The Rocketeer can be seen as Joe Johnston’s precursor to his introductory entry into the MCU with Captain America: The First Avenger. Both are World War II superheroes and sport a pretty seamless merging of modern blockbuster filmmaking with the classic tone associated with its story. The Rocketeer never quite reached Batman levels of popularity, but the Disney film has been looked back at with fond eyes over the years and amassed a cult following. Years ago, it was reported that Lawmen: Bass Reeves star David Oyelowo was set to star and produce a sequel to The Rocketeer involving a retired Tuskegee airman, which was to be titled The Return of the Rocketeer.
There hasn’t been much in the way of news since the initial announcement, but David Oyelowo gives an update on the project, by way of The Wrap. Oyelowo explained, “We have forward momentum. I know...
There hasn’t been much in the way of news since the initial announcement, but David Oyelowo gives an update on the project, by way of The Wrap. Oyelowo explained, “We have forward momentum. I know...
- 12/22/2023
- by EJ Tangonan
- JoBlo.com
Ready your rocket pack and dig out your best leather suit – David Oyelowo seems pretty positive about the direction his Rocketeer sequel is going.
David Oyelowo’s follow-up to Disney’s live-action original, The Rocketeer, was first announced in 2021 – and we’ve not heard much about it since. In a recent interview, though, Oyelowo offered a bit of an update on the current state of the project.
“We have forward momentum,” Oyelowo told TheWrap.
“I know you guys hear this stuff all the time, but we[‘re] in the script development stage and if you’re going to reinvigorate that beloved franchise, you better come with the goods. And so Eugene Ashe is currently writing away and we were talking about it only this week. We’re all very committed to that. But it’s going to have to be great and we will not rest until it is.”
The original film,...
David Oyelowo’s follow-up to Disney’s live-action original, The Rocketeer, was first announced in 2021 – and we’ve not heard much about it since. In a recent interview, though, Oyelowo offered a bit of an update on the current state of the project.
“We have forward momentum,” Oyelowo told TheWrap.
“I know you guys hear this stuff all the time, but we[‘re] in the script development stage and if you’re going to reinvigorate that beloved franchise, you better come with the goods. And so Eugene Ashe is currently writing away and we were talking about it only this week. We’re all very committed to that. But it’s going to have to be great and we will not rest until it is.”
The original film,...
- 12/21/2023
- by James Harvey
- Film Stories
On Friday night, Oprah Winfrey hosted a swanky celebration for “Lawmen: Bass Reeves” executive producer and star David Oyelowo at the Sunset Tower Hotel in West Hollywood.
Photographers lined the driveway of the iconic hotel while a who’s who of Hollywood — including Gayle King, Lupita Nyong’o, Niecy Nash-Betts and the cast of the hit Paramount+ series — posed in front of a black and gold backdrop. Inside the luxurious venue, even more stars — like Macro chief Charles D. King, Yvonne Orji, O-t Fagbenle, Anna Diop, Edwina Findley, Mykelti Williamson, Mo McRae, Eugene Ashe, Deon and Roxanne Taylor — mixed and mingled as the party took over the whole of the bar and pool area on a windy, yet starry night in Los Angeles. The affair felt more like a family reunion than an industry function, with Oyelowo joined by his wife (and Yoruba Saxon producing partner) Jessica Oyelowo and their children Asher,...
Photographers lined the driveway of the iconic hotel while a who’s who of Hollywood — including Gayle King, Lupita Nyong’o, Niecy Nash-Betts and the cast of the hit Paramount+ series — posed in front of a black and gold backdrop. Inside the luxurious venue, even more stars — like Macro chief Charles D. King, Yvonne Orji, O-t Fagbenle, Anna Diop, Edwina Findley, Mykelti Williamson, Mo McRae, Eugene Ashe, Deon and Roxanne Taylor — mixed and mingled as the party took over the whole of the bar and pool area on a windy, yet starry night in Los Angeles. The affair felt more like a family reunion than an industry function, with Oyelowo joined by his wife (and Yoruba Saxon producing partner) Jessica Oyelowo and their children Asher,...
- 12/4/2023
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
“Sylvie’s Love” filmmaker Eugene Ashe has been tapped to write “The Rocketeer” reboot at Disney+, The Wrap has exclusively learned.
David Oyelowo is attached to star and produce the project. The project is part of his and his wife’s two-year first-look deal with Disney.
Released in 1991, Disney’s “The Rocketeer” is a period superhero film that starred Billy Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, Alan Arkin, Timothy Dalton and the late Paul Sorvino. The film was directed by Joe Johnston (“Captain America: The First Avenger”), with breathtaking visual effects from Johnston’s alma mater Industrial Light & Magic and an unforgettable score by the late, great James Horner, that you can still hear in the background of some Disney theme parks.
“The Rockeeter” is based on the comic book character of the same name created by comic book artist and writer Dave Stevens, who first appeared as a back-up story in the pages...
David Oyelowo is attached to star and produce the project. The project is part of his and his wife’s two-year first-look deal with Disney.
Released in 1991, Disney’s “The Rocketeer” is a period superhero film that starred Billy Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, Alan Arkin, Timothy Dalton and the late Paul Sorvino. The film was directed by Joe Johnston (“Captain America: The First Avenger”), with breathtaking visual effects from Johnston’s alma mater Industrial Light & Magic and an unforgettable score by the late, great James Horner, that you can still hear in the background of some Disney theme parks.
“The Rockeeter” is based on the comic book character of the same name created by comic book artist and writer Dave Stevens, who first appeared as a back-up story in the pages...
- 10/11/2023
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Anonymous Content is elevating longtime literary managers and producers Ryan Cunningham, David Kanter and Nicole Romano to partner.
Cunningham joined Anonymous Content in 2019 from Madhouse Entertainment where he had been a manager and producer for a decade. On the management side, his clients include filmmakers Scott Beck & Bryan Woods (65), Derek Tsang (The Three Body Problem), Daniel Goldhaber and Isa Mazzei (How to Blow Up a Pipeline); showrunners and writers Steven DeKnight (Spartacus), Jewel Coronel (The Chi), Seamus Fahey (Walker: Independence) and Sonya Winton & Jonathan Kidd (Lovecraft Country), Darnell Metayer and Josh Peters (Transformers: Rise of the Beasts), Neil Uliano and Bryan Schulz (The Peanuts Movie), and Ben Queen (The Addams Family 2). Cunningham most recently produced the Sky/Relativity feature The Independent, and executive-produced Stephen King adaptation The Boogeyman, which will be released in June by 20th Century Studios and Disney.
Kanter is a producer and manager at Anonymous...
Cunningham joined Anonymous Content in 2019 from Madhouse Entertainment where he had been a manager and producer for a decade. On the management side, his clients include filmmakers Scott Beck & Bryan Woods (65), Derek Tsang (The Three Body Problem), Daniel Goldhaber and Isa Mazzei (How to Blow Up a Pipeline); showrunners and writers Steven DeKnight (Spartacus), Jewel Coronel (The Chi), Seamus Fahey (Walker: Independence) and Sonya Winton & Jonathan Kidd (Lovecraft Country), Darnell Metayer and Josh Peters (Transformers: Rise of the Beasts), Neil Uliano and Bryan Schulz (The Peanuts Movie), and Ben Queen (The Addams Family 2). Cunningham most recently produced the Sky/Relativity feature The Independent, and executive-produced Stephen King adaptation The Boogeyman, which will be released in June by 20th Century Studios and Disney.
