by Chad Kennerk
Behind the scenes: director Emma Westenberg on the set of Bleeding Love. All images courtesy of Icon Film Distribution / Emma Westenberg
Following its world premiere at South by Southwest, You Sing Loud, I Sing Louder changed its tune to the more memorable Bleeding Love, an homage to the Leona Lewis mega hit featured in the film and a fitting allusion to the emotionally fueled core of the father-daughter focused story. Ewan McGregor stars alongside his real-life daughter Clara McGregor, who produced and co-wrote the story with producer Vera Bulder and Ruby Caster. Though a work of fiction, the idea began with Clara drawing on past aspects of her own father-daughter relationship.
Bleeding Love is the story of a father (Ewan McGregor) who embarks on an impromptu road trip with his adult daughter (Clara McGregor) after she narrowly survives a drug overdose. On the road to Santa Fe,...
Behind the scenes: director Emma Westenberg on the set of Bleeding Love. All images courtesy of Icon Film Distribution / Emma Westenberg
Following its world premiere at South by Southwest, You Sing Loud, I Sing Louder changed its tune to the more memorable Bleeding Love, an homage to the Leona Lewis mega hit featured in the film and a fitting allusion to the emotionally fueled core of the father-daughter focused story. Ewan McGregor stars alongside his real-life daughter Clara McGregor, who produced and co-wrote the story with producer Vera Bulder and Ruby Caster. Though a work of fiction, the idea began with Clara drawing on past aspects of her own father-daughter relationship.
Bleeding Love is the story of a father (Ewan McGregor) who embarks on an impromptu road trip with his adult daughter (Clara McGregor) after she narrowly survives a drug overdose. On the road to Santa Fe,...
- 4/12/2024
- by Chad Kennerk
- Film Review Daily
As Sister Wives season 18 unfolds, drama within the Brown family continues. This season will depict the unraveling of the polygamist family and how this shift affected all its members. However, in the first two episodes, there has already been a trio of lies eagle-eyed viewers have caught. How much of Sister Wives is based on untruths?
‘Sister Wives’ Thanksgiving footage lies
During the first two episodes of Sister Wives season 18, the Brown family was split over the holiday season. This piggybacked a storyline around the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic when the supersized clan spent the holiday season at their respective homes.
The family was even more divided after Christine Brown left her spiritual husband, Kody. She celebrated Thanksgiving separately with her children, as did Janelle Brown.
Therefore, for the second Thanksgiving in a row, Meri, Kody, and Robyn Brown spent the day at Robyn and Kody’s home. However, footage from...
‘Sister Wives’ Thanksgiving footage lies
During the first two episodes of Sister Wives season 18, the Brown family was split over the holiday season. This piggybacked a storyline around the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic when the supersized clan spent the holiday season at their respective homes.
The family was even more divided after Christine Brown left her spiritual husband, Kody. She celebrated Thanksgiving separately with her children, as did Janelle Brown.
Therefore, for the second Thanksgiving in a row, Meri, Kody, and Robyn Brown spent the day at Robyn and Kody’s home. However, footage from...
- 9/1/2023
- by Lucille Barilla
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
LIl Nas X, the FX series “Pose,” and the children’s staple “Sesame Street” were all recognized Friday at the 33rd annual GLAAD Media Awards.
In addition, the LGBTQ+ organization honored “Power Rangers” in the kids & family category, and the Broadway productions “Company” and “Thoughts of a Colored Man.”
Judith Light received GLAAD’s Excellence in Media Award from recent Oscar winner Ariana DeBose, while “Star Trek: Discovery” star Wilson Cruz received the Vito Russo Award at the star-studded ceremony.
The New York ceremony was hosted by Peloton instructor Cody Rigsby and “RuPaul’s Drag Race” alum Peppermint. The event also featured special performances from Dove Cameron and Michael R. Jackson, who performed from his Pulitzer-Prize winning Broadway musical “A Strange Loop.”
Last month, an L.A. ceremony recognized additional winners, including the comedy series “Hacks” and the Disney/Marvel movie “Eternals.”
Here’s a complete list of Friday’s winners:...
