Four Black and Global Majority producers from the UK are participating in the European Film Market’s Equity & Inclusion Pathway as well as the market’s general activities in an initaitive supported by the British Film Insitute (BFI).
Carol Harding, Luke Oliveira-Davies, Lorine Plagnol and Tolu Stedford are all looking for partners for their projects.
Harding is a Bafta TV-nominated producer of Vicarious Productions seeking financing for her second feature project Final Breath which is in advanced development with Gfm Films. She produced her first feature, 2018’s Piotr Szkopiak’s The Last Witness starring Alex Pettyfer, Talulah Riley and Michael Gambon,...
Carol Harding, Luke Oliveira-Davies, Lorine Plagnol and Tolu Stedford are all looking for partners for their projects.
Harding is a Bafta TV-nominated producer of Vicarious Productions seeking financing for her second feature project Final Breath which is in advanced development with Gfm Films. She produced her first feature, 2018’s Piotr Szkopiak’s The Last Witness starring Alex Pettyfer, Talulah Riley and Michael Gambon,...
- 2/14/2024
- ScreenDaily
Shivon Zilis, the mother of two of Elon Musk’s children and an employee at his company Neuralink, has revealed that the billionaire tech mogul thinks people with high intelligence should reproduce at higher rates.
“[Musk] really wants smart people to have kids,” Zilis stated in an excerpt from Musk’s biography by Walter Isaacson.
In addition, the biography also confirms that Musk has a third child with Canadian singer Grimes. The baby’s name has been revealed to be Techno Mechanicus.
The CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and X (formerly known as Twitter), has expressed his concern about declining birthrates. In response to reports that he had secretly welcomed children with Zilis, Musk tweeted that he was “doing my best to help the underpopulation crisis.”
Musk has also described declining birthrates as a “much bigger risk to civilization than global warming.” He has voiced his concerns about declining birthrates since 2017.
Musk...
“[Musk] really wants smart people to have kids,” Zilis stated in an excerpt from Musk’s biography by Walter Isaacson.
In addition, the biography also confirms that Musk has a third child with Canadian singer Grimes. The baby’s name has been revealed to be Techno Mechanicus.
The CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and X (formerly known as Twitter), has expressed his concern about declining birthrates. In response to reports that he had secretly welcomed children with Zilis, Musk tweeted that he was “doing my best to help the underpopulation crisis.”
Musk has also described declining birthrates as a “much bigger risk to civilization than global warming.” He has voiced his concerns about declining birthrates since 2017.
Musk...
- 9/11/2023
- by Zach Ament
- Uinterview
Thomas Brodie-Sangster is engaged to longtime love, Talulah Riley.
Riley, Elon Musk’s ex-wife, announced the news on Twitter — the social media owned by the entrepreneur and recently re-named X — sharing a loved-up picture of her and the “Love Actually” star.
“Very happy to share that after two years of dating, Thomas Brodie Sangster and I are engaged!” the 37-year-old actress wrote.
The announcement was met with lots of well wishes, including from Riley’s ex-husband.
“Congratulations!” Musk replied.
Riley married the Tesla and SpaceX founder twice, from 2010 to 2012, then from 2013 to 2016.
Very happy to share that after two years of dating, Thomas Brodie Sangster and I are engaged! pic.twitter.com/NipyXtsDV0
— Talulah Riley (@TalulahRiley) July 27, 2023
Brodie-Sangster shared on social media as well, taking instead to Instagram to make the announcement.
“Happy to announce that Talulah and I are engaged. Love is all around,” the actor, 33, wrote, quoting Hugh Grant...
Riley, Elon Musk’s ex-wife, announced the news on Twitter — the social media owned by the entrepreneur and recently re-named X — sharing a loved-up picture of her and the “Love Actually” star.
“Very happy to share that after two years of dating, Thomas Brodie Sangster and I are engaged!” the 37-year-old actress wrote.
The announcement was met with lots of well wishes, including from Riley’s ex-husband.
“Congratulations!” Musk replied.
Riley married the Tesla and SpaceX founder twice, from 2010 to 2012, then from 2013 to 2016.
Very happy to share that after two years of dating, Thomas Brodie Sangster and I are engaged! pic.twitter.com/NipyXtsDV0
— Talulah Riley (@TalulahRiley) July 27, 2023
Brodie-Sangster shared on social media as well, taking instead to Instagram to make the announcement.
“Happy to announce that Talulah and I are engaged. Love is all around,” the actor, 33, wrote, quoting Hugh Grant...
- 7/28/2023
- by Melissa Romualdi
- ET Canada
Network: HBO
Episodes: 36 (hour)
Seasons: Four
TV show dates: October 2, 2016 -- August 14, 2022
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: Evan Rachel Wood, Thandiwe Newton, Jeffrey Wright, James Marsden, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Luke Hemsworth, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Simon Quarterman, Rodrigo Santoro, Angela Sarafyan, Shannon Woodward, Ed Harris, Anthony Hopkins, Ben Barnes, Clifton Collins Jr., Jimmi Simpson, Tessa Thompson, Fares Fares, Louis Herthum, Talulah Riley, Gustaf Skarsgård, Katja Herbers, Zahn McClarnon, Aaron Paul, Vincent Cassel, and Tao Okamoto.
TV show description:
Based on the 1973 feature film, this drama series is a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged.
Episodes: 36 (hour)
Seasons: Four
TV show dates: October 2, 2016 -- August 14, 2022
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: Evan Rachel Wood, Thandiwe Newton, Jeffrey Wright, James Marsden, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Luke Hemsworth, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Simon Quarterman, Rodrigo Santoro, Angela Sarafyan, Shannon Woodward, Ed Harris, Anthony Hopkins, Ben Barnes, Clifton Collins Jr., Jimmi Simpson, Tessa Thompson, Fares Fares, Louis Herthum, Talulah Riley, Gustaf Skarsgård, Katja Herbers, Zahn McClarnon, Aaron Paul, Vincent Cassel, and Tao Okamoto.
TV show description:
Based on the 1973 feature film, this drama series is a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged.
- 11/10/2022
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
The Elon Musk Show review: The central flaw of this BBC series? The SpaceX founder isn’t interesting
Elon Musk is the richest person in the world – he’s got about 219bn, give or take, and is rarely out of the headlines. But that doesn’t make him the most interesting person in the world, or worthy of such a lavish attempt to find out what makes him the Musk he is in The Elon Musk Show (BBC Two). His main achievement in life, though unheralded, is actually to prove that, just as money can’t buy you love, happiness or good looks, so it can’t make you inherently more fascinating than God or how nature fashioned you.
This is the central flaw in the BBC’s overly deferential series. The programme-makers seem to have got a bit mixed up between Musk’s cosmic ambitions and material achievements on the one hand, and his not-so-magnetic personality on the other. The tales about how he successively built PayPal,...
This is the central flaw in the BBC’s overly deferential series. The programme-makers seem to have got a bit mixed up between Musk’s cosmic ambitions and material achievements on the one hand, and his not-so-magnetic personality on the other. The tales about how he successively built PayPal,...
- 10/13/2022
- by Sean O'Grady
- The Independent - TV
Elon Musk is the richest person who has ever lived – he’s got about 219bn, give or take, and is rarely out of the headlines. But that doesn’t make him the most interesting person who’s ever lived, or worthy of such a lavish attempt to find out what makes him the Musk he is in The Elon Musk Show (BBC Two). His main achievement in life, though unheralded, is actually to prove that, just as money can’t buy you love, happiness or good looks, so it can’t make you inherently more fascinating than God or how nature fashioned you.
This is the central flaw in the BBC’s overly deferential series. The programme-makers seem to have got a bit mixed up between Musk’s cosmic ambitions and material achievements on the one hand, and his not-so-magnetic personality on the other. The tales about how he successively built PayPal,...
