BAFTA released their nominations on January 18 and, it’s fair to say, they were pretty wild. There some shocking omissions, including Greta Gerwig being snubbed for Best Director for “Barbie” and Lily Gladstone missing out on a Best Actress nomination for “Killers of the Flower Moon.”
The flip of that side, however, means that there were a few pleasant surprises in the British academy’s lists. None more so than Teo Yoo, who reaped a Best Actor bid for his stirring performance in Celine Song‘s “Past Lives.” The A24 movie follows two former childhood best friends who reconnect as adults and find that they are still drawn to each other. Yoo delivers a quiet performance but is commanding and appealing on screen, at once a mysterious figure of masculinity and a gentle soul who, in many ways, still is his childhood self. It’s a delicate performance but a powerful one.
The flip of that side, however, means that there were a few pleasant surprises in the British academy’s lists. None more so than Teo Yoo, who reaped a Best Actor bid for his stirring performance in Celine Song‘s “Past Lives.” The A24 movie follows two former childhood best friends who reconnect as adults and find that they are still drawn to each other. Yoo delivers a quiet performance but is commanding and appealing on screen, at once a mysterious figure of masculinity and a gentle soul who, in many ways, still is his childhood self. It’s a delicate performance but a powerful one.
- 1/20/2024
- by Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
As Andrea Riseborough (“To Leslie”), Penélope Cruz (“Parallel Mothers”), and Lakeith Stanfield (“Judas and the Black Messiah”) have proven in recent years, there is ample precedent for performers to earn Oscar nominations despite snubs at the BAFTA, Critics Choice, Golden Globe, and SAG Awards. Indeed, 18 such instances have occurred since 2002, the first year that all four precursor prizes were preceded by official nominations.
Over the last 22 years, each of the four acting Oscar categories has produced at least three out-of-the-blue bids. However, none of the performers who overcame their four earlier snubs managed to clinch the gold and instead had to settle for being Oscar finalists.
It’s worth noting that Marcia Gay Harden won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for “Pollock” without any precursor bids, albeit in 2001 when there were no Critics Choice nominations. The four precursor trophies were evenly distributed among her Oscar competitors: Judi Dench, Kate Hudson,...
Over the last 22 years, each of the four acting Oscar categories has produced at least three out-of-the-blue bids. However, none of the performers who overcame their four earlier snubs managed to clinch the gold and instead had to settle for being Oscar finalists.
It’s worth noting that Marcia Gay Harden won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for “Pollock” without any precursor bids, albeit in 2001 when there were no Critics Choice nominations. The four precursor trophies were evenly distributed among her Oscar competitors: Judi Dench, Kate Hudson,...
- 1/18/2024
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
There is plenty of precedent for performers to still earn Oscar nominations after snubs by the Critics Choice Awards, Golden Globes and SAG Awards. Last year, Andrea Riseborough became the latest Oscar contender to come out of nowhere when she reaped a Best Actress bid for “To Leslie.”
She joined a roster of 23 other performers who heard their names on Oscar nominations morning despite being repeatedly overlooked earlier in awards season. However, for all of those who overcame these earlier snubs the nomination had to be reward enough as none took home the Oscar.
(Note: Marcia Gay Harden won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for “Pollock” without any precursor bids. However, that was in 2001, the year before the Critics Choice introduced nominations. Frances McDormand won with that group for both “Almost Famous” and “Wonder Boys,” Kate Hudson took home the Globe for “Almost Famous” and Judi Dench prevailed at SAG for “Chocolat.
She joined a roster of 23 other performers who heard their names on Oscar nominations morning despite being repeatedly overlooked earlier in awards season. However, for all of those who overcame these earlier snubs the nomination had to be reward enough as none took home the Oscar.
(Note: Marcia Gay Harden won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for “Pollock” without any precursor bids. However, that was in 2001, the year before the Critics Choice introduced nominations. Frances McDormand won with that group for both “Almost Famous” and “Wonder Boys,” Kate Hudson took home the Globe for “Almost Famous” and Judi Dench prevailed at SAG for “Chocolat.
- 1/15/2024
- by Paul Sheehan and Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
Ever since “The Holdovers” premiered at the 2023 Telluride Film Festival, 21-year-old Dominic Sessa has steadily attracted heaps of praise for his debut performance as one of its central characters. Despite earning recognition from some critics groups, he now unfortunately sits as a BAFTA longlist contender with no other key industry precursor bids. However, there is plenty of precedent for performers to still earn Oscar nominations after snubs by the Critics Choice Awards, Golden Globes and SAG Awards.
Below, we list the 24 performers who pulled off Oscar nominations surprises after being overlooked earlier in awards season. However, for all of those who overcame these earlier snubs the nomination had to be reward enough as none took home the Oscar. Andrea Riseborough (“To Leslie”) is the latest addition to this list for her Best Actress bid last year.
(Note: Marcia Gay Harden won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for “Pollock” without any precursor bids.
Below, we list the 24 performers who pulled off Oscar nominations surprises after being overlooked earlier in awards season. However, for all of those who overcame these earlier snubs the nomination had to be reward enough as none took home the Oscar. Andrea Riseborough (“To Leslie”) is the latest addition to this list for her Best Actress bid last year.
(Note: Marcia Gay Harden won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for “Pollock” without any precursor bids.
- 1/11/2024
- by Paul Sheehan and Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
Ryan Gosling is one of the biggest contenders for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar this year for his role as Ken in Greta Gerwig‘s smash hit “Barbie.” The Warner Bros. movie follows Margot Robbie‘s titular Barbie as she leaves Barbie Land for the real world in search of answers after suffering an existential crisis. Gosling’s performance as Ken has brought him plenty of plaudits, leading to a strong case for Best Supporting Actor in this year’s Oscars race.
However, this isn’t the first Oscars race Gosling has been in as he’s received two Academy Award nominations before. Let’s take a look back at them.
Gosling was first nominated in 2007 when he received a Best Actor notice for “Half Nelson,” which follows Gosling as a junior high school teacher with a drug habit. Gosling’s teacher forms a friendship with one of his students...
However, this isn’t the first Oscars race Gosling has been in as he’s received two Academy Award nominations before. Let’s take a look back at them.
Gosling was first nominated in 2007 when he received a Best Actor notice for “Half Nelson,” which follows Gosling as a junior high school teacher with a drug habit. Gosling’s teacher forms a friendship with one of his students...
- 12/19/2023
- by Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
Stars: Cam Gigandet, Natalie Burn, Ser’Darius Blain, Jason Patric, Nicole Arlyn, Orlando Jones, Pancho Moler, D.Y. Sao | Written by Chad Law, Shane Dax Taylor | Directed by Timothy Woodward Jr.
As Til Death Do Us Part opens The Best Man sits in a pew working on his speech as upbeat music plays in the background. That’s followed by similar glimpses of other wedding party members prepping for the ceremony. A flashback to The Bride and Groom, nobody in this film has a name, on vacation serves to reinforce the happy image.
But Til Death Do Us Part isn’t a Hallmark Channel rom-com or Lifetime Channel thriller. Because when The Bride gets cold feet and bails on the wedding, we find out everyone involved in the ceremony is a highly skilled assassin. Now the stood-up Groom wants more than just his ring back, and their employer doesn’t take resignations well.
As Til Death Do Us Part opens The Best Man sits in a pew working on his speech as upbeat music plays in the background. That’s followed by similar glimpses of other wedding party members prepping for the ceremony. A flashback to The Bride and Groom, nobody in this film has a name, on vacation serves to reinforce the happy image.
