Screen is running this regularly updated page with the latest film festival and market dates from across the world.
To submit details of or alter your festival dates, please contact us here with the name, dates, country and website for the event. Screen is also running a calendar for UK-Ireland film release dates here.
Ongoing
Fantaspoa International Fantastic Film Festival, Brazil - April 11-28
Visions Du Reel, Switzerland - April 12-21
Istanbul Film Festival, Turkiye - April 17-28
Bcn Film Fest, Spain - April 18-26
April
Sands: International Film Festival Of St Andrews, UK - April 19-21
Sunny Bunny, Ukraine...
To submit details of or alter your festival dates, please contact us here with the name, dates, country and website for the event. Screen is also running a calendar for UK-Ireland film release dates here.
Ongoing
Fantaspoa International Fantastic Film Festival, Brazil - April 11-28
Visions Du Reel, Switzerland - April 12-21
Istanbul Film Festival, Turkiye - April 17-28
Bcn Film Fest, Spain - April 18-26
April
Sands: International Film Festival Of St Andrews, UK - April 19-21
Sunny Bunny, Ukraine...
- 4/18/2024
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Mayim Bialik is giving her take on the docuseries Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV.
The Big Bang Theory alum shared her thoughts on the latest episode of her podcast, Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown. Bialik discussed the ID doc with Blossom co-star Jenna von Oÿ and former Disney Channel star Christy Carlson Romano.
“Women being berated in the writer’s room is something that was just like — I’m sorry — it was considered in — I mean, I hate to say it, — it’s considered par for the course,” Bialik said over the allegations made in the docuseries by a couple of women writers working with Dan Schneider. “I will say I do not believe that happened in our writer’s room, and there were things that we all thought were okay to even joke about which now we’d be mortified.”
Related: Nickelodeon Star Allie Dimeco Says...
The Big Bang Theory alum shared her thoughts on the latest episode of her podcast, Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown. Bialik discussed the ID doc with Blossom co-star Jenna von Oÿ and former Disney Channel star Christy Carlson Romano.
“Women being berated in the writer’s room is something that was just like — I’m sorry — it was considered in — I mean, I hate to say it, — it’s considered par for the course,” Bialik said over the allegations made in the docuseries by a couple of women writers working with Dan Schneider. “I will say I do not believe that happened in our writer’s room, and there were things that we all thought were okay to even joke about which now we’d be mortified.”
Related: Nickelodeon Star Allie Dimeco Says...
- 4/17/2024
- by Armando Tinoco
- Deadline Film + TV
We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about lotsa shows including Tracker, So You Think You Can Dance, Station 19 and FBI!
1 | As nice as it is to see Rick and Michonne living the good life on The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, aren’t things coming to them a little too easily this far into the dystopia? A hybrid pick-up truck, cases of ramen, a full bottle of Black Label…? (And as reader Lisa H. asked, would Rick and Michonne really...
1 | As nice as it is to see Rick and Michonne living the good life on The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, aren’t things coming to them a little too easily this far into the dystopia? A hybrid pick-up truck, cases of ramen, a full bottle of Black Label…? (And as reader Lisa H. asked, would Rick and Michonne really...
- 3/29/2024
- by Vlada Gelman, Matt Webb Mitovich, Dave Nemetz, Ryan Schwartz, Rebecca Iannucci and Charlie Mason
- TVLine.com
Hotels are strange, contradictory, but often wonderful places. They are permanent structures primarily designed for temporary lodging. They can offer more luxurious furniture and amenities than you get at home, yet you’ll rarely sleep as well as you do in your own bed. Dreams in hotels tend to be weirder and more vivid — there’s a reason so many of Tony Soprano’s more memorable nightmares either occurred while he was at a hotel, or depicted his unconscious self staying in one — and the setting is evocative enough to...
- 3/29/2024
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
BBC Buys HBO Max Thriller ‘Spy/Master’
The BBC has acquired HBO Max thriller Spy/Master as it continues to beef up its iPlayer offering. Acquired from Warner Bros. Discovery, the show stars Happy Valley’s Alec Secăreanu as the most trusted advisor to Romanian President Nicolae Ceaușescu. With his government poised to uncover that he’s a secret agent for the Soviets, Godeanu uses a diplomatic trip to Germany as a springboard to defect to the U.S. The series also stars Aidan McArdle, Ana Ularu (Who Is Erin Carter?), Laurențiu Bănescu (Boss), Andreea Vasile (Umbre), Nico Mirallegro (Our Girl), lulian Postelnicu (Arest) and Elvira Deatcu (Clanul). “A classic spy drama set at the height of the Cold War, Spy/Master is an atmospheric, complex thriller, dripping with style and suspense,” said Sue Deeks, Head of BBC Programme Acquisition. The show was nominated for the inaugural...
The BBC has acquired HBO Max thriller Spy/Master as it continues to beef up its iPlayer offering. Acquired from Warner Bros. Discovery, the show stars Happy Valley’s Alec Secăreanu as the most trusted advisor to Romanian President Nicolae Ceaușescu. With his government poised to uncover that he’s a secret agent for the Soviets, Godeanu uses a diplomatic trip to Germany as a springboard to defect to the U.S. The series also stars Aidan McArdle, Ana Ularu (Who Is Erin Carter?), Laurențiu Bănescu (Boss), Andreea Vasile (Umbre), Nico Mirallegro (Our Girl), lulian Postelnicu (Arest) and Elvira Deatcu (Clanul). “A classic spy drama set at the height of the Cold War, Spy/Master is an atmospheric, complex thriller, dripping with style and suspense,” said Sue Deeks, Head of BBC Programme Acquisition. The show was nominated for the inaugural...
- 3/27/2024
- by Max Goldbart and Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Bitconned, the Netflix feature doc about a group of prolific modern-day con artists, is being turned into a podcast series.
Glass Entertainment, the company behind the doc, which launched on the streamer in January, is adapting it as Creating a Con: The Story Behind Bitconned.
Produced by Glass Podcasts and iHeartPodcasts, the podcast is both an adaptation and extension of the film that offers a deeper dive into how the scamming co-founder of Centra Tech Ray Trapani exploited the cryptocurrency market.
The series launches on April 3.
In season one, listeners meet Ray Trapani – a 26-year-old whose schemes targeted pharmacies and a payment app before he created his biggest con yet: a tech startup endorsed by DJ Khaled and Floyd Mayweather that was built on empty promises, fake executives, and millions of dollars from unsuspecting investors.
The nine-part series is hosted by Trapani’s best friend Jonny B Good.
Hosted by...
Glass Entertainment, the company behind the doc, which launched on the streamer in January, is adapting it as Creating a Con: The Story Behind Bitconned.
Produced by Glass Podcasts and iHeartPodcasts, the podcast is both an adaptation and extension of the film that offers a deeper dive into how the scamming co-founder of Centra Tech Ray Trapani exploited the cryptocurrency market.
The series launches on April 3.
In season one, listeners meet Ray Trapani – a 26-year-old whose schemes targeted pharmacies and a payment app before he created his biggest con yet: a tech startup endorsed by DJ Khaled and Floyd Mayweather that was built on empty promises, fake executives, and millions of dollars from unsuspecting investors.
The nine-part series is hosted by Trapani’s best friend Jonny B Good.
Hosted by...
- 3/22/2024
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
For anyone in the midst of, or having previously endured, the pains associated with the salad days of youth, that time-honored tradition of finding one’s unique voice while attempting to entrench oneself within the local population of similarly-aged peers as new feelings and emotions emerge on a seemingly daily basis is, at best, an uphill battle. At worst, it can serve to cripple a developing soul in ways adults may struggle to comprehend fully; it is for these reasons that any successes along the way need not be ignored but celebrated; friendships with like-minded individuals and membership in groups catered to one’s passions are more than a hallmark of these undeniably short years and could be seen as wholly necessary to a developing personality.
