Every year, the Writers Guild of America leaves out several Oscar-contending screenplays in its award nominations. But this year’s ineligible list is massive, from “Mank” to “Nomadland.” The WGA maintains jurisdiction over whether scripts are produced under a Writer’s Guild contract, and who finally gets credit on a screenplay. The guild insists on withholding non-signatories from being part of the WGA Awards.
That’s why, unlike the other guilds, every year a long list of WGA ineligible indie, British, and animated movies are excluded. A WGA nomination isn’t essential for Oscar nomination; plenty of exceptions include American indie “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” Iranian Oscar-winner “A Separation,” Oscar-winning British films “Les Miserables,” and “The Favourite,” and all Pixar animated contenders, from “Up” to “Incredibles 2.” “The Artist” and “The King’s Speech” both won Best Picture without the benefit of a WGA nomination.
The WGA nominees listed below...
That’s why, unlike the other guilds, every year a long list of WGA ineligible indie, British, and animated movies are excluded. A WGA nomination isn’t essential for Oscar nomination; plenty of exceptions include American indie “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” Iranian Oscar-winner “A Separation,” Oscar-winning British films “Les Miserables,” and “The Favourite,” and all Pixar animated contenders, from “Up” to “Incredibles 2.” “The Artist” and “The King’s Speech” both won Best Picture without the benefit of a WGA nomination.
The WGA nominees listed below...
- 2/16/2021
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Every year, the Writers Guild of America leaves out several Oscar-contending screenplays in its award nominations. But this year’s ineligible list is massive, from “Mank” to “Nomadland.” The WGA maintains jurisdiction over whether scripts are produced under a Writer’s Guild contract, and who finally gets credit on a screenplay. The guild insists on withholding non-signatories from being part of the WGA Awards.
That’s why, unlike the other guilds, every year a long list of WGA ineligible indie, British, and animated movies are excluded. A WGA nomination isn’t essential for Oscar nomination; plenty of exceptions include American indie “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” Iranian Oscar-winner “A Separation,” Oscar-winning British films “Les Miserables,” and “The Favourite,” and all Pixar animated contenders, from “Up” to “Incredibles 2.” “The Artist” and “The King’s Speech” both won Best Picture without the benefit of a WGA nomination.
The WGA nominees listed below...
That’s why, unlike the other guilds, every year a long list of WGA ineligible indie, British, and animated movies are excluded. A WGA nomination isn’t essential for Oscar nomination; plenty of exceptions include American indie “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” Iranian Oscar-winner “A Separation,” Oscar-winning British films “Les Miserables,” and “The Favourite,” and all Pixar animated contenders, from “Up” to “Incredibles 2.” “The Artist” and “The King’s Speech” both won Best Picture without the benefit of a WGA nomination.
The WGA nominees listed below...
- 2/16/2021
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Few actors have shown such awards promise in recent years as Lucas Hedges. Since 2014, the 24-year-old star has appeared in four Best Picture nominees and starred alongside such Oscar-winning performers as Julia Roberts (“Ben Is Back”), Nicole Kidman (“Boy Erased”), Russell Crowe (“Boy Erased”), Frances McDormand (“Three Billboards”), and Casey Affleck (“Manchester by the Sea”). He’s a former nominee as well, capturing a Best Supporting Actor nomination at the 2017 ceremony for his “Manchester By the Sea” breakout performance. But despite that track record, few if any awards experts have given Hedges serious consideration for his performance in “Let Them All Talk.”
That’s a mistake, even acknowledging the depth of talent crowding this year’s Best Supporting Actor category — where multiple cast members of “The Trial of the Chicago 7” are battling with multiple cast members from “One Night in Miami,” not to mention newcomers like Paul Raci from “The Sound of Metal.
That’s a mistake, even acknowledging the depth of talent crowding this year’s Best Supporting Actor category — where multiple cast members of “The Trial of the Chicago 7” are battling with multiple cast members from “One Night in Miami,” not to mention newcomers like Paul Raci from “The Sound of Metal.
- 1/15/2021
- by Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
WarnerMedia’s awkwardly revealed re-invention of Hollywood’s release windows has stirred anger among filmmakers and their reps, with fists clenched and threats exchanged. But then there’s Steven Soderbergh, the idiosyncratic filmmaker who reminds us that he is above it all.
Soderbergh’s response to industry discord is to sign up as co-producer of the next Oscar show, whatever that may be (more below), and to join the streaming line with a semi-improvised HBO Max drama titled Let Them All Talk (some critics have retitled it Let Them All Nap).
