Since the arrest and indictment of Duane “Keffe D” Davis for the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur, people have speculated about whether the Los Angeles Police Department will be reinvigorated to pursue an investigation into the other great tragedy of that era in hip-hop — the 1997 murder of the Notorious B.I.G. But former LAPD detective Greg Kading, who was the lead detective of an interagency task force created in 2006 to investigate Biggie’s murder, tells Rolling Stone that he feels the murder was likely the result of a smaller conspiracy that would...
- 10/3/2023
- by Andre Gee
- Rollingstone.com
The quest to build the perfect collection for the Universal Hip Hop Museum leads to a trove of Notorious B.I.G.’s artifacts in this new clip from the upcoming series, Hip Hop Treasures.
The new show — premiering Aug. 12 on A&e — follows LL Cool J, Ice-t, and an assortment of collectors and curators as they work to acquire items for the Universal Hip Hop Museum, which is set to open in the Bronx next year. In this new clip, one of the show’s collectors, famed DJ Cipha Sounds, links up with Biggie’s daughter,...
The new show — premiering Aug. 12 on A&e — follows LL Cool J, Ice-t, and an assortment of collectors and curators as they work to acquire items for the Universal Hip Hop Museum, which is set to open in the Bronx next year. In this new clip, one of the show’s collectors, famed DJ Cipha Sounds, links up with Biggie’s daughter,...
- 8/11/2023
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
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Music is so much more than the soundtrack of our collective experiences; it serves so many crucial and often underappreciated roles in our lives. It can act as a balm when we are at our lowest, giving us hope through melody and lyrics written by strangers who somehow captured in amber exactly what we were feeling—a gentle reminder that we are not alone, that someone cares. Conversely, music can get us pumped up before a big event—be it a night out or a championship game. At its best, music makes us (if only temporarily) put aside our differences to enjoy a song or a performer who has the truly magical ability to unite.
It’s no wonder, then, that so many of us are obsessed with music and choose to surround ourselves with it 24/7. And not just in terms of buying...
Music is so much more than the soundtrack of our collective experiences; it serves so many crucial and often underappreciated roles in our lives. It can act as a balm when we are at our lowest, giving us hope through melody and lyrics written by strangers who somehow captured in amber exactly what we were feeling—a gentle reminder that we are not alone, that someone cares. Conversely, music can get us pumped up before a big event—be it a night out or a championship game. At its best, music makes us (if only temporarily) put aside our differences to enjoy a song or a performer who has the truly magical ability to unite.
It’s no wonder, then, that so many of us are obsessed with music and choose to surround ourselves with it 24/7. And not just in terms of buying...
- 3/10/2023
- by Kirsten Howard
- Den of Geek
Sean “Diddy” Combs first entered the music world in the late 1980s as an intern for Uptown Records, eventually launching his own label, Bad Boy Records, in 1993. In the late ’90s, after the death of his friend The Notorious B.I.G., Diddy became a rapper himself, quickly earning a No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. And although Diddy’s catalog of hits dates back over two decades, the music mogul has no plans to sell his music for a big payday.
Sean “Diddy” Combs | Paras Griffin/Getty Images Diddy started Bad Boy Records in the early ’90s and eventually became a rapper
Diddy founded Bad Boy Records in 1993 and signed his first artist, The Notorious B.I.G., who released his smash debut album Ready to Die that following year. Diddy worked to make Biggie the star that he was during his life, and the legend that he became after his death.
Sean “Diddy” Combs | Paras Griffin/Getty Images Diddy started Bad Boy Records in the early ’90s and eventually became a rapper
Diddy founded Bad Boy Records in 1993 and signed his first artist, The Notorious B.I.G., who released his smash debut album Ready to Die that following year. Diddy worked to make Biggie the star that he was during his life, and the legend that he became after his death.
- 1/28/2023
- by Chris Malone
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Taylor Sheridan, the creator of “Yellowstone” and tireless workhorse of Paramount+, has already proven himself a prolific writer with a fully articulated vision of the stories he wants to tell. He’s built an impressive slate of dramas populated with cowboys, cobras and compromised cops, including three “Yellowstone” spin-offs. Sheridan could probably continue with his aggressive expansion with Paramount’s blessing. Instead, Sheridan has shrewdly chosen quality over quantity.
