As the writers strike continues to dominate Hollywood discourse, Ted Sarandos has exited a planned appearance at a Pen America event next week that was set to honor him.
The literary organization announced Wednesday that the Netflix co-ceo will no longer attend their annual gala to accept the Pen America Business Visionary Award. The event will still take place May 18 in New York as planned with Saturday Night Live’s Colin Jost as host, and Lorne Michaels remains scheduled to participate as an honored guest.
“We admire Ted Sarandos’ singular work translating literature to artful presentation onscreen, and his stalwart defense of free expression and satire,” Pen America said in a statement. “As a writers organization, we have been following recent events closely and understand his decision.”
The group added that the event will include a focus on the rise of book bans and the constraints surrounding comedy as it...
The literary organization announced Wednesday that the Netflix co-ceo will no longer attend their annual gala to accept the Pen America Business Visionary Award. The event will still take place May 18 in New York as planned with Saturday Night Live’s Colin Jost as host, and Lorne Michaels remains scheduled to participate as an honored guest.
“We admire Ted Sarandos’ singular work translating literature to artful presentation onscreen, and his stalwart defense of free expression and satire,” Pen America said in a statement. “As a writers organization, we have been following recent events closely and understand his decision.”
The group added that the event will include a focus on the rise of book bans and the constraints surrounding comedy as it...
- 5/10/2023
- by Ryan Gajewski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Netflix co-ceo Ted Sarandos will no longer attend a gala meant to honor him next week in New York. The decision comes as labor issues grab headlines across Hollywood.
Sarandos was set to accept the Business Visionary Award at the annual Pen American Spring Literary Gala, alongside fellow honoree Lorne Michaels and a host of literati including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Susan Choi, Jennifer Egan, Min Jin Lee, Jay McInerney and Gay Talese. He’s skipping the event, to be held under the blue whale at the American Museum of Natural History, as many industry celebrations weigh how to address the writers strike.
“Given the threat to disrupt this wonderful evening, I thought it was best to pull out so as not to distract from the important work that Pen America does for writers and journalists, as well as the celebration of my friend and personal hero Lorne Michaels. I hope...
Sarandos was set to accept the Business Visionary Award at the annual Pen American Spring Literary Gala, alongside fellow honoree Lorne Michaels and a host of literati including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Susan Choi, Jennifer Egan, Min Jin Lee, Jay McInerney and Gay Talese. He’s skipping the event, to be held under the blue whale at the American Museum of Natural History, as many industry celebrations weigh how to address the writers strike.
“Given the threat to disrupt this wonderful evening, I thought it was best to pull out so as not to distract from the important work that Pen America does for writers and journalists, as well as the celebration of my friend and personal hero Lorne Michaels. I hope...
- 5/10/2023
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
FilmNation Entertainment today announced the launch of Infrared, a new film production label that will look to finance and produce mainstream films with franchise potential, producing three to four mid-to-high level budget films each year across the action, thriller, comedy and sci-fi genres.
The label will be led by President of Production Drew Simon, who reports to FilmNation Entertainment CEO Glen Basner. In his role, he will oversee all elements of the label’s films, from development through production, while managing the label’s team.
Simon has hired Sam Speiser as Infrared’s Vice President of Production, with Speiser to support him in overseeing all stages of project development and production. She will be responsible for sourcing and vetting new material, helping to build Infrared’s ongoing slate of films, and managing feature film projects through their complete lifecycles.
“I am thrilled to move forward with this exciting new strategic...
The label will be led by President of Production Drew Simon, who reports to FilmNation Entertainment CEO Glen Basner. In his role, he will oversee all elements of the label’s films, from development through production, while managing the label’s team.
Simon has hired Sam Speiser as Infrared’s Vice President of Production, with Speiser to support him in overseeing all stages of project development and production. She will be responsible for sourcing and vetting new material, helping to build Infrared’s ongoing slate of films, and managing feature film projects through their complete lifecycles.
“I am thrilled to move forward with this exciting new strategic...
- 9/7/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Veteran TV producer Kristen Campo has launched her own production shingle Campout Productions and renewed her first-look deal with Endeavor Content.
Under her Endeavor Content deal, Campo is the executive producer alongside Layne Eskridge, Know Wonder, and Abby Ajayi on the recently announced, eight-episode limited drama The Plot for Disney’s Onyx Collective/Hulu based on Jean Hanff Korelitz’s novel of the same name.
