Paramount+ may have culled a wealth of international originals in the past couple of weeks but that hasn’t stopped it committing to a UK thriller series set in a world where men live under a strict nightly curfew.
Starring Sarah Parish, Doctor Who’s Mandip Gill, Mitchell Robertson and singer Alexandra Burke, Curfew is set in a society where all men live under ‘The Women’s Safety Act’, meaning they are bound by a strict curfew from 7Pm to 7Am every night, with their movements tracked by an ankle tag 24 hours a day. When a woman’s body is discovered, brutally murdered during curfew hours and left on the steps of the Women’s Safety Centre, veteran Police officer Pamela Green believes that a man is responsible. But in a world where men are bound by the curfew system, her theory is rejected.
Parish (Stay Close) plays lead investigator Pamela,...
Starring Sarah Parish, Doctor Who’s Mandip Gill, Mitchell Robertson and singer Alexandra Burke, Curfew is set in a society where all men live under ‘The Women’s Safety Act’, meaning they are bound by a strict curfew from 7Pm to 7Am every night, with their movements tracked by an ankle tag 24 hours a day. When a woman’s body is discovered, brutally murdered during curfew hours and left on the steps of the Women’s Safety Centre, veteran Police officer Pamela Green believes that a man is responsible. But in a world where men are bound by the curfew system, her theory is rejected.
Parish (Stay Close) plays lead investigator Pamela,...
- 2/27/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
There are far worse ways to study history than watching “The Crown” — high school history class comes to mind, especially at schools with misplaced teachers like Mr. Kraz. But there are better ways, as well, even in television’s incomplete, sensationalized fashion. Pertinent period details frame series like “The Americans” and “Mad Men,” or there are meaningful tales told of specific historical figures like “John Adams,” the “Band of Brothers,” and “The Young Pope.” (Hey, the future will one day be historical, too, and Lenny will be pope.)
What separates these programs from Netflix’s new crown jewel is an opinion; a stance, one way or another, on what all this means; a personality of its own making rather than a suffocating allegiance to facts. And in a darker second season about the most personal problems of Queen Elizabeth’s life, this voiceless neutrality breeds an even colder, more distant,...
What separates these programs from Netflix’s new crown jewel is an opinion; a stance, one way or another, on what all this means; a personality of its own making rather than a suffocating allegiance to facts. And in a darker second season about the most personal problems of Queen Elizabeth’s life, this voiceless neutrality breeds an even colder, more distant,...
- 11/21/2017
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Exclusive: The production and sales outfit will offer theatrical releases of Polly Steele’s drama Let Me Go and John Adams’ horror Aux.
Evolutionary Films, the London-based production and sales outfit launched two years ago under CEO John Adams, is expanding into UK distribution. The company will release at least four titles into the British market this year, some getting theatrical launches.
Among the Evolutionary Films titles that will be seen in British cinemas this year are Polly Steele’s new drama Let Me Go starring Juliet Stevenson and Jodhi May. The drama is based on the true story of German woman Helga Schneider, abandoned by her mother as a child, who later discovers her mother had gone to join the Nazi SS.
Evolutionary is also planning a theatrical release for its horror thriller, Aux, directed by Adams and starring John Rhys-Davies. This was financed and produced by Evolutionary who are selling it internationally as well as...
Evolutionary Films, the London-based production and sales outfit launched two years ago under CEO John Adams, is expanding into UK distribution. The company will release at least four titles into the British market this year, some getting theatrical launches.
Among the Evolutionary Films titles that will be seen in British cinemas this year are Polly Steele’s new drama Let Me Go starring Juliet Stevenson and Jodhi May. The drama is based on the true story of German woman Helga Schneider, abandoned by her mother as a child, who later discovers her mother had gone to join the Nazi SS.
Evolutionary is also planning a theatrical release for its horror thriller, Aux, directed by Adams and starring John Rhys-Davies. This was financed and produced by Evolutionary who are selling it internationally as well as...
- 2/10/2017
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
When Justin Timberlake and the Tennessee Kids swung by Las Vegas to bring the curtain down on their barnstoming 20/20 Experience world tour, director Jonathan Demme was present, camera in hand, and ready to capture the event in all of its spectacular glory.
Filmed in 2015, it was only recently that Netflix snapped up distribution rights to Demme’s feature, and we now arrive at the reveal trailer for Justin Timberlake and the Tennessee Kids. As the final date in their worldwide tour, there was a tremendous amount of anticipation swirling around the music group as they entertained those in attendance at the MGM Grand Garden Arena and, as you can gather from the video up above, they didn’t disappoint.
As far as Netflix Originals go, Demme’s picture isn’t likely to occupy headlines left, right and center in the vein of, say, Luke Cage, but it does present a...
Filmed in 2015, it was only recently that Netflix snapped up distribution rights to Demme’s feature, and we now arrive at the reveal trailer for Justin Timberlake and the Tennessee Kids. As the final date in their worldwide tour, there was a tremendous amount of anticipation swirling around the music group as they entertained those in attendance at the MGM Grand Garden Arena and, as you can gather from the video up above, they didn’t disappoint.
As far as Netflix Originals go, Demme’s picture isn’t likely to occupy headlines left, right and center in the vein of, say, Luke Cage, but it does present a...
- 9/27/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
After he returned to the world of music for a narrative drama with last year’s (overlooked) Ricki and the Flash, director Jonathan Demme is back on the stage in Stop Making Sense mode with Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids. Capturing the pop star’s The 20/20 Experience tour during their Las Vegas stop, Netflix picked up the film for a release in just a few weeks and now the full trailer has arrived, which previews what looks to be as an immersive experience as one could expect from the director.
We said in our review, “Timberlake still does what he does, and the show seems easily amongst the upper echelon of touring pop-stars, so it’s not like the experience doesn’t go down easy, even if it feels like somewhat of a missed opportunity to genuinely enter the mind of this sort of stardom. (Not that we necessarily needed...
