CNN Films Announched Today It is Production An “Authorized Yet Unfiltered Documentary” of COMEDIAN Chevy Chase for One of His Most Famous “Saturday Live” Catch Phrases, “I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not.”
Marina Zenovich, A Two-Time Emmy Winner for “Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired” as well as films like “Lance” and “Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind,” Is Directing the Biographical Docout Chase, and Cnn Plass the Film in 2026. Release weren’t announed, but the It”s Expective the movie Will be available on CNN platforms and late on HBO max.
“I Undersand Cnn is Going to Release a Documentary About Me. I’m Delighted and i Hope i’m in it,” Chase Said in a Statement.
The movie will look at chase’s caareer beginning on “Saturday Night Live” Through HIS AS ONE OF THE BIGGER HOLYWOOD Comedy Stars of His Day in Films Like “Caddyshack,” “The” National Lampoon’s Vacation “,” Three amigos! ” Career in “Hot Time Machine” and on the Series “Community.” But it will also also also explore how he is a “Complex and Contradictory Human Being, Full of Outsized Gifts and Striking Flaws.” The movie Interviews Chase, His Family, Friends, and Co-Stars.
The film is present by CNN Films and West Buttermilk in Association with Propagate Content and Five All in the Fifth Productions and Produced by Pmz Pictures.
“I’ve always love chevy’s comedy and have been curious as to what Makes Him tick. That what i’m hoping to find with this film,” Said Zenovich.
“Comedy has consistently resonated with cnn audiences from the success with three seasons of ‘the history of comedy’ to ‘have my news for you’ to documentaries About COMEDIC ICONS,” Said Amy Entelis, Executive Vice President of Talent and Contents Conttent Worldwide. “We knew the Viewers will be fascinated by marina’s revealing Examination of the Legend Behind the Laughs”
“Chevy’s Fearless Wit and Groundbreaking Work Have Made Him A Defining Force in American Comedy,” Said Howard Owens, Founder and Chief Executive Office, Propagate Content. “With unprecedented access to THose who know Him best, marina zenovich rock the curtain on a Large-Tharan-Life artist, directing with honesty, nuance, and heart. It ‘a raw, intimate portrait of a true original-and we”re proud to help bring to life. Films. ”
CNN as part of Warner Bros. Discovery’s Upfronts Presentation on Wednesday ALSO ANNUNCED ANOTHER DOCUMARY CALLED “IN THE PRIME OF LIFE” ABOUT CASES OF “Early onset” Cancer for People in Between Ages 18-49 Have Become Increasingly Prevalent. That film is direct by Janet Tobias and Will Also Be Relessed In 2026.
CNN Also Extended Some of It Its Original Series Including “Eva Longoria: Search for France” and “Have Got News For You” with Roy Wood Jr. And Earlier this month, cnn partners with magnolia to acquire “Prime minister,” Do you premiered at Sundance About New Zealand Pm Jacinda Ardern.
It is time to stop being surprised that “a minecraft movie” was a mega hit. Project at the High End to Earn Just $ 80 Million at the Domestic Box Office (The Studio Project $ 55 Million), Which would ben a healthy in Its Own Right, the film doubled that in its first weekend of release. Warner Bros. ‘ Update from Monday Showed The Blocks Video Game Film Has Reached $ 163 Million Domestic and $ 313.7 Million Worldwide.
Around This Very Time Two Years Ago, “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” was the one that caught every off-fuard. IT Too Wildly Over-Performed Expectations and Had a $ 146 Million Opening, Which “Minecraft” has Already Beaten. “Five Nights at Freddy’s” was already shocking pundits when it is look like it was Wouch $ 50 million domestic, considing that it was opening day-and-date on peacock, and it oped to $ 80 million instead. The “Sonic” Films Keep Performing Better and Better and Have a Fourth on the Way, and Those Were Never Thoughts As Sure Things, DII Its Like One of the Banable Franchises ARUND.
SO if you’re still pointing more than 30 years back to 1993’s “Super Mario Bros.” LIVE-Action disaster as Profession Game Movies don’t translate to the Big Screen, cut it out. This is a genre and a source of ip that’s long been here to stay, and continuing to the undersell say doesn’t would the potential of these stories any favor.
