As Italy has ramped up its efforts in the last year to lure in international productions, so too has Rome’s Mia Market been making big strides in attracting global companies and executives to its annual five-day industry confab. The innovative Italian event, which has fast become a top destination in the TV market calendar, is returning for its ninth edition on October 9-13, 2023 and this year looks set to be bigger than ever with top execs from Paramount, Imagine, Banijay and Skybound Entertainment all set to attend.
“We have been prepping for this edition for a while and I think it’s even better than last year because we started working much further in advance,” says Mia director Gaia Tridente of this year’s event, which will be the second one with her at the helm.
Tridente is proud of last year’s attendance, which was up by 20% with...
“We have been prepping for this edition for a while and I think it’s even better than last year because we started working much further in advance,” says Mia director Gaia Tridente of this year’s event, which will be the second one with her at the helm.
Tridente is proud of last year’s attendance, which was up by 20% with...
- 10/2/2023
- by Diana Lodderhose
- Deadline Film + TV
After the release of “Thirteen Lives,” Amazon is apparently hoping to stay in business with Imagine Entertainment. Amazon Studios has inked a new, multiyear first-look film deal with Imagine Entertainment, the production company co-founded and chaired by Ron Howard and Brian Glazer, it was announced Friday.
Under the terms of this new deal, Amazon Studios will have first look dibs on the narrative and documentary features Imagine Entertainment produces, and the first opportunity to secure distribution rights for the production company’s projects.
Last year, Amazon distributed two projects from Imagine Entertainment through Prime Video: “Thirteen Lives,” which was directed by Howard, and the documentary “Lucy and Desi,” from Amy Poehler. Next month, Amazon will release Imagine’s documentary “Judy Blume Forever,” and is set to distribute future Imagine projects like “Candy Cane Lane” starring Eddie Murphy and a spy action-comedy “The U.S.P.S.”
“Whether it’s a...
Under the terms of this new deal, Amazon Studios will have first look dibs on the narrative and documentary features Imagine Entertainment produces, and the first opportunity to secure distribution rights for the production company’s projects.
Last year, Amazon distributed two projects from Imagine Entertainment through Prime Video: “Thirteen Lives,” which was directed by Howard, and the documentary “Lucy and Desi,” from Amy Poehler. Next month, Amazon will release Imagine’s documentary “Judy Blume Forever,” and is set to distribute future Imagine projects like “Candy Cane Lane” starring Eddie Murphy and a spy action-comedy “The U.S.P.S.”
“Whether it’s a...
- 3/31/2023
- by Wilson Chapman
- Indiewire
After decades of acclaimed scores and 52 Oscar nominations, composer John Williams is getting the career retrospective he deserves. A documentary about the film legend’s career is in the works, with frequent collaborator Steven Spielberg among the producers.
As initially reported by The Hollywood Reporter, a documentary on Williams’ life is in the early stages of development from Amblin Television, Imagine Documentaries, and Nedland Media. Laurent Bouzereau, who has directed several behind-the-scenes featurettes for Spielberg’s films, is attached to helm the feature. In addition to Spielberg, executive producers for the project include Brian Glazer, Ron Howard, Darryl Frank, Justin Falvey, Justin Wilkes, Sara Bernstein, and Meredith Kaulfers.
Spielberg and Williams first collaborated on 1974’s “The Sugarland Express,” and Williams has since composed the music to all but five of the director’s movies; their latest collaboration is last year’s “The Fabelmans,” which is expected to be a major...
As initially reported by The Hollywood Reporter, a documentary on Williams’ life is in the early stages of development from Amblin Television, Imagine Documentaries, and Nedland Media. Laurent Bouzereau, who has directed several behind-the-scenes featurettes for Spielberg’s films, is attached to helm the feature. In addition to Spielberg, executive producers for the project include Brian Glazer, Ron Howard, Darryl Frank, Justin Falvey, Justin Wilkes, Sara Bernstein, and Meredith Kaulfers.
Spielberg and Williams first collaborated on 1974’s “The Sugarland Express,” and Williams has since composed the music to all but five of the director’s movies; their latest collaboration is last year’s “The Fabelmans,” which is expected to be a major...
- 1/20/2023
- by Wilson Chapman
- Indiewire
“24” fans aren’t the only ones missing Fox’s real-time action series: Kiefer Sutherland, who currently plays Franklin Delano Roosevelt on Showtime’s “The First Lady,” would welcome a return to his iconic role of Jack Bauer.
As Sutherland recently told GQ, “I do believe the story is unresolved… I miss it. It was an incredible experience.” He netted an Emmy in 2006 for playing the non-stop agent.
Another agent, played by Corey Hawkins, took over counter-terrorism duties in 2017’s “24: Legacy.” Sutherland’s last turn as Bauer was 2014’s installment, “Live Another Day.” Last we saw of Jack, he was in the custody of Russian agents. Since the resourceful character previously escaped Chinese and other captors, his reappearance would be entirely plausible in the world of the show.
He’s not actively working on a revival, but said he’s more than open to it. “I have learned that...
As Sutherland recently told GQ, “I do believe the story is unresolved… I miss it. It was an incredible experience.” He netted an Emmy in 2006 for playing the non-stop agent.
Another agent, played by Corey Hawkins, took over counter-terrorism duties in 2017’s “24: Legacy.” Sutherland’s last turn as Bauer was 2014’s installment, “Live Another Day.” Last we saw of Jack, he was in the custody of Russian agents. Since the resourceful character previously escaped Chinese and other captors, his reappearance would be entirely plausible in the world of the show.
He’s not actively working on a revival, but said he’s more than open to it. “I have learned that...
- 4/18/2022
- by Sharon Knolle
- The Wrap
Sanaa Lathan, Linda Emond and Jihae have been tapped for recurring roles on the upcoming third season of HBO’s Emmy-winning drama series Succession. Season 3 is currently in production.
Lathan will play Lisa Arthur, a high profile well-connected New York lawyer. Emond portrays Michelle-Anne Vanderhoven, a senior White House aide. Jihae is Berry Schneider, a leading Public Relations consultant.
Ambushed by his rebellious son Kendall (Jeremy Strong) at the end of Season 2, Logan Roy (Brian Cox) begins Season 3 in a perilous position. Scrambling to secure familial, political, and financial alliances, tensions rise as a bitter corporate battle threatens to turn into a family civil war.
Succession is created by Jesse Armstong, who also serves as showrunner. He executive produces Season 3 with Adam McKay, Frank Rich, Kevin Messick, Jane Tranter, Mark Mylod, Tony Roche, Scott Ferguson, Jon Brown and Will Ferrell.
Succession won seven Emmys out of 18 nominations for its second season,...
Lathan will play Lisa Arthur, a high profile well-connected New York lawyer. Emond portrays Michelle-Anne Vanderhoven, a senior White House aide. Jihae is Berry Schneider, a leading Public Relations consultant.
Ambushed by his rebellious son Kendall (Jeremy Strong) at the end of Season 2, Logan Roy (Brian Cox) begins Season 3 in a perilous position. Scrambling to secure familial, political, and financial alliances, tensions rise as a bitter corporate battle threatens to turn into a family civil war.
Succession is created by Jesse Armstong, who also serves as showrunner. He executive produces Season 3 with Adam McKay, Frank Rich, Kevin Messick, Jane Tranter, Mark Mylod, Tony Roche, Scott Ferguson, Jon Brown and Will Ferrell.
Succession won seven Emmys out of 18 nominations for its second season,...
- 1/14/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Robbie Robertson walks through the inspiration behind “The Weight” in a clip from the upcoming documentary, Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band, in theaters February 21st.
The clip, shared via Paste Magazine, features Robertson tracing the initial inspiration behind their 1968 classic to his Martin D-28. “On Martin guitars, it talks about where they’re made,” he states. “And they’re made in Nazareth, Pennsylvania.”
He starts singing the opening line (“I pulled into Nazareth…”) before recalling how he traveled from Canada to the Mississippi Delta at age 16. “Characters...
