The Amazon pilot “The Horror of Dolores Roach” has added three new cast members, Variety has learned exclusively.
Alejandro Hernandez, Kita Updike, and K. Todd Freeman have all joined the Blumhouse Television and Spotify-produced pilot alongside previously announced lead Justina Machado.
The project, based on the Spotify podcast of the same name, was first announced as being in development at Amazon back in May. In the show, “Magic Hands” Dolores Roach (Machado) is released from prison after 16 years and returns to a severely-gentrified Washington Heights with $200 and the clothes on her back. Her boyfriend missing, her family long gone, her apartment now occupied by strangers, Dolores finds respite in the dilapidated storefront Empanada Loca around the corner, the only remnant of her former life.
Hernandez has been cast as Luis, described as the charismatic, self-professed neglected culinary visionary behind the dilapidated storefront Empanada Loca in Washington Heights. Harboring a...
Alejandro Hernandez, Kita Updike, and K. Todd Freeman have all joined the Blumhouse Television and Spotify-produced pilot alongside previously announced lead Justina Machado.
The project, based on the Spotify podcast of the same name, was first announced as being in development at Amazon back in May. In the show, “Magic Hands” Dolores Roach (Machado) is released from prison after 16 years and returns to a severely-gentrified Washington Heights with $200 and the clothes on her back. Her boyfriend missing, her family long gone, her apartment now occupied by strangers, Dolores finds respite in the dilapidated storefront Empanada Loca around the corner, the only remnant of her former life.
Hernandez has been cast as Luis, described as the charismatic, self-professed neglected culinary visionary behind the dilapidated storefront Empanada Loca in Washington Heights. Harboring a...
- 6/23/2021
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Playwright and performer Hannah Benitez has signed with Verve in what was described as a competitive signing situation. The Cuban-Jewish playwright’s most recent play, GringoLandia, was included on the 2020 Kilroy List, an annual industry survey of notable new plays by women, trans, and non-binary playwrights.
GringoLandia is set to premiere in January at the Zoetic Stage in Miami. Benitez’s previous who, Dike, premiered at the New York Theatre Workshop as director Tatiana Pandiani’s 2050 Fellowship Project in conjunction with Urbanite Theatre.
Benitez is currently developing B1T-C0N with Hamilton’s Resident Director Hannah Ryan. The playwright also recently signed a feature film development deal with the Puerto Rican studio/production company Vanguardia Films.
She joins over a dozen award-winning and award-nominated recently announced theater signs with Verve as the agency expands into the area.
Benitez continues to be repped by Writ Large and Elaine Devlin.
GringoLandia is set to premiere in January at the Zoetic Stage in Miami. Benitez’s previous who, Dike, premiered at the New York Theatre Workshop as director Tatiana Pandiani’s 2050 Fellowship Project in conjunction with Urbanite Theatre.
Benitez is currently developing B1T-C0N with Hamilton’s Resident Director Hannah Ryan. The playwright also recently signed a feature film development deal with the Puerto Rican studio/production company Vanguardia Films.
She joins over a dozen award-winning and award-nominated recently announced theater signs with Verve as the agency expands into the area.
Benitez continues to be repped by Writ Large and Elaine Devlin.
- 12/10/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
As of June 4th, a 2011 drama called The Help ranks as the most-watched film on Netflix. The popularity of the movie – doubtlessly connected to the ongoing nationwide protests following the death of George Floyd – doesn’t sit well with many activists though, as it presents a skewed perception of African American life that doesn’t match the reality in which we find ourselves today.
Like the 1989 dramedy Driving Ms. Daisy, The Help is a pic about African Americans who find satisfaction in their position of servitude to whites, rather than act on some revolutionary desire for freedom, autonomy and fraternity. Written and directed by a white filmmaker (Tate Taylor) and based on a book written by a white author, the story of The Help can neither be considered authentic nor educative.
The film’s racially-biased plot certainly didn’t prove a hindrance during awards season, though. On the contrary, one...
Like the 1989 dramedy Driving Ms. Daisy, The Help is a pic about African Americans who find satisfaction in their position of servitude to whites, rather than act on some revolutionary desire for freedom, autonomy and fraternity. Written and directed by a white filmmaker (Tate Taylor) and based on a book written by a white author, the story of The Help can neither be considered authentic nor educative.
The film’s racially-biased plot certainly didn’t prove a hindrance during awards season, though. On the contrary, one...
- 6/5/2020
- by Tim Brinkhof
- We Got This Covered
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