Should you find yourself in the mood for a feel-bad movie, you would do well to give "Blue Valentine" a look. True to its name, Derek Cianfrance's 2010 romantic drama stars Ryan Gosling as Dean Pereira, an easygoing young blue-collar worker who falls for a driven pre-med student named Cindy Heller (Michelle Williams), wooing her with his laid-back charm and ukulele playing. Five years later, however, the two have aged into an unhappy married couple. Dean spends his days chugging back beers in-between painting houses and helping raise their daughter. His lack of ambition and childlike outlook is now a source of tension between him and Cindy, who is actively trying to advance in her career as a nurse.
Williams could certainly relate to Cindy's feelings of being stuck and unfulfilled. She was 21 when she read Cianfrance's script but had to wait six years to make the film while the...
Williams could certainly relate to Cindy's feelings of being stuck and unfulfilled. She was 21 when she read Cianfrance's script but had to wait six years to make the film while the...
- 1/12/2023
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
Exclusive: In a competitive situation, NBC has landed drama Family History with a script commitment plus sizable penalty. The project hails from The Resident co-executive producer Marqui Jackson, Imagine Television Studios and CBS Studios where Imagine has a TV deal.
Written by Jackson, in Family History, the Vincents, a family of African-American doctors, buy the inner-city hospital where they lost one of their own in order to better serve their community, but long-buried family secrets rise to the surface and threaten to tear them apart.
Jackson executive produces with Imagine principal Brian Grazer and TV president Samie Kim Falvey. CBS Studios produces with Imagine Television Studios. Jillian Kugler and Nicole Scott are the Imagine executives on the project.
Jackson is currently in his third season on Fox’s The Resident as a co-executive producer. Previously, he wrote for both seasons of Rosewood for Fox/20th. Jackson has also written on House,...
Written by Jackson, in Family History, the Vincents, a family of African-American doctors, buy the inner-city hospital where they lost one of their own in order to better serve their community, but long-buried family secrets rise to the surface and threaten to tear them apart.
Jackson executive produces with Imagine principal Brian Grazer and TV president Samie Kim Falvey. CBS Studios produces with Imagine Television Studios. Jillian Kugler and Nicole Scott are the Imagine executives on the project.
Jackson is currently in his third season on Fox’s The Resident as a co-executive producer. Previously, he wrote for both seasons of Rosewood for Fox/20th. Jackson has also written on House,...
- 10/20/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Roy Cohn had always been a haunting presence in filmmaker Ivy Meeropol’s life, but the full extent of his existence was only apparent after she watched Meryl Streep play her grandmother, Ethel Rosenberg, in HBO’s 2003 “Angels in America.” “I think seeing the film made me finally connect emotionally to my human story, and this was a story I needed to tell,” Meeropol says. “I could do something no one else could because of my family history.”
The result is the documentary “Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn,” which debuts June 19 on HBO.
Cohn was one of the most ruthless lawyers in American history — working with Sen. Joe McCarthy during the anti-Communist Army-McCarthy hearings of the 1950s. Cohn was also responsible, with McCarthy, for creating the Lavender scare of the ’50s, leading the government to repress and purge itself of homosexual people. And he pushed hard for...
The result is the documentary “Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn,” which debuts June 19 on HBO.
Cohn was one of the most ruthless lawyers in American history — working with Sen. Joe McCarthy during the anti-Communist Army-McCarthy hearings of the 1950s. Cohn was also responsible, with McCarthy, for creating the Lavender scare of the ’50s, leading the government to repress and purge itself of homosexual people. And he pushed hard for...
