Billy Porter is following in Whitney Houston’s footsteps.
The “Pose” star plays the Fairy Godmother in Amazon’s “Cinderella,” writer-director Kay Cannon’s new take on the classic fairy tale. It’s the same role Houston played in the 1997 TV-movie with Brandy in the title role.
“My 14-year-old sissy self is doing backflips, spinning around like the Tasmanian devil,” Porter told me at the “Cinderella” premiere Monday night at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. “My goal as a young teenage boy was to be the male Whitney Houston so I get this call and I just screamed, ‘I got the Whitney Houston part. I got the Whitney Houston part.’”
Porter describes his version of the character, called Fab G, as genderless. “Magic is love and neither have any gender,” he explained.
The film also includes the first Latina Cinderella, played by Camila Cabello, who makes her acting debut in the movie.
The “Pose” star plays the Fairy Godmother in Amazon’s “Cinderella,” writer-director Kay Cannon’s new take on the classic fairy tale. It’s the same role Houston played in the 1997 TV-movie with Brandy in the title role.
“My 14-year-old sissy self is doing backflips, spinning around like the Tasmanian devil,” Porter told me at the “Cinderella” premiere Monday night at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. “My goal as a young teenage boy was to be the male Whitney Houston so I get this call and I just screamed, ‘I got the Whitney Houston part. I got the Whitney Houston part.’”
Porter describes his version of the character, called Fab G, as genderless. “Magic is love and neither have any gender,” he explained.
The film also includes the first Latina Cinderella, played by Camila Cabello, who makes her acting debut in the movie.
- 9/1/2021
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
Esmé Collings's Victorian Lady in Her Boudoir (1896) is the oldest surviving British erotic film. The film, presented here, has been made publicly available by the British Film Institute (BFI) as part of its Pleasure Principle collection. And per the title of the collection, the magic of Victorian Lady in Her Boudoir lies in the pleasure of projection—namely, that of the spectator whose desire lies beneath the layers of clothing that are stripped away, one article at a time. The woman, whose name is unknown, appears to speak as she removes the clothes, staring directly at the camera as she struggles to remove a sock. Though the camera is still, our eyes wander. To make a spectacle of the act of undressing, within an English context and regarding the Collings film, recalls a particular tradition of commodified peeping. Scholar Kirstyn Leuner writes that the history of the dressing room is...
- 6/16/2019
- MUBI
Want to go to Hell and back without the, you know, going to Hell part? Daily Dead's Hell and Back DVD contest details are after the jump. Also in this round-up: a teaser trailer for The Harvesters, details on the Netflix series Gypsy, and an update on the release of The Abandoned.
Hell and Back DVD Contest: Prize Details: (5) Winners will receive (1) DVD copy of Hell and Back.
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Press Release: "Los Angeles, CA (December 3, 2015) – Freestyle Digital Media announced today that...
Hell and Back DVD Contest: Prize Details: (5) Winners will receive (1) DVD copy of Hell and Back.
How to Enter: For a chance to win, email contest@dailydead.com with the subject “Hell and Back Contest”. Be sure to include your name and mailing address.
Entry Details: The contest will end at 12:01 am Est on January 12th. This contest is only open to those who are eighteen years of age or older that live in the United States. Only one entry per household will be accepted.
Press Release: "Los Angeles, CA (December 3, 2015) – Freestyle Digital Media announced today that...
- 1/6/2016
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Santa Monica-based company will release Marya Cohn’s drama with Freestyle Releasing and Freestyle Digital Media in December.
The partners plan a 10-city Us theatrical and ultra VOD release for The Girl In The Book, about the daughter of a New York book agent with writer’s block who meets an author who reawakens painful memories.
Emily VanCamp and Michael Nyqvist star in the film, which premiered at this year’s Los Angeles Film Festival.
Varient Pictures produced in association with Busted Buggy Entertainment and Gina Resnick and Kyle Heller served as producers with Daniel Cunningham and Courtney Daniels on board as executive producers.
Myriad Pictures also handles international sales on the film. This mars the third film Myriad and Freestyle will jointly release in the Us following Three Night Stand and After The Ball earlier this year.
The partners plan a 10-city Us theatrical and ultra VOD release for The Girl In The Book, about the daughter of a New York book agent with writer’s block who meets an author who reawakens painful memories.
Emily VanCamp and Michael Nyqvist star in the film, which premiered at this year’s Los Angeles Film Festival.
Varient Pictures produced in association with Busted Buggy Entertainment and Gina Resnick and Kyle Heller served as producers with Daniel Cunningham and Courtney Daniels on board as executive producers.
Myriad Pictures also handles international sales on the film. This mars the third film Myriad and Freestyle will jointly release in the Us following Three Night Stand and After The Ball earlier this year.
- 10/15/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Santa Monica-based Myriad will release Marya Cohn’s drama with Freestyle Releasing and Freestyle Digital Media in December.
