Before Dorothy’s mother passed away, she had a favorite saying, as Aunt Em reminds her grieving niece in the opening scene of The Wiz: “The hard stuff is there to let you know just how good you got it.” And while that’s a curious mantra to undergird a production of a Broadway musical, there’s something to it in the latest revival.
The first musical by a Black composer to win Tony Awards for best musical and best score, this well-loved show turns 50 next year. If Schele Williams’s simplistic and sometimes bewildering staging doesn’t itself demonstrate how the show has held up across those decades, she wisely steers all attention toward the main event: the stunning vocal performances from her cast. And since the show’s underwhelming visuals feel like less of a distraction than an afterthought, it’s easy enough to put the “hard...
The first musical by a Black composer to win Tony Awards for best musical and best score, this well-loved show turns 50 next year. If Schele Williams’s simplistic and sometimes bewildering staging doesn’t itself demonstrate how the show has held up across those decades, she wisely steers all attention toward the main event: the stunning vocal performances from her cast. And since the show’s underwhelming visuals feel like less of a distraction than an afterthought, it’s easy enough to put the “hard...
- 4/18/2024
- by Dan Rubins
- Slant Magazine
Get ready for a sequel that will go up to … 12?! The team behind the brilliant 1984 music mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap has officially begun work on another film. Filmmaker Rob Reiner will once again direct and portray documentarian Marty Dibergi as he checks in with the three members of Spinal Tap — David St. Hubbins (actor Michael McKean), Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest), and Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer) — to see how the past four decades have treated the heavy-metal stereotypes. They have not yet announced who’ll be playing the drummer, at...
- 3/11/2024
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Though the trailer of Madame Web promised a terrible film, fans seemed to have underestimated it as the film became one of the worst-rated Sony comic book films. The Sydney Sweeney and Dakota Johnson starrer had been a subject of memes ever since the trailer came out but the film seemed to have gained more hate than Jared Leto’s Morbius.
While Madame Web secured a terrible 14% on Rotten Tomatoes, the film received more hilarious reviews trashing it on TikTok. One review on the social media platform roasted the film to bits and has gone viral due to its hilarious bashing of Madame Web. The reviewer, Ashley K Smalls was so ruthless in her review that she refused to give a rating, saying that giving it a zero would be ‘too high’.
Dakota Johnson’s Madame Web Secures Terrible Reviews On Release Dakota Johnson in Madame Web
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While Madame Web secured a terrible 14% on Rotten Tomatoes, the film received more hilarious reviews trashing it on TikTok. One review on the social media platform roasted the film to bits and has gone viral due to its hilarious bashing of Madame Web. The reviewer, Ashley K Smalls was so ruthless in her review that she refused to give a rating, saying that giving it a zero would be ‘too high’.
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- 2/17/2024
- by Nishanth A
- FandomWire
Chris Smalls has all the makings of a hero. Young, charismatic and sympathetically rebellious, he quits his job at a New York Amazon warehouse over inadequate PPE provision, but doesn’t walk away: Instead, he launches an effort to establish a labor union at his former workplace, eager to improve conditions for those staying the course. It would be easy to build a halo-lit documentary portrait around this handsome, rabble-rousing father of three, but Brett Story and Stephen Maing’s excellent “Union” is something more finely shaded and community-minded than that. As a long-view anatomy of a unionization campaign, the film may be galvanized by Smalls’ presence at its center, but it’s rather less idealistic about the human politics involved in fighting corporations. Strong personalities inspire but they also divide; keeping everyone on side against a faceless foe is harder than Hollywood makes it look.
“Union” is no Hollywood film,...
“Union” is no Hollywood film,...
- 1/29/2024
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
The new Sundance documentary “Union” puts a spotlight on the extreme anti-union tactics employed by Amazon as it tries to quash a historic labor organizing effort at its Staten Island warehouse.
Directed by Brett Story and Stephen Maing, the film chronicles the struggle of the grassroots Amazon Labor Union (Alu) as it attempts to unionize the JFK8 Amazon facility. Alu president Chris Smalls joined the directors to talk to TheWrap executive editor Adam Chitwood, where they discussed Amazon’s aggressive efforts to undermine the union drive.
“It shows how Amazon and the NYPD work together,” Smalls said at TheWrap’s Sundance Portrait and Interview Studio presented by Nfp, referring to his on-camera arrest captured in the film. “It shows how policing is used to create fear and doubt, and not just to unionize. When you’re going up against corporations, someone being arrested that’s leading a movement will create...
