The team behind Guestimators, the breakthrough podcast quiz presented by Absolute Radio’s Andy Bush, have today launched Lock It In, a full-service production studio specialising in talent-led, comedy and entertainment podcasts.
Focusing on podcasts that are inspired by the nuances of British culture, Lock It In will be working with platforms, talent and brands on everything from concepts and content strategy through to production, monetisation and promotion.
Bush, the voice of Hometime for 2.2m listeners, is an equal partner in the business alongside Will Nichols and Matt Cutler, the sports journalist behind ground-breaking documentary The Pirates vs The Premier League.
The trio launched quiz platform Guestimators in November 2023. Its twice-weekly podcast, distributed by Keep It Light Media, has featured celebrities including Mel Giedroyc, Bob Harris, Rosie Holt and Lloyd Griffith, while its loyal community of thousands plays the quiz every week.
Lock It In already have a number of...
Focusing on podcasts that are inspired by the nuances of British culture, Lock It In will be working with platforms, talent and brands on everything from concepts and content strategy through to production, monetisation and promotion.
Bush, the voice of Hometime for 2.2m listeners, is an equal partner in the business alongside Will Nichols and Matt Cutler, the sports journalist behind ground-breaking documentary The Pirates vs The Premier League.
The trio launched quiz platform Guestimators in November 2023. Its twice-weekly podcast, distributed by Keep It Light Media, has featured celebrities including Mel Giedroyc, Bob Harris, Rosie Holt and Lloyd Griffith, while its loyal community of thousands plays the quiz every week.
Lock It In already have a number of...
- 5/7/2024
- Podnews.net
The Road Dog is a comedy-drama film directed by Greg Glienna, who also co-wrote the film with Tony Boswell. The film revolves around an alcoholic standup comedian who gets a new lease on life when he tries to get to know his son, whom he didn’t even know existed. The Road Dog stars Doug Stanhope in the lead role with Khrystyne Haje, Greg Fitzsimmons, and Tim Kazurinsky starring in supporting roles. So, if you liked The Road Dog here are some similar movies you could watch next.
Standing Up, Falling Down (Prime Video & Hulu) Credit – Shout! Studios
Synopsis: A struggling stand-up comedian (Ben Schwartz) moves back home to Long Island with his tail tucked between his legs and strikes up an unlikely friendship with his eccentric dermatologist (Billy Crystal).
Funny People (Hulu & Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Universal Pictures
Synopsis: Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen and Leslie Mann star in...
Standing Up, Falling Down (Prime Video & Hulu) Credit – Shout! Studios
Synopsis: A struggling stand-up comedian (Ben Schwartz) moves back home to Long Island with his tail tucked between his legs and strikes up an unlikely friendship with his eccentric dermatologist (Billy Crystal).
Funny People (Hulu & Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Universal Pictures
Synopsis: Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen and Leslie Mann star in...
- 10/23/2023
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
Sofia Coppola’s idiosyncratic 2003 film made a huge impression on the young Johny Pitts. Two decades on, the writer and artist revisits the movie and the people who made it to investigate its enduring appeal and place in the early millennium
If you’re a geriatric millennial, as I am, the news that Lost in Translation is 20 years old will probably make you feel, simply, geriatric. When you think about it, though, the plot feels its age. An overprivileged middle-aged man (grumpy about earning $2m for a week’s work in Japan) having an affair in a five-star hotel with an overprivileged woman half his age hardly screams Hollywood zeitgeist in 2023. Bill Murray is no longer the cool ironic choice for a younger generation, but a problematic old man, and when Lost in Translation was made, he was 52, feasibly old enough to be Scarlett Johansson’s grandfather; “Charlotte” is placed in her 20s,...
If you’re a geriatric millennial, as I am, the news that Lost in Translation is 20 years old will probably make you feel, simply, geriatric. When you think about it, though, the plot feels its age. An overprivileged middle-aged man (grumpy about earning $2m for a week’s work in Japan) having an affair in a five-star hotel with an overprivileged woman half his age hardly screams Hollywood zeitgeist in 2023. Bill Murray is no longer the cool ironic choice for a younger generation, but a problematic old man, and when Lost in Translation was made, he was 52, feasibly old enough to be Scarlett Johansson’s grandfather; “Charlotte” is placed in her 20s,...
- 10/22/2023
- by Johny Pitts
- The Guardian - Film News
For relaxing times, make it Suntory time. Sofia Coppola has gone back to the renowned Japanese whisky Suntory to direct an ad for its 100th anniversary, with none other than Keanu Reeves leading the way.
