Happy Valley and Top Boy shared the BAFTA love on Sunday night at the British Academy’s prestigious Television Awards in London’s Royal Festival Hall.
Sarah Lancashire took home the top prize for her performance in Sally Wainwright’s Yorkshire-based police thriller, and fellow Briton Timothy Spall beat Succession‘s Brian Cox to win the equivalent award, best leading actor, for The Sixth Commandment – which also won two BAFTAs.
Jasmine Jobson claimed the best supporting actress prize for her role in drug-gang drama Top Boy, which also went on to win best drama. Matthew Macfadyen was the only winner for Jesse Armstrong’s hugely popular black satirical comedy, winning the award for best supporting actor in Succession. Sitcom Such Brave Girls claimed best scripted comedy.
Notably, The Crown and Black Mirror missed out despite leading the nominations ahead of the awards show with eight and seven, respectively, and in...
Sarah Lancashire took home the top prize for her performance in Sally Wainwright’s Yorkshire-based police thriller, and fellow Briton Timothy Spall beat Succession‘s Brian Cox to win the equivalent award, best leading actor, for The Sixth Commandment – which also won two BAFTAs.
Jasmine Jobson claimed the best supporting actress prize for her role in drug-gang drama Top Boy, which also went on to win best drama. Matthew Macfadyen was the only winner for Jesse Armstrong’s hugely popular black satirical comedy, winning the award for best supporting actor in Succession. Sitcom Such Brave Girls claimed best scripted comedy.
Notably, The Crown and Black Mirror missed out despite leading the nominations ahead of the awards show with eight and seven, respectively, and in...
- 5/12/2024
- by Lily Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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- 2/2/2024
- by Oscar Hartzog
- Rollingstone.com
Cher will appear at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade for the first time in her six-decade career. The muti-hyphenate is scheduled to perform a song from her holiday album Christmas. When is the ageless entertainer expected to sing during the traditional parade of stars, musicians, Broadway performers, and iconic balloons? Here are all the details.
When can Cher fans see her performance?
Cher is set to close out the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. She takes the place of honor just before the event’s biggest star, Santa Claus.
The multi-hyphenate will sing a song off of Christmas. This release is her first-holiday album in a six-decade career in the music industry.
Cher’s addition to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade comes on the heels of two releases for the star: Believe’s forthcoming 25th-anniversary re-release, which took place on November 3, and her first-ever Christmas album, Christmas, released...
When can Cher fans see her performance?
Cher is set to close out the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. She takes the place of honor just before the event’s biggest star, Santa Claus.
The multi-hyphenate will sing a song off of Christmas. This release is her first-holiday album in a six-decade career in the music industry.
Cher’s addition to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade comes on the heels of two releases for the star: Believe’s forthcoming 25th-anniversary re-release, which took place on November 3, and her first-ever Christmas album, Christmas, released...
- 11/23/2023
- by Lucille Barilla
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Put on your hats and gloves and get ready to join the throngs on the streets of New York for the 2023 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Airing on both NBC and CBS beginning at 8:30 a.m. Et on Thursday, Nov. 23, the annual tradition filled with balloons, bands, Broadway, and more has been supersized this year kicking off 30 minutes earlier than normal. This year’s parade will have dozens of stars and performances, and — of course — it all leads up to the appearance of Santa Claus to get the Christmas season officially underway! You can watch NBC and CBS with a 5-Day Free Trial of Directv Stream. You can also watch with Paramount Plus, Hulu Live TV, Fubo, Peacock, or YouTube TV.
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- 11/23/2023
- by Matt Tamanini
- The Streamable
The 2023 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is here!
The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will begin at 8:30 a.m. Et on Thursday (November 23), a half an hour earlier than the event usually begins, to fit in performances from so many stars.
Each year, thousands of people gather in person and across the country to watch the annual celebration, featuring dozens of musical performances atop bright floats and massive balloons of our favorite pop culture characters.
The parade airs on NBC from 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. in all time zones.
Keep reading to see who is performing…
And yes, there’s a reason why everyone is lip syncing and we have the answer.