But Til Death Do Us Part isn’t a Hallmark Channel rom-com or Lifetime Channel thriller. Because when The Bride gets cold feet and bails on the wedding, we find out everyone involved in the ceremony is a highly skilled assassin. Now the stood-up Groom wants more than just his ring back, and their employer doesn’t take resignations well.
- 8/3/2023
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
Sony Pictures Classics has made many wise investments at the Sundance Film Festival over the years. Its 2022 acquisition, “Living,” just nabbed Oscar nominations for Best Actor, Bill Nighy, and Best Adapted Screenplay. Other recent Sundance titles propelled to the Oscars by the studio include “The Father” (2020), “Call Me By Your Name” (2017), “Whiplash” (2014) and “An Education” (2009). Amy Adams’ very first career bid came for “Junebug,” which the distributor picked up from Park City in 2005. That film’s writer, Angus MacLachlan, is the director of “A Little Prayer,” one of Sony Pictures Classics’ 2023 festival purchases (the other being Audience Award winner “The Persian Version”).
Starring David Strathairn as Bill Brass, the movie is about a soft-spoken North Carolina family man who, per official synopsis, “tests the limits of patriarchal interference” after discovering that his son, David (Will Pullen), has been having an extramarital affair. In breach of Southern hospitality, which prescribes minding one’s own affairs,...
Starring David Strathairn as Bill Brass, the movie is about a soft-spoken North Carolina family man who, per official synopsis, “tests the limits of patriarchal interference” after discovering that his son, David (Will Pullen), has been having an extramarital affair. In breach of Southern hospitality, which prescribes minding one’s own affairs,...
- 2/13/2023
- by Ronald Meyer
- Gold Derby
It’s crazy to think that boyish-looking Jonathan Tucker, known for roles in “The Virgin Suicides” (1999), “Hostage” (2005), “In the Valley of Elah” (2007), and “The Ruins” (2008), is now 40 years old. And beyond roles like “Charlie’s Angels” (2019), the perennially youthful-looking actor generally plays nice guys, introverts, and the like. But in “Palm Trees and Power Lines,” an acclaimed 2022 Sundance Film Festival title that’s finally coming out now, Tucker plays something much more chilling and disturbing.
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- 2/6/2023
- by Rodrigo Perez
- The Playlist
ABC‘s newest drama series Will Trent revolves around a controversial Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent who isn’t too popular among other law enforcement officers. But the detective that Will Trent clashes with the most is Michael Ormewood, played by Jake McLaughlin.
Jake McLaughlin as Michael Ormewood | ABC/Kim Simms Jake McLaughlin plays Detective Michael Ormewood in ‘Will Trent’ on ABC
The Will Trent series premiere makes it clear that the audience isn’t supposed to like Jake McLaughlin’s Ormewood when they first meet him. He is brash, stubborn, ignorant, and abrasive. Ormewood takes advantage of his power as a detective with the Atlanta Police Department and regularly threatens and intimidates suspects and witnesses.
During the pilot, Ormewood doesn’t hold his hatred for Will back. As fans came to find out, Will previously worked on a case that outed numerous crooked cops, and many other officers dislike him for “betraying their own.
Jake McLaughlin as Michael Ormewood | ABC/Kim Simms Jake McLaughlin plays Detective Michael Ormewood in ‘Will Trent’ on ABC
The Will Trent series premiere makes it clear that the audience isn’t supposed to like Jake McLaughlin’s Ormewood when they first meet him. He is brash, stubborn, ignorant, and abrasive. Ormewood takes advantage of his power as a detective with the Atlanta Police Department and regularly threatens and intimidates suspects and witnesses.
During the pilot, Ormewood doesn’t hold his hatred for Will back. As fans came to find out, Will previously worked on a case that outed numerous crooked cops, and many other officers dislike him for “betraying their own.
- 1/25/2023
- by Sarah Little
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Exclusive: Jake McLaughlin (Quantico) and Iantha Richardson (American Soul) are set as leads opposite Ramón Rodríguez and Erika Christensen in ABC’s drama pilot Will Trent, from 20th Television.
In Will Trent, written by Liz Heldens and Dan Thomsen based on Karin Slaughter’s bestselling book series, Special Agent Will Trent (Rodríguez) of the Georgia Bureau of Investigations was abandoned at birth and endured a harsh coming-of-age in Atlanta’s overwhelmed foster care system. But now, determined to use his unique point of view to make sure no one is abandoned like he was, Trent has the highest clearance rate in the Gbi.
McLaughlin will play Michael, raised upper-middle class in the Atlanta suburbs, served overseas in the Army until an injury sent him home, where he’s now a Detective with the Apd. He has the vibe of a man who grew up watching tough-guy, anti-hero cops and is...
In Will Trent, written by Liz Heldens and Dan Thomsen based on Karin Slaughter’s bestselling book series, Special Agent Will Trent (Rodríguez) of the Georgia Bureau of Investigations was abandoned at birth and endured a harsh coming-of-age in Atlanta’s overwhelmed foster care system. But now, determined to use his unique point of view to make sure no one is abandoned like he was, Trent has the highest clearance rate in the Gbi.
McLaughlin will play Michael, raised upper-middle class in the Atlanta suburbs, served overseas in the Army until an injury sent him home, where he’s now a Detective with the Apd. He has the vibe of a man who grew up watching tough-guy, anti-hero cops and is...
- 5/5/2022
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Actress Kathy Lamkin, best known for playing the Desert Aire trailer park manager opposite Javier Bardem’s hitman Anton Chigurh in “No Country for Old Men,” has died after a short illness. Lamkin was 74.
“Kathy will be missed by her family and friends and left an impact on all she that encountered during her life on this Earth,” the family said in a statement to Deadline, which first reported the news.
Lamkin, who died on April 4, according to her agent Linda McAlister, was also known for starring as the Tea Lady in the 2003 remake of “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.”
Lamkin was born on Dec. 10, 1947, in Graham, Texas. She would go to complete her Bs in Theatre and Master’s in Mass Communications from Central Missouri State University. Lamkin and her husband Stephen L. Lamkin would settle in Pearland, Texas in 1983, where they raised their children and she taught theatre arts...
“Kathy will be missed by her family and friends and left an impact on all she that encountered during her life on this Earth,” the family said in a statement to Deadline, which first reported the news.
Lamkin, who died on April 4, according to her agent Linda McAlister, was also known for starring as the Tea Lady in the 2003 remake of “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.”
Lamkin was born on Dec. 10, 1947, in Graham, Texas. She would go to complete her Bs in Theatre and Master’s in Mass Communications from Central Missouri State University. Lamkin and her husband Stephen L. Lamkin would settle in Pearland, Texas in 1983, where they raised their children and she taught theatre arts...
- 4/11/2022
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
Actress Kathy Lamkin, who held her own opposite Javier Bardem’s hitman Anton Chigurh as No Country for Old Men‘s Desert Aire trailer park manager, died on April 4 after a short illness, her family told Deadline. She was 74.
“Kathy will be missed by her family and friends,” the family says, “and left an impact on all she that encountered during her life on this Earth.”
