Updated with more signatories: Reaction continues to The Zone of Interest director Jonathan Glazer’s acceptance speech after his film won the Oscar for Best International Feature Film this month.
Some 1,215 Jewish show business professionals now have signed a letter denouncing the filmmaker’s speech, in which he decried the “dehumanization” of the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas. See the updated full list below.
“We refute our Jewishness being hijacked for the purpose of drawing a moral equivalence between a Nazi regime that sought to exterminate a race of people, and an Israeli nation that seeks to avert its own extermination,” the letter states (read it in full in full below).
This list includes among its signatories Eli Roth and Amy Sherman-Palladino, Amy Pascal, Debra Messing, Gail Berman, Hawk Koch, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gary Barber, Lawrence Bender, Tovah Feldshuh and Rod Lurie.
You can watch Glazer’s speech here,...
Some 1,215 Jewish show business professionals now have signed a letter denouncing the filmmaker’s speech, in which he decried the “dehumanization” of the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas. See the updated full list below.
“We refute our Jewishness being hijacked for the purpose of drawing a moral equivalence between a Nazi regime that sought to exterminate a race of people, and an Israeli nation that seeks to avert its own extermination,” the letter states (read it in full in full below).
This list includes among its signatories Eli Roth and Amy Sherman-Palladino, Amy Pascal, Debra Messing, Gail Berman, Hawk Koch, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gary Barber, Lawrence Bender, Tovah Feldshuh and Rod Lurie.
You can watch Glazer’s speech here,...
- 3/20/2024
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Coming after a huge wave of restaurant closings in Los Angeles in 2023 — including The Palm Beverly Hills, Woodspoon, Animal, Off Vine, Mohawk Bend, Kinn, Café Tropical and Craft — Hollywood has been hit with another blow: the loss of some of its favorite treats. The expiration of two beloved bakeries, Sweet Lady Jane and Milk Jar Cookies, has saddened many in the industry and led to questions about the sustainability of small L.A. businesses.
“No. no. no. heartbroken,” posted Blake Lively on Sweet Lady Jane’s Instagram page after it announced that the legendary celeb-loved bakery, founded by Jane Lockhart and famed for its luscious Triple Berry Cake, was shutting down its six locations Dec. 31 after 35 years in business. “Sales are not enough to continue doing business in the state of California,” the bakery’s post read. Lockhart could not be reached for comment.
“It was just shocking,” says Lisa...
“No. no. no. heartbroken,” posted Blake Lively on Sweet Lady Jane’s Instagram page after it announced that the legendary celeb-loved bakery, founded by Jane Lockhart and famed for its luscious Triple Berry Cake, was shutting down its six locations Dec. 31 after 35 years in business. “Sales are not enough to continue doing business in the state of California,” the bakery’s post read. Lockhart could not be reached for comment.
“It was just shocking,” says Lisa...
- 1/13/2024
- by Hadley Meares
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Emmanuelle Chriqui and Hayes MacArthur have been set to star in A Love Like This, an indie romantic drama directed by John Asher based on an original screenplay by Jeffrey W. Ruggles. The project was recently granted a SAG-AFTRA interim agreement allowing it to move forward.
The film, in production in Malibu, is billed as a romantic tale of two lovers who rent a beach house for the weekend, but there is more to their relationship than it seems.
Asher’s previous films include A Boy Called Po, Somebody Marry Me and Diamonds, as well as on the TV series One Tree Hill.
A Love Like This is produced by Jordan Bogdonavage, Michael Manasseri, Sergey Shtern, Brett Gursky and Lee Levin. Lisa Alfelt, Carl Radke and Sarah Santos are serving as executive producers. Jack DeCerchio is serving as associate producer. Chriqui and MacArthur are also producers on the film.
The film, in production in Malibu, is billed as a romantic tale of two lovers who rent a beach house for the weekend, but there is more to their relationship than it seems.
Asher’s previous films include A Boy Called Po, Somebody Marry Me and Diamonds, as well as on the TV series One Tree Hill.
A Love Like This is produced by Jordan Bogdonavage, Michael Manasseri, Sergey Shtern, Brett Gursky and Lee Levin. Lisa Alfelt, Carl Radke and Sarah Santos are serving as executive producers. Jack DeCerchio is serving as associate producer. Chriqui and MacArthur are also producers on the film.
