Eiichiro Oda and Akira Toriyama are the two biggest legends in the world of anime and manga industry. Their creations, One Piece, and Dragon Ball have not only broken many records, but they have also set the path for other anime and manga series to reach a global audience as they were the first to do so.
Dragon Ball Anime
However, recently Toriyama, the creator of Dragon Ball passed away at the age of 68 because of acute subdural hematoma and it has shocked the entire world. Toriyama’s contribution to the Japanese anime industry cannot be measured and he has inspired many other manga creators for their work too.
Although Oda was also the one who was inspired by Toriyama, the two manga creators shared a great bond. Since they have been so close, Oda and Toriyama have even conducted interviews in which Oda expressed his admiration for Toriyama’s writing.
Dragon Ball Anime
However, recently Toriyama, the creator of Dragon Ball passed away at the age of 68 because of acute subdural hematoma and it has shocked the entire world. Toriyama’s contribution to the Japanese anime industry cannot be measured and he has inspired many other manga creators for their work too.
Although Oda was also the one who was inspired by Toriyama, the two manga creators shared a great bond. Since they have been so close, Oda and Toriyama have even conducted interviews in which Oda expressed his admiration for Toriyama’s writing.
- 3/11/2024
- by Tarun Kohli
- FandomWire
Piper Laurie, who blossomed as an actress only after extricating herself from the studio system and went on to rack up three Oscar nominations, has died. She was 91.
Laurie’s manager Marion Rosenberg confirmed the news to Variety, writing, “A beautiful human being and one of the great talents of our time.”
Laurie scored her first Oscar nomination for her work opposite Paul Newman in 1961’s classic poolhall drama “The Hustler,” in which she played an alcoholic who memorably tells Newman’s character, “Look, I’ve got troubles and I think maybe you’ve got troubles. Maybe it’d be better if we just leave each other alone.”
Though she informally retired to raise a family for more than a decade, she returned to film and television in the mid-’70s and racked up an impressive roster of characterizations, including Oscar-nominated turns in “Carrie” and in “Children of a Lesser God,...
Laurie’s manager Marion Rosenberg confirmed the news to Variety, writing, “A beautiful human being and one of the great talents of our time.”
Laurie scored her first Oscar nomination for her work opposite Paul Newman in 1961’s classic poolhall drama “The Hustler,” in which she played an alcoholic who memorably tells Newman’s character, “Look, I’ve got troubles and I think maybe you’ve got troubles. Maybe it’d be better if we just leave each other alone.”
Though she informally retired to raise a family for more than a decade, she returned to film and television in the mid-’70s and racked up an impressive roster of characterizations, including Oscar-nominated turns in “Carrie” and in “Children of a Lesser God,...
- 10/14/2023
- by Carmel Dagan
- Variety Film + TV
I guess we should pick out some black clothing, as Ryan is most likely not going to make it.
While his life hanging in the balance at the end Station 19 Season 3 Episode 2 isn't enough evidence to conclude definitively that he will die, there are other clues that strengthen the argument.
For one, Station 19 Season 3 Episode 3 is titled "Eulogy." The episode synopsis states "While Pruitt grieves a monumental loss, Andy refuses to do the same and, instead, throws herself into work."
In addition, Ryan confessed he still loved Andy before he was shot.
Andy: What happened in San Diego?
Ryan: Jenna cheated on me.
Andy: Ouch. How’d you find out?
Ryan: Oh, she told me.
Andy: She told you.
Ryan: Yeah, she wanted to hurt me.
Andy: Why would she want to do that?
Ryan: Well, the day before she asked me if I was still in love with my ex.
While his life hanging in the balance at the end Station 19 Season 3 Episode 2 isn't enough evidence to conclude definitively that he will die, there are other clues that strengthen the argument.
For one, Station 19 Season 3 Episode 3 is titled "Eulogy." The episode synopsis states "While Pruitt grieves a monumental loss, Andy refuses to do the same and, instead, throws herself into work."
In addition, Ryan confessed he still loved Andy before he was shot.
Andy: What happened in San Diego?
Ryan: Jenna cheated on me.
Andy: Ouch. How’d you find out?
Ryan: Oh, she told me.
Andy: She told you.
Ryan: Yeah, she wanted to hurt me.
Andy: Why would she want to do that?
Ryan: Well, the day before she asked me if I was still in love with my ex.
- 1/31/2020
- by Jessica Lerner
- TVfanatic
Hey, "Station 19" fans. We have whipped up another spoiler session for you guys. This time, we're going to tell you about a few things that will be taking place in the next,new episode 3, which is due out next Thursday night, February 6, 2020. The wonderful folks over at ABC delivered a couple of storyline teasers for episode 3 via their episode 3 press release. They also released a ton of new preview photos for episode 3. So, we're going to talk about those and give you guys a link to them. Let's do this. For starters, ABC's press release has informed us that episode 3 is officially titled, "Eulogy." It sounds like episode 3 will feature some very emotional, intense, dramatic and interesting scenes as Pruitt mourns a loss. Andy refuses to mourn. A carbon monoxide leak happens! Sullivan makes a very controversial choice and more! We'll go ahead and start off this spoiler session with the Pruitt situation.