Kanter is a producer and manager at Anonymous...
- 4/12/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
The latest in our series of under-appreciated films available to stream recalls 2020’s swoon-worthy throwback to 50s and 60s romances
When I first saw Eugene Ashe’s Sylvie’s Love at the Sundance film festival in January 2020, I remember not so much exiting the theater as floating. “That,” I said to anyone listening, “will surely be a smash, and end up swimming in Oscar nominations.”
Well, I was right to a degree on the first part – critics did praise the film – but the coronavirus pandemic nixed its theatrical release, and its end-of-year debut on Amazon Prime did not connect on a mainstream level as it should have.
When I first saw Eugene Ashe’s Sylvie’s Love at the Sundance film festival in January 2020, I remember not so much exiting the theater as floating. “That,” I said to anyone listening, “will surely be a smash, and end up swimming in Oscar nominations.”
Well, I was right to a degree on the first part – critics did praise the film – but the coronavirus pandemic nixed its theatrical release, and its end-of-year debut on Amazon Prime did not connect on a mainstream level as it should have.
- 2/14/2022
- by Jordan Hoffman
- The Guardian - Film News
Exclusive: Emmy winner Steve Buscemi has wrapped production on his newest feature The Listener, starring Emmy nominee Tessa Thompson, Deadline has learned.
The contained film written by Oscar nominee Alessandro Camon (The Messenger) features only one on-screen role. It tells the story of Beth (Thompson), a helpline volunteer who is part of the small army that gets on the phone every night across America, fielding calls from all kinds of people feeling lonely, broken, hopeless, worried.
Over the last year, the tide has become a tsunami, and as Beth goes through her shift, the stakes rise: is this the night she will lose someone? Save someone? Put a mind at ease? Make someone smile?
Eventually, Beth’s own story comes to light, revealing why she does it. All along we remain with her: listening, comforting, connecting – patching the world back together, one stitch at a time…...
The contained film written by Oscar nominee Alessandro Camon (The Messenger) features only one on-screen role. It tells the story of Beth (Thompson), a helpline volunteer who is part of the small army that gets on the phone every night across America, fielding calls from all kinds of people feeling lonely, broken, hopeless, worried.
Over the last year, the tide has become a tsunami, and as Beth goes through her shift, the stakes rise: is this the night she will lose someone? Save someone? Put a mind at ease? Make someone smile?
Eventually, Beth’s own story comes to light, revealing why she does it. All along we remain with her: listening, comforting, connecting – patching the world back together, one stitch at a time…...
- 10/12/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
From ‘Love Jones’ to ‘Brown Sugar’: 7 Black Romance Movies to Stream on Amazon Prime, Hulu, and More
All products and services featured by IndieWire are independently selected by IndieWire editors. However, IndieWire may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes.
Black romance in movies has evolved since the days of “Porgy and Bess,” “Carmen Jones,” or “Claudine,” but it’s safe to say that the ’90s and 2000s marked a particularly sweet spot for the genre. To celebrate romance movies that helped shape the perception of Black love onscreen in the last 25 years, we put together a list of seven essential films that you can stream on Amazon Prime, HBO Max, and Hulu.
See our roster of Black romance movies below, and for more recommendations be sure to read our monthly Criterion Collection picks and Spike Lee movies to watch.
“Love Jones”
Where to Stream: Amazon Prime
“Love Jones” is quintessential viewing for lovers of Black romance films.
Black romance in movies has evolved since the days of “Porgy and Bess,” “Carmen Jones,” or “Claudine,” but it’s safe to say that the ’90s and 2000s marked a particularly sweet spot for the genre. To celebrate romance movies that helped shape the perception of Black love onscreen in the last 25 years, we put together a list of seven essential films that you can stream on Amazon Prime, HBO Max, and Hulu.
See our roster of Black romance movies below, and for more recommendations be sure to read our monthly Criterion Collection picks and Spike Lee movies to watch.
“Love Jones”
Where to Stream: Amazon Prime
“Love Jones” is quintessential viewing for lovers of Black romance films.
- 9/23/2021
- by Latifah Muhammad
- Indiewire
Filmmaker Eugene Ashe had an unexpectedly revolutionary concept for his new feature film: a sweeping, high-glam love story about a Black couple in the 1960s that assiduously did not revolve around the civil rights movement or Black trauma. Meanwhile, NFL cornerback turned actor Nnamdi Asomugha was painstakingly looking for a breakout role, something so unique and challenging that he’d ultimately also sign on as a producer.
Amazon’s Sylvie’s Love united the pair’s formidable efforts — as well as those of leading lady Tessa Thompson — to create a refreshing romance that intentionally evokes the glossy melodrama of classic ...
Amazon’s Sylvie’s Love united the pair’s formidable efforts — as well as those of leading lady Tessa Thompson — to create a refreshing romance that intentionally evokes the glossy melodrama of classic ...
- 8/20/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Filmmaker Eugene Ashe had an unexpectedly revolutionary concept for his new feature film: a sweeping, high-glam love story about a Black couple in the 1960s that assiduously did not revolve around the civil rights movement or Black trauma. Meanwhile, NFL cornerback turned actor Nnamdi Asomugha was painstakingly looking for a breakout role, something so unique and challenging that he’d ultimately also sign on as a producer.
Amazon’s Sylvie’s Love united the pair’s formidable efforts — as well as those of leading lady Tessa Thompson — to create a refreshing romance that intentionally evokes the glossy melodrama of classic ...
Amazon’s Sylvie’s Love united the pair’s formidable efforts — as well as those of leading lady Tessa Thompson — to create a refreshing romance that intentionally evokes the glossy melodrama of classic ...
- 8/20/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Eugene Ashe’s romance drama Sylvie’s Love is a love letter to jazz, Motown music, and 1950s and 1960s Doris Day-like cinema. It is also Emmy-nominated for Outstanding Television Movie after it made its world premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.
Tessa Thompson stars as Sylvie, a young, affluent woman who falls in love with a jazz saxophonist, Robert Halloway (Nnamdi Asomugha), who’s not from her class. That’s an ongoing problem in their long-term relationship, not to mention their careers that separate them; Robert’s music taking him to Paris, and Sylvie finding a burgeoning career as a TV producer. However, love always finds a way.
“Something that the film does really well without being heavy handed is the way in which ideas of gender roles, how they were shifting at that time,” Thompson said during Amazon Prime Video’s panel for the movie at Deadline’s...
Tessa Thompson stars as Sylvie, a young, affluent woman who falls in love with a jazz saxophonist, Robert Halloway (Nnamdi Asomugha), who’s not from her class. That’s an ongoing problem in their long-term relationship, not to mention their careers that separate them; Robert’s music taking him to Paris, and Sylvie finding a burgeoning career as a TV producer. However, love always finds a way.
“Something that the film does really well without being heavy handed is the way in which ideas of gender roles, how they were shifting at that time,” Thompson said during Amazon Prime Video’s panel for the movie at Deadline’s...
