James Bond is the epitome of a cool and collected gentleman. From Sean Connery’s sophistication to Daniel Craig’s intensity, each actor who’s donned the tuxedo has brought their own unique charm to the iconic role of 007.
Daniel Craig as James Bond in a still from Spectre
But with Craig’s final outing as Bond in “No Time to Die,” rumors have run rampant about who will take up the mantle next. While speculation has floated around various actors, some believe it’s high time for a shakeup. This includes the possibility of a female Bond, as an actress has now offered herself for the role.
Famke Janssen from Marvel’s X-Men Would Love To Become James Bond
A still from Boy Kills World
Daniel Craig’s epic run as Bond has come to a fitting end and the question of who will inherit the role has sparked a debate.
Daniel Craig as James Bond in a still from Spectre
But with Craig’s final outing as Bond in “No Time to Die,” rumors have run rampant about who will take up the mantle next. While speculation has floated around various actors, some believe it’s high time for a shakeup. This includes the possibility of a female Bond, as an actress has now offered herself for the role.
Famke Janssen from Marvel’s X-Men Would Love To Become James Bond
A still from Boy Kills World
Daniel Craig’s epic run as Bond has come to a fitting end and the question of who will inherit the role has sparked a debate.
- 4/28/2024
- by Piyush Yadav
- FandomWire
The man with a chiseled jawline and undeniable charisma, Henry Cavill is one of the most talented actors in Hollywood. He has played some great roles like Geralt of Rivia, Superman, and Sherlock Homes. However, he once had his sights set on another iconic character: James Bond.
Daniel Craig as James Bond
James Bond is one of the most popular fictional characters of all time and every aspiring actor would dream to play a role as big a character. Although Cavill ultimately didn’t get the part, the audition process itself had a ripple effect that is being felt even after nearly two decades.
Henry Cavill Got On The Radar of Argylle’s Matthew Vaughn After His Audition For James Bond
A still from Argylle (2024)
Henry Cavill‘s brush with James Bond wasn’t just a close call; it was also a spark that ignited a future collaboration. While vying...
Daniel Craig as James Bond
James Bond is one of the most popular fictional characters of all time and every aspiring actor would dream to play a role as big a character. Although Cavill ultimately didn’t get the part, the audition process itself had a ripple effect that is being felt even after nearly two decades.
Henry Cavill Got On The Radar of Argylle’s Matthew Vaughn After His Audition For James Bond
A still from Argylle (2024)
Henry Cavill‘s brush with James Bond wasn’t just a close call; it was also a spark that ignited a future collaboration. While vying...
- 4/16/2024
- by Piyush Yadav
- FandomWire
It might be fair to say that the James Bond role has always been elusive to Henry Cavill. After losing to Daniel Craig in 2006’s Casino Royale as he was too young and inexperienced, the actor is now being doubted to join the franchise because he’s already 40.
Henry Cavill in The Man from Uncle
Cavill has been in the running for the role of 007 for quite some time now, even topping the list and remaining in the top 5 alongside fan-favorite actors such as Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Idris Elba.
Henry Cavill Remains Clueless On His Standing As The Next James Bond
While guesting on The Rich Eisen Show, actor Henry Cavill revealed he has no clue whatsoever about his potential casting in James Bond. He also acknowledged the rumor that he was being dismissed because of his age.
“I have no idea. All I’ve got to go off is the rumors,...
Henry Cavill in The Man from Uncle
Cavill has been in the running for the role of 007 for quite some time now, even topping the list and remaining in the top 5 alongside fan-favorite actors such as Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Idris Elba.
Henry Cavill Remains Clueless On His Standing As The Next James Bond
While guesting on The Rich Eisen Show, actor Henry Cavill revealed he has no clue whatsoever about his potential casting in James Bond. He also acknowledged the rumor that he was being dismissed because of his age.
“I have no idea. All I’ve got to go off is the rumors,...
- 4/16/2024
- by Ariane Cruz
- FandomWire
Chris Brearton is exiting Amazon MGM Studios after a long career at MGM to pursue other opportunities, the company announced on Wednesday. In a memo to staff, Amazon Studios and Prime Video senior vice president Mike Hopkins revealed that Brearton “has decided to leave Amazon to pursue a new opportunity outside the company.”
Brearton had most recently served as vice president of Pvs Corporate Strategy at MGM+ and MGM Alternative Television. As part of his exit, the company has restructured some of Brearton’s direct reports: MGM+ which is led by Michael Wright and Josh McIvor, and and MGM Television, led by Lindsey Sloane, will now report to Kelly Day, head of Prime Video International. MGM Unscripted, under Barry Poznik, reports to Brad Beale, head of global content licensing. MGM corporate strategy head will now report to Amazon Studios chief Jennifer Salke in the newly created role of Head of Global Strategy and Business Development,...
Brearton had most recently served as vice president of Pvs Corporate Strategy at MGM+ and MGM Alternative Television. As part of his exit, the company has restructured some of Brearton’s direct reports: MGM+ which is led by Michael Wright and Josh McIvor, and and MGM Television, led by Lindsey Sloane, will now report to Kelly Day, head of Prime Video International. MGM Unscripted, under Barry Poznik, reports to Brad Beale, head of global content licensing. MGM corporate strategy head will now report to Amazon Studios chief Jennifer Salke in the newly created role of Head of Global Strategy and Business Development,...
- 4/10/2024
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Chris Brearton is stepping down from Amazon, 18 months after taking on a new role.
Brearton has been VP Pvs Corporate Strategy, MGM+ and MGM Alternative Television, since November 2022.
Brearton joined MGM as Chief Operating Officer in February 2018. He spent four years in that role before taking on a broader role following Amazon’s $8.5 billion acquisition of the studio in 2022.