- 1/31/2020
- by Andre Braddox
- OnTheFlix
Exclusive: Former Untitled Entertainment and Relativity Media exec Kendall Rhodes has launched Paraluman Media, a management and production boutique specializing in digital and entertainment.
Paraluman will be a 360 talent management company, developing and producing content for all platforms while securing brand partnerships, business building and consulting on social media strategy.
Rhodes represents a number of artists and social media influencers including actors, directors, producers and multi-platform creators. Her client roster includes Yousef Erakat, aka Fousey, from Tyler Perry’s Boo (1 and 2)! who counts north of 14M subs on YouTube; actors Stella Hudgens and Sophia Esperanza who respectively count Instagram followers of 1M and 3M+; Lifestyle creator, Meghan Rienks, who produced and starred in the Lionsgate movie The Honor List and has a reach of 5M+ on social media; YouTuber Lily Marston, who starred in YouTube’s BeautyBreak and recently started her own channel and network; filmmaker Caryn Waechter (Deadcon); Tony E.
Paraluman will be a 360 talent management company, developing and producing content for all platforms while securing brand partnerships, business building and consulting on social media strategy.
Rhodes represents a number of artists and social media influencers including actors, directors, producers and multi-platform creators. Her client roster includes Yousef Erakat, aka Fousey, from Tyler Perry’s Boo (1 and 2)! who counts north of 14M subs on YouTube; actors Stella Hudgens and Sophia Esperanza who respectively count Instagram followers of 1M and 3M+; Lifestyle creator, Meghan Rienks, who produced and starred in the Lionsgate movie The Honor List and has a reach of 5M+ on social media; YouTuber Lily Marston, who starred in YouTube’s BeautyBreak and recently started her own channel and network; filmmaker Caryn Waechter (Deadcon); Tony E.
- 12/18/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
“Better Things” is no stranger to moments that draw on music as a way to punctuate a specific emotion. In Thursday’s memorable Season 3 finale, “Shake the Cocktail,” the episode culminates in a rousing choral performance of Florence + the Machine’s “Shake It Out.” It’s a companion piece to the blissful Episode 9-ending group rendition of “On the Street Where You Live,” as the family and friends of Sam Fox (Pamela Adlon) watch Frankie (Hannah Alligood) take part in belting out a performance that captures all of the swirling anxiety and uncertainty that’s been hanging over many of the show’s central characters.
Adlon wrote and directed the episode, which weaves together a number of the threads of Sam’s personal life, from her evolving relationships with her children to finding a bit of reconciliation with close friend Rich (Diedrich Bader). For this season-capping crescendo, Bader said that...
Adlon wrote and directed the episode, which weaves together a number of the threads of Sam’s personal life, from her evolving relationships with her children to finding a bit of reconciliation with close friend Rich (Diedrich Bader). For this season-capping crescendo, Bader said that...
- 5/17/2019
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Hulu has released its list of content arriving at the streaming service this June, as well as everything that will no longer be available to watch there after June 30.
At the top of the must-watch list is season three of Hulu Original “The Handmaid’s Tale,” which was notably pushed back to a June premiere date in order to ensure it would “maintain the quality it has,” Craig Erwich, Hulu’s Senior Vice President of Originals, said at the Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour in February. The first three episodes of the new season premiere on Hulu June 5, after which new episodes will be released every Wednesday.
Another Hulu Original of note is “The Weekly” series from The New York Times, coming June 3. Each half-hour episode will feature a Times journalist investigating one of today’s most pressing issues, with new issues being explored each week.
Also Read: Elisabeth Moss...
At the top of the must-watch list is season three of Hulu Original “The Handmaid’s Tale,” which was notably pushed back to a June premiere date in order to ensure it would “maintain the quality it has,” Craig Erwich, Hulu’s Senior Vice President of Originals, said at the Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour in February. The first three episodes of the new season premiere on Hulu June 5, after which new episodes will be released every Wednesday.
Another Hulu Original of note is “The Weekly” series from The New York Times, coming June 3. Each half-hour episode will feature a Times journalist investigating one of today’s most pressing issues, with new issues being explored each week.
Also Read: Elisabeth Moss...
- 5/15/2019
- by Margeaux Sippell
- The Wrap
Amazon Prime Video has unveiled everything coming to the streaming service in May, and highlights include new series “Good Omens” on May 31 and the second and final season of “Fleabag” coming May 17.
“Sneaky Pete,” a Prime original series about a con man who pretends to be a family’s long-lost grandson, arrives for its third season on May 10. Prime subscribers can also watch the horrors of 2018’s “Suspiria” unfold in their own home. The Prime original film starring Dakota Johnson comes to the streaming service May 3.