“1883,” the first prequel to branch off of “Yellowstone,” was initially presented as an open-ended series that would follow the earliest days of the powerful Dutton family as they led a wagon train westward. But Sheridan thought better of it, deciding instead to treat the “Yellowstone” spinoffs as anthologies. Rather than advancing the season one characters, the next installment of “1883” will star David Oyelowo as Bass Reeves, the real-life Black marshal who racked up boundaries during the same period.
Approaching...
“1883,” the first prequel to branch off of “Yellowstone,” was initially presented as an open-ended series that would follow the earliest days of the powerful Dutton family as they led a wagon train westward. But Sheridan thought better of it, deciding instead to treat the “Yellowstone” spinoffs as anthologies. Rather than advancing the season one characters, the next installment of “1883” will star David Oyelowo as Bass Reeves, the real-life Black marshal who racked up boundaries during the same period.
Approaching...
- 12/16/2022
- by Joshua Alston
- Variety Film + TV
Over four years after signing with Atlantic Records and releasing his self-described debut album, Until Death Call My Name, Youngboy Never Broke Again remains an enigma. The 22-year-old North Baton Rouge rapper isn’t a clear innovator like Playboi Carti and isn’t a symbol for an intensely creative scene like his rival Lil Durk’s Chicago or Pop Smoke’s Brooklyn. He’s landed four Billboard number-one projects in the past two years, building a massive online following in the process. (Like most social media “hives,” his fans, who...
- 8/8/2022
- by Mosi Reeves
- Rollingstone.com
Perhaps it’s fitting that “Westworld” is the recipient of the most extensive, and jarring, reboot in recent TV history.
After all, the show’s characters are hyperintelligent androids, forced in the show’s early going to forget who they once were and what they’ve endured in order to begin their “storylines” anew. Later on, these unhappy automatons discovered the power of self-reinvention, grafting onto themselves new capabilities and identities.
In its third season, “Westworld” itself is going for a similar trick, overwriting what had been a chewily dense contemplation of identity and humanity with a more obviously crowdpleasing ride through the world of the future. The show’s second season was widely pilloried for its purposeful deployment of audience confusion, a way of depicting its characters’ shifting experiences of their lives that frustrated expectations. The new “Westworld” seems designed to meet expectations precisely where they are. The new...
After all, the show’s characters are hyperintelligent androids, forced in the show’s early going to forget who they once were and what they’ve endured in order to begin their “storylines” anew. Later on, these unhappy automatons discovered the power of self-reinvention, grafting onto themselves new capabilities and identities.
In its third season, “Westworld” itself is going for a similar trick, overwriting what had been a chewily dense contemplation of identity and humanity with a more obviously crowdpleasing ride through the world of the future. The show’s second season was widely pilloried for its purposeful deployment of audience confusion, a way of depicting its characters’ shifting experiences of their lives that frustrated expectations. The new “Westworld” seems designed to meet expectations precisely where they are. The new...
- 3/6/2020
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
Mandy Moore, of “This Is Us” fame, seemed to have said “that’s not me” when it came to making music anymore. But she was just biding her time, waiting for the right moment — and, she says, the right supportive relationship — to resume recording after dropping out in the late 2000s. The 35-year-old actress, who hit it big as a pop star at 15, returns March 6 with “Silver Landings” on March 6, featuring songs she co-wrote with her producer, Mike Viola, and husband, Dawes frontman Taylor Goldsmith. Both will also play in Moore’s band when she hits the road beginning March 20 in Pittsburgh for a 26-city tour that ends May 9.
Is touring something you feel you have to do to promote the album, or something you really want to do?
I really wanted to tour behind my last album, “Amanda Leigh,” 11 years ago, and it didn’t come to fruition. What...
Is touring something you feel you have to do to promote the album, or something you really want to do?
I really wanted to tour behind my last album, “Amanda Leigh,” 11 years ago, and it didn’t come to fruition. What...
- 2/20/2020
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
[This story contains spoilers from the entire second season of Netflix's Narcos: Mexico.]
