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The Death of Michael Jackson: Time for Compassion Not Vilification

26 June 2009 8:24 AM, PDT | From Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news

By now you'd have to be living under a rock not to know that legendary pop icon Michael Jackson has died at the age of 50. So I will skip the details. I know an awful lot about sudden, premature death given that my wife -- the actor, writer, director Adrienne Shelly (Waitress) was brutally murdered in November 2006. But the tragic irony is that Adrienne died at the absolute happiest point in her entire life. Michael Jackson, like Elvis, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Anna Nicole Smith and countless others before him, were extremely tortured souls. They died miserable. Lonely. Drugged. Hating life. And for this they deserve our compassion, not our scorn. Now is not a time to vilify Jackson for his alleged child molestation crimes. We should have it in our hearts to forgive his past...

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Cheryl Hines Gets Serious

28 April 2009 12:02 PM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

Of the half-dozen scripts that actress/writer/director Adrienne Shelly completed before her tragic death in 2006, "Serious Moonlight" isn't the obvious choice for first posthumous film to be made from her work. Produced by her husband Andy Ostroy, who's committed to making all of her scripts into films, it's a dissection of how a marriage can go wrong between a long-wedded couple (Meg Ryan and Timothy Hutton). After her breakthrough film as a director, the sweet-natured "Waitress," "Serious Moonlight" is decidedly sour: Ryan's long-suffering Louise takes her husband hostage by duct-taping him to a toilet; while a subplot involving home invasion might feel too close for comfort to those who know the details of Shelly's murder. Yet in spite of those peculiarities, there is something all too perfect about "Serious Moonlight" as a showcase for Shelly's idiosyncratic and wistful point of view. Its director, Cheryl Hines, took on the unenviable

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Tribeca Video Interview: Cheryl Hines

28 April 2009 7:12 AM, PDT | From cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news

Cheryl Hines was worried that she would cry in front of a bunch of people on Saturday night. Not that that's out of the ordinary for an actress, but when it came to the premiere of Serious Moonlight, the circumstances were a little different. "What if I start crying during the introduction?" Hines asked me during an interview the day before the premiere. "I'm not much of a crier. That would be so weird!" The Serious Moonlight premiere is special not just because Hines might cry, or because her whole family has come to New York to see it, or even because the movie marks her directorial debut. It's also the last finished script by the actress and director Adrienne Shelly, who directed and co-starred with Hines in Waitress before being murdered in 2006. Shelly's husband, Andy Ostroy, contacted Hines about directing the film, which she says was "completely out of

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Hines Battled Emotions Directing Shelly's Movie

27 April 2009 3:00 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Cheryl Hines had mixed emotions about her new movie Serious Moonlight - she was delighted to wrap her directorial debut, but sad friend and screenwriter Adrienne Shelly was not there to share in the celebrations.

Shelly, who befriended actress/director Hines on the set of Waitress, was found dead in her New York apartment in 2006. Construction worker and illegal immigrant Diego Pillco later confessed to the killing and was sentenced to 25 years behind bars last year.

The project stars Meg Ryan as a spurned wife who holds her husband captive after he declares he's leaving her for a younger woman.

Hines was approached to helm the film by Shelly's widower Andrew Ostroy months after the tragedy. But the Curb Your Enthusiasm star admits she had no idea how difficult it would be battling her emotions on set.

However, Hines is confident Shelly would be happy with the final product.

She tells WENN, "It was challenging because we couldn't make any changes to the script because Adrienne wasn't with us creatively, but what was even more challenging was she wasn't there personally.

"So at times it was very difficult, at other times we were so focused on making our day and trying to make a good film because at the end of the day, that's what Adrienne would have wanted, for us to make the best film we could. So we were focused on that but once in a while, you would be overcome by the feeling, 'Oh, Adrienne's not here', but we really feel this is something Adrienne would be proud of."

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Tribeca Film Festival 2009 - Cheryl Hines (Serious Moonlight) Shares Advice From Sonnenfeld

26 April 2009 7:45 PM, PDT | From amctv.com - AMC News: Film Festivals | See recent amctv.com - AMC News: Film Festivals news

Cheryl Hines is probably best known for her role as the long-suffering wife of Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm, but on Friday I sat down with her to talk about her first turn as a feature film director for Serious Moonlight (which stars Justin Long, Meg Ryan and Timothy Hutton). The comedy, about a desperate wife rehabilitating her unfaithful husband, was written by her friend and Waitress co-star,

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Tribeca Film Festival Focus - "Serious Moonlight" - See images from the film with Meg Ryan.

