Alec Baldwin will guest star as CIA Director George Tenet in Hulu’s “The Looming Tower,” the streaming network announced Wednesday morning at its annual upfront event. Tenet is Richard Clarke’s (Michael Stuhlbarg) partner in fighting al-Qaeda, though he may know more than he is letting on, per Hulu. The Legendary Television drama, which traces the rising threat of Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda, also stars Jeff Daniels and Peter Sarsgaard. It takes a controversial look at how the rivalry between the CIA and FBI inadvertently might have set the stage for the tragedy of 9/11 and the war in Iraq.
- 5/3/2017
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
Hulu adaptation of Lawrence Wright’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 9/11 exposé begins production in New York.
Alec Baldwin will guest star as CIA director George Tenet in The Looming Tower.
Wright’s non-fiction book traces the rising threat of Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda, taking a controversial look at how the rivalry between the CIA and FBI may have inadvertently set the stage for the tragedy of 9/11 and the war in Iraq.
In the series of 10 hour-long episodes Tenet aligns himself in the fight against Al-Qaeda with the then National Security Council counter-terrorism coordinator Richard Clarke, though he may know more than he is letting on. Michael Stuhlbarg plays Clarke.
Baldwin joins a cast that includes Jeff Daniels, Tahar Rahim, Peter Sarsgaard, Bill Camp, Virginia Kull, Louis Cancelmi, Ella Rae Peck, Sullivan Jones, and Wrenn Schmidt.
Oscar-winning writer Dan Futterman adapted the book and will serve as executive producer alongside Alex Gibney and Wright. Legendary Television...
Alec Baldwin will guest star as CIA director George Tenet in The Looming Tower.
Wright’s non-fiction book traces the rising threat of Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda, taking a controversial look at how the rivalry between the CIA and FBI may have inadvertently set the stage for the tragedy of 9/11 and the war in Iraq.
In the series of 10 hour-long episodes Tenet aligns himself in the fight against Al-Qaeda with the then National Security Council counter-terrorism coordinator Richard Clarke, though he may know more than he is letting on. Michael Stuhlbarg plays Clarke.
Baldwin joins a cast that includes Jeff Daniels, Tahar Rahim, Peter Sarsgaard, Bill Camp, Virginia Kull, Louis Cancelmi, Ella Rae Peck, Sullivan Jones, and Wrenn Schmidt.
Oscar-winning writer Dan Futterman adapted the book and will serve as executive producer alongside Alex Gibney and Wright. Legendary Television...
- 5/3/2017
- ScreenDaily
The 10-episode drama series is based on Lawrence Wright’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 9/11 exposé.
Alec Baldwin will guest star as CIA director George Tenet in The Looming Tower.
Wright’s non-fiction book traces the rising threat of Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda, taking a controversial look at how the rivalry between the CIA and FBI may have inadvertently set the stage for the tragedy of 9/11 and the war in Iraq.
In the 10-episode adaptation Tenet is Richard Clarke’s partner in fighting al-Qaeda, though he may know more than he is letting on. Michael Stuhlbarg plays Clarke.
Baldwin joins a cast that includes Jeff Daniels, Tahar Rahim, Peter Sarsgaard, Bill Camp, Virginia Kull, Louis Cancelmi, Ella Rae Peck, Sullivan Jones, and Wrenn Schmidt.
Oscar-winning writer Dan Futterman adapted the hour-long drama series and will serve as executive producer alongside Alex Gibney and Wright. Legendary Television is producing the series.
Baldwin’s casting comes as the actor is enjoying...
Alec Baldwin will guest star as CIA director George Tenet in The Looming Tower.
Wright’s non-fiction book traces the rising threat of Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda, taking a controversial look at how the rivalry between the CIA and FBI may have inadvertently set the stage for the tragedy of 9/11 and the war in Iraq.
In the 10-episode adaptation Tenet is Richard Clarke’s partner in fighting al-Qaeda, though he may know more than he is letting on. Michael Stuhlbarg plays Clarke.
Baldwin joins a cast that includes Jeff Daniels, Tahar Rahim, Peter Sarsgaard, Bill Camp, Virginia Kull, Louis Cancelmi, Ella Rae Peck, Sullivan Jones, and Wrenn Schmidt.
Oscar-winning writer Dan Futterman adapted the hour-long drama series and will serve as executive producer alongside Alex Gibney and Wright. Legendary Television is producing the series.
Baldwin’s casting comes as the actor is enjoying...