Cher
Jon Batiste
Enhypen
Brandy
Bell Biv DeVoe
Pentatonix
Chicago
En Vogue
David Foster and Katharine McPhee
Drew Holcomb and The Neighbors
Ashley Park with the Muppets of Sesame Street
Jesse James Decker
Paul Russell...
The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will begin at 8:30 a.m. Et on Thursday (November 23), a half an hour earlier than the event usually begins, to fit in performances from so many stars.
Each year, thousands of people gather in person and across the country to watch the annual celebration, featuring dozens of musical performances atop bright floats and massive balloons of our favorite pop culture characters.
The parade airs on NBC from 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. in all time zones.
Keep reading to see who is performing…
And yes, there’s a reason why everyone is lip syncing and we have the answer.
Cher
Jon Batiste
Enhypen
Brandy
Bell Biv DeVoe
Pentatonix
Chicago
En Vogue
David Foster and Katharine McPhee
Drew Holcomb and The Neighbors
Ashley Park with the Muppets of Sesame Street
Jesse James Decker
Paul Russell...
- 11/23/2023
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
A beloved holiday tradition returns to the streets of New York City this Thanksgiving – and unofficially kicks off the holiday season. The 97th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade takes place on Thursday, Nov. 23 and we have all the details about what time the fun begins, how to watch on NBC and Peacock, and who will be performing.
What time is the 2023 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade? Stuart The Minion balloon during the 2022 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade | Noam Galai/Getty Images
The 2023 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade begins at 8:30 a.m. Et with a performance by Grammy-winner Jon Batiste. That’s 30 minutes earlier than it’s begun in past years. The parade ends at 12 p.m. Et.
The 2½-mile Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade route begins on the Upper West Side and continues south on Central Park West to Midtown. It turns onto Central Park South and then heads...
What time is the 2023 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade? Stuart The Minion balloon during the 2022 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade | Noam Galai/Getty Images
The 2023 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade begins at 8:30 a.m. Et with a performance by Grammy-winner Jon Batiste. That’s 30 minutes earlier than it’s begun in past years. The parade ends at 12 p.m. Et.
The 2½-mile Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade route begins on the Upper West Side and continues south on Central Park West to Midtown. It turns onto Central Park South and then heads...
- 11/19/2023
- by Megan Elliott
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
After three hours of cartoon balloons, dancers, and high school marching bands, Cher will close out the 97th annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on Nov. 23. Her appearance is scheduled for the end of the show, around the time of Santa’s arrival in his sleigh as the official shift into Christmas-mode begins.
Led by Jon Batiste, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will begin at 8:30 a.m. Et this year. It’s half an hour earlier than the event usually begins, but it helps to fit in all of the appearances from Enhypen,...
Led by Jon Batiste, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will begin at 8:30 a.m. Et this year. It’s half an hour earlier than the event usually begins, but it helps to fit in all of the appearances from Enhypen,...
- 11/1/2023
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
“I’ve been doing this a long time where, look, I don’t want to do that forever,” Scott Van Pelt said in June of his perch at SportsCenter. “At some point you just gotta step aside and let somebody else have it.”
Well, now we know what that next step might look like for Van Pelt.
The longtime ESPN anchor will become the new host of Monday Night Countdown, the network’s popular NFL pregame show. He replaces Suzy Kolber, who had hosted the program since 2015 but was let go last month in a wave of layoffs.
Pundits are speculating that the move puts Van Pelt in line to host the Super Bowl when and if the network and corporate cousin ABC land it.
Per ESPN, Van Pelt will keep his day – er – night job.
“Following each Monday Night Football game, Van Pelt will host the Mnf postgame show...
Well, now we know what that next step might look like for Van Pelt.
The longtime ESPN anchor will become the new host of Monday Night Countdown, the network’s popular NFL pregame show. He replaces Suzy Kolber, who had hosted the program since 2015 but was let go last month in a wave of layoffs.
Pundits are speculating that the move puts Van Pelt in line to host the Super Bowl when and if the network and corporate cousin ABC land it.
Per ESPN, Van Pelt will keep his day – er – night job.
“Following each Monday Night Football game, Van Pelt will host the Mnf postgame show...
