Jon Hamm will be featured as the celebrity guest in the premiere of game show revival “Password,” NBC has announced.
Based on the original show, which ran from 1961 to 1975 (and has been revived in several forms since then), “Password” pits two teams compete against each other as they solve word puzzles using one-word clues. The team that solves for the password ultimately takes home 25,000. Each team consists of a contestant and a celebrity player, with executive producer Jimmy Fallon leading one team and a rotating guest leading the other. The series premiere will see Fallon compete against Hamm in an episode dedicated to Betty White, a frequent player on the original “Password” and the wife of the show’s original host Allen Ludden.
In addition to Hamm, Yvette Nicole Brown, Tony Hale, Chelsea Handler, Heidi Klum, Joel McHale, Chrissy Metz, Martin Short, J.B. Smoove and Meghan Trainor have been confirmed...
Based on the original show, which ran from 1961 to 1975 (and has been revived in several forms since then), “Password” pits two teams compete against each other as they solve word puzzles using one-word clues. The team that solves for the password ultimately takes home 25,000. Each team consists of a contestant and a celebrity player, with executive producer Jimmy Fallon leading one team and a rotating guest leading the other. The series premiere will see Fallon compete against Hamm in an episode dedicated to Betty White, a frequent player on the original “Password” and the wife of the show’s original host Allen Ludden.
In addition to Hamm, Yvette Nicole Brown, Tony Hale, Chelsea Handler, Heidi Klum, Joel McHale, Chrissy Metz, Martin Short, J.B. Smoove and Meghan Trainor have been confirmed...
- 6/30/2022
- by Wilson Chapman and Carson Burton
- Variety Film + TV
Lost Ollie won’t be much longer: The limited series featuring voiceovers by Mary J Blige, Jonathan Groff and Tim Blake Nelson — plus Gina Rodriguez and Jake Johnson in starring roles as momma and daddy — can be found Aug. 24 on Netflix.
Directed by Oscar winner Peter Ramsey and created by Shannon Tindle, Lost Ollie is an epic adventure about a lost toy who braves the many dangers of childhood as he searches the countryside to reunite with the boy who lost him; and the story of the boy who lost more than a best friend.
Lost Ollie is inspired by the book Ollie’s Odyssey by author and illustrator William Joyce. Shawn Levy and Josh Barry are executive producing for 21 Laps Entertainment along with Emily Morris as co-executive producer. Brandon Oldenburg and Lampton Enochs also executive produce.
The limited series also stars Kesler Talbot.
Directed by Oscar winner Peter Ramsey and created by Shannon Tindle, Lost Ollie is an epic adventure about a lost toy who braves the many dangers of childhood as he searches the countryside to reunite with the boy who lost him; and the story of the boy who lost more than a best friend.
Lost Ollie is inspired by the book Ollie’s Odyssey by author and illustrator William Joyce. Shawn Levy and Josh Barry are executive producing for 21 Laps Entertainment along with Emily Morris as co-executive producer. Brandon Oldenburg and Lampton Enochs also executive produce.
The limited series also stars Kesler Talbot.
- 6/30/2022
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
Reel FX Animation Studio (The Book of Life, Free Birds) has launched a sister company, Flight School, aimed at developing projects for virtual reality and other emerging platforms.
Flight School will be led by Reel FX co-ceo Kyle Clark, serving as CEO; former Moonbot Studios CEO Lampton Enochs as executive vp; and Moonbot alums Brandon Oldenburg as chief creative officer and Limbert Fabian as executive creative director.
Oldenburg won an Academy Award as co-director of the animated short The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, and he and Fabian won Emmys for Silent and Scarecrow.
“As the idea behind Flight School took...
Flight School will be led by Reel FX co-ceo Kyle Clark, serving as CEO; former Moonbot Studios CEO Lampton Enochs as executive vp; and Moonbot alums Brandon Oldenburg as chief creative officer and Limbert Fabian as executive creative director.
Oldenburg won an Academy Award as co-director of the animated short The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, and he and Fabian won Emmys for Silent and Scarecrow.
“As the idea behind Flight School took...
- 4/11/2017
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
By Joseph Leray
Moonbot Studios’ are making a new game, based on the folktale of the Golem of Prague, and they’re using a Kickstarter campaign to fund it. Sure, the game won’t be out until 2015, even in the best circumstances, but the premise and Kickstarter pitch guarantee that I’ll be keeping an eye on the project until then.
