“She’s just upset because the fish on her plate is the only kind she can eat.”
Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of “the best lesbian movie of all time” when But I’m a Cheerleader: Director’s Cut arrives on Digital 4K Ultra HD December 8th from Lionsgate. From Primetime Emmy® Award-nominated director Jamie Babbit (2017, Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series, “Silicon Valley”), the film features an all-star cast including Golden Globe® nominee Natasha Lyonne (2020, Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy, “Russian Doll”), Screen Actors Guild Award® winner Clea DuVall (2018, Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series, “Veep”), Melanie Lynskey, Primetime Emmy® Award winner RuPaul Charles (2019, Outstanding Host for a Reality or Competition Program, “RuPaul’s Drag Race”), Eddie Cibrian, Golden Globe® nominee Bud Cort (1972, Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, Harold and Maude), Wesley Mann, Richard Moll, Douglas Spain, Katharine Towne,...
Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of “the best lesbian movie of all time” when But I’m a Cheerleader: Director’s Cut arrives on Digital 4K Ultra HD December 8th from Lionsgate. From Primetime Emmy® Award-nominated director Jamie Babbit (2017, Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series, “Silicon Valley”), the film features an all-star cast including Golden Globe® nominee Natasha Lyonne (2020, Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy, “Russian Doll”), Screen Actors Guild Award® winner Clea DuVall (2018, Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series, “Veep”), Melanie Lynskey, Primetime Emmy® Award winner RuPaul Charles (2019, Outstanding Host for a Reality or Competition Program, “RuPaul’s Drag Race”), Eddie Cibrian, Golden Globe® nominee Bud Cort (1972, Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, Harold and Maude), Wesley Mann, Richard Moll, Douglas Spain, Katharine Towne,...
- 10/12/2020
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Actress Busy Philipps is speaking out against movie producer and director Brett Ratner.
On Wednesday, Philipps, 38, responded to the news that the longtime Hollywood power player, 48, had been accused of multiple cases of sexual misconduct or harassment — including by actresses Olivia Munn and Natasha Henstridge — in an article published by the Los Angeles Times.
“Olivia Munn has been saying this for years and he has been disgusting about the allegations and to her for years. He is a garbage human,” Philipps wrote.
Munn claims that while visiting the set of the 2004 Ratner-directed film After the Sunset, he masturbated in front of her.
On Wednesday, Philipps, 38, responded to the news that the longtime Hollywood power player, 48, had been accused of multiple cases of sexual misconduct or harassment — including by actresses Olivia Munn and Natasha Henstridge — in an article published by the Los Angeles Times.
“Olivia Munn has been saying this for years and he has been disgusting about the allegations and to her for years. He is a garbage human,” Philipps wrote.
Munn claims that while visiting the set of the 2004 Ratner-directed film After the Sunset, he masturbated in front of her.
- 11/3/2017
- by Maria Pasquini
- PEOPLE.com
Brett Ratner has officially responded to the multiple allegations of sexual misconduct that were levied against him in a recent Los Angeles Times report.
“In light of the allegations being made, I am choosing to personally step away from all Warner Bros.- related activities,” Ratner said in a statement. “I don’t want to have any possible negative impact to the studio until these personal issues are resolved.”
Six women — including actresses Olivia Munn and Natasha Henstridge — spoke out against Ratner, 48, in an article published by the Los Angeles Times Wednesday. Munn said that while visiting the set of...
“In light of the allegations being made, I am choosing to personally step away from all Warner Bros.- related activities,” Ratner said in a statement. “I don’t want to have any possible negative impact to the studio until these personal issues are resolved.”
Six women — including actresses Olivia Munn and Natasha Henstridge — spoke out against Ratner, 48, in an article published by the Los Angeles Times Wednesday. Munn said that while visiting the set of...
- 11/2/2017
- by Mike Miller
- PEOPLE.com
Brett Ratner has filed a defamation lawsuit against a woman who claims he raped her over a decade ago in Los Angeles.
Melanie Kohler first made the allegations against the director in an Oct. 20 Facebook post, calling him a “rapist” and saying the assault took place “in Hollywood about 12 years ago,” according to court documents obtained by People.
“ preyed on me as a drunk girl forced himself upon me,” the documents claim she said in the post.
Ratner is suing for defamation, claiming an unspecified amount of damages.
Six women — including actresses Olivia Munn and Natasha Henstridge — spoke out against Ratner,...
Melanie Kohler first made the allegations against the director in an Oct. 20 Facebook post, calling him a “rapist” and saying the assault took place “in Hollywood about 12 years ago,” according to court documents obtained by People.
