Larry Wilmore says “finally.” Greg Grunberg says “Mazel tov! Writers Strike Deal!!!”
Bill Wolkoff promises not to picket Dancing with the Stars.
The Writers Guild has reached a tentative agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers to end its strike after nearly five months, and needless to say — the members have thoughts, lots of happy thoughts. And it’s all spilling out on social media.
Here’s a roundup of their reactions so far:
Billy Ray: “To all my fellow writers— You earned this. You saved our profession. Now let’s continue to stand w the actors. And IATSE. And the Teamsters. And labor everywhere. That’s how we’ll save America.”
Wolkoff: “Day 146. It gives me great pleasure to say we will Not be picketing Dancing With The Stars tomorrow! I really can’t wait to watch the premiere on Tuesday, because we did it!
Bill Wolkoff promises not to picket Dancing with the Stars.
The Writers Guild has reached a tentative agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers to end its strike after nearly five months, and needless to say — the members have thoughts, lots of happy thoughts. And it’s all spilling out on social media.
Here’s a roundup of their reactions so far:
Billy Ray: “To all my fellow writers— You earned this. You saved our profession. Now let’s continue to stand w the actors. And IATSE. And the Teamsters. And labor everywhere. That’s how we’ll save America.”
Wolkoff: “Day 146. It gives me great pleasure to say we will Not be picketing Dancing With The Stars tomorrow! I really can’t wait to watch the premiere on Tuesday, because we did it!
- 9/25/2023
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
WGA picket lines on the West Coast swelled Friday in response to the call from guild leaders for a strong turnout on the streets as labor and management negotiators gathered for a third consecutive day of talks aimed at ending the more than four-month-long strike.
In Hollywood, Netflix and Paramount saw big crowds of WGA and SAG-AFTRA pickets gathered by 9 a.m. The past week has been chock full of rumors spread by social media and private online and text channels that a deal is in the offing. In West Los Angeles, a typically large crowd made the rounds outside of Fox Studios.
Many WGA veterans urged caution at getting hopes too high for what may come out of the AMPTP negotiating room later today, after a third day of talks between labor and management that involved four CEOs.
“I’m a realist,” said Amy Berg, a showrunner...
In Hollywood, Netflix and Paramount saw big crowds of WGA and SAG-AFTRA pickets gathered by 9 a.m. The past week has been chock full of rumors spread by social media and private online and text channels that a deal is in the offing. In West Los Angeles, a typically large crowd made the rounds outside of Fox Studios.
Many WGA veterans urged caution at getting hopes too high for what may come out of the AMPTP negotiating room later today, after a third day of talks between labor and management that involved four CEOs.
“I’m a realist,” said Amy Berg, a showrunner...
- 9/22/2023
- by Cynthia Littleton, Adam B. Vary and Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
A showrunners picket at Fox that started as a way to show solidarity during the strike ended up raising close to $45,000 for crew members who have been adversely affected by the work stoppage.
Strike Captain Amy Berg encouraged showrunners who attended the Sept. 12 picket to bring along gift cards so she could distribute them to support staff in need. More than 300 high-powered scribes, including Steve Levitan, Shawn Ryan, Aline Brosh-McKenna, Carlton Cuse, Rene Balcer, Jack Burditt, Mike Scully, Matt Selman, Andy Gordon, Tucker Cawley and David Shore, walked the line that day.
At today’s IATSE appreciation day at Fox, Berg distributed the gift cards to 115 people. She plans to mail more out this week to crew members.
“I was looking at all these amazing funds we have out there, but noticed that most require a long application process which can delay people getting the help they need,” Berg told Deadline. “I just thought, what could we do that offered immediate assistance?”
Those who participated in today’s IATSE appreciation picket received at least $150 word of cards to grocery stores and retail outlets like Target.
“Things everyone can use,” said Berg. “I basically started a nonprofit in one week, thanks to the generosity of my fellow showrunners.”
Showrunners have already contributed more than $500,000 recently to the Entertainment Community Fund. (Click for the showrunner donation link). Most of the donors have been anonymous.
There’s renewed optimism that the WGA and AMPTP can reach a deal now that both parties have agreed to meet tomorrow.
The WGA sent out a note to members confirming the talks: “The WGA and AMPTP now have a confirmed schedule to bargain this week, starting on Wednesday. You might not hear from us in the coming days while we are negotiating, but know that our focus is getting a fair deal for writers as soon as possible. We’ll reach out again when there is something of significance to report. In the meantime, please continue to demonstrate your commitment and unity by coming out to the picket lines – for yourselves and fellow writers, SAG-AFTRA, other unions’ members, and all those in our community who are impacted by the strikes.”...
Strike Captain Amy Berg encouraged showrunners who attended the Sept. 12 picket to bring along gift cards so she could distribute them to support staff in need. More than 300 high-powered scribes, including Steve Levitan, Shawn Ryan, Aline Brosh-McKenna, Carlton Cuse, Rene Balcer, Jack Burditt, Mike Scully, Matt Selman, Andy Gordon, Tucker Cawley and David Shore, walked the line that day.
At today’s IATSE appreciation day at Fox, Berg distributed the gift cards to 115 people. She plans to mail more out this week to crew members.
“I was looking at all these amazing funds we have out there, but noticed that most require a long application process which can delay people getting the help they need,” Berg told Deadline. “I just thought, what could we do that offered immediate assistance?”
Those who participated in today’s IATSE appreciation picket received at least $150 word of cards to grocery stores and retail outlets like Target.
“Things everyone can use,” said Berg. “I basically started a nonprofit in one week, thanks to the generosity of my fellow showrunners.”
Showrunners have already contributed more than $500,000 recently to the Entertainment Community Fund. (Click for the showrunner donation link). Most of the donors have been anonymous.
There’s renewed optimism that the WGA and AMPTP can reach a deal now that both parties have agreed to meet tomorrow.
The WGA sent out a note to members confirming the talks: “The WGA and AMPTP now have a confirmed schedule to bargain this week, starting on Wednesday. You might not hear from us in the coming days while we are negotiating, but know that our focus is getting a fair deal for writers as soon as possible. We’ll reach out again when there is something of significance to report. In the meantime, please continue to demonstrate your commitment and unity by coming out to the picket lines – for yourselves and fellow writers, SAG-AFTRA, other unions’ members, and all those in our community who are impacted by the strikes.”...
- 9/20/2023
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
As the Writers Guild enters its second calendar month of a strike, a key alliance in its fight for increased residuals, wages and AI protections has struck a deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.
In a tentative deal that is poised to be submitted for approval Tuesday to its National Board, the Directors Guild of America spent all day Saturday at the table and reached a tentative agreement with the AMPTP just before midnight Sunday. The three-year agreement sees the 19,000-member guild receive pay and benefits gains, increases in global streaming residuals and protections against the use of artificial intelligence, which sources say was the last sticking point to a deal that came after less than a month of negotiations with the AMPTP. The DGA’s current contract, along with that of SAG-AFTRA, expires June 30. The actors branch currently has members voting to authorize a strike,...
