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‘Fosse/Verdon’ – Michelle Williams Interview on Playing Gwen Verdon in the FX Limited Series

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Fred Topel
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Michelle Williams as Gwen Verdon and Sam Rockwell as Bob Fosse in ‘Fosse/Verdon’ (Photo by Pari Dukovic/FX)

FX’s latest biographical limited series is Fosse/Verdon, the story of the romance and collaboration between Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon. Oscar winner Sam Rockwell plays Fosse and four-time Oscar nominee Michelle Williams plays Verdon. The premiere episode already features scenes involving the films Sweet Charity and Cabaret.

Williams was on a Television Critics Association panel for Fosse/Verdon with Rockwell and the show’s creators, including Verdon’s daughter Nicole Fosse. After the panel, Williams spoke with reporters more about the role of Gwen Verdon and Showbiz Junkies was there. Fosse/Verdon premieres on Tuesday, April 9, 2019 at 10pm ET/PT.

Does doing Fosse/Verdon feel very different than when you were on broadcast network with Dawson’s Creek?

Michelle Williams: “It does, yeah. It feels like a totally different landscape from what I remember.”

Is it more like doing a long movie?

Michelle Williams: “It is. It’s like making eight movies.”

What appeals to you about the Fosse/Verdon love story?

Michelle Williams: “It’s sort of the fact that they were very different people but they were twin souls. I think of them as having like a golden thread that connected them and the thread would contract and the thread would expand but it was always there.”

Does that make you believe in soul mates?

Michelle Williams: “Oh gosh, I mean, I guess so. But I think there can be all different [kinds]. I think your soul mate can be your pet too. I think there’s a lot of souls with a lot of matches throughout a long life.”

Did you connect with Verdon’s motherhood vs. career struggle?

Michelle Williams: “Very much, yeah. It’s one of the challenges that’s most on the forefront of my mind, and all of my friends who are working mothers, is how to get comfortable with the fact that balance is not a place that you arrive at. It’s something that you are constantly teetering on the edge of. So getting comfortable with the fact that something is going to rise as something else falls. So to get comfortable with that fact that something is always going to be a little bit underserved in a life where you’re trying to accomplish two things at the same time.”

There are so many great Tony Awards moments and film works of Verdon. Did you watch them over and over again?

Michelle Williams: “I’ve seen as much as I think is available. I keep coursing through the internet late at night. I’m like, ‘Did I miss anything, did I miss anything?’ But I love spending time with her. Wherever I can find her, however I can find her. If you haven’t seen her dance, you really owe it to yourself to just turn on YouTube and find her doing these pieces that I haven’t been familiar with, because she was totally unparalleled.”

What do you think her best number was?

Michelle Williams: “Oh, God, that’s so hard. I love this dance she does called Herbie Fitch.”

What was the biggest challenge about playing this character?

Michelle Williams: “Probably one of my biggest challenges, she was the greatest dancer of her time. That represents itself in a very physical way that’s been really challenging to attain.”

What do you admire most about her?

Michelle Williams: “Her work ethic and her commitment to excellence in every area of her life.”

Do you seek out real-life characters to play like Marilyn Monroe, Gwen Verdon and you might play Janis Joplin?

Michelle Williams: “I do seem to enjoy that. I don’t know really what that’s all about for me, but they do seem to come my way and I do seem to say yes when they’re in front of me.”

Would you ever do a Dawson’s Creek reunion?

Michelle Williams: “Yeah, I’ve said. I think I’ve been waving that flag for a while. Like, why not? Although my character died so I would have to be a ghost.”

A prequel?

Michelle Williams: “A prequel, a prequel, yeah, when they were five.”




‘New Amsterdam’ is Renewed for Season 2

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Rebecca Murray
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Janet Montgomery as Dr. Lauren Bloom and Ryan Eggold as Dr. Max Goodwin in ‘New Amsterdam’ (Photo by: Francisco Roman/NBC)

NBC’s given the medical drama New Amsterdam a second season renewal. The network confirmed the popular series will return after averaging 11.9 viewers during its season one run. Only Manifest ranks higher with adults ages 18 to 49 among new scripted series this season.

Announcing the renewal, NBC Entertainment Scripted Programming Co-Presidents Lisa Katz and Tracey Pakosta said, “We’ve been so excited to see how much audiences have embraced Dr. Max Goodwin and all the characters that make New Amsterdam such an incredibly compelling medical series. Congratulations to David Schulner, Peter Horton, our writers and an amazing cast and crew who have brought these stories to life.”