- 8/21/2023
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The BBC has greenlit a comedy-drama about a Canadian tetraplegic moving to London from Stath Lets Flats producer Roughcut TV in association with Village Roadshow Television.
In the Catastrophe-esque We Might Regret This, Freya, played by the show’s co-writer Kyla Harris, moves to the English capital to live with Abe (Killing Eve and Smack the Pony’s Darren Boyd). Abe thinks he’s an old dog that can learn new tricks but Freya requires constant PAs who are always present and, after failing to find the right person for this intimate role, invites chaotic and impulsive best friend Jo (Elena Saurel) to take the job.
The show is inspired by the lives of Harris and co-writer Lee Getty, who said it will be about the “messiest and most joyous lived experiences of friendship, love and disability.”
We Might Regret This was initially reported to be in development as a Channel 4 pilot.
In the Catastrophe-esque We Might Regret This, Freya, played by the show’s co-writer Kyla Harris, moves to the English capital to live with Abe (Killing Eve and Smack the Pony’s Darren Boyd). Abe thinks he’s an old dog that can learn new tricks but Freya requires constant PAs who are always present and, after failing to find the right person for this intimate role, invites chaotic and impulsive best friend Jo (Elena Saurel) to take the job.
The show is inspired by the lives of Harris and co-writer Lee Getty, who said it will be about the “messiest and most joyous lived experiences of friendship, love and disability.”
We Might Regret This was initially reported to be in development as a Channel 4 pilot.
- 6/22/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
With so many of its students’ lives hanging in the balance, you’d think the Salvatore School wouldn’t have the time for recreational sports. But you’d be wrong.
While Alaric directs his attention towards the unfolding Hope-Landon crisis in Legacies‘ Jan. 21 season premiere (The CW, 9/8c), Mg leads his fellow Stallions in their first-ever field day, of which TVLine has an exclusive first look. (Click here for more photos.)
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While Alaric directs his attention towards the unfolding Hope-Landon crisis in Legacies‘ Jan. 21 season premiere (The CW, 9/8c), Mg leads his fellow Stallions in their first-ever field day, of which TVLine has an exclusive first look. (Click here for more photos.)
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As you may recall...
- 12/18/2020
- by Andy Swift
- TVLine.com
Alex Smith is gonna make you a Lot of money this weekend -- if you put your cash on the Redskins to beat up the Colts ... so says Cousin Sal. Sal's now a pro gambling adviser on FS1's new show, "Lock It In" -- so, with the NFL entering Week 2, we asked for a freebie. And, why's he so confident Washington will cover the 6-point spread over Indy? Two words -- Alex. Smith. "Alex...
- 9/14/2018
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Washington Redskins rookie Rb Derrius Guice says he wouldn't be opposed to Donald Trump attending his games and says visiting the White House would be the "chance of a lifetime." The former Lsu star touched down at Lax for an Nflpa Rookie Premiere event ... rockin' his brand new Young Money diamond chain, given to him by Lil Wayne (he's signed to Weezy's agency). But since Guice will be playing in D.C., we asked if...
- 5/17/2018
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
For Matt Bomer and Josh Wiggins, who star together in Walking Out, there's something about nature that forges human connections.
The film, which had its debut at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, follows an estranged father (Bomer) and son (Wiggins), who are forced to rely on one another to survive an unforgiving wilderness in Montana. The movie, which is directed by Alex Smith and Andrew J. Smith, also features Bill Pullman.
"I grew up in a home that embraced outdoorsmanship as a form of male bonding, so that type of language and shared space was something that I understood from...
The film, which had its debut at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, follows an estranged father (Bomer) and son (Wiggins), who are forced to rely on one another to survive an unforgiving wilderness in Montana. The movie, which is directed by Alex Smith and Andrew J. Smith, also features Bill Pullman.
"I grew up in a home that embraced outdoorsmanship as a form of male bonding, so that type of language and shared space was something that I understood from...
- 10/13/2017
- by Lauren Huff
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
If one wants to experience the best independent cinema the year has to offer this summer, one of your best bets is the well-curated line-up at Brooklyn’s BAMcinémaFest. They’ve now unveiled this year’s slate for the festival running from June 14-25, including some of of my favorite films of the year thus far (A Ghost Story, Golden Exits, Columbus, Marjorie Prime, and Landline) as well as highly-anticipated others (the SXSW hit Gemini and Stephen Cone‘s Princess Cyd come to mind).
