Earlier this year, we brought you some exclusive images from Crown Heights director Matt Ruskin's new thriller, Boston Strangler, which stars Keira Knightley and Carrie Coon. The trailer for the film has now arrived, and you can see it below…
The story follows Loretta McLaughlin (Knightley), a reporter for the Record-American newspaper, who becomes the first journalist to connect the Boston Strangler murders. As the mysterious killer claims more and more victims, Loretta attempts to continue her investigation alongside colleague and confidante Jean Cole (Coon), yet the duo finds themselves stymied by the rampant sexism of the era. Nevertheless, McLaughlin and Cole bravely pursue the story at great personal risk, putting their own lives on the line in their quest to uncover the truth…
With Alessandro Nivola, David Dastmalchian, Morgan Spector, Bill Camp and Chris Cooper also in the cast, Boston Strangler will launch on Hulu in the...
The story follows Loretta McLaughlin (Knightley), a reporter for the Record-American newspaper, who becomes the first journalist to connect the Boston Strangler murders. As the mysterious killer claims more and more victims, Loretta attempts to continue her investigation alongside colleague and confidante Jean Cole (Coon), yet the duo finds themselves stymied by the rampant sexism of the era. Nevertheless, McLaughlin and Cole bravely pursue the story at great personal risk, putting their own lives on the line in their quest to uncover the truth…
With Alessandro Nivola, David Dastmalchian, Morgan Spector, Bill Camp and Chris Cooper also in the cast, Boston Strangler will launch on Hulu in the...
- 2/21/2023
- by James White
- Empire - Movies
Amazon Studios has signed an exclusive first-look deal with filmmaker Nnamdi Asomugha and his company iAm21 Entertainment.
The deal follows his Emmy nomination for the Amazon original movie Sylvie’s Love, where Tessa Thompson and Asomugha played star-crossed lovers passionate about jazz in late-’50s, early-’60s New York in Eugene Ashe’s second feature. The film was ground-breaking for the main characters in the period drama and most of the cast being Black.
Asomugha will develop and produce projects to bow in theaters and on Amazon Prime worldwide. “Since Crown Heights, Amazon has been an inspiring and rewarding creative home for me and ...
The deal follows his Emmy nomination for the Amazon original movie Sylvie’s Love, where Tessa Thompson and Asomugha played star-crossed lovers passionate about jazz in late-’50s, early-’60s New York in Eugene Ashe’s second feature. The film was ground-breaking for the main characters in the period drama and most of the cast being Black.
Asomugha will develop and produce projects to bow in theaters and on Amazon Prime worldwide. “Since Crown Heights, Amazon has been an inspiring and rewarding creative home for me and ...
- 9/15/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
In the latest episode of Rolling Stone’s The First Time, Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha from the movie Sylvie’s Love kick things off by discussing their initial reading of the script and what drew them to the film.
“I just remember listening to all the songs in the script, so it felt like a musical experience,” Thompson recalls. “I would pause it, play the song, and then continue reading with the song. So I remember it musically actually, which makes sense because I feel like the film is partially...
“I just remember listening to all the songs in the script, so it felt like a musical experience,” Thompson recalls. “I would pause it, play the song, and then continue reading with the song. So I remember it musically actually, which makes sense because I feel like the film is partially...
- 12/28/2020
- by Adisa Duke
- Rollingstone.com
Whether or not it’s a result of the backlash against “La La Land” and its white-savior-of-jazz subplot, black filmmakers seem to be having a moment to reclaim jazz narratives for themselves, from Kemp Powers co-directing Pixar’s “Soul” to Eugene Ashe writing and directing “Sylvie’s Love,” a gorgeous new romance set against the backdrop of jazz and television, two of America’s most dominant artforms of the 1950s.
Ashe isn’t rewriting the love story, but he has steeped it with old-school glamour, making the kind of sumptuous saga of aching, star-crossed romance that Ross Hunter might have produced in his 1960s glory days if Hollywood had been ready to populate such a film with an all-Black cast. Between the scorching chemistry of leads Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha and the glorious mid-century outfits, hair, décor and cars on display, “Sylvie’s Love” is a delectable valentine.
When Sylvie (Thompson) and Robert meet,...
Ashe isn’t rewriting the love story, but he has steeped it with old-school glamour, making the kind of sumptuous saga of aching, star-crossed romance that Ross Hunter might have produced in his 1960s glory days if Hollywood had been ready to populate such a film with an all-Black cast. Between the scorching chemistry of leads Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha and the glorious mid-century outfits, hair, décor and cars on display, “Sylvie’s Love” is a delectable valentine.
When Sylvie (Thompson) and Robert meet,...
- 12/22/2020
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
Nnamdi Asomugha doesn’t just star as a saxophone player in “Sylvie’s Love,” writer-director Eugene Ashe’s new romantic drama with Tessa Thompson. He actually knows how to play the instrument, too. Asomugha took lessons for about a year before filming began.
“I really learned how to play it,” Asomugha says on the latest episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast “The Big Ticket.” “I watched a lot of documentaries on jazz…I watched a lot of Cole Train on YouTube and Sonny Rollins. I just really had to figure out how to not just to play the instrument, but also how to carry myself.”
This wasn’t his first time learning how to play music. He took piano lessons when he was a child growing up in Los Angeles. But those dreams were dashed when he was 13 and his football coach shamed him in front of his teammates after...
