Eighth Grade
Stars: Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson, Jake Ryan, Daniel Zolghadri, Fred Hechinger, Imani Lewis, Luke Prael, Catherine Oliviere | Written and Directed by Bo Burnham
Eighth Grade is the directorial debut of comedian and online sensation Bo Burnham. In his first foray behind the camera, he chooses a rather strange and unique subject with thirteen-year-old Kayla Day, played by the fantastic Elsie Fisher, and her awkward journey from middle school to the nightmarish and anxiety of high school.
First things first, I can’t praise the lead performance from Elsie Fisher enough. The intuition and layers showcased in such a raw and emotional arc is profound. Way beyond her years, yet perfectly balanced in beautifully effective melancholy of an era everyone went through but would most undoubtedly want to forget. Fisher is the heart and embodiment of the picture. Without her performance, Eighth Grade falls into predictable entertainment territory.
Stars: Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson, Jake Ryan, Daniel Zolghadri, Fred Hechinger, Imani Lewis, Luke Prael, Catherine Oliviere | Written and Directed by Bo Burnham
Eighth Grade is the directorial debut of comedian and online sensation Bo Burnham. In his first foray behind the camera, he chooses a rather strange and unique subject with thirteen-year-old Kayla Day, played by the fantastic Elsie Fisher, and her awkward journey from middle school to the nightmarish and anxiety of high school.
First things first, I can’t praise the lead performance from Elsie Fisher enough. The intuition and layers showcased in such a raw and emotional arc is profound. Way beyond her years, yet perfectly balanced in beautifully effective melancholy of an era everyone went through but would most undoubtedly want to forget. Fisher is the heart and embodiment of the picture. Without her performance, Eighth Grade falls into predictable entertainment territory.
- 1/9/2019
- by Jak-Luke Sharp
- Nerdly
Winners to be announced on February 17 at concurrent ceremonies in Los Angeles, New York.
The Crown, Succession, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story and The Looming Tower are among television series nominated for the 2019 Writers Guild Awards.
The list of nominees announced by the Writers Guild of America (WGA) West and East branches also includes The Handmaid’s Tale, longform projects Castle Rock, Paterno, Maniac and Sharp Objects and individual episodes of Narcos: Mexico, The Affair and Ozark.
Select categories appear below. WGA Award winners will be announced on February 17 at concurrent ceremonies in Los Angeles and New York.
The Crown, Succession, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story and The Looming Tower are among television series nominated for the 2019 Writers Guild Awards.
The list of nominees announced by the Writers Guild of America (WGA) West and East branches also includes The Handmaid’s Tale, longform projects Castle Rock, Paterno, Maniac and Sharp Objects and individual episodes of Narcos: Mexico, The Affair and Ozark.
Select categories appear below. WGA Award winners will be announced on February 17 at concurrent ceremonies in Los Angeles and New York.
- 12/6/2018
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
The Writers Guild Awards honor outstanding writing in film, television, new media, videogames, news, radio, promotional, and graphic animation categories. Today the nominees for the 2019 Writers Guild Awards were revealed. Check out the list below.
Television, New Media, And News Nominees
Daytime Drama
Days of Our Lives, Head Writer: Ron Carlivati; Writers: Sheri Anderson, Lorraine Broderick, David Cherrill, Joanna Cohen, Lisa Connor, Carolyn Culliton, Richard Culliton, Rick Draughon, Cydney Kelley, David Kreizman, David A. Levinson, Rebecca McCarty, Ryan Quan, Dave Ryan, Katherine Schock, Elizabeth Snyder, Tyler Topits; NBC
General Hospital, Head Writers: Shelly Altman, Christopher Van Etten; Writers: Barbara Bloom, Anna Theresa Cascio, Suzanne Flynn, Charlotte Gibson, Lucky Gold, Kate Hall, Elizabeth Korte, Daniel James O'Connor, Donny Sheldon, Scott Sickles; ABC
Drama Series
The Americans, Written by Peter Ackerman, Hilary Bettis, Joshua Brand, Joel Fields, Sarah Nolen, Stephen Schiff, Justin Weinberger, Joe Weisberg, Tracey Scott Wilson; FX Networks
Better Call Saul,...