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Born on December 10, 1947, in Graham, Texas on Lamkin landed a SAG Award as part of the cast of the Coen Brothers’ acclaimed 2007 film. She appeared in a total of 46 film and TV projects between 1990 and 2014, and is otherwise best known for her role as The Tea Lady in both Marcus Nispel’s 2003 remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Jonathan Liebesman’s 2006 film, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning.
Over the course of her career, Lamkin also...
“Kathy will be missed by her family and friends,” the family says, “and left an impact on all she that encountered during her life on this Earth.”
Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2022: Photo Gallery
Born on December 10, 1947, in Graham, Texas on Lamkin landed a SAG Award as part of the cast of the Coen Brothers’ acclaimed 2007 film. She appeared in a total of 46 film and TV projects between 1990 and 2014, and is otherwise best known for her role as The Tea Lady in both Marcus Nispel’s 2003 remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Jonathan Liebesman’s 2006 film, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning.
Over the course of her career, Lamkin also...
- 4/11/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Director Paul Haggis asked a judge on Friday to speed up his civil trial on a rape allegation, saying he has nearly been bankrupted by legal fees and needs to clear his name in order to work.
Haggis said he cannot continue to pay his legal bills, and asked the New York judge to set a trial “at the earliest practical date.”
Haggis, who wrote and directed “In the Valley of Elah” and the 2006 Oscar winner “Crash,” was sued three years ago by Haleigh Breest, a publicist who alleged that he had violently raped her after a premiere in 2013. Haggis maintains that the encounter was consensual. He simultaneously sued Breest, accusing her of using a false allegation to try to extort him out of $9 million.
Haggis’ suit was dismissed, while Breest’s has gone through motions and discovery and is now ready for trial. Due to the Covid slowdown in the court system,...
Haggis said he cannot continue to pay his legal bills, and asked the New York judge to set a trial “at the earliest practical date.”
Haggis, who wrote and directed “In the Valley of Elah” and the 2006 Oscar winner “Crash,” was sued three years ago by Haleigh Breest, a publicist who alleged that he had violently raped her after a premiere in 2013. Haggis maintains that the encounter was consensual. He simultaneously sued Breest, accusing her of using a false allegation to try to extort him out of $9 million.
Haggis’ suit was dismissed, while Breest’s has gone through motions and discovery and is now ready for trial. Due to the Covid slowdown in the court system,...
- 4/30/2021
- by Gene Maddaus
- Variety Film + TV
Sophia Loren caps off a career that has spanned eight decades with a heartbreaking performance in the Netflix film “A Life Ahead.” She numbers among the 15 contenders on the BAFTAs longlist for Best Actress but did not reap bids from other key precursor prizes. However there is plenty of precedent for performers to still earn Oscar nominations after snubs by the Critics Choice Awards, Golden Globes and SAG Awards.
Below, we list the 18 performers who pulled off Oscar nominations surprises after being overlooked earlier in awards season. However, for all of those who overcame these earlier snubs the nomination had to be reward enough as none took home the Oscar. Marina de Tavira was the most recent addition to this roster with her 2019 Best Supporting Actress nomination for “Roma.”
(Note: Marcia Gay Harden won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for “Pollock” without any precursor bids. However, that was in 2001, the...
Below, we list the 18 performers who pulled off Oscar nominations surprises after being overlooked earlier in awards season. However, for all of those who overcame these earlier snubs the nomination had to be reward enough as none took home the Oscar. Marina de Tavira was the most recent addition to this roster with her 2019 Best Supporting Actress nomination for “Roma.”
(Note: Marcia Gay Harden won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for “Pollock” without any precursor bids. However, that was in 2001, the...
- 3/5/2021
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
This year 14 performers reaped bids at all three key precursor prizes — the SAG, Golden Globes and Critics’ Choice awards. Such recognition certainly warrants getting up early on Oscar nominations mornings. But as Jennifer Lopez learned in 2020 reaping nominations for that awards triple crown for her featured role in “Hustlers” didn’t make her a sure thing in the Academy Awards derby.
She became the most recent of the 24 performers to stumble at the last hurdle and suffer Oscars snubs since the Critics’ Choice Awards introduced nominations in 2001. In 2019 Emily Blunt (“Mary Poppins Returns”) and Timothee Chalamet (“Beautiful Boy”) got added to the roster of those saddled with this dubious achievement.
Chalamet should take comfort from the case of Leonardo DiCaprio, who finally won an Oscar in 2016 for “The Revenant” after four losses. There were two instances when he didn’t even reap an Oscar nomination despite having done well in the run-up awards.
She became the most recent of the 24 performers to stumble at the last hurdle and suffer Oscars snubs since the Critics’ Choice Awards introduced nominations in 2001. In 2019 Emily Blunt (“Mary Poppins Returns”) and Timothee Chalamet (“Beautiful Boy”) got added to the roster of those saddled with this dubious achievement.
Chalamet should take comfort from the case of Leonardo DiCaprio, who finally won an Oscar in 2016 for “The Revenant” after four losses. There were two instances when he didn’t even reap an Oscar nomination despite having done well in the run-up awards.
- 2/8/2021
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
In 2019 “Roma” leading lady Marina de Tavira became the 18th performer to reap an Oscar bid with first contending at the Golden Globe Or the SAG Or the Critics Choice Awards. Italian screen legend Sophia Loren (“The Life Ahead”) is hoping that the actors branch of the academy remembers her likewise when Oscar nominations voting kicks off on March 5.
Below, we enumerate the lucky few who have come out of left field to make history at the Oscars by being nominated without first having been in the running with at least one of these precursors. However, for all of these who overcame those snubs the Oscar nomination had to be reward enough as none won.
Be sure to compare this roster of those who defied the odds and reaped surprise Oscar bids without contending at any of these awards with those 24 performers who were snubbed by the academy despite nominations at the Critics Choice,...
Below, we enumerate the lucky few who have come out of left field to make history at the Oscars by being nominated without first having been in the running with at least one of these precursors. However, for all of these who overcame those snubs the Oscar nomination had to be reward enough as none won.
Be sure to compare this roster of those who defied the odds and reaped surprise Oscar bids without contending at any of these awards with those 24 performers who were snubbed by the academy despite nominations at the Critics Choice,...
- 2/8/2021
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
Denis Villeneuve’s 2015 thriller “Sicario” marked the fourth collaboration between Josh Brolin and Roger Deakins after back-to-back 2007 releases “In the Valley of Elah” and “No Country for Old Men,” and 2010’s “True Grit,” but only Brolin returned for the 2018 sequel “Sicario: Day of the Soldado.” Deakins and Villeneuve skipped the follow-up project and were replaced by Dariusz Wolski and Stefano Sollima, respectively. “Soldado” received less favorable reviews than “Sicario” and ended its run nearly $10 million below the box office gross of the original ($84.9 million vs. $75.9 million). Critics and fans agree “Sicario” is the superior film, and it turns out so do Brolin and Deakins.
On this week’s episode of the “Team Deakins” podcast, Brolin and Deakins compare the two “Sicario” films and agree that Villeneuve’s more character-driven approach makes for a more impactful thriller than Sollima’s more action-driven style. Not to say there’s anything wrong with Sollima’s entry.
On this week’s episode of the “Team Deakins” podcast, Brolin and Deakins compare the two “Sicario” films and agree that Villeneuve’s more character-driven approach makes for a more impactful thriller than Sollima’s more action-driven style. Not to say there’s anything wrong with Sollima’s entry.
- 10/1/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Apple has ordered an action-thriller series from Mark Boal straight to series, Variety has learned.
