix”
“Rosemary’s Baby”
Read More: ‘Transparent’ Ratings Lag Behind Rivals on Netflix & Hulu
“Sightseers”
“Simon Killer...
- 6/22/2016
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Coming off of one of last year’s best performances in 45 Years, Charlotte Rampling has just signed on to writer-director Lisa Langseth‘s latest drama Euphoria, which will be her English-language debut. Deadline reports Rampling will join cast members Eva Green and Langseth-regular Alicia Vikander, who is also producing through her new company Vikarious. The story focuses on two sisters (Green and Vikander), traveling towards an unknown destination in Europe while in conflict. No more information is currently known about the film, which has plans to shoot in the German Alps this August.
In related news, two Agatha Christie films are in the works from Sony and Paramount, with their eyes on Alicia Vikander and Emma Stone, respectively, THR reports. The projects will not be adaptations of Christie’s work, but instead examinations of her life. Sony’s project, titled Agatha Christie, would focus on the titular character (Vikander) crossing...
In related news, two Agatha Christie films are in the works from Sony and Paramount, with their eyes on Alicia Vikander and Emma Stone, respectively, THR reports. The projects will not be adaptations of Christie’s work, but instead examinations of her life. Sony’s project, titled Agatha Christie, would focus on the titular character (Vikander) crossing...
- 6/22/2016
- by Mike Mazzanti
- The Film Stage
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How I Met Your Mother's Josh Radnor is set to direct the upcoming sci-fi drama, The Leaves...
Josh Radnor, of How I Met Your Mother and Mercy Street fame, will be exploring uncharted (for him) territory as director of Lionsgate/Summit’s sci-fi drama The Leaves, the latest supernatural comic to come alive on the big screen.
This isn’t Radnor’s first time behind the camera (though it is his first paranormal one). His first venture behind the scenes was writing and directing the buzzed-about dramedy Happythankyoumoreplease, followed by Liberal Arts, which he also starred in. Both of his films received serious accolades even though neither was a box office smash.
In an uncharacteristic move, he won’t be making an onscreen appearance this time around. The Leaves is also a departure from his usual comedic material as he enters the world of science fiction.
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How I Met Your Mother's Josh Radnor is set to direct the upcoming sci-fi drama, The Leaves...
Josh Radnor, of How I Met Your Mother and Mercy Street fame, will be exploring uncharted (for him) territory as director of Lionsgate/Summit’s sci-fi drama The Leaves, the latest supernatural comic to come alive on the big screen.
This isn’t Radnor’s first time behind the camera (though it is his first paranormal one). His first venture behind the scenes was writing and directing the buzzed-about dramedy Happythankyoumoreplease, followed by Liberal Arts, which he also starred in. Both of his films received serious accolades even though neither was a box office smash.
In an uncharacteristic move, he won’t be making an onscreen appearance this time around. The Leaves is also a departure from his usual comedic material as he enters the world of science fiction.
- 6/22/2016
- Den of Geek
How I Met Your Mother alum Josh Radnor is getting into sci-fi. He will direct a sci-fi drama called The Leaves, based on a Virgin Comics (now Liquid Comics) one-shot comic of the same name. Summit Entertainment acquired the rights to the graphic novel way back in 2008. Here is the description of The Leaves on Amazon: Inspired by the real-life Naadi fortune-tellers of India and one man’s legendary experience, Doctor Max Mellick has the universe at his fingertips — a world-renown heart surgeon with a striking girlfriend and extravagant New York lifestyle. When he attends a friend's funeral in India, something deep within him is forever changed. Identified as evil by an Indian fortune-teller, Max is forced to flee the country — to save his own life, but more importantly, to preserve his destiny. Interestingly, there’s a major aspect of The Leaves’ story (which Variety mentions) that’s not in that summary.
- 6/21/2016
- by Emily Rome
- Hitfix
"How I Met Your Mother" star Josh Radnor will direct the sci-fi drama "The Leaves" for Lionsgate and Summit Entertainment.
The story follows a man who must fight to convince the love of his life that they are soul mates when he ends up in a parallel universe where she has no idea who he is. Radnor is not expected to star.
Radnor, who also helmed "Happythankyoumoreplease" and "Liberal Arts," is directing from a script by Christopher Kyle and Kevin J. Walsh. Gotham Chopra and Carla Hacken ("Hell or High Water") are producing.
Source: Variety...
The story follows a man who must fight to convince the love of his life that they are soul mates when he ends up in a parallel universe where she has no idea who he is. Radnor is not expected to star.
Radnor, who also helmed "Happythankyoumoreplease" and "Liberal Arts," is directing from a script by Christopher Kyle and Kevin J. Walsh. Gotham Chopra and Carla Hacken ("Hell or High Water") are producing.
Source: Variety...
- 6/21/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Talking to Vulture recently, Chris Evans revealed that if The Avengers were real, he would more than likely be #TeamIronMan. "There would have to be some sort of responsibility," he explained. "You have to answer to somebody. You can't just let this group of vigilantes answer to themselves." Well, that's a fair point and all, but based on the images below, I would say that the Captain America: Civil War star is in fact more likely to be #TeamScarletWitch! The talented actress - who you should definitely check out in the likes of Martha Marcy May Marlene and Liberal Arts if you've only seen in her in Godzilla and the Marvel movies - has been making headlines after stealing th show on the red carpet of the European premiere, and these are the photos which have caused such a stir... Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War finds Steve Rogers leading...
- 4/27/2016
- ComicBookMovie.com
My experience last November at Los Cabos International Film Festival was fabulous! Set up to promote film coproduction and financing among Mexico, U.S., and Canada, the festival allowed all of us to be very close and connected to our peers in the business – international sales agents, writers of all kinds, programmers and filmmakers. There we met the bright new talent, so idealistic and yet so knowledgeable and educated about film in the world. To be able to see films, concentrate on creating business and still have time to mingle -- this is what makes a festival a happy experience.
Among the many people I met there, was Ben Odell, partner at 3Pas Studios, the newly launched production company that he and Mexico’s most beloved and renowned comic star and director, Eugenio Derbez, founded on the strength and success of the $100 million dollar grossing comedy, "Instructions Not Included".
The success of this film also allowed the film’s producer Monica Lozano to establish Alebrije Distribución a new distribution company which will acquire distribution rights for the Latin and North American markets.
Monica has had her hand in 23 productions since her first film, "Amores Perros". Her most recent success was "Instructions Not Included", the Us$ 5.5 million film that became the highest grossing Spanish language film of all time in the U.S., and the second highest grossing film in any language in Mexico.
But to return to Ben and his new company, the subject of this blog: 3Pas in Spanish means three steps, but is also a play on words, something Mexicans like a lot. Tres Pas sounds like tripas, which in English means guts, or tripe. Personally, I too love tripas. Deliciosas!
I Finally met Ben at Los Cabos Film Festival. I say I "finally" met him, because we have so many friends in common and ever since I have been following Latino films and writing my book on Latin America and the film business, I had often heard of Ben as the head of production for Pantelion, U.S.'s only sustained and successful Latino film distributor.