Directed by Brett Story and Stephen Maing, the film chronicles the struggle of the grassroots Amazon Labor Union (Alu) as it attempts to unionize the JFK8 Amazon facility. Alu president Chris Smalls joined the directors to talk to TheWrap executive editor Adam Chitwood, where they discussed Amazon’s aggressive efforts to undermine the union drive.
“It shows how Amazon and the NYPD work together,” Smalls said at TheWrap’s Sundance Portrait and Interview Studio presented by Nfp, referring to his on-camera arrest captured in the film. “It shows how policing is used to create fear and doubt, and not just to unionize. When you’re going up against corporations, someone being arrested that’s leading a movement will create...
- 1/26/2024
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
Stephen Maing and Brett Story’s tough and gripping new film about the fight to unionize the workers of an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island might be an observational documentary at heart, but this in-the-trenches portrait of grassroots organizing doesn’t leave any doubt as to whose side it’s on. Indeed, few movies have ever screamed “fuck you, pay me!” louder than “Union” does with its opening frames, which use footage of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos blasting into space aboard his self-financed — and unmistakably phallic — rocketship to set the stage for the struggle he’s avoiding back on Earth. Watching a mega-billionaire overcompensate on an interstellar scale would be damning regardless, but in this context it makes it that much easier to appreciate how cruelly his business empire is undercompensating all of the people who keep it in the black.
Of course, the film’s sympathies go without saying; if you want pro-Amazon propaganda,...
Of course, the film’s sympathies go without saying; if you want pro-Amazon propaganda,...
- 1/22/2024
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
There’s a simple David vs. Goliath story at the heart of Chris Smalls’ multi-year fight to unionize Amazon workers in Staten Island during the Covid pandemic. It’s a satisfying tale of one man taking on the wealthiest company in the world, and in broad strokes it’s an accurate story — hence the way it has generally been reported in news coverage and deep dives in places like Last Week Tonight.
I’m tremendously relieved that that’s not the version Stephen Maing and Brett Story present in their new documentary, Union.
Without devaluing the heroism of Smalls’ crusade or underselling the general inhumanity of Amazon’s treatment of its lowest-level workers, Union sets out to be something closer to a warts-and-all process documentary. Using unobtrusive direct cinema techniques, the documentary takes us inside the fledgling union, capturing the frustration and elation of trying to do the right thing in an impossible historical moment.
I’m tremendously relieved that that’s not the version Stephen Maing and Brett Story present in their new documentary, Union.
Without devaluing the heroism of Smalls’ crusade or underselling the general inhumanity of Amazon’s treatment of its lowest-level workers, Union sets out to be something closer to a warts-and-all process documentary. Using unobtrusive direct cinema techniques, the documentary takes us inside the fledgling union, capturing the frustration and elation of trying to do the right thing in an impossible historical moment.
- 1/22/2024
- by Daniel Fienberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Amazon Labor Union (Alu) president Chris Smalls is not the star of the documentary Union. He is just one part of the congregation in Brett Story and Stephen Maing’s co-directed film. An early glimpse of Smalls finds him discreetly flipping burgers and hot dogs at a grill. It took an employee to ask Smalls if he’s the “low-key famous” Smalls for the leader to list his media recognitions. He doesn’t want clout for his union organizing, but rather to be known for making laborers heard, enabling a better society for his children and comrades, and proving to white executives that he can manage a flock in his distinguished streetwear outfits.
The examination of the Alu at Amazon’s Staten Island headquarters, JFK8, is a dream subject of interest for Story and Maing, whose past work has concerned reform. Union traces the intimate, intense vérité approach of being...
The examination of the Alu at Amazon’s Staten Island headquarters, JFK8, is a dream subject of interest for Story and Maing, whose past work has concerned reform. Union traces the intimate, intense vérité approach of being...
- 1/21/2024
- by Edward Frumkin
- The Film Stage
In March of 2020, Amazon fired Chris Smalls, an employee who led a walkout at its Staten Island, New York, warehouse known as JFK8 over pandemic working conditions. A memo that later was leaked to Vice News revealed that an Amazon executive dismissed Smalls as “not smart or articulate” in a strategy meeting with Jeff Bezos. But just as the tech giant was writing Smalls off, some documentary filmmakers saw in the labor organizer a compelling character at the center of a timely story about the modern workforce.
