The Environmental Media Association has officially announced the speakers and panelists for its 8th annual Ema Impact Summit, which will feature a closing conversation with Hillary Clinton.
Taking place June 4 and 5 at the Pendry West Hollywood, the event unites Hollywood environmentalists with a wide range of innovators, entrepreneurs, creatives and corporations to discuss bringing sustainability to the forefront. Secretary Clinton will join Ema to dive into the devastating effects of climate change on early childhood development and how her work through the Clinton Foundation’s Too Small to Fail initiative is advancing new solutions. She will also focus on climate storytelling from a new frame, expanding on the silent crisis impacting pregnant women and young children.
Other big-name participants include Rainn Wilson, who will moderate a chat with representatives from Tony’s Chocoloney and Rodney Strong Vineyards about their organic products and practices; True Detective creator Issa Lopez and director Eli Roth,...
Taking place June 4 and 5 at the Pendry West Hollywood, the event unites Hollywood environmentalists with a wide range of innovators, entrepreneurs, creatives and corporations to discuss bringing sustainability to the forefront. Secretary Clinton will join Ema to dive into the devastating effects of climate change on early childhood development and how her work through the Clinton Foundation’s Too Small to Fail initiative is advancing new solutions. She will also focus on climate storytelling from a new frame, expanding on the silent crisis impacting pregnant women and young children.
Other big-name participants include Rainn Wilson, who will moderate a chat with representatives from Tony’s Chocoloney and Rodney Strong Vineyards about their organic products and practices; True Detective creator Issa Lopez and director Eli Roth,...
- 5/16/2024
- by Kirsten Chuba
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: ScreenCraft has finalized the lineup for its annual Virtual Writers Summit.
The summit, which is expected to span the entire month of June this year, will feature creatives including Richard Linklater, Issa Lopez, Lulu Wang, Quinta Brunson, Nkechi Okoro Carroll, and Sean Wang.
Typically, the summit has occurred over one weekend. However, this year boasts the largest lineup ever, thus resulting in panels over the course of the month on June 8, 15, 22, and 29.
“This marks the fifth year we have organized our annual writers summit virtually and, undeniably, the strongest lineup we have ever put together,” Thomas Dever, VP of Business Development for Industry Arts, ScreenCraft’s parent company, said in a statement. “We are thrilled to hear from these incredible speakers and bring them together with our audience to educate and inspire.”
See the full schedule below.
June 8
Headline Speaker – Quinta Brunson (Abbott Elementary) Letting Authenticity Guide Your Story,...
The summit, which is expected to span the entire month of June this year, will feature creatives including Richard Linklater, Issa Lopez, Lulu Wang, Quinta Brunson, Nkechi Okoro Carroll, and Sean Wang.
Typically, the summit has occurred over one weekend. However, this year boasts the largest lineup ever, thus resulting in panels over the course of the month on June 8, 15, 22, and 29.
“This marks the fifth year we have organized our annual writers summit virtually and, undeniably, the strongest lineup we have ever put together,” Thomas Dever, VP of Business Development for Industry Arts, ScreenCraft’s parent company, said in a statement. “We are thrilled to hear from these incredible speakers and bring them together with our audience to educate and inspire.”
See the full schedule below.
June 8
Headline Speaker – Quinta Brunson (Abbott Elementary) Letting Authenticity Guide Your Story,...
- 5/9/2024
- by Katie Campione
- Deadline Film + TV
Night Country was doomed to be compared to previous seasons created by Nic Pizzolatto, and it failed that test miserably, with showrunner Issa Lopez deciding to tease viewers that everything that happened was connected to the events of the first season. Unfortunately, in the end, this turned out to be blatant deception and pure fan service in the worst sense of the word.
For some reason, we see the ghost of Rust Cohle's father, but this false evidence leads nowhere; at the same time, Lopez quotes the famous line about time as a flat circle in the final episode. Unfortunately, the fourth season has few merits, except for the spectacular setting and Jodie Foster's acting.
The bold gender revision only masks a complete lack of original ideas, and Navarro and Danvers seem too similar to McConaughey and Harrelson's characters, even in their story arcs.
Night Country Made Fans Return...
For some reason, we see the ghost of Rust Cohle's father, but this false evidence leads nowhere; at the same time, Lopez quotes the famous line about time as a flat circle in the final episode. Unfortunately, the fourth season has few merits, except for the spectacular setting and Jodie Foster's acting.
The bold gender revision only masks a complete lack of original ideas, and Navarro and Danvers seem too similar to McConaughey and Harrelson's characters, even in their story arcs.
Night Country Made Fans Return...
- 4/26/2024
- by zoe-wallace@startefacts.com (Zoe Wallace)
- STartefacts.com
When it comes to keeping the momentum for storytelling, writers from hit shows such as True Detective: Night Country, Irish hit dramedy Faithless and British superhero comedy Extraordinary all have different approaches for making returnable television series.
