Hilary Swank made an exciting announcement on Wednesday, revealing she's pregnant with twins! But weeks before her pregnancy news, the two-time Oscar winner took over the ET mic for an exclusive set tour of her new ABC drama, .The drama series, which debuts Thursday, follows Swank's Eileen Fitzgerald, a talented and award-winning investigative journalist who leaves her high-profile New York life behind after a fall from grace to join a daily metro newspaper in Anchorage, Alaska, on a journey to find both personal and professional redemption. She soon finds herself at the center of a years-old cold case involving the death of a missing woman who was abducted when she was a teenager. «I call my character, whose name is Eileen, a truth seeker,» Swank says to the ET camera as she shows off the Vancouver set, before referring to the mystery at the center of her quest. «So, this is what brings her here.
‘Heli’s’ Armando Espitia Set for ‘Six Months,’ from Chicago Fest Winner Bruno Santamaría (EXCLUSIVE)
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John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Armando Espitia, who broke out as the hapless young factory worker in Amat Escalante’s Cannes winner “Heli,” is attached to star in “Six Months in the Pink and Blue Building,” a feature project being brought to San Sebastian’s Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum by Mexico’s Bruno Santamaría Raso. Also on board is actor – and writer-producer – Sofia Espinosa, who fulfilled all three roles in Max Zunino’s “Los Bañistas” and “Bruma” and won a Mexican Academy Ariel for her tearaway performance as Gloria Trevi in “Gloria.” Written and to be directed by Santamaría, “Six Months in the Pink and Blue Building,” (“Seis meses en el edificio rosa con azul,”) marks his first fiction feature. He caught attention and won a Chicago Golden Hugo Golden Hugo and Golde Q Hugo for best documentary for “Things We Dare Not Do,” a movie straddling fiction in its finish, production values and narrative structures as it depicts Toño, the eldest son and second father to a swarm of siblings, living in a benighted village on marshy plains and plucking up the courage to tell his mother that he’s gay.
Autobiographical, “Six Months” is “an opportunity to understand an intimate and familiar event from the past,” in Santamaría’s words. The story, set in 1996, follows 10-year-old boy Bru, whose father is diagnosed with HIV. His father and mother are especially affectionate towards Bru and his brother despite the fact that living with a HIV patient could mean physical or social death. Six months go by and it turns out that the diagnosis was a hospital error. A few days later, Bru’s parents announce they are getting divorced. “What was happening behind the love? What do parents not tell each
Scottish Government announces new plans to freeze rents and protect tenants from eviction for six months
Legislation that would temporarily freeze rents and ban evictions in Scotland has passed its first stage in the Scottish Parliament. MSPs backed the general principles of the Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Bill by 88 votes to 29 on Tuesday evening.
Paramount+’s ‘The Envoys’ Season 2, From Oscar Winner Juan Jose Campanella, Rolls in Spain
John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Showrun and directed by Academy Award winner Juan Jose Campanella (“The Secret in Their Eyes”), burgeoning hit Paramount+ franchise “The Envoys” has gone into production on Season 2 in Galicia, North-West Spain. Miguel Angel Silvestre (“En el corredor de la muerte”) and Luis Gerardo Méndez (“Club de Cuervos”) are reprising their roles as Vatican dispatched miracle corroborators, playing alongside Assira Abbate (“Empire of Lies”), who also starred in Season 1. Described as a gripping thriller, Season 2 is again produced by VIS, Paramount’s international studio, in collaboration with 100 Bares, Campanella’s Buenos Aires production label and, this time round, Galicia’s A Coruña-based Portocabo. A producer on Movistar Plus+ hits “Hierro” and “Rapa,” Portocabo has also been behind pioneering premium TV co-productions with Portugal (“Dry Water”).
‘Big Bang Theory’ Creator Denies Adding More Sex Scenes for Kaley Cuoco and Johnny Galecki After Real-Life Split, Actors Thought He ‘Was F—ing With Us’
Zack Sharf Kaley Cuoco and Johnny Galecki will forever be associated with their respective roles as Penny and Leonard on CBS’ long-running sitcom “The Bing Bang Theory.” The actors, similar to the characters they played on the show, fell in love while working together and dated from 2008 to 2010. “Bing Bang” writers were already planning Penny and Leonard’s breakup when Cuoco and Galecki split in real life. During interviews for Jessica Radloff’s new book “The Big Bang Theory: The Definitive, Inside Story” (via Vanity Fair), both Cuoco and Galecki shared their belief that series creator Chuck Lorre added more Penny-Leonard kissing and sex scenes after their real-life split just to mess with them.
Netflix EMEA Series Boss Larry Tanz Says Streamer Is Defying Subscriber Teething Problems By Continuing To Grow Investment In The Region As He Gets Set For Six New Dramas Including ‘1899’
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix EMEA TV boss Larry Tanz has claimed the streamer is defying subscriber teething problems by continuing to grow investment in the region, standing by commitments and helping crews and talent as he prepares to welcome a wealth of prospective hits including Dark creators Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese’s 1899.
