Jon Hamm is set to star as an FBI agent trying to shut down Salt of the Earth, the only movie named to the Hollywood Blacklist, in a new scripted podcast series.
Audible has ordered The Big Lie, a seven-part audio drama series created by John Mankiewicz, a relative of Citizen Kane co-screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz.
Kate Mara, Ana de la Reguera, John Slattery, Bradley Whitford, Lisa Edelstein, Giancarlo Esposito and David Strathairn also star.
Mankiewicz, a co-exec producer on House of Cards and Bosch, will exec produce alongside Hamm. It comes from a story by blacklisted Salt of the Earth producer Paul Jarrico, co-written by Jamie Napoli and directed by Aaron Lipstadt. Fresh Produce Media produces.
The Big Lie is set in 1950s Hollywood at the height of the “Red Scare,” as a trio of outcast filmmakers try to make a movie that dramatized their pro-labor, pro-feminist beliefs while suffering...
Audible has ordered The Big Lie, a seven-part audio drama series created by John Mankiewicz, a relative of Citizen Kane co-screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz.
Kate Mara, Ana de la Reguera, John Slattery, Bradley Whitford, Lisa Edelstein, Giancarlo Esposito and David Strathairn also star.
Mankiewicz, a co-exec producer on House of Cards and Bosch, will exec produce alongside Hamm. It comes from a story by blacklisted Salt of the Earth producer Paul Jarrico, co-written by Jamie Napoli and directed by Aaron Lipstadt. Fresh Produce Media produces.
The Big Lie is set in 1950s Hollywood at the height of the “Red Scare,” as a trio of outcast filmmakers try to make a movie that dramatized their pro-labor, pro-feminist beliefs while suffering...
- 4/19/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Tenderfoot TV, the audio company behind series including To Live and Die in LA and Atlanta Monster, is rolling out a new investigative podcast series about the world of crypto – funded entirely by Bitcoin itself.
The Atlanta-based company is launching From Nowhere, which will uncover the dark past of the crypto world, and how it became the overbearing force it is today.
The series will aim to tell the “the definitive story of Bitcoin” from a revolt against banks to the digital Wild West that includes lies, corruption, extortion and even murder. It will combine first-person narration, interviews, re-enactment scenes and readings, and the inclusion of archives.
It will lay out how an anonymous pseudonym managed to challenge the most powerful financial giants in the world, inspire statues and world leaders, and accumulate what is believed to be an over $60B net worth.
It will be hosted by investigative...
The Atlanta-based company is launching From Nowhere, which will uncover the dark past of the crypto world, and how it became the overbearing force it is today.
The series will aim to tell the “the definitive story of Bitcoin” from a revolt against banks to the digital Wild West that includes lies, corruption, extortion and even murder. It will combine first-person narration, interviews, re-enactment scenes and readings, and the inclusion of archives.
It will lay out how an anonymous pseudonym managed to challenge the most powerful financial giants in the world, inspire statues and world leaders, and accumulate what is believed to be an over $60B net worth.
It will be hosted by investigative...
- 11/18/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: James Cameron’s career is to be the subject of a ten-part podcast biopic series with The Walking Dead’s Ross Marquand voicing the role of the Aliens director.
Blockbuster: The Story of James Cameron comes from podcast companies Cadence13 and Epicleff Media and will tell the story of how 22-year old Cameron went from being a truck driver to one of the most successful directors of all time.
It comes after Epicleff Media produced Blockbuster: The Story of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, telling the story of how the two made Star Wars and Jaws.
The series will span the period between 1977 to 1997 and will take in from The Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, True Lies and Titanic. It will look at how he went from breaking into the business to making the most expensive film of all time.
Blockbuster: The Story of James Cameron, which will launch on June 17, is written,...
Blockbuster: The Story of James Cameron comes from podcast companies Cadence13 and Epicleff Media and will tell the story of how 22-year old Cameron went from being a truck driver to one of the most successful directors of all time.
It comes after Epicleff Media produced Blockbuster: The Story of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, telling the story of how the two made Star Wars and Jaws.
The series will span the period between 1977 to 1997 and will take in from The Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, True Lies and Titanic. It will look at how he went from breaking into the business to making the most expensive film of all time.
Blockbuster: The Story of James Cameron, which will launch on June 17, is written,...
- 6/16/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
From the mind of Emmy Winner Matt Schrader comes Blockbuster, “a six-part docu-narrative podcast dramatizing the friendship of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg as they were making their formative films, Star Wars and Jaws, with the help of composer of John Williams.”
The podcast series was created with intensive research by Schrader, who allows fans of the directors and composer to be a fly on the wall in the time that their careers were about to skyrocket and history was being made.