“I’m incredibly proud of the program our team has put together,” says Gina Duncan, Associate Vice President, Cinema. “From the endearing comedy The Big Sick to the micro-budget Princess Cyd and Lemon, the audacious first feature from Janicza Bravo, the line-up truly reflects the breadth of American independent cinema today. Other highlights include the world premiere of Jim McKay’s, En el Séptimo Día an...
“I’m incredibly proud of the program our team has put together,” says Gina Duncan, Associate Vice President, Cinema. “From the endearing comedy The Big Sick to the micro-budget Princess Cyd and Lemon, the audacious first feature from Janicza Bravo, the line-up truly reflects the breadth of American independent cinema today. Other highlights include the world premiere of Jim McKay’s, En el Séptimo Día an...
- 5/4/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Over the last seven years, The San Francisco Film Society (now known simply at Sffilm) has become one the largest nonprofit supporters of independent and documentary film having doled out over $800,000 to individual films in 2016. With targeted and flexible filmmaking grants the SFFilm Maker program has been able to give individual films a significant financial boost when they need it most – ranging from before the script is written all the way to the sound mix.
Read More: San Francisco’s Master Plan to Keep Film Relevant In the 21st Century — Sf International Film Festival
Having played a critical role in successful films like “Short Term 12,” “Beasts of the Southern Wild” and “Fruitvale Station” getting made, Sffs’s support has also come to signal to the rest of the film world that a project is worth tracking.
However, the film society’s mission goes beyond being a key cog in...
Read More: San Francisco’s Master Plan to Keep Film Relevant In the 21st Century — Sf International Film Festival
Having played a critical role in successful films like “Short Term 12,” “Beasts of the Southern Wild” and “Fruitvale Station” getting made, Sffs’s support has also come to signal to the rest of the film world that a project is worth tracking.
However, the film society’s mission goes beyond being a key cog in...
- 4/6/2017
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
John Legend, Jeremy Renner and Holly Hunter among the stars shot by photographer Jana Cruder at TheWrap’s studio presented by Kia. Director Alexandre Moors and actors Tye Sheridan and Jack Huston, “The Yellow Birds” Photographed by Jana Cruder for TheWrap. Actors Aldis Hodge, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Anthony Hemingway, John Legend and Misha Green, “Underground” Photographed by Jana Cruder for TheWrap. Actors Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen, “Wind River” Photographed by Jana Cruder for TheWrap Actors Morgan Saylor, Margaret Qualley, Dianna Agron, Maggie Betts, “Novitiate” Photographed by Jana Cruder for TheWrap. Actor Matt Bomer, director Alex Smith, actor Bill Pullman, director...
- 1/22/2017
- by Photographer by Jana Cruder for TheWrap
- The Wrap
Filmmakers around the world harbor the same fantasy: I’m going to make a film so good that it will play the Sundance Film Festival, score rave reviews, sell in an overnight bidding war for a multi-million-dollar minimum guarantee to a major theatrical buyer, open in packed theaters around the country, and launch my career.
Right.
Truth is, this hardly ever happens. We checked in with a group of lauded Sundance filmmakers, all who are returning to the festival this year with new films, to glean what they learned the hard way from their Sundance experiences.
1. Manage expectations.
Alex Ross Perry (“Golden Exits”): My first time was with “Listen Up Philip” [2014], which was a huge step forward from my last movie, “The Color Wheel,” which I made for $25,000 with all my friends. This was a sizable, produced movie with a cast of well-known people [Jason Schwartzman, Elizabeth Moss, Jonathan Pryce]. The first days was all...
Right.
Truth is, this hardly ever happens. We checked in with a group of lauded Sundance filmmakers, all who are returning to the festival this year with new films, to glean what they learned the hard way from their Sundance experiences.
1. Manage expectations.
Alex Ross Perry (“Golden Exits”): My first time was with “Listen Up Philip” [2014], which was a huge step forward from my last movie, “The Color Wheel,” which I made for $25,000 with all my friends. This was a sizable, produced movie with a cast of well-known people [Jason Schwartzman, Elizabeth Moss, Jonathan Pryce]. The first days was all...
