The nominations are out for the 33rd annual Imagen Awards, which celebrate positive portrayal and creative excellence of Latinos and Latino cultures in TV and film. See the full list below.
Best Picture Oscar winner The Shape of Water is nominated for Best Picture, along with Animated Feature Oscar winner Coco, comedy remake Overboard and Mexican comedy How to Break Up With Your Douchebag. Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro also is up for Best Director for Shape of Water along with Coco‘s Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina, Douchebag helmer Gabriela Iglesia and Monsoon‘s Miguel Duran.
On the TV side, seven shows will vie for Best Primetime Program – Drama: ABC’s The Crossing, How to Get Away with Murder and Station 19; NBC’s Shades of Blue and Law & Order: Svu; TNT’s Major Crimes; and USA Network’s Queen of the South. The Primetime Comedy hopefuls are Fox’s...
Best Picture Oscar winner The Shape of Water is nominated for Best Picture, along with Animated Feature Oscar winner Coco, comedy remake Overboard and Mexican comedy How to Break Up With Your Douchebag. Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro also is up for Best Director for Shape of Water along with Coco‘s Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina, Douchebag helmer Gabriela Iglesia and Monsoon‘s Miguel Duran.
On the TV side, seven shows will vie for Best Primetime Program – Drama: ABC’s The Crossing, How to Get Away with Murder and Station 19; NBC’s Shades of Blue and Law & Order: Svu; TNT’s Major Crimes; and USA Network’s Queen of the South. The Primetime Comedy hopefuls are Fox’s...
- 7/9/2018
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Shades of Blue is coming to an end.
The NBC drama series will come to a close after its upcoming third season which is set to debut Sunday, June 17 at 10/9c.
“I have enjoyed producing and starring in this beautifully complicated world and playing such an empowering yet flawed character – a woman, a detective but, first and foremost, a mother,” Lopez said in a statement confirming the news.
“Now looking at it with a little distance, playing Harlee strengthened me and helped me grow into a more self-assured woman.”
“It’s crazy how some parts permeate your soul and change you forever, and for that I am grateful,” Lopez added.
Related: Shades of Blue Renewed for Season 3!
“We crafted a poetic three-season arc on how her journey ends, which is true redemption. The way only Harlee could have done it – the hard way, the road less traveled."
"I thank NBC and all the talented actors,...
The NBC drama series will come to a close after its upcoming third season which is set to debut Sunday, June 17 at 10/9c.
“I have enjoyed producing and starring in this beautifully complicated world and playing such an empowering yet flawed character – a woman, a detective but, first and foremost, a mother,” Lopez said in a statement confirming the news.
“Now looking at it with a little distance, playing Harlee strengthened me and helped me grow into a more self-assured woman.”
“It’s crazy how some parts permeate your soul and change you forever, and for that I am grateful,” Lopez added.
Related: Shades of Blue Renewed for Season 3!
“We crafted a poetic three-season arc on how her journey ends, which is true redemption. The way only Harlee could have done it – the hard way, the road less traveled."
"I thank NBC and all the talented actors,...
- 4/4/2018
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
The Jennifer Lopez-led NBC cop drama “Shades of Blue” will end after its upcoming third season, the network announced Wednesday.
The series, which stars Lopez and Ray Liotta, will premiere its 10-episode third season on Sunday, June 17 at 10 p.m. Et/Pt. Lopez stars as NYPD detective Harlee Santos, while Liotta plays her boss, Lt. Matt Wozniak.
“I have enjoyed producing and starring in this beautifully complicated world and playing such an empowering yet flawed character – a woman, a detective, but, first and foremost, a mother,” Lopez said. “Now looking at it with a little distance, playing Harlee strengthened me and helped me grow into a more self-assured woman. It’s crazy how some parts permeate your soul and change you forever and for that I am grateful. We crafted a poetic three-season arc on how her journey ends, which is true redemption. The way only Harlee could have done it – the hard way,...
The series, which stars Lopez and Ray Liotta, will premiere its 10-episode third season on Sunday, June 17 at 10 p.m. Et/Pt. Lopez stars as NYPD detective Harlee Santos, while Liotta plays her boss, Lt. Matt Wozniak.
“I have enjoyed producing and starring in this beautifully complicated world and playing such an empowering yet flawed character – a woman, a detective, but, first and foremost, a mother,” Lopez said. “Now looking at it with a little distance, playing Harlee strengthened me and helped me grow into a more self-assured woman. It’s crazy how some parts permeate your soul and change you forever and for that I am grateful. We crafted a poetic three-season arc on how her journey ends, which is true redemption. The way only Harlee could have done it – the hard way,...
- 4/4/2018
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Jennifer Lopez’s run as Det. Harlee Santos is coming to an end.
“Shades of Blue” will conclude after its third season, NBC said Wednesday. Its 10-episode final season will premiere on NBC on June 17.
“I have enjoyed producing and starring in this beautifully complicated world and playing such an empowering yet flawed character – a woman, a detective, but, first and foremost, a mother,” Lopez said. The pop star will continue her relationship with NBC with the second season of “World of Dance,” and she’s busy with other projects as well as her Las Vegas residency.
Also Read: Jennifer Lopez Set to Return to 'Will & Grace' in 2 Different Roles
She said that playing Harlee “strengthened” her and “helped me grow into a more self-assured woman.”
“It’s crazy how some parts permeate your soul and change you forever and for that I am grateful,” Lopez said. “We crafted a poetic three-season arc on how her journey ends, which is true redemption. The way only Harlee could have done it – the hard way, the road less traveled. I thank NBC and all the talented actors, writers, crew and producers for going on this journey with us!”
“We are very proud that this remarkable series attracted iconic stars like the incomparable Jennifer Lopez and Ray Liotta to broadcast television,” said co-president of scripted programming at NBC Entertainment Lisa Katz. “We are so grateful for all the hard work and dedication of Jack Orman and his incredible producers as well as the entire cast and crew.”
Also Read: What Ray Liotta Learned From Kissing a Guy on 'Shades of Blue' (Exclusive Video)
“This is one of our flagship shows and we’re excited to share the final chapter with viewers who will be on the edge of their seats discovering how Harlee’s story concludes,” president of Universal Television Pearlena Igbokwe added. “It has been a supreme pleasure to work with Jennifer Lopez and her producing partners Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, Benny Medina, Ryan Seacrest and Nina Wass.”
“Shades of Blue” stars Ray Liotta opposite Lopez, along with Drea de Matteo, Dayo Okeniyi, Vincent Laresca, Hampton Fluker, Sarah Jeffrey and Nick Wechsler as a recurring guest star.
Lopez executive produces with showrunner Jack Orman and Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, Benny Medina, Ryan Seacrest and Nina Wass. The drama is produced by Universal Television, Nuyorican Productions, Egtv, Ryan Seacrest Productions and Jack Orman Productions.
“Shades of Blue” returns to NBC for its third and final season Sunday, June 17 at 10 p.m.
Read original story ‘Shades of Blue’ Will End After Season 3, NBC Sets Summer Premiere Date At TheWrap...
“Shades of Blue” will conclude after its third season, NBC said Wednesday. Its 10-episode final season will premiere on NBC on June 17.
“I have enjoyed producing and starring in this beautifully complicated world and playing such an empowering yet flawed character – a woman, a detective, but, first and foremost, a mother,” Lopez said. The pop star will continue her relationship with NBC with the second season of “World of Dance,” and she’s busy with other projects as well as her Las Vegas residency.
Also Read: Jennifer Lopez Set to Return to 'Will & Grace' in 2 Different Roles
She said that playing Harlee “strengthened” her and “helped me grow into a more self-assured woman.”
“It’s crazy how some parts permeate your soul and change you forever and for that I am grateful,” Lopez said. “We crafted a poetic three-season arc on how her journey ends, which is true redemption. The way only Harlee could have done it – the hard way, the road less traveled. I thank NBC and all the talented actors, writers, crew and producers for going on this journey with us!”
“We are very proud that this remarkable series attracted iconic stars like the incomparable Jennifer Lopez and Ray Liotta to broadcast television,” said co-president of scripted programming at NBC Entertainment Lisa Katz. “We are so grateful for all the hard work and dedication of Jack Orman and his incredible producers as well as the entire cast and crew.”
Also Read: What Ray Liotta Learned From Kissing a Guy on 'Shades of Blue' (Exclusive Video)
“This is one of our flagship shows and we’re excited to share the final chapter with viewers who will be on the edge of their seats discovering how Harlee’s story concludes,” president of Universal Television Pearlena Igbokwe added. “It has been a supreme pleasure to work with Jennifer Lopez and her producing partners Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, Benny Medina, Ryan Seacrest and Nina Wass.”
“Shades of Blue” stars Ray Liotta opposite Lopez, along with Drea de Matteo, Dayo Okeniyi, Vincent Laresca, Hampton Fluker, Sarah Jeffrey and Nick Wechsler as a recurring guest star.
Lopez executive produces with showrunner Jack Orman and Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, Benny Medina, Ryan Seacrest and Nina Wass. The drama is produced by Universal Television, Nuyorican Productions, Egtv, Ryan Seacrest Productions and Jack Orman Productions.
“Shades of Blue” returns to NBC for its third and final season Sunday, June 17 at 10 p.m.
Read original story ‘Shades of Blue’ Will End After Season 3, NBC Sets Summer Premiere Date At TheWrap...
- 4/4/2018
- by Ashley Boucher
- The Wrap
NBC said today that its Jennifer Lopez-Ray Liotta police drama Shades of Blue will turn in its badge after the upcoming third season. The series’ final run will begin at 10 Pm Sunday, June 17.
“I have enjoyed producing and starring in this beautifully complicated world and playing such an empowering yet flawed character – a woman, a detective but, first and foremost, a mother,” Lopez said in a statement. “Now looking at it with a little distance, playing Harlee strengthened me and helped me grow into a more self-assured woman.”
The series stars Lopez as Harlee Santos, a charismatic single mother and resourceful detective at the heart of a tight-knit crew of Brooklyn detectives. It’s run by enigmatic Lt. Matt Wozniak (Liotta), who often leads the team to step outside the limitations of the law in order to effectively protect their precinct and their own. Drea de Matteo, Dayo Okeniyi,...
“I have enjoyed producing and starring in this beautifully complicated world and playing such an empowering yet flawed character – a woman, a detective but, first and foremost, a mother,” Lopez said in a statement. “Now looking at it with a little distance, playing Harlee strengthened me and helped me grow into a more self-assured woman.”
The series stars Lopez as Harlee Santos, a charismatic single mother and resourceful detective at the heart of a tight-knit crew of Brooklyn detectives. It’s run by enigmatic Lt. Matt Wozniak (Liotta), who often leads the team to step outside the limitations of the law in order to effectively protect their precinct and their own. Drea de Matteo, Dayo Okeniyi,...
- 4/4/2018
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Shades of Blue star Ray Liotta, star/Ep Jennifer Lopez, and Ep Jack Orman got sucked into a question about news reports questioning "whether cops are either heroes or creepy murderers," during their TCA Q&A, by a journalist who wondered how making their NBC drama series might have changed how they participate in that conversation. Lopez, who plays a single-mom NYPD detective forced to work in the FBI's anti-corruption task force, in the NBC drama, answered cautiously…...
