It is increasingly weird to recall that for a while, French director Bruno Dumont was the kind of filmmaker who reminded you, often forcibly and somewhat against your will, that the word “auteur” contains most of the letters of “austere.” “The Empire,” another of the director’s proudly off-kilter comedies that pitches the bumbling denizens of a small French village into a vast, sinister conspiracy extending far beyond their foreshortened horizons, hovers several light years — and two janky light sabers — away from austerity. Unfortunately, though, the air out there is also a little thin on hilarity, with the film’s one-gag setup becoming stretched to the point that it doesn’t even matter that it’s a pretty good gag.
The humor, as ever with the Dumont of “Li’l Quinquin” and “Slack Bay,” derives largely from the collision of the grandiose with the drolly mundane. This time out, harking back to,...
The humor, as ever with the Dumont of “Li’l Quinquin” and “Slack Bay,” derives largely from the collision of the grandiose with the drolly mundane. This time out, harking back to,...
- 2/18/2024
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
CBS’ hit soap opera, The Bold and the Beautiful, continues on into 2023. The series serves as a sister show to The Young and the Restless, and fans have enjoyed it since its conception in 1987. Unfortunately, The Bold and the Beautiful isn’t immune to the Writers Guild of America strike that began in May 2023. How many new episodes will fans see before reruns hit the network?
When will ‘The Bold and the Beautiful’ run out of new episodes with the Writers Guild of America strike? ‘The Bold and the Beautiful’ | Sonja Flemming/CBS via Getty Images
The Writers Guild of America began striking on May 2, 2023, for better contracts and better pay. The guild has over 11,000 writers spanning two labor unions.
“With traditional TV models, jobs were lasting six months, nine months, a year,” writer Amanda Mercedes explained to Today. “I saw a writer the other day that said that her last job was four weeks,...
When will ‘The Bold and the Beautiful’ run out of new episodes with the Writers Guild of America strike? ‘The Bold and the Beautiful’ | Sonja Flemming/CBS via Getty Images
The Writers Guild of America began striking on May 2, 2023, for better contracts and better pay. The guild has over 11,000 writers spanning two labor unions.
“With traditional TV models, jobs were lasting six months, nine months, a year,” writer Amanda Mercedes explained to Today. “I saw a writer the other day that said that her last job was four weeks,...
- 5/12/2023
- by Lauren Weiler
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Exclusive: David Wain, the man behind the comedy classic Wet Hot American Summer, has signed with Entertainment 360.
Wain has had himself quite the career with hit comedies including Role Models and Wanderlust, but he’s best known for Wet Hot American Summer. The film has gained a loyal following since it first came out in 2001, with Netflix taking notice and moving forward with the Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp limited series in 2015, with Wain directing all eight episodes and writing several. The streamer was so happy with the first series that it greenlighted Wet Hot American Summer: 10 Years Later in 2017.
On top of that, he’s also been busy with the TV series Childrens Hospital as well Medical Police. Wain is currently developing several projects including one with Elizabeth Banks and another with Zoë Kravitz.
He is also repped by WME.
Wain has had himself quite the career with hit comedies including Role Models and Wanderlust, but he’s best known for Wet Hot American Summer. The film has gained a loyal following since it first came out in 2001, with Netflix taking notice and moving forward with the Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp limited series in 2015, with Wain directing all eight episodes and writing several. The streamer was so happy with the first series that it greenlighted Wet Hot American Summer: 10 Years Later in 2017.
On top of that, he’s also been busy with the TV series Childrens Hospital as well Medical Police. Wain is currently developing several projects including one with Elizabeth Banks and another with Zoë Kravitz.
He is also repped by WME.
- 3/6/2023
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
A Little Under 10 years ago, Michael Showalter realized the time had come to give up on his Hollywood dreams and start taking whatever work he could find to pay the bills. He’s the star and co-creator of the 2001 cult classic Wet Hot American Summer, and a key member of the groundbreaking Nineties sketch-comedy group the State, but work had been very scarce in recent years, and his wife was about to give birth to twins. He wound up taking a midlevel job in the writing room of Rebel Wilson...
- 12/2/2022
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
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