As Anthony D’Amato preps backstage at Sony Hall in midtown Manhattan, it’s hard not to notice his six-foot height, horn-rimmed glasses — and the name “Amy” in large black letters on the side of his head. It’s not a tattoo, just black liquid eyeliner easy to wash off, but it suits the occasion. In a few minutes, the New Jerseyan and his 12-piece band will walk onstage, take their places beneath an LED sign lit up with Amy Winehouse’s first name and a simulation of her signature beehive,...
- 4/25/2024
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
They’ve all done it. Agatha Christie invented Ariadne Oliver. Kurt Vonnegut invented Kilgore Trout. Stephen King invented Paul Sheldon… Novelists can’t resist putting novelists at the centre of their books, often for sly satires on fandom, fame and the publishing world itself. Now, mega-successful crime author Richard Osman has written a book about a mega-successful crime author.
Osman announced last year that he was planning to take a break from his best-selling retirement village-set The Thursday Murder Club series, and writing a brand new novel. Now, he’s announced the first details of that book, and revealed its cover and title. Out in September 2024, Richard Osman’s next book published by Penguin Books will be We Solve Murders.
As explained in the video below, We Solve Murders is the story of an unlikely trio doing just that, but unlike the mismatched retirement community Thursday gang, these characters are globe-trotting sleuths.
Osman announced last year that he was planning to take a break from his best-selling retirement village-set The Thursday Murder Club series, and writing a brand new novel. Now, he’s announced the first details of that book, and revealed its cover and title. Out in September 2024, Richard Osman’s next book published by Penguin Books will be We Solve Murders.
As explained in the video below, We Solve Murders is the story of an unlikely trio doing just that, but unlike the mismatched retirement community Thursday gang, these characters are globe-trotting sleuths.
- 2/20/2024
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Stuart Ford’s AGC Television has boarded the series adaptation of F.G. Haghenbeck’s novel, ‘Primavera del Mal’ (‘The Spring of Evil’) alongside Mexican-American filmmaker Fernando Lebrija of Cielo Content and Irreversible Pictures.
To be retitled “Amapola,” the upcoming historical drama series is set in the early 20th century when the Chinese held sway over the drug trade along the Mexican-u.S. border.
In the world of illicit trade, adopted siblings Raul Duval and Miguel Ying have successfully grown their family’s opium enterprise. Their ambitions now extend beyond mere cultivation as they seek to broaden their reach and increase their political influence. However, their aspirations take an unexpected turn when American mobster Bugsy Siegel arrives in Mexico City, offering them a golden opportunity.
Situated strategically between Nogales, Mexico, and Tucson, Arizona, the Ying family steers their course through the treacherous waters of the drug trade bridging Mexico and the U.
To be retitled “Amapola,” the upcoming historical drama series is set in the early 20th century when the Chinese held sway over the drug trade along the Mexican-u.S. border.
In the world of illicit trade, adopted siblings Raul Duval and Miguel Ying have successfully grown their family’s opium enterprise. Their ambitions now extend beyond mere cultivation as they seek to broaden their reach and increase their political influence. However, their aspirations take an unexpected turn when American mobster Bugsy Siegel arrives in Mexico City, offering them a golden opportunity.
Situated strategically between Nogales, Mexico, and Tucson, Arizona, the Ying family steers their course through the treacherous waters of the drug trade bridging Mexico and the U.
- 10/17/2023
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Suzanne Somers, who perfected the bimbo blonde and helped turn a fitness fad into a surefire phenomenon, has died after a battle with cancer. Somers was 76.
A statement issued by Suzanne Somers’ publicity announced the death on Sunday. “Suzanne Somers passed away peacefully at home in the early morning hours of October 15th. She survived an aggressive form of breast cancer for over 23 years…Suzanne was surrounded by her loving husband Alan, her son Bruce, and her immediate family…Her family was gathered to celebrate her 77th birthday on October 16th. Instead, they will celebrate her extraordinary life, and want to thank her millions of fans and followers who loved her dearly.”
As noted in the announcement, Suzanne Somers would have celebrated her birthday on Monday. Ahead of this, the actress even told People that she was looking forward to spending the day with family, including her husband of 45+ years,...
A statement issued by Suzanne Somers’ publicity announced the death on Sunday. “Suzanne Somers passed away peacefully at home in the early morning hours of October 15th. She survived an aggressive form of breast cancer for over 23 years…Suzanne was surrounded by her loving husband Alan, her son Bruce, and her immediate family…Her family was gathered to celebrate her 77th birthday on October 16th. Instead, they will celebrate her extraordinary life, and want to thank her millions of fans and followers who loved her dearly.”
As noted in the announcement, Suzanne Somers would have celebrated her birthday on Monday. Ahead of this, the actress even told People that she was looking forward to spending the day with family, including her husband of 45+ years,...
- 10/15/2023
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com
Dame Joan Collins is set to play Wallis Simpson in a new biopic.The 90-year-old actress revealed she is hoping to play the late Duchess of Windsor - who died in 1986 aged 89 - in 'In Bed with the Duchess', which will cover the last 15 years of the American divorcee's life.Joan said of Wallis - whose marriage to King Edward VIII caused him to abdicate - in an interview with The Sunday Times magazine: "I’ve read so much about her. She was feisty and she was peppy. She was extremely well dressed. She was great company. "She was never a b****, but people think of her as the worst woman who ever lived. I’ve been so fascinated by that because it just goes to show how you can be tainted by everybody’s opinion, even when it is wrong. In fact, she begged the Prince of Wales not to marry her.
- 7/10/2023
- by Viki Waters
- Bang Showbiz
“Those About to Die,” AGC Television’s upcoming gladiator series from Roland Emmerich, stars Anthony Hopkins and boasts a cast drawn from across Europe and the Middle East. It’s also financially innovative.
Rather than rely on a single, deep-pocketed streamer to write the check for the pricey series, budgeted at $145 million for the first season, AGC adopted a split rights structure: U.S. rights are licensed to Peacock, European rights to Hep, the Herbert Kloiber Sr./Constantin joint venture, and AGC International distributing in the rest of the world.
AGC chairman and CEO Stuart Ford takes pride in proving the naysayers wrong with financing for the project set in ancient Rome and based on Daniel P. Mannix’s book of the same name.
“We’ve assembled the show’s financing through a complex and innovative web of rights deals, banking arrangements and soft money,” Ford says. “We also assembled...
Rather than rely on a single, deep-pocketed streamer to write the check for the pricey series, budgeted at $145 million for the first season, AGC adopted a split rights structure: U.S. rights are licensed to Peacock, European rights to Hep, the Herbert Kloiber Sr./Constantin joint venture, and AGC International distributing in the rest of the world.
AGC chairman and CEO Stuart Ford takes pride in proving the naysayers wrong with financing for the project set in ancient Rome and based on Daniel P. Mannix’s book of the same name.
“We’ve assembled the show’s financing through a complex and innovative web of rights deals, banking arrangements and soft money,” Ford says. “We also assembled...
