Eli Noyes, the pioneering stop-motion animator who scored an Oscar nom for his short film Clay, or The Origin of Species and worked on the MTV series Liquid Television and HBO’s Braingames among other credits, has died. He was 81.
His death was announced by Ralph Guggenheim, Noyes’ partner at Alligator Planet for more than 20 years. No other details were provided.
Born on October 18, 1942, Noyes specialized in stop-motion using clay and sand, and an early student film made while he was at Yale university earned him an Academy Award nomination. Clay, or the Origin of Species was an innovative if primitive black-and-white short that traced the rise of life on Earth from its earliest existence. Watch it above.
His next film was Alphabet, which this time used the manipulation of sand as the medium. It won a Special Jury Award at the 1967 Annecy International Animated Film Festival and was used...
His death was announced by Ralph Guggenheim, Noyes’ partner at Alligator Planet for more than 20 years. No other details were provided.
Born on October 18, 1942, Noyes specialized in stop-motion using clay and sand, and an early student film made while he was at Yale university earned him an Academy Award nomination. Clay, or the Origin of Species was an innovative if primitive black-and-white short that traced the rise of life on Earth from its earliest existence. Watch it above.
His next film was Alphabet, which this time used the manipulation of sand as the medium. It won a Special Jury Award at the 1967 Annecy International Animated Film Festival and was used...
- 3/26/2024
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
The wrong AirBnB can make all the difference — especially when it leads to a deadly case of mistaken identity.
Kevin Hart stars as a bumbling sales consultant who checks into the wrong holiday rental cabin in Netflix’s comedy of errors “The Man from Toronto.” When Hart walks in on a torture chamber, he quickly has to pretend to be the eponymous assassin from Toronto to save his own life. Yet the CIA wants him to stay undercover to help them find the real Man from Toronto, who is none other than Woody Harrelson.
The buddy comedy continues as Harrelson trains Hart to be him, and Hart has to decide whether or not to turn the Man from Toronto in to the feds. “The Hitman’s Bodyguard” director Patrick Hughes helms the Netflix film, streaming June 24.
Kaley Cuoco, Jasmine Mathews, Lela Loren, Pierson Fodé, Jencarlos Canela, and Ellen Barkin also star in the action-comedy.
Kevin Hart stars as a bumbling sales consultant who checks into the wrong holiday rental cabin in Netflix’s comedy of errors “The Man from Toronto.” When Hart walks in on a torture chamber, he quickly has to pretend to be the eponymous assassin from Toronto to save his own life. Yet the CIA wants him to stay undercover to help them find the real Man from Toronto, who is none other than Woody Harrelson.
The buddy comedy continues as Harrelson trains Hart to be him, and Hart has to decide whether or not to turn the Man from Toronto in to the feds. “The Hitman’s Bodyguard” director Patrick Hughes helms the Netflix film, streaming June 24.
Kaley Cuoco, Jasmine Mathews, Lela Loren, Pierson Fodé, Jencarlos Canela, and Ellen Barkin also star in the action-comedy.
- 6/1/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Longtime CAA agent Jeremy Plager has departed the company to launch his own management and production entity.
A 25-year veteran of the Hollywood deal-making firm, Plager has represented top clients including Jennifer Lawrence, Woody Harrelson, Gerard Butler, Mila Kunis, Emilia Clarke, Hugh Grant and Jane Fonda. Notably, he signed Lawrence and Butler when they were unknowns.
His yet-to-be-named company has been in the works since late 2019, insiders said. Among those joining Plager as management clients are Harrelson, producer and financier Paul Brooks, actress Clara Rugaard and writer-director Oren Moverman.
“I am so thrilled to be able to maximize my time with the incredible talent I am privileged to work with and also give myself the opportunity to explore the journey of a project from start to finish,” Plager said in a statement. “As I look back on my amazing time at CAA, I am so proud of my long time...
A 25-year veteran of the Hollywood deal-making firm, Plager has represented top clients including Jennifer Lawrence, Woody Harrelson, Gerard Butler, Mila Kunis, Emilia Clarke, Hugh Grant and Jane Fonda. Notably, he signed Lawrence and Butler when they were unknowns.
His yet-to-be-named company has been in the works since late 2019, insiders said. Among those joining Plager as management clients are Harrelson, producer and financier Paul Brooks, actress Clara Rugaard and writer-director Oren Moverman.
“I am so thrilled to be able to maximize my time with the incredible talent I am privileged to work with and also give myself the opportunity to explore the journey of a project from start to finish,” Plager said in a statement. “As I look back on my amazing time at CAA, I am so proud of my long time...
- 5/1/2020
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
After 25 years as a talent agent, CAA vet Jeremy Plager is leaving to launch his own production and management company. He’s firming his list of clients and will start with Woody Harrelson, producer/financier Paul Brooks, actress Clara Rugaard, and writer/director/producer Oren Moverman.
