“Swimming with Sharks” has waded into dangerously realistic waters while showcasing the abuse at the heart of Hollywood, but showrunner Kathleen Robertson wants to clarify that the Roku Channel series is anything but a woman-versus-woman cautionary tale.
The psychological thriller, now streaming, stars Kiernan Shipka as a Los Angeles newcomer who becomes the assistant to an ambitious studio executive played by Diane Kruger. Inspired by the 1994 film of the same name, “Swimming with Sharks” gender-swapped its two lead characters for a female-driven story.
“My feeling was if I could use this world as a jumping-off point, but have it be told through the eyes of two very complex women, there would be something there,” writer-producer Robertson told Black Book Magazine. “I’ve been a working actor since the age of 10 so this industry is very much a part of my identity. I grew up on sets. I have my 10,000 hours,...
The psychological thriller, now streaming, stars Kiernan Shipka as a Los Angeles newcomer who becomes the assistant to an ambitious studio executive played by Diane Kruger. Inspired by the 1994 film of the same name, “Swimming with Sharks” gender-swapped its two lead characters for a female-driven story.
“My feeling was if I could use this world as a jumping-off point, but have it be told through the eyes of two very complex women, there would be something there,” writer-producer Robertson told Black Book Magazine. “I’ve been a working actor since the age of 10 so this industry is very much a part of my identity. I grew up on sets. I have my 10,000 hours,...
- 4/23/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Tony Sokol Oct 27, 2017
Focus Drama is talking with Scarlett Johansson to star in the movie adaptation of the novel The Deepest Secret
Scarlett Johansson is about to go to go dark, darker than the Black Widow. She's in talks to star in Focus Drama’s upcoming film Reflective Light. The film will mark the directorial debut of art photographer Gregory Crewdson, who wrote the screenplay with Juliane Hiam.
Reflective Light is an adaptation of the 2014 Carla Buckley novel The Deepest Secret, about a boy who is allergic to sunlight, and the mother who will do whatever she will to cover him with darkness.
“Eve Lattimore is barely keeping things together,” according to the official Penguin Random House synopsis.
“Her husband works fifteen hundred miles away, leaving Eve to juggle singlehandedly the demands of their teenaged daughter and fragile son. Tyler was born with Xp—the so-called vampire disease: even one...
Focus Drama is talking with Scarlett Johansson to star in the movie adaptation of the novel The Deepest Secret
Scarlett Johansson is about to go to go dark, darker than the Black Widow. She's in talks to star in Focus Drama’s upcoming film Reflective Light. The film will mark the directorial debut of art photographer Gregory Crewdson, who wrote the screenplay with Juliane Hiam.
Reflective Light is an adaptation of the 2014 Carla Buckley novel The Deepest Secret, about a boy who is allergic to sunlight, and the mother who will do whatever she will to cover him with darkness.
“Eve Lattimore is barely keeping things together,” according to the official Penguin Random House synopsis.
“Her husband works fifteen hundred miles away, leaving Eve to juggle singlehandedly the demands of their teenaged daughter and fragile son. Tyler was born with Xp—the so-called vampire disease: even one...
- 10/26/2017
- Den of Geek
"Violent Blue" Trailer Now Online! The first official trailer for director Gregory Hatanaka's ("Mad Cowgirl", "Until The Night") new bizarre flick, "Violent Blue", is now online! You Tube Link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ERZyDd_mQY The film stars Silvia Suvadova ("Kolja", "Polanski"), Nick Mancuso ("Under Siege", "Rapid Fire", "Death Warrior"), Jesse Hlubik ("May", "I Know Who Killed Me", "The Lost"), Barry O'Rourke ("Viva"), Andrea Harrison ("Born To Be A Star") with special appearances by Shane Ryan ("Warning!!! Pedophile Released"), Luke Y. Thompson ("Wicked Lake"), Kai Lanette ("Amateur Porn Star Killer 2"), Lina So ("Repo Men"), Aneliese Roettger ("Couples Retreat", "Frat Party") and producer Barry Barnholtz ("Public Enemies", "A Christmas Proposal", "B.T.K.", "Cyborg...
- 12/21/2009
- www.ohmygore.com/
Screen Gems' D.E.B.S. will open the sixth CineVegas Film Festival, with New Line Cinema's The Notebook serving as the closing-night film. A total of 36 features/docus, including seven world premieres, and 19 shorts will be unspooled during the fest, which is set to run June 11-19 in Las Vegas. Films making their world premiere at the festival include Chris Fisher's Hillside Strangler, Mitchell Altieri's Lurking in Suburbia, Kim Dempster's Marmalade, John Harkrider's Mitchellville, Michael Gibson's Numb, Andrew Wagner's The Talent Given Us and Until the Night from Gregory Hatanaka.
- 5/13/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Kathleen Robertson has landed roles in two feature films, the indie drama Until the Night, opposite Norman Reedus, and the indie thriller Control, starring Willem Dafoe. Night, from writer-director Greg Hatanaka, begins shooting in Los Angeles next week. It sees Robertson star in the lead role of Elizabeth, a woman who on the surface has a seemingly perfect existence, but a new perspective emerges when she becomes secretly involved with an ex-boyfriend (Reedus). Taka Arai produces the film.
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