Documentary director Jeff Kaufman has given an update on the situation for detained award-winning Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh following an in-depth call with her husband Reza Khandan.
Kaufman and his casting director and producer wife Marcia Ross became close with Khandan while making their 2020 Olivia Colman-narrated documentary Nasrin.
The immersive work follows Sotoudeh’s battle to defend human rights in the face of abuses by Iran’s hardline Islamic Republic regime.
“This morning we had an in-depth conversation with Nasrin’s indefatigable husband Reza Khandan. He authorized us to release this update,” wrote Kaufman in a note sent out on Monday evening.
Sotoudeh was among a number of women arrested at the funeral on October 29 of tragic Tehran teenager Armita Geravand, who went into a coma and died after allegedly being assaulted by the country’s morality police for not wearing Iran’s obligatory veil.
The detainees...
Kaufman and his casting director and producer wife Marcia Ross became close with Khandan while making their 2020 Olivia Colman-narrated documentary Nasrin.
The immersive work follows Sotoudeh’s battle to defend human rights in the face of abuses by Iran’s hardline Islamic Republic regime.
“This morning we had an in-depth conversation with Nasrin’s indefatigable husband Reza Khandan. He authorized us to release this update,” wrote Kaufman in a note sent out on Monday evening.
Sotoudeh was among a number of women arrested at the funeral on October 29 of tragic Tehran teenager Armita Geravand, who went into a coma and died after allegedly being assaulted by the country’s morality police for not wearing Iran’s obligatory veil.
The detainees...
- 11/6/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Despite the many late-90s romantic comedies inspired by classic literature, "10 Things I Hate About You" has stood the test of time unlike any other. Based on "The Taming of the Shrew," the film remained faithful to its Shakespearean roots and was an endearing romantic comedy for the ages. "10 Things I Hate About You" followed the Stratford sisters, whose strict father won't allow his high schooler daughter Bianca (Larisa Oleynik) to date unless her older sister Kat (Julia Stiles) does. Kat is witty, snarky, and rebellious; she has her eyes set on college and doesn't want to waste time with boys. When new student Cameron (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) falls for Bianca, he hatches a plan to get Kat to date Patrick Verona (Heath Ledger), a rough-edged outsider with a glorious head of hair and devastatingly deep voice. Kind of a package deal, but Kat doesn't care.
The film remains...
The film remains...
- 11/6/2022
- by Fatemeh Mirjalili
- Slash Film
Marcia Ross, an activist, art consultant and art collector who was the daughter of legendary publicist Henry Rogers, co-founder of Rogers & Cowan, has died. She was 83.
Ross died Tuesday at her home in Brentwood after a long struggle with Parkinson’s disease, a family spokesperson announced.
Ross was a member of the Women’s Political Committee based in Washington and the Hollywood Women’s Political Committee and served as a delegate at the 1984 Democratic Convention.
She also was honored for her work with the John Wayne Cancer Institute. (She outlived two kinds of cancer with only a 5 ...
Ross died Tuesday at her home in Brentwood after a long struggle with Parkinson’s disease, a family spokesperson announced.
Ross was a member of the Women’s Political Committee based in Washington and the Hollywood Women’s Political Committee and served as a delegate at the 1984 Democratic Convention.
She also was honored for her work with the John Wayne Cancer Institute. (She outlived two kinds of cancer with only a 5 ...
- 10/4/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Marcia Ross, an activist, art consultant and art collector who was the daughter of legendary publicist Henry Rogers, co-founder of Rogers & Cowan, has died. She was 83.
Ross died Tuesday at her home in Brentwood after a long struggle with Parkinson’s disease, a family spokesperson announced.
Ross was a member of the Women’s Political Committee based in Washington and the Hollywood Women’s Political Committee and served as a delegate at the 1984 Democratic Convention.
She also was honored for her work with the John Wayne Cancer Institute. (She outlived two kinds of cancer with only a 5 ...
Ross died Tuesday at her home in Brentwood after a long struggle with Parkinson’s disease, a family spokesperson announced.
Ross was a member of the Women’s Political Committee based in Washington and the Hollywood Women’s Political Committee and served as a delegate at the 1984 Democratic Convention.
She also was honored for her work with the John Wayne Cancer Institute. (She outlived two kinds of cancer with only a 5 ...
- 10/4/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jeff Kaufman and Marcia Ross’s most recent documentary on Nasrin Sotoudeh is bittersweet. Sotoudeh, often dubbed the “Nelson Mandela of Iran,” has long become a household name for her human rights activism and hijabi rights in her home country. The fight for justice is fraught under an oppressive regime, however. In 2010, the government detained her for the first time in the infamous Evin Prison. After a brief period of respite between 2013 to 2018, she now sits in the even worse Gharchak Prison for a slew of unfair charges.
Perhaps this explains why “Nasrin” (2020) was entirely filmed in secret. From 2016 to 2020, Kaufman and Ross did not publicly mention the film at all: no announcements, no disclosed film crew, no prior press. On the occasion of the film’s release on multiple Ott platforms this week, the documentary duo share with us some of the details kept under the wraps over the years.
Perhaps this explains why “Nasrin” (2020) was entirely filmed in secret. From 2016 to 2020, Kaufman and Ross did not publicly mention the film at all: no announcements, no disclosed film crew, no prior press. On the occasion of the film’s release on multiple Ott platforms this week, the documentary duo share with us some of the details kept under the wraps over the years.
- 6/24/2021
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
Jafar Panahi Recalls Jail Time in Iran While Supporting Imprisoned Human Rights Activist — Exclusive
Jafar Panahi, the outspoken Iranian filmmaker behind 2015’s acclaimed “Taxi,” has recorded an International Women’s Day message in support of imprisoned lawyer and human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh. IndieWire is exclusively premiering Panahi’s message to Sotoudeh, which can be viewed below.
Panahi, who has been banned from filming and leaving Iran, secretly recorded the message in support of a conversation about Sotoudeh that will be co-hosted by Amnesty International USA, The Global Justice Center, and The Feminist Majority Foundation on Monday evening. The event coincides with Sotoudeh’s 100th day in prison and the international VOD release of Jeff Kaufman’s “Nasrin” documentary.