Throughout his 30-year career, Soderbergh has careened between moods and settings, from Erin Brockovich to Magic Mike, from Contagion to Full Frontal. He followed Sex, Lies, and Videotape, his first hit, with a period drama sexily titled Kafka about an paranoid insurance clerk in Prague.
True to form, Soderbergh “retired” for four years around 2012, then materialized once again with a self-financed,...
Soderbergh’s response to industry discord is to sign up as co-producer of the next Oscar show, whatever that may be (more below), and to join the streaming line with a semi-improvised HBO Max drama titled Let Them All Talk (some critics have retitled it Let Them All Nap).
Throughout his 30-year career, Soderbergh has careened between moods and settings, from Erin Brockovich to Magic Mike, from Contagion to Full Frontal. He followed Sex, Lies, and Videotape, his first hit, with a period drama sexily titled Kafka about an paranoid insurance clerk in Prague.
True to form, Soderbergh “retired” for four years around 2012, then materialized once again with a self-financed,...
- 12/17/2020
- by Peter Bart
- Deadline Film + TV
Money talks — loudly enough that it could just as well be the fourth wheel to the troubled trio at the center of Let Them Talk, the new Steven Soderbergh movie, which is currently streaming on HBO Max. The movie’s got a solid premise. Three former college friends — Alice (Meryl Streep), Roberta (Candice Bergen), and Susan (Dianne Wiest) — reunite on an ocean liner after decades apart, and hilarity ensues, then fizzles, then picks back up again. The occasion: Alice, a Pulitzer-winning author whose previous work has been adapted into a film and a television series,...
- 12/14/2020
- by K. Austin Collins
- Rollingstone.com
Whether she’s playing an alien sharpshooter, android or powerful socialite, Gemma Chan has emerged as one of the most versatile actors in Hollywood. Such adaptability is again on display in Steven Soderbergh’s Let Them All Talk, as Chan plays a literary agent on behalf of Meryl Streep’s acclaimed novelist, Alice Hughes. While Soderbergh and screenwriter Deborah Eisenberg provided the actors with a “bible” that included key exposition, Chan and the rest of the cast improvised their dialogue for the duration of the film. Besides the pressure of improvising, Chan had to do so alongside Streep — one of the most, if ...
- 12/11/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Whether she’s playing an alien sharpshooter, android or powerful socialite, Gemma Chan has emerged as one of the most versatile actors in Hollywood. Such adaptability is again on display in Steven Soderbergh’s Let Them All Talk, as Chan plays a literary agent on behalf of Meryl Streep’s acclaimed novelist, Alice Hughes. While Soderbergh and screenwriter Deborah Eisenberg provided the actors with a “bible” that included key exposition, Chan and the rest of the cast improvised their dialogue for the duration of the film. Besides the pressure of improvising, Chan had to do so alongside Streep — one of the most, if ...
- 12/11/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
An imaginative romance comes with surprising conditions in the upcoming Lionsgate release “The Right One.” In the film, a case of writer’s block leads one novelist to meet a mysterious stranger. Cases of writer’s block seem to be a recent go-to strategy for filmmakers—Steven Soderbergh’s “Let Them Talk” is a fantastic example with writer Deborah Eisenberg positioning it as more than a character trait.
Continue reading ‘The Right One’ Trailer: Cleopatra Coleman Isn’t Sure Who She Really Is Dating In This New Rom-Com at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘The Right One’ Trailer: Cleopatra Coleman Isn’t Sure Who She Really Is Dating In This New Rom-Com at The Playlist.
- 12/11/2020
- by Valerie Thompson
- The Playlist
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
Alex Wheatle (Steve McQueen)
Alex Wheatle, the fourth entry in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology, offers a modest take on the process of unlearning cultural attitudes and biases through the eyes of a naïve teenager. In 1980, Alex Wheatle moves to a social services hostel in Brixton after spending his childhood in a group home, where he was subject to constant abuse from his white peers and caretaker. In Brixton, however, Wheatle finds himself immersed in the Black British community, from which he was displaced growing up in all-white Surrey, where he slowly but surely assimilates the patois, fashion, and most importantly, music of his culture. He quickly witnesses...
