A new film based on the 1985 book Elvis and Me shares details regarding the love story between Priscilla Presley and Elvis Presley as told from Priscilla’s point of view. The book was the first time Priscilla spoke publicly about the couple’s relationship. However, another chance for her story to be told comes via a new film, Priscilla, set to debut in October 2023.
Priscilla Presley and Elvis Presley on their wedding day in May 1967 | Bettmann/Getty Images Priscilla Presley is ‘excited’ about what she says is an ‘extraordinary’ film adaptation of her and Elvis’ love story
In a social media post dated June 22, Priscilla Presley shared her thoughts regarding the film Priscilla. Starring Jacob Elordi as Elvis and Cailee Spaney as Priscilla, the movie uncovers the couple’s relationship through the eyes of his only wife.
Priscilla shared a photograph from the motion picture. Alongside it, she wrote, “I...
Priscilla Presley and Elvis Presley on their wedding day in May 1967 | Bettmann/Getty Images Priscilla Presley is ‘excited’ about what she says is an ‘extraordinary’ film adaptation of her and Elvis’ love story
In a social media post dated June 22, Priscilla Presley shared her thoughts regarding the film Priscilla. Starring Jacob Elordi as Elvis and Cailee Spaney as Priscilla, the movie uncovers the couple’s relationship through the eyes of his only wife.
Priscilla shared a photograph from the motion picture. Alongside it, she wrote, “I...
- 6/27/2023
- by Lucille Barilla
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
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The much-publicized backlash that has surrounded Andrew Dominik’s Nc-17 biopic Blonde has had the surprising, simultaneous effect of elevating interest in another Marilyn Monroe project that might otherwise have slipped into the past. In 2001, pioneering female filmmaker Joyce Chopra shot a two-part TV miniseries for CBS, adapting the very same Joyce Carol Oates novel Dominik would later spend over a decade bringing to screen for Netflix.
Dominik’s harrowing, nearly three-hour telling of the Marilyn story has been widely criticized for its almost exclusive focus on the many traumas of the Hollywood icon’s life, and for devoting little interest to the episodes where she exercised undeniable agency and self-determination. As The Hollywood Reporter’s lead critic David Rooney put it in his review, “This is a treatise on celebrity and the sex symbol that blurs not only reality with fantasy but also empathy with exploitation.
The much-publicized backlash that has surrounded Andrew Dominik’s Nc-17 biopic Blonde has had the surprising, simultaneous effect of elevating interest in another Marilyn Monroe project that might otherwise have slipped into the past. In 2001, pioneering female filmmaker Joyce Chopra shot a two-part TV miniseries for CBS, adapting the very same Joyce Carol Oates novel Dominik would later spend over a decade bringing to screen for Netflix.
Dominik’s harrowing, nearly three-hour telling of the Marilyn story has been widely criticized for its almost exclusive focus on the many traumas of the Hollywood icon’s life, and for devoting little interest to the episodes where she exercised undeniable agency and self-determination. As The Hollywood Reporter’s lead critic David Rooney put it in his review, “This is a treatise on celebrity and the sex symbol that blurs not only reality with fantasy but also empathy with exploitation.
- 10/13/2022
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It’s ironic that Andrew Dominik, director of the latest Marilyn Monroe biopic “Blonde,” wonders if anyone still watches Marilyn Monroe movies. I’d say the many Monroe biopics that exist, whether directly retelling the events of her life or loosely inspired by them like his own, says otherwise. It’s even more frustrating to look at the landscape of Marilyn portrayals onscreen and realize only two have been directed by women; and just one has been written and directed by a woman. It is that same movie, also based on Joyce Carol Oates’ novel, that seems to have a better awareness of Marilyn and her movies.
CBS aired the two-part miniseries “Blonde,” directed by Joyce Chopra and written by Joyce Eliason, in 2001. The TV movie tells the familiar story of Norma Jean Baker, aka Marilyn Monroe (played by Poppy Montgomery), as she navigates a tortured upbringing with a mentally ill mother,...
