Exclusive: The creator, executive producer and showrunner of the acclaimed HBO Max series Station Eleven, Patrick Somerville, and the series’ associate producer and editor David Eisenberg, have opened the doors to feature film and television production company Tractor Beam.
Somerville and Eisenberg first met on The Leftovers, hitting it off as friends and hoping to become eventual collaborators. They reteamed for Station Eleven, where during the long, often pandemic-induced delays, they hatched the idea for Tractor Beam, with the mission of making content that centers on the creatives and empowers them to control the filmmaking process.
Hilary Flynn and Stephanie Jacob-Goldman have been brought aboard as Tractor Beam’s VP of Development and VP of Production, respectively. Somerville currently has a deal at Paramount Television Studios.
“Our mission at Tractor Beam is to help creators get home,” said Somerville. “Streamers have opened up astounding new opportunities in television and film,...
Somerville and Eisenberg first met on The Leftovers, hitting it off as friends and hoping to become eventual collaborators. They reteamed for Station Eleven, where during the long, often pandemic-induced delays, they hatched the idea for Tractor Beam, with the mission of making content that centers on the creatives and empowers them to control the filmmaking process.
Hilary Flynn and Stephanie Jacob-Goldman have been brought aboard as Tractor Beam’s VP of Development and VP of Production, respectively. Somerville currently has a deal at Paramount Television Studios.
“Our mission at Tractor Beam is to help creators get home,” said Somerville. “Streamers have opened up astounding new opportunities in television and film,...
- 1/20/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
“Real Life Rock Top Ten” is a monthly column by cultural critic and Rs contributing editor Greil Marcus.
1. Rich Kreuger, “Kenny’s (It’s Always Christmas in this Bar,” from NOWThen (RockkinK Music). Years ago in Chicago, in the middle of winter, my friend Bill Wyman was taking me to a bar: “Chicago’s a really friendly town,” he said. “You’ll like it here.” As we approached the place, two burly guys came out and one fixed me, as if trying to figure out what I was doing there.
1. Rich Kreuger, “Kenny’s (It’s Always Christmas in this Bar,” from NOWThen (RockkinK Music). Years ago in Chicago, in the middle of winter, my friend Bill Wyman was taking me to a bar: “Chicago’s a really friendly town,” he said. “You’ll like it here.” As we approached the place, two burly guys came out and one fixed me, as if trying to figure out what I was doing there.
- 12/26/2018
- by Greil Marcus
- Rollingstone.com
It’s been more than 50 years since the Rolling Stones walked into Chess Records’ headquarters in Chicago, interrupting a Buddy Guy recording session along the way.
“Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon walked straight in my studio while I was singing with a bunch of white guys, who lined up against the wall,” remembers Guy, who was in the middle of tracking his 1964 b-side “My Time After Awhile.” “I got pissed off: ‘Who in the hell are these guys?’ I had never seen a white man with hair that long and high-heeled boots before.
“Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon walked straight in my studio while I was singing with a bunch of white guys, who lined up against the wall,” remembers Guy, who was in the middle of tracking his 1964 b-side “My Time After Awhile.” “I got pissed off: ‘Who in the hell are these guys?’ I had never seen a white man with hair that long and high-heeled boots before.
- 9/13/2018
- by Robert Crawford
- Rollingstone.com
Police in Maine got a kick out of a man's not-so-cop-friendly tattoo. Officials with the Bangor Police Department took to Facebook on Monday to post a photo of a smiling officer standing next to a man with a "Cops Suck" tattoo. The post detailed two officers' weekend encounter with a man identified only as "Russell," noting that they asked the man to "move along from his chosen location." "Russell was not arrested or charged with violations," the post states. "We like it that way." Officer Jimmy Burns noticed the tattoos on the knuckles of Russell's left and right hands, according to the post.
- 5/25/2016
- by Char Adams, @CiCiAdams_
- PEOPLE.com
Exclusive: The star of Paramount-mgm’s late summer release Ben-Hur is at the Cannes television market in a new role as producer with rights to a pair of prestige projects.