After shepherding MGM’s integration into Prime Video and Amazon Studios, Brearton took on the new role, leading business planning and corporate strategy for Prime Video and Studios and also overseeing MGM+ and MGM Alternative.
His new role coincided with Amazon Studios boss Jennifer Salke taking over leadership of MGM.
Deadline understands that Brearton, who also is chair of the board of directors at USA Swimming, is pursuing a “new opportunity outside of the company”.
Starting April 15, Brearton’s responsibilities will be divided among a number of senior execs.
MGM...
Brearton has been VP Pvs Corporate Strategy, MGM+ and MGM Alternative Television, since November 2022.
Brearton joined MGM as Chief Operating Officer in February 2018. He spent four years in that role before taking on a broader role following Amazon’s $8.5 billion acquisition of the studio in 2022.
After shepherding MGM’s integration into Prime Video and Amazon Studios, Brearton took on the new role, leading business planning and corporate strategy for Prime Video and Studios and also overseeing MGM+ and MGM Alternative.
His new role coincided with Amazon Studios boss Jennifer Salke taking over leadership of MGM.
Deadline understands that Brearton, who also is chair of the board of directors at USA Swimming, is pursuing a “new opportunity outside of the company”.
Starting April 15, Brearton’s responsibilities will be divided among a number of senior execs.
MGM...
- 4/10/2024
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Jeffrey Wright finds it "healthy" to play supporting roles.The 58-year-old star has had smaller parts in James Bond and 'The Batman' and finds it "good for the ego" to blend into the background on a major blockbuster.Speaking to the i newspaper, Jeffrey said: "Yeah, I don't always need to be the lead in a film. I think it's healthy to play supporting roles, too. It's good for the ego."However, Jeffrey does have a leading role as the frustrated writer and professor Dr. Thelonious 'Monk' Ellison in the movie 'American Fiction' and praised the studio's promotion of the picture for helping him land a nomination for the Best Actor Oscar.He explained: "I've never had that in my career before. Never. These awards are not a reflection necessarily of the quality of work. There are so many wonderful performances that go unrecognised."The '...
- 2/9/2024
- by Joe Graber
- Bang Showbiz
Franklin J. Schaffner's 1968 sci-fi classic "Planet of the Apes," written by Michael Wilson and Rod Serling, is a perfectly wicked political satire set in a distant, distant future on a distant, distant planet wherein human-like beings live as mute brutes and apes have evolved into the dominant rulers of the planet. The planet is discovered by a group of Earth astronauts who flew through some sort of time vortex while in the outer cosmos, and their leader, the stalwart Taylor (Charlton Heston), finds himself having to prove to the planet's own apes that humans are indeed capable of speech and thought.
In one of the best-known twist endings in cinema history, the film ultimately reveals that the planet of the apes was Earth all along. Taylor discovers a millennia-old Statue of Liberty on a distant beach, realizing that humans destroyed themselves in a nuclear conflagration and that apes evolved in their place.
In one of the best-known twist endings in cinema history, the film ultimately reveals that the planet of the apes was Earth all along. Taylor discovers a millennia-old Statue of Liberty on a distant beach, realizing that humans destroyed themselves in a nuclear conflagration and that apes evolved in their place.
- 2/1/2024
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
For most of us, the Planet of the Apes movies have always been around. Spanning five decades and ten movies – and counting – it’s hard to imagine a world without that race of hyper-intelligent monkeys and their everlasting war against man. We take this extended universe for granted, but it wasn’t always this way. It’s probably not hard to believe that at one time, the concept of a world populated by talking apes wasn’t thought of as a box office draw, and if it hadn’t been for the determination of a handful of true believers in the material, we may never have gotten one movie, let alone an entire franchise. So let’s go back in time a bit to a world without Dr. Zaius and the gang and find out Wtf Happened to Planet of the Apes?
We’re going back as far as 1963, when...
We’re going back as far as 1963, when...
- 1/31/2024
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
Dave Robb, who spent more than four decades on the Hollywood labor beat for The Hollywood Reporter, Variety and, most recently, Deadline, has died. He was 74.
Robb died peacefully Friday night at his Los Angeles home after being diagnosed in late October with inoperable cancer of the brain stem, Deadline reported. (Deadline, like THR and Variety, are owned by Penske Media Group.)
He spent most of his last year covering the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.
A dogged investigative journalist in his day, the gruff yet genial Robb started at THR as an editorial assistant in 1979, the first of his five stints with the paper. On Facebook, former editor Alex Ben Block wrote that he hired him twice and “rarely gave Dave an assignment. Usually he came to me with stories out of the blue that were amazing, brilliant and breaking news.
“I just want to add what a true original he was,...
Robb died peacefully Friday night at his Los Angeles home after being diagnosed in late October with inoperable cancer of the brain stem, Deadline reported. (Deadline, like THR and Variety, are owned by Penske Media Group.)
He spent most of his last year covering the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.
A dogged investigative journalist in his day, the gruff yet genial Robb started at THR as an editorial assistant in 1979, the first of his five stints with the paper. On Facebook, former editor Alex Ben Block wrote that he hired him twice and “rarely gave Dave an assignment. Usually he came to me with stories out of the blue that were amazing, brilliant and breaking news.
“I just want to add what a true original he was,...
- 12/9/2023
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
When I was a kid, no movie ending scared me more than "Planet of the Apes." Granted, I was exposed to Tim Burton's poorly received update on the film before I ever saw the stunning ending of Franklin J. Schaffner's original, but the effect was the same both times: total shock, awe, and primal fear over the idea that our world may one day become wholly unrecognizable.
I was far from alone. A young Roger Ebert, just one year into his career as a critic, praised the film for its "thoroughly satisfactory surprise ending," while Pauline Kael commended the movie's ability to pull off its revelations, noting that its "construction is really extraordinary." The final scene of the film, in which an abstract monument in the sand is revealed to be none other than the Statue of Liberty, is both thrilling and existentially horrifying. Who could have ever...
