Danny Madden premiered his short film Krista at SXSW in 2018, but he felt that there was more story that needed to be told with the titular character, a popular and charismatic theatre kid (played by Shirley Chen) living in a quiet southern town. That said he stretched the short into a full-length feature, Beast…
The coming-of-age sub-genre is “thousands and thousands of hours of TV shows and films,” explained Alec Baldwin Friday night during a talk for his latest Sundance feature production Beast Beast.Â
So how do you make it fresh?
Baldwin who serves as EP on the Danny Madden directed and written teenage pic with his…
EXCLUSIVE:Alec Baldwin and Bella Thorne have joined the cast of Chick Fight, the indie action comedy starring and to be produced by Malin Akerman. Paul Leyden is directing Joseph Downey’s original script for the pic, which is being produced by Yale Productions and Idiot Savant Pictures. A January shooting start is in…
Edward Norton has wanted to bring Jonathan Lethem’s 1999 novel Motherless Brooklyn to the screen for the better part of two decades. It has taken that long, with a complex makeover of the book, for the resulting movie finally to come to fruition, but it is all well worth the wait.
For Norton, who not only stars but…
After a week off, Saturday Night Live came in hot with Alec Baldwin returning as Donald Trump for a rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico, or as he put it, “the albacore tuna capital of the United States”. Throughout his rally, he was joined by an interesting roster of MAGA supporters — as well as some familiar faces…
The temperature was unusually high in the Saban Theatre Saturday night, and the jokes were sizzling too. On center stage was Comedy Central's latest roast-ee, Alec Baldwin, for tonight's taping of the Roast of Alec Baldwin.
Since all of the evening's roasters were also fair game for hard-jabbing punch lines, a round…
The summer break hasn’t done anything to freshen Alec Baldwin’s attitude on playing Donald Trump for NBC’s Saturday Night Live. He still hates it.
Reiterating his loathing for the role that he expressed in June, Baldwin tells former SNL regular Kevin Nealon on the latter’s new YouTube series Hiking with Kevin (watch…
Julie Huntsinger, who is co-director of the Telluride Film Festival , opened Friday night’s World Premiere screening of Edward Norton’s Motherless Brooklyn by saying that she and her co-director Tom Luddy thought it was like something they hadn’t seen in a long while and labeled it flatly a “masterpiece”. That’s a lot…
EXCLUSIVE: Olivia Cooke (Ready Player One, Thoroughbreds), Ben Hardy (Bohemian Rhapsody, X-Men: Apocalypse), and Daryl McCormack (A Very English Scandal, Vikings) will star in Pixie, a comedic thriller directed by Oscar nominee Barnaby Thompson and written by Preston Thompson. Rounding out the cast are Colm Meaney (Lay…
A line of celebrities are queueing up to roast the hell out of Alec Baldwin. The Comedy Central Roast of Alec Baldwin unveiled today that Robert De Niro, Blake Griffin, Caitlyn Jenner, Joel McHale, Debra Messing, Chris Redd and Jeff Ross will join roastmaster Sean Hayes on the dais to take some friendly jabs at the…
“First do no harm.” Jamie Dornan, Alec Baldwin and Christian Slater are set to star in Dr. Death, a limited drama series from UCP based on the Wondery podcast about a sinister doctor who treats his Hippocratic Oath about the same way he treats his patients.
With the high-caliber talent on board, UCP is shopping the…
The Edward Norton-directed Motherless Brooklyn has been chosen by Film at Lincoln Center to be the closing-night film of the 57th New York Film Festival. The drama makes its New York premiere at Alice Tully Hall on Friday, October 11, before Warner Bros releases it later this year.
Norton adapted the Jonathan Lethem…
