There's nothing like a good miniseries. The ability to take as much time as needed to tell a dense yet self-contained story, marrying the immediacy and formal panache of great cinema to the narrative depth of great TV, has allowed many auteurs in both mediums to create some of their finest and most vital work.
Historically, miniseries have been the province of some of television's most memorable hits, from "Roots" to "Taken" to "Band of Brothers." Series like Ingmar Bergman's "Scenes from a Marriage" and Mike Nichols' "Angels in America" are also regularly cited in the upper tiers of master directors' filmographies. In recent years, the format has seen a kind of mainstream revival, thanks largely to the smashing success of titles like "The Queen's Gambit" and "Watchmen."
But countless miniseries from around the world remain that have yet to receive the attention they deserve. Here are 12 examples of...
Historically, miniseries have been the province of some of television's most memorable hits, from "Roots" to "Taken" to "Band of Brothers." Series like Ingmar Bergman's "Scenes from a Marriage" and Mike Nichols' "Angels in America" are also regularly cited in the upper tiers of master directors' filmographies. In recent years, the format has seen a kind of mainstream revival, thanks largely to the smashing success of titles like "The Queen's Gambit" and "Watchmen."
But countless miniseries from around the world remain that have yet to receive the attention they deserve. Here are 12 examples of...
- 3/25/2023
- by Leo Noboru Lima
- Slash Film
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Each week, The Hollywood Reporter will offer up the best new (and newly relevant) books that everyone will be talking about — whether it’s a tome that’s ripe for adaptation, a new Hollywood-centric tell-all or the source material for a hot new TV show.
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The Unfolding by A.M. Homes (UTA)
After Barack Obama’s election, a group of wealthy, powerful Republicans gather to devise a plan to stop the country’s progressive momentum. The scenario is fictional, but Homes’ vision in The Unfolding is so cannily crafted, it feels like peering into a top-secret world.
People Person by Candice Carty-Williams (42Mp)
This boisterous novel from the author of the beloved 2019 debut Queenie revolves around a group of half siblings connected by an absent, highly idiosyncratic father. A spontaneous reunion could be the springboard for a tender, laugh-out-loud miniseries.
Survival of...
Each week, The Hollywood Reporter will offer up the best new (and newly relevant) books that everyone will be talking about — whether it’s a tome that’s ripe for adaptation, a new Hollywood-centric tell-all or the source material for a hot new TV show.
Rights Available
The Unfolding by A.M. Homes (UTA)
After Barack Obama’s election, a group of wealthy, powerful Republicans gather to devise a plan to stop the country’s progressive momentum. The scenario is fictional, but Homes’ vision in The Unfolding is so cannily crafted, it feels like peering into a top-secret world.
People Person by Candice Carty-Williams (42Mp)
This boisterous novel from the author of the beloved 2019 debut Queenie revolves around a group of half siblings connected by an absent, highly idiosyncratic father. A spontaneous reunion could be the springboard for a tender, laugh-out-loud miniseries.
Survival of...
- 9/21/2022
- by Seija Rankin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Laura Linney is going from the Missouri Ozarks to Broadway for one of her latest projects.
The Ozark star and Tony nominee is set to make her New York Theater stage return in Summer, 1976, a new play by Pulitzer Prize winner and Proof author David Auburn. Commissioned by the Manhattan Theatre Club through the Bank of America New Play Program, the world premiere production will be staged at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, with previews set to begin on April 4, 2023.
Helmed by Tony-winning director Daniel Sullivan, the Emmy winner and Academy Award-nominated actress will star in a story about the friendship between Diana, a fiercely iconoclastic artist and single mom and Alice, a free-spirited yet naive young housewife, according to Mtc. Set during the country’s Bicentennial celebration, “these two young women in Ohio navigate motherhood, ambition, and intimacy, and help each other discover their own independence.
Laura Linney is going from the Missouri Ozarks to Broadway for one of her latest projects.
The Ozark star and Tony nominee is set to make her New York Theater stage return in Summer, 1976, a new play by Pulitzer Prize winner and Proof author David Auburn. Commissioned by the Manhattan Theatre Club through the Bank of America New Play Program, the world premiere production will be staged at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, with previews set to begin on April 4, 2023.
Helmed by Tony-winning director Daniel Sullivan, the Emmy winner and Academy Award-nominated actress will star in a story about the friendship between Diana, a fiercely iconoclastic artist and single mom and Alice, a free-spirited yet naive young housewife, according to Mtc. Set during the country’s Bicentennial celebration, “these two young women in Ohio navigate motherhood, ambition, and intimacy, and help each other discover their own independence.
- 8/30/2022
- by Abbey White
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Five years after it won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Elizabeth Strout’s novel, “Olive Kitteridge,” was adapted into a four-part limited series that went on to win eight Primetime Emmy awards from 13 nominations. Besides being named the Best Limited Series of 2015, the HBO program also garnered acting prizes for supporting player Bill Murray and leads Frances McDormand and Richard Jenkins. The pair of stars had previously appeared in three theatrical films together, including two directed by McDormand’s husband, Joel Coen.
Jenkins, whose TV acting career began in 1974, had never been recognized by Emmy voters before this. The 68-year-old automatically became the 10th oldest man to ever win the Best TV Movie/Limited Series Actor award, and still holds that position today. Of the older actors who place higher than him, six were over 75 when they won, and two were over 80. Additionally, all 10 entrants had previously been Oscar-nominated, with...
Jenkins, whose TV acting career began in 1974, had never been recognized by Emmy voters before this. The 68-year-old automatically became the 10th oldest man to ever win the Best TV Movie/Limited Series Actor award, and still holds that position today. Of the older actors who place higher than him, six were over 75 when they won, and two were over 80. Additionally, all 10 entrants had previously been Oscar-nominated, with...
- 8/1/2022
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
Five years after it won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Elizabeth Strout’s novel, “Olive Kitteridge,” was adapted into a four-part limited series that went on to win eight Primetime Emmy awards from 13 nominations. Besides being named the Best Limited Series of 2015, the HBO program also garnered acting prizes for supporting player Bill Murray and leads Frances McDormand and Richard Jenkins. The pair of stars had previously appeared in three theatrical films together, including two directed by McDormand’s husband, Joel Coen.