"The madness has begun and no one can stop it," Felix Gallardo (Diego Luna), the Godfather of the Guadalajara cartel, tells DEA agent Walt Breslin (Scoot McNairy) to close out the second season of Narcos: Mexico. "You'll be drowning in blood, chaos. Now you'll see what happens when the cage breaks open and all the animals run free. You're going to miss me."
Those words, which Felix delivers from behind bars after finally being arrested for the murder of DEA agent ...
"The madness has begun and no one can stop it," Felix Gallardo (Diego Luna), the Godfather of the Guadalajara cartel, tells DEA agent Walt Breslin (Scoot McNairy) to close out the second season of Narcos: Mexico. "You'll be drowning in blood, chaos. Now you'll see what happens when the cage breaks open and all the animals run free. You're going to miss me."
Those words, which Felix delivers from behind bars after finally being arrested for the murder of DEA agent ...
- 2/18/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Exclusive: Bad Hair, one of the buzz titles at Sundance since it premiered last Thursday at The Ray, is nearing a worldwide rights deal north of $8 million with Hulu, sources said. Pic is a horror satire directed by Dear White People creator Justin Simien, and it has been chased hard by suitors I’ve heard included Lionsgate and Netflix.
It looks like Hulu will make this its second major deal of Sundance, this after the $17.5 (plus 69 cents) for Palm Springs. Hulu made that deal with Neon, and it will have to add a theatrical distributor for Bad Hair because the deal calls for a global theatrical release with a P&a spend.
Simien’s Dear White People has turned into a TV series, and he is shaping up to be a strong multicultural world creator. As for the film’s financier, Sight Unseen, this is the second big deal of the last two festivals,...
It looks like Hulu will make this its second major deal of Sundance, this after the $17.5 (plus 69 cents) for Palm Springs. Hulu made that deal with Neon, and it will have to add a theatrical distributor for Bad Hair because the deal calls for a global theatrical release with a P&a spend.
Simien’s Dear White People has turned into a TV series, and he is shaping up to be a strong multicultural world creator. As for the film’s financier, Sight Unseen, this is the second big deal of the last two festivals,...
- 1/31/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
After a 19 year dry spell, Tom Hanks finally returned to the Oscar race this year by slipping into Mr. Rogers’ sneakers in “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.” Where does the Fred Rogers biopic fall within the rest of his filmography? Tour through our photo gallery of Hanks’ 20 greatest films, ranked worst to best.
Among the most honored actors in history, Hanks won two consecutive Academy Awards (Best Actor for “Philadelphia” in 1993 and “Forrest Gump” in 1994) from five nominations. Yet curiously, despite doing remarkable film work, he had not been nominated in nearly two decades.
SEEOscar Best Actor Gallery: Every Winner in Academy Award History
That changed this year with Marielle Heller‘s acclaimed drama, which casts him as the legendary host of children’s TV classic “Mr. Rogers’s Neighborhood.” In addition to his Oscar success, the film also brought him Best Supporting Actor bids at the Golden Globes,...
Among the most honored actors in history, Hanks won two consecutive Academy Awards (Best Actor for “Philadelphia” in 1993 and “Forrest Gump” in 1994) from five nominations. Yet curiously, despite doing remarkable film work, he had not been nominated in nearly two decades.
SEEOscar Best Actor Gallery: Every Winner in Academy Award History
That changed this year with Marielle Heller‘s acclaimed drama, which casts him as the legendary host of children’s TV classic “Mr. Rogers’s Neighborhood.” In addition to his Oscar success, the film also brought him Best Supporting Actor bids at the Golden Globes,...
- 1/17/2020
- by Zach Laws and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Updated with video: Tom Hanks delivered the goods in accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award at Sunday’s Golden Globes, beginning with a tearful thanks to his family and going on to extol the craft of acting and filmmaking.
Injecting some class and joie-de-vivre into a ceremony that had seemed to mostly drag in its first two hours, Hanks confessed he was less than his usually peppy self due to having a cold “the size of Merv Griffin’s Jeopardy royalties.” He said he had been quaffing some “savagely orange drinks for the past 24 hours,” bringing on jitters during the ceremony.