“ preyed on me as a drunk girl forced himself upon me,” the documents claim she said in the post.
Ratner is suing for defamation, claiming an unspecified amount of damages.
Six women — including actresses Olivia Munn and Natasha Henstridge — spoke out against Ratner,...
- 11/2/2017
- by Mike Miller
- PEOPLE.com
Jared Leto will not be playing Hugh Hefner in a biopic directed by Brett Ratner, who has been accused of multiple cases of sexual misconduct or harassment.
“Jared Leto is not and was not attached to a Brett Ratner directed Hugh Hefner film, nor will he be working with him in the future,” a representative for the actor said in a statement Wednesday. “Earlier reports were incorrect and not confirmed by his representatives.”
The film has also been put on hold by Playboy. “We are deeply troubled to learn about the accusations against Brett Ratner,” a Playboy Enterprises spokesperson said...
“Jared Leto is not and was not attached to a Brett Ratner directed Hugh Hefner film, nor will he be working with him in the future,” a representative for the actor said in a statement Wednesday. “Earlier reports were incorrect and not confirmed by his representatives.”
The film has also been put on hold by Playboy. “We are deeply troubled to learn about the accusations against Brett Ratner,” a Playboy Enterprises spokesperson said...
- 11/1/2017
- by Mike Miller
- PEOPLE.com
The Predator star Olivia Munn and five other actresses have come forward with allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct against Brett Ratner, director of Rush Hour, Hercules and X-Men: The Last Stand.
In an exposé published by the Los Angeles Times, Munn claimed that when she visited the set of Ratner’s After the Sunset in 2004, the filmmaker masturbated in front of her. Indeed, the 37-year-old actress previously wrote about said incident as part of her book, Suck It, Wonder Woman!, though Ratner was not named at the time of publication.
The same year in which her novel was published, Brett Ratner came out and identified himself as the director, and later boasted about their sexual relationship – something Munn vehemently denies. Soon thereafter, Ratner came out and told Howard Stern that he lied about his sexual dalliance with Olivia Munn, but the “persistent false rumors” surrounding the situation, not to...
In an exposé published by the Los Angeles Times, Munn claimed that when she visited the set of Ratner’s After the Sunset in 2004, the filmmaker masturbated in front of her. Indeed, the 37-year-old actress previously wrote about said incident as part of her book, Suck It, Wonder Woman!, though Ratner was not named at the time of publication.
The same year in which her novel was published, Brett Ratner came out and identified himself as the director, and later boasted about their sexual relationship – something Munn vehemently denies. Soon thereafter, Ratner came out and told Howard Stern that he lied about his sexual dalliance with Olivia Munn, but the “persistent false rumors” surrounding the situation, not to...
- 11/1/2017
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
Movie producer Brett Ratner has been accused of multiple cases of sexual misconduct or harassment — including by actresses Olivia Munn and Natasha Henstridge.
In an article published by the Los Angeles Times Wednesday, six women spoke out against the longtime Hollywood power player, 48, who directed the Rush Hour series and produced movies including Horrible Bosses and The Revenant.
In a statement to the L.A. Times, Ratner’s attorney Martin Singer vehemently disputed the specific allegations and said “no woman has ever made a claim against him for sexual misconduct or sexual harassment. Furthermore, no woman has ever requested or received...
In an article published by the Los Angeles Times Wednesday, six women spoke out against the longtime Hollywood power player, 48, who directed the Rush Hour series and produced movies including Horrible Bosses and The Revenant.
In a statement to the L.A. Times, Ratner’s attorney Martin Singer vehemently disputed the specific allegations and said “no woman has ever made a claim against him for sexual misconduct or sexual harassment. Furthermore, no woman has ever requested or received...
- 11/1/2017
- by Jodi Guglielmi
- PEOPLE.com
Following in the wake of Harvey Weinstein, James Toback, Kevin Spacey, and others in Hollywood accused of sexual harassment, misconduct, and assault, the lid has come off another industry power player.
The La Times reports that six women have stepped forward and accused filmmaker Brett Ratner of sexual harassment and misconduct. Natasha Henstridge, Olivia Munn, Jaime Ray Newman, and Katharine Towne are among those who have gone on the record with the paper, share their experiences of uncomfortable and inappropriate encounters with the director.
Continue reading Brett Ratner Accused Of Sexual Harassment & Misconduct at The Playlist.
The La Times reports that six women have stepped forward and accused filmmaker Brett Ratner of sexual harassment and misconduct. Natasha Henstridge, Olivia Munn, Jaime Ray Newman, and Katharine Towne are among those who have gone on the record with the paper, share their experiences of uncomfortable and inappropriate encounters with the director.
