While Hollywood still has a long way to go in supporting queer stories and storytellers, we’re living in a relative golden age of LGBTQ cinema compared to what has come before. Netflix has not always chosen to support the LGBTQ community in their business decisions, but the streamer has played a major role in increasing the visibility of queer characters and storylines in both film and TV, and in supporting queer creators in telling stories.
As we celebrate Pride month and beyond, let’s take a look at some of the best LGBTQ movies Netflix currently has on offer. If you’re looking for a queer film to watch—satirically funny or devastatingly earnest, heart-stoppingly romantic or casually queer—try one of the many excellent and diverse options below.
Brokeback Mountain
“Brokeback Mountain,” a neo-Western film about two male cowboys who love one another in a deeply homophobic society,...
As we celebrate Pride month and beyond, let’s take a look at some of the best LGBTQ movies Netflix currently has on offer. If you’re looking for a queer film to watch—satirically funny or devastatingly earnest, heart-stoppingly romantic or casually queer—try one of the many excellent and diverse options below.
Brokeback Mountain
“Brokeback Mountain,” a neo-Western film about two male cowboys who love one another in a deeply homophobic society,...
- 6/17/2023
- by Kayti Burt
- The Wrap
Another new episode of Accused airs tonight on Fox. Accused Episode 10, “Esme’s Story,” was directed by Michael Offer and written by Chip Johannessen. According to the synopsis, the eye-opening episode will follow a young woman who survives a white nationalist’s attempt to stop a peaceful protest by driving his car into the crowd. When he walks away unscathed, the protestor takes matters into her own hands. Here are all the cast members of Accused Episode 10 and where you’ve seen them before.
‘Accused’ Episode 10 cast member Abigail Breslin as Esme | Steve Wilkie/Fox Abigail Breslin as Esme
Abigail Breslin takes on the lead role in Accused Episode 10 as Esme. As TV Insider notes, Esme “ran away from a world of parochial racism” to find love with a woman named Aaliyah in the city. When a white nationalist kills one of Esme and Aaliyah’s friends during a peaceful protest,...
‘Accused’ Episode 10 cast member Abigail Breslin as Esme | Steve Wilkie/Fox Abigail Breslin as Esme
Abigail Breslin takes on the lead role in Accused Episode 10 as Esme. As TV Insider notes, Esme “ran away from a world of parochial racism” to find love with a woman named Aaliyah in the city. When a white nationalist kills one of Esme and Aaliyah’s friends during a peaceful protest,...
- 3/29/2023
- by Elise Nelson
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Sony Pictures is looking to reboot “I Know What You Did Last Summer” with Jennifer Kaytin Robinson set to direct.
The project is in early development at the studio, with the franchise’s original stars Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. in talks to reprise their roles. Leah McKendrick is on board to write the script for the project, which she developed with Kaytin Robinson, which is set to bring a fresh perspective to the franchise to Sony. Neal H. Moritz is also in talks to return as producer.
News of the relaunch comes following the successful reboot of the “Scream” franchise, which continues with “Scream VI” hitting theaters on March 10. The film also follows Kaytin Robinson’s “Do Revenge,” which featured Sarah Michelle Gellar, who along with Ryan Phillippe, rounded out the original “I Know What You Did Last Summer” quartet.
Directed by Jim Gillespie and written by Kevin Williamson,...
The project is in early development at the studio, with the franchise’s original stars Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. in talks to reprise their roles. Leah McKendrick is on board to write the script for the project, which she developed with Kaytin Robinson, which is set to bring a fresh perspective to the franchise to Sony. Neal H. Moritz is also in talks to return as producer.
News of the relaunch comes following the successful reboot of the “Scream” franchise, which continues with “Scream VI” hitting theaters on March 10. The film also follows Kaytin Robinson’s “Do Revenge,” which featured Sarah Michelle Gellar, who along with Ryan Phillippe, rounded out the original “I Know What You Did Last Summer” quartet.
Directed by Jim Gillespie and written by Kevin Williamson,...
- 2/6/2023
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
I know what we're doing next summer – or at least, sometime soon. The teen slasher "I Know What You Did Last Summer" is reportedly the next big horror saga to get the legacy sequel treatment, according to Deadline, and we might even be able to catch some of the original film's characters back in action.
The outlet reports that "Do Revenge" director and co-writer Jennifer Kaytin Robinson is on board to direct the sequel for Sony, with both Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt in talks to reprise their roles from the 1997 film. This is far from the first time the story of a group of guilty teens being haunted by a hook-handed man has been revisited: the original was followed up by two sequels, and a now-canceled Prime Video series re-adapted the 1973 Lois Duncan novel in 2021.
Just as the original "I Know What You Did Last Summer" rushed...
The outlet reports that "Do Revenge" director and co-writer Jennifer Kaytin Robinson is on board to direct the sequel for Sony, with both Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt in talks to reprise their roles from the 1997 film. This is far from the first time the story of a group of guilty teens being haunted by a hook-handed man has been revisited: the original was followed up by two sequels, and a now-canceled Prime Video series re-adapted the 1973 Lois Duncan novel in 2021.
Just as the original "I Know What You Did Last Summer" rushed...
- 2/6/2023
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
Exclusive: Fox is developing the single-cam comedy series Get Buckets from executive producers and writers Stephen Falk (You’re the Worst), Allen Maldonado (Heels), Darrell Britt-Gibson (The Wire), and Brandon Mychal Smith (Four Weddings and a Funeral). Maldonado, Britt-Gibson, and Smith will also star.
Get Buckets follows three estranged brothers who must band together following their billionaire father’s untimely death to figure out how to run the professional basketball team he left behind — and how to be a family.
In addition to Falk, Maldonado, Britt-Gibson, and Smith, Blake Griffin, Ryan Kalil, and Noah Weinstein of Mortal Media will also executive produce. Fox Entertainment is the studio.
Falk is the creator and executive producer of the FX/Fxx series You’re The Worst which ran for 5 seasons, and starred Chris Geere, Aya Cash, Desmin Borges, and Kether Donohue. He was also a writer and co-executive producer on the hit Showtime series Weeds...
Get Buckets follows three estranged brothers who must band together following their billionaire father’s untimely death to figure out how to run the professional basketball team he left behind — and how to be a family.
In addition to Falk, Maldonado, Britt-Gibson, and Smith, Blake Griffin, Ryan Kalil, and Noah Weinstein of Mortal Media will also executive produce. Fox Entertainment is the studio.
Falk is the creator and executive producer of the FX/Fxx series You’re The Worst which ran for 5 seasons, and starred Chris Geere, Aya Cash, Desmin Borges, and Kether Donohue. He was also a writer and co-executive producer on the hit Showtime series Weeds...
- 1/23/2023
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
Despite reports of Gen-z’s progressive politics, it appears hyper-awareness around sexuality, consent, and toxic masculinity have only made high school popularity contests more sophisticated. That is, if we’re to take the outlandish feminist satire running through Netflix’s dark teen comedy “Do Revenge” at face value, anyway. If two-faced men’s groups and psychedelic mushroom stings seem a little ridiculous, it’s all part of the sickly fun and games of “Do Revenge,”
Starring Camila Mendes (“Riverdale”) and Maya Hawke (“Stranger Things”) as two unlikely allies in a battle for teen justice, “Do Revenge” is a funny feminist take on the mainstream high school comedy. Touching lightly on class awareness and queer politics, the girls are firmly in control of this candy-coated world — though only one can come out on top. As their Machiavellian quest for revenge leads to some unlikely revelations, the self-righteous anti-heroines prove that boys...
Starring Camila Mendes (“Riverdale”) and Maya Hawke (“Stranger Things”) as two unlikely allies in a battle for teen justice, “Do Revenge” is a funny feminist take on the mainstream high school comedy. Touching lightly on class awareness and queer politics, the girls are firmly in control of this candy-coated world — though only one can come out on top. As their Machiavellian quest for revenge leads to some unlikely revelations, the self-righteous anti-heroines prove that boys...
