The Producers Guild of America has announced the first round of speakers for the 2024 edition of the Produced By Conference, which is taking place on the Fox studio lot in Century City on Saturday, June 8.
Those confirmed to speak so far include Alan Poul (Tokyo Vice), Angela Russo-Otstot (Cherry), Brad Simpson (Crazy Rich Asians), Charles Roven (Oppenheimer), Greg Berlanti, Ghaith Mahmood (Partner of Latham & Watkins), Howard Gordon (Accused), Jack Rapke (Cast Away), Paul W. Downs (Hacks), Jeff Schaffer (Curb Your Enthusiasm), John Wilson (How To with John Wilson), J.T. Rogers (Tokyo Vice), Jen Statsky (Hacks), Kate Crawford (Atlas of AI), Lori McCreary (Madam Secretary), Lucia Aniello (Hacks), Lynette Howell Taylor (A Star Is Born), Mike Farah (@fter Midnight), Renard T. Jenkins, Roxanne Taylor (the Goat) and Tommy Oliver (Juice Wrld: Into The Abyss).
Confirmed to moderate discussions are Amy Gravitt...
Those confirmed to speak so far include Alan Poul (Tokyo Vice), Angela Russo-Otstot (Cherry), Brad Simpson (Crazy Rich Asians), Charles Roven (Oppenheimer), Greg Berlanti, Ghaith Mahmood (Partner of Latham & Watkins), Howard Gordon (Accused), Jack Rapke (Cast Away), Paul W. Downs (Hacks), Jeff Schaffer (Curb Your Enthusiasm), John Wilson (How To with John Wilson), J.T. Rogers (Tokyo Vice), Jen Statsky (Hacks), Kate Crawford (Atlas of AI), Lori McCreary (Madam Secretary), Lucia Aniello (Hacks), Lynette Howell Taylor (A Star Is Born), Mike Farah (@fter Midnight), Renard T. Jenkins, Roxanne Taylor (the Goat) and Tommy Oliver (Juice Wrld: Into The Abyss).
Confirmed to moderate discussions are Amy Gravitt...
- 5/14/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Donielle Hansey Jr., Simone Joy Jones, Ayaamii Sledge, Carter Young in Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s DeadImage: BET+
As you may have surmised from the title, Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead is a remake of the popular 1991 film of the same name. The original starred Christina Applegate,...
As you may have surmised from the title, Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead is a remake of the popular 1991 film of the same name. The original starred Christina Applegate,...
- 4/16/2024
- by Liz Coopersmith
- avclub.com
The Producers Guild of America used the platform of its annual awards ceremony Sunday to launch a drive to help secure health insurance coverage for Hollywood’s working producers. The guild is asking studios, streamers and other large-scale content companies to help fund health insurance for “qualified producers” through line items in TV and film production budgets.
PGA presidents Stephanie Allain and Donald De Line unveiled the health care initiative during their address to the audience at the Hollywood & Highland’s Ray Dolby Ballroom. The push is designed to close the gap between producers and Hollywood’s other creative guilds by giving those who meet PGA criteria easy access to health insurance coverage.
“Producers, unlike unionized creative professionals in the industry, lack guaranteed health insurance benefits. No one should go without these essential benefits. Producing is challenging enough without the added anxiety of wondering how you are going to obtain...
PGA presidents Stephanie Allain and Donald De Line unveiled the health care initiative during their address to the audience at the Hollywood & Highland’s Ray Dolby Ballroom. The push is designed to close the gap between producers and Hollywood’s other creative guilds by giving those who meet PGA criteria easy access to health insurance coverage.
“Producers, unlike unionized creative professionals in the industry, lack guaranteed health insurance benefits. No one should go without these essential benefits. Producing is challenging enough without the added anxiety of wondering how you are going to obtain...
- 2/26/2024
- by William Earl
- Variety Film + TV
Nearly 74 years after the Producers Guild of America was formed, its members learned Sunday night that they finally be getting closer to getting healthcare coverage.
PGA presidents Stephanie Allain and Donald De Line announced at the trade organization’s 35th annual Award ceremony that the group has launched an initiative to eventually see every health insurance benefits for all full-time producers in the film and TV biz. Watch the clip from the show below.
“Producers, unlike unionized creative professionals in the industry, lack guaranteed health insurance benefits,” Allain and De Line said onstage at the PGA Awards in Hollywood. “Until now,” Allain declared.
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“No one should go without these essential benefits. Producing is challenging enough without the added anxiety of wondering how you are going to obtain health...
PGA presidents Stephanie Allain and Donald De Line announced at the trade organization’s 35th annual Award ceremony that the group has launched an initiative to eventually see every health insurance benefits for all full-time producers in the film and TV biz. Watch the clip from the show below.
