This year’s 79th Annual Golden Globes awards ceremony wasn’t televised or livestreamed, and has never been seen by anyone other than those in attendance for the show on Jan. 9 at the Beverly Hilton. Until now.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has shared with Variety three excerpts from the 2022 ceremony, which opened with HFPA president Helen Hoehne and featured representatives from educational and philanthropic organizations — recepients of grants from the org — as presenters. Despite the lack of any at-home audiences, the show was still produced with the sheen of a full-fledged telecast, as directed by Patricia Lowry and produced by Neil Mandt, Michael Mandt and Matthew Brady.
The Mandt brothers, whose credits include “Jim Rome is Burning” and “Destination Truth,” spoke to the Golden Globes website about the show: “This is certainly a unique year,” Michael Mandt told the org. “We knew the challenges given the timing considering the world’s Covid situation,...
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has shared with Variety three excerpts from the 2022 ceremony, which opened with HFPA president Helen Hoehne and featured representatives from educational and philanthropic organizations — recepients of grants from the org — as presenters. Despite the lack of any at-home audiences, the show was still produced with the sheen of a full-fledged telecast, as directed by Patricia Lowry and produced by Neil Mandt, Michael Mandt and Matthew Brady.
The Mandt brothers, whose credits include “Jim Rome is Burning” and “Destination Truth,” spoke to the Golden Globes website about the show: “This is certainly a unique year,” Michael Mandt told the org. “We knew the challenges given the timing considering the world’s Covid situation,...
- 2/19/2022
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
Updated with more details: Olivia Munn will step into the hosting role for the first-ever Telethon For America, part of Michelle Obama’s non-partisan, non-profit campaign “When We All Vote.” The telethon will stream online on Election Eve…which is tonight!
More stars have been added to the already robust roster of tonight’s comedy-themed event. Pharrell Williams, Sean Hayes, Debra Messing, Charlize Theron, Scott Rogowsky, Ben Bailey, Constance Wu, Natalie Portman, Backstreet Boys, Nikki Glazer, Tom Green, Felipe Esparza, Ashley Benson, Jim Jeffries, Roy Wood Jr, and others will appear on the special which will encourage people to get out the vote in Tuesday’s midterm elections.
The event will stream live on Comedy Central, WatchMojo, Bet Facebook Live, GLAAD YouTube, and Funny or Die from 9-11 Pm Et/6-8 Pm Pt.
Previously: Launched by Michelle Obama’s non-partisan, non-profit...
More stars have been added to the already robust roster of tonight’s comedy-themed event. Pharrell Williams, Sean Hayes, Debra Messing, Charlize Theron, Scott Rogowsky, Ben Bailey, Constance Wu, Natalie Portman, Backstreet Boys, Nikki Glazer, Tom Green, Felipe Esparza, Ashley Benson, Jim Jeffries, Roy Wood Jr, and others will appear on the special which will encourage people to get out the vote in Tuesday’s midterm elections.
The event will stream live on Comedy Central, WatchMojo, Bet Facebook Live, GLAAD YouTube, and Funny or Die from 9-11 Pm Et/6-8 Pm Pt.
Previously: Launched by Michelle Obama’s non-partisan, non-profit...
- 11/5/2018
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Judd Apatow Among Stars Set for ‘Telethon for America’ Get Out the Vote Special
Judd Apatow, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Lilly Singh and Olga Kay are among the notables set to take part in a get-out-the-vote streaming comedy special dubbed “Telethon for America” on Nov. 5, the night before the midterm elections.
The two-hour telecast will stream live on YouTube, Facebook Live and Comedy Central’s website. The goal is to generate “pledges” from younger voters to show up at the polls on Nov. 6. Spearheaded by actor and comedian Ben Gleib, the non-partisan effort is tied to the When We All Vote initiative recently launched by former first lady Michelle Obama.
