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19 items from 2012
Abe Schwartz: 10 Things With 'Parks and Recreation' Writer, Aisha Muharrar
25 May 2012 9:00 AM, PDT | Aol TV. | See recent Aol TV. news »
One of my favorite shows is Parks and Recreation. I recently had the chance to sit down, drink iced tea and talk with staff writer, Aisha Muharrar. Aisha penned several of my favorite episodes, including "Born and Raised" and "Operation Ann" this season. Here are ten things that you should know about Aisha, who is both insanely talented and a much more patient iced tea drinker than me.
1. Even when she was just a kid, Aisha knew she wanted to be a writer. While in high school, she wrote a non-fiction book entitled More than a Label. Aisha attended Harvard, where she majored in English and wrote for The Harvard Lampoon to hone her comedy writing skills. (An avid fan of The Simpsons growing up, she was aware that this was where many of The Simpsons' writers first got their start.)
2. She loved The WB shows (Felicity, Buffy, Dawson's Creek »
- Abe Schwartz
Charlie Kaufman To Write HBO Series For Catherine Keener
22 May 2012 7:00 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
Being John Malkovich scribe Charlie Kaufman is to direct long-time collaborator Catherine Keener in a half-hour comedy series for HBO.
The actress has worked with Kaufman on aforementioned Being John Malkovich, directorial debut Synecdoche, New York and upcoming musical Frank Or Francis, as well as appearing briefly as herself in Adaptation. Keener is also known for working closely with director Nicole Holofcener in films such as Friends With Money and Please Give.
Keener will produce the series which is set to be written and directed by Kaufman. It is described as ‘an exploration of one day in a woman’s life and how the events leading up to it can affect, or not, the reality in which she lives.’
I’m not going to pretend to know what that means exactly, but with Kaufman at the helm I’m not surprised. It’s thought that HBO are keen to fast-track »
- Joe Taylor
[Review] What to Expect When You’re Expecting
21 May 2012 5:19 AM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
In their hit song, “Hey Jealousy,” the Gin Blossoms suggest that if “you don’t expect too much from me, you might not get let down.” I admit I approached What to Expect When Your Expecting with that attitude and was pleasantly surprised. A departure from the brainless star-studded ensemble of recent Garry Marshall (Valentine’s Day and New Year’s Eve), this is not exactly cinematically nutritious but a pleasant-enough cupcake.
The interlocked, primarily Atlanta-based couples the film follows include Wendy (Elizabeth Banks) owner of an upscale baby boutique with husband Gary (Ben Falcone), Gary’s father (Dennis Quaid) and his much younger wife Skyler (Brooklyn Decker), two young food truck-owners Marco (Chace Crawford) and Rosie (Anna Kendrick) the star of a Biggest Loser-type of reality show Jules (Cameron Diaz) and her partner from a Dancing with the Stars-type show Evan (Matthew Morrison), a freelance photographer Holly (Jennifer Lopez »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
Nicole Holofcener, Shari Springer Berman & Lisa Cholodenko Talk Future Projects & Being Female Directors In The Film Industry
17 May 2012 10:25 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Nicole Holofcener ("Walking and Talking," "Friends With Money," and most recently "Please Give") and Shari Springer Berman ("American Splendor," "The Nanny Diaries," "The Extra Man") might make very different kinds of films, but they have at least one thing in common -- they both hate being in front of the camera. "If I wanted to be in front of the camera ..." Springer Berman started as Holofcener finished her thought for her, "you'd be Lena Dunham." "I didn't even want to take photos at my wedding," Springer Berman confessed. "I hate being photographed."
"I'm happy to take a million ugly pictures with my family and doing silly poses, but I'm never happy with staged, posed photographs, which feel fake," Holofcener. "Although my toes were in 'Please Give.' You don't even have to look hard to find them -- it's a close-up."
Sitting down with The Playlist before a panel about »
- Jen Vineyard
Exclusive: Lisa Cholodenko Confirms She'll Direct 'The Abstinence Teacher' & Heads Into The 'Wild' With Reese Witherspoon
11 May 2012 2:44 PM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Director Lisa Cholodenko recently sat down with The Playlist moments before her panel with fellow alum Shari Springer Berman and Nicole Holofcener at the Columbia University Film Festival this week, to debate the glass ceiling and how it affects making their films -- during the course of which, Cholodenko let slip a couple of her yet-to-be announced projects among her other updates.
