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Netflix Announces Summer Premiere for Orange Is the New Black
1 May 2013 1:02 PM, PDT | Boomtron | See recent Boomtron news »
While we’re clamoring for Netflix to freaking release Arrest Development already, some might have forgotten there are other Netflix exclusive shows coming up. One such series comes from Weeds creator Jenji Kohan and is an adaptation of Piper Kerman’s best-selling memoir. I can tell some of you are still hooked on my mention of Arrested Development, so I’ll just give you second to get that out of your system so we can talk about Orange Is the New Black, which is the real topic of discussion here. Are you good? Okay, let’s move. Netflix recently announced the premiere date for the first season of Kohan’s new series, which will be midsummer.
Orange Is the New Black will premiere in its entirety, according to the Hollywood Reporter, on Thursday, July 11 at 12:01 Am and not a second sooner. If you’re a fan of Weeds and already have Netflix, »
- Brody Gibson
TVLine Items: Cee Lo Reclaims His Voice, Top Hooker Hunt Starts, New CNN Am Fare and More!
30 April 2013 2:02 PM, PDT | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
Cee Lo Green is putting his voice to good use… again.
The eccentric recording artist is slated to return to his former Voice stomping grounds next Wednesday, May 8 — but strictly in a guest-performer capacity.
Related | The Voice Recap: Rock Out With Your Knockout
Green served as a coach on the NBC series’ first three cycles before stepping away during the current season to work on outside projects. The network has yet to officially announce whether he or fellow coach Christina Aguilera will be back for Cycle 5.
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- Megan Masters
Netflix sets release date for 'Orange is the New Black'
30 April 2013 8:46 AM, PDT | EW - Inside TV | See recent EW.com - Inside TV news »
Orange is the New Black, Jenji Kohan’s new dramedy, will premiere its 13 one-hour episodes on Netflix on July 11.
An adaptation of Piper Kerman’s memoir (subtitled, “My Year in a Women’s Prison”), Orange stars Taylor Schilling as Piper Chapman, who ends up behind bars thanks to a long-ago relationship with a drug runner played by Laura Prepon. Jason Biggs’ is Piper’s fiancé. Kohan will serve as exec producer, writing the first and last episodes of the series, which will be her first project following Weeds.
The debut of Orange is the New Black will come more than »
- Adam Carlson
Netflix Sets July Premiere Date For Jenji Kohan’s ‘Orange Is The New Black’
30 April 2013 5:00 AM, PDT | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
Netflix’s latest original series, comedic drama Orange is the New Black, will launch on July 11, 2013. Like it has done with all of its original series, Netflix will make all 13 episodes of Orange Is The New Black, created/exec produced by Jenji Kohan based on the memoir by Piper Kerman, available at launch. Netflix has been staggering the release of its original series, House Of Cards (February), Hemlock Grove (April) and the upcoming Arrested Development (May) and Orange (July). Produced by Lionsgate TV, Orange is the New Black follows engaged Brooklynite Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling), whose decade-old relationship with drug-runner Alex (Laura Prepon) results in her arrest and year-long detention in a federal penitentiary. To pay her debt to society, Piper must trade her comfortable New York life with fiancé Larry (Jason Biggs) for an orange prison jumpsuit and a baffling prison culture where she is forced to question everything »
- NELLIE ANDREEVA
Netflix Sets July 11 Bow for ‘Orange is the New Black’
30 April 2013 5:00 AM, PDT | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Netflix has set July 11 as the launch date for its original dramedy “Orange is the New Black,” from “Weeds” creator Jenji Kohan.
The Netcaster said it will make all 13 segs of the hourlong Lionsgate TV series available as of 12:01 a.m. Pt.
“Orange” adds to the Netflix originals pipeline stoked so far this year by “House of Cards” and “Hemlock Grove.” The long-awaited return of “Arrested Development,” which had a starry premiere bash at the Chinese Theater on Monday night, lands May 26.