In a tentative deal that is poised to be submitted for approval Tuesday to its National Board, the Directors Guild of America spent all day Saturday at the table and reached a tentative agreement with the AMPTP just before midnight Sunday. The three-year agreement sees the 19,000-member guild receive pay and benefits gains, increases in global streaming residuals and protections against the use of artificial intelligence, which sources say was the last sticking point to a deal that came after less than a month of negotiations with the AMPTP. The DGA’s current contract, along with that of SAG-AFTRA, expires June 30. The actors branch currently has members voting to authorize a strike,...
- 6/5/2023
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Updated: Reaction is coming in after the Directors Guild and Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers reached a tentative deal on a new three-year contract late Saturday night. Striking writers express some disappointment in their sister union while showing resolve in their own fight for a fair deal with the studios. And, with the Succession finale still fresh in everyone’s mind, many are using memes from the saga about corporate intrigue and backstabbing to illustrate their reactions on social media.
“I wasn’t around in ’08, but this feels like that from what I’ve heard,” a writer working on streaming series told Deadline Sunday. “The WGA takes a stand, the DGA reaps the rewards.”
A veteran showrunner assessed the impact of the DGA pact while also looking ahead to the SAG-AFTRA strike authorization vote which concludes Monday.
“The two guilds have a lot of different issues this year,...
“I wasn’t around in ’08, but this feels like that from what I’ve heard,” a writer working on streaming series told Deadline Sunday. “The WGA takes a stand, the DGA reaps the rewards.”
A veteran showrunner assessed the impact of the DGA pact while also looking ahead to the SAG-AFTRA strike authorization vote which concludes Monday.
“The two guilds have a lot of different issues this year,...
- 6/4/2023
- by Dominic Patten, Erik Pedersen and Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix has ordered a second season of drama series Warrior Nun. The renewal comes about six weeks into the series’ Season 1 launch. Watch the announcement video below.
Inspired by the manga novels, Warrior Nun hails from creator/executive producer Simon Barry, who also serves as showrunner. It revolves around a 19-year-old woman (Alba Baptista) who wakes up in a morgue with a new lease on life and a divine artifact embedded in her back. She discovers she now is part of an ancient order that has been tasked with fighting demons on Earth, and powerful forces representing both heaven and hell want to find and control her.
Baptista, Kristina Tonteri-Young, Lorena Andrea, Toya Turner and Olivia Delcán are set to reprise their roles as the core group of demon-fighting nuns. Additional Season 2 casting is Tba.
Barry executive produces with Stephen Hegyes. Amy Berg is consulting producer. Terri Hughes Burton is co-executive producer.
You can watch a clip of Barry announcing the renewal to the cast below.
Warrior Nun has been renewed for a second season — watch the cast find out pic.twitter.com/FOFY4N4RhT
— Netflix (@netflix) August 19, 2020...
Inspired by the manga novels, Warrior Nun hails from creator/executive producer Simon Barry, who also serves as showrunner. It revolves around a 19-year-old woman (Alba Baptista) who wakes up in a morgue with a new lease on life and a divine artifact embedded in her back. She discovers she now is part of an ancient order that has been tasked with fighting demons on Earth, and powerful forces representing both heaven and hell want to find and control her.
Baptista, Kristina Tonteri-Young, Lorena Andrea, Toya Turner and Olivia Delcán are set to reprise their roles as the core group of demon-fighting nuns. Additional Season 2 casting is Tba.
Barry executive produces with Stephen Hegyes. Amy Berg is consulting producer. Terri Hughes Burton is co-executive producer.
You can watch a clip of Barry announcing the renewal to the cast below.
Warrior Nun has been renewed for a second season — watch the cast find out pic.twitter.com/FOFY4N4RhT
— Netflix (@netflix) August 19, 2020...
- 8/19/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
A few weeks ago, we called it “crazypants.” Next month, there’s a good chance your uncle may call it “That Show with the Two J.K. Simmonses.” But for right now, “Counterpart” is a show on the verge of giving audiences a first full look at its twisty new premise. Starz announced today that the “Counterpart” pilot will air after the “Outlander” Season 3 finale on December 10, and released a fresh trailer for the series to go along with it.
Read More:‘Outlander’ Season 3: Ronald D. Moore on the Show’s Evolution and the Klingon Connection
The show follows the increasingly convoluted life of Howard Silk (Simmons). Working as a dutiful (and blissfully unaware) low-level employee at a nondescript firm, Silk gets drawn into a strange metaphysical tug-of-war when he gets an unexpected visit from…himself. As both versions of Howard get caught up in a fight to cover...
Read More:‘Outlander’ Season 3: Ronald D. Moore on the Show’s Evolution and the Klingon Connection
The show follows the increasingly convoluted life of Howard Silk (Simmons). Working as a dutiful (and blissfully unaware) low-level employee at a nondescript firm, Silk gets drawn into a strange metaphysical tug-of-war when he gets an unexpected visit from…himself. As both versions of Howard get caught up in a fight to cover...
- 11/30/2017
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Starz's new series is shifting things around. Deadline reports executive producer Amy Berg has left the network's upcoming TV show Counterpart prior to season two.From writer Justin Marks, the drama "is the story of Howard Silk (Jk Simmons), a lowly cog in a bureaucratic agency, who discovers that the agency he works for is really guarding a crossing into a parallel dimension."Read More…...
- 3/28/2017
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Starz’s upcoming drama series Counterpart is making a change in the executive ranks between the first and second 10-episode seasons of its two-season straight-to-series order. Amy Berg (DaVinci’s Demons), who served as an executive producer on Season 1, has departed the series, which just wrapped shooting its first season in Los Angeles this week, in a mutual decision from all parties. Counterpart, from Mrc, Gilbert Films and Anonymous Content, stars J.K. Simmons…...
- 3/24/2017
- Deadline TV
Starz has announced production has begun on the new Counterpart TV show. The parallel dimension spy thriller series stars J.K. Simmons, Olivia Williams, Harry Lloyd, Nazanin Boniadi, Nicholas Pinnock, and Sara Serraiocco, and Ulrich Thomsen. Morten Tyldum directed the premiere episode.Creator and writer Justin Marks executive produces with Tyldum, Amy Berg, Gary Gilbert, Jordan Horowitz, Keith Redmon, and Bard Dorros. Simmons also serves as a producer. Get the scoop from Starz, after the jump.Read More…...