Television, New Media, And News Nominees
Daytime Drama
Days of Our Lives, Head Writer: Ron Carlivati; Writers: Sheri Anderson, Lorraine Broderick, David Cherrill, Joanna Cohen, Lisa Connor, Carolyn Culliton, Richard Culliton, Rick Draughon, Cydney Kelley, David Kreizman, David A. Levinson, Rebecca McCarty, Ryan Quan, Dave Ryan, Katherine Schock, Elizabeth Snyder, Tyler Topits; NBC
General Hospital, Head Writers: Shelly Altman, Christopher Van Etten; Writers: Barbara Bloom, Anna Theresa Cascio, Suzanne Flynn, Charlotte Gibson, Lucky Gold, Kate Hall, Elizabeth Korte, Daniel James O'Connor, Donny Sheldon, Scott Sickles; ABC
Drama Series
The Americans, Written by Peter Ackerman, Hilary Bettis, Joshua Brand, Joel Fields, Sarah Nolen, Stephen Schiff, Justin Weinberger, Joe Weisberg, Tracey Scott Wilson; FX Networks
Better Call Saul,...
- 12/6/2018
- by Roger Newcomb
- We Love Soaps
The HBO comedy “Barry” is having a great day. First it reaped three Golden Globe nominations and then it earned another three bids at the Writers Guild of America Awards. At the WGA, it competes for Best Comedy Series writing as well as for an individual episode and for the catch-all Best New Series award.
For the comedy series award, “Barry” faces off against reigning Emmy champ “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” as well as “Atlanta,” “Glow” and “The Good Place.” “Barry” is the only comedy up for the new series award alongside the dramas “The Haunting of Hill House,” “Homecoming,” “Pose” and “Succession.”
Of those four, only “Succession” made it into Best Drama Series where it competes against the final season of “The Americans,” season 4 of “Better Call Saul” and the sophomore editions of “The Crown” and “The Handmaid’s Tale.”
The WGA Awards winners will be revealed on Feb.
For the comedy series award, “Barry” faces off against reigning Emmy champ “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” as well as “Atlanta,” “Glow” and “The Good Place.” “Barry” is the only comedy up for the new series award alongside the dramas “The Haunting of Hill House,” “Homecoming,” “Pose” and “Succession.”
Of those four, only “Succession” made it into Best Drama Series where it competes against the final season of “The Americans,” season 4 of “Better Call Saul” and the sophomore editions of “The Crown” and “The Handmaid’s Tale.”
The WGA Awards winners will be revealed on Feb.
- 12/6/2018
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
The WGA on Thursday unveiled its nominations for in TV, new media, news, radio/audio and promotional writing for 2018, with writers for Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale and NBC’s Saturday Night Live among last year’s winners to make the cut.
Last year, Handmaid’s Tale won the Drama Series category and the New Series category. HBO’s Succession has that same chance this year in drama, nominated in both categories. Another HBO series, its Bill Hader comedy Barry, was triple-nommed today including in the episodic race.
SNL returns to the Comedy/Variety sketch series category it won last season, this time facing the likes of the final season for IFC’s Portlandia and Sarah Silverman’s Hulu docuseries I Love You, America. Another returning champ, Comedy/Variety Talk Series’ Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, also landed a nom.
Like the Golden Globes earlier today the marquee...
Last year, Handmaid’s Tale won the Drama Series category and the New Series category. HBO’s Succession has that same chance this year in drama, nominated in both categories. Another HBO series, its Bill Hader comedy Barry, was triple-nommed today including in the episodic race.
SNL returns to the Comedy/Variety sketch series category it won last season, this time facing the likes of the final season for IFC’s Portlandia and Sarah Silverman’s Hulu docuseries I Love You, America. Another returning champ, Comedy/Variety Talk Series’ Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, also landed a nom.
Like the Golden Globes earlier today the marquee...
- 12/6/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Hervé Villechaize is described early in HBO’s new film My Dinner with Hervé as “the most famous dwarf in the world.” The scene is set a decade after Villechaize’s 1983 firing from his iconic role on Fantasy Island as the bell-ringing Tattoo (“De plane! De plane!”) and two decades after he first became famous as the Bond villain’s henchman Nick Nack in The Man with the Golden Gun. Yet the honorific, while both dismissive and outdated, still fit him after all that time. Fantasy Island and Tattoo were just that beloved,...
- 10/16/2018
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
Peter Dinklage Is ‘The Man With the Golden Gun’ in Teaser Trailer for ‘My Dinner With Hervé’ (Video)
Peter Dinklage is “the man with the golden gun” in the new HBO film “My Dinner with Hervé.”