“Producers, unlike unionized creative professionals in the industry, lack guaranteed health insurance benefits,” Allain and De Line said onstage at the PGA Awards in Hollywood. “Until now,” Allain declared.
Related: Charles D. King Makes History With PGA Milestone Award; Ryan Coogler Extols Macro Founder As Producer Who Wills Projects “To Exist”
“No one should go without these essential benefits. Producing is challenging enough without the added anxiety of wondering how you are going to obtain health...
- 2/26/2024
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Many awards ceremonies champion themselves as stepping stones to the Oscars, but the Producers Guild of America Awards — to be presented Feb. 25 at Ovation Hollywood’s Ray Dolby Ballroom — have an enviable track record to support the claim. The winner of the PGA’s top prize, the Darryl F. Zanuck Award, has matched the Oscar winner for best picture for 15 of the last 20 years, and 24 of the 33 years since the first ceremony in 1990.
For Donald De Line, a studio exec turned producer who serves as PGA president alongside Stephanie Allain, the guild’s track record adds to the anticipation surrounding the pre-Oscar kudofest. “Part of the fun is the horse race and the excitement of it all,” he says.
This year, the 10 Zanuck nominees are a 100% match for those on the Oscar ballot for best picture, and the event falls in the middle of final voting for the Academy Awards.
For Donald De Line, a studio exec turned producer who serves as PGA president alongside Stephanie Allain, the guild’s track record adds to the anticipation surrounding the pre-Oscar kudofest. “Part of the fun is the horse race and the excitement of it all,” he says.
This year, the 10 Zanuck nominees are a 100% match for those on the Oscar ballot for best picture, and the event falls in the middle of final voting for the Academy Awards.
- 2/25/2024
- by Todd Longwell
- Variety Film + TV
“Everything.”
That’s how veteran producer and PGA president Stephanie Allain kicked off a special panel about the ins and outs of the Sundance Film Festival and all things producing, presented by Hyundai. Taking place on Jan. 19 inside The Hollywood Reporter’s studio (sponsored by Heineken, Hyundai, Bogner and Sixt), Allain was explaining how best to describe a producer’s job and the all-encompassing duties they shoulder.
“What don’t we do? The producer is the uber champion of the film, and what that means is when I have a project, no one gets in that circle unless they love the movie, they understand the movie, they can contribute 150 percent to the movie,” said the Hollywood veteran, who returned to Sundance for the world premiere of Titus Kaphar’s Exhibiting Forgiveness, starring Andre Holland and Andra Day. “We work on the script, we work on casting. We go by the costume department,...
That’s how veteran producer and PGA president Stephanie Allain kicked off a special panel about the ins and outs of the Sundance Film Festival and all things producing, presented by Hyundai. Taking place on Jan. 19 inside The Hollywood Reporter’s studio (sponsored by Heineken, Hyundai, Bogner and Sixt), Allain was explaining how best to describe a producer’s job and the all-encompassing duties they shoulder.
“What don’t we do? The producer is the uber champion of the film, and what that means is when I have a project, no one gets in that circle unless they love the movie, they understand the movie, they can contribute 150 percent to the movie,” said the Hollywood veteran, who returned to Sundance for the world premiere of Titus Kaphar’s Exhibiting Forgiveness, starring Andre Holland and Andra Day. “We work on the script, we work on casting. We go by the costume department,...
- 1/23/2024
- by Chris Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Some Masked Singer contestants earn our attention with their moving backstories. Others intrigue us with their unexpected vocal prowess. But only a few, including the sugary confection we’re discussing right now, are able to do both.
Donut returns to the stage on Wednesday (Fox, 8/7c), where he’ll face off against fellow Group C members Anteater and Candelabra. And while we’re eager to confirm our suspicions about which celebrities are under all three masks, it’s Donut about whom we feel most positive.
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Donut returns to the stage on Wednesday (Fox, 8/7c), where he’ll face off against fellow Group C members Anteater and Candelabra. And while we’re eager to confirm our suspicions about which celebrities are under all three masks, it’s Donut about whom we feel most positive.
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- 12/13/2023
- by Andy Swift
- TVLine.com
Producers Guild of America Presidents Donald De Line and Stephanie Allain joined members of SAG-AFTRA and WGA on the picket lines Friday at Culver City Studios where called out the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, the group representing studios in talks with guilds.
And De Line and Allain specifically took issue with AMPTP for the group’s name itself.
“We stand in solidarity with the WGA, with SAG-AFTRA,” Allain said. “We go crazy when we hear that the AMPTP, which stands for the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, is on the other side of this battle for fairness.”
