Another new series from Norman Lear is coming to Netflix, but this time around the King of Sitcoms is tackling drama. The streaming service has greenlit “The Corps,” the working title of a new comedy-drama starring Vera Farmiga, Miles Heizer, Max Parker and Liam Oh.
Set in the 1990s, the drama will follow Cameron (Heizer), a high school student who is bullied for being gay. He decides to join the Marine Corps along with his straight best friend Ray (Oh) during a time when being gay in the military could mean jail time. The 10-episode series is inspired by the memoir “The Pink Marine” by Greg Cope White.
Prior to “The Corps,” Heizer is best known for starring in “13 Reasons Why” as Alex Standell. He’s also starred in “Nerves” as well as “Rails and Ties.” He will be joined by “The Departed” and “The Many Saints of Newark” star Farmiga,...
Set in the 1990s, the drama will follow Cameron (Heizer), a high school student who is bullied for being gay. He decides to join the Marine Corps along with his straight best friend Ray (Oh) during a time when being gay in the military could mean jail time. The 10-episode series is inspired by the memoir “The Pink Marine” by Greg Cope White.
Prior to “The Corps,” Heizer is best known for starring in “13 Reasons Why” as Alex Standell. He’s also starred in “Nerves” as well as “Rails and Ties.” He will be joined by “The Departed” and “The Many Saints of Newark” star Farmiga,...
- 5/1/2023
- by Kayla Cobb
- The Wrap
Micky Levy, to direct psychological horror.
Angela Sarafyan (Westworld) and Shohreh Aghdashloo (The House Of Sand And Fog) have been cast in the psychological horror She’s Not Gone which The Coven is launching for worldwide sales at Cannes market.
Micky Levy, who wrote the Warner Bros. feature Rails And Ties starring Kevin Bacon and Marcia Gay Harden, will direct the story about a woman who must battle her demonic inheritance and untangle her mother’s secretive past to save herself and two young children.
“The film explores the deep bond between mothers and daughters and delves into the experience...
Angela Sarafyan (Westworld) and Shohreh Aghdashloo (The House Of Sand And Fog) have been cast in the psychological horror She’s Not Gone which The Coven is launching for worldwide sales at Cannes market.
Micky Levy, who wrote the Warner Bros. feature Rails And Ties starring Kevin Bacon and Marcia Gay Harden, will direct the story about a woman who must battle her demonic inheritance and untangle her mother’s secretive past to save herself and two young children.
“The film explores the deep bond between mothers and daughters and delves into the experience...
- 4/30/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
From Warner Bros. Pictures, Imperative Entertainment and Bron Creative comes Clint Eastwood’s newest feature film, the drama The Mule.
In addition to directing, the veteran actor will step in front of the lens again, alongside fellow stars Bradley Cooper, Laurence Fishburne, Michael Peña, Dianne Wiest and Andy Garcia, as well as Alison Eastwood, Taissa Farmiga, Ignacio Serricchio and Loren Dean, Eugene Cordero.
Eastwood stars as Earl Stone, a man in his 80s who is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he’s just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. He does well—so well, in fact, that his cargo increases exponentially, and Earl is assigned a handler. But he isn’t the only one keeping tabs on Earl; the mysterious new drug mule has also...
In addition to directing, the veteran actor will step in front of the lens again, alongside fellow stars Bradley Cooper, Laurence Fishburne, Michael Peña, Dianne Wiest and Andy Garcia, as well as Alison Eastwood, Taissa Farmiga, Ignacio Serricchio and Loren Dean, Eugene Cordero.
Eastwood stars as Earl Stone, a man in his 80s who is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he’s just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. He does well—so well, in fact, that his cargo increases exponentially, and Earl is assigned a handler. But he isn’t the only one keeping tabs on Earl; the mysterious new drug mule has also...
- 12/13/2018
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
A tribute to actor Daniel Day-Lewis, new documentaries from Barbet Schroeder, Werner Herzog and Kevin Macdonald, a spotlight on such Israeli films as The Band's Visit and Jellyfish and a restoration of King Vidor's classic silent film The Big Parade are all part of the jampacked program that will greet cineastes making the pilgrimage this weekend to the 34th annual Telluride Film Festival.
The high-altitude, informal, equalitarian festival, which runs today through Monday, has undergone change at the top: Bill and Stella Pence, who co-founded the fest in 1974 with Tom Luddy and the late James Card, announced their resignation last year and will not participate in this year's gathering. Longtime Telluride participant Gary Meyer has joined Luddy as co-director.
But festivalgoers aren't likely to see changes because of the transition. "Emotionally, it was very different," Luddy said. "I kept thinking about 33 years of having constant conversations with my partner and friend Bill Pence, but Gary Meyer is also an old friend. Bill and I both identified Gary as really the one and only candidate to replace Bill when that day would come," Luddy added, noting of the partial changing of the guard that "it was pretty smooth, very harmonious and very efficient."
As usual, there will be first looks at Hollywood product that could well figure in the fall's awards race. The lineup includes Sean Penn's Into the Wild, an adaptation of Jon Krakauer's account of a fateful trip into the Alaskan wilderness, which will be released by Paramount Vantage; Noah Baumbach, in his first film since The Squid and the Whale, looks at two contentious sisters (Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh) in Paramount Vantage's Margot at the Wedding; Todd Haynes' Bob Dylan study I'm Not There, from the Weinstein Co.; and Allison Eastwood, making her directorial debut with the family drama Rails and Ties, starring Kevin Bacon and Marcia Gay Harden, from Warner Independent Pictures.
