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Exclusive: Jennifer Hillier’s novel Little Secrets is being adapted for the small screen.

The thriller is in the works for Peacock from Tish Cyrus’ HopeTown Entertainment, writer Melissa Scrivner Love and Universal Television.

Little Secrets is a female-driven mystery thriller that pays homage to the erotic thriller genre of the late 80s-early 90s. The series follows a desperate mother’s mission for revenge against her husband’s mistress after her child goes missing. Told in alternating perspectives between the mother and the mistress, the story dissects themes of lust, obsession, grief and loss.

The book was published in 2020.

It forms part of the first-look deal that NBCUniversal Television and Streaming struck with Cyrus, mother of Miley Cyrus, in December. Other projects include Lovey, an animation comedy loosely based on the misadventures of the Cyrus family from Sivert Glarum, Michael Jamin and Kentucky Blaze, helmed by Courtney Hoffman.

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Tish Cyrus, mother to actress and pop star Miley Cyrus and HopeTown Entertainment president, has set her production banner’s executive team and is announcing its initial slate of projects under its recent first-look TV deal with NBCU Television and Streaming. HopeTown Entertainment, known for creating movies such as “The Last Song,” “Lol” and “So Undercover,” has named Dannah Axelrod as head of development, Samantha Green as director of development and Sarah Lieberman as manager of development. Its first two scripted projects include an animated series described as a re-imagining of “The Beverly Hillbillies” and a mother/daughter dramedy written and directed by Courtney Hoffman (“Ruthless”).

“Kentucky Blaze,” the Hoffman-helmed show, follows a country music manager who returns home to Ashland, Kentucky after her estranged father dies, starts a cannabis business and helps revive her mother’s career. The animation project, which remains untitled, is created by Sivert Glarum and Michael Jamin,...

As contract negotiations stall between the International Association of Theatrical Stage Employees and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, crew members have taken to social media to share their support for a possible strike action and for the terms that IATSE is demanding in the next deal.

Health plan funding, pension plans, rest breaks, longer turnaround times between production hours and concessions to shorten the workday are among the agenda items that IATSE are seeking for union members.

Charlese Antoinette Jones, who counts “Raising Dion” and “Judas and the Black Messiah” among her costume design credits, says the biggest issue for her is pay equity. It was only in 2019 on “Raising Dion” that she started making scale.

“I didn’t get per diem sometimes on out-of-town jobs. I found out white production designers were getting per diem and I wasn’t,” she says. “That’s the racial implications of it,...

Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd are getting back together for the Mrc Television limited series The Shrink Next Door which is based on the 2019 No. 1 new Wondery and Bloomberg Media podcast. The last time the duo starred together was in 2013’s Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues.

Also inspired by true events, The Shrink Next Door is a dark comedy following the bizarre relationship between psychiatrist to the stars Dr. Isaac “Ike” Herschkopf played by Rudd, and his longtime patient Martin “Marty” Markowitz, played by Ferrell. Over the course of their relationship, the all-too-charming Ike slowly takes over Marty’s life, even moving into Marty’s home and taking over his family business. The series explores how a seemingly normal doctor-patient dynamic morphs into an unprecedentedly exploitative one filled with manipulation, power grabs, and dysfunction at its finest.

The Big Sick filmmaker Michael Showalter will direct with Georgia Pritchett writing. Ferrell,...

At last, women are directing tentpole features, an arena in which they’ve historically been sidelined. The big comic book franchises are on board too, finally hiring from the plethora of talented women in the industry. Cathy Yan and Ava DuVernay are helming two of DC Films’ upcoming blockbusters for Warner Bros., Birds of Prey and New Gods respectively. Meanwhile, Marvel has Cate Shortland directing Black Widow and Chloé Zhao helming The Eternals, as Gina Prince-Bythewood develops Silver & Black for Sony. And Disney has Niki Caro directing the live-action remake of Mulan.