Allain added: “They are not producers. We are producers. The PGA is an organization of individual producers who go out every day, to try and make stories happen and bring all of us together to make movies. So we’re artists, we’re labor just like you and...
And De Line and Allain specifically took issue with AMPTP for the group’s name itself.
“We stand in solidarity with the WGA, with SAG-AFTRA,” Allain said. “We go crazy when we hear that the AMPTP, which stands for the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, is on the other side of this battle for fairness.”
Allain added: “They are not producers. We are producers. The PGA is an organization of individual producers who go out every day, to try and make stories happen and bring all of us together to make movies. So we’re artists, we’re labor just like you and...
- 8/12/2023
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
Profiles by Seth Abramovitch, Gary Baum, Evan Nicole Brown, Tyler Coates, Kirsten Chuba, Aaron Couch, Scott Feinberg, Mesfin Fekadu, Mia Galuppo, James Hibberd, Rebecca Keegan, Sydney Odman, Rick Porter, Lacey Rose, Julian Sancton, Rebecca Sun and Beatrice Verhoeven
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Banijay Americas
Abrego is one of the top-ranking Latino execs in English-language media, and Pita Loor is the board chair of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers, a major conduit for industry players who are invested in improving inclusion. Under their leadership, Banijay Americas has stepped up initiatives to help people from historically excluded backgrounds break into entertainment. “This work has both financial and cultural bottom lines, and those are not only equally important but also inextricably connected,” says Abrego of the content business. “Success requires attention to both.”
I’m excited about …
Abrego “Mindy Kaling is just laugh-out-loud funny...
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Banijay Americas
Abrego is one of the top-ranking Latino execs in English-language media, and Pita Loor is the board chair of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers, a major conduit for industry players who are invested in improving inclusion. Under their leadership, Banijay Americas has stepped up initiatives to help people from historically excluded backgrounds break into entertainment. “This work has both financial and cultural bottom lines, and those are not only equally important but also inextricably connected,” says Abrego of the content business. “Success requires attention to both.”
I’m excited about …
Abrego “Mindy Kaling is just laugh-out-loud funny...
- 5/31/2023
- by Ashley Cullins, Editor and Mikey O'Connell, Editor
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
With Women’s History Month well underway, Variety asked female leaders in Hollywood a simple question: Are we better off today than we were five years ago? More pointedly, how many gains have there really been in the battle for gender equality since the industry’s great #MeToo reckoning – and what is the outlook for further change?
Lately, there have been mixed signals: Time’s Up faded away in January after a series of missteps, and high-profile female Oscar contenders ended up empty handed once again in traditionally male-dominated categories earlier this month. Harvey Weinstein is in jail but new reports of sexual misconduct by other men in positions of authority continue to pop up with unsettling frequency. Recent academic studies have not given those fighting for gender equality much to cheer about either.
Women’s advocates surveyed by Variety concede that progress appears to have slowed recently but insist there is no need to despair.
Lately, there have been mixed signals: Time’s Up faded away in January after a series of missteps, and high-profile female Oscar contenders ended up empty handed once again in traditionally male-dominated categories earlier this month. Harvey Weinstein is in jail but new reports of sexual misconduct by other men in positions of authority continue to pop up with unsettling frequency. Recent academic studies have not given those fighting for gender equality much to cheer about either.
Women’s advocates surveyed by Variety concede that progress appears to have slowed recently but insist there is no need to despair.
- 3/28/2023
- by Diane Garrett
- Variety Film + TV
Back in December, director David Gordon Green’s sequel to the 1973 classic The Exorcist (watch it Here), which is scheduled to reach theatres on October 13th, had to put filming on hold and begin its holiday break early because lead actor Leslie Odom Jr. (Hamilton) was stricken with an illness. But filming was able to resume after the holidays – and now Deadline has reported that production has officially wrapped.
Deadline’s report also reveals that producer Stephanie Allain has joined the project as an executive producer. Coming to us from Blumhouse Productions and Morgan Creek Entertainment, the film is being produced by Jason Blum, David Robinson, and James Robinson. Green, Danny McBride, and Couper Samuelson serve as executive producers with Allain. Ryan Turek is overseeing the project for Blumhouse.
Green recently directed a trilogy of sequels in the Halloween franchise, and intends for this Exorcist movie to be the first...
Deadline’s report also reveals that producer Stephanie Allain has joined the project as an executive producer. Coming to us from Blumhouse Productions and Morgan Creek Entertainment, the film is being produced by Jason Blum, David Robinson, and James Robinson. Green, Danny McBride, and Couper Samuelson serve as executive producers with Allain. Ryan Turek is overseeing the project for Blumhouse.
