Comedian Sebastian Maniscalco has unveiled the dates for his ‘It Ain’t Right’ tour, his touring run for 2024 which kicks off at Norfolk Scope Arena in Norfolk, Va on July 11 and will be the biggest of his career to date.
Produced by Live Nation, his 47-city tour of North America wraps up at the Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moies, Ia on December 15. Artist presale kicks off November 29, with general onsale launching December 1st at 10 a.m. local time.
“Hop on the ‘It Ain’t Right’ tour, where I’ll roast today’s absurdities – nonexistent manners, wallet-wincing prices, and the social media circus,” said Maniscalco in announcing his new tour. “Join me in laughing at the wrongs in this shameless world!”
One of the top-selling comedians on the planet, Maniscalco is best known for the acclaimed specials Sebastian Live, What’s Wrong with People?, Aren’t You Embarrassed?, Why Would You Do That?...
Produced by Live Nation, his 47-city tour of North America wraps up at the Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moies, Ia on December 15. Artist presale kicks off November 29, with general onsale launching December 1st at 10 a.m. local time.
“Hop on the ‘It Ain’t Right’ tour, where I’ll roast today’s absurdities – nonexistent manners, wallet-wincing prices, and the social media circus,” said Maniscalco in announcing his new tour. “Join me in laughing at the wrongs in this shameless world!”
One of the top-selling comedians on the planet, Maniscalco is best known for the acclaimed specials Sebastian Live, What’s Wrong with People?, Aren’t You Embarrassed?, Why Would You Do That?...
- 11/28/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Wiz Khalifa stopped at his hometown to throw the first pitch before the Pittsburgh Pirates and Cleveland Guardians game at Pnc Park in Pennsylvania on Monday.
According to Khalifa, however, the moment called for some extra festivities.
Before taking the pitcher’s mound, the artist tweeted, “Finna get stoned af and throw this first pitch at the pirates game,” and later added, “Shroomed out throwin a baseball is crazy.”
Shroomed out throwin a baseball is crazy.
— Wiz Khalifa (@wizkhalifa) July 17, 2023
The rapper wore a Pirates jersey for the occasion and...
According to Khalifa, however, the moment called for some extra festivities.
Before taking the pitcher’s mound, the artist tweeted, “Finna get stoned af and throw this first pitch at the pirates game,” and later added, “Shroomed out throwin a baseball is crazy.”
Shroomed out throwin a baseball is crazy.
— Wiz Khalifa (@wizkhalifa) July 17, 2023
The rapper wore a Pirates jersey for the occasion and...
- 7/18/2023
- by Charisma Madarang
- Rollingstone.com
In a symphony of sound and ambition, Spinning Gold takes the audience on an enchanting journey into the extraordinary life of Neil Bogart. This biographical drama dances to the beat of Bogart’s remarkable rise from a humble songwriter to a titan of the music industry. With every flicker of the spotlight, Spinning Gold unveils the triumphs and challenges, the highs and lows, and the dazzling crescendos that compose the extraordinary tale of a man who spun dreams into reality. Neil Bogart, the mastermind behind Casablanca Records, orchestrates an era that resonates with the rhythm of the 1970s. Like a magician wielding a golden touch, he transforms struggling artists into celestial superstars, leaving an indelible mark on the world of popular music.
Spoilers Ahead
What Ignited Neil Bogart’s Extraordinary Journey?
Neil Bogart’s path from childhood diverged significantly from his father’s penchant for gambling. While his father’s...
Spoilers Ahead
What Ignited Neil Bogart’s Extraordinary Journey?
Neil Bogart’s path from childhood diverged significantly from his father’s penchant for gambling. While his father’s...
- 6/1/2023
- by Raschi Acharya
- Film Fugitives
Casablanca Records ranks as one of the most legendary record labels of all time. In its classic incarnation, the label discovered artists as varied as Kiss, Donna Summer, The Village People, Parliament, Giorgio Moroder and many more throughout the disco era. The label was the brainchild of Neil Bogart, a legendary record exec who, tragically, died young of cancer at only 39. His own son, Timothy Bogart, has assembled a loving, warts-and-all biopic about his father, Spinning Gold, which opened in theaters last week.
I was lucky enough to speak to Timothy, his leading man Jeremy Jordan, who plays his father, and SNL vet Jay Pharoah, who plays Bogart’s right-hand man Cecil Holmes, and singer Tayla Parx, who plays Donna Summer. The interviews were pretty interesting, with Timothy Bogart in the unique position of adapting his own father’s life story to the big screen. He discusses how he didn...
I was lucky enough to speak to Timothy, his leading man Jeremy Jordan, who plays his father, and SNL vet Jay Pharoah, who plays Bogart’s right-hand man Cecil Holmes, and singer Tayla Parx, who plays Donna Summer. The interviews were pretty interesting, with Timothy Bogart in the unique position of adapting his own father’s life story to the big screen. He discusses how he didn...
- 4/4/2023
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
Suffering from many of the same issues as Kasi Lemmons’ Witney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody, Spinning Gold contains too rich of a life for its 137-minute runtime. The brilliance of both Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane and Todd Haynes’ fictional glam rock epic Velvet Goldmine is that they understood there’s only so much you can bite off, starting with the official record and working with those in closest proximity to their subject.
Directed by Timothy Scott Bogart––son of its subject, Neil Bogart––and told from the first-person perspective of the record executive (played by Jeremy Jordan), Spinning Gold takes the colorful story of an entrepreneur who died at age 39 and races through several highlights. These include discovering and packaging Kiss, figuring out that Donna Summer’s “Love to Love You Baby” needed to be 17 minutes long so people can make love to it, and working with the Isley Brothers,...
Directed by Timothy Scott Bogart––son of its subject, Neil Bogart––and told from the first-person perspective of the record executive (played by Jeremy Jordan), Spinning Gold takes the colorful story of an entrepreneur who died at age 39 and races through several highlights. These include discovering and packaging Kiss, figuring out that Donna Summer’s “Love to Love You Baby” needed to be 17 minutes long so people can make love to it, and working with the Isley Brothers,...
- 4/3/2023
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com audio film review for the newly released “Spinning Gold,” the outrageous 1970s tale of the founding of Casablanca Records by Neil Bogart. Currently in theaters, since March 31st.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
The mover and shaker of Casablanca Records was Neil Bogart (Jeremy Jordan), ardently characterized as a mid 20th Century con man, in a sense. After having a minor pop music hit in the 1960s, he joined the record industry later in the decade as a “throw it against the wall and see what sticks” kind of a music maven. When he splits off his own label … Casablanca Records … in the early 1970s, he starts in massive debt but digs it out with a new artist, Donna Summer. (Taya Parx), and a new sound … disco. But he also scored in other music, as Bogart introduced rockers Kiss, soul singers Bill Withers (Pink Sweat$) and Gladys Knight...
Rating: 3.5/5.0
The mover and shaker of Casablanca Records was Neil Bogart (Jeremy Jordan), ardently characterized as a mid 20th Century con man, in a sense. After having a minor pop music hit in the 1960s, he joined the record industry later in the decade as a “throw it against the wall and see what sticks” kind of a music maven. When he splits off his own label … Casablanca Records … in the early 1970s, he starts in massive debt but digs it out with a new artist, Donna Summer. (Taya Parx), and a new sound … disco. But he also scored in other music, as Bogart introduced rockers Kiss, soul singers Bill Withers (Pink Sweat$) and Gladys Knight...
- 4/3/2023
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
It may have taken Spinning Gold filmmaker Timothy Scott Bogart 24 years to tell the story of his father, Neil Bogart, and his record company, Casablanca Records, but such perseverance runs in the family and in the film.
