Amazon Prime Video’s “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” is taking this Emmy race seriously.
With stars Donald Glover and Maya Erskine leading the charge, “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” which draws inspiration from the 2005 movie featuring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, is set to compete in the drama categories at this year’s awards ceremony.
Crafted by Glover and Francesca Sloane, the show’s debut season stretches across eight episodes, centering on John and Jane Smith, secret agents who pose as a married couple while working for a shadowy corporation. Its blend of comedy and drama offered the potential to categorize it in either genre for awards consideration.
Read: All Primetime Emmy predictions in every category on Variety’s Awards Circuit.
Glover, already an Emmy favorite for his role in FX’s “Atlanta,” is in contention for five Emmy nods this year: drama series, actor in a drama series, directing in...
With stars Donald Glover and Maya Erskine leading the charge, “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” which draws inspiration from the 2005 movie featuring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, is set to compete in the drama categories at this year’s awards ceremony.
Crafted by Glover and Francesca Sloane, the show’s debut season stretches across eight episodes, centering on John and Jane Smith, secret agents who pose as a married couple while working for a shadowy corporation. Its blend of comedy and drama offered the potential to categorize it in either genre for awards consideration.
Read: All Primetime Emmy predictions in every category on Variety’s Awards Circuit.
Glover, already an Emmy favorite for his role in FX’s “Atlanta,” is in contention for five Emmy nods this year: drama series, actor in a drama series, directing in...
- 4/4/2024
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Sitting in Bars with Cake is a comedy-drama film directed by Trish Sie from a screenplay by Audrey Shulman. The Prime Video film is inspired by true events and it follows two best friends Jane (Yara Shahidi) and Corrine (Odessa A’zion) living in Los Angeles. Corrine is an extrovert and Jane is an introvert. In order to get Jane to meet more people Corrine gets her to bake cakes for a year and take them to a bar. But when Corrine gets a life-altering diagnosis, both Jane and Corrine’s friendship is put to the test. Sitting in Bars with Cake also stars Bette Midler, Ron Livingston, and Maia Mitchell in supporting roles. So, if you loved the Prime Video film here are some similar movies you could watch next.
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Prime Video Add-On & Hulu Add-On) Credit – Searchlight Pictures
Synopsis: Me And Earl And The Dying Girl...
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Prime Video Add-On & Hulu Add-On) Credit – Searchlight Pictures
Synopsis: Me And Earl And The Dying Girl...
- 9/9/2023
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
Bottoms is a teen sex comedy film directed by Emma Seligman, who also worked on the script with Rachel Sennott. The film follows two unpopular lesbian high school senior girls who set up a fight club in the name of a self-defense class in order to get with their crushes. Bottoms stars Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri in the lead roles of Pj and Josie. So, if you loved Bottoms here are some similar movies you could watch next.
Good Boys (Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Universal Pictures
Synopsis: Just how bad can one day get? The creative minds behind Superbad and Sausage Party take on sixth grade hard in this innocent yet raunchy comedy. 12-year-olds Max, Thor, and Lucas decide to skip school in an attempt to learn how to kiss in time for a kissing party. Their odyssey of epically bad decisions involves some accidentally stolen drugs, frat-house paintball,...
Good Boys (Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Universal Pictures
Synopsis: Just how bad can one day get? The creative minds behind Superbad and Sausage Party take on sixth grade hard in this innocent yet raunchy comedy. 12-year-olds Max, Thor, and Lucas decide to skip school in an attempt to learn how to kiss in time for a kissing party. Their odyssey of epically bad decisions involves some accidentally stolen drugs, frat-house paintball,...
- 8/27/2023
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
“We all know about her and her trials and travails, but she was a really down-to-earth person who got overwhelmed with the struggle of fame,” says Gerald Sullivan while talking about late music legend Whitney Houston. Sullivan is the production designer for her biopic titled “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” starring Naomi Ackie and directed by Kasi Lemmons. Watch our video interview above.
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“That’s sort of like contemporary archaeology,” he explains while discussing his re-creation of the iconic “How Will I Know” music video. “You do the research. You look at the video. We shot it from the fourth wall, where we’re actually seeing the producers and the directors. From the beginning, we tried to decipher the plan of this set by watching the video over and over...
See Naomi Ackie (‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody’) on becoming Whitney Houston: It ‘feels like you’re playing a superhuman’ [Exclusive Video Interview]
“That’s sort of like contemporary archaeology,” he explains while discussing his re-creation of the iconic “How Will I Know” music video. “You do the research. You look at the video. We shot it from the fourth wall, where we’re actually seeing the producers and the directors. From the beginning, we tried to decipher the plan of this set by watching the video over and over...
- 12/27/2022
- by Denton Davidson
- Gold Derby
Recreating one of Whitney Houston’s most iconic performances for the biopic “Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody” was an exercise in “contemporary archaeology.”