Other highlights include existing films like “Reservoir Dogs,” seven installments of the “Friday the 13th” franchise, and the first “Mission: Impossible” movie. Licensed TV series coming to the streamer include Season 3 of ITV’s British comedy “The Durrells,” and Season 4 of the BBC’s drama “Poldark.”
Also Read: 'Fleabag' Season 2: Phoebe Waller-Bridge Goes to Battle With God in New Trailer (Video...
“Sneaky Pete,” a Prime original series about a con man who pretends to be a family’s long-lost grandson, arrives for its third season on May 10. Prime subscribers can also watch the horrors of 2018’s “Suspiria” unfold in their own home. The Prime original film starring Dakota Johnson comes to the streaming service May 3.
Other highlights include existing films like “Reservoir Dogs,” seven installments of the “Friday the 13th” franchise, and the first “Mission: Impossible” movie. Licensed TV series coming to the streamer include Season 3 of ITV’s British comedy “The Durrells,” and Season 4 of the BBC’s drama “Poldark.”
Also Read: 'Fleabag' Season 2: Phoebe Waller-Bridge Goes to Battle With God in New Trailer (Video...
- 4/16/2019
- by Margeaux Sippell
- The Wrap
Pamela Adlon is back in the Emmy race for Best Comedy Actress for her work as single mom and working actress Sam Fox on FX’s “Better Things.” This is her second straight nomination for the role. She’s already an Emmy winner for her voice-over work on “King of the Hill” (2002), and she received four nominations over three years for acting, producing, and writing for “Louie” (2013-2015).
Adlon has submitted the episode “Eulogy” to Emmy voters for consideration. The episode begins with Sam teaching an acting class and then shooting a car commercial. When she comes home to watch TV with her kids one of her commercials pops up, but her daughters Max (Mikey Madison) and Frankie (Hannah Alligood) would rather watch “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” Sam is furious that her children don’t appreciate her work and demands that they speak about her as if they were speaking at her funeral.
Adlon has submitted the episode “Eulogy” to Emmy voters for consideration. The episode begins with Sam teaching an acting class and then shooting a car commercial. When she comes home to watch TV with her kids one of her commercials pops up, but her daughters Max (Mikey Madison) and Frankie (Hannah Alligood) would rather watch “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” Sam is furious that her children don’t appreciate her work and demands that they speak about her as if they were speaking at her funeral.
- 9/1/2018
- by Tony Ruiz
- Gold Derby
TV academy members have just a few weeks to watch all of the Emmy episode submissions for the 2018 nominees before final voting takes place August 13-27. Which of this year’s Best Comedy Actress contenders has submitted the strongest episode: Pamela Adlon (“Better Things”), Rachel Brosnahan (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”), Allison Janney (“Mom”), Issa Rae (“Insecure”), Tracee Ellis Ross (“Black-ish”) or Lily Tomlin (“Grace and Frankie”)? You be the judge! Below, we list the nominees’ episode descriptions and provide links for where you can watch the submissions online.
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Pamela Adlon (“Better Things”) as Sam Fox
Episode: “Eulogy”
Airdate: October 19, 2017
Description: Sam teaches an acting class and then hits the neighborhood bar after frustrations at home. Feeling unappreciated by everybody, she asks for a pretend funeral. She wants her friends and family to eulogize her, saying what they really think.
SEE2018 Emmy nominations complete list: All the nominees for the 70th Emmy Awards
Pamela Adlon (“Better Things”) as Sam Fox
Episode: “Eulogy”
Airdate: October 19, 2017
Description: Sam teaches an acting class and then hits the neighborhood bar after frustrations at home. Feeling unappreciated by everybody, she asks for a pretend funeral. She wants her friends and family to eulogize her, saying what they really think.
- 7/31/2018
- by Marcus James Dixon and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Gold Derby can exclusively reveal that Pamela Adlon is entering the “Better Things” episode “Eulogy” as her Emmy submission for Best Comedy Actress. This installment aired October 19 and was the sixth episode of the second season for the FX show.
In this segment, Sam (Adlon) teaches an acting class and then hits the neighborhood bar after frustrations at home. Feeling unappreciated by everybody, she asks for a pretend funeral. She wants her friends and family to eulogize her, saying what they really think. Enjoy our recent video chat with Adlon discussing this season and her career.
SEE2018 Emmy nominations complete list: All the nominees for the 70th Emmy Awards
This nomination is her second straight in this category. Adlon has a prior win for her voice-over work on “King of the Hill” (2002) and four other bids for writing, acting and producing on “Louie.” For the 2018 ceremony, she is up against...
In this segment, Sam (Adlon) teaches an acting class and then hits the neighborhood bar after frustrations at home. Feeling unappreciated by everybody, she asks for a pretend funeral. She wants her friends and family to eulogize her, saying what they really think. Enjoy our recent video chat with Adlon discussing this season and her career.
SEE2018 Emmy nominations complete list: All the nominees for the 70th Emmy Awards
This nomination is her second straight in this category. Adlon has a prior win for her voice-over work on “King of the Hill” (2002) and four other bids for writing, acting and producing on “Louie.” For the 2018 ceremony, she is up against...
