Kate McKinnon and Andy Samberg have joined the cast of Jay Roach’s The Roses, which already boasts stars like Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch. Briefling on the new additions, Ncuti Gatwa, Sunita Mani, Zoë Chao, Jamie Demetriou, and Belinda Bromilow complete the ensemble. Reviving a Classic Love-Divorce Tale The Roses is a contemporary reimagining of the 1989 classic The War of the Roses, inspired by Warren Adler’s novel. Directed by Roach and penned by Tony McNamara, this new version aims to blend dark humor and modern sensibilities. The film revolves around Theo (Cumberbatch) and Ivy (Colman), a seemingly perfect couple...
- 6/5/2024
- by Steve Delikson
- TVovermind.com
Kate McKinnon, Andy Samberg and ‘Doctor Who’ star Ncuti Gatwa have all joined Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman on the cast of the reimagining of the 1989 ‘The War of the Roses’ dark comedy ‘The Roses’.
Sunita Mani, Zoë Chao, Jamie Demetriou and Belinda Bromilow have also joined the cast.
The movie is said to focus on the picture-perfect couple Theo (Cumberbatch) and Ivy (Colman), who have successful careers, great kids and an enviable sex life. But underneath the façade of the perfect family is a tinderbox of competition and resentment that’s ignited when Theo’s professional dreams come crashing down.
Also in news – Josh Brolin joins Rian Johnson’s ‘Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery’
‘Meet the Parents’ helmer, Jay Roach will direct from a script from Tony McNamara. The story is based on the novel by Warren Adler.
Cumberbatch will produce the project under his production company SunnyMarch.
Sunita Mani, Zoë Chao, Jamie Demetriou and Belinda Bromilow have also joined the cast.
The movie is said to focus on the picture-perfect couple Theo (Cumberbatch) and Ivy (Colman), who have successful careers, great kids and an enviable sex life. But underneath the façade of the perfect family is a tinderbox of competition and resentment that’s ignited when Theo’s professional dreams come crashing down.
Also in news – Josh Brolin joins Rian Johnson’s ‘Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery’
‘Meet the Parents’ helmer, Jay Roach will direct from a script from Tony McNamara. The story is based on the novel by Warren Adler.
Cumberbatch will produce the project under his production company SunnyMarch.
- 6/5/2024
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Exclusive: Kate McKinnon and Andy Samberg have joined the cast of Jay Roach’s The Roses, starring Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch. Ncuti Gatwa, Sunita Mani, Zoë Chao, Jamie Demetriou and Belinda Bromilow also are rounding out the cast of the film, which starts production this month. Written by Tony McNamara, The Roses is a reimagining of the 1989 classic The War of the Roses, based on the novel by Warren Adler.
The story revolves around Ivy (Colman) and Theo (Cumberbatch), the picture-perfect couple who have successful careers, great kids and an enviable sex life. But underneath the façade of the perfect family is a tinderbox of competition and resentments that’s ignited when Theo’s professional dreams come crashing down. Producers are Cumberbatch under his SunnyMarch banner with Adam Ackland and Leah Clarke, Colman under the South of the River banner with Ed Sinclair and Tom Carver, along with Roach and Michelle Graham.
The story revolves around Ivy (Colman) and Theo (Cumberbatch), the picture-perfect couple who have successful careers, great kids and an enviable sex life. But underneath the façade of the perfect family is a tinderbox of competition and resentments that’s ignited when Theo’s professional dreams come crashing down. Producers are Cumberbatch under his SunnyMarch banner with Adam Ackland and Leah Clarke, Colman under the South of the River banner with Ed Sinclair and Tom Carver, along with Roach and Michelle Graham.
- 6/4/2024
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Princ Films boards ‘Isabel’s Garden’ For Cannes Marche Du Film
Princ Films has boarded Kit Rich’s debut Isabel’s Garden for the upcoming Marche Du Film in Cannes. Isabel’s Garden stars Karen David (Fear the Walking Dead) as a small-town TV reporter who has to raise a teenage stepdaughter in the wake of her husband’s death. The film also stars Gabriela Flores (Once Upon A Time In Hollywood), Valery Ortiz (Skeletons in the Closet) and Manuel Rafael Lozano (Teen Wolf: The Movie). Its premiere won the Poppy Jasper Best Feature Film 2024 at the Poppy Jasper International Film Festival. “To be at the Marche du Film is an incredible opportunity to share Isabel’s Garden with the world,” said Igor Princ, president of Princ Films. “Isabel’s Garden has a huge heart and deeply touches those who watch it.” Isabel’s Garden was produced by Giovanna Andolina, Manuel Rafael Lozano and Rich.
Princ Films has boarded Kit Rich’s debut Isabel’s Garden for the upcoming Marche Du Film in Cannes. Isabel’s Garden stars Karen David (Fear the Walking Dead) as a small-town TV reporter who has to raise a teenage stepdaughter in the wake of her husband’s death. The film also stars Gabriela Flores (Once Upon A Time In Hollywood), Valery Ortiz (Skeletons in the Closet) and Manuel Rafael Lozano (Teen Wolf: The Movie). Its premiere won the Poppy Jasper Best Feature Film 2024 at the Poppy Jasper International Film Festival. “To be at the Marche du Film is an incredible opportunity to share Isabel’s Garden with the world,” said Igor Princ, president of Princ Films. “Isabel’s Garden has a huge heart and deeply touches those who watch it.” Isabel’s Garden was produced by Giovanna Andolina, Manuel Rafael Lozano and Rich.
- 5/3/2024
- by Max Goldbart, Hannah Abraham and Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Shortly after it revealed a buzzy remake of The War Of The Roses, it emerges that Adler Entertainment Trust (Aet), the production company dedicated to adapting the works of Warren Adler, is partnering with Oscar nominee and Emmy winner Todd Lieberman (The Fighter) and his production company, Hidden Pictures, on an initial two-project production deal.
Both projects under the partnership will be produced by Lieberman under his Hidden Pictures banner and will be executive-produced by Aet’s Jonathan R. Adler and Michael Adler, sons of the late author and playwright. Alex Young, Hidden Pictures President, will help oversee the partnership.
The two projects being adapted are:
“Untitled Fiona Fitzgerald Detective Series is an hour-long crime drama series based on the eight-book Fiona Fitzgerald Mystery series written by Warren Adler, set in the streets of Washington DC and its political backrooms. Fiona Fitzgerald, born into an illustrious family of DC insiders,...
Both projects under the partnership will be produced by Lieberman under his Hidden Pictures banner and will be executive-produced by Aet’s Jonathan R. Adler and Michael Adler, sons of the late author and playwright. Alex Young, Hidden Pictures President, will help oversee the partnership.
The two projects being adapted are:
“Untitled Fiona Fitzgerald Detective Series is an hour-long crime drama series based on the eight-book Fiona Fitzgerald Mystery series written by Warren Adler, set in the streets of Washington DC and its political backrooms. Fiona Fitzgerald, born into an illustrious family of DC insiders,...
- 4/22/2024
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Kali Reis; Olivia Colman; Dominic SessaPhoto: Olivia Wong/Getty Images; Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images; Sarah Morris/WireImage
The wheels of Hollywood never stop churning, as evidenced from this first week of April. Get ready for new projects featuring the Succession ensemble, Léa Seydoux’s team-up with Luca Guadagnino, and updates...
