Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman poses for Vogue” (Australia) magazine, wearing Gucci, Cartier and Gentle Monster, photographed by Steven Klein:
Kidman began her acting career in Australia with the 1983 films “Bush Christmas” and “BMX Bandits”. Her breakthrough came in 1989 with the thriller film “Dead Calm” and the miniseries “Bangkok Hilton”.
In 1990, she achieved international success with the action film “Days of Thunder”. She received greater recognition with lead roles in “Far and Away” (1992), “Batman Forever” (1995), “To Die For” (1995) and “Eyes Wide Shut” (1999).
In 2003, she won the ‘Academy Award’ for ‘Best Actress’ for her portrayal of writer ‘Virginia Woolf’ in the drama film “The Hours” (2002). Among her numerous feature films, Kidman received additional Academy Award nominations for her roles in the musical “Moulin Rouge!” (2001) and the dramas “Rabbit Hole” (2010), “Lion” (2016) and “Being the Ricardos” (2021).
Kidman's television roles include “Hemingway & Gellhorn” (2012), “Big Little Lies” (2017–2019), “Top of the Lake: China Girl” (2017), “The Undoing...
Kidman began her acting career in Australia with the 1983 films “Bush Christmas” and “BMX Bandits”. Her breakthrough came in 1989 with the thriller film “Dead Calm” and the miniseries “Bangkok Hilton”.
In 1990, she achieved international success with the action film “Days of Thunder”. She received greater recognition with lead roles in “Far and Away” (1992), “Batman Forever” (1995), “To Die For” (1995) and “Eyes Wide Shut” (1999).
In 2003, she won the ‘Academy Award’ for ‘Best Actress’ for her portrayal of writer ‘Virginia Woolf’ in the drama film “The Hours” (2002). Among her numerous feature films, Kidman received additional Academy Award nominations for her roles in the musical “Moulin Rouge!” (2001) and the dramas “Rabbit Hole” (2010), “Lion” (2016) and “Being the Ricardos” (2021).
Kidman's television roles include “Hemingway & Gellhorn” (2012), “Big Little Lies” (2017–2019), “Top of the Lake: China Girl” (2017), “The Undoing...
- 4/25/2024
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Filmmaker Paul B Preciado doesn’t need to write down his story, he tells us at the start of this experimental docudrama, because Virginia Woolf has already done that. The claiming of Woolf’s text by numerous trans, non-binary and genderqueer people reflects the power of a narrative which the author herself explored in spite of social restraints and linguistic limitations, but it also reflects something else that is perhaps not obvious to cis people watching the film, and that’s the fact that many trans lives past and present have been expressed only through fiction because it is so difficult to exist in the real world.
Capturing the experience of living in a world where one’s gender doesn’t fit better than almost any other film to date, Preciado’s work is all about claiming space and present day narrative. It makes no apologies and no effort to cater to cis viewers; rather,...
Capturing the experience of living in a world where one’s gender doesn’t fit better than almost any other film to date, Preciado’s work is all about claiming space and present day narrative. It makes no apologies and no effort to cater to cis viewers; rather,...
- 4/18/2024
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
As Alex Horne tells it, Taskmaster was born out of professional jealousy. In 2009, he became a parent and so broke with almost a decade of tradition by not taking a show to the Edinburgh Fringe. That same year, his friend and former flatmate Tim Key won the festival’s top comedy award, for which Horne had been nominated in 2003.
At home and envious, Horne sent out emails inviting 20 comedians – including Key – to take part in a new competition in which he would set them a different task each month for a year. The results would be shared in a live performance at the 2010 Edinburgh Fringe called The Taskmaster.
The result was organised chaos. An overdraft of comedians (a Fringe-specific collective noun) plus a pianist joined Horne on stage to reveal the results, set tie-break tasks, and eventually crown a winner.
“So this is The Taskmaster,” Horne told the crowd, “It...
At home and envious, Horne sent out emails inviting 20 comedians – including Key – to take part in a new competition in which he would set them a different task each month for a year. The results would be shared in a live performance at the 2010 Edinburgh Fringe called The Taskmaster.
The result was organised chaos. An overdraft of comedians (a Fringe-specific collective noun) plus a pianist joined Horne on stage to reveal the results, set tie-break tasks, and eventually crown a winner.
“So this is The Taskmaster,” Horne told the crowd, “It...
- 4/11/2024
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Charles Dance is opening up about his love life.
The 77-year-old Game of Thrones actor said his marriage of 34 years ended after he “succumbed to some temptations.”
In a podcast interview with Gyles Brandreth on the Rosebud podcast, he spoke about the dissolution of his marriage to Joanna Haythorn.
Keep reading to find out more…
“For the most part it was a wonderful marriage,” he said.
“But then, unfortunately, I succumbed to some temptations along the way and the marriage ended because of my behaviour really.”
