Democrat Danica Roem has unseated Robert Marshall to become the first openly transgender elected official in the state of Virginia, defeating a man who campaigned openly on his opposition to Lgbt rights. Roem, a veteran reporter and vocalist for the heavy metal band Cab Ride Home, ran a campaign focused on improving traffic on the state’s Route 28 and bringing jobs to Prince William County, though her gender identity became a key component of the race. Even so, she consistently outpaced her opponent in fundraising. Marshall, who has served in the House of Delegates since 1992, once described himself as Virginia’s “chief homophobe,...
- 11/8/2017
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
Convicted killer Robert O. Marshall, whose life inspired the best-selling true-crime book Blind Faith and whose upcoming parole hearing divided his sons over whether he was innocent or guilty of the 1984 murder-for-hire of their mother, has died in prison, his son says. Christopher Marshall, speaking to the Asbury Park Press, says his father died Saturday after more than 30 years behind bars in New Jersey. Christopher, 48, and his brother Roby, 49, firmly opposed their father's possible release after he was convicted of the contract killing of his wife Maria, then 42, allegedly to collect a $1.5 million insurance policy. Their youngest brother, John, 44, has...
- 2/23/2015
- by Jeff Truesdell, @jhtruesdell
- PEOPLE.com
Convicted killer Robert O. Marshall, whose life inspired the best-selling true-crime book Blind Faith and whose upcoming parole hearing divided his sons over whether he was innocent or guilty of the 1984 murder-for-hire of their mother, has died in prison, his son says. Christopher Marshall, speaking to the Asbury Park Press, says his father died Saturday after more than 30 years behind bars in New Jersey. Christopher, 48, and his brother Roby, 49, firmly opposed their father's possible release after he was convicted of the contract killing of his wife Maria, then 42, allegedly to collect a $1.5 million insurance policy. Their youngest brother, John, 44, has...
- 2/23/2015
- by Jeff Truesdell, @jhtruesdell
- PEOPLE.com
By Anjelica Oswald
Managing Editor
Set in 1960s Poland, Pawel Pawlikowski’s black-and-white drama Ida focuses on faith and identity after family secrets are revealed. Anna (Agata Trzebuchowska) is a young orphan brought up in a convent preparing to take her vows to become a nun. When told she must visit her aunt, her only living relative, Anna discovers she’s Jewish, her name is actually Ida and her parents were killed in WWII. Anna/Ida and her aunt embark on a journey to learn more about the family’s history and discover the truth about what happened.
The film landed on the Oscar shortlist for best foreign-language film and was nominated for a Golden Globe in the same category.
A number of foreign films focused on WWII have done well at the Oscars throughout the years. Ones based on real events include The Counterfeiters (2007), about the Nazis’ attempt to...
Managing Editor
Set in 1960s Poland, Pawel Pawlikowski’s black-and-white drama Ida focuses on faith and identity after family secrets are revealed. Anna (Agata Trzebuchowska) is a young orphan brought up in a convent preparing to take her vows to become a nun. When told she must visit her aunt, her only living relative, Anna discovers she’s Jewish, her name is actually Ida and her parents were killed in WWII. Anna/Ida and her aunt embark on a journey to learn more about the family’s history and discover the truth about what happened.
The film landed on the Oscar shortlist for best foreign-language film and was nominated for a Golden Globe in the same category.
A number of foreign films focused on WWII have done well at the Oscars throughout the years. Ones based on real events include The Counterfeiters (2007), about the Nazis’ attempt to...
- 1/2/2015
- by Anjelica Oswald
- Scott Feinberg
2Nd Update, 10:08 Am: Universal-Legendary’s Unbroken is still on track to take No. 1 over the Christmas frame with nearly $15.6M in Thursday grosses, according to the latest studio estimates this morning. But the biggest shift comes from Disney’s Into The Woods. After it had been tops in noon estimates yesterday it fell behind Angelina Jolie’s pic later in the evening, but it ended up rallying the most among the newcomers and is now making it a fight for the top spot. It is currently No. 2 with $15M-plus, higher than yesterday’s $13.6M estimate.
If it all holds, Unbroken would be the third-highest Christmas day opener ever following 2012’s Les Miserables ($18.11M), Hollywood’s last Broadway musical before Into The Woods to bow on Xmas. Into The Woods is running fourth ahead of Django Unchained, which TWC opened Christmas Day 2012 with a $15.01M gross. The top December 25 opener...
If it all holds, Unbroken would be the third-highest Christmas day opener ever following 2012’s Les Miserables ($18.11M), Hollywood’s last Broadway musical before Into The Woods to bow on Xmas. Into The Woods is running fourth ahead of Django Unchained, which TWC opened Christmas Day 2012 with a $15.01M gross. The top December 25 opener...
