Leslye Headland, creator of the new Disney+ series Star Wars: The Acolyte, will make her Broadway debut this fall with the Second Stage Theater production of her play Cult of Love. Trip Cullman (Lobby Hero, Choir Boy) will direct.
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Addie Morfoot Contributor The ethics of documentary filmmaking is not a new topic of debate, but after last month’s Washington Post article about an Afghan man allegedly murdered by the Taliban as a consequence of his participation in Matthew Heineman’s Oscar shortlisted 2022 documentary “Retrograde,” the discussion around the moral responsibility of nonfiction filmmakers has once again heated up. Unlike with journalists, there are no widely-accepted standards that documentary filmmakers are expected to abide by. Regulations for personal nonfiction storytelling can be counterintuitive.
Intrusive. Unless a director is working on a documentary for PBS’ “Frontline” series, known for adherence to journalism standards, situational ethics determined on a case-by-case are more often than not the norm. “Retrograde” tells the story of the United States’ final months of its 20-year war in Afghanistan.
In the film Heineman, whose “Cartel Land” was nominated for an Oscar in 2016, embedded with the U.S. Army Green Berets and Lt. Gen.
Sami Sadat of the Afghan Army to capture the turmoil as American troops pulled out of Afghanistan. The director also filmed the Afghan minesweepers working for the Green Berets. One of the minesweepers, a man nicknamed Justin Bieber, as murdered after the Taliban allegedly saw him in widely circulated TikTok clips of “Retrograde.” In April, following a Washington Post reporter’s inquiry about whether or not Afghan subjects in “Retrograde” were put in danger due to their participation in the film, National Geographic, which distributed the doc, removed the movie from all Disney streaming platforms in a move the company describes as out of “an abundance of caution.” According to the Post, “as many as
.Leslye Headland, creator of the new Disney+ series Star Wars: The Acolyte, will make her Broadway debut this fall with the Second Stage Theater production of her play Cult of Love. Trip Cullman (Lobby Hero, Choir Boy) will direct.
Editor’s Note: Journalist David Blum might have forever coined The Brat Pack era, but it was Carl Kurlander who provided the reason the infamous New York article got written. St. Elmo’s Fire was a script Kurlander wrote with director Joel Schumacher, inspired by events in his life. Now an academic, Kurlander has written several guest columns for Deadline including a 35th anniversary remembrance of St. Elmo’s Fire. Why is he tapping again into those memories? He just watched Brats, the Hulu documentary that premiered at Tribeca, directed by and starring Andrew McCarthy. He was part of the St. Elmo’s Fire ensemble that felt maligned by a mag article published the week before the film was released and became a surprise hit. Here, Kurlander supplies some great dish — did you know Demi Moore‘s drug demons almost forced Joel Schumacher to replace her with the young singer Madonna? Or that Georgetown shunned the movie for immoral activity but OK’d The Exorcist because despite the vile goings on involving a possessed child, evil didn’t win? A little of that stuff would have helped McCarthy’s docu, which gets tedious as he attempts to expunge demons, even as cohorts like Moore, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez and Ally Sheedy seem to be humoring him on camera. After all, that film launched fine futures for them, even if the moniker stung. McCarthy paints journo Blum as a villain, but in fairness, The Brat Pack was a far more clever coinage than putting “gate” on the end of every scandal since Watergate. Blum also unwittingly etched into permanent Hollywood history the memory of those actors when they were young and gorgeous. Who wants to be forgotten?
as over the past year, the liked of Bieber, Grande, Lovato, David Guetta, Black Eyed Peas, and Carly Rae Jepsen had all parted ways with him. Braun shared a statement on his official social media accounts sharing that after over 20 years, “this chapter as a music manager has come to an end.” He revealed that this was something that had been at least two years in the making and shared that a chat with one of his clients last year solidified his decision.“One of my biggest clients and friends told me that they wanted to spread their wings and go in a new direction,” he said.
Scooter Braun announced today that that “after 23 years, this chapter as a music manager has come to an end.”
There aren’t many places in the UK where you can experience opera inside a cave, see a hotel where Mary Queen of Scots reputedly stayed and drink the freshest mineral water available (although you might want to add an ice cube or two), yet you can do all of this in Buxton. You’d be forgiven if your mind first springs to the bottled water when you think of the town, but there’s so much more to this beautiful town on the edge of the Peak District.
