Exclusive: The skies are cloudy over LA and still thick over NYC today, but for over 1,000 studio and “struck companies” staffers their Black List membership just went dark.
In support of the Writers Guild of America’s over one-month long strike, the Franklin Leonard founded platform has suspended the access that approximately 1,300 have to its services. In addition, the nearly 20-year-old script curation organization has slashed material fees for writers until their battle with the studios and streamers is resolved with a new deal.
“Writers remain the most undervalued constituents of the film and television ecosystem, and it should be unsurprising that the Black List backs them in their pursuit of equitable pay and protections reflecting their vital and economically significant contributions to the industry,” Leonard told Deadline today. “When writers win, the entire industry wins.”
The move to cut costs for scribes from $30 to $20 a month as well as...
In support of the Writers Guild of America’s over one-month long strike, the Franklin Leonard founded platform has suspended the access that approximately 1,300 have to its services. In addition, the nearly 20-year-old script curation organization has slashed material fees for writers until their battle with the studios and streamers is resolved with a new deal.
“Writers remain the most undervalued constituents of the film and television ecosystem, and it should be unsurprising that the Black List backs them in their pursuit of equitable pay and protections reflecting their vital and economically significant contributions to the industry,” Leonard told Deadline today. “When writers win, the entire industry wins.”
The move to cut costs for scribes from $30 to $20 a month as well as...
- 6/9/2023
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
The 2022 edition of the Black List, the annual collection of Hollywood insiders’ favorite unproduced screenplays, this year features films about a low-level worker saving his workplace crush while on a spaceship run by a dark god, an interracial couple dealing with an apparent encounter with UFOs and a day-in-the-life dramedy about the employees of the Four Seasons Total Landscaping on Nov. 7, 2020.
The Black List, now in its 18th annual edition, is a list of Hollywood’s “most liked” unproduced scripts. It’s not a list of the “best” screenplays floating around town but the ones that were most “liked” or recommended by executives across film financiers and production companies.
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The Black List was compiled from the suggestions of more than 300 film executives, each of whom contributed the names of up to 10 favorite feature film screenplays that were...
The Black List, now in its 18th annual edition, is a list of Hollywood’s “most liked” unproduced scripts. It’s not a list of the “best” screenplays floating around town but the ones that were most “liked” or recommended by executives across film financiers and production companies.
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The Black List was compiled from the suggestions of more than 300 film executives, each of whom contributed the names of up to 10 favorite feature film screenplays that were...
- 12/12/2022
- by Scott Mendelson
- The Wrap
Screenwriter Catherine Schetina has topped the 2022 Black List — the annual roundup of Hollywood’s most-liked unproduced screenplays — with her script, Pure.
Unveiled on Monday morning, the 2022 Black List consists of 74 scripts by 80 writers, which were selected by 300+ film executives. Among the titles selected are films on such notable figures as John Madden, alleged alien abductees Barney and Betty Hill, Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, country icon Dolly Parton, escape artist Harry Houdini, GOP strategist Lee Atwater, It’s a Wonderful Life collaborators Frank Capra and Jimmy Stewart, tabloid talk show host Jerry Springer, and pop star Britney Spears .
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The synopsis for Pure, which led the list with 25 votes,...
Unveiled on Monday morning, the 2022 Black List consists of 74 scripts by 80 writers, which were selected by 300+ film executives. Among the titles selected are films on such notable figures as John Madden, alleged alien abductees Barney and Betty Hill, Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, country icon Dolly Parton, escape artist Harry Houdini, GOP strategist Lee Atwater, It’s a Wonderful Life collaborators Frank Capra and Jimmy Stewart, tabloid talk show host Jerry Springer, and pop star Britney Spears .
Related Story The Black List 2022 Scorecard: CAA, Bellevue Productions Top Agency And Management Lists Related Story Sony Pictures Animation and The Black List Announces Fredrick Leach As Inaugural Writers Program Fellow Related Story Alex Liu Receives Blind Feature Film Script Deal Through MGM & The Black List Partnership
The synopsis for Pure, which led the list with 25 votes,...
- 12/12/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Chicago – Police reform and procedural alternatives in the U.S. continue to be in a hurricane of evolution. Despite the attention that the George Floyd incident brought to the perception, the law enforcement culture continues to resist. Stefan Forbes goes back to the past (1973), to inform them (and us) that change can work with his new documentary “Hold Your Fire.”
