A raging policy debate in Washington is forcing Hollywood to curb its enthusiasm for mergers and acquisitions — for now.
Federal regulators and some legal scholars are moving to radically overhaul how the nation enforces antitrust laws. That’s making it much harder for dealmakers and corporate titans to pursue M&a activity. The regulatory mood in Washington, where transactions of any size must be approved by the Justice Department and other agencies, has become downright hostile to large-scale deals.
For Hollywood, the timing is terrible. Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, Comcast and NBCUniversal are conceiving potential new combinations with traditional or digital giants, but they’re hemmed in by the chilly atmosphere in D.C. The new breed of regulators are concerned that digital giants à la Google, Facebook and Amazon have been allowed to become too big and too powerful.
The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission have issued much...
Federal regulators and some legal scholars are moving to radically overhaul how the nation enforces antitrust laws. That’s making it much harder for dealmakers and corporate titans to pursue M&a activity. The regulatory mood in Washington, where transactions of any size must be approved by the Justice Department and other agencies, has become downright hostile to large-scale deals.
For Hollywood, the timing is terrible. Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, Comcast and NBCUniversal are conceiving potential new combinations with traditional or digital giants, but they’re hemmed in by the chilly atmosphere in D.C. The new breed of regulators are concerned that digital giants à la Google, Facebook and Amazon have been allowed to become too big and too powerful.
The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission have issued much...
- 4/24/2024
- by Cynthia Littleton
- Variety Film + TV
Reality television producer Jeff Jenkins has worked with a lot of big personalities in his career, including the Kardashians, Paris Hilton and Mariah Carey. His newest show, Bravo’s “Luann and Sonja: Welcome to Crappie Lake,” features former “Real Housewives” Luann de Lesseps and Sonja Morgan. But despite their reputations — de Lesseps is a former countess and Morgan was married to Jp Morgan’s great-grandson, after all — Jenkins found himself surprised by the just how down to earth the duo were.
Check out TheWrap’s interview with Jenkins below to learn how the duo was cast and if they really stayed in that motel while filming.
Did you watch “The Real Housewives of New York” prior to working with Luann and Sonja?
Jenkins: I am a fan of “The Real Housewives of New York.” I watched “New York” really for Luann and Sonia, because they’re just so unexpected. You...
Check out TheWrap’s interview with Jenkins below to learn how the duo was cast and if they really stayed in that motel while filming.
Did you watch “The Real Housewives of New York” prior to working with Luann and Sonja?
Jenkins: I am a fan of “The Real Housewives of New York.” I watched “New York” really for Luann and Sonia, because they’re just so unexpected. You...
- 7/24/2023
- by Lawrence Yee
- The Wrap
London –A highlight within Classic Week in London, Christie’s will present Alice & Nikolaus Harnoncourt – Artists Collecting Art, an online sale of 50 select works which opens for bidding on 30 June until 14 July, alongside a group of Old Master pictures and illuminated manuscripts that will be offered from their collection in the Old Masters Part I Sale on 6 July. A renowned classical violinist and a celebrated conductor and musicologist, the Harnoncourts were a remarkable artistic duo whose lives were dedicated to music and art. Intellectually curious, collecting was a shared passion that lasted the entirety of their sixty-three year marriage. Providing a window into the very private world of these celebrated public figures within Classical Music, the works being offered span fine and decorative European art from over five centuries, comprising Old Master paintings, early European furniture and sculpture, and ceramics. Notable provenances include the Rothschild family, Alfred Cortot, Yves Saint Laurent and J.P. Morgan.
- 6/12/2023
- by Music Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Music
Their run on the “Real Housewives of New York City” may be over, but Luann de Lesseps and Sonja Morgan are hitting the road in search of new adventures.
The reality stars are getting their own spin-off series titled “Luann and Sonja: Welcome to Crappie Lake,” which debuts July 9 on Bravo.
Get all the details below:
Who are Luann de Lesseps and Sonja Morgan?
Luann de Lesseps is an original cast member of “The Real Housewives of New York City” and appeared in 13 seasons of the show. She is known as “The Countess” due to her former marriage to French aristocrat Alexandre de Lesseps and her propensity to correct people’s manners.
Morgan joined “The Real Housewives of New York City” in Season 3. She was married to John Adams Morgan, the great-grandson of J.P. Morgan.
Both women are accustomed to luxurious living.
Also Read:
‘Real Housewives': These Originals Have Stuck...
The reality stars are getting their own spin-off series titled “Luann and Sonja: Welcome to Crappie Lake,” which debuts July 9 on Bravo.
Get all the details below:
Who are Luann de Lesseps and Sonja Morgan?
Luann de Lesseps is an original cast member of “The Real Housewives of New York City” and appeared in 13 seasons of the show. She is known as “The Countess” due to her former marriage to French aristocrat Alexandre de Lesseps and her propensity to correct people’s manners.
Morgan joined “The Real Housewives of New York City” in Season 3. She was married to John Adams Morgan, the great-grandson of J.P. Morgan.
Both women are accustomed to luxurious living.
Also Read:
‘Real Housewives': These Originals Have Stuck...
- 5/22/2023
- by Lawrence Yee
- The Wrap
Two unnamed women who accused Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse are suing two major banks, Jp Morgan and Deutsche Bank. The women claim the institutions ignored “blatant red flags” and provided a “necessary legitimate appearance” as they enabled the late disgraced financier’s sex-trafficking enterprise.
“The time has come for the real enablers to be held responsible, especially his wealthy friends and the financial institutions that played an integral role,” one of the lawyers, Bradley Edwards, said in a written statement to the Wall Street Journal. “These victims were wronged,...
“The time has come for the real enablers to be held responsible, especially his wealthy friends and the financial institutions that played an integral role,” one of the lawyers, Bradley Edwards, said in a written statement to the Wall Street Journal. “These victims were wronged,...
- 11/25/2022
- by Kara Voght
- Rollingstone.com
Al Roker Entertainment has optioned the New York Times best-selling novel The Personal Librarian (Berkley/Penguin) from authors Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray for a limited series.
Roker’s wife, ABC News senior national correspondent Deborah Roberts, was instrumental in optioning the work. Roberts and Roker are executive producers on the project.
The popular novel is about J.P. Morgan’s personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, a Black American woman with light skin who was forced to hide her true identity and pass as white.
“The Personal Librarian is a favorite in our household, and it demonstrates historical fiction at its best,” said Al Roker. “We are always looking to work on projects with purpose and this story is relevant now more than ever. The female lead lives in secrecy and goes to the ends of the earth to hide her identity and protect her family in a very...
Roker’s wife, ABC News senior national correspondent Deborah Roberts, was instrumental in optioning the work. Roberts and Roker are executive producers on the project.
The popular novel is about J.P. Morgan’s personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, a Black American woman with light skin who was forced to hide her true identity and pass as white.
“The Personal Librarian is a favorite in our household, and it demonstrates historical fiction at its best,” said Al Roker. “We are always looking to work on projects with purpose and this story is relevant now more than ever. The female lead lives in secrecy and goes to the ends of the earth to hide her identity and protect her family in a very...