- 5/9/2023
- by Carole Horst
- Variety Film + TV
Ana de Armas paid her respects to Marilyn Monroe more than once while appearing as the Hollywood icon in Blonde.
The 34-year-old Cuban-Spanish actor stars in the new Netflix movie based on Joyce Carol Oates’ novel of the same name.
In a new interview with Variety, de Armas said that she struggled to move on from the role after filming wrapped.
“I couldn’t say goodbye,” she said. “I couldn’t shake it off. I couldn’t let her go. I went to visit her at her cemetery a few times – I would have liked to go one more time.”
Monroe is buried at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary in Los Angeles. It is also the final resting place of many other stars, including the authors Truman Capote and Jackie Collins, actors Jack Lemmon, Burt Lancaster and Natalie Wood, as well as singers Roy Orbison, Minnie Riperton and Dean Martin.
The 34-year-old Cuban-Spanish actor stars in the new Netflix movie based on Joyce Carol Oates’ novel of the same name.
In a new interview with Variety, de Armas said that she struggled to move on from the role after filming wrapped.
“I couldn’t say goodbye,” she said. “I couldn’t shake it off. I couldn’t let her go. I went to visit her at her cemetery a few times – I would have liked to go one more time.”
Monroe is buried at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary in Los Angeles. It is also the final resting place of many other stars, including the authors Truman Capote and Jackie Collins, actors Jack Lemmon, Burt Lancaster and Natalie Wood, as well as singers Roy Orbison, Minnie Riperton and Dean Martin.
- 9/21/2022
- by Tom Murray
- The Independent - Film
Who knew when the year began that a sequel to a 36-year-old movie starring its 60-year-old actor who headlined the original would be the box office champ so far this year? But “Top Gun: Maverick” starring Tom Cruise, which was released Aug. 23 on digital formats while still flying high in theaters is not only the No. 1 film of the year with a staggering haul of 683.4 million domestically and 720 million overseas. And the acclaimed film didn’t even play in China or Russia. “Top Gun: Maverick” is also the biggest film of Cruise’s career which began in 1981 with Franco Zeffirelli’s “Endless Love.”
And with the digital release, let’s relive 1986, the year we first felt the need for speed and flew into the danger zone. The year the original “Top Gun” took our breath away.
Top 10 Box Office Hits
Top Gun (natch)
Crocodile Dundee
Platoon
The Karate Kid Part...
And with the digital release, let’s relive 1986, the year we first felt the need for speed and flew into the danger zone. The year the original “Top Gun” took our breath away.
Top 10 Box Office Hits
Top Gun (natch)
Crocodile Dundee
Platoon
The Karate Kid Part...
- 8/24/2022
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
The fourth season of Netflix’s “Stranger Things” is set in 1986. Talk about déjà vu.
The top movie of the year was “Top Gun” starring Tom Cruise and this year, the sequel “Top Gun: Maverick” is the top flick earning nearly 582 million in North America. “Cobra Kai,”the TV sequel to “Karate Kid,” is one of the most popular series on Netflix and several “Star Trek” series have blasted off on “Paramount+.
A handful the top ten TV series including “Cheers,” “Murder, She Wrote” and “The Golden Girls” are living on in repeats. One of the top series, “60 Minutes,” is still chugging away on CBS after 54 seasons making it the longest running primetime series on the small screen. And Michael J. Fox, who won the Emmy that year for “Family Ties,” will receive an honorary Oscar this fall.
So, in honor of “Stranger Things” let’s take the time...
The top movie of the year was “Top Gun” starring Tom Cruise and this year, the sequel “Top Gun: Maverick” is the top flick earning nearly 582 million in North America. “Cobra Kai,”the TV sequel to “Karate Kid,” is one of the most popular series on Netflix and several “Star Trek” series have blasted off on “Paramount+.
A handful the top ten TV series including “Cheers,” “Murder, She Wrote” and “The Golden Girls” are living on in repeats. One of the top series, “60 Minutes,” is still chugging away on CBS after 54 seasons making it the longest running primetime series on the small screen. And Michael J. Fox, who won the Emmy that year for “Family Ties,” will receive an honorary Oscar this fall.
So, in honor of “Stranger Things” let’s take the time...
- 7/11/2022
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
With the proliferation of antiseptic mall-sized ultra-modern mansions and cookie cutter “modern farmhouses,” with their acres of white walls, miles of pale French oak floors and vast walls of disappearing glass, the extravagant, playfully flamboyant more-is-better Bel Air compound of corporate housing magnate Howard Ruby and late actress-turned-artist Yvette Mimieux is a much-welcomed architectural and decorative antidote. Famous for his head-in-the-clouds more-is-more aesthetic, late and influential set designer and decorator Tony Duquette would certainly approve.
An L.A. native who passed in January, at 80, Mimieux was discovered in the late 1950s while horseback riding in the Hollywood Hills. She went on to appear in dozens of television shows and films, including Where the Boys Are (1960) and Light in the Piazza (1962). In 1964 she earned a Golden Globe nomination when she became what’s believed to be the first woman to bare her belly button on American TV when she guest-starred on Dr. Kildare.
An L.A. native who passed in January, at 80, Mimieux was discovered in the late 1950s while horseback riding in the Hollywood Hills. She went on to appear in dozens of television shows and films, including Where the Boys Are (1960) and Light in the Piazza (1962). In 1964 she earned a Golden Globe nomination when she became what’s believed to be the first woman to bare her belly button on American TV when she guest-starred on Dr. Kildare.
- 3/3/2022
- by Mark David, Dirt.com
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Author Jackie Collins’ bestselling novel Lovers & Gamblers is to be reworked for TV by Sarah Phelps, the writer of a host of BBC Agatha Christie adaptations.
Lovers & Gamblers is also being exec produced by Phelps alongside The Bureau producer Federation UK’s Polly Williams and Arielle Gottlieb. eOne is onboard as co-producer.
The drama is adapted from the New York Times bestselling 1977 novel of the same name, which examines the harrowing void of greed and complex ideas around self determination, success, fame, independence and intimacy.
“Lovers & Gamblers is a searing scabrous masterpiece,” said Phelps, who has also adapted Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, The Witness for the Prosecution, Ordeal by Innocence, The ABC Murders and The Pale Horse for BBC1 and Amazon as part of a seven-show deal.
“Jackie Collins was ahead of her time, her unflinching eye trained mercilessly on the filthy machinations of politics and...
Lovers & Gamblers is also being exec produced by Phelps alongside The Bureau producer Federation UK’s Polly Williams and Arielle Gottlieb. eOne is onboard as co-producer.
The drama is adapted from the New York Times bestselling 1977 novel of the same name, which examines the harrowing void of greed and complex ideas around self determination, success, fame, independence and intimacy.
“Lovers & Gamblers is a searing scabrous masterpiece,” said Phelps, who has also adapted Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, The Witness for the Prosecution, Ordeal by Innocence, The ABC Murders and The Pale Horse for BBC1 and Amazon as part of a seven-show deal.
“Jackie Collins was ahead of her time, her unflinching eye trained mercilessly on the filthy machinations of politics and...
