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Clint Eastwood is nothing short of a Hollywood legend. His first acting credit dates back to nearly 70 years ago, and he would go on to become a force both in front of and behind the camera, appearing in iconic films like the Dollars trilogy and Dirty Harry, and directing others like Letters From Iwo Jima (2006) and American Sniper (2014). Often, his acting and directing work has overlapped, and these overlaps are some of the most memorable titles of his filmography.

Unforgiven remains Eastwood's most iconic pre-2000s movie as both a director and star, and the new millennium saw see him occupy these dual roles for some notable titles. Million Dollar Baby (2004) and Gran Torino (2008) were hits from the early 2000s, and Eastwood most recently served as star and director for Cry Macho in 2021 at the age of 91. One film before this, however, stands out as a memorable instance of...

The New York Times features interviews every day. In its news report, in its podcasts like The Daily, in The New York Times Magazine.

But there was, to hear deputy managing editor Sam Dolnick explain, something missing.

“We didn’t have the really big flagship audio show that interviewed the biggest names in culture, and a place like The New York Times should,” Dolnick says.

On April 27, the Times will remedy that problem, launching what it is calling The Interview, a new franchise that will include an audio podcast, and a print version that will run in The New York Times Magazine. The Interview will be led by Talk columnist David Marchese, as well as Times audio host Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

“It felt like we had different versions of this with David’s column and some work that Lulu’s done in other parts, but we wanted to kind of build...

FX revealed its spring slate of new and returning series, including the second half of American Horror Story: Delicate, Welcome to Wrexham‘s third season, the new Elisabeth Moss-led spy thriller The Veil, the documentary feature The New York Times Presents: Broken Horses and the limited series Clipped (formerly The Sterling Affairs).

American Horror Story: Delicate Part 2 premieres Wednesday, April 3 at 10 p.m. Et/Pt on FX and streaming the next day on Hulu. The four-episode second half of the anthology horror drama will premiere with one episode, and a new episode each following Wednesday. The series will be available on Star+ in Latin America and Disney+ in all other territories at a later date.

Creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk executive produce alongside Alexis Martin Woodall, Halley Feiffer, John J. Gray and Scott Robertson. The series, which is renewed for a 13th season, is produced by 20th Television.

The HBO Original documentary short How We Get Free, directed by Geeta Gandbhir and Samantha Knowles (HBO’s “Black and Missing”) and produced by the New York Times and Multitude Films, debuts Tuesday, November 14 (9:00 – 9:30 p.m. Et/Pt) on HBO and will be available to stream on Max.

Synopsis: How We Get Free follows community activist Elisabeth Epps as she works to abolish the cash bail system in Colorado. Inspired by a New York Times article and filmed over the course of two years, the documentary tracks Epps’ efforts as the founder and executive director of the Colorado Freedom Fund, a community bail fund working against the criminalization of poverty. For Epps, this work is personal. Having spent time in jail herself, where she bore witness to the conditions and inequities, she is passionately committed to this work.

As Epps spends her days and nights driving around Denver...

The New York Times is planning a major new interview franchise, one that will live across its audio podcast division and within The New York Times Magazine.

The new franchise will be released as a weekly podcast, and will also be published as a Q&a in the Magazine, it will be co-hosted by David Marchese, who writes the Magazine’s “Talk” interview column, and Lulu Garcia-Navarro, the veteran NPR journalist who joined the Times to host its First Person interview series.

The new interview series will launch in 2024, with a name still to be determined, though in a note to staff Thursday, Times audio chief Sam Dolnick, Magazine editor Jake Silverstein and director of audio Paula Szchuman said that it will “build on the success of David’s Talk column, which has been one of the most popular features on our site over the past five years.”

Marchese has...

Amid a Toronto Film Festival light on sales, Greenwich Entertainment has nabbed domestic distribution for a documentary on Louis C.K., TheWrap has learned.

The film, “Sorry/Not Sorry,” details the stand-up’s downfall after he was accused in a 2017 New York Times article of sexual misconduct by five women. It also deals with C.K.’s attempts at a post-scandal comeback — including a Grammy win in 2021 — along with backlash faced by the accusers. The sale came hours after the film’s TIFF world premiere.

Directed by Caroline Suh and Cara Mones, “Sorry/Not Sorry” is a New York Times production. Financial terms have not been disclosed, but Greenwich’s Andy Bohn negotiated the acquisition with CAA Media Finance on behalf of The New York Times.

“We couldn’t be happier to be partnering with Greenwich in the release of ‘Sorry/Not Sorry,'” Suh stated. “Their support means that the film – and the...

Greenwich Entertainment has picked up Sorry/Not Sorry, a new documentary that examines the sexual misconduct scandal that engulfed comedian Louis C.K. and its aftermath, hours after the film had its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival.