As years and years of development came and went, so did names like Justin Timberlake and Spike Lee, but Bogart and his collaborators eventually realized that only he could tell the story of how Brooklyn’s Neil Bogatz became Neil Bogart, the record executive who elevated the careers of Kiss, Donna Summer and The Isley Brothers, to name a few. Ultimately, Bogart took the plunge as director even though he was keenly aware of how critical audiences can be of family-controlled biopics.
“I did go through a number of different directors because I never intended to be the director of the film at the start. I was looking at it, going, ‘God, I’m writing,...
As years and years of development came and went, so did names like Justin Timberlake and Spike Lee, but Bogart and his collaborators eventually realized that only he could tell the story of how Brooklyn’s Neil Bogatz became Neil Bogart, the record executive who elevated the careers of Kiss, Donna Summer and The Isley Brothers, to name a few. Ultimately, Bogart took the plunge as director even though he was keenly aware of how critical audiences can be of family-controlled biopics.
“I did go through a number of different directors because I never intended to be the director of the film at the start. I was looking at it, going, ‘God, I’m writing,...
- 4/3/2023
- by Brian Davids
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In “Spinning Gold,” a sketchy but adoring if not outright devotional biopic about Neil Bogart, the upstart ’70s music-industry mogul who founded Casablanca Records, there’s a pivotal moment that spins around the story of how Bogart, at a party he was throwing, played the 3-minute-and-20-second single version of Donna Summer’s “Love to Love You Baby.” He played it over and over again because his guests kept asking for it. That’s when the lightbulb went on. Bogart realized that the song needed to be longer, much longer — long enough to have sex to. (It ended up being 16 minutes and 50 seconds.) This is a rather famous anecdote. So we assume that we’re going to see Bogart meet with Giorgio Moroder, the song’s composer and producer, and change music history.
It happens that way…sort of. Bogart tells Moroder that he wants a longer version of the song.
It happens that way…sort of. Bogart tells Moroder that he wants a longer version of the song.
- 4/3/2023
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
The film year of 2022 pretty much ended with a “music biopic”, Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody (at least I’m making it the “year’s end” as it was the last advance screening I attended). It did fairly well at the box office but didn’t come close to the critical and award accolades of Bohemian Rhapsody or Judy. But that’s not going to halt Hollywood from “mining” this material, and so we’re getting a tune-filled “true” tale at the end of 2023’s first quarter. Oh, but this has a twist in that it doesn’t center around a beloved performer. No, this concerns the head of a record company. Yeah kids, in those ancient days before streaming and downloading, people went to brick-and-mortar stores and bought discs produced by these companies Aka recording labels. And one of the biggest of them in the mid-...
- 3/31/2023
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
This March has been one of the best months for releases outside of summer, with three highly successful sequels setting new records for their respective franchises. “Dungeon & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” now kicks off its own franchise by adapting the popular role-playing video game. Read on for Gold Derby’s box office preview.
Paramount is probably hoping that younger moviegoers won’t be aware of the 2000 “Dungeon & Dragons” movie that bombed very badly, but “Dungeon & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” has a much stronger cast that includes Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page from “Bridgerton,” Hugh Grant, Justice Smith (“Jurassic World: Dominion”) and Sophie Lillis (“It”).
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Paramount is probably hoping that younger moviegoers won’t be aware of the 2000 “Dungeon & Dragons” movie that bombed very badly, but “Dungeon & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” has a much stronger cast that includes Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page from “Bridgerton,” Hugh Grant, Justice Smith (“Jurassic World: Dominion”) and Sophie Lillis (“It”).
SEEBox office: ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ passes ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ to become 7th highest-grossing movie domestically
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- 3/29/2023
- by Edward Douglas
- Gold Derby
"The artists worked with us, not for us. We were family." Hero Ent. is releasing this music history movie in theaters nationwide later this week - Spinning Gold, opening on March 31st. The film is actually a biopic feature, not a documentary or musical, about 1970s record producer Neil Bogart, co-founder of Casablanca Records. It's written and directed by producer / filmmaker Timothy Scott Bogart, who just so happens to be Neil Bogart's son. We featured the first trailer late last year, and here's one more before it opens. Telling a story so unbelievable that it can only be true, comes the motion picture event of the musical journey of Neil Bogart and how his Casablanca Records created the greatest soundtrack of our lives. Jeremy Jordan stars as Neil, along with Michelle Monaghan, Peyton List, Jason Isaacs, Lyndsy Fonseca, Sebastian Maniscalco, Dan Fogler, Caylee Cowan, and Winslow Fegley. Featuring musicians like Kiss,...
- 3/27/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Enter the contest below for the chance to win a pair of passes to attend an advance screening of Spinning Gold on Tuesday, March 28th at 7:00pm at the Mjr Troy!
What do Donna Summer, Parliament, Gladys Knight, The Isley Brothers, The Village People, and Bill Withers all have in common with the rock band Kiss? They all rose to their musical heights under the watchful ear of the music industry’s most colorful and brilliant music producer, Neil Bogart, founder of Casablanca Records, the most successful independent record company of all time. Along with a rag tag team of young music lovers, Casablanca Records would rewrite history and change the music industry forever. Their mix of creative insanity, a total belief in each other and the music they were creating, shaped our culture and ultimately defined a generation. In a story so unbelievable that it can only be true,...
What do Donna Summer, Parliament, Gladys Knight, The Isley Brothers, The Village People, and Bill Withers all have in common with the rock band Kiss? They all rose to their musical heights under the watchful ear of the music industry’s most colorful and brilliant music producer, Neil Bogart, founder of Casablanca Records, the most successful independent record company of all time. Along with a rag tag team of young music lovers, Casablanca Records would rewrite history and change the music industry forever. Their mix of creative insanity, a total belief in each other and the music they were creating, shaped our culture and ultimately defined a generation. In a story so unbelievable that it can only be true,...
- 3/25/2023
- by Editor
- CinemaNerdz
Jeremy Jordan is probably best known for his Tony and Grammy-nominated portrayal of Jack Kelly in Newsies on Broadway, as well as his many roles on television including series regulars on CW’s Supergirl, NBC’s Smash and Disney Channel’s Tangled. And now he leads a star-studded cast as the tenacious record industry giant Neil Bogart in the epic new feature film Spinning Gold. On this episode, he talks about how finding a character’s physicality and where they hold tension informs his preparation, the importance of letting every single moment of a performance tell the story, why he’s still getting used to […]
The post “Yes He Was a Visionary, but He Pissed a Lot of People Off”: Spinning Gold Star Jeremy Jordan first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “Yes He Was a Visionary, but He Pissed a Lot of People Off”: Spinning Gold Star Jeremy Jordan first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 3/21/2023
- by Peter Rinaldi
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Jeremy Jordan is probably best known for his Tony and Grammy-nominated portrayal of Jack Kelly in Newsies on Broadway, as well as his many roles on television including series regulars on CW’s Supergirl, NBC’s Smash and Disney Channel’s Tangled. And now he leads a star-studded cast as the tenacious record industry giant Neil Bogart in the epic new feature film Spinning Gold. On this episode, he talks about how finding a character’s physicality and where they hold tension informs his preparation, the importance of letting every single moment of a performance tell the story, why he’s still getting used to […]
The post “Yes He Was a Visionary, but He Pissed a Lot of People Off”: Spinning Gold Star Jeremy Jordan first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “Yes He Was a Visionary, but He Pissed a Lot of People Off”: Spinning Gold Star Jeremy Jordan first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 3/21/2023
- by Peter Rinaldi
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
What do Donna Summer, Parliament, Gladys Knight, The Isley Brothers, The Village People, and Bill Withers all have in common with the rock band Kiss? They all rose to their musical heights under the watchful ear of the music industry’s most colorful and brilliant music producer, Neil Bogart, founder of Casablanca Records, the most successful independent record company of all time. Along with a ragtag team of young music lovers, Neil and Casablanca Records would rewrite history and change the music industry forever. Their mix of creative insanity, a total belief in each other and the music they were creating, shaped our culture and ultimately defined a generation. In a story so unbelievable that it can only be true, comes the motion picture event of the musical journey of Neil Bogart and how his Casablanca Records created the greatest soundtrack of our lives.