The wheels of Hollywood never stop churning, as evidenced from this first week of April. Get ready for new projects featuring the Succession ensemble, Léa Seydoux’s team-up with Luca Guadagnino, and updates...
- 4/5/2024
- by Saloni Gajjar, Matt Schimkowitz, and Emma Keates
- avclub.com
Conoce los detalles de la prometedora película.
De acuerdo con Deadline, Benedict Cumberbatch (“The Imitation Game”) y Olivia Colman (“La Favorita”) protagonizarán de la película “The Roses”, una nueva versión de la clásica película “La Guerra de los Rose” (1989), dirigida por Jay Roach y producida por Searchlight Pictures.
La historia sigue a Theo (interpretado por Cumberbatch) y Ivy (interpretada por Colman), una pareja aparentemente perfecta con carreras profesionales de éxito, hijos maravillosos y una vida sexual envidiable. Sin embargo, bajo la fachada de la familia perfecta se esconde un polvorín de competitividad y resentimiento que salta por los aires cuando los sueños profesionales de Theo se esfuman.
El guion de la película está basado en la novela de Warren Adler y ha sido escrito por Tony McNamara, conocido por su trabajo en “Pobres Criaturas” y “The Great”. La dirección estará a cargo de Jay Roach, reconocido por películas como “El...
De acuerdo con Deadline, Benedict Cumberbatch (“The Imitation Game”) y Olivia Colman (“La Favorita”) protagonizarán de la película “The Roses”, una nueva versión de la clásica película “La Guerra de los Rose” (1989), dirigida por Jay Roach y producida por Searchlight Pictures.
La historia sigue a Theo (interpretado por Cumberbatch) y Ivy (interpretada por Colman), una pareja aparentemente perfecta con carreras profesionales de éxito, hijos maravillosos y una vida sexual envidiable. Sin embargo, bajo la fachada de la familia perfecta se esconde un polvorín de competitividad y resentimiento que salta por los aires cuando los sueños profesionales de Theo se esfuman.
El guion de la película está basado en la novela de Warren Adler y ha sido escrito por Tony McNamara, conocido por su trabajo en “Pobres Criaturas” y “The Great”. La dirección estará a cargo de Jay Roach, reconocido por películas como “El...
- 4/3/2024
- by Marta Medina
- mundoCine
Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman have been set to star in the reimaging of the 1989 ‘The War of the Roses’ dark comedy ‘The Roses’.
The movie is said to focus on the picture-perfect couple Theo (Cumberbatch) and Ivy (Colman), who have successful careers, great kids and an enviable sex life. But underneath the façade of the perfect family is a tinderbox of competition and resentment that’s ignited when Theo’s professional dreams come crashing down.
‘Meet the Parents’ helmer, Jay Roach will direct from a script from Tony McNamara. The story is based on the novel by Warren Adler.
Also in news – Austin Butler cast in Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Caught Stealing’
Cumberbatch will produce the project under his production company SunnyMarch. Leah Clarke and Adam Ackland have been developing the project since 2017 and will also be involved in the production. Olivia Colman will also produce the project under her production company,...
The movie is said to focus on the picture-perfect couple Theo (Cumberbatch) and Ivy (Colman), who have successful careers, great kids and an enviable sex life. But underneath the façade of the perfect family is a tinderbox of competition and resentment that’s ignited when Theo’s professional dreams come crashing down.
‘Meet the Parents’ helmer, Jay Roach will direct from a script from Tony McNamara. The story is based on the novel by Warren Adler.
Also in news – Austin Butler cast in Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Caught Stealing’
Cumberbatch will produce the project under his production company SunnyMarch. Leah Clarke and Adam Ackland have been developing the project since 2017 and will also be involved in the production. Olivia Colman will also produce the project under her production company,...
- 4/2/2024
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
And just when you thought Hollywood would shift away from the remake and reboot craze, news of another remake just arrived. In 1989, Hollywood legend Danny DeVito directed the satirical black comedy The War of the Roses, starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner. The film was based on the 1981 novel of the same name written by Warren Adler. The movie follows a wealthy couple with a seemingly perfect life that crumbles at one point, and the perfection soon turns into a horrible and outrageous divorce.
The original movie was critically acclaimed and was a success for DeVito. Today, 35 years after the original, it has been reported that a remake of the movie is in the making, with Jay Roach attached to direct. On top of that, some interesting casting information has been revealed.
Namely, alongside this, it has been confirmed that Oscar-nominee Benedict Cumberbatch, best known for his interpretation of a...
The original movie was critically acclaimed and was a success for DeVito. Today, 35 years after the original, it has been reported that a remake of the movie is in the making, with Jay Roach attached to direct. On top of that, some interesting casting information has been revealed.
Namely, alongside this, it has been confirmed that Oscar-nominee Benedict Cumberbatch, best known for his interpretation of a...
- 4/2/2024
- by Arthur S. Poe
- Fiction Horizon
Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman will star in Jay Roach’s remake of The War Of The Roses, titled The Roses.
Another day, another remake is in the works in La La Land. Well, technically, it’s another adaptation of Warren Adler’s 1981 novel The War Of The Roses, but most people are familiar with 1989’s film adaptation, which memorably starred Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas and was directed by Danny DeVito.
The new adaptation will star Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman as the central couple, who proceed with a very nasty, yet very entertaining, divorce.
Jay Roach has signed on to direct, while recent Oscar nominee Tony McNamara is penning the script. The film will simply be called The Roses.
The novel follows a couple, Jonathan (who was named Oliver in the 1989 film) and Barbaba Rose, as their marriage falls apart. In the 1989 film, Barbara simply realises she doesn...
Another day, another remake is in the works in La La Land. Well, technically, it’s another adaptation of Warren Adler’s 1981 novel The War Of The Roses, but most people are familiar with 1989’s film adaptation, which memorably starred Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas and was directed by Danny DeVito.
The new adaptation will star Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman as the central couple, who proceed with a very nasty, yet very entertaining, divorce.
Jay Roach has signed on to direct, while recent Oscar nominee Tony McNamara is penning the script. The film will simply be called The Roses.
The novel follows a couple, Jonathan (who was named Oliver in the 1989 film) and Barbaba Rose, as their marriage falls apart. In the 1989 film, Barbara simply realises she doesn...
- 4/2/2024
- by Maria Lattila
- Film Stories
Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman are set to star in 'The Roses', a re-imagining of the 1989 satirical comedy 'The War of the Roses'.'Bombshell' director Jay Roach has boarded the flick to take the helm for Searchlight Pictures, Deadline reports.'Poor Things' scribe Tony McNamara (Poor Things) is adapting the original novel by Warren Adler. The synopsis reads: "Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Theo (Cumberbatch) and Ivy (Colman): successful careers, great kids, an enviable sex life. But underneath the facade of the perfect family is a tinderbox of competition and resentments that’s ignited when Theo’s professional dreams come crashing down."The original flick saw Danny DeVito direct a cast led by Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner.Jonathan R. Adler and Michael Adler, from Adler Entertainment Trust, are the executive producers.Cumberbatch is producing under his SunnyMarch banner with Leah Clarke and Adam Ackland, who have been developing the movie since 2017. Colman,...
- 4/2/2024
- by Lizzie Baker
- Bang Showbiz
Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman have been cast in an upcoming movie!