The couple, who have one son and a daughter, married in 1970. They remained married until he was forced to “come clean” about his indiscretion, which led to their separation in 2004.
“We were living in Somerset, in this enormous place, and Jo had her study at one end and I had mine at the other end, and we became a bit like George and Martha...
The 77-year-old Game of Thrones actor said his marriage of 34 years ended after he “succumbed to some temptations.”
In a podcast interview with Gyles Brandreth on the Rosebud podcast, he spoke about the dissolution of his marriage to Joanna Haythorn.
Keep reading to find out more…
“For the most part it was a wonderful marriage,” he said.
“But then, unfortunately, I succumbed to some temptations along the way and the marriage ended because of my behaviour really.”
The couple, who have one son and a daughter, married in 1970. They remained married until he was forced to “come clean” about his indiscretion, which led to their separation in 2004.
“We were living in Somerset, in this enormous place, and Jo had her study at one end and I had mine at the other end, and we became a bit like George and Martha...
- 4/4/2024
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman poses for the February 2024 issue of “Vogue” (Australia) magazine, wearing Gucci, Cartier and Gentle Monster, photographed by Steven Klein:
Kidman began her acting career in Australia with the 1983 films “Bush Christmas” and “BMX Bandits”. Her breakthrough came in 1989 with the thriller film “Dead Calm” and the miniseries “Bangkok Hilton”.
In 1990, she achieved international success with the action film “Days of Thunder”. She received greater recognition with lead roles in “Far and Away” (1992), “Batman Forever” (1995), “To Die For” (1995) and “Eyes Wide Shut” (1999).
In 2003, she won the ‘Academy Award’ for ‘Best Actress’ for her portrayal of writer ‘Virginia Woolf’ in the drama film “The Hours” (2002). Among her numerous feature films, Kidman received additional Academy Award nominations for her roles in the musical “Moulin Rouge!” (2001) and the dramas “Rabbit Hole” (2010), “Lion” (2016) and “Being the Ricardos” (2021).
Kidman's television roles include “Hemingway & Gellhorn” (2012), “Big Little Lies” (2017–2019), “Top of the Lake: China Girl...
Kidman began her acting career in Australia with the 1983 films “Bush Christmas” and “BMX Bandits”. Her breakthrough came in 1989 with the thriller film “Dead Calm” and the miniseries “Bangkok Hilton”.
In 1990, she achieved international success with the action film “Days of Thunder”. She received greater recognition with lead roles in “Far and Away” (1992), “Batman Forever” (1995), “To Die For” (1995) and “Eyes Wide Shut” (1999).
In 2003, she won the ‘Academy Award’ for ‘Best Actress’ for her portrayal of writer ‘Virginia Woolf’ in the drama film “The Hours” (2002). Among her numerous feature films, Kidman received additional Academy Award nominations for her roles in the musical “Moulin Rouge!” (2001) and the dramas “Rabbit Hole” (2010), “Lion” (2016) and “Being the Ricardos” (2021).
Kidman's television roles include “Hemingway & Gellhorn” (2012), “Big Little Lies” (2017–2019), “Top of the Lake: China Girl...
- 1/28/2024
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Virginia Woolf‘s “Orlando: A Biography” is a centuries-spanning tale of a nobleman who, after a slumber that runs through several nights, metamorphoses into a woman. Inspired by and dedicated to Woolf’s lover, Vita Sackville-West, the classic 1928 novel has long been fodder for feminist and queer readings. The florid tale of a nobleman-cum-woman who fluidly plays with gender and sexuality, is as totemic a text as one can find to illustrate the timely and timeless journeys trans and gender-noncomforning folks have been making for decades (if not centuries). That is precisely what trans filmmaker Paul B. Preciado has done with his brilliant docu-manifesto, “Orlando, My Political Biography.”
Preciado understands how powerful a tale “Orlando: A Biography” remains close to a century since it was first published. With his hybrid documentary, Preciado seeks out to cannibalize Woolf’s text. With voiceover musings and staged narrative vignettes, he ingests Woolf’s text and regurgitates it.
Preciado understands how powerful a tale “Orlando: A Biography” remains close to a century since it was first published. With his hybrid documentary, Preciado seeks out to cannibalize Woolf’s text. With voiceover musings and staged narrative vignettes, he ingests Woolf’s text and regurgitates it.
- 11/17/2023
- by Manuel Betancourt
- Variety Film + TV
A24 continues its stream of special runs opening dark comedy Dream Scenario in limited release on six screens in New York and LA. Written and directed by Kristoffer Borgli (Sick Of Myself) and produced by Ari Aster, it stars Nicolas Cage as a hapless family man whose life is turned upside down when millions of strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams.
