Project Brazen, the Peabody-nominated global journalism studio founded by former Wall Street Journal reporters and bestselling authors Bradley Hope and Tom Wright, has launched a new podcast about the unsolved gas attack at the 2014 MidWest FurFest convention in Chicago.
The six-part “Fur & Loathing,” the first episode of which releases today, investigates what happened on the final night of the convention for furry fandom — a frequently misunderstood global internet subculture centred around anthropomorphic animal characters — when poisonous levels of chlorine gas swept through the corridors of the Hyatt Regency in Rosemont, Illinois. Nineteen people were hospitalized and hundreds were evacuated, many still wearing vividly-coloured animal costumes known as fursuits. Hazmat teams found the remains of a chlorine bomb on the ninth floor, a chemical similar to the ones used in WWI.
The FBI and local police department began a short-lived investigation in the months after the attack, tracking down attendees and initial suspects,...
The six-part “Fur & Loathing,” the first episode of which releases today, investigates what happened on the final night of the convention for furry fandom — a frequently misunderstood global internet subculture centred around anthropomorphic animal characters — when poisonous levels of chlorine gas swept through the corridors of the Hyatt Regency in Rosemont, Illinois. Nineteen people were hospitalized and hundreds were evacuated, many still wearing vividly-coloured animal costumes known as fursuits. Hazmat teams found the remains of a chlorine bomb on the ninth floor, a chemical similar to the ones used in WWI.
The FBI and local police department began a short-lived investigation in the months after the attack, tracking down attendees and initial suspects,...
- 5/6/2024
- by Alex Ritman
- Variety Film + TV
Eli Roth’s slasher Thanksgiving is now available on DVD and Blu-ray, and fans of the film will be happy to hear that a sequel is already on the way. Sony’s TriStar plans on releasing Thanksgiving 2 in theaters worldwide in 2025, we learned late last year. Eli Roth and Jeff Rendell are back to write the screenplay for the upcoming sequel.
“We’re gonna take a year off so we can really, really write a great script. We want to outdo ourselves. Make it better than the first one,” Roth teased back in November.
So what can we expect from Thanksgiving 2? Will it be a direct sequel to the first film, following the surviving characters? Or will Roth pivot to a new slasher story entirely?
Well, chatting with Games Radar this week, Thanksgiving stars Nell Verlaque and Rick Hoffman both strongly suggest they’ll be back in Roth’s upcoming sequel.
“We’re gonna take a year off so we can really, really write a great script. We want to outdo ourselves. Make it better than the first one,” Roth teased back in November.
So what can we expect from Thanksgiving 2? Will it be a direct sequel to the first film, following the surviving characters? Or will Roth pivot to a new slasher story entirely?
Well, chatting with Games Radar this week, Thanksgiving stars Nell Verlaque and Rick Hoffman both strongly suggest they’ll be back in Roth’s upcoming sequel.
- 1/31/2024
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
So many stars stepped out for the 75th Primetime Emmy performer nominees celebration on Saturday (January 13) at the Jw Marriott LA Live in Los Angeles.
Kathryn Hahn, Dominique Fishback, Tyler James Williams and Niecy Nash were just a few celebrities on the guestlist. In all, we counted more than 25 famous faces in attendance.
We rounded up pics of all of the biggest stars who walked the red carpet. That way you can easily see who was there and what they wore.
Keep reading to find out more…
Keep scrolling to see all of the stars who attended the 75th Primetime Emmy performer nominees celebration…
Tyler James Williams
Kate Linder
Marta Pozzan
Joseph Lee
Kathryn Hahn
Sam Richardson
Ronald Gladden
Karen Fukuhara
Nicholas Braun
Simona Tabasco
Samantha Hanratty
Tom Wright
Sharon Lawrence
Marin Hinkle
Sarah Kate Ellis
Caroline Aaron
Stephen Manas
Dominique Fishback
Tessa Brooks
Alexa Barajas
Nuha Jes Izman
Luke Kirby...
Kathryn Hahn, Dominique Fishback, Tyler James Williams and Niecy Nash were just a few celebrities on the guestlist. In all, we counted more than 25 famous faces in attendance.
We rounded up pics of all of the biggest stars who walked the red carpet. That way you can easily see who was there and what they wore.
Keep reading to find out more…
Keep scrolling to see all of the stars who attended the 75th Primetime Emmy performer nominees celebration…
Tyler James Williams
Kate Linder
Marta Pozzan
Joseph Lee
Kathryn Hahn
Sam Richardson
Ronald Gladden
Karen Fukuhara
Nicholas Braun
Simona Tabasco
Samantha Hanratty
Tom Wright
Sharon Lawrence
Marin Hinkle
Sarah Kate Ellis
Caroline Aaron
Stephen Manas
Dominique Fishback
Tessa Brooks
Alexa Barajas
Nuha Jes Izman
Luke Kirby...
- 1/14/2024
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
Many of Monday’s Emmy nominees and presenters celebrated in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday evening at the annual performers nominees reception. Gold Derby senior editors Rob Licuria and Matt Noble were on the red carpet with an exclusive spot to host interviews.
Watch each short video below by clicking that person’s name:
Dominique Fishback (“Swarm”), nominee for Best Movie/Limited Actress
Joseph Lee (“Beef”), nominee for Best Movie/Limited Supporting Actor
Sam Richardson (“Ted Lasso”), winner for Best Comedy Guest Actor
Luke Kirby (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”), nominee for Best Comedy Guest Actor
Karen Fukuhara
Josh Whitehouse (“Daisy Jones & the Six”)
Tom Wright (“Daisy Jones & the Six”)
Caroline Aaron (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”)
Stephen Manas (“Ted Lasso”)
Sammi Hanratty and Nuha Jes Izman (“Yellowjackets”)
Predict the 2023 Emmy Awards through January 15.
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Watch each short video below by clicking that person’s name:
Dominique Fishback (“Swarm”), nominee for Best Movie/Limited Actress
Joseph Lee (“Beef”), nominee for Best Movie/Limited Supporting Actor
Sam Richardson (“Ted Lasso”), winner for Best Comedy Guest Actor
Luke Kirby (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”), nominee for Best Comedy Guest Actor
Karen Fukuhara
Josh Whitehouse (“Daisy Jones & the Six”)
Tom Wright (“Daisy Jones & the Six”)
Caroline Aaron (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”)
Stephen Manas (“Ted Lasso”)
Sammi Hanratty and Nuha Jes Izman (“Yellowjackets”)
Predict the 2023 Emmy Awards through January 15.
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- 1/14/2024
- by Chris Beachum and Denton Davidson
- Gold Derby
Remember the Emmys? Due to Hollywood’s dual strikes, the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards were delayed from last fall. The telecast, fronted by Anthony Anderson, will take place at Downtown L.A.’s Peacock Theater on Monday, Jan. 15, at a time marked by an explosion of events and perhaps one of the most crowded corridors in awards season history. Get ready to pop some champagne!
Thursday, Jan. 11
Canada at the Emmys
Private location, 5:30 p.m.
Zaib Shaikh, Canada’s consul general in Los Angeles along with Kirsten Hillman, Canada’s ambassador to the United States will open the doors of Canada’s House for a private reception to honor this year’s Canadian Emmy nominees. Expected guests include Lamar Johnson, Luke Kirby, Susan Coyne, Devery Jacobs, Tantoo Cardinal, Sarah Levy, Shamier Anderson, Mae Martin, Sophie Nélisse, Jeremy Podeswa, Dustin Milligan, Michael Seater, Amanda Crew, Cassandra James, Bruce Greenwood, Enuka Okuma,...
Thursday, Jan. 11
Canada at the Emmys
Private location, 5:30 p.m.
Zaib Shaikh, Canada’s consul general in Los Angeles along with Kirsten Hillman, Canada’s ambassador to the United States will open the doors of Canada’s House for a private reception to honor this year’s Canadian Emmy nominees. Expected guests include Lamar Johnson, Luke Kirby, Susan Coyne, Devery Jacobs, Tantoo Cardinal, Sarah Levy, Shamier Anderson, Mae Martin, Sophie Nélisse, Jeremy Podeswa, Dustin Milligan, Michael Seater, Amanda Crew, Cassandra James, Bruce Greenwood, Enuka Okuma,...