- 9/16/2022
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Don’t mess with Maya.
Maya Hawke leads Netflix dark comedy “Do Revenge” alongside Camila Mendes, about popular high schooler Drea (Mendes) who seeks retaliation against her ex-boyfriend (Austin Abrams of “Euphoria” fame) after a very public sexting scandal. Enter: Eleanor, played by Hawke, who also has a score to settle involving a rumor she tried to “hold down” another classmate and kiss her.
“I know what it’s like to get fucked over by someone you thought you could trust,” Hawke says in the candy-colored trailer reminiscent of “Thoroughbreds.”
She adds of her target, “I want to burn her to the ground.”
Co-written and directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, “Do Revenge” is billed as a “subverted Hitchcockian dark comedy featuring the scariest protagonists of all: teenage girls.” The film premieres September 16 on Netflix.
Drea and Eleanor channel their “Glenn-ergy” circa Glenn Close’s character in “Fatal Attraction” and set...
Maya Hawke leads Netflix dark comedy “Do Revenge” alongside Camila Mendes, about popular high schooler Drea (Mendes) who seeks retaliation against her ex-boyfriend (Austin Abrams of “Euphoria” fame) after a very public sexting scandal. Enter: Eleanor, played by Hawke, who also has a score to settle involving a rumor she tried to “hold down” another classmate and kiss her.
“I know what it’s like to get fucked over by someone you thought you could trust,” Hawke says in the candy-colored trailer reminiscent of “Thoroughbreds.”
She adds of her target, “I want to burn her to the ground.”
Co-written and directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, “Do Revenge” is billed as a “subverted Hitchcockian dark comedy featuring the scariest protagonists of all: teenage girls.” The film premieres September 16 on Netflix.
Drea and Eleanor channel their “Glenn-ergy” circa Glenn Close’s character in “Fatal Attraction” and set...
- 8/9/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Jennifer Kaytin Robinson's "Sweet/Vicious" arrived a year before the world was ready for it. The MTV series about two young vigilantes delivering swift and painful justice to the rapists on their college campus debuted in 2016, and was unfortunately already canceled by spring 2017. It ended just months before the arrest of Harvey Weinstein would lead to a national reckoning about the topics it dealt with head-on.
In its first and only season, the comedic drama delivered a roundhouse kick to the crotch of the flawed American justice system and other institutions that protect abusers. It also grappled with the realistic, messy aftermath of...
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In its first and only season, the comedic drama delivered a roundhouse kick to the crotch of the flawed American justice system and other institutions that protect abusers. It also grappled with the realistic, messy aftermath of...
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- 4/3/2022
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
Caleb is looking for answers. That isn’t surprising; after all, he’s a just-graduated queer teen desperate to get out of South Florida, an endless summer of nothing stretching before him, simply itching for his “real life” to start. But Caleb, already understandably restless and out of place, really has one big, major answer he needs: whether or not he has HIV. And while this might not sound like the stuff of coming-of-age comedy, first-time filmmaker
Frieder, who previously served as a staff writer on the cut-way-too-short series “Sweet/Vicious,” knows a thing or two about the dramatic plot he’s crafted: He lived his own version of it more than a decade ago. Over time, Frieder’s story has seemingly settled into the neat beats of the indie coming-of-age tale, complete with “wacky mode of transportation,” “unsettling subplot involving a Bff that’s treated way too tamely,” and even “Ellen Burstyn is the grandmother!
Frieder, who previously served as a staff writer on the cut-way-too-short series “Sweet/Vicious,” knows a thing or two about the dramatic plot he’s crafted: He lived his own version of it more than a decade ago. Over time, Frieder’s story has seemingly settled into the neat beats of the indie coming-of-age tale, complete with “wacky mode of transportation,” “unsettling subplot involving a Bff that’s treated way too tamely,” and even “Ellen Burstyn is the grandmother!
- 2/22/2022
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
British actress Eliza Bennett has joined the CW drama Dynasty in the role of Amanda Carrington. She will become a series regular in season 5.
Amanda is the long-lost Carrington relative, born and raised in Europe, who arrives on the Carrington doorstep bringing with her a treasure trove of secrets from their past… and hers, according to the network.
She is described as smart, confident, and can hold her own against any Carrington who comes at her. She works as a lawyer by day and by night is a bit of a party girl who stirs up trouble in a family full of troublemakers.
Developed for The CW by Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage, and Sallie Patrick, Dynasty watches as two of America’s wealthiest families feud for control over their fortune and their children.
The show is based on the beloved soap opera of the same name, which originally aired on...
Amanda is the long-lost Carrington relative, born and raised in Europe, who arrives on the Carrington doorstep bringing with her a treasure trove of secrets from their past… and hers, according to the network.
She is described as smart, confident, and can hold her own against any Carrington who comes at her. She works as a lawyer by day and by night is a bit of a party girl who stirs up trouble in a family full of troublemakers.
Developed for The CW by Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage, and Sallie Patrick, Dynasty watches as two of America’s wealthiest families feud for control over their fortune and their children.
The show is based on the beloved soap opera of the same name, which originally aired on...
- 8/19/2021
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
Eliza Bennett has been cast in the role of Amanda Carrington on The CW’s “Dynasty.”
Bennett joins Season 4 in a recurring guest star role, with her first episode being “The British Are Coming” on Aug. 27. She will be a series regular in the forthcoming fifth season.
The original 1980s primetime soap opera “Dynasty” featured Catherine Oxenberg in the role of Amanda for the first three years of the character’s existence. (Her apt entrance was in the fifth season episode titled “Amanda.”) Karen Cellini stepped in in recasting.
This version of Amanda is described as a long-lost Carrington relative who was born and raised in Europe but arrives now “holding a treasure trove of secrets” — both from her past, as well as the Carrington family’s past. She is also described as smart and confident, a character who can hold her own against those who come at her. She is a lawyer,...
Bennett joins Season 4 in a recurring guest star role, with her first episode being “The British Are Coming” on Aug. 27. She will be a series regular in the forthcoming fifth season.
The original 1980s primetime soap opera “Dynasty” featured Catherine Oxenberg in the role of Amanda for the first three years of the character’s existence. (Her apt entrance was in the fifth season episode titled “Amanda.”) Karen Cellini stepped in in recasting.
This version of Amanda is described as a long-lost Carrington relative who was born and raised in Europe but arrives now “holding a treasure trove of secrets” — both from her past, as well as the Carrington family’s past. She is also described as smart and confident, a character who can hold her own against those who come at her. She is a lawyer,...
- 8/19/2021
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
Stacey Sher, an executive producer of FX’s Mrs. America, has struck an overall deal with the cable network’s production division.
The agreement, which is understood to have been signed last year, will see Sher develop new projects for the network and extends a first-look arrangement that began in 2015, before she became co-president of Activision Blizzard Studios.
Sher was a producer on Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, Aretha Franklin biopic Respect, Steven Soderbergh’s Erin Brockovich and pandemic feature Contagion and recently reteamed with the latter to produce the 93rd Academy Awards.
On the TV side, she has produced series including AMC’s Into the Badlands, MTV’s Sweet/Vicious and Reno 911 as well as Netflix series Skylanders Academy.
Last April, Sher told Deadline that she was looking to partner with “new voices” and had also teamed up with Contagion writer Scott Z. Burns and medical expert Lawrence Brilliant to...
The agreement, which is understood to have been signed last year, will see Sher develop new projects for the network and extends a first-look arrangement that began in 2015, before she became co-president of Activision Blizzard Studios.
