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03.01.2024 - 14:09 / variety.com
Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Martha Stewart didn’t talk to CNN for a new original documentary series the news outlet has produced about her. But she’s still the star of the show. “The Many Lives of Martha Stewart” is a four-part series produced by CNN Studios, a division devoted to longer-form and enterprise programming in the wake of a strategic decision made in 2022 to scale back big ambitions to compete in the documentary arena.
Under previous leader Jeff Zucker, CNN extended its aegis to the world of film festivals and documentary series led by notables such as Anthony Bourdain, Lisa Ling and W. Kamau Bell. A good chunk of that work was scrapped after Warner Bros.
Discovery, a big player in the world of cost-conscious reality programming, took over CNN, and installed a leader, Chris Licht, who had a mandate to pare operations. Months later, CNN would win an Oscar for a documentary it produced about Russian dissident Alexei Navalny. The debut of the new Martha Stewart series — slated to air January 28 at 9 p.m.
and February 4 at 9 p.m. — indicates all was not lost. Many CNN rivals have dipped into similar waters.
Both NBC News and MSNBC have ramped up production of documentary films and series in recent years, launching such programs as a travelogue led by John Leguizamo or a movie about former White House photographer Pete Souza. Fox News has ramped up documentary programming — including some series led by Kevin Costner. Dennis Quaid and Dan Aykroyd — for its Fox Nation streaming hub.
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EXCLUSIVE: Diego Boneta (Luis Miguel: The Series) and Martha Higareda (Queens on the Run) are set to star and executive produce the new erotic thriller film Follow for Amazon Studios from award-winning collaborators Fred Berger (La La Land) and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones (The Bikeriders). This is the first project from Boneta’s production banner Three Amigos’s overall deal with Amazon Prime.
Kristen Stewart had an emotional moment at Sundance Film Festival. The seasoned actresses met up and took some photos together, providing viewer the opportunity to reminisce about their film “Panic Room,” which was released in 2002 and served as one of Stewart’s first film roles. Jodie Foster’s kids: Meet Charlie and KitJodie Foster was almost Princess Leia in ‘Star Wars’Stewart and Foster reunited at Sundance Film Festival’s opening night gala and took some photos to commemorate the occasion.
Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic On the most literal level, Sam and Andy Zuchero’s “Love Me” is about the relationship between a buoy adrift at sea and a satellite circling the earth. The eccentric rom-com takes place in a time after humans have gone extinct, when the surviving machines’ only references are a massive hard drive’s worth of data combed from search engines and social media sites.
EXCLUSIVE: FOX Entertaiment and its in-house studio division MarVista Entertainment are launching Tideline Entertainment, a new production label that will focus on creating impactful and meaningful content with unique perspectives from differentiated storytellers, voices and creators worldwide.
Neon is opening Origin on 130 screens and plans to expand the Ava DuVernay film, which premiered in Venice and had a excellent qualifying run in December.
Kristen Stewart is being honored with the visionary award at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival opening night gala, a prize that is a bit unusual for the actor to accept. Speaking to Variety‘s Angelique Jackson, Stewart said her job is to serve the vision of filmmakers and not to always have her own sense of vision. “When I saw that I was being given the visionary award I was like, ‘What a word!'” Stewart said during Variety On The Carpet, presented by DIRECTV.
Congratulations to Lisa Vanderpump! And, we’re guessing that Martha Stewart just licensed her name for her Las Vegas restaurant, her first ever. We doubt she put up any of her own money or stands to lose any, if the eatery at Paris Vegas closes.
Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Rachel Maddow‘s next project will take her to Russia — in a sense. The journalist’s Surprise Inside production company will team up with Adam McKay‘s Hyperobject Industries to work on the Rakontur documentary project “From Russia With Lev.” All three production entities are clients of WME.
Ellise Shafer “Love Lies Bleeding” starring Kristen Stewart and Netflix’s “Supersex” series have been added to Berlin Film Festival‘s Special lineup. A romantic thriller centered on a bodybuilder and gym manager, “Love Lies Bleeding” is directed by “Saint Maud” helmer Rose Glass and will have its world premiere at Sundance this month.
Kristen Stewart has hinted that her upcoming movie Love Lies Bleeding “is going to shock people” due to its sex scenes.The Twilight actress recently discussed her wide-spanning career and her journey to becoming a queer icon with Variety. She spoke of her upcoming film Love Lies Bleeding, which is co-produced by A24 and Film4, and is set to premiere at Sundance Film Festival later this month.Directed by Rose Glass (Saint Maud), the film features a romance between Jackie (Katy O’Brien), an aspiring bodybuilder, and Lou (Stewart), a butch lesbian who works at Jackie’s gym.Stewart said that Love Lies Bleeding “turned on” the actress during filming, as it “glorified” the butch qualities that Stewart doesn’t often get to play in roles.
Penny Lancaster took to social media on Wednesday to post a sweet tribute to her "darling" husband Rod Stewart on his birthday as the Maggie May rocker celebrated turning 79 surrounded by his clan of loved ones.
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Zack Sharf Digital News Director Patrick Stewart has died many times on screen as Professor X/Charles Xavier, the beloved “X-Men” character he first started playing all the way back in 2000, but the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s ongoing multiverse means there’s always room for him to come back. Stewart last popped up as the character in 2022’s “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” and he confirmed during a new interview on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast that talks about reviving Professor X yet again in “Deadpool 3” have “come up.” “Deadpool 3” is teaming Ryan Reynold’s eponymous superhero with Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine, a hero whose film presence over the last two decades and counting has been greatly intertwined with that Stewart’s Professor X.
Fox News will host a town hall featuring former President Donald Trump on January 10, counter-programming to CNN‘s Republican debate from Iowa that same evening.
Martha Stewart is feeling herself - as she should. On Friday morning, the 82-year-old blessed her 1.9 million followers on Instagram with what fans are calling their favorite thirst trap yet.
Martha Stewart is posing for a sexy thirst trap!
The queen of thirst traps is at it again!
in pop culture with her absolutely stunning Instagram thirst traps. And her latest upload may just be the 82-year-old lifestyle icon's sultriest post yet.The selfie features a pouting giving bedroom eyes to the bathroom mirror in a gray, lace-trimmed negligee and matching dressing gown, with her blonde curls tousled into what can only be described as sexy bed head. And she's telling us this is what she looks like first thing in the morning.“After an eight hour plane trip from Westchester to Palm Beach—horrible by the way—we went to bed early and wore my beautiful @sabbiarosa nightgown (linen with robe),” Stewart wrote in the .
shared a hot selfie on Instagram, where she donned a lacy nightgown on Friday.Stewart took a snapshot of herself giving a sultry look to the mirror.She sported a gray and white silk slip dress and matching bathrobe.“After an eight hour plane trip from Westchester to Palm Beach — horrible by the way — we went to bed early,” she captioned her shot.“I didn’t look so bad when I got up at least not as bad as I did when I went to bed — it must be the $$$$$outfit!!” she added.Her fans ate up the look and took to the comments section to express their joy over the photo.“Thirst trap Martha, and I’m here for it,” one commenter wrote. “Thirst Trap Martha is my favorite Martha,” another added.A third chimed in: “Not Martha with a thirst trap pic!?! She looks tf good tho!!! Go girl.”“Absolute fire Martha!” swooned a fan, with one adding: “Umm, why don’t I look as good when I wake up?!?” Another user interjected: “Slaying it as usual, Martha!”“Coming like a Boss, giving all of us women an education on how to do it Ms.