Greenwich took North American rights to the film, co-directed by Caroline Suh and Cara Mones. Sorry/Not Sorry is based on the expose of Louis C.K. published by The New York Times, with the Times also producing together with Left/Right. Suh, Mones and Kathleen Lingo produced the film. New York Times journalists Melena Ryzik, Cara Buckley and Jodi Kantor, authors of the original 2017 article, served as consulting producers. Sam Dolnick, Jason Stallman, Ken Druckerman and Banks Tarver executive produced.

Sorry/Not Sorry drew a mixed response from critics in Toronto. The Hollywood Reporter found the documentary “struggled to find a new perspective” on the Louis C.K. scandal and the issue of whether he,...

Exclusive: In one of the first acquisition deals at Toronto, Greenwich Entertainment today announced it has picked up Sorry/Not Sorry, the documentary about the Louis C.K. sexual misconduct scandal and its aftermath, hours after the film’s TIFF world premiere.

The deal covers North American distribution rights to the film directed by Caroline Suh and Cara Mones. Sorry/Not Sorry is a production of The New York Times.

“In 2017, The New York Times published an article in which five women accused comedian Louis C.K. of sexual harassment,” notes a description of the film. “Nine months later, he returned to the stage and went on to win a Grammy in 2021. Sorry/Not Sorry examines the cultural fixation with Louis C.K. and his comeback while revealing the backlash faced by the women who spoke up about his behavior.”

Collider, in its review of the film, wrote, “While there have been plenty of...

FX’s most acclaimed rap-themed comedy series, now that “Atlanta” has ended, returns for its third season this spring. Season 3 of “Dave” premieres April 5 on Fxx, the network announced during the Television Critics Association winter press conference January 12.

In addition, FX set the dates for two new “New York Times Presents” specials. “Sin Eater” premieres March 10 simultaneously on FX and Hulu, while “The Legacy of J Dilla” is set for April 7. A new docuseries about Tupac Shakur, “Dear Mama,” premieres on FX April 21.

Created by and starring comedy rapper David Burd, known by his stage name Lil Dicky, “Dave” presents a fictionalized version of Burd as he attempts to make it as a hip-hop star. Season 3 sees him and his entourage of friends — played by GaTa, Andrew Santino, Travis Bennett, and Christine Ko — as they leave Philadelphia for Dave’s first headlining tour. Burd executive produces the series with his co-creator Jeff Schaffer,...

CNN sure likes to keep ’em guessing.

After canceling media-affairs show “Reliable Sources,” which often tilted at the content of Fox News Channel, CNN plans to air a previously-announced documentary mini-series about that network’s owners.

“The Murdochs: Empire of Influence,” a seven-part documentary series previously planned for the now-scuttled streaming site CNN+, will debut on CNN”s flagship cable outlet in the fall. The original series will debut with a two-episode premiere on Sunday, September 25.

The series was produced with The New York Times and Left/Right and is based on the New York Times Magazine article “How Rupert Murdoch’s Empire of Influence Remade the World,” by journalists Jonathan Mahler and Jim Rutenberg. They serve as consulting producers on the series. The program aims to examine the rise of Rupert Murdoch, his global influence and the battle for succession among his children. In an announcement about the series in February,...

“The Murdochs: Empire of Influence,” an original series detailing the world’s most powerful media family and their complicated history, will air on CNN this fall. The original series will debut with a two-episode premiere Sunday, Sept. 25.

Based on Jonathan Mahler and Jim Rutenberg’s New York Times Magazine article “How Rupert Murdoch’s Empire of Influence Remade the World,” the CNN series explores the legacy of media mogul Rupert Murdoch and the dynasty he built. It will feature exclusive reporting from The New York Times, interviews with people who worked inside the Murdoch companies and decades of archival footage.

The seven-part series will go “behind the scenes of the improbable rise of a media tycoon, his outsized influence around the globe and the intense succession battle between his children over who will inherit his throne,” per CNN. “The Murdochs: Empire of Influence” charts the “high-stakes deal making, political maneuvering,...

FX’s The New York Times Presents has set its latest documentary feature, centered on controversial Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

Revealed on Monday, The New York Times Presents‘ “Elon Musk’s Crash” course will premiere Friday, May 20 at 10 p.m. Pt. The doc comes from producer and director Emma Schwartz and features the work of The New York Times Reporters Cade Metz and Neal Boudette.

The feature will take a deep dive into Tesla vehicles and the issues with its autopilot capabilities. The investigation will reveal the “quixotic nature of Musk’s pursuit of self-driving technology, and the tragic results.”

The official description continues: “Drawing on first-hand accounts, the film traces how Autopilot has been a factor in several deaths and dozens of other accidents that Tesla has not publicly acknowledged. It details pressure Elon Musk put on government officials to quash investigations and features inside stories from several former Tesla employees,...

Right on the heels of the news that Elon Musk is nearing a deal to buy Twitter, a television documentary about the polarizing businessman has been announced to premiere this May.