New Amsterdam is based on Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital, a memoir by Dr. Eric Manheimer. Manheimer produces the series and David Schulner executive produces. Schulner is also a season one writer.

The cast of season one includes Ryan Eggold as Dr. Max Goodwin, Janet Montgomery (Salem, This Is Us) as Dr. Lauren Bloom, Tyler Labine (Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency) as Dr. Iggy Frome, and Jocko Sims (The Last Ship, Masters of Sex) as Dr. Floyd Reynolds. Freema Agyeman (Sense8, The Carrie Diaries) is Dr. Helen Sharpe, and J Anupam Kher (The Indian Detective) plays Dr. Vijay Kapoor.

The popular dramatic series currently airs on Tuesdays at 10pm ET/PT.

The Season 1 Plot:

“Inspired by Bellevue, the oldest public hospital in America, this unique medical drama follows the brilliant and charming Dr. Max Goodwin (Eggold), the institution’s newest medical director who sets out to tear up the bureaucracy and provide exceptional care. How can he help? Well, the doctors and staff have heard this before. Not taking “no” for an answer, Dr. Goodwin must disrupt the status quo and prove he will stop at nothing to breathe new life into this understaffed, underfunded and underappreciated hospital — the only one in the world capable of treating Ebola patients, prisoners from Rikers and the President of the United States under one roof — and return it to the glory that put it on the map.”




‘Y: The Last Man’ Series Earns a Full Season Order

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Rebecca Murray
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Y TV Show
A scene from ‘Y’ (Photo by Macall Polay/FX)

In April 2018, FX gave a pilot order to Y: The Last Man based on the popular comic book series. Today, the network’s confirmed the series is moving forward. FX has placed a first season order for Y and is targeting a 2020 premiere.

The Y: The Last Man comics by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra premiered in 2002. The 60 issue comic book series has earned three Eisner Awards and achieved the first ever Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story for Y: The Last Man, Volume 10.

Diane Lane leads a cast that includes Barry Keoghan, Imogen Poots, Lashana Lynch, Juliana Canfield, Marin Ireland and Amber Tamblyn. Michael Green (American Gods, Blade Runner 2049, Logan) and Aïda Mashaka Croal (Luke Cage, Turn) are the season one showrunners and serve as executive producers. Brian K. Vaughan, Nina Jacobson, and Brad Simpson developed the series and also executive produce. The pilot episode was directed by executive producer Melina Matsoukas (Insecure, Master of None).


“Y: The Last Man is a towering achievement among graphic novel storytelling and it’s been rewarding to work with this outstanding team,” said Co-President of Original Programming, FX Networks and FX Productions Nick Grad. “Michael Green and Aïda Mashaka Croal have partnered with Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson to deliver a stunning new expression of this fascinating and timely story. Melina Matsoukas, who directed the pilot, did an incredible job bringing it to life with Diane Lane and this stellar cast.”

“Brian and Pia’s exploration of a world without men is a favorite for its depth, its humor, its insights and its monkey,” said showrunners Croal and Green. “Adapted today it offers us a cracked mirror to look at our own very cracked world. We thank them for their trust — we thank FX for their support — and we thank the casting gods for letting us work with this incredible group of actors.”

Executive producers Jacobson and Simpson added, “Y is our favorite comic book series ever and we are thrilled to FINALLY bring it to the screen. We are grateful that Brian entrusted it to us and FX, and can’t wait for the world to see Michael and Aïda’s adaptation.”

The Plot:

All of the men are dead. But one. Y traverses a post-apocalyptic world in which a cataclysmic event has decimated every male save for one lone human. The new world order of women will explore gender, race, class and survival.




‘What We Do in the Shadows’ Gets a March Premiere and an Official Trailer

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Rebecca Murray
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What We Do in the Shadows
Kayvan Novak as Nandor, Harvey Guillen as Guillermo, Matt Berry as Laszlo in ‘What We Do in the Shadows’ (Photo by John P Johnson/FX)

2014’s funniest film, What We Do in the Shadows, spawned what hopefully will be an equally entertaining series. FX has just released the first official trailer for the series, and it appears the vampire comedy’s captured the tone and humor of the feature film. Which makes sense as both the film and the series come from Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords) and Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok, Hunt for the Wilderpeople).

