Spoiler Alert: This story discusses several major plot developments in the feature film “Red, White & Royal Blue,” currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video, as well as the novel it’s based on.
Over this past weekend, certain corners of the internet were hyperventilating with excitement over the release of “Red, White & Royal Blue,” the romantic comedy about how Alex Claremont-Diaz (Taylor Zakhar Perez), the First Son of the United States, and Prince Henry (Nicholas Galitzine), third in line to the British throne, transform from enemies to friends to lovers. As the film shot to the top of Prime Video’s Top 10 movie list, fans flooded TikTok, Twitter and Instagram with memes and reactions to the production and how it measures up to its source material, the best-selling 2019 novel by Casey McQuiston.
For director Matthew López — the Tony award-winning playwright (for “The Inheritance”), who also adapted McQuiston’s novel...
Over this past weekend, certain corners of the internet were hyperventilating with excitement over the release of “Red, White & Royal Blue,” the romantic comedy about how Alex Claremont-Diaz (Taylor Zakhar Perez), the First Son of the United States, and Prince Henry (Nicholas Galitzine), third in line to the British throne, transform from enemies to friends to lovers. As the film shot to the top of Prime Video’s Top 10 movie list, fans flooded TikTok, Twitter and Instagram with memes and reactions to the production and how it measures up to its source material, the best-selling 2019 novel by Casey McQuiston.
For director Matthew López — the Tony award-winning playwright (for “The Inheritance”), who also adapted McQuiston’s novel...
- 8/15/2023
- by Adam B. Vary
- Variety Film + TV
Red, White & Royal Blue is a romantic comedy film directed by Matthew Lopez from a screenplay by Lopez and Ted Malawer. The rom-com film is based on a book of the same name by Casey McQuiston and it follows the love story of Alex Claremont-Diaz (Taylor Zakhar Perez), the son of the first female President of the United States Ellen Claremont (Uma Thurman) and Prince Henry (Nicholas Galitzine), a British Prince. The romantic comedy film sees our protagonists pulled between love and duty while having carefree fun.
The YA rom-com film also stars Sarah Shahi (The L Word) as Zahra Bankston, Stephen Fry (Blackadder) as King James III, Rachel Hilson as Nora Holleran, Polo Morin (Who Killed Sara?) as Rafael Luna, and Ellie Bamber (Nocturnal Animals) as Princess Beatrice).
So let’s find what the critics are saying about the YA rom-com film. Check out the review quotes from...
The YA rom-com film also stars Sarah Shahi (The L Word) as Zahra Bankston, Stephen Fry (Blackadder) as King James III, Rachel Hilson as Nora Holleran, Polo Morin (Who Killed Sara?) as Rafael Luna, and Ellie Bamber (Nocturnal Animals) as Princess Beatrice).
So let’s find what the critics are saying about the YA rom-com film. Check out the review quotes from...
- 8/11/2023
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
Red, White & Royal Blue is a romantic comedy film directed by Matthew Lopez from a screenplay by Lopez and Ted Malawer. The rom-com film is based on a book of the same name by Casey McQuiston and it follows the love story of Alex Claremont-Diaz (Taylor Zakhar Perez), the son of the first female President of the United States Ellen Claremont (Uma Thurman) and Prince Henry (Nicholas Galitzine), a British Prince. The romantic comedy film sees our protagonists pulled between love and duty while having carefree fun.
So, let’s see what we know about Red, White & Royal Blue including its cast, when did it come out, what it is about, and most importantly where can you watch it.
Red, White & Royal Blue – When Did it Come Out? Credit – Prime Video
Red, White & Royal Blue came out exclusively on Prime Video on August 11, 2023.
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So, let’s see what we know about Red, White & Royal Blue including its cast, when did it come out, what it is about, and most importantly where can you watch it.
Red, White & Royal Blue – When Did it Come Out? Credit – Prime Video
Red, White & Royal Blue came out exclusively on Prime Video on August 11, 2023.
Red, White & Royal Blue...
- 8/11/2023
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
Nicholas Galitzine first gained attention when he played Prince Charming opposite Camilla Cabello in the 2021 film musical adaptation of “Cinderella.” The project launched a career that seems to have been going non-stop ever since.
In “Purple Hearts,” a romantic drama from Netflix, Galitzine played a troubled Marine who falls for an aspiring singer (Sofia Carson) after they marry in order to get military benefits. It became a bona fide hit, with Netflix claiming it was the streamer’s third-most watched film of 2022.
Now, Galitzine, 28, can be seen in Amazon Prime’s “Red, White & Royal Blue,” director Matthew López’s feature adaptation of the bestselling LGBTQ romance novel of the same name.
Galitzine stars in the movie as another prince — but this time it’s England’s Prince Henry, an heir to the throne who falls in love with Alex (Taylor Zakhar Perez), the son of the U.S. president...
In “Purple Hearts,” a romantic drama from Netflix, Galitzine played a troubled Marine who falls for an aspiring singer (Sofia Carson) after they marry in order to get military benefits. It became a bona fide hit, with Netflix claiming it was the streamer’s third-most watched film of 2022.
Now, Galitzine, 28, can be seen in Amazon Prime’s “Red, White & Royal Blue,” director Matthew López’s feature adaptation of the bestselling LGBTQ romance novel of the same name.
Galitzine stars in the movie as another prince — but this time it’s England’s Prince Henry, an heir to the throne who falls in love with Alex (Taylor Zakhar Perez), the son of the U.S. president...
- 8/11/2023
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
Taylor Zakhar Perez as Alex Claremont-Diaz and Nicholas Galitzine as Prince Henry, in Red, White & Royal Blue. Courtesy of Amazon Prime
It’s still summer, so it’s still time for light, puffy comedies while the temps are warm. Red, White & Royal Blue is a beach-read of a comedy, a frothy confection in which a young American meets a young British prince. Except this American is not someone ordinary but the son of the President – a woman President no less. But the president’s son and the royal develop an immediate mutual dislike, but despite their dislike, they are forced to pretend to be friends for diplomatic reasons. You know where this goes but what looks at first like a bromance quickly shifts into gay rom-com. Red, White & Royal Blue is a modern fantasy packed with rom-com tropes, plenty of silliness, plus a touch of Jane Austen and Harry and Meghan flavor.
It’s still summer, so it’s still time for light, puffy comedies while the temps are warm. Red, White & Royal Blue is a beach-read of a comedy, a frothy confection in which a young American meets a young British prince. Except this American is not someone ordinary but the son of the President – a woman President no less. But the president’s son and the royal develop an immediate mutual dislike, but despite their dislike, they are forced to pretend to be friends for diplomatic reasons. You know where this goes but what looks at first like a bromance quickly shifts into gay rom-com. Red, White & Royal Blue is a modern fantasy packed with rom-com tropes, plenty of silliness, plus a touch of Jane Austen and Harry and Meghan flavor.
- 8/11/2023
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Did you ever meet someone who at first seems objectionable, but with time finds a place in your heart? That’s both the plot and the viewing experience for Red, White & Royal Blue, an Amazon production based on the well-loved novel of the same name by Casey McQuiston. In it, the son of the American president and an English prince begin as rivals but quickly fall in love and have to keep their relationship a secret for the sake of their respective countries.