- 1/26/2022
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Photo: ‘The Gilded Age’ Julian Fellowes returns with a trailer of his latest project that features the ritz and glamor of the illustrious elite during America’s Gilded Age. Fellowes’ newest venture, aptly named ‘The Gilded Age,’ takes place in 1880s New York City and centers on the tantalizing lives of Manhattan society. Yes, these ladies may be far from our beloved ‘Real Housewives of New York,’ but Fellowes’ resumé proves that he shares the same appreciation and craving for drama as our very own Andy Cohen. ‘The Gilded Age’ is a nostalgic tale of riches at the intersection of social wars, politics, and cultural norms waiting to be disrupted. Maybe we’ll come across one of Sonja Morgan’s ancestral in-laws; Does J.P. Morgan ring a bell? Of course, the show has major shoes to fill as fans of ‘Downton Abbey’ are expecting the same standard of drama and intriguing characters.
- 1/20/2022
- by Gina Michele Yaniz
- Hollywood Insider - Substance & Meaningful Entertainment
From a recording of Hamilton dropping on Disney+ to In the Heights hitting the big screen, Lin-Manuel Miranda has been having a moment bringing his onstage work to a broader audience. Now, he's making his feature-length directorial debut with Netflix's Tick, Tick… Boom! (out Nov. 19), paying homage to his musical theater roots by adapting Rent creator Jonathan Larson's autobiographical musical of the same name. Starring Andrew Garfield as Larson, the film follows the legendary composer as he contemplates his career choices before his 30th birthday. Here's what you should know about the life that inspired the musical, a life that was tragically cut short at age 35.
Larson, who became worried about his career while waiting tables in New York City, first performed Tick, Tick... Boom! as a solo act in 1990. The musical centers on Jon, or Larson, as he starts to hear a ticking sound just before his 30th birthday.
Larson, who became worried about his career while waiting tables in New York City, first performed Tick, Tick... Boom! as a solo act in 1990. The musical centers on Jon, or Larson, as he starts to hear a ticking sound just before his 30th birthday.
- 9/2/2021
- by Stacey Nguyen
- Popsugar.com
Ethan Hawke is an actor capable of doing just about anything. We’ve seen him tackle, over the years, nearly all genres and all sizes of production, winning acclaim consistently. Here, with Tesla, he’s apparently going the prestige biopic route, though looks can be deceiving. While the appearance here is of an independent take on what would usually be considered Oscar bait, instead we have a rather off-beat and even daring at times remix of a biographical tale. There are missteps from time to time, but the willingness to buck convention, as well as Hawke’s committed work, make it something to seek out. The film is, on the surface at least, a biopic of Nikola Tesla (Hawke), the inventor whose eventual breakthroughs in transmitting electrical power and light would change the world. However, he’s long been portrayed as a pawn in a battle for power (no pun...
- 8/22/2020
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
After numerous delays, Well Go USA’s Cut Throat City is finally making its debut — and in theaters. Yes, you heard that right. The RZA-directed crime drama will make its way into select theaters starting today as they slowly start to open their doors across the country.
“Well Go is a supporter of the traditional theatrical window and when we initially read the script a couple years ago we truly envisioned Cut Throat City as a wide theatrical release,” said Doris Pfardrescher, President & CEO, Well Go USA. “It is a socially relevant film that we feel needs to be seen on the big screen. We also want to help support the cinemas as best we can in bringing life back to their business.”
She added, “Obviously, safety is an important part of reopening but we do feel that the cinemas are taking every precaution to make us all and the environment feel safe.
“Well Go is a supporter of the traditional theatrical window and when we initially read the script a couple years ago we truly envisioned Cut Throat City as a wide theatrical release,” said Doris Pfardrescher, President & CEO, Well Go USA. “It is a socially relevant film that we feel needs to be seen on the big screen. We also want to help support the cinemas as best we can in bringing life back to their business.”
She added, “Obviously, safety is an important part of reopening but we do feel that the cinemas are taking every precaution to make us all and the environment feel safe.
- 8/21/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Thomas Edison was often called the Wizard of Menlo Park. Which is to say that most Americans in the late 19th century viewed his patented incandescent lightbulb as a thing of magic, one so otherworldly it inspired the title of L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz. Yet much like the magician of that fantasy tale, the real-life wizard wasn’t the man behind the curtain; it was Nikola Tesla, the sphinxlike Serbian immigrant who discovered alternating electrical currents and, depending on who you ask, radio waves. If Edison was a wizard, then Tesla was something else entirely—an alien being sent down to imagine the face of the 20th century for us.
These singular contributions inform much of Michael Almereyda’s peculiar idea of a biographical film. Because, yes, despite its many eccentricities, Tesla is very much a biopic, and one just as bizarre as the genius of...
These singular contributions inform much of Michael Almereyda’s peculiar idea of a biographical film. Because, yes, despite its many eccentricities, Tesla is very much a biopic, and one just as bizarre as the genius of...
- 8/20/2020
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
“When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space which I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, why now rather than then. Who has put me here? By whose order and direction have this place and time been allotted to me?” —Blaise Pascal, PenséesA master without a masterwork: such, one might say, is the peculiar, paradoxical position of American filmmaker Michael Almereyda. Spanning over three decades, his career is vigorous, accomplished, and frequently inspired, intriguing not just for its eclectic breadth of focus, but also for its doggedly exploratory bent—ranging from sundry experiments with the Pixelvision camera, to a turn-of-the-millennium Hamlet adaptation,...
- 8/19/2020
- MUBI
Have we enough evidence to name Michael Almereyda the American cinema’s greatest biographer? It’s a narrow range and hardly the highest bar to clear, yet his oeuvre yields both biopics (delightful whatsit Experimenter) and documentaries that show the largely unloved, oft-uncinematic concentration for everything it’s capable.
This week sees the addition of Tesla, Almereyda’s formally playful examination of Nikola Tesla’s life, work, legacy, and (because nothing is as it seems) vocal skills; he’s here reunited, some 20 years after their fantastic Hamlet, with Ethan Hawke in the title role and Kyle MacLachlan as Thomas Edison, while Eve Hewson, playing Anne Morgan, is our guide through this film’s puzzle. Praised since Sundance—where we said it marks “a testament to the independent spirit”—it arrives Friday via IFC.
Almereyda and I spoke over email about his decades-long quest to chronicle Tesla’s life.
The Film...
This week sees the addition of Tesla, Almereyda’s formally playful examination of Nikola Tesla’s life, work, legacy, and (because nothing is as it seems) vocal skills; he’s here reunited, some 20 years after their fantastic Hamlet, with Ethan Hawke in the title role and Kyle MacLachlan as Thomas Edison, while Eve Hewson, playing Anne Morgan, is our guide through this film’s puzzle. Praised since Sundance—where we said it marks “a testament to the independent spirit”—it arrives Friday via IFC.
Almereyda and I spoke over email about his decades-long quest to chronicle Tesla’s life.
The Film...
- 8/18/2020
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
If you want to be bored breathless by how Serbian inventor Nicola Tesla (1856-1943) figured into the feud between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse over direct and alternating currents, try 2019’s The Current War. It’s biopic trolling at its dullest. Or you may want to consider Tesla, which is both a corrective and a mesmerizing showcase for Ethan Hawke, playing the futurist who harnessed AC to light the eventual spark for our contemporary wireless world. Google searches, a Macbook and a cellphone make anachronistic cameos as Tesla mixes it...
- 8/18/2020
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
Kyle MacLachlan just gets better with age. At 61, he has settled into playing the kinds of characters who are older and less fleet-footed than roles like Special Agent Dale Cooper in “Twin Peaks” or even the impotent Trey MacDougal in “Sex and the City.” But he still has his very particular, good-natured charm.
