Apple TV Plus announced a four-part docuseries about two-time NBA Hall of Famer Earvin “Magic” Johnson coming to the streaming service at a date still to be announced.
The docuseries will explore Johnson’s accomplishments on the court and off, as well as his global impact, through never-before-seen footage and interviews with Johnson and those in his inner circle. Unnamed “heavyweights in business and politics” will also appear, per the streamer.
In addition to becoming a five-time NBC champion with the Los Angeles Lakers, Johnson changed the conversation around HIV when he announced his positive status in 1991.
The docuseries does not yet have a title, but it has already set its creative team: director Rick Famuyiwa, editor Dirk Westervelt and cinematographer Rachel Morrison. It will be produced by New Slate Ventures and Xtr Production in association with H.Wood Media and Delirio Films.
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The docuseries will explore Johnson’s accomplishments on the court and off, as well as his global impact, through never-before-seen footage and interviews with Johnson and those in his inner circle. Unnamed “heavyweights in business and politics” will also appear, per the streamer.
In addition to becoming a five-time NBC champion with the Los Angeles Lakers, Johnson changed the conversation around HIV when he announced his positive status in 1991.
The docuseries does not yet have a title, but it has already set its creative team: director Rick Famuyiwa, editor Dirk Westervelt and cinematographer Rachel Morrison. It will be produced by New Slate Ventures and Xtr Production in association with H.Wood Media and Delirio Films.
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- 11/4/2021
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
Martin Scorsese-fronted Documentary
Abacus Media Rights will distribute documentary The Oratorio, hosted by multiple Academy Award-winner Martin Scorsese. The 66-minute TV film about the immigrant experience will tell the story of a long-forgotten event that helped shape the cultural landscape of New York. In 1826, a single performance at St Patrick’s Old Cathedral introduced Italian opera to New York City. Painstaking research has unearthed stories of the personalities involved including Mozart’s librettist, Lorenzo Da Ponte, debt-ridden and selling groceries; Maria Malibran, a young singer considered opera’s first diva and Pierre Toussaint, a freed slave and chief benefactor in building the church. The film is directed and produced by Mary Anne Rothberg and Jonathan Mann, co-founders of production company Provenance Productions (Do Not Duplicate) and director Alex Bayer. The feature also includes contributions from church parishioner and comedian Jim Gaffigan and members of the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari...
Abacus Media Rights will distribute documentary The Oratorio, hosted by multiple Academy Award-winner Martin Scorsese. The 66-minute TV film about the immigrant experience will tell the story of a long-forgotten event that helped shape the cultural landscape of New York. In 1826, a single performance at St Patrick’s Old Cathedral introduced Italian opera to New York City. Painstaking research has unearthed stories of the personalities involved including Mozart’s librettist, Lorenzo Da Ponte, debt-ridden and selling groceries; Maria Malibran, a young singer considered opera’s first diva and Pierre Toussaint, a freed slave and chief benefactor in building the church. The film is directed and produced by Mary Anne Rothberg and Jonathan Mann, co-founders of production company Provenance Productions (Do Not Duplicate) and director Alex Bayer. The feature also includes contributions from church parishioner and comedian Jim Gaffigan and members of the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari...
- 1/21/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman, Jake Kanter and Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Martin Scorsese to present The Oratorio conducted by Donato Renzetti and filmed at the Basilica of Saint Patrick's Old Cathedral Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Earlier this month I attended the interment service in the Basilica of Saint Patrick's Old Cathedral's catacombs for the artist Soledad Arias, a dear friend of Ed Bahlman. The eulogy was given by Reverend Brian A Graebe, the youngest pastor in New York in the oldest church. A representative of the parish, who was streaming the ceremony for family members not able to attend due to Covid-19 travel restrictions, mentioned The Oratorio and Martin Scorsese's involvement in the project.
Soledad Arias’s who what where (detail) in Float at the Socrates Sculpture Park, installed by Ed Bahlman Photo: Soledad Arias
The Oratorio, shot by Jonathan Nelson and directed by the team of Alex Bayer, Mary Anne Rothberg, and Jonathan Mann, features soloists Salome Jicia, Francesca Dotto, Patrick Kabongo,...
Earlier this month I attended the interment service in the Basilica of Saint Patrick's Old Cathedral's catacombs for the artist Soledad Arias, a dear friend of Ed Bahlman. The eulogy was given by Reverend Brian A Graebe, the youngest pastor in New York in the oldest church. A representative of the parish, who was streaming the ceremony for family members not able to attend due to Covid-19 travel restrictions, mentioned The Oratorio and Martin Scorsese's involvement in the project.
Soledad Arias’s who what where (detail) in Float at the Socrates Sculpture Park, installed by Ed Bahlman Photo: Soledad Arias
The Oratorio, shot by Jonathan Nelson and directed by the team of Alex Bayer, Mary Anne Rothberg, and Jonathan Mann, features soloists Salome Jicia, Francesca Dotto, Patrick Kabongo,...
- 8/19/2020
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival has announced the lineup for its 35th edition, which will take place from January 15 to 25. There will be 47 world premieres and 71 U.S. premieres, with 50 countries represented overall, in addition to starry tributes that serve as an awards season stop for top Oscar contenders. Among those feted in their respective categories will be Renée Zellweger (American Riviera Award), Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver (Outstanding Performers of the Year Award), Laura Dern (Cinema Vanguard Award), Brad Pitt (Maltin Modern Master Award), along with the winners of the Virtuosos Award: Awkwafina, Taron Egerton, Cynthia Erivo, Beanie Feldstein, Aldis Hodge, George MacKay, Florence Pugh, and Taylor Russell.
The Sbiff is also unique in its yearly celebration of below the line talent. The crafts artists who’ve won the Variety Artisans Award this year are Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez (“Frozen II”), Michael Giacchino (“Jojo Rabbit”), Kazu Hiro...
The Sbiff is also unique in its yearly celebration of below the line talent. The crafts artists who’ve won the Variety Artisans Award this year are Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez (“Frozen II”), Michael Giacchino (“Jojo Rabbit”), Kazu Hiro...
- 12/31/2019
- by Christian Blauvelt
- Indiewire
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival (Sbiff) announced on Monday the lineup for the 35th edition, which will run January 15 to 25, 2020. The festival will feature 47 world premieres and 71 U.S. premieres from 50 countries, along with tributes with the year’s top talent, panel discussions and free community education and outreach programs.
Sbiff 2020 will start with the Opening Night Film on Wednesday, January 15, at the historic Arlington Theatre with the U.S. Premiere of “A Bump Along The Way” directed by Shelly Love and starring Bronagh Gallagher, Lola Petticrew, Mary Moulds, Dan Gordon and Brendan Farrell.
“A Bump Along The Way” is female-led, feel-good, comedy drama set in Derry, Northern Ireland, about a middle-aged woman whose unexpected pregnancy after a one-night stand acts as the catalyst for her to finally take control of her life and become the role model her teenage daughter needs and craves.
Also Read: Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver...
Sbiff 2020 will start with the Opening Night Film on Wednesday, January 15, at the historic Arlington Theatre with the U.S. Premiere of “A Bump Along The Way” directed by Shelly Love and starring Bronagh Gallagher, Lola Petticrew, Mary Moulds, Dan Gordon and Brendan Farrell.
“A Bump Along The Way” is female-led, feel-good, comedy drama set in Derry, Northern Ireland, about a middle-aged woman whose unexpected pregnancy after a one-night stand acts as the catalyst for her to finally take control of her life and become the role model her teenage daughter needs and craves.
Also Read: Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver...
- 12/30/2019
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
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