Exclusive: Husband and wife Ed Harris and Amy Madigan will star in School for the Blind, a $4.5 million budgeted indie that will be produced by Picturehouse, John Boccardo’s Blind Faith Productions and Neil Koenigsberg. Lou Howe is directing from his adaptation of Dennis McFarland’s critically acclaimed 1995 novel.
Harris and Madigan have previously starred together in several features including Gone Baby Gone, Places in the Heart, Alamo Bay, The Last Full Measure, The Rules Don’t Apply, Sweetwater, Riders of the Purple Saga to name a few including the Harris-directed Oscar winning Pollock. Harris earned an Oscar nom for playing artist Jackson Pollock and Madigan co-starred as Peggy Guggenheim. The two are also starring in Harris’ The Ploughman which he’s also directing and in pre-production on. Both Harris and Madigan have co-starred in theatre productions such as the world premiere of Beth Henley’s The Jacksonian in Los...
Harris and Madigan have previously starred together in several features including Gone Baby Gone, Places in the Heart, Alamo Bay, The Last Full Measure, The Rules Don’t Apply, Sweetwater, Riders of the Purple Saga to name a few including the Harris-directed Oscar winning Pollock. Harris earned an Oscar nom for playing artist Jackson Pollock and Madigan co-starred as Peggy Guggenheim. The two are also starring in Harris’ The Ploughman which he’s also directing and in pre-production on. Both Harris and Madigan have co-starred in theatre productions such as the world premiere of Beth Henley’s The Jacksonian in Los...
- 10/4/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Refresh for updates Tab Hunter is being remembered today as both an iconic Hollywood actor and as one of the very few stars of his 1950s peak era to eventually come out as gay, a decades-long process chronicled in Hunter’s 2005 autobiography Tab Hunter Confidential, and the 2015 Netflix documentary it inspired.
Zachary Quinto, who, along with J.J. Abrams, Hunter’s husband and producing partner Allan Glaser and Neil Koenigsberg are developing a Paramount project based on the part of Hunter’s memoir about his relationship with fellow actor Anthony Perkins, called Hunter “a pioneer of self-acceptance” who moved “through this world with authenticity as his guide.” (See Quinto’s entire Instagram message below).
Elton John tweeted simply, “Rip to the most handsome and special man.” Referring to Hunter’s 1957 hit cover of the song made famous earlier by Sonny James, John ended his tweet with, “‘Young Love’ forever.”
Here’s...
Zachary Quinto, who, along with J.J. Abrams, Hunter’s husband and producing partner Allan Glaser and Neil Koenigsberg are developing a Paramount project based on the part of Hunter’s memoir about his relationship with fellow actor Anthony Perkins, called Hunter “a pioneer of self-acceptance” who moved “through this world with authenticity as his guide.” (See Quinto’s entire Instagram message below).
Elton John tweeted simply, “Rip to the most handsome and special man.” Referring to Hunter’s 1957 hit cover of the song made famous earlier by Sonny James, John ended his tweet with, “‘Young Love’ forever.”
Here’s...
- 7/9/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Jj Abrams and Zachary Quinto are producing a movie for Paramount about the secret love affair between Tab Hunter and Anthony Perkins.
The project, titled “Tab & Tony,” is in early development without actors or a director attached. Playwright Doug Wright, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play “I am My Own Wife,” has been hired to write the screenplay.
Producers are Abrams through his Bad Robot company, his “Star Trek” collaborator Quinto, Hunter’s longtime partner Allan Glaser, and Neil Koenigsberg.
The movie is based on Hunter’s account of his struggle to come to terms with being gay in the 1950s. Hunter wrote the 2005 book “Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star,” which became a New York Times bestseller and detailed his rise to Hollywood heartthrob status in the 1950s while he was being marketed as the ideal man, as well as his issues with revealing his sexuality...
The project, titled “Tab & Tony,” is in early development without actors or a director attached. Playwright Doug Wright, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play “I am My Own Wife,” has been hired to write the screenplay.
Producers are Abrams through his Bad Robot company, his “Star Trek” collaborator Quinto, Hunter’s longtime partner Allan Glaser, and Neil Koenigsberg.
The movie is based on Hunter’s account of his struggle to come to terms with being gay in the 1950s. Hunter wrote the 2005 book “Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star,” which became a New York Times bestseller and detailed his rise to Hollywood heartthrob status in the 1950s while he was being marketed as the ideal man, as well as his issues with revealing his sexuality...