Rating: 4.5/5.0
“Hold Your Fire” is set in the borough of Brooklyn, New York City. It is 1973, and when Shu’aib Raheem and his friends attempt to steal guns from a sports store to be used for self-defense, it sparked the longest hostage siege in the New York Police history. NYPD psychologist Harvey Schlossberg lobbied to avert a bloodbath by using newly developed negotiation techniques, to save the lives of the hostages, police and the four young Muslim men at the heart of the conflict. “Hold Your Fire” is as thrilling...
Rating: 4.5/5.0
“Hold Your Fire” is set in the borough of Brooklyn, New York City. It is 1973, and when Shu’aib Raheem and his friends attempt to steal guns from a sports store to be used for self-defense, it sparked the longest hostage siege in the New York Police history. NYPD psychologist Harvey Schlossberg lobbied to avert a bloodbath by using newly developed negotiation techniques, to save the lives of the hostages, police and the four young Muslim men at the heart of the conflict. “Hold Your Fire” is as thrilling...
- 5/19/2022
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Hours after it came out that the New York Times had spiked a column in which Bret Stephens complained about the way the paper handled the ouster of star reporter Donald McNeil Jr., the New York Post has published the article in full.
In an editor’s note preceding the column, the Post took pains to distance Stephens himself from the publication of his spiked column. “The piece has circulated among Times staffers and others — and it was from one of them, not Stephens himself, that The Post obtained it,” the note said.
McNeil’s ouster came after The Daily Beast reported last week that he used the N-word and also made additional sexist and racist comments on a 2019 trip with students. When the story came out, the Times said it had investigated the incident in 2019 and had taken unspecified disciplinary measures. The Daily Beast’s report prompted outrage from...
In an editor’s note preceding the column, the Post took pains to distance Stephens himself from the publication of his spiked column. “The piece has circulated among Times staffers and others — and it was from one of them, not Stephens himself, that The Post obtained it,” the note said.
McNeil’s ouster came after The Daily Beast reported last week that he used the N-word and also made additional sexist and racist comments on a 2019 trip with students. When the story came out, the Times said it had investigated the incident in 2019 and had taken unspecified disciplinary measures. The Daily Beast’s report prompted outrage from...
- 2/12/2021
- by Ross A. Lincoln
- The Wrap
Documentary+, the non-fiction streamer from You Cannot Kill David Arquette studio Xtr, has unveiled its launch slate.
The service, which launches today, will include feature-length and short documentary films from the likes of Spike Jonze, Kathryn Bigelow, Terrence Malick, Brett Morgen, Andrea Nevins, Roger Ross Williams, Zana Briski, Davis Guggenheim, and Werner Herzog.
Titles include The Imposter, Life, Animated, Born into Brothels, Cartel Land, Dior and I and Being Evel. There are political films such as Cory Booker film Street Fight, Elian Gonzalez story Elian and Lee Atwater’s Boogie Man as well as music documentaries including Seattle grunge doc Hype!, Colin Hanks’ Tower Records doc All Things Must Pass and The Other F Word as well as sports doc One Man and His Shoes about Michael Jordan.
It will also feature the work of up-and-coming filmmakers from the likes of Lana Wilson (Miss Americana), Ramona S. Diaz (A Thousand Cuts...
The service, which launches today, will include feature-length and short documentary films from the likes of Spike Jonze, Kathryn Bigelow, Terrence Malick, Brett Morgen, Andrea Nevins, Roger Ross Williams, Zana Briski, Davis Guggenheim, and Werner Herzog.
Titles include The Imposter, Life, Animated, Born into Brothels, Cartel Land, Dior and I and Being Evel. There are political films such as Cory Booker film Street Fight, Elian Gonzalez story Elian and Lee Atwater’s Boogie Man as well as music documentaries including Seattle grunge doc Hype!, Colin Hanks’ Tower Records doc All Things Must Pass and The Other F Word as well as sports doc One Man and His Shoes about Michael Jordan.
It will also feature the work of up-and-coming filmmakers from the likes of Lana Wilson (Miss Americana), Ramona S. Diaz (A Thousand Cuts...
- 1/28/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
While the names Lee Atwater and Karl Rove may send shivers down the spines of progressives around the world, those two men are at the center of a new film from director James Schamus titled “College Republicans.” And this isn’t going to be your typical political drama.