- 12/1/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Olivia Williams and Harry Lloyd will star opposite Jk Simmons, in the upcoming Counterpart TV series on Starz. Williams has been cast as Emily Burton Silk, wife of bureaucrat Howard Silk (Simmons). Lloyd will play Peter Quayle, a director at Howard’s agency. Both Williams and Lloyd are veterans of the Manhattan TV show, which was cancelled after two seasons on Wgn America.Described as an "espionage thriller with a metaphysical twist," Counterpart is created and written by Justin Marks who executive produces with Morton Tyldum and Amy Berg, Jordan Horowitz, Keith Redmon, Bard Dorros, and Gary Gilbert. Simmons also serves as a producer. Read More…...
- 10/6/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
The singer emerges from Amy Berg’s documentary as a raw and uncompromising talent, who became ruled by applause and addicted to heroin
With Asif Kapadia’s Amy poised to scoop up awards, this is an appropriate time to watch Amy Berg’s eye-opening documentary about Janis Joplin, the singer-songwriter who died of a heroin overdose in 1970 at the age of 27.
Joplin was making it in the psychedelic 60s, which promoted very conventional attitudes in the white rock-and-pop mainstream about male heroes and demurely attractive women. She emerges here as a raw and uncompromising talent; her voice tends towards a gravelly roar of rage and need. We are used to the paradox of white women singers “sounding black” as they give voice to their pain, and Joplin was a pioneer.
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With Asif Kapadia’s Amy poised to scoop up awards, this is an appropriate time to watch Amy Berg’s eye-opening documentary about Janis Joplin, the singer-songwriter who died of a heroin overdose in 1970 at the age of 27.
Joplin was making it in the psychedelic 60s, which promoted very conventional attitudes in the white rock-and-pop mainstream about male heroes and demurely attractive women. She emerges here as a raw and uncompromising talent; her voice tends towards a gravelly roar of rage and need. We are used to the paradox of white women singers “sounding black” as they give voice to their pain, and Joplin was a pioneer.
Continue reading...
- 2/4/2016
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Read More: 13th Annual Oxford Film Festival Announces Official Selections, Including Amy Berg and Les Blank In the past decade, superhero films have become the dominant and most profitable genre in American cinema, featuring heroes who possess out-of-this-world super powers, but why stop there? In Mark Potts' new film, "Spaghetti Man," all you need is a microwave malfunction and some spaghetti to save the day. The official synopsis reads: "Clark doesn't care about you. He doesn't care about the world. He barely cares about himself. But after an incident with an old bowl of spaghetti and a malfunctioning microwave, he becomes a superhero that can fight crime with the power of spaghetti. However, you have to pay him." "Spaghetti Man" will world premiere at the Oxford Film Festival on February 19. Read More: Attention, Filmmakers: Oxford Film Festival Now Accepting Submissions...
- 2/3/2016
- by Lauren Townsend
- Indiewire
It’s been a big year for documentaries about cults, cranks, and crazies, with the Scientology exposé Going Clear a few months ago and white-supremacist-takeover thriller Welcome to Leith just last week. And now, Amy Berg’s new film looks at the rise and fall of cult leader Warren Jeffs, the head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Flds), a splinter group that felt the Mormon Church’s official renunciation of polygamy back in 1890 constituted a betrayal of its principles. Jeffs, as some may recall, was all over national headlines in 2006 and 2007 when the FBI placed him on its 10 Most Wanted List and then arrested him, revealing to the world his twisted ideology and his army of brainwashed wives (as many as 70 or so). Much of the debate at the time was about what to do with Jeffs’s dozens upon dozens of spouses and children...
- 9/19/2015
- by Bilge Ebiri
- Vulture
Nestled in a small pocket of Southwestern America, a growing sect of Mormonism makes its home, populating an insular community with true believers, hell-bent (in their case, perhaps “heaven-bent” would be more appropriate) on casting out all apostates. Years ago, author Jon Krakauer happened across the enclave, and it has consumed him ever since. Filmmaker Amy Berg feels similarly, and her “Prophet’s Prey” is (yet another) essential artifact from one of our finest documentarians. A complex and complete exploration of the The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and its criminal leader Warren Jeffs, Berg’s latest film is concisely put together and relentlessly honest in its depictions of what really happens within this Mormon offshoot — a “religion” where polygamy, child abuse, and rape run rampant — and the lauded leader responsible for perpetrating some of its worst transgressions. The film opens with an animated history lesson that briefly lays out the.
- 9/18/2015
- by Kate Erbland
- The Playlist
The incendiary soul singer Sharon Jones already had a few fans in the room when Barbara Koppel’s documentary “Miss Sharon Jones!” made its world premiere Friday night during the Toronto International Film Festival. By the end of the movie (which is seeking distribution), everybody in the place had a jones for Jones. The narrative arc of the film is the diminutive (“four foot 11 and a quarter”) singer’s more than year-long battle with cancer -- and her return to performing. But by lavishing huge helpings of Jones’ music and explosive performances on what is a very intimate portrait, the two-time-Oscar-winning Koppel keeps the doc from ever becoming maudlin, or predictable, or from even slowing down. There's certainly an Oscar-friendly trend afoot: Jessica Edwards’ Mavis Staples movie “Mavis” is out there, as is Liz Garbus’ “What Happened, Miss Simone?” and, of course, Asif Kapadia’s “Amy”; Amy Berg’s Janis Joplin...
- 9/12/2015
- by John Anderson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Read More: Toronto International Film Festival Announces Documentary Slate; Frederick Wiseman and Amy Berg Features Top List The Orchard & HBO have acquired the documentary "The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble" ahead of its premiere at Tiff Docs on Sunday. The documentary is the latest from from Oscar winning filmmaker Morgan Neville ("20 Feet from Stardom") and follows acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma as he forms an international music collective known as the Silk Road Ensemble. The collective brings together master musicians playing a range of traditional instruments from all over the world, from the Scottish bagpipe to the Iranian komancheh fiddle in a global jam session. The Orchard acquired all worldwide rights with the exception of U.S. television rights, which went to HBO. The Orchard is planning a Spring 2016 theatrical release, and HBO will release the film shortly after. The film will premiere at Tiff Docs on.
- 9/11/2015
- by Wil Barlow
- Indiewire
When fans get wistful about artists who die too young, it’s too easy to obsess over the tragedy of it all rather than to discuss why that death was such a loss in the first place — that unfulfilled promise of a life that ended too quickly, and that person’s great, never-created work of which the world was deprived. It’s the focus on the art and the artist, and not on her demise, that makes Amy Berg‘s documentary “Janis” so electrifying. (The “Little Girl Blue” subtitle, included on screen and in the press notes, but not in the festival catalog,...
- 9/5/2015
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
Films set to show at the 40th Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff), updated as announcements are made in the run up to the event.
Tiff will open on September 10 with Jean-Marc Vallée’s Demolition starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts.
Tiff 40
Key: Wp = world premiere; Nap = North American premiere; IP = international premiere; Cp = Canadian premiere.