But despite that encouraging list, true gender parity remains elusive, and the women in those big-name jobs aren’t going to be satisfied with just their own successes—they want the odds to be even for all women in the field, disrupting the status quo and blazing a trail for future female storytellers.

“I am seeing a definite shift,...

Quentin Tarantino is a newly married man!

After proposing to on-again, off-again girlfriend Daniella Pick in the summer of 2017, the pair tied the knot on Wednesday in Los Angeles.

Tarantino, 55, met 35-year-old Israeli singer and model Pick in 2009 while in Israel promoting his film Inglourious Basterds. They later broke up but reconnected in 2015 after the Kill Bill director split with his costume designer girlfriend Courtney Hoffman.

This wedding is the first for both of them. In 2009, Tarantino explained why he has never married before: “When I’m doing a movie, I’m not doing anything else. It’s all about the movie.

Logic has been tapped to star in a J.J. Abrams-produced film, Variety reports. Everything Must Go will also be cowritten by the rapper alongside Blackish writer Lisa McQuillan.

Billed as a “Clerks for a new generation,” Everything Must Go is among several J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot-produced films that are in the works. Among the forthcoming films are The Slate from Hell Fest writer Blair Butler, an untitled female-fronted horror allegory from The Good Place executive producer Megan Amram, who will write the script, and The Seven Sisters of...

J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot production company has recently picked up six new film projects that they will be producing and we have some details to share with you regarding them.

Abrams is currently looking for a new home at a studio that will pretty much give him the freedom to do and make whatever the hell he wants. It makes sense that he’d be adding a bunch of new projects to his slate that will make the deal more lucrative.

Variety offers some details on these projects and talent involved.

Some of the other filmmakers involved with these new film projects include Hip-Hop artist Bobby Hall a.k.a. Logic, along with “Hell Fest writer Blair Butler, The Good Place executive producer Megan Amram, The Good Time Girls director Courtney Hoffman, Ben Shiffrin, writing team Dylan Meyer and Peter Glanz, and first-time director Stan Grube, who had previously served...

Breaking: Bad Robot has acquired six new projects from a number of up and coming filmmakers. This comes amidst speculation over where Jj Abrams will set his company to a new overall deal when the pact with Paramount expires. He’s meeting all the majors, and while there’s talk of Warner Bros, Universal, Netflix and others vying, many in town believe his landing place will be Disney, where Abrams has been working often, and where he is directing his second Star Wars film after relaunching the franchise there. Bad Robot and Paramount just released the genre film Overlord.

Here are the new films, set with the producer’s discretionary fund through its Paramount deal:

* The Steps — Pic is a twist on a possession story. Blair Butler will write the project, based on an original idea by director Stefan Grube.

* Untitled Megan Amram — Megan Amram (The Good Place and Silicon Valley...

J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot production banner has acquired six new projects from a number of rising filmmakers.

Among the titles is a feature on hip-hop artist Bobby Hall, known by his stage name Logic. His song “1-800-273-8255” was nominated for two Grammys. His movie, Everything Must Go, is described as Clerks for a new generation. Hall will star and co-write with “Blackish” scribe Lisa McQuillan.

Other storytellers involved on the new slate include Hell Fest writer Blair Butler, “The Good Place” executive producer Megan Amram, The Good Time Girls director Courtney Hoffman, Ben Shiffrin, writing team Dylan Meyer and Peter Glanz, and first-time director Stan Grube, who had previously served as an editor on the Bad Robot sci-fi thriller 10 Cloverfield Lane.

The news comes following the release of Bad Robot’s war horror film “Overlord,” which opened with $10 million last weekend. The production company is also involved...

J.J. Abrams’ production company Bad Robot has acquired six new projects to develop in house, including films by “black-ish” writer Lisa McQuillan and “The Good Place” writer Megan Amram.

