Threequel “Fifty Shades Freed” (Universal) easily led all films, including three wide openers, as so far 2018 lags behind 2017 at the box office, going against sports competition from both the Super Bowl and the Winter Olympics. Grosses are now down one per cent.
Next week’s anticipated release of Marvel’s “Black Panther” (Disney) this Friday will reverse that trend. Early projections for this eagerly anticipatedAfrican-based superhero story directed by Ryan Coogler (“Creed”) are about $150 million, the total for all the films for last year’s three-day President’s Day weekend.
The openers this weekend totaled an expected $75 million. They represent three distinctive strains of mainstream studio product these days: a franchise sequel (“Fifty Shades Freed”), a hybrid animated-live action feature (“Peter Rabbit”) and a true-life heroic action dramatic re-enactment (“The 15:17 to Paris”).
Disconcertingly, last year’s three similar titles totaled $55 million more: “The Lego Batman Movie” at $53 million (more...
Next week’s anticipated release of Marvel’s “Black Panther” (Disney) this Friday will reverse that trend. Early projections for this eagerly anticipatedAfrican-based superhero story directed by Ryan Coogler (“Creed”) are about $150 million, the total for all the films for last year’s three-day President’s Day weekend.
The openers this weekend totaled an expected $75 million. They represent three distinctive strains of mainstream studio product these days: a franchise sequel (“Fifty Shades Freed”), a hybrid animated-live action feature (“Peter Rabbit”) and a true-life heroic action dramatic re-enactment (“The 15:17 to Paris”).
Disconcertingly, last year’s three similar titles totaled $55 million more: “The Lego Batman Movie” at $53 million (more...
- 2/11/2018
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
George Clooney is reopening the Watergate scandal at Netflix.
The Academy Award-winning actor will executive-produce the eight-part limited series Watergate, which is currently in development at the streaming service. Per our sister site Deadline, the Rashomon-style project hails from writer Matt Charman (Bridge of Spies). Should it be ordered to series, each episode would focus on a different individual involved in the 1970s scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon, including his counsel John Ehrlichman and former Attorney General John Mitchell.
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Watergate is one of two major TV projects for the onetime ER doc.
The Academy Award-winning actor will executive-produce the eight-part limited series Watergate, which is currently in development at the streaming service. Per our sister site Deadline, the Rashomon-style project hails from writer Matt Charman (Bridge of Spies). Should it be ordered to series, each episode would focus on a different individual involved in the 1970s scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon, including his counsel John Ehrlichman and former Attorney General John Mitchell.
RELATEDCable/Streaming Scorecard: What’s Renewed? What’s Cancelled?
Watergate is one of two major TV projects for the onetime ER doc.
- 12/16/2017
- TVLine.com
Netflix is developing an eight-part limited series about the Watergate scandal from executive producer George Clooney, TheWrap has learned. Matt Charman, who co-wrote the Oscar-nominated “Bridge of Spies” with Joel and Ethan Coen, will serve as the series writer, with Clooney’s Smokehouse Pictures and Sonar Entertainment producing. The Watergate scandal centered around a 1972 break in at the Democratic National Committee offices, located at the Watergate building in Washington D.C. The ensuing investigation implicated several high-ranking member’s of President Richard Nixon’s administration, culminating in Nixon’s resignation in 1974. Also Read: 'Love' to End With Season 3 on Netflix...
- 12/16/2017
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
The first thing to know about The Post, aside from the fact that it's one of best and tick-tock timeliest movies of the year, is that it's a love story. That's right. Steven Spielberg's tense, terrific new drama celebrates the passionate bond between a free press and every thinking human being, however diminished the species in Trump's America.
The film is set in 1971, when Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham (Meryl Streep) and editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) decided to defy threats from the Nixon White House and publish the Pentagon Papers,...
The film is set in 1971, when Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham (Meryl Streep) and editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) decided to defy threats from the Nixon White House and publish the Pentagon Papers,...
- 12/14/2017
- Rollingstone.com
The first thing to know about The Post, aside from the fact that it's one of best and tick-tock timeliest movies of the year, is that it's a love story. That's right. Steven Spielberg's tense, terrific new drama celebrates the passionate bond between a free press and every thinking human being, however diminished the species in Trump's America.
The film is set in 1971, when Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham (Meryl Streep) and editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) decided to defy threats from the Nixon White House and publish the Pentagon Papers,...
The film is set in 1971, when Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham (Meryl Streep) and editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) decided to defy threats from the Nixon White House and publish the Pentagon Papers,...
- 12/14/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Tis the season for ...TV holiday specials! And who better to season your greetings than Empire's Cookie! Meanwhile, Fox mounts one mistletoe of a live musical hullabaloo, Comedy Central tries to find the funny in fake news and HBO delivers a documentary on a man who made real news. Plus Carol Burnett fans are in for a treat and Game of Thrones devotees will get a dose of Kit Harrington to tide them over until winter is over. Baby, it's cold outside! So here's the television shows, specials and one-offs...
- 11/28/2017
- Rollingstone.com
I’d imagine every one of us, despite our individual life situations, however privileged or difficult they may be, wouldn’t have too much trouble coming up with a pretty long list of people and circumstances for which to be grateful, during the upcoming week traditionally reserved for the expression of thanks as well as throughout the entirety of the year.
Even in our brave new world, where gratitude and humility and generosity of spirit often seem to be in short supply, at the mercy of greed, abuse of power, disregard for the rule of law, and megalomaniac self-interest cynically masquerading as an aggressive strain of nationalist, populist passion, there are good, everyday reasons to look around and take stock of blessings in one’s immediate surroundings.