In addition, the LGBTQ+ organization honored “Power Rangers” in the kids & family category, and the Broadway productions “Company” and “Thoughts of a Colored Man.”
Judith Light received GLAAD’s Excellence in Media Award from recent Oscar winner Ariana DeBose, while “Star Trek: Discovery” star Wilson Cruz received the Vito Russo Award at the star-studded ceremony.
The New York ceremony was hosted by Peloton instructor Cody Rigsby and “RuPaul’s Drag Race” alum Peppermint. The event also featured special performances from Dove Cameron and Michael R. Jackson, who performed from his Pulitzer-Prize winning Broadway musical “A Strange Loop.”
Last month, an L.A. ceremony recognized additional winners, including the comedy series “Hacks” and the Disney/Marvel movie “Eternals.”
Here’s a complete list of Friday’s winners:...
- 5/7/2022
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
Tunch Ilkin, a two-time Pro Bowl tackle, team captain, and longtime broadcaster for the Pittsburgh Steelers, died today at Upmc Presbyterian Hospital at 63. He had Als and passed on Saturday morning, according to former teammate, Craig Wolfley.
“He hit heaven’s gate at full sprint with a lot of high-fives and hallelujahs,” said Wolfley, who has been Ilkin’s best friend and sidekick since they both joined the Steelers in 1980. “He’s one of the greatest men I’ve ever been privileged to lock arms with.”
Ilkin was born in Turkey and came to the US with his family when he was 2. He played 13 seasons with the Steelers and one with the Green Bay Packers, retiring as a player after the 1993 season.
He joined the Steelers radio broadcast team in 1998, joining play-by-play man Bill Hillgrove and color analyst Myron Cope. When Cope retired after the 2004 season, Ilkin became the lead analyst.
“He hit heaven’s gate at full sprint with a lot of high-fives and hallelujahs,” said Wolfley, who has been Ilkin’s best friend and sidekick since they both joined the Steelers in 1980. “He’s one of the greatest men I’ve ever been privileged to lock arms with.”
Ilkin was born in Turkey and came to the US with his family when he was 2. He played 13 seasons with the Steelers and one with the Green Bay Packers, retiring as a player after the 1993 season.
He joined the Steelers radio broadcast team in 1998, joining play-by-play man Bill Hillgrove and color analyst Myron Cope. When Cope retired after the 2004 season, Ilkin became the lead analyst.
- 9/4/2021
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on Wbgr-fm on November 26th, 2020, reviewing the new animated sequel “The Croods: A New Age,” featuring the voices of Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone and Peter Dinklage..
Rating: 4.5/5.0
“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” is an adaptation of a play by August Wilson, part of his ten play “Pittsburgh” cycle, which expresses the history of the black experience in 20th Century America. Ma Rainey (Viola Davis) was a real-life blues singer, and in the story she’s coming to Chicago in 1927 to record her latest blues record for a white-owned record label. It centers on this session, and the musicians that are playing for her, including the energetic horn player Levee.
“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” is in theaters now, and premieres on Netflix December 18th, 2020. Check local listings for theaters and show times. Featuring Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman, Glynn Turman,...
Rating: 4.5/5.0
“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” is an adaptation of a play by August Wilson, part of his ten play “Pittsburgh” cycle, which expresses the history of the black experience in 20th Century America. Ma Rainey (Viola Davis) was a real-life blues singer, and in the story she’s coming to Chicago in 1927 to record her latest blues record for a white-owned record label. It centers on this session, and the musicians that are playing for her, including the energetic horn player Levee.
“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” is in theaters now, and premieres on Netflix December 18th, 2020. Check local listings for theaters and show times. Featuring Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman, Glynn Turman,...
- 11/27/2020
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
It’s hard to watch Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom — George C. Wolfe’s screen adaption of the seminal August Wilson play of the same name, from 1982 — without remembering that it’s Chadwick Boseman’s last movie. (The movie, which opens in limited theatrical release this week, will have a streaming release, on Netflix, on December 18th.) It’s hard in part because Boseman — playing the ambitious horn player Levee — gives a skillful, humbling turn in a role that is but one of the many classically flawed, tragically compelling black...