The 10-episode series is titled “Echo 3,” based on the Israeli series “When Heroes Fly” created by Omri Givon and based on the novel of the same name by Amir Gutfreund.
In the series, Amber Chesborough, a brilliant young scientist, is the emotional center of a small American family. When she goes missing along the Colombia-Venezuela border, her brother and her husband — two men with deep military experience and complicated pasts — struggle to find her in a drama set against the backdrop of a secret war.
The series will be shot with both English and Spanish dialogue. Boal will serve as co-showrunner alongside Jason Horwitch, with both executive producing. Peter Traugott of Keshet Studios will executive produce as well along with Givon, Stan Wlodkowski, Eitan Mansuri, Jonathan Doweck, Avi Nir of Keshet Media Group, Alon Shtruzman of Keshet International,...
The 10-episode series is titled “Echo 3,” based on the Israeli series “When Heroes Fly” created by Omri Givon and based on the novel of the same name by Amir Gutfreund.
In the series, Amber Chesborough, a brilliant young scientist, is the emotional center of a small American family. When she goes missing along the Colombia-Venezuela border, her brother and her husband — two men with deep military experience and complicated pasts — struggle to find her in a drama set against the backdrop of a secret war.
The series will be shot with both English and Spanish dialogue. Boal will serve as co-showrunner alongside Jason Horwitch, with both executive producing. Peter Traugott of Keshet Studios will executive produce as well along with Givon, Stan Wlodkowski, Eitan Mansuri, Jonathan Doweck, Avi Nir of Keshet Media Group, Alon Shtruzman of Keshet International,...
- 7/16/2020
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Jonathan Tucker has been cast in one of the lead roles in the NBC drama pilot “Debris.”
The series follows two agents from two different continents, and two different mindsets, who must work together to investigate when wreckage from a destroyed alien spacecraft has mysterious effects on humankind.
Tucker will star as Bryan Beneventi, described as a headstrong, smart CIA operative currently working on the investigation of strange occurrences.
Tucker most recently played a major role in the Showtime drama “City on a Hill.” His other recent TV roles include the Audience series “Kingdom,” HBO’s “Westworld,” Starz’s “American Gods,” and FX’s “Snowfall.” Tucker also starred in the NBC series “The Black Donnellys” in 2007. On the film side, he appeared in Elizabeth Banks’ “Charlie’s Angels” last year and is known for roles in films such as “The Virgin Suicides,” “Hostage,” and “In the Valley of Elah.”
He is...
The series follows two agents from two different continents, and two different mindsets, who must work together to investigate when wreckage from a destroyed alien spacecraft has mysterious effects on humankind.
Tucker will star as Bryan Beneventi, described as a headstrong, smart CIA operative currently working on the investigation of strange occurrences.
Tucker most recently played a major role in the Showtime drama “City on a Hill.” His other recent TV roles include the Audience series “Kingdom,” HBO’s “Westworld,” Starz’s “American Gods,” and FX’s “Snowfall.” Tucker also starred in the NBC series “The Black Donnellys” in 2007. On the film side, he appeared in Elizabeth Banks’ “Charlie’s Angels” last year and is known for roles in films such as “The Virgin Suicides,” “Hostage,” and “In the Valley of Elah.”
He is...
- 2/11/2020
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
We don’t see protagonists like Mary Kay Place’s titular role in “Diane” every day. Diane is the type of woman that is hard to summarize in an elevator pitch. She is a compassionate New England woman who tirelessly puts others before herself, but she’s no saint. She’s tough on her drug-addled son (Jake Lacy) but constantly over-provides for him. She is also haunted by a past transgression that we don’t find out about until the movie’s third act, which helps to explain her compulsive need to do as much good as she can to those around her. All of this could sink or swim depending on the actress in the lead role, but Place knows exactly who Diane is and in the process, delivers one of the most Oscar-worthy performances of the year.
SEEMary Kay Place (‘Diane’) could finally catch up with her ‘Big...
SEEMary Kay Place (‘Diane’) could finally catch up with her ‘Big...
- 1/12/2020
- by Kevin Jacobsen
- Gold Derby
Gersh has added four women to its agent ranks, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned.
Lauren Craniotes, who most recently spent seven years as vp production at Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions/Stage 6 Films, has joined the Los Angeles office as a motion picture literary agent. In her 15 years of studio development and production, which included stints at Warner Bros. and Warner Independent Pictures, she worked on projects including The Departed, The Meddler, Constantine, In the Valley of Elah, Must Love Dogs, North Country, Darfur Now and The Call.
The Wesleyan and Harvard Business School alumna, who aims to cultivate underrepresented writing and directing clients, has served as a ...
Lauren Craniotes, who most recently spent seven years as vp production at Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions/Stage 6 Films, has joined the Los Angeles office as a motion picture literary agent. In her 15 years of studio development and production, which included stints at Warner Bros. and Warner Independent Pictures, she worked on projects including The Departed, The Meddler, Constantine, In the Valley of Elah, Must Love Dogs, North Country, Darfur Now and The Call.
The Wesleyan and Harvard Business School alumna, who aims to cultivate underrepresented writing and directing clients, has served as a ...
- 12/17/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Gersh has added four women to its agent ranks, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned.
Lauren Craniotes, who most recently spent seven years as vp production at Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions/Stage 6 Films, has joined the Los Angeles office as a motion picture literary agent. In her 15 years of studio development and production, which included stints at Warner Bros. and Warner Independent Pictures, she worked on projects including The Departed, The Meddler, Constantine, In the Valley of Elah, Must Love Dogs, North Country, Darfur Now and The Call.
The Wesleyan and Harvard Business School alumna, who aims to cultivate underrepresented writing and directing clients, has served as a ...
Lauren Craniotes, who most recently spent seven years as vp production at Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions/Stage 6 Films, has joined the Los Angeles office as a motion picture literary agent. In her 15 years of studio development and production, which included stints at Warner Bros. and Warner Independent Pictures, she worked on projects including The Departed, The Meddler, Constantine, In the Valley of Elah, Must Love Dogs, North Country, Darfur Now and The Call.
The Wesleyan and Harvard Business School alumna, who aims to cultivate underrepresented writing and directing clients, has served as a ...
- 12/17/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Showtime has given a series commitment and opened a writers room for spy thriller Intelligence, a real-world scripted drama series from Oscar-winning filmmaker Mark Boal in his first foray into television; his frequent collaborator, producer Megan Ellison; and Michael Ellenberg’s studio Media Res, which will co-produce with Showtime.
Seasoned drama showrunners Alan Poul (Six Feet Under) and Jason Horwitch (Berlin Station) have joined the project as executive producers, working alongside executive producer/showrunner Boal.
Written and directed by Boal, Intelligence, based on real stories from around the world, will explore the secret inner workings of power – how espionage intersects with politics, finance, media and Silicon Valley. The first season will dramatize the behind-the-scenes history leading up to the 2016 U.S. election, with each subsequent season looking at a major world event through the lens of covert operations.
Intelligence is a co-production between Showtime and Ellenberg’s Media Res.
Seasoned drama showrunners Alan Poul (Six Feet Under) and Jason Horwitch (Berlin Station) have joined the project as executive producers, working alongside executive producer/showrunner Boal.
Written and directed by Boal, Intelligence, based on real stories from around the world, will explore the secret inner workings of power – how espionage intersects with politics, finance, media and Silicon Valley. The first season will dramatize the behind-the-scenes history leading up to the 2016 U.S. election, with each subsequent season looking at a major world event through the lens of covert operations.
