Celebrities are speaking out about the Israel-Hamas war. Billie Eilish, Ava DuVernay, Mahershala Ali, and Phoebe Bridgers are among the celebrities who have worn pins at recent Hollywood awards ceremonies calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Many others, including America Ferrara, Jon Stewart, and Cate Blanchett, signed a letter calling on President Biden to demand an end to the hostilities in the ongoing war.
The latest conflict began on Oct. 7, when Palestinian militants launched an attack on Israel where at least 1,200 civilians were killed and hundreds more taken hostage. Israel responded by attacking Gaza, sparking a humanitarian crisis. More than 30,000 Palestinians have died in the war, according to the Gaza health ministry.
The war has divided people around the world, including in Hollywood. Some stars have been vocal in their support for Israel, including comedian Jerry Seinfeld and Will and Grace star Debra Messing, who have both visited the country...
The latest conflict began on Oct. 7, when Palestinian militants launched an attack on Israel where at least 1,200 civilians were killed and hundreds more taken hostage. Israel responded by attacking Gaza, sparking a humanitarian crisis. More than 30,000 Palestinians have died in the war, according to the Gaza health ministry.
The war has divided people around the world, including in Hollywood. Some stars have been vocal in their support for Israel, including comedian Jerry Seinfeld and Will and Grace star Debra Messing, who have both visited the country...
- 3/19/2024
- by Megan Elliott
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Paul Giamatti “has never been better” (Deadline) in acclaimed Academy Award® -winning director Alexander Payne’s newest film, The Holdovers, available to own with all-new exclusive bonus featurettes on Digital on December 29, 2023, and on Blu-ray and DVD on January 2, 2024 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with a score of 96% and nominated for 8 Critics Choice Awards® including Best Picture, The Holdovers delivers an expert balance of comedy and warmth.
“Raucously funny” (The Hollywood Reporter) and poignant, The Holdovers stars critically acclaimed actor Paul Giamatti, alongside the remarkable Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Dominic Sessa in his feature film debut.
From acclaimed director Alexander Payne, The Holdovers follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged,...
“Raucously funny” (The Hollywood Reporter) and poignant, The Holdovers stars critically acclaimed actor Paul Giamatti, alongside the remarkable Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Dominic Sessa in his feature film debut.
From acclaimed director Alexander Payne, The Holdovers follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged,...
- 12/21/2023
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Postmodern attempts at genre defiance have become de rigueur for pop artists today. In a streaming-dominated world where we can type away on our laptops to ambient hip-hop in the morning, sing along to old yacht-rock hits on our afternoon commute, and dance to Edm at night, what other way is there to keep our attention than to try to give us everything everywhere all at once? We’ve gotten a few attempts to do just that in 2023, from Kara Jackson’s quietly rebellious blending of folk and R&b, to Yves Tumor’s kitchen-sink instrumentation, to 100 gecs’s audacious and absurd hyperpop assaults.
Many of the artists who appear on this list, though, no longer seem content to just break down old barriers, as they also seek to shatter interpersonal and emotional ones as well. The oft-cited isolation of modern living, heavily exacerbated by the pandemic, has compelled some...
Many of the artists who appear on this list, though, no longer seem content to just break down old barriers, as they also seek to shatter interpersonal and emotional ones as well. The oft-cited isolation of modern living, heavily exacerbated by the pandemic, has compelled some...
- 12/7/2023
- by Slant Staff
- Slant Magazine
Australian coming-of-age drama has begun filming; Elizabeth Debicki, Richard Roxburgh among those to join cast.
Filming has begun this week in Australia on Simon Baker’s feature film directorial debut, Breath, based on Tim Winton’s coming-of-age novel.
Baker, star of TV drama The Mentalist and features including The Devil Wears Prada, will be joined in the cast by Elizabeth Debicki (The Great Gatsby, The Night Manager), Richard Roxburgh (Moulin Rouge!) and Rachael Blake (Sleeping Beauty).
Set in mid-70s coastal Australia, Breath follows two teenage boys that form an unlikely friendship with a mysterious older adventurer, who pushes them to take risks that will have a lasting and profound impact on their lives.
Newcomers Samson Coulter and Ben Spence will play teenagers Pikelet and Loonie respectively, while Roxburgh and Blake are Mr and Mrs Pike. Debicki is Eva and as previously announced, Baker will play Sando.
“Tim’s book viscerally captures the restless curiosity and yearning...
Filming has begun this week in Australia on Simon Baker’s feature film directorial debut, Breath, based on Tim Winton’s coming-of-age novel.