- 1/19/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Filmmakers around the world harbor the same fantasy: I’m going to make a film so good that it will play the Sundance Film Festival, score rave reviews, sell in an overnight bidding war for a multi-million-dollar minimum guarantee to a major theatrical buyer, open in packed theaters around the country, and launch my career.
Right.
Truth is, this hardly ever happens. We checked in with a group of lauded Sundance filmmakers, all who are returning to the festival this year with new films, to glean what they learned the hard way from their Sundance experiences.
1. Manage expectations.
Alex Ross Perry (“Golden Exits”): My first time was with “Listen Up Philip” [2014], which was a huge step forward from my last movie, “The Color Wheel,” which I made for $25,000 with all my friends. This was a sizable, produced movie with a cast of well-known people [Jason Schwartzman, Elizabeth Moss, Jonathan Pryce]. The first days was all...
Right.
Truth is, this hardly ever happens. We checked in with a group of lauded Sundance filmmakers, all who are returning to the festival this year with new films, to glean what they learned the hard way from their Sundance experiences.
1. Manage expectations.
Alex Ross Perry (“Golden Exits”): My first time was with “Listen Up Philip” [2014], which was a huge step forward from my last movie, “The Color Wheel,” which I made for $25,000 with all my friends. This was a sizable, produced movie with a cast of well-known people [Jason Schwartzman, Elizabeth Moss, Jonathan Pryce]. The first days was all...
- 1/19/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Keep up with the glitzy awards world with our weekly Awards Roundup column.
– Director Juan Antonio Bayona’s “A Monster Calls” will enter Spain’s annual Goya Awards on February 4, 2017 with more nominations than any other film. The fantasy-drama is nominated in 12 of the 28 categories, beating out Alberto Rodriguez’s “Smoke and Mirrors” and Raul Arevalo’s “The Fury of a Patient Man,” each of which received 11 nominations. Both films will compete with “A Monster Calls” in the best film category, as will Pedro Almodovar’s “Julieta.”
Read More: Awards Roundup: Megan Ellison to Receive PGA Visionary Award, Guillermo del Toro Honored and More
“A Monster Calls” is “a visually spectacular drama based on the award-winning children’s fantasy novel. 12-year-old Conor (Lewis MacDougall) attempts to deal with his mother’s (Felicity Jones) illness and the bullying of his classmates by escaping into a fantastical world of monsters and fairy tales that explore courage,...
– Director Juan Antonio Bayona’s “A Monster Calls” will enter Spain’s annual Goya Awards on February 4, 2017 with more nominations than any other film. The fantasy-drama is nominated in 12 of the 28 categories, beating out Alberto Rodriguez’s “Smoke and Mirrors” and Raul Arevalo’s “The Fury of a Patient Man,” each of which received 11 nominations. Both films will compete with “A Monster Calls” in the best film category, as will Pedro Almodovar’s “Julieta.”
Read More: Awards Roundup: Megan Ellison to Receive PGA Visionary Award, Guillermo del Toro Honored and More
“A Monster Calls” is “a visually spectacular drama based on the award-winning children’s fantasy novel. 12-year-old Conor (Lewis MacDougall) attempts to deal with his mother’s (Felicity Jones) illness and the bullying of his classmates by escaping into a fantastical world of monsters and fairy tales that explore courage,...
- 12/16/2016
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Entering its 33rd year, Sundance Film Festival has unveiled its official competition and Next line-ups for the 2017 edition of the festival. At first glance, initial highlights include Alex Ross Perry’s Queen of Earth follow-up Golden Exits and two David Lowery projects (his small-budget A Ghost Story starring Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara as well as The Yellow Birds, which he co-wrote).
There’s also Beach Rats, the latest film from It Felt Like Love director Eliza Hittman, Obvious Child director Gillian Robespierre‘s Landline, and Blue Ruin and Green Room star Macon Blair‘s directorial debut I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore.
Check out the line-up below and images as they become available.
U.S. Dramatic Competition
The 16 films in this section are all world premieres.