Titled “Elon Musk’s Crash Course,” the upcoming film is the latest in FX and The New York Times’ collaborative documentary series “The New York Times Presents,” which provides in depth looks at prominent people and events, ranging from Janet Jackson to Juul to the 2020 Australian bushfire disasters. The series is best known for its two in-depth films about Britney Spears, “Framing Britney Spears” and “Controlling Britney Spears,” which helped contribute to the eventual end of the singer’s conservatorship.

Directed by Emma Schwartz, “Elon Musk’s Crash Course” is an exposé into Musk’s company Tesla, and its work on self-driving cars. Featuring the reporting from Cade Metz and Neal Boudette of The New York Times, the film...

The Murdochs, the media-mogul family that controls Fox News Channel, are about to be the subject of a new documentary series that will be distributed by one of their main rivals.

CNN expects to launch a six-part documentary series, “The Murdochs: Empire of Influence,” on CNN Plus, the streaming video site slated to launch in weeks to come. The series is produced with The New York Times and Left/Right and is based on the New York Times Magazine article “How Rupert Murdoch’s Empire of Influence Remade the World,” by journalists Jonathan Mahler and Jim Rutenberg. They serve as consulting producers on the series.

The docuseries will examine the rise of Rupert Murdoch, his global influence and the battle for succession among his children. CNN says the series “charts the high-stakes deal making, political maneuvering and dynastic betrayals — and how the ambitions of one family birthed one of the largest media empires in history.

To Live and Die in Alabama, the latest film in the New York Times Presents docuseries, will premiere on FX and Hulu on December 3 at 10 p.m. Et, it was announced today.

The film from director-producer Matt Kay examines the aftermath of the killing of three police officers in a shootout at an Alabama drug house. One man, Nathanial Woods, was sentenced to death for the shootings, even though he was never accused of even touching the murder weapon. The doc will examine Woods’ case in full, including allegations of police misconduct that were never raised in his trial. It will feature original reporting from Abby Ellin, Cydney Tucker and Dan Barry, along with producing from Lora Moftah.

The New York Times Presents is a series of standalone documentary films produced by The New York Times and Left/Right, a Red Arrow Studios company. Ken Druckerman, Banks Tarver, Mary Robertson, Jason Stallman,...

FX and Hulu are moving from Britney Spears to Janet Jackson with their latest documentary in The New York Times Presents strand.

The cable network and streamer are set to launch Malfunction: The Dressing Down of Janet Jackson on November 19.

The film will tell the story of the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show, which saw Justin Timberlake briefly expose Jackson’s breast to millions of viewers. Jackson’s career never recovered but Timberlake went from strength-to-strength.

The doc will examine the racial and cultural currents that collided on the Super Bowl stage, and explores how the incident impacted one of the most successful pop musicians in history.

It will feature rare footage and interviews with several people who were at the controls that night in Houston, including NFL and MTV executives, to reconstruct an incident that shook the country and explain how it shaped culture in the decades to follow. With new reporting by The Times,...

Lifetime announced a two-picture deal with Sarah Drew, who will star, write and executive produce “Reindeer Games” and star in “Stolen Hearts: The Lizbeth Meredith Story” for the channel’s “It’s A Wonderful Lifetime” holiday film slate.

“I’ve absolutely loved working with Lifetime over the past few years and couldn’t be more thrilled to continue my relationship with them as an actor and now as a writer and producer as well. I’m delighted to announce my screenwriting debut with ‘Reindeer Games,’ a romantic comedy about love, loss, and the importance of true community. I’m looking forward to working with Lifetime to bring more stories like this to life,” Drew said.

“Reindeer Games” is currently in development and follows a fading Hollywood star who returns to his small hometown following his breakup. He’s begrudgingly roped into the town’s titular holiday fundraising tradition, but when he...

As the widely watched Britney Spears conservator case plays out, another documentary about the legal battle and its fallout launches tonight. FX and Hulu will premiere Controlling Britney Spears, a follow-up film from the team behind the Emmy-nominated Framing Britney Spears.

Part of The New York Times Presents series, Controlling Britney Spears bows at 10 p.m. Et on the cable net and the streamer. It arrives four days before Netflix’s docu Britney vs. Spears.

Directed by Samantha Stark and Produced by Liz Day, Controlling Britney Spears promises bombshell allegations from whistleblowers who were among those with intimate knowledge of the singer’s daily life inside the conservatorship.

In a confidential report obtained by The Times, Spears told a court investigator in 2016 that her conservatorship had become “an oppressive and controlling tool against her.” As the investigative docu plays out, a portrait emerges of an intense surveillance apparatus that monitored every move she made.

FX and Hulu will launch a followup to their doc “Framing Britney Spears,” titled “Controlling Britney Spears,” tonight, Friday, at 10 p.m. Et.

Available on both the cable channel and streaming service at the same time, the doc from the same team that made “Framing Britney Spears,” an installment of the The New York Times Presents franchise, features “new allegations from insiders with intimate knowledge of Britney’s daily life inside the conservatorship” controlled by her father, Jamie Spears.

