This probably should be obvious by now, but it’s good to be Kate Winslet. The recent winner of the Best Limited Series/TV Movie Actress Emmy for her performance in HBO’s gripping crime drama “Mare of Easttown” is also now the favorite to take home the corresponding Screen Actors Guild Award come February. If she succeeds, she’ll be 2 for 2 in the category and become just the fourth woman to snag the award twice after Alfre Woodard, Helen Mirren and Queen Latifah.
Winslet previously won for her work in the eponymous role of HBO’s “Mildred Pierce,” which like “Mare of Easttown,” also features the acting talents of Guy Pearce. In the latter series, which was created and written by Brad Ingelsby, Winslet portrays Mare Sheehan, a competent but tired detective attempting to keep her life together while investigating the murder of one teen girl and the disappearance...
Winslet previously won for her work in the eponymous role of HBO’s “Mildred Pierce,” which like “Mare of Easttown,” also features the acting talents of Guy Pearce. In the latter series, which was created and written by Brad Ingelsby, Winslet portrays Mare Sheehan, a competent but tired detective attempting to keep her life together while investigating the murder of one teen girl and the disappearance...
- 10/22/2021
- by Kaitlin Thomas
- Gold Derby
Exclusive: In the wake of his seven-figure spec sale of The Bee Keeper to Miramax, which has Jason Statham attached to star, Kurt Wimmer will next direct his original script Solara for Oakhurst Entertainment and The Motus Studios.
The project is billed as a throwback to the raw and down-and-dirty tone and ethos of such 1970s movies as the Charles Bronson, Elmore Leonard scripted Mr Majestyk and the John Flynn-directed, Paul Schrader co-scripted Rolling Thunder starring Tommy Lee Jones and William Devane.
The project will be produced and financed by Jai Khanna and Marina Grasic of Oakhurst Entertainment along with Emanuele Moretti of The Motus Studios. Wimmer will also produce. Verve Ventures arranged the financing and will co-represent domestic rights with Motus handling international.
“Astonishingly powerful and poignant, Wimmer’s script has a furious sense of purpose. It was a no-brainer for us to dive in,” Khanna tells Deadline.
The project is billed as a throwback to the raw and down-and-dirty tone and ethos of such 1970s movies as the Charles Bronson, Elmore Leonard scripted Mr Majestyk and the John Flynn-directed, Paul Schrader co-scripted Rolling Thunder starring Tommy Lee Jones and William Devane.
The project will be produced and financed by Jai Khanna and Marina Grasic of Oakhurst Entertainment along with Emanuele Moretti of The Motus Studios. Wimmer will also produce. Verve Ventures arranged the financing and will co-represent domestic rights with Motus handling international.
“Astonishingly powerful and poignant, Wimmer’s script has a furious sense of purpose. It was a no-brainer for us to dive in,” Khanna tells Deadline.
- 9/21/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
After Cate Blanchett won her first Screen Actors Guild Award as an ensemble member in “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” in 2004, it took her another 10 years to conquer the remaining two film acting categories. She garnered a supporting actress win for “The Aviator” in 2005 and then a lead actress victory for “Blue Jasmine” in 2014. Now, with her performance in the miniseries “Mrs. America,” she is looking to follow in the footsteps of Helen Mirren, Viola Davis, and Allison Janney by earning a trophy in a fourth category.
See‘The Crown’ will reign supreme in drama ensemble again because SAG Awards history deems it so
Blanchett faces off against Michaela Coel (“I May Destroy You”), Nicole Kidman (“The Undoing”), Anya Taylor-Joy (“The Queen’s Gambit”) and Kerry Washington (“Little Fires Everywhere”) in the TV movie/limited series actress race. Coel and Taylor-Joy are SAG newcomers. Washington has...