Spinning Gold opens in theaters on Friday,...
Spinning Gold opens in theaters on Friday,...
- 3/14/2023
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The greatest Artists of all time seem to have emerged fully formed from the ether of musical legend as if their success had been simply undeniable and preordained. As if Donna Summer didn’t so much write “Love to Love Ya Baby,” as manifest it; as if Kiss’ timeless anthem “Rock N’ Roll Nite” wasn’t so much composed, as delivered fully-realized from hard rock Valhalla directly to Paul Stanley and Gene Simmon’s fingertips.
But history knows better. And the story of Neil Bogart, the explosive, perpetual motion machine behind superstars Donna Summer,...
But history knows better. And the story of Neil Bogart, the explosive, perpetual motion machine behind superstars Donna Summer,...
- 3/13/2023
- by Ted Brown
- Rollingstone.com
The official trailer for the forthcoming film Spinning Gold is now readily available and you can check it out right here on CinemaNerdz!
What do Donna Summer, Parliament, Gladys Knight, The Isley Brothers, The Village People, and Bill Withers all have in common with the rock band Kiss? They all rose to their musical heights under the watchful ear of the music industry’s most colorful and brilliant music producer, Neil Bogart, founder of Casablanca Records, the most successful independent record company of all time. Along with a rag tag team of young music lovers, Casablanca Records would rewrite history and change the music industry forever. Their mix of creative insanity, a total belief in each other and the music they were creating, shaped our culture and ultimately defined a generation. In a story so unbelievable that it can only be true, comes the motion picture event of the musical...
What do Donna Summer, Parliament, Gladys Knight, The Isley Brothers, The Village People, and Bill Withers all have in common with the rock band Kiss? They all rose to their musical heights under the watchful ear of the music industry’s most colorful and brilliant music producer, Neil Bogart, founder of Casablanca Records, the most successful independent record company of all time. Along with a rag tag team of young music lovers, Casablanca Records would rewrite history and change the music industry forever. Their mix of creative insanity, a total belief in each other and the music they were creating, shaped our culture and ultimately defined a generation. In a story so unbelievable that it can only be true, comes the motion picture event of the musical...
- 3/6/2023
- by Editor
- CinemaNerdz
Casey Likes will return to Broadway this summer as Marty McMcFly in Back to the Future: the Musical.
Likes comes to the role, made famous by Michael J. Fox, after making his Broadway debut as William Miller in the new musical Almost Famous this fall. Outside of the theater world, Miller stars as Gene Simmons in the upcoming Neil Bogart biopic Spinning Gold and as the leading role in MGM’s feature Dark Harvest.
He joins the previously announced Roger Bart as Doc Brown and Hugh Coles as George McFly. Both Bart and Coles are reprising their roles from the West End production, which is scheduled to run through July 23, 2023, after opening in September 2021. The West End production won an Olivier Award for best new musical.
Back to the Future: The Musical is scheduled to begin Broadway performances at the Winter Garden Theatre on June 30, ahead of an Aug. 3 opening.
Likes comes to the role, made famous by Michael J. Fox, after making his Broadway debut as William Miller in the new musical Almost Famous this fall. Outside of the theater world, Miller stars as Gene Simmons in the upcoming Neil Bogart biopic Spinning Gold and as the leading role in MGM’s feature Dark Harvest.
He joins the previously announced Roger Bart as Doc Brown and Hugh Coles as George McFly. Both Bart and Coles are reprising their roles from the West End production, which is scheduled to run through July 23, 2023, after opening in September 2021. The West End production won an Olivier Award for best new musical.
Back to the Future: The Musical is scheduled to begin Broadway performances at the Winter Garden Theatre on June 30, ahead of an Aug. 3 opening.
- 3/1/2023
- by Caitlin Huston
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The risk when an immediate family member is involved in a tribute to an important figure from the pop-culture firmament is that the story they choose to tell might not be the one fans want to hear. That’s an issue — at least for this erstwhile disco baby — with HBO’s Love to Love You, Donna Summer. Directed by Roger Ross Williams with Summer’s daughter, Brooklyn Sudano, the doc is stuffed with great archive material. But it largely squanders an ideal platform through which to reaffirm the subject’s vital place in pop music history and reclaim disco as a genre whose influence has never waned.
Some of that is kinda, sorta here, but it’s so faint it’s almost apologetic. We’re constantly reminded that Summer was ambivalent about being crowned the Queen of Disco, because she felt it marginalized her vocal gifts for gospel, R&b and soul,...
Some of that is kinda, sorta here, but it’s so faint it’s almost apologetic. We’re constantly reminded that Summer was ambivalent about being crowned the Queen of Disco, because she felt it marginalized her vocal gifts for gospel, R&b and soul,...
- 2/21/2023
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: One notable title up for sale we’re hearing about at the European Film Market is Timothy Scott Bogart’s pop Romeo & Juliet musical, Verona starring Clara Rugaard, Jamie Ward, Rebel Wilson, Rupert Everett, Jason Isaacs and Derek Jacobi.
Verona will be the first film in a original pop musical trilogy based around the real-life 1301 story that inspired Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. A wide theatrical releaser this Christmas is being planned.
Bogart tells us, “We’ve set out to tell the greatest love story of all time, set to the musical pulse of our time. But Shakespeare only told part of that remarkable tale whose events changed the course of history!”
Voltage is handling international sales on Verona.
Bogart recently directed the 1970s-1980s set feature Spinning Gold about his record label exec father Neil Bogart’s rise and fall with Casablanca Records. That pic is coming out on March 31 in theaters.
Verona will be the first film in a original pop musical trilogy based around the real-life 1301 story that inspired Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. A wide theatrical releaser this Christmas is being planned.
Bogart tells us, “We’ve set out to tell the greatest love story of all time, set to the musical pulse of our time. But Shakespeare only told part of that remarkable tale whose events changed the course of history!”
Voltage is handling international sales on Verona.
Bogart recently directed the 1970s-1980s set feature Spinning Gold about his record label exec father Neil Bogart’s rise and fall with Casablanca Records. That pic is coming out on March 31 in theaters.
- 2/2/2023
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Wiz Khalifa’s latest single, “#NeverDrinkingAgain,” is a last minute entry on his list of 2022 releases before heading into the new year.
On the new track, the rapper recounts the night before to figure out where his will power clocked out for the evening. “Lotta women, no liquor/I don’t really want my head spinning/I know where to start, know the beginning,” he raps, retracing his steps through a hazy hangover. “It be like two shots then I’m loaded/Then them two shots turn to 40/Then I...
On the new track, the rapper recounts the night before to figure out where his will power clocked out for the evening. “Lotta women, no liquor/I don’t really want my head spinning/I know where to start, know the beginning,” he raps, retracing his steps through a hazy hangover. “It be like two shots then I’m loaded/Then them two shots turn to 40/Then I...
