From left, Rebecca Stead, Patricia Reilly Giff and Wendy Lamb at the Voracious Reader in Larchmont, New York.
With the metastasizing of modern distractions–web TV, tablet videogames, Angry Birds–it can be difficult if not impossible to get 11 year old boys to sit down and read. That’s part of why, some months ago, I was skeptical when a family friend suggested that we get our two boys to start a book club, and that that one of the...
With the metastasizing of modern distractions–web TV, tablet videogames, Angry Birds–it can be difficult if not impossible to get 11 year old boys to sit down and read. That’s part of why, some months ago, I was skeptical when a family friend suggested that we get our two boys to start a book club, and that that one of the...
- 2/4/2012
- by Christopher John Farley
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Oscar winner Sissy Spacek is taking on her first starring role in a TV series, joining a medical drama pilot at CBS.
Spacek, ("Coal Miner's Daughter," "In the Bedroom") will play a lead role in the series, which is about a team of doctors and nurses that travels to places where medical attention is desperately needed. She will play the team's founder, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Her character will have cancer, which complicates her mission somewhat, and has a daughter (Rachelle Lefevre, "Twilight") who works for the team, the Hr notes. The show's cast also includes Skeet Ulrich ("Jericho"), Amy Smart, Janeane Garofalo, Michael Beach and Jay Hernandez.
Hannah Shakespeare ("Ghost Whisperer") wrote the pilot. John Wells ("ER," "The West Wing") is executive producing.
Spacek had a recurring part on "Big Love" this season and has worked with CBS a couple times in the past, starring in the 2007 movie...
Spacek, ("Coal Miner's Daughter," "In the Bedroom") will play a lead role in the series, which is about a team of doctors and nurses that travels to places where medical attention is desperately needed. She will play the team's founder, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Her character will have cancer, which complicates her mission somewhat, and has a daughter (Rachelle Lefevre, "Twilight") who works for the team, the Hr notes. The show's cast also includes Skeet Ulrich ("Jericho"), Amy Smart, Janeane Garofalo, Michael Beach and Jay Hernandez.
Hannah Shakespeare ("Ghost Whisperer") wrote the pilot. John Wells ("ER," "The West Wing") is executive producing.
Spacek had a recurring part on "Big Love" this season and has worked with CBS a couple times in the past, starring in the 2007 movie...
- 3/23/2010
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Shannen Doherty has signed for a holiday-themed Hallmark Channel original movie.
The former "Beverly Hills, 90210" star has been cast in "Growing the Big One," which centers on a woman who inherits her debt-ridden family farm and enters a pumpkin-growing contest in hope of avoiding foreclosure. Along the way, she falls in love with her partner in the contest.
The movie has begun production in Vancouver and will premiere in October 2010.
"Growing" is produced by Gbo Films, with Howard Meltzer ("The Brooke Ellison Story"), Jane Goldenring ("Pizza My Heart") and Ted Bauman ("Pictures of Hollis Woods") executive producing. Mark Griffiths ("Our House") is directing from a script by Diane Mettler and Anna Sandor.
The former "Beverly Hills, 90210" star has been cast in "Growing the Big One," which centers on a woman who inherits her debt-ridden family farm and enters a pumpkin-growing contest in hope of avoiding foreclosure. Along the way, she falls in love with her partner in the contest.
The movie has begun production in Vancouver and will premiere in October 2010.
"Growing" is produced by Gbo Films, with Howard Meltzer ("The Brooke Ellison Story"), Jane Goldenring ("Pizza My Heart") and Ted Bauman ("Pictures of Hollis Woods") executive producing. Mark Griffiths ("Our House") is directing from a script by Diane Mettler and Anna Sandor.
- 10/13/2009
- by By James Hibberd
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
14-year-old actress Jodelle Ferland ("Silent Hill") is the latest addition to the "Twilight" franchise, joining "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" as a vampire who has just been turned, reports Variety. Ferland was most recently seen in the CBS telepic "Pictures Of Hollis Woods". She also stars in the upcoming thriller "Case 39" with Renée Zellweger. "Eclipse," opening in theaters on June 30, 2010, will be directed by David Slade and stars Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Xavier Samuel and Bryce Dallas Howard....
- 8/6/2009
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- 9/22/2008
- by TheInsider
- TheInsider.com
ATAS honors television with a cause
ABC's Boston Legal, HBO's "Alive Day Memories: Home From Iraq" and Discovery Channel's Planet Earth are among the recipients of the inaugural Television Academy Honors, which recognize "television with a conscience."
Rounding out the list of nine honorees are Lifetime's movie Girl, Positive and its recently canceled series Side Order of Life, the CNN documentary God's Warriers, the Harm episode of NBC's "Law & Order: SVU," CBS' Hallmark Hall of Fame movie Pictures of Hollis Woods and the Showtime documentary Shame.
The Television Academy Honors, an outgrowth of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Television Cares Committee, are set to be presented May 1 at the Beverly Hills Hotel at a ceremony produced by Phil Gurin (NBC's The Singing Bee).
ATAS chairman and CEO John Shaffner said nearly 200 submissions were received following the call for entries in December.