Last September, when Strategic Partners’ Laura Mackenzie in Halifax invited me to moderate a panel on “The Games Maker”, an Argentinean-Canadian-Italian coproduction, Ben’s name was prominent as the one who made the match between Argentina’s Juan Pablo Buscarini and Canada’s Tina Pehme and Kim Roberts.
I always had him pictured as my other friend whose last name is Odell, a slight and wiry, dark haired type. How surprised I was to see this big, handsome blond who exuded warmth and a good-willed wit and storytelling skill. Love at first sight! And I am sure I am not the only one who is smitten with him.
I wish I could convey his spirit, humor and strength as he recounted his life and career(s) to me in the hour we spent together in his new spacious, airy and bright Santa Monica office where Ben Shalom-Martinez was the third person in the new company, manning a phone system not yet working.
I told Ben I had read his mini bio in IMDb, and it made me want to know how he had gotten into the Latino side of the business. I expected him to reveal that, in fact, and in spite of his name, he was Latino.
One year out of college, Ben said, "I worked in editing with the Maysles Brothers. I was a P.A. on the first film John Turturro directed called “Mac”, and I was a reader for Art Linson. And that was my degree in Liberal Arts in Film. I wanted to be a screenwriter but I didn’t feel I had enough life experience. A family friend offered me a job in commercial production in Colombia. It was 1992 and my dad said: “if you love all things Latino, go learn Spanish and become an expert in the Latino market. It’s going to need people that understand it. No one was really talking about its importance then but that piece of advice changed my life. I moved to Colombia to learn Spanish and start what would be a life long journey in all things Latino, from U.S. Latino to Latin America. It’s not a single market but there is a connectivity between all of it.”
Ben grew up in Pennsylvania and when he was six years old, neighbors, who had old friends from Colombia, did an exchange of one of their children with a Colombian child. “My father ended up basically adopting that child for the year he lived with our neighbors and from that grew a friendship with this Colombian family.”
When he was 12 years old the whole Colombian family moved to Philadelphia. “I wanted them to adopt me. They were crazy, emotional, passionate, loving. It was a warmth and lust for life I hadn’t really experienced in suburban white America. And then I realized there was a whole country full of them.” At 15 he went with a friend to Colombia and loved it.
His father eventually married someone from that family. So Ben's connection to Colombia, if not to all of Latin America was very organic. Colombia is not part of the "U.S. Latino market" per se, but Colombia and the rest of Latin America share certain characteristics and commonalities — views on life and death, family, spirituality -- that end up working their way into storytelling that are shared throughout the U.S. Latino market and Latin America along with a larger emotional scale in the tone of their storytelling.
Odell lived in Colombia from 1992 to 2000. He also worked as a freelance journalist before becoming a Spanish language television writer and screenwriter there.
When he was in Colombia working in commercials, he met Tom Quinn, a journalist Iiving there for 25 years, working for Time Magazine and running an English language rag called The Colombian Post. In his youth ,Tom had run with the likes of Hunter S. Thompson. He had lots of adventures and lots of stories of those days.
Ben asked Tom what was the most compelling story they could make into a movie that wasn’t about narcotrafficking, and Tom said one word: “Emeralds.” Colombia supplies 60% of the world's emeralds. The mines in the Emerald Zone have strong drug laundering connections as well, as one might guess. The land is leased by the government to the three or four mining companies and they control everything with no supervision by the government.
The society is totally feudal. Workers labor for the companies for 28 days of the month and on the last two days they are allowed to keep whatever they find. Victor Carranza ran everything. He was The Don, violent and scary. A small man, about 5'2". He died in prison worth over a billion dollars.
Ben thought this was a great story to develop into a movie, and so he went back to New York to the contacts he had made including an exec at Tribeca Films. “They all said the same thing, great story but you are not a writer. Go write the script and then we’ll talk.” Ben returned to Colombia to do research.
In the meanwhile he began writing for Colombian TV. He had never written a feature film script, nor did he speak Spanish. He had, however, taken a course in feature film screenwriting with Robert McKee. And he had a girlfriend who was bilingual. He knew about Colombian TV and he saw the potential for legitimizing the story first as a TV show and then making it into a feature later.
Tom Quinn was very well known in Colombia as he was the Time News correspondent there at a moment when the magazine had a lot of power; the drug wars were one of its most consistent cover stories. They pitched it to Rti TV, and structured it like "The Fugitive".
There is a drug, called Burandanga, scientifically known as Scopolamine. It comes from a plant that grows wild in Colombia. The drugged one loses control of his or her will. He once heard a story about a man in a bar who wakes up in jail accused of a murder he can’t remember. This became the basis of the story. The lead goes into the Emerald Zone and drugged by burundanga, he kills one on the wrong side in a war going on there. He wakes up with no recollection and a full on civil war going on around him. He can't get out of the Emerald Zone until he finds the man who drugged him. The title of this series that Tom and he pitched and in 1998 created was "Fuego verde", like the 1954 Hollywood movie, “ Green Fire” starring Grace Kelly and Stewart Grainger.
As a television writer, he eventually created and wrote over 300 hours of Spanish-language narrative television including “Fuego Verde” -- the first-ever action series. It was one of the highest rated series on Colombian television. He also co-wrote the Colombian political satire feature film, “ Golpe de estadio”, which was nominated for Spain's Academy Award, the Goya in 1999, and was Colombia's nomination to the Oscar in 2000. It is still one of the highest grossing Colombian films of all time.
In the film, "Golpe de estadio", (Golpe de Estado means “Coup d'état”but it also could mean “Coup d’ Stadium”), an oil company has set up a camp for geological research in a small village in Colombia that has been named New Texas. It becomes the target of the guerrillas who are constantly clashing with police in the area. The confrontation is put on hold however during the TV transmission of the world Cup qualifiers. The two sides declare a sort of truce so that they can all watch the match between Colombia and Argentina on the only working TV in the town. Colombia wins the game, 5 to 0, (a victory, in real life, infamous in the annals of world cup) and of course the Colombian police and guerrilla find themselves cheering for the same team.
"Golpe" was released in theaters in 1999 while the drug wars and war between the guerrillas and the government were moving into peace talks. It came out during the war, and Ben naively believed it could make tangible impact on the country. Instead they received death threats. It was a very volatile time.
He left Colombia and put together a business plan to make movies for Latino audiences. He was too green and he was way ahead of his time so instead he went to film school at Columbia University.
He went to film school thinking it was only to network and realized he knew nothing about film writing or production. "Going to film school's more valuable if a student already has some experience," Ben says.
"Confess", a feature length film he produced in his second year of film school (2005) was one of his thesis projects. It was made for a couple of hundred thousand dollars. Ali Larter and Melissa Leo starred in it (way before she won the Oscar for Best Supporting Role in “The Fighter”). The movie was about a disgruntled computer hacker of mixed race, who struggles to adjust to life after a jaunt in prison. He takes his anger online forcing confessions out of those who slighted him. Eventually his focus becomes political. “It had all the trappings of a first time filmmaker. But conceptually it was scratching the surface of trends that wouldn’t appear online until years later. This was several years before YouTube took hold, which is a lifetime in human years.”