Intelligence is a co-production between Showtime and Ellenberg’s Media Res.
- 4/1/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva and Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Anne Heche (John Q) and Jason Patric (In The Valley Of Elah) are joining Thomas Jane (Predator) in upcoming action-thriller Hour Of Lead from writer-director Peter Facinelli (Breaking & Entering).
The Exchange is handling sales at the Efm. Currently shooting in the U.S., the film charts the fallout after a ten-year-old girl goes missing from an Rv park. The girl’s father (Jane) and mother (Heche) take justice into their own hands, stopping at nothing to track their daughter down. As they fall deeper into the search, a tragic revelation is uncovered, deepening the mystery of the girl’s disappearance.
The project is the sophomore feature from actor turned producer-director Facinelli (Twilight). Jeff Elliott (Imperium) of Brickell & Broadbridge is producing.
“We are thrilled to have Anne and Jason join the project,” said The Exchange CEO Brian O’Shea. “They are both are great actors and will give their characters...
The Exchange is handling sales at the Efm. Currently shooting in the U.S., the film charts the fallout after a ten-year-old girl goes missing from an Rv park. The girl’s father (Jane) and mother (Heche) take justice into their own hands, stopping at nothing to track their daughter down. As they fall deeper into the search, a tragic revelation is uncovered, deepening the mystery of the girl’s disappearance.
The project is the sophomore feature from actor turned producer-director Facinelli (Twilight). Jeff Elliott (Imperium) of Brickell & Broadbridge is producing.
“We are thrilled to have Anne and Jason join the project,” said The Exchange CEO Brian O’Shea. “They are both are great actors and will give their characters...
- 2/6/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Let’s hope that Marina de Tavira was watching the Academy Awards nominations announcement. She defied our odds and was cited for her scene-stealing supporting turn in “Roma.” In so doing, she became the 18th performer to reap an Oscar bid with first contending at either the Golden Globes Or the Critics’ Choice Or the SAG Awards.
Below, we enumerate the lucky few who came out of left field to make history at the Oscars by being nominated without first having been in the running at at least one of these awards. However, for all of these that had to be reward enough as none won.
Be sure to compare this roster of those who defied the odds and reaped surprise Oscar bids without contending at any of these awards with those 23 performers who were snubbed by the academy despite nominations at the Critics’ Choice, SAG Awards and Golden Globes.
Below, we enumerate the lucky few who came out of left field to make history at the Oscars by being nominated without first having been in the running at at least one of these awards. However, for all of these that had to be reward enough as none won.
Be sure to compare this roster of those who defied the odds and reaped surprise Oscar bids without contending at any of these awards with those 23 performers who were snubbed by the academy despite nominations at the Critics’ Choice, SAG Awards and Golden Globes.
- 1/23/2019
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
This year 16 performers reaped bids at all three key precursor prizes — the SAG, Golden Globes and Critics’ Choice awards. Such recognition certainly warrants getting up early on Oscar nominations mornings. But as Emily Blunt (“Mary Poppins Returns”) and Timothee Chalamet (”Beautiful Boy”) found out reaping bids for that triple crown still didn’t make them sure things in the Academy Awards derby.
They became the most recent of the 23 performers to stumble at the last hurdle and suffer an Oscar snub since the Critics’ Choice Awards introduced nominations in 2001. Last year, James Franco (“The Disaster Artist”) and Hong Chau (“Downsizing”) got added to the roster of those saddled with this dubious achievement.
See 2019 Oscar nominations: Full list of Academy Awards nominees in all 24 categories
Chalamet should take comfort from the case of Leonardo DiCaprio, who finally won an Oscar three years ago for “The Revenant” after four losses. There were...
They became the most recent of the 23 performers to stumble at the last hurdle and suffer an Oscar snub since the Critics’ Choice Awards introduced nominations in 2001. Last year, James Franco (“The Disaster Artist”) and Hong Chau (“Downsizing”) got added to the roster of those saddled with this dubious achievement.
See 2019 Oscar nominations: Full list of Academy Awards nominees in all 24 categories
Chalamet should take comfort from the case of Leonardo DiCaprio, who finally won an Oscar three years ago for “The Revenant” after four losses. There were...
- 1/22/2019
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
Supergirl‘s Mehcad Brooks has signed with Apa. Brooks currently stars as James Olsen on the CW’s Supergirl and will next be seen in Tyler Perry’s upcoming feature film Nobody’s Fool opposite Tiffany Haddish. Brooks’ other credits include director Paul Haggis’ feature In The Valley of Elah, opposite Tommy Lee Jones and Charlize Theron, Jerry Bruckheimer’s Glory Road, the role of Eggs on HBO’s True Blood, and ABC’s Desperate Housewives. He is also repped by Bloom Hergott.
Karga Seven Pictures, a Red Arrow Studios company, has signed with Apa. Founded in 2008 by partners Sarah Wetherbee, Kelly McPherson and Emre Sahin, the award-winning production company headquartered in Los Angeles and Istanbul specializes in factual, scripted and branded productions across film, television and digital platforms. The company has ten series in production across eight networks and has produced more than 500 hours of programming to-date, including the...
Karga Seven Pictures, a Red Arrow Studios company, has signed with Apa. Founded in 2008 by partners Sarah Wetherbee, Kelly McPherson and Emre Sahin, the award-winning production company headquartered in Los Angeles and Istanbul specializes in factual, scripted and branded productions across film, television and digital platforms. The company has ten series in production across eight networks and has produced more than 500 hours of programming to-date, including the...
- 11/1/2018
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exactly 10 years ago at the 80th Academy Awards, Daniel Day-Lewis won his second Oscar as Best Actor. As he arrived on stage, he bowed before “queen” Helen Mirren as she used the statuette to knight him for his victory in “There Will Be Blood” (watch the video above).
After his surprise Oscar win for “My Left Foot” at the 1990 ceremony almost two decades earlier, Day-Lewis had become an official A-List star. He followed with memorable performances throughout the early 1990s, including “The Last of the Mohicans” and Martin Scorsese’s “The Age of Innocence.” He then received an additional Oscar nomination for “In the Name of the Father,” playing the wrongfully convicted Gerry Conlin but lost the award to Tom Hanks for “Philadelphia.”
See Daniel Day-Lewis movies: Top 12 greatest films ranked from worst to best
Then came a rather slow period in Day-Lewis’ career, making no movies between 1997 and 2002. He...
After his surprise Oscar win for “My Left Foot” at the 1990 ceremony almost two decades earlier, Day-Lewis had become an official A-List star. He followed with memorable performances throughout the early 1990s, including “The Last of the Mohicans” and Martin Scorsese’s “The Age of Innocence.” He then received an additional Oscar nomination for “In the Name of the Father,” playing the wrongfully convicted Gerry Conlin but lost the award to Tom Hanks for “Philadelphia.”
See Daniel Day-Lewis movies: Top 12 greatest films ranked from worst to best
Then came a rather slow period in Day-Lewis’ career, making no movies between 1997 and 2002. He...
- 2/26/2018
- by Jack Fields
- Gold Derby
The Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in the 1990s went to many long overdue veterans of the industry. Actors like James Coburn, Jack Palance and Martin Landau finally earned Oscars in this decade, alongside then-newer stars like Cuba Gooding Jr and Kevin Spacey. What is your favorite Best Supporting Actor performance of the 1990s?