Baker, star of TV drama The Mentalist and features including The Devil Wears Prada, will be joined in the cast by Elizabeth Debicki (The Great Gatsby, The Night Manager), Richard Roxburgh (Moulin Rouge!) and Rachael Blake (Sleeping Beauty).
Set in mid-70s coastal Australia, Breath follows two teenage boys that form an unlikely friendship with a mysterious older adventurer, who pushes them to take risks that will have a lasting and profound impact on their lives.
Newcomers Samson Coulter and Ben Spence will play teenagers Pikelet and Loonie respectively, while Roxburgh and Blake are Mr and Mrs Pike. Debicki is Eva and as previously announced, Baker will play Sando.
“Tim’s book viscerally captures the restless curiosity and yearning...
- 4/12/2016
- ScreenDaily
Simon Baker as Sando with Samsom Coulter (Pikelet) and Ben Spence (Loonie) in Breath.
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Filming has started in Denmark, Western Australia, on Simon Baker.s feature film directorial debut, Breath..
The film is based on Tim Winton.s award winning and international best-selling novel and stars Elizabeth Debicki (The Great Gatsby, The Night Manager, upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2), Richard Roxburgh (Moulin Rouge, The Turning, Mission: Impossible II) and Rachael Blake (Sleeping Beauty, Rake, Truth) and Baker (The Mentalist, Devil Wears Prada, Margin Call) as cast.
Newcomers Samson Coulter and Ben Spence will play Pikelet and Loonie respectively, while Roxburgh and Blake are Mr and Mrs Pike..
Debicki is Eva and as previously announced, Baker will play Sando.
Set in mid-70s coastal Australia, Breath follows two teenage boys, hungry for discovery, that form an unlikely friendship with a mysterious older adventurer.
Sando, a a former professional surfer...
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Filming has started in Denmark, Western Australia, on Simon Baker.s feature film directorial debut, Breath..
The film is based on Tim Winton.s award winning and international best-selling novel and stars Elizabeth Debicki (The Great Gatsby, The Night Manager, upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2), Richard Roxburgh (Moulin Rouge, The Turning, Mission: Impossible II) and Rachael Blake (Sleeping Beauty, Rake, Truth) and Baker (The Mentalist, Devil Wears Prada, Margin Call) as cast.
Newcomers Samson Coulter and Ben Spence will play Pikelet and Loonie respectively, while Roxburgh and Blake are Mr and Mrs Pike..
Debicki is Eva and as previously announced, Baker will play Sando.
Set in mid-70s coastal Australia, Breath follows two teenage boys, hungry for discovery, that form an unlikely friendship with a mysterious older adventurer.
Sando, a a former professional surfer...
- 4/11/2016
- by Brian Karlovsky
- IF.com.au
Game Of Thrones regular Carice van Houten has joined Aaron Paul on the drama that Myriad Pictures has introduced to international buyers at the market.
The Parts You Lose centres on a hearing-impaired boy who strikes up a friendship with a fugitive in a North Dakota town. UTA Independent Film Group represents Us rights with Myriad.
Zus & Zo director Paula van der Oest will helm the Dutch production and shooting is scheduled for early spring in Manitoba, Canada.
Mark Johnson and Tom Williams are producing through Gran Via Productions alongside Nl Film’s Alain de Levita and Joris van Wijk as well as Paul via his Lucid Road Productions.
Buffalo Gal Pictures will handle Canadian production and Phyllis Laing and Rhonda Baker from the company serve as executive producers with Myriad chief Kirk D’Amico.
The Parts You Lose centres on a hearing-impaired boy who strikes up a friendship with a fugitive in a North Dakota town. UTA Independent Film Group represents Us rights with Myriad.
Zus & Zo director Paula van der Oest will helm the Dutch production and shooting is scheduled for early spring in Manitoba, Canada.
Mark Johnson and Tom Williams are producing through Gran Via Productions alongside Nl Film’s Alain de Levita and Joris van Wijk as well as Paul via his Lucid Road Productions.
Buffalo Gal Pictures will handle Canadian production and Phyllis Laing and Rhonda Baker from the company serve as executive producers with Myriad chief Kirk D’Amico.
- 11/5/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Kirk D’Amico’s Santa Monica-based company heads to the Croisette with international sales rights to the Aaron Paul thriller.
Paul starred in TV smash Breaking Bad and reunites with his producer Mark Johnson, who produces The Parts You Lose alongside Tom Williams through their Gran Via Productions and Holland’s Paula van der Oest, whose credits include Accused, Black Butterflies and Zus & Zo, will direct.