There also is a strong selection of titles that earned critical applause at May's Festival de Cannes. "Cannes had a very strong year", Luddy said. "Normally, we try to show a number of films from Cannes, but I think we're showing many more than usual, and I think we could have included a lot more."
The program includes Cannes' Palme d'Or winner, Romanian director Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, which IFC Films has picked up for U.S.
The high-altitude, informal, equalitarian festival, which runs today through Monday, has undergone change at the top: Bill and Stella Pence, who co-founded the fest in 1974 with Tom Luddy and the late James Card, announced their resignation last year and will not participate in this year's gathering. Longtime Telluride participant Gary Meyer has joined Luddy as co-director.
But festivalgoers aren't likely to see changes because of the transition. "Emotionally, it was very different," Luddy said. "I kept thinking about 33 years of having constant conversations with my partner and friend Bill Pence, but Gary Meyer is also an old friend. Bill and I both identified Gary as really the one and only candidate to replace Bill when that day would come," Luddy added, noting of the partial changing of the guard that "it was pretty smooth, very harmonious and very efficient."
As usual, there will be first looks at Hollywood product that could well figure in the fall's awards race. The lineup includes Sean Penn's Into the Wild, an adaptation of Jon Krakauer's account of a fateful trip into the Alaskan wilderness, which will be released by Paramount Vantage; Noah Baumbach, in his first film since The Squid and the Whale, looks at two contentious sisters (Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh) in Paramount Vantage's Margot at the Wedding; Todd Haynes' Bob Dylan study I'm Not There, from the Weinstein Co.; and Allison Eastwood, making her directorial debut with the family drama Rails and Ties, starring Kevin Bacon and Marcia Gay Harden, from Warner Independent Pictures.
There also is a strong selection of titles that earned critical applause at May's Festival de Cannes. "Cannes had a very strong year", Luddy said. "Normally, we try to show a number of films from Cannes, but I think we're showing many more than usual, and I think we could have included a lot more."
The program includes Cannes' Palme d'Or winner, Romanian director Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, which IFC Films has picked up for U.S.
- 8/31/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Kevin Bacon has joined the cast of Frost/Nixon, Working Title Films and Universal Pictures' adaptation of the hit Peter Morgan play. Ron Howard is directing, while Working Title partners Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner are producing with Imagine Entertainment's Brian Grazer.
The play is based on a series of televised interviews that David Frost secured with former President Nixon in 1977. The final interview ended with Nixon tacitly admitting his guilt regarding his role in the Watergate scandal.
Frank Langella and Michael Sheen are reprising their Broadway roles as Nixon and Frost, respectively.
Bacon, who is set to play Nixon's chief of staff Jack Brennan, joins Sam Rockwell, Toby Jones and Matthew Macfadyen.
Shooting will begin in late summer.
Bacon next stars in Death Sentence, a revenge drama from 20th Century Fox that is set for release in August, as well as in Alison Eastwood's Rails and Ties, being released by Warner Independent Pictures. He is repped by Endeavor and attorney Fred Gaines.
The play is based on a series of televised interviews that David Frost secured with former President Nixon in 1977. The final interview ended with Nixon tacitly admitting his guilt regarding his role in the Watergate scandal.
Frank Langella and Michael Sheen are reprising their Broadway roles as Nixon and Frost, respectively.
Bacon, who is set to play Nixon's chief of staff Jack Brennan, joins Sam Rockwell, Toby Jones and Matthew Macfadyen.
Shooting will begin in late summer.
Bacon next stars in Death Sentence, a revenge drama from 20th Century Fox that is set for release in August, as well as in Alison Eastwood's Rails and Ties, being released by Warner Independent Pictures. He is repped by Endeavor and attorney Fred Gaines.
Kevin Bacon and Marcia Gay Harden are in negotiations to star in Rails and Ties, a Warner Independent Pictures drama that will mark the feature directorial debut of Alison Eastwood.
Eastwood, an actress, is the daughter of filmmaker Clint Eastwood, and his Malpaso Prods. is behind the film. Malpaso's Rob Lorenz is producing along with Peer Oppenheimer and Barrett Stuart.
The script by Micky Levy tells of the physical, emotional and psychological collision of two families that is set in motion when a suicidal mother parks her car, with her 9-year old son inside, on a railroad crossing and awaits the arrival of a speeding train. Bacon will play the train engineer, while Harden will be his wife.
Production is to begin in early 2007 in Los Angeles.
Harden won an Oscar for 2003's Pollock and was nominated for an Oscar for Eastwood's Mystic River. Her upcoming films include The Invisible, a supernatural thriller directed by David Goyer, and The Dead Girl, a thriller by Karen Moncrieff. She is repped by CAA and Framework Entertainment.
Eastwood, an actress, is the daughter of filmmaker Clint Eastwood, and his Malpaso Prods. is behind the film. Malpaso's Rob Lorenz is producing along with Peer Oppenheimer and Barrett Stuart.
The script by Micky Levy tells of the physical, emotional and psychological collision of two families that is set in motion when a suicidal mother parks her car, with her 9-year old son inside, on a railroad crossing and awaits the arrival of a speeding train. Bacon will play the train engineer, while Harden will be his wife.
Production is to begin in early 2007 in Los Angeles.
Harden won an Oscar for 2003's Pollock and was nominated for an Oscar for Eastwood's Mystic River. Her upcoming films include The Invisible, a supernatural thriller directed by David Goyer, and The Dead Girl, a thriller by Karen Moncrieff. She is repped by CAA and Framework Entertainment.
- 10/26/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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