EXCLUSIVE: Industry Entertainment co-founder Keith Addis is set to launch a new venture and he and former Industry colleague Michael Abrams are set to launch Constellation Media Group.
21.08.2023 - 02:15 / variety.com
J. Kim Murphy SPOILER ALERT: This article discusses the Episode 3 of HBO’s “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty” Season 2, now streaming on Max.
After being unceremoniously bounced in the first round of the 1981 NBA playoffs, the spirits of the Los Angeles Lakers sink even further in the cold open of this week’s “Winning Time.” Unable to defend the championship, the team can only seethe in their living rooms as they watch the dreaded Boston Celtics take home gold. But the indignity doesn’t stop there.
The newly crowned champs don’t just snag the title from the Lakers; they practically hijack the HBO series for an episode. While the Los Angeles organization licks its wounds, a series of flashbacks interrupt the aftermath, stretching the frame to widescreen and sending viewers to 1970s Indiana, telling the story of a young man named Larry Bird (Sean Patrick Small) who went up to Boston to become a Lakers killer.
Compared to the seediness and glamour that’s been the bread and butter of “Winning Time,” these tangents possess a more modest, focused tone that matches Bird’s undaunted constitution. After the suicide of his father upends Bird’s life, an assistant coach at Indiana State University discovers the young player’s talents and implores him to return to the game: “Nobody gets to be as great as you are at this thing unless they love it.
Why are you acting like you don’t?” “He’s pushing away that thing that he thought was the reason for the tragic loss of his dad,” Small says, speaking with Variety. “Dropping out of Indiana University and coming back home, it was in that period where that’s always in the back of his mind: ‘Was I the reason that my father committed suicide?'” A final flashback reveals how
.EXCLUSIVE: Industry Entertainment co-founder Keith Addis is set to launch a new venture and he and former Industry colleague Michael Abrams are set to launch Constellation Media Group.
Fremantle kicked off its presence at the Venice Film Festival with a bang this year with the announcement of its new €150M ($162.7M) Scripted Fund forged in partnership with Israel-based IBI Investment House.
J. Kim Murphy SPOILER ALERT: This article includes details about Episode 5 of “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty” Season 2, now streaming on Max. The coach is dead, long live the coach. Paul Westhead (Jason Segel) is out of a job on this week’s episode of “Winning Time,” after tensions come to a head between the Lakers head coach and Magic Johnson (Quincy Isaiah).
Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor “Sex is back,” said Julie Hintsinger, executive director of the Telluride Film Festival, to a packed house of festival-goers as they took in the newest effort from Yorgos Lanthimos at this year’s 50th anniversary. One of the festivals tributes this year, a pre-screening convo was moderated by director Karyn Kusama, as the two discussed his filmography which included his early works “Kinnetic” and “Alps.” In the audience were Oscar winners like director Chloé Zhao (“Nomadland”) and actor Casey Affleck (“Manchester by the Sea”), and they, along with the crowd, devoured it.
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are speaking out amid Michael Oher's bombshell conservatorship lawsuit against Leigh Anne Tuohy and Sean Tuohy, defending the 2009 film and sharing exactly how much they paid its real-life subjects. In a lengthy statement issued to ET on Thursday, Alcon Entertainment co-founders and co-CEOs Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove defended the film's integrity while shining a light on the nature of the 2006 business negotiations that resulted in securing the rights to the story.
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Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy were seen strolling around their neighbourhood in Florida over the weekend, marking the first time they’ve been seen in public since Michael Oher filed his high-profile lawsuit against his former adoptive parents.
Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy were seen strolling around their neighborhood in Florida over the weekend, marking the first time they've been seen in public since Michael Oher filled his high-profile lawsuit against his former adoptive parents.In photos obtained and published by The Daily Mail, the Tuohys were spotted taking a walk in the Santa Rosa Beach area of Florida.Leigh Anne wore a white t-shirt and a pink tennis skirt along with white sneakers, and a hot pink fanny pack, while rocking white earbuds.Meanwhile, Sean walked alongside her in dark blue shorts and a light blue t-shirt, as they strolled and chatted with a unknown third person.The outing comes almost a week after Michael Oher — the former NFL star who inspired the Oscar-nominated film — filed legal documents in Tennessee court requesting it terminate a conservatorship after alleging the Tuohys lied about adopting him and tricked him into making them his conservators shortly after he turned 18.Oher, whose story was first documented in Michael Lewis' 2006 bestselling book of the same name, claimed the Tuohys made millions off his name while he never received a dime, after the film — starring Sandra Bullock, Quinton Aaron, Jae Head, Tim McGraw, Lily Collins and Kathy Bates — earned more than $300 million at the box office. The book and film are centered around the Tuohy family taking in Oher and helping transform his life on and off the field.The Tuohys have since responded to the accusations, denying Oher's claims and calling them «insulting.»It's been reported that the Tuohy family received 2.5 percent of the film's profits — the film grossed approximately $309.2 million — but that's not accurate.
Chad Michael Murray and his wife, Sarah Roemer, are officially parents of three! Roemer shared the happy news on Saturday, sharing that they welcomed a baby girl.
Chad Michael Murray and Sarah Roemer have announced the arrival of their third child. Sarah announced the new arrival on Instagram, where she shared a sweet snap of the tot's heart-shaped birthmark, Captioning the photo, she wrote: "Our baby girl arrived last week with a heart on her ankle.
Chad Michael Murray and his wife, Sarah Roemer, are officially parents of three! Roemer shared the happy news on Saturday, sharing that they welcomed a baby girl.«Our baby girl arrived last week with a heart on her ankle,» she wrote, sharing a pic of her heart-shaped birthmark.
Author Jeff Pearlman is imploring fans to back HBO’s “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty,” so that it can possibly stretch into a third season.
Belly's love story isn't the only one in. As fans saw Belly (Lola Tung) pick Jeremiah (Gavin Casalegno) over his brother, Conrad (Christopher Briney), in the show's season 2 finale, they also witnessed Taylor (Rain Spencer) and Steven's (Sean Kaufman) long-running flirtation officially morph into a full-blown relationship.«I'm all for it,» Spencer told ET of her character's new romance, which fans have aptly dubbed Staylor.
Todd Gilchrist editor Pet owners spend an inordinate amount of time imagining, ascribing, even acting out the behaviors of their animals. “Strays” feels like the natural — if comically exaggerated — extension of that impulse, chronicling the personality of a border terrier named Reggie as he and three canine pals make an arduous trek back to Reggie’s owner, along with all of the attendant misunderstandings and misinterpretations about the human world around them.
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