In 2015, Fox debuted a science-fiction mystery series called "Wayward Pines" starring Matt Dillon as U.S. Secret Service agent Ethan Burke who is sent to investigate the mysterious disappearance of two fellow agents in a small town in Idaho. After getting in a car accident, he awakens to discover he cannot leave Wayward Pines, nor can he contact anyone outside of the town. He quickly learns that one of the missing agents is dead, while the other, his ex-partner Kate (Carla Gugino) has simply settled down and started a new life in the town.
If that wasn't odd enough, Wayward Pines is boxed in by an electric fence and run by Sheriff Arnold Pope (Terrence Howard), who punishes any attempts to flee the city with a public execution known as a "reckoning." If this sounds like David Lynch's "Twin Peaks" by way of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery," you're not far off.
If that wasn't odd enough, Wayward Pines is boxed in by an electric fence and run by Sheriff Arnold Pope (Terrence Howard), who punishes any attempts to flee the city with a public execution known as a "reckoning." If this sounds like David Lynch's "Twin Peaks" by way of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery," you're not far off.
- 2/16/2024
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
When The New Yorker first published Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” in June of 1948, the short story was met with confusion and disgust. To this day, apparently the magazine still hasn’t received that much mail over a work of fiction. Regardless of those early negative reviews, though, this shock tale has since gone on to become ingrained in the public consciousness. Everyone remembers their immediate reaction upon reading about a deceptively quaint village where the locals conduct the most heinous ritual every year.
Despite its widespread recognition, “The Lottery” has received only a few screen adaptations over the years. The earliest was in Cameo Theatre, a long lost 1950s anthology series notable for its minimalistic production design. Then there was Larry Yust’s ‘69 short-film; this piece of kindertrauma captures the source material’s unmatched ability to go from casual to ghastly in mere seconds.
In addition to direct adaptations...
Despite its widespread recognition, “The Lottery” has received only a few screen adaptations over the years. The earliest was in Cameo Theatre, a long lost 1950s anthology series notable for its minimalistic production design. Then there was Larry Yust’s ‘69 short-film; this piece of kindertrauma captures the source material’s unmatched ability to go from casual to ghastly in mere seconds.
In addition to direct adaptations...
- 11/24/2023
- by Paul Lê
- bloody-disgusting.com
Josephine Decker's 2020 film "Shirley" -- based on the novel by Susan Scarf Merrell -- is a biography of the legendary, and legendarily sour, horror author Shirley Jackson ... sort of.
Elisabeth Moss gives a truly great performance as Jackson, depicting her as a woman out of time, unwilling to play by the stuffy, sexist rules of "polite society." When a hen-like housewife peer of Jackson's whines that she might stain her couch with red wine, it's Jackson's instinct to upend her entire glass onto the upholstery. Jackson is depicted as cantankerous, lethargic, alcoholic, and mean.
"Shirley" centers on the relationship Jackson had with a wide-eyed college student named Rose Namser (Odessa Young), a young woman who is optimistic, happy in her new marriage, and eager to raise her unborn child. Jackson is childless and, as the film progresses, will reveal her resentment of that fact. Jackson is happy-ish in her marriage,...
Elisabeth Moss gives a truly great performance as Jackson, depicting her as a woman out of time, unwilling to play by the stuffy, sexist rules of "polite society." When a hen-like housewife peer of Jackson's whines that she might stain her couch with red wine, it's Jackson's instinct to upend her entire glass onto the upholstery. Jackson is depicted as cantankerous, lethargic, alcoholic, and mean.
"Shirley" centers on the relationship Jackson had with a wide-eyed college student named Rose Namser (Odessa Young), a young woman who is optimistic, happy in her new marriage, and eager to raise her unborn child. Jackson is childless and, as the film progresses, will reveal her resentment of that fact. Jackson is happy-ish in her marriage,...
- 10/29/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Rick Astley has released his ninth studio album, Are We There Yet?, via BMG. Stream it via Apple Music or Spotify below.
The English singer wrote, recorded, played, and produced the follow-up to 2018’s Beautiful Life at his home in London. Preceded by the singles “Dippin My Feet” and “Never Gonna Stop,” Are We There Yet? was influenced by the likes of Bill Withers, Al Green, and Marvin Gaye, as well as the live instrumentation of the famed R&b scene in Muscle Shoals. Pick up your physical copy here.
In support of the album, Astley will play a handful of UK shows, including a pair of gigs at London’s Royal Albert Hall. He will return to the road in early 2024 for a UK and Ireland arena tour, featuring Belinda Carlisle, The Lottery Winners, and Scouting for Girls opening on select dates. See the schedule below, and tickets are available here.
The English singer wrote, recorded, played, and produced the follow-up to 2018’s Beautiful Life at his home in London. Preceded by the singles “Dippin My Feet” and “Never Gonna Stop,” Are We There Yet? was influenced by the likes of Bill Withers, Al Green, and Marvin Gaye, as well as the live instrumentation of the famed R&b scene in Muscle Shoals. Pick up your physical copy here.
In support of the album, Astley will play a handful of UK shows, including a pair of gigs at London’s Royal Albert Hall. He will return to the road in early 2024 for a UK and Ireland arena tour, featuring Belinda Carlisle, The Lottery Winners, and Scouting for Girls opening on select dates. See the schedule below, and tickets are available here.
- 10/13/2023
- by Eddie Fu
- Consequence - Music
Mumbai, June 14 (Ians) The crime thriller series ‘The Night Manager’ has received a positive reception. One of the show’s biggest highlights is Anil Kapoor’s performance as the classy and stylish antagonist Shailendra Rungta, which impressed audiences and critics alike.
While Anil Kapoor has immersed himself into the role, the actor was initially sceptical of playing the antagonist.
Elaborating further, the creator of the show, Sandeep Modi said: “When I first approached Anil Kapoor for the role of Shailendra Rungta, he was reluctant to play the villain. He has always been this larger than life hero, so he was slightly sceptical to play an outright antagonist.”
He continued: “But once he sunk into the character, he made it his own and brought the smallest of nuances to his role. From suggesting the name of the character to bringing a factor of relatability and Indian-ness, it is safe to say...
While Anil Kapoor has immersed himself into the role, the actor was initially sceptical of playing the antagonist.
Elaborating further, the creator of the show, Sandeep Modi said: “When I first approached Anil Kapoor for the role of Shailendra Rungta, he was reluctant to play the villain. He has always been this larger than life hero, so he was slightly sceptical to play an outright antagonist.”
He continued: “But once he sunk into the character, he made it his own and brought the smallest of nuances to his role. From suggesting the name of the character to bringing a factor of relatability and Indian-ness, it is safe to say...
- 6/14/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Exclusive: Netflix has put Bandidos, a thriller series about an underwater heist, into production.
The drama follows the story of Miguel (Alfonso Dosal) and accomplice Lilí (Ester Expósito), who are joined by a group of bandits as they attempt to retrieve treasure from an underwater grave of a Spanish galleon that sunk in the Gulf of Mexico during the War of Independence. However, they’re not the only ones after the bounty.
Shot in Spanish, the series also stars Juan Pablo Medina, Mabel Cadena, Nicolás Furtado, Andrés Baida, Andrea Chaparro, Juan Pablo Fuentes and Bruno Bichir among others.
