Apple TV+ has announced it has ordered “Your Friends and Neighbors,” a new drama series developed by Apple Studios that will star Emmy Award winner Jon Hamm, who will also serve as executive producer, and based on an original idea by acclaimed screenwriter, producer and novelist Jonathan Tropper. In “Your Friends and Neighbors,” Hamm will star in the lead role as Coop, a recently divorced hedge fund manager who, after being fired, resorts to stealing from the wealthy residents in his tiny upstate New York suburb in order to keep his family’s lifestyle afloat. These petty crimes begin to reinvigorate him until he breaks into the wrong house at the wrong time. Hailing from Apple Studios, the new series is created by Tropper who will serve as showrunner and executive producer under his overall deal with Apple TV+. Hamm will executive produce alongside Connie Tavel. The new project marks...
- 12/18/2023
- by Hollywood Outbreak
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
Jon Hamm is getting his own Apple show — finally!
The Emmy-winning Mad Men grad, who previously “begged” Apple for a show of his own in a tongue-in-cheek ad for the streamer, will star in and exec produce the straight-to-series Apple drama Your Friends and Neighbors. The role marks Hamm’s first starring role in an ongoing drama series since AMC’s Mad Men wrapped its seven-season run in 2015.
Your Friends and Neighbors, based on an original idea by Jonathan Tropper (See, Warrior, Banshee), revolves around Coop (Hamm), a recently divorced hedge fund manager who, after being fired, resorts to stealing from the wealthy residents in his tony upstate New York suburb in order to keep his family’s lifestyle afloat. The petty crimes begin to reinvigorate him until he breaks into the wrong house at the wrong time.
Tropper will serve as showrunner and exec produce via his overall deal with Apple.
The Emmy-winning Mad Men grad, who previously “begged” Apple for a show of his own in a tongue-in-cheek ad for the streamer, will star in and exec produce the straight-to-series Apple drama Your Friends and Neighbors. The role marks Hamm’s first starring role in an ongoing drama series since AMC’s Mad Men wrapped its seven-season run in 2015.
Your Friends and Neighbors, based on an original idea by Jonathan Tropper (See, Warrior, Banshee), revolves around Coop (Hamm), a recently divorced hedge fund manager who, after being fired, resorts to stealing from the wealthy residents in his tony upstate New York suburb in order to keep his family’s lifestyle afloat. The petty crimes begin to reinvigorate him until he breaks into the wrong house at the wrong time.
Tropper will serve as showrunner and exec produce via his overall deal with Apple.
- 12/15/2023
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It’s a full-blown holiday Hamm-aissance. Jon Hamm will next star in Apple TV+’s new drama series “Your Friends and Neighbors,” which he’ll also executive produce. The show is based on an idea from Jonathan Tropper, who is also showrunner on the project.
Americans are carving into freshly baked Hamm all over the place right now. Hamm is currently hamm-ing it up on Apple TV+’s “The Morning Show” and FX’s new season of “Fargo” — not to mention his upcoming animated Fox series “Grimsburg” (which he also EPs in addition to providing the lead voice) and Amazon Prime Video’s “Good Omens” earlier this year. Jon Hamm is what’s for TV dinner.
Hamm previously appeared in an Apple TV+ marketing spot, “Everyone But Jon Hamm.” That was clearly rectified. Now, Apple Studios is behind “Your Friend and Neighbors,” in which he’ll play the lead as Coop,...
Americans are carving into freshly baked Hamm all over the place right now. Hamm is currently hamm-ing it up on Apple TV+’s “The Morning Show” and FX’s new season of “Fargo” — not to mention his upcoming animated Fox series “Grimsburg” (which he also EPs in addition to providing the lead voice) and Amazon Prime Video’s “Good Omens” earlier this year. Jon Hamm is what’s for TV dinner.
Hamm previously appeared in an Apple TV+ marketing spot, “Everyone But Jon Hamm.” That was clearly rectified. Now, Apple Studios is behind “Your Friend and Neighbors,” in which he’ll play the lead as Coop,...
- 12/15/2023
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
Wind gusts quivered the tree limbs, rainfall ricocheted off the roads, and in an instant, power cut off at the old Opera House on Elm Street in Camden, Maine, scuttling screenings there at the Camden International Film Festival.
With that mid-September atmospheric outburst, Hurricane Lee did in the scheduled U.S. premiere of Alex Gibney’s new film In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon. Now, the honor of hosting the American debut goes to the Hamptons International Film Festival this Friday, where the documentary screens as the festival Centerpiece (Simon will appear in person there for a conversation moderated by Rolling Stone’s David Fear). On Sunday, the film plays across the pond at the BFI London Film Festival.
Alex Gibney at the Deadline Portrait Studio at TIFF 2023.
During what was supposed to be Gibney’s Camden premiere, I stopped by the hotel where the filmmaker was staying...
With that mid-September atmospheric outburst, Hurricane Lee did in the scheduled U.S. premiere of Alex Gibney’s new film In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon. Now, the honor of hosting the American debut goes to the Hamptons International Film Festival this Friday, where the documentary screens as the festival Centerpiece (Simon will appear in person there for a conversation moderated by Rolling Stone’s David Fear). On Sunday, the film plays across the pond at the BFI London Film Festival.
Alex Gibney at the Deadline Portrait Studio at TIFF 2023.
During what was supposed to be Gibney’s Camden premiere, I stopped by the hotel where the filmmaker was staying...
- 10/4/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Ed Harris (Westworld), Sonequa Martin-Green (Star Trek: Discovery) and Natalie Morales (No Hard Feelings) have closed deals to lead My Dead Friend Zoe, a dark dramedy about two generations of veterans, family and friendship, which Kyle Hausmann-Stokes will direct in his feature debut.
The film written by Hausmann-Stokes and A.J. Bermudez tells the story of a female veteran (Martin-Green) engaged in a mysterious but comfortable friendship with her wise-cracking (and dead) best friend from the Army (Morales). When the vet is summoned to the remote lake house of her estranged Vietnam vet grandfather (Harris), she is tasked with providing the one thing he refuses…help.
Pic is based on Merit x Zoe, a short that Hausmann-Stokes co-wrote and directed last year, and both films draw inspiration from his real-life experiences during and after the military. A graduate of USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, Hausmann-Stokes served five years in...
The film written by Hausmann-Stokes and A.J. Bermudez tells the story of a female veteran (Martin-Green) engaged in a mysterious but comfortable friendship with her wise-cracking (and dead) best friend from the Army (Morales). When the vet is summoned to the remote lake house of her estranged Vietnam vet grandfather (Harris), she is tasked with providing the one thing he refuses…help.
Pic is based on Merit x Zoe, a short that Hausmann-Stokes co-wrote and directed last year, and both films draw inspiration from his real-life experiences during and after the military. A graduate of USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, Hausmann-Stokes served five years in...
- 5/17/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Image Source: Everett Collection
Jason Sudeikis is arguably most recognized now for his award-winning work in the acclaimed Apple TV+ series "Ted Lasso," but the actor had a strong start in the entertainment industry before that. In 2003, he started working as a writer for "Saturday Night Live," and he went on to work on the beloved live comedy show as both an actor and writer for the next 10 years before his departure in 2013. After he gained popularity on "SNL," Sudeikis appeared in other shows, including "30 Rock" from 2007 to 2010 and "The Cleveland Show," which he voice acted for from 2009 to 2013.
Following his success on TV, Sudeikis turned his attention to movies, notably starring in comedies like "Horrible Bosses" alongside Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman, "The Campaign," and "We're the Millers" in the early 2010s. Along with his comedic performances, the actor also has taken on roles in indie films like "Sleeping With Other People,...
Jason Sudeikis is arguably most recognized now for his award-winning work in the acclaimed Apple TV+ series "Ted Lasso," but the actor had a strong start in the entertainment industry before that. In 2003, he started working as a writer for "Saturday Night Live," and he went on to work on the beloved live comedy show as both an actor and writer for the next 10 years before his departure in 2013. After he gained popularity on "SNL," Sudeikis appeared in other shows, including "30 Rock" from 2007 to 2010 and "The Cleveland Show," which he voice acted for from 2009 to 2013.
