Imagine Entertainment’s Brian Grazer, Morgan Spurlock, and comedian/actor Russell Brand are set to appear at next year’s South By Southwest confab, which today announced the first wave of 2015 Convergence speakers. The announcement of over 60 sessions includes panels in the growing SXsports program, TV, and Digital sidebars. The 2015 edition runs from March 13 – 22 in Austin, Texas – scroll down for the rundown:
A Curious Mind: The Inspiration for a Creative Life
Brian Grazer (Imagine Entertainment), Charles Fishman (The Big Thirst)
Russell Brand Interview with Brian Solis
Russell Brand (Comedian), Brian Solis (Altimeter Group)
SXsports
Athletes are Suddenly Funny: The Power of Comedy & Sports
Patrick Starzan (Funny or Die)
Battling Tradition to Re-Invent Youth Sports
Matt Farrell (USA Swimming), Kurt Kamperman (Us Tennis Association), Jeff Price (PGA of America)
Beyond the Bar Graph: Insights Over Info
Christopher Glode (Under Armour), Marybeth Thomson (MyFitnessPal)
The Business of Preparing Potential NFL Draftees
Jason...
A Curious Mind: The Inspiration for a Creative Life
Brian Grazer (Imagine Entertainment), Charles Fishman (The Big Thirst)
Russell Brand Interview with Brian Solis
Russell Brand (Comedian), Brian Solis (Altimeter Group)
SXsports
Athletes are Suddenly Funny: The Power of Comedy & Sports
Patrick Starzan (Funny or Die)
Battling Tradition to Re-Invent Youth Sports
Matt Farrell (USA Swimming), Kurt Kamperman (Us Tennis Association), Jeff Price (PGA of America)
Beyond the Bar Graph: Insights Over Info
Christopher Glode (Under Armour), Marybeth Thomson (MyFitnessPal)
The Business of Preparing Potential NFL Draftees
Jason...
- 10/16/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
The Contender boxing competition series started its run on NBC back on March 7, 2005. Produced by Mark Burnett and hosted by Rocky veteran Sylvester Stallone and boxer/trainer Sugar Ray Leonard, the reality show followed 16 middle-weights as they competed for a million dollar prize. The show garnered low-ratings and viewership wasn't likely helped by the suicide of one of the eliminated competitors. the series was cancelled after one season.
A few months later, Espn picked up the series. The cable channel dropped most of the show's extraneous elements and focused on the boxer training and matches. The Contender has aired on Espn for two seasons but now the sports channel says that they're finished with it as well.
Espn vice president of series development and production Ron Wechsler tells Espn.com, "It was a hard decision to make. We were talking to [promoter Tournament of Contenders] about a renewal but we couldn't come to terms.
A few months later, Espn picked up the series. The cable channel dropped most of the show's extraneous elements and focused on the boxer training and matches. The Contender has aired on Espn for two seasons but now the sports channel says that they're finished with it as well.
Espn vice president of series development and production Ron Wechsler tells Espn.com, "It was a hard decision to make. We were talking to [promoter Tournament of Contenders] about a renewal but we couldn't come to terms.
- 4/11/2008
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
PARK CITY, Utah -- A crowd-pleasing dark comedy in competition at the Sundance Film Festival, "House of Yes" is a perversely funny sendup of one really screwed-up family.
Starring Parker Posey as a tormented woman who has fixated on Jackie Kennedy and flounces around in a facsimile of the pink Chanel dress and pillbox hat that Jackie wore on the day of the assassination, this Miramax pickup is dark and dastardly amusement. Art house crowds, as well as more mainstream crowds, should gravitate toward the film.
In this "House", "Yes" is the reaction to incest. While the lurid subject matter, as well as the artful execution of the film, may strike more innocent filmgoers as vanguard filmmaking, the "House" itself is built on a veritable pile of previously played cards: Namely, an innocent outsider is lured inside the lair of a family of nut cases.
In this cockeyed scenario, handsome Marty (Josh Hamilton) brings his fiancee, wide-eyed/doughnut waitress Lesly (Tori Spelling), home to share Thanksgiving dinner with his family. While he's given her some warning that the clan is a bit eccentric, nothing prepares Lesly for the meeting with her family, especially Marty's twin sister "Jackie-O" (Posey) who, to say the least, is a bit brittle even when on heavy medication.