Bad Robot has acquired “The Steps,” written by Blair Butler, based on an original idea by director Stefan Grube and described as a twist on a possession story; the currently untitled project by Amram, which will be a female-driven horror allegory; “The Seven Sisters of Scott County,” which will be written and directed by Courtney Hoffman; an untitled Ben Shiffrin story about time travel; “Everything Must Go,” which will star Bobby Hall and he will also co-write alongside McQuillan; and “Only the Lonely,” to be directed by Grube and written by Dylan Meyer and Peter Glanz.

Most recently, Bad Robot’s film division released the World War II horror film, “Overlord,” which grossed $10.2 million its opening weekend. Up next, Bad Robot...

Roster includes feature directorial debut by Star Wars: Episode IX co-editor.

J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, whose World War Two horror Overlord debuted at number three in the North American charts last weekend, has bulked up its production slate with six projects from a crop of up-and-coming filmmakers.

The roster includes The Steps, which is based on an original idea by first-time director Stefan Grube and described as a twist on a possession story. Blair Butler will write the screenplay.

Grube is currently working as an editor alongside Maryann Brandon on Star Wars: Episode IX for Disney, Lucasfilm and Bad Robot,...

In the New Hollywood Podcast’s first installment of a live series of episodes, Amanda N’Duka traveled to our friendly neighbor to the north to moderate a special panel at the Toronto International Film Festival.

The panel featured filmmakers from Shatterbox, a platform from Refinery29 that gives female storytellers the opportunity to create short films that redefine identity, imagination and storytelling through the female lens. This episode featured Visual Effect producer Ivy Agregan (The Revenant), filmmaker Gillian Barnes, Claws showrunner Janine Sherman Barrios, Gillian Jacobs, Yara Shahidi, writer-director Anna Martemucci, writer-director Jessica Sanders, Refinery29 Chief Content Officer Amy Emmerich, and Executive Producer of Shatterbox Film Program Shannon Gibson.

Shatterbox launched in August 2016 with Chloe Sevigny’s directorial debut Kitty which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival 2016. In 2017, Kristen Stewart’s Come Swim debuted at the Sundance Film Festival and Cannes. Other films under the Shatterbox...

Stunt performer Zoë Bell — Uma Thurman’s double in the “Kill Bill” films and a Quentin Tarantino veteran — is getting into the directing game herself. The New Zealander got her start at 17 as Lucy Lawless’ double on “Xena: Warrior Princess,” and is now among the eight participants in this year’s AFI Directing Workshop for Women. Since 1974, the program has provided tuition-free training to more than 300 women seeking film and television careers behind the camera.

Bell will join Parisa Barani, Jessica Kaye, Shilpi Roy, Amber Sealey, Siyou Tan, Carly Usdin, and Talia Zucker for months of immersive education as they ready short films to debut next year at the Directors Guild of America Theater in Los Angeles. So far, two alumni from the 2017-2018 class have had their Dww projects accepted to prestigious film festivals: Katrelle Kindred premiered “War Paint” at Sundance in January, and Milena Govich will screen “Unspeakable...

Stay in the loop on industry and casting news with our write-up on who’s been slated for recent film and television roles! “The Rhythm Section”One woman’s revenge is about to take off. When a flight she was supposed to be on mysteriously crashes and kills her family, a woman turns to vengeance to heal her broken heart. The film about a mother-turned-assassin is based on a series of books by Mark Burnell. The project has already filled much of its roster: Blake Lively will step into the lead, and Jude Law and Raza Jaffrey will pick up currently unknown roles. All additional actors will be brought on by casting director Stephanie Holbrook. The project is rumored to be in the early stages of filming and will continue through the winter. The shoot is centered mostly around the New York City area, but Spain, Ireland, the United Kingdom,...

Exclusive: Argent Pictures has acquired the feature rights to The Good Time Girls, Courtney Hoffman's widely acclaimed feminist western short film. The film production/financing company run by Jill Ahrens, Ryan Ahrens and Ben Renzo, will finance and produce the feature remake, and they've set a February start date in New Mexico. That means that Hoffman, who scripted the film adaptation of the short with Lucy Teitler, and who directed the while establishing herself as a…...