- 1/10/2024
- by Chris Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Horror maestro Eli Roth returns with the long-awaited Thanksgiving, ushering in a new holiday-themed slasher villain with a one hell of an appetite for body destruction. After an ill-advised early Black Friday sale results in several grizzly deaths, a masked madman known as The Carver turns a small town into his hunting ground as he seeks revenge on the people responsible. It’s dyed-in-the-wool Slasher with some best-of-the-year kill sequences and made with lifelong horror fans in mind.
Adapted from a fake movie trailer included in Quentin Tarantino & Robert Rodriguez’s Grindhouse (2007), Roth’s Thanksgiving is the throwback the Slasher crowd has been dying to see for over a decade now. Expanding on the camp and craze of that previous short, Thanksgiving (2023) reunites Roth and previous Thanksgiving (2007) screenwriter Jeff Rendel with an expanded cast including Patrick Dempsey (Scream 3), Gina Gershon (Bound), Rick Hoffman (Hostel), and Nell Verlaque (Big Shot...
Adapted from a fake movie trailer included in Quentin Tarantino & Robert Rodriguez’s Grindhouse (2007), Roth’s Thanksgiving is the throwback the Slasher crowd has been dying to see for over a decade now. Expanding on the camp and craze of that previous short, Thanksgiving (2023) reunites Roth and previous Thanksgiving (2007) screenwriter Jeff Rendel with an expanded cast including Patrick Dempsey (Scream 3), Gina Gershon (Bound), Rick Hoffman (Hostel), and Nell Verlaque (Big Shot...
- 11/19/2023
- by Jonathan Dehaan
Horror maestro Eli Roth returns with the long-awaited Thanksgiving, ushering in a new holiday-themed slasher villain with a one hell of an appetite for body destruction. After an ill-advised early Black Friday sale results in several grizzly deaths, a masked madman known as The Carver turns a small town into his hunting ground as he seeks revenge on the people responsible. It’s dyed-in-the-wool Slasher with some best-of-the-year kill sequences and made with lifelong horror fans in mind.
Adapted from a fake movie trailer included in Quentin Tarantino & Robert Rodriguez’s Grindhouse (2007), Roth’s Thanksgiving is the throwback the Slasher crowd has been dying to see for over a decade now. Expanding on the camp and craze of that previous short, Thanksgiving (2023) reunites Roth and previous Thanksgiving (2007) screenwriter Jeff Rendel with an expanded cast including Patrick Dempsey (Scream 3), Gina Gershon (Bound), Rick Hoffman (Hostel), and Nell Verlaque (Big Shot...
Adapted from a fake movie trailer included in Quentin Tarantino & Robert Rodriguez’s Grindhouse (2007), Roth’s Thanksgiving is the throwback the Slasher crowd has been dying to see for over a decade now. Expanding on the camp and craze of that previous short, Thanksgiving (2023) reunites Roth and previous Thanksgiving (2007) screenwriter Jeff Rendel with an expanded cast including Patrick Dempsey (Scream 3), Gina Gershon (Bound), Rick Hoffman (Hostel), and Nell Verlaque (Big Shot...
- 11/19/2023
- by Jonathan Dehaan
The director and screenwriter of "Thanksgiving" — Eli Roth and Jeff Rendell, respectively — have been very vocal about the fact that Thanksgiving seems to be a holiday with vast untapped potential as fodder for horror films, slasher movies in particular. After all, Halloween and Christmas are well-trodden as body count fare and even lesser holidays like Independence Day have their memorable slashers. Poor Turkey Day has only one; though "Blood Rage" is a pretty fantastic little indie that everyone should make a part of their yearly traditions, it uses Thanksgiving as a side dish rather than the main course.
So, Roth and Rendell were determined to fill this void themselves, and 2007's "Grindhouse" project by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino gave them just the opportunity they needed. Adding a few days onto the "Hostel Part II" shoot, Roth shot a faux trailer for "Thanksgiving" in the Grindhouse manner, making it look...
So, Roth and Rendell were determined to fill this void themselves, and 2007's "Grindhouse" project by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino gave them just the opportunity they needed. Adding a few days onto the "Hostel Part II" shoot, Roth shot a faux trailer for "Thanksgiving" in the Grindhouse manner, making it look...
- 11/16/2023
- by Bill Bria
- Slash Film
This post contains spoilers for Star Trek: Lower Decks.
Since its very first episode, Star Trek: Lower Decks has excavated the most embarrassing parts of Star Trek lore, refusing to let even tangential parts of the franchise go forgotten. The Next Generation‘s second-worst enemy race the Pakleds became major antagonists in Lower Decks, and Boimler showed unironic appreciation for a Tom Paris commemorative plate. Heck, even the Space Fun Helmet made a brief appearance.
So it’s no surprise that Lower Decks would eventually get around to one of the great debates in Star Trek history: how do you solve a problem like Tuvix? Directed by Cliff Bole, the Voyager season two episode “Tuvix” used that old Trek standby, a transporter accident, to pose a knotty moral quandary. When an exotic plant disrupts the transporter beam carrying Vulcan security chief Tuvok and Talaxian guide/cook Neelix, the two combine into one being,...
Since its very first episode, Star Trek: Lower Decks has excavated the most embarrassing parts of Star Trek lore, refusing to let even tangential parts of the franchise go forgotten. The Next Generation‘s second-worst enemy race the Pakleds became major antagonists in Lower Decks, and Boimler showed unironic appreciation for a Tom Paris commemorative plate. Heck, even the Space Fun Helmet made a brief appearance.
So it’s no surprise that Lower Decks would eventually get around to one of the great debates in Star Trek history: how do you solve a problem like Tuvix? Directed by Cliff Bole, the Voyager season two episode “Tuvix” used that old Trek standby, a transporter accident, to pose a knotty moral quandary. When an exotic plant disrupts the transporter beam carrying Vulcan security chief Tuvok and Talaxian guide/cook Neelix, the two combine into one being,...
- 9/21/2023
- by Joe George
- Den of Geek
This article contains spoilers for the "Star Trek: Lower Decks" season 4 premiere.
No-win scenarios, moral debates, ethical dilemmas -- there's hardly a single philosophical argument or weighty concern that "Star Trek" has ever shied away from throughout the thoughtful sci-fi franchise's five-plus decades of existence. That's not to say they've all been handled equally or with consistent levels of success, mind you. For every sobering lesson learned by Kirk and Spock in "The Original Series" or patented Jean-Luc Picard speech summing up the poignant themes at the end of an episode of "The Next Generation" or the far more murky politics of "Deep Space Nine," there have been instances like the most notorious episode of "Star Trek: Voyager" to ever air: the great Tuvix controversy, which "Lower Decks" lovingly lampoons -- and, arguably, even justifies -- in its entertaining season 4 premiere.
A continuing source of debate to this day among fans and creatives alike,...
No-win scenarios, moral debates, ethical dilemmas -- there's hardly a single philosophical argument or weighty concern that "Star Trek" has ever shied away from throughout the thoughtful sci-fi franchise's five-plus decades of existence. That's not to say they've all been handled equally or with consistent levels of success, mind you. For every sobering lesson learned by Kirk and Spock in "The Original Series" or patented Jean-Luc Picard speech summing up the poignant themes at the end of an episode of "The Next Generation" or the far more murky politics of "Deep Space Nine," there have been instances like the most notorious episode of "Star Trek: Voyager" to ever air: the great Tuvix controversy, which "Lower Decks" lovingly lampoons -- and, arguably, even justifies -- in its entertaining season 4 premiere.
A continuing source of debate to this day among fans and creatives alike,...
- 9/7/2023
- by Jeremy Mathai
- Slash Film
This post contains spoilers for the season 4 premiere of "Star Trek: Lower Decks."
The first episode of the fourth season of "Star Trek: Lower Decks," called "Twovix," plunges Trekkies straight into a cauldron of "Star Trek: Voyager" references. It's as if the writers had been saving up all their "Voyager" jokes and, golly, just couldn't stand holding back any longer. Fans of Captain Janeway and her famous, decades-old vessel will have a bloody field day spotting all the references to particular 1990s episodes, and seeing the hallways and bridge of the U.S.S. Voyager realized in animation will certainly provide a thrill. The makers of "Lower Decks" even threw in a few notable notes from Jerry Goldsmith's orchestral theme song, and cast "Voyager" actor Ethan Phillips in a notable supporting role. Those "Voyager" fans are of an intrepid class.
Even the plot of "Twovix" is a spiritual sequel...