Sher was a producer on Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, Aretha Franklin biopic Respect, Steven Soderbergh’s Erin Brockovich and pandemic feature Contagion and recently reteamed with the latter to produce the 93rd Academy Awards.
On the TV side, she has produced series including AMC’s Into the Badlands, MTV’s Sweet/Vicious and Reno 911 as well as Netflix series Skylanders Academy.
Last April, Sher told Deadline that she was looking to partner with “new voices” and had also teamed up with Contagion writer Scott Z. Burns and medical expert Lawrence Brilliant to...
- 6/1/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Rising Paradigm TV lit agent Ellie Klein is joining Tfc Management, the company launched last summer by senior TV lit agents Ben Jacobson and David Stone which represents creators, showrunners, filmmakers and producers. Klein is the first manager hire by Jacobson and Stone.
Klein’s departure from Paradigm was amicable, with many of her clients joining her at Tfc Management while continuing to be repped by the talent agency.
“As Ellie makes this transition, we wish her every success and look forward to continuing our fruitful relationship,” said Andrew Ruf, head of Paradigm’s Talent and Literary Department.
Klein’s clients joining her at Tfc include Jordan Reddout & Gus Hickey (Mixed-ish), Shernold Edwards (Washington Black), Jared Frieder, Samir Mehta (Fear the Walking Dead), Dario & Damir Konjicija, Aadrita Mukerji (Jack Reacher), Thomas Brandon (Legacies), Howard Jordan Jr (The Unicorn), Francisca Hu (Dynasty), Dave...
Klein’s departure from Paradigm was amicable, with many of her clients joining her at Tfc Management while continuing to be repped by the talent agency.
“As Ellie makes this transition, we wish her every success and look forward to continuing our fruitful relationship,” said Andrew Ruf, head of Paradigm’s Talent and Literary Department.
Klein’s clients joining her at Tfc include Jordan Reddout & Gus Hickey (Mixed-ish), Shernold Edwards (Washington Black), Jared Frieder, Samir Mehta (Fear the Walking Dead), Dario & Damir Konjicija, Aadrita Mukerji (Jack Reacher), Thomas Brandon (Legacies), Howard Jordan Jr (The Unicorn), Francisca Hu (Dynasty), Dave...
- 3/2/2021
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
92nd Oscars®
Emmy®-nominated producer Jesse Collins, Oscar®-nominated producer Stacey Sher and Oscar-winning filmmaker Steven Soderbergh will produce the 93rd Oscars®, Academy President David Rubin announced today. It will be their first involvement with the Oscars, which airs live on ABC and broadcast outlets worldwide on Sunday, April 25, 2021.
“The upcoming Oscars is the perfect occasion for innovation and for re-envisioning the possibilities for the awards show. This is a dream team who will respond directly to these times,” said Academy President David Rubin and Academy CEO Dawn Hudson. “The Academy is excited to work with them to deliver an event that reflects the worldwide love of movies and how they connect us and entertain us when we need them the most.”
“We’re thrilled and terrified in equal measure. Because of the extraordinary situation we’re all in, there’s an opportunity to focus on the movies and the...
Emmy®-nominated producer Jesse Collins, Oscar®-nominated producer Stacey Sher and Oscar-winning filmmaker Steven Soderbergh will produce the 93rd Oscars®, Academy President David Rubin announced today. It will be their first involvement with the Oscars, which airs live on ABC and broadcast outlets worldwide on Sunday, April 25, 2021.
“The upcoming Oscars is the perfect occasion for innovation and for re-envisioning the possibilities for the awards show. This is a dream team who will respond directly to these times,” said Academy President David Rubin and Academy CEO Dawn Hudson. “The Academy is excited to work with them to deliver an event that reflects the worldwide love of movies and how they connect us and entertain us when we need them the most.”
“We’re thrilled and terrified in equal measure. Because of the extraordinary situation we’re all in, there’s an opportunity to focus on the movies and the...
- 12/8/2020
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Director Steven Soderbergh and producers Stacey Sher and Jesse Collins will produce the 93rd Academy Awards on April 25, 2021, the Academy announced on Tuesday.
The announcement did not specify whether the show would be in-person or virtual, a decision that will not be made until the course of the Covid-19 pandemic is clearer.
While Collins is a television producer with a long history of producing live awards shows like the Grammys, BET Awards and Soul Train Awards and Sher is a veteran producer with Oscar nominations for “Django Unchained” and “Erin Brockovich,” the presence of Soderbergh on the producing team is a surprise and something of a coup for Academy president David Rubin.
Soderbergh, who won the Best Director Oscar for “Traffic” in 2000, is an adventurous and iconoclastic film and television director whose work includes “sex, lies and videotape,” “Contagion,” “Out of Sight,” the “Oceans” movies, “Magic Mike” and the recent...
The announcement did not specify whether the show would be in-person or virtual, a decision that will not be made until the course of the Covid-19 pandemic is clearer.
While Collins is a television producer with a long history of producing live awards shows like the Grammys, BET Awards and Soul Train Awards and Sher is a veteran producer with Oscar nominations for “Django Unchained” and “Erin Brockovich,” the presence of Soderbergh on the producing team is a surprise and something of a coup for Academy president David Rubin.
Soderbergh, who won the Best Director Oscar for “Traffic” in 2000, is an adventurous and iconoclastic film and television director whose work includes “sex, lies and videotape,” “Contagion,” “Out of Sight,” the “Oceans” movies, “Magic Mike” and the recent...
- 12/8/2020
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
The Academy has chosen three first-time Oscar producers for the delayed 2021 show: Emmy-nominated Grammy Show producer Jesse Collins will team with filmmakers Stacey Sher and Steven Soderbergh, who worked together on Oscar-winner “Erin Brockovich,” to produce the 93rd Oscars which, due to the pandemic will air live on ABC and around the world on Sunday, April 25, two months later than usual.
There has been some debate about what form the Oscar show will take, whether in-person or in hybrid form like the Emmys. Clearly, the Academy will do what it takes to keep participants safe. Directing Oscar winner Soderbergh (“Traffic”) has earned recent praise, not only for his filmmaking, but for leading the taskforce at the Directors Guild of America that has set Covid safety guidelines for the industry.
“The upcoming Oscars is the perfect occasion for innovation and for re-envisioning the possibilities for the awards show,” stated Academy President...
There has been some debate about what form the Oscar show will take, whether in-person or in hybrid form like the Emmys. Clearly, the Academy will do what it takes to keep participants safe. Directing Oscar winner Soderbergh (“Traffic”) has earned recent praise, not only for his filmmaking, but for leading the taskforce at the Directors Guild of America that has set Covid safety guidelines for the industry.
“The upcoming Oscars is the perfect occasion for innovation and for re-envisioning the possibilities for the awards show,” stated Academy President...
- 12/8/2020
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
The Academy has chosen three first-time Oscar producers for the delayed 2021 show: Emmy-nominated Grammy Show producer Jesse Collins will team with filmmakers Stacey Sher and Steven Soderbergh, who worked together on Oscar-winner “Erin Brockovich,” to produce the 93rd Oscars which, due to the pandemic will air live on ABC and around the world on Sunday, April 25, two months later than usual.
There has been some debate about what form the Oscar show will take, whether in-person or in hybrid form like the Emmys. Clearly, the Academy will do what it takes to keep participants safe. Directing Oscar winner Soderbergh (“Traffic”) has earned recent praise, not only for his filmmaking, but for leading the taskforce at the Directors Guild of America that has set Covid safety guidelines for the industry.
“The upcoming Oscars is the perfect occasion for innovation and for re-envisioning the possibilities for the awards show,” stated Academy President...
There has been some debate about what form the Oscar show will take, whether in-person or in hybrid form like the Emmys. Clearly, the Academy will do what it takes to keep participants safe. Directing Oscar winner Soderbergh (“Traffic”) has earned recent praise, not only for his filmmaking, but for leading the taskforce at the Directors Guild of America that has set Covid safety guidelines for the industry.
