Cookie, get the broom!
Look, Empire‘s Hakeem Lyon has as much right to a sibling squabble as the rest of us. But when Babyface Finster allows his sicko daddy (aka the dude who dropped a nuclear bomb on Hakeem’s wedding a few months back — with a dead sister-in-law literally dropped on top for good measure!) to get in his ear and spur him into a very public, verrrry homophobic rant against brothers Jamal and Andre, I can’t be blamed for wanting the family matriarch to knock some sense into her youngest.
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Look, Empire‘s Hakeem Lyon has as much right to a sibling squabble as the rest of us. But when Babyface Finster allows his sicko daddy (aka the dude who dropped a nuclear bomb on Hakeem’s wedding a few months back — with a dead sister-in-law literally dropped on top for good measure!) to get in his ear and spur him into a very public, verrrry homophobic rant against brothers Jamal and Andre, I can’t be blamed for wanting the family matriarch to knock some sense into her youngest.
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- 11/10/2016
- TVLine.com
Here’s your daily dose of an indie film, web series, TV pilot, what-have-you in progress — at the end of the week, you’ll have the chance to vote for your favorite.
In the meantime: Is this a project you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments.
The Rising
Logline: Hundreds of thousands of people were exposed to the risk of chemical illness when the U.S. government and Bp sprayed millions of gallons of toxic dispersants in the Bp Horizon Disaster ‘clean-up’ operations.
Elevator Pitch:
An acclaimed filmmaker turns his lens to the frontlines of the Bp Horizon disaster and the large scale cover-up of the tragic health effects following the infamous spill in 2010, in an upcoming documentary called “The Rising.” The film exposes the true health effects for tens of thousands of people and the ramifications of unregulated corporate power and government collusion to our nation.
In the meantime: Is this a project you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments.
The Rising
Logline: Hundreds of thousands of people were exposed to the risk of chemical illness when the U.S. government and Bp sprayed millions of gallons of toxic dispersants in the Bp Horizon Disaster ‘clean-up’ operations.
Elevator Pitch:
An acclaimed filmmaker turns his lens to the frontlines of the Bp Horizon disaster and the large scale cover-up of the tragic health effects following the infamous spill in 2010, in an upcoming documentary called “The Rising.” The film exposes the true health effects for tens of thousands of people and the ramifications of unregulated corporate power and government collusion to our nation.
- 8/9/2016
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
There are a few different ways to predict who’ll win Season 10 of The Voice.
RelatedThe Voice Performance Finale Recap: Girl, You’ll Be a Winner Soon?
You could take a deep dive into the contestants’ iTunes sales results for Monday’s performance finale (always a solid predictive tool). You could check back over the last few months and see how many times each of the finalist cracked the iTunes Top 10, since sales from the entire season (including the Top 10 multiplier) factor into the cumulative vote tally. Or you could just ask yourself, “Which one’s on Team Blake?...
RelatedThe Voice Performance Finale Recap: Girl, You’ll Be a Winner Soon?
You could take a deep dive into the contestants’ iTunes sales results for Monday’s performance finale (always a solid predictive tool). You could check back over the last few months and see how many times each of the finalist cracked the iTunes Top 10, since sales from the entire season (including the Top 10 multiplier) factor into the cumulative vote tally. Or you could just ask yourself, “Which one’s on Team Blake?...
- 5/24/2016
- TVLine.com
One thing’s pretty certain following The Voice Season 10 performance finale: The song I’m most excited about downloading will probably rank last in iTunes at the end of voting (noon Et on Tuesday).
PhotosMay Sweeps Massacre: 40+ Deaths From Once, Originals, NCIS and More — Which Loss Hit You Hardest?
What’s far, far fuzzier is whether the contestant with the strongest overall body of work/most impressive trio of Monday night performances — incidentally, not the artist whose song I’ll download first — can stand at the eye of the Coaching Popularity Hurricane (which is located at the edge of the...