“Golem” is Shreveport, Louisiana-based Moonbot’s riff on a Renaissance-era folktale: the armies of Cesare Borgia, with Leonardo da Vinci-designed siege engines in tow, are at the walls of Prague, and a Jewish rabbi named Judah Loew creates the golem out of clay to defend the city. Players will control the golem, who starts the game as a towering, mindless brute but will evolve as he becomes more self-aware.
The story -- like all great myths -- plays fast and loose with history: both Borgia and da Vinci were...
Moonbot Studios’ are making a new game, based on the folktale of the Golem of Prague, and they’re using a Kickstarter campaign to fund it. Sure, the game won’t be out until 2015, even in the best circumstances, but the premise and Kickstarter pitch guarantee that I’ll be keeping an eye on the project until then.
“Golem” is Shreveport, Louisiana-based Moonbot’s riff on a Renaissance-era folktale: the armies of Cesare Borgia, with Leonardo da Vinci-designed siege engines in tow, are at the walls of Prague, and a Jewish rabbi named Judah Loew creates the golem out of clay to defend the city. Players will control the golem, who starts the game as a towering, mindless brute but will evolve as he becomes more self-aware.
The story -- like all great myths -- plays fast and loose with history: both Borgia and da Vinci were...
- 2/6/2013
- by MTV Video Games
- MTV Multiplayer
'This feels like the invention of radio, television or the movie cinema...'
There have been a lot of imaginative book-apps released in the last three years, with The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore being one of the most creative.
Released in May 2011, it was based on an existing short film by Louisiana firm Moonbot Studios, claiming to take inspiration from Hurricane Katrina, Buster Keaton and The Wizard of Oz among other influences. It marked Moonbot out as a developer to watch, as did the company's interactive music video app for Us band Polyphonic Spree later that year.
Now the company has released its third app, Numberlys. It returns the focus to storytelling – the origins of the alphabet – with an equally diverse palette of influences: King Kong, Metropolis, Flash Gordon, the Marx Brothers and the 1939 New York World's Fair.
Moonbot was founded by two people with a background...
There have been a lot of imaginative book-apps released in the last three years, with The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore being one of the most creative.
Released in May 2011, it was based on an existing short film by Louisiana firm Moonbot Studios, claiming to take inspiration from Hurricane Katrina, Buster Keaton and The Wizard of Oz among other influences. It marked Moonbot out as a developer to watch, as did the company's interactive music video app for Us band Polyphonic Spree later that year.
Now the company has released its third app, Numberlys. It returns the focus to storytelling – the origins of the alphabet – with an equally diverse palette of influences: King Kong, Metropolis, Flash Gordon, the Marx Brothers and the 1939 New York World's Fair.
Moonbot was founded by two people with a background...
- 1/12/2012
- by Stuart Dredge
- The Guardian - Film News
Budgeted at $35 million, "Tekken" is the upcoming martial arts feature directed by Dwight H. "Bones" Little, based on the "Tekken" fighting video game series.
The live-action film follows 'Jin Kazama' (Jon Foo) , who confronts both his father, 'Kazuya Mishima' (Ian Anthony Dale) and his grandfather, 'Heihachi Mishima' (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa).
"Tekken" is produced by Steven Paul Benedict Carver and Iddo Lampton Enochs from a screenplay by Michael Colleary, Alan B. McElroy and Mike Werb, adapting the original story, based on the Namco video game.
From the Weinstein Company, Summit Entertainment and Crystal Sky Pictures, Warner Bros will release the film in Japan, March, 2010.
A DVD release will follow April 5th, 2010 in the UK.
"...In the year 2039, after World Wars destroyed much of civilization, the remaining territories are no longer run by governments, but by corporations, the mightiest of which is the 'Mishima Zaibatsu'.
In order to keep the masses down, Mishima...
The live-action film follows 'Jin Kazama' (Jon Foo) , who confronts both his father, 'Kazuya Mishima' (Ian Anthony Dale) and his grandfather, 'Heihachi Mishima' (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa).
"Tekken" is produced by Steven Paul Benedict Carver and Iddo Lampton Enochs from a screenplay by Michael Colleary, Alan B. McElroy and Mike Werb, adapting the original story, based on the Namco video game.
From the Weinstein Company, Summit Entertainment and Crystal Sky Pictures, Warner Bros will release the film in Japan, March, 2010.
A DVD release will follow April 5th, 2010 in the UK.
"...In the year 2039, after World Wars destroyed much of civilization, the remaining territories are no longer run by governments, but by corporations, the mightiest of which is the 'Mishima Zaibatsu'.
In order to keep the masses down, Mishima...
- 12/27/2009
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
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