Following his success on TV, Sudeikis turned his attention to movies, notably starring in comedies like "Horrible Bosses" alongside Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman, "The Campaign," and "We're the Millers" in the early 2010s. Along with his comedic performances, the actor also has taken on roles in indie films like "Sleeping With Other People,...
- 3/14/2023
- by Alicia Geigel
- Popsugar.com
Exclusive: Oscar-nominated producer David Hoberman (Shotgun Wedding) today announced the launch of Hobie Films, a new production company whose development and acquisitions will be overseen by VP Julie Meschko.
While overseeing Hobie Films, Hoberman will continue to develop for Mandeville Films, the storied production company that he founded in 1995 and co-owns with Todd Lieberman. Meschko joins from Mandeville, where she most recently served as creative executive.
“Hobie Films will focus on a wide range of titles, telling stories that not only entertain but reflect the world we live in and our lives today,” Hoberman told Deadline. “Additionally, I am pleased to have Julie at the helm with me as we continue to work together. Her relationships, insights, and creative instincts have been invaluable.”
Landing his first Oscar nomination in 2011 as the producer of David O. Russell’s The Fighter, Hoberman has most recently produced titles including Prime Video’s rom-com...
While overseeing Hobie Films, Hoberman will continue to develop for Mandeville Films, the storied production company that he founded in 1995 and co-owns with Todd Lieberman. Meschko joins from Mandeville, where she most recently served as creative executive.
“Hobie Films will focus on a wide range of titles, telling stories that not only entertain but reflect the world we live in and our lives today,” Hoberman told Deadline. “Additionally, I am pleased to have Julie at the helm with me as we continue to work together. Her relationships, insights, and creative instincts have been invaluable.”
Landing his first Oscar nomination in 2011 as the producer of David O. Russell’s The Fighter, Hoberman has most recently produced titles including Prime Video’s rom-com...
- 2/21/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
There’s a moment within the first few minutes of Summering — James Ponsoldt’s delicate, affectionate tribute to the wonder years (or more specifically, the seasonal wonder months) between childhood’s end and teenage riots — that captures the blurred, giddy adrenaline rush of youth in full bloom. Four girls are goofing around, hiding in bathtubs and scaring each other with masks. Someone’s mom shoos them all out of the house. And then the quartet begins to sprint across a front lawn in slow motion, screaming and giggling as they...
- 8/9/2022
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Growing up in the NASA hub of Houston, Richard Linklater remembers the pervasive impact the first moon landing had on his childhood. He fuses those memories with fantasy in his new movie, the animated “Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood” (currently streaming on Netflix).
Linklater even likens it to a cinematic scrapbook: It’s both a nostalgic snapshot of the ordinary suburban childhood he experienced and the extraordinary scientific achievement he witnessed. In fact, he describes it as “A Portrait of a Free Range Childhood,” in which his alter ego, fourth grader Stan, fantasizes about making his own secret trip to the moon.
“Getting to do this was wonderful in a ‘You Are There’ realism,” Linklater said, referring to the Walter Cronkite-hosted educational TV series about American history. “It was a significant moment in time that will be remembered forever: when humans first left the atmosphere of their...
Linklater even likens it to a cinematic scrapbook: It’s both a nostalgic snapshot of the ordinary suburban childhood he experienced and the extraordinary scientific achievement he witnessed. In fact, he describes it as “A Portrait of a Free Range Childhood,” in which his alter ego, fourth grader Stan, fantasizes about making his own secret trip to the moon.
“Getting to do this was wonderful in a ‘You Are There’ realism,” Linklater said, referring to the Walter Cronkite-hosted educational TV series about American history. “It was a significant moment in time that will be remembered forever: when humans first left the atmosphere of their...
- 4/1/2022
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
One of the more surprising things about Scarlett Johansson’s lawsuit against Disney over alleged lost revenue on account of the studio moving “Black Widow” to Disney+ is that few of her Marvel Cinematic Universe costars have publicly backed her. Well, now one more or less has: Elizabeth Olsen, star of this year’s Disney+ Marvel hit “WandaVision.”
In an interview alongside Jason Sudeikis for Vanity Fair (via Uproxx), Olsen said she thought “Good for you,” regarding Johansson’s suit. “I think she’s so tough and literally when I read that I was like, ‘good for you Scarlett,’” she said. Sudeikis offered his own support for the suit, saying it was “appropriately bad-ass and on-brand” for Johansson.
Instead of leaving it there, Olsen continued by sharing some fears she has for the streaming future. After all, Vf’s article is literally titled “Elizabeth Olsen and Jason Sudeikis Bring Their Characters to Streaming,...
In an interview alongside Jason Sudeikis for Vanity Fair (via Uproxx), Olsen said she thought “Good for you,” regarding Johansson’s suit. “I think she’s so tough and literally when I read that I was like, ‘good for you Scarlett,’” she said. Sudeikis offered his own support for the suit, saying it was “appropriately bad-ass and on-brand” for Johansson.
Instead of leaving it there, Olsen continued by sharing some fears she has for the streaming future. After all, Vf’s article is literally titled “Elizabeth Olsen and Jason Sudeikis Bring Their Characters to Streaming,...
- 8/24/2021
- by Christian Blauvelt
- Indiewire
Jason Sudeikis is the Emmy frontrunner for Best Actor in a Comedy this year for playing the lovable and always-optimistic Ted Lasso on the Apple TV+ comedy of the same name. It turns out Sudeikis is just as sweet-natured in real life as his character. In an editorial published by Uproxx titled “Yeah, Jason Sudeikis Is Actually Kind Of Like Ted Lasso In Real Life,” senior entertainment writer Mike Ryan revealed the email Sudeikis sent him at a time when Ryan was grieving the loss of his father.
Ryan and Sudeikis’ paths crossed in 2017 while the actor was on a press tour for his indie drama “Kodachrome.” Ryan had lost his father that year due to a heart attack. Sudeikis stars in “Kodachrome” as a record company representative trying to make amends with his dying father (Ed Harris), who happens to be a photographer. The father leaves behind four rolls...
Ryan and Sudeikis’ paths crossed in 2017 while the actor was on a press tour for his indie drama “Kodachrome.” Ryan had lost his father that year due to a heart attack. Sudeikis stars in “Kodachrome” as a record company representative trying to make amends with his dying father (Ed Harris), who happens to be a photographer. The father leaves behind four rolls...
- 7/16/2021
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Whoever coined the adage “never meet your heroes” never met Jason Sudeikis.
In an editorial for Uproxx titled “Yeah, Jason Sudeikis Is Actually Kind Of Like Ted Lasso In Real Life,” senior entertainment writer Mike Ryan recounts how he opened up to the actor during a dark time in his life. With a sincere email in reply as proof, Ryan says “there actually is a lot of Ted Lasso in the real Jason Sudeikis.”
During a challenging period in late 2017, Ryan’s father died from a heart attack. He struggled with the aftermath of his grief, which carried over a few months later when Sudeikis was doing press for the Netflix film “Kodachrome,” which focuses on Sudeikis attempting to make things right with his dying father, played by Ed Harris. When Ryan interviewed Sudeikis, he noted that much of the storyline and its themes affected him on a personal level.
In an editorial for Uproxx titled “Yeah, Jason Sudeikis Is Actually Kind Of Like Ted Lasso In Real Life,” senior entertainment writer Mike Ryan recounts how he opened up to the actor during a dark time in his life. With a sincere email in reply as proof, Ryan says “there actually is a lot of Ted Lasso in the real Jason Sudeikis.”
During a challenging period in late 2017, Ryan’s father died from a heart attack. He struggled with the aftermath of his grief, which carried over a few months later when Sudeikis was doing press for the Netflix film “Kodachrome,” which focuses on Sudeikis attempting to make things right with his dying father, played by Ed Harris. When Ryan interviewed Sudeikis, he noted that much of the storyline and its themes affected him on a personal level.