Continue reading ‘We Can Be Heroes’ Review: Role Playing Meets Teen Therapy In This Oddly Compelling LARPing Doc [SXSW] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘We Can Be Heroes’ Review: Role Playing Meets Teen Therapy In This Oddly Compelling LARPing Doc [SXSW] at The Playlist.
- 3/20/2024
- by Brian Farvour
- The Playlist
Starz continues to Power up its decade-old crime drama franchise.
The cabler announced on Wednesday that it is developing Origins, a prequel series that promises to “explore the ‘Power’ universe in a fresh way” as it delves into the backstory of fan-favorite characters Ghost and Tommy (originally played by Omari Hardwick and Joseph Sikora).
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If ordered to series, Origins would mark the fourth Power spinoff,...
The cabler announced on Wednesday that it is developing Origins, a prequel series that promises to “explore the ‘Power’ universe in a fresh way” as it delves into the backstory of fan-favorite characters Ghost and Tommy (originally played by Omari Hardwick and Joseph Sikora).
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If ordered to series, Origins would mark the fourth Power spinoff,...
- 3/13/2024
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
The cast of Doc is taking shape. Fox has added six more to the upcoming medical drama's cast. Per Deadline, Omar Metwally, Amirah Vann, Jon Ecker, Anya Banerjee have been hired as series regulars while Scott Wolf, and Patrick Walker will have recurring roles.
Inspired by an Italian series, the Fox medical drama follows Dr. Amy Larsen (Molly Parker) after a brain injury causes her to forget the last eight years of her life. She has no memory of anything in her current professional and personal life, including her patients and the man she loves. She also remembers her daughter as a nine-year-old.
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Inspired by an Italian series, the Fox medical drama follows Dr. Amy Larsen (Molly Parker) after a brain injury causes her to forget the last eight years of her life. She has no memory of anything in her current professional and personal life, including her patients and the man she loves. She also remembers her daughter as a nine-year-old.
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- 3/9/2024
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
That’s Headmaster Uma to you. Disney+ has released the first official teaser for Descendants: The Rise of Red, which includes a revealing voiceover courtesy of returning star China Anne McClain.
Ursula’s daughter is now calling the shots at Aurodon Prep, where her first order of business is to enroll Red, the rebellious daughter of Wonderland’s merciless Queen of Hearts. But when Red’s mother uses the opportunity to seize control of the kingdom, Red must team up with Cinderella’s daughter Chloe to turn back time and undo the event that made the queen so evil in the first place.
Ursula’s daughter is now calling the shots at Aurodon Prep, where her first order of business is to enroll Red, the rebellious daughter of Wonderland’s merciless Queen of Hearts. But when Red’s mother uses the opportunity to seize control of the kingdom, Red must team up with Cinderella’s daughter Chloe to turn back time and undo the event that made the queen so evil in the first place.
- 3/5/2024
- by Vlada Gelman
- TVLine.com
Exclusive: Fox has assembled the cast for its new medical drama series Doc around the previously cast lead Molly Parker. Omar Metwally, Amirah Vann, Jon Ecker and Anya Banerjee are set as series regulars, and Scott Wolf and Patrick Walker will recur in the show from writer, executive producer and showrunner Barbie Kligman, executive producers Hank Steinberg and 3 Arts’ Erwin Stoff, Sony Pictures Television and Fox Entertainment Studios. Production on Doc has started in Toronto, Canada.
Based on the popular Italian series Doc — Nelle tue mani, which has a male protagonist, the Fox drama centers on the hard-charging, brilliant Dr. Amy Larsen (Parker), Chief of Internal Medicine at Westside Hospital in Minneapolis. After a brain injury erases the last eight years of her life, Amy must navigate an unfamiliar world where she has no recollection of patients she’s treated, colleagues she’s crossed, the man she loves, or...
Based on the popular Italian series Doc — Nelle tue mani, which has a male protagonist, the Fox drama centers on the hard-charging, brilliant Dr. Amy Larsen (Parker), Chief of Internal Medicine at Westside Hospital in Minneapolis. After a brain injury erases the last eight years of her life, Amy must navigate an unfamiliar world where she has no recollection of patients she’s treated, colleagues she’s crossed, the man she loves, or...
- 3/5/2024
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: South Africa’s Showmax is to tell the unbelievable true story of a convicted murderer and rapist who faked his own death by burning in his cell and escaped prison for a year. Scroll down for a trailer.
Tracking Thabo Bester will drop first ep in 11 days time and profile the story of South Africa’s most-searched person on Google in 2023.
Bester was in the Mangaung Correctional Centre on murder and rape charges and was believed to have burned to death in his cell in 2022. The first episode of Tracking follows GroundUp journalists Marecia Damons and Daniel Steyn as they investigate an anonymous tip off that the burnt body may not have been Bester’s, and they went on to win the prestigious Nat Nakasa Award for breaking the story and its plot twists.
Subsequent episodes look at why Bester was called the Facebook rapist and in jail originally,...
Tracking Thabo Bester will drop first ep in 11 days time and profile the story of South Africa’s most-searched person on Google in 2023.
Bester was in the Mangaung Correctional Centre on murder and rape charges and was believed to have burned to death in his cell in 2022. The first episode of Tracking follows GroundUp journalists Marecia Damons and Daniel Steyn as they investigate an anonymous tip off that the burnt body may not have been Bester’s, and they went on to win the prestigious Nat Nakasa Award for breaking the story and its plot twists.
Subsequent episodes look at why Bester was called the Facebook rapist and in jail originally,...
- 3/4/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Doc specialist house Autlook Film Sales has picked up world sales on the Finnish film “Once Upon a Time in a Forest,” ahead of its world premiere in the main competition of Copenhagen’s Cph:dox festival. Variety is premiering its trailer (below).
The film, directed and produced by Virpi Suutari, scooped the $15,000 Al Jazeera Documentary Pitch Award at the last Cannes Marché du Film.
“We are proud to follow Virpi Suutari’s body of work,” says Salma Abdalla, CEO of Vienna-based Autlook Film Sales, attached to the director’s previous films “Aalto” and “Garden Lovers.” “With her distinctive cinematic language, Virpi creates a timely portrait of a generation that builds the most beautiful and responsible relationship to our economy, nature and other human beings.”
The film is indeed both an ode to nature, the wonders of Finnish old-growth coniferous forests and woodland animals, and to the passionate youths fighting to protect them.
The film, directed and produced by Virpi Suutari, scooped the $15,000 Al Jazeera Documentary Pitch Award at the last Cannes Marché du Film.
“We are proud to follow Virpi Suutari’s body of work,” says Salma Abdalla, CEO of Vienna-based Autlook Film Sales, attached to the director’s previous films “Aalto” and “Garden Lovers.” “With her distinctive cinematic language, Virpi creates a timely portrait of a generation that builds the most beautiful and responsible relationship to our economy, nature and other human beings.”
The film is indeed both an ode to nature, the wonders of Finnish old-growth coniferous forests and woodland animals, and to the passionate youths fighting to protect them.
- 3/2/2024
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Take a look at award-winning pop singer, actress Miley Cyrus, posing for the March 2024 issue of British “Vogue” magazine, photographed by Ned Rogers, including additional images from her June 2023 shoot:
Cyrus made her acting debut in three episodes of the Toronto-shot TV series "Doc" (2002) with her father Billy Ray Cyrus, before appearing in a minor role for the film "Big Fish"(2003).
In 2006, she was established as a teen idol with the success of the "Hannah Montana" franchise, a former Disney Channel sitcom in which she portrayed the role of 'Miley Stewart' and 'Hannah Montana'.