CBS aired the two-part miniseries “Blonde,” directed by Joyce Chopra and written by Joyce Eliason, in 2001. The TV movie tells the familiar story of Norma Jean Baker, aka Marilyn Monroe (played by Poppy Montgomery), as she navigates a tortured upbringing with a mentally ill mother,...
- 9/28/2022
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
Joyce Eliason, Emmy-nominated television writer and producer of TV miniseries and movies, including The Last Don, and The Jacksons: An American Dream, died Monday after a brief illness, according to her agent. She was 87.
Born in Manti, Utah, Eliason’s Hollywood career spanned more than four decades, during which she received four Emmy nominations.
Known for her longform work, she was the writer and executive producer of Emmy-nominated miniseries Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, starring Diane Lane, Cicely Tyson, and Donald Sutherland, Children of the Dust, which starred Sidney Poitier, The Last Don, based on Mario Puzo’s novel, and The Jacksons – An American Dream, which starred Angela Bassett and Terrence Howard, based on Katherine Jackson’s My Family autobiography.
She was a co-writer on Titanic, the miniseries which aired on CBS in 1996. Directed by Robert Lieberman, it focused on several characters aboard the Rms Titanic during her maiden...
Born in Manti, Utah, Eliason’s Hollywood career spanned more than four decades, during which she received four Emmy nominations.
Known for her longform work, she was the writer and executive producer of Emmy-nominated miniseries Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, starring Diane Lane, Cicely Tyson, and Donald Sutherland, Children of the Dust, which starred Sidney Poitier, The Last Don, based on Mario Puzo’s novel, and The Jacksons – An American Dream, which starred Angela Bassett and Terrence Howard, based on Katherine Jackson’s My Family autobiography.
She was a co-writer on Titanic, the miniseries which aired on CBS in 1996. Directed by Robert Lieberman, it focused on several characters aboard the Rms Titanic during her maiden...
- 1/11/2022
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
As hard as it may be to believe sometimes, someone (or someones) actually sits down and writes a movie or TV show before you end up seeing it at your local multiplex or on your favorite TV network. The people who do the sitting and the writing are, surprisingly, called writers and, like the Directors, the Golden Globes and the Oscars, they have their own awards show.
This week, the Writers Guild of America, which is the trade group and advocate for writers, announced its nominations for outstanding achievement in feature film and television, radio, news, promotional writing, and graphic animation during the 2009 season to be honored at the upcoming 2010 Writers Guild Awards on February 20, 2010, in Los Angeles and New York.
We realize that these nominations may not be as glamorous as the Golden Globes or the Oscars, but we kinda like writers around here and think they do a pretty important job.
This week, the Writers Guild of America, which is the trade group and advocate for writers, announced its nominations for outstanding achievement in feature film and television, radio, news, promotional writing, and graphic animation during the 2009 season to be honored at the upcoming 2010 Writers Guild Awards on February 20, 2010, in Los Angeles and New York.
We realize that these nominations may not be as glamorous as the Golden Globes or the Oscars, but we kinda like writers around here and think they do a pretty important job.
- 1/13/2010
- by Joe Gillis
- The Flickcast
Several usual suspects -- "30 Rock," "Mad Men," "The Office," "The Simpsons" -- picked up multiple nominations for the 2010 Writers Guild of America Awards -- but a couple of new shows broke through too.
"Glee" and "Modern Family" are both up for best comedy and best new series at the guild's awards, which will be presented Feb. 20. "Modern Family" also picked up an episodic comedy nomination for its pilot, written by series creators Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd.
The other comedy series nominees are "30 Rock," "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and "The Office." For drama series, the contenders are "Breaking Bad," "Dexter," "Friday Night Lights," "Lost" and "Mad Men." Someone from "The Simpsons" will win in the animation category, as its writers swept all five nominations.
Below is a partial list of the nominees in the TV and radio categories (movie nominations will be announced later). The complete list is at WGA.org.
"Glee" and "Modern Family" are both up for best comedy and best new series at the guild's awards, which will be presented Feb. 20. "Modern Family" also picked up an episodic comedy nomination for its pilot, written by series creators Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd.
The other comedy series nominees are "30 Rock," "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and "The Office." For drama series, the contenders are "Breaking Bad," "Dexter," "Friday Night Lights," "Lost" and "Mad Men." Someone from "The Simpsons" will win in the animation category, as its writers swept all five nominations.
