Exclusive: After more than a decade, Silver Lining Entertainment, the management and production company founded by veterans Jeff Golenberg and Sam Maydew, is dissolving.
Golenberg and fellow Silver Lining partner Jason Shapiro have launched Strand Entertainment, a management and production company based in Los Angeles, bringing most of Silver Lining’s managers with them. Maydew has formed his own management/production company, 734 Media. The split we hear was amicable, with the former partners’ paths diverging, a process accelerated by the pandemic.
Joining Golenberg and Shapiro in their new venture are longtime colleagues Tarik Kanafani, Emily Rifanburg, Kaelyn Hutchins, and Aileen Lewis. Jeff’s brother, manager/producer Rob Golenberg, who was a partner at Silver Lining, has formed GoGi Entertainment, a new production company focused on international productions, with his former assistant Paulina Giron Velasquez. He also plans to continue to work alongside the Strand principals and their joint production entity,...
Golenberg and fellow Silver Lining partner Jason Shapiro have launched Strand Entertainment, a management and production company based in Los Angeles, bringing most of Silver Lining’s managers with them. Maydew has formed his own management/production company, 734 Media. The split we hear was amicable, with the former partners’ paths diverging, a process accelerated by the pandemic.
Joining Golenberg and Shapiro in their new venture are longtime colleagues Tarik Kanafani, Emily Rifanburg, Kaelyn Hutchins, and Aileen Lewis. Jeff’s brother, manager/producer Rob Golenberg, who was a partner at Silver Lining, has formed GoGi Entertainment, a new production company focused on international productions, with his former assistant Paulina Giron Velasquez. He also plans to continue to work alongside the Strand principals and their joint production entity,...
- 3/8/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Thank God for Owen Wilson. Without the star’s laconic, laid-back comedic approach to character, his new film Paint would be strictly a by-the-numbers comedy affair. Even with Wilson offering his all as Carl Nargle, a local Public Television star in Burlington, Vermont, whose time in the spotlight he has always held is fading quickly, Paint seems like a missed opportunity.
Fortunately writer-director Brit McAdams has Wilson to hold it together with a sterling, mostly female supporting cast delivering the goods as well. It’s not enough, though, in a largely witless indie enterprise shot in 20 days during the pandemic.
Nargle is inspired by PBS star Bob Ross, with full-on mop of permed hair and signature pipe, who held forth with his modest show in which in made instant art by painting landscapes and inviting the television audience to paint along with him as he offered soft, Mister Rogers-style advice.
Fortunately writer-director Brit McAdams has Wilson to hold it together with a sterling, mostly female supporting cast delivering the goods as well. It’s not enough, though, in a largely witless indie enterprise shot in 20 days during the pandemic.
Nargle is inspired by PBS star Bob Ross, with full-on mop of permed hair and signature pipe, who held forth with his modest show in which in made instant art by painting landscapes and inviting the television audience to paint along with him as he offered soft, Mister Rogers-style advice.
- 4/4/2023
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Kaelyn Hutchins has joined Silver Lining Entertainment as a Manager, the company announced on Monday.
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Hutchins comes to Silver Lining from Principal Entertainment LA, where she worked as a talent manager for almost nine years. She launched her career in representation as an assistant at the L.A.-based boutique Jordan Lee Talent beginning in 2014, prior to that serving as a Features Programmer for the Newport Beach Film Festival for a little over two years.
Notable clients joining Hutchins in her move to Silver Lining Entertainment include actresses Annie Gonzalez (Flamin’ Hot), Aziza Scott (Home Before Dark) and Maya Lynne Robinson (The Unicorn), to name a few.
Jeff Golenberg, Sam Maydew and Jason Shapiro...
Related Story Thruline Entertainment Names Talent Manager Ashley Franklin Partner Related Story 'American Gigolo's Sandrine Holt Signs With Silver Lining Entertainment Related Story Silver Lining Entertainment Expands Management Team With Two Key Hires
Hutchins comes to Silver Lining from Principal Entertainment LA, where she worked as a talent manager for almost nine years. She launched her career in representation as an assistant at the L.A.-based boutique Jordan Lee Talent beginning in 2014, prior to that serving as a Features Programmer for the Newport Beach Film Festival for a little over two years.
Notable clients joining Hutchins in her move to Silver Lining Entertainment include actresses Annie Gonzalez (Flamin’ Hot), Aziza Scott (Home Before Dark) and Maya Lynne Robinson (The Unicorn), to name a few.
Jeff Golenberg, Sam Maydew and Jason Shapiro...
- 3/27/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Brit McAdams had an idea, one best explained by a couple of questions.
“What if an artist, someone like a Bob Ross, had a lot of power but didn’t use that power for good? What if that person, seemingly the nicest, most polite person on TV, maybe even the world, was not what they seemed when cameras stopped rolling?” the writer-director explained to The Hollywood Reporter while standing on the red carpet outside L.A.’s Theatre at Ace Hotel on Thursday night.
That served as the blueprint for his “silly, fun” new film Paint starring Owen Wilson as Carl Nargle, a wig-wearing, Bob Ross-inspired painter who unravels when a younger artist turns up, charms his circle and threatens his run as the No. 1 painter on public television in Vermont.
The IFC Films release — co-starring Stephen Root, Michaela Watkins, Wendi McClendon-Covey, Lucy Freyer and Ciara Renée — hits theaters on...
“What if an artist, someone like a Bob Ross, had a lot of power but didn’t use that power for good? What if that person, seemingly the nicest, most polite person on TV, maybe even the world, was not what they seemed when cameras stopped rolling?” the writer-director explained to The Hollywood Reporter while standing on the red carpet outside L.A.’s Theatre at Ace Hotel on Thursday night.
That served as the blueprint for his “silly, fun” new film Paint starring Owen Wilson as Carl Nargle, a wig-wearing, Bob Ross-inspired painter who unravels when a younger artist turns up, charms his circle and threatens his run as the No. 1 painter on public television in Vermont.
The IFC Films release — co-starring Stephen Root, Michaela Watkins, Wendi McClendon-Covey, Lucy Freyer and Ciara Renée — hits theaters on...
- 3/24/2023
- by Chris Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Owen Wilson appears to be channeling his inner Bob Ross in the first trailer for IFC Films’ upcoming comedy Paint.
Director Brit McAdams’ film is set for release on April 7 and stars Wilson as Carl Nargle, the beloved host of a long-running instructional painting series on Vermont public television. Trouble arises when a younger painter played by Ciara Renée is hired to attract a different demographic, exacerbating Carl’s deep-seated insecurities about his own artistic talents.
“You’re entitled to your favorite TV show — that’s what makes this country great,” a frustrated Carl begrudgingly admits in the trailer just before he is seen hurling a can of paint at a wall.
The footage also shows Wilson’s character receiving plenty of attention from female supporters, including an awkward moment involving a fondue outing with one particularly devoted fan.
Paint’s cast includes Michaela Watkins, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Lusia Strus and Stephen Root.