“I really learned how to play it,” Asomugha says on the latest episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast “The Big Ticket.” “I watched a lot of documentaries on jazz…I watched a lot of Cole Train on YouTube and Sonny Rollins. I just really had to figure out how to not just to play the instrument, but also how to carry myself.”
This wasn’t his first time learning how to play music. He took piano lessons when he was a child growing up in Los Angeles. But those dreams were dashed when he was 13 and his football coach shamed him in front of his teammates after...
- 12/15/2020
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
CBS Television Studios, Rideback and Thinking Hat are reteaming on a second year of the Rideback/Thinking Hat Campfire writers room, which in its inaugural year developed and sold two projects to CBS. The program, designed to attract experienced feature film writers and other creative voices to broadcast TV development for the first time, has set Jeff Buhler (Pet Sematary), Gbenga Akinnagbe (The Wire) and writer Katrina O’Gilvie (Swagger) for this year’s roster.
The trio work with showrunner/executive producers Anna Fricke (Walker), Rina Mimoun (Under the Bridge) and Corinne Brinkerhoff (American Gothic), who all have overall deals at CBS TV Studios. They will provide support from development through series.
The program, run by Thinking Hat founder and writer-producer Craig Turk, sold two projects to CBS Television Network in its first year in 2019-2020: Drift from Chris Salmanpour and The Eshmun Protocol from Jason Keller.
The trio work with showrunner/executive producers Anna Fricke (Walker), Rina Mimoun (Under the Bridge) and Corinne Brinkerhoff (American Gothic), who all have overall deals at CBS TV Studios. They will provide support from development through series.
The program, run by Thinking Hat founder and writer-producer Craig Turk, sold two projects to CBS Television Network in its first year in 2019-2020: Drift from Chris Salmanpour and The Eshmun Protocol from Jason Keller.
- 8/27/2020
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Zoë Kravitz already had a glowing 2019; among other things, the actress was recently nominated for the Screen Actors’ Guild award for Best Ensemble as part of the cast of Big Little Lies. But she still has quite a year ahead of her, taking on a lead role in the new Hulu series adaptation of High Fidelity as well as the iconic role of Catwoman in the upcoming DC film The Batman.
Kravitz hit Ellen Monday to discuss her year ahead. She told the host that she will begin shooting on...
Kravitz hit Ellen Monday to discuss her year ahead. She told the host that she will begin shooting on...
- 1/13/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
The 2020 Sundance Film Festival has broken a record weeks before it begins: Of the 16 films in Dramatic Competition, seven tell stories primarily about the lives of black characters: “The 40-Year-Old Version,” “Charm City Kings,” “Farewell Amor,” “Miss Juneteenth,” “Nine Days,” “Sylvie’s Love” and “Zola.”
Surveying the last 30 years of Sundance, there’s usually been at least one in-competition film with black leads. In 1992 and 1989, there was one black film in competition, while 1993 had two. But prior to 2020, there had never been more than five.
Black filmmakers saw a renaissance in the late ’80s and early ’90s, a period that introduced Spike Lee, Wendell B. Harris Jr, Robert Townsend, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Julie Dash, Matty Rich, the Hudlin Brothers, Leslie Harris, and others. Some of their films premiered and competed at Sundance, but even then they never composed a significant presence.
Between 1989 and 1993, a total of 10 films with black leads...
Surveying the last 30 years of Sundance, there’s usually been at least one in-competition film with black leads. In 1992 and 1989, there was one black film in competition, while 1993 had two. But prior to 2020, there had never been more than five.
Black filmmakers saw a renaissance in the late ’80s and early ’90s, a period that introduced Spike Lee, Wendell B. Harris Jr, Robert Townsend, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Julie Dash, Matty Rich, the Hudlin Brothers, Leslie Harris, and others. Some of their films premiered and competed at Sundance, but even then they never composed a significant presence.
Between 1989 and 1993, a total of 10 films with black leads...
- 12/5/2019
- by Tambay Obenson
- Indiewire
Olivia Pope's on-screen relationship with Fitz Grant on Scandal may have been . . . well, complicated, but Kerry Washington's relationship with her Irl husband Nnamdi Asomugha seems far more adorable than deplorable. Kerry is notorious private when it comes to her marriage and family, and though she and Nnamdi are rarely photographed or even seen together, the two tied the knot all the way back in 2013. According to the Daily News, the couple met after Nnamdi went with a mutual friend to see Kerry perform in Race on Broadway, and Kerry confirmed as much in an October 2018 interview with Marie Claire. "The last time I did theater, it completely transformed my life," she shared. "That's where I met my husband."
So who exactly is Kerry's husband? As well as being a former NFL cornerback who played for the Raiders, the Eagles, and the 49ers, Nnamdi is also a producer and an actor.
So who exactly is Kerry's husband? As well as being a former NFL cornerback who played for the Raiders, the Eagles, and the 49ers, Nnamdi is also a producer and an actor.
- 11/14/2019
- by Corinne Sullivan
- Popsugar.com
Ron Funches is headed to Harlem’s Jazz Age. The comedian and actor has joined the cast of Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha’s love story, “Sylvie.”
The film, written and directed by Eugene Ashe, is described as a love story set in the cool jazz era of New York City in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
It follows Sylvie (Thompson) who meets aspiring saxophonist Robert (Asomugha) when he takes a job at her father’s record store in Harlem. After a summer romance that comes to an end, the two fatefully reconnect several years later and find that their feelings for each other have never disappeared.