After tearing up in the opening moments of the speech as he paid tribute to wife Rita Wilson and his five kids, Hanks had the crowd at the Beverly Hilton rapt as he described his attachment to the day-to-day business of entertainment.
“A movie is made shot by shot,...
Injecting some class and joie-de-vivre into a ceremony that had seemed to mostly drag in its first two hours, Hanks confessed he was less than his usually peppy self due to having a cold “the size of Merv Griffin’s Jeopardy royalties.” He said he had been quaffing some “savagely orange drinks for the past 24 hours,” bringing on jitters during the ceremony.
After tearing up in the opening moments of the speech as he paid tribute to wife Rita Wilson and his five kids, Hanks had the crowd at the Beverly Hilton rapt as he described his attachment to the day-to-day business of entertainment.
“A movie is made shot by shot,...
- 1/6/2020
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
That’s what she said. I know, I know. It was cheap, but I could not just let that one go. It was too good. It’s out of my system now. Let’s move on.
We’ve got a new trailer for you to check out today for the movie Hustlers, a true story about a club of exotic dancers in New York who rely on the money they rake in from their Wall Street customers in the wake of the financial crisis. The leader of the ladies is played by Jennifer Lopez, and she encourages the women to get the most out of the interactions they have with customers, telling them, “You want them drunk enough to get their credit card, but sober enough to sign the check.” It seems they eventually get found out, but it looks like a good time.
Hustlers also stars Constance Wu (Crazy...
We’ve got a new trailer for you to check out today for the movie Hustlers, a true story about a club of exotic dancers in New York who rely on the money they rake in from their Wall Street customers in the wake of the financial crisis. The leader of the ladies is played by Jennifer Lopez, and she encourages the women to get the most out of the interactions they have with customers, telling them, “You want them drunk enough to get their credit card, but sober enough to sign the check.” It seems they eventually get found out, but it looks like a good time.
Hustlers also stars Constance Wu (Crazy...
- 9/4/2019
- by Jessica Fisher
- GeekTyrant
Tony Sokol Jul 17, 2019
Jennifer Lopez shows Constance Wu how to get back at those Wall Street crooks in the first Hustlers trailer.
"I spent $5,000 at a strip club, send help," Jennifer Lopez's entrepreneurial Ramona laughs in the first Hustlers trailer. She's teaching Destiny, played by Constance Wu of ABC's Fresh Off the Boat, how to rip off rich guys.
Stx Films' upcoming film, Hustlers, written and directed by Lorene Scafaria, was inspired by Jessica Pressler's New York Magazine piece "The Hustlers at Scores." The story followed a group of strippers who stole from the rich. The article focused on Roselyn Keo, who would have done well on Wall Street, but she was born with "the waist-to-hip ratio scientists have concluded affects men like a drug."
Drugs also affect men like drugs, and the intoxicating talent at the New York City club was keen to share, even if...
Jennifer Lopez shows Constance Wu how to get back at those Wall Street crooks in the first Hustlers trailer.
"I spent $5,000 at a strip club, send help," Jennifer Lopez's entrepreneurial Ramona laughs in the first Hustlers trailer. She's teaching Destiny, played by Constance Wu of ABC's Fresh Off the Boat, how to rip off rich guys.
Stx Films' upcoming film, Hustlers, written and directed by Lorene Scafaria, was inspired by Jessica Pressler's New York Magazine piece "The Hustlers at Scores." The story followed a group of strippers who stole from the rich. The article focused on Roselyn Keo, who would have done well on Wall Street, but she was born with "the waist-to-hip ratio scientists have concluded affects men like a drug."
Drugs also affect men like drugs, and the intoxicating talent at the New York City club was keen to share, even if...