Cyrus later recorded numerous songs for the soundtrack of the first season, signing a deal with Hollywood Records and releasing the album "Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus", selling over three million copies in the US.
To promote the album, Cyrus embarked on the "Best of Both Worlds Tour", later adapted into the 2008 feature...
Cyrus made her acting debut in three episodes of the Toronto-shot TV series "Doc" (2002) with her father Billy Ray Cyrus, before appearing in a minor role for the film "Big Fish"(2003).
In 2006, she was established as a teen idol with the success of the "Hannah Montana" franchise, a former Disney Channel sitcom in which she portrayed the role of 'Miley Stewart' and 'Hannah Montana'.
Cyrus later recorded numerous songs for the soundtrack of the first season, signing a deal with Hollywood Records and releasing the album "Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus", selling over three million copies in the US.
To promote the album, Cyrus embarked on the "Best of Both Worlds Tour", later adapted into the 2008 feature...
- 2/29/2024
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
The Unnamed Footage Festival returns to San Francisco, California next month for the 7th edition of the Found Footage Horror, First Person Pov, and Faux Doc film festival.
The full lineup has been announced this week. Read on for everything you need to know…
“The Unnamed Footage Festival team has unveiled the final wave of features for the 7th edition of their annual in-person event, including retro screenings and several special events. Alongside the full schedule and official festival art, Uff has announced a partnership with genre studio Welcome Villain Films, and with their support UFF7 has grown into the biggest and most diverse event in the festival’s history.
“Following the pre-festival 10th anniversary screening of As Above So Below at the Alamo Drafthouse, Uff has added another night at the Artist’s Television Access for a badgeholder only sneak peek at a new version of The Outwaters with filmmaker Robbie Banfitch in person.
The full lineup has been announced this week. Read on for everything you need to know…
“The Unnamed Footage Festival team has unveiled the final wave of features for the 7th edition of their annual in-person event, including retro screenings and several special events. Alongside the full schedule and official festival art, Uff has announced a partnership with genre studio Welcome Villain Films, and with their support UFF7 has grown into the biggest and most diverse event in the festival’s history.
“Following the pre-festival 10th anniversary screening of As Above So Below at the Alamo Drafthouse, Uff has added another night at the Artist’s Television Access for a badgeholder only sneak peek at a new version of The Outwaters with filmmaker Robbie Banfitch in person.
- 2/29/2024
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Specialist UK distributor Tape has acquired Lina Soulem’s feature documentary Bye Bye Tiberias which it will release in UK and Ireland cinemas on June 28.
Soualem, the daughter of actress Hiam Abbass, explores her Palestinian family history in Bye Bye Tiberias which won the BFI London Film Festival’s Grierson award for best documentary in 2023.
Bye Bye Tiberias was the Palestinian entry for this year’s Academy Awards and is sold internationally by Swiss-French sales agency Lightdox.
The documentary premiered in Venice’s Giornate degli Autori in 2023, followed by its North American premiere in Toronto. It has since had an...
Soualem, the daughter of actress Hiam Abbass, explores her Palestinian family history in Bye Bye Tiberias which won the BFI London Film Festival’s Grierson award for best documentary in 2023.
Bye Bye Tiberias was the Palestinian entry for this year’s Academy Awards and is sold internationally by Swiss-French sales agency Lightdox.
The documentary premiered in Venice’s Giornate degli Autori in 2023, followed by its North American premiere in Toronto. It has since had an...
- 2/22/2024
- ScreenDaily
On Tuesday, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito continued his criticism of the high court’s landmark same-sex ruling in a five-page statement that gave a detailed explanation as to why the court declined to hear a case that involved a Missouri lawsuit.
The case, Missouri Department of Correction v. Jean Finney, involved a dispute when jurors who voiced religious concerns about same-sex marriage were dismissed from an employment discrimination case.
In his statement, Alito agreed with the Supreme Court’s decision not to hear the Missouri lawsuit. However, he said he believed it “exemplifies the danger” he anticipated in the 2015 Obergell v. Hodges case.
He further explained, “Namely, that Americans who do not hide their adherence to traditional religious beliefs about homosexual conduct will be “labeled as bigots and treated as such by the government.”
Alito wrote that the way Obergefell v. Hodges written in 2015 “made it clear that the...
The case, Missouri Department of Correction v. Jean Finney, involved a dispute when jurors who voiced religious concerns about same-sex marriage were dismissed from an employment discrimination case.
In his statement, Alito agreed with the Supreme Court’s decision not to hear the Missouri lawsuit. However, he said he believed it “exemplifies the danger” he anticipated in the 2015 Obergell v. Hodges case.
He further explained, “Namely, that Americans who do not hide their adherence to traditional religious beliefs about homosexual conduct will be “labeled as bigots and treated as such by the government.”
Alito wrote that the way Obergefell v. Hodges written in 2015 “made it clear that the...
- 2/21/2024
- by Baila Eve Zisman
- Uinterview
Exclusive: National Geographic Documentary Films is bringing Bobi Wine: The People’s President back to the big screen in some major markets Friday for President’s Day weekend.
The film follows Bobi Wine, the Ugandan opposition leader, former member of parliament, activist and national superstar musician during the country’s 2021 presidential elections where he risks his life to fight the ruthless regime led by Yoweri Museveni. Museveni has been in power since 1986 and changed Uganda’s constitution to enable him to run for yet another five-year term.
The film will play New York, LA, Chicago, Memphis, New Jersey, San Francisco and Washington D.C., rolling out in additional markets on subsequent weekends.
It debuted in theaters on July 28, and premiered on Disney+ and Hulu Oct 6.
Deadline’s review called it an “exceptional feat” by Ugandan-born director Moses Bwayo and Christopher Sharp “to make an international audience care so deeply about...
The film follows Bobi Wine, the Ugandan opposition leader, former member of parliament, activist and national superstar musician during the country’s 2021 presidential elections where he risks his life to fight the ruthless regime led by Yoweri Museveni. Museveni has been in power since 1986 and changed Uganda’s constitution to enable him to run for yet another five-year term.
The film will play New York, LA, Chicago, Memphis, New Jersey, San Francisco and Washington D.C., rolling out in additional markets on subsequent weekends.
It debuted in theaters on July 28, and premiered on Disney+ and Hulu Oct 6.
Deadline’s review called it an “exceptional feat” by Ugandan-born director Moses Bwayo and Christopher Sharp “to make an international audience care so deeply about...
- 2/14/2024
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
The Unnamed Footage Festival has announced the first wave of films for this year’s 7th edition of the Found Footage Horror, First Person Pov, and Faux Doc film festival.
The team previews, “Every year, our programmers scour the globe for the greatest, weirdest, and most obscure films in the In-World camera genre, and this year is shaping up to be our best and biggest year yet, complete with cryptids, liminal horror, possession and live streaming.
“UFF7 will feature two nights of pre-fest events. On Tuesday March 26th, Uff will present a 10th Anniversary screening of As Above So Below at Terror Tuesday in collaboration with the Alamo Drafthouse at their New Mission location. Wednesday March 27th will be our first ever badgeholder-only pre-festival event & mixer at the Artists’ Television Access in the Mission district, with details to be announced soon.
“Our annual Recalibration Party kicks off opening night on Thursday March 28th,...
The team previews, “Every year, our programmers scour the globe for the greatest, weirdest, and most obscure films in the In-World camera genre, and this year is shaping up to be our best and biggest year yet, complete with cryptids, liminal horror, possession and live streaming.
“UFF7 will feature two nights of pre-fest events. On Tuesday March 26th, Uff will present a 10th Anniversary screening of As Above So Below at Terror Tuesday in collaboration with the Alamo Drafthouse at their New Mission location. Wednesday March 27th will be our first ever badgeholder-only pre-festival event & mixer at the Artists’ Television Access in the Mission district, with details to be announced soon.