- 12/30/2022
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
Casablanca Records is one of the most influential music labels in history, but the story of its founder, Neil Bogart, isn't as well-known as it should be. Donna Summer, Parliament, Gladys Knight & the Pips, The Isley Brothers, The Village People, Bill Withers, and the rock band Kiss all rose to great heights thanks to Bogart and were signed to the label that would become the most successful independent record company in history. Now, the film "Spinning Gold" looks to transport audiences back to the 1970s, when disco reigned supreme, funk was beginning to pick up steam, and Neil Bogart was on top of the world. Here's everything you need to know about the upcoming music producer biopic, and more.
Spinning Gold Release Date And Where You Can Watch It
"Spinning Gold" will be available in theaters starting March 31, 2023. The film is being distributed by Hero Entertainment and Howling Wolf Films,...
Spinning Gold Release Date And Where You Can Watch It
"Spinning Gold" will be available in theaters starting March 31, 2023. The film is being distributed by Hero Entertainment and Howling Wolf Films,...
- 12/24/2022
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
Exclusive: Genre legend Sam Raimi’s Raimi Productions and Barbarian EP Alex Lebovici’s Hammerstone Studios are reteaming with Christian Mercuri’s Capstone Studios to produce the horror-thriller, Don’t Move. The project comes following the parties’ collaboration on Boy Kills World — an action-thriller starring Bill Skarsgård, which is currently in post-production.
Don’t Move watches as a seasoned killer injects a grieving woman with a paralytic agent. She must then run, fight and hide before her body completely shuts down.
The film’s helmers are Adam Schindler and Brian Netto, who recently wrote and directed episodes of Rami’s horror anthology series 50 States of Fright for the defunct short-form streaming platform, Quibi. Its writers, T.J. Cimfel and David White, previously penned the Rory Culkin-led horror-thriller Intruders, also directed by Schindler.
Lebovici, Raimi and Zainab Azizi are the producers for Don’t Move, which is currently casting. Exec producers include Mercuri,...
Don’t Move watches as a seasoned killer injects a grieving woman with a paralytic agent. She must then run, fight and hide before her body completely shuts down.
The film’s helmers are Adam Schindler and Brian Netto, who recently wrote and directed episodes of Rami’s horror anthology series 50 States of Fright for the defunct short-form streaming platform, Quibi. Its writers, T.J. Cimfel and David White, previously penned the Rory Culkin-led horror-thriller Intruders, also directed by Schindler.
Lebovici, Raimi and Zainab Azizi are the producers for Don’t Move, which is currently casting. Exec producers include Mercuri,...
- 12/20/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
"We were waging an all-out war against all the majors all at once." Hero + Universal have unveiled an official trailer for a music history biopic titled Spinning Gold, now set to open in select theaters starting in late March. The film is actually a biopic feature, not really a documentary, about the 1970s record producer Neil Bogart, co-founder of Casablanca Records. It's written and directed by producer / filmmaker Timothy Scott Bogart, who happens to be Neil Bogart's son. In a story so unbelievable that it can only be true, comes the motion picture event of the musical journey of Neil Bogart and how his Casablanca Records created the greatest soundtrack of our lives. Jeremy Jordan stars as Neil, along with Michelle Monaghan, Peyton List, Jason Isaacs, Lyndsy Fonseca, Sebastian Maniscalco, Dan Fogler, Caylee Cowan, Winslow Fegley. This is quite an impressive cast! Alas this looks like a made-for-tv movie, with...
- 12/19/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Jeremy Jordan stars as Neil Bogart, the founder of Casablanca Records, in a new trailer for Spinning Gold. The film, in theaters March 31, 2023, follows Bogart’s success with artists like Donna Summer, Kiss, Parliament, Gladys Knight, the Isley Brothers, the Village People and Bill Withers.
The trailer is narrated by a dramatized version of Bogart as he showcases the rise of Casablanca Records. Glimpses of various artists can been seen in the clip, including Summer as played by Tayla Parx. “We knew what Casablanca could be,” Bogart intones. “We were 7 million in debt…...
The trailer is narrated by a dramatized version of Bogart as he showcases the rise of Casablanca Records. Glimpses of various artists can been seen in the clip, including Summer as played by Tayla Parx. “We knew what Casablanca could be,” Bogart intones. “We were 7 million in debt…...
- 12/15/2022
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
People love their legendary rock record label story and the moguls behind them, “Cadillac Records,” “24 Hour Party People,” etc., and now the latest in this line of films is “Spinning Gold.” Directed by Timothy Scott Bogart, the music drama is based on the life of his father, Casablanca Records founder Neil Bogart. Casablanca Records was responsible for an eclectic roster of bands like Donna Summer, Parliament, Gladys Knight, The Isley Brothers, The Village People, Bill Withers, and Kiss.
Continue reading ‘Spinning Gold’ Trailer: Jeremy Jordan, Michelle Monaghan & Wiz Khalifa Star In The Casablanca Records Story at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Spinning Gold’ Trailer: Jeremy Jordan, Michelle Monaghan & Wiz Khalifa Star In The Casablanca Records Story at The Playlist.
- 12/15/2022
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
The official trailer for Spinning Gold has dropped and it explores the rise of Neil Bogart as the founder of Casablanca Records. Watch the preview in the video posted above.
Donna Summer, Parliament, Gladys Knight, The Isley Brothers, The Village People, and Bill Withers all have one thing in common with the rock band Kiss — they all rose to their musical heights under the watchful ear Bogart, the founder of Casablanca Records, the most successful independent record company of all time.
Along with a rag-tag team of young music lovers, Neil and Casablanca Records would rewrite history and change the music industry forever. Their mix of creative insanity, a total belief in each other and the music they were creating, shaped our culture and ultimately defined a generation. In a story so unbelievable that it can only be true, comes the motion picture event of the musical journey of Neil...
Donna Summer, Parliament, Gladys Knight, The Isley Brothers, The Village People, and Bill Withers all have one thing in common with the rock band Kiss — they all rose to their musical heights under the watchful ear Bogart, the founder of Casablanca Records, the most successful independent record company of all time.
Along with a rag-tag team of young music lovers, Neil and Casablanca Records would rewrite history and change the music industry forever. Their mix of creative insanity, a total belief in each other and the music they were creating, shaped our culture and ultimately defined a generation. In a story so unbelievable that it can only be true, comes the motion picture event of the musical journey of Neil...
- 12/15/2022
- by Armando Tinoco
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Timothy Scott Bogart’s movie Spinning Gold about his music producer father, Neil Bogart, and the iconic label he built, Casablanca Records, will hit theaters on Friday, March 31, 2023.
The release and distribution will be handled by Hero Partners in partnership with Howling Wolf Films, with Universal Pictures Home Entertainment distributing across transactional home entertainment.
Neil Bogart saw the rise and fall of Casablanca Records, which in its heyday from the mid-to-late 1970s was a powerhouse in the disco sphere with artists such as Donna Summer, pop bands like The Village People and hard rock with Kiss. The boom of the music scene and opulence of the drug era took its toll on Casablanca. The label was ultimately put into a strenuous financial position, and was in need of hits; their desperation relying on a 1974 two-record set of audio highlights from TV’s The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, entitled...
The release and distribution will be handled by Hero Partners in partnership with Howling Wolf Films, with Universal Pictures Home Entertainment distributing across transactional home entertainment.