- 11/25/2020
- by K. Austin Collins
- Rollingstone.com
“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” opens with a thundering blues performance and ends with a gut punch. Both moments inject fresh energy and righteous fury into the 1982 August Wilson play that launched his 10-part Pittsburgh Cycle, but in between, the movie hews to more familiar turf. , director George C. Wolfe’s reverential adaptation livens up the material with sizzling color and vivid closeups. Save for a few digressions, however, Wolfe and screenwriter Ruben Santiago-Hudson have put the play into the movie, rather than vice versa.
For Wilson devotees and newbies alike, that’s a sturdy enough combo to let this bittersweet ode to the Mother of Blues strut its stuff. The second adaptation of the Pittsburgh Cycle following Denzel Washington’s sturdy “Fences” treatment (he serves as a producer here), “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” embodies the frustrations of Black artists in a society rigged against them, with the boisterous singer and...
For Wilson devotees and newbies alike, that’s a sturdy enough combo to let this bittersweet ode to the Mother of Blues strut its stuff. The second adaptation of the Pittsburgh Cycle following Denzel Washington’s sturdy “Fences” treatment (he serves as a producer here), “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” embodies the frustrations of Black artists in a society rigged against them, with the boisterous singer and...
- 11/20/2020
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Over the Moon, an animated feature heads to Netflix in October, showcasing an aesthetically impressive, awe-inspiring tale of wonder and randomly-erupting musical sequences that’s out to prove that Disney+ isn’t the only place on which its genre flourishes.
The film focuses on the exploits of a young Asian-American girl, who—having been entranced by a myth about a goddess who accidentally floated away from her true love to be exiled on the moon—embarks on a cosmic endeavor of building a rocket for a lunar visit of her own. Despite the problematic practicalities of its plot mechanics, Over the Moon appears destined to become a family-aimed crowd-pleaser, and also serves as valuable representation for a demographic that’s infrequently set in a protagonist capacity in Western features.
On that note, do check out the trailers for Over the Moon just below!
Over the Moon Trailers
The final trailer...
The film focuses on the exploits of a young Asian-American girl, who—having been entranced by a myth about a goddess who accidentally floated away from her true love to be exiled on the moon—embarks on a cosmic endeavor of building a rocket for a lunar visit of her own. Despite the problematic practicalities of its plot mechanics, Over the Moon appears destined to become a family-aimed crowd-pleaser, and also serves as valuable representation for a demographic that’s infrequently set in a protagonist capacity in Western features.
On that note, do check out the trailers for Over the Moon just below!
Over the Moon Trailers
The final trailer...
- 9/22/2020
- by Joseph Baxter
- Den of Geek
Juneteenth, which marks the end of slavery in the former Confederacy, has been celebrated as a holiday by many black Americans since shortly after the historic events of June 19th, 1865. This year, with the movement to end racial injustice back in the news, a number of companies have taken steps to formally recognize Juneteenth. One of them is Bandcamp, the independent music platform, which is giving its revenue share from all sales made on June 19th to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in solidarity with protesters. That means any purchase...
- 6/18/2020
- by Jonathan Bernstein, Jon Blistein, Jon Dolan, Kory Grow, Claire Shaffer, Brittany Spanos, Hank Shteamer and Simon Vozick-Levinson
- Rollingstone.com
The Writers Guild Awards and the Academy writing nominees always don’t line up; many films are ineligible. This year, those included Oscar-writing nominees “Lion” and “The Lobster.”
This year, the WGA and the Academy differed dramatically. While the WGA deemed “Moonlight” and “Loving” as Original Screenplays, the Academy considered both as Adapted; only “Moonlight” landed a nomination.
At the WGA, as at the BAFTAs, Barry Jenkins’ script for “Moonlight” competed for the Original Screenplay Award against both Kenneth Lonergan’s “Manchester by the Sea” and Damien Chazelle’s “La La Land.” Unlike the BAFTAs, Jenkins emerged the winner over Lonergan, a sign of strength for “Moonlight,” which is nominated for eight Oscars.