- 10/5/2021
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix is releasing a film trilogy based on R.L. Stine's best-selling Fear Street horror series.
The first film is Fear Street Part One: 1994, in which teens Shadyside and rival community Sunnyside unwittingly unleashing an evil force that has terrorized Shadyside for 300 years.
Shadyside is the wrong side of town, mired in centuries of dreadful circumstances that plague its residents, earning the nickname Killer Capital, USA.
Its sister city, Sunnyside, has been coined the most beautiful place to live in the US, safe and crime-free for over 30 years.
The contrast is evident as another tragedy befalls Shadyside when several are killed in a local mall massacre.
In very short order, events unfold that require Shadyside High band member Deena (Kiana Maderia) and her erstwhile Sunnyside cheerleader girlfriend, Sam (Olivia Welch), to work together to combat the supernatural force terrorizing them.
Along for the ride are Deena's brother, Josh (Benjamin Flores Jr.), and their friends,...
The first film is Fear Street Part One: 1994, in which teens Shadyside and rival community Sunnyside unwittingly unleashing an evil force that has terrorized Shadyside for 300 years.
Shadyside is the wrong side of town, mired in centuries of dreadful circumstances that plague its residents, earning the nickname Killer Capital, USA.
Its sister city, Sunnyside, has been coined the most beautiful place to live in the US, safe and crime-free for over 30 years.
The contrast is evident as another tragedy befalls Shadyside when several are killed in a local mall massacre.
In very short order, events unfold that require Shadyside High band member Deena (Kiana Maderia) and her erstwhile Sunnyside cheerleader girlfriend, Sam (Olivia Welch), to work together to combat the supernatural force terrorizing them.
Along for the ride are Deena's brother, Josh (Benjamin Flores Jr.), and their friends,...
- 7/1/2021
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
Laura Fairrie’s family-sanctioned film praises the author’s personal courage, work ethic and feminism-lite but doesn’t delve very deep
Mega-selling author Jackie Collins enjoyed her big-haired and shoulder-padded heyday with raunchy books like Hollywood Wives, The Bitch and The Stud; now she is celebrated in this family-sanctioned fan-documentary praising her personal courage in the face of spousal abuse, her work ethic and her feminist-lite celebration of commercial success for sexually attractive women. It’s watchable, with some stinging rebukes for the male snobs – including, I’m sorry to say, Clive James, normally a great pop culture ally, shown here in a gruesome TV clip alongside Bernard Levin mocking Collins in her absence.
Collins grew up in the shadow of her more glamorous older sister Joan Collins, she had some cosmetic work done (which she was delighted with) and tried, like Joan, to crack Hollywood. When that didn’t work out,...
Mega-selling author Jackie Collins enjoyed her big-haired and shoulder-padded heyday with raunchy books like Hollywood Wives, The Bitch and The Stud; now she is celebrated in this family-sanctioned fan-documentary praising her personal courage in the face of spousal abuse, her work ethic and her feminist-lite celebration of commercial success for sexually attractive women. It’s watchable, with some stinging rebukes for the male snobs – including, I’m sorry to say, Clive James, normally a great pop culture ally, shown here in a gruesome TV clip alongside Bernard Levin mocking Collins in her absence.
Collins grew up in the shadow of her more glamorous older sister Joan Collins, she had some cosmetic work done (which she was delighted with) and tried, like Joan, to crack Hollywood. When that didn’t work out,...
- 7/1/2021
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Jackie Collins epitomizes one of the 20th century’s favorite types of star: the celebrity novelist who gets rich and famous writing scandalous best-sellers about fictionalized scandalous celebrities. She rode in from England to Hollywood to take up her throne as the queen of the delectably trashy sex-and-shopping paperbacks, peaking in the Eighties, right around the time her real-life big sister Joan Collins starred in the prime-time soap Dynasty. Jackie turned herself into a wildly successful one-woman factory for fantasies with nuanced titles like The Bitch and The Stud. Yet...
- 6/28/2021
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
This weekly feature is in addition to TVLine’s daily What to Watch listings and monthly guide to What’s on Streaming.
With nearly 500 scripted shows now airing across broadcast, cable and streaming, it’s easy to forget that a favorite comedy is returning, or that the new “prestige drama” you anticipated is about to debut. So consider this our reminder to set your DVR, order a Season Pass, pop a fresh Memorex into the Vcr… however it is you roll.
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With nearly 500 scripted shows now airing across broadcast, cable and streaming, it’s easy to forget that a favorite comedy is returning, or that the new “prestige drama” you anticipated is about to debut. So consider this our reminder to set your DVR, order a Season Pass, pop a fresh Memorex into the Vcr… however it is you roll.
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- 6/26/2021
- by Ryan Schwartz
- TVLine.com
Jackie Collins created a literary empire and attracted millions of fans with her stories of empowered women who successfully navigate the world of the “rich and famous.” They had fabulous hair, fabulous sex and fabulous lives.
Critics hated Collins’ novels, dismissing the author as “the queen of trash.” But that’s deeply unfair. Books like “Hollywood Wives,” “Lady Boss” and “The Stud” helped define a certain kind of 20th century feminism, one that saw Collins’ heroines thriving in board rooms, back lots and executive suites, spaces that had previously been dominated by men.
“Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story,” a new documentary from CNN Films, traces the author’s career and meteoric rise to the top of the best-seller lists, while also revealing the personal struggles that shaped her work. To tell that intimate story, director Laura Fairrie drew on Collins’ home videos and diaries, and interviewed her children, close friends and sister,...
Critics hated Collins’ novels, dismissing the author as “the queen of trash.” But that’s deeply unfair. Books like “Hollywood Wives,” “Lady Boss” and “The Stud” helped define a certain kind of 20th century feminism, one that saw Collins’ heroines thriving in board rooms, back lots and executive suites, spaces that had previously been dominated by men.
“Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story,” a new documentary from CNN Films, traces the author’s career and meteoric rise to the top of the best-seller lists, while also revealing the personal struggles that shaped her work. To tell that intimate story, director Laura Fairrie drew on Collins’ home videos and diaries, and interviewed her children, close friends and sister,...
- 6/26/2021
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
There is a riveting moment in “Lady Boss,” an insightful documentary about the life of novelist Jackie Collins, in which we see Collins preparing her face for the camera. She brushes her bangs a bit with her finger as if to give herself something positive to do, but there is turmoil going on behind her eyes; it looks like she is struggling to hold down enormous pain and insecurity, and this struggle is intensely active, for there was nothing passive about Collins.
Once the camera is ready for her, Collins has arranged her face into the semi-snarly made-up armor that she presented in her glamorous public life, which always included large hair, shoulder pads and a liking for leopard-print fabric. Collins was English, but her books were very successful in America because she subscribed religiously to the American urge for self-reinvention.
Collins grew up in the shadow of her movie star sister,...
Once the camera is ready for her, Collins has arranged her face into the semi-snarly made-up armor that she presented in her glamorous public life, which always included large hair, shoulder pads and a liking for leopard-print fabric. Collins was English, but her books were very successful in America because she subscribed religiously to the American urge for self-reinvention.