In “Tesla,” Michael Almereyda’s dazzling and postmodern anti-biopic of the life and work of inventor and engineer Nikola Tesla (Ethan Hawke), MacLachlan plays Tesla’s colleague and eventual foe Thomas Edison. The longtime rivalry between these two eccentrics remains one of history’s fiercest, with their developments of AC and DC currents, respectively, sparking a bitter feud that rocked the late 19th century.
Though MacLachlan has solidified his reputation for playing fictional characters in the films of David Lynch, the Emmy-nominated actor slips into the role of Edison with ease. But he doesn’t quite disappear,...
In “Tesla,” Michael Almereyda’s dazzling and postmodern anti-biopic of the life and work of inventor and engineer Nikola Tesla (Ethan Hawke), MacLachlan plays Tesla’s colleague and eventual foe Thomas Edison. The longtime rivalry between these two eccentrics remains one of history’s fiercest, with their developments of AC and DC currents, respectively, sparking a bitter feud that rocked the late 19th century.
Though MacLachlan has solidified his reputation for playing fictional characters in the films of David Lynch, the Emmy-nominated actor slips into the role of Edison with ease. But he doesn’t quite disappear,...
- 8/17/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
"Tesla" is the new biographical drama feature, written and directed by Michael Almereyda, starring Ethan Hawke ("Training Day") as inventor 'Nikola Tesla', with Eve Hewson, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Jim Gaffigan and Kyle MacLachlan:
"...'Tesla', is a freewheeling take on visionary inventor 'Nikola Tesla', his interactions with 'Thomas Edison' and 'Anne', the daughter of 'J.P. Morgan'...
"... plus his breakthroughs in transmitting electrical power and light..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Tesla"...
"...'Tesla', is a freewheeling take on visionary inventor 'Nikola Tesla', his interactions with 'Thomas Edison' and 'Anne', the daughter of 'J.P. Morgan'...
"... plus his breakthroughs in transmitting electrical power and light..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Tesla"...
- 7/16/2020
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
IFC Films has launched a new trailer for ‘Tesla’ featuring Ethan Hawke.
Brilliant, visionary Nikola Tesla (Ethan Hawke) fights an uphill battle to bring his revolutionary electrical system to fruition, then faces thornier challenges with his new system for worldwide wireless energy. The film tracks Tesla’s uneasy interactions with his fellow inventor Thomas Edison (Kyle MacLachlan) and his patron George Westinghouse (Jim Gaffigan). Another thread traces Tesla’s sidewinding courtship of financial titan J.P. Morgan (Donnie Keshawarz), whose daughter Anne (Eve Hewson) takes a more than casual interest in the inventor. Anne analyzes and presents the story as it unfolds, offering a distinctly modern voice to this scientific period drama which, like its subject, defies convention.
Directed by Michael Almereyda, the film stars Ethan Hawke, Eve Hewson, Hannah Gross & Kyle MacLachlan.
Also in trailers – Bryan Cranston becomes a father to a Gorilla in trailer for ‘The One and Only Ivan...
Brilliant, visionary Nikola Tesla (Ethan Hawke) fights an uphill battle to bring his revolutionary electrical system to fruition, then faces thornier challenges with his new system for worldwide wireless energy. The film tracks Tesla’s uneasy interactions with his fellow inventor Thomas Edison (Kyle MacLachlan) and his patron George Westinghouse (Jim Gaffigan). Another thread traces Tesla’s sidewinding courtship of financial titan J.P. Morgan (Donnie Keshawarz), whose daughter Anne (Eve Hewson) takes a more than casual interest in the inventor. Anne analyzes and presents the story as it unfolds, offering a distinctly modern voice to this scientific period drama which, like its subject, defies convention.
Directed by Michael Almereyda, the film stars Ethan Hawke, Eve Hewson, Hannah Gross & Kyle MacLachlan.
Also in trailers – Bryan Cranston becomes a father to a Gorilla in trailer for ‘The One and Only Ivan...
- 7/13/2020
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Ethan Hawke stars as the famed inventor Nikola Tesla in the new trailer for the upcoming biopic, Tesla, set to arrive in theaters and video on-demand services August 21st.
As the trailer teases, Tesla takes a slightly unconventional approach to the biopic. In early scene, Eve Hewson, who plays Anne Morgan — daughter of banker J.P. Morgan and one of Tesla’s biggest supporters — opens a laptop and speaks directly to the camera, as if she’s delivering a PowerPoint presentation: “If you Google Nikola Tesla you get 34 million results. It’s basically just four pictures.
As the trailer teases, Tesla takes a slightly unconventional approach to the biopic. In early scene, Eve Hewson, who plays Anne Morgan — daughter of banker J.P. Morgan and one of Tesla’s biggest supporters — opens a laptop and speaks directly to the camera, as if she’s delivering a PowerPoint presentation: “If you Google Nikola Tesla you get 34 million results. It’s basically just four pictures.
- 7/10/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Ethan Hawke headlines the biopic, Tesla, having transformed himself—mustache and all—into the once-overlooked, retroactively-revered early 20th century inventor, Nikola Tesla. The indie offering, directed and written by Michael Almereyda, premiered this past January at the Sundance Film Festival, and will make its general release via IFC Films.
Tesla might initially seem like a historical biopic that’s quickly revisiting a topical well, focused on the electrical engineering achievements of Tesla in his famous involvement in the electricity rivalry between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse. After all, an impressively-cast movie covering that very rivalry, The Current War, just saw its belated wide release this past October. However, viewers get a meta-minded slap about 25 seconds into the film’s just-dropped trailer, proving that there’s more to it than we thought.
With that set, check out the trailer for Tesla just below.
As the official Tesla logline fully explains of the plot.
Tesla might initially seem like a historical biopic that’s quickly revisiting a topical well, focused on the electrical engineering achievements of Tesla in his famous involvement in the electricity rivalry between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse. After all, an impressively-cast movie covering that very rivalry, The Current War, just saw its belated wide release this past October. However, viewers get a meta-minded slap about 25 seconds into the film’s just-dropped trailer, proving that there’s more to it than we thought.
With that set, check out the trailer for Tesla just below.
As the official Tesla logline fully explains of the plot.
- 7/10/2020
- by Joseph Baxter
- Den of Geek
One of our most-anticipated films heading into Sundance Film Festival this year was Tesla, the latest film by the always inventive Michael Almereyda. As one can imagine, the director defied conventions finding new territory to mine from a figure (born on this day in 1856) recently captured in other biopics like The Current War. Led by Ethan Hawke and also starring Kyle MacLachlan, Jim Gaffigan, Donnie Keshawarz, and Eve Hewson, the film is now set for an August release by IFC Films, who have debuted the first trailer.
Dan Mecca said in his review, “Tesla plays a lot like Experimenter in its use of minimalist production design in parts (perhaps forced by budget) and exciting flights of fancy in others. Almereyda has been a Sundance mainstay for much of his career and it makes sense. His films are a testament to the independent spirit. Limitations be damned! The messy creativity on display is something to admire.
Dan Mecca said in his review, “Tesla plays a lot like Experimenter in its use of minimalist production design in parts (perhaps forced by budget) and exciting flights of fancy in others. Almereyda has been a Sundance mainstay for much of his career and it makes sense. His films are a testament to the independent spirit. Limitations be damned! The messy creativity on display is something to admire.
- 7/10/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Though we’ve seen Nikola Tesla portrayed in film by David Bowie and Nicholas Hoult in recent years as the inventor’s legacy has continued to grow, Ethan Hawke’s turn in the new film “Tesla” flips the biopic format on its head.