- 6/12/2020
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
"Every era has an opportunist." HBO has debuted an official trailer for a documentary titled in full Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn, which premiered at last year's New York Film Festival. This is the second big Roy Cohn documentary recently, the other is Where's My Roy Cohn? from last year. This thorough and mesmerizing doc takes an appropriately unflinching look at the life and death of Roy Cohn, the closeted, conservative American lawyer whose first job out of law school was prosecuting filmmaker Ivy Meeropol's grandparents, Julius & Ethel Rosenberg. This is not merely a depiction of a brutal, ideologically diseased man – it's an interrogatory work in search of the true character behind an icon of the political right in a deeply troubled America. It features interviews with Cindy Adams, Alan Dershowitz, Tony Kushner, Nathan Lane, John Waters, and a trove of fascinating, recently unearthed archive video.
- 6/9/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Netflix has acquired a new documentary about the Boeing 737 Max disasters from noted filmmaker Rory Kennedy.
First developed as a series, the streaming giant will air the project as a feature documentary on a to-be-determined date. The film comes from Imagine Documentaries, an arm of Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment, run by Justin Wilkes and Sara Bernstein.
Kennedy and her producing partner Mark Bailey, an Emmy-nominated writer, will examine the global tragedy that began in March 2019 after two new aircrafts crashed within five months, killing 346 people.
Media reports have focused on improperly vetted design flaws and an internal push for production speed at Boeing, while numerous accounts have pointed to pilot inexperience and poor airmanship. In addition to the human cost, the doc will explore the reputation crisis the iconic company has faced in the aftermath.
The doc will rely on first-person accounts, to put a human face on the tragedies.
First developed as a series, the streaming giant will air the project as a feature documentary on a to-be-determined date. The film comes from Imagine Documentaries, an arm of Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment, run by Justin Wilkes and Sara Bernstein.
Kennedy and her producing partner Mark Bailey, an Emmy-nominated writer, will examine the global tragedy that began in March 2019 after two new aircrafts crashed within five months, killing 346 people.
Media reports have focused on improperly vetted design flaws and an internal push for production speed at Boeing, while numerous accounts have pointed to pilot inexperience and poor airmanship. In addition to the human cost, the doc will explore the reputation crisis the iconic company has faced in the aftermath.
The doc will rely on first-person accounts, to put a human face on the tragedies.
- 4/30/2020
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Documentary filmmaker Rory Kennedy is teaming with Imagine Entertainment for a new series about the tragedy and subsequent scandal over the defunct Boeing 737-Max airplane, sources tell Variety.
Kennedy and her husband and producing partner, Emmy-nominated writer Mark Bailey, are teaming up with Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s unscripted division at Imagine, run by Justin Wilkes and Sara Bernstein.
The project will examine the months since the tragedies, which caused global panic in March 2019 after two new aircrafts crashed within five months, killing 346 people. Much reporting has focused on improperly vetted design flaws and an internal push for speed at Boeing, while other accounts have pointed to pilot inexperience and poor airmanship. In addition to human cost, the reputation of the iconic company has been tarnished.
Kennedy’s project, built around first-person accounts from the people who experienced the events, is said to put a human face on the complicated issues being raised.
Kennedy and her husband and producing partner, Emmy-nominated writer Mark Bailey, are teaming up with Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s unscripted division at Imagine, run by Justin Wilkes and Sara Bernstein.
The project will examine the months since the tragedies, which caused global panic in March 2019 after two new aircrafts crashed within five months, killing 346 people. Much reporting has focused on improperly vetted design flaws and an internal push for speed at Boeing, while other accounts have pointed to pilot inexperience and poor airmanship. In addition to human cost, the reputation of the iconic company has been tarnished.
Kennedy’s project, built around first-person accounts from the people who experienced the events, is said to put a human face on the complicated issues being raised.
- 2/18/2020
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
In today’s TV news roundup, Quibi has released the names of several celebrity guests slated to appear in Jennifer Lopez’s new series “Thanks A Million,” and Showtime has teamed up with Imagine Documentaries to produce “Gossip Starring Cindy Adams.”
Castings
Quibi has announced several of the participants for its Jennifer Lopez-produced series “Thanks A Million.” The show will see celebrities kickstart a donation chain by gifting $100,000 to an unsuspecting individual who has had a positive impact on their life. Lopez, Kristen Bell, Karlie Kloss, Tracy Morgan, Aaron Rodgers and Alex Rodriguez are all set to lead individual episodes.
