Storied docs producer Dawn Porter has said private funding in the documentary space could help plug financial gaps that have opened up in today’s challenging market.
The Gotham Award-winner’s latest project, revealed by Deadline in February, is a documentary about Nelson and Willie Mandela that is part-funded by the Schultz Family Foundation.
Speaking at MIPTV today, Porter said her team at Trilogy Films is “reaching out for private funding” to finance big projects.
“We will need a broadcaster but are also reaching out [externally],” she added. “I’m looking at how we make films, how budget constraints are changing [the industry] and having honest conversations with partners about how we are going to do this together.”
Porter said she has spent time in recent months speaking with partners such as HBO, Netflix and CNN about “what is working for them and how their processes have changed” in the current climate. She...
The Gotham Award-winner’s latest project, revealed by Deadline in February, is a documentary about Nelson and Willie Mandela that is part-funded by the Schultz Family Foundation.
Speaking at MIPTV today, Porter said her team at Trilogy Films is “reaching out for private funding” to finance big projects.
“We will need a broadcaster but are also reaching out [externally],” she added. “I’m looking at how we make films, how budget constraints are changing [the industry] and having honest conversations with partners about how we are going to do this together.”
Porter said she has spent time in recent months speaking with partners such as HBO, Netflix and CNN about “what is working for them and how their processes have changed” in the current climate. She...
- 4/7/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
The first major running mate announcement of the 2024 presidential election cycle came much earlier than usual this week, as White House hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held an Oakland rally to make the big announcement, concluding weeks of speculation by introducing the young political neophyte to the nation and revealing that he may just have found the ideal addition to his long-shot ticket.
Nicole Shanahan — criminal justice attorney, Silicon Valley philanthropist, possible billionaire divorcée — is a native of Oakland who may just have the ideal rags-to-riches backstory for a political newcomer. Shanahan has spoken about growing up with a family that relied on food benefits and being raised by a schizophrenic father who had lifelong addiction issues. On Tuesday, she told the crowd of her days as an attorney, after completing a law degree a decade ago at Santa Clara University School of Law, working with artificial intelligence to push...
Nicole Shanahan — criminal justice attorney, Silicon Valley philanthropist, possible billionaire divorcée — is a native of Oakland who may just have the ideal rags-to-riches backstory for a political newcomer. Shanahan has spoken about growing up with a family that relied on food benefits and being raised by a schizophrenic father who had lifelong addiction issues. On Tuesday, she told the crowd of her days as an attorney, after completing a law degree a decade ago at Santa Clara University School of Law, working with artificial intelligence to push...
- 3/27/2024
- by Kevin Dolak
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has selected Silicon Valley attorney turned philanthropist Nicole Shanahan as his running mate in an early-announcement move as the independent presidential hopeful seeks to get his name on ballots in all 50 states for his White House bid.
Kennedy, son of the former U.S. attorney general and senator from New York who was assassinated in 1968, announced that Shanahan would join his campaign at a rally in Oakland on Tuesday. The announcement of a running mate decision this early is a strategic move that looks to assuage some of the concerns around his ballot access in half of the country.
“Nicole has put her interest aside and made the momentous and very, very difficult decision to embark with me on this extraordinary crusade to win back our country,” Kennedy said while introducing Shanahan as his running mate. The White House hopeful, who has a voice condition called spasmodic dysphonia,...
Kennedy, son of the former U.S. attorney general and senator from New York who was assassinated in 1968, announced that Shanahan would join his campaign at a rally in Oakland on Tuesday. The announcement of a running mate decision this early is a strategic move that looks to assuage some of the concerns around his ballot access in half of the country.
“Nicole has put her interest aside and made the momentous and very, very difficult decision to embark with me on this extraordinary crusade to win back our country,” Kennedy said while introducing Shanahan as his running mate. The White House hopeful, who has a voice condition called spasmodic dysphonia,...
- 3/26/2024
- by Kevin Dolak
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Norman Jewison made movies that mattered.
“Timing is everything,” the director told me the one time we met. I’d been enlisted to host a long Q&a with Jewison at the American Cinematheque — and I was more than a little intimidated.
From “The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming” in 1966 to “Other People’s Money” in 1991, Jewison had an astonishing quarter-century run behind the camera, directing movies that impacted the culture when they came out (none more than “In the Heat of the Night”), a great many of which are still watched today. Turns out, this legendary talent couldn’t have been sweeter.
Jewison liked to tell the story of how he met Bobby Kennedy before making the landmark Sidney Poitier picture. He and Kennedy crossed paths while on vacation skiing, where both of their kids wound up in the hospital.
Still developing “In the Heat of the Night” at the time,...
“Timing is everything,” the director told me the one time we met. I’d been enlisted to host a long Q&a with Jewison at the American Cinematheque — and I was more than a little intimidated.
From “The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming” in 1966 to “Other People’s Money” in 1991, Jewison had an astonishing quarter-century run behind the camera, directing movies that impacted the culture when they came out (none more than “In the Heat of the Night”), a great many of which are still watched today. Turns out, this legendary talent couldn’t have been sweeter.
Jewison liked to tell the story of how he met Bobby Kennedy before making the landmark Sidney Poitier picture. He and Kennedy crossed paths while on vacation skiing, where both of their kids wound up in the hospital.
Still developing “In the Heat of the Night” at the time,...
- 1/23/2024
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
We’re happy to report that after five days, all of our New Years Resolutions are still intact. Except for the one about doing 20 minutes of yoga in the morning. Impossible. And the one about not eating the entire bag of potato chips in one sitting. Yeah, nah. Oh! We also didn’t stop doomscrolling, smoking or clipping our toenails at the gym. But other than that? Perfectly on track. And while there are still two long months of awards season left to endure enjoy, the New Year has brought a bountiful crop of Don’t-Miss Indies.
The Lady Bird Diaries
When You Can Watch: Now
Where You Can Watch: Hulu
Director: Dawn Porter
Why We’re Excited: Acclaimed documentarian Dawn Porter’s moving new documentary offers a singular vantage point on of the most important administrations in US history, based on 123 hours of former First Lady Claudia “Lady Bird” Johnson’s own audio diaries.
The Lady Bird Diaries
When You Can Watch: Now
Where You Can Watch: Hulu
Director: Dawn Porter
Why We’re Excited: Acclaimed documentarian Dawn Porter’s moving new documentary offers a singular vantage point on of the most important administrations in US history, based on 123 hours of former First Lady Claudia “Lady Bird” Johnson’s own audio diaries.
- 1/5/2024
- by Su Fang Tham
- Film Independent News & More
Dawn Porter looks for stories of people who made history without asking. By following congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis in John Lewis: Good Trouble, or President Obama’s White House photographer Pete Souza in The Way I See It, she says she hopes to shade in between the lines of history.
In her most recent project, Hulu’s The Lady Bird Diaries, she fixates on Lady Bird Johnson’s life, relying largely on archival audio recordings that were released following the former first lady’s death in 2007. In...
In her most recent project, Hulu’s The Lady Bird Diaries, she fixates on Lady Bird Johnson’s life, relying largely on archival audio recordings that were released following the former first lady’s death in 2007. In...
- 12/16/2023
- by Kalia Richardson
- Rollingstone.com
Mort Engelberg, a producer of the films Smokey And The Bandit and The Big Easy, has passed away. Engelberg was 86, and he died in Los Angeles in the company of his wife, Helaine Blatt, a success herself as a high-end jewelry broker.