This is the central flaw in the BBC’s overly deferential series. The programme-makers seem to have got a bit mixed up between Musk’s cosmic ambitions and material achievements on the one hand, and his not-so-magnetic personality on the other. The tales about how he successively built PayPal,...
- 10/12/2022
- by Sean O'Grady
- The Independent - TV
Based on Steve Jones’ 2017 memoir Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol, FX’s miniseries Pistol thrashes through London’s early punk scene as seen through the bleary eyes of the Sex Pistols: guitarist Jones (Toby Wallace), drummer Paul Cook (Jacob Slater), singer John “Johnny Rotten” Lydon (Anson Boon), and bassist Glen Matlock (Christian Lees), who is unceremoniously dumped and replaced by John Beverley, who rechristened himself Sid Vicious (Louis Partridge). Emma Appleton plays the tragically flawed heroine Nancy Spungen.
The entire career of the Sex Pistols was a premeditated swindle malignantly perpetuated by their manager Malcolm McLaren (Thomas Brodie-Sangster), who similarly plotted the downfall of the rising proto-punk outfit The New York Dolls. He schemed the chaotic caper at 430 King’s Road, the boutique Sex, co-owned by the truly revolutionary Vivienne Westwood (Talulah Riley), after the artful dodging Jones tried to make off with the wrong pants. In the series,...
The entire career of the Sex Pistols was a premeditated swindle malignantly perpetuated by their manager Malcolm McLaren (Thomas Brodie-Sangster), who similarly plotted the downfall of the rising proto-punk outfit The New York Dolls. He schemed the chaotic caper at 430 King’s Road, the boutique Sex, co-owned by the truly revolutionary Vivienne Westwood (Talulah Riley), after the artful dodging Jones tried to make off with the wrong pants. In the series,...
- 6/1/2022
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Johnny Rotten was right to sue to stop FX’s Pistol from going forward.
The Sex Pistols and PiL frontman ultimately was unsuccessful in his legal efforts last year to prevent the seminal band’s music being used in the Danny Boyle-directed miniseries. However, Pistol, which dropped in its entirety today on Disney-owned Hulu, is an overly sentimental love letter that never should have been sent. You’d find more depth and authenticity on how England has been really dreamin’ over the decades in this week’s pomp-packed Platinum Jubilee for the disastrous reign of Elizabeth II.
Simply put, Pistol is more junk than punk.
Even with searing classics like “God Save the Queen” in the well-crafted soundtrack mix, the six-episode series based in part on guitarist Steve Jones’ 2017 memoir limps along when it should roar. Hobbled with a surprisingly sub-standard coming-of-age story held together figuratively and literally by amphetamines,...
The Sex Pistols and PiL frontman ultimately was unsuccessful in his legal efforts last year to prevent the seminal band’s music being used in the Danny Boyle-directed miniseries. However, Pistol, which dropped in its entirety today on Disney-owned Hulu, is an overly sentimental love letter that never should have been sent. You’d find more depth and authenticity on how England has been really dreamin’ over the decades in this week’s pomp-packed Platinum Jubilee for the disastrous reign of Elizabeth II.
Simply put, Pistol is more junk than punk.
Even with searing classics like “God Save the Queen” in the well-crafted soundtrack mix, the six-episode series based in part on guitarist Steve Jones’ 2017 memoir limps along when it should roar. Hobbled with a surprisingly sub-standard coming-of-age story held together figuratively and literally by amphetamines,...
- 6/1/2022
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
The short and sweet and sour history of the 1970s British punk band the Sex Pistols is told in a six-part limited series—the FX on Hulu show is appropriately titled Pistol—based on lead guitarist Steve Jones’ book, Lonely Boy. (Jones is played by Toby Wallace.) The working-class kids with rebellious lyrics, ripped clothes and permanent sneers rocked the establishment and gave aimless youth new role models for questioning authority. But their personal lives were in turmoil—as the cast told TV Insider. Take Pistols guitarist Sid Vicious (Louis Partridge) and his American girlfriend Nancy Spungen (Emma Appleton), whose doomed romance was covered in the 1986 film Sid and Nancy. Here, it’s woven into the bigger story of the band. “She had that same hell for leather, all-or-nothing attitude, so they egged each other on,” Partridge says. The Pistols hung out at a King’s Road London boutique called Sex,...
- 5/31/2022
- TV Insider
Some of the most exciting filmmaking in “Pistol,” FX’s new Danny Boyle-directed limited series, happens onstage. In concert scenes featuring the Sex Pistols — the real-life punk pathbreakers at the center of this story — the camera toggles between performer and spectator, moving so rapidly that it seems to eliminate the distance between the two. Director of photography Anthony Dod Mantle captures both staging in the foreground and expressive moshing in the background. The writhing performance seems less to spark violence in the audience than to run parallel to it, another expression of the free-floating anger in the air.
It’s a canny way of depicting the Pistols’ appeal: The show argues that the band had an intuitive ability to tap into the rage of youth culture in pre-Thatcherite England. It makes that argument eloquently by showing the group converting even small audiences, early on, into wild and emotional demonstrations.
It’s a canny way of depicting the Pistols’ appeal: The show argues that the band had an intuitive ability to tap into the rage of youth culture in pre-Thatcherite England. It makes that argument eloquently by showing the group converting even small audiences, early on, into wild and emotional demonstrations.
- 5/31/2022
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
Early in Pistol, the FX-produced six-part miniseries about the thrilling rise and ugly fall of seminal English punk act the Sex Pistols, the band and their friends gather in their makeshift rehearsal space for a raucous party. Grandiose manager Malcolm McLaren (Thomas Brodie-Sangster) proclaims to guitar player Steve Jones (Toby Wallace) that they are witnessing the birth of a new movement. A skeptical Jones, noting that the revelers are belting out the innocuous pop hit “Shang-a-Lang,” wonders if a rebellion can be accompanied by a Bay City Rollers soundtrack.
- 5/31/2022
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
It’s hard to imagine a richer subject for a music biopic than the raucous, rebellious 1975–78 ride of the Sex Pistols. Craig Pearce, who created Pistol, a six-episode FX on Hulu saga of British punk’s Godfathers, knew he’d need to capture the tale of Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious, Steve Jones, and Paul Cook after listening to Pistols guitarist Jones reading his 2016 autobiography, Lonely Boy. “One phrase from the book that stuck with me was ‘The music always saved me; I’d be dead now without music,’” Pearce recalls. The series also captures the destitute conditions in England that birthed the band. “Young people felt they had no future,” Pearce says. Music gave the band—and their fans—a purpose: “It was a fertile time for something to explode.” Pistol also stars Christian Lees, Sydney Chandler, Talulah Riley, Maisie Williams, Emma Appleton, and Thomas Brodie-Sangster. It’s ...
- 5/30/2022
- TV Insider
Coming from the brilliant mind of Danny Boyle, Pistol is a new series chronicling the creation and subsequent rise of punk, through the eyes of The Sex Pistols. To mark the launch of the series, which comes to Disney+ on May 31st, we had the pleasure of of speaking to Anson Boon (Johnny Rotten), alongside with Jacob Slater (Paul Cook) and Louis Partridge (Sid Vicious).
But it wasn’t just the men who illuminated the punk scene, as we spoke to the actresses playing the women of that world, chatting to Emma Appleton (Nancy Spungen), Sydney Chandler (Chrissie Hynde) and Talulah Riley (Vivienne Westwood). Be sure to watch both interviews in their entirety, below.
Jacob Slater, Anson Boon, Louis Partridge
Emma Appleton, Sydney Chandler & Talulah Riley
Synopsis
Based on Jones’ memoir “Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol”, the limited series “Pistol” is the story of a band of spotty,...
But it wasn’t just the men who illuminated the punk scene, as we spoke to the actresses playing the women of that world, chatting to Emma Appleton (Nancy Spungen), Sydney Chandler (Chrissie Hynde) and Talulah Riley (Vivienne Westwood). Be sure to watch both interviews in their entirety, below.