Director Brit McAdams’ film is set for release on April 7 and stars Wilson as Carl Nargle, the beloved host of a long-running instructional painting series on Vermont public television. Trouble arises when a younger painter played by Ciara Renée is hired to attract a different demographic, exacerbating Carl’s deep-seated insecurities about his own artistic talents.
“You’re entitled to your favorite TV show — that’s what makes this country great,” a frustrated Carl begrudgingly admits in the trailer just before he is seen hurling a can of paint at a wall.
The footage also shows Wilson’s character receiving plenty of attention from female supporters, including an awkward moment involving a fondue outing with one particularly devoted fan.
Paint’s cast includes Michaela Watkins, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Lusia Strus and Stephen Root.
- 2/8/2023
- by Ryan Gajewski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Bob Ross now has his very own Aline Dieu. The teaser trailer for IFC’s upcoming comedy film “Paint” has been released, featuring Owen Wilson as “Carl Nagyl,” a fictional character that more than slightly resembles beloved television icon Ross.
Like Ross, who hosted PBS’ instructional art program “The Joy of Painting” from 1983 to 1994, the fictional Nagyl is a permed public television host of a program teaching viewers how to paint, with a knack for soothing narration.
While the late Ross’ image and show are the clear inspiration for Nagyl, the film itself tells a completely original story, one that portrays Nagyl as a womanizing, fame-obsessed man behind his gentle onscreen persona.
Although Nagyl is initially riding high as one of the top talents of his public Vermont TV studio, the film finds him hitting a rough patch in ratings, prompting the studio to bring in a new younger artist...
Like Ross, who hosted PBS’ instructional art program “The Joy of Painting” from 1983 to 1994, the fictional Nagyl is a permed public television host of a program teaching viewers how to paint, with a knack for soothing narration.
While the late Ross’ image and show are the clear inspiration for Nagyl, the film itself tells a completely original story, one that portrays Nagyl as a womanizing, fame-obsessed man behind his gentle onscreen persona.
Although Nagyl is initially riding high as one of the top talents of his public Vermont TV studio, the film finds him hitting a rough patch in ratings, prompting the studio to bring in a new younger artist...
- 2/8/2023
- by Wilson Chapman
- Indiewire
IFC has dropped the trailer and art for its upcoming comedy “Paint,” and leading man Owen Wilson goes full-on Bob Ross mode in it.
The film stars Wilson as Carl Nagyl, Vermont’s top TV painter who has everything going for him, from a fanbase to a van and even a perm, until a younger artist takes his spotlight. Nagyl is reminiscent of beloved TV icon Bob Ross, who led PBS’ instructional TV program “The Joy of Painting” from 1983 to 1994. He passed away in 1995 at 52 years old.
Wilson leads the film, having been previously featured in “Zoolander,” “The Royal Tenenbaums,” “Bottle Rocket,” “Loki” and “The French Dispatch.” The actor also has the upcoming film “Haunted Mansion” on his docket with Jamie Lee Curtis, Jared Leto and Winona Ryder.
Joining the Oscar-nominated star, the “Paint” cast includes Michaela Watkins, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Ciara Renée, Lusia Strus, Stephen Root and newcomer Lucy Freyer.
The film stars Wilson as Carl Nagyl, Vermont’s top TV painter who has everything going for him, from a fanbase to a van and even a perm, until a younger artist takes his spotlight. Nagyl is reminiscent of beloved TV icon Bob Ross, who led PBS’ instructional TV program “The Joy of Painting” from 1983 to 1994. He passed away in 1995 at 52 years old.
Wilson leads the film, having been previously featured in “Zoolander,” “The Royal Tenenbaums,” “Bottle Rocket,” “Loki” and “The French Dispatch.” The actor also has the upcoming film “Haunted Mansion” on his docket with Jamie Lee Curtis, Jared Leto and Winona Ryder.
Joining the Oscar-nominated star, the “Paint” cast includes Michaela Watkins, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Ciara Renée, Lusia Strus, Stephen Root and newcomer Lucy Freyer.
- 2/8/2023
- by Julia MacCary
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: IFC Films has snapped up North American rights to the new Owen Wilson comedy Paint from writer and director Brit McAdams.
Based on The Blacklist 2010 screenplay, Paint follows Carl Nagle, Vermont’s No. 1 public television painter who is convinced he has it all: a signature perm, custom van, and fans hanging on his every stroke… until a younger, better artist steals everything (and everyone) Carl loves. The pic will get a theatrical release on April 28, 2023 and stream exclusively on AMC+ later that year.
Arianna Bocco, President of IFC Films, said, “We’re thrilled to finally work with the boundless and versatile talent of Owen Wilson, as he effortlessly brings Carl Nargle’s character to life from a savvy script and direction by Brit McAdams. Paint has all the makings of a quotable comedic masterpiece, and we hope audiences of all ages are ready for a lot of laughs and a lot of heart.
Based on The Blacklist 2010 screenplay, Paint follows Carl Nagle, Vermont’s No. 1 public television painter who is convinced he has it all: a signature perm, custom van, and fans hanging on his every stroke… until a younger, better artist steals everything (and everyone) Carl loves. The pic will get a theatrical release on April 28, 2023 and stream exclusively on AMC+ later that year.
Arianna Bocco, President of IFC Films, said, “We’re thrilled to finally work with the boundless and versatile talent of Owen Wilson, as he effortlessly brings Carl Nargle’s character to life from a savvy script and direction by Brit McAdams. Paint has all the makings of a quotable comedic masterpiece, and we hope audiences of all ages are ready for a lot of laughs and a lot of heart.
- 11/17/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Comedy biz veteran Reg Tigerman and Mike Jezusko are joining Silver Lining Entertainment as managers.
A fixture of the comedy business for over a decade, Tigerman comes to Silver Lining from Levity Live to head up the company’s comedy department, building on the dynamic and deep roster of writers and actors who are currently represented.
Tigerman was a manager and producer at Levity Live for the past 13 years where he worked with such as clients as Bert Kreisher and Whitney Cummings among others. He brings with him a roster of established and emerging comedians, writers, and actors including Vir Das, Ms. Pat (upcoming BET+ sitcom The Ms. Pat Show), Dulcé Sloan, Emma Willmann (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), Jon Reep, Nimesh Patel, Allan Rice (Call Your Mother...
A fixture of the comedy business for over a decade, Tigerman comes to Silver Lining from Levity Live to head up the company’s comedy department, building on the dynamic and deep roster of writers and actors who are currently represented.
Tigerman was a manager and producer at Levity Live for the past 13 years where he worked with such as clients as Bert Kreisher and Whitney Cummings among others. He brings with him a roster of established and emerging comedians, writers, and actors including Vir Das, Ms. Pat (upcoming BET+ sitcom The Ms. Pat Show), Dulcé Sloan, Emma Willmann (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), Jon Reep, Nimesh Patel, Allan Rice (Call Your Mother...
- 6/9/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Lucy Freyer has joined the cast of Brit McAdams’ Paint, starring Owen Wilson, Michaela Watkins, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Ciara Renée, Lusia Strus and Stephen Root.