Jenkins, whose TV acting career began in 1974, had never been recognized by Emmy voters before this. The 68-year-old automatically became the 10th oldest man to ever win the Best Movie/Limited Actor award, and still holds that position six years later. Of the older actors who place higher than him, six were over 75 when they won, and two were over 80.
Since 1955, a total of 59 actors have won Emmys...
Jenkins, whose TV acting career began in 1974, had never been recognized by Emmy voters before this. The 68-year-old automatically became the 10th oldest man to ever win the Best Movie/Limited Actor award, and still holds that position six years later. Of the older actors who place higher than him, six were over 75 when they won, and two were over 80.
Since 1955, a total of 59 actors have won Emmys...
- 8/31/2021
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
Julia Louis-Dreyfus has created iconic characters on “Seinfeld” and “Veep,” and with her overall deal with Apple, she’s poised for her next chapter. That future may or may not include more appearances as the Marvel villain Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine on Disney Plus’ “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” — something she can barely talk about, since Marvel is so secretive. This is pretty much all she can say: “I’ve always wanted to play a contessa, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe made it happen.”
But during an in-depth interview over Zoom for Variety’s Power of Women issue, there was plenty Louis-Dreyfus was able to discuss, including how she misses playing “Veep’s” Selina Meyer, her search for her next projects, why she got so involved in the 2020 election — and how cancer changed her priorities.
How have these past 13 months been for you?
I got really involved in the political campaign,...
But during an in-depth interview over Zoom for Variety’s Power of Women issue, there was plenty Louis-Dreyfus was able to discuss, including how she misses playing “Veep’s” Selina Meyer, her search for her next projects, why she got so involved in the 2020 election — and how cancer changed her priorities.
How have these past 13 months been for you?
I got really involved in the political campaign,...
- 5/6/2021
- by Kate Aurthur
- Variety Film + TV
The Tony Awards Administration Committee met on Thursday for the third and final time to discuss eligibility of the 74th Annual Tony Awards. They discussed all of the plays and musicals that would be considered for the 2019-2020 cycle and placements for three productions.
The following 18 productions are eligible for the 2020 Tony Awards (in opening night order):
“Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune”
“Moulin Rouge! The Musical”
“Sea Wall/A Life”
“Betrayal”
“The Height of the Storm”
“The Great Society”
“Slave Play”
“Linda Vista”
“The Rose Tattoo”
“The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical”
“The Sound Inside”
“Tina – The Tina Turner Musical”
“The Inheritance”
“A Christmas Carol”
“Jagged Little Pill”
“My Name is Lucy Barton”
“A Soldier’s Play”
“Grand Horizons”
See 2020 Tony Awards: The show will go on virtually this fall
The American Theatre Wing’s 74th Annual Tony Awards will take place virtually this year,...
The following 18 productions are eligible for the 2020 Tony Awards (in opening night order):
“Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune”
“Moulin Rouge! The Musical”
“Sea Wall/A Life”
“Betrayal”
“The Height of the Storm”
“The Great Society”
“Slave Play”
“Linda Vista”
“The Rose Tattoo”
“The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical”
“The Sound Inside”
“Tina – The Tina Turner Musical”
“The Inheritance”
“A Christmas Carol”
“Jagged Little Pill”
“My Name is Lucy Barton”
“A Soldier’s Play”
“Grand Horizons”
See 2020 Tony Awards: The show will go on virtually this fall
The American Theatre Wing’s 74th Annual Tony Awards will take place virtually this year,...
- 8/28/2020
- by Sam Eckmann
- Gold Derby
Eighteen Broadway productions will be eligible for this year’s Tony Awards competition, an awards committee confirmed Friday. The figure is significantly lower than last year’s pre-pandemic 34 eligible shows.
The number was confirmed, along with several routine nominee determinations, in yesterday’s final meeting of the the Tony Awards Administration Committee to decide eligibility for the recently announced all-digital 74th annual Tony Awards.
A date and platform have not been announced.
Among the decisions announced today, David Alan Grier will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play category for his performance in the large ensemble cast of A Soldier’s Play.
Also, both Elizabeth Strout and Rona Munro will be considered jointly eligible in the Best Play category for their work as co-authors on My Name is Lucy Barton, and Laura Linney will be considered eligible in the Best...
The number was confirmed, along with several routine nominee determinations, in yesterday’s final meeting of the the Tony Awards Administration Committee to decide eligibility for the recently announced all-digital 74th annual Tony Awards.
A date and platform have not been announced.
Among the decisions announced today, David Alan Grier will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play category for his performance in the large ensemble cast of A Soldier’s Play.
Also, both Elizabeth Strout and Rona Munro will be considered jointly eligible in the Best Play category for their work as co-authors on My Name is Lucy Barton, and Laura Linney will be considered eligible in the Best...
- 8/28/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
As we are now about halfway through the Broadway season, and there are currently 12 productions of plays set to open this spring. Could we be seeing any of them contend at this year’s Tony Awards? Below, we recap the plot of each play as well as the awards history of its author, cast, creative types, the opening, and (where applicable) closing dates.
“My Name is Lucy Barton” (opens January 15; closes February 29)
In this stage adaptation of Elizabeth Strout’s 2016 novel of the same name, the story follows the title character, who, unsteady after an operation, awakens to find her mother sitting at the foot of her bed. She hasn’t seen her in years, and her visit brings Lucy back to her desperate rural childhood and her escape to New York. As she begins to find herself as a writer, she is still gripped by the urgent complexities of family life.
“My Name is Lucy Barton” (opens January 15; closes February 29)
In this stage adaptation of Elizabeth Strout’s 2016 novel of the same name, the story follows the title character, who, unsteady after an operation, awakens to find her mother sitting at the foot of her bed. She hasn’t seen her in years, and her visit brings Lucy back to her desperate rural childhood and her escape to New York. As she begins to find herself as a writer, she is still gripped by the urgent complexities of family life.