Collins grew up in the shadow of her movie star sister,...
- 6/25/2021
- by Dan Callahan
- The Wrap
Jason Priestley has found a new project for the small screen courtesy of the late Jackie Collins.
The actor-director-producer has partnered with Collins’ estate and Reel World Management’s Roma Roth and Christopher E. Perry to adapt the 1994 tome Hollywood Kids as a one-hour drama series. Priestley will executive produce alongside Roth and Perry, who executive produced the Netflix hit series Virgin River, with an eye to direct the project if schedules work out. The team is said to be currently on the hunt for a writer to adapt.
Hollywood Kids was the third installment in iconic novelist Jackie Collins’ juicy Hollywood series and found ...
The actor-director-producer has partnered with Collins’ estate and Reel World Management’s Roma Roth and Christopher E. Perry to adapt the 1994 tome Hollywood Kids as a one-hour drama series. Priestley will executive produce alongside Roth and Perry, who executive produced the Netflix hit series Virgin River, with an eye to direct the project if schedules work out. The team is said to be currently on the hunt for a writer to adapt.
Hollywood Kids was the third installment in iconic novelist Jackie Collins’ juicy Hollywood series and found ...
- 6/16/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Jason Priestley has found a new project for the small screen courtesy of the late Jackie Collins.
The actor-director-producer has partnered with Collins’ estate and Reel World Management’s Roma Roth and Christopher E. Perry to adapt the 1994 tome Hollywood Kids as a one-hour drama series. Priestley will executive produce alongside Roth and Perry, who executive produced the Netflix hit series Virgin River, with an eye to direct the project if schedules work out. The team is said to be currently on the hunt for a writer to adapt.
Hollywood Kids was the third installment in iconic novelist Jackie Collins’ juicy Hollywood series and found ...
The actor-director-producer has partnered with Collins’ estate and Reel World Management’s Roma Roth and Christopher E. Perry to adapt the 1994 tome Hollywood Kids as a one-hour drama series. Priestley will executive produce alongside Roth and Perry, who executive produced the Netflix hit series Virgin River, with an eye to direct the project if schedules work out. The team is said to be currently on the hunt for a writer to adapt.
Hollywood Kids was the third installment in iconic novelist Jackie Collins’ juicy Hollywood series and found ...
- 6/16/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In the late ‘90s, Jackie Collins was a guest on Hollywood Party, a radio show I co-hosted in Italy; she was promoting the latest novel in her best-selling series about “dangerously beautiful” Italian-American mobster’s daughter Lucky Santangelo. That character became the armor-clad version of herself that the author presented to the world. “Buona sera, darling,” she purred at the start of the interview. I asked about her biggest hit, Hollywood Wives, and whether the town really was as jammed with unscrupulous, casting-couch creeps and sexually omnivorous glamazons as her books depicted. “Oh, darling,” she replied. “There might be one or ...
- 6/10/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
In the late ‘90s, Jackie Collins was a guest on Hollywood Party, a radio show I co-hosted in Italy; she was promoting the latest novel in her best-selling series about “dangerously beautiful” Italian-American mobster’s daughter Lucky Santangelo. That character became the armor-clad version of herself that the author presented to the world. “Buona sera, darling,” she purred at the start of the interview. I asked about her biggest hit, Hollywood Wives, and whether the town really was as jammed with unscrupulous, casting-couch creeps and sexually omnivorous glamazons as her books depicted. “Oh, darling,” she replied. “There might be one or ...
- 6/10/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jackie Collins, who mastered the art of the Hollywood potboiler, spinning tales of sex and celebrity into an extraordinary literary career, is the subject of a new documentary coming to CNN at the end of the month.
The cable news channel announced today it will premiere Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story at 9pm Et and Pt on June 27. The Laura Fairrie-directed film, world premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival next week, takes its title from one of Collins’ novels, featuring perhaps her most famous character, Lucky Santangello. Among her 32 novels, five were built around Lucky; film adaptations were made of several of them, with Kim Delaney playing Lucky in one film and Nicollette Sheridan taking the role in two others.
In all, Collins, the younger sister of actress Joan Collins, sold more than half a billion books in over 40 countries.
“Her writing boldly extolls female power, sexual pleasure, and freedom,...
The cable news channel announced today it will premiere Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story at 9pm Et and Pt on June 27. The Laura Fairrie-directed film, world premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival next week, takes its title from one of Collins’ novels, featuring perhaps her most famous character, Lucky Santangello. Among her 32 novels, five were built around Lucky; film adaptations were made of several of them, with Kim Delaney playing Lucky in one film and Nicollette Sheridan taking the role in two others.
In all, Collins, the younger sister of actress Joan Collins, sold more than half a billion books in over 40 countries.
“Her writing boldly extolls female power, sexual pleasure, and freedom,...
- 6/3/2021
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Dave and Odette Annable will guest star on Fox’s “Fantasy Island,” Variety has learned exclusively. The reboot of the hit 1970s series will premiere on August 10 at 9 p.m. on Fox.
On the surface, their characters, Zev and Daphne, have a great marriage, great jobs and a child-free life. However, as they settle into their routines and habits, they’re just not connecting the way they used to. In an attempt to rekindle their spark, they travel to the titular Fantasy Island to seek out the “ultimate adventure.” As usual, the island gives more than what’s expected.
“Fantasy Island” takes place at a luxury resort, where literally any fantasy requested by guests is fulfilled, although they rarely turn out as expected. Each episode will tell emotional, provocative stories about people who arrive with dreams and desires and depart enlightened and transformed through the magical realism of Fantasy Island.
On the surface, their characters, Zev and Daphne, have a great marriage, great jobs and a child-free life. However, as they settle into their routines and habits, they’re just not connecting the way they used to. In an attempt to rekindle their spark, they travel to the titular Fantasy Island to seek out the “ultimate adventure.” As usual, the island gives more than what’s expected.
“Fantasy Island” takes place at a luxury resort, where literally any fantasy requested by guests is fulfilled, although they rarely turn out as expected. Each episode will tell emotional, provocative stories about people who arrive with dreams and desires and depart enlightened and transformed through the magical realism of Fantasy Island.
- 6/3/2021
- by Antonio Ferme
- Variety Film + TV
In today’s Global Bulletin, BAFTA prepares online sessions for several top 2021 TV nominees; Modern Films picks up global rights to “Lady Boss”; Mise En Scéne Company adds “Anchorage” to its Marché du Film slate; Abacus Media Rights will distribute “The Masked Dancer U.K.” abroad; Amazon launches miniTV in India and sets “Sherni” premiere date; Head Gear and Big Wave Productions make key hires in the U.K.; Kaiser Chiefs frontman Ricky Wilson gets animated in Sky Kids’ “Dodo”; Strawberry Blond opens offices in Glasgow; and MTV U.K. partners with The Open University on a digital series for promising alumni.
Awards
Jodie Comer, Steve McQueen, Hayley Squires and Waleed Zuaiter are a few of the stars headlining BAFTA’s The Television Sessions 2021, an annual event series — held online for the second year in a row — featuring BAFTA-nominated shows and talent. Taking place May 18 through June 4, the five panels...
