#MeToo. #TimesUp. Now #NotDone?
A new documentary from first-time director Sara Wolitzky, titled “Not Done: Women Remaking America,” looks back on the last few years of advancements in the women’s movement. Premiering on Oct. 27 on PBS, just days ahead of the 2020 presidential election, the project feels both perfectly timed and also like it may just be the start of another wave of the movement.
“We’re living through another of these major chapters of feminist organizing and people being back in the streets and huge shifts in public consciousness,” Wolitzky tells Variety. “It felt like a good moment, but in some ways we can only scratch the surface. There’s always a lot more, both in terms of what happens next but also even in terms of looking more closely at the stuff that’s just happened. There are definitely pieces [within ‘Not Done’] that we could have done a whole film on.
A new documentary from first-time director Sara Wolitzky, titled “Not Done: Women Remaking America,” looks back on the last few years of advancements in the women’s movement. Premiering on Oct. 27 on PBS, just days ahead of the 2020 presidential election, the project feels both perfectly timed and also like it may just be the start of another wave of the movement.
“We’re living through another of these major chapters of feminist organizing and people being back in the streets and huge shifts in public consciousness,” Wolitzky tells Variety. “It felt like a good moment, but in some ways we can only scratch the surface. There’s always a lot more, both in terms of what happens next but also even in terms of looking more closely at the stuff that’s just happened. There are definitely pieces [within ‘Not Done’] that we could have done a whole film on.
- 10/27/2020
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
Connie Britton has landed a project at HBO Max.
The former Friday Night Lights and Nashville star is developing a docuseries project based on Rebecca Traister's best-selling book All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation, which examines how unmarried women have been a societal force over the history of the U.S.
Britton's Deep Blue Productions will produce the project for the streaming platform, which is set to debut May 27. Deep Blue head of content Elyse Klaits, a former vp television at John Goldwyn Productions, is overseeing.
Published in 2016, All the Single Ladies examines the ...
The former Friday Night Lights and Nashville star is developing a docuseries project based on Rebecca Traister's best-selling book All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation, which examines how unmarried women have been a societal force over the history of the U.S.
Britton's Deep Blue Productions will produce the project for the streaming platform, which is set to debut May 27. Deep Blue head of content Elyse Klaits, a former vp television at John Goldwyn Productions, is overseeing.
Published in 2016, All the Single Ladies examines the ...
- 4/22/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Exclusive: Television literary agent Elizabeth Newman is leaving CAA after nearly 15 years to join Fox 21 Television Studios.
Newman is set to become VP Development at Fox21, part of Disney TV Studios, and she will report to President Bert Salke.
Newman will develop programs for all platforms, as well as identify talent and ideas for series. She’ll work closely with agents and network, cable and streaming execs to shepherd projects through the development process from inception to production order.
Newman has represented television writers, directors and producers, as well as authors and intellectual property for scripted series adaptation since she became an agent in 2005.
During her time at CAA, projects she worked on included The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, 2 Broke Girls and Nashville, as well such as upcoming shows as NBC’s Council of Dads, Starz’s Hightown, Netflix’s Away, Showtime’s The President Is Missing and Apple’s Swagger.
Newman is set to become VP Development at Fox21, part of Disney TV Studios, and she will report to President Bert Salke.
Newman will develop programs for all platforms, as well as identify talent and ideas for series. She’ll work closely with agents and network, cable and streaming execs to shepherd projects through the development process from inception to production order.
Newman has represented television writers, directors and producers, as well as authors and intellectual property for scripted series adaptation since she became an agent in 2005.
During her time at CAA, projects she worked on included The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, 2 Broke Girls and Nashville, as well such as upcoming shows as NBC’s Council of Dads, Starz’s Hightown, Netflix’s Away, Showtime’s The President Is Missing and Apple’s Swagger.
- 12/16/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Ronan Farrow responded to Matt Lauer’s letter in defense of rape accusations, for the first time, on Tuesday night at the very first stop for his “Catch and Kill” book tour.