Neil Bogart saw the rise and fall of Casablanca Records, which in its heyday from the mid-to-late 1970s was a powerhouse in the disco sphere with artists such as Donna Summer, pop bands like The Village People and hard rock with Kiss. The boom of the music scene and opulence of the drug era took its toll on Casablanca. The label was ultimately put into a strenuous financial position, and was in need of hits; their desperation relying on a 1974 two-record set of audio highlights from TV’s The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, entitled...
- 10/28/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
“Spinning Gold” director Timothy Scott Bogart will tell the story behind MTV through his new production company.
Hot on the heels of the Cannes market launch of “Spinning Gold,” the story of Casablanca Records founder Neil Bogart, the director has unveiled Hero Partners, a partnership with producing partner Jessica Martins of Hero Entertainment, and “Spinning Gold” producer and financier Chris Torto.
Dedicated to streamlining independent film financing, the new venture will fully finance four to five films per year, providing a one-stop shop to finance and produce a slate of music-driven projects across film, television and theater (Broadway).
Torto has assembled an initial feature film production fund of 100 million, highlighted by a slate of original pop musicals, including “Marian,” a period film set to modern music that tells the true story behind Robin Hood. Production begins in Italy in November with Bogart at the helm and Martins and Torto producing.
Hot on the heels of the Cannes market launch of “Spinning Gold,” the story of Casablanca Records founder Neil Bogart, the director has unveiled Hero Partners, a partnership with producing partner Jessica Martins of Hero Entertainment, and “Spinning Gold” producer and financier Chris Torto.
Dedicated to streamlining independent film financing, the new venture will fully finance four to five films per year, providing a one-stop shop to finance and produce a slate of music-driven projects across film, television and theater (Broadway).
Torto has assembled an initial feature film production fund of 100 million, highlighted by a slate of original pop musicals, including “Marian,” a period film set to modern music that tells the true story behind Robin Hood. Production begins in Italy in November with Bogart at the helm and Martins and Torto producing.
- 5/24/2022
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Timothy Scott Bogart already has a busy Cannes Film Festival, showing off his film, “Spinning Gold,” a documentary about his father, Casablanca Records founder Neil Bogart, to potential buyers. And it appears that Bogart is just getting started, as he already has his following two projects lined up, according to Variety.
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After “Spinning Gold,” Bogart will produce “North Star,” a semi-autobiographical drama set in 1960s Ireland by Jim Sheridan.
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After “Spinning Gold,” Bogart will produce “North Star,” a semi-autobiographical drama set in 1960s Ireland by Jim Sheridan.
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- 5/20/2022
- by Ned Booth
- The Playlist
“Spinning Gold” director Timothy Scott Bogart has set up his next projects on the heels of his musical biopic about his father, Casablanca Records founder Neil Bogart.
Bogart will produce the semi-autobiographical feature “North Star” from Oscar nominee Jim Sheridan, which tells the story of the director’s early life in Northern Ireland. U2 musicians Bono and The Edge are in discussions to compose original music for the film, Variety can reveal.
Meanwhile, Bogart will also write and direct the modern pop-music driven, 1191-set “Marian,” which charts the love story of Robin Hood and Maid Marian, with music from Grammy-winning songwriter Evan Bogart.
“North Star” will be directed by Sheridan. The story will center on his family and growing up in the tumultuous times of 1960s Ireland. Bono and lead guitarist The Edge are in talks to write and perform the original song, “North Star,” in addition to collaborating on the score.
Bogart will produce the semi-autobiographical feature “North Star” from Oscar nominee Jim Sheridan, which tells the story of the director’s early life in Northern Ireland. U2 musicians Bono and The Edge are in discussions to compose original music for the film, Variety can reveal.
Meanwhile, Bogart will also write and direct the modern pop-music driven, 1191-set “Marian,” which charts the love story of Robin Hood and Maid Marian, with music from Grammy-winning songwriter Evan Bogart.
“North Star” will be directed by Sheridan. The story will center on his family and growing up in the tumultuous times of 1960s Ireland. Bono and lead guitarist The Edge are in talks to write and perform the original song, “North Star,” in addition to collaborating on the score.
- 5/20/2022
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
The story of Casablanca Records has been told by many — in books, articles and by the larger-than-life characters who lived through the salad days of mid- to late-1970s rock and disco music. Its ascent as a hit factory — home to Kiss, Donna Summer, the Village People and Parliament Funkadelic — was short and swift and substantial.
Founded in 1974 by Neil Bogart, who’d had limited success as a record man at Buddha Records, a sublabel of MGM which had signed Gladys Knight and the Pips and the Ohio Express, Casablanca had the reputation of a place of excess. Sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll was the mantra of the day, and certainly so for the record company that contributed the first smash extended single to clubs and radio stations all over the world — Summer’s 17-minute “Love to Love You,” produced by Giorgio Moroder and first released in 1975.
As legend...
Founded in 1974 by Neil Bogart, who’d had limited success as a record man at Buddha Records, a sublabel of MGM which had signed Gladys Knight and the Pips and the Ohio Express, Casablanca had the reputation of a place of excess. Sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll was the mantra of the day, and certainly so for the record company that contributed the first smash extended single to clubs and radio stations all over the world — Summer’s 17-minute “Love to Love You,” produced by Giorgio Moroder and first released in 1975.
As legend...
- 5/19/2022
- by Shirley Halperin
- Variety Film + TV
Kiss takes the stage in the first exclusive clip to emerge from hotly anticipated musical biopic “Spinning Gold.”
The long-gestating movie about Casablanca Records founder Neil Bogart — directed by his son Tim Bogart and now in post-production — has finally landed, and is being screened to buyers at the Cannes Film Festival market this week.
Founded in 1974 by Neil Bogart, Casablanca Records was the home to Kiss, Donna Summer, the Village People and Parliament Funkadelic, among others. The company contributed the first smash extended single to clubs and radio stations all over the world with Summer’s 17-minute 1975 banger “Love to Love You,” and released 289 albums from more than 140 artists.
“Spinning Gold” was first conceived in 1990 and has weathered many drafts, multiple castings (Justin Timberlake was at one point attached to the movie) and a decades-long search for the right director.
Said Tim Bogart of the project: “Born Neil Bogatz in...
The long-gestating movie about Casablanca Records founder Neil Bogart — directed by his son Tim Bogart and now in post-production — has finally landed, and is being screened to buyers at the Cannes Film Festival market this week.
Founded in 1974 by Neil Bogart, Casablanca Records was the home to Kiss, Donna Summer, the Village People and Parliament Funkadelic, among others. The company contributed the first smash extended single to clubs and radio stations all over the world with Summer’s 17-minute 1975 banger “Love to Love You,” and released 289 albums from more than 140 artists.
“Spinning Gold” was first conceived in 1990 and has weathered many drafts, multiple castings (Justin Timberlake was at one point attached to the movie) and a decades-long search for the right director.
Said Tim Bogart of the project: “Born Neil Bogatz in...
- 5/19/2022
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Winslow Fegley is set to join Javier Bardem in Will Speck & Josh Gordon’s Lyle, Lyle Crocodile for Sony Pictures. Sources also tell Deadline that Benj Pasek & Justin Paul, the Oscar winning songwriting team behind the music of La La Land and upcoming Dear Evan Hansen movie, will write original songs for the film. Speck & Gordon will direct with the script will be adapted by Will Davies and is based on the best-selling children’s book by Bernard Waber.
First published in 1965, the venerable children’s tale revolves around the title reptile who lives in a house on East 88th Street in New York City. Lyle enjoys helping the Primm family with everyday chores, and playing with the neighborhood kids. He’s the happiest crocodile any home ever had…until one neighbor insists that Lyle belongs in a zoo. Mr. Grumps and his cat, Loretta, don’t like crocodiles,...