- 11/2/2023
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
Our collective love for pop culture is so strong that it's not just the actors, filmmakers, and characters from the big screen and the flickering box getting all the love. Sometimes, a movie or TV show becomes such a cherished piece of entertainment history that even the props and locations from our favorite stories reach a surprising level of admiration. Some of them have even become, dare I say, iconic? That's what drives people to buy endless merchandise for their shelves and take road trips to visit the real life locations that have been featured in film and TV. Thankfully, checking out some of the most recognizable locales from Hollywood's history is about to get a little bit easier, thanks to an upcoming documentary.
"The House From..." is a new film from Tommy Avallone, director of Peacock's recently released "I Love You, You Hate Me," the documentary chronicling the rise...
"The House From..." is a new film from Tommy Avallone, director of Peacock's recently released "I Love You, You Hate Me," the documentary chronicling the rise...
- 10/20/2022
- by Ethan Anderton
- Slash Film
Exclusive: Sugar23 has optioned the rights to author Jean Meltzer’s first novel, The Matzah Ball, with plans to develop as a feature film. Sugar23 will produce along with Lance Bass Productions, Brett Gursky and Ben Savage. Michael Sugar, Sugar 23’s Ashley Zalta and Bass will serve as producers. Meltzer, Gursky, Lance Bass Productions’ Drew Pokorny, Savage and Sugar23’s Jillian Kay will serve as executive producers.
The book is an alternative holiday love story, follows chronically-ill Rachel Rubenstein-Goldblatt a “nice Jewish girl‚” with a secret: she loves Christmas. As the best-selling author of over twenty Christmas romance novels, and four made-for-tv movie spin-offs, she’s kept her stellar career secret from her observant Jewish family for over a decade. But when Rachel’s publishing house tells her they won’t renew her contract unless she writes them a Hanukkah romance, she’s desperate for inspiration. She finds it in...
The book is an alternative holiday love story, follows chronically-ill Rachel Rubenstein-Goldblatt a “nice Jewish girl‚” with a secret: she loves Christmas. As the best-selling author of over twenty Christmas romance novels, and four made-for-tv movie spin-offs, she’s kept her stellar career secret from her observant Jewish family for over a decade. But when Rachel’s publishing house tells her they won’t renew her contract unless she writes them a Hanukkah romance, she’s desperate for inspiration. She finds it in...
- 2/3/2022
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Peter Facinelli landed his breakout role with Can't Hardly Wait, but he might have starred in a different iconic 1990s high school comedy, if not for his unwillingness to adjust his vision for the part. The 47-year-old Twilight star visited the On the List podcast on Monday, April 26, where he told host Brett Gursky he "was very close to getting" the role of Cher's crush Christian. In the film, the lead, played by Alicia Silverstone, eventually learns that the guy of her dreams, portrayed by Justin Walker, is gay. "There's a list of movies I almost got—Clueless is one of them," Peter said of director Amy Heckerling's beloved film. "I...
- 4/28/2021
- E! Online
Peter Facinelli, acting since the mid-1990s, has done just about everything in his career from low-budget indies and tentpole franchises to TV movies and hit network series. In recent years, the New York native pivoted to filmmaking by writing, producing and directing his own features.
To promote the Netflix debut of his latest — The Vanished starring real-life couple Thomas Jane and Anne Heche opposite Jason Patric — Facinelli joined Brett Gursky on his podcast On the List. The two discussed nearly every entry on Facinelli’s resume, including the ones that got away. High on that list is Amy Heckerling’s ...
To promote the Netflix debut of his latest — The Vanished starring real-life couple Thomas Jane and Anne Heche opposite Jason Patric — Facinelli joined Brett Gursky on his podcast On the List. The two discussed nearly every entry on Facinelli’s resume, including the ones that got away. High on that list is Amy Heckerling’s ...
- 4/28/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Peter Facinelli, acting since the mid-1990s, has done just about everything in his career from low-budget indies and tentpole franchises to TV movies and hit network series. In recent years, the New York native pivoted to filmmaking by writing, producing and directing his own features.
To promote the Netflix debut of his latest — The Vanished starring real-life couple Thomas Jane and Anne Heche opposite Jason Patric — Facinelli joined Brett Gursky on his podcast On the List. The two discussed nearly every entry on Facinelli’s resume, including the ones that got away. High on that list is Amy Heckerling’s ...
To promote the Netflix debut of his latest — The Vanished starring real-life couple Thomas Jane and Anne Heche opposite Jason Patric — Facinelli joined Brett Gursky on his podcast On the List. The two discussed nearly every entry on Facinelli’s resume, including the ones that got away. High on that list is Amy Heckerling’s ...