Engelberg was producing films when he took time away from his day job and organized a famous bus tour taken by Arkansas governor and presidential aspirant Bill Clinton and his running mate Al Gore through numerous states the summer after the Democratic Convention in 1992. Engelberg served a similar role previously for candidates Walter F. Mondale in 1984 and Michael Dukakis in 1988. For Clinton, the bus tour was a rousing success. It bonded Clinton, Gore and their wives, and presenting the amiable presidential candidate as an everymen who thrived mixing with real people in cities across the country. It would become a trademark for Clinton’s successful two presidential runs.
Engelberg was producing films when he took time away from his day job and organized a famous bus tour taken by Arkansas governor and presidential aspirant Bill Clinton and his running mate Al Gore through numerous states the summer after the Democratic Convention in 1992. Engelberg served a similar role previously for candidates Walter F. Mondale in 1984 and Michael Dukakis in 1988. For Clinton, the bus tour was a rousing success. It bonded Clinton, Gore and their wives, and presenting the amiable presidential candidate as an everymen who thrived mixing with real people in cities across the country. It would become a trademark for Clinton’s successful two presidential runs.
- 12/11/2023
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
The thing that strikes you first is her voice.
Lady Bird Johnson recorded 123 hours of audio tapes recounting the ins and outs of her husband Lyndon Johnson’s administration. The recordings form the spine of Dawn Porter’s illuminating new documentary, “The Lady Bird Diaries,” but they don’t just give a chronological sequence of events. These recordings are an artistic achievement in their own right, primary-source history executed with insight and wit, and as a kind of diaristic blank verse. It helps that Johnson had worked as a journalist; she has a way with words that’s deceptive because she’s not (overly) flowery, though her vocabulary is immense. Instead, she’s direct, spare in her descriptions, with her Texas drawl giving musicality to her prose. The space between the drama of her saying “I want to know what is going on, even if to know is to suffer...
Lady Bird Johnson recorded 123 hours of audio tapes recounting the ins and outs of her husband Lyndon Johnson’s administration. The recordings form the spine of Dawn Porter’s illuminating new documentary, “The Lady Bird Diaries,” but they don’t just give a chronological sequence of events. These recordings are an artistic achievement in their own right, primary-source history executed with insight and wit, and as a kind of diaristic blank verse. It helps that Johnson had worked as a journalist; she has a way with words that’s deceptive because she’s not (overly) flowery, though her vocabulary is immense. Instead, she’s direct, spare in her descriptions, with her Texas drawl giving musicality to her prose. The space between the drama of her saying “I want to know what is going on, even if to know is to suffer...
- 11/13/2023
- by Christian Blauvelt
- Indiewire
Oscar nominee Ron Nyswaner (Philadelphia) brings Thomas Mallon’s 2007 bestselling novel Fellow Travelers to life in a Showtime limited series starring Matt Bomer (The Normal Heart) and Jonathan Bailey (Bridgerton). The first episode of the eight-episode season will stream on Friday, October 27, 2023 on Paramount+ with Showtime before premiering on Showtime on October 29 at 9pm Et/Pt.
“Bomer plays charismatic Hawkins Fuller, who maintains a financially rewarding, behind-the-scenes career in politics. Hawkins avoids emotional entanglements – until he meets Tim Laughlin (Bailey), a young man who’s brimming with idealism and religious faith. They begin a romance just as Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn declare war on ‘subversives and sexual deviants,’ initiating one of the darkest periods in 20th-century American history,” reads Showtime’s synopsis.
“Over the course of four decades, we follow our five main characters – Hawk, Tim, Marcus (Jelani Alladin), Lucy (Allison Williams), and Frankie (Noah J. Ricketts) – as they...
“Bomer plays charismatic Hawkins Fuller, who maintains a financially rewarding, behind-the-scenes career in politics. Hawkins avoids emotional entanglements – until he meets Tim Laughlin (Bailey), a young man who’s brimming with idealism and religious faith. They begin a romance just as Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn declare war on ‘subversives and sexual deviants,’ initiating one of the darkest periods in 20th-century American history,” reads Showtime’s synopsis.
“Over the course of four decades, we follow our five main characters – Hawk, Tim, Marcus (Jelani Alladin), Lucy (Allison Williams), and Frankie (Noah J. Ricketts) – as they...
- 10/20/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
A documentary about the life and career of legendary R&b singer Luther Vandross is in the works, with Jamie Foxx and Colin Firth serving as producers.
Sony Music Entertainment’s (Sme) Premium Content Division, Sony Music Publishing, Foxx’s Foxxhole Productions and Firth’s Raindog Films have joined forces to produce the first-ever doc on the eight-time Grammy winner, who died in 2005 at age 54. Award-winning filmmaker Dawn Porter is directing, and production is underway.
Vandross began his career as a backup singer for Roberta Flack, Chaka Khan, Bette Midler and David Bowie. He released his successful, double platinum debut album, Never Too Much, in 1981 and has sold 40 million albums worldwide. Most of his albums achieved platinum or double platinum status, and he scored five Top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, including “Here and Now,” “Endless Love” and “Power of Love/Love Power.” He earned 27 Top 10 hits on the R&b chart,...
Sony Music Entertainment’s (Sme) Premium Content Division, Sony Music Publishing, Foxx’s Foxxhole Productions and Firth’s Raindog Films have joined forces to produce the first-ever doc on the eight-time Grammy winner, who died in 2005 at age 54. Award-winning filmmaker Dawn Porter is directing, and production is underway.
Vandross began his career as a backup singer for Roberta Flack, Chaka Khan, Bette Midler and David Bowie. He released his successful, double platinum debut album, Never Too Much, in 1981 and has sold 40 million albums worldwide. Most of his albums achieved platinum or double platinum status, and he scored five Top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, including “Here and Now,” “Endless Love” and “Power of Love/Love Power.” He earned 27 Top 10 hits on the R&b chart,...
- 7/11/2023
- by Mesfin Fekadu
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Taylor Swift learned quickly that being on top meant a rougher landing at the bottom. The year after she released sophomore album Fearless should have been joyful: The album helped begin her transition from country wunderkind to veritable pop star thanks to the five Top 10 hits it birthed. She would find herself as often the youngest or only country star amongst mainstream pop, rap, and rock heavyweights — incuding at the MTV VMAs where “You Belong With Me” took home Best Female Video. She would even take home her first Album...
- 7/8/2023
- by Brittany Spanos
- Rollingstone.com
In a stunning turn of events, popular conservative commentator Tucker Carlson took to social media to discuss the unexpected rise in popularity of Democratic presidential candidate Bobby Kennedy. In his latest episode of “Tucker on Twitter,” Carlson delved into the contrasting treatment Kennedy has received from the mainstream media compared to that of former President […]
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- 6/24/2023
- by Grady Owen
- ShockYa
On Wednesday afternoon in Denver, four-time NFL Mvp Aaron Rodgers sat down for a conversation with author and podcaster Aubrey Marcus at Psychedelic Science 2023, a conference on the applications of drugs including psilocybin, ketamine, and Mdma that has drawn over 12,000 attendees. In this particular event, titled “How Psychedelics Can Unlock Elite Performance,” Rodgers spoke about how he has personally benefited from taking ayahuasca (or “aya,” as he often referred to it), a potent psychoactive drink traditionally brewed by indigenous peoples of the Amazon.
Early in the discussion, Rodgers talked about his first experience with ayahuasca,...