See‘The Crown’ will reign supreme in drama ensemble again because SAG Awards history deems it so
Blanchett faces off against Michaela Coel (“I May Destroy You”), Nicole Kidman (“The Undoing”), Anya Taylor-Joy (“The Queen’s Gambit”) and Kerry Washington (“Little Fires Everywhere”) in the TV movie/limited series actress race. Coel and Taylor-Joy are SAG newcomers. Washington has...
- 3/25/2021
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
The chart dominance of Morgan Wallen continued this week as Dangerous: The Double Album coasted to Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart. Wallen’s set has now been in the top spot for two consecutive months. The backlash over a video of the singer using a racial slur has done little to shake his hold on Number One. Wallen sold more than 7,000 albums and earned nearly 90 million streams.
Pooh Shiesty’s Shiesty Season remains a breakout success story — after debuting at Number Three last month, the album...
Pooh Shiesty’s Shiesty Season remains a breakout success story — after debuting at Number Three last month, the album...
- 3/8/2021
- by Elias Leight
- Rollingstone.com
Madison Beer appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live Monday to perform her new song “Boyshit,” which she temporarily re-dubbed “I Don’t Speak (Boy)” to meet the standards of network television.
The performance found Beer and her band performing in a studio space set up to look like a cozy living room filled with teddy bears. Against the song’s bouncing bass groove and plucky guitar riff, Beer crooned the song’s pristine kiss-off hook, “I don’t speak boy/You’re always coming back but your love’s poison/So...
The performance found Beer and her band performing in a studio space set up to look like a cozy living room filled with teddy bears. Against the song’s bouncing bass groove and plucky guitar riff, Beer crooned the song’s pristine kiss-off hook, “I don’t speak boy/You’re always coming back but your love’s poison/So...
- 3/2/2021
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Madison Beer is ready to take fans into her world. After achieving success as the first independent solo female artist to break into the Top 20 radio charts, the rising pop star signed with Epic Records in late 2019 and has just released Life Support, her debut studio album. "It is my story, [an] articulation of the past two years of my life in 17 songs and it's really personal and diverse," she told E! News of the LP. There's no other way to put it. It's just me and my story and everything I've been through." Just don't ask her to pick a favorite track. "I think that 'Selfish' is probably the baby of the album and the one that's most close to my heart," she...
- 2/28/2021
- E! Online
Madison Beer has 22.7 million fans on Instagram and 13.8 million followers on TikTok, but she's so much more than a social media star. In a new interview with NME, the 21-year-old celebrity opened up about her time in the music industry and why she hopes her debut album, Life Support, will help people see her as a true artist. "For a long time, I've been trying to prove my intelligence and artistry and the fact that I'm someone who should be taken seriously," she told the outlet for a feature published Feb. 26. "That does get a bit exhausting because I shouldn't have to be constantly proving that to people." When it comes to Beer's music, her...
- 2/26/2021
- E! Online
Born Here Live Here Die Here is shaping up to get a big second life on the charts. Luke Bryan takes Number One on the Apple Music Pre-Add Chart for the week of February 5th through February 11th with a deluxe reissue of his album Born Here Live Here Die Here, which was originally released in August of last year.
Nashville has recently started to embrace deluxe albums, and it seems to be working: When Luke Combs released a deluxe reissue of What You See Is What You Get, it...
Nashville has recently started to embrace deluxe albums, and it seems to be working: When Luke Combs released a deluxe reissue of What You See Is What You Get, it...
- 2/17/2021
- by Emily Blake
- Rollingstone.com
Michaela Coel just snagged a Critics’ Choice TV Award nomination for her daring performance in the HBO limited series “I May Destroy You,” and the rising star is now on pace to score her first bid at the SAG Awards. The English actress, who won a BAFTA in 2016 for her sitcom “Chewing Gum,” plays Arabella, a young woman who seeks to rebuild her life after being drugged and raped in a nightclub. Coel is the star, creator, writer, producer and co-director of “I May Destroy You,” which was inspired by her own experience of sexual assault.