- 1/19/2017
- Deadline TV
Although she’s been on television for the past few years as an American Idol judge, Jennifer Lopez will soon be back to actual acting, as the premiere for her new NBC cop drama, Shades of Blue, is less than two months away. And with the debut of Lopez’s new series getting so close, NBC released the first full-length trailer for the Shades of Blue last night during Sunday Night Football, and you can now watch the entire two and half minute-plus video online. In addition to Lopez, Shades of Blue also stars Ray Liotta, Warren Kole, Dayo Okeniyi, Drea de Matteo, Hampton Fluker, Vincent Laresca, and Sarah Jeffery. Jack Orman and Adi Hasak are writing and executive producing the series, with Lopez, Barry Levinson, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, Benny Medina, Ryan Seacrest, and Nina Wass also serving as executive producers. Shades of Blue premieres Thursday, Jan. 7, at 10 p.m. on NBC.
- 11/9/2015
- by Chris King
- TVovermind.com
Growing up in Culver City, I always saw the MGM studio near us as a place of make-believe where I could collect autographs of famous movie stars. I knew they made the movies there that I watched every weekend. But it was home, and home was a place of safe daydreams without ambitious goals associated with it.
When I became a teenager and saw Un Chien Andalou, I began to see Movie Mecca as New York and Paris, but now I see they have nothing on us.
Los Angeles this past month had so many events that I could see the world without leaving town. Just a sampling here: German Film Currents,Polish Film Festival, So. African Arts Fest, Satyajit Ray Restored, Pure and Impure: The films of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Gabriel Figueroa Retrospective and The Golden Age of Mexican Cinema which this weekend showed Roberto Gavaldon’s Macario an Oscar-nominated 1959 surrealist Mexican fable. Also showing this weekend alone were A Century of Chinese Cinema at UCLA, the Cambodian documentaryA River Changes Course, Ida’s free documentary series, sci-fi Beyond Fest at the Egyptian Theater, Henri-George Couzot’s La Verite at Red Cat, not to mention Classics from the Cohen Film Colletion: The Rohauer Collection and finally, the early press screenings for the Foreign Language Submissions for the Academy Awards.
Today I write about Africa, West Africa in particular, but even more so Chad, because that is where Mahamat-Saleh Haroun and his film Grigris (Isa: Les Films du Losange, No. America: Film Movement) originate. Grigris premiered in the Cannes Film Festival this year. Haroun also wrote and directed The Screaming Man (Isa: Pyramide, No. America: Film Movement) which won The Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
Grigris is playing as part of the Cameras d’Afrique Series at Lacma which I blogged about earlier Here. This showcase of world-changing films is an initiative of Loyola Marymount University Film School, Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Film Program and Film Independent.
The films offer a unique view of Africa in the comfort of our own town. This series includes the 1963 film Borom Sarret by Ousmane Sembene from Senegal, the first film directed by an African to focus on an African filmmaker’s own people. We all know the name of Ousmane Sembene, but rarely have the chance to see his films, though I will never forget the experience of seeing Black Girl in 1966 at the height of our own Civil Rights struggles. It enlightened me about the rest of the world’s own warped (i.e., colonial) view of the Africans in diaspora, a subject being revived in so many films of today.
My most current education on Africa comes from the annual course I teach about the international film business to festival directors from Africa, Asia and Latin America at the Deutsche Welle Akademie in Berlin. I learn about the problems and issues facing a diverse range of festival directors, many of whom are also filmmakers. For example, in a country with no theaters, the film festival is held in the bush and promoted via cel phones which everyone possesses. I was also made alert to the fact that many Africans themselves find European-funded films showing dusty, poverty-stricken but cute kids in torn t-shirts and running barefoot in dirty streets and men wearing the boubou and women balancing baskets on their heads condescending and imbalanced depictions of Africa today.
Mama Kéïta was present to talk about L’Absence and Gaston Kaboré was there with Buud Yam (followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker). Other program highlights included the L.A. premiere of Mille Soleils (A Thousand Suns), Djibril Diop Mambéty’s 1973 French New Wave–inspired Touki Bouki, Idrissa Ouédraogo’s 1990 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix winner Tilaï (The Law), and the 2013 Fespaco Golden Stallion winner Tey (Today), followed by a Q&A with director Alain Gomis and star Saul Williams.
Seeing these films gave me a feeling of wholeness, from L’Absence, the tail of a prodigal son, returning too long after he was granted an education in France by his fellow countrymen and family who had expected him to return and contribute to his own country’s wellbeing but instead stayed in France where he basically lost his soul, to Buud Yam, a classic hero’s journey by a young man seeking a healer for his sister. The audience and the filmmakers along with their films had a great opportunity to unveil an Africa about which we know too little
Planning to interview Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, I looked up Chad in Wikipedia and read it is what is called a “failed country”. My spirits dropped. But on seeing Grisgris and meeting Haroun and hearing all he had to say, my spirits soared.
Do you know for a fact that a film can change the world? I believe it can, does and is changing the world. So many of my colleagues in the film world are in film because of the same ideal.
The African directors at the series spoke of their films and their passion and they too make films to change the world. Haroun was not the only one who spoke at the African film series, but my conversation with him proved it to me. We spent a good hour discussing his films and his thoughts and development which I will try to summarize here.
It has been a long road for Haroun. When he first returned to Chad from France and made Bye Bye Africa, he was inexperienced and afraid of nothing. You see his chutzpah making Bye Bye Africa as he shoots film of everyone, offending some who believed he was stealing their spirits. He meets his past star who played a woman dying of AIDS whose life has been ruined because the people believe the film was real.
For Haroun, acting is like cooking. You do it for someone you love. Chad was such a difficult country for filming his first film, so he could make mistakes. If you fall down, you just get up and keep going. He had no doubts. It’s a question of love. You feel it; you act it. His non-professional actors do their best and their passion carries them through.
Making his second film was different. There was pressure, especially for him as an actor, to make it good. After A Screaming Man he got a call from Brad Pitt who wanted him as an actor in World War Z and who wanted the lead, but not speaking English put an end to that.
Chad is landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon and Nigeria to the southwest, and Niger to the west. Because the French colonized it in the 1920s, it is now a “Francophone” country and has more in common with its neighbors in the West and so is considered West African.
Chad had free elections in 2008 and elected President Idriss Déby. The country defeated the Sudanese rebels there. The nation sent troops into Mali and killed Moktar Belmoktar, the Algerian terrorist behind the deadly attack on a natural gas plant in Algeria and withdrew its troops in April of this year saying they were not prepared to fight guerilla warfare. That means money that went to the military can be redirected toward peaceful endeavors. Today they are rebuilding the country which is based on an oil economy which gives it a window of rich opportunity.
Cinema in Chad changed greatly and became a new focal point for the newly elected government when Haroun won the Jury Prize in Cannes for A Screaming Man in 2010 When his debut film Bye Bye Africa (1999), showed the wreck of the country revisited by long-time French exile, he saw theaters which the long civil war and instability had destroyed. He spoke to a woman who swore she would renovate her theater, the Normandie. Bye Bye Africa was a drama but it took place in a documentary setting which looks at the poor state of cinema in the country. After Haroun won the Grand Jury Prize of Cannes, the government allocated $1 million to restore the theater which stands today as a testament to the power of film. It shows 35mm, is digitized and can use satellite transmission. It can buy Hollywood films using digital coding although film distribution rights are still difficult to negotiate. However, the distributor of Django in France arranged for Django to show day and date in Paris and Chad’s capitol city N’Djamena for a minimum guarantee. This was a major event for a country that has gone 30 years without cinema.
The government of Chad began to receive compliments for winning the Jury Prize in Cannes, which is perceived to be as important as the Olympics themselves (It is, in fact, the 2nd largest press event in the world after the Olympics). The world’s perception of Chad and its own perception of itself shifted from being one of the poorest, war-torn and corrupt nations of Africa to one of high stature culturally. And its current Prime Minister Djimrangar Dadnadji, and his government has now allocated $10 million into building a film school which should be finished by 2015. It will be one of the rare film schools in all of Africa and will be the finest in the north, east or west of the entire continent.
The film school is a part of rebuilding the country today. It is also trying to become part of the U.N. Security Council. It is the leading country in Central and West Africa. It is part of the Central African Economic Council (Ceeac).
What these changes mean for Haroun is that he can continue to use film for himself as a platform, the means to objectify and philosophize about conscience and consciousness. As Aimee Caesar was quoted in Bye Bye Africa, Africa needs to articulate its storytelling tradition in new ways and to be visible beyond its own borders. Film shows diversity. Differing points of view and discussions mean the nation can start to play a role on a grander world stage. With the building of a film school, the parliament also voted into law at tax of $.01 per telephone call to go toward artistic activities. This will make a huge difference to the next generation.
When Haroun began making movies he wanted to stop talking about the state of cinema, so he put it into his film, memorialized it and then closed the door on the subject.
You can see Haroun’s own evolution in regards to his treatment of women in Bye Bye Africa to his depiction of them in Grigris. It was not a very flattering portrayal; even in Grigris, the hero does not stand up for the woman he loves when his boss degrades her. However, the film gives a special place to the women in the village as if they were a in a classical Greek Choir. The women change the Story and the two artists’ destiny is changed because of the women.
Grigris is the portrait of a young African artist, but even with talent, the milieu is so difficult and as the eldest, he has to take care of others. This is The Responsibility that kills dreams. Grigris is a cruel portrayal of the young artist. It is a modern story, extending the tradition of oral storytelling.
Although he is not acting in it, it is still an impressionistic self-portrait, as was Bye Bye Africa which was shot in two weeks and won Best First Feature in Venice in 1999. His growth intellectually and emotionally can be measured by watching the two films.
After being selected and awarded at the 66th Festival de Cannes for the remarkable quality of its photography, the film Grigris, by Mahamat Saleh Haroun, supported by the Acp Cultures + Programme, won the Bayard d'Or for best photography at the 28th Festival International Film Francophone de Namur (Fiff) in Belgium. (Read the full list of 28th Fiff Awards : click here.)
Haroun explains that he has many women around him – his mother, his sisters, cousins. In Africa, a man’s role does not include cooking. Cooking is love. But in France he enjoys cooking. Cooking shows trust in those who partake in the making and eating of the meal. No one burns the steak when cooking for one’s mother. Food is essential to Haroun. “If you cook, you can share, you open your doors.”
He told me how he got into movies.
I was 9 years old when I saw my first movie. It was a Bollywood movie and a beautiful lady in it was smiling at the camera. I thought she was smiling at me. The love and happiness I felt watching this made me love cinema.
My dream of cinema was a big ambition. It was not to make small films. I dreamt of expressing an important philosophy of life and of my country in cinema. I did not want to stick just to tradition which is disappearing. But to the eternal which remains. Tradition is not the essential; culture is. For example, in Western society, the meaning of seat number 13 on a plane is not culture, but it is a tradition.
Haroun is leading his generation. In 1965 the civil war was raging in the North. It came to the capital in 1979 and he went to Paris to study cinema in 1981/82. His country was ruled by a dictator who is now in prison to be judged in court for the 40,000 lives taken during the 8 years of war. Reid Brady of the Human Rights Watch and Haroun are now making a documentary about this. Today Haroun travels between France and Chad 5 to 6 times a year. Interestingly, there is not yet a film festival in Chad.
When I asked what was next :
Next is about Indian fashion. Also a young artist. It is based on a true story of a young man in N’Djemena who used to watch Bollywood dvds and has seen more than 1,500 Bollywood films and speaks Hindu as a result. He gets a job at an Indian factory and translates to French and to his African language. He spends eight years there but dreams of becoming an actor in Bollywood. The story brings him to Bombay. That is a good base for a film; a film built on truth and documentary.
