There’s an awful lot of chatter about women in entertainment right now. Lots of high profile individuals are ever so bravely ‘speaking out’ about the systemic sexism that prevents women behind the camera from getting jobs and getting projects made. The frustrating thing is that, while there are a vast number of people talking about the issue, there seem to be very few people actually undertaking to rectify the gender imbalance. Actions speak louder than words and, while Star Wars producers, Marvel producers, and performers like Jennifer Lawrence have yet to actually deal with women directors on more than a token basis, Academy Award nominee James Franco is literally putting his money where his mouth is, with a remake of Mother, May I Sleep With Danger?
Indeed, while marquee names are jumping on the bandwagon and lamenting the misogyny faced by women in film and television, James Franco is...
Indeed, while marquee names are jumping on the bandwagon and lamenting the misogyny faced by women in film and television, James Franco is...
- 12/23/2015
- by Sarah Myles
- We Got This Covered
James Franco will executive produce Lifetime's remake of "Mother, May I Sleep With Danger?," the cult 1996 telemovie which starred Tori Spelling. The new version will air next year.
Spelling starred as a young woman with a dangerous and obsessive boyfriend. Franco penned the story for the remake which boasts a script written by Amber Coney ("Class").
Melanie Aitkenhead will direct while Vince Jolivette, Diane Sokolow and Rachel Verno will executive produce alongside Franco. The former "Spider-Man" series star has two other TV projects on the way next year which he stars in - Hulu's "11/22/63" and HBO's "The Deuce".
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Spelling starred as a young woman with a dangerous and obsessive boyfriend. Franco penned the story for the remake which boasts a script written by Amber Coney ("Class").
Melanie Aitkenhead will direct while Vince Jolivette, Diane Sokolow and Rachel Verno will executive produce alongside Franco. The former "Spider-Man" series star has two other TV projects on the way next year which he stars in - Hulu's "11/22/63" and HBO's "The Deuce".
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- 12/21/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Sony Pictures Television likes a good scandal. The studio behind AMC's Breaking Bad and NBC's Community, in a rare move, has optioned the entire April 9 anniversary issue of New York magazine -- dubbed "Scandal" -- as a potential miniseries about scandalous events or as part of a larger series or anthology package, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively. Producers Diane Sokolow and sisters Judith and Rachel Verno (TV documentary Harvard Park) are developing the property, which includes events ranging from the U.S.' first sex change operation in 1953 to Woody Allen's eyebrow-raising 1992 romance with partner Mia Farrow's
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- 6/13/2012
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Can an unknown actress-turned-writer dance her way to stardom?
That was the dream Julia Fowler harbored last week, standing on the roof of a parking structure on the edge of Beverly Hills with a view of the Hollywood sign.
As she prepared with a series of quick stretches for what would be an unorthodox pitch session, several casually dressed executives gathered in front of a makeshift black floor measuring 20 feet by 14 feet.
Fowler watched as one her three producers began her introductory spiel. Five years of struggling as an actress had led Fowler to this, a weeklong series of pitch meetings designed to win her -- a la Sylvester Stallone and Rocky, Billy Bob Thornton and Sling Blade, Nia Vardalos and My Big Fat Greek Wedding -- the lead role in a movie that she had written.
"This'll be memorable, if nothing else," whispered one seen-it-all exec. (The company where this particular version of the pitch took place declined to be named.)
Fowler stepped forward onto the unconventional dance floor, and then she and a group of costumed dancers exploded into stomping and hopping. The floor of the structure vibrated as if an earthquake were hitting the city. First, the execs' jaws dropped, and then they broke into smiles.
Possum Trot Cloggers is the name of the project for which Fowler hoped to drum up interest. A romantic comedy set in the world of competitive clogging, it has Howard Deutch attached to direct with North Country executive producer Helen Bartlett, Flyboys director Tony Bill and TV movie producer Diane Sokolow all on board to produce.
The project was under option to New Line Cinema, which, after deciding not to go forward with the project, let the producers seek a new home for it. The producers and director -- who believed in their writer-star even before she aced a screen test at New Line -- strategized with their agents at ICM on how best to sell a project about a world mostly unknown to those west of Highland Avenue.
That was the dream Julia Fowler harbored last week, standing on the roof of a parking structure on the edge of Beverly Hills with a view of the Hollywood sign.
As she prepared with a series of quick stretches for what would be an unorthodox pitch session, several casually dressed executives gathered in front of a makeshift black floor measuring 20 feet by 14 feet.
Fowler watched as one her three producers began her introductory spiel. Five years of struggling as an actress had led Fowler to this, a weeklong series of pitch meetings designed to win her -- a la Sylvester Stallone and Rocky, Billy Bob Thornton and Sling Blade, Nia Vardalos and My Big Fat Greek Wedding -- the lead role in a movie that she had written.
"This'll be memorable, if nothing else," whispered one seen-it-all exec. (The company where this particular version of the pitch took place declined to be named.)
Fowler stepped forward onto the unconventional dance floor, and then she and a group of costumed dancers exploded into stomping and hopping. The floor of the structure vibrated as if an earthquake were hitting the city. First, the execs' jaws dropped, and then they broke into smiles.
Possum Trot Cloggers is the name of the project for which Fowler hoped to drum up interest. A romantic comedy set in the world of competitive clogging, it has Howard Deutch attached to direct with North Country executive producer Helen Bartlett, Flyboys director Tony Bill and TV movie producer Diane Sokolow all on board to produce.
The project was under option to New Line Cinema, which, after deciding not to go forward with the project, let the producers seek a new home for it. The producers and director -- who believed in their writer-star even before she aced a screen test at New Line -- strategized with their agents at ICM on how best to sell a project about a world mostly unknown to those west of Highland Avenue.
- 12/13/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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