“The upcoming Oscars is the perfect occasion for innovation and for re-envisioning the possibilities for the awards show,” stated Academy President...
- 12/8/2020
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson is returning to Netflix for her next directorial effort.
Following the breakout success of her first feature, the anthemic breakup tale “Someone Great,” Robinson returns with a new project she’ll direct, produce and has co-written, titled “Strangers.”
Inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s “Strangers on a Train,” the dark comedy will follow unlikely cohorts Drew and Eleanor who agree to go after one another’s bullies. Co-written with her “Sweet/Vicious” collaborator Celeste Ballard, the story features “the scariest protagonists of all: teenage girls,” according to the logline.
Anthony Bregman and Peter Cron of Likely Story will produce alongside Robinson, who has been on a hot streak of late. She’s set up a TV adaptation of the teen dance classic “Center Stage” at Sony Pictures Television. Robinson has also been recruited to co-write the screenplay for “Thor: Love and Thunder,” the Marvel sequel which will reunite Chris Hemsworth,...
Following the breakout success of her first feature, the anthemic breakup tale “Someone Great,” Robinson returns with a new project she’ll direct, produce and has co-written, titled “Strangers.”
Inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s “Strangers on a Train,” the dark comedy will follow unlikely cohorts Drew and Eleanor who agree to go after one another’s bullies. Co-written with her “Sweet/Vicious” collaborator Celeste Ballard, the story features “the scariest protagonists of all: teenage girls,” according to the logline.
Anthony Bregman and Peter Cron of Likely Story will produce alongside Robinson, who has been on a hot streak of late. She’s set up a TV adaptation of the teen dance classic “Center Stage” at Sony Pictures Television. Robinson has also been recruited to co-write the screenplay for “Thor: Love and Thunder,” the Marvel sequel which will reunite Chris Hemsworth,...
- 10/14/2020
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
The world really has changed. Just eight months after Eliza Hittman’s searing “Never Rarely Sometimes Always” made its debut at Sundance, becoming one of the year’s best films in the process, fledgling streamer HBO Max has already unveiled its own much more comedic take on the apparently booming “abortion road trip” subgenre. But while Rachel Lee Goldenberg’s comedy might sound like a lighter spin on Hittman’s earthy drama,
Veronica (the always delightful Haley Lu Richardson) is a high school superstar, bound for Brown in the fall but still very busy living out the waning days of her super-fun senior year. Mega-popular and mega-smart, Veronica has a tight-knit pack of girlfriends (that the other members of the foursome seem to operate with one brain is more than just a joke) and a devoted boyfriend (Alex MacNicoll). Her Instagram account is popping, but is also filled with meaningless...
Veronica (the always delightful Haley Lu Richardson) is a high school superstar, bound for Brown in the fall but still very busy living out the waning days of her super-fun senior year. Mega-popular and mega-smart, Veronica has a tight-knit pack of girlfriends (that the other members of the foursome seem to operate with one brain is more than just a joke) and a devoted boyfriend (Alex MacNicoll). Her Instagram account is popping, but is also filled with meaningless...
- 9/8/2020
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Thor: Love and Thunder is getting a little more writing love from a new scribe. Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, who wrote and directed the Netflix dramedy Someone Great and created the MTV dark comedy Sweet/Vicious, has been tapped as a new writer on the project, alongside director Taika Waititi. She will help shape the script with Waititi, who just won an […]
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- 2/11/2020
- by Hoai-Tran Bui
- Slash Film
Following his Oscar victory for “Jojo Rabbit,” Taika Waititi has turned his focus to Marvel’s “Thor: Love and Thunder” and gained some help in shaping the script.
Sources tell Variety that Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, who wrote and directed the Netflix pic “Someone Great,” has joined Waititi to work on the script prior to its production start date later this year.
Marvel had no comment on Robinson’s involvement.
Waititi is back as director after helming “Thor: Ragnarok,” the biggest film in the “Thor” series with $853 million at the worldwide box office. It was a critical as well as commercial success, and Marvel was so impressed with Waititi that it announced “Thor: Love and Thunder” this past summer, with Chris Hemsworth returning as the God of Thunder and Christian Bale in talks for an undisclosed role.
While details about the latest film are vague, during the 2019 Comic-Con announcement, Waititi not...
Sources tell Variety that Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, who wrote and directed the Netflix pic “Someone Great,” has joined Waititi to work on the script prior to its production start date later this year.
Marvel had no comment on Robinson’s involvement.
Waititi is back as director after helming “Thor: Ragnarok,” the biggest film in the “Thor” series with $853 million at the worldwide box office. It was a critical as well as commercial success, and Marvel was so impressed with Waititi that it announced “Thor: Love and Thunder” this past summer, with Chris Hemsworth returning as the God of Thunder and Christian Bale in talks for an undisclosed role.
While details about the latest film are vague, during the 2019 Comic-Con announcement, Waititi not...
- 2/11/2020
- by Justin Kroll
- Variety Film + TV
ABC Studios has signed an overall deal with “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” showrunner Aline Brosh McKenna, the studio announced Monday.
Under the three-year deal, McKenna will develop new TV projects for all platforms via her newly launched production company Lean Machine. In conjunction, Lean Machine has tapped Footprint Features’ Emily Rasenick as director of development.
Brosh McKenna and Lean Machine’s first project is the comedy “Hit,” which has been put into development at Hulu. Co-written and executive produced by Brosh McKenna and “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” alum Alden Derck, tells the story of a young pop star, struggling to write her debut album, who gets stuck in a songwriting bootcamp organized by the anxious execs at her record label.
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Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, of MTV’s “Sweet/Vicious” and the Netflix comedy “Someone Great,” is attached will serve as director and...
Under the three-year deal, McKenna will develop new TV projects for all platforms via her newly launched production company Lean Machine. In conjunction, Lean Machine has tapped Footprint Features’ Emily Rasenick as director of development.
Brosh McKenna and Lean Machine’s first project is the comedy “Hit,” which has been put into development at Hulu. Co-written and executive produced by Brosh McKenna and “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” alum Alden Derck, tells the story of a young pop star, struggling to write her debut album, who gets stuck in a songwriting bootcamp organized by the anxious execs at her record label.
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Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, of MTV’s “Sweet/Vicious” and the Netflix comedy “Someone Great,” is attached will serve as director and...
- 1/27/2020
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
Aline Brosh McKenna has signed a three year overall deal with ABC Studios.
Brosh McKenna was previously under an overall at CBS Television Studios, where she and Rachel Bloom co-created the Emmy-winning CW series “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” on which she also served as showrunner in addition to directing the season finales of all four seasons. She is also known for writing the hit 2006 film “The Devil Wears Prada.”
Under her new deal, Brosh McKenna and her company, Lean Machine, will develop projects for all platforms for ABC Studios, which is now part of Disney Television Studios under Dana Walden. Emily Rasenick has been named director of development for Lean Machine. She was most recently the creative executive at Footprint Features.
“Aline’s film and TV work is truly unique and exceptional,” said ABC Studios president Jonnie Davis. “Anyone who can write for Meryl Streep and Rachel Bloom is someone we want to be in business with,...
Brosh McKenna was previously under an overall at CBS Television Studios, where she and Rachel Bloom co-created the Emmy-winning CW series “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” on which she also served as showrunner in addition to directing the season finales of all four seasons. She is also known for writing the hit 2006 film “The Devil Wears Prada.”
Under her new deal, Brosh McKenna and her company, Lean Machine, will develop projects for all platforms for ABC Studios, which is now part of Disney Television Studios under Dana Walden. Emily Rasenick has been named director of development for Lean Machine. She was most recently the creative executive at Footprint Features.