The comedic feature centers on Carl Nargle (Wilson), who has hosted Vermont’s #1 painting show for nearly three decades. While Carl’s signature whisper has long kept viewers from Pittsfield to St. Albans breathlessly hanging on his every stroke, the station eventually hires a younger, better painter who steals everything (and everyone) Carl loves.
In the film, which is currently in production, Freyer plays the eager and impressionable Jenna, an employee at Carl’s studio who is also his latest girlfriend. Like the women before her, she’s captivated by Carl’s gentle charm, but is starting to realize that she’s doing things she doesn’t believe in just to gain his affection.
McAdams wrote the script for Paint, which made The Black List.
The comedic feature centers on Carl Nargle (Wilson), who has hosted Vermont’s #1 painting show for nearly three decades. While Carl’s signature whisper has long kept viewers from Pittsfield to St. Albans breathlessly hanging on his every stroke, the station eventually hires a younger, better painter who steals everything (and everyone) Carl loves.
In the film, which is currently in production, Freyer plays the eager and impressionable Jenna, an employee at Carl’s studio who is also his latest girlfriend. Like the women before her, she’s captivated by Carl’s gentle charm, but is starting to realize that she’s doing things she doesn’t believe in just to gain his affection.
McAdams wrote the script for Paint, which made The Black List.
- 5/13/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Owen Wilson, Michaela Watkins, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Ciara Renée, Lusia Strus, and Stephen Root have signed on to star in Paint, an indie film from director Brit McAdams. Sam Maydew of Silver Lining Entertainment is producing the project, which is currently shooting in upstate New York.
McAdams also penned the screenplay, which landed on The Blacklist in 2010. The plot follows Carl Nargle, who has hosted Vermont’s #1 painting show for the past 27 years with his signature whisper keeping viewers from Pittsfield to St. Albans breathlessly hanging on his every stroke until the station hires a younger, better painter who steals everything and everyone Carl loves.
Peter Brant, who provided the financing, is also producing the pic, while Wilson will serve as an executive producer alongside Richard J. Bosner and Joel David Moore.
Wilson will soon make his appearance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, starring Tom Hiddleston in the Disney+ series Loki.
McAdams also penned the screenplay, which landed on The Blacklist in 2010. The plot follows Carl Nargle, who has hosted Vermont’s #1 painting show for the past 27 years with his signature whisper keeping viewers from Pittsfield to St. Albans breathlessly hanging on his every stroke until the station hires a younger, better painter who steals everything and everyone Carl loves.
Peter Brant, who provided the financing, is also producing the pic, while Wilson will serve as an executive producer alongside Richard J. Bosner and Joel David Moore.
Wilson will soon make his appearance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, starring Tom Hiddleston in the Disney+ series Loki.
- 4/16/2021
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
A+E Studios has entered into a multi-year first-look television development and production deal with management and production company Silver Lining Entertainment Productions.
Silver Lining, led by partners Jeff Golenberg, Sam Maydew and Rob Golenberg, already has a number of projects in development at A+E Studios. The company has acquired the podcast and underlying rights for Soul Incarcerated, a project based on the musicians in the band Edge of Darkness and the album they recorded while incarcerated, Eyes of Love. Dorian Missick, Warren Ostergard and Jamie Pietras are attached to produce, and a search for a writer is underway. Silver Lining also has set up End Times, a comedy about the rapture and those left behind, from Black List writer Brit McAdams, and female-driven thriller Nightshade from up-and-coming writer Jessica Granger.
Abby Wike recently joined Silver Lining as Head of Scripted from ABC, where she served as Director of Drama...
Silver Lining, led by partners Jeff Golenberg, Sam Maydew and Rob Golenberg, already has a number of projects in development at A+E Studios. The company has acquired the podcast and underlying rights for Soul Incarcerated, a project based on the musicians in the band Edge of Darkness and the album they recorded while incarcerated, Eyes of Love. Dorian Missick, Warren Ostergard and Jamie Pietras are attached to produce, and a search for a writer is underway. Silver Lining also has set up End Times, a comedy about the rapture and those left behind, from Black List writer Brit McAdams, and female-driven thriller Nightshade from up-and-coming writer Jessica Granger.
Abby Wike recently joined Silver Lining as Head of Scripted from ABC, where she served as Director of Drama...
- 4/13/2021
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Lionsgate is ramping up for the March 8 theatrical release of its Western pic The Kid, the feature film directorial debut of Vincent D’Onofrio that stars Ethan Hawke as Sheriff Pat Garrett and Dane DeHaan as Billy the Kid.
In the screenplay by Andrew Lanham based on a story from D’Onofrio and Lanham, a boy, Rio (Jake Schur), is forced to go on the run across the American Southwest to save his sister (Leila George) from his uncle (Chris Pratt in full villain mode). Along the way, he encounters Garrett on the hunt for the infamous outlaw Billy the Kid. Ultimately Rio must choose which type of man he is going to become, the outlaw or the man of valor, and will use the self-realization in a final act to save his family. Adam Baldwin also stars.
Jordan Schur, Nick Thurlow, Sam Maydew and David Mimran are producers in...
In the screenplay by Andrew Lanham based on a story from D’Onofrio and Lanham, a boy, Rio (Jake Schur), is forced to go on the run across the American Southwest to save his sister (Leila George) from his uncle (Chris Pratt in full villain mode). Along the way, he encounters Garrett on the hunt for the infamous outlaw Billy the Kid. Ultimately Rio must choose which type of man he is going to become, the outlaw or the man of valor, and will use the self-realization in a final act to save his family. Adam Baldwin also stars.
Jordan Schur, Nick Thurlow, Sam Maydew and David Mimran are producers in...
- 2/21/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
The official trailer for director Ondi Timoner’s Mapplethorpe biopic is out, portraying the controversial artist as he ascends from nowhere to become one of the most talked-about media creators of the 20th Century.
Former Doctor Who star Matt Smith is Robert Mapplethorpe, with Marianne Rendon as punk poet/rocker Patti Smith, Mapplethorpe’s muse.
Mapplethorpe discovered himself both sexually and artistically in New York City throughout the 70’s and 80’s. The film depicts Mapplethorpe’s life from moments before he and Patti Smith moved into the famed Chelsea Hotel, home to a world of bohemian chic. There, he began photographing its inhabitants and his new circle of friends, including artists and musicians, socialites, film stars, and members of the Bds&M underground.
That work displayed eroticism in a way that had never been examined nor displayed before to the public. Much of it was derided or outright banned in certain locales during his lifetime,...
Former Doctor Who star Matt Smith is Robert Mapplethorpe, with Marianne Rendon as punk poet/rocker Patti Smith, Mapplethorpe’s muse.
Mapplethorpe discovered himself both sexually and artistically in New York City throughout the 70’s and 80’s. The film depicts Mapplethorpe’s life from moments before he and Patti Smith moved into the famed Chelsea Hotel, home to a world of bohemian chic. There, he began photographing its inhabitants and his new circle of friends, including artists and musicians, socialites, film stars, and members of the Bds&M underground.
That work displayed eroticism in a way that had never been examined nor displayed before to the public. Much of it was derided or outright banned in certain locales during his lifetime,...
