Eddie Liu, and Golden Horse Film Award winners Chen Shu-Fang and Leon Dai, are set to star in the upcoming feature film Chopin, a first-generation Taiwanese-American immigrant story set in suburban America. Chen Shu-Fang and Leon Dai cemented their legacy in film history with over 90 years combined acting in television and feature films out of Taiwan, rising the ranks to become among the country’s most notable talents.
Chopin is the feature directorial debut from decorated commercial director Vincent Lin of Valiant Pictures, whose co-founder Matthew D’Amato is on as Executive Producer. Casting directors include Ashley Ingram and Michael D’Amato. With HuiChieh Danielle Yen of Select Entertainment Tw serving as consultant and production partner. Production starts early 2023.
Synopsis: Chopin tells the story of Chopin Wu (Eddie Liu), who returns home to small-town America where he grew up to amend an estranged relationship with his workaholic father (Leon Dai). With a...
Chopin is the feature directorial debut from decorated commercial director Vincent Lin of Valiant Pictures, whose co-founder Matthew D’Amato is on as Executive Producer. Casting directors include Ashley Ingram and Michael D’Amato. With HuiChieh Danielle Yen of Select Entertainment Tw serving as consultant and production partner. Production starts early 2023.
Synopsis: Chopin tells the story of Chopin Wu (Eddie Liu), who returns home to small-town America where he grew up to amend an estranged relationship with his workaholic father (Leon Dai). With a...
- 8/31/2022
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
Sam Schles, a longtime creative executive under the ViacomCBS content umbrella, has joined Madica Productions.
Schles has been named vice president of scripted development at the label — a spinoff of the prominent Hollywood PR agency Sunshine Sachs Morgan & Lylis — whose credits include the Netflix’s “Ginny and Georgia” and the Leonardo DiCaprio-produced digital series “Stay Wild.”
Schles will report to Madica’s managing director Jeff Tahler. She began her career at Comedy Central, where she would eventually serve as director of talent and development. Series under her purview there included the beloved “Broad City,” “The Other Two,” and “Doing the Most With Phoebe Robinson.” She also launched Comedy Central’s first limited series “Time Traveling Bong,” and spearheaded a documentary special with “The Daily Show” exploring gender equality.
After Comedy Central, Schles joined the movies and limited Series team at MTV Entertainment Studios where she developed and executive produced features,...
Schles has been named vice president of scripted development at the label — a spinoff of the prominent Hollywood PR agency Sunshine Sachs Morgan & Lylis — whose credits include the Netflix’s “Ginny and Georgia” and the Leonardo DiCaprio-produced digital series “Stay Wild.”
Schles will report to Madica’s managing director Jeff Tahler. She began her career at Comedy Central, where she would eventually serve as director of talent and development. Series under her purview there included the beloved “Broad City,” “The Other Two,” and “Doing the Most With Phoebe Robinson.” She also launched Comedy Central’s first limited series “Time Traveling Bong,” and spearheaded a documentary special with “The Daily Show” exploring gender equality.
After Comedy Central, Schles joined the movies and limited Series team at MTV Entertainment Studios where she developed and executive produced features,...
- 3/21/2022
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Warner Bros. Television Group has signed an overall deal with Emmy-nominated Hacks co-creators Lucia Aniello and Paul W. Downs and their production company Paulilu Productions after a competitive situation. This marks the first overall deal for Paulilu with Wbtvg.
Terms were not disclosed, but Wbtvg reports that Aniello and Downs’ deal is an exclusive, multiyear agreement. Wbtvg will now serve as Paulilu’s exclusive home for all new television ventures.
Under the deal, Aniello and Downs will develop original television programming for all platforms, including WarnerMedia’s HBO Max, external streaming services, cable, and the broadcast networks.
Aniello and Downs said, “We are thrilled to be partnering with the team at Wbtvg, as we have long admired the work they do. Also, we heard they’re giving us the Central Perk set on the lot for our offices…? Very cool!”
Aniello and Downs co-created Hacks with Jen Statsky for HBO Max and Universal Television.
Terms were not disclosed, but Wbtvg reports that Aniello and Downs’ deal is an exclusive, multiyear agreement. Wbtvg will now serve as Paulilu’s exclusive home for all new television ventures.