Alex Wheatle (Steve McQueen)
Alex Wheatle, the fourth entry in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology, offers a modest take on the process of unlearning cultural attitudes and biases through the eyes of a naïve teenager. In 1980, Alex Wheatle moves to a social services hostel in Brixton after spending his childhood in a group home, where he was subject to constant abuse from his white peers and caretaker. In Brixton, however, Wheatle finds himself immersed in the Black British community, from which he was displaced growing up in all-white Surrey, where he slowly but surely assimilates the patois, fashion, and most importantly, music of his culture. He quickly witnesses...
- 12/11/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Argentinian author César Aira doesn’t work the way other writers do: Most mornings, according to routine, Aira takes a seat at a Buenos Aires café and picks up where he left off, responding to what he sees around him. His is a spontaneous style, shaped by chance or whatever may have happened the day before, or even by what he watched on television. “If a little bird enters into the café where I’m writing — it did happen once — it also enters into what I’m writing,” Aira has explained.
I was reminded of Aira’s method when watching “Let Them All Talk,” an HBO Max original feature in which Meryl Streep plays a novelist of considerable acclaim struggling to finish her latest novel. Her character, Alice Hughes, already has a Pulitzer and is en route to receiving the prestigious (albeit fictional) Footling Prize in the U.K. Because she can’t fly,...
I was reminded of Aira’s method when watching “Let Them All Talk,” an HBO Max original feature in which Meryl Streep plays a novelist of considerable acclaim struggling to finish her latest novel. Her character, Alice Hughes, already has a Pulitzer and is en route to receiving the prestigious (albeit fictional) Footling Prize in the U.K. Because she can’t fly,...
- 12/3/2020
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Everything you need to appreciate the sanguine jazz of Steven Soderbergh’s “Let Them All Talk” — — can be gleaned from a passage in the New York Times’ recent profile of David Fincher in which Soderbergh remembers how suffocating it was to watch his notoriously obsessive friend do some post-production work on the 2002 thriller “Panic Room”:
“‘David had a laser pointer out,’” Soderbergh winces, “‘and he was circling this one section of a wall in the upper part of the frame, saying that’s a quarter of a stop too bright.’ I had to leave the room. I had to go outside and take some deep breaths, because I thought, ‘Oh, my God — to see like that? All the time? Everywhere? I wouldn’t be able to do it.’”
It’s amusing to picture Soderbergh and Fincher hanging out together for the same reason it was funny to watch Homer...
“‘David had a laser pointer out,’” Soderbergh winces, “‘and he was circling this one section of a wall in the upper part of the frame, saying that’s a quarter of a stop too bright.’ I had to leave the room. I had to go outside and take some deep breaths, because I thought, ‘Oh, my God — to see like that? All the time? Everywhere? I wouldn’t be able to do it.’”
It’s amusing to picture Soderbergh and Fincher hanging out together for the same reason it was funny to watch Homer...
- 12/3/2020
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Tensions arise between a writer and her coterie aboard an ocean liner in Steven Soderbergh’s sweet, unfocused drama
There’s an awful lot going on in this new movie from Steven Soderbergh. The title is appropriate: it’s garrulous, elegant, bristling with classy performances from an A-list cast, and Deborah Eisenberg’s screenplay has a theatrical intimacy. It’s loosely and waywardly plotted, perhaps as a result of having gone through many drafts, though maybe not enough. It is slightly unfocused and uncertain as to where its emotional centre really lies – though there is a charm and a big dramatic finale.
The story is mostly set on a luxury liner, , the Queen Mary 2, crossing from New York to Southampton. Meryl Streep plays Alice Hughes, a renowned novelist whose reputation and sales rely chiefly on a sensational early book about the collapse of a woman’s marriage. Her agent (Gemma Chan...
There’s an awful lot going on in this new movie from Steven Soderbergh. The title is appropriate: it’s garrulous, elegant, bristling with classy performances from an A-list cast, and Deborah Eisenberg’s screenplay has a theatrical intimacy. It’s loosely and waywardly plotted, perhaps as a result of having gone through many drafts, though maybe not enough. It is slightly unfocused and uncertain as to where its emotional centre really lies – though there is a charm and a big dramatic finale.
The story is mostly set on a luxury liner, , the Queen Mary 2, crossing from New York to Southampton. Meryl Streep plays Alice Hughes, a renowned novelist whose reputation and sales rely chiefly on a sensational early book about the collapse of a woman’s marriage. Her agent (Gemma Chan...
