Todd Gilchrist editorFor a writer, signing on to “Planet of the Apes” is less an assignment than a calling. After all, it’s the longest-running science-fiction series in film history.
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EXCLUSIVE: Cinetic Media has signed New York-based documentary filmmaker Contessa Gayles for management across all media.
Most recently, Gayles took to SXSW with her film Songs from the Hole, which garnered strong reviews and won the festival’s Visions Audience Award. Described as a documentary visual album, pic follows musician James “JJ’88” Jacobs as he writes about his innermost struggles while serving a double life sentence.
Up next for Gayles is the Tribeca Festival debut of her documentary The Debutantes, made in collaboration with NBC News Studios, Westbrook Studios, and BET Studios. Through personal video diaries and dance, the doc watches as teens Amelia, Dedra, and Teylar navigate identity and gender norms while pursuing dreams of college, medicine or business.
Gayles’s documentary short, Founder Girls, exec produced by Queen Latifah, premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Festival and was broadcast on BET. Previously, she was a producer at CNN, where she created, produced, directed, shot, and edited award-winning original series and documentaries, including the feature doc The Feminist on Cellblock Y, shorts Women Who March and Women Who March: The Movement, series This Is Birth with Lisa Ling and the News & Documentary Emmy-nominated Feeding America’s Most Vulnerable Children. Gayles has additionally contributed to Vice, PBS NewsHour, PBS Frontline, CBS, Time, Al Jazeera, Vox, Wire, and documentary features including Netflix’s Emmy-nominated Convergence: Courage in a Crisis, Disney/Hulu’s Anthem, Showtime’s Surge, and Black Mothers Love & Resist.
Other notable filmmaker clients of Cinetic Media include Richard Linklater, David Gordon Green, Todd Haynes, Babak Jalali, Killer Films, World of Wonder, Lana Wilson,
Todd Gilchrist editorFor a writer, signing on to “Planet of the Apes” is less an assignment than a calling. After all, it’s the longest-running science-fiction series in film history.
Bae Suzy, all nominations underwent strict screening by a panel of 60 evaluators, industry judges and experts, whose specialties range from TV to theatre.Only one Grand Prize (Daesang) is given out at the Baeksang Arts Awards for film, with this year’s going to director Kim Sung-su for his work on historical action film 12.12: The Day. The same film also bagged the award for Best Film, while Best Director went to director Jung Jae-hyun for his work on psychological thriller him Exhuma. Meanwhile, for television, the only Grand Prize (Daesang) was awarded to Disney+’s popular series Moving. Screenwriter Kang Full also won Best Screenplay for his work on Moving, while Lee Jung-ha’s debut performance on the same show as Kim Bong-seok landed him the award for Best New Actor.The Baeksang Arts Awards also gave out accolades under a third category for theatre, as well as a final special category of awards presented to two winners for Prizm Popularity Awards in both the male and female categories.
Archival producers spend their days immersed in history – cultural, political, or personal, depending on the project. Yet, historically, their specialized work has often been overlooked, even though it’s key to the Ken Burns canon and other great documentaries like Man on Wire, 13th, The Fog of War, Apollo 11, How to Survive a Plague, They Shall Not Grow Old, and so many others.
Brent Lang Executive Editor Steven Quale, best known for his work on “Into the Storm” and “Final Destination 5,” has been tapped to direct Capstone Studios and Hammerstone Studios’ “Black Box (Flight 298).” The upcoming supernatural thrilleris based on an original screenplay from Stephen Susco, a horror writer whose many genre credits include “The Grudge,” “The Grudge 2,” “Texas Chainsaw 3D” and “Hell Fest.” According to the logline, the film follows the supernatural events surrounding Vero Airlines Flight 298 from New Orleans to Seattle. Hammerstone Studios’ Alex Lebovici (“Barbarian”) and Jon Oakes (“The Guilty”) will produce alongside Capstone’s Christian Mercuri and David Haring (“Bill & Ted Face the Music”), Warren Zide (“The Final Destination” and Susco.
This Morning has undergone some huge changes over the past year, with former hosts Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby stepping down and many new faces being introduced.The guests who appear on the show are ever-changing too, from experts to celebrities. One show regular has now revealed she's been axed from This Morning, admitting she's found it difficult to "move on" after leaving the programme. Holly Jay Smith was known as the Coupon Queen on the ITV show and provided money-saving tips for viewers.
Katy Perry has debunked two photos as AI after they went viral on social media earlier today (May 7).Earlier today, numerous musicians, actors and entertainers attended the 2024 Met Gala. One person who didn’t attend, however, was Katy Perry.
Mindy Kaling is on the Met Gala red carpet!