Jacob Slater, Anson Boon, Louis Partridge
Emma Appleton, Sydney Chandler & Talulah Riley
Synopsis
Based on Jones’ memoir “Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol”, the limited series “Pistol” is the story of a band of spotty,...
- 5/30/2022
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The Sex Pistols were a mythical band. Steve Jones couldn’t play guitar. Johnny Rotten couldn’t sing. Sid Vicious couldn’t always stand upright, much less keep his spiky hair on end. Malcom McLaren couldn’t manage. With Glen Matlock and Paul Cook rounding out the band, the personnel are just the stencils for McLaren’s silk screen. Danny Boyle’s Pistol, coming to FX on Hulu, perpetuates the mythology. This is probably part of the reason John Lydon didn’t sign off on the project. He likes to keep his public image limited. It also might be a little melodramatic for the former Sex Pistols frontman. That works for TV more than it does for punks.
Based on Jones’ memoir Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol, the six-episode miniseries tells the story of the forgotten generation of London’s punk culture through the eyes of their most fabricated spokespeople: The Sex Pistols,...
Based on Jones’ memoir Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol, the six-episode miniseries tells the story of the forgotten generation of London’s punk culture through the eyes of their most fabricated spokespeople: The Sex Pistols,...
- 5/30/2022
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
There are few things that rock biopics love more than characters who act as if they know they’re in a rock biopic. There’s some unspoken need for conversations drenched with the importance of the music and changing the world and making something real, delivered with the absolute certainty that these ragtag group of upstarts are on a road to generation-altering fame.
The best you can say for “Pistol,” the new six-part limited series about the rise of the Sex Pistols against the backdrop of the burgeoning English punk scene, is that creator Craig Pearce and director Danny Boyle have a clear and deep love for the band they’re bringing to life. But as is the case for watching characters gush over shared love of David Bowie or prophesy about the effect their art will have on a culture yet to come, so much of “Pistol” feels like...
The best you can say for “Pistol,” the new six-part limited series about the rise of the Sex Pistols against the backdrop of the burgeoning English punk scene, is that creator Craig Pearce and director Danny Boyle have a clear and deep love for the band they’re bringing to life. But as is the case for watching characters gush over shared love of David Bowie or prophesy about the effect their art will have on a culture yet to come, so much of “Pistol” feels like...
- 5/29/2022
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
FX's newest show, "Pistol" - which premieres on May 31 on Hulu - tells the true story of the rise and fall of the Sex Pistols in the 1970s. The miniseries is told from the perspective of the band's guitarist, Steve Jones, played by Toby Wallace. In addition to showcasing the lives of the Sex Pistols members like Sid Vicious (Louis Partridge) and Johnny Rotten (Anson Boon), the show also portrays some of the famous people they were associated with, like Vivienne Westwood (Talulah Riley) and Pamela Rooke (Maisie Williams).
The show uses hairstyling, makeup, and costumes to try to accurately depict the time period and the people who became very famous very quickly, launching punk into the mainstream. But the actual people depicted on the show have had mixed reactions about its existence. Rotten (whose real name is John Lydon) told the Sunday Times the show is "the most...
The show uses hairstyling, makeup, and costumes to try to accurately depict the time period and the people who became very famous very quickly, launching punk into the mainstream. But the actual people depicted on the show have had mixed reactions about its existence. Rotten (whose real name is John Lydon) told the Sunday Times the show is "the most...
- 5/23/2022
- by Victoria Edel
- Popsugar.com
The richest man in the world is the subject of a new documentary series commissioned by the BBC.
“The Elon Musk Show” (working title) will speak to the South African billionaire’s friends, family members and business associates as well as including archive footage from Musk’s ascent through Silicon Valley to paint an intimate portrait of the tech tycoon. Marian Mohamed and Jeremy Llewellyn Jones will direct.
The three-part series, from 72 Films (“Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty”), is set to air on BBC 2 later this year and promises to “get to the heart of who Elon Musk really is.”
Musk, who counts PayPal, Tesla and SpaceX among the companies he has built, recently launched a controversial bid to buy social media site Twitter. He has been married three times including twice to “St Trinian’s” actor Talulah Riley. Musk has five sons from his first marriage, to author Justine Wilson,...
“The Elon Musk Show” (working title) will speak to the South African billionaire’s friends, family members and business associates as well as including archive footage from Musk’s ascent through Silicon Valley to paint an intimate portrait of the tech tycoon. Marian Mohamed and Jeremy Llewellyn Jones will direct.
The three-part series, from 72 Films (“Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty”), is set to air on BBC 2 later this year and promises to “get to the heart of who Elon Musk really is.”
Musk, who counts PayPal, Tesla and SpaceX among the companies he has built, recently launched a controversial bid to buy social media site Twitter. He has been married three times including twice to “St Trinian’s” actor Talulah Riley. Musk has five sons from his first marriage, to author Justine Wilson,...
- 5/5/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Disney+ has unveiled the trailer and key art for the highly-anticipated, limited series ‘Pistol,’ coming to Disney+ on Tuesday, May 31.
The six-episode series is based on Jones’ 2017 memoir Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol and centres on the furious, raging storm at the centre of this revolution are the Sex Pistols – and at the centre of this series is Sex Pistols’ founding member and guitarist, Steve Jones. Jones’ hilarious, emotional and at times heartbreaking journey guides us through a kaleidoscopic telling of three of the most epic, chaotic and mucus-spattered years in the history of music.
Starring Toby Wallace as Steve Jones, Jacob Slater as Paul Cook, Anson Boon as John Lydon, Christian Lees as Glen Matlock, Louis Partridge as Sid Vicious, Sydney Chandler as Chrissie Hynde, Talulah Riley as Vivienne Westwood, Maisie Williams as punk icon Jordan, Emma Appleton as Nancy Spungen and Thomas Brodie-Sangster as Malcolm McLaren.
The six-episode series is based on Jones’ 2017 memoir Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol and centres on the furious, raging storm at the centre of this revolution are the Sex Pistols – and at the centre of this series is Sex Pistols’ founding member and guitarist, Steve Jones. Jones’ hilarious, emotional and at times heartbreaking journey guides us through a kaleidoscopic telling of three of the most epic, chaotic and mucus-spattered years in the history of music.
Starring Toby Wallace as Steve Jones, Jacob Slater as Paul Cook, Anson Boon as John Lydon, Christian Lees as Glen Matlock, Louis Partridge as Sid Vicious, Sydney Chandler as Chrissie Hynde, Talulah Riley as Vivienne Westwood, Maisie Williams as punk icon Jordan, Emma Appleton as Nancy Spungen and Thomas Brodie-Sangster as Malcolm McLaren.
- 5/4/2022
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The Sex Pistols embrace chaos and seek to change a “terribly boring England” in the new trailer for Danny Boyle’s upcoming FX limited series Pistol, premiering in full May 31 on Hulu.
The trailer details the origins of the band, as the working-class members seek to make their indelible mark in the world. “We’re invisible. We’re pissed off. No one gives a shit about us. So, we don’t give a shit about no one else. Maybe that should be our image,” one of them says in a voiceover opening the clip.
The trailer details the origins of the band, as the working-class members seek to make their indelible mark in the world. “We’re invisible. We’re pissed off. No one gives a shit about us. So, we don’t give a shit about no one else. Maybe that should be our image,” one of them says in a voiceover opening the clip.
- 5/3/2022
- by Jon Blistein and Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Academy Award winner Danny Boyle fires up “Pistol,” the Sex Pistols biopic limited series about the “fury of the forgotten generation” and rise of punk culture. Watch the first trailer below.
Based on Sex Pistols’ guitarist Steve Jones’ memoir “Lonely Boy: Tales From a Sex Pistol,” the series “Pistol” stars Toby Wallace as Jones, Anson Boon as John Lyndon, Christian Lees as Glen Matlock, Louis Partridge as Sid Vicious, and Jacob Slater as Paul Cook.