Under the deal, Aniello and Downs will develop original television programming for all platforms, including WarnerMedia’s HBO Max, external streaming services, cable, and the broadcast networks.
Aniello and Downs said, “We are thrilled to be partnering with the team at Wbtvg, as we have long admired the work they do. Also, we heard they’re giving us the Central Perk set on the lot for our offices…? Very cool!”
Aniello and Downs co-created Hacks with Jen Statsky for HBO Max and Universal Television.
- 8/30/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
An editor’s task of crafting a brand-new comedy is always a daunting one; as they say, timing is everything. (Doing it all within a pandemic is also not a picnic.) But what if you had the luxury of some inside knowledge on the people you would be working with? Jessica Brunetto, celebrating her first Emmy nomination for her work cutting together HBO Max’s sleeper hit “Hacks,” just happened to have worked with at least two of its three creators before she ever took a seat at the editing table.
“I’d been working with [showrunners] Lucia Aniello and Paul W. Downs on the show ‘Time Traveling Bong’ on Comedy Central,” says Brunetto. “And I had also done the pilot of ‘Awkwafina is Nora from Queens‘ with Lucia, and that was basically when this show came along where I got to work with their partner Jen Statsky. It was almost like a home field advantage,...
“I’d been working with [showrunners] Lucia Aniello and Paul W. Downs on the show ‘Time Traveling Bong’ on Comedy Central,” says Brunetto. “And I had also done the pilot of ‘Awkwafina is Nora from Queens‘ with Lucia, and that was basically when this show came along where I got to work with their partner Jen Statsky. It was almost like a home field advantage,...
- 7/30/2021
- by Jason Clark
- The Wrap
Ilana Glazer has zero tolerance for sexual harassment on her sets. The actress, comedian, writer, and executive producer and creator behind such series as “Broad City” and “Time Traveling Bong” recently took to her Instagram to sound off on both the burgeoning #MeToo movement and the ways she’s personally hit back at sexual harassment in the entertainment industry. As Vulture shares, Glazer posted on her Instagram a compelling two-fer, not just one that speaks to her own experiences with sexual harassment, but also how it has impacted her work.
Glazer wrote on Instagram: “I’ve been sexually harassed countless times, in middle school, in high school — by more teachers than students! at work as a waitress, at work as a showrunner! same same same – i was a woman in both places.
Glazer wrote on Instagram: “I’ve been sexually harassed countless times, in middle school, in high school — by more teachers than students! at work as a waitress, at work as a showrunner! same same same – i was a woman in both places.
- 10/18/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
It comes as little surprise that Lucia Aniello and Paul W. Downs are a lot of fun to be around, laughing easily and finishing each other sentences when it comes to talking about their work. And there’s a lot of work to talk about, particularly their feature film debut, the Sony comedy “Rough Night.” Aniello directed the hard-r female-centric feature from the pair’s screenplay – they’re often splitting duties this way, though Aniello emerged early on as the director – which also features Downs in a supporting role.
Read More: ‘Rough Night’: Filmmaker Lucia Aniello Breaks Into the Male-Dominated R-Rated Comedy — Watch
Written as a spec script, “Rough Night” sparked a minor bidding war in the spring of 2015 when Sony Pictures picked up their then-untitled screenplay (the film later appeared on the Black List that same year). “Rough Night” follows a motley group of old friends, reunited for...
Read More: ‘Rough Night’: Filmmaker Lucia Aniello Breaks Into the Male-Dominated R-Rated Comedy — Watch
Written as a spec script, “Rough Night” sparked a minor bidding war in the spring of 2015 when Sony Pictures picked up their then-untitled screenplay (the film later appeared on the Black List that same year). “Rough Night” follows a motley group of old friends, reunited for...
- 6/15/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Broad City's Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer are tiding fans over with a special 4/20 webisode of their hit Comedy Central series before returning with a new season of the show later this year. The "Sharing a Bowl" clip is part of their Hack Into Broad City series of short YouTube videos.
The pair of best friends are video-chatting from the bedrooms in the scene, which is mostly told from their respective screen views. To kick off her celebration of 4/20 early, Ilana put weed oil in her aroma diffuser. From there,...
The pair of best friends are video-chatting from the bedrooms in the scene, which is mostly told from their respective screen views. To kick off her celebration of 4/20 early, Ilana put weed oil in her aroma diffuser. From there,...