“I think the most compelling response is Brooke Nevils’ and her own letter that she published afterwords,” Farrow said, when asked to comment on Lauer’s open letter in which he aggressively denied a rape allegation by the former NBC News employee last week. In Nevils’ response, she slammed the former newsman for “victim blaming,” stating, “the shame in this story belongs to him.”
At the Tuesday night event, Farrow said, “I think that while I’m a reporter and not an activist, and I’m not going to talk about personal feelings of Matt Lauer’s PR, and I’ll deal with the facts, I understand the rational basis for Brooke Nevils saying that this is a shameless and menacing tone.
“I think the most compelling response is Brooke Nevils’ and her own letter that she published afterwords,” Farrow said, when asked to comment on Lauer’s open letter in which he aggressively denied a rape allegation by the former NBC News employee last week. In Nevils’ response, she slammed the former newsman for “victim blaming,” stating, “the shame in this story belongs to him.”
At the Tuesday night event, Farrow said, “I think that while I’m a reporter and not an activist, and I’m not going to talk about personal feelings of Matt Lauer’s PR, and I’ll deal with the facts, I understand the rational basis for Brooke Nevils saying that this is a shameless and menacing tone.
- 10/16/2019
- by Elizabeth Wagmeister
- Variety Film + TV
Ursula MacFarlane’s feature doc Untouchable: The Rise and Fall of Harvey Weinstein was watched by 1M viewers on its British television debut. The 90-minute film, which was original commissioned by the British public broadcaster, scored the 1M peak between 9pm and 10:30pm on Sunday night on BBC Two in the UK.
Untouchable averaged 942,000 viewers with a 5.9% share across its entirety – a respectable but not extraordinary rating for the channel. It was up against Peaky Blinders on BBC One, which averaged 3.6M viewers and PBS co-production Sanditon on ITV, which averaged 3M. It beat The Handmaid’s Tale on Channel 4 in the 9pm slot.
The feature-length documentary, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and airs from Monday on Hulu in the U.S., was directed by MacFarlane, who has directed docs including Charlie Hebdo: Three Days That Shook Paris and worked on Netflix series Captive, and produced...
Untouchable averaged 942,000 viewers with a 5.9% share across its entirety – a respectable but not extraordinary rating for the channel. It was up against Peaky Blinders on BBC One, which averaged 3.6M viewers and PBS co-production Sanditon on ITV, which averaged 3M. It beat The Handmaid’s Tale on Channel 4 in the 9pm slot.
The feature-length documentary, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and airs from Monday on Hulu in the U.S., was directed by MacFarlane, who has directed docs including Charlie Hebdo: Three Days That Shook Paris and worked on Netflix series Captive, and produced...
- 9/2/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Former Vice President Joe Biden kicked off his 2020 presidential campaign with a rally in Philadelphia on Saturday afternoon. Flanking the stage were screens and a podium sign flashing the word “United.“ In a sometimes rambling speech, Biden tried to carve out space for himself as the non-divisive candidate. The good ol’ Joe who you’d want to have a beer with. The guy who was VP to President Barack Obama. The “electable” candidate who can beat Trump.
“Some say Democrats don’t want to hear about unity,” Biden told the crowd.
“Some say Democrats don’t want to hear about unity,” Biden told the crowd.
- 5/18/2019
- by Peter Wade
- Rollingstone.com
Sigourney Weaver reprised the role of Ripley in an Aliens spoof where Samantha Bee and other prominent journalists shuttle off to outer space to avoid the 2020 election. The prerecorded sketch screened Friday at Bee’s Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
In the sketch, Weaver’s Ripley and her crew are investigating a seemingly abandoned spaceship when they discover Bee clutching a Trump doll, a nod to the Alien sequel character Newt.
“I can’t do it! I can’t handle another presidential election! There are too many candidates,” Bee told Ripley.
In the sketch, Weaver’s Ripley and her crew are investigating a seemingly abandoned spaceship when they discover Bee clutching a Trump doll, a nod to the Alien sequel character Newt.
“I can’t do it! I can’t handle another presidential election! There are too many candidates,” Bee told Ripley.