Green recently directed a trilogy of sequels in the Halloween franchise, and intends for this Exorcist movie to be the first...
- 3/10/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Exclusive: Veteran producer Stephanie Allain has joined David Gordon Green’s The Exorcist, as executive producer. In addition, the first film in the trilogy from Blumhouse and Morgan Creek for Universal and Peacock has recently wrapped principal photography. The pic hits theaters on Oct. 13.
“I’ve known Stephanie for years — she’s the coolest and steadiest producer around, and I’m thrilled we’re finally able to work together,” said producer Jason Blum.
“I’m so delighted to join Blumhouse, Dgg, Leslie Odom, Jr., and this remarkable cast and crew on a frightening new iteration of one of my favorite films,” said Allain.
Allain and her Homegrown Pictures have produced such movies as Hustle & Flow, Something New, Black Snake Moan, Beyond the Lights, Dear White People, French Dirty, Burning Sands, Juanita and Really Love. She executive produced four seasons of Dear White People. From 2011-2016, she served as Director of the LA Film Festival,...
“I’ve known Stephanie for years — she’s the coolest and steadiest producer around, and I’m thrilled we’re finally able to work together,” said producer Jason Blum.
“I’m so delighted to join Blumhouse, Dgg, Leslie Odom, Jr., and this remarkable cast and crew on a frightening new iteration of one of my favorite films,” said Allain.
Allain and her Homegrown Pictures have produced such movies as Hustle & Flow, Something New, Black Snake Moan, Beyond the Lights, Dear White People, French Dirty, Burning Sands, Juanita and Really Love. She executive produced four seasons of Dear White People. From 2011-2016, she served as Director of the LA Film Festival,...
- 3/10/2023
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
On Saturday, Stephanie Allain and Donald De Line shepherded their first-ever Producers Guild of America Awards as presidents of the trade organization. The starry event, honoring Top Gun: Maverick’s Tom Cruise and Never Have I Ever’s Mindy Kaling among others, celebrated some of the field’s greatest successes in 2022, with the wide-ranging plaudits reflecting that “there is room for all scale and scope of films to coexist,” argues De Line.
Still, in their new posts, the pair of former executives (De Line was head of production at Paramount Pictures, Allain svp of production at Columbia Pictures) and current full-time producers face an increasingly challenged business environment for their line of work. Major items on their agenda to tackle during their two-year term, which began in September, include waning profit participation and studio overall deals, a lack of inclusive, go-to healthcare option and slashed fees for producers. Citing a...
Still, in their new posts, the pair of former executives (De Line was head of production at Paramount Pictures, Allain svp of production at Columbia Pictures) and current full-time producers face an increasingly challenged business environment for their line of work. Major items on their agenda to tackle during their two-year term, which began in September, include waning profit participation and studio overall deals, a lack of inclusive, go-to healthcare option and slashed fees for producers. Citing a...
- 3/2/2023
- by Katie Kilkenny
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
John Schneider, best known for playing Beauregard “Bo” Duke in Dukes of Hazzard, has paid tribute to his film producer wife Alicia Allain, who died at age 53 on Tuesday, February 21. Allain passed away at her home surrounded by family, according to an online obituary. While a cause of death was not revealed, Schneider has previously talked about his wife’s battle with cancer. “My beautiful Smile is pain free, living in her new body alongside Jesus,” Schneider wrote on Facebook. “Please respect our privacy during this time of grief. Please do not ask any questions.” Schneider, who has also starred in the likes of Smallville and 90210, returned to Facebook on Thursday (Feb 23) to share a much longer tribute to his late wife. “Alicia was the fuel that ran my biggest dreams. The inspiration behind every creative thought. The very fabric of my soul. The glue that held me together,” he wrote.
- 2/24/2023
- TV Insider
Alicia Allain, a producer and actress who started in the business as a hair stylist, has died according to a social media post by her husband, John Schneider. She was 53.
“This is a time of unimaginable sorrow for me,” former Dukes of Hazzard star Schneider wrote after his wife’s passing. “Grief is much too small a word. I’ve heard it said that ‘with great love comes great sorrow.’ I had no idea what that meant until now. Alicia was the fuel that ran my biggest dreams. The inspiration behind every creative thought. The very fabric of my soul. The glue that held me together. I miss her more than any words could possibly describe.”
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Schneider also asked,...
“This is a time of unimaginable sorrow for me,” former Dukes of Hazzard star Schneider wrote after his wife’s passing. “Grief is much too small a word. I’ve heard it said that ‘with great love comes great sorrow.’ I had no idea what that meant until now. Alicia was the fuel that ran my biggest dreams. The inspiration behind every creative thought. The very fabric of my soul. The glue that held me together. I miss her more than any words could possibly describe.”