I am also making a film in France called A Life in France. I have lived there for 30 years. The film is from the point of view of an immigrant as I am.
Hamoud and I so enjoyed our talk that we are now looking forward to meeting again when he returns here in December! Wouldn’t it be great if his film is one of those shortlisted for the Nomination, or if it actually received the Nomination? Or if it won? How might that then change the world? We will have to wait and see.
About Lmu Sftv
Movie industry moguls helped establish Loyola Marymount University’s (Lmu) current campus on the bluffs above west Los Angeles in the 1920s. By 1964, Lmu was formally teaching film and television curriculum, and in 2001, the School of Film and Television (Sftv) was established as its own entity. Today, Sftv offers students a comprehensive education where mastering technical skills and story is equally important to educating the whole person, including the formation of character and values, meaning and purpose. Sftv offers undergraduate degrees in animation, production, screenwriting, film and television studies and recording arts; and graduate degrees in production, screenwriting and writing and producing for television. The school is one of the few film programs providing students with a completely tapeless model of production and post-production, and Sftv’s animation program is one of the few worldwide that teaches virtual cinematography. Selected alumni include John Bailey, Bob Beemer, Francie Calfo, Brian Helgeland, Francis Lawrence, Lauren Montgomery, Jack Orman, Van Partible and James Wong, among others. Get more information at sftv.lmu.edu or facebook.com/lmusftv.
About Film Independent at Lacma
Film Independent at Lacma is a film series produced by Film Independent—the nonprofit arts organization that also produces the Film Independent Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival—and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma) with presenting sponsor The New York Times and premier sponsor Ovation. The Film Independent at Lacma Film Series is curated by Elvis Mitchell and assistant curator Bernardo Rondeau. The program features classic and contemporary narrative and documentary films; emerging auteurs; international showcases; special guest-curated programs, such as Jason Reitman's acclaimed Live Read series; and conversations with artists, filmmakers, and other special guests. For more information, go to filmindependent.org/lacma or lacma.org.
When I became a teenager and saw Un Chien Andalou, I began to see Movie Mecca as New York and Paris, but now I see they have nothing on us.
Los Angeles this past month had so many events that I could see the world without leaving town. Just a sampling here: German Film Currents,Polish Film Festival, So. African Arts Fest, Satyajit Ray Restored, Pure and Impure: The films of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Gabriel Figueroa Retrospective and The Golden Age of Mexican Cinema which this weekend showed Roberto Gavaldon’s Macario an Oscar-nominated 1959 surrealist Mexican fable. Also showing this weekend alone were A Century of Chinese Cinema at UCLA, the Cambodian documentaryA River Changes Course, Ida’s free documentary series, sci-fi Beyond Fest at the Egyptian Theater, Henri-George Couzot’s La Verite at Red Cat, not to mention Classics from the Cohen Film Colletion: The Rohauer Collection and finally, the early press screenings for the Foreign Language Submissions for the Academy Awards.
Today I write about Africa, West Africa in particular, but even more so Chad, because that is where Mahamat-Saleh Haroun and his film Grigris (Isa: Les Films du Losange, No. America: Film Movement) originate. Grigris premiered in the Cannes Film Festival this year. Haroun also wrote and directed The Screaming Man (Isa: Pyramide, No. America: Film Movement) which won The Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
Grigris is playing as part of the Cameras d’Afrique Series at Lacma which I blogged about earlier Here. This showcase of world-changing films is an initiative of Loyola Marymount University Film School, Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Film Program and Film Independent.
The films offer a unique view of Africa in the comfort of our own town. This series includes the 1963 film Borom Sarret by Ousmane Sembene from Senegal, the first film directed by an African to focus on an African filmmaker’s own people. We all know the name of Ousmane Sembene, but rarely have the chance to see his films, though I will never forget the experience of seeing Black Girl in 1966 at the height of our own Civil Rights struggles. It enlightened me about the rest of the world’s own warped (i.e., colonial) view of the Africans in diaspora, a subject being revived in so many films of today.
My most current education on Africa comes from the annual course I teach about the international film business to festival directors from Africa, Asia and Latin America at the Deutsche Welle Akademie in Berlin. I learn about the problems and issues facing a diverse range of festival directors, many of whom are also filmmakers. For example, in a country with no theaters, the film festival is held in the bush and promoted via cel phones which everyone possesses. I was also made alert to the fact that many Africans themselves find European-funded films showing dusty, poverty-stricken but cute kids in torn t-shirts and running barefoot in dirty streets and men wearing the boubou and women balancing baskets on their heads condescending and imbalanced depictions of Africa today.
Mama Kéïta was present to talk about L’Absence and Gaston Kaboré was there with Buud Yam (followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker). Other program highlights included the L.A. premiere of Mille Soleils (A Thousand Suns), Djibril Diop Mambéty’s 1973 French New Wave–inspired Touki Bouki, Idrissa Ouédraogo’s 1990 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix winner Tilaï (The Law), and the 2013 Fespaco Golden Stallion winner Tey (Today), followed by a Q&A with director Alain Gomis and star Saul Williams.
Seeing these films gave me a feeling of wholeness, from L’Absence, the tail of a prodigal son, returning too long after he was granted an education in France by his fellow countrymen and family who had expected him to return and contribute to his own country’s wellbeing but instead stayed in France where he basically lost his soul, to Buud Yam, a classic hero’s journey by a young man seeking a healer for his sister. The audience and the filmmakers along with their films had a great opportunity to unveil an Africa about which we know too little
Planning to interview Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, I looked up Chad in Wikipedia and read it is what is called a “failed country”. My spirits dropped. But on seeing Grisgris and meeting Haroun and hearing all he had to say, my spirits soared.
Do you know for a fact that a film can change the world? I believe it can, does and is changing the world. So many of my colleagues in the film world are in film because of the same ideal.
The African directors at the series spoke of their films and their passion and they too make films to change the world. Haroun was not the only one who spoke at the African film series, but my conversation with him proved it to me. We spent a good hour discussing his films and his thoughts and development which I will try to summarize here.
It has been a long road for Haroun. When he first returned to Chad from France and made Bye Bye Africa, he was inexperienced and afraid of nothing. You see his chutzpah making Bye Bye Africa as he shoots film of everyone, offending some who believed he was stealing their spirits. He meets his past star who played a woman dying of AIDS whose life has been ruined because the people believe the film was real.
For Haroun, acting is like cooking. You do it for someone you love. Chad was such a difficult country for filming his first film, so he could make mistakes. If you fall down, you just get up and keep going. He had no doubts. It’s a question of love. You feel it; you act it. His non-professional actors do their best and their passion carries them through.
Making his second film was different. There was pressure, especially for him as an actor, to make it good. After A Screaming Man he got a call from Brad Pitt who wanted him as an actor in World War Z and who wanted the lead, but not speaking English put an end to that.
Chad is landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon and Nigeria to the southwest, and Niger to the west. Because the French colonized it in the 1920s, it is now a “Francophone” country and has more in common with its neighbors in the West and so is considered West African.
Chad had free elections in 2008 and elected President Idriss Déby. The country defeated the Sudanese rebels there. The nation sent troops into Mali and killed Moktar Belmoktar, the Algerian terrorist behind the deadly attack on a natural gas plant in Algeria and withdrew its troops in April of this year saying they were not prepared to fight guerilla warfare. That means money that went to the military can be redirected toward peaceful endeavors. Today they are rebuilding the country which is based on an oil economy which gives it a window of rich opportunity.
Cinema in Chad changed greatly and became a new focal point for the newly elected government when Haroun won the Jury Prize in Cannes for A Screaming Man in 2010 When his debut film Bye Bye Africa (1999), showed the wreck of the country revisited by long-time French exile, he saw theaters which the long civil war and instability had destroyed. He spoke to a woman who swore she would renovate her theater, the Normandie. Bye Bye Africa was a drama but it took place in a documentary setting which looks at the poor state of cinema in the country. After Haroun won the Grand Jury Prize of Cannes, the government allocated $1 million to restore the theater which stands today as a testament to the power of film. It shows 35mm, is digitized and can use satellite transmission. It can buy Hollywood films using digital coding although film distribution rights are still difficult to negotiate. However, the distributor of Django in France arranged for Django to show day and date in Paris and Chad’s capitol city N’Djamena for a minimum guarantee. This was a major event for a country that has gone 30 years without cinema.
The government of Chad began to receive compliments for winning the Jury Prize in Cannes, which is perceived to be as important as the Olympics themselves (It is, in fact, the 2nd largest press event in the world after the Olympics). The world’s perception of Chad and its own perception of itself shifted from being one of the poorest, war-torn and corrupt nations of Africa to one of high stature culturally. And its current Prime Minister Djimrangar Dadnadji, and his government has now allocated $10 million into building a film school which should be finished by 2015. It will be one of the rare film schools in all of Africa and will be the finest in the north, east or west of the entire continent.
The film school is a part of rebuilding the country today. It is also trying to become part of the U.N. Security Council. It is the leading country in Central and West Africa. It is part of the Central African Economic Council (Ceeac).
What these changes mean for Haroun is that he can continue to use film for himself as a platform, the means to objectify and philosophize about conscience and consciousness. As Aimee Caesar was quoted in Bye Bye Africa, Africa needs to articulate its storytelling tradition in new ways and to be visible beyond its own borders. Film shows diversity. Differing points of view and discussions mean the nation can start to play a role on a grander world stage. With the building of a film school, the parliament also voted into law at tax of $.01 per telephone call to go toward artistic activities. This will make a huge difference to the next generation.
When Haroun began making movies he wanted to stop talking about the state of cinema, so he put it into his film, memorialized it and then closed the door on the subject.
You can see Haroun’s own evolution in regards to his treatment of women in Bye Bye Africa to his depiction of them in Grigris. It was not a very flattering portrayal; even in Grigris, the hero does not stand up for the woman he loves when his boss degrades her. However, the film gives a special place to the women in the village as if they were a in a classical Greek Choir. The women change the Story and the two artists’ destiny is changed because of the women.
Grigris is the portrait of a young African artist, but even with talent, the milieu is so difficult and as the eldest, he has to take care of others. This is The Responsibility that kills dreams. Grigris is a cruel portrayal of the young artist. It is a modern story, extending the tradition of oral storytelling.
Although he is not acting in it, it is still an impressionistic self-portrait, as was Bye Bye Africa which was shot in two weeks and won Best First Feature in Venice in 1999. His growth intellectually and emotionally can be measured by watching the two films.
After being selected and awarded at the 66th Festival de Cannes for the remarkable quality of its photography, the film Grigris, by Mahamat Saleh Haroun, supported by the Acp Cultures + Programme, won the Bayard d'Or for best photography at the 28th Festival International Film Francophone de Namur (Fiff) in Belgium. (Read the full list of 28th Fiff Awards : click here.)
Haroun explains that he has many women around him – his mother, his sisters, cousins. In Africa, a man’s role does not include cooking. Cooking is love. But in France he enjoys cooking. Cooking shows trust in those who partake in the making and eating of the meal. No one burns the steak when cooking for one’s mother. Food is essential to Haroun. “If you cook, you can share, you open your doors.”
He told me how he got into movies.