Also Read: 10 Busiest Movie Actors of 2018, From Tessa Thompson to Michael B Jordan (Photos)
Funches’ role is being kept under wraps. “Sylvie” stars Thompson (“Creed”) and Asomugha (“Crown Heights”), both of whom will also produce. Asomugha will produce through his iAm21 Entertainment...
The film, written and directed by Eugene Ashe, is described as a love story set in the cool jazz era of New York City in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
It follows Sylvie (Thompson) who meets aspiring saxophonist Robert (Asomugha) when he takes a job at her father’s record store in Harlem. After a summer romance that comes to an end, the two fatefully reconnect several years later and find that their feelings for each other have never disappeared.
Also Read: 10 Busiest Movie Actors of 2018, From Tessa Thompson to Michael B Jordan (Photos)
Funches’ role is being kept under wraps. “Sylvie” stars Thompson (“Creed”) and Asomugha (“Crown Heights”), both of whom will also produce. Asomugha will produce through his iAm21 Entertainment...
- 3/28/2019
- by Trey Williams
- The Wrap
We're still losing sleep over Jordan Peele's 2017 hit film, Get Out, and that was in large part due to Lakeith Stanfield's terrifyingly unnerving performance as Andre Hayworth. Recently, we were minding our own business, impatiently waiting for Jordan Peele's next spine-tingling film, Us, to hit theaters, when we spotted Stanfield in the trailer for Netflix's Someone Great. Since then, we've been doing a deep dive into Stanfield's other compelling roles.
Stanfield has been making waves in the cinematic world ever since his breakout role in the 2013 film Short Term 12. It was actually filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton's thesis project at San Diego State University. When Cretton decided to go the distance and evolve his thesis project into a feature-length film, he reached out to Stanfield again to reprise his role. Stanfield was even nominated for an Independent Spirit Award.
It turns out Stanfield is no stranger to the horror genre.
Stanfield has been making waves in the cinematic world ever since his breakout role in the 2013 film Short Term 12. It was actually filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton's thesis project at San Diego State University. When Cretton decided to go the distance and evolve his thesis project into a feature-length film, he reached out to Stanfield again to reprise his role. Stanfield was even nominated for an Independent Spirit Award.
It turns out Stanfield is no stranger to the horror genre.
- 3/27/2019
- by Hannah Abrams
- Popsugar.com
Kate Mulgrew (Star Trek: Voyager), Brett Gelman and Natalie Paul are set to recur on the upcoming third season of At&T Audience Network’s critically praised drama series Mr. Mercedes, from Sonar Entertainment. Production on the Stephen King adaptation is underway in Charleston, South Carolina.
Season 2 took place a year after Brady Hartsfield’s (Harry Treadaway) thwarted attempt to perpetrate a second mass murder in the community of Bridgton, Ohio. Since the incident, Hartsfield had been hospitalized in a vegetative state. Retired Detective Bill Hodges (Brendan Gleeson) did his best to move on from his Brady obsession, teaming up with Holly Gibney (Justine Lupe) to open Finders Keepers, a private investigative agency. But when unexplainable occurrences began to affect hospital staff members attending to Brady, Hodges was haunted by the feeling that Brady was somehow responsible.
Mulgrew will play Alma Lane, another life-long resident of Bridgton,...
Season 2 took place a year after Brady Hartsfield’s (Harry Treadaway) thwarted attempt to perpetrate a second mass murder in the community of Bridgton, Ohio. Since the incident, Hartsfield had been hospitalized in a vegetative state. Retired Detective Bill Hodges (Brendan Gleeson) did his best to move on from his Brady obsession, teaming up with Holly Gibney (Justine Lupe) to open Finders Keepers, a private investigative agency. But when unexplainable occurrences began to affect hospital staff members attending to Brady, Hodges was haunted by the feeling that Brady was somehow responsible.
Mulgrew will play Alma Lane, another life-long resident of Bridgton,...
- 3/20/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Eva Longoria has joined the cast of the forthcoming Tessa Thompson drama “Sylvie.”
From writer-director Eugene Ashe, the indie follows a young woman (Thompson) who meets an aspiring saxophonist (former NFL player and actor Nnamdi Asomugha) working at her father’s Harlem record shop in the storied New York jazz age of the late ’50s.
After a summer romance, the pair meet again years later and finds their flame never wavered.
Asomugha is producing through his iAm21 Entertainment banner alongside Jonathan Baker (“The Banker”), Gabrielle Glore (“Dirty Laundry”), and Matthew Thurm (“Crown Heights”). Thompson will serve as executive producer. Declan Quinn will serve as cinematographer.
Details of Longoria’s character are under wraps. The actress, who is mostly directing for television these days, is repped by CAA and Brillstein Entertainment Partners.
After years on ABC’s pop culture phenomenon “Desperate Housewives,” Longoria has worked largely behind the scenes in women and minority empowerment,...
From writer-director Eugene Ashe, the indie follows a young woman (Thompson) who meets an aspiring saxophonist (former NFL player and actor Nnamdi Asomugha) working at her father’s Harlem record shop in the storied New York jazz age of the late ’50s.
After a summer romance, the pair meet again years later and finds their flame never wavered.
Asomugha is producing through his iAm21 Entertainment banner alongside Jonathan Baker (“The Banker”), Gabrielle Glore (“Dirty Laundry”), and Matthew Thurm (“Crown Heights”). Thompson will serve as executive producer. Declan Quinn will serve as cinematographer.
Details of Longoria’s character are under wraps. The actress, who is mostly directing for television these days, is repped by CAA and Brillstein Entertainment Partners.
