Spike Lee to Direct Movie Musical About Viagra

Kathie Lee Gifford exudes positivity and light, but fans will soon see another side of her.The 67-year-old TV personality gets candid about the darker moments in her life in her new memoir,. In the book, she briefly touches on her past sexual assault and digs deeper into when she thought her marriage to the late Frank Gifford hit rock bottom.As Kathie Lee tells ET's Rachel Smith, she originally «didn't want to» revisit Frank's infidelity.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterLouise Candlish’s best-selling novel “The Other Passenger” is getting the feature film treatment.Actor-turned-director Joseph Cross has nabbed film rights and plans to direct the movie adaptation. Cross will also produce the film through his company, Moving Image Productions, alongside Lucas Evans.

Florida Georgia Line and Monarch Media are partnering for an original country movie musical that will see theGrammy-nominated duo,Tyler Hubbard and Brian “BK” Kelley, create both original music and reimagine country classics.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorAngelina Jolie (Unbroken) has signed on to direct Unreasonable Behaviour, a biopic of legendary British war photographer Don McCullin, based on his autobiography of the same title. The film is being produced by Tom Hardy and Dean Baker under their Hardy Son & Baker banner (Taboo) alongside Working Title Films’ Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner (Darkest Hour). McCullin and Mark George are exec producing.

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Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: ABC has given a script commitment with penalty to Waiting To Exhale, a drama series followup to the 1995 film, from Lee Daniels (Empire) and 20th Television, where Daniels is under a deal.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ordersWritten by Attica Locke (When They See Us) and Tembi Locke (Never Have I Ever) and directed by Anthony Hemingway (Genius: Aretha), Waiting To Exhale is infused with the humor, sensuousness, and sincerity

Deadline, the screenplay for the upcoming will be co-written by Lee himself alongside British actor, playwright and Young Vic creative director Kwame Kwei-Armah.It’s set to focus on a 2018 Esquire feature aptly titled All Rise: The Untold Story of The Guys Who Launched Viagra‘, which tells the story of how the drug faced opposition from Wall Street and the Catholic Church before transforming the sex lives of men across the globe.Music for the film is set to be led by Mark “Stew” Stewart and

Will Tizard ContributorSpike Lee’s Vietnam treasure-hunt adventure drama “Da 5 Bloods” serves not just as a tribute to greats such as “Apocalypse Now” and “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,” but as an unexpected memorial to the power of Chadwick Boseman’s presence.So said the Oscar-winning director and his cinematographer, Newton Thomas Sigel (“Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Three Kings”), in a live-streamed talk with Variety’s Jazz Tangcay at the EnergaCamerimage Film Festival on Sunday.

Spike Lee’s next project is guaranteed to get a rise out of people.

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to Deadline, Lee waxed poetic about the upcoming musical project.“First And Foremost, I Thank Ms. Jacquelyn Shelton Lee.

article in Esquire by David Kushner from 2018, “All Rise: The Untold Story of the Guys Who Launched Viagra.”Stew Stewart and Heidi Rodewald, who previously wrote the musical “Passing Strange” that Lee directed a filmed version of, will write original songs and music for the Viagra project.Also Read: Spike Lee Collaborator Thomas Jefferson Byrd Murdered in Atlanta, Director SaysMatt Jackson’s Jackson Pictures will produce with Lee’s 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks.

In the latest edition of Hollywood Mad Libs, we have the new project from Spike Lee, who is set to direct a feature musical about the creation of Pfizer’s erectile dysfunction pill, Viagra. READ MORE: Spike Lee Isn’t Sure New Oscars Diversity Standards Will Be Effective: “You Got To Be In The Motherf*cking Room” According to Deadline, Spike Lee has signed on to direct a film musical that he wrote with Kwame Kwei-Armah about the creation of Pfizer’s most famous drug, Viagra.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: While drug manufacturer Pfizer has lately been getting headlines for its potential breakthrough COVID-19 vaccine, Studio Entertainment One and Spike Lee are prepping an untitled tumescent tuner on the breakthrough of an earlier Pfizer miracle drug: Viagra.

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Alexandra Del Rosario Associate Editor/Nights & WeekendsHalf-human, half-alligator Arlo the Alligator Boy is set to make his streaming premiere at the center of not one but two projects in the works at Netflix.The streamer announced Thursday a new 2D animated movie musical, Arlo the Alligator Boy, and a series, I ❤️️Arlo, from Puss in Boots and Shrek Forever After artist Ryan Crego.