The first episode of the fourth season of "Star Trek: Lower Decks," called "Twovix," plunges Trekkies straight into a cauldron of "Star Trek: Voyager" references. It's as if the writers had been saving up all their "Voyager" jokes and, golly, just couldn't stand holding back any longer. Fans of Captain Janeway and her famous, decades-old vessel will have a bloody field day spotting all the references to particular 1990s episodes, and seeing the hallways and bridge of the U.S.S. Voyager realized in animation will certainly provide a thrill. The makers of "Lower Decks" even threw in a few notable notes from Jerry Goldsmith's orchestral theme song, and cast "Voyager" actor Ethan Phillips in a notable supporting role. Those "Voyager" fans are of an intrepid class.
Even the plot of "Twovix" is a spiritual sequel...
- 9/7/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Earlier this year, the Prime Video streaming service released the ten episode series Daisy Jones & The Six (watch it Here), based on the best-selling novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid – a novel that was partially inspired by the complicated issues Fleetwood Mac band members Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham, and Stevie Nicks dealt with behind the scenes. It isn’t directly the Fleetwood Mac story, but comparisons are unavoidable. And now Nicks has taken to social media to share what she thought of the Prime series. In short, she loved it!
Developed for television by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, Daisy Jones & The Six has the following synopsis: In 1977, Daisy Jones & The Six were on top of the world. Fronted by two heat seeking missiles in Daisy Jones and Billy Dunne, the band had risen from obscurity to fame. And then, after a sold-out...
Developed for television by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, Daisy Jones & The Six has the following synopsis: In 1977, Daisy Jones & The Six were on top of the world. Fronted by two heat seeking missiles in Daisy Jones and Billy Dunne, the band had risen from obscurity to fame. And then, after a sold-out...
- 8/16/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Daisy Jones & The Six star Sam Claflin arrived at his final audition to play fictional 1970s rock star Billy Dunne without, by his own admission, the strongest grasp on the type of musician he was expected to embody.
His future showrunners had already taken a shine to the dimpled British actor, as had music supervisor Frankie Pine and producer Hello Sunshine’s president Lauren Neustadter, but one last hurdle remained before he could land the male lead in Amazon’s hot adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s novel of the same name. He had to sing live for the project’s music producers, Blake Mills and Tony Berg. Pine gave Claflin a shot of moonshine to soothe his nerves. The actor entered the storied halls of Sound City Studios, the Van Nuys building where Mick Fleetwood first met Lindsey Buckingham, and proceeded to kind of blow it. “I had prepared Elton John’s ‘Your Song,...
His future showrunners had already taken a shine to the dimpled British actor, as had music supervisor Frankie Pine and producer Hello Sunshine’s president Lauren Neustadter, but one last hurdle remained before he could land the male lead in Amazon’s hot adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s novel of the same name. He had to sing live for the project’s music producers, Blake Mills and Tony Berg. Pine gave Claflin a shot of moonshine to soothe his nerves. The actor entered the storied halls of Sound City Studios, the Van Nuys building where Mick Fleetwood first met Lindsey Buckingham, and proceeded to kind of blow it. “I had prepared Elton John’s ‘Your Song,...
- 6/15/2023
- by Mikey O'Connell
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Daisy Jones & The Six tells the story of a rock ‘n’ roll band that makes it big in the 1970s, and inevitably things get messy.
Related: Deadline Studio At Contenders Television 2023 – Steven Yeun, Ali Wong, Dominique Fishback, Riley Keough, Natasha Lyonne & More
Based on Taylor Jenkins Reid’s novel, the Prime Video series stars Riley Keough as the eponymous star who joins a new band, featuring the likes of Sam Claflin’s Billy Dunne, who are on top of the world in 1977 but after a sold-out show at Chicago’s Soldier Field, they called it quits.
Now, decades later, the band members finally agree to reveal the truth.
At Deadline’s Contenders Television panel featuring Keough, Claflin and Camila Morrone, showrunner Scott Neustadter teased that he’s made a whole pitch full of ideas for more stories, despite the series being based on a book.
Related: The Contenders TV – Deadline...
Related: Deadline Studio At Contenders Television 2023 – Steven Yeun, Ali Wong, Dominique Fishback, Riley Keough, Natasha Lyonne & More
Based on Taylor Jenkins Reid’s novel, the Prime Video series stars Riley Keough as the eponymous star who joins a new band, featuring the likes of Sam Claflin’s Billy Dunne, who are on top of the world in 1977 but after a sold-out show at Chicago’s Soldier Field, they called it quits.
Now, decades later, the band members finally agree to reveal the truth.
At Deadline’s Contenders Television panel featuring Keough, Claflin and Camila Morrone, showrunner Scott Neustadter teased that he’s made a whole pitch full of ideas for more stories, despite the series being based on a book.
Related: The Contenders TV – Deadline...
- 4/15/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Beverly D’Angelo (National Lampoon’s Vacation), Dennis Haysbert (Far from Heaven), Nicole Richie (Bless This Mess) and Josh Peck (How I Met Your Father) are among the newest additions to the indie comedy Summer Camp from writer-director Castille Landon (After franchise).
Diane Keaton, Kathy Bates, Alfre Woodard and Eugene Levy will lead the ensemble, as previously announced, with Betsy Sodaro (Ghosts) and Tom Wright (Daisy Jones & The Six) rounding it out.
The film heading into production next month in North Carolina tells the story of Nora, Ginny and Mary, who have been best friends since childhood, spending their summers together inseparably at sleepaway camp. As the years have passed, they’ve seen each other less and less, so when the chance to reunite for a summer camp reunion arises, they all take it, some begrudgingly and others, excitedly. Each of their lives might not be where they’d imagined, but...
Diane Keaton, Kathy Bates, Alfre Woodard and Eugene Levy will lead the ensemble, as previously announced, with Betsy Sodaro (Ghosts) and Tom Wright (Daisy Jones & The Six) rounding it out.
The film heading into production next month in North Carolina tells the story of Nora, Ginny and Mary, who have been best friends since childhood, spending their summers together inseparably at sleepaway camp. As the years have passed, they’ve seen each other less and less, so when the chance to reunite for a summer camp reunion arises, they all take it, some begrudgingly and others, excitedly. Each of their lives might not be where they’d imagined, but...
- 4/4/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The docuseries based on The Sound: Mystery of Havana Syndrome podcast is moving a step closer to fruition.
Xtr, the non-fiction studio behind Apple’s They Call Me Magic and Oscar-nominated Ascension, has boarded the project, which comes from Project Brazen.
Deadline revealed in January that Project Brazen, which was launched by Pulitzer finalists Tom Wright and Bradley Hope, were launching the podcast, hosted by Nicky Woolf, who hosted Audible’s Qanon podcast Finding Q.
At the time, Project Brazen was also developing it as a docuseries with Prx and Xtr will now co-produce. Prx is no longer involved.
Havana Syndrome is a medical condition allegedly affecting U.S. diplomats in countries such as Cuba. The series will explore the events that began in December 2016, when a U.S. official in Havana went to the embassy medical center to report a debilitating and confounding illness that included headaches, nausea,...
Xtr, the non-fiction studio behind Apple’s They Call Me Magic and Oscar-nominated Ascension, has boarded the project, which comes from Project Brazen.
Deadline revealed in January that Project Brazen, which was launched by Pulitzer finalists Tom Wright and Bradley Hope, were launching the podcast, hosted by Nicky Woolf, who hosted Audible’s Qanon podcast Finding Q.
At the time, Project Brazen was also developing it as a docuseries with Prx and Xtr will now co-produce. Prx is no longer involved.
Havana Syndrome is a medical condition allegedly affecting U.S. diplomats in countries such as Cuba. The series will explore the events that began in December 2016, when a U.S. official in Havana went to the embassy medical center to report a debilitating and confounding illness that included headaches, nausea,...
- 4/3/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Take a look at more new footage from "Daisy Jones & The Six", based on the novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid, as a musical drama series, directed by James Ponsoldt, Nzingha Stewart and Will Graham, starring Riley Keough (the eldest grandchild of Elvis Presley), following the rise and fall of a rock band, now streaming on Amazon Prime Video:
"...fronted by lead singers 'Daisy Jones' (Riley Keough) and 'Billy Dunne' (Sam Claflin), the band had risen from obscurity to fame. And then, following a sold-out show at Chicago's 'Soldier Field', they called it quits.