The 47-year-old Doctor Strange actor and the 50-year-old The Favourite star are set to lead The Roses, a reimagining of Danny DeVito‘s 1989 film The War of the Roses, which is based on Warren Adler‘s novel of the same name.
Keep reading to find out more…
Deadline reported the casting news on Monday (April 1).
Here’s the official logline: “Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Theo (Cumberbatch) and Ivy (Colman): successful careers, great kids, an enviable sex life. But underneath the façade of the perfect family is a tinderbox of competition and resentments that’s ignited when Theo’s professional dreams come crashing down.”
Jay Roach will direct The Roses.
If you missed the news, Olivia Colman is leaving a very popular show!
The 47-year-old Doctor Strange actor and the 50-year-old The Favourite star are set to lead The Roses, a reimagining of Danny DeVito‘s 1989 film The War of the Roses, which is based on Warren Adler‘s novel of the same name.
Keep reading to find out more…
Deadline reported the casting news on Monday (April 1).
Here’s the official logline: “Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Theo (Cumberbatch) and Ivy (Colman): successful careers, great kids, an enviable sex life. But underneath the façade of the perfect family is a tinderbox of competition and resentments that’s ignited when Theo’s professional dreams come crashing down.”
Jay Roach will direct The Roses.
If you missed the news, Olivia Colman is leaving a very popular show!
- 4/2/2024
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
Olivia Colman is reuniting with her “Favourite” screenwriter, Tony McNamara. The former wrote the screenplay for Yorgos Lanthimos‘ Best Picture-nominated dramedy which won Colman an Oscar and now has a new adaptation of Warren Adler‘s novel “The War of the Roses” ready for Jay Roach to direct. Benedict Cumberbatch will play the other half of the warring couple in the Searchlight Pictures release.
Continue reading Benedict Cumberbatch & Olivia Colman To Go At It In Jay Roach’s New ‘The War of The Roses’ Adaptation at The Playlist.
Continue reading Benedict Cumberbatch & Olivia Colman To Go At It In Jay Roach’s New ‘The War of The Roses’ Adaptation at The Playlist.
- 4/1/2024
- by The Playlist Staff
- The Playlist
Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman will star in Searchlight Pictures’ The Roses, a reimagining of the 1989 dark comedy The War Of The Roses to be directed by Jay Roach.
Tony McNamara, whose credits include Poor Things and The Great, wrote the screenplay based on the novel by Warren Adler.
The Roses centres on the seemingly perfect family life of Theo and Ivy, whose private competition and resentments are exposed when Theo’s professional dreams come crashing down.
Cumberbatch is producing through his SunnyMarch with Leah Clarke and Adam Ackland, who have been in development on the project since 2017. Colman is...
Tony McNamara, whose credits include Poor Things and The Great, wrote the screenplay based on the novel by Warren Adler.
The Roses centres on the seemingly perfect family life of Theo and Ivy, whose private competition and resentments are exposed when Theo’s professional dreams come crashing down.
Cumberbatch is producing through his SunnyMarch with Leah Clarke and Adam Ackland, who have been in development on the project since 2017. Colman is...
- 4/1/2024
- ScreenDaily
Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch are ready to duke it out in satirical divorce comedy “The Roses.” The remake of 1989 feature “War of the Roses,” which starred “Romancing the Stone” alums Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, “The Roses” will be written by “Poor Things” screenwriter Tony McNamara, marking a reunion between the screenwriter and “The Favourite” Academy Award winner Colman.
The Hollywood Reporter reports that the feature has been set up at Searchlight Pictures, with “Bombshell” director Jay Roach helming the project. “The Roses” is based on the novel published in 1981 by Warren Adler. The 1989 adaptation was directed by Danny DeVito and released by Twentieth Century Fox.
Per Searchlight, the remake’s official synopsis read: “Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Theo (Cumberbatch) and Ivy (Colman): successful careers, great kids, an enviable sex life. But underneath the façade of the perfect family is a tinderbox of competition and resentments...
The Hollywood Reporter reports that the feature has been set up at Searchlight Pictures, with “Bombshell” director Jay Roach helming the project. “The Roses” is based on the novel published in 1981 by Warren Adler. The 1989 adaptation was directed by Danny DeVito and released by Twentieth Century Fox.
Per Searchlight, the remake’s official synopsis read: “Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Theo (Cumberbatch) and Ivy (Colman): successful careers, great kids, an enviable sex life. But underneath the façade of the perfect family is a tinderbox of competition and resentments...
- 4/1/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman will star in “The Roses,” a reimagining of the 1989 classic “The War of the Roses.” The dark comedy, which is currently in development, will be directed by Jay Roach (“Bombshell,” “Meet the Parents”) and is written by Tony McNamara (“Poor Things,” “The Great”) based on the novel by Warren Adler.
The film follows picture-perfect couple Theo (Cumberbatch) and Ivy (Colman), who have successful careers, great kids and an enviable sex life. But underneath the façade of the perfect family is a tinderbox of competition and resentment that’s ignited when Theo’s professional dreams come crashing down.
“‘The Roses’ is a wildly funny, bigger than life, and yet deeply human story,” said Searchlight president Matthew Greenfield announcing the project. “With Jay at the helm, and Benedict and Olivia and Tony, we have a dream team bringing it to life.”
Cumberbatch will produce under his SunnyMarch...
The film follows picture-perfect couple Theo (Cumberbatch) and Ivy (Colman), who have successful careers, great kids and an enviable sex life. But underneath the façade of the perfect family is a tinderbox of competition and resentment that’s ignited when Theo’s professional dreams come crashing down.
“‘The Roses’ is a wildly funny, bigger than life, and yet deeply human story,” said Searchlight president Matthew Greenfield announcing the project. “With Jay at the helm, and Benedict and Olivia and Tony, we have a dream team bringing it to life.”
Cumberbatch will produce under his SunnyMarch...
- 4/1/2024
- by Katcy Stephan
- Variety Film + TV
Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman are going to have a nasty divorce.
The two British stars have signed on to star in The Roses, Searchlight’s reimagining of the 1989 dark comedy The War of the Roses, which starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner.
Jay Roach, the comedy director who segued into drama with movies such as Recount and Bombshell, is helming the feature that is in development at the studio arm. Tony McNamara, who earned an Oscar nomination for writing Searchlight’s acclaimed Poor Things, penned the script, which is based on the novel published in 1981 by Warren Adler.
The original movie, directed by Danny DeVito and released by 20th Century Fox, told of a married couple, Oliver and Barbara Rose, who seemingly live the perfect life in a perfect old mansion. When the wife realizes she no longer loves her husband, and in fact bitterly dislikes him, it precipitates...
The two British stars have signed on to star in The Roses, Searchlight’s reimagining of the 1989 dark comedy The War of the Roses, which starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner.
Jay Roach, the comedy director who segued into drama with movies such as Recount and Bombshell, is helming the feature that is in development at the studio arm. Tony McNamara, who earned an Oscar nomination for writing Searchlight’s acclaimed Poor Things, penned the script, which is based on the novel published in 1981 by Warren Adler.
The original movie, directed by Danny DeVito and released by 20th Century Fox, told of a married couple, Oliver and Barbara Rose, who seemingly live the perfect life in a perfect old mansion. When the wife realizes she no longer loves her husband, and in fact bitterly dislikes him, it precipitates...