Packed with national cliches, intermittently stunted dialogue, and an early cake-based bit of slapstick, you’d be forgiven for thinking this is going to be one excruciating ride. But somehow, Red, White & Royal Blue manages to be actually sort of sweet. This is a modern-set, yet ‘90s-styled and Bridgerton-lite, bit of wish fulfillment where beautiful rich people argue about privilege and entitlement and have tasteful and romantic sex.
Packed with national cliches, intermittently stunted dialogue, and an early cake-based bit of slapstick, you’d be forgiven for thinking this is going to be one excruciating ride. But somehow, Red, White & Royal Blue manages to be actually sort of sweet. This is a modern-set, yet ‘90s-styled and Bridgerton-lite, bit of wish fulfillment where beautiful rich people argue about privilege and entitlement and have tasteful and romantic sex.
- 8/11/2023
- by Rosie Fletcher
- Den of Geek
There’s a world in which the film adaptation of Casey McQuiston’s novel Red, White & Royal Blue captures the horny energy and political idealism of its source material. It would be a campy romp that leans into the book’s bubble-gum logic without losing sight of what made the novel an immediate bestseller.
The version of Red, White & Royal Blue that we have, directed by Tony-award winning playwright Matthew López (The Inheritance) and premiering on Amazon Prime, lands like a fever dream. It’s a tangle of odd tones, roving direction and eccentric performances — a frenetic combo that makes it hard to buy the drama of this fantasy.
It shouldn’t be so tough. The story — the son of the U.S. president falls in love with a British prince — is charming in its improbability. Red, White & Royal Blue takes place in an alternate timeline, when...
The version of Red, White & Royal Blue that we have, directed by Tony-award winning playwright Matthew López (The Inheritance) and premiering on Amazon Prime, lands like a fever dream. It’s a tangle of odd tones, roving direction and eccentric performances — a frenetic combo that makes it hard to buy the drama of this fantasy.
It shouldn’t be so tough. The story — the son of the U.S. president falls in love with a British prince — is charming in its improbability. Red, White & Royal Blue takes place in an alternate timeline, when...
- 8/10/2023
- by Lovia Gyarkye
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Red, White & Royal Blue shares very little with first-time director Matthew López’s Tony-winning play The Inheritance. Both works address the social mores of young gay men from disparate backgrounds in the wake of a crisis, but where the characters in López’s career-defining play are processing the traumas of AIDS, the biggest hiccup in the lives of the film’s characters turns out to be a destroyed wedding cake.
No shade. Not every piece of art about gay desire needs to be rooted in trauma and internalized shame, and López’s film boasts a handful of sex scenes—between Alex Claremont-Diaz (Taylor Zakhar Perez), the son of the American president, and England’s Prince Henry (Nicholas Galitzine)—that will surely satisfy anyone who’s horny for representation. But everything around those scenes—the histrionic scenarios, the Sorkin-esque political idealism, the Gen Z-pandering internet humor—is too limp...
No shade. Not every piece of art about gay desire needs to be rooted in trauma and internalized shame, and López’s film boasts a handful of sex scenes—between Alex Claremont-Diaz (Taylor Zakhar Perez), the son of the American president, and England’s Prince Henry (Nicholas Galitzine)—that will surely satisfy anyone who’s horny for representation. But everything around those scenes—the histrionic scenarios, the Sorkin-esque political idealism, the Gen Z-pandering internet humor—is too limp...
- 8/10/2023
- by Greg Nussen
- Slant Magazine
Be one of the first to see Amazon Studios’ latest film, Red, White & Royal Blue.
Click the link below for your chance to attend the advance screening on Wednesday, August 9th, 7pm, at the Alamo Drafthouse St. Louis in the City Foundry.
Based on the New York Times best seller, the film will premiere globally on August 11, exclusively on Prime Video.
These seats are first-come first-served, so we encourage guests to arrive early. Everyone that attends will go home with a special gift.
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Alex Claremont-Diaz (Taylor Zakhar Perez), the son of the first woman President of the United States (Uma Thurman), and Britain’s Prince Henry (Nicholas Galitzine) have a lot in common: stunning good looks, undeniable charisma, international popularity… and a total disdain for each other. Separated by an ocean, their long-running feud hasn’t really been an issue, until a disastrous – and...
Click the link below for your chance to attend the advance screening on Wednesday, August 9th, 7pm, at the Alamo Drafthouse St. Louis in the City Foundry.
Based on the New York Times best seller, the film will premiere globally on August 11, exclusively on Prime Video.
These seats are first-come first-served, so we encourage guests to arrive early. Everyone that attends will go home with a special gift.
http://amazonscreenings.com/WAMGredwhiteroyalblue
#RWRBMovie
Alex Claremont-Diaz (Taylor Zakhar Perez), the son of the first woman President of the United States (Uma Thurman), and Britain’s Prince Henry (Nicholas Galitzine) have a lot in common: stunning good looks, undeniable charisma, international popularity… and a total disdain for each other. Separated by an ocean, their long-running feud hasn’t really been an issue, until a disastrous – and...
- 8/4/2023
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Exclusive: Matthew López, who won the Best Play Tony Award in 2020 for his drama The Inheritance, was at the BFI Imax theater in London’s Waterloo on Thursday night for the special preview- a premiere in all but name- of Prime Video’s romantic comedy feature Red, White & Royal Blue, which he directed and adapted from Casey McQuiston’s bestselling novel.
WGA member López stationed himself in a holding room inside the building, well away from the red carpet, because, he said, “I’m on strike as a screenwriter but not as a playwright and not as a director.”
His two stars Nicholas Galitzine and Taylor Zakhar Perez were not in attendance. As members of SAG-AFTRA “they’re on strike,” López said.
After our conversation, the filmmaker made his way into the Imax auditorium and addressed the audience as director of the film.
WGA member López stationed himself in a holding room inside the building, well away from the red carpet, because, he said, “I’m on strike as a screenwriter but not as a playwright and not as a director.”
His two stars Nicholas Galitzine and Taylor Zakhar Perez were not in attendance. As members of SAG-AFTRA “they’re on strike,” López said.
After our conversation, the filmmaker made his way into the Imax auditorium and addressed the audience as director of the film.
- 7/28/2023
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
As Matthew López prepared for the London debut of “The Inheritance,” his epic drama about the AIDS epidemic and its painful aftershocks, he was simultaneously outlining a first draft of “Some Like It Hot,” an effervescent re-imagining of the classic Billy Wilder film. The two shows could not have been more radically different. But López enjoyed toggling between comedy and tragedy.
“I like working in extremes,” he says. “I like working in different modes.”
Plus, he thinks that both productions benefitted from their author’s double act. “I got to live in both worlds at once,” López argues. “One helped the other. Doing the shows at the same time kept both projects in check. It prevented ‘The Inheritance’ from getting too dour and kept ‘Some Like It Hot’ from getting too lightweight. It brought some gravity to ‘Some Like It Hot’ and some levity to ‘The Inheritance.'”
Something worked.
“I like working in extremes,” he says. “I like working in different modes.”
Plus, he thinks that both productions benefitted from their author’s double act. “I got to live in both worlds at once,” López argues. “One helped the other. Doing the shows at the same time kept both projects in check. It prevented ‘The Inheritance’ from getting too dour and kept ‘Some Like It Hot’ from getting too lightweight. It brought some gravity to ‘Some Like It Hot’ and some levity to ‘The Inheritance.'”
Something worked.