“The ‘Telethon For America’ flips the traditional telethon on its head. Young Americans are more motivated than ever before and the Telethon For America is working to build on that momentum to make sure an even higher percentage of young people get out and vote,” Gleib said. “We are excited to reach them in a brand new way,...
The two-hour telecast will stream live on YouTube, Facebook Live and Comedy Central’s website. The goal is to generate “pledges” from younger voters to show up at the polls on Nov. 6. Spearheaded by actor and comedian Ben Gleib, the non-partisan effort is tied to the When We All Vote initiative recently launched by former first lady Michelle Obama.
“The ‘Telethon For America’ flips the traditional telethon on its head. Young Americans are more motivated than ever before and the Telethon For America is working to build on that momentum to make sure an even higher percentage of young people get out and vote,” Gleib said. “We are excited to reach them in a brand new way,...
- 10/31/2018
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
Walt Disney Studios announces the world premiere of “Million Dollar Arm” on Tuesday, May 6 at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood. Stars from the film will attend, including Jon Hamm, Aasif Mandvi, Bill Paxton, Alan Arkin, Suraj Sharma, Madhur Mittal, Lake Bell, Pitobash and Bar Paly, as will Director Craig Gillespie, Producers Mark Ciardi, Gordon Gray and Joe Roth and Executive Producers Palak Patel, Kevin Halloran, Bill Simmons and Connor Schell.
Also scheduled to attend and walk the “green carpet” are acclaimed athletes Barry Sanders, Dave Winfield, Steve Garvey, Rollie Fingers, David Wells, Don Newcombe, Clyde Wright, Barry Sanders, Ken Landreaux, Kenny Lofton and Eric Davis, among others.
The finalists competing in the Million Dollar Arm Pitching Contest will have the chance to throw three pitches on Hollywood Boulevard prior to the premiere screening and possibly walk away with the $1 million grand prize. The contest, a competition for amateur baseball...
Also scheduled to attend and walk the “green carpet” are acclaimed athletes Barry Sanders, Dave Winfield, Steve Garvey, Rollie Fingers, David Wells, Don Newcombe, Clyde Wright, Barry Sanders, Ken Landreaux, Kenny Lofton and Eric Davis, among others.
The finalists competing in the Million Dollar Arm Pitching Contest will have the chance to throw three pitches on Hollywood Boulevard prior to the premiere screening and possibly walk away with the $1 million grand prize. The contest, a competition for amateur baseball...
- 5/5/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Creators: Michael Mandt, Neil Mandt. Cast: Josh Gates, Gabriel Copeland and Mike Morrell. After four seasons of looking for cryptids and spooks in the series "Destination Truth," Josh Gates sometimes comes close to making a revelation that will amuse his fans. While such paranormal-reality programs hardly ever find definitive proof positive of what lurks deep in the jungles, or late at night in some mystic ruin, the amusement viewers get from this program — especially from this lead’s antics — is what keeps this particular series going. Nearly everyone knows that the episodes are made to tease and tantalize. Gates knows how to work the crowd. Now that this series is in its fifth season, this cadre of adventure seekers has some new legends from all over the world to pursue. Quite often, the evidence Gate's team finds are of the arboreal and nocturnal persuasion rather than anything else. In the...
- 7/25/2012
- by noreply@blogger.com (Ed Sum)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
When I was growing up in the UK I had a love-hate relationship with Monty Python alumnus Michael Palin. Anyone who has seen his travel shows (Around the World in Eighty Days, Pole to Pole, Full Circle and later series) will know what a great presenter he is. I watched Palin’s adventures avidly when they first aired and was jealous of him for having the good fortune to see so many great places and get paid for doing it.
Twenty years later I have a new target for my jealous streak: Josh Gates. Gates presents Syfy's mystery investigation show Destination Truth. In the series Gates and his team investigate some fascinating and enduring myths and legends that have cultural significance in some pretty cool places across the globe. Gates' team goes to sites on almost every continent and experiences exotic food, good beer and vehicles that are one pothole...