From its first notes to its last, The Cool Cloud of Okayness is an impressively patient album. Its songs drive slowly, powered by the ever-present engine of Tara Jane O’Neil’s towering bass guitar, with her pithy but plain-sung vocals at the wheel and an ensemble of co-conspirators along for the ride — each contributing something essential, none in a hurry to outpace the rest.
EXCLUSIVE: Leonardo DiCaprio and revered environmental activist Jane Goodall will executive produce Howl, a film following an abandoned family dog and a young wolf, which will unfold from the animals’ perspective. The Promethean Pictures movie has just entered production, we can reveal. It is not an environment film per se, but the team behind it plans to give moviegoers a transformative view of the natural world.
The wife of The Repair Shop presenter Jay Blades appears to have confirmed their 18-month marriage is over, just a few days after he revealed he was taking a break from social media following his uncle's murder. In a statement posted online early this morning, Lisa said: "I don't know how to say this because it's still really raw." As reported in The Sun, she continued: "I probably should be really angry but I'm just incredibly sad about the whole thing right now. I don't think I've ever cried so much." The 44 year old fitness guru added: "I will admit I'm crying as I type this as I can't believe this is even real.
Taylor Swift made history on the Billboard charts this week and she’s the first person to occupy the top 14 slots of the Hot 100 singles chart.
Taylor Swift is taking over!
Luke Newton, who is about to star in season three of Bridgerton as Colin, is speaking out about advice he received from Regé-Jean Page and Jonathan Bailey.
have shared a previously unseen photograph from their wedding day as they celebrate their 13th anniversary.On April 29, 2011, Catherine Middleton, wearing bespoke Alexander McQueen, walked down Westminster Abbey’s aisle to Sir Hubert Parry’s I Was Glad on the arm of her proud father, Michael Middleton, to marry Prince William. Her sister, , was a bridesmaid, dutifully arranging her sister’s train.
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Prolific Philippines-based Epicmedia Productions has come on board “The Passport,” a Malaysian coming of age story about a Tamil family and their punk rock daughter. Production is by Malaysia’s Sixtymac Pictures. Currently at financing stage, the project will mark the directing debut of Ananth Subramaniam, whose short films have played at BiFan and Fantasia, and whose works explore his Tamil-ancestral identity and family within the context of a multi-layered genre.
EXCLUSIVE: Producers Esmail Corp (Mr. Robot) and K Period Media (Manchester By The Sea) are teaming up with Korean filmmaker Kim Jee-woon (The Age Of Shadows) on an English and Korean-language movie adaptation of novel The Hole.
Dead Boy Detectives has just been released on Netflix, but what songs are on the soundtrack? The series is based on the DC Comics characters of the same name, created by Neil Gaiman and Matt Wagner, while the show has been helmed by Steve Yockey, who also developed The Flight Attendant. It stars George Rexstrew and Jayden Revri as the titular detectives Charles Rowland and Edwin Paine, who opt not to enter the afterlife, but to stay on Earth and investigate crimes involving the supernatural.
“Clara Bow” is the 16th track on Taylor Swift‘s new album The Tortured Poets Department and the real-life subject’s family is reacting to the song.
after releasing her highly anticipated album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” Taylor Swift announced a big surprise: It’s a double album. “I’d written so much tortured poetry in the past 2 years and wanted to share it all with you, so here’s the second installment of TTPD: The Anthology. 15 extra songs,” Swift posted on Instagram at 2 a.m.
Taylor Swift album.And, of course, that’s Travis Kelce — the Super Bowl champ sweetheart of the pop superstar.In fact, getting love from the 34-year-old singer on her highly anticipated 11th studio LP — “The Tortured Poets Department,” which dropped on Friday — might be an even bigger win than getting that Super Bowl ring.“The Alchemy” is a sexy slow dance that is unabashedly about Kelce, with Swift staking claim to her stud.“So when I touch down all that matters/Call the amateurs and cut ’em from the team/Ditch the clowns, get the crown/Baby I’m the one to beat/’Cause the sign on your heart said it’s still reserved for me.”All right now, Miss Tay.As if there was doubt about just who she was putting on lock, the Swift — who famously dashed into her boo’s arms for an iconic smooch when his Kansas City Chiefs won the Super Bowl against the San Francisco 49ers in February — later adds, “Where’s the trophy? He just comes running over to me.”The couple began dating last summer and went public with their relationship in September 2023.Swift has not been shy about her romance with Kelce, ratcheting up the TV ratings for the NFL when she cheered on her boyfriend from the stands at multiple games.“When you say a relationship is public, that means I’m going to see him do what he loves, we’re showing up for each other, other people are there and we don’t care,” Swift told Time in December, when she was named the magazine’s 2023 Person of the Year.“The opposite of that is you have to go to an extreme amount of effort to make sure no one knows that you’re seeing someone,” she added.