Kathleen Robertson is an actress who has moved into writing with projects like the upcoming "Little Bee," starring Julia Roberts. Her latest piece is the upcoming series "Swimming with Sharks," loosely based on the 1994 TriMark Pictures film starring Frank Whaley and Kevin Spacey. The series, which will premiere in its entirety for free on The Roku Channel later this month, tells the story of Lou Simms (Kiernan Shipka), a young intern freshly arrived in Hollywood who is obsessed with studio CEO Joyce Holt (Diane Kruger). Lou will do anything to get close to Joyce, and is definitely...
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- 4/14/2022
- by Jenna Busch
- Slash Film
If there’s a big animated film coming out, a studio somewhere will be rushing to release a cheap imitation. But who makes them? Are they proud of their work? And how did they become an internet hit?
It is hard to describe what happens 24 minutes into Ratatoing, an animated children’s movie from 2007. Four unnerving rats – one with a handlebar moustache, another in pearls – begin to jump up and down and grunt in a restaurant, in order to alarm the human clientele. “La, la, la, la, la,” they sort of sing while sort of dancing. They then do the can-can and shout “Ha, Ha, Ha!” before making ghostly noises. Ratatoing is not, it is safe to say, a good movie. It is barely even an acceptable movie. It was created in just four months by Brazilian animation studio Vídeo Brinquedo, to be released in the same month as Ratatouille,...
It is hard to describe what happens 24 minutes into Ratatoing, an animated children’s movie from 2007. Four unnerving rats – one with a handlebar moustache, another in pearls – begin to jump up and down and grunt in a restaurant, in order to alarm the human clientele. “La, la, la, la, la,” they sort of sing while sort of dancing. They then do the can-can and shout “Ha, Ha, Ha!” before making ghostly noises. Ratatoing is not, it is safe to say, a good movie. It is barely even an acceptable movie. It was created in just four months by Brazilian animation studio Vídeo Brinquedo, to be released in the same month as Ratatouille,...
- 1/28/2021
- by Amelia Tait
- The Guardian - Film News
Exclusive: Kathleen Robertson (Murder in the First) is set as a lead opposite Parisa Fitz-Henley and Michael Ealy in Triage, ABC’s second cycle medical drama pilot from David Cornue, Erica Messer, Jon M. Chu and 20th Television.
Created by Cornue, Triage is a character-driven medical drama that follows pioneering surgeon Finley Briar (Fitz-Henley) over three distinct decades at the same hospital. With the evolution of medicine as the backdrop, the show explores the interconnected careers, friendships and romances of Finley and her colleagues, and their tenuous relationship with time.
Robertson will play Virginia Sawyer, the Chief of Surgery at New York Trinity. She is fiery, strong-willed, and laser-focused on fast-tracking her daughter’s career, so she has her daughter study under Dr. Finley Briar (Fitz-Henley).
Cornue executive produces alongside Messer who serves as showrunner. Chu will executive produce and direct. Steven Marrs and Courtney Hazlett of OutEast Entertainment also executive produce alongside Caitlin Foito.
Created by Cornue, Triage is a character-driven medical drama that follows pioneering surgeon Finley Briar (Fitz-Henley) over three distinct decades at the same hospital. With the evolution of medicine as the backdrop, the show explores the interconnected careers, friendships and romances of Finley and her colleagues, and their tenuous relationship with time.
Robertson will play Virginia Sawyer, the Chief of Surgery at New York Trinity. She is fiery, strong-willed, and laser-focused on fast-tracking her daughter’s career, so she has her daughter study under Dr. Finley Briar (Fitz-Henley).
Cornue executive produces alongside Messer who serves as showrunner. Chu will executive produce and direct. Steven Marrs and Courtney Hazlett of OutEast Entertainment also executive produce alongside Caitlin Foito.
- 11/12/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Julia Roberts, Armie Hammer and Joel Edgerton have all signed up to star in a TV series based on a podcast ‘Gaslit’.
The series will adapt Slate’s Watergate audio series titled ‘Slow Burn’ – a modern take on Watergate that focuses on the untold stories and forgotten characters of the scandal, from Nixon’s bumbling subordinates to the deranged zealots aiding and abetting their crimes, to the tragic whistleblowers who would eventually bring the whole enterprise crashing down.