I was far from alone. A young Roger Ebert, just one year into his career as a critic, praised the film for its "thoroughly satisfactory surprise ending," while Pauline Kael commended the movie's ability to pull off its revelations, noting that its "construction is really extraordinary." The final scene of the film, in which an abstract monument in the sand is revealed to be none other than the Statue of Liberty, is both thrilling and existentially horrifying. Who could have ever...
- 9/9/2023
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
Jeffrey Wright would consider returning to James Bond.The 57-year-old actor has played the role of 007's friend Felix Leiter in three of the spy movies and is willing to feature again despite being killed in the 2021 flick 'No Time To Die'.Asked if he would come back for a Bond reboot, Jeffrey told Deadline: "Yeah. Or if there's a 'ghost of Felix Leiter' moment, then I'll certainly consider doing that."But at the same time, I had a great run on those films, together with Daniel (Craig), Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson and I'm very happy to let that be."The 'Westworld' star added: "I'd never expected to be a part of that franchise. I was an enormous geeky fan of the Bond films as a kid, as many of us were. I'm completely satisfied with what we did there. I'm happy to move on and...
- 5/24/2023
- by Joe Graber
- Bang Showbiz
Over the course of her 70-year reign, Queen Elizabeth II met political figures, actors, artists, and musicians. She knighted some of these people and simply offered a handshake to others. Here are eight musicians who met Queen Elizabeth II during her lifetime.
Madonna, Michael Wilson, and Queen Elizabeth II | Anwar Hussein/WireImage The Beatles
In 1965, The Beatles were at the height of their popularity, and Buckingham Palace awarded them MBEs. The decision was a bit controversial; even the band members were a bit surprised by it.
Fifty years ago #Otd, The Beatles received MBE medals from Queen Elizabeth II. pic.twitter.com/CgT1kvIWMA
— The Beatles (@thebeatles) October 26, 2015
“I didn’t think you got that sort of thing, just for playing rock ‘n’ roll music,” George Harrison said at a press conference, per the Liverpool Echo.
Still, they decided to accept the honor. John Lennon later returned his MBE as a form of political protest.
Madonna, Michael Wilson, and Queen Elizabeth II | Anwar Hussein/WireImage The Beatles
In 1965, The Beatles were at the height of their popularity, and Buckingham Palace awarded them MBEs. The decision was a bit controversial; even the band members were a bit surprised by it.
Fifty years ago #Otd, The Beatles received MBE medals from Queen Elizabeth II. pic.twitter.com/CgT1kvIWMA
— The Beatles (@thebeatles) October 26, 2015
“I didn’t think you got that sort of thing, just for playing rock ‘n’ roll music,” George Harrison said at a press conference, per the Liverpool Echo.
Still, they decided to accept the honor. John Lennon later returned his MBE as a form of political protest.
- 4/13/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
It’s hard to believe that six decades has passed since David Lean’s breathtaking epic “Lawrence of Arabia” was released. Nominated for ten Oscars, the landmark classic revolves about the enigmatic T.E. Lawrence, the British intelligence officer stationed in Cairo who helped the Arabs crush the Ottoman Empire. Lean, who had won his first Oscar five years earlier for the World War II drama “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” was the peak of his powers as a filmmaker. And he elicited dazzling performances from his uber-handsome stars, Peter O’Toole as Lawrence and Omar Sharif as Sherif Ali. The later is memorably introduced in the film with a long, slow shot of him travelling on a camel in the desert.
It was no surprise that “Lawrence” conquered the 35th Academy Awards which took place April 8, 1963 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium earning seven statuettes including film, director, cinematography, editing,...
It was no surprise that “Lawrence” conquered the 35th Academy Awards which took place April 8, 1963 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium earning seven statuettes including film, director, cinematography, editing,...
- 1/11/2023
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
The Choir of Westminster Abbey had quite a moment in the spotlight during Monday’s state funeral service for Queen Elizabeth II, with one choir boy in particular capturing hearts across social media.
As the ensemble sang hymns and songs throughout the duration of the ceremony, viewers took note of a young singer with curly red hair who delivered a star-worthy performance filled with passion, movement and expression.
Dubbed by some as the “Mvp” of the funeral, the boy was praised for his earnest emotion — and Twitter just couldn’t get enough.
I know it’s all about the queen but the star of this funeral so far has been the overly dramatic redheaded choirboy who apparently has never brushed his hair
He needs a Twitter account.
— Brian (@BSBHVR2) September 19, 2022
Just have to love the young choirboy with the untameable hair #queensfuneral
— Avril York (@Threadtangle) September 19, 2022
The lil red-headed choirboy at the Queens funeral…...
As the ensemble sang hymns and songs throughout the duration of the ceremony, viewers took note of a young singer with curly red hair who delivered a star-worthy performance filled with passion, movement and expression.
Dubbed by some as the “Mvp” of the funeral, the boy was praised for his earnest emotion — and Twitter just couldn’t get enough.
I know it’s all about the queen but the star of this funeral so far has been the overly dramatic redheaded choirboy who apparently has never brushed his hair
He needs a Twitter account.
— Brian (@BSBHVR2) September 19, 2022
Just have to love the young choirboy with the untameable hair #queensfuneral
— Avril York (@Threadtangle) September 19, 2022
The lil red-headed choirboy at the Queens funeral…...