- 1/29/2020
- by Jeffrey Kare
- Gold Derby
My Name is Lucy Barton opened just last night, Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre 261 West 47th Street. Four-time Emmy Award winner, two-time Golden Globe Award winner, three-time Academy Award and four-time Tony Award nominee Laura Linney returns to Broadway in a haunting new solo play adapted by Rona Munro from the bestselling novel by Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout.
- 1/16/2020
- by Jennifer Broski
- BroadwayWorld.com
Laura Linney pours the breath of life into Broadway’s My Name Is Lucy Barton, based on the novel by Olive Kitteridge author Elizabeth Strout. Arriving in New York following an acclaimed London production, this poignant, 90-minute solo play, directed by Richard Eyre and opening tonight at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, conjures up an entire life – or two or three – through the sometimes fuzzy, always penetrating memories of a middle-aged woman still coming to terms with a childhood few would wish to recall.
Adapted by Rona Munro from Strout’s bestseller, Lucy Barton is set entirely in the hospital room – or, as all else here, the remembered hospital room – inhabited for nine long-ago weeks by the title character. When a routine operation goes awry, Lucy, missing her husband and two young daughters, is surprised to find her estranged mother holding vigil at her bedside.
Linney portrays both women,...
Adapted by Rona Munro from Strout’s bestseller, Lucy Barton is set entirely in the hospital room – or, as all else here, the remembered hospital room – inhabited for nine long-ago weeks by the title character. When a routine operation goes awry, Lucy, missing her husband and two young daughters, is surprised to find her estranged mother holding vigil at her bedside.
Linney portrays both women,...
- 1/16/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Performances begin tomorrow, Saturday, January 4, for the American premiere of the London Theatre Company Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr production of My Name is Lucy Barton starring Laura Linney Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes, 'Ozark', by Elizabeth Strout Olive Kitteridge, adapted by Rona Munro The James Trilogy, and directed by Richard Eyre The Crucible, Notes on a Scandal. The New York production is produced in association with Penguin Random House Audio.
- 1/3/2020
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Laura Linney is coming back to Broadway,direct from London The four-time Emmy Award winner, two-time Golden Globe Award winner, three-time Academy Award and four-time Tony Award nominee returnsin a haunting new solo play adapted by Rona Munro from the bestselling novel by Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout. My Name is Lucy Barton starring Laura Linney will start previews on Saturday, January 4 at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre 261 West 47th Street.
- 12/13/2019
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
In today’s TV news roundup, Netflix announces the premiere date of Tiffany Haddish’s new comedy special and Amazon Studios’s “The Wilds” gets additional cast members.
Casting
Amazon Studios has announced additional series regulars for “The Wilds.” Rachel Griffiths (“Take Control”), David Sullivan (“Goliath”), Troy Winbush (“The Goldbergs”), Sophia Ali (“Grey’s Anatomy”), Sarah Pidgeon (“Gotham”), Jenna Clause and Erana James joined the new show, which follows teenage girls stranded on an deserted island after a plane crash.
Renewals
AMC renewed “Eli Roth’s History of Horror” for a second six-episode season. “I’m so thrilled to be continuing this historic series with AMC. In Season 1, we had the most incredible conversations with the top creators in the field who really helped fans around the world appreciate the horror genre in a new light,” Roth said. “From Quentin Tarantino to Jordan Peele to Stephen King and Jamie Lee Curtis,...
Casting
Amazon Studios has announced additional series regulars for “The Wilds.” Rachel Griffiths (“Take Control”), David Sullivan (“Goliath”), Troy Winbush (“The Goldbergs”), Sophia Ali (“Grey’s Anatomy”), Sarah Pidgeon (“Gotham”), Jenna Clause and Erana James joined the new show, which follows teenage girls stranded on an deserted island after a plane crash.
Renewals
AMC renewed “Eli Roth’s History of Horror” for a second six-episode season. “I’m so thrilled to be continuing this historic series with AMC. In Season 1, we had the most incredible conversations with the top creators in the field who really helped fans around the world appreciate the horror genre in a new light,” Roth said. “From Quentin Tarantino to Jordan Peele to Stephen King and Jamie Lee Curtis,...
- 11/8/2019
- by LaTesha Harris
- Variety Film + TV
Elizabeth Strout, Jonathan Franzen and others on mysterious author Elena Ferrante’s work and persona
Straight-up documentaries about literary subjects are so rarely released theatrically, it’s hard not to cheer when one makes it into cinemas. So hooray for those responsible for nudging this look into the work of Italian novelist Elena Ferrante into view; it can’t have been easy, even though Ferrante’s books are bestsellers around the world, especially in the Us. The fact that the author’s name is likely to be a pseudonym and that no one knows who “Elena Ferrante” is, lives, or looks like, or even if she is a woman, must have made selling this film even more of a challenge. That’s particularly true nowadays given how crucial an author’s appearance, accessibility and physical presence at publicity events is to a work’s success.
Inevitably, director Giacomo Durzi spends...
Straight-up documentaries about literary subjects are so rarely released theatrically, it’s hard not to cheer when one makes it into cinemas. So hooray for those responsible for nudging this look into the work of Italian novelist Elena Ferrante into view; it can’t have been easy, even though Ferrante’s books are bestsellers around the world, especially in the Us. The fact that the author’s name is likely to be a pseudonym and that no one knows who “Elena Ferrante” is, lives, or looks like, or even if she is a woman, must have made selling this film even more of a challenge. That’s particularly true nowadays given how crucial an author’s appearance, accessibility and physical presence at publicity events is to a work’s success.
Inevitably, director Giacomo Durzi spends...
- 5/17/2019
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
Manhattan Theatre Club, Lynne Meadow Artistic Director and Barry Grove Executive Producer have just announced the American premiere of the London Theatre Company Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr production of My Name is Lucy Barton starring Laura Linney Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes, 'Ozark', by Elizabeth Strout Olive Kitteridge, adapted by Rona Munro The James Trilogy, and directed by Richard Eyre The Crucible, Notes on a Scandal as part of Manhattan Theatre Club's upcoming 2019-2020 season. The New York production will be produced in association with Penguin Random House Audio.