- 5/3/2017
- ScreenDaily
“The View” welcomed security expert Richard Clarke on Monday in wake of the Paris terrorist attacks, and the guest targeted Gop presidential candidate Marco Rubio for supporting a ban on Syrian refugees entering the United States. The issue came up in response to reports indicating at least one terrorist responsible for Friday’s attack in Paris snuck into the country with the passport of a Syrian refugee. On Sunday, Rubio backtracked on his previous stance of being open to taking in Syrian refugees. “It’s not that we don’t want to,” Rubio said on ABC. “It’s that we can’t.
- 11/16/2015
- by Linda Ge
- The Wrap
The 2nd edition of the Endeavours Documentary Film Festival is calling for documentaries of any length made on the theme of people and their lives. The films must have been completed in 2013 and should either be in English or have English subtitles.
Last date for submissions for Best Documentary, Best Short Documentary and Best Asian Documentary is December 31, 2013 while deadline for Emerging Filmmaker Documentary Competition is March 31, 2014.
The jury comprises of four industry professionals from Singapore namely, Gisli Snaer (photographer, producer, writer and director), Tony Chow (producer, educator and consultant), Ben Rosen (composer and music producer), and David Lee (publicist, reviewer and writer).
The films will be judged in four categories:
Best Documentary
Best Short Documentary: For films below 30 minutes in duration.
Best Asian Documentary
Emerging Filmmaker Documentary Competition: Singapore based filmmakers can only apply in this category.
The 2nd edition of the festival will be held from May 14 – 18, 2014. The...
Last date for submissions for Best Documentary, Best Short Documentary and Best Asian Documentary is December 31, 2013 while deadline for Emerging Filmmaker Documentary Competition is March 31, 2014.
The jury comprises of four industry professionals from Singapore namely, Gisli Snaer (photographer, producer, writer and director), Tony Chow (producer, educator and consultant), Ben Rosen (composer and music producer), and David Lee (publicist, reviewer and writer).
The films will be judged in four categories:
Best Documentary
Best Short Documentary: For films below 30 minutes in duration.
Best Asian Documentary
Emerging Filmmaker Documentary Competition: Singapore based filmmakers can only apply in this category.
The 2nd edition of the festival will be held from May 14 – 18, 2014. The...
- 10/5/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Despite its illustrious setting, Roland Emmerich's "White House Down" is a mindless summer blockbuster for the most part. But it does raise some interesting, even disturbing, real-life questions.
Is it really possible to storm the White House and take the president hostage? Would the withdrawal of U.S. forces from the Middle East really provoke a right-wing backlash? Could a hacker really use the White House computer system to launch missiles? And is the president allowed to buzz the National Mall just for kicks?
Hoping for answers, HuffPost Entertainment dialed up former U.S. National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counter-terrorism Richard Clarke, who has served every president from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush, to ask whether any of this stuff could actually happen. (Warning: Mild spoilers ahead.)
Clarke said the fundamental premise of the film -- that a group of armed men could sneak into the White House,...
Is it really possible to storm the White House and take the president hostage? Would the withdrawal of U.S. forces from the Middle East really provoke a right-wing backlash? Could a hacker really use the White House computer system to launch missiles? And is the president allowed to buzz the National Mall just for kicks?
Hoping for answers, HuffPost Entertainment dialed up former U.S. National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counter-terrorism Richard Clarke, who has served every president from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush, to ask whether any of this stuff could actually happen. (Warning: Mild spoilers ahead.)
Clarke said the fundamental premise of the film -- that a group of armed men could sneak into the White House,...
- 6/28/2013
- by Mike Hogan
- Huffington Post
Exclusive: Sheldon Turner and Jennifer Klein have signed a first-look deal at Sony Pictures Television for their Vendetta Prods. Under the pact, the two will continue to develop and executive produce series for the broadcast networks while also expanding into cable, with Turner set to write some of the projects. Since launching Vendetta in 2011, Turner and Klein had been based at ABC Studios where they most recently set up Skindeep, written by Sheldon, and Black Friday, penned by Ken Nolan, at ABC this past season. The Sony TV pact reunites Turner and Klein with Suzanne Patmore-Gibbs, with whom they have a long-standing relationship going back to when Patmore-Gibbs worked in features. The trio frequently collaborated while Patmore-Gibbs was at ABC. The TV deal also expands Turner and Klein’s existing relationship with Sony on the feature side where they have two projects written by Turner in the works, including Everest,...
- 6/11/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Approximately a week and a half before last weekend’s release of Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty, Glenn Greenwald, a lawyer and blogger for the Guardian newspaper, wrote this piece about the film’s approach to torture. Greenwald freely admitted that he was writing that piece of criticism which film critics hate most: social commentary from a person who had not yet seen the film (Greenwald later wrote this piece after seeing the film). He was later joined by director Alex Gibney, whose film Taxi to the Dark Side was about an innocent man who was tortured and killed at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, and a trio of U.S. Senators including John McCain, who was himself tortured by the Viet Cong as a prisoner of war.
