By Amanda N'Duka
01.04.2020 - 12:21 / variety.com
For Berlin-based American writer-producer Anna Winger, creating the Netflix series “Unorthodox” offered a unique opportunity to tell a Jewish story in Germany.
The show, which premiered March 26 on Netflix, is inspired by Deborah Feldman’s 2012 memoir, “Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots,” and follows a young woman who leaves her husband and her insular ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Satmar community in Williamsburg, New York, for a new life in Berlin.
Winger, whose credits include
Imagine filming a summer action blockbuster in your basement. Or trying to pull off a heavyweight boxing match with the fighters in two different states.
Allen Kovac's Better Noise label is getting into feature films. Kovac — who has managed pop music acts like Blondie, Mötley Crüe and the Bee Gees — is launching Better Noise Films as part of the Better Noise Entertainment shingle.
Allen Kovac's Better Noise label is getting into feature films.
With production grinding to a halt in the face of the novel coronavirus, the entertainment industry has found itself navigating uncharted territory. To offer a better sense for how, The Hollywood Reporter is running a regular series that focuses on how Hollywood's top writers, actors, directors, executives and more are living and working in these challenging times.
Wynn Handman, the longtime New York acting teacher and artistic director of the American Place Theatre, has died. He was 97.
Diane Rodriguez, an actress, director, playwright and producer who spent 24 years with Los Angeles' Center Theatre Group, died Friday of cancer in Los Angeles. She was 68.
By Bruce Haring
Surprise! Kelly Clarkson’s virtual show had two surprise guests during her Thursday, April 9, interview with Justin Timberlake and Anna Kendrick.
Conservative actor James Woods was quick with a response Thursday after left-leaning fellow thespian Alyssa Milano decried the recent surge in gun sales in the U.S. “Americans bought over 2 million firearms in March of 2020, over a million more than this time last year,” wrote Milano, who backs Joe Biden’s presidential campaign.
He is reported to have been suffering from coronavirus
By Chris Willman
The hit American comedy TV series The Office recently turned 15 years old, bringing back all the memories and laughs of the show.
Now that many Americans are working from home amid the coronavirus outbreak, producers from “The Office” are taking inspiration from our new normal. Deadline reports that Ben Silverman and Paul Lieberstein, former executive producers on the NBC sitcom, are developing a remote workplace comedy series that will unfold over Zoom and other methods of digital communication.
Now that many Americans are working from home amid the coronavirus outbreak, producers from are taking inspiration from our new normal. reports that Ben Silverman and Paul Lieberstein, former executive producers on the NBC sitcom, are developing a remote workplace comedy series that will unfold over Zoom and other methods of digital communication.
The Justice Project premiered on Oxygen Sunday, offering a unique look into all that Kim Kardashian has done in the past two years to address the criminal reform crisis.
A beautiful take on the 1984 song