Exclusive: Three and a half decades into his career as a playwright and film and TV writer, Jon Robin Baitz has never been busier, coming off one series, with three others in production or preproduction. Baitz has now signed a big multi-year deal with 20th Television, the studio behind the four series, which all hail from Ryan Murphy Productions. Noone is commenting but I hear the pact — said to be in the premium top range for writing talent — spans five years.
Under the deal, Baitz will develop, write and executive produce original series with 20th Television, a part of Disney Television Studios, for Disney Entertainment Television, as well as collaborate with Murphy on more projects.
The overall agreement comes on the heels of FX/20th Television/Ryan Murphy Prods.’ limited series Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans, on which Baitz served as an executive producer/showrunner and wrote every episode.
His...
Under the deal, Baitz will develop, write and executive produce original series with 20th Television, a part of Disney Television Studios, for Disney Entertainment Television, as well as collaborate with Murphy on more projects.
The overall agreement comes on the heels of FX/20th Television/Ryan Murphy Prods.’ limited series Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans, on which Baitz served as an executive producer/showrunner and wrote every episode.
His...
- 5/13/2024
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
New York City Opera’s Bryant Park summer series continues with Tenor Alessandro Lora in Concert on Saturday, August 19th at 7pm. An exciting young talent, tenor Alessandro Lora of Vicenza, Italy will perform a crowd-pleasing concert of diverse Italian repertoire including folk, popular, and traditional Neapolitan songs alongside operatic favorites, sure to delight the whole family. Featuring the New York City Opera Orchestra, the concert will be led by two great conductors, Maestro Maurizio Barbacini and Maestro Diego Basso, founder of the Orchestra Musico Sinfonica Italiana and the prestigious Art of Voice Academy. Produced in cooperation with Sandro di Benedetto, Bruno Benetti, and OneArt, the evening promises to be an unforgettable night of classic Italian romance and passion, sure to bring the audience to their feet.
Entry is on a first-come, first-served basis. Performances are designed to be enjoyed casually – no tickets required – with ample seating available and free...
Entry is on a first-come, first-served basis. Performances are designed to be enjoyed casually – no tickets required – with ample seating available and free...
- 7/29/2023
- by Music Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Music
Many of the most important queer films in cinema history share a birthplace: the Sundance Film Festival. Organized by the Sundance Institute, the legendary annual fest in Park City, Utah, has boasted international and U.S. premiere titles as varied as the groundbreaking New York ballroom documentary Paris Is Burning in 1991, Donna Deitch’s 1985 lesbian road drama Desert Hearts or even recent masterworks like Luca Guadagnino’s 2017 adaptation of Call Me by Your Name.
The Hollywood Reporter spoke with Kim Yutani, director of programming at Sundance, about some of the most important Lgbtqia+ films to debut there.
“Seeing the films that Sundance has programmed over the years, especially around the early 1990s with the New Queer Wave, that was what attracted me to Sundance,” says Yutani, who’s been working with the festival for 17 years, and has also worked in various positions within the film industry, like as Gregg Araki...
The Hollywood Reporter spoke with Kim Yutani, director of programming at Sundance, about some of the most important Lgbtqia+ films to debut there.
“Seeing the films that Sundance has programmed over the years, especially around the early 1990s with the New Queer Wave, that was what attracted me to Sundance,” says Yutani, who’s been working with the festival for 17 years, and has also worked in various positions within the film industry, like as Gregg Araki...
- 6/26/2023
- by Hilton Dresden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
New York City Opera proudly announces the winners of the 2023 Duncan Williams Voice Competition. Hosted by J’Nai Bridges, the competition spotlights Black and Latinx singers and awards over $50,000 in prize money. On February 3, 2023 at Manhattan School of Music, 11 winners were announced in 4 categories: The Emerging Artists category, awarding $8,000 to Cierra Byrd, Daniel Rich, and César Andrés Parreño; the Developing Artists category, awarding $5,000 to Elizabeth Hanje, Benjamin Ruiz, and Jazmine Saunders; the Encouragement Award, awarding $3,500 to Joseph Parrish; and the Black and Latinx Song Presentation category, awarding $750 to Daniel Espinal, Kresley Figueroa, Lwazi Hlati, and Ardeen Pierre.
The Duncan Williams Voice Competition is named for baritone Todd Duncan and soprano Camilla Williams, the first African American singers to sing with a major United States opera company when they made their debuts with New York City Opera in 1945 and 1946, respectively. The Duncan Williams Voice Competition aims to address systemic barriers faced by...
The Duncan Williams Voice Competition is named for baritone Todd Duncan and soprano Camilla Williams, the first African American singers to sing with a major United States opera company when they made their debuts with New York City Opera in 1945 and 1946, respectively. The Duncan Williams Voice Competition aims to address systemic barriers faced by...
- 2/28/2023
- by Music Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Music
German director Roland Emmerich made "The Noah's Ark Principle" in Germany in 1984 -- a student film with a budget of over a million Deutschmarks -- and never looked back. He quickly helmed two English-language family films, followed by a move into the worlds of action and science fiction in the 1990s. The peak Emmerich movie is probably still "Independence Day," although his other action and disaster movies -- "The Day After Tomorrow," "2012," "White House Down," and "Moonfall" -- are the connoisseur's choices.
Emmerich (both wisely and unwisely) stretches himself into other genres -- such as the war movies "The Patriot" and "Midway," and the historical dramas "Anonymous" and "Stonewall." It's good to see him pushing himself, taking risks, and experimenting, even if the end results are mixed, to say the least. But he excels at big-budget action movies, and if he's given actors blessed with the necessary star quality to build his beautiful disasters around,...
Emmerich (both wisely and unwisely) stretches himself into other genres -- such as the war movies "The Patriot" and "Midway," and the historical dramas "Anonymous" and "Stonewall." It's good to see him pushing himself, taking risks, and experimenting, even if the end results are mixed, to say the least. But he excels at big-budget action movies, and if he's given actors blessed with the necessary star quality to build his beautiful disasters around,...
- 2/26/2023
- by Fiona Underhill
- Slash Film
At last measure, Roland Emmerich's "Moonfall" was the 26th biggest box office bomb of all time. Working on an estimated budget of about 140 million, "Moonfall" has only made about 44 million worldwide. Factor in the film's advertising and distribution budget, and it stands to have lost about 139 million.
Some may be old enough to remember a time when a box office bomb of this size would be the biggest news in Hollywood. Notorious bombs like Michael Cimino's "Heaven's Gate" (1980), Willard Huyck's "Howard the Duck" (1986), or Elaine May's "Ishtar" (1987) retain their notoriety to this day, stained forever by their box office failure. A film like "Moonfall," meanwhile, is merely another major bomb in a long series of them. One might even have to fight to remember that it came out earlier this year. For perspective, "Moonfall," when adjusted for inflation, lost about 3 million more than "Heaven's Gate." Mere months later,...
Some may be old enough to remember a time when a box office bomb of this size would be the biggest news in Hollywood. Notorious bombs like Michael Cimino's "Heaven's Gate" (1980), Willard Huyck's "Howard the Duck" (1986), or Elaine May's "Ishtar" (1987) retain their notoriety to this day, stained forever by their box office failure. A film like "Moonfall," meanwhile, is merely another major bomb in a long series of them. One might even have to fight to remember that it came out earlier this year. For perspective, "Moonfall," when adjusted for inflation, lost about 3 million more than "Heaven's Gate." Mere months later,...
- 8/16/2022
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Oscar winner Melissa Leo and Antonio Banderas have signed onto the Yale Entertainment action-crime thriller Clean Up Crew from director Jon Keeyes.