Read through a recap of their performances and vote in our poll below. (See 2018 Oscar predictions for Best Supporting Actor.)
Joe Pesci, “Goodfellas” (1990) — Joe Pesci won his Oscar with the most iconic role of his career. In “Goodfellas” Pesci plays Tommy DeVito, a blustering gangster who provides some of the funniest lines in the film. Pesci was previously nominated in Best Supporting Actor for “Raging Bull” (1980).
SEEWho’s your favorite Best Director Oscar winner of the 1990s: Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, Jonathan Demme … ? [Poll]
Jack Palance, “City Slickers” (1991) — Jack Palance finally won his Oscar thanks to “City Slickers,...
Read through a recap of their performances and vote in our poll below. (See 2018 Oscar predictions for Best Supporting Actor.)
Joe Pesci, “Goodfellas” (1990) — Joe Pesci won his Oscar with the most iconic role of his career. In “Goodfellas” Pesci plays Tommy DeVito, a blustering gangster who provides some of the funniest lines in the film. Pesci was previously nominated in Best Supporting Actor for “Raging Bull” (1980).
SEEWho’s your favorite Best Director Oscar winner of the 1990s: Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, Jonathan Demme … ? [Poll]
Jack Palance, “City Slickers” (1991) — Jack Palance finally won his Oscar thanks to “City Slickers,...
- 2/4/2018
- by Kevin Jacobsen
- Gold Derby
Let’s hope that Lesley Manville was watching the Academy Awards nominations announcement. She defied our odds and was cited for her scene stealing supporting turn in “Phantom Thread.” In so doing, she became the 17th performer to reap an Oscar bid with first contending at either the Golden Globes Or the Critics’ Choice Or the SAG Awards.
Below, we enumerate the lucky few who came out of left field to be nominated at the Oscars without first having been in the running at at least one of these awards. However, for all of these the nominations had to be reward enough.
And be sure to compare this roster of those who defied the odds and reaped surprise Oscar bids without contending at any of these awards with those 21 performers who were snubbed by the academy despite nominations at the Critics’ Choice, SAG Awards and Golden Globes. The newest of...
Below, we enumerate the lucky few who came out of left field to be nominated at the Oscars without first having been in the running at at least one of these awards. However, for all of these the nominations had to be reward enough.
And be sure to compare this roster of those who defied the odds and reaped surprise Oscar bids without contending at any of these awards with those 21 performers who were snubbed by the academy despite nominations at the Critics’ Choice, SAG Awards and Golden Globes. The newest of...
- 1/23/2018
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
This year, 15 performers reaped bids at all three key precursor prizes — the SAG, Golden Globes and Critics’ Choice awards. Such recognition certainly warrants getting up early on Oscar nominations mornings. But as James Franco (“The Disaster Artist”) and Hong Chau (“Downsizing”) found out, reaping bids for that triple crown still didn’t make them sure things in the Oscars derby. They became the most recent of the 21 performers to stumble at the last hurdle and suffer an Oscar snub since the Critics’ Choice Awards introduced nominations in 2001.
Franco should take comfort from the case of Leonardo DiCaprio, who finally won an Oscar two years ago for “The Revenant” after four losses. There were two instances when he didn’t even reap an Oscar nomination despite having done well in the run-up awards. He was spurned by the actors branch of the academy for his leading performance in “J. Edgar” (2011) and...
Franco should take comfort from the case of Leonardo DiCaprio, who finally won an Oscar two years ago for “The Revenant” after four losses. There were two instances when he didn’t even reap an Oscar nomination despite having done well in the run-up awards. He was spurned by the actors branch of the academy for his leading performance in “J. Edgar” (2011) and...
- 1/23/2018
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
We previously asked readers which actress they thought would score the most shocking Oscar nomination. A performer who may have garnered early critical support but saw their Oscar hopes dimmed when industry groups forgot about them. And now it’s time to look at which men in the race could pull off a similar feat.
Past examples of men who defied the odds include Tommy Lee Jones (“In the Valley of Elah”), virtually absent from awards chatter, with only a couple small critics groups nominating him. Somehow he muscled his way to a surprise Best Actor Oscar nomination. Industry groups like SAG and BAFTA have similarly ignored plenty of strong performances this year. Take a look at five such actors and vote in our poll below to let us know which actor you think will be this year’s most shocking nomination.
Discuss All the Oscar contenders with Hollywood insiders...
Past examples of men who defied the odds include Tommy Lee Jones (“In the Valley of Elah”), virtually absent from awards chatter, with only a couple small critics groups nominating him. Somehow he muscled his way to a surprise Best Actor Oscar nomination. Industry groups like SAG and BAFTA have similarly ignored plenty of strong performances this year. Take a look at five such actors and vote in our poll below to let us know which actor you think will be this year’s most shocking nomination.
Discuss All the Oscar contenders with Hollywood insiders...
- 1/19/2018
- by Sam Eckmann
- Gold Derby
Here we go again folks! As promised (though perhaps a bit later than initially planned), I’m diving back into the world of previous Oscar ceremonies. This time, I have my sights set on the 80th Academy Awards ceremony. You should know the drill by now. I’m going to state what I would have picked in the major eight categories if I had been lucky enough to have been able to vote. In most cases, it deviates from the actual winner. You’ll see how much that was the case this time around, and sit tight, as I do hope to make this a bit more of a consistent thing (excuse the gap again) and really go back as far as I can go. Until then, just enjoy this new one… Alright then, once again here goes nothing ladies and gentlemen…behold my picks for this particular ceremony: Best...
- 8/7/2017
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Detroit movie street riot scene: The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty director Kathryn Bigelow tackles the 1967 Detroit riots in “horribly real” and “deeply self-serving” 2017 release marketed as a “dramatic thriller.” Kathryn Bigelow's 'Detroit' movie: Horribly real semidocumentary or self-serving Hollywood depiction of 1967 Detroit Rebellion? In the city of Detroit, from July 23 through July 27 of 1967, the people rebelled against the conditions of their existence. Some call this the 1967 Detroit Riot; it's also known as the 12th Street Riot and the 1967 Detroit Rebellion. I prefer the latter. During the rebellion, 43 people died – 33 of whom were black, 10 were white. Twenty-four of the black victims were shot by police officers and National Guardsmen, while six were shot by store owners or security guards. Three of those killings are the subject of Academy Award-winning director Kathryn Bigelow, her itinerant The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty scenario writer Mark Boal (who also wrote Paul Haggis' In the Valley of Elah), and...
- 8/7/2017
- by Tim Cogshell
- Alt Film Guide
Jonathan Tucker has joined the Season 2 Westworld cast in the recurring role of a military commanding officer, Major Craddock. The recent announcement was accompanied by a photo of the dark-haired Tucker; eyes piercing and countenance intriguing. His image is yet another confirmation of his reputation for chameleon-like powers of transformation. He has taken on many different roles since he entered his acting career. Tucker’s best known for his movie roles in The Ruins, The Virgin Suicides, In the Valley of Elah, Hostage, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. He has 23 film credits and 22 television credits to his name.
Five Things You Didn’t Know about Jonathan Tucker...
Five Things You Didn’t Know about Jonathan Tucker...