First published in 1965, the venerable children’s tale revolves around the title reptile who lives in a house on East 88th Street in New York City. Lyle enjoys helping the Primm family with everyday chores, and playing with the neighborhood kids. He’s the happiest crocodile any home ever had…until one neighbor insists that Lyle belongs in a zoo. Mr. Grumps and his cat, Loretta, don’t like crocodiles,...
- 7/29/2021
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Spinning Gold, the long-in-the-works biopic about 1970s Casablanca Records chief Neil Bogart, is heating up again in time for the Cannes Virtual Market. The pic, written and directed by Bogart’s son Timothy Scott Bogart, has added Wiz Khalifa to play Parliament leader George Clinton, Tayla Parx to play Donna Summer, Ledisi to play Gladys Knight and Lyndsy Fonseca to play music manager Joyce Biawitz.
Production is now underway in New Jersey, and Capstone will introduce the film to Cannes market buyers next week.
Jeremy Jordan plays Neil Bogart in the the pic that charts the rise of his Buddah and Casablanca labels in the 1960s and ’70s with a roster that included Donna Summer, Kiss, Parliament, Village People, The Isley Brothers, Gladys Knight and Bill Withers among others.
Jay Pharoah, Michelle Monaghan, Jason Isaacs, Jason Derulo, Sebastian Maniscalco, Dan Fogler, Chris Redd, Peyton List, Pink Sweat$, Casey Likes,...
Production is now underway in New Jersey, and Capstone will introduce the film to Cannes market buyers next week.
Jeremy Jordan plays Neil Bogart in the the pic that charts the rise of his Buddah and Casablanca labels in the 1960s and ’70s with a roster that included Donna Summer, Kiss, Parliament, Village People, The Isley Brothers, Gladys Knight and Bill Withers among others.
Jay Pharoah, Michelle Monaghan, Jason Isaacs, Jason Derulo, Sebastian Maniscalco, Dan Fogler, Chris Redd, Peyton List, Pink Sweat$, Casey Likes,...
- 6/18/2021
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: MGM has found its leads for the forthcoming Dark Harvest feature adaptation that is based on Norman Partridge’s 2007 Bram Stoker Award-wining novel of the same name. Casey Likes, who recurred in the Facebook Watch series The Birch and Fargo actress E’myri Crutchfield will star in the horror film, which is being directed by David Slade.
Michael Gilio penned the screenplay. In the film, every fall in a small Midwestern town, a supernatural specter rises from the cornfields and makes its way toward the town’s Church, where violent gangs of teenage boys hungrily await their chance to confront the legendary nightmare in an annual harvest rite of life and death. Richie Shepard lives in the shadow of his big brother who won last year’s Run and earned his ticket out of town. To prove himself and join his brother, Richie pairs up with Kelly Haines, a...
Michael Gilio penned the screenplay. In the film, every fall in a small Midwestern town, a supernatural specter rises from the cornfields and makes its way toward the town’s Church, where violent gangs of teenage boys hungrily await their chance to confront the legendary nightmare in an annual harvest rite of life and death. Richie Shepard lives in the shadow of his big brother who won last year’s Run and earned his ticket out of town. To prove himself and join his brother, Richie pairs up with Kelly Haines, a...
- 6/1/2021
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Marvel animated series Tigra & Dazzler is searching for a new showrunner and writers following a shakeup on the series. Sources close to the production confirm to Deadline that Hulu has parted ways with showrunner Erica Rivinoja due to creative differences, but the show is still moving forward at the streamer.
In Marvel’s Tigra & Dazzler Show, “woke superheroes” and best friends Tigra and Dazzler fight for recognition among powered people who make up the 8 million stories in Los Angeles. Chelsea Handler remains as executive producer, along with Jeph Loeb.
Tigra & Dazzler is one of four animated original series at Hulu, along with Howard the Duck, Hit Monkey and M.O.D.O.K.
The Hulu shows are geared toward the more comedic end of the Marvel Universe, and an ironic tone will be watchword for the quartet of off-kilter franchises. Tigra and Dazzler have plenty of history as “serious” heroes...
In Marvel’s Tigra & Dazzler Show, “woke superheroes” and best friends Tigra and Dazzler fight for recognition among powered people who make up the 8 million stories in Los Angeles. Chelsea Handler remains as executive producer, along with Jeph Loeb.
Tigra & Dazzler is one of four animated original series at Hulu, along with Howard the Duck, Hit Monkey and M.O.D.O.K.
The Hulu shows are geared toward the more comedic end of the Marvel Universe, and an ironic tone will be watchword for the quartet of off-kilter franchises. Tigra and Dazzler have plenty of history as “serious” heroes...
- 12/4/2019
- by Denise Petski and Geoff Boucher
- Deadline Film + TV
Need a few tips on how to navigate the modern music ecosystem? One option is a conversation with Sam Nelson Harris.
As the frontman for alternative band X Ambassadors, Harris has seen three of his band’s songs hit the top 20 on the pop charts through high-profile placements in commercials, films (2016’s “Sucker for Pain” from “Suicide Squad”) and trailers. The group’s current single, “Boom,” from this summer’s newly released second album “Orion,” hit the rock charts this year on the strength of multiple high-profile synch placements, including ESPN’s 2019 NBA promos.
And as a writer/producer for hire, Harris has seen his stock rise considerably this year after his work on three standout cuts for Lizzo’s blockbuster debut album “Cuz I Love You” and co-writes on seven of the 14 tracks on the all-star compilation “For the Throne: Music Inspired by the HBO Series Game of Thrones,...
As the frontman for alternative band X Ambassadors, Harris has seen three of his band’s songs hit the top 20 on the pop charts through high-profile placements in commercials, films (2016’s “Sucker for Pain” from “Suicide Squad”) and trailers. The group’s current single, “Boom,” from this summer’s newly released second album “Orion,” hit the rock charts this year on the strength of multiple high-profile synch placements, including ESPN’s 2019 NBA promos.
And as a writer/producer for hire, Harris has seen his stock rise considerably this year after his work on three standout cuts for Lizzo’s blockbuster debut album “Cuz I Love You” and co-writes on seven of the 14 tracks on the all-star compilation “For the Throne: Music Inspired by the HBO Series Game of Thrones,...
- 8/13/2019
- by Andrew Hampp
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Richard Dreyfuss has been set to play Roulette Records chief Morris Levy, and Sebastian Maniscalco is playing music visionary Giorgio Moroder in Spinning Gold, the film about ’70s Casablanca Records chief Neil Bogart that his son Timothy Scott Bogart is directing from the script he wrote. Bogart said he has also cast Winslow Fegley to play his father in his childhood years.
Bogart’s Boardwalk Entertainment has fully financed the picture with Jessica Martins’ Hero Entertainment. In a film that will feature some of the most iconic music of the 1970s, Jeremy Jordan plays Bogart and Michelle Monaghan plays his wife, Beth; Samuel L. Jackson plays Parliament leader George Clinton, Kenan Thompson is Motown’s Berry Gordy, Jason Isaacs is Al Bogart (the record producer’s father), Jason Derulo is Ron Isley of the Isley Brothers, Jay Pharoah is Wbls radio DJ Frankie Crocker, D.L. Hughley is Parliament’s Bootsy Collins,...