25 April 2009 | From Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news

See two images from Night and Day Pictures and All for A Films' "Serious Moonlight," currently airing at the Tribeca Film Festival.   Written by Adrienne Shelly ("Waitress"). Tragically, Shelly was killed in a homicide. She directed and appeared with Hines in the successful romantic comedy drama "Waitress" starring Keri Russell. Shelly's husband Andy Ostroy will produce the dark comedy about a successful attorney who finds out her husband is about to leave her for another woman and ends up tying him to the toilet.   The film stars Kristen Bell, Justin Long, Meg Ryan, Timothy Hutton, Kimberlee Peterson, Derek Carter, Nathan Dean and Bill Parks. Actress Cheryl Hines makes her feature-length directorial debut on the project produced by also produced by Michael Roiff.     See more images here!  

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Tribeca Film Festival Focus - "Serious Moonlight" - See images from the film with Meg Ryan.

25 April 2009 12:32 AM, PDT | From Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news

See two images from Night and Day Pictures and All for A Films' "Serious Moonlight," currently airing at the Tribeca Film Festival. Written by Adrienne Shelly ("Waitress"). Tragically, Shelly was killed in a homicide. She directed and appeared with Hines in the successful romantic comedy drama "Waitress" starring Keri Russell. Shelly's husband Andy Ostroy will produce the dark comedy about a successful attorney who finds out her husband is about to leave her for another woman and ends up tying him to the toilet. The film stars Kristen Bell, Justin Long, Meg Ryan, Timothy Hutton, Kimberlee Peterson, Derek Carter...

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Tribeca Film Festival Focus - "Serious Moonlight" - See images from the film with Meg Ryan.

25 April 2009 12:32 AM, PDT | From Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news

See two images from Night and Day Pictures and All for A Films' "Serious Moonlight," currently airing at the Tribeca Film Festival. Written by Adrienne Shelly ("Waitress"). Tragically, Shelly was killed in a homicide. She directed and appeared with Hines in the successful romantic comedy drama "Waitress" starring Keri Russell. Shelly's husband Andy Ostroy will produce the dark comedy about a successful attorney who finds out her husband is about to leave her for another woman and ends up tying him to the toilet. The film stars Kristen Bell, Justin Long, Meg Ryan, Timothy Hutton, Kimberlee Peterson, Derek Carter...

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The Red Robin Takes Flight

23 April 2009 7:56 AM, PDT | From The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news

By Alan Kline

Modern Primitives Films has announced the second feature film by writer-director Michael Z. Wechsler, entitled The Red Robin. Pitched as a blend of The Celebration and The Manchurian Candidate, the plot focuses on a family reunion which goes very awry when the youngest son accuses his ailing father, a famed psychiatrist, of using his own adopted children as guinea pigs for psychological experiments for the CIA.

The cast includes Jeremy Sisto ("Law and Order", Waitress, "Six Feet Under"), Claire Forlani (Meet Joe Black), Hill Harper ("CSI: N.Y.", Get on the Bus ), and Roger Guenveur Smith (American Gangster). Jonathan Sanger (The Producers, The Elephant Man) is on board as executive producer.

Wechsler has directed series for the BBC and Bravo and previously helmed the feature film Slaves of Hollywood, which also starred Harper. Slaves of Hollywood was a selection at 35 international film festivals and was awarded “Best

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Celebrities Come Out Big for Adrienne Shelly Foundation eBay Auction

9 April 2009 7:11 PM, PDT | From Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news

Most people know me here as a guy who frequently rants about the latest Dick Cheney drivel, the Republicans being the "Party of No," or how ludicrous it is to award million-dollar bonuses to Wall Street's Tarp babies. Throw in a little Obama euphoria and that's me in a nutshell. But what they don't often know is that I also run a non-profit foundation that supports women filmmakers with scholarships, production grants, finishing funds and living stipends, and that this foundation carries the name of my late wife, Adrienne Shelly, who was brutally murdered in 2006. Adrienne wrote, directed and starred in Waitress, the critically-acclaimed box-office hit of 2007. But it was not the first feature film she wrote and directed. There were two others. She struggled, like most filmmakers--especially women filmmakers--to get their work produced. And it is...