- 7/20/2018
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
In busy times, as the executive producer, writer and star of her first television series—FX’s Better Things—what more could there be for Pamela Adlon to do?
Co-creating Better Things with Louis C.K, Adlon was the key creative voice on her series from the get-go. It was in Season 2, though, that the creative took her involvement to new heights, as the series’ showrunner and sole director. “It’s something that was never on my radar,” Adlon says of directing. “If the thought ever crossed my mind, I would be like, ‘I could never do that.'”
But who better than Adlon to steer the ship, portraying the highs and lows of parenting that she knows well?
Registering Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for Better Things, Adlon stars as Sam Fox, an actress struggling with life as a single parent to three daughters, in what amounts to a...
Co-creating Better Things with Louis C.K, Adlon was the key creative voice on her series from the get-go. It was in Season 2, though, that the creative took her involvement to new heights, as the series’ showrunner and sole director. “It’s something that was never on my radar,” Adlon says of directing. “If the thought ever crossed my mind, I would be like, ‘I could never do that.'”
But who better than Adlon to steer the ship, portraying the highs and lows of parenting that she knows well?
Registering Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for Better Things, Adlon stars as Sam Fox, an actress struggling with life as a single parent to three daughters, in what amounts to a...
- 6/12/2018
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
“I honestly never had ambitions to direct,” admits Pamela Adlon, the co-creator, writer and star of FX’s “Better Things.” But when she took on the task of directing every episode of the comedy’s second season, Adlon expresses a certain degree of surprise as to how much she loved it. As Adlon reveals in our exclusive video interview (watch the video above), “It’s not about being in control. It’s about this one singular vision. That I was able to execute my season that way, it was a dream.”
SEEEmmys 2018 exclusive: FX categories for ‘Atlanta,’ ‘Versace,’ ‘The Americans,’ ‘Better Things’ and more
As a director for the entire season, Adlon says that it was “massively important” to her that everyone on her set “felt respected and taken care of.” Adlon credits her experience working with Tracey Ullman for giving her a model for how to make a set run both happily and efficiently.
SEEEmmys 2018 exclusive: FX categories for ‘Atlanta,’ ‘Versace,’ ‘The Americans,’ ‘Better Things’ and more
As a director for the entire season, Adlon says that it was “massively important” to her that everyone on her set “felt respected and taken care of.” Adlon credits her experience working with Tracey Ullman for giving her a model for how to make a set run both happily and efficiently.
- 5/18/2018
- by Tony Ruiz
- Gold Derby
Pamela Adlon cannot turn off her mothering instinct, nor the need to make others feel at home around her. This was in evidence last week in North Hollywood when the Fyc panel for “Better Things” took place on a stage dressed to look like an everyday living room. The setting also felt like a safe space for women since every person on the stage was female, from Adlon and moderator Debra Birnbaum of Variety, to the cast playing Adlon’s on-screen family: Celia Imrie, Mikey Madison, Hannah Alligood, and Olivia Edward.
The pro-woman message wasn’t overt, but it was nevertheless important in the wake of the sexual harassment revelations from last year involving Adlon’s mentor, writing partner and good friend Louis C.K. His name wasn’t mentioned during the panel at all, and instead the mood was one of loving support and celebration for what the cast and...
The pro-woman message wasn’t overt, but it was nevertheless important in the wake of the sexual harassment revelations from last year involving Adlon’s mentor, writing partner and good friend Louis C.K. His name wasn’t mentioned during the panel at all, and instead the mood was one of loving support and celebration for what the cast and...
- 4/23/2018
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
This year, we've asked 10 writers to pick some of their favorite TV episodes from 2017 and weigh in on why they were great stand-alone eps and the highlights of our viewing year. Today: Our final entry, David Fear on Better Thing's "Eulogy."
Being a parent sometimes sucks. This is a scientific fact – go ask a scientist, she will tell you it's true. You are vomited upon, defecated upon, shrieked at. You are rarely if ever thanked. You are usually viewed as a walking, talking Atm machine, at least until your kid...
Being a parent sometimes sucks. This is a scientific fact – go ask a scientist, she will tell you it's true. You are vomited upon, defecated upon, shrieked at. You are rarely if ever thanked. You are usually viewed as a walking, talking Atm machine, at least until your kid...
- 12/22/2017
- Rollingstone.com
The Ice Age flicks are the cinematic equivalent of drive-through nuggets of reconstituted chicken slurry served by a bored teenager in a cardboard hat. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): really hate this series
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Manny the Mammoth is back! In this Very Special Episode of Ice Age, Manny gets exasperated by the fact that his wife, Ellie, and daughter, Peaches, are independent creatures with minds of their own: “Women! I don’t get ’em!” he exclaims [insert laugh-track clip of a 1967 studio audience roaring]. Watch what happens when Manny forgets his wedding anniversary — he’s gonna be in trouble with the missus! [studio audience groans dramatically] And then there’s Peaches’ upcoming wedding to loveable doofus Julian. [studio audience: “awwwww!”] Is it the end of Manny’s world now that his little girl is officially all grown up? It just might be… what with that massive asteroid heading straight for planet Earth!