Girl Talk is a weekly look at women in film — past, present, and future.

When the popular women-focused lifestyle website Refinery29 began to build out its original video assets, they hit a stumbling block: they wanted more women creators to make their projects, but they couldn’t seem to find them through traditional means.

“We were building so many things simultaneously,” Chief Content Officer Amy Emmerich recently explained to IndieWire. “And having such a tough time finding women directors and hearing what the agents would say to us, like, ‘We don’t have someone who is a comedy director for you,’ or ‘There aren’t that many,’ and we kind of looked at each other, like, ‘What the hell is happening?'”

For a female-focused business, that idea just wasn’t tenable, and Emmerich and scripted programming executive producer Shannon Gibson set out to launch their own program aimed at female creators.

Exclusive: Amblin Partners may have found the next major female directing voice, and she was right under everyone’s noses the whole time. Courtney Hoffman has been set to direct Ruthless, the John Swetnam-scripted action film that sold in a competitive spec auction for good money back in February. Brad Peyton came attached to direct back then but dropped off. That created an opening for Hoffman, best known as a costume designer on films that include Baby Driver, Hateful Ei…...

Kristen Stewart’s second act isn’t just in the works, it’s here. The long-time actress — at age 27, she’s already been acting professionally for more than half her life — initially dreamed of being a filmmaker, a desire she’s lately been putting into practice through short-form directorial opportunities, including a Chvrches music video and her directorial film debut, the short “Come Swim.” The film bowed earlier this year at Sundance, before going on to screen at Cannes and, most recently, a slot as part of Sundance’s traveling Short Film Tour.

Produced as part of Refinery29’s Shatterbox Anthology — a collection of short films all made by women, and of every stripe, from well-known names like Stewart to rising stars like Courtney Hoffman — the film’s short synopsis bills it as “a diptych of one man’s day; half impressionist and half realist portraits.” Part dreamy (and often unnerving) fable,...

Earlier this year, Frank Stiefel’s unique documentary short “Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405” pulled off a unique two-fer: winning both the Audience Award and the Jury Award for Best Short at the annual non-fiction-focused festival. The film follows artist Mindy Alper, who has spent her life creating remarkable works of art, despite a lifelong struggle with depression and anxiety, a story that is warmly and expressively told through Stiefel’s compelling lens.

In announcing its 2017 Jury Award for Best Short Film, the Full Frame jurors explained so much of the film’s profound charm: “We are presenting the award to this film for its incredibly intimate access to a remarkable subject and for its ability to allow the viewer to profoundly enter her world. Complimenting this access with assured storytelling and great visual style, the film introduces us to the gifted artist Mindy Alper and her lifelong struggle with mental illness.

The Academy Board of Governors convenes Tuesday night to pick their next president. Three major candidates have emerged from the 54-member body, although anything can happen.

Dern would be the first actress since Bette Davis’s notoriously short two-month 1941 tenure. (She quit when she realized the all-male board would give her no power.) While movie stars like Gregory Peck and Douglas Fairbanks have served as president, only two women have served since Davis: Screenwriter Fay Kanin presided effectively from 1979 to 1983, and publicity executive Cheryl Boone Isaacs (the first African-American to hold the post) is exiting at the end of a tumultuous four-year term. During that time, she and Academy CEO Dawn Hudson spearheaded a concerted drive to add more diversity to the Academy, urging the 17 branches to actively recruit a younger and more inclusive membership from all over the world.

Isaacs also presided over the infamous last Oscar show, with...

The Academy Board of Governors convenes Tuesday night to pick their next president. Three major candidates have emerged from the 54-member body, although anything can happen.