Speaking at the inaugural screenwriting festival Storyhouse in Dublin, Irish writer-actor and presenter Baz Ashmawy spoke about his debut writing project Faithless, a six-part series for Virgin Media, which follows an Irish-Egyptian dad who is presented with the life-changing responsibility of raising his three young daughters alone.
“I was more clear on the tone of it because I saw a gap in Irish shows that were either sitcoms pre watershed or crime dramas,” said Ashmawy to a packed theatre at Dublin’s Light House cinema. “I saw there was a hole for dramedy – to make someone laugh one minute and then upset them in the next scene. I’ve always found that playing...
Speaking at the inaugural screenwriting festival Storyhouse in Dublin, Irish writer-actor and presenter Baz Ashmawy spoke about his debut writing project Faithless, a six-part series for Virgin Media, which follows an Irish-Egyptian dad who is presented with the life-changing responsibility of raising his three young daughters alone.
“I was more clear on the tone of it because I saw a gap in Irish shows that were either sitcoms pre watershed or crime dramas,” said Ashmawy to a packed theatre at Dublin’s Light House cinema. “I saw there was a hole for dramedy – to make someone laugh one minute and then upset them in the next scene. I’ve always found that playing...
- 3/22/2024
- by Diana Lodderhose
- Deadline Film + TV
“True Detective: Night Country” had all the ingredients necessary to rope in viewers. It was the first new season of HBO’s Emmy-winning crime anthology in five years. It was also the first to feature women as its protagonists. And it marked two-time Oscar winner Jodie Foster’s first foray into television in nearly half a century. But what made this latest season truly notable was the breakout and Emmy-worthy performance delivered by Kali Reis — in only her third acting role — as Evangeline Navarro, a determined but haunted Alaskan trooper investigating a mysterious homicide and struggling with her past and her culture.
See‘True Detective’ renewed for Season 5 with Issa Lopez as creator
The central crime of the season centers around a group of scientists who are found naked and frozen to death in the Alaskan tundra. The investigation is revealed to have a connection with the previously unsolved murder of an activist and midwife,...
See‘True Detective’ renewed for Season 5 with Issa Lopez as creator
The central crime of the season centers around a group of scientists who are found naked and frozen to death in the Alaskan tundra. The investigation is revealed to have a connection with the previously unsolved murder of an activist and midwife,...
- 3/18/2024
- by Tony Ruiz
- Gold Derby
Plot: When the long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska, the eight men who operate the Tsalal Arctic Research Station vanish without a trace. To solve the case, Detectives Liz Danvers (Foster) and Evangeline Navarro (Reis) will have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves, and dig into the haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice.
Review: Few shows have made an impression the way the first season of True Detective did. While I enjoyed the second and third seasons of Nic Pizzolatto’s anthology thriller, neither could hold a candle to the Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey-led debut. Directed by Cary Fukunaga, True Detective was a philosophical and existential masterpiece full of quotable lines that had audiences brainstorming multiple timelines for ten weeks straight. A decade after the series premiered, the fourth season of True Detective arrives with the first subtitle in the series, Night Country,...
Review: Few shows have made an impression the way the first season of True Detective did. While I enjoyed the second and third seasons of Nic Pizzolatto’s anthology thriller, neither could hold a candle to the Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey-led debut. Directed by Cary Fukunaga, True Detective was a philosophical and existential masterpiece full of quotable lines that had audiences brainstorming multiple timelines for ten weeks straight. A decade after the series premiered, the fourth season of True Detective arrives with the first subtitle in the series, Night Country,...
- 1/4/2024
- by Alex Maidy
- JoBlo.com
Prime Video has pounced on Mexican comedy “Tequila Repasado” by Gabriela Tagliavini., which it premieres worldwide on Dec. 20.
Co-produced by Sony Pictures Int’l Prods and Mexico-based Itaca Films and Feel Good Films, the comedy was originally written in English by Judd Pilot (“Coach”) and Gerald B. Fillmore (“Muertos S.L.”) to be later adapted for the Spanish-language market by Joan Vives, Ilse Apellaniz and Ricardo Avilés.
Said Tagliavini: “I loved the script. It was weird and hilarious yet also spiritual. And it allowed me to use interesting VFX and create original visuals, which is always a fun challenge!”
“Tequila Repasado” revolves around a workaholic who finds himself repeatedly transported back in time by a mystical tequila, forcing him to outsmart his multiplying selves as he struggles to mend his relationships with his family.
The title, which roughly means Tequila Reviewed, is a play on the term Tequila Reposado, which...
Co-produced by Sony Pictures Int’l Prods and Mexico-based Itaca Films and Feel Good Films, the comedy was originally written in English by Judd Pilot (“Coach”) and Gerald B. Fillmore (“Muertos S.L.”) to be later adapted for the Spanish-language market by Joan Vives, Ilse Apellaniz and Ricardo Avilés.
Said Tagliavini: “I loved the script. It was weird and hilarious yet also spiritual. And it allowed me to use interesting VFX and create original visuals, which is always a fun challenge!”
“Tequila Repasado” revolves around a workaholic who finds himself repeatedly transported back in time by a mystical tequila, forcing him to outsmart his multiplying selves as he struggles to mend his relationships with his family.