- 7/15/2021
- by Ashley Turner
- The Wrap
In director Mark Raso’s occasionally engaging but mostly frustrating sci-fi thriller, an unexplained event causes a massive electromagnetic pulse that fries most electronics and leaves nearly all of humanity incapable of sleep. From the mysterious incident onward, the characters slowly slide toward insanity as fatigue takes its toll, although it’s not clear how everyone on earth immediately recognizes (or believes) that the resulting restlessness is permanent. If the recent real-world pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that early in a health crisis, nobody knows anything, and the resulting confusion tends to be more exhausting than entertaining.
So, at the risk of sounding facetious, I confess that while exasperated ex-military, ex-junkie super-mom Jill (Gina Rodriguez) worries about whether she’ll ever be able to sleep again, I had no such problem. Between its low-energy suspense and all-around failure to grip, “Awake” took me three separate sittings to get through.
So, at the risk of sounding facetious, I confess that while exasperated ex-military, ex-junkie super-mom Jill (Gina Rodriguez) worries about whether she’ll ever be able to sleep again, I had no such problem. Between its low-energy suspense and all-around failure to grip, “Awake” took me three separate sittings to get through.
- 6/11/2021
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Longtime “Fargo” cinematographer Dana Gonzales first heard about creator Noah Hawley’s ideas for Season 4 of the anthology series when the duo was working on the FX show “Legion.” Set primarily in 1950s Chicago, the fourth season of the show needed to not just feel like an American mid-century epic but look like something ripped out of the period as well.
To accomplish that visual style, a number of decisions were made. Season 4 of “Fargo” shot in Illinois, for starters, a shift from the show’s usual Canadian confines. Then there was the visual palette, which Gonzales and Hawley based on old mugshots from the era.
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“Any cinematographer who tries to create Kodachrome digitally … it’s pretty challenging,” Gonzales says of the decision to replicate the Kodachrome look of the period during the Gold Derby Meet the Btl Experts: Cinematographers panel. “I had to approach it a different way,...
To accomplish that visual style, a number of decisions were made. Season 4 of “Fargo” shot in Illinois, for starters, a shift from the show’s usual Canadian confines. Then there was the visual palette, which Gonzales and Hawley based on old mugshots from the era.
See our Meet the Experts panels
“Any cinematographer who tries to create Kodachrome digitally … it’s pretty challenging,” Gonzales says of the decision to replicate the Kodachrome look of the period during the Gold Derby Meet the Btl Experts: Cinematographers panel. “I had to approach it a different way,...
- 6/4/2021
- by Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
For “Fargo” Season 4, showrunner Noah Hawley (who directed the first two episodes) came up with his most ambitious idea yet for the FX anthology series: a prequel about the origins of the gangster families that ran Kansas City in the 1950s, pitting Italians against Blacks, which explains the formation of the Midwest crime syndicate in the current timeline. And, for the crucial visual look, Emmy-winning cinematographer Dana Gonzales (who directed four episodes) created a colorful Kodachrome look for the period aesthetic.
“I talked about the look for a year with Noah,” Gonzales said. “We briefly discussed shooting it black-and-white. To me, there was something interesting about mug shots and photography at that time because criminals used to ham it up. That’s how the mugshots derived [from a monochrome look in Season 4] — there’s a pride there. But it seemed right to do Kodachrome as the main narrative look since this was the ’50s. It informed...
“I talked about the look for a year with Noah,” Gonzales said. “We briefly discussed shooting it black-and-white. To me, there was something interesting about mug shots and photography at that time because criminals used to ham it up. That’s how the mugshots derived [from a monochrome look in Season 4] — there’s a pride there. But it seemed right to do Kodachrome as the main narrative look since this was the ’50s. It informed...
- 5/24/2021
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Roger Hawkins, the drummer in the legendary Swampers and Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section who played on hits like Aretha Franklin’s “Respect,” Wilson Pickett’s “Mustang Sally,” and Percy Sledge’s “When a Man Loves a Woman,” has died at the age of 75.
The Muscle Shoals Music Foundation announced Hawkins’ death Thursday. Al.com reports that Hawkins died following an extended illness; the drummer suffered from numerous illnesses later in life, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
“Our hearts are breaking today as the heartbeat of ‘The Swampers’ drummer Roger Hawkins...
The Muscle Shoals Music Foundation announced Hawkins’ death Thursday. Al.com reports that Hawkins died following an extended illness; the drummer suffered from numerous illnesses later in life, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
“Our hearts are breaking today as the heartbeat of ‘The Swampers’ drummer Roger Hawkins...
- 5/20/2021
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
The distinctive podcasts from disruptive Canadian news platform and podcaster Canadaland will soon receive global film and television adaptations thanks to a deal with U.S. outfit Storied Media Group (Smg).
In addition to representing Canadaland in the packaging and sales of its multimedia journalism for television and film adaptation, Smg will market the publisher’s daily stories to studios, streamers, networks and producers around the world.
Canadaland’s content spans hot button topics including police corruption and brutality, and stories at the intersection of money, influence and politics in Canada. Canadaland’s hit series “Thunder Bay,” about anti-Indigenous racism, is currently in production as a docuseries for eOne/Crave, while their true-crime caper “Cool Mules,” about a cocaine-smuggling ring inside Vice Media, is also in development as both a scripted and unscripted series.
Founded in 2013 by Todd Hoffman, former head of the Media Rights Group at ICM, Smg has...
In addition to representing Canadaland in the packaging and sales of its multimedia journalism for television and film adaptation, Smg will market the publisher’s daily stories to studios, streamers, networks and producers around the world.
Canadaland’s content spans hot button topics including police corruption and brutality, and stories at the intersection of money, influence and politics in Canada. Canadaland’s hit series “Thunder Bay,” about anti-Indigenous racism, is currently in production as a docuseries for eOne/Crave, while their true-crime caper “Cool Mules,” about a cocaine-smuggling ring inside Vice Media, is also in development as both a scripted and unscripted series.
Founded in 2013 by Todd Hoffman, former head of the Media Rights Group at ICM, Smg has...
- 4/29/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Pulitzer Prize-winning nonprofit newsroom The Marshall Project has closed a deal with Storied Media Group for representation of its film and television rights.
Storied Media Group will represent the publisher in the packaging and selling of its acclaimed, critical and timely reporting on the U.S. criminal justice system. Smg will curate the publication’s daily stories, hard-hitting investigative pieces and growing archives, and market the articles to studios, streamers, networks and producers for adaptation worldwide.
The multi award-winning newsroom, founded in 2014 and named after the honorable justice Thurgood Marshall, was created to make an impact through journalism, rendering the criminal justice system more fair, effective, transparent and humane. Its diverse team is composed of some of the country’s leading talents in top-quality investigative and explanatory journalism. The Marshall Project has consistently produced work that has affected real world change. The 2015 series An Unbelievable Story of Rape, a collaboration with ProPublica,...
Storied Media Group will represent the publisher in the packaging and selling of its acclaimed, critical and timely reporting on the U.S. criminal justice system. Smg will curate the publication’s daily stories, hard-hitting investigative pieces and growing archives, and market the articles to studios, streamers, networks and producers for adaptation worldwide.
The multi award-winning newsroom, founded in 2014 and named after the honorable justice Thurgood Marshall, was created to make an impact through journalism, rendering the criminal justice system more fair, effective, transparent and humane. Its diverse team is composed of some of the country’s leading talents in top-quality investigative and explanatory journalism. The Marshall Project has consistently produced work that has affected real world change. The 2015 series An Unbelievable Story of Rape, a collaboration with ProPublica,...
- 4/16/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Production designers Mark Ricker (“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”), David Crank (“News of the World”) and Barry Robison (“One Night in Miami”), and set decorator Jan Pascale (“Mank”) worked on very different films, but the pictures have one thing in common: they’re period pieces, covering post-Civil War Texas, 1920s Chicago, 1940s Hollywood and 1964 Miami. And that was all music to their ears. Click on each name above to view each person’s individual interview.
“I love doing period. I love delving deep into whatever period I’m involved in for sure,” Robison shares during Gold Derby’s Meet the Btl Experts: Film Production Design panel (watch above). “I’m a reader and I love history. I just can’t get enough of it. … On ‘One Night in Miami,’ I went to Life magazines. That was super important, getting those Kodachrome and then going back and really delving into that. That was super important.