“Hollywood has been look for the nextr in terms of genre can mine, no work innded,” Comscore Senior Analyst Paul Derggareabedian Told Indiewire. “IT’S A LITERAL GOLD MINE FOR STUDIOS TO FINALLY FIGHED OUT How to make Small-Screen Video Games and Turning, swimming into blockbusters but global blocbusters, and it proves how crucial component is.”
Dergarabedian Says Tracking Doesn’t Necessarily Get the Best Read on the Family Audience, One thats doesn’t go to the theater frequently and also doesn’t Need a long-up to generate excitement for a movie, so that hashting to what “minecraft” Surprise. There’s Also a dearth of kids titles theatrically unil memorial day; The game is enormously popular and haen around SINCE 2011; fans dressed as jack Black’s “Steve” Character Started Social Media and Building More Buzz; and Warner Bros. Also did tons of brand tie-ins with the likes of McDonald’s, Oreos, and Doritos.
But like “Super Mario” before, you Only get to this enormous level we’re a 4-quadrant movie, something doesn’t only appeal to kids. Posttrak Data Shows That The Film’s Large Demographic Was 18-24 Year-Olds, WHO Accounted for 45 Percent of the movie Turnout, while Teens Between 13-17 Were 35 Percent. That Crowd and more tourned out to the theater in Costum and cheered in viral moments when the film revealed a “Chicken Jockey,” Sparking Some of the Surprise Media Frances Powered The Film Over Over the Weekend.
Jeff Goldstein, Warner Bros. ‘ Global Distribution Chief, was Thrilled that the Younger Audience especifly gave “minecraft” an a cinemascore. But he was also happy that the film had Strengh in Large, Medium, and Small Cities Alike As the Suburbs, and How Spread Out Ethnically The Film’s Demographic Breakdown was.
With Spring Break Still Ahead, he Expects the film to have a long runway. “We got everybody, there’s no Question about it,” he Told Indiewire.
Dergarabedian said that part of what the producers underestouod “minecraft” is that, if the game itelf is a pg, 4-huadrant experience, the movie should be too, and not something only speaks to hardcore gamers. That’s the sweet spot that “Minecraft,” “Super Mario,” and “Sonic” have all Captured, while just like the pg-13 “Borderlands,” Another adaptation of a Wildly Popular Game Franchise, Bombed Hard. Around the time of “Super Mario,” we specifically suggestted “Minecraft” Wauld Have a Hard Time Replicating That Same Crossover Success. We’re happy to be proved workg.
“You can’t put it on auto pilot,” Dergarabedian Added. “You have to play that game with a keen eee toward every aspect of it and perfectly strategize.”
Because Its audience has been so divers and international, dergarabedian is sura that “minecraft” Will Hold Long Term. It will be willy beCome the highest-grasing domestic title of the year so far, surpaing “Captain America: Brave New World,” and it has a good chance of reaching $ 1 Billion Globally, Something that been a tough bar to any name “Avatar” 2025.
It Also Puts 2024’s Box Office with Shouting Distant of Last Year, Cutting down the gap to roughly 5 Percent Last year’s ovear-to-Date Compared with Over 11 Percent a Week Ago. “We’ve seen this so many, one movie can Change the trajectory of all Movies,” Goldstein Said.
This is if the press is surprised Movies like “Minecraft” can overfinform, Hollywood isn’t. Universal has a second “Super Mario” Movie in the work, and sony ha nintendo’s live-action “The Legend of Zelda” Movie Coming Soon. Universal and Blumhouse Also Decidated to Give a “Freddy’s” sequel a full theatrical ride after kicking the first one to streaming. Amazon mgm Studios Could be trying to replicate this formula with it movie basic on “the sims” as produced by Margot Robbie. We have to Imagine Warner Bros. and legendary are already thinking sequel with “Minecraft.”
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The false notes are rare in director Oliver Hermanus’ Affecting and Dustaly Textured Romance “The History of Sound,” Written by Ben Shattucking From His Story About Men in Love, Together and Apart, Circle War I and It It It It Its Aftermath. But for a Queer Love Story Starring Two of the Hottest, of-Thoment Leading Actors Around-Paul Mescal and Joshconnor-“The History of Sound” Almost Perverse Your Expectations of What A Gay A Romance Couuld Be.