I was 9 years old when I saw my first movie. It was a Bollywood movie and a beautiful lady in it was smiling at the camera. I thought she was smiling at me. The love and happiness I felt watching this made me love cinema.
My dream of cinema was a big ambition. It was not to make small films. I dreamt of expressing an important philosophy of life and of my country in cinema. I did not want to stick just to tradition which is disappearing. But to the eternal which remains. Tradition is not the essential; culture is. For example, in Western society, the meaning of seat number 13 on a plane is not culture, but it is a tradition.
Haroun is leading his generation. In 1965 the civil war was raging in the North. It came to the capital in 1979 and he went to Paris to study cinema in 1981/82. His country was ruled by a dictator who is now in prison to be judged in court for the 40,000 lives taken during the 8 years of war. Reid Brady of the Human Rights Watch and Haroun are now making a documentary about this. Today Haroun travels between France and Chad 5 to 6 times a year. Interestingly, there is not yet a film festival in Chad.
When I asked what was next :
Next is about Indian fashion. Also a young artist. It is based on a true story of a young man in N’Djemena who used to watch Bollywood dvds and has seen more than 1,500 Bollywood films and speaks Hindu as a result. He gets a job at an Indian factory and translates to French and to his African language. He spends eight years there but dreams of becoming an actor in Bollywood. The story brings him to Bombay. That is a good base for a film; a film built on truth and documentary.
I am also making a film in France called A Life in France. I have lived there for 30 years. The film is from the point of view of an immigrant as I am.
Hamoud and I so enjoyed our talk that we are now looking forward to meeting again when he returns here in December! Wouldn’t it be great if his film is one of those shortlisted for the Nomination, or if it actually received the Nomination? Or if it won? How might that then change the world? We will have to wait and see.
About Lmu Sftv
Movie industry moguls helped establish Loyola Marymount University’s (Lmu) current campus on the bluffs above west Los Angeles in the 1920s. By 1964, Lmu was formally teaching film and television curriculum, and in 2001, the School of Film and Television (Sftv) was established as its own entity. Today, Sftv offers students a comprehensive education where mastering technical skills and story is equally important to educating the whole person, including the formation of character and values, meaning and purpose. Sftv offers undergraduate degrees in animation, production, screenwriting, film and television studies and recording arts; and graduate degrees in production, screenwriting and writing and producing for television. The school is one of the few film programs providing students with a completely tapeless model of production and post-production, and Sftv’s animation program is one of the few worldwide that teaches virtual cinematography. Selected alumni include John Bailey, Bob Beemer, Francie Calfo, Brian Helgeland, Francis Lawrence, Lauren Montgomery, Jack Orman, Van Partible and James Wong, among others. Get more information at sftv.lmu.edu or facebook.com/lmusftv.
About Film Independent at Lacma
Film Independent at Lacma is a film series produced by Film Independent—the nonprofit arts organization that also produces the Film Independent Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival—and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma) with presenting sponsor The New York Times and premier sponsor Ovation. The Film Independent at Lacma Film Series is curated by Elvis Mitchell and assistant curator Bernardo Rondeau. The program features classic and contemporary narrative and documentary films; emerging auteurs; international showcases; special guest-curated programs, such as Jason Reitman's acclaimed Live Read series; and conversations with artists, filmmakers, and other special guests. For more information, go to filmindependent.org/lacma or lacma.org.
- 10/25/2013
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Rarely do American audiences get to experience the cinematic diversity from the African continent; however, this October thanks to Film Independent and the Loyola Marymount University School of Film and Television, audiences in Los Angeles will be able to be part of a month-long series showcasing the best of modern cinema from West Africa. Curated by Film Independent and Lacma curator Ellvis Mitchell, Cameras d'Afrique: The Films of West Africa runs from October 3-28, 2013 at Lacma. The event will feature an array of 21 film, both narrative and documentary, many of which have never been screened in the U.S, most screenings will also include Q&As with the talented African filmmakers.
The event begins Thursday October 3rd with a double feature celebrating the films of Mahamat-Saleh Haroun. Bye Bye Africa, and his latest effort Grigris will be screened followed by Q&A with the director. Grigris was screened at this year's Cannes Film Festival to critical acclaim, and it will see its U.S Premiere here.
The program continues on Saturday October 5th with Mama Kéïta’s L’Absence and Gaston Kaboré’s Buud Yam, each film will be followed by Q&A's with the filmmakers, and then a panel discussion moderated by the Mitchell dealing with the current state of West African cinema, the challenges, and the stories from this often unseen region of the world. Other program highlights include the L.A. premiere of Mille Soleils (A Thousand Suns), Djibril Diop Mambéty’s 1973 French New Wave–inspired Touki Bouki, Idrissa Ouédraogo’s 1990 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix winner Tilaï (The Law), and the 2013 Fespaco Golden Stallion winner Tey (Today), followed by a Q&A with director Alain Gomis and star Saul Williams.
“This series brings me such joy,” said film curator Elvis Mitchell. “Primarily because there's nothing more exhilarating to me than to expose people to exciting new filmmakers and films, let alone bring attention to the art of an area that deserves more attention than it's received in America. The works we're playing demonstrate that film at its best, like any other art form, is idiosyncratic and universal.”
Screenings will be held throughout October at Lacma’s Bing Theater on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Free community screenings and select Q&As moderated by Mitchell will take place on the Loyola Marymount University campus every Monday night.
“We are thrilled to be able to present Caméras d’Afrique: The Films of West Africa. Patrons will have the rare opportunity to see the latest films that have received accolades from the top European and African film festivals as well as classics from the past 50 years," said Lmu Sftv Dean Stephen Ujlaki, adding, “Connecting our students to the rich filmography of West Africa, long a Francophone region, will expose them to different forms of storytelling, inspiring their own unique visions.”
Film Independent, Lacma Film Club, and The New York Times Film Club members can purchase tickets to films for $5 Here
Lacma Members, students with valid ID, and seniors can get tickets for $7, and $10 for general public Here
To make a reservation for the community screenings at the Loyola Marymount University click Here
About Lmu Sftv
Movie industry moguls helped establish Loyola Marymount University’s (Lmu) current campus on the bluffs above west Los Angeles in the 1920s. By 1964, Lmu was formally teaching film and television curriculum, and in 2001, the School of Film and Television (Sftv) was established as its own entity. Today, Sftv offers students a comprehensive education where mastering technical skills and story is equally important to educating the whole person, including the formation of character and values, meaning and purpose. Sftv offers undergraduate degrees in animation, production, screenwriting, film and television studies and recording arts; and graduate degrees in production, screenwriting and writing and producing for television. The school is one of the few film programs providing students with a completely tapeless model of production and post-production, and Sftv’s animation program is one of the few worldwide that teaches virtual cinematography. Selected alumni include John Bailey, Bob Beemer, Francie Calfo, Brian Helgeland, Francis Lawrence, Lauren Montgomery, Jack Orman, Van Partible and James Wong, among others. Get more information at sftv.lmu.edu or facebook.com/lmusftv.
About Film Independent at Lacma
Film Independent at Lacma is a film series produced by Film Independent—the nonprofit arts organization that also produces the Film Independent Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival—and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma) with presenting sponsor The New York Times and premier sponsor Ovation. The Film Independent at Lacma Film Series is curated by Elvis Mitchell and assistant curator Bernardo Rondeau. The program features classic and contemporary narrative and documentary films; emerging auteurs; international showcases; special guest-curated programs, such as Jason Reitman's acclaimed Live Read series; and conversations with artists, filmmakers, and other special guests. For more information, go to filmindependent.org/lacma or lacma.org.
The event begins Thursday October 3rd with a double feature celebrating the films of Mahamat-Saleh Haroun. Bye Bye Africa, and his latest effort Grigris will be screened followed by Q&A with the director. Grigris was screened at this year's Cannes Film Festival to critical acclaim, and it will see its U.S Premiere here.
The program continues on Saturday October 5th with Mama Kéïta’s L’Absence and Gaston Kaboré’s Buud Yam, each film will be followed by Q&A's with the filmmakers, and then a panel discussion moderated by the Mitchell dealing with the current state of West African cinema, the challenges, and the stories from this often unseen region of the world. Other program highlights include the L.A. premiere of Mille Soleils (A Thousand Suns), Djibril Diop Mambéty’s 1973 French New Wave–inspired Touki Bouki, Idrissa Ouédraogo’s 1990 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix winner Tilaï (The Law), and the 2013 Fespaco Golden Stallion winner Tey (Today), followed by a Q&A with director Alain Gomis and star Saul Williams.
“This series brings me such joy,” said film curator Elvis Mitchell. “Primarily because there's nothing more exhilarating to me than to expose people to exciting new filmmakers and films, let alone bring attention to the art of an area that deserves more attention than it's received in America. The works we're playing demonstrate that film at its best, like any other art form, is idiosyncratic and universal.”
Screenings will be held throughout October at Lacma’s Bing Theater on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Free community screenings and select Q&As moderated by Mitchell will take place on the Loyola Marymount University campus every Monday night.
“We are thrilled to be able to present Caméras d’Afrique: The Films of West Africa. Patrons will have the rare opportunity to see the latest films that have received accolades from the top European and African film festivals as well as classics from the past 50 years," said Lmu Sftv Dean Stephen Ujlaki, adding, “Connecting our students to the rich filmography of West Africa, long a Francophone region, will expose them to different forms of storytelling, inspiring their own unique visions.”
Film Independent, Lacma Film Club, and The New York Times Film Club members can purchase tickets to films for $5 Here
Lacma Members, students with valid ID, and seniors can get tickets for $7, and $10 for general public Here
To make a reservation for the community screenings at the Loyola Marymount University click Here
About Lmu Sftv
Movie industry moguls helped establish Loyola Marymount University’s (Lmu) current campus on the bluffs above west Los Angeles in the 1920s. By 1964, Lmu was formally teaching film and television curriculum, and in 2001, the School of Film and Television (Sftv) was established as its own entity. Today, Sftv offers students a comprehensive education where mastering technical skills and story is equally important to educating the whole person, including the formation of character and values, meaning and purpose. Sftv offers undergraduate degrees in animation, production, screenwriting, film and television studies and recording arts; and graduate degrees in production, screenwriting and writing and producing for television. The school is one of the few film programs providing students with a completely tapeless model of production and post-production, and Sftv’s animation program is one of the few worldwide that teaches virtual cinematography. Selected alumni include John Bailey, Bob Beemer, Francie Calfo, Brian Helgeland, Francis Lawrence, Lauren Montgomery, Jack Orman, Van Partible and James Wong, among others. Get more information at sftv.lmu.edu or facebook.com/lmusftv.
About Film Independent at Lacma
Film Independent at Lacma is a film series produced by Film Independent—the nonprofit arts organization that also produces the Film Independent Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival—and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma) with presenting sponsor The New York Times and premier sponsor Ovation. The Film Independent at Lacma Film Series is curated by Elvis Mitchell and assistant curator Bernardo Rondeau. The program features classic and contemporary narrative and documentary films; emerging auteurs; international showcases; special guest-curated programs, such as Jason Reitman's acclaimed Live Read series; and conversations with artists, filmmakers, and other special guests. For more information, go to filmindependent.org/lacma or lacma.org.