Early in the discussion, Rodgers talked about his first experience with ayahuasca,...
- 6/22/2023
- by Miles Klee
- Rollingstone.com
The thing about being one of the leads in a 1980s-set dramedy about lady wrestlers is, your look is still stuck in the Reagan era even after the cameras stop rolling for the day.
“I’m looking at my gel French manicure now, and that, combined with my spray tan, every public place I walk into, I want to clink a glass, like, ‘Ding, ding, ding’ and announce that this is for a character and not from my personal choice,” Glow‘s Betty Gilpin says, chuckling.
PhotosGlow‘s Jackie Tohn Reflects on Castle, Veronica Mars, The Sopranos and More...
“I’m looking at my gel French manicure now, and that, combined with my spray tan, every public place I walk into, I want to clink a glass, like, ‘Ding, ding, ding’ and announce that this is for a character and not from my personal choice,” Glow‘s Betty Gilpin says, chuckling.
PhotosGlow‘s Jackie Tohn Reflects on Castle, Veronica Mars, The Sopranos and More...
- 11/23/2017
- TVLine.com
Chicago – The circumstances surrounding the John F. Kennedy assassination on November 22nd, 1963, put a man into the presidential spotlight who never thought he would get there… Lyndon Baines Johnson. The story of that strange time and the man who “would be king” is told in ‘Lbj.’
Rating: 4.5/5.0
Woody Harrelson portrays the title character in a surprising piece of casting, but he delivers Johnson so humanely and historically that by the end he is most appropriate for the role. Director Rob Reiner – working from a script by Joey Hartstone – structures the film through the filter of his fascination for Washington, D.C. shown in “A Few Good Men”… that justice can prevail if the right person is there at the right time. In his era, Johnson was rightly vilified in his escalation of the Vietnam War, but in other areas of legislation (the Civil Rights Act, Medicare, Medicaid, the anti-poverty Great...
Rating: 4.5/5.0
Woody Harrelson portrays the title character in a surprising piece of casting, but he delivers Johnson so humanely and historically that by the end he is most appropriate for the role. Director Rob Reiner – working from a script by Joey Hartstone – structures the film through the filter of his fascination for Washington, D.C. shown in “A Few Good Men”… that justice can prevail if the right person is there at the right time. In his era, Johnson was rightly vilified in his escalation of the Vietnam War, but in other areas of legislation (the Civil Rights Act, Medicare, Medicaid, the anti-poverty Great...
- 11/3/2017
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
According to the newly declassified JFK assassination files, President John F. Kennedy’s younger brother Robert F. Kennedy was sent a memo warning him about the impending release of a book detailing his “close relationship” with screen legend Marilyn Monroe.
The memo noted that a 1964 book by Frank Capell, The Strange Death of Marilyn Monroe, made frequent references to Monroe and Rfk, then the U.S. attorney general.
“Throughout the book … Capell claims that you had a close relationship with Miss Monroe,” officials warned Rfk in the document, according to Politico.
Before her 1962 death at 36 of a barbiturate overdose, Monroe...
The memo noted that a 1964 book by Frank Capell, The Strange Death of Marilyn Monroe, made frequent references to Monroe and Rfk, then the U.S. attorney general.
“Throughout the book … Capell claims that you had a close relationship with Miss Monroe,” officials warned Rfk in the document, according to Politico.
Before her 1962 death at 36 of a barbiturate overdose, Monroe...
- 10/27/2017
- by Tierney McAfee
- PEOPLE.com
Coachella, CA: 1969. United Farm Workers Coachella March, Spring 1969. Ufw leader, Dolores Huerta, organizing marchers on 2nd day of March Coachella. © 1976 George Ballis/Take Stock / The Image Works
Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the National Farm Workers Union, the person who coined the phrase “Yes, We Can” (“Si Se Puede”), a labor organizer instrumental in leading the 1960s grape boycott, and a social activist for Chicano, Native American and Latinos rights, should be a name everyone knows, as familiar as that of Caesar Chavez, the other co-founder of the National Farm Workers Union. Never heard of Dolores Huerta? Many people haven’t, and that’s the problem the new documentary Dolores sets out to remedy.
History seems to have a way of writing out both women and people of color, both of which describe Dolores Huerta. This well-made documentary goes a way towards righting that wrong in the case of Huerta. The...
Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the National Farm Workers Union, the person who coined the phrase “Yes, We Can” (“Si Se Puede”), a labor organizer instrumental in leading the 1960s grape boycott, and a social activist for Chicano, Native American and Latinos rights, should be a name everyone knows, as familiar as that of Caesar Chavez, the other co-founder of the National Farm Workers Union. Never heard of Dolores Huerta? Many people haven’t, and that’s the problem the new documentary Dolores sets out to remedy.
History seems to have a way of writing out both women and people of color, both of which describe Dolores Huerta. This well-made documentary goes a way towards righting that wrong in the case of Huerta. The...
- 9/29/2017
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
It’s the summer of ’69, but Senator Ted Kennedy (Jason Clarke) didn’t buy his first real six-string or start a band with the guys from school, as the Bryan Adams song goes. Instead, he’s still mourning the tragic killing of his brother Bobby Kennedy a year earlier, while mulling his own possible presidential run. To the latter end, he’s gathered together six of the “boiler-room girls” who worked on behalf of Robert Kennedy’s presidential campaign for a party.
Continue reading ‘Chappaquiddick’: Jason Clarke’s Ted Kennedy Drives Into A Scandal [Tiff Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Chappaquiddick’: Jason Clarke’s Ted Kennedy Drives Into A Scandal [Tiff Review] at The Playlist.
- 9/15/2017
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
As reported by Deadline, Chris Pine has signed on to star in an untitled limited series about Robert F. Kennedy for Hulu, with The Good Wife executive producer Todd E. Kessler writing and executive producing. The show will be based on Larry Tye’s Bobby Kennedy: The Making Of A Liberal Icon, with the Deadline story…
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- 9/5/2017
- by Sam Barsanti
- avclub.com
Chris Pine is set to star as Robert F. Kennedy in Hulu’s limited series about the late politician. The project from Todd E. Kessler (“The Good Wife”) is based on author Larry Tye’s 2016 biography, “Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon.” The currently untitled series about the New York Senator and brother of John F. Kennedy is in early stages of development. Rfk was assassinated in June 1968 amid his presidential campaign. Also Read: Patty Jenkins Fires Back at James Cameron Over His 'Inability to Understand' Wonder Woman Kessler, Pine, Tye, Caleeb Pinkett and James Lassiter are executive producers on the.
- 9/5/2017
- by Ryan Gajewski
- The Wrap
For his next role, Chris Pine will step into the shoes of a political great.
The Star Trek Beyond actor has signed on to star as Robert F. Kennedy in a limited series for Hulu. The project, which doesn't have an official name as of yet, is based on the biography Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal
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The Star Trek Beyond actor has signed on to star as Robert F. Kennedy in a limited series for Hulu. The project, which doesn't have an official name as of yet, is based on the biography Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal
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- 9/5/2017
- by Keisha Hatchett
- TVGuide - Breaking News
Chris Pine is going from James T. Kirk to Robert F. Kennedy: The Star Trek actor will star in a limited series based on the assassinated senator’s life, our sister site Deadline reports.
Now in development at Hulu, the as-yet-untitled project will use Larry Tye’s biography Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon as its source material. Pine will play Rfk, attorney general to his brother, President John F. Kennedy, who later served as a senator from New York and who was killed in 1968 during his presidential campaign.