- 4/28/2019
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
In the first presidential election season since Democrats elected a black man as president twice and nominated a woman for the first time, a white man with a terrible record of campaigning for the job and a litany of gaffes sits at or near the top of the 2020 primary polls — without even having to enter the race. It is perhaps a sign of the times that Joe Biden, a two-time presidential also-ran, is still viewed as a great hope for those Democrats who are skittish about nominating anyone who isn...
- 4/9/2019
- by Jamil Smith
- Rollingstone.com
It's 2019, and female rage is all the rage.
Soraya Chemaly's Rage Becomes Her and Rebecca Traister's Good and Mad, both best-sellers published last fall, brought female fury into the mainstream, while in Hollywood, female characters are angry as hell. "I'm mad. It's burned a circuit in my brain," Nicole Kidman's character Erin Bell, looking like Clint Eastwood channeling Clytemnestra, says to her daughter in Destroyer. For six seasons of House of Cards, Robin Wright elevated Claire Underwood's repressed anger to an art form, in which her rage peeks out like a silk slip made ...
Soraya Chemaly's Rage Becomes Her and Rebecca Traister's Good and Mad, both best-sellers published last fall, brought female fury into the mainstream, while in Hollywood, female characters are angry as hell. "I'm mad. It's burned a circuit in my brain," Nicole Kidman's character Erin Bell, looking like Clint Eastwood channeling Clytemnestra, says to her daughter in Destroyer. For six seasons of House of Cards, Robin Wright elevated Claire Underwood's repressed anger to an art form, in which her rage peeks out like a silk slip made ...
- 1/25/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It's 2019, and female rage is all the rage.
Soraya Chemaly's Rage Becomes Her and Rebecca Traister's Good and Mad, both best-sellers published last fall, brought female fury into the mainstream, while in Hollywood, female characters are angry as hell. "I'm mad. It's burned a circuit in my brain," Nicole Kidman's character Erin Bell, looking like Clint Eastwood channeling Clytemnestra, says to her daughter in Destroyer. For six seasons of House of Cards, Robin Wright elevated Claire Underwood's repressed anger to an art form, in which her rage peeks out like a silk slip made ...
Soraya Chemaly's Rage Becomes Her and Rebecca Traister's Good and Mad, both best-sellers published last fall, brought female fury into the mainstream, while in Hollywood, female characters are angry as hell. "I'm mad. It's burned a circuit in my brain," Nicole Kidman's character Erin Bell, looking like Clint Eastwood channeling Clytemnestra, says to her daughter in Destroyer. For six seasons of House of Cards, Robin Wright elevated Claire Underwood's repressed anger to an art form, in which her rage peeks out like a silk slip made ...
- 1/25/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
During last Friday’s March For Life rally in Washington, D.C., a confrontation was captured on video between a rowdy group of students from Kentucky’s Covington Catholic High School and a Native-American protester named Nathan Phillips. The enduring image of the fracas will be that of a student named Nick Sandmann, wearing a “Make America Great Again” standing face-to-face with Phillips, who was resolutely playing a hand drum. In a widely circulated clip, Phillips was taunted by the teens, but on Sunday Sandmann released a statement alleging otherwise...
- 1/22/2019
- by Ryan Bort
- Rollingstone.com
The only Democrat who appears fully equipped at this point to vanquish Donald Trump in a presidential election made it perfectly clear late last month that she fully intends to do so. (And she got out ahead of Sen. Cory Booker (D-nj), who all-but-announced his own bid in Iowa this past Saturday.)
For the last two years, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-ma) has been steadily building toward this vital rescue mission, readying herself for the one election in all our lifetimes (let us hope) that will actually live up to the...
For the last two years, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-ma) has been steadily building toward this vital rescue mission, readying herself for the one election in all our lifetimes (let us hope) that will actually live up to the...
- 10/9/2018
- by Bob Moser
- Rollingstone.com
Brooklyn-based Gimlet, the media company behind hit podcasts such as Homecoming, Reply All and Crimetown, has set its fall slate, with three new original series for premiere in October.