- 12/3/2020
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
After enduring any number of paid celebrity vacations disguised as feature films, it’s edifying to learn that a cast and crew can have a great journey and make a worthwhile film at the same time, as Steven Soderbergh and an impressive ensemble have done with “Let Them All Talk,” filmed almost entirely during a real transatlantic, New York-to-Southampton crossing on the Queen Mary 2.
You won’t begrudge Meryl Streep, Candice Bergen, Dianne Wiest, Gemma Chan and Lucas Hedges getting an ocean voyage out of the deal, since this comedy-drama about a blocked novelist having an awkward reunion with old friends is such a witty exploration of relationships and of the responsibility artists have to their muses. It’s “Wild Strawberries” for women of a certain age, and a big improvement over Soderbergh and Streep’s previous collaboration, the disjointed “The Laundromat.”
Streep stars as Alice, an acclaimed author. Her...
You won’t begrudge Meryl Streep, Candice Bergen, Dianne Wiest, Gemma Chan and Lucas Hedges getting an ocean voyage out of the deal, since this comedy-drama about a blocked novelist having an awkward reunion with old friends is such a witty exploration of relationships and of the responsibility artists have to their muses. It’s “Wild Strawberries” for women of a certain age, and a big improvement over Soderbergh and Streep’s previous collaboration, the disjointed “The Laundromat.”
Streep stars as Alice, an acclaimed author. Her...
- 12/3/2020
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
Steven Soderbergh is a film-process savant, pushing himself constantly, creating new ways to make and share his art. Whether it be experimenting with the means of distribution (Logan Lucky), using smartphones for the entirety of production, or creating a miniseries in which the viewer could help solve the mystery (Mosaic) through an app on their phone, he’s obsessed with new technology pervading our lives and how that affects the medium in which he so comfortably operates. With a thinly outlined script (courtesy Deborah Eisenberg), completely improvised, and shot in two weeks aboard a boat headed for the UK, Let Them All Talk is a welcome entry in the auteur’s continued experimental canon.
Meryl Streep is pitch-perfect as Alice, the ultra-successful literary metropolitan hoping to bring together her two oldest friends––Susan (Dianne Wiest) and Roberta (Candice Bergen)––as she attempts to finish her latest manuscript en route to...
Meryl Streep is pitch-perfect as Alice, the ultra-successful literary metropolitan hoping to bring together her two oldest friends––Susan (Dianne Wiest) and Roberta (Candice Bergen)––as she attempts to finish her latest manuscript en route to...
- 12/3/2020
- by Erik Nielsen
- The Film Stage
Always the intrepid storyteller, Steven Soderbergh proves an excellent match for brilliant short fiction writer Deborah Eisenberg in her first produced screenplay, Let Them All Talk. Much like the author, the main character here is a celebrated novelist who publishes infrequently and pays punctilious attention to every word, providing a succulent role for Meryl Streep. Her interplay with Candice Bergen and Dianne Wiest as the college friends she hasn’t seen in 35 years is enlivened by extensive improvisation, which gives this HBO Max original the enthralling spontaneity of vintage Robert Altman.
It’s perhaps more satisfying on a scene-by-scene basis ...
It’s perhaps more satisfying on a scene-by-scene basis ...
- 12/3/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Always the intrepid storyteller, Steven Soderbergh proves an excellent match for brilliant short fiction writer Deborah Eisenberg in her first produced screenplay, Let Them All Talk. Much like the author, the main character here is a celebrated novelist who publishes infrequently and pays punctilious attention to every word, providing a succulent role for Meryl Streep. Her interplay with Candice Bergen and Dianne Wiest as the college friends she hasn’t seen in 35 years is enlivened by extensive improvisation, which gives this HBO Max original the enthralling spontaneity of vintage Robert Altman.
It’s perhaps more satisfying on a scene-by-scene basis ...
It’s perhaps more satisfying on a scene-by-scene basis ...
- 12/3/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
HBO Max has released a new trailer for their upcoming film, “Let Them All Talk,” a comedy-drama starring legendary actresses Meryl Streep, Candice Bergen and Dianne Wiest. Slated to premiere on the streaming platform on December 10, the film is directed by Academy Award winner Steven Soderbergh (“Traffic”) and penned by screenwriter Deborah Eisenberg. Watch the trailer for “Let Them All Talk” above.
In the trailer we see Alice (Streep), a successful writer struggling to complete her latest manuscript, reconnecting with two old friends (Bergen and Wiest) on the Queen Mary cruise ship. Accompanied by her nephew, played by Academy Award nominee Lucas Hedges, Alice plots out her daily routine for success while working through seemingly contentious relationships with her pals. Meanwhile, her literary agent (Gemma Chan) is laying on the pressure for Alice to complete her next book.