Panahi lauded Sotoudeh’s activism and outlook in his video message.
“I remember one day when Nasrin was in prison, I went to her house to visit her husband and children and in a way to comfort them,” Panahi said in the video message. “There...
Panahi, who has been banned from filming and leaving Iran, secretly recorded the message in support of a conversation about Sotoudeh that will be co-hosted by Amnesty International USA, The Global Justice Center, and The Feminist Majority Foundation on Monday evening. The event coincides with Sotoudeh’s 100th day in prison and the international VOD release of Jeff Kaufman’s “Nasrin” documentary.
Panahi lauded Sotoudeh’s activism and outlook in his video message.
“I remember one day when Nasrin was in prison, I went to her house to visit her husband and children and in a way to comfort them,” Panahi said in the video message. “There...
- 3/9/2021
- by Tyler Hersko
- Indiewire
Grammy winner Angélique Kidjo has released the music video for “How Can I Tell You?” from the new documentary “Nasrin.” The song is written by Lynn Ahrens (lyrics) and Stephen Flaherty (music). The film chronicles the life of activist Nasrin Sotoudeh, who fought for women’s rights in Iran, as well as the rights of children and journalists, and was arrested in June 2018. She’s serving a sentence of 38 years in prison.
Said Kidjo who featured on the BBC’s list of the 100 most inspiring and influential women: “I am so glad to be part of this beautiful project. I want Nasrin to be free because if she’s not free, none of us are free. She’s fighting for human rights, the right to decide what we want to do with our lives, the right to choose our own future. I think each one of us around the world...
Said Kidjo who featured on the BBC’s list of the 100 most inspiring and influential women: “I am so glad to be part of this beautiful project. I want Nasrin to be free because if she’s not free, none of us are free. She’s fighting for human rights, the right to decide what we want to do with our lives, the right to choose our own future. I think each one of us around the world...
- 1/6/2021
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
Playwright Terrence McNally’s death from coronavirus-related causes in late March deprived the theater world of one of its greatest talents, a four-time Tony Award winner known for Master Class and Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, among many other works. Just how much he achieved in his 81 years comes into focus in the Emmy-contending documentary Terrence McNally: Every Act of Life, directed by Jeff Kaufman and produced by Marcia Ross.
“At every stage of Terrence’s life, he keeps pushing himself in a new direction,” Kaufman tells Deadline. “He never plays it safe. He’s a truth teller.”
The film premiered on PBS last year as part of American Masters. That series, winner of 28 Emmys to date, is once again up for consideration as Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series, and the Terrence McNally episode will appear on nomination ballots in the directing, editing, cinematography and sound categories.
“At every stage of Terrence’s life, he keeps pushing himself in a new direction,” Kaufman tells Deadline. “He never plays it safe. He’s a truth teller.”
The film premiered on PBS last year as part of American Masters. That series, winner of 28 Emmys to date, is once again up for consideration as Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series, and the Terrence McNally episode will appear on nomination ballots in the directing, editing, cinematography and sound categories.
- 6/8/2020
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: New York’s Drama League and filmmakers Jeff Kaufman and Marcia Ross have teamed up for a special video tribute to Terrence McNally. The playwright was set to receive the League’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Unique Contribution to Theater when he died last month due to complications from Covid-19.
Watch an exclusive preview of the tribute video below.
With the pandemic preventing social gatherings, the League is re-envisioning its 86th Annual Awards celebration on April 30 as a virtual tribute and fundraiser rebranded as The Gratitude Awards. The online event will include taped vignettes from such Broadway stars as Aaron Tveit, Adrienne Warren, Condola Rashad, Elizabeth Stanley, Idina Menzel, Jeremy Pope, Kelli O’Hara, Kristin Chenoweth, Marianne Elliott, Megan Hilty, Nathan Lane, and Sutton Foster, among others.
McNally’s husband Tom Kirdahy will accept the lifetime achievement award on behalf of the Love! Valour! Compassion! playwright, and a special In...
Watch an exclusive preview of the tribute video below.
With the pandemic preventing social gatherings, the League is re-envisioning its 86th Annual Awards celebration on April 30 as a virtual tribute and fundraiser rebranded as The Gratitude Awards. The online event will include taped vignettes from such Broadway stars as Aaron Tveit, Adrienne Warren, Condola Rashad, Elizabeth Stanley, Idina Menzel, Jeremy Pope, Kelli O’Hara, Kristin Chenoweth, Marianne Elliott, Megan Hilty, Nathan Lane, and Sutton Foster, among others.
McNally’s husband Tom Kirdahy will accept the lifetime achievement award on behalf of the Love! Valour! Compassion! playwright, and a special In...
- 4/28/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
The Drama League has just announcedThe Gratitude Awards Spring 2020, a one time only pre-recorded digital fundraiser, is set to air on Thursday, April 30 at 730pm Est. The Gratitude Awards is a large-scale kindness project designed to share the gift of gratitude from within the theater community, with NYC, and to all. The program will include vignettes from Friends of the Drama League, which is inclusive of Broadway's biggest stars, past Honorees and Award NomineesRecipients. The Drama League is also proud to announce the special Honorees nominated before the Covid- 19 crisis, Marianne Elliott as the recipient of the Founders Award for Excellence in Directing, and Terrence McNally as the recipient of the Unique Contribution to Theater Award. Tom Kirdahy will accept on behalf of Mr. McNally and the program will be inclusive of an In Memoriam, presented by Jeff Kaufman Marcia Ross producers of Terrence McNally Every Act of Life.
- 4/16/2020
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
IndieWire asked Jeff Kaufman, the writer-producer-director of “Every Act of Life,” a documentary about Tony-winning playwright Terrence McNally, to remember the writer of the books for musicals “Kiss of the Spider Woman — the Musical,” and “Ragtime,” as well as “Master Class” and two plays that he adapted into “Love! Valour! Compassion!” and “Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune,” which were directed by Joe Mantello and Garry Marshall, respectively. On Wednesday, McNally, who had been fighting lung cancer, succumbed at age 81 from complications of the Coronavirus.