The film premiered at Toronto Film Festival to stellar reviews (see Deadline’s here). A24 had a SAG-AFTRA waiver and Cage began promoting the film at TIFF. The English-language debut for Norwegian helmer Borgli — whose satire Sick Of Myself premiered at Cannes last year — also features Julianne Nicholson, Michael Cera, Kate Berlant, Nicholas Braun and Noah Centineo.
Opens NY at AMC Lincoln Square, Angelika, Alamo, In LA at The Grove, Century City, Burbank. Q&As with filmmaker Borgli and cast members Berlant (who plays an executive...
The film premiered at Toronto Film Festival to stellar reviews (see Deadline’s here). A24 had a SAG-AFTRA waiver and Cage began promoting the film at TIFF. The English-language debut for Norwegian helmer Borgli — whose satire Sick Of Myself premiered at Cannes last year — also features Julianne Nicholson, Michael Cera, Kate Berlant, Nicholas Braun and Noah Centineo.
Opens NY at AMC Lincoln Square, Angelika, Alamo, In LA at The Grove, Century City, Burbank. Q&As with filmmaker Borgli and cast members Berlant (who plays an executive...
- 11/10/2023
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
A documentary about the shaping of trans identity in the shadow of patriarchal society from a first-time filmmaker who was once mentored by philosopher Jacques Derrida sounds, on paper, like homework. But trans writer-turned-director Paul B. Preciado’s “Orlando, My Political Biography” is hardly so, instead revealing itself as a playful and joyous ode to how transness calls out the social order’s inherent fictions, binaries, and normativities — and it’s also a loving paean to the prose of Virginia Woolf.
The great British writer’s “Orlando: A Biography,” about a noble who changes genders in their sleep across a 300-year lifespan, already inspired a great Sally Potter film, 1992’s “Orlando” starring Tilda Swinton. But Preciado’s film essay, populated by a colorful cast of sparky trans characters worthy of a Pedro Almodóvar fresco, is a fitting heir to “Orlando’s” literary and cinematic bona fides, both an embrace for...
The great British writer’s “Orlando: A Biography,” about a noble who changes genders in their sleep across a 300-year lifespan, already inspired a great Sally Potter film, 1992’s “Orlando” starring Tilda Swinton. But Preciado’s film essay, populated by a colorful cast of sparky trans characters worthy of a Pedro Almodóvar fresco, is a fitting heir to “Orlando’s” literary and cinematic bona fides, both an embrace for...
- 11/10/2023
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
For Orlando, My Political Biography, the term “festival darling” is an understatement. This experimental take on trans history, storytelling, and filmmaking itself has screened and won awards all over the globe, including Berlin’s Teddy Award for Best Documentary Feature. What started as a joke––almost a dare––is now one of writer and academic Paul B. Preciado’s best-known works.
The film uses a collective of trans and nonbinary people to reexamine Orlando by Virginia Woolf, therefore situating the modern trans experience in a classic tale of genderbending. Through stunning visuals, earnest performances, and at least one musical number, Preciado hopes to show Woolf and his viewers that Orlando was never really a work of fiction. Today, he argues, there are more out and proud Orlandos than ever before, though they face significant medical and judicial prejudice.
I spoke to Preciado just hours before his New York Film Festival debut.
The film uses a collective of trans and nonbinary people to reexamine Orlando by Virginia Woolf, therefore situating the modern trans experience in a classic tale of genderbending. Through stunning visuals, earnest performances, and at least one musical number, Preciado hopes to show Woolf and his viewers that Orlando was never really a work of fiction. Today, he argues, there are more out and proud Orlandos than ever before, though they face significant medical and judicial prejudice.
I spoke to Preciado just hours before his New York Film Festival debut.
- 11/7/2023
- by Lena Wilson
- The Film Stage
As we enter the final months of the year, we’ll soon be unveiling our favorite cinema in a variety of distinctions and categories, leading up to our best films of the year list. In the meantime, it’s time to play catch up. Along with our updated lists of the best films playing in theaters and weekly streaming picks, we’re taking a look at the offerings of November: historical epics, riveting documentaries, impressive debuts, and the return of one of the most imaginative filmmakers to ever contribute to the craft.
15. Dream Scenario (Kristoffer Borgli; Nov. 10 limited)
In a rare feat, Kristoffer Borgli premiered his second U.S. release of the year after the jet-black Norwegian comedy Sick of Myself. Teaming him with Nicolas Cage, the Ari Aster-produced Dream Scenario premiered at TIFF and I found at least the first half to be quite an entertaining, sharp Kaufman-esque psychological character study.
15. Dream Scenario (Kristoffer Borgli; Nov. 10 limited)
In a rare feat, Kristoffer Borgli premiered his second U.S. release of the year after the jet-black Norwegian comedy Sick of Myself. Teaming him with Nicolas Cage, the Ari Aster-produced Dream Scenario premiered at TIFF and I found at least the first half to be quite an entertaining, sharp Kaufman-esque psychological character study.