“Aline’s film and TV work is truly unique and exceptional,” said ABC Studios president Jonnie Davis. “Anyone who can write for Meryl Streep and Rachel Bloom is someone we want to be in business with,...
- 1/27/2020
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
ABC has given a put pilot commitment to 90’s Popstar, a drama based on This Is Us star Mandy Moore’s musical childhood, Deadline has confirmed. It hails from writer Amanda Lasher (The Bold Type), with Moore set to executive produce alongside This Is Us co-showrunners Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger. 20th Century Fox TV is the studio.
Written by Lasher, 90’s Popstar revolves around a family from small town Florida who must adapt to their extraordinary new reality when their teenage daughter goes from aspiring singer to pop superstar practically overnight.
Lasher executive produces alongside Moore, Aptaker, Berger, Adam Londy and Regina Lee. Marc Webb also will executive produce and direct.
Moore signed with Epic Records in 1999 and shot to fame with the release of her first single “Candy” from her debut studio album So Real, which went platinum. Her second studio album, I Wanna Be With You, was...
Written by Lasher, 90’s Popstar revolves around a family from small town Florida who must adapt to their extraordinary new reality when their teenage daughter goes from aspiring singer to pop superstar practically overnight.
Lasher executive produces alongside Moore, Aptaker, Berger, Adam Londy and Regina Lee. Marc Webb also will executive produce and direct.
Moore signed with Epic Records in 1999 and shot to fame with the release of her first single “Candy” from her debut studio album So Real, which went platinum. Her second studio album, I Wanna Be With You, was...
- 10/11/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
ABC has given a put pilot order to a drama series inspired by Mandy Moore’s early music career, Variety has learned.
Currently titled “90’s Popstar,” the project hails from writer and executive producer Amanda Lasher, with Moore set to executive produce alongside “This Is Us” showrunners Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger. Adam Londy of Aptaker and Berger’s The Walk-Up Company will also executive produce along with Regina Lee of Moore’s Roll With The Punches Productions. Marc Webb is also attached to executive produce and direct. 20th Century Fox Television, where both The Walk-Up Company and Roll With the Punches are currently under overall deals, will produce.
In the series, a family from small town Florida must adapt to their extraordinary new reality when their teenage daughter goes from aspiring singer to pop superstar practically overnight.
Moore’s music career took off in the late 1990s with the...
Currently titled “90’s Popstar,” the project hails from writer and executive producer Amanda Lasher, with Moore set to executive produce alongside “This Is Us” showrunners Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger. Adam Londy of Aptaker and Berger’s The Walk-Up Company will also executive produce along with Regina Lee of Moore’s Roll With The Punches Productions. Marc Webb is also attached to executive produce and direct. 20th Century Fox Television, where both The Walk-Up Company and Roll With the Punches are currently under overall deals, will produce.
In the series, a family from small town Florida must adapt to their extraordinary new reality when their teenage daughter goes from aspiring singer to pop superstar practically overnight.
Moore’s music career took off in the late 1990s with the...
- 10/11/2019
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Mike Cecchini Kirsten Howard Feb 11, 2020
Taika Waititi will direct Thor 4 for Marvel. Natalie Portman returns as... Thor!
Who needs the Asgardians of the Galaxy when you can have Thor: Love and Thunder? While Captain America and Iron Man saw their stories brought to a close in Avengers: Endgame, there seemed to be plenty of opportunities for new stories with the God of Thunder, and Marvel Studios will take full advantage of it, tapping Taika Waititi, who shaped the delightful Thor: Ragnarok, to make Thor 4 a reality.
Waititi had been set to direct a live action adaptation of Akira for Warner Bros, but that project has been put on hold indefinitely because of "script development concerns" according to THR, so now he's got room in his schedule for Thor 4.
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Word that Thor: Love and Thunder was being given the...
Taika Waititi will direct Thor 4 for Marvel. Natalie Portman returns as... Thor!
Who needs the Asgardians of the Galaxy when you can have Thor: Love and Thunder? While Captain America and Iron Man saw their stories brought to a close in Avengers: Endgame, there seemed to be plenty of opportunities for new stories with the God of Thunder, and Marvel Studios will take full advantage of it, tapping Taika Waititi, who shaped the delightful Thor: Ragnarok, to make Thor 4 a reality.
Waititi had been set to direct a live action adaptation of Akira for Warner Bros, but that project has been put on hold indefinitely because of "script development concerns" according to THR, so now he's got room in his schedule for Thor 4.
Watch everything Marvel and more with a Free Disney+ Trial, right here!
Word that Thor: Love and Thunder was being given the...
- 7/16/2019
- Den of Geek
In the Netflix movie Someone Great Gina Rodriguez plays a woman who goes through a devastating break up with her beau (played by Lakeith Stanfield) before moving across the country. With the help of her BFFs (Brittany Snow and DeWanda Wise), she navigates the landmines left behind her broken relationship. The movie feels like it checks the boxes of your basic romantic comedy, but basic it is not. Writer and director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson stopped by the New Hollywood Podcast to talk about how the movie and how it paves its own road when it comes to your standard rom-com.
For one, it is very female driven — and has an amazing soundtrack. It’s a story of love, loss, growing up and the concept of Peter Pan syndrome but through the eyes of a woman. Ultimately, it is about the bond of female...
For one, it is very female driven — and has an amazing soundtrack. It’s a story of love, loss, growing up and the concept of Peter Pan syndrome but through the eyes of a woman. Ultimately, it is about the bond of female...
- 5/7/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos and Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, creator of the MTV series “Sweet/Vicious,” recently made her feature debut with “Someone Great,” now streaming on Netflix. The film follows three friends as they navigate relationships and work in New York City. Here, the writer-director opens up on reimagining the rom-com, and women changing the face of Hollywood.
The three young women in “Someone Great” have relationships with a diverse group of people. Was this important to you?
I think that romantic comedies especially have been kind of homogeneous in the way that they are made and presented. I wanted to make sure this film was inclusive of everyone, so that everyone watching it could see themselves in it.
In a lot of ways, this movie breaks the romantic comedy formula. How would you classify it?
I classify it as a rom-com where the rom isn’t com. It’s a romantic comedy, but the romance...
The three young women in “Someone Great” have relationships with a diverse group of people. Was this important to you?
I think that romantic comedies especially have been kind of homogeneous in the way that they are made and presented. I wanted to make sure this film was inclusive of everyone, so that everyone watching it could see themselves in it.
In a lot of ways, this movie breaks the romantic comedy formula. How would you classify it?
I classify it as a rom-com where the rom isn’t com. It’s a romantic comedy, but the romance...
- 4/25/2019
- by Dano Nissen
- Variety Film + TV
Jennifer Kaytin Robinson was sobbing in front of a row of rotisserie chickens. Standing dumbfounded in the aisle of a New York grocery store after her boyfriend dumped her, she heard Adele’s “Someone Like You” come over the sound system — and “I was trying to smile through it, but then I was smiling and crying, and I truly looked insane,” she remembers. She knew she wanted a version of that memory to star in Someone Great.
It took the form of Gina Rodriguez, Brittany Snow and DeWanda Wise, an inseparable trio of since-college friends,...
It took the form of Gina Rodriguez, Brittany Snow and DeWanda Wise, an inseparable trio of since-college friends,...
- 4/23/2019
- by Amy X. Wang
- Rollingstone.com
“Someone Great,” a female friendship raunch-com starring Gina Rodriguez, is a remarkable addition to its genre — and not just because of its subversive gender representation. This film, almost as dense with jokes as it is with drinking and drug use, is definitive proof that Rodriguez has comedy-movie-star chops. It is also a winsome debut from “Sweet/Vicious” (R.I.P.) creator Jennifer Kaytin Robinson.