The first trailer for Michael Almereyda’s latest film “Tesla,” which dropped its first look Friday on Nikola Tesla’s 164th birthday, paints Tesla as everything from a mysterious historical icon, a philosophizer and even a rock star. Mixed in with Hawke sparring with Thomas Edison and wooing the daughter of J.P. Morgan, we see a modern day woman conducting a Google search of the roughly four images that exist of Tesla and Hawke taking a stage and grabbing a microphone while in character.
“The world we are living in is a dream that Tesla dreamed first,” Eve Hewson’s character says in the first trailer for the film.
The first trailer for Michael Almereyda’s latest film “Tesla,” which dropped its first look Friday on Nikola Tesla’s 164th birthday, paints Tesla as everything from a mysterious historical icon, a philosophizer and even a rock star. Mixed in with Hawke sparring with Thomas Edison and wooing the daughter of J.P. Morgan, we see a modern day woman conducting a Google search of the roughly four images that exist of Tesla and Hawke taking a stage and grabbing a microphone while in character.
“The world we are living in is a dream that Tesla dreamed first,” Eve Hewson’s character says in the first trailer for the film.
- 7/10/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
The longtime rivalry between brilliant and eccentric inventors Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison remains one of history’s fiercest, with their developments of AC and DC currents, respectively, sparking a bitter feud that rocked the late 19th century. Their complex head-to-head is now the subject of director Michael Almereyda’s latest film “Tesla,” which stars Ethan Hawke in the title role opposite Kyle MacLachlan as Edison. The film also unpacks other wild aspects of Tesla’s life, both personal and professional. Ahead of the film’s release from IFC on August 21, and in celebration of Tesla’s 164th birthday on July 10, a new trailer for the film has dropped. Check it out below.
Written by Almereyda, who won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize for the film at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, “Tesla” also stars Eve Hewson, Jim Gaffigan, Hannah Gross, Josh Hamilton, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. Here’s the official synopsis: “Brilliant,...
Written by Almereyda, who won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize for the film at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, “Tesla” also stars Eve Hewson, Jim Gaffigan, Hannah Gross, Josh Hamilton, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. Here’s the official synopsis: “Brilliant,...
- 7/10/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
It’s the morning after the premiere of Tesla, the new film from Michael Almereyda starring his frequent collaborator Ethan Hawke as the titular inventor. I’m sitting with the writer/director at a restaurant in the center of the Sundance Film Festival, also joined by Eve Hewson and Jim Gaffigan. Both have hefty roles in the film. Hewson plays Tesla’s almost-lover Anne Morgan while Gaffigan plays entrepreneur George Westinghouse. As we all order some breakfast, Almereyda starts in on the origins of this long-gestating project.
[Note: This interview has been edited for clarity and length.]
Michael Almereyda: The percolation [of Tesla] was lengthy. And in a way… I can just acknowledge that it is the first script I wrote. It was optioned in 1983 but never made. Jerzy Skolimowski, the great Polish director, was going to do it. I was flown to London…
We’re briefly interrupted to clarify our food orders. As Gaffigan confirms his breakfast to the waitress, she...
[Note: This interview has been edited for clarity and length.]
Michael Almereyda: The percolation [of Tesla] was lengthy. And in a way… I can just acknowledge that it is the first script I wrote. It was optioned in 1983 but never made. Jerzy Skolimowski, the great Polish director, was going to do it. I was flown to London…
We’re briefly interrupted to clarify our food orders. As Gaffigan confirms his breakfast to the waitress, she...
- 2/3/2020
- by Dan Mecca
- The Film Stage
A Michael Almereyda film can be a special thing. A few years back, the writer/director gave us Experimenter, an impressive kinda-biopic of Stanley Milgram starring Peter Sarsgaard and Winona Ryder. Two decades ago, Almereyda rendered an arresting, modern take on Hamlet. Just as Ethan Hawke was his Prince of Denmark then, so is he Nikola Tesla now.
Tesla plays much like Experimenter in its use of minimalist production design in parts (perhaps forced by budget) and exciting flights of fancy in others. Almereyda has been a Sundance mainstay for much of his career and it makes much sense. His films are a testament to the independent spirit. Limitations be damned! The messy creativity on display is something to admire.
Here we follow Tesla as he leaves his job working under Thomas Edison to pursue some radical notions. He connects with businessman and Edison rival George Westinghouse, to whom he...
Tesla plays much like Experimenter in its use of minimalist production design in parts (perhaps forced by budget) and exciting flights of fancy in others. Almereyda has been a Sundance mainstay for much of his career and it makes much sense. His films are a testament to the independent spirit. Limitations be damned! The messy creativity on display is something to admire.
Here we follow Tesla as he leaves his job working under Thomas Edison to pursue some radical notions. He connects with businessman and Edison rival George Westinghouse, to whom he...
- 1/30/2020
- by Dan Mecca
- The Film Stage
Before the lights went down at the world premiere of “Tesla,” writer-director Michael Almereyda said that his unconventional biopic of the famously enigmatic futurist was inspired by “Derek Jarman, Henry James, and certain episodes of ‘Drunk History.’” He wasn’t kidding. What starts as an earnest (if lyrical) profile of the man who invented Elon Musk soon explodes into something more appropriately postmodern when Nikola Tesla (Ethan Hawke) and Thomas Edison (Kyle MacLachlan) get into a heated ice cream fight, and a woman’s voice comes over the soundtrack to inform us that it probably didn’t happen this way.
The voice belongs to Eve Hewson, playing J.P. Morgan’s daughter Anne with the same contemporary brio she brought to “The Knick,” and we cut to find her sitting at the Macbook Pro that she’ll be using as a reference guide and slide projector to lead us through the...
The voice belongs to Eve Hewson, playing J.P. Morgan’s daughter Anne with the same contemporary brio she brought to “The Knick,” and we cut to find her sitting at the Macbook Pro that she’ll be using as a reference guide and slide projector to lead us through the...
- 1/28/2020
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Inventor Nikolai Tesla is more popular today than when he died penniless in a New York hotel in 1943. Back then, he was the futurist who swore he could summon unlimited, clean, wireless electromagnetic energy from the earth — a neat idea, but surely coal and oil were fine. In the 21st century, as temperatures rise, Tesla has grown in stature as humanity’s fumbled savior, the martyr of missed opportunities who was bullied by every businessman he met, most of whom still have their names welded to global conglomerates. No wonder hip actors like David Bowie and, now, Ethan Hawke have signed on to play the genius.
“Tesla,” which waltzes through the Serbian immigrant’s partnerships with Thomas Edison (Kyle MacLachlan), George Westinghouse (Jim Gaffigan), and J.P. Morgan (Donnie Keshawarz), and his rumored flirtations with Morgan’s daughter Anne (Eve Hewson) and the actress Sarah Bernhardt (Rebecca Dayan). Anne narrates the film,...
“Tesla,” which waltzes through the Serbian immigrant’s partnerships with Thomas Edison (Kyle MacLachlan), George Westinghouse (Jim Gaffigan), and J.P. Morgan (Donnie Keshawarz), and his rumored flirtations with Morgan’s daughter Anne (Eve Hewson) and the actress Sarah Bernhardt (Rebecca Dayan). Anne narrates the film,...
- 1/28/2020
- by Amy Nicholson
- Variety Film + TV
Kate McKinnon took center stage during the Nov. 2 “Saturday Night Live” cold open sketch, in which she portrayed Senator Elizabeth Warren delivering a town hall at an Iowa public school that balanced delivering some hard truths with also often sounded like a standup set.
