Season one of “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty” ended on an appropriately triumphant note with the Los Angeles Lakers’ victory over the Boston Celtics in the 1980 NBA Championships. Not only was Jerry Buss (John C. Reilly) vindicated after his tumultuous first year as franchise owner, but budding superstar Earvin “Magic” Johnson (Quincy Isaiah) and his seasoned counterpart Kareen Abdul-Jabbar (Solomon Hughes) put aside their differences to unite their teammates both on and off the court. For the acclaimed HBO series, repeating that success — dramatically, much less historically — would prove a more difficult challenge, and not just because in real life the Lakers wouldn’t win a second title for two years, and three more for a third.
After helming two episodes in Season One (including that nail-biting finale), Salli Richardson-Whitfield graduated to executive producer for Season Two. Looking forward not only at the complicated trajectory of the...
After helming two episodes in Season One (including that nail-biting finale), Salli Richardson-Whitfield graduated to executive producer for Season Two. Looking forward not only at the complicated trajectory of the...
- 12/14/2023
- by Todd Gilchrist
- Variety Film + TV
Spoiler Alert: This contains spoilers from “Swagger” Season 2, now streaming on AppleTV+.
As Reggie Rock Bythewood was gearing up for AppleTV+’s second season of “Swagger,” the filmmaker was thinking about how to elevate the series and take it to another level.
One film that came to mind was Sam Mendes’ “1917” and how cinematographer Roger Deakins had shot the film and presented it as if it were one continuous long shot.
The series follows a team of basketball players inspired by NBA star Kevin Durant and in the latest “maze,” as Bythewood calls it, the team down to six players, Jace (Isaiah R. Hill), Phil (Solomon Irama), Musa (Caleel Harris), Drew, Royale (Ozie Nzeribe), and Nick (Jason Rivera) head to Maryland’s Youth Facility, a detention center for young offenders for a game. “I thought about ‘1917’ and the entire film is shot as if it were one shot.
As Reggie Rock Bythewood was gearing up for AppleTV+’s second season of “Swagger,” the filmmaker was thinking about how to elevate the series and take it to another level.
One film that came to mind was Sam Mendes’ “1917” and how cinematographer Roger Deakins had shot the film and presented it as if it were one continuous long shot.
The series follows a team of basketball players inspired by NBA star Kevin Durant and in the latest “maze,” as Bythewood calls it, the team down to six players, Jace (Isaiah R. Hill), Phil (Solomon Irama), Musa (Caleel Harris), Drew, Royale (Ozie Nzeribe), and Nick (Jason Rivera) head to Maryland’s Youth Facility, a detention center for young offenders for a game. “I thought about ‘1917’ and the entire film is shot as if it were one shot.
- 7/22/2023
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
Daniel Bishop won the Society of Camera Operators’ camera operator of the year in film award for his work on Edward Berger’s adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front during the first in-person Soc Awards presentation since the start of the pandemic.
On Saturday at Loews Hollywood Hotel, the award was presented to Bishop one week after All Quiet Dp James Friend won the BAFTA in cinematography.
Also during the Soc Awards, Dave Chameides and “B” camera operator Cristian Trova, were awarded the camera operator of the year in television honor for their work on the Ozark series finale, “A Hard Way to Go.”
In the feature competition, Bishop topped a field of nominees that included Lukasz Bielan for Bullet Train; Mitch Dubin with “B” camera/Steadicam operator Colin Anderson for The Fabelmans; Jason Ellson for Elvis; Geoffrey Haley for The Gray Man; and Ari Robbins for Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths...
On Saturday at Loews Hollywood Hotel, the award was presented to Bishop one week after All Quiet Dp James Friend won the BAFTA in cinematography.
Also during the Soc Awards, Dave Chameides and “B” camera operator Cristian Trova, were awarded the camera operator of the year in television honor for their work on the Ozark series finale, “A Hard Way to Go.”
In the feature competition, Bishop topped a field of nominees that included Lukasz Bielan for Bullet Train; Mitch Dubin with “B” camera/Steadicam operator Colin Anderson for The Fabelmans; Jason Ellson for Elvis; Geoffrey Haley for The Gray Man; and Ari Robbins for Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths...
- 2/26/2023
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Society of Camera Operators unwrapped the nominees for its Camera Operator of the Year Awards, which will be presented Feb. 25 during a ceremony at Loews Hollywood Hotel.
