EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max is not moving forward with half-hour family comedy pilot Camp Friends (working title).
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Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterWarner Bros. and HBO Max has nabbed “Am I OK?,” a romantic comedy starring Dakota Johnson as a woman grappling with her sexuality.
The movie premiered this week to mostly positive reviews at the virtual Sundance Film Festival.Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne co-directed “Am I OK?,” which was written by Lauren Pomerantz and produced by Picturestart, Gloria Sanchez Productions and Johnson’s TeaTime Pictures.It will premiere on HBO Max at a yet-to-be-determined date.“Am I OK?” follows 32-year-old Lucy (Johnson), who lives in Los Angeles and figures out later in life that the reason her dates with the opposite gender never end with anything more than a handshake is because, well, she’s not attracted to men. With the help of her life-long friend Jane (Sonoya Mizuno), Lucy attempts to navigate coming out in her 30s.
The story is loosely based on Pomerantz’s own life. The cast also includes Jermaine Fowler, Kiersey Clemons, Molly Gordon and Sean Hayes.In Variety’s review of the film, critic Amy Nicholson had less positive things to say, but she praised the on-screen dynamic between the two female leads.
“Johnson and Mizuno do have great repartee,” Nicholson wrote. “They’re both quick with a prickly quip.”The Atlantic’s Shirley Li described the film as “breezily charming,” adding, “It won me over for its layered study of a close female friendship and the power such relationships can hold, even when they fracture.”Johnson, who also starred in the Sundance comedy “Cha Cha Real Smooth,” said she found herself drawn to the raw emotion under the film’s comedic surface.“It’s a story and subject matter that I thought was really cool, in the shape of a female buddy comedy, but there’s some very real
.EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max is not moving forward with half-hour family comedy pilot Camp Friends (working title).
Just as Discovery’s acquisition of WarnerMedia is entering the final stretch, HBO/HBO Max is living up to its status as one of the most prized assets in the proposed deal.
Joe Otterson TV ReporterSteve Yockey has signed a multi-year overall deal with Warner Bros. Television, Variety has learned.Yockey is best known for creating the critically-acclaimed HBO Max series “The Flight Attendant” starring Kaley Cuoco, which is produced by WBTV.
HBO and HBO Max are gearing up for a must-see spring TV schedule, with a number of new, star-studded series slated to premiere in the next few months. During the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour, the networks shared new images for the biographical series , an adaptation of the popular true-crime docuseries; the series adaptation of David Simon's return to Baltimore with and more.Get your first look at what's to come:Starring Colin Firth as Michael Peterson, is the anticipated limited series recounting the events surrounding the suspicious death of his wife, Kathleen Peterson (Toni Collette).
EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros is sick and tired of having streaming sand kicked in its face.
It’s hard to think of other professional basketball teams that measure up to the Showtime Lakers era. NBA dynasties such as the Chicago Bulls led by Michael Jordan had a predecessor with Magic Johnson and the Lakers.
Ethan Shanfeld New footage of DC’s “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom,” “Black Adam” and “The Flash” has been revealed in a new clip posted to social media.While the video teases only a brief look at Jason Momoa standing above a valley and sitting on Aquaman’s throne, it serves as the first official footage from the long-awaited sequel. Also starring Amber Heard as Mera and Willem Dafoe as Nuidis Vulko, “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” premieres in theaters on Dec. 16.
It’s hard to think of other professional basketball teams that measure up to the Showtime Lakers era. NBA dynasties such as the Chicago Bulls led by Michael Jordan had a predecessor with Magic Johnson and the Lakers.
Dakota Johnson's interview with Ellen DeGeneres is one of the show's most famous moments, after the pair appeared to coldly clash over the issue of whether Dakota invited Ellen to her birthday party.But there's much more to the 50 Shades of Grey actress than a viral meme and HELLO! has all the details from the interview to her relationship with Coldplay's Chris Martin.MORE: Dakota Johnson was cut off financially by dad Don – and her reaction is the bestJoin us as we take a deeper look at Ellen and Dakota's awkward exchange and reveal some surprising facts about the actress too. WATCH: Celebrity closeup: Dakota Johnson What was supposed to be a lighthearted chat turned into something very different when Dakota appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show back in November 2019.Ellen asked her guest about her 30th birthday celebrations and said: "How was the party? I wasn't invited."Rather than skirt over the question or change the subject, Dakota faced it full on with a rather surprising and detailed answer. "Actually, no, that’s not the truth, Ellen," she stated. "You were invited.
Dakota Johnson spoke about her own mom Melanie Griffith’s reaction to her movie “The Lost Daughter” in a new interview with Entertainment Weekly‘s “The Awardist” podcast.
reported was filed at the Los Angeles Superior Court Monday. In fact, Warner Media ordered its entire 2021 roster to be released on their sister platform HBO Max, while moving up the release date for “The Matrix Resurrections” from its originally scheduled 2022 premiere to December 2021, attorneys for Village Roadshow claimed in the filing.“WB’s sole purpose in moving the release date of ‘The Matrix Resurrections’ forward was to create a desperately needed wave of year-end HBO Max premium subscriptions from what it knew would be a blockbuster film, despite knowing full well that it would decimate the film’s box office revenue and deprive Village Roadshow of any economic upside that WB and its affiliates would enjoy,” the suit stated.Village Roadshow also claims to be the victim of “rampant piracy” facilitated by the streaming release, adding that Warner Bros.
is reportedly in talks to appear in a “Spider-Man” spinoff entitled “Madame Web” for Sony Pictures.S.J. Clarkson is set to direct, according to Deadline, while Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless will write the screenplay.The Madame Web character was first introduced in 1980’s “The Amazing Spider-Man” comic, issue number 210.She is described as a mutant who can predict the future of Spidey superheroes and is usually drawn as an old woman who is blind and paralyzed.
Dakota Johnson is getting ready to swing into the Spider-Verse.
Dakota Johnson is in talks to join the Spider-Man universe!
Gwyneth Paltrow just got very honest with her fans.
Dakota Johnson had two highly anticipated movies that premiered during the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and both of them have now sold to streaming services!
The deals keep coming at the 2022 Virtual Sundance Film Festival. MUBI closed the docu Free Chol Soo Lee, including North America, and Warner Bros is negotiating a near $7 million WW rights deal for the Tig Notaro/Stephanie Allynne film Am I Ok? to place the film on HBO Max. The Lauren Pomerantz-scripted film stars Dakota Johnson, Sonoya Mizuno, Jermaine Fowler, Molly Gordon, June Diane Raphael, and Sean Hayes.
At first glance, actor-writer-director Cooper Raiff’s “Cha Cha Real Smooth” might look like your typical cutesy and whimsical Sundance dramedy, about a twenty-something college graduate learning a valuable life lesson and experiencing a bit of a delayed coming of age. While that’s not an inaccurate description of Raiff’s disarmingly lovely film (programmed in this year’s US Dramatic Competition), what feels miraculous about “Cha Cha” is: it doesn’t come with even an ounce of that cringe-inducing Sundance fancifulness, a brand that many love to hate.