- 11/1/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
At a fundraiser at the Country Club of Fairfax earlier this month, an attendee sidled up to Bill Woolf, a Republican running for state Senate, and told him plainly that she was disappointed in his embrace of a “compromise” on “the issue of life.” Woolf, who is running for office for the first time this year, has said publicly he wants to find a “consensus” on abortion. The current consensus among Republican candidates in Virginia is that banning abortion around 15 weeks is a position voters will tolerate.
But the woman...
But the woman...
- 10/25/2023
- by Tessa Stuart
- Rollingstone.com
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.The Deep Blue Sea.REMEMBERINGTerence Davies has died, aged 77. Michael Koresky, who wrote a monograph on Davies in 2014, penned a beautiful Sight & Sound obituary, in which he wrote that “no one made movies like Davies, who precisely sculpted out of a subjective past, creating films that glided on waves of contemplation and observation, inviting viewers to join him in the burnished darkness of a past about which he felt complex, contradictory feelings.” Last year, Dan Schindel wrote for Notebook about the role of poetry in Benediction (2022), and in 2012, Michael Guillen interviewed Davies about The Deep Blue Sea (2011). "The problem with film is that it's always in the eternal present,” says Davies. “But it's closest, I think, to music. You don't have to be a musician to follow a symphonic argument. If you love the music,...
- 10/11/2023
- MUBI
Few 2023 features have made a streak comparable to Orlando, My Political Biography, the sole documentary to play in main slates for Telluride, TIFF, and NYFF––after winning the Special Jury, Best Documentary, Tagesspiegel Reader’s Jury, and Special Mention prizes at Berlinale. Paul B. Preciado’s film casts “twenty trans and non-binary individuals in the role of Orlando as they perform interpretations of scenes from [Virginia Woolf’s] novel, weaving into Woolf’s narrative their own stories of identity and transition.” Janus Films and Sideshow will release it in New York on November 10 and LA on November 17, ahead of which there is a trailer.
As Rory O’Connor said in his review, “Enter Paul B. Preciado, the celebrated French author of Testo Junkie and An Apartment on Uranus, and one of the most revered voices in that discourse. Orlando, My Political Biography, Preciado’s new work––and his first behind the camera––is the...
As Rory O’Connor said in his review, “Enter Paul B. Preciado, the celebrated French author of Testo Junkie and An Apartment on Uranus, and one of the most revered voices in that discourse. Orlando, My Political Biography, Preciado’s new work––and his first behind the camera––is the...
- 10/5/2023
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Virginia Woolf’s novel “Orlando: A Biography” charts 300 years in the life of a male nobleman who, beginning in the times of Elizabeth I, eventually experiences an unexplained sex change at age 30. Orlando then lives the rest of her days as a woman. The 1928 book remains a classic of gender and feminist studies but is largely considered the first great work of trans fiction, later inspiring Sally Potter’s own 1992 movie, “Orlando,” with Tilda Swinton.
Now, the book is the subject of trans theorist Paul B. Preciado’s “Orlando, My Political Autobiography,” a playful French-language cinema essay in which more than 20 trans and non-binary people take on the role of Orlando, using Woolf’s words to ground their own experiences. It sounds heady and challenging on paper, but Preciado’s film is an irreverent mix of art-directed social manifesto and moving documentary in which individuals recount less their struggles for...
Now, the book is the subject of trans theorist Paul B. Preciado’s “Orlando, My Political Autobiography,” a playful French-language cinema essay in which more than 20 trans and non-binary people take on the role of Orlando, using Woolf’s words to ground their own experiences. It sounds heady and challenging on paper, but Preciado’s film is an irreverent mix of art-directed social manifesto and moving documentary in which individuals recount less their struggles for...
- 10/5/2023
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Orlando’s transformation happens without much fuss. The eponymous hero of Virgina Woolf’s novel went to sleep as a man and woke up, a week later, a woman. “No human being, since the world began, has ever looked more ravishing,” Woolf’s narrator, an anonymous biographer, observes. The subject herself seems unperturbed by the sudden gender shift. After noticing the change, she takes a bath.
The biographer approaches Orlando’s sudden transition with a similar calm. There’s little time spent musing on the mechanics. She acknowledges the event (“Orlando had become a woman — there is no denying it”) and insists the character hasn’t changed (“Her memory then, went back through all the events of her past life without encountering any obstacle”). Orlando is a woman. The process was painless. Now, on with the story.
There’s a strange power to this incurious posture. It treats Orlando’s...
The biographer approaches Orlando’s sudden transition with a similar calm. There’s little time spent musing on the mechanics. She acknowledges the event (“Orlando had become a woman — there is no denying it”) and insists the character hasn’t changed (“Her memory then, went back through all the events of her past life without encountering any obstacle”). Orlando is a woman. The process was painless. Now, on with the story.
There’s a strange power to this incurious posture. It treats Orlando’s...