When I first spoke to Terrence McNally about making a documentary on his life, he said something like, “Everything you need to know about me is in my work. What is there to say?” As everyone who has seen or read Terrence’s plays, books for musicals, opera librettos, and screenplays knows, there is so much to discover (and appreciate) in the characters and worlds he created.
When I first spoke to Terrence McNally about making a documentary on his life, he said something like, “Everything you need to know about me is in my work. What is there to say?” As everyone who has seen or read Terrence’s plays, books for musicals, opera librettos, and screenplays knows, there is so much to discover (and appreciate) in the characters and worlds he created.
- 3/25/2020
- by Jeff Kaufman
- Indiewire
Kate Hudson could have been serenaded by Heath Ledger. Marcia Ross, a casting director who worked on the 1999 cult teen film 10 Things I Hate About You, has revealed that the actress was a contender for a leading role in the movie, as was Katie Holmes. She also named other stars who auditioned for parts in the film, which ultimately starred Ledger and Julia Stiles as main characters Patrick Verona and Kat Stratford in the modern Taming of the Shrew adaptation. 10 Things I Hate About You will celebrate its 20th anniversary this week. "We screen-tested Josh Hartnett, Eliza Dushku, Heath and Julia," Ross told the New York Times in comments posted on Wednesday. "But Julia and Heath...
- 3/27/2019
- E! Online
In late April, theater lovers devote most of their attention to the clutch of Broadway shows rushing to open before the eligibility cutoff for Tony nominations. But this year fans should be keeping an eye on things downtown too: New projects by or about Broadway talent aren’t onstage. They’re at a film festival — the Tribeca Film Festival (running April 18-29), where Terrence McNally, Howard Ashman, Michael Mayer and Stephen Karam are all in the mix.
Every Act of Life (pictured top)
Jeff Kaufman and Marcia Ross’ documentary, making its world premiere at the festival, chronicles the life of McNally, the veteran, out-and-proud playwright and four-time Tony winner behind “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” “Ragtime,” “Love! Valour! Compassion!” and more. The biopic — which counts Audra McDonald, Christine Baranski, Angela Lansbury, Meryl Streep and Bryan Cranston among those involved — touches on everything from McNally’s romance with Edward Albee to...
Every Act of Life (pictured top)
Jeff Kaufman and Marcia Ross’ documentary, making its world premiere at the festival, chronicles the life of McNally, the veteran, out-and-proud playwright and four-time Tony winner behind “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” “Ragtime,” “Love! Valour! Compassion!” and more. The biopic — which counts Audra McDonald, Christine Baranski, Angela Lansbury, Meryl Streep and Bryan Cranston among those involved — touches on everything from McNally’s romance with Edward Albee to...
- 4/10/2018
- by Gordon Cox
- Variety Film + TV
Every Act of Life, directed and written by Jeff Kaufman. Produced by Jeff Kaufman, Marcia Ross. Will have its world debut at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festical on April 23rd. Every Act of Life presents a revealing portrait of four-time Tony-winning playwright Terrence McNally's groundbreaking life and work of 4-time Tony-winning playwright Terrence McNally a personal journey through 5-decades of the American theatre, the struggle for Lgbt rights, triumph over addiction, the power of the arts to shape society, and finding love and inspiration at all ages.
- 4/4/2018
- by TV News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Jimmy Kimmel kicked off the 68th annual Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday night with the same bite he brings to his talk show every evening. Live from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, Kimmel returned as emcee of the ceremony for a second time. The host began with a pre-taped sketch where he was seen driving on the freeway with “The People v. O.J.” star Malcolm Jamal Warner in a white Bronco, catching a ride to the ceremony. The trip didn’t go as planned, and he got dropped off on the side of the street, only to be picked up by the “Modern Family” Dunphy family. He also did some “Carpool Karaoke” with James Corden, chatted with Julia Louis-Dreyfus and former presidential candidate Jeb Bush.
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When he finally arrived on stage, the first thing he did was hand Jeffrey Tambor an Emmy and said,...
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- 9/19/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
David’s Quick Take for the tl;dr Media Consumer:
In posting this review, I might be giving more time and thought to the merits of Beyond The Law, Norman Mailer’s second venture in pursuit of auteurist credibility, than went into the film’s original conception and construction. As the middle installment of three films that Mailer churned out in a brief dabble as a director, we have a companion piece, maybe even an evil twin, to his first effort Wild 90. That film, released in early 1967, records the imaginary, sloppily performed interplay of three seriously drunk gangsters evading the cops as they’re holed up in a dingy Brooklyn apartment. A few months later, over two nights in October ’67, Mailer and the same pals he recruited for Wild 90 (Buzz Farber and Mickey Knox) show up again for another foray into experiential improv performance art, this time as...
In posting this review, I might be giving more time and thought to the merits of Beyond The Law, Norman Mailer’s second venture in pursuit of auteurist credibility, than went into the film’s original conception and construction. As the middle installment of three films that Mailer churned out in a brief dabble as a director, we have a companion piece, maybe even an evil twin, to his first effort Wild 90. That film, released in early 1967, records the imaginary, sloppily performed interplay of three seriously drunk gangsters evading the cops as they’re holed up in a dingy Brooklyn apartment. A few months later, over two nights in October ’67, Mailer and the same pals he recruited for Wild 90 (Buzz Farber and Mickey Knox) show up again for another foray into experiential improv performance art, this time as...
- 9/11/2016
- by David Blakeslee
- CriterionCast
Warning: Spoilers below for the listed shows. “The Americans”
“The Magic of David Copperfield V: The Statue of Liberty Disappears” (Episode 8)
Time jumps are a tricky business, especially for a show where every moment matters. And on “The Americans,” you better believe the devil is in the details. So Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields’ choice to jump forward seven months after a particularly tough stretch for everyone’s favorite secret agents was a damn ballsy move — that paid off big time. That being said, the opening of Episode 8 was just as important as its ending, and just as tricky. Told in nearly absolute silence, Phillip’s ride to the airfield with Martha set a stark tone for what was coming, making it all the more believable the Jennings would need a seven-month vacation soon after. A beautiful story told in thrilling, variant rhythms, “The Americans” knows itself so well it...