And speaking specifically as one who has the privilege and opportunity to occasionally write about matters concerning the movies, and even a (very...
Even in our brave new world, where gratitude and humility and generosity of spirit often seem to be in short supply, at the mercy of greed, abuse of power, disregard for the rule of law, and megalomaniac self-interest cynically masquerading as an aggressive strain of nationalist, populist passion, there are good, everyday reasons to look around and take stock of blessings in one’s immediate surroundings.
And speaking specifically as one who has the privilege and opportunity to occasionally write about matters concerning the movies, and even a (very...
- 11/23/2017
- by Dennis Cozzalio
- Trailers from Hell
Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst Shaw occasionally creeps into the headlines these days as a champion show dog trainer, a figure of enduring curiosity with a past string of minor roles as an actress on TV and in the kitschy films of director John Waters.
But for a heightened moment in the mid-1970s, Patty Hearst, as she was then known, was the central figure in a San Francisco Bay area kidnapping and crime spree that intersected with domestic terrorism during a chaotic moment in American politics and culture, producing iconic images of the era and landing her in prison for 22 months after she embraced,...
But for a heightened moment in the mid-1970s, Patty Hearst, as she was then known, was the central figure in a San Francisco Bay area kidnapping and crime spree that intersected with domestic terrorism during a chaotic moment in American politics and culture, producing iconic images of the era and landing her in prison for 22 months after she embraced,...
- 11/22/2017
- by Jeff Truesdell
- PEOPLE.com
We haven’t seen any footage of Avengers: Infinity War just yet (well, at least not officially), but we already know that Steve Rogers’ character will be in a very different place from when we last saw him. Following on from giving up his shield and becoming a fugitive in Captain America: Civil War, Chris Evans’ First Avenger has likely stepped away from the mantle of Captain America in the team-up film. Just look at the promo images we’ve seen so far – he’s even got himself a beard.
So, Cap may be gone, but will Steve pick up a new superhero alias instead? His Infinity War co-star Sebastian Stan seems to think so. When signing a Captain America: The Winter Soldier poster for a young fan, Stan – who plays Bucky Barnes in the McU – added an unexpected extra detail alongside his autograph. As you can see, he squiggled...
So, Cap may be gone, but will Steve pick up a new superhero alias instead? His Infinity War co-star Sebastian Stan seems to think so. When signing a Captain America: The Winter Soldier poster for a young fan, Stan – who plays Bucky Barnes in the McU – added an unexpected extra detail alongside his autograph. As you can see, he squiggled...
- 11/13/2017
- by Christian Bone
- We Got This Covered
Meryl Streep's Feminist Interview With Anna Wintour Makes All Our Devil Wears Prada Dreams Come True
Meryl Streep will forever embody one of our favorite fictional female bosses thanks to Devil Wears Prada—emotions that came washing over us once again thanks to a new interview with the main lady her character was based upon... Anna Wintour! Yes, life imitated art and our dreams came true in Vogue magazine's 125th anniversary issue when the editor-in-chief chatted with Streep about her upcoming film, The Post, and how the feminist agenda is pushing forward. In the film, Streep plays Wintour's late friend, Katharine Graham, who oversaw The Washington Post through the Watergate scandal, which eventually led to President Richard Nixon's resignation. Wintour admitted...
- 11/9/2017
- E! Online
Director Steven Spielberg is currently in development on his new film project The Post and today we have our first photo from the film giving us our first look at Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep before the trailer is released.
The movie will tell the 1971 story of the Washington Post's role in exposing the Pentagon Papers and how the Post’s editor Ben Bradlee (Hanks) and publisher Kay Graham (Streep) challenged the federal government over their right to publish them.
This is such a powerful team of talent coming together for a film and they are sure to deliver an incredible film. Some of the other cast members include Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Matthew Rhys, Bradley Whitford, Carrie Coon, Jesse Plemons, David Cross, Alison Brie, Bruce Greenwood, Tracy Letts, Michael Stuhlbarg, Pat Healy, and Zach Woods.
For those of you not familiar with the Pentagon Papers, here's an explanation:
In...
The movie will tell the 1971 story of the Washington Post's role in exposing the Pentagon Papers and how the Post’s editor Ben Bradlee (Hanks) and publisher Kay Graham (Streep) challenged the federal government over their right to publish them.
This is such a powerful team of talent coming together for a film and they are sure to deliver an incredible film. Some of the other cast members include Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Matthew Rhys, Bradley Whitford, Carrie Coon, Jesse Plemons, David Cross, Alison Brie, Bruce Greenwood, Tracy Letts, Michael Stuhlbarg, Pat Healy, and Zach Woods.
For those of you not familiar with the Pentagon Papers, here's an explanation:
In...
- 11/1/2017
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
As we reach that light-at-the-end-of the-tunnel that concludes the 2017 movie year, theatres are now filled with stories “inspired by true events” and “biopics”. This new release is a bit of both, like last weekend’s Marshall, this tells the story of one man, while focusing on one major event or incident of his long life. Unlike the former Supreme Court justice, this person was not well known by the general public. However, his “nickname” became legendary, thanks in part to a Best Picture Oscar winner. Though the film’s title may sound seem like hyperbole, it presents much evidence to support it in Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down The White House.
We first meet mark Felt (Liam Neeson) on a crisp May morning in 1972 as he readies himself for another day in DC as Deputy Associate Director of the FBI (the number three guy at the Bureau). After...
We first meet mark Felt (Liam Neeson) on a crisp May morning in 1972 as he readies himself for another day in DC as Deputy Associate Director of the FBI (the number three guy at the Bureau). After...