FX’s “Pistol” premieres May 31, with all six episodes available to stream on Hulu that day. The youth revolution is charted in the limited series, which promises the Sex Pistols’ mission to “kick this country awake if it kills us” and reclaim the future from the British monarchy.
“Game of Thrones” alum Maisie Williams plays punk icon Jordan, while “Queen’s Gambit” star Thomas Brodie-Sangster portrays the Sex Pistols’ manager Malcolm McLaren. “Westworld” actress Talulah Riley plays McLaren’s partner,...
Based on Sex Pistols’ guitarist Steve Jones’ memoir “Lonely Boy: Tales From a Sex Pistol,” the series “Pistol” stars Toby Wallace as Jones, Anson Boon as John Lyndon, Christian Lees as Glen Matlock, Louis Partridge as Sid Vicious, and Jacob Slater as Paul Cook.
FX’s “Pistol” premieres May 31, with all six episodes available to stream on Hulu that day. The youth revolution is charted in the limited series, which promises the Sex Pistols’ mission to “kick this country awake if it kills us” and reclaim the future from the British monarchy.
“Game of Thrones” alum Maisie Williams plays punk icon Jordan, while “Queen’s Gambit” star Thomas Brodie-Sangster portrays the Sex Pistols’ manager Malcolm McLaren. “Westworld” actress Talulah Riley plays McLaren’s partner,...
- 4/6/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Update (4/4): The Sex Pistols cook up an explosive concoction of incredibly marketable anarchy for a disaffected generation in the new short trailer for Pistol. The clip doesn’t offer too much in the way of plot points, but sets a distinct tone as the budding punk outfit and their peers rail against Britain’s monarchy and dream of causing mayhem in London. The show is set to premiere May 31 on Hulu.
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Danny Boyle’s Pistol, the FX limited series about the Sex Pistols, will make its streaming premiere in...
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Danny Boyle’s Pistol, the FX limited series about the Sex Pistols, will make its streaming premiere in...
- 4/4/2022
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
“Pistol,” a new limited series about the career of “Sex Pistols” guitarist Steve Jones, will premiere on Hulu this May 31, FX has announced.
Based on Jones’ 2017 memoir “Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol,” “Pistol” follows the brief but influential career of The Sex Pistols, a 1970s British punk band that only produced one album but are regarded as one of the most important acts in the history of rock-n-roll. The central viewpoint character for the series is Jones, who is portrayed by Toby Wallace. Anson Boon also stars as John Lydon, while Christian Lees as Glen Matlock, Louis Partridge as Sid Vicious and Jacob Slater as Paul Cook round out the rest of the band as featured in the show. The series also features Sydney Chandler, Talulah Riley, Maisie Williams, Emma Appleton and Thomas Brodie-Sangster.
“Pistol” was created by Craig Pearce, who writes the series. Every episode is directed by Danny Boyle,...
Based on Jones’ 2017 memoir “Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol,” “Pistol” follows the brief but influential career of The Sex Pistols, a 1970s British punk band that only produced one album but are regarded as one of the most important acts in the history of rock-n-roll. The central viewpoint character for the series is Jones, who is portrayed by Toby Wallace. Anson Boon also stars as John Lydon, while Christian Lees as Glen Matlock, Louis Partridge as Sid Vicious and Jacob Slater as Paul Cook round out the rest of the band as featured in the show. The series also features Sydney Chandler, Talulah Riley, Maisie Williams, Emma Appleton and Thomas Brodie-Sangster.
“Pistol” was created by Craig Pearce, who writes the series. Every episode is directed by Danny Boyle,...
- 3/29/2022
- by Wilson Chapman
- Variety Film + TV
FX has set the date of its Danny Boyle-directed limited series about Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones. Pistol will premiere May 31 exclusively on Hulu in the U.S. and on Disney+ in UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore.
The limited series is based on Jones’ 2017 memoir Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol. The series was created and written by Craig Pearce and will be executive produced by Boyle, Pearce, Tracey Seaward, Steve Jones, Gail Lyon, Anita Camarata, Paul Lee and Hope Hartman. It’s from FX Prods.
Here’s the official logline: “The furious, raging storm at the center of this revolution are the Sex Pistols – and at the center of this series is Sex Pistols’ founding member and guitarist, Steve Jones. Jones’ hilarious, emotional and at times heart-breaking journey guides us through a kaleidoscopic telling of three of the most epic, chaotic and mucus-spattered years in the history of music.
The limited series is based on Jones’ 2017 memoir Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol. The series was created and written by Craig Pearce and will be executive produced by Boyle, Pearce, Tracey Seaward, Steve Jones, Gail Lyon, Anita Camarata, Paul Lee and Hope Hartman. It’s from FX Prods.
Here’s the official logline: “The furious, raging storm at the center of this revolution are the Sex Pistols – and at the center of this series is Sex Pistols’ founding member and guitarist, Steve Jones. Jones’ hilarious, emotional and at times heart-breaking journey guides us through a kaleidoscopic telling of three of the most epic, chaotic and mucus-spattered years in the history of music.
- 3/29/2022
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
FX’s “Pistol,” the series based on the memoir from Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones, will begin streaming on Hulu May 31, with all six episodes of the limited series available at launch.
“Pistol” has been described by FX as a show about “a rock and roll revolution.”
“The furious, raging storm at the center of this revolution are the Sex Pistols — and at the center of this series is Sex Pistols’ founding member and guitarist, Steve Jones. Jones’ hilarious, emotional and at times heartbreaking journey guides us through a kaleidoscopic telling of three of the most epic, chaotic and mucus-spattered years in the history of music. Based on Jones’ memoir ‘Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol,’ this is the story of a band of spotty, noisy, working-class kids with ‘no future,’ who shook the boring, corrupt establishment to its core, threatened to bring down the government and changed music and culture forever.
“Pistol” has been described by FX as a show about “a rock and roll revolution.”
“The furious, raging storm at the center of this revolution are the Sex Pistols — and at the center of this series is Sex Pistols’ founding member and guitarist, Steve Jones. Jones’ hilarious, emotional and at times heartbreaking journey guides us through a kaleidoscopic telling of three of the most epic, chaotic and mucus-spattered years in the history of music. Based on Jones’ memoir ‘Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol,’ this is the story of a band of spotty, noisy, working-class kids with ‘no future,’ who shook the boring, corrupt establishment to its core, threatened to bring down the government and changed music and culture forever.
- 3/29/2022
- by Jolie Lash
- The Wrap
Hold the door—are Thomas Brodie-Sangster and Talulah Riley making things official? The Game of Thrones alum seemingly confirmed his budding romance with the Westworld actress on Friday, March 11, when they hit the red carpet together at the 2022 British Academy Film Awards Gala Dinner. For the occasion, Thomas opted for a patterned suit complete with a black bowtie, while she looked stunning next to him in a green sequined gown by Galvan. Inside the glitzy affair, Tallulah was photographed while resting her head on the Love Actually actor's shoulder by the bar. The cozy sighting comes months after the two were snapped holding hands amid dating reports. According...
- 3/12/2022
- E! Online
Joe Wright is a director who not only sees but conceives his films through their setting and a sense of space.
“Drama occurs between people in relation to each other, and in relation to the space in which they find themselves. It’s entirely linked,” explained Wright. Perched on the window of his New York hotel room, he tried to elucidate his point with an impromptu scenario.
“Okay, say you’re going to meet your wife, no, your girlfriend, and you intend to propose to her,” Wright paused as he took a drag from his cigarette, thinking through the scenario. “You’ve played it out in your head. When you arrive in the gardens, or maybe it’s a restaurant, with an idea of what it’s going to be like, something about the space completely throws you. The space plays a role in how the drama will play out...
“Drama occurs between people in relation to each other, and in relation to the space in which they find themselves. It’s entirely linked,” explained Wright. Perched on the window of his New York hotel room, he tried to elucidate his point with an impromptu scenario.
