Apple TV+ has an awards juggernaut on its hands with the limited series “Lessons in Chemistry.” This acclaimed adaptation of Bonnie Garmus’ book of the same name, looks set to be a major Emmy player this season. Indeed, it has already racked up a number of key nominations across multiple guilds and awards groups.
The show, created by “The Office” writer and director and “Jury Duty” creator Lee Eisenberg, stars Brie Larson as lab technician Elizabeth Zott, who takes up a new gig as the host of a 1960s cooking show after being fired. She uses her newfound position of influence to educate women about scientific topics while she strikes up a romance with Lewis Pullman‘s Calvin and a friendship with Aja Naomi King‘s Harriet. The three performers are at the center of the show’s awards attention this year but the limited series has also racked up...
The show, created by “The Office” writer and director and “Jury Duty” creator Lee Eisenberg, stars Brie Larson as lab technician Elizabeth Zott, who takes up a new gig as the host of a 1960s cooking show after being fired. She uses her newfound position of influence to educate women about scientific topics while she strikes up a romance with Lewis Pullman‘s Calvin and a friendship with Aja Naomi King‘s Harriet. The three performers are at the center of the show’s awards attention this year but the limited series has also racked up...
- 4/8/2024
- by Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
Cillian Murphy and writer, director, and producer Christopher Nolan on the set of ‘Oppenheimer’ (Photo © Universal Pictures)
Oppenheimer writer/director Christopher Nolan continues to rack up wins, with the Directors Guild of America honoring the critically acclaimed (and this year’s Oscar favorite) filmmaker with the Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film award. Judd Apatow hosted this year’s DGA Awards ceremony, which presented honorary awards to David Nutter (2024 Lifetime Achievement Award for Television Direction), unit production manager Janet Knutsen (2024 Frank Capra Achievement Award), and Gary Natoli (2024 Franklin J. Schaffner Award).
Presenters included Matt Bomer, Rose Byrne, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Zooey Deschanel, David Duchovny, Jay Ellis, Carla Gallo, and Ilana Glazer. Ryan Gosling, Taylor Hackford, Jonah Hill, Patty Jenkins, Rashida Jones, Daniel Kwan, Eva Longoria, Cillian Murphy, Nasim Pedrad, and Mark Ruffalo were also on hand to help celebrate the best of 2024.
Additional presenters included Rachel Sennott, Daniel Scheinert, Emma Stone,...
Oppenheimer writer/director Christopher Nolan continues to rack up wins, with the Directors Guild of America honoring the critically acclaimed (and this year’s Oscar favorite) filmmaker with the Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film award. Judd Apatow hosted this year’s DGA Awards ceremony, which presented honorary awards to David Nutter (2024 Lifetime Achievement Award for Television Direction), unit production manager Janet Knutsen (2024 Frank Capra Achievement Award), and Gary Natoli (2024 Franklin J. Schaffner Award).
Presenters included Matt Bomer, Rose Byrne, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Zooey Deschanel, David Duchovny, Jay Ellis, Carla Gallo, and Ilana Glazer. Ryan Gosling, Taylor Hackford, Jonah Hill, Patty Jenkins, Rashida Jones, Daniel Kwan, Eva Longoria, Cillian Murphy, Nasim Pedrad, and Mark Ruffalo were also on hand to help celebrate the best of 2024.
Additional presenters included Rachel Sennott, Daniel Scheinert, Emma Stone,...
- 2/11/2024
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Oppenheimer director Christopher Nolan won the Directors Guild of America (DGA) award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film on Saturday (February 10), confirming his status as strong favourite to win the directing prize at next month’s Oscars.
British filmmaker Nolan, also winner of the directing Golden Globe for Universal Pictures’ Oppenheimer and nominated for the best director Bafta, took the award from a field that included two other best director Oscar nominees in Poor Things’ Yorgos Lanthimos and Killers Of The Flower Moon’s Martin Scorsese.
Winners of the DGA feature directing award have gone on to win...
British filmmaker Nolan, also winner of the directing Golden Globe for Universal Pictures’ Oppenheimer and nominated for the best director Bafta, took the award from a field that included two other best director Oscar nominees in Poor Things’ Yorgos Lanthimos and Killers Of The Flower Moon’s Martin Scorsese.
Winners of the DGA feature directing award have gone on to win...
- 2/11/2024
- ScreenDaily
The Directors Guild of America held its 76th annual awards tonight at the Beverly Hilton. Christopher Nolan took home the night’s top honor for Oppenheimer. Celine Song took home the prize for first-time theatrical film for Past Lives.
The DGA is a strong predictor of Oscar success historically, missing the eventual Best Director winner only eight times in 75 years. The group handed its top trophy to the Daniels for Everything Everywhere All at Once last year, and Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert went on to snag the Academy Award a month later, becoming only the third duo to claim that prized statuette.
Related: ‘American Fiction’ Filmmaker Cord Jefferson Teases Plan For New Erotic Thriller Movie – DGA Awards
Here are the winners at the 2024 Directors Guild Awards:
Feature Film
Christopher Nolan
Oppenheimer
(Universal Pictures)
Directoral Team:
Unit Production Managers: Thomas Hayslip, Nathan Kelly, Rafael Lima (New Jersey / New York Unit) First...
The DGA is a strong predictor of Oscar success historically, missing the eventual Best Director winner only eight times in 75 years. The group handed its top trophy to the Daniels for Everything Everywhere All at Once last year, and Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert went on to snag the Academy Award a month later, becoming only the third duo to claim that prized statuette.
Related: ‘American Fiction’ Filmmaker Cord Jefferson Teases Plan For New Erotic Thriller Movie – DGA Awards
Here are the winners at the 2024 Directors Guild Awards:
Feature Film
Christopher Nolan
Oppenheimer
(Universal Pictures)
Directoral Team:
Unit Production Managers: Thomas Hayslip, Nathan Kelly, Rafael Lima (New Jersey / New York Unit) First...
- 2/11/2024
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
Just as Gold Derby predicted, Christopher Nolan (“Oppenheimer”) scored a big win at the 2024 DGA Awards on Saturday, February 10. (See the complete list of winners.) He claimed the Best Feature Film Director category at the 76th Directors Guild of America Awards over two of his Oscar rivals, Yorgos Lanthimos (“Poor Things”) and Martin Scorsese (“Killers of the Flower Moon”), as well as Greta Gerwig (“Barbie”) and Alexander Payne (“The Holdovers”). For the record, the other two Oscar nominees are Jonathan Glazer (“The Zone of Interest”) and Justine Triet (“Anatomy of a Fall”).
Nolan was already the Oscar front-runner for Best Director heading into tonight’s DGA Awards, but this victory just cements his status as the one to beat. After all, the guild and the academy have only disagreed eight times over the past seven decades, with the last three years lining up perfectly for Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert (2022’s...
Nolan was already the Oscar front-runner for Best Director heading into tonight’s DGA Awards, but this victory just cements his status as the one to beat. After all, the guild and the academy have only disagreed eight times over the past seven decades, with the last three years lining up perfectly for Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert (2022’s...
- 2/11/2024
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
It was a celebration of film and TV directors at the 2024 DGA Awards on Saturday, February 10. The ceremony emceed by Judd Apatow honored the year’s top helmers of narrative films, documentaries, television and variety, sports and news programs. Gold Derby associate editor Latasha Ford and senior editor Denton Davidson enjoyed an exclusive spot on the red carpet, interviewing many of the celebrities who were nominated, presenting or part of their movie or TV show’s ensembles.
Watch each short video below by clicking that person’s name:
Celine Song (“Past Lives”), winner for Film First-Time Directing
Noora Niasari (“Shayda”), nominee for Film First-Time Directing
Mark Ruffalo (“Poor Things”), Feature Film Nomination presentation to Yorgos Lanthimos
Glenn Weiss (“The 95th Annual Academy Awards”), nominee for Variety/Talk/News/Sports — Specials
Moses Bwaya & Christopher Sharp (“Bobi Wine: The People’s President”), nominee for Film Documentary Director
Madeleine Gavin (“Beyond Utopia”), nominee for...
Watch each short video below by clicking that person’s name:
Celine Song (“Past Lives”), winner for Film First-Time Directing
Noora Niasari (“Shayda”), nominee for Film First-Time Directing
Mark Ruffalo (“Poor Things”), Feature Film Nomination presentation to Yorgos Lanthimos
Glenn Weiss (“The 95th Annual Academy Awards”), nominee for Variety/Talk/News/Sports — Specials
Moses Bwaya & Christopher Sharp (“Bobi Wine: The People’s President”), nominee for Film Documentary Director
Madeleine Gavin (“Beyond Utopia”), nominee for...