"For my second film, we had Scorsese as an executive producer. When we started preproduction we quickly discovered that one of our two investors really didn’t have the money. He signed a contract to invest while he was still trying to raise the funds“
At this point in our discussion Ben and I went off on a tangent...Money that falls out at the last minute is such a common story. Do these guys think the money will come just because they have "bet" on it, using the film as collateral?... Do they just want to go for the ride, as far as they can go?... are they sociopaths, liars, gamblers, on drugs or what? I remember when I worked at Ifa (until it became ICM); at the Motion Picture Division's meetings that Mike Medavoy held every week, agents would sometimes report on someone wanting to invest in film, and once Mike said "No. Not him. He has a very bad reputation, and his money is not good. We don't want that kind of money." But young producers know very little about vetting financial prospects.
This digression is only to illustrate the fact that that in this person-to-person business it is important to know who you are dealing with.
But Odell’s luck was going to change. Just a few weeks after the implosion of the film, he got an email from Jim McNamara. NBC had bought McNamara's Telemundo for Us$ 3 billion . McNamara had been CEO of New World, a position once held by Harry Sloan and Jon Feltheimer. Feltheimer went off to Sony TV which had a majority stake in Telemundo. McNamara, who had just been president of Universal TV worldwide, was brought in to run Telemundo
After leaving Telemundo, he went back to Feltheimer, in the early days of building Lionsgate, to discuss his new idea. At the time -- this was 2006 -- there were two Spanish language networks, 600 Spanish language radio stations, 2,000 Spanish language newspapers, and no one was making movies in Spanish. Felt liked it and they made a deal. Panamax was born.
McNamara knew of Odell when he was buying TV series for Telemundo. He bought a lot of the TV shows Odell had written.
Panamax’ made a six picture deal with Lionsgate. Odell became President of Production at Panamax Films and produced many feature films and TV movies both in Spanish and in English for the Hispanic market.
On one of their first scouting trips, Odell and McNamara went to see a play called “Latinologues” written by Rick Najera. In it, there was a Mexican actor named Eugenio Derbez. Derbez was known only for Spanish language TV at the time. He wrote, directed, produced and starred in his own shows for Televisa. These shows also played on Univision in the U.S. and were building a huge fan base in both countries as well as much of the Spanish-speaking world.
Latinologues was made up of multiple monologues from different actors playing roles as Latino archetypes. Derbez did three or four different characters. “When he came on stage,” recalls Odell, “He was electrifying, hilarious, magnetic. And then I met him afterwards. He was the humblest man, quiet, and a bit shy. I realized what an amazing talent he was, he had that ‘it factor’ – when he turned it on, it turned on the room.”
At the time Odell and McNamara were packaging a project called "Under the Same Moon" and suggested Derbez for a role. They flew the director, Patricia Riggen, to N.Y. to meet him. While Lionsgate ended up not financing the project, Derbez stayed in the picture. “Looking back, I think a significant part of why that movie did $20 million in box office between U.S. and Mexico, was Eugenio. He was already a mega star. No one really knew it in the general market because they weren’t paying attention to the success of his shows. Hollywood tends to ignore the Spanish speaking market, but the U.S. is the second biggest Spanish speaking country in the world and Eugenio has built a huge following there.”
Ben also made the art house Spanish language thriller, "Padre Nuestro" in 2007 which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. IFC changed the title to “Sangre de mi Sangre” for its U.S. release. It also played at New Directors/ New Films at Museum of Modern Art in New York in the Spring of 2007, received two Independent Spirit Awards nominations, for Best First Feature (for which Odell was nominated) and Best Screenplay. Odell also produced “Un Cuento Chino” aka “Chinese Take-Out” (a Spanish/ Argentinean co-production), starring Argentina’s most popular actor, Ricardo Darin (“El Secreto de los Ojos”), written and directed by Sebastián Borensztein. In Spanish, referring to a story as a cuento chino is equivalent to calling it a tall tale.
“Chino” was the top grossing Argentinean film of 2011 and one of the highest grossing Argentinean films of all times. In its international release it has broken box office records for Latin American films in both Latin America and Europe. It won the Argentinean Academy Award for best feature and the Goya, the Spanish Academy Award, for Best Latin American Film. It won numerous festivals including the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at the Rome Film Festival.
When Odell was developing the script with Borensztein in 2009, he sent the script to Derbez, who immediately expressed interested in remaking it. “I loved the original story and movie,” Derbez said. “There is a heartfelt relationship that develops between these two very different people set around a whimsical, comical and magical world.”
Odell was also an executive producer on the English language 3D family thriller, “ The Games Maker”, starring Joseph Fiennes and Ed Asner. Made as a coproduction with Disney Latin America, the movie was produced in Argentina by Pampa Films and directed by Juan Pablo Buscarini, one of the producers of “Un Cuento Chino”. It was released widely across Latin America in the summer of 2014 and continues its theatrical release around the world.
Several years into Panamax’s deal with Lionsgate, a joint venture was created between Panamax, Televisa and Lionsgate called Pantelion Films. McNamara became chairman of Pantelion and Ben became President of Production.
Under the new deal he produced the 2012 coming of age comedy “Girl in Progress”, directed by “Under the Same Moon” director Patricia Riggen and staring Eva Mendes, Eugenio Derbez, Mathew Modine and Patricia Arquette
His most recent film was the inspirational true story, “Spare Parts”, starring George Lopez, Jamie Lee Curtis and Marisa Tomei which was released in January 2015.
While Eugenio was making his breakout film "Instructions not Included” neither he nor Ben had any idea it would be so big. “Instructions Not Included,” was released in 2013 by Pantelion and grossed $44.5 million, making it the highest-grossing Spanish-language film ever released in the U.S. It grossed another $55 million overseas making it the number one Spanish language movie in the world.
The two realized, this was The One Time In A Career To Capitalize, and they decided to go together, to focus on brand-building, based on Eugenio's popularity and to go beyond his own work, in English and Spanish. Together they formed 3pas Studios which signed a first-look deal with Pantelion in August 2014.
They are in development on many feature films including “Un Cuento Chino”, a remake of the French comedy, “The Valet” and an untitled original script about an aging Latin lover from writers Chris Spain and Jon Zack (“The Perfect Storm”) which Derbez will star in and produce with Ben.
“We are developing multiple projects with an eye to shooting one at the end of 2015,” Odell said.
Meantime, Eugenio Derbez just filmed roles in Warner Brothers’ “Geostorm” with Gerard Butler and Sony Pictures “ Miracles from Heaven” with Jennifer Garner, and Queen Latifah. The latter was directed by Patricia Riggen who directed Derbez in both “Under the Same Moon” and “Girl in Progress”.
Ben is sure that his producing partner will go way beyond his current core Latino market “He is so lovable to watch. He has a magic about him that is undeniable and transcends language and culture.”...
Among the many people I met there, was Ben Odell, partner at 3Pas Studios, the newly launched production company that he and Mexico’s most beloved and renowned comic star and director, Eugenio Derbez, founded on the strength and success of the $100 million dollar grossing comedy, "Instructions Not Included".
The success of this film also allowed the film’s producer Monica Lozano to establish Alebrije Distribución a new distribution company which will acquire distribution rights for the Latin and North American markets.