“Okay, say you’re going to meet your wife, no, your girlfriend, and you intend to propose to her,” Wright paused as he took a drag from his cigarette, thinking through the scenario. “You’ve played it out in your head. When you arrive in the gardens, or maybe it’s a restaurant, with an idea of what it’s going to be like, something about the space completely throws you. The space plays a role in how the drama will play out...
- 12/21/2021
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Looking for a way to get in the holiday spirit? Netflix is gifting viewers with plenty of festive films to choose from this season. Learn more about five new titles, below. 1. Father Christmas Is Back ’Tis the season for family infighting! Control freak Caroline Christmas (Nathalie Cox) invites her quirky sisters to her fabulous country manor for a peaceful holiday retreat. But when their estranged father (Kelsey Grammer) turns up with his much-younger girlfriend, they don’t see his presence as a present. Available now 2. A Castle for Christmas Move over, Outlander! A new romance hits the Highlands when an author (Brooke Shields) heads to Scotland to buy a castle from a reluctant seller with royal roots (Cary Elwes). Thankfully, a seasonal celebration and the lush setting help melt the chilly pair’s hearts. “The landscape, the castles, the villages…they lend a fairy-tale feeling,” director Mary Lambert says. Available Friday,...
- 11/26/2021
- TV Insider
Stars: Kelsey Grammer, Elizabeth Hurley, Kris Marshall, John Cleese, Caroline Quentin, Katy Brand, Ray Fearon, Talulah Riley | Written by Hannah Davis, David Conolly, Dylanne Corcoran | Directed by Mick Davis, Philippe Martinez
Another day, another new Netflix Christmas movie. Father Christmas is Back took my interest because of its cast. I can’t say I’m a huge fan of any of the actors (although I’ve seen most of them put in good performances) but it’s just such a random mix of people that thought I’d check out this festive movie.
So lets start with that cast. The biggest star and playing ‘Father’ Christmas (that’s the surname of the family) is Kelsey Grammer and he’s alongside this odd group of actors who I didn’t expect to see in a Netflix movie together – Elizabeth Hurley, Kris Marshall, John Cleese, Caroline Quentin, Katy Brand, Ray Fearon and Talulah Riley.
Another day, another new Netflix Christmas movie. Father Christmas is Back took my interest because of its cast. I can’t say I’m a huge fan of any of the actors (although I’ve seen most of them put in good performances) but it’s just such a random mix of people that thought I’d check out this festive movie.
So lets start with that cast. The biggest star and playing ‘Father’ Christmas (that’s the surname of the family) is Kelsey Grammer and he’s alongside this odd group of actors who I didn’t expect to see in a Netflix movie together – Elizabeth Hurley, Kris Marshall, John Cleese, Caroline Quentin, Katy Brand, Ray Fearon and Talulah Riley.
- 11/11/2021
- by Alain Elliott
- Nerdly
Armed with the comedic punch and snap of That Girl’s Marlo Thomas and the poise of Audrey Hepburn, Cristin Milioti has built a rapidly blossoming career of deconstructing the romantic heroine.
The characters in repertoire may come off as the nice girlfriend, but they’re dealing with significantly more baggage than any Hepburn protagonist, from Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s to Regina Lampert in Charade, could bear.
And by the way, it’s not the girl in Milioti’s world who has the problems, it’s the guy.
Whether it’s an obsessed software developer boss whose trapped her in a Star Trek-like virtual game (the 2017 Black Mirror episode “USS Callister) or an overbearing paternal doorman who gets in the way of her promising love life (the 2019 Amazon anthology series Modern Love), Milioti’s alter egos have complicated lives.
In the HBO Max comedy series Made for Love,...
The characters in repertoire may come off as the nice girlfriend, but they’re dealing with significantly more baggage than any Hepburn protagonist, from Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s to Regina Lampert in Charade, could bear.
And by the way, it’s not the girl in Milioti’s world who has the problems, it’s the guy.
Whether it’s an obsessed software developer boss whose trapped her in a Star Trek-like virtual game (the 2017 Black Mirror episode “USS Callister) or an overbearing paternal doorman who gets in the way of her promising love life (the 2019 Amazon anthology series Modern Love), Milioti’s alter egos have complicated lives.
In the HBO Max comedy series Made for Love,...
- 6/6/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Warning: This interview contains spoilers about the season 1 finale of HBO Max’s Made For Love
When your twisted tech mogul husband puts a chip in your brain to spy on you –and also monitors your orgasms– yeah, it’s time to move on.
In a last minute shocking twist, Cristin Milioti’s Hazel Green decided to stick with her crazed, megalomaniac visionary husband Byron Gogol, played by Billy Magnussen, even though we saw her sign divorce papers and insist upon her independence. After Byron invaded her personal space to put it mildly, and used her as his advanced technological experiment, Hazel was easily done with him. That is until Byron one-upped her in an effort to win her back: He disclosed to Hazel that her sex-doll loving dad Herbert, wryly played by Ray Romano, had cancer. Herbert stood a better chance at life by moving to Byron’s ‘Hub...
When your twisted tech mogul husband puts a chip in your brain to spy on you –and also monitors your orgasms– yeah, it’s time to move on.
In a last minute shocking twist, Cristin Milioti’s Hazel Green decided to stick with her crazed, megalomaniac visionary husband Byron Gogol, played by Billy Magnussen, even though we saw her sign divorce papers and insist upon her independence. After Byron invaded her personal space to put it mildly, and used her as his advanced technological experiment, Hazel was easily done with him. That is until Byron one-upped her in an effort to win her back: He disclosed to Hazel that her sex-doll loving dad Herbert, wryly played by Ray Romano, had cancer. Herbert stood a better chance at life by moving to Byron’s ‘Hub...
- 4/15/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
As principal photography begins in London on Danny Boyle’s Pistol’, the six-episode FX limited series about the legendary Sex Pistol guitarist Steve Jones. a first look image has been released alongside the announcement that Thomas Brodie-Sangster has joined the cast.
Brodie-Sangster will play Malcolm McLaren, another cast member has announced with Talulah Riley, who will take on the role of Vivienne Westwood.
The series will be based on Jones’ 2018 memoir Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol, Boyle will also serve as executive producer.
The series moves from West London’s council estates to Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren’s notorious Kings Road Sex shop, to the international controversy that came with the release of ‘Never Mind the Bollocks’, which is frequently listed as one of the most influential albums of all time. Their single “God Save the Queen” was banned by the BBC and reached Number 1 on the UK’s NME chart,...
Brodie-Sangster will play Malcolm McLaren, another cast member has announced with Talulah Riley, who will take on the role of Vivienne Westwood.
The series will be based on Jones’ 2018 memoir Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol, Boyle will also serve as executive producer.
The series moves from West London’s council estates to Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren’s notorious Kings Road Sex shop, to the international controversy that came with the release of ‘Never Mind the Bollocks’, which is frequently listed as one of the most influential albums of all time. Their single “God Save the Queen” was banned by the BBC and reached Number 1 on the UK’s NME chart,...
- 3/3/2021
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The Queen’s Gambit’s Thomas Brodie-Sangster will portray Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren and Westworld’s Talulah Riley will play punk design icon Vivienne Westwood in Pistol, the Danny Boyle-directed FX limited series about the Sex Pistols.
The latest cast additions also include Christian Lees — who previously played Jerry Lee Lewis in the Sun Records series — in the role of Sex Pistols bassist Glen Matlock and actress Iris Law, in her screen debut, as punk icon Soo Catwoman.
With the series now in production, Rolling Stone also presents...
The latest cast additions also include Christian Lees — who previously played Jerry Lee Lewis in the Sun Records series — in the role of Sex Pistols bassist Glen Matlock and actress Iris Law, in her screen debut, as punk icon Soo Catwoman.
With the series now in production, Rolling Stone also presents...
