If you’re 25, Elvis Presley died 20 years before you were born. “Oh, yeah, they don’t care [about Elvis],” said “Elvis” director Baz Luhrmann, who sat down with me in a sunny suite at the Ja Marriott shortly before his film premiered in Cannes. “In a way, I like that. Because they’re very honest about it. Even when I was a fan as a kid, I was more Bowie and Elvis became wallpaper. And I think they know him through ‘Lilo and Stitch,’ or he’s in a video game. Like he’s the guy in the white jumpsuit.”
Never say that the Australian director isn’t down for a challenge. On his first trip to Cannes three decades ago, he walked the Croisette in a warm wool suit looking for financing for his first feature, “Strictly Ballroom.” Since then he’s made “Romeo + Juliet,” Cannes 2000 opening-night dazzler “Moulin Rouge,...
Never say that the Australian director isn’t down for a challenge. On his first trip to Cannes three decades ago, he walked the Croisette in a warm wool suit looking for financing for his first feature, “Strictly Ballroom.” Since then he’s made “Romeo + Juliet,” Cannes 2000 opening-night dazzler “Moulin Rouge,...
- 5/26/2022
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
The Dirty Knobs, the new band led by Mike Campbell, have released the single “Fuck That Guy” from their upcoming album Wreckless Abandon, out November 20th via BMG. Co-written by Campbell and Chris Stapleton, the song is accompanied by an appropriate “fuck you” to the horrible pandemic we’re all living through: a video that sees the band giving Covid-19 a royal kick in the teeth, literally.
Jeff Garlin (Curb Your Enthusiasm) stars as a walking embodiment of the novel coronavirus, giant red fuzzball for a head and all. As he walks down the street,...
Jeff Garlin (Curb Your Enthusiasm) stars as a walking embodiment of the novel coronavirus, giant red fuzzball for a head and all. As he walks down the street,...
- 10/26/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
The producers of this year’s 72nd Emmy Awards promised some unexpected moments, and it didn’t take long for that to come true. That is, if you classify “almost burning down the Staples Center” as unexpected.
While announcing the very first Emmy on Sunday night with presenter Jennifer Aniston, host Jimmy Kimmel sprayed the envelope with Lysol, and then set it on fire to jokingly sterilize it. Aniston was there with a fire extinguisher — but unlike in rehearsals, the stubborn fire wouldn’t go out. By the third time the flames reappeared, neither Aniston nor Kimmel noticed — until the stage manager alerted them.
“That was very scary, by the way,” said “Jimmy Kimmel Live” co-head writer Molly McNearney, who was backstage at the Staples Center on Sunday, and spoke to Variety after the telecast to share the behind the scenes tales of how the night went. “Not a great...
While announcing the very first Emmy on Sunday night with presenter Jennifer Aniston, host Jimmy Kimmel sprayed the envelope with Lysol, and then set it on fire to jokingly sterilize it. Aniston was there with a fire extinguisher — but unlike in rehearsals, the stubborn fire wouldn’t go out. By the third time the flames reappeared, neither Aniston nor Kimmel noticed — until the stage manager alerted them.
“That was very scary, by the way,” said “Jimmy Kimmel Live” co-head writer Molly McNearney, who was backstage at the Staples Center on Sunday, and spoke to Variety after the telecast to share the behind the scenes tales of how the night went. “Not a great...
- 9/21/2020
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
As the U.K.’s coronavirus crisis steadily escalated, Argonon Group-owned Britespark Films raced to complete a fast turnaround documentary on the pandemic for broadcaster Channel 4. Britespark director of programs Tom Porter details the extreme logistical hurdles involved.
For creative director Nick Godwin and I at Britespark Films, in the midst of a coronavirus-induced industry freeze, there has been one genre in which new business has still been commissioned — news and current affairs.
As the net of the lockdown closed around the country, Louisa Compton, newly appointed head of news and current affairs at Channel 4, asked us to make an hour-long film (for investigative doc strand) ‘Dispatches’ on the long-view of the crisis entitled, “Coronavirus: How Britain’s Changing.”
The initial excitement at landing the commission was soon tempered as we surveyed the task ahead: producing an hour of television in the relatively fast turnaround of four weeks, but...
For creative director Nick Godwin and I at Britespark Films, in the midst of a coronavirus-induced industry freeze, there has been one genre in which new business has still been commissioned — news and current affairs.
As the net of the lockdown closed around the country, Louisa Compton, newly appointed head of news and current affairs at Channel 4, asked us to make an hour-long film (for investigative doc strand) ‘Dispatches’ on the long-view of the crisis entitled, “Coronavirus: How Britain’s Changing.”
The initial excitement at landing the commission was soon tempered as we surveyed the task ahead: producing an hour of television in the relatively fast turnaround of four weeks, but...
- 4/1/2020
- by Tom Porter
- Variety Film + TV
King's Gambit is a fantasy drama from the mind of Joseph Sayer. Sayer wrote and produced this feature, which follows a Herald and his mystical journal. His notebook has the ability to change global events and this power brings a legion of adversaries.
King's Gambit will release in theatres and in home theatres this April 3rd, 2020.
King's Gambit hosts a large cast including Blake Webb of "American Horror Story" fame stars as Bryce, the Herald. Rebecca Galaraza (The Investigator) also stars as Ashley, along with Reggie Peters (HazMat) and Wade Hunt Williams.
Indican Pictures will show King' Gambit in early April. This title is expected to see a limited screening on April 3rd. This initial release will be followed by another on Digital and DVD.
Check out...
King's Gambit will release in theatres and in home theatres this April 3rd, 2020.
King's Gambit hosts a large cast including Blake Webb of "American Horror Story" fame stars as Bryce, the Herald. Rebecca Galaraza (The Investigator) also stars as Ashley, along with Reggie Peters (HazMat) and Wade Hunt Williams.
Indican Pictures will show King' Gambit in early April. This title is expected to see a limited screening on April 3rd. This initial release will be followed by another on Digital and DVD.
Check out...
- 3/26/2020
- QuietEarth.us
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