Deep in the lush mountains of the Caribbean island of Dominica, amid stands of lemongrass, giant ferns and palms, three roads converge where two lives ended, violently. A few weeks before Christmas, the bodies of Daniel Langlois, a French-Canadian philanthropist and Hollywood animation centi-millionaire, and his partner, Dominique Marchand, were found at that spot, in a car, halfway into a ravine, burned beyond recognition. Even though the bodies were charred, investigators could tell they had been shot first.
The official and still-evolving story of their murders is a classic tale of good versus evil set in a steamy jungle. Like other expats who live on Dominica, Langlois and Marchand, who bought their property in the late 1990s, were attracted to the island’s wild, Edenic quality; its waterfalls, volcanic hot pools and deep green forests where spectacular blossoms northerners would see only in florist shops grow like weeds. But the...
The official and still-evolving story of their murders is a classic tale of good versus evil set in a steamy jungle. Like other expats who live on Dominica, Langlois and Marchand, who bought their property in the late 1990s, were attracted to the island’s wild, Edenic quality; its waterfalls, volcanic hot pools and deep green forests where spectacular blossoms northerners would see only in florist shops grow like weeds. But the...
- 5/7/2024
- by Nina Burleigh
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Robert MacNeil, the trusted son of a Canadian naval officer who spent two decades alongside Jim Lehrer delivering the nightly news to PBS viewers, died Friday, PBS announced. He was 93.
MacNeil died of natural causes at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, his daughter, Alison MacNeil, told the Associated Press.
MacNeil and Lehrer first teamed to cover the Senate Watergate hearings in 1973, and their live coverage earned them an Emmy. In 1975, they launched a half-hour program that would become The MacNeil/Lehrer Report; it covered a single story in depth and collected more than 30 awards, including a Peabody, a DuPont and several Emmys.
The program in 1983 became The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, the nation’s first 60-minute evening news program. Rather than concentrate on one topic, it provided comprehensive coverage and analysis of the day’s important stories.
On the eve of his retirement from the broadcast in October 1995 to concentrate on writing, he was asked...
MacNeil died of natural causes at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, his daughter, Alison MacNeil, told the Associated Press.
MacNeil and Lehrer first teamed to cover the Senate Watergate hearings in 1973, and their live coverage earned them an Emmy. In 1975, they launched a half-hour program that would become The MacNeil/Lehrer Report; it covered a single story in depth and collected more than 30 awards, including a Peabody, a DuPont and several Emmys.
The program in 1983 became The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, the nation’s first 60-minute evening news program. Rather than concentrate on one topic, it provided comprehensive coverage and analysis of the day’s important stories.
On the eve of his retirement from the broadcast in October 1995 to concentrate on writing, he was asked...
- 4/12/2024
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The History Channel has expanded its partnership with the SpringHill Company, the production company founded by LeBron James and Maverick Carter, by ordering three new documentary projects.
The first title is “Triumph: Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics” (working title), which will tell the story of the the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, which was shadowed by Hitler’s white supremacist agenda, when Black track and field athlete Jesse Owens made history by winning four gold medals. Directed by Andre Gaines and narrated by Don Cheadle, the two-hour documentary will feature archival footage, animation and interviews with journalists, historians and Owens daughters as well as athletes including Carl Lewis, Noah Lyles, Erriyon Knighton, and Christian Coleman, among others.
“Triumph: Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics” is produced for the History Channel by Uninterrupted and Cinemation Studios in association with GroupM Motion Entertainment. Executive producers include James, Carter, Jamal Henderson and...
The first title is “Triumph: Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics” (working title), which will tell the story of the the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, which was shadowed by Hitler’s white supremacist agenda, when Black track and field athlete Jesse Owens made history by winning four gold medals. Directed by Andre Gaines and narrated by Don Cheadle, the two-hour documentary will feature archival footage, animation and interviews with journalists, historians and Owens daughters as well as athletes including Carl Lewis, Noah Lyles, Erriyon Knighton, and Christian Coleman, among others.