- 9/19/2022
- by Becca Longmire
- ET Canada
The Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation Sdcf, the not-for-profit foundation of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society Sdc, announces that acclaimed Director Julie Taymor will be honored with the distinguished 2018 Mr. Abbott Award for outstanding artistry and creativity over the course of her career. The Award will be presented at the Foundation's annual gala event on April 2, 2018 in New York City, venue to be announced. Chairing the Mr. Abbott Award Committee are Thomas Schumacher, President amp Producer, Disney Theatrical Productions, producer Nelle Nugent of The Foxboro Company currently represented on Broadway with Taymor's production of M. Butterfly, and Sdcf Executive Board Members Rachel Chavkin and Michael Wilson. Honorary Co-Chairs include actress Helen Mirren and playwright David Henry Hwang. Proceeds from the gala benefit the early-career programs of Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation.
- 10/19/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Peter O’Toole’s impossibly charismatic debut performance remains a mesmeric marvel in this digitally restored version of the exhilarating historical drama
David Lean’s magnificent and sensual 1962 epic is back at London’s BFI Southbank in a 70mm print. Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson’s terrifically bold adaptation of Te Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom is a movie with all the sweep and antique confidence of a cavalry charge.
Lean demonstrated a mastery of storytelling structure, scale, perspective-shifting, the intense closeup moment, the colossal widescreen panorama – epitomised by the film’s most famous coup de cinéma: having accepted his commission to go out to the Middle East with the Arab bureau in the first world war, and allowed audiences to savour his marvellous profile, Peter O’Toole’s Lawrence blows out a match and the scene changes to the burning desert at sunrise. The screen is ablaze. The dunes undulate in the heat,...
David Lean’s magnificent and sensual 1962 epic is back at London’s BFI Southbank in a 70mm print. Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson’s terrifically bold adaptation of Te Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom is a movie with all the sweep and antique confidence of a cavalry charge.
Lean demonstrated a mastery of storytelling structure, scale, perspective-shifting, the intense closeup moment, the colossal widescreen panorama – epitomised by the film’s most famous coup de cinéma: having accepted his commission to go out to the Middle East with the Arab bureau in the first world war, and allowed audiences to savour his marvellous profile, Peter O’Toole’s Lawrence blows out a match and the scene changes to the burning desert at sunrise. The screen is ablaze. The dunes undulate in the heat,...
- 9/20/2017
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Crime novel The Blank Wall by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding. While her husband is away during World War II, housewife Lucia Holley – the sort of “Everywoman” who looks great in a two-piece bathing suit – does whatever it takes to protect the feeling of “normality” in her bourgeois, suburban household. The Blank Wall is a classic depiction of an attempted cover-up being much more serious than the actual crime. Sound bites: Remembering the classic crime novel 'The Blank Wall' and its two movie adaptations – 'The Reckless Moment' & 'The Deep End' Crime novel writer Elisabeth Sanxay Holding (1889–1955) is not a name familiar to many, and yet Raymond Chandler described her as “the top suspense writer of them all. She doesn't pour it on and make you feel irritated. Her characters are wonderful; and she has a sort of inner calm which I find very attractive.” Holding has been identified as “The Godmother of Noir” and, more...
- 7/17/2017
- by Anthony Slide
- Alt Film Guide
Author: Cai Ross
The original Planet of The Apes movies occupied a curious netherworld of critical opinion. With each film, the budget was sawn in half, leading to a successive pattern of diminishing returns that led to a cheapening of its esteem. The spin-off TV show was quickly cancelled, further dulling the lustre and few people even remember the animated series that finally put the Apes to bed until a rude awakening in 2001.
However, for all their child-pleasing capers (the family-friendly G rating was a mandatory stipulation from the studios), the Apes movies deftly juggled important themes and arguments about slavery, free-will, nuclear war, vivisection, racism and oppression, and man’s innate capacity for cruelty. In pure storytelling terms, the circuitous plot links the first five movies (and the new post-Rise cycle) into a pleasing, if relentlessly pessimistic, self-perpetuating full-circle.
Enormous box office successes in their early stages, they spawned...
The original Planet of The Apes movies occupied a curious netherworld of critical opinion. With each film, the budget was sawn in half, leading to a successive pattern of diminishing returns that led to a cheapening of its esteem. The spin-off TV show was quickly cancelled, further dulling the lustre and few people even remember the animated series that finally put the Apes to bed until a rude awakening in 2001.
However, for all their child-pleasing capers (the family-friendly G rating was a mandatory stipulation from the studios), the Apes movies deftly juggled important themes and arguments about slavery, free-will, nuclear war, vivisection, racism and oppression, and man’s innate capacity for cruelty. In pure storytelling terms, the circuitous plot links the first five movies (and the new post-Rise cycle) into a pleasing, if relentlessly pessimistic, self-perpetuating full-circle.
Enormous box office successes in their early stages, they spawned...
- 7/12/2017
- by Cai Ross
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Horton Foote, Lillian Hellman and Arthur Penn's All-Star vision of an Ugly America found few friends in 1965; now its overstated scenes of social injustice and violence are daily events. Marlon Brando leads a terrific cast -- Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Angie Dickinson, Robert Duvall! -- to endure the worst Saturday ever to hit one cursed Texas township. The Chase (1966) Blu-ray Twilight Time 1966 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 134 min. / Street Date October 11, 2016 / Available from the Twilight Time Movies Store / 29.95 Starring Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford, E.G. Marshall, Angie Dickinson, Janice Rule, Miriam Hopkins, Martha Hyer, Richard Bradford, Robert Duvall, James Fox, Diana Hyland, Henry Hull, Jocelyn Brando, Clifton James, Steve Ihnat Cinematography Joseph Lashelle Production Designer Richard Day Art Direction Robert Luthardt Film Editor Gene Milford Original Music John Barry Written by Lillian Hellman from the novel by Horton Foote Produced by Sam Spiegel Directed by Arthur Penn
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson...