- 4/28/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Carl Radke is over a month sober. For an all-new episode of On The List with Brett Gursky, the Summer House star gave an update on his sobriety after drinking in moderation while filming season five of the Bravo hit. In the interview, which E! News got an exclusive first look at, Radke credited Summer House for helping him get sober. "Obviously, if you've watched the show you've seen some of my patterns of behavior. And it's stuff that I was doing outside of the show," he relayed on the podcast. "I mean, I think the show actually probably saved me in a lot of ways. My personal life outside the show, I was partying and just not taking care of myself. And I think when you watch numerous episodes...
- 2/15/2021
- E! Online
Dane Cook is revealing more about how the star-stuffed Fast Times at Ridgemont High table read came together.
During an appearance on Brett Gursky’s podcast, On the List With Brett Gursky, Cook was asked about how he managed to land a slew of A-listers including Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston, Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Matthew McConaughey, Morgan Freeman, Jimmy Kimmel, John Legend and Shia Labeouf for the event, dubbed Dane Cook Presents Feelin’ A-LIve: Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
“It was truly spectacular,” Cook said of the virtual production, a benefit for Penn’s Core and Reform Alliance to aid in ...
During an appearance on Brett Gursky’s podcast, On the List With Brett Gursky, Cook was asked about how he managed to land a slew of A-listers including Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston, Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Matthew McConaughey, Morgan Freeman, Jimmy Kimmel, John Legend and Shia Labeouf for the event, dubbed Dane Cook Presents Feelin’ A-LIve: Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
“It was truly spectacular,” Cook said of the virtual production, a benefit for Penn’s Core and Reform Alliance to aid in ...
- 11/18/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Dane Cook is revealing more about how the star-stuffed Fast Times at Ridgemont High table read came together.
During an appearance on Brett Gursky’s podcast, On the List With Brett Gursky, Cook was asked about how he managed to land a slew of A-listers including Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston, Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Matthew McConaughey, Morgan Freeman, Jimmy Kimmel, John Legend and Shia Labeouf for the event, dubbed Dane Cook Presents Feelin’ A-LIve: Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
“It was truly spectacular,” Cook said of the virtual production, a benefit for Penn’s Core and Reform Alliance to aid in ...
During an appearance on Brett Gursky’s podcast, On the List With Brett Gursky, Cook was asked about how he managed to land a slew of A-listers including Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston, Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Matthew McConaughey, Morgan Freeman, Jimmy Kimmel, John Legend and Shia Labeouf for the event, dubbed Dane Cook Presents Feelin’ A-LIve: Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
“It was truly spectacular,” Cook said of the virtual production, a benefit for Penn’s Core and Reform Alliance to aid in ...
- 11/18/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Kristin Cavallari Interview Bombshells: What She Said About Lauren Conrad, Stephen Colletti and More
Kristin Cavallari is unpacking it all. Nearly six months after announcing her split from her decade-long partner, Jay Cutler, the reality star dropped more bombshells during a new interview on the Bleav Podcast Network's On the List podcast with Brett Gursky. While promoting her new cookbook, True Comfort, the Uncommon James mogul cleared the air on some pressing topics, including the upcoming Laguna Beach reunion with Lauren Conrad, the romance rumors sparked by her recent outing with ex Stephen Colletti, her feelings on Cutler today and her relationship status after she was spotted kissing comedian Jeff Dye. Needless to say, there was much for the mom of three to...
- 10/19/2020
- E! Online
Exclusive: Undrafted punt returner Vernon Turner might have come into the NFL through modest auspices, but his inspiring life story will head to the screen backed by a high wattage group of producers. Gabrielle Union & Dwyane Wade and Ciara & Russell Wilson are teaming up on a drama based on Turner’s self-published book The Next Level: A Game I Had To Play.
Union’s I’ll Have Another Productions and Wade’s 59th and Prairie Entertainment has teamed with Wilson and Ciara’s Why Not You Productions to develop the project, joining producing duo Brett Gursky and Josh Surkin from Magic Hour. Brad Gann (Invincible and Soul Surfer) wrote the feature script, entitled Relentless, after spending time with Turner exploring his life. Nicholas Katsapas will be executive producer.
This is way more than Vernon making it to the NFL against long odds that were with him when he was a...
Union’s I’ll Have Another Productions and Wade’s 59th and Prairie Entertainment has teamed with Wilson and Ciara’s Why Not You Productions to develop the project, joining producing duo Brett Gursky and Josh Surkin from Magic Hour. Brad Gann (Invincible and Soul Surfer) wrote the feature script, entitled Relentless, after spending time with Turner exploring his life. Nicholas Katsapas will be executive producer.