Read More: Yes, Damien Chazelle’s ‘La La Land’ Really Will Win Director and Picture Oscars — Here’s Why
However, in the Oscars’ Original Screenplay contest, lauded playwright and Oscar-nominated screenwriter Lonergan (“You Can Count On Me,...
This year, the WGA and the Academy differed dramatically. While the WGA deemed “Moonlight” and “Loving” as Original Screenplays, the Academy considered both as Adapted; only “Moonlight” landed a nomination.
At the WGA, as at the BAFTAs, Barry Jenkins’ script for “Moonlight” competed for the Original Screenplay Award against both Kenneth Lonergan’s “Manchester by the Sea” and Damien Chazelle’s “La La Land.” Unlike the BAFTAs, Jenkins emerged the winner over Lonergan, a sign of strength for “Moonlight,” which is nominated for eight Oscars.
Read More: Yes, Damien Chazelle’s ‘La La Land’ Really Will Win Director and Picture Oscars — Here’s Why
However, in the Oscars’ Original Screenplay contest, lauded playwright and Oscar-nominated screenwriter Lonergan (“You Can Count On Me,...
- 2/20/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Screenwriting software co. Final Draft will award Big Eyes duo Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski with its 2015 Hall of Fame honors at its annual Final Draft Awards, to be held February 12 on the Paramount lot. Alexander and Karaszewski join a list of previous Hall of Famers including Nancy Meyers, Lawrence Kasdan, Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, Robert Towne, Stephen J. Cannell, Oliver Stone, Syd Field and Sydney Pollack and will be feted at the awards event hosted by writer-actors Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant.
Big Eyes, the true tale of artist Margaret Keane and her battle to win recognition for her famed paintings of large-eyed waifs from a credit-stealing hubby, stars Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz and marks the writers’ latest collaboration with director Tim Burton. Alexander and Karaszewski’s previous big screen portraits of larger than life characters include WGA-nominated Ed Wood, Golden Globe winning The People Vs. Larry Flynt,...
Big Eyes, the true tale of artist Margaret Keane and her battle to win recognition for her famed paintings of large-eyed waifs from a credit-stealing hubby, stars Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz and marks the writers’ latest collaboration with director Tim Burton. Alexander and Karaszewski’s previous big screen portraits of larger than life characters include WGA-nominated Ed Wood, Golden Globe winning The People Vs. Larry Flynt,...
- 12/10/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
One of the Broadway greats has passed away.
Broadway great Elaine Stritch has passed away on Thursday morning. She was 89.
Though the five-time Tony nominee is perhaps best known for her stage presence (Bus Stop, Sail Away, Company), her TV and film resume is also quite impressive.
From 2008-2013, she was nominated for an Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series Primetime Emmy for her role as Colleen Donaghy, the mother of Alec Baldwin's character Jack Donaghy on 30 Rock. In 1993, she won an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for Law & Order.
She's also appeared in two Woody Allen movies, September (1987) and Small Time Crooks (2000). Her other more recent film credits include Monster In Law (2005), Autumn In New York (2000), Screwed (2000) and Out to Sea (1997).
As far as her musical background, Stritch has starred in No No Nanette, The King and I and I Married an Angel. She was also...
Broadway great Elaine Stritch has passed away on Thursday morning. She was 89.
Though the five-time Tony nominee is perhaps best known for her stage presence (Bus Stop, Sail Away, Company), her TV and film resume is also quite impressive.
From 2008-2013, she was nominated for an Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series Primetime Emmy for her role as Colleen Donaghy, the mother of Alec Baldwin's character Jack Donaghy on 30 Rock. In 1993, she won an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for Law & Order.
She's also appeared in two Woody Allen movies, September (1987) and Small Time Crooks (2000). Her other more recent film credits include Monster In Law (2005), Autumn In New York (2000), Screwed (2000) and Out to Sea (1997).
As far as her musical background, Stritch has starred in No No Nanette, The King and I and I Married an Angel. She was also...