Roberts will play Martha Mitchell, a celebrity Arkansan socialite and the loyal wife of Richard Nixon’s Attorney General and most trusted advisor John Mitchell. She’s the first person to publicly sound the alarm on Nixon’s involvement in Watergate.
Hammer will play John Dean, the young White House Counsel torn between his ambition and his struggle with whether he can lie to protect the President.
Edgerton will play G. Gordon Liddy,...
The series will adapt Slate’s Watergate audio series titled ‘Slow Burn’ – a modern take on Watergate that focuses on the untold stories and forgotten characters of the scandal, from Nixon’s bumbling subordinates to the deranged zealots aiding and abetting their crimes, to the tragic whistleblowers who would eventually bring the whole enterprise crashing down.
Roberts will play Martha Mitchell, a celebrity Arkansan socialite and the loyal wife of Richard Nixon’s Attorney General and most trusted advisor John Mitchell. She’s the first person to publicly sound the alarm on Nixon’s involvement in Watergate.
Hammer will play John Dean, the young White House Counsel torn between his ambition and his struggle with whether he can lie to protect the President.
Edgerton will play G. Gordon Liddy,...
- 2/24/2020
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Quibi's present-day update of Hollywood satire Swimming With Sharks is filling out its cast.
Thomas Dekker, Finn Jones and Donald Sutherland will star with Kiernan Shipka and Diane Kruger in the series at the short-form streaming platform. The series is based on George Huang's cult 1994 movie about a Hollywood assistant (Frank Whaley) who turns the tables on his abusive boss (Kevin Spacey).
In the new version, penned by writer and actress Kathleen Robertson (Little Bee; Beverly Hills, 90210), a young woman named Lou (Shipka) goes to work for studio head Joyce (Kruger). In a company filled with manipulators, schemers ...
Thomas Dekker, Finn Jones and Donald Sutherland will star with Kiernan Shipka and Diane Kruger in the series at the short-form streaming platform. The series is based on George Huang's cult 1994 movie about a Hollywood assistant (Frank Whaley) who turns the tables on his abusive boss (Kevin Spacey).
In the new version, penned by writer and actress Kathleen Robertson (Little Bee; Beverly Hills, 90210), a young woman named Lou (Shipka) goes to work for studio head Joyce (Kruger). In a company filled with manipulators, schemers ...
- 2/13/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Kiernan Shipka and Diane Kruger are going Swimming With Sharks at Quibi.
The pair will topline the shortform streaming platform's update of the 1994 Hollywood satire. Chilling Adventures of Sabrina star Shipka will play Lou, a young assistant at a Hollywood studio full of manipulators and schemers — none of whom know she is poised to outwit them all.
Kruger (Inglourious Basterds, FX's The Bridge) will play Joyce, Lou's boss and the sole head of the studio.
Writer and actress Kathleen Robertson (Little Bee, Netflix's Northern Rescue) is adapting George Huang's cult-classic film, which starred Frank Whaley as an ...
The pair will topline the shortform streaming platform's update of the 1994 Hollywood satire. Chilling Adventures of Sabrina star Shipka will play Lou, a young assistant at a Hollywood studio full of manipulators and schemers — none of whom know she is poised to outwit them all.
Kruger (Inglourious Basterds, FX's The Bridge) will play Joyce, Lou's boss and the sole head of the studio.
Writer and actress Kathleen Robertson (Little Bee, Netflix's Northern Rescue) is adapting George Huang's cult-classic film, which starred Frank Whaley as an ...
- 2/10/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Julia Roberts is making a comeback to the Oscars stage!
The 51-year-old Oscar winner presented the award for Best Picture to Green Book at Sunday night’s award show wearing a hot pink off the shoulder dress.
“Over the course of the evening we’ve seen highlights from eight films nominated for Best Picture,” Roberts said. “Each is unique in the story being told, each is different in its appeal, but they prove once again that regardless of who you are or where you live, these are films that connect us to one another. Once again here are the nominees for Best Picture.
The 51-year-old Oscar winner presented the award for Best Picture to Green Book at Sunday night’s award show wearing a hot pink off the shoulder dress.
“Over the course of the evening we’ve seen highlights from eight films nominated for Best Picture,” Roberts said. “Each is unique in the story being told, each is different in its appeal, but they prove once again that regardless of who you are or where you live, these are films that connect us to one another. Once again here are the nominees for Best Picture.