“Band Aid” (Director and screenwriter: Zoe Lister-Jones) — A couple who can’t stop fighting embark on a last-ditch effort...
There’s also Beach Rats, the latest film from It Felt Like Love director Eliza Hittman, Obvious Child director Gillian Robespierre‘s Landline, and Blue Ruin and Green Room star Macon Blair‘s directorial debut I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore.
Check out the line-up below and images as they become available.
U.S. Dramatic Competition
The 16 films in this section are all world premieres.
“Band Aid” (Director and screenwriter: Zoe Lister-Jones) — A couple who can’t stop fighting embark on a last-ditch effort...
- 11/30/2016
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Every year since 2009, the San Francisco Film Society (Sffs) selects multiple film projects to receive the biannual Sffs/Krf Filmmaking Grant that helps fund some of the best up-and-coming narrative features that support the Bay Area filmmaking industry.
The grant is presented in tangent with the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, and is the largest granting body for independent narrative feature films in the U.S. The winners of the grant will be announced in November, with one or more of the fifteen projects eligible to receive upwards of $250,000 for assistance in post-production, screenwriting, or packing.
The fall 2016 finalists are as follows:
Read More: San Francisco Film Society Announces Winners of 2016 Documentary Film Fund
“Buoyancy” – Rodd Rathjen, writer/director:
Chakra, a Cambodian teenager, leaves his family to seek a better life in Thailand, but is soon sold onto a Thai fishing trawler and enslaved at sea indefinitely, working 22 hours a day with little food.
The grant is presented in tangent with the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, and is the largest granting body for independent narrative feature films in the U.S. The winners of the grant will be announced in November, with one or more of the fifteen projects eligible to receive upwards of $250,000 for assistance in post-production, screenwriting, or packing.
The fall 2016 finalists are as follows:
Read More: San Francisco Film Society Announces Winners of 2016 Documentary Film Fund
“Buoyancy” – Rodd Rathjen, writer/director:
Chakra, a Cambodian teenager, leaves his family to seek a better life in Thailand, but is soon sold onto a Thai fishing trawler and enslaved at sea indefinitely, working 22 hours a day with little food.
- 10/25/2016
- by Mark Burger
- Indiewire
With the Austin Film Festival now in our collective rearview mirrors, the local film calendar is going to start turning more actively towards some of the biggest films of the year. Most of them will not be blockbusters (although Interstellar certainly is), but many titles will be hopefuls for awards season. As far as Christopher Nolan's new film goes, we are very fortunate to live in a market where it's playing in all available formats. While you can see it in 4K digital or even digital IMAX, the preferred format for this one is actual film and you can catch local screenings in 35mm, 70mm (at the Ritz) and even a proper 15-perf 70mm IMAX print at the Bob Bullock (where the screen towers six stories above you). Sadly, this will be the final movie screened on film at the museum before they convert to digital projection, so I'd...
- 11/7/2014
- by Matt Shiverdecker
- Slackerwood
There was a time when two veteran straight actors such as John Lithgow and Alfred Molina, taking on the roles of a gay couple and their subsequent travails at married life would have been the tabloid equivalent of shock and awe. It still might raise some eyebrows, but Ira Sachs’ Love Is Strange is a testimony to societal progress in terms of storytelling. Now it will face the box office as the Specialty title platforms this weekend via Sony Classics. A real-life gay marriage takes the spotlight this weekend courtesy of Starz Digital doc To Be Takei about the multi-faceted actor/activist and social media talent who is best known for playing Hikaru Sulu in TV’s original Star Trek. It will be joined by Millennium Entertainment’s Are You Here with Owen Wilson, Zach Galifianakis and Amy Poehler which will open day and date by Mad Men writer Matthew Weiner.
- 8/22/2014
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline
The distributor has acquired all Us rights to Vanessa Lapa’s documentary on the secret personal writings and photographs of Heinrich Himmler as well as mystery Winter In The Blood.
The Decent One asks how the man who led the SS and who claimed to revere German virtues of order, decency and goodness could remain a hero in the eyes of his family and play a key role in the Holocaust.
The film won best documentary at the recent Jerusalem Film Festival and opens on October 1 at New York’s Film Forum prior to expansion across the Us art house circuit.
