Oscar-winning director Steven Spielberg is about to welcome TV viewers to NBC’s Summer time Olympics protection by narrating the quick movie Land of Tales simply earlier than the opening ceremony in Paris on July 26. NBCUniversal, set to cowl the Olympic Summer time Video games, stated the Munich director would seem within the four-minute movie, which … Read more
The notoriously tumultuous making-of story behind Steven Spielberg‘s hit Jaws and the writing of its best-selling supply materials by Peter Benchley is getting the documentary therapy. Timed to the fiftieth anniversary of the 1975 movie, Nat Geo has greenlit Jaws @ 50 (working title), a doc function that can concentrate on each the Spielberg movie … Read more
Common has landed the rights to Erasure writer Percival Everett’s James, and is assembling a group of Oscar-winners to deliver it to the display. Steven Spielberg will government produce the undertaking by way of his Amblin Companions, with Taika Waititi in early talks to direct the variation. The bundle comes after American Fiction, an adaptation … Read more
Susan Backlinie, the stuntperson and actress who as a younger skinny-dipper out for a nighttime swim off the coast of Amity Island grew to become the shark’s first sufferer in Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, has died. She was 77. Backlinie died Saturday at her residence in Ventura, California, her conference agent, Matthew Templeton, instructed The Day … Read more
The Tribeca Competition has set its talks, reunions and retrospective screenings for its 2024 version. The pageant’s Storytellers collection will function talks with Judd Apatow, Andy Cohen, Kieran Culkin, Michael Stipe, Laverne Cox, Kerry Washington in dialog with Nicole Avant and Jon Batiste celebrating Nat King Cole with writer and music journalist Marcus J. Moore. … Read more