They include Gimlet’s first scripted fiction horror series, The Horror of Dolores Roach, starring Daphne Rubin-Vega and Bobby Cannavale; The Cut on Tuesday, Gimlet’s first women’s podcast, a new weekly series in partnership with New York Magazine’s The Cut; and Without Fail: Conversations with Alex Blumberg, hosted by Gimlet co-founder Blumberg, in the company’s first interview series. In addition, hit series Heavyweight from host and creator Jonathan Goldstein, returns for its third season on Thursday, October 4, with an episode featuring comedian Rob Corddry.
“We developed our fall slate to reach and bring in new audiences across the board, both in Gimlet’s fiction and non-fiction programming. These are three very different shows,...
They include Gimlet’s first scripted fiction horror series, The Horror of Dolores Roach, starring Daphne Rubin-Vega and Bobby Cannavale; The Cut on Tuesday, Gimlet’s first women’s podcast, a new weekly series in partnership with New York Magazine’s The Cut; and Without Fail: Conversations with Alex Blumberg, hosted by Gimlet co-founder Blumberg, in the company’s first interview series. In addition, hit series Heavyweight from host and creator Jonathan Goldstein, returns for its third season on Thursday, October 4, with an episode featuring comedian Rob Corddry.
“We developed our fall slate to reach and bring in new audiences across the board, both in Gimlet’s fiction and non-fiction programming. These are three very different shows,...
- 9/26/2018
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Harvey Weinstein stands accused — by more than 40 women — of being a predator in private. He was also a notorious bully in public.
Weinstein “has never done anything in his life that was consensual. He makes people do things. He assaults people in every way,” a source who worked with him for years tells People of Weinstein’s abusive behavior in the magazine’s new cover story.
At work, says another longtime colleague, “it was human harassment at every level. Mass intimidation, constant threats — to men and women — about losing your job. It was mocking people about their physicality, about their age.
Weinstein “has never done anything in his life that was consensual. He makes people do things. He assaults people in every way,” a source who worked with him for years tells People of Weinstein’s abusive behavior in the magazine’s new cover story.
At work, says another longtime colleague, “it was human harassment at every level. Mass intimidation, constant threats — to men and women — about losing your job. It was mocking people about their physicality, about their age.
- 10/18/2017
- by Mike Miller
- PEOPLE.com
Following Anne Rice's announcement in late 2016 that she had reattained the adaptation rights to The Vampire Chronicles and was working with her son, Christopher, on a pilot episode for a TV series adaptation of her beloved book series, it's now been announced that Paramount Television and Anonymous Content have optioned the rights to The Vampire Chronicles, with the mother-son duo on board as writers and executive producers for the in-development TV series.
Press Release (via Anne Rice's Facebook page): "Hollywood, Calif., (April 28, 2017) – Paramount Television and Anonymous Content have optioned the rights to 11 books from acclaimed author Anne Rice’s best-selling series, “The Vampire Chronicles.” Christopher Rice, four-time New York Times Bestselling® author and recipient of the Lambda Literary Award, will pen the series and serve as executive producer alongside Anne Rice, and Anonymous Content’s David Kanter and Steve Golin.
“It is undeniable that Anne Rice has...
Press Release (via Anne Rice's Facebook page): "Hollywood, Calif., (April 28, 2017) – Paramount Television and Anonymous Content have optioned the rights to 11 books from acclaimed author Anne Rice’s best-selling series, “The Vampire Chronicles.” Christopher Rice, four-time New York Times Bestselling® author and recipient of the Lambda Literary Award, will pen the series and serve as executive producer alongside Anne Rice, and Anonymous Content’s David Kanter and Steve Golin.
“It is undeniable that Anne Rice has...
- 4/28/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Real Time with Bill Maher was a great show last night with guest Ann Coulter, Bernie Sanders, Bob Kerrey, Rebecca Traister and Andrew Sullivan, The jokes came fast and furious last night as Trump’s growing list of scandals seems to be derailing his presidential bid. Bill’s monologue was a gem last night as he nailed the orange-hued Gop groper known as Donald Trump. “Is there anyone here who hasn’t been groped by Donald Trump?” asked Maher. Maher didn’t stop. “Poor Melania, she has locked herself in her packing crate and won’t come out, it’s so sad.” How dare you claim I...read more...
- 10/15/2016
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
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