We said in our review, “Timberlake still does what he does, and the show seems easily amongst the upper echelon of touring pop-stars, so it’s not like the experience doesn’t go down easy, even if it feels like somewhat of a missed opportunity to genuinely enter the mind of this sort of stardom. (Not that we necessarily needed...
- 9/27/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Ildi Toth Davy to join production and sales company ahead of Cannes Marche.
London-based Evolutionary Films has hired Ildi Toth Davy as executive vice president, sales and acquisitions ahead of next month’s Cannes Marche. The appointment has been made with a view to a longer-term position with the production company and international sales agency.
Davy previously worked in sales at Warner Brothers and Disney and established her own boutique film sales company Altadena Films.
She has also worked for independents First Look and as Svp sales and acquisitions for Odin’s Eye.
CEO John Adams said: ’I’m delighted to be welcoming Ildi to Evolutionary Films for the Cannes market and hopefully beyond. We’ve recently been expanding our sales arm with the acquisition of a number of new titles and her appointment is a strong signal to the market that we’re serious about establishing a truly global sales agency alongside our production department.’
Davy...
London-based Evolutionary Films has hired Ildi Toth Davy as executive vice president, sales and acquisitions ahead of next month’s Cannes Marche. The appointment has been made with a view to a longer-term position with the production company and international sales agency.
Davy previously worked in sales at Warner Brothers and Disney and established her own boutique film sales company Altadena Films.
She has also worked for independents First Look and as Svp sales and acquisitions for Odin’s Eye.
CEO John Adams said: ’I’m delighted to be welcoming Ildi to Evolutionary Films for the Cannes market and hopefully beyond. We’ve recently been expanding our sales arm with the acquisition of a number of new titles and her appointment is a strong signal to the market that we’re serious about establishing a truly global sales agency alongside our production department.’
Davy...
- 4/8/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Lord of the Rings star to also executive produce.
John Rhys-Davies has joined Aux, an action horror feature that The Lord of the Rings and Indiana Jones star will also executive produce.
The film, which begins principal photography on Jan 13, is from London-based production and international sales company Evolutionary Films.
Aux is described as a gruesome action horror, which begins when two young boys discover the entrance to a secret military bunker that has been undetected since the Second World War. After both a killed, a police investigation is followed by a series of grotesque and mysterious deaths - and WWII veteran Jack (Rhys-Davies) believes he knows what is going on.
Evolutionary CEO John Adams is directing from a script he co-wrote with Peter Adams. Producer is Diane Shorthouse.
Rhys-Davies, who is represented by Jeff Goldberg Management, is next set to appear in MTV’s The Shannara Chronicles.
John Rhys-Davies has joined Aux, an action horror feature that The Lord of the Rings and Indiana Jones star will also executive produce.
The film, which begins principal photography on Jan 13, is from London-based production and international sales company Evolutionary Films.
Aux is described as a gruesome action horror, which begins when two young boys discover the entrance to a secret military bunker that has been undetected since the Second World War. After both a killed, a police investigation is followed by a series of grotesque and mysterious deaths - and WWII veteran Jack (Rhys-Davies) believes he knows what is going on.
Evolutionary CEO John Adams is directing from a script he co-wrote with Peter Adams. Producer is Diane Shorthouse.
Rhys-Davies, who is represented by Jeff Goldberg Management, is next set to appear in MTV’s The Shannara Chronicles.
- 1/6/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Tinkershrimp & Dutch
"Maleficent" actor Sam Riley and "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" star John Boyega will lend their voices to Nickelodeon's new animated series "Tinkershrimp & Dutch" which will premiere on the on-demand service Nick Play from January 15.
The series follows two best friends, a langoustine named Tinkershrimp and a loris named Dutch (Boyega), who are time-traveling bodyguards for an eccentric monarch. Riley will voice a miserable headless chicken. [Source: Deadline]
Aux
"The Lord of the Rings" actor John Rhys-Davies will both star and executive produce the action-horror movie "Aux" for Evolutionary Films. Shooting begins January 13th. John Adams directs from a script he co-wrote with Peter Adams while Diane Shorthouse is producing.
The story begins when two young boys discover the entrance to a secret military bunker that has been undetected since World War II with both subsequently killed. A police investigation is initiated but the officers are killed in grotesque and...
"Maleficent" actor Sam Riley and "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" star John Boyega will lend their voices to Nickelodeon's new animated series "Tinkershrimp & Dutch" which will premiere on the on-demand service Nick Play from January 15.
The series follows two best friends, a langoustine named Tinkershrimp and a loris named Dutch (Boyega), who are time-traveling bodyguards for an eccentric monarch. Riley will voice a miserable headless chicken. [Source: Deadline]
Aux
"The Lord of the Rings" actor John Rhys-Davies will both star and executive produce the action-horror movie "Aux" for Evolutionary Films. Shooting begins January 13th. John Adams directs from a script he co-wrote with Peter Adams while Diane Shorthouse is producing.
The story begins when two young boys discover the entrance to a secret military bunker that has been undetected since World War II with both subsequently killed. A police investigation is initiated but the officers are killed in grotesque and...
- 1/6/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Tom Hanks and his PlayTone production company have picked up the rights to a new book called The Wright Brothers by David McCullough. Hanks will produce and help develop a miniseries based on the book for HBO.
According to Deadline, the film will tell true story of Wilbur and Orville Wright, “who sold and repaired bicycles out of an Ohio shop to pay for their passion: the invention of flying machines that ushered in the aeronautical age right after the turn of the 20th Century. In 1903 on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, the brothers changed history by successfully flying the first heavier-than-air-powered machine that carried a pilot.”