PhotosMay Sweeps Massacre: 40+ Deaths From Once, Originals, NCIS and More — Which Loss Hit You Hardest?
What’s far, far fuzzier is whether the contestant with the strongest overall body of work/most impressive trio of Monday night performances — incidentally, not the artist whose song I’ll download first — can stand at the eye of the Coaching Popularity Hurricane (which is located at the edge of the...
- 5/24/2016
- TVLine.com
After whipping Comic-Con's Hall H into a frenzy over the weekend, the Suicide Squad trailer has made its way online and fans are already excitedly picking it apart to connect the story dots and find out how it ties in to the wider DC movie universe.
We dive into the trailer for David Ayer's dark comic book blockbuster to unearth 5 major talking points.
1. Amanda Waller is pulling the strings
The trailer opens on Viola Davis and two men in discussion about assembling "the worst of the worst" for a covert mission. "A task force of the most dangerous people on the planet who can do some good," she says, noting that should things go wrong they have "built in deniability".
In the DC Comics realm, Waller is the hard-as-nails brains behind the Squad's Task Force X, pulled out from incarceration in the Belle Reve Penitentiary. The anti-hero team assembled...
We dive into the trailer for David Ayer's dark comic book blockbuster to unearth 5 major talking points.
1. Amanda Waller is pulling the strings
The trailer opens on Viola Davis and two men in discussion about assembling "the worst of the worst" for a covert mission. "A task force of the most dangerous people on the planet who can do some good," she says, noting that should things go wrong they have "built in deniability".
In the DC Comics realm, Waller is the hard-as-nails brains behind the Squad's Task Force X, pulled out from incarceration in the Belle Reve Penitentiary. The anti-hero team assembled...
- 7/14/2015
- Digital Spy
Earlier this year, we released an exclusive stream to former “25 New Face” Ian Clark’s Mmxiii, which functioned as an experimental self-portrait, partially related through Clark’s Oregon environs. From the celestial-driven imagery of said film, Clark devised a sci-fi alien abduction follow-up, A Morning Light, that’s now sourcing funds on Kickstarter. Produced by fellow 25 New Faces Jim Cummings and Ben Wiessner of ornana, and starring filmmakers Zach Weintraub and Celia Rowlson-Hall, the film looks at a pair of estranged exes who experience inexplicable phenomena. For those interested in lush and aesthetic low-budget genre, it’s not a bad bet. Below, copied from […]...
- 7/28/2014
- by Sarah Salovaara
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Earlier this year, we released an exclusive stream to former “25 New Face” Ian Clark’s Mmxiii, which functioned as an experimental self-portrait, partially related through Clark’s Oregon environs. From the celestial-driven imagery of said film, Clark devised a sci-fi alien abduction follow-up, A Morning Light, that’s now sourcing funds on Kickstarter. Produced by fellow 25 New Faces Jim Cummings and Ben Wiessner of ornana, and starring filmmakers Zach Weintraub and Celia Rowlson-Hall, the film looks at a pair of estranged exes who experience inexplicable phenomena. For those interested in lush and aesthetic low-budget genre, it’s not a bad bet. Below, copied from […]...
- 7/28/2014
- by Sarah Salovaara
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Sincere condolences go out to Andre 3000. The Outkast frontman lost his mother Sharon Benjamin-Hodo on Tuesday, the day after his 38th birthday.
According to reports, Benjamin-Hodo was found dead in her Atlanta home. It is believed that her death was from natural causes. An Atlanta pastor named Jamil V. Willis tweets that Benjamin-Hodo passed away in her sleep.
"I just received a very disturbing phone call that Lady Sharon Benjamin Hodo passed away moments ago in her sleep," Willis writes. "She is the wife of Pastor Robert Hodo... As destiny would have it She is also the mother of Andre Benjamin (Andre 3000) of OutKast. Rip Sharon Benjamin Hodo. Praying for Pastor Hodo, Andre 3000, Sevyn & the rest of the family."