Campo recently expanded her relationship with Hanff Korelitz with the optioning of her newest work, The Latecomer, alongside producer Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories in partnership with Endeavor Content.
Next up through her deal, Campo has The Lazarus Files, based on the Stephanie Lazarus novel by Matthew McGough alongside Anonymous Content, and crime thriller His & Hers based on Alice Feeney’s novel alongside Jessica Chastain’s Freckle Films.
Additionally, Campo has high-level development projects set up at Apple, Netflix, Starz, HBO Max, and Amazon.
Under her Endeavor Content deal, Campo is the executive producer alongside Layne Eskridge, Know Wonder, and Abby Ajayi on the recently announced, eight-episode limited drama The Plot for Disney’s Onyx Collective/Hulu based on Jean Hanff Korelitz’s novel of the same name.
Campo recently expanded her relationship with Hanff Korelitz with the optioning of her newest work, The Latecomer, alongside producer Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories in partnership with Endeavor Content.
Next up through her deal, Campo has The Lazarus Files, based on the Stephanie Lazarus novel by Matthew McGough alongside Anonymous Content, and crime thriller His & Hers based on Alice Feeney’s novel alongside Jessica Chastain’s Freckle Films.
Additionally, Campo has high-level development projects set up at Apple, Netflix, Starz, HBO Max, and Amazon.
- 3/3/2022
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
Fresh off its first Emmy win for “I Know This Much Is True,” FilmNation Entertainment is continuing to drive into the TV space.
The company has acquired Ken Liu’s sci-fi short story “The Hidden Girl,” with the intention of adapting it into a series. Liu is attached to executive produce the project, which sources say is already in discussions with potential directors and showrunners.
News of the acquisition comes less than a month after Liu was announced as a consulting producer on David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, and Alexander Woo’s buzzy Netflix adaptation of “The Three-Body Problem.”
“The Hidden Girl” blends sci-fi and historical reality into a story set in a never-before-seen fantasy world derived from the cosmopolitan realities of Tang Dynasty China. In the story, a diverse group of women assassins travel through the fourth-dimension traversing space and time to kill their opponents, honor their professional code, and...
The company has acquired Ken Liu’s sci-fi short story “The Hidden Girl,” with the intention of adapting it into a series. Liu is attached to executive produce the project, which sources say is already in discussions with potential directors and showrunners.
News of the acquisition comes less than a month after Liu was announced as a consulting producer on David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, and Alexander Woo’s buzzy Netflix adaptation of “The Three-Body Problem.”
“The Hidden Girl” blends sci-fi and historical reality into a story set in a never-before-seen fantasy world derived from the cosmopolitan realities of Tang Dynasty China. In the story, a diverse group of women assassins travel through the fourth-dimension traversing space and time to kill their opponents, honor their professional code, and...
- 9/24/2020
- by Will Thorne
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: FilmNation Entertainment is expanding its television slate with the acquisition of Susan Choi’s 2019 National Book Award winner Trust Exercise for development as a limited TV series, with Choi attached to pen the adaptation.
Based on the book, Trust Exercise the series is set in an American suburb in the early 1980s, where a group of students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle and thrive in a rarified bubble. When they eventually reconnect as adults, their world is upended and we realize that what we believe happened to them is not entirely true―though it’s not false, either.
FilmNation’s Hannah Getts brought Choi’s book in to the company. Getts will oversee the series with Stefanie Berk, FilmNation Entertainment Evp, Television. FilmNation Entertainment will produce.
Published April 9 by Macmillan, Trust Exercise has been listed on The New York Times Critics...
Based on the book, Trust Exercise the series is set in an American suburb in the early 1980s, where a group of students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle and thrive in a rarified bubble. When they eventually reconnect as adults, their world is upended and we realize that what we believe happened to them is not entirely true―though it’s not false, either.
FilmNation’s Hannah Getts brought Choi’s book in to the company. Getts will oversee the series with Stefanie Berk, FilmNation Entertainment Evp, Television. FilmNation Entertainment will produce.
Published April 9 by Macmillan, Trust Exercise has been listed on The New York Times Critics...
