Swarm, created by Donald Glover and Janine Nabers, is the newest psychological thriller television show on Prime. Swarm follows the story of Dre (Dominique Fishback) who is obsessed with pop star Ni’Jah (Nirine S. Brown), which causes her to go off the deep end.
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Just as the title card on the first episode reads, “any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is intentional,” the awkward one-night stand scene from the show was based on real life.
According to Nabers, “Donald told this very funny story about a girl who he really liked, and how after they hooked up, he was standing there with a bowl of cherries, just being like, ‘Hey.’ She was like, so not into it because it’s so weird to hook up with a guy that you barely know and then wake up with him holding a bowl of cherries.
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Just as the title card on the first episode reads, “any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is intentional,” the awkward one-night stand scene from the show was based on real life.
According to Nabers, “Donald told this very funny story about a girl who he really liked, and how after they hooked up, he was standing there with a bowl of cherries, just being like, ‘Hey.’ She was like, so not into it because it’s so weird to hook up with a guy that you barely know and then wake up with him holding a bowl of cherries.
- 3/24/2023
- by Hailey Schipper
- Uinterview
Janine Nabers, co-creator of Amazon Prime Video’s new thriller series “Swarm,” tells TheWrap how her fear and fascination of stan culture and fandom helped mold the idea for her and Donald Glover’s new buzzy BeyHive-inspired series.
Nabers says there’s fans, and then there’s people like Dre (Dominque Fishback), the main character in her new show, which is centered on the aloof, calculated and creepy superfan of the Beyoncé-esque R&b singer Ni’Jah. Despite having never met her, Dre feels there’s no wrong that Ni’Jah can do, as in her eyes she is the epitome of perfection, and if you express otherwise it could be the last breath you ever take.
While murder isn’t the option most fans would take to defend their favorite celebs, the show highlights the darkness, obsessiveness and sometimes jarring behavior stan and fan culture exhibits. Nabers says...
Nabers says there’s fans, and then there’s people like Dre (Dominque Fishback), the main character in her new show, which is centered on the aloof, calculated and creepy superfan of the Beyoncé-esque R&b singer Ni’Jah. Despite having never met her, Dre feels there’s no wrong that Ni’Jah can do, as in her eyes she is the epitome of perfection, and if you express otherwise it could be the last breath you ever take.
While murder isn’t the option most fans would take to defend their favorite celebs, the show highlights the darkness, obsessiveness and sometimes jarring behavior stan and fan culture exhibits. Nabers says...
- 3/21/2023
- by Raquel "Rocky" Harris
- The Wrap
After a fall as dramatic as any of his film roles, Snipes is back on track, starring with Eddie Murphy in the long-awaited Coming 2 America. He discusses police brutality, Michael Jackson – and his secret society
Wesley Snipes seemed to have everything in the 90s and early 00s. He was a film star, gifted, gorgeous, chiselled from top to bottom. Box office gold. There seemed to be no genre he couldn’t star in: thrillers (detective Thomas Flanigan in King of New York), action movies (drug baron Nino Brown in New Jack City), sports comedies (basketball hustler Syd Deane in White Men Can’t Jump), LGBT comedies, arthouse romances (commercials director Max Carlyle in One Night Stand) and dramas (architect Flipper Purify in Jungle Fever). In 2004, his salary was a reported $13m for producing and starring in the third Blade blockbuster, Blade: Trinity. Snipes could not have been flying much higher.
Wesley Snipes seemed to have everything in the 90s and early 00s. He was a film star, gifted, gorgeous, chiselled from top to bottom. Box office gold. There seemed to be no genre he couldn’t star in: thrillers (detective Thomas Flanigan in King of New York), action movies (drug baron Nino Brown in New Jack City), sports comedies (basketball hustler Syd Deane in White Men Can’t Jump), LGBT comedies, arthouse romances (commercials director Max Carlyle in One Night Stand) and dramas (architect Flipper Purify in Jungle Fever). In 2004, his salary was a reported $13m for producing and starring in the third Blade blockbuster, Blade: Trinity. Snipes could not have been flying much higher.
- 11/2/2020
- by Simon Hattenstone
- The Guardian - Film News
Before becoming a filmmaker, Leaving Las Vegas director Mike Figgis was a musician and performer in the experimental group called The People Show. Before that, he played trumpet and guitar in the experimental jazz ensemble The People Band, whose first record was produced by Rolling Stone drummer Charlie Watts. He is also the founding patron of an online community of independent filmmakers called Shooting People. You can say Figgis is a People person, which makes him the perfect director to capture Ronnie Wood in the documentary Somebody Up There Likes Me.