- 10/1/2013
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Sydney's Buzz
We're usually the first in line for a deadly contagion tale, though it's been a while since we watched the 1995 film Outbreak, starring Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Spacey, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Morgan Freeman. Now Wolfgang Petersen's story of deadly viruses and government coverups is being adapted for the small screen. Deadline has the news about John Wells and Jack Orman's new medical thriller (they're the producers behind ER). As long as someone dies in every episode we might be Ok with this project (also: monkeys), but without the great cast behind the story it's feeling a little flat. C'mon NBC, give us something new. Rob Thomas figured he wasn't busy enough with his newly funded Veronica Mars project, so he asked actor-writer Graham Norris to pen a...
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- 8/30/2013
- by Alison Nastasi
- Movies.com
Mekhi Phifer has found a new home on House of Lies.
The ER alum joins the Showtime comedy’s upcoming third season as Dre, a business mogul who hires Don Cheadle’s Marty to help grow his empire, Deadline reports.
Related | Joshua Jackson Cast in Showtime Pilot The Affair
Phifer’s most recent TV credits include White Collar and Torchwood.
Ready for more of today’s TV dish? Well…
• NBC may be headed for an Outbreak. ER executive producers John Wells and Jack Orman are re-teaming on a new medical drama based on the 1995 film, Deadline reports. The project, which...
The ER alum joins the Showtime comedy’s upcoming third season as Dre, a business mogul who hires Don Cheadle’s Marty to help grow his empire, Deadline reports.
Related | Joshua Jackson Cast in Showtime Pilot The Affair
Phifer’s most recent TV credits include White Collar and Torchwood.
Ready for more of today’s TV dish? Well…
• NBC may be headed for an Outbreak. ER executive producers John Wells and Jack Orman are re-teaming on a new medical drama based on the 1995 film, Deadline reports. The project, which...
- 8/28/2013
- by Megan Masters
- TVLine.com
Even though the quality of original and exciting TV shows never seems to waiver from season to season there still appears to be a need to gaze through the back catalogue of old movies to source inspiration for new shows. And with examples such as 'Bates Motel' and 'Hannibal' already enjoying success and critical acclaim and with the newly announced pilot for '12 Monkeys' in the works where else do you turn? It seems the realm of viral infections is being tapped for a potential new series. A new show based on the 1995 thriller 'Outbreak', which starred Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Spacey ('Se7en'), is in development over at NBC with 'E.R.' execs Jack Orman and John Wells penning a script....
- 8/28/2013
- Horror Asylum
"ER" executive producers John Wells and Jack Orman are re-teaming to produce a pilot for an NBC medical drama series based on Wolfgang Petersen's 1995 pandemic thriller "Outbreak".
The pair co-wrote the pilot which follows an ensemble of characters as they race to contain a lethal virus before it becomes a global pandemic.
The pair will also executive produce alongside Andrew Stearn. Dustin Hoffman, Morgan Freeman, Rene Russo and Kevin Spacey starred in the original film which grossed $190 million.
Source: Deadline...
The pair co-wrote the pilot which follows an ensemble of characters as they race to contain a lethal virus before it becomes a global pandemic.
The pair will also executive produce alongside Andrew Stearn. Dustin Hoffman, Morgan Freeman, Rene Russo and Kevin Spacey starred in the original film which grossed $190 million.
Source: Deadline...
- 8/28/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Outbreak is to be remade as a television series on NBC.
The 1995 film starred Dustin Hoffman and Morgan Freeman and focused on a viral outbreak that spread from Africa to the Us.
NBC has given a pilot order to the remake, which will be co-written by ER's John Wells and Jack Orman, Deadline reports.
Outbreak - which also starred Kevin Spacey, Donald Sutherland and Rene Russo - was a box-office hit in early 1995, grossing $190m on a $50m budget.
The film was helmed by Air Force One's Wolfgang Petersen and produced by Gail Katz, who is also expected to be involved with the TV adaptation.
Other new series in the works at NBC include a TV remake of 1968 film horror Rosemary's Baby, a futuristic prison drama from Arrow exec Greg Berlanti and a sitcom about a mermaid.
> Reality Bites: 1994 film being made into TV series by Ben Stiller...
The 1995 film starred Dustin Hoffman and Morgan Freeman and focused on a viral outbreak that spread from Africa to the Us.
NBC has given a pilot order to the remake, which will be co-written by ER's John Wells and Jack Orman, Deadline reports.
Outbreak - which also starred Kevin Spacey, Donald Sutherland and Rene Russo - was a box-office hit in early 1995, grossing $190m on a $50m budget.
The film was helmed by Air Force One's Wolfgang Petersen and produced by Gail Katz, who is also expected to be involved with the TV adaptation.
Other new series in the works at NBC include a TV remake of 1968 film horror Rosemary's Baby, a futuristic prison drama from Arrow exec Greg Berlanti and a sitcom about a mermaid.
> Reality Bites: 1994 film being made into TV series by Ben Stiller...
- 8/28/2013
- Digital Spy
News Louisa Mellor 28 Aug 2013 - 06:35
A new virus thriller may be coming to television, in the form of an Outbreak adaptation for NBC...
With Ronald D. Moore's Helix coming next year, and potentially after that, Guillermo del Toro's The Strain (both, respectively, sci-fi and supernatural takes on the premise) the virus thriller is thriving in TV development land. If you were a fan of rubbish puns - and who isn't - you could say it was contagious.
TV's next infection-related idea is an adaptation of Wolfgang Petersen's 1995 thriller Outbreak, which NBC is planning with E.R. executive producers Jack Orman and John Wells. It's essentially at the Petri dish stage right now, without even a pilot script to its name, but it's on NBC's whiteboard.
Petersen's nineties thriller starred Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Spacey, Cuba Gooding Jr, and Rene Russo attempting to contain a deadly airborne virus. Outbreak...
A new virus thriller may be coming to television, in the form of an Outbreak adaptation for NBC...
With Ronald D. Moore's Helix coming next year, and potentially after that, Guillermo del Toro's The Strain (both, respectively, sci-fi and supernatural takes on the premise) the virus thriller is thriving in TV development land. If you were a fan of rubbish puns - and who isn't - you could say it was contagious.
TV's next infection-related idea is an adaptation of Wolfgang Petersen's 1995 thriller Outbreak, which NBC is planning with E.R. executive producers Jack Orman and John Wells. It's essentially at the Petri dish stage right now, without even a pilot script to its name, but it's on NBC's whiteboard.
Petersen's nineties thriller starred Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Spacey, Cuba Gooding Jr, and Rene Russo attempting to contain a deadly airborne virus. Outbreak...
- 8/28/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
In Hollywood, are TV shows the new "remakes"? It sure seems that way with yet another feature film making the leap to the small screen.
A television series based on Wolfgang Petersen's 1995 thriller Outbreak is in development at NBC from "E.R." executive producers Jack Orman and John Wells, Deadline reports.
Both men are scripting a pilot with aspirations to have the project become an ongoing hourlong show.
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A television series based on Wolfgang Petersen's 1995 thriller Outbreak is in development at NBC from "E.R." executive producers Jack Orman and John Wells, Deadline reports.
Both men are scripting a pilot with aspirations to have the project become an ongoing hourlong show.
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- 8/28/2013
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Exclusive: Former ER executive producers John Wells and Jack Orman are reuniting with NBC for a new high-profile medical drama project. The network has given a pilot production commitment to Outbreak, an hourlong series based on the hit 1995 Warner Bros feature directed by Wolfgang Petersen and starring Dustin Hoffman, Morgan Freeman and Rene Russo (check out the trailer below for a refresher). This marks one of the biggest commitments to a drama project so far this development cycle. Co-written by Wells and Orman, Outbreak is described as a medical thriller that follows an ensemble of characters as they race to contain a lethal virus before it becomes a global pandemic. Warner Bros TV and studio-based John Wells Prods are producing, with Wells, Orman and Jwp’s Andrew Stearn executive producing. I hear Gail Katz, who was a producer on the movie, also is expected to be involved in some producing capacity.
- 8/27/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
A television series based on Wolfgang Petersen's 1995 thriller Outbreak is in development at NBC from "E.R." executive producers Jack Orman and John Wells, Deadline reports. Both men are scripting a pilot with aspirations to have the project become an ongoing hourlong show. The film, which stars Dustin Hoffman, Morgan Freeman, Cuba Gooding Jr., Rene Russo, Kevin Spacey and Donald Sutherland, follows the spread of a viral epidemic that threatens to wipe out all human life. Gail Katz, who produced the Petersen film, is also attached to produce the series with Andrew Stearn also listed as an executive producer.
- 8/27/2013
- Comingsoon.net
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Jan. 29, 2013
Price: DVD $30.99
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
ABC TV show Pan Am was canceled after its first season, but it did have its fans and even garnered awards overseas.
The drama series is set in the early 1960s, when commercial flights are just beginning. Christina Ricci (Bel Ami) headlines the show as the spunky Maggie Ryan, a Pan Am stewardess with ambitions for more.
The television show also stars Margot Robbie (TV’s Neighbors) as a fledgling stewardess, Kelli Garner (Going the Distance) as a stewardess recruited by the CIA as a spy, Karine Vanasse (Midnight in Paris) as a French stewardess and Michael Mosley (TV’s Justified) and Mike Vogel (What’s Your Number?) as pilots trying to find women and build their careers.
Created by Jack Orman (Men of a Certain Age), Pan Am follows the flight crew members on their journeys overseas and as they witness history.
Price: DVD $30.99
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
ABC TV show Pan Am was canceled after its first season, but it did have its fans and even garnered awards overseas.
The drama series is set in the early 1960s, when commercial flights are just beginning. Christina Ricci (Bel Ami) headlines the show as the spunky Maggie Ryan, a Pan Am stewardess with ambitions for more.
The television show also stars Margot Robbie (TV’s Neighbors) as a fledgling stewardess, Kelli Garner (Going the Distance) as a stewardess recruited by the CIA as a spy, Karine Vanasse (Midnight in Paris) as a French stewardess and Michael Mosley (TV’s Justified) and Mike Vogel (What’s Your Number?) as pilots trying to find women and build their careers.
Created by Jack Orman (Men of a Certain Age), Pan Am follows the flight crew members on their journeys overseas and as they witness history.
- 12/7/2012
- by Sam
- Disc Dish
Virgin America Is Premier Sponsor Of 2012 Los Angeles Film Festival, Presented By Film Independent
Kodak, Stella Artois, Melrose Mac, Regal Cinemas L.A. Live Stadium 14, Jameson® Irish Whiskey, Deluxe Entertainment Services Group and Efilm, HBO®, Volkswagen of America, Canon U.S.A., Nokia and Dolby Laboratories, Inc. are Platinum Sponsors
Los Angeles (June 13, 2012) . Today the Los Angeles Film Festival, presented by Film Independent and Host Venue Regal Cinemas L.A. Live Stadium 14 announced its sponsors for the 2012 Festival. The Los Angeles Film Festival will run from Thursday, June 14 to Sunday, June 24 in downtown Los Angeles. The Presenting Media Sponsor is the Los Angeles Times, Premier and Opening Night Sponsor Virgin America and Platinum sponsors Kodak, Stella Artois, Melrose Mac, Regal Cinemas L.A. Live Stadium 14, Jameson® Irish Whiskey, Deluxe Entertainment Services Group and Efilm, HBO, Volkswagen of America, Canon U.S.A., Nokia and Dolby Laboratories, Inc. Special support is...
