Pitlochry High School has been lauded for its “calm, positive and inclusive environment” for pupils following a recent inspection.
16.06.2023 - 16:33 / deadline.com
While professional football has always captivated American audiences with its gladiatorial drama and drive, it’s at heart a multi-billion-dollar enterprise, propelled by profits and ratings. But amateur football, especially at the high school level, is a galvanizing force for communities, both rural and urban. It brings hope and unity; it’s an escape and an outlet; and for some it’s a pathway out of poverty.
Peter Berg’s Friday Night Lights, the feature film and subsequent long running fiction series about football culture in a small town in Texas, arguably paved the way for such docs as Undefeated, Last Chance U and Outta the Muck, where football serves as the narrative throughline and pretext for a deeper exploration of race and class. Boys in Blue, Berg’s docuseries about a Minneapolis high school football team and the sociocultural challenges that its community faces, premiered on Showtime in January and is now in contention for Emmy consideration.
When Berg learned about the 2020 murder of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis, he, like everyone else, was horrified. Berg had lived in Minneapolis in the 1980s and 1990s. “When I heard about George Floyd, and that it happened in the Twin Cities,” he recalls, “I didn’t understand how something that violent and horrific could occur at a place that seemed so peaceful to me when I was there.”
Months later, Berg read an article by veteran New York Times journalist Kurt Streeter about Charles Adams, the head coach of the Minneapolis North High School football team–and an officer with the Minneapolis Police Department. “This team was trying to just play football and survive in the middle of what was such a ground zero for unrest at that time,” Berg tells Deadline.
Pitlochry High School has been lauded for its “calm, positive and inclusive environment” for pupils following a recent inspection.
Liv Tyler is one proud mom!
EXCLUSIVE: After hitting 300 North American theaters via The Avenue last fall, the action thriller The System, starring Tyrese Gibson, Terrence Howard, Jeremy Piven and Lil Yachty, has been set to premiere on Starz on July 1st. The film will have its linear premiere there at 12:00 p.m. ET on July 6th, also airing that night at 11:30 p.m. ET.
Thousands of students transitioning into high school will receive a special book to help the movement become easier.
Kristoffer Polaha took the stage at Oaks Christian School earlier this month not just as a proud dad to son Caleb, but also as the school’s keynote speaker.
Fall Out Boy have released an updated version of Billy Joel‘s ‘We Didn’t Start The Fire’ with headlines from the past 30 years.Joel’s 1989 Number one hit, ‘We Didn’t Start The Fire’, includes brief references to 118 significant political, cultural and scientific events between the years of Joel’s birth in 1949 and the song’s release in 1989.Today (June 28), Fall Out Boy shared a modernised version of the track, replacing the original lyrics with standout events from where the song left off in 1989 to 2023.“I thought about this song a lot when I was younger. All these important people and events – some that disappeared into the sands of time –others that changed the world forever,” shared the band on Twitter.“So much has happened in the span of the last 34 years – we felt like a little system update might be fun.
Young people from S4, S5 and S6 at Castle Douglas High School enjoyed their first awards ceremony since before the Covid-19 pandemic in a packed assembly hall filled with pupils and their families.
Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Is it heresy to say that one of the greatest albums of all time just got a little bit better, 57 years after the fact? Possibly, but it doesn’t feel like too strong a statement to make after hearing the just-released Dolby Atmos mix of the Beach Boys’ 1966 classic “Pet Sounds,” as played back in one of the most state-of-the-art Dolby rooms in the world. It’s going to sound different under other listening circumstances, of course, whether the spatially immersive mix is being heard in a home with dozens of carefully calibrated speakers or through one of the all-in-one Atmos boxes that are now coming out. But what’s almost certain is that any status Brian Wilson’s masterpiece might’ve had as your own personal pet project is only going to be elevated with a lusher and richer audio interpretation of the work.
Melissa Gorga and her husband, Joe, celebrated their daughter's high school graduation by getting nostalgic.The couple took to their Instagram accounts on Thursday and posted photos alongside a proud Antonia in her white cap and gown to go with her matching white dress.
EXCLUSIVE: Sad update on the plan to bring the story about the 2021 California School for the Deaf football team to the small screen; the limited series is not moving forward.
As the DC Universe enters a new era under Peter Safran and James Gunn’s vision, many projects were scrapped or left in development hell. However, Blue Beetle director Angel Manuel Soto says his film is part of the future that the DC co-heads are building.
The wildcats will be taking their final bow this summer.
“High School Musical: The Musical: The Series” will be its last. All episodes in the eight-episode installment will premiere on Disney+ on Aug.
Selome Hailu “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series” is coming to a close. The teen musical comedy’s upcoming fourth season will be its last on Disney+. The met series is set at the high school where the original “High School Musical” movies were filmed and centers on a group of teenage musical theater lovers who decide to mount a production of “High School Musical.” In Season 4, which premieres on Aug. 9, the Wildcats return to East High after an epic summer at Camp Shallow Lake and prepare a stage production of “High School Musical 3: Senior Year.” But plans are disrupted when Principal Gutierrez announces that Disney has decided to make the long-awaited “High School Musical 4: The Reunion” movie on location at their beloved high school.
The upcoming fourth season of Disney+’ original series High School Musical: The Musical: The Series will be its last, with all eight episodes dropping on August 9.
Peter Caranicas Deputy Editor Studio operator Shawn Papazian is set to lead the development and operation of The Fields Studios, Chicago’s newly minted studio and soundstage complex. The announcement was made by real estate developer and The Fields Studios owner Knickpoint Ventures, which appointed Papazian as its newest partner to oversee all of its studio-related activities. The Fields Studios, launched last month, is set to start filming operations in the first quarter of 2024. Papazian has been involved with the design, development, operations and management of motion picture and television studio facilities for over 25 years.
Attention “Zoey 101” fans! Your favourite former Pacific Coast Academy students are back, and are all grown up.
The battle between A&E and rival network Reelz and production company Big Fish Entertainment over On Patrol: Live looks to be heading towards court after a judge dismissed the latter’s previous motion.
wrote on Twitter Friday shortly after news circulated that the series would not be returning for a third installment. The cancellation comes week’s after NBC’s last batch of decisions for on-the-bubble shows, which involved canceling “Grand Crew” after two seasons and “Young Rock” after three seasons.“I’m so sorry we didn’t get to make those episodes, but I’m immensely proud of the 23 episodes of the show we did put out there,” Spitzer continued.
May at Dalbeattie High School brings SQA exams for senior students, but also a little bit of a change with an “alternative timetable” for some.