“The Magic of David Copperfield V: The Statue of Liberty Disappears” (Episode 8)
Time jumps are a tricky business, especially for a show where every moment matters. And on “The Americans,” you better believe the devil is in the details. So Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields’ choice to jump forward seven months after a particularly tough stretch for everyone’s favorite secret agents was a damn ballsy move — that paid off big time. That being said, the opening of Episode 8 was just as important as its ending, and just as tricky. Told in nearly absolute silence, Phillip’s ride to the airfield with Martha set a stark tone for what was coming, making it all the more believable the Jennings would need a seven-month vacation soon after. A beautiful story told in thrilling, variant rhythms, “The Americans” knows itself so well it...
- 7/7/2016
- by Ben Travers, Liz Shannon Miller and Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
Who will win the Emmy for Best Comedy Guest Actress? Gold Derby editors Rob Licuria, Charles Bright and Riley Chow are convinced Gaby Hoffmann ("Girls") will take home the prize due to her brave performance, while Marcus James Dixon is banking on a surprise victory by Christine Baranski ("The Big Bang Theory"). Watch our new video slugfest at the bottom of this post. -Break- Click here to see the updated list of all 2015 Emmy episode submissions Joan Cusack ("Shameless") is the only Best Comedy Guest Actress nominee from last year who returns in 2015. Three past Emmy champs -- Pamela Adlon ("Louie"), Tina Fey ("Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt") and Baranski -- are in the running as are previous nominee Elizabeth Banks ("Modern Family") and Hoffmann, who also contends this year for Comedy Supporting Actress for "Transparent." Fey plays Marcia in her episode submission "Kimmy Goes to Co..."...
- 9/1/2015
- Gold Derby
"The State of Marriage," which follows the long struggle of Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders' Mary Bonauto and Vermont lawyers Beth Robinson and Susan Murray to secure marriage equality for same-sex couples in the state, premieres June 18 at the Provincetown Film Festival. Toh! has an exclusive first look at the poster for the film below. Directed by Jeff Kaufman, who co-produced with Marcia Ross (among many women who were key to getting the film made) "The State of Marriage" traces the trio's pioneering work—against powerful, vocal opposition—across two decades. In 1999, after a landmark decision by the State Supreme Court, Vermont became the first state to recognize legal rights for same-sex couples; in 2009, the state became the first to legalize marriage equality by legislative vote. Their grassroots campaign is considered instrumental in the broader movement-building that's seen same-sex marriage become legal in 37 states and Washington, D.C. in...
- 6/9/2015
- by Matt Brennan
- Thompson on Hollywood
It’s been a week since “Parks and Recreation” ended. In my review of the series finale, I said that I put off my usual post-season interview with Mike Schur at the time because he was otherwise occupied. (He did, though, offer an answer of sorts as to the question of who is Potus in the year 2048.) Over the last few days, though, we emailed some questions and answers back and forth on leftover bits of business from the finale and the final season, including the show finally identifying Leslie’s party affiliation, which guest stars Schur didn’t manage to squeeze into the final season, Ron and Leslie’s brief estrangement, the religious background(s) of the all-important Lerpiss family, and more. So if you haven’t tired of Schur after the two-part interview we did before the finale, here’s us talking “Parks” one last time (sigh)… Was...
- 3/4/2015
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
The network miniseries has been making a comeback recently and that means singular opportunities for actors. Two miniseries set to shoot in the coming months now have casting directors attached, Backstage has learned. NBC’s “The Slap,” the story of a man who slapped a child who was unrelated to him at a family gathering, will be cast by New York-based Avy Kaufman. It’s set to begin shooting July 14 in Toronto. Meanwhile, Lifetime’s “The Red Tent,” a Biblical drama, is set to be cast by Burbank-based Marcia Ross. The miniseries, which will be directed by Bronwen Hughes, follows a young woman who is widowed at the hands of her jealous brothers, and begins a journey to find her place as an independent woman in a world ruled by men. It shoots March 17–May 16 in Morocco.
- 2/12/2014
- backstage.com
The Miami International Film Festival unveiled its 2014 lineup, which will include the North American premiere of the Shirley MacLaine-Christopher Plummer pairing Elsa & Fred. Directed by Michael Radford, the film is a remake of the 2008 Argentine/Spanish film of the same name. Also in the cast are Marcia Gay Harden, George Segal, Chris Noth, James Brolin, Wendell Pierce, Jaime Camil and Osvaldo Rios. The 10-day event, which runs March 7-16, also will include the world premiere of Rob the Mob, directed by Raymond De Felitta and starring Andy Garcia. De Felitta and Garcia previously collaborated on 2010's City Island, which also premiered at Miff. Rob the Mob also stars Michael Pitt, Ray Romano, Burt Young, Griffin Dunne, Frank Whaley, Cathy Moriarty, Aida Turturro, Yul Vazquez and Nina Arianda. In total, 92 feature
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- 1/28/2014
- by Tatiana Siegel
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Today the remake of the disturbing, provocative and emotional Flowers in the Attic is airing on Lifetime. The movie (and the book it’s based on) may make us shiver, but it does star a very talented cast: Heather Graham, Ellen Burstyn, Kiernan Shipka and Mason Dye. In honor of this premiere and its weighty plotline (*cough* incest central), we’ve collected 10 instances of family intimacies that have reached blurry territory on TV and in film. From sibling makeouts (ahem, Star Wars) to dads getting hot n’ heavy with their daughter’s best friend (American Beauty) — we’re taking you to a disturbing place, and we have the video clips to prove it. So brace yourself for some uncomfortable squirming. Shizz is about to get really weird.
12. The Offense: Twins Princess Leia & Luke Skywalker Share A Passionate Kiss In Star Wars
In Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope and...
12. The Offense: Twins Princess Leia & Luke Skywalker Share A Passionate Kiss In Star Wars
In Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope and...