“Triumph: Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics” is produced for the History Channel by Uninterrupted and Cinemation Studios in association with GroupM Motion Entertainment. Executive producers include James, Carter, Jamal Henderson and...
- 3/4/2024
- by Selome Hailu
- Variety Film + TV
Veterans of the computer graphics industry are expressing shock and sadness over the death of Daniel Langlois, the influential founder of pioneering 3D computer graphics software developer Softimage, whose tools were used to create visual effects on countless notable films — among them, Jurassic Park, The Matrix, Men in Black, The Fifth Element and Titanic — during a period of rapid development in this field.
The CBC reports that on Dec. 6, two men, Jonathan Lehrer and Robert Snyder, were charged in a Dominica, West Indies court with the murder of Langlois and his partner, Dominique Marchand. According to the CBC story, their bodies were discovered in a burnt-out car Friday near their Coulibri Ridge resort on the island. The CBC also reported that Lehrer owned property next to the resort and had been involved in a past dispute over a road.
“In 1985 Daniel Langlois co-directed one of the first computer-generated animation short...
The CBC reports that on Dec. 6, two men, Jonathan Lehrer and Robert Snyder, were charged in a Dominica, West Indies court with the murder of Langlois and his partner, Dominique Marchand. According to the CBC story, their bodies were discovered in a burnt-out car Friday near their Coulibri Ridge resort on the island. The CBC also reported that Lehrer owned property next to the resort and had been involved in a past dispute over a road.
“In 1985 Daniel Langlois co-directed one of the first computer-generated animation short...
- 12/7/2023
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A+E Networks has tapped Elaine Frontain Bryant and Eli Lehrer to take on expanded roles for the network as former Lifetime EVP and head of programming Amy Winter announced her exit on Wednesday. Move is the latest in a series of consolidations in basic cable as the linear business faces continued declines.
Winter joined Lifetime in 2020, having previously worked at Discovery and later Up TV as exec VP and Gm. At Lifetime, Winter filled a gig that had been vacant since Liz Gateley exited in 2018. Now that job will once again be retired as Frontain Bryant takes on oversight of all of Lifetime and Lmn programming in addition to her current role overseeing original programming for the flagship A&e brand.
Winter revealed in a memo to staff that she’s “decided to embark on a new path” that will combine “my passion for the creative aspects of entertainment with the business side of our industry.
Winter joined Lifetime in 2020, having previously worked at Discovery and later Up TV as exec VP and Gm. At Lifetime, Winter filled a gig that had been vacant since Liz Gateley exited in 2018. Now that job will once again be retired as Frontain Bryant takes on oversight of all of Lifetime and Lmn programming in addition to her current role overseeing original programming for the flagship A&e brand.
Winter revealed in a memo to staff that she’s “decided to embark on a new path” that will combine “my passion for the creative aspects of entertainment with the business side of our industry.
- 8/9/2023
- by BreAnna Bell
- Variety Film + TV
A+E Networks is undergoing a significant executive shuffle with news that Lifetime brass Amy Winter and Tanya Lopez are both departing the media company.
Their exits mark an even bigger gig for one of the company’s top programming executives. Elaine Frontain Bryant, the longtime EVP and head of programming at flagship channel A&e, will now take on oversight of all Lifetime and Lmn (Lifetime Movie Network) programming — including all both networks’ lucrative original telepic offerings. Eli Lehrer, who oversees programming for The History Channel, has simultaneously added A+E Networks’ Music Services division to his plate. Both Frontain Bryant and Lehrer report directly to A+E Networks president of programming Rob Sharenow and will continue to do so.
As for Winter, she leaves the company after a three-year tenure as EVP and head of programming at Lifetime, while Lopez segues from her post as Lifetime’s top movies programmer...
Their exits mark an even bigger gig for one of the company’s top programming executives. Elaine Frontain Bryant, the longtime EVP and head of programming at flagship channel A&e, will now take on oversight of all Lifetime and Lmn (Lifetime Movie Network) programming — including all both networks’ lucrative original telepic offerings. Eli Lehrer, who oversees programming for The History Channel, has simultaneously added A+E Networks’ Music Services division to his plate. Both Frontain Bryant and Lehrer report directly to A+E Networks president of programming Rob Sharenow and will continue to do so.