- 6/5/2023
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Another busy Broadway season has drawn to a close and Tony nominations are just days away. David Buchanan joins me in a rousing slugfest to sift through what musicals will be remembered at the 2023 Tony Awards. The sheer volume of quality productions and striking performances in contention makes for exciting races that are challenging to predict. Watch our full video slugfest above.
We begin by examining the potential nominees for Best Musical, which is possibly the only straightforward race in this discussion. David and I are certain that “Kimberly Akimbo,” “Some Like it Hot,” “& Juliet,” and “Shucked” should feel secure about their impending nominations. But that final spot is totally “up for grabs.”
I’m fairly certain that the “grandness” of “New York, New York,” with its lush design elements and swoon-worthy dancing, will help the show attain a spot in the lineup. Plus, the show should benefit from the...
We begin by examining the potential nominees for Best Musical, which is possibly the only straightforward race in this discussion. David and I are certain that “Kimberly Akimbo,” “Some Like it Hot,” “& Juliet,” and “Shucked” should feel secure about their impending nominations. But that final spot is totally “up for grabs.”
I’m fairly certain that the “grandness” of “New York, New York,” with its lush design elements and swoon-worthy dancing, will help the show attain a spot in the lineup. Plus, the show should benefit from the...
- 4/29/2023
- by Sam Eckmann
- Gold Derby
There seems to be a flood of haunted house films out this year, and they're not all a result of the claustrophobia of lockdown, with most in the works before that. Chad Barager and Kevin Speckmaier's The Inheritance adds the popular complication of having its English-speaking lead characters come into possession of a property overseas where they have to deal with unfamiliar traditions, lack of knowledge about local power structures and difficulty communicating with those around them. This time it's Kyiv, where Sasha's (Natalia Ryumina) family came from two generations back. She has been left an extensive estate which includes a vast apartment building close to the heart of the city. Her husband Peter (Nick Wittman) assumes she's going to sell it, but she's still unsure - something about it calls to her.
It's the sort of place that would call to most people. If you have a passion for.
It's the sort of place that would call to most people. If you have a passion for.
- 4/13/2021
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Therapy is back in session thanks to the return of the HBO original series “In Treatment.” The show is returning for a fourth season 10 years after the third season concluded. Uzo Aduba takes over for Gabriel Byrne, who played Dr. Paul Weston for three years, as Dr. Brooke Taylor, the observant, empathetic therapist at the center of the series, which begins its HBO run on May 23. Watch the trailer below.
Jennifer Schuur (formerly a producer on “Hannibal”) and Joshua Allen (a story editor on “Empire”) serve as co-showrunners on the series, working from the formula developed by producer Rodrigo Garcia. Each episode focuses on a particular patient and his or her sessions with Dr. Taylor. This time around, Anthony Ramos (“In the Heights”), Liza Colón-Zayas (“Keane”), John Benjamin Hickey (Broadway’s “The Inheritance”), and Quintessa Swindell (“Voyagers”) join the series, with Joel Kinnaman of “Altered Carbon” and “The Killing” playing Brooke’s on-and-off longtime boyfriend.
Jennifer Schuur (formerly a producer on “Hannibal”) and Joshua Allen (a story editor on “Empire”) serve as co-showrunners on the series, working from the formula developed by producer Rodrigo Garcia. Each episode focuses on a particular patient and his or her sessions with Dr. Taylor. This time around, Anthony Ramos (“In the Heights”), Liza Colón-Zayas (“Keane”), John Benjamin Hickey (Broadway’s “The Inheritance”), and Quintessa Swindell (“Voyagers”) join the series, with Joel Kinnaman of “Altered Carbon” and “The Killing” playing Brooke’s on-and-off longtime boyfriend.
- 4/12/2021
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
During amfAR’s virtual conversation for It’s a Sin, HBO Max’s epic tale of the HIV crisis in England, host and Tony-nominated playwright Matthew Lopez (The Inheritance) asked creator Russell T. Davies to respond to criticism of the show from such well-known AIDS activists as Peter Staley.
Despite an overwhelmingly positive reception from critics and audiences alike, Staley, posting on his personal Facebook page, took issue with the series-ending monologue that connects shame and homophobia to promiscuity, particularly when it came to the lead character of Ritchie, played by Olly Alexander. Staley connected the dots and called “bullshit,”...
Despite an overwhelmingly positive reception from critics and audiences alike, Staley, posting on his personal Facebook page, took issue with the series-ending monologue that connects shame and homophobia to promiscuity, particularly when it came to the lead character of Ritchie, played by Olly Alexander. Staley connected the dots and called “bullshit,”...
During amfAR’s virtual conversation for It’s a Sin, HBO Max’s epic tale of the HIV crisis in England, host and Tony-nominated playwright Matthew Lopez (The Inheritance) asked creator Russell T. Davies to respond to criticism of the show from such well-known AIDS activists as Peter Staley.
Despite an overwhelmingly positive reception from critics and audiences alike, Staley, posting on his personal Facebook page, took issue with the series-ending monologue that connects shame and homophobia to promiscuity, particularly when it came to the lead character of Ritchie, played by Olly Alexander. Staley connected the dots and called “bullshit,”...
Despite an overwhelmingly positive reception from critics and audiences alike, Staley, posting on his personal Facebook page, took issue with the series-ending monologue that connects shame and homophobia to promiscuity, particularly when it came to the lead character of Ritchie, played by Olly Alexander. Staley connected the dots and called “bullshit,”...
"I hardly know where to begin..." Uncork'd Ent. has released an official trailer for the indie horror film The Inheritance, which first premiered at the Catalina Film Festival last fall. Not to be confused with the indie docudrama also called The Inheritance about a Black socialist collective, this The Inheritance is a horror film about a woman who inherits a creepy old mansion in Eastern Europe. "In the tradition of The Haunting of Hill House," a woman's inheritance takes her to Europe where she will uncover a dark and disturbing family secret. Once she is alone, paranormal occurrences begin and slowly intensify. She is forced to face her fears to uncover dark secrets lurking in her family history. And the deeper she delves into the secrets the home possesses, the more horrifying the answers become. The horror film stars Natalia Ryumina, Nick Wittmanstar, and Valeria Dymova. This looks a bit cheap,...
- 3/14/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Exclusive: Searchlight Television has optioned N.K. Jemisin’s seminal fantasy book series The Inheritance Trilogy for series development. Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s Westbrook Studios has come on board to produce the project, envisioned as an epic, live-action ongoing fantasy series. A search is underway for a writer, director and talent to board the adaptation.
The Inheritance Trilogy, published by Orbit Books, is comprised of The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, the first book in the series, followed by The Broken Kingdoms and The Kingdom of Gods.
In the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, recently named as one of Time Magazine’s 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time, gods dwell among mortals and one powerful, corrupt family rules the earth. Three extraordinary people may be the key to humanity’s salvation. The book also won the Locus Award.
David Boorstein, SVP, Head of Scripted TV at Westbrook Studios will executive produce with Westbrook’s Co-President,...
The Inheritance Trilogy, published by Orbit Books, is comprised of The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, the first book in the series, followed by The Broken Kingdoms and The Kingdom of Gods.
In the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, recently named as one of Time Magazine’s 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time, gods dwell among mortals and one powerful, corrupt family rules the earth. Three extraordinary people may be the key to humanity’s salvation. The book also won the Locus Award.
David Boorstein, SVP, Head of Scripted TV at Westbrook Studios will executive produce with Westbrook’s Co-President,...