Pablo Tébar is writer and showrunner on the series, which our sources say will feature a “massive underwater heist.” We understand the action will occur in several different settings, however.
Rambo: Last Blood and Get the Gringo director Adrian Grunberg is the director.
The series is set to launch in 2024. It marks...
The drama follows the story of Miguel (Alfonso Dosal) and accomplice Lilí (Ester Expósito), who are joined by a group of bandits as they attempt to retrieve treasure from an underwater grave of a Spanish galleon that sunk in the Gulf of Mexico during the War of Independence. However, they’re not the only ones after the bounty.
Shot in Spanish, the series also stars Juan Pablo Medina, Mabel Cadena, Nicolás Furtado, Andrés Baida, Andrea Chaparro, Juan Pablo Fuentes and Bruno Bichir among others.
Pablo Tébar is writer and showrunner on the series, which our sources say will feature a “massive underwater heist.” We understand the action will occur in several different settings, however.
Rambo: Last Blood and Get the Gringo director Adrian Grunberg is the director.
The series is set to launch in 2024. It marks...
- 4/28/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
‘The Night Manager’ director Sandeep Modi revealed that Bollywood actor Anil Kapoor named his character himself in the web series. Anil plays the role of Shelly Rungta, a pivotal character in the story. Anil is an antagonist in the series and he is playing a character that is different from his previous ones. As an actor, he is exploring his grey side in the show and seems to be doing justice to his character as a gambler and ruthless businessman. He shared that originally there was another name for his character but he suggested this particular one.
“We cast Anil Kapoor as Shelly Rungta. By the way, the name Rungta came from him. It was called something else earlier,” said Sandeep.
Sandeep, who is known for ‘Aarya’, ‘The Lottery’,and ‘Neerja’, added how the ‘Jug Jugg Jeeyo’ actor came up with another option.
“He gave the last name Rungta. He...
“We cast Anil Kapoor as Shelly Rungta. By the way, the name Rungta came from him. It was called something else earlier,” said Sandeep.
Sandeep, who is known for ‘Aarya’, ‘The Lottery’,and ‘Neerja’, added how the ‘Jug Jugg Jeeyo’ actor came up with another option.
“He gave the last name Rungta. He...
- 2/24/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
‘The Night Manager’ director Sandeep Modi talks about the three different looks of Aditya Roy Kapur in the web series, which is a Hindi adaptation of John le Carré’s novel ‘The Night Manager’.
He shared: “The story was set across five years, and five different emotional stages for our character. Shaan’s character is the longest arc of the story. He starts with ‘The Night Manager’ in Dhaka, to Shimla, he goes to Sri Lanka, he goes through so much, eventually the climax.”
Sandeep, who is known for ‘Aarya’, ‘The Lottery’,and ‘Neerja’, added further how challenging it was to give him different looks that goes well with the storyline of the series.
“We decided to go with three looks for him, he’s clean shaven, he’s bearded, he has stubble. So it was tough trying to figure out how to manage each look because each look required 5-7 days to prep right.
He shared: “The story was set across five years, and five different emotional stages for our character. Shaan’s character is the longest arc of the story. He starts with ‘The Night Manager’ in Dhaka, to Shimla, he goes to Sri Lanka, he goes through so much, eventually the climax.”
Sandeep, who is known for ‘Aarya’, ‘The Lottery’,and ‘Neerja’, added further how challenging it was to give him different looks that goes well with the storyline of the series.
“We decided to go with three looks for him, he’s clean shaven, he’s bearded, he has stubble. So it was tough trying to figure out how to manage each look because each look required 5-7 days to prep right.
- 1/25/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
Robert Patrick is playing a lawman again, this time in Paramount+’s upcoming Yellowstone prequel 1923, our sister site Deadline reports.
The Scorpion alum will play Sheriff William MacDowell, who is a friend of the franchise’s central family, the Duttons.
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As previously reported, this newest chapter of Yellowstone‘s “origin story” will introduce viewers to the next two...
The Scorpion alum will play Sheriff William MacDowell, who is a friend of the franchise’s central family, the Duttons.
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As previously reported, this newest chapter of Yellowstone‘s “origin story” will introduce viewers to the next two...
- 9/16/2022
- by Kimberly Roots
- TVLine.com
Exclusive: The Masked Singer creator Wonwoo Park is developing a Eurovision Song Contest-style format that will “bring people together regardless of nationality” and has addressed the Fox Masked Singer Rudy Giuliani controversy for the first time, stating it wouldn’t have happened in Korea.
Speaking exclusively to Deadline at this week’s Mip TV, Park, who has just started a first-look development deal with Fox Alternative Entertainment and his Seoul-based production company Diturn, said that due to the Ukraine conflict he has been thinking up ideas “for shows that aren’t bound by their country,” inspired by Eurovision.
The format is being developed on paper and Park would soon like to take out to U.S. networks.
“I’m thinking of new shows where we can come together regardless of nationality,” he said. “It’s so important in this era with the Ukraine situation to think about entertainment programs that will make peace.
Speaking exclusively to Deadline at this week’s Mip TV, Park, who has just started a first-look development deal with Fox Alternative Entertainment and his Seoul-based production company Diturn, said that due to the Ukraine conflict he has been thinking up ideas “for shows that aren’t bound by their country,” inspired by Eurovision.
The format is being developed on paper and Park would soon like to take out to U.S. networks.
“I’m thinking of new shows where we can come together regardless of nationality,” he said. “It’s so important in this era with the Ukraine situation to think about entertainment programs that will make peace.
- 4/6/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
For an actor, there’s an obvious showboat appeal to playing a serious out-of-control drunk. You can fight, you can rage, you can tap your inner party animal, you can rotate through emotions like a human mood ring, you can descend into the kind of degraded dishevelment that’s the lower-depths version of an awards-bait transformation. Yet to give a truly remarkable performance as an alcoholic, you have to make good on the old line about it — that someone who’s drunk is working hard not to act that way. They’re trying to fool the world in the same way they fool themselves.
In “To Leslie,” Andrea Riseborough plays a small-town West Texas single mother who’s a total desperate been-around-the-bend basket case, the kind of alcoholic who has messed up her life so badly that she’s got nothing left. In each scene, she shows you what Leslie...
In “To Leslie,” Andrea Riseborough plays a small-town West Texas single mother who’s a total desperate been-around-the-bend basket case, the kind of alcoholic who has messed up her life so badly that she’s got nothing left. In each scene, she shows you what Leslie...
- 3/26/2022
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Within approximately six minutes of welcoming a stranger into her sleekly appointed Chelsea penthouse, while graciously hanging a coat and ambling into the kitchen for two bottles of water, Sheila Nevins, documentary producer extraordinaire, has rifled through several current topics of interest, her mind serving them up like a lotto machine. First ball up: men who leave their wives late in life for other men. (“Can you imagine? He leaves for another woman, Ok. You’re old, they’re young, their tits are up, yours are down. But this is a different body part.
- 3/1/2022
- by Maria Fontoura
- Rollingstone.com
It’s been a difficult year for the publishing industry, as global supply chain issues and labor and paper shortages have led to delays. But many wonderful and nerdy books have made it over those obstacles to make it into the world and into our eyeballs and brains. As we reflect back on 2021, here are the books—from horror to fantasy to science fiction—that meant something to Den of Geek staff and contributors over the past year, as well as Den of Geek readers’ choice for the best book of 2021.