- 10/4/2023
- by Lovia Gyarkye
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The early 21st century has proved to be a flashpoint for trans visibility and rights, but what’s too often lost amid our moment’s mix of jubilation and strife is that interwar Europe was another flashpoint. That was when, as Paul B. Preciado points out in Orlando, My Political Biography, trailblazing psychologist Magnus Hirschfeld began advocating for trans rights and Virginia Woolf published her gender-bending novel Orlando: A Biography. In his documentary, Preciado draws a long, winding connection between Woolf’s epoch of change and our own, because, as he asserts in his voiceover narration, “the world today is full of Orlandos.”
Drawing from Woolf but more in tune with Godard and deconstruction than high literary modernism, My Political Biography can be both heartfelt and tedious. Preciado’s interlacing of the personal, the interpersonal, and the political is intricate and evocative in ways that often belie his no-spectacle staging and no-frills camerawork.
Drawing from Woolf but more in tune with Godard and deconstruction than high literary modernism, My Political Biography can be both heartfelt and tedious. Preciado’s interlacing of the personal, the interpersonal, and the political is intricate and evocative in ways that often belie his no-spectacle staging and no-frills camerawork.
- 10/3/2023
- by Pat Brown
- Slant Magazine
Films about Grammy Award winner Jon Batiste, Andy Kaufman and designer John Galliano are part of this year’s Telluride Film Festival documentary feature lineup.
In all, 22 feature and four short documentaries are heading to the 50th edition of Tff, where buzz for docs seeking Oscar consideration frequently takes hold.
The lineup, kept under wraps until the eve of the fest’s opening on Aug. 31, includes docs from novice and veteran documentarians, including Errol Morris (“The Pigeon Tunnel”), Madeleine Gavin (“Beyond Utopia”), Matthew Heineman (“American Symphony”) and Paul B. Preciado.
After premiering “Orlando, My Political Biography” in Berlinale last February, Preciado garnered four awards, including the Teddy award for best documentary. Sideshow and Janus Films acquired North American rights to the doc in March.
In the docu, the first-time director, who is a trans writer and activist, uses Virginia Woolf’s 1928 book “Orlando,” the first novel in which the main...
In all, 22 feature and four short documentaries are heading to the 50th edition of Tff, where buzz for docs seeking Oscar consideration frequently takes hold.
The lineup, kept under wraps until the eve of the fest’s opening on Aug. 31, includes docs from novice and veteran documentarians, including Errol Morris (“The Pigeon Tunnel”), Madeleine Gavin (“Beyond Utopia”), Matthew Heineman (“American Symphony”) and Paul B. Preciado.
After premiering “Orlando, My Political Biography” in Berlinale last February, Preciado garnered four awards, including the Teddy award for best documentary. Sideshow and Janus Films acquired North American rights to the doc in March.
In the docu, the first-time director, who is a trans writer and activist, uses Virginia Woolf’s 1928 book “Orlando,” the first novel in which the main...
- 8/30/2023
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
Whether you love Netflix's take on "The Witcher" or just love to hate it, there's no denying that this season's major battle episode was pretty epic. In episode six of season 3, the coup at Aretuza quickly transformed into an all-out fight, with bodies exploding and a ring of fire raining down upon both sides -- not to mention a final confrontation that left our titular witcher in bad shape. In the midst of all the chaos, though, the show makes time for a brief, effortlessly cool moment: the death of Rience (Sam Woolf).
Rience was been positioned as a shadowy, dangerous schemer since day one. He was a fire mage with a stereotypical villain scar on his face who spent much of the series hot on Ciri's (Freya Allan) trail. But when he finally got the chance to face off against her, it was a short-lived moment that was...
Rience was been positioned as a shadowy, dangerous schemer since day one. He was a fire mage with a stereotypical villain scar on his face who spent much of the series hot on Ciri's (Freya Allan) trail. But when he finally got the chance to face off against her, it was a short-lived moment that was...
- 8/6/2023
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
’The Light’ is one of a slate of features to receive backing from German regional fund Film-und Medienstiftung Nrw.
The Light, Tom Tykwer’s first film for the cinema since his 2016 German-us comedy A Hologram For The King is one of 10 feature film projects allocated almost €6m in production support by the Düsseldorf-based regional fund Film-und Medienstiftung Nrw.
Tykwer’s original screenplay for The Light (Das Licht) centres on a troubled family who take on a Syrian immigrant as a housekeeper. When she successfully shakes up the lives of the family she then confronts them with the dark fate of her own.
The Light, Tom Tykwer’s first film for the cinema since his 2016 German-us comedy A Hologram For The King is one of 10 feature film projects allocated almost €6m in production support by the Düsseldorf-based regional fund Film-und Medienstiftung Nrw.