- 6/6/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
What's the right thing to say about a closeted movie career in an industry that feeds on gossip? There's plenty to say, if you're Tab Hunter. The '50s heartthrob breaks his silence with a remarkably candid and positive account of his astonishing, unique Hollywood experience. Tab Hunter Confidential Blu-ray FilmRise 2015 / Color / 1:78 widescreen / 90 min. / Street Date August 23, 2016 / 19.95 Starring Tab Hunter, Allan Glaser, Clint Eastwood, Connie Stevens, Portia de Rossi, Robert Wagner, Debbie Reynolds, Lainie Kazan, George Takei, Noah Wyle, John Waters, Liz Torres, Tab Hunter, Dolores Hart, Terry Moore, Don Murray, Robert Osborne, Darryl Hickman, William Wellman Jr., Rae Allen, Rona Barrett, Venetia Stevenson, Rex Reed, Etchika Choureau, Marilyn Erskine, Henry Willson, Shannon Bolin, Eddie Muller, Ronnie Robertson, Gary Giddins, Tamara Asseyev, Neal Noorlag, Marilyn Gevirtz, Jo-An Cox Bunton, Lou Simon, Evelyn Kramer. Cinematography Nancy Schreiber Film Editor Jeffrey Schwarz Original Music Michael Cudahy Produced by Allan Glaser, Neil Koenigsberg,...
- 8/26/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Katie Holmes and Taylor Swift will join Meryl Streep and Jeff Bridges in Phillip Noyce's $25 million-budget sci-fi tale "The Giver" at The Weinstein Co. and Walden Media.
Set in a society in which there is no conflict, Brenton Thwaites plays a young boy selected for his life service as the Receiver of Memories.
He works with The Giver (Bridges), an old man who teaches the boy to use his unique gifts of the senses. Michael Mitnick penned the most recent script based on the Lois Lowry young adult novel.
Holmes will play Thwaites' mother, a strict obeyer of the laws that govern this antiseptic society. Sweet's role is unknown at this time.
Streep plays the society's Chief Elder. Alexander Skarsgard, Odeya Rush and Cameron Monaghan also star.
Bridges, Nikki Silver and Neil Koenigsberg are producing. Filming will take place predominantly in South Africa.
Source: Just Jared...
Set in a society in which there is no conflict, Brenton Thwaites plays a young boy selected for his life service as the Receiver of Memories.
He works with The Giver (Bridges), an old man who teaches the boy to use his unique gifts of the senses. Michael Mitnick penned the most recent script based on the Lois Lowry young adult novel.
Holmes will play Thwaites' mother, a strict obeyer of the laws that govern this antiseptic society. Sweet's role is unknown at this time.
Streep plays the society's Chief Elder. Alexander Skarsgard, Odeya Rush and Cameron Monaghan also star.
Bridges, Nikki Silver and Neil Koenigsberg are producing. Filming will take place predominantly in South Africa.
Source: Just Jared...
- 9/27/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Meryl Streep, Alexander Skarsgard ("True Blood") and Cameron Monaghan ("Shameless") are in talks to join the cast of Phillip Noyce's "The Giver" at The Weinstein Company and Walden Media.
The $25 million adaptation of the Lois Lowry young adult novel stars newcomer Brenton Thwaites as a young man named Jonas who is selected for life service as the 'Receiver of Memories' in a utopian society.
He works with The Giver (Jeff Bridges), an old man who teaches the boy to use his unique gifts of the senses.
Streep will play the society’s antagonistic Chief Elder, who assigns the young their tasks. Skarsgard is in talks to play Jonas' father, while Monaghan will play Jonas' best friend Asher.
Vadim Perelman wrote the script, while Bridges, Neil Koenigsberg and Nikki Silver are producing. Shooting will take place in South Africa.
Source: The Wrap...
The $25 million adaptation of the Lois Lowry young adult novel stars newcomer Brenton Thwaites as a young man named Jonas who is selected for life service as the 'Receiver of Memories' in a utopian society.
He works with The Giver (Jeff Bridges), an old man who teaches the boy to use his unique gifts of the senses.
Streep will play the society’s antagonistic Chief Elder, who assigns the young their tasks. Skarsgard is in talks to play Jonas' father, while Monaghan will play Jonas' best friend Asher.
