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Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Alexander Payne calls editor Kevin Tent his filmmaking partner. The two first met running in the same L.A. film school circles.
Tent cut “Citizen Ruth,” Payne’s feature directorial debut, after editor Carole Kravetz Aykanian recommended him. Ever since, Payne has relied on Tent to come in whenever he’s reading scripts, considering projects and, ultimately, edit his films. Their latest collaboration, “The Holdovers,” is set in the early 1970s at the fictional Barton Academy, a New England prep school.
Paul Giamatti is the curmudgeonly teacher forced to stay on campus during Christmas break to look after the students with nowhere to go They discuss their shorthand and how they tweaked the film’s opening sequence while shooting it. Where did “The Holdovers” begin for you? Payne: It had a unique genesis. The story is taken from a 1935 French film that I saw at the Telluride Film Festival, and it takes place at a boarding school.
I hadn’t done anything with that idea yet, but I met [screenwriter] David Hemingson through a pilot script he had written that also takes place at a boarding school. I called him because I thought he could be a good candidate to write this idea up, and we developed the screenplay together. With Kevin, we’re always in touch, so I let him know what I’m up to.
Tent: It seemed like a great story, and he was excited about the idea. Usually, he’ll send me a script and ask for any thoughts. Payne: I also send them if I happen to read a script that I’m flirting with doing that I’ve not written.
I get his input as my filmmaking partner. If I take it on, it’s something that he also is going to take on, so I want him to be on board. What was it like working with Paul Giamatti
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Heart have played their first live shows together in almost half a decade around and on New Years Eve.The first date took place on December 27 at a more intimate venue, the Yaamava Theatre in Highland, California. The rock band then played two other arena shows in California and their hometown of Seattle on December 28 and 31 respectively.These were their first shows since 2019 and featured a career-spanning setlist including hits such as ‘Magic Man’, ‘Crazy On You’ and ‘Barracuda’.
Don’t expect to learn the secret behind Paul Giamatti‘s lazy eye in the movie The Holdovers, because he doesn’t want you to know.
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during their annual walkabout at St Mary Magdalene Church at Sandringham.Ferguson — who is also affectionately known as Fergie — joined the Windsors for the holiday alongside her daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, for the fist time since the 90s.According to “Charles III: New King. New Court” author Robert Hardman, the reason why she was welcomed back for the Yuletide occasion was due to King Charles’ love for Beatrice, 35, and Eugenie, 33.“Life moves on.
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John Oates is still performing amid his nasty court battle against former Hall & Oates music partner Daryl Hall — on “The Masked Singer.”Oates, 75, was revealed as the Anteater during the Fox show’s latest Season 10 episode on Wednesday. Although his name rhymed with his hit 1982 song “Maneater,” no one on the panel managed to guess his true identity.“That was the first thing I thought of. They were trying to make a connection between ‘Maneater’ and Anteater, but no one else seemed to get that for some reason, which I found kind of surprising,” he told Entertainment Weekly of the clue.
If you watch Paul Giamatti in the new movie The Holdovers, you might be left wondering: is that his real eye?
Neighbours, the returning soap that has been playing elsewhere (Channel 5 and previously the BBC in the UK, has been released by its new home – streamer Freevee.The series will return to screens on 18 September, with new episodes releasing daily, Monday-Thursday, at 7 a.m. BST, on Amazon Freevee in the UK and the U.S.
A thug is behind bars for the "merciless" abuse of a woman and boy. Kenneth Quinn was convicted of the attacks spanning four decades.
The cast of Jersey Shore is still processing the return of Ronnie Ortiz-Magro.
The third annual Red Sea Film Festival handed out its Yusr Awards on Thursday night, with Zarrar Kahn’s In Flames taking Best Feature and Farah Nabulsi’s The Teacher scoring a pair of wins including Best Actor for Saleh Bakri. See the full list below.
Viewership for the fourth Republican debate fell since the last event, drawing more than 4 million for Nexstar’s NewsNation and its simulcast on The CW.
Femme until the film slides out of cinemas – it is absolutely one of the best films of the year – and here comes a new clip from it as it continues to grab the best lead award (it won gongs at the BIFA ceremony on Sunday for leads Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and George Mackay).If you’re not familiar with Femme, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in February, here’s the official synopsis from Signature who have it in the Uk and Ireland.Jules’ life and career as a drag queen is destroyed by a homophobic attack, but when he re-encounters his attacker in a gay sauna, he is presented with a chance to exact revenge. Related: Interview with the directors of new British film ‘Femme’Starring George MacKay (1917), Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (Misfits), John McCrea (Cabaret), Nima Taleghani (Heartstopper), Aaron Heffernan (Brassic), and Antonia Clarke (The Serpent Queen).
Jenny Bradley (Sally Ann Matthews) and Daisy Midgeley (Charlotte Jordan) decide to get the Rovers Return Inn back no matter what in latest Coronation Street spoilers. Jenny and Carla Barlow (Alison King) try and fail to persuade Audrey Roberts (Sue Nicholls) to hand over Stephen Ried’s (Todd Boyce) journal, leaving them at a loss with how to hack into his laptop. When downtrodden Jenny returns home, Daisy tells her not to give up telling her that she deserves a chunk of money considering what she went through with Stephen.