“Orange” stars Taylor Schilling as a Gothamite who gives up her comfortable life when she goes to prison because of her past association with a drug-runner, played by Laura Prepon. »
- Cynthia Littleton
'The Kitchen' Director Ishai Setton Shares a Scene From His Experimental Comedy Starring Laura Prepon & Dreama Walker
11 April 2013 9:20 AM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Below, director Ishai Setton shares a scene from his ensemble indie comedy "The Kitchen," currently available on VOD and DVD. What the Film's About: In this ensemble comedy set entirely inside a kitchen in Los Angeles, Jennifer (Laura Prepon), is about to turn 30. What starts out as a well-intentioned day of celebration quickly spirals into an ill-fated farce. Amidst all the chaos, Jennifer tries to figure out what it means to turn thirty and how she will start the next chapter of her life. Where This Scene Fits In: Before the film begins, Jennifer left her job at a big, high profile art gallery in an effort to open her own. She's relying on Vladimir, an artist who has promised her that she can showcase his work in her new gallery. Penny (Dreama Walker), Jennifer’s sister, is in town to help her celebrate. Paul (Bryan Greenberg), Jennifer's very recent ex-boyfriend, »
- Indiewire
New DVD Blu-Ray: 'Naked Lunch' Criterion, 'Hyde Park on Hudson'
8 April 2013 11:06 AM, PDT | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
Moviefone's Blu-ray of the Week "Naked Lunch" Criterion Collection What's It About? William S. Borroughs's landmark ode to drug use was never going to be coherently adapted for the big screen, so visionary sci-fi director David Cronenberg did the next best thing with a surreal, meta take on the writer's own hallucination-filled life. See It Because: It's probably one of the most underrated movies of the 1990s and visually on-par with the weirdness of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"; the Criterion Collection upgrades the movie's rich color palette, and packs this edition with looks at the movie's unsettling special effects and its real-life inspiration. New on DVD & Blu-ray "Down the Shore" What's It About? James Gandolfini stars in a New Jersey-set drama about small-town lives, that sat on the shelf for years before finally finding its way on DVD; if you watch it, you'll see why. In or Out? »
- Eric Larnick
DVD Release: The Kitchen
22 March 2013 2:02 PM, PDT | Disc Dish | See recent Disc Dish news »
DVD Release Date: April 9, 2013
Price: DVD $26.95
Studio: Monterey
Laura Prepon (r.) and Dreama Walker talk it over in The Kitchen.
Likable ladies Laura Prepon (Lay the Favorite) and Dreama Walker (Compliance) star in the 2012 independent comedy The Kitchen.
Okay, here’s what we’re looking at: Jennifer (Prepon) just left her job; her boyfriend Paul (Bryan Greenberg, Friends With Benefits) has been cheating; and her cynical sister Penny (Walker) has an inappropriate announcement. And then there’s Stan (Matt Bush, Margaret), who’s in love with Jennifer, and Kenny (Tate Ellington), who’s in love with Penny. Throw in a party to celebrate Jennifer’s 30th birthday, a couple of dueling bands in the back yard and a manic depressive party photographer who may have forgotten to take his meds, and you’ve got a fairly madcap scenario in the making.
Directed Ishai Setton, written by Jim Beggarly, and featuring »
- Laurence
Lay The Favorite – The Blu Review
21 March 2013 9:02 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
The participation of director Stephen Frears and a cast that includes Bruce Willis, Rebecca Hall, Vince Vaughn, and Catherine Zeta-Jones should guarantee a theatrical release, right? Sorry, but no – Lay The Favorite is the movie and it’s gone straight to Redbox (and other home-viewing options) which is a shame because it’s a fun, if lightweight comedy set in the world of Las Vegas grifters and gamblers.
Hall plays Beth Raymer, who leaves her dancing job at a Florida strip club to become a Las Vegas cocktail waitress. Not exactly an ideal career choice, but her borderline-ditzy personality doesn’t give her many options. In walks Dink (Willis), a professional sports bettor who sees through her bubbly exterior and offers her a job placing wagers all over town to gain an advantage over the casinos. Her surprisingly impeccable mind for numbers soon cements her status as Dink’s good-luck charm, »
- Tom Stockman
Upcoming Movies This Weekend: Burt Wonderstone meets a greater wizard in Oz. The Call, Spring Breakers open
14 March 2013 11:55 PM, PDT | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »
This weekend, Warner Bros.' The Incredible Burt Wonderstone will fall under the spell of current box office sensation Oz the Great and Powerful. Despite opening in a decent 3,160 theaters, and holding a strong, well known cast of Steve Carell, Steve Buscemi, Jim Carrey, Olivia Wilde, Alan Arkin and James Gandolfini, the New Line film will need some real magic to cross the $20 million mark this weekend. Disney's Oz, starring James Franco, Michelle Williams, Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz and Zach Braff, should show a drop of around 45% in its sophomore weekend at play, turning in a gross in the mid $40 million range. Opening from Sony is Halle Berry and Abigail Breslin thriller The Call, finding release in 2,507 theaters. Pic helmed by Brad Anderson from the script by Richard D'Ovidio, also includes Morris Chestnut, Michael Imperioli, Ella Rae Peck, Roma Maffia, Michael Eklund and Justina Machado. The remainder of the field are limited openers, »
Upcoming Movies This Weekend: Burt Wonderstone meets a greater wizard in Oz. The Call, Spring Breakers open
14 March 2013 11:55 PM, PDT | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »
This weekend, Warner Bros.' The Incredible Burt Wonderstone will fall under the spell of current box office sensation Oz the Great and Powerful. Despite opening in a decent 3,160 theaters, and holding a strong, well known cast of Steve Carell, Steve Buscemi, Jim Carrey, Olivia Wilde, Alan Arkin and James Gandolfini, the New Line film will need some real magic to cross the $20 million mark this weekend. Disney's Oz, starring James Franco, Michelle Williams, Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz and Zach Braff, should show a drop of around 45% in its sophomore weekend at play, turning in a gross in the mid $40 million range. Opening from Sony is Halle Berry and Abigail Breslin thriller The Call, finding release in 2,507 theaters. Pic helmed by Brad Anderson from the script by Richard D'Ovidio, also includes Morris Chestnut, Michael Imperioli, Ella Rae Peck, Roma Maffia, Michael Eklund and Justina Machado. The remainder of the field are limited openers, »
Blu-ray Review: Bruce Willis, Rebecca Hall in Dull ‘Lay the Favorite’
13 March 2013 7:02 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Every once in a Hollywood while, a true head-scratcher comes along. How on Earth did this movie, with this many talented people involved, end up so boring? If you told me that Stephen Frears (“The Grifters,” “The Queen”) was re-teaming with his “High Fidelity” scribe D.V. DeVincentis on a dramedy with the great Rebecca Hall and Bruce Willis, I would probably put that flick on a highly-anticipated list. Minutes into “Lay the Favorite,” recently released on Blu-ray and DVD, one knows there’s nothing to anticipate. Unless you anticipate boredom.