- 4/1/2024
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of the Dog) and Olivia Colman (The Favourite) have been tapped to star in The Roses, a reimagining of the 1989 classic The War of the Roses that Jay Roach (Bombshell) will direct for Searchlight Pictures.
Currently in development, the dark comedy’s logline is as follows: Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Theo (Cumberbatch) and Ivy (Colman): successful careers, great kids, an enviable sex life. But underneath the façade of the perfect family is a tinderbox of competition and resentments that’s ignited when Theo’s professional dreams come crashing down.
Directed by Danny DeVito and starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, the original film adaptation of The War of the Roses was released by 20th Century Fox in 1989, garnering a BAFTA and three Golden Globe nominations, including for Best Motion Picture, among other accolades.
Tony McNamara (Poor Things) has scripted Searchlight’s new take...
Currently in development, the dark comedy’s logline is as follows: Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Theo (Cumberbatch) and Ivy (Colman): successful careers, great kids, an enviable sex life. But underneath the façade of the perfect family is a tinderbox of competition and resentments that’s ignited when Theo’s professional dreams come crashing down.
Directed by Danny DeVito and starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, the original film adaptation of The War of the Roses was released by 20th Century Fox in 1989, garnering a BAFTA and three Golden Globe nominations, including for Best Motion Picture, among other accolades.
Tony McNamara (Poor Things) has scripted Searchlight’s new take...
- 4/1/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Kurt Luedtke, who left journalism for Hollywood and won an Academy Award for his “Out of Africa” screenplay, died Sunday in Michigan after a long illness. He was 80.
The Michigan native died at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, the Detroit Free Press reported. He had worked at the newspaper starting in 1965 and was part of the paper’s Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the deadly 1967 riots in that city. He became its executive editor before departing at the age of 33 to pursue a career as a screenwriter.
Luedtke was able to sell Orion Picture his idea about a liquor warehouse owner whose life is almost destroyed by a reporter relying on an anonymous source. The film became Sydney Pollack’s “Absence of Malice,” starring Paul Newman, Sally Field, Melinda Dillon and Wilford Brimley, leading to Academy Award nominations to Newman for actor, Dillon for supporting actress and Leudtke for original screenplay.
The Michigan native died at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, the Detroit Free Press reported. He had worked at the newspaper starting in 1965 and was part of the paper’s Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the deadly 1967 riots in that city. He became its executive editor before departing at the age of 33 to pursue a career as a screenwriter.
Luedtke was able to sell Orion Picture his idea about a liquor warehouse owner whose life is almost destroyed by a reporter relying on an anonymous source. The film became Sydney Pollack’s “Absence of Malice,” starring Paul Newman, Sally Field, Melinda Dillon and Wilford Brimley, leading to Academy Award nominations to Newman for actor, Dillon for supporting actress and Leudtke for original screenplay.
- 8/10/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
The Ogunquit Playhouse has announced an exciting lineup of shows for its 88th season that includes the Northeast regional premiere of the hilarious dark comedy The War of the Roses, a new play based on the novel by Warren Adler and helmed by Tony Award-winner Jason Alexander, and the world premiere of the funny and heartwarming musical adaptation of Mr. Holland's Opus, helmed by Tony Award-winner Bd Wong. The season opens with the high-energy musical sensation Dirty Dancing -The Classic Story on Stage based on the smash-hit film, then continues with a stunning revival of the Tony Award-winning, all-Gershwin, tap dancing extravaganza Crazy for You, and the exhilarating Broadway hit musical based on the lives of Grammy Award-winning husband-and-wife team Gloria and Emilio Estefan, On Your Feet. The season will stretch to the holidays once again with the return of the hit show White Christmas in collaboration with The Music Hall in Portsmouth,...
- 2/13/2020
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Warren Adler, author, playwright and poet, whose novels The War of the Roses and Random Hearts were adapted into feature films, has died. Adler died Monday of complications from liver cancer, the Los Angeles Times reports. He was 91.
His 1981 novel The War of The Roses was turned into the 1989 dark comedy feature starring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito. In both the novel and the film, the married couple’s family name is Rose, and the title is an allusion to the battles between the Houses of York and Lancaster (English Civil War) during the Late Middle Ages.
His novel Random Hearts also was adapted into a film starring Harrison Ford and Kristin Scott Thomas in 1999. His published manuscript Private Lies sparked an unprecedented bidding war between TriStar Pictures, Warner Bros. and Columbia. According to a report in Newsweek, TriStar Pictures won the rights for $1.2 million, at that time...
His 1981 novel The War of The Roses was turned into the 1989 dark comedy feature starring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito. In both the novel and the film, the married couple’s family name is Rose, and the title is an allusion to the battles between the Houses of York and Lancaster (English Civil War) during the Late Middle Ages.
His novel Random Hearts also was adapted into a film starring Harrison Ford and Kristin Scott Thomas in 1999. His published manuscript Private Lies sparked an unprecedented bidding war between TriStar Pictures, Warner Bros. and Columbia. According to a report in Newsweek, TriStar Pictures won the rights for $1.2 million, at that time...
- 4/17/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Warren Adler, the novelist, playwright and poet whose novel “The War of the Roses” was adapted into the dark comedy starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, has died. He was 91.
His son, David Adler, said that his father died on Monday of complications from liver cancer.
Adler was the author of 50 novels, and sold the rights to a number of them for film, TV and stage adaptations. They included “Random Hearts,” which was turned into a 1999 movie directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Harrison Ford and Kristin Scott Thomas; and “The Sunset Gang,” which was adapted into a PBS “American Playhouse” in 1991, with Jerry Stiller, Uta Hagen, Harold Gould and Doris Roberts in the cast. “The Sunset Gang” was later adapted into an off-Broadway musical.
Another novel, “American Quartet,” part of his Fiona Fitzgerald mystery stories, was optioned by NBC and Lifetime.
Four months before his 1991 novel “Private Lies,...
His son, David Adler, said that his father died on Monday of complications from liver cancer.
Adler was the author of 50 novels, and sold the rights to a number of them for film, TV and stage adaptations. They included “Random Hearts,” which was turned into a 1999 movie directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Harrison Ford and Kristin Scott Thomas; and “The Sunset Gang,” which was adapted into a PBS “American Playhouse” in 1991, with Jerry Stiller, Uta Hagen, Harold Gould and Doris Roberts in the cast. “The Sunset Gang” was later adapted into an off-Broadway musical.
Another novel, “American Quartet,” part of his Fiona Fitzgerald mystery stories, was optioned by NBC and Lifetime.
Four months before his 1991 novel “Private Lies,...
- 4/16/2019
- by Ted Johnson
- Variety Film + TV
Vondie Curtis-Hall Signs Up to Adapt and Direct 'Residue' (Thriller About Bombing of a Black Church)
After wrapping up production on the upcoming Lifetime movie, "Un-Break My Heart" (the Toni Braxton biopic), multi-hyphenate Vondie Curtis-Hall has signed on to write and direct an adaptation of Warren Adler’s 2010 dramatic thriller “Residue." Adler is likely best known for "The War of the Roses," which was also adapted into a 1989 award-winning film starring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny DeVito. "Residue," published in 2010, tells the story of a firebombing of a black church in Brooklyn that was once a synagogue which sets off a chain reaction of international intrigue and violence. More from Amazon's description of...