The Ireland-based production recently wrapped, and Yale’s recently-launched sales banner Great Escape, led by Nick Donnermeyer, will handle foreign rights and introduce the title at next month’s Toronto Film Festival.
Pic follows a crime scene clean-up crew, which includes Rhys Meyers and Leo’s characters, who discover a briefcase full of cash, unknowingly sending them into battle with mobsters – led by a ruthless crime boss, played by Banderas, as well as hitmen, and corrupt government agents who are hellbound to get the dough back. Clean Up Crew was written by Matthew Rogers. Yale’s Jordan Yale Levine, Jordan Beckerman and Michael Rothstein will produce alongside Richard Bolger and Conor Barry from Hail Mary Pictures, and Richard Clabaugh, Stephen Braun and Kurt Ebner.
“We...
The Ireland-based production recently wrapped, and Yale’s recently-launched sales banner Great Escape, led by Nick Donnermeyer, will handle foreign rights and introduce the title at next month’s Toronto Film Festival.
Pic follows a crime scene clean-up crew, which includes Rhys Meyers and Leo’s characters, who discover a briefcase full of cash, unknowingly sending them into battle with mobsters – led by a ruthless crime boss, played by Banderas, as well as hitmen, and corrupt government agents who are hellbound to get the dough back. Clean Up Crew was written by Matthew Rogers. Yale’s Jordan Yale Levine, Jordan Beckerman and Michael Rothstein will produce alongside Richard Bolger and Conor Barry from Hail Mary Pictures, and Richard Clabaugh, Stephen Braun and Kurt Ebner.
“We...
- 8/8/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Bruce MacVittie, a prolific New York stage actor who made his Broadway debut opposite Al Pacino in a 1983 production of David Mamet’s American Buffalo and became familiar to television viewers through roles on The Sopranos, Law & Order and As The World Turns, died May 7 at a hospital in New York City. He was 65.
His death was announced by his wife, Carol Ochs, to The New York Times. A cause has not been determined.
MacVittie, a co-founder of the celebrated Off Broadway company Naked Angels, made his Broadway debut in 1983 under trying circumstances: He replaced actor James Hayden in the role of Bobby less than a month into the play’s run, when the up-and-coming Hayden died of a drug overdose. MacVittie would continue in the role on Broadway, in a touring production and on London’s West End.
Acclaimed for his performance in the play (a role Darren Criss...
His death was announced by his wife, Carol Ochs, to The New York Times. A cause has not been determined.
MacVittie, a co-founder of the celebrated Off Broadway company Naked Angels, made his Broadway debut in 1983 under trying circumstances: He replaced actor James Hayden in the role of Bobby less than a month into the play’s run, when the up-and-coming Hayden died of a drug overdose. MacVittie would continue in the role on Broadway, in a touring production and on London’s West End.
Acclaimed for his performance in the play (a role Darren Criss...
- 5/12/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Jonathan Rhys Meyers and MyAnna Buring have signed on to star alongside Alec Baldwin in the hijacked airplane action-thriller 97 Minutes, from director Timo Vuorensola (Iron Sky), which has entered production at Black Hangar Studios in the UK.
97 Minutes centers on a hijacked 767 that will crash in that amount of time when its fuel runs out. Against the strong will of Nsa Deputy Toyin, Nsa Director Hawkins (Baldwin) prepares to have the plane shot down before it does any catastrophic damage on the ground, leaving the fate of the innocent passengers in the hands of Tyler, one of the alleged hijackers on board who is an undercover Interpol agent – or is he?
Meyers and Buring are playing passengers on the transatlantic flight, with Jo Martin (Doctor Who), Michael Sirow (Infamous), Pavan Grover,...
97 Minutes centers on a hijacked 767 that will crash in that amount of time when its fuel runs out. Against the strong will of Nsa Deputy Toyin, Nsa Director Hawkins (Baldwin) prepares to have the plane shot down before it does any catastrophic damage on the ground, leaving the fate of the innocent passengers in the hands of Tyler, one of the alleged hijackers on board who is an undercover Interpol agent – or is he?
Meyers and Buring are playing passengers on the transatlantic flight, with Jo Martin (Doctor Who), Michael Sirow (Infamous), Pavan Grover,...
- 2/16/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s summer, everyone! And with its relatively sparse list of new releases for July 2021, Hulu seems to be subtlety imploring its subscribers to go outside.
Don’t get us wrong: Hulu’s library offerings get a big upgrade this month. July 1 sees the arrival of great films like Galaxy Quest, Fargo, and Caddyshack. Bill and Ted Face the Music premieres on July 2 and its followed by Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar on July 9. Not bad stuff! It’s just that, outside of the library titles, there isn’t much to go off of.
Hulu’s only major original release this month is the FX on Hulu production American Horror Stories on July 15. As its name implies, the show is a spinoff of American Horror Story and will feature self-contained horror episodes rather than a season-long arc. If you’ll allow this geriatric millennial to deploy one truly ancient meme: “Yo dawg,...
Don’t get us wrong: Hulu’s library offerings get a big upgrade this month. July 1 sees the arrival of great films like Galaxy Quest, Fargo, and Caddyshack. Bill and Ted Face the Music premieres on July 2 and its followed by Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar on July 9. Not bad stuff! It’s just that, outside of the library titles, there isn’t much to go off of.
Hulu’s only major original release this month is the FX on Hulu production American Horror Stories on July 15. As its name implies, the show is a spinoff of American Horror Story and will feature self-contained horror episodes rather than a season-long arc. If you’ll allow this geriatric millennial to deploy one truly ancient meme: “Yo dawg,...
- 7/1/2021
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
HBO Max’s upcoming “Green Lantern” series is eyeing actor Jeremy Irvine for the role of Alan Scott.
Irvine would join Finn Wittrock in the series, who has been cast in the lead role of Guy Gardner. HBO Max declined to comment.
Scott was Earth’s first Green Lantern, who, true to the comics, is a gay man. He was created by Martin Nodell and made his comic book debut in 1940. A train engineer by trade, Scott derived his powers from a mystical green lantern crafted from a mysterious meteorite. He later joined the Justice Society of America, and in universe-hopping adventures would sometimes team with members of the Green Lantern Corps, including Hal Jordan.
Based on the DC Comics property, the show was first announced in 2019 and was ordered to series last year. The story spans decades and galaxies, beginning on Earth in 1941 with Scott, and then heading to...
Irvine would join Finn Wittrock in the series, who has been cast in the lead role of Guy Gardner. HBO Max declined to comment.
Scott was Earth’s first Green Lantern, who, true to the comics, is a gay man. He was created by Martin Nodell and made his comic book debut in 1940. A train engineer by trade, Scott derived his powers from a mystical green lantern crafted from a mysterious meteorite. He later joined the Justice Society of America, and in universe-hopping adventures would sometimes team with members of the Green Lantern Corps, including Hal Jordan.
Based on the DC Comics property, the show was first announced in 2019 and was ordered to series last year. The story spans decades and galaxies, beginning on Earth in 1941 with Scott, and then heading to...
- 5/19/2021
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Discovering Sy Rogers was a big deal for me. As a gay kid in Pensacola, Fl, I learned early on that my “same-sex attraction”––as it’s often called in conservative Christian churches––was not acceptable in my community. Rogers previously identified as trans and led international ministries based on the idea that if God can change Rogers from being transgender, he can also change one’s homosexuality. This assumes it’s wrong to be gay and that being transgender is even worse. But I didn’t want to be gay, so I walked in Rogers’ footsteps. For the first half of the 2010s, I believed ex-gay theology and it took the second half of the decade in therapy to unravel it. Telling my story is not easy, but the truth is more powerful than pretending my past never happened.