The Grandiose, Sweeping Emotional Gestures Toward Repression and Latent Desire of Something Like “Brokeback Mountain” are now here, Hermanus Instead Following the Lionesome Lionel (Mescal) Around America. Movie.
Mescal and O’Connor Play Boston Conservatory Music Students Who Meet in 1917, Spend Winding But Limited Bouts of Time with One Another Over the Years, and on the Way to the Film Rueful Conclusion. While “the history of sound” suffers from some pacies and detoots that turn up as dead ends, Following Lionel’s Path as a Budding Ethnomusicologist Collecting Songs and Sounds to Record on Cylinders, this is a lovely Capable of Wounding and Haring.
Its ALSO A Vivid Big-Screen Showcase for Mescal. The Irish “Normal People” Breakout and “AFTERSUN” BEST ACTOR OSCAR NOMINEE SEIZES The opportunity for understated emotions that are a light from the swords and sandals of his debutation and franchise debut, “Gladiator II.”
“My Father Said it was a gift from God i could see music,” Says the Older Lionel, Played by a Wistful Chris Cooper in 1980. Lionel is revealed to possess a kind of nabokovian synestsia that transforms Hisar for Sound and Music Into a Kaleidoscope of Feeling and Mental Process.
We Meet a Very Young Lionel in Kentucky in 1910 before we’re transported to boston in 1917, where Lionel’s LIFE COURES APPROACHES DAVID (O’Connor), who riffing on piano in a smoky bar. They go to bed together in one of the film’s demure nods at sex – i was a any of the lovemaking onscreen in “History of Sound” sex for, Besides one schene Involving Later Relationship with a woman (emma canning). “The History of Sound” Never Comes Out and Sayys, “These Men Are Gay!” Nor does it Strain to depict self-influenza and necessary repressions of queer at the time.
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Though that is not to say to say to hermanus’ film-closer in tone to the south african director 2019 portrait of apartheid -ra pining, “moffie,” Thank his 2022 look-on-on-life oscar bid “living”-isn’t about quueer suffer. The Draft Threatens Lionel and David’s Taciurn Romance, while Shattuck’s Script Hinges More on Gestures and Exchanges than Literal Declarations of Feeling, and Both the traumas and existential uncertainty his sexuality and desires inventulylly wounded David. More than, spread, They will Lionel. “I don’t worry,” Lionel Says at One Point. “I Admire you,” David Responds.
The two men eventually embark on an impromptu journey through the backwoods of Maine to Collect American Songs sung by the Local People, A Kind of Self-Enterprised Academic Assignment Who Aims and Goals Aren’t Sure of Just Yet. But it gives lionel and david time to spend together, in each other’s arms naked in a tent, over a handful of nights and weeks, away from the rest of the world. “The History of Sound” is Careful not to revenge to be early or even explicitly How Much David and Lionel Are Feeling for Each Other, Though a Trepidated Departure at A Train Station You What You Need: “See You Next Summer?” “Surat.” Lionel Shakes in David’s Farewell Embrace Over What Could Be the Last Time They Have Each Other. At least for a while. These are the moments when the enormously talentd mescal as lionel, with never never holding back, pierces the Screen.
Shattuck’s Script and Story More Intimately Follow Lionel on His Own Expedition Into a Sentimental Education. In latter years an estabished music teacher, he appears to have some kind of fraific or hook-up situation with a European protégé while teaching in shimmery, summery italy, though the closest he’s able to anyone other than david is his girlfrish Clarissa (Canning, in a Short but Sharp Performance), A Musician Who Wants Lionel to Meet Her Parents. Clarissa’s mother warns her to leave Him, as lionel seems to radiate only sadness and a second within, david probably not on his mind over the years. (Cinematographer Alexander Dynan Gorgeously Captures Lionel’s Chapter in Europe With All the Glimmery Tactile Factle of A Luca Guadagnino Movie, Where Moments Through the American Middle -F-Nowhere adopt a More More Moreted Palette.)