“First, I would like to pour one out for Beto O’Rourke, who just dropped out of the race,” she kicked things off. “Thank you so much for running a great campaign and for sticking around long enough to call me ‘punitive.’ That was so bad-ass. Let me know how my dust tastes, all right?”
From there, McKinnon’s Warren went in on Donald Trump — specifically his recent announcement that he would be moving to Florida, where the taxes are lower. “You know, where I pay my taxes?” she asked the crowd. “Every single state, out of principle.” She also advised Trump not to “stand too...
“First, I would like to pour one out for Beto O’Rourke, who just dropped out of the race,” she kicked things off. “Thank you so much for running a great campaign and for sticking around long enough to call me ‘punitive.’ That was so bad-ass. Let me know how my dust tastes, all right?”
From there, McKinnon’s Warren went in on Donald Trump — specifically his recent announcement that he would be moving to Florida, where the taxes are lower. “You know, where I pay my taxes?” she asked the crowd. “Every single state, out of principle.” She also advised Trump not to “stand too...
- 11/3/2019
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: True Royalty TV, the streaming service dedicated to documenting the lives of royal families around the world, has spoken to high-profile industry players as it bids to raise $12M to expand its library content.
Deadline understands that the company has held exploratory talks with Disney, Viacom and ITV among others as part of its fundraising efforts, which it hopes will establish it as a global destination for TV shows about royalty.
It comes as True Royalty today announced a deal with Vimeo to power the streaming service, while it is also preparing to premiere its latest original commission: Meghan for President?, made by Spun Gold, the British indie which is also a True Royalty shareholder.
True Royalty CEO Gregor Angus would not be drawn on specific conversations the company is having with potential backers, but said the net is wide because it is in the early stages of the fundraise.
Deadline understands that the company has held exploratory talks with Disney, Viacom and ITV among others as part of its fundraising efforts, which it hopes will establish it as a global destination for TV shows about royalty.
It comes as True Royalty today announced a deal with Vimeo to power the streaming service, while it is also preparing to premiere its latest original commission: Meghan for President?, made by Spun Gold, the British indie which is also a True Royalty shareholder.
True Royalty CEO Gregor Angus would not be drawn on specific conversations the company is having with potential backers, but said the net is wide because it is in the early stages of the fundraise.
- 10/29/2019
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
The year is 1880. Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch), future inventor of many great things and already a whiz at self-promotion, has brought a group of finely dressed, top-hatted businessman by train to a field in Menlo Park, New Jersey. Then, upon their exit, he shows them what he’s just patented: a glass tube that gives off a light. He flips a switch and the entire grounds are illuminated by what appears to be dozen of these new contraptions. “Gentlemen, I hope you brought your checkbooks,” he quips. Now, if he...
- 10/25/2019
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s The Current War has taken its time to make its way across the world. This week sees the release of a film with a fantastic cast and a sizzling story. Benedict Cumberbatch leads the film as the great American inventor Thomas Edison with Michael Shannon as his rival, revered entrepreneur, George Westinghouse. HeyUGuys favourite Nicholas Hoult turns up as the eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla, Katherine Waterston is Westinghouse’s outspoken wife Marguerite.
If that wasn’t good enough the cast also include Spider-Man Tom Holland as Edison’s confident young secretary Samuel Insull, Succession’s Matthew Macfadyen is the famous financier and banker J.P. Morgan, and Tuppence Middleton is Edison’s supportive wife Mary.
This week James Kleinmann sat down with the cast to talk about their experiences on the film. You can see that below.
The Current War is released on the 25th of October.
If that wasn’t good enough the cast also include Spider-Man Tom Holland as Edison’s confident young secretary Samuel Insull, Succession’s Matthew Macfadyen is the famous financier and banker J.P. Morgan, and Tuppence Middleton is Edison’s supportive wife Mary.
This week James Kleinmann sat down with the cast to talk about their experiences on the film. You can see that below.
The Current War is released on the 25th of October.
- 10/24/2019
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
A casualty of Harvey Weinstein’s downfall, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s thought-to-be awards-contender that was rushed for a lukewarm Tiff reception in 2017 finally sees the light of day. Retitled The Current War: Director’s Cut due to the director’s extensive revisions (thanks to producer Martin Scorsese’s contractual ability to block the other version’s release), the film remains narratively identical with effective pacing tweaks that fix some of what gave me pause two years ago. The most noticeable change is the slight increase in screen-time for Nicholas Hoult’s Tesla to help provide the character his deserved due alongside the two leads (Benedict Cumberbatch’s Edison and Michael Shannon’s Westinghouse).
I liked the film with reservations back then and enjoyed it a bit more now. Hardly a different film, it exists as a stronger variant of what already was. Whether that’s enough to win over its detractors remains to be seen,...
I liked the film with reservations back then and enjoyed it a bit more now. Hardly a different film, it exists as a stronger variant of what already was. Whether that’s enough to win over its detractors remains to be seen,...
- 10/22/2019
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
The celebrity-wannabe energy infusing contemporary culture’s understanding of tech executives, the most recent generational coat of paint applied to the corporate domination of everyday life, has found an unusual and ill-fitting home in “The Current War: Director’s Cut,” the latest film from director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (“Me and Earl and the Dying Girl”).
Premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival in September of 2017, where it was received with a collective shrug, the film was then caught in limbo as its original distributor, The Weinstein Company, dissolved in the aftermath of sexual assault charges brought against company co-head Harvey Weinstein (whose producing credit here has been removed). While waiting for a proper theatrical release, Gomez-Rejon re-edited the film, hence its new colon-necessitating but not confusion-abating title.
Not that there’s anything confusing about this real-life 19th century drama. The story of Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch) and George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon...
Premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival in September of 2017, where it was received with a collective shrug, the film was then caught in limbo as its original distributor, The Weinstein Company, dissolved in the aftermath of sexual assault charges brought against company co-head Harvey Weinstein (whose producing credit here has been removed). While waiting for a proper theatrical release, Gomez-Rejon re-edited the film, hence its new colon-necessitating but not confusion-abating title.
Not that there’s anything confusing about this real-life 19th century drama. The story of Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch) and George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon...
- 10/22/2019
- by Dave White
- The Wrap
True Royalty TV has embarked on a new funding round and wants to raise $12 million as it looks to expand its royal-themed streaming service. The Svod player has brought in Laurence Hollingworth, J.P. Morgan’s former vice chairman, Emea, as chairman of its board as it plots its next moves.
True Royalty TV’s initial seed-funding rounds raised $7 million. Its subscriber numbers currently run into the tens of thousands. Since launch it has secured a distribution deal with Comcast for its Xfinity X1 platform. New third-party distribution deals will be announced shortly.
The new cash will be used on tech, marketing, and content, in part to expand the geographical footprint of the service. It is currently available in Australasia, North America, and the U.K. and Ireland. New markets, including India, and China, where interest in the British Royal Family is growing significantly, are among those targeted for expansion, the company said.
True Royalty TV’s initial seed-funding rounds raised $7 million. Its subscriber numbers currently run into the tens of thousands. Since launch it has secured a distribution deal with Comcast for its Xfinity X1 platform. New third-party distribution deals will be announced shortly.
The new cash will be used on tech, marketing, and content, in part to expand the geographical footprint of the service. It is currently available in Australasia, North America, and the U.K. and Ireland. New markets, including India, and China, where interest in the British Royal Family is growing significantly, are among those targeted for expansion, the company said.