Below is a partial list of the nominees in the TV and radio categories (movie nominations will be announced later). The complete list is at WGA.org.
- 12/14/2009
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Awards heavyweights "Mad Men," "30 Rock" and "The Office" and buzzed-about newcomer "Modern Family" led the TV field for the 2010 Writers Guild Awards with three nominations each.
AMC's "Mad Men" and NBC's "30 Rock" and "The Office" are in the running for best drama/comedy series, and each received two nominations for episodic writing. "Family" made the cut for best comedy series, best new series and best episodic writing for a comedy series.
ABC's "Family" was one of two new shows to break into the best series categories along with Fox's quirky high-school dramedy "Glee," which faces "Family" in the best comedy series and best new series fields.
While the WGA Awards are still in its nomination phase, Fox's "The Simpsons" can already uncork the champagne. The veteran series is assured to win the animation category after landing all five nomination slots.
The biggest surprise among the series nominees was HBO's low-key baseball comedy "Eastbound & Down,...
AMC's "Mad Men" and NBC's "30 Rock" and "The Office" are in the running for best drama/comedy series, and each received two nominations for episodic writing. "Family" made the cut for best comedy series, best new series and best episodic writing for a comedy series.
ABC's "Family" was one of two new shows to break into the best series categories along with Fox's quirky high-school dramedy "Glee," which faces "Family" in the best comedy series and best new series fields.
While the WGA Awards are still in its nomination phase, Fox's "The Simpsons" can already uncork the champagne. The veteran series is assured to win the animation category after landing all five nomination slots.
The biggest surprise among the series nominees was HBO's low-key baseball comedy "Eastbound & Down,...
- 12/14/2009
- by By Nellie Andreeva
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
CBS has given a green Christmas light to Say When, a telefilm based on Elizabeth Berg's novel to star Joe Mantegna. Say When, slated to air during the holiday season, comes from the same auspices as CBS' successful adaptation of Berg's novel Open House last season: the Sanitsky Co. and writer Joyce Eliason. Say When centers on Frank Griffin (Mantegna), a staid, routine-loving family man whose seemingly perfect suburban life is shattered when Ellen, his wife of 10 years, announces she's having an affair and wants a divorce.
- 5/10/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Daniel Baldwin has been cast as the male lead opposite Christine Lahti in CBS' telefilm Open House, based on Elizabeth Berg's novel of the same name. Baldwin will play an overweight furniture mover who is not quite happy with his life and has been unlucky in love until he meets Samantha (Lahti), a woman going through a rough time after her husband abandoned her and her teenage son. Director Arvin Brown (CBS' The Agency) has been tapped to helm the movie from a script by Joyce Eliason (CBS' The Last Don). Eliason is executive producing with Larry Sanitsky and Dana Delany. Baldwin's credits include NBC's series Homicide: Life on the Street and John Carpenter's feature Vampires. He is managed by Daniel Spilo of Evolution Entertainment.
- 10/15/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
As the "Titanic" leaves port for its four-hour minicruise on CBS, it's loaded with the usual baggage for our television disasters.
Oddly enough, considering that 800 people lived and 1,500 died, it's not a very eventful journey.
This isn't a special effects bonanza -- as we expect from director James Cameron's big-screen interpretation of the same events now being shot. There are enough effects to make the point but, essentially, this version is packed with stock characters from writers Ross LaManna and Joyce Eliason and jam-packed with the ironies of the unsinkable ship unthinkably sinking the night of April 12, 1912.
It is, of course, one of the hideous stories of the century, the historic ship five blocks long carrying its own library and 75,000 pounds of meat and not all those unnecessary lifeboats that it wouldn't need anyway.
Director Robert Lieberman shuffles about a dozen stories of fact and fiction, some interesting, some not, ranging from rape and pillaging to love and tenderness. And don't forget stupidity and then panic and pathos.