“Our annual Recalibration Party kicks off opening night on Thursday March 28th,...
- 2/13/2024
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
A 1985 New York Magazine article that first termed the phrase Brat Pack rocked the world of Andrew McCarthy and his co-stars of St. Elmo’s Fire — so much that each of the actors went years, even decades, without talking to each other. As McCarthy says, “actors want to be free of that baggage.”
Not anymore. McCarthy is now behind an ABC News documentary called Brats that addresses how that one phrase captured the zeitgeist and forever altered the careers of then 20-something actors like Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Mare Winningham and Molly Ringwald. Even then, it was not entirely clear who was a member of the Brat Pack.
“We took such offense early on,” McCarthy said Saturday at the Television Critics Tour. “It...
Not anymore. McCarthy is now behind an ABC News documentary called Brats that addresses how that one phrase captured the zeitgeist and forever altered the careers of then 20-something actors like Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Mare Winningham and Molly Ringwald. Even then, it was not entirely clear who was a member of the Brat Pack.
“We took such offense early on,” McCarthy said Saturday at the Television Critics Tour. “It...
- 2/10/2024
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s a weekend of well-reviewed indie openings with Bleecker Street’s Out Of Darkness, The Monk And The Gun (from the directors of Lunana: A Yak In The Classroom) and limited openings for The Taste Of Things, Perfect Days (Best International Feature nominated), Anthony Chen’s Drift, Bas Devos’ Here and Ennio by Giuseppe Tornatore, which premiered in Venice in 2021 and is finally getting a U.S. release.
Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days, Japan’s official Oscar submission that nabbed a nom, opened at six locations in New York and LA Wednesday, adding additional cities next week. The film written by Wenders and Takuma Takasaki stars Hirayama, a public toilet cleaner in Tokyo who seems utterly content with his simple life until a series of unexpected encounters reveal more of his unearthed past. See Deadline review.
Neon had a qualifying run in November.
Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days, Japan’s official Oscar submission that nabbed a nom, opened at six locations in New York and LA Wednesday, adding additional cities next week. The film written by Wenders and Takuma Takasaki stars Hirayama, a public toilet cleaner in Tokyo who seems utterly content with his simple life until a series of unexpected encounters reveal more of his unearthed past. See Deadline review.
Neon had a qualifying run in November.
- 2/9/2024
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Fox is showing early confidence in Animal Control.
The broadcast network has handed out a third season renewal to the comedy series starring Joel McHale, with the pickup arriving a month before its sophomore run debuts.
Created by Bob Fisher, Rob Greenberg and Dan Sterling with Tad Quill attached as showrunner, Community grad McHale stars in the comedy that is the first series that Fox fully owns after the sale of its studio counterpart to Disney a few years ago. McHale and Jake Fuller also exec produce alongside Fisher, Greenberg, Sterling and Quill.
“Animal Control is an incredibly irreverent series that expresses everything viewers expect from a Fox comedy,” said Michael Thorn, president of scripted programming at Fox. “It has an amazing amount of momentum behind it, and we’ve been so impressed by the work Joel, Bob, Rob, Dan, Tad, Jake and the entire cast are delivering for season two,...
The broadcast network has handed out a third season renewal to the comedy series starring Joel McHale, with the pickup arriving a month before its sophomore run debuts.
Created by Bob Fisher, Rob Greenberg and Dan Sterling with Tad Quill attached as showrunner, Community grad McHale stars in the comedy that is the first series that Fox fully owns after the sale of its studio counterpart to Disney a few years ago. McHale and Jake Fuller also exec produce alongside Fisher, Greenberg, Sterling and Quill.
“Animal Control is an incredibly irreverent series that expresses everything viewers expect from a Fox comedy,” said Michael Thorn, president of scripted programming at Fox. “It has an amazing amount of momentum behind it, and we’ve been so impressed by the work Joel, Bob, Rob, Dan, Tad, Jake and the entire cast are delivering for season two,...
- 2/6/2024
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Principal Ava Coleman is ringing in the school year with some strict new changes and this time, she means business! (Yes, you read that right.)
In the Season 3 trailer for Abbott Elementary (which premieres with a one-hour block Wednesday, Feb. 7 at 9/8c on ABC), Ava reveals that she went to Harvard over the summer where she “truly learned what it takes to do the job as a principal.” The lack of her usual off-color jokes and the addition of cameras she placed “all over this joint” understandably have the Abbott teachers feeling quite unsettled. Plus, Janine tests out some off-brand curse words!
In the Season 3 trailer for Abbott Elementary (which premieres with a one-hour block Wednesday, Feb. 7 at 9/8c on ABC), Ava reveals that she went to Harvard over the summer where she “truly learned what it takes to do the job as a principal.” The lack of her usual off-color jokes and the addition of cameras she placed “all over this joint” understandably have the Abbott teachers feeling quite unsettled. Plus, Janine tests out some off-brand curse words!
- 1/31/2024
- by Nick Caruso
- TVLine.com
The official awards for the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, held in Park City, Utah every January, were announced this morning with a small ceremony held in person in Utah. This always marks the end of the fest, with a few days of screenings left. The festival played on this week with an at-home online series of viewings in addition to all the in-person premieres. It was a fairly impressive year, with a handful of terrific films, along with plenty of duds as well – and a smaller line-up with only around 92 new films premiering (compared to over 100 last year). The main winners for 2024 include In the Summers, taking home Grand Jury Prize & Directing Award; along with Sean Wang's Dìdi (弟弟) winning the coveted Audience Award and a U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble. In addition, the festival favorite is the documentary titled Daughters, playing in the U.S. Doc competition section.
- 1/26/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
To say the writers’ and actors’ strikes changed the landscape of television for the foreseeable future would be an understatement. After both strikes forced many to postpone or tweak their original lineups and schedules, it was the broadcast networks who were perhaps most affected heading into 2024.
With shortened episodic runs for most returning favorites, a slew of high-profile cancellations (and final season announcements) and a lack of new comedies and dramas to promote, the new year is kicking off with a shortage of upcoming series. The majority of greenlit series on the major networks were pushed to the 2024-2025 TV season as a result of the strikes. Viewers will have to wait even longer to catch the debuts of new shows like NBC’s workplace comedy St. Denis Medical (with Wendi McLendon-Covey), Fox’s medical drama Doc (with Molly Parker) and CBS’s father-son comedy (with Damon Wayans and Damon Wayans Jr...
With shortened episodic runs for most returning favorites, a slew of high-profile cancellations (and final season announcements) and a lack of new comedies and dramas to promote, the new year is kicking off with a shortage of upcoming series. The majority of greenlit series on the major networks were pushed to the 2024-2025 TV season as a result of the strikes. Viewers will have to wait even longer to catch the debuts of new shows like NBC’s workplace comedy St. Denis Medical (with Wendi McLendon-Covey), Fox’s medical drama Doc (with Molly Parker) and CBS’s father-son comedy (with Damon Wayans and Damon Wayans Jr...
- 1/22/2024
- by Philiana Ng
- Primetimer
On Monday night, the In Memoriam segment at the 2023 Emmy Awards reflected on some of Hollywood’s greatest losses in the past year. Among the tributes appeared Matthew Perry, Angus Cloud, Paul Reubens, Norman Lear, Barbara Walters, and dozens more. But the acknowledgments were also notably missing a number of figures.
The segment spanned nearly five full minutes as The War and Treaty and Charlie Puth delivered performances of “See You Again” and the Friends theme song, “I’ll Be There for You.” But not mentioned during that time were Jerry Springer,...
The segment spanned nearly five full minutes as The War and Treaty and Charlie Puth delivered performances of “See You Again” and the Friends theme song, “I’ll Be There for You.” But not mentioned during that time were Jerry Springer,...