- 2/11/2024
- by Latasha Ford and Denton Davidson
- Gold Derby
With the 96th Academy Awards now only a month away, each weekend brings a new award show that reveals a new look at the shape of the Oscar race. Tonight, the auteurs behind some of 2023’s biggest films gathered at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles to celebrate the craft of filmmaking at the Directors Guild of America Awards.
Martin Scorsese, Greta Gerwig, Christopher Nolan, Yorgos Lanthimos, and Alexander Payne were nominated for the night’s top prize, Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film, with Oscar frontrunner Nolan walking away with the coveted trophy. Celine Song, Cord Jefferson, A.V. Rockwell, Manuela Martelli, and Noora Niasari competed for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in First-Time Theatrical Feature Film, which ultimately went to Song.
The show celebrated some of the best directors working in television, with awards in a variety of categories ranging from TV dramas and sitcoms to commercials and reality TV.
Martin Scorsese, Greta Gerwig, Christopher Nolan, Yorgos Lanthimos, and Alexander Payne were nominated for the night’s top prize, Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film, with Oscar frontrunner Nolan walking away with the coveted trophy. Celine Song, Cord Jefferson, A.V. Rockwell, Manuela Martelli, and Noora Niasari competed for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in First-Time Theatrical Feature Film, which ultimately went to Song.
The show celebrated some of the best directors working in television, with awards in a variety of categories ranging from TV dramas and sitcoms to commercials and reality TV.
- 2/11/2024
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
Christopher Nolan took home the top prize at the Directors Guild of America Awards on Saturday night, earning his first DGA Award for the historical epic Oppenheimer.
Past Lives director Celine Song won the Michael Apted Award for first feature. Accepting the award, Song promised to “continue to keep directing films for as long as I can — I promise to keep going.” Mstyslav Chernov won for his Oscar-nominated documentary 20 Days in Mariupol.
In the TV categories, The Last of Us’ Peter Hoar won for directing the acclaimed third episode of the HBO drama, “Long, Long Time,” The Bear creator Christopher Storer won for directing the Hulu comedy series and Lessons in Chemistry’s Sarah Adina Smith won for directing the Apple limited series.
DGA president Lesli Linka Glatter opened the 2024 DGA Awards ceremony on Saturday with an acknowledgment of last year’s historic double strike. “I struggle to find...
Past Lives director Celine Song won the Michael Apted Award for first feature. Accepting the award, Song promised to “continue to keep directing films for as long as I can — I promise to keep going.” Mstyslav Chernov won for his Oscar-nominated documentary 20 Days in Mariupol.
In the TV categories, The Last of Us’ Peter Hoar won for directing the acclaimed third episode of the HBO drama, “Long, Long Time,” The Bear creator Christopher Storer won for directing the Hulu comedy series and Lessons in Chemistry’s Sarah Adina Smith won for directing the Apple limited series.
DGA president Lesli Linka Glatter opened the 2024 DGA Awards ceremony on Saturday with an acknowledgment of last year’s historic double strike. “I struggle to find...
- 2/11/2024
- by Hilary Lewis, Tyler Coates and Kirsten Chuba
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Christopher Nolan has won the feature-film prize from the Directors Guild of America for “Oppenheimer,” reinforcing his film’s status as the heavy favorite this awards season. The honor went to Nolan at the end of the 76th annual DGA Awards, which took place on Saturday night in Beverly Hills.
In the other film categories, Celine Song won the award for first-time directing for her gentle drama “Past Lives” and Mstyslav Chernov won the documentary award for “20 Days in Mariupol,” his on-the-ground report from the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Peter Hoar won the drama-series award for “The Last of Us,” in a category in which the other four nominees were all from different episodes of “Succession.”
The award for Comedy Series directing went to Christopher Storer for the “Fishes” episode of “The Bear.” Sarah Adina Smith won the award for TV movie or limited series for...
In the other film categories, Celine Song won the award for first-time directing for her gentle drama “Past Lives” and Mstyslav Chernov won the documentary award for “20 Days in Mariupol,” his on-the-ground report from the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Peter Hoar won the drama-series award for “The Last of Us,” in a category in which the other four nominees were all from different episodes of “Succession.”
The award for Comedy Series directing went to Christopher Storer for the “Fishes” episode of “The Bear.” Sarah Adina Smith won the award for TV movie or limited series for...
- 2/11/2024
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
The 76th Directors Guild of America Awards took place on Saturday, February 10 at 7:30 p.m. Pt with Judd Apatow hosting the in-person, non-televised ceremony. These kudos honored the best helmers of the year in movies and television, as voted on by more than 18,000 members of the directing guild. Scroll down for the 2024 DGA Awards winners list in three film and eight TV categories.
As always, the all-important feature film category is one of the most telling bellwethers for the eventual Best Director Oscar. The guild and the academy have only disagreed for Best Director eight times over the past seven decades, with the last three years lining up perfectly for Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert (2022’s “Everything Everywhere All at Once”), Jane Campion (2021’s “The Power of the Dog”) and Chloé Zhao (2020’s “Nomadland”).
This year, just three of the DGA’s nominees also reaped directing Oscar bids: Yorgos Lanthimos...
As always, the all-important feature film category is one of the most telling bellwethers for the eventual Best Director Oscar. The guild and the academy have only disagreed for Best Director eight times over the past seven decades, with the last three years lining up perfectly for Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert (2022’s “Everything Everywhere All at Once”), Jane Campion (2021’s “The Power of the Dog”) and Chloé Zhao (2020’s “Nomadland”).
This year, just three of the DGA’s nominees also reaped directing Oscar bids: Yorgos Lanthimos...
- 2/11/2024
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
Directors may call the shots on set, but in TV, they are just one piece of a well-oiled machine. For every auteur who writes and directs every episode of a show, there are hundreds of episodic directors who come in and out of shows, adapting to the series’ tones and looks, and collaborating with dozens of people. And that’s precisely what our Directors Guild of America Awards TV nominees panelists love about TV.
“I never saw myself as an auteur particularly, and so in episodic TV, that’s one thing you certainly don’t need or maybe don’t want to have because there’s not a whole lot of room for it. I think in episodic TV, as well as making your episode as amazing as it is and as best it can be, there’s a huge amount of fitting in and working with the parameters of...
“I never saw myself as an auteur particularly, and so in episodic TV, that’s one thing you certainly don’t need or maybe don’t want to have because there’s not a whole lot of room for it. I think in episodic TV, as well as making your episode as amazing as it is and as best it can be, there’s a huge amount of fitting in and working with the parameters of...
- 2/2/2024
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
When Sarah Adina Smith was first approached about directing “Lessons in Chemistry,” she was not familiar with the Bonnie Garmus novel of the same name on which the series is based. Smith had to “speed-read the book” in one weekend and admits that she was not quite sure at first if a series adaptation was necessary. Set in the 1950s and ’60s, “Lessons” follows Elizabeth Zott (Brie Larson), a brilliant chemist whose career aspirations are stalled by patriarchal norms but later becomes the star of a cooking show, “Supper at Six,” on which she gets to flex her science know-how.
“To be honest, maybe I’m not supposed to say this, but I was like, ‘Do we need this series?’ Yes, obviously, sexism is alive and well. I don’t need to debate that, but do we need this story about a fictional female scientist in the ’50s facing discrimination in the workplace?...
“To be honest, maybe I’m not supposed to say this, but I was like, ‘Do we need this series?’ Yes, obviously, sexism is alive and well. I don’t need to debate that, but do we need this story about a fictional female scientist in the ’50s facing discrimination in the workplace?...
- 2/2/2024
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
Because the Primetime Emmys and the DGA Awards are operating on two different schedules, nominations often have little overlap. However, with the Director Guild of America (DGA) coincidentally releasing the TV nominations for its DGA Awards the same week as the postponed 75th Primetime Emmys, it’s become even more noticeable the ways in which the two awards bodies aligned and differed on shows from 2023.
For instance, DGA Awards favorite “Succession” once again dominates the Drama Series category, receiving four nominations (one less than the last time the show was eligible). While the guild was on the same page about honoring directors Andrij Parekh and Mark Mylod (a past winner) for their work on the fourth and final season of the HBO awards juggernaut, DGA voters opted to recognize Becky Martin and duo Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman for their “Succession” Season 4 episodes over Lorene Scafaria, the show’s...