Darren Lemke wrote the screenplay to the story of a boy with hearing difficulties who encounters a fugitive in his small North Dakota town.
The filmmakers expect The Parts You Lose to become a German-Canadian co-production and anticipate a fourth quarter start in Manitoba. UTA Independent Film Group and Myriad co-represent Us rights.
Paul will produce through his Lucid Road Productions. Buffalo Gal Pictures will be the Canadian co-producer with Buffalo Gal’s Phyllis Laing and Rhonda Baker also producing.
D’Amico and Pacific Northwest Pictures’ (Pnp) Emily Alden will serve as...
Paul starred in TV smash Breaking Bad and reunites with his producer Mark Johnson, who produces The Parts You Lose alongside Tom Williams through their Gran Via Productions and Holland’s Paula van der Oest, whose credits include Accused, Black Butterflies and Zus & Zo, will direct.
Darren Lemke wrote the screenplay to the story of a boy with hearing difficulties who encounters a fugitive in his small North Dakota town.
The filmmakers expect The Parts You Lose to become a German-Canadian co-production and anticipate a fourth quarter start in Manitoba. UTA Independent Film Group and Myriad co-represent Us rights.
Paul will produce through his Lucid Road Productions. Buffalo Gal Pictures will be the Canadian co-producer with Buffalo Gal’s Phyllis Laing and Rhonda Baker also producing.
D’Amico and Pacific Northwest Pictures’ (Pnp) Emily Alden will serve as...
- 5/8/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The most striking moments in Last Weekend are not the expected ones. It's not the way first-time directors Tom Dolby and Tom Williams shoot the palatial Lake Tahoe cabin previously featured in A Place in the Sun with the well-framed languor of architecture porn.
Nor is it in the vaguely Chekhovian overtones of Dolby's script. Instead, it's in the way members of a wealthy family respond to the gratitude and politeness of their weekend houseguests with an offhand thoughtlessness that makes the recipients wince.
That stems from the scattered and demanding matriarch, Celia Green (Patricia Clarkson), whose profound unease with money means she'll create an extravagant dinner-table display and then announce that the salmon was on sale.
Her adult sons Th...
Nor is it in the vaguely Chekhovian overtones of Dolby's script. Instead, it's in the way members of a wealthy family respond to the gratitude and politeness of their weekend houseguests with an offhand thoughtlessness that makes the recipients wince.
That stems from the scattered and demanding matriarch, Celia Green (Patricia Clarkson), whose profound unease with money means she'll create an extravagant dinner-table display and then announce that the salmon was on sale.
Her adult sons Th...
- 8/27/2014
- Village Voice
Imagine that Cate Blanchett's Blue Jasmine character had been evicted from her bubble of complacent privilege not by calamity and public humiliation but by the veil of melancholy that descends with fraying family bonds and the encroaching awareness that the sun is setting on life's most joyous moments. That more or less describes the character played with dry humor and complexity by Patricia Clarkson in Last Weekend. Restrained and elegant to a fault, this first feature from co-directors Tom Dolby and Tom Williams is too muted in its catharsis and too overcrowded with superfluous characters to be fully satisfying, but
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- 6/20/2014
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Provincetown International Film Festival (Piff) has released its full line-up of films - an illustrious roster that includes a cross-section of films also screened at this year's Sundance, SXSW and Cannes film festivals. Read More: Provincetown Film Fest Announces Special Screenings Including 'A Master Builder' and Award Recipients As previously announced, Tom Dolby and Tom Williams' "Last Weekend" will screen opening night, while Jonathan Demme's "A Master Builder" will close the festival. This year's honorees include actresses Patricia Clarkson and Debra Winger, as well as director David Cronenberg. Clarkson, who was previously nominated for an Academy Award for her performance in the 2003 film "Pieces of April," will be awarded the 2014 Excellence Award in Acting immediately following the opening night screening of her latest film, "Last Weekend." During a special ceremony held at Provincetown Town Hall on Saturday June 21st, three-time Academy Award nominee Winger will.
- 5/22/2014
- by Shipra Gupta
- Indiewire
Sony Pictures Classics led a flurry of acquisition announcements on Wednesday (14) as it picked up North American rights from EuropaCorp to Cannes competition entry Saint Laurent.
Bertrand Bonello’s biopic stars Gaspard Ulliel as the celebrated fashion designer alongside Léa Seydoux and Brady Corbet.
Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights to Ballet 422, Jody Lee Lipes’ fly-on-the-wall documentary about the elite world of the New York City Ballet.