- 3/12/2021
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Are you ready for the weekend? Specifically, are you ready for a Long Weekend? Of course, we’re referring to the rom-com from Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions’ Stage 6 Films.
Long Weekend will make its debut in theaters today and marks the feature directorial debut of Steve Basilone, who also wrote the script.
The rom-com stars Finn Wittrock as Bart who has a serendipitous meeting with Vienna played by Zoë Chao. She’s a little bit of a mystery, but the two end up having a connection and they spend a whirlwind weekend together (hence the title of the movie). As the two fall fast and hard for each other, they dont realize that both carry secrets that could be their undoing… or the chance for a fresh start.
The film also features Casey Wilson, Jim Rash and Damon Wayans, Jr. Long Weekend is produced by Deanna Barillari, Laura Lewis, Theodora Dunlap,...
Long Weekend will make its debut in theaters today and marks the feature directorial debut of Steve Basilone, who also wrote the script.
The rom-com stars Finn Wittrock as Bart who has a serendipitous meeting with Vienna played by Zoë Chao. She’s a little bit of a mystery, but the two end up having a connection and they spend a whirlwind weekend together (hence the title of the movie). As the two fall fast and hard for each other, they dont realize that both carry secrets that could be their undoing… or the chance for a fresh start.
The film also features Casey Wilson, Jim Rash and Damon Wayans, Jr. Long Weekend is produced by Deanna Barillari, Laura Lewis, Theodora Dunlap,...
- 3/12/2021
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Activism Fission: Asili Gets Godardian in Expressive Personal/Political Homage
A unique marriage of the vintage and modern, topical and archaic, personal and political, pretentious and genuine, Ephraim Asili’s personable and intellectual debut The Inheritance is ultimately a novel throwback to cinema as the ultimate nexus of cultural impact and creative expression.
While his title sounds like any number of generic horror films which have utilized this moniker, Asili’s intention is something much more profound as it concerns the notion of passing down wealth, and therefore, opportunity for the next generation, something historically denied Black Americans. This privilege provides the seeds for a septet of motivated young adults in West Philadelphia to form a makeshift Marxist commune.…...
A unique marriage of the vintage and modern, topical and archaic, personal and political, pretentious and genuine, Ephraim Asili’s personable and intellectual debut The Inheritance is ultimately a novel throwback to cinema as the ultimate nexus of cultural impact and creative expression.
While his title sounds like any number of generic horror films which have utilized this moniker, Asili’s intention is something much more profound as it concerns the notion of passing down wealth, and therefore, opportunity for the next generation, something historically denied Black Americans. This privilege provides the seeds for a septet of motivated young adults in West Philadelphia to form a makeshift Marxist commune.…...
- 3/12/2021
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
Black Westerns
An often overlooked aspect of the western genre is the emergence of the Black-led films born around the Civil Rights era and continuing throughout the century. With essential context from guest programmer and film scholar Mia Mask, The Criterion Channel is now presenting a series of these works, including Rutledge (1960), Duel at Diablo (1966), The Learning Tree (1969), El Condor (1970), Skin Game (1971), Black Rodeo (1972), Buck and the Preacher (1972), The Legend of Black Charley (1972), Thomasine and Bushrod (1974), Posse (1993), Buffalo Soldiers (1997), and Rosewood (1997).
Where to Stream: The Criterion Channel
Center Stage (Stanley Kwan)
Following her breakout with Jackie Chan in Police Story and before her iconic roles in the films of Wong Kar-wai and Olivier Assayas,...
Black Westerns
An often overlooked aspect of the western genre is the emergence of the Black-led films born around the Civil Rights era and continuing throughout the century. With essential context from guest programmer and film scholar Mia Mask, The Criterion Channel is now presenting a series of these works, including Rutledge (1960), Duel at Diablo (1966), The Learning Tree (1969), El Condor (1970), Skin Game (1971), Black Rodeo (1972), Buck and the Preacher (1972), The Legend of Black Charley (1972), Thomasine and Bushrod (1974), Posse (1993), Buffalo Soldiers (1997), and Rosewood (1997).
Where to Stream: The Criterion Channel
Center Stage (Stanley Kwan)
Following her breakout with Jackie Chan in Police Story and before her iconic roles in the films of Wong Kar-wai and Olivier Assayas,...
- 3/12/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The Inheritance Review: History, Art, Ideology, and Love Converge in Thrillingly Alive Debut Feature
History, art, ideology, and love make up the four pillars of Ephraim Asili’s The Inheritance, a thrillingly alive debut feature that resides both inside the square rooms of a West Philadelphia house and outside the boundaries of genre. As its title suggests, to assume the past experiences, lessons, and artistic creations of others can be liberating. But there’s also great personal responsibility to pass on that knowledge in some productive way.
With every jarring cut, temporal jump, and splash of vibrant color, Asili seems to be asking one central question: what do we do with the brimming feelings accumulated from learning about tragic events, listening to social justice leaders, experiencing the poems of living legends, and hearing live music? It’s a central conundrum facing young people immediately after experiencing a genuine moment of epiphany.
That sense of untapped energy fuels the scripted drama about a group of...
With every jarring cut, temporal jump, and splash of vibrant color, Asili seems to be asking one central question: what do we do with the brimming feelings accumulated from learning about tragic events, listening to social justice leaders, experiencing the poems of living legends, and hearing live music? It’s a central conundrum facing young people immediately after experiencing a genuine moment of epiphany.
That sense of untapped energy fuels the scripted drama about a group of...
- 3/11/2021
- by Glenn Heath Jr.
- The Film Stage
Ephraim Asili calls his first feature-length film a remix of La Chinoise, Jean-Luc Godard’s 1967 mélange of Maoist politics among idealistic young Parisians. With energy and wit, he achieves his goal of creating “a critique and an homage at the same time,” but you don’t need to be familiar with the earlier work to appreciate The Inheritance. It stands solidly on its own as a dynamic inquiry into revolutionary culture and Black identity, not to mention the challenge of living with roommates.
The New Wave auteur’s movie was fueled by one generation’s rejection of another: ...
The New Wave auteur’s movie was fueled by one generation’s rejection of another: ...
- 3/11/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Ephraim Asili calls his first feature-length film a remix of La Chinoise, Jean-Luc Godard’s 1967 mélange of Maoist politics among idealistic young Parisians. With energy and wit, he achieves his goal of creating “a critique and an homage at the same time,” but you don’t need to be familiar with the earlier work to appreciate The Inheritance. It stands solidly on its own as a dynamic inquiry into revolutionary culture and Black identity, not to mention the challenge of living with roommates.
The New Wave auteur’s movie was fueled by one generation’s rejection of another: ...
The New Wave auteur’s movie was fueled by one generation’s rejection of another: ...
- 3/11/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
At the start of “The Inheritance” — an experimental film about the formation of a Black collective, set in the early ’90s — Julian (Eric Lockley) rummages through a wooden crate of books he found in the West Philadelphia row house his grandmother left him. In it is a trove of poetic and political thought circa the late ’60s and beyond: There’s Malcolm X and Alice Walker, James Baldwin and Toni Morrison, as well as Charles Mingus and a stack of Ebony magazines.