Nearly four years later, their movie, Union, which will premiere Jan. 21 at Sundance as an acquisitions title, depicts the formation of the Smalls-led Amazon Labor Union (Alu). “I thought, well, here’s an opportunity to film something from the ground up,” says Brett Story, who directs Union together with Stephen Maing. “From the very beginning, we said to this group of people, ‘We...
Nearly four years later, their movie, Union, which will premiere Jan. 21 at Sundance as an acquisitions title, depicts the formation of the Smalls-led Amazon Labor Union (Alu). “I thought, well, here’s an opportunity to film something from the ground up,” says Brett Story, who directs Union together with Stephen Maing. “From the very beginning, we said to this group of people, ‘We...
- 1/20/2024
- by Rebecca Keegan
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
There have been lots of movies about the ill effects of fame, especially if you get famous at a relatively young age. One can start to think about it as being successful, and when you add a little violence to the journey, it can be a pretty explosive experience, which ultimately fuels the misery in one’s life. The new Netflix show Volume brings exactly these flavors to it and, with some interesting music choices, tries to explore the lives of two young men, Benjamin and Castro, who embark on a journey to transform their lives but do not have an easy way ahead. Benjamin, aka Benja, the son of a musician and singer, wants to become a rapper, and when his social media page blows up, he becomes the focus of a talent manager’s hunt, but there is a problem. Benja comes ‘in a pack’ with his buddy Castro,...
- 12/21/2023
- by Ayush Awasthi
- Film Fugitives
Antisemitism, the cultural impact of Hip Hop, “thriving in the workplace with visible and invisible disabilities,” the staying power and international success of the Drag Race franchise and how to ensure authentic Asian American representation in children’s media are just some of the topics in the spotlight during Paramount Global’s 5th annual global Inclusion Week.
Throughout this week, employees at the entertainment giant around the world have access to more than 50 panels, fireside chats and workshops “designed to expand our thinking and spark thoughtful dialogue,” according to the company.
The week’s events kicked off on Monday with a session featuring Paramount CEO Bob Bakish and Walmart CEO Doug McMillon from the retail titan’s Bentonville, Arkansas headquarters. Moderated by Marva Smalls, Paramount’s executive vp and head of the Office of Global Inclusion, their discussion addressed how diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) drives business results, innovation and company culture,...
Throughout this week, employees at the entertainment giant around the world have access to more than 50 panels, fireside chats and workshops “designed to expand our thinking and spark thoughtful dialogue,” according to the company.
The week’s events kicked off on Monday with a session featuring Paramount CEO Bob Bakish and Walmart CEO Doug McMillon from the retail titan’s Bentonville, Arkansas headquarters. Moderated by Marva Smalls, Paramount’s executive vp and head of the Office of Global Inclusion, their discussion addressed how diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) drives business results, innovation and company culture,...
- 10/25/2023
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Keanu Reeves’ Dogstar Return with New Album Somewhere Between the Power Lines and Palm Trees: Stream
Dogstar, the rekindled rock trio featuring actor-bassist Keanu Reeves, are back with their first album in over 20 years, Somewhere Between the Power Lines and Palm Trees. Stream it via Apple Music or Spotify below.
The 12-track LP marks the band’s first full-length since 2000’s Happy Ending, and solidifies the recent reunion between Reeves, guitarist-vocalist Bret Domrose, and drummer Rob Mailhouse that kicked off in May with a performance at Napa Valley’s BottleRock Festival. The appearance hosted the live debuts of nearly every song from the new collection, and the group affirmed in a statement that the concert experience has been a major driving force for them, saying, “When creating this record, we were so excited about the idea of playing it live.”
In advance of their first new offering in over two decades, Dogstar shared the self-described “fun, summer” single “Everything Turns Around” and its follow-up “Breach,” featuring...
The 12-track LP marks the band’s first full-length since 2000’s Happy Ending, and solidifies the recent reunion between Reeves, guitarist-vocalist Bret Domrose, and drummer Rob Mailhouse that kicked off in May with a performance at Napa Valley’s BottleRock Festival. The appearance hosted the live debuts of nearly every song from the new collection, and the group affirmed in a statement that the concert experience has been a major driving force for them, saying, “When creating this record, we were so excited about the idea of playing it live.”
In advance of their first new offering in over two decades, Dogstar shared the self-described “fun, summer” single “Everything Turns Around” and its follow-up “Breach,” featuring...