- 8/15/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Deadline’s two-day Contenders Television: The Nominees continues Sunday morning, with the second half of our award-season gala presentations that total 34 shows and 117 speakers from 16 networks and studios. The panels highlighting this year’s Emmy-nominated shows launched Saturday with a focus on comedies, documentaries, reality and specials (read our print coverage here). Today, the lineup pivots to spotlight dramas, limited series and movies, with things getting underway at 9 a.m. Pt.
To watch today’s Contenders livestream, click here.
Yes, our well-established event is virtual again due to the ongoing pandemic, but the range of the participants and projects is a powerful testament to the breadth and depth of the best of TV in 2021.
In fact, Emmy history has already been made this year. Mj Rodriguez’s nomination for Pose marks the first lead acting nod for a trans performer. Bowen Yang has become the first Chinese-American man to be...
To watch today’s Contenders livestream, click here.
Yes, our well-established event is virtual again due to the ongoing pandemic, but the range of the participants and projects is a powerful testament to the breadth and depth of the best of TV in 2021.
In fact, Emmy history has already been made this year. Mj Rodriguez’s nomination for Pose marks the first lead acting nod for a trans performer. Bowen Yang has become the first Chinese-American man to be...
- 8/15/2021
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
In order to address the future, sometimes you need to delve into the past. Most of this year’s Emmy-nominated TV movies do exactly that, exploring themes of love, faith and friendship in order to heal harmful past narratives and home in on the humanity of their characters.
When Eugene Ashe was penning the script for “Sylvie’s Love,” the love story of a saxophonist and a young woman, starring Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha, for Amazon Prime Video, he specifically wanted to focus on the late 1950s and early 1960s, at the height of the civil rights movement. His goal was to highlight the humanity of Black leads during that time instead of the trauma so many other films have already tackled.
“We’re not represented that well. I wanted to go back and correct that,” Ashe says. “If I look at my family photo albums, I see depictions of...
When Eugene Ashe was penning the script for “Sylvie’s Love,” the love story of a saxophonist and a young woman, starring Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha, for Amazon Prime Video, he specifically wanted to focus on the late 1950s and early 1960s, at the height of the civil rights movement. His goal was to highlight the humanity of Black leads during that time instead of the trauma so many other films have already tackled.
“We’re not represented that well. I wanted to go back and correct that,” Ashe says. “If I look at my family photo albums, I see depictions of...
- 8/11/2021
- by Amber Dowling
- Variety Film + TV
Sylvie’s Love, which is currently streaming on Amazon, is a visually stunning love story centered around an ambitious woman (Tessa Thompson) and an up-and-coming saxophonist (Nnamdi Asomugha) who reconnect years after a sweet summer romance.
Amidst debates about whether projects steeped in Black trauma are necessary or exploitive, the Emmy-nominated film from Eugene Ashe offers something different: a beautiful celebration of Black love with a hopeful ending in which its young couple finds their way back to each other.
More from TVLineIs First Wives Club Worth Staying Committed? Grade the BET+ Drama's Season 2 Premiere!TVLine Items: L Word Season 2 Trailer,...
Amidst debates about whether projects steeped in Black trauma are necessary or exploitive, the Emmy-nominated film from Eugene Ashe offers something different: a beautiful celebration of Black love with a hopeful ending in which its young couple finds their way back to each other.
More from TVLineIs First Wives Club Worth Staying Committed? Grade the BET+ Drama's Season 2 Premiere!TVLine Items: L Word Season 2 Trailer,...
- 7/31/2021
- by Keisha Hatchett
- TVLine.com
Amazon Prime Video secured its first ever Emmy nominations in the main drama series category, with The Boys, and in limited series, with The Underground Railroad today plus a pair of noms in the TV movie category.
Jennifer Salke said she and her team were “jumping for joy” with the news, although she admitted that there was a tinge of disappointment given the surprising snub for Steve McQueen’s Small Axe.
The streamer didn’t compete on quantity with the likes of HBO (and HBO Max) or Netflix but Salke said its entry into these two main categories was a step in the right direction for its overall content strategy.
The company scored 18 nominations, including five noms for The Boys and seven noms for The Underground Railroad, plus one for a Blumhouse interactive project and an Alexa commercial.
“For us to be able to have these shows have the impact...
Jennifer Salke said she and her team were “jumping for joy” with the news, although she admitted that there was a tinge of disappointment given the surprising snub for Steve McQueen’s Small Axe.
The streamer didn’t compete on quantity with the likes of HBO (and HBO Max) or Netflix but Salke said its entry into these two main categories was a step in the right direction for its overall content strategy.
The company scored 18 nominations, including five noms for The Boys and seven noms for The Underground Railroad, plus one for a Blumhouse interactive project and an Alexa commercial.
“For us to be able to have these shows have the impact...
- 7/13/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
If Gold Derby’s predictions are true that “Sylvie’s Love” will win the Emmy for Best TV Movie, it would be a first for Amazon Prime Video. Previously the streamer contended once in this category for “King Lear” (2019), losing to Netflix’s “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.” The new telefilm stars Tessa Thompson as Sylvie, a 1950s record store worker who has dreams of becoming a television producer. She soon falls in love with Robert (Nnamdi Asomugha) and they begin a years-long, on-again/off-again relationship.
Director/producer Eugene Ashe also wrote the film that originally had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. That’s where Amazon acquired distribution rights, eventually releasing in on December 23, just in time for the holidays. At the Critics Choice Awards, “Sylvie’s Love” was nominated for Best TV Movie and Thompson for Best Actress. It also won the Image Award for Ashe for Best Director.
SEEAmazon...
Director/producer Eugene Ashe also wrote the film that originally had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. That’s where Amazon acquired distribution rights, eventually releasing in on December 23, just in time for the holidays. At the Critics Choice Awards, “Sylvie’s Love” was nominated for Best TV Movie and Thompson for Best Actress. It also won the Image Award for Ashe for Best Director.
SEEAmazon...
- 7/2/2021
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
This story about “Sylvie’s Love” and Eugene Ashe first appeared in the Limited Series & TV Movies issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine
When writer-director Eugene Ashe sat down to write “Sylvie’s Love,” his goal was to tell a good, original story — the kind that Black audiences don’t often get to see themselves in. But that story has been on quite the journey. Ashe wrote the screenplay about a romance in the New York City jazz scene of the 1950s and ’60s a few years ago, filmed it in February 2019 and premiered it at Sundance in January 2020, where Amazon Studios bought it for what was presumed to be a theatrical release.
In the end, though, the lush period film starring Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha dropped on Amazon Prime in a holiday season that followed a devastating year-long pandemic that was nowhere close to over. It was also released in...
When writer-director Eugene Ashe sat down to write “Sylvie’s Love,” his goal was to tell a good, original story — the kind that Black audiences don’t often get to see themselves in. But that story has been on quite the journey. Ashe wrote the screenplay about a romance in the New York City jazz scene of the 1950s and ’60s a few years ago, filmed it in February 2019 and premiered it at Sundance in January 2020, where Amazon Studios bought it for what was presumed to be a theatrical release.
In the end, though, the lush period film starring Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha dropped on Amazon Prime in a holiday season that followed a devastating year-long pandemic that was nowhere close to over. It was also released in...