- 7/17/2014
- Entertainment Tonight
Actress Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Reynolds will team up to headline Tim Burton’s art drama entitled “Big Eyes”. While Burton is producing through his company Screwed, helmers Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski will both co-direct the picture that chronicles the lives of artist Margaret Keanes and her husband Walter, who passed off his wife’s work as his own until the two eventually divorced. Issuing a joint statement, both directors were excited over working with Witherspoon and Reynolds on the coming art drama. “We are ecstatic to have this dream cast for our dream project. Walter is a larger-than-life antihero — charming, funny, dangerous, and a little crazy. Ryan will knock...
- 1/24/2012
- by sluoma
- ShockYa
[1] Considering that each of them has done their fair share of bland romantic comedies, it's a little surprising that Ryan Reynolds and Reese Witherspoon have never starred together. But the two are set to collaborate at last in Big Eyes, an art biopic that's decidedly not a romcom. Produced by Tim Burton, the film centers around married couple Margaret and Walter Keane. Walter seemed to hit it big in the '50s and '60s when his art became hugely popular, but became the subject of scandal when the couple divorced and it was revealed in court that it was actually Margaret who'd painted all the pictures. More details after the jump. Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, who previously worked with Burton on Ed Wood, are set to write and direct the project and have been for some time -- Kate Hudson was attached to play Margaret way back in 2008 [2]. In a statement,...
- 1/23/2012
- by Angie Han
- Slash Film
Deadline say Ryan Reynolds and Reese Witherspoon will star in Big Eyes, a long-gestating indie drama that biopic specialists Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski (Ed Wood, The People vs Larry Flynt, Man On The Moon) wrote years ago but has lately been stuck in development hell.
The film explores the relationship between innovative painter Margaret Keane and her talentless husband Walter in the 50′s and 60′s, the latter who actually took all the credit for his wife’s paintings which took the art world by storm and became mass market sensations. Walter was a marketing wizard and talked up ‘his paintings’ on TV talk shows and he lived on the luxuries and fame that they brought him. The reason Margaret let this go on was because she had self image problems, and was quite happy to hide away out of the spotlight whilst Walter lauded it up.
Spoilers ahead (Scroll over to read Invisible text!
The film explores the relationship between innovative painter Margaret Keane and her talentless husband Walter in the 50′s and 60′s, the latter who actually took all the credit for his wife’s paintings which took the art world by storm and became mass market sensations. Walter was a marketing wizard and talked up ‘his paintings’ on TV talk shows and he lived on the luxuries and fame that they brought him. The reason Margaret let this go on was because she had self image problems, and was quite happy to hide away out of the spotlight whilst Walter lauded it up.
Spoilers ahead (Scroll over to read Invisible text!
- 1/23/2012
- by Matt Holmes
- Obsessed with Film
Norm MacDonald has never appeared particularly interested in Adam Sandler-style superstardom. Especially after the movies didn’t work out — he starred in Dirty Work, an overlooked gem, and Screwed, an overlooked travesty — he’s been pretty comfortable on the fringes of Hollywood. Heck, his greatest role in the last decade has arguably been as Conan O’Brien’s favorite talk-show guest (including a brilliant appearance during last year’s Late Night war.) But there’s reason to hope that a full-on MacDonald comeback is coming: According to the Associate Press, the comedian will star in Sports Show with Norm MacDonald on Comedy Central,...
- 2/9/2011
- by Darren Franich
- EW.com - PopWatch
In the current era, the second weekend in May is firmly considered part of the summer movie season, and it is usually dominated by summer's first big movie in its second weekend, such as this year with Iron Man 2. The summer movie season creeping so early in the year is a recent phenomenon, and, the further back one goes, the more decidedly un-summer-like movies one will find debuting prior to Memorial Day weekend. Five Years Ago - 2005 This was another modest 2005 weekend, despite three new nationwide releases. Jennifer Lopez-Jane Fonda comedy Monster-in-Law led the way with a solid $23.1 million, capitalizing on its relatable Meet the Parents-like premise. Will Ferrell comedy Kicking and Screaming didn't pack as much punch with its $20.2 million start, while Jet Li's Unleashed posted a decent $10.9 million. Kingdom of Heaven collapsed 51 percent in its second weekend to $9.6 million, while future Oscar winner...
- 5/16/2010
- by Brandon Gray <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
- Box Office Mojo
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