Cysa Productions has optioned television rights to BAFTA-winning writer Jennifer Majka’s The Architect, an original series that explores how and why we live.
The Architect is being conceived as an international co-production of ten one-hour episodes a season that kicks off in London in the 1950s and 1960s as architect Jack Tanner works on the reconstruction of postwar London.
The first season will chart how the ambitious era of modern architecture shaped lives following the ravages of WW2 and production will relocate to other cities around the world in subsequent seasons.
Huston will produce alongside his Cysa partner and former agent, Abi Harris, and Cysa will develop and produce the series with Majka.
The latter’s writing credits include The Bigger Picture, for which she...
Cysa Productions has optioned television rights to BAFTA-winning writer Jennifer Majka’s The Architect, an original series that explores how and why we live.
The Architect is being conceived as an international co-production of ten one-hour episodes a season that kicks off in London in the 1950s and 1960s as architect Jack Tanner works on the reconstruction of postwar London.
The first season will chart how the ambitious era of modern architecture shaped lives following the ravages of WW2 and production will relocate to other cities around the world in subsequent seasons.
Huston will produce alongside his Cysa partner and former agent, Abi Harris, and Cysa will develop and produce the series with Majka.
The latter’s writing credits include The Bigger Picture, for which she...
- 4/6/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Former Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant is heading to Mississippi to headline a festival in the historic Delta blues town he recorded a song about in 1999.
Plant recorded "Walking Into Clarksdale" with former Zeppelin bandmate Jimmy Page and has visited the town numerous times. The rock star is returning to Clarksdale this weekend to headline the Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival's 25th anniversary celebration with his new roots-music band, the Sensational Space Shifters.
On Saturday, Plant will take the stage with Grammy-winning vocalist Patty Griffin, West African virtuoso musician Juldeh Camara, guitarists Justin Adams and Bill Fuller, keyboardist John Baggott and drummer Dave Smith.
The performance is being hailed "one of the single biggest things to happen to Clarksdale," said resident and Cat Head music store owner Roger Stolle.
"Robert Plant can do anything in the world he wants to do but chooses to come here and pay homage...
Plant recorded "Walking Into Clarksdale" with former Zeppelin bandmate Jimmy Page and has visited the town numerous times. The rock star is returning to Clarksdale this weekend to headline the Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival's 25th anniversary celebration with his new roots-music band, the Sensational Space Shifters.
On Saturday, Plant will take the stage with Grammy-winning vocalist Patty Griffin, West African virtuoso musician Juldeh Camara, guitarists Justin Adams and Bill Fuller, keyboardist John Baggott and drummer Dave Smith.
The performance is being hailed "one of the single biggest things to happen to Clarksdale," said resident and Cat Head music store owner Roger Stolle.
"Robert Plant can do anything in the world he wants to do but chooses to come here and pay homage...
- 8/9/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
One can only hope that Sean Penn returns to acting duties post haste (Diplomacy, interrupted, 24 February). The past 30 years of Anglo-Argentine-Falkland relationships are vastly more complicated that Mr Penn might imagine, and his very short introduction to Us-uk-Latin American relations during the cold war sounds like it has been extracted from the James Bond film, Quantum of Solace.
While the dispatch of the Duke of Cambridge to the Falklands in the runup to the 30th anniversary of the 1982 conflict was an unfortunate piece of timing, it is nonetheless indicative of a broader truism that the British government has a responsibility to ensure that the Falkland Islands are defended and managed in terms of foreign and security affairs. In the past three decades, apart from the welcome departure of a brutal military regime in Argentina, the most dramatic change has come in the shape of the Falkland Islands community itself, which...
While the dispatch of the Duke of Cambridge to the Falklands in the runup to the 30th anniversary of the 1982 conflict was an unfortunate piece of timing, it is nonetheless indicative of a broader truism that the British government has a responsibility to ensure that the Falkland Islands are defended and managed in terms of foreign and security affairs. In the past three decades, apart from the welcome departure of a brutal military regime in Argentina, the most dramatic change has come in the shape of the Falkland Islands community itself, which...
- 3/1/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
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- 1/21/2012
- by M&C
- Monsters and Critics
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