- 1/18/2014
- by Samantha Friedman
- TheFabLife - Movies
Four drama pilots ordered by the CW, including “Oxygen,” which is set to shoot in New Orleans, now have casting directors attached, Backstage has learned. “Oxygen,” which centers on a program that integrates humanoid aliens into a high school with dramatic results for the community, is set to be cast by Burbank-based Donna Rosenstein and Kendra Castleberry. It’s slated to start shooting in March. Barbara Fiorentino and Danielle Aufiero are signed on to cast “The Hundred,” a drama set 97 years after a nuclear war destroys the Earth. It features a space colony of surviving humans that sends 100 juveniles back to Earth to see if it’s ready to be re-inhabited. Another sci-fi drama, “Tomorrow People,” is set to be cast by David Rapaport. The pilot features children born to normal parents who show signs of having undergone the next stage in human evolution. Meanwhile, the drama pilot “Blink” is...
- 2/6/2013
- backstage.com
Exclusive: HBO is shutting down its casting department, with its staff, led by 14-year HBO veteran, Svp Carrie Frazier, and VP Amy Jo Berman, exiting. HBO uses outside casting directors on all of its projects, with the in-house casting executives playing a supplemental role, mostly on the longform side. With the pay cable network’s movie and miniseries output decreasing over the past few years, HBO brass have made a decision to close that department. The network may revisit their casting needs in the future. HBO’s decision is the latest in a growing cost-cutting trend over the past several years on both the TV and feature side that involves the downsizing/eliminating in-house casting departments or the phasing out of seasoned senior staff casting executives. Rick Jacobs left Lifetime 2 years ago as part of the company-wide layoffs. NBC’s Marc Hirschfeld was let go from NBC in the 2008 executive shakeup.
- 10/15/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Veteran casting director Randi Hiller has been named VP Casting at The Walt Disney Studios. She will report directly to production president Sean Bailey. Disney hasn’t had an in-house casting executive since Evp Marcia Ross left last spring. Hiller’s job is to advise on casting for Disney’s live-action films. She has been in the casting game for over 20 years and most recently was owner of Randi Hiller Casting. Her recent film-casting credits include Warrior, HBO’s Cinema Verite, Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger.
- 9/13/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Exclusive: Teri Taylor, who was installed as Paramount's head of casting when Adam Goodman took the top production job, will be leaving that post at the end of her contract. Joseph Middleton, a well established casting director who has worked with Goodman on projects from Old School to Little Fockers, will be taking over the top post as of next week, I'm told. Taylor will become an independent agent, but will not be going away empty handed. She will be assigned the job of casting Paranormal Activity 3, which is currently being put together for an October release. Casting is getting underway on that film even though the studio hasn't yet set a director. Taylor, who under her post cast Paranormal Activity 2, will likely be assigned other films, insiders said. Middleton has worked on such films as The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy franchise, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Twilight Saga: New Moon and Fair Game.
- 2/16/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Bruce Hendricks, president of physical production at Walt Disney Studios since 1999, is leaving the company, TheWrap has confirmed. Marcia Ross, EVP of feature casting, also is leaving. The two are wrapping up projects over the next few months. When Hendricks was hired, then-chairman Dick Cook said, "What makes Bruce unique in production is his talents and background as a filmmaker. He has been involved in virtually all aspects of production and is an accomplished producer/director in his own right. This gives him a unique perspective of the filmmaking process and a special understanding...
- 2/15/2011
- by Joshua L. Weinstein
- The Wrap
With Disney making fewer live-action movies, longtime president of physical production Bruce Hendricks is exiting the studio in a mutual parting of the ways.
Hendricks' ties to Disney extend beyond the top post. He also directed Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert and Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience.
As head of physical production for more than a decade, Hendricks worked on dozens of live-action projects, including the Pirates of the Caribbean and National Treasure franchises.
Hendricks is stll at the studio on a consulting basis for the next several months, but is no longer running the physical production division.
Since taking over as chair of Disney, Rich Ross has said the studio will make fewer of its own titles. The only 2011 Disney live-action movies dated so far are Prom, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
and the untitled Muppets movie.
That lessens the demand on the physical production division.
Hendricks' ties to Disney extend beyond the top post. He also directed Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert and Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience.
As head of physical production for more than a decade, Hendricks worked on dozens of live-action projects, including the Pirates of the Caribbean and National Treasure franchises.
Hendricks is stll at the studio on a consulting basis for the next several months, but is no longer running the physical production division.
Since taking over as chair of Disney, Rich Ross has said the studio will make fewer of its own titles. The only 2011 Disney live-action movies dated so far are Prom, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
and the untitled Muppets movie.
That lessens the demand on the physical production division.
- 2/14/2011
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Walking into the second annual Academy Governors Awards reception, I was gobsmacked by who was milling in front of the photographers at the entrance. 12-year-old Elle Fanning posed with her Somewhere co-star Stephen Dorff and The Ghost Writer's Olivia Williams; George Lucas was chatting up Godfather stars Robert Duvall and James Caan, as Sofia, Francis Ford Coppola and his wife of 48 years, Eleanor, greeted Peter Fonda. Clint Eastwood and wife Dina Ruiz were entering the cocktail area, joining Dick and Lili Zanuck, Eva Marie Saint, Marisa Tomei, Sid Ganis, Gil Cates, Allan Arkush, Marcia Ross, Bill Pohlad, Anne Coates, Heather Graham, Cari Beauchamp, Howard Rodman, Bruce Davis, Mike Medavoy, Scott Foundas, Tom Luddy, Jerry and Janet Zucker, and Fox co-chairman Jim Gianopulos. Fair Game ...
- 11/14/2010
- Thompson on Hollywood
The following is a list of the top 25 Power Casting Directors in film and television (including Casting Director of the Year, Debra Zane; see page 9). We began with more than 100 candidates. In some cases, collaborations were so closely tied that we considered multiple people as one entity. Several drafts later, all 25 spots were cast.Notably omitted from the list are in-house casting executives at studios and networks, the inclusion of whom would have ballooned our list to 50 or more. But read about them online at www.backstage.com/spotlight. Focusing on independent casting directors leveled the playing field and highlighted people whose puissance is not affected by one scale-tipping affiliation. Now, on to the top 25!Kerry BardenCan you imagine Monster's Ball starring Erykah Badu, or American Psycho starring Leonardo DiCaprio? Kerry Barden can, because he saw them read the parts. "There are so many great actors that sometimes it's a...