After years on ABC’s pop culture phenomenon “Desperate Housewives,” Longoria has worked largely behind the scenes in women and minority empowerment,...
- 3/7/2019
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha are set to star in the feature film “Sylvie.”
Eugene Ashe has written the screenplay and will direct with production currently underway.
The film is described as a love story set in the cool jazz era of New York City in the late 1950’s/early 1960’s. Sylvie (played by Thompson) meets aspiring saxophonist Robert (played by Asomugha) when he takes a job at her father’s record store in Harlem. After a summer romance comes to an end, the two fatefully reconnect several years later and find that their feelings for each other have never disappeared.
Asomugha will produce through his iAm21 Entertainment banner alongside Jonathan Baker (“The Banker”), Gabrielle Glore (“Dirty Laundry”), and Matthew Thurm (“Crown Heights”). Thompson will executive produce.
Thompson will next star in “Men in Black: International” this June, and was recently seen starring in “Creed II,” “Sorry to Bother You,...
Eugene Ashe has written the screenplay and will direct with production currently underway.
The film is described as a love story set in the cool jazz era of New York City in the late 1950’s/early 1960’s. Sylvie (played by Thompson) meets aspiring saxophonist Robert (played by Asomugha) when he takes a job at her father’s record store in Harlem. After a summer romance comes to an end, the two fatefully reconnect several years later and find that their feelings for each other have never disappeared.
Asomugha will produce through his iAm21 Entertainment banner alongside Jonathan Baker (“The Banker”), Gabrielle Glore (“Dirty Laundry”), and Matthew Thurm (“Crown Heights”). Thompson will executive produce.
Thompson will next star in “Men in Black: International” this June, and was recently seen starring in “Creed II,” “Sorry to Bother You,...
- 2/22/2019
- by Justin Kroll
- Variety Film + TV
Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha are set to star in Sylvie, a period romance film, which they are also producers on. The pic, set in the cool jazz era of New York City in the late 1950’s/early 1960’s, is currently in production with Eugene Ashe (Homecoming) directing from a screenplay that he wrote.
It follows Sylvie (Thompson) who meets aspiring saxophonist Robert (Asomugha) when he takes a job at her father’s record store in Harlem. After a summer romance that comes to an end, the two fatefully reconnect several years later and find that their feelings for each other have never disappeared.
Asomugha, who produced and starred opposite Lakeith Stanfield in the Sundance award-winning Amazon Studios film Crown Heights, is producing the project via his iAm21 Entertainment label along with Jonathan Baker, Gabrielle Glore, and Matthew Thurm.
Thompson will serve as executive producer. She can be seen next starring in Sony’s spinoff,...
It follows Sylvie (Thompson) who meets aspiring saxophonist Robert (Asomugha) when he takes a job at her father’s record store in Harlem. After a summer romance that comes to an end, the two fatefully reconnect several years later and find that their feelings for each other have never disappeared.
Asomugha, who produced and starred opposite Lakeith Stanfield in the Sundance award-winning Amazon Studios film Crown Heights, is producing the project via his iAm21 Entertainment label along with Jonathan Baker, Gabrielle Glore, and Matthew Thurm.
Thompson will serve as executive producer. She can be seen next starring in Sony’s spinoff,...
- 2/22/2019
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
The other nominees are: Cynthia Erivo, Barry Keoghan and Lakeith Stanfield.
Bafta has announced the five actors in the running for the 2019 Ee Rising Star Award.
They are:
Jessie Buckley Cynthia Erivo Barry Keoghan Lakeith Stanfield Letitia Wright
Actress and singer Jessie Buckley made her breakthrough in 2017’s Beast directed by Michael Pearce. Her latest is Wild Rose, about a Glaswegian musician who dreams of becoming a Nashville star, which debuted at Toronto and is set for release in April 2019.
Tony, Emmy, and Grammy Award-winning actress Cynthia Erivo is best known for playing Celie in the 2015 Broadway revival of The Color Purple.
Bafta has announced the five actors in the running for the 2019 Ee Rising Star Award.
They are:
Jessie Buckley Cynthia Erivo Barry Keoghan Lakeith Stanfield Letitia Wright
Actress and singer Jessie Buckley made her breakthrough in 2017’s Beast directed by Michael Pearce. Her latest is Wild Rose, about a Glaswegian musician who dreams of becoming a Nashville star, which debuted at Toronto and is set for release in April 2019.
Tony, Emmy, and Grammy Award-winning actress Cynthia Erivo is best known for playing Celie in the 2015 Broadway revival of The Color Purple.
- 1/3/2019
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
“I’ve always been interested in things that happen more in a rural setting,” admits cinematographer Ben Kutchins. “Most of the movies that I’ve shot to this point take place in an urban setting,” so when he was offered “Ozark,” he jumped at it. “I was raised in the country, so this was an opportunity to explore the darkness of my childhood as it were.” This year Kutchins received his career-first Emmy nomination for the series. Watch our exclusive video interview with him above.
See Jason Bateman (‘Ozark’) Emmy episode revealed for Best Drama Actor (Exclusive)
This Netflix drama centers on a Chicago-based financial adviser (Jason Bateman) who relocates his family to the Missouri Ozarks when his dealings with a drug cartel go awry. Kutchins competes for Best Cinematography for shooting the episode “The Toll,” which also brought Bateman a nomination for Best Drama Directing. And Bateman entered it...