The Good Wife‘s Todd E. Kessler...
Now in development at Hulu, the as-yet-untitled project will use Larry Tye’s biography Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon as its source material. Pine will play Rfk, attorney general to his brother, President John F. Kennedy, who later served as a senator from New York and who was killed in 1968 during his presidential campaign.
The Good Wife‘s Todd E. Kessler...
- 9/5/2017
- TVLine.com
Lyndon Johnson, the 36th President of the United States, has appeared as a supporting character in many films, including 2016’s Jackie (where was played by John Carroll Lynch), Ava DuVernay’s Selma, which featured Tom Wilkinson in the role, and had more of a main part to play in the HBO movie All the Way, with Bryan Cranston.
Now it’s Johnson’s turn to get the big screen biopic treatment with Rob Reiner’s Lbj. Woody Harrelson, buried under a mountain of makeup, plays Johnson as he becomes vice president to John F. Kennedy (Jeffrey Donovan) and later becomes president after Kennedy is assassinated. Lots of wigs and over-the-top accents follow. Lbj also stars Richard Jenkins, Bill Pullman, Michael Stahl-David, Jeffrey Donovan, Doug McKeon, and Jennifer Jason Leigh as Johnson’s wife Lady Bird.
Lbj premiered almost a year ago at the 2016 Toronto Film Festival, where it barely made...
Now it’s Johnson’s turn to get the big screen biopic treatment with Rob Reiner’s Lbj. Woody Harrelson, buried under a mountain of makeup, plays Johnson as he becomes vice president to John F. Kennedy (Jeffrey Donovan) and later becomes president after Kennedy is assassinated. Lots of wigs and over-the-top accents follow. Lbj also stars Richard Jenkins, Bill Pullman, Michael Stahl-David, Jeffrey Donovan, Doug McKeon, and Jennifer Jason Leigh as Johnson’s wife Lady Bird.
Lbj premiered almost a year ago at the 2016 Toronto Film Festival, where it barely made...
- 7/29/2017
- by Chris Evangelista
- The Film Stage
Author: Zehra Phelan
Woody Harrelson becomes all presidential in the brand new trailer for the upcoming political drama centring on President Lyndon B. Johnson, Lbj.
Related: Woody Harrelson News
The American President and A Few Good Men helmer, Rob Reiner takes up the director’s chair for Lbj in a story that follows the rise of Lyndon B. Johnson senate leader to his time at the White House taking the vacant position of Us President after the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Full Lbj Press Conference from Toronto
An almost unrecognisable Woody Harrelson takes the lead role as Lbj, with Jennifer Jason Leigh as Lady Bird Johnson, Richard Jenkins as Senator Richard Russell, Bill Pullman as Senator Ralph Yarborough and Michael Stahl-David as Bobby Kennedy all starring alongside.
The movie sees Harrelson as the powerful Senate Majority Leader who loses the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination to Senator John F. Kennedy (Donovan). He agrees,...
Woody Harrelson becomes all presidential in the brand new trailer for the upcoming political drama centring on President Lyndon B. Johnson, Lbj.
Related: Woody Harrelson News
The American President and A Few Good Men helmer, Rob Reiner takes up the director’s chair for Lbj in a story that follows the rise of Lyndon B. Johnson senate leader to his time at the White House taking the vacant position of Us President after the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Full Lbj Press Conference from Toronto
An almost unrecognisable Woody Harrelson takes the lead role as Lbj, with Jennifer Jason Leigh as Lady Bird Johnson, Richard Jenkins as Senator Richard Russell, Bill Pullman as Senator Ralph Yarborough and Michael Stahl-David as Bobby Kennedy all starring alongside.
The movie sees Harrelson as the powerful Senate Majority Leader who loses the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination to Senator John F. Kennedy (Donovan). He agrees,...
- 7/28/2017
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Watch out, Gary Oldman. Woody Harrelson has arrived to be the king of fall political biopics featuring major transformations. Oldman is completely unrecognizable as Winston Churchill in “Darkest Hour,” and so is Woody Harrelson in the upcoming Presidential biopic “Lbj,” directed by Rob Reiner.
Read MoreWoody Harrelson’s Hammy Performance Almost Makes ‘Lbj’ Worth Endorsing
The biopic picks up with Lbj in the wake of President Kennedy’s assassination on November 22, 1963. As the nation mourns, Johnson must contend with longtime adversary Attorney General Bobby Kennedy (Michael Stahl-David) and one-time mentor Georgia Senator Richard Russell (Richard Jenkins) as he seeks to honor JFK’s legacy by championing the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964. Jennifer Jason Leigh co-stars as Lbj’s devoted wife Lady Bird.
“Lbj” premiered at Tiff last year to mostly unfavorable reviews, meaning we don’t expect to see Harrelson’s transformation factor into the upcoming awards race for Best Picture.
Read MoreWoody Harrelson’s Hammy Performance Almost Makes ‘Lbj’ Worth Endorsing
The biopic picks up with Lbj in the wake of President Kennedy’s assassination on November 22, 1963. As the nation mourns, Johnson must contend with longtime adversary Attorney General Bobby Kennedy (Michael Stahl-David) and one-time mentor Georgia Senator Richard Russell (Richard Jenkins) as he seeks to honor JFK’s legacy by championing the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964. Jennifer Jason Leigh co-stars as Lbj’s devoted wife Lady Bird.
“Lbj” premiered at Tiff last year to mostly unfavorable reviews, meaning we don’t expect to see Harrelson’s transformation factor into the upcoming awards race for Best Picture.
- 7/27/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Woody Harrelson stars as the 36th Us President.
Electric Entertainment has set the North American theatrical release for Lbj for November 10, 2017.
The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and stars Jennifer Jason Leigh, Richard Jenkins, Bill Pullman, Jeffrey Donovan and Michael Stahl-David alongside Harrelson.
Lbj picks up the story as Senate majority Leader Lyndon Johnson loses the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination to Senator John F. Kennedy, played by Donovan.
Johnson agrees to be his young rival’s running mate. But once they win the election, despite his extensive legislative experience and shrewd political instincts, Johnson finds himself sidelined in the role of vice president.
That all changes on November 22, 1963, when Kennedy is assassinated and Johnson, with his devoted wife Lady Bird by his side, is suddenly thrust into the presidency.
As the nation mourns, Johnson must contend with longtime adversary and Attorney-General Bobby Kennedy and one-time mentor Georgia Senator Richard Russell as he...
Electric Entertainment has set the North American theatrical release for Lbj for November 10, 2017.
The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and stars Jennifer Jason Leigh, Richard Jenkins, Bill Pullman, Jeffrey Donovan and Michael Stahl-David alongside Harrelson.
Lbj picks up the story as Senate majority Leader Lyndon Johnson loses the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination to Senator John F. Kennedy, played by Donovan.
Johnson agrees to be his young rival’s running mate. But once they win the election, despite his extensive legislative experience and shrewd political instincts, Johnson finds himself sidelined in the role of vice president.
That all changes on November 22, 1963, when Kennedy is assassinated and Johnson, with his devoted wife Lady Bird by his side, is suddenly thrust into the presidency.
As the nation mourns, Johnson must contend with longtime adversary and Attorney-General Bobby Kennedy and one-time mentor Georgia Senator Richard Russell as he...