Per FX and Hulu, “In a confidential report obtained by The Times, Ms. Spears told a court investigator in 2016 that her conservatorship had become ‘an oppressive and controlling tool against her.’ But how the conservatorship has controlled her life has never been revealed. Now, in this New York Times investigation, a portrait emerges of an intense surveillance apparatus that monitored every move she made.”

News of the new doc comes on...

FX has ordered new installments in the New York Times Presents franchise, which is behind such acclaimed documentaries as Framing Britney Spears.

The next film in the series, Move Fast and Vape Things, will premiere on FX and Hulu in September. Pic will examine Juul, the e-cigarette company built on a promise to help millions of Americans kick their cigarette habit. A New York Times investigation reveals how the Silicon Valley darling lost its way and is now accused of bringing a new scourge to a whole new generation: vaping.

The announcement that FX has extended its deal with The New York Times was made by President of Original Programming, Nick Grad.

“The New York Times Presents continues to deliver some of the most compelling and timely news and feature documentaries on television, typified by the outstanding work on Framing Britney Spears and The Killing of Breonna Taylor,” said Grad.

Red Arrow Studios International has closed a raft of global sales for controversial feature documentary “Framing Britney Spears.”

The documentary shines a light on the Queen of Pop’s court battle for control of her estate and also re-examines the media’s handling of her life and career. Since its early February debut, the film has been generating considerable attention around the world.

International sales include Sky (U.K. & Ireland), Nine (Australia), Crave (Canada), Three (New Zealand), Talpa TV (the Netherlands), Nrk (Norway), TV2 (Denmark), TV4 (Sweden & Finland), Discovery (Italy), Originals Factory (French & German-speaking Europe), Osn (Middle East), Odisea / Odisseia (Spain & Portugal), HOT8 (Israel), Yes (Israel), Dpg (Belgium) and Canal Plus Poland.

In addition, TV2, Nine, Crave, Odisea / Odisseia, HOT8 and Yes have also acquired the entire “The Weekly: Special Edition” documentary collection, which includes “Framing Britney Spears.”

Tim Gerhartz, senior VP of global sales at Red Arrow Studios International,...

Minnie Driver has been cast in the upcoming Season 2 of “Modern Love” at Amazon, Variety has learned exclusively.

Details of Driver’s character in the episodic anthology series are being kept under wraps. At the time of this publishing no other stars have been confirmed for Season 2. Some of the actors who appeared in Season 1 were Anne Hathaway, Tina Fey, Andy Garcia, Dev Patel, and Catherine Keener.

The series is described as an exploration of love in all of its complicated and beautiful forms, with each standalone episode based on some of the most popular stories from the New York Times column on which it is based.

Driver has worked in television numerous times throughout her career. She most recently appeared on NBC’s revival of “Will & Grace” and led the ABC single-cam comedy “Speechless.” She also starred in the FX series “The Riches,” for which she earned a...

FX documentary “Framing Britney Spears” is finally getting a U.K. release.

Comcast-backed pay-tv operator Sky has snapped up rights for the hit documentary, which aired earlier this month Stateside on the cabler and Hulu. The doc will debut on the Sky Documentaries channel as well as SVOD service Now TV on Feb. 16 at 9pm.

The acquisition is a coup for Sky, as it would have made sense for the documentary — given FX’s Disney ownership — to land on Disney Plus in international markets like the U.K. However, the only home that would have made sense for the doc is the forthcoming, adult-oriented Star tile, which launches in European markets only on Feb. 23. Considering the strong demand among U.K. audiences to watch the film, it’s likely the timings would have worked against a Star debut.

The film examines the meteoric rise of the pop singer in the 1990s,...

The FX docuseries The New York Times Presents takes a celebrity turn on the installment “Framing Britney Spears.” But this is no tabloid exposé, even as the gossip rags and paparazzi become inadvertently complicit. The series provides consistently dedicated longform journalism as a matter of course. Their beat is varied. It’s covered front line workers, booted a hacking network, and chased a killer.

“Framing Britney Spears” doesn’t present a homicide case, though legal minds might argue a life has been taken away. It is a true crime documentary, but the truth hasn’t been determined, and the crime is hard to define. There is a fiduciary element, and questionable mental health is a contributory factor. It is also a missing person’s case where the exact location of the victim-at-large is known. Well known and splashed across newsfeeds at a moment’s notice if there’s even a hint of a move.

In a move expanding the news outlet's presence in Hollywood, The New York Times has named Caitlin Roper executive producer for scripted projects.

Roper, who has been a senior editor at The New York Times Magazine since 2016, will develop Times stories for film and TV, "developing and producing alongside Hollywood producers using our stories as the launching point for fictional projects," Times assistant managing editor Sam Dolnick wrote in a memo to staff Monday morning.