- 4/20/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Comedy Central is thinking bigly with its next late night franchise. As the network teased last week, it has ordered the new weekly series “The President Show,” starring Anthony Atamanuik as Donald Trump.
“The President Show” will air Thursdays at 11:30 p.m. Et, behind “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah,” starting April 27. The series will be produced like a talk show, with desk segments, field pieces and guest interviews – but set in the Oval Office and hosted by “Trump.”
And like any good talk show, “The President Show” will feature a sidekick ¬– Vice President Mike Pence (played by Peter Grosz).
“Laughing at the President is a proud American tradition and we hope not to disappoint anyone in that department,” Atamanuik said. “But our political system is too broken for us to be content joking about one man, even though he is a disastrous silly little toddler boy. Mostly I...
“The President Show” will air Thursdays at 11:30 p.m. Et, behind “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah,” starting April 27. The series will be produced like a talk show, with desk segments, field pieces and guest interviews – but set in the Oval Office and hosted by “Trump.”
And like any good talk show, “The President Show” will feature a sidekick ¬– Vice President Mike Pence (played by Peter Grosz).
“Laughing at the President is a proud American tradition and we hope not to disappoint anyone in that department,” Atamanuik said. “But our political system is too broken for us to be content joking about one man, even though he is a disastrous silly little toddler boy. Mostly I...
- 4/3/2017
- by Michael Schneider
- Indiewire
Columbia Pictures has released the trailer for its upcoming comedy “Rough Night.” The all-female cast features Scarlett Johansson, Kate McKinnon, Zoë Kravitz, Jillian Bell and Ilana Glazer. The film is directed by Lucia Aniello, who co-wrote the script with her “Broad City” and “Time Traveling Bong” writing partner, Paul W. Downs.
Read More: ‘Geostorm’ Trailer: Gerard Butler Tries to Save the World in Dean Devlin’s Upcoming Disaster Thriller
In “Rough Night,” five former best friends who grew apart after college reunite to throw Jess (Johansson) the ultimate bachelorette party. They travel to Miami, where they drink lots alcohol, do drugs and accidentally kill a male stripper inside their hotel room.
“It’s a movie about friendships,” Aniello told BuzzFeed News. “It was really more about honing in on our experience of having friendships from high school and college that have evolved and maybe gotten a little bit distant and...
Read More: ‘Geostorm’ Trailer: Gerard Butler Tries to Save the World in Dean Devlin’s Upcoming Disaster Thriller
In “Rough Night,” five former best friends who grew apart after college reunite to throw Jess (Johansson) the ultimate bachelorette party. They travel to Miami, where they drink lots alcohol, do drugs and accidentally kill a male stripper inside their hotel room.
“It’s a movie about friendships,” Aniello told BuzzFeed News. “It was really more about honing in on our experience of having friendships from high school and college that have evolved and maybe gotten a little bit distant and...
- 3/8/2017
- by Yoselin Acevedo
- Indiewire
Four episodes were provided prior to broadcast.
Time travel is all the rage on television. Between Legends of Tomorrow, Timeless, Frequency, Time after Time, 12 Monkeys and last year’s 11.22.63, which I’m currently watching, forget about the butterfly effect; this is deja vu. Yet, Fox decided to add another time traveler to the schedule: the ultra-goofy buddy comedy Making History. I gotta say though, it’s not exactly living up to its title…
Created by Julius Sharpe (Family Guy), Making History is decidedly more Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure than Primer. It centers on Dan (Adam Pally), a lowly, average guy who spends his work days in a janitorial position in a local college and his weekends (and occasional Tuesdays) traveling back to 1775, via a duffel bag time-traveler, to meet his Colonel girlfriend, Deborah (Leighton Meester). Inherited from his late father, Dan is unambitious but certainly not malicious with his gift.