For instance, DGA Awards favorite “Succession” once again dominates the Drama Series category, receiving four nominations (one less than the last time the show was eligible). While the guild was on the same page about honoring directors Andrij Parekh and Mark Mylod (a past winner) for their work on the fourth and final season of the HBO awards juggernaut, DGA voters opted to recognize Becky Martin and duo Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman for their “Succession” Season 4 episodes over Lorene Scafaria, the show’s...
- 1/9/2024
- by Marcus Jones
- Indiewire
The Directors Guild of America announced the nominees for television, commercials and documentary for its 76th annual DGA Awards today, a list headed by three-time winner Bill Hader and installments of the third and final season of HBO’s “Succession,” which claimed four of the five Drama Series nomination slots – the fifth going to an episode of fellow HBO hour “The Last of Us.”
The Comedy Series nomination lineup features the directors of a pair of episodes of Apple TV+’s “Ted Lasso” along with two installments of FX’s “The Bear” (including a repeat nomination for showrunner Christopher Storer – the acclaimed “Fishes” edition from Season 2 of the series – and a first for comedian and actor Ramy Youssef).
SEEBill Hader will set multiple SAG Award records with win for ‘Barry’
The Apple TV+ limited series “Lessons in Chemistry” also scored multiple bids in the Movies For Television/Limited Series category with three.
The Comedy Series nomination lineup features the directors of a pair of episodes of Apple TV+’s “Ted Lasso” along with two installments of FX’s “The Bear” (including a repeat nomination for showrunner Christopher Storer – the acclaimed “Fishes” edition from Season 2 of the series – and a first for comedian and actor Ramy Youssef).
SEEBill Hader will set multiple SAG Award records with win for ‘Barry’
The Apple TV+ limited series “Lessons in Chemistry” also scored multiple bids in the Movies For Television/Limited Series category with three.
- 1/9/2024
- by Ray Richmond
- Gold Derby
“Succession,” “Lessons in Chemistry,” “The Bear,” “Ted Lasso” and “American Born Chinese” are among the frontrunners as the Directors Guild of America has announced the 2024 nominees in television categories, including Dramatic Series; Comedy Series; Movies for Television and Limited Series; Variety/Talk/News/Sports – Regularly Scheduled Programming; Variety/Talk/News/Sports – Specials; Reality Program, as well as for children’s programs, commercials and documentary.
“Succession” led all series with four nominations, dominating the drama category with all but one entry. “Ted Lasso” and “The Bear” each took two comedy slots, while “Lessons in Chemistry” grabbed three of the five TV movie/limited nominations.
This year’s DGA Awards take place on Saturday, February 10, 2024. Here are this year’s nominees
Dramatic Series
The nominees for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series for 2023 are (in alphabetical order):
Peter Hoar — The Last of Us, “Long,...
“Succession” led all series with four nominations, dominating the drama category with all but one entry. “Ted Lasso” and “The Bear” each took two comedy slots, while “Lessons in Chemistry” grabbed three of the five TV movie/limited nominations.
This year’s DGA Awards take place on Saturday, February 10, 2024. Here are this year’s nominees
Dramatic Series
The nominees for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series for 2023 are (in alphabetical order):
Peter Hoar — The Last of Us, “Long,...
- 1/9/2024
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
The 2024 Directors Guild of America Award’s TV nominations were unveiled today, January 9, with “Succession” leading the Dramatic Series category with a whopping four nominations.
The only other series nominated in the “Succession”-dominated category was the “Long, Long Time” episode of “The Last of Us.” Other series nominated in different categories include “Barry,” “Ted Lasso,” and “The Bear,” with the Ramy Youssef-directed episode “Honeydew” especially recognized.
Shawn Levy’s limited series “All the Light We Cannot See” and Nzingha Stewart’s installment of “Daisy Jones and the Six” are additionally nominated.
See the full list of 2024 DGA Award nominations below.
Dramatic Series
The nominees for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series for 2023 are (in alphabetical order):
Peter Hoar
The Last of Us, “Long, Long Time”
(HBO | Max)
Directorial Team:
Unit Production Manager: Cecil O’Connor First Assistant Director: Bethan Mowat
Becky Martin
Succession,...
The only other series nominated in the “Succession”-dominated category was the “Long, Long Time” episode of “The Last of Us.” Other series nominated in different categories include “Barry,” “Ted Lasso,” and “The Bear,” with the Ramy Youssef-directed episode “Honeydew” especially recognized.
Shawn Levy’s limited series “All the Light We Cannot See” and Nzingha Stewart’s installment of “Daisy Jones and the Six” are additionally nominated.
See the full list of 2024 DGA Award nominations below.
Dramatic Series
The nominees for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series for 2023 are (in alphabetical order):
Peter Hoar
The Last of Us, “Long, Long Time”
(HBO | Max)
Directorial Team:
Unit Production Manager: Cecil O’Connor First Assistant Director: Bethan Mowat
Becky Martin
Succession,...
- 1/9/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
The Directors Guild of America has unveiled the television and documentary nominations for its 76th annual DGA Awards, which will be handed out next month. See the full list below.
The helmers vying for Dramatic Series are Peter Hoar (The Last of Us) and several for different episodes of Succession: Becky Martin, Mark Mylod, Andrij Parekh and Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman. Up for Comedy Series are Erica Dunton (Ted Lasso), Bill Hader (Barry), Declan Lowney (Ted Lasso), Christopher Storer (The Bear) and Ramy Youssef (The Bear).
The DGA’s film nominees will be revealed Wednesday, and the guild’s trophies will be handed out on Saturday, February 10, at the Beverly Hilton.
Here are the television, documentary and commercials nominees for the 2024 DGA Awards:
Dramatic Series
Peter Hoar
The Last Of Us, “Long, Long Time”
(HBO | Max)
Directorial Team:
Unit Production Manager: Cecil O’Connor First Assistant Director: Bethan Mowat
Becky Martin
Succession,...
The helmers vying for Dramatic Series are Peter Hoar (The Last of Us) and several for different episodes of Succession: Becky Martin, Mark Mylod, Andrij Parekh and Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman. Up for Comedy Series are Erica Dunton (Ted Lasso), Bill Hader (Barry), Declan Lowney (Ted Lasso), Christopher Storer (The Bear) and Ramy Youssef (The Bear).
The DGA’s film nominees will be revealed Wednesday, and the guild’s trophies will be handed out on Saturday, February 10, at the Beverly Hilton.
Here are the television, documentary and commercials nominees for the 2024 DGA Awards:
Dramatic Series
Peter Hoar
The Last Of Us, “Long, Long Time”
(HBO | Max)
Directorial Team:
Unit Production Manager: Cecil O’Connor First Assistant Director: Bethan Mowat
Becky Martin
Succession,...
- 1/9/2024
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Kristine Froseth (The Buccaneers) has been set to star alongside Richard Gere and Jacob Elordi in Oh, Canada, the newest feature written and directed by Academy Award nominee Paul Schrader (First Reformed).
Based on the 2021 novel Foregone by the late Russell Banks, the film tells the story of Leonard Fife (Gere), a famed documentary filmmaker who takes stock of his life, with not long to go after being stricken with cancer at 80 years old. The most unreliable of narrators — and of men — Fife offers the viewer a look at his home life, as a draft dodging artist who abandoned one family for another, consistently evading any sense of responsibility for actions as he starts a new life in Canada.
As previously announced, Elordi plays a young Fife, seen from his late teens through his mid-twenties. Froseth shares 1968-set scenes with the Saltburn star as his second wife, the conservative Virginian Alicia,...
Based on the 2021 novel Foregone by the late Russell Banks, the film tells the story of Leonard Fife (Gere), a famed documentary filmmaker who takes stock of his life, with not long to go after being stricken with cancer at 80 years old. The most unreliable of narrators — and of men — Fife offers the viewer a look at his home life, as a draft dodging artist who abandoned one family for another, consistently evading any sense of responsibility for actions as he starts a new life in Canada.
As previously announced, Elordi plays a young Fife, seen from his late teens through his mid-twenties. Froseth shares 1968-set scenes with the Saltburn star as his second wife, the conservative Virginian Alicia,...
- 12/5/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
The sixth episode of “Lessons in Chemistry” features a tense protest scene in which a Black majority are fighting to stop the construction of a freeway through their neighborhood.
Millicent Shelton, who directed Episodes 5 and 6 of the Apple TV+ series, unpacked the process of producing the sequence led by Elizabeth Zott’s (Brie Larson) neighbor Harriet Sloane (Aja Naomi King), which wasn’t in Bonnie Garmus’ bestselling novel.