Andy Ostroy

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Adrienne Shelly's Final Screenplay To Be Produced

19 March 2009 7:49 PM, PDT | From cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news

When Adrienne Shelly was murdered in 2006 at the age of 40, everyone thought Sundance favorite Waitress would be the last movie of hers we ever saw. But Waitress actress Cheryl Hines has already directed one of Shelly's screenplays, Serious Moonlight, and now Shelly's husband Andy Ostroy will develop and produce her final screenplay. The Morgan Stories is described in The Hollywood Reporter as "a multigenerational family drama that revolves around three sisters and follows them over the course of several decades." Ostroy and producing partner Michael Roiff lent a hand to Serious Moonlight, and may partner to produce Morgan Stories again. Ostroy started A Films in order to maintain his wife's legacy, and told THR that Morgan Stories "is all about Adrienne, just like the name of the company says." If Morgan Stories is half as genuine and heartfelt as Waitress, Ostroy will be doing us all a favor by putting

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Adrienne Shelly's Widower to Make 'The Morgan Stories'

19 March 2009 4:02 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

A year and a half after the tragic and sudden death of Adrienne Shelly, her widower, Andy Ostroy, is working to bring her final screenplay to the big screen. The Hollywood Reporter posts that he's started work on The Morgan Stories,a multi-generational family drama that he calls Adrienne's best.

The project follows three sisters over a number of decades, and Ostroy says: "It's a little bigger than some of her other work. If Adrienne's previous movies were comedies with a little bit of drama, this is a drama with a little bit of comedy." Morgan Stories is a bittersweet announcement -- great that we're getting one more look into Shelly's creative mind, a different one at that, and sad that she isn't here to bring it to the screen herself.

The project is still in the beginning stages, but in the meantime, another script is about to make it to the big screen.

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Monika Bartyzel

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Adrienne Shelly's The Morgan Stories Script to be Produced

19 March 2009 10:26 AM, PDT | From firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news

Writer and director Adrienne Shelly, who has tragically killed in 2006, is set to have one of her last remaining screenplays finally produced. The project, The Morgan Stories, is a multigenerational family drama that revolves around three sisters and follows them over the course of several decades. Shelly's widower Andy Ostroy, who launched All for A Films to maintain and further his wife's legacy, said he believed it to be Shelly's best script. Shelly's last film, Waitress, debuted in 2007, while Cheryl Hines is directing Serious Moonlight, based off of one of Shelly's other screenplays that she had finished. Although I haven't seen much of her older work, I actually enjoyed Waitress and was a big supporter of it in its release in 2007. Ostroy says that The Morgan Stories is "a little bigger than some of her other work. If Adrienne's previous movies were comedies with a little bit ...

Alex Billington

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Shelly's widower to produce "The Morgan Stories"

19 March 2009 | From Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news

Sadly, Adrienne Shelly, writer-director of the 2007 Fox Searchlight hit "Waitress," died tragically in November, 2006, but she left behind another screenplay before she died that her widower is apparently developing and producing.   Shelly widower Andy Ostroy launched All for A Films to maintain his wife's legacy. He said that he believes this to be Shelly's best script.  "It's a little bigger than some of her other work. If Adrienne's previous movies were comedies with a little bit of drama, this is a drama with a little bit of comedy," he said.The project is called "The Morgan Stories" and is a family drama concerning three sisters who are followed throughout the course of several decades. Ostroy may again produce with his partner Michael Roiff of Night and Day Pictures.

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Shelly's widower to produce "The Morgan Stories"

19 March 2009 12:32 AM, PDT | From Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news

Sadly, Adrienne Shelly, writer-director of the 2007 Fox Searchlight hit "Waitress," died tragically in November, 2006, but she left behind another screenplay before she died that her widower is apparently developing and producing. Shelly widower Andy Ostroy launched All for A Films to maintain his wife's legacy. He said that he believes this to be Shelly's best script. "It's a little bigger than some of her other work...

