There's no future in the past, Vince Gill warned in a 1993 hit.
01.02.2020 - 05:46 / deadline.com
By Mike Fleming Jr
Co-Editor-in-Chief, Film
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is closing a world rights deal between mid- to high-seven figures for The 40-Year-Old-Version, the crowd-pleasing directorial debut of Radha Blank, who also stars in the film, wrote the script and produced with Lena Waithe, Jordan Fudge, Inuka Bacote-Capiga, Jennifer Semler and Rishi Rajani. The film is competing in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival, and it premiered last Saturday at the Library
There's no future in the past, Vince Gill warned in a 1993 hit.
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Luke Bryan and Brad Paisley will serve as headliners for the first edition of Lasso Montreal, a country music festival coming to Montreal on Aug. 14-15.
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Dwyane Wade is a proud dad. The 38-year-old former NBA star stops by on Tuesday and opens up about supporting his 12-year-old, Zaya, who identifies as part of the LGBTQ+ community.
Zoe Perry, who plays loving mom Mary Cooper on “Young Sheldon,” really does sound like a proud parent — especially when gushing about watching her TV kids Georgie (Montana Jordan), Sheldon (Iain Armitage) and Missy (Raegan Revord) grow up over the past three seasons.
Radha Blank's The 40-Year-Old Version, which counts Lena Waithe as a producer, has been picked up by Netflix.A theatrical release for the title is planned ahead of its streaming debut later this year.Blank, a New York-based writer with credits onEmpire and She's Gotta Have It, wrote, directed and stars in the feature about a once-promising playwright that is now a struggling artist at the age of 40.
By Anthony D'Alessandro
Netflix is in negotiations to buy the worldwide rights to Radha Blank’s semi-autobiographical comedy “The 40-Year-Old Version,” sources have confirmed.
Irina Shayk, who is known for being notoriously quiet about her relationship with ex Bradley Cooper and their 2-year-old daughter, Lea, is peeling back the curtain on her private life.
Writer-director Radha Blank’s coming-of-age-in-your-40s tale is a love letter full of more love letters. It’s a love letter to the people of pre-gentrified Harlem (she’s a New York native), to old-school hip hop, to struggling artists, to young people with big dreams and to black women who dare to live life out of the box.
In Radha Blank’s semi-autobiographical comedy “The 40-Year-Old Version,” it’s been more than a decade since the Harlem-based playwright earned a promising “30 Under 30” award, and now, instead of getting her work produced, she’s teaching drama to half a dozen high school students. Tastemakers are constantly looking for the hot new thing, but all these years later, where they once spotted potential in Radha, her momentum appears to have stalled.
Police investigating the death of footballer Jordan Sinnott, who was assaulted just hours before a match, have arrested a man on suspicion of murder.