Benjamin-Hodo was best known for founding The Starlight Camp for underprivileged children in Conley, Ga. The program is run out of New Morning Light Missionary Baptist Church, where her husband Robert Hodo is pastor.
According to reports, Benjamin-Hodo was found dead in her Atlanta home. It is believed that her death was from natural causes. An Atlanta pastor named Jamil V. Willis tweets that Benjamin-Hodo passed away in her sleep.
"I just received a very disturbing phone call that Lady Sharon Benjamin Hodo passed away moments ago in her sleep," Willis writes. "She is the wife of Pastor Robert Hodo... As destiny would have it She is also the mother of Andre Benjamin (Andre 3000) of OutKast. Rip Sharon Benjamin Hodo. Praying for Pastor Hodo, Andre 3000, Sevyn & the rest of the family."
Benjamin-Hodo was best known for founding The Starlight Camp for underprivileged children in Conley, Ga. The program is run out of New Morning Light Missionary Baptist Church, where her husband Robert Hodo is pastor.
- 5/29/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Andre 3000's mother died Tuesday, just one day after the rapper celebrated his 38th birthday.
Sharon Benjamin-Hodo passed away in her sleep early on May 28 in her Rex, Ga., home, the Associated Press confirmed with a representative for the rapper at the firm Sunshine Sachs.
The Clayton County Police Department told the Atlanta Journal Constitution she died of what appears to be natural causes. She was 58 years old.
The tragic death of Andre's mother came shortly after his birthday on Monday, May 27.
A number of celebrities offered their condolences to Andre, MTV News notes. Russell Simmons tweeted the OutKast rapper while Jermaine Dupri penned a blog post on Global 14 saying the late Benjamin-Hodo was a "key player" in the lives of both Andre and his OutKast partner, Antwan "Big Boi" Patton, during their formative years.
Despite the fact that her son is a famous hip-hop artist, Benjamin-Hodo was a down-to-earth mother who counted her blessings.
Sharon Benjamin-Hodo passed away in her sleep early on May 28 in her Rex, Ga., home, the Associated Press confirmed with a representative for the rapper at the firm Sunshine Sachs.
The Clayton County Police Department told the Atlanta Journal Constitution she died of what appears to be natural causes. She was 58 years old.
The tragic death of Andre's mother came shortly after his birthday on Monday, May 27.
A number of celebrities offered their condolences to Andre, MTV News notes. Russell Simmons tweeted the OutKast rapper while Jermaine Dupri penned a blog post on Global 14 saying the late Benjamin-Hodo was a "key player" in the lives of both Andre and his OutKast partner, Antwan "Big Boi" Patton, during their formative years.
Despite the fact that her son is a famous hip-hop artist, Benjamin-Hodo was a down-to-earth mother who counted her blessings.
- 5/29/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Just can't get enough, once sang Depeche Mode. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but I'm listening to other tunes right now. Check out my August playlist for some desktop and mobile device-worthy tuneage.
"Fisherman" The Peach Kings Handsome Moves (Peach Kings) - So damn infectious, it is! Hot chick vocals and '60s garage-pop, twang-rock flourishes abound. Texan Paige McClain Wood and Californian Steven Trezevant Dies describe their sound as "gypsydelic" and I concur. Favorite single of the month! Check out the vid below!
Pale Morning Light The Late Call (Tapete) - Rare that I can hang with an album from start to finish. Sometimes I get about 3 songs in, if I'm lucky. Lucky that I'm not bored by too many malnourished songs. Not so with this third collection of melodic folk-rock musings from Stockholm-based singer-songwriter Mr. Johannes Mayer. Great vibe, great voice, great songs; worth hangin' from start to finish.