“I love doing period. I love delving deep into whatever period I’m involved in for sure,” Robison shares during Gold Derby’s Meet the Btl Experts: Film Production Design panel (watch above). “I’m a reader and I love history. I just can’t get enough of it. … On ‘One Night in Miami,’ I went to Life magazines. That was super important, getting those Kodachrome and then going back and really delving into that. That was super important.
- 1/29/2021
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
As you might expect, Netflix’s new “Hollywood,” which debuts on the streamer May 1, didn’t have to travel far for production. However, the eight-episode series, from Ryan Murphy and his “Glee” collaborator Ian Brennan, doesn’t take place in contemporary Hollywood but rather in Los Angeles, just after World War II.
Production designer Matthew Flood Ferguson captures the 1940s beautifully. Not only did filming take place at many Los Angeles landmarks, but Ferguson also re-created long-gone institutions like Schwab’s Pharmacy.
David Corenswet stars in the ensemble as Jack Costello, a G.I. from the Midwest who comes to Hollywood to be a movie star but finds himself turning tricks with well-to-do Beverly Hills housewives in order to make ends meet for him and his wife (Maude Apatow).
Darren Criss plays an aspiring director in a secret relationship with a black actor (Laura Harrier). Archie Coleman (two-time Tony nominee...
Production designer Matthew Flood Ferguson captures the 1940s beautifully. Not only did filming take place at many Los Angeles landmarks, but Ferguson also re-created long-gone institutions like Schwab’s Pharmacy.
David Corenswet stars in the ensemble as Jack Costello, a G.I. from the Midwest who comes to Hollywood to be a movie star but finds himself turning tricks with well-to-do Beverly Hills housewives in order to make ends meet for him and his wife (Maude Apatow).
Darren Criss plays an aspiring director in a secret relationship with a black actor (Laura Harrier). Archie Coleman (two-time Tony nominee...
- 4/30/2020
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
Following their video game adventure movie “Free Guy,” set for release later this year, Ryan Reynolds and director Shawn Levy are reuniting for a time travel adventure film at Skydance, an individual with knowledge of the deal told TheWrap.
Levy will direct while Reynolds will star, and both will produce along with Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Don Granger.
A fourth-quarter start to production on the east coast is being eyed — of course, it all depends on the coronavirus.
Also Read: Ryan Reynolds in Talks to Play Dirk the Daring in Live-Action 'Dragon's Lair' Adaptation
Jonathan Topper, who wrote Levy’s dramedy “This Is Where I Leave You,” is writing the project, which is being reconfigured from a previous project called “Our Name is Adam.” It has been in development since 2012, with Tom Cruise briefly attached.
The film will star Reynolds as a man who has...
Levy will direct while Reynolds will star, and both will produce along with Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Don Granger.
A fourth-quarter start to production on the east coast is being eyed — of course, it all depends on the coronavirus.
Also Read: Ryan Reynolds in Talks to Play Dirk the Daring in Live-Action 'Dragon's Lair' Adaptation
Jonathan Topper, who wrote Levy’s dramedy “This Is Where I Leave You,” is writing the project, which is being reconfigured from a previous project called “Our Name is Adam.” It has been in development since 2012, with Tom Cruise briefly attached.
The film will star Reynolds as a man who has...
- 4/24/2020
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Over the past couple of weeks, many artists have have shared homemade performance videos with their fans to help them through the nationwide coronavirus shut-in. The list includes Neil Young, Elvis Costello, Billie Eilish, Alicia Keys, Billie Joe Armstrong, Joan Baez, Joan Jett, Dave Grohl, Backstreet Boys, Mariah Carey, and too many others to mention.
But one of the most poignant clips was Paul Simon performing his 1973 classic “American Tune” outside of his home. The song was the third single released from There Goes Rhymin’ Simon and received only a...
But one of the most poignant clips was Paul Simon performing his 1973 classic “American Tune” outside of his home. The song was the third single released from There Goes Rhymin’ Simon and received only a...
- 4/2/2020
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
The Gotham Group, the management and production company behind the Maze Runner franchise and Netflix film Kodachrome among others, has signed a multi-year first-look deal with Fox 21 Television Studios to create projects for both linear and streaming platforms.
“We couldn’t be more excited to work with Bert Salke and his extraordinary team of executives at Fox 21,” said Gotham Group founder and CEO Ellen Goldsmith-Vein. “They have an unsurpassed record of successfully launching and supporting television projects that speak to the zeitgeist and create a conversation. After working with them on so many projects over the past decade, it’s a dream come true to now officially be partners moving forward.”
Led by Goldsmith-Vein, alongside Gotham partner Jeremy Bell and VP Television D.J. Goldberg, who will oversee the deal, The Gotham Group produced the film Stargirl, based on the bestselling novel by Jerry Spinelli, which premieres later this year on Disney+.
“We couldn’t be more excited to work with Bert Salke and his extraordinary team of executives at Fox 21,” said Gotham Group founder and CEO Ellen Goldsmith-Vein. “They have an unsurpassed record of successfully launching and supporting television projects that speak to the zeitgeist and create a conversation. After working with them on so many projects over the past decade, it’s a dream come true to now officially be partners moving forward.”
Led by Goldsmith-Vein, alongside Gotham partner Jeremy Bell and VP Television D.J. Goldberg, who will oversee the deal, The Gotham Group produced the film Stargirl, based on the bestselling novel by Jerry Spinelli, which premieres later this year on Disney+.
- 2/6/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Ellen Goldsmith-Vein’s The Gotham Group has signed a multi-year first-look deal with Fox 21 Television Studios, the Disney-owned studio said Thursday.
Under the pact, the management and production company known for “The Spiderwick Chronicles” and “The Maze Runner” franchise will create projects for Fox 21 TV for both linear and streaming platforms.
The Gotham Group was founded by CEO Goldsmith-Vein in 1994. She leads the company alongside partner Jeremy Bell and Gotham’s vice president of television, D.J. Goldberg, who will oversee the deal.
Also Read: Bill Beverly's Acclaimed Crime Novel 'Dodgers' Snags Movie Deal With Gotham Group
“Getting in business with The Gotham Group was a huge priority for me and everyone at Fox 21,” Fox 21 Television Studios president Bert Salke said. “Ellen Goldsmith-Vein is incredibly impressive, she’s smart, aggressive and a real force creatively. She has spectacular taste in material and talent alike and her company has a...
Under the pact, the management and production company known for “The Spiderwick Chronicles” and “The Maze Runner” franchise will create projects for Fox 21 TV for both linear and streaming platforms.
The Gotham Group was founded by CEO Goldsmith-Vein in 1994. She leads the company alongside partner Jeremy Bell and Gotham’s vice president of television, D.J. Goldberg, who will oversee the deal.
Also Read: Bill Beverly's Acclaimed Crime Novel 'Dodgers' Snags Movie Deal With Gotham Group
“Getting in business with The Gotham Group was a huge priority for me and everyone at Fox 21,” Fox 21 Television Studios president Bert Salke said. “Ellen Goldsmith-Vein is incredibly impressive, she’s smart, aggressive and a real force creatively. She has spectacular taste in material and talent alike and her company has a...
- 2/6/2020
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment has promoted manager Josh Goldenberg to partner. Goldenberg has been with the firm for eight years, repping writers and directors in film, TV and theater. He joined after spending seven years as a film executive.
Goldenberg’s list includes showrunners Marja-Lewis Ryan (L Word) and Michael MacLennan (Tiny Pretty Things) and screenwriters Chris Bremner (Bad Boys 3), Brad Caleb Kane (Tokyo Vice), April Prosser (Plus One), and Oscar winners Charlie Wachtel & David Rabinowitz (BlacKkKlansman). He also works with filmmakers Mark Raso (Kodachrome) and Erica Watson (L Word) and playwrights including Rajiv Joseph (Little America).
He began his career as an executive for Mike Karz and then a VP for Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher, before Kaplan and Perrone called him with the idea of management.
“Josh started working with us with no clients, a supply closet for an office, and a desk from Ikea he had...