The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
2021 has seen something of a slasher renaissance in film, with the Fear Street Trilogy, Candyman and Halloween Kills—and, true to form, the book world is right on trend. Grady Hendrix’s latest focuses on a group of women whose lives were changed in their teens when they became the focus of real life serial killers.
The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
2021 has seen something of a slasher renaissance in film, with the Fear Street Trilogy, Candyman and Halloween Kills—and, true to form, the book world is right on trend. Grady Hendrix’s latest focuses on a group of women whose lives were changed in their teens when they became the focus of real life serial killers.
- 12/28/2021
- by Kayti Burt
- Den of Geek
“Saturday Night Live” saw another hosting debut this weekend, this time in the form of a celebrity who could possibly even be called the complete opposite of last week’s host, Owen Wilson: Kim Kardashian West. The influencer/reality TV star/mogul took the stage at Studio 8H for the first time ever on Saturday night, poking fun at herself and her family in the process.
Host: Kim Kardashian West
In terms of the proverbial 2021 “bingo card,” surely no one had “Kim Kardashian kills it during her ‘SNL’ monologue” on theirs. But that is exactly what she did in her four-and-a-half-minute monologue, as she cracked jokes about her life and persona. She even told a pretty good O.J. Simpson joke in the process. In fact, the monologue version of the Simpson joke worked far better than when the episode physically manifested it in the “The People’s Kourt” sketch.
Host: Kim Kardashian West
In terms of the proverbial 2021 “bingo card,” surely no one had “Kim Kardashian kills it during her ‘SNL’ monologue” on theirs. But that is exactly what she did in her four-and-a-half-minute monologue, as she cracked jokes about her life and persona. She even told a pretty good O.J. Simpson joke in the process. In fact, the monologue version of the Simpson joke worked far better than when the episode physically manifested it in the “The People’s Kourt” sketch.
- 10/10/2021
- by LaToya Ferguson
- Indiewire
Welcome to this week’s Aew: Dynamite review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and Chris Jericho fights Mjf in the main event. It’s been a long time coming and…what the… Benny and the Jets: Yo baby! We Benny and the Jets! Me: Like the song? Benny: F–k you! Ain’t no sissy-s–t asshole song! Benny and the Jets is a hard-ridin’, t–ty-bitin’ buncha sons-a-b–ches! Me: Well, this is a wrestling review, so… Benny: Wrestling?! Wrestling is fake! The Jets: F-f-f-Fake! F-f-f-Fake! Me: Wrestling’s not fake! It’s fixed! Benny: Fixed?! Weeze ’boutsta fixed yo ass! Me: Did you learn that from…Elton John? The Jets: Yeah! Benny: Shut yo butt! Me: What’s the matter…Buh-Buh-Buh-Benny and the Jetssssssss!!!!!!! Benny: You gonna get stabbed! Shayayayayayayayayaya!!!!!!!!!!!!! (plane crashes on Benny and the Jets) Elmer J. Fudd: I am Elmer J. Fudd!
- 8/21/2021
- by Nathan Favel
- Nerdly
Exclusive: Ranging in subject matter from coronavirus lockdown to local politics inspired by Aoc and the Squad, sibling revelations, winning the lottery and more, the 10 scripts that make up Hollywood’s first ever Muslim List were revealed Tuesday.
Agents, start dialing – see the full list below.
First reported last September by Deadline, The Muslim List is an initiative by The Black List, the Muslim Public Affairs Council Hollywood Bureau and Pillars Fund focusing on screenwriters who are practitioners or followers of Islam, an often dramatically underrepresented group in Tinseltown, to say the least. About 200 feature film and pilot scripts were submitted by the December 4 deadline, with evaluations conducted into early this year.
And now we have a list. Requests for the scripts themselves can be made through the Black List.
“On behalf of Mpac’s board and staff, congratulations to the 10 winners of the first-ever Black List Muslim List,” said Sue Obeidi,...
Agents, start dialing – see the full list below.
First reported last September by Deadline, The Muslim List is an initiative by The Black List, the Muslim Public Affairs Council Hollywood Bureau and Pillars Fund focusing on screenwriters who are practitioners or followers of Islam, an often dramatically underrepresented group in Tinseltown, to say the least. About 200 feature film and pilot scripts were submitted by the December 4 deadline, with evaluations conducted into early this year.
And now we have a list. Requests for the scripts themselves can be made through the Black List.
“On behalf of Mpac’s board and staff, congratulations to the 10 winners of the first-ever Black List Muslim List,” said Sue Obeidi,...
- 5/11/2021
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
There are hundreds of social-media stars, each with millions of fans. Now a new startup, Creator Plus, is launching a studio and a streaming service to give big-name creators a platform for feature films.
The company was founded by Benjamin Grubbs, former global head of top creator partnerships at YouTube, and Silicon Valley tech investor and entrepreneur Jonathan Shambroom (who was once Gm of the Crackle streaming service).
The duo say Creator Plus (creatorplus.com) has raised $12 million in funding from Malaysia-based investment firm Petra Group and Freestyle Capital, as well as entrepreneurial creators Jake Roper, Peter Hollens, Wendy Ayche (aka Wengie), tech veterans including Selina Tobaccowala, and strategic business partners including Jazwares CEO Judd Zebersky.
Films produced by Creator Plus — it’s using the trendy “plus” that’s flooded the streaming sector — will premiere on the company’s proprietary platform across web, mobile and connected-tv devices in a premium...
The company was founded by Benjamin Grubbs, former global head of top creator partnerships at YouTube, and Silicon Valley tech investor and entrepreneur Jonathan Shambroom (who was once Gm of the Crackle streaming service).
The duo say Creator Plus (creatorplus.com) has raised $12 million in funding from Malaysia-based investment firm Petra Group and Freestyle Capital, as well as entrepreneurial creators Jake Roper, Peter Hollens, Wendy Ayche (aka Wengie), tech veterans including Selina Tobaccowala, and strategic business partners including Jazwares CEO Judd Zebersky.
Films produced by Creator Plus — it’s using the trendy “plus” that’s flooded the streaming sector — will premiere on the company’s proprietary platform across web, mobile and connected-tv devices in a premium...
- 4/21/2021
- by Todd Spangler
- Variety Film + TV
Titles are split between Coming Soon and Industry Screenings.
Meeting Point - Vilnius, the industry strand of Vilnius International Film Festival, has expanded its selection for its 2021 online event, confirming 32 projects today.
The projects are selected across two strands: 24 are in the Coming Soon pitching selection, consisting of 12 fiction features and 12 documentaries; with a further four of each in the Industry Screenings.
Some 23 countries are represented among the titles, including Maysoon Pachachi’s fiction feature Our River… Our Sky, a co-production between the UK, France, Germany, Qatar, Kuwait and the UAE, in the main Coming Soon strand.
Further sections of...
Meeting Point - Vilnius, the industry strand of Vilnius International Film Festival, has expanded its selection for its 2021 online event, confirming 32 projects today.
The projects are selected across two strands: 24 are in the Coming Soon pitching selection, consisting of 12 fiction features and 12 documentaries; with a further four of each in the Industry Screenings.