- 5/24/2017
- ScreenDaily
New Book Reveals Joe Dimaggio’s Torment After Marilyn Monroe’s Death: ‘I Always Knew Who Killed Her’
Joe Dimaggio‘s love for actress Marilyn Monroe is well catalogued, but a new biography written by one of the Yankee great’s longtime friends delves deeper into their fabled romance — revealing what qualities he loved most about her, why they divorced, and whom he blamed for her death.
“Joe was very honored and privileged to have Marilyn Monroe as his wife, which is why he was so fiercely protective of her,” says Dr. Rock Positano in an exclusive interview with People about Dinner with Dimaggio: Memories of an American Hero, which he co-authored with brother John Positano. “He felt...
“Joe was very honored and privileged to have Marilyn Monroe as his wife, which is why he was so fiercely protective of her,” says Dr. Rock Positano in an exclusive interview with People about Dinner with Dimaggio: Memories of an American Hero, which he co-authored with brother John Positano. “He felt...
- 5/9/2017
- by Sam Gillette
- PEOPLE.com
President Barack Obama was given the 2017 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award on Sunday, and he used his speech to urge members of Congress to exhibit courage in the current battle over health care. The John F. Kennedy Library and Foundation honors political leaders each May who have exhibited “the qualities of politically courageous leadership” President Kennedy outlined in his 1957 book. In the book, Kennedy profiled eight senators who took unpopular but ultimately good positions despite the political risk. In his 30-minute speech, President Obama invoked the fight over the Affordable Care Act and called on members of Congress...
- 5/8/2017
- by TIME Staff
- PEOPLE.com
Dean Devlin’s Electric Entertainment announced today that it has acquired all rights for the U.S. and Canada for director Rob Reiner’s Lbj starring Woody Harrelson in the role of the bombastic 36th President.
The film also stars Jennifer Jason Leigh, Richard Jenkins, Bill Pullman, Jeffrey Donovan and Michael Stahl-David, and was produced by Reiner, Matthew George, Liz Glotzer, Trevor White and Tim White. Lbj had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, and is set for a theatrical release in 2017.
The deal was brokered by Electric Entertainment’s Head of Domestic Distribution, Zac Reeder and by CAA on behalf of the filmmakers.
After powerful Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson (Woody Harrelson) loses the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination to Senator John F. Kennedy (Jeffrey Donovan), he agrees to be his young rival’s running mate. But once they win the election, despite his extensive legislative experience and shrewd political instincts,...
The film also stars Jennifer Jason Leigh, Richard Jenkins, Bill Pullman, Jeffrey Donovan and Michael Stahl-David, and was produced by Reiner, Matthew George, Liz Glotzer, Trevor White and Tim White. Lbj had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, and is set for a theatrical release in 2017.
The deal was brokered by Electric Entertainment’s Head of Domestic Distribution, Zac Reeder and by CAA on behalf of the filmmakers.
After powerful Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson (Woody Harrelson) loses the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination to Senator John F. Kennedy (Jeffrey Donovan), he agrees to be his young rival’s running mate. But once they win the election, despite his extensive legislative experience and shrewd political instincts,...
- 5/2/2017
- by Melissa Thompson
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The distributor plans a 2017 theatrical release.
Electric Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Lbj, Rob Reiner’s film starring Woody Harrelson as the 36th Us president.
The film premiered in Toronto last year and also stars Jennifer Jason Leigh, Richard Jenkins, Bill Pullman, Jeffrey Donovan, and Michael Stahl-David.
Lbj picks up the story as Senate majority Leader Lyndon Johnson loses the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination to Senator John F. Kennedy, played by Donovan.
Johnson agrees to be his young rival’s running mate. But once they win the election, despite his extensive legislative experience and shrewd political instincts, Johnson finds himself sidelined in the role of vice-president.
That all changes on November 22, 1963, when Kennedy is assassinated and Johnson, with his devoted wife Lady Bird by his side, is suddenly thrust into the presidency.
As the nation mourns, Johnson must contend with longtime adversary and Attorney-General Bobby Kennedy and one-time mentor Georgia Senator Richard Russell as he seeks...
Electric Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Lbj, Rob Reiner’s film starring Woody Harrelson as the 36th Us president.
The film premiered in Toronto last year and also stars Jennifer Jason Leigh, Richard Jenkins, Bill Pullman, Jeffrey Donovan, and Michael Stahl-David.
Lbj picks up the story as Senate majority Leader Lyndon Johnson loses the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination to Senator John F. Kennedy, played by Donovan.
Johnson agrees to be his young rival’s running mate. But once they win the election, despite his extensive legislative experience and shrewd political instincts, Johnson finds himself sidelined in the role of vice-president.
That all changes on November 22, 1963, when Kennedy is assassinated and Johnson, with his devoted wife Lady Bird by his side, is suddenly thrust into the presidency.
As the nation mourns, Johnson must contend with longtime adversary and Attorney-General Bobby Kennedy and one-time mentor Georgia Senator Richard Russell as he seeks...
- 5/2/2017
- ScreenDaily
A welcome blast of clear thought, Raoul Peck’s documentary represents the point of view and philosophy of James Baldwin, the writer and artist known best as a social critic of the Civil Rights movement. Allowing Baldwin to ‘speak’ thirty years after his passing sheds light and wisdom on the issue that hasn’t gone away.
I Am Not Your Negro
Blu-ray
Magnolia Home Entertainment
2016 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 94 min. / Street Date May 2, 2017 / 29.98
Starring: James Baldwin, Samuel L. Jackson (voice).
Cinematography: Henry Adebonojo, Bill Ross, Turner Ross
Film Editor: Alexandra Strauss
Original Music: Alexei Aigui
Written by Raoul Peck from writings by James Baldwin
Produced by Rémi Grellety, Hébert Peck, Raoul Peck
Directed by Raoul Peck
I Am Not Your Negro expresses the writings of an expert who has been gone for thirty years. Writer-director Raoul Peck had full access to all of Baldwin’s work, as well as choice film...
I Am Not Your Negro
Blu-ray
Magnolia Home Entertainment
2016 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 94 min. / Street Date May 2, 2017 / 29.98
Starring: James Baldwin, Samuel L. Jackson (voice).
Cinematography: Henry Adebonojo, Bill Ross, Turner Ross
Film Editor: Alexandra Strauss
Original Music: Alexei Aigui
Written by Raoul Peck from writings by James Baldwin
Produced by Rémi Grellety, Hébert Peck, Raoul Peck
Directed by Raoul Peck
I Am Not Your Negro expresses the writings of an expert who has been gone for thirty years. Writer-director Raoul Peck had full access to all of Baldwin’s work, as well as choice film...
- 5/2/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Ever wonder why “In the Heat of the Night” beat “The Graduate” and “Bonnie and Clyde” for Best Picture Oscar in 1968? Well, as Bobby Kennedy told director Norman Jewison when he presented the movie with the New York Film Critics Award, “Norman, timing is everything.”
It’s hard to believe that the movie came out 50 years ago. Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger lit up the screen in the racially-charged murder mystery that not only captured the Civil Rights zeitgeist but also delivered a damn good drama. On April 6, the TCM Classic Film Festival celebrates that anniversary with a gala opening night screening at the Chinese Theatre IMAX on Hollywood Boulevard, attended by Jewison, Poitier, producer Walter Mirisch, Lee Grant, and composer Quincy Jones.
Considered an underdog that year, “Heat” took home five Oscars, including Best Actor for Steiger, Stirling Siliphant’s Best Adapted Screenplay, Hal Ashby’s Editing, and Sound Mixing.