- 10/19/2017
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Chicago – Everything old is new again, in the 1970s story of the infamous “Deep Throat” – the source in the FBI who tipped off the Washington Post about the issues surrounding Watergate scandal – who revealed himself in 2005. He is now the subject of a new film, and is portrayed by Liam Neeson, in “Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House.”
Rating: 3.5/5.0
It’s a blistering history lesson, and again the more revealed about the Richard M. Nixon administration the more it becomes clear that the Republican Party agenda was/is based in acquiring power rather than serving the American people. Mark Felt was an old-school FBI agent that wasn’t so innocent himself – he was somewhat of a bag boy for J. Edgar Hoover – but he saw injustice and used his power of knowing where the “bodies were buried” to bring down the corrupt Nixon. The film gets...
Rating: 3.5/5.0
It’s a blistering history lesson, and again the more revealed about the Richard M. Nixon administration the more it becomes clear that the Republican Party agenda was/is based in acquiring power rather than serving the American people. Mark Felt was an old-school FBI agent that wasn’t so innocent himself – he was somewhat of a bag boy for J. Edgar Hoover – but he saw injustice and used his power of knowing where the “bodies were buried” to bring down the corrupt Nixon. The film gets...
- 10/7/2017
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Ever since Lbj launched AFI in the Rose Garden, the institute has had a special place in the hearts of U.S. presidents — until now, that is.
Barack Obama hosted AFI's White House Student Film Festitval for the last three years of his administration. Bill Clinton spoke at Warren Beatty's Life Achievement Award event in 2008, while both Bush presidents turned up at AFI events and Ronald and Nancy Reagan came to AFI's Preservation Ball in 1988. Even Richard Nixon, despite the mounting Watergate scandal, managed to attend John Ford's Life Achievement Award ceremony in 1973.
Donald Trump, however, apparently is...
Barack Obama hosted AFI's White House Student Film Festitval for the last three years of his administration. Bill Clinton spoke at Warren Beatty's Life Achievement Award event in 2008, while both Bush presidents turned up at AFI events and Ronald and Nancy Reagan came to AFI's Preservation Ball in 1988. Even Richard Nixon, despite the mounting Watergate scandal, managed to attend John Ford's Life Achievement Award ceremony in 1973.
Donald Trump, however, apparently is...
- 10/6/2017
- by THR Staff
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Fall is the season of Real-People movies — the biopics that often fuel Oscar hopes. Recent weeks brought “The Battle of the Sexes,” “Stronger,” and “Victoria & Abdul” and there’s more than a dozen to come, including “Marshall,” “The Post,” “Darkest Hour,” and “The Current War.” There’s good reason to believe that a biopic might produce awards. In the last five years, 28 of the 100 Oscar acting nominees played real-life characters, as did four of the 20 winners. But when it comes to the box office, the odds aren’t as kind.
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Since 2012, there have been about 100 biopics including hits like “The King’s Speech,” “The Social Network,” and “Julie and Julia.” But while recent years featured real-life characters and stories in some of the biggest non-franchise hits, the format may have reached a saturation point.
Last year,...
Read More:With ‘Dunkirk’ and ‘Darkest Hour’ Showing Strong, Will Churchill-Heavy Britpics Storm the Oscars?
Since 2012, there have been about 100 biopics including hits like “The King’s Speech,” “The Social Network,” and “Julie and Julia.” But while recent years featured real-life characters and stories in some of the biggest non-franchise hits, the format may have reached a saturation point.
Last year,...
- 10/5/2017
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
Nape Summit announced today award-winning journalist Tom Brokaw as the keynote speaker for the 2018 Nape Charities Luncheon as part of the 25th annual Nape Summit Week taking place February 5-9, 2018, in Houston.
Brokaw spent his entire distinguished journalism career with NBC News, covering Ronald Reagan’s first run for public office, the rise of the Sixties counter culture, the assassination of Robert Kennedy and the 1968 presidential campaign. He served as the White House correspondent during Watergate and took over Meet the Press in 2008. Brokaw has won every major award in his craft, including Peabody, duPonts, Emmys and lifetime achievement recognition, and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama in 2014.
“We are honored to have Tom Brokaw, one of the most influential figures in American journalism, join us in celebrating and giving back to America’s veterans at the 2018 Nape Charities Luncheon,” said Greg Riedl, chairman of the Nape Operators Committee.
Brokaw spent his entire distinguished journalism career with NBC News, covering Ronald Reagan’s first run for public office, the rise of the Sixties counter culture, the assassination of Robert Kennedy and the 1968 presidential campaign. He served as the White House correspondent during Watergate and took over Meet the Press in 2008. Brokaw has won every major award in his craft, including Peabody, duPonts, Emmys and lifetime achievement recognition, and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama in 2014.
“We are honored to have Tom Brokaw, one of the most influential figures in American journalism, join us in celebrating and giving back to America’s veterans at the 2018 Nape Charities Luncheon,” said Greg Riedl, chairman of the Nape Operators Committee.
- 10/5/2017
- Look to the Stars
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down The White House is a pretty explanatory name, as it's about Mark Felt (Liam Neeson)...taking down the Nixon White House amid the Watergate scandal. It's actually kind of like a porn title, in that you know exactly what you're getting when you walk into the theater. Speaking of porn names, Mark Felt's undercover nickname was actually "Deep... Read More...
- 10/1/2017
- by Damion Damaske
- JoBlo.com
The name Mark Felt might not strike a chord – replace it with the moniker "Deep Throat," however and watch the imaginary bulb above your head light up. As played by Liam Neeson in a quietly devastating performance, Felt is the 30-year FBI veteran who worked covertly with the press to bring down malfeasance (read: Watergate) in the Nixon White House. That tale was told in the 1976 procedural classic All the President's Men with Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman playing Washington Post muckrakers Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. But the reporting...