Season one consists of 10 episodes executive produced by Clement, Waititi, Paul Simms, Scott Rudin, Garrett Basch, and Eli Bush. The cast includes Matt Berry, Kayvan Novak, Natasia Demetriou, Harvey Guillén, Beanie Feldstein, and Mark Proksch.

What We Do in the Shadows will premiere on March 27, 2019. The first season will air on Wednesdays at 10pm ET/PT.

The Plot and Characters, Courtesy of FX:

“Based on the feature film of the same name from Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, What We Do in the Shadows is a documentary-style look into the daily (or rather, nightly) lives of four vampires who’ve ‘lived’ together for hundreds of years. In Staten Island.

The self-appointed leader of the group is ‘Nandor The Relentless’ (Novak), a great warrior and conqueror from the Ottoman Empire, who has taken the helm of the group despite many of his Old World tactics resulting in what some might politely refer to as bupkis. Then there’s the British vampire ‘“Laszlo’ (Berry) – a bit of a rogue and a dandy and a fop, he might say. He’s a lover of mischief and a great soirée, but not as much as he loves seeing Nandor fail miserably in every attempt. And then there’s ‘Nadja’ (Demetriou): the seductress, the temptress, the vampiric Bonnie to Laszlo’s Clyde. Her wisdom and provocative tales from times past allow us insight into the many ups and downs of living an immortal life.

Also cohabiting in the vampire household is ‘Guillermo’ (Guillén), Nandor’s familiar (a.k.a. servant/protector during the daylight hours), who wants nothing more than to be made a real vampire just like his master. Also lurking about is ‘Colin Robinson’ (Proksch), an energy vampire and day-walker of sorts — he feasts on humans, but not on their blood. A frequent visitor is Nadja’s new friend, ‘Jenna’ (Feldstein), a student at a nearby community college. She loves LARPing, boys, and art history, and for some reason has been rather confused lately as to why it is she so ravenously craves the flesh of the living.

After an unexpected visit from their dark lord and leader, ‘Baron Afanas,’ the vampires are reminded of what they were initially tasked with upon their arrival in Staten Island over a hundred years ago – total and complete domination of the New World. But what exactly is the best way to go about achieving said domination? Our vérité camera crew follows along as the vampires set out to answer this query.”




‘Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark’ Super Bowl TV Spots: 4 Brief Clips of the Creatures

By
Rebecca Murray
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Poster for ‘Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark’ (Photo Credit: CBS Films and Lionsgate)

CBS Films and Lionsgate have released four super short clips from the upcoming horror film, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. The four TV spots aired during the Super Bowl and introduced audiences to a member of the walking dead searching for his/her big toe. We also caught a glimpse of the Pale Lady, the Jangly Man, and a red bump that’s more than just a simple pimple.

The cast includes Michael Garza (Wayward Pines, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1), Austin Abrams (Brad’s Status, The Americans), Gabriel Rush (Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel), Austin Zajur (Fist Fight, Kidding), and Natalie Ganzhorn (Make it Pop, Wet Bum). Zoe Colletti (Rubicon), Dean Norris (Claws, The Big Bang Theory), Gil Bellows (Patriot), and Lorraine Toussaint (Into the Badlands, The Fosters) are also part of the ensemble of the big screen adaptation of Alvin Schwartz’s work.

André Øvredal directed from a screenplay by Daniel Hageman, Kevin Hageman, and Guillermo del Toro. Sean Daniel, Jason F. Brown, J. Miles Dale, Elizabeth Grave, and Guillermo del Toro produced.

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark will open in theaters on August 9, 2019.

The Plot:

It’s l968 in America. Change is blowing in the wind…but seemingly far removed from the unrest in the cities is the small town of Mill Valley where for generations, the shadow of the Bellows family has loomed large. It is in their mansion on the edge of town that Sarah, a young girl with horrible secrets, turned her tortured life into a series of scary stories, written in a book that has transcended time—stories that have a way of becoming all too real for a group of teenagers who discover Sarah’s terrifying tome.





‘Toy Story 4’ Super Bowl TV Spot: Buzz is a Real Prize

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Rebecca Murray
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Disney introduced a brand new 30-second Toy Story 4 TV spot during the super boring Super Bowl. The new teaser for the fourth film of the critically acclaimed franchise finds Buzz, Woody, and Bo Peep set to spend a fun day at a carnival. Unfortunately, Buzz is mistaken for a prize and his prime position on the give-away board angers a very aggressive bird.

