In today’s TV news roundup, Netflix announced the premiere date for Arsenio Hall’s comedy special and a “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” duo (among others) will guest star on “Elena of Avalor.”
Casting
“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” stars Rachel Brosnahan and Tony Shalhoub, as well as Auli’i Cravalho (“Moana”), John Leguizamo (“When They See Us”), Taye Diggs (“All American”), Eugenio Derbez (“Overboard”) and Jamie-Lynn Sigler (“The Sopranos”) have lent their voices to Season 3 of the animated“Elena of Avalor,” which premieres Oct. 7 on Disney Junior. Diggs and Derbez guest star in a dia de los Muertos-themed episode in October, while Sigler portrays a princess visiting from a Latino Jewish kingdom in an episode airing in December. A royal coronation special will also air next year.
Programming
DirecTV announced the service will air 4K Hdr versions of select “Thursday Night Football” games on Fox starting with the Sept. 26 Philadelphia Eagles at Green Bay Packers game.
Casting
“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” stars Rachel Brosnahan and Tony Shalhoub, as well as Auli’i Cravalho (“Moana”), John Leguizamo (“When They See Us”), Taye Diggs (“All American”), Eugenio Derbez (“Overboard”) and Jamie-Lynn Sigler (“The Sopranos”) have lent their voices to Season 3 of the animated“Elena of Avalor,” which premieres Oct. 7 on Disney Junior. Diggs and Derbez guest star in a dia de los Muertos-themed episode in October, while Sigler portrays a princess visiting from a Latino Jewish kingdom in an episode airing in December. A royal coronation special will also air next year.
Programming
DirecTV announced the service will air 4K Hdr versions of select “Thursday Night Football” games on Fox starting with the Sept. 26 Philadelphia Eagles at Green Bay Packers game.
- 9/17/2019
- by Lorraine Wheat
- Variety Film + TV
Manager Alex Cole, formerly of the Firm and Nine Yards Entertainment, has launched Elevate Entertainment, a full-service management company that includes talent, literary and reality departments as well as a development and production arm.
In representation, the company is 80-20 split between acting and writing/directing clients. Its talent roster, shepherded by founder-president Cole, includes Vinnie Jones, "Tron" co-star Serinda Swan, Jimmy Jean Louis ("Heroes"), Hannah Taylor Gordon, Karim Seleh, Myanna Buring and Justin Louis.
Partner Jenny Wood, who worked at Icm and Blumhouse Prods., handles the lit clients. Producer Peter Cohen (CBS' "I Get That a Lot") is head of reality, and Seth Howard, formerly vp production and development at Tribune Entertainment, is overseeing the development/ production arm.
With financial backing from U.K. firms, Elevate has a development slate of 10 TV series and longform projects. It has inked an overall deal with comic book veteran Howard Chaykin ("American Flagg!
In representation, the company is 80-20 split between acting and writing/directing clients. Its talent roster, shepherded by founder-president Cole, includes Vinnie Jones, "Tron" co-star Serinda Swan, Jimmy Jean Louis ("Heroes"), Hannah Taylor Gordon, Karim Seleh, Myanna Buring and Justin Louis.
Partner Jenny Wood, who worked at Icm and Blumhouse Prods., handles the lit clients. Producer Peter Cohen (CBS' "I Get That a Lot") is head of reality, and Seth Howard, formerly vp production and development at Tribune Entertainment, is overseeing the development/ production arm.
With financial backing from U.K. firms, Elevate has a development slate of 10 TV series and longform projects. It has inked an overall deal with comic book veteran Howard Chaykin ("American Flagg!
- 4/28/2009
- by By Nellie Andreeva
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Marcus Raboy has signed on to direct Whitebread for New Line Cinema. Whitebread tells the fish-out-of-water story of a wealthy white teenager who, in order to avoid losing his inheritance, is forced to join his grandfather's blue-blood fraternity -- only to discover it has become all black. Raboy, repped by WMA, directed Friday After Next for the studio and made his name directing music videos for the likes of Naughty By Nature, Ice Cube, Mary J. Blige and Santana. That experience will prove handy since the world the filmmakers plan to create is music-oriented and will include "stepping," a type of dance practiced by black fraternities. "It's how they express the unity and bond of brotherhood," Raboy said. "We've seen a lot of frat movies, but not like this. No one has really explored this world." Peter Cohen wrote the initial draft of the script; Rob Lieber wrote the latest. Producing are New Redemption Pictures' John Herzfeld along with Deacon Entertainment's Damon Lee. Urban Entertainment's Michael Jenkinson is executive producing. Mark Kaufman, Matt Moore and Luke Ryan are overseeing for New Line.