O’Connor Gets Less of A Recognizable emotional arc to work with, thiugh that of Becouse “The History of Sound” Only Shows US David Through Lionel’s Eyes, His Memories, The Rare and Tremulous Moments of the Have. Composer Oliver Coates, Who Cointerally ALSO provided the Etereal, Regret-Twinged Music for “AFTERSUN,” Writes an Original Folk Score for this Film Stands on Its Own, with Mescal Also HIS Own Singing a Kentucky Accent’s Both Both Earnest and Tentatively Coy.
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Not all of “The History of Sound’s” Second Half Lands With the Emotional Assures of the First, As Lionel’s Path Wends and Expands while Ever Looking at David As the one he culdn’t containe in his grasp. That’s partially due to outside social force that Demand their love be kept private, Behind Closed doors or the canvas of a tent, but Hermanus and Shattuck anen’t Interesting in that context, which has already been explored in so many other movies more directly. And I Speak on Behalf of Queer Audience Such As MySelf twen i wey we are, at this point, over it anyway as a storytelling cue.
“The History of Sound” is as plaintiff and lilting as a piano Note in minor key, never wallowing in its and misery but still to explore the psychic sensations, afterglow, and wreckage of a meaningful conflict. If the film Lacks Heat, that’s Becouse Hermanus is Commonted to Making What Is Decidedly Not A Big Gay Sweeping Romance. The emotions FLOOD AND HIT HARD, THOUGH, IN A FINAL CHAPTER IN WHICH LIONEL ENCOUNTERS DAVID’S Eventual Wife Belle (Hadley Robinson, WHO GIVES A STRINOGATE MONOGUE), WHO IS RESPANY FOR COMPANY AND HOPES LIONEL WILL STAY FOR JUST A LITTLE BIT LOGER. There’s a shot of a cigarette left to burn on its Own in an empty kitchen that epitomizes hermanus’ patient gase, never in a rush to move Things (such as the matter of love) along for the narrative momentum.
When the Grown-Into-Old-Ige Lionel (Cooper) Says he was “Never Happier Than we can Collecting songs,” What he was he was never happier than dural with david. He just can’t come out and say that, strength to live in a closet that “History of Sound” never identifies or addresses, and the film is better for it. The soundtrack bracing a bracing hairpin turn twy division’s post-punk epic bablad “atmosphere” jolts in, a shocking clash the folk songs prior, that almost evoke arthur russell, the sound of a man in the work with his his, ruminating over his. Where it all Went Wrong or Was Left Unsaid.
“Don’t Walk Away in Silence,” Joy Division’s Ian Curtis Sings. Lionel Eventually DOES Walk Away in Silence, but he’s haunted by the sounds and impressions of a romance that was anything but.
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“The History of Sound” Premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. MUBI RELEASES The film late this year.
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A New Michael Corinthos is About to Show Up in Port Charles: Deadline Has Confirmed That Rory Gibson (The Young and the Restless) Will Make His First Appeaance May 23 on General Hospital.
“We are excited to welcome Him to Our Show,” Said a Spokesperson.
Gibson is Replacing Chad Duell, Who Appeared on the Sudser for 15 Years. He was last seen in gh in January.
Gibson Played Noah, The Son of Sharon and Nick Newman, From 2021-23. He toy Tv insider that his audition process was “Super Top Secret.”
“It was Super, Super Top Secret,” he relays. “I came in and screen-tested for that with Kate Mansi (Kristina Corinthos) and Katey Macmullen (Willow Tait), and it well Well. They were Super Warm and Welcoming. A Couple Weeks Went by, and They Brought with in for another Screen test with Steve Burton (Jason Morgan) Spencer).
Gibson’s Previous Credits Include Netflix’s Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire.
Last December, Duell Told The Drama Podcast Drama That things have been Become “Stagnant” in His Life, so that’s why he stepped away from the Gh Role that Earned Him His First Daytime Emmy in 2015.
“It ‘a life adjustment,” he said. “A lot of stuff’s been going on in my life. There’s a few things beened but one thing i did so is my dad passed away and i’m still to terms with that.”