The movie stars Emmy-nominated “Game of Thrones” regular Peter Dinklage as Hervé Villechaize, the French dwarf actor who appeared as the evil Nick Nack in the James Bond film “The Man with the Golden Gun” and as Tattoo in the series “Fantasy Island” in the late ’70s- early ’80s. “50 Shades of Gray” star Jamie Dornan plays the struggling journalist Danny Tate, who is assigned to write a profile of Villechaize.
The film is inspired by the true story of the unlikely friends, who spent one wild night in Los Angeles that had life-changing consequences for both of them.
Also Read: Peter Dinklage Is Now the Most-Nominated Actor in the Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Category
“I have a real story for you, junior,” Hervé tells Danny in the teaser trailer, above.
The movie stars Emmy-nominated “Game of Thrones” regular Peter Dinklage as Hervé Villechaize, the French dwarf actor who appeared as the evil Nick Nack in the James Bond film “The Man with the Golden Gun” and as Tattoo in the series “Fantasy Island” in the late ’70s- early ’80s. “50 Shades of Gray” star Jamie Dornan plays the struggling journalist Danny Tate, who is assigned to write a profile of Villechaize.
The film is inspired by the true story of the unlikely friends, who spent one wild night in Los Angeles that had life-changing consequences for both of them.
Also Read: Peter Dinklage Is Now the Most-Nominated Actor in the Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Category
“I have a real story for you, junior,” Hervé tells Danny in the teaser trailer, above.
- 8/26/2018
- by Ashley Boucher
- The Wrap
Now retired as Christian Grey, Jamie Dornan needs something else to do — so why not co-star with Peter Dinklage in “My Dinner With Hervé,” a new biopic set to debut this October on HBO?
In the 30-second teaser trailer below, the premise of HBO’s latest biopic gets laid out pretty cleanly: Danny Tate (Dornan) is a journalist assigned to speak with Villechaize (Dinklage), “the most famous dwarf in the world.” Villechaize promises he has a story to tell about his life as the star of projects including “The Man With the Golden Gun” and “Fantasy Island.”
While Dinklage does not share Villechaize’s French/Filipino heritage, he is a two-time Emmy winner for his work on “Game of Thrones” and seems committed to mastering the accent work involved. Per HBO, the cast also includes:
Mireille Enos as Hervé’s longtime girlfriend, Kathy Self; Harriet Walter as Danny’s newspaper editor,...
In the 30-second teaser trailer below, the premise of HBO’s latest biopic gets laid out pretty cleanly: Danny Tate (Dornan) is a journalist assigned to speak with Villechaize (Dinklage), “the most famous dwarf in the world.” Villechaize promises he has a story to tell about his life as the star of projects including “The Man With the Golden Gun” and “Fantasy Island.”
While Dinklage does not share Villechaize’s French/Filipino heritage, he is a two-time Emmy winner for his work on “Game of Thrones” and seems committed to mastering the accent work involved. Per HBO, the cast also includes:
Mireille Enos as Hervé’s longtime girlfriend, Kathy Self; Harriet Walter as Danny’s newspaper editor,...
- 8/24/2018
- by Liz Shannon Miller
- Indiewire
HBO’s My Dinner With Hervé , starring Peter Dinklage and Jamie Dornan, will debut Saturday, Oct. 20, HBO announced today, releasing a teaser as well.
The HBO Films production tells the true story of the unlikely friendship between struggling journalist Danny Tate (Dornan) and Fantasy Island actor Hervé Villechaize (Dinklage). Unfolding over one night in Los Angeles, their encounter will have life-changing consequences for both.
The film also stars Mireille Enos as Hervé’s longtime girlfriend, Kathy Self; Harriet Walter as Danny’s newspaper editor, Fiona Baskin; Oona Chaplin as Danny’s girlfriend, Katie Nielson; with David Strathairn as Villechaize’s longtime agent, Marty Rothstein; and Andy García as Ricardo Montalbán, Villechaize’s Fantasy Island co-star.
Director is Sacha Gervasi, with a screenplay by Gervasi and story by Gervasi & Sean Macaulay. Exec producers are Steven Zaillian, Richard Middleton, Ross Katz, Jessica de Rothschild, Sacha Gervasi and Peter Dinklage. Garrett Basch and...
The HBO Films production tells the true story of the unlikely friendship between struggling journalist Danny Tate (Dornan) and Fantasy Island actor Hervé Villechaize (Dinklage). Unfolding over one night in Los Angeles, their encounter will have life-changing consequences for both.