On January 27, 1991, Houston took the stage in Tampa Stadium to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Super Bowl Xxv. That performance is one of the film’s key moments, with director Kasi Lemmons aiming to not only capture Houston’s concert on the field but also the world-wide reaction as 79 million people watched her on their televisions at home. Accuracy was key; however, the venue was demolished in 1999.
“We did lots of research,” recalled production designer Gerald Sullivan. He and his team sifted through hours of footage and stills from various sources, including the NFL and personal photos from the Houston family. “We even got hold of the original architectural plans,” he added. The blueprints enabled the VFX team to rebuild the stadium virtually and even generated aerial shots.
On January 27, 1991, Houston took the stage in Tampa Stadium to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Super Bowl Xxv. That performance is one of the film’s key moments, with director Kasi Lemmons aiming to not only capture Houston’s concert on the field but also the world-wide reaction as 79 million people watched her on their televisions at home. Accuracy was key; however, the venue was demolished in 1999.
“We did lots of research,” recalled production designer Gerald Sullivan. He and his team sifted through hours of footage and stills from various sources, including the NFL and personal photos from the Houston family. “We even got hold of the original architectural plans,” he added. The blueprints enabled the VFX team to rebuild the stadium virtually and even generated aerial shots.
- 12/23/2022
- by Simon Thompson
- Variety Film + TV
“Oddballs And Young Love”
By Raymond Benson
Wes Anderson’s marvelous 2012 comedy, Moonrise Kingdom, was previously released on Blu-ray and DVD, but The Criterion Collection has seen fit to issue an edition that blows the old one away. With an abundance of fun, entertaining supplements and packaged ephemera—Criterion’s disc is in keeping with the other fine releases the company has done for the filmmaker.
Moonrise Kingdom is the first Wes Anderson movie I truly fell in love with. While I liked and appreciated his earlier pictures, Moonrise is a flawless masterpiece of style and wit—as is Anderson’s following film, The Grand Budapest Hotel. For my money, these are two slam-bang pieces of comic brilliance.
The setting is a small fictional New England island, during one summer in the Sixties. A Boy Scout troop camps out there. Some families live on the island, others visit for the season.
By Raymond Benson
Wes Anderson’s marvelous 2012 comedy, Moonrise Kingdom, was previously released on Blu-ray and DVD, but The Criterion Collection has seen fit to issue an edition that blows the old one away. With an abundance of fun, entertaining supplements and packaged ephemera—Criterion’s disc is in keeping with the other fine releases the company has done for the filmmaker.
Moonrise Kingdom is the first Wes Anderson movie I truly fell in love with. While I liked and appreciated his earlier pictures, Moonrise is a flawless masterpiece of style and wit—as is Anderson’s following film, The Grand Budapest Hotel. For my money, these are two slam-bang pieces of comic brilliance.
The setting is a small fictional New England island, during one summer in the Sixties. A Boy Scout troop camps out there. Some families live on the island, others visit for the season.
- 9/17/2015
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Films gods be damned. After guesstimating its eventual arrival on the film fest circuit and tracking it since it first went into production back in 2012, I’m inclined to think that the shot in state of Washington production either hit a rough patch, needed a longer production schedule due to seasonal shifts in backdrops or, my latest theory: Robinson Devor concurrently worked on not one, but two projects: the other being Pow Wow, his latest documentary project. Devor began editing the film at the start of the year and as part of Park City fabric in the naughts with successive releases of The Woman Chaser (2000), Police Beat (2005) and Zoo (2007) – we may see the filmmaker double up his presence with You Can’t Win finally cutting the finish line ribbon. Cast includes Jeremy Allen White, Charles Baker, Julia Garner, Will Patton, Hannah Marks and Louisa Krause (look out for her perf...
- 11/14/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Telluride — In recent years, Journalists have come under siege all across the world from governments trying to minimize their influence either through subtle or not-so subtle means. One of the more dramatic instances in recent memory was chronicled in Maziar Bahari's 2011 memoir "Then They Came for Me" which has been adapted into the new film "Rosewater." The film, with director Jon Stewart on hand, debuted Friday night at the 2014 Telluride Film Festival. "They Came For Me" depicted the 118 days the noted reporter and documentary filmmaker spent in an Iranian jail after being falsely accused of acting as a spy for Western powers. The London-based Bahari had returned to Tehran to cover the 2009 presidential election where Mir-Hossein Mousavi was providing a revolutionary challenge to the president at the time, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Controversy reigned after the latter was announced the victor prompting millions of Iranians to protest the results in cities across the Islamic state.
- 8/30/2014
- by Gregory Ellwood
- Hitfix
“Tracking Shot” is a monthly featurette here on Ioncinema.com that looks at a dozen or so projects that are moments away from lensing and this October we see a couple of items that we could certainly circle as potential Cannes 2014 bait. Thanks to our friends at Production Weekly for the helping hand in curating our list of future must see items.
Among the top foreign film productions, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover‘s Peter Greenaway is looking at a late October, possible November start to begin filming a fragment of the great Soviet master filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein’s bio timeline. Eisenstein In Guanajuato will cover the portion of the filmmaker’s post Battleship Potemkin career, with Eisenstein landing in Mexico after Hollywood studios balked at the idea of working with him and in its place finds romance. The Girl Who Played with Fire‘s Daniel Alfredson...