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Schneider also asked,...
- 2/23/2023
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
John Schneider took to social media this week to share the sad news that his wife, Alicia Allain, had died.
The Dukes of Hazzard and Smallville alum shared a Facebook post on Wednesday.
"My beautiful Smile is pain free, living in her new body alongside Jesus," Schneider shared alongside two photos on the social media platform.
In one of the photos, Alicia smiles as she stares at the camera, and in the second, John holds his wife's hand.
"Please respect our privacy during this time of grief. Please do not ask any questions," he captioned the post.
"If you have any pictures of us and our obvious love and adoration for each other, please post them below."
"Lastly… hug those you love tight and let them know how you feel," Schneider added.
"We always did."
Allain, a producer and executive director, was 53.
The pair married in 2019.
According to an obituary...
The Dukes of Hazzard and Smallville alum shared a Facebook post on Wednesday.
"My beautiful Smile is pain free, living in her new body alongside Jesus," Schneider shared alongside two photos on the social media platform.
In one of the photos, Alicia smiles as she stares at the camera, and in the second, John holds his wife's hand.
"Please respect our privacy during this time of grief. Please do not ask any questions," he captioned the post.
"If you have any pictures of us and our obvious love and adoration for each other, please post them below."
"Lastly… hug those you love tight and let them know how you feel," Schneider added.
"We always did."
Allain, a producer and executive director, was 53.
The pair married in 2019.
According to an obituary...
- 2/23/2023
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
Film and television producers are, at the core, accomplished problem-solvers on myriad levels. For Stephanie Allain and Donald De Line, who currently share the presidency of the Producers Guild of America, the prevailing problems for its membership are downright existential.
“The biggest refrain is ‘How can we get health insurance?’” says Allain, whose producing projects have included everything from “Boyz N the Hood” and “Muppets in Space” to “Dear White People” and the Academy Awards telecast.
“And ‘How do you make a living as a producer?’” adds De Line, the former Touchstone Films exec responsible for mega-hits such as “Pretty Woman” and “Armageddon,” and whose prodigious producorial output includes “The Italian Job,” “Ready Player One” and a forthcoming Billy the Kid limited series.
De Line points out that the Producers Guild is not a union, like many of its professional counterparts for directors and screenwriters, but a trade organization, which...
“The biggest refrain is ‘How can we get health insurance?’” says Allain, whose producing projects have included everything from “Boyz N the Hood” and “Muppets in Space” to “Dear White People” and the Academy Awards telecast.
“And ‘How do you make a living as a producer?’” adds De Line, the former Touchstone Films exec responsible for mega-hits such as “Pretty Woman” and “Armageddon,” and whose prodigious producorial output includes “The Italian Job,” “Ready Player One” and a forthcoming Billy the Kid limited series.
De Line points out that the Producers Guild is not a union, like many of its professional counterparts for directors and screenwriters, but a trade organization, which...
- 2/23/2023
- by Scott Huver
- Variety Film + TV
Film Academy chief executive Bill Kramer dropped a reminder in Toronto on Saturday, that his group’s movie museum will in February devote space to the late director John Singleton’s Boyz N The Hood.
So here’s a gentle plea to the museum: Do this one without apology.
For the moment, the Academy and its museum are in apology mode. Next Saturday brings “An Evening With Sacheen Littlefeather,” complete with “a long-awaited statement of apology from the Academy” for what it describes as 50 years of boycott, attack, harassment and discrimination following Sacheen’s on-stage rejection of an Oscar meant for Marlon Brando.
The museum’s current “Regeneration” celebration of black cinema likewise comes with a note of regret. “We should have seen it long before now, but this is the day it begins,” Academy governor Ava DuVernay said of black achievement while introducing the show.
The apologies are perhaps in order.
So here’s a gentle plea to the museum: Do this one without apology.
For the moment, the Academy and its museum are in apology mode. Next Saturday brings “An Evening With Sacheen Littlefeather,” complete with “a long-awaited statement of apology from the Academy” for what it describes as 50 years of boycott, attack, harassment and discrimination following Sacheen’s on-stage rejection of an Oscar meant for Marlon Brando.
The museum’s current “Regeneration” celebration of black cinema likewise comes with a note of regret. “We should have seen it long before now, but this is the day it begins,” Academy governor Ava DuVernay said of black achievement while introducing the show.
The apologies are perhaps in order.
- 9/11/2022
- by Michael Cieply
- Deadline Film + TV
The Producers Guild of America (PGA) announced today the election of new presidents Stephanie Allain and Donald De Line during the Guild’s annual membership meeting. Allain and De Line ran unopposed and assume the roles from Gail Berman and Lucy Fisher, who had served as presidents since 2018.