Some 23 countries are represented among the titles, including Maysoon Pachachi’s fiction feature Our River… Our Sky, a co-production between the UK, France, Germany, Qatar, Kuwait and the UAE, in the main Coming Soon strand.
Further sections of...
- 3/24/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
“It’s rare that you find a female character who is so challenging,” Elisabeth Moss says of her role as writer Shirley Jackson in the deeply fictional Shirley. “Challenging as to me as an actor and challenging to the other characters in the film and has so much vulnerability and so many soft spots, but is also so strong, so vocal and sometimes not very nice.
Holding little back and joined by director Josephine Decker, The Handmaid’s Tale star was speaking during Deadline’s Contenders Film awards-season virtual event.
A prize-winning hit at the Sundance Film Festival last year and released by Neon on June 5, 2020, the Decker-helmed drama from a script by Sarah Gubbins is based on Susan Scarf Merrell’s 2014 novel. Chilling on a psychological and physical level, Shirley spotlights the often-scary ways and means of real-life author Jackson, played by multiple Emmy winner Moss.
With one novel already to her name,...
Holding little back and joined by director Josephine Decker, The Handmaid’s Tale star was speaking during Deadline’s Contenders Film awards-season virtual event.
A prize-winning hit at the Sundance Film Festival last year and released by Neon on June 5, 2020, the Decker-helmed drama from a script by Sarah Gubbins is based on Susan Scarf Merrell’s 2014 novel. Chilling on a psychological and physical level, Shirley spotlights the often-scary ways and means of real-life author Jackson, played by multiple Emmy winner Moss.
With one novel already to her name,...
- 1/23/2021
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
A version of this story about Elisabeth Moss first appeared in the Race Begins issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
For seven seasons on “Mad Men” and three on “The Handmaid’s Tale,” Elisabeth Moss has been the face of women pushing back against oppression by the patriarchy. But while her main showcase has been television, Moss has also had an intriguing film career, which in recent years has included films like “The Square,” “Her Smell” and “Us” – and which in 2020 found her portraying a pair of fierce women who insist on seizing power from the men who want to restrict them.
The roles came in two dramatically different films, the Blumhouse horror-movie riff “The Invisible Man” and the spiky indie drama “Shirley,” about writer Shirley Jackson. The latter film, written by Sarah Gubbins and directed to Josephine Decker, was a landmark of sorts for her, the first time she’d ever portrayed a real-life person.
For seven seasons on “Mad Men” and three on “The Handmaid’s Tale,” Elisabeth Moss has been the face of women pushing back against oppression by the patriarchy. But while her main showcase has been television, Moss has also had an intriguing film career, which in recent years has included films like “The Square,” “Her Smell” and “Us” – and which in 2020 found her portraying a pair of fierce women who insist on seizing power from the men who want to restrict them.
The roles came in two dramatically different films, the Blumhouse horror-movie riff “The Invisible Man” and the spiky indie drama “Shirley,” about writer Shirley Jackson. The latter film, written by Sarah Gubbins and directed to Josephine Decker, was a landmark of sorts for her, the first time she’d ever portrayed a real-life person.
- 1/20/2021
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
If you watch TV series from the 1950s, it appears that being a wife and mother was something just short of perfection. Just look at our favorite sitcom moms of the era-June Cleaver, Harriet Nelson and Donna Stone. They were always happy and peppy. They even wore pearls as they were vacuuming the living room or scrubbing the tub. But a lot of women of the era lived lives of quiet desperation. They may have had a college degree but wasn’t able to pursue a career because it got in the way of being a housewife and mom.
Influential writer Shirley Jackson was one such woman. The acclaimed writer of horror and the supernatural including the brilliant short story “The Lottery” and the best-selling novel “The Haunting of Hill House” was also expected by her husband literary critic and Bennington College professor Stanley Hyman to take care of their...
Influential writer Shirley Jackson was one such woman. The acclaimed writer of horror and the supernatural including the brilliant short story “The Lottery” and the best-selling novel “The Haunting of Hill House” was also expected by her husband literary critic and Bennington College professor Stanley Hyman to take care of their...
- 1/11/2021
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Prior to “Big Mouth” Season 4, Lola was just another Nick Kroll to me. The crass class bully is one of at least 18 characters (!!) voiced by the series co-creator, and the whiny vocal fry he channels while playing this atypical mean girl does little to mask his typical “rich dick” schtick. Nor should it. Lola’s abrasive behavior is all the more intimidating (and hilarious) thanks to the furious baritone powering her point of view. Kroll is at one with Lola, just as he is with Maurice (the Hormone Monster) or Nick (who’s based on Kroll as a young boy).
Still, Lola rarely reached the glorious heights of those guys. She often felt like a necessary pseudo-antagonist for the show’s empathetic leads more than a flesh-and-blood child of her own (parents’) making. That is, until Season 4. Whether it’s Lola’s uniquely rich and terrifying backstory or her fateful...
Still, Lola rarely reached the glorious heights of those guys. She often felt like a necessary pseudo-antagonist for the show’s empathetic leads more than a flesh-and-blood child of her own (parents’) making. That is, until Season 4. Whether it’s Lola’s uniquely rich and terrifying backstory or her fateful...
- 12/9/2020
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
What a morbidly thoughtful surprise! Neon would you like to consider Elisabeth Moss as Shirley this season for awards. So here's Elisabeth Moss reading "The Lottery," the famous short story that catapulted noted horror novelist Shirley Jackson to fame. The video is 22 minutes long but if you don't like being read to you can always read to yourself direct from The New Yorker.
If you haven't yet watched Shirley, streaming on Hulu, you should. It's a good creepy but non-scary option for the season with excellent performances from Moss and screen husband Michael Stuhlbarg and interesting production design too. ...
If you haven't yet watched Shirley, streaming on Hulu, you should. It's a good creepy but non-scary option for the season with excellent performances from Moss and screen husband Michael Stuhlbarg and interesting production design too. ...
- 11/1/2020
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights to the uplifting Danish drama “The Food Club” from Scandinavian sales and aggregation banner LevelK.
Although it has yet to have an international premiere, “The Food Club” has been acquired for more than 30 territories. Besides selling to Samuel Goldwyn Films for North America, the movie was picked up by SquareOne for all rights in Germany, as well as German-language remake rights; The Reset Collective for Australia and New Zealand; Ads Service for Hungary; Big Tree Entertainment for India; Yes Dbs for Israel; T&l for South Korea; and Mirror Audiovisual for Spain.
“We loved this best-ager gem from the very first moment. You just cannot go wrong with great food, great friends, red wine and big laughs in Puglia,” said Al Munteanu at SquareOne.
Set in the lush countryside, “The Food Club” is headlined by three well-known Scandinavian actresses: Kirsten Olesen (“The Bridge...
Although it has yet to have an international premiere, “The Food Club” has been acquired for more than 30 territories. Besides selling to Samuel Goldwyn Films for North America, the movie was picked up by SquareOne for all rights in Germany, as well as German-language remake rights; The Reset Collective for Australia and New Zealand; Ads Service for Hungary; Big Tree Entertainment for India; Yes Dbs for Israel; T&l for South Korea; and Mirror Audiovisual for Spain.
“We loved this best-ager gem from the very first moment. You just cannot go wrong with great food, great friends, red wine and big laughs in Puglia,” said Al Munteanu at SquareOne.