One of rock and roll’s most iconic guitarists, Wood is good with people. He plays well with others. He is the Stone who’s never alone. Before he began weaving guitar licks with Keith Richards in the Rolling Stones, Wood helped shape the British rock sound in bands like The Birds and the Creation. He was the bass...
One of rock and roll’s most iconic guitarists, Wood is good with people. He plays well with others. He is the Stone who’s never alone. Before he began weaving guitar licks with Keith Richards in the Rolling Stones, Wood helped shape the British rock sound in bands like The Birds and the Creation. He was the bass...
- 9/15/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
The show must go on. At least the Venice Film Festival must go on. Even a pandemic can’t stop the oldest international film festival from taking place Sept. 2 through Sept. 12 in the picturesque of grand canals. Of course, safety is first with masks, social distancing etc. are all in place as critics get a first glance at possible award-winners.
Over the past seven years, the festival has held world premieres of such Oscar-winners as 2013’s “Gravity”; 2014’s “Birdman”; 2015’s “Spotlight”; 2016’s “La La Land”; 2017’s “The Shape of Water”; 2018’s “Roma”; and 2019’s “Joker.” Only two films that won the festival’s top prize have gone on to win Best Picture at the Oscars: 1948’s “Hamlet” and 2017’s “The Shape of Water.”
The festival began in 1932 as part of the Venice Biennale, the city’s legendary exhibition of the arts under the guidance of President of the Biennale, Count Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata,...
Over the past seven years, the festival has held world premieres of such Oscar-winners as 2013’s “Gravity”; 2014’s “Birdman”; 2015’s “Spotlight”; 2016’s “La La Land”; 2017’s “The Shape of Water”; 2018’s “Roma”; and 2019’s “Joker.” Only two films that won the festival’s top prize have gone on to win Best Picture at the Oscars: 1948’s “Hamlet” and 2017’s “The Shape of Water.”
The festival began in 1932 as part of the Venice Biennale, the city’s legendary exhibition of the arts under the guidance of President of the Biennale, Count Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata,...
- 9/2/2020
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Whether it’s coming out of Nashville, New York, L.A., or points in between, there’s no shortage of fresh tunes, especially from artists who have yet to become household names. Rolling Stone Country selects some of the best new music releases from country and Americana artists.
Drew Parker, “While You’re Gone”
Modern-day cowboy Drew Parker is heartbroken — and delusional — in this smoldering ballad about all the things he’ll do while his lover is away. Spoiler alert: she’s not coming back. But that doesn’t stop Parker,...
Drew Parker, “While You’re Gone”
Modern-day cowboy Drew Parker is heartbroken — and delusional — in this smoldering ballad about all the things he’ll do while his lover is away. Spoiler alert: she’s not coming back. But that doesn’t stop Parker,...
- 8/17/2020
- by Jon Freeman and Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Exclusive: Julianne Moore, Don Cheadle, Sanaa Lathan, Rebecca Hall, Chris Cooper, Alessandro Nivola, Emily Mortimer, Rosie Perez and Debra Winger are among the all-star cast of innovative feature With/In, a made-at-home anthology film revolving around themes of confinement and isolation.
Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray’s newly rebranded Maven Screen Media (American Honey) is in production on the two-hour feature, which is a collection of short films made during lockdown by a slew of top actors and directors. Scroll down for the full list of participants.
The project was initiated when Maven and Emmy-winning writer-producer Margaret Nagle (Boardwalk Empire) asked actor-director families and friends to come up with stories about life stuck inside. Storylines include a couple stuck together after a one night stand, kids scheming to run away from their paranoid dad, a divorced couple isolating together for the sake of their dog, and a widow dealing with her grief.
Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray’s newly rebranded Maven Screen Media (American Honey) is in production on the two-hour feature, which is a collection of short films made during lockdown by a slew of top actors and directors. Scroll down for the full list of participants.
The project was initiated when Maven and Emmy-winning writer-producer Margaret Nagle (Boardwalk Empire) asked actor-director families and friends to come up with stories about life stuck inside. Storylines include a couple stuck together after a one night stand, kids scheming to run away from their paranoid dad, a divorced couple isolating together for the sake of their dog, and a widow dealing with her grief.
- 7/30/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Susie Fitzgerald is leaving her position as Evp, scripted programming, AMC and SundanceTV after more than a decade at AMC Networks.