- 10/6/2023
- by Bryan Kress
- Consequence - Music
Spin̈al Tap bassist Derek Smalls is back with his first new song in five years: “Must Crush Barbie.”
Nope — Smalls isn’t buying Barbie mania following the release of the blockbuster film this summer. Smalls called it the “embodiment of lukewarm water,” and in his press release, the new song is described as an “excoriating attack on the pink sensation” and a “much-needed antidote to the ubiquitous pinkness that has spilled out of movie theatres this summer and onto the high streets with wall-to-wall media coverage.”
“Must Crush Barbie” is indeed a cantankerous takedown of the Mattel fashion doll brand and the subsequent film. Based around a guitar riff that sounds vaguely like the old Batman television theme, Smalls bellows into the mic such phrases as “wasted film and ink” and “too much pink,” making his point in as few words as possible. The classic Spin̈al Tap sound is alive and well.
Nope — Smalls isn’t buying Barbie mania following the release of the blockbuster film this summer. Smalls called it the “embodiment of lukewarm water,” and in his press release, the new song is described as an “excoriating attack on the pink sensation” and a “much-needed antidote to the ubiquitous pinkness that has spilled out of movie theatres this summer and onto the high streets with wall-to-wall media coverage.”
“Must Crush Barbie” is indeed a cantankerous takedown of the Mattel fashion doll brand and the subsequent film. Based around a guitar riff that sounds vaguely like the old Batman television theme, Smalls bellows into the mic such phrases as “wasted film and ink” and “too much pink,” making his point in as few words as possible. The classic Spin̈al Tap sound is alive and well.
- 9/14/2023
- by Jon Hadusek
- Consequence - Music
Fresh from playing Glastonbury in 2009, the courgette-crotch-stuffing bass player and botanist is back! With the sequel to the classic rockumentary in the works and a Barbie-hating single. Ask him anything in the comments
Think of an iconic bass player – Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones, Hooky from New Order, Lemmy from Motörhead – and you’d be foolish to ignore the low-frequency rumblings of Spın̈al Tap bassist Derek Smalls. Born in the lesser-known town of Nilford on the River Null in the West Midlands, Smalls was raised by his father, Donald “Duff” Smalls (who ran a telephone sanitisation business) after his mother, Dorothy, left home to join travelling all-girls’ jazz band The Hotten Totties.
At 17, Smalls enrolled at the London School of Design (“Mainly because of the letters”), where he first became interested in playing music, joining the all-white Jamaican band Skaface. In 1967, he spotted a notice on a...
Think of an iconic bass player – Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones, Hooky from New Order, Lemmy from Motörhead – and you’d be foolish to ignore the low-frequency rumblings of Spın̈al Tap bassist Derek Smalls. Born in the lesser-known town of Nilford on the River Null in the West Midlands, Smalls was raised by his father, Donald “Duff” Smalls (who ran a telephone sanitisation business) after his mother, Dorothy, left home to join travelling all-girls’ jazz band The Hotten Totties.
At 17, Smalls enrolled at the London School of Design (“Mainly because of the letters”), where he first became interested in playing music, joining the all-white Jamaican band Skaface. In 1967, he spotted a notice on a...
- 9/14/2023
- by Rich Pelley
- The Guardian - Film News
Fifty years into hip-hop, we've gotten used to decades of headlines proclaiming the genre's culture is homophobic and misogynistic - that generations of queer talents were forced to the peripheries and into closets until today's mega star rappers like Tyler, the Creator, Lil Nas X, and Cardi B busted down the doors to a new chapter. But that's not actually the full story of queer people in hip-hop. They've been at the forefront and in the underground innovating the genre since it started. Back in hip-hop's adolescence - when it was as playful, juvenile, and wacky as the kids breathing life into it on the playground - hip-hop was more fluid.
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"When you talk to people who are culture historians or who were making music at that time, they were playing disco records and kids were rolling around on...
Related: All Hail the Queens: Honoring Women in Hip-Hop, 50 Years Later
"When you talk to people who are culture historians or who were making music at that time, they were playing disco records and kids were rolling around on...
- 8/16/2023
- by Taylor Hosking
- Popsugar.com
Legion M has been quite a busy company lately. Legion M is an investor and executive producer of the wildly original dark comedy Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose. The movie hits theaters Sept 1st and stars Simon Pegg, Minnie Driver, and Christopher Lloyd. And a documentary about actor William Shatner called You Can Call Me Bill. Legion M and the acclaimed documentary team at Exhibit A Pictures in producing this fascinating look at one of the most illustrious actors of our time.