If the positions of all of those letters and blog posts could be summed up in one word, it would be Greenwald’s “propaganda.
If the positions of all of those letters and blog posts could be summed up in one word, it would be Greenwald’s “propaganda.
- 12/27/2012
- by Mark Young
- SoundOnSight
Sheldon Turner is tipped to adapt Richard Clarke's novel "The Scorpion's Gate" into an action-thriller feature at Sony Pictures says Variety.
In the realistic geopolitical thriller, Saudi Arabia falls to a regime potentially hostile to the U.S. and is on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons.
A high-ranking American intelligence analyst, a British intelligence agent and a rogue general move to prevent a bellicose defense secretary from plunging the planet into war.
Jennifer Klein will produce. Klein and Turner are developing "Everest" which Doug Liman is slated to direct.
In the realistic geopolitical thriller, Saudi Arabia falls to a regime potentially hostile to the U.S. and is on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons.
A high-ranking American intelligence analyst, a British intelligence agent and a rogue general move to prevent a bellicose defense secretary from plunging the planet into war.
Jennifer Klein will produce. Klein and Turner are developing "Everest" which Doug Liman is slated to direct.
- 8/7/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
"The 112th Congress," the third episode of "The Newsroom," takes us all the way through the 2010 elections, when the Republicans regained control of the House, and it is alternately more annoying and, in certain spots, more entertaining than anything that has come before it.
The episode opens with the famous testimony of Richard Clarke, the former national security adviser, apologizing for the government's intelligence failures over 9/11. (His name is misspelled as Clark on the show.)
Then Will, in a not-at-all self-aggrandizing gesture, says he is "joining Mr. Clarke in apologizing to America for our failure." No, his mistakes didn't cause thousands of people to die. But in a "Special Editorial Comment," Will says he "took a dive for the ratings," and recounts the many miserable moments in the media's handling of big events over the last decade. He says he is "switching sides," and will now be calling 'em like he sees 'em.
The episode opens with the famous testimony of Richard Clarke, the former national security adviser, apologizing for the government's intelligence failures over 9/11. (His name is misspelled as Clark on the show.)
Then Will, in a not-at-all self-aggrandizing gesture, says he is "joining Mr. Clarke in apologizing to America for our failure." No, his mistakes didn't cause thousands of people to die. But in a "Special Editorial Comment," Will says he "took a dive for the ratings," and recounts the many miserable moments in the media's handling of big events over the last decade. He says he is "switching sides," and will now be calling 'em like he sees 'em.
- 7/9/2012
- by Jack Mirkinson
- Aol TV.
WireImage Ari Emanuel seen on the streets of Manhattan on August 2, 2010 in New York City.
Hollywood super agent Ari Emanuel’s latest casting coup wasn’t in service of the next blockbuster film.
On the lush grounds of a Southern California resort, Emanuel last month quietly gathered more than a dozen of the world’s top names in politics, business and technology for a private confab.
Guests from political circles included Karl Rove, Al Gore, Rahm Emanuel, former CIA director Gen.
Hollywood super agent Ari Emanuel’s latest casting coup wasn’t in service of the next blockbuster film.
On the lush grounds of a Southern California resort, Emanuel last month quietly gathered more than a dozen of the world’s top names in politics, business and technology for a private confab.
Guests from political circles included Karl Rove, Al Gore, Rahm Emanuel, former CIA director Gen.
- 2/16/2012
- by Erica Orden
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
In Bill Maher's "Overtime" segment filmed with his guests after the televised show is complete, former terrorism advisor Richard Clarke pleased Maher's liberal-leaning audience, but raised eyebrows elsewhere when he suggested President Bush deserves "zero" credit for helping to locate Osama bin Laden. The sole conservative on the panel, Reihan Salam, wondered why Clarke wasn't willing to admit that at least some efforts made by the Bush administration contributed.
- 5/15/2011
- by Matt Schneider
- Mediaite - TV
In an interview with Der Spiegel, former White House counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke says one reason why it took so long to track down Osama bin Laden is that capturing bin Laden was "not one of their priorities." Clarke outlines four phases of the hunt for bin Laden, dating back to 1996. In the earliest days, he argues, the CIA had the authority to go after--and later to kill--bin Laden, but "they didn't really try very hard." After 9/11, the desire to capture bin Laden intensified, but Clarke says the Bush Administration simply didn't put bin Laden at the top of its objectives:...