GALASBeeba Boys (Canada), Deepa Mehta, WPDemolition, Jean-Marc Vallée WPDisorder (Maryland) (France-Belgium), Alice Winocour NAPThe Dressmaker (Aus), Jocelyn Moorhouse, WPEye In The Sky (UK), Gavin Hood WPForsaken (Canada), Jon Cassar, WPFreeheld (Us), Peter Sollett, WPHyena Road (Canada), Paul Gross, WPLolo (France), Julie Delpy, NAPLegend (UK), Brian Helgeland, IPMan Down (Us), Dito Montiel NAPThe Man Who Knew Infinity (UK), Matt Brown, WPThe Martian (Us), Ridley Scott, WPMiss You Already (UK), Catherine Hardwicke WPMississippi Grind (Us), Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden CPMr. Right (Us), Paco Cabezas WPThe Program (UK), Stephen Frears, WPRemember (Canada), Atom Egoyan, NAPSeptembers Of Shiraz (Us), Wayne Blair, WPStonewall ([link...
Tiff will open on September 10 with Jean-Marc Vallée’s Demolition starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts.
Tiff 40
Key: Wp = world premiere; Nap = North American premiere; IP = international premiere; Cp = Canadian premiere.
GALASBeeba Boys (Canada), Deepa Mehta, WPDemolition, Jean-Marc Vallée WPDisorder (Maryland) (France-Belgium), Alice Winocour NAPThe Dressmaker (Aus), Jocelyn Moorhouse, WPEye In The Sky (UK), Gavin Hood WPForsaken (Canada), Jon Cassar, WPFreeheld (Us), Peter Sollett, WPHyena Road (Canada), Paul Gross, WPLolo (France), Julie Delpy, NAPLegend (UK), Brian Helgeland, IPMan Down (Us), Dito Montiel NAPThe Man Who Knew Infinity (UK), Matt Brown, WPThe Martian (Us), Ridley Scott, WPMiss You Already (UK), Catherine Hardwicke WPMississippi Grind (Us), Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden CPMr. Right (Us), Paco Cabezas WPThe Program (UK), Stephen Frears, WPRemember (Canada), Atom Egoyan, NAPSeptembers Of Shiraz (Us), Wayne Blair, WPStonewall ([link...
- 8/25/2015
- ScreenDaily
Read More: Toronto International Film Festival Announces Documentary Slate; Frederick Wiseman and Amy Berg Features Top List One man revolutionized and revitalized Canadian literature, and he his finally getting the cinematic attention he deserves in Brian D. Johnson's documentary, "Al Purdy Was Here." The documentary follows Canadian poet Al Purdy both musically and cinematically throughout his career. It also focuses on the revival of a grassroots movement after his death to preserve Purdy's A-Frame cabin as a writing retreat. The cabin became a famous hangout for Canadian literature pioneers, including Margaret Lawrence, Margaret Atwood and Michael Ondaatje. The documentary features archival materials and first-hand accounts, including interviews with his publisher Howard White, editor Sam Solecki, wife Jean Baird and writers Dennis Lee, Steven Heighton and George Bowering. "Al Purdy Was Here" will have its world premiere at the 2015 Toronto...
- 8/19/2015
- by Kaeli Van Cott
- Indiewire
Jennifer Peedom.s Sherpa and Gillian Armstrong.s Women He.s Undressed will screen at the 40th Toronto International Film Festival next month.
They are among 26 titles selected for the Tiff Docs section of the fest, which runs from September 10 to 20, enhancing Australia.s profile at the event where Jocelyn Moorhouse.s The Dressmaker will have its world premiere in Gala Presentations and Simon Stone.s The Daughter will have its North American premiere in Special Presentations.
Produced by Bridget Ikin and John Smithson, Peedom.s film chronicles how Sherpas united in grief and anger to reclaim Mount Everest after an icefall killed 15 of their members on Mount Everest.. It will open in Australia in February, co-distributed by John Maynard's Footprint Films and Transmission.
It will be the international premiere of Armstrong.s doc which profiles Australian costume designer Orry-Kelly, who won three Academy Awards.
Among the world premieres...
They are among 26 titles selected for the Tiff Docs section of the fest, which runs from September 10 to 20, enhancing Australia.s profile at the event where Jocelyn Moorhouse.s The Dressmaker will have its world premiere in Gala Presentations and Simon Stone.s The Daughter will have its North American premiere in Special Presentations.
Produced by Bridget Ikin and John Smithson, Peedom.s film chronicles how Sherpas united in grief and anger to reclaim Mount Everest after an icefall killed 15 of their members on Mount Everest.. It will open in Australia in February, co-distributed by John Maynard's Footprint Films and Transmission.
It will be the international premiere of Armstrong.s doc which profiles Australian costume designer Orry-Kelly, who won three Academy Awards.
Among the world premieres...
- 8/11/2015
- by Staff writer
- IF.com.au
Earlier today at the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour, Showtime announced that its inside-the-cia documentary The Spymasters will bow in November. Now it has released its full docu slate for the rest of 2015 and into the spring. Projects from Antoine Fuqua, Amy Berg and Stevan Riley, among others, tackle subjects ranging from rock’s ultimate guitar god to a fallen rap mogul to one of the 20th century’s greatest actors and the infamous polygamist who still…...
- 8/11/2015
- Deadline TV
Earlier today at the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour, Showtime announced that its inside-the-cia documentary The Spymasters will bow in November. Now it has released its full docu slate for the rest of 2015 and into the spring. Projects from Antoine Fuqua, Amy Berg and Stevan Riley, among others, tackle subjects ranging from rock’s ultimate guitar god to a fallen rap mogul to one of the 20th century’s greatest actors and the infamous polygamist who still…...
- 8/11/2015
- Deadline
The Toronto International Film Festival's announced the lineup for the Tiff Docs, Masters, Midnight Madness, Vanguard and Tiff Cinematheque sections of its 40th edition (September 10 through 20). Highlights include new and classic films by Frederick Wiseman, Barbara Kopple, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Jafar Panahi, Kelly Reichardt, Miklós Jancsó, Luchino Visconti, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Takashi Miike, Hong Sang-soo, Patricio Guzmán, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Philippe Garrel, Wim Wenders, Marco Bellocchio, Jerzy Skolimowski, Morgan Neville, Amy Berg, Kent Jones, Laurie Anderson and more. » - David Hudson...
- 8/11/2015
- Keyframe
The Toronto International Film Festival's announced the lineup for the Tiff Docs, Masters, Midnight Madness, Vanguard and Tiff Cinematheque sections of its 40th edition (September 10 through 20). Highlights include new and classic films by Frederick Wiseman, Barbara Kopple, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Jafar Panahi, Kelly Reichardt, Miklós Jancsó, Luchino Visconti, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Takashi Miike, Hong Sang-soo, Patricio Guzmán, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Philippe Garrel, Wim Wenders, Marco Bellocchio, Jerzy Skolimowski, Morgan Neville, Amy Berg, Kent Jones, Laurie Anderson and more. » - David Hudson...