Continue reading ‘Someone Great’: Gina Rodriguez Shines Brighter Than Neon In The Hilarious Netflix Comedy That Is Doomed To Be Forgotten [Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Someone Great’: Gina Rodriguez Shines Brighter Than Neon In The Hilarious Netflix Comedy That Is Doomed To Be Forgotten [Review] at The Playlist.
- 4/23/2019
- by Lena Wilson
- The Playlist
There are plenty of great someones in Jennifer Kaytin Robinson’s directorial debut “Someone Great.” These include star Gina Rodriguez, who mines richness from a thin character, and standout supporting turns from DeWanda Wise and Brittany Snow as BFFs who similarly turn tropes into characters with staying power. And yet the shaggy Netflix comedy lacks much beyond stellar performances, as a messy narrative structure and force-fed pop cultural commentary instantly dates it. While the latest Netflix-produced rom-com struggles to decide what it wants to be, it seems clear from the outside — this should have been a TV series instead.
Ironically, Robinson is best known for creating the short-lived MTV series “Sweet/Vicious” — which centered on an unlikely duo who team up to enact some vigilante justice on the world — and, if there was any justice in the world, she’d still be making it. The wit of Robinson’s series still...
Ironically, Robinson is best known for creating the short-lived MTV series “Sweet/Vicious” — which centered on an unlikely duo who team up to enact some vigilante justice on the world — and, if there was any justice in the world, she’d still be making it. The wit of Robinson’s series still...
- 4/18/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
The gloomy isolation of homemaking females has long been a significant topic across various genres in cinema, depicted in domestic dramas like Chantal Akerman’s “Jeanne Dielman” and in psychodramas like Todd Haynes’ “Safe.” With her debut feature “The Wind,” a psychedelic yet baggy period-horror film, director Emma Tammi assertively carries this female-focused subject matter over to one of the most masculine of genres, the Western, with technical panache yet mixed dramatic results.
A respectable addition to the growing group of female-led Westerns of recent vintage — including “Meek’s Cutoff,” “The Homesman” and “Jane Got a Gun” — Tammi’s supernatural thriller unearths claustrophobic fears amid vast, deserted landscapes and attempts to portray symbolically the multitude of forces, otherworldly and otherwise, that aim to paralyze abandoned women. It’s a compelling package substantiated by dedicated performances and top-notch below-the-line craftwork, yet sadly bogged down by a disorderly narrative structure that works...
A respectable addition to the growing group of female-led Westerns of recent vintage — including “Meek’s Cutoff,” “The Homesman” and “Jane Got a Gun” — Tammi’s supernatural thriller unearths claustrophobic fears amid vast, deserted landscapes and attempts to portray symbolically the multitude of forces, otherworldly and otherwise, that aim to paralyze abandoned women. It’s a compelling package substantiated by dedicated performances and top-notch below-the-line craftwork, yet sadly bogged down by a disorderly narrative structure that works...
- 4/2/2019
- by Tomris Laffly
- The Wrap
Jane the Virgin‘s abuela is moving to the spinoff Jane the Novela: Ivonne Coll — who plays Jane’s grandma Alba on the original series — will co-star in The CW’s offshoot pilot as a new character, our sister site Deadline reports.
Coll will portray Camila, the adoptive mother of central heroine Estela (East Los High‘s Jacqueline Grace Lopez), an up-and-coming art curator with a shocking secret that forces her to live a double life.
Also joining the anthology series — each season will based on a different fictional novel “written by” Jane Villanueva — is Remy Hii (Marco Polo) as Estela’s boyfriend Luen,...
Coll will portray Camila, the adoptive mother of central heroine Estela (East Los High‘s Jacqueline Grace Lopez), an up-and-coming art curator with a shocking secret that forces her to live a double life.
Also joining the anthology series — each season will based on a different fictional novel “written by” Jane Villanueva — is Remy Hii (Marco Polo) as Estela’s boyfriend Luen,...
- 3/19/2019
- TVLine.com
Exclusive: Raymond Ablack (Narcos), Michael Cassidy (People of Earth), Taylor Dearden (Sweet/Vicious) and Ana Villafañe are set as series regulars opposite Michael Angarano and Briga Heelan in To Whom It May Concern, CBS’ multi-cam comedy pilot from Gail Berman’s The Jackal Group, and CBS TV Studios. In addition, Mark Cendrowski (The Big Bang Theory) is set to direct the pilot.
Written by Mike Metz, To Whom It May Concern centers on Evan (Angarano) who with the help of his group of 20-something friends, Evan sets out to accomplish a list of challenges he wrote for himself years ago in an effort to turn around his banal life.
Ablack will play Tanner, the high school best friend. Loves Kate (Heelan) and the corner pierogi shop they run together, but does hope someday she’ll relent to his white picket fence aspirations. When not creating pierogi fillings like White Chocolate Chicken Parm,...
Written by Mike Metz, To Whom It May Concern centers on Evan (Angarano) who with the help of his group of 20-something friends, Evan sets out to accomplish a list of challenges he wrote for himself years ago in an effort to turn around his banal life.
Ablack will play Tanner, the high school best friend. Loves Kate (Heelan) and the corner pierogi shop they run together, but does hope someday she’ll relent to his white picket fence aspirations. When not creating pierogi fillings like White Chocolate Chicken Parm,...
- 3/18/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix’s newest romantic comedy focuses more on the love of three girlfriends than it does the tragic fallout of its stars Gina Rodriguez and Lakeith Stanfield.
In a Wednesday trailer for the feature “Someone Great,” we meet music journalist Jenny (Rodriguez), who is forced to move away from her friends and long-time boyfriend in New York after landing a job at Rolling Stone in San Francisco.
To make the most of their final moments together, Jenny and her two best friends (DeWanda Wise and Brittany Snow) plan out one final adventure before Jenny heads west. And it seems their idea of adventure involves the typical “20-something living in New York City” agenda: tequila shots, electronic music at the club, and late-night drunken pep-talks on subway platforms. It doesn’t hurt that each of them is trying to shake off old habits or relationships and embrace change.
“Why’d he leave you like that?...
In a Wednesday trailer for the feature “Someone Great,” we meet music journalist Jenny (Rodriguez), who is forced to move away from her friends and long-time boyfriend in New York after landing a job at Rolling Stone in San Francisco.
To make the most of their final moments together, Jenny and her two best friends (DeWanda Wise and Brittany Snow) plan out one final adventure before Jenny heads west. And it seems their idea of adventure involves the typical “20-something living in New York City” agenda: tequila shots, electronic music at the club, and late-night drunken pep-talks on subway platforms. It doesn’t hurt that each of them is trying to shake off old habits or relationships and embrace change.
“Why’d he leave you like that?...
- 3/6/2019
- by Anna Tingley
- Variety Film + TV
"This just can't be where it ends... This is destiny!" Netflix has debuted a trailer for a new friendship comedy titled Someone Great, the feature directorial debut of "Sweet/Vicious" creator Jennifer Kaytin Robinson. After a devastating break up on the eve of her cross-country move to San Francisco, Jenny enjoys one last NYC adventure with her two best gal pals - Erin (DeWanda Wise) and Blair (Brittany Snow). Someone Great is a "romantic comedy about love, loss, growth and the everlasting bond of female friendship." Gina Rodriguez stars as Jenny, and the cast includes Lakeith Stanfield, Rosario Dawson, Peter Vack, and Ben Sidell. Looks like a fun pick-me-up comedy to watch with all your friends when you need some laughs. Here's the first trailer (+ poster) for Jennifer Kaytin Robinson's Someone Great, from Netflix's YouTube: Aspiring music journalist Jenny (Gina Rodriguez) has just landed her dream job at an iconic...