- 1/16/2024
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
The British Academy has appointed award-winning producer Joyce Pierpoline as the chair of BAFTA North America’s board of directors.
Pierpoline — whose credits include Doc NYC winner “Mediha,” “Angelica” and Sundance-winning cult classic “Teeth” — succeeds Kathryn Busby, who was given the newly-created role in January 2022 after BAFTA united its New York and Los Angeles entities.
“I am delighted to take over the role of chair of BAFTA North America from Kathryn Busby, who carried out such brilliant work during her tenure,” said Pierpoline, who is also the founder of Pierpoline Films, serves as chair of BAFTA North America’s Film Committee and is co-founder of the Producers Guild of America’s Women’s Impact Network, promoting gender equality in the industry. “I’m looking forward to the future of BAFTA North America and will continue working with my colleagues on the board to ensure that BAFTA’s charitable work reflects...
Pierpoline — whose credits include Doc NYC winner “Mediha,” “Angelica” and Sundance-winning cult classic “Teeth” — succeeds Kathryn Busby, who was given the newly-created role in January 2022 after BAFTA united its New York and Los Angeles entities.
“I am delighted to take over the role of chair of BAFTA North America from Kathryn Busby, who carried out such brilliant work during her tenure,” said Pierpoline, who is also the founder of Pierpoline Films, serves as chair of BAFTA North America’s Film Committee and is co-founder of the Producers Guild of America’s Women’s Impact Network, promoting gender equality in the industry. “I’m looking forward to the future of BAFTA North America and will continue working with my colleagues on the board to ensure that BAFTA’s charitable work reflects...
- 1/8/2024
- by Alex Ritman
- Variety Film + TV
Bertrand Bonello’s “Coma,” which won a prize at the Berlin Film Festival in 2022, has been acquired by Film Movement for North American distribution.
The film follows a teenager who is stuck at home during once of France’s strict early-pandemic lockdowns. Cut off from the outside world, she begins to go back and forth between dreams and reality, guided by a disturbing and mysterious youtuber, Patricia Coma. Represented internationally by Best Friend Forever, the movie weaves genre, animation and live action to explore online behavior and content consumption.
“Coma” stars Louise Labeque (“Zombi Child”) and Julia Faure (“Camille Rewinds”), with voice acting from beloved late actor Gaspard Ulliel as well as Louis Garrel, Laetitia Casta, Anaïs Demoustier and Vincent Lacoste.
Along with winning the Fipresci prize at Berlin, the movie won best picture and best production design at the International Cinephile Society Awards. Film Movement previously worked with Bonello...
The film follows a teenager who is stuck at home during once of France’s strict early-pandemic lockdowns. Cut off from the outside world, she begins to go back and forth between dreams and reality, guided by a disturbing and mysterious youtuber, Patricia Coma. Represented internationally by Best Friend Forever, the movie weaves genre, animation and live action to explore online behavior and content consumption.
“Coma” stars Louise Labeque (“Zombi Child”) and Julia Faure (“Camille Rewinds”), with voice acting from beloved late actor Gaspard Ulliel as well as Louis Garrel, Laetitia Casta, Anaïs Demoustier and Vincent Lacoste.
Along with winning the Fipresci prize at Berlin, the movie won best picture and best production design at the International Cinephile Society Awards. Film Movement previously worked with Bonello...
- 1/5/2024
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
He’s your huckleberry and also apparently your guide. To mark the 30th anniversary of Tombstone, Val Kilmer, who played gunfighter/dentist/Wyatt Earp Bff in the 1993 western, posted behind-the-scenes footage he shot during the making of the film.
Stamped with “August 26th, 1993”, the footage shows trailers marked “Doc” and “Wyatt”, for lawman Earp as played by Kurt Russell. The footage then shows Russell outside of his trailer, with cameraman Kilmer assuring him, “You’ve arrived! You’re a pro!” Russell then shows photos of himself and the real Earp side by side, challenging the viewer to figure out who is who, even referencing an old Memorex ad just to further date the clip.
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The cast of Tombstone is a stacked one, with Sam Elliott and Michael Biehn in key roles, not to mention a slew of actors who have sadly passed since,...
Stamped with “August 26th, 1993”, the footage shows trailers marked “Doc” and “Wyatt”, for lawman Earp as played by Kurt Russell. The footage then shows Russell outside of his trailer, with cameraman Kilmer assuring him, “You’ve arrived! You’re a pro!” Russell then shows photos of himself and the real Earp side by side, challenging the viewer to figure out who is who, even referencing an old Memorex ad just to further date the clip.
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The cast of Tombstone is a stacked one, with Sam Elliott and Michael Biehn in key roles, not to mention a slew of actors who have sadly passed since,...
- 12/31/2023
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com
Berlin has been the talk of the town ever since the show was released on Netflix. Shows of this genre bring back a lot of memories that allow the audience to stay on the edge of their seat and soak in the stories of the crime, which mostly glorify them. Some films are comedy heist dramas that justify the act, but there is a reason why the word ‘comedy’ is part of the genre’s name. Here is a list of movies you can watch if you like Berlin, the latest Netflix spin on the very popular Money Heist.
Red Notice (2021)
Directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber, this Netflix original movie was about Dwayne Johnson’s character going after a thief, portrayed by the very funny Ryan Reynolds. The film is a hilarious cat-and-mouse chase between law enforcement and an art thief. This is the premise of the movie until both...
Red Notice (2021)
Directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber, this Netflix original movie was about Dwayne Johnson’s character going after a thief, portrayed by the very funny Ryan Reynolds. The film is a hilarious cat-and-mouse chase between law enforcement and an art thief. This is the premise of the movie until both...
- 12/30/2023
- by Smriti Kannan
- Film Fugitives
As Hollywood can’t wait to close the book on one of the most disruptive years in history, marked by a industry-paralyzing double strike that shut down production for more than six months, there is a lot of hope riding on 2024. There is also a dose of anxiety about what exactly the new normal might be.
The new year is expected to bring a selling frenzy. With few writers writing spec scripts during the work stoppage as most focused on strike duties, an anticipated post-strike spec market did not materialize. Unsure whether the main networks and platforms would be open for new business right away or busy attaching acting talent to their packages after the November end of the SAG-AFTRA strike, many producers opted to wait until after the holidays to take out their projects.
While there was a trickle of pitches in November and early December — a handful of...
The new year is expected to bring a selling frenzy. With few writers writing spec scripts during the work stoppage as most focused on strike duties, an anticipated post-strike spec market did not materialize. Unsure whether the main networks and platforms would be open for new business right away or busy attaching acting talent to their packages after the November end of the SAG-AFTRA strike, many producers opted to wait until after the holidays to take out their projects.
While there was a trickle of pitches in November and early December — a handful of...
- 12/28/2023
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Amnesia isn’t just the domain of soap operas. Many other TV shows have wiped their characters’ memories for the drama of it all — and, less commonly, for comedic set-ups! Fox’s Doc falls squarely into the first category. In that upcoming series, Molly Parker will play a surgeon who has no recollection of patients she’s treated, colleagues she’s crossed, the soulmate she divorced, the man she now loves, and the tragedy that caused her to push everyone away. Doc — based on the Italian TV series Doc – Nelle tue mani and detailed more below — is set to debut during the 2024–2025 season. While you wait for that premiere, though, take a look at these other characters who lost their memories… Sydney Bristow, Alias After being left for dead in this ABC spy drama’s Season 2 finale, Jennifer Garner’s CIA agent wakes up two years later, unable to recall the intervening time…...
- 12/28/2023
- TV Insider
’What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report’ offers comprehensive viewing data.