While watching Sam Feder’s new documentary Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen,...
While watching Sam Feder’s new documentary Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen,...
- 6/29/2020
- by Joshua Encinias
- The Film Stage
Chicago – The 2020 Pride Weekend, which occurs every year around the June 28th anniversary date of the Stonewall Inn uprising, will be remembered not for the LGBTQ+ themed parades or observances, but the cancellation of those events due to Covid-19. But the celebration continues, as the film series “Reel Pride” reviews the documentary “After Stonewall.”
“Reel Pride” is co-hosted by Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com and arts reviewer Jeffrey Leibham of AroundtheTownChicago.com. The YouTube series reviews Lbgtq+ films through cinema history, to increase awareness of the passion for these cinematic stories within feature films and documentaries. For additional reviews, click the title links of ”Stonewall” (1995), ”Stonewall” (2015) and ”Parting Glances” / “Cruising”.
’After Stonewall,’ Directed by John Scagliotti
Photo credit: First Run Features
“After Stonewall” was a documentary from 1999, narrated by Melissa Etheridge, that tracked LGBTQ+ history from the Stonewall Inn uprising in 1969 through 1999, a timeline of progress and setbacks endured in...
“Reel Pride” is co-hosted by Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com and arts reviewer Jeffrey Leibham of AroundtheTownChicago.com. The YouTube series reviews Lbgtq+ films through cinema history, to increase awareness of the passion for these cinematic stories within feature films and documentaries. For additional reviews, click the title links of ”Stonewall” (1995), ”Stonewall” (2015) and ”Parting Glances” / “Cruising”.
’After Stonewall,’ Directed by John Scagliotti
Photo credit: First Run Features
“After Stonewall” was a documentary from 1999, narrated by Melissa Etheridge, that tracked LGBTQ+ history from the Stonewall Inn uprising in 1969 through 1999, a timeline of progress and setbacks endured in...
- 6/27/2020
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Need to catch up? Read our previous Riverdale recap here.
Riverdale came back strong this week with another musical episode — but we’re still thinking about that surprise lip-lock, to be honest.
More from TVLineKaty Keene Stages Another Riverdale Crossover: What Brings Kevin to NYC?Riverdale's Casey Cott Previews Kevin's Big Hedwig Showcase, Picks a Side in the Archie/Betty/Jughead Love TriangleNancy Drew Star Breaks Down Season Finale's 'Tragically Beautiful' Ending
The Stonewall saga is over (finally), but those creepy VHS tapes are still showing up on everyone’s doorsteps. (Guess it wasn’t Bret after all.) Jughead...
Riverdale came back strong this week with another musical episode — but we’re still thinking about that surprise lip-lock, to be honest.
More from TVLineKaty Keene Stages Another Riverdale Crossover: What Brings Kevin to NYC?Riverdale's Casey Cott Previews Kevin's Big Hedwig Showcase, Picks a Side in the Archie/Betty/Jughead Love TriangleNancy Drew Star Breaks Down Season Finale's 'Tragically Beautiful' Ending
The Stonewall saga is over (finally), but those creepy VHS tapes are still showing up on everyone’s doorsteps. (Guess it wasn’t Bret after all.) Jughead...
- 4/16/2020
- TVLine.com
The truth has been set free! (Did any of your guesses prove right?)
Jughead and Betty confronted their long-time Stonewall Prep enemies on Riverdale Season 4 Episode 16, and their investigative tactics let them have it. This is the point in the murder-mystery where the detectives shout out "a-ha!"
Everything that came to be from the flash-forward led to this moment. It was so worth it to have Donna and her minions stew in panic.
"Chapter Seventy-Three: The Locked Room" channeled the perfect tone from a mystery novel's killer reveal.
The series of events that took place within Stonewall Prep's literary office was better than the last. Betty and Jughead topped each reveal with an even better mic drop moment that made you not want to look away from the screen. Especially, with the fear of missing a key piece of information.
All the clues and evidence collected throughout Riverdale Season 4 was...
Jughead and Betty confronted their long-time Stonewall Prep enemies on Riverdale Season 4 Episode 16, and their investigative tactics let them have it. This is the point in the murder-mystery where the detectives shout out "a-ha!"
Everything that came to be from the flash-forward led to this moment. It was so worth it to have Donna and her minions stew in panic.
"Chapter Seventy-Three: The Locked Room" channeled the perfect tone from a mystery novel's killer reveal.
The series of events that took place within Stonewall Prep's literary office was better than the last. Betty and Jughead topped each reveal with an even better mic drop moment that made you not want to look away from the screen. Especially, with the fear of missing a key piece of information.
All the clues and evidence collected throughout Riverdale Season 4 was...
- 3/12/2020
- by Justin Carreiro
- TVfanatic
This Riverdale review contains spoilers.
Riverdale Season 4 Episode 16
“The million dollar question is who was going to kill Jughead, and how?”
Traditionally, Riverdale is not a show that is great at sticking the landing. Whether talking about the lazy wrap-up of Farm saga or the narrative thud that concluded the once-thrilling Gargoyle King plotline, the series has a real problem with endings. So how did they pull off the Stonewall Prep storyline so flawlessly?
That’s a question that I’m currently wrestling with, because that’s exactly what this episode did.
Continuing the show’s always welcome capacity for meta-awareness, “dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s” is invoked a few times in this episode. Then we see the storytelling on display do just that. The episode opens with Jughead and Betty essentially holding the Stonies hostage then walking them through the myriad ways they faked the former’s death.
Riverdale Season 4 Episode 16
“The million dollar question is who was going to kill Jughead, and how?”
Traditionally, Riverdale is not a show that is great at sticking the landing. Whether talking about the lazy wrap-up of Farm saga or the narrative thud that concluded the once-thrilling Gargoyle King plotline, the series has a real problem with endings. So how did they pull off the Stonewall Prep storyline so flawlessly?
That’s a question that I’m currently wrestling with, because that’s exactly what this episode did.
Continuing the show’s always welcome capacity for meta-awareness, “dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s” is invoked a few times in this episode. Then we see the storytelling on display do just that. The episode opens with Jughead and Betty essentially holding the Stonies hostage then walking them through the myriad ways they faked the former’s death.
- 3/12/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Need to catch up? Read our previous Riverdale recap here.
Riverdale‘s resident crime-solving duo Betty and Jughead cracked the case of his attempted murder this week — and one key character didn’t survive the fallout.
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Jughead is stuck alone in the bunker, living off of microwave dinners and watching a live stream of his own funeral, hard...
Riverdale‘s resident crime-solving duo Betty and Jughead cracked the case of his attempted murder this week — and one key character didn’t survive the fallout.
More from TVLineRiverdale Shuts Down Production on Season 4 After 'Team Member' Comes in Contact With Coronavirus PatientKaty Keene First Look: Josie's Mom Brings Some Riverdale Drama to NYCFall TV Upfronts: CW, Fox and ABC Join CBS and NBC in Scrapping Live Events
Jughead is stuck alone in the bunker, living off of microwave dinners and watching a live stream of his own funeral, hard...
- 3/12/2020
- TVLine.com
Riverdale gets back on track thanks to a pleasing, if goofy, episode.
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Riverdale Season 4 Episode 12
"If you go on the run now, you'll never stop running."