"Fisherman" The Peach Kings Handsome Moves (Peach Kings) - So damn infectious, it is! Hot chick vocals and '60s garage-pop, twang-rock flourishes abound. Texan Paige McClain Wood and Californian Steven Trezevant Dies describe their sound as "gypsydelic" and I concur. Favorite single of the month! Check out the vid below!
Pale Morning Light The Late Call (Tapete) - Rare that I can hang with an album from start to finish. Sometimes I get about 3 songs in, if I'm lucky. Lucky that I'm not bored by too many malnourished songs. Not so with this third collection of melodic folk-rock musings from Stockholm-based singer-songwriter Mr. Johannes Mayer. Great vibe, great voice, great songs; worth hangin' from start to finish.
- 8/24/2012
- by Dusty Wright
- www.culturecatch.com
By Morgan Schwartz
Unless you live under a rock, you probably know that our beloved Britney Spears released the music video for her new single, “I Wanna Go,” on Wednesday. If you’re not acquainted with the song or the video (where have you been and what are you waiting for?), perhaps you’re familiar with the “Summer by Bravo” TV commercial. That’s right, that fun song you’ve been hearing as all the Bravo stars play at camp is Britney’s newest release. It’s also the perfect example of how popular artists can benefit from licensing out their music. The song, now forever associated with summer fun by anyone who has seen the Bravo ad, helped Brit’s newest single rapidly rise to the top of everyone’s summer playlist (and helped Brit out by giving her a few extra bucks, we’re sure…). Bravo didn’t...
Unless you live under a rock, you probably know that our beloved Britney Spears released the music video for her new single, “I Wanna Go,” on Wednesday. If you’re not acquainted with the song or the video (where have you been and what are you waiting for?), perhaps you’re familiar with the “Summer by Bravo” TV commercial. That’s right, that fun song you’ve been hearing as all the Bravo stars play at camp is Britney’s newest release. It’s also the perfect example of how popular artists can benefit from licensing out their music. The song, now forever associated with summer fun by anyone who has seen the Bravo ad, helped Brit’s newest single rapidly rise to the top of everyone’s summer playlist (and helped Brit out by giving her a few extra bucks, we’re sure…). Bravo didn’t...
- 6/23/2011
- by MTV News
- MTV Newsroom
At the Mar. 28 premiere of ‘The Kennedys,’ Katie Holmes looked gorgeous!
Accompanied by husband Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes was totally beautiful at the La premiere of her new miniseries, costarring Greg Kinnear! Want to get this easy look for your own night out? Here’s how!
Why this works: Katie, 32, is a natural beauty, with glowing skin and naturally stunning features. For the premiere of her new series, she went with makeup that showcased her best look: simple elegance. Here’s how to steal this style for yourself!
Apply a lightweight foundation all over your face. Use a brown eyeliner to line your eyes. Make sure to keep the line subtle for a more natural look. Lightly dust a neutral shimmery shadow on eyelids, up to crease. Finish eyes with black mascara. Add a pink blush to the apples of your cheeks, blending it toward cheekbones to accentuate. Finish with a glossy nude lipstick.
Accompanied by husband Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes was totally beautiful at the La premiere of her new miniseries, costarring Greg Kinnear! Want to get this easy look for your own night out? Here’s how!
Why this works: Katie, 32, is a natural beauty, with glowing skin and naturally stunning features. For the premiere of her new series, she went with makeup that showcased her best look: simple elegance. Here’s how to steal this style for yourself!
Apply a lightweight foundation all over your face. Use a brown eyeliner to line your eyes. Make sure to keep the line subtle for a more natural look. Lightly dust a neutral shimmery shadow on eyelids, up to crease. Finish eyes with black mascara. Add a pink blush to the apples of your cheeks, blending it toward cheekbones to accentuate. Finish with a glossy nude lipstick.