In addition to Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, and Annie Potts, the voice cast includes Joan Cusack, Don Rickles, Estelle Harris, Wallace Shawn, Pixar good luck charm John Ratzenberger, Jeff Pidgeon, and Blake Clark.

Josh Cooley (Riley’s First Date?) directed and Jonas Rivera (Inside Out, Up) and Mark Nielsen (associate producer Inside Out) produced.

Toy Story 4 is set to open in theaters on June 21, 2019.

The original Toy Story opened on November 22, 1995 and marked the first film to be fully computer animated. The ground-breaking film scored three Oscar nominations and two Golden Globes. Toy Story 2 followed and became the first feature film to be created, mastered and exhibited digitally, according to Disney. It also set a new record by becoming the first sequel to pass the original film’s box office gross.

Toy Story 3 hit theaters in 2010 and won two Oscars: best animated feature film and best achievement in music written for motion pictures, original song (Randy Newman/“We Belong Together”).

The Toy Story 4 Plot:

“Woody (voice of Tom Hanks) has always been confident about his place in the world, and that his priority is taking care of his kid, whether that’s Andy or Bonnie. So when Bonnie’s beloved new craft-project-turned-toy, Forky (voice of Tony Hale), declares himself as “trash” and not a toy, Woody takes it upon himself to show Forky why he should embrace being a toy. But when Bonnie takes the whole gang on her family’s road trip excursion, Woody ends up on an unexpected detour that includes a reunion with his long-lost friend Bo Peep (voice of Annie Potts).

After years of being on her own, Bo’s adventurous spirit and life on the road belie her delicate porcelain exterior. As Woody and Bo realize they’re worlds apart when it comes to life as a toy, they soon come to find that’s the least of their worries.”

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Buzz (Tim Allen), Ducky (Keegan-Michael Key), and Bunny (Jordan Peele) in ‘Toy Story 4’ (Photo © 2019 Disney•Pixar)




‘The Twilight Zone’ Super Bowl Spot: Step Through the Door Into Another Dimension

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Rebecca Murray
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CBS All Access’ The Twilight Zone, a revival/reimagining of the classic series, showed off a new TV spot during the 2019 Super Bowl. The extended cut of the teaser trailer begins by mimicking the Super Bowl broadcast. The screen pixelates and a message appears saying CBS is off the air.

The stadium is emptied as The Twilight Zone host, narrator, and producer Jordan Peele appears on the field at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. “Witness an empty space filled with thousands of screaming people. A man both nowhere and everywhere at the same time. Answers are new questions. The unthinkable is the expected. When truth is not the truth, what dimension are you even in?” asks Peele.

The TV spot ends with Jordan Peele opening a door, stepping through and disappearing.

The iconic Twilight Zone door was assembled on the 50-yard line, according to CBS All Access. The network confirmed the show’s first TV spot was shot one night in January.


CBS All Access has set an April 1, 2019 premiere date for season one. Two episodes will be released on April 1st followed by new episodes every Thursday beginning April 11th.

The first season’s cast includes Taissa Farmiga (American Horror Story anthology series), Rhea Seehorn (Better Call Saul), Luke Kirby (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), and Ike Barinholtz (The Oath). John Cho (Searching), Allison Tolman (Good Girls), Jacob Tremblay (The Book of Henry), Greg Kinnear (House of Cards), Sanaa Lathan (The Affair), Kumail Nanjiani (Silicon Valley), Adam Scott (Parks and Recreation), Jessica Williams (Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald), DeWanda Wise (She’s Gotta Have It), and Steven Yeun (The Walking Dead) will also be featured in the season one cast.

Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions, Simon Kinberg’s Genre Films, and CBS Television Studios are producing. Kinberg, Win Rosenfeld, Audrey Chon, Glen Morgan, Carol Serling, Rick Berg and Greg Yaitanes are also on board as executive producers.

More on The Twilight Zone, Courtesy of CBS All Access:

“The original The Twilight Zone premiered on Oct. 2, 1959 on CBS. The series took viewers to another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind. “The Twilight Zone” became a worldwide phenomenon as it used socially conscious storytelling to explore the human condition and culture of the times. It was a journey into a wondrous land of imagination for five years on CBS, from 1959 to 1964. The godfather of sci-fi series, the show explored humanity’s hopes, despairs, prides and prejudices in metaphoric ways conventional dramas could not. Every episode of the original series is available to stream now on CBS All Access.”