It’s hard to believe that the movie came out 50 years ago. Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger lit up the screen in the racially-charged murder mystery that not only captured the Civil Rights zeitgeist but also delivered a damn good drama. On April 6, the TCM Classic Film Festival celebrates that anniversary with a gala opening night screening at the Chinese Theatre IMAX on Hollywood Boulevard, attended by Jewison, Poitier, producer Walter Mirisch, Lee Grant, and composer Quincy Jones.
Considered an underdog that year, “Heat” took home five Oscars, including Best Actor for Steiger, Stirling Siliphant’s Best Adapted Screenplay, Hal Ashby’s Editing, and Sound Mixing.
- 4/5/2017
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
The story of Mildred and Richard Loving could easily have become a sledgehammer epic about social injustice. Writer-director Jeff Nichols instead sticks to the facts and recounts their ordeal with a quiet subjectivity that neither exaggerates nor sanctifies. The result is a marvelously affecting demonstration of how a civilized, progressive America rights a wrong. Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton are terrific as just plain folks oppressed by an obsolete law.
Loving
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital HD
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
2016 / Color / 2:40 widescreen / 123 min. / Street Date February 7, 2017 / 34.99
Starring : Ruth Negga, Joel Edgerton, Terri Abney, Marton Csokas, David Jensen, Nick Kroll, Jon Bass, Michael Shannon.
Cinematography: Adam Stone
Film Editor: Julie Monroe
Original Music: David Wingo
Produced by: Nancy Buirski, Ged Doherty, Colin Firth, Marc Turtletaub
Written and Directed by Jeff Nichols
Growing up in the 1950s, interracial marriage was a strange subject, and major entertainments handled it with kid gloves.
Loving
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital HD
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
2016 / Color / 2:40 widescreen / 123 min. / Street Date February 7, 2017 / 34.99
Starring : Ruth Negga, Joel Edgerton, Terri Abney, Marton Csokas, David Jensen, Nick Kroll, Jon Bass, Michael Shannon.
Cinematography: Adam Stone
Film Editor: Julie Monroe
Original Music: David Wingo
Produced by: Nancy Buirski, Ged Doherty, Colin Firth, Marc Turtletaub
Written and Directed by Jeff Nichols
Growing up in the 1950s, interracial marriage was a strange subject, and major entertainments handled it with kid gloves.
- 2/15/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Jeff Nichols moves from Midnight Special to Loving - and Ruth Negga bags an Oscar nomination in the process. Here's our review...
No one can accuse filmmaker Jeff Nichols of not being versatile. His last film, Midnight Special, was a sci-fi thriller, and his new film Loving tells the story of a interracial American couple who reluctantly changed history. Although wildly different, both films have family and compassion at the heart of them.
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Just watching the trailer for Loving made me tear up, so I prepared myself for Terms Of Endearment level sobbing - but I was surprised that I didn't need my ten pack of Kleenex. Nichols could have gone for overwrought performances and heaped on the sentimentality but the subtle and understated nature of the film reflects...
No one can accuse filmmaker Jeff Nichols of not being versatile. His last film, Midnight Special, was a sci-fi thriller, and his new film Loving tells the story of a interracial American couple who reluctantly changed history. Although wildly different, both films have family and compassion at the heart of them.
See related Batman & Robin: 25 things we learned from its making-of book Chris O’Donnell: the Batman & Robin spin-off that never was
Just watching the trailer for Loving made me tear up, so I prepared myself for Terms Of Endearment level sobbing - but I was surprised that I didn't need my ten pack of Kleenex. Nichols could have gone for overwrought performances and heaped on the sentimentality but the subtle and understated nature of the film reflects...
- 2/6/2017
- Den of Geek
This week, the Trump transition team announced that President-elect Donald Trump‘s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, would serve as a senior advisor in his White House.
The move has been rumored since even before Trump won the election back in November. Kushner, husband to Trump’s eldest daughter Ivanka and a New York real estate magnate in his own right, was an instrumental, behind-the-scenes player in Trump’s campaign.
Kushner has frequently been spotted with the president-elect following Trump’s upset victory — including days after the win when he accompanied Trump to visit President Obama in the White House. He and...
The move has been rumored since even before Trump won the election back in November. Kushner, husband to Trump’s eldest daughter Ivanka and a New York real estate magnate in his own right, was an instrumental, behind-the-scenes player in Trump’s campaign.
Kushner has frequently been spotted with the president-elect following Trump’s upset victory — including days after the win when he accompanied Trump to visit President Obama in the White House. He and...
- 1/11/2017
- by Diana Pearl
- PEOPLE.com
Let me be the last to wish you a happy new year. Actually you – and my Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mind audience – are the first people upon whom I’m bestowing these tidings. I’m writing this on Boxing Day because I’m leaving town for a week. I think I’m going to Chicago, where I shall reflexively ask Barry Crain for Sonic Disruptors pages.
While in the Windy City, I will be meeting up with my ol’ pal and fellow ComicMix columnist John Ostrander, another expatriated Chicagoan. He will be in town along with Mary Mitchell to visit (or annoy, as the case may be) a gaggle of his relatives. We will be doing at least two things together, the first of which is having a profoundly fabulous dinner with also-fellow ComicMix columnist Marc Alan Fishman and the Unshaven Comics crew, and as many wives and children...
While in the Windy City, I will be meeting up with my ol’ pal and fellow ComicMix columnist John Ostrander, another expatriated Chicagoan. He will be in town along with Mary Mitchell to visit (or annoy, as the case may be) a gaggle of his relatives. We will be doing at least two things together, the first of which is having a profoundly fabulous dinner with also-fellow ComicMix columnist Marc Alan Fishman and the Unshaven Comics crew, and as many wives and children...
- 1/4/2017
- by Mike Gold
- Comicmix.com
Chicago – The film adaptation of a stage play by August Wilson, the late playwright known for his “Pittsburgh Cycle” of dramas, was aided by Denzel Washington, both portraying the lead role and directing “Fences.” Washington had done the play on Broadway, and recruited to the film his stage mate Stephen McKinley Henderson and newcomer Jovan Adepo.
“Fences” is set in 1950s Pittsburgh, and involves the life of a garbage man named Troy (Washington). Throughout the film he interacts with his wife and son (portrayed by Viola Davis and Jovan Adepo), and best friend Bono (Stephen McKinley Henderson). Troy has lived a harsh life to this point, and takes out the frustration of that life on his family and friends. August Wilson first staged “Fences” in 1983, part of a cycle of plays all set in Pittsburgh. He tells the story of African American experiences decade by decade, through the families that lived them,...
“Fences” is set in 1950s Pittsburgh, and involves the life of a garbage man named Troy (Washington). Throughout the film he interacts with his wife and son (portrayed by Viola Davis and Jovan Adepo), and best friend Bono (Stephen McKinley Henderson). Troy has lived a harsh life to this point, and takes out the frustration of that life on his family and friends. August Wilson first staged “Fences” in 1983, part of a cycle of plays all set in Pittsburgh. He tells the story of African American experiences decade by decade, through the families that lived them,...