Dern would be the first actress since Bette Davis’s notoriously short two-month 1941 tenure. (She quit when she realized the all-male board would give her no power.) While movie stars like Gregory Peck and Douglas Fairbanks have served as president, only two women have served since Davis: Screenwriter Fay Kanin presided effectively from 1979 to 1983, and publicity executive Cheryl Boone Isaacs (the first African-American to hold the post) is exiting at the end of a tumultuous four-year term. During that time, she and Academy CEO Dawn Hudson spearheaded a concerted drive to add more diversity to the Academy, urging the 17 branches to actively recruit a younger and more inclusive membership from all over the world.

Isaacs also presided over the infamous last Oscar show, with...

Long before Swedish film director Ruben Östlund became one of the more exciting international filmmakers working today, he went to the Berlin International Film Festival with an 11-minute single shot film called “Incident By A Bank.”

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Based on a real event that occurred on June 26, 2006, the short recreates a failed bank robbery from the outside looking in. Östlund begins with an establishing shot of the location and never cuts for 11 minutes, creating a single shot that slowly moves around the scene and checks in with witnesses. “Incident By a Bank” won the Golden Bear at Berlinale in 2009 for short film.

Östlund had his breakthrough five years later with “Force Majeure,” which received critical acclaim and became Swedish’s official Oscar entry for Best Foreign Language Film. The director won the Palme d’Or this year for “The Square,...

You don’t want to mess with Laura Dern, and you especially don’t want to mess with Laura Dern when she’s a rifle-wielding crack shot hellbent on revenge. In Courtney Hoffman’s directorial debut, the blood-soaked Western short “The Good Time Girls,” a badass Dern and her cadre of just-as-wild-gal-pals go to war against a pack of men who have done them wrong at every turn. Let’s just say it doesn’t work out so well for the dudes.

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Earlier this year, Hoffman explained to The Hollywood Reporter how her work as a costume designer helped push her towards directing. “It wasn’t always something I knew I wanted to do,” she told the outlet. “What I was giving to them as a costume designer was more — they trusted me with how I affected their performances.

“He’s a good kid, and a devil behind the wheel.”

That’s Baby (Ansel Elgort), an innocent-looking getaway driver who gets hardened criminals from point A to point B, with daredevil flair and a personal soundtrack running through his head. That’s because he’s got his escape route plotted to the beat of specific tunes that go from his well-curated iPod straight to his ears, and which translate into expertly timed hairpin turns, gear shifts and evasive maneuvers that leave his passengers on the ride of their lives.

Which makes Baby Driver, with its mixture of mph and music, the newest explosion of genre-crossing excitement from writer-director Edgar Wright, an action thriller unlike any other.

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There’s a reason cinephiles are foaming at the mouth for Baby Driver, the latest film from director Edgar Wright, and not even his co-workers could contain their excitement. “I’m sure I’m a little bias in saying this, but it’s the best movie ever,” actor Lanny Joon said, while costume designer Courtney Hoffman gushed, “I’ve never worked on a movie that I wanted to see so badly right now.” Fandango sat shotgun for what Jon Hamm calls...

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The 19th Costume Designers Guild Awards kicked off Tuesday at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, honoring the best in film, television and short-form costume design.

Hosted by This Is Us star Mandy Moore, the night was a star-studded fête, with Meryl Steep, who was honored with the prestigious Distinguished Collaborator Award, Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Pierce Brosnan and James Corden all in attendance. Additional honorees included Lacoste Spotlight Award recipient Lily Collins, Career Achievement Award recipient Jeffrey Kurland, and Lois DeArmond, who received the Distinguished Service Award. Emmy Award-winning costume designer Ret Turner, who died at age 87 last May, was posthumously inducted into the Guild's Hall of Fame.

And while we certainly enjoyed seeing the aforementioned stars on the red carpet at the soiree, all eyes were on the night's nominated costume designers, who created the beloved looks we saw in Oscar-nominated films like La La Land, Jackie and [link...