Among the characters: wise old Capt. Smith (George C. Scott), evilly arrogant shipline director Ismay (Roger Rees), star-crossed lovers Wynn (Peter Gallagher) and Isabella (Catherine Zeta Jones), devious ship attendant Doonan (Tim Curry), reforming petty thief Jamie (Mike Doyle), boisterous Molly Brown (Marilu Henner), snooty Mrs. Foley Eva Marie Saint), zillionaire John Jacob Astor (Scott Hylands) and, well, enough of a cast to populate the Titanic.
It's a curious enough trip, just by the size of the calamity, but there's nothing much to recommend the performances here, with some brief exceptions by some lesser cast members. And, in a zany way, the Titanic survives; this wasn't the first re-enactment -- and won't be the last.
TITANIC
CBS
Konigsberg/Sanitsky Co. in association with
American Zoetrope and Hallmark Entertainment
Executive producers:Fred Fuchs, Frank Konigsberg, Larry Sanitsky
Producers:Rocky Lang, Harold Tichenor
Director:Robert Lieberman
Writers:Ross LaManna, Joyce Eliason
Director of photography:David Hennings
Visual effects supervisor:Janet Muswell
Production designer:Christiaan Wagener
Editor:Tod Feuerman
Music:Lennie Niehaus
Cast: Peter Gallagher, George C. Scott, Catherine Zeta Jones, Eva Marie Saint, Tim Curry, Roger Rees, Harley Jane Kozad, Marilu Henner, Mike Doyle, Sonsee Ahray, Felicity Waterman, Scott Hylands, Janne Mortil, Malcolm Stewart, Kevin McNulty, Matthew Walker.
Airdates: Sunday, Nov. 17, 9-11 p.m., and Tuesday, Nov. 19, 9-11 p.m.
Oddly enough, considering that 800 people lived and 1,500 died, it's not a very eventful journey.
This isn't a special effects bonanza -- as we expect from director James Cameron's big-screen interpretation of the same events now being shot. There are enough effects to make the point but, essentially, this version is packed with stock characters from writers Ross LaManna and Joyce Eliason and jam-packed with the ironies of the unsinkable ship unthinkably sinking the night of April 12, 1912.
It is, of course, one of the hideous stories of the century, the historic ship five blocks long carrying its own library and 75,000 pounds of meat and not all those unnecessary lifeboats that it wouldn't need anyway.
Director Robert Lieberman shuffles about a dozen stories of fact and fiction, some interesting, some not, ranging from rape and pillaging to love and tenderness. And don't forget stupidity and then panic and pathos.
Among the characters: wise old Capt. Smith (George C. Scott), evilly arrogant shipline director Ismay (Roger Rees), star-crossed lovers Wynn (Peter Gallagher) and Isabella (Catherine Zeta Jones), devious ship attendant Doonan (Tim Curry), reforming petty thief Jamie (Mike Doyle), boisterous Molly Brown (Marilu Henner), snooty Mrs. Foley Eva Marie Saint), zillionaire John Jacob Astor (Scott Hylands) and, well, enough of a cast to populate the Titanic.
It's a curious enough trip, just by the size of the calamity, but there's nothing much to recommend the performances here, with some brief exceptions by some lesser cast members. And, in a zany way, the Titanic survives; this wasn't the first re-enactment -- and won't be the last.
TITANIC
CBS
Konigsberg/Sanitsky Co. in association with
American Zoetrope and Hallmark Entertainment
Executive producers:Fred Fuchs, Frank Konigsberg, Larry Sanitsky
Producers:Rocky Lang, Harold Tichenor
Director:Robert Lieberman
Writers:Ross LaManna, Joyce Eliason
Director of photography:David Hennings
Visual effects supervisor:Janet Muswell
Production designer:Christiaan Wagener
Editor:Tod Feuerman
Music:Lennie Niehaus
Cast: Peter Gallagher, George C. Scott, Catherine Zeta Jones, Eva Marie Saint, Tim Curry, Roger Rees, Harley Jane Kozad, Marilu Henner, Mike Doyle, Sonsee Ahray, Felicity Waterman, Scott Hylands, Janne Mortil, Malcolm Stewart, Kevin McNulty, Matthew Walker.
Airdates: Sunday, Nov. 17, 9-11 p.m., and Tuesday, Nov. 19, 9-11 p.m.
- 11/14/1996
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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