- 10/29/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Primary Stageshosted its2016 Galacelebratingthe Horton FooteCentennial last night,October 17, 2016 at 630 pm at583 Park Avenue. The even twaschaired by CharLes Davis, HAllie Foote, David Richenthal and Michael Wilson, andfeatured performances and tributes by Elizabeth Ashley, Harriet Harris, Jayne Houdyshell, Estelle Parsons pictured, left and Molly Ringwald. Honorary co-chairs for the event include Matthew Broderick, Robert and Luciana Duvall, James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson. Scroll down for photos from the festivities...
- 10/18/2016
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
What's the use of getting all pissy about a kiddie cartoon? Watch Ice Age: Collison Course and see how you feel. The fifth entry in the Ice Age series is a loud, lazy, laugh-starved cash grab that cynically exploits its target audience (I use the term advisedly) by serving them scraps and calling it yummy. Even two-year-olds can see through the hustle.
You can't blame the animators, who do what they can to spark the visuals. But screenwriters Michael Wilson, Michael Berg and Yoni Brenner are running on less than empty.
You can't blame the animators, who do what they can to spark the visuals. But screenwriters Michael Wilson, Michael Berg and Yoni Brenner are running on less than empty.
- 7/22/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Betty Buckley says she'd love to be at the Neil Simon Theatre Thursday to welcome Cats back to Broadway after a 16-year absence. But the musical's now-and-forever Grizabella will be otherwise engaged with a feline ensemble of a different sort. The night before Cats' first New York preview, Buckley opens at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, starring as Big Edie in Grey Gardens. The Tony-winning 2006 Broadway musical has been restaged by director Michael Wilson, whose 2016 Grey Gardens now includes live and filmed media sequences inspired by the 1975 Albert and David Maysles cult
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- 7/11/2016
- by Deborah Wilker
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Cosplayer Michael Wilson aka Knightmage has created the best and only Afro Samurai cosplay that you will ever need to see. What this guy has come up with is complete perfection and awesomely badass. He's brought this animated character to life in a way that I've never seen before. I especially love the hair and the headband which is made to look like the wind is constantly blowing around him. The photos you see here were taken by by Gwendolyn Graham and Black Apple Studios. Enjoy!
Via: Fashionably Geek...
Via: Fashionably Geek...
- 4/27/2016
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
The Signature Theatre should be thanked for bringing an Arthur Miller rarity to the stage on the centenary of the playwright’s birth. The company’s revival of his 1964 play, “Incident at Vichy,” opened Sunday at Off Broadway’s Pershing Square Signature Center. It’s rarely revived for a couple of reasons: It requires a large cast of 16 male actors. And also, “Incident at Vichy” is one of his weaker efforts, which director Michael Wilson‘s production makes abundantly clear. Reading every Miller play is much easier than seeing every Miller played performed live on stage. This “Incident” will interest aficionados.
- 11/16/2015
- by Robert Hofler
- The Wrap
Bay Street Theater presentsTony Award winner Betty Buckley and Drama Desk Award winner Rachel York as Big Edie and Little Edie Bouvier Beale in Grey Gardens, the musical, beginning tomorrow, August 4, where it will run through August30 with book by Doug Wright, music by Scott Frankel, and lyrics by Michael Korie. Michael Wilson directs. For tickets, call the Bay Street Theater Box Office at631-725-9500or online atwww.baystreet.org.
- 8/3/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Omar Sharif in 'Doctor Zhivago.' Egyptian star Omar Sharif, 'The Karate Kid' producer Jerry Weintraub: Brief career recaps A little late in the game – and following the longish Theodore Bikel article posted yesterday – below are brief career recaps of a couple of film veterans who died in July 2015: actor Omar Sharif and producer Jerry Weintraub. A follow-up post will offer an overview of the career of peplum (sword-and-sandal movie) actor Jacques Sernas, whose passing earlier this month has been all but ignored by the myopic English-language media. Omar Sharif: Film career beginnings in North Africa The death of Egyptian film actor Omar Sharif at age 83 following a heart attack on July 10 would have been ignored by the English-language media (especially in the U.S.) as well had Sharif remained a star within the Arabic-speaking world. After all, an "international" star is only worth remembering...
- 7/24/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Teresa Wright and Matt Damon in 'The Rainmaker' Teresa Wright: From Marlon Brando to Matt Damon (See preceding post: "Teresa Wright vs. Samuel Goldwyn: Nasty Falling Out.") "I'd rather have luck than brains!" Teresa Wright was quoted as saying in the early 1950s. That's understandable, considering her post-Samuel Goldwyn choice of movie roles, some of which may have seemed promising on paper.[1] Wright was Marlon Brando's first Hollywood leading lady, but that didn't help her to bounce back following the very public spat with her former boss. After all, The Men was released before Elia Kazan's film version of A Streetcar Named Desire turned Brando into a major international star. Chances are that good film offers were scarce. After Wright's brief 1950 comeback, for the third time in less than a decade she would be gone from the big screen for more than a year.
- 3/11/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Part I: The Lawrence Bureau
T.E. Lawrence (1888-1935) ranks among the 20th Century’s oddest heroes. This short, smart, and mischievous British soldier helped organize the Arab Revolt against Turkey, a secondary front of the First World War. He became Emir Feisal’s trusted ally, painfully conscious that the Allies wouldn’t honor promises of independence. After the Paris Peace Conference, Lawrence retreated into the Royal Air Force and Tank Corps as a private soldier, T.E. Shaw.
Lawrence lived a curious double life, befriending both private soldiers and notables like Winston Churchill and George Bernard Shaw. He wrote memoirs and translated Homer while repairing boats and seaplanes. His intellect, warmth, and puckish humor masked internal torment – guilt for failing to secure Arab freedom, regret for two brothers killed in the war, shame over an incident where Turkish soldiers sexually assaulted him.
In his autobiography Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Lawrence...