- 7/27/2017
- by Nat Berman
- TVovermind.com
Directed by Doug Liman (Edge Of Tomorrow) from a script off of Hollywood’s famous Black List of un-produced screenplays, The Wall presents America’s protracted war in Iraq in primally simple terms: two U.S. soldiers fighting (and maybe dying) for reasons they can’t articulate, pinned down by an enemy they can’t see or understand. In its white-knuckle economy, the film breaks from the limply well-meaning Hollywood polemics that marched steadily into theaters a decade ago, like waves of advancing troops. The problem with Lions For Lambs or In The Valley Of Elah or Stop-Loss was that they were so busy functioning as screeds—abstracting the war itself into outraged talking points—that they forgot to function as, well, movies. In its best moments, The Wall is just a movie, a tense and nasty black-box thriller that conveys its politics through the microcosmic stakes of its life-and-death...
- 5/11/2017
- by A.A. Dowd
- avclub.com
It was only a matter of time before somebody in Hollywood went to work on the 2016 U.S Presidential Election – beyond spirited speeches at awards ceremonies, that is. Unsurprisingly, it seems that among the first out of the gate will be a project created by Mark Boal and Megan Ellison – the writer-producer team behind Zero Dark Thirty. The surprising part is that this project is being envisioned as a series, rather than a feature film.
For her part, producer Megan Ellison – an Academy Award nominee – has built an impressive career bringing a diverse range of films to the big screen. Her resume includes notable titles such as True Grit, Zero Dark Thirty, The Master, Her, American Hustle, Foxcatcher, The Bad Batch, Everybody Wants Some!!, and 20th Century Women. For his part, freelance journalist-turned-screenwriter Mark Boal has made it his business to bring challenging, real subject matter to the big screen,...
For her part, producer Megan Ellison – an Academy Award nominee – has built an impressive career bringing a diverse range of films to the big screen. Her resume includes notable titles such as True Grit, Zero Dark Thirty, The Master, Her, American Hustle, Foxcatcher, The Bad Batch, Everybody Wants Some!!, and 20th Century Women. For his part, freelance journalist-turned-screenwriter Mark Boal has made it his business to bring challenging, real subject matter to the big screen,...
- 2/15/2017
- by Sarah Myles
- We Got This Covered
The joke between me and my Sundance roommate/colleague was that every review and write-up would contain the phrase “In the age of Trump.” Another phrase to watch out for is “now more than ever,” spoken verbatim twice during this year’s Sundance acceptance speeches. The proposition that independent film will “lead the resistance” against Our 45th President is a dubious one: I don’t remember The Lucky Ones or In the Valley of Elah helping anything in particular. The repeated invocation of certain dead phrases to summon up a spell against the darkness inevitably and a bit boringly brings to mind Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language,” […]...
- 2/2/2017
- by Vadim Rizov
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The Syfy original series “The Expanse” wrapped up its first season this past February, and now a second season will soon be upon us. Set in a future where humanity colonized the Solar System, the series follows a United Nations executive (Shohreh Aghdashloo), a police detective (Thomas Jane), a ship officer (Steven Strait) and his crew as they unravel a conspiracy that threatens the fate of their system. The series co-stars Cas Anvar (“Argo”), Dominique Tipper (“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”), Wes Chatham (“In the Valley of Elah”), Florence Faivre (“The Following”) and Shawn Doyle (“Fargo”). Watch a trailer for the new season below.
Read More: Review: ‘The Expanse’ Season 1 Has Totally Changed the Game for Sci-Fi on TV
The series is developed by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, best known for contributing to the screenplays for “Children of Men,” for which they were nominated for an Oscar,...
Read More: Review: ‘The Expanse’ Season 1 Has Totally Changed the Game for Sci-Fi on TV
The series is developed by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, best known for contributing to the screenplays for “Children of Men,” for which they were nominated for an Oscar,...
- 12/27/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
After writing and directing films about such pressing topics as racism (“Crash”) and the Iraq War (“In the Valley of Elah”), Paul Haggis has set his gaze on the Flint water crisis for his next project. The two-time Oscar winner and his producing partner Michael Nozik are collaborating with director William Hart on “Lead and Copper,” which will examine the crisis afflicting the Michigan city’s water supply. Deadline first broke the news.
Read More: Flint Water Crisis Movie in the Works at Lifetime, Based on Time Magazine Cover Story
“Once I learned of the depth of the problem and the extent of the cover-up, I was compelled to take a closer look and tell this story in the way it deserved to be told,” says Hart in a statement. Flint’s crisis has been ongoing since 2014, when the city stopped sourcing its water from Lake Huron in favor of...
Read More: Flint Water Crisis Movie in the Works at Lifetime, Based on Time Magazine Cover Story
“Once I learned of the depth of the problem and the extent of the cover-up, I was compelled to take a closer look and tell this story in the way it deserved to be told,” says Hart in a statement. Flint’s crisis has been ongoing since 2014, when the city stopped sourcing its water from Lake Huron in favor of...
- 12/8/2016
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
The performances in Bryan Bertino’s The Monster by Zoe Kazan (Ruby Sparks, In the Valley of Elah) and Ella Ballentine (The Captive, Anne of Green Gables) are both exceptional, but as horror fans we care most about the performance of… Continue Reading →
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- 11/11/2016
- by Drew Tinnin
- DreadCentral.com
by Nathaniel R
This list was requested by Carlos recently in the comments. Perhaps in light of the Oscar Nominated Performances ranked of the past six years... so why not. It's a perfect weekend activity and will help you get in the mood for the possibly turbulent Oscar season ahead. So let's do this crazy...
All The Oscar Nominated Performances Ranked (2000-2009)
First a terrible confession for one such as I: Two Oscar nominated performances in the Aughts slipped right past my movie devouring eyeballs (the shame. the shame.) I never got around to Tommy Lee Jones In the Valley of Elah or Cooler Alec Baldwin. I accept your judgment and will choose my favorite of whatever punishments are recommended.
So let's rank the whole other 198 lot of 'em, with the caveats that this is silly (apples & oranges) and had you asked me on a different day the order might...
This list was requested by Carlos recently in the comments. Perhaps in light of the Oscar Nominated Performances ranked of the past six years... so why not. It's a perfect weekend activity and will help you get in the mood for the possibly turbulent Oscar season ahead. So let's do this crazy...
All The Oscar Nominated Performances Ranked (2000-2009)
First a terrible confession for one such as I: Two Oscar nominated performances in the Aughts slipped right past my movie devouring eyeballs (the shame. the shame.) I never got around to Tommy Lee Jones In the Valley of Elah or Cooler Alec Baldwin. I accept your judgment and will choose my favorite of whatever punishments are recommended.
So let's rank the whole other 198 lot of 'em, with the caveats that this is silly (apples & oranges) and had you asked me on a different day the order might...
- 8/27/2016
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
“Our point of view follows a trajectory to become the vanishing point of our own failure.” —Jacques Lacan“Who plunged this place of light into darkness?” asks with a heavy heart an Iraqi actor sifting through the bombed ruins of what had once been Iraq's film office and archives. Though rhetorical and sappy it may sound, the question epitomizes the visual dilemma Abbas Fahdel's documentary expands on. At the very centre of Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) are in fact questions of representation, of cultural perspective and omission of the visible. The film, divided into two parts, follows the director's extended family and friends in the run-up to the American invasion of Iraq (“Before the Fall”) and in its fatal aftermath (“After to the Battle”). Presumably due to the family's temporary move to a countryside house during the bombing of Baghdad, the war itself—that is, the military invasion of...
