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The Northwest Film Forum has announced Mirta Desir as the awardee of its fourth annual Lynn Shelton “Of a Certain Age” grant.

Desir, a Haitian American, is producing her first narrative feature film “Angie.” She will receive an unrestricted award of $25,000 to support the making of her film, which she describes as a “love letter to Latin American artists and Haitians’ oral history — a marriage of human drama and the power of Voudou.” For Desir, the grant was “an amazing source of support for women filmmakers.”

“‘Angie’ is a story that I am compelled to tell. It is based on two things: Haiti’s historical interconnectedness with Voudou and my love for my younger sister, who died too young,” Desir said. “Through the lens of magical realism, ‘Angie’ explores the bond between sisters and its power to overcome the worst of circumstances. This grant is appreciated during this development phase...

Adrianna Mitchell (The Good Fight) has booked a recurring role on the upcoming fourth season of Snowfall, FX’s acclaimed drama series about the start of the crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles. Mitchell will play Tanosse, a friend and former lover of Franklin’s who has an inherent sensuality about her. She too grew up in the neighborhood but these two haven’t seen each other in a while. Her older brother was a drug kingpin in the 70s and has since gone to prison for life. She has a working-class sophistication, charm and slight edge about her, but we can’t quite tell if she’s trustworthy. Created by John Singleton & Eric Amadio and Dave Andron, Snowfall is executive produced by Singleton, Amadio, Andron, Thomas Schlamme, Michael London, Trevor Engelson and Walter Mosley. A graduate of the American Conservatory Theater, Mitchell is a series regular on the upcoming...

Mick Jagger was supposed to have a very different 2020, playing sold-out stadiums on the Rolling Stones’ No Filter tour. But he’s not letting the pandemic slow him down. Isolating at home in the European countryside, he’s been writing, recording, and working on documentary projects. “Can’t feel sorry for yourself,” he says. He’s also spent a lot of time looking back: The Stones just released a huge box set celebrating 1973’s Goats Head Soup, one of the band’s darkest and most misunderstood LPs. Jagger and Richards...

Exclusive: Rachel Lee Goldenberg has been tapped to direct HBO Max’s comedy pilot Minx, from writer Ellen Rapoport, Paul Feig’s Feigco Entertainment and Lionsgate TV.

Written by Rapoport, the half-hour Minx is set in 1970s Los Angeles and centers around an earnest young feminist who joins forces with a low-rent publisher to create the first erotic magazine for women.

Rapoport executive produces with Paul Feig and Dan Magnante for Feigco. Lionsgate is the studio.

Goldenberg most recently directed MGM’s Valley Girl, a musical remake of the 1983 cult classic. Her latest project, HBO Max Original film Unpregnant premieres September 10 on the platform. The film, which she directed and co-wrote, is based on the 2019 novel of the same name by Ted Caplan and Jenni Hendriks, and produced by Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter and Erik Feig.

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Mick Jagger got a call from his label recently with some news: While working on a reissue of the Rolling Stones’ 1973 album Goats Head Soup, the crew found some unreleased tracks. “I remember thinking, ‘Oh, no,’” Jagger says. “Unreleased tracks, to me that always means a lot of work. It’s like, ‘Things that you didn’t like and didn’t finish!’”

Jagger’s mind changed when he heard the music. “Actually, it’s not bad at all,” he says. Soon, isolating at his home in the European countryside, he...

“Their best album since Exile on Main St!” an FM DJ gushed in 1974 when the Rolling Stones released It’s Only Rock ’n Roll. Only one other new record had come between them, but the implication was clear: that record, Goats Head Soup, was, well, unappetizing. A Stones album with a strummed love-song ballad ripe for Am radio (“Angie”) and a pretty silly song about the demonic underworld (“Dancing with Mr. D.”)? Goats Head Soup had those and more, and looking back, the album feels historic: The mixed response it...

Last week, the Rolling Stones announced plans for a super-deluxe edition of their 1973 LP Goats Head Soup. It features a remastered version of the original album along with alternate mixes, rarities, instrumental tracks, a complete 1973 show taped in Brussels, and three previously unreleased songs from the era.