The film also stars Mireille Enos as Hervé’s longtime girlfriend, Kathy Self; Harriet Walter as Danny’s newspaper editor, Fiona Baskin; Oona Chaplin as Danny’s girlfriend, Katie Nielson; with David Strathairn as Villechaize’s longtime agent, Marty Rothstein; and Andy García as Ricardo Montalbán, Villechaize’s Fantasy Island co-star.
Director is Sacha Gervasi, with a screenplay by Gervasi and story by Gervasi & Sean Macaulay. Exec producers are Steven Zaillian, Richard Middleton, Ross Katz, Jessica de Rothschild, Sacha Gervasi and Peter Dinklage. Garrett Basch and...
- 8/24/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Mark Povinelli and Helena Mattsson have been cast opposite Peter Dinklage in My Dinner With Hervé, Sacha Gervasi's HBO movie. Directed and written by Gervasi based on a story he wrote with Sean Macaulay, My Dinner With Hervé centers on an unlikely friendship that evolves over one wild night in L.A. between struggling journalist Danny Tate (Jamie Dornan) and actor Hervé Villechaize (Dinklage), the world's most famous gun-toting dwarf, resulting in life-changing…...
- 7/28/2017
- Deadline TV
Andy García has been cast opposite Peter Dinklage in My Dinner With Hervé, Sacha Gervasi's HBO movie. Directed and written by Gervasi based on a story he wrote with Sean Macaulay, My Dinner With Hervé centers on an unlikely friendship that evolves over one wild night in L.A. between struggling journalist Danny Tate (Jamie Dornan) and actor Hervé Villechaize (Dinklage), the world's most famous gun-toting dwarf, resulting in life-changing consequences for both. García will…...
- 7/5/2017
- Deadline TV
Mireille Enos (The Catch) is set for a key role opposite Peter Dinklage and Jamie Dornan in My Dinner With Hervé, Sacha Gervasi’s HBO movie. Also joining the cast are Oona Chaplin (Taboo) and Harriet Walter (The Crown). Directed and written by Gervasi based on a story he wrote with Sean Macaulay, My Dinner With Hervé centers on an unlikely friendship that evolves over one wild night in L.A. between struggling journalist Danny Tate (Dornan) and actor Hervé Villechaize…...
- 6/23/2017
- Deadline TV
HBO Films released the first photo from the set of “My Dinner with Hervé,” starring Peter Dinklage as one of the most famous dwarf actors in Hollywood history. The movie, which has been in the works since 2011, also stars Jamie Dornan (“Fifty Shades of Grey”) as Danny Tate, a struggling journalist. The character is based in part on Sacha Gervasi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Sean Macaulay and is also directing. Gervasi was a journalist who met up with Hervé Villechaize, an actor best known for “Fantasy Island” and the James Bond film “The Man with the Golden Gun,” in...
- 6/23/2017
- by Carli Velocci
- The Wrap
HBO Films has released a first-look photo from My Dinner With Hervé, a Sacha Gervasi movie starring Game Of Thrones‘ Peter Dinklage and Fifty Shades of Grey's Jamie Dornan. The pic below features Dinklage as Hervé Villechaize and Dornan as journalist Danny Tate circa 1993. Written by Gervasi based on a story by him and Sean Macaulay and directed by Gervasi, My Dinner With Hervé centers on an unlikely friendship that evolves over one wild night in La between a struggling…...
- 6/23/2017
- Deadline TV
Peter Dinklage will get to play one of his dream roles — as one of the most famous dwarf actors in Hollywood history, Hervé Villechaize, in a new film called “My Dinner with Hervé.” “Fifty Shades of Grey” actor Jamie Dornan is set to costar as Danny Tate, a struggling journalist based on Sacha Gervasi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Sean Macaulay and is also directing. The film, which is part autobiography, will follow the two, who form a friendship over a wild night in Los Angeles. The story is based on a famous interview Gervasi conducted with the “Fantasy Island” actor a week.
- 5/9/2017
- by Carli Velocci
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Emmy-winning Game of Thrones star Peter Dinklage is expanding his relationship with HBO to the longform side. HBO Films has given the green light to My Dinner with Hervé, a Sacha Gervasi movie starring Dinklage and Fifty Shades of Grey‘s Jamie Dornan and executive produced by Dinklage, Gervasi and Steven Zaillian. Written by Gervasi based on a story by him and Sean Macaulay and directed by Gervasi, My Dinner with Hervé centers on an unlikely friendship that…...