- 1/11/2016
- by Celluloid Liberation Front
- MUBI
Since "Treme" went off the air nearly two years ago, the outcry for David Simon's insightful and incisive socio-political storytelling has only increased in demand. Simon responded to national tragedies in Ferguson, Mo and Baltimore, MD — where Simon spent 13 years working for The Baltimore Sun — in his own words through his blog, but many fans are eager to engage in a narrative created, designed and executed by the man behind "The Wire." Read More: Watch: 'Ash Vs. Evil Dead' Live-Action Trailer is 'Looking Good,' Nay, Great "Show Me a Hero" looks to do just that. Starring Oscar Isaac as a mayor of a small New York town, the six-part HBO miniseries chronicles the fallout of community relations when the city is federally mandated to build low-income housing in a white neighborhood. Based on the nonfiction book by Lisa Belkin, the upcoming miniseries is directed by Paul Haggis ("Crash,...
- 7/13/2015
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Actors who are cast in a film together often posses a certain quality or look that make them suitable as co-stars. And in this world of sequels, prequels, remakes, and competing franchises, it can be those same characteristics that also make them fitting for the same roles. Here are ten sets of actors who had played, or ended up playing, the same character as their co-star - but in a different movie (with a couple of television series exceptions):
Vito Corleone - Robert De Niro, Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro both earned Oscars for their portrayals of Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather trilogy. Decades later, the two Vito Corleones starred together in the 2001 heist thriller The Score, which was directed by the voice of Yoda himself, Frank Oz — an offer they couldn't refuse, he must have made them.
Betty Ross - Liv Tyler,...
Vito Corleone - Robert De Niro, Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro both earned Oscars for their portrayals of Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather trilogy. Decades later, the two Vito Corleones starred together in the 2001 heist thriller The Score, which was directed by the voice of Yoda himself, Frank Oz — an offer they couldn't refuse, he must have made them.
Betty Ross - Liv Tyler,...
- 2/13/2015
- by Eli Reyes
- GeekTyrant
Moviegoers can finally enjoy a film with a genuine hero who served his country and fought in a righteous war
The New England Patriots spent this past weekend earning a spot in the Super Bowl. But many more patriots went to the movies and propelled “American Sniper” to a record-setting January box office weekend.
In doing so, they officially declared war against the likes of Michael Moore, Seth Rogen and so many liberal, peace loving, pot-smoking A-listers and Hollywood suits who, since the 1970s, have had an ambivalent, if not disdainful relationship with war movies in general, and American patriotism in particular.
The New England Patriots spent this past weekend earning a spot in the Super Bowl. But many more patriots went to the movies and propelled “American Sniper” to a record-setting January box office weekend.
In doing so, they officially declared war against the likes of Michael Moore, Seth Rogen and so many liberal, peace loving, pot-smoking A-listers and Hollywood suits who, since the 1970s, have had an ambivalent, if not disdainful relationship with war movies in general, and American patriotism in particular.
- 1/23/2015
- by Thane Rosenbaum
- The Wrap
Will Clint Eastwood’s biopic about military marksman Chris Kyle succeed where other Iraq war films have failed?
• First look review
In Hollywood, the Iraq war is a story few want to tell and even fewer want to hear. American Sniper, Clint Eastwood’s biopic of military marksman Chris Kyle – who arrives on the big screen in the form of a bearded, bulked-up Bradley Cooper – is the latest venture into what remains a cinematic no man’s land, a territory littered with the carcasses of previous blink-and-you’ll-miss-it failures.
In the 12 years since Bush Jr’s troops first set foot in Iraq, only a handful of mainstream films have addressed the topic, with stars and critics seemingly powerless to turn the tide of public indifference. Films as diverse as Redacted, Body of Lies, The Messenger and In the Valley of Elah all sank at the box office despite A-list involvement and critical approval.
• First look review
In Hollywood, the Iraq war is a story few want to tell and even fewer want to hear. American Sniper, Clint Eastwood’s biopic of military marksman Chris Kyle – who arrives on the big screen in the form of a bearded, bulked-up Bradley Cooper – is the latest venture into what remains a cinematic no man’s land, a territory littered with the carcasses of previous blink-and-you’ll-miss-it failures.
In the 12 years since Bush Jr’s troops first set foot in Iraq, only a handful of mainstream films have addressed the topic, with stars and critics seemingly powerless to turn the tide of public indifference. Films as diverse as Redacted, Body of Lies, The Messenger and In the Valley of Elah all sank at the box office despite A-list involvement and critical approval.
- 1/13/2015
- by Alex Hess
- The Guardian - Film News
Since the Critics' Choice Awards were introduced in 1995, 14 performers have reaped Oscar nominations without first contending at either these kudos Or the Screen Actors Guild Awards Or the Golden Globes. That is good news for the likes of Timothy Spall ("Mr. Turner"), Hilary Swank ("The Homesman"), Tom Wilkinson ("Selma") and Laura Dern ("Wild") who were snubbed by these precursor prizes. All were at one time in our top five for the Oscars and could be vindicated come nominations morning. Below, we profile the lucky few who came out of left field to contend at the Oscars without first having been in the running at at least one of these awards. However, for all of them the nominations had to be reward enough, as none of them won the Oscar. -Break- Best Actor Clint Eastwood, "Million Dollar Baby" (2004) Tommy Lee Jones, "In the Valley of Elah" (2007) Javier Bardem, "Biutiful&quo..."'...
- 12/16/2014
- Gold Derby
The movie of the videogame Uncharted remains set for 2016, as the writer of Zero Dark Thirty jumps aboard...
The planned movie of Sony's videogame series Uncharted remains on the schedule for 2016, although there's not been much in the way of obvious progress on it. At least not much anybody's been talking about. However, there is a bit of news on the film now, and first up, it seems that Chris Pratt - riding high this year off the back of The Lego Movie and Guardians Of The Galaxy (with Jurassic World scheduled for 2016) - has turned down the role of Nathan Drake.
Obviously the role of Nathan Drake should go to Nathan Fillion, but nobody seems to be getting our memos on the matter.
Behind the camera remains Seth Gordon, who's been attached to direct for a little while now. But the studio has now hired the writer of Zero Dark Thirty...
The planned movie of Sony's videogame series Uncharted remains on the schedule for 2016, although there's not been much in the way of obvious progress on it. At least not much anybody's been talking about. However, there is a bit of news on the film now, and first up, it seems that Chris Pratt - riding high this year off the back of The Lego Movie and Guardians Of The Galaxy (with Jurassic World scheduled for 2016) - has turned down the role of Nathan Drake.
Obviously the role of Nathan Drake should go to Nathan Fillion, but nobody seems to be getting our memos on the matter.
Behind the camera remains Seth Gordon, who's been attached to direct for a little while now. But the studio has now hired the writer of Zero Dark Thirty...
- 11/13/2014
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
This story first appeared in the Sept. 26 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. If a story plays for free on CNN, audiences won't pay to see it in a theater. This was the mind-set behind Hollywood's aversion to politically minded movies following a string of box-office misfires such as Rendition, In the Valley of Elah, Green Zone and even the Oscar-winning but low-grossing The Hurt Locker. But these days, political movies are back. Thanks to Kathryn Bigelow's Osama bin Laden thriller Zero Dark Thirty ($133 million worldwide), a dozen or so ripped-from-the-headlines films are
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- 9/19/2014
- by Tatiana Siegel
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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