- 2/10/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Walter Hamada, Jonathan Hung and Chris Fenton, formerly of MBST Entertainment, have departed the company and set up a new management/production company, H2F Entertainment. Among them, the trio rep 43 writers, 10 directors and 10 actors, including writers Greg Coolidge (Sorority Boys), Chris Morgan (Cellular), Matt Allen and Caleb Wilson (Four Christmases), Michael Weiss (Around the World in 80 Days), Ed Horowitz (Exit Wounds), the Wheat brothers (Pitch Black) and Gregg Rossen and Brian Sawyer (Diesel Debutante); writer-directors Ryan Shiraki (Home of Phobia), Rob McKittrick (Son of the Mask), Peter Cohen (Whipped), Tony Vitale (Kiss Me Guido) and John Patterson (The Sopranos); and actors Lucas Black, Ryan Pinkston, Brooke D'Orsay, Russell Wong, Sam Huntington and Josh Coxx. The company also reps Pacesetter Pictures International and Dreamwave Prods. The Beverly Hills-based H2F also is attached to produce The Ryan Pinkston Thing for MTV Networks, HSI's Waiting and Inner Circle, to be directed by Paul Street and starring Hayden Christensen and Robert Duvall. Hamada was a vp production at Columbia Pictures before joining MBST more than four years ago. Hung started his industry career at Chris Lee Prods. before moving on to management. He spent 2 1/2 years at MBST. Fenton previously worked as an agent at WMA for seven years before moving to MBST.
Filmmaker Peter Cohen, who examined the links between violence and aesthetics in his fascinating 1989 documentary "The Architecture of Doom", tackles the subject of eugenics in this scholarly cinematic treatise.
A look at how modern biology has fostered attempts in certain societies to improve the human species through selective breeding, "Homo Sapiens 1900" is an illuminating if overly dry documentary that will find its natural home on video and public television.
The film focuses on certain countries that took the newfound notions regarding eugenics to extremes. These include the Soviet Union, which developed an obsession for studying human brains -- Lenin's being an example -- in order to develop theories on creating a race of idealized people. Sweden made the principles of eugenics an essential component of its creation of a "progressive" welfare state. In the United States by 1907, more than 20 states instituted compulsory sterilization laws. And we all know how the ideas were carried to horrible extremes in Nazi Germany.
The filmmaker presents a vast array of archival photos, newspaper clippings and film clips to illustrate his lesson. Most chilling is a scene from a 1917 silent film, showing Dr. Harry Haiselden, a proponent of euthanasia, allowing a retarded newborn baby to die.
As fascinating as the subject is, the film allows interest to dissipate because of its slow pace and dry scholarly style, most closely resembling the sort of film strips you sat through in high school. There are also problems of organization and coherence. "Homo Sapiens 1900" is a valuable historical document, but it's hard not to imagine what would have resulted if a documentarian with the dramatic flair of Errol Morris had tackled the same material.
HOMO SAPIENS 1900
First Run Features
Arte Factum/Swedish Television
Director-producer-screeenwriter/editor:Peter Cohen
Cinematographers:Peter Ostlund, Mats Lund
Black and white/stereo
Running time -- 85 minutes
No MPAA rating...
A look at how modern biology has fostered attempts in certain societies to improve the human species through selective breeding, "Homo Sapiens 1900" is an illuminating if overly dry documentary that will find its natural home on video and public television.
The film focuses on certain countries that took the newfound notions regarding eugenics to extremes. These include the Soviet Union, which developed an obsession for studying human brains -- Lenin's being an example -- in order to develop theories on creating a race of idealized people. Sweden made the principles of eugenics an essential component of its creation of a "progressive" welfare state. In the United States by 1907, more than 20 states instituted compulsory sterilization laws. And we all know how the ideas were carried to horrible extremes in Nazi Germany.
The filmmaker presents a vast array of archival photos, newspaper clippings and film clips to illustrate his lesson. Most chilling is a scene from a 1917 silent film, showing Dr. Harry Haiselden, a proponent of euthanasia, allowing a retarded newborn baby to die.
As fascinating as the subject is, the film allows interest to dissipate because of its slow pace and dry scholarly style, most closely resembling the sort of film strips you sat through in high school. There are also problems of organization and coherence. "Homo Sapiens 1900" is a valuable historical document, but it's hard not to imagine what would have resulted if a documentarian with the dramatic flair of Errol Morris had tackled the same material.
HOMO SAPIENS 1900
First Run Features
Arte Factum/Swedish Television
Director-producer-screeenwriter/editor:Peter Cohen
Cinematographers:Peter Ostlund, Mats Lund
Black and white/stereo
Running time -- 85 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 3/15/2000
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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