Twenty years later I have a new target for my jealous streak: Josh Gates. Gates presents Syfy's mystery investigation show Destination Truth. In the series Gates and his team investigate some fascinating and enduring myths and legends that have cultural significance in some pretty cool places across the globe. Gates' team goes to sites on almost every continent and experiences exotic food, good beer and vehicles that are one pothole...
- 3/31/2010
- CinemaSpy
Two 20-something cubicle mates at a Los Angeles bathroom-supply company (one boasts of having sold 18 million toilet seat covers in a year) take a round-the-world tour to scatter the ashes of friend Paul, who died before he could take a trip himself.
They have enough money for the air fare but not enough for hotels, so they pretend to be writers for Frommer's travel guides and scam free rooms at fancy hotels.
The low-budget, improvised vanity project "Last Stop for Paul" follows Charlie (the film's writer-director, Neil Mandt) and Cliff (the cinematographer, Marc Carter) as they stop off in Jamaica,...
They have enough money for the air fare but not enough for hotels, so they pretend to be writers for Frommer's travel guides and scam free rooms at fancy hotels.
The low-budget, improvised vanity project "Last Stop for Paul" follows Charlie (the film's writer-director, Neil Mandt) and Cliff (the cinematographer, Marc Carter) as they stop off in Jamaica,...
- 8/8/2008
- by By V.A. MUSETTO
- NYPost.com
By Neil Pedley
This week's delectable delights include, amongst other things, such highbrow morsels as a gallery retrospective on D.I.Y. art and a crash course in the history of the California vineyards. If that's not your cup of proverbial tea, there's always psychotic bikers and the ballad of two stoned losers on the run from gangsters and the police.
"Beautiful Losers"
More than 15 years after founding the hugely influential Alleged Gallery in New York, the freelance curator Aaron Rose continues to serve as a cornerstone of the now-global D.I.Y. art scene. Here he teams with "Blair Witch" actor-turned-director Joshua Leonard to chart the evolution and subsequent commercialization of a movement whose genesis was found in a group of outcasts, slackers and misfits from the fringes of subculture. Emerging from the dirty little worlds of surfing, skateboarding and street graffiti, a group of artists including the likes of Harmony Korine,...
This week's delectable delights include, amongst other things, such highbrow morsels as a gallery retrospective on D.I.Y. art and a crash course in the history of the California vineyards. If that's not your cup of proverbial tea, there's always psychotic bikers and the ballad of two stoned losers on the run from gangsters and the police.
"Beautiful Losers"
More than 15 years after founding the hugely influential Alleged Gallery in New York, the freelance curator Aaron Rose continues to serve as a cornerstone of the now-global D.I.Y. art scene. Here he teams with "Blair Witch" actor-turned-director Joshua Leonard to chart the evolution and subsequent commercialization of a movement whose genesis was found in a group of outcasts, slackers and misfits from the fringes of subculture. Emerging from the dirty little worlds of surfing, skateboarding and street graffiti, a group of artists including the likes of Harmony Korine,...
- 8/4/2008
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
Mandt Bros. Prods.
Making the trek from Internet series to theatrical proposition, Last Stop for Paul takes the form of an ambitious travelogue about two office buddies who go on a whirlwind tour of the world, encountering the sort of colorful characters and unexpected obstacles that go with the territory.
By also serving as the production's primary cast and entire crew, director Neil Mandt and his cameraman Marc Carter certainly keep things cost effective, but the extended film version -- which opens in two Southern California theaters this weekend followed by a national rollout -- also serves as a handy example of getting what you pay for.
Even with new-media hybrids, there's no substitute for such old-school basics as a solid script, convincing performances and the unifying vision of a strong director.
Here we have TV producer Mandt (Jim Rome Is Burning) and Carter playing a pair of average Joe bathroom supply salesmen in Los Angeles who take a one-month globetrotting vacation accompanied by the ashes of Carter's recently deceased buddy.
