Jim Parsons
#FIRSTLOOK: “SPOILER ALERT” IS AVAILABLE NOW ON-DEMAND
We finally got around to seeing Michael Showalter’s SPOILER ALERT, which is now available on-demand. The Holiday lead-up was busy and we wanted so much to see this sooner. Showalter as you might recall, is responsible for Academy Award-winning THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE!
Based on Michael Ausiello‘s Memoir, “Spoiler Alert: The Hero Diesheartfelt”, the Film recounts the love of his life. I promised myself I wouldn’t cry. And did I ever fail miserably at that! It was pure waterworks, especially late in the Film. Such tremendous performances from this brilliant Ensemble including Jim Parsons as Ausiello, screen legend Sally Field and a breakthrough performance by Ben Aldridge as Kit.
The Film so delicately looks at love and loss, while doing so with a lightness and complexity that pays tribute to this heartbreaking love story and all its gray areas. This isn’t your typical Rom-Com and not gay campy fare. As our George Kozera says, “It was a banner year for LGBTQ-themed movies” and Spoiler Alert was at the very forefront of it all. You cannot miss this. More here.
(Photo/video credit: Focus Features)
#FIRSTLOOK: NEW TRAILER FOR “SPOILER ALERT”
Based on Michael Ausiello‘s Memoir “SPOILER ALERT: THE HERO DIES“, comes this brand new Trailer for its Film Adaptation, starring Jim Parsons!
Director: Michael Showalter
Screenwriters: David Marshall Grant & Dan Savage, based on the book Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies by Michael Ausiello
Producers: Jim Parsons, Todd Spiewak, Alison Mo Massey, Michael Showalter, Jordana Mollick
Executive Producers: Michael Ausiello, Eric Norsoph, Jason Sokoloff
Cast: Jim Parsons, Ben Aldridge, Bill Irwin, Jeffery Self and Sally Field
Story: Based on Michael Ausiello’s best-selling memoir “Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies,” the film is a heartwarming, funny and life-affirming story of how Michael and Kit’s relationship is transformed and deepened when one of them falls ill.
Focus Features/Universal Pictures Canada release SPOILER ALERT December 2, 2022.
(Photo/video credit: Universal Pictures/Focus Features)
#FIRSTLOOK: NEW STILLS FROM “THE BOYS IN THE BAND”
This looks great! Presenting this first look at a new Adaptation of THE BOYS IN THE BAND, coming next month to Netflix!
Synopsis:
More than fifty years after Mart Crowley‘s play became an unexpected smash hit for putting gay men’s lives center stage with honesty and humor, THE BOYS IN THE BAND returns to the screen in a new adaptation that reunites acclaimed director Joe Mantello with the all-star cast of the Tony-winning, 2018 Broadway production. In 1968 New York City – when being gay was still considered to be best kept behind closed doors – a group of friends gather for a raucous birthday party hosted by Michael (Jim Parsons), a screenwriter who spends and drinks too much, in honor of the sharp-dressed and sharp-tongued Harold (Zachary Quinto). Other partygoers include Donald (Matt Bomer), Michael’s former flame, now mired in self-analysis; Larry (Andrew Rannells), a randy commercial artist living with Hank (Tuc Watkins), a school teacher who has just left his wife; Bernard (Michael Benjamin Washington), a librarian tiptoeing around fraught codes of friendship alongside Emory (Robin de Jesús), a decorator who never holds back; and a guileless hustler (Charlie Carver), hired to be Harold’s gift for the night. What begins as an evening of drinks and laughs gets upended when Alan (Brian Hutchison), Michael’s straight-laced college roommate, shows up unexpectedly and each man is challenged to confront long-buried truths that threaten the foundation of the group’s tight bond.
See the new stills:
See the Trailer:
THE BOYS IN THE BAND arrives on Netflix Friday, September 30, 2020.
(Photo/video credit: Netflix)
#FIRSTLOOK: NEW STILLS FROM RYAN MURPHY’S “HOLLYWOOD”
This looks amazing! Check-out these just-released stills from Ryan Murphy‘s HOLLYWOOD, coming soon to Netflix.