“We found this wonderful location near Lax and thought ‘This is it. This is the space. It’s beautiful.’ I love combining beauty with pain. So we tried to keep it beautiful, but also give it the grit to keep it honest and authentic,” Shelton said. “We were able to shut down the ramp of the highway for, I believe it was half an hour, and the cars came down, we swung the crane over to the sit-in.”
Shelton said the protest was inspired by real-life events.
Millicent Shelton, who directed Episodes 5 and 6 of the Apple TV+ series, unpacked the process of producing the sequence led by Elizabeth Zott’s (Brie Larson) neighbor Harriet Sloane (Aja Naomi King), which wasn’t in Bonnie Garmus’ bestselling novel.
“We found this wonderful location near Lax and thought ‘This is it. This is the space. It’s beautiful.’ I love combining beauty with pain. So we tried to keep it beautiful, but also give it the grit to keep it honest and authentic,” Shelton said. “We were able to shut down the ramp of the highway for, I believe it was half an hour, and the cars came down, we swung the crane over to the sit-in.”
Shelton said the protest was inspired by real-life events.
- 11/10/2023
- by Dessi Gomez
- The Wrap
[Warning: The above interview contains spoilers about the first two episodes of “Lessons in Chemistry.” Watch at your own risk.]
Already in early discussions with showrunner Lee Eisenberg and director of the first two episodes Sarah Adina Smith, it became clear to editor Matthew Barbato that cutting the opening two installments of “Lessons in Chemistry” would involve a great deal of “experimentation.”
“What Sarah did, and what Lee did, is they provided us with a great framework, and a lot of great material. And once we got into the edit, we were able to sort of play around, and we had the freedom to kind of find the moments that we needed, and the rhythm that we needed,” Barbato says of editing the first two episodes of the Apple TV+ limited series during a recent webchat with Gold Derby (watch the full exclusive video interview above).
See ‘Lessons in Chemistry’ trailer: Brie Larson stars in new Apple TV+ limited series [Watch]
Based on...
Already in early discussions with showrunner Lee Eisenberg and director of the first two episodes Sarah Adina Smith, it became clear to editor Matthew Barbato that cutting the opening two installments of “Lessons in Chemistry” would involve a great deal of “experimentation.”
“What Sarah did, and what Lee did, is they provided us with a great framework, and a lot of great material. And once we got into the edit, we were able to sort of play around, and we had the freedom to kind of find the moments that we needed, and the rhythm that we needed,” Barbato says of editing the first two episodes of the Apple TV+ limited series during a recent webchat with Gold Derby (watch the full exclusive video interview above).
See ‘Lessons in Chemistry’ trailer: Brie Larson stars in new Apple TV+ limited series [Watch]
Based on...
- 11/7/2023
- by Luca Giliberti
- Gold Derby
The placement of a particular cliffhanger at the end of “Lessons in Chemistry’s” second episode was debated intensely by showrunner Lee Eisenberg, director Sarah Adina Smith and the show’s writers.
The second episode in the Apple TV+ series, adapted from the best-selling novel by Bonnie Garmus, ends on a tragic note with the death of the character Calvin Evans, portrayed by Lewis Pullman. The first two episodes premiered Friday.
“We spent the very first few weeks debating this [plot point] ad nauseam. We wanted the audience to invest as much as possible in this love story as much as we were,” Eisenberg told TheWrap. “Ultimately, we pulled that from the book and the book. I don’t remember what page or what percentage of the book we’re in, but it’s pretty early on that he dies. I remember experiencing it in the book and thinking like, well, what could possibly come next?...
The second episode in the Apple TV+ series, adapted from the best-selling novel by Bonnie Garmus, ends on a tragic note with the death of the character Calvin Evans, portrayed by Lewis Pullman. The first two episodes premiered Friday.
“We spent the very first few weeks debating this [plot point] ad nauseam. We wanted the audience to invest as much as possible in this love story as much as we were,” Eisenberg told TheWrap. “Ultimately, we pulled that from the book and the book. I don’t remember what page or what percentage of the book we’re in, but it’s pretty early on that he dies. I remember experiencing it in the book and thinking like, well, what could possibly come next?...
- 10/18/2023
- by Dessi Gomez
- The Wrap
[Warning: The above interview contains spoilers about the first two episodes of “Lessons in Chemistry.” Watch at your own risk.]
You will not be surprised to hear that one of the first things Carlos Rafael Rivera did after he was offered “Lessons in Chemistry” was read Bonnie Garmus‘ bestselling novel on which the Apple TV+ limited series is based — and it’s safe to say that he was very much enamored of it. “I read the story, and I realized, ‘Man, this could be cool!'” the Emmy- and Grammy-winning composer tells Gold Derby in a recent webchat (watch the full exclusive video interview above). “And then I found out Brie Larson would be starring [in] and also executive producing it. So it became obvious: ‘It’s a no-brainer opportunity!'”
Set in the 1950s and 1960s, “Lessons in Chemistry” follows Elizabeth Zott (played by Larson), a one-of-a-kind chemist, as she not only fights her way through a male-dominated science world that deems...
You will not be surprised to hear that one of the first things Carlos Rafael Rivera did after he was offered “Lessons in Chemistry” was read Bonnie Garmus‘ bestselling novel on which the Apple TV+ limited series is based — and it’s safe to say that he was very much enamored of it. “I read the story, and I realized, ‘Man, this could be cool!'” the Emmy- and Grammy-winning composer tells Gold Derby in a recent webchat (watch the full exclusive video interview above). “And then I found out Brie Larson would be starring [in] and also executive producing it. So it became obvious: ‘It’s a no-brainer opportunity!'”
Set in the 1950s and 1960s, “Lessons in Chemistry” follows Elizabeth Zott (played by Larson), a one-of-a-kind chemist, as she not only fights her way through a male-dominated science world that deems...
- 10/17/2023
- by Luca Giliberti
- Gold Derby
In Lessons in Chemistry’s two-episode premiere, a surprising star emerged: Aja Naomi King’s Harriet Sloane.
The Apple TV+ series, based on the eponymous 2022 novel by Bonnie Garmus, follows Elizabeth Zott (played by Brie Larson) as she works to become a scientist in Southern California during the patriarchal 1950s. Those familiar with the book know that Harriet’s role in the novel is a supporting one — she’s a neighbor who babysits Elizabeth’s daughter while Elizabeth pursues a career in chemistry. Harriet is described as older and though Garmus doesn’t explicitly say it, it’s implied that she is white.
The Apple TV+ series, based on the eponymous 2022 novel by Bonnie Garmus, follows Elizabeth Zott (played by Brie Larson) as she works to become a scientist in Southern California during the patriarchal 1950s. Those familiar with the book know that Harriet’s role in the novel is a supporting one — she’s a neighbor who babysits Elizabeth’s daughter while Elizabeth pursues a career in chemistry. Harriet is described as older and though Garmus doesn’t explicitly say it, it’s implied that she is white.
- 10/14/2023
- by Claire Franken
- TVLine.com
Get ready to unleash your inner chef with AppleTV+’s “Lessons in Chemistry” and learn how to make the perfect lasagna.
Adapted from the Bonnie Garmus novel, Brie Larson plays Elizabeth Zott, a scientist turned cooking show host. And for the 1950s, she is a woman well ahead of her time who stands up to the men and system that oppress her. In the series, Elizabeth perfects the art of making lasagna. It is also the first dish Calvin (Lewis Pullman) tastes and their romance blooms. Behind the scenes, food consultant Courtney McBroom assisted every step of the way to ensure the food looked mouthwatering to audiences.
In the opening moments of the first episode, Elizabeth tells the studio audience she is going to make a lasagna. “We put a lot of thought into that scene. Which parts of the lasagna did we want to see being made, which were...
Adapted from the Bonnie Garmus novel, Brie Larson plays Elizabeth Zott, a scientist turned cooking show host. And for the 1950s, she is a woman well ahead of her time who stands up to the men and system that oppress her. In the series, Elizabeth perfects the art of making lasagna. It is also the first dish Calvin (Lewis Pullman) tastes and their romance blooms. Behind the scenes, food consultant Courtney McBroom assisted every step of the way to ensure the food looked mouthwatering to audiences.
In the opening moments of the first episode, Elizabeth tells the studio audience she is going to make a lasagna. “We put a lot of thought into that scene. Which parts of the lasagna did we want to see being made, which were...
- 10/14/2023
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
“Surprise.”