After last week's infuriating episode (my least favorite of the series to date), I had much trepidation going in to this new episode of Riverdale. Fortunately, my concerns didn't last too long.
Thanks to a sharp script by first-time series Writer/Co-Executive Producer Ariana Jackson that thrusts the various storylines forward while having to pause to introduce the Katy Keene character before her solo show debuts tomorrow, this was the most eventful episode Riverdale has had, well, in ages.
Let's break down the various developments, shall we?
With Mary off working on a case in Chicago, Uncle Frank is still staying at the Andrews' house and working for the family construction business. With this being the inconsistent series that it is,...
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This Riverdale review contains spoilers.
Riverdale Season 4 Episode 12
"If you go on the run now, you'll never stop running."
After last week's infuriating episode (my least favorite of the series to date), I had much trepidation going in to this new episode of Riverdale. Fortunately, my concerns didn't last too long.
Thanks to a sharp script by first-time series Writer/Co-Executive Producer Ariana Jackson that thrusts the various storylines forward while having to pause to introduce the Katy Keene character before her solo show debuts tomorrow, this was the most eventful episode Riverdale has had, well, in ages.
Let's break down the various developments, shall we?
With Mary off working on a case in Chicago, Uncle Frank is still staying at the Andrews' house and working for the family construction business. With this being the inconsistent series that it is,...
- 2/5/2020
- Den of Geek
The first Riverdale of 2020 pits our heroes against enemies old and new.
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Riverdale Season 4 Episode 10
"They don't play to win, they play to hurt"
And that's been Stonewall Prep's game since their introduction on Riverdale. First they judged and abused Jughead because he wasn't born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Then they tormened him by burying him alive. Plus, the instructors there, especially Mr. Dupont, toy with Jug's emotions by flip-flopping their behavior towards him. It's a pretty toxic learning environment, one that makes South Side High look like the school from Fame.
But as we learn in this latest episode, Stonewall Prep's entire M.O. is to try to destroy and break anyone who isn't their own -- be it on the football field or in real life. Is there any doubt that Brett was the ringleader of the attack on Monroe?...
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Riverdale Season 4 Episode 10
"They don't play to win, they play to hurt"
And that's been Stonewall Prep's game since their introduction on Riverdale. First they judged and abused Jughead because he wasn't born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Then they tormened him by burying him alive. Plus, the instructors there, especially Mr. Dupont, toy with Jug's emotions by flip-flopping their behavior towards him. It's a pretty toxic learning environment, one that makes South Side High look like the school from Fame.
But as we learn in this latest episode, Stonewall Prep's entire M.O. is to try to destroy and break anyone who isn't their own -- be it on the football field or in real life. Is there any doubt that Brett was the ringleader of the attack on Monroe?...
- 1/23/2020
- Den of Geek
The results of the 9th Annual Streamy Awards are in, presented tonight live at the Beverly Hilton and streamed worldwide by YouTube. The Streamys honor the best in online entertainment and the creators behind it. The annual event brings together the biggest names in online entertainment for a night of celebration, discovery, and recognition. This year’s show included appearances by Emma Chamberlain, David Dobrik, Paris Hilton, Derek Hough, Casey Neistat, and Hannah Stocking, among others. The Streamys, which went host-less for the first time, featured the show’s inaugural collaborators. Emma Chamberlain coached this year’s Breakout Creator nominees on how to give a good acceptance speech. Diy creators Mr. Kate got distracted while presenting the Lifestyle award and re-designed Joey Graceffa’s table. Rosanna Pansino was joined by her friend iJustine for some live cookie decorating prior to presenting the Health and Wellness award.
Engineer Mark Rober unleashed...
Engineer Mark Rober unleashed...
- 12/14/2019
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
A great bad movie makes you ask, “What did I just see? And when can I see it again?” as opposed to a run-of-the-mill stinker, the kind you wish you’d never watched and will immediately forget that you did. The great bad movies inspire think-pieces, podcasts, watching parties and feverish cult adoration. The regular ones merely wallow in mediocrity. Here’s my alphabetical list of the greatest bad movies the 2010s had to offer:
“Collateral Beauty” (2016)
Will Smith is sad, and his best friends gaslight him by hiring actors to pretend to be Love, Time and Death, but we’re supposed to find their efforts — noble? Charming? None of this makes a lick of sense, but it’s all delivered with hilarious gravitas by the likes of Kate Winslet and Helen Mirren. Make sure to stick around for the shameless third-act twist, and a labored explanation of the title.
“Collateral Beauty” (2016)
Will Smith is sad, and his best friends gaslight him by hiring actors to pretend to be Love, Time and Death, but we’re supposed to find their efforts — noble? Charming? None of this makes a lick of sense, but it’s all delivered with hilarious gravitas by the likes of Kate Winslet and Helen Mirren. Make sure to stick around for the shameless third-act twist, and a labored explanation of the title.
- 12/13/2019
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
The director of Independence Day crashes and burns with his wannabe World War II epic.
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There’s a scene early in Midway, the latest misfire from director Roland Emmerich, in which we watch terrified sailors aboard the USS Arizona flee from the flames as the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. Everything in the scene--right down to the flames themselves, which seem to hover in front of the men--is so transparently fake, so obviously computer generated, that there is absolutely no sense of the horror, shock, or gravity that a recreation of one of the darkest days in U.S. history should summon up.
Even though his movies are live-action cartoons at best, Emmerich is usually on surer ground when he’s doing alien invasions (Independence Day) or the end of the world (2012). Those kind of scenarios allow for a certain amount of unreality in the vast vistas of...
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There’s a scene early in Midway, the latest misfire from director Roland Emmerich, in which we watch terrified sailors aboard the USS Arizona flee from the flames as the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. Everything in the scene--right down to the flames themselves, which seem to hover in front of the men--is so transparently fake, so obviously computer generated, that there is absolutely no sense of the horror, shock, or gravity that a recreation of one of the darkest days in U.S. history should summon up.
Even though his movies are live-action cartoons at best, Emmerich is usually on surer ground when he’s doing alien invasions (Independence Day) or the end of the world (2012). Those kind of scenarios allow for a certain amount of unreality in the vast vistas of...
- 11/6/2019
- Den of Geek
Director Roland Emmerich has, for better or worse, been identified as the “Master of Disaster” ever since he sent aliens to destroy the White House and evaporate all of mankind in 1996’s box-office force of nature “Independence Day.” Since then, he’s brought Godzilla down upon us with his 1998 version of the Japanese monster saga, torched the planet with “2012,” recreated a pivotal but violent moment of Lgbt history with “Stonewall,” and, of course, in 2004, imagined what a new global Ice Age might look like with “The Day After Tomorrow.”
While promoting his upcoming film “Midway,” which releases November 8 and recreates an iconic WWII naval battle, Emmerich spoke with Variety’s Matt Donnelly about the mountain of resistance he climbed in getting “The Day After Tomorrow” out the door. With its bleak, but cautionary message of impending environmental collapse, the film depicts a superstorm that takes hold of the planet, plunging New York City beneath ice,...
While promoting his upcoming film “Midway,” which releases November 8 and recreates an iconic WWII naval battle, Emmerich spoke with Variety’s Matt Donnelly about the mountain of resistance he climbed in getting “The Day After Tomorrow” out the door. With its bleak, but cautionary message of impending environmental collapse, the film depicts a superstorm that takes hold of the planet, plunging New York City beneath ice,...
- 10/31/2019
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
HBO Max has commissioned a four-part docuseries on the history of the Lgbtq+ movement.