Rating: 1.5/5.0
Poor Rebecca Hall (“Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” “Parade’s End”) gives it her absolute all as the naive, sweet Beth Raymer, a girl who becomes a good luck charm to the horribly named Dink Heimowitz (Bruce Willis), disrupting his business and marriage to the high-maintenance Tulip (Catherine Zeta-Jones). An incredible number of talented people flirt around the fringe of this oddball romance, »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Blu Review: Lay the Favorite
4 March 2013 6:48 PM, PST | Cinelinx | See recent Cinelinx news »
Cinelinx takes a gamble on the Lay the Favorite Blu-ray!
The Set-up
A stripper named Beth (Rebecca Hall) leaves her small Florida town to find a better life in Las Vegas, but things get complicated when she forms a relationship with a bookie (Bruce Willis). Based on the book by Beth Raymer. Also stars Catherine Zeta Jones, Vince Vaughn and Joshua Jackson.
Directed by Stephen Frears
The Delivery
What in the world happened, Stephen Frears? The director of The Queen, High Fidelity, and The Grifters managed to take an interesting, real-life story (by the real Beth Raymer) and a great cast (Willis, Jones Hall, etc.) and somehow made a completely average film. Lay the Favorite isn't bad, but for all the pedigree involved, you expect much better.
Lay the Favorite should have been a quirky character drama, but fails to provide an interesting story or engaging characters. Somehow, the screenplay made gambling seem boring, »
- feeds@cinelinx.com (Victor Medina)
Blu-Ray Releases: Mar. 5
1 March 2013 7:47 AM, PST | We Got This Covered | See recent We Got This Covered news »
There’s something for everyone in next week’s Blu-Ray releases: Wreck-It Ralph will tickle your gaming bone, The Intouchables brings a bit of comedy to its drama, and one my favorite films of the nineties finally gets a Blu-Ray release.
Ready for the latest Blu-Ray releases? Then read on.
Starring: John C. Reilly, Alan Tudyk, Jane Lynch, Ed O’Neill, Jack McBrayer, and Sarah Silverman.
Director: Rich Moore
A 3D computer-animated family film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. The film was well-received by critics and viewers alike, and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film and the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
Plot: Wreck-It Ralph longs to be as beloved as his game’s perfect Good Guy, Fix-It Felix. Problem is, nobody loves a Bad Guy. But they do love heroes… so when a modern, first-person shooter game arrives featuring tough-as-nails Sergeant Calhoun, »
- C.P. Howells
DVD Review - Lay the Favorite (2012)
28 January 2013 10:44 AM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Lay the Favorite, 2012.
Directed by Stephen Frears.
Starring Bruce Willis, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rebecca Hall, Joshua Jackson, Vince Vaughn, Laura Prepon, John Carrol Lynch, Corbin Bersen and Frank Grillo.
Synopsis:
An exuberant ex-private dancer Beth (Rebecca Hall) arrives in Las Vegas in search of her ultimate dream to become a cocktail waitress. Fate leads her to Dink (Bruce Willis), a charming, old-school gambler who seeing beyond the ditzy façade, takes a shine to Beth, recruiting her as his good luck charm.
Stephen Frears is a director and filmmaker known for work as varied as Dangerous Liaisons, High Fidelity and The Grifters and is seen to be someone with a propensity to take surprising changes of direction whenever possible. With Lay the Favorite, a lightly amusing, if grossly underwhelming, comedy drama - or dramedy, if you insist on it - Frears takes another unexpected (and many would say, wrong) turn.