Legion M is also working on a great project called Defiant, The Story of Robert Smalls. Legion M brought the Defiant project to San Diego Comic-Con, and we had a great time talking to some of the creative people behind the project. Some of the creatine people we met include Nikolas Draper-ivey (Cover Artist) An American illustrator based outside of New York City. His style plays heavily...
Legion M is also working on a great project called Defiant, The Story of Robert Smalls. Legion M brought the Defiant project to San Diego Comic-Con, and we had a great time talking to some of the creative people behind the project. Some of the creatine people we met include Nikolas Draper-ivey (Cover Artist) An American illustrator based outside of New York City. His style plays heavily...
- 8/15/2023
- by Stephen Nepa
- Age of the Nerd
Since hip-hop's inception, the culture has been a male-dominated space. Women have had to fight for their right to exist alongside their male peers, exercise autonomy over their bodies, and rap without restrictions. It's no secret that the culture of hip-hop is inherently fueled by misogyny and patriarchy; female rappers have been ostracized, while their male counterparts stand to gain. But in recent years, an influx of women rappers have emerged, ushering in a resurgence of sexually explicit lyrics that have jolted mainstream music, social media, and even politics. Yes, women in music have always talked about their sexual prowess; women rappers are simply continuing a long and strong tradition of Black women loudly reclaiming their own sexuality, most notably under the umbrella of "pussy rap."
For hip-hop's 50th anniversary, it's important to honor those who gave rise to and continued to iterate on the subgenre - one of the...
For hip-hop's 50th anniversary, it's important to honor those who gave rise to and continued to iterate on the subgenre - one of the...
- 8/2/2023
- by Mikeisha Vaughn
- Popsugar.com
There are many action thrillers out there where the makers pay a lot of attention to making the film more gritty and hard-hitting than the competition and hence there is a noticeable shortage of attention when it comes to the pacing and the performances. William Kaufman doesn’t make that mistake in The Channel, which he co-wrote with Paul Reichelt. With realistic action sequences and decent performances, The Channel stands out as a well-executed action thriller. It has elements of the heist sub-genre, but the sincere attempt to make the story work is what actually kept me hooked.
The Channel‘s plot revolves around two brothers, Jamie and Mic, who plan a heist with their ex-marine crew. The brothers are polar opposites of each other. Jamie has a girlfriend and a young baby, Joan, while Mic is a hard-boiled criminal with only chaos and mayhem on his mind. Their brotherly...
The Channel‘s plot revolves around two brothers, Jamie and Mic, who plan a heist with their ex-marine crew. The brothers are polar opposites of each other. Jamie has a girlfriend and a young baby, Joan, while Mic is a hard-boiled criminal with only chaos and mayhem on his mind. Their brotherly...
- 7/21/2023
- by Ayush Awasthi
- Film Fugitives
Executives at Paramount-owned, Tel Aviv-based Ananey Studios were stunned when they realized that they couldn’t find a single transgender actor to audition for “The Malevolent Bride,” a series they produced with A+E Studios.
Within a year, this sudden awareness pushed Ananey’s creative director Elad Sonego (pictured) and Paramount to set up Israel’s first transgender acting school in partnership with Nissan Nativ Acting Studio and Jason Danino Holt, a director and playwright.
Since launching in 2022, the school has graduated six actors. “The Malevolent Bride” which was ordered by Kan 11, is set in present-day Jerusalem. It unfolds in a Hasidic community that’s haunted by vengeful spirit and examines the complexities of traditional gender roles in orthodox communities.
“The creator of the show, Noah Stollman (‘Our Boys,’ ‘Fauda’), one of the most brilliant creative minds in Israel, had written this amazing character which happens to be a...
Within a year, this sudden awareness pushed Ananey’s creative director Elad Sonego (pictured) and Paramount to set up Israel’s first transgender acting school in partnership with Nissan Nativ Acting Studio and Jason Danino Holt, a director and playwright.
Since launching in 2022, the school has graduated six actors. “The Malevolent Bride” which was ordered by Kan 11, is set in present-day Jerusalem. It unfolds in a Hasidic community that’s haunted by vengeful spirit and examines the complexities of traditional gender roles in orthodox communities.