Coel currently ranks fifth in our overall odds in the TV movie/mini actress race at the SAG Awards, based on the combined predictions of Gold Derby users. At 12/1 odds, she trails Cate Blanchett in “Mrs. America” (71/20 odds), Anya Taylor-Joy in “The Queen’s Gambit” (4/1 odds), Nicole Kidman in “The Undoing” (9/2 odds) and Uzo Aduba...
Coel currently ranks fifth in our overall odds in the TV movie/mini actress race at the SAG Awards, based on the combined predictions of Gold Derby users. At 12/1 odds, she trails Cate Blanchett in “Mrs. America” (71/20 odds), Anya Taylor-Joy in “The Queen’s Gambit” (4/1 odds), Nicole Kidman in “The Undoing” (9/2 odds) and Uzo Aduba...
- 2/3/2021
- by Denton Davidson
- Gold Derby
Shiesty season is heating up.
As his song “Back In Blood” climbs up the Rs 100, currently at Number 25, Pooh Shiesty’s upcoming debut mixtape Shiesty Season continues to lead the Apple Music Pre-Add Chart in the lead up to is Friday release. Pre-adds allow listeners to queue up an album to be added to their library when it’s released, offering a good indication of the albums that fans are most excited for. Last month, Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album led the chart, and went on to have...
As his song “Back In Blood” climbs up the Rs 100, currently at Number 25, Pooh Shiesty’s upcoming debut mixtape Shiesty Season continues to lead the Apple Music Pre-Add Chart in the lead up to is Friday release. Pre-adds allow listeners to queue up an album to be added to their library when it’s released, offering a good indication of the albums that fans are most excited for. Last month, Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album led the chart, and went on to have...
- 2/2/2021
- by RS Charts
- Rollingstone.com
Gucci Mane signee Pooh Shiesty had a big breakout moment in 2020, debuting on the Breakthrough 25 Chart last summer after being featured on Gucci Mane Presents: So Icy Summer. He went on to hit the Artists 500 Chart for the first time in September, and spent the fall climbing his way up to the top 200. But 2021 is shaping up to be the year he breaks into more mainstream success.
As the Memphis native enjoys the success of his first Rs 100 hit — “Back in Blood,” featuring Lil Durk, currently sits at Number 36 on...
As the Memphis native enjoys the success of his first Rs 100 hit — “Back in Blood,” featuring Lil Durk, currently sits at Number 36 on...
- 1/26/2021
- by Emily Blake
- Rollingstone.com
Michaela Coel created and starred in HBO’s critically acclaimed new limited series, “I May Destroy You,” and could now join the ranks of other actor-creators like Lena Dunham and Phoebe Waller-Bridge as a double Golden Globe winner. The English actress, who won a BAFTA in 2016 for her sitcom “Chewing Gum,” plays Arabella, a young woman who seeks to rebuild her life after being drugged and raped in a nightclub. Coel is the star, creator, writer, producer and co-director of “I May Destroy You,” which was inspired by her own experience of sexual assault.
According to our TV predictions, Coel is on pace to become a double nominee for “I May Destroy You.” The series maintains an impressive score of 86 on Metacritic, with Isobel Lewis (The Independent) writing, “No TV show has ever shown the complexities of sexual assault and how it affects survivors, their friends and their communities quite like this difficult,...
According to our TV predictions, Coel is on pace to become a double nominee for “I May Destroy You.” The series maintains an impressive score of 86 on Metacritic, with Isobel Lewis (The Independent) writing, “No TV show has ever shown the complexities of sexual assault and how it affects survivors, their friends and their communities quite like this difficult,...
- 11/28/2020
- by Denton Davidson
- Gold Derby
Brian Dennehy, who died Wednesday at age 81, was a Golden Globe and two-time Tony Award winner known for his memorable roles in films with memorable headliners, from First Blood alongside Sylvester Stallone to Tommy Boy starring Chris Farley.