Continue reading Brett Ratner Accused Of Sexual Harassment & Misconduct at The Playlist.
- 11/1/2017
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Brett Ratner has been accused of sexual harassment and misconduct by six women in a new report from The Los Angeles Times. The accusers against the “Rush Hour” and “Tower Heist” director include actresses Olivia Munn and Natasha Henstridge. The latter was a 19-year-old fashion model when an alleged encounter occurred at Ratner’s New York City apartment. Ratner was a music video director in his early 20s at the time. Henstridge says that she fell asleep watching TV and when she woke up she was alone in his apartment with him. He allegedly blocked the door as she tried to leave and forced her to perform oral sex on him.
“He strong-armed me in a real way,” Henstridge said. “He physically forced himself on me. At some point, I gave in and he did his thing.”
Olivia Munn alleges that Ratner masturbated in front of her in his trailer...
“He strong-armed me in a real way,” Henstridge said. “He physically forced himself on me. At some point, I gave in and he did his thing.”
Olivia Munn alleges that Ratner masturbated in front of her in his trailer...
- 11/1/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
You may know all about Charlie Hunnam's longtime girlfriend, Morgana McNelis, but did you know that he was actually married back in the early 2000s? The British actor recently opened up to the Associated Press about tying the knot with actress Katharine Towne when he was 18 years old, revealing that the pair met during a Dawson's Creek audition and eloped to Vegas three weeks later. "It was the first time I'd ever been in love," he said, adding that he had to return to England and they were worried about losing touch. He explained, "In our 18-year-old minds, we thought, 'What if we never see each other again? Let's get married, and then we'll have to see each other again, even if it's just to get divorced.'" The couple was married from 1999 to 2002 in what Charlie called "three terrible, painful, expensive years," but in a "small victory," he...
- 6/8/2017
- by Laura Marie Meyers
- Popsugar.com
Charlie Hunnam was just a teenager when he first got married, which wound up being some of the most "terrible, painful" years of his life.
During a recent interview with the Associated Press in Las Vegas, the Sons of Anarchy star detailed his Vegas wedding to actress Katharine Towne, whom he met in 1999 at a Dawson's Creek audition when he was 18 years old.
Exclusive: Charlie Hunnam Thanks 'Incredible Girlfriend' After Ghosting Her for 5 Months for 'Lost City of Z'
"First time I was ever in Vegas, I got married, which didn't turn out that well," Hunnam, 37, recalled. "I'd known the girl for three weeks, and we'd fallen madly in love. It was the first time I had ever been in love."
The couple made the hasty decision to elope before Hunnam had to head back to England. "We thought, 'What if we never see each other again? Let's get married and then we'll have to see...
During a recent interview with the Associated Press in Las Vegas, the Sons of Anarchy star detailed his Vegas wedding to actress Katharine Towne, whom he met in 1999 at a Dawson's Creek audition when he was 18 years old.
Exclusive: Charlie Hunnam Thanks 'Incredible Girlfriend' After Ghosting Her for 5 Months for 'Lost City of Z'
"First time I was ever in Vegas, I got married, which didn't turn out that well," Hunnam, 37, recalled. "I'd known the girl for three weeks, and we'd fallen madly in love. It was the first time I had ever been in love."
The couple made the hasty decision to elope before Hunnam had to head back to England. "We thought, 'What if we never see each other again? Let's get married and then we'll have to see...
- 4/17/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Charlie Hunnam has what may be the best “first time in Vegas” story.
The actor was speaking to the Associated Press recently when he was asked what his best memory in Vegas is — and it’s a doozy. Hunnam told the outlet that his most “vivid” memory of Sin City is getting married to actress Katharine Towne on his first trip in 1999.
“First time I was ever in Vegas, I got married, which didn’t turn out that well,” Hunnam, 37, said. “I’d known the girl for three weeks and we’d fallen madly in love — it was the first...
The actor was speaking to the Associated Press recently when he was asked what his best memory in Vegas is — and it’s a doozy. Hunnam told the outlet that his most “vivid” memory of Sin City is getting married to actress Katharine Towne on his first trip in 1999.
“First time I was ever in Vegas, I got married, which didn’t turn out that well,” Hunnam, 37, said. “I’d known the girl for three weeks and we’d fallen madly in love — it was the first...
- 4/17/2017
- by Ale Russian
- PEOPLE.com
2017-04-17T11:45:34-07:00Charlie Hunnam Gets Married Sneakily
Charlie Hunnam has more in common with Britney Spears than you’d realize.