In the Suntory ad, we see Keanu Reeves enter a bar as Joan Jett’s cover of “Crimson and Clover” is played on vinyl. From there, Reeves takes a seat with locals and enjoys a pour of the whisky, leading into a montage of various stills and clips, including some from Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation.
Sofia Coppola’s 2003 Oscar winner and WGA favorite Lost in Translation of course featured Suntory in one of its best scenes, with Bill Murray’s has-been actor Bob Harris sitting through a spot with a native Japanese director. But the Coppola connection goes back decades before, as her father, Francis Ford Coppola, appeared in a 1980 Suntory ad directed...
In the Suntory ad, we see Keanu Reeves enter a bar as Joan Jett’s cover of “Crimson and Clover” is played on vinyl. From there, Reeves takes a seat with locals and enjoys a pour of the whisky, leading into a montage of various stills and clips, including some from Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation.
Sofia Coppola’s 2003 Oscar winner and WGA favorite Lost in Translation of course featured Suntory in one of its best scenes, with Bill Murray’s has-been actor Bob Harris sitting through a spot with a native Japanese director. But the Coppola connection goes back decades before, as her father, Francis Ford Coppola, appeared in a 1980 Suntory ad directed...
- 5/27/2023
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com
Tyrese Gibson has joined the cast of Lee Daniels’ upcoming new Fox drama “Star,” to play Queen Latifah’s character’s love interest. Gibson’s character, named Pastor Bobby Harris, who presides over Carlotta’s (Latifah) congregation, is described as a handsome ex-thug who… Continue Reading →...
- 10/7/2016
- by shadowandact
- ShadowAndAct
Lee Daniels’ forthcoming Fox drama Star is playing fast and furious with its casting.
Tyrese Gibson is joining the music-themed series as a recurring love interest for Queen Latifah’s quasi-matriarch Carlotta, TVLine has learned. Gibson’s character, Pastor Bobby Harris, presides over Carlotta’s warm congregation. A handsome ex-thug who has turned his life over to God, Bobby begins a relationship with Carlotta. Their romance will be challenged on many fronts and which will ultimately create a crisis of faith for them both.
RelatedEmpire‘s Naomi Campbell to Recur on Lee Daniels’ Midseason Fox Drama Star
Gibson confirmed the...
Tyrese Gibson is joining the music-themed series as a recurring love interest for Queen Latifah’s quasi-matriarch Carlotta, TVLine has learned. Gibson’s character, Pastor Bobby Harris, presides over Carlotta’s warm congregation. A handsome ex-thug who has turned his life over to God, Bobby begins a relationship with Carlotta. Their romance will be challenged on many fronts and which will ultimately create a crisis of faith for them both.
RelatedEmpire‘s Naomi Campbell to Recur on Lee Daniels’ Midseason Fox Drama Star
Gibson confirmed the...
- 10/7/2016
- TVLine.com
Most of us love the Trumbo-Douglas-Kubrick thinking man's leftist gladiator epic, and after several iffy disc presentations this exacting digital restoration follows through on the photochemical reconstruction done 25 years ago. It looks incredibly good, almost too good to be a Blu-ray. Kirk contributes a new featurette interview, telling us that this is the show he'll be remembered for. Spartacus Blu-ray + Digital HD Universal Studios Home Entertainment 1960 / Color / 2:20 widescreen / 197 min. / Street Date October 6, 2015 / 19.98 Starring Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Charles Laughton, Jean Simmons, Peter Ustinov, Tony Curtis, Woody Strode, John Gavin, Nina Foch, Herbert Lom, Charles McGraw, John Ireland, Nick Dennis, John Dall, Herbert Lom, Joanna Barnes, Harold J. Stone, Peter Brocco, John Hoyt, Richard Farnsworth, George Kennedy. Cinematography by Russell Metty Music by Alex North Edited by Robert Lawrence Produced by Kirk Douglas and Edward Lewis Screenplay by Dalton Trumbo Based on the novel by Howard Fast Produced by...