Monica has had her hand in 23 productions since her first film, "Amores Perros". Her most recent success was "Instructions Not Included", the Us$ 5.5 million film that became the highest grossing Spanish language film of all time in the U.S., and the second highest grossing film in any language in Mexico.
But to return to Ben and his new company, the subject of this blog: 3Pas in Spanish means three steps, but is also a play on words, something Mexicans like a lot. Tres Pas sounds like tripas, which in English means guts, or tripe. Personally, I too love tripas. Deliciosas!
I Finally met Ben at Los Cabos Film Festival. I say I "finally" met him, because we have so many friends in common and ever since I have been following Latino films and writing my book on Latin America and the film business, I had often heard of Ben as the head of production for Pantelion, U.S.'s only sustained and successful Latino film distributor.
Last September, when Strategic Partners’ Laura Mackenzie in Halifax invited me to moderate a panel on “The Games Maker”, an Argentinean-Canadian-Italian coproduction, Ben’s name was prominent as the one who made the match between Argentina’s Juan Pablo Buscarini and Canada’s Tina Pehme and Kim Roberts.
I always had him pictured as my other friend whose last name is Odell, a slight and wiry, dark haired type. How surprised I was to see this big, handsome blond who exuded warmth and a good-willed wit and storytelling skill. Love at first sight! And I am sure I am not the only one who is smitten with him.
I wish I could convey his spirit, humor and strength as he recounted his life and career(s) to me in the hour we spent together in his new spacious, airy and bright Santa Monica office where Ben Shalom-Martinez was the third person in the new company, manning a phone system not yet working.
I told Ben I had read his mini bio in IMDb, and it made me want to know how he had gotten into the Latino side of the business. I expected him to reveal that, in fact, and in spite of his name, he was Latino.
One year out of college, Ben said, "I worked in editing with the Maysles Brothers. I was a P.A. on the first film John Turturro directed called “Mac”, and I was a reader for Art Linson. And that was my degree in Liberal Arts in Film. I wanted to be a screenwriter but I didn’t feel I had enough life experience. A family friend offered me a job in commercial production in Colombia. It was 1992 and my dad said: “if you love all things Latino, go learn Spanish and become an expert in the Latino market. It’s going to need people that understand it. No one was really talking about its importance then but that piece of advice changed my life. I moved to Colombia to learn Spanish and start what would be a life long journey in all things Latino, from U.S. Latino to Latin America. It’s not a single market but there is a connectivity between all of it.”
Ben grew up in Pennsylvania and when he was six years old, neighbors, who had old friends from Colombia, did an exchange of one of their children with a Colombian child. “My father ended up basically adopting that child for the year he lived with our neighbors and from that grew a friendship with this Colombian family.”
When he was 12 years old the whole Colombian family moved to Philadelphia. “I wanted them to adopt me. They were crazy, emotional, passionate, loving. It was a warmth and lust for life I hadn’t really experienced in suburban white America. And then I realized there was a whole country full of them.” At 15 he went with a friend to Colombia and loved it.
His father eventually married someone from that family. So Ben's connection to Colombia, if not to all of Latin America was very organic. Colombia is not part of the "U.S. Latino market" per se, but Colombia and the rest of Latin America share certain characteristics and commonalities — views on life and death, family, spirituality -- that end up working their way into storytelling that are shared throughout the U.S. Latino market and Latin America along with a larger emotional scale in the tone of their storytelling.
Odell lived in Colombia from 1992 to 2000. He also worked as a freelance journalist before becoming a Spanish language television writer and screenwriter there.
When he was in Colombia working in commercials, he met Tom Quinn, a journalist Iiving there for 25 years, working for Time Magazine and running an English language rag called The Colombian Post. In his youth ,Tom had run with the likes of Hunter S. Thompson. He had lots of adventures and lots of stories of those days.
Ben asked Tom what was the most compelling story they could make into a movie that wasn’t about narcotrafficking, and Tom said one word: “Emeralds.” Colombia supplies 60% of the world's emeralds. The mines in the Emerald Zone have strong drug laundering connections as well, as one might guess. The land is leased by the government to the three or four mining companies and they control everything with no supervision by the government.
The society is totally feudal. Workers labor for the companies for 28 days of the month and on the last two days they are allowed to keep whatever they find. Victor Carranza ran everything. He was The Don, violent and scary. A small man, about 5'2". He died in prison worth over a billion dollars.
Ben thought this was a great story to develop into a movie, and so he went back to New York to the contacts he had made including an exec at Tribeca Films. “They all said the same thing, great story but you are not a writer. Go write the script and then we’ll talk.” Ben returned to Colombia to do research.
In the meanwhile he began writing for Colombian TV. He had never written a feature film script, nor did he speak Spanish. He had, however, taken a course in feature film screenwriting with Robert McKee. And he had a girlfriend who was bilingual. He knew about Colombian TV and he saw the potential for legitimizing the story first as a TV show and then making it into a feature later.
Tom Quinn was very well known in Colombia as he was the Time News correspondent there at a moment when the magazine had a lot of power; the drug wars were one of its most consistent cover stories. They pitched it to Rti TV, and structured it like "The Fugitive".
There is a drug, called Burandanga, scientifically known as Scopolamine. It comes from a plant that grows wild in Colombia. The drugged one loses control of his or her will. He once heard a story about a man in a bar who wakes up in jail accused of a murder he can’t remember. This became the basis of the story. The lead goes into the Emerald Zone and drugged by burundanga, he kills one on the wrong side in a war going on there. He wakes up with no recollection and a full on civil war going on around him. He can't get out of the Emerald Zone until he finds the man who drugged him. The title of this series that Tom and he pitched and in 1998 created was "Fuego verde", like the 1954 Hollywood movie, “ Green Fire” starring Grace Kelly and Stewart Grainger.
As a television writer, he eventually created and wrote over 300 hours of Spanish-language narrative television including “Fuego Verde” -- the first-ever action series. It was one of the highest rated series on Colombian television. He also co-wrote the Colombian political satire feature film, “ Golpe de estadio”, which was nominated for Spain's Academy Award, the Goya in 1999, and was Colombia's nomination to the Oscar in 2000. It is still one of the highest grossing Colombian films of all time.
In the film, "Golpe de estadio", (Golpe de Estado means “Coup d'état”but it also could mean “Coup d’ Stadium”), an oil company has set up a camp for geological research in a small village in Colombia that has been named New Texas. It becomes the target of the guerrillas who are constantly clashing with police in the area. The confrontation is put on hold however during the TV transmission of the world Cup qualifiers. The two sides declare a sort of truce so that they can all watch the match between Colombia and Argentina on the only working TV in the town. Colombia wins the game, 5 to 0, (a victory, in real life, infamous in the annals of world cup) and of course the Colombian police and guerrilla find themselves cheering for the same team.
"Golpe" was released in theaters in 1999 while the drug wars and war between the guerrillas and the government were moving into peace talks. It came out during the war, and Ben naively believed it could make tangible impact on the country. Instead they received death threats. It was a very volatile time.
He left Colombia and put together a business plan to make movies for Latino audiences. He was too green and he was way ahead of his time so instead he went to film school at Columbia University.