The clip, shared via Paste Magazine, features Robertson tracing the initial inspiration behind their 1968 classic to his Martin D-28. “On Martin guitars, it talks about where they’re made,” he states. “And they’re made in Nazareth, Pennsylvania.”
He starts singing the opening line (“I pulled into Nazareth…”) before recalling how he traveled from Canada to the Mississippi Delta at age 16. “Characters...
- 2/14/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
“We must demand more from our government officials,” Bob Iger said tonight at the Simon Wiesenthal Center and Museum of Tolerance tribute dinner. “I want to hear a pitch that isn’t grounded in the contempt of others,” the Disney boss added passionately in a call for “tolerance in action” in America and around the world.
“We must once again renounce and reject hate in all forms,” the 2019 Humanitarian Award winner told the crowd of industry heavyweights at the Beverly Hilton. “Each one of us has the obligation to be part of the solution.”
On a night where the legacy of the Holocaust and the vile scourge of discrimination and rising anti-Semitism were lamented again and again, Donald Trump’s was never mentioned by name but clearly implied. Asserting that “Hitler would have loved social media” for its echo chamber effect, Iger called out Democrats and Republicans alike in warning...
“We must once again renounce and reject hate in all forms,” the 2019 Humanitarian Award winner told the crowd of industry heavyweights at the Beverly Hilton. “Each one of us has the obligation to be part of the solution.”
On a night where the legacy of the Holocaust and the vile scourge of discrimination and rising anti-Semitism were lamented again and again, Donald Trump’s was never mentioned by name but clearly implied. Asserting that “Hitler would have loved social media” for its echo chamber effect, Iger called out Democrats and Republicans alike in warning...
- 4/11/2019
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
In today’s film news roundup, Tom Hanks will present Alan Alda with a life achievement award, a new literary management company launches, and documentaries “Sharkwater Extinction” and “Pavarotti” are acquired.
Honors
Tom Hanks will present the SAG life achievement award to Alan Alda during the 25th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Jan. 27.
Hanks and Alda starred together in Steven Spielberg’s 2015 thriller “Bridge of Spies” with Hanks portraying attorney James Donovan, representing captured spy Rudolf Abel, and Alda playing law firm partner Thomas Watters.
Alda is the 55th recipient of the SAG life achievement award for career achievement and humanitarian accomplishment. The award is given annually to an actor who fosters the “finest ideals of the acting profession.”
The SAG Awards will be held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles in a ceremony, hosted by Megan Mullally. The event will be simulcast live on TNT and TBS.
Honors
Tom Hanks will present the SAG life achievement award to Alan Alda during the 25th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Jan. 27.
Hanks and Alda starred together in Steven Spielberg’s 2015 thriller “Bridge of Spies” with Hanks portraying attorney James Donovan, representing captured spy Rudolf Abel, and Alda playing law firm partner Thomas Watters.
Alda is the 55th recipient of the SAG life achievement award for career achievement and humanitarian accomplishment. The award is given annually to an actor who fosters the “finest ideals of the acting profession.”
The SAG Awards will be held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles in a ceremony, hosted by Megan Mullally. The event will be simulcast live on TNT and TBS.
- 1/9/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
New York City – Ron Howard is going back to TV. The TV actor-turned-film-director is exploring the life of Albert Einstein in “Genius,” produced as a mini-series for the National Geographic Channel. Howard was on the Red Carpet at the Tribeca Film Festival, and HollywoodChicago.com was there to get this Exclusive Photo.
Producer/Director Ron Howard at the Tribeca Film Festival for ‘Genius’ on April 21st, 2017
Photo credit: Patrick McDonald for HollywoodChicago.com
Of course, Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com was there to ask a few questions of the show business titan.
HollywoodChicago.com: What was the origin of your involvement with ‘Genius’?
Ron Howard: We didn’t develop it. The company Oddlot Entertainment brought it to me, with a script, and I thought it was a great idea. Brian Glazer [Howard’s production partner] brought it to National Geographic, and we didn’t even have to shop it around. They said yes.
Producer/Director Ron Howard at the Tribeca Film Festival for ‘Genius’ on April 21st, 2017
Photo credit: Patrick McDonald for HollywoodChicago.com
Of course, Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com was there to ask a few questions of the show business titan.
HollywoodChicago.com: What was the origin of your involvement with ‘Genius’?
Ron Howard: We didn’t develop it. The company Oddlot Entertainment brought it to me, with a script, and I thought it was a great idea. Brian Glazer [Howard’s production partner] brought it to National Geographic, and we didn’t even have to shop it around. They said yes.
- 4/21/2017
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
The festival will utilise Facebook Live videos for the first time.
Tribeca Film Festival will live-stream this year’s April 29 closing night The Godfather event on Facebook.
In attendance at Radio City Music Hall for the panel discussion will be director Francis Ford Coppola and actors Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, and Robert De Niro.
Further live-streamed events throughout the festival will include a panel discussion with Ron Howard, Brian Glazer and the cast of National Geographic channel’s Genius, a show centred on Albert Einstein, and a retrospective talk with Michael Moore on best documentary Oscar-winner Bowling For Columbine.
In addition, a talk with the creators and cast of Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, which is having its world premiere at the festival, will receive the Facebook Live treatment.
These, and several more talks will be available exclusively via Facebook Live on the Tribeca Film Festival Facebook page.
The 2017 Tribeca...
Tribeca Film Festival will live-stream this year’s April 29 closing night The Godfather event on Facebook.
In attendance at Radio City Music Hall for the panel discussion will be director Francis Ford Coppola and actors Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, and Robert De Niro.
Further live-streamed events throughout the festival will include a panel discussion with Ron Howard, Brian Glazer and the cast of National Geographic channel’s Genius, a show centred on Albert Einstein, and a retrospective talk with Michael Moore on best documentary Oscar-winner Bowling For Columbine.
In addition, a talk with the creators and cast of Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, which is having its world premiere at the festival, will receive the Facebook Live treatment.
These, and several more talks will be available exclusively via Facebook Live on the Tribeca Film Festival Facebook page.
The 2017 Tribeca...
- 4/19/2017
- ScreenDaily
Debuting on National Geographic Channel on November 14, Mars is an ambitious effort that never really achieves lift-off. A hybrid of 2016-set documentary and 2033-set drama of a manned trip to the red planet and the technology needed to get there, the six-part series executive produced by Ron Howard and Brian Glazer lumbers when it should leap to the stars. As I say in my video review above, the Imagine Entertainment- and Radical Media-produced effort can be fascinating…...
- 11/1/2016
- Deadline TV
On Tuesday, People confirmed that Channing Tatum will star in a reboot of 1984's Splash as … the mermaid. Tatum, who'll star alongside Jillian Bell, will tackle the role he has been training his whole life to play. In the original, a young man (Tom Hanks) reunites with a mermaid (Daryl Hannah) who saved him from drowning as a child, but in the remake, the genders will be swapped. Hence, Tatum as merman. The original film, which was directed by Ron Howard, starred John Candy, Eugene Levy and Dody Goodman, and we hope the remake will have such charismatic players. (Can...
- 8/2/2016
- by Maria Yagoda, @mariayagoda
- PEOPLE.com
On Tuesday, People confirmed that Channing Tatum will star in a reboot of 1984's Splash as … the mermaid. Tatum, who'll star alongside Jillian Bell, will tackle the role he has been training his whole life to play. In the original, a young man (Tom Hanks) reunites with a mermaid (Daryl Hannah) who saved him from drowning as a child, but in the remake, the genders will be swapped. Hence, Tatum as merman. The original film, which was directed by Ron Howard, starred John Candy, Eugene Levy and Dody Goodman, and we hope the remake will have such charismatic players. (Can...
- 8/2/2016
- by Maria Yagoda, @mariayagoda
- PEOPLE.com
Channing Tatum is officially the hottest fish in the sea. People has confirmed that the Magic Mike star is trading his quads for a caudal fin and starring alongside Jillian Bell in a gender-swapped remake of 1984's Splash. Tatum will slip into the role originally made famous by Daryl Hannah, as a mysterious, secret mermaid. Bell, meanwhile, will fill in for Tom Hanks as the lonely human who falls for the fish. The original films starts off when a young boy is saved from drowning by a beautiful mermaid. The mermaid resurfaces 20 years later, and gives the now grown-up boy...