He also was a standout on the stage, winning two Best Actor In Play Tonys for revivals of classic shows — 1999’s Death of a Salesman and 2003’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night.
Tributes have been rolling in — from fellow co-stars to a poignant note from his former publicist Tony Angellotti. Keep checking back as we add more throughout the day.
He also was a standout on the stage, winning two Best Actor In Play Tonys for revivals of classic shows — 1999’s Death of a Salesman and 2003’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night.
Tributes have been rolling in — from fellow co-stars to a poignant note from his former publicist Tony Angellotti. Keep checking back as we add more throughout the day.
- 4/16/2020
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Brian Dennehy, a two-time Tony Award winner, has died. He was 81.
The actor’s daughter, Elizabeth Dennehy, announced the news on Twitter Thursday, telling fans that it was due to natural causes and not related to Covid-19.
“It is with heavy hearts we announce that our father, Brian passed away last night from natural causes, not Covid-related,” she shared. “Larger than life, generous to a fault, a proud and devoted father and grandfather, he will be missed by his wife Jennifer, family and many friends.”
It is with heavy hearts we announce that our father, Brian passed away last night from natural causes,...
The actor’s daughter, Elizabeth Dennehy, announced the news on Twitter Thursday, telling fans that it was due to natural causes and not related to Covid-19.
“It is with heavy hearts we announce that our father, Brian passed away last night from natural causes, not Covid-related,” she shared. “Larger than life, generous to a fault, a proud and devoted father and grandfather, he will be missed by his wife Jennifer, family and many friends.”
It is with heavy hearts we announce that our father, Brian passed away last night from natural causes,...
- 4/16/2020
- by Claudia Harmata
- PEOPLE.com
Madison Beer has been hunkered down on Long Island since the coronavirus pandemic led to lockdowns across the country. The 21-year-old rising pop star has spent her time picking up hobbies: learning French, chipping away at a long list of movies she’s been wanting to watch. Between activities, she’s been looking back and caring for her mental health.
“This is a scary and difficult time for a lot of people, including myself,” she says, calling from her home. “So I’m making sure that I’m aware of...
“This is a scary and difficult time for a lot of people, including myself,” she says, calling from her home. “So I’m making sure that I’m aware of...
- 4/14/2020
- by Brittany Spanos
- Rollingstone.com
Character actor As its time-twisting narrative proceeds apace, the movie makes more than a few awkward lurches between farcical exaggeration and sympathetic observation. Ultimately, however, this tonally untidy yet incrementally affecting dramedy scores a cumulative impact by credibly and astutely depicting eruptions, disruptions and reconciliations during the long goodbye to a dying paterfamilias.
Clarke gives himself most of the screen time, and does his best to earn it, as Eddie, an under-achieving fortysomething who is called away from his job as doorman at a Chicago hotel and returns to his Maryland hometown when he gets word that his ailing father, Bob (Brian Dennehy), has taken a turn for the worse. Eddie isn’t prepared for the trip, emotionally or financially. (He needs one of his brothers to actually pay for the plane ticket.) Early flashbacks reveal father and son haven’t always been on good terms — Bob calls Eddie out for lacking goals and gumption,...
Clarke gives himself most of the screen time, and does his best to earn it, as Eddie, an under-achieving fortysomething who is called away from his job as doorman at a Chicago hotel and returns to his Maryland hometown when he gets word that his ailing father, Bob (Brian Dennehy), has taken a turn for the worse. Eddie isn’t prepared for the trip, emotionally or financially. (He needs one of his brothers to actually pay for the plane ticket.) Early flashbacks reveal father and son haven’t always been on good terms — Bob calls Eddie out for lacking goals and gumption,...
- 9/13/2019
- by Joe Leydon
- Variety Film + TV
Duncan Fellows and Alison Bell.
Fans of ABC TV’s The Letdown who enjoy watching Duncan Fellows as Jeremy, partner and foil of Alison Bell’s oft-stressed Audrey, can look forward to his next series Fam Time.