Kino Lorber CEO Richard Lorber negotiated the deal with Cinephil MD Philippa Kowarsky.
Kino Lorber has also picked up North American rights to Ranchwater Films’ mystery Winter In The Blood starring Chaske Spencer, David Morse and Julia Jones. Alex Smith and Andrew Smith directed the film from James Welch’s novel. Kino Lorber has set...
The Decent One asks how the man who led the SS and who claimed to revere German virtues of order, decency and goodness could remain a hero in the eyes of his family and play a key role in the Holocaust.
The film won best documentary at the recent Jerusalem Film Festival and opens on October 1 at New York’s Film Forum prior to expansion across the Us art house circuit.
Kino Lorber CEO Richard Lorber negotiated the deal with Cinephil MD Philippa Kowarsky.
Kino Lorber has also picked up North American rights to Ranchwater Films’ mystery Winter In The Blood starring Chaske Spencer, David Morse and Julia Jones. Alex Smith and Andrew Smith directed the film from James Welch’s novel. Kino Lorber has set...
- 7/29/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The distributor has acquired all Us rights to Vanessa Lapa’s documentary on the secret personal writings and photographs of Heinrich Himmler as well as mystery Winter In The Blood.
The Decent One asks how the man who led the SS and who claimed to revere German virtues of order, decency and goodness could remain a hero in the eyes of his family and play a key role in the Holocaust.
The film won best documentary at the recent Jerusalem Film Festival and opens on October 1 at New York’s Film Forum prior to expansion across the Us art house circuit.
Kino Lorber CEO Richard Lorber negotiated the deal with Cinephil MD Philippa Kowarsky.
Kino Lorber has also picked up North American rights to Ranchwater Films’ mystery Winter In The Blood starring Chaske Spencer, David Morse and Julia Jones. Alex Smith and Andrew Smith directed the film from James Welch’s novel. Kino Lorber has set...
The Decent One asks how the man who led the SS and who claimed to revere German virtues of order, decency and goodness could remain a hero in the eyes of his family and play a key role in the Holocaust.
The film won best documentary at the recent Jerusalem Film Festival and opens on October 1 at New York’s Film Forum prior to expansion across the Us art house circuit.
Kino Lorber CEO Richard Lorber negotiated the deal with Cinephil MD Philippa Kowarsky.
Kino Lorber has also picked up North American rights to Ranchwater Films’ mystery Winter In The Blood starring Chaske Spencer, David Morse and Julia Jones. Alex Smith and Andrew Smith directed the film from James Welch’s novel. Kino Lorber has set...
- 7/29/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
In recent American history, many stories portrayed the true life of Native Americans with stereotypes of depression and alcohol. Novels in the past few decades, such as James Welch’s “Winter in the Blood” successfully showed us the whirlwind story of depression of an American Indian.
In the film adaptation by the directors Andrew and Alex Smith, they wanted to capture the same mood of the acclaimed novel that was published nearly 40 years ago.
With a backdrop of 1970’s Montana, the story follows an adult Indian named Virgil First Raise as he battles through his personal depression. His wife leaves him his favorite rifle as he struggles with the bottle and a couple of sexual encounters. With several flashbacks, Virgil goes through memories of his father lost to alcoholism and his brother lost at an auto accident. Virgil struggles to find his escapism with alcohol, sex and even trying to...
In the film adaptation by the directors Andrew and Alex Smith, they wanted to capture the same mood of the acclaimed novel that was published nearly 40 years ago.
With a backdrop of 1970’s Montana, the story follows an adult Indian named Virgil First Raise as he battles through his personal depression. His wife leaves him his favorite rifle as he struggles with the bottle and a couple of sexual encounters. With several flashbacks, Virgil goes through memories of his father lost to alcoholism and his brother lost at an auto accident. Virgil struggles to find his escapism with alcohol, sex and even trying to...