“The creator of the show, Noah Stollman (‘Our Boys,’ ‘Fauda’), one of the most brilliant creative minds in Israel, had written this amazing character which happens to be a...
- 7/19/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Canadian rapper Belly says he trusts The Weeknd’s creative decisions.
The musician has been a longtime collaborator with the Grammy winner, whose real name is Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, having worked together on tracks like the Billboard-topping “Blinding Lights” and numerous tracks on his After Hours album. He also shares a label with the singer, as another talent signed with Xo from the start.
When asked about Tesfaye’s announcement he was stepping away from his alter ego, Belly said he wasn’t concerned.
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“I just think he’s really creative and dope with everything he does. So, like, I trust. I trust what he wants to do next every time he’s made that type of decision,” he said. “You know, he’s excelled past what people wanted to give him credit for.
The musician has been a longtime collaborator with the Grammy winner, whose real name is Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, having worked together on tracks like the Billboard-topping “Blinding Lights” and numerous tracks on his After Hours album. He also shares a label with the singer, as another talent signed with Xo from the start.
When asked about Tesfaye’s announcement he was stepping away from his alter ego, Belly said he wasn’t concerned.
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“I just think he’s really creative and dope with everything he does. So, like, I trust. I trust what he wants to do next every time he’s made that type of decision,” he said. “You know, he’s excelled past what people wanted to give him credit for.
- 5/24/2023
- by Anita Tai
- ET Canada
Paramount Global’s Nickelodeon has unveiled the U.S. launch of Our World, a global initiative “to inspire kids and provide them with tools to activate their individual and collective agency” and instill a belief that they can make a difference.
Nickelodeon is teaming up with a coalition of partners to “mobilize organizations globally and bring resources and best practices to kid-driven opportunities that allow them to take action.” The Our World campaign will run across the brand’s linear, digital and social platforms and will also be supported across various Paramount Global divisions. The initiative will launch in the U.K. and Mexico later this year, followed by rollouts in additional markets through 2024.
“With Our World, Nickelodeon is building on its longstanding prosocial legacy and community relationships, harnessing the power of the brand’s iconic franchises and global ecosystem, as well as the expertise of our coalition of partners to upskill,...
Nickelodeon is teaming up with a coalition of partners to “mobilize organizations globally and bring resources and best practices to kid-driven opportunities that allow them to take action.” The Our World campaign will run across the brand’s linear, digital and social platforms and will also be supported across various Paramount Global divisions. The initiative will launch in the U.K. and Mexico later this year, followed by rollouts in additional markets through 2024.
“With Our World, Nickelodeon is building on its longstanding prosocial legacy and community relationships, harnessing the power of the brand’s iconic franchises and global ecosystem, as well as the expertise of our coalition of partners to upskill,...
- 5/22/2023
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
"It's just not sustainable, the system is going to collapse." Shine a Light Films has revealed an official trailer for a documentary film titled Americonned, formerly known as Poor: The Movie. From filmmaker Sean Claffey, the film is a clear look at how the War on Poverty become a War Against the Poor. In the United States, there has been an upward redistribution of over $50 trillion from the bottom 90% to the top 1% over the last 40 years. Politicians on both sides created a protection racket for the rich, and corporations are deliberately crushing unions. In this epic David vs. Goliath story, Chris Smalls and Derrick Palmer lead a movement to unionize Amazon workers for the first time, after the corporation fired Smalls for speaking up for workers' rights. They are inspiring legions of workers to, as the late, great Congressman John Lewis said, get into "good trouble." This looks like an inspiring,...
- 4/18/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Paramount, which is a rare Fortune 500 company with a majority of female board members, has been trying to make good on its promise to put a spotlight on gender equity by making it part of regular company life by providing ongoing initiatives and adding new opportunities for debate and networking for employees, as well as showcasing programming that highlights the topic of gender equity to its TV and streaming audiences.
The message to staff: gender equity must and will be a continuous focus rather than an issue getting attention only once a year, such as on March 8’s International Women’s Day.
“I could not be prouder of the work we are doing across Paramount to fight for equity with respect to gender and overall diversity to ensure that all our employees feel empowered at work to share their ideas and their perspectives,” Redstone tells The Hollywood Reporter. “Advancing the...
The message to staff: gender equity must and will be a continuous focus rather than an issue getting attention only once a year, such as on March 8’s International Women’s Day.