- 3/29/2011
- by willlee
- HollywoodLife
Part of what makes the Oscar-nominated documentary The Cove so riveting is that the film is treated like an espionage thriller. And we can probably thank screenwriter Mark Monroe for much of its exciting narrative. Whether as a writer, director or producer, Monroe tends to work on documentaries with a sporting or adventuring edge. Prior to The Cove, he'd been involved with docs and series about soccer teams, boxing, basketball and sailing. His most recent film, Amir Bar-Lev's Sundance hit The Tillman Story, tackles the story of a pro football player turned tragic war hero.
Monroe's next sport to document is Formula One racing, according to Variety. He'll write the currently untitled project for occasional collaborator Paul Crowder, a filmmaker who also has a background in sports documentaries, having co-directed Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos and edited Stacy Peralta's Riding Giants...
Monroe's next sport to document is Formula One racing, according to Variety. He'll write the currently untitled project for occasional collaborator Paul Crowder, a filmmaker who also has a background in sports documentaries, having co-directed Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos and edited Stacy Peralta's Riding Giants...
- 2/10/2010
- by Christopher Campbell
- Cinematical
Roy E. Disney, whose efforts to instill his will on the company co-founded by his father and uncle included the ousting of two CEOs and a renewed commitment to animation, died Wednesday, one month shy of his 80th birthday.
The nephew of Walt Disney and only child of Roy O. Disney died after a yearlong battle with stomach cancer at a hospital in Newport Beach, Calif. Funeral services will be private; plans for a "life celebration" will be announced.
HIs body will be cremated and ashes scattered at sea, a fitting tribute to a man with a passion for racing sailboats. In fact, the latest entry in a long list of movie and television credits dating to 1952 when he was an assistant editor on the "Dragnet" TV series, ends with "Morning Light," a documentary about sailing that he exec produced in 2008.
But Disney is best known as the primary agitator who,...
The nephew of Walt Disney and only child of Roy O. Disney died after a yearlong battle with stomach cancer at a hospital in Newport Beach, Calif. Funeral services will be private; plans for a "life celebration" will be announced.
HIs body will be cremated and ashes scattered at sea, a fitting tribute to a man with a passion for racing sailboats. In fact, the latest entry in a long list of movie and television credits dating to 1952 when he was an assistant editor on the "Dragnet" TV series, ends with "Morning Light," a documentary about sailing that he exec produced in 2008.
But Disney is best known as the primary agitator who,...
- 12/16/2009
- by By Paul Bond
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Check out eight clips from "Morning Light" on DVD. The film stars Chris Branning, Graham Brant-Zawadzki, Charlie Enright, Chris Clark, Robbie Kane, Jesse Fielding and Steve Manson. Paul Crowder and Mark Monroe direct. Fifteen young sailors... six months of intense training... one chance at the brass ring. This documentary tells the story of a group of intrepid and determined young men and women, on the cusp of adulthood, as they embark on life's first great adventure. Racing a high-performance 52-foot sloop in the Transpac, the most revered of open-ocean sailing competitions, the crew of "Morning Light" matches wits and skills in a dramatic 2300 mile showdown against top professionals...
- 9/5/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
An all-together ho-hum experience considering the coolness of the subject matter, .Morning Light. is Roy E. Disney.s attempt to document the open-sea race, Transpac, a harrowing 2,500 race from California to Hawaii. Expertly captured, the problem lies with its reality television-like approach. Roy E. Disney has sailed the Transpac over fifteen times now clearly in love with both sailing and the challenges this long journey presents. But instead of documenting himself, he and producer Leslie DeMeuse decide to rope in a younger audience by selecting a group of 15 candidates whom only 11 will be chosen for the race through a series of training vignettes. These fifteen kids (three females and one black guy although they...
- 7/3/2009
- by Frankie Dees
- Monsters and Critics
The process of determining which sports will translate into great films has no real rhyme or reason. If you thought that only fast-paced sports like soccer or football could be made into sports (Goal!, Any Given Sunday), then you’d have a hard time explaining all the successful films based on baseball or golf (Field of Dreams, Caddyshack). What sports films of the past have taught us is that even films about running (Chariots of Fire) can be superb with the proper balance of plot, character and wit. Well, Disney certainly loves the promise that holds and has started cranking out sports movies as fast as possible. Up until this point however, most of them (Iron Will, The Greatest Game Ever Played, Remember the Titans) have been narrative based. For Morning Light Disney went ahead and made a Reality TV formatted film about sailing and, well, the results are mixed.