Goldenberg’s list includes showrunners Marja-Lewis Ryan (L Word) and Michael MacLennan (Tiny Pretty Things) and screenwriters Chris Bremner (Bad Boys 3), Brad Caleb Kane (Tokyo Vice), April Prosser (Plus One), and Oscar winners Charlie Wachtel & David Rabinowitz (BlacKkKlansman). He also works with filmmakers Mark Raso (Kodachrome) and Erica Watson (L Word) and playwrights including Rajiv Joseph (Little America).
He began his career as an executive for Mike Karz and then a VP for Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher, before Kaplan and Perrone called him with the idea of management.
“Josh started working with us with no clients, a supply closet for an office, and a desk from Ikea he had...
- 1/31/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Bob Shaw has scored his first Oscar nomination, as production designer for “The Irishman,” one of 10 nominations for the Netflix film. “Irishman” looks at U.S. history through the eyes mafia hitman Frank Sheeran and his relationship with Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa. The epic entailed 108 shooting days, with several locations each day.
How did you start?
I decided at age 16 that I wanted to design scenery; I was thinking theater. I designed “The Mandrake” at the Public Theatre when I was 20, then at 23, I designed “The Pirates of Penzance” with Linda Ronstadt on Broadway, working with a really wonderful director named Wilford Leach.
“The Irishman” spans 50 years. What did that entail?
We built 28 sets and had 295 sets in all. Our locations were all over the place. There were a lot of locations that are only seen for a few moments.
After agreeing to do it, did you have a moment of doubt?...
How did you start?
I decided at age 16 that I wanted to design scenery; I was thinking theater. I designed “The Mandrake” at the Public Theatre when I was 20, then at 23, I designed “The Pirates of Penzance” with Linda Ronstadt on Broadway, working with a really wonderful director named Wilford Leach.
“The Irishman” spans 50 years. What did that entail?
We built 28 sets and had 295 sets in all. Our locations were all over the place. There were a lot of locations that are only seen for a few moments.
After agreeing to do it, did you have a moment of doubt?...
- 1/30/2020
- by Tim Gray
- Variety Film + TV
This year’s Oscar race for cinematography is dedicated to period pieces: Roger Deakins’ tour de force, continuous-shot experiment for “1917,” Sam Mendes’ bold World War I thriller; Robert Richardson’s colorful look at Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” Rodrigo Prieto’s digital/Kodak 35mm film saga of mob life in Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman,” Lawrence Sher’s large-format digital deep dive into a New York-infused Gotham City (circa ’81) for Todd Phillips’ “Joker,” and Jarin Blaschke’s black-and-white 35mm film rendering of 1890s Gothic psychological horror for Robert Eggers’ “The Lighthouse.”
Once Deakins wrapped his head around the continuous-shot concept, he worked out the entire movie with Mendes and the crew as a choreographed dance with George MacKay and Dean-Charles Chapman as the two British soldiers, Schofield, and Blake. He used Arri’s brand new Alexa Mini Lf, the lightweight, large-format version of the Lf, and an assortment of creative rigs.
Once Deakins wrapped his head around the continuous-shot concept, he worked out the entire movie with Mendes and the crew as a choreographed dance with George MacKay and Dean-Charles Chapman as the two British soldiers, Schofield, and Blake. He used Arri’s brand new Alexa Mini Lf, the lightweight, large-format version of the Lf, and an assortment of creative rigs.
- 1/20/2020
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Roger Deakins (“1917”) will compete against theatrical cinematographers Phedon Papamichael (“Ford v Ferrari”), Rodrigo Prieto (“The Irishman”), Robert Richardson (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”), and Lawrence Sher (“Joker”) in the 34th annual Asc Awards. They will be held January 25 at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland.
Additionally, competing for the indie Spotlight Award were first-time nominees Jarin Blaschke (“The Lighthouse”), Natasha Braier (“Honey Boy”), and Jasper Wolf (“Monos”).
There were no surprises among the five theatrical nominees, which are all Best Picture Oscar contenders. Deakins, who finally landed his first Oscar after 14 nominations with “Blade Runner 2049,” is the frontrunner again with the bravura, one-shot achievement of Sam Mendes’ World War I thriller, “1917.” He is a four-time Asc winner, and this marks his 16th nomination.
Three-time Oscar winner Richardson earned his 11th nomination, while Papamichael and Prieto have each been recognized three times by the Asc. For Sher,...
Additionally, competing for the indie Spotlight Award were first-time nominees Jarin Blaschke (“The Lighthouse”), Natasha Braier (“Honey Boy”), and Jasper Wolf (“Monos”).
There were no surprises among the five theatrical nominees, which are all Best Picture Oscar contenders. Deakins, who finally landed his first Oscar after 14 nominations with “Blade Runner 2049,” is the frontrunner again with the bravura, one-shot achievement of Sam Mendes’ World War I thriller, “1917.” He is a four-time Asc winner, and this marks his 16th nomination.
Three-time Oscar winner Richardson earned his 11th nomination, while Papamichael and Prieto have each been recognized three times by the Asc. For Sher,...
- 1/3/2020
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
An impeccably dressed man drags on a cigarette at Lax, the smoke matching the color of his close-cropped hair. The Who’s “The Seeker” plays on the soundtrack as he gets into a cab. At his motel, he notices the return address on the back of an envelope. Suddenly, he’s standing in front of that same address. Then he’s on a plane. Then he’s in a car, staring at a picture of a young woman — who appears onscreen as a girl a split-second later, the flashback looking like a purplish,...
- 12/13/2019
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Martin Scorsese had been wanting to make “The Irishman” for 12 years, and Rodrigo Prieto is happy it took that long.
“I hear that the whole project had been gestating for a long time, but I wasn’t aware of that, but I’m grateful that it did take a long time because then I was around when it finally came together,” the Dp quipped at Gold Derby’s Meet the Experts: Cinematography panel, moderated by this writer (watch above). “We did ‘Silence’ and actually it was when we finished ‘Silence’ that I started hearing about ‘The Irishman,’ and there was no script for me to read, so I read the book and loved it. So that’s where I started imagining the movie, through the book.”
Based on the nonfiction book “I Heard You Paint Houses,” the sprawling epic follows Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran (Robert De Niro), who becomes a...
“I hear that the whole project had been gestating for a long time, but I wasn’t aware of that, but I’m grateful that it did take a long time because then I was around when it finally came together,” the Dp quipped at Gold Derby’s Meet the Experts: Cinematography panel, moderated by this writer (watch above). “We did ‘Silence’ and actually it was when we finished ‘Silence’ that I started hearing about ‘The Irishman,’ and there was no script for me to read, so I read the book and loved it. So that’s where I started imagining the movie, through the book.”
Based on the nonfiction book “I Heard You Paint Houses,” the sprawling epic follows Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran (Robert De Niro), who becomes a...
- 11/11/2019
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
Exclusive: I hear that Jason Sudeikis and Evangeline Lilly have been cast in Till Death, the action thriller being helmed by Aharon Keshales, who co-directed 2013 breakout Israeli horror Big Bad Wolves.
In the film, convicted felon Jimmy gets early parole after serving twelve years for armed robbery. Upon his release, he vows to give Annie, his childhood love, now dying from cancer, the best last year of her life – unfortunately it’s not that simple. Keshales penned the script with Navot Papushado and Kai Mark.
The project comes from Dallas-based producers Cinestate and Arts District Entertainment, and is fully financed by London-based Media Finance Capital.
Uphe Content Group has already snapped up world rights to the package. Pic will go into production in January 2020.
SNL grad Sudeikis is making something of a genre departure on this high-octane action pic, following recent drama roles in Kodachrome and Driven, alongside his comedy work.
In the film, convicted felon Jimmy gets early parole after serving twelve years for armed robbery. Upon his release, he vows to give Annie, his childhood love, now dying from cancer, the best last year of her life – unfortunately it’s not that simple. Keshales penned the script with Navot Papushado and Kai Mark.
The project comes from Dallas-based producers Cinestate and Arts District Entertainment, and is fully financed by London-based Media Finance Capital.
Uphe Content Group has already snapped up world rights to the package. Pic will go into production in January 2020.
SNL grad Sudeikis is making something of a genre departure on this high-octane action pic, following recent drama roles in Kodachrome and Driven, alongside his comedy work.