- 8/1/2016
- by Michael Miller @write_miller
- PEOPLE.com
Channing Tatum is officially the hottest fish in the sea. According to multiple reports, the Magic Mike star is trading his quads for a caudal fin and starring alongside Jillian Bell in a gender-swapped remake of 1984's Splash. Tatum will slip into the role originally made famous by Daryl Hannah, as a mysterious, secret mermaid. Bell, meanwhile, will fill in for Tom Hanks as the lonely human who falls for the fish. The original films starts off when a young boy is saved from drowning by a beautiful mermaid. The mermaid resurfaces 20 years later, and gives the now grown-up boy...
- 8/1/2016
- by Michael Miller @write_miller
- PEOPLE.com
He’s riffed on countless action movie tropes across Sony’s Jump Street series and will soon rub shoulders with the Men in Black. But for his latest, Channing Tatum is in line to join Jillian Bell for Disney’s long-rumored Splash remake, which will flip the tables by having the mermaid as a man and the human as a woman.
It’s a twist that was already in the cards and today, Deadline has made it official; whereas Tom Hanks and Darryl Hannah headlined Ron Howard’s cult hit as human and mermaid, respectively, Tatum and Jillian Bell are part of Disney’s gender-swapped version, which has already enlisted the support of both Howard and Brian Glazer as producers.
According to Deadline, the overhauled Splash redo hails from Channing Tatum himself, while Marja-Lewis Ryan is the scribe on board to make that ambitious idea a reality. Detractors may claim...
It’s a twist that was already in the cards and today, Deadline has made it official; whereas Tom Hanks and Darryl Hannah headlined Ron Howard’s cult hit as human and mermaid, respectively, Tatum and Jillian Bell are part of Disney’s gender-swapped version, which has already enlisted the support of both Howard and Brian Glazer as producers.
According to Deadline, the overhauled Splash redo hails from Channing Tatum himself, while Marja-Lewis Ryan is the scribe on board to make that ambitious idea a reality. Detractors may claim...
- 8/1/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
The idea for 1984's Splash was originally conceived during a late night drive in 1977 after producer Brian Glazer was left wondering what would happen if he met a mermaid and fell in love. Cut to seven years later -- after many in Hollywood rejected the concept -- and the film Splash was born, starring Tom Hanks as a lowly everyman who falls for a mermaid (Daryl Hannah) while also trying to protect her from nefarious individuals out to capture her. Oh, and John Candy is awesome as Hanks' best friend. Now cut to 2016 and Glazer seems to be back in the Splash game, telling CNBC's Carl Quintanilla (during Quintanilla's new show Binge) that he's remaking the '80s classic, only this time they're switching it up by making the film follow the point-of-view of...
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- 6/6/2016
- by Erik Davis
- Movies.com
Another week, another forgotten Hollywood movie being readied for the remake treatment. This time round, it’s Ron Howard’s bright and breezy ’80s rom-com Splash that is in line to be overhauled for the modern age with a twist, according to prolific producer Brian Glazer.
Speaking to CNBC (via The Playlist), Glazer revealed his intentions to begin the casting process for said remake in the not-so-distant future, potentially reworking the premise so that the movie is told from Madison’s perspective, the bubbly mermaid who twice saved Allen Bauer (Tom Hanks) from drowning.
Here’s what Glazer had to share about the embryonic project:
“I’m actually doing Splash, and I can’t say [anything more]. I’m actually going to do it from the point-of-view of…I can’t say anything about it. There’s a movie star that’s going to be involved, [but] I haven’t announced it. I...
Speaking to CNBC (via The Playlist), Glazer revealed his intentions to begin the casting process for said remake in the not-so-distant future, potentially reworking the premise so that the movie is told from Madison’s perspective, the bubbly mermaid who twice saved Allen Bauer (Tom Hanks) from drowning.
Here’s what Glazer had to share about the embryonic project:
“I’m actually doing Splash, and I can’t say [anything more]. I’m actually going to do it from the point-of-view of…I can’t say anything about it. There’s a movie star that’s going to be involved, [but] I haven’t announced it. I...
- 6/6/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
Tom Hanks and his oft collaborator, producer Brian Glazer, had a freewheeling conversation during a dinnertime presentation on Monday that ended with a peek at their upcoming mystery-thriller “Inferno.” It’s their third film based on a Dan Brown novel (“The Da Vinci Code”), which played during the Milken Institute Global Conference. The new teaser showed Hanks reprising his role as Robert Langdon. This time he’s tasked with thwarting the release of a virus that threatens to wipe out the human race. Also Read: 'A Hologram for the King' Review: Tom Hanks Anchors a Meandering Fish-Out-of-Water Tale...
- 5/3/2016
- by Meriah Doty
- The Wrap
For anyone worried that Disney buying up Lucasfilm would result in Star Wars: The Force Awakens getting all "Disney-fied", fret not - director Jj Abrams is here to save the day.
Blessed with the all-important directorial power of final cut control, whatever ends up in the finished product is because of Abrams's say-so and not some Disney exec's.
During an hour-long talk with Vanity Fair, Brian Glazer bent Abrams's ear about what was what with the eagerly-anticipated sci-fi.
Asked whether he had final cut, Abrams said: "Yeah, yeah," before adding: "When you do a Disney project, there's a clause in there that you kind of go, 'Well, if I were a lawyer I could probably drive a truck through it...'"
This means, in effect, that if The Force Awakens was a total dog's dinner, Disney could pull it away from a director. Given that hasn't happened, it's still Abrams's movie.
Blessed with the all-important directorial power of final cut control, whatever ends up in the finished product is because of Abrams's say-so and not some Disney exec's.
During an hour-long talk with Vanity Fair, Brian Glazer bent Abrams's ear about what was what with the eagerly-anticipated sci-fi.
Asked whether he had final cut, Abrams said: "Yeah, yeah," before adding: "When you do a Disney project, there's a clause in there that you kind of go, 'Well, if I were a lawyer I could probably drive a truck through it...'"
This means, in effect, that if The Force Awakens was a total dog's dinner, Disney could pull it away from a director. Given that hasn't happened, it's still Abrams's movie.
- 10/12/2015
- Digital Spy
Just-announced at New York Comic Con is the news that Ron Howard and Brian Glazer are getting into the superhero game. Imagine Entertainment is partnering with All Nippon Entertainment Works and Namco Bandai on a live action, English-language remake of Namco Bandai’s popular anime series Tiger & Bunny. For those who haven’t checked it out, Tiger & Bunny explores themes familiar to fans of deconstructionist takes on superheroes like Powers, Watchmen and the like (though…...
- 10/9/2015
- Deadline
It looks like the good version of Eddie Murphy could be returning soon.
In a recent interview with Bloomberg, producer Brian Glazer spoke about a project that he just secured with Netflix that will star Eddie Murphy in a more “raw” role than we have seen him in lately.
“I’m gonna do a tour de force movie that’s cinema verite with Eddie Murphy being as raw as he can be.”
Glazer didn’t say anything else more, but the prospects of Murphy “being as raw as he can be” sounds much more interesting than what he has been doing lately with flops such as A Thousand Words and Meet Dave. It also seems to be akin back to what he was doing while coming up as a comic and on Saturday Nigh Live rather than his more recent fares.
That being said, Murphy has a tendency to back out of projects also,...
In a recent interview with Bloomberg, producer Brian Glazer spoke about a project that he just secured with Netflix that will star Eddie Murphy in a more “raw” role than we have seen him in lately.
“I’m gonna do a tour de force movie that’s cinema verite with Eddie Murphy being as raw as he can be.”