- 12/17/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Actor/ Producer Julian McMahon ("Nip/Tuck" and "Fantastic Four") and Charlie Loventhal ("Mr Write" and "Meet Market"), in partnership with Grey Eagle Films/Grey Eagle Development, will be developing and producing "Funny Boys," based on the novel by Warren Adler. Paradigm will package the project.
Adler is best known for the blockbuster novel “The War of the Roses,“ which spawned an iconic film directed by Danny DeVito. Set in the 1930s in Brownsville Brooklyn and the famed New York State, Catskills, "Funny Boys," follows the story of Mickey Fine whose ambition is to be a comedian and follow in the footsteps of the great names of the era; Milton Berle, Henny Youngman, Sid Caesar, Jackie Mason, Joan Rivers, and scores of others who got their start in the many Borscht Belt hotels.
Jonathan Robert Adler, CEO, along with Grey Eagle COO, Stephen Greenwald, former President of DeLaurentis Entertainment Group and Embassy Pictures, have already launched a number of development/producing deals.
"Funny Boys" is just one of a number of Warren Adler novels in various stages of development by Grey Eagle Films. Other Grey Eagle projects include "The War of the Roses: The Children" adapted by screenwriter and Novelist Alex McAulay and codeveloped by Permut Presentations; "Target Churchill,"co-developed by Solution Entertainment Group; "Mourning Glory," to be adapted by award-winning writer and director Karen Leigh Hopkins; "Cult," also to be adapted by Alex McAulay; "Capitol Crimes," a TV series based on Warren Adler’s Fiona Fitzgerald mystery series, co-developed by Sennet Entertainment, with Eric Overmyer as showrunner; and soon to be announced thrillers "Torture Man," "Residue" and "The Womanizer"...
Adler is best known for the blockbuster novel “The War of the Roses,“ which spawned an iconic film directed by Danny DeVito. Set in the 1930s in Brownsville Brooklyn and the famed New York State, Catskills, "Funny Boys," follows the story of Mickey Fine whose ambition is to be a comedian and follow in the footsteps of the great names of the era; Milton Berle, Henny Youngman, Sid Caesar, Jackie Mason, Joan Rivers, and scores of others who got their start in the many Borscht Belt hotels.
Jonathan Robert Adler, CEO, along with Grey Eagle COO, Stephen Greenwald, former President of DeLaurentis Entertainment Group and Embassy Pictures, have already launched a number of development/producing deals.
"Funny Boys" is just one of a number of Warren Adler novels in various stages of development by Grey Eagle Films. Other Grey Eagle projects include "The War of the Roses: The Children" adapted by screenwriter and Novelist Alex McAulay and codeveloped by Permut Presentations; "Target Churchill,"co-developed by Solution Entertainment Group; "Mourning Glory," to be adapted by award-winning writer and director Karen Leigh Hopkins; "Cult," also to be adapted by Alex McAulay; "Capitol Crimes," a TV series based on Warren Adler’s Fiona Fitzgerald mystery series, co-developed by Sennet Entertainment, with Eric Overmyer as showrunner; and soon to be announced thrillers "Torture Man," "Residue" and "The Womanizer"...
- 2/27/2015
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Sydney's Buzz
Funny Boys
Julian McMahon and Charlie Loventhal are teaming with Grey Eagle Films for an adaption of "The War of the Roses" author Warren Adler's novel "Funny Boys".
Set in the 1930s in Brooklyn and the Catskills, the story follows a young man with a promising future in comedy who gets a gets a job as a 'tummler' to entertain and host at a lavish hotel casino - only to discover that he’s become involved with mobsters. [Source: Variety]
Cold Moon
Josh Stewart and Christopher Lloyd are set to star in Griff Furst's supernatural revenge drama "Cold Moon" which begins shooting later this month in Louisiana. Griff Furst directs from a script he adapted with Jack Snyder.
Based on the 1980 novel "Cold Moon Over Babylon," the story deals with the murder of a young woman whose body is dumped in Florida's Styx River, the same place where her parents...
Julian McMahon and Charlie Loventhal are teaming with Grey Eagle Films for an adaption of "The War of the Roses" author Warren Adler's novel "Funny Boys".
Set in the 1930s in Brooklyn and the Catskills, the story follows a young man with a promising future in comedy who gets a gets a job as a 'tummler' to entertain and host at a lavish hotel casino - only to discover that he’s become involved with mobsters. [Source: Variety]
Cold Moon
Josh Stewart and Christopher Lloyd are set to star in Griff Furst's supernatural revenge drama "Cold Moon" which begins shooting later this month in Louisiana. Griff Furst directs from a script he adapted with Jack Snyder.
Based on the 1980 novel "Cold Moon Over Babylon," the story deals with the murder of a young woman whose body is dumped in Florida's Styx River, the same place where her parents...
- 2/11/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
There’s a war coming to Broadway—but don’t expect to see dueling Yorks and Lancasters.
Instead, this War of the Roses will see Warren Adler adapting his own 1981 novel, a black comedy that follows an affluent couple (yes, their last name is Rose) as they embark on a contentious divorce. The book was adapted into a movie in 1989, starring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny DeVito, who also directed the film. (It marked the trio’s third time working together, after 1984′s Romancing the Stone and its 1985 sequel The Jewel of the Nile.)
Adler, also the author of Random Hearts,...
Instead, this War of the Roses will see Warren Adler adapting his own 1981 novel, a black comedy that follows an affluent couple (yes, their last name is Rose) as they embark on a contentious divorce. The book was adapted into a movie in 1989, starring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny DeVito, who also directed the film. (It marked the trio’s third time working together, after 1984′s Romancing the Stone and its 1985 sequel The Jewel of the Nile.)
Adler, also the author of Random Hearts,...
- 6/30/2014
- by Hillary Busis
- EW.com - PopWatch
New York — It looks like The Phantom of the Opera soon won't have the only plummeting chandelier on Broadway. Preliminary plans have been announced for a run during the 2015-16 season of Warren Adler's stage adaptation of his bestselling 1981 novel The War of the Roses, a divorce lawyer's cautionary tale of the ugliness that can ensue over the division of assets. The property is best known via the 1989 Fox black comedy that starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner as Jonathan and Barbara Rose, the once-blissful married couple whose union devolves into a vicious divorce battle.
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- 6/30/2014
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Well, what do you know? Another day, another round of sequels are causing buzz around these here interwebs. Here's the latest on War of The Roses: The Children and did Sigourney Weaver just say she'd play Ripley again to give her Alien character a proper sendoff?
War of The Roses, which came out in 1989, was the third film to feature the dynamic onscreen chemistry between Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas. While the first two films they did were directly related to one another- Romancing The Stone and Jewel of The Nile- they played all new characters in this one. Based off of the novel by Warren Adler, the film about a feuding couple managed to rake in $160 million- A nice chunk of change for a film with no explosions. This one didn't get much play in the old Robles household, though. My mom was partial to Romancing The Stone, and still is,...
War of The Roses, which came out in 1989, was the third film to feature the dynamic onscreen chemistry between Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas. While the first two films they did were directly related to one another- Romancing The Stone and Jewel of The Nile- they played all new characters in this one. Based off of the novel by Warren Adler, the film about a feuding couple managed to rake in $160 million- A nice chunk of change for a film with no explosions. This one didn't get much play in the old Robles household, though. My mom was partial to Romancing The Stone, and still is,...