- 6/24/2013
- by Gig Patta
- LRMonline.com
Winter in the Blood focuses on a young, alcoholic Blackfoot Indian somewhere in central Montana as he struggles to maintain his sanity while constantly reliving traumatic events from his past. While Chaske Spencer plays the part with an intense and distant inexpressive stare that seems appropriate for his character's implied Ptsd, the real star of the show here is the vast, sun-kissed landscape of Montana. The background stretches out to fill the edges of every scene and shifts in the weather are big plot events. As characters ride horses through scrub brush fields and wrangle cattle in the rain, you get the feeling that the filmmakers (twin brothers Andrew and Alex Smith, directors of The Slaughter Rule) set out to celebrate this landscape, but the...
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- 6/23/2013
- Screen Anarchy
In addition to Elizabeth Reaser and Charlie Bewley, we have Chaske Spencer also at the Sundance Film Festival for his movie Winter in the Blood. Now the odd thing about Winter in the Blood, is it hasn’t even been filmed yet, instead the actors are there to promote awareness and raise funds for the film. Check out more below:
See more pictures of Chaske at Sundance here.
It’s not only finished movies that come to the Sundance Film Festival to be seen. Pictures that are in pre-production also are brought to Park City to raise both awareness and funds. It’s not every film, however, that comes with the good wishes of an entire state behind it.
That state is Montana and the film, set to begin shooting in June, is “Winter in the Blood,” directed by Andrew and Alex Smith and based on the landmark novel by James Welch about Native American life that has never gone out of print since it was published in 1974.
Welch’s novel is so respected in Montana that the state’s governor, Brian Schweitzer, has offered to make his plane available to fly in potential funders, Native American tribes have Ok’d filming in previously off-limits spiritual places, and two Montana friends of the brothers hosted a “friend-raiser” for the film in Park City, Utah, on Saturday night.
The event was an especially warm and affecting one and included remarks by two of the film’s stars, David Morse (who was also in “The Slaughter Rule”) and Chaske Spencer, who plays werewolf Sam Uley in the “Twilight” series.
Read more at the La Times here.
What do you think of Chaske’s Sundance pictures?...
See more pictures of Chaske at Sundance here.
It’s not only finished movies that come to the Sundance Film Festival to be seen. Pictures that are in pre-production also are brought to Park City to raise both awareness and funds. It’s not every film, however, that comes with the good wishes of an entire state behind it.
That state is Montana and the film, set to begin shooting in June, is “Winter in the Blood,” directed by Andrew and Alex Smith and based on the landmark novel by James Welch about Native American life that has never gone out of print since it was published in 1974.
Welch’s novel is so respected in Montana that the state’s governor, Brian Schweitzer, has offered to make his plane available to fly in potential funders, Native American tribes have Ok’d filming in previously off-limits spiritual places, and two Montana friends of the brothers hosted a “friend-raiser” for the film in Park City, Utah, on Saturday night.
The event was an especially warm and affecting one and included remarks by two of the film’s stars, David Morse (who was also in “The Slaughter Rule”) and Chaske Spencer, who plays werewolf Sam Uley in the “Twilight” series.
Read more at the La Times here.
What do you think of Chaske’s Sundance pictures?...
- 1/26/2011
- by Evie
- twilightersanonymous.com
We’re really excited to engage Dance With The One this Tuesday. This film is the first production of the newly formed University of Texas Film Institute, a program designed to get student and alumni involvement in feature film production in a hands-on way. With no creative input from non U-Texans and no financing from outside investors, Utfi films are truly the products of this important and vibrant Austin community.
As the first film coming out of Utfi, Dance With The One is a triumph. The film played in competition at SXSW this year, an incredible honor and a veritable coup for an infant studio. Since then, the film has played in numerous festivals, including the AFI Dallas International Film Festival.
Dance With The One was made by over 120 Ut/Utfi students, in all facets of pre-production, production and post-production, including writer Smith Henderson (Mfa ‘08 Michener Center for Writers); director...
As the first film coming out of Utfi, Dance With The One is a triumph. The film played in competition at SXSW this year, an incredible honor and a veritable coup for an infant studio. Since then, the film has played in numerous festivals, including the AFI Dallas International Film Festival.
Dance With The One was made by over 120 Ut/Utfi students, in all facets of pre-production, production and post-production, including writer Smith Henderson (Mfa ‘08 Michener Center for Writers); director...
- 10/17/2010
- by Daniel Metz
- OriginalAlamo.com
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