- 4/2/2009
- backstage.com
Like many of today's top casting directors, Victoria Burrows got her start when personal computers were nonexistent, FedEx was in its infancy, faxes and videotape machines were rare, and black-and-white glossies were everywhere. "It used to be hard-copy pictures, then sit down and meet an actor," says Burrows with little nostalgia. "Often, you wouldn't tape them; you would just read them and do callbacks. That's all gone because of computers."Now, working on such motion-capture films as Disney's A Christmas Carol and Mars Needs Moms!, she spends her days in casting sessions with partner Scot Boland, calculating how actors' performances will translate in neoprene wetsuits covered with white dots and subsequently rendered by 3-D animation software. The auditions are uploaded to a computer and stored with other information on the servers of Cast It, a popular database management system that allows them to be viewed instantly by anyone with a password to the company account,...
- 4/2/2009
- by Todd Longwell
- backstage.com
Marcia Ross has been upped to executive vp feature casting at the Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group. Ross, who will continue to oversee all aspects of casting for live-action feature films, reports to Buena Vista Motion Picture Group president Nina Jacobson, who said: "Marcia has been an integral part of the motion picture team. She has an amazing eye for matching talent with material and is truly unparalleled in her field. We're so lucky to have her."...
Variety reports that the Hollywood Film Festival, running October 1-8 in Los Angeles, will honor Jodie Foster with an outstanding achievement in acting honor. The festival has also announced that Naomi Watts will receive the festival.s breakthrough acting award for her work in Mulholland Drive, and that director McG (Charlie.s Angels) will receive the breakthrough directing honor. Other festival honorees include MPAA president Jack Valenti, Martin Scorsese, Robert Towne, producers Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher, cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, editor Pietro Scalia, composer Marc Shaiman, production designer Harold Michelson, songwriter Carole Bayer Sager and casting director Marcia Ross.
- 8/14/2002
- IMDbPro News
Having settled for second banana status in the past two Adam Sandler movies, fellow "Saturday Night Live" alumnus Rob Schneider has the spotlight all to himself in "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo" -- as opposed to, what, a female gigolo? -- an unapologetically sophomoric but admittedly funny gross-out comedy very much in the sweet-centered Sandler vein.
Given that the scrappy Schneider doesn't possess the kind of childlike vulnerability that has earned Sandler a sizable female following, "Deuce" will likely have to settle for being a guys' movie. But its ideally timed placement in a market that is short on comedy should ensure that "Deuce" pulls in impressive numbers.
Schneider, who shares screenwriting credit with Harris Goldberg (Sandler's on board as exec producer), is the Deuce Bigalow in question -- a dedicated fish tank cleaner who dreams of moving to an oceanside property with his fine finned friends.
As fate would have it, Deuce ends up house-sitting for Antoine Laconte (Oded Fehr), a high-priced gigolo who expects his expensively appointed pad to remain impeccably intact upon his return.
Naturally, it isn't long before Antoine's $6,000 custom-made Living Color aquarium ends up in thousands of pieces on his priceless oriental rugs and you can see where this literal-minded fish-out-of-water story is headed.
Desperate to come up with the cash to repair the damage, Deuce ends up doing the male escort thing with a little assistance from T.J. Hicks (Eddie Griffin), a pimp who prefers to be known as a "man madam."
Since he's new on the job, the clientele isn't exactly top-drawer, as evidenced by the freak show-worthy lineup of narcoleptic, Tourette's syndrome-suffering, physical abnormality-touting females willing to pay for his services.
Along the way, Deuce makes the fatal mistake of falling in love with one of them -- the shy, one-legged Kate (Arija Bareikis) -- and for the first time in his life he's faced with a crisis of conscience.
While he's not blessed with that Sandler/Carrey brand of instant, follow-them-anywhere charisma, Schneider's got a sort of uppity Jack Russell terrier energy that can be effective in a controlled climate -- meaning he has wisely surrounded himself with an able ensemble.
In addition to Griffin's gender-sensitive T.J. Hicks, other bright comedic turns include Amy Poehler's sweet, obscenity-sputtering Ruth, the sizable Jabba Lady (Los Angeles radio personality Big Boy) and Deuce's restroom attendant dad (Richard Riehle).
And, in a reputation-skewering cameo, Marlo Thomas makes an unbilled appearance as a customer with a Teutonic fetish.
Coordinating all the requisite innuendo and poopy jokes with a bouncy eagerness is first-time feature director Mike Mitchell, whose extensive background in animation is put to good, appropriately cartoonish use.
DEUCE BIGALOW: MALE GIGOLO
Buena Vista
Touchstone Pictures presents a Happy Madison production in association with Out of the Blue Entertainment
Director: Mike Mitchell
Screenwriters: Harris Goldberg & Rob Schneider
Producers: Sid Ganis, Barry Bernardi
Executive producers: Adam Sandler, Jack Giarraputo
Director of photography: Peter Lyons Collister
Production designer: Alan Au
Editors: George Bowers, Lawrence Jordan
Costume designer: Molly Maginnis
Music supervisor: Michael Dilbeck
Music: Teddy Castellucci
Casting: Marcia Ross & Donna Morong, Gail Goldberg
Color/stereo
Cast:
Deuce Bigalow: Rob Schneider
Detective Fowler: William Forsythe
T.J. Hicks: Eddie Griffin
Kate: Arija Bareikis
Antoine Laconte: Oded Fehr
Claire: Gail O'Grady
Bob Bigalow: Richard Riehle
Elaine: Jacqueline Obradors
Bergita: Dina Platias
Ruth: Amy Poehler
Jabba Lady: Big Boy
Running time -- 83 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Given that the scrappy Schneider doesn't possess the kind of childlike vulnerability that has earned Sandler a sizable female following, "Deuce" will likely have to settle for being a guys' movie. But its ideally timed placement in a market that is short on comedy should ensure that "Deuce" pulls in impressive numbers.