- 6/17/2021
- by Andi Ortiz
- The Wrap
Eugene Ashe’s Sylvie’s Love was a gift from Amazon when the streamer released it during the December holidays. Aperiod old-school romancer starring Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha, the film was a nod to the Douglas Sirk-style romance movies of the 1950s and ’60s with one major difference: the leads are Black, which they almost never were during the period.
“I think Paris Blues was really the only one that had any Black leads at all, and if you look at the album covers from that time and you look at the music from that time, we were very much in play,” Ashe told Deadline recently during our Contenders TV panel. “But generally speaking, when we show that era with Black folks depicted in cinema, we’re primarily focusing on the civil rights movement and some sort of trauma or adversity that we were facing.”
“The idea,” he continued,...
“I think Paris Blues was really the only one that had any Black leads at all, and if you look at the album covers from that time and you look at the music from that time, we were very much in play,” Ashe told Deadline recently during our Contenders TV panel. “But generally speaking, when we show that era with Black folks depicted in cinema, we’re primarily focusing on the civil rights movement and some sort of trauma or adversity that we were facing.”
“The idea,” he continued,...
- 6/14/2021
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Writer-director Eugene Ashe was a successful musician before he started making films, a background evident in every exquisite frame of Sylvie’s Love. Not just because male lead Robert (Nnamdi Asomugha) is a saxophonist and the movie features the best jazz soundtrack since ’Round Midnight, and not just because female lead Sylvie (Tessa Thompson) begins the film working in her dad’s record store and has an encyclopedic knowledge of music and knows how to tailor recommendations to each customer. The musical influence goes beyond these considerations to inform every texture and detail of Ashe’s late ’50s-early ’60s set drama, a gloriously […]
The post “We Have to Get a 65-Piece Orchestra with Strings”: Eugene Ashe on Sylvie’s Love first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “We Have to Get a 65-Piece Orchestra with Strings”: Eugene Ashe on Sylvie’s Love first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 5/18/2021
- by Jim Hemphill
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Writer-director Eugene Ashe was a successful musician before he started making films, a background evident in every exquisite frame of Sylvie’s Love. Not just because male lead Robert (Nnamdi Asomugha) is a saxophonist and the movie features the best jazz soundtrack since ’Round Midnight, and not just because female lead Sylvie (Tessa Thompson) begins the film working in her dad’s record store and has an encyclopedic knowledge of music and knows how to tailor recommendations to each customer. The musical influence goes beyond these considerations to inform every texture and detail of Ashe’s late ’50s-early ’60s set drama, a gloriously […]
The post “We Have to Get a 65-Piece Orchestra with Strings”: Eugene Ashe on Sylvie’s Love first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “We Have to Get a 65-Piece Orchestra with Strings”: Eugene Ashe on Sylvie’s Love first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 5/18/2021
- by Jim Hemphill
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Deadline on Monday launched the streaming site for its Contenders Television awards-season event, which this past weekend shined a light on 49 buzzy scripted programs from 21 broadcast and cable networks and streamers in our biggest Contenders showcase yet.
Combined with the inaugural Contenders Television: Documentary + Unscripted event earlier this month, that’s almost 90 programs and 300 stars and creatives on offer discussing their projects as the TV kudos season hits full swing.
Click here for the Contenders Television streaming site.
This Saturday’s packed lineup included virtual panels featuring the likes of Barry Jenkins, Steve McQueen, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Sutton Foster, Michael Douglas, Nicole Kidman, Martin Freeman, Cynthia Erivo, Kate Mara, Phoebe Dynevor, Krista Vernoff, Billy Porter, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Anya Taylor-Joy, Hailee Steinfeld, Chris Rock, Tessa Thompson, Kaley Cuoco, David Weil, Eugene Ashe, Nnamdi Asomugha, Eric Kripke, Kenan Thompson, James Corden, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, Little Marvin, Elisabeth Moss,...
Combined with the inaugural Contenders Television: Documentary + Unscripted event earlier this month, that’s almost 90 programs and 300 stars and creatives on offer discussing their projects as the TV kudos season hits full swing.
Click here for the Contenders Television streaming site.
This Saturday’s packed lineup included virtual panels featuring the likes of Barry Jenkins, Steve McQueen, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Sutton Foster, Michael Douglas, Nicole Kidman, Martin Freeman, Cynthia Erivo, Kate Mara, Phoebe Dynevor, Krista Vernoff, Billy Porter, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Anya Taylor-Joy, Hailee Steinfeld, Chris Rock, Tessa Thompson, Kaley Cuoco, David Weil, Eugene Ashe, Nnamdi Asomugha, Eric Kripke, Kenan Thompson, James Corden, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, Little Marvin, Elisabeth Moss,...
- 5/17/2021
- by The Deadline Team
- Deadline Film + TV
Amazon flipped for Sylvie’s Love when the indie film played Sundance. In many ways it’s a throwback to the kind of romantic, sun-kissed movies Hollywood regularly once made, but with a twist. This one starring Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha has two Black leads doing the romancing, and outside of less than a handful of films in the 1950s and ’60s time period where it is set, that never happened in the Hollywood of that era.
Thompson and director-writer-producer Eugene Ashe joined Deadline’s Contenders Television awards-season event to talk about why now the time is ripe for Sylvie’s Love.
“You know, I’m a fan, like everyone else, of the films from that time, movies like Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and of course, you know, the Douglas Sirk movies,” Ashe said. “But I think Paris Blues was really the only one that had any Black leads at all,...
Thompson and director-writer-producer Eugene Ashe joined Deadline’s Contenders Television awards-season event to talk about why now the time is ripe for Sylvie’s Love.
“You know, I’m a fan, like everyone else, of the films from that time, movies like Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and of course, you know, the Douglas Sirk movies,” Ashe said. “But I think Paris Blues was really the only one that had any Black leads at all,...
- 5/15/2021
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
For a second year in a row, Deadline’s Contenders Television is going virtual, and we are about to take off with an astonishing 128 creatives and stars appearing in the all-day event that will feature a total of 21 networks and 49 shows. This again is the must-see happening of the TV awards season and it promises to be our biggest yet as we pull out all the stops to give voters a kind of one-stop shopping opportunity to check out the top contenders for TV’s highest awards.
To watch the livestream of today’s event, click here.
The magnitude of what is on offer in all facets of television means this Contenders opportunity has grown to become the largest of all of them that we do. Two weeks ago we launched our first separate Contenders Television: Documentary + Unscripted event to great response, and now beginning at 8 a.m. Pt we...
To watch the livestream of today’s event, click here.
The magnitude of what is on offer in all facets of television means this Contenders opportunity has grown to become the largest of all of them that we do. Two weeks ago we launched our first separate Contenders Television: Documentary + Unscripted event to great response, and now beginning at 8 a.m. Pt we...
- 5/15/2021
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
For a second year in a row, Deadline’s popular Contenders Television is going virtual, with an astonishing 129 creatives and stars set to appear in the all-day event Saturday, May 15 that features a total of 21 networks participating and 49 different shows. This is the must-see happening of the TV awards season and it promises to be our biggest yet as we pull out all the stops to give voters a kind of one-stop shopping opportunity to check out the top contenders for TV’s highest awards.
The magnitude of what is on offer in all facets of television means this Contenders opportunity has grown to become the largest of all of them that we do. Last weekend, we launched our first separate Contenders Television Documentary + Unscripted event to great response, and now we tackle the hopefuls in key competitive categories for Primetime recognition.