- 3/2/2021
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Still courtesy of Msr Media / Featuring (L-r): Talulah Riley, John Cleese, Nathalie Cox, Caroline Quentin, Elizabeth Hurley, Ray Fearon, Naomi Frederick, And Kris Marshall
Here’s your first look at the new comedy Father Christmas Is Back starring a star ensemble cast including Elizabeth Hurley, John Cleese, and Kelsey Grammer.
In the feel-good festive comedy, Caroline Christmas is a control freak, who desires nothing more than a perfect Christmas with her sisters at her lavish country manor to atone for the fact that their father abandoned the family on December 25th, many years ago. When on Christmas Eve their long-lost father arrives at their doorstep with his new girlfriend chaos ensues. Through a series of mishaps and misunderstandings, Caroline uncovers a long-buried family secret… can the family still celebrate Christmas together after all?
Directed by Philippe Martinez (Viktor) and Mick Davis (Modigliani). The film is written by David Conolly...
Here’s your first look at the new comedy Father Christmas Is Back starring a star ensemble cast including Elizabeth Hurley, John Cleese, and Kelsey Grammer.
In the feel-good festive comedy, Caroline Christmas is a control freak, who desires nothing more than a perfect Christmas with her sisters at her lavish country manor to atone for the fact that their father abandoned the family on December 25th, many years ago. When on Christmas Eve their long-lost father arrives at their doorstep with his new girlfriend chaos ensues. Through a series of mishaps and misunderstandings, Caroline uncovers a long-buried family secret… can the family still celebrate Christmas together after all?
Directed by Philippe Martinez (Viktor) and Mick Davis (Modigliani). The film is written by David Conolly...
- 11/10/2020
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Msr head Philippe Martinez (Viktor) directs comedy.
Screen has obtained the first-look image from Msr Media’s comedy and AFM 2020 Online sales title Father Christmas Is Back starring Elizabeth Hurley, John Cleese and Kelsey Grammer.
Msr head Philippe Martinez (Viktor) directs the film, which wrapped production recently in York, England.
The story centres on a control freak whose plans for a lavish family Yuletide celebration are thrown into disarray when their long-lost father turns up with his new girlfriend.
The cast includes Nathalie Cox, Talulah Riley, Kris Marshall, Caroline Quentin, April Bowlby,Ray Fearon and Naomi Frederick.
Msr Media International handles sales.
Screen has obtained the first-look image from Msr Media’s comedy and AFM 2020 Online sales title Father Christmas Is Back starring Elizabeth Hurley, John Cleese and Kelsey Grammer.
Msr head Philippe Martinez (Viktor) directs the film, which wrapped production recently in York, England.
The story centres on a control freak whose plans for a lavish family Yuletide celebration are thrown into disarray when their long-lost father turns up with his new girlfriend.
The cast includes Nathalie Cox, Talulah Riley, Kris Marshall, Caroline Quentin, April Bowlby,Ray Fearon and Naomi Frederick.
Msr Media International handles sales.
- 11/10/2020
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Monday, Sept. 14
‘Marry Me’ Arriving Valentine’s Day Weekend
Universal Pictures will release the romance film “Marry Me,” starring Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson, on Feb. 12, the start of the Valentine’s Day weekend.
Lopez is starring as a musical superstar and Wilson is portraying a divorced math teacher. Lopez’s character is about to marry a new music star in a worldwide ceremony when she discovers that he cheated on her. She has a meltdown, then locks eyes with Wilson’s character and decides to marry him.
“Marry Me” is directed by Kat Coiro from a screenplay by John Rogers, Tami Sagher and Harper Dill based on the graphic novel by Bobby Crosby. The film is produced by Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, Lopez, Benny Medina and John Rogers. The film’s executive producers are Alex Brown, Willie Mercer, Pamela Thur and J.B. Roberts.
Elizabeth Hurley, John Cleese Join Christmas Comedy
Elizabeth Hurley,...
‘Marry Me’ Arriving Valentine’s Day Weekend
Universal Pictures will release the romance film “Marry Me,” starring Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson, on Feb. 12, the start of the Valentine’s Day weekend.
Lopez is starring as a musical superstar and Wilson is portraying a divorced math teacher. Lopez’s character is about to marry a new music star in a worldwide ceremony when she discovers that he cheated on her. She has a meltdown, then locks eyes with Wilson’s character and decides to marry him.
“Marry Me” is directed by Kat Coiro from a screenplay by John Rogers, Tami Sagher and Harper Dill based on the graphic novel by Bobby Crosby. The film is produced by Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, Lopez, Benny Medina and John Rogers. The film’s executive producers are Alex Brown, Willie Mercer, Pamela Thur and J.B. Roberts.
Elizabeth Hurley, John Cleese Join Christmas Comedy
Elizabeth Hurley,...
- 9/15/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Elizabeth Hurley, John Cleese and Kelsey Grammer have been cast in Father Christmas Is Back, a family comedy film now shooting in York in the UK. The pic from Msr Media is directed by Philippe Martinez (Viktor) and Mick Davis (Modigliani) from a script from David Conolly and Hannah Davis Law (Mothers and Daughters) and Dylanne Corcoran.
The film is based on an original idea by Martinez, who also produces with Alan Latham from Highfield Grange Studios. Goldfinch’s Kirsty Bell executive produces alongside Lee Beasley and Karinne Behr from Msr Media. Msr Media International is repping worldwide rights.
The plot centers on Caroline Christmas (Nathalie Cox), a control freak who desires nothing more than a perfect Christmas with her sisters at her lavish country manor to atone for the fact that their father abandoned the family on December 25th many years ago. When on Christmas Eve their long-lost father...
The film is based on an original idea by Martinez, who also produces with Alan Latham from Highfield Grange Studios. Goldfinch’s Kirsty Bell executive produces alongside Lee Beasley and Karinne Behr from Msr Media. Msr Media International is repping worldwide rights.
The plot centers on Caroline Christmas (Nathalie Cox), a control freak who desires nothing more than a perfect Christmas with her sisters at her lavish country manor to atone for the fact that their father abandoned the family on December 25th many years ago. When on Christmas Eve their long-lost father...
- 9/14/2020
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Msr Media International handles worldwide sales.
UK production is underway on Msr Media’s comedy Father Christmas Is Back with John Cleese, Liz Hurley, and Kelsey Grammer.
Covid-19-safe principal photography has begun in York on the story about a control freak, Caroline Christmas, who organises a seasonal celebration with her sisters at her country manor when their long-lost father turns up on Christmas Eve with his girlfriend and a secret is revealed.
Msr Media founder Philippe Martinez and Mick Davis are co-directing from a screenplay by David Conolly and Hannah Davis Law and Dylanne Corcoran, based on an original idea by Martinez.
UK production is underway on Msr Media’s comedy Father Christmas Is Back with John Cleese, Liz Hurley, and Kelsey Grammer.
Covid-19-safe principal photography has begun in York on the story about a control freak, Caroline Christmas, who organises a seasonal celebration with her sisters at her country manor when their long-lost father turns up on Christmas Eve with his girlfriend and a secret is revealed.
Msr Media founder Philippe Martinez and Mick Davis are co-directing from a screenplay by David Conolly and Hannah Davis Law and Dylanne Corcoran, based on an original idea by Martinez.
- 9/14/2020
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Elizabeth Hurley, surprised her fans with a stunning snap of her rocking a string bikini.
The actress, who turned 55-years old recently took to her Instagram handle to share a picture of herself holding what appears to be a script as she sat in a chair.
Also read: Wonder Woman 1984 dialogues
Elizabeth Hurley revealed to her fans that she’s embarked on a new acting project alongside John Cleese, Kelsey Grammer, Nathalie Cox and Talulah Riley.
She captioned the photograph: "Very, very excited to be going back to work."
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Very, very excited to be going back to work. First day of filming tomorrow with my old friend @johncleeseofficial and a brilliant cast including @mrkelseygrammer @nathalieccox and @talulahrm...