- 5/9/2017
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: Sony Pictures has acquired the inspirational book The Day Donny Herbert Woke Up, and set Eddie The Eagle scribe Sean Macaulay to adapt it. Kevin Misher is producing through his Misher Films banner. It is another title with faith-based appeal for Sony, which turned Heaven Is For Real, War Room, Miracles From Heaven, Soul Surfer, Risen and Courageous into hits. Rich Blake's nonfiction 2008 book is the true story about a 34-year-old Buffalo, NY, firefighter who…...
- 4/20/2016
- Deadline
Yet another celebration of an overconfident mediocre white man as charming, heroic, and worthy of emulation. It’s inspirational! I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Canadian writer and feminist Sarah Hagi recently said a glorious thing: “Lord, give me the confidence of a mediocre white man.” This kept ringing in my brain as I tolerated yet another celebration of an overconfident mediocre white man as charming, heroic, and worthy of emulation. In many ways, Eddie the Eagle is more insufferable than the whatever Triumph of the Ordinary Schmoe that opened last week at the local multiplex, and the one two weeks before that, because it is based on a true story that has been largely fictionalized to, theoretically, render it even more “inspirational” than it would otherwise have been. While stories about actual brilliant women...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Canadian writer and feminist Sarah Hagi recently said a glorious thing: “Lord, give me the confidence of a mediocre white man.” This kept ringing in my brain as I tolerated yet another celebration of an overconfident mediocre white man as charming, heroic, and worthy of emulation. In many ways, Eddie the Eagle is more insufferable than the whatever Triumph of the Ordinary Schmoe that opened last week at the local multiplex, and the one two weeks before that, because it is based on a true story that has been largely fictionalized to, theoretically, render it even more “inspirational” than it would otherwise have been. While stories about actual brilliant women...
- 3/29/2016
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Movies about sports-related underdogs are a sub-genre unto themselves, but even among their ranks they vary in tone. They all aim to be inspirational to some degree, and while some take the story seriously others aim for laughs above all else. Reality-based underdog tales typically fall into the former camp — think Miracle, Rudy, Hoosiers — but the latest sports movie to be “based on a true story” is switching things up a bit. Eddie is a bespectacled kid with a leg brace in early ’70s England when he first decides his life goal of becoming an athlete in the Olympics. The dream appears to everyone else as existing far outside the realm of possibility, and even his father tells the boy at one point that “You are not an athlete.” He perseveres though, breaking multiple pairs of glasses in the process, and by 1987 Eddie (Taron Egerton) comes to settle on ski jumping. England...
- 2/26/2016
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Stars: Taron Egerton, Hugh Jackman, Christopher Walken, Tim McInnerny, Rune Temte, Edvin Endre, Jo Hartley, Daniel Westwood, Tony Paul West, Ania Sowinski, Daniel Ings, Anastasia Harrold | Written by Sean Macaulay, Simon Kelton | Directed by Dexter Fletcher
A comedy-drama based on the true story of the plucky underdog defying expectations at the 1988 Winter Olympics under the tutelage of a cranky yet caring American coach who’s turned their back on the sport that made them a star? Yep, Cool Runnings is a classic, no doubt about it ,and it can now finally have an Calgary ’88 double bill with Eddie the Eagle, which tells the story of an even more unlikely athletic hero.
I didn’t know a lot about Eddie the Eagle, other than that he was a ski jumper. As I understand it, this biopic runs a little fast and loose with the facts and the end result is about...
A comedy-drama based on the true story of the plucky underdog defying expectations at the 1988 Winter Olympics under the tutelage of a cranky yet caring American coach who’s turned their back on the sport that made them a star? Yep, Cool Runnings is a classic, no doubt about it ,and it can now finally have an Calgary ’88 double bill with Eddie the Eagle, which tells the story of an even more unlikely athletic hero.
I didn’t know a lot about Eddie the Eagle, other than that he was a ski jumper. As I understand it, this biopic runs a little fast and loose with the facts and the end result is about...
- 2/7/2016
- by Jack Kirby
- Nerdly
"It's truly a remarkable story. If you love movies like Hoosiers, Rudy and Remember the Titans, you should see Eddie the Eagle." That's the perfect quote from Drew Brees to help sell this sports movie to the masses. Fox has unveiled their official Super Bowl TV spot for Eddie the Eagle, which is hitting theaters at the end of the month. Kingsman star Taron Egerton stars as Eddie Edwards, the titular "Eddie the Eagle" - England's first ever ski jumping athlete. The full cast includes Hugh Jackman, Christopher Walken, Tim McInnerny and Jo Hartley. This Big Game-themed spot features actual football players such as Kurt Warner, Russell Wilson & Drew Brees. They're really pushing this film, and I'll still say it looks damn good. Here's the new Super Bowl TV spot for Dexter Fletcher's Eddie the Eagle, direct from Fox's YouTube: Eddie the Eagle is directed by Dexter Fletcher (Sunshine on Leith...
