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01.06.2022 - 00:53 / variety.com
Isabel Sandoval Days after my episode of “Under The Banner of Heaven” premiered, I received a private message on Twitter from a Mormon consultant on the show though we never managed to connect during the shoot. “I just wanted you to know how beautiful your episode turned out. The response here in Utah has been epic.
Every day I’m receiving texts from ex-Mormons (and some current LDS) who absolutely loved it. So many people are resonating with how beautifully you and Andrew [Garfield] captured the pain of a faith crisis.”The response feels both remarkable and especially rewarding to me, who is neither Mormon nor born and raised in Utah (or the U.S., for that matter). I was born (and grew up) in the Philippines, the only predominantly Catholic country in Asia.
I had a Catholic education from kindergarten to college. As a grade-schooler, I had a phase of being so devout that for years I was a mass server at the school chapel every morning. What did I know of Mormonism?Practically nothing.
Yet that only emboldened me to take the plunge, after showrunner (and Oscar-winning screenwriter) Dustin Lance Black took a chance on me for what would become the first episode of television I’d direct.Since I started making films, I’ve always thought that cinema is a gesture of empathetic imagination. In my episode – “Revelation”, the series’ penultimate installment — Jeb Pyre (Andrew Garfield) finds the erosion of his faith escalating, culminating in the darkest night of his soul. It’s a turning point for the series, transcending the noir pleasures of its true-crime origins to become a “spiritual thriller.”In truth, Pyre’s spiritual crisis isn’t so alien to me.
Get ready for Bill Nye to blow your mind: The End is Nye starring the inimitable science educator will bow Aug. 25 on Peacock.
Everett Peck, whose comic-book creation Duckman was adapted into a late-1990s animated series with Jason Alexander voicing the lewd private-eye title character, died Tuesday, June 14, of cancer in California. He was 71.
Wilson Chapman editorSylvester Stallone is making the jump to streaming. Paramount+ has released the first teaser for “Tulsa King,” the new crime drama from “Yellowstone” creator Taylor Sheridan, featuring Stallone in the central role.Stallone, in the first regular TV role of his career, plays Dwight Manfredi, a New York Mafia head who finally gets out of jail after a 25-year sentence. Upon his release, he’s unceremoniously relocated by his boss to Tulsa, Okla.
EXCLUSIVE: Big Beach has announced that it will produce the upcoming feature Tropical Gothic from Lingua Franca‘s Isabel Sandoval.
New York City Center’s Encores!, which recently announced that its acclaimed production of Into The Woods is planning a Broadway transfer, has set revivals of The Light in the Piazza, Dear World and Oliver! for its 2023 season.
It’s been a long time since we’ve seen Troian Bellisario and Patrick J. Adams on the red carpet together!
Kid Cudi has shared a new song, ‘Do What I Want’, which is taken from his upcoming album ‘Entergalactic’ – listen below.Cudi initially teased the track last week via the first-look trailer for his forthcoming Netflix adult-animated series Entergalactic. He announced on his Twitter that he would be dropping the track later the same week.“‘Do What I Want’ was the first song I did w Day Trip and I locked in w them heavy shortly after to make MOTM3,” he wrote.
Selome Hailu Apple TV+ announced that “Schmigadoon!” has been renewed for a second season. Additionally, Tituss Burgess and Patrick Page have joined the cast.The series stars Cecily Strong and Keegan-Michael Key as a couple named Melissa Gimble and Josh Skinner, two doctors from New york who go on a backpacking trip when their relationship hits a rough patch and find themselves lost in the town of Schmigadoon — where life is a 1940s-50s musical with songs and characters inspired by “Oklahoma!” and “The Music Man,” among others.
Netflix has released the first trailer for Entergalactic, an upcoming animated series co-created by Kid Cudi.First announced in 2019, the show will feature songs from Cudi’s forthcoming album of the same name. Conceived in collaboration with Black-ish creator Kenya Barris, Entergalactic will follow two young musicians as they balance love and success in New York City.
EXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment has acquired North American rights to the political satire Land of Dreams, directed by Shirin Neshat and Shoja Azari, which is making its North American premiere in the Spotlight Narrative section of the Tribeca Film Festival in June. The global indie distributor has slated the film for a day-and-date theatrical release in 10 of the top 20 markets—including in Los Angeles and New York—this fall. (Watch a new trailer unveiled today by the company above.)
Rich Flu.As reported in Variety, Culkin will join Daniel Brühl and Rosamund Pike in the new film, which is directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia.Filming will begin on the project this autumn and it’s described as a “high-concept social thriller in which a deadly disease starts killing off the richest people on the planet,” according to Variety.The description adds: “At first it strikes the billionaires, then the multi-millionaires, and so on. With the whole world panicking and headed for collapse, people are trying to flood the market with assets they no longer want, in hopes of saving their skin.”Gaztelu-Urrutia is directing Rich Flu from a script he co-wrote with Pedro Rivero, who he’d previously worked with on The Platform, as well as David Desola and Sam Steiner.Culkin had his breakthrough role in the Home Alone franchise and starred in other 90s films such as The Good Son, My Girl and Richie Rich. After taking a break from acting, he returned with roles in 2003’s Party Monster and 2007’s Sex and Breakfast.
Pizza House/Pizza Chef in Newark in the 1950s before relocating the business to Cranford in 1970.Liotta worked at the pizzeria during his high summer vacations from 1971 to 1973. “We were making $3.50 an hour back then,” Preziosi Jr. recalled.“Ray was a great worker.
Matt Damon and his wife Luciana Barroso decided to take a walk in New York City on Monday, enjoying the warm weather of spring in a romantic stroll, as he takes a break from filming the biopic ‘Oppenheimer’ starring Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh and Robert Downey Jr. The 46-year-old Argentinan interior designer who sometimes goes by the nickname Lucy Damon and is best friends with Chris Hemsworth’s wife Elsa Pataky, looked chic wearing beige linen pants and a white loose t-shirt, accesorized with a mint green brimmed, minimal gold jewelry and dark shades.The Hollywood actor also wore a casual look, sporting a black t-shirt, grat shorts, a baseball cap and black vans.The couple decided to move to New York last summer, leaving the west coast, as they previously lived in California with their four children, 11-year-old Stella, 13-year-old Gia, 15-year-old Isabella and 23-year-old Alexia.Now the big family is enjoying their time in the big city.
EXCLUSIVE: Bobby Lee (And Just Like That…) has signed on to star alongside Justina Machado, Will Sasso, Gregg Sulkin and Michelle Randolph in Mario Garcia’s feature directorial debut, The Throwback, which is currently in production in the Tampa Bay area.
Fans of Zach Braff and Florence Pugh are speculating that the couple has split.
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley welcomed her first daughter with actor Jason Statham in February this year.The 35 year old model has now posted candid snapshots breastfeeding three month old Isabella James while in France for the Cannes Film Festival. Rosie looks elegant as she captures the beautiful moment in a mirror selfie.The model is wearing a robe from the 5 star Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, which is 15km from Cannes, as she cosies up to her baby girl. She flashed a leg as she posed for rare snaps with baby Isabella, who is wearing a neutral baby grow and beige socks.