The Lost City of Z actor recently revealed that he and actress Katharine Towne fled to Las Vegas for a quickie wedding in 1999.
“First time I was ever in Vegas I got married, which didn’t turn out that well,” Hunnam explained to the Associated Press at CinemaCon. “It was a vivid Vegas memory. I had known the girl for three weeks, and we’d fallen madly in love and it was the first time I had ever been in love.”
After meeting at a “Dawson’s Creek” audition in 1999, Hunnam, 37, and Towne, 38, took their whirlwind romance on the road with Sin City as their final destination.
Read the rest of this article at Page Six.
Charlie Hunnam's big break came from his role in Sons of Anarchy.
Charlie Hunnam has more in common with Britney Spears than you’d realize.
The Lost City of Z actor recently revealed that he and actress Katharine Towne fled to Las Vegas for a quickie wedding in 1999.
“First time I was ever in Vegas I got married, which didn’t turn out that well,” Hunnam explained to the Associated Press at CinemaCon. “It was a vivid Vegas memory. I had known the girl for three weeks, and we’d fallen madly in love and it was the first time I had ever been in love.”
After meeting at a “Dawson’s Creek” audition in 1999, Hunnam, 37, and Towne, 38, took their whirlwind romance on the road with Sin City as their final destination.
Read the rest of this article at Page Six.
Charlie Hunnam's big break came from his role in Sons of Anarchy.
- 4/17/2017
- by EG
- Yidio
Marriage may be in good times and bad, but Charlie Hunnam is reflecting mostly on the latter. The Sons of Anarchy star took a walk down memory lane during a recent trip to Las Vegas, the site of his first wedding to fellow actress, Katharine Towne. However, more than a decade later, it doesn't seem to be his fondest memory. "The first time I was ever in Vegas, I got married, which didn't turn out that well," he told The AP (via The Daily Mail.) "I'd known the girl for three weeks and we'd fallen madly in love." At 18, the star and Towne traveled to Sin City to tie the knot. "We thought, 'What if we never see each other again? Let's get...
- 4/17/2017
- E! Online
Charlie Hunnam was at CinemaCon to debut new footage from his long-awaited “King Arthur” film, directed by Guy Ritchie, but it’s the actor’s ‘first time in Vegas’ tale that has everyone talking. The actor recalled his “terrible, painful” marriage to Katharine Towne, whom he knew for less than a month after meeting at a “Dawson’s […]...
- 3/30/2017
- by kmorawetz
- ET Canada
Washington, Sept 4: With Charlie Hunnam being cast as the mysterious 'Christian Grey' in the upcoming erotic flick "50 Shades of Grey', fans may be curious to know all about him.
Us Magazine has revealed little known facts about the 'Sons of Anarchy' star.
Hunnam, who is British, was born in Newcastle, England, where he attended the Cumbria College of Art Design and studied the theory and history of film.
The 33-year-old actor got his start on British children's show 'Byker Grove'.
Hunnam met his former wife, Katherine Towne, at the audition of 'Dawson's Creek' in 1999.
Hunnam, who plays Jackson.
Us Magazine has revealed little known facts about the 'Sons of Anarchy' star.
Hunnam, who is British, was born in Newcastle, England, where he attended the Cumbria College of Art Design and studied the theory and history of film.
The 33-year-old actor got his start on British children's show 'Byker Grove'.
Hunnam met his former wife, Katherine Towne, at the audition of 'Dawson's Creek' in 1999.
Hunnam, who plays Jackson.
- 9/4/2013
- by Smith Cox
- RealBollywood.com
It was starting to seem as if the speculation would never end, but finally the identities of Fifty Shades of Grey's Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey have been revealed.
Dakota Johnson will play Ana in the big screen adaptation of El James's popular and controversial debut novel when it hits screens in the Us on August 1, 2014.
Meanwhile, the author confirmed that Pacific Rim star Charlie Hunnam will take on the role of Christian, despite speculation that the likes of Ian Somerhalder and Alex Pettyfer would be joining the project.
Following today's (September 2) announcement, Digital Spy offers up ten facts you need to know about the stars.
1. Dakota Mayi Johnson was born on October 4, 1989 in Austin, Texas. She is the daughter of actors Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith. She won her first acting role in Crazy in Alabama in 1999, where she played the on-screen daughter of Griffith. She starred alongside her half-sister,...
Dakota Johnson will play Ana in the big screen adaptation of El James's popular and controversial debut novel when it hits screens in the Us on August 1, 2014.