According to Deadline, Schamus has signed on to direct “College Republicans,” which will star Logan Lerman and Asa Butterfield as versions of real-life conservative figures Lee Atwater and Karl Rove.
Continue reading Logan Lerman & Asa Butterfield To Star As Lee Atwater & Karl Rove In ‘College Republicans’ at The Playlist.
According to Deadline, Schamus has signed on to direct “College Republicans,” which will star Logan Lerman and Asa Butterfield as versions of real-life conservative figures Lee Atwater and Karl Rove.
Continue reading Logan Lerman & Asa Butterfield To Star As Lee Atwater & Karl Rove In ‘College Republicans’ at The Playlist.
- 8/13/2020
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
Asa Butterfield and Logan Lerman are set to star in the coming of age ‘Dirty Rotten Scoundrels’-esqe ‘College Republicans’.
Set in the height of summer in 1973, Butterfield plays the role of a young Karl Rove who embarks with his untrustworthy campaign manager Lee Atwater, played by Lerman, on a backroom vote-stealing road trip through the South. In the process, they form uneasy alliances with the likes of Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, and Jeff Sessions.
However Atwater meets his match in a beautiful young Republican operative named Kate King (Kristine Froseth) and their dreams of victory bring them all too close to humiliating, career-ending defeat. The Kate King character is said to be a composite of several real people.
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‘Brokeback Mountain’ producer James Schamus will direct from a script by Wes Jones (Billions).
Production is due...
Set in the height of summer in 1973, Butterfield plays the role of a young Karl Rove who embarks with his untrustworthy campaign manager Lee Atwater, played by Lerman, on a backroom vote-stealing road trip through the South. In the process, they form uneasy alliances with the likes of Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, and Jeff Sessions.
However Atwater meets his match in a beautiful young Republican operative named Kate King (Kristine Froseth) and their dreams of victory bring them all too close to humiliating, career-ending defeat. The Kate King character is said to be a composite of several real people.
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‘Brokeback Mountain’ producer James Schamus will direct from a script by Wes Jones (Billions).
Production is due...
- 8/13/2020
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
James Schamus, the former head of Focus Features and writer of films like The Ice Storm and Lust, Caution, has found his next directing project: College Republicans, a script which topped the Black List a decade ago but has taken on new significance thanks to the corruption in the Republican party that’s played out over the […]
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- 8/13/2020
- by Ben Pearson
- Slash Film
Logan Lerman and Asa Butterfield will star in the film as a young Karl Rove and Lee Atwater in “College Republicans,” which topped the Black List in 2010, according to an individual with knowledge of the project.
James Schamus is set to direct Wes Jones’ buddy comedy. Based on true events, set in the summer of 1973, aspiring politician Karl Rove wants to become the next national chairman of the College Republicans — but the odds are stacked against him. He and his new campaign manager Lee Atwater set off on a road trip to drum up support before the vote and discover some dirty tricks along the way before ending up at the contested College Republican National Convention.
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Logan Lerman; Lee Atwater in 1982 (Getty Images; White House Photographic Collection)
Producing the project are Likely Story’s Anthony Bregman and Peter Cron,...
James Schamus is set to direct Wes Jones’ buddy comedy. Based on true events, set in the summer of 1973, aspiring politician Karl Rove wants to become the next national chairman of the College Republicans — but the odds are stacked against him. He and his new campaign manager Lee Atwater set off on a road trip to drum up support before the vote and discover some dirty tricks along the way before ending up at the contested College Republican National Convention.
Also Read: 'Indignation' Review: Logan Lerman Carries Philip Roth's Study in Stubbornness
Logan Lerman; Lee Atwater in 1982 (Getty Images; White House Photographic Collection)
Producing the project are Likely Story’s Anthony Bregman and Peter Cron,...
- 8/12/2020
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
Exclusive: James Schamus has committed to direct College Republicans, a fact-inspired Dirty Rotten Scoundrels-style coming of age story about top Republican operatives. Logan Lerman has been set to star as a young Lee Atwater, Asa Butterfield as Karl Rove and Kristine Froseth to play Kate King — a composite character who threatens their dreams of glory.
Wes Jones, a writer/producer in the early seasons of Billions, wrote the script that has first made itself known when it topped the Black List in 2010. Likely Story’s Anthony Bregman, The Black List’s Franklin Leonard, Symbolic Exchange’s Schamus and Likely Story’s Peter Cron are producing. Jones and Ken Friemann are exec producers.