Plager will become producer — along with Star Thrower Entertainment, Luke Davies and Harrelson — of the limited series The Most Dangerous Man In America, about the nerdy Harvard prof Timothy Leary who after being arrested for smoking a joint, escaped and found himself on the run and harbored by the Black Panthers, the Weather Underground and others as he became a counterculture icon; and a remake of the inspiring Spanish film Champions that Peter Cattaneo is directing and Gerard Butler is starring in for Focus Features. Brooks is also a producer on that one.
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Plager will become producer — along with Star Thrower Entertainment, Luke Davies and Harrelson — of the limited series The Most Dangerous Man In America, about the nerdy Harvard prof Timothy Leary who after being arrested for smoking a joint, escaped and found himself on the run and harbored by the Black Panthers, the Weather Underground and others as he became a counterculture icon; and a remake of the inspiring Spanish film Champions that Peter Cattaneo is directing and Gerard Butler is starring in for Focus Features. Brooks is also a producer on that one.
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- 5/1/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
In odd replacement news, Woody Harrelson has replaced Jason Statham on the upcoming action-comedy ‘The Man From Toronto’.
Harrelson joins Kevin Hart on the production which is due to start shooting in 6 weeks.
It’s reported Statham turned his back on the picture when Sony refused to make the feature an R-rated comedy which was part of his terms to sign on the dotted line. Sony would rather push for a more generic pic that could stretch over a number of sequels.
Statham who has a talent for turning his action chops into humour had previously starred with Hart in the Fast and Furious spin-off, ‘Hobbs and Shaw’.
The story focuses on a mistaken identity after the world’s deadliest assassin, known as the Man from Toronto, and a New York City screw-up run into each other at an Airbnb. A clash of personalities, and a clash with deadly killers,...
Harrelson joins Kevin Hart on the production which is due to start shooting in 6 weeks.
It’s reported Statham turned his back on the picture when Sony refused to make the feature an R-rated comedy which was part of his terms to sign on the dotted line. Sony would rather push for a more generic pic that could stretch over a number of sequels.
Statham who has a talent for turning his action chops into humour had previously starred with Hart in the Fast and Furious spin-off, ‘Hobbs and Shaw’.
The story focuses on a mistaken identity after the world’s deadliest assassin, known as the Man from Toronto, and a New York City screw-up run into each other at an Airbnb. A clash of personalities, and a clash with deadly killers,...
- 3/11/2020
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Clockwise from top left: Alethea Jones, Jiao Chen, Zareh Nalbandian, Luke Davies.
Luke Davies, Alethea Jones, Animal Logic CEO Zareh Nalbandian and Columbia Pictures’ director of creative development Jiao Chen will be the mentors in this year’s Mentor La program.
Applications are now open for the development program for mid-level screen professionals. Applicants must be Australian residents currently living in Australia.
Australians in Film (AiF) and Screen Australia are encouraging applications from groups currently under-represented in the Australian screen industry including women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people with disabilities, Lgbtqi and gender diverse people.
Established in 2017, Mentor La consists of four one-hour sessions. Three are held online and one is face-to-face in Los Angeles, starting in April.
The sessions are designed to provide mentees with personalized, first-hand knowledge of the challenges and knowledge these mentors have learnt from working in the Hollywood system.
Luke Davies, Alethea Jones, Animal Logic CEO Zareh Nalbandian and Columbia Pictures’ director of creative development Jiao Chen will be the mentors in this year’s Mentor La program.
Applications are now open for the development program for mid-level screen professionals. Applicants must be Australian residents currently living in Australia.
Australians in Film (AiF) and Screen Australia are encouraging applications from groups currently under-represented in the Australian screen industry including women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people with disabilities, Lgbtqi and gender diverse people.
Established in 2017, Mentor La consists of four one-hour sessions. Three are held online and one is face-to-face in Los Angeles, starting in April.
The sessions are designed to provide mentees with personalized, first-hand knowledge of the challenges and knowledge these mentors have learnt from working in the Hollywood system.
- 3/9/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Amid the ongoing impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, which often evoke Watergate, HBO has greenlighted The White House Plumbers, a five-part limited series starring Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux, which revisits one of the biggest political scandals in American history. The project hails from Veep executive producers Alex Gregory, Peter Huyck, David Mandel and Frank Rich, and Ruben Fleischer and David Bernad’s The District. The limited series is a co-production between HBO and wiip.
Written by Gregory and Huyck and directed by Mandel, The White House Plumbers is based part on public records and the book Integrity by Egil “Bud” Krogh and Matthew Krogh. The series tells the true story of how Nixon’s own political saboteurs and Watergate masterminds, E. Howard Hunt, played by Harrelson, and G. Gordon Liddy, played by Theroux, accidentally toppled the Presidency they were zealously trying to protect.
Harrelson and Theroux executive produce with Gregory,...
Written by Gregory and Huyck and directed by Mandel, The White House Plumbers is based part on public records and the book Integrity by Egil “Bud” Krogh and Matthew Krogh. The series tells the true story of how Nixon’s own political saboteurs and Watergate masterminds, E. Howard Hunt, played by Harrelson, and G. Gordon Liddy, played by Theroux, accidentally toppled the Presidency they were zealously trying to protect.
Harrelson and Theroux executive produce with Gregory,...
- 12/4/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
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