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Shelly's widower to produce "The Morgan Stories"

19 March 2009 12:32 AM, PDT | From Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news

Sadly, Adrienne Shelly, writer-director of the 2007 Fox Searchlight hit "Waitress," died tragically in November, 2006, but she left behind another screenplay before she died that her widower is apparently developing and producing. Shelly widower Andy Ostroy launched All for A Films to maintain his wife's legacy. He said that he believes this to be Shelly's best script. "It's a little bigger than some of her other work...

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Tribeca Film Fest announces the rest of the lineup

11 March 2009 12:16 PM, PDT | From QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news

And here's the rest, including the Midnight Section, all after the break.

Encounters

This collection of engaging and entertaining narrative features and documentaries, a mixture of dark comedies and lighter fare, offers work from returning filmmakers, established talent, and popular subjects, and includes 10 World Premieres. Included in Encounters are performances from Academy Award®-nominated actors Thomas Haden Church, Melissa Leo, Elisabeth Shue; directorial debuts from both Eric Bana and Cheryl Hines (from a screenplay by Adrienne Shelly); stories ranging from an ill-fated man's discovery of inspiration and happiness, dysfunctional families, and unrequited high school crushes to a doc on the emergence of New York’s independent film scene.

• Blank City, directed by Celine Danhier. (USA) - World Premiere, Documentary. Celine Danhier’s kinetic doc mirrors the urgent, anything-goes energy of her subject: the Diy independent film movement that emerged in tandem with punk rock in late ‘70s downtown New York.

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Tribeca Film Festival Rounds Out Slate

11 March 2009 10:58 AM, PDT | From cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news

With just a month and a half to go before the festival begins, the Tribeca Film Festival is lining up the 86 feature films and 46 shorts that will play as part of the downtown New York City event. While the films in competition are from up-and-coming artists and foreign auteurs, those showing out of competition come from a variety of well-known directors, as well as several actors making their directorial debuts. Eric Bana will be debuting as a documentarian with the car racing movie Love the Beast (pictured above), while Meg Ryan and Kristen Bell star for first-time director Cheryl Hines in Serious Moonlight. Hines' film is based on a screenplay by Adrienne Shelly, who directed Hines in Waitress just before Shelly's untimely death in 2006. There will also be a number of films that have been seen at other festivals, including the reunion of Y Tu Mama Tambien co-stars Gael Garcia

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DVD Review: ‘Wonder Woman’ Continues Series of Interesting DC Universe Releases

6 March 2009 11:20 AM, PST | From HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news

DVD Rating: 3.5/5.0 Chicago – Even though I once had a weekly comic book addiction, I was never a big Wonder Woman fan. Maybe it was a trapping of my gender, but I always tended toward books with male heroes like Superman, Batman, and The X-Men. Having said that, I can still respect what the team behind DC Universe’s latest film have accomplished with “Wonder Woman,” another installment in an increasingly intriguing series of straight-to-dvd movies.

When you tell a lot of people that an animated straight-to-dvd movie is worth their time, a lot of them glaze over, smile, and nod. Trust me. “Superman: Doomsday,” “Justice League: The New Frontier,” “Batman: Gotham Knight,” and, now, “Wonder Woman” would make for a better superhero marathon than most live-action blockbusters of men (or a woman) in tights. If I had to rank the four, “Ww” would be the lowest, but that’s largely

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New animated "Wonder Woman" movie reflects America's conflicted feelings toward feminism

4 March 2009 3:56 PM, PST | From AfterEllen.com | See recent AfterEllen.com news

"Remarkable, the advanced brainwashing that has been perpetuated on the females of your culture. Raised from birth to believe they're not strong enough to compete with the boys, and then as adults, taught to trade on their very femininity."

— Diana in Wonder Woman, the animated movie

I should tell you upfront that I'm not generally a fan of animated movies — they tend to bore me unless they were a childhood favorite — but my partner Lori likes them, and she occasionally makes me watch them with her (as penance, I suppose, for all the lesbian movies I make her watch).

Last night, we watched the new straight-to-dvd PG-13 animated Wonder Woman movie from Warner Bros., directed by Lauren Montgomery and based on a story by Bruce Timm, William Marston, and Gail Simone (who is currently the head writer of the Wonder Woman series) about the journey of the Amazon princess Diana

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