Awards
Jodie Comer, Steve McQueen, Hayley Squires and Waleed Zuaiter are a few of the stars headlining BAFTA’s The Television Sessions 2021, an annual event series — held online for the second year in a row — featuring BAFTA-nominated shows and talent. Taking place May 18 through June 4, the five panels...
- 5/17/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
When he won the role of Hannibal Lecter in 1991’s The Silence of the Lambs, Anthony Hopkins was just about done with Hollywood.
Movie gigs had dried up for the Welshman, whose résumé at the time included the 1985 miniseries Hollywood Wives, based on the Jackie Collins novel. While he had worked in psychological terror before, playing a deranged ventriloquist in 1978’s Magic, Hopkins’ forte was primarily period drama; he was not an obvious choice for the cannibalistic serial killer.
Still, director Jonathan Demme “got a bee in my bonnet,” as he later put it, about casting Hopkins: “...
Movie gigs had dried up for the Welshman, whose résumé at the time included the 1985 miniseries Hollywood Wives, based on the Jackie Collins novel. While he had worked in psychological terror before, playing a deranged ventriloquist in 1978’s Magic, Hopkins’ forte was primarily period drama; he was not an obvious choice for the cannibalistic serial killer.
Still, director Jonathan Demme “got a bee in my bonnet,” as he later put it, about casting Hopkins: “...
- 4/17/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
When he won the role of Hannibal Lecter in 1991’s The Silence of the Lambs, Anthony Hopkins was just about done with Hollywood.
Movie gigs had dried up for the Welshman, whose résumé at the time included the 1985 miniseries Hollywood Wives, based on the Jackie Collins novel. While he had worked in psychological terror before, playing a deranged ventriloquist in 1978’s Magic, Hopkins’ forte was primarily period drama; he was not an obvious choice for the cannibalistic serial killer.
Still, director Jonathan Demme “got a bee in my bonnet,” as he later put it, about casting Hopkins: “...
Movie gigs had dried up for the Welshman, whose résumé at the time included the 1985 miniseries Hollywood Wives, based on the Jackie Collins novel. While he had worked in psychological terror before, playing a deranged ventriloquist in 1978’s Magic, Hopkins’ forte was primarily period drama; he was not an obvious choice for the cannibalistic serial killer.
Still, director Jonathan Demme “got a bee in my bonnet,” as he later put it, about casting Hopkins: “...
- 4/17/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Anthony Hopkins made his film debut 1968’s “The Lion in Winter” and the 83-year-old actor has become a lion in winter. He’s received extraordinary reviews for his devastating and poignant performance as an elderly man descending into dementia in “The Father,” which opened in theaters on Feb. 26.
AARP Movie for Grownups’ Tim Appelo stated: “Anthony Hopkins scores the performance of a lifetime as a man afflicted with dementia in a film that takes you inside his disintegrating reality — and also inside the experience of his daughter Anne (“The Favourite” Oscar winner Olivia Colman), who looks after him and faces terrifying decisions about his treatment.” Hopkins has won the British Independent Film Award for Best Actor, is nominated for a Golden Globe, SAG Award and Critics Choice honor and is a strong contender for an Oscar nomination.
Of course, he’s no stranger to Oscar. Hopkins won his only Academy...
AARP Movie for Grownups’ Tim Appelo stated: “Anthony Hopkins scores the performance of a lifetime as a man afflicted with dementia in a film that takes you inside his disintegrating reality — and also inside the experience of his daughter Anne (“The Favourite” Oscar winner Olivia Colman), who looks after him and faces terrifying decisions about his treatment.” Hopkins has won the British Independent Film Award for Best Actor, is nominated for a Golden Globe, SAG Award and Critics Choice honor and is a strong contender for an Oscar nomination.
Of course, he’s no stranger to Oscar. Hopkins won his only Academy...
- 3/3/2021
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Henry Loevner, Steven Kanter directed film about couple going through break-up during pandemic.
Jason Moring’s Ddi has come on board to launch worldwide sales at the EFM on BuzzFeed Studios’ pandemic comedy and upcoming SXSW selection The End Of Us.
Henry Loevner and Steven Kanter directed the film about a couple going through a break-up during a global pandemic.
It is the night of March 10, 2020 – the eve of the California lockdown – as out-of-work actor Nick and his type-a girlfriend Leah are in the throes of splitting up.
When the safer-at-home order ushers in a long period of quarantine, Leah...
Jason Moring’s Ddi has come on board to launch worldwide sales at the EFM on BuzzFeed Studios’ pandemic comedy and upcoming SXSW selection The End Of Us.
Henry Loevner and Steven Kanter directed the film about a couple going through a break-up during a global pandemic.
It is the night of March 10, 2020 – the eve of the California lockdown – as out-of-work actor Nick and his type-a girlfriend Leah are in the throes of splitting up.
When the safer-at-home order ushers in a long period of quarantine, Leah...
- 2/19/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
”At AGC we’re cognisant that we are one of the cornerstone suppliers to the international marketplace.”
AGC Studios will screen its newly titled Neill Blomkamp supernatural thriller Demonic and Jackie Collins documentary Lady Boss to worldwide buyers at the upcoming EFM.
Demonic shot in secret in British Columbia last summer and features an up-and-coming cast.
AGC Studios fully financed the project, which Screen was the first to report last autumn. AGC head Stuart Ford was keeping mum about plot details although he did say, “Typically for Neill’s films it has a highly original visual component as well as some great scares.
AGC Studios will screen its newly titled Neill Blomkamp supernatural thriller Demonic and Jackie Collins documentary Lady Boss to worldwide buyers at the upcoming EFM.
Demonic shot in secret in British Columbia last summer and features an up-and-coming cast.
AGC Studios fully financed the project, which Screen was the first to report last autumn. AGC head Stuart Ford was keeping mum about plot details although he did say, “Typically for Neill’s films it has a highly original visual component as well as some great scares.
- 2/19/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
AGC Studios CEO Stuart Ford has a number of UK film and TV projects in development.
As AGC Studios kicks off talks at AFM 2020 Online this week on Dave Bautista sci-fi Universe’s Most Wanted and updates buyers on Doug Liman’s recent London production Lockdown, first details have emerged of the company’s ambitious UK slate.
Since founder and CEO Stuart Ford launched the company two years ago, he and his European team have been quietly assembling a robust film and TV production and development roster alongside the US titles.
The burgeoning pipeline features a rare directorial outing from Richard E. Grant,...
As AGC Studios kicks off talks at AFM 2020 Online this week on Dave Bautista sci-fi Universe’s Most Wanted and updates buyers on Doug Liman’s recent London production Lockdown, first details have emerged of the company’s ambitious UK slate.
Since founder and CEO Stuart Ford launched the company two years ago, he and his European team have been quietly assembling a robust film and TV production and development roster alongside the US titles.
The burgeoning pipeline features a rare directorial outing from Richard E. Grant,...
- 11/9/2020
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Company picks up Tribeca audience award winner.