Glazer didn’t say anything else more, but the prospects of Murphy “being as raw as he can be” sounds much more interesting than what he has been doing lately with flops such as A Thousand Words and Meet Dave. It also seems to be akin back to what he was doing while coming up as a comic and on Saturday Nigh Live rather than his more recent fares.
That being said, Murphy has a tendency to back out of projects also,...
- 10/8/2015
- by Zach Dennis
- SoundOnSight
With two big films at the Toronto International Film Festival, it would be easy for that to get to your head, butReese Witherspoon was conscious that her film, The Good Lie, was bigger than herself: "This has nothing to do with you, Reese."
At the press conference for the film, French-Canadian director Philippe Falardeau (Monsieur Lazhar) agreed, and Witherspoon recalled a conversation where the director said, "I really like you and respect you, Reese, but this movie has nothing to do with that."
It's about the Lost Boys and Girls of South Sudan.
In The Good Lie, Witherspoon plays an American who is assigned to help four young Sudanese refugees (Arnold Oceng, Ger Duany, Kuoth Wiel, and Emmanuel Jal) who are relocating to the United States. The film also stars Corey Stoll (Midnight In Paris, "House of Cards"), and is produced by Ron Howard and Brian Glazer -- both of...
At the press conference for the film, French-Canadian director Philippe Falardeau (Monsieur Lazhar) agreed, and Witherspoon recalled a conversation where the director said, "I really like you and respect you, Reese, but this movie has nothing to do with that."
It's about the Lost Boys and Girls of South Sudan.
In The Good Lie, Witherspoon plays an American who is assigned to help four young Sudanese refugees (Arnold Oceng, Ger Duany, Kuoth Wiel, and Emmanuel Jal) who are relocating to the United States. The film also stars Corey Stoll (Midnight In Paris, "House of Cards"), and is produced by Ron Howard and Brian Glazer -- both of...
- 9/13/2014
- by Sasha James
- Cineplex
For years, Kiefer Sutherland and company have been attempting to bring his American badass Jack Bauer, star of the Fox show 24, to the big screen, but recent internet rumblings suggest that the time for a film adaptation of the popular espionage thriller series may finally be at hand.
TVLine reports that a 24 movie has been steadily gathering steam over the past few weeks, likely buoyed by the critical and commercial success of the 12-episode miniseries 24: Live Another Day, which aired on Fox earlier this year. Imagine Entertainment chairman Brian Glazer is said to be “particularly keen” on a new pitch for the movie, which 2oth Century Fox is expected to hear in the near future.
Perhaps it’s inevitable that a 24 movie is taking shape again. Sutherland has been gung-ho about the idea since the series’ initial run, and last winter, whilst promoting Live Another Day, he confirmed that,...
TVLine reports that a 24 movie has been steadily gathering steam over the past few weeks, likely buoyed by the critical and commercial success of the 12-episode miniseries 24: Live Another Day, which aired on Fox earlier this year. Imagine Entertainment chairman Brian Glazer is said to be “particularly keen” on a new pitch for the movie, which 2oth Century Fox is expected to hear in the near future.
Perhaps it’s inevitable that a 24 movie is taking shape again. Sutherland has been gung-ho about the idea since the series’ initial run, and last winter, whilst promoting Live Another Day, he confirmed that,...
- 9/1/2014
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
After emerging from its cancellation cocoon as 15 imperfect-but-overall-entertaining butterflies, Arrested Development has returned to its natural state of hibernation, sleeping off the Forget-Me-Nows while Mitch Hurwitz, Ted Sarandos, and Brian Glazer take turns trying to coax their creation back out of its chrysalis, whispering words like “conversations,” “interest,” and “willing.” Hurwitz may not know the magical combination of words, dollar signs, and scheduling that will bring the show back out of its diamond-dust-encrusted shell, but he has a good idea of what it will look like—in terms of puppet content, suggestive architecture, and Running Wilde alums, at least ...
- 8/6/2013
- avclub.com
Netflix resurrected the defunct Fox television show Arrested Development for an all new 15-episode, fourth season, which debuted all at once on the pay platform on May 26, 2013. The show’s cult status among its devotees coupled with an incredibly clever series of publicity stunts helped build a significant amount of buzz in anticipation of the program’s return from its seven-year hiatus. Despite all the hype, critics were divided over the quality of Arrested Development’s new installments. Fatiguing lulls in the comedic action and a general sense of “underwhelmingness” cited by some entertainment professionals pulled down the program’s score on Metacritic to a lackluster 71. But despite the critical reception of the new season of the series, Netflix just may order another. Arrested Development’s fourth season was originally intended as a one-time ramp up to an Arrested Development theatrical release. But according to Cliff Edwards at Bloomberg, the...
- 7/13/2013
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
No time for my Year End Roundup or even my Havana Film Festival Report because I am busy with writing a Report -For-Pay of the 1,000 Top Filmmakers, Location Managers and Influencers Worldwide for a particularly smart country’s film commissioner and I must deliver it by the year’s end.
As I compile it, I am struck by the names of the film companies I am looking at. German names are mundane and Irish are imaginative. I know the U.S. names so well that in contrast, the French names are so evocative.
Naming companies after their owners and the well known studio names are normal and mundane. Personal meaning names like Lava Bear or Wild West Picture Show are more interesting as they bring up imaginary pictures. Weed Road of Akiva Goldsman is very evocative – do its owners smoke weed? Virgin Produced – well that’s fairly obvious I think -- once you know Richard Branson owns it, Walden Media evokes Walden Pond. Village Roadshow always sounded good but it’s old school like the majors are by now, as is New Regency of former arms dealer Arnon Milchan now partner of 20th Century Fox and others with their longstanding studio deals. In the U.S. we have so many old studio or “studio deal” companies whose early origins have been obscured by the sands of time and which no longer elicit dreams of greatness or memories of private childhood games or haunts, names like Alcon, the company founded by FedEx's Fred Smith, Leonardo di Caprio's Appian Way (recalling the old Roman road), Mark Canton's Atmosphere Entertainment, Amram Bernstein's Beacon Pictures, Rob Reiner's Castle Rock Entertainment, Spring Creek which was so evocative of Paula Weinstein when she was with Mark Rosenberg, major Columbia Pictures, Weinstein offshoot Dimension Films, Spielberg's Dreamworks, Endgame Entertainment, James Schamus and David Linde's Focus Features now Universal's arthouse arm, major Fox 2000 and Fox Searchlight, Gold Circle Films of My Big Fat Greek Wedding fame, HBO – a perfect name of the time and place, HBO Latin America Group – a perfect revisionist name for the brand, Imagine Entertainment which still elicits the name of Brian Glazer ,Malpaso which still evokes Clint Eastwood, Mandalay Pictures which still recalls Peter Guber and those old Sony days of power plays, Legendary Pictures recalls Batman and Superman, Marvel Studios – the comicbook heroes, Lionsgate – gone corporate after their indie Canadian beginnings so long ago, , MGM, Moonstone, Morgan Creek Productions, Mutual Films, Myriad Pictures, New Line Cinema, New Regency, Pandemonium (we still love Bill Mechanic), Paramount Pictures, , Phoenix Pictures (we still love Mike Medavoy), Radar Pictures (Ted Fields), Red Om (Julie Roberts), Relativity Media (Ryan Cavanaugh), Revelations (hooray for Morgan Freeman), , Ritchie-Wigram, Screen Gems, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment to name a few, Tribeca Films, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Pictures, Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros.
We have the usual names based on the company owners who are or perceive themselves to be brands in themselves like Apatow, Berlanti Prods, Bleiberg Entertainment, Blumhouse Prods. In which Jason Blum becomes horror branded, Bender Spenk, Bruce Cohen Prods., Callahan Filmworks, Chris Morgan Prods., Chuck Lorre Prods., De Line, de Passe Jones Entertainment, Di Novi, Francine Maisler & Associates, Freemantle, George Litto , Gerber, Gk Films, Hurwitz & Schlossberg Prods., , J.W. Prods., Josephson, KatzSmith, Lin Pictures, Stuber Pictures, Tdj Enterprises, Team Downey, The Weinstein Company.