I’m a big fan of Hanks, and the guy has brought nothing but greatness with the HBO projects that he develops. This seems like a perfect fit for him. This is the second time he has taken on a project that...
According to Deadline, the film will tell true story of Wilbur and Orville Wright, “who sold and repaired bicycles out of an Ohio shop to pay for their passion: the invention of flying machines that ushered in the aeronautical age right after the turn of the 20th Century. In 1903 on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, the brothers changed history by successfully flying the first heavier-than-air-powered machine that carried a pilot.”
I’m a big fan of Hanks, and the guy has brought nothing but greatness with the HBO projects that he develops. This seems like a perfect fit for him. This is the second time he has taken on a project that...
- 4/18/2015
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
The 57th Annual Grammy Awards winners have been chosen, and we have the full list of those musicians taking home statues this Sunday, Feb. 8.
Did you favorite artists and/or songs win?
Check out the Full list of winners, below.
Record of the Year: Sam Smith, Stay With Me
Song of the Year: "Stay With Me," Sam Smith
Album of the Year: Beck, Morning Phase
Best Country Album: Miranda Lambert, Platinum
Best R&B Performance: "Drunk in Love," Beyonce feat. Jay Z
Best Rock Album: Beck, Morning Phase
Best Pop Vocal Album: Sam Smith, In the Lonely Hour
Best Pop Solo Performance: “Happy,” Pharrell Williams
Best New Artist: Sam Smith
Producer of the Year, Non-Classical: Max Martin for “Bang Bang,” “Break Free,” “Dark Horse,” “Problem,” “Shake It Off,” “Unconditionally”
Best Folk Album: Old Crow Medicine Show, Remedy
Best Americana Album: Rosanne Cash, The River and the Thread
Best American Roots Song: “A Feather’s Not a Bird...
Did you favorite artists and/or songs win?
Check out the Full list of winners, below.
Record of the Year: Sam Smith, Stay With Me
Song of the Year: "Stay With Me," Sam Smith
Album of the Year: Beck, Morning Phase
Best Country Album: Miranda Lambert, Platinum
Best R&B Performance: "Drunk in Love," Beyonce feat. Jay Z
Best Rock Album: Beck, Morning Phase
Best Pop Vocal Album: Sam Smith, In the Lonely Hour
Best Pop Solo Performance: “Happy,” Pharrell Williams
Best New Artist: Sam Smith
Producer of the Year, Non-Classical: Max Martin for “Bang Bang,” “Break Free,” “Dark Horse,” “Problem,” “Shake It Off,” “Unconditionally”
Best Folk Album: Old Crow Medicine Show, Remedy
Best Americana Album: Rosanne Cash, The River and the Thread
Best American Roots Song: “A Feather’s Not a Bird...
- 2/9/2015
- Entertainment Tonight
He’s faced off against many movie characters over the years, including an army of Orcs and James Bond, and soon prolific actor Sean Bean will face another formidable foe in The Frankenstein Chronicles, a six-part miniseries set to air on ITV Encore. Bean will play Inspector John Marlott in the 1800’s-set show, a man assigned to capture a killer who melds body parts together in a manner reminiscent of Victor Frankenstein.
Press Release - “ITV today confirmed commission of The Frankenstein Chronicles, a thrilling and terrifying re-imagining of the Frankenstein myth as a six-part period crime drama to be produced by Rainmark Films.
Incorporating elements from the investigative and horror genres with an extraordinary hero at its centre, Inspector John Marlott, played by multi-awarding winning leading actor Sean Bean (Game of Thrones, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Accused) will be taken on a terrifying journey in pursuit of a chilling and diabolical foe.
Press Release - “ITV today confirmed commission of The Frankenstein Chronicles, a thrilling and terrifying re-imagining of the Frankenstein myth as a six-part period crime drama to be produced by Rainmark Films.
Incorporating elements from the investigative and horror genres with an extraordinary hero at its centre, Inspector John Marlott, played by multi-awarding winning leading actor Sean Bean (Game of Thrones, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Accused) will be taken on a terrifying journey in pursuit of a chilling and diabolical foe.
- 11/17/2014
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Showtime capped off a busy week of pilot casting by landing a pair of Emmy winners to topline its drama pilot "Billions." Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis will star in the pilot, which will shoot in New York City in early 2015. Written by Brian Koppelman, David Levien and Andrew Ross Sorkin, "Billions" is described a fictional drama that "takes a forensic look at the world of high finance by tracking the approaching collision between two titanic figures." Those figures are U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhodes (Giamatti) and hedge fund king Bobby "Axe" Axelrod (Lewis). Showtime also announced that Neil Burger ("Limitless") has signed on to direct the pilot. An Oscar nominee for "Cinderella Man," Giamatti has been making an aggressive push into TV in recent years. The "John Adams" Emmy winner earned Emmy nods for HBO's "Too Big to Fail" and earlier this year for "Downton Abbey." While FX opted...
- 10/24/2014
- by Daniel Fienberg
- Hitfix
Miniseries are coming of age again, at least according to the Television Academy, whose Board of Governors voted this year to once again give it a category of its own. This has been done from time to time depending on the health and general welfare of the miniseries format. For example, in 2011, the TV Academy felt longform television was dying on the vine and that there was just not enough entries to meet its “Rule of 14” (the minimum number of possible contenders needed to trigger a category). The networks were downsizing the form and, outside of the BBC and HBO, there wasn’t a whole lot of interest. But now, minis are exploding again and a new golden age seems to be on the horizon. With minis roaring back on their own—they are still combined with movies in the acting, writing and directing categories—what will the landscape look...