T.E. Lawrence (1888-1935) ranks among the 20th Century’s oddest heroes. This short, smart, and mischievous British soldier helped organize the Arab Revolt against Turkey, a secondary front of the First World War. He became Emir Feisal’s trusted ally, painfully conscious that the Allies wouldn’t honor promises of independence. After the Paris Peace Conference, Lawrence retreated into the Royal Air Force and Tank Corps as a private soldier, T.E. Shaw.
Lawrence lived a curious double life, befriending both private soldiers and notables like Winston Churchill and George Bernard Shaw. He wrote memoirs and translated Homer while repairing boats and seaplanes. His intellect, warmth, and puckish humor masked internal torment – guilt for failing to secure Arab freedom, regret for two brothers killed in the war, shame over an incident where Turkish soldiers sexually assaulted him.
In his autobiography Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Lawrence...
- 2/17/2015
- by Christopher Saunders
- SoundOnSight
Recently, CBS released the new,official synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "NCIS: Los Angeles" premiere episode 1 of season 6. The episode is entitled, "Deep Trouble Part 2," and it sounds like things will get extremely intense and dangerous as Sam and Callen get caught up in another life threatening situation trapped on a death-bound submarine, and more! In the new, 1st episode press release: When Callen and Sam are trapped in an armed submarine which terrorists have aimed at an aircraft carrier in San Diego, The NCIS: La team is going to have to find them and prevent the attack. Press release number 2: Callen and Sam will get trapped in an armed submarine that terrorists have aimed to hit an aircraft carrier in San Diego. Meanwhile, Hetty is going to defy orders and forgoes her trip to Washington as the team tries to locate and save Callen and Sam and prevent the terrorist attack.
- 9/2/2014
- by Andre
- OnTheFlix
Even before you consider Rupert Wyatt's hit 2011 blockbuster Rise of the Planet of the Apes and its successor Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Franklin J Schaffner's 1968 adventure had spawned four sequels, an animated cartoon series, a live-action TV show, a deluge of marketing (bubblegum cards, plastic models, etc.) and Tim Burton's 2001 remake. And yet nobody wanted to touch Planet of the Apes when producer Arthur P Jacobs first touted it around Hollywood in the mid-'60s.
Adapted from Pierre Boulle's novel La Planète Des Singes, Jacobs saw it as the perfect follow-up to the animal magic movie he currently had in production, Doctor Dolittle. Approaching studios with a script by Rod Serling, the creator of The Twilight Zone, and concept images honed by no fewer than seven artists, Jacobs's passion project was nonetheless ridiculed: actors in monkey suits was the stuff of B-movies and cheap TV serials.
Adapted from Pierre Boulle's novel La Planète Des Singes, Jacobs saw it as the perfect follow-up to the animal magic movie he currently had in production, Doctor Dolittle. Approaching studios with a script by Rod Serling, the creator of The Twilight Zone, and concept images honed by no fewer than seven artists, Jacobs's passion project was nonetheless ridiculed: actors in monkey suits was the stuff of B-movies and cheap TV serials.
- 7/13/2014
- Digital Spy
‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’ trailer: New trailer for 2014 ‘Planet of the Apes’ film shows humans are the most dangerous apes of them all (image: Caesar in ‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’) The new Dawn of the Planet of the Apes trailer is out. Caesar and his fellow genetically modified apes enjoy a peaceful existence until created-in-God’s-image apes — that’s self-delusional humans — discover the Gmo apes’ hiding place in a lush forest. Much like gays were blamed for the AIDS virus a few decades ago, the virtuous and righteous humans (Gary Oldman among them) blame the Gmo apes for a virus that all but wiped out humankind. Enter the military, ever eager to save the world for peace and happiness by way of some heavy-duty weaponry. Needless to say, I’m ardently rooting for Caesar (Andy Serkis) and his fellow Gmo apes. Check out the...
- 5/8/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Recently,CBS released the new,official synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "NCIS: Los Angeles" season finale episode 24 of season 5. The episode is entitled, "Deep Trouble," and it sounds like things will get pretty intense and intriguing as Sam and Callen go on the hunt for a cocaine-filled submarine, and more. In the new, 24th finale episode press release: Callen and Sam will search for a missing submarine that the Cartel plans to use to smuggle billions of dollars of cocaine to the United States. Press release number 2: When the NCIS: La team and the DEA uncover the cartel’s plans to slyly transport billions of dollars’ worth of cocaine from Colombia to the United States using a submarine, Callen and Sam are going to have to quickly locate the missing vessel. In the meantime, Hetty is going to get called to Washington in the aftermath of the controversial mission in Afghanistan.
- 5/6/2014
- by Derek
- OnTheFlix
Michael Wilson will represent writers and directors with an emphasis on television in his new role as literary manager at Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment. Wilson began his career in the UTA mailroom and worked in the television department before transitioning to television production at Management 360. He joined Kaplan/Perrone a year ago and most recently worked for partner Tobin Babst. “Wilson is a dedicated member of the team who has hit the ground running ever since he joined the company. We are confident that his tireless work ethic and dedication to artists will be a tremendous asset to our firm,” Kpe said in a statement.
- 3/17/2014
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Sixty years ago a team of radical, blacklisted filmmakers made Salt of the Earth, a powerful representation of the agency of Us workers. Sukhdev Sandhu celebrates a talisman of the American left
Demonised and hounded off screen on its release, Salt of the Earth, released in almost impossible circumstances 60 years ago, has a strong claim to being the most ambitious American film ever made. According to its director Herbert J Biberman and screenwriter Michael Wilson, it was the "first feature film ever made in [the Us] of labour, by labour, and for labour". More than that, it was "a film that does not tolerate minorities but celebrates their greatness".
Biberman, Wilson and producer Paul Jarrico had all been exiled from Hollywood for their politics. Biberman had worked in theatres in Moscow and co-founded the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League before being jailed for six months for refusing to testify before the House Committee on...