Their destination is the wild Full Moon Party in Thailand by way of Jamaica, Chile, Germany, Greece, Tokyo and Vietnam, with accommodations along the way provided by the hotels believing them to be "Frommer's Guide" writers.
The trip has its inevitable share of misadventures, including a costly visit to the Vietnamese equivalent of the Playboy Club, where the guys get hit with an exorbitant second bar tab for the privilege of chatting with their pretty hosts.
There's definitely a workable, reality TV-based angle at the core of Last Stop -- something along the lines of No Reservations but with scattered human remains instead of Anthony Bourdain.
Carter captures plenty of seductive scenery, but thanks to stilted line readings (and not just by those for whom English is a second or third language), clunky dramatic re-enactments and bland narration, those backgrounds ultimately prove more intriguing than the foreground.
Making the trek from Internet series to theatrical proposition, Last Stop for Paul takes the form of an ambitious travelogue about two office buddies who go on a whirlwind tour of the world, encountering the sort of colorful characters and unexpected obstacles that go with the territory.
By also serving as the production's primary cast and entire crew, director Neil Mandt and his cameraman Marc Carter certainly keep things cost effective, but the extended film version -- which opens in two Southern California theaters this weekend followed by a national rollout -- also serves as a handy example of getting what you pay for.
Even with new-media hybrids, there's no substitute for such old-school basics as a solid script, convincing performances and the unifying vision of a strong director.
Here we have TV producer Mandt (Jim Rome Is Burning) and Carter playing a pair of average Joe bathroom supply salesmen in Los Angeles who take a one-month globetrotting vacation accompanied by the ashes of Carter's recently deceased buddy.
Their destination is the wild Full Moon Party in Thailand by way of Jamaica, Chile, Germany, Greece, Tokyo and Vietnam, with accommodations along the way provided by the hotels believing them to be "Frommer's Guide" writers.
The trip has its inevitable share of misadventures, including a costly visit to the Vietnamese equivalent of the Playboy Club, where the guys get hit with an exorbitant second bar tab for the privilege of chatting with their pretty hosts.
There's definitely a workable, reality TV-based angle at the core of Last Stop -- something along the lines of No Reservations but with scattered human remains instead of Anthony Bourdain.
Carter captures plenty of seductive scenery, but thanks to stilted line readings (and not just by those for whom English is a second or third language), clunky dramatic re-enactments and bland narration, those backgrounds ultimately prove more intriguing than the foreground.
- 3/10/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Overall a mild amusement but not so well-crafted that it will achieve the cult status its makers long for, "Hijacking Hollywood" is a $150,000 satire of moviemaking co-starring, produced, directed and co-written by Neil Mandt, an Emmy-winning videomaker and veteran of TV news.
Starring Henry Thomas ("Legends of the Fall") as a showbiz-family runt from Detroit who starts at the bottom when he arrives in town, Mandt's self-released "Hijacking" surfaced briefly last month and returns Friday for a run at the UA Warner Center in Woodland Hills.
While many of the jokes are only slight exaggerations of the madness surrounding a big-budget project, and the details of a lowly production assistant's job provide comic possibilities, uneven performances and Mandt's lackluster direction undermine this good-natured lark shot in 16 days.
Kevin (Thomas), the nephew of a big producer's ex-wife, is thrown into the fray surrounding the making of "Moby Dick 2", a megaproduction that features a ludicrous premise ("Ahab survived") and expensive in-camera special effects. Yelled at by the mogul (Mark Metcalf) reluctantly meeting a family obligation and by the video game-playing production coordinator (Scott Thompson), Kevin makes all the usual mistakes the first day on the job.
Rooming with a slick college dropout (Mandt) who is barely navigating the backwaters of filmdom, Kevin is unwittingly seduced by the producer's wife (Nicole Gian), a tryst he takes little pleasure in. That makes him fear his career is over before he's had a chance to pitch his pet project, a socially responsible drama titled "Three Days in a Salt Mine".