Synopsis:
A new limited series from Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, HOLLYWOOD follows a group of aspiring actors and filmmakers in post-World War II Hollywood as they try to make it in Tinseltown — no matter the cost. Each character offers a unique glimpse behind the gilded curtain of Hollywood’s Golden Age, spotlighting the unfair systems and biases across race, gender and sexuality that continue to this day. Provocative and incisive, HOLLYWOOD exposes and examines decades-old power dynamics, and what the entertainment landscape might look like if they had been dismantled. HOLLYWOOD stars David Corenswet as Jack, Darren Criss as Raymond, Jeremy Pope as Archie, Laura Harrier as Camille, Samara Weaving as Claire, Dylan McDermott as Ernie, Holland Taylor as Ellen Kincaid, Patti LuPone as Avis, Jim Parsons as Henry Willson, Jake Picking as Rock Hudson, Joe Mantello as Dick, and Maude Apatow as Henrietta.
See new Stills:
HOLLYWOOD streams on Netflix Friday, May 1, 2020.
(Photo credit: Netflix)
#FIRSTLOOK: NEW TRAILER FOR “EXTREMELY WICKED, SHOCKINGLY EVIL AND VILE”
It’s Zac Efron like you’ve never imagined! EXTREMELY WICKED, SHOCKINGLY EVIL AND VILE premieres at Sundance and here’s the brand-new Trailer!
Synopsis:
A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy from the perspective of Liz, his longtime girlfriend, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.
Starring: Zac Efron, Lily Collins, Kaya Scodelario, Jeffrey Donovan, Angela Sarafyan, Dylan Baker, Brian Geraghty, Haley Joel Osment, James Hetfield, with Jim Parsons and John Malkovich
See the Trailer:
VVS Films release EXTREMELY WICKED, SHOCKINGLY EVIL AND VILE 2019.
(Photo/video credit: VVS Films)
#SUNDANCE18: SUNDANCE 2018 – JANUARY 21, 2018 DAY FOUR RECAP
It’s day four of the Sundance Film Festival and we are in full flight!
There were many Premieres once again tonight in Park City. I Think We’re Alone Now takes place during an apocalypse where a recluse feels the threat of companionship when finding out there is a second survivor. It stars Peter Dinklage and Elle Fanning. BLAZE is the reimagining of the life of Blaze Foley who was the unsung songwriting legend of the Texas Outlaw Music Movement. It is written and directed by Ethan Hawke and stars recent Golden Globe winner Sam Rockwell, Edgar Arreola and Alia Shawkat. Come Sunday follows pastor Carlton Pearson during a crisis in faith where he risks everything when he questions the Church Doctrine, it is based on true events. It stars Chiwetel Ejifor, Jason Segel and Danny Glover. The Happy Prince is set during Oscar Wilde’s final days. It is starring, written and directed by a long-absent Rupert Everett and stars Colin Firth and Emily Watson. The Miseducation of Cameron Post takes place in 1993 and follows a girl who is sent to a Conversion Therapy Centre when she is caught kissing another girl. It stars Chloë Grace Moretz and Sasha Lane. And Piercing which is a twisted love story about a married man who goes away on a business trip with the intent of murdering a prostitute, who also has plans of her own. It stars Christopher Abbot and Mia Wasikowska.
Down on Main Street in Park City, there were tons of stars out getting lunch, attending parties and press stops. Some of the stars spotted out on the street were Joan Jett, Idris Elba, Debra Messing, John Cho, Joel McHale, Chloë Grace Mortez and more. It was also a special day for Bill Skarsgård (It), who is at the Festival with Assassination Nation, he received the IMDb StarMeter Award.
This wraps-up the first weekend of the Festival. But there is still an entire week ahead with more stars coming into Park City and plenty more Films to be screened.
See some stars out and about today! Hover cursor left and right to navigate slideshow:
(Photo credit: Amanda Gilmore)
For advertising opportunites please contact mrwill@mrwillwong.com