Exclusive: The roller disco craze of the late 1970s is skating its way back to the screen with recently wrapped indie pic California Skate.
Starring are Brooke Shields (Mother Of The Bride), Jay Mohr (Jerry Maguire), Henry Winkler (Barry), Bridget Moynahan (Blue Bloods) and Monique Coleman (High School Musical).
They are joined by up-and-comers Jahi Di’Allo Winston (Queen & Slim), Caleb Baumann (Doom Patrol), Kayli Tran (The Boys), Hayden Carson Begley (Walled In) and newcomer Elliot Gilbert Adler (The Connors).
Set under the neon lights of a roller rink in 1979, the film follows a group of teens who experience a night that changes their lives forever, discovering first loves, new friendships, and the thrill of growing up. Below are first look images.
Director is David Kukoff (Model Behavior). Executive producers are Bernie Kukoff and Marc R. Gordon, and co-producers are Bridget Moynahan, Cheryl Bayer, and Wendy Eley Jackson.
Pic was filmed on location in Grand Terrace,...
Starring are Brooke Shields (Mother Of The Bride), Jay Mohr (Jerry Maguire), Henry Winkler (Barry), Bridget Moynahan (Blue Bloods) and Monique Coleman (High School Musical).
They are joined by up-and-comers Jahi Di’Allo Winston (Queen & Slim), Caleb Baumann (Doom Patrol), Kayli Tran (The Boys), Hayden Carson Begley (Walled In) and newcomer Elliot Gilbert Adler (The Connors).
Set under the neon lights of a roller rink in 1979, the film follows a group of teens who experience a night that changes their lives forever, discovering first loves, new friendships, and the thrill of growing up. Below are first look images.
Director is David Kukoff (Model Behavior). Executive producers are Bernie Kukoff and Marc R. Gordon, and co-producers are Bridget Moynahan, Cheryl Bayer, and Wendy Eley Jackson.
Pic was filmed on location in Grand Terrace,...
- 12/10/2024
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Martin Luther King III will host a new docuseries produced by Calabasas Film and Media, the company announced Monday.
Titled “Protect/Serve,” the series sees King, the oldest child of revered civil right activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., moderate a series of conversations with law enforcement officials, activists, grass-roots organization founders, DAs and other prominent figures. The conversations will focus on the role of police in America and the origins of institutional racism, with a goal of finding solutions to these problems. The first episode will feature a one-on-one conversation between King and Los Angeles county sheriff Alex Villanueva, whose tenure as sheriff has been plagued with controversy.
Wendy Eley Jackson directs the series and executive produces with Sam Pollard and Kapil Mahendra and Paul Beahan for Calabasas Films. Calabasas produces the series after having recently produced the Discovery+ reality series “Restaurant Recovery” with Raising Cane founder Todd Graves.
Titled “Protect/Serve,” the series sees King, the oldest child of revered civil right activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., moderate a series of conversations with law enforcement officials, activists, grass-roots organization founders, DAs and other prominent figures. The conversations will focus on the role of police in America and the origins of institutional racism, with a goal of finding solutions to these problems. The first episode will feature a one-on-one conversation between King and Los Angeles county sheriff Alex Villanueva, whose tenure as sheriff has been plagued with controversy.
Wendy Eley Jackson directs the series and executive produces with Sam Pollard and Kapil Mahendra and Paul Beahan for Calabasas Films. Calabasas produces the series after having recently produced the Discovery+ reality series “Restaurant Recovery” with Raising Cane founder Todd Graves.
- 6/13/2022
- by Sasha Urban, Wilson Chapman and Carson Burton
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Twenty women of color from the film and TV sectors have formed The Reel Divas, a group that aims to promote black writers, producers and directors and increase awareness of Atlanta as a production hub.
Among the women spearheading the group are actresses Jasmine Guy (A Different World) and Terri J. Vaughn (The Steve Harvey Show), writer-producer Cas Sigers-Beedles (Hamlet & Hutch), producers Tamra Simmons (Surviving R. Kelly) and Wanda Shelley (Being Bobby Brown), and writer-director Rhonda Baraka (Pride & Prejudice: Atlanta). (See the full list of members below.)
“With our brother-in-film, Tyler Perry, getting so much acclaim for opening his 330-acre lot here in Atlanta, we feel that the time is now,” said Sigers-Beedles, co-creator of the group. “Atlanta has already served as the home base and mecca for a lot of TV and film projects, so we are doing our part to continue pushing this narrative to the masses.
Among the women spearheading the group are actresses Jasmine Guy (A Different World) and Terri J. Vaughn (The Steve Harvey Show), writer-producer Cas Sigers-Beedles (Hamlet & Hutch), producers Tamra Simmons (Surviving R. Kelly) and Wanda Shelley (Being Bobby Brown), and writer-director Rhonda Baraka (Pride & Prejudice: Atlanta). (See the full list of members below.)
“With our brother-in-film, Tyler Perry, getting so much acclaim for opening his 330-acre lot here in Atlanta, we feel that the time is now,” said Sigers-Beedles, co-creator of the group. “Atlanta has already served as the home base and mecca for a lot of TV and film projects, so we are doing our part to continue pushing this narrative to the masses.
- 10/16/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
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