He went to film school thinking it was only to network and realized he knew nothing about film writing or production. "Going to film school's more valuable if a student already has some experience," Ben says.
"Confess", a feature length film he produced in his second year of film school (2005) was one of his thesis projects. It was made for a couple of hundred thousand dollars. Ali Larter and Melissa Leo starred in it (way before she won the Oscar for Best Supporting Role in “The Fighter”). The movie was about a disgruntled computer hacker of mixed race, who struggles to adjust to life after a jaunt in prison. He takes his anger online forcing confessions out of those who slighted him. Eventually his focus becomes political. “It had all the trappings of a first time filmmaker. But conceptually it was scratching the surface of trends that wouldn’t appear online until years later. This was several years before YouTube took hold, which is a lifetime in human years.”
"For my second film, we had Scorsese as an executive producer. When we started preproduction we quickly discovered that one of our two investors really didn’t have the money. He signed a contract to invest while he was still trying to raise the funds“
At this point in our discussion Ben and I went off on a tangent...Money that falls out at the last minute is such a common story. Do these guys think the money will come just because they have "bet" on it, using the film as collateral?... Do they just want to go for the ride, as far as they can go?... are they sociopaths, liars, gamblers, on drugs or what? I remember when I worked at Ifa (until it became ICM); at the Motion Picture Division's meetings that Mike Medavoy held every week, agents would sometimes report on someone wanting to invest in film, and once Mike said "No. Not him. He has a very bad reputation, and his money is not good. We don't want that kind of money." But young producers know very little about vetting financial prospects.
This digression is only to illustrate the fact that that in this person-to-person business it is important to know who you are dealing with.
But Odell’s luck was going to change. Just a few weeks after the implosion of the film, he got an email from Jim McNamara. NBC had bought McNamara's Telemundo for Us$ 3 billion . McNamara had been CEO of New World, a position once held by Harry Sloan and Jon Feltheimer. Feltheimer went off to Sony TV which had a majority stake in Telemundo. McNamara, who had just been president of Universal TV worldwide, was brought in to run Telemundo
After leaving Telemundo, he went back to Feltheimer, in the early days of building Lionsgate, to discuss his new idea. At the time -- this was 2006 -- there were two Spanish language networks, 600 Spanish language radio stations, 2,000 Spanish language newspapers, and no one was making movies in Spanish. Felt liked it and they made a deal. Panamax was born.
McNamara knew of Odell when he was buying TV series for Telemundo. He bought a lot of the TV shows Odell had written.
Panamax’ made a six picture deal with Lionsgate. Odell became President of Production at Panamax Films and produced many feature films and TV movies both in Spanish and in English for the Hispanic market.
On one of their first scouting trips, Odell and McNamara went to see a play called “Latinologues” written by Rick Najera. In it, there was a Mexican actor named Eugenio Derbez. Derbez was known only for Spanish language TV at the time. He wrote, directed, produced and starred in his own shows for Televisa. These shows also played on Univision in the U.S. and were building a huge fan base in both countries as well as much of the Spanish-speaking world.
Latinologues was made up of multiple monologues from different actors playing roles as Latino archetypes. Derbez did three or four different characters. “When he came on stage,” recalls Odell, “He was electrifying, hilarious, magnetic. And then I met him afterwards. He was the humblest man, quiet, and a bit shy. I realized what an amazing talent he was, he had that ‘it factor’ – when he turned it on, it turned on the room.”
At the time Odell and McNamara were packaging a project called "Under the Same Moon" and suggested Derbez for a role. They flew the director, Patricia Riggen, to N.Y. to meet him. While Lionsgate ended up not financing the project, Derbez stayed in the picture. “Looking back, I think a significant part of why that movie did $20 million in box office between U.S. and Mexico, was Eugenio. He was already a mega star. No one really knew it in the general market because they weren’t paying attention to the success of his shows. Hollywood tends to ignore the Spanish speaking market, but the U.S. is the second biggest Spanish speaking country in the world and Eugenio has built a huge following there.”
Ben also made the art house Spanish language thriller, "Padre Nuestro" in 2007 which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. IFC changed the title to “Sangre de mi Sangre” for its U.S. release. It also played at New Directors/ New Films at Museum of Modern Art in New York in the Spring of 2007, received two Independent Spirit Awards nominations, for Best First Feature (for which Odell was nominated) and Best Screenplay. Odell also produced “Un Cuento Chino” aka “Chinese Take-Out” (a Spanish/ Argentinean co-production), starring Argentina’s most popular actor, Ricardo Darin (“El Secreto de los Ojos”), written and directed by Sebastián Borensztein. In Spanish, referring to a story as a cuento chino is equivalent to calling it a tall tale.
“Chino” was the top grossing Argentinean film of 2011 and one of the highest grossing Argentinean films of all times. In its international release it has broken box office records for Latin American films in both Latin America and Europe. It won the Argentinean Academy Award for best feature and the Goya, the Spanish Academy Award, for Best Latin American Film. It won numerous festivals including the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at the Rome Film Festival.
When Odell was developing the script with Borensztein in 2009, he sent the script to Derbez, who immediately expressed interested in remaking it. “I loved the original story and movie,” Derbez said. “There is a heartfelt relationship that develops between these two very different people set around a whimsical, comical and magical world.”
Odell was also an executive producer on the English language 3D family thriller, “ The Games Maker”, starring Joseph Fiennes and Ed Asner. Made as a coproduction with Disney Latin America, the movie was produced in Argentina by Pampa Films and directed by Juan Pablo Buscarini, one of the producers of “Un Cuento Chino”. It was released widely across Latin America in the summer of 2014 and continues its theatrical release around the world.
Several years into Panamax’s deal with Lionsgate, a joint venture was created between Panamax, Televisa and Lionsgate called Pantelion Films. McNamara became chairman of Pantelion and Ben became President of Production.
Under the new deal he produced the 2012 coming of age comedy “Girl in Progress”, directed by “Under the Same Moon” director Patricia Riggen and staring Eva Mendes, Eugenio Derbez, Mathew Modine and Patricia Arquette
His most recent film was the inspirational true story, “Spare Parts”, starring George Lopez, Jamie Lee Curtis and Marisa Tomei which was released in January 2015.
While Eugenio was making his breakout film "Instructions not Included” neither he nor Ben had any idea it would be so big. “Instructions Not Included,” was released in 2013 by Pantelion and grossed $44.5 million, making it the highest-grossing Spanish-language film ever released in the U.S. It grossed another $55 million overseas making it the number one Spanish language movie in the world.
The two realized, this was The One Time In A Career To Capitalize, and they decided to go together, to focus on brand-building, based on Eugenio's popularity and to go beyond his own work, in English and Spanish. Together they formed 3pas Studios which signed a first-look deal with Pantelion in August 2014.
They are in development on many feature films including “Un Cuento Chino”, a remake of the French comedy, “The Valet” and an untitled original script about an aging Latin lover from writers Chris Spain and Jon Zack (“The Perfect Storm”) which Derbez will star in and produce with Ben.
“We are developing multiple projects with an eye to shooting one at the end of 2015,” Odell said.