- 6/3/2014
- by Mario-Francisco Robles
- LRMonline.com
Exclusive: Eric Overmyer (Treme, Boardwalk Empire) has come aboard as showrunner on the scripted series Capitol Crimes, currently in development by Mark Sennet Entertainment Inc. and Grey Eagle Films. The politically charged project is adapted from the seven-novel Fiona FitzGerald Mystery series by author Warren Adler (The War Of The Roses, Random Hearts), about a female homicide detective and senator’s daughter who penetrates the most prestigious D.C. circles solving high-profile murders. Mark Sennet, Brian Gary, Adler’s son Jonathan Robert Adler and Stephen Greenwald are executive producers on the series, which has also added Bo Derek and Craig Sheftell as co-exec producers. Like the series’ protagonist, 10 actress Derek has extensive experience in D.C.’s social and political scene. She came aboard as co-ep after meeting with Adler and Sennett. “I’ve spent so much time in Washington D.C., and I was on the board of The Kennedy Center,...
- 5/28/2014
- by JEN YAMATO
- Deadline TV
One of the greatest and most successful divorce comedies to ever be released, Danny DeVito.s 1989 comedy War of the Roses pitted Michael Douglas against Kathleen Turner in a no holds barred marital blowout. And while the film didn.t really leave any stones unturned, many have often wondered what became of the Rose children, Josh and Carolyn (who is actually named Evie in the novel the movie was based on). If you.re like me and haven.t ever read author Warren Adler.s novel follow-up The Children of the Roses, you.re in luck, as Permut Pictures and Grey Eagle Films will be turning that novel into a feature. And if you have indeed read the book, I certainly hope you aren.t groaning with disappointment right now, as we.ll probably be reporting on this one for a while. Grey Eagle, who owns all of the film...
- 11/14/2013
- cinemablend.com
Like parents, like children.
Marital dysfunction is getting passed down to the next generation in a sequel to "The War of the Roses." Deadline reports that Warren Adler's follow-up novel is being adapted for a sequel to the 1989 black comedy starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner.
"War of the Roses" pitted Oliver and Barbara Rose against each other in a bitter, brutal, house-destroying divorce battle. "The War of the Roses: The Children" focuses on their son and daughter, Josh and Evie, who are not living in wedded bliss as adults. Josh is a serial adulterer, while Evie is a promiscuous overeater, and both bear scars from their parents' divorce.
Permut Presentations and Grey Eagle Films are producing the film and are looking for a writer to adapt Adler's book. It's unclear if Danny DeVito, who directed "War of the Roses," would be involved with the sequel, or if the...
Marital dysfunction is getting passed down to the next generation in a sequel to "The War of the Roses." Deadline reports that Warren Adler's follow-up novel is being adapted for a sequel to the 1989 black comedy starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner.
"War of the Roses" pitted Oliver and Barbara Rose against each other in a bitter, brutal, house-destroying divorce battle. "The War of the Roses: The Children" focuses on their son and daughter, Josh and Evie, who are not living in wedded bliss as adults. Josh is a serial adulterer, while Evie is a promiscuous overeater, and both bear scars from their parents' divorce.
Permut Presentations and Grey Eagle Films are producing the film and are looking for a writer to adapt Adler's book. It's unclear if Danny DeVito, who directed "War of the Roses," would be involved with the sequel, or if the...
- 11/13/2013
- by Kelly Woo
- Moviefone
Like all 1980s trends, the hot fad of “divorce” that swept the decade is up for a nostalgic revival in a sequel to The War Of The Roses, the 1989 black comedy that demonstrated why it’s always best to just end marriage with a nice, clean murder-suicide, because it causes far less property damage. The new film will be adapted from the follow-up novel, The War Of The Roses: The Children, written by Warren Adler, who also wrote the original book that provided the basis for the movie in which Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny DeVito showed that ...
- 11/13/2013
- avclub.com
Over two decades after the release of The War Of The Roses, a sequel is being developed that would continue the story of Barbara and Oliver Rose. Played by Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner in the original 1989 film, The War Of The Roses was a dark comedy about a couple going through a divorce who end up battling to the death, literally. The film grossed over $160 million and was one of the more acclaimed films of that year. Author Warren Adler wrote a sequel to his original novel titled...
- 11/13/2013
- by Alex Maidy
- JoBlo.com
Permut Presentations and Grey Eagle Films are teaming to produce the upcoming sequel "The War Of The Roses: The Children".
The film is based on Warren Adler's novel "The Children of the Roses". Adler penned both it and its predecessor, "The War of the Roses" which was the basis for Danny DeVito's critically acclaimed pitch black 1989 comedy starring Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas.
In that film, the pair played Barbara and Oliver Rose - a couple who fell in and then out of love, leading to a nasty divorce battle which ultimately turns deadly.
In this sequel, the pair's children Josh and Evie are now grown but still scarred by their parents' vindictive battle. Josh has tried to be a model husband and father, while Evie has sought solace in overeating and casual sex.
Soon Josh and his wife Victoria divorce over Josh's infidelity, and fall into...
The film is based on Warren Adler's novel "The Children of the Roses". Adler penned both it and its predecessor, "The War of the Roses" which was the basis for Danny DeVito's critically acclaimed pitch black 1989 comedy starring Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas.
In that film, the pair played Barbara and Oliver Rose - a couple who fell in and then out of love, leading to a nasty divorce battle which ultimately turns deadly.
In this sequel, the pair's children Josh and Evie are now grown but still scarred by their parents' vindictive battle. Josh has tried to be a model husband and father, while Evie has sought solace in overeating and casual sex.
Soon Josh and his wife Victoria divorce over Josh's infidelity, and fall into...
- 11/13/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
The 1989 film, The War of the Roses, is getting a sequel. The original film starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner as wealthy spouses locked in a bitter divorce battle. The followup, which will be produced by Permut Presentations and Grey Eagle Films, will be based on Warren Adler’s 2004 follow-up novel The Children of the Roses.
In Children of the Roses, Barbara (Turner) and Oliver’s (Douglas) hateful legacy continues on in the lives of their two children, Josh and Evie – a “serial adulterer” and a “promiscuous over-eater.” Here’s a synopsis:
In The Children of the Roses, Josh marries Victoria for evermore, and his hugely overweight, happy-go-lucky sister Evie finds pleasure at the trough and through a series of live-in lovers. But in all-too-human, unpredictable and often hilarious turns, the betrayals begin.
Soon Josh and Victoria are on their way to their own form of internecine warfare and disaster.
In Children of the Roses, Barbara (Turner) and Oliver’s (Douglas) hateful legacy continues on in the lives of their two children, Josh and Evie – a “serial adulterer” and a “promiscuous over-eater.” Here’s a synopsis:
In The Children of the Roses, Josh marries Victoria for evermore, and his hugely overweight, happy-go-lucky sister Evie finds pleasure at the trough and through a series of live-in lovers. But in all-too-human, unpredictable and often hilarious turns, the betrayals begin.
Soon Josh and Victoria are on their way to their own form of internecine warfare and disaster.