Rather than being shouted, as people do at birthday parties, Calvin (Lewis Pullman) barely whispers the word. Instead of an excited declaration, it’s the answer to a question: What’s the most important variable to consider when trying to comprehend the origins of the universe? Calvin, having just been caught off guard by an unexpected bit of news, wonders aloud to his partner, Elizabeth (Brie Larson), if all their lab work, all their equations, all their attempts to “explain our past and predict our future,” comes down to one particularly fickle factor. “What if life is necessarily unpredictable, maybe even the very thing that makes it possible in the first place?” the star chemist and frontrunner for the Nobel Prize wonders aloud. What if, just like all the actual elements, the element of surprise is knit into the fabric of existence itself?
I know, I know — it’s a Big idea…...
Rather than being shouted, as people do at birthday parties, Calvin (Lewis Pullman) barely whispers the word. Instead of an excited declaration, it’s the answer to a question: What’s the most important variable to consider when trying to comprehend the origins of the universe? Calvin, having just been caught off guard by an unexpected bit of news, wonders aloud to his partner, Elizabeth (Brie Larson), if all their lab work, all their equations, all their attempts to “explain our past and predict our future,” comes down to one particularly fickle factor. “What if life is necessarily unpredictable, maybe even the very thing that makes it possible in the first place?” the star chemist and frontrunner for the Nobel Prize wonders aloud. What if, just like all the actual elements, the element of surprise is knit into the fabric of existence itself?
I know, I know — it’s a Big idea…...
- 10/13/2023
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Oscar winner Brie Larson (Room) whips up tasty meals on TV after being forced out of work as a scientist in Apple TV+’s Lessons in Chemistry. Set in the 1960s, Larson stars as Elizabeth Zott, a brilliant scientist who was born in the wrong era. The male-dominated lab where she’s employed stifles Elizabeth’s talent, holding firm to the belief women are only capable of handling subservient positions and are far too fragile and delicate to undertake any actual scientific endeavors.
A chance encounter leads to Elizabeth putting her chemistry skills to use in front of the camera and teaching women not just how to be brave in the kitchen but also in all aspects of their lives.
Lessons in Chemistry is based on Bonnie Garmus’ bestselling novel, published in April 2022. In a March 2022 interview with Penguin Books, Garmus discussed the book’s setting.
“I could remember these...
A chance encounter leads to Elizabeth putting her chemistry skills to use in front of the camera and teaching women not just how to be brave in the kitchen but also in all aspects of their lives.
Lessons in Chemistry is based on Bonnie Garmus’ bestselling novel, published in April 2022. In a March 2022 interview with Penguin Books, Garmus discussed the book’s setting.
“I could remember these...
- 10/9/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
The Union Solidarity Coalition — founded over the summer by a group of writer-directors moved to support crewmembers amid the strike — launched an eBay auction last week with lots so unique, it seems they were dreamed up in a writers room. And the bids have been rolling in fast and thick.
A sampling of the offerings and current bids (as of publication time) include dinner with Bob Odenkirk and David Cross ($10,200); the cast of Bob’s Burgers singing a custom song ($7,200); Natasha Lyonne helping solve the New York Times Sunday crossword via Zoom ($6,100); Lena Dunham painting a mural in your home ($5,100); John Lithgow painting a watercolor portrait of your dog ($4,450); a pottery class with Busy Philipps in New York ($3,500); Adam Scott walking your dog in L.A. for one hour ($2,500); a Zoom with Barry Jenkins and Nicholas Britell ($1,250); and a relationship advice squabble over Zoom with Rosemarie Dewitt and Ron Livingston ($1,136).
The...
A sampling of the offerings and current bids (as of publication time) include dinner with Bob Odenkirk and David Cross ($10,200); the cast of Bob’s Burgers singing a custom song ($7,200); Natasha Lyonne helping solve the New York Times Sunday crossword via Zoom ($6,100); Lena Dunham painting a mural in your home ($5,100); John Lithgow painting a watercolor portrait of your dog ($4,450); a pottery class with Busy Philipps in New York ($3,500); Adam Scott walking your dog in L.A. for one hour ($2,500); a Zoom with Barry Jenkins and Nicholas Britell ($1,250); and a relationship advice squabble over Zoom with Rosemarie Dewitt and Ron Livingston ($1,136).
The...
- 9/19/2023
- by Chris Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Apple TV+ has released the official trailer and premiere date for its upcoming drama series Lessons in Chemistry, starring Oscar winner Brie Larson as a brilliant scientist who becomes a TV cooking show host in the 1960s. The series is based on the novel of the same name by Bonnie Garmus.
The trailer introduces us to Elizabeth Zott (Larson), a PhD candidate in chemistry who is passionate about her research and dreams of becoming a professor. However, she faces sexism and discrimination in the male-dominated field, and her career is derailed when she becomes pregnant out of wedlock. She then lands a job as a host of a TV cooking show, where she uses her scientific knowledge to teach viewers about the chemistry of food and life.
Lessons in Chemistry Trailer
The series is created by Llee Eisenberg, who also serves as showrunner and executive producer. Sarah Adina Smith directs...
The trailer introduces us to Elizabeth Zott (Larson), a PhD candidate in chemistry who is passionate about her research and dreams of becoming a professor. However, she faces sexism and discrimination in the male-dominated field, and her career is derailed when she becomes pregnant out of wedlock. She then lands a job as a host of a TV cooking show, where she uses her scientific knowledge to teach viewers about the chemistry of food and life.
Lessons in Chemistry Trailer
The series is created by Llee Eisenberg, who also serves as showrunner and executive producer. Sarah Adina Smith directs...
- 9/14/2023
- by amalprasadappu
- https://thecinemanews.online/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/IMG_4649
For the first time since “The United States of Tara,” Oscar-winning actress Brie Larson is heading back to television in a significant capacity with “Lessons in Chemistry.” The Apple TV+ limited series based on the novel of the same name by Bonnie Garmus debuts on October 13.
On Thursday, Apple TV+ released the first official trailer for the new series, which was developed by Lee Eisenberg (“WeCrashed”).
Here’s the logline:
Set in the early 1950s, Lessons in Chemistry follows Elizabeth Zott (played by Larson), whose dream of being a scientist is put on hold in a patriarchal society. When Elizabeth finds herself fired from her lab, she accepts a job as a host on a TV cooking show, and sets out to teach a nation of overlooked housewives — and the men who are suddenly listening — a lot more than recipes.
Watch the trailer here:
Larson leads the cast that includes Lewis Pullman,...
On Thursday, Apple TV+ released the first official trailer for the new series, which was developed by Lee Eisenberg (“WeCrashed”).
Here’s the logline:
Set in the early 1950s, Lessons in Chemistry follows Elizabeth Zott (played by Larson), whose dream of being a scientist is put on hold in a patriarchal society. When Elizabeth finds herself fired from her lab, she accepts a job as a host on a TV cooking show, and sets out to teach a nation of overlooked housewives — and the men who are suddenly listening — a lot more than recipes.
Watch the trailer here:
Larson leads the cast that includes Lewis Pullman,...
- 9/14/2023
- by Caillou Pettis and Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
Brie Larson takes a break from the superhero world to star in the new drama from AppleTV. Lessons in Chemistry is an eight-episode limited series that is on the bestselling novel of the same name from author, science editor and copywriter Bonnie Garmus (you can pick up a copy of the novel Here). The show is scheduled to make its debut globally on AppleTV+ starting on Friday, October 13, 2023, with the first two episodes. Then, new episodes are set to stream weekly, every Friday through November 24, 2023.
The official synopsis from Apple reads,
“Set in the early 1950s, Lessons in Chemistry follows Elizabeth Zott (played by Larson), whose dream of being a scientist is put on hold in a patriarchal society. When Elizabeth finds herself fired from her lab, she accepts a job as a host on a TV cooking show, and sets out to teach a nation of overlooked housewives — and...
The official synopsis from Apple reads,
“Set in the early 1950s, Lessons in Chemistry follows Elizabeth Zott (played by Larson), whose dream of being a scientist is put on hold in a patriarchal society. When Elizabeth finds herself fired from her lab, she accepts a job as a host on a TV cooking show, and sets out to teach a nation of overlooked housewives — and...
- 9/14/2023
- by EJ Tangonan
- JoBlo.com
Brie Larson is breaking down baking to a science in Apple TV+ limited series “Lessons in Chemistry.” The eight-episode show stars Larson as Elizabeth Zott, whose dream of being a scientist is put on hold in a patriarchal society in the early 1950s. When Elizabeth finds herself fired from her lab, she accepts a job as a host on a TV cooking show, and sets out to teach a nation of overlooked housewives — and the men who are suddenly listening — a lot more than just recipes.