Meantime, Eugenio Derbez just filmed roles in Warner Brothers’ “Geostorm” with Gerard Butler and Sony Pictures “ Miracles from Heaven” with Jennifer Garner, and Queen Latifah. The latter was directed by Patricia Riggen who directed Derbez in both “Under the Same Moon” and “Girl in Progress”.
Ben is sure that his producing partner will go way beyond his current core Latino market “He is so lovable to watch. He has a magic about him that is undeniable and transcends language and culture.”...
- 8/5/2015
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Take another look @ actress Elizabeth Olsen, aka 'Scarlet Witch', currently filming Marvel Studios' "Captain America: Civil War", in a recent issue of "Vogue" (Italia) magazine, photographed by Tom Munro.
Olsen debuted as Marvel Comics' mutant, 'Scarlet Witch' in "The Avengers" sequel, "Avengers: Age Of Ultron" and is currently filming "Captain America: Civil War":
By the age of eleven, Olsen had played small roles in series including "How the West Was Fun".
This was followed by appearing in her sisters' straight-to-video series "The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley".
She filmed the movie "Red Lights" in 2011, then starred in Josh Radnor's film "Liberal Arts".
Olsen then co-starred in "Very Good Girls" (2013), followed by Spike Lee's remake of "Old Boy".
Olsen was cast as 'Edie Parker', in "Kill Your Darlings" and nominated for the 'BAFTA Rising Star' Award.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek the 'Scarlet Witch'.
Olsen debuted as Marvel Comics' mutant, 'Scarlet Witch' in "The Avengers" sequel, "Avengers: Age Of Ultron" and is currently filming "Captain America: Civil War":
By the age of eleven, Olsen had played small roles in series including "How the West Was Fun".
This was followed by appearing in her sisters' straight-to-video series "The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley".
She filmed the movie "Red Lights" in 2011, then starred in Josh Radnor's film "Liberal Arts".
Olsen then co-starred in "Very Good Girls" (2013), followed by Spike Lee's remake of "Old Boy".
Olsen was cast as 'Edie Parker', in "Kill Your Darlings" and nominated for the 'BAFTA Rising Star' Award.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek the 'Scarlet Witch'.
- 7/9/2015
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Elizabeth Olsen is a great actress who starred in a lot of amazing movies (Martha Marcy May Marlene, Liberal Arts) you probably never never even heard of before she rose to prominence thanks to Oldboy and Godzilla. She steals the show as the Scarlet Witch in Avengers: Age of Ultron as the Scarlet Witch, and with the sequel now out internationally and just a week away from reaching the Us, we thought you might enjoy these images (via Movie Hotties) from a recent photoshoot for The Edit. More -including some candids - can be found by clicking on the link below. Marvel Studios presents Avengers: Age of Ultron, the epic follow-up to the biggest Super Hero movie of all time. When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, including Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, The Incredible Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye,...
- 4/24/2015
- ComicBookMovie.com
Take another look @ images of actress Elizabeth Olsen, aka 'Scarlet Witch' in "Avengers: Age Of Ultron", from "Vogue" (Italia) magazine, photographed by Tom Munro:
Olsen is currently appearing as Marvel Comics' 'inhuman', 'Scarlet Witch' in "The Avengers" sequel, "Avengers: Age Of Ultron":
By the age of eleven, Olsen had played small roles in "How the West Was Fun".
This was followed by appearing in her sisters' straight-to-video series "The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley".
She filmed the movie "Red Lights" in 2011, then starred in Josh Radnor's film "Liberal Arts".
Olsen then co-starred in "Very Good Girls" (2013), followed by Spike Lee's remake of "Old Boy".
Olsen was cast as 'Edie Parker', in "Kill Your Darlings" and nominated for the 'BAFTA Rising Star' Award.
Her most recent film is "Godzilla".
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek Elizabeth Olsen...
Olsen is currently appearing as Marvel Comics' 'inhuman', 'Scarlet Witch' in "The Avengers" sequel, "Avengers: Age Of Ultron":
By the age of eleven, Olsen had played small roles in "How the West Was Fun".
This was followed by appearing in her sisters' straight-to-video series "The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley".
She filmed the movie "Red Lights" in 2011, then starred in Josh Radnor's film "Liberal Arts".
Olsen then co-starred in "Very Good Girls" (2013), followed by Spike Lee's remake of "Old Boy".
Olsen was cast as 'Edie Parker', in "Kill Your Darlings" and nominated for the 'BAFTA Rising Star' Award.
Her most recent film is "Godzilla".
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek Elizabeth Olsen...
- 1/20/2015
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Last month I selected the poster for Lenny Abrahamson’s Frank as my favorite poster of 2014. In the article I invited the “as-yet uncredited designer at P+A studio” to “come out from behind the mask and take a bow,” and so I was very pleased when I got an email from Nicolette Vilar a few days later letting me know that she was the P+A designer behind the giant papier-mâché head.
Nicolette, it turns out, was the perfect designer for a film about a fractured rock band, because as well as being a talented artist she is also the on-again, off-again lead singer of the all-female punk pop group Go Betty Go who have recently reunited and have a new Ep out this month. The band formed in 2001, released two CDs and played on the Vans Warped Tour, but Nicolette left in 2005. She recently rejoined the band with...
Nicolette, it turns out, was the perfect designer for a film about a fractured rock band, because as well as being a talented artist she is also the on-again, off-again lead singer of the all-female punk pop group Go Betty Go who have recently reunited and have a new Ep out this month. The band formed in 2001, released two CDs and played on the Vans Warped Tour, but Nicolette left in 2005. She recently rejoined the band with...
- 1/16/2015
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
Take another look @ actress Elizabeth Olsen ("Avengers: Age Of Ultron"), in a recent issue of "Vogue" (Italia) magazine, photographed by Tom Munro.
Olsen recently wrapped her work as Marvel Comics' 'Inhuman', the 'Scarlet Witch' in "The Avengers" sequel, "Avengers: Age Of Ultron":
By the age of eleven, Olsen had played small roles in "How the West Was Fun" and her sisters' straight-to-video series "The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley".
She filmed the movie "Red Lights" in 2011, then starred in Josh Radnor's film "Liberal Arts".
Olsen then co-starred in "Very Good Girls" (2013), followed by Spike Lee's remake of "Old Boy".
Olsen wasa then cast as 'Edie Parker', in "Kill Your Darlings" and nominated for the 'BAFTA Rising Star' Award.
Her most recent film is "Godzilla".
Click the images to enlarge...
Olsen recently wrapped her work as Marvel Comics' 'Inhuman', the 'Scarlet Witch' in "The Avengers" sequel, "Avengers: Age Of Ultron":
By the age of eleven, Olsen had played small roles in "How the West Was Fun" and her sisters' straight-to-video series "The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley".
She filmed the movie "Red Lights" in 2011, then starred in Josh Radnor's film "Liberal Arts".
Olsen then co-starred in "Very Good Girls" (2013), followed by Spike Lee's remake of "Old Boy".
Olsen wasa then cast as 'Edie Parker', in "Kill Your Darlings" and nominated for the 'BAFTA Rising Star' Award.
Her most recent film is "Godzilla".
Click the images to enlarge...