Production will begin next spring or summer and the financing and distribution are mobilizing, with CAA Media Finance arranging the financing and repping distribution rights. The film is set in the Summer of 1973, as America witnesses the dirtiest...
Wes Jones, a writer/producer in the early seasons of Billions, wrote the script that has first made itself known when it topped the Black List in 2010. Likely Story’s Anthony Bregman, The Black List’s Franklin Leonard, Symbolic Exchange’s Schamus and Likely Story’s Peter Cron are producing. Jones and Ken Friemann are exec producers.
Production will begin next spring or summer and the financing and distribution are mobilizing, with CAA Media Finance arranging the financing and repping distribution rights. The film is set in the Summer of 1973, as America witnesses the dirtiest...
- 8/12/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
If you want to meet a Republican politician who’s the ultimate poster boy for shameless apple-polishing — the kind of eager conservative loyalist who would crawl across broken glass to shine Donald Trump’s shoes — you should watch “The Swamp,” the new HBO documentary, and get a load of Matt Gaetz, a congressman from Florida who got swept into the U.S. House of Representatives by the Trump tidal wave.
Gaetz is a real piece of work. At 38, he’s got the baby-faced, handsome-but-not-too-dashing, smile-by-committee looks and easy-talking facility of a jock bro who was popular in high school and is now a mid-level bank manager. If you had to describe what his job is, the most accurate thing to say might be that Gaetz is a congressman who plays a congressman on TV. With his Chris O’Donnell immaculateness, he’s a constant presence on Fox News and CNN, mouthing his talking points,...
Gaetz is a real piece of work. At 38, he’s got the baby-faced, handsome-but-not-too-dashing, smile-by-committee looks and easy-talking facility of a jock bro who was popular in high school and is now a mid-level bank manager. If you had to describe what his job is, the most accurate thing to say might be that Gaetz is a congressman who plays a congressman on TV. With his Chris O’Donnell immaculateness, he’s a constant presence on Fox News and CNN, mouthing his talking points,...
- 8/6/2020
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Monday, February 3rd, just before 9 p.m., the airport Holiday Inn, Des Moines. A crowd of supporters and volunteers for Senator Bernie Sanders is buzzing. After four years of being shat upon by party officials and media allies alike (CNN and MSNBC are seen in Sanders crowds as Goebbelsian arms of the Democratic National Committee), Vermont’s anti-corporate crusader has defied odds and soared in polls. All that remains is the Schadenfreude orgasm of a victory speech.
A young animal rights lawyer named Colin Grace is explaining how he got turned on to Bernie.
A young animal rights lawyer named Colin Grace is explaining how he got turned on to Bernie.
- 2/8/2020
- by Matt Taibbi
- Rollingstone.com
Literal volumes have been written about Hillary Clinton — her accomplishments, controversies and contradictions — but if Nanette Burstein’s documentary “Hillary” is to be believed, all of them are at least partially correct.
By itself, Clinton’s life and legacy offer a Rorschach test for the last 40 years of geopolitics, gender roles and social mores, but Burstein’s film examines both her actions and the world’s reactions through a uniquely humanistic perspective, simultaneously setting up an intimate look at a person everyone thinks they know, and an almost “Forrest Gump”-esque chronicle of decades of social change filtered through her own accomplishments and setbacks.
Told over four meticulously-researched hours (quartered for broadcasting on Hulu), “Hillary” sympathetically looks at Clinton as an everywoman of the Baby Boomer generation, required to manage and accommodate the expectations of the world around her while trying to navigate her own evolving ambitions. In the 1960s,...
By itself, Clinton’s life and legacy offer a Rorschach test for the last 40 years of geopolitics, gender roles and social mores, but Burstein’s film examines both her actions and the world’s reactions through a uniquely humanistic perspective, simultaneously setting up an intimate look at a person everyone thinks they know, and an almost “Forrest Gump”-esque chronicle of decades of social change filtered through her own accomplishments and setbacks.
Told over four meticulously-researched hours (quartered for broadcasting on Hulu), “Hillary” sympathetically looks at Clinton as an everywoman of the Baby Boomer generation, required to manage and accommodate the expectations of the world around her while trying to navigate her own evolving ambitions. In the 1960s,...
- 2/1/2020
- by Todd Gilchrist
- The Wrap
Adam McKay finds himself in the awards conversation yet again, nominated for an Emmy this year for directing the pilot to “Succession.” He also has four nominations for executive producing “Drunk History, “I Love You, America with Sarah Silverman,” “Live in Front of a Studio Audience” and “Succession.”