Developments
Showtime has partnered with Imagine Documentaries for a limited series examining the four-decade career of stalwart New York Post columnist Cindy Adams. “Gossip Starring Cindy Adams” will examine the power and influence that Adams wielded from her perch at Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid. It will also delve into some...
Castings
Quibi has announced several of the participants for its Jennifer Lopez-produced series “Thanks A Million.” The show will see celebrities kickstart a donation chain by gifting $100,000 to an unsuspecting individual who has had a positive impact on their life. Lopez, Kristen Bell, Karlie Kloss, Tracy Morgan, Aaron Rodgers and Alex Rodriguez are all set to lead individual episodes.
Developments
Showtime has partnered with Imagine Documentaries for a limited series examining the four-decade career of stalwart New York Post columnist Cindy Adams. “Gossip Starring Cindy Adams” will examine the power and influence that Adams wielded from her perch at Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid. It will also delve into some...
- 11/27/2019
- by BreAnna Bell
- Variety Film + TV
Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Documentaries will chart the rise of New York Post gossip columnist Cindy Adams in a docuseries for CBS’s Showtime Networks.
Jenny Carchman, who made Showtime’s Emmy-nominated New York Times documentary The Fourth Estate, will direct the Adams series, working closely with the New York Post, where the columnist still writes for Page Six.
Gossip Starring Cindy Adams will premiere in 2021 and chronicle Adams’ four-decade career as the “reigning queen of gossip,” the notorious characters that have emerged from her writing, and her journalistic colleagues.
Grazer and Howard are executive producers alongside Imagine Entertainment’s Michael Rosenberg, Imagine Documentaries’ Sara Bernstein and Justin Wilkes, and Troy Searer from New York Post Entertainment. Carchman is directing and producing.
Gossip Starring Cindy Adams was announced by Vinnie Malhotra, executive vice president of nonfiction programming for Showtime Networks.
Jenny Carchman, who made Showtime’s Emmy-nominated New York Times documentary The Fourth Estate, will direct the Adams series, working closely with the New York Post, where the columnist still writes for Page Six.
Gossip Starring Cindy Adams will premiere in 2021 and chronicle Adams’ four-decade career as the “reigning queen of gossip,” the notorious characters that have emerged from her writing, and her journalistic colleagues.
Grazer and Howard are executive producers alongside Imagine Entertainment’s Michael Rosenberg, Imagine Documentaries’ Sara Bernstein and Justin Wilkes, and Troy Searer from New York Post Entertainment. Carchman is directing and producing.
Gossip Starring Cindy Adams was announced by Vinnie Malhotra, executive vice president of nonfiction programming for Showtime Networks.
- 11/26/2019
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
In just over a year, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment has stealthily assembled a slate of nearly 20 documentary feature and TV series projects, with distribution partners such as Netflix, Showtime and Apple TV Plus in place.
The prestigious lineup features filmmakers and producers including Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Amy Berg, Morgan Neville and Howard himself. The subjects range from deep dives into icons like New York gossip queen Cindy Adams, star chef José Andrés, and former NBA star Dwyane Wade (now an agent), to penetrating looks at guitar hero Carlos Santana and last year’s wildfire that devastated Paradise, Calif.
Imagine’s documentary unit was founded in September 2018 and is headed by former RadicalMedia executive Justin Wilkes and longtime HBO Documentary Films senior vice president Sara Bernstein. The pair have been pulling their weight in an established film and television production company that has been investing heavily...
The prestigious lineup features filmmakers and producers including Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Amy Berg, Morgan Neville and Howard himself. The subjects range from deep dives into icons like New York gossip queen Cindy Adams, star chef José Andrés, and former NBA star Dwyane Wade (now an agent), to penetrating looks at guitar hero Carlos Santana and last year’s wildfire that devastated Paradise, Calif.