- 6/2/2014
- by PETE HAMMOND
- Deadline TV
The first wave of HBO content has landed on Amazon Prime. Subscribers can now stream dozens of HBO titles including The Sopranos, The Wire, Deadwood, Rome, Six Feet Under, Eastbound & Down, Enlightened, Flight Of The Conchords, and others. The content is available via an exclusive licensing agreement that HBO and Amazon negotiated last month. Under the multi-year pact, more content will be added in the future, including new seasons of current series as well as early seasons of other current shows such as Girls, The Newsroom and Veep. Other offerings include miniseries such as Band Of Brothers, The Pacific and John Adams, original movies Mary And Martha, Temple Grandin and You Don’t Know Jack, comedy specials from Louis Ck, Ellen DeGeneres, Lewis Black and Bill Maher and documentaries such as When The Levees Broke, Ghosts Of Abu Ghraib and the Autopsy and Iceman series.
- 5/21/2014
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Casey Affleck is one of the great American actors of his generation, yet he is still a performer that everyone seems to underestimate. He has made a career of compelling lead turns in films like Gone Baby Gone and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, and is also a reliable character actor. Last year, he was the biggest scene-stealer of the lacklustre Out of the Furnace, while almost nobody saw him in the evocative western Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, which he was terrific in as well. Now, the actor who has certainly outgrown being referred to as a certain someone’s brother, has signed on to another period western, Lewis and Clark, which will be a six-hour miniseries for HBO.
The project has been gestating for a while, but with Affleck now on board, we expect it to push forward full speed ahead. Tom Hanks,...
The project has been gestating for a while, but with Affleck now on board, we expect it to push forward full speed ahead. Tom Hanks,...
- 5/12/2014
- by Jordan Adler
- We Got This Covered
It's not TV, it's HBO on Amazon Prime.
The premium cable network signed a game-changing deal with Amazon Prime, which allows the streaming service to host older HBO series like "The Wire" and "Deadwood." Past seasons of current shows, including "Boardwalk Empire" and "True Blood," will also be available to Amazon Prime customers. Future seasons of "Girls" and "Veep" will be added to the roster about three years after they air on HBO.
Some shows, like "Sex and the City" and "Entourage," aren't included due to other deals. "Game of Thrones" is also not part of it, which just began its fourth season. Plus, as HBO's crown jewel, it may never leave the confines of the channel and HBO Go.
It marks a big change for HBO, which hadn't licensed its shows to a streaming service -- that's why you haven't seen Tony Soprano on Netflix. And it's a huge...
The premium cable network signed a game-changing deal with Amazon Prime, which allows the streaming service to host older HBO series like "The Wire" and "Deadwood." Past seasons of current shows, including "Boardwalk Empire" and "True Blood," will also be available to Amazon Prime customers. Future seasons of "Girls" and "Veep" will be added to the roster about three years after they air on HBO.
Some shows, like "Sex and the City" and "Entourage," aren't included due to other deals. "Game of Thrones" is also not part of it, which just began its fourth season. Plus, as HBO's crown jewel, it may never leave the confines of the channel and HBO Go.
It marks a big change for HBO, which hadn't licensed its shows to a streaming service -- that's why you haven't seen Tony Soprano on Netflix. And it's a huge...
- 4/23/2014
- by Kelly Woo
- Moviefone
Amazon and Netflix are in an intense race for premium content. Now Amazon.com Inc. has nabbed HBO. People have speculated about when and how HBO would make its wealth of programming available to consumers on a wider basis separate from its bundled arrangement with the cable companies. They charge consumers high prices for loads of monthly programming that is not premium in addition to high-priced Premium Channels such as HBO and Showtime. This is the first step. Of course, Amazon and HBO are starting out with older content that is no longer fresh. For the first time, canceled classic HBO series including "The Sopranos," "Rome," "Six Feet Under," "The Wire," "Deadwood," "Big Love," "Eastbound & Down," "Family Tree," "Enlightened," "Treme," and "Oz" plus mini-series "Band of Brothers" and "John Adams" will be available to Amazon Prime subscribers via Amazon's content licensing agreement with HBO. Prime...
- 4/23/2014
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
HBO just became a little less exclusive: The network has finalized a licensing deal with Amazon Prime's Instant Video streaming service, bringing over classic series like The Sopranos, Deadwood, Six Feet Under and The Wire to their new streaming home base. The first batch of content will hit Amazon Prime on May 21st.
The Shocking 16: TV's Most Heart-Stopping Moments
The deal also includes movies and miniseries like John Adams, Angels in America and Band of Brothers, along with early seasons of shows like Boardwalk Empire and True Blood. However,...
The Shocking 16: TV's Most Heart-Stopping Moments
The deal also includes movies and miniseries like John Adams, Angels in America and Band of Brothers, along with early seasons of shows like Boardwalk Empire and True Blood. However,...
- 4/23/2014
- Rollingstone.com
For cord-cutters who aim to watch the best of television without a cable box (or, in some cases, even a television), HBO has long been the big missing piece of the puzzle. HBO has its own streaming video service, HBO Go, but you can only access it if you already have a cable subscription (or if you have a friend or relative with a subscription who will share their password with you). Cord-cutters ask all the time about the possibility of HBO Go being offered independently, but it would completely undermine HBO's very lucrative business model to do so, and it hasn't happened yet, and likely won't anytime soon. But today in a very big deal for the future of streaming TV — and for the ongoing war for streaming supremacy between Netflix and Amazon (a rare battlefield where Amazon is an underdog) — HBO and Amazon announced an agreement to,...
- 4/23/2014
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
Big news for HBO fans: You can now watch many shows from the pay cable service without actually paying for cable, or buying the DVDs (or pirating the shows).
HBO has made a major deal with Amazon that gives Amazon Prime members unlimited streaming access to past seasons of shows like The Sopranos and Deadwood, as well as select seasons of current series such as True Blood and Boardwalk Empire. (See the full list below.) This is HBO’s first deal licensing its content to a streaming service. On average, the deal covers content that is at least three years old.