In the next scene, Julian’s friend, maybe girlfriend, Gwen (Nozipho Mclean) helps him tug and shove the crate across the floor of the near empty abode. He asks her to move in. She reminds him that the last time they saw each other was at least a month ago. They’d gone to see Andrei Tarkovsky’s “The Sacrifice”;” he cried and grew quiet. No wonder they...
In the next scene, Julian’s friend, maybe girlfriend, Gwen (Nozipho Mclean) helps him tug and shove the crate across the floor of the near empty abode. He asks her to move in. She reminds him that the last time they saw each other was at least a month ago. They’d gone to see Andrei Tarkovsky’s “The Sacrifice”;” he cried and grew quiet. No wonder they...
- 3/11/2021
- by Lisa Kennedy
- Variety Film + TV
As I wrote last year in my 25 New Face profile of Ephraim Asili, his first feature, The Inheritance, begins when “Julian (Eric Lockley) moves into his late grandmother’s house and initiates an experiment in Black collective living. The influence of Jean-Luc Godard’s La Chinoise, evident in the film’s poster onscreen and the house’s boldly painted walls, is mixed with Asili’s personal memories of Philadelphia’s Move members (the Philadelphia native first met them as a teenager) and living in a Black Marxist collective. Shot, per Asili’s usual practice, on 16mm, The Inheritance marks a shift from overtly experimental to essentially narrative work. […]
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- 3/10/2021
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
As I wrote last year in my 25 New Face profile of Ephraim Asili, his first feature, The Inheritance, begins when “Julian (Eric Lockley) moves into his late grandmother’s house and initiates an experiment in Black collective living. The influence of Jean-Luc Godard’s La Chinoise, evident in the film’s poster onscreen and the house’s boldly painted walls, is mixed with Asili’s personal memories of Philadelphia’s Move members (the Philadelphia native first met them as a teenager) and living in a Black Marxist collective. Shot, per Asili’s usual practice, on 16mm, The Inheritance marks a shift from overtly experimental to essentially narrative work. […]
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- 3/10/2021
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
“The plays are really where it’s at in terms of races,” Sam Eckmann declares to kick off the first of our 2021 Tony Awards predictions slugfest. Though we don’t yet know the date when the winners will be announced, we do know that Tony voters will fill out their ballots from March 1 to March 15. Sam and I regrouped ahead of the voting period to debate who we think currently has the edge going into this pivotal stretch of the race. Watch the full video above.
Sam and I both pick “Slave Play” for the top honor. Sam thinks “our conversations about racism and systemic racism, especially in the entertainment industry” will help the topical play pull off the win, while I emphasize that the opportunity to give a Tony to rising star playwright Jeremy O. Harris will also work in its favor. For Best Revival, we both back “Soldier’s Play,...
Sam and I both pick “Slave Play” for the top honor. Sam thinks “our conversations about racism and systemic racism, especially in the entertainment industry” will help the topical play pull off the win, while I emphasize that the opportunity to give a Tony to rising star playwright Jeremy O. Harris will also work in its favor. For Best Revival, we both back “Soldier’s Play,...
- 3/1/2021
- by David Buchanan
- Gold Derby
"Playful, erudite, and boundary blurring." Grasshopper Film has revealed an official trailer for an indie docu-drama titled The Inheritance, which originally premiered at both the Toronto and New York Film Festivals last fall. The film marks the first feature from Ephraim Asili - "a filmmaker, artist, educator and DJ whose work focuses on the African diaspora as a cultural force." A young man inherits his grandmother's house and, with the encouragement of his girlfriend, turns it into a Black socialist collective where the local community forms the basis of its family. It's a scripted drama with documentary elements. Grasshopper says: "Ceaselessly finding commonalties between politics, humor, and philosophy, with Black authors and radicals at its edges, The Inheritance is a remarkable film about the world as we know it." This sounds rad! And it looks like something quite unique and dynamic, experimental cinema for today's times. Check it out. Here's...
- 2/24/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
A breakout hit of last year’s fall-festival circuit, Ephraim Asili’s The Inheritance shocked audiences with its Godardian-comedic vision of a Black collective living under one west Philadelphia roof. Shot on 16mm and absolutely vibrant with color, the movie is equal parts stimulating and upsetting—within its confines is documentary footage of the Philadelphia liberation group Move, who were victim of a police bombing in 1985. It arrives on March 12 via Grasshopper Film, who have debuted a trailer.
Doing well to capture the thrust of Asili’s project, said trailer is a forceful meeting of music, activists, testimonials, the bombing itself. It’s one of the 40 best movies we’ve already seen this year but sure to endure further—a sign of what’s to come from major new talent.
See the preview and poster below:
The Inheritance opens on March 12.
The post Trailer for Ephraim Asili's Godardian Comedy The...
Doing well to capture the thrust of Asili’s project, said trailer is a forceful meeting of music, activists, testimonials, the bombing itself. It’s one of the 40 best movies we’ve already seen this year but sure to endure further—a sign of what’s to come from major new talent.
See the preview and poster below:
The Inheritance opens on March 12.
The post Trailer for Ephraim Asili's Godardian Comedy The...
- 2/24/2021
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Artist Ephraim Asili describes his feature debut “The Inheritance” as a “speculative re-enactment” of his time in a West Philadelphia Black Marxist collective. The result is an experimental collage that surely name-checks Jean-Luc Godard, and bends genres and time to create a shape-shifting kaleidoscope of Blackness. Acclaimed during its fall festival run including in Toronto and New York, “The Inheritance” arrives from Grasshopper Film in virtual cinemas on March 12. Watch the exclusive trailer below.
Following almost a decade exploring the African diaspora, Asili sets his ensemble work almost entirely within a brightly colored, West Philadelphia house occupied by a community of Black activists and artist. Woven into a documentary recollection of the Philadelphia liberation group Move — the victim of a notorious police bombing in 1985 — is a scripted drama of characters working toward political consensus, and grappling with their own interpersonal relationships, romantic and otherwise.
From IndieWire’s TIFF review:
Shot...
Following almost a decade exploring the African diaspora, Asili sets his ensemble work almost entirely within a brightly colored, West Philadelphia house occupied by a community of Black activists and artist. Woven into a documentary recollection of the Philadelphia liberation group Move — the victim of a notorious police bombing in 1985 — is a scripted drama of characters working toward political consensus, and grappling with their own interpersonal relationships, romantic and otherwise.
From IndieWire’s TIFF review:
Shot...
- 2/24/2021
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Amber Ruffin has joined the Broadway-bound team of Some Like It Hot as a co-writer of the film-to-stage adaptation. The host of Peacock’s The Amber Ruffin Show will partner with Tony nominee Matthew López on the new musical’s book.
The announcement was made today by producers The Shubert Organization and Neil Meron. In a statement, producers Meron and Bob Wankel also said that Kenny Leon is joining the producing team.
Some Like It Hot, based on MGM’s 1959 Billy Wilder comedy film starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe, is targeted to begin performances on Broadway in 2022.
Ruffin, a four-time Emmy-nominated writer for NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers, joins a creative team that includes book writer López (Broadway’s The Inheritance), Hairspray composer Marc Shaiman and his co-lyricist Scott Wittman, and director/choreographer Casey Nicholaw (The Book of Mormon).
“I am so thrilled to be...
The announcement was made today by producers The Shubert Organization and Neil Meron. In a statement, producers Meron and Bob Wankel also said that Kenny Leon is joining the producing team.
Some Like It Hot, based on MGM’s 1959 Billy Wilder comedy film starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe, is targeted to begin performances on Broadway in 2022.