- 10/9/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Sources say Annapurna/MGM joint venture United Artists Releasing remains capable of distributing Bond 25.
Updated: Megan Ellison has responded to reports that Annapurna is in financial dire straits and locked in a tussle with lenders after spending much of its $350m credit facility.
Speculation about the viability of Annapurna has swirled around Hollywood for a year or so and intensified after reports on Wednesday (Aug. 7) that Ellison’s father, Oracle founder and billionaire Larry Ellison, is in talks to shore up Annapurna’s debt as senior lenders circle and the prospect of bankruptcy looms large.
However later on Wednesday (Aug.
Updated: Megan Ellison has responded to reports that Annapurna is in financial dire straits and locked in a tussle with lenders after spending much of its $350m credit facility.
Speculation about the viability of Annapurna has swirled around Hollywood for a year or so and intensified after reports on Wednesday (Aug. 7) that Ellison’s father, Oracle founder and billionaire Larry Ellison, is in talks to shore up Annapurna’s debt as senior lenders circle and the prospect of bankruptcy looms large.
However later on Wednesday (Aug.
- 8/7/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Sources say Annapurna/MGM joint venture United Artists Releasing remains capable of distributing Bond 25.
Speculation about the viability of Megan Ellison’s Annapurna has swirled around Hollywood for a year or so and now, according to reports, the company is in a tussle with lenders after spending much of its $350m credit facility.
Ellison’s father, Oracle founder and billionaire Larry Ellison, is reportedly in talks to shore up Annapurna’s debt as senior lenders circle and the prospect of bankruptcy looms large.
What happens next has serious ramifications on the fate of another independent distributor at a time when...
Speculation about the viability of Megan Ellison’s Annapurna has swirled around Hollywood for a year or so and now, according to reports, the company is in a tussle with lenders after spending much of its $350m credit facility.
Ellison’s father, Oracle founder and billionaire Larry Ellison, is reportedly in talks to shore up Annapurna’s debt as senior lenders circle and the prospect of bankruptcy looms large.
What happens next has serious ramifications on the fate of another independent distributor at a time when...
- 8/7/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
101 Studios has released a Us trailer for Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Current War’ starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Thomas Edison.
Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, Benedict Cumberbatch stars as the great American inventor Thomas Edison and Michael Shannon as his rival, revered entrepreneur, George Westinghouse. Nicholas Hoult plays the eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla, Katherine Waterston is Westinghouse’s outspoken wife Marguerite, Tom Holland is Edison’s confident young secretary Samuel Insull, Matthew Macfadyen is the famous financier and banker J.P. Morgan, and Tuppence Middleton is Edison’s supportive wife Mary.
Also in trailers – Liam Hemsworth takes the lead in trailer for ‘Killerman’
The film is released July 26th in the UK and October 11th in the Us.
The Current War Synopsis
In the late 19th century, Edison, famous, iconoclastic and unwaveringly wed to his direct current system of electricity, begins a battle with publicity-shy industrialist Westinghouse, and his system of alternating current.
Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, Benedict Cumberbatch stars as the great American inventor Thomas Edison and Michael Shannon as his rival, revered entrepreneur, George Westinghouse. Nicholas Hoult plays the eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla, Katherine Waterston is Westinghouse’s outspoken wife Marguerite, Tom Holland is Edison’s confident young secretary Samuel Insull, Matthew Macfadyen is the famous financier and banker J.P. Morgan, and Tuppence Middleton is Edison’s supportive wife Mary.
Also in trailers – Liam Hemsworth takes the lead in trailer for ‘Killerman’
The film is released July 26th in the UK and October 11th in the Us.
The Current War Synopsis
In the late 19th century, Edison, famous, iconoclastic and unwaveringly wed to his direct current system of electricity, begins a battle with publicity-shy industrialist Westinghouse, and his system of alternating current.
- 6/27/2019
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Entertainment Film Distributors has released a trailer for Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Current War’ starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Thomas Edison.
Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, Benedict Cumberbatch stars as the great American inventor Thomas Edison and Michael Shannon as his rival, revered entrepreneur, George Westinghouse. Nicholas Hoult plays the eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla, Katherine Waterston is Westinghouse’s outspoken wife Marguerite, Tom Holland is Edison’s confident young secretary Samuel Insull, Matthew Macfadyen is the famous financier and banker J.P. Morgan, and Tuppence Middleton is Edison’s supportive wife Mary.
Also in trailers – Adam Driver and Bill Murray take out a few zombies in trailer for ‘The Dead Don’t Die’
The film hits cinemas July 26th
The Current War Synopsis
In the late 19th century, Edison, famous, iconoclastic and unwaveringly wed to his direct current system of electricity, begins a battle with publicity-shy industrialist Westinghouse, and his system of alternating current.
Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, Benedict Cumberbatch stars as the great American inventor Thomas Edison and Michael Shannon as his rival, revered entrepreneur, George Westinghouse. Nicholas Hoult plays the eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla, Katherine Waterston is Westinghouse’s outspoken wife Marguerite, Tom Holland is Edison’s confident young secretary Samuel Insull, Matthew Macfadyen is the famous financier and banker J.P. Morgan, and Tuppence Middleton is Edison’s supportive wife Mary.
Also in trailers – Adam Driver and Bill Murray take out a few zombies in trailer for ‘The Dead Don’t Die’
The film hits cinemas July 26th
The Current War Synopsis
In the late 19th century, Edison, famous, iconoclastic and unwaveringly wed to his direct current system of electricity, begins a battle with publicity-shy industrialist Westinghouse, and his system of alternating current.
- 5/9/2019
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Morris I. Diamond, who promoted Michael Jackson concerts, ran a record label and served as a music supervisor on movies including Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, died April 7 of natural causes in Rancho Mirage, California, his family announced. He was 97.
Diamond was national promotion director of Mercury Records in the 1960s, and he later headed Beverly Hills Records. That label boasted a roster that included Chet Baker and J.P. Morgan and released Ennio Morricone's soundtrack to Butterfly (1982), a drama that starred Orson Welles, Stacy Keach and Golden Globe winner Pia Zadora.
In the mid-1980s, Diamond began to promote ...
Diamond was national promotion director of Mercury Records in the 1960s, and he later headed Beverly Hills Records. That label boasted a roster that included Chet Baker and J.P. Morgan and released Ennio Morricone's soundtrack to Butterfly (1982), a drama that starred Orson Welles, Stacy Keach and Golden Globe winner Pia Zadora.
In the mid-1980s, Diamond began to promote ...
- 4/16/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Morris I. Diamond, who promoted Michael Jackson concerts, ran a record label and served as a music supervisor on movies including Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, died April 7 of natural causes in Rancho Mirage, California, his family announced. He was 97.
Diamond was national promotion director of Mercury Records in the 1960s, and he later headed Beverly Hills Records. That label boasted a roster that included Chet Baker and J.P. Morgan and released Ennio Morricone's soundtrack to Butterfly (1982), a drama that starred Orson Welles, Stacy Keach and Golden Globe winner Pia Zadora.
In the mid-1980s, Diamond began to promote ...
Diamond was national promotion director of Mercury Records in the 1960s, and he later headed Beverly Hills Records. That label boasted a roster that included Chet Baker and J.P. Morgan and released Ennio Morricone's soundtrack to Butterfly (1982), a drama that starred Orson Welles, Stacy Keach and Golden Globe winner Pia Zadora.
In the mid-1980s, Diamond began to promote ...
