Liz Shannon Miller: Okay, so. When I first started watching "Project Greenlight" this season, I didn't have huge expectations, but I really got sucked into it. Beyond the fact that it's really compelling reality television (a genre that's not as easy to pull off as you might think), the producers this year took on the issue of diversity head-on, letting first Matt Damon, then anointed director Jason Mann become the representation of white male privilege within the Hollywood system. Whether you saw him as arrogant or passionate, there's no denying that through stubborn negotiation and determination, Mann did everything in his power to make the movie he wanted to make; which meant, for "Greenlight" viewers, the actual completion of his first feature film, "The Leisure Class," was loaded with huge expectations. That is, of course, if you watched "Project Greenlight." Kate Erbland: I, on the other hand, did not watch "Project.
- 11/3/2015
- by Kate Erbland and Liz Shannon Miller
- Indiewire
Here’s a fun thought experiment: How much does watching an entire season of HBO’s “Project Greenlight,” which chronicles the making of a movie, alter your viewing of the movie itself — in this case Jason Mann’s “The Leisure Class”? And aside from viewers of the show in desperate need of some sort of closure, who would be interested in watching said movie? More questions: Do you find yourself noticing that some shots in a scene were filmed at a different time of day than others, something that might have gone unnoticed if the making-of series hadn’t made such a big.
- 11/3/2015
- by Ned Ehrbar
- The Wrap
When "Project Greenlight" rose from the TV dead earlier this fall, the HBO reality series made headlines for an argument between one of its two celebrity producers in Matt Damon, and indie film veteran Effie Brown, who had been hired to line produce the latest "Greenlight" film. As the series' decision-makers put their heads together to pick this season's winning director, Brown — the only person of color in the room, and one of only two women — argued that they shouldn't be so quick to dismiss a filmmaking team featuring a white woman and a Vietnamese man, since their outsider perspectives could be very useful in rewriting the planned script, "Not Another Pretty Woman," where one of the main characters is a black female prostitute. Damon talked over Brown, insisted that you find diversity "in the casting of the movie, not the casting of the show," and in a later talking head,...
- 11/2/2015
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
Newsflash: Reality shows sometimes manipulate reality. Such is the case with HBO’s recent revival of “Project Greenlight” — at least according to Jason Mann, the winner and star of the current season, which ends tonight and followed the director as he set out to make his first feature film. Mann doesn’t feel that the show portrayed him as he really is, or the production on his movie, “The Leisure Class,” with perfect accuracy. “I definitely feel as though the editing of the show really is creating an entirely new thing unto itself that’s different than reality,” Mann told TheWrap.
- 11/1/2015
- by Linda Ge
- The Wrap
Right now fans of Project Greenlight are watching as director Jason Mann pushes through the filmmaking process, hitting plenty of hiccups along the way, but seemingly doing a decent job of not compromising the vision he has for the filmmaking documentary series’ first comedy. While we’ve still got a few weeks before the show is […]
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- 10/17/2015
- by Ethan Anderton
- Slash Film
"The Leisure Class" stars Ed Weeks ("The Mindy Project") as William, a con man who wins the affections of Fiona (Bridget Regan), a woman (Bridget Regan) from a prominent political family, in order to embezzle money from her father's charitable foundation—only to discover that he has real feelings for her. When William's estranged brother, Leonard (Tom Bell), turns up unannounced on the eve of their wedding, his actions threaten to reveal the truth about the scam, and about Fiona's family. The film, directed by Jason Mann from a script co-written with Pete Jones, also features Emmy nominee Brenda Strong ("Desperate Housewives") as Fiona's mother and Golden Globe winner Bruce Davison ("Short Cuts") as Fiona's father. Read More: "The Unsinakble Effie Brown Makes HBO's 'Project Greenlight' a Must-See: 'I'm not his favorite person'" "The Leisure Class" is the final product of the controversial fourth season of HBO's...
- 10/16/2015
- by Matt Brennan
- Thompson on Hollywood
Remember when Mindy Project‘s Dr. L was engaged in a sizzling hook-up with one of her co-workers… and it wasn’t Danny?
Hard as it is to recall in the aftermath of hot airplane kisses and Empire State Building make-outs, Mindy’s original Shulman & Associates friend-with-benefits was Dr. Jeremy Reed.
“It’s so weird to think of that now,” says Ed Weeks, who plays the British Ob-gyn. “Between the pilot and the second episode of the first season, there was definitely some rearranging that happened behind the scenes.”
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Hard as it is to recall in the aftermath of hot airplane kisses and Empire State Building make-outs, Mindy’s original Shulman & Associates friend-with-benefits was Dr. Jeremy Reed.
“It’s so weird to think of that now,” says Ed Weeks, who plays the British Ob-gyn. “Between the pilot and the second episode of the first season, there was definitely some rearranging that happened behind the scenes.”
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- 9/6/2015
- TVLine.com
Australian actress Melanie Zanetti has been cast in the latest HBO/Project Greenlight feature, The Leisure Class.
Executive produced by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, and mentored by the Farrelly brothers, Zanetti will appear alongside Golden Globe winner and Academy Award Nominee Bruce Davison as well as SAG Award winner and Emmy Award nominee Brenda Strong.
The film is based on Jason Mann.s short film which premiered at London.s Raindance Festival in 2013, and follows the plights of the Langham family. Zanetti will play the youngest Langham daughter.
Other principal cast include Ed Weeks (The Mindy Project) and English actor/comedian, Tom Bell.
Zanetti has previously appeared opposite Mia Wasikowska in Tracks and has recently wrapped the lead in the Australian indie feature, The Contents.
Executive produced by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, and mentored by the Farrelly brothers, Zanetti will appear alongside Golden Globe winner and Academy Award Nominee Bruce Davison as well as SAG Award winner and Emmy Award nominee Brenda Strong.
The film is based on Jason Mann.s short film which premiered at London.s Raindance Festival in 2013, and follows the plights of the Langham family. Zanetti will play the youngest Langham daughter.
Other principal cast include Ed Weeks (The Mindy Project) and English actor/comedian, Tom Bell.
Zanetti has previously appeared opposite Mia Wasikowska in Tracks and has recently wrapped the lead in the Australian indie feature, The Contents.
- 3/10/2015
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
“The Mindy Project” star Ed Weeks will lead Project Greenlight film “The Leisure Class,” which has also added Australian actress Melanie Zanetti, multiple individuals with knowledge of the project told TheWrap. The feature, which is based on “Project Greenlight” winner Jason Mann’s short film of the same name, is now filming. Mann also wrote and is directing the feature. Also Read: TheWrap’s 25 Most Anticipated Movies of 2015: From ‘Fifty Shades’ to ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Spectre’ The short film followed a man trying to marry into a wealthy family and the unpredictable brother who could ruin everything. Weeks currently stars on “The Mindy.
- 3/4/2015
- by Linda Ge and Jethro Nededog
- The Wrap
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