- 2/25/2019
- by Alexia Fernandez
- PEOPLE.com
Post The Lunchbox fame (his well traveled Film Fest favorite which was also shown at Sundance in 2014), Ritesh Batra hit a creative cluster mark with Our Souls at Night (starring Robert Redford), The Sense of an Ending (read review) and the soon to be released Photograph. The Hindi language film (with a smidgen of English) in several Mumbai locales romantic drama stars nouveau actress Sanya Malhotra and Lunchbox alumni Nawazuddin Siddiqui. It went into production in October of 2017, and with his pending Little Bee (Julia Roberts) currently in pre-production, we’ll perhaps see 2019 play out like 2017, with not one, but two Batra films in release.…...
- 11/22/2018
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Kathleen Robertson has been acting for more than three decades, most recently spending three years on TNT’s “Murder in the First” and just completing “Northern Rescue,” which is due to drop on Netflix early next year. But she is also working behind-the-scenes as a writer, adapting novels such as “The Possibilities” and “Little Bee,” as well as Dark Horse’s “Lady Killer” comics into feature films and developing additional projects for TV through a deal with Universal Cable Productions.
When did you first start writing?
I was always a closet writer. I was the person who would write short stories and scripts and throw them in a drawer and not let anyone see them — for years. Technically I started writing when I was 10, journaling and short stories. And then over the years when I would be away on location and have a ridiculous amount of downtime, I started taking...
When did you first start writing?
I was always a closet writer. I was the person who would write short stories and scripts and throw them in a drawer and not let anyone see them — for years. Technically I started writing when I was 10, journaling and short stories. And then over the years when I would be away on location and have a ridiculous amount of downtime, I started taking...
- 11/15/2018
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
Kathleen Robertson has signed with CAA for representation in all areas.
A prolific writer, producer, and actor, Robertson adapted the 1994 Hollywood satire Swimming With Sharks as a series for E! and is developing her own dramedy Your Time Is Up from Lionsgate TV at Lifetime with Christina Applegate. She recently signed an overall deal with Universal Cable Productions to both create and produce original television content.
In features, she is adapting Chris Cleave’s best-selling novel, Little Bee for Amazon with Julia Roberts set to star, in addition to The Possibilities Kaui Hart Hemmings’ follow-up novel to The Descendants, for Fox Searchlight, with Helen Estabrook and Jason Reitman producing.
Robertson also is set to star in Netflix’s family drama Northern Rescue, which is currently in production. Her other acting credits include Murder In The First and Boss.
Robertson continues to be repped by Untitled Entertainment and attorney Jamie Feldman,...
A prolific writer, producer, and actor, Robertson adapted the 1994 Hollywood satire Swimming With Sharks as a series for E! and is developing her own dramedy Your Time Is Up from Lionsgate TV at Lifetime with Christina Applegate. She recently signed an overall deal with Universal Cable Productions to both create and produce original television content.
In features, she is adapting Chris Cleave’s best-selling novel, Little Bee for Amazon with Julia Roberts set to star, in addition to The Possibilities Kaui Hart Hemmings’ follow-up novel to The Descendants, for Fox Searchlight, with Helen Estabrook and Jason Reitman producing.
Robertson also is set to star in Netflix’s family drama Northern Rescue, which is currently in production. Her other acting credits include Murder In The First and Boss.
Robertson continues to be repped by Untitled Entertainment and attorney Jamie Feldman,...
- 8/27/2018
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Bachelorette Desiree Hartsock soaked up the La sun in a teal Voda Swim bikini on Monday. During her laid-back beach day, the 27-year-old bridal stylist relaxed on the sand and dove into a little Summer reading with Little Bee by Chris Cleave. After being sent home by Bachelor Sean Lowe last season, Des - a fan favorite - now holds the roses as a pool of bachelors vie for her heart. Season nine of The Bachelorette premiered on Memorial Day, and based on the first two episodes, the men seem willing to do anything to find love with Des. This week, she and the guys were part of a Soulja Boy rap video, and although the season previews show plenty of drama, she's told fans that she has faith. In her first blog post, Des wrote, "As I stood in front of the Bachelor mansion in my shiny silver dress,...
- 6/6/2013
- by Laura Marie Meyers
- Popsugar.com
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