- 12/15/2018
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Veteran TV packaging agent-turned-manager/producer Rob Golenberg has joined his brother Jeff Golenberg and his partners Sam Maydew and Jason Shapiro at Silver Lining Entertainment. Golenberg will be a partner at the management/production company, with a focus on building out a lit department and ramping up the company’s content production division.
Rob Golenberg brings with him over a dozen TV lit management clients, including Charlie Craig (Pretty Little Liars: Perfectionists), Alison Tatlock, Scott Williams (NCIS), Sonay Hoffman, John Beck & Ron Hart, and Jon Emerson & Annie Levine (Central Park).
Rob Golenberg, previously a packaging agent at William Morris, Gersh and Paradigm, left the agency business in 2011 after 20 years and, after a brief stint at Evolution, launched a production company, Scripted World, with Alon Aranya. They sold over two dozen network and cable projects, three of which...
Rob Golenberg brings with him over a dozen TV lit management clients, including Charlie Craig (Pretty Little Liars: Perfectionists), Alison Tatlock, Scott Williams (NCIS), Sonay Hoffman, John Beck & Ron Hart, and Jon Emerson & Annie Levine (Central Park).
Rob Golenberg, previously a packaging agent at William Morris, Gersh and Paradigm, left the agency business in 2011 after 20 years and, after a brief stint at Evolution, launched a production company, Scripted World, with Alon Aranya. They sold over two dozen network and cable projects, three of which...
- 12/4/2018
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Samuel Goldwyn Films has secured North American rights to Ondi Timoner’s biopic “Mapplethorpe,” starring Matt Smith as the controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.
The film, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in April, will be released in the late fall. Timoner directed from a script she co-wrote with Mikko Alanne. The film is produced by Eliza Dushku, Timoner, Nate Dushku, and Richard J Bosner. Executive producers are Peter Palandjian and Sam Maydew.
Marianne Rendón stars as singer Patti Smith, Mapplethorpe’s longtime roommate and partner. The cast also includes John Benjamin Hickey, Mark Moses, Carolyn McCormick, Brian Stokes Mitchell, and Kerry Butler.
Mapplethorpe discovered himself both sexually and artistically in New York City throughout the 70’s and 80’s. The movie explores Mapplethorpe’s life from moments before he and Smith moved into the famed Chelsea hotel, where he began photographing its inhabitants and his new found circle of friends including artists and musicians,...
The film, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in April, will be released in the late fall. Timoner directed from a script she co-wrote with Mikko Alanne. The film is produced by Eliza Dushku, Timoner, Nate Dushku, and Richard J Bosner. Executive producers are Peter Palandjian and Sam Maydew.
Marianne Rendón stars as singer Patti Smith, Mapplethorpe’s longtime roommate and partner. The cast also includes John Benjamin Hickey, Mark Moses, Carolyn McCormick, Brian Stokes Mitchell, and Kerry Butler.
Mapplethorpe discovered himself both sexually and artistically in New York City throughout the 70’s and 80’s. The movie explores Mapplethorpe’s life from moments before he and Smith moved into the famed Chelsea hotel, where he began photographing its inhabitants and his new found circle of friends including artists and musicians,...
- 7/10/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights to Mapplethorpe, Ondi Timoner’s biopic that stars Matt Smith as artist Robert Mapplethorpe. The company is eyeing a late fall release date.
The film, which bowed at the Tribeca Film Festival, explores Mapplethorpe’s life from moments before he and Patti Smith moved into the famed Chelsea hotel in the early ’70s, where he begins photographing its inhabitants and newfound circle of friends including artists and musicians, socialites, film stars and members of the S&M underground. The boundary-pushing work made him one arguably one of the most important artists of the 20th century. Marianne Rendón, John Benjamin Hickey, Mark Moses, Carolyn McCormick, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Kerry Butler co-star.
Eliza Dushku, Timoner, Nate Dushku and Richard J Bosner are producers. Peter Palandjian and Sam Maydew are executive producers of the pic, which Timoner co-wrote with Mikko Alanne.
The deal was negotiated...
The film, which bowed at the Tribeca Film Festival, explores Mapplethorpe’s life from moments before he and Patti Smith moved into the famed Chelsea hotel in the early ’70s, where he begins photographing its inhabitants and newfound circle of friends including artists and musicians, socialites, film stars and members of the S&M underground. The boundary-pushing work made him one arguably one of the most important artists of the 20th century. Marianne Rendón, John Benjamin Hickey, Mark Moses, Carolyn McCormick, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Kerry Butler co-star.
Eliza Dushku, Timoner, Nate Dushku and Richard J Bosner are producers. Peter Palandjian and Sam Maydew are executive producers of the pic, which Timoner co-wrote with Mikko Alanne.
The deal was negotiated...
- 7/10/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Matt Smith starrer premiered in Tribeca.
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights to Ondi Timoner’s Mapplethorpe, starring Matt Smith.
The feature premiered in Tribeca earlier this year and also stars Marianne Rendon, John Benjamin Hickey, Mark Moses, Carolyn McCormick, Brian Stokes Mitchell, and Kerry Butler.
Samuel Goldwyn Films plans an autumn release for the film, which follows the life of artist Robert Mapplethorpe before he moved into the notorious Chelsea hotel with Patti Smith, where he photographed many of its inhabitants. The biopic shows the ways Mapplethorpe’s erotically charged, ground-breaking photography intersected with his sexuality.
Mikko Alanne...
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights to Ondi Timoner’s Mapplethorpe, starring Matt Smith.
The feature premiered in Tribeca earlier this year and also stars Marianne Rendon, John Benjamin Hickey, Mark Moses, Carolyn McCormick, Brian Stokes Mitchell, and Kerry Butler.
Samuel Goldwyn Films plans an autumn release for the film, which follows the life of artist Robert Mapplethorpe before he moved into the notorious Chelsea hotel with Patti Smith, where he photographed many of its inhabitants. The biopic shows the ways Mapplethorpe’s erotically charged, ground-breaking photography intersected with his sexuality.
Mikko Alanne...
- 7/10/2018
- by Jenn Sherman
- ScreenDaily
Fantasy books adaptation to chronicle exploits of mercenary unit in Tolkien-like world.
Im Global Television is developing The Black Company alongside Eliza Dushku’s Boston Diva Productions and David Goyer’s Phantom Four.
The show is based on Glen Cook’s 10-book action fantasy series, which Boston Diva optioned, along with the book Port Of Shadows to be published by Tor Books in 2018. Port Of Shadows takes place between books one and two of the series.
Goyer (pictured), whose previous television credits include Starz’s Da Vinci’s Demons and ABC’s Flash Forward, will serve as executive producer along with Kevin Turen under Im Global Television’s first-look deal.
Dushku, Ami Lourie and Nate Dushku will served as executive producers via Boston Diva along with Sam Maydew of Silver Lining Entertainment.
Dushku recently joined the CBS series Bull for a three-episode arc with an option to be promoted to series regular for season two. The actress...