- 11/6/2019
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Jennifer Jason Leigh, Barry Pepper and “Game of Thrones” actor Finn Jones will join Gina Rodriguez in Netflix’s sci-fi thriller “Awake.”
The newly announced cast also includes Ariana Greenblatt, Frances Fisher, Shamier Anderson, Lucius Hoyos and Gil Bellows.
“Awake” is set after a sudden global event wipes out all electronics and takes away humankind’s ability to sleep, and chaos quickly begins to consume the world. Rodriguez’s character may hold the key to a cure in the form of her own daughter while she faces the prospect of saving the world before she herself loses her mind.
“Kodachrome” helmer Mark Raso is attached to direct from a script he co-wrote with his brother Joseph Raso, as well as Greg Poirier. Entertainment One and Paul Schiff are producing the film. Rodriguez and the Raso brothers are executive producing with Mark Gordon, Josh Phillips, Matt Jackson, Poirier and Whitney Brown.
The newly announced cast also includes Ariana Greenblatt, Frances Fisher, Shamier Anderson, Lucius Hoyos and Gil Bellows.
“Awake” is set after a sudden global event wipes out all electronics and takes away humankind’s ability to sleep, and chaos quickly begins to consume the world. Rodriguez’s character may hold the key to a cure in the form of her own daughter while she faces the prospect of saving the world before she herself loses her mind.
“Kodachrome” helmer Mark Raso is attached to direct from a script he co-wrote with his brother Joseph Raso, as well as Greg Poirier. Entertainment One and Paul Schiff are producing the film. Rodriguez and the Raso brothers are executive producing with Mark Gordon, Josh Phillips, Matt Jackson, Poirier and Whitney Brown.
- 8/21/2019
- by Justin Kroll
- Variety Film + TV
La management and production firm Zero Gravity has opened a UK office, appointing Brit producer Leon Clarance to head operations.
The company, whose credits include Ben Affleck starrer The Accountant and hit Netflix series Ozark, previously partnered with Clarance on Andrew Scott thriller A Dark Place (known in UK as Steel Country).
Clarance recently produced Jason Sudeikis-starring movie Kodachrome and was an executive producer on Netflix series Sense8. His remit at Zero Gravity will be to attract acting, writing, directing and below-the-line talent to the company with a view to producing and financing material which has international appeal whilst building a team from scratch.
Clarance, A Dark Place director Simon Fellows and Zero Gravity partner Mark Williams are currently in pre-production on The Department, a sci-fi-thriller created by Fellows and co-written by Luke Garrett which examines current themes of civil liberties and state intervention. Zero Gravity and Clarance have...
The company, whose credits include Ben Affleck starrer The Accountant and hit Netflix series Ozark, previously partnered with Clarance on Andrew Scott thriller A Dark Place (known in UK as Steel Country).
Clarance recently produced Jason Sudeikis-starring movie Kodachrome and was an executive producer on Netflix series Sense8. His remit at Zero Gravity will be to attract acting, writing, directing and below-the-line talent to the company with a view to producing and financing material which has international appeal whilst building a team from scratch.
Clarance, A Dark Place director Simon Fellows and Zero Gravity partner Mark Williams are currently in pre-production on The Department, a sci-fi-thriller created by Fellows and co-written by Luke Garrett which examines current themes of civil liberties and state intervention. Zero Gravity and Clarance have...
- 8/16/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Company hires Sense8 producer to lead UK office.
Zero Gravity Management, the Los Angeles based management and production company that has credits including Netflix series Ozark, has opened a London office and has hired UK producer Leon Clarance to head up its UK operation.
Alongside its production activities, Zero Gravity has a roster of clients including screenwriters, directors and actors. They include Katherine Heigl, Dolph Lundgren, and Michael Jai White.
Clarance, whose credits include Netflix series Sense8 and 2017 feature Kodachrome, will be tasked with developing film and TV projects, targeting both theatrical and streaming audiences, and also bringing talent into the company’s management stable.
Zero Gravity Management, the Los Angeles based management and production company that has credits including Netflix series Ozark, has opened a London office and has hired UK producer Leon Clarance to head up its UK operation.
Alongside its production activities, Zero Gravity has a roster of clients including screenwriters, directors and actors. They include Katherine Heigl, Dolph Lundgren, and Michael Jai White.
Clarance, whose credits include Netflix series Sense8 and 2017 feature Kodachrome, will be tasked with developing film and TV projects, targeting both theatrical and streaming audiences, and also bringing talent into the company’s management stable.
- 8/16/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Auli’i Cravalho, the voice of Disney smash Moana, has been set to lead cast in Netflix’s feature drama Sorta Like A Rock Star‘, which will now be directed by Brett Haley (Hearts Beat Loud).
Principal photography is set to begin this October on the movie about a teenage girl who, despite difficult circumstances, is preternaturally optimistic about the world and her place in it. She often helps those around her, resulting in powerful bonds with a disparate group of outsiders in her community, until she faces a devastating loss and can no longer ignore the challenges in her own life. Additional casting is under way.
This will be Cravalho’s first non-animated movie. The actress most recently starred in NBC series Rise. Bryce Dallas Howard was previously aboard to direct but we hear had to drop off for scheduling reasons.
Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Lee Stollman...
Principal photography is set to begin this October on the movie about a teenage girl who, despite difficult circumstances, is preternaturally optimistic about the world and her place in it. She often helps those around her, resulting in powerful bonds with a disparate group of outsiders in her community, until she faces a devastating loss and can no longer ignore the challenges in her own life. Additional casting is under way.
This will be Cravalho’s first non-animated movie. The actress most recently starred in NBC series Rise. Bryce Dallas Howard was previously aboard to direct but we hear had to drop off for scheduling reasons.
Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Lee Stollman...
- 7/24/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Gina Rodriguez will star in Netflix’s science-fiction thriller “Awake,” portraying an ex-soldier with a troubled past.
“Kodachrome” helmer Mark Raso is attached to direct from a script he co-wrote with his brother Joseph Raso and Greg Poirier. Paul Schiff is producing for Entertainment One. Rodriguez and the Raso brothers are executive producing with Mark Gordon, Josh Phillips, Matt Jackson, Poirier and Whitney Brown. Joanne Lee is a co-exec producer.
The story is set after a sudden global event wipes out all electronics and takes away humankind’s ability to sleep, and chaos quickly begins to consume the world. Rodriguez’s character may hold the key to a cure in the form of her own daughter while she faces the prospect of saving the world before she herself loses her mind.
Rodriguez won a Golden Globe for her lead role as Jane Gloriana Villanueva in the CW sitcom “Jane the Virgin,...
“Kodachrome” helmer Mark Raso is attached to direct from a script he co-wrote with his brother Joseph Raso and Greg Poirier. Paul Schiff is producing for Entertainment One. Rodriguez and the Raso brothers are executive producing with Mark Gordon, Josh Phillips, Matt Jackson, Poirier and Whitney Brown. Joanne Lee is a co-exec producer.
The story is set after a sudden global event wipes out all electronics and takes away humankind’s ability to sleep, and chaos quickly begins to consume the world. Rodriguez’s character may hold the key to a cure in the form of her own daughter while she faces the prospect of saving the world before she herself loses her mind.
Rodriguez won a Golden Globe for her lead role as Jane Gloriana Villanueva in the CW sitcom “Jane the Virgin,...
- 5/30/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Elizabeth Olsen is now Scarlet Witch in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and she almost could’ve been Queen Daenerys Targaryen in “Game of Thrones!”
The actress told Vulture that she once auditioned for the role of Khaleesi aka the Mother of Dragons — using two different accents.
“When I first started working, I just auditioned for everything, because I like auditioning. And I auditioned for Khaleesi. I forgot that,” she said. “It was the most awkward audition I’d ever had.”
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Olsen explained that she auditioned with the monologue from the end of the first season: “[From] after she just burned. And she’s making this speech to thousands of people about how she’s their queen. They didn’t know if they wanted a British accent or not. So, you did it in both. It was terrible.
The actress told Vulture that she once auditioned for the role of Khaleesi aka the Mother of Dragons — using two different accents.