"To bring Times stories to the movie screen, Caitlin will work closely with reporters, editors, our Hollywood agents, and a collection of best-in-class screenwriters,...

In a move expanding the news outlet's presence in Hollywood, The New York Times has named Caitlin Roper executive producer for scripted projects.

Roper, who has been a senior editor at The New York Times Magazine since 2016, will develop Times stories for film and TV, "developing and producing alongside Hollywood producers using our stories as the launching point for fictional projects," Times assistant managing editor Sam Dolnick wrote in a memo to staff Monday morning.

"To bring Times stories to the movie screen, Caitlin will work closely with reporters, editors, our Hollywood agents, and a collection of best-in-class screenwriters,...

Lionsgate and media maven Oprah Winfrey have partnered with 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times to develop Hannah-Jones’ interactive project, The 1619 Project, along with the Nyt podcast, 1619, into an expansive portfolio of films, television series and documentaries, unscripted programming and other forms of entertainment.

Launched in August of 2019, on the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in the English colonies, The 1619 Project is an ongoing series that connects the centrality of slavery in history with an unflinching account of the brutal racism that endures in so many aspects of American life today. With contributions from Black authors, essayists, poets, playwrights, and scholars, the project examines the legacy of slavery in America and how it shaped all aspects of society, from music and law to education and the arts, including the principles of our democracy itself.

Winfrey will serve as a producer along with Hannah-Jones,...

Oprah Winfrey and Lionsgate are teaming with the New York Times and Pulitzer Prize winner Nikole Hannah-Jones to develop their issue of The New York Times Magazine “The 1619 Project,” as well as the “1619” podcast, into a portfolio of films, TV series and other content, the companies announced Wednesday.

Hannah-Jones won the Pulitzer this year and is a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine. She’ll serve as the creative leader and producer on developing any feature films, TV series, documentaries, unscripted programming and other forms of entertainment to help her adapt “The 1619 Project” that chronicles the legacy of slavery in America and how that history still permeates our society today.

Winfrey will serve as a producer and will provide stewardship and guidance on the development and production of anything tied to “The 1619 Project.” And Hannah-Jones’ colleague at The Times Magazine, an editor of “The 1619 Project” and head of scripted entertainment at The Times,...

Oprah Winfrey, The New York Times and Lionsgate are partnering on a series of feature films and television shows based on “The 1619 Project.”

The collaboration was announced Wednesday, nearly a year after the Times debuted “The 1619 Project” series to re-examine the legacy of slavery in the United States on the 400th anniversary of the first Africans’ arrival in Virginia. Nikole Hannah-Jones, who was the architect of the series, won a 2020 Pulitzer Prize for commentary.

“We took very seriously our duty to find TV and film partners that would respect and honor the work and mission of ‘The 1619 Project,’ that understood our vision and deep moral obligation to doing justice to these stories,” Hannah-Jones said. “Through every step of the process, Lionsgate and its leadership have shown themselves to be that partner, and it is a dream to be able to produce this work with Ms. Oprah Winfrey, a trailblazer and...

FX and Hulu have teamed to launch The New York Times Presents, a 10-episode monthly documentary series set to premiere at 10 Pm Friday, July 10.

The New York Times Presents is the new incarnation of The Weekly; FX referred to a second season of the Nyt docuseries on its 2020-21 programming slate released in May.

The New York Times Presents hails from the same creative team as The Weekly and also will feature breaking news, investigations and character-driven stories and features reporting from journalists at The New York Times.

The air frequency will be different — monthly vs. weekly for The Weekly (and daily for The Daily podcast/radio show the TV series was originally based on.). Additionally, new episodes of The New York Times Presents will be released on a Friday simultaneously on FX and Hulu. An episode of The Weekly premiered on Sunday night, with Hulu posting it online at midnight the same night.

FX and Hulu are partnering to launch a new docuseries called “The New York Times Presents” from the team behind the newspaper’s “The Weekly” series.

Each of the 10 episodes will be its own individual documentary exploring breaking news, investigations, and character-driven stories featuring reporting from New York Times journalists. The first episode will follow the lives of doctors and nurses in New York City during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, and a later episode will cover the killing of Breonna Taylor by police in Louisville, Kentucky.

The series premieres this Friday, July 10 at 10 p.m. Et/Pt simultaneously on FX and Hulu, with new episodes to follow monthly.

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Here are the official descriptions for the first two episodes:

“They Get Brave” – July 10

As the coronavirus ravages more and more American cities, we look back to the...

FX and Hulu have partnered to launch the documentary series “The New York Times Presents.”

The show hails from the team behind FX’s “The Weekly.” The new show will present standalone documentaries on major stories via the journalists at the New York Times.

“The New York Times Presents” will feature 10 individual documentaries that will air on FX and on Hulu on Fridays at 10 p.m. Et/Pt. The series will air one episode per month, beginning with:

“They Get Brave” – As the coronavirus ravages more and more American cities, we look back to the place hit hardest: New York City. Doctors and nurses documented their lives, capturing awe‐inspiring resolve in the face of a breakdown in the health‐care system. Producers/Directors: Samantha Stark, Alexandra Garcia, John Pappas and Lora Moftah.