Studios participating on May 15 are ABC/Disney Television Studios,...
The magnitude of what is on offer in all facets of television means this Contenders opportunity has grown to become the largest of all of them that we do. Last weekend, we launched our first separate Contenders Television Documentary + Unscripted event to great response, and now we tackle the hopefuls in key competitive categories for Primetime recognition.
Studios participating on May 15 are ABC/Disney Television Studios,...
- 5/6/2021
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
This time last year, the Covid-19 pandemic was pausing productions and calling into question the ability of television series and talent to effectively campaign for Emmys, not only due to health and safety concerns, but also because of how it might look to be trying to celebrate amid so much death. Now, more than 365 days later, the pandemic is still not over and many of the changes implemented last year, including virtual FYC events, are in place once again. However, the 73rd annual Primetime Emmy Awards season won’t be a complete repeat of last year, so Variety is breaking down what is new and notable for the state of the season so far.
Calendar Consistency
Although many productions had on- and off-again production schedules throughout the year, the Television Academy is back to its original schedule of important dates for FYC season, most importantly marking 6 p.m. on May...
Calendar Consistency
Although many productions had on- and off-again production schedules throughout the year, the Television Academy is back to its original schedule of important dates for FYC season, most importantly marking 6 p.m. on May...
- 4/21/2021
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
News that “Bridgerton” star Regé-Jean Page will not appear in the upcoming second season set the internet aflame on Friday.
“It’s a one-season arc. It’s going to have a beginning, middle, end — give us a year,” Page, who played Simon Basset, the Duke of Hastings, told Variety exclusively, recounting early conversations with Shondaland producers. “[I thought] ‘That’s interesting,’ because then it felt like a limited series. I get to come in, I get to contribute my bit and then the Bridgerton family rolls on.”
In the spirit of “rolling on,” viewers have another burning question: What’s Page doing next?
The actor has a relatively full dance card, having nabbed roles in a couple of high-profile films, including the Russo brothers’ “The Gray Man.” Page recently wrapped filming on the Netflix spy thriller starring Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans. Rounding out the big-budget project’s starry ensemble are Billy Bob Thornton,...
“It’s a one-season arc. It’s going to have a beginning, middle, end — give us a year,” Page, who played Simon Basset, the Duke of Hastings, told Variety exclusively, recounting early conversations with Shondaland producers. “[I thought] ‘That’s interesting,’ because then it felt like a limited series. I get to come in, I get to contribute my bit and then the Bridgerton family rolls on.”
In the spirit of “rolling on,” viewers have another burning question: What’s Page doing next?
The actor has a relatively full dance card, having nabbed roles in a couple of high-profile films, including the Russo brothers’ “The Gray Man.” Page recently wrapped filming on the Netflix spy thriller starring Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans. Rounding out the big-budget project’s starry ensemble are Billy Bob Thornton,...
- 4/2/2021
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
“Bridgerton” fans, the time has come to bid adieu to Simon Basset, the Duke of Hastings.
Netflix and Shondaland announced on Friday that star Regé-Jean Page’s character will not appear on the show’s upcoming second season, revealing the news via a notice from Lady Whistledown.
“Dear Readers, while all eyes turn to Lord Anthony Bridgerton’s quest to find a Viscountess, we bid adieu to Regé-Jean Page, who so triumphantly played the Duke of Hastings,” the message began.
“We’ll miss Simon’s presence onscreen, but he will always be a part of the Bridgerton family,” it continued. “Daphne will remain a devoted wife and sister, helping her brother navigate the upcoming social season and what it has to offer – more intrigue and romance than my readers may be able to bear.”
News of the duke’s departure will likely not come as a surprise to fans of...
Netflix and Shondaland announced on Friday that star Regé-Jean Page’s character will not appear on the show’s upcoming second season, revealing the news via a notice from Lady Whistledown.
“Dear Readers, while all eyes turn to Lord Anthony Bridgerton’s quest to find a Viscountess, we bid adieu to Regé-Jean Page, who so triumphantly played the Duke of Hastings,” the message began.
“We’ll miss Simon’s presence onscreen, but he will always be a part of the Bridgerton family,” it continued. “Daphne will remain a devoted wife and sister, helping her brother navigate the upcoming social season and what it has to offer – more intrigue and romance than my readers may be able to bear.”
News of the duke’s departure will likely not come as a surprise to fans of...
- 4/2/2021
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
Photo: ‘Sylvie’s Love’/Amazon Studios The most emphatic advice one can give to a filmmaker in our current day and age is simple: Don’t try and reinvent the wheel. Everything has been said and done before, “the last original thought was written by Shakespeare,” so why try and act like something is brand new? Write what you know about, write it passionately, and that’s the story that Hollywood audiences will give their resounding applause to. All of this advice is true, to a certain extent. Remakes and unnecessary sequels flood the Cinematic market, leaving a bad taste in everyone’s mouth and prompting many to believe that whatever golden age of Hollywood has managed to persist for so long has finally died. However, I believe there is one very important reason to tell another story that one might already be familiar with- diversity. ‘Sylvie’s Love’, directed by Black filmmaker and writer Eugene Ashe,...
- 1/4/2021
- by Jordyn McEvoy
- Hollywood Insider - Substance & Meaningful Entertainment
More Golden Globes category placements and shifts have occurred that will factor into this year’s Oscar race.
Variety has learned exclusively that Stanley Tucci’s performance in Harry Macqueen’s “Supernova” has been rejected for best supporting actor in a motion picture and has been moved to the best actor in a motion picture (drama) category, alongside his co-star Colin Firth.
“Supernova,” tells the love story of Sam (Firth) and Tusker (Tucci), who travel across England in their old Rv to visit friends, family and places from their past, following two years after Tusker’s dementia diagnosis.
Bleecker Street has been campaigning the 60-year-old actor in the supporting category for the Academy Awards. With the lead actor race stacked and competing for votes against his co-star, his chances for a nomination at the Globes have decreased greatly. For the SAG awards, the group honors the studio’s submission and...
Variety has learned exclusively that Stanley Tucci’s performance in Harry Macqueen’s “Supernova” has been rejected for best supporting actor in a motion picture and has been moved to the best actor in a motion picture (drama) category, alongside his co-star Colin Firth.
“Supernova,” tells the love story of Sam (Firth) and Tusker (Tucci), who travel across England in their old Rv to visit friends, family and places from their past, following two years after Tusker’s dementia diagnosis.
Bleecker Street has been campaigning the 60-year-old actor in the supporting category for the Academy Awards. With the lead actor race stacked and competing for votes against his co-star, his chances for a nomination at the Globes have decreased greatly. For the SAG awards, the group honors the studio’s submission and...
- 1/3/2021
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
In the latest episode of Rolling Stone’s The First Time, Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha from the movie Sylvie’s Love kick things off by discussing their initial reading of the script and what drew them to the film.
“I just remember listening to all the songs in the script, so it felt like a musical experience,” Thompson recalls. “I would pause it, play the song, and then continue reading with the song. So I remember it musically actually, which makes sense because I feel like the film is partially...
“I just remember listening to all the songs in the script, so it felt like a musical experience,” Thompson recalls. “I would pause it, play the song, and then continue reading with the song. So I remember it musically actually, which makes sense because I feel like the film is partially...