- 12/21/2016
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Natalie Portman as “Jackie Kennedy” in Jackie. Photo by Pablo Larrain. © 2016 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation All Rights Reserved
Jackie focuses on First Lady Jackie Kennedy in the days following the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Natalie Portman gives an amazing performance, capturing Jackie’s soft, breathy voice and mannerisms and portraying a woman in the public spotlight and facing an enormous historic task while enduring unthinkable private pain. Her Oscar-worthy performance is not the only thing that makes this film worthwhile for more than just history buffs. Jackie is an impressive film that should remind viewer (or let them know for the first time, in the case of some younger people) why Jackie became such a respected, even revered figure in the years after the assassination.
It is a pivotal moment in time from the country, filled with iconic images of both the assassination and the funeral but Jackie is not a conventional biopic.
Jackie focuses on First Lady Jackie Kennedy in the days following the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Natalie Portman gives an amazing performance, capturing Jackie’s soft, breathy voice and mannerisms and portraying a woman in the public spotlight and facing an enormous historic task while enduring unthinkable private pain. Her Oscar-worthy performance is not the only thing that makes this film worthwhile for more than just history buffs. Jackie is an impressive film that should remind viewer (or let them know for the first time, in the case of some younger people) why Jackie became such a respected, even revered figure in the years after the assassination.
It is a pivotal moment in time from the country, filled with iconic images of both the assassination and the funeral but Jackie is not a conventional biopic.
- 12/21/2016
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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Emerging at Sundance was Wes Anderson discovery Lucas Hedges (“Moonrise Kingdom”) for his performance in Kenneth Lonergan’s “Manchester By the Sea.” As Patrick, Hedges switches on a dime from a son mourning his father (Kyle Chandler) and tussling with his uncle (Casey Affleck) about his future to flirting with high school girls. A star is born.
Jeff Bridges won critics’ raves at Cannes for surprise indie sleeper “Hell or High Water,” and Hugh Grant returned to the screen in form-fitting style as the devoted younger husband/manager of Meryl Streep’s “Florence Foster Jenkins.”
Breaking out at Telluride and Toronto was Barry Jenkins’ ensemble in “Moonlight” (A24), especially “House of Cards” star Mahershala Ali in the role of the Cuban-born drug-dealer who nurtures the young boy “Little.” So far Ali is the frontrunner, winning the Gotham, New York and Los Angeles film critics and Critics Choice awards.
Emerging at Sundance was Wes Anderson discovery Lucas Hedges (“Moonrise Kingdom”) for his performance in Kenneth Lonergan’s “Manchester By the Sea.” As Patrick, Hedges switches on a dime from a son mourning his father (Kyle Chandler) and tussling with his uncle (Casey Affleck) about his future to flirting with high school girls. A star is born.
Jeff Bridges won critics’ raves at Cannes for surprise indie sleeper “Hell or High Water,” and Hugh Grant returned to the screen in form-fitting style as the devoted younger husband/manager of Meryl Streep’s “Florence Foster Jenkins.”
Breaking out at Telluride and Toronto was Barry Jenkins’ ensemble in “Moonlight” (A24), especially “House of Cards” star Mahershala Ali in the role of the Cuban-born drug-dealer who nurtures the young boy “Little.” So far Ali is the frontrunner, winning the Gotham, New York and Los Angeles film critics and Critics Choice awards.
- 12/20/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Over the course of a year, we talk to a lot of Hollywood’s brightest talents, about the projects which have inspired them most and the industry which at times supports, and at times hinders, their efforts to make their best work. As individuals, we’re often blown away by their insights; in gathering them together, we end up with a portrait of a community of artists and creators who love their art, for better and for worse.
Read More: The Best of 2016: IndieWire’s Year in Review Bible
Here are some of the best things our favorite actors, directors, writers, producers and more have shared with us over the last 12 months.
Diversity in the Industry (and The World)
“Do I want to make a huge studio picture that’s incredibly successful? Fuck yes, of course.” – Lake Bell
“‘Dolores, run!’ The first take we did, I ran — I’m not supposed to run.
Read More: The Best of 2016: IndieWire’s Year in Review Bible
Here are some of the best things our favorite actors, directors, writers, producers and more have shared with us over the last 12 months.
Diversity in the Industry (and The World)
“Do I want to make a huge studio picture that’s incredibly successful? Fuck yes, of course.” – Lake Bell
“‘Dolores, run!’ The first take we did, I ran — I’m not supposed to run.
- 12/16/2016
- by Indiewire Staff
- Indiewire
See me! Feel me! Touch me! That’s a lyric from the Who's Tommy, but it also describes the sensations that swim in your head when you look at photos by Harry Benson. There's music in them, as well as spontaneity and heat; they're alive in ways still camera images rarely are. That vitality is an essential part of the great Scot himself, a livewire from Glasgow who just turned 87 without losing the sharp burr on his tongue, the green pocket squares that dot his jackets or the witty glint...
- 12/7/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Welcome back to the Weekend Warrior, your weekly look at the new movies hitting theaters this weekend, as well as other cool events and things to check out.
This Past Weekend:
It wasn’t a bad Thanksgiving weekend, especially for the Weekend Warrior who pretty much nailed two of his predictions for the weekend! Disney Animation’s Moana indeed at opened at #1 with $55.5 million for the three-day weekend (exactly my prediction), although it ended up with more--$81.1 million--in its first five days. The Brad Pitt-Marion Cotillard spy thriller, Allied (Paramount), directed by Robert Zemeckis, also opened with $18 million, right on track with my prediction. I guess I could take some comfort on being spot on with two of the Thanksgiving releases—like I said last week, that holiday weekend is a bear to predict—but I way overestimated the other two movies as sequelitis indeed hit Billy Bob Thornton...
This Past Weekend:
It wasn’t a bad Thanksgiving weekend, especially for the Weekend Warrior who pretty much nailed two of his predictions for the weekend! Disney Animation’s Moana indeed at opened at #1 with $55.5 million for the three-day weekend (exactly my prediction), although it ended up with more--$81.1 million--in its first five days. The Brad Pitt-Marion Cotillard spy thriller, Allied (Paramount), directed by Robert Zemeckis, also opened with $18 million, right on track with my prediction. I guess I could take some comfort on being spot on with two of the Thanksgiving releases—like I said last week, that holiday weekend is a bear to predict—but I way overestimated the other two movies as sequelitis indeed hit Billy Bob Thornton...
- 11/30/2016
- by Edward Douglas
- LRMonline.com
John F. Kennedy hobnobbed with plenty of superstars during his presidency, but perhaps one of his most famous friendships was with Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack. In the new book JFK and the Masculine Mystique: Sex and Power on the New Frontier, author Steven Watts takes a closer look at this relationship, and how the two men influenced ideas of masculinity in the Camelot era.
On the night before his inauguration, Kennedy took a moment to thank Sinatra for his work on his campaign, particularly for spearheading the night’s concert that featured big names like Ella Fitzgerald, Gene Kelly and Nat King Cole.
On the night before his inauguration, Kennedy took a moment to thank Sinatra for his work on his campaign, particularly for spearheading the night’s concert that featured big names like Ella Fitzgerald, Gene Kelly and Nat King Cole.
- 11/28/2016
- by dianapearltimeinc
- PEOPLE.com
One of my favorite things about the final section of a calendar year is how amazing the films tend to get. This week, one of the best movies I’ve seen in 2016 opens in Jackie. This is a tremendously compelling character study, one that grabs your attention and neve lets go. To be sure, one of the main selling points is the transcendently good central performance from Natalie Portman, but everyone pulls their weight here. It’s a special flick, one that will definitely get Academy Award attention in multiple categories. At the moment, it’s my third favorite movie of 2016 so far. High praise, I know, but well deserving of it. Jackie is something special, plain and simple. The film is a look at Jacqueline Kennedy (Portman), centered on the days following the assassination of her husband, President John F Kennedy. Scenes are set either before the murder, showing life in the White House,...
