Love Dick: Celebs Rumors

Showrunner, writer and creator Dara Resnik has signed with Independent Artist Group for representation.

How does a girl perceive her mother? Lucy is facing that reality in the new film “Janet Planet.” Set in the early ‘90s, this coming-of-age film highlights how complicated the relationship can be. The A24 film hails from Annie  Baker, who previously wrote an episode of the Prime Video series “I Love Dick.”  The Playlist’s Gregory Ellwood noted the connection between Baker’s direction and Maria von Hausswolf’s cinematography, calling it “exquisite.” “Whether it’s a close-up of a dangling earring or Janet getting swept up in line dancing, the perspective is always intentional,” he wrote after its 2023 Telluride premiere.

By They say that that life imitates art, but Sherry Cola makes a case for it being the other way around. “I’ve done a lot of characters, but Sherry Cola is me in my truest form,” the Joy Ride actor and comedian tells me.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Kevin Bacon is attached to star in a new Blumhouse Television series that has been ordered straight-to-series at Amazon’s Prime Video, Variety has learned. The action series is titled “The Bondsman.” The official logline states that it centers on Hub Halloran (Bacon), “a backwoods bounty hunter who comes back from the dead with an unexpected second chance at life, love, and a nearly-forgotten musical career — only to find that his old job now has a demonic new twist.” Amazon has ordered eight half-hour episodes. Production on the series will not begin until all guild negotiations have been resolved.

Kevin Bacon is fronting another television series.

EXCLUSIVE: Joey Soloway, the Emmy winner best known for creating, producing, directing and writing the groundbreaking Amazon series Transparent, has signed with Range Media Partners for management.

Alison Herman Kathryn Hahn has a type. Since starring in Joey Soloway’s “Afternoon Delight” in 2013, the actor has spent a decade delivering nuanced portrayals of messy, horny, hilarious women who bluster their way through middle age. It is a miracle of modern television that Hahn’s hyper-specific specialty has supported three separate series: “I Love Dick,”also helmed by Soloway; “Mrs. Fletcher”;and now, “Tiny Beautiful Things.” Created by Liz Tigelaar of “Little Fires Everywhere,”the Hulu half-hour casts Hahn as a fictional version of Cheryl Strayed, the memoirist and advice columnist who rose to fame by blending both forms into one. The show is adapted from the 2012 book of the same name, a collection of essays Strayed first published under the moniker Dear Sugar. Strayed met her readers’ deeply personal disclosures with some of her own, sharing her experience with addiction, grief and abuse in long missives more meandering and literary than straightforward tips. As a series, “Tiny Beautiful Things” aggregates and expands those experiences, then attributes them to Hahn’s Strayed surrogate, Clare Pierce.

Kevin Bacon (City on a Hill) and Farrah Mackenzie (United States of Al) have signed on for roles in Sam Esmail’s Netflix film Leave the World Behind, Deadline can confirm. They join a cast that also includes Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke and Myha’la Herrold, as previously announced.

After “American Honey” won the Jury Prize at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, Andrea Arnold launched from a director of note to one of England’s premiere cinematic talents. Since then, however, Arnold’s taken a pivot to the small screen.

Marielle Heller (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood), Garrett Bradley (Time), Joey Soloway (Transparent), Andrew Haigh (Lean on Pete) and Dawn Porter (The Me You Can’t See) have been named as jurors for the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, taking place virtually from January 20-30.

and MoMA film curator La Frances Hui will lead the World Cinema Dramatic Competition jury. AndEmilie Bujès, an artistic director for Visions du Réel, Patrick Gaspard, president and CEO of the Center for American Progress, and Porter, director of the documentary “The Way I See It,” will lead the World Cinema Documentary Competition jury.The juror for the NEXT section of Sundance will be “I Love Dick” and “Transparent” creator Joey Soloway. And Penelope Bartlett, Kevin Jerome Everson, and Blackhorse Lowewill be the jury for the Short Film Program Competition.Award winners for the feature-length and short film categories will be announced on Jan.

A heartfelt if uneven story of letting go and misdirected emotional energy, Paul Shoulberg's Ms. White Light imagines a young woman who has no social skills whatsoever unless the person she's talking to is at death's door.