Editor’s note: As SAG-AFTRA continues to encourage its members to both respect and support the guild’s Interim Agreements, Deadline has learned that the number of producers currently requesting permission to begin, complete and/or promote their films during the strike hovers around 1,400. Here, independent producer Michael Alden reflects on the process and questions why he’s still waiting for a thumbs up from SAG-AFTRA to spread the word about his latest film, a supernatural thriller starring Bruce Davison, Selena Anduze and Keith David.
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As an independent feature film producer whose production company is SAG signatory, I produced and completed a feature film entitled The Last Call (aka From the Shadows) under the union’s Ultra Low Budget Contract.
My film is slated to be released on September 19. I was told by SAG that, with the strike, I would need an interim...
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As an independent feature film producer whose production company is SAG signatory, I produced and completed a feature film entitled The Last Call (aka From the Shadows) under the union’s Ultra Low Budget Contract.
My film is slated to be released on September 19. I was told by SAG that, with the strike, I would need an interim...
- 8/29/2023
- by Michael Alden
- Deadline Film + TV
Show business' brightest stars memorialized one of their own yesterday, at A Tribute to Polly Bergen, at the American Airlines Theatre 227 W. 42nd Street. An Emmy Award-winning actress and singer, Ms. Bergen's career spanned more than six decades in films, TV, Broadway musicals and concerts. She passed away from natural causes September 20 at age 84. A Tribute to Polly Bergen, produced by Rex Reed and Michael Alden with creative consultant Deborah Grace Winer, celebrated her life and career with a star studded lineup of participants. They included Christine Andreas, Harry Belafonte, Arlene Dahl, Raul Esparza, Michael Feinstein, Gregory Harrison, Judith Ivey, Chris Matthews, Phyllis Newman, Kelli O'Hara and cast members from the 2001 revival of Follies.
- 3/27/2015
- by Stephen Sorokoff
- BroadwayWorld.com
Show business' brightest stars memorialized one of their own yesterday, at A Tribute to Polly Bergen, at the American Airlines Theatre 227 W. 42nd Street. An Emmy Award-winning actress and singer, Ms. Bergen's career spanned more than six decades in films, TV, Broadway musicals and concerts. She passed away from natural causes September 20 at age 84. A Tribute to Polly Bergen, produced by Rex Reed and Michael Alden with creative consultant Deborah Grace Winer, celebrated her life and career with a star studded lineup of participants. They included Christine Andreas, Harry Belafonte, Arlene Dahl, Raul Esparza, Michael Feinstein, Gregory Harrison, Judith Ivey, Chris Matthews, Phyllis Newman, Kelli O'Hara and cast members from the 2001 revival of Follies.
- 3/27/2015
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
Show business' brightest stars memorialized one of their own yesterday, at A Tribute to Polly Bergen, at the American Airlines Theatre 227 W. 42nd Street. An Emmy Award-winning actress and singer, Ms. Bergen's career spanned more than six decades in films, TV, Broadway musicals and concerts. She passed away from natural causes September 20 at age 84. A Tribute to Polly Bergen, produced by Rex Reed and Michael Alden with creative consultant Deborah Grace Winer, celebrated her life and career with a star studded lineup of participants. They included Christine Andreas, Harry Belafonte, Arlene Dahl, Raul Esparza, Michael Feinstein, Gregory Harrison, Judith Ivey, Chris Matthews, Phyllis Newman, Kelli O'Hara and cast members from the 2001 revival of Follies.
- 3/27/2015
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
Barrington Stage Company, the award-winning regional theatre in downtown Pittsfield, Massachusetts, under the leadership of Artistic Director Julianne Boyd and Managing Director Tristan Wilson, celebrated Bsc's New Works Initiative with a Bsc in NYC at a benefit last night at the American Airlines Theatre Penthouse. The event was co-chaired by Heather Nolin, Mary Ann Quinson, Rosita Sarnoff and Eda Sorokoff. Among the attendees were Tommy Tune, Julie Budd, and Producers Michael Alden and Jamie deRoy.
- 11/5/2013
- by Stephen Sorokoff
- BroadwayWorld.com
BroadwayWorld brings you coverage of the men from the Drama League red carpet arrivals below, including Tom Sturridge, Constantine Maroulis, Billy Porter, Anthony Warlow, Bryan Terrell Clark, Paul Rudd, Jerry Mitchell, Brandon J. Dirden, Bertie Carvel, Stark Sands, Rob McClure, Courtney B. Vance, Stephen Tyrone Williams, David Hyde Pierce, Jason Tam, Bobby Cannavale, Brandon Victor Dixon, Dave Malloy, Harvey Fierstein, Nathan Lane, Danny Burstein, Alan Cumming, Tommy Tune, Ryan Silverman, Bill Irwin, Berry Gordy, Dale Badway, Charl Brown, Michael Alden and more...
- 5/18/2013
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
A stage version of Oscar-winning movie The King's Speech is to close less than two months after its London debut in March.
The play has suffered poor ticket sales, and producers are convinced it was too soon to stage a theatre version of the 2011 movie, which starred Colin Firth.
Despite the stage play receiving rave reviews, it will now end its run at London's Wyndham Theatre on 12 May.