Well liked in the creative community, Fitzgerald joined AMC in late 2009 as Svp scripted development and current programming. As Svp and later Evp, she has been the senior scripted development/programming executive at the flagship network (and later SundanceTV), shepherding such signature series as The Walking Dead franchise and Better Call Saul, while working for three consecutive heads of programming, Joel Stilleman, David Madden and, most recently Dan McDemott, who was named president of original programming and co-president of AMC Studios in March.
“After 10 years at AMC, I have decided to leave my position as Evp, Scripted Programming to pursue new opportunities in this ever-expanding television landscape,” Fitzgerald said. “I am extremely proud of the legacy that the scripted team and I have built at AMC over the past decade.
Well liked in the creative community, Fitzgerald joined AMC in late 2009 as Svp scripted development and current programming. As Svp and later Evp, she has been the senior scripted development/programming executive at the flagship network (and later SundanceTV), shepherding such signature series as The Walking Dead franchise and Better Call Saul, while working for three consecutive heads of programming, Joel Stilleman, David Madden and, most recently Dan McDemott, who was named president of original programming and co-president of AMC Studios in March.
“After 10 years at AMC, I have decided to leave my position as Evp, Scripted Programming to pursue new opportunities in this ever-expanding television landscape,” Fitzgerald said. “I am extremely proud of the legacy that the scripted team and I have built at AMC over the past decade.
- 5/15/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Damon Wayans, who starred for three seasons as Roger Murtaugh in the Fox series Lethal Weapon, has signed with APA.
Wayans served as writer and star of the acclaimed, Emmy-winning series, In Living Color, for three seasons where he created some of the show’s most iconic sketch characters, including Homey the Clown, Handiman and gay film critic Blaine from Men on Film. His writing for the series earned him two Emmy Award nominations.
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Wayans also starred in, co-created and executive-produced the hit comedy series My Wife and Kids, which received numerous awards including the 2002 People’s Choice Award for Favorite New Television Comedy Series and Favorite Male Performer in a New Television Series. He also created, executive-produced and...
Wayans served as writer and star of the acclaimed, Emmy-winning series, In Living Color, for three seasons where he created some of the show’s most iconic sketch characters, including Homey the Clown, Handiman and gay film critic Blaine from Men on Film. His writing for the series earned him two Emmy Award nominations.
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Wayans also starred in, co-created and executive-produced the hit comedy series My Wife and Kids, which received numerous awards including the 2002 People’s Choice Award for Favorite New Television Comedy Series and Favorite Male Performer in a New Television Series. He also created, executive-produced and...
- 4/7/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Actress Sunny Leone, who is in the "best phase" of her life personally and professionally, says she enjoys having a small circle of friends.
In her seven-year journey in Hindi filmdom, Sunny has created a name for herself. She often used to talk about being judged in the past. Does she still feel the same?
"I have created a niche for myself with my own set of friends. I don't really get out and party, so the circle is limited. I don't know if I am yet judged, but back then also I was in a happy space and so am I now," Sunny told Ians in an email interview.
She married Daniel Weber in 2011, and together, they have three children. The couple adopted a girl child, Nisha, in 2017 from Latur and announced the birth of her twins Noah and Asher via surrogacy last year.
Sunny finds it a little...
In her seven-year journey in Hindi filmdom, Sunny has created a name for herself. She often used to talk about being judged in the past. Does she still feel the same?
"I have created a niche for myself with my own set of friends. I don't really get out and party, so the circle is limited. I don't know if I am yet judged, but back then also I was in a happy space and so am I now," Sunny told Ians in an email interview.
She married Daniel Weber in 2011, and together, they have three children. The couple adopted a girl child, Nisha, in 2017 from Latur and announced the birth of her twins Noah and Asher via surrogacy last year.
Sunny finds it a little...
- 5/19/2019
- GlamSham
Goa. Drugs. Mafia. A gang lord. A cop. A ruffian. A femme fatale. Mix it all together and the perfect cocktail of sex, drugs and crime is out there in the offering with the title that is aptly named Poison. The latest in the world of web series which are in the offering from the Indian entertainment industry has just been unveiled in the form of Poison.
No wonder, the man who is quite excited is Tanuj Virwani, who plays one of the three key protagonists in Poison, the other two being Arbaaz Khan and Freddy Daruwala.
Quiz him about his characterization and the stage and set up that Poison boasts of and this is what the youngster, who was last seen in The Inside Edge, a sports drama from the house of Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani, has to say.