- 4/29/2019
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Laura Linney will return to Broadway next year in the American premiere of My Name is Lucy Barton, the hit 2018 London Theatre Company production of a solo play based on the novel by Elizabeth Strout, adapted by Rona Munro and directed by Richard Eyre.
The play will debut as part of Manhattan Theatre Club’s upcoming season, with previews beginning Monday, Jan. 6, 2020, at Mtc’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Broadway. Opening night is Jan. 15.
Linney plays Lucy Barton, “a woman who wakes after an operation to find – much to her surprise – her mother at the foot of her bed,” as described by Mtc. “They haven’t seen each other in years. During their days-long visit, Lucy tries to understand her past, works to come to terms with her family, and begins to find herself as a writer.”
The creative team for My Name is Lucy Barton includes Bob Crowley...
The play will debut as part of Manhattan Theatre Club’s upcoming season, with previews beginning Monday, Jan. 6, 2020, at Mtc’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Broadway. Opening night is Jan. 15.
Linney plays Lucy Barton, “a woman who wakes after an operation to find – much to her surprise – her mother at the foot of her bed,” as described by Mtc. “They haven’t seen each other in years. During their days-long visit, Lucy tries to understand her past, works to come to terms with her family, and begins to find herself as a writer.”
The creative team for My Name is Lucy Barton includes Bob Crowley...
- 4/29/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Laura Linney is treading the London boards this month, playing the title character—in fact, the only character—in Rona Munro’s one-woman adaptation of Elizabeth Strout’s Booker Prize-longlisted novel My Name is Lucy Barton at the Bridge Theatre. Surprisingly, it’s the first time this theater veteran has appeared on the London stage, and it’s a whole new challenge as she effortlessly commands 90 minutes on stage alone. It reteams her with director Richard Eyre, with whom she last worked on a 2002 revival of The Crucible at the Virginia Theatre in New York. A little over a year ago, she was on the Broadway stage in The Little Foxes alongside Cynthia Nixon, and both plays have received stellar notices.
In between, of course, she shot the upcoming second season of Netflix’s Ozark, alongside Jason Bateman. As Wendy Byrde, Linney plays the family matriarch who is, at turns,...
In between, of course, she shot the upcoming second season of Netflix’s Ozark, alongside Jason Bateman. As Wendy Byrde, Linney plays the family matriarch who is, at turns,...
- 6/19/2018
- by Joe Utichi
- Deadline Film + TV
Stories have a way of opening up on a stage. Elizabeth Strout’s bestselling novel “My Name Is Lucy Barton” looks, at first glance, like a curious choice for a theatrical adaptation. It’s ruminative, reflective, and all but becalmed: a bedbound writer’s hazy recollections looking back on her life. There’s little action, still less drama, scant theatricality. And yet, in Richard Eyre’s understated staging, exquisitely performed by Laura Linney, its stillness and slowness come to seem like strengths. Lucy Barton’s personal meditation blossoms into something bigger than itself – a portrait of America, perhaps even of history as a whole.
“My Name Is Lucy Barton” is, as its title suggests, a search for identity. Laid up in a Manhattan hospital bed, battling a life-threatening illness after a routine appendix operation, its protagonist reaches for a sense of herself. She’s lost enough weight that her reflection has changed,...
“My Name Is Lucy Barton” is, as its title suggests, a search for identity. Laid up in a Manhattan hospital bed, battling a life-threatening illness after a routine appendix operation, its protagonist reaches for a sense of herself. She’s lost enough weight that her reflection has changed,...
- 6/7/2018
- by Matt Trueman
- Variety Film + TV
The Us actor tells how a new adaption of Elizabeth Strout’s My Name Is Lucy Barton chimes with our uncertain times
Mid-morning in Brooklyn, New York and grey clouds are scudding across the sky above St Ann’s Warehouse – a state-of-the-art performance and rehearsal space that was once a tobacco warehouse. Inside, a fabulous model of an angel is suspended from the ceiling, and beyond its windows the East River is getting on with its day. Laura Linney is said to be running late and when she arrives she walks in briskly without any diva-esque hauteur. She is all apologies, smiles, grace. She sits down on a circular leather banquette in the foyer and tucks her knees beneath her. She is casually dressed but with a black-and-white scarf for extra flourish. She looks comfortable in her own skin. At 54, there is a much younger woman visible in her face...
Mid-morning in Brooklyn, New York and grey clouds are scudding across the sky above St Ann’s Warehouse – a state-of-the-art performance and rehearsal space that was once a tobacco warehouse. Inside, a fabulous model of an angel is suspended from the ceiling, and beyond its windows the East River is getting on with its day. Laura Linney is said to be running late and when she arrives she walks in briskly without any diva-esque hauteur. She is all apologies, smiles, grace. She sits down on a circular leather banquette in the foyer and tucks her knees beneath her. She is casually dressed but with a black-and-white scarf for extra flourish. She looks comfortable in her own skin. At 54, there is a much younger woman visible in her face...
- 5/27/2018
- by Kate Kellaway
- The Guardian - Film News
Bollywood epic Padmavati, now titled Padmaavat, will see its worldwide release beginning tomorrow. The Deepika Padukone-starrer has throughout production and to today sparked a furor in India, inciting violence and death threats. It finally cleared censors last week after a December date was delayed amid escalating tensions. Those tensions have not abated. At least 16 people were reportedly arrested on Tuesday in Ahmedabad as they protested the release of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s film. It’s based on Malik Muhammad Jayasi’s epic 16th century poem and earlier confusion over perceived historical inaccuracies and a false rumor that the movie contained offensive sexual content have led to the violence. Police told local press that some 200 protesters set fire to cars and scooters in Ahmedabad and threw rocks at cinemas yesterday. On Sunday in Gujarat, protesters blocked roads and caused local bus services to be suspended. Rajput leaders have said that...