HBO has made a major deal with Amazon that gives Amazon Prime members unlimited streaming access to past seasons of shows like The Sopranos and Deadwood, as well as select seasons of current series such as True Blood and Boardwalk Empire. (See the full list below.) This is HBO’s first deal licensing its content to a streaming service. On average, the deal covers content that is at least three years old.
- 4/23/2014
- by James Hibberd
- EW - Inside TV
HBO has forged an exclusive long-term licensing deal with Amazon's streaming service Prime Instant Video, making it the exclusive online-only subscription home for hundreds of hours of HBO programming including all episodes of classic series The Sopranos, Deadwood, The Wire and Six Feet Under and movies and miniseries such as John Adams, Band of Brothers and Angels in America. The first wave of content will arrive on Amazon Prime on May 21. Photos: John Oliver Suits Up in New York Previous seasons of newer shows including Veep, The Newsroom and Girls will become available approximately three years after
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- 4/23/2014
- by Marisa Guthrie
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Amazon and HBO announced a content licensing agreement that will make Prime Instant Video the exclusive online-only subscription home for select HBO programming. Starting May 21, Amazon Prime members will have unlimited streaming access to “The Sopranos,” “Six Feet Under,” “The Wire,” “Big Love,” “Deadwood,” “Eastbound & Down,” “Family Tree,” “Enlightened,” “Treme,” early seasons of “Boardwalk Empire” and “True Blood,” and the miniseries “Band of Brothers,” “John Adams,” and more. Seasons of “Girls,” “The Newsroom” and “Veep” will also become available throughout the multiyear deal. In addition, HBO Go will soon become available on Fire TV, Amazon's streaming TV device. Also read:.
- 4/23/2014
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
Amazon today announced a content licensing agreement with HBO, making Prime Instant Video the exclusive online-only subscription home for select HBO programming. The collection includes award-winning shows such as "The Sopranos," "Six Feet Under," "The Wire," "Big Love," "Deadwood," "Eastbound & Down," "Family Tree," "Enlightened," "Treme," early seasons of "Boardwalk Empire" and "True Blood," as well as mini-series like "Band of Brothers," "John Adams" and more. Previous seasons of other HBO shows, such as "Girls," "The Newsroom" and "Veep" will become available over the course of the multi-year agreement, approximately...
- 4/23/2014
- Comingsoon.net
"Les Miserables" Director Tom Hooper and composer Mychael Danna will be honored at the 24th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival. Hooper is set to get the Sonny Bono Visionary Award while Danna will receive the Frederick Loewe Award for Film Composing. Both will join previous announced honorees -- the cast of Argo, Richard Gere, Sally Field, Helen Hunt, Helen Mirren, Naomi Watts and Robert Zemeckis. The Festival runs January 3-14.
(Watch my fun interview with Tom Hooper for "Les Miserables" right here, "Les Miserables" movie review)
Here's the complete press release:
Palm Springs, CA (December 18, 2012) . The 24th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (Psiff) will present Academy Award®-winning director Tom Hooper with the Sonny Bono Visionary Award and Mychael Danna with the Frederick Loewe Award for Film Composing. Presented by Cartier, the Awards Gala will be held Saturday, January 5, at the Palm Springs Convention Center. Hosted by Mary Hart,...
(Watch my fun interview with Tom Hooper for "Les Miserables" right here, "Les Miserables" movie review)
Here's the complete press release:
Palm Springs, CA (December 18, 2012) . The 24th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (Psiff) will present Academy Award®-winning director Tom Hooper with the Sonny Bono Visionary Award and Mychael Danna with the Frederick Loewe Award for Film Composing. Presented by Cartier, the Awards Gala will be held Saturday, January 5, at the Palm Springs Convention Center. Hosted by Mary Hart,...
- 12/18/2012
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
ICM Partners has signed Andrew Scott for representation. The Irish actor plays the villain Jim Moriarty on Sherlock. The BBC show, soon to head into a third season, is shown on PBS in the U.S. Scott won a 2012 BAFTA Best Supporting Actor in a Drama series award for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes’ rival. The actor has also appeared in The Hour, HBO’s Band Of Brothers and John Adams miniseries, Scott will continued to be represented in the UK by Lindy King. Scott is managed by Gene Parseghian.
- 11/16/2012
- by DOMINIC PATTEN
- Deadline TV
Eureka Finds ‘The Magnificent Eleven’ Eureka Distribution has acquired UK theatrical rights to The Magnificent Eleven, a modernization of classic The Magnificent Seven by co-writers Pete and John Adams in collaboration with Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh. Directed by Jeremy Wooding, the new story follows a band of Brits and one American (played by the original film’s Robert Vaughn) in London’s East End where the heroes are an amateur soccer team that reluctantly comes together to save a Tandoori restaurant from local thugs. Keith Allen and Philip Rhys also star. Plumcourt Production produced for the Adams’ Angry Badger Pictures in co-production with Filmgate Films and the Swedish regional film board and in association with Skyline Entertainment, Premiere Picture and Pure Film Productions. International sales are handled by Stealth Media Group. Eureka is looking at a March release. ‘Downton Abbey’ UK Ratings Down From Last Week Season 3 of Downton Abbey...
- 10/30/2012
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
With his production company Playtone, Tom Hanks and his producing partner Gary Goetzman have helped mount a string of ambitious and rightly celebrated historical mini-series from Band of Brothers to John Adams and The Pacific. Each offered an insight into a tumultuous time in American history, unfolding the trials and tribulations of the U.S.'s second president and the struggles of the noble soldiers who fought in World War II. To date, Playtone's film slate has typically been more geared toward kid flicks, with offerings like The Ant Bully, City of Ember and Where the Wild Things Are. But the production company's latest deal has them primed to bring the kind of expansive and poignant storytelling displayed in their miniseries to a new feature about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Variety reports Hanks and Goetzman will produce Parkland an indie drama that's title refers to the...