Kodak, Stella Artois, Melrose Mac, Regal Cinemas L.A. Live Stadium 14, Jameson® Irish Whiskey, Deluxe Entertainment Services Group and Efilm, HBO®, Volkswagen of America, Canon U.S.A., Nokia and Dolby Laboratories, Inc. are Platinum Sponsors
Los Angeles (June 13, 2012) . Today the Los Angeles Film Festival, presented by Film Independent and Host Venue Regal Cinemas L.A. Live Stadium 14 announced its sponsors for the 2012 Festival. The Los Angeles Film Festival will run from Thursday, June 14 to Sunday, June 24 in downtown Los Angeles. The Presenting Media Sponsor is the Los Angeles Times, Premier and Opening Night Sponsor Virgin America and Platinum sponsors Kodak, Stella Artois, Melrose Mac, Regal Cinemas L.A. Live Stadium 14, Jameson® Irish Whiskey, Deluxe Entertainment Services Group and Efilm, HBO, Volkswagen of America, Canon U.S.A., Nokia and Dolby Laboratories, Inc. Special support is...
- 6/13/2012
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
ABC had big hopes for its pricy, period drama Pan Am, a soap opera in the sky featuring the attractive stewardesses and pilots of Pan Am airlines in 1963, created by Jack Orman and Nancy Hult Ganis and produced by ABC and Sony TV. Despite a high profile female cast including Christina Ricci, Kellie Garner and recently hired supporting player Ashley Greene and the film's cool retro setting of 1960s New York City, a swinging backdrop that owes a lot to the acclaimed AMC drama Mad Men, Pan Am failed to retain the solid ratings from its Sept. 25 premiere. The Hollywood Reporter confirmed reports today of ABC cutting its season short at 14 episodes.
- 11/29/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
ABC had big hopes for its pricy, period drama Pan Am, a soap opera in the sky featuring the attractive stewardesses and pilots of Pan Am airlines in 1963, created by Jack Orman and Nancy Hult Ganis and produced by ABC and Sony TV. Despite a high profile female cast including Christina Ricci, Kellie Garner and recently hired supporting player Ashley Greene and the film's cool retro setting of 1960s New York City, a swinging backdrop that owes a lot to the acclaimed AMC drama Mad Men, Pan Am failed to retain the solid ratings from its Sept. 25 premiere. The Hollywood Reporter confirmed reports today of ABC cutting its season short at 14 episodes.
- 11/29/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
ABC had big hopes for its pricy, period drama Pan Am, a soap opera in the sky featuring the attractive stewardesses and pilots of Pan Am airlines in 1963, created by Jack Orman and Nancy Hult Ganis and produced by ABC and Sony TV. Despite a high profile female cast including Christina Ricci, Kellie Garner and recently hired supporting player Ashley Greene and the film's cool retro setting of 1960s New York City, a swinging backdrop that owes a lot to the acclaimed AMC drama Mad Men, Pan Am failed to retain the solid ratings from its Sept. 25 premiere. The Hollywood Reporter confirmed reports today of ABC cutting its season short at 14 episodes.
- 11/29/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Sony Pictures TV is adding some top-level behind-the-scenes reinforcement to freshman drama Pan Am in anticipation of a back order from ABC. Veteran writer-producer Steven Maeda will be joining the 1960s-set series as showrunner, working alongside creator/executive producer Jack Orman and director/executive producer Tommy Schlamme. ABC is yet to make a decision on Pan Am, but word is that the rookie has strong internal support at the network, which has several promotional events for the series slated for the coming weeks. Despite its modest ratings — 1.8 in adults 18-49 last night — the drama has leveled off, gets a big bump from DVR viewing and has become popular with advertisers who consider it a premium buy. ABC is expected to wait to hear Maeda’s input on the potential back nine episodes before making a call. Earlier this year, UTA-repped Maeda signed a premium two-script deal with ABC Studios. He...
- 10/24/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Dabbling a bit with political intrigue in his latest role as Niko Lonza, a Yugoslavian diplomat who catches the eye of one of the flight attendants in Pan Am, Goran Visnjic previewed his guest starring role in an exclusive interview with theTVaddict.com.
Can you describe who Niko Lonza is and what part he has to play in the upcoming episodes?
Goran: I play a Yugoslavian diplomat who works in the United Nations and he meets one of the stewardesses on the flight from New York to Monte Carlo. Basically, Kate (played by Kelli Garner) needs to get close to him because he is her only way into the fancy casino in Monte Carlo and she has a CIA assignment inside there. But when Kate is done with her assignment, they have this connection and they start dating, and over the course of a couple of episodes, it turns into a love story.
Can you describe who Niko Lonza is and what part he has to play in the upcoming episodes?
Goran: I play a Yugoslavian diplomat who works in the United Nations and he meets one of the stewardesses on the flight from New York to Monte Carlo. Basically, Kate (played by Kelli Garner) needs to get close to him because he is her only way into the fancy casino in Monte Carlo and she has a CIA assignment inside there. But when Kate is done with her assignment, they have this connection and they start dating, and over the course of a couple of episodes, it turns into a love story.
- 10/23/2011
- by Tiffany Vogt
- The TV Addict
Filed under: Celebrity Interviews, The Show Girl
Goran Visnjic scrubbed in at County General on 'ER' when George Clooney left the series, playing Dr. Luka Kovac, an emergency room attending whose wife and kids were killed in the Croatian War of Independence. It's a recent war, but one that most Americans know very little about.
Beginning this Sunday (Oct. 23, 10Pm Et on ABC), Visnjic is back on TV for a four-episode arc on 'Pan Am' -- he's playing Yugoslavian U.N. diplomat Niko Lonza, a complicated man who woos stewardess Kate (Kelli Garner) -- in a role that takes him back to a very different time in the neutral but still Communist country.
Having grown up in Yugoslavia himself, Visnjic had a lot to add to the character, who was crafted for him by fellow 'ER' alums, executive producer Jack Orman (who's showrunner on...
Goran Visnjic scrubbed in at County General on 'ER' when George Clooney left the series, playing Dr. Luka Kovac, an emergency room attending whose wife and kids were killed in the Croatian War of Independence. It's a recent war, but one that most Americans know very little about.
Beginning this Sunday (Oct. 23, 10Pm Et on ABC), Visnjic is back on TV for a four-episode arc on 'Pan Am' -- he's playing Yugoslavian U.N. diplomat Niko Lonza, a complicated man who woos stewardess Kate (Kelli Garner) -- in a role that takes him back to a very different time in the neutral but still Communist country.
Having grown up in Yugoslavia himself, Visnjic had a lot to add to the character, who was crafted for him by fellow 'ER' alums, executive producer Jack Orman (who's showrunner on...
- 10/21/2011
- by Maggie Furlong
- Aol TV.
I already posted my review of ABC's "Pan Am." Now it's your turn. Whether you're a fan of "Mad Men," watched "The Playboy Club" or not, what did you think of the new drama from Jack Orman, Tommy Schlamme and company? Were you surprised by the minimal amount of Christina Ricci? Did you like all the flashbacks, or would you rather the show stay in the passenger cabin? And will you be watching again? Have at it.
- 9/26/2011
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
Two network series debuting this fall take place in 1963 and are clearly inspired, at least in part, by "Mad Men." Viewers have already weighed in on "The Playboy Club" at NBC, and the verdict was not a very favorable one.
I'm hoping that's not the case with "Pan Am," which premieres on ABC Sunday (Sept. 25). It's not only a much better show than "The Playboy Club," but it's also one of the better new drama pilots premiering this season, period.
Stylish, well-produced and just plain fun, "Pan Am" is kind of like "Mad Men's" sunnier, more optimistic cousin. Which is not to say the show is in "Mad Men's" league dramatically; in terms of tone, though, it takes a much brighter view of the possibilities of the early 1960s, for women in particular and America in general.
It centers on four stewardesses working a transcontinental flight on a brand-new Pan Am jet.
I'm hoping that's not the case with "Pan Am," which premieres on ABC Sunday (Sept. 25). It's not only a much better show than "The Playboy Club," but it's also one of the better new drama pilots premiering this season, period.
Stylish, well-produced and just plain fun, "Pan Am" is kind of like "Mad Men's" sunnier, more optimistic cousin. Which is not to say the show is in "Mad Men's" league dramatically; in terms of tone, though, it takes a much brighter view of the possibilities of the early 1960s, for women in particular and America in general.
It centers on four stewardesses working a transcontinental flight on a brand-new Pan Am jet.
- 9/25/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Chicago – Feminism continues to be redefined for a new generation in this season’s slate of TV dramas. While NBC’s “The Playboy Club” makes the age-old error of confusing exploitation with empowerment, ABC’s “Pan Am” argues that flight attendants paved the way for the modern woman. Both programs offer a predominantly female perspective of the era recently popularized by “Mad Men,” while emulating Matthew Weiner’s cinematic approach to a small-screen serial.
Yet while “Playboy Club” is awash in dreary melodrama, “Pan Am” has the breezy tone and gauzy look of Steven Spielberg’s droll period piece, “Catch Me If You Can.” Loosely based on the experiences of former stewardess Nancy Ganis (who serves as executive producer), the show promises a palatable hodgepodge of romantic soap opera and nostalgic whimsy served with a dash of cold war espionage. Though the pilot succeeds as a promising launching pad, it...
Yet while “Playboy Club” is awash in dreary melodrama, “Pan Am” has the breezy tone and gauzy look of Steven Spielberg’s droll period piece, “Catch Me If You Can.” Loosely based on the experiences of former stewardess Nancy Ganis (who serves as executive producer), the show promises a palatable hodgepodge of romantic soap opera and nostalgic whimsy served with a dash of cold war espionage. Though the pilot succeeds as a promising launching pad, it...
- 9/24/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
A sneak peek of ABC's Pan Am, starring Christina Ricci, Margot Robbie, Michael Mosley, Karine Vanasse, Mike Vogel and Kelli Garner. Catch the series premiere of the eagerly anticipated show on September 25th at 10/9c. Pan Am is executive produced by Jack Orman, Thomas Schlamme and Nancy Hult. We have a great sneak peek from the show and don't forget to check out the three TV spots we added previously as well. Passion, adventure and espionage... They do it all - and they do it at 30,000 feet. The style of the 1960s, the energy and excitement of the Jet Age and a drama full of sexy entanglements deliciously mesh in a thrilling and highly original new series...
- 9/22/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
A sneak peek of ABC's Pan Am, starring Christina Ricci, Margot Robbie, Michael Mosley, Karine Vanasse, Mike Vogel and Kelli Garner. Catch the series premiere of the eagerly anticipated show on September 25th at 10/9c. Pan Am is executive produced by Jack Orman, Thomas Schlamme and Nancy Hult. We have a great sneak peek from the show and don't forget to check out the three TV spots we added previously as well. Passion, adventure and espionage... They do it all - and they do it at 30,000 feet. The style of the 1960s, the energy and excitement of the Jet Age and a drama full of sexy entanglements deliciously mesh in a thrilling and highly original new series...
- 9/22/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Christina Ricci has been a staple of edgy movies for some time, but she's now ready to take flight with a weekly television role.
"Monster" and "Black Snake Moan" are among the testaments to Ricci's knack for unconventional characters, and if she's going to play a more traditional one, at least it jets back about 50 years. The ABC series "Pan Am" premieres Sunday (Sept. 25) with Ricci as a stewardess in the early 1960s, when international air travel still was a new adventure -- though Pan American World Airways would meet its demise in 1991.
"When it's you, you don't have the objectivity to step back and say whether it's a big deal or not," the still-petite Ricci tells Zap2it about making her full-time move to the home screen. "I love television, and I feel like some of the best talent is working in TV right now, from acting to writing and directing.