- 11/28/2016
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Chicago – When encountering film producer, director, writer and “movie star” Warren Beatty, I entered into an interview that would be truly one of a kind. The spontaneous Mr. Beatty works a talk in a give-and-take Socratic method, searching for the truth underneath the rhetoric, as he did with his new film “Rules Don’t Apply.”
The film is a quasi-biographical profile of the legendary American billionaire Howard Hughes, but don’t mention that to writer/director Beatty (who also portrays Hughes). What he wanted to explore was the truth around Hughes, in the personification of a fictional couple (Alden Ehrenreich and Lily Collins) working for the billionaire. Set in 1958 Hollywood – the same year a young Warren Beatty arrived there – the film highlights the clash between the sexual looseness that existed in the movie business, and the potential seekers that “got off the bus” in tinsel town, still mired in their 1950s puritanism.
The film is a quasi-biographical profile of the legendary American billionaire Howard Hughes, but don’t mention that to writer/director Beatty (who also portrays Hughes). What he wanted to explore was the truth around Hughes, in the personification of a fictional couple (Alden Ehrenreich and Lily Collins) working for the billionaire. Set in 1958 Hollywood – the same year a young Warren Beatty arrived there – the film highlights the clash between the sexual looseness that existed in the movie business, and the potential seekers that “got off the bus” in tinsel town, still mired in their 1950s puritanism.
- 11/21/2016
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Warren Beatty’s days as one of Hollywood’s most infamous playboys are long behind him, but that doesn’t mean he’s lost touch with his old flames.
“The people with whom I had serious involvements I’m still on very good terms with, always have been,” the Rules Don’t Apply director, 79, recently told GQ.
Looking back on those days, Beatty is happy he waited to settle down. “Had I gone ahead earlier and gone through 143 divorces, I would have felt very guilty. I think I would have handled it badly,” he explained.
He also realizes that if...
“The people with whom I had serious involvements I’m still on very good terms with, always have been,” the Rules Don’t Apply director, 79, recently told GQ.
Looking back on those days, Beatty is happy he waited to settle down. “Had I gone ahead earlier and gone through 143 divorces, I would have felt very guilty. I think I would have handled it badly,” he explained.
He also realizes that if...
- 11/16/2016
- by m34miller
- PEOPLE.com
"People need their history... People need to know that real men actually lived here." Fox Searchlight has revealed a new full-length trailer for Pablo Larrain's second film this year, titled Jackie, his first English-language feature (his other film is Neruda). Natalie Portman stars as First Lady Jackie Kennedy, profiling her experiences after the assassination of her husband, President John F. Kennedy, in 1966. The full cast includes Peter Sarsgaard as Bobby Kennedy, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, John Hurt, John Carroll Lynch, Richard E. Grant and Max Casella. This is one of the best films of the year, I can't recommend it enough. Don't be surprised when Portman wins another Oscar for her performance. Do not miss this film. Here's the second official trailer for Pablo Larraín's Jackie, direct from Fox Searchlight's YouTube: You can still see the first teaser trailer for Pablo Larraín's Jackie here, to compare these two trailers.
- 11/14/2016
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Loving Man: Joel Edgerton talks in-depth about his critically acclaimed film LovingLoving Man: Joel Edgerton talks in-depth about his critically acclaimed film LovingIngrid Randoja - Cineplex Magazine11/9/2016 10:31:00 Am
Sitting across from Joel Edgerton you are struck by the fact he looks nothing like the men he plays on screen. His brown hair, almond-shaped eyes set behind oversized glasses and trim build give him the look of someone who manages a hip, downtown bar.
It’s hard to see him as The Great Gatsby’s macho, mustachioed Tom Buchanan, who looms menacingly over those around him, or as the bald-headed pharaoh Ramses in Exodus: Gods and Kings, who struts with such graceful arrogance. For the recent The Gift, a film he wrote, directed, and in which he also starred, he transformed into the bespectacled Gordo, a creepy lost soul dripping with ominous intentions.
Now comes the critically acclaimed Loving,...
Sitting across from Joel Edgerton you are struck by the fact he looks nothing like the men he plays on screen. His brown hair, almond-shaped eyes set behind oversized glasses and trim build give him the look of someone who manages a hip, downtown bar.
It’s hard to see him as The Great Gatsby’s macho, mustachioed Tom Buchanan, who looms menacingly over those around him, or as the bald-headed pharaoh Ramses in Exodus: Gods and Kings, who struts with such graceful arrogance. For the recent The Gift, a film he wrote, directed, and in which he also starred, he transformed into the bespectacled Gordo, a creepy lost soul dripping with ominous intentions.
Now comes the critically acclaimed Loving,...
- 11/9/2016
- by Ingrid Randoja - Cineplex Magazine
- Cineplex
Ever since his debut feature Shotgun Stories, filmmaker Jeff Nichols has provided a voice for the South with films like Mud, Take Shelter and the action-thriller Midnight Special earlier this year. What he hadn’t done before was to tell a true story taken from a lesser-known part of the South, and a couple whose bravery helped lead to changes in the Constitution, specifically about men and women of different races being able to marry.
Nichols ended up writing and directing Loving, based on the true tale of Richard and Mildred Loving (as played by Joel Edgerton and Preacher’s Ruth Negga), who fall in love in Virginia in the late ‘50s. When she becomes pregnant, they go to Washington, DC to get married, essentially breaking Virginia laws about mixed race married couples. Upon returning home, they’re promptly arrested and the pregnant Mildred is thrown in jail, and they...
Nichols ended up writing and directing Loving, based on the true tale of Richard and Mildred Loving (as played by Joel Edgerton and Preacher’s Ruth Negga), who fall in love in Virginia in the late ‘50s. When she becomes pregnant, they go to Washington, DC to get married, essentially breaking Virginia laws about mixed race married couples. Upon returning home, they’re promptly arrested and the pregnant Mildred is thrown in jail, and they...
- 11/4/2016
- by Edward Douglas
- LRMonline.com
It’s no coincidence that Amazon released its period drama “Good Girls Revolt,” about 1960s-era female employees seeking equality in the newsroom, less than two weeks before Election Day. Although the feminist-friendly series is set over 40 years ago, the issues its characters rally behind are still as relevant today – and, in fact, have been a key part of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign platform.
“[Amazon] immediately knew that they wanted to market it before the election, that it would be the Year of the Woman, that Hillary would be running,” executive producer Lynda Obst told IndieWire earlier this summer.
Read More: ‘Good Girls Review’ Review: A Powerful Story But No Revolution Yet
The series is based on Lynn Povich’s memoir, “Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued Their Bosses and Changed the Workplace,” in which she reveals how she, along with journalist-turned-filmmaker Nora Ephron and about 60 other women,...
“[Amazon] immediately knew that they wanted to market it before the election, that it would be the Year of the Woman, that Hillary would be running,” executive producer Lynda Obst told IndieWire earlier this summer.
Read More: ‘Good Girls Review’ Review: A Powerful Story But No Revolution Yet
The series is based on Lynn Povich’s memoir, “Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued Their Bosses and Changed the Workplace,” in which she reveals how she, along with journalist-turned-filmmaker Nora Ephron and about 60 other women,...
- 10/31/2016
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
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