“As proud members of the PGA for over twenty years, it’s a great privilege to serve as Presidents,” Allain and De Line said. “Gail and Lucy’s excellent leadership has grown and strengthened the Guild, and we will build on their progress. Along with Susan Sprung and her team, we will continue to educate the industry on the role of the producer, support producers’ efforts for fair and commensurate compensation and benefits, welcome and encourage a more diverse membership, and endeavor to attain broader healthcare coverage while educating members on the current benefits and opportunities available to them.”
“Stephanie and Donald are legendary industry leaders,...
“As proud members of the PGA for over twenty years, it’s a great privilege to serve as Presidents,” Allain and De Line said. “Gail and Lucy’s excellent leadership has grown and strengthened the Guild, and we will build on their progress. Along with Susan Sprung and her team, we will continue to educate the industry on the role of the producer, support producers’ efforts for fair and commensurate compensation and benefits, welcome and encourage a more diverse membership, and endeavor to attain broader healthcare coverage while educating members on the current benefits and opportunities available to them.”
“Stephanie and Donald are legendary industry leaders,...
- 8/24/2022
- by Dessi Gomez
- The Wrap
Industry veterans Stephanie Allain and Donald De Line have been elected presidents of the Producers Guild of America, the guild announced on Tuesday.
The pair ran unopposed, and will succeed Gail Berman and Lucy Fisher, who have led the organization since 2018. Allain and De Line have both recently served on the PGA national board.
Allain will become the first woman of color to serve as president of the guild. She has produced films including “Hustle & Flow,” “Black Snake Moan,” “Beyond the Lights” and “Dear White People.” In 2020, she co-produced the Academy Awards and received the PGA/UCLA Vision Award for her work championing diverse filmmakers. She is also a former director of the L.A. Film Festival.
De Line’s producing credits include “Ready Player One,” “The Italian Job” and the Epix TV series “Billy the Kid.” Early in his career, De Line served as president of Touchstone Pictures...
The pair ran unopposed, and will succeed Gail Berman and Lucy Fisher, who have led the organization since 2018. Allain and De Line have both recently served on the PGA national board.
Allain will become the first woman of color to serve as president of the guild. She has produced films including “Hustle & Flow,” “Black Snake Moan,” “Beyond the Lights” and “Dear White People.” In 2020, she co-produced the Academy Awards and received the PGA/UCLA Vision Award for her work championing diverse filmmakers. She is also a former director of the L.A. Film Festival.
De Line’s producing credits include “Ready Player One,” “The Italian Job” and the Epix TV series “Billy the Kid.” Early in his career, De Line served as president of Touchstone Pictures...
- 8/24/2022
- by Gene Maddaus
- Variety Film + TV
Allain and De Line elected to succeed Gail Berman and Lucy Fisher in trade group roles.
The Producers Guild of America (PGA) has elected Stephanie Allain and Donald De Line as its new presidents.
Allain and De Line, who ran for the roles unopposed, take over from Gail Berman and Lucy Fisher. Berman and Fisher have served as presidents of the non-profit trade group, which has more than 8,000 members, since 2018.
Allain, who becomes the first woman of color to serve as PGA president, is a writer/producer whose films include Hustle & Flow and Dear White People. She was also...
The Producers Guild of America (PGA) has elected Stephanie Allain and Donald De Line as its new presidents.
Allain and De Line, who ran for the roles unopposed, take over from Gail Berman and Lucy Fisher. Berman and Fisher have served as presidents of the non-profit trade group, which has more than 8,000 members, since 2018.
Allain, who becomes the first woman of color to serve as PGA president, is a writer/producer whose films include Hustle & Flow and Dear White People. She was also...
- 8/24/2022
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
The Producers Guild said Tuesday that it has elected Stephanie Allain and Donald De Line its new presidents, after the pair ran unopposed to replace outgoing toppers Gail Berman and Lucy Fisher, who had served in the role since 2018.
The vote was held during the PGA’s annual membership meeting.
“As proud members of the PGA for over 20 years, it’s a great privilege to serve as presidents. Gail and Lucy’s excellent leadership has grown and strengthened the guild, and we will build on their progress,” Allain and De Line said. “Along with Susan Sprung and her team, we will continue to educate the industry on the role of the producer, support producers’ efforts for fair and commensurate compensation and benefits, welcome and encourage a more diverse membership, and endeavor to attain broader healthcare coverage while educating members on the current benefits and opportunities available to them.”
Allain, a...
The vote was held during the PGA’s annual membership meeting.
