Exclusive: Imagine Entertainment co-chairmen Brian Grazer and Ron Howard have entered into a multi-year co-financing and production partnership with Fifth Season and their co-CEOs Graham Taylor and Chris Rice.
Both companies have been busy in the docu space, and the move will give more autonomy. Imagine Documentaries president Sara Bernstein runs the division, and Justin Wilkes, who is Imagine president. Imagine will handle creative and production, while Fifth Season will handle sales and distribution. Fifth Season’s Non-Scripted division is run by EVP Mary Lisio.
The arrangement will start with feature docus on two iconic figures: Howard will direct a docu on the life of celebrated photographer Richard Avedon, and Big Chill helmer will make a docu on the life and comedy of Only Murders in the Building star Martin Short. Imagine and Fifth Season will co-finance the projects together, and they have put together a slate to follow these films.
Both companies have been busy in the docu space, and the move will give more autonomy. Imagine Documentaries president Sara Bernstein runs the division, and Justin Wilkes, who is Imagine president. Imagine will handle creative and production, while Fifth Season will handle sales and distribution. Fifth Season’s Non-Scripted division is run by EVP Mary Lisio.
The arrangement will start with feature docus on two iconic figures: Howard will direct a docu on the life of celebrated photographer Richard Avedon, and Big Chill helmer will make a docu on the life and comedy of Only Murders in the Building star Martin Short. Imagine and Fifth Season will co-finance the projects together, and they have put together a slate to follow these films.
- 1/22/2024
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Get ready for a paw-some adventure as “Paw Patrol” brings a marathon of action-packed episodes featuring the fearless rescue pups. Airing at 9:30 Am on Tuesday, December 26, 2023, on Nickelodeon, this special lineup includes four thrilling episodes: “Mighty Pups vs. The Mayor of the Universe,” “Mighty Pups vs. The Big Chill,” “Mighty Pups vs. The Mighty Cheetah,” and “Mighty Pups Stop the Mighty Queen.”
Led by the tech-savvy Ryder, the heroic pups of Adventure Bay showcase their special skills, gadgets, and vehicles as they come together to protect the community. From facing the challenges posed by the Mayor of the Universe to tackling the icy Big Chill, these Mighty Pups are always up for any mission.
Tune in at 9:30 Am for a morning filled with excitement, teamwork, and adorable canine heroes as “Paw Patrol” delivers non-stop rescue action that’s perfect for the whole family on Nickelodeon.
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Led by the tech-savvy Ryder, the heroic pups of Adventure Bay showcase their special skills, gadgets, and vehicles as they come together to protect the community. From facing the challenges posed by the Mayor of the Universe to tackling the icy Big Chill, these Mighty Pups are always up for any mission.
Tune in at 9:30 Am for a morning filled with excitement, teamwork, and adorable canine heroes as “Paw Patrol” delivers non-stop rescue action that’s perfect for the whole family on Nickelodeon.
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- 12/19/2023
- by Jules Byrd
- TV Everyday
In the upcoming episode of “Paw Patrol,” airing on Thursday, November 23, 2023, at 6:00 Pm on Nick Jr., young viewers can anticipate an action-packed adventure with four exciting segments. The heroic rescue pups, led by the tech-savvy Ryder, spring into action to protect their community. Each pup brings special skills, gadgets, and vehicles to tackle a variety of rescue missions, making the Paw Patrol a formidable team always ready for challenges.
The episode features thrilling segments, including “Mighty Pups vs. The Mayor of the Universe,” “Mighty Pups vs. The Big Chill,” “Mighty Pups vs. The Mighty Cheetah,” and “Mighty Pups Stop the Mighty Queen.” Each segment promises unique challenges and showcases the Mighty Pups’ teamwork and courage as they confront various adversaries and overcome obstacles.
With their unwavering commitment to safety and helping others, the Paw Patrol continues to captivate young audiences with engaging storylines and the uplifting message of teamwork and heroism.
The episode features thrilling segments, including “Mighty Pups vs. The Mayor of the Universe,” “Mighty Pups vs. The Big Chill,” “Mighty Pups vs. The Mighty Cheetah,” and “Mighty Pups Stop the Mighty Queen.” Each segment promises unique challenges and showcases the Mighty Pups’ teamwork and courage as they confront various adversaries and overcome obstacles.
With their unwavering commitment to safety and helping others, the Paw Patrol continues to captivate young audiences with engaging storylines and the uplifting message of teamwork and heroism.
- 11/16/2023
- by Jules Byrd
- TV Everyday
Even more than his long-time colleague and friend, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas is the boy who never grew up. For one, Star Wars is so inspired by sci-fi serials like Flash Gordon and the WWII dogfight movies that his imagined sci-fi universe feels oddly antiquated, and befitting its setting in a moment “a long, long time ago.” No less fitting is that American Graffiti, Lucas’s breakout hit, is a love letter to his youth in the 1950s and ’60s, and that it’s become the ur-text of the nostalgia movie as a subgenre. Everything from Happy Days to The Big Chill lives in its shadow, though given the shininess of the film’s surfaces, from the neon-lit drive-ins to chrome-plated cars that have been buffed to perfection, perhaps it’s more accurate to say that the film’s descendants are illuminated by its gleaming glow.