- 1/24/2018
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s impossible not to feel some sympathy for the narrator of Elizabeth Strout’s new novel My Name Is Lucy Barton. She is confined, for most of the book’s action, to a hospital bed. Complications have arisen from an appendectomy. Lucy might need further surgery. Over nine weeks, she loses so much weight that her shoes no longer fit. She worries about dying. But we know the episode won’t prove fatal because the novel is narrated from the present, and Lucy’s hospitalization occurred in the 1980s.And hospital bed aside, Lucy is a very nice person. She’s full of love — a word she’s not shy about using — for many of the people in her life she admires. These include her doctor, who visits her every day and then knocks most of these visits off her bill; one of her high-school teachers, who always commanded...
- 1/14/2016
- by Christian Lorentzen
- Vulture
Oscar winner Robert Redford has signed a two-year, first-look television deal with HBO. The first project put into development under the pact is The Burgess Boys, a miniseries based on the novel by Elizabeth Strout. Published in 2013 by Random House, The Burgess Boys, Strout’s followup novel to her Pulitzer-winning Olive Kitteridge, follows two brothers who are haunted by the freak accident that killed their father when they were children, and recounts their eventual…...
- 1/6/2016
- Deadline TV
Robert Redford has signed a two-year, first-look television deal with HBO with the first project being the mini-series "The Burgess Boys".
Based on the 2013 novel by Elizabeth Strout ("Olive Kitteridge"), the story follows two brothers who are haunted by the freak accident that killed their father when they were children, and recounts their eventual return to Maine where long-buried tensions surface in ways that change them forever.
Redford optioned the book last year and will executive produce. Marcus Hinchey ("All Good Things") is penning the script.
Source: Deadline...
Based on the 2013 novel by Elizabeth Strout ("Olive Kitteridge"), the story follows two brothers who are haunted by the freak accident that killed their father when they were children, and recounts their eventual return to Maine where long-buried tensions surface in ways that change them forever.
Redford optioned the book last year and will executive produce. Marcus Hinchey ("All Good Things") is penning the script.
Source: Deadline...
- 1/6/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
With Olive Kitteridge doing so well at the Emmys, Frances McDormand wants to do more. The Oscar-winning actress, who had been the driving force behind the four-hour HBO miniseries, won her first Emmys tonight for starring in and executive producing. When McDormand optioned Elizabeth Strout's book, on which the mini was based, and brought in writer Jane Anderson to adapt it, Anderson wrote a six-hour script. HBO and the film’s production company, Tom Hanks and Gary…...
- 9/21/2015
- Deadline TV
Wes Anderson's "The Grand Budapest Hotel" won the Original Screenplay honor at the recently concluded Writers Guild Awards while Morten Tyldum's "The Imitation Game" took home the Adapted Screenplay trophy. "The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swarts" written by Brian Knappenberger won Documentary Screenplay award. The film is not nominated for an Academy award.
In TV land, HBO's "True Detective" won the Drama Series award and FX's "Louie" received the Comedy Series trophy.
Here's the complete list of winners (highlighted) and nominees of the 2015 Writers Guild Awards:
Feature Film
Original Screenplay
Boyhood, Written by Richard Linklater; IFC Films
Foxcatcher, Written by E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman; Sony Pictures Classics
The Grand Budapest Hotel, Screenplay by Wes Anderson; Story by Wes Anderson & Hugo Guinness; Fox Searchlight Winner
Nightcrawler, Written by Dan Gilroy; Open Road Films
Whiplash, Written by Damien Chazelle; Sony Pictures Classics
Adapted Screenplay
American Sniper,...
In TV land, HBO's "True Detective" won the Drama Series award and FX's "Louie" received the Comedy Series trophy.
Here's the complete list of winners (highlighted) and nominees of the 2015 Writers Guild Awards:
Feature Film
Original Screenplay
Boyhood, Written by Richard Linklater; IFC Films
Foxcatcher, Written by E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman; Sony Pictures Classics
The Grand Budapest Hotel, Screenplay by Wes Anderson; Story by Wes Anderson & Hugo Guinness; Fox Searchlight Winner
Nightcrawler, Written by Dan Gilroy; Open Road Films
Whiplash, Written by Damien Chazelle; Sony Pictures Classics
Adapted Screenplay
American Sniper,...
- 2/16/2015
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
2015 Writers Guild Awards – Winners Announced The Writers Guild of America, West (Wgaw) and the Writers Guild of America, East (Wgae) tonight announced the winners of the 2015 Writers Guild Awards for outstanding achievement in writing for film, television, new media, videogames, news, radio, promotional, and graphic animation categories at simultaneous ceremonies at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles and the Edison Ballroom in New York City. Film Winners Original Screenplay The Grand Budapest Hotel, Screenplay by Wes Anderson; Story by Wes Anderson & Hugo Guinness; Fox Searchlight Adapted Screenplay The Imitation Game, Written by Graham Moore; Based on the book Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges; The Weinstein Company Documentary Screenplay The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz, Written by Brian Knappenberger; FilmBuff Television And New Media Winners Drama Series True Detective, Written by Nic Pizzolatto; HBO Comedy Series Louie, Written by Pamela Adlon, Louis C.K.; FX New Series True Detective,...
- 2/15/2015
- by Josh Abraham
- Hollywoodnews.com
The Writers Guild of America (WGA) handed out top film honors to the screenplays of "The Grand Budapest Hotel" and "The Imitation Game" Saturday night. On the television side, "Louie" and "True Detective" were favorites, winning two prizes each. Damien Chazelle's "Whiplash" competed in the original category at the WGA Awards, while the Academy's Writers Branch, in a rare move outside of guild designation, deemed it adapted due to the fact that a scene from the feature script was the basis of a short film that screened at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. So if "The Imitation Game" is to go on to Oscar glory, it will have to compete with Chazelle's popular film for the first time this season at the Feb. 22 Academy Awards ceremony. Additionally, presumed Best Picture frontrunner "Birdman" was not eligible for WGA (making it still significant competition with "Grand Budapest" in the original category), nor was "The Theory of Everything,...
