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by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
We interrupt this Pandemic to bring you Elizabeth Moss in SHIRLEY from NEON, about “The Lottery” writer Shirley Jackson. On June 19, 1948, The New Yorker published Jackson’s odd story about a town that gets stoned, but not how you think.
And with this enigmatic introduction to SHIRLEY, from Director Josephine Decker and Writer Sarah Gubbins, let’s make a small parallel to our Coronavirus-driven times where ending a ...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
If you wonder what Benedict Cumberbatch has been up to, here's the latest. He stars in a true-life spy story, and it looks exciting. Plus Rachel Brosnahan is in this with more great actors in the MI-6 thriller...
Curated by Screenmancer Staff from Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions
LOS ANGELES: Lionsgate and sister company Roadside Attractions will deliver the Cold War espionage drama THE COURIER, starring Academy Aw...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
Somehow, even though SXSW 2020 was canceled, David Arquette managed to score a win for his documentary YOU CANNOT KILL DAVID ARQUETTE. It's about? Wrestling... And not with his conscience, lol. Executive Producer and star David Arquette said, "I set out to make this film to stand up for myself, to rewrite the ending to my story, and find a place where I could be proud of my time in the ring. We couldn't wish for a better company ...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
With everyone inside worldwide, you wonder how a Trail Running Film Festival can cope? Wonder no more, Abram Dickerson tells you how in his co-director statement below. May 1, you can join them. Read on...
From Abram Dickerson, Course Director
Last year, I partnered up with James Varner to Co-Direct the Trail Running Film Festival. For those unfamiliar, the festival is traditionally a 3-day event in Seattle, WA followed by a highlight reel of th...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
With Award Season comes the impact of all Oscar winners on real people, or executives in the industry, that is. PARASITE from Bong Joon-ho exploded onto the scene during the run-up to the 2020 Academy Awards. This film even secured a place in history as the first of its kind to win Best Picture. Behind the scenes, here was the result at NEON, read on...
Curated by Screenmancer Staff
NEW YORK, NY: NEON announced today that Elissa Federoff ...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
With everyone under house arrest, whether in a castle, casa, maison, or yurt, there is literally a way you can direct a film with Jonah Hill, get a walk-on part in a Leo DiCaprio movie, or even learn the correct swing to hit homer baseballs with A-Rod, just all kinds of crazy hook-up experience from the ALL IN CHALLENGE universe. We're stealing a page from Screenmancer here.
by Screenmancer Staff LOS ANGELES, CA (4/27/20): Screenman...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
Hey, did you notice Pete Davidson took a swipe at ex Kaia Gerber’s bro Presley Gerber on the last SNL from-home NBC outing? Okay, maybe it’s a reach, but he did say “I didn’t get a face tattoo.” Presley, much to the dismay of long-married parents Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber, got a face inking recently. (Smiley face.) With that allegation out of the way, THE KING OF STATEN ISLAND is the name of new...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
One of the most successful actors to transition from child-to-adult star is Oscar-winner Natalie Portman. #AFIMOVIECLUB just got her to reveal Portman's personally most watched film of all time. Now you’ll get to see her in a home-setting, complete with Swiss Coffee wall backdrop and dark beige curtains in the background. We can’t tell you if it’s her actual primary residence, but Portman, who has literally re...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
“Sometimes, there's a man, well, he's the man for his time and place. He fits right in there.” Oops, sorry that's a line cribbed from The Big Lebowski’s narrator Sam Elliott, that has nothing to do with Pluto Film’s release WIR ELTERN, retitled in English as PARENTS, except for the hipster factor.
This is a German, with other languages included, film by Eric Bergkraut, Ruth Schweikert “and family.&rdquo...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
He gave us pint-sized costume genius Edna Mode, a mash-up of Hollywood's sartorial icon Edith Head and Oscar-winner Linda Hunt, remember? Now Mr. Brad Bird will pick a designer slate of classic films for TCM’s series “The Essentials” with Ben Mankiewicz, zooming to your device May 2.
Who doesn’t love Mr. INCREDIBLES?
Mr. Bird’s Maltese-calibre film slate, listed here, is aces too...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
If you're ready to take Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime break, McGill University in Montreal is conducting a live event via the web on April 23, whereby their brilliant minds will school you on the emerging picture of this current Coronavirus pandemic in context of global health scares that have shaped our society. You can join the discussion via video, read on.
MONTREAL, QC (04/22/20): How have past generations managed global pandemics? What r...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
You’ve heard of the Broadway smash “Hamilton” from showbiz reframer Lin-Manuel Miranda? Did you know the original cast once included the extremely talented Daveed Diggs as the titular character? #AFIMOVIECLUB just drafted this Broadway-star-turned-feature-phenom to pull back the curtain on the Spielberg box-office crusher JURASSIC PARK.
This is the film that ran under Variety headlines back in the day as “Liza...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
What could be more perfect than SCHOOL OF ROCK’s Jack Black, a frontman himself, giving you insider info on THIS IS SPINAL TAP for #AFIMOVIECLUB? The Jackster has been known to break into song even at film-related events, such as with Shirley MacLaine once when they did a press junket for Richard Linklater’s film, BERNIE. Yes, there’s a diverting example included here.