Titled “Equal,” the series will explore the true stories of leaders and activists of the movement. Each hour-long episode will feature interviews, reenactments, and never before seen footage. The series hails from Warner Horizon Unscripted Television.
“We are extremely proud to partner with these groundbreaking producers on a subject this important, at a time this critical,” said Mike Darnell, president of unscripted and alternative television at Warner Bros. “What a perfect project to launch Warner Horizon Unscripted Television’s new documentary series unit.”
Among those who will be profiled in the series are: Harry Hay, a gay rights activist and the founder of the modern gay movement; The Daughters of Bilitis, a lesbian civil and political rights organization; Christine Jorgensen, a transgender woman who flew to Europe in 1951 to undergo sex reassignment surgery and publicly transitioned...
Titled “Equal,” the series will explore the true stories of leaders and activists of the movement. Each hour-long episode will feature interviews, reenactments, and never before seen footage. The series hails from Warner Horizon Unscripted Television.
“We are extremely proud to partner with these groundbreaking producers on a subject this important, at a time this critical,” said Mike Darnell, president of unscripted and alternative television at Warner Bros. “What a perfect project to launch Warner Horizon Unscripted Television’s new documentary series unit.”
Among those who will be profiled in the series are: Harry Hay, a gay rights activist and the founder of the modern gay movement; The Daughters of Bilitis, a lesbian civil and political rights organization; Christine Jorgensen, a transgender woman who flew to Europe in 1951 to undergo sex reassignment surgery and publicly transitioned...
- 10/16/2019
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
HBO Max has ordered Equal, a four-part docuseries chronicling landmark events and the forgotten heroes of the Lgbtq+ movement, from Greg Berlanti’s Berlanti Productions, Jim Parsons and That’s Wonderful Productions, Scout Productions, Jon Jashni (Lost in Space) and Warner Horizon Unscripted Television.
Equal marks the first project to come out of a new documentary series unit at Warner Horizon Unscripted Television launched by Mike Darnell, President, Unscripted & Alternative Television at Warner Bros. as part of a major expansion into the docu space.
Per the producers, Equal captures the gripping and true backstories of the leaders and unsung heroes, pre-Stonewall, who changed the course of American history through their tireless activism.
Each hour-long episode brings to life the high stakes and hard deadlines of historical events that have not yet been given their due. The docuseries honors rebels of yesteryear through high-end re-enactments, never-before-seen footage, and captures the emotions...
Equal marks the first project to come out of a new documentary series unit at Warner Horizon Unscripted Television launched by Mike Darnell, President, Unscripted & Alternative Television at Warner Bros. as part of a major expansion into the docu space.
Per the producers, Equal captures the gripping and true backstories of the leaders and unsung heroes, pre-Stonewall, who changed the course of American history through their tireless activism.
Each hour-long episode brings to life the high stakes and hard deadlines of historical events that have not yet been given their due. The docuseries honors rebels of yesteryear through high-end re-enactments, never-before-seen footage, and captures the emotions...
- 10/16/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva and Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Did the death of Judy Garland trigger the Stonewall Riots and the birth of the gay liberation movement as is suggested in the new biopic “Judy”? The truth is, it depends who you ask.
To this day, the legendary singer’s death less than a week before the 1969 riots continues to be recognized as a considerable factor in the gay uprising that led to 13 arrests and many injuries at the gay bar Stonewall Inn in New York City’s Greenwich Village. Garland’s adoration in the gay community was of mythical proportions decades before her death from an accidental overdose of barbiturates on June 22, 1969. “She is an Elvis for homosexuals,” Barry Walters wrote in a 1998 article in The Advocate. He, like many, many others, believe her tragic end “may have” helped to ignite the five-night Stonewall rebellion.
Not many businesses welcomed openly gay people in the ’50s and ’60s. The...
To this day, the legendary singer’s death less than a week before the 1969 riots continues to be recognized as a considerable factor in the gay uprising that led to 13 arrests and many injuries at the gay bar Stonewall Inn in New York City’s Greenwich Village. Garland’s adoration in the gay community was of mythical proportions decades before her death from an accidental overdose of barbiturates on June 22, 1969. “She is an Elvis for homosexuals,” Barry Walters wrote in a 1998 article in The Advocate. He, like many, many others, believe her tragic end “may have” helped to ignite the five-night Stonewall rebellion.
Not many businesses welcomed openly gay people in the ’50s and ’60s. The...
- 9/30/2019
- by Rosemary Rossi
- The Wrap
Bette Midler headlined New York’s World Pride main event Saturday night at the Javits Center in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Stonewall. During her performance of her 1973 hit single “Friends” accompanied by composer Marc Shaiman of Hairspray fame, she took a moment to bite back at President Trump.
“Now I’m going to tell you a little secret,” she told the crowd, teasing that she was surprised she was invited to the event because Trump recently called her a “washed-up psycho.” “Just two weeks ago, I was a washed-up psycho.
“Now I’m going to tell you a little secret,” she told the crowd, teasing that she was surprised she was invited to the event because Trump recently called her a “washed-up psycho.” “Just two weeks ago, I was a washed-up psycho.
- 6/30/2019
- by Ilana Kaplan
- Rollingstone.com
At a concert honoring the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots Friday, Lady Gaga surprised the crowd with an impassioned speech dedicated to the Lgbtq community during this year’s Stonewall Day Concert. The “Born This Way” singer has long been an ally of the community, so she was a fitting choice to speak to the crowd during World Pride.
“True love is when you would take a bullet for someone,” Gaga said during her speech. “And you know I would take a bullet for you any day of the week.
“True love is when you would take a bullet for someone,” Gaga said during her speech. “And you know I would take a bullet for you any day of the week.
- 6/29/2019
- by Ilana Kaplan
- Rollingstone.com
Many attendees of the Shanghai Intl. Film Festival likely know little about the ShanghaiPRIDE Film Festival, the other event in town every June. Unlike the former, government-sponsored one, ShanghaiPRIDE operates in a legal grey zone due to its celebration of Lgbtq content, which is frowned upon by Chinese censors.
This year, ShanghaiPRIDE’s non-profit event ran from June 8-16 and showcased more than 60 films — half of them shorts — over the course of a packed week to around 80 people per screening. “We are pretty out. The problem is we don’t know just how out we can be,” said organizer Raymond Phung, who explained that though the volunteer-run festival has been allowed to continue into its 11th year relatively unmolested by authorities, there’s always a possibility that circumstances could change without warning.
This year, it opened with the Chinese-Spanish feature “A Dog Barking at the Moon,” directed by Lisa Zi Xiang.
This year, ShanghaiPRIDE’s non-profit event ran from June 8-16 and showcased more than 60 films — half of them shorts — over the course of a packed week to around 80 people per screening. “We are pretty out. The problem is we don’t know just how out we can be,” said organizer Raymond Phung, who explained that though the volunteer-run festival has been allowed to continue into its 11th year relatively unmolested by authorities, there’s always a possibility that circumstances could change without warning.
This year, it opened with the Chinese-Spanish feature “A Dog Barking at the Moon,” directed by Lisa Zi Xiang.
- 6/22/2019
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
When Ryan Murphy announced he was adapting the Broadway hit “The Boys in the Band” into a movie for Netflix, it raised a few well-coiffed eyebrows. While Mart Crowley’s seminal 1968 play received a successful Broadway revival last year, cast entirely with out gay actors to boot, material that was once groundbreaking is now considered dated by some. The characters in “Boys” are mostly self-loathing and angry, perhaps not the most relevant story to tell today.
