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Christina Hendricks, Anna Camp and Alysia Reiner to Star in Dark Comedy ‘Egg’

dorriolds — Mon, 17 Jul 2017 18:42:57 +0000

NEW YORK, NY – July 17, 2017 – Indie film production company OVER. EASY. LLC announced today that Alysia Reiner (Orange Is the New Black), Christina Hendricks (Mad Men), and Anna Camp (True Blood, Pitch Perfect) will star in Egg, an unflinching comedy about why we choose motherhood, why we revere it, fear it, or delegate it, and why some of us choose to forgo it. David Alan Basche (Equity) and Gbenga Akinnagbe (The Deuce) will also star. Written by Risa Mickenberg, author of the twenty-year best-seller Taxi Driver Wisdom, the dark comedy will be directed by Oscar short listed, Emmy Award nominated filmmaker Marianna Palka (GLOW, Bitch, Good Dick). The film will be produced by Reiner, Basche, and Michele Ganeless, former President of Comedy Central. Egg will shoot in New York later this summer.
“We are thrilled to throw another stone at the glass ceiling of Hollywood, by hiring more women than men, while telling this darkly comic stereotype-breaking story about parenthood,” said Reiner.
(Christina Hendricks, Photo by Tony Duran)
When fearless conceptual artist Tina (Reiner) and her passive-aggressive feminist husband (Akinnagbe) invite her eight-month pregnant art school rival (Hendricks) and power-hungry, new money husband Don (Basche) to their loft in the Bronx for dinner, they surprise them with Tina’s new work-in-progress: a radical alternative to motherhood. But when Tina and Wayne’s, non-traditional surrogate Kiki (Camp) arrives in short shorts, the truth outs, and the patriarchy fights to hang on to its teeth.
Marianna Palka is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, actress and four time Sundance Film Festival alumnae. Her directorial debut, Good Dick, which she wrote and starred in with Jason Ritter, premiered in dramatic competition at the Sundance Film Festival. Palka is represented by United Agents UK.

(Alysia Reiner, Photo by Tito Trueba)

Alysia Reiner is an award-winning actress who moved into producing with last summer’s hit film Equity, in which she also starred. The film premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2016 and was quickly snapped up by Sony Pictures Classics. In front of the camera, she won a SAG award playing “Fig” as part of the cast of Orange is the New Black, is in all 5 seasons, and also plays “Sunny” in Better Things on FX. She also just starred in Broad City, Odd Mom Out, and Younger. Reiner is represented by Abrams Artists Agency and Affirmative Entertainment.
Award winning, and six time Emmy Award nominated actress Christina Hendricks is best known for Mad Men and recently starred in The Neon Demon. She was just announced as a lead in the new NBC series Good Girls. Upcoming films include Candy Jar, for Netflix, with Helen Hunt, Crooked House, based on the Agatha Christie novel, opposite Glenn Close, and The Burning Woman opposite Sienna Miller, directed by Jake Scott and produced by Ridley Scott . Hendricks is represented by ICM Partners and LINK Entertainment.
(Anna Camp, Photo by Amanda Edwards/WireImage)
Camp is one of the industry’s most exciting, scene-stealing talents on stage and screen. She can next be seen starring in the third installment of Universal’s hit film series “Pitch Perfect,” which releases December 22, 2017. She’s also had memorable performances in Woody Allen’s film “Cafe Society,” as well as in the Academy Award-nominated film “The Help.” On television, Camp recently starred in Amazon’s critically acclaimed 1970s newsroom drama, “Good Girls Revolt.” She also received rave reviews for her work in the recurring role of “Deirdre Robespierre” on Netflix’s hit comedy “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” created and produced by Tina Fey, and is widely known for playing the vampire-hating role of “Sarah Newlin” on HBO’s “True Blood,” for which she earned a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for “Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.” Camp is represented by UTA, Authentic Talent and Literary Management and Schreck, Rose Dapello, Adams, Berlin & Dunham.
Michele Ganeless was most recently President of Comedy Central. Under her leadership, zeitgeist-shifting shows including Broad City, Inside Amy Schumer, Key & Peele and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart fueled the growth of Comedy Central to the number one brand in comedy across all platforms. Ganeless left Comedy Central to concentrate on creating content for, by and about women.
Actor, director, producer David Alan Basche has worked across all platforms, from leads in series like The Exes, Lipstick Jungle and The Starter Wife, to feature films including Equity, The Adjustment Bureau, United 93 and the upcoming Sidney Hall. Basche is represented by Abrams Artists Agency and Industry Entertainment.
Gbenga Akinnagbe will be seen this fall in the series The Deuce with James Franco and Maggie Gyllenhaal and recently wrapped the Kathryn Bigelow film Detroit. He is represented by APA and Zero Gravity Management.