- 8/17/2012
- cinemablend.com
When was the last time you really thought about the Founding Fathers? During the Independence Day holiday, it seems we watch war movies such as Saving Private Ryan or Pearl Harbor—films about more recent events in our nation’s history.
But this Fourth of July, treat yourself to the 2008 seven-part (You could watch it all in one day!) HBO miniseries John Adams, based on the book John Adams by noted historian David McCullough and starring Paul Giamatti as John Adams and Laura Linney as his wife Abigail. Did we mention the Tom Hooper-directed epic is also the most-Emmy-winning...
But this Fourth of July, treat yourself to the 2008 seven-part (You could watch it all in one day!) HBO miniseries John Adams, based on the book John Adams by noted historian David McCullough and starring Paul Giamatti as John Adams and Laura Linney as his wife Abigail. Did we mention the Tom Hooper-directed epic is also the most-Emmy-winning...
- 7/4/2012
- by Erin Strecker
- EW.com - PopWatch
There are those on the right who have said that Game Change is a partisan smear. At the same time, some on the left may have gone into the program expecting a SNL-style “look-how-dumb-Palin-is” work of predictable affirmation. But while hit jobs and hagiographies might make for effective 30-second political ads, they can’t sustain a two-hour block of television. Game Change, by contrast, is a gripping (though by no means perfect) two-hour block of television. But the term “block of television” does not necessarily carry the same connotations as “TV movie.” The distinction here is important. Game Change’s central thesis is not a political point about either John McCain or Sarah Palin as candidates (what could a TV movie possibly say that’s new or urgent in this respect?), but is instead a lamentation about how our political landscape is determined (on all sides of the ideological spectrum) by the media cycles of Celebrity...
- 3/13/2012
- by Landon Palmer
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
HBO Films seems to have two essential mission statements. First, to corner the market on Al Pacino’s good acting (see: Angels in America, You Don’t Know Jack, the upcoming Phil Spector biopic. Second, and more importantly, the moviemaking arm of the network appears to be constructing a complete chronology of American history, from the Revolution (John Adams) through the Great War (Band of Brothers, The Pacific), and right up to our disturbing modern moment (Recount, Too Big to Fail).
Next year’s Game Change is an intriguing new entry in the HBO History canon, adapting the addictive behind-the-scenes...
Next year’s Game Change is an intriguing new entry in the HBO History canon, adapting the addictive behind-the-scenes...
- 12/21/2011
- by Darren Franich
- EW - Inside TV
Getty Images Writer Christopher Hitchens participates in a panel discussion at the 9th Annual La Times Festival of Books on April 25, 2004 at UCLA in Westwood, California. Hitchens died on Thursday at age 62.
For a contrarian, Christopher Hitchens could be a terrific conversationalist.
Hitchens, author and Vanity Fair contributing editor, died Thursday night at the age of 62. The obits will paint him as a confrontation addict, a pundit polemicist, and a walking Ied.
My sample set was small, but on a personal level,...
For a contrarian, Christopher Hitchens could be a terrific conversationalist.
Hitchens, author and Vanity Fair contributing editor, died Thursday night at the age of 62. The obits will paint him as a confrontation addict, a pundit polemicist, and a walking Ied.
My sample set was small, but on a personal level,...
- 12/16/2011
- by Christopher John Farley
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Tom Hanks is reportedly looking to obtain the rights to Erik Larson’s WWII non-fiction best-seller In The Garden of Beasts.
The A-Lister intends to produce the adaptation, however The Hollywood Reporter has suggested that he is also contemplating the project for his next leading role.
The book narrates the true story of William Dodd, a Us Ambassador in 1933 Berlin, whose daughter became romantically involved with several high-ranking members of the Third Reich.
While initially naive about Nazi Germany the Dodd family soon came to realise the violent fascism that lay beneath Hitler’s eroding nationalism.
The project continues Hanks' interest in World War II that has seen him produce the Emmy-winning miniseries Band of Brothers, The Pacific and John Adams.
Following this year’s disappointment of Larry Crowne, Hanks will next be seen in Stephen Daldry’s post-9/11 drama, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close starring Sandra Bullock, John Goodman and Max von Sydow.
The A-Lister intends to produce the adaptation, however The Hollywood Reporter has suggested that he is also contemplating the project for his next leading role.
The book narrates the true story of William Dodd, a Us Ambassador in 1933 Berlin, whose daughter became romantically involved with several high-ranking members of the Third Reich.
While initially naive about Nazi Germany the Dodd family soon came to realise the violent fascism that lay beneath Hitler’s eroding nationalism.
The project continues Hanks' interest in World War II that has seen him produce the Emmy-winning miniseries Band of Brothers, The Pacific and John Adams.
Following this year’s disappointment of Larry Crowne, Hanks will next be seen in Stephen Daldry’s post-9/11 drama, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close starring Sandra Bullock, John Goodman and Max von Sydow.
- 11/29/2011
- by zayyaf.saleem@lovefilm.com (Zayyaf Saleem)
- LOVEFiLM
Full listing of Game of Thrones Season 2 New Characters and Actors. Major and minor characters for Game of Thrones: Season 2 have been casting for months now. We have compiled a list of them all from different sources so that you will know what characters will be in Season 2 of HBO‘s Game of Thrones and who would be playing them. There are major spoilers below, especially if you have not read the A Song of Ice and Fire books so be warned. I personally have only shimmed over the detailed information below as I want characters and their motivations kept in shadow as much as possible. The list will be updated when new characters are cast so you might want to bookmark this page.
We previously posted on casting for Season 2 of Game of Thrones here: Game of Thrones: Season 2 Casts Liam Cunningham, Carice van Houten, Stephen Dillane,...
We previously posted on casting for Season 2 of Game of Thrones here: Game of Thrones: Season 2 Casts Liam Cunningham, Carice van Houten, Stephen Dillane,...