“I could not be prouder of the work we are doing across Paramount to fight for equity with respect to gender and overall diversity to ensure that all our employees feel empowered at work to share their ideas and their perspectives,” Redstone tells The Hollywood Reporter. “Advancing the...
- 3/8/2023
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Disney, Amazon Studios, Fox Corp., Warner Bros. Discovery and other major Hollywood players are pledging support for the Roybal Film and Television Production Magnet, a major educational outreach initiative championed last year by George Clooney and others.
Paramount and NBCUniversal/Telemundo Enterprises are also signing on to become founding partners of the Los Angeles Unified School District magnet facility.
These companies join previously announced founding partners History Channel/A+E Networks, Netflix and Sony Pictures Entertainment. The group has committed to providing more than 4 million in funding for the school, which opened in August with 150 students at the Edward G. Roybal Learning Complex in downtown Los Angeles.
Charlie Collier, CEO of Fox Entertainment, Craig Robinson, Executive Vice President and Chief Diversity Office for NBCUniversal and Marva Smalls, Executive Vice President, Global Head of Inclusion at Paramount and Executive Vice President, Public Affairs, Nickelodeon have joined the Roybal Advisory Board to work...
Paramount and NBCUniversal/Telemundo Enterprises are also signing on to become founding partners of the Los Angeles Unified School District magnet facility.
These companies join previously announced founding partners History Channel/A+E Networks, Netflix and Sony Pictures Entertainment. The group has committed to providing more than 4 million in funding for the school, which opened in August with 150 students at the Edward G. Roybal Learning Complex in downtown Los Angeles.
Charlie Collier, CEO of Fox Entertainment, Craig Robinson, Executive Vice President and Chief Diversity Office for NBCUniversal and Marva Smalls, Executive Vice President, Global Head of Inclusion at Paramount and Executive Vice President, Public Affairs, Nickelodeon have joined the Roybal Advisory Board to work...
- 9/14/2022
- by EJ Panaligan
- Variety Film + TV
Bethenny Frankel keeps in real on an unfiltered Instagram post. Pic credit: ©ImageCollect.com/Xavier Collin/ImagePressAgency
The Queen Bee of NYC, Bethenny Frankel, has had a strong social media presence for years. Being the savvy businesswoman she is, Bethenny stays on the cutting edge of any way she can expand her empire.
But aside from business, Bethenny often posts about her personal life; her daughter, Brynn, her fiance, Paul, and both of her dogs, Biggie and Smalls.
She also spends a lot of her free time at her Hamptons home, which she calls her happy place, and enjoys her life being outside with the ones who are the most important to her, and spending time seaside.
With that beach life, Bethenny spends a lot of time lounging in swimwear, often bikinis. She is incredibly physically active and has always said she stays active because she loves eating.
She has...
The Queen Bee of NYC, Bethenny Frankel, has had a strong social media presence for years. Being the savvy businesswoman she is, Bethenny stays on the cutting edge of any way she can expand her empire.
But aside from business, Bethenny often posts about her personal life; her daughter, Brynn, her fiance, Paul, and both of her dogs, Biggie and Smalls.
She also spends a lot of her free time at her Hamptons home, which she calls her happy place, and enjoys her life being outside with the ones who are the most important to her, and spending time seaside.
With that beach life, Bethenny spends a lot of time lounging in swimwear, often bikinis. She is incredibly physically active and has always said she stays active because she loves eating.
She has...
- 9/1/2022
- by Jennifer Wang
- Monsters and Critics
If you grew up in the nineties, you undoubtedly grew up a massive fan of The Sandlot. A coming-of-age story centering around a group of baseball-loving kids who hang out every day in a Sandlot, the movie didn’t make much of a peep in theatres back in 1993. However, the box office didn’t tell the whole story, with the movie becoming a cult film on VHS, cable and later DVD, with writer-director David Mickey Evans eventually returning to make a Dtv spin-off, The Sandlot 2, while a prequel is still in development.
But what happened to all of the kids in The Sandlot? Unlike a movie like Stand by Me, there were no megastars like River Phoenix to emerge, but the cast still fared well in the years to come. Many have gone on to everyday lives, while others continue to work (successfully) in showbiz almost 30 years later. In this...
But what happened to all of the kids in The Sandlot? Unlike a movie like Stand by Me, there were no megastars like River Phoenix to emerge, but the cast still fared well in the years to come. Many have gone on to everyday lives, while others continue to work (successfully) in showbiz almost 30 years later. In this...
- 8/12/2022
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
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