Schneider, who shares screenwriting credit with Harris Goldberg (Sandler's on board as exec producer), is the Deuce Bigalow in question -- a dedicated fish tank cleaner who dreams of moving to an oceanside property with his fine finned friends.
As fate would have it, Deuce ends up house-sitting for Antoine Laconte (Oded Fehr), a high-priced gigolo who expects his expensively appointed pad to remain impeccably intact upon his return.
Naturally, it isn't long before Antoine's $6,000 custom-made Living Color aquarium ends up in thousands of pieces on his priceless oriental rugs and you can see where this literal-minded fish-out-of-water story is headed.
Desperate to come up with the cash to repair the damage, Deuce ends up doing the male escort thing with a little assistance from T.J. Hicks (Eddie Griffin), a pimp who prefers to be known as a "man madam."
Since he's new on the job, the clientele isn't exactly top-drawer, as evidenced by the freak show-worthy lineup of narcoleptic, Tourette's syndrome-suffering, physical abnormality-touting females willing to pay for his services.
Along the way, Deuce makes the fatal mistake of falling in love with one of them -- the shy, one-legged Kate (Arija Bareikis) -- and for the first time in his life he's faced with a crisis of conscience.
While he's not blessed with that Sandler/Carrey brand of instant, follow-them-anywhere charisma, Schneider's got a sort of uppity Jack Russell terrier energy that can be effective in a controlled climate -- meaning he has wisely surrounded himself with an able ensemble.
In addition to Griffin's gender-sensitive T.J. Hicks, other bright comedic turns include Amy Poehler's sweet, obscenity-sputtering Ruth, the sizable Jabba Lady (Los Angeles radio personality Big Boy) and Deuce's restroom attendant dad (Richard Riehle).
And, in a reputation-skewering cameo, Marlo Thomas makes an unbilled appearance as a customer with a Teutonic fetish.
Coordinating all the requisite innuendo and poopy jokes with a bouncy eagerness is first-time feature director Mike Mitchell, whose extensive background in animation is put to good, appropriately cartoonish use.
DEUCE BIGALOW: MALE GIGOLO
Buena Vista
Touchstone Pictures presents a Happy Madison production in association with Out of the Blue Entertainment
Director: Mike Mitchell
Screenwriters: Harris Goldberg & Rob Schneider
Producers: Sid Ganis, Barry Bernardi
Executive producers: Adam Sandler, Jack Giarraputo
Director of photography: Peter Lyons Collister
Production designer: Alan Au
Editors: George Bowers, Lawrence Jordan
Costume designer: Molly Maginnis
Music supervisor: Michael Dilbeck
Music: Teddy Castellucci
Casting: Marcia Ross & Donna Morong, Gail Goldberg
Color/stereo
Cast:
Deuce Bigalow: Rob Schneider
Detective Fowler: William Forsythe
T.J. Hicks: Eddie Griffin
Kate: Arija Bareikis
Antoine Laconte: Oded Fehr
Claire: Gail O'Grady
Bob Bigalow: Richard Riehle
Elaine: Jacqueline Obradors
Bergita: Dina Platias
Ruth: Amy Poehler
Jabba Lady: Big Boy
Running time -- 83 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 12/8/1999
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Boxoffice is going to the dogs, namely Disney's "101 Dalmatians", a bounding, tail-wagging charmer that should fill the holiday bowls with piles of green stuff. A certain domestic hit, Buena Vista should also strike gold internationally with this farcical, live-action family film. And when it comes time for video leftovers, they'll need more than doggie bags to carry away the rental-purchase booty.
With John Hughes' screenwriting pawprint all over this blazing, warm holiday potion, "101 Dalmatians'" lineage is a bit of a mongrel, with its pedigree traced from the original English novel through the classic Disney animated film to Hughes' most recent kids' comedies, namely "Home Alone" and, most pointedly, "Beethoven".
Analytically apt seventh graders just might notice that "101 Dalmatians" is, basically, "Beethoven" played once again: Namely, a beloved bowser is dognapped by an evil ogre who will kill him for personal gain. Instead of a St. Bernard being whisked away under the cruel orders of a diabolical vet as in "Beethoven", in "Dalmatians" we have a whole slew of dogs, 101 to be exact, who are stolen under the orders of a cruel fashion maven who wants to turn their hides into a dog cape. As in "Home Alone" and "Beethoven", the actual perps are a pair of dimwits, one tall and skinny and one short and dumpy, who ultimately suffer the jolts and wallops of Hughes' severe sense of slapstick justice.
As those who are experts in the dog-in-jeopardy genre will attest, "if the dogs aren't cute, the kids will scoot." In "Dalmatians", they've packed the canines with plenty of puppy charm and loaded them with individual personality. Best, director Stephen Herek has packed the pic with scads of reactive dog shots to tug us even closer to them. With plenty of bright, anthropomorphic moments as the two lead dogs conspire to get the humans to behave in the fashion they want, the film is a heart-pulling winner. The kids and the menfolk will be especially pleased that the filmmakers do not wallow in any mushy moments: such sludge as grownup romance, happily, is put on fast-forward and quickly dispensed with.
The acting ensemble here is not ald dogs, however: The humans are doggone good also, particularly Glenn Close as the archvillainess Cruella DeVil$ whose haughty snappings are wicked-witch scary. Whether barking out her vicious orders or snapping at underlings, Close's yelpings are a zesty blend of cruelty and coeedy. Playing the central huean characters, Jeff Daniels and Joely Richardson are warmly appealing as newlyweds whose betrothal was, naturaldy, inspired by some kindly canine matchmaking. As the Daniel Stern and Joe Pesci characters, oops, we mean the two bumblers Jasper and Horace, Hugh Laurie and Mark Wildiams are amusingly dunderheaded, while Joan Plowright adds some kindly charm as a nattering nanny.