Bogart’s Boardwalk Entertainment has fully financed the picture with Jessica Martins’ Hero Entertainment. In a film that will feature some of the most iconic music of the 1970s, Jeremy Jordan plays Bogart and Michelle Monaghan plays his wife, Beth; Samuel L. Jackson plays Parliament leader George Clinton, Kenan Thompson is Motown’s Berry Gordy, Jason Isaacs is Al Bogart (the record producer’s father), Jason Derulo is Ron Isley of the Isley Brothers, Jay Pharoah is Wbls radio DJ Frankie Crocker, D.L. Hughley is Parliament’s Bootsy Collins,...
- 8/1/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Supergirl‘s upcoming fifth season is already Winn-ing. Jeremy Jordan on Thursday revealed that his character, last seen traveling 1,000 years into the future in the CW drama’s Season 3 finale, will return to the fold in Season 5.
“Turns out Winn didn’t go 1000 years into the future, just to season 5!” the actor wrote in an Instagram post. “So happy to come back and play with my friendsssssss!!” According to Et Online, Jordan will appear in three episodes after this season’s big Arrowverse crossover.
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“Turns out Winn didn’t go 1000 years into the future, just to season 5!” the actor wrote in an Instagram post. “So happy to come back and play with my friendsssssss!!” According to Et Online, Jordan will appear in three episodes after this season’s big Arrowverse crossover.
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- 7/18/2019
- TVLine.com
Gary LeMel, a longtime president of music at Warner Bros. Pictures whom the Los Angeles Times once called “the father of the compilation soundtrack album,” died July 6 after a battle with Parkinson’s disease. He was 80.
Film agent Richard Kraft called him “a true giant in the film music industry.” Songwriters Hall of Fame member Steve Dorff described LeMel as “an amazing music man (and) a true friend who made an indelible contribution to my career.” Tom Sturges, a former top exec at Universal Music and other publishing companies, called him “one of the great music execs in the film business, ever. He treated me with the greatest respect at every meeting, took every call and listened to every song and artist I pitched him. Truly one of a kind.”
LeMel’s wife of almost 47 years, Maddy LeMel, a visual artist, told Variety she was staggered by the amount of testimonials coming in.
Film agent Richard Kraft called him “a true giant in the film music industry.” Songwriters Hall of Fame member Steve Dorff described LeMel as “an amazing music man (and) a true friend who made an indelible contribution to my career.” Tom Sturges, a former top exec at Universal Music and other publishing companies, called him “one of the great music execs in the film business, ever. He treated me with the greatest respect at every meeting, took every call and listened to every song and artist I pitched him. Truly one of a kind.”
LeMel’s wife of almost 47 years, Maddy LeMel, a visual artist, told Variety she was staggered by the amount of testimonials coming in.
- 7/12/2019
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: In a Hollywood moment where Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocketman became hits fueled by the music of single acts, what better time to tell the long-gestating movie story of Neil Bogart, complete with the music of the iconic artists who flourished on his Casablanca Records label in the ’70s including Donna Summer, Kiss, Parliament, Village People, The Isley Brothers, Gladys Knight, Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield?
Production will begin July 16 in Montreal on Spinning Gold, a film written and to be directed by Timothy Scott Bogart, son of the late musical idolmaker who died in 1982 of cancer and lymphoma at age 39.
Bogart’s Boardwalk Entertainment has fully financed the picture with Jessica Martins’ Hero Entertainment, and here is the cast: Samuel L. Jackson plays Parliament leader George Clinton (the Godfather of Funk), Kenan Thompson plays Motown’s Berry Gordy, Jason Isaacs plays Al Bogart (the record producer’s father), Jason Derulo...
Production will begin July 16 in Montreal on Spinning Gold, a film written and to be directed by Timothy Scott Bogart, son of the late musical idolmaker who died in 1982 of cancer and lymphoma at age 39.
Bogart’s Boardwalk Entertainment has fully financed the picture with Jessica Martins’ Hero Entertainment, and here is the cast: Samuel L. Jackson plays Parliament leader George Clinton (the Godfather of Funk), Kenan Thompson plays Motown’s Berry Gordy, Jason Isaacs plays Al Bogart (the record producer’s father), Jason Derulo...
- 6/19/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Anyone who worked as hard for her money – and for a professional respect that came too late – as Donna Summer did deserves so much more than this. A jukebox musical that could undo all the genre rehab delivered by superior shows built around Carole King and, if you want to stretch the definition a bit to include Lazarus, David Bowie, Broadway’s Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, opening tonight, is as unimaginative as its title.
With the saving graces of really fine vocal performances from Lachanze, Ariana DeBose and young Storm Lever – each plays the disco great at different points in her life – Summer dutifully pastes the life events of Ladonna Adrian Gaines to the hits she’d perform under the name thought up by pioneering producer Giorgio Moroder. “Summer,” the show’s writers have Moroder saying. “You know, like the season. Hot.”
Directed by Des McAnuff – who set the...
With the saving graces of really fine vocal performances from Lachanze, Ariana DeBose and young Storm Lever – each plays the disco great at different points in her life – Summer dutifully pastes the life events of Ladonna Adrian Gaines to the hits she’d perform under the name thought up by pioneering producer Giorgio Moroder. “Summer,” the show’s writers have Moroder saying. “You know, like the season. Hot.”
Directed by Des McAnuff – who set the...
- 4/24/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Mark Damon’s Los Angeles-based financing, production and sales company heads to the European Film Market in Berlin next month to begin sales on the disaster action thriller that Rob Cohen will direct.
Category 5 follows a meteorologist and a female Treasury agent who try to stop hackers from stealing more than $100m from a Us Mint coastal facility as a ferocious storm is about to make landfall.
Casting is underway for a spring/summer production start. Cohen’s directing credits include xXx and The Fast And The Furious and he has lined up The Adventures Of Marco Polo for Jerry Bruckheimer and Paramount Pictures.
Karen Baldwin, Michael Tadross Jr and Danny Roth are producing. Howard Baldwin, Damon, Bill Immerman and Tamara Birkemoe serve as executive producers.
“Crossing a heist movie set amidst the intense action of a natural disaster was an idea to which I truly responded,” said Cohen. “It’s a chance for me to get...
Category 5 follows a meteorologist and a female Treasury agent who try to stop hackers from stealing more than $100m from a Us Mint coastal facility as a ferocious storm is about to make landfall.
Casting is underway for a spring/summer production start. Cohen’s directing credits include xXx and The Fast And The Furious and he has lined up The Adventures Of Marco Polo for Jerry Bruckheimer and Paramount Pictures.
Karen Baldwin, Michael Tadross Jr and Danny Roth are producing. Howard Baldwin, Damon, Bill Immerman and Tamara Birkemoe serve as executive producers.
“Crossing a heist movie set amidst the intense action of a natural disaster was an idea to which I truly responded,” said Cohen. “It’s a chance for me to get...
- 1/20/2016
- ScreenDaily
By David Savage
Kino Lorber was right to bring out Foxes (1980) in Blu-ray under their Kl Studio Classics series. The elegant re-issue seems aimed at convincing film snobs that this little gem from the last days of disco finally deserves their attention after a distance of 35 years, during which time it was either dismissed as another insignificant teen comedy of the ‘80s, or as a guilty pleasure. But longtime champions of the film, myself included, need no convincing. We owned the clamshell VHS, we owned the first-generation DVD, and now, if anything, I’d venture to say we feel vindicated that it now carries the stamp as a bonafide classic by a home video label as respected as Kino Lorber. Indeed, a major fist-pump moment comes during director Adrian Lyne’s remark in the audio commentary that Roger Ebert selected it as his favorite film of 1980 and took it with...