Based on »
- flickeringmyth
Lay The Favourite DVD Review
25 January 2013 5:03 PM, PST | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
Director: Stephen Frears
Starring: Bruce Willis, Rebecca Hall, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Joshua Jackson, Vince Vaughan, Laura Prepon, Frank Grillo, John Carroll Lynch,
Running Time: 91 minutes
Certificate: 15
Ever watched a film only to double take when the director’s name appears in the credits? Such a thing happened to me after watching Lay The Favourite, as the name Stephen Frears, who many of us would respect, crawled onto the screen. This is the man who has brought us a range of memorable films such as High Fidelity (2000), The Queen (2006), and Dirty Pretty Things (2002). How he managed to become attached to this lifeless picture is anyone’s guess. Even more remarkable is that he isn’t alone. There’s a fairly respectable cast to work with and a screenplay from one of the co-writers of High Fidelity (2000) and Grosse Pointe Blank (1997).
Oh well, shit happens, and sometimes the act of shitting can be painful. »
- Luke Ryan Baldock
Exclusive Interview: Robert Hall talks Lightning Bug and Future Projects
22 January 2013 1:55 PM, PST | DailyDead | See recent DailyDead news »
With the recent Blu-ray release of Lightning Bug from Image Entertainment, I had a chance to talk with star Ashley Laurence and director Robert Hall. You may know Robert Hall from his effects work or Laid to Rest movies, but his first directorial effort was Lightning Bug in 2004 and it’s not what most people would have expected from him. During our interview time, I talked to him about going with a drama over an effects-heavy movie, revisiting the movie after all these years, and what projects he’s planning to direct in the future.
I know that Lightning Bug is a personal story for you and based on some of your past experiences. Can you tell me a bit about your time growing up in Alabama and how the story eventually evolved into Lightning Bug?
Robert Hall: I moved there when I was nine and I felt like a fish out of water. »
- Jonathan James
Unfortunate Silliness Dims the Glow of "Lightning Bug"
22 January 2013 12:58 PM, PST | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
Based, supposedly, in large part on the life of its writer and director Robert Hall, Lightning Bug is an odd mix of eclectic elements that comes together in a lumpy mass that’s at some moments fascinating in its small town drama and at others over the top in its acting and writing. It’s as if it can’t decide if it wants to be a down-to-Earth story about an young man attempting to break free of his dismal home life or a hokey love story with horror elements that pay too earnest an homage to stereotypical caricatures. Were it not for Bret Harrison, Laura Prepon, and Ashley Laurence at its center, Lightning Bug would have been smushed into a glowing paste beneath the weight of its unnecessarily goofier elements.
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- Lex Walker
Digital Fury: DVD Essentials for January
22 January 2013 10:48 AM, PST | Planet Fury | See recent Planet Fury news »
A Planet Fury-approved selection of notable genre DVD releases for the month of January.
Lightning Bug (2004) Image Entertainment Blu-ray and DVD Available Now
Effects guru Robert Hall’s semi-autobiographical film about a small town teen (Reaper's Bret Harrison) who has aspirations to become a special effects artist. An opportunity to manage the town’s local haunted house is thwarted by his alcoholic stepfather and the staunchly religious views of the surrounding population. The solid supporting cast includes That 70’s Show’s Laura Prepon, Hellraiser’s Ashely Lawrence and Kevin Gage. Written and directed by Hall, it’s an affectionate coming-of-age drama that works in spite of an uneven narrative that falls apart in the final half hour. Hopefully this new extended cut will remedy the scripting problems of the original release.
Special Features include:
* Never-before-released extended cut of the film.
* Making-of Featurette
* Audio commentaries with the writer/director and cast. »
- Bradley Harding
‘The Kitchen’ Exclusive Trailer: Laura Prepon Is Having One Hell of a Bad Birthday
18 January 2013 2:00 PM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Featuring a very talented cast of comedic talents (including Compliance‘s Dreama Walker in a refreshingly breezy role), Ishai Setton‘s The Kitchen takes the party-where-everything-goes-wrong to a new level. It’s Jennifer’s (Laura Prepon) thirtieth birthday, and the last thing she wants to celebrate is her life, considering she’s saddled with a scheming ex-boyfriend (Bryan Greenberg), a sister who can’t manage to filter any of her thoughts and opinions (Walker), and a best friend who might be throwing her said party out of more than just the goodness of his heart (Matt Bush). Set entirely inside Jennifer’s kitchen, The Kitchen looks to be a clever, tightly-wound, and amusing comedy of manners (or, non-manners in some cases). In fact, our own dear leader Neil Miller loved the film when he saw it back in October at the Austin Film Festival, writing that the “entire film works on the economics of scale, in »
- Kate Erbland
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