"Now, decades later, the band members finally agree to reveal the truth in a story of how an iconic band imploded at the height of its powers..."
Cast also includes Camila Morrone as 'Camila Dunne', Will Harrison as 'Graham Dunne', Suki Waterhouse as 'Karen Sirko', Josh Whitehouse as 'Eddie Roundtree'...
...Sebastian Chacon as 'Warren Rhodes',...
"...fronted by lead singers 'Daisy Jones' (Riley Keough) and 'Billy Dunne' (Sam Claflin), the band had risen from obscurity to fame. And then, following a sold-out show at Chicago's 'Soldier Field', they called it quits.
"Now, decades later, the band members finally agree to reveal the truth in a story of how an iconic band imploded at the height of its powers..."
Cast also includes Camila Morrone as 'Camila Dunne', Will Harrison as 'Graham Dunne', Suki Waterhouse as 'Karen Sirko', Josh Whitehouse as 'Eddie Roundtree'...
...Sebastian Chacon as 'Warren Rhodes',...
- 3/28/2023
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Book adaptations have given us some of the most beloved movies and TV shows of all time, and the Amazon Prime Video series "Daisy Jones & The Six" has become just that for many of its fans. The show is based on the hit novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid, which follows the titular rock band, a fictional group inspired by some of music's icons. The series released its final season one episodes on March 24, and readers will probably be surprised by how much the show has changed from the book that inspired it. The main story is still intact, following the rise and fall of Billy Dunne (Sam Claflin), Daisy Jones (Riley Keough), Camila Dunne (Camila Morrone), Graham Dunne (Will Harrison), Karen Sirko (Suki Waterhouse), and company. But there are big differences to how they get to the top, how things fall apart, and where they end up landing. Reid...
- 3/24/2023
- by Victoria Edel
- Popsugar.com
This piece contains spoilers for "Daisy Jones & The Six."
Viewers might feel a sense of familiarity watching Prime Video's "Daisy Jones & The Six" if you are a music fan. We have seen this narrative play out in both fiction and in real life — a band that starts off with passion fizzling out amongst themselves, becoming more infamous than actually famous. It seems from that the moment the titular band is truly formed, when music producer Teddy Price (Tom Wright) suggests that the soulful Daisy Jones (Riley Keough) joins the struggling Six, there was simmering drama ensuing.
Of course, that was always going to be the case. Thanks to inner-circle cheating scandals and conflicting views on where to take the band, the titular band's final show marked the explosive end to their story. For now, at least. That being said, the team behind "Daisy Jones & The Six" had plenty...
Viewers might feel a sense of familiarity watching Prime Video's "Daisy Jones & The Six" if you are a music fan. We have seen this narrative play out in both fiction and in real life — a band that starts off with passion fizzling out amongst themselves, becoming more infamous than actually famous. It seems from that the moment the titular band is truly formed, when music producer Teddy Price (Tom Wright) suggests that the soulful Daisy Jones (Riley Keough) joins the struggling Six, there was simmering drama ensuing.
Of course, that was always going to be the case. Thanks to inner-circle cheating scandals and conflicting views on where to take the band, the titular band's final show marked the explosive end to their story. For now, at least. That being said, the team behind "Daisy Jones & The Six" had plenty...
- 3/24/2023
- by Erin Brady
- Slash Film
Daisy Jones & the Six is a mini-series that premiered on Amazon Prime Video on March 3, 2023. It follows the story of the titular fictional rock band as they rise to fame in the 1970s. The show explores the personal relationships between each member of the band as they navigate their newfound success. Daisy Jones is portrayed by Riley Keough, the daughter of Lisa Marie Presley and the granddaughter of Elvis Presley.
The show is based on a book by the same name written by author Taylor Jenkins-Reid. She drew inspiration for the book from the band Fleetwood Mac. A few of the show’s stars also drew inspiration from real-life music business personalities, including actor Tom Wright.
Tom Wright stars as Teddy Price in ‘Daisy Jones & the Six’ Tom Wright as Teddy Price in ‘Daisy Jones & the Six’ | Lacey Terrell/Prime Video
Wright stars as Teddy Price on the show.
The show is based on a book by the same name written by author Taylor Jenkins-Reid. She drew inspiration for the book from the band Fleetwood Mac. A few of the show’s stars also drew inspiration from real-life music business personalities, including actor Tom Wright.
Tom Wright stars as Teddy Price in ‘Daisy Jones & the Six’ Tom Wright as Teddy Price in ‘Daisy Jones & the Six’ | Lacey Terrell/Prime Video
Wright stars as Teddy Price on the show.
- 3/20/2023
- by Angela Ward
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Amazon’s new miniseries Daisy Jones & the Six clearly draws from the turbulent excellence that defined the peak years of Fleetwood Mac. But the adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s 2019 novel also uses the careers of other important artists of the era for inspiration. The character of Simone Jackson (Nabiyah Be) was based on the stardom of three timeless singers from the 1970s. Her plotline takes the same shape in the TV version as it does in the book. But the screen highlights certain details to heighten the emotional stakes of Simone’s story.
In ‘Daisy Jones & the Six,’ Nabiyah Be’s Simone Jackson helps Daisy get to the stage Nabiyah Be as Simone Jackson in ‘Daisy Jones & the Six’ | Lacey Terrell/Prime Video
Simone is one of the few people with a pure relationship with Daisy (Riley Keough) from the beginning of Daisy Jones & the Six.
In ‘Daisy Jones & the Six,’ Nabiyah Be’s Simone Jackson helps Daisy get to the stage Nabiyah Be as Simone Jackson in ‘Daisy Jones & the Six’ | Lacey Terrell/Prime Video
Simone is one of the few people with a pure relationship with Daisy (Riley Keough) from the beginning of Daisy Jones & the Six.
- 3/19/2023
- by Sam Hines
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Sam Claflin, Josh Whitehouse, Sebastian Chacon, Nabiyah Be and Taylor Jenkins Reid joined The Hollywood Reporter in its SXSW Studio to discuss bringing Reid’s novel Daisy Jones & The Six to the small screen at South by Southwest on Saturday.
The Amazon Prime Video original series, which follows the rise and fall of the titular band in the 1970s, is produced by Hello Sunshine and also stars Riley Keough, Camila Morrone, Suki Waterhouse, Will Harrison, Tom Wright and Timothy Olyphant.
Reid shared that the cast “replaced” the images she had of the characters she came up with six years ago while writing the novel, which was released in 2019. “It feels so good because, as an author, it’s a very solitary experience,” she told THR during the Austin festival. “It’s me and my computer and then, like, me calling my husband in four times a day to be like,...
The Amazon Prime Video original series, which follows the rise and fall of the titular band in the 1970s, is produced by Hello Sunshine and also stars Riley Keough, Camila Morrone, Suki Waterhouse, Will Harrison, Tom Wright and Timothy Olyphant.
Reid shared that the cast “replaced” the images she had of the characters she came up with six years ago while writing the novel, which was released in 2019. “It feels so good because, as an author, it’s a very solitary experience,” she told THR during the Austin festival. “It’s me and my computer and then, like, me calling my husband in four times a day to be like,...
- 3/12/2023
- by Katherine Schaffstall
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Reese Witherspoon played it cool when asked by THR at the Daisy Jones & The Six premiere to reveal what kind of creative notes she offered to the team behind her company Hello Sunshine’s high-profile adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s best-selling novel.
“I had some notes,” she said with a smile at the show’s premiere on Feb. 23, before reluctantly revealing a few tidbits, specifically about the show’s faux documentary scenes that feature the performers sitting down for their first interviews 20 years after the band’s final performance. “But they were the same notes as the rest of the creative team — about wanting to make sure that the documentary scenes felt as potent as the live footage.”
That’s all Witherspoon was willing to divulge. Instead, she turned her attention to compliments. “These people know exactly what they’re doing, they really didn’t need anything from me.
“I had some notes,” she said with a smile at the show’s premiere on Feb. 23, before reluctantly revealing a few tidbits, specifically about the show’s faux documentary scenes that feature the performers sitting down for their first interviews 20 years after the band’s final performance. “But they were the same notes as the rest of the creative team — about wanting to make sure that the documentary scenes felt as potent as the live footage.”
That’s all Witherspoon was willing to divulge. Instead, she turned her attention to compliments. “These people know exactly what they’re doing, they really didn’t need anything from me.