Kino Lorber was right to bring out Foxes (1980) in Blu-ray under their Kl Studio Classics series. The elegant re-issue seems aimed at convincing film snobs that this little gem from the last days of disco finally deserves their attention after a distance of 35 years, during which time it was either dismissed as another insignificant teen comedy of the ‘80s, or as a guilty pleasure. But longtime champions of the film, myself included, need no convincing. We owned the clamshell VHS, we owned the first-generation DVD, and now, if anything, I’d venture to say we feel vindicated that it now carries the stamp as a bonafide classic by a home video label as respected as Kino Lorber. Indeed, a major fist-pump moment comes during director Adrian Lyne’s remark in the audio commentary that Roger Ebert selected it as his favorite film of 1980 and took it with...
- 2/17/2015
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Hayes in his one man stage show Riding the Midnight Express with Billy Hayes, which is now on tour.
By Mark Cerulli
“Ne Oldu, Ne Oldu, Veelyam Hayes…” That line from Midnight Express, delivered with swaggering menace by a depraved prison warden (played by the great Paul L. Smith) burned itself into this scribe’s cortex back in 1978. Alan Parker’s iconic film about the real-life ordeal of American student Billy Hayes caught smuggling drugs in Turkey and sentenced to a hellish prison became a cultural phenomenon – not to mention an international box office success. It earned glowing reviews and Oscars for screenwriter Oliver Stone and composer Gorgio Moroder. Hayes even met his wife Wendy at the splashy Cannes premiere. No joy for Turkey, though - there was an international outcry about their seemingly draconian justice system and the country’s once-booming tourism hit the skids hard. The gritty association...
By Mark Cerulli
“Ne Oldu, Ne Oldu, Veelyam Hayes…” That line from Midnight Express, delivered with swaggering menace by a depraved prison warden (played by the great Paul L. Smith) burned itself into this scribe’s cortex back in 1978. Alan Parker’s iconic film about the real-life ordeal of American student Billy Hayes caught smuggling drugs in Turkey and sentenced to a hellish prison became a cultural phenomenon – not to mention an international box office success. It earned glowing reviews and Oscars for screenwriter Oliver Stone and composer Gorgio Moroder. Hayes even met his wife Wendy at the splashy Cannes premiere. No joy for Turkey, though - there was an international outcry about their seemingly draconian justice system and the country’s once-booming tourism hit the skids hard. The gritty association...
- 8/28/2014
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Spike Lee has said that the rumoured Inside Man sequel has been shelved.
Inside Man starred Denzel Washington, Clive Owen and Jodie Foster in a story of an elaborate New York City bank heist.
There have been reports that a script for a follow-up film has been commissioned, but Lee set the record straight in a recent chat with Vulture.
"I don't care [what it says] on IMDb. As far as I know, it's on the shelf," Lee clarified.
He added: "That's a question you have to ask the studios, the powers that be: Why hasn't that film had a sequel? They still make sequels."
Lee is currently promoting the English-language version of the South Korean thriller Oldboy, but has said that he would not allow one of his own films to be remade.
"Over my dead body! Here's the thing: [Oldboy director] Park [Chan-wook] was okay with it. I'm not," he declared.
The filmmaker is...
Inside Man starred Denzel Washington, Clive Owen and Jodie Foster in a story of an elaborate New York City bank heist.
There have been reports that a script for a follow-up film has been commissioned, but Lee set the record straight in a recent chat with Vulture.
"I don't care [what it says] on IMDb. As far as I know, it's on the shelf," Lee clarified.
He added: "That's a question you have to ask the studios, the powers that be: Why hasn't that film had a sequel? They still make sequels."
Lee is currently promoting the English-language version of the South Korean thriller Oldboy, but has said that he would not allow one of his own films to be remade.
"Over my dead body! Here's the thing: [Oldboy director] Park [Chan-wook] was okay with it. I'm not," he declared.
The filmmaker is...
- 11/30/2013
- Digital Spy
Foreign buyers showed great interest in the stories of music's superstar personalities; says one analyst, "These projects have a built-in global audience in music fans."This story first appeared in the Nov. 22 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.
Producers at the American Film Market have been raiding their record collections. As serious drama becomes harder to package and sell globally, music biopics are enticing foreign buyers.
A sampling at AFM included Don Cheadle's Kill the Trumpet Player, about legendary jazz maestro Miles Davis, which Im Global is selling; Good Universe's Elton John story Rocketman with Tom Hardy; Foresight's Spinning Gold, with Justin Timberlake as music producer Neil Bogart; Arrow Entertainment's Sexual Healing, starring Jesse L. Martin as Marvin Gaye; John Cusack playing Beach Boy Brian Wilson in Love & Mercy, from sales group Lionsgate; and biopics on Janis Joplin (from Im Global), Keith Moon (Exclusive Media), and Tupac Shakur (Morgan Creek...
Producers at the American Film Market have been raiding their record collections. As serious drama becomes harder to package and sell globally, music biopics are enticing foreign buyers.
A sampling at AFM included Don Cheadle's Kill the Trumpet Player, about legendary jazz maestro Miles Davis, which Im Global is selling; Good Universe's Elton John story Rocketman with Tom Hardy; Foresight's Spinning Gold, with Justin Timberlake as music producer Neil Bogart; Arrow Entertainment's Sexual Healing, starring Jesse L. Martin as Marvin Gaye; John Cusack playing Beach Boy Brian Wilson in Love & Mercy, from sales group Lionsgate; and biopics on Janis Joplin (from Im Global), Keith Moon (Exclusive Media), and Tupac Shakur (Morgan Creek...
- 11/13/2013
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Justin Timberlake has hit out at critics who have called for him to quit acting.
The 'Mirrors' singer spoke about a recent review of his film Runner, Runner in Variety titled 'Why Justin Timberlake Should Stop Acting', and Billboard's negative review of The 20/20 Experience - 2 of 2.
Describing the reviews as a "double whammy," he told GQ: "Where did all this vitriol come from? It's mean. And I'm not cut out for it."
He continued: "The movie didn't do well at the box office, so I should quit? Hold on a second. If I was somebody else, you wouldn't have said that.
"I have the number one album this week, and I shouldn't have released it? Come on, man. You sound like a d**khead.
"It just shocked me because, like, you're trade magazines. None of your opinions count. And by the way, none of you can do it."
Speaking about his hometown in Memphis,...
The 'Mirrors' singer spoke about a recent review of his film Runner, Runner in Variety titled 'Why Justin Timberlake Should Stop Acting', and Billboard's negative review of The 20/20 Experience - 2 of 2.
Describing the reviews as a "double whammy," he told GQ: "Where did all this vitriol come from? It's mean. And I'm not cut out for it."
He continued: "The movie didn't do well at the box office, so I should quit? Hold on a second. If I was somebody else, you wouldn't have said that.
"I have the number one album this week, and I shouldn't have released it? Come on, man. You sound like a d**khead.
"It just shocked me because, like, you're trade magazines. None of your opinions count. And by the way, none of you can do it."
Speaking about his hometown in Memphis,...
- 11/12/2013
- Digital Spy
On the eve of Afm, Foresight Unlimited’s Mark Damon and Timothy Scott Bogart were in marathon negotiations to close a deal for Spike Lee to direct Justin Timberlake in Spinning Gold, a biopic of legendary record executive Neil Bogart. The timing was agonizing for Damon, who wanted Lee in place before the start of the American Film Market. It was a familiar story for sales agents at Afm, who are increasingly frustrated at the difficulty in closing talent deals as the pool of viable stars becomes overfished. The pact with Lee was made official just as Afm got underway Wednesday
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- 11/9/2013
- by Pamela McClintock, Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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