I’m “biast” (con): really hate this series
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Manny the Mammoth is back! In this Very Special Episode of Ice Age, Manny gets exasperated by the fact that his wife, Ellie, and daughter, Peaches, are independent creatures with minds of their own: “Women! I don’t get ’em!” he exclaims [insert laugh-track clip of a 1967 studio audience roaring]. Watch what happens when Manny forgets his wedding anniversary — he’s gonna be in trouble with the missus! [studio audience groans dramatically] And then there’s Peaches’ upcoming wedding to loveable doofus Julian. [studio audience: “awwwww!”] Is it the end of Manny’s world now that his little girl is officially all grown up? It just might be… what with that massive asteroid heading straight for planet Earth!
- 7/18/2016
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
How do you get two of cinema’s seminal leading ladies into a car together? Throw some Oscar bait on the backseat. At least, that’s what it looks like from watching the first trailer for August: Osage County. You can check it out below.
An ensemble drama, the film is based on the play of the same name by Tracy Letts and directed by John Wells. Letts, who also penned the screenplay, bagged the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2008 for the original stage outing. Coming from a background already rooted in accolade, the screen adaptation will undoubtedly capture the Academy’s eye. The subject matter is perfect for nods too.
Just looking at the cast attached is like reading an Oscar nominee shortlist. Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor, Benedict Cumberbatch, Abigail Breslin, Chris Cooper, Juliette Lewis, Sam Shepard and Dermot Mulroney are just some of the starring talent.
An ensemble drama, the film is based on the play of the same name by Tracy Letts and directed by John Wells. Letts, who also penned the screenplay, bagged the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2008 for the original stage outing. Coming from a background already rooted in accolade, the screen adaptation will undoubtedly capture the Academy’s eye. The subject matter is perfect for nods too.
Just looking at the cast attached is like reading an Oscar nominee shortlist. Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor, Benedict Cumberbatch, Abigail Breslin, Chris Cooper, Juliette Lewis, Sam Shepard and Dermot Mulroney are just some of the starring talent.
- 5/11/2013
- by Gem Seddon
- We Got This Covered
Craig (from Dark Eye Socket) here with this week's Take Three. Today: Piper Laurie
Take One: Hesher (2010)
Laurie has played the grandmother figure a few times in recent years (Hounddog, Eulogy, The Dead Girl), but she best conveyed matriarchal feeling last year in Hesher. The film uses the familiar narrative coupling of a loveable old person and unruly younger person connecting despite obvious differences. This time it's carried out with keen subtlety because the people involved are Laurie and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who make this arrangement work in a delightfully fresh way. Their friendship isn’t the main thrust of the narrative, but a key characterful diversion, and the genuinely heartfelt union elevates the film with tiny moments of tender affection.
Laurie's Grandma is there for her grandson (Devin Brochu) through the mourning of his mother and later when Gordon-Levitt’s stoner/drifter crashes the family home. Her open acceptance of...
Take One: Hesher (2010)
Laurie has played the grandmother figure a few times in recent years (Hounddog, Eulogy, The Dead Girl), but she best conveyed matriarchal feeling last year in Hesher. The film uses the familiar narrative coupling of a loveable old person and unruly younger person connecting despite obvious differences. This time it's carried out with keen subtlety because the people involved are Laurie and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who make this arrangement work in a delightfully fresh way. Their friendship isn’t the main thrust of the narrative, but a key characterful diversion, and the genuinely heartfelt union elevates the film with tiny moments of tender affection.
Laurie's Grandma is there for her grandson (Devin Brochu) through the mourning of his mother and later when Gordon-Levitt’s stoner/drifter crashes the family home. Her open acceptance of...
- 5/7/2012
- by Craig Bloomfield
- FilmExperience
John Travolta, Kelly Preston Oscar-nominated actor John Travolta and actress Kelly Preston, Travolta's wife, attend the 2011 Governors Awards in the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland in Hollywood, on Saturday, November 12. [Photo: Matt Petit / ©A.M.P.A.S.] James Earl Jones (The Great White Hope, the voice of Darth Vader in the Star Wars movies) was a long-distance Honorary Oscar honoree, as he's co-starring with Vanessa Redgrave in Driving Miss Daisy on the London stage; veteran makeup artist Dick Smith (Amadeus, The Sentinel, Taxi Driver), however, was present at the ceremony to receive his Honorary Oscar. TV celebrity Oprah Winfrey, a 1985 Best Supporting Actress nominee for the Steven Spielberg movie The Color Purple, was the recipient of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. John Travolta has received two Best Actor nominations, for Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Pulp Fiction (1994). Other film credits include Primary Colors, Blow Out, Mad City, Face/Off, Broken Arrow, Staying Alive, The Punisher, Hairspray, From Paris with Love,...