First up, the director and co-writer of "The Kids Are All Right" confirmed that she's taking over the adaptation of Tom Perrotta's book "The Abstinence Teacher," which at one point was to be directed by "Little Miss Sunshine" team Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton, with Steve Carell and Sandra Bullock circling roles. Previous Perotta adaptations include "Little Children" and "Election" (which starred Reese Witherspoon).
Witherspoon is also slated to produce and star in one of Cholodenko's other new projects, an adaptation of Cheryl Strayed's memoir of »
- Jen Vineyard
Casting News: Favreau, Castillo, Dreyfus
2 May 2012 9:38 PM, PDT | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Jon Favreau has joined the cast of Seth Gordon's comedy "Identity Thief" at Universal Pictures.
Jason Bateman plays a man whose life is upended when his identity is stolen by a woman (McCarthy). Favreau will play Bateman's boss. [Source: Variety]
Mexican actress and telenovela queen Kate del Castillo ("La Reina del Sur") has joined the cast of Sam Hiller's thriller "No Good Deed" at Screen Gems.
The story revolves around a former Da-turned-stay-at-home mom (Taraji P. Henson) and her two small children who are kidnapped from their home by a mysterious stranger (Idris Elba). Del Castillo will play the stranger's cheating ex-fiancee. [Source: The Hollywood Reporter]
Untitled Holofcener Project
Julia Louis-Dreyfus and James Gandolfini are in negotiations to join "Please Give" director Nicole Holofcener untitled next feature at Fox Searchlight.
Louis-Dreyfus plays a masseuse who falls in love with the husband (Gandolfini) of a new friend. Anthony Bregman is producing. »
- Garth Franklin
Louis-Dreyfus And Gandolfini Team Up
2 May 2012 5:02 PM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
Since her excellent and not-enough-seen Please Give a couple of years ago, director Nicole Holofcener has been biding her time with TV work on the likes of Enlightened and Parks And Recreation. She's about to return to the cinema though, with an as-yet untitled comedy drama, for which Julia Louis-Dreyfus and James Gandolfini are both in talks.If you were given to stating the obvious, you could call it a meeting of Seinfeld and The Sopranos, since Louis-Dreyfus spent nine glorious seasons as Elaine Benes, and Gandolfini raged through six years as Fat Tony Soprano.But the two are also linked by Armando Iannucci: Louis-Dreyfus has just scored a second season in his HBO comedy series Veep, and Gandolfini was in In The Loop, the movie spun off from the genius that was the BBC's The Thick Of It.Holofcener's new film will see Louis-Dreyfus as the proprietress of a massage parlour, »
Casting Net: Julia Louis-Dreyfus angling to crush on James Gandolfini. Plus: Elijah Wood, Jon Favreau, Demian Bechir
2 May 2012 4:52 PM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
• New HBO star Julia Louis-Dreyfus and old HBO star James Gandolfini are both in talks to headline the next, as-yet-untitled film from director Nicole Holofcener (Please Give, Friends with Money), about a massage therapist (Louis-Dreyfus) who takes a fancy to her friend’s hubby (Gandolfini). [Deadline]
• Elijah Wood has signed onto Grand Piano, a thriller produced by Buried helmer Rodrigo Cortés, with a most peculiar premise: A concert pianist’s comeback performance takes a lethal turn when he sees a threat scrawled onto his sheet music. Spanish filmmaker Eugenio Mira will direct. (Check back on EW.com for more from Wood about this project. »
- Adam B. Vary
Julia Louis-Dreyfus & James Gandolfini To Star In Nicole Holofcener's Next Film
2 May 2012 3:51 PM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
So, what do Julia Louis-Dreyfus and James Gandolfini have in common? Well, they're both graduates of the Armando Iannucci school of comedy with the former currently starring in his HBO series "Veep" and the latter featuring in "In The Loop." Now both will take those comic skills -- and the considerable talents they already have -- and bring them to new project that already sounds quite promising.
Nicole Holofcener is gearing up a new film that will star Louis-Dreyfus and Gandolfini with the project already finding a home at Fox Searchlight. There is no title yet, but the story will center on a masseuse (Jld) who falls in love with the husband (Jg) of a new friend. Sounds like another film that will balance comedy and drama in equally measure, and after her excellent and somewhat underrated "Please Give," we can't wait to see what she does next.