Vadim Perelman wrote the script, while Bridges, Neil Koenigsberg and Nikki Silver are producing. Shooting will take place in South Africa.
Source: The Wrap...
- 8/7/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Lois Smith, who died last weekend from complications due to a fall, helped to define modern PR. Back in 1971, she founded, along with Pat Kingsley (who handled Tom Cruise for years), New York's Pickwick Public Relations, and went on to pursue production at Marble Arch and United Artists before returning to her first love. In 1980, Kingsley's Pickwick merged with Michael Maslansky and Neil Koenigsberg's La press agency Maslansky/Koenigsberg, to become the mighty P/M/K, which ruled Hollywood PR in the 90s under Kingsley, the returned Smith and Leslee Dart. New York uber-publicist Peggy Siegal (see her tribute below) was nurtured and mentored by Smith, and worked with her at Pickwick, Smith & Siegal and P/M/K before launching her own praisery (as Variety would call it). Smith was a class act with a booming bonhomie who did not stoop to conquer. She was maternal and generous with her knowledge,...
- 10/9/2012
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
ABC Orders Marc Cherry's Hallelujah Pilot
BC programming chief Paul Lee received Cherry's script over the weekend and quickly moved with a pilot order.
James Franco Says He Will Join Nicole Kidman for Broadway Revival of "Sweet Bird of Youth"
Kidman will portray Princess Kosmonopolis with Franco as Chance Wayne.
Larry Bryggman, David Lansbury, et al. Set for "Off the King's Road" Reading
Bryggman and Lansbury will headline a staged reading of Neil Koenigsberg's new play, "Off the King's Road," to be presented at the Westside Theatre on Thursday, February 3 at 2pm. Bob Jaffe will direct.
Ed Westwick: I'm ready to leave Gossip Girl
Westwick says he's no longer fascinated by Chuck Bass. "To be completely honest, I'm ready to do something else," he tells the British magazine Tatler. "Really ready to do something else."
Aaron Sorkin: My HBO cable news drama will be "aspirational," not cynical
"It'll be wish fulfillment,...
BC programming chief Paul Lee received Cherry's script over the weekend and quickly moved with a pilot order.
James Franco Says He Will Join Nicole Kidman for Broadway Revival of "Sweet Bird of Youth"
Kidman will portray Princess Kosmonopolis with Franco as Chance Wayne.
Larry Bryggman, David Lansbury, et al. Set for "Off the King's Road" Reading
Bryggman and Lansbury will headline a staged reading of Neil Koenigsberg's new play, "Off the King's Road," to be presented at the Westside Theatre on Thursday, February 3 at 2pm. Bob Jaffe will direct.
Ed Westwick: I'm ready to leave Gossip Girl
Westwick says he's no longer fascinated by Chuck Bass. "To be completely honest, I'm ready to do something else," he tells the British magazine Tatler. "Really ready to do something else."
Aaron Sorkin: My HBO cable news drama will be "aspirational," not cynical
"It'll be wish fulfillment,...
- 2/1/2011
- by We Love Soaps TV
- We Love Soaps
Actor Tab Hunter is set to appear in the documentary "Tab Hunter Confidential" about what it was like to live a lie in Hollywood. Titled after Hunter's 2005 autobiography, the documentary will be directed by Jeffrey Schwartz (""Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon," and "Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story").
The documentary will profile Hunter as a closeted gay actor at a time when Hollywood forced their homosexual stars to hide so they could market them as heterosexuals. Allan Glaser, Hunter's longtime partner, and Neil Koenigsberg are set to produce.
A little bio about Hunter from Wikipedia:
Arthur Gelien was signed to a contract at Warner Bros. and christened "Tab Hunter" by his first agent, Henry Willson.[2] His good looks got him pegged as a screen idol. He landed a role in the film Island of Desire opposite Linda Darnell. However, it was his co-starring role as young Marine Danny in 1955's...
The documentary will profile Hunter as a closeted gay actor at a time when Hollywood forced their homosexual stars to hide so they could market them as heterosexuals. Allan Glaser, Hunter's longtime partner, and Neil Koenigsberg are set to produce.
A little bio about Hunter from Wikipedia:
Arthur Gelien was signed to a contract at Warner Bros. and christened "Tab Hunter" by his first agent, Henry Willson.[2] His good looks got him pegged as a screen idol. He landed a role in the film Island of Desire opposite Linda Darnell. However, it was his co-starring role as young Marine Danny in 1955's...