- 3/6/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Netflix has been slowly but steadily reviving the once marginalized romantic comedy, but their newest offering infuses the genre with the rather refreshing idea — long overdue in movies — that friendship is perhaps the greatest romance of all. The streamer recently released the first official trailer for “Someone Great,” a comedy that appears to begin as a romance with a man, but ends up looking more like a love letter to self love, and friends that always have your back.
And who better to anchor this positively 21st century feminist message than Gina Rodriguez, with her megawatt smile and her infectious charm?
The official synopsis reads: “Aspiring music journalist Jenny (Gina Rodriguez) has just landed her dream job at an iconic magazine and is about to move to San Francisco. Rather than do long distance, her boyfriend of nine years (Lakeith Stanfield) decides to call it quits. To nurse her broken heart,...
And who better to anchor this positively 21st century feminist message than Gina Rodriguez, with her megawatt smile and her infectious charm?
The official synopsis reads: “Aspiring music journalist Jenny (Gina Rodriguez) has just landed her dream job at an iconic magazine and is about to move to San Francisco. Rather than do long distance, her boyfriend of nine years (Lakeith Stanfield) decides to call it quits. To nurse her broken heart,...
- 3/6/2019
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
The upcoming Showtime drama “Penny Dreadful: City of Angels” has cast both Jessica Garza and Johnathan Nieves in series regular roles, Variety has learned.
They join previously announced cast member Daniel Zovatto. Described as a spiritual descendant of the original “Penny Dreadful,” the new series opens in 1938 Los Angeles, a time and place deeply infused with social and political tension. When a grisly murder shocks the city, Detective Tiago Vega (Zovatto) is embroiled in a story that reflects the history of Los Angeles: from the building of the city’s first freeways and its deep traditions of Mexican-American folklore, to the dangerous espionage actions of the Third Reich and the rise of radio evangelism.
Garza will play Josefina Vega, the youngest of the Vega family. She plays the part of the quiet and overlooked sister, but possesses a powerful spirit waiting to be unleashed.
Nieves will play Mateo Vega, Tiago’s volatile younger brother.
They join previously announced cast member Daniel Zovatto. Described as a spiritual descendant of the original “Penny Dreadful,” the new series opens in 1938 Los Angeles, a time and place deeply infused with social and political tension. When a grisly murder shocks the city, Detective Tiago Vega (Zovatto) is embroiled in a story that reflects the history of Los Angeles: from the building of the city’s first freeways and its deep traditions of Mexican-American folklore, to the dangerous espionage actions of the Third Reich and the rise of radio evangelism.
Garza will play Josefina Vega, the youngest of the Vega family. She plays the part of the quiet and overlooked sister, but possesses a powerful spirit waiting to be unleashed.
Nieves will play Mateo Vega, Tiago’s volatile younger brother.
- 2/15/2019
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Jorge Diaz (The Long Road Home) and Eliza Bennett (Sweet/Vicious) lead the ensemble cast of Amazon’s single-camera comedy pilot based on the UK series People Just Do Nothing. Andre Hyland (Pop Star: Never Stop Never Stopping), Conner McVicker (Vice Principals) and Amir Talai (La to Vegas) also have been cast as series regulars in the project, written and executive produced by from Mehar Sethi.
The untitled comedy based on the BAFTA-winning series is a mockumentary following a group of working class DJs and their friends in a town called North Las Vegas: a land of mini malls and vast parking lots, where the lights of The Strip act as a beacon of fame and glory that’s just out of reach. The series tracks their stumbling ambitions, and explores how relationships between friends and family evolve as the reality of your dreams starts to hit. It’s a...
The untitled comedy based on the BAFTA-winning series is a mockumentary following a group of working class DJs and their friends in a town called North Las Vegas: a land of mini malls and vast parking lots, where the lights of The Strip act as a beacon of fame and glory that’s just out of reach. The series tracks their stumbling ambitions, and explores how relationships between friends and family evolve as the reality of your dreams starts to hit. It’s a...
- 11/29/2018
- by Nellie Andreeva and Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Kirsten Howard Nov 7, 2018
A new horror-tinged Vertigo comic book series is set to join iZombie, Lucifer and Preacher on the small screen...
iZombie, Preacher, and Lucifer have been largely decent Vertigo adaptations in the last decade, making the move to television with a fair amount of success, and all becoming beloved cult series in their own way. Now, a new friend is coming to play, and she's a little heavier on the horror (good news for horror fans like us!)
An adaptation of Survivors' Club, a limited comic series by Lauren Beukes, Dale Halverson and Ryan Kelly, is being produced by Warner Bros Television for The CW, home of Riverdale, The Flash, and also iZombie, which is coming to a close in 2019. Jared Frieder, a writer for the criminally underrated and short-lived feminist revenge series Sweet/Vicious, is set to write and executive produce, reports Deadline.
Here's a synopsis of the comic,...
A new horror-tinged Vertigo comic book series is set to join iZombie, Lucifer and Preacher on the small screen...
iZombie, Preacher, and Lucifer have been largely decent Vertigo adaptations in the last decade, making the move to television with a fair amount of success, and all becoming beloved cult series in their own way. Now, a new friend is coming to play, and she's a little heavier on the horror (good news for horror fans like us!)
An adaptation of Survivors' Club, a limited comic series by Lauren Beukes, Dale Halverson and Ryan Kelly, is being produced by Warner Bros Television for The CW, home of Riverdale, The Flash, and also iZombie, which is coming to a close in 2019. Jared Frieder, a writer for the criminally underrated and short-lived feminist revenge series Sweet/Vicious, is set to write and executive produce, reports Deadline.
Here's a synopsis of the comic,...
- 11/7/2018
- Den of Geek
FX has given a nine-episode order to Mrs. America, a timely limited series starring Oscar- and Golden Globe-winning actor Cate Blanchett in her first role on American television. The series hails from Emmy-winning writer Davhi Waller (Mad Men), Oscar-nominated producer Stacey Sher and FX Productions. Blanchett also executive produces Mrs. America with Sher; Waller, who also serves as showrunner; and Coco Francini (The Hateful Eight). Production is scheduled to begin in 2019.
Mrs. America tells the true story of the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, and the unexpected backlash led by a conservative woman named Phyllis Schlafly, played by Blanchett. Through the eyes of the women of that era — both Schlafly and second-wave feminists Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Shirley Chisholm, Bella Abzug and Jill Ruckelshaus — the series explores how one of the toughest battlegrounds in the culture wars of the ’70s helped give rise to...
Mrs. America tells the true story of the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, and the unexpected backlash led by a conservative woman named Phyllis Schlafly, played by Blanchett. Through the eyes of the women of that era — both Schlafly and second-wave feminists Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Shirley Chisholm, Bella Abzug and Jill Ruckelshaus — the series explores how one of the toughest battlegrounds in the culture wars of the ’70s helped give rise to...
- 10/30/2018
- by Nellie Andreeva and Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Though it’s been more than a year since MTV pulled the plug on the dark comedy series “Sweet/Vicious,” the show is getting a second chance, this time in the form of a comic book.
Sources confirmed to Variety that series creator Jennifer Kaytin Robinson is partnering with Black Mask Studios to announce that the show’s characters, Jules and Ophelia, will fight on — in the pages of a comic book that is aiming to debut in early 2019.
The series focused on two college students who become vigilantes at night, seeking revenge on campus rapists, and was received strongly by critics, but due to poor ratings, it was given the ax by MTV in April 2017. Since its cancellation, the #MeToo movement has captivated the industry and the show’s storylines and themes of female empowerment are more relevant than ever, encouraging Black Mass execs to approach Robinson about rebooting the story as a comic-book series.
Sources confirmed to Variety that series creator Jennifer Kaytin Robinson is partnering with Black Mask Studios to announce that the show’s characters, Jules and Ophelia, will fight on — in the pages of a comic book that is aiming to debut in early 2019.
