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Patricia Clarkson, a three-time Emmy winner and Oscar nominee, stars as equal pay activist Lilly Ledbetter in the new movie, "Lilly." Ledbetter sued her employer in 1999 for sex discrimination after learning she was being paid substantially less than her male colleagues. She lost her case at the Supreme Court, but 10 years later, then-President Obama signed the "Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act."
Join Correspondent Tom Wilmer as he visits with Guy Mossman, co-director and director of photography for the documentary SPEAK showcased at the SLO FILM FESTIVAL following a rave world-premiere performance at the legendary Sundance Film Festival, February 2025.
K Factor Films and Branded Pictures Entertainment have partnered with Roco Films to release the heartwarming documentary, Homeschooled, debuting on major streaming platforms on June 1.
The Syndicate has boarded foreign sales rights to revenge thriller Stone Cold Fox starring Kiernan Shipka, Kiefer Sutherland and Krysten Ritter.
Patricia Clarkson is an actor who always hits the true note, but it’s been quite a while since she nabbed a movie role as full-scale and invigorating as the one she has in “Lilly.” The movie, which opened yesterday, is a whistleblower drama, based on the life of Lilly Ledbetter, who was the image of a homespun citizen — an Alabama wife and mother working as a supervisor at the local Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company plant — when she became an activist almost in spite of herself.
Filmmaker Calvin Morie McCarthy is heading to the Cannes Film Festival! His script, “LATE BLOOMER”, was selected to be presented at Largo.ai’s signature event, “Producers Pitching Their Projects, Powered by AI Insights” at the Cannes Film Festival on May 13, 2025. Largo.ai is a platform that studios, producers, and distributors use to make informed decisions on content creation.
Musicals Buena Vista Social Club, Death Becomes Her and Maybe Happy Ending lead the 2025 Tony nominations with 10 nods each.
Musicals Buena Vista Social Club, Death Becomes Her, and Maybe Happy Ending all tied to become the most nominated productions of the season, each including the much coveted Best Musical. (With a Special Tony Award being bestowed on Buena Vista Social Club's band, the musical is technically the most recognized in this nomination announcement.)
Sony‘s Affirm Films has dated Soul on Fire, its new film inspired by the life of inspirational speaker John O’Leary, for release in theaters nationwide October 10.
In honor of Equal Pay Day, PEOPLE has the exclusive first trailer for 'Lilly,' starring Patricia Clarkson
Full of clever, sometimes-brutal humor, and tender, relatable discussions about moving through life’s most overwhelming shifts, Parents in Chains, presented as a “disguised” reading by Ensemble Theatre Company in association with J. Todd Harris, is a smooth, comic pleasure.
Entering “Buena Vista Social Club” is like stepping into a heady world of the senses, of heightened emotions, and of passionate music and dance.
Actor Patricia Clarkson talks about her latest film “Lilly,” where she plays Lilly Ledbetter, the tire factory worker who fought for equal pay. She discusses Ledbetter's legacy in history and what it meant to her to portray the activist. “It was the privilege of my life to play this great woman,” she says.
It’s the story of a woman who understands the true meaning of labor. Lilly Ledbetter fought not only for her right to fair pay but also for women’s rights across the country.
The new off-Broadway play 'Fatherland' centers on the trial of Guy Wesley Refitt, the first American convicted in the January 6 attacks. The play centers on Refitt's son, Jackson, who reported his father to the FBI.
The Off-Broadway plays “Fatherland” and “Blood of the Lamb” explore the grief, anger, and fear of no longer recognizing the country you love
The show, which had a previous run at Atlantic Theater Company, is scheduled to begin previews in February at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater.
A new Off Broadway musical adds the thrill of intimacy and the weight of history to the Cuban songs popularized on a 1997 album.
EXCLUSIVE: William H. Macy (Shameless), John Corbett (My Big Fat Greek Wedding), Joel Courtney (The Kissing Booth), DeVon Franklin (Jesus Revolution), and Stephanie Szostak (A Million Little Things) are among those set to star in On Fire, another new film from Sean McNamara (Reagan) that has landed a SAG-AFTRA Interim Agreement and will begin production in St. Louis November 6.
EXCLUSIVE: Blue Fox Entertainment has taken the US rights to Paul A. Kaufman’s YA dramedy Butter. An autumn theatrical release is currently planned.
12 Mighty Orphans, a Spotlight Narrative entry at Tribeca Fest, is a film that looks and feels like it might have been made in the 1930s Depression era in which it is set. You half expect Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney to show up any minute, like in Boys Town. In the cynical exploitative social media-driven world we live in, this true story of a good and decent man and his ragtag football team of orphans is positively quaint and out of place, but somehow comforting in all it represents of an America long ago.
Despite outward appearances, “Shepherd: The Story of a Jewish Dog” isn’t a canine heart-tugger on the order of the fine “A Dog’s Purpose” or “My Dog Skip” but more of a family-style adventure drama with an important historical bent.
It's time to boogie! Soul Train, a new musical based on Don Cornelius' landmark TV show, will have its world premiere at San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater next year. The show will run from September 16 to October 23, 2022 where COVID-19 protocols will be in place in accordance with the City and County of San Francisco’s regulations. The production was originally eyeing a 2021 Broadway bow prior to the COVID-19 pandemic that caused theaters to shutdown.
Actors Luke Evans (“Beauty and the Beast,” “The Alienist”), Jacob Tremblay (“Room,” “Wonder”) and Olga Kurylenko (“The Death of Stalin,” “Quantum of Solace”) are in talks to star in “Bear Season,” a new coming-of-age immigrant drama from director Simon Aboud (“This Beautiful Fantastic”).
Patricia Clarkson is set to portray Lilly Ledbetter, the fair pay pioneer for whom President Obama named a piece of legislation in 2009.
Netflix has closed its big global deal for Aaron Sorkin‘s The Trial Of The Chicago 7 and the price tag comes in at around $56M, we can reveal.