Fellows is playing John, aka ‘Handy Andy’, second husband of Michala Banas’ Belinda Box, matriarch of a dysfunctional blended family in the Seven Studios’ narrative comedy.
Created by Michael Horrocks and scripted by Erica Harrison and Jack Yabsley, the sitcom features Benson Jack Anthony as Belinda’s son Rylan, Karina Banno as her step-daughter Tahnee, Chloe De Los Santos as her adopted half-Filipino daughter Cherry, Rhonda Burchmore as grandma Viv and Tainui Tukiwaho as handyman Bill.
While everyone else in the family is obsessed with the online world, Handy Andy prefers fixing and inventing things, although he’s not very good at either.
There are some similarities between the two characters. “Neither is...
Fans of ABC TV’s The Letdown who enjoy watching Duncan Fellows as Jeremy, partner and foil of Alison Bell’s oft-stressed Audrey, can look forward to his next series Fam Time.
Fellows is playing John, aka ‘Handy Andy’, second husband of Michala Banas’ Belinda Box, matriarch of a dysfunctional blended family in the Seven Studios’ narrative comedy.
Created by Michael Horrocks and scripted by Erica Harrison and Jack Yabsley, the sitcom features Benson Jack Anthony as Belinda’s son Rylan, Karina Banno as her step-daughter Tahnee, Chloe De Los Santos as her adopted half-Filipino daughter Cherry, Rhonda Burchmore as grandma Viv and Tainui Tukiwaho as handyman Bill.
While everyone else in the family is obsessed with the online world, Handy Andy prefers fixing and inventing things, although he’s not very good at either.
There are some similarities between the two characters. “Neither is...
- 6/16/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Dakota Johnson and Golden Globe winner Tracee Ellis Ross of TV’s Black-ish have signed on as the leads in Covers, a comedy set among the talent, fame and fast-paced world of Hollywood’s music scene from Focus Features and Working Title Films. Nisha Ganatra, whose comedy Late Night made a big splash at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, is directing the pic from a script penned by Flora Greeson.
Working Title’s Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner will produce the project, while Alexandra Loewy will serve as executive producer. Focus will distribute the film in the U.S. and Universal Pictures International overseas.
Johnson recently completed her turn as Anastasia Grey in Universal’s Fifty Shades Freed, the finale of the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy, which was released last year. She also starred in Luca Guadagnino’s psychological thriller Suspiria and Fox’s Bad Times at the El Royale.
Working Title’s Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner will produce the project, while Alexandra Loewy will serve as executive producer. Focus will distribute the film in the U.S. and Universal Pictures International overseas.
Johnson recently completed her turn as Anastasia Grey in Universal’s Fifty Shades Freed, the finale of the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy, which was released last year. She also starred in Luca Guadagnino’s psychological thriller Suspiria and Fox’s Bad Times at the El Royale.
- 5/20/2019
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Phoenix International is selling the Brian Dennehy family comedy Life Support (working title) at Cannes which stars Whiplash Oscar winner J.K. Simmons, Victor Victoria Oscar-nominated actress Lesley Ann Warren, Tom Arnold, and Anchorman‘s David Koechner.
Pic directed and written by stage and film actor Larry Clarke is loosely based on real events in his life, exploring the profound issues surrounding the end-of-life process.
Life Support centers around a manic Catholic family preparing for the death of their father, Bob (Dennehy), who wants to be in charge until his final day. The family includes an overly-religious brother (Arnold), who tries to keep the family legacy intact; a neurotic sister (Mo Gaffney), who can’t cope with the word “cremation;” an overbearing mother-in-law, Dawn (Warren); and the prodigal son, Eddie (Clarke), whose life is to change drastically when a huge secret comes to light. The other extended family (and friends) include cast: Eric Edelstein,...
Pic directed and written by stage and film actor Larry Clarke is loosely based on real events in his life, exploring the profound issues surrounding the end-of-life process.