See Jason Bateman (‘Ozark’) Emmy episode revealed for Best Drama Actor (Exclusive)
This Netflix drama centers on a Chicago-based financial adviser (Jason Bateman) who relocates his family to the Missouri Ozarks when his dealings with a drug cartel go awry. Kutchins competes for Best Cinematography for shooting the episode “The Toll,” which also brought Bateman a nomination for Best Drama Directing. And Bateman entered it...
- 8/3/2018
- by Zach Laws
- Gold Derby
Niecy Nash, Aunjanue Ellis, Kylie Bunbury, Marsha Stephanie Blake and Storm Reid have all joined Netflix’s “Central Park Five” limited series from Ava DuVernay, the streamer announced Friday.
Nash, who currently stars on the TNT drama “Claws,” will play Delores Wise, mother of Korey Wise. “Quantico” alum Ellis will play Sharone Salaam, mother of Yusef Salaam.
Bunbury (“Pitch”) will play Angie Richardson, sister of Kevin Richardson; Blake (“Crown Heights”) will play Linda McCray, mother of Antron McCray; and “A Wrinkle in Time” star and DuVernay go-to Reid will play Lisa, a friend of Korey Wise.
Also Read: Ava DuVernay Teaming With Netflix on Central Park Five Series
The five actresses join a cast that includes Michael K. Williams, Vera Farmiga, John Leguizamo, Felicity Huffman, Jharrel Jerome and Jovan Adepo.
Written and directed by DuVernay, the four-episode series will adapt the true story of the five teenagers of color from Harlem — Antron McCray,...
Nash, who currently stars on the TNT drama “Claws,” will play Delores Wise, mother of Korey Wise. “Quantico” alum Ellis will play Sharone Salaam, mother of Yusef Salaam.
Bunbury (“Pitch”) will play Angie Richardson, sister of Kevin Richardson; Blake (“Crown Heights”) will play Linda McCray, mother of Antron McCray; and “A Wrinkle in Time” star and DuVernay go-to Reid will play Lisa, a friend of Korey Wise.
Also Read: Ava DuVernay Teaming With Netflix on Central Park Five Series
The five actresses join a cast that includes Michael K. Williams, Vera Farmiga, John Leguizamo, Felicity Huffman, Jharrel Jerome and Jovan Adepo.
Written and directed by DuVernay, the four-episode series will adapt the true story of the five teenagers of color from Harlem — Antron McCray,...
- 8/3/2018
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
Jeremy Kagan, filmmaker and USC professor is reaching out to educational institutions about his new film, Shot which tells the story of what one bullet does to many lives.
Called “profound…mesmerizing….powerful….moving” this movie is being used as a stimulating way to engage in the essential conversations we all must have about gun violence.
The movie is an intense first person journey of what happens when you get shot.
Noah Wyle in Shot (2017)
We want high school and college students to see the movie and discuss it, and we have created a balanced study guide to go along with the movie.
You can screen the 90min. dramatic movie in a local theater, or in any screening room or class room, or in homes on TVs. And depending on timing, the filmmakers are available to participate in post screening discussions.
Enclosed are information on ways to show the movie,...
Called “profound…mesmerizing….powerful….moving” this movie is being used as a stimulating way to engage in the essential conversations we all must have about gun violence.
The movie is an intense first person journey of what happens when you get shot.
Noah Wyle in Shot (2017)
We want high school and college students to see the movie and discuss it, and we have created a balanced study guide to go along with the movie.
You can screen the 90min. dramatic movie in a local theater, or in any screening room or class room, or in homes on TVs. And depending on timing, the filmmakers are available to participate in post screening discussions.
Enclosed are information on ways to show the movie,...
- 7/30/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Lakeith Stanfield stars as Cassius Green in Boots Riley’s Sorry To Bother You, an Annapurna Pictures release.
Director/writer Boots Riley’s ambitious, inspired social satire Sorry To Bother You sets its protagonist, a young black man trying to make a living as a telemarketer, in a world nearly like our own but imbued with the surreal, magical realism and even science fiction. The comedy is excellent but the director also makes hold-no-punches points about our country’s unequal economic system.
Bitingly funny, creative and intelligent, Sorry To Bother You is a welcome breeze shaking up the summer doldrums and our comfortable assumptions.
Lakeith Stanfield is outstanding as Cassius Green, a likable African American every-man living in Oakland, California, who is struggling to just trying to pay the rent but ambitious to get ahead in life. His girlfriend Detroit (Tessa Thompson) is an aspiring performance and visual artist but...
Director/writer Boots Riley’s ambitious, inspired social satire Sorry To Bother You sets its protagonist, a young black man trying to make a living as a telemarketer, in a world nearly like our own but imbued with the surreal, magical realism and even science fiction. The comedy is excellent but the director also makes hold-no-punches points about our country’s unequal economic system.
Bitingly funny, creative and intelligent, Sorry To Bother You is a welcome breeze shaking up the summer doldrums and our comfortable assumptions.
Lakeith Stanfield is outstanding as Cassius Green, a likable African American every-man living in Oakland, California, who is struggling to just trying to pay the rent but ambitious to get ahead in life. His girlfriend Detroit (Tessa Thompson) is an aspiring performance and visual artist but...
- 7/13/2018
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Carrie Coon (Gone Girl) has been tapped as the female lead opposite Bill Pullman for the second installment of USA Network’s breakout drama series The Sinner. Also set for starring roles in Season 2 of the show, from Universal Cable Productions and producer Jessica Biel who played the female lead in the first season, are Natalie Paul (The Deuce) and Hannah Gross (Mindhunters).