The podcast is available to subscribe to on Apple and Spotify if you are excited by this project.
The following clip follows Lucas (voiced by Ray Chase), showing his friends Star Wars for the first time. The friends and their voices are Spielberg (Max Mittelman), Brian De Palma, and his wife and editor, Marcia Lucas (Julia McIlvaine).
Listen below and let us know what you think of this...
The podcast series was created with intensive research by Schrader, who allows fans of the directors and composer to be a fly on the wall in the time that their careers were about to skyrocket and history was being made.
The podcast is available to subscribe to on Apple and Spotify if you are excited by this project.
The following clip follows Lucas (voiced by Ray Chase), showing his friends Star Wars for the first time. The friends and their voices are Spielberg (Max Mittelman), Brian De Palma, and his wife and editor, Marcia Lucas (Julia McIlvaine).
Listen below and let us know what you think of this...
- 5/17/2019
- by Jessica Fisher
- GeekTyrant
Directed by sound editor Midge Costin, Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound provides a rich overview of motion picture sound, from the era in which sounds were performed in theaters to Dolby Atmos, breaking down in detail the multiple elements that comprise a film’s sonic soundscape. With an extensive list of credits including action pictures like The Rock, Broken Arrow, and Crimson Tide, Costin makes excellent uses of industry contacts from mixers, composers, filmmakers, executives, and stars to provide the kind of broad overview that feels custom-made for the first day of an introduction to sound class.
The film largely proceeds with a basic chronology of sound as the practice evolves over some 90 years with Warner Brothers’ Vitascope taking the first step with The Jazz Singer. The art and practice of sound design, is credited to Murray Spivack who, while working on 1933’s King Kong, conceived of a whole new roar for Kong,...
The film largely proceeds with a basic chronology of sound as the practice evolves over some 90 years with Warner Brothers’ Vitascope taking the first step with The Jazz Singer. The art and practice of sound design, is credited to Murray Spivack who, while working on 1933’s King Kong, conceived of a whole new roar for Kong,...
- 5/13/2019
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
Just in time for Star Wars Celebration, a new podcast is being released by the team of documentarians behind the award-winning Score: A Film Music Documentary that will tell the story of the iconic collaborative path between directors Steven Spielberg and George Lucas.
Blockbuster is a six-part series (a true story in scripted, biopic audio form) releasing Tuesday on Apple, Spotify and other podcast platforms.
"We've created a time capsule to go back to the most exciting period of reinvention in Hollywood history and highlight the friendship that inspired it," said filmmaker and series creator Matt Schrader. ...
Blockbuster is a six-part series (a true story in scripted, biopic audio form) releasing Tuesday on Apple, Spotify and other podcast platforms.
"We've created a time capsule to go back to the most exciting period of reinvention in Hollywood history and highlight the friendship that inspired it," said filmmaker and series creator Matt Schrader. ...
- 4/11/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Just in time for Star Wars Celebration, a new podcast is being released by the team of documentarians behind the award-winning Score: A Film Music Documentary that will tell the story of the iconic collaborative path between directors Steven Spielberg and George Lucas.
Blockbuster is a six-part series (a true story in scripted, biopic audio form) releasing Tuesday on Apple, Spotify and other podcast platforms.
"We've created a time capsule to go back to the most exciting period of reinvention in Hollywood history and highlight the friendship that inspired it," said filmmaker and series creator Matt Schrader. ...
Blockbuster is a six-part series (a true story in scripted, biopic audio form) releasing Tuesday on Apple, Spotify and other podcast platforms.
"We've created a time capsule to go back to the most exciting period of reinvention in Hollywood history and highlight the friendship that inspired it," said filmmaker and series creator Matt Schrader. ...
- 4/11/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Author: Euan Franklin
Film is one of the few mediums to ingratiate many other art forms. Novels, plays, painting, and photography – movies provide them all at once. But one form stands out from all the rest. The average cinema-goer may forget the direction, the dialogue, and the cinematography – but never the music. They’ve all hummed the themes to Star Wars and Pirates of the Caribbean and Lord of the Rings. Barely anyone discusses the cinematography of Phantom Thread, but they all rave about Johnny Greenwood’s soundtrack (promptly saved on their Spotify accounts). The film score may well be the aspect most remembered and recalled after the end credits roll up. In this documentary from Matt Schrader, Score goes deeper into the history and impact of film music.
The film starts in Malibu, California, where composer Marco Beltrami (Scream, The Hurt Locker) has tied a piano atop a shipping...