‘Game of Thrones’ Surprises with a Bud Light Ad Featuring The Mountain

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Rebecca Murray
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I read a headline describing a Game of Thrones Budweiser ad and thought it had to be a joke. But, it’s not. It’s also not an early April Fool’s Day trick. What it is is a surprise crossover that caught everyone off guard.

HBO’s Game of Thrones shocked Super Bowl viewers with the debut of an ad that initially appears to be a normal Bud Light promo spot. Knights are ready to joist for a king and queen while the crowd cheers, “Dilly dilly.” The joust is quickly over as one of the participants is unseated.

As the knight lies prone and motionless, The Mountain walks over and stands above him. He does to the knight what he did to Oberyn Martell (played by Narcos’ Pedro Pascal), although thankfully for those munching on Super Bowl snacks we don’t see the gruesome aftermath. The Mountain’s attack is interrupted by the arrival of one of Daenerys’ dragons. The TV spot ends with the arena going up in flames.

HBO’s set an April 14, 2019 premiere date for season eight, the final season, of the award-winning fantasy series.

The actor who plays The Mountain, Hafþór J Björnsson, took to Twitter to comment on the ad:

Game of Thrones Bud Light Ad

‘Captain Marvel’ Unveils a New Trailer During the Super Bowl

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Rebecca Murray
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Marvel Studios has released a brand new lengthy trailer for Captain Marvel starring Brie Larson in the title role. The new trailer’s jam-packed with action, yet it also manages to squeeze in some new details on this highly anticipated comic book adaptation. The second full trailer provides new details on Carol Danvers’ backstory and new clues as to what Captain Marvel knows about her origin.

The latest trailer debuted during the 2019 Super Bowl featuring the Los Angeles Rams and the New England Patriots.

In addition to Brie Larson, the Captain Marvel cast features Samuel L Jackson as Nick Fury, Ben Mendelsohn as Talos, Djimon Hounsou as Korath, Guardians of the Galaxy‘s Lee Pace as Ronan, and Lashana Lynch as Maria Rambeau. The cast also includes Gemma Chan as Minn-Erva, Rune Temte as Bron-Char, Algenis Perez Soto, Mckenna Grace as the young Carol Danvers, Annette Bening, Jude Law as Starforce, and Clark Gregg as Agent Phil Coulson.

The filmmaking team of Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (It’s Kind of a Funny Story, Mississippi Grind) directed and wrote the screenplay with Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Jac Schaeffer. The story’s by Boden, Fleck, Robertson-Dworet, Nicole Perlman, and Meg LeFauve. Marvel’s Kevin Feige produced and Louis D’Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Jonathan Schwartz, Patricia Whitcher and Stan Lee executive produced.

The behind the scenes team includes cinematographer Ben Davis, editors Debbie Berman and Elliot Graham, production designer Andy Nicholson, and costume designer Sanja Milkovic Hays.

Marvel Studios will release Captain Marvel in theaters on March 8, 2019.

The Plot:

Set in the 1990s, Marvel Studios’ Captain Marvel is an all-new adventure from a previously unseen period in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe that follows the journey of Carol Danvers as she becomes one of the universe’s most powerful heroes. While a galactic war between two alien races reaches Earth, Danvers finds herself and a small cadre of allies at the center of the maelstrom.

Captain Marvel star Brie Larson
Brie Larson stars as in ‘Captain Marvel’ (Photo: Chuck Zlotnick
© Marvel Studios 2019)




‘Avengers: Endgame’ Super Bowl TV Spot: The Team Hasn’t Given Up

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Rebecca Murray
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“Some people move on, but not us,” says Chris Evans as Captain America in a voice-over. The 30 second teaser from Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame aired during the 2019 Super Bowl which pitted the Los Angeles Rams against the New England Patriots. Marvel knows how to tease a property, and they have a history of showing off new footage during the Super Bowl. In fact, occasionally their trailers are the best thing about the big game.

The short video definitely takes place a while after the events of Avengers: Infinity War. The much-anticipated 2019 comic-book inspired film stars Chris Evans, Brie Larson, Evangeline Lilly, Paul Rudd, Chris Hemsworth, Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Chadwick Boseman, and Sebastian Stan. Bradley Cooper returns as Rocket.

The 21st Marvel Studios film was directed by Joe and Anthony Russo, the team behind Captain America: Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, and Avengers: Infinity War. Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, writers of all three Captain America films and Infinity War, wrote the Endgame script.

Marvel and Disney will be releasing Avengers: Endgame in theaters on April 26, 2019.

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