As for Winter, she leaves the company after a three-year tenure as EVP and head of programming at Lifetime, while Lopez segues from her post as Lifetime’s top movies programmer...
- 8/9/2023
- by Mikey O'Connell
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Michael Lehrer, a comedian and improv actor best known for his work in ‘ Second City,’ and ‘Masters of the Internet,’ has died with the assistance of a doctor following a years-long battle with Als. He was 44.
His girlfriend and caretaker, Colette Montague, told the Chicago Sun-Times, “Michael died with dignity on his own terms. He was not suicidal at all. … Medical aid in dying was the hardest decision he ever made.”
Despite being diagnosed with Als, the comedian and sketch artist continued to perform at clubs while confined to a wheelchair. His bits included jokes about his life and his battle with the neurodegenerative disease.
Lehrer was a regular on ‘Kill Tony,’ a live comedy podcast based in Austin, Texas where Joe Rogan and Ron White often appeared. Rogan paid his respects to Lehrer in an Instagram post.
“The courage this man had to do stand up while battling a debilitating disease was insanely impressive,...
His girlfriend and caretaker, Colette Montague, told the Chicago Sun-Times, “Michael died with dignity on his own terms. He was not suicidal at all. … Medical aid in dying was the hardest decision he ever made.”
Despite being diagnosed with Als, the comedian and sketch artist continued to perform at clubs while confined to a wheelchair. His bits included jokes about his life and his battle with the neurodegenerative disease.
Lehrer was a regular on ‘Kill Tony,’ a live comedy podcast based in Austin, Texas where Joe Rogan and Ron White often appeared. Rogan paid his respects to Lehrer in an Instagram post.
“The courage this man had to do stand up while battling a debilitating disease was insanely impressive,...
- 1/19/2023
- by Joshua Vinson
- The Wrap
Michael Lehrer, a sketch, improv and stand-up performer whose credits included The Second City, has died of complications of Als. He was 44.
Lehrer kept performing even after his 2017 diagnosis, appearing in Austin, Texas clubs in a wheelchair. He talked openly about his struggles with the disease on stage and on the comedy podcast Kill Tony.
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Lehrer was selected as a New Face of Comedy for the 2014 Just for Laughs Festival. He helped create four original sketch revues for The Second City, including the Jeff Award winner for Best Revue, Sky’s The Limit (Weather Permitting). He also logged time in The Second City Touring Company, Second City’s Las Vegas outpost,...
Lehrer kept performing even after his 2017 diagnosis, appearing in Austin, Texas clubs in a wheelchair. He talked openly about his struggles with the disease on stage and on the comedy podcast Kill Tony.
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Lehrer was selected as a New Face of Comedy for the 2014 Just for Laughs Festival. He helped create four original sketch revues for The Second City, including the Jeff Award winner for Best Revue, Sky’s The Limit (Weather Permitting). He also logged time in The Second City Touring Company, Second City’s Las Vegas outpost,...
- 1/19/2023
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
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In what’s being portrayed as a generational change, PBS said Wednesday that Geoff Bennett and Amna Nawaz will replace Washington veteran Judy Woodruff as anchors of the weeknight NewsHour at the beginning of 2023.
Woodruff, 75, is leaving the daily anchor job that she’s been doing since 2013 and embarking on a two-year reporting project on the nation’s divisions. Her last show as anchor will be Dec. 30.
Nawaz, 43, has been Woodruff’s chief substitute since joining NewsHour in 2018. She’s won Peabody Awards for her reporting on the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection and global plastic pollution, and previously worked at ABC and NBC News.
The 42-year-old Bennett became anchor of the weekend NewsHour earlier this year after jumping from NBC. The Washington reporter covered the White House and Congress for NBC and, prior to that, NPR.
“You can’t understate the importance of this moment,...