“As proud members of the PGA for over 20 years, it’s a great privilege to serve as presidents. Gail and Lucy’s excellent leadership has grown and strengthened the guild, and we will build on their progress,” Allain and De Line said. “Along with Susan Sprung and her team, we will continue to educate the industry on the role of the producer, support producers’ efforts for fair and commensurate compensation and benefits, welcome and encourage a more diverse membership, and endeavor to attain broader healthcare coverage while educating members on the current benefits and opportunities available to them.”
Allain, a...
- 8/24/2022
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
The Producers Guild of America (PGA) has elected new presidents Stephanie Allain and Donald De Line. The pair ran unopposed to assume the roles from Gail Berman and Lucy Fisher, who have served as the presidents of the organization since 2018, and their appointment was announced during the Guild’s annual memberships meeting.
Allain and De Line reacted to the news via a press statement, saying “As proud members of the PGA for over twenty years, it’s a great privilege to serve as Presidents. Gail and Lucy’s excellent leadership has grown and strengthened the Guild, and we will build on their progress.”
They added, “Along with [National Executive Director] Susan Sprung and her team, we will continue to educate the industry on the role of the producer, support producers’ efforts for fair and commensurate compensation and benefits, welcome and encourage a more diverse membership, and endeavor to attain broader healthcare coverage while...
Allain and De Line reacted to the news via a press statement, saying “As proud members of the PGA for over twenty years, it’s a great privilege to serve as Presidents. Gail and Lucy’s excellent leadership has grown and strengthened the Guild, and we will build on their progress.”
They added, “Along with [National Executive Director] Susan Sprung and her team, we will continue to educate the industry on the role of the producer, support producers’ efforts for fair and commensurate compensation and benefits, welcome and encourage a more diverse membership, and endeavor to attain broader healthcare coverage while...
- 8/24/2022
- by Marcus Jones
- Indiewire
You know how it goes sometimes. A drug kingpin (Bryan Cranston's Walter White) and his partner in crime (Aaron Paul's Jesse Pinkman) narrowly manage to pull off the scheme of the century, plotting the downfall of their biggest benefactor-turned-foe (Giancarlo Esposito's Gus Fring) in as elaborate a hitjob as you'll ever see. But just as the coast seems clearer than it has in quite some time, with the maniacal killer out of the picture for good and his meth-making "superlab" burned to ashes (a location that a recent episode of "Better Call Saul" would retroactively add further layers to), the victors suddenly remember one pesky detail that could make all their desperate efforts for naught: the existence of incriminating surveillance footage on a single laptop hard drive.
Enter one of the most memorable (and meme-friendly) plots in the entire series, involving the show's quintessential knack for brilliant...
Enter one of the most memorable (and meme-friendly) plots in the entire series, involving the show's quintessential knack for brilliant...
- 8/15/2022
- by Jeremy Mathai
- Slash Film
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For the team behind Bleecker Street’s enchanting Mr. Macolm’s List, determination and dedication were key to making a film that’s not only this summer’s sweetest romance, but in many ways, felt like an impossible feat.
During the New York premiere at the DGA Theatre, director Emma Holly Jones, screen and book writer Suzzane Allain and leading actors Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù and Freida Pinto spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about the film’s long and rocky journey to screen, what makes its leading actors so special and the women who helped bring the inclusive regency rom-com to screen.
Allain, who wrote the script as well as the original story — and who is currently writing two follow-ups — credited Jones with shepherding the film through its seven-year journey to getting made. “She was so determined and without her determination, I really don’t...
For the team behind Bleecker Street’s enchanting Mr. Macolm’s List, determination and dedication were key to making a film that’s not only this summer’s sweetest romance, but in many ways, felt like an impossible feat.
During the New York premiere at the DGA Theatre, director Emma Holly Jones, screen and book writer Suzzane Allain and leading actors Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù and Freida Pinto spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about the film’s long and rocky journey to screen, what makes its leading actors so special and the women who helped bring the inclusive regency rom-com to screen.
Allain, who wrote the script as well as the original story — and who is currently writing two follow-ups — credited Jones with shepherding the film through its seven-year journey to getting made. “She was so determined and without her determination, I really don’t...
- 7/4/2022
- by Abbey White
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It's not every day that a novelist is able to see their work so quickly adapted into a film — and it can be even rarer to find a novelist that's also dexterous enough to adapt that work themselves. Suzanne Allain, the creator of "Mr. Malcolm's List," didn't know much about screenwriting when she first made the decision to turn her novel into a screenplay. But Allain's first attempt at an adaptation yielded incredible results: The Black List performed a live reading of her script in 2015, which in turn got the attention of director Emma Holly Jones.
Seven years (and one...