Film is one of the few mediums to ingratiate many other art forms. Novels, plays, painting, and photography – movies provide them all at once. But one form stands out from all the rest. The average cinema-goer may forget the direction, the dialogue, and the cinematography – but never the music. They’ve all hummed the themes to Star Wars and Pirates of the Caribbean and Lord of the Rings. Barely anyone discusses the cinematography of Phantom Thread, but they all rave about Johnny Greenwood’s soundtrack (promptly saved on their Spotify accounts). The film score may well be the aspect most remembered and recalled after the end credits roll up. In this documentary from Matt Schrader, Score goes deeper into the history and impact of film music.
The film starts in Malibu, California, where composer Marco Beltrami (Scream, The Hurt Locker) has tied a piano atop a shipping...
- 2/26/2018
- by Euan Franklin
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
For the last eight-or-so months, Matt Schrader's Score: A Film Music Documentary has been shown at festivals worldwide, and has won itself a nice set of awards while travelling. Last week it got a limited theatrical release by Gravitas Ventures in New York, this week it will spread to Los Angeles, and pay-platforms will follow shortly. In the film, a veritable who-is-who of Hollywood speak up about film music. Its conception, its importance, its influence... We hear composers, directors, and film critics give their opinion on the subject, and we're talking Big Big names here. Check out the trailer below to get a glimpse of what Matt Schrader has done. It's impressive! And film music is a great topic for a "Question of the Week",...
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- 6/20/2017
- Screen Anarchy
The role of film composer is a crucial yet relatively uncelebrated one—this despite a movie’s score often doing 90 percent of the emotional lifting. (For proof of its importance, look no further than all those popular “melodica” covers on YouTube.) As gushingly expressed by director James Cameron near the beginning of Score: A Film Music Documentary, it’s “the heart and soul of the film,” absolutely essential to a movie’s success, and a subject deserving of a spotlight bigger than an annual Academy Awards montage. And so first-time director Matt Schrader aims to rescue this often overlooked world of film music from the background, primarily by yakking over it.
Part history lesson, part educational film, part time-killer for tourists at Universal Studios (right down to the requisite filler blather from Leonard Maltin), Score is a loving tribute that approaches its subject with a hooray-for-Hollywood reverence that people ...
Part history lesson, part educational film, part time-killer for tourists at Universal Studios (right down to the requisite filler blather from Leonard Maltin), Score is a loving tribute that approaches its subject with a hooray-for-Hollywood reverence that people ...
- 6/15/2017
- by Sean O'Neal
- avclub.com
Exclusive: Cinetic International licences the documentary in five territories and is closing offers in four.
Cinetic International has announced it has licenced Score: A Film Music Documentary in Germany (Nfp), Italy (Feltrinelli), Japan (Unplugged), Scandinavia (NonStop), South Korea (Movement) and is closing offers in Israel, the Netherlands, Spain, and the UK.
Score: A Film Music Documentary, directed by Matt Schrader, gives viewers a look inside the musical challenges and creative secrecy of the world’s most widely known music genre: the film score.
The film features composers Hans Zimmer, Danny Elfman, Trent Reznor, Randy Newman, and Quincy Jones, among many others.
The film had its international premiere at Cph:dox and will continue its roll out internationally in the coming months.
The film will be released theatrically in the Us on June 16 via Gravitas Ventures.
Robert Kraft, Trevor Thompson, Kenny Holmes and Nate Gold produced, while Schrader and Jonathan Willbanks served as executive producers.
Cinetic International has announced it has licenced Score: A Film Music Documentary in Germany (Nfp), Italy (Feltrinelli), Japan (Unplugged), Scandinavia (NonStop), South Korea (Movement) and is closing offers in Israel, the Netherlands, Spain, and the UK.
Score: A Film Music Documentary, directed by Matt Schrader, gives viewers a look inside the musical challenges and creative secrecy of the world’s most widely known music genre: the film score.
The film features composers Hans Zimmer, Danny Elfman, Trent Reznor, Randy Newman, and Quincy Jones, among many others.
The film had its international premiere at Cph:dox and will continue its roll out internationally in the coming months.
The film will be released theatrically in the Us on June 16 via Gravitas Ventures.
Robert Kraft, Trevor Thompson, Kenny Holmes and Nate Gold produced, while Schrader and Jonathan Willbanks served as executive producers.
- 6/15/2017
- ScreenDaily
Score, a documentary about the world of movie composing, opens Friday in New York. Helmed by first-time director Matt Schrader, the film features such notable composers as John Williams, Hans Zimmer, Danny Elfman, Howard Shore and Trent Reznor, as well as directors like James Cameron and the late Garry Marshall, revealing the creative process behind some of the world’s most beloved scores and movie music's ability to sway emotions.