McKay recently spoke with Gold Derby contributing writer Charles Bright about the mix of comedy and drama on “Succession,” what brought him to the series and why he transitioned to political and socially relevant material. Watch the exclusive video interview above and read the complete transcript below.
See‘Succession’ season 2 reviews: Critics say it’s ‘frighteningly good,’ ‘scabrous as ever’ and back ‘in top form’
Gold Derby: I have to ask, Adam, is Logan looking like he’ll be even more sadistic with his family in Season 2?
Adam McKay: Logan is a master of all the games. So he goes in and...
McKay recently spoke with Gold Derby contributing writer Charles Bright about the mix of comedy and drama on “Succession,” what brought him to the series and why he transitioned to political and socially relevant material. Watch the exclusive video interview above and read the complete transcript below.
See‘Succession’ season 2 reviews: Critics say it’s ‘frighteningly good,’ ‘scabrous as ever’ and back ‘in top form’
Gold Derby: I have to ask, Adam, is Logan looking like he’ll be even more sadistic with his family in Season 2?
Adam McKay: Logan is a master of all the games. So he goes in and...
- 8/26/2019
- by Kevin Jacobsen
- Gold Derby
At his death, George Herbert Walker Bush is suffering the unkind fate of being celebrated as an anti-Trump. A man of Yankee-style dignity and prudence, who at his core believed himself to be a patriotic public servant, Bush would have been honored to have his career measured according to a very different, wholly honorable standard, that of a former president like Dwight Eisenhower, perhaps, or even of his own father, Senator Prescott Bush of Connecticut, who played a role in censuring Senator Joseph McCarthy. Not that Bush ever boasted...
- 12/5/2018
- by Sean Wilentz
- Rollingstone.com
We live in a time where the foibles of political candidates receive round-the-clock coverage, and on Election Day Sony will release Jason Reitman’s “The Front Runner,” a film about the man who started it all. Hugh Jackman portrays former Colorado Senator and 1988 presidential candidate Gary Hart, who saw his fortunes crash from presidential favorite to political pariah in a single week.
At early festival showings at Telluride and Toronto, “The Front Runner” generated mixed critical reactions (Metacritic: 65) as it roused audiences to debate its provocative concerns about campaign transparency and gender politics: Could Bill Clinton be a good president, even though he had a sexual relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky? Did Hart’s demise stem from hubris, the tabloid press, political skullduggery, or some combination of these?
“I’m trying to figure this out for myself, like most people are,” Reitman said. “That’s what makes it...
At early festival showings at Telluride and Toronto, “The Front Runner” generated mixed critical reactions (Metacritic: 65) as it roused audiences to debate its provocative concerns about campaign transparency and gender politics: Could Bill Clinton be a good president, even though he had a sexual relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky? Did Hart’s demise stem from hubris, the tabloid press, political skullduggery, or some combination of these?
“I’m trying to figure this out for myself, like most people are,” Reitman said. “That’s what makes it...
- 11/5/2018
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
We live in a time where the foibles of political candidates receive round-the-clock coverage, and on Election Day Sony will release Jason Reitman’s “The Front Runner,” a film about the man who started it all. Hugh Jackman portrays former Colorado Senator and 1988 presidential candidate Gary Hart, who saw his fortunes crash from presidential favorite to political pariah in a single week.
At early festival showings at Telluride and Toronto, “The Front Runner” generated mixed critical reactions (Metacritic: 65) as it roused audiences to debate its provocative concerns about campaign transparency and gender politics: Could Bill Clinton be a good president, even though he had a sexual relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky? Did Hart’s demise stem from hubris, the tabloid press, political skullduggery, or some combination of these?
“I’m trying to figure this out for myself, like most people are,” Reitman said. “That’s what makes it...
At early festival showings at Telluride and Toronto, “The Front Runner” generated mixed critical reactions (Metacritic: 65) as it roused audiences to debate its provocative concerns about campaign transparency and gender politics: Could Bill Clinton be a good president, even though he had a sexual relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky? Did Hart’s demise stem from hubris, the tabloid press, political skullduggery, or some combination of these?
“I’m trying to figure this out for myself, like most people are,” Reitman said. “That’s what makes it...
- 11/5/2018
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
President Donald Trump has pinned the Willie Horton-esque ad he tweeted on Halloween to the top of his Twitter page. (See it below.)