- 12/28/2020
- by Adisa Duke
- Rollingstone.com
Sylvie's Love director/writer Eugene Ashe talks about his romantic drama set in the 50s starring Tessa Thompson, Nnamdi Asomugha and Eva Longoria. Think LA LA Land or An Affair To Remember but with black leads. Ashe talks about the Amazon Prime movie and why his film is not revisionist history rather it focuses on a love story set in the past with successful black characters.
- 12/27/2020
- by luperhaas@cinemovie.tv (Lupe R Haas)
- CineMovie
Sylvie & Gold: Ashe Formats an Affair to Remember in Warm Retro Melodrama
Utilizing the once familiar template of the studio staples referred to as ‘women’s pictures’ from the 1940s and 1950s Hollywood era, musician-turned-director Eugene Ashe revitalizes its potential in the sumptuously formatted Sylvie’s Love, a Harlem set story of compromised romance amidst dreams of music and television.
Like Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie, it’s a mildly tempestuous tale of sacrificing love for the sake of artistic expression and features Tessa Thompson as the titular protagonist, representing a composite of at least two of the three icons Ashe features in the end credit dedication.…...
Utilizing the once familiar template of the studio staples referred to as ‘women’s pictures’ from the 1940s and 1950s Hollywood era, musician-turned-director Eugene Ashe revitalizes its potential in the sumptuously formatted Sylvie’s Love, a Harlem set story of compromised romance amidst dreams of music and television.
Like Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie, it’s a mildly tempestuous tale of sacrificing love for the sake of artistic expression and features Tessa Thompson as the titular protagonist, representing a composite of at least two of the three icons Ashe features in the end credit dedication.…...
- 12/25/2020
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
The title card that opens writer-director Eugene Ashe’s Sylvie’s Love (now streaming on Amazon) informs us that we’re in New York City, in 1962. That announcement quickly becomes superfluous, however — as soon as you hear Nancy Wilson’s version of “The Nearness of You” over vintage yellow cabs whizzing by old-school cafeterias, cigar shops and the Canadian Club sign in Times Square, along with the sight of Tessa Thompson looking positively radiant in a radioactively blue evening gown, you know exactly where and when you are. If nothing else,...
- 12/24/2020
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Once upon a time when filmmaking was a far more earnest affair, this is the way romantic drama would have been imagined. I say imagined because Sylvie's Love takes the essential template of the grand old Hollywood romance and gives it a new-age twist. The film is still the same love story, but with coloured protagonists reorganising the socio-politics of the genre.
Whiff of jazz, smoke-filled nightclubs and flashy vintage cars cruising past Times Square -- New York in the summer of 1957 looks impressive on screen as Robert (Nnamdi Asomugha) the saxophonist spends his nights in clubs, playing as part of a jazz quartet. He takes up a part-time job in a record store.
Sylvie (Tessa Thompson), the store owner's daughter, dreams of a career in television production -- something that's not an easy deal in America of the fifties. She hangs around at the store helping her father, waiting...
Whiff of jazz, smoke-filled nightclubs and flashy vintage cars cruising past Times Square -- New York in the summer of 1957 looks impressive on screen as Robert (Nnamdi Asomugha) the saxophonist spends his nights in clubs, playing as part of a jazz quartet. He takes up a part-time job in a record store.
Sylvie (Tessa Thompson), the store owner's daughter, dreams of a career in television production -- something that's not an easy deal in America of the fifties. She hangs around at the store helping her father, waiting...
- 12/24/2020
- by Glamsham Editorial
- GlamSham
Going to a movie theater this holiday season might be out of the question for most Americans, but fortunately you don’t have to leave the house to see some of the biggest Christmas movie releases.
Among the films coming out just in time to spread some Christmas cheer are “News of the World,” “Wonder Woman 1984,” “Promising Young Woman” and “The Midnight Sky,” just to name a few.
In the interest of being thorough, we’ll note some films are for some reason debuting this week in theaters only, with eventual home video release Tbd. We’ve included them below, but of course we want to remind you that Covid-19 has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans, and theaters across the country are being shut down due to the risk of spreading the disease. So, we urge you to keep that in mind before you decide to sit in...
Among the films coming out just in time to spread some Christmas cheer are “News of the World,” “Wonder Woman 1984,” “Promising Young Woman” and “The Midnight Sky,” just to name a few.
In the interest of being thorough, we’ll note some films are for some reason debuting this week in theaters only, with eventual home video release Tbd. We’ve included them below, but of course we want to remind you that Covid-19 has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans, and theaters across the country are being shut down due to the risk of spreading the disease. So, we urge you to keep that in mind before you decide to sit in...
- 12/24/2020
- by Samson Amore
- The Wrap
It’s hard not to feel bittersweet when watching “Sylvie’s Love,” the Eugene Ashe-directed romantic drama available now on Amazon Prime Video. The story is familiar: Tessa Thompson plays the titled heroine living in 1950s Harlem, torn between following societal expectations, living her dreams of being a television producer, or maintaining a relationship with a talented jazz musician (played by Nnamdi Asomugha). However, to watch its fully lived-in and elegant creation of the 1950s is to imagine it existing in the time period it’s set. Had Hollywood been more inclusive, this could have been a starring vehicle for Dorothy Dandridge.
Thompson herself is often compared to the great Black actresses of the past: Diahann Carroll, Lena Horne, and the aforementioned Dandridge. But in talking to Thompson she’s shocked to hear it. “This is the first time I’m hearing this,” she laughingly toldIndieWire. “I’m flattered; I...
Thompson herself is often compared to the great Black actresses of the past: Diahann Carroll, Lena Horne, and the aforementioned Dandridge. But in talking to Thompson she’s shocked to hear it. “This is the first time I’m hearing this,” she laughingly toldIndieWire. “I’m flattered; I...
- 12/23/2020
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
Written and directed by Emerald Fennell (Killing Eve), the Focus Features dramatic thriller Promising Young Woman has been a buzzy awards season title before its Christmas Day theatrical release. The Los Angeles Film Critics Association named Carey Mulligan Best Actress for her turn as the methodical Cassie who is out for revenge while Fennell received honors for Best Screenplay. The writer-director was also awarded the Milos Stehlik Breakthrough Filmmaker Award from the Chicago Film Critics.
The film, which made its world premiere at Sundance earlier this year, serves a different flavor of revenge. We are introduced to Cassie, who works as a barista after her future in medicine was derailed. She definitely does not take any B.S. from anyone and is unfiltered to anyone and everyone. Little do her friends and family know, she leads a double life as a woman who makes toxic men pay for their horrific behavior against women.
The film, which made its world premiere at Sundance earlier this year, serves a different flavor of revenge. We are introduced to Cassie, who works as a barista after her future in medicine was derailed. She definitely does not take any B.S. from anyone and is unfiltered to anyone and everyone. Little do her friends and family know, she leads a double life as a woman who makes toxic men pay for their horrific behavior against women.
- 12/23/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Much like its “will they, won’t they” plotline, the road to release for “Sylvie’s Love” has been its own brand of love rollercoaster. From filming on beaches and soundstages in Los Angeles (doubling as New York) to launching the film with a Covid-safe, yet romantic drive-in premiere in Malibu, Calif., stars Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha, and writer-director Eugene Ashe share how they pulled off the classic romance amid modern challenges.