- 2/15/2015
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
Boardwalk Empire, “Devil You Know”
Written by Howard Korder
Directed by Jeremy Podeswa
Aired October 12, 2014
After four seasons of deliberately paced, character-based storytelling, Boardwalk Empire wasn’t going to change its approach in its final truncated season. Instead of introducing new intrigues or foes, the series used much of its time to reflect on the paths that brought Nucky and the other main characters to this point and to say an extended goodbye to the people and world of the show. With Nucky facing off against well known historical figures, an air of doom pervades much of the final episodes before they reach their poetic, but inevitable conclusion. More intriguing is the antepenultimate episode, “Devil You Know”, which says goodbye to two of the series’ most colorful characters and powerful actors, Michael Shannon’s George Mueller/Nelson Van Alden and Michael K. Williams’ Chalky White. Shannon’s intense and frequently...
Written by Howard Korder
Directed by Jeremy Podeswa
Aired October 12, 2014
After four seasons of deliberately paced, character-based storytelling, Boardwalk Empire wasn’t going to change its approach in its final truncated season. Instead of introducing new intrigues or foes, the series used much of its time to reflect on the paths that brought Nucky and the other main characters to this point and to say an extended goodbye to the people and world of the show. With Nucky facing off against well known historical figures, an air of doom pervades much of the final episodes before they reach their poetic, but inevitable conclusion. More intriguing is the antepenultimate episode, “Devil You Know”, which says goodbye to two of the series’ most colorful characters and powerful actors, Michael Shannon’s George Mueller/Nelson Van Alden and Michael K. Williams’ Chalky White. Shannon’s intense and frequently...
- 12/26/2014
- by Staff
- SoundOnSight
The Writers Guild of America announced the TV nominees for the 2015 WGA Awards on Thursday (December 4) morning and several new shows broke into the fields in a big way. And, of course, there were a number of big WGA Award nomination head-scratchers. Specifically, where the heck was FX's "Fargo"? The answer is below. Making perhaps the biggest splash was "Transparent," which earned three nominations and, since "Orange Is The New Black" earned two nods and "House of Cards" pick up one, that meant that Amazon Prime and Netflix are, at least for one award-giving organization, on equal footing as creators of original programming. The Jill Soloway-created "Transparent" is nominated for New Series, where it will go against "The Affair," "The Knick," "Silicon Valley" and "True Detective." "Transparent" and "Silicon Valley" are also up for Comedy Series, going against "Louie," "Veep" and "Orange Is The New Black." Lest you panic...
- 12/5/2014
- by Daniel Fienberg
- Hitfix
Great television can be hard to watch – at times, it can be the truest marker of a show’s quality, it’s ability to engage us on a subconscious level that makes us feel uncomfortable, challenging our preconceptions and beliefs, or simply presenting a reflection of ourselves we’re afraid to recognize. And this doesn’t apply to dark, cynical television shows like The Sopranos or Breaking Bad as many may think; it can be found in inspiring stories like Rectify or Enlightened just as easily. Olive Kitteridge, HBO’s adaptation of Elizabeth Strout’s award-winning collection of short stories, is a little bit of both – or rather, a lot of darkness with just enough light in the right places to be heartbreaking and cathartic at the same time. Starring Frances McDormand as the titular character, Olive Kitteridge isn’t just the story of a cranky, old woman: it’s the story of a long,...
- 11/4/2014
- by Randy Dankievitch
- TVovermind.com
At a loss for what to watch this week? From new DVDs and Blu-rays, to what's streaming on Netflix, we've got you covered.
New on DVD and Blu-ray
"Maleficent"
Angelina Jolie's delectably over the top performance as the Sleeping Beauty villain will suck you in to this surprisingly dark take on the fairy tale - dark for Disney, anyway. Elle Fanning co-stars as Aurora, the beautiful but cursed young princess who shows Maleficent the true meaning of love. Sam Riley puts on an entertaining show as Diaval, Malficent's transmogrifying raven.
"Hercules"
If you've been wondering what Brett Ratner's been up to lately, well, here's your answer. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson pumped it up even more to play the mythic hero who is apparently now a mercenary for hire, along with a few other tough guys and one gal. If anything, take a gander at the fruit of Johnson's weight-lifting labor.
New on DVD and Blu-ray
"Maleficent"
Angelina Jolie's delectably over the top performance as the Sleeping Beauty villain will suck you in to this surprisingly dark take on the fairy tale - dark for Disney, anyway. Elle Fanning co-stars as Aurora, the beautiful but cursed young princess who shows Maleficent the true meaning of love. Sam Riley puts on an entertaining show as Diaval, Malficent's transmogrifying raven.
"Hercules"
If you've been wondering what Brett Ratner's been up to lately, well, here's your answer. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson pumped it up even more to play the mythic hero who is apparently now a mercenary for hire, along with a few other tough guys and one gal. If anything, take a gander at the fruit of Johnson's weight-lifting labor.
- 11/3/2014
- by Jenni Miller
- Moviefone
Olive Kitteridge, airing Sunday and Monday on HBO, follows stern Maine schoolteacher Olive Kitteridge (Frances McDormand) and her relationships with her husband, Henry (Richard Jenkins); son, Chris (John Gallagher Jr.); and other members of their New England community. Directed by Lisa Cholodenko, the four-episode HBO miniseries was adapted by Jane Anderson from a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Elizabeth Strout, and also stars Bill Murray and Zoe Kazan. Read more 'Olive Kitteridge' Cast Dishes on the HBO Miniseries' Brave Portraits of Marriage and Mental Illness Read what top critics are saying about Olive Kitteridge: The Hollywood Reporter’s David
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- 11/2/2014
- by Rebecca Doyle
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Olive Kitteridge, HBO's four-part miniseries directed by Lisa Cholodenko from playwright Jane Anderson’s script, is adapted from Elizabeth Strout’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of 13 stories and was set in motion by Frances McDormand as, as Frank Bruni puts it in the New York Times, "her answer to an industry and a society that she finds perverse in their fixation on youth." The magnificent cast features Richard Jenkins, Bill Murray, Zoe Kazan, Martha Wainwright, Peter Mullan and John Gallagher Jr. We're collecting reviews (raves, mostly) and we've posted the trailer and a clip. » - David Hudson...