- 9/29/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Good news for all you Liam Neeson fans! While at the red carpet premiere of the new film, Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House, Neeson told Variety that he will return to the action genre. When asked about the recent news that he was retiring from action movies, Neeson laughingly said:
“It’s not true, look at me! You’re talking in the past tense. I’m going to be doing action movies until they bury me in the ground. I’m unretired.”
It had been previously reported that the Taken star felt he was getting too old to lead such physically demanding films where he's fighting and caught in the middle of gun battles:
“The thrillers, that was all a pure accident. They’re still throwing serious money at me to do that stuff. I’m like, ‘Guys, I’m sixty-f---ing-five.’ Audiences are eventually going to go,...
“It’s not true, look at me! You’re talking in the past tense. I’m going to be doing action movies until they bury me in the ground. I’m unretired.”
It had been previously reported that the Taken star felt he was getting too old to lead such physically demanding films where he's fighting and caught in the middle of gun battles:
“The thrillers, that was all a pure accident. They’re still throwing serious money at me to do that stuff. I’m like, ‘Guys, I’m sixty-f---ing-five.’ Audiences are eventually going to go,...
- 9/28/2017
- by Kristian Odland
- GeekTyrant
Ever since Liam Neeson began kicking ass with the Taken franchise, he has been seen as an unusual action hero. A number of genre efforts (plus sequels to Taken) later, and Neeson kicks ass much more these days than anything else. This week, however, Neeson has a vehicle to display his acting range in with Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House. This biopic says it all in the title, as Neeson is getting to play a baity historical figure at a time where this particular story is as prescient as ever. It’s a welcome return to this sort of material for Neeson, who too often isn’t able to show how wonderful of an actor he really is. This film is a biopic of, believe it or not, Mark Felt (Neeson). Felt was an FBI agent who would become better known as Deep Throat, the...
- 9/25/2017
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
We know the name “Deep Throat” as the informant that helped take down President Nixon in the wake of Watergate. But with his new film “Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House,” director Peter Landesman hopes you’ll come to know his real name. “When I heard it was Mark Felt, I hadn’t any idea who he was. I didn’t even know his name. I knew that because of his anonymity and his smallness, it was a great story,” Landesman told TheWrap’s Steve Pond at the Toronto Film Festival. “The fact that someone this small took down the.
- 9/21/2017
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
It’s 1972 and the United States is facing challenges both at home and abroad. The Vietnam War is still raging but public opinion has turned strongly against it, while on home soil, groups like The Weather Underground are becoming increasingly violent in their anti-government action. Meanwhile, Richard Nixon is preparing for a looming election, and then, roughly four months before ballots are cast, the Watergate Hotel is broken into with the aim of wiretapping the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee.
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- 9/10/2017
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Mark Felt may be the most consequential unknown American of the last half century. In the shadows until shortly before he died in 2008, Felt was known to the world only as “Deep Throat,” the source whose information led to the downfall of Richard Nixon in the Watergate scandal. Now we get a three dimensional glimpse of the man and his motives in “Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House,” starring a steely and principled Liam Neeson in the title role. Obscured in this telling are Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two twenty-something Washington Post reporters to.
- 9/8/2017
- by Sharon Waxman
- The Wrap
There have been a few movies made about the fall of Nixon and the Watergate scandal, but few that have ever really focused on Mark Felt, the man who supposedly brought down the White House. You might not think that this is a part that Liam Neeson would thrive at but apart from his accent he’s actually not too bad in the trailer. What remains to be seen is if whatever historical data they show in the movie will stay tight to whatever version is said to be true or if it will spin off into a dramatic retelling that
“Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House” Trailer Features Liam Neeson as Deep Throat...
“Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House” Trailer Features Liam Neeson as Deep Throat...
- 9/5/2017
- by Wake
- TVovermind.com
Few figures in the American political sphere have garnered more mystery and intrigue than “Deep Throat,” the Watergate whistleblower whose information led to the resignation of President Nixon. When the source’s identity—Mark Felt, associate director of the FBI itself—was revealed in 2005, a Hollywood retelling was inevitable. Oscar nominee Liam Neeson will put a face to the pseudonym in writer-director Peter Landesman’s upcoming feature “Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House.” Set to premiere at Toronto International Film Festival followed by a Sept. 29 U.S. release, the thriller will be distributed by Sony Pictures Classics. Neeson co-stars with Diane Lane, Tony Goldwyn, and Michael C. Hall. Check out the chilling new trailer: Check out Backstage’s film audition listings!
- 9/1/2017
- backstage.com
Movie titles are a tricky thing. So far, the film about Mark Felt, the man who anonymously provided critical intel to reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein about the Watergate scandal that helped bring down Richard Nixon has been called “Felt” and “The Silent Man.” But it appears that the folks behind drama are worried about that those titles are too vague, so now they’re running with the overly explicit “Mark Felt — The Man Who Brought Down The White House,” which sounds like lead star Liam Neeson, is going to punch Nixon in the throat before the credits roll.
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- 8/28/2017
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Liam Neeson speaks with a low, hushed tones in the clip for the aptly titled The Silent Man, a film based on the life of Mark Felt, the high-ranking FBI informant revealed to be the infamous “Deep Throat” in the President Richard Nixon Watergate scandal that was chronicles in the Best Picture nominated 1976 film […]
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- 5/29/2017
- by Hoai-Tran Bui
- Slash Film
It says something about the current political climate that the events of Watergate, which led to the impeachment of President Richard Nixon, still remain timely and relevant. And it’s probably safe to say that likely won’t change in the months ahead, which will make the arrival of “The Silent Man” all the more resonant.