Set in the lush countryside, “The Food Club” is headlined by three well-known Scandinavian actresses: Kirsten Olesen (“The Bridge...
- 10/21/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
International sales outfit LevelK has acquired the uplifting female-led Danish drama “The Food Club,” directed by Barbara Topsøe-Rothenborg (“One-Two-Three Now!”).
LevelK will be handling world sales rights to “The Food Club” outside of the Nordics. Set in the lush countryside, “The Food Club” is headlined by three well-known Scandinavian actresses, Kirsten Olesen (“The Bridge”), Stina Ekblad (“Wallander”) and Kirsten Lehfeldt (“Men & Chicken”).
The film revolves around three longtime girlfriends from elementary school who are coming into their prime and are finding a new lease on life after participating in a cooking course in Italy.
Marie (Olesen) is abandoned by her husband on Christmas Eve, leading her identity as part of a happy family to crumble; while Berling (Ekblad) is the eternal bachelor who lives the sweet life but has a complicated relationship with her daughter; and Vanja (Lehfeldt) lives with the memories of her late husband and has difficulty moving on.
LevelK will be handling world sales rights to “The Food Club” outside of the Nordics. Set in the lush countryside, “The Food Club” is headlined by three well-known Scandinavian actresses, Kirsten Olesen (“The Bridge”), Stina Ekblad (“Wallander”) and Kirsten Lehfeldt (“Men & Chicken”).
The film revolves around three longtime girlfriends from elementary school who are coming into their prime and are finding a new lease on life after participating in a cooking course in Italy.
Marie (Olesen) is abandoned by her husband on Christmas Eve, leading her identity as part of a happy family to crumble; while Berling (Ekblad) is the eternal bachelor who lives the sweet life but has a complicated relationship with her daughter; and Vanja (Lehfeldt) lives with the memories of her late husband and has difficulty moving on.
- 8/17/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Amid a firestorm of controversy, YouTube confirms to Tubefilter that it has suspended monetization on all three of Shane Dawson’s channels. Dawson operates flagship hub Shane, Shane Dawson TV (8.4 million subscribers), and a newer beauty channel, Shane Glossin'.
YouTube tells Tubefilter it takes such action in rare circumstances where a particularly newsworthy creator's bad behavior could have a negative impact across its collective community of creators, viewers, and advertisers. In opting to demonetize Dawson, YouTube said it took into account both the impact and nature of his previous videos, as well as his off-platform behavior. Demonetization was initiated last night on June 29, YouTube said, and the length of the punishment is indefinite.
In recent days, Dawson has apologized for numerous reprehensible videos that have surfaced from his past, including one where he pretended to masturbate to a photo of Willow Smith, as well as other instances of blackface, using the N-word,...
YouTube tells Tubefilter it takes such action in rare circumstances where a particularly newsworthy creator's bad behavior could have a negative impact across its collective community of creators, viewers, and advertisers. In opting to demonetize Dawson, YouTube said it took into account both the impact and nature of his previous videos, as well as his off-platform behavior. Demonetization was initiated last night on June 29, YouTube said, and the length of the punishment is indefinite.
In recent days, Dawson has apologized for numerous reprehensible videos that have surfaced from his past, including one where he pretended to masturbate to a photo of Willow Smith, as well as other instances of blackface, using the N-word,...
- 6/30/2020
- by Geoff Weiss
- Tubefilter.com
On the heels of her performances in The Invisible Man and Shirley, Elisabeth Moss discusses her acting career in the latest installment of Rolling Stone’s “The First Time.”
Moss launched the segment by sharing the time she starred in an Excedrin commercial, which she described as dramatic. “Of course, I got the one that was a serious monologue straight to camera about pain,” she cracks.
She then recalled the first time she experienced the work of Shirley Jackson, when she read the horror novelist’s 1948 short story “The Lottery” as a teenager.
Moss launched the segment by sharing the time she starred in an Excedrin commercial, which she described as dramatic. “Of course, I got the one that was a serious monologue straight to camera about pain,” she cracks.
She then recalled the first time she experienced the work of Shirley Jackson, when she read the horror novelist’s 1948 short story “The Lottery” as a teenager.
- 6/25/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
On this episode of Corpse Club, Heather Wixson is joined by director Josephine Decker and screenwriter Sarah Gubbins to discuss their new movie Shirley (based on Susan Scarf Merrell's novel of the same name), which is out now on digital platforms via Neon.
Listen as Decker and Gubbins reflect on making a movie about the legendary author Shirley Jackson, including their approach to depicting the turbulence of Jackson's home life in the ’50s, exploring Jackson's complex and at times dysfunctional relationship with Stanley Edgar Hyman (which rubs off on a younger couple in the film), and working with a talented cast led by Elisabeth Moss.
So, whether you've seen Shirley or you want to learn more about the film based on one of the most renowned horror writers of all time, sit back, relax, and enjoy a new episode of Daily Dead's official podcast!
You can listen to the...
Listen as Decker and Gubbins reflect on making a movie about the legendary author Shirley Jackson, including their approach to depicting the turbulence of Jackson's home life in the ’50s, exploring Jackson's complex and at times dysfunctional relationship with Stanley Edgar Hyman (which rubs off on a younger couple in the film), and working with a talented cast led by Elisabeth Moss.
So, whether you've seen Shirley or you want to learn more about the film based on one of the most renowned horror writers of all time, sit back, relax, and enjoy a new episode of Daily Dead's official podcast!
You can listen to the...
- 6/19/2020
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
In the new film Shirley, Elisabeth Moss plays a fictionalized version of acclaimed author Shirley Jackson, whose two-decade career yielded six published novels, two memoirs, and around 200 short stories. Although her career and life were both uncommonly brief, Jackson’s output has endured and she is one of those rare writers whose work is held in high esteem by both literary critics and horror enthusiasts.
“I think I have always been interested in Shirley Jackson,” says Sarah Gubbins, who adapted the screenplay for Shirley from a novel by Susan Scarf Merrell. “Somebody had asked me that question and I was trying to remember when I first encountered her work. Obviously ‘The Lottery’ was something I read, like many people, in high school. It’s just a story that stays with you. You can’t forget that story.”
While Jackson may not strictly be branded as a “horror writer,” there is...
“I think I have always been interested in Shirley Jackson,” says Sarah Gubbins, who adapted the screenplay for Shirley from a novel by Susan Scarf Merrell. “Somebody had asked me that question and I was trying to remember when I first encountered her work. Obviously ‘The Lottery’ was something I read, like many people, in high school. It’s just a story that stays with you. You can’t forget that story.”
While Jackson may not strictly be branded as a “horror writer,” there is...
- 6/9/2020
- by Don Kaye
- Den of Geek
Contributed By Cate Marquis and Michelle Hannett
Frankenstein. Interview With The Vampire. The Haunting of Hill House. The Woman In Black. All have a legion of devoted fans. All came from the imagination of women authors.
Now comes a film about another woman horror writer.
Neon‘s Shirley starring Elisabeth Moss, Odessa Young, Michael Stuhlbarg and Logan Lerman is available everywhere now.
https://neonrated.com/films/shirley#virtual-cinema
Read Wamg’s review: http://www.wearemoviegeeks.com/2020/06/shirley-review/
Renowned horror writer Shirley Jackson is on the precipice of writing her masterpiece when the arrival of newlyweds upends her meticulous routine and heightens tensions in her already tempestuous relationship with her philandering husband. The middle-aged couple, prone to ruthless barbs and copious afternoon cocktails, begins to toy mercilessly with the naïve young couple at their door.