Demonised and hounded off screen on its release, Salt of the Earth, released in almost impossible circumstances 60 years ago, has a strong claim to being the most ambitious American film ever made. According to its director Herbert J Biberman and screenwriter Michael Wilson, it was the "first feature film ever made in [the Us] of labour, by labour, and for labour". More than that, it was "a film that does not tolerate minorities but celebrates their greatness".
Biberman, Wilson and producer Paul Jarrico had all been exiled from Hollywood for their politics. Biberman had worked in theatres in Moscow and co-founded the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League before being jailed for six months for refusing to testify before the House Committee on...
- 3/11/2014
- by Sukhdev Sandhu
- The Guardian - Film News
Pinewood Studios has officially opened its new Q Stage.
Ben Whishaw, the latest actor to play ‘Q’ in the Bond franchise, formally opened the facility today. Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson were also in attendance.
The development comprises a 30,000 sq ft stage and 15,000 sq ft of production accommodation and workshops.
The first production to move into the stage is described only as a “large inward investment film.”
Pinewood’s Andrew Smith said: “We are thrilled that Ben took time out of his busy schedule to formally open ‘Q’ Stage. Pinewood continues to invest in its infrastructure to ensure it offers all types of production the most state of the art, secure and flexible stages possible. It is even more special to have Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson here to help celebrate and it underlines the very special relationship Pinewood and Eon Productions enjoy.”...
Ben Whishaw, the latest actor to play ‘Q’ in the Bond franchise, formally opened the facility today. Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson were also in attendance.
The development comprises a 30,000 sq ft stage and 15,000 sq ft of production accommodation and workshops.
The first production to move into the stage is described only as a “large inward investment film.”
Pinewood’s Andrew Smith said: “We are thrilled that Ben took time out of his busy schedule to formally open ‘Q’ Stage. Pinewood continues to invest in its infrastructure to ensure it offers all types of production the most state of the art, secure and flexible stages possible. It is even more special to have Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson here to help celebrate and it underlines the very special relationship Pinewood and Eon Productions enjoy.”...
- 12/4/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Chalk by Pat Cadigan is the latest in the interesting and enjoyable series of chapbooks that This Is Horror began publishing about a year ago. Previous entries have included Joe & Me by David Moody and Roadkill by Joseph D'Lacey, both of which received justifiably favourable reviews here at Shadowlocked, and Chalk maintains the premium standard that has become synonymous with not only this series of chapbooks, but with the This Is Horror website.
Chalk by Pat Cadigan is available from the This Is Horror website, along with the other superb chapbooks in the series. Thanks to Michael Wilson for the review copy.
Chalk by Pat Cadigan is available from the This Is Horror website, along with the other superb chapbooks in the series. Thanks to Michael Wilson for the review copy.
- 12/4/2013
- Shadowlocked
‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sequel could get killed by Paramount (photo: James Stewart and Donna Reed in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’) What would the world be like if any one individual human being had never been born? In most cases, the world would quite possibly be an infinitely better place, but the overwhelming majority of (delusional) humans want to feel good about themselves and their place on our overpopulated, fast-rotting planet. Hence movies such as Frank Capra’s 1946 sentimental fantasy drama It’s a Wonderful Life, released the year after the end of World War II — which reportedly left about 60 million human beings dead (plus countless other non-humans), in addition to millions more maimed, homeless, and/or psychologically destroyed. Starring James Stewart as Small Town America family man George Bailey, who almost kills himself but is prevented from doing so by an angel with way too much time in his hands,...
- 11/22/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Production is currently underway in Atlanta on a television adaptation of Tony-nominated Broadway revival The Trip To Bountiful. It’s set to premiere on Lifetime in 2014. Original cast members Cicely Tyson and Vanessa Williams star along with Blair Underwood (In Treatment) and Keke Palmer (CrazySexyCool). Trip To Bountiful tells the story of a woman’s quest to reconnect with her past in order to ensure her family’s future. Set during the final years of the Jim Crow South, it is the best-known work by Oscar-, Pulitzer- and Emmy-winning author Horton Foote. Michael Wilson, who directed the play, makes his television directorial debut with the project. Pic is produced by Ostar. Tyson, Bill Haber (The Fantasia Barrino Story: Life Is Not A Fairy Tale), Hallie Foote (Paranormal Activity 3) and Jeff Hayes (Rizzoli & Isles) are exec producers.
- 11/5/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Lifetime is adapting Tony-nominated Broadway hit, “The Trip to Bountiful.” Production is underway in Atlanta for a 2014 airdate. It will star Cicely Tyson (“The Help”) and Vanessa Williams (“Ugly Betty”), who starred in the recent Broadway revival that ended in October. They will be joined by Blair Underwood (“In Treatment”) alongside Keke Palmer (“CrazySexyCool”). Michael Wilson, who directed the play, will make his television directorial debut with the project. Also read: Gabby Douglas Gets the Lifetime Biopic Treatment Produced by Ostar Productions, “The Trip to Bountiful” is executive produced by Bill Haber (“The Fantasia Barrino Story: Life is Not a...
- 11/5/2013
- by Jethro Nededog
- The Wrap
Horton Foote's The Old Friends, directed by Michael Wilson runs now through October 6, 2013, in The Irene Diamond Stage at The Pershing Square Signature Center 480 West 42nd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues. On Sunday night, the cast got a visit from the company of Broadway's The Trip to Bountiful and you can check out exclusive photos of the whole gang backstage below...