- 5/10/2011
- by Mark Joyella
- Mediaite - TV
The daring bin Laden raid is being billed as evidence of the new Obama. The truth is, he's been itching to pull this trigger all along. In this week's Newsweek, Andrew Romano and Daniel Klaidman on what could become the defining point of this presidency.
The echoes were unmistakable. On April 24, 1980, President Jimmy Carter sent eight helicopters to rescue the 52 Americans held captive at the U.S. Embassy in Iran. One crashed en route; one turned back; one malfunctioned. Spooked, Carter decided to cut his losses and abort the mission-but not before one of the remaining choppers sliced into a transport plane, igniting a blaze that killed eight servicemen. Carter's presidency never recovered.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Pakistan's Spy Agency and Terrorism
For a brief, anxious moment, President Obama's national-security team, gathered in the West Wing on May 1, suffered a sickening sense of déjà vu. As the...
The echoes were unmistakable. On April 24, 1980, President Jimmy Carter sent eight helicopters to rescue the 52 Americans held captive at the U.S. Embassy in Iran. One crashed en route; one turned back; one malfunctioned. Spooked, Carter decided to cut his losses and abort the mission-but not before one of the remaining choppers sliced into a transport plane, igniting a blaze that killed eight servicemen. Carter's presidency never recovered.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Pakistan's Spy Agency and Terrorism
For a brief, anxious moment, President Obama's national-security team, gathered in the West Wing on May 1, suffered a sickening sense of déjà vu. As the...
- 5/5/2011
- by Andrew Romano & Daniel Klaidman
- The Daily Beast
Filed under: TV Replay
How would you know if you were a spy? Like, what if you were such a deep undercover agent that even you didn't know about it? This the is ominous question that Stephen Colbert confronts on the new 'Colbert Report' (weeknights, 11:30Pm Et on Comedy Central).
Colbert interviews Richard Clarke -- the former counter-terrorism expert for Presidents Bush, Clinton, and Bush (Jr.). And Stephen has a few questions for him about the whole "spy game." Mr. Colbert points out that there are so many undercover agents out there that almost anyone could be a spy. In fact, the pair discuss the fact that are nearly as many intelligence agencies as there are "Starbucks" coffee houses. Which means that ... there's quite a lot of them.
Then, Stephen asks a question of Mr. Clark, the expert: "Is there any chance that I'm a spy and don't know it?...
How would you know if you were a spy? Like, what if you were such a deep undercover agent that even you didn't know about it? This the is ominous question that Stephen Colbert confronts on the new 'Colbert Report' (weeknights, 11:30Pm Et on Comedy Central).
Colbert interviews Richard Clarke -- the former counter-terrorism expert for Presidents Bush, Clinton, and Bush (Jr.). And Stephen has a few questions for him about the whole "spy game." Mr. Colbert points out that there are so many undercover agents out there that almost anyone could be a spy. In fact, the pair discuss the fact that are nearly as many intelligence agencies as there are "Starbucks" coffee houses. Which means that ... there's quite a lot of them.
Then, Stephen asks a question of Mr. Clark, the expert: "Is there any chance that I'm a spy and don't know it?...
- 8/17/2010
- by Oliver Miller
- Aol TV.
Are you looking for something to do tonight? How about taking in the controversial film from director Sebastian Doggart, American Faust: From Condi to Neo-Condi?
The film is beginning its theatrical run at the Starz FilmCenter in Denver. Alan Gilbert, one of Ms. Rice's professors from Denver University, will be holding a Q&A following the 7:20pm show tonight, Jan. 22.
American Faust's limited engagement ends on Jan. 28.
The film debuted at the Denver Film Festival in November.
For more information and tickets, check out the Denver Film Society and the official site.
American Faust overturns the popular misconception of Rice as a yes-woman to President Bush to reveal her as his most enduring confidante – and thus responsible for much of the Bush legacy. Through a political, biographical documentary, the film tells a Faustian story of a woman whose hubris tempted her into a pursuit of power that destroyed her...
The film is beginning its theatrical run at the Starz FilmCenter in Denver. Alan Gilbert, one of Ms. Rice's professors from Denver University, will be holding a Q&A following the 7:20pm show tonight, Jan. 22.
American Faust's limited engagement ends on Jan. 28.
The film debuted at the Denver Film Festival in November.
For more information and tickets, check out the Denver Film Society and the official site.
American Faust overturns the popular misconception of Rice as a yes-woman to President Bush to reveal her as his most enduring confidante – and thus responsible for much of the Bush legacy. Through a political, biographical documentary, the film tells a Faustian story of a woman whose hubris tempted her into a pursuit of power that destroyed her...