The series is based on Bonnie Garmus’ bestselling novel of the same name, with Oscar winner Larson executive producing. Lewis Pullman, Aja Naomi King, Stephanie Koenig, Kevin Sussman, Patrick Walker, Rainn Wilson, and Thomas Mann co-star.
“Lessons in Chemistry” is produced for Apple TV+ by Apple Studios. Seven-time Emmy Award-nominee Lee Eisenberg (“WeCrashed”) serves as showrunner, with Academy Award-nominee Susannah Grant (“Erin Brockovich”) executive...
The series is based on Bonnie Garmus’ bestselling novel of the same name, with Oscar winner Larson executive producing. Lewis Pullman, Aja Naomi King, Stephanie Koenig, Kevin Sussman, Patrick Walker, Rainn Wilson, and Thomas Mann co-star.
“Lessons in Chemistry” is produced for Apple TV+ by Apple Studios. Seven-time Emmy Award-nominee Lee Eisenberg (“WeCrashed”) serves as showrunner, with Academy Award-nominee Susannah Grant (“Erin Brockovich”) executive...
- 9/14/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Brie Larson has delivered countless phenomenal performances throughout her career, but something tells us we're getting her finest work on Lessons in Chemistry.
Apple TV+ shared the official trailer for the highly-anticipated limited series on Thursday morning, showing Larson as Elizabeth Zott.
Zott is a scientist whose life is upended when, on the cusp of discovering something great, a patriarchal society puts her career on hold.
You can tell from the official trailer that this has a profound effect on Elizabeth because the first half focuses on her trying to make a significant breakthrough.
Hearing that everything you've worked for is being taken away from you must be one of the worst feelings in the world, and just when Elizabeth is trying to bounce back following the controversial decision, she gets quite the offer.
She's offered the job as a host of a TV cooking show, and while she's apprehensive at first,...
Apple TV+ shared the official trailer for the highly-anticipated limited series on Thursday morning, showing Larson as Elizabeth Zott.
Zott is a scientist whose life is upended when, on the cusp of discovering something great, a patriarchal society puts her career on hold.
You can tell from the official trailer that this has a profound effect on Elizabeth because the first half focuses on her trying to make a significant breakthrough.
Hearing that everything you've worked for is being taken away from you must be one of the worst feelings in the world, and just when Elizabeth is trying to bounce back following the controversial decision, she gets quite the offer.
She's offered the job as a host of a TV cooking show, and while she's apprehensive at first,...
- 9/14/2023
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
In a newly released trailer for Lessons in Chemistry, Brie Larson is challenging women’s stereotypes in the ’50s with her television cooking show.
The Apple TV+ limited series, which Larson also executive produced, is based on the best-selling novel by Bonnie Garmus.
“I stand proudly with the overlooked workhorse of the kitchen, women and baked potatoes,” Larson can be heard saying during one of her cooking show segments.
The eight-episode show, set in the early 1950s, follows Elizabeth Zott (Larson) whose dream of becoming a scientist is put on hold in a patriarchal society. After being fired from her lab, she gets offered a job to host a TV cooking show, which she accepts. But she quickly sets out to use her platform to teach a nation of overlooked housewives, and the men who are listening all of a sudden, more than just recipes.
“Politics don’t belong in the kitchen.
The Apple TV+ limited series, which Larson also executive produced, is based on the best-selling novel by Bonnie Garmus.
“I stand proudly with the overlooked workhorse of the kitchen, women and baked potatoes,” Larson can be heard saying during one of her cooking show segments.
The eight-episode show, set in the early 1950s, follows Elizabeth Zott (Larson) whose dream of becoming a scientist is put on hold in a patriarchal society. After being fired from her lab, she gets offered a job to host a TV cooking show, which she accepts. But she quickly sets out to use her platform to teach a nation of overlooked housewives, and the men who are listening all of a sudden, more than just recipes.
“Politics don’t belong in the kitchen.
- 9/14/2023
- by Carly Thomas
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The arrival of a fresh, new voice on the indie filmmaking scene is always an exciting event and the latest debut on our radar is that from Chelsea Bo, producer of Joshua Leonard’s Fully Realized Humans and Sarah Adina Smith’s The Drop. Written, directed, and starring Bo, No Right Way is set for a fall festival tour and now we’re pleased to exclusively debut the trailer for the film, following the journey of half-sisters.
Also starring Ava Acres, Eliza Coupe-Marks, Jim Hanks, and Sufe Bradshaw, here’s the official synopsis: “Georgie, a brazen 13-year-old, has her life uprooted when she’s thrust into the guardianship of her half-sister Harper and torn away from her life in Vegas. Harper sees this turbulent time as a window of opportunity to pave a brighter future for her half-sister, but Harper’s self-righteous attempts to protect Georgie only lead to exposing their paralleled childhood wounds.
Also starring Ava Acres, Eliza Coupe-Marks, Jim Hanks, and Sufe Bradshaw, here’s the official synopsis: “Georgie, a brazen 13-year-old, has her life uprooted when she’s thrust into the guardianship of her half-sister Harper and torn away from her life in Vegas. Harper sees this turbulent time as a window of opportunity to pave a brighter future for her half-sister, but Harper’s self-righteous attempts to protect Georgie only lead to exposing their paralleled childhood wounds.
- 8/30/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The 'polaroid' style one-sheet is a particular favourite of mine. As you can see below for Elena Martín's Cannes fêted Creatura, it allows room for pull quotes at the top, a well-kerned title below the image, and an ample credit block that reads more like graphics and less like text. The tiny funding logos below that act in the same fashion. The image itself is from the point of view below the waterline. It offers the vague idea of a (ahem) creature looking up at the curious, innocent, adolescents. It is the distortion, playing with focal planes, that makes this one-sheet distinctive. It reminds me of Sarah Adina Smith's debut The Midnight Swim. Where that film dealt with sisterhood and grief and letting go, Martín is more concerned...
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- 8/11/2023
- Screen Anarchy
The Union Solidarity Coalition, a group founded by writers and filmmakers moved by solidarity on the picket lines, has set a fundraising Solidarity Night for Sat. July, 15 to raise money for crew members affected by the ongoing writers’ strike. The event will be held in downtown Los Angeles from 6-10 p.m.
All proceeds from Solidarity Night will go to the Tusc Fund of MPTF, benefitting film crew members who are at risk of losing their healthcare during the work stoppage.
A host committee including Lulu Wang, Boots Riley, Ben Stiller, Jay Roach, Daniel Kwan, Bob Odenkirk, Joe Robert Cole, Natasha Lyonne and many others will welcome attendees to a mixer to underscore Tusc’s mission of inter-union solidarity in the TV and film industry, “creating a space for writers, directors, actors and crew to interact in a casual space where entertainment takes on a different meaning than just a...
All proceeds from Solidarity Night will go to the Tusc Fund of MPTF, benefitting film crew members who are at risk of losing their healthcare during the work stoppage.
A host committee including Lulu Wang, Boots Riley, Ben Stiller, Jay Roach, Daniel Kwan, Bob Odenkirk, Joe Robert Cole, Natasha Lyonne and many others will welcome attendees to a mixer to underscore Tusc’s mission of inter-union solidarity in the TV and film industry, “creating a space for writers, directors, actors and crew to interact in a casual space where entertainment takes on a different meaning than just a...
- 7/11/2023
- by Adam Chitwood
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Emmy nominees Jacqueline Bisset (Bullitt) and Dominic Monaghan (The Lord of the Rings franchise) are set to star alongside Dermot Mulroney in Last Dollar, the 1880s-set Western inspired by European cinema that marks the feature directorial debut of William Shockley.
The film from Thunderbird Pictures is billed as a story of love and vengeance between a young man, the survivor of a horrific tragedy who has to choose between the old ways and the new, and a young woman who is confronted with the crushing cost of her dreams to her soul. It’s set against a background of a rapidly transitioning society, where power rules, mores are being flipped on their head, and reality itself comes into question.
Bisset plays Vivian Villeré, the mercurial Madame and owner of the Purgatory Saloon, a woman who will stop at nothing to protect what is hers. Monaghan is set for the role of Vivian’s longtime,...
The film from Thunderbird Pictures is billed as a story of love and vengeance between a young man, the survivor of a horrific tragedy who has to choose between the old ways and the new, and a young woman who is confronted with the crushing cost of her dreams to her soul. It’s set against a background of a rapidly transitioning society, where power rules, mores are being flipped on their head, and reality itself comes into question.