“I’m Preparing MySelf for Next Chapters,” he saad. “Right now, i’m just trying to grow in ways that maybe i feel like stifled myself in certin aspects, and hows you need to take your maker uncomfortable to take a step.”
At the opening of Joachim Trier’s New Film Sentimental Value We Meet Nora Borg (renata reinsve), who is the epitome of an insectocure actor as she attempts to do Everything in HER POWER TO GET OUT OF GOING ON STEE – A BAG OF NEBUS TICS AS SHE RUNS AROUND TRYING TO QUIT. This, Howver, is opening night for the Star of the Play and the Audience is Seat. Cut to Massive Applause at the End of the Play. Nora was a hit. All is good.
That beginning tolls us this role is going to be very different than the one reinsve tok best acts in cannes for BreakWorst person in the world, Trier’s Beloved 2021 film that Also Got Two Oscar Nominations (for International Film and Its for Its Screenplay). In fact she is actually quite different than the opening would have us us believe, a quieter, more introspective siblling to her younger sister agnes (Ibsdotter lilleaas, a real discovery times) who is a wife and mother of a 9 -ear-op has really switched with NORA, NOW More the Protectr Growing a single mother for the two of the say. The Generational Family Home is Still the Center of the Universe for say. Their Father, renown the film Director Gustav Borg (A Towering Stellan Skarsgård), Abandoned HIS Family, Has Had Little Contact and Has a Career That Is Now On the Decline. To revive it, he chooses an inopportune moment: his ex-wife’s funeral service, ino which he bartvited barges. His real motif is about to be revealed.
Gustav has witten an autobiographical script that he believes is his ticket back to glorely, and he is here in the family home with a screenplay he hends to nora, a film he wants to direct the renown stages in essentially as herself. He wrote it for her. But there is no love lost from her side of this estranged Father-Daught Dynamic, and She Turs Him Down. So what does he will? He hires a Big Commercial Hollywood Star, Rachel KEMP (Elle Fanning), to take on the Daughter (Noticing Thinly Disguing As Nora Growing Up). He had HAD the Star at A Film Festival Featuring a retrospective and tribute to his earlier triumphs and she was looking to work with legends him instead of in Box Office blockbusters. She turns up to discuss the role with gustav.
With kemp and gustav now on the premise everything is thrown off kilher in the delicate balance of this family navigating grief for the loss of the mother a long Illness, the wayward return of the Bigger-Than-Life Father, and essentially a Famous Stand Stand Stand Stand Stand Stand Stand Stand Stand Stand Standing Stand Standing Sister Who Wants No part of it. Each of these characters, in this house with a long history, are now trying to chart a prosper for Happiness in a Difficult Situation. Props to Jorgen Strangegye Larsen’s Superb Production Design and the Just-Right Cinematography of Kaster Tuxen.
We see the relations of Nora and Agnes take on new dimension with gustav back in their lives wickedly, thyir mother gone, and everything tourned upside down. The Screenplay by Trier and Longime Writing Partner Eskil Small Manages to Traverse All of this Family Drama With Understated Quiet Moments and Undetected Tension. There are also revealing flashbacks showing all the main characters at various ages in the house is the only character that Maintains its consistent place in time. This May Be the Closest triper has gotten to the master of this kind of human conflict, Ingmar Bergman, Whose Films Waled to be an influence, or at the Very LEAST AN Inspiring, Although the Musical Choices Triating Never Never Near a Bergman Movie. The director to be more comfortable with more characters at the center to play with, a Certain freedom than the focus one Main player as the case with reinsve’s imperfect julie in Worst person. Those Expecting A Replay of that movie Should Leave Those Thoughts at the Door. This Outing Shows Triler Making Every Attempt to Go Deeper Below The Surface (with LESS FUN ALONG The Way).