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- 6/30/2022
- by Lyvie Scott
- Slash Film
Hearing that author Suzanne Allain originally set her idea—a bachelor utilizes an impossible list of criteria to find the “perfect” bride in modern day—before realizing the farcical nature of the conceit was better suited for the Jane Austen 1800s made me laugh. Because it’s so true. She talks about the era’s “all-consuming” nature of finding a suitable match for both genders and uses Fitzwilliam Darcy from Pride and Prejudice as an example of someone who might be so arrogant as to treat love like a horse auction, assuring himself that whomever he chooses wouldn’t be interested solely in his money. Which is exactly why the Honorable Jeremy Malcolm (Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù) says he’s doing it: he couldn’t dare admit it was out of fear.
The journey from conception to theaters took director Emma Holly Jones hearing Allain read her screenplay on the Black List...
The journey from conception to theaters took director Emma Holly Jones hearing Allain read her screenplay on the Black List...
- 6/30/2022
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
The recently accepted fashion of populating period British romantic melodramas with actors of color, notably in Netflix’s ongoing hit series Bridgerton, continues with Mr. Malcolm’s List, a nicely decked-out, dramatically conventional tale of Regency-period matchmaking dizzily spinning out of the participants’ control. Admittedly “loosely inspired” by Pride and Prejudice, this modestly scaled venture deep into Jane Austen territory is bedraped with sumptuous estates and elaborately accoutered young men and women forever gossiping and arguing in the poshest possible accents. As familiar as the genre’s conventions may be, they never seem to get old with audiences, who can be counted upon to lap up this Bleecker Street release when it opens July 1 in theaters.
To call this project long-aborning is something of an understatement, as the road has involved many stops along the way. Suzanne Allain self-published her novel in 2009, then wrote a screenplay adaptation that director Emma Holly Jones...
To call this project long-aborning is something of an understatement, as the road has involved many stops along the way. Suzanne Allain self-published her novel in 2009, then wrote a screenplay adaptation that director Emma Holly Jones...
- 6/22/2022
- by Todd McCarthy
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s 1818, and “the season” is in full swing in upper-crust London. High society’s “ton” is out in full force, swanning their way through balls, operas, suppers, teas, strolls around both large and small bodies of water, and even the odd horse sale, all in service to one principal aim: capturing a spouse, and hopefully one with plenty of money to their aristocratic name. But one society lady continues to strike out, and as she enters her fifth season (her fifth! cue the bosom-clutching!) without snagging a suitable husband, things are getting mighty desperate. Soon enough, they’ll even get downright mean.
First-time feature filmmaker Emma Holly Jones spins with her “Mr. Malcolm’s List,” presenting a fresh twist on the Regency Era rom-com that has kept author Jane Austen such a hot commodity for so long. Jones, however, makes nearly as many missteps along the way (said mean streak,...
First-time feature filmmaker Emma Holly Jones spins with her “Mr. Malcolm’s List,” presenting a fresh twist on the Regency Era rom-com that has kept author Jane Austen such a hot commodity for so long. Jones, however, makes nearly as many missteps along the way (said mean streak,...
- 6/20/2022
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Director Emma Holly Jones makes her feature debut with “Mr. Malcolm’s List,” an adaptation of the novel by Suzanne Allain, who also wrote the screenplay. Jones and Allain also collaborated on a short film adaptation of the book in 2019, and the feature film sees many of the stars reprising their roles.
Set in Regency-era England amongst the high-stakes mating rituals of the upper class, “Mr. Malcolm’s List” will obviously call to mind the filmed adaptations of Jane Austen’s work and, of course, the Netflix smash hit series “Bridgerton.”
Following the lead of “Bridgerton” (even though the short film was released before the sexy series swept us off our feet in 2020), Jones’ film boasts a refreshingly diverse cast. These aristocratic families are racially blended, and the color-blind casting enables some wonderful performances.
Also Read:
Nicola Coughlan Reveals ‘Bridgerton’ Season 3 to Focus on Penelope and Colin’s Love Story
“Mr. Malcolm’s List...
Set in Regency-era England amongst the high-stakes mating rituals of the upper class, “Mr. Malcolm’s List” will obviously call to mind the filmed adaptations of Jane Austen’s work and, of course, the Netflix smash hit series “Bridgerton.”
Following the lead of “Bridgerton” (even though the short film was released before the sexy series swept us off our feet in 2020), Jones’ film boasts a refreshingly diverse cast. These aristocratic families are racially blended, and the color-blind casting enables some wonderful performances.
Also Read:
Nicola Coughlan Reveals ‘Bridgerton’ Season 3 to Focus on Penelope and Colin’s Love Story
“Mr. Malcolm’s List...
- 6/20/2022
- by Katie Walsh
- The Wrap
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