- 1/22/2010
- Denver Movies Examiner
Kathy Griffin, Richard Clarke, Paul Rieckhoff and Rajiv Chandrasekaran will ring in Friday night with robust chat about every hot topical subject with host Bill Maher, for the HBO Emmy nominated series, "Real Time With Bill Maher." The series continues its seventh season in prime time Friday, September 11 (10:00-11:00 p.m. Et/Pt), on HBO, with an instant replay at 11:00 p.m. Host Maher takes on each subject with a perspective that is not defined by left, right, liberal or conservative. He has called out President Obama for not doing enough for health care reform, and reiterates his beliefs that Big Agra and Big Pharma are in a collusion of sorts, having the American people existing on a diet...
- 9/11/2009
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
Why the country's officials say they're taking a wait-and-see approach to the new administration
A few days after Barack Obama's inauguration, I called a Rwandan diplomat who had helped me with my story on that country’s remarkable economic-development strategy. "Did you go to the balls?" I asked. The response was tepid. "I stayed home," the diplomat said with a sigh. "I watched it on TV." What I found, in talking to this diplomat and other officials, was broad ambivalence, not about President Obama himself, who is widely adored in Africa, but about his team. It goes back to 1994 and the Clinton Administration's inaction during the genocide. "We are seeing a lot of old faces coming back in the Obama Administration. These are the same people who shied away from the opportunity to stop it," the diplomat told me on condition of anonymity, because of the sensitivity of the issue.
A few days after Barack Obama's inauguration, I called a Rwandan diplomat who had helped me with my story on that country’s remarkable economic-development strategy. "Did you go to the balls?" I asked. The response was tepid. "I stayed home," the diplomat said with a sigh. "I watched it on TV." What I found, in talking to this diplomat and other officials, was broad ambivalence, not about President Obama himself, who is widely adored in Africa, but about his team. It goes back to 1994 and the Clinton Administration's inaction during the genocide. "We are seeing a lot of old faces coming back in the Obama Administration. These are the same people who shied away from the opportunity to stop it," the diplomat told me on condition of anonymity, because of the sensitivity of the issue.
- 3/20/2009
- by Jeff Chu
- Fast Company
Late last week Criterion announced the first five titles they will release on Blu-ray high-definition discs and they will come loaded with bonus features and are already available for pre-order on Criterion's site. The first five titles include The Third Man and The Man Who Fell to Earth on November 18 and The Last Emperor, Bottle Rocket and Chungking Express the following week on November 25. I have included the specs and special features below as well as the cover art for three of the titles. The Third Man (1949) Will feature a restored high definition transfer in 1.37:1, and an uncompressed mono soundtrack. Video introduction by writer-director Peter Bogdanovich Two audio commentaries: one by filmmaker Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter Tony Gilroy, and one by by film scholar Dana Polan Shadowing "The Third Man" (2005), a ninety-minute feature documentary on the making of the film Abridged recording of Graham Greene's treatment, read by...
- 8/18/2008
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Robert Redford is attached to direct Against All Enemies, an adaptation of Richard A. Clarke's best-selling memoir.
Capitol Films is financing the feature, picking up the project from Columbia, which had put it into turnaround.
Enemies chronicled how the Bush administration handled the al-Qaida threat before and after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Clarke, a former U.S. terrorism czar, offered the ultimate insider's account into the nation's security apparatus, featuring a cast of power brokers including President Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Clarke.
The book was published in March 2004 by Free Press and hit No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list, fueling intense criticism over the administration's security failures and its decision to go to war with Iraq.
John Calley and Tracy Falco are producing.
Paul Haggis was slated to direct the movie and oversaw a draft by scribe James Vanderbilt but ended up turning his attention to In the Valley of Elah.
Redford is putting the finishing touches on his latest political-themed project, Lions for Lambs, in which he also stars alongside Tom Cruise and Meryl Streep.
Capitol Films is financing the feature, picking up the project from Columbia, which had put it into turnaround.
Enemies chronicled how the Bush administration handled the al-Qaida threat before and after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Clarke, a former U.S. terrorism czar, offered the ultimate insider's account into the nation's security apparatus, featuring a cast of power brokers including President Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Clarke.
The book was published in March 2004 by Free Press and hit No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list, fueling intense criticism over the administration's security failures and its decision to go to war with Iraq.
John Calley and Tracy Falco are producing.
Paul Haggis was slated to direct the movie and oversaw a draft by scribe James Vanderbilt but ended up turning his attention to In the Valley of Elah.
Redford is putting the finishing touches on his latest political-themed project, Lions for Lambs, in which he also stars alongside Tom Cruise and Meryl Streep.
- 9/27/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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