Still, many celebrate it as a pioneering work in the Lgbtq canon, worthy of honoring with a revisit. Murphy, the powerhouse television one-man-brand with a giant overall deal at Netflix, understands the criticisms lobbed at the play — but stands firmly in the latter camp.
“I feel like the world needs more Lgbtq history. It just does,” Murphy told IndieWire during an in-person interview in May. “[‘The Boys in the Band’] is a play that...
Still, many celebrate it as a pioneering work in the Lgbtq canon, worthy of honoring with a revisit. Murphy, the powerhouse television one-man-brand with a giant overall deal at Netflix, understands the criticisms lobbed at the play — but stands firmly in the latter camp.
“I feel like the world needs more Lgbtq history. It just does,” Murphy told IndieWire during an in-person interview in May. “[‘The Boys in the Band’] is a play that...
- 6/5/2019
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Netflix may get most of the attention, but it’s hardly a one-stop shop for cinephiles who are looking to stream essential classic and contemporary films. Each of the prominent streaming platforms — and there are more of them all the time — caters to its own niche of film obsessives. From chilling horror fare on Shudder, to the boundless wonders of the Criterion Channel, and esoteric (but unmissable) festival hits on the newly launched Ovid.tv, IndieWire’s monthly guide will highlight the best of what’s coming to every major streaming site, with an eye towards exclusive titles that may help readers decide which of these services is right for them.
Here’s the best of the best for June 2019.
Amazon Prime
Amazon Prime isn’t offering its subscribers much in the way of exclusives this month, and — for reasons that aren’t entirely clear — the brunt of the platform...
Here’s the best of the best for June 2019.
Amazon Prime
Amazon Prime isn’t offering its subscribers much in the way of exclusives this month, and — for reasons that aren’t entirely clear — the brunt of the platform...
- 6/3/2019
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
At Wednesday night’s Paley Honors, which paid tribute to Lgbtq achievements in television, attendees never lost sight of those who first paved the way – both on screen and off. CNN’s Don Lemon opened the ceremony by thanking legendary transgender activist Sylvia Rivera, who helped lead the charge at Stonewall fifty years ago. After recounting the story of the riots, he gestured around the Ziegfeld Ballroom. “Because she was there, we’re here tonight in this room, and at this point in history.”
On the eve of that landmark anniversary, stars ranging from Laverne Cox to Billy Crystal reflected on the progress that’s been made in the decades since — and how far things still have to go.
Our Lady J, a writer on “Transparent” and “Pose,” first learned about Stonewall as a teenager in New York. She immediately wanted to know more, so she turned to someone with...
On the eve of that landmark anniversary, stars ranging from Laverne Cox to Billy Crystal reflected on the progress that’s been made in the decades since — and how far things still have to go.
Our Lady J, a writer on “Transparent” and “Pose,” first learned about Stonewall as a teenager in New York. She immediately wanted to know more, so she turned to someone with...
- 5/17/2019
- by Alex Barasch
- Variety Film + TV
Madonna was honored at the GLAAD Media Awards in New York on Saturday night. The 60-year-old pop icon - who recently graced the cover of British Vogue - was named the recipient of the Advocate for Change Award. She earned the distinction for her enduring efforts to promote equality and acceptance for the Lgbtq+ community. Rocking an embroidered ensemble, the singer delivered a passionate speech about spreading love and kindness and her personal connection to the Lgbtq+ community.
"The first gay man I ever met was named Christopher Flynn," she said. "He was my ballet teacher in high school, and he was the first person that believed in me. That made me feel special as a dancer, as an artist and as a human being." She then revealed the teacher took her to her first gay club in downtown Detroit, adding, "I finally felt like I was not alone, that...
"The first gay man I ever met was named Christopher Flynn," she said. "He was my ballet teacher in high school, and he was the first person that believed in me. That made me feel special as a dancer, as an artist and as a human being." She then revealed the teacher took her to her first gay club in downtown Detroit, adding, "I finally felt like I was not alone, that...
- 5/5/2019
- by Brea Cubit
- Popsugar.com
The Tribeca Film Festival will launch its inaugural Tribeca Celebrates Pride event on May 4 which will include a day of Lgbtq-focused programming of speakers, conversations, and events featuring Neil Patrick Harris, Asia Kate Dillon, John Cameron Mitchell, Raul Castillo, Patti Harrison, Angelica Ross and iconic writer Larry Kramer. The day will celebrates Lgbtq+ culture and honor the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. It will all conclude with the world premiere of the HBO documentary Wig, which spotlights the art of drag, followed by a performance by the legendary Lady Bunny. The event will also include a curated program of seven Lgbtq+ short films, all of which are playing in competition at the Festival.
“This year, Tribeca will showcase artists who have used storytelling to bring people together around a common goal: inclusivity. We’ve come so far in the fifty years since the Stonewall riots, but there is...
“This year, Tribeca will showcase artists who have used storytelling to bring people together around a common goal: inclusivity. We’ve come so far in the fifty years since the Stonewall riots, but there is...
- 4/9/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Jonny Beauchamp (Penny Dreadful) and Julia Chan (Saving Hope) have landed lead roles opposite Riverdale‘s Ashleigh Murray in Katy Keene, the CW’s Riverdale spinoff pilot from Riverdale creator/executive producer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. TV.
Written by Aguirre-Sacasa and Michael Grassi and directed by Maggie Kiley, Katy Keene follows the lives and loves of four iconic Archie Comics characters — including fashion legend-to-be Katy Keene and singer-songwriter Josie McCoy (Murray) — as they chase their twentysomething dreams in New York City. The musical dramedy chronicles the origins and struggles of four aspiring artists trying to make it on Broadway, on the runway and in the recording studio.
Beauchamp will play Jorge/Ginger Lopez. By day, Jorge works at his family’s bodega. By night, his drag alter ego Ginger bartends and performs at a local club. Jorge always has aspired to be a Broadway performer, but...
Written by Aguirre-Sacasa and Michael Grassi and directed by Maggie Kiley, Katy Keene follows the lives and loves of four iconic Archie Comics characters — including fashion legend-to-be Katy Keene and singer-songwriter Josie McCoy (Murray) — as they chase their twentysomething dreams in New York City. The musical dramedy chronicles the origins and struggles of four aspiring artists trying to make it on Broadway, on the runway and in the recording studio.
Beauchamp will play Jorge/Ginger Lopez. By day, Jorge works at his family’s bodega. By night, his drag alter ego Ginger bartends and performs at a local club. Jorge always has aspired to be a Broadway performer, but...
- 2/22/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
YouTube and filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman are partnering on the Lgbtq documentary State of Pride, which will be an unflinching look at the significance of Pride 50 years after the historic Stonewall riots.
Epstein and Friedman — the filmmakers behind seminal Lgbt documentaries like the Oscar-winning Common Threads: Stories From the Quilt and the Emmy-winning Celluloid Closet — will direct.
State of Pride will be told through a series of interviews conducted by activist Raymond Braun, who will travel between major cities and rural towns across America, experiencing Pride and learning from individuals for whom the event marks ...
Epstein and Friedman — the filmmakers behind seminal Lgbt documentaries like the Oscar-winning Common Threads: Stories From the Quilt and the Emmy-winning Celluloid Closet — will direct.
State of Pride will be told through a series of interviews conducted by activist Raymond Braun, who will travel between major cities and rural towns across America, experiencing Pride and learning from individuals for whom the event marks ...
- 9/13/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
YouTube and filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman are partnering on the Lgbtq documentary State of Pride, which will be an unflinching look at the significance of Pride 50 years after the historic Stonewall riots.