- 12/26/2014
- by Anthony D'Alessandro and Brian Brooks
- Deadline
Exclusive: The strong cast that director Daniel Espinosa assembled for Child 44 just got better. Philip Seymour Hoffman is negotiating to join Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, Gary Oldman, and Joel Kinnaman in the film. The picture is being made by Summit Entertainment and co-financed and executive produced by Worldview Entertainment. An adaptation of the Tom Rob Smith bestseller, the Richard Price-scripted Child 44 focuses on a member of the Soviet military police who investigates a series of nasty child murders during the Stalin-era Soviet Union. His biggest impediment is a government that refuses to acknowledge a serial killer is in their midst. Ridley Scott is producing under his Scott Free Productions banner with Michael Schaefer and Greg Shapiro. Worldview’s Christopher Woodrow, Molly Conners, Maria Cestone, Sarah Johnson Redlich will executive produce along with Douglas Urbanski. Hoffman is coming off an Oscar nominated turn in The Master, and he...
- 6/25/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Park Pictures Features announced today Academy Award®-winning actor, Philip Seymour Hoffman, is set to star in God’S Pocket, the upcoming film directorial debut from Emmy®-nominee John Slattery. Slattery adapted the screenplay with Alex Metcalf from the novel by National Book Award Winning author Pete Dexter. Academy Award®-nominee Richard Jenkins, Emmy Award®-nominee Christina Hendricks and award winning actor John Turturro will co-star. Jay Cohen of Gersh will handle all film sales.
Park Pictures Features will produce the film in partnership with Hoffman’s Cooper’s Town Productions and Slattery’s Shoestring Pictures, which makes its producing debut with this film. Acclaimed director/cinematographer Lance Acord has signed on to shoot the film, which will be produced by Sam Bisbee, Jackie Kelman Bisbee, Slattery, Lance Acord and Galt Niederhoffer, for Park Pictures and Emily Ziff and Hoffman for Cooper’s Town. The film will be executive produced...
Park Pictures Features will produce the film in partnership with Hoffman’s Cooper’s Town Productions and Slattery’s Shoestring Pictures, which makes its producing debut with this film. Acclaimed director/cinematographer Lance Acord has signed on to shoot the film, which will be produced by Sam Bisbee, Jackie Kelman Bisbee, Slattery, Lance Acord and Galt Niederhoffer, for Park Pictures and Emily Ziff and Hoffman for Cooper’s Town. The film will be executive produced...
- 5/15/2013
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Anthony Bregman of Likely Story and Cathy Schulman of Mandalay Pictures announced today that Philip Seymour Hoffman will direct Ezekiel Moss, a depression era ghost story about a young, imaginative boy living in a small dead end town who befriends a mysterious drifter who may or may not have the supernatural ability to communicate with the dead.
The Black List voted the script, written by Keith Bunin (who also wrote Horns, the Mandalay / Red Granite Pictures co-production which begins lensing on September 27th in Vancouver) one of the top ten scripts of 2011. The film is a Likely Story and Mandalay Pictures production in association with Hoffman’s Cooper’s Town Productions. Bregman and Schulman will produce. Stefanie Azpiazu of Likely Story, Adam Stone of Mandalay Pictures and Emily Ziff of Cooper’s Town Productions will also produce. Sara Murphy of Cooper’s Town will co-produce. Casting has just begun on the project.
The Black List voted the script, written by Keith Bunin (who also wrote Horns, the Mandalay / Red Granite Pictures co-production which begins lensing on September 27th in Vancouver) one of the top ten scripts of 2011. The film is a Likely Story and Mandalay Pictures production in association with Hoffman’s Cooper’s Town Productions. Bregman and Schulman will produce. Stefanie Azpiazu of Likely Story, Adam Stone of Mandalay Pictures and Emily Ziff of Cooper’s Town Productions will also produce. Sara Murphy of Cooper’s Town will co-produce. Casting has just begun on the project.
- 9/18/2012
- by Allan Ford
- Filmofilia
It has been announced that Philip Seymour Hoffman will direct the depression era ghost story Ezekiel Moss:
“New York, NY – September 18, 2012 — Anthony Bregman of Likely Story and Cathy Schulman of Mandalay Pictures announced today that Philip Seymour Hoffman will direct Ezekiel Moss, a depression era ghost story about a young, imaginative boy living in a small dead end town who befriends a mysterious drifter who may or may not have the supernatural ability to communicate with the dead. The Black List voted the script, written by Keith Bunin (who also wrote Horns, the Mandalay / Red Granite Pictures co-production which begins lensing on September 27th in Vancouver) one of the top ten scripts of 2011. The film is a Likely Story and Mandalay Pictures production in association with Hoffman’s Cooper’s Town Productions. Bregman and Schulman will produce. Stefanie Azpiazu of Likely Story, Adam Stone of Mandalay Pictures and Emily Ziff...