- 8/11/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Read More: Toronto International Film Festival Slate Announces Picks for Tiff Cinematheque and Masters of Cinema Sections Documentarian Danae Elon ("Never Again, Forever") tells her story in the upcoming doc, "P.S. Jerusalem," a film that tracks her and her family's journey back to her home country of Jerusalem. Elon films her two sons and partner from the moment they decide to leave New York City and go back to her birthplace, and she documents the confusion and questions her children face as they reenter the complicated and political landscape of Jersualem. Watch in the trailer above as Danae and her family grapple with the complexities of their national and political identities. Read More: Toronto International Film Festival Announces Documentary Slate; Frederick Wiseman and Amy Berg Features Top List...
- 8/11/2015
- by Sarah Choi
- Indiewire
Films set to show at the 40th Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff), updated as announcements are made in the run up to the event.
Tiff will open on September 10 with Jean-Marc Vallée’s Demolition starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts.
Tiff 40
Key: Wp = world premiere; Nap = North American premiere; IP = international premiere; Cp = Canadian premiere.
GALASBeeba Boys (Canada), Deepa Mehta, WPDemolition, Jean-Marc Vallée WPThe Dressmaker (Aus), Jocelyn Moorhouse, WPEye In The Sky (UK), Gavin Hood WPForsaken (Canada), Jon Cassar, WPFreeheld (Us), Peter Sollett, WPHyena Road (Canada), Paul Gross, WPLolo (France), Julie Delpy, NAPLegend (UK), Brian Helgeland, IPThe Man Who Knew Infinity (UK), Matt Brown, WPThe Martian (Us), Ridley Scott, WPThe Program (UK), Stephen Frears, WPRemember (Canada), Atom Egoyan, NAPSeptembers Of Shiraz (Us), Wayne Blair, WPStonewall (Us), Roland Emmerich, Wpspecial PRESENTATIONSAnomalisa (Us), Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson, CPBeasts of No Nation (Ghana), Cary Fukunaga, CPBlack Mass (Us), Scott Cooper, CPBorn To Be Blue (Canada-uk), Robert Budreau WPBrooklyn (UK-Ireland-Canada), John...
Tiff will open on September 10 with Jean-Marc Vallée’s Demolition starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts.
Tiff 40
Key: Wp = world premiere; Nap = North American premiere; IP = international premiere; Cp = Canadian premiere.
GALASBeeba Boys (Canada), Deepa Mehta, WPDemolition, Jean-Marc Vallée WPThe Dressmaker (Aus), Jocelyn Moorhouse, WPEye In The Sky (UK), Gavin Hood WPForsaken (Canada), Jon Cassar, WPFreeheld (Us), Peter Sollett, WPHyena Road (Canada), Paul Gross, WPLolo (France), Julie Delpy, NAPLegend (UK), Brian Helgeland, IPThe Man Who Knew Infinity (UK), Matt Brown, WPThe Martian (Us), Ridley Scott, WPThe Program (UK), Stephen Frears, WPRemember (Canada), Atom Egoyan, NAPSeptembers Of Shiraz (Us), Wayne Blair, WPStonewall (Us), Roland Emmerich, Wpspecial PRESENTATIONSAnomalisa (Us), Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson, CPBeasts of No Nation (Ghana), Cary Fukunaga, CPBlack Mass (Us), Scott Cooper, CPBorn To Be Blue (Canada-uk), Robert Budreau WPBrooklyn (UK-Ireland-Canada), John...
- 8/11/2015
- ScreenDaily
Read More: Toronto International Film Festival Announces Documentary Slate; Frederick Wiseman and Amy Berg Features Top List The Toronto International Film Festival has always offered an eclectic slate of films, and this year they are including the inspiring political documentary, "A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers." Filmmakers Geeta Gandbhir ("Remember the Artist Robert DeNiro Senior") and Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy are co-directing the mind-blowing documentary that tells the story of 160 boundary-pushing Bangladeshi women who join the United Nations Stabilizing Mission in Haiti. The film follows three different women in the unit who struggle being away from their family and children, while experiencing autonomy and authority that are not yet available in their home country. The film straddles two engaging stories, and provides a unique take on the Haitian political struggle through the eyes of women who are fighting for their own...
- 8/11/2015
- by Sarah Choi
- Indiewire
Read More: Toronto International Film Festival Announces Documentary Slate; Frederick Wiseman and Amy Berg Features Top List Arcade Fire's critically acclaimed fourth studio album, "Reflektor," launched in October 2013 and saw the band ambitiously experimenting with new sounds (particularly Haitian rara music) and marketing strategies (the guerrilla ad campaign included a mock band called The Reflektors). Filmmaker Kahlil Joseph, who won the 2013 Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Short Films, followed the band as they found the origins of the album in Jamaica, composed the music and lyrics in various recording studios and opened up their massive arena tour in Los Angeles, and he's put all of the footage together for "The Reflektor Tapes." In what looks to be a dazzling collage of concert footage, recording footage, digital video and analog film, "The Reflektor Tapes" should be to documentaries what "Reflektor" was to Arcade...
- 8/11/2015
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Organisers unleashed their latest volley of programming, an embarrassment of riches featuring new non-fiction work about education activist Malala Yousafzai, Russia’s Bolshoi Theatre, the immediate aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attacks and the iconic tango pairing of María Nieves and Juan Carlos Copes.
Midnight Madness brings a Turkish glimpse of hell, new work from the directors of Almost Human and The Loved Ones, a cyborg Pov story and Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room, which premiered in Cannes and backer Broad Green Pictures recently made available for Us distribution after electing not to self-release.
Vanguard entries include Gaspar Noé’s Love, Alex de la Iglesia’s My Big Night and Ryoo Seung-wan’s South Korean cop thriller Veteran.
The Masters Of Cinema programme features Jafar Panahi’s Taxi, Alexander Sokurov’s Francofonia and Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Our Little Sister, while the Tiff Cinematheque selection of restored classics includes Luchino Viconti’s Rocco And His Brothers and Marcel Ophüls...
Midnight Madness brings a Turkish glimpse of hell, new work from the directors of Almost Human and The Loved Ones, a cyborg Pov story and Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room, which premiered in Cannes and backer Broad Green Pictures recently made available for Us distribution after electing not to self-release.
Vanguard entries include Gaspar Noé’s Love, Alex de la Iglesia’s My Big Night and Ryoo Seung-wan’s South Korean cop thriller Veteran.
The Masters Of Cinema programme features Jafar Panahi’s Taxi, Alexander Sokurov’s Francofonia and Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Our Little Sister, while the Tiff Cinematheque selection of restored classics includes Luchino Viconti’s Rocco And His Brothers and Marcel Ophüls...