In an October interview with Entertainment Weekly, Streep revealed that many of...
In the trailer we see Alice (Streep), a successful writer struggling to complete her latest manuscript, reconnecting with two old friends (Bergen and Wiest) on the Queen Mary cruise ship. Accompanied by her nephew, played by Academy Award nominee Lucas Hedges, Alice plots out her daily routine for success while working through seemingly contentious relationships with her pals. Meanwhile, her literary agent (Gemma Chan) is laying on the pressure for Alice to complete her next book.
In an October interview with Entertainment Weekly, Streep revealed that many of...
- 11/29/2020
- by Denton Davidson
- Gold Derby
Earlier today, HBO Max unveiled a first look at Steven Soderbergh’s latest film, Let Them All Talk. Soderbergh experimenting with a new streaming service is absolutely no surprise, given his quixotic ways, though it is interesting to see the project he’s opted to do so with. Not only is it a Meryl Streep vehicle (seen last year in The Laundromat for Soderbergh), but it’s a lighter flick with a small cast. In many ways, it’s the perfect movie for this time, though time will tell, quality wise. A Trailer has been dropped ahead of its release next month, so that’s what you’ll see below… The movie is a dramedy, mixing humorous and serious elements, as you might imagine. This is the official synopsis from HBO Max: “Let Them All Talk tells the story of a celebrated author (Meryl Streep) who takes a journey with...
- 11/15/2020
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
HBO Max has released the first trailer for Meryl Streep and Steven Soderbergh’s highly anticipated film “Let Them All Talk.”
The comedy follows a renowned author, Alice Hughes (Streep), who embarks on a journey with old friends in the hopes of healing old wounds. Her nephew also comes along to accompany the ladies, until he finds himself involved with a young literary agent. As they are all stuck together on a cruise ship, tensions begin to rise, and Streep’s character is forced to confront the ways in which she may have hurt the ones she loves the most.
Candice Bergen, Dianne Wiest, Lucas Hedges and Gemma Chan round out the cast. The screenplay was written by MacArthur Fellowship recipient Deborah Eisenberg.
Streep previously starred in Soderbergh’s Panama Papers drama, “The Laundromat,” which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2019 and debuted on Netflix. She is headlining Ryan Murphy’s “The Prom,...
The comedy follows a renowned author, Alice Hughes (Streep), who embarks on a journey with old friends in the hopes of healing old wounds. Her nephew also comes along to accompany the ladies, until he finds himself involved with a young literary agent. As they are all stuck together on a cruise ship, tensions begin to rise, and Streep’s character is forced to confront the ways in which she may have hurt the ones she loves the most.
Candice Bergen, Dianne Wiest, Lucas Hedges and Gemma Chan round out the cast. The screenplay was written by MacArthur Fellowship recipient Deborah Eisenberg.
Streep previously starred in Soderbergh’s Panama Papers drama, “The Laundromat,” which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2019 and debuted on Netflix. She is headlining Ryan Murphy’s “The Prom,...
- 11/15/2020
- by Janet W. Lee
- Variety Film + TV
Director Steven Soderbergh continues his foray into streaming movies with his latest, “Let Them All Talk,” a largely improvised nostalgia-tinged journey starring Meryl Streep, Candice Bergen, and Dianne Wiest as old friends reuniting. Written by American short story master Deborah Eisenberg, the film debuts on HBO Max on December 10.
Per HBO’s synopsis, “Let Them All Talk” tells the story of a celebrated author (Streep) who takes a journey with some old friends (Bergen and Wiest) to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew (Lucas Hedges) comes along to wrangle the ladies as well as her new literary agent (Gemma Chan) who is desperate to find out about her next book.
First details on the making of the film were detailed in an Entertainment Weekly conversation with the cast back in October, who revealed some telling behind-the-scenes secrets.
“I told [Soderbergh] he was gonna ruin everything for every director,...
Per HBO’s synopsis, “Let Them All Talk” tells the story of a celebrated author (Streep) who takes a journey with some old friends (Bergen and Wiest) to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew (Lucas Hedges) comes along to wrangle the ladies as well as her new literary agent (Gemma Chan) who is desperate to find out about her next book.
First details on the making of the film were detailed in an Entertainment Weekly conversation with the cast back in October, who revealed some telling behind-the-scenes secrets.