Marking a step towards greater data transparency, Netflix has published the first in a planned series of biannual reports revealing viewing numbers across more than 18,000 titles.
The data is the most comprehensive to be released by any streaming platform and compares for the first time the number of hours viewed on original and licensed content.
Viewership between January and June 2023 for the thriller series The Night Agent: Season 1 starring Gabriel Basso leads the way on 812.1m hours, according to What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report.
The top four...
Marking a step towards greater data transparency, Netflix has published the first in a planned series of biannual reports revealing viewing numbers across more than 18,000 titles.
The data is the most comprehensive to be released by any streaming platform and compares for the first time the number of hours viewed on original and licensed content.
Viewership between January and June 2023 for the thriller series The Night Agent: Season 1 starring Gabriel Basso leads the way on 812.1m hours, according to What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report.
The top four...
- 12/12/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
“Doc,” the Italian medical procedural that’s a local hit and and major export, is getting a theatrical outing in Italy prior to TV play thanks to a deal between production company Lux Vide and Uci Cinemas.
In what is being touted as a milestone, the first two episodes of the show’s third season are set to screen in Uci Cinemas across Italy as an event release on Dec. 18 and 19, ahead of the full season release of “Doc” Jan. 11 on state broadcaster Rai’s flagship Rai 1 channel.
“‘Doc’ is a show of many firsts. Our first foray into the medical genre, which drew a record-breaking 30% average audience share for Rai; our first U.S. remake deal; and now an unprecedented [for Lux Vide] limited theatrical release,” said Luca Bernabei, CEO of the Fremantle-owned Lux Vide, in a statement. He went on to praise the show for “it’s distinctive flair and strong concept.
In what is being touted as a milestone, the first two episodes of the show’s third season are set to screen in Uci Cinemas across Italy as an event release on Dec. 18 and 19, ahead of the full season release of “Doc” Jan. 11 on state broadcaster Rai’s flagship Rai 1 channel.
“‘Doc’ is a show of many firsts. Our first foray into the medical genre, which drew a record-breaking 30% average audience share for Rai; our first U.S. remake deal; and now an unprecedented [for Lux Vide] limited theatrical release,” said Luca Bernabei, CEO of the Fremantle-owned Lux Vide, in a statement. He went on to praise the show for “it’s distinctive flair and strong concept.
- 12/12/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
In a clip from the documentary, Little Richard: I Am Everything, we hear the young entertainer singing an early version of what would become his signature tune, “Tutti Frutti.” But surprise! The original lyrics were different than the ones we know today: “Tutti frutti, good booty/Tutti frutti, good booty!”
The song, as Richard wrote it, was about gay sex. In 1955, it would become the rock ‘n’ roll pioneer’s breakthrough hit, catapulting him to mainstream stardom — but only after the words were revised to something much more benign: “Tutti frutti, oh rooty/Tutti frutti, oh rooty!”
The sanitized lyrics symbolize the deep conflict between Little Richard’s public persona and his private life, and how he could hit the stage in all his authentic glory, then do an about-face when the spotlight became too white-hot and too controversial — especially in the deep South, at a time when the definition...
The song, as Richard wrote it, was about gay sex. In 1955, it would become the rock ‘n’ roll pioneer’s breakthrough hit, catapulting him to mainstream stardom — but only after the words were revised to something much more benign: “Tutti frutti, oh rooty/Tutti frutti, oh rooty!”
The sanitized lyrics symbolize the deep conflict between Little Richard’s public persona and his private life, and how he could hit the stage in all his authentic glory, then do an about-face when the spotlight became too white-hot and too controversial — especially in the deep South, at a time when the definition...
- 12/12/2023
- by Denise Quan
- Deadline Film + TV
After getting going in the ‘60s on TV staples such as The Many Lives of Dobie Gillis, My Three Sons and Perry Mason, Ryan O’Neal’s career skyrocketed in the 1970s when he became one of Hollywood’s most sought after leading men, both onscreen and off.
Related: Ryan O’Neal Co-Stars Barbra Streisand, Mia Farrow & Lee Grant Recall Funny, Charming & “Incredibly” Beautiful Actor
He delivered a string of well-received performances in cultural touchstones such as Love Story, What’s Up, Doc? and Paper Moon. He also had a sting of well-publicized romances, the longest of which was his two decade, on-and-off relationship with Farrah Fawcett.
Scroll through the photos below to see a collection of images from the work of O’Neal, who passed away December 8 at 82.
Related: Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2023: Photo Gallery & Obituaries...
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He delivered a string of well-received performances in cultural touchstones such as Love Story, What’s Up, Doc? and Paper Moon. He also had a sting of well-publicized romances, the longest of which was his two decade, on-and-off relationship with Farrah Fawcett.
Scroll through the photos below to see a collection of images from the work of O’Neal, who passed away December 8 at 82.
Related: Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2023: Photo Gallery & Obituaries...
- 12/8/2023
- by Robert Lang and Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
Ryan O’Neal, the actor known for leading roles in films like Love Story and What’s Up, Doc?, died on Friday, December 8th. He was 82.
His son Patrick shared the news in a lengthy Instagram post, writing: “So this is the toughest thing I’ve ever had to say but here we go. My dad passed away peacefully today, with his loving team by his side supporting him and loving him as he would us.”
Charles Patrick Ryan O’Neal was born in Los Angeles on April 20th, 1941, to parents both in the entertainment business. He trained to be an amateur boxer throughout his adolescence, until his mother got him a job as a stuntman and extra on the short-lived TV series Tales of the Vikings.
After a handful of smaller TV roles — including a recurring role on NBC’s Empire — O’Neal earned his big break in 1964, when he...
His son Patrick shared the news in a lengthy Instagram post, writing: “So this is the toughest thing I’ve ever had to say but here we go. My dad passed away peacefully today, with his loving team by his side supporting him and loving him as he would us.”
Charles Patrick Ryan O’Neal was born in Los Angeles on April 20th, 1941, to parents both in the entertainment business. He trained to be an amateur boxer throughout his adolescence, until his mother got him a job as a stuntman and extra on the short-lived TV series Tales of the Vikings.
After a handful of smaller TV roles — including a recurring role on NBC’s Empire — O’Neal earned his big break in 1964, when he...
- 12/8/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Film News
Death of star of Paper Moon, What’s Up, Doc? and Barry Lyndon announced by his son Patrick O’Neal
Ryan O’Neal, a leading star in Hollywood in the 1970s known for iconic films such as Love Story and Paper Moon, has died, according to a series of emotional posts from his son. He was 82.
On Friday, Patrick O’Neal shared on Instagram that his father had died “with his loving team by his side supporting him and loving him as he would us”. He went on to “share some feelings to give you an idea of how great a man he is”. Patrick described his father as “my hero.
Ryan O’Neal, a leading star in Hollywood in the 1970s known for iconic films such as Love Story and Paper Moon, has died, according to a series of emotional posts from his son. He was 82.
On Friday, Patrick O’Neal shared on Instagram that his father had died “with his loving team by his side supporting him and loving him as he would us”. He went on to “share some feelings to give you an idea of how great a man he is”. Patrick described his father as “my hero.
- 12/8/2023
- by Jenna Amatulli
- The Guardian - Film News
Buenos Aires-based Boutique sales agency Compañía de Cine has snagged “Pirópolis,” Chilean Nicolás Molina’s docu selected as part of Ventana Sur’s Doc Sur sidebar.
Compañía de Cine’s deal with its producers Funky Films and Pequén Prods. caps a triumphant festival trajectory for “Pirópolis,” which has played in a number of film events, including Docs in Progress at Fidocs + Conecta 2022, where it was awarded with the Best Project prize, as well as Visions Du Réel 2023 were it earned the VdR- Work-in-Progress Award.