Sundance Selects has taken North American rights to the dark comedy Last Weekend starring Patricia Clarkson and directed by Tom Dolby and Tom Williams.
Vyer Films will distribute The International Sign Of Choking by Zach Weintraub and will make the drama available for streaming starting on May 15.
Bertrand Bonello’s biopic stars Gaspard Ulliel as the celebrated fashion designer alongside Léa Seydoux and Brady Corbet.
Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights to Ballet 422, Jody Lee Lipes’ fly-on-the-wall documentary about the elite world of the New York City Ballet.
Sundance Selects has taken North American rights to the dark comedy Last Weekend starring Patricia Clarkson and directed by Tom Dolby and Tom Williams.
Vyer Films will distribute The International Sign Of Choking by Zach Weintraub and will make the drama available for streaming starting on May 15.
- 5/14/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Sundance Selects has acquired the North American rights to "Last Weekend," starring Patricia Clarkson. The film is the directorial debut of Tom Dolby and Tom Williams, who shot the film at the historic 1929 Lake Tahoe estate that was also the location of the 1951 Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift classic, "A Place in the Sun." "We are thrilled to have the film distributed by Sundance Selects," said co-directors Dolby and Williams. "Viewers relate to this film in a very personal way and are often reminded of their own families. We're excited about bringing the 'Last Weekend' family to a larger audience." The ensemble cast includes Zachary Booth ("Keep the Lights on"), Chris Mulkey ("Twin Peaks"), Joseph Cross ("Running with Scissors"), Devon Graye ("The Discoverers") and Jayma Mays ("Glee"). The dark comedy unfolds over the course of a long Labor Day weekend at Lake Tahoe. According to the synopsis, Celia Green (Clarkson) and her husband,...
- 5/14/2014
- by Casey Cipriani
- Indiewire
The 16th annual Provincetown International Film Festival will run June 18-22. What's most anticipated? Probably the North American premiere of Jonathan Demme's "A Master Builder" with Wallace Shawn (read more about it here). Demme's feature will show on the festival's closing night. The opening night film will be "Last Weekend," directed by Tom Dolby and Tom Williams, making its east coast premiere. Other Spotlight showings include "Compared To What: The Improbable Journey of Barney Frank" from Sheila Canavan and Michael Chandler on Friday, and "Love is Strange" from Ira Sachs on Saturday. Some anticipated awards have been announced as well. Patricia Clarkson ("Pieces of April," "Last Weekend") is to receive the 2014 Excellence in Acting Award, and Debra Winger ("Terms of Endearment," "Rachel Getting Married") will receive the Faith Hubley Career Achievement Award. "We are delighted to honor Patricia Clarkson and Debra Winger at this year's festival," said Connie White,...
- 5/13/2014
- by Taylor Lindsay
- Indiewire
The 16th Provincetown International Film Festival (Piff) will open with the East Coast premiere of Tom Dolby and Tom Williams’ Last Weekend starring Patricia Clarkson on June 18.
Closing the event on June 22 is the North American premiere of Jonathan Demme’s A Master Builder.
The Friday Spotlight will be Sheila Canavan and Michael Chandler’s Compared To What: The Improbable Journey Of Barney Frank and the Saturday Spotlight will be Ira Sachs’ Love Is Strange.
The 2014 Excellence in Acting Award will be awarded to Clarkson, while Debra Winger will receive the Faith Hubley Career Achievement Award.
“We are delighted to honour Patricia Clarkson and Debra Winger at this year’s festival,” said artistic director Connie White. “It is perfect timing to honour Patti, as we can celebrate her remarkable talent and also spotlight her beautiful performance in Last Weekend as our Opening Night Selection.
“In choosing Debra, we get to highlight one of our favorite actresses and a career...
Closing the event on June 22 is the North American premiere of Jonathan Demme’s A Master Builder.
The Friday Spotlight will be Sheila Canavan and Michael Chandler’s Compared To What: The Improbable Journey Of Barney Frank and the Saturday Spotlight will be Ira Sachs’ Love Is Strange.
The 2014 Excellence in Acting Award will be awarded to Clarkson, while Debra Winger will receive the Faith Hubley Career Achievement Award.
“We are delighted to honour Patricia Clarkson and Debra Winger at this year’s festival,” said artistic director Connie White. “It is perfect timing to honour Patti, as we can celebrate her remarkable talent and also spotlight her beautiful performance in Last Weekend as our Opening Night Selection.
“In choosing Debra, we get to highlight one of our favorite actresses and a career...
- 5/13/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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