TV news outlets spent last night and this morning comparing the video to one used so effectively in 1988 by George H.W. Bush’s camp to kneecap Dem presidential candidate Michael Dukakis. But in ’88, Bush himself tried to distance himself from the ad made by a pro-Bush Pac and on which, coincidentally, former Fox News chief Roger Ailes was an adviser.
“Roger Ailes has died, but he was the mastermind behind Willy Horton and his acolytes are in the White House, and here we are again,” said Alisyn Camerota, former Fox News Channel host, now on CNN, this morning.
CNN political analyst John Avlon reminded her that former Rnc chair and George H.W. Bush adviser Lee Atwater had apologized for the race-baiting Willie Horton ad...
TV news outlets spent last night and this morning comparing the video to one used so effectively in 1988 by George H.W. Bush’s camp to kneecap Dem presidential candidate Michael Dukakis. But in ’88, Bush himself tried to distance himself from the ad made by a pro-Bush Pac and on which, coincidentally, former Fox News chief Roger Ailes was an adviser.
“Roger Ailes has died, but he was the mastermind behind Willy Horton and his acolytes are in the White House, and here we are again,” said Alisyn Camerota, former Fox News Channel host, now on CNN, this morning.
CNN political analyst John Avlon reminded her that former Rnc chair and George H.W. Bush adviser Lee Atwater had apologized for the race-baiting Willie Horton ad...
- 11/1/2018
- by Lisa de Moraes
- Deadline Film + TV
The Washington, D.C., news corps spent Sunday proving comedian Michelle Wolf right. Some of the most over-the-top pearl clutching and hand-wringing didn’t come from the White House, but from D.C. correspondents quick to throw Wolf under the bus.
For what? To ingratiate themselves with a press secretary to hates them and lies to them? To defend an administration that has been the most dangerous foe to a free press?
And, on the same day reporters kept busy condeming Wolf, BuzzFeed News reported that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has removed an entire section of the U.S. Attorneys’ Manual that urges “careful weight” to the “constitutional requirements” of a free press.
This administration has taken the Lee Atwater/Roger Ailes soundtrack undermining the media and cranked it up to 11. Those two Nixon cronies began feeding the public consipiracy theories that the media was too biased or untrustworthy since the 1970s.
For what? To ingratiate themselves with a press secretary to hates them and lies to them? To defend an administration that has been the most dangerous foe to a free press?
And, on the same day reporters kept busy condeming Wolf, BuzzFeed News reported that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has removed an entire section of the U.S. Attorneys’ Manual that urges “careful weight” to the “constitutional requirements” of a free press.
This administration has taken the Lee Atwater/Roger Ailes soundtrack undermining the media and cranked it up to 11. Those two Nixon cronies began feeding the public consipiracy theories that the media was too biased or untrustworthy since the 1970s.
- 4/30/2018
- by Michael Schneider
- Indiewire
By Stephen Saito
Last year, "Young@Heart" caused ripples when it sold to Fox Searchlight to become the first distribution deal to emerge from the L.A. Film Festival, so perhaps it shouldn't have come as a surprise that the festival put documentaries front and center this year, even in a city where there's no shortage of name actors that most other festivals would deploy to lure audiences. Instead, one of the more anticipated star attractions in Los Angeles was a talk with HBO documentary czar Sheila Nevins, who participated in a wide-ranging conversation with L.A. Times columnist Patrick Goldstein about her career of mixing high class projects like the recent doc "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired" with, well, "Heidi Fleiss: The Would-Be Madam of Crystal," which premiered at the festival hours after Nevins finished up. (The latest from "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato,...
Last year, "Young@Heart" caused ripples when it sold to Fox Searchlight to become the first distribution deal to emerge from the L.A. Film Festival, so perhaps it shouldn't have come as a surprise that the festival put documentaries front and center this year, even in a city where there's no shortage of name actors that most other festivals would deploy to lure audiences. Instead, one of the more anticipated star attractions in Los Angeles was a talk with HBO documentary czar Sheila Nevins, who participated in a wide-ranging conversation with L.A. Times columnist Patrick Goldstein about her career of mixing high class projects like the recent doc "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired" with, well, "Heidi Fleiss: The Would-Be Madam of Crystal," which premiered at the festival hours after Nevins finished up. (The latest from "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato,...
- 7/2/2008
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
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