There are those companies whose names evoke places like 22nd & Indiana, Arroyo Films, Broken Road Prods., Cross Creek, GreeneStreet Films, Cherry Road Films (not so new), Hyde Park , Lakeshore Entertainment (where Tom Rosenberg either lived or vacationed as a child), Langley Park, Olive Bridge Entertainment, Pearl Street, Spring Street, Barry Levinson's Baltimore, Kevin Spacey's Trigger Street, Thunder Road, Summit named after the street Patrick Wachsberger live(d) on in Beverly Hills.
The U.S. fanciful names like 3 Monkeys, Angle Films, Agregate Films, Polymorphic evoke something more private than public. Other companies evoking private signals to those who are in the know are 3 Monkeys, Aggregate Films (pretty hip for today), Angle Films, Barnstorm Pictures, Bold Films, Branded Films (a good capitalistic name for today), Captivate Entertainment, Carousel Prods., Cruel and Unusual, Everyman Pictures, Exclusive Media Group, Film 44, FilmDistrict, Global Produce, Green Hat Films, Groundswell , Gulfstream, Heyday, Illumination Entertainment, ImageMovers, Lava Bear Films – hats off to David Linde, Media Rights Capital, Mockingbird Pictures, Ninjas Runnin Wild, One Race Films, Open City (we love Jason Kliot and Joana Vicente), Original Films, Our Stories, Playtone, Polymorphic, Roserock Films, Saturn, , Atlantic Streamline, Shandaland – I love the Yiddish reference here , Strike Entertainment, Thousand Words.
For some reason, the French names sound more exotic or, if not exotic, then somehow more evocative of the unknown…Of course some are named after their owners, like Les Films d’Antoine…though even that sounds more exotic than Gk Films, Graham King’s company. There is an everyday familiarity with the U.S. that I definitely do not have with the French.
I feel a little like Proust in Names and Places, conjuring up unknown histories and deeper meanings to the French companies.
Ok, A.S.A.P. is American so that hardly counts, though it is a cool name for a film company. And Anna Lena, maybe is a person’s name. Avenue B, again is American as is Blue Monday and Local Film, though Charivari is Italian and Aurora is Latin. But the Cine names are great: Cine Nomine – what an intelligent play on words, in the name of g’d, or Cinema Defacto or Cine-Sud; all have great meaning behind them. Dharamsala is either an Indian God or food, Dolce Vita we know is a tribute to Fellini. Is Delante Films like Adelante? And Elzevir – again Proust enters with his fictionalized artist. Estrella and Gloria are names aiming for Greatness. But what is Kaleo?
La Vie est Belle gets me singing the song from South Pacific. Lazennec seems very old and venerable, aristocratic even, while Les Enrages is very 60s. Rezo is also an old and classic film company of France and Pathe and Gaumont are equivalent to our major studio names. Les Films de la Croisade – does it have a crusade as its mission? Les Films du Lendemain seems very laid back. Les Films du Poisson makes me wonder what does a fish have to do with the movies? And what is Veyrier? Les Productions Balthazar sound s great, though its founder’s name is Balthazar. And Les Films Pelleas sound grand and mythological. Mille et Une Films makes you know there are 1,001 stories to be told. Haut et Court elicits a picture which I cannot explain.
While MK2 is simply based upon the name of Marin Karmitz, I love his job title, “President du Conseil de Surveillance”, or President of the Surveillance Council, as he grants his son Nathanael his legacy.
Noodles is fun. Petit is descriptive, Sbs is boring – I thought it was a broadcaster but it’s just a name, however, the name Said Ben Said is not boring at all nor are his films, like Passion and Carnage. Sciapode is intriguing – it sounds like sci-fi and Sombrero makes me think the filmmaker leans toward the Latino. Stone Angels – English again, as is The French Connection – both conjure up images from real life fiction. Stone Angels that decorate tombs of old aristocrats; Pierre-Ange Le Pogam’s name also conjures up the Proustian Names of Old - Stone Angel the Pogam…what is a Pogam? Tempete Sous un Crane is also totally out there as a name…Storm Beneath a Crane? Maybe I don’t know French so well after all. But that is Julie Delpy’s company She’s already mostly American anyway. . I loved her last film 2 Days in New York. It would take me another lifetime to be as knowledgeable about the French as I am about the Americans. And I’m not very knowledgeable about them either nowadays. But the French names make me feel like Proust as they elicit wonderment and create stories in and of themselves.
As I compile it, I am struck by the names of the film companies I am looking at. German names are mundane and Irish are imaginative. I know the U.S. names so well that in contrast, the French names are so evocative.
Naming companies after their owners and the well known studio names are normal and mundane. Personal meaning names like Lava Bear or Wild West Picture Show are more interesting as they bring up imaginary pictures. Weed Road of Akiva Goldsman is very evocative – do its owners smoke weed? Virgin Produced – well that’s fairly obvious I think -- once you know Richard Branson owns it, Walden Media evokes Walden Pond. Village Roadshow always sounded good but it’s old school like the majors are by now, as is New Regency of former arms dealer Arnon Milchan now partner of 20th Century Fox and others with their longstanding studio deals. In the U.S. we have so many old studio or “studio deal” companies whose early origins have been obscured by the sands of time and which no longer elicit dreams of greatness or memories of private childhood games or haunts, names like Alcon, the company founded by FedEx's Fred Smith, Leonardo di Caprio's Appian Way (recalling the old Roman road), Mark Canton's Atmosphere Entertainment, Amram Bernstein's Beacon Pictures, Rob Reiner's Castle Rock Entertainment, Spring Creek which was so evocative of Paula Weinstein when she was with Mark Rosenberg, major Columbia Pictures, Weinstein offshoot Dimension Films, Spielberg's Dreamworks, Endgame Entertainment, James Schamus and David Linde's Focus Features now Universal's arthouse arm, major Fox 2000 and Fox Searchlight, Gold Circle Films of My Big Fat Greek Wedding fame, HBO – a perfect name of the time and place, HBO Latin America Group – a perfect revisionist name for the brand, Imagine Entertainment which still elicits the name of Brian Glazer ,Malpaso which still evokes Clint Eastwood, Mandalay Pictures which still recalls Peter Guber and those old Sony days of power plays, Legendary Pictures recalls Batman and Superman, Marvel Studios – the comicbook heroes, Lionsgate – gone corporate after their indie Canadian beginnings so long ago, , MGM, Moonstone, Morgan Creek Productions, Mutual Films, Myriad Pictures, New Line Cinema, New Regency, Pandemonium (we still love Bill Mechanic), Paramount Pictures, , Phoenix Pictures (we still love Mike Medavoy), Radar Pictures (Ted Fields), Red Om (Julie Roberts), Relativity Media (Ryan Cavanaugh), Revelations (hooray for Morgan Freeman), , Ritchie-Wigram, Screen Gems, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment to name a few, Tribeca Films, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Pictures, Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros.
We have the usual names based on the company owners who are or perceive themselves to be brands in themselves like Apatow, Berlanti Prods, Bleiberg Entertainment, Blumhouse Prods. In which Jason Blum becomes horror branded, Bender Spenk, Bruce Cohen Prods., Callahan Filmworks, Chris Morgan Prods., Chuck Lorre Prods., De Line, de Passe Jones Entertainment, Di Novi, Francine Maisler & Associates, Freemantle, George Litto , Gerber, Gk Films, Hurwitz & Schlossberg Prods., , J.W. Prods., Josephson, KatzSmith, Lin Pictures, Stuber Pictures, Tdj Enterprises, Team Downey, The Weinstein Company.
There are those companies whose names evoke places like 22nd & Indiana, Arroyo Films, Broken Road Prods., Cross Creek, GreeneStreet Films, Cherry Road Films (not so new), Hyde Park , Lakeshore Entertainment (where Tom Rosenberg either lived or vacationed as a child), Langley Park, Olive Bridge Entertainment, Pearl Street, Spring Street, Barry Levinson's Baltimore, Kevin Spacey's Trigger Street, Thunder Road, Summit named after the street Patrick Wachsberger live(d) on in Beverly Hills.