Season 2 lures Detective Harry Ambrose (Pullman) back to his hometown in rural New York to assess an unsettling and heart wrenching crime — parents murdered by their 11-year-old son, with no apparent motive. As Ambrose realizes there’s nothing ordinary about the boy or where he came from, the investigation pulls him into the hidden darkness of his hometown. He’s pitted against those who’ll stop at nothing to protect its secrets — and a mysterious woman who proves to be a complicated, enigmatic piece to this haunting puzzle.
Season 2 lures Detective Harry Ambrose (Pullman) back to his hometown in rural New York to assess an unsettling and heart wrenching crime — parents murdered by their 11-year-old son, with no apparent motive. As Ambrose realizes there’s nothing ordinary about the boy or where he came from, the investigation pulls him into the hidden darkness of his hometown. He’s pitted against those who’ll stop at nothing to protect its secrets — and a mysterious woman who proves to be a complicated, enigmatic piece to this haunting puzzle.
- 5/3/2018
- by Nellie Andreeva and Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
“Atlanta” reached the halfway mark of its critically acclaimed second season on Thursday, April 5, with one of its most compelling, disturbing and Emmy worthy episodes. In “Teddy Perkins,” written by series creator and star Donald Glover and directed by series regular Hiro Murai, Lakeith Stanfield is handed his first stand-alone narrative of the series as Darius, continuing a trend that began in season one with episodes for Zazie Beetz’s Van (“Value”) and Brian Tyree Henry’s Paper Boi (“B.A.N.”) and continued this season in “Helen” and “Barbershop” in the two preceding installments.
In the episode, Darius ventures in a U-Haul truck to pick up a piano being offered for free on a message board by a wealthy recluse named Teddy Perkins (Glover), brother and caretaker to the now mute and wheelchair-bound musician Benny Hope (Derrick Haywood). Teddy, we come to find out, suffers from a number of psychological issues,...
In the episode, Darius ventures in a U-Haul truck to pick up a piano being offered for free on a message board by a wealthy recluse named Teddy Perkins (Glover), brother and caretaker to the now mute and wheelchair-bound musician Benny Hope (Derrick Haywood). Teddy, we come to find out, suffers from a number of psychological issues,...
- 4/16/2018
- by John Benutty
- Gold Derby
Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has been selected as a speaker for the 10th Annual Produced By Conference at Paramount Studios on June 9-10.
The Producers Guild of America announced Thursday the headlining sessions, which include “Conversation With: Samantha Bee & Jason Jones,” “Conversation With: Kevin Feige,” “Conversation With: Jim Gianopulos,” “Larry Gordon: Uncensored,” and the previously announced “360 Profile: The Handmaid’s Tale.”
“Conversation With: Kevin Feige” features an in-depth discussion with the president of Marvel Studios and creative force behind some of the biggest blockbusters of the past decade, including the recent box-office juggernaut “Black Panther.”
“Conversation With: Jim Gianopulos” is an open talk with the Chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures and industry leader who has overseen the production of “Avatar,” “Titanic,” “Deadpool,” and “Hidden Figures.”
“Larry Gordon: Uncensored” features a candid discussion with the prolific producer behind “Field of Dreams,” “Die Hard,” and “Hellboy” about the hard, ground-level realities of getting movies made.
The Producers Guild of America announced Thursday the headlining sessions, which include “Conversation With: Samantha Bee & Jason Jones,” “Conversation With: Kevin Feige,” “Conversation With: Jim Gianopulos,” “Larry Gordon: Uncensored,” and the previously announced “360 Profile: The Handmaid’s Tale.”
“Conversation With: Kevin Feige” features an in-depth discussion with the president of Marvel Studios and creative force behind some of the biggest blockbusters of the past decade, including the recent box-office juggernaut “Black Panther.”
“Conversation With: Jim Gianopulos” is an open talk with the Chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures and industry leader who has overseen the production of “Avatar,” “Titanic,” “Deadpool,” and “Hidden Figures.”
“Larry Gordon: Uncensored” features a candid discussion with the prolific producer behind “Field of Dreams,” “Die Hard,” and “Hellboy” about the hard, ground-level realities of getting movies made.
- 3/30/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
On the day before the Oscars, the Film Indepdnent Spirit Awards were handed out. In what may be a warm up for the Academy Awards, Get Out took Best Film, marking an excellent night overall for the movie. Impending Oscar winners Frances McDormand and Sam Rockwell both won as well for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, while the rest of the winners you can see below… Here are all of the Spirit Award winners: Best Feature “Call Me by Your Name” “The Florida Project” “Get Out” (Winner) “Lady Bird” “The Rider” Best First Feature (Award given to the director and producer) “Columbus” “Ingrid Goes West” (Winner) “Menashe” “Oh Lucy!” “Patti Cake$” John Cassavetes Award – Given to the best feature made for under $500,000. (Award given to the writer, director and producer. Executive Producers are not awarded.) “Dayveon” “A Ghost Story” “Life and Nothing More” (Winner) “Most Beautiful Island” “The Transfiguration” Best Director Sean Baker,...
- 3/4/2018
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
The 33rd Independent Spirit Awards took place on Saturday, March 3 in Los Angeles. The full winners list is below.
