Celebrated Hollywood costume designer Deborah Nadoolman Landis has said the time is ripe for an overhaul of the contracts covering pay and conditions as well as Intellectual Property rights for her profession.
16.06.2023 - 05:32 / variety.com
Bob Verini Here’s a thought experiment. Imagine Jack Ryan or Jason Bourne as a cranky, retired septuagenarian, body all achin’ and racked with pain after a lifetime of dangerous missions. Now imagine he gets the call that he’s got to get back in the game, or else risk the lives of himself and everyone he loves. This is the intriguing, often heart-stopping premise of “The Old Man,” which examines the art of espionage in our post-Cold War world and its impact on those who conduct it. Based on a novel by thriller master Thomas Perry, the seven-part first season of the FX series leaps back and forth in time, from the Soviet Union’s war on Afghanistan in the 1980s to the deadly legacy of that conflict in the present day.
“He’s heroic, but perhaps not in the way he thought he was,” executive producer Warren Littlefield said of Jeff Bridges’ titular character at a FX FYC panel on June 8 in Los Angeles. “There’s a mystery to tell when forces come after him to assassinate him. But it’s also a mystery for himself, and a journey of who he is.” The depth of the tale helped Littlefield to assemble a dream cast comprised of Oscar, Emmy and Tony Award winners and nominees Bridges, John Lithgow and Amy Brenneman, who joined him in conversation. During the panel event, the actors discussed how they were attracted not so much by the story’s life-and-death stakes and elaborate fight scenes (and actors do love those), but the chance to create characters of greater complexity than the spy genre usually permits. Foremost among them is Bridges’ role as Dan Chase, a one-time CIA operative gone rogue. (But wait, is that really his name? This is one of the many questions keeping viewers guessing throughout Robert Levine and Jonathan E.
Celebrated Hollywood costume designer Deborah Nadoolman Landis has said the time is ripe for an overhaul of the contracts covering pay and conditions as well as Intellectual Property rights for her profession.
Thousands of people in one Greater Manchester borough have put their name to a petition to leave the region entirely.
EXCLUSIVE: Following the successful theatrical run of her latest directorial effort Cocaine Bear, a Uni horror comedy that grossed over $87M worldwide, Elizabeth Banks (Pitch Perfect franchise) has been set to topline Skincare, a new film from Iervolino & Lady Bacardi Entertainment and producers Jonathan Schwartz and Logan Lerman, which wrapped production prior to the writers’ strike.
Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor When stunt coordinators Tim Connolly and Hank Kingi Jr. first read the script for the pilot of FX’s “The Old Man,” they thought its central chase sequence was one of the best-written scenes in TV. Then, their minds flooded with “a ton of concerns.” Speaking with Variety as Emmy voting comes to a close, Connolly says their challenge was: “How do you pull such a significant scene off with an actor that is 70 years old, and make it feel real and visceral?” So Jeff Bridges prepared for the scene for over a month. In the series, he plays Dan, a rogue CIA operative on the run after being discovered by the FBI. The pilot climaxes with Dan trying to outrun a tail. He seemingly disappears, but before the agents can react, he comes out of nowhere and crashes his car, staving off any fightback from the FBI agents chasing after him.
Pregnant Gemma Atkinson has said that she can "finally relax" as the due date of her second child draws closer, after she threw a birthday party for her daughter, Mia.The 38-year-old is expecting her second child with her fiancé, Strictly Come Dancing pro Gorka Marquez, and she's counting down the days until she's due. On Sunday, Gemma took to Instagram to share a snapshot of an app which showed her daily performance, sleep, recovery, and strain. Over the Instagram story post, Gemma wrote: "How clever is the human body.
McKinley Franklin editor The Palm Springs International ShortFest winners were announced on Sunday, with Japan and the U.S.’s “The Old Young Crow” taking the prize for best of the festival. Lithuania’s “Way Better” won best animated short and China’s “Will You Look At Me” landed best documentary short. Additionally, the award for best live-action short over 15 minutes went to France’s “Sèt Lam” and Spain’s “Mystic Tiger” took home the award for the best live-action short 15 minutes and under. The festival handed out cash prizes worth $25,000, as well as five awards to help winners qualify for the Academy Awards. The competition included some 299 short films within the official selection. The annual festival began on June 20 and will conclude Monday, June 26.
A 77-year-old man has been found dead near Wigan five days after he was first reported missing in Liverpool.