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Liam Neeson takes a break from cracking skulls to lead the drama as Mark Felt, the man known as Deep Throat, the Watergate whistleblower.
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Liam Neeson takes a break from cracking skulls to lead the drama as Mark Felt, the man known as Deep Throat, the Watergate whistleblower.
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- 5/25/2017
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
As political journalists take a bit of a breather with President Trump on foreign soil, History has seized on the opportunity to make a headline of its own. The cable channel has ordered Watergate, what it calls the “definitive” documentary series about the scandal and cover-up that forced President Richard Nixon out of office. Produced and directed by Oscar winner Charles Ferguson (Inside Job), the series will look into the granddaddy of American disgraces that started…...
- 5/23/2017
- Deadline TV
On last night’s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver devoted the majority of his show to President Donald Trump’s growing pile of problems. The focus was on how the president may have tried to influence investigations into possible links between his campaign team and Russia. An exasperated Oliver described the developments as “Stupid Watergate”, in reference to Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal which led to his resignation, with “all the potential ramifications of Watergate but where everyone involved is stupid and bad at everything.” Oliver also spoke about how some in the media appear to be turning a blind eye, including Fox News talking heads shown in...read more...
- 5/22/2017
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
Saturday Night Live mocked Donald Trump's interview with NBC's Lester Holt as Alec Baldwin's president stumbled his way through questions about James Comey's firing and comparisons to Richard Nixon.
Regarding the controversial firing of the FBI director, Trump accidentally negated the explanations doled out by his press secretaries during the NBC interview, a mistake that SNL seized on.
"I fired him because of Russia. I thought 'I don't like that. I should fire him,'" Baldwin's Trump said in the cold open. Michael Che's Holt then pointed...
Regarding the controversial firing of the FBI director, Trump accidentally negated the explanations doled out by his press secretaries during the NBC interview, a mistake that SNL seized on.
"I fired him because of Russia. I thought 'I don't like that. I should fire him,'" Baldwin's Trump said in the cold open. Michael Che's Holt then pointed...
- 5/14/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Donald Trump is firing back at critics in the media who say he he’s lost credibility over his contradictory claims surrounding the firing of former FBI director James Comey.
In his latest tweet storm Friday morning, the president threatened to “cancel all future press briefings” — suggesting instead to “hand out written responses for the sake of accuracy.”
His words came minutes after NBC correspondent Nicolle Wallace — a former White House communications chief during the presidency of George W. Bush — told Today that members of Trump’s administration have “zero credibility.”
“I cannot overstate how extraordinary it is,” she said.
In his latest tweet storm Friday morning, the president threatened to “cancel all future press briefings” — suggesting instead to “hand out written responses for the sake of accuracy.”
His words came minutes after NBC correspondent Nicolle Wallace — a former White House communications chief during the presidency of George W. Bush — told Today that members of Trump’s administration have “zero credibility.”
“I cannot overstate how extraordinary it is,” she said.
- 5/12/2017
- by Dave Quinn
- PEOPLE.com
Samantha Bee Dissects James Comey Termination — aka President Trump's 'Saturday Night Live Massacre'
Jon Stewart famously took pride in pointing out the oft ridiculous practices of cable news — and as of Wednesday, it’s safe to say that torch has been passed down to fellow Daily Show alum Samantha Bee.
VideosDaily Show Reunion: Jon Stewart Defends Colbert Amid Controversy, John Oliver as ‘Steve Carell’ and More
The Full Frontal host began her latest broadcast by pointing out that “the only FBI drama most Americans expected to unfold on TV were the upcoming seasons of Twin Peaks and The X Files,” but that all changed once President Donald Trump chose to terminate FBI Director...
VideosDaily Show Reunion: Jon Stewart Defends Colbert Amid Controversy, John Oliver as ‘Steve Carell’ and More
The Full Frontal host began her latest broadcast by pointing out that “the only FBI drama most Americans expected to unfold on TV were the upcoming seasons of Twin Peaks and The X Files,” but that all changed once President Donald Trump chose to terminate FBI Director...
- 5/11/2017
- TVLine.com
This story originally appeared on Time.
President Donald Trump’s decision to fire FBI Director James Comey rocked Washington on Tuesday, raising questions about the future of the investigation into his campaign’s ties to Russia and potentially setting off a chain of events that could envelop his administration.
Comey, whose investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server helped lift Trump into the White House, was leading the federal counterintelligence investigation into whether advisers to the President had sought to collude with Russian officials in their efforts to swing the 2016 election. The ouster of the nation’s top cop prompted comparisons to Watergate,...
President Donald Trump’s decision to fire FBI Director James Comey rocked Washington on Tuesday, raising questions about the future of the investigation into his campaign’s ties to Russia and potentially setting off a chain of events that could envelop his administration.
Comey, whose investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server helped lift Trump into the White House, was leading the federal counterintelligence investigation into whether advisers to the President had sought to collude with Russian officials in their efforts to swing the 2016 election. The ouster of the nation’s top cop prompted comparisons to Watergate,...
- 5/10/2017
- by Alex Altman and Zeke J Miller
- PEOPLE.com
The word “Watergate” was on many minds on Wednesday as critics compared President Trump‘s abrupt firing of FBI Director James Comey to the scandal that brought down former President Richard Nixon in 1972.
Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward — who along with colleague Carl Bernstein famously broke the story of the Nixon-sanctioned break-in at the Democratic campaign headquarters in the Watergate building — weighed in on the Watergate comparisons in an interview with MSNBC’s Morning Joe.