- 10/16/2011
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
Fans of American Gods need not worry that the television adaptation of the beloved book will be watered-down. Speaking from the Edinburgh Book Festival, author Neil Gaiman has promised that he won't allow the series too "softened."
"I want to keep races and nationalities [the same]," Gaiman confirmed. "I don't want it to become softened and homogenised, and I want it to be prickly."
Gaiman has every faith in Playtone. The Tom Hanks-owned production company has been responsible for four HBO shows: Band of Brothers, Big Love, John Adams, and The Pacific. "They seem really smart," Gaiman acknowledged. "They love [American Gods] for what it is and don't want to soften it."
American Gods will be directed by Oscar-winning cinematographer Robert Richardson, who according to Gaiman "has all these great, mad ideas [for the show]. Having fallen in love with it while other people fell by the wayside, he stayed with it."
Gaiman, who earlier this...
"I want to keep races and nationalities [the same]," Gaiman confirmed. "I don't want it to become softened and homogenised, and I want it to be prickly."
Gaiman has every faith in Playtone. The Tom Hanks-owned production company has been responsible for four HBO shows: Band of Brothers, Big Love, John Adams, and The Pacific. "They seem really smart," Gaiman acknowledged. "They love [American Gods] for what it is and don't want to soften it."
American Gods will be directed by Oscar-winning cinematographer Robert Richardson, who according to Gaiman "has all these great, mad ideas [for the show]. Having fallen in love with it while other people fell by the wayside, he stayed with it."
Gaiman, who earlier this...
- 8/24/2011
- by Sam McPherson
- TVovermind.com
Casting has just about wrapped up for the second season of HBO's fantasy drama Game of Thrones. As it stands, sixteen new faces have been added to the cast, though some of those will only be in guest or recurring roles. Still, it's not an insignificant number for a show with a cast so large already.
To help you make sense of it, TVOvermind has compiled a list of all the new cast members, along with basic information about the character they're playing and the actors' backgrounds. There's nothing too spoilery here, though if you're wanting to avoid introductory details about new characters, it's probably best that you don't read ahead.
We'll be adding new additions to the cast to the end of this article as we go, though we're fairly sure that there won't be too many more new faces added.
Game of Thrones season 2 will premiere in spring...
To help you make sense of it, TVOvermind has compiled a list of all the new cast members, along with basic information about the character they're playing and the actors' backgrounds. There's nothing too spoilery here, though if you're wanting to avoid introductory details about new characters, it's probably best that you don't read ahead.
We'll be adding new additions to the cast to the end of this article as we go, though we're fairly sure that there won't be too many more new faces added.
Game of Thrones season 2 will premiere in spring...
- 8/16/2011
- by Sam McPherson
- TVovermind.com
Tom Hanks is back as a director 15 years after he made That Thing You Do (1996). And naturally that prompts the first query. “I’m not a director. The movies I’ve made (The Polar Express (2004), Charlie Wilson’s War (2007), Mamma Mia! (2008), Where the Wild Things Are (2009); the Emmy Award-winning HBO miniseries The Pacific (2010), Band of Brothers (2001) and John Adams (2008)) have been personal missions that came out of my own company and head. It was like a fever, I had to do it,” he asserts.The Hollywood actor’s film, Larry Crowne, that he has co-produced, written, ...
- 7/5/2011
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
Tom Hanks is back as a director 15 years after he made That Thing You Do (1996). And naturally that prompts the first query. “I’m not a director. The movies I’ve made (The Polar Express (2004), Charlie Wilson’s War (2007), Mamma Mia! (2008), Where the Wild Things Are (2009); the Emmy Award-winning HBO miniseries The Pacific (2010), Band of Brothers (2001) and John Adams (2008)) have been personal missions that came out of my own company and head. It was like a fever, I had to do it,” he asserts.The Hollywood actor’s film, Larry Crowne, that he has co-produced, written, ...
- 7/5/2011
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
Tom Hanks is back as a director 15 years after he made That Thing You Do (1996). And naturally that prompts the first query. “I’m not a director. The movies I’ve made (The Polar Express (2004), Charlie Wilson’s War (2007), Mamma Mia! (2008), Where the Wild Things Are (2009); the Emmy Award-winning HBO miniseries The Pacific (2010), Band of Brothers (2001) and John Adams (2008)) have been personal missions that came out of my own company and head. It was like a fever, I had to do it,” he asserts.The Hollywood actor’s film, Larry Crowne, that he has co-produced, written, ...
- 7/5/2011
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
Tom Hanks is back as a director 15 years after he made That Thing You Do (1996). And naturally that prompts the first query. “I’m not a director. The movies I’ve made (The Polar Express (2004), Charlie Wilson’s War (2007), Mamma Mia! (2008), Where the Wild Things Are (2009); the Emmy Award-winning HBO miniseries The Pacific (2010), Band of Brothers (2001) and John Adams (2008)) have been personal missions that came out of my own company and head. It was like a fever, I had to do it,” he asserts.The Hollywood actor’s film, Larry Crowne, that he has co-produced, written, ...
- 7/5/2011
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
Tom Hanks is back as a director 15 years after he made That Thing You Do (1996). And naturally that prompts the first query. “I’m not a director. The movies I’ve made (The Polar Express (2004), Charlie Wilson’s War (2007), Mamma Mia! (2008), Where the Wild Things Are (2009); the Emmy Award-winning HBO miniseries The Pacific (2010), Band of Brothers (2001) and John Adams (2008)) have been personal missions that came out of my own company and head. It was like a fever, I had to do it,” he asserts.The Hollywood actor’s film, Larry Crowne, that he has co-produced, written, ...