- 1/6/2015
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Take another look @ actress Elizabeth Olsen, aka 'Scarlet Witch' in "Avengers: Age Of Ultron", from a recent issue of "Vogue" (Italia) magazine, photographed by Tom Munro.
Olsen is currently appearing as Marvel Comics' mutant, 'Scarlet Witch' in "The Avengers" sequel, "Avengers: Age Of Ultron":
By the age of eleven, Olsen had played small roles in "How the West Was Fun".
This was followed by appearing in her sisters' straight-to-video series "The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley".
She filmed the movie "Red Lights" in 2011, then starred in Josh Radnor's film "Liberal Arts".
Olsen then co-starred in "Very Good Girls" (2013), followed by Spike Lee's remake of "Old Boy".
Olsen was cast as 'Edie Parker', in "Kill Your Darlings" and nominated for the 'BAFTA Rising Star' Award.
Her most recent film is "Godzilla".
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek Elizabeth Olsen...
Olsen is currently appearing as Marvel Comics' mutant, 'Scarlet Witch' in "The Avengers" sequel, "Avengers: Age Of Ultron":
By the age of eleven, Olsen had played small roles in "How the West Was Fun".
This was followed by appearing in her sisters' straight-to-video series "The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley".
She filmed the movie "Red Lights" in 2011, then starred in Josh Radnor's film "Liberal Arts".
Olsen then co-starred in "Very Good Girls" (2013), followed by Spike Lee's remake of "Old Boy".
Olsen was cast as 'Edie Parker', in "Kill Your Darlings" and nominated for the 'BAFTA Rising Star' Award.
Her most recent film is "Godzilla".
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek Elizabeth Olsen...
- 12/31/2014
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Take another look @ images of actress Elizabeth Olsen, aka 'Scarlet Witch' in "Avengers: Age Of Ultron", from a recent issue of "Vogue" (Italia) magazine, photographed by Tom Munro.
Olsen is currently appearing as Marvel Comics' mutant, 'Scarlet Witch' in "The Avengers" sequel, "Avengers: Age Of Ultron":
By the age of eleven, Olsen had played small roles in "How the West Was Fun".
This was followed by appearing in her sisters' straight-to-video series "The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley".
She filmed the movie "Red Lights" in 2011, then starred in Josh Radnor's film "Liberal Arts".
Olsen then co-starred in "Very Good Girls" (2013), followed by Spike Lee's remake of "Old Boy".
Olsen was cast as 'Edie Parker', in "Kill Your Darlings" and nominated for the 'BAFTA Rising Star' Award.
Her most recent film is "Godzilla".
Click the images to enlarge... ...
Olsen is currently appearing as Marvel Comics' mutant, 'Scarlet Witch' in "The Avengers" sequel, "Avengers: Age Of Ultron":
By the age of eleven, Olsen had played small roles in "How the West Was Fun".
This was followed by appearing in her sisters' straight-to-video series "The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley".
She filmed the movie "Red Lights" in 2011, then starred in Josh Radnor's film "Liberal Arts".
Olsen then co-starred in "Very Good Girls" (2013), followed by Spike Lee's remake of "Old Boy".
Olsen was cast as 'Edie Parker', in "Kill Your Darlings" and nominated for the 'BAFTA Rising Star' Award.
Her most recent film is "Godzilla".
Click the images to enlarge... ...
- 12/17/2014
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
The National Theater Institute includes a vibrant community of over 3,500 alumni. The many talents of these actors, writers, directors, and designers can be seen on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in films, television, London's West End, and at every major regional theater in the U.S. Actor, writer, director, Josh Radnor How I Met Your Mother, Happythankyoumoreplease, Liberal Arts, The Graduate is currently starring in Disgraced on Broadway. Today Risk Again shares his reflections on studying with Nti in the spring of 1995. Watch the video to hear more about his memories of training at the O'Neill, his play Napoleon Blownapart, and the many ways Nti changed his life as an artist.
- 10/20/2014
- by National Theater Institute
- BroadwayWorld.com
Take another look @ images of actress Elizabeth Olsen, aka 'Scarlet Witch' in "Avengers: Age Of Ultron", from a recent issue of "Vogue" (Italia) magazine, photographed by Tom Munro:
Olsen is currently appearing as Marvel Comics' mutant, 'Scarlet Witch' in "The Avengers" sequel, "Avengers: Age Of Ultron":
By the age of eleven, Olsen had played small roles in "How the West Was Fun".
This was followed by appearing in her sisters' straight-to-video series "The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley".
She filmed the movie "Red Lights" in 2011, then starred in Josh Radnor's film "Liberal Arts".
Olsen then co-starred in "Very Good Girls" (2013), followed by Spike Lee's remake of "Old Boy".
Olsen was cast as 'Edie Parker', in "Kill Your Darlings" and nominated for the 'BAFTA Rising Star' Award.
Her most recent film is "Godzilla".
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek Elizabeth Olsen...
Olsen is currently appearing as Marvel Comics' mutant, 'Scarlet Witch' in "The Avengers" sequel, "Avengers: Age Of Ultron":
By the age of eleven, Olsen had played small roles in "How the West Was Fun".
This was followed by appearing in her sisters' straight-to-video series "The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley".
She filmed the movie "Red Lights" in 2011, then starred in Josh Radnor's film "Liberal Arts".
Olsen then co-starred in "Very Good Girls" (2013), followed by Spike Lee's remake of "Old Boy".
Olsen was cast as 'Edie Parker', in "Kill Your Darlings" and nominated for the 'BAFTA Rising Star' Award.
Her most recent film is "Godzilla".
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek Elizabeth Olsen...
- 10/16/2014
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
At a loss for what to watch this week? From new DVDs and Blu-rays, to what's streaming on Netflix, we've got you covered.
New on DVD and Blu-ray
"Desperately Seeking Susan"
Suburban wife Roberta Glass (Rosanna Arquette) lives vicariously through the personal ads in the paper, especially those from and for a cool downtown rocker named Susan (Madonna). Roberta heads to the city for a little vicarious excitement, but she gets way more than she bargained for when a case of amnesia and mistaken identity have her on the run from the creeps seeking Susan. It's finally on Blu-ray, for anyone who's ever dreamed of escaping to NYC and drying their armpits off in a public bathroom.
"The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" (40th Anniversary Black Maria Limited Edition)
This four-disc DVD/Blu-ray combo boasts a new digital transfer and surround sound mix, but the never-before-seen outtakes with Gunnar Hansen (Leatherface...
New on DVD and Blu-ray
"Desperately Seeking Susan"
Suburban wife Roberta Glass (Rosanna Arquette) lives vicariously through the personal ads in the paper, especially those from and for a cool downtown rocker named Susan (Madonna). Roberta heads to the city for a little vicarious excitement, but she gets way more than she bargained for when a case of amnesia and mistaken identity have her on the run from the creeps seeking Susan. It's finally on Blu-ray, for anyone who's ever dreamed of escaping to NYC and drying their armpits off in a public bathroom.
"The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" (40th Anniversary Black Maria Limited Edition)
This four-disc DVD/Blu-ray combo boasts a new digital transfer and surround sound mix, but the never-before-seen outtakes with Gunnar Hansen (Leatherface...