Among the top foreign film productions, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover‘s Peter Greenaway is looking at a late October, possible November start to begin filming a fragment of the great Soviet master filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein’s bio timeline. Eisenstein In Guanajuato will cover the portion of the filmmaker’s post Battleship Potemkin career, with Eisenstein landing in Mexico after Hollywood studios balked at the idea of working with him and in its place finds romance. The Girl Who Played with Fire‘s Daniel Alfredson...
- 10/1/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
I never thought I would be so bothered when it comes to technical awards at the Oscars, but I am already preparing myself for what I expect will be three snubs for a certain film. The Art Directors Guild has all but confirmed one of them will be Moonrise Kingdom's absence from the Production Design nominees by not nominating Adam Stockhausen and Gerald Sullivan's profoundly excellent work. I expect the same to happen at the Oscars and I'm sure Moonrise will be overlooked for Cinematography and Costumes as well, even though everything I'm describing went into what makes it such a great movie. So what did get nominated? Well, in the Contemporary Film category you have Flight, Skyfall, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The Impossible and Zero Dark Thirty. Of that group The Impossible and Zero Dark Thirty sound about right. Skyfall is a bit of a stretch,...
- 1/3/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Chicago – Kathryn Bigelow’s “Zero Dark Thirty,” opening locally on January 4th but screened early for critics, was the big winner for the Chicago Film Critics Association in 2012, winning Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Editing. It was closely followed by the year’s most-nominated film, Paul Thomas Anderson’s “The Master,” which won Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Cinematography, and Best Score. Other 2012 winners include “Lincoln” and “Beasts of the Southern Wild” with two a piece and “Amour,” “The Invisible War,” “Moonrise Kingdom,” and “Paranorman” each taking one.
Zero Dark Thirty
Photo credit: Sony
Best Picture: “Zero Dark Thirty”
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, “Lincoln”
Best Actress: Jessica Chastain, “Zero Dark Thirty”
Best Supporting Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman, “The Master”
Best Supporting Actress: Amy Adams, “The Master”
Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow, “Zero Dark Thirty”
Best Original Screenplay: “Zero Dark Thirty” by Mark Boal...
Zero Dark Thirty
Photo credit: Sony
Best Picture: “Zero Dark Thirty”
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, “Lincoln”
Best Actress: Jessica Chastain, “Zero Dark Thirty”
Best Supporting Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman, “The Master”
Best Supporting Actress: Amy Adams, “The Master”
Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow, “Zero Dark Thirty”
Best Original Screenplay: “Zero Dark Thirty” by Mark Boal...
- 12/17/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
It is always refreshing to watch a non-blockbuster film during a summer movie season full of big budgeted sequels and comic book flicks. Last year, .The Tree of Life. was a shining star during summer, and this year, .Moonrise Kingdom. is the film to see.
The Oscar-nominated filmmaker, Wes Anderson (.The Royal Tenenbaums,. .Fantastic Mr. Fox,. .Rushmore.) returns with a movie that I dare to call his best. .Moonrise Kingdom. is sweet, funny, and thoroughly original.
The year is 1965 and the setting is an island off the coast of New England. .Moonrise Kingdom. tells the story of two 12-year-olds who fall in love and run away together into the wilderness. Both kids are troubled souls who find solace in each other.s company.
The boy.s name is Sam (Jared Gilman), an orphan who considers his Khaki Scout troop family. The girl is Suzy (Kara Hayward), a voracious reader who...
The Oscar-nominated filmmaker, Wes Anderson (.The Royal Tenenbaums,. .Fantastic Mr. Fox,. .Rushmore.) returns with a movie that I dare to call his best. .Moonrise Kingdom. is sweet, funny, and thoroughly original.
The year is 1965 and the setting is an island off the coast of New England. .Moonrise Kingdom. tells the story of two 12-year-olds who fall in love and run away together into the wilderness. Both kids are troubled souls who find solace in each other.s company.
The boy.s name is Sam (Jared Gilman), an orphan who considers his Khaki Scout troop family. The girl is Suzy (Kara Hayward), a voracious reader who...
- 6/12/2012
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Do you ever watch a movie and feel like everybody but you are in on the joke? I didn’t feel that way with the Wes Anderson films I’ve liked - Royal Tenenbaums and The Fantastic Mr. Fox. Those films were clever. Those I understood and admired. But from beginning to end, Moonrise Kingdom left me feeling like an outsider looking in. I know many are embracing it, but I found it a way too-cute bore that just irritated me. Moonrise Kingdom is a love story about a pair of 12-year-old misfits, Sam Shakusky (Jared Gilman) and Suzy Bishop (Kara Hayward), who run away together after falling in love in the summer of 1964, a year after they had met when he spotted her dressed as a raven for her part in a church pageant about Noah’s Ark. It all takes place on the fictional island of New Penzance...
- 6/8/2012
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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