- 3/10/2023
- by Chris Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
This post contains spoilers for "Daisy Jones & The Six" and Taylor Jenkins Reid's book of the same name.
When Taylor Jenkins Reid's novel "Daisy Jones & The Six" hit the stands in 2019, the book instantly became a pop culture phenomenon. The reasons were multifold: Reid not only captures the nostalgia-laden essence of mid-1970s rock and roll but also manages to weave a compelling saga about a fictional rock band's overnight rise to fame, followed by their sudden split and the aftermath of the same. The tumultuous, complicated dynamic shared by Daisy and band frontrunner Billy Dunne acts as the catalyst for the central events in the novel, which simultaneously maps interconnected character arcs to present several versions of the truth.
Reid accomplishes this by structuring the book like an oral history, told entirely through the perspectives of the characters involved, which often contradict one another, making the truth elusive.
When Taylor Jenkins Reid's novel "Daisy Jones & The Six" hit the stands in 2019, the book instantly became a pop culture phenomenon. The reasons were multifold: Reid not only captures the nostalgia-laden essence of mid-1970s rock and roll but also manages to weave a compelling saga about a fictional rock band's overnight rise to fame, followed by their sudden split and the aftermath of the same. The tumultuous, complicated dynamic shared by Daisy and band frontrunner Billy Dunne acts as the catalyst for the central events in the novel, which simultaneously maps interconnected character arcs to present several versions of the truth.
Reid accomplishes this by structuring the book like an oral history, told entirely through the perspectives of the characters involved, which often contradict one another, making the truth elusive.
- 3/10/2023
- by Debopriyaa Dutta
- Slash Film
This piece contains slight spoilers for "Daisy Jones & The Six."
It is difficult to make music sound timeless. Even the greatest songs ever released often feel indicative of when they were released, whether it's through the production quality or the pointed lyrics. This is precisely why accurate music and music direction are so important in period pieces — the right music instantly gets audiences into the appropriate mindset.
One would imagine that "Daisy Jones & The Six," the Prime Video adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid's bestselling novel, would be the same. After all, it centers around a popular band that hit its peak in the 1970s, a time historically known for its fantastic music in all genres, from disco to rock. Unfortunately, that isn't really the case. "Daisy Jones & The Six" approaches its music in a bizarrely modern way, seemingly outcasting the band's clear real-world influences for something...
It is difficult to make music sound timeless. Even the greatest songs ever released often feel indicative of when they were released, whether it's through the production quality or the pointed lyrics. This is precisely why accurate music and music direction are so important in period pieces — the right music instantly gets audiences into the appropriate mindset.
One would imagine that "Daisy Jones & The Six," the Prime Video adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid's bestselling novel, would be the same. After all, it centers around a popular band that hit its peak in the 1970s, a time historically known for its fantastic music in all genres, from disco to rock. Unfortunately, that isn't really the case. "Daisy Jones & The Six" approaches its music in a bizarrely modern way, seemingly outcasting the band's clear real-world influences for something...
- 3/10/2023
- by Erin Brady
- Slash Film
It’s transfer time for Phil Dunster, who has played AFC Richmond’s star striker Jamie Tartt on the Emmy-winning comedy drama Ted Lasso for three seasons. The actor is joining Gugu Mbatha-Raw on Season 2 of her psychological thriller Surface, Breaking Baz can reveal.
Both Ted Lasso and Surface are part of the Apple TV+ universe.
Surface launched on the streamer last summer and audiences were intrigued with the tale created by Veronica West (High Fidelity) about a woman called Sophie (played by Mbatha-Raw) who has amnesia after a suicide attempt in San Francisco.
Sophie is a medical professional and resides in a swanky house in a tony district of San Francisco. The Hitchcockian mystery of it all is: If Sophie’s life was so seemingly perfect, why did she try to end it by jumping from a boat into the ocean?
“It’s like I’ve woken up in someone else’s life,...
Both Ted Lasso and Surface are part of the Apple TV+ universe.
Surface launched on the streamer last summer and audiences were intrigued with the tale created by Veronica West (High Fidelity) about a woman called Sophie (played by Mbatha-Raw) who has amnesia after a suicide attempt in San Francisco.
Sophie is a medical professional and resides in a swanky house in a tony district of San Francisco. The Hitchcockian mystery of it all is: If Sophie’s life was so seemingly perfect, why did she try to end it by jumping from a boat into the ocean?
“It’s like I’ve woken up in someone else’s life,...
- 3/9/2023
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
In addition to disguising his British accent to star in Prime Video’s “Daisy Jones & the Six,” Sam Claflin had to overcome singing like he was “on Broadway” to fully embody rocker Billy Dunne in the adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s best-selling book.
The show simultaneously follows Daisy Jones’ music pursuits while Billy Dunne takes over the band that his brother Graham (Will Harrison) started with childhood friends Eddie Roundtree (Josh Whitehouse), later recruiting keyboardist Karen Sirko (Suki Waterhouse) and creatively supported by Billy’s girlfriend Camila (Camila Morrone). Daisy gets a head start witnessing the growing LA rock scene on the Sunset strip, and The Six (formerly the Dunne Brothers) move to California from Pittsburgh when they decide to get serious.
“I read the book after I’d read the first couple of episodes and that was my introduction, not only into this story,” but to 1970s Los Angeles,...
The show simultaneously follows Daisy Jones’ music pursuits while Billy Dunne takes over the band that his brother Graham (Will Harrison) started with childhood friends Eddie Roundtree (Josh Whitehouse), later recruiting keyboardist Karen Sirko (Suki Waterhouse) and creatively supported by Billy’s girlfriend Camila (Camila Morrone). Daisy gets a head start witnessing the growing LA rock scene on the Sunset strip, and The Six (formerly the Dunne Brothers) move to California from Pittsburgh when they decide to get serious.
“I read the book after I’d read the first couple of episodes and that was my introduction, not only into this story,” but to 1970s Los Angeles,...
- 3/4/2023
- by Dessi Gomez
- The Wrap
To portray the eponymous lead singer in Prime Video’s new series “Daisy Jones & the Six,” Riley Keough drew from both print and audio versions of Taylor Jenkins Reid book, as well as an unexpected source — a letter written by Janis Joplin to her family.
Adapted from Reid’s New York Times bestseller, the show mixes documentary-style footage and flashbacks to follow the rise and fall of a band first called The Dunne Brothers — lead singer Billy and guitarist Graham Dunne (Will Harrison), bassist Eddie Roundtree (Josh Whitehouse) and drummer Warren Rojas (Sebastian Chacon) — later named The Six after two women — keyboardist Karen Sirko (Suki Waterhouse) and Billy’s girlfriend Camila (Camila Morrone) join the team.
Keough told TheWrap how she drew a sense of “childlike wonder” from a real-life letter that singer Janis Joplin wrote to her family. That correspondence helped Keough, the granddaughter of Elvis Presley, add...
Adapted from Reid’s New York Times bestseller, the show mixes documentary-style footage and flashbacks to follow the rise and fall of a band first called The Dunne Brothers — lead singer Billy and guitarist Graham Dunne (Will Harrison), bassist Eddie Roundtree (Josh Whitehouse) and drummer Warren Rojas (Sebastian Chacon) — later named The Six after two women — keyboardist Karen Sirko (Suki Waterhouse) and Billy’s girlfriend Camila (Camila Morrone) join the team.
Keough told TheWrap how she drew a sense of “childlike wonder” from a real-life letter that singer Janis Joplin wrote to her family. That correspondence helped Keough, the granddaughter of Elvis Presley, add...
- 3/4/2023
- by Dessi Gomez
- The Wrap
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It’s been over three years since author Taylor Jenkins Reid’s novel about sex, drugs, and a famous Seventies band’s rise to stardom, Daisy Jones & the Six, rocked bookshelves everywhere. But now fans of the bestseller will meet the band on the screen — and finally hear the music that changed its members’ lives forever — thanks to the new show streaming on Prime Video.
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It’s been over three years since author Taylor Jenkins Reid’s novel about sex, drugs, and a famous Seventies band’s rise to stardom, Daisy Jones & the Six, rocked bookshelves everywhere. But now fans of the bestseller will meet the band on the screen — and finally hear the music that changed its members’ lives forever — thanks to the new show streaming on Prime Video.
Buy: Daisy Jones...