The partners plan a 10-city Us theatrical and ultra VOD release for The Girl In The Book, about the daughter of a New York book agent with writer’s block who meets an author who reawakens painful memories.
Emily VanCamp and Michael Nyqvist star in the film, which premiered at this year’s Los Angeles Film Festival.
Varient Pictures produced in association with Busted Buggy Entertainment and Gina Resnick and Kyle Heller served as producers with Daniel Cunningham and Courtney Daniels on board as executive producers.
Myriad also handles international sales on the film. This mars the third film Myriad and Freestyle will jointly release in the Us following Three Night Stand and After The Ball earlier this year.
The partners plan a 10-city Us theatrical and ultra VOD release for The Girl In The Book, about the daughter of a New York book agent with writer’s block who meets an author who reawakens painful memories.
Emily VanCamp and Michael Nyqvist star in the film, which premiered at this year’s Los Angeles Film Festival.
Varient Pictures produced in association with Busted Buggy Entertainment and Gina Resnick and Kyle Heller served as producers with Daniel Cunningham and Courtney Daniels on board as executive producers.
Myriad also handles international sales on the film. This mars the third film Myriad and Freestyle will jointly release in the Us following Three Night Stand and After The Ball earlier this year.
- 10/15/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The things we do for fashion!
"After the Ball" is a modern-day fairy tale set in the world of fashion, starring Portia Doubleday ("Youth in Revolt," "Her") Marc-André Grondin ("Goon"), Chris Noth ("Sex and the City"), Lauren Holly ("Dumb & Dumber), Mimi Kuzyk, and Carlo Rota. The light-hearted movie is directed by Sean Garrity ("My Awkward Sexual Adventure").
"After the Ball," which features elements of "Cinderella" and "Twelfth Night," takes place in the contemporary fashion industry. Kate's (Doubleday) dream is to design for couturier houses. Although she's a bright new talent, she can't get a job. No one trusts the daughter of Lee Kassell (Noth), a retail guru who markets clothes "inspired" by the very designers Kate wants to work for. Who wants a spy among the sequins and stilettos?
Reluctantly, Kate joins the family business where she must navigate around her duplicitous stepmother (Holly) and two "wicked" stepsisters. With the...
"After the Ball" is a modern-day fairy tale set in the world of fashion, starring Portia Doubleday ("Youth in Revolt," "Her") Marc-André Grondin ("Goon"), Chris Noth ("Sex and the City"), Lauren Holly ("Dumb & Dumber), Mimi Kuzyk, and Carlo Rota. The light-hearted movie is directed by Sean Garrity ("My Awkward Sexual Adventure").
"After the Ball," which features elements of "Cinderella" and "Twelfth Night," takes place in the contemporary fashion industry. Kate's (Doubleday) dream is to design for couturier houses. Although she's a bright new talent, she can't get a job. No one trusts the daughter of Lee Kassell (Noth), a retail guru who markets clothes "inspired" by the very designers Kate wants to work for. Who wants a spy among the sequins and stilettos?
Reluctantly, Kate joins the family business where she must navigate around her duplicitous stepmother (Holly) and two "wicked" stepsisters. With the...
- 1/9/2015
- by Chris Jancelewicz
- Moviefone
Telefilm Canada has confirmed its financial support of nearly $13 million of Canadian tax payers' money towards the production of nine English-language feature films through the 'Canada Feature Film Fund', although there doesn't seem to be anything culturally 'Canadian' about most of their selections, other than the crews that will be working on them.
Among the films receiving money include a psycho horror with a demonic 'Santa Claus', a bio pic about a former Queen of Sweden, the 'relationship' between 'James Dean' and a photographer, a thriller involving a Satanic child abuse sex ring, and an inflatable Sex Doll drug smuggling story:
The films are "After the Ball" (Sean Garrity), "A Christmas Horror Story" (Steven Hoban, Grant Harvey, Brett Sullivan), "Aloft" (Claudia Llosa), "A Worthy Companion" (Jason Sanchez, Carlos Sanchez), "Life" (Anton Corbijn), "Regression" (Alejandro Amenabar), "Rest Home" (Michael Rowe), "The Girl King" (Mika Kaurismäki) and "Zoom" (Pedro Morelli...
Among the films receiving money include a psycho horror with a demonic 'Santa Claus', a bio pic about a former Queen of Sweden, the 'relationship' between 'James Dean' and a photographer, a thriller involving a Satanic child abuse sex ring, and an inflatable Sex Doll drug smuggling story:
The films are "After the Ball" (Sean Garrity), "A Christmas Horror Story" (Steven Hoban, Grant Harvey, Brett Sullivan), "Aloft" (Claudia Llosa), "A Worthy Companion" (Jason Sanchez, Carlos Sanchez), "Life" (Anton Corbijn), "Regression" (Alejandro Amenabar), "Rest Home" (Michael Rowe), "The Girl King" (Mika Kaurismäki) and "Zoom" (Pedro Morelli...
- 6/21/2014
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
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