At the beginning of Skincare, Austin Peters’ rather clever narrative feature debut, Hope Goldman reigns supreme. The Los Angeles-based aesthetician, played by Elizabeth Banks, is in the midst of launching her line of moisturizers, cleansers and serums made in Italy. Hope is an old school cosmetics-monger, who, after 20 years of exfoliating Hollywood’s most expensive faces, is ready to let regular people in on the secret. There’s just one problem: A new spa has opened across the street and its owner, Angel Vergara (Luis Gerardo Méndez), seems poised for a takeover, instigating a violent rivalry.
Skincare is, per an early title card, a fictional story inspired by true events. It bears some similarities to the one-sided feud between West Hollywood facialists Dawn DaLuise and Gabriel Suarez. About ten years ago, DaLuise spent some time in jail for allegedly attempting to solicit the murder of Suarez. (A jury eventually acquitted her.
Skincare is, per an early title card, a fictional story inspired by true events. It bears some similarities to the one-sided feud between West Hollywood facialists Dawn DaLuise and Gabriel Suarez. About ten years ago, DaLuise spent some time in jail for allegedly attempting to solicit the murder of Suarez. (A jury eventually acquitted her.
- 8/14/2024
- by Lovia Gyarkye
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
From comedy to drama to biopics and every genre in between, Elizabeth Banks always understands the assignment.
The actress had plenty to play with in IFC Films‘ Skincare, which premieres Friday in theaters. It’s a true crime-inspired character study about a woman’s struggle to stay relevant in Hollywood and the dangerous lengths she’ll go to defend what she’s built — a role to which Banks “felt very connected.”
“I related to this sense of vulnerability, of feeling like the technology is going so fast that you can’t keep up with it, that there’s always gonna be a new fresh, useful way of doing things,” Banks tells Deadline. “And this woman just doesn’t know how to do it. And I feel like as someone who’s middle-aged and works in Hollywood, I already feel like I don’t know what the next big thing is gonna be,...
The actress had plenty to play with in IFC Films‘ Skincare, which premieres Friday in theaters. It’s a true crime-inspired character study about a woman’s struggle to stay relevant in Hollywood and the dangerous lengths she’ll go to defend what she’s built — a role to which Banks “felt very connected.”
“I related to this sense of vulnerability, of feeling like the technology is going so fast that you can’t keep up with it, that there’s always gonna be a new fresh, useful way of doing things,” Banks tells Deadline. “And this woman just doesn’t know how to do it. And I feel like as someone who’s middle-aged and works in Hollywood, I already feel like I don’t know what the next big thing is gonna be,...
- 8/13/2024
- by Glenn Garner
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Fox is developing El Patio, a multi-camera comedy from writer Danny Fernandez (iCarly), Roselyn Sanchez and Eric Winter’s Two For The Road Entertainment, Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment and Fox Entertainment.
Written by Fernandez, El Patio follows a group of mostly Latin neighbors of all ages, races and walks of life, who welcome a new neighbor, Gabriel Suarez, into their small Miami apartment building. Gabriel, a Mexican-American from Texas, always knew that life in Miami would be different, but he never expected that his neighbors’ cultural differences would be an almost-constant source of conflict and comedy.
Fernandez executive produces with Kapital Entertainment’s Kaplan and Melanie Frankel. Sanchez and Winter executive produce via Two For The Road. Manuel Mendoza serves as co-producer. Kapital’s Jessie Abbott serves as creative executive. El Patio is a co-production of Fox Entertainment and Kapital Entertainment.
This marks the latest project to come...
Written by Fernandez, El Patio follows a group of mostly Latin neighbors of all ages, races and walks of life, who welcome a new neighbor, Gabriel Suarez, into their small Miami apartment building. Gabriel, a Mexican-American from Texas, always knew that life in Miami would be different, but he never expected that his neighbors’ cultural differences would be an almost-constant source of conflict and comedy.
Fernandez executive produces with Kapital Entertainment’s Kaplan and Melanie Frankel. Sanchez and Winter executive produce via Two For The Road. Manuel Mendoza serves as co-producer. Kapital’s Jessie Abbott serves as creative executive. El Patio is a co-production of Fox Entertainment and Kapital Entertainment.
This marks the latest project to come...
- 1/10/2023
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
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