“We are genuinely excited about this acquisition and the opportunity to bring ‘Pirópolis’ to a broader audience,” said Compañía de Cine’s Paulina Portela.
“Pirópolis” plunges us into the volatile Valparaíso city-port through the “Pompe France,” a fire brigade with French ties. The captain and crew receive Baptista, a French firefighter addressing eucalyptus-related fires. Amidst social upheaval, the company faces protests and strives for the...
Compañía de Cine’s deal with its producers Funky Films and Pequén Prods. caps a triumphant festival trajectory for “Pirópolis,” which has played in a number of film events, including Docs in Progress at Fidocs + Conecta 2022, where it was awarded with the Best Project prize, as well as Visions Du Réel 2023 were it earned the VdR- Work-in-Progress Award.
“We are genuinely excited about this acquisition and the opportunity to bring ‘Pirópolis’ to a broader audience,” said Compañía de Cine’s Paulina Portela.
“Pirópolis” plunges us into the volatile Valparaíso city-port through the “Pompe France,” a fire brigade with French ties. The captain and crew receive Baptista, a French firefighter addressing eucalyptus-related fires. Amidst social upheaval, the company faces protests and strives for the...
- 12/2/2023
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
How To Come Alive With Norman Mailer director Jeff Zimbalist: “I lament that in some ways the film is a nostalgia piece for that bygone era. But never saying that Mailer himself is a role model.”
In the second instalment with Jeff Zimbalist on How To Come Alive With Norman Mailer (co-written with Victoria Marquette and a highlight of the 14th edition of Doc NYC) we discuss a bygone era where opposite sides were coming together in debates, such as the infamous 1971 Town Hall event in New York City: A Dialogue on Women’s Liberation with Germaine Greer, Betty Friedan, Susan Sontag, Jill Johnston, Diana Trilling, Cynthia Ozick, Elizabeth Hardwick, and Jacqueline Ceballos, where Mailer was taught a lesson or two (seen from Chris Hegedus and Da Pennebaker’s Town Bloody Hall documentary), and the Gore Vidal Norman Mailer showdown on The Dick Cavett Show.
Jeff Zimbalist on Norman Mailer: “He’s incredibly prophetic.
In the second instalment with Jeff Zimbalist on How To Come Alive With Norman Mailer (co-written with Victoria Marquette and a highlight of the 14th edition of Doc NYC) we discuss a bygone era where opposite sides were coming together in debates, such as the infamous 1971 Town Hall event in New York City: A Dialogue on Women’s Liberation with Germaine Greer, Betty Friedan, Susan Sontag, Jill Johnston, Diana Trilling, Cynthia Ozick, Elizabeth Hardwick, and Jacqueline Ceballos, where Mailer was taught a lesson or two (seen from Chris Hegedus and Da Pennebaker’s Town Bloody Hall documentary), and the Gore Vidal Norman Mailer showdown on The Dick Cavett Show.
Jeff Zimbalist on Norman Mailer: “He’s incredibly prophetic.
- 12/1/2023
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The Barber of Little Rock — an award-winning documentary short recently nominated for a Critics Choice Documentary Award, screened as part of Doc NYC’s Short List program and counts basketball great Dwyane Wade among its executive producers — has been acquired by the New Yorker Studios for an Oscar run.
The film is now part of the New Yorker Documentary series, which showcases innovative shorts from around the world that offer uncommon perspectives on important issues, and will launch on the magazine’s digital channels in January 2024.
Directed by John Hoffman and Christine Turner, The Barber of Little Rock explores America’s racial wealth gap through the story of Arlo Washington, a barber in Little Rock, Arkansas, whose barber college has created professional opportunities for more than 1,500 licensed barbers. Having experienced the effects of generational poverty and structural racism firsthand, Washington understands his community’s profound mistrust of financial institutions, which...
The film is now part of the New Yorker Documentary series, which showcases innovative shorts from around the world that offer uncommon perspectives on important issues, and will launch on the magazine’s digital channels in January 2024.
Directed by John Hoffman and Christine Turner, The Barber of Little Rock explores America’s racial wealth gap through the story of Arlo Washington, a barber in Little Rock, Arkansas, whose barber college has created professional opportunities for more than 1,500 licensed barbers. Having experienced the effects of generational poverty and structural racism firsthand, Washington understands his community’s profound mistrust of financial institutions, which...
- 11/30/2023
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Starting with a modest proposal framing Black power as the erasure of systemic white supremacy, Sam Pollard and Llewellyn M. Smith’s South to Black Power, written by and featuring New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow, proposes a roadmap forward: a reverse great migration back to southern states with Black populations. Citing Vermont as a successful case study, Blow tells the story of how the counterculture changed the rural, conservative state by simply doing the math and moving in. Born and raised in the racially mixed rural town of Gibsland, Louisiana, Blow returns home to find some signs of encouraging process, discussing with relatives their plans for redeveloping their town by obtaining power through official channels.
Herein lies the problem studied extensively in the documentary: while achieving strength and agency at a municipal level is possible, Blow uses his new hometown of Atlanta as a successful case study. But...
Herein lies the problem studied extensively in the documentary: while achieving strength and agency at a municipal level is possible, Blow uses his new hometown of Atlanta as a successful case study. But...
- 11/28/2023
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
Happy Campers director Amy Nicholson with Anne-Katrin Titze: “There are times when you get lucky and you get magic.”
I first met Amy Nicholson in 2013 when I was on the jury of the inaugural First Time Fest with Gay Talese, the B-52’s Fred Schneider, and Killer Films’ Christine Vachon. Amy’s documentary, Zipper: Coney Island's Last Wild Ride, won our Outstanding Achievement in Editing Award (by John Young and Jonah Moran): “Fast-paced editing that captures, in a balanced way, a story about humanity in an age of greed. The editing works like the Zipper itself, connecting the ride with the story of Coney Island.”
Amy Nicholson often places the people side-by-side, Wes Anderson style.
In Happy Campers, a highlight of the 14th edition of Doc NYC, we are taken to the Inlet View Rv Park campground on Chincoteague Island in Virginia. Nicholson often places the people side-by-side, Wes Anderson style,...
I first met Amy Nicholson in 2013 when I was on the jury of the inaugural First Time Fest with Gay Talese, the B-52’s Fred Schneider, and Killer Films’ Christine Vachon. Amy’s documentary, Zipper: Coney Island's Last Wild Ride, won our Outstanding Achievement in Editing Award (by John Young and Jonah Moran): “Fast-paced editing that captures, in a balanced way, a story about humanity in an age of greed. The editing works like the Zipper itself, connecting the ride with the story of Coney Island.”
Amy Nicholson often places the people side-by-side, Wes Anderson style.
In Happy Campers, a highlight of the 14th edition of Doc NYC, we are taken to the Inlet View Rv Park campground on Chincoteague Island in Virginia. Nicholson often places the people side-by-side, Wes Anderson style,...
- 11/25/2023
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The personal stories of the seven Weber siblings are shared in Beth Lane’s gripping and hopeful UnBroken
Beth Lane, in the two intertwining strands of her gripping and hopeful documentary, UnBroken (co-written with Aaron Soffin and a highlight of the 14th edition of Doc NYC), introduces us to her mother and surviving aunts, and travels to Germany to trace the incredible journey of her ancestors. “There is no rational explanation for miracles” wrote the director’s late Uncle Alfons about his arrival, together with his six sisters in the United States from post-war Germany. They are to this day the only seven Jewish siblings known to have together survived the Holocaust.
Beth Lane with Anne-Katrin Titze on the Weber siblings: “Their photograph hangs in the last gallery of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC.”
In Munich, at the Süddeutsche Zeitung, journalist Hans Holzhaider calls it a...