"Monster" and "Black Snake Moan" are among the testaments to Ricci's knack for unconventional characters, and if she's going to play a more traditional one, at least it jets back about 50 years. The ABC series "Pan Am" premieres Sunday (Sept. 25) with Ricci as a stewardess in the early 1960s, when international air travel still was a new adventure -- though Pan American World Airways would meet its demise in 1991.
"When it's you, you don't have the objectivity to step back and say whether it's a big deal or not," the still-petite Ricci tells Zap2it about making her full-time move to the home screen. "I love television, and I feel like some of the best talent is working in TV right now, from acting to writing and directing.
- 9/21/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Over the last few months, I have had the opportunity to watch over 30 new 2011 TV shows in advance, and have narrowed down the best new fall series’ in two categories: addictive and intriguing (must-see weekly viewing worthy of potential overanalysis), and guilty pleasurable (watch, enjoy, move on with your week).
*Caveat: I did not have access to NBC screeners; thus, none of their new shows were eligible to make this list.
Addictive & Intriguing
1. Once Upon a Time (ABC) @OnceABC
Premiere: 10/23/11
Starring: Jennifer Morrison, Ginnifer Goodwin, Robert Carlyle, Josh Dallas, Lana Parrilla, Alan Dale and Giancarlo Esposito.
Created/produced/written by former Lost producers/writers Adam Horowitz and Eddy Kitsis, with writer/producer and sci-fi icon Jane Espenson (Buffy, BSG, Warehouse 13).
Once Upon a Time is a very clever, whimsical and dark spin on familiar tales from childhood. It is easily the most unique series to debut this fall, with...
*Caveat: I did not have access to NBC screeners; thus, none of their new shows were eligible to make this list.
Addictive & Intriguing
1. Once Upon a Time (ABC) @OnceABC
Premiere: 10/23/11
Starring: Jennifer Morrison, Ginnifer Goodwin, Robert Carlyle, Josh Dallas, Lana Parrilla, Alan Dale and Giancarlo Esposito.
Created/produced/written by former Lost producers/writers Adam Horowitz and Eddy Kitsis, with writer/producer and sci-fi icon Jane Espenson (Buffy, BSG, Warehouse 13).
Once Upon a Time is a very clever, whimsical and dark spin on familiar tales from childhood. It is easily the most unique series to debut this fall, with...
- 9/9/2011
- by Jo Garfein
- TVovermind.com
Remember when flying was fun? Before your lip stick had to go in a plastic bag and your high heels had to go through X-Ray. When it was all glamorous, with handsome pilots and gorgeous air hostess? When you could still smoke in the cabin, and drink as many cocktails as you wanted while on your way to some exotic location? Well that’s the world of Pan Am, ABC’s new show, taking us back to the good ole days of air travel in the 60’s.
Here’s the official word from ABC,
Passion, adventure and espionage… They do it all—and they do it at 30,000 feet. The style of the 1960s, the energy and excitement of the Jet Age and a drama full of sexy entanglements deliciously mesh in a thrilling and highly original new series [...] Welcome to the Jet Age. It’s 1963. WWII andKoreaare history. A new kind of war,...
Here’s the official word from ABC,
Passion, adventure and espionage… They do it all—and they do it at 30,000 feet. The style of the 1960s, the energy and excitement of the Jet Age and a drama full of sexy entanglements deliciously mesh in a thrilling and highly original new series [...] Welcome to the Jet Age. It’s 1963. WWII andKoreaare history. A new kind of war,...
- 9/8/2011
- by Fay Brennan
- Obsessed with Film
Check out these new images, a poster and 3 TV spots from ABC's Pam Am which stars Christina Ricci, Margot Robbie, Michael Mosley, Karine Vanasse, Mike Vogel and Kelli Garner. Making its premiere on Sunday, September 25th at 10/9 c, the series is executive produced by Jack Orman, Thomas Schlamme and Nancy Hult. Passion, adventure and espionage... They do it all - and they do it at 30,000 feet. The style of the 1960s, the energy and excitement of the Jet Age and a drama full of sexy entanglements deliciously mesh in a thrilling and highly original new series, Pan Am. In this modern world, air travel represents the height of luxury, and Pan Am is the biggest name in the business. The planes are sleek and glamorous, the pilots are rock stars, and the stewardesses are the most desirable women in the world. Not only are these flyboys and girls young and good looking,...
- 9/7/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Check out these new images, a poster and 3 TV spots from ABC's Pam Am which stars Christina Ricci, Margot Robbie, Michael Mosley, Karine Vanasse, Mike Vogel and Kelli Garner. Making its premiere on Sunday, September 25th at 10/9 c, the series is executive produced by Jack Orman, Thomas Schlamme and Nancy Hult. Passion, adventure and espionage... They do it all - and they do it at 30,000 feet. The style of the 1960s, the energy and excitement of the Jet Age and a drama full of sexy entanglements deliciously mesh in a thrilling and highly original new series, Pan Am. In this modern world, air travel represents the height of luxury, and Pan Am is the biggest name in the business. The planes are sleek and glamorous, the pilots are rock stars, and the stewardesses are the most desirable women in the world. Not only are these flyboys and girls young and good looking,...
- 9/7/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
I hope you're ready to fly the friendly skies, because on September 25, ABC is taking wing with Pan Am.
The latest entry in the rapidly growing category of televised 1960s revisionism — which includes AMC's Mad Men and NBC's The Playboy Club — Pan Am takes us back to a golden time when air travel blessed us with dashing pilots, sexy stewardesses and no baggage fees.
Pan Am stars Christina Ricci, Kelli Garner, Mike Vogel and Michael Mosley in what executive producer Jack Orman (ER) describes as a tale of "wish fulfillment" that is "sweeping and epic." All executive producer Thomas Schlamme (The West Wing) really wants the public to know is that "[Pan Am] has nothing to do with Mad Men."
Set in 1963, Pan Am follows the soapy exploits of those men and women of the skies as they enjoy a life of excitement and possibilities — especially the ladies, who in this era...
The latest entry in the rapidly growing category of televised 1960s revisionism — which includes AMC's Mad Men and NBC's The Playboy Club — Pan Am takes us back to a golden time when air travel blessed us with dashing pilots, sexy stewardesses and no baggage fees.
Pan Am stars Christina Ricci, Kelli Garner, Mike Vogel and Michael Mosley in what executive producer Jack Orman (ER) describes as a tale of "wish fulfillment" that is "sweeping and epic." All executive producer Thomas Schlamme (The West Wing) really wants the public to know is that "[Pan Am] has nothing to do with Mad Men."
Set in 1963, Pan Am follows the soapy exploits of those men and women of the skies as they enjoy a life of excitement and possibilities — especially the ladies, who in this era...
- 9/3/2011
- by Theron
- Planet Fury
Remember when air travel was glamorous?
No? Then take a visit to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, home to ABC’s Pan Am, a drama about the sexy stewardesses and pilots crisscrossing the globe on the once-luxurious airline. The biggest star of the series — in all senses — is the life-size re-creation of a Pan Am 707 jet, housed in a hangar near the Brooklyn waterfront.
On this muggy August day, a string of extras in skinny ties and horn-rimmed glasses are lining up, ready to portray journalists en route to President Kennedy’s 1963 “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech in Germany. Serving them...
No? Then take a visit to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, home to ABC’s Pan Am, a drama about the sexy stewardesses and pilots crisscrossing the globe on the once-luxurious airline. The biggest star of the series — in all senses — is the life-size re-creation of a Pan Am 707 jet, housed in a hangar near the Brooklyn waterfront.
On this muggy August day, a string of extras in skinny ties and horn-rimmed glasses are lining up, ready to portray journalists en route to President Kennedy’s 1963 “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech in Germany. Serving them...
- 9/2/2011
- by Tim Stack
- EW - Inside TV
There are two things the cast and producers of Pan Am would like potential viewers of ABC’s new fall drama to know before buckling up for the premiere (on Sunday, Sept. 25): This show is not sexist, nor is it simply riding on the coattails that other ’60s-centric hit, Mad Men.
Pan Am centers on the onetime airline giant’s jet-setting stewardesses and their male counterparts in the cockpit. It’s what series creator/executive producer Jack Orman calls “sweeping and epic,” and all about “wish-fulfillment.” But at the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour on Sunday, reporters...
Pan Am centers on the onetime airline giant’s jet-setting stewardesses and their male counterparts in the cockpit. It’s what series creator/executive producer Jack Orman calls “sweeping and epic,” and all about “wish-fulfillment.” But at the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour on Sunday, reporters...
- 8/7/2011
- by Megan Masters
- TVLine.com
Filed under: Reality-Free, TV Previews, TV News
Nostalgia is a potent cocktail, and two new shows are hoping to capitalize on audiences' fondness for the swingin' sixties this fall: NBC's 'The Playboy Club' and ABC's 'Pan Am'. Of the two, 'Pan Am' has a little more meat on its bones -- while 'Playboy' is frivolous and soapy, 'Pan Am' is concerned with character backstory, probably due to the involvement of Jack Orman (executive producer of 'ER') and Thomas Schlamme (director of 'The West Wing').
Though on the surface, the jetsetting series seems to have a lot in common with AMC's 'Mad Men,' the producers insist that the similarities stop at the time period. "TV is just execution," Schlamme pointed out. "It has nothing to do with 'Mad Men,' we just hope our show is executed in a good way. They...
Nostalgia is a potent cocktail, and two new shows are hoping to capitalize on audiences' fondness for the swingin' sixties this fall: NBC's 'The Playboy Club' and ABC's 'Pan Am'. Of the two, 'Pan Am' has a little more meat on its bones -- while 'Playboy' is frivolous and soapy, 'Pan Am' is concerned with character backstory, probably due to the involvement of Jack Orman (executive producer of 'ER') and Thomas Schlamme (director of 'The West Wing').
Though on the surface, the jetsetting series seems to have a lot in common with AMC's 'Mad Men,' the producers insist that the similarities stop at the time period. "TV is just execution," Schlamme pointed out. "It has nothing to do with 'Mad Men,' we just hope our show is executed in a good way. They...
- 8/7/2011
- by Laura Prudom
- Aol TV.
Mike Vogel comes aboard the plane on "Pan Am". The 32-year-old hunk, who landed a role of Jason "Hawk" Hawkins on Matt Reeves-directed sci-fi film "Cloverfield", has been cast to replace Jonah Lotan on the upcoming ABC drama series.
Vogel will now be seen in the male lead role of Dean, a captain on Pan Am's newest plane, the Majestic, who is living his boyhood dream of being a pilot. Lotan was reportedly cut off the show because of creative reasons.
"Pan Am", created by Jack Orman, follows some stewardesses and pilots for Pan Am Airlines living double lives as spies. Christina Ricci, Kelli Garner, Margot Robbie and Michael Mosley are also featured on this period drama which will premiere Sunday, September 25 at 10 P.M.
Mike Vogel has previously starred on such TV series as "Miami Medical" and "Grounded for Life". He recently appeared on "Blue Valentine" as...
Vogel will now be seen in the male lead role of Dean, a captain on Pan Am's newest plane, the Majestic, who is living his boyhood dream of being a pilot. Lotan was reportedly cut off the show because of creative reasons.