“This Is Dominic Fike: The Next Big Thing?” – The making of a pop star in 2020: A...

Lance Oppenheim didn’t set out to make an 83-minute documentary when he started chronicling a group of senior citizens living in a retirement community in central Florida. But after 18 months and hundreds of hours of footage, he began to see the outline of his first feature-length film, “Some Kind of Heaven,” which premieres this week at the Sundance Film Festival.

“I think the movie could have been so many different things,” says Oppenheim, who is 23 and has directed six short films. “I wanted to push the movie in a certain direction, away from the more informational. I wanted to make it something that was much more about how in life’s final chapters, things aren’t resolved.”

Instead of urging him to think tidier — and perhaps more commercially — one of the film’s producers, Kathleen Lingo, supported that vision. But she doesn’t work at a movie production company or a TV network.

Amazon Prime Video has ordered a second season of half-hour romantic anthology series Modern Love. The news comes a week after what Amazon describes as “successful debut” for the series, inspired by the popular The New York Times column of the same name.

Additionally, Amazon Studios has signed an overall deal with John Carney, Modern Love‘s developer, writer, director and executive producer.

Modern Love, which premiered Oct. 18 to largely positive reviews, explores love in all of its complicated and beautiful forms, as each standalone episode brings some of the Nyt column’s best known stories to life with an A-list cast. Season two of Modern Love will premiere on Prime Video in 2020 in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide.

“Since its debut just last week, the reaction to Modern Love from viewers has been incredible. It’s a show with...

Amazon Prime Video has ordered a second season of “Modern Love” just one week after its debut. The streaming service also signed an overall deal with showrunner John Carney.

Inspired by the popular column of the same name in The New York Times, the series is described as exploring love “in all of its complicated and beautiful forms.” Each standalone episode tells a story from a different column entry.

“Since its debut just last week, the reaction to ‘Modern Love’ from viewers has been incredible. It’s a show with so much emotion and warmth – every episode touches the heart in a different way,” said Jennifer Salke, head of Amazon Studios. “We’re so excited we’ll be able to bring our global Prime Video customers more of the beautiful stories of romance, friendship, and family from Modern Love.”

Also Read: Amazon's Stock Sinks 9% After E-Commerce Giant Misses on Q...

Amazon has renewed the anthology series “Modern Love” for a second season. John Carney, who adapted the New York Times column of the same name for the screen, has also signed an overall deal with Amazon. In addition to writing, Carney also served as director and executive producer on the series.

The news comes less than a week after the first season debuted. It is described as an exploration of love in all of its complicated and beautiful forms, with each standalone episode based on some of the most popular stories from the column. The second season is slated to debut in 2020.

“Since its debut just last week, the reaction to ‘Modern Love’ from viewers has been incredible,” said Jennifer Salke, head of Amazon Studios. “It’s a show with so much emotion and warmth – every episode touches the heart in a different way. We’re so excited we’ll...

Amazon has posted a full trailer for its forthcoming romantic comedy anthology series Modern Love.

The Svod service is launching the series, from John Carney, on October 18. It previously released a trailer for the show, which is based on the popular New York Times column of the same name, without any dialogue and now you can hear how the likes of Tina Fey, Dev Patel, Cristin Milioti and Anne Hathaway deal with love.

The cast also includes Gary Carter, Sofia Boutella, Olivia Cooke, Brandon Victor Dixon, John Gallagher Jr, Andy Garcia, Julia Garner, Catherine Keener,, Andrew Scott, and John Slattery and Shea Whigham.

Once and Sing Street helmer Carney writes, directs and serves as Ep. Additionally, Sharon Horgan (Catastrophe), Tom Hall (Sensation) and Emmy Rossum (Shameless) directed episodes of the series. Horgan directed the Fey-Slattery led episode, which she also penned. Hall also wrote his episode and Rossum will direct...

Love is in the air — in all its dysfunctional glory. Amazon dropped the trailer for its upcoming anthology series “Modern Love” on Thursday, featuring an all-star cast that includes Tina Fey and John Slattery, who play a married couple that is definitely in a rut.

In the video above, when a therapist asks Fey and Slattery’s characters what they do on their “date night,” Fey says “this” — as in going to couple’s therapy. How fun! And that’s just one of eight love stories the series will show you.

“Modern Love,” which launches on Prime Video on Oct. 18, is a half-hour romantic comedy series inspired by the popular New York Times column of the same name. The anthology “explores love in all of its complicated and beautiful forms, as each standalone episode brings some of the column’s most beloved stories to life with a stellar cast.”

Also...

Modern Love, Amazon Prime’s new romantic comedy anthology series from John Carney, will stream on Oct. 18.