- 11/2/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
Olive Kitteridge, HBO's four-part miniseries directed by Lisa Cholodenko from playwright Jane Anderson’s script, is adapted from Elizabeth Strout’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of 13 stories and was set in motion by Frances McDormand as, as Frank Bruni puts it in the New York Times, "her answer to an industry and a society that she finds perverse in their fixation on youth." The magnificent cast features Richard Jenkins, Bill Murray, Zoe Kazan, Martha Wainwright, Peter Mullan and John Gallagher Jr. We're collecting reviews (raves, mostly) and we've posted the trailer and a clip. » - David Hudson...
- 11/2/2014
- Keyframe
To know Olive Kitteridge is not easy. Many would likely argue it's not worth the risk of being exposed to her harsh, judgmental New Englander's scorn. Suffer fools gladly? Not this curmudgeonly math teacher who, when her husband insists she's not depressed, snaps back, "Yes, I am. Happy to have it. Comes with being smart." Prompting her long-suffering son to wonder, "Is that why you're so mean all the time?"
And yet, in HBO's oddly moving and melancholy-shrouded two-night adaptation of Elizabeth Strout's Pulitzer-winning novel Olive Kitteridge (Sunday-Monday, 9/8c), a remarkable Frances McDormand makes Olive a fascinating, tragicomic study in human stubbornness, contrariness and contradiction....
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And yet, in HBO's oddly moving and melancholy-shrouded two-night adaptation of Elizabeth Strout's Pulitzer-winning novel Olive Kitteridge (Sunday-Monday, 9/8c), a remarkable Frances McDormand makes Olive a fascinating, tragicomic study in human stubbornness, contrariness and contradiction....
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- 10/31/2014
- by Matt Roush
- TVGuide - Breaking News
The last time HBO turned a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel set in Maine into a miniseries, it was 2005's "Empire Falls," which boasted a star-studded cast but was exactly the wrong length at four hours: too short to properly tell all of the books' stories and give the audience the necessary feeling of living among these characters, and much too long for the thin slice the filmmakers were able to carve out of the book. HBO's new miniseries "Olive Kitteridge" (it debuts Sunday night at 9) is also adapted from a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel set in Maine, and also clocks in at four hours. And though I haven't read the Elizabeth Strout book on which it's based, it certainly feels like the same mistake has been made about its length. Directed by Lisa Cholodenko ("The Kids Are All Right") and written by HBO movie veteran Jane Anderson ("Normal," "The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom...
- 10/29/2014
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
'Olive Kitteridge' Cast Dishes on the HBO Miniseries' Brave Portraits of Marriage and Mental Illness
Early on in Olive Kitteridge — based on Elizabeth Strout's 2008 Pulitzer-winning collection of short stories — Olive (Frances McDormand) is asked by her husband, Henry (Richard Jenkins), if she is going to leave him. "For God’s sake, Henry, you could make a woman sick," McDormand responds curtly, as the intensely complicated, prickly and, at times deeply unhappy character. However, McDormand was all smiles at the HBO miniseries' New York City premiere, held at the Sva Theater on Monday night. After posing for photos on the red carpet, the Oscar-winning actress snuck up behind director Lisa Cholodenko
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- 10/29/2014
- by Laura Entis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Save us from shotguns & fathers' suicides. This pleading scrap of verse, from John Berryman's elegy for Ernest Hemingway, "Dream Song 235," appears in HBO's "Olive Kitteridge" scrawled on a cocktail napkin, yet another of the miniseries' many reminders that in the midst of life we are in death. Adapted by Jane Anderson from Elizabeth Strout's 2008 novel and directed by Lisa Cholodenko ("The Kids Are All Right"), "Olive Kitteridge" abounds with death -- sudden, slow, natural, accidental, suicidal -- much as this summer's "The Leftovers" (HBO) bristles with absence, and both thoroughly earn the adjective "bleak." But the latter succeeds in traversing such rough terrain while the former falls short, a difference that comes down, I think, to their uses of disenchantment. Read More: "Lisa Cholodenko & Frances McDormand's 'Olive Kitteridge' Impresses in Venice" As "Olive Kitteridge" opens, the...
- 10/28/2014
- by Matt Brennan
- Thompson on Hollywood
When we first meet the title character in Olive Kitteridge, she considers the revolver in her hands and looks up at the cloudless sky above the woods one last time. The 25-year journey (and the accumulation of mistakes and bad luck therein) that leads the elderly Olive to that moment of despair unfurls in director Lisa Cholodenko's (The Kids Are All Right) two-night, four-hour HBO miniseries (airing at 9 p.m. on Sunday, November 2, and Monday, November 3). Olive's played by Frances McDormand, who optioned Elizabeth Strout's Pulitzer-winning novel and, with Cholodenko, has created one of the most captivatingly complicated screen characters in recent memory: a small-town wife, mother, and math teacher with a zealotry for frankness that accelerates her undoing....
- 10/28/2014
- Village Voice
Like many readers of Elizabeth Strout’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2008 novel Olive Kitteridge, Frances McDormand fell in love with the character-rich examination of small-town secrets and promptly shared it with her friends. One longtime pal called her soon after, wondering if McDormand would find a way to play the plainspoken Olive onscreen. McDormand said no, unwilling to dilute the power of Strout’s words. “For me, acting has always been just a social extension of my private reading life,” says the lifelong book collector, “so I was never interested in reading books to consider them as material to develop into other projects.” … Continue reading →
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- 10/27/2014
- by Lori Acken
- ChannelGuideMag
TV Picks: HBO’s poignant ‘Olive Kitteridge’ comes to the smallscreen November 2nd and 3rd.Frances McDormand and Richard Jenkins star in the four-part HBO Miniseries drama Olive Kitteridge, a film by director Lisa Cholodenko, based on Elizabeth Strout’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name with a teleplay by Jane Anderson. The miniseries also stars Bill Murray, John Gallagher, Jr., Peter Mullan, Rosemarie DeWitt and Zoe Kazan.Olive Kitteridge tells the poignantly sweet, acerbically funny and devastatingly tragic story of a seemingly placid New England town wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, told through the lens of Olive (Frances McDormand), whose […]...