- 12/12/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Like its source material, Susan Choi‘s novel of the same name, the plot of “American Woman” is inspired by a period in the life of kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst. Patty becomes “Pauline” in the feature-length adaptation, and the terrorist organization that abducted her, the Sla (Symbionese Liberation Army), becomes the “Pal,” but the story will otherwise still inspire feelings of déjà vu for those even remotely familiar with Hearst’s life story.
Continue reading ‘American Woman’ Can’t Match Hong Chau’s Strong Performance [Tribeca Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘American Woman’ Can’t Match Hong Chau’s Strong Performance [Tribeca Review] at The Playlist.
- 5/4/2019
- by Kimber Myers
- The Playlist
We tend to think of the Patty Hearst affair as a chain of galvanic events, because that’s what a lot of it was. The kidnapping itself, on Feb. 4, 1974. The weeks that Hearst spent in a closet, blindfolded, subjected to death threats, which wound up (intentionally or not) as the psychological trigger for her indoctrination. Her announcement, two months after being abducted, that she had joined her captors in the Symbionese Liberation Army and had renamed herself “Tania” (a nod to the comrade of Che Guevara). The surveillance-camera recording, from April 15, 1974, of her participation in the robbery of a Hibernia Bank in San Francisco — the incident that gave us the beret-and-machine-gun radical-chic image that defines Hearst to this day. The breathless, shocked, wall-to-wall news coverage that made this the first of the contempo gonzo media juggernauts.
But, of course, most of the year and a half that Patty Hearst spent...
But, of course, most of the year and a half that Patty Hearst spent...
- 4/30/2019
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Semi Chellas almost didn’t make it to the world premiere of her own movie. The writer-director was hit by a car last week, and she showed up to the premiere of her film American Woman at the Tribeca Film Festival with a scarf around her head, covering a head injury.
“I feel really lucky to be here,” Chellas told The Hollywood Reporter. Chellas, whose other credits include Mad Men and The Romanoffs, adapted her friend Susan Choi’s book American Woman for the screen, and she has been working on putting the project together for more than a decade.
“...
“I feel really lucky to be here,” Chellas told The Hollywood Reporter. Chellas, whose other credits include Mad Men and The Romanoffs, adapted her friend Susan Choi’s book American Woman for the screen, and she has been working on putting the project together for more than a decade.
“...
- 4/28/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Semi Chellas almost didn’t make it to the world premiere of her own movie. The writer-director was hit by a car last week, and she showed up to the premiere of her film American Woman at the Tribeca Film Festival with a scarf around her head, covering a head injury.
“I feel really lucky to be here,” Chellas told The Hollywood Reporter. Chellas, whose other credits include Mad Men and The Romanoffs, adapted her friend Susan Choi’s book American Woman for the screen, and she has been working on putting the project together for more than a decade.
“...
“I feel really lucky to be here,” Chellas told The Hollywood Reporter. Chellas, whose other credits include Mad Men and The Romanoffs, adapted her friend Susan Choi’s book American Woman for the screen, and she has been working on putting the project together for more than a decade.
“...
- 4/28/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Now in its eighteenth year, New York City’s own Tribeca Film Festival kicks off every spring with a wide variety of programming, from an ever-expanding Vr installation to an enviable television lineup, but the bulk of the annual festival’s programming is movies. This year’s festival offers up plenty of familiar faces with new projects alongside newcomers. While Tribeca’s wide-ranging conversation programs and reunion events tend to dominate the schedule, the festival also offers a robust selection of documentary and narrative features worth the trip downtown.
This year, the program has reached a new milestone: gender parity across its three competition sections. Fifty-two narratives and 51 documentaries will debut throughout the 12-day festival. The competition section features 12 documentaries, 10 U.S. narratives, and 10 international narratives. The event will also host 15 spotlight narratives, 16 spotlight documentaries, as well as five Midnight features, and 17 Viewpoints selections.
This year’s Tribeca Film Festival...
This year, the program has reached a new milestone: gender parity across its three competition sections. Fifty-two narratives and 51 documentaries will debut throughout the 12-day festival. The competition section features 12 documentaries, 10 U.S. narratives, and 10 international narratives. The event will also host 15 spotlight narratives, 16 spotlight documentaries, as well as five Midnight features, and 17 Viewpoints selections.
This year’s Tribeca Film Festival...
- 4/22/2019
- by Kate Erbland, Eric Kohn, David Ehrlich, Anne Thompson, Chris O'Falt, Jude Dry and Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
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