Las Vegas Dolphin Habitat ‘Temporarily Closing’ After Third Death In SIX MONTHS
The Mirage’s dolphin exhibit is shutting down following multiple deaths year…
‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Season 19 Trailer: Meredith Recounts “Very Difficult Six Months” To Nick, Gives Link Elevator Advice
Season 19 of ABC’s hit Grey’s Anatomy is picking up six months after the events in the Season 18 finale. So says Scott Speedman’s Nick in the trailer for the new season. To which Ellen Pompeo replies, “It’s been a very difficult six months.”
'Brazen' shoplifter seen filling his bag before walking out of Boots jailed for six months
A prolific thief who admitted 15 counts of shoplifting has been jailed for six months.
Distraught mum of missing Scot vows to 'never give up on finding him' six months after disappearance
The distraught mother of a missing Scots man has vowed to 'never give up on finding him' six months after his disappearance.
Bills ‘will spike again when new cap ends’ as Scots firms warn six months help may not be enough
Scottish businesses have voiced concerns over sharp energy price rises after the end of a new Government scheme.
Liam Gallagher has taken six months off booze in past 30 years
Liam Gallagher has had six months off booze in the last three decades. The 50-year-old rocker opened up on his voice after a career in the spotlight with Oasis, Beady Eye and now his own solo career, and he admitted his drinking and smoking has had an impact. He told Matt Wilkinson on Apple Music 1: "The main thing for me is, obviously I smoke and I drink and I get involved, unlike some rock stars.
‘Six Months,’ ‘The Castle,’ ‘Hesitation Wound’ Win San Sebastian Forum, WIP Latam, WIP Europe
John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Mexico’s Bruno Santamaría, Argentina’s Martín Benchimol and Turkey’s Selman Nacar proved three of the big winners among San Sebastian Industry Awards, announced Wednesday. João Paulo Miranda, already a young star on Brazil’s film scene after “Memory House,” meanwhile won the Ikusmira Berriak Award. A Chicago Golden Hugo winner for doc feature “Things We Dare Not Do,” Santamaría swept two awards at the fest’s Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, a Mecca for Latin America auteurs and their producers seeking vital co-production partners as state funding prospects have plunged across the region.
Drew Barrymore isn’t impressed by Andrew Garfield giving up sex for six months: “Yeah, so?”
Martin Scorsese film Silence, where he abstained from sex for six months.Garfield discussed the decision on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast in August, explaining that he adopted method acting to play a 17th century Jesuit priest in the 2016 film.“I had an incredibly spiritual experience,” Garfield said (via The Hollywood Reporter). “I did a bunch of spiritual practises every day, I created new rituals for myself.
Drew Barrymore Isn’t Too Impressed by Andrew Garfield Giving Up Sex for Six Months Before Filming ‘Silence’: ‘Yeah, So?’
Zack Sharf Consider Drew Barrymore unimpressed with at least some of Andrew Garfield’s method acting choices during the making of Martin Scorsese’s “Silence.” Garfield told Marc Maron in August that he abstained from sex for six months in order to play a Jesuit priest in the Scorsese religious drama. Barrymore’s reaction? “Yeah, so?” Garfield’s “Silence” prep came up during the Sept. 20 episode of “The Drew Barrymore Show” (via Decider), with co-host Ross Matthews joking, “I get abstaining from sex, I mean I did that my entire 20s, right?” Barrymore said back, “What’s wrong with me that six months doesn’t seem like a very long time? I was like, ‘Yeah so?’”
Spain’s Elamedia Swoops on Locarno Prize Winner ‘Electric Dreams’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Christopher Vourlias Spanish production and distribution company Elamedia has acquired “Tengo sueños eléctricos” (I Have Electric Dreams), the Locarno prize-winning debut by director Valentina Maurel, which will screen in the Horizontes Latinos section of the San Sebastian Film Festival. Elamedia will be releasing the film in Spanish theaters later this year. Set in Costa Rica, “Electric Dreams” follows Eva (Daniela Marin Navarro), a strong-willed 16-year-old girl who lives with her mother, her younger sister and their cat, but desperately wants to move in with her estranged father (Reinaldo Amien Guttierez). Clinging onto him as he goes through a second adolescence, she balances between the tenderness and sensitivity of teenage life and the ruthlessness of the adult world.
Mexico Pushes Diversity
John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Eight of the 10 directors in the Morelia Festival’s main Mexican competition are women, led by two of the biggest Mexican fest hits of the year,“Robe of Gems,” Natalia López Gallardo’s Berlin Special Jury laureate, and “Huesera,” from Michelle Garza Cervera, a double Tribeca winner. Features with Indigenous or Black Mexican protagonists have shot up in Mexico, from 14 in 2019 to 31 in 2019, according to Imcine’s Mexican Cinema Yearbook. In 2017, Mexico’s biggest homegrown hit was Nicolas López’s “Do It Like an Hombre,” a merciless taunt of a Mexican macho’s helpless homophobia, which grossed $11.0 million in the country.