- 10/20/2015
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
20. Love/Chloe in the Afternoon (1972)
Directed by: Éric Rohmer
Originally titled “Love in the Afternoon,” but released in North America as “Chloe in the Afternoon,” this Rohmer film is a tale of possible infidelity, seen through the eyes of a conflicted man. Frédéric (Bernard Verley) is a successful young lawyer who is happily married to a teacher named Hélène (Françoise Verley), who is pregnant with their second child. While Frédéric is in a considerably good place in his life, he still struggles with the loss of excitement he had before he married, when he could sleep with whomever he chose. It wasn’t so much the sex that thrilled him, but the chase itself. Still, he feels that these thoughts and fantasies, paired with his refusal to act upon them, only proves that he is completely dedicated and in love with his own wife. That is, until he meets Chloé...
Directed by: Éric Rohmer
Originally titled “Love in the Afternoon,” but released in North America as “Chloe in the Afternoon,” this Rohmer film is a tale of possible infidelity, seen through the eyes of a conflicted man. Frédéric (Bernard Verley) is a successful young lawyer who is happily married to a teacher named Hélène (Françoise Verley), who is pregnant with their second child. While Frédéric is in a considerably good place in his life, he still struggles with the loss of excitement he had before he married, when he could sleep with whomever he chose. It wasn’t so much the sex that thrilled him, but the chase itself. Still, he feels that these thoughts and fantasies, paired with his refusal to act upon them, only proves that he is completely dedicated and in love with his own wife. That is, until he meets Chloé...
- 12/2/2014
- by Joshua Gaul
- SoundOnSight
By Don L. Stradley
I remember a kid in my old neighborhood who owned a Ken doll. Ken, you may remember, was the sexually ambiguous boyfriend of the infinitely more famous Barbie. If that wasn’t weird enough, this kid kept his Ken doll in a state of near nudity, stripping off his safari gear until poor Ken was down to a pair of bright red swimming trunks. The kid would walk around the neighborhood with his near naked Ken doll tucked under his arm, and occasionally visit my yard, where I and my Neanderthal pals were having fun with our far more manly “action figures,” which included the likes of GI Joe, and Stretch Armstrong. Ken wasn’t a natural fit – he was too small, his hair too perfect, and he was always smiling. The kid claimed that if you left Ken in the sun for a while, he’d actually get a tan.
I remember a kid in my old neighborhood who owned a Ken doll. Ken, you may remember, was the sexually ambiguous boyfriend of the infinitely more famous Barbie. If that wasn’t weird enough, this kid kept his Ken doll in a state of near nudity, stripping off his safari gear until poor Ken was down to a pair of bright red swimming trunks. The kid would walk around the neighborhood with his near naked Ken doll tucked under his arm, and occasionally visit my yard, where I and my Neanderthal pals were having fun with our far more manly “action figures,” which included the likes of GI Joe, and Stretch Armstrong. Ken wasn’t a natural fit – he was too small, his hair too perfect, and he was always smiling. The kid claimed that if you left Ken in the sun for a while, he’d actually get a tan.
- 7/7/2014
- by [email protected] (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
We all from time to time enjoy a comfortable stay when vacationing anywhere in the world. So why should movie characters not appreciate a great place to stay as well? Interestingly, big screen hotels and motels almost play an important part as an extra movie character in addition to serving as a backdrop to the proceedings.
In Enjoy Your Stay: The Top 10 Movies About Hotels/Motels let’s look at some special selections where hotels and motels in film are featured and play a primary role in plot and theme. Cinematic room service has never been so accommodating.
The Enjoy Your Stay: The Top 10 Movies About Hotels/Motels selections are (in alphabetical order):
1.) The Best Exotic Manigold Hotel (2011)
Director John Madden’s The Best Exotic Manigold Hotel juggles various topical matters at hand: the aging process, deception in advertising, exotic travel and cultural clashing. Madden assembles a notable cast...
In Enjoy Your Stay: The Top 10 Movies About Hotels/Motels let’s look at some special selections where hotels and motels in film are featured and play a primary role in plot and theme. Cinematic room service has never been so accommodating.
The Enjoy Your Stay: The Top 10 Movies About Hotels/Motels selections are (in alphabetical order):
1.) The Best Exotic Manigold Hotel (2011)
Director John Madden’s The Best Exotic Manigold Hotel juggles various topical matters at hand: the aging process, deception in advertising, exotic travel and cultural clashing. Madden assembles a notable cast...
- 7/2/2014
- by Frank Ochieng
- SoundOnSight
Based on real events and inspired by an article in Vanity Fair, Sofia Coppola’s latest directorial turn concerns itself with those that emulate the kind of characters she has previously devoted whole films to; Dorff’s Johnny Marco in Somewhere, Kirsten Dunst as Marie Antoinette and to a lesser extent Bill Murray’s Bob Harris in Lost in Translation. A fascination with celebrity is something that clearly interests Coppola but her portraits have had little to say in most cases, most notably in the vacuous Somewhere.