While it's »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Julia Louis-Dreyfus and James Gandolfini to Star in Writer/Director Nicole Holofcener’s New Film
2 May 2012 3:16 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Hot off a season two order for her new HBO comedy series Veep, Julia Louis-Drefus is poised to team up with fellow HBO alum James Gandolfini in the new Fox Searchlight film from Please Give writer/director Nicole Holofcener. Deadline reports that Louis-Drefus will play “a masseuse who falls in love with the husband of a new friend,” and Gandolfini is set to play said husband. Further plot details are unknown, but Holofcener will write and direct the project while Anthony Bregman will produce. Holofcener’s 2010 drama Please Give drew rave reviews and this new untitled project is definitely one to watch out for. Holofcener also directed the 2006 pic Friends with Money and helmed two episodes of the stellar NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation. Gandolfini recently completed shooting the comedy The Incredible Burt Wonderstone with Jim Carrey and Steve Carell, and will be seen later this year opposite Brad Pitt »
- Adam Chitwood
Nicole Holofcener Teams Julia Louis-Dreyfus and James Gandolfini For ‘Please Give’ Follow-Up
2 May 2012 2:58 PM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
While Julia Louis-Dreyfus is currently headlining Armando Iannucci‘s hilarious new HBO series Veep, she is looking to team with a star from creator’s last project, In the Loop. Deadline reports that James Gandolfini and Louis-Dreyfus are currently in talks to team for the next project from Nicole Holofcener.
Coming off yet another well-done drama with Please Give, her next project, which is currently untitled, is set-up at Fox Searchlight. Written by Holofcener, the film follows “a masseuse who falls in love with the husband (Gandolfini) of a new friend.” Not other details are known, but just the talent involved thus far has our anticipation increased.
The writer/director has a certain knack for characters and this should be a welcome return to feature films for Louis-Dreyfus, whose last live-action role was over fifteen years ago in Woody Allen‘s Deconstructing Harry. Paired with Gandolfini, I can already see great comedic chemistry. »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
Aspen Shortsfest Turns 20: Watch 5 of the Best Films They've Ever Shown
13 April 2012 4:51 PM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Over the past two decades, Aspen Shortsfest has hosted an astonishing roster of now-famous filmmakers. For the 20th Annual Aspen Shortsfest, which began April 10 and ends on the 15th, Indiewire spoke to festival artistic director Laura Thielen and program director George Eldred about the delight of discovering diamonds in the rough. Looking back to the festival’s early years, who were some of the filmmakers that stood out? Thielen: This morning I went through some of the old catalogues and saw that in 1992, the festival showed about 20 films in two programs. And one of the filmmakers in that list was Nicole Holofcener with a five-minute short called “Angry.” In 1993, we had “Season of the Lifterbees,” a 29-minute film by Eugene Jarecki. Also that year was the first time we showed a short by Trey Parker. In 1994, we had a short called “Ice Cream” by Louis Ck. You see these filmmakers »
- Kim Adelman
Columbia University Film Festival Celebrates 25th Anniversary with Women Filmmakers Panel
28 March 2012 10:34 AM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Columbia University School of the Arts Film Program and Film Society of Lincoln Center are partnering to celebrate 25 years of the Columbia University Film Festival. Events include a presentation of some of the best short films from Columbia graduates over the last 25 years and a panel of some of Columbia's successful women filmmakers including Lisa Cholodenko, Nicole Holofcener, Larysa Kondracki and Kimberly Peirce. Screenwriter Malia Scotch Marmo will also be presented with the Andrew Sarris Award which is selected by current School of the Arts Film Program students. More than 40 student thesis short films and feature screenplays will premiere during the weeklong festival. Press release and schedule of events below: Columbia University Film Festival Celebrates 25 Years Malia Scotch Marmo to receive prestigious Andrew Sarris Award “What Glass Ceiling? The Remarkable Success of Columbia’s Women Filmmakers” panel to »
- Devin Lee Fuller
What We Talk About When We Talk About Television
1 March 2012 6:58 AM, PST | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Today marks the official start of television coverage on Indiewire, but unofficially we've been talking about TV for a while now -- through posts on our blog network, and thanks to the increasing overlap with the world of film. Filmmakers we love now regularly turn up to helm series installments, from Rian Johnson's memorable bottle episode in the third season of "Breaking Bad" to Agnieszka Holland trying her hand at "Treme." Lena Dunham is following up "Tiny Furniture" with "Girls," kicking off next month on HBO; Mike White created "Enlightened" and brought in the likes of Miguel Arteta, Jonathan Demme and Nicole Holofcener as directors. TV isn't just a place for people to work between features -- it's become just as important a platform for distinctive and developed creative voices. A show like "Louie," written and directed by and starring Louis C.K., demonstrates as much authorship as an »
- Alison Willmore
Thursday Comedies: 30 Rock 3.08, Parks and Rec 4.15, Archer 3.08
17 February 2012 4:52 AM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
30 Rock, Season 6, Episode 8, “The Tuxedo Begins”
Written by Josh Siegal & Dylan Morgan
Directed by John Riggi
Airs Thursdays at 8pm Et on NBC
We begin tonight with a refreshingly great episode of 30 Rock, possibly the best they’ve done in years. Turning to current events for the second time this season, the show finds significantly more success dealing with Alec Baldwin’s mayoral aspirations than it did Tracy Jordan’s homophobia. It opens with an amusing gag featuring Liz on the subway and a brief musical bit with a prostitute joyous upon arrival to New York City. That neither of these are mere throwaway gags and both factor into the episode that follows goes to show just how tight the writing on this episode is.