In what’s being portrayed as a generational change, PBS said Wednesday that Geoff Bennett and Amna Nawaz will replace Washington veteran Judy Woodruff as anchors of the weeknight NewsHour at the beginning of 2023.
Woodruff, 75, is leaving the daily anchor job that she’s been doing since 2013 and embarking on a two-year reporting project on the nation’s divisions. Her last show as anchor will be Dec. 30.
Nawaz, 43, has been Woodruff’s chief substitute since joining NewsHour in 2018. She’s won Peabody Awards for her reporting on the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection and global plastic pollution, and previously worked at ABC and NBC News.
The 42-year-old Bennett became anchor of the weekend NewsHour earlier this year after jumping from NBC. The Washington reporter covered the White House and Congress for NBC and, prior to that, NPR.
“You can’t understate the importance of this moment,...
- 11/17/2022
- by the Associated Press
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
New wreckage from the notorious 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster was discovered for the first time in over 25 years. The discovery came from an unlikely source: a History Channel series set to premiere later this month.
Titled “The Bermuda Triangle: Into Cursed Waters,” the upcoming six-part series follows a team of underwater investigators as they identify wrecks in the western part of the North Atlantic region — where the so-called Bermuda Triangle, known in urban legends as a place where many ships have disappeared, is located. According to The History Channel, during shooting for the series last March, the crew attempted to find the wreckage of a Pbm Martin Mariner Rescue Plane that disappeared in 1945, only to discover a 2o-foot segment of a modern aviation structure in the depths of the water.
After a second dive, the team presented their findings to retired astronaut Bruce Melnick, who identified it as possible wreckage from Challenger.
Titled “The Bermuda Triangle: Into Cursed Waters,” the upcoming six-part series follows a team of underwater investigators as they identify wrecks in the western part of the North Atlantic region — where the so-called Bermuda Triangle, known in urban legends as a place where many ships have disappeared, is located. According to The History Channel, during shooting for the series last March, the crew attempted to find the wreckage of a Pbm Martin Mariner Rescue Plane that disappeared in 1945, only to discover a 2o-foot segment of a modern aviation structure in the depths of the water.
After a second dive, the team presented their findings to retired astronaut Bruce Melnick, who identified it as possible wreckage from Challenger.
- 11/10/2022
- by Wilson Chapman
- Indiewire
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CBS, ABC and Vice were among the top winners at the 43rd annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards on Wednesday.
During a ceremony held at the Palladium Times Square in New York City and streamed online, the first night of the two-evening event celebrated the News categories, while the Documentary winners will be announced Thursday.
Scheduled presenters at the News portion included ABC News’ Linsey Davis, CBS News’ Margarat Brennan, CNN’s Omar Jimenez, NBC News’ Morgan Radford, Noticias Telemundo’s Julio Vaqueiro, Univision’s Teresa Rodrigues and Vice News’ Paola Ramos.
PBS NewsHour anchor and managing editor Judy Woodruff was the previously announced recipient of the night’s lifetime achievement honors during the News event, with McNeill/Lehrer NewsHour co-founder Robert McNeil chosen to present the award.
The full list of winners from the first night of the News & Documentary Emmy Awards ceremony is below.
CBS, ABC and Vice were among the top winners at the 43rd annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards on Wednesday.
During a ceremony held at the Palladium Times Square in New York City and streamed online, the first night of the two-evening event celebrated the News categories, while the Documentary winners will be announced Thursday.
Scheduled presenters at the News portion included ABC News’ Linsey Davis, CBS News’ Margarat Brennan, CNN’s Omar Jimenez, NBC News’ Morgan Radford, Noticias Telemundo’s Julio Vaqueiro, Univision’s Teresa Rodrigues and Vice News’ Paola Ramos.
PBS NewsHour anchor and managing editor Judy Woodruff was the previously announced recipient of the night’s lifetime achievement honors during the News event, with McNeill/Lehrer NewsHour co-founder Robert McNeil chosen to present the award.
The full list of winners from the first night of the News & Documentary Emmy Awards ceremony is below.
- 9/29/2022
- by Ryan Gajewski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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