- 11/23/2011
- by D. Zhea
- Alt Film Guide
Debra Winger's life has enough stories to fill a dozen movies. Want to hear about overcoming adversity? When Winger was 17, a car accident put her in a coma for weeks and left her partially paralyzed and blind for 10 months, during which time she vowed that if she recovered, she would become an actor. How about a great discovery story? As a struggling unknown actor, she crashed an audition and won the coveted role of the brash, sensual Sissy, opposite John Travolta, in Urban Cowboy, which made her an instant star. A hint of scandal? It's no secret Winger has had tense relationships on set, such as with her An Officer and a Gentleman director, Taylor Hackford, and her Terms of Endearment co-star Shirley MacLaine. And how about a tale with a surprise twist? After turning 40, with three Oscar nominations to her name, firmly ensconced as a sought-after actor, Winger...
- 10/3/2008
- by Jenelle Riley
- backstage.com
Even when grief is overwhelming, funerals can be absurd gatherings full of awkward drama and unintentionally funny ritual by rote. In the case of Eulogy, writer-director Michael Clancy's feature debut, there's no troublesome sadness to get in the way of the quirk factor. Character eccentricities and off-kilter group dynamics play out with a comic vengeance.
Although this black comedy doesn't always achieve its intended laughs and sometimes pushes too hard for them, at its best it offers droll glimpses of the cosmic abyss that often serves as a family's connective tissue. The terrific ensemble cast finds the right deadpan tone to deliver the dysfunction. The presence of Debra Winger will up the draw for niche theatrical audiences, and Eulogy should enjoy a long afterlife on home video.
Unshowy tech contributions, led by DP Michael Chapman (Raging Bull) and editor Richard Halsey (Rocky), put the actors front and center in this concise comic portrait of a clan numbed by disappointment. Winger plays Alice, the oldest, loudest and angriest of the four Collins siblings, returning home to Rhode Island for the funeral of the father they barely knew (Rip Torn). His passing barely dents their self-centered orbits, and even his widow (Piper Laurie) responds with a vacant impassiveness, notwithstanding a couple of badly misfired suicide attempts.
The unlikely voice of sanity and compassion within the sorry lot is college student Kate (Zooey Deschanel, exuding practicality and emotional translucence). When she's not struggling to write the eulogy her clear-eyed grandmother requested, she's avoiding neighbor Ryan (Jesse Bradford), confused over the romantic turn their lifelong summer friendship has taken.
Kate's father, Dan (Hank Azaria), is an adult-film actor looking through a cannabis haze for his big break, having reached his show business zenith in a peanut butter commercial at age 8. Skip (Ray Romano) is a lawyer of sorts with a most unfortunate mustache, and adolescent twins (Curtis and Keith Garcia) who, when they're not being plain evil, toss around sex-talk swagger as though they've listened to Howard Stern one too many times.
The twins take a sudden interest in the gathering when their feisty aunt Lucy (Kelly Preston) shows up with her easygoing "life partner," Judy (Famke Janssen). This rather forced self-introduction is the first sign that Clancy is going to use the lesbian relationship a bit too insistently. While Alice's three children cower in silence and her husband (Mark Harelik) burbles incoherently, she all but puts Lucy and Judy on trial. By the time they announce their wedding plans, you can only wonder why the brides-to-be would want this variously mean-spirited and clueless bunch at the festivities.
But the utter irrationality of family is Clancy's point. It's no wonder Grandma sees no reason to explain her eagerness to check out. And while her suicide attempts aren't as, well, funny as they're meant to be, they do land her in the inexpert care of a dippy nurse (Glenne Headly, in sweet ditz mode) who turns out to be a crucial figure from Alice's past.
As good as it is to see Winger onscreen, her character is too strident a conception, the explanation for her malice a bit too easy. But to Clancy's credit he doesn't try to tie it all up with a feel-good ending. The dark undercurrents remain as the Collinses bid Dad farewell. The twins are still obnoxious. And Romano's Skip is still sporting that mustache.
EULOGY
Lions Gate Films
A Myriad Pictures presentation in association with Ovation Entertainment, Equity Pictures Medienfonds and S.R.O. Entertainment AF
Credits:
Director-writer: Michael Clancy
Producers: Steven Haft, Richard B. Lewis, Kirk D'Amico
Executive producers: Lucas Foster, Kendall Morgan, Bo Hyde, Rory Rosegarten, Jonas McCord, Shelly Glasser
Director of photography: Michael Chapman
Production designer: Dina Lipton
Music: George S. Clinton
Co-producers: Stefan Jonas, Jeanne Van Cott
Costume designer: Tracy Tynan
Editor: Richard Halsey
Cast:
Daniel Collins: Hank Azaria
Ryan Carmichael: Jesse Bradford
Kate Collins: Zooey Deschanel
Samantha: Glenne Headly
Judy Arnolds: Famke Janssen
Grandma Collins: Piper Laurie
Lucy Collins: Kelly Preston
Skip Collins: Ray Romano
Grandpa Collins: Rip Torn
Alice Collins: Debra Winger
Burt: Mark Harelik
Parson Banke: Rene Auberjonois
MPAA rating: R
Running time -- 85 minutes...