- 3/2/2023
- by John Lonsdale
- Rollingstone.com
Plot: In 1977, Daisy Jones & The Six were on top of the world. Fronted by two charismatic lead singers—Daisy Jones (Riley Keough) and Billy Dunne (Sam Claflin)—the band had risen from obscurity to fame. And then, after a sold-out show at Chicago’s Soldier Field, they called it quits. Now, decades later, the band members finally agree to reveal the truth. This is the story of how an iconic band imploded at the height of its powers.
Review: Rock and roll has long been solid material for movies and television series, often in biopics or thinly veiled portrayals of bands who wouldn’t relinquish their rights to a production company. Few productions have captured the unadulterated highs and lows of being in a band quite like Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous, especially when not featuring a band audiences know by name. Based on Taylor Jenkins Reid’s acclaimed bestselling novel,...
Review: Rock and roll has long been solid material for movies and television series, often in biopics or thinly veiled portrayals of bands who wouldn’t relinquish their rights to a production company. Few productions have captured the unadulterated highs and lows of being in a band quite like Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous, especially when not featuring a band audiences know by name. Based on Taylor Jenkins Reid’s acclaimed bestselling novel,...
- 3/1/2023
- by Alex Maidy
- JoBlo.com
Based on Taylor Jenkins Reid's bestselling novel of the same name, Daisy Jones & The Six follows the roots and rise of a '70s band.
It's clearly an homage to Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham's tumultuous relationship, with Riley Keough and Sam Claflin playing their roles as Margaret "Daisy" Jones and Billy Dunne.
But aside from the musical influence and romantic entanglements and the era, Daisy Jones & The Six is an original, well-plotted story that has all the features of a rock documentary, including catchy music that will stay with you once the series ends.
Billy Dunne and his brother Graham (Will Harrison) start a band called The Dunne Brothers in their hometown of Pittsburgh with their best friends Eddie Roundtree (Josh Whitehouse) and Warren Rhodes (Sebastian Chacon).
Through a chance encounter with a tour manager played by Timothy Olyphant, the four young men yearn...
It's clearly an homage to Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham's tumultuous relationship, with Riley Keough and Sam Claflin playing their roles as Margaret "Daisy" Jones and Billy Dunne.
But aside from the musical influence and romantic entanglements and the era, Daisy Jones & The Six is an original, well-plotted story that has all the features of a rock documentary, including catchy music that will stay with you once the series ends.
Billy Dunne and his brother Graham (Will Harrison) start a band called The Dunne Brothers in their hometown of Pittsburgh with their best friends Eddie Roundtree (Josh Whitehouse) and Warren Rhodes (Sebastian Chacon).
Through a chance encounter with a tour manager played by Timothy Olyphant, the four young men yearn...
- 3/1/2023
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
In Taylor Jenkins Reid’s bestselling novel Daisy Jones & the Six, an oral history of a fictional Seventies rock band that imploded at the height of its fame, we get conflicting accounts of how the band became known as the Six before the troubled Daisy joined as the seventh member. The surviving musicians disagree on specifics, but all concur that it had to do with there being six people in the group at the time.
In Amazon Prime’s adaptation, the pre-Daisy incarnation of the band has one fewer member.
In Amazon Prime’s adaptation, the pre-Daisy incarnation of the band has one fewer member.
- 3/1/2023
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
In 1978, the Kinks sang: “He just spends his life, living in a rock ‘n’ roll fantasy; He just spends his life, living on the edge of reality.” This mid-1970s sentiment of California dreamin’ foregrounds a young woman with that same impossible, crazy and ultimately disenchanting dream — singer, songwriter, flame-haired trainwreck Daisy Jones played by the perfectly cast firecracker Riley Keough, Elvis’ granddaughter, in Amazon Prime Video’s “Daisy Jones & the Six.”
It’s part the familiar saga of the rise and splatter of a band like “Fleetwood Mac,” circa the album “Rumours:” the drugs, the demons and the outsized desires of its members. And then, driven by a spectacular performance by Keough, it’s about the power of finding one’s voice and hoping the journey liberates rather than destroys the seeker.
Based on Taylor Jenkins Reid’s New York Times bestseller, a chick lit book beloved by...
It’s part the familiar saga of the rise and splatter of a band like “Fleetwood Mac,” circa the album “Rumours:” the drugs, the demons and the outsized desires of its members. And then, driven by a spectacular performance by Keough, it’s about the power of finding one’s voice and hoping the journey liberates rather than destroys the seeker.
Based on Taylor Jenkins Reid’s New York Times bestseller, a chick lit book beloved by...
- 3/1/2023
- by Thelma Adams
- The Wrap
Packaged as a rock n' roll rollercoaster, "Daisy Jones & The Six" is hiding a not-so-secret soft side. Once you set aside the hardcore drugs, the brimming tensions, and the inner turmoil, the Prime Video series is really about the essence of creativity. Made collaborative, making music (and any other kind of art) is a uniquely intimate experience: one with the power to make or break a band on the cusp of greatness. An adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid's bestselling novel, "Daisy Jones & The Six" doesn't just chronicle the rise of the titular musical act — it recounts their legendary fall. The fictional rock band fronted by Daisy Jones (Riley Keough) and Billy Dunne (Sam Claflin) is world renowned because they burned bright and brief, then abruptly imploded. The series picks up 20 years after their surprise final performance, in the form of a tell-all documentary, to finally reveal what went wrong,...
- 3/1/2023
- by Shania Russell
- Slash Film
In one of their very first arguments, Billy (Sam Claflin) bristles at Daisy (Riley Keough) reworking the lyrics to the song he’s just written. From his perspective, it’s fine as the straightforward declaration of love that it is; from hers, it’s missed potential to dig deeper. To Billy’s great irritation, their producer Teddy (Tom Wright) sides with Daisy. “You wrote a good song,” he tells Billy. “Not a great one.”
Daisy Jones & The Six, Amazon’s adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s bestselling novel about a fictional band in the 1970s Los Angeles rock scene, is a good show, not a great one. There’s much about it worth celebrating, especially for readers who’ve long dreamt of seeing these characters brought to life and listening to their hit album Aurora for real. But somewhere in the process of trying to deliver exactly what’s expected of it,...
Daisy Jones & The Six, Amazon’s adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s bestselling novel about a fictional band in the 1970s Los Angeles rock scene, is a good show, not a great one. There’s much about it worth celebrating, especially for readers who’ve long dreamt of seeing these characters brought to life and listening to their hit album Aurora for real. But somewhere in the process of trying to deliver exactly what’s expected of it,...
- 3/1/2023
- by Angie Han
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A new episode of the JoBlo Horror Originals video series Wtf Happened to This Horror Movie? has just been released, and for this one we’re digging into the making of one of my all-time favorite movies: the 1987 horror anthology Creepshow 2 (watch it Here)! To find out what went into the making of Creepshow 2, check out the video embedded above.
Directed by Michael Gornick from a screenplay by George A. Romero (based on stories written by Stephen King), Creepshow 2 has the following synopsis:
Join our old friend, the rotting Creep himself, as he introduces this horror anthology which presents gruesome looks at three tales of horror: a hit-and-run driver in “The Hitchhiker”, a wooden Indian in “Ol’ Chief Wooden Head”, and four friends whose vacation on a secluded lake turns into a nightmare in “The Raft”. Creepshow 2 is a deliciously wicked roller coaster ride that will...
Directed by Michael Gornick from a screenplay by George A. Romero (based on stories written by Stephen King), Creepshow 2 has the following synopsis:
Join our old friend, the rotting Creep himself, as he introduces this horror anthology which presents gruesome looks at three tales of horror: a hit-and-run driver in “The Hitchhiker”, a wooden Indian in “Ol’ Chief Wooden Head”, and four friends whose vacation on a secluded lake turns into a nightmare in “The Raft”. Creepshow 2 is a deliciously wicked roller coaster ride that will...
- 9/9/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
House Of Cards creator and showrunner Beau Willimon and his Westward producing partner Jordan Tappis have teamed with Crazy Rich Asians’ co-financier Sk Global to develop a television series based on Tom Wright and Bradley Hope’s bestseller Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World. Tony Award-winning M. Butterfly playwright David Henry Hwang is attached to write the adaptation and executive produce.
Sk Global and Westward will finance and oversee all stages of development and production.
Written by award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters Wright and Hope, Billon Dollar Whale gives an inside account of Malaysia’s shocking 1Mdb money-laundering scandal, exposing the secret nexus of elite wealth, banking, Hollywood, and politics. The book centers on the heist’s alleged mastermind, international fugitive Jho Low, and his adventures in Hollywood (financing Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street), and Wall Street (making Goldman Sachs...