“Indeed there are comparisons,” he said Wednesday. “This is a remarkable moment. It’s not something to take lightly.”
Woodward cited “many, many inconsistencies” in...
Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward — who along with colleague Carl Bernstein famously broke the story of the Nixon-sanctioned break-in at the Democratic campaign headquarters in the Watergate building — weighed in on the Watergate comparisons in an interview with MSNBC’s Morning Joe.
“Indeed there are comparisons,” he said Wednesday. “This is a remarkable moment. It’s not something to take lightly.”
Woodward cited “many, many inconsistencies” in...
- 5/10/2017
- by Tierney McAfee
- PEOPLE.com
Many are comparing Donald Trump’s abrupt firing of FBI Director James Comey to President Richard Nixon’s 1973 “Saturday Night Massacre” — the firing of a special Watergate prosecutor that helped bring about Nixon’s downfall. Historians and pundits sometimes use the word Nixonian to describe to ruthless, self-protective maneuvers undertaken by a president to serve his own interests. But Richard Nixon’s presidential library noted Tuesday that in one way, Trump’s firing of Comey was beyond Nixonian. “Fun Fact: President Nixon never fired the Director of the FBI #FBIDirector #notNixonian,” the library’s Twitter account noted Tuesday. Also Read:...
- 5/10/2017
- by Susan Seager
- The Wrap
Politicians, commentators and celebrities alike are reacting with shock and outrage over President Trump‘s sudden firing of FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday evening.
“This is an investigator investigating the White House who was just fired by the White House. This doesn’t happen in the United States”— except in Richard Nixon’s White House during Watergate, said a visibly exasperated CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin.
Former Clinton campaign press secretary Brian Fallon called into CNN to join the chorus of analysts reminding Americans that Comey was in the middle of investigating Trump for collusion with Russia.
“Donald Trump...
“This is an investigator investigating the White House who was just fired by the White House. This doesn’t happen in the United States”— except in Richard Nixon’s White House during Watergate, said a visibly exasperated CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin.
Former Clinton campaign press secretary Brian Fallon called into CNN to join the chorus of analysts reminding Americans that Comey was in the middle of investigating Trump for collusion with Russia.
“Donald Trump...
- 5/9/2017
- by Tierney McAfee
- PEOPLE.com
When Young Il Kim’s script “Rodham” landed near the top of the Black List rankings of best unproduced screenplays, it became one of the most buzzed-about projects in Hollywood.
Read More: Hillary Clinton Makes Surprise Appearance at Kathryn Bigelow’s Vr Event to Speak Out Against Elephant Poaching
The story captures a younger Hillary Rodham at an unique moment in her life. Straight out of law school, Clinton joined the House Judiciary Committee tasked with coming up with the legal foundation to impeach President Nixon, while at the same time balancing her relationship with then-boyfriend Bill Clinton, who was back in Arkansas.
A story that shows a rarely seen human side of the brilliant young woman instantly drew the interest of director James Ponsoldt. The project looked like a go when Lionsgate jumped aboard, but was put into turnaround toward the end of 2015.
Ponsoldt told IndieWire that when the project was abandoned,...
Read More: Hillary Clinton Makes Surprise Appearance at Kathryn Bigelow’s Vr Event to Speak Out Against Elephant Poaching
The story captures a younger Hillary Rodham at an unique moment in her life. Straight out of law school, Clinton joined the House Judiciary Committee tasked with coming up with the legal foundation to impeach President Nixon, while at the same time balancing her relationship with then-boyfriend Bill Clinton, who was back in Arkansas.
A story that shows a rarely seen human side of the brilliant young woman instantly drew the interest of director James Ponsoldt. The project looked like a go when Lionsgate jumped aboard, but was put into turnaround toward the end of 2015.
Ponsoldt told IndieWire that when the project was abandoned,...
- 5/5/2017
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
You may not know Roger Stone’s name, but I absolutely guarantee that you’re familiar with his work. A self-described “agent provocateur” who’s dedicated his entire life to becoming (and remaining) the Machiavellian puppet-master of American politics, Stone is the closest thing that Washington D.C. has ever had to a genuine supervillain. Transformed by a chance encounter with a radioactive Barry Goldwater book when he was just a kid, Stone immediately began fashioning himself into a destructive force of nature. It would take a while before the body-building dandy started dressing like the Riddler, but in first grade he was already feeding his classmates disinformation about how a certain presidential candidate was in favor of school on Saturdays, and at 19 he became the youngest person named in the Watergate scandal (and he was proud of it).
In the ’80s, he practically invented the SuperPAC, supported dictators, and...
In the ’80s, he practically invented the SuperPAC, supported dictators, and...
- 4/23/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Writing for the Washington Post, the All the President’s Men actor says Donald Trump has taken Richard Nixon’s attacks on journalism to ‘new and dangerous heights’
Robert Redford has said that Donald Trump has taken Richard Nixon’s attacks on journalism to “new and dangerous heights”, in a column written for the Washington Post.
In the article, titled 45 Years After Watergate, the Truth Is Again in Danger, the actor writes of his concerns that, if a political scandal similar to the one that brought down Nixon occurred today, it might not be “navigated” as well due to the public’s “tenuous grasp on truth”.
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Robert Redford has said that Donald Trump has taken Richard Nixon’s attacks on journalism to “new and dangerous heights”, in a column written for the Washington Post.
In the article, titled 45 Years After Watergate, the Truth Is Again in Danger, the actor writes of his concerns that, if a political scandal similar to the one that brought down Nixon occurred today, it might not be “navigated” as well due to the public’s “tenuous grasp on truth”.