The series focused on two college students who become vigilantes at night, seeking revenge on campus rapists, and was received strongly by critics, but due to poor ratings, it was given the ax by MTV in April 2017. Since its cancellation, the #MeToo movement has captivated the industry and the show’s storylines and themes of female empowerment are more relevant than ever, encouraging Black Mass execs to approach Robinson about rebooting the story as a comic-book series.
- 10/3/2018
- by Justin Kroll
- Variety Film + TV
If Netflix’s American Vandal wasn’t the greatest show of 2017, it was the most surprisingly great. A mockumentary from a largely unknown cast and creative team, it managed to keep the joke of its premise — two high school Av nerds doggedly pursue the truth about who spray-painted 27 dicks on 27 cars in the faculty parking lot — tumescently hilarious throughout. More importantly, all the dick humor gradually rose to point at something deeper and sadder as the series considered the lives of all the kids featured in the fake film. It...
- 9/10/2018
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Tuesday.
This week’s question: Which show have you tried to save in your capacity as a critic? Did it work?
Todd VanDerWerff (@tvoti), Vox
I feel like I’ve done this a lot, and I’ve had a better record than you’d expect. The very first time I did it, I wrote an article called, “Hey, Fox: Save ‘Dollhouse,’” and then Fox did! I’m magic!
But probably the worst time was when I wrote an article about how fear of cancellation might become “a thing of the past,” centered on the show’s “Trophy Wife,” “Enlisted,” and “Hannibal.” Only the last of those was renewed, and the article was mocked as me having misread the TV tea leaves. But you know what? I stand by that article; I was just a few years too early.
This week’s question: Which show have you tried to save in your capacity as a critic? Did it work?
Todd VanDerWerff (@tvoti), Vox
I feel like I’ve done this a lot, and I’ve had a better record than you’d expect. The very first time I did it, I wrote an article called, “Hey, Fox: Save ‘Dollhouse,’” and then Fox did! I’m magic!
But probably the worst time was when I wrote an article about how fear of cancellation might become “a thing of the past,” centered on the show’s “Trophy Wife,” “Enlisted,” and “Hannibal.” Only the last of those was renewed, and the article was mocked as me having misread the TV tea leaves. But you know what? I stand by that article; I was just a few years too early.
- 6/20/2018
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
The second season of Freeform's magazine dramedy, The Bold Type, might have a new showrunner, but new executive producer Amanda Lasher didn't want to change much about what the series has been doing. Lasher, formerly of MTV's vigilante dark comedy Sweet/Vicious, tells The Hollywood Reporter that she didn't start her new job with the idea of shaking things up for the trio of young Scarlet Magazine employees at the center of the show.
At the end of season one, star writer Jane (Katie Stevens) had just taken a job at a Huffington Post-esque startup;...
At the end of season one, star writer Jane (Katie Stevens) had just taken a job at a Huffington Post-esque startup;...
- 6/12/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Incoming The Bold Type showrunner Amanda Lasher doesn’t want to change what made the Freeform drama so special in its first year — but she does want to go deeper in Season 2 (premiering with two episodes on Tuesday at 8/7c).
“I came on as a fan of the show,” the Gossip Girl and Sweet/Vicious vet tells TVLine. “I enjoyed the way the girls supported each other, the way they found a balance to tackle social issues, but also do it in a way that was fun… I loved Jacqueline as this mentor who’s really aspirational and positive.”
As the series’ new boss,...
“I came on as a fan of the show,” the Gossip Girl and Sweet/Vicious vet tells TVLine. “I enjoyed the way the girls supported each other, the way they found a balance to tackle social issues, but also do it in a way that was fun… I loved Jacqueline as this mentor who’s really aspirational and positive.”
As the series’ new boss,...
- 6/10/2018
- TVLine.com
Attention actors who are heading into audition rooms: Casting directors Alexa L. Fogel and Marc Hirschfeld have some advice for you.
The professionals sat down at Atx Television Festival to discuss their process — along with two actors they've cast in projects (Fogel put Dominique Fishback in Show Me a Hero and The Deuce, while Hirschfeld put Taylor Dearden in Sweet/Vicious) — and shared their dos and don'ts for actors who are coming in to read for them.
The dos: Hirschfeld says brevity is a plus. Go in, read, then "get out gracefully and quickly so we ...
The professionals sat down at Atx Television Festival to discuss their process — along with two actors they've cast in projects (Fogel put Dominique Fishback in Show Me a Hero and The Deuce, while Hirschfeld put Taylor Dearden in Sweet/Vicious) — and shared their dos and don'ts for actors who are coming in to read for them.
The dos: Hirschfeld says brevity is a plus. Go in, read, then "get out gracefully and quickly so we ...
When Freeform renewed “The Bold Type” in October of last year, a new showrunner was brought onboard the women’s magazine-set drama: Amanda Lasher comes with a list of credits that include “Gossip Girl,” “Togetherness” and most recently “Sweet/Vicious.” But one title she also says is key is fan of the first season of the show.
“A lot of people found the show and really responded to it, myself included,” Lasher tells Variety about the first season. To that end, she “very much wanted to continue the thread” of the show, rather than come in with a lot of changes.
“You just want to spend time with those three young women, and so that was something that I very much wanted to continue,” she continues. “I love the way that the show tackles social issues but always through the lens of the friendship, but really my main goal, beyond continuing...
“A lot of people found the show and really responded to it, myself included,” Lasher tells Variety about the first season. To that end, she “very much wanted to continue the thread” of the show, rather than come in with a lot of changes.
“You just want to spend time with those three young women, and so that was something that I very much wanted to continue,” she continues. “I love the way that the show tackles social issues but always through the lens of the friendship, but really my main goal, beyond continuing...
- 6/6/2018
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
Jane the Virgin’s Gina Rodriguez has signed on to star in and produce Someone Great, a romantic comedy that Jennifer Kaytin Robinson is helming for Netflix.
Robinson is the creator of the MTV show Sweet/Vicious. Someone Great is serving as her directorial debut.
Paul Feig and Jessie Henderson of Feigco are producing the movie, as are Anthony Bregman and Peter Cron of Likely Story. Rodriguez will produce via her shingle I Can and I Will Productions.
Written by Robinson, Someone Great centers on a woman who, after a heart-wrenching break-up, decides to seek adventure in New York City with ...
Robinson is the creator of the MTV show Sweet/Vicious. Someone Great is serving as her directorial debut.
Paul Feig and Jessie Henderson of Feigco are producing the movie, as are Anthony Bregman and Peter Cron of Likely Story. Rodriguez will produce via her shingle I Can and I Will Productions.
Written by Robinson, Someone Great centers on a woman who, after a heart-wrenching break-up, decides to seek adventure in New York City with ...
- 2/26/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Jane the Virgin’s Gina Rodriguez has signed on to star in and produce Someone Great, a romantic comedy that Jennifer Kaytin Robinson is helming for Netflix.
Robinson is the creator of the MTV show Sweet/Vicious. Someone Great is serving as her directorial debut.
Paul Feig and Jessie Henderson of Feigco are producing the movie, as are Anthony Bregman and Peter Cron of Likely Story. Rodriguez will produce via her shingle I Can and I Will Productions.
Written by Robinson, Someone Great centers on a woman who, after a heart-wrenching break-up, decides to seek adventure in New York City with ...
Robinson is the creator of the MTV show Sweet/Vicious. Someone Great is serving as her directorial debut.
Paul Feig and Jessie Henderson of Feigco are producing the movie, as are Anthony Bregman and Peter Cron of Likely Story. Rodriguez will produce via her shingle I Can and I Will Productions.
Written by Robinson, Someone Great centers on a woman who, after a heart-wrenching break-up, decides to seek adventure in New York City with ...
- 2/26/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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