Best Feature
“Get Out”
Producers: Jason Blum, Edward H. Hamm Jr., Sean McKittrick, Jordan Peele
“Call Me by Your Name”
Producers: Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges, Rodrigo Teixeira, Marco Morabito, James Ivory, Howard Rosenman
“The Florida Project”
Producers: Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch, Kevin Chinoy, Andrew Duncan, Alex Saks, Francesca Silvestri, Shih-Ching Tsou
“Lady Bird”
Producers: Eli Bush, Evelyn O’Neill, Scott Rudin
“The Rider”
Producers: Mollye Asher, Bert Hamelinck, Sacha Ben Harroche, Chloé Zhao
Best Female Lead
Frances McDormand
“Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri”
Salma Hayek
“Beatriz at Dinner”
Margot Robbie
“I, Tonya”
Saoirse Ronan
“Lady Bird”
Shinobu Terajima
“Oh Lucy!”
Regina Williams
“Life and Nothing More”
Best Male Lead
Timothée Chalamet
“Call Me by Your Name”
Harris Dickinson
“Beach Rats”
James Franco
“The Disaster Artist”
Daniel Kaluuya
“Get Out...
Best Feature
“Get Out”
Producers: Jason Blum, Edward H. Hamm Jr., Sean McKittrick, Jordan Peele
“Call Me by Your Name”
Producers: Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges, Rodrigo Teixeira, Marco Morabito, James Ivory, Howard Rosenman
“The Florida Project”
Producers: Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch, Kevin Chinoy, Andrew Duncan, Alex Saks, Francesca Silvestri, Shih-Ching Tsou
“Lady Bird”
Producers: Eli Bush, Evelyn O’Neill, Scott Rudin
“The Rider”
Producers: Mollye Asher, Bert Hamelinck, Sacha Ben Harroche, Chloé Zhao
Best Female Lead
Frances McDormand
“Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri”
Salma Hayek
“Beatriz at Dinner”
Margot Robbie
“I, Tonya”
Saoirse Ronan
“Lady Bird”
Shinobu Terajima
“Oh Lucy!”
Regina Williams
“Life and Nothing More”
Best Male Lead
Timothée Chalamet
“Call Me by Your Name”
Harris Dickinson
“Beach Rats”
James Franco
“The Disaster Artist”
Daniel Kaluuya
“Get Out...
- 3/4/2018
- by William Earl
- Indiewire
Sam Rockwell won Best Supporting Male at the 2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards for his performance in “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.”
In accepting the award, Rockwell offered “big love and respect to my fellow nominees.” Rockwell then went on to say “Thank you to the entire independent film community, you’re my family — I’ve been in like 932 independent films.” The actor then gave a shout out to writer-director Martin McDonagh, who previously directed Rockwell to an Indie Spirt nod for Best Supporting Actor for “Seven Psychoapths.” “Getting a script from him,” Rockwell said, “is like getting the best Christmas present you could ever have. It literally and figuratively lit me on fire.”
Rockwell finished his speech by thanking co-star Frances McDormand, a handful of the filmmakers who gave him a shot early on in his career, and even his therapist.
The other nominees in this category were Nnamdi Asomugha for “Crown Heights,...
In accepting the award, Rockwell offered “big love and respect to my fellow nominees.” Rockwell then went on to say “Thank you to the entire independent film community, you’re my family — I’ve been in like 932 independent films.” The actor then gave a shout out to writer-director Martin McDonagh, who previously directed Rockwell to an Indie Spirt nod for Best Supporting Actor for “Seven Psychoapths.” “Getting a script from him,” Rockwell said, “is like getting the best Christmas present you could ever have. It literally and figuratively lit me on fire.”
Rockwell finished his speech by thanking co-star Frances McDormand, a handful of the filmmakers who gave him a shot early on in his career, and even his therapist.
The other nominees in this category were Nnamdi Asomugha for “Crown Heights,...
- 3/3/2018
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Winners of the 2018 Independent Spirit Awards were revealed on March 3, one day before the Oscars. Many of the leading Academy Awards contenders were in the running here first, including “Call Me By Your Name,” “which reaped a leading six nominations, five-time nominee “Get Out,” and four-time contender “Lady Bird.” While “Three Billboards Outside, Ebbing Missouri” only reaped three bids here and was snubbed in the top race, it is the frontrunner to win Best Picture at the Oscars. Its closest rival there, “The Shape of Water,” was shut out of these precursor prizes.
See 2018 Independent Spirit Awards live blog
American feature film nominees, culled from entries with budgets of under $20 million, were determined by a committee of an unknown number drawn from “writers, directors, producers, cinematographers, editors, actors, critics, casting directors, film festival programmers and other working film professionals.” Compare that to the selection process for winners in which the entire membership of Film Independent,...
See 2018 Independent Spirit Awards live blog
American feature film nominees, culled from entries with budgets of under $20 million, were determined by a committee of an unknown number drawn from “writers, directors, producers, cinematographers, editors, actors, critics, casting directors, film festival programmers and other working film professionals.” Compare that to the selection process for winners in which the entire membership of Film Independent,...
- 3/3/2018
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
The 2018 Independent Spirit Awards will be handed out on March 3, one day before the Oscars, during an afternoon ceremony on Santa Monica. The 33rd Indie Spirits, hosted for the second year in a row by the comedy team of Nick Kroll and John Mulaney, will air live on IFC.
Luca Guadagnino‘s “Call Me by Your Name” has a leading six nominations with both Ben and Josh Sadfie‘s “Good Time” and Jordan Peele‘s “Get Out” contending in five races apiece. Greta Gerwig‘s solo directorial debut “Lady Bird” follows with four.