The title, which roughly means Tequila Reviewed, is a play on the term Tequila Reposado, which...
- 11/27/2023
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Based on Joshua Davis’s 2013 article for Wired, “A Radical Way of Unleashing a Generation of Geniuses,” Radical, a stirring, poignant drama co-written and adapted by Christopher Zalla (Blood of My Blood), literally and figuratively revolves around Jose Urbina Lopez Elementary School in Matamoros, Mexico. A town on the U.S/Mexico border, Matamoros suffers from crushing poverty, dilapidated infrastructure, and gang-related violence. It’s as hopeless a city or town — depressingly, painfully real by all accounts — as any put on Spanish-language, Mexico-set film since Luis Buñuel’s award-winning classic, Los Olvidados (The Forgotten Ones) almost 75 years ago. Unlike Issa Lopez’s recent — and it should be added, excellent — horror-thriller hybrid, Tigers Are Not Afraid, Radical centers the drama on the elementary school itself, the...
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- 11/3/2023
- Screen Anarchy
HBO is back in the detective business for the first time in four years.
On Wednesday during the Warner Bros. Discovery rebrand presentation for the streaming platform formerly known as HBO Max and now simply called Max, the company debuted the first trailer for “True Detective: Night Country,” the fourth installment in the acclaimed “True Detective” franchise.
This new series comes from writer and director Issa Lopez and stars Jodie Foster and Kali Reis in the lead roles. The logline of the show, per a press release, is as follows:
When the long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska, the eight men who operate the Tsalal Arctic Research Station vanish without a trace. To solve the case, Detectives Liz Danvers (Foster) and Evangeline Navarro (Reis) will have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves, and dig into the haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice.
No date...
On Wednesday during the Warner Bros. Discovery rebrand presentation for the streaming platform formerly known as HBO Max and now simply called Max, the company debuted the first trailer for “True Detective: Night Country,” the fourth installment in the acclaimed “True Detective” franchise.
This new series comes from writer and director Issa Lopez and stars Jodie Foster and Kali Reis in the lead roles. The logline of the show, per a press release, is as follows:
When the long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska, the eight men who operate the Tsalal Arctic Research Station vanish without a trace. To solve the case, Detectives Liz Danvers (Foster) and Evangeline Navarro (Reis) will have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves, and dig into the haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice.
No date...
- 4/12/2023
- by Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
HBO has unveiled the first trailer for the long-awaited return of "True Detective." The preview for the latest installment in the beloved anthology series, titled "True Detective: Night Country," was revealed during a big press event for Warner Bros. Discovery's new big streaming service Max, which will combine HBO Max and Discovery+ under one roof. As part of that, they unveiled our first look at the show's fourth season, which stars Jodie Foster ("The Silence of the Lambs") in the lead role.
This is the first time the show has been on the air since season 3 arrived in 2019, with Oscar-winner Mahershala Ali headlining that installment. Fortunately, with Max in need of high-profile shows, it paved the way for a new season, which looks like it will fit right at home with what viewers have come to expect. Let's have a look.
True Detective Returns In The Night Country Trailer...
This is the first time the show has been on the air since season 3 arrived in 2019, with Oscar-winner Mahershala Ali headlining that installment. Fortunately, with Max in need of high-profile shows, it paved the way for a new season, which looks like it will fit right at home with what viewers have come to expect. Let's have a look.
True Detective Returns In The Night Country Trailer...
- 4/12/2023
- by Ryan Scott
- Slash Film
Jodie Foster is channeling her Clarice Starling.
More than 30 years after starring in “Silence of the Lambs,” Foster is back tracking down a serial killer in “True Detective” Season 4. The latest installment in the anthology series is executive produced by Oscar winner Barry Jenkins and written by Issa Lopez, who also serves as showrunner.
Titled “True Detective: Night Country,” the season will take place in Alaska, with Foster playing Detective Liz Danvers. The official synopsis cites that when the long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska, the six men that operate the Tsalal Arctic Research Station vanish without a trace. To solve the case, Detectives Liz Danvers and Evangeline Navarro (Kali Reis) will have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves, and dig into the haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice.
“True Detective: Night Country” is the first season sans creator Nic Pizzolatto, who parted ways...
More than 30 years after starring in “Silence of the Lambs,” Foster is back tracking down a serial killer in “True Detective” Season 4. The latest installment in the anthology series is executive produced by Oscar winner Barry Jenkins and written by Issa Lopez, who also serves as showrunner.
Titled “True Detective: Night Country,” the season will take place in Alaska, with Foster playing Detective Liz Danvers. The official synopsis cites that when the long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska, the six men that operate the Tsalal Arctic Research Station vanish without a trace. To solve the case, Detectives Liz Danvers and Evangeline Navarro (Kali Reis) will have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves, and dig into the haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice.
“True Detective: Night Country” is the first season sans creator Nic Pizzolatto, who parted ways...
- 4/12/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
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