“You’ve got to understand how difficult it is to make a movie. It’s extremely difficult, especially an independent film, when you don’t have a studio backing [it],” Asomugha tells Variety. “It’s a bit of a miracle that we’re at this point. Now, there’s a chance to sit back and see how it touches people’s lives.”
At its heart, “Sylvie’s Love” is a love story for the purists — a tale of boy meets...
“You’ve got to understand how difficult it is to make a movie. It’s extremely difficult, especially an independent film, when you don’t have a studio backing [it],” Asomugha tells Variety. “It’s a bit of a miracle that we’re at this point. Now, there’s a chance to sit back and see how it touches people’s lives.”
At its heart, “Sylvie’s Love” is a love story for the purists — a tale of boy meets...
- 12/23/2020
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
Whether or not it’s a result of the backlash against “La La Land” and its white-savior-of-jazz subplot, black filmmakers seem to be having a moment to reclaim jazz narratives for themselves, from Kemp Powers co-directing Pixar’s “Soul” to Eugene Ashe writing and directing “Sylvie’s Love,” a gorgeous new romance set against the backdrop of jazz and television, two of America’s most dominant artforms of the 1950s.
Ashe isn’t rewriting the love story, but he has steeped it with old-school glamour, making the kind of sumptuous saga of aching, star-crossed romance that Ross Hunter might have produced in his 1960s glory days if Hollywood had been ready to populate such a film with an all-Black cast. Between the scorching chemistry of leads Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha and the glorious mid-century outfits, hair, décor and cars on display, “Sylvie’s Love” is a delectable valentine.
When Sylvie (Thompson) and Robert meet,...
Ashe isn’t rewriting the love story, but he has steeped it with old-school glamour, making the kind of sumptuous saga of aching, star-crossed romance that Ross Hunter might have produced in his 1960s glory days if Hollywood had been ready to populate such a film with an all-Black cast. Between the scorching chemistry of leads Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha and the glorious mid-century outfits, hair, décor and cars on display, “Sylvie’s Love” is a delectable valentine.
When Sylvie (Thompson) and Robert meet,...
- 12/22/2020
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
They don’t make ’em like this anymore, but then again, they never really did. An unfailingly sincere melodrama that’s as warm and old-fashioned as someone draping their cardigan over a pair of cold shoulders on a cold August night, “Sylvie’s Love” is such a straightforward throwback to the Sirkian “women’s pictures” Hollywood used to churn out for white housewives that it’s difficult to say what’s more delightfully jarring about it: That a dead genre has been given resurrected for the kind of Black period love story that it was never allowed to tell, or that writer-director Eugene Ashe has done so without even the slightest wink of irony.
Superficial comparisons to “La La Land” might be inevitable considering the film’s star-crossed shape and bebop-obsessed male lead (brace for another one of those guys who isn’t sure if he needs to save jazz or...
Superficial comparisons to “La La Land” might be inevitable considering the film’s star-crossed shape and bebop-obsessed male lead (brace for another one of those guys who isn’t sure if he needs to save jazz or...
- 12/22/2020
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Sometimes you just need a bit of romance to cheer you up, and that is delivered – and then some – in Eugene Ashe’s beautiful period drama Sylvie’s Love, a film full of love and music. What more could you want at Christmas? To mark the film’s release we had the pleasure of speaking to the star-crossed lovers at the heart of this narrative in Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha, and also the director himself, Eugene Ashe. Be sure to watch both of these interviews in their entirety below, and to catch this film upon release. If you like love and/or music, you won’t regret it.
Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha
Eugene Ashe
Synopsis
Sylvie has a summer romance with a saxophonist who takes a summer job at her father’s record store in Harlem. When they reconnect years later, they discover that their feelings for each other...
Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha
Eugene Ashe
Synopsis
Sylvie has a summer romance with a saxophonist who takes a summer job at her father’s record store in Harlem. When they reconnect years later, they discover that their feelings for each other...
- 12/22/2020
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Sylvie’s Love, the upcoming Amazon romance feature starring Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha, made its big-screen debut on Sunday night with a drive-in screening at Malibu’s Calamigos Ranch.
The film follows star-crossed lovers Sylvie (Thompson) and Robert (Asomugha) in 1950s Harlem, after finding love one summer and being torn apart by their career aspirations, only to reconnect years later.
The two stars, along with writer and director Eugene Ashe, were on hand to present the movie, with Asomugha, who was also a producer on the project, saying, “When we first made the film, the dream was for it to ...
The film follows star-crossed lovers Sylvie (Thompson) and Robert (Asomugha) in 1950s Harlem, after finding love one summer and being torn apart by their career aspirations, only to reconnect years later.
The two stars, along with writer and director Eugene Ashe, were on hand to present the movie, with Asomugha, who was also a producer on the project, saying, “When we first made the film, the dream was for it to ...
- 12/21/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sylvie’s Love, the upcoming Amazon romance feature starring Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha, made its big-screen debut on Sunday night with a drive-in screening at Malibu’s Calamigos Ranch.
The film follows star-crossed lovers Sylvie (Thompson) and Robert (Asomugha) in 1950s Harlem, after finding love one summer and being torn apart by their career aspirations, only to reconnect years later.
The two stars, along with writer and director Eugene Ashe, were on hand to present the movie, with Asomugha, who was also a producer on the project, saying, “When we first made the film, the dream was for it to ...
The film follows star-crossed lovers Sylvie (Thompson) and Robert (Asomugha) in 1950s Harlem, after finding love one summer and being torn apart by their career aspirations, only to reconnect years later.
The two stars, along with writer and director Eugene Ashe, were on hand to present the movie, with Asomugha, who was also a producer on the project, saying, “When we first made the film, the dream was for it to ...
- 12/21/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Nnamdi Asomugha doesn’t just star as a saxophone player in “Sylvie’s Love,” writer-director Eugene Ashe’s new romantic drama with Tessa Thompson. He actually knows how to play the instrument, too. Asomugha took lessons for about a year before filming began.
“I really learned how to play it,” Asomugha says on the latest episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast “The Big Ticket.” “I watched a lot of documentaries on jazz…I watched a lot of Cole Train on YouTube and Sonny Rollins. I just really had to figure out how to not just to play the instrument, but also how to carry myself.”
This wasn’t his first time learning how to play music. He took piano lessons when he was a child growing up in Los Angeles. But those dreams were dashed when he was 13 and his football coach shamed him in front of his teammates after...
“I really learned how to play it,” Asomugha says on the latest episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast “The Big Ticket.” “I watched a lot of documentaries on jazz…I watched a lot of Cole Train on YouTube and Sonny Rollins. I just really had to figure out how to not just to play the instrument, but also how to carry myself.”
This wasn’t his first time learning how to play music. He took piano lessons when he was a child growing up in Los Angeles. But those dreams were dashed when he was 13 and his football coach shamed him in front of his teammates after...