American Graffiti has the most threadbare of plots.
American Graffiti has the most threadbare of plots.
- 11/8/2023
- by Jake Cole
- Slant Magazine
A series by Christopher James looking at the 'Gay Best Friend' trope
Who wouldn't want a 10 year college reunion in their rich friend's new mansion?I love a good Big Chill type set-up.
Yes, I do love the actual 1983 movie The Big Chill. However, the hit film has itself spawned an entire genre of movies and TV. How many movies have you seen where an attractive ensemble of longtime friends spend a weekend away and come to terms with central truths within the friendship. There’s always as many laughs as there are tears. The uptight people finally get drunk or stoned and loosen up. Party animals gain new depth. A collection of the greatest hits of decades past are played throughout, usually with an accompanying singalong. I eat all of it up, no matter how predictable it may be.
One of the finer entries in the genre is Kenneth Branagh’s 1992 film Peter’s Friends.
Who wouldn't want a 10 year college reunion in their rich friend's new mansion?I love a good Big Chill type set-up.
Yes, I do love the actual 1983 movie The Big Chill. However, the hit film has itself spawned an entire genre of movies and TV. How many movies have you seen where an attractive ensemble of longtime friends spend a weekend away and come to terms with central truths within the friendship. There’s always as many laughs as there are tears. The uptight people finally get drunk or stoned and loosen up. Party animals gain new depth. A collection of the greatest hits of decades past are played throughout, usually with an accompanying singalong. I eat all of it up, no matter how predictable it may be.
One of the finer entries in the genre is Kenneth Branagh’s 1992 film Peter’s Friends.
- 11/5/2021
- by Christopher James
- FilmExperience
Midway through Lethal Weapon 2, there’s a scene where Detective Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) brings Rika van den Haas (Patsy Kensit) to his beachside trailer for a date, even though she’s the secretary of an evil apartheid-era South African government official that’s determined to kill him along with much of the Lapd. Before long, he’ll be fishing her lifeless body out of the ocean and vowing to avenge her death, but prior to that unpleasantness they enjoy a few beers and listen to the new Beach...
- 4/16/2020
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
The Film Society of Lincoln Center has set the Yorgos Lanthimos-directed The Favourite as the Opening Night selection for the 56th New York Film Festival. Deadline revealed last week that the film will make its world premiere at Venice, so this will be its New York premiere. That indicates it likely gets a showing at Telluride before the Nyff gala at Alice Tully Hall on Friday, September 28, 2018. Fox Searchlight Pictures releases it November 23. This becomes the second pic announced by Nyff, which recently set Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma to be the centerpiece selection. That film also will have its world premiere in Venice.
In The Favourite, the Duchess of Marlborough (Rachel Weisz) and her servant Abigail Hill (Emma Stone) engage in a sexually charged fight to the death for the body and soul of Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) at the height of the War of the Spanish Succession.
Said...
In The Favourite, the Duchess of Marlborough (Rachel Weisz) and her servant Abigail Hill (Emma Stone) engage in a sexually charged fight to the death for the body and soul of Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) at the height of the War of the Spanish Succession.
Said...
- 7/23/2018
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Actor Jason Biggs has hinted there may be a fourth installment of the American Pie movies, but not for a few years. Biggs, who played sexually naive Jim Levenstein in the three comedies - American Pie, American Pie 2 and American Wedding, reveals producers have already discussed the idea of an American Baby. Biggs tells movie magazine Empire, "It didn't happen. Which is right because it would have been too soon. I think it'd be fun to see how those characters had matured ten years down the line, a kind of Big Chill' for our generation' kind of thing." But the actor, whose character married 'band camp geek' Michelle in the last sequel, has more realistic plans for a plot. He adds, "Let's get real, American Divorce is a more likely scenario."...
- 10/6/2005
- WENN
Palm Pictures
PALM SPRINGS -- Icelandic filmmaker Dagur Kari makes an impressive transition from shorts to features with "Noi" (aka "Noi the Albino"), a playfully quirky and, ultimately, unexpectedly affecting portrait of a 17-year-old slacker determined to escape the snow-shrouded confines of the isolated fjord that his family calls home.
The winner of a slew of international festival awards, Iceland's official best foreign-language Oscar submission should generate some warm response on the domestic specialty front, while establishing Kari as a filmmaker of promise.
Stuck in an icy rut, hairless, 17-year-old Noi (effectively played by Tomas Lemarquis) bides his time in his remote village by skipping a lot of school (leaving a hand-held tape recorder on his desk in his absence), rigging slot machines for drink money or hanging out with his Elvis-crooning, cab-driving dad (Throstur Leo Gunnarsson).