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Orange is the New Black Series 4 Confirmed

dorriolds — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 08:51:18 +0000

Orange is the New Black Series 4 Confirmed
The hotly anticipated return of everybody’s favorite Netflix series has been getting mixed reactions. “Orange is the New Black” was created by Jenji Kohan based on the memoirs of real-life inmate Piper Kerman about her own experiences in prison. The series has received critical acclaim, 12 Primetime Emmy Award nominations and accumulated rabid fans that claim to subscribe to Netflix just so they can watch the show. The third season premiered on June 11, 2015 but some are questioning if the magic is still there.
Storylines Continue
OITNB Season 3 opened with a special Mother’s Day event for the inmates as Joe Caputo debuted his more relaxed attitude toward running the prison. As Bennett faces up to Daya’s extended family he begins to realize the arduous road ahead. Through the backstories of Big Boo we watch her struggle with family expectations. It’s all about pressure to be more feminine, learning about Chang, and discovering there’s an Amish inmate in the midst.
Steadfast Fan Base
The show’s huge following has created a hungry demand for OITNB merchandise like the recently developed app made by Sankeerna Wali that quizzes fans on their trivia knowledge of the show to a Crazy Eyes keychain. It’ll be interesting to see how many ways the fans will root for the drama. We can only guess if we’ll see theme parks pop up or slot machines, like the Terminator 2 slot and a whole host of companies cashing in with new games. Gambling in the prison is strictly forbidden, of course, but that doesn’t mean the fans won’t go crazy getting greedy for more and more and more.
2016 Season 4 Confirmed
Fans were ecstatic to hear that the show has been renewed for a fourth season, which will debut in 2016. No doubt there will be countless questions left unanswered by this series finale. In the meantime, the actresses who have enjoyed success on the show are developing their own projects for fans to enjoy in the interim. Laverne Cox stars with Lily Tomlin in “Grandma,” opening Aug. 21, she played Sheena on “The Mindy Project, ” and she’s now filming the movie, “Doubt.” And Taylor Schilling’s movie, “The Overnight,” just hit theaters on June 19.

Laverne Cox. Photo © Dorri Olds.

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Laverne Cox on the Red Carpet for the Movie ‘Grandma’

dorriolds — Sun, 17 May 2015 16:04:33 +0000

Photos by Dorri Olds
Laverne Cox (“Orange is the New Black”) was radiant in red as she worked her way down the red carpet in New York City. Click on the accompanying slideshow to view some never-before-seen photos of Cox. These photos are just being made available now and show Cox on the carpet in lower Manhattan on April 20, 2015 at the Tribeca Film Festival movie premiere of “Grandma,” by writer director Paul Weitz (“American Pie,” “About a Boy”). “Grandma” stars Lily Tomlin, Julia Garner and Nat Wolff.

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Yay for a Female-Driven, Pro-LGBT, Pro-Choice Comedy Drama That Delivers and Stars Icon Lily Tomlin

dorriolds — Sun, 17 May 2015 15:55:56 +0000

Photos by Dorri Olds
“Grandma” is Lily Tomlin’s movie. She is in top form in a role created just for her. Writer director Paul Weitz (“American Pie,” “About a Boy”) confirmed that he had written the part for Tomlin after the two had worked together on 2013’s “Admission.”
Yay for a female-driven, pro-LGBT, pro-choice comedy drama that delivers. “Grandma” is Lily Tomlin’s movie. She is in top form in a role created just for her. Writer director Paul Weitz (“American Pie,” “About a Boy”) confirmed that he had written the part for Tomlin after the two had worked together on 2013’s “Admission.”

On the red carpet at the film’s Tribeca Film Festival premiere last month, Weitz smiled as he referred to Tomlin as “so punk rock” and added that she was great as Tina Fey’s mom in “Admission.”
“She was so hardcore, funny and smart that I wanted to do a whole movie with her as the lead.” said Weitz. Before “Admission,” he hadn’t known Tomlin well, “But her intelligence rang like a clear bell,” he said. “It made me think of a character and how much that character would have to offer a young woman under duress.”
Tomlin’s smile lit up the red carpet — corny-sounding, I know, but it did — and she exuded a natural air of hippitude. As I stood next to her on the carpet, she seemed tickled by the grin plastered on my face. I’ve adored her since “One ringy-dingy” and loved her decades later on FX’s “Damages.”

Julia Garner costars with Lily Tomlin in ‘Grandma’

Watch a hilarious clip from the “Grandma” here:
Watch one of my YouTube channel’s most popular videos with Nat Wolff:

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