- 7/5/2011
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
Tom Hanks is back as a director 15 years after he made That Thing You Do (1996). And naturally that prompts the first query. “I’m not a director. The movies I’ve made (The Polar Express (2004), Charlie Wilson’s War (2007), Mamma Mia! (2008), Where the Wild Things Are (2009); the Emmy Award-winning HBO miniseries The Pacific (2010), Band of Brothers (2001) and John Adams (2008)) have been personal missions that came out of my own company and head. It was like a fever, I had to do it,” he asserts.The Hollywood actor’s film, Larry Crowne, that he has co-produced, written, ...
- 7/5/2011
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
Tom Hanks is back as a director 15 years after he made That Thing You Do (1996). And naturally that prompts the first query. “I’m not a director. The movies I’ve made (The Polar Express (2004), Charlie Wilson’s War (2007), Mamma Mia! (2008), Where the Wild Things Are (2009); the Emmy Award-winning HBO miniseries The Pacific (2010), Band of Brothers (2001) and John Adams (2008)) have been personal missions that came out of my own company and head. It was like a fever, I had to do it,” he asserts.The Hollywood actor’s film, Larry Crowne, that he has co-produced, written, ...
- 7/5/2011
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
Tom Hanks is back as a director 15 years after he made That Thing You Do (1996). And naturally that prompts the first query. “I’m not a director. The movies I’ve made (The Polar Express (2004), Charlie Wilson’s War (2007), Mamma Mia! (2008), Where the Wild Things Are (2009); the Emmy Award-winning HBO miniseries The Pacific (2010), Band of Brothers (2001) and John Adams (2008)) have been personal missions that came out of my own company and head. It was like a fever, I had to do it,” he asserts.The Hollywood actor’s film, Larry Crowne, that he has co-produced, written, ...
- 7/5/2011
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
Tom Hanks is back as a director 15 years after he made That Thing You Do (1996). And naturally that prompts the first query. “I’m not a director. The movies I’ve made (The Polar Express (2004), Charlie Wilson’s War (2007), Mamma Mia! (2008), Where the Wild Things Are (2009); the Emmy Award-winning HBO miniseries The Pacific (2010), Band of Brothers (2001) and John Adams (2008)) have been personal missions that came out of my own company and head. It was like a fever, I had to do it,” he asserts.The Hollywood actor’s film, Larry Crowne, that he has co-produced, written, ...
- 7/5/2011
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
Tom Hanks is back as a director 15 years after he made That Thing You Do (1996). And naturally that prompts the first query. “I’m not a director. The movies I’ve made (The Polar Express (2004), Charlie Wilson’s War (2007), Mamma Mia! (2008), Where the Wild Things Are (2009); the Emmy Award-winning HBO miniseries The Pacific (2010), Band of Brothers (2001) and John Adams (2008)) have been personal missions that came out of my own company and head. It was like a fever, I had to do it,” he asserts.The Hollywood actor’s film, Larry Crowne, that he has co-produced, written, ...
- 7/5/2011
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
Tom Hanks is back as a director 15 years after he made That Thing You Do (1996). And naturally that prompts the first query. “I’m not a director. The movies I’ve made (The Polar Express (2004), Charlie Wilson’s War (2007), Mamma Mia! (2008), Where the Wild Things Are (2009); the Emmy Award-winning HBO miniseries The Pacific (2010), Band of Brothers (2001) and John Adams (2008)) have been personal missions that came out of my own company and head. It was like a fever, I had to do it,” he asserts.The Hollywood actor’s film, Larry Crowne, that he has co-produced, written, ...
- 7/5/2011
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
Tom Hanks is back as a director 15 years after he made That Thing You Do (1996). And naturally that prompts the first query. “I’m not a director. The movies I’ve made (The Polar Express (2004), Charlie Wilson’s War (2007), Mamma Mia! (2008), Where the Wild Things Are (2009); the Emmy Award-winning HBO miniseries The Pacific (2010), Band of Brothers (2001) and John Adams (2008)) have been personal missions that came out of my own company and head. It was like a fever, I had to do it,” he asserts.The Hollywood actor’s film, Larry Crowne, that he has co-produced, written, ...
- 7/5/2011
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
Tom Hanks is back as a director 15 years after he made That Thing You Do (1996). And naturally that prompts the first query. “I’m not a director. The movies I’ve made (The Polar Express (2004), Charlie Wilson’s War (2007), Mamma Mia! (2008), Where the Wild Things Are (2009); the Emmy Award-winning HBO miniseries The Pacific (2010), Band of Brothers (2001) and John Adams (2008)) have been personal missions that came out of my own company and head. It was like a fever, I had to do it,” he asserts.The Hollywood actor’s film, Larry Crowne, that he has co-produced, written, ...
- 7/5/2011
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
Tom Hanks is back as a director 15 years after he made That Thing You Do (1996). And naturally that prompts the first query. “I’m not a director. The movies I’ve made (The Polar Express (2004), Charlie Wilson’s War (2007), Mamma Mia! (2008), Where the Wild Things Are (2009); the Emmy Award-winning HBO miniseries The Pacific (2010), Band of Brothers (2001) and John Adams (2008)) have been personal missions that came out of my own company and head. It was like a fever, I had to do it,” he asserts.The Hollywood actor’s film, Larry Crowne, that he has co-produced, written, ...
- 7/5/2011
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
Tom Hanks is back as a director 15 years after he made That Thing You Do (1996). And naturally that prompts the first query. “I’m not a director. The movies I’ve made (The Polar Express (2004), Charlie Wilson’s War (2007), Mamma Mia! (2008), Where the Wild Things Are (2009); the Emmy Award-winning HBO miniseries The Pacific (2010), Band of Brothers (2001) and John Adams (2008)) have been personal missions that came out of my own company and head. It was like a fever, I had to do it,” he asserts.The Hollywood actor’s film, Larry Crowne, that he has co-produced, written, ...
- 7/5/2011
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
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