“I told [Soderbergh] he was gonna ruin everything for every director,...
- 11/15/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Meryl Streep plays an author trying to overcome her writer’s block on a cruise with her nephew and old friends in the trailer for Let Them All Talk, which re-teams the Oscar-winning actress with director Steven Soderbergh.
HBO Max, which will premiere the film on December 10th, said in a synopsis, “Let Them All Talk tells the story of a celebrated author who takes a journey with some old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew comes along to wrangle the ladies as well as...
HBO Max, which will premiere the film on December 10th, said in a synopsis, “Let Them All Talk tells the story of a celebrated author who takes a journey with some old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew comes along to wrangle the ladies as well as...
- 11/15/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Leave it to Steven Soderbergh to reinvent the wheel once again when it comes to independent filmmaking. It turns out that his next project, the HBO Max comedy “Let Them All Talk,” was shot in just about two weeks and was largely improvised by its cast. The film stars Meryl Streep, Dianne Wiest, and Candice Bergen, who all play longtime friends who reconvene on an ocean liner for a reminiscent talkfest spiked with banter and regret. First details on the making of the film were detailed in an Entertainment Weekly conversation with the cast, who revealed some telling behind-the-scenes secrets.
“I told [Soderbergh] he was gonna ruin everything for every director, and every production designer, and everything else, because he made the movie for 25 cents — I know that’s what I was paid,” Streep said. “Then it was made in two weeks, and it was a free ride on the boat.
“I told [Soderbergh] he was gonna ruin everything for every director, and every production designer, and everything else, because he made the movie for 25 cents — I know that’s what I was paid,” Streep said. “Then it was made in two weeks, and it was a free ride on the boat.
- 10/17/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
As is the case with most Steven Soderbergh projects as of late, one doesn’t know they are happening until shooting is underway. This tradition carried on last summer when it was revealed he was shooting his next film Let Them All Talk for HBO. Now, nearly a year later, we don’t have a confirmed release date yet, but the first footage has arrived.
Starring Meryl Streep, Candice Bergen, Dianne Wiest, Lucas Hedges, and Gemma Chan, the film tells the story of a celebrated author (Streep) who takes a journey with some old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew (Hedges) comes along to wrangle the ladies and finds himself involved with a young literary agent (Chan).
Scripted by Deborah Eisenberg, the first footage has been unveiled in the perhaps the least-compelling way––packed into the middle of an HBO Max sizzle reel––but hopefully...
Starring Meryl Streep, Candice Bergen, Dianne Wiest, Lucas Hedges, and Gemma Chan, the film tells the story of a celebrated author (Streep) who takes a journey with some old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew (Hedges) comes along to wrangle the ladies and finds himself involved with a young literary agent (Chan).
Scripted by Deborah Eisenberg, the first footage has been unveiled in the perhaps the least-compelling way––packed into the middle of an HBO Max sizzle reel––but hopefully...
- 7/15/2020
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Two films released, another film shot, and Steven Soderbergh managed to still watch and read a decent amount in 2019. (Note to self: barely using his Twitter account probably helps.) So a favorite tradition continues with today’s release of his annual viewing and reading log on Extension 765, which has a surprise, oddity, or some-such at nearly every turn.
Favorites include: making it through all 181 hours of Nicolas Winding Refn’s Too Old to Die Young in seven days but taking nearly four months to finish Sergei Bondarchuk’s War and Peace; Chinatown and Richard Lester movies appearing on yet another list; he, too, watching Fleabag; seeing a version of his next movie, Let Them All Talk, just under a month after principal photography commenced. And so on and so forth.
All caps, bold: Movie
All caps, bold, asterisk: Short*
All caps: TV Series
Italics: Book
Quotation marks: “Play”
Italics, quotation...
Favorites include: making it through all 181 hours of Nicolas Winding Refn’s Too Old to Die Young in seven days but taking nearly four months to finish Sergei Bondarchuk’s War and Peace; Chinatown and Richard Lester movies appearing on yet another list; he, too, watching Fleabag; seeing a version of his next movie, Let Them All Talk, just under a month after principal photography commenced. And so on and so forth.
All caps, bold: Movie
All caps, bold, asterisk: Short*
All caps: TV Series
Italics: Book
Quotation marks: “Play”
Italics, quotation...
- 1/7/2020
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Director Steven Soderbergh has been playing his next film particularly close to the vest, but we finally have some details on the story and cast. Let Them All Talk is a comedy starring Meryl Streep, Candice Bergen, Dianne Wiest, Gemma Chan, and Lucas Hedges.