- 11/13/2013
- by Laura Frances
- LRMonline.com
"The War of the Roses" continues on. More than two decades on from the release of the hit 1989 comedy starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner as wealthy spouses locked in a bitter divorce battle, a sequel is on its way from Permut Presentations and Grey Eagle Films, according to Deadline. The film will be based on Warren Adler's 2004 follow-up novel "The Children of the Roses," in which Barbara (Turner) and Oliver's (Douglas) hateful legacy continues on in the lives of their two children, Josh and Evie - a "serial adulterer" and a "promiscuous over-eater," respectively. The companies are now...
- 11/13/2013
- by HitFix Staff
- Hitfix
Exclusive: Permut Presentations and Grey Eagle Films will produce The War Of The Roses, The Children, an adaptation of the sequel novel by Warren Adler, whose original was the basis for the 1989 film in which director Danny DeVito tapped his Romancing The Stone cohorts Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner and pitted them in a divorce battle to the death. Here, the chandelier-shattering legacy of Barbara and Oliver Rose is passed down to their children, Josh and Evie, in a black comedy that focuses on ugly divorce from the vantage point of kids who fall victim to warring parents. Josh marries Victoria, only to see the marriage fall apart over an incident involving missing Milky Way bars; and Evie is a promiscuous over-eater carrying her own shrapnel. The result is deceit, violence and destruction. Permut will produce with Grey Eagle Films, Jonathan Adler and Stephen Greenwald. Chris Mangano will be exec producers.
- 11/12/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Put the remake klaxon away! The sequel siren will instead be blaring for this one, because a set of producers is intent on making a film based on Warren Adler’s follow-up novel to The War Of The Roses.Adler’s original book, which hit shelves in 1981, became the basis for Danny DeVito’s 1989 black comedy. It took a caustic look at a marriage that sours faster then spoiled milk, with Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner as Oliver and Barbara Rose, whose dream wedding spawns a nightmare marriage and utterly vicious divorce.In the same year as the first novel, Adler also wrote The War Of The Roses, The Children, which followed the Rose kids Josh and (as she was called in the book) Evie. Another dark comedy about relationships, it saw Josh marry a girl called Victoria, only to endure his own crumbling connection, and Evie’s struggles with...
- 11/12/2013
- EmpireOnline
I have been trying to figure out how a movie reportedly costing close to two hundred million dollars has failed to find a paying audience. The reviews have been either glowing or certainly respectful. The enormously talented Martin Scorsese directed the movie based upon a successful children's book by Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, which deals with the adventures of a 12-year-old boy who literally lives within the cavernous confines of a massive Parisian train station in 1931, whose principal chore is to keep the numerous clocks in the station in working order after the death of his drunken uncle, who had been charged with that operation. A host of actors are on board, including the young boy played by Asa Butterfield, an old man played by the brilliant Ben Kingsley, a young girl played by Chloe Moretz, and a station policeman played by the actor and satirist, Sacha Baron Cohen.
- 2/17/2012
- by Warren Adler
- Moviefone
The Iron Lady is an interesting example of the limits of movie biography and the manner in which contemporary political and social trends leak into motion picture storytelling. Starring the incomparable Meryl Streep, whose unique talent allows her to create and mimic the persona of the most challenging of female characters plucked from real life or fiction, The Iron Lady purports to tell the intimate story of Margaret Thatcher, one of the most powerful British prime ministers of recent vintage. The movie, written by Abi Morgan and directed by Phyllida Lloyd, is a valiant attempt to go beyond the mask of Mrs. Thatcher's public image and portray the real person that lurks inside what we cynics often refer to as the human contrivance. Mrs. Thatcher, as we know from recent history, was a strong, articulate and stubborn woman who climbed the fortress of the male dominated British political system and...
- 1/24/2012
- by Warren Adler
- Moviefone
The DGA’s associate national executive director, Warren Adler, is retiring, effective April 1, the guild disclosed. There was no mention of a successor, and it is not known whether the position will be filled or left vacant. The position was created in 1998 when Adler was promoted into the then-newly created post.
Adler started at the DGA in 1978, as associate general counsel. At that time, he noted in a statement, “the Guild had roughly a dozen people on staff.” In contrast, the union’s staff now numbers around 150, based on 2009 figures (the most recent public filing available).
During his tenure at the guild, which was marked by several promotions, Adler participated in 11 negotiating cycles for the main collective bargaining agreement with the AMPTP. He also focused on creative rights and on diversity issues, and will continue to serve the guild as a senior counselor, primarily on those issues.
Adler started at the DGA in 1978, as associate general counsel. At that time, he noted in a statement, “the Guild had roughly a dozen people on staff.” In contrast, the union’s staff now numbers around 150, based on 2009 figures (the most recent public filing available).
During his tenure at the guild, which was marked by several promotions, Adler participated in 11 negotiating cycles for the main collective bargaining agreement with the AMPTP. He also focused on creative rights and on diversity issues, and will continue to serve the guild as a senior counselor, primarily on those issues.
"Unless the Academy reconsiders the change, the Guild ... is not bound by its commitments to the Academy."
By Josef Adalian
The Directors Guild is joining the opposition to Emmy's time-squeeze plans.
In a letter to TV Academy CEO John Shaffner delivered today, DGA associate national director Warren Adler says the Guild has decided that the planned changes to next month's telecast are "a material breach of our agreement" that holds that directing awards be telecast "live" and "in parity with the actors' awards."
"As a result, unless the Academy reconsiders the proposed change in presentation of directing awards, the Guild considers tha...
By Josef Adalian
The Directors Guild is joining the opposition to Emmy's time-squeeze plans.
In a letter to TV Academy CEO John Shaffner delivered today, DGA associate national director Warren Adler says the Guild has decided that the planned changes to next month's telecast are "a material breach of our agreement" that holds that directing awards be telecast "live" and "in parity with the actors' awards."
"As a result, unless the Academy reconsiders the proposed change in presentation of directing awards, the Guild considers tha...
- 8/4/2009
- by Michael Speier
- The Wrap
Producer Tony DiDio and director Kevin Connor have acquired the screen rights to Warren Adler's new novel Target Churchill. Adler is penning the screenplay about an assassination attempt, orchestrated by Joseph Stalin, on the British prime minister. Production on the independently financed project is planned for January in Kiev, London, Washington and Fulton, Mo.
- 5/25/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
"Random Hearts" is a picture divided against itself. The central love story is an unconvincing emotional stretch that two intense, if not overwrought, performances by Harrison Ford and Kristin Scott Thomas cannot salvage. But of equal concern is the film's desire to build romance out of tragedy and despair. While certainly not impossible, the effort misfires here when logic and chemistry dictate against such an outcome.
It almost feels as if director-producer Sydney Pollack, one of the most accomplished pros in the business, needed to challenge himself with the impossible romance contained in Warren Adler's 1984 novel of the same name. But the very spit and polish of a Pollack production with its glistening surfaces and the careful calculations of its screenwriting work against the spontaneous combustion in Adler's love story.
"Random Hearts" should do well with older female audiences, but it looks like a tough sell to others, with the under-25 set mostly ignoring the romantic drama.
Light years removed from the "meet cute" of many movie romances, "Random Hearts" has a "meet tragic" as the springboard for its story. Ford plays a married Internal Affairs sergeant in the Washington police department. Scott Thomas is a married congresswoman from New Hampshire running for re-election.
There's no reason why they should ever meet -- until a commercial airliner crashes into Chesapeake Bay, leaving no survivors. Both their spouses were on that jet.