Time travel is all the rage on television. Between Legends of Tomorrow, Timeless, Frequency, Time after Time, 12 Monkeys and last year’s 11.22.63, which I’m currently watching, forget about the butterfly effect; this is deja vu. Yet, Fox decided to add another time traveler to the schedule: the ultra-goofy buddy comedy Making History. I gotta say though, it’s not exactly living up to its title…
Created by Julius Sharpe (Family Guy), Making History is decidedly more Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure than Primer. It centers on Dan (Adam Pally), a lowly, average guy who spends his work days in a janitorial position in a local college and his weekends (and occasional Tuesdays) traveling back to 1775, via a duffel bag time-traveler, to meet his Colonel girlfriend, Deborah (Leighton Meester). Inherited from his late father, Dan is unambitious but certainly not malicious with his gift.
- 3/3/2017
- by Will Ashton
- We Got This Covered
From Comedy Central, the network behind Drunk History and Time Traveling Bong, comes Drunk Girl, High Guy. The network has given a pilot order to the project and has cast Jordan Rock as the male lead. Drunk Girl, High Guy, originally announced by Comedy Central in March as a script from its 2016-2017 development slate, was written by Sarah Walker. It follows the adventures of two best friends and work wife/work husband in New York City — a girl who is almost always drunk…...
- 9/29/2016
- Deadline TV
Time is not on our side, especially in the era of “peak TV.” Perhaps this is why networks are hopping onto the time travel bandwagon. At this year’s network upfront presentations in May, four of the five broadcast networks plugged shows that revolved around a time travel element at their core.
Taking journeys through the fourth dimension is a concept that has appeared in fiction since the late 19th century, popularized by H.G. Wells’ novel “The Time Machine.” The continued appeal of time travel boils down to wish fulfillment: the desire to visit other eras like a tourist, the yearning to relive or change the past, the curiosity about the future and the ability to squeeze more experiences into our ephemeral lives.
Although Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan disagree on whether time travel will someday be possible based on our apparent lack of visitors from the future, that hasn...
Taking journeys through the fourth dimension is a concept that has appeared in fiction since the late 19th century, popularized by H.G. Wells’ novel “The Time Machine.” The continued appeal of time travel boils down to wish fulfillment: the desire to visit other eras like a tourist, the yearning to relive or change the past, the curiosity about the future and the ability to squeeze more experiences into our ephemeral lives.
Although Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan disagree on whether time travel will someday be possible based on our apparent lack of visitors from the future, that hasn...
- 9/5/2016
- by Ben Travers, Liz Shannon Miller, Hanh Nguyen and Michael Schneider
- Indiewire
On Thursday, July 14, the Television Academy will announce the nominees for the 68th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, and we have all the faith in the world they’ll get every single choice just right.
Ok, maybe they won’t, but only because the 19,000-plus voters literally can’t get every choice right. Unless all the categories squeeze out miraculous ties resulting in extra nominees — similar to last year’s Comedy Supporting Actress category — there are simply too many outstanding series and performers to fit on the overall ballot.
So our choices below not only represent IndieWire’s highest recommendations in the top-line limited series and movie categories, but also some of the shows and performers overlooked thus far in the campaign season. On a related note, category placement is determined, aptly, by our own wishes and not the submission guidelines of the TV Academy. It would be grand to hear...
Ok, maybe they won’t, but only because the 19,000-plus voters literally can’t get every choice right. Unless all the categories squeeze out miraculous ties resulting in extra nominees — similar to last year’s Comedy Supporting Actress category — there are simply too many outstanding series and performers to fit on the overall ballot.
So our choices below not only represent IndieWire’s highest recommendations in the top-line limited series and movie categories, but also some of the shows and performers overlooked thus far in the campaign season. On a related note, category placement is determined, aptly, by our own wishes and not the submission guidelines of the TV Academy. It would be grand to hear...
- 7/7/2016
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Rob Lowe is about to go through a different type of grinder.
PhotosFall TV’s First Scoops: A Grey’s Baby, Vampire Diaries‘ New Big Bad and More Early Intel From 18 Returning Series
Comedy Central on Thursday announced that Lowe will be its next celebrity roast victim, following in the illustrious footsteps of stars like Pamela Anderson, Justin Bieber and Flavor Flav; the taping and air dates have yet to be revealed.
“Rob Lowe is handsome, talented, successful and handsome,” says Comedy Central president Ken Alterman, adding, “He needs to be roasted”
Meanwhile, Lowe has his own thoughts about this...