The U.S. fanciful names like 3 Monkeys, Angle Films, Agregate Films, Polymorphic evoke something more private than public. Other companies evoking private signals to those who are in the know are 3 Monkeys, Aggregate Films (pretty hip for today), Angle Films, Barnstorm Pictures, Bold Films, Branded Films (a good capitalistic name for today), Captivate Entertainment, Carousel Prods., Cruel and Unusual, Everyman Pictures, Exclusive Media Group, Film 44, FilmDistrict, Global Produce, Green Hat Films, Groundswell , Gulfstream, Heyday, Illumination Entertainment, ImageMovers, Lava Bear Films – hats off to David Linde, Media Rights Capital, Mockingbird Pictures, Ninjas Runnin Wild, One Race Films, Open City (we love Jason Kliot and Joana Vicente), Original Films, Our Stories, Playtone, Polymorphic, Roserock Films, Saturn, , Atlantic Streamline, Shandaland – I love the Yiddish reference here , Strike Entertainment, Thousand Words.
For some reason, the French names sound more exotic or, if not exotic, then somehow more evocative of the unknown…Of course some are named after their owners, like Les Films d’Antoine…though even that sounds more exotic than Gk Films, Graham King’s company. There is an everyday familiarity with the U.S. that I definitely do not have with the French.
I feel a little like Proust in Names and Places, conjuring up unknown histories and deeper meanings to the French companies.
Ok, A.S.A.P. is American so that hardly counts, though it is a cool name for a film company. And Anna Lena, maybe is a person’s name. Avenue B, again is American as is Blue Monday and Local Film, though Charivari is Italian and Aurora is Latin. But the Cine names are great: Cine Nomine – what an intelligent play on words, in the name of g’d, or Cinema Defacto or Cine-Sud; all have great meaning behind them. Dharamsala is either an Indian God or food, Dolce Vita we know is a tribute to Fellini. Is Delante Films like Adelante? And Elzevir – again Proust enters with his fictionalized artist. Estrella and Gloria are names aiming for Greatness. But what is Kaleo?
La Vie est Belle gets me singing the song from South Pacific. Lazennec seems very old and venerable, aristocratic even, while Les Enrages is very 60s. Rezo is also an old and classic film company of France and Pathe and Gaumont are equivalent to our major studio names. Les Films de la Croisade – does it have a crusade as its mission? Les Films du Lendemain seems very laid back. Les Films du Poisson makes me wonder what does a fish have to do with the movies? And what is Veyrier? Les Productions Balthazar sound s great, though its founder’s name is Balthazar. And Les Films Pelleas sound grand and mythological. Mille et Une Films makes you know there are 1,001 stories to be told. Haut et Court elicits a picture which I cannot explain.
While MK2 is simply based upon the name of Marin Karmitz, I love his job title, “President du Conseil de Surveillance”, or President of the Surveillance Council, as he grants his son Nathanael his legacy.
Noodles is fun. Petit is descriptive, Sbs is boring – I thought it was a broadcaster but it’s just a name, however, the name Said Ben Said is not boring at all nor are his films, like Passion and Carnage. Sciapode is intriguing – it sounds like sci-fi and Sombrero makes me think the filmmaker leans toward the Latino. Stone Angels – English again, as is The French Connection – both conjure up images from real life fiction. Stone Angels that decorate tombs of old aristocrats; Pierre-Ange Le Pogam’s name also conjures up the Proustian Names of Old - Stone Angel the Pogam…what is a Pogam? Tempete Sous un Crane is also totally out there as a name…Storm Beneath a Crane? Maybe I don’t know French so well after all. But that is Julie Delpy’s company She’s already mostly American anyway. . I loved her last film 2 Days in New York. It would take me another lifetime to be as knowledgeable about the French as I am about the Americans. And I’m not very knowledgeable about them either nowadays. But the French names make me feel like Proust as they elicit wonderment and create stories in and of themselves.
- 1/1/2013
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
This may look at first glance a very unlikely pairing, but not really when you find out the details about it. But Ron Howard and his longtime producing partner Brian Glazer and their production company Imagine Entertainment will make a film about Jay-z's "Budweiser Made in America" music festival to be held this weekend Sept. 1-2 in Philadelphia. The two day event will feature artists such as Pearl Jam, Drake, Rick Ross, Janelle Monae and of course Jay-z himself and there are rumors that, who else, but Beyonce will join him on stage as well. How could she resist not to? However Howard is quick to point out that the film will not be a concert film, but rather he says...
- 8/28/2012
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
Well dip me in gold and call me Uncle Oscar - it's time for another round of Hollywood hellraisin' courtesy of the Ae Movie Club.
This week the name on every film lover's lips is gonna be Roxy Oscar. They don't call it "The Gay Superbowl" for nothin' - a perfect storm of camp, artistry, spectacle, emotion, and cleverly-named appetizers, it's the biggest night of the year for many of us. If you're like me, the tears will start flowing long before the In Memoriam segment.
So this week we're focusing on all things Academy. We've got an Oscar party planner workshop, a Fast Five of fave Oscar surprises, Vintage Beefcake from an Award winner, an Oscar Bingo card, and more! Plus new posters, trailers, and other goodies that have nothing to do with the red carpet.
5 ... 4 ... 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...
Wait, sorry - before we start, can we just talk about this for a minute?...
This week the name on every film lover's lips is gonna be Roxy Oscar. They don't call it "The Gay Superbowl" for nothin' - a perfect storm of camp, artistry, spectacle, emotion, and cleverly-named appetizers, it's the biggest night of the year for many of us. If you're like me, the tears will start flowing long before the In Memoriam segment.
So this week we're focusing on all things Academy. We've got an Oscar party planner workshop, a Fast Five of fave Oscar surprises, Vintage Beefcake from an Award winner, an Oscar Bingo card, and more! Plus new posters, trailers, and other goodies that have nothing to do with the red carpet.
5 ... 4 ... 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...
Wait, sorry - before we start, can we just talk about this for a minute?...
- 2/24/2012
- by brian
- The Backlot
Halle Berry has been added to the list of presenters at the 84th Academy Awards ceremony. Telecast producers Brian Glazer and Don Mischer announced on Thursday (February 2) that the Monster's Ball actress will be presenting at the upcoming awards show. Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks and Jennifer Lopez will also present at this year's ceremony. Berry previously won an Oscar in 2001 (more)...
- 2/2/2012
- by By Tara Fowler
- Digital Spy
It looks like that long-planned 24 feature film will actually be happening. Imagine Entertainment and 20th Century Fox have commissioned Mark Bomback (The Wolverine, Shadow Divers) to turn in a script by the end of the year, because they need to get cranking on this thing. Why so soon? They need to start shooting in April, since that's when's Kiefer Sutherland's available. There's no 24 film without Jack Bauer, after all. This would fit in with producer Brian Glazer's schedule too,...
- 12/5/2011
- by Alex Riviello
- JoBlo.com
At Saturday night’s Governors Awards, the ceremony where the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hands out honorary Oscars, Academy President Tom Sherak denied that Billy Crystal was a “safe choice” by new producer Brian Glazer to replace Eddie Murphy as host of February’s main event. “I think he’s a good choice. Some of the most successful Oscars have been hosted by him, and we would think he would be a good choice any year he wanted to come back,” Sherak told EW. “When you go live on ABC at 5:30 for movie’s biggest night,...
- 11/14/2011
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW - Inside Movies
"He's best known for his westerns, which traditionally are sagas about how civilization begins, how ruthless and cynical men rip it out of the throat of the wilderness," writes Peter Keough in the Boston Phoenix. "But the end of civilization is what really fascinated Sergio Leone, and the poison within that undoes every would-be paradise. Death and doom and dark hilarity overshadow his films, not just the westerns, but all of them, which are on view this month in a two-week retrospective at the Harvard Film Archive. From his first directorial effort, The Colossus of Rhodes (1961; screens November 13 at 4:30 pm), to the script about the 900-day siege of Leningrad that he left behind when he died in 1989 at the age of 60, Sergio Leone showed us how the world ends — be it by the slow brutal murder of a modern city, or the catastrophic destruction of an ancient one."