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- 4/3/2017
- by Gwilym Mumford
- The Guardian - Film News
Steven Spielberg is set to team up with Tom Hanks once again for a film project called The Post, which will also star Meryl Streep. This is a powerhouse of talent and it will tell the 1971 story of the Washington Post's role in exposing the Pentagon Papers and how "the Post’s editor Ben Bradlee and publisher Kay Graham challenged the federal government over their right to publish them."
According to Deadline, Hanks will take on the role of Bradlee, "the editor who would figure in the movie classic All The President’s Men," and Streep will take on the part of Graham. Thanks to the report, we have some detailed information on the history of the Pentagon Papers:
In an age where rampant web leaks of emails has left it difficult to figure out whether they are fair game or privacy invasion, the Pentagon Papers is the whistle blower equivalent of WWII,...
According to Deadline, Hanks will take on the role of Bradlee, "the editor who would figure in the movie classic All The President’s Men," and Streep will take on the part of Graham. Thanks to the report, we have some detailed information on the history of the Pentagon Papers:
In an age where rampant web leaks of emails has left it difficult to figure out whether they are fair game or privacy invasion, the Pentagon Papers is the whistle blower equivalent of WWII,...
- 3/7/2017
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Amblin Entertainment project will mark fifth collaboration between director and Hanks.
The powerhouse trio will collaborate on The Post, a drama about one of the biggest leaks in Us history that Fox and Amblin Partners are co-financing.
Spielberg will direct and it is understood negotiations are ongoing for Hanks to play The Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee and Streep to portray the paper’s publisher, Kay Graham.
The drama will centre on how the pair took their First Amendment case to the courts to fight for the right to publish the incendiary Pentagon Papers in 1971.
The documents contained top-secret information from a Defence Department report on troop escalation in the Vietnam War. The New York Times first reported the leak by military analyst Daniel Ellsberg before it was gagged by the courts.
Ellsberg then leaked documents to The Washington Post, which started reporting on the case. Several years later Bradlee would oversee the Post’s coverage of the...
The powerhouse trio will collaborate on The Post, a drama about one of the biggest leaks in Us history that Fox and Amblin Partners are co-financing.
Spielberg will direct and it is understood negotiations are ongoing for Hanks to play The Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee and Streep to portray the paper’s publisher, Kay Graham.
The drama will centre on how the pair took their First Amendment case to the courts to fight for the right to publish the incendiary Pentagon Papers in 1971.
The documents contained top-secret information from a Defence Department report on troop escalation in the Vietnam War. The New York Times first reported the leak by military analyst Daniel Ellsberg before it was gagged by the courts.
Ellsberg then leaked documents to The Washington Post, which started reporting on the case. Several years later Bradlee would oversee the Post’s coverage of the...
- 3/6/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Amblin Entertainment project will mark fifth collaboration between director and Hanks.
The powerhouse trio will collaborate on The Post, a drama about one of the biggest leaks in Us history that Fox and Amblin Partners are co-financing.
Spielberg will direct and it is understood negotiations are ongoing for Hanks to play The Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee and Streep to portray the paper’s publisher, Kay Graham.
The drama will centre on how the pair took their First Amendment case to the courts to fight for the right to publish the incendiary Pentagon Papers in 1971.
The documents contained top-secret information from a Defence Department report on troop escalation in the Vietnam War. The New York Times first reported the leak by military analyst Daniel Ellsberg before it was gagged by the courts.
Ellsberg then leaked documents to The Washington Post, which started reporting on the case. Several years later Bradlee would oversee the Post’s coverage of the...
The powerhouse trio will collaborate on The Post, a drama about one of the biggest leaks in Us history that Fox and Amblin Partners are co-financing.
Spielberg will direct and it is understood negotiations are ongoing for Hanks to play The Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee and Streep to portray the paper’s publisher, Kay Graham.
The drama will centre on how the pair took their First Amendment case to the courts to fight for the right to publish the incendiary Pentagon Papers in 1971.
The documents contained top-secret information from a Defence Department report on troop escalation in the Vietnam War. The New York Times first reported the leak by military analyst Daniel Ellsberg before it was gagged by the courts.
Ellsberg then leaked documents to The Washington Post, which started reporting on the case. Several years later Bradlee would oversee the Post’s coverage of the...
- 3/6/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Amblin Entertainment project will mark fifth collaboration between director and Hanks.
The powerhouse trio will collaborate on The Post, a drama about one of the biggest leaks in Us history that Fox and Amblin Partners are co-financing.
Spielberg will direct and it is understood negotiations are ongoing for Hanks to play The Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee and Streep to portray the paper’s publisher, Kay Graham.
The drama will centre on how the pair took their First Amendment case to the courts to fight for the right to publish the incendiary Pentagon Papers in 1971.
The documents contained top-secret information from a Defence Department report on troop escalation in the Vietnam War. The New York Times first reported the leak by military analyst Daniel Ellsberg before it was gagged by the courts.
Ellsberg then leaked documents to The Washington Post, which started reporting on the case. Several years later Bradlee would oversee the Post’s coverage of the...
The powerhouse trio will collaborate on The Post, a drama about one of the biggest leaks in Us history that Fox and Amblin Partners are co-financing.
Spielberg will direct and it is understood negotiations are ongoing for Hanks to play The Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee and Streep to portray the paper’s publisher, Kay Graham.
The drama will centre on how the pair took their First Amendment case to the courts to fight for the right to publish the incendiary Pentagon Papers in 1971.
The documents contained top-secret information from a Defence Department report on troop escalation in the Vietnam War. The New York Times first reported the leak by military analyst Daniel Ellsberg before it was gagged by the courts.
