Exclusive: After wrapping production on his suspenseful romance Fate, starring Faye Dunaway, Harvey Keitel and Andrew McCarthy — a film currently in search of domestic distribution — director Jonathan Baker is gearing up for production in 2025 on Icon, which will be his final film.
Blending American immigration history with rock and roll, the film is about a soul that moves through a hundred years until it reaches its destiny as a rock star, using one family’s saga through immigration and musical history as its backdrop. Baker wrote the script with his Fate collaborator Michael Buhlman, with production to kick off in 2025. He’s also expected to produce for his Baker Entertainment Group.
“I’ve waited my entire life to share this story,” Baker told Deadline. “This narrative of Icon is crucial to America, highlighting the significance of immigration and how it shaped our nation. Our past is integral to our identity.
Blending American immigration history with rock and roll, the film is about a soul that moves through a hundred years until it reaches its destiny as a rock star, using one family’s saga through immigration and musical history as its backdrop. Baker wrote the script with his Fate collaborator Michael Buhlman, with production to kick off in 2025. He’s also expected to produce for his Baker Entertainment Group.
“I’ve waited my entire life to share this story,” Baker told Deadline. “This narrative of Icon is crucial to America, highlighting the significance of immigration and how it shaped our nation. Our past is integral to our identity.
- 5/31/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Cinephiles romanticize the New Hollywood era of the late 1960s and most of the 1970s as a time of artistic rebellion during which a batch of young directors and experienced helmers saved Hollywood by connecting with Baby Boomer moviegoers bored with formula Westerns, backlot musicals, and all the other fusty stuff their parents dragged them to throughout their childhood. These artists toyed with genre conventions and film technique to reignite a jaded generation's excitement for the medium at a time when television was becoming an increasingly appealing entertainment option.
It was an incredibly exciting time for movies, but audiences of all ages still had an appetite for good ol' cinematic spectacle. They might've tired of sword-and-sandal epics and widescreen adaptations of Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, but there was nothing wrong with studios spending loads of money to fill the big screen with eye-popping imagery.
And for most of the 1970s,...
It was an incredibly exciting time for movies, but audiences of all ages still had an appetite for good ol' cinematic spectacle. They might've tired of sword-and-sandal epics and widescreen adaptations of Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, but there was nothing wrong with studios spending loads of money to fill the big screen with eye-popping imagery.
And for most of the 1970s,...
- 5/26/2024
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
Oshi no Ko Season 2 Cast: Who Are the New and Returning Characters in the Hit Anime's Sequel? - Main Image
Oshi no Ko is finally coming back soon. With the show’s return just a bit over a month away, here are all the confirmed details about the new and returning cast members of Oshi no Ko season 2.
As this new season will directly follow the last one with no significant time jump, it should come as no surprise that many of the main characters are returning.
All Confirmed Returning Cast and Characters in Oshi no Ko Season 2
As teased in the first season’s final episode, Oshi no Ko season 2 will cover the manga’s Tokyo Blade arc. There, Aqua, Kana, and Akane will be given a lot of time to shine.
While there’s still no proper trailer featuring these three, the series did confirm the following returning...
Oshi no Ko is finally coming back soon. With the show’s return just a bit over a month away, here are all the confirmed details about the new and returning cast members of Oshi no Ko season 2.
As this new season will directly follow the last one with no significant time jump, it should come as no surprise that many of the main characters are returning.
All Confirmed Returning Cast and Characters in Oshi no Ko Season 2
As teased in the first season’s final episode, Oshi no Ko season 2 will cover the manga’s Tokyo Blade arc. There, Aqua, Kana, and Akane will be given a lot of time to shine.
While there’s still no proper trailer featuring these three, the series did confirm the following returning...
- 5/22/2024
- EpicStream
The Young and The Restless (Y&r) spoilers and updates indicate that Jordan (Colleen Zenk) will continue to lose her mind while locked up in that jail cell. Victor Newman (Eric Braeden) has been playing mind games with her, pushing her to her breaking point; feeling trapped, Jordan will realize she needs to take action.
The Young And The Restless Spoilers – Cole Howard Finds Her, But Will He Help?
Jordan will spend the week of May 20-24 scheming to find a way out. As she hatches her escape plan, she can only hope it will lead to her freedom from the dungeon.
Meanwhile, the suspicious Cole Howard (J. Eddie Peck) will eventually uncover Victor’s secret hiding place.
Cole will stumble upon Jordan in the cellar, becoming a crucial part of her escape plan, whether intentionally or not.
Cole will cross a line, but does that mean he’ll help her escape,...
The Young And The Restless Spoilers – Cole Howard Finds Her, But Will He Help?
Jordan will spend the week of May 20-24 scheming to find a way out. As she hatches her escape plan, she can only hope it will lead to her freedom from the dungeon.
Meanwhile, the suspicious Cole Howard (J. Eddie Peck) will eventually uncover Victor’s secret hiding place.
Cole will stumble upon Jordan in the cellar, becoming a crucial part of her escape plan, whether intentionally or not.
Cole will cross a line, but does that mean he’ll help her escape,...
- 5/20/2024
- by Rita Ryan
- Soap Opera Spy
British actor Janet Montgomery has landed a starring role as a young Faye Dunaway in Jonathan Baker’s supernatural love story “Fate,” a film that is shooting in Vancouver for Baker Entertainment.
The film will toggle between a yesteryear version of the character (Montgomery) and a present-day incarnation (Dunaway), spanning much of the protagonist’s entire lifetime. “Fate” revolves around a firefighter (Brandon Routh) who connects with a stranger from the past Tilly (Montgomery) while he’s healing at a rehabilitation center and is transported through time to find the only thing saving his soul — his realization of true love, according to a producer’s logline.
Highland Film Group is selling rights to the $10 million film, which also stars Harvey Keitel, at the Cannes Marche.
Dunaway is on the ground in Cannes, where HBO screened the much-anticipated biographical documentary “Faye.”
Montgomery was cast out of hundreds of actors vying for the role.
The film will toggle between a yesteryear version of the character (Montgomery) and a present-day incarnation (Dunaway), spanning much of the protagonist’s entire lifetime. “Fate” revolves around a firefighter (Brandon Routh) who connects with a stranger from the past Tilly (Montgomery) while he’s healing at a rehabilitation center and is transported through time to find the only thing saving his soul — his realization of true love, according to a producer’s logline.
Highland Film Group is selling rights to the $10 million film, which also stars Harvey Keitel, at the Cannes Marche.
Dunaway is on the ground in Cannes, where HBO screened the much-anticipated biographical documentary “Faye.”
Montgomery was cast out of hundreds of actors vying for the role.
- 5/18/2024
- by Tatiana Siegel
- Variety Film + TV
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