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More events.
- 11/10/2011
- MUBI
Last we heard about the planned multi platform adaptation of Stephen King's Dark Tower series was that the lead role of The Gunslinger, Roland Deshcain, was offered to Javier Bardem. Now although we haven't heard anything official from the man himself, producer Brian Glazer tells MTV that he really wants to play the part.. "'Dark Tower,' Javier Bardem, that's what we're hoping. We're in the process of trying to put that together. Will that make you happy? Will that make MTV happy?" MTV said yes, it would! Then asked for an update. Has he signed on officially? "He's locked in psychologically, He really wants to do it, so we're absolutely rooting for him to do it." There were other names mentioned in connection for the part too. Christian Bale among them. But Glazer suggests there is only one man to play their Gun Slinger.. "We're really just focused on Javier right now,...
- 3/1/2011
- ComicBookMovie.com
The Man in Black fled across the desert and… Javier Bardem followed?
Yes, the opening of Steven King’s epic “Dark Tower” series is perhaps the author’s most famous line ever, but according to Deadline, it may be about to get a major rewrite, as Javier Bardem is now the leading contender to play the Gunslinger in the new big budget adaptation from director Ron Howard and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman.
And yes, we wrote the exact same thing yesterday, only about Christian Bale. So what happened?
Well, as far as we can tell, what happened is simply the fact that Howard and producer Brian Glazer decided that Bardem was totally awesome, to the point where they have apparently officially offered him the role. And as excited as we were for Bale yesterday, it’s hard to argue with Bardem’s recent roll: just three short years after winning the...
Yes, the opening of Steven King’s epic “Dark Tower” series is perhaps the author’s most famous line ever, but according to Deadline, it may be about to get a major rewrite, as Javier Bardem is now the leading contender to play the Gunslinger in the new big budget adaptation from director Ron Howard and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman.
And yes, we wrote the exact same thing yesterday, only about Christian Bale. So what happened?
Well, as far as we can tell, what happened is simply the fact that Howard and producer Brian Glazer decided that Bardem was totally awesome, to the point where they have apparently officially offered him the role. And as excited as we were for Bale yesterday, it’s hard to argue with Bardem’s recent roll: just three short years after winning the...
- 1/27/2011
- by Scott Harris
- NextMovie
Back in February I wrote a piece (Here) about the soon-to-go-into production heist film Tower Heist to be directed by Brett Ratner for Universal and Brian Glazer’s Imagine Entertainment back when it was till called Trump Heist. it was conceived as an all-black Ocean’s 11 type film, but that concept was obvious thrown out the window with the casting of Ben Stiller when Eddie Murphy dropped out of the film.
However, the news is that Murphy is now definitely back in the film co-starring with Stiller in the film which deals with a group of “maintenance workers in a luxury Manhattan high-rise whose pension funds were looted by a Bernie Madoff-like Wall Street crook, who is living high style in a penthouse, under house arrest. Led by an overworked building manager played by Stiller, the workers use their knowledge of the inner workings of the building to rip him off.
However, the news is that Murphy is now definitely back in the film co-starring with Stiller in the film which deals with a group of “maintenance workers in a luxury Manhattan high-rise whose pension funds were looted by a Bernie Madoff-like Wall Street crook, who is living high style in a penthouse, under house arrest. Led by an overworked building manager played by Stiller, the workers use their knowledge of the inner workings of the building to rip him off.
- 10/13/2010
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
The international film business shifted gears when Anil Ambani's Reliance Big Entertainment acquired a majority shareholding position in Stuart Ford’s L.A. and London-based sales and financing company Im Global (founded in 2007) last month. Reliance has already invested Us$500 million in DreamWorks which allowed that company to move on its own current slate. Now Rbp is working on several new projects from its Hollywood alliances, Jim Carry's Saturn Films, George Clooney's Smokehouse Productions, Chris Columbus' 1492 Pictures, Tom Hanks' Playtone, Brad Pitt's Plan B, Jay Roach's Everyman Pictures, Brett Ratner's Rat Entertainment, Julia Roberts' Red Om Films and Brian Glazer…...
- 6/29/2010
- Sydney's Buzz
I was going through some old articles I had collected from Variety and other sources and I came across two items from Dec. 2006 about two film projects that Lee was attached to but never got off the ground. Both projects were to be produced by Brian Glazer and Imagine Entertainment no doubt riding on the high of the box office hit Inside Man, but in the fickle world of Hollyweird both projects never got off the ground.
First one was L.A. Riots for Imagine and Universal, an ensemble drama written about about the riots that stuck L.A. after the acquittal of the four white officers who beat Rodney King. The second was a film on the life of James Brown, the Godfather of Soul for Imagine and Paramount though that project was more iffy since the project had gone through different drafts by different writers and let’s face it,...
First one was L.A. Riots for Imagine and Universal, an ensemble drama written about about the riots that stuck L.A. after the acquittal of the four white officers who beat Rodney King. The second was a film on the life of James Brown, the Godfather of Soul for Imagine and Paramount though that project was more iffy since the project had gone through different drafts by different writers and let’s face it,...
- 5/1/2010
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
Stephen King's The Dark Tower ongoing book series is feted by the author himself as his 'magnum opus', and in the twenty-eight years since the first instalment was published has collected an army of passionate and loyal fans, but we here at Screenrush expect some of those fans will be disappointed this morning with the news (reported by both Heat Vision and Deadline) that J.J. Abrams has dropped his long held option on the books only for Ron Howard to pick it up.
Abrams finally gave up on his own long touted project after admitting that the scope of the series, about a gunslinger on a seemingly endless quest through a magical wild-west toward the mysterious eponymous tower, was just too big and difficult to do justice to on the big-screen, but both today's reports suggest that Howard, along with Brian Glazer and Akiva Goldsman are in it for...
Abrams finally gave up on his own long touted project after admitting that the scope of the series, about a gunslinger on a seemingly endless quest through a magical wild-west toward the mysterious eponymous tower, was just too big and difficult to do justice to on the big-screen, but both today's reports suggest that Howard, along with Brian Glazer and Akiva Goldsman are in it for...
- 4/30/2010
- Screenrush
Russell Crowe has been given a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame.
The Oscar-winning actor – who has previously refused offers to have the prestigious honour – was accompanied by wife Danielle Spencer and their two sons, Charles, six, and three-year-old Tennyson, as he was presented with a plaque to commemorate the unveiling of his star on Hollywood Boulevard.
Accepting his star, Russell said: “Next to Sir Anthony Hopkins, that's not a bad spot. It's a nice piece of real estate. There's no place I would rather be, apart from with my family, than on a movie set on a feature film - particularly those first few days when the excitement and the freshness is still there.
“Anyway, as I said, thanks for the privilege and I'll always be grateful for it. Cheers.”
As well as his family, the 46-year-old ‘Gladiator’ star was also joined by former colleagues and friends, including director Ron Howard,...
The Oscar-winning actor – who has previously refused offers to have the prestigious honour – was accompanied by wife Danielle Spencer and their two sons, Charles, six, and three-year-old Tennyson, as he was presented with a plaque to commemorate the unveiling of his star on Hollywood Boulevard.
Accepting his star, Russell said: “Next to Sir Anthony Hopkins, that's not a bad spot. It's a nice piece of real estate. There's no place I would rather be, apart from with my family, than on a movie set on a feature film - particularly those first few days when the excitement and the freshness is still there.
“Anyway, as I said, thanks for the privilege and I'll always be grateful for it. Cheers.”
As well as his family, the 46-year-old ‘Gladiator’ star was also joined by former colleagues and friends, including director Ron Howard,...