So, in focusing instead on the effect that these kinds of lifestyles have on those that covet them and hang on their every designer outfit choice Coppola has found fresh new ground and gone some way to living up to the promise of her first two films. Unfortunately only some way though.
The Bling Ring’s focus is five friends, nicknamed the ‘Bling Ring’ by the media,...
So, in focusing instead on the effect that these kinds of lifestyles have on those that covet them and hang on their every designer outfit choice Coppola has found fresh new ground and gone some way to living up to the promise of her first two films. Unfortunately only some way though.
The Bling Ring’s focus is five friends, nicknamed the ‘Bling Ring’ by the media,...
- 5/16/2013
- by Craig Skinner
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Flynn (Tony Dension) has just attended his AA meeting, when a man approaches him to speak about the meeting and how he stays sober. As Flynn leaves and heads towards his car, he is attacked by a man with a knife. Flynn manages to shoot him and calls Captain Raydor (Mary McDonnell) for help. He gives her his gun and tells her what happened before passing out. At the hospital, he wakes to find Provenza (Gw Bailey) at his bedside with a balloon, stating "It's a girl." That's all they had, how did I know that's what he'd say? Brenda (Kyra Sedgwick) is also there. Raydor tells Flynn if he can describe his attacker and ID him, then she'll take on the case, but if he can't then Major Crimes can investigate. He says he can't and when she leaves he says he knows what his attacker looked like. He...
- 12/6/2011
- by [email protected] (Mila Hasan)
- PopStar
18-year-old Minnesota high school student Lance Lundsten has apparently committed suicide over the weekend. His friends say that the openly gay Lundsten was bullied at school and believe that is what led him to take his own life. Not again. I can’t go through another batch of beautiful kids full of so much potential ending it all because of bullies. Our thoughts are with his friends and family.
In other bullying news, it appears the Yankee fans are still taunting people with “Y R U Gay” and it’s getting up close and personal.
The House of Mercy homeless shelter in Georgia only shows mercy to people who are straight. Per director Elder Bobby Harris: “[Homosexuality] is not tolerated here at all. Let me tell you one reason why: because of the Bible, of course. And then we have little children ... We believe that Christ can change all. But...
In other bullying news, it appears the Yankee fans are still taunting people with “Y R U Gay” and it’s getting up close and personal.
The House of Mercy homeless shelter in Georgia only shows mercy to people who are straight. Per director Elder Bobby Harris: “[Homosexuality] is not tolerated here at all. Let me tell you one reason why: because of the Bible, of course. And then we have little children ... We believe that Christ can change all. But...
- 1/18/2011
- by Ed Kennedy
- The Backlot
Tony Curtis, star of some of the greatest Hollywood movies of all time, died of a heart attack Wednesday, and The New York Times' Dave Kehr has their obituary. It's full of details of his life and career both well-known (Curtis, born Bernard Schwartz, was a famous ladies man married five times) and obscure (he attended acting classes at The New School for Social Research with Walter Matthau).
Curtis' cinematic immortality is assured three or four times over. Of course he's best known today as one of the two cross-dressing musicians on the run from the mob in Billy Wilder's "Some Like it Hot" (1959). But even if he hadn't landed that role, or given such a brilliant performance in two different disguises (as "Josephine" and as an oil magnate who sounds suspiciously like Cary Grant), his legacy would still be strong. He played the title role in a memorable...
Curtis' cinematic immortality is assured three or four times over. Of course he's best known today as one of the two cross-dressing musicians on the run from the mob in Billy Wilder's "Some Like it Hot" (1959). But even if he hadn't landed that role, or given such a brilliant performance in two different disguises (as "Josephine" and as an oil magnate who sounds suspiciously like Cary Grant), his legacy would still be strong. He played the title role in a memorable...
- 9/30/2010
- by Matt Singer
- ifc.com
Chicago – I think nearly every film critic with an association card has bowed at the altar of Stanley Kubrick at least once in their life (if they don’t still do so). I can vividly remember first seeing “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “The Shining,” “A Clockwork Orange,” “Dr. Strangelove,” and “Full Metal Jacket,” all films I could watch any day of the week and never grow tired of them. Despite saying that, I was never a huge “Spartacus” fan, a film I admire more than love. The new Blu-ray release has not changed my mind.