- 7/17/2019
- Den of Geek
Co-writer/director Tina Gordon Chism's Little is the latest cutesy comedy to enter the body-swapping fantasy chuckles sweepstakes. Aside from the countless comedies that have revisted this now tired premise, Chism's ("Peeples") generic gem does have its charming elements and preaches a breezy message about the acceptance of one's self and the bullying tactics that persist. Still, Little makes for small sacrifices as a formulaic fantasy teaser that predictably treads on the same broad waters of its overwrought theme--harking back to the days of innocence and awkwardness in youth. Unfortunately, there is nothing fresh or frisky about Chism's orchestrated impishness in highlighting an seemingly independent woman needing her pushy ambitions taken down a few notches. The showcasing of our body-switching heroine learning...
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- 5/3/2019
- Screen Anarchy
The last time Puff Daddy made a pure, uncut hip-hop album intended for car stereos instead of techno-fried dance floors was back in 2001 – before mixtapes like 50 Cent Is the Future made his big-budget rap albums unfashionable, and before YouTube made his big-budget music videos unnecessary. In those days, before he went by “Diddy,” he was the rap mogul who got Sting to sing about the Notorious B.I.G. on the MTV Video Music Awards, who got Jimmy Page to remake “Kashmir” for a Hollywood Godzilla reboot, whose videos had speedboats and Dennis Hopper.
- 11/12/2015
- by Christopher R. Weingarten
- Rollingstone.com
Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs offers a three-minute dedication to his “hustle” on minimalist new track “Workin’,” which the rapper debuted Tuesday night during an all-star performance at the BET Hip-Hop Awards. The song features a sampled, pitch-shifted hook – “Don’t bother me; I’m workin'” – from Les Sins’ “Bother,” with Puff brushing aside endless distractions. “We hustle before we play,” he raps, “even on Memorial Day.”
Over stripped-back production – an eerie synth line, droning bass and light programmed beat – Puff gives a shout-out to his late friend and collaborator Notorious B.I.G....
Over stripped-back production – an eerie synth line, droning bass and light programmed beat – Puff gives a shout-out to his late friend and collaborator Notorious B.I.G....
- 10/14/2015
- by Ryan Reed
- Rollingstone.com
DVD Playhouse—June 2009
By
Allen Gardner
The International (Sony) An Interpol agent (Clive Owen) joins forces with a Manhattan D.A. (Naomi Watts) to bring down an arms dealing ring and a corrupt global banking cartel that’s funding them. Superlative thriller was oddly ignored by critics and audiences alike, but expertly blends intelligence (courtesy screenwriter Eric Warren Singer’s masterfully-crafted script) and full-throttle action (director Tom Tykwer stages one of the great film shoot-outs in New York’s iconic Guggenheim Museum), making this dynamite thriller reminiscent of the best work from masters such as John Frankenheimer and Robert Aldrich. Armin Mueller-Stahl is wonderful as a world-weary covert op. Bonuses: Extended scene; Featurettes; Trailer. Widescreen. Dolby 5.1 surround.
The Jack Lemmon Film Collection(Sony) Five films from the two-time Oscar winning actor, focusing on his early career: Phfft! is a zippy comedy from 1954, one of Lemmon’s earliest films, in which...
By
Allen Gardner
The International (Sony) An Interpol agent (Clive Owen) joins forces with a Manhattan D.A. (Naomi Watts) to bring down an arms dealing ring and a corrupt global banking cartel that’s funding them. Superlative thriller was oddly ignored by critics and audiences alike, but expertly blends intelligence (courtesy screenwriter Eric Warren Singer’s masterfully-crafted script) and full-throttle action (director Tom Tykwer stages one of the great film shoot-outs in New York’s iconic Guggenheim Museum), making this dynamite thriller reminiscent of the best work from masters such as John Frankenheimer and Robert Aldrich. Armin Mueller-Stahl is wonderful as a world-weary covert op. Bonuses: Extended scene; Featurettes; Trailer. Widescreen. Dolby 5.1 surround.
The Jack Lemmon Film Collection(Sony) Five films from the two-time Oscar winning actor, focusing on his early career: Phfft! is a zippy comedy from 1954, one of Lemmon’s earliest films, in which...
- 6/3/2009
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Keke Palmer has been cast as the lead in Nickelodeon's live-action pilot True Fashion.