Ruffin, a four-time Emmy-nominated writer for NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers, joins a creative team that includes book writer López (Broadway’s The Inheritance), Hairspray composer Marc Shaiman and his co-lyricist Scott Wittman, and director/choreographer Casey Nicholaw (The Book of Mormon).
“I am so thrilled to be...
- 2/10/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
The selection is half the size of last year’s line-up.
The Berlin International Film Festival has revealed the 17 features selected for this year’s Forum line-up, which will first be seen at the industry-focused, online-only event from March 1-5.
The strand aims to highlight challenging and thought-provoking filmmaking that brings together film with visual art, theatre and literature.
The 17-title selection, which includes 14 world premieres, is just half of last year’s line-up of 35 titles, as the festival slims down for its first virtual edition.
Physical screenings of the selection are planned to take place during the Berlinale’s first Summer Special event,...
The Berlin International Film Festival has revealed the 17 features selected for this year’s Forum line-up, which will first be seen at the industry-focused, online-only event from March 1-5.
The strand aims to highlight challenging and thought-provoking filmmaking that brings together film with visual art, theatre and literature.
The 17-title selection, which includes 14 world premieres, is just half of last year’s line-up of 35 titles, as the festival slims down for its first virtual edition.
Physical screenings of the selection are planned to take place during the Berlinale’s first Summer Special event,...
- 2/9/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
The Berlin Film Festival has unveiled the titles that will screen in its Forum section this year, which focuses on cutting-edge and experimental cinema.
The 17 films picked for Berlin’s Forum range across style and genre from Ski, a combination of documentary and drama from first-timer director Manque La Banca, to Ephraim Asili’s The Inheritance and Vincent Meessen’s Just A Movement, both of which use Jean-Luc Godard’s 1967 classic La chinoise as a jumping-off point for seperate cinematic revisions. Director Sabrina Zhao adapts a work by German playwright Bertolt Brecht for her feature-length debut, The Good Woman of Sichuan, which will premiere at Berlin’...
The 17 films picked for Berlin’s Forum range across style and genre from Ski, a combination of documentary and drama from first-timer director Manque La Banca, to Ephraim Asili’s The Inheritance and Vincent Meessen’s Just A Movement, both of which use Jean-Luc Godard’s 1967 classic La chinoise as a jumping-off point for seperate cinematic revisions. Director Sabrina Zhao adapts a work by German playwright Bertolt Brecht for her feature-length debut, The Good Woman of Sichuan, which will premiere at Berlin’...
The Berlin Film Festival has unveiled the titles that will screen in its Forum section this year, which focuses on cutting-edge and experimental cinema.
The 17 films picked for Berlin’s Forum range across style and genre from Ski, a combination of documentary and drama from first-timer director Manque La Banca, to Ephraim Asili’s The Inheritance and Vincent Meessen’s Just A Movement, both of which use Jean-Luc Godard’s 1967 classic La chinoise as a jumping-off point for seperate cinematic revisions. Director Sabrina Zhao adapts a work by German playwright Bertolt Brecht for her feature-length debut, The Good Woman of Sichuan, which will premiere at Berlin’...
The 17 films picked for Berlin’s Forum range across style and genre from Ski, a combination of documentary and drama from first-timer director Manque La Banca, to Ephraim Asili’s The Inheritance and Vincent Meessen’s Just A Movement, both of which use Jean-Luc Godard’s 1967 classic La chinoise as a jumping-off point for seperate cinematic revisions. Director Sabrina Zhao adapts a work by German playwright Bertolt Brecht for her feature-length debut, The Good Woman of Sichuan, which will premiere at Berlin’...
The curtain’s inching up on the Tony Awards: A ceremony will be held on an as-yet-undetermined date in coordination with Broadway’s eventual reopening, but voters will finally be able to make their selections beginning March 1, Tony organizers tell Deadline.
Nominees for the 74th Annual Tony Awards were announced last October, with the 18 eligible productions reflecting the pandemic-shortened 2019-20 season (the count usually numbers in the 30s). The 2020 Tony ceremony and CBS broadcast had originally been set for June 7 at New York’s Radio City Musical Hall, but of course was scuttled due to the Covid shutdown.
The voting period will run from March 1 to March 15. Although Broadway remains officially closed until June, most insiders don’t expect any stagings before fall at the earliest, with timing contingent on widespread Covid-19 vaccinations.
The March 12 theater closure preceded the official end of the Broadway season and the traditional late-April/early-May announcement of nominees,...
Nominees for the 74th Annual Tony Awards were announced last October, with the 18 eligible productions reflecting the pandemic-shortened 2019-20 season (the count usually numbers in the 30s). The 2020 Tony ceremony and CBS broadcast had originally been set for June 7 at New York’s Radio City Musical Hall, but of course was scuttled due to the Covid shutdown.
The voting period will run from March 1 to March 15. Although Broadway remains officially closed until June, most insiders don’t expect any stagings before fall at the earliest, with timing contingent on widespread Covid-19 vaccinations.
The March 12 theater closure preceded the official end of the Broadway season and the traditional late-April/early-May announcement of nominees,...
- 1/29/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
“Minyan,” an acclaimed tale of sexual and spiritual identity directed by Eric Steel, has sold to Strand Releasing in North America.
The film, starring stage breakout Samuel H. Levine of Broadway and the West End’s “The Inheritance,” played in the official selection at last year’s Berlin International Film Festival and went on to win Outfest’s grand jury prize for U.S. narrative feature.
In Judaism, a minyan refers to the minimum amount of celebrants required for certain religious traditions. Set in 1980s Brighton Beach, the film follows a young Russian Jewish immigrant who is caught up in the tight constraints of his community. He develops a close friendship with his grandfather’s new neighbors — two elderly closeted gay men who open his imagination to the possibilities of love and the realities of loss. In the East Village, he finds a world teeming with the energy of youth,...
The film, starring stage breakout Samuel H. Levine of Broadway and the West End’s “The Inheritance,” played in the official selection at last year’s Berlin International Film Festival and went on to win Outfest’s grand jury prize for U.S. narrative feature.
In Judaism, a minyan refers to the minimum amount of celebrants required for certain religious traditions. Set in 1980s Brighton Beach, the film follows a young Russian Jewish immigrant who is caught up in the tight constraints of his community. He develops a close friendship with his grandfather’s new neighbors — two elderly closeted gay men who open his imagination to the possibilities of love and the realities of loss. In the East Village, he finds a world teeming with the energy of youth,...
- 1/26/2021
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Scandal alum Tony Goldwyn and Daniel Dae Kim are set as the leads in The Hot Zone: Anthrax, the second installment of Nat Geo’s scientific thriller anthology series. As previously announced, Kelly Souders and Brian Peterson will return as executive producers and showrunners for the new installment, which will focus on the harrowing anthrax attacks of 2001. Principal photography will begin this winter in Toronto. The series hails from National Geographic Channel, Scott Free Productions and 20th Television.
The Hot Zone: Anthrax takes place in 2001, just weeks after 9/11, where the United States was rocked by another deadly act of terrorism. Letters containing anthrax were sent to unsuspecting victims in Florida, Washington, D.C., and New York. The anonymous assault claimed five lives and caused panic throughout the U.S. Despite interagency turf wars and many false leads, an unlikely team of scientists, FBI agents and...