Meanwhile, the author confirmed that Pacific Rim star Charlie Hunnam will take on the role of Christian, despite speculation that the likes of Ian Somerhalder and Alex Pettyfer would be joining the project.
Following today's (September 2) announcement, Digital Spy offers up ten facts you need to know about the stars.
1. Dakota Mayi Johnson was born on October 4, 1989 in Austin, Texas. She is the daughter of actors Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith. She won her first acting role in Crazy in Alabama in 1999, where she played the on-screen daughter of Griffith. She starred alongside her half-sister,...
- 9/2/2013
- Digital Spy
Charlie may not be who you had in mind to play Christian in the film adaptation of ‘Fifty Shades of Grey.’ He may not have even been on your radar for the role! But maybe once you get to know him, you’ll see that he’s a pretty good fit for the sexy part.
Either you know Charlie Hunnam, 33, as the motorcycle-driving badass in Sons of Anarchy, or you don’t know him at all. But we’re here to help. Though Charlie may bring good looks and a ridiculously ripped body to the role of Christian Grey in Fifty Shades of Grey, there’s much more to him than just a pretty face.
Charlie Hunnam: Meet The New Christian Grey
1. He Knows How To Play A Bad Boy
Like we said, Charlie’s best known for his role as Jax Teller in FX’s show Sons of Anarchy.
Either you know Charlie Hunnam, 33, as the motorcycle-driving badass in Sons of Anarchy, or you don’t know him at all. But we’re here to help. Though Charlie may bring good looks and a ridiculously ripped body to the role of Christian Grey in Fifty Shades of Grey, there’s much more to him than just a pretty face.
Charlie Hunnam: Meet The New Christian Grey
1. He Knows How To Play A Bad Boy
Like we said, Charlie’s best known for his role as Jax Teller in FX’s show Sons of Anarchy.
- 9/2/2013
- by Andrew Gruttadaro
- HollywoodLife
Charlie Hunnam is making the leap from Jax in "Sons of Anarchy" to the big screen in Guillermo del Toro's blockbuster "Pacific Rim," now in theaters.In the film, Charlie plays Raleigh Becket, a washed-up pilot called back into service to battle the monstrous kaiju. But instead of a plane, Raleigh pilots a giant mechanized robot called a jaeger. Each pair of jaeger pilots connect to their robots through armored suits, but Charlie clearly didn't need any padding under his, as evidence by the shirtless shot below. Read find fun facts about the hunky hero!1. Charlie loves his sweetsDespite his impressive six-pack, Charlie loves his sweets. Watch as he reveals his biggest weakness to toofab's Lawrence Yee on the "Pacific Rim" red carpet: 2. Charlie's a BritHe may have all-American looks, but Charlie is from Newcastle upon Tyne, England, which you can probably tell from the interview above.3. Charlie's gone gay ... for a role.
- 7/12/2013
- by tooFab Staff
- TooFab
We're celebrating twins daily at 2:22 pm while we're in Gemini
Gratuitous Anecdote! I've always loved to draw and in my high school years it's what people knew me for. I won the High School's Departmental Award in Art (Do they still have departmental awards? Hell, do they still have art classes?) in that heady stretch of graduation celebrations where they keep honoring star pupils. One day early in my senior year or maybe it was at the end of my junior year, the art teacher asked one of the students to pose for the class. A guy I didn't know volunteered and I felt totally inspired. Instant crushing helps. He loved my drawing and we became fast friends after the class. The first day I went to his house after school I was stunned to see a whole house full of doppelgangers. He had one of those families...
Gratuitous Anecdote! I've always loved to draw and in my high school years it's what people knew me for. I won the High School's Departmental Award in Art (Do they still have departmental awards? Hell, do they still have art classes?) in that heady stretch of graduation celebrations where they keep honoring star pupils. One day early in my senior year or maybe it was at the end of my junior year, the art teacher asked one of the students to pose for the class. A guy I didn't know volunteered and I felt totally inspired. Instant crushing helps. He loved my drawing and we became fast friends after the class. The first day I went to his house after school I was stunned to see a whole house full of doppelgangers. He had one of those families...