Tykwer’s original screenplay for The Light (Das Licht) centres on a troubled family who take on a Syrian immigrant as a housekeeper. When she successfully shakes up the lives of the family she then confronts them with the dark fate of her own.
- 6/21/2023
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Lionsgate has suspended Ian Woolf, a producer on the Starz drama Bmf, after he allegedly threatened picketing Writers Guild members with his SUV on Thursday, June 8, in Atlanta. “We take acts of intimidation and threats of violence seriously and investigate them thoroughly,” a spokesperson for Lionsgate said in a statement to TVLine. “As we continue to investigate, we have sent home the individual involved.” Brian Egeston, a writer on Tyler Perry’s House of Payne, called Woolf out on Twitter on Thursday after the alleged incident. “When you pointed your SUV at me as though it were a weapon and slammed the [brakes] within six feet of writers, I felt the hate and aggression of scenarios similar to Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, and others who have been harmed at the hands of hate-filled oppressors,” Egeston tweeted. In another tweet, Egeston wrote that Woolf said he was trying to scare the writers.
- 6/10/2023
- TV Insider
Update: The WGA has shared a statement with Variety regarding the incident. Please read below.
“Workers should not be threatened with physical harm when exercising their right to publicly protest and picket against unfair wages and working conditions. Anyone who harms or threatens to harm a member or supporter of the Writers Guild on a picket line should be held responsible for their actions. The WGA is working closely with members who were endangered during this incident to hold this individual accountable.”
“Bmf” producer Ian Woolf is under investigation amid reports that he attempted to threaten and intimidate picketing writers in Georgia, where the third season of “Bmf” is currently in production.
“We take acts of intimidation and threats of violence seriously and investigate them thoroughly. As we continue to investigate, we have sent home the individual involved,” said a Lionsgate rep in a statement to Variety.
Writer Brian Egeston...
“Workers should not be threatened with physical harm when exercising their right to publicly protest and picket against unfair wages and working conditions. Anyone who harms or threatens to harm a member or supporter of the Writers Guild on a picket line should be held responsible for their actions. The WGA is working closely with members who were endangered during this incident to hold this individual accountable.”
“Bmf” producer Ian Woolf is under investigation amid reports that he attempted to threaten and intimidate picketing writers in Georgia, where the third season of “Bmf” is currently in production.
“We take acts of intimidation and threats of violence seriously and investigate them thoroughly. As we continue to investigate, we have sent home the individual involved,” said a Lionsgate rep in a statement to Variety.
Writer Brian Egeston...
- 6/9/2023
- by BreAnna Bell
- Variety Film + TV
Starz and Lionsgate have suspended producer Ian Woolf from the drama series “Bmf” following an alleged altercation with two striking Writers Guild of America writers in Atlanta on Thursday.
According to a series of tweets posted by WGA member Brian Egeston and strike captain Gabriel Alejandro Garza, the pair were on a public sidewalk, not impeding traffic, when Woolf pointed an SUV he was driving toward Egeston “as though it were a weapon and slammed the breaks within six feet of writers.”
Garza said that Woolf looked directly at him as he “hit the accelerator one more time, followed by the brakes, and skid even closer to us.” According to the pair, Woolf said that he was trying to scare them. Garza noted that they have a recording of Woolf’s explanation.
“I would implore you, in hindsight, to consider the ramifications of killing an African-American man in the streets...
According to a series of tweets posted by WGA member Brian Egeston and strike captain Gabriel Alejandro Garza, the pair were on a public sidewalk, not impeding traffic, when Woolf pointed an SUV he was driving toward Egeston “as though it were a weapon and slammed the breaks within six feet of writers.”
Garza said that Woolf looked directly at him as he “hit the accelerator one more time, followed by the brakes, and skid even closer to us.” According to the pair, Woolf said that he was trying to scare them. Garza noted that they have a recording of Woolf’s explanation.
“I would implore you, in hindsight, to consider the ramifications of killing an African-American man in the streets...
- 6/9/2023
- by Lucas Manfredi
- The Wrap
Ian Woolf, a producer on Bmf, has been suspended by production studio Lionsgate after an altercation with Writers Guild members who were picketing outside the Starz drama’s production facility on Thursday afternoon in Atlanta.
“We take acts of intimidation and threats of violence seriously and investigate them thoroughly,” a Lionsgate spokesperson said in a statement to TVLine. ” As we continue to investigate, we have sent home the individual involved.”
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“We take acts of intimidation and threats of violence seriously and investigate them thoroughly,” a Lionsgate spokesperson said in a statement to TVLine. ” As we continue to investigate, we have sent home the individual involved.”
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- 6/9/2023
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
A day of picketing the set of the Starz/Lionsgate series Bmf in Atlanta turned dangerous for WGA writers Brian Egeston and Gabriel Alejandro Garza. In a series of tweets Thursday afternoon, accompanied by photos, Egeston claimed that Bmf line producer Ian Woolf, driving an SUV, pointed the vehicle at him “as though it were a weapon and slammed the brakes within six feet of writers.”