Imagine’s documentary unit was founded in September 2018 and is headed by former RadicalMedia executive Justin Wilkes and longtime HBO Documentary Films senior vice president Sara Bernstein. The pair have been pulling their weight in an established film and television production company that has been investing heavily...
- 11/26/2019
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Nanni Moretti's Santiago, Italia to screen in the Spotlight on Documentary section Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Film at Lincoln Center has announced the 57th New York Film Festival Spotlight on Documentary selections. The program includes 45 Seconds Of Laughter, directed by Tim Robbins; Dw Young's The Booksellers, executive produced by Parker Posey, featuring Fran Lebowitz, Susan Orlean, and Gay Talese; Nick Broomfield's My Father And Me; Ric Burns's Oliver Sacks: His Own Life; Michael Apted's 63 Up; Alla Kovgan's Cunningham 3D on Merce Cunningham; Ivy Meeropol's Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story Of Roy Cohn, which features interviews with Cindy Adams, Alan Dershowitz, Tony Kushner, Nathan Lane and John Waters, and Nanni Moretti's Santiago, Italia.
Gay Talese is interviewed for Dw Young's The Booksellers Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
In all, there are 13 feature documentaries and one short, Nicholas Ma's (producer of Morgan Neville's Won’t You Be My Neighbor?...
Film at Lincoln Center has announced the 57th New York Film Festival Spotlight on Documentary selections. The program includes 45 Seconds Of Laughter, directed by Tim Robbins; Dw Young's The Booksellers, executive produced by Parker Posey, featuring Fran Lebowitz, Susan Orlean, and Gay Talese; Nick Broomfield's My Father And Me; Ric Burns's Oliver Sacks: His Own Life; Michael Apted's 63 Up; Alla Kovgan's Cunningham 3D on Merce Cunningham; Ivy Meeropol's Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story Of Roy Cohn, which features interviews with Cindy Adams, Alan Dershowitz, Tony Kushner, Nathan Lane and John Waters, and Nanni Moretti's Santiago, Italia.
Gay Talese is interviewed for Dw Young's The Booksellers Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
In all, there are 13 feature documentaries and one short, Nicholas Ma's (producer of Morgan Neville's Won’t You Be My Neighbor?...
- 8/23/2019
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Christie Brinkley's disgraced husband Peter Cook has issued a public apology to his wife after cheating on her with a teenager. In a statement issued by his attorney Norman Sheresky, yesterday, Cook breaks his silence about the scandal, which has ended his marriage to the supermodel, for the first time. According to New York Post gossip columnist Cindy Adams, who was among the first journalists to receive the statement, Cook writes, "I'm sorry. I'm contrite. I'm stupid. Foolish. No excuse." He adds, "I love my wife. I have loved her since the day I met her... For a lifetime, I've tried to prove how much I love her." Meanwhile, Sheresky states, "He got involved, in over his head somehow, and he wants to make it up to her for the rest of his life. He didn't invent adultery. He didn't invent the kind of person who would engage in it with him either. He hopes there's no divorce. If she wants one... it will not be nasty. She can have whatever she wants." Cook was disgraced when news of his affair with 19-year-old Diana Bianchi went public at the beginning of the month. Bianchi, a budding singer, has since come forward to confirm the romance.
- 7/26/2006
- WENN
Britney Spears reportedly wants to rush a new album into shops, because she's running out of money since becoming pregnant. The pop star and husband Kevin Federline are struggling to fund their celebrity lifestyle and the recent $7 million purchase of and renovations on a new Malibu, California house, because neither are working - Spears rested her mic after conceiving the couple's first child, and dancer Federline hasn't worked for over a year. According to New York Post columnist Cindy Adams, the panicking pop princess wants to release another moneyspinning disc. Adams reports, "Mrs. Federline recently made a quiet call to her record label. The gist of the discussion: We've got to get money in the house. Cash flow is going down. How about we cut another album?"...
- 7/6/2005
- WENN
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