- 8/11/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Read More: Toronto International Film Festival Reveals First Slate of Titles: New Ridley Scott and Cary Fukunaga Films Top List, 'Demolition' to Open The Toronto International Film Festival has announced its complete Tiff Docs program, a lineup that includes such heavy-hitting names in the nonfiction world as Frederick Wiseman, Amy Berg, Barbara Kopple, Davis Guggenheim and Morgan Neville, among others. Wiseman's long-gestating "In Jackson Heights" will be joined by Amy Berg's much-anticiapted Janis Joplin documentary, "Janis: Little Girl Blue." The program also boasts Kopple's "Miss Sharon Jones!," Kent Jones' "Hitchcock/Truffaut," Guggenheim's "He Named Me Malala" and Neville's "The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble." The program is packed with music-friendly features, along with an emphasis on timely global stories. Below are the first additions to the Tiff Docs...
- 8/11/2015
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
The full lineup for the Venice Film Festival has been revealed, and includes new films by Martin Scorsese, Jerzy Skolimowsky, Frederick Wiseman, Marco Bellocchio, Tsai Ming-liang, Aleksandro Sokurov and more.CompetitionFrenzy (Emin Alper, Turkey/France/Qatar)Heart of a Dog (Laurie Anderson, Us)Blood of My Blood (Marco Bellocchio, Italy)Looking for Grace (Sue Brooks, Australia)Equals (Drake Doremus, Us)Remember (Atom Egoyan, Canada/Germany)Beasts of No Nation (Cary Fukunaga, Us)Per amor vostro (Giuseppe M. Gaudino, Italy/France)Marguerite (Xavier Giannoli, France/Czech Republic/Belgium)Rabin, the Last Day (Amos Gitai, Israel/France)A Bigger Splash (Luca Guadagnino, Italy/France)The Endless River (Oliver Hermanus, South Africa/France)The Danish Girl (Tom Hooper, UK/Us)Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman/Duke Johnson, Us)L'attesa (Piero Mesina, Italy)11 Minutes (Jerzy Skolimowski, Poland)Francofonia (Aleksandr Sokurov, France/Germany/Netherlands)The Clan (Pablo Trapero, Argentina/Spain)Desde alla (Lorenza Vigas, Venezuela/Mexico)L'hermine (Christian Vincent,...
- 8/1/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
With the exception of Cary Fukunaga’s Beasts of No Nation and Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl, the nineteen other films in Venice Film Festival’s contention for the Golden Lion won’t be mentioned during awards season, but who cares when you have the likes of Aleksander Sokurov, Luca Guadagnino and Marco Bellocchio in the line-up. Not unlike previous years, the 2015 edition has a good numbers of films from Italy and the U.S., with several France co-productions littered throughout and the addition of fresh faces with first time works from composer Piero Messina and artist/musician Laurie Anderson.
While non comp offerings in the shape of Scott Cooper’s Black Mass and Thomas McCarthy’s Spotlight are sure to receive a fair amount of trade news attention it’s the docus that are especially rich this year: Frederick Wiseman is joined by Sergei Loznitsa makes back to...
While non comp offerings in the shape of Scott Cooper’s Black Mass and Thomas McCarthy’s Spotlight are sure to receive a fair amount of trade news attention it’s the docus that are especially rich this year: Frederick Wiseman is joined by Sergei Loznitsa makes back to...
- 7/29/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
On the heels of yesterday's Toronto Film Festival announcement, this morning we get the lineup for the 2015 Venice Film Festival and, as always, there's a little crossover with some films set to premiere on the Lido ahead of their Toronto (and/or Telluride premieres). Some of the titles not screening at Toronto (at least not yet) that will premiere at Venice include Baltasar Kormakur's Everest, which is serving as the opening night film, Drake Doremus' Equals starring Kristen Stewart, A Bigger Splash from Luca Guadagnino, Go With Me directed by Daniel Alfredson, Dito Montiel's Man Down, Amy Berg's Janis as well as a new, 16-minute short film from Martin Scorsese titled The Audition and a Brian De Palma documentary directed by Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow. There's also buzz building for The Childhood of a Leader directed by Brady Corbet and starring Robert Pattinson and Berenice Bejo.
- 7/29/2015
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The Venice Film Festival has become one of the longest-running events on the festival circuit, its veteran status giving it a level of prestige that has only been heightened by the films that have screened at the event. Having first started in 1932, a number of movies that have gone on to be classics have won prizes at the festival, including Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon, Satyajit Ray’s Aparajito, and Alain Resnais’ Last Year at Marienbad. Interest in the festival’s lineup announcement has thus grown over the years, with many film fans curious to see what the organisers select to play at the event, due to its stature. The full lineup for the 2015 incarnation of the festival, the 72nd one in the festival’s history, has now been announced. The festival itself will run from September 2nd to the 12th, with a jury that includes Alfonso Cuarón, Nuri Bilge Ceylan,...
- 7/29/2015
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
The Danish Girl, starring Eddie Redmayne, and Atom Egoyan’s Remember among the 21 competition titles.Scroll down for full line-up
The 72nd Venice Film Festival (Sept 2-12) has unveiled the 55 features – mixing star vehicles and international auteurs – that will make up this year’s official selection.
Venice director Alberto Barbera and Biennale president Paolo Baratta announced the line-up this morning.
As previously announced, Baltasar Kormakur’s mountaineering thriller Everest, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, will open the festival on Sept 2. The Universal release will play out of competition.
Birdman, last year’s opening night film, went on to be named best picture at this year’s Academy Awards, while multiple Oscar-winner Gravity bowed at the 2013 edition.
Venice also revealed that Guan Hu’s Mr Six will close the festival on Sept 12. Feng Xiaogang plays the title character, a former gangster living alone with various illnesses, who is tempted back into the business by his son.
Competition titles...
The 72nd Venice Film Festival (Sept 2-12) has unveiled the 55 features – mixing star vehicles and international auteurs – that will make up this year’s official selection.
Venice director Alberto Barbera and Biennale president Paolo Baratta announced the line-up this morning.
As previously announced, Baltasar Kormakur’s mountaineering thriller Everest, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, will open the festival on Sept 2. The Universal release will play out of competition.
Birdman, last year’s opening night film, went on to be named best picture at this year’s Academy Awards, while multiple Oscar-winner Gravity bowed at the 2013 edition.
Venice also revealed that Guan Hu’s Mr Six will close the festival on Sept 12. Feng Xiaogang plays the title character, a former gangster living alone with various illnesses, who is tempted back into the business by his son.
Competition titles...