Although this black comedy doesn't always achieve its intended laughs and sometimes pushes too hard for them, at its best it offers droll glimpses of the cosmic abyss that often serves as a family's connective tissue. The terrific ensemble cast finds the right deadpan tone to deliver the dysfunction. The presence of Debra Winger will up the draw for niche theatrical audiences, and Eulogy should enjoy a long afterlife on home video.
Unshowy tech contributions, led by DP Michael Chapman (Raging Bull) and editor Richard Halsey (Rocky), put the actors front and center in this concise comic portrait of a clan numbed by disappointment. Winger plays Alice, the oldest, loudest and angriest of the four Collins siblings, returning home to Rhode Island for the funeral of the father they barely knew (Rip Torn). His passing barely dents their self-centered orbits, and even his widow (Piper Laurie) responds with a vacant impassiveness, notwithstanding a couple of badly misfired suicide attempts.
The unlikely voice of sanity and compassion within the sorry lot is college student Kate (Zooey Deschanel, exuding practicality and emotional translucence). When she's not struggling to write the eulogy her clear-eyed grandmother requested, she's avoiding neighbor Ryan (Jesse Bradford), confused over the romantic turn their lifelong summer friendship has taken.
Kate's father, Dan (Hank Azaria), is an adult-film actor looking through a cannabis haze for his big break, having reached his show business zenith in a peanut butter commercial at age 8. Skip (Ray Romano) is a lawyer of sorts with a most unfortunate mustache, and adolescent twins (Curtis and Keith Garcia) who, when they're not being plain evil, toss around sex-talk swagger as though they've listened to Howard Stern one too many times.
The twins take a sudden interest in the gathering when their feisty aunt Lucy (Kelly Preston) shows up with her easygoing "life partner," Judy (Famke Janssen). This rather forced self-introduction is the first sign that Clancy is going to use the lesbian relationship a bit too insistently. While Alice's three children cower in silence and her husband (Mark Harelik) burbles incoherently, she all but puts Lucy and Judy on trial. By the time they announce their wedding plans, you can only wonder why the brides-to-be would want this variously mean-spirited and clueless bunch at the festivities.
But the utter irrationality of family is Clancy's point. It's no wonder Grandma sees no reason to explain her eagerness to check out. And while her suicide attempts aren't as, well, funny as they're meant to be, they do land her in the inexpert care of a dippy nurse (Glenne Headly, in sweet ditz mode) who turns out to be a crucial figure from Alice's past.
As good as it is to see Winger onscreen, her character is too strident a conception, the explanation for her malice a bit too easy. But to Clancy's credit he doesn't try to tie it all up with a feel-good ending. The dark undercurrents remain as the Collinses bid Dad farewell. The twins are still obnoxious. And Romano's Skip is still sporting that mustache.
EULOGY
Lions Gate Films
A Myriad Pictures presentation in association with Ovation Entertainment, Equity Pictures Medienfonds and S.R.O. Entertainment AF
Credits:
Director-writer: Michael Clancy
Producers: Steven Haft, Richard B. Lewis, Kirk D'Amico
Executive producers: Lucas Foster, Kendall Morgan, Bo Hyde, Rory Rosegarten, Jonas McCord, Shelly Glasser
Director of photography: Michael Chapman
Production designer: Dina Lipton
Music: George S. Clinton
Co-producers: Stefan Jonas, Jeanne Van Cott
Costume designer: Tracy Tynan
Editor: Richard Halsey
Cast:
Daniel Collins: Hank Azaria
Ryan Carmichael: Jesse Bradford
Kate Collins: Zooey Deschanel
Samantha: Glenne Headly
Judy Arnolds: Famke Janssen
Grandma Collins: Piper Laurie
Lucy Collins: Kelly Preston
Skip Collins: Ray Romano
Grandpa Collins: Rip Torn
Alice Collins: Debra Winger
Burt: Mark Harelik
Parson Banke: Rene Auberjonois
MPAA rating: R
Running time -- 85 minutes...
- 10/29/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Documentary The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing and Lions Gate's A Love Song for Bobby Long, starring John Travolta and Scarlett Johansson, will serve as opening and closing films, respectively, at the 2004 Hollywood Film Festival, running Oct. 12-17. The festival will present four centerpiece films: Miramax's Finding Neverland, with Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet; Lions Gate's ensemble drama Eulogy; United Artists' Undertow; and Newmarket Films' p.s., with Laura Linney and Topher Grace. A total of 60 films, 16 of them world premieres, will be presented at the fest.