"It was very difficult to narrow them down to a final group of honorees," he said. "However, we felt the shows and movies we selected best represent what this honor stands for -- programming that enlightens, educates, creates awareness and instigates positive change regarding a wide range of social and health issues."
Shaffner noted that the nine honorees also represent a range of genres, subject material and networks.
Rounding out the list of nine honorees are Lifetime's movie Girl, Positive and its recently canceled series Side Order of Life, the CNN documentary God's Warriers, the Harm episode of NBC's "Law & Order: SVU," CBS' Hallmark Hall of Fame movie Pictures of Hollis Woods and the Showtime documentary Shame.
The Television Academy Honors, an outgrowth of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Television Cares Committee, are set to be presented May 1 at the Beverly Hills Hotel at a ceremony produced by Phil Gurin (NBC's The Singing Bee).
ATAS chairman and CEO John Shaffner said nearly 200 submissions were received following the call for entries in December.
"It was very difficult to narrow them down to a final group of honorees," he said. "However, we felt the shows and movies we selected best represent what this honor stands for -- programming that enlightens, educates, creates awareness and instigates positive change regarding a wide range of social and health issues."
Shaffner noted that the nine honorees also represent a range of genres, subject material and networks.
- 3/21/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Tupper tapped for Welles biopic
Men in Trees star James Tupper will portray actor Joseph Cotten in Richard Linklater's indie biopic Me and Orson Welles with Claire Danes and Zac Efron.
Tupper, who recently signed with ICM for representation, will portray the star whose career was launched with roles in Welles' classic Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons. He starred in several Alfred Hitchcock films and memorably tangled with Welles in the 1949 thriller The Third Man
Holly Gent Palmo and Vincent Palmo Jr. adapted the screenplay from Robert Kaplow's 2003 novel, which follows a teen (Efron) who is cast in Welles' 1937 Broadway staging of Julius Caesar opposite Cotten. Principal photography has begun in the Isle of Man, London and New York.
Tupper recently starred opposite Sissy Spacek and Alfre Woodard in the CBS telefilm Pictures of Hollis Woods.
Marc Samuelson, Anne Carli and Linklater are producing the film with financing from the Isle of Man Film Commission and Framestore Feature. Steve Christian, John Sloss and Steve Norris are executive producing, and Sloss' Cinetic Media is handling domestic sales.
Tupper, who recently signed with ICM for representation, will portray the star whose career was launched with roles in Welles' classic Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons. He starred in several Alfred Hitchcock films and memorably tangled with Welles in the 1949 thriller The Third Man
Holly Gent Palmo and Vincent Palmo Jr. adapted the screenplay from Robert Kaplow's 2003 novel, which follows a teen (Efron) who is cast in Welles' 1937 Broadway staging of Julius Caesar opposite Cotten. Principal photography has begun in the Isle of Man, London and New York.
Tupper recently starred opposite Sissy Spacek and Alfre Woodard in the CBS telefilm Pictures of Hollis Woods.
Marc Samuelson, Anne Carli and Linklater are producing the film with financing from the Isle of Man Film Commission and Framestore Feature. Steve Christian, John Sloss and Steve Norris are executive producing, and Sloss' Cinetic Media is handling domestic sales.
- 3/6/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
'Woods' telepic on path to CBS
CBS has greenlighted Pictures of Hollis Woods, a Hallmark Hall of Fame telefilm to star Academy Award winner Sissy Spacek, nominee Alfre Woodard and James Tupper.
Based on Patricia Reilly Giff's book, Woods centers on 12-year-old Hollis Woods (Jodelle Ferland) who, after being abandoned as a baby, has bounced around the foster-care system until she meets a quirky retired art teacher Josie (Spacek) who understands her and gives her unconditional love. However, Josie's difficulty remembering things gets progressively worse, and Hollis becomes the caregiver.
Woodard will play the girl's more than patient social worker. Tupper will play a husband and father of Hollis' previous foster family who wanted to adopt her until tragedy struck.
Emmy winner Ann Peacock (A Lesson Before Dying) adapted the book to the small screen. Tony Bill (Flyboys) is directing the film, which is in production in Victoria, B.C.
Brent Shields (The Valley of Light) is executive producing. Dan Paulson (Full Court Miracle) is producing.
Based on Patricia Reilly Giff's book, Woods centers on 12-year-old Hollis Woods (Jodelle Ferland) who, after being abandoned as a baby, has bounced around the foster-care system until she meets a quirky retired art teacher Josie (Spacek) who understands her and gives her unconditional love. However, Josie's difficulty remembering things gets progressively worse, and Hollis becomes the caregiver.
Woodard will play the girl's more than patient social worker. Tupper will play a husband and father of Hollis' previous foster family who wanted to adopt her until tragedy struck.
Emmy winner Ann Peacock (A Lesson Before Dying) adapted the book to the small screen. Tony Bill (Flyboys) is directing the film, which is in production in Victoria, B.C.
Brent Shields (The Valley of Light) is executive producing. Dan Paulson (Full Court Miracle) is producing.
- 7/16/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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