“When I first started working, I just auditioned for everything, because I like auditioning. And I auditioned for Khaleesi. I forgot that,” she said. “It was the most awkward audition I’d ever had.”
Also Read: Loki, Scarlet Witch, More Marvel Characters to Get Standalone Shows on Disney Streaming Service
Olsen explained that she auditioned with the monologue from the end of the first season: “[From] after she just burned. And she’s making this speech to thousands of people about how she’s their queen. They didn’t know if they wanted a British accent or not. So, you did it in both. It was terrible.
- 5/18/2019
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Laika, the revered Oregon stop-motion studio run by Travis Knight, gets more epic with its fifth feature, “Missing Link,” a globetrotting, “Indiana Jones” style adventure comedy. It’s a buddy movie about explorer Sir Lionel Frost (Hugh Jackman) and a Sasquatch named Mr. Link (Zach Galifianakis), who embark on a quest from the Pacific Northwest in search of the legendary Shangri-La, home of Link’s ancestry. They team up with adventurer Adelina Fortnight (Zoe Saldana), who possesses the only known map to their secret destination.
Once again, Laika embraces inclusion in its first movie not starring a child hero, written and directed by Chris Butler (“ParaNorman”), who said: “Link embodies a child-like innocence and the kids in ‘ParaNorman’ acted more adult than the adults in this movie.” True to Laika’s mandate to push stop-motion and storytelling in new areas of exploration, “Missing Link” moves in a completely different direction from its four Oscar-nominated predecessors.
Once again, Laika embraces inclusion in its first movie not starring a child hero, written and directed by Chris Butler (“ParaNorman”), who said: “Link embodies a child-like innocence and the kids in ‘ParaNorman’ acted more adult than the adults in this movie.” True to Laika’s mandate to push stop-motion and storytelling in new areas of exploration, “Missing Link” moves in a completely different direction from its four Oscar-nominated predecessors.
- 3/18/2019
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Two songs into his set at Flushing Meadows Corona Park on the final stop of his Homeward Bound Farewell Tour, Paul Simon put down his guitar and put on a black baseball glove. “This is like two miles from where I played high school baseball,” he said. “It’s little dark out, but you know what? I’m going to play a quick game of catch.” He then lobbed the ball into the New York crowd and urged whoever caught it to throw it back. It took three attempts, but...
- 9/23/2018
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Exclusive: CAA has signed multi-hyphenate Jonathan Tropper whose work spans bestselling novels, films and television.
Tropper co-created and executive produced the Cinemax television show Banshee, which ran for four seasons and his latest TV drama, Warrior, executive produced by Justin Lin, will premiere on the pay-cable network in 2019. Warrior is a period crime drama inspired by the writings and work of martial arts icon Bruce Lee that is set during the brutal Tong Wars in San Francisco’s Chinatown in the late 1800s.
Banshee followed an ex-con who assumed the identity of a slain sheriff in Banshee, a small Pennsylvania town in Amish country. He’s on the lam from a powerful crime lord, but while he’s the top brass in town, he imposes his own brand of justice and practices crime. Tropper directed the Banshee episode “Only One Way a Dogfight Ends”.
As an international bestselling novelist, Tropper...
Tropper co-created and executive produced the Cinemax television show Banshee, which ran for four seasons and his latest TV drama, Warrior, executive produced by Justin Lin, will premiere on the pay-cable network in 2019. Warrior is a period crime drama inspired by the writings and work of martial arts icon Bruce Lee that is set during the brutal Tong Wars in San Francisco’s Chinatown in the late 1800s.
Banshee followed an ex-con who assumed the identity of a slain sheriff in Banshee, a small Pennsylvania town in Amish country. He’s on the lam from a powerful crime lord, but while he’s the top brass in town, he imposes his own brand of justice and practices crime. Tropper directed the Banshee episode “Only One Way a Dogfight Ends”.
As an international bestselling novelist, Tropper...
- 9/14/2018
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Karwaan
Starring Irrfan, Dulquer Salman, Introducing Mithila Palkar
Directed by Akarsh Khurana
Life’s like that. It takes some weird twists and turns to finally put you on the right road. Of course the “right” is often the wrong for some of us.
In a sequence that would have been profoundly amusing if it were not so tragic a beautiful lady looks at two coffins and tells Dulquer, “The right one is your father.”
“So far,” sighs Dulquer, “the right one was the wrong one for me.”
Well, ha ha to that.
Excavating humour from the innards of mortality is never easy. Writer-Director Akarsh Khurana attempts the near-impossible and comes up with a film that never offends, even when it poses some serious problems of pacing.
You know that the film is looking for ways to keep the journey going when there are unnecessary detours on the way. And why not?...
Starring Irrfan, Dulquer Salman, Introducing Mithila Palkar
Directed by Akarsh Khurana
Life’s like that. It takes some weird twists and turns to finally put you on the right road. Of course the “right” is often the wrong for some of us.
In a sequence that would have been profoundly amusing if it were not so tragic a beautiful lady looks at two coffins and tells Dulquer, “The right one is your father.”
“So far,” sighs Dulquer, “the right one was the wrong one for me.”
Well, ha ha to that.
Excavating humour from the innards of mortality is never easy. Writer-Director Akarsh Khurana attempts the near-impossible and comes up with a film that never offends, even when it poses some serious problems of pacing.
You know that the film is looking for ways to keep the journey going when there are unnecessary detours on the way. And why not?...
- 8/2/2018
- by Subhash K Jha
- Bollyspice
Exclusive: Outside, the magazine which has published feature articles that were the basis for both film and television projects such as Everest, The Perfect Storm, Into the Wild, Blue Crush and 127 Hours, has just teamed up with The Gotham Group. The two companies will produce content for film, television and new media for what will be different platforms and distributors. Outside, which began in 1977 and is owned by the Mariah Media Network, is also known as the only magazine to have won three consecutive National Magazine Awards for general excellence.
If you add up the box office for those aforementioned feature projects alone, it totals ovver $700M worldwide. Larry Burke (Outside chairman) and Ellen Goldsmith-Vein (The Gotham Group’s CEO/founder and an avid sports enthusiast), are currently in talks with production companies, financiers, streaming services, broadcast and cable entities to start the partnership rolling.
“Over the last few weeks,...
If you add up the box office for those aforementioned feature projects alone, it totals ovver $700M worldwide. Larry Burke (Outside chairman) and Ellen Goldsmith-Vein (The Gotham Group’s CEO/founder and an avid sports enthusiast), are currently in talks with production companies, financiers, streaming services, broadcast and cable entities to start the partnership rolling.
“Over the last few weeks,...
- 7/16/2018
- by Anita Busch
- Deadline Film + TV
“Gotham’s” Ben McKenzie will star opposite Aaron Eckhart in the Solution Entertainment Group film “Live,” sources tell Variety.
“Marauders” helmer Steve C. Miller will direct the movie with Jeremy Drysdale penning the script. Courtney Eaton has also joined the cast.
The pic takes place over the course of two hours and follows a disgraced cop who is put in charge of finding the police commissioner’s kidnapped daughter, Penny, who’s trapped somewhere in the city and running out of time. With a deranged killer on his heels, Penny’s only hope is teaming up with an ambitious young online reporter who films the wild chase live.
McKenzie plays an antagonist in the film.
Myles Nestel and Craig Chapman will produce through Solution, which was behind the recently released “Kodachrome,” starring Jason Sudeikis and Ed Harris.
McKenzie is best known for his role as police commissioner Jim Gordon in...
“Marauders” helmer Steve C. Miller will direct the movie with Jeremy Drysdale penning the script. Courtney Eaton has also joined the cast.
The pic takes place over the course of two hours and follows a disgraced cop who is put in charge of finding the police commissioner’s kidnapped daughter, Penny, who’s trapped somewhere in the city and running out of time. With a deranged killer on his heels, Penny’s only hope is teaming up with an ambitious young online reporter who films the wild chase live.
McKenzie plays an antagonist in the film.
Myles Nestel and Craig Chapman will produce through Solution, which was behind the recently released “Kodachrome,” starring Jason Sudeikis and Ed Harris.
McKenzie is best known for his role as police commissioner Jim Gordon in...