Sheila Nevins has made her latest acquisition since joining MTV Documentary Films and will line up an awards-qualifying release this autumn for Gay Chorus Deep South.
David Charles Rodrigues directed the Tribeca Film Festival premiere and winner of the audience award for best documentary before playing at festivals around the world. It will open Santa Barbara’s Call To Action Festival, and The Boston Globe’s GlobeDocs, Heartland, and New Orleans. among others.
Gay Chorus Deep South recounts the story of a walk by 300 singers from San Francsico Gay Men’s Chorus led...
Sheila Nevins has made her latest acquisition since joining MTV Documentary Films and will line up an awards-qualifying release this autumn for Gay Chorus Deep South.
David Charles Rodrigues directed the Tribeca Film Festival premiere and winner of the audience award for best documentary before playing at festivals around the world. It will open Santa Barbara’s Call To Action Festival, and The Boston Globe’s GlobeDocs, Heartland, and New Orleans. among others.
Gay Chorus Deep South recounts the story of a walk by 300 singers from San Francsico Gay Men’s Chorus led...
- 9/16/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Jackie Collins' life will be getting the documentary treatment from John Battsek, the Oscar-winning producer behind Searching For Sugar Man and One Day In September, and Lizzie Gillett.
Laura Fairrie will direct Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story that will chronicle the life of the best-selling novelist — a life that oftentimes rivaled the plots of her novels. Collins, who also held court as a screenwriter, producer and general Hollywood fixture, passed away in 2015.
Stuart Ford's Agc Studios will handle global distribution rights on behalf of Battsek and Gillett's Passion Pictures.
CNN Films, with recent doc work ...
Laura Fairrie will direct Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story that will chronicle the life of the best-selling novelist — a life that oftentimes rivaled the plots of her novels. Collins, who also held court as a screenwriter, producer and general Hollywood fixture, passed away in 2015.
Stuart Ford's Agc Studios will handle global distribution rights on behalf of Battsek and Gillett's Passion Pictures.
CNN Films, with recent doc work ...
Jackie Collins' life will be getting the documentary treatment from John Battsek, the Oscar-winning producer behind Searching For Sugar Man and One Day In September, and Lizzie Gillett.
Laura Fairrie will direct Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story that will chronicle the life of the best-selling novelist — a life that oftentimes rivaled the plots of her novels. Collins, who also held court as a screenwriter, producer and general Hollywood fixture, passed away in 2015.
Stuart Ford's Agc Studios will handle global distribution rights on behalf of Battsek and Gillett's Passion Pictures.
CNN Films, with recent doc work ...
Laura Fairrie will direct Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story that will chronicle the life of the best-selling novelist — a life that oftentimes rivaled the plots of her novels. Collins, who also held court as a screenwriter, producer and general Hollywood fixture, passed away in 2015.
Stuart Ford's Agc Studios will handle global distribution rights on behalf of Battsek and Gillett's Passion Pictures.
CNN Films, with recent doc work ...
Agc Studios, CNN Films, and BBC Arts are co-financing documentary Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story about the eponymous English romance novelist.
Laura Fairrie is directing the doc biopic which is being produced by John Battsek and Lizzie Gillet of Searching For Sugar Man and One Day In September outfit Passion Pictures. The movie will chart the journey of one of the world’s best-selling novelists whose turbulent life sometimes rivaled the spicy plots she dreamed up for her books. Hollywood Wives scribe Collins (née Jacqueline but known as Jackie), also also an actress, screenwriter and producer, passed away in 2015 after spending the latter decades of her life in La.
Agc International will handle global distribution rights on behalf of Passion Pictures and will introduce the film to U.S. domestic and international buyers in the fall upon the film’s completion. CNN Films (Three Identical Strangers) will retain broadcast TV rights in North America.
Laura Fairrie is directing the doc biopic which is being produced by John Battsek and Lizzie Gillet of Searching For Sugar Man and One Day In September outfit Passion Pictures. The movie will chart the journey of one of the world’s best-selling novelists whose turbulent life sometimes rivaled the spicy plots she dreamed up for her books. Hollywood Wives scribe Collins (née Jacqueline but known as Jackie), also also an actress, screenwriter and producer, passed away in 2015 after spending the latter decades of her life in La.
Agc International will handle global distribution rights on behalf of Passion Pictures and will introduce the film to U.S. domestic and international buyers in the fall upon the film’s completion. CNN Films (Three Identical Strangers) will retain broadcast TV rights in North America.
- 8/9/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Agc Studios, CNN Films, and the BBC Arts are co-financing Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story.
Agc Studios, CNN Films, and the BBC Arts are co-financing Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story from Passion Pictures.
Laura Fairrie directs the documentary about the late, bestselling British author and unlikely feminist Jackie Collins, the former B-movie actress who moved from London to Los Angeles in the 1980s, published dozens of bestsellers and lost the two loves of her lives, before ultimately succumbing to cancer in 2015.
John Battsek and Lizzie Gillett of Passion are producing Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story, which Agc International...
Agc Studios, CNN Films, and the BBC Arts are co-financing Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story from Passion Pictures.
Laura Fairrie directs the documentary about the late, bestselling British author and unlikely feminist Jackie Collins, the former B-movie actress who moved from London to Los Angeles in the 1980s, published dozens of bestsellers and lost the two loves of her lives, before ultimately succumbing to cancer in 2015.
John Battsek and Lizzie Gillett of Passion are producing Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story, which Agc International...
- 8/9/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
"How long have I got?" Gravitas Ventures has debuted an official trailer for an award-winning indie drama titled Tucked, the first queer film from prolific young British director Jamie Patterson. This premiered at the Outfest Film Festival last year, where it won both the Narrative Audience Award and the International Narrative Feature Grand Jury Prize. Tucked is about an aging drag queen named Jackie Collins, who has been told he only has six weeks left to live. All he wants to do is perform his long-running act, and behave as if all is normal. But between a surprising new friendship with a rising young queen and unfinished business with his estranged daughter, he may just have the most eventful month and a half of his entire life. Starring Jordan Stephens, Derren Nesbitt, April Pearson, and Steve Oram. Worth a peek if you're curious. Here's the official trailer (+ two posters) for Jamie Patterson's Tucked,...
- 3/22/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Danny and Rachel getting back together has been hinted at for a good part of the season.
If there was any doubt about their renewing their relationship, that was largely dispelled on Hawaii Five-0 Season 9 Episode 18.
That was thanks to his standoffish mother-in-law, Amanda Savage.
Joan Collins seemed to be having a great time playing Amanda, a larger-than-life romance novelist remarkably similar to her late sister Jackie Collins.
Collins always summoned the ghost of her legendary Dynasty character Alexis Carrington Colby in playing Danny's snooty, bitchy former mother-in-law.
Related: Hawaii Five-0 Review: Double Trouble
And watching her and Danny joust, with McGarrett caught in the middle, was a hoot.
We got to find out about all their not-so-great history and about how Rachel settled rather than marrying up.
Something seemed off about Amanda's visit from the get-go.
Her regular security man was having visa problems so she contacted the son-in-law...