Let Them All Talk will be the first film picked up by HBO’s streamer, HBO Max. Award-winning author Deborah Eisenberg is writing the film that follows “the story of a celebrated author (Streep) who takes a journey with some old friends (Bergen and Wiest) to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew (Hedges) comes along to wrangle the ladies and finds himself involved with a young literary agent (Chan).”
Production began last week in New York, and will continue in the UK, as well as on board the Queen Mary 2. HBO Max is set to launch in the spring, and we will hopefully...
Let Them All Talk will be the first film picked up by HBO’s streamer, HBO Max. Award-winning author Deborah Eisenberg is writing the film that follows “the story of a celebrated author (Streep) who takes a journey with some old friends (Bergen and Wiest) to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew (Hedges) comes along to wrangle the ladies and finds himself involved with a young literary agent (Chan).”
Production began last week in New York, and will continue in the UK, as well as on board the Queen Mary 2. HBO Max is set to launch in the spring, and we will hopefully...
- 8/20/2019
- by Jessica Fisher
- GeekTyrant
Meryl Streep drama joins original film slate at the WarnerMedia streaming service.
In what is thought to be one of its first feature acquisitions, forthcoming streaming service HBO Max has picked up Steven Soderbergh’s Meryl Streep drama with the working title Let Them All Talk.
Currently in production in New York and set to continue its shoot on the Queen Mary 2 cruise ship and in the UK, the film teams Streep with Candice Bergen, Dianne Wiest, Lucas Hedges and Gemma Chan in the story of a celebrated author who takes a journey with some old friends and her nephew.
In what is thought to be one of its first feature acquisitions, forthcoming streaming service HBO Max has picked up Steven Soderbergh’s Meryl Streep drama with the working title Let Them All Talk.
Currently in production in New York and set to continue its shoot on the Queen Mary 2 cruise ship and in the UK, the film teams Streep with Candice Bergen, Dianne Wiest, Lucas Hedges and Gemma Chan in the story of a celebrated author who takes a journey with some old friends and her nephew.
- 8/19/2019
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
Steven Soderbergh will continue to explore innovative distribution methods for his next project, “Let Them All Talk,” which has just landed at the upcoming HBO Max. The rom-com-sounding project — like “Wine Country” for film snobs? — seems suspiciously out of Soderbergh’s wheelhouse, and maybe that’s why it sounds so refreshing.
“Let Them All Talk” reunites Soderbergh with Meryl Streep, who stars in his 2019 film “The Laundromat,” which Netflix will take to the Venice and Toronto film festivals. “Let Them All Talk” will tell the story of an acclaimed author who takes a journey of self-discovery with old friends, bringing her nephew, played by Lucas Hedges, along for the trip. Hedges soon finds himself romantically involved with a fledgling literary agent, played by Gemma Chan. Candice Bergen and Dianne Wiest also star. The screenplay was penned by short story author and Deborah Eisenberg, who received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2009.
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“Let Them All Talk” reunites Soderbergh with Meryl Streep, who stars in his 2019 film “The Laundromat,” which Netflix will take to the Venice and Toronto film festivals. “Let Them All Talk” will tell the story of an acclaimed author who takes a journey of self-discovery with old friends, bringing her nephew, played by Lucas Hedges, along for the trip. Hedges soon finds himself romantically involved with a fledgling literary agent, played by Gemma Chan. Candice Bergen and Dianne Wiest also star. The screenplay was penned by short story author and Deborah Eisenberg, who received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2009.
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- 8/19/2019
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Steven Soderbergh’s next film, a comedy starring Meryl Streep called “Let Them All Talk,” is heading to HBO Max, HBO announced Monday.
Streep stars in the film alongside Candice Bergen, Dianne Wiest, Lucas Hedges and Gemma Chan, and production on the movie kicked off last week in New York and will continue onboard the Queen Mary 2 as well as in the UK.
Soderbergh is directing the film based on a screenplay by MacArthur Fellow and author Deborah Eisenberg. “Let Them All Talk,” a working title, tells the story of a celebrated author (Streep) who takes a journey with some old friends (Bergen and Wiest) to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew (Hedges) comes along to wrangle the ladies and finds himself involved with a young literary agent (Chan).
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“This is the kind of project...