- 10/26/2014
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
Frances McDormand is aging. And unlike most people, she's perfectly fine with it. "We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species," the Oscar-winning actress, 57, told The New York Times in an interview this week. "There's no desire to be an adult. Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift." "Something happened culturally: No one is supposed to age past 45 - sartorially, cosmetically, attitudinally," said McDormand, who is married to director Joel Coen. "Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face.
- 10/17/2014
- by Stephanie Emma Pfeffer @StephEmmaPfeff
- PEOPLE.com
Frances McDormand is aging. And unlike most people, she's perfectly fine with it. "We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species," the Oscar-winning actress, 57, told The New York Times in an interview this week. "There's no desire to be an adult. Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift." "Something happened culturally: No one is supposed to age past 45 - sartorially, cosmetically, attitudinally," said McDormand, who is married to director Joel Coen. "Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face.
- 10/17/2014
- by Stephanie Emma Pfeffer @StephEmmaPfeff
- PEOPLE.com
Sneak Peek a new trailer from director Lisa Cholodenko's upcoming HBO mini-series "Olive Kitteridge", adapting author Elizabeth Strout’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, starring Frances McDormand, Richard Jenkins, Bill Murray, John Gallagher Jr., Peter Mullan, Rosemarie DeWitt, Zoe Kazan, Jesse Plemons and Rachel Brosnahan, airing November 2, 2014:
"....the poignantly sweet, acerbically funny and devastatingly tragic story of a seemingly placid New England town is wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, told through the lens of 'Olive' (Frances McDormand), whose wicked wit and harsh demeanor mask a warm but troubled heart and staunch moral center.
"The story, spanning 25 years, focuses on Olive's relationships with her husband 'Henry', the good-hearted and kindly town pharmacist, their son 'Christopher', who resents his mother’s approach to parenting and other members of their community..."
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"....the poignantly sweet, acerbically funny and devastatingly tragic story of a seemingly placid New England town is wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, told through the lens of 'Olive' (Frances McDormand), whose wicked wit and harsh demeanor mask a warm but troubled heart and staunch moral center.
"The story, spanning 25 years, focuses on Olive's relationships with her husband 'Henry', the good-hearted and kindly town pharmacist, their son 'Christopher', who resents his mother’s approach to parenting and other members of their community..."
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- 10/6/2014
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
HBO has released the first full trailer for Olive Kitteridge (the teaser was here), based on Elizabeth Strout's Pulitzer Prize winning novel of the same title. It's a portrait of the coastal town of Crosby, Maine, which like all tales of sleepy New England hamlets, is full of secrets, illicit sex, crime, and tragedy. The film, directed by The Kids Are All Right's Lisa Cholodenko, is told from the gimlet-eyed perspective of its protagonist played here by Frances McDormand, a junior high school math teacher. Her husband Henry, played by Richard Jenkins is the town pharmacist. Bill Murray and Zoe Kazan are also part of the cast. The four-part mini-series airs in two parts on November 2 and 3.
- 10/5/2014
- by E. Alex Jung
- Vulture
In the new trailer for HBO's miniseries Olive Kitteridge, Frances McDormand doles out blunt dialogue as the titular character. Throughout the trailer one can see how Olive's age changes over the course of the miniseries, which is adapted from Elizabeth Strout's novel. "I just want to say one thing," Olive tells a group of school children. "Don't be scared of your hunger. If you're scared of your hunger you're one more ninny just like everyone else." When Bill Murray's character tells an older-looking Olive to give him "a reason to wake up in the morning," revealing that his wife died,...
- 10/3/2014
- by Esther Zuckerman
- EW - Inside TV
We've said it before and we'll keep saying it—the line between TV and movies is continuing to blur, and we don't really care, as long as great stories are being told. Earlier this year, the HBO miniseries "Olive Kitteridge" screened in full at the Venice Film Festival, and why not? The talent is all top shelf, with Lisa Cholodenko directing a cast that includes Frances McDormand, Bill Murray, Richard Jenkins, Zoe Kazan and more. Now a brand new trailer is here in advance of its small screen bow. Based on the book by Elizabeth Strout, this is a four-part series that spans 25 years in the lives of residents of a small town. Here's the official synopsis: Olive Kitteridge tells the poignantly sweet, acerbically funny and devastatingly tragic story of a seemingly placid New England town wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, told through the lens of Olive, whose...
- 10/3/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Here’s a spare, evocative first look at HBO’s forthcoming miniseries Olive Kitteridge, based on Elizabeth Strout’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, directed by The Kids Are Alright’s Lisa Cholodenko and starring Frances McDormand, Richard Jenkins, and Bill Murray. Get ready for a lot of long, silent walks amid fall foliage, and presumably some other stuff, because that doesn’t seem like enough to fill a whole miniseries. It’s supposed to be great, though!
- 9/10/2014
- by Anna Silman
- Vulture
The HBO miniseries adaptation of Elizabeth Strout’s novel, Olive Kitteridge, premiered recently at Venice Film Festival, where Frances McDormand was honored with a Visionary award. The four part series stars Frances McDormand as the titular character and features an outstanding cast of Richard Jenkins, Bill Murray, Rosemarie DeWitt and Ann Dowd. The series is brought to screen by The Kids Are All Right director Lisa Cholodenko and tells the story of a cold abrasive Math teacher and her mild mannered husband as they live together in a sleepy coastal town in Maine.
The teaser trailer does not reveal too much about the actual plot of the miniseries but looks very promising with a gloomy yet hopeful tone featuring music performed by singer Martha Wainwright. Watch the teaser trailer below.
The first two parts of the miniseries will premiere on November 2nd 2014 to be followed the next night with the closing two installments,...
The teaser trailer does not reveal too much about the actual plot of the miniseries but looks very promising with a gloomy yet hopeful tone featuring music performed by singer Martha Wainwright. Watch the teaser trailer below.
The first two parts of the miniseries will premiere on November 2nd 2014 to be followed the next night with the closing two installments,...
- 9/10/2014
- by Jean Pierre Diez
- SoundOnSight
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