- 4/16/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
After being in limbo for a little more than a year, “The Current War” has been picked up by David Glasser’s new company 101 Studios.
The production company, which Glasser launched in January, bought the rights to the orphaned The Weinstein Co. project for $3 million.
Glasser said in January that they were negotiating for the rights to the film.
“The Current War” stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Shannon, and follows the story of the cutthroat competition between Thomas Edison (Cumberbatch) and George Westinghouse (Shannon) over whose electrical system would power the new century. Backed by J.P. Morgan, Edison dazzles the world by lighting Manhattan. But Westinghouse, aided by Nikola Tesla, has seen fatal flaws in Edison’s direct current design. Igniting a war of currents, Westinghouse and Tesla bet everything on risky and dangerous alternating current.
Also Read: Former Weinstein Exec David Glasser Launches New Production Company 101 Studios
Nicholas Hoult...
The production company, which Glasser launched in January, bought the rights to the orphaned The Weinstein Co. project for $3 million.
Glasser said in January that they were negotiating for the rights to the film.
“The Current War” stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Shannon, and follows the story of the cutthroat competition between Thomas Edison (Cumberbatch) and George Westinghouse (Shannon) over whose electrical system would power the new century. Backed by J.P. Morgan, Edison dazzles the world by lighting Manhattan. But Westinghouse, aided by Nikola Tesla, has seen fatal flaws in Edison’s direct current design. Igniting a war of currents, Westinghouse and Tesla bet everything on risky and dangerous alternating current.
Also Read: Former Weinstein Exec David Glasser Launches New Production Company 101 Studios
Nicholas Hoult...
- 4/3/2019
- by Trey Williams
- The Wrap
Food Bank For New York City, the city’s leading hunger-relief organization working to end food poverty throughout the five boroughs, will host its annual Can Do Awards Dinner on Tuesday, April 16th, at Cipriani Wall Street.
This year’s event will honor Chef José Andrés; David Burtka & Neil Patrick Harris; Hildy Simmons; and Stop & Shop for their commitment to hunger relief in New York City. The evening is instrumental in raising funds and awareness to provide support for the 1.5 million New Yorkers who rely on the charity’s vital programs and services.
Sponsored by Bank of America and chaired by Lee Brian Schrager and Jodisue Rosen & Scott R. Feldman, the evening event will feature a live performance and auction.
“Our honorees this year exemplify what it means to create lasting, positive change in our city and the world. Each has created a powerful legacy that any New Yorker or NYC brand could replicate.
This year’s event will honor Chef José Andrés; David Burtka & Neil Patrick Harris; Hildy Simmons; and Stop & Shop for their commitment to hunger relief in New York City. The evening is instrumental in raising funds and awareness to provide support for the 1.5 million New Yorkers who rely on the charity’s vital programs and services.
Sponsored by Bank of America and chaired by Lee Brian Schrager and Jodisue Rosen & Scott R. Feldman, the evening event will feature a live performance and auction.
“Our honorees this year exemplify what it means to create lasting, positive change in our city and the world. Each has created a powerful legacy that any New Yorker or NYC brand could replicate.
- 3/28/2019
- Look to the Stars
"I am the only man on Earth today who can achieve this wonder." Whoa - this is cool. The Tesla World Light is a short film produced by the National Film Board of Canada, which initially premiered at festivals in 2017. It's now available online to watch and it's seriously mesmerizing. Canadian filmmaker Matthew Rankin and his production designer Dany Boivin built hand-operated rigs to animate this video using light painting, to tell Tesla's story with light itself. "The idea is to tell the story using an abstract visual language." Nikola Tesla was one the premiere inventors of the 19th and 20th centuries. His most grandiose invention was the World System at Wardenclyffe Tower, which was intended to provide free and unlimited power to everyone on the planet. Once his benefactor J.P. Morgan realized there was no profit to be made in Tesla's vision of free energy, however, he pulled his funding.
- 3/14/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Payroll specialist Cast & Crew Entertainment Services has been sold by Silver Lake to the investment Fund Eqt VIII for an undisclosed price.
Cast & Crew, based in Burbank, Calif., and founded in 1976, touts itself as the premier provider of technology-enabled payroll and production-management services to the entertainment industry. Services include payroll processing, residuals processing, workers’ compensation services, labor relations, production incentives and production tax credit financing. It has approximately 700 employees.
Eqt and Silver Lake, which bought Cast & Crew in 2015, announced the deal Monday. Eqt said it will support Cast & Crew’s next phase of development as the company focuses on accelerating product and service expansion in current and new verticals and leverage its local European presence and Industrial Advisor Network to accelerate the company’s international expansion, initially focused in Europe.
Kasper Knokgaard, partner at Eqt Partners, said, “We have been very impressed with the Company’s performance and vision...
Cast & Crew, based in Burbank, Calif., and founded in 1976, touts itself as the premier provider of technology-enabled payroll and production-management services to the entertainment industry. Services include payroll processing, residuals processing, workers’ compensation services, labor relations, production incentives and production tax credit financing. It has approximately 700 employees.
Eqt and Silver Lake, which bought Cast & Crew in 2015, announced the deal Monday. Eqt said it will support Cast & Crew’s next phase of development as the company focuses on accelerating product and service expansion in current and new verticals and leverage its local European presence and Industrial Advisor Network to accelerate the company’s international expansion, initially focused in Europe.
Kasper Knokgaard, partner at Eqt Partners, said, “We have been very impressed with the Company’s performance and vision...
- 12/10/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Matthew Byrd Jan 17, 2019
Fallout 76 is a disaster, but its really just an extension of the failures of Fallout 4.
The Vault Boy, the smiling blonde mascot of the Fallout universe, is not nearly as cute as he may seem. In the world of Fallout, he is the main way the Vault-Tec organization put a friendly face on a company that aimed to privatize the apocalypse, ensuring that the elite remained secure while the rest of humanity was treated as participants in an elaborate and disturbing social experiment.
The Vault Boy’s role in that operation is certainly appropriate. After all, his original design was based on Monopoly’s Rich Uncle Pennybags, who himself was based on J.P. Morgan, a banker who allegedly used financial crises that affected the common man to bolster his own power. (They called him the "robber baron.")
We all laugh when we see Fallout's smiling Vault...
Fallout 76 is a disaster, but its really just an extension of the failures of Fallout 4.
The Vault Boy, the smiling blonde mascot of the Fallout universe, is not nearly as cute as he may seem. In the world of Fallout, he is the main way the Vault-Tec organization put a friendly face on a company that aimed to privatize the apocalypse, ensuring that the elite remained secure while the rest of humanity was treated as participants in an elaborate and disturbing social experiment.
The Vault Boy’s role in that operation is certainly appropriate. After all, his original design was based on Monopoly’s Rich Uncle Pennybags, who himself was based on J.P. Morgan, a banker who allegedly used financial crises that affected the common man to bolster his own power. (They called him the "robber baron.")
We all laugh when we see Fallout's smiling Vault...
- 12/3/2018
- Den of Geek
After not showing up to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in 2017 and 2018, Donald Trump is hinting that he might attend next year’s event because the host won’t be a comedian like last year’s Michelle Wolf. Instead, it will be author Ron Chernow.
“So-called comedian Michelle Wolf bombed so badly last year at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner that this year, for the first time in decades, they will have an author instead of a comedian,” he wrote on Twitter. “Good first step in comeback of a dying evening and tradition! Maybe I will go?”
With Chernow at the podium for next year’s dinner, it is likely that the event won’t be a celebratory roast of the president and the administration like the previous years — which is probably why Trump is toying with the idea of attending.