The Hot Zone: Anthrax takes place in 2001, just weeks after 9/11, where the United States was rocked by another deadly act of terrorism. Letters containing anthrax were sent to unsuspecting victims in Florida, Washington, D.C., and New York. The anonymous assault claimed five lives and caused panic throughout the U.S. Despite interagency turf wars and many false leads, an unlikely team of scientists, FBI agents and...
- 1/13/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Yesterday, the nominees for the 74th annual Tony Awards were announced. Honoring Broadway’s best, it comes as the industry is shut down due to Covid-19, reminding us all that the film industry isn’t the only one feeling the brunt of Coronavirus. Covid may have shut down the theaters, but the show will go on, Tony-wise. In terms of what faired the best with these nominations, the musical Jagged Little Pill led the way with a whopping fifteen nominations, with Moulin Rouge! next in line at fourteen. They led the pack, though also getting double digit citations were Slave Play and Tina: The Tina Turner Musical at a dozen each, while The Inheritance managed eleven. Here are all of the Tony nominees for this year: Best Play Grand Horizons by Bess Wohl The Inheritance by Matthew Lopez Sea Wall/A Life by Simon Stephens and Nick Payne Slave Play...
- 10/16/2020
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Hours after the nominations for the 2020 Tony Awards were finally unveiled on October 15, I sat down with another Broadway buff, David Buchanan, to dish all the surprises and snubs. We also predict how this year’s races will play out. We are still waiting on a confirmed date for this year’s ceremony. Watch the full video above.
As I note, “there are famous A-Lister names but they also celebrate these hardworking theater actors who aren’t necessarily household names, who are nevertheless doing incredible work.” We were both pleased to see the likes of Paul Hilton (“The Inheritance”) and “Slave Play” standouts like Ato Blankson-Wood and James Cusati-Moyer. I was particularly overjoyed to that Cora Vander Broek, the unsung hero of “Linda Vista,” reaped a bid. I note that her final line in the play marked “one of the few times this season where I experienced an entire audience...
As I note, “there are famous A-Lister names but they also celebrate these hardworking theater actors who aren’t necessarily household names, who are nevertheless doing incredible work.” We were both pleased to see the likes of Paul Hilton (“The Inheritance”) and “Slave Play” standouts like Ato Blankson-Wood and James Cusati-Moyer. I was particularly overjoyed to that Cora Vander Broek, the unsung hero of “Linda Vista,” reaped a bid. I note that her final line in the play marked “one of the few times this season where I experienced an entire audience...
- 10/16/2020
- by Sam Eckmann
- Gold Derby
Refresh for updates Acknowledgements, thank yous, laments for shuttered theaters, pleas for racial justice and get-out-the-vote plugs are being offered by this year’s crop of Tony Award nominees.
“It is an uncertain time for the theater world and the world at large,” said Jake Gyllenhaal, a triple nominee, “so if you are able, I encourage you first to Vote and then – if you can – to donate to The Actors Fund.”
See full statements below.
“The closing of Broadway theatres (indeed almost all American theatres) this year has left us without a vital resource to gather together and examine ourselves and our nation and has reminded us just how important live theatre is to our personal and civil lives,” said playwright Matthew López, whose The Inheritance was nominated in 11 categories.
“It is an uncertain time for the theater world and the world at large,” said Jake Gyllenhaal, a triple nominee, “so if you are able, I encourage you first to Vote and then – if you can – to donate to The Actors Fund.”
See full statements below.
“The closing of Broadway theatres (indeed almost all American theatres) this year has left us without a vital resource to gather together and examine ourselves and our nation and has reminded us just how important live theatre is to our personal and civil lives,” said playwright Matthew López, whose The Inheritance was nominated in 11 categories.
- 10/15/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Blame the coronavirus for this year’s drastically reduced roster of eligible Tony Award nominees, and Tony nominators for overlooking at least a few possibilities. Even with only 18 Broadway productions in the running for a 2020 award, feelings were bound to be hurt.
Let’s start with the good news: The list of nominees for the 74th Annual Tony Awards is a solid one, with no noticeable contenders – at least to my eye – sneaking in due to the decreased competition. Good luck to voters parsing their choices for one castmate over another – Sea Wall/A Life‘s Jake Gyllenhaal or Tom Sturridge? Slave Play‘s Ato Blankson-Wood or James Cusati-Moyer, and Chalia La Tour or Annie McNamara? Jagged Little Pill‘s Kathryn Gallagher, Celia Rose Gooding or Lauren Patten?
Of course we’ll never know how the list would be different if Six, West Side Story...
Let’s start with the good news: The list of nominees for the 74th Annual Tony Awards is a solid one, with no noticeable contenders – at least to my eye – sneaking in due to the decreased competition. Good luck to voters parsing their choices for one castmate over another – Sea Wall/A Life‘s Jake Gyllenhaal or Tom Sturridge? Slave Play‘s Ato Blankson-Wood or James Cusati-Moyer, and Chalia La Tour or Annie McNamara? Jagged Little Pill‘s Kathryn Gallagher, Celia Rose Gooding or Lauren Patten?
Of course we’ll never know how the list would be different if Six, West Side Story...
- 10/15/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
In an unprecedented year for the Broadway community, the Tony Awards just gifted theatre fans with a reason to celebrate: Jeremy O. Harris’ audacious and brilliant “Slave Play” now holds the record for the most play nominations in a single season with a whopping dozen.
That eclipses by one the benchmark set by the 2018 revival of Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America,” which scored 11 bids including Best Revival, Director (Marianne Elliott), Actor (Andrew Garfield), Featured Actor (Nathan Lane), two in Featured Actress, Original Score, and Scenic, Costume, Lighting, and Sound Designs. “Angels” took home three trophies for Revival, Garfield, and Lane.
See the complete list of 2020 Tony Awards nominees
“Slave Play” leap-frogged “Angels in America” in part because of its impressive showing in the acting categories. From its all-around sensational ensemble five reaped bids: Lead Actress (Joaquina Kalukango), two Featured Actors and two Featured Actresses. Its strongest competitor, “The Inheritance,...
That eclipses by one the benchmark set by the 2018 revival of Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America,” which scored 11 bids including Best Revival, Director (Marianne Elliott), Actor (Andrew Garfield), Featured Actor (Nathan Lane), two in Featured Actress, Original Score, and Scenic, Costume, Lighting, and Sound Designs. “Angels” took home three trophies for Revival, Garfield, and Lane.
See the complete list of 2020 Tony Awards nominees
“Slave Play” leap-frogged “Angels in America” in part because of its impressive showing in the acting categories. From its all-around sensational ensemble five reaped bids: Lead Actress (Joaquina Kalukango), two Featured Actors and two Featured Actresses. Its strongest competitor, “The Inheritance,...
- 10/15/2020
- by David Buchanan
- Gold Derby
The nominations for the 2020 Tony Awards announced on October 15 honor the best of the shortened Broadway season. Plenty of theatre artists had much to celebrate as James Monroe Iglehart reeled off the roster of nominees. But while expected names like Adrienne Warren (“Tina: The Tina Turner Musical”) and Tom Hiddleston (“Betrayal”) were cited, the results also provided several jaw-dropping surprises and snubs.
Below, the top 5 most shocking moments from the Tony nominations announcement.