This is way more than Vernon making it to the NFL against long odds that were with him when he was a...
- 7/24/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Lance Bass is trying to clean up the tea he accidentally spilled. During a recent interview on the Reality Bytes podcast with Rob Evors, the N*Sync member decided to share a few details about Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright's summer wedding. While praising the special event, Lance casually dropped a bombshell about another Vanderpump Rules couple. "The big talk around the wedding was that there was this rumor that maybe Katie Maloney and Tom Schwartz could possibly not be married because they might have done their paperwork wrong," he shared with guests Jamie-Lynn Sigler and Brett Gursky. Fast-forward to today where Lance appeared on ABC's Strahan & Sara to explain...
- 7/17/2019
- E! Online
What a night Feb. 24 was for Charlie Wachtel.
He gifted Spike Lee a special good luck charm, downed tequila shots with Brie Larson and — perhaps the biggest highlight of Oscar night — fell asleep next to Hollywood's most coveted golden accessory. Wachtel, one of the screenwriters of Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman, who won best adapted screenplay alongside Lee, David Rabinowitz and Kevin Willmott, recounted his big night for Brett Gursky on his On the List podcast for the Bleav Podcast Network.
About that good luck charm, Wachtel said he found out that Lee is a "big ...
He gifted Spike Lee a special good luck charm, downed tequila shots with Brie Larson and — perhaps the biggest highlight of Oscar night — fell asleep next to Hollywood's most coveted golden accessory. Wachtel, one of the screenwriters of Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman, who won best adapted screenplay alongside Lee, David Rabinowitz and Kevin Willmott, recounted his big night for Brett Gursky on his On the List podcast for the Bleav Podcast Network.
About that good luck charm, Wachtel said he found out that Lee is a "big ...
What a night Feb. 24 was for Charlie Wachtel.
He gifted Spike Lee a special good luck charm, downed tequila shots with Brie Larson and — perhaps the biggest highlight of Oscar night — fell asleep next to Hollywood's most coveted golden accessory. Wachtel, one of the screenwriters of Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman, who won best adapted screenplay alongside Lee, David Rabinowitz and Kevin Willmott, recounted his big night for Brett Gursky on his On the List podcast for the Bleav Podcast Network.
About that good luck charm, Wachtel said he found out that Lee is a "big ...
He gifted Spike Lee a special good luck charm, downed tequila shots with Brie Larson and — perhaps the biggest highlight of Oscar night — fell asleep next to Hollywood's most coveted golden accessory. Wachtel, one of the screenwriters of Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman, who won best adapted screenplay alongside Lee, David Rabinowitz and Kevin Willmott, recounted his big night for Brett Gursky on his On the List podcast for the Bleav Podcast Network.
About that good luck charm, Wachtel said he found out that Lee is a "big ...
The HollyShorts Film Festival has today unveiled its official lineup of in-competition short films for its 13th edition. As La’s biggest shorts film festival, HollyShorts routinely screens exciting new work from big names, while also offering a glimpse at the short film stars of tomorrow, all with the added sweetener of being an Oscar-qualifying festival.
This year’s festival received an all-time record of 4,000 submissions from 65 countries. This year’s lineup include 400 shorts, which will compete for the Best Short Film Prize and Grand Jury Prize, Best Director, among other top categories. The 2017 official selections have been rolled out via posts on the HollyShorts official Instagram, and all of the 400 officially accepted short films that will screen at the festival can be found by visiting here.
Read More‘Full Metal Jacket’ Set for Thirtieth Anniversary Celebration at HollyShorts — Exclusive
Highlights from this year’s selection include films that offer...
This year’s festival received an all-time record of 4,000 submissions from 65 countries. This year’s lineup include 400 shorts, which will compete for the Best Short Film Prize and Grand Jury Prize, Best Director, among other top categories. The 2017 official selections have been rolled out via posts on the HollyShorts official Instagram, and all of the 400 officially accepted short films that will screen at the festival can be found by visiting here.
Read More‘Full Metal Jacket’ Set for Thirtieth Anniversary Celebration at HollyShorts — Exclusive
Highlights from this year’s selection include films that offer...