Im Global Television is developing The Black Company alongside Eliza Dushku’s Boston Diva Productions and David Goyer’s Phantom Four.
The show is based on Glen Cook’s 10-book action fantasy series, which Boston Diva optioned, along with the book Port Of Shadows to be published by Tor Books in 2018. Port Of Shadows takes place between books one and two of the series.
Goyer (pictured), whose previous television credits include Starz’s Da Vinci’s Demons and ABC’s Flash Forward, will serve as executive producer along with Kevin Turen under Im Global Television’s first-look deal.
Dushku, Ami Lourie and Nate Dushku will served as executive producers via Boston Diva along with Sam Maydew of Silver Lining Entertainment.
Dushku recently joined the CBS series Bull for a three-episode arc with an option to be promoted to series regular for season two. The actress...
- 4/24/2017
- ScreenDaily
Former Geffen Records president Jordan Schur and his Suretone Pictures banner have set up two new action features.
First up, "The Grey" and "Narc" helmer Joe Carnahan is set to direct "Five Against A Bullet," a potential franchise launcher boasting a script by Alex Litvak and Carnahan. Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Jordan Schur and Mimran Schur are producing.
Bruce Willis was previously attached to an earlier version of the project which follows five elite bodyguards who are tasked with keeping a Mexican mayoral candidate safe through the elections as a drug cartel kingpin has sent an army of hitmen after him.
The other project is Lionsgate's "The Kid," a western on which "Daredevil" actor Vincent D'Onofrio is set to make his feature directorial debut.
James Franco and Ethan Hawke star in the story of gunfighter Billy the Kid leading up to his killing by Sheriff Pat Garrett. Andrew Lanham penned the...
First up, "The Grey" and "Narc" helmer Joe Carnahan is set to direct "Five Against A Bullet," a potential franchise launcher boasting a script by Alex Litvak and Carnahan. Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Jordan Schur and Mimran Schur are producing.
Bruce Willis was previously attached to an earlier version of the project which follows five elite bodyguards who are tasked with keeping a Mexican mayoral candidate safe through the elections as a drug cartel kingpin has sent an army of hitmen after him.
The other project is Lionsgate's "The Kid," a western on which "Daredevil" actor Vincent D'Onofrio is set to make his feature directorial debut.
James Franco and Ethan Hawke star in the story of gunfighter Billy the Kid leading up to his killing by Sheriff Pat Garrett. Andrew Lanham penned the...
- 8/28/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: After establishing footprint in drama and reality programming, AMC is focusing on expanding into comedy next. The network’s upfront slate, which will be announced later today, is expected to feature a number of half-hour projects, including two starring, written and executive produced by John Leguizamo and former The Daily Show correspondent Wyatt Cenac. Drawing inspiration from Leguizamo’s real-life three best friends, the untitled John Leguizamo project follows a group of men in Queens, The Bronx and upper Manhattan wrestling with careers, relationships, family, ambition, and getting older. In addition to starring, Leguizamo is co-writing the script with Sal Stabile (Revenge). The two executive produce with Jeff Golenberg and Sam Maydew of Silver Lining Entertainment, which reps Leguizamo alongside UTA and Sloane, Offer. Recently seen in Ride Along, Leguizamo is attached to play Pablo Escobar in the Relativity feature and has his 5th HBO special, Ghetto Klown, coming up.
- 3/26/2014
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: Wme has signed Michael Kenneth Williams, better known as Chalky White if you have HBO and are as addicted to Terence Winter’s Boardwalk Empire as I am. Williams, who first made his mark on HBO’s The Wire playing Omar, the elusive man who robbed crack dealers, is currently starring opposite Mark Wahlberg in the Rupert Wyatt-directed remake of The Gambler at Paramount Pictures. He appeared in the Robocop remake as well as Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave and most recently wrapped Inherent Vice for Paul Thomas Anderson. Williams returns for the fifth and final season of Boardwalk Empire this fall. He had been repped at ICM Partners. Williams continues to be managed by Matt Goldman and Sam Maydew at Silver Lining Entertainment. The other thing to know about Williams is that while Quentin Tarantino chose Jamie Foxx to play the title role in Django Unchained...
- 3/20/2014
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Colin Farrell and Retta have some very special Valentine's Day plans. No, the movie star and Parks and Recreation funnylady aren't headed out on a romantic date (though we'd kind of love that), but they are working together to bring attention to a cause that affects them both: Angelman syndrome. In honor of International Angelman's Day on Feb. 15, celebrities with personal connections to the disease - Farrell's son and Retta's godson both have it - are participating in a video campaign to raise awareness. Angelman syndrome, which affects one in 15,000 births, is an incurable genetic disorder that impairs children's cognitive and developmental growth,...
- 2/14/2014
- by Michele Corriston
- PEOPLE.com
Exclusive: After an 11-year break, John Leguizamo is back at HBO for another comedy special. The pay cable network will tape Leguizamo’s latest one-man show, Ghetto Klown, on November 16 at the Victoria Theatre, Njpac for debut next spring. This is Leguizamo’s fifth one-man show, all of which have become specials on HBO. That includes Mambo Mouth (1991); Spic-o-Rama (1993); Freak (1998), for which he won an Emmy Award; and Sexaholic…A Love Story (2002). Ghetto Klown, for which Luguizamo received a Drama Desk Award, is a semi-authobiographical show about his path to stardom based on his memoir Pimps, Hos, Playa Hatas, And All The Rest Of My Hollywood Friends. Ghetto Klown was written by Leguizamo and will be directed by Fisher Stevens, who also directed the successful 2012 Broadway production and national tour. Arnold Engelman produced the live show and will take on producing duties for the taped version as well. The special is produced by Rebel Prods,...
- 10/15/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Actors Dan Ewing and Lisa Gormley have signed with Us talent management company Silver Lining Entertainment.
The Los Angeles-based outfit represents Jai Courtney and Laura Wheelwright along with numerous English and American actors including Cat Deeley, David Morrissey, Emile Hirsch, Evangeline Lilly, Ioan Gruffudd, Jason Isaacs, John Leguizamo, Josh Peck, Martin Lawrence, Peter Stormare and Vincent D.Onofrio.
All four Aussies are with Mark Morrissey & Associates in Australia. Mark Morrissey accompanied Ewing and Gormley on a trip to La last week and introduced them to a number of management companies and agents.
Signing with Silver Lining is the first step towards gaining a foothold in Hollywood for Ewing and Gormley, who are regulars in Home and Away. Ewing plays Heath Braxton and Gormley is Bianca Scott.
Morrissey tells If that Gormley will head to the Us after she finishes a three-year stint on the soap in December. Ewing is contracted to the show until March.
The Los Angeles-based outfit represents Jai Courtney and Laura Wheelwright along with numerous English and American actors including Cat Deeley, David Morrissey, Emile Hirsch, Evangeline Lilly, Ioan Gruffudd, Jason Isaacs, John Leguizamo, Josh Peck, Martin Lawrence, Peter Stormare and Vincent D.Onofrio.
All four Aussies are with Mark Morrissey & Associates in Australia. Mark Morrissey accompanied Ewing and Gormley on a trip to La last week and introduced them to a number of management companies and agents.