- 4/13/2010
- by Abbey
- Gossipvita
After turning down the chance to have a Hollywood star on the Walk Of Fame several times, Oscar-winning actor Rusell Crowe finally accepted the honour as he believes he deserves it now. The 46-year-old actor brought his singer wife Danielle Spencer and their two sons from Australia to Hollywood for the unveiling ceremony, Daily Mail online reported.The family were joined by some of Crowe''s former colleagues and friends, including director Ron Howard, producer Brian Glazer, actor Sam Worthington and talk show host Jay Leno. Crowe was presented with a plaque to commemorate the unveiling of his star on Hollywood Boulevard.Introducing the ''Gladiator'' star, Leno described him as "an all-round good guy who ''just happen to be one of the greatest actors in the world". Accepting his star, Crowe said, "Next to Sir Anthony Hopkins, that''s not a bad spot.It''s a nice piece of real estate.
- 4/13/2010
- Filmicafe
It was reported today that Leonardo DiCaprio is in serious talks to play the feared and powerful first director of the FBI J.Edgar Hoover for Clint Eastwood’s upcoming film about him for Warner Bros, to be produced by Brian Glazer and Imagine Entertainment.
The project was a long in development project for Glazer and when he showed the script to Universal they passed on the script claiming they had been burned by one too many serious period films that tanked at the box office. Glazer in turn showed to it Eastwood and jointly they presented the project to Warners who jumped on it immediately.
The script was written by Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black and insiders claim that the film will “peel back the curtains” about the life of Hoover. Which begs the question, considering the screenwriter involved – will the film deal with the alleged long time gay...
The project was a long in development project for Glazer and when he showed the script to Universal they passed on the script claiming they had been burned by one too many serious period films that tanked at the box office. Glazer in turn showed to it Eastwood and jointly they presented the project to Warners who jumped on it immediately.
The script was written by Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black and insiders claim that the film will “peel back the curtains” about the life of Hoover. Which begs the question, considering the screenwriter involved – will the film deal with the alleged long time gay...
- 3/31/2010
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
The NY Post suggests that insiders believe that producer Brian Glazer is eyeing either Scarlett Johansson or Anne Hathaway to reprise the role of Frankenstein’s Bride, first portrayed by the beautiful Elsa Lanchester in 1935.
“She’ll be young. They’re looking for a person with great power and sex appeal” say insiders, according to The Post.
I could perhaps see Scarlett Jo’ as ‘The Bride’, but I’m not sure about Anne. To be honest, I have a hard time visualizing anyone but Elsa in the role, so I wouldn’t be shocked if they are probably quite some time from announcing just who will get the role. It could well end up going to an unknown.
What do you think? Any suggestions or ideas for actresses you could imagine in the role?
“The Illusionist” director Neil Burger will helm the new project. Check out our original story about...
“She’ll be young. They’re looking for a person with great power and sex appeal” say insiders, according to The Post.
I could perhaps see Scarlett Jo’ as ‘The Bride’, but I’m not sure about Anne. To be honest, I have a hard time visualizing anyone but Elsa in the role, so I wouldn’t be shocked if they are probably quite some time from announcing just who will get the role. It could well end up going to an unknown.
What do you think? Any suggestions or ideas for actresses you could imagine in the role?
“The Illusionist” director Neil Burger will helm the new project. Check out our original story about...
- 6/21/2009
- by Paul Larn
- The Cinema Post
Vanessa Redgrave has pulled out of Ridley Scott's new Robin Hood movie following the death of her daughter Natasha Richardson in a skiing accident in March.
The 72-year-old actress has been replaced by Dama Eileen Atkins, according to the Daily Mail, which has published some new pictures from the filming of the movie in Bourne Woods, Surrey.
The images - two of which are included here - show actors in 12th century clothing riding at speed on horses. It's part of a scene in which the Sheriff of Nottingham (played by Matthew MacFadyen) and his men storm a village.
Dame Eileen (pictured below right) said: "They keep rewriting the script and changing my lines quite dramatically, so I'm terrified of forgetting them."
She will star as Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine alongside Russell Crowe, who plays the Sherwood Forest hero: "He was brilliant in Gladiator", she said, "and he can...
The 72-year-old actress has been replaced by Dama Eileen Atkins, according to the Daily Mail, which has published some new pictures from the filming of the movie in Bourne Woods, Surrey.
The images - two of which are included here - show actors in 12th century clothing riding at speed on horses. It's part of a scene in which the Sheriff of Nottingham (played by Matthew MacFadyen) and his men storm a village.
Dame Eileen (pictured below right) said: "They keep rewriting the script and changing my lines quite dramatically, so I'm terrified of forgetting them."
She will star as Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine alongside Russell Crowe, who plays the Sherwood Forest hero: "He was brilliant in Gladiator", she said, "and he can...
- 5/25/2009
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
A handful of behind-the-scenes photos from the set of Ridley Scott's Robin Hood have been published by the UK's Daily Mail. In this case the images show filming at Bourne Woods, Surrey in England. Check out one of the images below, and click on it to go directly to the Daily Mail site to see all the images.
Crowe plays Robin of Loxley in an origin story of Robin Hood that hews close to historical facts of the period. Abandoned as a child, he finds community with the common people of Nottingham. Robin's abandonment and trust issues hamper his ability to fall in love. He meets his match in Marian (Blanchett), a strong, independent woman.
In the article, producer Producer Brian Glazer remarks: "He doesn't have the old Robin Hood tights. He's got armour. He's very medieval. He looks, if anything, more like he did in Gladiator than anything...
Crowe plays Robin of Loxley in an origin story of Robin Hood that hews close to historical facts of the period. Abandoned as a child, he finds community with the common people of Nottingham. Robin's abandonment and trust issues hamper his ability to fall in love. He meets his match in Marian (Blanchett), a strong, independent woman.
In the article, producer Producer Brian Glazer remarks: "He doesn't have the old Robin Hood tights. He's got armour. He's very medieval. He looks, if anything, more like he did in Gladiator than anything...
- 5/24/2009
- CinemaSpy
God giveth and god taketh away. That may be the lesson learned for director Ron Howard and producer Brian Glazer after this weekend's disappointing take for "Angels & Demons." The second installment in what was expected to be a Robert Langdon franchise after the blockbuster success of "The Da Vinci Code," the Vatican set thriller did not deliver the same punch as the first adaptation of Dan Brown's popular novels. As tracking predicted, "Angels" opened to only $16.5 million on Friday and, if lucky, could hit between $45-50 million for the weekend. While Sony Pictures was not expecting to match...
- 5/16/2009
- by Gregory Ellwood
- Hitfix
- Pixie fashion plate Sienna Miller ("Factory Girl") is set to glam up Maid Marion in Universal Pictures' reinvention of the classic Robin Hood tale. Russell Crowe ("Gladiator") is cast as Robin Hood, but the flick doesn't revolve around this fabled do-gooder. Instead, the screenplay, written by Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris, revolves around Hood's arch nemesis Sheriff of Nottingham. Stealing from the rich and giving to the poor? Old Robin Hood has some mighty socialist ideas, and the Sheriff of Nottingham is the brave lawman that needs to straighten him out. Too bad they also have women problems to sort out. After both Kevin Costner's Robin Hood and Cary Elwes' Robin Hood, the new film has an interesting twist - a love triangle between the dashing Robin Hood and goody-two-shoes Nottingham. What's a girl, ahem, Maid, to do? Ridley Scott ("Numb3rs") sits in the director's chair
- 6/19/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
Get out the tights: Sienna Miller is set to play Maid Marian alongside Russell Crowe's Sheriff of Nottingham in an upcoming, revisionist view of Robin Hood, to be directed by Crowe's Gladiator collaborator Ridley Scott, the actress has confirmed. "I just found out," Miller, 26, tells the BBC. "It's the most exciting news in the world." This isn't any old Robin romp: This time in Sherwood Forrest, the usually villainous sheriff is due to be portrayed as heroic, while Robin – traditionally known for nobly stealing from the rich to give to the poor – is not. In April, Variety reported that the movie,...
- 6/18/2008
- by Stephen M. Silverman
- PEOPLE.com
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