The actress, who turned 55-years old recently took to her Instagram handle to share a picture of herself holding what appears to be a script as she sat in a chair.
Also read: Wonder Woman 1984 dialogues
Elizabeth Hurley revealed to her fans that she’s embarked on a new acting project alongside John Cleese, Kelsey Grammer, Nathalie Cox and Talulah Riley.
She captioned the photograph: "Very, very excited to be going back to work."
View this post on Instagram
Very, very excited to be going back to work. First day of filming tomorrow with my old friend @johncleeseofficial and a brilliant cast including @mrkelseygrammer @nathalieccox and @talulahrm...
- 8/24/2020
- by Omkar Padte
- GlamSham
As more and more states see rising cases of coronavirus infections, a second wave of quarantine and social distancing appears to be more likely than ever before. Add to that the fact that summer heatwaves will be striking the country from east to west and north to south, and staying indoors with your favorite streamer doesn’t seem like such a bad option anymore.
Netflix knows this, too, as is evidenced by their continuous effort to add more and more films and TV series to their library. Ever since the pandemic knocked out original productions, the streaming service has been looking far and wide for hidden gems to serve up to their subscribers and here are the best movies that they added this past week.
First off we have The Notebook. Based on the famed novel written by Nicholas Sparks, it tells the story of a couple who meet when...
Netflix knows this, too, as is evidenced by their continuous effort to add more and more films and TV series to their library. Ever since the pandemic knocked out original productions, the streaming service has been looking far and wide for hidden gems to serve up to their subscribers and here are the best movies that they added this past week.
First off we have The Notebook. Based on the famed novel written by Nicholas Sparks, it tells the story of a couple who meet when...
- 7/20/2020
- by Tim Brinkhof
- We Got This Covered
In 1992, every comics company had a guy with gun – DC’s Deathstroke, Marvel’s Punisher and Cable, Fleetway’s Judge Dredd, and then came Valiant’s Bloodshot.
In the 2010s, every studio needed a comics franchise to exploit for box office supremacy – Warner’s DC, Disney’s McU, and Sony, not happy sharing Spider-Man with Disney, picked up Valiant’s Bloodshot from the Columbia scrap heap by way of Paramount.
In the intervening years, filmgoers had already been treated to an endless array of gun-toting, cool-looking figures from Neo to John Wick (who just happen to be played by the endlessly fascinating Keanu Reeves).
There was no particular demand for one more, certainly not one played by Vin Diesel whose range goes from A to B. From Pitch Black to Hobbs and Shaw, he’s pretty much the same guy, without the range of roles his rival, Dwayne Johnson,...
In the 2010s, every studio needed a comics franchise to exploit for box office supremacy – Warner’s DC, Disney’s McU, and Sony, not happy sharing Spider-Man with Disney, picked up Valiant’s Bloodshot from the Columbia scrap heap by way of Paramount.
In the intervening years, filmgoers had already been treated to an endless array of gun-toting, cool-looking figures from Neo to John Wick (who just happen to be played by the endlessly fascinating Keanu Reeves).
There was no particular demand for one more, certainly not one played by Vin Diesel whose range goes from A to B. From Pitch Black to Hobbs and Shaw, he’s pretty much the same guy, without the range of roles his rival, Dwayne Johnson,...
- 5/6/2020
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
Built around a comic-book hero created in 1992, Dave Wilson’s Valiant Comics adaptation “Bloodshot” is a throwback actioner that likely would have killed in the late ’90s, but now feels every inch the product of that era’s humor and innovation. In a rapidly changing world, however, that might not be a bad thing.
Vin Diesel stars as the eponymous super-soldier in a film that was released in theaters in the midst of a global pandemic, and smartly made the pivot to VOD release mere days later. While never poised to be a box-office hit, there’s something to be said for piping the delightfully asinine and needlessly convoluted feature into people’s homes when entertainment is more essential than ever.
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Vin Diesel stars as the eponymous super-soldier in a film that was released in theaters in the midst of a global pandemic, and smartly made the pivot to VOD release mere days later. While never poised to be a box-office hit, there’s something to be said for piping the delightfully asinine and needlessly convoluted feature into people’s homes when entertainment is more essential than ever.
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- 3/24/2020
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Okay action flick fans, it’s still fairly early in the movie year but who’s ready for a high-octane thriller based on a comic book character? I’m guessing the answer’s a resounding yes, though the superheroes don’t generally invade the multiplex for several more weeks. So which comics publishing company is the print home of the possible subject of a new big franchise? It’s not the current “golden stable of stars” Marvel (now part of the “Mouse House”). Nor is it the older line that’s trying hard to “catch up”, DC (linked with Warner Brothers). Perhaps it’s Image, the upstarts that gave us Spawn? Nope, but you’re getting closer. One of its ilk from around the same era is Valiant Comics (Entertainment as they expand), part of the independent press explosion of the early to mid-1990s. Back then the readers were...
- 3/13/2020
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
At this point, it’s hard to imagine that any comic book properties haven’t been mined for film. However, we have a new one in Bloodshot, but it does seem rather unlikely to start up a new franchise for star Vin Diesel. While on paper, this flick must have seemed like a cool vehicle for him, it instead offers up nothing we haven’t seen before, along with a visual style where you can never see anything during the myriad action scenes. In short order, you become disengaged and frankly rather frustrated. Those who expect a sequel from this initial outing are likely to be very disappointed. The movie is based on a comic book, as you might imagine. Ray Garrison (Diesel) is a soldier we watch get murdered early on, only to be brought back to life through nanotechnology by the Rst corporation, led by Dr. Emil Harting...
- 3/11/2020
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
A movie hero gets unplugged from the web of grand illusion he’s been living in, then dunked into the reality behind the façade. That’s what happened in “The Matrix,” when Keanu Reeves’ Neo woke up to learn that he’d been trapped in a narcotizing dream world. It happens, once again, in “Bloodshot,” a derivative but catchy pulp action superhero head trip about a U.S. Marine, Ray Garrison (Vin Diesel), who gets killed and brought back to life in a newly enhanced and indestructible form. He goes on a vengeful murder mission, hunting down the scoundrel who killed his wife, but even this payback odyssey isn’t what it seems — it’s the creation of forces out to control him.
If you’re part of the audience that goes to see “Bloodshot,” you may experience your own version of that pleasingly disorienting unplugged feeling. Here we are,...
If you’re part of the audience that goes to see “Bloodshot,” you may experience your own version of that pleasingly disorienting unplugged feeling. Here we are,...
- 3/11/2020
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
“You don’t have to have a history to have a future,” Guy Pearce’s Dr. Emil Harting says to Ray Garrison (Vin Diesel), the titular hero of director David S.F. Wilson’s Bloodshot. Garrison is a soldier whose shattered body has been restored to life by Harting via microscopic robots called “nanites” that all but replaced Garrison’s blood. With enhanced strength, speed, durability and healing powers, Garrison is all but indestructible–yet his memories are the one thing he cannot seem to retrieve.
But Bloodshot does, of course, have a history as one of the flagship titles of Valiant Comics, a long independent publisher that created its own universe of heroes and villains as counter-programming for those tired of the usual DC and Marvel suspects. Yet while various incarnations of Valiant have been around for better than 30 years, its characters and their backstories have not quite entered...
But Bloodshot does, of course, have a history as one of the flagship titles of Valiant Comics, a long independent publisher that created its own universe of heroes and villains as counter-programming for those tired of the usual DC and Marvel suspects. Yet while various incarnations of Valiant have been around for better than 30 years, its characters and their backstories have not quite entered...
- 3/11/2020
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
Valiant Entertainment, in support of Sony's upcoming "Bloodshot" feature starring Vin Diesel will release a "Fully Loaded" edition of "Bloodshot" #7, featuring eight pages of bonus content that includes new artwork, 'classified' information and commentary from 'Bloodshot' comic book creator Kevin VanHook, available April 8, 2020:
"...in part 1 of the three-issue story arc 'Burned', 'Bloodshot' must hunt down monsters, aliens, living weapons and other terrifying threats after they're set loose from a top-secret facility..."