If there was any doubt about their renewing their relationship, that was largely dispelled on Hawaii Five-0 Season 9 Episode 18.
That was thanks to his standoffish mother-in-law, Amanda Savage.
Joan Collins seemed to be having a great time playing Amanda, a larger-than-life romance novelist remarkably similar to her late sister Jackie Collins.
Collins always summoned the ghost of her legendary Dynasty character Alexis Carrington Colby in playing Danny's snooty, bitchy former mother-in-law.
Related: Hawaii Five-0 Review: Double Trouble
And watching her and Danny joust, with McGarrett caught in the middle, was a hoot.
We got to find out about all their not-so-great history and about how Rachel settled rather than marrying up.
Something seemed off about Amanda's visit from the get-go.
Her regular security man was having visa problems so she contacted the son-in-law...
- 3/9/2019
- by Dale McGarrigle
- TVfanatic
Four-part thriller will shoot in autumn.
Colin Farrell has joined the cast of The North Water, the upcoming four-part thriller series being made by Weekend and Lean On Pete director Andrew Haigh.
Based on the novel by Ian McGuire, the series will tell the story of a disgraced ex-army surgeon who signs up as ship’s doctor on a whaling expedition to the Arctic.
See-Saw Films is producing the project for BBC Two. Kate Ogborn is producing with executive producers Jamie Laurenson and Hakan Kousetta, with Iain Canning and Emile Sherman, Niv Fichman for Rhombus Media and Lucy Richer for the BBC.
Colin Farrell has joined the cast of The North Water, the upcoming four-part thriller series being made by Weekend and Lean On Pete director Andrew Haigh.
Based on the novel by Ian McGuire, the series will tell the story of a disgraced ex-army surgeon who signs up as ship’s doctor on a whaling expedition to the Arctic.
See-Saw Films is producing the project for BBC Two. Kate Ogborn is producing with executive producers Jamie Laurenson and Hakan Kousetta, with Iain Canning and Emile Sherman, Niv Fichman for Rhombus Media and Lucy Richer for the BBC.
- 2/19/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Sony Pictures Television will distribute globally.
UK-based Stan & Ollie production company Fable Pictures has secured the TV rights to tell the story of actress Joan Collins and her late sister, the bestselling novelist Jackie Collins.
The six-hour series will be distributed globally by Sony Pictures Television which owns a minority stake in Fable.
It will be executive produced by Caroline Harvey, Faye Ward , Hannah Farrell, and Sally Greene. UK playwright Penelope Skinner, whose credits include The Village Bike and Linda, is writing the series. Casting director Nina is casting the producton.
Fable Pictures is spearheaded by Faye Ward and Hannah...
UK-based Stan & Ollie production company Fable Pictures has secured the TV rights to tell the story of actress Joan Collins and her late sister, the bestselling novelist Jackie Collins.
The six-hour series will be distributed globally by Sony Pictures Television which owns a minority stake in Fable.
It will be executive produced by Caroline Harvey, Faye Ward , Hannah Farrell, and Sally Greene. UK playwright Penelope Skinner, whose credits include The Village Bike and Linda, is writing the series. Casting director Nina is casting the producton.
Fable Pictures is spearheaded by Faye Ward and Hannah...
- 2/19/2019
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
The colorful lives of movie star Joan Collins and her bestselling novelist sister, Jackie, will be dramatized in a TV series. Sony-backed Fable Pictures, the British film and TV producer behind “Stan & Ollie,” will make the series, having secured the TV rights to the Collinses’ story.
The series, which has the working title “Joan & Jackie,” will trace the sisters’ journeys from postwar London to Hollywood stardom as Alexis Carrington in “Dynasty” and literary fame as the author of “Valley of the Dolls,” respectively. No broadcaster or platform is officially attached yet, but Sony Pictures Television will take the six-part show out internationally.
“I am delighted that such a prestigious team wants to tell our story, and I know my sister Jackie would be as excited as I am to be involved,” Joan Collins said.
Jackie died in 2015, but her daughters have given their approval to the series. “Our...
The series, which has the working title “Joan & Jackie,” will trace the sisters’ journeys from postwar London to Hollywood stardom as Alexis Carrington in “Dynasty” and literary fame as the author of “Valley of the Dolls,” respectively. No broadcaster or platform is officially attached yet, but Sony Pictures Television will take the six-part show out internationally.
“I am delighted that such a prestigious team wants to tell our story, and I know my sister Jackie would be as excited as I am to be involved,” Joan Collins said.
Jackie died in 2015, but her daughters have given their approval to the series. “Our...
- 2/19/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Stan & Ollie and Wild Rose producer Fable Pictures is turning the story of Joan and Jackie Collins into a six-part television series. This comes after the Sony-backed production company secured the rights to the sisters’ life stories.
Playwright Penelope Skinner, who wrote the Romola Garai and Greta Gerwig-fronted play The Village Bike as well as series such as E4’s Fresh Meat is writing the script for the series, which does not have a broadcaster attached. The Crown and Game of Thrones casting director Nina Gold is on board to cast the drama.
The series will look at story of the sisters from a teenage bedroom in post-war London to the glitz and glamour of 1980’s Beverly Hills.
Dame Joan Collins starred in a series of Hollywood movies in the 1950s including The Girl In The Red Velvet Swing and Rally Round The Flag, Boys! However, it was her...
Playwright Penelope Skinner, who wrote the Romola Garai and Greta Gerwig-fronted play The Village Bike as well as series such as E4’s Fresh Meat is writing the script for the series, which does not have a broadcaster attached. The Crown and Game of Thrones casting director Nina Gold is on board to cast the drama.
The series will look at story of the sisters from a teenage bedroom in post-war London to the glitz and glamour of 1980’s Beverly Hills.
Dame Joan Collins starred in a series of Hollywood movies in the 1950s including The Girl In The Red Velvet Swing and Rally Round The Flag, Boys! However, it was her...
- 2/19/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Stan and Ollie producer Fable Pictures has lined up its next Hollywood legends biopic, securing the TV rights for the life story of British sisters turned 1980s showbiz superstars Joan and Jackie Collins, which it plans to adapt as a six-hour series called Joan & Jackie.
After her breakout performance in Howard Hawks's Land of the Pharaohs in 1955, Joan Collins signed with 20th Century Fox, one of the last actresses to secure a major studio contract at the tail end of Hollywood's Golden Age. She went on to star in countless features, from historic drama The Virgin Queen (1955) to ...
After her breakout performance in Howard Hawks's Land of the Pharaohs in 1955, Joan Collins signed with 20th Century Fox, one of the last actresses to secure a major studio contract at the tail end of Hollywood's Golden Age. She went on to star in countless features, from historic drama The Virgin Queen (1955) to ...