"We can make you feel anything we want you to feel," Quincy Jones says.
Schrader shot the film over a 2 1/2-year period, raising more than $160,000 through two crowdfunding campaigns. “I’ve always been a big fan of movie...
"We can make you feel anything we want you to feel," Quincy Jones says.
Schrader shot the film over a 2 1/2-year period, raising more than $160,000 through two crowdfunding campaigns. “I’ve always been a big fan of movie...
- 6/13/2017
- by Melinda Newman, Billboard
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
We’ve always had a particular love for film music here at The Playlist. Indeed, when we started as a lowly destination on Blogspot way back when, the site had a particular focus on film scores and soundtracks, and while our scope has expanded since then, we still love to look at the ways movies and music intersect. So as such, we’re very excited to check out the new film “Score: A Film Music Documentary.”
Directed by former CBS News man Matt Schrader, and more than two years in the making, it promises a broad, definitive look at the art of the composer, with interviews including Hans Zimmer, John Williams, Danny Elfman, Quincy Jones, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Howard Shore, Rachel Portman, Thomas Newman, Leonard Maltin, James Cameron, Bear McCreary, Randy Newman as well as the late James Horner and Garry Marshall.
Continue reading Watch The Trailer For ‘Score: A Film Music Documentary...
Directed by former CBS News man Matt Schrader, and more than two years in the making, it promises a broad, definitive look at the art of the composer, with interviews including Hans Zimmer, John Williams, Danny Elfman, Quincy Jones, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Howard Shore, Rachel Portman, Thomas Newman, Leonard Maltin, James Cameron, Bear McCreary, Randy Newman as well as the late James Horner and Garry Marshall.
Continue reading Watch The Trailer For ‘Score: A Film Music Documentary...
- 5/4/2017
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
"Music is the one thing that we all understand, that we don't understand." Gravitas Ventures has revealed a trailer for a documentary about the work of composers, titled Score: A Film Music Documentary. This played at film festivals all last year and is opening in theaters this June, which is great news because I've been waiting to see this. The doc profiles the work of composers and also examines how important music is to movies. Featuring interviews with composers including Hans Zimmer, John Williams, Trent Reznor, Rachel Portman, Junkie Xl (aka Tom Holkenborg), Brian Tyler, Thomas Newman, Bear McCreary, Moby, Garry Marshall, Jerry Goldsmith, and lots more. Hoping this goes deep into the art beyond just some chats. Here's the official trailer for Matt Schrader's Score: A Film Music Documentary, from YouTube: This celebratory documentary takes viewers inside the studios and recording sessions of Hollywood's most influential composers to...
- 4/21/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
11th Gasparilla International Film Festival to Screen 35 Features Including J.K. Simmons’ ‘All Nighter’“All Nighter”
The 11th edition of Tampa’s most prominent film event, Suncoast Credit Union’s Gasparilla International Film Festival (Giff), will take place March 2-March 9, 2017 at the Tampa Theater and AMC Centro Ybor. Gavin Wiesen’s “All Nighter,” starring Academy Award-winner J. K. Simmons will have its World Premiere as part of the festival.
A total of 35 films and over 70 shorts will screen over eight days and will include international and regional premieres of narrative features, documentaries and short films from around the world. In addition to the film program, Giff will also feature master classes and panel discussions.
The title sponsor, Suncoast Credit Union, has been committed to the festival for three consecutive years with the goal of bringing quality entertainment and enrichment to the community. The Suncoast Credit Union also sponsors the Family Fun...
The 11th edition of Tampa’s most prominent film event, Suncoast Credit Union’s Gasparilla International Film Festival (Giff), will take place March 2-March 9, 2017 at the Tampa Theater and AMC Centro Ybor. Gavin Wiesen’s “All Nighter,” starring Academy Award-winner J. K. Simmons will have its World Premiere as part of the festival.
A total of 35 films and over 70 shorts will screen over eight days and will include international and regional premieres of narrative features, documentaries and short films from around the world. In addition to the film program, Giff will also feature master classes and panel discussions.
The title sponsor, Suncoast Credit Union, has been committed to the festival for three consecutive years with the goal of bringing quality entertainment and enrichment to the community. The Suncoast Credit Union also sponsors the Family Fun...
- 3/1/2017
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Sydney's Buzz
Suncoast Credit Union Gasparilla International Film Festival (Giff) announced its official selection for the annual event held at the Tampa Theater and AMC Centro Ybor in Tampa, Florida, from March 2-March 9.