- 6/13/2012
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
A couple dump a hooded man in an alley, who turns out to be Mac (Gary Sinise). That didn't come as a shock but more of a surprise. Since if it had been someone else, they most probably wouldn't have been dumped alive. He was tasered in the neck and they threaten to shoot him next time. Should've recognized his striped shirt! He calls on the emergency phone and asks for Jo (Sela Ward) at the New York crime lab. 48 hours earlier. A Db of a woman in an alley is found, Flack (Eddie Cahill) says by uniforms. Jo thinks she died from an overdose. Danny (Carmine Giovinazzo) finds traces of heroine and candy wrappers on the ground beside her. Lindsay (Anna Belknap) doesn't find any prints on the syringe, most likely wiped down. Mac knows her and IDs her as Tessa James (Kate Towne). Jo questions Mac, "...enough of this quiet man crap.
- 4/29/2011
- by mhasan@corp.popstar.com (Mila Hasan)
- PopStar
"Undeclared" is now airing on IFC, and we thought we'd take this opportunity to revisit the show that further cemented broadcast television's inability to recognize the genius of Judd Apatow. Every week, Matt Singer and Alison Willmore will be offering their thoughts on that night's episode.
Episode 5
Sick in the Head
Written by Seth Rogen
Directed by Greg Mottola
Episode 6
The Assistant
Written by Judd Apatow & Seth Rogen & Nicholas Stoller
Directed by Judd Apatow
"He's Adam Sandler! Why would you become Adam Sandler? So you could not have sex with Lizzie?" -- Ron
We've been having trouble separating "Undeclared" from Judd Apatow's later work in this column and this week is no exception. Apatow's last movie, "Funny People," was, amongst other things, about the relationship between a cold movie star (Adam Sandler) and a young kid who idolized him (Seth Rogen). And that's basically the plot of our second episode this week,...
Episode 5
Sick in the Head
Written by Seth Rogen
Directed by Greg Mottola
Episode 6
The Assistant
Written by Judd Apatow & Seth Rogen & Nicholas Stoller
Directed by Judd Apatow
"He's Adam Sandler! Why would you become Adam Sandler? So you could not have sex with Lizzie?" -- Ron
We've been having trouble separating "Undeclared" from Judd Apatow's later work in this column and this week is no exception. Apatow's last movie, "Funny People," was, amongst other things, about the relationship between a cold movie star (Adam Sandler) and a young kid who idolized him (Seth Rogen). And that's basically the plot of our second episode this week,...
- 11/19/2010
- by Matt Singer
- ifc.com
Eight months after HBO picked up Tell Me You Love Me for a second year, the TV series hasn't returned. Now, apparently, it never will. What happened?
The sexually-explicit drama debuted on September 9, 2007 and revolves around three couples, each with their own set of intimacy problems. They seek help from Dr. May Foster (Jane Alexander), an analyst with relationship issues of her own. The series' ensemble cast includes Michelle Borth, Tim DeKay, Luke Kirby, Adam Scott, David Selby, Katharine Towne, Sonya Walger, and Ally Walker. The tenth episode aired on November 10, 2007.
The ratings for the show's first season weren't great but HBO renewed Tell Me for another season after just four episodes had aired. Despite the renewal, the show didn't return to production. Now, it appears that the reason for the stall was that creator/executive producer Cynthia Mort couldn't figure out what should come next.
In a written statement,...
The sexually-explicit drama debuted on September 9, 2007 and revolves around three couples, each with their own set of intimacy problems. They seek help from Dr. May Foster (Jane Alexander), an analyst with relationship issues of her own. The series' ensemble cast includes Michelle Borth, Tim DeKay, Luke Kirby, Adam Scott, David Selby, Katharine Towne, Sonya Walger, and Ally Walker. The tenth episode aired on November 10, 2007.
The ratings for the show's first season weren't great but HBO renewed Tell Me for another season after just four episodes had aired. Despite the renewal, the show didn't return to production. Now, it appears that the reason for the stall was that creator/executive producer Cynthia Mort couldn't figure out what should come next.
In a written statement,...
- 7/29/2008
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Variety reports that Julian Sands, Katharine Towne and John Savage will star in Easy Six, an indie film adapted from Edward Allen's bestselling novel Mustang Sally and helmed by first-time feature director Chris Iovenko. The film recounts a darkly comic odyssey of a college professor played by Sands. Traveling to Vegas for an academic conference on Milton, he begins an illicit affair with a former student who's gone adrift in the city's seamy netherworld.
- 8/29/2002
- IMDbPro News
Director Robert Zemeckis pulls out all of the stops in his edge-of-your-seat thriller "What Lies Beneath". He deploys every scare tactic -- any plot twist, music cue, creepy sound, dark shadow, special effect and camera movement imaginable -- to keep audiences in a state of elevated tension. His success, however, must be weighed against the physical and mental exhaustion such relentless manipulation brings about in a viewer.