- 9/29/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Richard Lewis' Southpaw Entertainment -- which is prepping for the release of Michael Clancy's Eulogy and David Duchovny's House of D, both from Lions Gate Films -- has signed deals with Kirsten Sheridan to direct August Rush and David Nutter to helm Windsor Road for the company. Oscar-nominated writer-director Sheridan, daughter of Jim Sheridan, will helm Rush, which is based on an idea conceived by Lewis and described as a modern-day fairy tale about an orphaned musical prodigy who tries to find his parents through their shared musical gifts. Lewis hatched the idea at the hospital when his wife gave birth to their son, who immediately showed an affinity for music. "It will be a musical without people breaking into song," he said. "Music is definitely the lead character in the film. Music is a part of my lifeblood."...
- 9/28/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Warner Independent Pictures is in for Fifty Percent. Warners' specialty film arm is developing the dark comedy with producers Steven Haft and Odd Lot Entertainment's Deborah Del Prete and Gigi Pritzker. Writer Darin Mark is on board to pen the script, which follows three waitresses who agree to marry for money, get divorced and take 50% of each man's net worth so they can start their real lives on a tropical island. Five years later, one woman is ready to cash out whether the other girls are in or not. Michael Andreen and Tracey Bing are overseeing for WIP. Haft's recent credits include Eulogy, The Singing Detective, Tigerland and Beautiful Joe. Odd Lot Entertainment's other projects include The Reckoning and Hooligans. WIP's upcoming titles include A Scanner Darkly, One Thing Always, The Bielski Brothers and Brideshead Revisited, the feature film version of the British TV classic. Mark is repped by Endeavor, Benderspink and Gregg Gellman and Michael Fuller at Barnes, Morris, Klein, Mark, Yorn, Barnes and Levine.
- 6/30/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Variety reports that wonderfully trashy TV director Jason Ensler (Martha, Inc.) will direct Kevin James and Ray Romano in Grilled, a Matt Nix-written buddy comedy just green-lighted at New Line Cinema. The film pairs the TV faves as door-to-door salesmen desperate to unload a massive amount of frozen beef, before they themselves become dead meat. James is currently in production on Andy Tennant's Last First Kiss with Will Smith and Eva Mendes; Romano's looking to put Welcome to Mooseport behind him with the upcoming Eulogy, a dark ensemble comedy from Michael Clancy.
- 5/3/2004
- IMDbPro News
Kelly Preston, who starred as the mother in the big-screen adaptation of Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat for Universal/DreamWorks/Imagine Entertainment, is set for the indie drama Return to Sender for helmer Bille August, sources confirmed. Penned by Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, the project will see Preston star as a lawyer fighting to exonerate a woman on death row. As the case unfolds, she begins to question the motives of a man who has befriended her client. Stephen Woolley and Michael Lunderskov are producing the project, which is lensing in Denmark before moving on to Oklahoma. Other casting is expected to be announced shortly. Preston is repped by ICM and Joel Stevens at Joel Stevens Entertainment. She can be seen in Eulogy, which premieres this month at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City. The black comedy also stars Ray Romano, Hank Azaria, Famke Janssen, Zooey Deschanel, Debra Winger and Jesse Bradford.
- 1/16/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jesse Bradford is poised to scale the indie film Heights, joining Elizabeth Banks, Glenn Close and James Marsden in the Merchant Ivory production. The pic is currently lensing in New York City. First-time feature director Chris Terrio is helming the project, which stars Banks in the lead role as a photojournalist who is forced to come to terms with a complicated relationship in her life. Close plays the mother of Banks' character; Marsden plays Banks' fiance, and Bradford will star as a student of Close's who also is the object of Close's affection. James Ivory and Ismail Merchant are producing. Bradford is repped by WMA and attorney David Weber. He recently signed on for a recurring role on NBC's The West Wing as well as a part in Don Roos' Happy Endings for Stratus Film Co. (HR 8/8). He next stars in the Myriad Pictures comedy Eulogy.
- 9/11/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Paget Brewster has been cast as the female lead opposite Hank Azaria in Showtime's two-hour drama pilot Huff, from producer-director Mike Newell. The Sony Pictures Television project centers on Craig Huffstodt (Azaria), a psychiatrist suffering a midlife crisis (HR 6/20). Brewster will play his wife. Bob Lowry (Lifetime's Any Day Now) penned the script for the pilot and will executive produce with Newell and Cam Jones. Production on the pilot is scheduled to begin in early September in Vancouver. Huff will mark Brewster and Azaria's second pairing this year. The two also appear together in the upcoming feature Eulogy. Brewster most recently starred in Fox's comedy pilot The Snobs this past development season. Her credits also include the comedy series Andy Richter Controls the Universe for Fox and The Trouble With Normal for ABC. She is repped by UTA, manager Joannie Burstein and attorney Joel McKuin.
- 8/27/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Elfin Winona Ryder is set to make her first movie since being convicted of shoplifting last year - a comedy called Eulogy. The Girl, Interrupted actress will join Everybody Loves Raymond star Ray Romano, plus Debra Winger and Hank Azaria in the black comedy. It follows three generations of a family who come together for the funeral of the patriarch - unveiling a litany of family secrets and covert relationships.
- 1/22/2003
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