- 7/29/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Some of the most anticipated movies of the Fall will make their debut at the four major festivals that annual suck up the movie world's attention during a five-week period beginning in September. The New York Film Festival has already revealed that "The Walk," "Steve Jobs" and "Miles Away" will be its major galas. The 40th Toronto International Film Festival announced its initial wave of selections on Tuesday giving away many of the "secret" premieres at the Telluride Film Festival over Labor Day weekend. Earlier this month Venice announced it would open with Universal Pictures' "Everest" and debut Scott Cooper's "Black Mass" with Johnny Depp out of competition. Now, the festival has unveiled a majority of its slate with some very exciting surprises. The biggest news is that Tom Hooper's "The Danish Girl" will have its world premiere in Venice. The highly anticipated drama has already generated...
- 7/29/2015
- by Gregory Ellwood
- Hitfix
Well, this can probably be filed under “Potentially Fascinating Premise About Deeply Evil Shit That I Hope Never Happens To Me Or Anyone I Love.” Like Andrew Jarecki’s divisive miniseries “The Jinx,” Amy Berg’s new film “Prophet’s Prey” is preoccupied with a very specific kind of American monster. The creep focused on in Berg’s newest film is one Warren Jeffs, former president of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints, the most prominent polygamous Mormon sect in North America, who was eventually convicted of two counts of sexual assault against a pair of underage girls and then subsequently sentenced to life in prison. The new trailer for “Prophet’s Prey,” which tells Jeffs’ story using interviews with family, former wives and church members, is almost unbelievably unnerving, practically from the first frame. And yet this brief glimpse also offers a look at the personal hellscape Jeffs forged for himself,...
- 7/15/2015
- by Nicholas Laskin
- The Playlist
There can be no TV show without a pilot. But making a successful pilot requires hitting different targets than the ones writers aim for when working on a series episode. “A pilot is very different from a regular episode,” “DaVinci’s Demons creator Amy Berg said Saturday at Comic-Con International in San Diego. “You have to ask the question ‘why now?’ Why you’re entering the show as opposed to six months ago or six months from now. It usually involves a change in the main character’s situation. Alteration of status quo.” Berg appeared as part of “Inside the Writer’s Room: The Pilot.
- 7/13/2015
- by Linda Ge
- The Wrap
Pitched somewhere between a David Fincher crime procedural, a Denis Lehane suspense novel, and a “Mommie Dearest” melodrama, documentarian Amy Berg’s move into the feature-length world of drama is, by nature of the material, an uneven one. It’s not for lack of trying, however. Making her narrative debut here, Berg directs the hell out of every crime segment in the film, and there’s a strong level of craft in sequences that would make Fincher and “Se7en” Dp Darius Khondji proud. Nicole Holofcener’s adaptation of the book doesn’t have any real egregious material, at least not in its dialogue. But there’s something lost in the translation from the psychological suspense novel by author Laura Lippmann: what likely reads as gripping, disturbing, and haunting on the page is occasionally engaging, but strains suspension of disbelief and credulity throughout on the screen. It also leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
- 5/12/2015
- by Rodrigo Perez
- The Playlist
Prophet’s Prey (2015) Film Review from the 37th Annual Sundance Film Festival, a movie directed by Amy Berg. You’ve seen the headlines, you’ve heard the myths; this is the real, unfiltered, behind-the-scenes view of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and its leader/prophet Warren Jeffs. Director Amy Berg (
Continue reading: Film Review: Prophet’S Prey: Nauseating Abuse Bound To Repeat Itself [Sff 2015]...
Continue reading: Film Review: Prophet’S Prey: Nauseating Abuse Bound To Repeat Itself [Sff 2015]...
- 4/21/2015
- by Drew Stelter
- Film-Book
Wes Anderson's "The Grand Budapest Hotel" won the Original Screenplay honor at the recently concluded Writers Guild Awards while Morten Tyldum's "The Imitation Game" took home the Adapted Screenplay trophy. "The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swarts" written by Brian Knappenberger won Documentary Screenplay award. The film is not nominated for an Academy award.
In TV land, HBO's "True Detective" won the Drama Series award and FX's "Louie" received the Comedy Series trophy.
Here's the complete list of winners (highlighted) and nominees of the 2015 Writers Guild Awards:
Feature Film
Original Screenplay
Boyhood, Written by Richard Linklater; IFC Films
Foxcatcher, Written by E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman; Sony Pictures Classics
The Grand Budapest Hotel, Screenplay by Wes Anderson; Story by Wes Anderson & Hugo Guinness; Fox Searchlight Winner
Nightcrawler, Written by Dan Gilroy; Open Road Films
Whiplash, Written by Damien Chazelle; Sony Pictures Classics
Adapted Screenplay
American Sniper,...
In TV land, HBO's "True Detective" won the Drama Series award and FX's "Louie" received the Comedy Series trophy.
Here's the complete list of winners (highlighted) and nominees of the 2015 Writers Guild Awards:
Feature Film
Original Screenplay
Boyhood, Written by Richard Linklater; IFC Films
Foxcatcher, Written by E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman; Sony Pictures Classics
The Grand Budapest Hotel, Screenplay by Wes Anderson; Story by Wes Anderson & Hugo Guinness; Fox Searchlight Winner
Nightcrawler, Written by Dan Gilroy; Open Road Films
Whiplash, Written by Damien Chazelle; Sony Pictures Classics
Adapted Screenplay
American Sniper,...
- 2/16/2015
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
The Writers Guild of America announced the TV nominees for the 2015 WGA Awards on Thursday (December 4) morning and several new shows broke into the fields in a big way. And, of course, there were a number of big WGA Award nomination head-scratchers. Specifically, where the heck was FX's "Fargo"? The answer is below. Making perhaps the biggest splash was "Transparent," which earned three nominations and, since "Orange Is The New Black" earned two nods and "House of Cards" pick up one, that meant that Amazon Prime and Netflix are, at least for one award-giving organization, on equal footing as creators of original programming. The Jill Soloway-created "Transparent" is nominated for New Series, where it will go against "The Affair," "The Knick," "Silicon Valley" and "True Detective." "Transparent" and "Silicon Valley" are also up for Comedy Series, going against "Louie," "Veep" and "Orange Is The New Black." Lest you panic...
- 12/5/2014
- by Daniel Fienberg
- Hitfix
Hollywood — You might not have heard the name Nicole Perlman much as it pertains to Marvel properties, but she's a big reason why "Guardians of the Galaxy" will be making its way to theaters next weekend. She toiled away as a screenwriter for a few years after her days at Nyu, cooking up projects with a science bent because that's where her passions lie — projects like "Challenger," a fascinating account of the investigation of the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster written as a love letter to Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman. Then, she made her way to the comic book giant under the company's now-defunct screenwriting program and plucked the intergalactic heroes from obscurity, setting them on a crash course for the silver screen. It may be largely James Gunn's colorful vision on that screen, but it's definitely Perlman's passion that helped bring the property to the table in the first place.