The Gordon Parks Foundation will also be recognized during the awards, for Parks’ “leadership and pioneering of social justice.”
Below, the list of nominees follows.
Camera Operator of the Year- Film nominees
Lukasz Bielan – Bullet Train
Daniel Bishop, Soc – All Quiet on the Western Front
Jason Ellson, Soc – Elvis
Geoffrey Haley, Soc – The Gray Man
Mitch Dubin, Soc – The Fabelmans, with Colin Anderson, Soc, “B” Camera / Steadicam Operator
Ari Robbins, Soc – Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Camera Operator of the Year- Television nominees
Dave Chameides, Soc – Ozark, S 4 Ep 14, “A Hard Way to Go” with Cristian Trova, Soc, “B” Camera Operator
Sam Ellison, , Soc – Severance, S 1 Ep 3, “In Perpetuity” with Stanley Fernandez, Camera Operator
Sarah Levy, Soc – Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty...
The Gordon Parks Foundation will also be recognized during the awards, for Parks’ “leadership and pioneering of social justice.”
Below, the list of nominees follows.
Camera Operator of the Year- Film nominees
Lukasz Bielan – Bullet Train
Daniel Bishop, Soc – All Quiet on the Western Front
Jason Ellson, Soc – Elvis
Geoffrey Haley, Soc – The Gray Man
Mitch Dubin, Soc – The Fabelmans, with Colin Anderson, Soc, “B” Camera / Steadicam Operator
Ari Robbins, Soc – Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Camera Operator of the Year- Television nominees
Dave Chameides, Soc – Ozark, S 4 Ep 14, “A Hard Way to Go” with Cristian Trova, Soc, “B” Camera Operator
Sam Ellison, , Soc – Severance, S 1 Ep 3, “In Perpetuity” with Stanley Fernandez, Camera Operator
Sarah Levy, Soc – Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty...
- 1/19/2023
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
When 6-foot, 9-inch rookie guard Magic Johnson ushered in the Showtime era Los Angeles Lakers in 1979, the team revolutionized the NBA with its relentless pace, instant success (winning five championships in the span of a decade), and Hollywood glam appeal. The great challenge for Adam McKay’s HBO series, “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty” (which concluded Sunday), was recreating the essence of the Showtime offense as iconic, dramatic beats. This included Magic’s first showdown with Boston Celtics rival Larry Bird at the Boston Garden, and the stunning game six Finals clincher over the 76ers in Philadelphia without an injured Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
“Ultimately our goal is to dramatize it, to get inside it, and to try to give a window into their games for an audience that makes it feel as if you’re living in it,” showrunner Max Borenstein told IndieWire. “It’s the same thing...
“Ultimately our goal is to dramatize it, to get inside it, and to try to give a window into their games for an audience that makes it feel as if you’re living in it,” showrunner Max Borenstein told IndieWire. “It’s the same thing...
- 5/9/2022
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Out on $100,000 bail and back on the Empire set for a stint, Jussie Smollett on Thursday insisted he is innocent of conniving a racist and homophobic assault upon himself.
“Mr. Smollet is a young man of impeccable character and integrity who fiercely and solemnly maintains his innocence and feels betrayed by a system that apparently wants to skip due process and proceed directly to sentencing,” read a statement sent out late Thursday on behalf of the Empire actor.
“Today we witnessed an organized law enforcement spectacle that has no place in the American legal system,” the hyperbolic statement added. “The presumption of innocence, a bedrock in the search for justice, was trampled upon at the expense of Mr. Smollett and notably, on the eve of a Mayoral election,” it also noted, tossing more political edge into an already sharply political affair.
Facing a potential three years behind bars for the...
“Mr. Smollet is a young man of impeccable character and integrity who fiercely and solemnly maintains his innocence and feels betrayed by a system that apparently wants to skip due process and proceed directly to sentencing,” read a statement sent out late Thursday on behalf of the Empire actor.
“Today we witnessed an organized law enforcement spectacle that has no place in the American legal system,” the hyperbolic statement added. “The presumption of innocence, a bedrock in the search for justice, was trampled upon at the expense of Mr. Smollett and notably, on the eve of a Mayoral election,” it also noted, tossing more political edge into an already sharply political affair.
Facing a potential three years behind bars for the...
- 2/22/2019
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
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