The series is based on the popular New York Times column of the same name, and explores all the different facets of amour.

Here at TCA today was Cristin Milioti who appears in an episode about a young women dealing with an unexpected pregnancy, and actor Gary Carr and Anne Hathaway, the latter who tries to find love while dealing with her bipolar disorder.

Many of the episodes are based on true stories, and consulting producer and editor of the “Modern Love” column Daniel Jones says that many of the original writers are as well.

Milioti said her episode is “beautifully nuanced” as her protagonist finds help in her doorman. A father/daughter love forms. “They make a huge impact on each other, so much is unspoken which so beautiful. It’s the energy in between them,...

The “Modern Love” television series, based on the eponymous New York Times column, will premiere on Amazon Prime Video on Oct. 18.

“These stories are successful when the person understands themselves better at the end, not when they get the person that they’re going after,” said The New York Times’ Daniel Jones, editor of the column and consulting producer of the series, speaking about the original column at the Television Critics Assn. summer press tour on Saturday.

The anthology, from John Carney “explores love in all of its complicated and beautiful forms as each standalone episode brings some of the most beloved stories to life with a stellar cast,” said the company. Amazon Studios, Storied Media Group and The New York Times produced the series.

Anne Hathaway, who also appeared on the TCA panel alongside Jones and series co-stars Cristin Milioti and Gary Carr, said that her story revolves around the Terri Cheney column,...

Amazon released the first teaser for its upcoming rom-com anthology “Modern Love,” which stars Anne Hathaway, Tina Fey and John Slattery as New Yorkers looking to find, then dealing with, the ups and downs of romance in the 21st century.

The series is based on the popular New York Times column of the same name and weekly podcast. The trailer, which you can watch above, also announced the series will debut on Oct. 18.

Created by filmmaker John Carney and produced by Storied Media Group and The New York Times, “Modern Love” will consist of eight half-hour episodes that “explore love in all of its complicated and beautiful forms.”

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Along with the three mentioned above, “Modern Love” features an expansive cast that also includes Dev Patel (“Lion”), Catherine Keener (“Get Out”), Andy Garcia (“Ocean’s...

Get ready for all the news that’s fit to air. FX has set a late-spring premiere date for The New York Times‘ first major leap into TV news: The Weekly will arrive Sunday, June 2, on the cable net. Watch the first promo above.

Each episode of the weekly half-hour series will stream exclusively on Hulu a day after its FX bow.

Each single-story episode features a Times journalist investigating one of the most pressing issues of the day. With more than 1,550 journalists reporting from 160 countries each year, the Times publishes 250 stories a day – investigative reports, political scoops, cultural dispatches. And each week, The Weekly chooses to tell one of these stories in a visual way, featuring the reporter or reporters who broke the news.

Some teasing quotes from the first teaser: “Write whatever you want to write about us!” “Your voice is what is going to bring him down.

The Movie

As Clint Eastwood’s first genuinely good movie in nearly a decade as a filmmaker, The Mule was one of the big box office surprises of 2018. While the film grossed over three times its budget in it’s theatrical run, it also proved to be a surprisingly deep performance from the legendary actor. Based on a New York Times article by Sam Dolnick, the film adaptation is a surprisingly effective telling of the true-life tale. Aside from his own performance; Eastwood is able to wrangle of his best ensemble cast since Unforgiven. Including the likes of Bradley Cooper, Laurence Fishburne, Pichael Peña, Diane West and Andy Garcia – among many other familiar faces – Eastwood manages to wrangle the various characters and plotlines in a convincing way.

Despite the solid direction from Eastwood, there’s something about the film that feels slightly hollow. The movie barely scratches the surface of...

You have to hand it to Clint Eastwood. With a career spanning decades both as actor and director, the veteran filmmaker is showing no signs to slowing down and is still just as motivated and excited by his craft in his late 80s, as he has always been. In his new film The Mule, which comes a year after the universally panned The 15:17 to Paris, Eastwood is back with a much tighter and decidedly more coherent story in a film about a 90-year old drug mule which is loosely based on a New York Times Magazine Article “The Sinaloa Cartel’s 90-Year Old Drug Mule” written by Sam Dolnick.

Earl Stone (Eastwood) is in his 90s, he is broke, lonely and estranged from his wife (Dianne Wiest) and daughter (Alison Eastwood). To make things worse, Earl is also facing foreclosure on his horticultural business, a foreclosure which he blames mostly on the internet.

From Warner Bros. Pictures, Imperative Entertainment and Bron Creative comes Clint Eastwood’s newest feature film, the drama The Mule.

In addition to directing, the veteran actor will step in front of the lens again, alongside fellow stars Bradley Cooper, Laurence Fishburne, Michael Peña, Dianne Wiest and Andy Garcia, as well as Alison Eastwood, Taissa Farmiga, Ignacio Serricchio and Loren Dean, Eugene Cordero.