Technical coftributions are blue-ribbon consistent, comic and comfy all at once. Keeping us in stitches are costume designers Anthony Powell and Rosemarq Burrows' apt and arch flourishes, particularly DeVil's hideously haute fashionware& Similarly, production designer Assheton Gorton has kindled the right mix of fireplace comfort with dastardly menace, while composer Michaed Kamen has captured the fergcity of the evildoers while conveying the sweetness of the good-natured characters. Capturing all in a rich holaday glow, cinematographer Adrian Biddle's luminescent laghting is a perfect holiday wrap. Although Industrial Laght & Magic is credited wit` creating computer images of dogs when the real ones couldn't do the stuff, we conclude this must be a program-note misprint since there didn't seem to be afy fake dogs in the pack.
101 DALMATIANS
Buena Vista Distribution
Walt Disney Pictures
A Great Oaks Prodn.
A Stephen Herek Film
Producers :John Hughes, Ricardo Mestres
Director :Stephen Herek
Screenwriter :John Hughes
Based upon the novel "The One Hundred and One Dalmatians" by Dodie Smith
Executive producer:Edward S. Feldman
Director of photography:Adrian Biddle
Production designer:Assheton Gorton
Special visual effects and animation:Industrial Light & Magic
Editor :Trudy Ship
Costume designer:Anthony Powell, Rosemary burrows
Music: Michael Kamen
Casting :Celestia Fox, Marcia Ross
Visual effects supervisor:Michael Owens
Visual effects producer:Chrissie England
Associate producer:Rebekah Rudd
Sound mixer :Clive Winter
Color/stereo
Cast:
Cruella DeVil :Glenn Close
Roger :Jeff Daniels
Anita :Joely Richardson
Nanny :Joan Plowright
Jasper:Hugh Laurie
Horace :Mark Williams
Skinner :John Shrapnel
Running time -- 98 minutes
MPAA rating: G...
With John Hughes' screenwriting pawprint all over this blazing, warm holiday potion, "101 Dalmatians'" lineage is a bit of a mongrel, with its pedigree traced from the original English novel through the classic Disney animated film to Hughes' most recent kids' comedies, namely "Home Alone" and, most pointedly, "Beethoven".
Analytically apt seventh graders just might notice that "101 Dalmatians" is, basically, "Beethoven" played once again: Namely, a beloved bowser is dognapped by an evil ogre who will kill him for personal gain. Instead of a St. Bernard being whisked away under the cruel orders of a diabolical vet as in "Beethoven", in "Dalmatians" we have a whole slew of dogs, 101 to be exact, who are stolen under the orders of a cruel fashion maven who wants to turn their hides into a dog cape. As in "Home Alone" and "Beethoven", the actual perps are a pair of dimwits, one tall and skinny and one short and dumpy, who ultimately suffer the jolts and wallops of Hughes' severe sense of slapstick justice.
As those who are experts in the dog-in-jeopardy genre will attest, "if the dogs aren't cute, the kids will scoot." In "Dalmatians", they've packed the canines with plenty of puppy charm and loaded them with individual personality. Best, director Stephen Herek has packed the pic with scads of reactive dog shots to tug us even closer to them. With plenty of bright, anthropomorphic moments as the two lead dogs conspire to get the humans to behave in the fashion they want, the film is a heart-pulling winner. The kids and the menfolk will be especially pleased that the filmmakers do not wallow in any mushy moments: such sludge as grownup romance, happily, is put on fast-forward and quickly dispensed with.
The acting ensemble here is not ald dogs, however: The humans are doggone good also, particularly Glenn Close as the archvillainess Cruella DeVil$ whose haughty snappings are wicked-witch scary. Whether barking out her vicious orders or snapping at underlings, Close's yelpings are a zesty blend of cruelty and coeedy. Playing the central huean characters, Jeff Daniels and Joely Richardson are warmly appealing as newlyweds whose betrothal was, naturaldy, inspired by some kindly canine matchmaking. As the Daniel Stern and Joe Pesci characters, oops, we mean the two bumblers Jasper and Horace, Hugh Laurie and Mark Wildiams are amusingly dunderheaded, while Joan Plowright adds some kindly charm as a nattering nanny.
Technical coftributions are blue-ribbon consistent, comic and comfy all at once. Keeping us in stitches are costume designers Anthony Powell and Rosemarq Burrows' apt and arch flourishes, particularly DeVil's hideously haute fashionware& Similarly, production designer Assheton Gorton has kindled the right mix of fireplace comfort with dastardly menace, while composer Michaed Kamen has captured the fergcity of the evildoers while conveying the sweetness of the good-natured characters. Capturing all in a rich holaday glow, cinematographer Adrian Biddle's luminescent laghting is a perfect holiday wrap. Although Industrial Laght & Magic is credited wit` creating computer images of dogs when the real ones couldn't do the stuff, we conclude this must be a program-note misprint since there didn't seem to be afy fake dogs in the pack.
101 DALMATIANS
Buena Vista Distribution
Walt Disney Pictures
A Great Oaks Prodn.
A Stephen Herek Film
Producers :John Hughes, Ricardo Mestres
Director :Stephen Herek
Screenwriter :John Hughes
Based upon the novel "The One Hundred and One Dalmatians" by Dodie Smith
Executive producer:Edward S. Feldman
Director of photography:Adrian Biddle
Production designer:Assheton Gorton
Special visual effects and animation:Industrial Light & Magic
Editor :Trudy Ship
Costume designer:Anthony Powell, Rosemary burrows
Music: Michael Kamen
Casting :Celestia Fox, Marcia Ross
Visual effects supervisor:Michael Owens
Visual effects producer:Chrissie England
Associate producer:Rebekah Rudd
Sound mixer :Clive Winter
Color/stereo
Cast:
Cruella DeVil :Glenn Close
Roger :Jeff Daniels
Anita :Joely Richardson
Nanny :Joan Plowright
Jasper:Hugh Laurie
Horace :Mark Williams
Skinner :John Shrapnel
Running time -- 98 minutes
MPAA rating: G...
- 11/25/1996
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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