Steven Spielberg, Kate Capshaw Donate $2 Million to Help Launch Jewish Story Partners Film Foundation

EXCLUSIVE: TFC Management has signed writers-producers Kyle Long (Unsolved), Taylor Elmore (The Stand), Sabaah Folayan (Betty) and Alison McDonald (Your Honor). Launched last summer by senior TV lit agents Ben Jacobson and David Stone, TFC Management represents creators, showrunners, filmmakers and producers.

Jewish Story Partners, a new Los Angeles-based film foundation with initial funding from Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw’s Righteous Persons Foundation, named its first round of grantees Wednesday including projects from Joey Soloway (Transparent), Maxim Pozdorovkin (Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer, Our New President) and Luke Lorentzen (Midnight Family).

West Side Story’s remake from director Steven Spielberg finally debuted its trailer at the Oscars 2021, and Rachel Zegler who stars in the role of Maria in the film recently revealed how she reacted after the trailer went live. Well, the star FaceTime’d with the famed director after the trailer debuted online and they had such a funny conversation.

Rachel Zegler stars in the role of Maria in the West Side Story remake from director Steven Spielberg, and the trailer debuted during the 2021 Oscars.

The first trailer of Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story waltzed its way into the 93rd Academy Awards on Sunday night, PST. The cast of the movie includes Ansel Elgort and debutant Rachel Zegler playing the roles of Tony and Maria along with EGOT winner Rita Moreno as Valentina, who owns the corner store where Tony works.The trailer starts with scenes of dawn breaking in the city of New York, as one can hear a siren going off at a distance.

Steven Spielberg’s take on West Side Story has been released. During Sunday (25 April) night’s Oscar ceremony, fans were given a first look at the musical extravaganza, which is scheduled for US release on 10 December, exactly 60 years after the original film was released.

West Side Story, based on the musical of the same name.The film stars Ansel Engort as Tony and Rachel Zegler as Maria, in the story – a retelling of Romeo & Juliet – that sees the two fall in love in 1950s New York City as a feud between their respective affiliated gangs, the Jets and the Sharks, comes to a head.The trailer is without dialogue, but shows a string of scenes from the film, including a recreation of some of the 1961 version’s most iconic dance numbers.Watch it below:Due out in

It’s been the movie remake on everyone’s lips since it was announced that Steven Spielberg was taking on West Side Story. And now we’ve finally gotten our first look at the musical.

The first trailer for West Side Story danced its way to the Oscars on Sunday night. Steven Spielberg's remake of the 1961 classic starsAnsel Elgort as Tony and Rachel Zegler as Maria.

Antonio Ferme editorThe first trailer for Steven Spielberg’s long-awaited adaptation of the 1957 Broadway musical “West Side Story” was released during the 93rd Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday night.While Spielberg has dabbled in a slew of genres from adventure to sci-fi, this will mark the filmmaker’s first time directing a musical.

West Side Story stars as Maria, Ansel Elgort as Tony, and Ariana DeBose as Anita. “I just absolutely loved the music," .

It’s a classic of the silver screen: forbidden love, rival street gangs with different ethnic backgrounds, the swaggering style of ’50s cool.

Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw want to tell more Jewish stories on the screen, but not for entertainment or escapism. The Hollywood filmmaker and humanitarians offered seed financing through their Righteous Persons Foundation for Jewish Story Partners, a new film foundation unveiled on Thursday, to be led by filmmaker Roberta Grossman and former Sundance senior programmer Caroline Libresco.

Also Read: Paul Dano to Join Steven Spielberg's Childhood Film as Director's Fictional Dad“There is nothing like storytelling to foster connections and help us understand life’s deepest truths,” Spielberg and Capshaw said in a joint statement.

Jewish Story Partners, a new film foundation with initial funding from Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw’s Righteous Persons Foundation, launches today aiming to “tell stories about a diverse spectrum of Jewish experiences, histories, and cultures.”

Bob Chapek, the Walt Disney Company's head honcho since February 2020, has significantly upgraded his Westlake Village residential circumstances with the $12.5 million purchase of a sprawling contemporary estate atop an impressive promontory. The transaction represents the area's biggest real estate deal since July 2019, when NuVet owner Blake Kirschbaum shelled out $35 million for a different Westlake Village compound, though that one was a far larger and more lavish property.