- 7/25/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
MSN is jumping on board the latest trend in original web series—reality TV-style shows—with its new hosted competition series The Tastemaker which launched today. The series features six social media influencers battling it out for a $10,000 prize as “The Tastemaker.” In the running for the top spot are web series host Jesse Draper (The Valley Girl), along with Christine Esther, Jonathan Nafarrete, Brett Gursky, Raymond Roker and Morgan KcKean. The show makes no excuses for the fact that this is essentially an online popularity contest, even titling its first fan voting as “The Official Tastemaker Popularity Contest!” on Sodahead. Judging the competition are some recognizable faces in the web video world all with their own social media followings including Shira Lazar, Kelly Perdew (Season 2 winner of ‘The Apprentice’) and “adventuregirl” Stefanie Michaels Each episode is laid out as a “challenge” where, in typical reality show fashion, contestants face elimination.
- 9/13/2010
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
GigaPix Studios and Vanguard Entertainment Group have picked up "The Old College Try" from Brett Gursky and Scott Herbst. Gursky will helm the comedy which focuses on a man in his thirties who is affraid of commitment and finds himself transported back to Syracuse University during his college days. He's given a chance to change his face romance wise. Similar to "Peggy Sue Got Married" Gursky has writing credits for TV's "Bad Dad" and worked as an assistant to Brett Ratner in "X-Men: The Last Stand" and this makes his directorial debut.
- 9/29/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
GigaPix Studios and Vanguard Entertainment Group have picked up "The Old College Try" from Brett Gursky and Scott Herbst. Gursky will helm the comedy which focuses on a man in his thirties who is affraid of commitment and finds himself transported back to Syracuse University during his college days. He's given a chance to change his face romance wise. Similar to "Peggy Sue Got Married" Gursky has writing credits for TV's "Bad Dad" and worked as an assistant to Brett Ratner in "X-Men: The Last Stand" and this makes his directorial debut.
- 9/29/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
GigaPix Studios and Vanguard Entertainment Group have picked up "The Old College Try" from Brett Gursky and Scott Herbst. Gursky will helm the comedy which focuses on a man in his thirties who is affraid of commitment and finds himself transported back to Syracuse University during his college days. He's given a chance to change his face romance wise. Similar to "Peggy Sue Got Married" Gursky has writing credits for TV's "Bad Dad" and worked as an assistant to Brett Ratner in "X-Men: The Last Stand" and this makes his directorial debut. Gursky said that "The project is an updated take on a classic wish-fulfillment, 'What if ...?' story." ...
- 9/29/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
GigaPix Studios and Vanguard Entertainment Group have picked up "The Old College Try" from Brett Gursky and Scott Herbst. Gursky will helm the comedy which focuses on a man in his thirties who is affraid of commitment and finds himself transported back to Syracuse University during his college days. He's given a chance to change his face romance wise. Similar to "Peggy Sue Got Married" Gursky has writing credits for TV's "Bad Dad" and worked as an assistant to Brett Ratner in "X-Men: The Last Stand" and this makes his directorial debut.
- 9/29/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
New York -- GigaPix Studios and Vanguard Entertainment Group are going back to school.
The production/co-financing entity has picked up "The Old College Try" from Brett Gursky and Scott Herbst, with Gursky attached to direct from the pair's script.
The time-travel comedy centers on a thirtysomething commitment-phobic man who finds himself transported back to his college days at Syracuse University, where he can alter his romantic fate in what is described as a modern "Peggy Sue Got Married."
"The project is an updated take on a classic wish-fulfillment, 'What if ...?' story," Gursky said.
David Pritchard, producer of such animated TV hits as Fox's "Family Guy" and "King of the Hill," heads GigaPix/Vanguard, which aims to make movies in the $10 million-$25 million range, concentrating on studio co-productions. Mark Shayes and Kip Konwiser oversee development and production for the banner.
Gursky, who like Herbst is repped by Wma and Energy Entertainment,...
The production/co-financing entity has picked up "The Old College Try" from Brett Gursky and Scott Herbst, with Gursky attached to direct from the pair's script.
The time-travel comedy centers on a thirtysomething commitment-phobic man who finds himself transported back to his college days at Syracuse University, where he can alter his romantic fate in what is described as a modern "Peggy Sue Got Married."
"The project is an updated take on a classic wish-fulfillment, 'What if ...?' story," Gursky said.
David Pritchard, producer of such animated TV hits as Fox's "Family Guy" and "King of the Hill," heads GigaPix/Vanguard, which aims to make movies in the $10 million-$25 million range, concentrating on studio co-productions. Mark Shayes and Kip Konwiser oversee development and production for the banner.
Gursky, who like Herbst is repped by Wma and Energy Entertainment,...
- 9/29/2008
- by By Steven Zeitchik
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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