Discuss the Tony nominations with Broadway insiders in our notorious forums
The Lightning Thief gets zapped
Tony nominators issued a strong rebuke of “The Lightning Thief,” which failed to earn a single nomination. Pundits were worried that this would happen. The Broadway outing earned a chilly critical reception, especially compared to the original intimate Off-Broadway staging, and the show is squarely aimed at teens. Still, the failure to nominate Ryan Knowles, who gave the funniest musical performance of the year,...
Below, the top 5 most shocking moments from the Tony nominations announcement.
Discuss the Tony nominations with Broadway insiders in our notorious forums
The Lightning Thief gets zapped
Tony nominators issued a strong rebuke of “The Lightning Thief,” which failed to earn a single nomination. Pundits were worried that this would happen. The Broadway outing earned a chilly critical reception, especially compared to the original intimate Off-Broadway staging, and the show is squarely aimed at teens. Still, the failure to nominate Ryan Knowles, who gave the funniest musical performance of the year,...
- 10/15/2020
- by Sam Eckmann
- Gold Derby
With the announcement of the Tony Awards nominations on October 15, we now know the shows and performers in contention but we still don’t know when the winners will be announced. The Tonys had been set for June 7 at Radio City Music Hall but were postponed in March after the Covid-19 pandemic shuttered Broadway. We do know that the ceremony will be virtual, much like the recent Emmy Awards.
The 41-members of the Tony nominating committee honored 15 of the 18 eligible productions across 25 competitive categories.
See the complete list of 2020 Tony Awards nominees
The musical “Jagged Little Pill,” a stage adaptation of Alanis Morissette’s 1995 album of the same name, leads with 15 nominations including Best Musical and for six of its cast. “Moulin Rouge! The Musical” is right behind with 14 nominations. That adaptation of the 2001 Baz Luhrmann film, scored the only Musical Actor nomination of the season for Aaron Tveit. In order to win the trophy,...
The 41-members of the Tony nominating committee honored 15 of the 18 eligible productions across 25 competitive categories.
See the complete list of 2020 Tony Awards nominees
The musical “Jagged Little Pill,” a stage adaptation of Alanis Morissette’s 1995 album of the same name, leads with 15 nominations including Best Musical and for six of its cast. “Moulin Rouge! The Musical” is right behind with 14 nominations. That adaptation of the 2001 Baz Luhrmann film, scored the only Musical Actor nomination of the season for Aaron Tveit. In order to win the trophy,...
- 10/15/2020
- by David Buchanan
- Gold Derby
The Tony Awards nominations were announced on Thursday, October 15 by Tony winner James Monroe Iglehart (“Aladdin”). The reveal of the roster of contenders was carried on the Tonys YouTube channel. While the nominations for the 74th annual Tony Awards were determined by 41 theater professionals, winners will be decided by 784 members of the Broadway community.
Only 18 shows were eligible for consideration by the nominating committee. On the play side, there are 10 original works and four revivals in the running. Over on the musical side, four new tuners are in contention; no musical revivals qualified. The cutoff date for eligibility was February 19, 2020. As both the Bob Dylan tuner “Girl From the North Country” and a new revival of “West Side Story” opened after that, don’t look for them on the list of nominations below.
Broadway has remained closed since March 13 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Tony Awards had been set...
Only 18 shows were eligible for consideration by the nominating committee. On the play side, there are 10 original works and four revivals in the running. Over on the musical side, four new tuners are in contention; no musical revivals qualified. The cutoff date for eligibility was February 19, 2020. As both the Bob Dylan tuner “Girl From the North Country” and a new revival of “West Side Story” opened after that, don’t look for them on the list of nominations below.
Broadway has remained closed since March 13 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Tony Awards had been set...
- 10/15/2020
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
Broadway may still be shut down amid the coronavirus pandemic, but Thursday morning the Broadway League and American Theatre Wing announced the nominees for the 2020 Tony Awards.
The nominations were revealed on the Tony Awards’ YouTube channel by James Monroe Iglehart.
Jagged Little Pill, the musical based on Alanis Morissette’s beloved 1995 album of the same name, scored a leading 15 nominations, followed by fourteen nods for Moulin Rouge! The Musical and 12 nominations each for Slave Play and Tina — The Tina Turner Musical. The Inheritance landed 11 nominations, with A Christmas Carol, Betrayal, Sea Wall/A Life and Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de ...
The nominations were revealed on the Tony Awards’ YouTube channel by James Monroe Iglehart.
Jagged Little Pill, the musical based on Alanis Morissette’s beloved 1995 album of the same name, scored a leading 15 nominations, followed by fourteen nods for Moulin Rouge! The Musical and 12 nominations each for Slave Play and Tina — The Tina Turner Musical. The Inheritance landed 11 nominations, with A Christmas Carol, Betrayal, Sea Wall/A Life and Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de ...
- 10/15/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Broadway may still be shut down amid the coronavirus pandemic, but Thursday morning the Broadway League and American Theatre Wing announced the nominees for the 2020 Tony Awards.
The nominations were revealed on the Tony Awards’ YouTube channel by James Monroe Iglehart.
Jagged Little Pill, the musical based on Alanis Morissette’s beloved 1995 album of the same name, scored a leading 15 nominations, followed by fourteen nods for Moulin Rouge! The Musical and 12 nominations each for Slave Play and Tina — The Tina Turner Musical. The Inheritance landed 11 nominations, with A Christmas Carol, Betrayal, Sea Wall/A Life and Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de ...
The nominations were revealed on the Tony Awards’ YouTube channel by James Monroe Iglehart.
Jagged Little Pill, the musical based on Alanis Morissette’s beloved 1995 album of the same name, scored a leading 15 nominations, followed by fourteen nods for Moulin Rouge! The Musical and 12 nominations each for Slave Play and Tina — The Tina Turner Musical. The Inheritance landed 11 nominations, with A Christmas Carol, Betrayal, Sea Wall/A Life and Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de ...
- 10/15/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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- 10/14/2020
- MUBI
Exclusive: Tony Goldwyn is taking over for Liev Schreiber in Warner Bros.’ King Richard which is set to return to production in Los Angeles next week after pausing due to the pandemic earlier this spring.
Goldwyn is stepping in to play the role of Paul Cohen, a noted tennis coach whose clients included John McEnroe, Pete Sampras, and Venus and Serena Williams. I understand that Schreiber had to depart King Richard given a scheduling conflict.
The Reinaldo Marcus Green directed, Zach Baylin written feature follows the true story of hardscrabble, but iron-willed father of Venus and Serena Williams, (played by Will Smith) who had a plan to make his daughters the greatest tennis players in the world. This is how he pulled it off. The movie already logged three weeks of filming before stopping out of safety due to Covid-19.
Goldwyn joins the previously announced cast of Aunjanue Ellis as family matriarch Brandi Williams,...
Goldwyn is stepping in to play the role of Paul Cohen, a noted tennis coach whose clients included John McEnroe, Pete Sampras, and Venus and Serena Williams. I understand that Schreiber had to depart King Richard given a scheduling conflict.
The Reinaldo Marcus Green directed, Zach Baylin written feature follows the true story of hardscrabble, but iron-willed father of Venus and Serena Williams, (played by Will Smith) who had a plan to make his daughters the greatest tennis players in the world. This is how he pulled it off. The movie already logged three weeks of filming before stopping out of safety due to Covid-19.
Goldwyn joins the previously announced cast of Aunjanue Ellis as family matriarch Brandi Williams,...
- 10/14/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
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