- 12/15/2020
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
In Sylvie’S Love, the jazz is smooth and the air sultry in the hot New York summer of 1957. Robert (Nnamdi Asomugha), a saxophonist, spends late nights playing behind a less-talented but well-known bandleader, as member of a jazz quartet. Sylvie (Tessa Thompson), who dreams of a career in television, spends her summer days helping around her father’s record store, as she waits for her fiancé to return from war. When Robert takes a part-time job at the record store, the two begin a friendship that sparks a deep passion in each of them unlike anything they have felt before. As the summer winds down, life takes them in different directions, bringing their relationship to an end. Years pass, Sylvie’s career as a TV producer blossoms, while Robert has to come to terms with what the age of Motown is doing to the popularity of Jazz. In a chance meeting,...
- 12/11/2020
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Amazon’s new film “Sylvie’s Love” opens with a shot of Sylvie (Tessa Thompson) wearing an eye-poppingly blue dress in 1960s New York. “This scene was the director’s obsession,” costume designer Phoenix Mellow reveals about director/producer/writer Eugene Ashe in Gold Derby’s exclusive TV Costume Designers Panel (watch above). “He talked about this the moment that we met about the project, and also reading the script you know that the way that it’s written just has that ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ moment, where you’re just waiting to see the hero.”
SEE2021 Golden Globes TV predictions
Mellow discusses the “impact” of Sylvie’s introduction on screen in that blue dress, noting, “We were planning on making it but it just wasn’t the right blue that I wanted — it didn’t have a punch. Weirdly, on the truck that same day the dress had gone missing.
SEE2021 Golden Globes TV predictions
Mellow discusses the “impact” of Sylvie’s introduction on screen in that blue dress, noting, “We were planning on making it but it just wasn’t the right blue that I wanted — it didn’t have a punch. Weirdly, on the truck that same day the dress had gone missing.
- 12/8/2020
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
Amazon Prime Video has released a new teaser trailer for the Christmas romantic film ‘Sylvie’s Love’ featuring Tessa Thompson.
In Sylvie’s Love, the jazz is smooth and the air sultry in the hot New York summer of 1957. Robert (Nnamdi Asomugha), a saxophonist, spends late nights playing behind a less-talented but well-known bandleader, as member of a jazz quartet. Sylvie (Tessa Thompson), who dreams of a career in television, spends her summer days helping around her father’s record store, as she waits for her fiancé to return from war.
When Robert takes a part-time job at the record store, the two begin a friendship that sparks a deep passion in each of them, unlike anything they have felt before. As the summer winds down, life takes them in different directions, bringing their relationship to an end. Years pass, Sylvie’s career as a TV producer blossoms, while Robert has to...
In Sylvie’s Love, the jazz is smooth and the air sultry in the hot New York summer of 1957. Robert (Nnamdi Asomugha), a saxophonist, spends late nights playing behind a less-talented but well-known bandleader, as member of a jazz quartet. Sylvie (Tessa Thompson), who dreams of a career in television, spends her summer days helping around her father’s record store, as she waits for her fiancé to return from war.
When Robert takes a part-time job at the record store, the two begin a friendship that sparks a deep passion in each of them, unlike anything they have felt before. As the summer winds down, life takes them in different directions, bringing their relationship to an end. Years pass, Sylvie’s career as a TV producer blossoms, while Robert has to...
- 12/1/2020
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
When period looks onscreen seem effortless, it reflects the mastery of the craft. In “Sylvie’s Love,” set for release on Christmas Day via Amazon Studios, the artisans’ extensive research behind Tessa Thompson’s ’50s and ’60s hair, makeup and styling remain unnoticeable.
Costumes worn by the titular Sylvie were heavily inspired by the iconic 1950s outfits worn by Audrey Hepburn, said designer Phoenix Mellow during Wednesday night’s virtual screening and Q&a from Amazon Studios. Mellow shared that her favorite look for Sylvie is, in fact, the tailored blue dress from Chanel, the brand adored by Hepburn in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.”
According to hair designer Carla Farmer, Thompson’s bob cut with short bangs for scenes set in the ’50s was also inspired by Hepburn. To capture change over time, Farmer styled Thompson’s shoulder-length hair for scenes set in the ’60s, giving it extra volume and curls.
When executing these detailed looks,...
Costumes worn by the titular Sylvie were heavily inspired by the iconic 1950s outfits worn by Audrey Hepburn, said designer Phoenix Mellow during Wednesday night’s virtual screening and Q&a from Amazon Studios. Mellow shared that her favorite look for Sylvie is, in fact, the tailored blue dress from Chanel, the brand adored by Hepburn in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.”
According to hair designer Carla Farmer, Thompson’s bob cut with short bangs for scenes set in the ’50s was also inspired by Hepburn. To capture change over time, Farmer styled Thompson’s shoulder-length hair for scenes set in the ’60s, giving it extra volume and curls.
When executing these detailed looks,...
- 11/19/2020
- by Janet W. Lee
- Variety Film + TV
The awards landscape is saturated with multiple voting bodies and critics groups naming their favorite movies of the year. As is tradition, the IFP Gotham Awards will be the first to reveal its nominations on Nov. 12, celebrating its 30th anniversary. In the past, the group has been a viable launching pad for films that have gone on to win best picture at the Oscars such as “Birdman,” “Spotlight” and “Moonlight.” IFP is planning a hybrid show at its usual Cipriani Wall Street venue in January.
With the Covid-19 pandemic decimating the movie industry, the Gotham Awards will take on an even more important role this year in establishing the narrative for a very unusual award season.
“Welcoming everyone back to New York is an important message to send,” IFP executive director Jeff Sharp tells me. “No one is sitting around twiddling their thumbs. It’s a remarkable time to sell...
With the Covid-19 pandemic decimating the movie industry, the Gotham Awards will take on an even more important role this year in establishing the narrative for a very unusual award season.
“Welcoming everyone back to New York is an important message to send,” IFP executive director Jeff Sharp tells me. “No one is sitting around twiddling their thumbs. It’s a remarkable time to sell...
- 11/5/2020
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Chicago – The 56th Chicago International Film Festival (Ciff) is virtual and online Right Now, so go download some movies! This is your last chance for Industry Days (through October 18th), where you can rub virtual elbows with some of the movers and shakers in the film industry here in Chicago.
..and nationally/internationally. All the information to “sit in” on the events is available by clicking here.
The 56th Chicago International Film Festival Celebrates The Weekend. On Saturday, October 17th, the Drive In is showing “Ammonite” (click here). On Sunday, October 18th, the Drive in showing “The Road Up” (click here).
Appearances Of The Day:
Friday, October 16th 7:00pm: “For Madmen Only” … Livestream Q&a with actor James Urbaniak and director Heather Ross. Suggested streaming start time, 5:20pm. 9:00pm: “Finding Yingying” … Livestream Q&a with director Jiayan “Jenny” Shi, producer Brent E. Huffman and cinematographer Shilin Sun.
..and nationally/internationally. All the information to “sit in” on the events is available by clicking here.
The 56th Chicago International Film Festival Celebrates The Weekend. On Saturday, October 17th, the Drive In is showing “Ammonite” (click here). On Sunday, October 18th, the Drive in showing “The Road Up” (click here).
Appearances Of The Day:
Friday, October 16th 7:00pm: “For Madmen Only” … Livestream Q&a with actor James Urbaniak and director Heather Ross. Suggested streaming start time, 5:20pm. 9:00pm: “Finding Yingying” … Livestream Q&a with director Jiayan “Jenny” Shi, producer Brent E. Huffman and cinematographer Shilin Sun.
- 10/16/2020
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.