The tentatively titled project, described as Big meets The Devil Wears Prada, centers on a 15-year-old (Palmer) tapped to head the teen division of a major fashion label. She has a passion for fashion but soon learns that corporate life has the same highs and lows as high school -- complete with cliques and mean girls -- but also comes with such cool perks as designing for up-and-coming rock stars and casting cute models.
The pilot, from creator/executive producer Andy Gordon (Back to You), was picked up in October. It begins shooting this week in Los Angeles, with a cast that also includes Ashley Argota, Danielle Bisutti and Matt Shively and a recurring role featuring Greg Proops ("Whose Line Is It Anyway?").
Palmer won an NAACP Image Award for her role in Akeelah and the Bee. She next appears on the big screen in Dimension's The Longshots, opening in July.
The singer-actress, who also was nominated for a SAG Award for her role in the TNT movie The Wool Cap, released her debut album, So Uncool, last year.
The tentatively titled project, described as Big meets The Devil Wears Prada, centers on a 15-year-old (Palmer) tapped to head the teen division of a major fashion label. She has a passion for fashion but soon learns that corporate life has the same highs and lows as high school -- complete with cliques and mean girls -- but also comes with such cool perks as designing for up-and-coming rock stars and casting cute models.
The pilot, from creator/executive producer Andy Gordon (Back to You), was picked up in October. It begins shooting this week in Los Angeles, with a cast that also includes Ashley Argota, Danielle Bisutti and Matt Shively and a recurring role featuring Greg Proops ("Whose Line Is It Anyway?").
Palmer won an NAACP Image Award for her role in Akeelah and the Bee. She next appears on the big screen in Dimension's The Longshots, opening in July.
The singer-actress, who also was nominated for a SAG Award for her role in the TNT movie The Wool Cap, released her debut album, So Uncool, last year.
Leslie Mann will star opposite Zac Efron in New Line's teen comedy 17, being directed by Burr Steers.
Mann will play Scarlett, the wife of the adult character played by Efron.
Likened to Tom Hanks' character in 1988's Big, the film's story centers on a grown man who finds himself as a 17-year-old trying to navigate high school.
Adam Shankman and Jennifer Gibgot, who worked with Efron on Hairspray, are producing through their Offspring Entertainment shingle. Jason Filardi wrote the script.
Jason Barrett is executive producing, while Mark Kaufman and Keith Goldberg are overseeing for the studio.
Mann, whose credits include Universal's Knocked Up and The 40-Year-Old Virgin, is repped by CAA. It's her first project since signing with the agency.
Mann will play Scarlett, the wife of the adult character played by Efron.
Likened to Tom Hanks' character in 1988's Big, the film's story centers on a grown man who finds himself as a 17-year-old trying to navigate high school.
Adam Shankman and Jennifer Gibgot, who worked with Efron on Hairspray, are producing through their Offspring Entertainment shingle. Jason Filardi wrote the script.
Jason Barrett is executive producing, while Mark Kaufman and Keith Goldberg are overseeing for the studio.
Mann, whose credits include Universal's Knocked Up and The 40-Year-Old Virgin, is repped by CAA. It's her first project since signing with the agency.
- 10/24/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Gary Ross has signed up for television duty, teaming with Bruckheimer Television and Warner Bros. TV for a drama project dubbed Invisible that has landed a pilot commitment at NBC. The project is described as a medical thriller about a renegade researcher who is tracking a mysterious disease through the Centers for Disease Control. Ross is set to pen the script and serve as an executive producer alongside Jerry Bruckheimer and Bruckheimer TV chief Jonathan Littman. Ross earned Oscar nominations for adapted screenplay and best picture for his 2003 period drama Seabiscuit. He also snared Oscar noms in writing categories for 1993's Dave and 1988's Big. He also wrote and directed the 1998 cult-fave film Pleasantville. Among his recent feature projects, Ross is shepherding a remake of the 1954 creature-feature classic Creature From the Black Lagoon through his Universal Pictures-based Larger Than Life Prods. banner. (HR 10/20). Ross also has been signed by FX to pen one of the episodes in its upcoming miniseries The Ten Commandments (HR 1/12).