Eastwood stars as Earl Stone, a man in his 80s who is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he’s just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. He does well—so well, in fact, that his cargo increases exponentially, and Earl is assigned a handler. But he isn’t the only one keeping tabs on Earl; the mysterious new drug mule has also...

At 88 years old, Clint Eastwood might be the hardest-working man in Hollywood. And now, with his second directorial outing of 2018 — and his best film since at least “Letters from Iwo Jima” in 2006, and perhaps 1993’s “A Perfect World” before that — he’s finally explained why.

Inspired by a Sam Dolnick article in the New York Times Magazine called “The Sinaloa Cartel’s 90-Year-Old Drug Mule,” “The Mule” is a far cry from the red state fantasy that some people feared from a Maga-era vehicle by an auteur who’s publicly endorsed the Republican Party in the somewhat recent past (two presidential elections and a zillion news cycles ago). On the contrary, Eastwood’s latest thriller is a tender, conflicted, and sometimes very funny meditation on what America conditions people to want for themselves — on how natural it can be to forget who you are in a country where work is an identity unto itself.

From Dirty Harry to … dirty grandpa, Clint Eastwood certainly has a type of character that he plays best, and “The Mule” finds him squarely in his comfort zone, appearing as a surly old horticulturalist who, at age 90, has become perhaps the most reliable drug runner for the Sinaloa cartel, evading detection for nearly a decade because he doesn’t look the part of a courier.

It’s a great true story, colorfully told by Sam Dolnick in The New York Times and somewhat watered down for the screen by Nick Schenk, the still-green screenwriter who got incredibly lucky when Eastwood agreed to direct and star in his early spec, “Gran Torino.” And there’s obviously no one better to embody someone like Leo Sharp — the real-life criminal whose name has been changed to Earl Stone for the movie — than Eastwood, who can play stubborn, battle-scarred, casually racist characters in his sleep.

Amazon Studios has set an all-star cast for Modern Love, its highly-anticipated straight-to-series half-hour romantic comedy anthology based on the popular New York Times column about love and human connection. Academy Award winner Anne Hathaway (Ocean’s Eight), Emmy Award winner Tina Fey (30 Rock), Emmy Award nominee John Slattery (Mad Men), Academy Award nominee Dev Patel (Lion), Academy Award nominee Catherine Keener (Get Out), Academy Award nominee Andy Garcia (Ocean’s Eleven), Cristin Milioti (Black Mirror), Emmy Award nominee Brandon Victor Dixon (Power), Olivia Cooke (Ready Player One), Andrew Scott (Sherlock), Julia Garner (Ozark), Shea Whigham (Homecoming), Gary Carr, Sofia Boutella (Kingsman: The Secret Service) and Tony Award winner John Gallagher, Jr. (The Newsroom) are all set to appear in the upcoming series.

Modern Love hails from filmmaker John Carney, who will write, direct, and produce, Storied Media Group, and The New York Times.

Amazon has set an all-star cast for its upcoming anthology series “Modern Love,” based on the New York Times column and weekly podcast.

The cast includes: Anne Hathaway, Tina Fey, John Slattery, Dev Patel, Catherine Keener, Andy Garcia, Cristin Milioti, Brandon Victor Dixon, Olivia Cooke, Andrew Scott, Julia Garner, Shea Whigham, Gary Carr, Sofia Boutella, and John Gallagher, Jr.

In addition, “Shameless” alum Emmy Rossum will direct an episode of the series, as will Sharon Horgan and Tom Hall. Horgan will direct the Tina Fey-John Slattery led episode, which she also wrote. Hall also wrote his episode, while Rossum will direct an episode written by the late Audrey Wells. John Carney serves as writer, director, executive producer, and showrunner

Each episode of the half-hour series will explore love in all of its complicated and beautiful forms.

“It’s like I woke up in the actor candy store,” said Carney. “We...

Amazon Studios has set the A-list cast for “Modern Love,” its upcoming anthology series based on the popular New York Times column and weekly podcast.

The lineup includes: Anne Hathaway (“Ocean’s Eight”), Tina Fey (“30 Rock”), John Slattery (“Mad Men”), Dev Patel (“Lion”), Catherine Keener (“Get Out”), Andy Garcia (“Ocean’s Eleven”), Cristin Milioti (“Black Mirror”), Brandon Victor Dixon (“Power”), Olivia Cooke (“Ready Player One”), Andrew Scott (“Sherlock”), Julia Garner (“Ozark”), Shea Whigham (“Homecoming”), Gary Carr, Sofia Boutella (“Kingsman: The Secret Service”) and John Gallagher, Jr. (“The Newsroom”).

The series, created by filmmaker John Carney and produced by Storied Media Group and The New York Times, will consist of half-hour episodes that “explore love in all of its complicated and beautiful forms.”

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In behind-the-camera news, “Shameless” star Emmy Rossum, Sharon Horgan and Tom Hall (“Sensation”) will all direct episodes of the anthology series.