Ellsberg then leaked documents to The Washington Post, which started reporting on the case. Several years later Bradlee would oversee the Post’s coverage of the...
- 3/6/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
This article originally appeared on Fortune.
President Donald Trump claimed that Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower in New York City prior to the presidential election.
In a trademark early-morning series of tweets on Saturday, Trump said: “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!”
The president then alleged that Obama bypassed a court rejection in order to carry out the wiretapping, before suggesting that a “good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election!
President Donald Trump claimed that Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower in New York City prior to the presidential election.
In a trademark early-morning series of tweets on Saturday, Trump said: “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!”
The president then alleged that Obama bypassed a court rejection in order to carry out the wiretapping, before suggesting that a “good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election!
- 3/4/2017
- by Aric Jenkins
- PEOPLE.com
A few weeks before five men were arrested for breaking and entering into Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate complex on June 17, 1972. the film version of Tom Tryon's popular novel The Other was released in U.S. theaters. Soon enough, the country would be embroiled in a political controversy that led to the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon, but in the film world, all was (relatively) quiet. The month before, William Friedkin's The French Connection was presented with five Academy Awards, including Best Picture; "Theme from Shaft" took home the Oscar for Best Song. The year's early releases included Cabaret, Silent Running, What's Up, Doc?, Slaughterhouse-Five, Pink Flamingos, Fritz the Cat, and The Godfather; the latter dominated the box office when it...
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- 3/3/2017
- Screen Anarchy
The rumblings over President Trump‘s dealings with Russia have grown into a clamor since his national security adviser Michael Flynn abruptly resigned this week amid concerns about his communications with Russian officials.
So just how big is Trump’s Russia problem?
To help put it into perspective, veteran journalist Dan Rather says it could be an even bigger political crisis than President Nixon’s Watergate.
“Watergate is the biggest political scandal of my lifetime, until maybe now,” former CBS news anchor Dan Rather said in a Facebook post on Tuesday. “It was the closest we came to a debilitating Constitutional crisis,...
So just how big is Trump’s Russia problem?
To help put it into perspective, veteran journalist Dan Rather says it could be an even bigger political crisis than President Nixon’s Watergate.
“Watergate is the biggest political scandal of my lifetime, until maybe now,” former CBS news anchor Dan Rather said in a Facebook post on Tuesday. “It was the closest we came to a debilitating Constitutional crisis,...
- 2/15/2017
- by Tierney McAfee
- PEOPLE.com
After proceedings that seemed to drag on almost as long as their marriage did, Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s divorce was finalized on Friday, with a judge bringing an end to the proceedings, People reports. Heard’s attorney, Pierce O’Donnell, confirmed the finalization to People with a post-Watergate quote. “It is a great day. All Amber wanted was a divorce and now she has it. In the words of Gerald Ford, ‘Our long national nightmare is over,'” O’Donnell said. Also Read: Johnny Depp's Lawyer Accuses Amber Heard of 'Desperate and Misguided Attempt to Maintain...
- 1/14/2017
- by Tim Kenneally
- The Wrap
Chicago – In one of the great American films of the year, character actor Rebecca Hall interprets a based-on-truth incident from the 1970s, as she portrays the title character of “Christine.” The film encapsulates the nature of mental health, gender issues and the pursuit of random numbers.
Rating: 5.0/5.0
This is a deliberately told and provocative story by director Antonio Campos, and he tells it in a unique atmosphere. It unfolds in a series of linear and random scenes, all destined toward the endgame, which actually happened. The essence of the main character Christine is one we all can deeply empathize with, given that it is tied into a step-by-step loss of control within her ills and society’s ills. This was America towards the end of the Watergate crisis (the summer of 1974), and the crumbling of institutions that is occurring in Richard Nixon’s White House is paralleled with the breakdown of Christine’s tenuous existence,...
Rating: 5.0/5.0
This is a deliberately told and provocative story by director Antonio Campos, and he tells it in a unique atmosphere. It unfolds in a series of linear and random scenes, all destined toward the endgame, which actually happened. The essence of the main character Christine is one we all can deeply empathize with, given that it is tied into a step-by-step loss of control within her ills and society’s ills. This was America towards the end of the Watergate crisis (the summer of 1974), and the crumbling of institutions that is occurring in Richard Nixon’s White House is paralleled with the breakdown of Christine’s tenuous existence,...
- 11/19/2016
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Man, Richard Nixon was just full of secrets.
In this exclusive video from Monday’s Timeless (NBC, 10/9c), Garcia Flynn exposes a surprising connection between “Tricky Dick” and the series’ mysterious Rittenhouse organization when he plays a Watergate-era tape for a captured Lucy, Wyatt and Rufus.
RelatedNBC Extends Timeless Mission (Slightly), Schedules Taken Premiere
“We have to give the press another story,” Nixon’s voice insists, before emphasizing how important it is that he not upset Rittenhouse. Because if he does, “I’m done. They’ll see to that. Not just with the presidency, but with my wife, with my girls,...
In this exclusive video from Monday’s Timeless (NBC, 10/9c), Garcia Flynn exposes a surprising connection between “Tricky Dick” and the series’ mysterious Rittenhouse organization when he plays a Watergate-era tape for a captured Lucy, Wyatt and Rufus.
RelatedNBC Extends Timeless Mission (Slightly), Schedules Taken Premiere
“We have to give the press another story,” Nixon’s voice insists, before emphasizing how important it is that he not upset Rittenhouse. Because if he does, “I’m done. They’ll see to that. Not just with the presidency, but with my wife, with my girls,...
- 11/14/2016
- TVLine.com
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