Epstein and Friedman — the filmmakers behind seminal Lgbt documentaries like the Oscar-winning Common Threads: Stories From the Quilt and the Emmy-winning Celluloid Closet — will direct.
State of Pride will be told through a series of interviews conducted by activist Raymond Braun, who will travel between major cities and rural towns across America, experiencing Pride and learning from individuals for whom the event marks ...
Epstein and Friedman — the filmmakers behind seminal Lgbt documentaries like the Oscar-winning Common Threads: Stories From the Quilt and the Emmy-winning Celluloid Closet — will direct.
State of Pride will be told through a series of interviews conducted by activist Raymond Braun, who will travel between major cities and rural towns across America, experiencing Pride and learning from individuals for whom the event marks ...
- 9/13/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Roland Emmerich’s “Midway,” starring Woody Harrelson, Luke Evans and Nick Jonas, will open on Nov. 8, 2019 in wide release, Lionsgate announced Wednesday.
The action drama also stars Patrick Wilson, Ed Skrein, Aaron Eckhart, Mandy Moore, Dennis Quaid, Luke Kleintank, Keean Johnson, Etsushi Toyokawa, Tadanobu Asano and Jun Kunimura. Wes Tooke is writing the screenplay.
“Midway” will tell the story of the battle of Midway, as told through the perspective of the leader and the soldiers who fought the battle.
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Emmerich’s most recent movie was “Independence Day: Resurgence,” which was released in 2016. Before then, he directed and produced “Stonewall” and “White House Down.” He is represented by Centropolis Entertainment, 42West and CAA.
So far, the only other film slated for the Nov. 8, 2019 release date is “Sonic the Hedgehog,” which will star Jim Carrey, James Marsden and Tika Sumpter.
The action drama also stars Patrick Wilson, Ed Skrein, Aaron Eckhart, Mandy Moore, Dennis Quaid, Luke Kleintank, Keean Johnson, Etsushi Toyokawa, Tadanobu Asano and Jun Kunimura. Wes Tooke is writing the screenplay.
“Midway” will tell the story of the battle of Midway, as told through the perspective of the leader and the soldiers who fought the battle.
Also Read: 'Independence Day 2' Director Roland Emmerich Rips Marvel Movies as 'Silly'
Emmerich’s most recent movie was “Independence Day: Resurgence,” which was released in 2016. Before then, he directed and produced “Stonewall” and “White House Down.” He is represented by Centropolis Entertainment, 42West and CAA.
So far, the only other film slated for the Nov. 8, 2019 release date is “Sonic the Hedgehog,” which will star Jim Carrey, James Marsden and Tika Sumpter.
- 9/5/2018
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
A wife and mother in her 40s is at the center of Sony Pictures Classics’ Sundance fest acquisition Puzzle starring Kelly Macdonald and making its theatrical bow this weekend in New York and Los Angeles. Directed by Marc Turtletaub, the feature, which also stars Irrfan Khan, is based on an Argentine film from 2009. Greenwich Entertainment is taking doc Scotty And the Secret History of Hollywood to select locations this weekend. Based on a best-selling memoir, the film spotlights Scotty Bowers who provided for the sexual needs of some of Hollywood’s biggest stars during its Golden Age. And Music Box Films is going out with its Toronto ’17 fest feature The Captain, based on a true story about a German army deserter who finds a captain’s uniform in the waning days of World War II. The film will have an exclusive New York run this weekend before heading to other cities.
- 7/26/2018
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Altimeter Films is in production on Don’t Mess With Roy Cohn, a documentary that explores the long-range impact of Roy Cohn and makes the case that Cohn’s polarizing strategies set the stage for the rise of President Donald Trump. Pic covers Cohn’s early days as right-hand man to Senator Joseph McCarthy to his growth into the quintessential New York City power broker and attorney for myriad clients that included the future U.S. president. The film contextualizes Cohn’s influence on American politics, since the 1950s. As a recent Vanity Fair story by docu producer Marie Brenner posits: “Donald Trump and Roy Cohn’s ruthless symbiosis changed America.”
The film’s directed by Matt Tyrnauer and produced by Tyrnauer and Corey Reeser’s Altimeter Films, and Brenner, in association with Wavelength Productions. Lyn Lear, Jenifer Westphal, Lynn Pincus, Ernest Pomerantz, and Elliott Sernel are exec producers...
The film’s directed by Matt Tyrnauer and produced by Tyrnauer and Corey Reeser’s Altimeter Films, and Brenner, in association with Wavelength Productions. Lyn Lear, Jenifer Westphal, Lynn Pincus, Ernest Pomerantz, and Elliott Sernel are exec producers...
- 6/29/2018
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
SunnyMarch, the production banner founded by Benedict Cumberbatch and Adam Ackland, has acquired the TV rights to “The Gender Games,” the memoir by best-selling author and trans activist Juno Dawson. The book will serve as a jumping off point to create an original half-hour series picking up Dawson’s journey post-transition.
A playful manifesto on womanhood and a celebration of female friendship, the series will tell Dawson’s story as she learns how to live, love, and date as a woman. Having built a career, relationships and identity on the other side of the gender divide, Dawson is constantly coming up against everyone’s expectations of what being a woman means, including her own. Surrounded by her close-knit group of straight, gay, cis and trans friends, Juno’s journey into womanhood makes for funny, poignant, and often profound moments of self-discovery.
“I was surprised and delighted when Sunnymarch wanted to adapt my life story,...
A playful manifesto on womanhood and a celebration of female friendship, the series will tell Dawson’s story as she learns how to live, love, and date as a woman. Having built a career, relationships and identity on the other side of the gender divide, Dawson is constantly coming up against everyone’s expectations of what being a woman means, including her own. Surrounded by her close-knit group of straight, gay, cis and trans friends, Juno’s journey into womanhood makes for funny, poignant, and often profound moments of self-discovery.
“I was surprised and delighted when Sunnymarch wanted to adapt my life story,...
- 6/4/2018
- by Justin Kroll
- Variety Film + TV
Jonathan Rhys Meyers (The Tudors, Stonewall) has been cast in the lead role for Wake Up, the directorial debut of Fedor Lyass, the cinematographer who helped bring 2015's first-person perspective actioner Hardcore Henry to life.
Lyass will co-direct with Aleksander Chernyaev (The Soldier).
The new project was unveiled Friday by Vmi Worldwide president Andre Relis.
Wake Up – set to start production in March – centers around a John Doe (Meyers), who wakes in a hospital bed with no recollection of who he is, and soon finds that he’s wanted by the police for a series of murders. With the...
Lyass will co-direct with Aleksander Chernyaev (The Soldier).
The new project was unveiled Friday by Vmi Worldwide president Andre Relis.
Wake Up – set to start production in March – centers around a John Doe (Meyers), who wakes in a hospital bed with no recollection of who he is, and soon finds that he’s wanted by the police for a series of murders. With the...
- 2/16/2018
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
According to the work of contemporary genius auteur Roland Emmerich, the person responsible for leading the 1969 Stonewall riots and founding the Lgbtq movement was a clean-cut white kid from middle America, who chucked bricks and led freedom chants that would change the course of the country’s relationship to gay rights forever. Also according to Emmerich per his execrable 2015 film “Stonewall,” transgender activist Marsha P. Johnson was a human being.
Continue reading ‘The Death And Life Of Marsha P. Johnson’ Will Haunt You [Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘The Death And Life Of Marsha P. Johnson’ Will Haunt You [Review] at The Playlist.