Bisset plays Vivian Villeré, the mercurial Madame and owner of the Purgatory Saloon, a woman who will stop at nothing to protect what is hers. Monaghan is set for the role of Vivian’s longtime,...
- 5/31/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Apple TV+ has set a fall premiere date for limited drama series Lessons in Chemistry, starring and executive produced by Oscar winner Brie Larson. The series will debut with the first two episodes on Friday, October 13. New episodes will debut weekly on Fridays through November 24.
Based on Bonnie Garmus’ best-selling debut novel, Lessons in Chemistry, set in the early 1950s, follows Elizabeth Zott (Larson), whose dream of being a scientist is put on hold in a patriarchal society. When Elizabeth finds herself fired from her lab, she accepts a job as a host on a TV cooking show, and sets out to teach a nation of overlooked housewives – and the men who are suddenly listening – a lot more than recipes.
Also starring are Lewis Pullman, Aja Naomi King, Stephanie Koenig, Kevin Sussman, Patrick Walker and Thomas Mann.
Lessons in Chemistry is produced for Apple TV+ by Apple Studios. Lee Eisenberg serves as showrunner. Academy Award-nominee Susannah Grant executive produces alongside Larson. Jason Bateman and Michael Costigan executive produce for Aggregate Films. Natalie Sandy executive produces through Piece of Work Entertainment alongside Eisenberg. Louise Shore also serves as executive producer. Sarah Adina Smith directed the pilot and also serves as executive producer.
Based on Bonnie Garmus’ best-selling debut novel, Lessons in Chemistry, set in the early 1950s, follows Elizabeth Zott (Larson), whose dream of being a scientist is put on hold in a patriarchal society. When Elizabeth finds herself fired from her lab, she accepts a job as a host on a TV cooking show, and sets out to teach a nation of overlooked housewives – and the men who are suddenly listening – a lot more than recipes.
Also starring are Lewis Pullman, Aja Naomi King, Stephanie Koenig, Kevin Sussman, Patrick Walker and Thomas Mann.
Lessons in Chemistry is produced for Apple TV+ by Apple Studios. Lee Eisenberg serves as showrunner. Academy Award-nominee Susannah Grant executive produces alongside Larson. Jason Bateman and Michael Costigan executive produce for Aggregate Films. Natalie Sandy executive produces through Piece of Work Entertainment alongside Eisenberg. Louise Shore also serves as executive producer. Sarah Adina Smith directed the pilot and also serves as executive producer.
- 5/31/2023
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Two highly-anticipated comedy series are hitting streaming platforms this week, the excruciatingly relatable "Beef" on Netflix and the musical prequel series, "Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies" on Paramount+. Meanwhile, there are films like "The Drop" and "Mayhem" available to stream that might help viewers get ready for a series like "Beef." Both flicks are exclusive to their prospective streaming platforms, so hopefully you've got Hulu and Shudder in addition to Netflix. There's also the Netflix series "Julie and the Phantoms" and the oft-forgotten "Grease 2" on Paramount+ to serve as the perfect companion pieces to "Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies." Last-up, there's also the Prime Video series "Paper Girls" which manages to capture the girl-power energy of the new prequel series while boasting a stand-out performance by one of the stars of "Beef."
Beef Is About To Become Your Latest TV Obsession
Where to Watch "Beef": NetflixWhen...
Beef Is About To Become Your Latest TV Obsession
Where to Watch "Beef": NetflixWhen...
- 4/3/2023
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
After a banner 2022 that saw their film We’re All Going to the World’s Fair launch in theaters and on HBO Max, as well as their follow-up, I Saw the TV Glow, complete production with a cast of multiple rising stars for A24, filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun has lined up their next feature project for Tango Entertainment.
Schoenbrun is set to write and direct an adaptation of Imogen Binnie’s cult classic Nevada with production scheduled to begin in the eponymous state between March 15 and May 15 of this year. Released in 2013, Nevada is considered a landmark of the trans literary canon, a punk road-trip saga about Maria Griffiths, who flees New York for Star City, Nevada in the car she stole from her cheating ex and falls in with James, who may also be trans. Schoenbrun also announced the official nationwide casting call for both leads, Maria and James, on Twitter.
Schoenbrun is set to write and direct an adaptation of Imogen Binnie’s cult classic Nevada with production scheduled to begin in the eponymous state between March 15 and May 15 of this year. Released in 2013, Nevada is considered a landmark of the trans literary canon, a punk road-trip saga about Maria Griffiths, who flees New York for Star City, Nevada in the car she stole from her cheating ex and falls in with James, who may also be trans. Schoenbrun also announced the official nationwide casting call for both leads, Maria and James, on Twitter.
- 1/18/2023
- by Sean L. Malin
- The Film Stage
Nothing puts a relationship to the test like going on vacation together. Or, in the case of “The Drop,” a destination wedding. Director and co-writer Sarah Adina Smith cranks up the cringe comedy dial by turning what should be a celebratory event into a nightmare, putting at least one couple’s future in jeopardy. While this sounds relatively paint-by-numbers, the unexpected accident that causes this rupture delivers a fresh perspective.
Continue reading ‘The Drop’ Review: A Strong Ensemble Cast Can’t Stop This Cringe Comedy From Fumbling Its Bold Premise at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘The Drop’ Review: A Strong Ensemble Cast Can’t Stop This Cringe Comedy From Fumbling Its Bold Premise at The Playlist.
- 1/12/2023
- by Emma Fraser
- The Playlist
“The Drop” announces itself with promise and a fine note of unease, thanks to a surprisingly contrapuntal score that signals the darker intentions of director Sarah Adina Smith’s comedy, which is set in motion by an accident that reveals young marrieds Lex and Mani’s anxieties about parenthood — and, perhaps, each other.
Far below an aerial shot, jade-green waves crest and unfurl to the swelling and swirling notes of an orchestra. The patterns are mesmerizing, shape-shifting from recognizable into what might resemble a spider’s web or a membrane (the sort you might see in a sci-fi movie with a fetus floating in uterine tissue). From this beautiful, extended image, cut to Lex (“Pen15” star Anna Konkle) and Mani (Jermaine Fowler) making love and, fingers crossed and sperm willing, a baby.
It’s a bold and amusing veer in tone, intended to signal both the weight and wit to come.
Far below an aerial shot, jade-green waves crest and unfurl to the swelling and swirling notes of an orchestra. The patterns are mesmerizing, shape-shifting from recognizable into what might resemble a spider’s web or a membrane (the sort you might see in a sci-fi movie with a fetus floating in uterine tissue). From this beautiful, extended image, cut to Lex (“Pen15” star Anna Konkle) and Mani (Jermaine Fowler) making love and, fingers crossed and sperm willing, a baby.
It’s a bold and amusing veer in tone, intended to signal both the weight and wit to come.
- 1/10/2023
- by Lisa Kennedy
- Variety Film + TV
Photo: 'The Drop'
There have been some shows that cover melodramatic stories such as ‘‘The Slap,’ which has been famous for portraying a family drama that shows from one small scene where a male adult slaps a couple’s misbehaving child which causes family tension and other harbored negative secrets. The hit comedic show ‘Pen15’ has this absurd humor of showing two female actresses who are in their thirties that play seventh-grade middle-schoolers and experience their struggles of fitting in as teenagers in the 2000s. In this new full-length comedic film ‘The Drop,’ the ‘Pen15’ star Anna Konkle and Jermaine Fowler (who appear in Coming 2 America and Sorry to Bother You) both play a young adult couple who attend a wedding on a tropical island. One of them holds a newborn baby and accidentally drops it. The baby seems perfectly unharmed, but the witnesses, which are their friends,...
There have been some shows that cover melodramatic stories such as ‘‘The Slap,’ which has been famous for portraying a family drama that shows from one small scene where a male adult slaps a couple’s misbehaving child which causes family tension and other harbored negative secrets. The hit comedic show ‘Pen15’ has this absurd humor of showing two female actresses who are in their thirties that play seventh-grade middle-schoolers and experience their struggles of fitting in as teenagers in the 2000s. In this new full-length comedic film ‘The Drop,’ the ‘Pen15’ star Anna Konkle and Jermaine Fowler (who appear in Coming 2 America and Sorry to Bother You) both play a young adult couple who attend a wedding on a tropical island. One of them holds a newborn baby and accidentally drops it. The baby seems perfectly unharmed, but the witnesses, which are their friends,...