Actor Diesel ("Guardians of the Galaxy") stars in the Sony Entertainment live-action feature, directed by Dave Wilson, co-starring Eiza González, Sam Heughan ("Outlander"), Toby Kebbell and Guy Pearce, opening March 13, 2020 in 2D and IMAX:
"...after he is killed in action, 'Marine Ray Garrison' (Diesel) is resurrected by a secret team of scientists.
"Enhanced with 'nanotechnology', he becomes a superhuman, biotech killing machine, aka 'Bloodshot', with viral mechanisms to enable flesh regeneration...
"...in part 1 of the three-issue story arc 'Burned', 'Bloodshot' must hunt down monsters, aliens, living weapons and other terrifying threats after they're set loose from a top-secret facility..."
Actor Diesel ("Guardians of the Galaxy") stars in the Sony Entertainment live-action feature, directed by Dave Wilson, co-starring Eiza González, Sam Heughan ("Outlander"), Toby Kebbell and Guy Pearce, opening March 13, 2020 in 2D and IMAX:
"...after he is killed in action, 'Marine Ray Garrison' (Diesel) is resurrected by a secret team of scientists.
"Enhanced with 'nanotechnology', he becomes a superhuman, biotech killing machine, aka 'Bloodshot', with viral mechanisms to enable flesh regeneration...
- 3/9/2020
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Actor Vin Diesel ("Guardians of the Galaxy") stars as Valiant Comics superhero "Bloodshot", in a new Sony Entertainment live-action feature, directed by Dave Wilson, co-starring Eiza González, Sam Heughan ("Outlander"), Toby Kebbell and Guy Pearce, opening March 13, 2020 in 2D and IMAX:
"...after he is killed in action, 'Marine Ray Garrison' (Diesel) is resurrected by a secret team of scientists.
"Enhanced with 'nanotechnology', he becomes a superhuman, biotech killing machine, aka 'Bloodshot', with viral mechanisms to enable flesh regeneration .
"As Ray first trains with fellow super-soldiers, he cannot recall anything from his former life.
"But when his memories flood back and he remembers the man that killed both him and his wife, he breaks out of the facility hellbent on revenge...
"...only to discover that there's more to a government-run, deep state conspiracy than he ever bargained for..."
Cast also includes Lamorne Morris, Talulah Riley, Alex Hernandez and Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson.
"...after he is killed in action, 'Marine Ray Garrison' (Diesel) is resurrected by a secret team of scientists.
"Enhanced with 'nanotechnology', he becomes a superhuman, biotech killing machine, aka 'Bloodshot', with viral mechanisms to enable flesh regeneration .
"As Ray first trains with fellow super-soldiers, he cannot recall anything from his former life.
"But when his memories flood back and he remembers the man that killed both him and his wife, he breaks out of the facility hellbent on revenge...
"...only to discover that there's more to a government-run, deep state conspiracy than he ever bargained for..."
Cast also includes Lamorne Morris, Talulah Riley, Alex Hernandez and Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson.
- 3/4/2020
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Actor Vin Diesel ("Guardians of the Galaxy") stars as Valiant Comics superhero "Bloodshot", in a new live-action feature, directed by Dave Wilson, co-starring Eiza González, Sam Heughan ("Outlander"), Toby Kebbell and Guy Pearce, opening March 13, 2020 in 2D and IMAX:
"...after he is killed in action, 'Marine Ray Garrison' (Diesel) is resurrected by a secret team of scientists.
"Enhanced with 'nanotechnology', he becomes a superhuman, biotech killing machine, aka 'Bloodshot', with viral mechanisms to enable flesh regeneration .
"As Ray first trains with fellow super-soldiers, he cannot recall anything from his former life.
"But when his memories flood back and he remembers the man that killed both him and his wife, he breaks out of the facility hellbent on revenge...
"...only to discover that there's more to a government-run, deep state conspiracy than he ever bargained for..."
Cast also includes Lamorne Morris, Talulah Riley, Alex Hernandez and Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson.
"...after he is killed in action, 'Marine Ray Garrison' (Diesel) is resurrected by a secret team of scientists.
"Enhanced with 'nanotechnology', he becomes a superhuman, biotech killing machine, aka 'Bloodshot', with viral mechanisms to enable flesh regeneration .
"As Ray first trains with fellow super-soldiers, he cannot recall anything from his former life.
"But when his memories flood back and he remembers the man that killed both him and his wife, he breaks out of the facility hellbent on revenge...
"...only to discover that there's more to a government-run, deep state conspiracy than he ever bargained for..."
Cast also includes Lamorne Morris, Talulah Riley, Alex Hernandez and Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson.
- 3/2/2020
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Kayti Burt Feb 26, 2020
With Emma and Sanditon making waves (seaside resort pun!), we're listing up the best screen adaptations of Jane Austen's work.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that every Jane Austen novel must be adapted an infinite amount of times and we will be grateful for all of them.
There have been a lot of adaptations of Jane Austen's six major novels and some of her other works, including the recently-released Emma starring Anya Taylor-Joy. These are the ones we recommend watching.
Best Pride and Prejudice Adaptations
Easily the most adapted of Jane Austen's works, Pride and Prejudice is a foundational work in the broader romantic comedy genre and in so much of our mainstream storytelling. People tend to have opinions about which of the P&p adaptations are the best. (Who is the best Elizabeth? Who is the best Darcy? Which is the most faithful? Does it matter?...
With Emma and Sanditon making waves (seaside resort pun!), we're listing up the best screen adaptations of Jane Austen's work.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that every Jane Austen novel must be adapted an infinite amount of times and we will be grateful for all of them.
There have been a lot of adaptations of Jane Austen's six major novels and some of her other works, including the recently-released Emma starring Anya Taylor-Joy. These are the ones we recommend watching.
Best Pride and Prejudice Adaptations
Easily the most adapted of Jane Austen's works, Pride and Prejudice is a foundational work in the broader romantic comedy genre and in so much of our mainstream storytelling. People tend to have opinions about which of the P&p adaptations are the best. (Who is the best Elizabeth? Who is the best Darcy? Which is the most faithful? Does it matter?...
- 2/21/2020
- Den of Geek
Actor Vin Diesel ("Guardians of the Galaxy") stars as Valiant Comics superhero "Bloodshot", in a new live-action feature, directed by Dave Wilson, co-starring Eiza González, Sam Heughan ("Outlander"), Toby Kebbell and Guy Pearce, opening March 13, 2020 in 2D and IMAX:
"...after he is killed in action, 'Marine Ray Garrison' (Diesel) is resurrected by a secret team of scientists.
"Enhanced with 'nanotechnology', he becomes a superhuman, biotech killing machine, aka 'Bloodshot', with viral mechanisms to enable flesh regeneration .
"As Ray first trains with fellow super-soldiers, he cannot recall anything from his former life.
"But when his memories flood back and he remembers the man that killed both him and his wife, he breaks out of the facility hellbent on revenge...
"...only to discover that there's more to a government-run, deep state conspiracy than he ever bargained for..."
Cast also includes Lamorne Morris, Talulah Riley, Alex Hernandez and Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson.
"...after he is killed in action, 'Marine Ray Garrison' (Diesel) is resurrected by a secret team of scientists.
"Enhanced with 'nanotechnology', he becomes a superhuman, biotech killing machine, aka 'Bloodshot', with viral mechanisms to enable flesh regeneration .
"As Ray first trains with fellow super-soldiers, he cannot recall anything from his former life.
"But when his memories flood back and he remembers the man that killed both him and his wife, he breaks out of the facility hellbent on revenge...
"...only to discover that there's more to a government-run, deep state conspiracy than he ever bargained for..."
Cast also includes Lamorne Morris, Talulah Riley, Alex Hernandez and Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson.
- 2/19/2020
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
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