Many will giggle and scream their way through the 130-minute creep-athon. Others may weary of the shameless milking of suspense gimmicks nearly as old as cinema itself. By making continual references to Hitchcock and other masters of terror, Zemeckis by implication shuns any claim to originality here; "What Lies Beneath" is simply an affectionate, tongue-in-cheek tribute to movie trickery.
Haunted-house movies generally play to younger audiences, but Zemeckis' older stars, Michelle Pfeiffer and Harrison Ford, should significantly broaden those demographics. Critics will likely be divided: One may see cunning artifice, while another will find only tired cliches. Audiences and critics alike, however, will be amazed at the filmmakers' willingness to, in the name of suspense, return over and over to an image or location, especially an upstairs bathroom that gets a greater workout than the shower in "Psycho" and the bathtub in "Diabolique" combined.
Zemeckis' approach to Clark Gregg's screenplay is to incorporate unmistakable elements from Hitchcock's films, most notably "Psycho", "Rear Window" and "Vertigo". Alan Silvestri's music underlines these borrowings with its expert imitation of a Bernard Herrmann score.
But what gets created is less an homage to Hitchcock than to early Brian De Palma. Only De Palma at least strove to reignite Hitchcock's magic by employing the master's theories on suspense within the structure of his stories. Zemeckis is content to quote Hitchcock without putting any of his ideas to work.
Pfeiffer and Ford play a happily married couple, living a seemingly placid if not idyllic life in a picturesque Vermont lakeside home. She's a retired musician, and he's a genetics researcher. When her daughter by a previous marriage (Katharine Towne) leaves for college, Ford says, "It's just us now".
Well, not exactly. It's just them plus the troubled spirit of a young woman. Strange noises and terrifying visions plague Pfeiffer to the point that she goes to shrink Joe Morton. She fears that these events have something to do with the new couple next door, a perpetually scowling professor (James Remar) and his frightened wife (Miranda Otto), who has suddenly disappeared.
But audiences know this "Rear Window" bit is a red herring because the movie's own ad campaign -- "He was the perfect husband, until his one mistake followed them home" -- tips you off that she is sleeping with the enemy.
As her visions, repressed memory and more back story gradually make clear, this unearthly visitor is connected to the disappearance of a young college student a year earlier, just about the time of Pfeiffer's mysterious auto accident.
The story and its escalating tension play out in a setting -- the lakeside home and its rustic surroundings -- beset by wind, rain, fog, telekinesis, eerie sounds and seemingly malevolent household objects. There is never a calm moment.
Nor is any moment wasted in the entire movie. Every idle conversation or scrap of information will eventually play its role. The danger here is that an audience will quickly catch on and start to spot plot twists before they
happen.
But the greater problem with such an intricate and artificial plot construction is that it leaves no room for its characters to live and breathe. Pfeiffer, the movie's central figure, is so buffeted by waves of cinematic effects and placed in such a reactive position that one struggles to understand what kind of a person she would be under normal circumstances.
And Ford's scientist makes little sense except as a fictional character marching to the orders of a manipulative screenwriter. Gregg (working from his and Sarah Kernochan's story) takes a stab at explaining his alarming behavior in the third act in terms of a long festering rivalry with his late father, a brilliant research scientist. But it's too lame to have any impact.
Cinematographer Don Burgess' smooth-as-silk camera plays peekaboo with mirrors and other objects in Rick Carter and Jim Teegarden's lovingly detailed set, turning a beautiful home into a house of horrors. Visual effects supervisor Robert Legato, second unit director Steve Starkey and underwater unit director Max Kleven do their damndest to give the audience the willies. And editor Arthur Schmidt makes certain there is no letup.
WHAT LIES BENEATH
DreamWorks Pictures
and 20th Century Fox
An Imagemovers Production
Producers: Steve Starkey,
Robert Zemeckis, Jack Rapke
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Screenwriter: Clark Gregg
Story by: Sarah Kernochan, Clark Gregg
Executive producers: Joan Bradshaw,
Mark Johnson
Director of photography: Don Burgess
Production designers: Rick Carter,
Jim Teegarden
Music: Alan Silvestri
Costume designer: Susie DeSanto
Editor: Arthur Schmidt
Color/stereo
Cast:
Norman Spencer: Harrison Ford
Claire Spencer: Michelle Pfeiffer
Jody: Diana Scarwid
Dr. Drayton: Joe Morton
Warren Feur: James Remar
Mary Feur: Miranda Otto
Madison Elizabeth Frank: Amber Valletta
Running time -- 130 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
Many will giggle and scream their way through the 130-minute creep-athon. Others may weary of the shameless milking of suspense gimmicks nearly as old as cinema itself. By making continual references to Hitchcock and other masters of terror, Zemeckis by implication shuns any claim to originality here; "What Lies Beneath" is simply an affectionate, tongue-in-cheek tribute to movie trickery.