PhotosFall TV’s First Scoops: A Grey’s Baby, Vampire Diaries‘ New Big Bad and More Early Intel From 18 Returning Series
Comedy Central on Thursday announced that Lowe will be its next celebrity roast victim, following in the illustrious footsteps of stars like Pamela Anderson, Justin Bieber and Flavor Flav; the taping and air dates have yet to be revealed.
“Rob Lowe is handsome, talented, successful and handsome,” says Comedy Central president Ken Alterman, adding, “He needs to be roasted”
Meanwhile, Lowe has his own thoughts about this...
- 6/9/2016
- TVLine.com
Larry Wilmore is not apologizing for his perceived White House Correspondents’ Dinner faux pas.
RelatedWhite House Correspondents’ Video: Watch President Obama’s 10 Best Jokes
The Nightly Show host on Monday defended his speech against critics such as Mail Online‘s U.S. editor-at-large Piers Morgan, who claimed that the comedian used the N-word when praising President Barack Obama (at the 22:00 mark in the video above).
“Are you saying I called the president a ‘n–ger?’ That’s horrible,” he said, before assuring viewers, “I would never do that. I believe I said, ‘Yo Barry, you did it, my n—ga.
RelatedWhite House Correspondents’ Video: Watch President Obama’s 10 Best Jokes
The Nightly Show host on Monday defended his speech against critics such as Mail Online‘s U.S. editor-at-large Piers Morgan, who claimed that the comedian used the N-word when praising President Barack Obama (at the 22:00 mark in the video above).
“Are you saying I called the president a ‘n–ger?’ That’s horrible,” he said, before assuring viewers, “I would never do that. I believe I said, ‘Yo Barry, you did it, my n—ga.
- 5/3/2016
- TVLine.com
Comedy Central’s Time Traveling Bong feels, at times, like the glorious love child of Broad City and The Wizard of Oz. (Just think of Ilana Glazer as Dorothy and Paul W. Downs as Toto. Also, the Tin Man is a bong.)
RelatedBroad City Season Finale Recap: Air Buds
Starring Glazer and Downs as bickering cousins Sharee and Jeff, the first installment in the thrillogy — the second and third parts air Thursday and Friday at 10:30/9:30c — introduced a mystical bong which, with a single puff, can transport its users into the past. The initial mythology (“smoke once to travel,...
RelatedBroad City Season Finale Recap: Air Buds
Starring Glazer and Downs as bickering cousins Sharee and Jeff, the first installment in the thrillogy — the second and third parts air Thursday and Friday at 10:30/9:30c — introduced a mystical bong which, with a single puff, can transport its users into the past. The initial mythology (“smoke once to travel,...
- 4/21/2016
- TVLine.com
All three nights of the miniseries were made available ahead of broadcast.
“Time Traveling Bong is so fucking stupid,” Ilana Glazer has said recently of Comedy Central’s new sci-fi stoner miniseries. “But I think it is so good and I love it so much that I’m like ‘it’s smart.'” Leave it to the Broad City co-creator, co-star, and co-writer to encapsulate her new series (created along with star Paul W. Downs and writer/director Lucia Aniello) with all of the low-brow intelligence and brevity that its patently quirky title suggests.
The show – which will unfold over three nights beginning, you guessed it, on 4/20 – is as equally slovenly as that title: the jokes are hit-and-miss, the plot is scatter-brained, and the short three-episode run doesn’t exactly help build a comedic duo as instantly engaging as that of Broad City. Still, in spite of its idiocy and see-what-sticks mentality,...
“Time Traveling Bong is so fucking stupid,” Ilana Glazer has said recently of Comedy Central’s new sci-fi stoner miniseries. “But I think it is so good and I love it so much that I’m like ‘it’s smart.'” Leave it to the Broad City co-creator, co-star, and co-writer to encapsulate her new series (created along with star Paul W. Downs and writer/director Lucia Aniello) with all of the low-brow intelligence and brevity that its patently quirky title suggests.
The show – which will unfold over three nights beginning, you guessed it, on 4/20 – is as equally slovenly as that title: the jokes are hit-and-miss, the plot is scatter-brained, and the short three-episode run doesn’t exactly help build a comedic duo as instantly engaging as that of Broad City. Still, in spite of its idiocy and see-what-sticks mentality,...