Ford quickly realizes that neither of the spouses, sitting next to each other and traveling on "Mr. and Mrs". tickets, had any business reason to travel to the plane's destination, Miami. So he launches a gut-wrenching investigation into his own life -- and his wife's apparent secret one.
On the other hand, Scott Thomas, with an election campaign and teenage daughter, wants to know as little as possible about her husband's clandestine affairs. But Ford's out-of-control persistence draws her against her will into the investigation.
The next thing you know -- and it's that abrupt -- the two are falling into something like love. A certain desperation draws them together, with the central issue being one of trust.
"I don't trust this (affair) any more than you do," he tells her. "But you're the only thing that's real."
Ford is so tightly wound, even before he learns of the deaths, that his fixations are convincing even if his furtive feelings for the congresswoman are not. Scott Thomas' politician does a better job of masking the pain in her heart. But you see it in her eyes and feel it in her brusque, businesslike manner. Yet there simply is no logic in her positive response to Ford's sexual overtures.
The screenplay, written by longtime Pollack collaborator Kurt Luedtke with an adaptation credit going to novelist-screenwriter Darryl Ponicsan, relies heavily on the actors to supply motivation for their characters' erratic behavior. But this forces Ford and Scott Thomas into hysterical, obsessional realms. They do nothing to embarrass themselves as actors, but the roles defeat them nonetheless.
The betrayed lovers soon enough realize the impossibility of their relationship. In a climax and denouement, the viewer is meant to understand they have pacified the inner demons that torment them, and the possibility exists that down the road the two may yet get together for a more relaxed relationship.
But this is no more convincing than their tempestuous affair. The film has taken the form of a mystery that neither detectives will ever solve. Neither enjoys an epiphany. Nor does a clue surface as to what motivated the dead couple.
"Random Hearts" verges uncomfortably close to melodrama where plot drives character. The people in this film are so buffeted by events that when they do finally act, those actions feel as contrived as do the events that swirl about them.
There are excellent supporting performances, in particular Charles S. Dutton as Ford's increasingly concerned partner and Pollack himself as Scott Thomas' cynical campaign manager. Peter Coyote and Susanna Thompson appear briefly but effectively as the doomed spouses.
Dave Grusin's unobtrusive music, Philippe Rousselot's often brooding cinematography and Barbara Ling's meticulous production design are first class.
RANDOM HEARTS
Columbia Pictures
Rastar/Mirage Enterprises
Credits: Producers: Sydney Pollack, Marykay Powell; Director: Sydney Pollack; Writer: Kurt Luedtke; Adaptation by: Darryl Ponicsan; Based on the novel by: Warren Adler; Executive producers: Ronald L. Schwary, Warren Adler; Director of photography: Philippe Rousselot; Production designer: Barbara Ling; Music: Dave Grusin; Costume designer: Bernie Pollack; Editor: William Steinkamp. Cast: Dutch Van Den Broeck: Harrison Ford; Kay Chandler: Kristin Scott Thomas; Alcee: Charles S. Dutton; Wendy Judd: Bonnie Hunt; Detective George Beaufort: Dennis Haysbert; Carl Broman: Sydney Pollack; Truman Trainor: Richard Jenkins. MPAA rating: R. Color/stereo. Running time -- 131 minutes.
It almost feels as if director-producer Sydney Pollack, one of the most accomplished pros in the business, needed to challenge himself with the impossible romance contained in Warren Adler's 1984 novel of the same name. But the very spit and polish of a Pollack production with its glistening surfaces and the careful calculations of its screenwriting work against the spontaneous combustion in Adler's love story.
"Random Hearts" should do well with older female audiences, but it looks like a tough sell to others, with the under-25 set mostly ignoring the romantic drama.
Light years removed from the "meet cute" of many movie romances, "Random Hearts" has a "meet tragic" as the springboard for its story. Ford plays a married Internal Affairs sergeant in the Washington police department. Scott Thomas is a married congresswoman from New Hampshire running for re-election.
There's no reason why they should ever meet -- until a commercial airliner crashes into Chesapeake Bay, leaving no survivors. Both their spouses were on that jet.
Ford quickly realizes that neither of the spouses, sitting next to each other and traveling on "Mr. and Mrs". tickets, had any business reason to travel to the plane's destination, Miami. So he launches a gut-wrenching investigation into his own life -- and his wife's apparent secret one.
On the other hand, Scott Thomas, with an election campaign and teenage daughter, wants to know as little as possible about her husband's clandestine affairs. But Ford's out-of-control persistence draws her against her will into the investigation.
The next thing you know -- and it's that abrupt -- the two are falling into something like love. A certain desperation draws them together, with the central issue being one of trust.
"I don't trust this (affair) any more than you do," he tells her. "But you're the only thing that's real."
Ford is so tightly wound, even before he learns of the deaths, that his fixations are convincing even if his furtive feelings for the congresswoman are not. Scott Thomas' politician does a better job of masking the pain in her heart. But you see it in her eyes and feel it in her brusque, businesslike manner. Yet there simply is no logic in her positive response to Ford's sexual overtures.
The screenplay, written by longtime Pollack collaborator Kurt Luedtke with an adaptation credit going to novelist-screenwriter Darryl Ponicsan, relies heavily on the actors to supply motivation for their characters' erratic behavior. But this forces Ford and Scott Thomas into hysterical, obsessional realms. They do nothing to embarrass themselves as actors, but the roles defeat them nonetheless.
The betrayed lovers soon enough realize the impossibility of their relationship. In a climax and denouement, the viewer is meant to understand they have pacified the inner demons that torment them, and the possibility exists that down the road the two may yet get together for a more relaxed relationship.
But this is no more convincing than their tempestuous affair. The film has taken the form of a mystery that neither detectives will ever solve. Neither enjoys an epiphany. Nor does a clue surface as to what motivated the dead couple.
"Random Hearts" verges uncomfortably close to melodrama where plot drives character. The people in this film are so buffeted by events that when they do finally act, those actions feel as contrived as do the events that swirl about them.
There are excellent supporting performances, in particular Charles S. Dutton as Ford's increasingly concerned partner and Pollack himself as Scott Thomas' cynical campaign manager. Peter Coyote and Susanna Thompson appear briefly but effectively as the doomed spouses.
Dave Grusin's unobtrusive music, Philippe Rousselot's often brooding cinematography and Barbara Ling's meticulous production design are first class.
RANDOM HEARTS
Columbia Pictures
Rastar/Mirage Enterprises
Credits: Producers: Sydney Pollack, Marykay Powell; Director: Sydney Pollack; Writer: Kurt Luedtke; Adaptation by: Darryl Ponicsan; Based on the novel by: Warren Adler; Executive producers: Ronald L. Schwary, Warren Adler; Director of photography: Philippe Rousselot; Production designer: Barbara Ling; Music: Dave Grusin; Costume designer: Bernie Pollack; Editor: William Steinkamp. Cast: Dutch Van Den Broeck: Harrison Ford; Kay Chandler: Kristin Scott Thomas; Alcee: Charles S. Dutton; Wendy Judd: Bonnie Hunt; Detective George Beaufort: Dennis Haysbert; Carl Broman: Sydney Pollack; Truman Trainor: Richard Jenkins. MPAA rating: R. Color/stereo. Running time -- 131 minutes.
- 9/28/1999
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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