Beth Lane, in the two intertwining strands of her gripping and hopeful documentary, UnBroken (co-written with Aaron Soffin and a highlight of the 14th edition of Doc NYC), introduces us to her mother and surviving aunts, and travels to Germany to trace the incredible journey of her ancestors. “There is no rational explanation for miracles” wrote the director’s late Uncle Alfons about his arrival, together with his six sisters in the United States from post-war Germany. They are to this day the only seven Jewish siblings known to have together survived the Holocaust.
Beth Lane with Anne-Katrin Titze on the Weber siblings: “Their photograph hangs in the last gallery of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC.”
In Munich, at the Süddeutsche Zeitung, journalist Hans Holzhaider calls it a...
- 11/22/2023
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Fox is looking to March for the return of its scripted slate.
The network has unveiled its midseason schedule including the return of The Cleaning Lady, Alert: Missing Persons Unit and Animal Control. The trio of scripted shows are premiering at the beginning of March following the writers and actors strike.
Elsewhere, Family Guy is moving to a midweek slot on Wednesdays after Animal Control, building out another comedy hour. It is thought to be the first time since the third season that Peter Griffin and family have aired midweek on Fox.
It comes after it pushed 9-1-1: Lone Star to the 2023/24 fall schedule alongside new series Doc and Rescue Hi-Surf, which had previously been eyed for a 2022/23 launch. No sign of the second season of Accused, however.
Fox’s returning scripted series come as it has set new dates for a swathe of reality series returning in midseason including The Masked Singer,...
The network has unveiled its midseason schedule including the return of The Cleaning Lady, Alert: Missing Persons Unit and Animal Control. The trio of scripted shows are premiering at the beginning of March following the writers and actors strike.
Elsewhere, Family Guy is moving to a midweek slot on Wednesdays after Animal Control, building out another comedy hour. It is thought to be the first time since the third season that Peter Griffin and family have aired midweek on Fox.
It comes after it pushed 9-1-1: Lone Star to the 2023/24 fall schedule alongside new series Doc and Rescue Hi-Surf, which had previously been eyed for a 2022/23 launch. No sign of the second season of Accused, however.
Fox’s returning scripted series come as it has set new dates for a swathe of reality series returning in midseason including The Masked Singer,...
- 11/21/2023
- by Peter White and Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Fox is the latest broadcast network (following CBS, ABC and NBC) to reveal its game plan for midseason, and it features three live-action scripted series, a lotta reality-tv (including America’s Most Wanted‘s first new episodes in years), and Family Guy‘s first non-Sunday time slot in more than two decades.
As previously reported, 9-1-1: Lone Star is being held for next fall, as are the new dramas Doc and Rescue: Hi-Surf; Season 2 of the anthology Accused is also Mia below, but Fox says that additional schedule announcements are forthcoming.
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As previously reported, 9-1-1: Lone Star is being held for next fall, as are the new dramas Doc and Rescue: Hi-Surf; Season 2 of the anthology Accused is also Mia below, but Fox says that additional schedule announcements are forthcoming.
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- 11/21/2023
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Exclusive: Buchwald has signed Grammy-winning multi-hyphenate Billy Ray Cyrus and Firerose Cyrus for worldwide representation in all areas.
A country star and actor nearly three decades into his career, Billy Ray Cyrus is perhaps best known for starring opposite his daughter, Miley Cyrus, on Disney Channel’s smash hit teen series Hannah Montana, which spurred the release of narrative and concert films and launched Miley into the stratosphere, as a musical artist. Billy Ray also created and starred in the CMT comedy series Still the King, which ran for two seasons, prior to that leading the show Doc for four seasons. In addition to Hannah Montana: The Movie, film credits include Mulholland Drive, Christmas Comes Home to Canaan, and The Spy Next Door, to name just a few.
Billy Ray exploded onto the music scene when his first album, Some Gave All, debuted at No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard album...
A country star and actor nearly three decades into his career, Billy Ray Cyrus is perhaps best known for starring opposite his daughter, Miley Cyrus, on Disney Channel’s smash hit teen series Hannah Montana, which spurred the release of narrative and concert films and launched Miley into the stratosphere, as a musical artist. Billy Ray also created and starred in the CMT comedy series Still the King, which ran for two seasons, prior to that leading the show Doc for four seasons. In addition to Hannah Montana: The Movie, film credits include Mulholland Drive, Christmas Comes Home to Canaan, and The Spy Next Door, to name just a few.
Billy Ray exploded onto the music scene when his first album, Some Gave All, debuted at No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard album...
- 11/20/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Take a look at pop singer, actress Miley Cyrus, posing for photographer Steven Meisel in "Vogue" (UK) magazine :
Cyrus made her acting debut in three episodes of the Toronto-shot TV series "Doc" (2002) with her father Billy Ray Cyrus, before appearing in a minor role for the film "Big Fish"(2003).
In 2006, she was established as a teen idol with the success of the "Hannah Montana" franchise, a former Disney Channel sitcom in which she portrayed the role of 'Miley Stewart' and 'Hannah Montana'.
Cyrus later recorded numerous songs for the soundtrack of the first season, signing a deal with Hollywood Records and releasing the album "Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus", selling over three million copies in the US.
To promote the album, Cyrus embarked on the "Best of Both Worlds Tour", later adapted into the 2008 feature "Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert". She then...
Cyrus made her acting debut in three episodes of the Toronto-shot TV series "Doc" (2002) with her father Billy Ray Cyrus, before appearing in a minor role for the film "Big Fish"(2003).
In 2006, she was established as a teen idol with the success of the "Hannah Montana" franchise, a former Disney Channel sitcom in which she portrayed the role of 'Miley Stewart' and 'Hannah Montana'.
Cyrus later recorded numerous songs for the soundtrack of the first season, signing a deal with Hollywood Records and releasing the album "Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus", selling over three million copies in the US.
To promote the album, Cyrus embarked on the "Best of Both Worlds Tour", later adapted into the 2008 feature "Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert". She then...
- 11/19/2023
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
If a legend like Liv Ullman can have imposter syndrome, what does it mean for the rest of us mere mortals? Throughout Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled, it’s Ullman herself who reflects on the past and reveals that which she is willing to reveal from her illustrious career. A feeling she often returns to is that of being unworthy, too inexperienced, and not ready. While it may seem ridiculous coming from the Norwegian actress/director/activist, it’s not. Liv Ullman lives with endless doubt, as we all do. She’s just overcome it a bit better than most.
From her fast start with Ingmar Bergman (beginning with Persona in 1966) to her first autobiography Changing to her accomplished career as a director, Dheeraj Akolkar’s film is a testament to resilience and growth. Including clips from some of her best work and commentary from friends and colleagues, the energy is decidedly positive.
From her fast start with Ingmar Bergman (beginning with Persona in 1966) to her first autobiography Changing to her accomplished career as a director, Dheeraj Akolkar’s film is a testament to resilience and growth. Including clips from some of her best work and commentary from friends and colleagues, the energy is decidedly positive.
- 11/16/2023
- by Dan Mecca
- The Film Stage
Well, at least 9-1-1: Lone Star ended its fourth season on a mostly happy note (there was the Tarlos wedding!) because it will be a while before we see the first responders again. The return of the Fox drama, which usually airs in the midseason, has now been delayed to the 2024-2025 season, TV Insider has confirmed. The fifth season will consist of 12 episodes. Also being held for next season are the new dramas Doc and Rescue: Hi-Surf. These are just the latest shows to be moved to the 2024-2025 season after networks start looking at premiere dates for new and returning series. The writers and actors’ strikes delayed production, with very few scripted shows airing this fall. Those that do return this season will likely only have 10-13 episodes. So far, CBS is the only network to announce a full lineup of premiere dates, starting in February.
- 11/16/2023
- TV Insider
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