“Since Poison is predominantly set in Goa, drug mafia...
No wonder, the man who is quite excited is Tanuj Virwani, who plays one of the three key protagonists in Poison, the other two being Arbaaz Khan and Freddy Daruwala.
Quiz him about his characterization and the stage and set up that Poison boasts of and this is what the youngster, who was last seen in The Inside Edge, a sports drama from the house of Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani, has to say.
“Since Poison is predominantly set in Goa, drug mafia...
- 4/19/2019
- by Joginder Tuteja
- Bollyspice
Actress Sunny Leone, who is gearing up for the final season of the web series "Karenjit Kaur - The Untold Story of Sunny Leone", says she often broke into tears while filming it as she had to go down the memory lane and revisit some dark chapters of her life. "It was certainly not easy for me to revisit some of the chapter of my life that are dark, that I wanted to believe were a nightmare that which would get over soon. When my mother passed away, my father was diagnosed with cancer and within some time, he also passed away. I got married, got an invitation for an Indian TV show...there was too much happening very fast," Sunny told Ians here.
"Some of the situations were hurtful and I never ever wanted to visit those memories ever again. During the shooting, I broke down so badly. Seeing me breaking down like that,...
"Some of the situations were hurtful and I never ever wanted to visit those memories ever again. During the shooting, I broke down so badly. Seeing me breaking down like that,...
- 4/5/2019
- GlamSham
Formerly only available via import, 88 Films are set to release to exploitation “classics” on Blu-ray this June 24th- Pets, from director Raphael Nussbaum and Star Time, the magnum opus from writer/director Alexander Cassini. Full details and artwork for both release are below; and you can pre-order both films at the following links: Pets | Star Time.
Pets
Teenage Runaway Bonnie (Candice Rialson) has escaped the clutches of her controlling brother, only to become immediately embroiled in a twisted web of sexual manipulation. Initially convinced to aid in a carjacking, Bonnie is then taken in by a lecherous lesbian artist who hopes to groom her into a sapphic lover, only to have her plans thwarted by the perverse advances of a local gallery owner whose bizarre proclivities include the keeping of an unusual assortment of ‘pets.’ A truly unparalleled exploitation film viewing experience, Raphael Nussbaum’s Pets veers between moments of...
Pets
Teenage Runaway Bonnie (Candice Rialson) has escaped the clutches of her controlling brother, only to become immediately embroiled in a twisted web of sexual manipulation. Initially convinced to aid in a carjacking, Bonnie is then taken in by a lecherous lesbian artist who hopes to groom her into a sapphic lover, only to have her plans thwarted by the perverse advances of a local gallery owner whose bizarre proclivities include the keeping of an unusual assortment of ‘pets.’ A truly unparalleled exploitation film viewing experience, Raphael Nussbaum’s Pets veers between moments of...
- 3/25/2019
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
The Fat Albert movie has found its female lead. Teen star Kyla Pratt has been cast in the big-screen adaptation of the children's cartoon series as the teenage girl whose favorite 'toon characters fall out of her TV set and into her life. Joel Zwick directs. Albert is being produced by Bill and Camille Cosby and Fox-based John Davis through his John Davis Entertainment. Bill Cosby also is involved in writing the movie, which is based on his 1970s series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids. Fox will distribute. Pratt's big-screen credits include Mike Figgis' One Night Stand, Love & Basketball as well as Dr. Doolittle 1 and its sequel, in which Pratt starred opposite Eddie Murphy. She also appears on UPN's One on One and Disney Channel's Proud Family. Pratt is repped by Landis-Simon Prods., Talent Management and the law firm of Nelson Felker.
- 3/26/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Practical jokers are using the internet to poke fun at troubled actor ROBERT DOWNEY JR.'s incarceration - by downloading what they claim is the diary of his first 20 days. According to the hilarious scribbled notes, the actor, who was jailed for three years in August (99) for parole violation on drugs and weapons charges, has found ALLAH and changed his name to MOHAMMED MOSIAH. The notes say he's determined to "show the gritty, seamy side of prison life" on the big screen upon his release. The phoney diary also notes the actor's disappointment at not sharing a cell with Charlie Sheen - "I thought he was going to be in here at the same time. " The memoirs include details of the number of times Downey Jr gets beaten up by fellow inmates, who take exception to the film roles he has played - "I got my a** kicked by my cellmate RAMON because I played a queer in One Night Stand (1997), and he hates queers."...
- 3/30/2000
- WENN
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