Haunted-house movies generally play to younger audiences, but Zemeckis' older stars, Michelle Pfeiffer and Harrison Ford, should significantly broaden those demographics. Critics will likely be divided: One may see cunning artifice, while another will find only tired cliches. Audiences and critics alike, however, will be amazed at the filmmakers' willingness to, in the name of suspense, return over and over to an image or location, especially an upstairs bathroom that gets a greater workout than the shower in "Psycho" and the bathtub in "Diabolique" combined.
Zemeckis' approach to Clark Gregg's screenplay is to incorporate unmistakable elements from Hitchcock's films, most notably "Psycho", "Rear Window" and "Vertigo". Alan Silvestri's music underlines these borrowings with its expert imitation of a Bernard Herrmann score.
But what gets created is less an homage to Hitchcock than to early Brian De Palma. Only De Palma at least strove to reignite Hitchcock's magic by employing the master's theories on suspense within the structure of his stories. Zemeckis is content to quote Hitchcock without putting any of his ideas to work.
Pfeiffer and Ford play a happily married couple, living a seemingly placid if not idyllic life in a picturesque Vermont lakeside home. She's a retired musician, and he's a genetics researcher. When her daughter by a previous marriage (Katharine Towne) leaves for college, Ford says, "It's just us now".
Well, not exactly. It's just them plus the troubled spirit of a young woman. Strange noises and terrifying visions plague Pfeiffer to the point that she goes to shrink Joe Morton. She fears that these events have something to do with the new couple next door, a perpetually scowling professor (James Remar) and his frightened wife (Miranda Otto), who has suddenly disappeared.
But audiences know this "Rear Window" bit is a red herring because the movie's own ad campaign -- "He was the perfect husband, until his one mistake followed them home" -- tips you off that she is sleeping with the enemy.
As her visions, repressed memory and more back story gradually make clear, this unearthly visitor is connected to the disappearance of a young college student a year earlier, just about the time of Pfeiffer's mysterious auto accident.
The story and its escalating tension play out in a setting -- the lakeside home and its rustic surroundings -- beset by wind, rain, fog, telekinesis, eerie sounds and seemingly malevolent household objects. There is never a calm moment.
Nor is any moment wasted in the entire movie. Every idle conversation or scrap of information will eventually play its role. The danger here is that an audience will quickly catch on and start to spot plot twists before they
happen.
But the greater problem with such an intricate and artificial plot construction is that it leaves no room for its characters to live and breathe. Pfeiffer, the movie's central figure, is so buffeted by waves of cinematic effects and placed in such a reactive position that one struggles to understand what kind of a person she would be under normal circumstances.
And Ford's scientist makes little sense except as a fictional character marching to the orders of a manipulative screenwriter. Gregg (working from his and Sarah Kernochan's story) takes a stab at explaining his alarming behavior in the third act in terms of a long festering rivalry with his late father, a brilliant research scientist. But it's too lame to have any impact.
Cinematographer Don Burgess' smooth-as-silk camera plays peekaboo with mirrors and other objects in Rick Carter and Jim Teegarden's lovingly detailed set, turning a beautiful home into a house of horrors. Visual effects supervisor Robert Legato, second unit director Steve Starkey and underwater unit director Max Kleven do their damndest to give the audience the willies. And editor Arthur Schmidt makes certain there is no letup.
WHAT LIES BENEATH
DreamWorks Pictures
and 20th Century Fox
An Imagemovers Production
Producers: Steve Starkey,
Robert Zemeckis, Jack Rapke
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Screenwriter: Clark Gregg
Story by: Sarah Kernochan, Clark Gregg
Executive producers: Joan Bradshaw,
Mark Johnson
Director of photography: Don Burgess
Production designers: Rick Carter,
Jim Teegarden
Music: Alan Silvestri
Costume designer: Susie DeSanto
Editor: Arthur Schmidt
Color/stereo
Cast:
Norman Spencer: Harrison Ford
Claire Spencer: Michelle Pfeiffer
Jody: Diana Scarwid
Dr. Drayton: Joe Morton
Warren Feur: James Remar
Mary Feur: Miranda Otto
Madison Elizabeth Frank: Amber Valletta
Running time -- 130 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
- 7/17/2000
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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