- 6/19/2009
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
Roy Disney once took part in the TransPac race, which takes you 2275 nautical miles on a yacht, from California to Hawaii, over the course of some ten days (or more). It results in "one of the most coveted trophies in the world of competitive sailing," which sounded about as exciting to me as saying that broccoli was "one of the most beloved of all green vegetables." Apparently it changed Disney's life, to the point that he wanted to share his life-changing experience with everyone else, via this documentary. But rather than race again himself, he spends his considerable money and influence to put together a kind of reality show in which eleven amateur twenty-somethings race against seasoned veterans. "It's really about the journey," says Disney at one point early in the film, which is his insurance against the movie's ending. If they win, he's got a great, exuberant, happy ending.
- 10/18/2008
- by Jeffrey M. Anderson
- Cinematical
Blowing some of the fam ily stash on a project of al most surreal vanity, Roy Disney and his uncle's company bring us a docu mentary about his pet sport, sailing across the Pacific. "Morning Light" belongs, if anywhere, on channel 145 of your cable system.
Roy, long known within Disney as "the idiot nephew," sponsored a crew of 15 immensely spoiled collegians to be filmed sailing his 52-foot sloop from California to Hawaii for a "Roy E. Disney Production" that was, moreover, "Conceived and Produced by Roy E. Disney."
Cue the training sequence!
Roy, long known within Disney as "the idiot nephew," sponsored a crew of 15 immensely spoiled collegians to be filmed sailing his 52-foot sloop from California to Hawaii for a "Roy E. Disney Production" that was, moreover, "Conceived and Produced by Roy E. Disney."
Cue the training sequence!
- 10/17/2008
- by By KYLE SMITH
- NYPost.com
By Neil Pedley
There's plenty to be pleased about this week as we get to spend time with both current and future presidents as part of an Ellen Burstyn double bill. There's also -- whisper it -- a movie based on a video game that might actually be worth seeing. Not to mention enough titular wordplay to make Richard Lederer's head spin. It's all just pun and games though, right?
"The Elephant King"
Built on the old adage that getting lost is the best way to find oneself, Seth Grossman's debut feature follows the travels of Oliver (Tate Ellington), a suicidal writer who's dispatched by Ellen Burstyn's frantic matriarch to the seedy bar scene of Thailand to bring back his brother Jake (Jonno Roberts) to face his considerable debts in the U.S. Once abroad, Oliver finds that he may be at odds with his brother, but...
There's plenty to be pleased about this week as we get to spend time with both current and future presidents as part of an Ellen Burstyn double bill. There's also -- whisper it -- a movie based on a video game that might actually be worth seeing. Not to mention enough titular wordplay to make Richard Lederer's head spin. It's all just pun and games though, right?
"The Elephant King"
Built on the old adage that getting lost is the best way to find oneself, Seth Grossman's debut feature follows the travels of Oliver (Tate Ellington), a suicidal writer who's dispatched by Ellen Burstyn's frantic matriarch to the seedy bar scene of Thailand to bring back his brother Jake (Jonno Roberts) to face his considerable debts in the U.S. Once abroad, Oliver finds that he may be at odds with his brother, but...
- 10/13/2008
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
There are some new images now available from Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures' "Morning Light" documentary. Paul Crowder and Mark Monroe direct this powerful film which follows a group of young determined men and women who race a 52-foot sloop in the most revered sailing competition - the Transpac. The story follows them from training sessions in Hawaii to the race against professionals in the 2,300 mile race. Opens in limited areas on October 17th.
- 10/11/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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