Signing with Silver Lining is the first step towards gaining a foothold in Hollywood for Ewing and Gormley, who are regulars in Home and Away. Ewing plays Heath Braxton and Gormley is Bianca Scott.
Morrissey tells If that Gormley will head to the Us after she finishes a three-year stint on the soap in December. Ewing is contracted to the show until March.
- 10/10/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Actors Dan Ewing and Lisa Gormley have signed with Us talent management company Silver Lining Entertainment.
The Los Angeles-based outfit represents Jai Courtney and Laura Wheelwright along with numerous English and American actors including Cat Deeley, David Morrissey, Emile Hirsch, Evangeline Lilly, Ioan Gruffudd, Jason Isaacs, John Leguizamo, Josh Peck, Martin Lawrence, Peter Stormare and Vincent D.Onofrio.
All four Aussies are with Mark Morrissey & Associates in Australia. Mark Morrissey accompanied Ewing and Gormley on a trip to La last week and introduced them to a number of management companies and agents.
Signing with Silver Lining is the first step towards gaining a foothold in Hollywood for Ewing and Gormley, who are regulars in Home and Away.
Ewing plays Heath Braxton and Gormley is Bianca Scott. Morrissey tells If that Gormley will head to the Us in late December after she finishes a three-year stint on the soap in December.
The Los Angeles-based outfit represents Jai Courtney and Laura Wheelwright along with numerous English and American actors including Cat Deeley, David Morrissey, Emile Hirsch, Evangeline Lilly, Ioan Gruffudd, Jason Isaacs, John Leguizamo, Josh Peck, Martin Lawrence, Peter Stormare and Vincent D.Onofrio.
All four Aussies are with Mark Morrissey & Associates in Australia. Mark Morrissey accompanied Ewing and Gormley on a trip to La last week and introduced them to a number of management companies and agents.
Signing with Silver Lining is the first step towards gaining a foothold in Hollywood for Ewing and Gormley, who are regulars in Home and Away.
Ewing plays Heath Braxton and Gormley is Bianca Scott. Morrissey tells If that Gormley will head to the Us in late December after she finishes a three-year stint on the soap in December.
- 10/10/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
FX has closed a 10/90 deal with Lionsgate Television and Lionsgate.s Debmar-Mercury for the new untitled sitcom starring Martin Lawrence and Kelsey Grammer, it was announced today by Chuck Saftler, President of Program Strategy and COO, FX Networks. Comedy veterans Bob Boyett and Robert Horn, whose half-hour credits collectively include "Family Matters," "Perfect Strangers," "Full House," "Living Single" and "Designing Women, will executive produce and write the Lionsgate Television-produced show. Executive producers also include Kelsey Grammer, Martin Lawrence, Brian Sher, Stella Bulochnikov, Michael Green and Sam Maydew. The new sitcom marks the much-anticipated return to television of both Lawrence and Grammer, who play two...
- 6/19/2013
- Comingsoon.net
The separation of management/ production company The Collective has been completed. Founding partners, veteran managers Jeff Golenberg and Sam Maydew, have launched a new management/production company named Silver Lining Entertainment. Joining them is the entire film and TV management arm of The Collective that includes Matt Goldman, Christina Gualazzi and Jason Shapiro. The company has opened offices on South Beverly Drive in Beverly Hills. The plan for Silver Lining is to continue to represent film and TV talent as well as continue to expand the roster of personalities, writers, directors and musicians. In management structure, Silver Lining will emulate the culture of Seattle entertainment software/technology company Valve, which has no hierarchy, with all staffers collaborating as peers. Golenberg and Maydew, along with Michael Green, started The Collective in 2005. Over the past eight years, the company grew to over 150 people and multiple businesses including Collective Digital Studios, which most...
- 5/28/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
ABC just ordered a third comedy pilot starring John Leguizamo in twelve months. The untitled multi-camera comedy is based on Leguizamo’s life as a husband, father and fish out of water on the upper West Side of New York as reflected in his one-person shows. Woven into this world are his privileged wife, his friends from his life back in the Bronx, his mother and grandfather who try to keep him grounded in his Latin roots, and his own kids who he worries are getting spoiled and losing touch with reality. Leguizamo co-wrote the story for the pilot with former Family Guy executive producer/co-showrunner Chris Sheridan. Sheridan wrote the teleplay and executive produces with Leguizamo, Leguizamo’s longtime manager Jeff Golenberg of the Collective, the company’s Sam Maydew as well as Mandeville’s David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman and Maria Crenna. The project has been in the works...
- 2/5/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Less than one month after starting a campaign to help complete a documentary about late Spartacus star Andy Whitfield’s battle with cancer, the people behind the project have met their funding goal on Kickstarter. But what now?
Director Lilibet Foster tells EW that after raising the $200,000 needed to fund the editing of the footage they had gathered while following Whitfield, she plans to have the documentary, Be Here Now, finished by the end of the year for a possible release in early 2013. Whitfield, former star of Spartacus, died at age 39 in Sept. 2011 after fighting his second battle with non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
Director Lilibet Foster tells EW that after raising the $200,000 needed to fund the editing of the footage they had gathered while following Whitfield, she plans to have the documentary, Be Here Now, finished by the end of the year for a possible release in early 2013. Whitfield, former star of Spartacus, died at age 39 in Sept. 2011 after fighting his second battle with non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
- 7/4/2012
- by Sandra Gonzalez
- EW - Inside TV
After months of clashing swords and seeking vengeance, Andy Whitfield - the chiseled gladiator from TV's Spartacus: Blood and Sand - had ended the first season exhausted with an aching back. "It's one of the most extreme things I've ever gone through," he'd recall of the role that made the Welsh-born actor a star. "There was a lot of pain at the end of that. I wasn't sure what it was. And it wasn't going away." In March 2010 doctors found out why. The then-38-year-old Whitfield had cancer, specifically stage 4 non-Hodgkin lymphoma. After a relatively mild round of chemotherapy,...
- 6/25/2012
- by Mike Fleeman
- PEOPLE.com
Exclusive: When Spartacus star Andy Whitfield was battling cancer in the last months of his life, he had a camera crew with him every step of the way. The result is Be Here Now, a feature-length documentary project about the late actor, which is launching a campaign to raise money for its completion. Related: R.I.P. Andy Whitfield Whitfield was first diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma after wrapping the first season of Starz’s Spartacus, a role that would make him a global star. He went through a rigorous program of chemotherapy and was deemed as being in remission when, during a physical to return to Spartacus, his blood tests raised a flag, resulting in a devastating news for the actor — his cancer had come back stronger than ever, leaving him with about a 25% chance of survival. Facing another round of treatments, Whitfield and his wife Vashti decided to have it all documented.
- 6/8/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
As the deadly stick-up man Omar Little on The Wire and the fearsome bootlegger Chalky White on Boardwalk Empire, actor Michael K. Williams has played his share of tough SOBs. Now he’s going to take on a bastard.
An Ol’ Dirty one.