Blu-Ray Rating: 4.0/5.0
The 50th Anniversary Edition of “Spartacus” has caused quite a bit of controversy in the days preceding and since its May 25th release. Robert Harris, the man credited with the film’s restoration on a shot by shot basis twenty years ago with the support of Kirk Douglas and Stanley Kubrick, absolutely hates this HD transfer,...
Blu-Ray Rating: 4.0/5.0
The 50th Anniversary Edition of “Spartacus” has caused quite a bit of controversy in the days preceding and since its May 25th release. Robert Harris, the man credited with the film’s restoration on a shot by shot basis twenty years ago with the support of Kirk Douglas and Stanley Kubrick, absolutely hates this HD transfer,...
- 6/1/2010
- by [email protected] (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Behold, fifteen notable movie production updates from the past week. Enjoy. Title: Foundation
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Director: Roland Emmerich
Screenwriter: Not Available
Cast: Not Available
Storyline: Originally published as a series of eight short stories in Astounding Magazine beginning in 1942, "Foundation," Isaac Asimov's ground-breaking sci-fi trilogy, is a complex saga about humans who are scattered on planets throughout the galaxy, living under the rule of the Galactic Empire. A psycho-historian who can scientifically read the future sees an imminent empire collapse and prepares to save the knowledge of mankind. Title: The Drop-Out
Studio: Not Available
Director: Ricky Blitt
Screenwriter: Ricky Blitt
Cast: Cher, Johnny Knoxville
Storyline: The slacker laugher tracks the fortunes of a 35-year-old career college student (Knoxville) who is finally kicked out of his parents house. Desperate, he decides to get in good with the 62-year-old woman next door (Cher), so he can keep his food, couch and TV regimen intact.
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Director: Roland Emmerich
Screenwriter: Not Available
Cast: Not Available
Storyline: Originally published as a series of eight short stories in Astounding Magazine beginning in 1942, "Foundation," Isaac Asimov's ground-breaking sci-fi trilogy, is a complex saga about humans who are scattered on planets throughout the galaxy, living under the rule of the Galactic Empire. A psycho-historian who can scientifically read the future sees an imminent empire collapse and prepares to save the knowledge of mankind. Title: The Drop-Out
Studio: Not Available
Director: Ricky Blitt
Screenwriter: Ricky Blitt
Cast: Cher, Johnny Knoxville
Storyline: The slacker laugher tracks the fortunes of a 35-year-old career college student (Knoxville) who is finally kicked out of his parents house. Desperate, he decides to get in good with the 62-year-old woman next door (Cher), so he can keep his food, couch and TV regimen intact.
- 1/23/2009
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Tom Wilkinson and Jim Belushi have joined the cast of Roman Polanski's "The Ghost," which begins filming in Berlin on Feb. 4. The movie stars Pierce Brosnan as a former British prime minister and Ewan McGregor as his ghostwriter.
The cast also includes Kim Cattral, Olivia Williams and Robert Pugh.
In addition to directing, Polanski and Robert Harris adapted the screenplay from Harris' novel "The Ghost."
Polanski is producing with Robert Benmussa and Alain Sarde, while Summit Interntional reps worldwide rights.
Summit has presold a number of territories, including: Pathe in France; Kinowelt in Germany; Optimum in the U.K.; Rai Cinema, S.P.A. in Italy; Acme Uab in the Baltic States; Dutch Filmworks in Benelux; Spi International in Eastern Europe; Odeon S.A. in Greece; Sam Film in Iceland; United King in Israel; Sun Distribution Group S.A. in Latin America; Jaguar Films in the Middle East; Lusomundo...
The cast also includes Kim Cattral, Olivia Williams and Robert Pugh.
In addition to directing, Polanski and Robert Harris adapted the screenplay from Harris' novel "The Ghost."
Polanski is producing with Robert Benmussa and Alain Sarde, while Summit Interntional reps worldwide rights.
Summit has presold a number of territories, including: Pathe in France; Kinowelt in Germany; Optimum in the U.K.; Rai Cinema, S.P.A. in Italy; Acme Uab in the Baltic States; Dutch Filmworks in Benelux; Spi International in Eastern Europe; Odeon S.A. in Greece; Sam Film in Iceland; United King in Israel; Sun Distribution Group S.A. in Latin America; Jaguar Films in the Middle East; Lusomundo...
- 1/21/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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