Hope of a more promising future presents itself with the arrival of Iris (Elin Hansdottir), a new arrival from the city who works at the local filling station/snack bar as well as in the form of an old Viewmaster complete with kitschy images of exotic locales, which he receives from his rather odd grandmother (Anna Fridriksdottir) on his birthday.
The colorful character turns, and story details stand in bold contrast against that stark, white-on-white backdrop (vividly captured by Rasmus Videbaek), although even the omnipresent Big Chill doesn't quite condition the viewer for a shocker ending that would have done Sartre proud.
But beneath the blanket of bleakness, there remains a flicker of light that lends the film its heart and serves as its artistic inspiration.
PALM SPRINGS -- Icelandic filmmaker Dagur Kari makes an impressive transition from shorts to features with "Noi" (aka "Noi the Albino"), a playfully quirky and, ultimately, unexpectedly affecting portrait of a 17-year-old slacker determined to escape the snow-shrouded confines of the isolated fjord that his family calls home.
The winner of a slew of international festival awards, Iceland's official best foreign-language Oscar submission should generate some warm response on the domestic specialty front, while establishing Kari as a filmmaker of promise.
Stuck in an icy rut, hairless, 17-year-old Noi (effectively played by Tomas Lemarquis) bides his time in his remote village by skipping a lot of school (leaving a hand-held tape recorder on his desk in his absence), rigging slot machines for drink money or hanging out with his Elvis-crooning, cab-driving dad (Throstur Leo Gunnarsson).
Hope of a more promising future presents itself with the arrival of Iris (Elin Hansdottir), a new arrival from the city who works at the local filling station/snack bar as well as in the form of an old Viewmaster complete with kitschy images of exotic locales, which he receives from his rather odd grandmother (Anna Fridriksdottir) on his birthday.
The colorful character turns, and story details stand in bold contrast against that stark, white-on-white backdrop (vividly captured by Rasmus Videbaek), although even the omnipresent Big Chill doesn't quite condition the viewer for a shocker ending that would have done Sartre proud.
But beneath the blanket of bleakness, there remains a flicker of light that lends the film its heart and serves as its artistic inspiration.
Palm Pictures
PALM SPRINGS -- Icelandic filmmaker Dagur Kari makes an impressive transition from shorts to features with "Noi" (aka "Noi the Albino"), a playfully quirky and, ultimately, unexpectedly affecting portrait of a 17-year-old slacker determined to escape the snow-shrouded confines of the isolated fjord that his family calls home.
The winner of a slew of international festival awards, Iceland's official best foreign-language Oscar submission should generate some warm response on the domestic specialty front, while establishing Kari as a filmmaker of promise.
Stuck in an icy rut, hairless, 17-year-old Noi (effectively played by Tomas Lemarquis) bides his time in his remote village by skipping a lot of school (leaving a hand-held tape recorder on his desk in his absence), rigging slot machines for drink money or hanging out with his Elvis-crooning, cab-driving dad (Throstur Leo Gunnarsson).
Hope of a more promising future presents itself with the arrival of Iris (Elin Hansdottir), a new arrival from the city who works at the local filling station/snack bar as well as in the form of an old Viewmaster complete with kitschy images of exotic locales, which he receives from his rather odd grandmother (Anna Fridriksdottir) on his birthday.
The colorful character turns, and story details stand in bold contrast against that stark, white-on-white backdrop (vividly captured by Rasmus Videbaek), although even the omnipresent Big Chill doesn't quite condition the viewer for a shocker ending that would have done Sartre proud.
But beneath the blanket of bleakness, there remains a flicker of light that lends the film its heart and serves as its artistic inspiration.
PALM SPRINGS -- Icelandic filmmaker Dagur Kari makes an impressive transition from shorts to features with "Noi" (aka "Noi the Albino"), a playfully quirky and, ultimately, unexpectedly affecting portrait of a 17-year-old slacker determined to escape the snow-shrouded confines of the isolated fjord that his family calls home.
The winner of a slew of international festival awards, Iceland's official best foreign-language Oscar submission should generate some warm response on the domestic specialty front, while establishing Kari as a filmmaker of promise.
Stuck in an icy rut, hairless, 17-year-old Noi (effectively played by Tomas Lemarquis) bides his time in his remote village by skipping a lot of school (leaving a hand-held tape recorder on his desk in his absence), rigging slot machines for drink money or hanging out with his Elvis-crooning, cab-driving dad (Throstur Leo Gunnarsson).
Hope of a more promising future presents itself with the arrival of Iris (Elin Hansdottir), a new arrival from the city who works at the local filling station/snack bar as well as in the form of an old Viewmaster complete with kitschy images of exotic locales, which he receives from his rather odd grandmother (Anna Fridriksdottir) on his birthday.
The colorful character turns, and story details stand in bold contrast against that stark, white-on-white backdrop (vividly captured by Rasmus Videbaek), although even the omnipresent Big Chill doesn't quite condition the viewer for a shocker ending that would have done Sartre proud.
But beneath the blanket of bleakness, there remains a flicker of light that lends the film its heart and serves as its artistic inspiration.
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