Adele Lim’s debut film, Joy Ride, will make you cry your eyes out, in addition to showing the audience that women know how to party hard.
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EXCLUSIVE: Stephanie Sperber has stepped down from her post as President of Imagine Kids & Family after four years to focus on producing. In the interim, the label’s slate will be overseen by Karen Lunder, President of Imagine Features, and Kristen Zolner, President of Imagine Television.
Sperber helped get Kids & Family off the ground; she was brought in by Imagine Entertainment principals Brian Grazer and Ron Howard to run the unit at its January 2019 launch.
Since then, the company has found success with Tiny Chef, investing an the emerging digital IP, which Sperber had found, and scaling it up with a TV series on Nickelodeon and other brand extensions. Imagine Kids & Family’s first live-action series, The Astronauts, earned an Emmy nomination for Children’s or Family Viewing Series. Animated series Bossy Bear just premiered on Nick, and coming up are original movie The Slumber Party for Disney+ and animated series Kalamata’s Kitchen for Apple TV+. Sperber will continue to produce the Imagine projects she had developed, including the Tiny Chef franchise.
Sperber took the post of Kids & Family president after founding White Space Entertainment and serving as CEO of the venture focused on building kids franchises through consumer products and digital gaming. Prior to that, Sperber was President of Global Consumer Products, Gaming, Partnerships and Product Placement for Universal Pictures.
“I’ve had so much fun producing, it was so satisfying to me after having spent so many years on the corporate side at Universal that I decided to do what I really wanted, to produce,” Sperber said. “I loved working at Imagine, the guys gave me such an amazing opportunity to change careers and pivot from a corporate, consumer
Adele Lim’s debut film, Joy Ride, will make you cry your eyes out, in addition to showing the audience that women know how to party hard.
The stars of Joy Ride are hitting the red carpet!
The “Joy Ride” trailer is out now and certainly will take you for one.
Joy Ride is definitely one of our most anticipated movies of the year!
How could a trip to the motherland go so hilariously, disastrously wrong? The quartet at the heart of Adele Lim’s “Joy Ride” – Ashley Park, Sherry Cola, Stephanie Hsu and Sabrina Wu – have no idea what they’re in for at the top of the trailer, which Lionsgate released Friday ahead of the film’s premiere at SXSW.The trailer begins with the origin story of Audrey (Park) and Lolo’s (Cola) friendship, when they meet at a park as young kids. Lolo punches a white boy in the throat after he calls Audrey a racist slur, sealing the deal on their lifelong friendship.
Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Lionsgate has released the first trailer for Adele Lim’s “Joy Ride,” a comedy feature starring Oscar nominee Stephanie Hsu, Ashley Park, Sherry Cola and Sabrina Wu. Premiering March 17 at SXSW, the film is set to be released in theaters July 7. “Joy Ride” tells the raunchy and fun story of how four best friends embark on a once-in-a-lifetime international adventure. In the film, Audrey (Park) has to go to Asia on a business trip to close a massive deal. Things go drastically wrong when she searches for her birth mother with her childhood best friend Lolo (Cola), her college friend turned Chinese soap star Kat (Hsu) and Lolo’s eccentric cousin Deadeye (Wu). They also nearly end up in a Chinese jail for doing drugs.
Disney has released a new teaser trailer for its upcoming adaptation of Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese starring Everything Everywhere All At Once‘s Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Stephanie Hsu.The teaser trailer focuses on Yeoh’s character warning that a “gate between Heaven and Earth is opening” with the fate of the world “hanging in balance.” The trailer also shows glimpses of several multiverse settings as well as Ke Huy Quan’s and Stephanie Hsu’s characters.American Born Chinese is set to arrive in Disney+ beginning May 24. Based on Gene Luen Yang’s 2006 graphic novel the same name, the series will tell the story of a teenager named Ben/Jin Wang who struggles as a Chinese immigrant in an American high school.Upon meeting a fellow foreign exchange student Wei-Chen, the two become embroiled in a historical battle of Chinese mythological gods, with themes of identity, culture and family woven in.Jin Wang will be played by young star Ben/Jin Wang, while his fellow exchange student Wei-Chen is played by Jim Liu.
Everything Everywhere All At Once‘s Paul Rogers was clearly overwhelmed following the film’s Oscar win for Film Editing. “This is too much, wow, this is my second film y’all, this is crazy.” He went on to thank his wife, “the most incredible woman in the room,” his family, and cast.