Ben Croll Winner of the audience award and prize for best creation at this year’s Monte-Carlo Television Festival, six-part drama “The Seed” mixes Scandi-noir, ecological concerns and corridors-of-power intrigue into a tense geopolitical thriller that turns around the most elemental of concerns. “Beneath all the thriller convention we explore this question of who feeds the world,” says show creator Christian Jeltsch. “Because whoever feeds the world has a hold on political power, and today only three companies supply us all.” The seeds (ahem) of the idea were planted years ago, when Jeltsch read about mercenaries destroying a seed vault in Aleppo and connected the idea to the very real Svalbard Global Seed Vault just off the North Pole. The wheels began turning, the seeds took to sprouting, and soon the show-writer had a narrative full of international intrigue that begins when a young German activist goes missing on the Norwegian northern archipelago.
With its rugged stone cottages, handsome old pubs, jaw-dropping countryside and a butchers which sells pork pies to die for, what's not to like about the village of Greenfield? But living in such an attractive place has its drawbacks.
Netflix has released the trailer for the highly anticipated limited series All The Light We Cannot See.
Victor Osimhen is a transfer target for Manchester United this summer as Erik ten Hag seeks to strengthen his forward options.
Eamonn Holmes has hit back at the criticism he has faced following the Phillip Schofield affair scandal - saying: “People can’t handle the truth.” Former This Morning host Eamonn, 63, claimed there was a toxic culture at the ITV show after Phillip, 62, left the programme last month and later admitted to an "unwise but not illegal" affair with a much younger colleague. But ITV chiefs hit back at Eamonn’s criticism during a grilling by MPs this week - saying the TV presenter ‘reaped the rewards’ while he was working for the station. Reacting to that for the first time, Eamonn said on GB News on Thursday: “There’s a scene in a Few Good Men where Jack Nicholson shouts ‘you can’t handle the truth’.
Christopher Vourlias In the fall of 1990, in the dying days of the Soviet Union, fighting broke out in the breakaway republic of Transnistria between Russian-backed separatists and forces loyal to the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, a territory on the cusp of its own successful campaign of independence from Moscow. The Transnistria War hardly registers as more than a footnote in most world history books, but it was nevertheless a formative moment in the making of Moldova, a small nation carved from the flank of Eastern Romania and nestled against the western border of Ukraine. When Moldovan filmmaker Ion Borş was growing up in Chisinau, the capital of the former Soviet republic, he heard stories about the conflict from his father, a veteran of Transnistria. The tales — no doubt embellished for his audience — were “tragic but also comical,” says Borş, driving home the absurdity of a war that likely looks even more confounding to its participants more than 30 years later.
Gemma Atkinson has said it was the 'last thing she thought' she'd end up seeing her fiance Gorka Marquez doing as she saw him in a new light while settling into maternity leave together. The couple are currently preparing to welcome their second child together any day now.
Reported Manchester United transfer target Adrien Rabiot's mother is holding talks with Juventus about extending the midfielder's contract with the Serie A club, it has been claimed.
Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse has been sent to cinemas to fix an issue.Directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson, the animated superhero film is the sequel to 2018’s Oscar-winning Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse.The film hit cinemas on June 1 and has been heavily praised by fans and critics alike, with many describing it as the best superhero film ever made.However, some viewers reported issues with the sound mixing in the film, and as Variety report, producers Sony have sent an updated version of the film to theatres in order to fix the issue.A synopsis of Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse reads: “Miles Morales catapults across the multiverse, where he encounters a team of Spider-People charged with protecting its very existence.
With more and more Republican presidential candidates who once supported Trump now publicly turning on him, “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough has a hunch as to why: According to the MSNBC host, it might me they know that more charges are coming.As part of Thursday morning’s discussion on “Morning Joe,” the hosts marveled at the fact that both former New Jersey governor Chris Christie and Trump’s own former VP Mike Pence have effectively come out swinging against him in their campaigns, with Pence saying on Wednesday that Trump “should never” be president again.“I must say, I didn’t expect Mike Pence to be as aggressive as he was yesterday,” Scarborough said.
PJ Harvey has shared new single ‘I Inside The Old I Dying’, as well as announcing details of a 2023 UK and European tour. See dates and ticket details below.The double Mercury Prize winner marked her return back in April with the single ‘A Child’s Question, August’ and news of her 10th album ‘I Inside The Old Year Dying’, the long-awaited follow-up to 2016’s ‘The Hope Six Demolition Project‘.Now, Harvey shares another taster of the record with what she described as “delicate and beautiful song eluded us until the very last day in the studio”.“Over the previous five weeks we had tried so many times to capture it and failed, and/but then John [Parish, producer and collaborator] reinvented the feel of the guitar pattern,” she explained.
A Cheshire businesswoman attacked two policemen during a bust up as they handcuffed her. Carol Holcroft pushed out at one officer and kicked another when she was arrested, a court has heard.
Jeff Garlin had a very abrupt 2021 exit from The Goldbergs.