Adapting from Wendy MacLeod's play, writer-director Mark Waters has served up high-tonic gothic entertainment. Wickedly juxtaposing batty dialogue with sinister visuals, the film is a morbid mix of humor and horror. And it's Posey, with her aloof Jackie-O musings and her coarsely crazy gazes, that is the highlight of this "House". Similarly, Spelling will surprise a lot of people with her sinewy performance as the curlicue, doeish fiancee that has to process all the household's peculiarities and perversities. As the utterly proper patrician mother, Genevieve Bujold is well-cast, wonderfully portraying a woman whose sense of household probity is, alas, way out of whack.
"House" is topped off by some superb technical flourishes, including cinematographer Mike Spiller's aptly eerie yet lush lighting and composer Jeff Rona's morosely merry sounds.
HOUSE OF YES
Bandeira Entertainment
Producers Beau Flynn, Stefan Simchowitz
Screenwriter-director Mark Waters
Adapted from the stage by Wendy MacLeod
Executive producer Robert Berger
Co-producers Ron Wechsler,
Jeffrey L. Davidson
Director of photography Mike Spiller
Editor Pamela Martin
Production designer Patrick Sherman
Costume designer Edi Giguere
Music :Jeff Rona
Casting director Mary Vernieu
Sound mixer: Dan Monahan
Color/stereo
Cast:
Jackie-O Parker Posey
Marty Josh Hamilton
Lesly Tori Spelling
Anthony: Freddie Prinze Jr.
Mrs. Pascal Genevieve Bujold
Young Jackie-O Rachael Leigh Cook
Running time -- 90 minutes...
Starring Parker Posey as a tormented woman who has fixated on Jackie Kennedy and flounces around in a facsimile of the pink Chanel dress and pillbox hat that Jackie wore on the day of the assassination, this Miramax pickup is dark and dastardly amusement. Art house crowds, as well as more mainstream crowds, should gravitate toward the film.
In this "House", "Yes" is the reaction to incest. While the lurid subject matter, as well as the artful execution of the film, may strike more innocent filmgoers as vanguard filmmaking, the "House" itself is built on a veritable pile of previously played cards: Namely, an innocent outsider is lured inside the lair of a family of nut cases.
In this cockeyed scenario, handsome Marty (Josh Hamilton) brings his fiancee, wide-eyed/doughnut waitress Lesly (Tori Spelling), home to share Thanksgiving dinner with his family. While he's given her some warning that the clan is a bit eccentric, nothing prepares Lesly for the meeting with her family, especially Marty's twin sister "Jackie-O" (Posey) who, to say the least, is a bit brittle even when on heavy medication.
Adapting from Wendy MacLeod's play, writer-director Mark Waters has served up high-tonic gothic entertainment. Wickedly juxtaposing batty dialogue with sinister visuals, the film is a morbid mix of humor and horror. And it's Posey, with her aloof Jackie-O musings and her coarsely crazy gazes, that is the highlight of this "House". Similarly, Spelling will surprise a lot of people with her sinewy performance as the curlicue, doeish fiancee that has to process all the household's peculiarities and perversities. As the utterly proper patrician mother, Genevieve Bujold is well-cast, wonderfully portraying a woman whose sense of household probity is, alas, way out of whack.
"House" is topped off by some superb technical flourishes, including cinematographer Mike Spiller's aptly eerie yet lush lighting and composer Jeff Rona's morosely merry sounds.
HOUSE OF YES
Bandeira Entertainment
Producers Beau Flynn, Stefan Simchowitz
Screenwriter-director Mark Waters
Adapted from the stage by Wendy MacLeod
Executive producer Robert Berger
Co-producers Ron Wechsler,
Jeffrey L. Davidson
Director of photography Mike Spiller
Editor Pamela Martin
Production designer Patrick Sherman
Costume designer Edi Giguere
Music :Jeff Rona
Casting director Mary Vernieu
Sound mixer: Dan Monahan
Color/stereo
Cast:
Jackie-O Parker Posey
Marty Josh Hamilton
Lesly Tori Spelling
Anthony: Freddie Prinze Jr.
Mrs. Pascal Genevieve Bujold
Young Jackie-O Rachael Leigh Cook
Running time -- 90 minutes...
- 1/24/1997
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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