Below, the full list of contenders broken down by film.
See 2018 Independent Spirit Awards: What time do 33rd Indie Spirits start, who will win, who hosts?
Six Nominations
“Call Me by Your Name”
Picture, Director (Luca Guadagnino), Actor (Timothee Chalamet), Supporting Actor (Armie Hammer), Cinematography, Film Editing
Five Nominations
“Get Out”
Picture, Director (Jordan Peele), Actor (Daniel Kaluuya), Screenplay,...
Luca Guadagnino‘s “Call Me by Your Name” has a leading six nominations with both Ben and Josh Sadfie‘s “Good Time” and Jordan Peele‘s “Get Out” contending in five races apiece. Greta Gerwig‘s solo directorial debut “Lady Bird” follows with four.
Below, the full list of contenders broken down by film.
See 2018 Independent Spirit Awards: What time do 33rd Indie Spirits start, who will win, who hosts?
Six Nominations
“Call Me by Your Name”
Picture, Director (Luca Guadagnino), Actor (Timothee Chalamet), Supporting Actor (Armie Hammer), Cinematography, Film Editing
Five Nominations
“Get Out”
Picture, Director (Jordan Peele), Actor (Daniel Kaluuya), Screenplay,...
- 3/3/2018
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
The 2017 Sundance Film Festival provided one of the strongest markets on record. The box-office results, however, tell another story. While big buy “The Big Sick” was a big hit, second only to “Lady Bird” in the specialty marketplace, many smaller Sundance films remained just that: small, often earning less than their acquisition costs.
For some movies, small is a victory. Kogonada’s “Columbus,” which screened in the 2017 Next section, received the Sundance Institute’s Creative Distribution Fellowship grant to fund its inaugural self-distribution partnership. “Columbus” grossed more than $1 million — more than Fox Searchlight’s “Patti Cake$” ($9.5 million buy, less than $1 million domestic), and more than one might expect for a meditative romance set among the architecture of Columbus, Ind.
Three Sundance 2107 films — “Get Out” (Universal), “The Big Sick” (Amazon/Lionsgate) and “Wind River” (Weinstein) grossed over $250 million combined in domestic theaters. However, only “The Big Sick” came to Sundance without a distributor.
For some movies, small is a victory. Kogonada’s “Columbus,” which screened in the 2017 Next section, received the Sundance Institute’s Creative Distribution Fellowship grant to fund its inaugural self-distribution partnership. “Columbus” grossed more than $1 million — more than Fox Searchlight’s “Patti Cake$” ($9.5 million buy, less than $1 million domestic), and more than one might expect for a meditative romance set among the architecture of Columbus, Ind.
Three Sundance 2107 films — “Get Out” (Universal), “The Big Sick” (Amazon/Lionsgate) and “Wind River” (Weinstein) grossed over $250 million combined in domestic theaters. However, only “The Big Sick” came to Sundance without a distributor.
- 1/17/2018
- by Tom Brueggemann and Dana Harris
- Indiewire
Crown Heights Amazon Studios Director: Matt Ruskin Screenwriter: Matt Ruskin Cast: Lakeith Stanfield, Nnande Asomugha, Natalie Paul, Bill Camp, Nestor Carbonell, Amari Cheatom, Brian Tyree Henry Screened at: Critics’ link, Opens: August 18, 2017. On Disc December 8, 2017 Matt Ruskin, who wrote and directs “Crown Heights” and who a few years earlier directed “The […]
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- 12/26/2017
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
The African American Film Critics Association has unveiled its picks for the top films and TV series of the year, bestowing Get Out with the award for best picture of 2017. Jordan Peele's horror-comedy also earned the awards for best directing, screenplay and actor (Daniel Kaluuya).
The world’s largest group of professional Black film critics also gave acting nods to Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri's Frances McDormand, Last Flag Flying's Laurence Fishburne, Girls Trip's Tiffany Haddish and Crown Heights' Lakeith Stanfield. Gook, Coco, Detroit, Step and Mudbound were also among the recognized films. ABC's Black-ish and OWN's Queen Sugar were named the top TV...
The world’s largest group of professional Black film critics also gave acting nods to Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri's Frances McDormand, Last Flag Flying's Laurence Fishburne, Girls Trip's Tiffany Haddish and Crown Heights' Lakeith Stanfield. Gook, Coco, Detroit, Step and Mudbound were also among the recognized films. ABC's Black-ish and OWN's Queen Sugar were named the top TV...
- 12/12/2017
- by Ashley Lee
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The premiere post-tiff destination (September 20-25th) in the film community and a major leg up for narrative and non-fiction films in development, the Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp) announced a whopping 140 projects selected for the Project Forum at the upcoming Ifp Independent Film Week. Made up of several sections (Rbc’s Emerging Storytellers program, No Borders International Co-Production Market and Spotlight on Documentaries), we find latest updates from the likes of docu-helmers Doug Block (112 Weddings) and Lana Wilson (After Tiller), and among the narrative items we find headliners in Andrew Haigh (coming off the well received 45 Years), Sophie Barthes (Cold Souls and Madame Bovary), Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty), Lawrence Michael Levine (Wild Canaries), Jorge Michel Grau (We Are What We Are), Eleanor Burke and Ron Eyal (Stranger Things) and new faces in Sundance’s large family in Charles Poekel (Christmas, Again) and Olivia Newman (First Match). Here...
- 7/22/2015
- by admin
- IONCINEMA.com
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