- 10/25/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Howard Shore will be presented with the Henry Mancini Award for Lifetime Achievement by ASCAP at the 19th annual ASCAP Film and Television Awards gala set for April 21 at the Beverly Hilton. The honor recognizes outstanding achievements and contributions to the world of film and television music. Shore, who is currently a double Oscar nominee for his score and song for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, won an Oscar for the score of the trilogy's first installment, The Fellowship of the Ring. He has composed scores for more than 60 films, including The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia, Gangs of New York, Seven and Big. His upcoming projects include Peter Jackson's King Kong and Martin Scorsese's The Aviator.
- 2/19/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Mark Waters is in negotiations to direct Will Sebastian for Warner Bros. Pictures. Chris Columbus, Michael Barnathan and Mark Radcliffe are producing through their 1492 Pictures. Written by David Hubbard and described as having elements of Big and Forrest Gump, Sebastian tells the story of a guy who lives his life out of sequence and the woman with whom he's destined to fall in love. Courtenay Valenti is overseeing the project for the studio. Waters directed Walt Disney Studios' summer sleeper hit Freaky Friday, which grossed more than $110 million. He is completing Paramount Pictures' Mean Girls, which stars Lindsay Lohan and opens April 30. He also directed the critically acclaimed The House of Yes. Waters is repped by CAA.
- 2/19/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Mark Waters is in negotiations to direct Will Sebastian for Warner Bros. Pictures. Chris Columbus, Michael Barnathan and Mark Radcliffe are producing through their 1492 Pictures. Written by David Hubbard and described as having elements of Big and Forrest Gump, Sebastian tells the story of a guy who lives his life out of sequence and the woman with whom he's destined to fall in love. Courtenay Valenti is overseeing the project for the studio. Waters directed Walt Disney Studios' summer sleeper hit Freaky Friday, which grossed more than $110 million. He is completing Paramount Pictures' Mean Girls, which stars Lindsay Lohan and opens April 30. He also directed the critically acclaimed The House of Yes. Waters is repped by CAA.
- 2/19/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Tadpole helmer Gary Winick is in negotiations to direct Golden Globe-winning Alias star Jennifer Garner in Revolution Studios' comedy 13 Going on 30. Production is being geared to start early next year while Garner is on hiatus from her ABC series, now in its sophomore season. Written by Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa, 13 is described as a female Big. It follows a 13-year-old girl who dreams of being popular. During her birthday party, she engages in the party game Seven Minutes in the Closet. The game turns out to be a humiliating experience for her, and she refuses to come out of the closet. When she eventually does emerge, she finds herself five days shy of her 30th birthday. Susan Arnold and Donna Arkoff Roth are producing the project with the writers' manager, Gina Matthews. Winick is repped by Endeavor. For his recently released Tadpole, starring Sigourney Weaver, Bebe Neuwirth and Aaron Stanford, Winick won best director honors at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. His other credits include Sam the Man and Sweet Nothing.
- 10/9/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Hollywood actors Will Smith and Tom Hanks are gearing up for a fierce box office battle - and they've even named the weekends of their movie releases after themselves. Smith is set to release his action flick Men In Black II on Wednesday, in time for Independence Day, while Hanks' Road To Perdition will hit screens on July 12. And a confident Smith has already named the upcoming weekend 'Big Willie Weekend,' stating, "You can go and eat some food with your family, watch the fireworks and then go and see the Will Smith movie. What could be more American?" As a result, the weekend of the release of Hanks' film has been dubbed 'Hanky Panky Weekend.' But the Big star admits he's a little apprehensive about how much Hanky Panky he'll be able to get up to. He explains, "I'll be recovering from the Big Willie weekend - I don't think I'm gonna be in shape for the Hanky Panky Weekend."...
- 7/3/2002
- WENN
Renée Zellweger is being lined up to star in a Hollywood movie dubbed 'the female Big'. The Texan beauty is in talks for the lead role in 13 Going On 30. The film centers around a 13-year-old girl who, on her birthday, lands the magical opportunity to see how her life will have turned out by the time she's 30. She discovers that beauty and riches await her, but the birthday girl is none too happy about the manner in which her future self has achieved her goals. The movie has been written by What Women Want writers Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa.
- 7/18/2001
- WENN
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