- 9/18/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Old Friends (at the Signature Center through October 6)From beyond the grave, crafty Horton Foote just keeps on evolving: The Old Friends, a companion to Foote’s 1944 Broadway debut, Only the Heart, was begun in the sixties and semi-staged in the eighties. Now doughty Foote soldier Michael Wilson (The Orphan’s Home Cycle, The Trip to Bountiful) has brought the final version to fruition in a sizzling, spitting skillet of a production, where nary a performance is short of deep-fried perfection and every backhanded compliment and drunken indiscretion lands like a javelin in someone’s back. This is the rare show in which Betty Buckley — as vulgar, manipulative, perma-toxicated farming empress Gertrude Ratliff — delivers a perfect monster of a performance, and there’s still room for eight more. Cotter Smith is superbly deployed as Howard Ratliff, brother of Gertrude’s late husband and manager of her estate, kept as...
- 9/13/2013
- by Scott Brown
- Vulture
Horton Foote's The Old Friends, directed by Michael Wilson runs now through October 6, 2013 with a September 12 opening night in The Irene Diamond Stage at The Pershing Square Signature Center 480 West 42nd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues. Last night, The Trip To Bountiful's Vanessa Williams attened the show prior to stopping backstage to visit Betty Buckley, Hallie Foote, and the rest of the cast - check out photos below...
- 8/29/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Signature Theatre is pleased to announce a one-week extension for the World Premiere of Horton Foote's The Old Friends,directed by Michael Wilson. The production will now play through Sunday, October 6. Now in previews, The Old Friends will open September 12 in The Irene Diamond Stage at The Pershing Square Signature Center 480 West 42nd Street between 9thand 10th Avenues. Limited 25 subsidized tickets remain for the production's initial run. Tickets during the extension week are 75 each.
- 8/26/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Signature Theatre has announced that complete casting is confirmed and tickets are now on sale for the World Premiere of Horton Foote's The Old Friends, directed by Michael Wilson. All tickets for the initial run of the production are 25 as part of the Signature Ticket Initiative A Generation of Access. The production runs August 20 through September 29, 2013 with a September 12 opening night in The Irene Diamond Stage at The Pershing Square Signature Center 480 West 42nd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues.
- 7/16/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
"The Trip to Bountiful" will have its final show on Oct. 9, the Tony-winning play's producers said Monday. The closing date marks a five-week extension for the revival of Horton Foote's story of an elderly woman's return to her childhood home. The acclaimed production earned Cicely Tyson the Tony Award this year for Best Leading Actress in a Play. Also read: 6 Best Reactions to Cicely Tyson's Bizarre Tony Awards Dress Cuba Gooding Jr., Vanessa Williams and Condola Rashad co-star in the play, which is directed by Michael Wilson. The show has played...
- 7/8/2013
- by Brent Lang
- The Wrap
Editor's Note: After a night of restless sleep, I was visited by the three Spirits of America -- Teddy Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and Bo Jackson. They asked why I had forgotten so many other great American video game heroes and demanded I expand the list. Never one to want to disappoint, I have revised this article to reflect the wishes of Bo and his pals.
America's birthday is tomorrow and what better way to celebrate than by counting off a few of the most iconic All-American video game characters. What's that you say? You'd rather be kicking back a few colds ones with some friends while watching fireworks? Fine -- but you'll never know who's the best American video game hero.
11. Bill "Mad Dog" Rizer and Lance "Scorpion" Bean -- "Contra"
This classic arcade game put you in the boots of two commandos pitted against a terrorist organization who were wreaking havoc over the world.
America's birthday is tomorrow and what better way to celebrate than by counting off a few of the most iconic All-American video game characters. What's that you say? You'd rather be kicking back a few colds ones with some friends while watching fireworks? Fine -- but you'll never know who's the best American video game hero.
11. Bill "Mad Dog" Rizer and Lance "Scorpion" Bean -- "Contra"
This classic arcade game put you in the boots of two commandos pitted against a terrorist organization who were wreaking havoc over the world.
- 7/4/2013
- by Clint Mize
- MTV Multiplayer
Exclusive: Thunder Road has acquired No Quarter, a spec script by The Messenger scribe Alessandro Camon and Michael Wilson that will be produced by Thunder Road’s Basil Iwanyk and Michael De Luca. No Quarter is a contemporary crime story that touches on the themes of the military and the difficulty of reintegrating back into society after serving as a soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan. Those were themes in The Messenger. Set in Los Angeles in 2007, two friends who were combat Marines and side by side survived some of the toughest fighting in the Iraq war, find themselves on opposite sides of the law. One becomes a star cop in an elite undercover unit while the other gets into a heist crew involved with a drug cartel. These men, who once depended on each other for survival, see their friendship and loyalties put to the test. Both Iwanyk and De...
- 6/28/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
The search for Sam Mendes' successor at the helm of the James Bond franchise continues in some interesting directions with Norwegian website Comoyo reporting that Headhunters director Morten Tyldum has been approached by producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson. Says Tyldum:i can confirm that I've had a meeting with Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson. They are fans of Headhunters, and wanted to know if I'm available at the moment. They also wanted me to read a script.That last bit is certainly interesting as it would imply that writer John Logan has already completed a draft of the script. More as it comes, but weigh in below. How would you feel about Tyldum at the helm?...
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- 5/29/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Jane Lynch will host "TrevorLIVE New York," the Trevor Project said Wednesday. The annual benefit for the gay rights organization will be directed by Michael Wilson, who recently guided a new version of Horton Foote's "The Trip to Bountiful" to a Tony nomination for Best Revival. It will also feature performances by Billy Porter, the star of "Kinky Boots," singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles and DJ Kiss. The Trevor Project said additional performers will be announced shortly. Lynch is best known for her portrayal of the fiercely competitive cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester on "Glee," but she...
- 5/29/2013
- by Brent Lang
- The Wrap
The "most powerful President ever" joins Thomas J. Whitmore, Michael Wilson, and Shoko Ōzora as one of the leading kickass executives.
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- 5/7/2013
- by Charles Webb
- MTV Multiplayer
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