Although he appears to be developing into a rebel with a desperate plan, it takes Mandt's schemer to push Kevin into swiping dailies of an $18 million effects sequence shot in Hawaii and holding the footage ransom for a relatively nominal fee. Other escapades include a lame late-night adventure with the producer's cracked wife, mother, brother and dead pet dog that is hardly the zany interlude intended.
While Mandt and Thompson ("The Larry Sanders Show") do well, Thomas and Metcalf ("The Stupids") are disappointing. The former flounders badly in finding the right combination of a wide-eyed bumbler with charisma to contemplate such a risky scam, and the latter is suitably bombastic but otherwise unconvincing.
Mandt is to be applauded for pulling off such an ambitious ruse on a budget equivalent to "Moby Dick 2"'s weekly Fed Ex bills, but in subsequent endeavors, he might consider moving the camera and taking more care in the casting process.
HIJACKING HOLLYWOOD
Broken Twig Prods.
Producer-director Neil Mandt
Screenwriters Neil Mandt, Jim Rossow
Executive producer Ann Mandt
Director of photography Anton Floquet
Production designer Todd Cherniawsky
Editor Charlie Webber
Music Erik Lundmark
Color/stereo
Cast:
Kevin Henry Thomas
Russell Scott Thompson
Michael Mark Metcalf
Tad Neil Mandt
Sarah Nicole Gian
Running time -- 93 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Starring Henry Thomas ("Legends of the Fall") as a showbiz-family runt from Detroit who starts at the bottom when he arrives in town, Mandt's self-released "Hijacking" surfaced briefly last month and returns Friday for a run at the UA Warner Center in Woodland Hills.
While many of the jokes are only slight exaggerations of the madness surrounding a big-budget project, and the details of a lowly production assistant's job provide comic possibilities, uneven performances and Mandt's lackluster direction undermine this good-natured lark shot in 16 days.
Kevin (Thomas), the nephew of a big producer's ex-wife, is thrown into the fray surrounding the making of "Moby Dick 2", a megaproduction that features a ludicrous premise ("Ahab survived") and expensive in-camera special effects. Yelled at by the mogul (Mark Metcalf) reluctantly meeting a family obligation and by the video game-playing production coordinator (Scott Thompson), Kevin makes all the usual mistakes the first day on the job.
Rooming with a slick college dropout (Mandt) who is barely navigating the backwaters of filmdom, Kevin is unwittingly seduced by the producer's wife (Nicole Gian), a tryst he takes little pleasure in. That makes him fear his career is over before he's had a chance to pitch his pet project, a socially responsible drama titled "Three Days in a Salt Mine".
Although he appears to be developing into a rebel with a desperate plan, it takes Mandt's schemer to push Kevin into swiping dailies of an $18 million effects sequence shot in Hawaii and holding the footage ransom for a relatively nominal fee. Other escapades include a lame late-night adventure with the producer's cracked wife, mother, brother and dead pet dog that is hardly the zany interlude intended.
While Mandt and Thompson ("The Larry Sanders Show") do well, Thomas and Metcalf ("The Stupids") are disappointing. The former flounders badly in finding the right combination of a wide-eyed bumbler with charisma to contemplate such a risky scam, and the latter is suitably bombastic but otherwise unconvincing.
Mandt is to be applauded for pulling off such an ambitious ruse on a budget equivalent to "Moby Dick 2"'s weekly Fed Ex bills, but in subsequent endeavors, he might consider moving the camera and taking more care in the casting process.
HIJACKING HOLLYWOOD
Broken Twig Prods.
Producer-director Neil Mandt
Screenwriters Neil Mandt, Jim Rossow
Executive producer Ann Mandt
Director of photography Anton Floquet
Production designer Todd Cherniawsky
Editor Charlie Webber
Music Erik Lundmark
Color/stereo
Cast:
Kevin Henry Thomas
Russell Scott Thompson
Michael Mark Metcalf
Tad Neil Mandt
Sarah Nicole Gian
Running time -- 93 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 7/17/1997
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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