The festival will host the world premiere for All Nighter starring Academy Award winner J.K. Simmons and directed by Gavin Wiesen.
There will be 35 films and over 70 shorts, in which it will host international and regional premieres of narrative features, documentaries and short films around the world.
Here are the highlighted line up of the films:
Opening Night Film:
Burn Your Maps: A nine-year-old boy, grieving with his parents over the recent loss of his baby sister, becomes obsessed with the idea that he’s a Mongolian goat herder who belongs back home in his small village in Mongolia. Cast: Vera Farmiga, Jacob Tremblay, Virginia Madsen, Suraj Sharma. Directed by Jordan Roberts
Closing Night Film:
Unleashed: When...
The festival will host the world premiere for All Nighter starring Academy Award winner J.K. Simmons and directed by Gavin Wiesen.
There will be 35 films and over 70 shorts, in which it will host international and regional premieres of narrative features, documentaries and short films around the world.
Here are the highlighted line up of the films:
Opening Night Film:
Burn Your Maps: A nine-year-old boy, grieving with his parents over the recent loss of his baby sister, becomes obsessed with the idea that he’s a Mongolian goat herder who belongs back home in his small village in Mongolia. Cast: Vera Farmiga, Jacob Tremblay, Virginia Madsen, Suraj Sharma. Directed by Jordan Roberts
Closing Night Film:
Unleashed: When...
- 2/22/2017
- by Gig Patta
- LRMonline.com
Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.
– Bleecker Street has secured U.S. distribution rights to Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s true-life story, “Megan Leavey.” The film is based on the life of Leavey (Kate Mara), a young marine corporal in the K9 unit whose unique discipline and bond with her military combat dog saved many lives during their deployment in Iraq.
Bleecker Street will release the movie on June 9, 2017.
Read More: Film Acquisition Rundown: Samuel Goldwyn Films Picks Up ‘Youth in Oregon,’ The Orchard Buys ‘Monkey Business’ and More
The film co-stars Edie Falco, Ramon Rodriguez, Bradley Whitford, and Common. Directed by Cowperthwaite (“Blackfish”), the movie was written by Pamela Gray, Annie Mumolo and Tim Lovestedt and produced by Mickey Liddell, Pete Shilaimon and Jennifer Monroe.
– Bleecker Street has secured U.S. distribution rights to Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s true-life story, “Megan Leavey.” The film is based on the life of Leavey (Kate Mara), a young marine corporal in the K9 unit whose unique discipline and bond with her military combat dog saved many lives during their deployment in Iraq.
Bleecker Street will release the movie on June 9, 2017.
Read More: Film Acquisition Rundown: Samuel Goldwyn Films Picks Up ‘Youth in Oregon,’ The Orchard Buys ‘Monkey Business’ and More
The film co-stars Edie Falco, Ramon Rodriguez, Bradley Whitford, and Common. Directed by Cowperthwaite (“Blackfish”), the movie was written by Pamela Gray, Annie Mumolo and Tim Lovestedt and produced by Mickey Liddell, Pete Shilaimon and Jennifer Monroe.
- 1/13/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
“Score: A Film Music Documentary” has surpassed its Indiegogo fundraising goal. The film explores the power of film and TV music as an art form and delves into the creative and technical process of scoring a movie to create an emotional response in audiences. Over 50 people — from composers to directors to film critics — have been interviewed for “Score,” which sets out to be the first feature-length documentary about film scores. Among the participants in the project are Hans Zimmer, James Cameron, Danny Elfman, “Battlestar Galactica” composer Bear McCreary and “The Social Network” duo Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. Fans of those composers gave the doc an overwhelming response in its fundraising campaign. After last year’s successful Kickstarter campaign in March, the current Indiegogo campaign that’s raising final funds for the film has taken in over $57,000, well surpassing its $30,000 goal. Film score geeks can see the movie when it...
- 1/8/2016
- by Emily Rome
- Hitfix
Imagine “Star Wars” with no John Williams. “The Lord of the Rings” without Howard Shore’s swells of epic music. It’s actually not so easy even if you try. Both of those composers are featured in “Score: A Film Music Documentary,” currently in the works. You can see Williams and Shore in the HitFix exclusive clip from the doc at the top of this post, which spotlights movie music recorded in Studio 1 of Abbey Road Studios — the same room where the Beatles recorded their orchestral music. The clip also features Joe Kraemer talking about the recording space while he works on this year’s “Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation.” The documentary will explore the power of film music as an art form and will delve into the creative and technical process of scoring a movie. As director and executive producer Matt Schrader describes it, “‘Score’ is about how composers...
- 12/7/2015
- by Emily Rome
- Hitfix
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