Charna Flam While best supporting actress acting nominee Stephanie Hsu didn’t record the original song “This Is a Life” for the film “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” she proved in her performance on the Oscars stage that she is qualified to take the reins from Mitski, who sang on the soundtrack version. For a performance of the song, Hsu was joined onstage at the Academy Awards by former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne and composer trio Sox Lux (Ryan Lott, Rafiq Bhatia, Ian Chang), who are also featured on the Oscar-nominated song. Among an ensemble of singers, musicians and dancers dressed all in white, Byrne stood out by wearing a set of so-called hot dog fingers, as made famous in one of the more physiologically strange parts of the multiverse in “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”
Stephanie Hsu is picture perfect in pink!
T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach made headlines in late 2022 when they were caught cozying up to each other — despite their respective marriages.
EXCLUSIVE: Veteran producer Stephanie Allain has joined David Gordon Green’s The Exorcist, as executive producer. In addition, the first film in the trilogy from Blumhouse and Morgan Creek for Universal and Peacock has recently wrapped principal photography. The pic hits theaters on Oct. 13.
EXCLUSIVE: Film industry veteran Michele ‘Miss’ Imperato Stablile has been named President, Worldwide Physical Production, Warner Bros. Pictures. She will report directly to Warner Bros Pictures Group Co-Chair and CEOs Michael DeLuca and Pam Abdy. She’ll join the studio in the coming weeks.
Skyler Samuels is taking over!
Angelique Jackson Amblin Partners has secured the film rights to “Confessions in B-Flat,” with Academy Award-winning actor and producer Octavia Spencer, four-time Oscar-nominated producer Kristie Macosko Krieger and Aimee Carpenter set to produce. The 2020 novel, from Essence bestselling author Donna Hill, tells an emotional love story set amid the Civil Rights Movement, following two young people, Anita and Jason, who meet and fall in love despite their clashing political beliefs. Maya Dunbar (“Ordinary Joe,” ‘Bluff City Law”) is adapting the book for the screen. Spencer is producing the adaptation via her Orit Entertainment production company, with Carpenter producing under her Marcy Place Productions banner. Executive producers are Brian Clisham and Tara Taylor, with Liz Pelletier serving as co-producer. Jeb Brody, Amblin Partners’ president of production, and Mia Maniscalco, SVP of creative affairs, will oversee the project for the studio.
still “master” and “miss” on Wednesday.Despite being used for the first time Wednesday, the young royals were officially free to use them once their grandfather, King Charles III, ascended to the throne in September after the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II.The palace waited for Harry and Meghan to take the lead by using the titles first, sources told The Times of London.It comes despite the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s ever-growing rift with Harry’s family, leaving it unclear if they will even attend his dad Charles’ coronation as king.Markle had used the lack of a “prince” title for Archie — who turns 4 in May — to justify some of her most explosive attacks against the royals in her initial interview with Oprah Winfrey.When asked if the lack of title — and the security that comes with it — was “because of his race,” Markle appeared to agree.“All around this same time — we have in tandem the conversation of, ‘He won’t be given security, he’s not going to be given a title,’ and also concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he’s born,” replied the former actress, whose mother is black.However, royal experts quickly pointed out that Archie had been too far down the line of succession to get the title, which changed when they rose the ranks once their grandfather became king.Archie is sixth in line for the throne, one place ahead of his sister, who turns two in June.Despite now being prince and princess, neither are a His or Her Royal Highness, or HRH, the UK Times said.“The use of the style HRH would come through their father and the Duke of Sussex’s HRH is in abeyance,” a palace source told the UK paper of the decision after he quit life as a senior royal.Lilibet was christened by the
An official upgrade. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle‘s children, Archie and Lilibet, will have their titles altered on the royal family’s website, Us Weekly can confirm.
The stars of Everything Everywhere All at Once are hitting the red carpet!
star Stephanie Hollman is weighing in on what Bravo pays its Housewives, this after Jen Shah's purported per-episode salary came to light.In a TikTok video she posted on Thursday, Hollman offered some insight into how expensive things can get merely being part of the Bravo franchise and at what point one can expect to start making money. It's fascinating insight, considering the subject of salaries is shrouded in mystery. Hollman also expressed some shock after learning Shah's salary (more on that in a bit).«I will say, season 1 for me, I felt like I was paying to be on the show,» she explained.
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” actress Stephanie Hsu feels a lot of different things about her role in increasing representation, especially as she steps further into the spotlight.“It’s hard enough to be an artist and it’s very hard to be an artist who’s marginalized in any way,” Hsu told TheWrap in our new interview series The Impact Report, focused on marginalized artists who are making an impact in their craft. Hsu skyrocketed to fame in the past year thanks to her performance playing daughter to Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan in “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” and she says it was in this film that her mother finally saw the impact that Hsu’s acting had on other people.“I remember seeing ‘Crazy Rich Asians,’ I was kind of late to seeing it and everyone was going, ‘You have to see it, you have to see it,'” Hsu said.