- 10/13/2014
- by Jenni Miller
- Moviefone
The complete Gilmore Girls series will be available for streaming on Netflix Instant Watch beginning Oct.1, but there are also plenty of other shows and movies coming to Netflix in October.
Gilmore Girls, starring Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel, ran for seven seasons on The WB and The CW from 2000-2007, and the beloved mother-daughter show also featured Melissa McCarthy (pre-Bridesmaids fame) and The Good Wife's Matt Czuchry.
New On Netflix
In other TV news, fans of The CW’s The Originals and The Vampire Diaries will be able to get caught up before the shows’ season premieres. Season 1 of The Originals will be available for streaming on Oct. 3, with Season 2 premiering on The CW Oct. 6, while Season 5 of The Vampire Diaries will be available on Netflix Oct. 2, the same day as the Season 6 premiere. Reign’s first season will also be available for streaming Oct. 2, and the...
Gilmore Girls, starring Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel, ran for seven seasons on The WB and The CW from 2000-2007, and the beloved mother-daughter show also featured Melissa McCarthy (pre-Bridesmaids fame) and The Good Wife's Matt Czuchry.
New On Netflix
In other TV news, fans of The CW’s The Originals and The Vampire Diaries will be able to get caught up before the shows’ season premieres. Season 1 of The Originals will be available for streaming on Oct. 3, with Season 2 premiering on The CW Oct. 6, while Season 5 of The Vampire Diaries will be available on Netflix Oct. 2, the same day as the Season 6 premiere. Reign’s first season will also be available for streaming Oct. 2, and the...
- 9/29/2014
- Uinterview
Given the news that Gilmore Girls is coming to Netflix in October, you might be tempted to spend the entire month binging on that. We wouldn’t blame you, but there are some other exciting editions coming to the site this month if you want to take a break from Stars Hollow.
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire will be available on Oct. 22, giving you about a month to prepare for Mockingjay—Part 1. Netflix also has you covered when it comes to prepping for another fall release, the Annie remake, considering the 1982 Annie will be available Oct. 1. (So will 1995’s Annie: A Royal Adventure.
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire will be available on Oct. 22, giving you about a month to prepare for Mockingjay—Part 1. Netflix also has you covered when it comes to prepping for another fall release, the Annie remake, considering the 1982 Annie will be available Oct. 1. (So will 1995’s Annie: A Royal Adventure.
- 9/25/2014
- by Esther Zuckerman
- EW.com - PopWatch
Looking for what's new on Netflix streaming for October 2014? You've come to the right place.
We've rounded up the best TV shows and movies arriving soon. So take some time to peruse this list, and maybe block off a weekend or two so you can binge-watch Season 5 of "The Vampire Diaries" or something.
Here's a much larger rundown of what subscribers can expect in September, courtesy of Netflix. All title dates are subject to change.
Available October 1
"Annie" (1982)
Based on the Depression-era comic strip "Little Orphan Annie," this adaptation of the smash Broadway musical follows America's favorite urchin (Aileen Quinn) as she captures Daddy Warbucks' (Albert Finney) heart with her unquenchable optimism. In the meantime, Annie must try to dodge the treacherous head of the orphanage (Carol Burnett). Directed by John Huston, Annie features the hit song "Tomorrow."
"Annie: A Royal Adventure" (1995)
Annie, the charming orphan with a head full of red curls,...
We've rounded up the best TV shows and movies arriving soon. So take some time to peruse this list, and maybe block off a weekend or two so you can binge-watch Season 5 of "The Vampire Diaries" or something.
Here's a much larger rundown of what subscribers can expect in September, courtesy of Netflix. All title dates are subject to change.
Available October 1
"Annie" (1982)
Based on the Depression-era comic strip "Little Orphan Annie," this adaptation of the smash Broadway musical follows America's favorite urchin (Aileen Quinn) as she captures Daddy Warbucks' (Albert Finney) heart with her unquenchable optimism. In the meantime, Annie must try to dodge the treacherous head of the orphanage (Carol Burnett). Directed by John Huston, Annie features the hit song "Tomorrow."
"Annie: A Royal Adventure" (1995)
Annie, the charming orphan with a head full of red curls,...
- 9/25/2014
- by Tim Hayne
- Moviefone
The 9th Life of Louis Drax
"Breaking Bad" actor Aaron Paul has signed on to join Jamie Dornan in Alexandre Aja's "The 9th Life of Louis Drax". Aja, Max Minghella, Tim Bricknell and Shawn Williamson will produce.
Based on Liz Jensen's novel and adapted by Minghella, the story centers on a psychologist (Jamie Dornan) who begins studying a young boy after a near-fatal fall. The doctor gets drawn into a complex mystery that blurs the lines between fantasy and reality. Aaron Paul will play the boy's father. [Source: Variety]
Truth
Elisabeth Moss will join Robert Redford and Cate Blanchett in James Vanderbilt's "Truth," a film about the scandal that followed after reporter Dan Rather claimed George W. Bush received preferential treatment to avoid the Vietnam War draft.
The aftermath, unfolding against George W. Bush's re-election campaign, left Rather's reputation in shreds and his key producer Mary Mapes sacked.
"Breaking Bad" actor Aaron Paul has signed on to join Jamie Dornan in Alexandre Aja's "The 9th Life of Louis Drax". Aja, Max Minghella, Tim Bricknell and Shawn Williamson will produce.
Based on Liz Jensen's novel and adapted by Minghella, the story centers on a psychologist (Jamie Dornan) who begins studying a young boy after a near-fatal fall. The doctor gets drawn into a complex mystery that blurs the lines between fantasy and reality. Aaron Paul will play the boy's father. [Source: Variety]
Truth
Elisabeth Moss will join Robert Redford and Cate Blanchett in James Vanderbilt's "Truth," a film about the scandal that followed after reporter Dan Rather claimed George W. Bush received preferential treatment to avoid the Vietnam War draft.
The aftermath, unfolding against George W. Bush's re-election campaign, left Rather's reputation in shreds and his key producer Mary Mapes sacked.
- 9/23/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Peter Dinklage is set to star in period crime drama The Thicket, based on Joe Lansdale’s novel. He plays Shorty, a crafty bounty hunter enlisted to find a woman who has been kidnapped by a violent killer at the turn of the 20th century. He and his fellow trackers venture into the deadly no-man’s land known as the Big Thicket, a place where blood and chaos reign. Gianni Nunnari’s Hollywood Gang is producing with Dinklage and the actor’s manager David Ginsberg. Dinklage stars on HBO’s Game Of Thrones and next appears in the comedy features Taxi and Pixels. He is repped by CAA, attorney Karl Austen and Ginsberg.
John Magaro has been cast in Disney’s The Finest Hours. The Craig Gillespie-directed film chronicles the massive rescue mission that’s launched when a pair of oil tankers split in two off the coast of...
John Magaro has been cast in Disney’s The Finest Hours. The Craig Gillespie-directed film chronicles the massive rescue mission that’s launched when a pair of oil tankers split in two off the coast of...
- 9/23/2014
- by The Deadline Team
- Deadline
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