Here’s our list of women who write terrific horror novels.
Mary Shelley: “Frankenstein”
Mary...
Frankenstein. Interview With The Vampire. The Haunting of Hill House. The Woman In Black. All have a legion of devoted fans. All came from the imagination of women authors.
Now comes a film about another woman horror writer.
Neon‘s Shirley starring Elisabeth Moss, Odessa Young, Michael Stuhlbarg and Logan Lerman is available everywhere now.
https://neonrated.com/films/shirley#virtual-cinema
Read Wamg’s review: http://www.wearemoviegeeks.com/2020/06/shirley-review/
Renowned horror writer Shirley Jackson is on the precipice of writing her masterpiece when the arrival of newlyweds upends her meticulous routine and heightens tensions in her already tempestuous relationship with her philandering husband. The middle-aged couple, prone to ruthless barbs and copious afternoon cocktails, begins to toy mercilessly with the naïve young couple at their door.
Here’s our list of women who write terrific horror novels.
Mary Shelley: “Frankenstein”
Mary...
- 6/9/2020
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Let’s get one thing clear right from the start: Shirley, the movie about acclaimed writer Shirley Jackson, is not a conventional biopic of the reclusive yet incisive author of The Haunting of Hill House and stories like “The Lottery.” The movie is based on a novel by Susan Scarf Merrell, also called Shirley, and depicts a fictional battle of wills between Jackson, her husband Stanley Hyman, and the young couple who come to live with them when the husband takes a job as Hyman’s teaching assistant.
“The idea was to do a non-traditional biopic, because I didn’t really want to do a cradle to grave biopic at all,” says Sarah Gubbins, who wrote the screenplay. “But what was fascinating to me was the ways in which Shirley kind of has to endure the infamy of the success of ‘The Lottery’ and move into trying to write something else.
“The idea was to do a non-traditional biopic, because I didn’t really want to do a cradle to grave biopic at all,” says Sarah Gubbins, who wrote the screenplay. “But what was fascinating to me was the ways in which Shirley kind of has to endure the infamy of the success of ‘The Lottery’ and move into trying to write something else.
- 6/8/2020
- by Don Kaye
- Den of Geek
Movies are slowly starting to trickle back into theaters, emphasis on the word “slowly.” For the time being, audiences’ options are still better at home, as this week’s crop of new films includes outrageous new genre fare — such as “Becky,” from the directors of “Cooties,” which plays a bit like a hard-r version of “Home Alone” — and festival standouts such as Hong Sang-soo’s “Yourself and Yours.”
“The Invisible Man” star Elisabeth Moss elaborates on her ever-widening scope of tortured women in the wildly unconventional Shirley Jackson biopic, a movie which portrays the author of “The Lottery” as the kind of character one might discover in her mind-bending horror tales.
Here’s a complete rundown of the week’s new releases, with excerpts from reviews and links to where you can watch them. Find more movies and TV shows to stream here.
Playing in drive-ins and extremely limited release:...
“The Invisible Man” star Elisabeth Moss elaborates on her ever-widening scope of tortured women in the wildly unconventional Shirley Jackson biopic, a movie which portrays the author of “The Lottery” as the kind of character one might discover in her mind-bending horror tales.
Here’s a complete rundown of the week’s new releases, with excerpts from reviews and links to where you can watch them. Find more movies and TV shows to stream here.
Playing in drive-ins and extremely limited release:...
- 6/5/2020
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
If your movie calls for a woman on the verge of — or completely in the throes of — a breakdown, Elisabeth Moss is the one for the job. With “Shirley,” Moss continues to flex her affinity for the mad, disheveled, unraveling, and messy, as already well-documented in films including “The Invisible Man,” “Her Smell,” “Queen of Earth,” and “Us.” In Josephine Decker’s new film, Moss stars as gothic fiction writer Shirley Jackson, opposite Michael Stuhlbarg as Jackson’s husband, the literary critic Stanley Hyman. Together, these two actors work at the peak of their powers to turn marriage into demented theater, coiling a young couple (played by Odessa Young and Logan Lerman) into their sick orbit and twisting the story into “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” territory, but with a hallucinatory edge.
And it’s this character, who only sees emptiness beneath the face powder of polite society and openly mocks decorum,...
And it’s this character, who only sees emptiness beneath the face powder of polite society and openly mocks decorum,...
- 6/5/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
At this time of quarantine, self-isolation, and (in several major urban areas) imposed curfew, who’s ready for a film about a person dealing agoraphobia? Yes, that’s right. A person who can physically leave the house , but mentally cannot. But there’s much more to this film than that. It’s a fictional tale set during the life of a celebrated and still studied actual author. So, this isn’t a standard biography, rather an imagined incident occurring during a real career. Much as with J.D. Salinger who was the subject of a standard bio in 2017, Rebel In The Rye, and a supporting player in the fictional Coming Through The Rye two years previous. There’s a couple of things that make this “what if” story unique. The first would be the fact that the author in question is a woman (a rarity in cinematic portrayals of the profession). And second,...
- 6/5/2020
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Shirley, a film by Josephine Decker, transforms the life of the notorious horror author into a dark psychodrama of her own making
Shirley Jackson, the mid-century master of American Gothic, was not one to adhere to the mundane or the real. Though in real life a housewife in Vermont, mother of four children and a contributor to magazines such as Good Housekeeping and Woman’s Home Companion, Jackson’s fiction was dark and supernaturally twisted. Her short story The Lottery, which earned her notoriety when published in the New Yorker in 1948 (she was 32), devolves into a stoning ritual in a pious New England town. Her most famous novel, The Haunting of Hill House, is a masterclass ghost story in which it’s unclear if the haunting is the house or the powerful potential of one’s own insanity. Jackson’s most insightful and terrifying domain was the gruesome, spectral possibilities of the unhinged female mind,...
Shirley Jackson, the mid-century master of American Gothic, was not one to adhere to the mundane or the real. Though in real life a housewife in Vermont, mother of four children and a contributor to magazines such as Good Housekeeping and Woman’s Home Companion, Jackson’s fiction was dark and supernaturally twisted. Her short story The Lottery, which earned her notoriety when published in the New Yorker in 1948 (she was 32), devolves into a stoning ritual in a pious New England town. Her most famous novel, The Haunting of Hill House, is a masterclass ghost story in which it’s unclear if the haunting is the house or the powerful potential of one’s own insanity. Jackson’s most insightful and terrifying domain was the gruesome, spectral possibilities of the unhinged female mind,...
- 6/3/2020
- by Adrian Horton
- The Guardian - Film News
Expect the unexpected from this teasing psychodrama about Shirley Jackson, acclaimed horror author of The Lottery, a short story first published in The New Yorker in 1948 and a literary lightning rod ever since for its depiction of ritualistic violence in contemporary, small-town America. Until her death in 1965, at the age of 48 from heart problems brought on by smoking and weight gain, Jackson published over 200 short stories, two memoirs and six novels including Hangsaman (1951) and The Haunting of Hill House (1959).
Still, it was The Lottery that established her as a social...