A statement from producers reads, "Two years ago, originating producer Michael Alden was ready to put the play on and the film came along and blocked its path. At the start of this year, we believed that enough time had passed between the film and our opening. This clearly was not the case.
"We are extremely proud of what we have accomplished. It is a production of genuine quality that has been critically and publicly acclaimed across the board."
The film took $414 million (£261 million) at the U.S. box office and scooped four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Firth.
The play has suffered poor ticket sales, and producers are convinced it was too soon to stage a theatre version of the 2011 movie, which starred Colin Firth.
Despite the stage play receiving rave reviews, it will now end its run at London's Wyndham Theatre on 12 May.
A statement from producers reads, "Two years ago, originating producer Michael Alden was ready to put the play on and the film came along and blocked its path. At the start of this year, we believed that enough time had passed between the film and our opening. This clearly was not the case.
"We are extremely proud of what we have accomplished. It is a production of genuine quality that has been critically and publicly acclaimed across the board."
The film took $414 million (£261 million) at the U.S. box office and scooped four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Firth.
- 4/20/2012
- WENN
A statement from the producers said Two years ago, originating producer Michael Alden was ready to put the play on and the film came along and blocked its path. At the start of this year, we believed that enough time had passed between the film and our opening. This clearly was not the case. We are extremely proud of what we have accomplished. It is a production of genuine quality that has been critically and publicly acclaimed across the board.
- 4/20/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Playful Productions and Michael Alden have announced that the of UK tour of The King's Speech will transfer to Wyndhams Theatre on 22 March, with an opening night on 27 March. This announcement confirms rumours reported on Broadway World over the past two weeks.The production will also be opening on Broadway in Fall 2012.The world premier production of the original play by David Seidler took place on Friday 10 February at Guildfords Yvonne Arnaud Theatre and continues on tour around the UK until 17 March.
- 2/17/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The ageless beauty and talent Sheila MacRae will be 90 on Saturday and will be celebrating it with her daughter and my friend, Heather MacRae. Michael Alden, the Broadway producer and Tony Newfield, the actor, also will join in the celebration at the Actor’s Fund Home in Englewood, New Jersey. Together they will gather around the baby grand piano and sing showtunes such as “Oklahoma,” “Surrey With the Fringe on the Top,” “If I Loved You” and those wonderful songs made famous by Sheila and her husband Gordon. Heather and Sheila used to sing for my mother...
- 9/24/2011
- by Carole Mallory
- The Wrap
By Sean O’Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: From Best Picture winner to Broadway sensation?
That could end up being the case now that Tom Hooper’s “Thee King’s Speech” is heading to the Great White Way. Producer Michael Alden announced on his site that “Speech,” which Oscar-winning screenwriter David Seidler originally conceived as a stage play, is coming to Broadway. THR adds that the production is slated to hit Manhattan in the fall of 2012.
“It will first open in the UK at the beginning of next year at the Guilford Yvonne Arnaud Theater before moving to London’s West End in March,” the trade reports.
Even though Broadway routinely is littered with Hollywood’s products, from “Legally Blonde” to “Mary Poppins,” that is one of the earliest shifts I can think of from screen to stage. Tough call for actors to slip into the roles now associated with Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush.
Hollywoodnews.com: From Best Picture winner to Broadway sensation?
That could end up being the case now that Tom Hooper’s “Thee King’s Speech” is heading to the Great White Way. Producer Michael Alden announced on his site that “Speech,” which Oscar-winning screenwriter David Seidler originally conceived as a stage play, is coming to Broadway. THR adds that the production is slated to hit Manhattan in the fall of 2012.
“It will first open in the UK at the beginning of next year at the Guilford Yvonne Arnaud Theater before moving to London’s West End in March,” the trade reports.
Even though Broadway routinely is littered with Hollywood’s products, from “Legally Blonde” to “Mary Poppins,” that is one of the earliest shifts I can think of from screen to stage. Tough call for actors to slip into the roles now associated with Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush.
- 8/9/2011
- by Sean O'Connell
- Hollywoodnews.com
Tom Hooper's Oscar-winning film, originally inspired by an unproduced play, is set for a West End adaptation and Broadway transfer
Oscar-winning film The King's Speech is set to arrive on the stage in 2012, with plans for productions in the West End and on Broadway, reports Showbiz 411.
A theatre run for Tom Hooper's tale of George VI's struggle to overcome a debilitating stutter with the help of an eccentric therapist has long been on the cards. Screenwriter David Seidler wrote a stage treatment "as a way to work out the relationships among the characters for himself", according to his manager Jeff Aghassi in an interview last year with The New York Times, though the screenplay is believed to have come first.
The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the film first came to the attention of actor Geoffrey Rush when a proposal for a theatre production landed on his doorstep.
Oscar-winning film The King's Speech is set to arrive on the stage in 2012, with plans for productions in the West End and on Broadway, reports Showbiz 411.
A theatre run for Tom Hooper's tale of George VI's struggle to overcome a debilitating stutter with the help of an eccentric therapist has long been on the cards. Screenwriter David Seidler wrote a stage treatment "as a way to work out the relationships among the characters for himself", according to his manager Jeff Aghassi in an interview last year with The New York Times, though the screenplay is believed to have come first.
The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the film first came to the attention of actor Geoffrey Rush when a proposal for a theatre production landed on his doorstep.
- 8/9/2011
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
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