Tag: Flamin’ Hot
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Eva Longoria on Hollywood’s ‘Diversity Fatigue’ and Her Fight to Direct ‘Flamin’ Hot’: ‘I Had to Overcome the Stigma of Being a Dumb Actor’
For Eva Longoria to have the chance to direct “Flamin’ Hot,” she says she had to “overcome the stigma of being a dumb actor.”“I’m more than the actor you know from TV,” she tells Variety‘s Awards Circuit Podcast. “I’ve been directing for 12 years. I started with short films. I directed episodic TV, half-hours, one-hours,…
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‘The Beanie Bubble’ Review: Elizabeth Banks Carries Conventional Biopic
This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the film being covered here wouldn’t exist.The so-called year of the “brand” movie continues and after the varying successes of films like Air, BlackBerry, Flamin’ Hot, and Tetris, we now have The Beanie…
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‘Flamin’ Hot’ Producer DeVon Franklin Navigates New Distribution Routes in Film and TV: ‘Getting the Movie Made is the Win’
Producer DeVon Franklin has been cutting his own path through Hollywood for more than two decades.He’s made a career as a producer out of pursuing inspirational and faith-infused movies and now TV shows. On the latest episode of Variety podcast “Strictly Business,” Franklin explains that he is unabashedly on a mission to use movies and…