Still, it was The Lottery that established her as a social...
- 6/3/2020
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
In the first trailer for the Sundance award-winner “Shirley,” Elisabeth Moss does what all the heroines in her character’s books do: “They go mad.”
Moss stars in “Shirley” as famed horror author Shirley Jackson, who wrote books such as “The Lottery” and “The Haunting of Hill House” (which was adapted into a widely popular limited series for Netflix), and she stars alongside a cast that includes Michael Stuhlbarg, Logan Lerman and Odessa Young. The sinister first look at the film gives a taste of Moss’ spitfire performance.
“Shirley, what are you writing now,” a party guest asks Jackson. She replies, “A little novella. I’m calling it ‘None of Your Goddamn Business.'”
Also Read: 'Shirley' Director Says Elisabeth Moss Was Always the 'Top Choice' to Play Author Shirley Jackson (Video)
In the loosely biographical film from director Josephine Decker (“Madeline’s Madeline”), Jackson is on the precipice of writing...
Moss stars in “Shirley” as famed horror author Shirley Jackson, who wrote books such as “The Lottery” and “The Haunting of Hill House” (which was adapted into a widely popular limited series for Netflix), and she stars alongside a cast that includes Michael Stuhlbarg, Logan Lerman and Odessa Young. The sinister first look at the film gives a taste of Moss’ spitfire performance.
“Shirley, what are you writing now,” a party guest asks Jackson. She replies, “A little novella. I’m calling it ‘None of Your Goddamn Business.'”
Also Read: 'Shirley' Director Says Elisabeth Moss Was Always the 'Top Choice' to Play Author Shirley Jackson (Video)
In the loosely biographical film from director Josephine Decker (“Madeline’s Madeline”), Jackson is on the precipice of writing...
- 5/8/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Eric Weissberg, who arranged, played banjo on and won a Grammy for “Dueling Banjos,” from the 1972 movie Deliverance, died Sunday of Alzheimer’s disease complications. He was 80.
His son, Will Weissberg, confirmed the news to our sister publication Rolling Stone.
More from DeadlineNotable Hollywood & Entertainment Industry Deaths In 2020: Photo GalleryLifetime Casts Trio In Pilot 'The Lottery', Duo In 'Deliverance Creek'Pilots 'Eye Candy' & 'Deliverance Creek' Cast Regulars
Born on August 16, 1939, in New York City, Weissberg was a bluegrass musician from an early age, having seen Pete Seeger play at his school in Greenwich Village, and went on to attend the Juilliard School of Music in the 1950s. He also played guitar, mandolin, fiddle, pedal steel, and string bass.
He also became a frequent collaborator of Tom Paxton and Judy Collins and worked as a session man for such acts as Bob Dylan, Talking Heads,...
His son, Will Weissberg, confirmed the news to our sister publication Rolling Stone.
More from DeadlineNotable Hollywood & Entertainment Industry Deaths In 2020: Photo GalleryLifetime Casts Trio In Pilot 'The Lottery', Duo In 'Deliverance Creek'Pilots 'Eye Candy' & 'Deliverance Creek' Cast Regulars
Born on August 16, 1939, in New York City, Weissberg was a bluegrass musician from an early age, having seen Pete Seeger play at his school in Greenwich Village, and went on to attend the Juilliard School of Music in the 1950s. He also played guitar, mandolin, fiddle, pedal steel, and string bass.
He also became a frequent collaborator of Tom Paxton and Judy Collins and worked as a session man for such acts as Bob Dylan, Talking Heads,...
- 3/24/2020
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Katherine "Scottie" MacGregor, the actress who portrayed Harriet Oleson on NBC's Little House on the Prairie, has died at the age of 93. MacGregor died Tuesday in Woodland Hills, California, her representative confirmed to NBC News. She was residing at the Motion Picture and Television Fund's retirement home. No cause of death was announced.
MacGregor portrayed the gossipy and mean-spirited Harriet across all nine seasons of Little House on the Prairie on 153 episodes. Her character was the wife of general store owner Nels Oleson, portrayed by Richard Bull.
MacGregor was unable to appear on the final episode of the series in 1983 due to being on a pilgrimage in India. She retired from acting after the show ended and only acted again in the 2014 short film The Lottery.
The actress also appeared in film On the Waterfront and had guest-starring roles on East Side/West Side, Mannix, Emergency!, All in the Family and Ironside.
MacGregor portrayed the gossipy and mean-spirited Harriet across all nine seasons of Little House on the Prairie on 153 episodes. Her character was the wife of general store owner Nels Oleson, portrayed by Richard Bull.
MacGregor was unable to appear on the final episode of the series in 1983 due to being on a pilgrimage in India. She retired from acting after the show ended and only acted again in the 2014 short film The Lottery.
The actress also appeared in film On the Waterfront and had guest-starring roles on East Side/West Side, Mannix, Emergency!, All in the Family and Ironside.
- 11/15/2018
- by Roger Newcomb
- We Love Soaps
Coming hot off her major success with Madeline’s Madeline at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, director Josephine Decker’s next directorial outing is reportedly already nearing production. Slated to start shooting sometime this summer, Decker’s new film is a biological thriller titled Shirley, and is based on the Susan Scarf Merrell book of the same name.
Elisabeth Moss and Michael Stuhlbarg are confirmed to star in the upcoming film, Deadline reports. Stuhlbarg will play Bennington College professor Stanley Hyman, and husband to Shirley Jackson, who, after agreeing to house a young couple, finds inspiration for her next novel and uses the couple as deranged inspiration.
Stuhlbarg had a remarkable year last year, giving a career-best supporting performance in Call Me By Your Name, as well as taking part in The Shape of Water and The Post. Elisabeth Moss, who has done a strong job of seeking out indie auteurs with Jane Campion,...
Elisabeth Moss and Michael Stuhlbarg are confirmed to star in the upcoming film, Deadline reports. Stuhlbarg will play Bennington College professor Stanley Hyman, and husband to Shirley Jackson, who, after agreeing to house a young couple, finds inspiration for her next novel and uses the couple as deranged inspiration.
Stuhlbarg had a remarkable year last year, giving a career-best supporting performance in Call Me By Your Name, as well as taking part in The Shape of Water and The Post. Elisabeth Moss, who has done a strong job of seeking out indie auteurs with Jane Campion,...
- 5/24/2018
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
The Handmaid's Tale star Elisabeth Moss and Michael Stuhlbarg are set to star in the psychological thriller Shirley[/link], to be directed by Josephine Decker, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
Moss will play the title character of Shirley Jackson, an American gothic horror writer best known for her short story The Lottery and the novel The Haunting of Hill House. Moss will also produce Shirley, which portrays a reclusive Jackson and her husband, literary critic Stanley Edgar Hyman, to be played by Stuhlbarg.
Moss, who is currently starring in season two of the popular Hulu serles The Handmaid's Tale, is shooting Her Smell for Alex ...
Moss will play the title character of Shirley Jackson, an American gothic horror writer best known for her short story The Lottery and the novel The Haunting of Hill House. Moss will also produce Shirley, which portrays a reclusive Jackson and her husband, literary critic Stanley Edgar Hyman, to be played by Stuhlbarg.
Moss, who is currently starring in season two of the popular Hulu serles The Handmaid's Tale, is shooting Her Smell for Alex ...