“New York, NY – September 18, 2012 — Anthony Bregman of Likely Story and Cathy Schulman of Mandalay Pictures announced today that Philip Seymour Hoffman will direct Ezekiel Moss, a depression era ghost story about a young, imaginative boy living in a small dead end town who befriends a mysterious drifter who may or may not have the supernatural ability to communicate with the dead. The Black List voted the script, written by Keith Bunin (who also wrote Horns, the Mandalay / Red Granite Pictures co-production which begins lensing on September 27th in Vancouver) one of the top ten scripts of 2011. The film is a Likely Story and Mandalay Pictures production in association with Hoffman’s Cooper’s Town Productions. Bregman and Schulman will produce. Stefanie Azpiazu of Likely Story, Adam Stone of Mandalay Pictures and Emily Ziff...
- 9/18/2012
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Chicago – There were countless foreign films in 2011 more deserving of an Oscar nod than Agnieszka Holland’s “In Darkness.” The film lacks the brutal edge, gut-wrenching tension and memorable characterizations that distinguished so many similar Holocaust-era dramas. Yet the lukewarm “been there, done that” reaction of many American critics has left me rather mystified.
This isn’t a great film, per se, but it is still a harrowing and compelling portrait of resilience in the face of evil. Best known for her fact-based exploration of Hitler youth, “Europa, Europa,” Holland is skilled at creating the sort of vividly atmospheric environment that seeps into a viewer’s bones. One of my favorite films as a child was Holland’s sublime 1993 adaptation of “The Secret Garden,” which viewed the gothic interiors and lush mazes through the eyes of bewitched children.
Blu-ray Rating: 3.5/5.0
With “In Darkness,” Holland burrows beneath the chaotic streets of a Polish city,...
This isn’t a great film, per se, but it is still a harrowing and compelling portrait of resilience in the face of evil. Best known for her fact-based exploration of Hitler youth, “Europa, Europa,” Holland is skilled at creating the sort of vividly atmospheric environment that seeps into a viewer’s bones. One of my favorite films as a child was Holland’s sublime 1993 adaptation of “The Secret Garden,” which viewed the gothic interiors and lush mazes through the eyes of bewitched children.
Blu-ray Rating: 3.5/5.0
With “In Darkness,” Holland burrows beneath the chaotic streets of a Polish city,...
- 6/28/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Today's Starting Point featured a tense and poignant interview with Virginia delegate Robert Marshall, a self-proclaimed advocate who spearheaded an effort to block an openly gay man from a judicial position in the state, apparently solely because of his orientation. Brooke Baldwin led the interview, asking whether there was something beyond his sexuality that made him distrust the nominee, but Marshall insisted that "sodomy isn't a civil right" and he could be biased in favor of gay parties to any lawsuit. This was not met with much agreement on the panel.
- 5/17/2012
- by Frances Martel
- Mediaite - TV
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: June 12, 2012
Price: DVD $30.99, Blu-ray $35.99
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
A nominee for the 2012 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, In Darkness tells the true story of a Holocaust survival.
Set in Lvov, a Nazi occupied city in Poland, the movie follows Leopold Socha, a sewer worker and thief who encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto. He hides them in the town’s sewers for payment. But the business arrangement turns into an unlikely alliance between Socha and the Jews.
The R-rated film was directed by Agnieszka Holland, who helmed the acclaimed European movies Europa Europa and Angry Harvest as well as episodes of HBO’s TV shows The Wire and Treme.
In Darkness had a very limited release in theaters and was an official selection of the 2011 Telluride Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival. The drama movie...
Price: DVD $30.99, Blu-ray $35.99
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
A nominee for the 2012 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, In Darkness tells the true story of a Holocaust survival.
Set in Lvov, a Nazi occupied city in Poland, the movie follows Leopold Socha, a sewer worker and thief who encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto. He hides them in the town’s sewers for payment. But the business arrangement turns into an unlikely alliance between Socha and the Jews.
The R-rated film was directed by Agnieszka Holland, who helmed the acclaimed European movies Europa Europa and Angry Harvest as well as episodes of HBO’s TV shows The Wire and Treme.
In Darkness had a very limited release in theaters and was an official selection of the 2011 Telluride Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival. The drama movie...