- 10/5/2017
- by Andrew Crump
- The Playlist
How to Survive a Plague director David France explores the heroic life and tragic death of an often forgotten leader of the gay rights movement in this illuminating, if scattershot, film
One of the many awful decisions made in Roland Emmerich’s punishingly tone-deaf 2015 turkey Stonewall was the positioning of a fresh-faced “straight-acting” white twink as the face of the burgeoning gay rights movement in 1960s New York. In an attempt to make an unavoidably queer story more hetero-accessible, Emmerich became part of a tradition of covering up the vital groundwork done by the trans community for the rest of the Lgbtq population.
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One of the many awful decisions made in Roland Emmerich’s punishingly tone-deaf 2015 turkey Stonewall was the positioning of a fresh-faced “straight-acting” white twink as the face of the burgeoning gay rights movement in 1960s New York. In an attempt to make an unavoidably queer story more hetero-accessible, Emmerich became part of a tradition of covering up the vital groundwork done by the trans community for the rest of the Lgbtq population.
Related: Five Came Back review – riveting Netflix history of how Hollywood took on Hitler
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- 10/5/2017
- by Benjamin Lee
- The Guardian - Film News
"Your leader must be an amazing guy." Out today in select theaters and on VOD from Scream Factory Films is Jackals, a cabin-centric horror film that pits a family against a violent cult one fateful night in the woods. To celebrate the film's release, we've been provided with an exclusive clip from the film for Daily Dead readers to enjoy, in which Stephen Dorff's character shares some critical words with a member of the cult that is trying to kill him and his loved ones.
"In a potent blend of the horror, thriller and home-invasion genres, an estranged family attempts to save their son from a murderous cult in the terrifying psychological thriller Jackals. Opening in select theaters and On Demand September 1st, 2017 from Scream Factory Films, Jackals is a shocking and suspenseful saga from director Kevin Greutert (Saw 3D, Visions) and producer Tommy Alastra (Sunset Strip).
Directed by...
"In a potent blend of the horror, thriller and home-invasion genres, an estranged family attempts to save their son from a murderous cult in the terrifying psychological thriller Jackals. Opening in select theaters and On Demand September 1st, 2017 from Scream Factory Films, Jackals is a shocking and suspenseful saga from director Kevin Greutert (Saw 3D, Visions) and producer Tommy Alastra (Sunset Strip).
Directed by...
- 9/1/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
They knew they would have to go up against a violent cult to reunite with their son, but the family had no idea how soon they would become the prey in Jackals, a new movie from Scream Factory Films. Ahead of its September 1st release, Jackals is teased in a trailer that channels the visceral violence and isolated horror of Bryan Bertino's The Strangers and Jack Ketchum's Off Season.
Press Release: In a potent blend of the horror, thriller and home-invasion genres, an estranged family attempts to save their son from a murderous cult in the terrifying psychological thriller Jackals. Opening in select theaters and On Demand September 1st, 2017 from Scream Factory Films, Jackals is a shocking and suspenseful saga from director Kevin Greutert (Saw 3D, Visions) and producer Tommy Alastra (Sunset Strip).
Directed by Kevin Greutert and written by Jared Rivet, Jackals stars Deborah Kara Unger (Crash,...
Press Release: In a potent blend of the horror, thriller and home-invasion genres, an estranged family attempts to save their son from a murderous cult in the terrifying psychological thriller Jackals. Opening in select theaters and On Demand September 1st, 2017 from Scream Factory Films, Jackals is a shocking and suspenseful saga from director Kevin Greutert (Saw 3D, Visions) and producer Tommy Alastra (Sunset Strip).
Directed by Kevin Greutert and written by Jared Rivet, Jackals stars Deborah Kara Unger (Crash,...
- 7/8/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
"Its given me everything: money, love." "At what cost?" Broad Green has revealed a trailer for a horror film titled Wish Upon, about a teenager in high school who starts messing around with a mysterious magic box that her father brings home one day. The box grants her wishes that she uses to make her life better, but of course things start to go wrong and different people start to die after she makes a wish. This reminds me a bit of Richard Kelly's The Box. Joey King (seen in The Conjuring, White House Down, Wish I Was Here, Stonewall) stars, along with Sherilyn Fenn, Ryan Phillippe, Elisabeth Röhm, Shannon Purser, Ki Hong Lee, Sydney Park and Alice Lee. This actually looks fun, I always love mystery boxes. Take a look. Here's the first official trailer for John R. Leonetti's Wish Upon, originally from Yahoo: Years after her mother's suicide,...
- 2/9/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
There are some directors who will get work in Hollywood no matter what, and even though he’s coming off a string of flops and disappointments — “White House Down,” “Stonewall,” “Independence Day: Resurgence” — Roland Emmerich is one of those people. And Sony is ready to give him the keys to another movie.
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The filmmaker is in early talks to direct the sci-fi thriller “Dark Matter,” which is based on the book by “Wayward Pines” author Blake Crouch.
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The filmmaker is in early talks to direct the sci-fi thriller “Dark Matter,” which is based on the book by “Wayward Pines” author Blake Crouch.
Continue reading Roland Emmerich To Direct Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Dark Matter’ at The Playlist.
- 12/15/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Gus Van Sant’s last few movies haven’t been met with especially warm receptions: “Sea of Trees” was perhaps the most derided film to premiere at Cannes last year, and neither “Promised Land” nor “Restless” fared especially well either. For his next effort, he’s moving to the small screen with “When We Rise,” a docudrama miniseries coming to ABC next year. Watch its first trailer below.
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Van Sant will direct the first two hours of the seven-part series, with Dee Rees, Thomas Schlamme and Dustin Lance Black (who also wrote and created) also onboard as directors. “When We Rise” begins in 1971, just two years after the Stonewall riots — whose most recent cinematic depiction came courtesy of Roland Emmerich and wasn’t any more well received than “Sea of Trees” — and continues from there.
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Van Sant will direct the first two hours of the seven-part series, with Dee Rees, Thomas Schlamme and Dustin Lance Black (who also wrote and created) also onboard as directors. “When We Rise” begins in 1971, just two years after the Stonewall riots — whose most recent cinematic depiction came courtesy of Roland Emmerich and wasn’t any more well received than “Sea of Trees” — and continues from there.
- 11/21/2016
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
It’s been a bad couple of years for explosion enthusiast Roland Emmerich. First, his gay rights drama Stonewall spawned accusations of whitewashing before being quickly forgotten by audiences. Then, his and frequent collaborator Dean Devlin’s Independence Day sequel, Resurgence, got blasted out of theaters by a giant laser beam of critical revulsion and audience indifference.
Now it sounds like Emmerich and Devlin’s plans to resurrect another one of their “I’ll Watch It If It’s On TNT” classics has also dried up. According to an interview Devlin recently gave to Empire, the Stargate reboot the production team has been floating since 2014 probably won’t be happening. “It looked good for a couple of months,” Devlin said. “But now it’s not looking so good.”
Originally released in 1994, Stargate eventually spawned three popular TV series and a bunch of spinoff movies, all of which Emmerich ...
Now it sounds like Emmerich and Devlin’s plans to resurrect another one of their “I’ll Watch It If It’s On TNT” classics has also dried up. According to an interview Devlin recently gave to Empire, the Stargate reboot the production team has been floating since 2014 probably won’t be happening. “It looked good for a couple of months,” Devlin said. “But now it’s not looking so good.”
Originally released in 1994, Stargate eventually spawned three popular TV series and a bunch of spinoff movies, all of which Emmerich ...
- 11/18/2016
- by William Hughes
- avclub.com
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