- 4/20/2016
- by Mitchel Broussard
- We Got This Covered
The time machine has taken many forms over the centuries: Dr. Who, Bill and Ted all ventured through the fourth dimension in a phone booth; Doc Brown used a Delorean; Homer Simpson a toaster; and an illegal Russian energy drink was all it took to send a certain hot tub hopping through the spacetime continuum. When Broad City stars Ilana Glazer and Paul W. Downs, and writer/director Lucia Aniello, decided to put a stoner spin on the genre, they centered their time travel pipe dream around the only logical choice: A bong.
- 4/20/2016
- Rollingstone.com
When we say the word miniseries, such programs as Roots, The Winds of War or even The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story come to mind. Along comes Comedy Central’s Time Traveling Bong, which will not only put a huge twist on the genre, man, but leave viewers quite hungry. The show was co-created by the Broad City team of Ep/star Ilana Glazer, director/scribe Lucia Aniello and star/writer Paul Downs and follows cousins Jeff and Sharee (Downs and Glazer), who come…...
- 4/19/2016
- Deadline TV
Deadline’s studio at the Tribeca Film Festival, hosted by the Lincoln Motor Company, has been greeting such fest-goers as Rami Malek and Christian Slater (Mr. Robot), Adam Goldberg (Rebirth, Between Us), Lucia Aniello & Paul Downs (Time Traveling Bong, Broad City) and many more. Photographer Mark Mann is behind the lens for our series of video interviews and photo sessions. Take a look, and follow Deadline for more photos and video interviews from…...
- 4/19/2016
- Deadline
Ilana Glazer, Paul W. Downs, and Lucia Aniello — the smoke-filled brains behind Comedy Central hit Broad City and the network’s 4/20-premiering miniseries Time Traveling Bong [Note: Comedy Central and MTV News are both owned by Viacom.] — have long trafficked in the surreal and the stoned. Glazer and Aniello’s initial meet-cute, for example, occurred... Time Traveling Bong’s Ilana Glazer, Paul W. Downs, and Lucia Aniello on The First Time They Got High and Kidnapping Michael Jackson">Read more »...
- 4/19/2016
- by Rachel Handler
- MTV Newsroom
Ilana Glazer, Paul W. Downs, and Lucia Aniello — the smoke-filled brains behind Comedy Central hit Broad City and the network’s 4/20-premiering miniseries Time Traveling Bong [Note: Comedy Central and MTV News are both owned by Viacom.] — have long trafficked in the surreal and the stoned. Glazer and Aniello’s initial meet-cute, for example, occurred... Time Traveling Bong’s Ilana Glazer, Paul W. Downs, and Lucia Aniello on The First Time They Got High and Kidnapping Michael Jackson">Read more »...
- 4/19/2016
- by Rachel Handler
- MTV Music News
Broad City is the voice of a new generation: one where kids turn to adults, drunken hijinks are the new norm, mimosas and bloody marys are never too early to drink, and of course, traveling around a city that’s huge and rather stereotypical in its ways. This is what a millennial calls normal, and the creators behind Broad City has brought us a new future, present, and past, to see what it would be like when the 21st century mixes with time.
And that’s why Broad City director Lucia Aniello, along with writing and romantic partner, Broad City co-star Paul W. Downs, and star Ilana Glazer, came together to make Time Traveling Bong. Originally written in 2004 for a College Humor video, Glazer brought up the idea with Aniello and Downs (who made Paulilu Productions together). Given the title of the mini-series, it would make perfect sense for its...
And that’s why Broad City director Lucia Aniello, along with writing and romantic partner, Broad City co-star Paul W. Downs, and star Ilana Glazer, came together to make Time Traveling Bong. Originally written in 2004 for a College Humor video, Glazer brought up the idea with Aniello and Downs (who made Paulilu Productions together). Given the title of the mini-series, it would make perfect sense for its...
- 4/18/2016
- by Catherina Gioino
- Nerdly
At a loss for what to watch this week? From new DVDs and Blu-rays, to what's new on Netflix and TV, we've got you covered.
New on DVD and Blu-ray
"The Revenant"
Leo's ready to come home with you this week. Leonardo DiCaprio had a bear of a time making this historical drama, but he won his first Oscar for it, and Alejandro Inarritu won his second in a row for directing. "The Revenant," which also picked up an Oscar for Cinematography, is finally out on DVD/Blu-ray on April 19. Blu-ray extras include "A World Unseen," a documentary of "The Revenant."