Streep stars in the film alongside Candice Bergen, Dianne Wiest, Lucas Hedges and Gemma Chan, and production on the movie kicked off last week in New York and will continue onboard the Queen Mary 2 as well as in the UK.
Soderbergh is directing the film based on a screenplay by MacArthur Fellow and author Deborah Eisenberg. “Let Them All Talk,” a working title, tells the story of a celebrated author (Streep) who takes a journey with some old friends (Bergen and Wiest) to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew (Hedges) comes along to wrangle the ladies and finds himself involved with a young literary agent (Chan).
Also Read: Meryl Streep to Receive Toronto Film Festival's First Actor Award
“This is the kind of project...
- 8/19/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
HBO Max has acquired rights to Let Them All Talk, a new movie from Steven Soderberg that stars Meryl Streep, Candice Bergen, Dianne Wiest, Lucas Hedges and Gemma Chan. Production is already underway in New York on the pic, which was penned by Deborah Eisenberg.
The film (Let Them All Talk is a working title) tells the story of a celebrated author (Streep) who takes a journey with some old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew (Hedges) comes along to wrangle the ladies and finds himself involved with a young literary agent (Chan).
Gregory Jacobs is producing, with Ken Meyer and Joseph Malloch executive producing. Shooting started last week in New York and will continue onboard the Queen Mary 2 and in the UK.
It’s the latest Soderbergh project to be set up at a streamer. The Laundromat, his drama about the Panama Papers that...
The film (Let Them All Talk is a working title) tells the story of a celebrated author (Streep) who takes a journey with some old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew (Hedges) comes along to wrangle the ladies and finds himself involved with a young literary agent (Chan).
Gregory Jacobs is producing, with Ken Meyer and Joseph Malloch executive producing. Shooting started last week in New York and will continue onboard the Queen Mary 2 and in the UK.
It’s the latest Soderbergh project to be set up at a streamer. The Laundromat, his drama about the Panama Papers that...
- 8/19/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
HBO Max has picked up Steven Soderbergh’s next film, the comedy “Let Them All Talk” starring Meryl Streep.
Joining Streep in the ensemble cast are Candice Bergen, Dianne Wiest, Lucas Hedges and Gemma Chan. The screenplay was written by short story author and MacArthur Fellow recipient Deborah Eisenberg.
It’s the story of a celebrated author (Streep) who takes a journey with old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew (Hedges) comes along to wrangle the ladies and finds himself involved with a young literary agent (Chan).
“This is the kind of project where you just say yes please sign me up,” said Sarah Aubrey, head of original content at HBO Max. “To work with Steven Soderbergh and this all-star cast led by Meryl Streep is thrilling and sets the standard for features at HBO Max.”
Production started last week in New York and will...
Joining Streep in the ensemble cast are Candice Bergen, Dianne Wiest, Lucas Hedges and Gemma Chan. The screenplay was written by short story author and MacArthur Fellow recipient Deborah Eisenberg.
It’s the story of a celebrated author (Streep) who takes a journey with old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew (Hedges) comes along to wrangle the ladies and finds himself involved with a young literary agent (Chan).
“This is the kind of project where you just say yes please sign me up,” said Sarah Aubrey, head of original content at HBO Max. “To work with Steven Soderbergh and this all-star cast led by Meryl Streep is thrilling and sets the standard for features at HBO Max.”
Production started last week in New York and will...
- 8/19/2019
- by Justin Kroll
- Variety Film + TV
Update: A press release has unveiled more details on the Deborah Eisenberg-scripted film, which stars Meryl Streep, Candice Bergen, Dianne Wiest, Lucas Hedges and Gemma Chan. The film, which has been picked up by the forthcoming streaming service HBO Max, “tells the story of a celebrated author (Streep) who takes a journey with some old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew (Hedges) comes along to wrangle the ladies and finds himself involved with a young literary agent (Chan).” See the original story below.
In just a few weeks Steven Soderbergh will premiere his new film The Laundromat at Venice, followed by Tiff, marking his second Netflix feature of the year after the stellar High Flying Bird. Starring Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, and Antonio Banderas, the Panama Papers drama is one of the director’s most high-profile films in some time, but always one to subvert expectations,...
In just a few weeks Steven Soderbergh will premiere his new film The Laundromat at Venice, followed by Tiff, marking his second Netflix feature of the year after the stellar High Flying Bird. Starring Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, and Antonio Banderas, the Panama Papers drama is one of the director’s most high-profile films in some time, but always one to subvert expectations,...
- 8/16/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
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