- 2/4/2016
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
UK deal struck with Matthew Vaughn’s Marv Films.
Lionsgate UK has struck a deal with Matthew Vaughn’s Marv Films for rights to Eddie the Eagle, the biopic of British ski jumper Michael Edwards.
Hugh Jackman and Taron Egerton star in the biopic directed by Dexter Fletcher, which has just started production in the Alps and moves to the UK next month.
Lionsgate plans to release the film in the UK in Spring 2016. It will be distributed by 20th Century Fox in all other territories worldwide.
Edwards won the hearts of many sports fans by making a catastrophic showing at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary.
Kingsman: The Secret Service star Egerton plays Eddie the Eagle and Hugh Jackman plays a ski jumping expert from Lake Placid who helps him train for the Olympics.
Vaughn, Adam Bohling, David Reid, Rupert Maconick and Valerie Van Galder are producing the film from a screenplay by Sean Macaulay.
Lionsgate UK CEO...
Lionsgate UK has struck a deal with Matthew Vaughn’s Marv Films for rights to Eddie the Eagle, the biopic of British ski jumper Michael Edwards.
Hugh Jackman and Taron Egerton star in the biopic directed by Dexter Fletcher, which has just started production in the Alps and moves to the UK next month.
Lionsgate plans to release the film in the UK in Spring 2016. It will be distributed by 20th Century Fox in all other territories worldwide.
Edwards won the hearts of many sports fans by making a catastrophic showing at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary.
Kingsman: The Secret Service star Egerton plays Eddie the Eagle and Hugh Jackman plays a ski jumping expert from Lake Placid who helps him train for the Olympics.
Vaughn, Adam Bohling, David Reid, Rupert Maconick and Valerie Van Galder are producing the film from a screenplay by Sean Macaulay.
Lionsgate UK CEO...
- 3/16/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Hugh Jackman and Taron Egerton ("Kingsman: The Secret Service") are teaming up for the languishing biopic "Eddie the Eagle".
The true story tale deals with Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards, the first British ski jumper in Olympic history. Though he came last in both of his ski jumping events at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Eddie became a media sensation.
Jackman will play Chuck Berghorn, a ski jumping expert from Lake Placid who helps Eddie train. Egerton won the title role after a "magical screen test" with Jackman, and beat out the likes of George MacKay and Jamie Bell for the part.
Timothy Spall is being sought for the role of Eddie's father. Dexter Fletcher ("Wild Bill") is directing from a script by Simon Kelton and Sean Macaulay.
Matthew Vaughn is attached to produce and filming aims to begin this spring.
Source: The Daily Mail...
The true story tale deals with Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards, the first British ski jumper in Olympic history. Though he came last in both of his ski jumping events at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Eddie became a media sensation.
Jackman will play Chuck Berghorn, a ski jumping expert from Lake Placid who helps Eddie train. Egerton won the title role after a "magical screen test" with Jackman, and beat out the likes of George MacKay and Jamie Bell for the part.
Timothy Spall is being sought for the role of Eddie's father. Dexter Fletcher ("Wild Bill") is directing from a script by Simon Kelton and Sean Macaulay.
Matthew Vaughn is attached to produce and filming aims to begin this spring.
Source: The Daily Mail...
- 1/12/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Lady GaGa's new video Telephone features nine minutes of sex, violence and incredible GaGa outfits and is set in a women's prison. Released last week, it has so far racked up 15 million hits on Youtube. Which is a lot. But then again, considering it's an homage to lesbian exploitation movies set in women's jails, maybe it isn't. Dubbed lezploitation by some critics, it's pretty hot stuff - you can watch it here. Journalist Sean Macaulay has pointed out at The Daily Beast that Telephone is not long enough to include all prison movies cliches, but it certainly manages a few. It starts with, as Macaulay writes, a newbie (Lady Gaga) "arriving at a jail to run the gauntlet of leering inmates before being sexually assaulted by beefy lesbian guards." Beyonce also stars as GaGa's butch partner in crime who...
- 3/17/2010
- by Andy Pemberton
- Huffington Post
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