Egeston’s account was corroborated by Garza, a strike captain, who said that he was standing next to Egeston when the alleged incident happened and described it in a lengthy statement on Twitter Thursday evening. Garza claimed that he and Egeston were on a public sidewalk, not impeding traffic, when Woolf allegedly hit the accelerator and then by the brake as “he was looking directly at us the entire time and kept the vehicle pointed at us.”
Both Egeston, who has written on House of Payne,...
Egeston’s account was corroborated by Garza, a strike captain, who said that he was standing next to Egeston when the alleged incident happened and described it in a lengthy statement on Twitter Thursday evening. Garza claimed that he and Egeston were on a public sidewalk, not impeding traffic, when Woolf allegedly hit the accelerator and then by the brake as “he was looking directly at us the entire time and kept the vehicle pointed at us.”
Both Egeston, who has written on House of Payne,...
- 6/9/2023
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
A producer on the Starz/Lionsgate drama Bmf has been suspended from the 50 Cent-produced series after clashing with striking writers outside the show’s Atlanta set.
“We take acts of intimidation and threats of violence seriously and investigate them thoroughly. As we continue to investigate, we have sent home the individual involved,” a Lionsgate rep said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter.
The alleged incident occurred Thursday afternoon in Georgia, where Bmf (as in Black Mafia Family) was in production on the third season of the series based on the lives of two brothers who founded an influential crime organization in 1980s Detroit. Writer Brian Egeston, who documented the alleged incident on Twitter, claims Bmf’s Ian Woolf sped toward him and other writers in his SUV and stopped short in what he dubbed as an “intimidation” tactic.
“As I marched with the WGA in a peaceful protest, similar...
“We take acts of intimidation and threats of violence seriously and investigate them thoroughly. As we continue to investigate, we have sent home the individual involved,” a Lionsgate rep said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter.
The alleged incident occurred Thursday afternoon in Georgia, where Bmf (as in Black Mafia Family) was in production on the third season of the series based on the lives of two brothers who founded an influential crime organization in 1980s Detroit. Writer Brian Egeston, who documented the alleged incident on Twitter, claims Bmf’s Ian Woolf sped toward him and other writers in his SUV and stopped short in what he dubbed as an “intimidation” tactic.
“As I marched with the WGA in a peaceful protest, similar...
- 6/9/2023
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It’s official: Indira Varma has entered the Whoniverse – or rather, re-entered. Varma is the latest cast member announced for Doctor Who series 14, playing the mysterious ‘Duchess’ – quite the villain by the sounds of it, as Russell T Davies promises “a whole new audience will be hiding behind the settee when the Duchess unleashes her terror.”
But while these days Varma is best-known for her roles in Game of Thrones, Obi Wan and Obsession, not only has she already worked with Davies on Torchwood, she’s starred alongside a whole host of Doctor Who’s most notable alumni:
She Was Torchwood’s First Villain Back in 2006
Varma’s got form when it comes to playing lovable baddies in the Whoniverse – like Peter Capaldi, she appeared on Torchwood before her Doctor Who debut. Her character Suzie Costello was a key part of the Torchwood team, but her fear of death led...
But while these days Varma is best-known for her roles in Game of Thrones, Obi Wan and Obsession, not only has she already worked with Davies on Torchwood, she’s starred alongside a whole host of Doctor Who’s most notable alumni:
She Was Torchwood’s First Villain Back in 2006
Varma’s got form when it comes to playing lovable baddies in the Whoniverse – like Peter Capaldi, she appeared on Torchwood before her Doctor Who debut. Her character Suzie Costello was a key part of the Torchwood team, but her fear of death led...
- 5/25/2023
- by Lauravickersgreen
- Den of Geek
As striking writers continue to walk picket lines in Los Angeles and New York, buyers and sellers are marching the Croisette, making their way to the Cannes film market. Whether or not they pack their bags with films in hand is still unclear.
Heading into the festival, dealmakers were largely confident, or at least vocally so, that the WGA strike would not have a major impact on the film market. Scripts for splashy packages had been rushed to get in prior to the May 1 strike deadline and the projects with A-list talent like Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh seemed to have numbered more than many markets in recent memory.
Now, on the ground, a slightly more complicated picture is emerging
Top of mind is the potential for a multi-union strike. Less than a week before the opening of the Cannes market, the DGA entered contract negotiations with negotiations committee co-chair...
Heading into the festival, dealmakers were largely confident, or at least vocally so, that the WGA strike would not have a major impact on the film market. Scripts for splashy packages had been rushed to get in prior to the May 1 strike deadline and the projects with A-list talent like Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh seemed to have numbered more than many markets in recent memory.