- 5/17/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Handmaid's Tale star Elisabeth Moss and Michael Stuhlbarg are set to star in the psychological thriller Shirley, to be directed by Josephine Decker, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
Moss will play the title character of Shirley Jackson, an American gothic horror writer best known for her short story The Lottery and the novel The Haunting of Hill House. Moss will also produce Shirley, which portrays a reclusive Jackson and her husband, literary critic Stanley Edgar Hyman, to be played by Stuhlbarg.
Moss, who is currently starring in season two of the popular Hulu serles The Handmaid's Tale, is shooting Her Smell for Alex ...
Moss will play the title character of Shirley Jackson, an American gothic horror writer best known for her short story The Lottery and the novel The Haunting of Hill House. Moss will also produce Shirley, which portrays a reclusive Jackson and her husband, literary critic Stanley Edgar Hyman, to be played by Stuhlbarg.
Moss, who is currently starring in season two of the popular Hulu serles The Handmaid's Tale, is shooting Her Smell for Alex ...
- 5/17/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
For decades, the Southern Gothic genre has dominated the depiction of American life. Authors like Mark Twain, William Faulkner, and Carson McCullers have depicted the American South as an almost mystical region where the fear of God hovers thickly in the air and madness pricks at everyone’s overheated minds. One of the most disturbing practitioners of this genre is Flannery O’Connor, but the author never accepted it as her own. O’Connor insisted that her stories were simply depictions of Southern life as it really was, grotesqueries and all—her intention was not to unsettle or evoke horror. For someone who did not witness this environment firsthand, it’s hard to accept that this is simply a look at how Southern life is; because her stories are truly so horrifying.
One of her most famous stories, “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” has the dawning-nightmare effect of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery.
One of her most famous stories, “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” has the dawning-nightmare effect of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery.
- 8/18/2017
- by Ben Larned
- DailyDead
For this week’s episode of The Rants MacAbre, Darren & Mindy take a leisurely stroll through Small Town Horror! The demonic duo go through Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery before embarking into three macabre movies: Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Man, Fraser C. Heston’s adaptation of Stephen King’s Needful Things, and Fabrice Du Welz’s Calvaire. You can […]...
- 8/29/2016
- by Fangoria Staff
- Fangoria
Exclusive: Danny Cannon has been tapped to direct and executive produce the pilot for Fox’s high-profile comic book drama Gotham, from Warner Bros. TV and The Mentalist creator Bruno Heller. The project, which landed at Fox in September after a bidding war, mines DC Comics’ popular Batman character universe and explores the origin stories of Commissioner James Gordon and the villains who made Gotham City famous. It has a series commitment and is expected to go to series as the project is a priority for the network, and the pilot has a series penalty behind it. Related: ‘Backstrom’ Gets 13-Episode Series Order At Fox In Gotham, Gordon is still a detective with the Gotham City Police Department and has yet to meet Batman, who will not be part of the series. Created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane, Commissioner Gordon has appeared in comic books as well as Batman films and series,...
- 1/8/2014
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
The scariest ghost story I have ever seen filmed in black and white began as a 1959 novel by acclaimed author Shirley Jackson who was also known for her stories The Lottery and We Have Always Lived in a Castle. Robert Wise, the film’s director, read the novel The Haunting of Hill House and was impressed enough with it that he optioned it for MGM. He used the skills he honed from his … Continue reading →
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- 12/6/2013
- by Jonathan Stryker
- Horror News
“The End of the Whole Mess” by Stephen King Available in the collection Nightmares and Dreamscapes, this disturbing piece of literature does not deal with the supernatural or crazed maniacs. No demonic monsters, serial killers or the like cause the horror that makes this story so chilling. Rather it is human error (and perhaps even arrogance) and that's what makes this story hit home. Like much of Stephen King's work, it has been adapted for the screen. I first read this as a teenager, and its frightening conclusion has stayed with me ever since. “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce It's a good guess that just about everybody has read this story at least once in school, or has heard about it, or has seen one of the numerous films adapted from or inspired by it. Written in the late 1800s, Bierce captures that sense of...
- 9/5/2013
- by Nancy Greene
- FEARnet
Face of Another: Kinkle’s Backwoods Horror a Promising, Faulty Debut
Like a low-fi hybrid of Winter’s Bone and Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery comes Chad Crawford Kinkle’s debut, Jug Face. Lucky McKee’s name listed in the producer credits (as well as featuring Sean Bridgers from The Woman) perhaps promises more redneck grotesqueries than the film actually delivers, but one can’t deny that Kinkle has crafted an intriguing creepathon that’s just a bit too rough around the edges to be as effective as its potential suggests. While the film establishes an enjoyable, foreboding tension, the film loses its element of surprise about the time overtly supernatural elements are introduced, unable to maintain the subtle sense of insane, isolated communities it has so painstakingly prepared.
In the backwoods of Tennessee, Ada (Lauren Ashley Carter) has recently learned that she will be “joined” with Bodey (Mathieu Whitman...
Like a low-fi hybrid of Winter’s Bone and Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery comes Chad Crawford Kinkle’s debut, Jug Face. Lucky McKee’s name listed in the producer credits (as well as featuring Sean Bridgers from The Woman) perhaps promises more redneck grotesqueries than the film actually delivers, but one can’t deny that Kinkle has crafted an intriguing creepathon that’s just a bit too rough around the edges to be as effective as its potential suggests. While the film establishes an enjoyable, foreboding tension, the film loses its element of surprise about the time overtly supernatural elements are introduced, unable to maintain the subtle sense of insane, isolated communities it has so painstakingly prepared.
In the backwoods of Tennessee, Ada (Lauren Ashley Carter) has recently learned that she will be “joined” with Bodey (Mathieu Whitman...
- 8/7/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
After writing for movies and TV shows as far back as 1995's "Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh," Mark Kruger is entering a new arena with the release of his first novel, "Overpowered." He's not shutting the door on his other work, though. He continues to serve as a writer and supervising producer on USA's "Necessary Roughness," and has a couple feature films he's working on.
Zap2it had the chance to talk to Kruger about his new book and more at Comic-Con 2013. "I've always wanted to write a novel," he says, "but it wasn't at the forefront of my brain." When he finally set out to do it, he didn't have to look far. "The genesis of ['Overpowered'], it was the first TV pilot I ever wrote."
Originally, Kruger had worked on the idea with director Wes Craven and Julie Plec, co-creator of "The Vampire Diaries." The pilot never materialized though.
Zap2it had the chance to talk to Kruger about his new book and more at Comic-Con 2013. "I've always wanted to write a novel," he says, "but it wasn't at the forefront of my brain." When he finally set out to do it, he didn't have to look far. "The genesis of ['Overpowered'], it was the first TV pilot I ever wrote."
Originally, Kruger had worked on the idea with director Wes Craven and Julie Plec, co-creator of "The Vampire Diaries." The pilot never materialized though.
- 8/1/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
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Part time-travel, part seance and all too vivid, Pamila’s stories transport readers to another era and let them walk alongside its ghosts. In this interview, we’ll meet the ghosts that possess her.
Gina Marie: Who are you?
Pamila Payne: I'm Pamila Payne. Writer. Narrator. Creator of the Bella Vista Motel.
Gina Marie: You describe your work as “vintage vice.” What sources do you draw on for your research?
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