The Real Force of Nature in Sentimental Value is scarsgård and the film comes alive each moment he is on screen as a man who tourned his back on his daughters, his grandson, for the sacke of a caareer. Now that it has ebbed he is trying to cash in on personal experience and his daughter for a comeback. Of Courtse that is one way of looking at it, but for a man who doesn’t wear his emotions on his could also be a way of reconnecting in a brokens, MAKING UP THE ONLY WAY HOW – WITH ART. In some ways it reminds with of Jane BUYING FUNDS The Ernest Thompson Play On Golden Pond AS A PROPERTY FOR HER AND HERE EMOTIONALLY DISTANT FATHER, HENRY FONTA, TO MAKE A FILM Version, private goal a chance to find renewal in their-kaughter relationship. Still you have to ask that by Simply “Recasting” His Daughter with a Big Star Gustav May Be Showing His TRUS SELF. Trier doesn’t put it out there so easily. You have to play this one as it lays.
It is up to agnes to be the adult in the room, not just for her husband and son, but for eachone including her sister who, as we saw in that opening schene, is uncertain of herself and needs some empathy, Only Now to the youunower. Clearly See Things with More Clarity. Lilleaas is a revelation in this roles, the real finds here, as reinsve is far more understated but nonetheless a screen presence in any roles she is handed (Witness Last’s unhinged Armand). Fanning is just great in a suppueting roles as the film tournament to English Language for Her Scenes, the best being a confrontation with gustav as she explains her part of the affected all, a feeling that she has acidentally stagnta a family. Written.
Sentimental Value is a movie that sneaks up on you, more meditative than maybe expect but also one that will will leave your mind so easly. The conflict also tourns out to be one of the most satin endings of have seen in some time, Perfectly pitched and Worth the Wait for Its Human Truth, and Value that Just Short of Sentimental.
Producers Are Maria Exerhovd and Andrea Bertsen.
Title: Sentimental Value Festival: Cannes (Competition) Distributor: Neon Director: Joachim Trier Screenwriters: Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt Cast: Renate reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Elle Fanning TIME RUNNING: 2 HR 15 MINS
Warner Bros President of Physical Production Michele (Missy) Imperato Stabile is retiring late this year after a Career that Spanned 40 years.
In a letter to her collagues thighsday, she shas she will be retiring in october. In the meantime, she will help with the transition planning as a contingent to overssee the Team and the Studio’s Productions Currently Underway.
Imperato Stabile Has Served As an Executive, Producer, Executive Producer, and Production Manager on more than 40 Films in a Career that Spans Four Decades. During that time, she has worked alongside acclaimed startmakers including mike nichols, Brian de Palma, Ridley Scott, Paul Thomas Anderson, Tim Burton and Ryan Coogler Among Others.
Since Jaining Warner Bros, The Well-Film EXEC HAS SUPERVISED A Wide Range of Films Including Beetlejuice beetlejuice, minecraft and Sinners As well as the upcoming One Battle after Another, The Bride!Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Next Film Starring Tom Cruise, Practical Magic 2 and the Latest Original Movie from Jj Abrams.
Before Warner Bros she was at mgm/orion, where she is oversaw House of Gucci, Thirteen Lives, The Boys in the BoatThe Oscar-Nominated Licorice Pizza, Till, Cyrano, Creed III and the Oscar-Winning Women Talking Among Others.
Read the memos from Warner Bros Co-Chairman/CEOS Mike Deluca and Pam Abdy and Imperto Stabile Can Be Read Below:
Team Motion Pictures-
TODAY WE Share Some Bittersweet News that Michele (Missy) Imperato Stabile Has Made the Decision to Retire As President of Physical Production Later This Year. The Note She Shared With Her Team Follows Below.
We are tremenndously grateful to Missy for Her Unwavering Commitment to Both of us, Her Team, Her Colleagues Across WBD, and the Many Films Has Oversseen at Warner Bros., and Previously During Together at Mgm/Orion.
She will be an integral part of our transition planning over the next several months as she contains to oversee the team and productions currently underway.