- 7/23/2014
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
Last week, Felicia Day's YouTube channel Geek & Sundry debuted their latest live-action scripted show, Caper. Created by Amy Berg (Leverage, Eureka) and Mike Sizemore (Slingers), it concerns a team of impoverished superheroes who reluctantly turn to a life of crime, only to quickly find that it's a big mistake...
Based on the first two episodes of the show's nine-episode first season, here's why you should be watching, and how it comments on the superhero genre and tells its own story within it.
First off, it's fun. The series is directed in a fittingly comic book style, and even capers gleefully into motion comic-style animation for the action sequences; presumably not only to save on budget (superpowers can be pricey), but also as an effective stylistic choice. Our heroes (or protagonists, at least—more on that later; or, to put it another way: to be continued) are the underdogs, at...
Based on the first two episodes of the show's nine-episode first season, here's why you should be watching, and how it comments on the superhero genre and tells its own story within it.
First off, it's fun. The series is directed in a fittingly comic book style, and even capers gleefully into motion comic-style animation for the action sequences; presumably not only to save on budget (superpowers can be pricey), but also as an effective stylistic choice. Our heroes (or protagonists, at least—more on that later; or, to put it another way: to be continued) are the underdogs, at...
- 2/19/2014
- Shadowlocked
The Geek and Sundry channel has always been closely tied to YouTube, featuring heavily in the site's Original Channels Initiative as well as its themed Geek Week. For its latest series, however, Geek and Sundry is branching out. Felicia Day's nerd-centric hub will make its Hulu debut through Caper, a sci-fi series about three "immortals" and their human roommate. Caper, created by TV vet Amy Berg, stars Justified's Abby Miller as Penny, a human who must fit in with her three roommates, all of whom are super-powered, immortal beings. Not to be outdone, Penny herself is a superhero, possessing an Iron Man-like metal suit. The lack of financial compensation for crime fighting causes rent to become tight, so the four roommates decide to pull off a heist, though they call it a Caper because that sounds better. Caper will run for nine total episodes, with the first two arriving on Hulu,...
- 2/5/2014
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Saving the day might be noble work, but it doesn't pay the rent -- which is exactly the problem that forces the crime fighters in Amy Berg's new web series Caper to switch sides for the ultimate heist …or so they hope. The trailer for the Web series created for Felicia Day's Geek & Sundry channel was unveiled during a fan event held at L.A.'s Meltdown Comics yesterday, with Berg and the show's lead cast -- Beth Riesgraf, Harry Shum Jr., Hartley Sawyer and Justified's Abby Miller -- in attendance (you can watch the trailer below). Story: 'Glee' Alum, 'Justified' Actress
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- 1/29/2014
- by Graeme McMillan
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Harry Shum, Jr. has a Caper, Daniel Radcliffe debuts his Igor hairstyle, Idina Menzel sparkles in “Let It Be”
While I wasn’t surprised to see Macklemore & Lewis receive seven Grammy nominations announced, I was a bit shocked that their entry for Song of the Year turned out to be “Same Love” featuring Mary Lambert. They’ll be taking on Pink, Katy Perry, Lordes, and Bruno Mars in the category.
Catching Fire is fighting for its third week at the top of the box office against Frozen, with both films expected to do around $30 million.
An anti-gay group in Russia is posting a bounty for information that can lead to the exposure of Glbt teachers under the guise that they must be promoting homosexuality to their students in violation of the law.
Congratulations to Hunting Season, who hit their Kickstarter goal of $150,000 at the last minute, enabling them to make a second,...
While I wasn’t surprised to see Macklemore & Lewis receive seven Grammy nominations announced, I was a bit shocked that their entry for Song of the Year turned out to be “Same Love” featuring Mary Lambert. They’ll be taking on Pink, Katy Perry, Lordes, and Bruno Mars in the category.
Catching Fire is fighting for its third week at the top of the box office against Frozen, with both films expected to do around $30 million.
An anti-gay group in Russia is posting a bounty for information that can lead to the exposure of Glbt teachers under the guise that they must be promoting homosexuality to their students in violation of the law.
Congratulations to Hunting Season, who hit their Kickstarter goal of $150,000 at the last minute, enabling them to make a second,...
- 12/8/2013
- by Ed Kennedy
- The Backlot
There’s a whole world of superhero-related comedy that has yet to be fully explored because, quite ridiculously, most audiences are too wrapped up in the more serious ventures put out by Marvel and DC in the form of movies and television dramas. But that’s why we have brilliant minds like Felicia Day, who has created a platform where less typical types of programs can be tackled. Day’s Geek & Sundry YouTube channel is going to be the future home of a new web series from Amy Berg and Mike Sizemore, called Caper. It’s the exact kind of silliness that I’ve been wanting from a superhero series for the longest time.
The web series will reunite Berg with Leverage star Beth Riesgraf, who will be playing one of four superheroes who, according to THR, are forced to consider a life of crime in order to fund their crime-fighting lifestyles.
The web series will reunite Berg with Leverage star Beth Riesgraf, who will be playing one of four superheroes who, according to THR, are forced to consider a life of crime in order to fund their crime-fighting lifestyles.
- 10/19/2013
- by Brody Gibson
- Boomtron
Now that the full WonderCon 2013 schedule has been released, we know what other genre projects will be joining the already announced Evil Dead and "Under the Dome." It looks like a very busy weekend for horror fans!
Below you'll find a majority of the WonderCon 2013 horror highlights (and a few fringy panels that we thought might have crossover appeal). For all the latest updates visit the official WonderCon website.
Friday, March 29
3:00pm - Exclusive Warner Bros. Television Screenings of "Revolution," "Arrow," and "The Following" (more info here) - Arena
6:30pm - Netflix's "Hemlock Grove" - Room 300De
From executive producer Eli Roth (Cabin Fever) and based on Brian McGreevy's novel of the same name, Netflix's Hemlock Grove is a riveting one-hour murder mystery series that revolves around the residents of a former Pennsylvania steel town. When 17-year-old Brooke Bluebell is brutally murdered, any of Hemlock's peculiar inhabitants-or killer creatures-could be suspects.
Below you'll find a majority of the WonderCon 2013 horror highlights (and a few fringy panels that we thought might have crossover appeal). For all the latest updates visit the official WonderCon website.
Friday, March 29
3:00pm - Exclusive Warner Bros. Television Screenings of "Revolution," "Arrow," and "The Following" (more info here) - Arena
6:30pm - Netflix's "Hemlock Grove" - Room 300De
From executive producer Eli Roth (Cabin Fever) and based on Brian McGreevy's novel of the same name, Netflix's Hemlock Grove is a riveting one-hour murder mystery series that revolves around the residents of a former Pennsylvania steel town. When 17-year-old Brooke Bluebell is brutally murdered, any of Hemlock's peculiar inhabitants-or killer creatures-could be suspects.
- 3/17/2013
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
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