Looking out the studio window of the radio station where she’d worked for 29 years, DJ “Mistress Carrie” Sarao could see a crowd gathering outside. It was a Friday night, Feb. 21, 2020, and freezing, but that didn’t stop hundreds of Bostonians from flooding the parking lot when they heard the news. There was no invitation, just an impulse, an impromptu meetup of loved ones known and unknown. At midnight, the city would lose its last rock radio station.
Debuting in 1970, Waaf helped launched the careers of local bands like Aerosmith and Godsmack,...
Debuting in 1970, Waaf helped launched the careers of local bands like Aerosmith and Godsmack,...
- 1/21/2024
- by Katie Thornton
- Rollingstone.com
Joe Stapleton, a veteran Boston traffic reporter and actor who appeared in several films including Spotlight, Manchester by the Sea and Mystic River among others, has died. Stapleton died suddenly on New Year’s Day, according to WBZ News Radio, where he had worked until his death. He was 55.
Stapleton was one of the original “Traffic on the 3s” reporters at Wbz and appeared on WAAF’s Hill-Man Morning Show as Major Dick. He also worked as a traffic reporter for WBZ-tv Channel 4 and WHDH-tv Channel 7.
An avid movie fan and actor, Stapleton appeared in several films, beginning with 2003’s Oscar-winning Mystic River. He went on to play a police officer in Spotlight, a fire marshall who speaks with Casey Affeck’s character after a devastating fire in Manchester by the Sea, and he had small roles in Edge of Darkness and R.I.P.D., among others. He also appeared in Hulu’s Castle Rock.
Stapleton was one of the original “Traffic on the 3s” reporters at Wbz and appeared on WAAF’s Hill-Man Morning Show as Major Dick. He also worked as a traffic reporter for WBZ-tv Channel 4 and WHDH-tv Channel 7.
An avid movie fan and actor, Stapleton appeared in several films, beginning with 2003’s Oscar-winning Mystic River. He went on to play a police officer in Spotlight, a fire marshall who speaks with Casey Affeck’s character after a devastating fire in Manchester by the Sea, and he had small roles in Edge of Darkness and R.I.P.D., among others. He also appeared in Hulu’s Castle Rock.
- 1/2/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Gfm Films hopes to feed film through UK-China co-pro agreement.
Chinese outfit C2M Media Group has come on board to co-develop and co-finance long-gestating sci-fi feature Neuromancer with UK sales team Gfm Films.
C2M, a co-production partner of Cj Entertainment, recently backed successful Chinese-Korean productions A Wedding Invitation and Miss Granny.
William Gibson’s influential sci-fi novel from 1984 follows a smooth ‘computer cowboy’ who is banished from cyberspace after double-crossing the wrong people until a shadowy conspiracy offers him a second chance at redemption.
Mr & Mrs Smith and Man on Fire producer Lucas Foster is currently in talks with new writers and a director on the project.
Foster said: “William Gibson’s books have been very prescient on the topic of Super Intelligence, which people variously call Machine Intelligence or A.I. As we surrender more and more of our thinking and imagining over to software, we lose something important and tangible in ourselves...
Chinese outfit C2M Media Group has come on board to co-develop and co-finance long-gestating sci-fi feature Neuromancer with UK sales team Gfm Films.
C2M, a co-production partner of Cj Entertainment, recently backed successful Chinese-Korean productions A Wedding Invitation and Miss Granny.
William Gibson’s influential sci-fi novel from 1984 follows a smooth ‘computer cowboy’ who is banished from cyberspace after double-crossing the wrong people until a shadowy conspiracy offers him a second chance at redemption.
Mr & Mrs Smith and Man on Fire producer Lucas Foster is currently in talks with new writers and a director on the project.
Foster said: “William Gibson’s books have been very prescient on the topic of Super Intelligence, which people variously call Machine Intelligence or A.I. As we surrender more and more of our thinking and imagining over to software, we lose something important and tangible in ourselves...
- 5/15/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
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