Now, on the ground, a slightly more complicated picture is emerging
Top of mind is the potential for a multi-union strike. Less than a week before the opening of the Cannes market, the DGA entered contract negotiations with negotiations committee co-chair...
- 5/19/2023
- by Mia Galuppo and Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Haley Bennett (Cyrano, Swallow, The Girl On The Train) is set to lead Night and Day, Justine Waddell’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel, to be directed by BAFTA nominee Tina Gharavi (I Am Nasrine, Cleopatra: African Queens). WestEnd Films has boarded the the German-Irish-u.K. co-production and is introducing the project to buyers in Cannes.
Set in an era when glass ceilings were made of concrete, Bennett will play Katharine Hilbery — one woman who insisted on reaching for the stars. Based on what has been called Woolf’s funniest novel, Night and Day is described as an “unromantic comedy” about a passionate astronomer who does everything she can to avoid romantic love and marriage. Contemporary in tone, the story of Katharine’s bold challenge to the Edwardian patriarchy is set against the backdrop of the suffragette movement and advances in science and technology, at the turn of the 20th century.
Set in an era when glass ceilings were made of concrete, Bennett will play Katharine Hilbery — one woman who insisted on reaching for the stars. Based on what has been called Woolf’s funniest novel, Night and Day is described as an “unromantic comedy” about a passionate astronomer who does everything she can to avoid romantic love and marriage. Contemporary in tone, the story of Katharine’s bold challenge to the Edwardian patriarchy is set against the backdrop of the suffragette movement and advances in science and technology, at the turn of the 20th century.
- 5/17/2023
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Though there was no explicit theme across its broad variety of films, much of the international competition at the 2023 Jeonju International Film Festival seemed to address a particular type of alienation in contemporary society. A real standout was Chinese filmmaker Wu Lang’s debut feature, Absence, which premiered earlier this year at Berlinale. Starring frequent Tsai Ming-Liang collaborator Lee Kang-sheng as Han Jiangyu, a man attempting to build a new life with his estranged partner (Li Meng) and the child (Liang Wangling) who only recently learned of his existence following a 10-year prison stint, it owes a clear debt to Tsai’s work, with elements of Jia Zhang-ke also noticeable in its DNA.
As the film’s central story proceeds, seemingly dissolving into obscure fragments following a relatively linear, economical opening stretch, Wu’s richly textured imagery turns the decaying urban environment of modern-day China into a lyrical evocation of...
As the film’s central story proceeds, seemingly dissolving into obscure fragments following a relatively linear, economical opening stretch, Wu’s richly textured imagery turns the decaying urban environment of modern-day China into a lyrical evocation of...
- 5/4/2023
- by David Robb
- Slant Magazine
A century from publication, Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography is still in vogue. Just before the pandemic, Tilda Swinton––who played Orlando in Sally Potter’s landmark film 30 years ago––curated a photography exhibition for Aperture inspired by the novel. Early last year, Megan Fernandes had Woolf’s text in mind when she wrote her eulogy for Roe vs Wade. More recently, theater director Neil Bartlett took a new adaptation to the West End, casting non-binary performer Emma Corrin in the title role. For a while, Potter’s adaptation seemed like the last word on Orlando, but Woolf’s story only grows more relevant (and more malleable) as each generation claims it for themselves.
In her review of Bartlett’s play, the theater critic Helen Shaw wrote that the novel “slots into the current gender discourse with a nearly audible click.” Enter Paul B. Preciado, the celebrated French author...
In her review of Bartlett’s play, the theater critic Helen Shaw wrote that the novel “slots into the current gender discourse with a nearly audible click.” Enter Paul B. Preciado, the celebrated French author...
- 3/23/2023
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
And yet another Fire and Fury revelation: Donald Trump thinks he’s really funny, was really proud of his 2015 appearance on NBC’s Saturday Night Live and was really stoked to appear at last year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
Cooler – or perhaps just terrified – heads in the White House prevailed, and the president, as depicted by Wolff, reluctantly agreed to skip the event for rival gigs with more sympathetic audiences.
In an exclusive excerpt of Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, published today in British GQ, the author provides a behind-the-scenes look at the Executive decision to skip last April’s Beltway nerd prom for visits and a rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
“He wanted to do it,” writes Woolf. “He was certain that the power of his charm was greater than the rancour that he bore this audience – or that they bore him.” Trump’s 2015 SNL appearance had been,...
Cooler – or perhaps just terrified – heads in the White House prevailed, and the president, as depicted by Wolff, reluctantly agreed to skip the event for rival gigs with more sympathetic audiences.
In an exclusive excerpt of Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, published today in British GQ, the author provides a behind-the-scenes look at the Executive decision to skip last April’s Beltway nerd prom for visits and a rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
“He wanted to do it,” writes Woolf. “He was certain that the power of his charm was greater than the rancour that he bore this audience – or that they bore him.” Trump’s 2015 SNL appearance had been,...
- 1/4/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
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