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‘J6’: Billy Ray To Direct U.S. Capitol Insurrection Attack Film With Adam McKay Producing

January 20, 2022 4:04 pm

No stranger to political works, writer/director Billy Ray was behind the recent Showtime series “The Comey Rule,” focusing on former FBI director James Comey and President Trump’s attempt to coax the FBI to dr...

AMC Theatres Launches Massive Ad Campaign Starring Nicole Kidman To Encourage People To Go Back To Cinemas

Charles Barfield

September 8, 2021 1:01 pm

Box Office, News, Video

AMC Theatres has been in the news quite a bit over the past couple of years. Not only is it the largest cinema chain in the world, which also makes it the most affected by the pandemic and its shutdown of Holl...

‘The Comey Rule’s Billy Ray To Make Showtime Series About The U.S. Capitol Insurrection Attack & Final Days Of The Trump Administration

Christopher Marc

March 18, 2021 4:17 pm

News, Television

Following their last successful American political show, "The Comey Rule," Showtime is looking to make a limited series about another big and timely news topic with the same creators. This time they'll be movi...

‘Captain Phillips’ & ‘Mudbound’ Writers To Script A Reimagined ‘Rashomon’ Series For HBO Max

Charles Barfield

September 25, 2020 11:54 am

News, Television

Though the original film is 70 years old, Akira Kurosawa’s “Rashomon” remains one of the most influential films ever to be released. To this day, you still hear descriptions of new films and TV projects as “Ra...

‘The Comey Rule’: Billy Ray’s Showtime Miniseries Is An Intriguing FBI Procedural Until It’s Not [Review]

Rodrigo Perez

September 2, 2020 11:32 am

News, Reviews, Television

While the filmmakers behind Showtime’s two-part “The Comey Rule” have clearly overestimated the public’s desire for— uhhh, gestures in the general direction of anything and everything in entertainment vaguely ...

‘The Comey Rule’ Trailer: Trump’s Corruption Gets The Spotlight In Billy Ray’s Upcoming Showtime Series

Charles Barfield

August 24, 2020 10:25 am

News, Television, Trailers

The political biopic is a time-honored tradition in Hollywood. However, normally, those stories are told well after the person has left office or even passed away. In the case of President Donald Trump, he has...

‘The Comey Rule’: First Teaser For Billy Ray & Showtime’s Series With Brendan Gleeson As Trump & Jeff Daniels As Ex-FBI Director James Comey

Rodrigo Perez

July 29, 2020 6:50 pm

News, Television, Trailers

Pick a Donald Trump scandal? Pick your poison cause there’s so damn many of them. But the one that arguably kicked-off everything, that led to the Mueller trial and the case for impeaching the President—which ...

‘Richard Jewell’ Writer Defends Film Amid Controversy Surrounding Depiction Of Female Reporter

Charles Barfield

December 13, 2019 2:20 pm

News

One of several films opening in theaters this weekend is “Richard Jewell,” from director Clint Eastwood. While the film has been getting pretty solid reviews (including our own), the film about the 1996 Olympic...

‘A Higher Loyalty’: Brendan Gleeson Cast As Donald Trump Opposite Jeff Daniels As James Comey In New CBS Miniseries

Charles Barfield

October 7, 2019 1:03 pm

News, Television

It appears that we’re not even going to wait until the Donald Trump dust settles before we get our first based on a true story project about his work in the White House. But hey, if we have to watch a four-hour...

Jennifer Todd, Alfred Molina And Susanne Brier Elected To Academy’s Board of Governors

Gregory Ellwood

June 14, 2018 4:37 pm

Awards, Awards Campaign, News

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Update June 20: The Academy announced today that Jennifer Todd has defeated Jason Blum in a runoff election that was held earlier this week. Todd, who produced the last two Oscar telecasts and films such as "...

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