Meanwhi...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
Okay, Lockdown Folks, here's a fun thing to do with your endless free time - watch SXSW 2020 Pilot Showcase on Vimeo!
Los Angeles, CA: In the wake of the cancelled 2020 SXSW Film Festival, a fascinating group of nominated filmmakers from the Episodic Pilot Competition are launching a ‘SXSW 2020 Pilot Showcase’ on Vimeo, a streaming event to preview a diversity led (more than half LGBT content and creators) se...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
By now if you haven’t heard proverbial ‘Everybody’ talking about the Netflix special “Tiger King Murder, Mayhem and Madness” and its titular jailhouse-made “star” Joe Exotic, then you’re not paying attention to the COVID19 lockdown zeitgeist.
In just seven episodes, dating from March 20 and nearly coinciding with Coronavirus pandemic that caged America at home, Tiger King has blown up so much in v...
By Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
Director Lynn Roth, who is among Showtime's first female TV showrunners for “The Paper Chase,” will join a 919 Film Festival Q & A for her film THE LITTLE TRAITOR on April 16 via Zoom. This streaming event is open to the public, and is hosted by the Chapel Hill, NC, based 919 Film Fest. 919 was founded by Randi Emerman and Carol Marshall, with Los Angeles Film Critics Association President, Claudia Puig, as Program ...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
Peter Gerety and Talia Shire? Yes, they’ve been in your film and TV memory for years, maybe growing up, maybe now in your streaming awareness.
Think Shire of ROCKY franchise fame and Gerety (“The Wire”) of almost every procedural TV show of note since the 90’s.
These are real-people type actors who’ve have teamed up with Billy Brown (“Sons of Anarchy”), as well as a perfectly tuned cast, to deliv...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
She was born in the Year of the Other Pandemic, 1918, The Spanish Flu, and Margarita Carmen Cansino turned out to be fever-inducing herself for servicemen around the planet with her WWII status as a pin-up. But not until they dyed her locks, anglicized her name, and tried to steal her very Latin soul. While that is hyperbolic, by the 1946 film GILDA, when she sashays onto a ballroom floor in a five-alarm, form-fitting dress, Margarita becom...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
There’s a time for infighting among the Redbull and BlueMoon States, or states of mind, but right now we’re all trying to be in the pink, health-wise.
#COVID19 and the Coronavirus health-quake is on now.
EllenTube, from Ellen Degeneres, shows us in her interview with musical artist PINK that we all can do something to help the fight against Coronavirus.
Even if we’re seemingly healthy right now.
Thanks to Clap for Carers &...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
Anybody who loves the Amazing Nora Ephron is aces, and Elizabeth Moss (“Handmaid’s Tale”) doffs her Margaret Atwood bonnet to honor the deeply missed Ephron sister in her #AFIMOVIECLUB opener to WHEN HARRY MET SALLY.
Moss hits all the high notes here, as she reads from the screenwriter’s diary from way back when, on the set with Director Rob Reiner, who - as the lore goes - threw this idea out to Nora, and she ping-ponged...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
If you're fighting with children and considering Joe Exotic Tiger Revenge strategies against your partner or spouse, just think... You could be locked up in the Biosphere, that wild human Tang experiment of the old New Age. That should make you feel less shambolic, but better for your reframe? We borrowed Matt Wolf's director statement for you.
by Matt Wolf, Director Spaceship Earth, From Screenmancer.tv
Spaceship Earth is the true, st...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
How much do you know about AR? First of all, "AR" is the acronymn for "augmented reality," which is related to VR (virtual reality), but more of a hybrid tech experience for the novice. Think of it this way: AR is a CGI-overlay for the real world; whereas VR is the immersive CGI world you enter. Does that make sense? AR you stare at (and interact with) from your world, but in (VR) you disappear into a pixelated envinroment vi...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
While most viewers are familiar with Cynthia Erivo from HARRIET, just about everyone in the Known Watching World heard her ballad at the 92nd Oscars, in that rounded fairy-tale golden cape-dress with the haute couture swagger.
And while you can enjoy her singing performance here, first Cynthia hips us to the fancy-fingered realm known as Fashion Vogue ways. This film is the near-real story of victorious, glorious, Dame Anna Wintour's handlin...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
Not only does the man look and sound like Hollywood forefather Robert Redford, now Brad Pitt will actually tell you things you didn’t know about the wild robber-romp from The Greatest Screenwriter William Goldman, that launched Redford when Paul Newman laid down the law about casting.
BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID has so many mind-imprinting moments, from the gorgeous Katharine Ross on the bicycle scene to Paul using his brains t...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
Straight from the virtual pages of “Backstage” magazine, the best-known brand for actor casting calls, there are some fun things you can do during your Pandemic Party lockdown.
One of which is sending Disney Casting a video entry for Disney World’s ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Attraction. Backstage invites you to "wish upon a star for the great Disney-related gigs casting around the world! Disney Parks i...
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