Known as the D.C. Nerd Prom, the dinner...
“So-called comedian Michelle Wolf bombed so badly last year at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner that this year, for the first time in decades, they will have an author instead of a comedian,” he wrote on Twitter. “Good first step in comeback of a dying evening and tradition! Maybe I will go?”
With Chernow at the podium for next year’s dinner, it is likely that the event won’t be a celebratory roast of the president and the administration like the previous years — which is probably why Trump is toying with the idea of attending.
Known as the D.C. Nerd Prom, the dinner...
- 11/21/2018
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
This year’s White House Correspondents’ Association will be no laughing matter. The organization has decided to forgo a comedian as emcee this year – historian Ron Chernow will be the featured speaker.
In a statement released today, the Whca announces Chernow as the featured speaker for the annual dinner on Saturday, April 27, 2019. The statement does not address the absence of a comedian as emcee.
Last year’s dinner was hosted by comedian Michelle Wolf (above).
“I’m delighted that Ron will share his lively, deeply researched perspectives on American politics and history at the 2019 White House Correspondents’ Dinner,” said Olivier Knox, Chief Washington Correspondent for SiriusXM and president of the Whca. “As we celebrate the importance of a free and independent news media to the health of the republic, I look forward to hearing Ron place this unusual moment in the context of American history.”
“The White House Correspondents’ Association...
In a statement released today, the Whca announces Chernow as the featured speaker for the annual dinner on Saturday, April 27, 2019. The statement does not address the absence of a comedian as emcee.
Last year’s dinner was hosted by comedian Michelle Wolf (above).
“I’m delighted that Ron will share his lively, deeply researched perspectives on American politics and history at the 2019 White House Correspondents’ Dinner,” said Olivier Knox, Chief Washington Correspondent for SiriusXM and president of the Whca. “As we celebrate the importance of a free and independent news media to the health of the republic, I look forward to hearing Ron place this unusual moment in the context of American history.”
“The White House Correspondents’ Association...
- 11/19/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Lantern Entertainment is unloading more of the unreleased finished films it scooped up when it acquired the now-defunct The Weinstein Co.
Lantern Entertainment said on Monday that it has partnered with international film distribution and financing company 13 Films to release the buzzy “The Current War” and horror flick “Polaroid” overseas.
The company did not specify what the plan would be for the two films’ domestic releases.
Also Read: Lantern Finally Owns The Weinstein Company's Remains - Now What?
“The Current War,” starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Shannon, and “Polaroid” are the last two unreleased films in Lantern’s library. STXFilms acquired global rights to the studio’s Kevin Hart and Bryan Cranston film “The Upside,” and “Hotel Mumbai” landed at Bleecker Street after the film’s producers bought back the rights.
“The Current War” was the talk of the Toronto International Film Festival last year and was initially...
Lantern Entertainment said on Monday that it has partnered with international film distribution and financing company 13 Films to release the buzzy “The Current War” and horror flick “Polaroid” overseas.
The company did not specify what the plan would be for the two films’ domestic releases.
Also Read: Lantern Finally Owns The Weinstein Company's Remains - Now What?
“The Current War,” starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Shannon, and “Polaroid” are the last two unreleased films in Lantern’s library. STXFilms acquired global rights to the studio’s Kevin Hart and Bryan Cranston film “The Upside,” and “Hotel Mumbai” landed at Bleecker Street after the film’s producers bought back the rights.
“The Current War” was the talk of the Toronto International Film Festival last year and was initially...
- 10/8/2018
- by Trey Williams
- The Wrap
As New Fox moves its flagship broadcast network toward a programming lineup dominated by live sports, one analyst wonders if it could come to view the traditional relationship between the network and its local affiliates as expendable.
“I’m concerned that the move by Fox to go toward more of a national sports play, at some point does the network just say, ‘You know what? We realize the value of local is local but we’ll fill that in in the rest of the country with a national feed. We’re going to go with the nuclear option,'” said analyst Michael Nathanson at the Tvb Forward conference.
Fox is changing its programming stripes in anticipation of selling most of the company to Disney, except for the broadcast networks and stations, plus Fox News and FS1.
Nathanson’s comments were something akin to what a fox would say in the henhouse.
“I’m concerned that the move by Fox to go toward more of a national sports play, at some point does the network just say, ‘You know what? We realize the value of local is local but we’ll fill that in in the rest of the country with a national feed. We’re going to go with the nuclear option,'” said analyst Michael Nathanson at the Tvb Forward conference.
Fox is changing its programming stripes in anticipation of selling most of the company to Disney, except for the broadcast networks and stations, plus Fox News and FS1.
Nathanson’s comments were something akin to what a fox would say in the henhouse.
- 9/27/2018
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
Legendary Entertainment will likely leave its distribution and co-financing pact with Universal Studios early, according to multiple insiders. The company behind “Godzilla” and “Kong: Skull Island” is decamping for Warner Bros., its former home. A deal has yet to be signed, but the two entertainment players are in exclusive negotiations and are expected to come to an agreement shortly.
However, the deal will be much different than previous pacts that Legendary has signed, signaling a larger strategic shift that’s taken place at the company following a series of box office flops and the departure of its founder Thomas Tull in 2017. Namely, the Warner Bros. alliance will be a straight output deal, meaning that the studio will release Legendary’s films for a fee. It will not be a slate financing partnership, which was the kind of alliance that Legendary had at Warner Bros. during an eight-year relationship that ended in 2013. Warner Bros.
However, the deal will be much different than previous pacts that Legendary has signed, signaling a larger strategic shift that’s taken place at the company following a series of box office flops and the departure of its founder Thomas Tull in 2017. Namely, the Warner Bros. alliance will be a straight output deal, meaning that the studio will release Legendary’s films for a fee. It will not be a slate financing partnership, which was the kind of alliance that Legendary had at Warner Bros. during an eight-year relationship that ended in 2013. Warner Bros.
- 8/13/2018
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Ryan Reynolds’ live action “Detective Pikachu” film has jumped ship at Universal and settled at Warner Bros.
The film is being produced by Legendary Entertainment, which has currently has a distribution deal with Universal that ends at the end of the year.
“Detective Pikachu” was expected to hit theaters May 10, 2019, though that could now change. The belief is that the move to Warner Bros. is a sign that Legendary, owned by China’s Wanda Group, will set up shop at the studio once its deal with Universal ends.
Universal declined to comment.
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The most recent release from Legendary and Universal was Dwayne Johnson’s “Skyscraper.” The film opened to just $25 million domestic and $65 million worldwide from 57 countries. And with a $120 million budget before marketing costs, faces an uphill battle toward profitability for the studio.
The film...
The film is being produced by Legendary Entertainment, which has currently has a distribution deal with Universal that ends at the end of the year.
“Detective Pikachu” was expected to hit theaters May 10, 2019, though that could now change. The belief is that the move to Warner Bros. is a sign that Legendary, owned by China’s Wanda Group, will set up shop at the studio once its deal with Universal ends.
Universal declined to comment.
Also Read: 'It Chapter Two': Warner Bros Gives First Sneak Peek of Adult Cast
The most recent release from Legendary and Universal was Dwayne Johnson’s “Skyscraper.” The film opened to just $25 million domestic and $65 million worldwide from 57 countries. And with a $120 million budget before marketing costs, faces an uphill battle toward profitability for the studio.
The film...
- 7/25/2018
- by Trey Williams
- The Wrap
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