- 5/8/2018
- by Justin Kroll
- Variety Film + TV
Faithful readers, is the year again moving a bit quicker than expected or is it just still me? Maybe it’s me? It’s probably me. I can deal with that. Anyway, on to the point of this whole thing. With it now being the first days of the month of May, we’ve officially finished up with the first third of the calendar. As such, I wanted to once again highlight the best of the year so far, consisting of my top ten and various awards for 2018 to date. Much like last time around, when I did the first quarter of the year at the start of April, I’m mostly limiting it to things that have already hit theaters. My only exception is that I’m again including eligible titles from the recently concluded Tribeca Film Festival. There are some others from the year that I’m fond...
- 5/4/2018
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Ed Harris has worked with some amazing filmmakers throughout his 42 years and counting in the business, from James Cameron to Ron Howard, David Cronenberg, Darren Aronfosky, and more. But it turns out the actor had the chance to work with the greatest filmmaker and he turned him down. Harris tells the Los Angeles Times that Stanley Kubrick called him directly to offer him the drill instructor role in “Full Metal Jacket.” He rejected the offer, and it’s shouldn’t be a surprise to know it’s one of his career regrets.
“Stanley Kubrick called me up one day and asked me to play the sergeant in ‘Full Metal Jacket,’ and I said no,” Harris said. “[R. Lee Ermey] was great and did a much better job than I would have done. But that always make me kind of go, ‘What were you thinking about?’ It might have been that...
“Stanley Kubrick called me up one day and asked me to play the sergeant in ‘Full Metal Jacket,’ and I said no,” Harris said. “[R. Lee Ermey] was great and did a much better job than I would have done. But that always make me kind of go, ‘What were you thinking about?’ It might have been that...
- 5/2/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Elizabeth Olsen has appeared as Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch in four films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, most recently in the record-breaking “Avengers: Infinity War,” and her one request for her superhero moving forward is a slight costume change. The actress tells Elle magazine that if her costume choice was up to her, “it would not just be a cleavage corset.”
“I like corsets, but I’d like it to be higher,” Olsen said. “Everyone has these things that cover them—Tessa Thompson does, Scarlett [Johansson] does. I would like to cover up a bit. It’s funny because sometimes I look around and I’m just like—wow, I’m the only one who has cleavage, and that’s a constant joke because they haven’t really evolved my superhero costume that much.”
Despite expressing some concerns about her Scarlet Witch look, Olsen admitted that her onscreen costume is much...
“I like corsets, but I’d like it to be higher,” Olsen said. “Everyone has these things that cover them—Tessa Thompson does, Scarlett [Johansson] does. I would like to cover up a bit. It’s funny because sometimes I look around and I’m just like—wow, I’m the only one who has cleavage, and that’s a constant joke because they haven’t really evolved my superhero costume that much.”
Despite expressing some concerns about her Scarlet Witch look, Olsen admitted that her onscreen costume is much...
- 5/1/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Welcome to “Playback,” a Variety / iHeartRadio podcast bringing you exclusive conversations with the talents behind many of today’s hottest films.
Oscar-nominated actor Ed Harris stars in the new film “Kodachrome,” which hit Netflix last week after being acquired following a Toronto Film Festival bow in September. Alongside co-star Jason Sudeikis, Harris crafts a moving portrait of a professional photographer committed (to a fault) to his work. It’s built on a familiar father-son-reconciliation dynamic, but for Harris, the way into keeping those tropes fresh was simply playing it as honestly as he could.
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“I didn’t have any reference point of anything similar myself,” Harris says. “I’m sure I’ve seen something similar along the way, but to me, you get a script and that’s your...
Oscar-nominated actor Ed Harris stars in the new film “Kodachrome,” which hit Netflix last week after being acquired following a Toronto Film Festival bow in September. Alongside co-star Jason Sudeikis, Harris crafts a moving portrait of a professional photographer committed (to a fault) to his work. It’s built on a familiar father-son-reconciliation dynamic, but for Harris, the way into keeping those tropes fresh was simply playing it as honestly as he could.
Listen to this week’s episode of “Playback” below. New episodes air every Thursday.
Click here for more episodes of “Playback.”
“I didn’t have any reference point of anything similar myself,” Harris says. “I’m sure I’ve seen something similar along the way, but to me, you get a script and that’s your...
- 4/26/2018
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Variety Film + TV
This month at the movies includes a pair of Elizabeth Olsen-starring films, thanks to two features exploring decidedly different release strategies. Of course there’s this week’s big budget blockbuster, “Avengers: Infinity War,” which features the actress reprising her role as the powerful mutant Scarlet Witch, but last week also saw the release of Mark Raso’s “Kodachrome,” which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last year. The film, a low-key drama starring Olsen, Ed Harris, and Jason Sudeikis, was picked up by Netflix out of the festival.
Despite Olsen’s role in the billion-dollar Marvel Cinematic Universe, she’s stayed true to her indie roots over the years, continuing to worker on smaller films like “Wind River” and “Ingrid Goes West,” both of which debuted at Sundance last year. As the indie film distribution model continues to evolve and change, Olsen has become a staunch proponent...
Despite Olsen’s role in the billion-dollar Marvel Cinematic Universe, she’s stayed true to her indie roots over the years, continuing to worker on smaller films like “Wind River” and “Ingrid Goes West,” both of which debuted at Sundance last year. As the indie film distribution model continues to evolve and change, Olsen has become a staunch proponent...
- 4/26/2018
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Dennis Haysbert has been cast in Fox 2000’s Breakthrough (previously titled The Impossible), the faith-based drama based on the true story of Joyce Smith’s account of her son’s miraculous recovery detailed in her novel The Impossible: The Miraculous Story of a Mother’s Faith and Her Child’s Resurrection. Roxann Dawson is directing.
Haysbert joins Chrissy Metz, Topher Grace, Josh Lucas, Mike Colter, Marcel Ruiz, Isaac Kragten, Ali Skovbye and Taylor Mosby in the film that follows Smith and her 14-year-old son John, who fell through a frozen lake in Missouri one winter; he stayed in the water for 15 minutes before being pulled out. Through prayer and against impossible odds, Joyce asked God for help by her son’s ER bedside until his heart started to beat again. She was saying loudly, “Holy God, please send your Holy Spirit to save my son.”
The film is being...
Haysbert joins Chrissy Metz, Topher Grace, Josh Lucas, Mike Colter, Marcel Ruiz, Isaac Kragten, Ali Skovbye and Taylor Mosby in the film that follows Smith and her 14-year-old son John, who fell through a frozen lake in Missouri one winter; he stayed in the water for 15 minutes before being pulled out. Through prayer and against impossible odds, Joyce asked God for help by her son’s ER bedside until his heart started to beat again. She was saying loudly, “Holy God, please send your Holy Spirit to save my son.”
The film is being...
- 4/25/2018
- by Anita Busch
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Renée Zellweger, Louie Anderson and It‘s Owen Teague have been cast in the lead roles of Heft for director Max Nichols (Two Night Stand). Heft, based on the bestselling novel by Liz Moore of the same name, was adapted by the author. The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Eric Robinson, who acquired the book in the fall of 2017, are producing.
Heft is about former academic Arthur Opp (Anderson) who hasn’t left his rambling Brooklyn home in a decade. Twenty miles away, in Yonkers, 17-year-old Kel Keller (Teague) navigates life as the poor kid in a rich school and pins his hopes on what seems like a promising baseball career―if he can untangle himself from his family drama. The link between this unlikely pair is Kel’s mother Charlene, (Zellweger), a former student of Arthur’s. After nearly two decades of silence, it is Charlene’s...
Heft is about former academic Arthur Opp (Anderson) who hasn’t left his rambling Brooklyn home in a decade. Twenty miles away, in Yonkers, 17-year-old Kel Keller (Teague) navigates life as the poor kid in a rich school and pins his hopes on what seems like a promising baseball career―if he can untangle himself from his family drama. The link between this unlikely pair is Kel’s mother Charlene, (Zellweger), a former student of Arthur’s. After nearly two decades of silence, it is Charlene’s...
- 4/25/2018
- by Anita Busch
- Deadline Film + TV
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