Exclusive: Snafu With Ed Helms, the iHeartPodcast hosted by Helms about history’s greatest screwups, has been renewed for a second and third season. The podcast is a production of iHeartPodcasts, FilmNation Entertainment & Pacific Electric Picture Co. in association with Gilded Audio. The second season is produced by Alyssa Martino and Tory Smith for FilmNation, and produced and written by Sara Joyner, Stephen Wood, and Albert Chen for Gilded Audio.
Executive producers for the second season are Helms and Mike Falbo for Pacific Electric Picture Co.; Milan Popelka for FilmNation Entertainment; Andy Chugg and Whitney Donaldson for Gilded Audio; Dylan Fagan for iHeartPodcasts; and Betty Medsger, author of The Burglary.
Hosted and executive produced by Helms, the podcast recently won two Signal Awards: a Gold Award for Best History Podcast and a Silver Award for Best Writing, both in the category of Limited Series & Specials. This year it was also...
Executive producers for the second season are Helms and Mike Falbo for Pacific Electric Picture Co.; Milan Popelka for FilmNation Entertainment; Andy Chugg and Whitney Donaldson for Gilded Audio; Dylan Fagan for iHeartPodcasts; and Betty Medsger, author of The Burglary.
Hosted and executive produced by Helms, the podcast recently won two Signal Awards: a Gold Award for Best History Podcast and a Silver Award for Best Writing, both in the category of Limited Series & Specials. This year it was also...
- 11/2/2023
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Given the rate at which he produces them, it sometimes seems as if nobody enjoys documentaries quite as much as Alex Gibney — but perhaps the man has finally run out of subjects to cover. Whatever the case may be, he’s gone to fiction with a new project: Deadline report on The Action, a ’70s-set political thriller scripted by Scott Z. Burns (Contagion, The Informant!) that concerns the Citizens Commission to Investigate the FBI, “eight anti-war activists who stole and made public classified FBI documents that exposed J. Edgar Hoover’s campaign of spying on and blackmailing troublemakers.”
Spoiler alert: they were never caught, but brought to light in 2014 when The Washington Post‘s Betty Medsger wrote The Burglary: The Discovery Of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI. The general story all sounds like the basis for a documentary he’d have ready by the fall, yet here we...
Spoiler alert: they were never caught, but brought to light in 2014 when The Washington Post‘s Betty Medsger wrote The Burglary: The Discovery Of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI. The general story all sounds like the basis for a documentary he’d have ready by the fall, yet here we...
- 4/4/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Famous for his various acclaimed documentaries like "Going Clear," "Mea Maxima Culpa," "Taxi to the Dark Side," "Client 9," "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" and "We Steal Secrets," documentarian Alex Gibney is getting into the narrative feature business.
Gibney has become attached to direct the 1971-set political thriller "The Action" for Lionsgate, the project marking his first non-documentary feature.
The action follows eight anti-war activists who stole and made public classified FBI documents that exposed J. Edgar Hoover's campaign of spying and blackmail against Vietnam War protesters. Details of documents were then leaked to reporter Betty Medsger, who wrote the book "The Burglary: The Discovery Of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI."
Gibeny will direct from a script by Scott Z. Burns ("Contagion") who will produce with Michael Sugar ("Spotlight"), Ashley Zalta, Meredith Milton and Participant Media.
Source: Variety...
Gibney has become attached to direct the 1971-set political thriller "The Action" for Lionsgate, the project marking his first non-documentary feature.
The action follows eight anti-war activists who stole and made public classified FBI documents that exposed J. Edgar Hoover's campaign of spying and blackmail against Vietnam War protesters. Details of documents were then leaked to reporter Betty Medsger, who wrote the book "The Burglary: The Discovery Of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI."
Gibeny will direct from a script by Scott Z. Burns ("Contagion") who will produce with Michael Sugar ("Spotlight"), Ashley Zalta, Meredith Milton and Participant Media.
Source: Variety...
- 3/31/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
New York (AP) — A trove of government documents reveals widespread domestic surveillance of Americans. Leaked revelations hit the front pages of newspapers. A powerful governmental agency is brought under scrutiny. Sound familiar? It's the story of the documentary "1971," premiering Friday at the Tribeca Film Festival, a film about a little-known but hugely important break-in on March 8, 1971. A group of eight calling themselves the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI broke into a laxly guarded satellite FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, outside Philadelphia. They found files that proved the extensive spying that J. Edgar Hoover's FBI was conducting on dissident groups, civil rights leaders and anti-Vietnam War activists. It was the initial revelation of Hoover's covert Cointelpro (counterintelligence) program. If "1971" was a blockbuster, it would be called a prequel. In many ways, the story is an early echo of the National Security Agency and the Edward Snowden affair, only in a less technologically sophisticated time.
- 4/18/2014
- by AP
- Hitfix
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