Life Support centers around a manic Catholic family preparing for the death of their father, Bob (Dennehy), who wants to be in charge until his final day. The family includes an overly-religious brother (Arnold), who tries to keep the family legacy intact; a neurotic sister (Mo Gaffney), who can’t cope with the word “cremation;” an overbearing mother-in-law, Dawn (Warren); and the prodigal son, Eddie (Clarke), whose life is to change drastically when a huge secret comes to light. The other extended family (and friends) include cast: Eric Edelstein,...
- 5/17/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
UTA has signed Queen Latifah and her production company Flavor Unit Entertainment. The Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning actor-musician-producer is coming off Universal’s big hit comedy Girls Trip, which made more than $140 million worldwide; the cast has a deal to return for a sequel but no greenlight yet from the studio.
Flavor Unit, founded by Latifah and business partner Shakim Compere, has produced award-winning films including Beauty Shop, The Perfect Holiday, Just Wright and Bessie, as well as HBO’s Life Support. More recently, Latifah and Compere produced The Real Mvp: The Wanda Pratt Story, The Best Place to Be, Curvy Style with Timothy Snell, The Perfect Match and The Rap Game.
Latifah has six Grammy Award nominations and won in 1995 for Best Rap Album. Currently, she appears on Lee Daniels’ Star.
She had been at CAA and continues to be repped by Compere, attorney Stuart Levy and Randi Michel.
Flavor Unit, founded by Latifah and business partner Shakim Compere, has produced award-winning films including Beauty Shop, The Perfect Holiday, Just Wright and Bessie, as well as HBO’s Life Support. More recently, Latifah and Compere produced The Real Mvp: The Wanda Pratt Story, The Best Place to Be, Curvy Style with Timothy Snell, The Perfect Match and The Rap Game.
Latifah has six Grammy Award nominations and won in 1995 for Best Rap Album. Currently, she appears on Lee Daniels’ Star.
She had been at CAA and continues to be repped by Compere, attorney Stuart Levy and Randi Michel.
- 1/16/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
A new venture fund focused on African-American content has launched and teamed with its first partner, Queen Latifah’s Flavor Unit Entertainment.
The Essence Creators and Makers Fund has a $20 million endowment from Essence Ventures, the parent company of Essence Communications. The fund will support and partner with creators and makers of color in an effort to mitigate the barriers faced in securing financing for the development and production of projects.
The fund will create and finance film, television, digital and documentary-style content that reflects the lives and experiences of women of color. It will also seek to collaborate with content creators globally focused on Essence’s core audience of black women, with the content produced encompassing themes that relate and connect across audiences.
Essence will have the first right to produce and finance future film, television and digital content associated with the creators. In addition to capital, the Essence platform – including print,...
The Essence Creators and Makers Fund has a $20 million endowment from Essence Ventures, the parent company of Essence Communications. The fund will support and partner with creators and makers of color in an effort to mitigate the barriers faced in securing financing for the development and production of projects.
The fund will create and finance film, television, digital and documentary-style content that reflects the lives and experiences of women of color. It will also seek to collaborate with content creators globally focused on Essence’s core audience of black women, with the content produced encompassing themes that relate and connect across audiences.
Essence will have the first right to produce and finance future film, television and digital content associated with the creators. In addition to capital, the Essence platform – including print,...
- 7/13/2018
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Brian Dennehy and J.K. Simmons have joined the cast of Larry Clarke’s feature directorial debut Life Support, which is currently shooting around Los Angeles. Taylor & Dodge is handling foreign, and will be selling the film at Afm from Nov. 1-8. Conduit will be handling domestic. Also joining Dennehy and Simmons is Lesley Ann Warren, Tom Arnold, David Koechner, Mo Gaffney (Absolutely Fabulous, The Mick) as well as Mike O'Malley (Sully, Glee), Julie Ann Emery (AMC's Preache…...
- 10/23/2017
- Deadline
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