Sk Global and Westward will finance and oversee all stages of development and production.
Written by award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters Wright and Hope, Billon Dollar Whale gives an inside account of Malaysia’s shocking 1Mdb money-laundering scandal, exposing the secret nexus of elite wealth, banking, Hollywood, and politics. The book centers on the heist’s alleged mastermind, international fugitive Jho Low, and his adventures in Hollywood (financing Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street), and Wall Street (making Goldman Sachs...
- 11/23/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
House Of Cards creator Beau Willimon and his Westward producing partner Jordan Tappis have teamed up with Sk Global, the co-financiers of Warner Bros.’ Crazy Rich Asians franchise, to develop and produce a series based on Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World, the bestselling non-fiction book about the historic 1Mdb Malaysian corruption scandal.
Screenwriter David Henry Hwang, a three-time Pulitzer finalist and playwright, has been tapped to write and executive produce the project. Sk Global and Westward will co-finance and oversee all stages of development and production.
Written by award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters Tom Wright and Bradley Hope and ...
Screenwriter David Henry Hwang, a three-time Pulitzer finalist and playwright, has been tapped to write and executive produce the project. Sk Global and Westward will co-finance and oversee all stages of development and production.
Written by award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters Tom Wright and Bradley Hope and ...
- 11/22/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
House Of Cards creator Beau Willimon and his Westward producing partner Jordan Tappis have teamed up with Sk Global, the co-financiers of Warner Bros.’ Crazy Rich Asians franchise, to develop and produce a series based on Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World, the bestselling non-fiction book about the historic 1Mdb Malaysian corruption scandal.
Screenwriter David Henry Hwang, a three-time Pulitzer finalist and playwright, has been tapped to write and executive produce the project. Sk Global and Westward will co-finance and oversee all stages of development and production.
Written by award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters Tom Wright and Bradley Hope and ...
Screenwriter David Henry Hwang, a three-time Pulitzer finalist and playwright, has been tapped to write and executive produce the project. Sk Global and Westward will co-finance and oversee all stages of development and production.
Written by award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters Tom Wright and Bradley Hope and ...
- 11/22/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“House of Cards” creator and showrunner Beau Willimon and his Westward producing partner Jordan Tappis will work with “Crazy Rich Asians” co-financier Sk Global to develop a TV series based on the blockbuster novel “Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World.”
Sk Global and Willimon’s independent film, TV and music studio Westward will independently finance and oversee all stages of development and production.
David Henry Hwang — the three-time Pulitzer finalist and playwright, librettist, screenwriter and Columbia University professor, known for his works “M. Butterfly,” “Yellow Face” and “Soft Power” — will write and executive produce. Other executive producers include Willimon, Tappis, Sk Global co-CEOs John Penotti and Charlie Corwin and Sk Global president of TV Marcy Ross. Actor Michelle Yeoh will also be a producer on the series.
“Billion Dollar Whale” is an inside account of 1Malaysia Development Berhad’s shocking money-laundering scandal that...
Sk Global and Willimon’s independent film, TV and music studio Westward will independently finance and oversee all stages of development and production.
David Henry Hwang — the three-time Pulitzer finalist and playwright, librettist, screenwriter and Columbia University professor, known for his works “M. Butterfly,” “Yellow Face” and “Soft Power” — will write and executive produce. Other executive producers include Willimon, Tappis, Sk Global co-CEOs John Penotti and Charlie Corwin and Sk Global president of TV Marcy Ross. Actor Michelle Yeoh will also be a producer on the series.
“Billion Dollar Whale” is an inside account of 1Malaysia Development Berhad’s shocking money-laundering scandal that...
- 11/22/2021
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
The Moodys vet Chelsea Frei is going on an adventure around the world in What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding, a one-hour comedy pilot at Freeform, our sister site Deadline reports.
Based on Kristin Newman’s memoir, the project follows Kacey (Frei), “single for the first time in her 30s, as she escapes her fast-paced life in Los Angeles to see the world” and go on a journey of self-discovery. The cast also includes Catherine Cohen (What We Do in the Shadows, Search Party), Alice Hunter (The Young and the Restless, Another Period) and Kosha Patel (Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce...
Based on Kristin Newman’s memoir, the project follows Kacey (Frei), “single for the first time in her 30s, as she escapes her fast-paced life in Los Angeles to see the world” and go on a journey of self-discovery. The cast also includes Catherine Cohen (What We Do in the Shadows, Search Party), Alice Hunter (The Young and the Restless, Another Period) and Kosha Patel (Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce...
- 10/26/2021
- by Vlada Gelman
- TVLine.com
Exclusive: Tom Wright (Ray Donovan) is set as a series regular opposite Riley Keough and Sam Claflin in Amazon’s musical drama series Daisy Jones & The Six, based on the best-selling novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Additionally, Jacqueline Obradors (Bosch) will recur in the series from Amazon Studios and Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine.
Daisy Jones & The Six details the spectacular rise and precipitous fall of a renowned (fictional) rock band in the 1970s.
Wright will play Teddy, a renowned L.A. record producer with a singular talent for bringing out the best in his artists. Always the coolest guy in the room, Teddy is as much a father figure to his young musicians as he is a creative genius.
Obradors portrays Lucia, Camila’s mom, a practical, down-to-earth woman wary of her daughter’s relationship to budding rock star Billy Dunne.
2020-21 Amazon Prime Video Pilots & Series...
Daisy Jones & The Six details the spectacular rise and precipitous fall of a renowned (fictional) rock band in the 1970s.
Wright will play Teddy, a renowned L.A. record producer with a singular talent for bringing out the best in his artists. Always the coolest guy in the room, Teddy is as much a father figure to his young musicians as he is a creative genius.
Obradors portrays Lucia, Camila’s mom, a practical, down-to-earth woman wary of her daughter’s relationship to budding rock star Billy Dunne.
2020-21 Amazon Prime Video Pilots & Series...
- 10/25/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Veteran communications executives, Eric Green and Sunny Jenkins, powered by head creative, Wally Hasselbring, launch The Right Now. Jenkins is set to lead the Brand division with Green heading Entertainment and Hasselbring overeeing the Creative and Digital teams.
Their leadership team also includes Jessel Taank and Britt Joe and will service Lifestyle, Entertainment and Talent brands with fully integrated, creative strategies.
The Right Now will provide clients cross-functional expertise – bringing brands into the entertainment and talent spaces and vice versa. The agency is built around guiding principles to make the world a better, more inclusive and civically-minded place and seeks opportunities that expand beyond traditional offerings to include corporate social responsibility initiatives.
The Right Now launches with a strong roster of clients including HBO Max, Fox Entertainment’s streaming service Tubi, Thunder Studios, international best-selling writers Bradley Hope and Tom Wright’s production company Project Brazen, among others.
The agency...
Their leadership team also includes Jessel Taank and Britt Joe and will service Lifestyle, Entertainment and Talent brands with fully integrated, creative strategies.
The Right Now will provide clients cross-functional expertise – bringing brands into the entertainment and talent spaces and vice versa. The agency is built around guiding principles to make the world a better, more inclusive and civically-minded place and seeks opportunities that expand beyond traditional offerings to include corporate social responsibility initiatives.
The Right Now launches with a strong roster of clients including HBO Max, Fox Entertainment’s streaming service Tubi, Thunder Studios, international best-selling writers Bradley Hope and Tom Wright’s production company Project Brazen, among others.
The agency...
- 3/11/2021
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
The Wall Street Journal reporters who blew the lid off a $6 billion scandal are now launching an outfit that promises to lay bare more true stories from around the world.
Tom Wright and Bradley Hope have teamed for Project Brazen, a multi-platform journalism studio that will uncover global true stories from the world of entertainment, business, crime and international politics via podcasts, books, documentaries, television series and films.
Wright and Hope worked together at the Wall Street Journal and led the newspaper’s team that exposed the 1Malaysia Development Bhd. (1Mdb) scandal, a $6 billion fraud that brought down a government and forced Goldman Sachs to pay the largest ever penalty under U.S. bribery laws.
Sought by authorities for the 1Mdb fraud is Malaysian playboy Jho Low, who befriended banks, Hollywood celebrities and politicians, and remains a fugitive to this day. Project Brazen was the codename Wright and Hope gave...