- 10/12/2009
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Vadim Perelman has signed on to adapt and direct Lois Lowry's Newbery Award-winning novel The Giver for 20th Century Fox and Walden Media. The story centers on Jonas, a 12-year-old boy living in an idyllic future society where all memory of human history has been erased. His life is thrown into turmoil when he is designated to inherit the role of the Giver -- the sole keeper of the vast range of human emotions. Perelman will work from an earlier draft penned by Todd Alcott. Jeff Bridges and Neil Koenigsberg of AsIs Prods. and Orly Wiseman and Nikki Silver of On Screen Entertainment are producing.
Vadim Perelman has signed on to adapt and direct Lois Lowry's Newbery Award-winning novel The Giver for 20th Century Fox and Walden Media. The story centers on Jonas, a 12-year-old boy living in an idyllic future society where all memory of human history has been erased. His life is thrown into turmoil when he is designated to inherit the role of the Giver -- the sole keeper of the vast range of human emotions. Perelman will work from an earlier draft penned by Todd Alcott. Jeff Bridges and Neil Koenigsberg of AsIs Prods. and Orly Wiseman and Nikki Silver of On Screen Entertainment are producing.
Four-time Oscar nominee Jeff Bridges will star in the indie feature The Moguls, which will mark the directorial debut of writer Michael Traeger. Aaron Ryder, who executive produced Donnie Darko and Memento while head of production at Newmarket Films, is producing through his Raygun Prods. The comedy revolves around a small town that bands together to make a porno film. Bridges plays a guy dealing with a midlife crisis who hatches the porno scheme. The film is being financed by Michael Kuhn's Qwerty Films. Kuhn executive produced Being John Malkovich and the upcoming I Heart Huckabee's. Production on Moguls is slated to start in May in and around Los Angeles. Bridges, who starred in last year's Seabiscuit, has earned Oscar noms for his work in The Contender, Starman, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot and The Last Picture Show. The actor, repped by UTA, manager Neil Koenigsberg and attorney Bob Wallerstein, next stars in Door in the Floor. Traeger wrote Dead Man on Campus and recently sold an untitled Kevin Bacon project at New Line. He is in the midst of writing a TV pilot for NBC Studios. Traeger is repped by Broder Webb Chervin Silbermann and Aaron Ray at Nine Yards Entertainment.
- 3/25/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Actor Tony Goldwyn's accomplished directorial debut is a moving and amusing account of a housewife's painful attempts at self-discovery during the turbulent summer of 1969. Although the film doesn't entirely escape stereotypes on several fronts -- such as the umpteenth use of such iconic events as Woodstock and the moon landing -- it also presents well-rounded and sensitive characterizations and provides Diane Lane with her best screen role.
This Miramax release, recently showcased at the Miami Film Festival, won't set any commercial records, though it is bound to appeal to a sophisticated female audience.
Lane plays Pearl Kantrowitz, a 31-year-old wife and mother vacationing with her teenage daughter Alison (Anna Paquin) and her quintessentially Jewish mother-in-law Lilian (Tovah Feldshuh) at a bungalow colony in the Catskills. (A photo montage of various Catskill landmarks set off a cacophony of oohs and aahs at the Miami screening.)
Pearl is a devoted mother and wife to her hard-working, TV repairman husband Marty (Liev Schreiber), who can only join them on the weekends. But when she meets Walker Jerome (Viggo Mortensen) -- a handsome, free-living salesman who is called the Blouse Man because he travels around in a beat-up bus selling women's clothing -- her existential malaise comes to the surface.
It isn't long before Pearl, who got married and had a child before she was out of her teens, is engaged in a liberating affair, augmented by drug experimentation, tie-dyed clothing and Woodstock. Unfortunately, she is spotted there by her daughter, who has similarly run off without telling anyone, setting off a chain of anguished confrontations.
This is familiar territory, but Pamela Gray's insightful screenplay deals with the issues and personalities involved in sensitive fashion, rendering the psychological reasons for Pearl's straying with a depth and complexity that resonates. All of the characters engender sympathy, especially Schreiber's Marty, a loving husband and father who is deeply wounded by his wife's betrayal and yet possesses the inner resources to pull himself together. And characters who in lesser efforts would have been reduced to stereotype, such as the nagging Jewish mother-in-law or the hippie-ish Blouse Man, are allowed an uncommon inner richness.