"The Lady in the Van"
Maggie Smith plays Miss Shepherd in this British dramedy based on the true story of an eccentric elderly woman who "temporarily" parks her van in Alan Bennett's driveway and proceeds to live there for 15 years. The critically acclaimed film, based on Bennett's memoir,...
New on DVD and Blu-ray
"The Revenant"
Leo's ready to come home with you this week. Leonardo DiCaprio had a bear of a time making this historical drama, but he won his first Oscar for it, and Alejandro Inarritu won his second in a row for directing. "The Revenant," which also picked up an Oscar for Cinematography, is finally out on DVD/Blu-ray on April 19. Blu-ray extras include "A World Unseen," a documentary of "The Revenant."
"The Lady in the Van"
Maggie Smith plays Miss Shepherd in this British dramedy based on the true story of an eccentric elderly woman who "temporarily" parks her van in Alan Bennett's driveway and proceeds to live there for 15 years. The critically acclaimed film, based on Bennett's memoir,...
- 4/18/2016
- by Gina Carbone
- Moviefone
Paul Adelstein might want to stock up on Red Bull, because we don’t see much downtime in his future.
The actor, who recently confirmed his involvement in Fox’s Prison Break revival, will co-star with Hugh Laurie in the Hulu drama Chance.
RelatedHulu Announces Summer Premiere Dates
The series — which has already snagged a two-season, 20-episode order — focuses on Eldon Chance (Laurie), a forensic neuropsychiatrist who gets wrapped up in the violent and dangerous world of mistaken identity, police corruption and mental illness.
Per our sister site Deadline, Adelstein will play Raymond Blackstone, a ruthless police detective and the...
The actor, who recently confirmed his involvement in Fox’s Prison Break revival, will co-star with Hugh Laurie in the Hulu drama Chance.
RelatedHulu Announces Summer Premiere Dates
The series — which has already snagged a two-season, 20-episode order — focuses on Eldon Chance (Laurie), a forensic neuropsychiatrist who gets wrapped up in the violent and dangerous world of mistaken identity, police corruption and mental illness.
Per our sister site Deadline, Adelstein will play Raymond Blackstone, a ruthless police detective and the...
- 4/8/2016
- TVLine.com
Sometimes a project comes along that sells itself, and today that project is Time Traveling Bong, the upcoming Comedy Central miniseries created by Broad City collaborators Ilana Glazer, Paul W. Downs and Lucia Aniello that, you guessed it, involves a bong that allows its users to travel through time. The too-good-to-be-true premise sees Glazer and Downs as Sharee and Jeff, stoner cousins who discover a magical bong that allows them to travel back in time, only to…...
- 4/7/2016
- Deadline TV
Broad City's Ilana Glazer and Paul Downs — aka Soulstice trainer Trey, aka Kirk Steele — blaze across the space-time continuum in the outrageous trailer for their upcoming 4/20 special, Time Traveling Bong.
Like a certain hot tub before it, Time Traveling Bong centers around an oddly specific time travel device that sends Glazer and Downs, as hapless stoners Sharee and Jeff, into the past with one puff and back to the present with another. Of course, things don't go so smoothly after a Puritan smashes their pipe upon their arrival in colonial times.
Like a certain hot tub before it, Time Traveling Bong centers around an oddly specific time travel device that sends Glazer and Downs, as hapless stoners Sharee and Jeff, into the past with one puff and back to the present with another. Of course, things don't go so smoothly after a Puritan smashes their pipe upon their arrival in colonial times.
- 4/7/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Broad City's Ilana Glazer will briefly step aside from her partner-in-comedy Abbi Jacobson in order to produce a new Comedy Central miniseries called Tim Traveling Bong, based on a short sketch Glazer created for College Humor in 2012. The Broad City duo spoke to Entertainment Weekly recently, with Glazer offering an update about her side project and what it's like not working in tandem with Jacobson.
"We just shat out the first producer cuts. It cracks us up! It’s so ridiculous," Glazer said of Time Traveling Bong. "On Broad City,...
"We just shat out the first producer cuts. It cracks us up! It’s so ridiculous," Glazer said of Time Traveling Bong. "On Broad City,...
- 3/28/2016
- Rollingstone.com
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