Tom Wright and Bradley Hope have teamed for Project Brazen, a multi-platform journalism studio that will uncover global true stories from the world of entertainment, business, crime and international politics via podcasts, books, documentaries, television series and films.
Wright and Hope worked together at the Wall Street Journal and led the newspaper’s team that exposed the 1Malaysia Development Bhd. (1Mdb) scandal, a $6 billion fraud that brought down a government and forced Goldman Sachs to pay the largest ever penalty under U.S. bribery laws.
Sought by authorities for the 1Mdb fraud is Malaysian playboy Jho Low, who befriended banks, Hollywood celebrities and politicians, and remains a fugitive to this day. Project Brazen was the codename Wright and Hope gave...
- 2/24/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Tom Wright and Bradley Hope, the former Wall Street Journal reporters who together led the team that broke open the 1Mdb scandal, are launching Project Brazen, a journalism studio that will tell true stories and develop IP for multiple formats including series and podcasts.
The pair also co-penned the book Billion Dollar Whale, about the fraud’s mastermind, Malaysian playboy Jho Low. The $6 billion scandal brought down a government and forced Goldman Sachs to pay the largest ever penalty under U.S. bribery laws. A series based on the book is in development with Sk Global.
Project Brazen was the codename Wright and Hope gave to a three-year investigation that spanned the globe from Curaçao to Shanghai, Kuala Lumpur and Los Angeles, and is being repurposed for the duo’s new outfit. The company is aiming to create and develop IP across podcasts, books, documentaries, television series and films. It...
The pair also co-penned the book Billion Dollar Whale, about the fraud’s mastermind, Malaysian playboy Jho Low. The $6 billion scandal brought down a government and forced Goldman Sachs to pay the largest ever penalty under U.S. bribery laws. A series based on the book is in development with Sk Global.
Project Brazen was the codename Wright and Hope gave to a three-year investigation that spanned the globe from Curaçao to Shanghai, Kuala Lumpur and Los Angeles, and is being repurposed for the duo’s new outfit. The company is aiming to create and develop IP across podcasts, books, documentaries, television series and films. It...
- 2/24/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Ian McKellen, Lesley Manville, Lennie James and Joseph Fiennes are among the British talent delivering monologues as part of a new fundraising initiative by actors’ union Equity and actor Michelle Collins.
The #ForTheLoveofArts monologues are between 2-5 minutes long and recorded remotely at the actors’ homes in a bid to raise money for Equity during the coronavirus pandemic. Actors involved also include Miriam Margolyes, Adrian Dunbar, Alex Lawther, Elaine Paige, Mandeep Dhillon, Derek Jacobi and Sue Johnston, among many others.
In the clip below, Fiennes performs King Edward’s monologue from “Edward II” by Christopher Marlowe.
The project, which can be viewed on the Equity Benevolent Fund’s YouTube channel, also features a number of new, original pieces of writing from the likes of Hugh Dennis, Tom Wright, Damon Rochefort, Andrew Lynford, Chloe Moss, Susan Oudot, Martyn Hesford, Stewart Permutt, Tyler Rigby and Tony Grounds.
Genesis Pictures’ Debbie Gray and...
The #ForTheLoveofArts monologues are between 2-5 minutes long and recorded remotely at the actors’ homes in a bid to raise money for Equity during the coronavirus pandemic. Actors involved also include Miriam Margolyes, Adrian Dunbar, Alex Lawther, Elaine Paige, Mandeep Dhillon, Derek Jacobi and Sue Johnston, among many others.
In the clip below, Fiennes performs King Edward’s monologue from “Edward II” by Christopher Marlowe.
The project, which can be viewed on the Equity Benevolent Fund’s YouTube channel, also features a number of new, original pieces of writing from the likes of Hugh Dennis, Tom Wright, Damon Rochefort, Andrew Lynford, Chloe Moss, Susan Oudot, Martyn Hesford, Stewart Permutt, Tyler Rigby and Tony Grounds.
Genesis Pictures’ Debbie Gray and...
- 5/21/2020
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Annette Bening, Bill Nighy and Josh O’ Connor are ready to deal with some serious family issues in the drama Hope Gap. Screen Media Ventures and Roadside Attractions released the film today on digital platforms after having to pivot from their originally planned March 5 theatrical release due to the pandemic –because the show must go on.
Directed by Oscar-nominated screenwriter William Nicholson and based on his Tony Award-nominated play, The Retreat From Moscow, Hope Gap made its world premiere at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival before hitting the festival circuit.
Hope Gap follows the lives of Grace (Bening) and Edward (Nighy), who have been married for 29 years, as they navigate through stages of shock, disbelief and anger, to a place of hope. They live in a small seaside town near a cove under the cliffs called Hope Gap — hence the title of the film. When their son Jamie (O’Connor...
Directed by Oscar-nominated screenwriter William Nicholson and based on his Tony Award-nominated play, The Retreat From Moscow, Hope Gap made its world premiere at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival before hitting the festival circuit.
Hope Gap follows the lives of Grace (Bening) and Edward (Nighy), who have been married for 29 years, as they navigate through stages of shock, disbelief and anger, to a place of hope. They live in a small seaside town near a cove under the cliffs called Hope Gap — hence the title of the film. When their son Jamie (O’Connor...
- 5/8/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Quiver Distribution has launched a new trailer for ‘Walkaway Joe’ featuring Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
The film follows an unlikely friendship between a young boy searching for his father in pool halls across the country, and a wandering loner hiding from his past. In each other, they experience the power of a second chance and a shot at redemption.
Directed by Tom Wright from a script by Michael Milillo, the film stars David Strathairn, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Julian Feder.
Also in trailers – Samara Weaving stars in trailer for ‘Last Moment of Clarity’
The film is out on-demand and digital from May 8th
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The film follows an unlikely friendship between a young boy searching for his father in pool halls across the country, and a wandering loner hiding from his past. In each other, they experience the power of a second chance and a shot at redemption.
Directed by Tom Wright from a script by Michael Milillo, the film stars David Strathairn, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Julian Feder.
Also in trailers – Samara Weaving stars in trailer for ‘Last Moment of Clarity’
The film is out on-demand and digital from May 8th
The post Jeffrey Dean Morgan stars in trailer for ‘Walkaway Joe’ appeared first on HeyUGuys.
- 4/8/2020
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
"You know, Joe, there ain't no roadmap to being a daddy. We're just doing the best we can..." Quiver Distr. has debuted an official trailer for a southern drama titled Walkaway Joe, marking the feature directorial debut of actor Tom Wright. The trailer makes it seem like a billiards hustling film similar to Rounders, with some interesting characters dealing with their own demons in this. Walkaway Joe is the story of an unlikely friendship between a young boy searching for his father in pool halls across the country, and a wandering loner hiding from his past. In their encounter with each other they experience the power of a second chance, and a shot at redemption. Starring David Strathairn, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Julian Feder, with Julie Ann Emery, David Jensen, and Susan Gallagher. Looks a bit cliche, but still maybe worthwhile. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Tom Wright's Walkaway Joe,...
- 4/7/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Rachel McHale, Minor Childers, Michael Milillo serve as producers.
Jason Morning’s Toronto-based Double Dutch International (Ddi) has acquired worldwide sales rights to redemption drama Walkaway Joe starring David Strathairn and Jeffrey Dean Morgan and will launch sales at next week’s Afm.
Tom Wright directs from a screenplay by Michael Milillo (Churchill). Julie Ann Emery and Julian Feder also star in the redemption story of a teenage boy and a drifter, set against the backdrop of New Orleans pool halls and rural Louisiana.
Rachel McHale (I Hate Kids), Minor Childers (Lemony Snicket’s A Series Of Unfortunate Events) and Milillo serve as producers.
Jason Morning’s Toronto-based Double Dutch International (Ddi) has acquired worldwide sales rights to redemption drama Walkaway Joe starring David Strathairn and Jeffrey Dean Morgan and will launch sales at next week’s Afm.
Tom Wright directs from a screenplay by Michael Milillo (Churchill). Julie Ann Emery and Julian Feder also star in the redemption story of a teenage boy and a drifter, set against the backdrop of New Orleans pool halls and rural Louisiana.
Rachel McHale (I Hate Kids), Minor Childers (Lemony Snicket’s A Series Of Unfortunate Events) and Milillo serve as producers.
- 11/2/2019
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
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