- 2/19/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
It was the one that got away. "In 1960, I was offered a [movie] called Sons and Lovers, with Dean Stockwell," Joan Collins recently recalled to Town & Country. "I wanted to do it, and I don't think it was bad. However, I was living with and engaged to a young actor called Warren Beatty, who said, 'This is absolute crap.' So I turned it down." She soon came to regret that decision. "Mary Ure did it and was nominated for an Oscar," Joan said. "At that time I was more influenced by men." That didn't last long, though. "Everybody said to me, 'You'll be through by the time you're 24,'" Joan, 85 — who has just been cast opposite Jessica Lange in American Horror Story: Apocalypse, the next season of FX's Emmy-winning hit — shared. Joan and Warren in 1959. (Photo Credit: Getty Images) "My father, all these guys in Hollywood... over and over again,...
- 8/18/2018
- by Closer Staff
- Closer Weekly
Exclusive: Gravitas Ventures has acquired worldwide rights outside the UK to Tucked, the dramedy written and directed by Jamie Patterson that is having its world premiere Saturday at the Outfest Lgbtq Film Festival. Gravitas now plans an early 2019 release to coincide with the British theatrical bow.
The film, which stars Jordan Stephens, Derren Nesbitt, Steve Oram and April Pearson, screens at Outfest tomorrow at 7 Pm at the DGA Theater. The fest wraps Sunday with a screening of The Miseducation of Cameron Post, which won the top prize this year at Sundance.
Tucked centers on veteran drag queen Jackie Collins (Nesbitt) after he receives a diagnosis that he has six weeks to live. All Jackie wants to do is perform his long-running act and behave as if all is normal, but between a new friendship with a rising young queen (Stephens) and unfinished business with his estranged daughter (Pearson), he may...
The film, which stars Jordan Stephens, Derren Nesbitt, Steve Oram and April Pearson, screens at Outfest tomorrow at 7 Pm at the DGA Theater. The fest wraps Sunday with a screening of The Miseducation of Cameron Post, which won the top prize this year at Sundance.
Tucked centers on veteran drag queen Jackie Collins (Nesbitt) after he receives a diagnosis that he has six weeks to live. All Jackie wants to do is perform his long-running act and behave as if all is normal, but between a new friendship with a rising young queen (Stephens) and unfinished business with his estranged daughter (Pearson), he may...
- 7/21/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
As far as gay film festivals go, Outfest takes the cake. Now in its 36th year, the Los Angeles-based festival is the country’s leading Lgtbq film festival, supporting independent queer film and filmmakers for over three decades. This year, two thirds of the program is directed by women, people of color, and/or trans filmmakers. “The reason we put on this festival is to encourage the Lgbtq community and the wider community — mainstream culture — to recognize the inherent value and infinite diversity,” said Outfest head programmer Lucy Mukerjee. “We have to continue to celebrate and showcase queer artists so they can get the same level of access and opportunity as white male directors.”
Outfest is celebrating its first year as an Academy Award-qualifying shorts festival, meaning any short that wins a grand jury prize will be eligible for an Oscar nomination. Following the examples set by Tribeca and Sundance festivals,...
Outfest is celebrating its first year as an Academy Award-qualifying shorts festival, meaning any short that wins a grand jury prize will be eligible for an Oscar nomination. Following the examples set by Tribeca and Sundance festivals,...
- 7/12/2018
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Chicago – The ageless Joan Collins is probably best known for the prime time soap opera “Dynasty,” which ran from 1981 to 1989, but she is also a throwback to the last of the old studio system in Hollywood, when she was signed to a contract with 20th Century Fox in 1955. For her latest act, she will appear in the upcoming eighth season of FX Channel’s “American Horror Story.” Her birthday, May 23rd, is today.
Dame Joan Henrietta Collins was born in Paddington, London, and received her early performance education at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She was 17 years old when she signed with the J. Arthur Rank Film Company in Britain, and made her debut in “Lady Godiva Rides Again” (1951). She rose quickly through the British system, eventually receiving top billing in “Our Girl Friday” (1953). Hollywood came knocking shortly thereafter, as took a role in director Howard Hawks’ “Land of...
Dame Joan Henrietta Collins was born in Paddington, London, and received her early performance education at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She was 17 years old when she signed with the J. Arthur Rank Film Company in Britain, and made her debut in “Lady Godiva Rides Again” (1951). She rose quickly through the British system, eventually receiving top billing in “Our Girl Friday” (1953). Hollywood came knocking shortly thereafter, as took a role in director Howard Hawks’ “Land of...
- 5/23/2018
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
According to the story he himself tells in the documentary series Hollywood, UK, Canadian filmmaker Sidney J. Furie came to England to take part in the British new wave, whose films he admired. First, he had to pay his dues with nonsense like Dr. Blood's Coffin, The Snake Woman and The Young Ones (starring pop singer Cliff Richard), but eventually, with The Leather Boys in 1964, he was able to make the kind of dynamic working-class social realism he'd been admiring from afar (Rita Tushingham's presence in the cast provides the stamp of authenticity).But During One Night (1961) shows Furie working on a small-scale independent film that has more in common with his mid-sixties work than it does with the cheesy exploitation movies he marked time on, and its date shows how quick off the mark Furie must have been: Look Back in Anger only hit cinemas in 1959, and by '61 Furie was in Britain,...
- 11/28/2017
- MUBI
Every good film deserves a sequel. And then there’s The Stud which got one too. Sister act Joan and Jackie Collins followed up their mega-smash with 1979’s The Bitch which continues the bed-hopping adventures of Fontaine Khaled, the glamorous disco-owner still looking for love in all the wrong places. Remarkably, Joan’s star continued to rise; The Stud and The Bitch opened the door to her long-running role on TV’s Dynasty.
- 10/6/2017
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
In 1969 Jackie Collins tapped out this trashy melange of romance novels and tabloid escapades and nine years later sister Joan turned it into a starring vehicle for herself while resurrecting her floundering career in the bargain. In fact, “resurrection” may be too mild a term, made for $600,000, the film netted over $20,000,000 internationally.
- 10/4/2017
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
Elizabeth Hurley is soaking up the rays of summer!
The actress and fashion designer, 52, shared a brand-new snap to Instagram Sunday, showing off her enviable fit frame alongside a friendly-looking tabby cat as she posed in a blush string bikini.
“Mitzi Kizti @elizabethhurleybeach,” she wrote alongside the outdoor shot.
Related Video: Alexandra Park Perfectly Describes Elizabeth Hurley in Three Words
The photo is only the latest that The Royals star has shared of herself in sexy swim attire — namely various suits from her own Elizabeth Hurley Beach line.
“My English summer; sun before the storm @elizabethhurleybeach #Herefordshire,” she captioned a sunny snap earlier this month,...
The actress and fashion designer, 52, shared a brand-new snap to Instagram Sunday, showing off her enviable fit frame alongside a friendly-looking tabby cat as she posed in a blush string bikini.
“Mitzi Kizti @elizabethhurleybeach,” she wrote alongside the outdoor shot.
Related Video: Alexandra Park Perfectly Describes Elizabeth Hurley in Three Words
The photo is only the latest that The Royals star has shared of herself in sexy swim attire — namely various suits from her own Elizabeth Hurley Beach line.
“My English summer; sun before the storm @elizabethhurleybeach #Herefordshire,” she captioned a sunny snap earlier this month,...
- 8/13/2017
- by Jen Juneau
- PEOPLE.com
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