- 4/23/2012
- by Sam
- Disc Dish
This is the Pure Movies review of In Darkness, directed by Agnieszka Holland and starring Robert Wieckiewicz, Benno Fürmann, Agnieszka Grochowska, Maria Schrader, Herbert Knaup and Marcin Bosak. Written by Michael Holder for @puremovies. Brutal, dank, disturbing, devastating, sickening and also pretty scary – In Darkness is a film about the Holocaust, yes, but not quite as expected. It is based on Robert Marshall’s book In the Sewers of Lvov, which chronicles the true story of Polish sewer worker Leopold Socha, who risks execution to hide a group of Jews for 14 months until the war ends. There are good performances all round as petty thief Socha (Robert Wieckiewics) initially agrees to help Mundek (Benno Fürmann) and his fellow Jewish companions after their escape from the ghetto in exchange for a daily payment. But as the Jews’ money inevitably runs out, Socha becomes less interested in the business arrangement and sacrifices...
- 3/16/2012
- by Michael Holder
- Pure Movies
Oscar-nominated WWII drama In Darkness is out in the UK this Friday. Here’s our review of a flawed yet uplifting film...
Attempting to write about In Darkness is a tricky proposition. A heartfelt, Oscar-nominated movie based on the real-life suffering of Jews in World War II, critically dissecting it seems almost cruel - like analysing a charity record, or a cake baked for a church fete. In Darkness is well acted and made with such good intentions that it seems almost sacrilegious to say it’s anything less than perfect.
When viewed against other movies based on the Holocaust, such as Claude Lanzmann’s sprawling, extraordinary documentary Shoah (1985), Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List (1993) or Roman Polanski’s The Pianist (2002), In Darkness isn’t without flaw. But then again, the story it has to tell is so remarkable that it’s not difficult to see why it gained attention at this year's Academy Awards.
Attempting to write about In Darkness is a tricky proposition. A heartfelt, Oscar-nominated movie based on the real-life suffering of Jews in World War II, critically dissecting it seems almost cruel - like analysing a charity record, or a cake baked for a church fete. In Darkness is well acted and made with such good intentions that it seems almost sacrilegious to say it’s anything less than perfect.
When viewed against other movies based on the Holocaust, such as Claude Lanzmann’s sprawling, extraordinary documentary Shoah (1985), Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List (1993) or Roman Polanski’s The Pianist (2002), In Darkness isn’t without flaw. But then again, the story it has to tell is so remarkable that it’s not difficult to see why it gained attention at this year's Academy Awards.
- 3/13/2012
- Den of Geek
Agnieszka Holland ("The Secret Garden") is no stranger to the Holocaust: she won Oscar nominations for both 1985's "Angry Harvest" and 1990's "Europa, Europa." Eight years ago, David Shamoon's script based on Robert Marshall's "The Sewers of Lvov" lured her back to that period in Polish history; she couldn't let it go. The creative and technical challenge for this movie was how to keep an audience engaged while subjecting them to the horrors of claustrophobic, dank survival in the lightless, rat-infested sewers below Lvov, Poland. Charismatic actor Robert Wieckiewicz, playing a sewer scavenger who surprises himself by...
- 2/11/2012
- Thompson on Hollywood
In Darkness is certainly an apt title for the latest from Europa, Europa director Agnieszka Holland: It describes the film on every level, from the physical to the emotional and spiritual. Set in 1943 German-occupied Poland, amid the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Lvov, it follows a mob of frightened Jews into the sewers, where they hope to escape the slaughter above ground. The broad strokes of atrocity, danger, soul-searching, ethical exploration, and lost-and-found courage are familiar from many Holocaust-related and other wartime films. But the details—taken from real events, chronicled in Robert Marshall’s In The Sewers ...
- 2/9/2012
- avclub.com
Title: In Darkness Directed By: Agnieszka Holland Written By: Robert Marshall (book), David F. Shamoon (screenplay) Cast: Robert Wieckiewicz, Benno Furmann, Agnieszka Grochowska, Maria Schrader, Herbert Knaup, Kinga Preis Screened at: Sony, NYC, 10/24/11 Opens: December 9, 2011 Human life in sewers has been in the news. Not so long ago, Saddam Hussein was found in a make-shift ditch with a growth of beard that he kept up through his trial and execution. In October of this year, Libyan dictator Muamar Gadhafi was flushed out of a drainpipe and summarily executed. But not all inhabitants of sewers are rats like them. Agnieszka Holland, a Warsaw-born, Prague-educated director best known in...
- 10/25/2011
- by Brian Corder
- ShockYa
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