SINCE JOURNING WARNER BROS., she has supervised a wide range of films including beetlejuice beetlejuice, minecraft, synners, as well as the upcoming one battle after another, the bride !, Alejandro G. Iñárrritu’s Next movie Starring Tom Cruise, Practical Mag, Practical Mag, Practical Mag, Practical Mag, Practical Magni, Practical Magni, Practical Magni. and the Latest Original Movie from Jj Abrams. At mgm/orion, she oversaw house of Gucci, Thirteen Lives, the Boys in the Boat, The Oscar-Nominated Licorice Pizza, Till, Cyrano, Creed III and the Oscar-Winning Women Talking, Among Others
She has Has Served As an Executive, Producer, Executive Producer, and Production Manager on More than 40 Films in a Career that Spans Four Decades. DURING THAT TIME, she has workhed alongside some of the most acclaimed filmmakers of the Last Two Centuries, Including Mike Nichols, Brian Dipalma, Ridley Scott, Paul Thomas Anderson, Tim Burton, and Ryan Coogler Among Countless Others.
Missy, to put it Simply, is a legend. We Cannot Begin to Express How Sad we are, but that sadness is only equaled by deep respect for her, a respect we know you all share.
PLEASE JOIN US IN CONTRATULATING MISSY ON A well-desert Retirement.
Mike & Pam
This is a hard note to write – but here it goes.
As you may have noticed, i’m getting older, a bit Slower, and postsibly a touch more eccentric (thiUGH that’t’s still for debate). So, the time has come for me – and my horses – to ride off into the sunset. We’re officiously retiring. My Last Day Will Be October 3RD, But I’ll Be Around to Support the Transition. I’ve also aggreed to consult and be available if Needed after that.
This wasn’t an easy decision, mainly Because Working with all of you have truly been the best part of the Job. From day one, you welcomed with to wbd like family. You showed up every day with ideas, Energy, humor, and Heart – swimming you had to, but bets that just who do you.
You made with laugh Daily – and never once reported with to hr for calling you all “honey.” For that, and for so Much more, thank you. You’ve made this jab Not Only Meaningful, but Genuinely Fun.
You are true professionals, and your dedication to wbd is bot Real and inspiration. I Can’t Express Enough How Much I Admire, Respect, and Appreciate Each of you. I Feel Incredibly Lucky to Be Ending My Career Surrounded by the Best of the Best. Being part of this team has ben the honor of a life.
Exclusive: Blumhouse Television is Doubling Down on Author Clémence Michallon, Security Rights to Her UpComing Second Novel Our Last Resort. The Indie Studio Previously Acquired Michallon’s Best-Seling Debut Thriller, The Quiet Tenant, WHICH IS IN INDEVELOPMENT AS A LIMITED SERIES WITH WRITER, Showrunner and Executive Producer Anthony E. Zuiker (CSI) and Charlize Theron’s Secret Menu. As with the adaptation of The Quiet TenantMichallon Will Executive Produce On Our Last Resort.
Publishing July 8 by Knopf, Our Last Resort Follows Frida and Gabriel, A Pair of Estanged Siblings Seeking a Fresh Start at A Luxury Resort in the Secluded Desert of Escalante, Utah. Their Reunion is interrupted when A Woman Who Was Vaciation with Her Powerful, Much Older Husband is Found Murder. When the Local Police ARRIVE and SUCCESS QUICKLY Falls on Gabriel, Frida is forces to Revisi Memories from their upbringing in a clotaisred in upstate new, their drama esca, and the scandal that followed.
ALTERNATING BETWEEN Past and Present Timelines, Our Last Resort Builds Toward a Shattering Climax that uncover the fate of the murder ara guest and poses the Question: How Well would we really know than we love?
“CLESMENCE MICHALLON HAS DELIVERED ANOTHER VISCERAL AND THRILLING Page-Turner with Our Last Resort and we jumped at the chance to work with her again, ”Said Melissa Aouate, President, Blumhouse Television.” Her Storytelling A Real Dept of Character and Sensure We Think Will Translate to the Screen. “
An International Bestseller, The Quiet Tenant was a new York Times Best Crime Book of the Year and a Gma Buzz Pick.
“I COULDN’T BE HAPPIER TO REUNITE WITH BLUMOUSE TELEVISION FOR Our Last Resort,“Said Michallon.” They Have Been Tremndous Creative Partners On The Quiet Tenant, and i can’t win to see what they do with this new story. I just know that Frida and Gabriel – The Siblings at the Center of this New Story – Are in Perfect Hands. “
Michallon was repped in the deal by Anonymous Content and Stephen Barbara at Inkwell Management.