30 Rock more or less functions as a finely tuned joke machine and a good episode can usually be defined as one in which work than fall flat. »
- Justin Wier
Indiewire Hires Alison Willmore to Cover the Best in Television
14 February 2012 9:27 AM, PST | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Over the last 15 years, Indiewire has covered the best that independent film has to offer. And then a funny thing happened: some of it moved into TV. Talented filmmakers like Todd Haynes, Nicole Holofcener, Rian Johnson, Patty Jenkins, Jeremy Podeswa, Alan Taylor, Lynn Shelton, Lena Dunham, Tim Hunter, Brad Anderson, Joshua Marston, Jim McKay (and many more than we can mention here) migrated onto the credit crawls for programs like "Mad Men," "Girls," "The Big C," "Boardwalk Empire," "Breaking Bad," "Dexter," "The Killing," "The Wire," and "Treme." And the shows they've contributed to and helped create are fantastic. So we're adding the art and craft of award-winning, critically acclaimed network and cable shows and movies, as well as VOD and online offerings, to your Indiewire coverage. We plan to look at TV with the same keen, discerning eye we examine independent film and »
‘Too Cool To Be Forgotten’ Lands Scribes
30 January 2012 11:35 AM, PST | Deadline New York | See recent Deadline New York news »
Exclusive: Rocky Russo and Jeremy Sosenko have been signed to adapt Too Cool To Be Forgotten, based on the Alex Robinson graphic novel from Top Shelf Productions. The film was set up by Red Crown Productions’ Daniela Taplin Lundberg and Daniel Crown and Anthony Bregman. Bregman’s Likely Story has had a first-look deal with Top Shelf Comix since late 2009, when Bregman and media entrepreneur John S. Johnson bought 33% of Top Shelf Productions. The project revolves around family man Andy Wicks, who goes to a hypnosis clinic to break a 25-year smoking habit. Skepticism gives way to wonderment when he is transformed back to his 15-year-old self, with his 40-year-old mind intact. He’s force to relive the horrors of algebra class, visits to the principal, social hierarchies and intense sexual frustration. Will he relive his mistakes or revise history to make things right? It’s enough to drive a person to smoking. »
- MIKE FLEMING
Evan Shapiro: 15 Film Festival Darlings That Would Have Been Better as TV Series
27 January 2012 6:10 AM, PST | Aol TV. | See recent Aol TV. news »
It's been quite a week. It started in Utah, for the Sundance Film Festival, where, in three days, I saw seven great films, a pop up performance by Eddie Izzard and 30 inches of snow. Then Sunday, to Miami, via Dallas, for Natpe (the annual conference and sales market for Producers and TV Execs), where I participated on a panel called The Economics of Comedy, and met TV people from all over the planet who debated the future of television over spicy margaritas. All accomplished, by the way, with only one carry-on suit case.
This wacky cultural mash-up -- Utah and Miami; Indie Film and Format Television -- created a strange brew in my mind. The juxtaposition of two ends of the show biz spectrum, along with the fascinating overlap of their populations (it's weird how many people make the same whirlwind trip), forced me to consider each medium in context of each other, »
- Evan Shapiro
See Rebecca Hall in the Music Video for James Blake’s A Case of You
5 January 2012 2:00 AM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
The last few years have seen Rebecca Hall take on some excellent roles, with The Town, her standout performance in Nicole Holofcener’s Please Give and her recent leading turn in The Awakening bringing her an ever-increasing audience.
Her next big screen role is set to be as Beth Raymer in Stephen Frear’s Lay the Favourite which, from what I’ve read, is about sex and gambling and sees Hall line up with Bruce Willis, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Vince Vaughn. Until then we have this little gem to tide us over – a music video for James Blake’s cover of Joni Mitchell’s ‘A Case of You’ which features the actress going through the highs and lows of a relationship in the space of three minutes.
Seb Edwards directed the video and his command of lighting and space presents the perfect arena for Hall’s performance. The song didn »
- Jon Lyus
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