"Pan Am", created by Jack Orman, follows some stewardesses and pilots for Pan Am Airlines living double lives as spies. Christina Ricci, Kelli Garner, Margot Robbie and Michael Mosley are also featured on this period drama which will premiere Sunday, September 25 at 10 P.M.
Mike Vogel has previously starred on such TV series as "Miami Medical" and "Grounded for Life". He recently appeared on "Blue Valentine" as...
- 7/18/2011
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Blake Neely is set to score the upcoming ABC drama Pan Am. The show set in the 1960′s revolves around pilots and flight attendants working at the iconic and once-dominant Pan Am airline. The drama stars Christina Ricci in her first major TV gig, as well as Kelli Garner (The Aviator), Jonah Lotan (Generation Kill), Michael Mosley (Scrubs), Margot Robbie and Karine Vanasse. Jack Orman (ER, Jag) created the show and Thomas Schlamme (Parenthood, The West Wing) directed the pilot. Orman and Schlamme are also producing alongside Nancy Hult Ganis, who was a Pan Am flight attendant herself in the 70′s. Pan Am is scheduled to premiere this fall on ABC and will airing every Sunday night at 10:00pm.Visit ABC’s official show webpage for updates on the project and check out the trailer below.
Neely (The Pacific, Life as We Know It) is coming off a busy TV season.
Neely (The Pacific, Life as We Know It) is coming off a busy TV season.
- 6/8/2011
- by filmmusicreporter
- Film Music Reporter
ABC has a slew of new shows coming, many of which need a lot of luck if they're going to last more than a handful of episodes. The schedule has been released, so let's take a lot at what's coming.
Oddly enough, as part of the new announcement, ABC has solidified the return of several more shows, including Happy Endings, despite the fact that two other networks have shows on their slate with cast members from the show. That should be interesting. Of course, it works for me, because I'm a fan.
In other news, Desperate Housewives will not die. Are you kidding me with this show still being on?
New Series - “Apartment 23,” “Charlie’s Angels,” “Good Christian Belles,” “Last Man Standing,” “Man Up,” “Missing,” “Once Upon a Time,” “Pan Am,” “Revenge,” “The River,” “Scandal,” “Suburgatory” and “Work It” Join the Lineup
Returning shows - “America’s Funniest Home Videos,...
Oddly enough, as part of the new announcement, ABC has solidified the return of several more shows, including Happy Endings, despite the fact that two other networks have shows on their slate with cast members from the show. That should be interesting. Of course, it works for me, because I'm a fan.
In other news, Desperate Housewives will not die. Are you kidding me with this show still being on?
New Series - “Apartment 23,” “Charlie’s Angels,” “Good Christian Belles,” “Last Man Standing,” “Man Up,” “Missing,” “Once Upon a Time,” “Pan Am,” “Revenge,” “The River,” “Scandal,” “Suburgatory” and “Work It” Join the Lineup
Returning shows - “America’s Funniest Home Videos,...
- 5/18/2011
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
This upcoming television season will also debut a bunch of shows set in the 1960's. I'm sure this new trend is somehow a result of Mad Men's popularity. The Playboy Club will premiere on Mondays at 10pm this Fall on NBC. Eddie Cibrian and Amber Heard star in a drama which "explores the lives of Playboy bunnies toiling at the Playboy Club in 1960s Chicago." Pan Am will premiere on Sundays at 10pm this Fall on ABC. Christina Ricci stars in this new series which promises to be "Mad Men's style meets Grey's Anatomy's entanglements in this thrilling and highly original new drama from producer Nancy Hult Ganis (a former stewardess), writer Jack Orman (ER) and director Tommy Schlamme (The West Wing)." Watch both trailers embedded after the jump. Leave your thoughts in the comments below. The Playboy Club Trailer: The Playboy Club An American icon is born.
- 5/17/2011
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
Earlier we shared ABC's primetime lineup, and now we have some clips from the new drama series for you. Be sure to check out the comedy clips here. The clips include, Pan Am, Charlie's Angels, Once Upon A Time, Revenge, The River, and Scandal. At this time we don't have clips for Missing or Good Christian Belles, but we will post once they are available. I am interested in seeing The River and Once Upon A Time. Watch the clips below and share your thoughts!
Pan Am
Passion, jealousy and espionage... They do it all - and they do it at 30,000 feet. The style of the 1960s, the energy and excitement of the Jet Age and a drama full of sexy entanglements deliciously mesh in this thrilling and highly-original new series. In this modern world, air travel represents the height of luxury and Pan Am is the biggest name in the business.
Pan Am
Passion, jealousy and espionage... They do it all - and they do it at 30,000 feet. The style of the 1960s, the energy and excitement of the Jet Age and a drama full of sexy entanglements deliciously mesh in this thrilling and highly-original new series. In this modern world, air travel represents the height of luxury and Pan Am is the biggest name in the business.
- 5/17/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
Before the days of full-body scans, charges for checked luggage and $8 boxes of cheese and crackers, air travel used to be considered glamorous. ABC is hoping to recapture some of that lost era with its new drama "Pan Am."
The series, which will air at 10 p.m. Et Sundays in the fall, focuses on the stewardesses and pilots of Pan Am, the premier airline of the 1960s. It stars Christina Ricci, Kelli Garner ("My Generation"), Margot Robbie ("Neighbours"), Karine Vanasse, Jonah Lotan ("CSI: NY," "24") and Michael Mosley ("Scrubs," "Justified"). "ER" veteran Jack Orman created it and executive produces with director Thomas Schlamme ("The West Wing," "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip") and Nancy Hult Ganis.
Like NBC's new series "The Playboy Club," "Pan Am" looks like it's trying to find some of the "Mad Men" vibe with its setting and attention to period detail. It also, however, feels like the...
The series, which will air at 10 p.m. Et Sundays in the fall, focuses on the stewardesses and pilots of Pan Am, the premier airline of the 1960s. It stars Christina Ricci, Kelli Garner ("My Generation"), Margot Robbie ("Neighbours"), Karine Vanasse, Jonah Lotan ("CSI: NY," "24") and Michael Mosley ("Scrubs," "Justified"). "ER" veteran Jack Orman created it and executive produces with director Thomas Schlamme ("The West Wing," "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip") and Nancy Hult Ganis.
Like NBC's new series "The Playboy Club," "Pan Am" looks like it's trying to find some of the "Mad Men" vibe with its setting and attention to period detail. It also, however, feels like the...
- 5/17/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
ABC released its fall schedule on Tuesday which includes five total soaps - Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice, Pan Am, and Once Upon A Time.
Come midseason, hot new soap Good Christian Belles will premiere along with The River and Scandal. ABC may be canceling its daytime soaps but the genre is alive and well at night.
Here's the lineup for fall:
Monday
8:00 p.m. Dancing With The Stars
10:00 p.m. Castle
Tuesday
8:00 p.m. Last Man Standing (new)
8:30 p.m. Man Up (new)
9:00 p.m. Dancing With The Stars Results Show
10:00 p.m. Body Of Proof
Wednesday
8:00 p.m. The Middle
8:30 p.m. Suburgatory (new)
9:00 p.m. Modern Family
9:30 p.m. Happy Endings
10:00 p.m. Revenge (new)
Thursday
8:00 p.m. Charlie's Angels (new)
9:00 p.m. Grey's Anatomy
10:00 p.m. Private Practice
Friday
8:00 p.
Come midseason, hot new soap Good Christian Belles will premiere along with The River and Scandal. ABC may be canceling its daytime soaps but the genre is alive and well at night.
Here's the lineup for fall:
Monday
8:00 p.m. Dancing With The Stars
10:00 p.m. Castle
Tuesday
8:00 p.m. Last Man Standing (new)
8:30 p.m. Man Up (new)
9:00 p.m. Dancing With The Stars Results Show
10:00 p.m. Body Of Proof
Wednesday
8:00 p.m. The Middle
8:30 p.m. Suburgatory (new)
9:00 p.m. Modern Family
9:30 p.m. Happy Endings
10:00 p.m. Revenge (new)
Thursday
8:00 p.m. Charlie's Angels (new)
9:00 p.m. Grey's Anatomy
10:00 p.m. Private Practice
Friday
8:00 p.
- 5/17/2011
- by We Love Soaps TV
- We Love Soaps
NBC and Fox have both unleashed their Fall 2011-2012 TV schedule, now ABC has released theirs. I’m excited to see Castle, Modern Family, and The Middle back in the mix. Most of the new shows they have line-up don’t really interest me, but there are a few that have caught my eye. PanAm is another 1960’s based TV show that will go against AMC’s Mad Men and NBC’s The Playboy Club. There’s a show called Revenge that sounds really interesting, but the new series I’m most excited about is is the fantasy series Once Upon A Time, a show where fairy tales collide with the modern day.
Here is ABC’s full schedule along with a description of all of their shows. Go through them below and let us know what TV series you’re most excited about seeing.
Day Time Series
Monday:
8:00 p.
Here is ABC’s full schedule along with a description of all of their shows. Go through them below and let us know what TV series you’re most excited about seeing.
Day Time Series
Monday:
8:00 p.
- 5/17/2011
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
Chicago – NBC & Fox released their schedules already this week and there are a few interesting highlights, but ABC has released easily the most aggressive and ambitious new slate of programs, which will feature at least one new program five nights a week. Overall, they’re debuting seven new programs in the Fall alone, clearly trying to cement an exciting schedule before the mid-season instead of holding back programs for 2012.
Charlie’s Angels
Photo credit: ABC
As far as returning series go, “Cougar Town” will not return until 2012, allowing the promising “Happy Endings” to move into a great spot, post-“Modern Family.” (Thank you ABC. Thank you.) “Happy Endings” and “Extreme Makover: Home Edition” (which will be on Fridays now) are the only returning shows moving as ABC had enough to worry about with new shows and are keeping “Dancing With the Stars,” “Castle,” “Body of Proof,” “The Middle,” “Modern Family,...
Charlie’s Angels
Photo credit: ABC
As far as returning series go, “Cougar Town” will not return until 2012, allowing the promising “Happy Endings” to move into a great spot, post-“Modern Family.” (Thank you ABC. Thank you.) “Happy Endings” and “Extreme Makover: Home Edition” (which will be on Fridays now) are the only returning shows moving as ABC had enough to worry about with new shows and are keeping “Dancing With the Stars,” “Castle,” “Body of Proof,” “The Middle,” “Modern Family,...
- 5/17/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
ABC hopes 13 is its lucky number. The network has picked up a baker’s dozen new shows to populate its fall and midseason schedule, which includes opening a new comedy block.
Mondays will stay the same with Dancing With the Stars and Castle. Tuesdays will open with a comedy hour that includes Tim Allen’s new sitcom, Last Man Standing, paired with another new comedy, Man Up. Wednesdays adds new comedy Suburgatory, plus soap thriller, Revenge, at 10 p.m., with Cougar Town shifting to midseason and Happy Endings getting the Modern Family lead-in. Charlie’s Angels will go into Thursdays at 8 p.
Mondays will stay the same with Dancing With the Stars and Castle. Tuesdays will open with a comedy hour that includes Tim Allen’s new sitcom, Last Man Standing, paired with another new comedy, Man Up. Wednesdays adds new comedy Suburgatory, plus soap thriller, Revenge, at 10 p.m., with Cougar Town shifting to midseason and Happy Endings getting the Modern Family lead-in. Charlie’s Angels will go into Thursdays at 8 p.
- 5/17/2011
- by James Hibberd
- EW - Inside TV
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