EW has learned exclusively that Williams, 45, will star in an upcoming film about the legendary Wu-Tang Clan rapper and all-around troubled soul Russell Jones, a.k.a. Ol’ Dirty Bastard, whose impressive mic skills and outrageous showmanship were eclipsed by his erratic offstage behavior, assorted arrests, and an early death.
Joaquín Baca-Asay, the cinematographer on We Own the Night,...
An Ol’ Dirty one.
EW has learned exclusively that Williams, 45, will star in an upcoming film about the legendary Wu-Tang Clan rapper and all-around troubled soul Russell Jones, a.k.a. Ol’ Dirty Bastard, whose impressive mic skills and outrageous showmanship were eclipsed by his erratic offstage behavior, assorted arrests, and an early death.
Joaquín Baca-Asay, the cinematographer on We Own the Night,...
- 3/22/2012
- by Anthony Breznican
- EW - Inside Movies
Comedian Martin Lawrence returned to TV looking to repeat the success of his long-running sitcom Martin. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the 46-year-old actor landed his comedy pilot about a laid-off construction worker rebooting his professional life by joining the police academy to CBS. Veteran sitcom writers Mike Lisbe and Nate Rogers signed on to write the pilot with Michael Green and Sam Maydew onboard as executive producers. Of course, Lawrence also joined the sitcom as the lead character.
- 2/25/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Comedian Martin Lawrence returned to TV looking to repeat the success of his long-running sitcom Martin. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the 46-year-old actor landed his comedy pilot about a laid-off construction worker rebooting his professional life by joining the police academy to CBS. Veteran sitcom writers Mike Lisbe and Nate Rogers signed on to write the pilot with Michael Green and Sam Maydew onboard as executive producers. Of course, Lawrence also joined the sitcom as the lead character.
- 2/25/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Comedian Martin Lawrence returned to TV looking to repeat the success of his long-running sitcom Martin. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the 46-year-old actor landed his comedy pilot about a laid-off construction worker rebooting his professional life by joining the police academy to CBS. Veteran sitcom writers Mike Lisbe and Nate Rogers signed on to write the pilot with Michael Green and Sam Maydew onboard as executive producers. Of course, Lawrence also joined the sitcom as the lead character.
- 2/25/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Martin Lawrence is plotting his return to the small screen nearly 15 years after his ’90s hit Martin concluded.
CBS on Friday gave the green light to an untitled comedy pilot starring the funnyman as a widowed father of two who, after losing his construction job, decides to enter the police academy and become a cop — at age 46.
Michael Green (The River, Heroes) and Sam Maydew (Slc Punk!) will write and exec produce the multi-camera project.
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CBS on Friday gave the green light to an untitled comedy pilot starring the funnyman as a widowed father of two who, after losing his construction job, decides to enter the police academy and become a cop — at age 46.
Michael Green (The River, Heroes) and Sam Maydew (Slc Punk!) will write and exec produce the multi-camera project.
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- 2/24/2012
- by Megan Masters
- TVLine.com
CBS has given a late-season pilot order to a comedy project starring Martin Lawrence. $#*! My Dad Says duo Mike Lisbe and Nate Reger will write and executive produce the untitled Lawrence project, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Lawrence will star in the multicamera pilot about a widowed father of two teens who, after losing his construction job, opts to enroll at the police academy in an effort to become a cop at the ripe old age of 46. The comedy hails from CBS Television Studios, with Michael Green and Sam Maydew from The Collective on board to executive
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- 2/24/2012
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Martin Lawrence could be coming back to prime-time TV next fall.
CBS has given one of the Bad Boys actor-comedian’s projects a pilot order. The untitled project stars Lawrence as a widowed father of two teenagers who, after losing his job in construction, decides to go to the police academy and become a cop at the age of 46.
You could see why CBS would be drawn to the concept. This is a network built on cop dramas. Why not get a cop comedy going too?
Mike Lisbe and Nate Reger (Just Shoot Me, $*#! My Dad Says) will write and executive produce,...
CBS has given one of the Bad Boys actor-comedian’s projects a pilot order. The untitled project stars Lawrence as a widowed father of two teenagers who, after losing his job in construction, decides to go to the police academy and become a cop at the age of 46.
You could see why CBS would be drawn to the concept. This is a network built on cop dramas. Why not get a cop comedy going too?
Mike Lisbe and Nate Reger (Just Shoot Me, $*#! My Dad Says) will write and executive produce,...
- 2/24/2012
- by James Hibberd
- EW - Inside TV
Exclusive: In what will likely be the last pilot order this season, CBS has given a late green light to a an untitled multi-camera comedy starring Martin Lawrence. The project, written by Mike Lisbe and Nate Reger and produced by CBS TV Studios, stars Lawrence as a widowed father of two teenagers who, after losing his job in construction, decides to go to the police academy and become a cop at the age of 46. Lisbe and Reger are executive producing with Lawrence’s managers, Michael Green and Sam Maydew from The Collective. Lisbe and Reger are familiar faces at CBS, their most recent gigs were serving as supervising producers on the network’s $#*! My Dad Says and co-executive producers on this season’s How To Be A Gentleman. Nevertheless, the choice of their script as a starring vehicle for Lawrence was a surprise. CBS had commissioned 2 top writers, Tom Hertz and Larry Wilmore,...
- 2/24/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: Jai Courtney, who starred in the first season of the Starz series Spartacus: Blood and Sand, has landed a lead in One Shot, Paramount’s Christopher McQuarrie-directed drama based on the Lee Child-penned Jack Reacher novel series. In One Shot, Reacher investigates what seems like an open and shut case of a sniper who guns down five random victims. Reacher, teamed with a detective (Rosamund Pike) and uncovers a conspiracy. Courtney plays a highly trained sniper who is motivated to stop Reacher. Courtney starred in the first Spartacus season along with the late Andy Whitfield, a fellow Australian who took Courtney under his wing and got him signed by his manager, Sam Maydew, at The Collective. He’s repped by UTA and Australia-based Mark Morrissey.
- 9/29/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Andy Whitfield is dead. Andy Whitfield has died of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. I woke up this morning to this terrible news about Andy Whitfield. I never saw or thought this could happen nor did I see it coming. After Andy Whitfield beat Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma down to the point where he briefly returned to his role as Spartacus on Starz’s Spartacus: Blood and Sand‘s second season entitled Spartacus: Vengeance, I thought all was well. Even when he later resigned (written about here: Andy Whitfield exits Spartacus: Blood and Sand: Season 2 to Fight Cancer) when the affliction re-emerged and Liam McIntyre replaced him (written about here: Liam McIntyre replaces Andy Whitfield: Spartacus: Blood and Sand), I thought he would beat it, that it was only a formality, that all would be set right in time.
I was thunderstruck to hear that it gotten the better of him and that he died from it.
I was thunderstruck to hear that it gotten the better of him and that he died from it.