Working within limited means, Goldwyn conveys the atmosphere of the Catskills milieu during the '60s with great skill and has elicited fine performances from the cast. Lane, in her most mature role, beautifully conveys Pearl's inner struggles and maintains audience sympathy even while her character is acting in not-so-nice ways. Paquin plays the confused teen with more depth than might have been expected, while Feldshuh never condescends to her role as the meddling Lilian. Best of all is Schreiber, who reveals unexpected levels of tenderness and anguish as the befuddled Marty. His superb work signals that he is ready to ascend to a new level of screen prominence.
A WALK ON THE MOON
Miramax Films
Director: Tony Goldwyn
Screenplay: Pamela Gray
Producers: Dustin Hoffman, Tony Goldwyn, Jay Cohen, Neil Koenigsberg, Lee Gottsegen, Murray Schisgal
Executive producers: Graham Burke, Greg Coote
Director of photography: Anthony Richmond
Editor: Dana Congdon
Original music: Mason Daring
Production designer: Dan Leigh
Color/stereo
Cast:
Pearl: Diane Lane
Walker Jerome: Viggo Mortensen
Marty: Liev Schreiber
Alison: Anna Paquin
Lilian: Tovah Feldshuh
Running time -- 105 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
This Miramax release, recently showcased at the Miami Film Festival, won't set any commercial records, though it is bound to appeal to a sophisticated female audience.
Lane plays Pearl Kantrowitz, a 31-year-old wife and mother vacationing with her teenage daughter Alison (Anna Paquin) and her quintessentially Jewish mother-in-law Lilian (Tovah Feldshuh) at a bungalow colony in the Catskills. (A photo montage of various Catskill landmarks set off a cacophony of oohs and aahs at the Miami screening.)
Pearl is a devoted mother and wife to her hard-working, TV repairman husband Marty (Liev Schreiber), who can only join them on the weekends. But when she meets Walker Jerome (Viggo Mortensen) -- a handsome, free-living salesman who is called the Blouse Man because he travels around in a beat-up bus selling women's clothing -- her existential malaise comes to the surface.
It isn't long before Pearl, who got married and had a child before she was out of her teens, is engaged in a liberating affair, augmented by drug experimentation, tie-dyed clothing and Woodstock. Unfortunately, she is spotted there by her daughter, who has similarly run off without telling anyone, setting off a chain of anguished confrontations.
This is familiar territory, but Pamela Gray's insightful screenplay deals with the issues and personalities involved in sensitive fashion, rendering the psychological reasons for Pearl's straying with a depth and complexity that resonates. All of the characters engender sympathy, especially Schreiber's Marty, a loving husband and father who is deeply wounded by his wife's betrayal and yet possesses the inner resources to pull himself together. And characters who in lesser efforts would have been reduced to stereotype, such as the nagging Jewish mother-in-law or the hippie-ish Blouse Man, are allowed an uncommon inner richness.
Working within limited means, Goldwyn conveys the atmosphere of the Catskills milieu during the '60s with great skill and has elicited fine performances from the cast. Lane, in her most mature role, beautifully conveys Pearl's inner struggles and maintains audience sympathy even while her character is acting in not-so-nice ways. Paquin plays the confused teen with more depth than might have been expected, while Feldshuh never condescends to her role as the meddling Lilian. Best of all is Schreiber, who reveals unexpected levels of tenderness and anguish as the befuddled Marty. His superb work signals that he is ready to ascend to a new level of screen prominence.
A WALK ON THE MOON
Miramax Films
Director: Tony Goldwyn
Screenplay: Pamela Gray
Producers: Dustin Hoffman, Tony Goldwyn, Jay Cohen, Neil Koenigsberg, Lee Gottsegen, Murray Schisgal
Executive producers: Graham Burke, Greg Coote
Director of photography: Anthony Richmond
Editor: Dana Congdon
Original music: Mason Daring
Production designer: Dan Leigh
Color/stereo
Cast:
Pearl: Diane Lane
Walker Jerome: Viggo Mortensen
Marty: Liev Schreiber
Alison: Anna Paquin
Lilian: Tovah Feldshuh
Running time -- 105 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 3/22/1999
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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