- 1/8/2023
- by Marco Castaneda
- Hollywood Insider - Substance & Meaningful Entertainment
"The Drop" is a title that could lend itself to any number of things. We've already seen one Tom Hardy movie, for instance, where "The Drop" referred to a money drop by the Chechen mafia at a Brooklyn bar. That movie was a crime drama, whereas Sarah Adina Smith's new Hulu cringe comedy, "The Drop," features a much more "unthinkable, unspeakable" premise.
What if you dropped a friend's baby? It's a horrific idea as a thought and an absolute tragedy in real life, but in "The Drop," it happens. Fortunately, though, the baby is unharmed. Less intact, however, is the reputation of the happy young couple responsible for the titular drop while on an island trip with friends. For them, the repercussions seem to be almost as serious as those in the 2015 NBC miniseries "The Slap," which leveraged a ridiculously star-studded cast to tell a more melodramatic story of...
What if you dropped a friend's baby? It's a horrific idea as a thought and an absolute tragedy in real life, but in "The Drop," it happens. Fortunately, though, the baby is unharmed. Less intact, however, is the reputation of the happy young couple responsible for the titular drop while on an island trip with friends. For them, the repercussions seem to be almost as serious as those in the 2015 NBC miniseries "The Slap," which leveraged a ridiculously star-studded cast to tell a more melodramatic story of...
- 12/13/2022
- by Joshua Meyer
- Slash Film
Can one lousy moment destroy a relationship? A young couple finds themselves at the center of controversy in “The Drop.” The Hulu film reveals everything that hides beneath pleasantries; set during an island destination wedding, the relationships of all involved are challenged by a singular accident. While it might seem like a dramatic inspection of current relationships, this project uses a comedic approach to get audiences thinking.
The film hails from director and co-writer Sarah Adina Smith.
Continue reading ‘The Drop’ Trailer: Anna Konkle, Jermaine Fowler, & Jillian Bell Can’t Take Back Dropping Their Friend’s Baby at The Playlist.
The film hails from director and co-writer Sarah Adina Smith.
Continue reading ‘The Drop’ Trailer: Anna Konkle, Jermaine Fowler, & Jillian Bell Can’t Take Back Dropping Their Friend’s Baby at The Playlist.
- 12/12/2022
- by Valerie Thompson
- The Playlist
Anyone who has held a newborn baby can likely recall a horrifying, intrusive thought entering their head at the worst possible moment: “What if I drop it?”
It’s a valid concern, considering how small and delicate newborn babies are. Fortunately, it’s not a problem that many people actually have to face at any point in their lives. Whether it’s because humans have evolved to protect their offspring at all costs or because we just focus really hard on not dropping them, there just aren’t that many babies getting dropped on any given day.
But that’s exactly what happens in “The Drop,” Sarah Adina Smith’s new Hulu comedy that hails from executive producers Jay and Mark Duplass. The film, which debuts on the streaming service January 13, follows a young couple who think they have their careers figured out and begin making plans to start a family of their own.
It’s a valid concern, considering how small and delicate newborn babies are. Fortunately, it’s not a problem that many people actually have to face at any point in their lives. Whether it’s because humans have evolved to protect their offspring at all costs or because we just focus really hard on not dropping them, there just aren’t that many babies getting dropped on any given day.
But that’s exactly what happens in “The Drop,” Sarah Adina Smith’s new Hulu comedy that hails from executive producers Jay and Mark Duplass. The film, which debuts on the streaming service January 13, follows a young couple who think they have their careers figured out and begin making plans to start a family of their own.
- 12/12/2022
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
The holiday season is now upon us, and it seems only right that we’re heading into December with a brand new Christmas-themed genre movie arriving in theaters later this week.
I’m of course talking about the David Harbour-starring Violent Night, which features the “Stranger Things” actor as an ass-kicking version of none other than Santa himself.
But that’s not the only new genre movie arriving this week…
Here’s all the new horror headed down the chimney November 28 – December 4, 2022!
This week is all quiet on the horror front until Thursday, December 1, which kicks off with the release of The Harbinger, which has been favorably compared to Nightmare on Elm Street.
In the film from writer/director Andy Mitton, “Monique ventures out of quarantine to visit an old friend who’s plagued by nightmares. She finds herself drawn into a hellish dreamscape where she must face her...
I’m of course talking about the David Harbour-starring Violent Night, which features the “Stranger Things” actor as an ass-kicking version of none other than Santa himself.
But that’s not the only new genre movie arriving this week…
Here’s all the new horror headed down the chimney November 28 – December 4, 2022!
This week is all quiet on the horror front until Thursday, December 1, which kicks off with the release of The Harbinger, which has been favorably compared to Nightmare on Elm Street.
In the film from writer/director Andy Mitton, “Monique ventures out of quarantine to visit an old friend who’s plagued by nightmares. She finds herself drawn into a hellish dreamscape where she must face her...
- 11/29/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Long-time Academy Museum of Motion Pictures executive Amy Homma was promoted to Chief Audience Officer Nov. 28, Director and President of the Academy Museum Jacqueline Stewart announced.
“Amy has proven herself to be a skillful, forward-thinking, and inspiring leader since she began at the museum in 2019, and I look forward to seeing her and her teams thrive in this new capacity,” Stewart said. “As a seasoned programmer, educator, and administrator who brings a deep knowledge of audience engagement and museology, Amy is the ideal person to steer our museum’s next chapter of external relations.”
Prior to her new appointment, Homma worked as vice president of Education and Public Engagement at the Academy Museum. Under her leadership, the museum developed K-12 programming and public programs rooted in accessibility and activism.
Homma’s introduction to the Academy Museum was as the inaugural director — a position she acquired following the conclusion of her...
“Amy has proven herself to be a skillful, forward-thinking, and inspiring leader since she began at the museum in 2019, and I look forward to seeing her and her teams thrive in this new capacity,” Stewart said. “As a seasoned programmer, educator, and administrator who brings a deep knowledge of audience engagement and museology, Amy is the ideal person to steer our museum’s next chapter of external relations.”
Prior to her new appointment, Homma worked as vice president of Education and Public Engagement at the Academy Museum. Under her leadership, the museum developed K-12 programming and public programs rooted in accessibility and activism.
Homma’s introduction to the Academy Museum was as the inaugural director — a position she acquired following the conclusion of her...
- 11/29/2022
- by Jazz Tangcay, Michaela Zee and Katie Reul
- Variety Film + TV
Hulu has ordered a second season of Tell Me Lies.
Based on Carola Lovering’s novel, Tell Me Lies follows a tumultuous but intoxicating relationship as it unfolds over the course of eight years. When Lucy Albright (Grace Van Patten) and Stephen DeMarco (Jackson White) meet at college, they are at that formative age when seemingly mundane choices lead the way to irrevocable consequences. Although their relationship begins like any typical campus romance, they quickly fall into an addictive entanglement that will permanently alter not only their lives, but the lives of everyone around them.
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Based on Carola Lovering’s novel, Tell Me Lies follows a tumultuous but intoxicating relationship as it unfolds over the course of eight years. When Lucy Albright (Grace Van Patten) and Stephen DeMarco (Jackson White) meet at college, they are at that formative age when seemingly mundane choices lead the way to irrevocable consequences. Although their relationship begins like any typical campus romance, they quickly fall into an addictive entanglement that will permanently alter not only their lives, but the lives of everyone around them.
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- 11/29/2022
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Hulu has announced that the R-rated dark comedy The Drop from executive producers Mark and Jay Duplass will bow on the streamer on January 13. New stills from the Hulu Original, starring Anna Konkle (PEN15) and Jermaine Fowler (Coming 2 America), can be found above and below.
Directed by Sarah Adina Smith, The Drop follows Lex (Konkle) and Mani (Fowler), a happily married young couple, running their dream artisanal bakery in Los Angeles and excited about starting a family together. A trip to a tropical island resort for a friend’s destination wedding, coinciding with Lex’s ovulation cycle, feels like the perfect opportunity to conceive. But good vibes and high hopes are cut short when, shortly after their arrival to paradise, Lex accidentally drops her friend’s baby in front of all their friends. Paradise becomes purgatory for our couple as recriminations,...
Directed by Sarah Adina Smith, The Drop follows Lex (Konkle) and Mani (Fowler), a happily married young couple, running their dream artisanal bakery in Los Angeles and excited about starting a family together. A trip to a tropical island resort for a friend’s destination wedding, coinciding with Lex’s ovulation cycle, feels like the perfect opportunity to conceive. But good vibes and high hopes are cut short when, shortly after their arrival to paradise, Lex accidentally drops her friend’s baby in front of all their friends. Paradise becomes purgatory for our couple as recriminations,...
- 11/29/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
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