Lexi Carson The cast and creatives behind “The Sopranos” reunited at Tribeca Festival Thursday night in celebration of the series’ 25th anniversary. They gathered for the premiere of Alex Gibney’s HBO documentary, “Wise Guy: David Chase and the Sopranos,” which played to a packed audience at the Beacon Theatre on the Upper West Side of Manhattan Thursday night. The two-hour-and-40-minute documentary begins with “The Sopranos” opening credit sequence driving into New Jersey.
Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic Overflowing with insight; stuffed with bracing interviews and anecdotes and archival footage; as bursting with flavor as a baked ziti; and as immersive, in its way, as the show itself, “Wise Guy: David Chase and the Sopranos” is Alex Gibney’s sensationally artful and engrossing two-hour-and-40-minute documentary about the greatest show in the history of television. If you’re a fanatic for “The Sopranos” (and who isn’t?), you probably already know a fair amount about how the show came to be, and “Wise Guy,” for a while, treads familiar ground.
Robert Iler, aka Tony Soprano’s son A.J., said it best tonight at Tribeca’s 25th anniversary of The Sopranos get-together: “Now my friends are going to shitty high school reunions and I’m going to cool stuff like this.”
Just months after being at the centre of controversy around social media activity in relation to Erik ten Hag, Alejandro Garnacho appears to be supporting his manager.
Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic Look up “cartoon villain” in the dictionary, and you’re likely to find a picture of David Zaslav. Since taking over Warner Bros. Discovery, he’s orphaned not one, but two feature-length Looney Tunes projects.
quitting. During the most recent installment — Season 13 — she made a few memorable, notable guest appearances, clashing especially with Erika Jayne and Dorit Kemsley.
Addie Morfoot Contributor Salman Rushdie will be the center of a new documentary from Alex Gibney, the Oscar-winning director behind “Taxi to the Dark Side” snd “Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief.” Tentatively titled “Knife,” the docu is inspired by Rushdie’s memoir “Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder,” which was published in April. The book is an account of the author’s life and career, and also depicts the 2022 assassination attempt against the Indian-born, British-American novelist and the long recovery that followed. Rushdie was stabbed 15 times in in Chautauqua, N.Y.
Emily Longeretta “The Way Home” Season 2 ended with Kat (Chyler Leigh) and Jacob (Spencer Macpherson) about to walk into their home — but viewers may not see Del’s (Andie MacDowell) reaction right away. “We definitely can confirm that we do have to do a time jump, purely because of when we shoot,” co-showrunner Alexandra Clarke said during the show’s ATX TV Festival panel on Sunday, moderated by Variety. “We left them, obviously, in November of 2024, and we’re going to be shooting in August.
Manchester United's transfer plans will gain momentum once a decision on Erik ten Hag is communicated.
Gemma Collins' fiancé Rami Hawash has announced the heart-breaking death of his father.The businessman, 49, who got engaged to former TOWIE star Gemma, 43, earlier this year, confirmed on Saturday that his dad had sadly passed away. Sharing a picture of himself with his late dad, Rami wrote: "I have no words, you was the BEST DAD in the world.TODAY HEAVEN GAINED THE BEST ANGEL #restinpeace." Rami did not reveal his father's exact cause of death, and his followers flooded his comments section with messages of consolation.
With just over a week to go until Taylor Swift is set to play her first Eras Tour gig on British soil, many Swifties will be scrambling to get their hands on any tickets they can to see the queen of pop live. The Shake It Off singer is set play a total of 18 shows in the UK and Ireland, including Edinburgh, Cardiff, Dublin and London.
A dad-of-four who was told his stomach pain was 'indigestion' has been given weeks to live. Joe Snape says he was 'fobbed off' by the NHS for months.
A free petting farm offering pony rides at pocket money prices has had families flocking to visit during the school holidays.
A classic menswear shopfront on a busy Greater Manchester high street houses an altogether different business inside.
While Britain’s Got Talent features a host of comedy acts on stage each year, some of the funniest moments of the show actually take place when presenters Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly tease the judges between performances. During the second semi final on Tuesday 28 May, the spotlight was turned on Simon Cowell as Ant and Dec made fun of Simon’s late return to the judges’ desk during the live show the night before.