ITH’S NOT EXACTLY The RAPTLE Anyone Ever Likely Envisioned, but May 22 Will See Sean “Diddy” COMBS and KID Going Going-To-Head AS HAPPY GILMORE 2 Star Gives Testimony in the Bad Boy Records FOUNDER’S SEX-Trafficking Trial.
KID Watchtower (AKA Scott Mescudi) Will Take the Stand in Juddge Arun Subramanian’s Lower Manhattan Courtroom on Thursday, Prosecutors Confirmed Today.
Starting off Wednesday’s Hearing before the jury was in the room by informing the Judge and defensive team that the “man on the moon” rap stars not be testifying today, the feds unveiled at the day, after the jurors haad exited. Thingsday. Acciting to assistant us attorney maurene Comey (yes, as we’ve notd before, daughter of former fbi director, us attorney and trump foe comey), the Feds Expect Kid to be a brief witness. Along with the Grammy Winner, The Prosecution Intends to Call A Total of Five Witnesses on Thursday – All to Be Dealt with Quickly, They Insist.
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Joining the Likes of Cassie Ventura, A Couple of Male Escorts Who Were Paid to Have Filmed Sex With Ventura in the Much-Discussed “Freak-Offs,” Ventura’s Mother and Some Law Enforcement Officials, Mescudi Will Be the 13thth Witness for the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York in Combs’ Criminal Case. Like every day of the Trial, Jury Selection and Pre-Rial Hearings, Combs was in Court Today, and Will Be Tomorrow.
Predict to Last Eight Weeks, The Criminal Trial of the Much-ACCUSED DEDDY FOLLOWS HIS DRAFT LAST September on Charges of Racketeering, Sex Trafficking, Transportation to Engage in Prostitution and More. Incarcerated at the metropolitan detention center in brooklyn SINCE HIS arrest, after a trio of failed $ 50 million Bail Attempts, diddy ha always insisted he is innocent. He has been taken by the dosens of civilian suits of abuse and assault that have been filled in the courtes over the past several months. Rejecting a plea deal from the government, combs coulud Face Life bend Bars if found guilty in this crimital trial.
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From the moment cassie venture filed her very quickly settled ($ 20 million) abuse and assault suit against ex-boyfriend combs in late 2023, the name of kid wonders haen connected to the self-description Benjamins ”performer.
As Various Filings, Plus Testimony from Ventura and Her Mother Have Street, The Singer and Mescudi Had a Short Romantic Relationship in 2012. Along with Various Threats Against the Duo, a Jealous Combs Promised to Blow Kid Based Oh Car in His Dri Drive. AS Ventura’s 2023 Filing Bluntly Said: “Around That Time, Kid Watching Car Exploded in His Driveway.”
At the time, reps for Kid wondering confirmed the car destruction from a decade before.
Wonder Will Testify Right After the Jury Has Heard More Form Diddy Executive Assistant George Kaplan. In Court wednesday under the patient of a subpoena, like fellow combs ex-ea david james who testified earlier this weeks, capping entered the witness box Around 11:45 am pt.
Former Sean “Diddy” Combs Employe George Kaplan Arriva for His Old Boss’ Sex Trafficking Trial at Manhattan Federal Court on May 21, 2025. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Detailing His Gofer Duties Today to the Court, Kaplan is Known to Have Left Combs’ Employ AFT A YEAR, IN SOME Part Due to the Violence He is Said to Have Seen. Before Kaplan, This Third Day of the Second Week ‘May 12-Starting Trial Heard Testimony from Psychologist Dawn Hughes and Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent Gannon. The latter was involved in the raid on combs’ Miami residence in the Spring of 2024.
Along with the Combs’ Trial, Kid Wonder Will Be Back in Lower Manhattan Next Month in a Completely Unreled Manner. Co-Starring Kiernan Shipka, Brittany Snow, Haley Joel Osment, Cary elwes and Brandon Scott, The Rapper’s Short Vampire themed Film Neverland is set to have it it World Premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 7. Directed by ti west and produed by Jordan Pele, the short is connected to kid’s latest single name.