The original Goats Head Soup tour was confined entirely to Europe and lasted just seven weeks. Four songs from the album (“Coming Down Again,” “Hide Your Love,” ‘Winter,” and “Can You Hear the Music”) were never played at any point, while “100 Years Ago...

The Rolling Stones are rereleasing their 1973 LP Goats Head Soup as a deluxe box set featuring rarities, outtakes and alternative mixes from the sessions, a new stereo mix of the original album, a complete show from the accompanying tour and three previously unreleased tracks from the period.

One of the new songs, “Criss Cross,” dropped Thursday with a new video. (It was originally known to fans as “Criss Cross Man” from various bootlegs.) The other new tracks are “All the Rage” and “Scarlet,” which features guitar work by Jimmy Page.

Sneak Peek the Vertigo Comics crime thriller adaptation, "The Kitchen", set in 1970's New York City, starring Melissa McCarthy and Tiffany Haddish, opening August 9, 2019:

"...New York City, late 1970's. 'Times Square' is a haven for sex and drugs. 

"The city teeters on the verge of bankruptcy, while blackouts can strike at any moment. 

"The gangs of Hell's Kitchen rule the neighborhood...

"...bringing terror to the streets.

"'Jimmy Brennan' and his crew were caught and imprisoned, but their wives...

...'Kath', 'Raven' and 'Angie' ...

"...decide to keep running their rackets..."

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "The Kitchen"...

"The Kitchen" Comic Books...

DC Comics' Vertigo imprint, 8-issue miniseries "The Kitchen" (2015), created by writer Ollie Masters and illustrator Ming Doyle, is being adapted as a New Line 'gangster' dramatic feature, starring Melissa McCarthy and Tiffany Haddish, to be scripted and directed by Andrea Berloff ("Straight Outta Compton"):

"...New York City, late 1970's. 'Times Square' is a haven for sex and drugs. The city teeters on the verge of bankruptcy, while blackouts can strike at any moment.

"The gangs of Hell's Kitchen rule the neighborhood, bringing terror to the streets.

"'Jimmy Brennan' and his crew were caught and imprisoned, but their wives, 'Kath', 'Raven' and 'Angie' – decide to keep running their bloody rackets..."

Click the images to enlarge...

The Rolling Stones unearthed several live performances for their upcoming release, Voodoo Lounge Uncut, which arrives November 16th via Eagle Vision. The new project comprises a concert film and live album, and is centered around a reissue of a 1995 TV special that captured the Stones’ November 25th, 1994 gig at the Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, Florida.

On tour in support of their 1994 LP Voodoo Lounge, the concert famously featured cameos from Sheryl Crowe, Bo Diddley and Robert Cray. Along with the original concert film, Voodoo Lounge Uncut will boast never-before-seen...

Most major rock acts go on tour and play the same exact set every night, sometimes even repeating their stage banter verbatim like they’re reading from a script. Pearl Jam have always taken a different path. Their setlist is like the complete Pearl Jam catalog on shuffle where any song can surface at any point. Back in the 1990s, it caused their hardcore fans to feverishly trade bootlegs on cassette tapes and burned CDs, but in 2000 the group began selling pristine recordings of every show. Wading through the hundreds...

DC Comics' Vertigo imprint, 8-issue miniseries "The Kitchen" (2015), created by writer Ollie Masters and illustrator Ming Doyle, is being adapted as a New Line 'gangster' dramatic feature, starring Melissa McCarthy and Tiffany Haddish, to be scripted and directed by Andrea Berloff ("Straight Outta Compton"):

"...New York City, late 1970's. 'Times Square' is a haven for sex and drugs. The city teeters on the verge of bankruptcy, while blackouts can strike at any moment.

"The gangs of Hell's Kitchen rule the neighborhood, bringing terror to the streets.

"'Jimmy Brennan' and his crew were caught and imprisoned, but their wives, 'Kath', 'Raven' and 'Angie' – decide to keep running their bloody rackets..."

Click the images to enlarge...