- 9/12/2011
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
Andy Whitfield, who is remembered for playing the title role in the hit Starz series ‘Spartacus: Blood and Sand,’ has died at age 39, the Huffington Post is reporting. The actor died on September 11 in Sydney, Australia, a year-and-a-half after he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, his manager, Sam Maydew, has confirmed. Whitfield’s wife Vashti released statement, saying her husband was surrounded by his family when he died. “He passed peacefully surrounded by love. Thank you to all his fans whose love and support have helped carry him to this point.” She added he will be remembered for being an “inspiring, courageous and gentle man, father and husband.” The...
- 9/12/2011
- by karen
- ShockYa
Actor Andy Whitfield has died after losing his battle with cancer. He was 39.
The Spartacus: Blood And Sand star passed away at home in Sydney, Australia on Sunday after succumbing to non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, according to his manager Sam Maydew.
His devastated wife Vashti paid tribute to the star, calling him a "beautiful young warrior" who died on a "sunny Sydney morning" in the "arms of his loving wife."
The British-born actor moved Down Under in 1999 and was a virtual unknown when he landed the lead in the gladiator TV drama series, which became a huge hit.
He was preparing to shoot a second series when he was struck down with the disease in 2010. He was replaced by Liam McIntyre.
Whitfield had previously appeared in several Aussie TV shows, including All Saints and McLeod's Daughters.
The Spartacus: Blood And Sand star passed away at home in Sydney, Australia on Sunday after succumbing to non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, according to his manager Sam Maydew.
His devastated wife Vashti paid tribute to the star, calling him a "beautiful young warrior" who died on a "sunny Sydney morning" in the "arms of his loving wife."
The British-born actor moved Down Under in 1999 and was a virtual unknown when he landed the lead in the gladiator TV drama series, which became a huge hit.
He was preparing to shoot a second series when he was struck down with the disease in 2010. He was replaced by Liam McIntyre.
Whitfield had previously appeared in several Aussie TV shows, including All Saints and McLeod's Daughters.
- 9/12/2011
- WENN
Andy Whitfield of Starz' Spartacus: Blood and Sand dies from cancer at age 39 We are sadenned by the passing of actor Andy Whitfield at such a young age, after being diagnosed with non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. Sam Maydew, his manager, said Whitfield died Sunday in Sydney, Australia. His wife Vashti Whitfield issued a statement as follows: "On a beautiful, sunny Sydney spring morning, surrounded by his family, in the arms of his loving wife, our beautiful young warrior Andy Whitfield lost his 18 month battle with lymphoma cancer. He passed peacefully surrounded by love...
- 9/12/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Andy Whitfield of Starz' Spartacus: Blood and Sand dies from cancer at age 39 We are sadenned by the passing of actor Andy Whitfield at such a young age, after being diagnosed with non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. Sam Maydew, his manager, said Whitfield died Sunday in Sydney, Australia. His wife Vashti Whitfield issued a statement as follows: "On a beautiful, sunny Sydney spring morning, surrounded by his family, in the arms of his loving wife, our beautiful young warrior Andy Whitfield lost his 18 month battle with lymphoma cancer. He passed peacefully surrounded by love...
- 9/12/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Actor Andy Whitfield has died after losing his battle with cancer. He was 39.
The Spartacus: Blood And Sand star passed away at home in Sydney, Australia on Sunday after succumbing to non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, according to his manager Sam Maydew.
His devastated wife Vashti paid tribute to the star, calling him a "beautiful young warrior" who died on a "sunny Sydney morning" in the "arms of his loving wife."
The British-born actor moved Down Under in 1999 and was a virtual unknown when he landed the lead in the gladiator TV drama series, which became a huge hit.
He was preparing to shoot a second series when he was struck down with the disease in 2010. He was replaced by Liam McIntyre.
Whitfield had previously appeared in several Aussie TV shows, including All Saints and McLeod's Daughters.
The Spartacus: Blood And Sand star passed away at home in Sydney, Australia on Sunday after succumbing to non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, according to his manager Sam Maydew.
His devastated wife Vashti paid tribute to the star, calling him a "beautiful young warrior" who died on a "sunny Sydney morning" in the "arms of his loving wife."
The British-born actor moved Down Under in 1999 and was a virtual unknown when he landed the lead in the gladiator TV drama series, which became a huge hit.
He was preparing to shoot a second series when he was struck down with the disease in 2010. He was replaced by Liam McIntyre.
Whitfield had previously appeared in several Aussie TV shows, including All Saints and McLeod's Daughters.
- 9/12/2011
- WENN
Los Angeles — Andy Whitfield, who played the title role in the hit cable series "Spartacus: Blood and Sand," has died at age 39, according to representatives and family.
Whitfield died Sunday in Sydney, Australia, 18 months after he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, manager Sam Maydew told the Associated Press.
"On a beautiful sunny Sydney spring morning, surrounded by his family, in the arms of his loving wife, our beautiful young warrior Andy Whitfield lost his 18 month battle with lymphoma cancer," Whitfield's wife Vashti said in a statement. "He passed peacefully surrounded by love. Thank you to all his fans whose love and support have help carry him to this point. He will be remembered as the inspiring, courageous and gentle man, father and husband he was."
Andy Whitfield – who was born in Wales and moved to Australia in 1999 – was a virtual unknown when he was cast as the legendary Thracian slave in "Spartacus,...
Whitfield died Sunday in Sydney, Australia, 18 months after he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, manager Sam Maydew told the Associated Press.
"On a beautiful sunny Sydney spring morning, surrounded by his family, in the arms of his loving wife, our beautiful young warrior Andy Whitfield lost his 18 month battle with lymphoma cancer," Whitfield's wife Vashti said in a statement. "He passed peacefully surrounded by love. Thank you to all his fans whose love and support have help carry him to this point. He will be remembered as the inspiring, courageous and gentle man, father and husband he was."
Andy Whitfield – who was born in Wales and moved to Australia in 1999 – was a virtual unknown when he was cast as the legendary Thracian slave in "Spartacus,...
- 9/12/2011
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Sad news from Australia, as word has reached us all that Andy Whitfeld, the Welsh-born breakout star of Starz' "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" has died. He was 39 years-old. He was diagnosed 18 months ago with non-Hodgkin Lymphoma when the second season of Starz's series had readied for production. Starz replaced him with Liam McIntyre after a prequel. "Gods of the Arena" was put together to buy some time for the actor's recovery. Mr. Whitfield passed away in Sydney, his manager Sam Maydew told the Associated Press. Mr. Whitfield's wife Vashti in a statement called her husband a "beautiful young warrior" who died on a "sunny Sydney morning" in the "arms of his loving wife." Starz Network...
- 9/12/2011
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
Spartacus: Blood and Sand star Andy Whitfield has died. He was 39.
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Whitfield died of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in Sydney on Sunday, his manager, Sam Maydew, told The Associated Press. In a statement, Whitfield's wife, Vashti, called her husband a "beautiful young warrior" who died in the "arms of his loving wife," according to the AP.
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Whitfield died of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in Sydney on Sunday, his manager, Sam Maydew, told The Associated Press. In a statement, Whitfield's wife, Vashti, called her husband a "beautiful young warrior" who died in the "arms of his loving wife," according to the AP.
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- 9/12/2011
- by Adam Bryant
- TVGuide - Breaking News
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