The American Film Institute has named 25 alumnae of the AFI Conservatory and AFI Conservatory Directing Workshop for Women to participate in the next phase of the Fox Filmmakers Lab. A partnership between AFI and 20th Century Fox, the Lab aims to increase the number of women directing major studio films — which was even lower last year than it was in 2015 — by giving them the chance to direct short films based on Fox titles: “Alien,” “Die Hard,” “The Omen,” “The Fly,” etc.

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After developing their concepts in the coming months, the 25 directors will pitch their concepts to Fox executives; one or more of them will be chosen to make a short film based on their idea. Here are the 25 women who’ve advanced to the next phase of the Lab:

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It seems like we haven’t talked this much about Mandy Moore since the early aughts when she was breaking our hearts in A Walk to Remember playing a (*15 Year Old Spoiler Alert*) high school student dying from Leukemia, and making us bust a move with pop sensations like “Candy.” But thanks to the new smash hit TV show This Is Us, Moore has made her return to the red carpet, most recently wowing at the Golden Globes in a very daring Naeem Khan gown with a deep, plunging neckline. And now she’s set to make another glamorous turn...

Thanks to Variety: The nominees are as follows: Excellence in Contemporary Film Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie – Rebecca Hale Captain Fantastic – Courtney Hoffman La La Land – Mary Zophres Lion – Cappi Ireland...

“Hidden Figures,” “Jackie” and “La La Land” emerged as major award contenders at the Costume Designers Guild Awards, to be held on February 21 in Beverly Hills.

The feature film category is split into three sections: contemporary, period and fantasy, with Deborah Cook nominated for the stop-motion animation movie “Kubo and the Two Strings” in the fantasy category. The first animated movie to earn a Cdg nomination, “Kubo” is nominated for the puppet costumes made for the movie.

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The other films nominated in the category are “Doctor Strange,” “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” and “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.” Costume designer Colleen Atwood earned nominations for both “Fantastic Beasts” and “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.”

The contemporary category nominations went to “Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie,...

Courtney Hoffman is on the phone from New York. She’s heading to Colorado, as her car is there, before heading back to La. “I’m living the Captain Fantastic,...

Exclusive: Principal photography is underway for Courtney Hoffman’s feminist western short The Good Time Girls from Haven Entertainment. Hoffman writes, Quentin Tarantino executive produces and Laura Dern stars in this 1880s tale about three female vigilantes who seek revenge against the outlaws who ruined their lives. Alia Shawkat, Annalise Baso, Q'orianka Kitcher, Garret Dillahunt, and Dana Gourier also star. There are plans to ultimately turn this short into a feature…...

Well, hello there baby, you look so beautiful," Walton Goggins purrs, leaning forward and suddenly going into full-on loverman mode. "Look at you, all done up in that white dress and those white shoes. This is a proper get-up, my dear. You look hot!" The 44-year-old actor is sitting in a downtown Manhattan restaurant, his face hovering inches away from a plate of Burrata; he was sold on the appetizer after being told it's "like Mozzarella's sexier cousin," so he's now whispering sweet nothings at the cheese with an intensity and seductiveness that's almost frightening.

As you may have heard The Hateful Eight expanded a smidge early today into nearly 2000 theaters after the success of its roadshow weekend. So here are 8 links about the movie because we're feeling masochistic...

Variety The Hateful Eight is leading current movies in spending the most for TV ads

Deadline an interview with Hateful Eight's costume designer Courtney Hoffman. (Everyone knows I hate the movie but I actually liked her work in it a lot!)

Awards Daily Sasha struggles to suss out what Tarantino is doing with Daisy (Jennifer Jason Leigh) in The Hateful Eight and tries to make sense of the many journalist opinions on whether its an inherently "misogynist" work. I'd love to defend Tarantino on this front personally but I have to face facts. He hasn't written a good female character since Inglorious Basterds. He's lost that particular skill. But I don't think he's misogynist so much...

The Hateful Eight director Quentin Tarantino: "I'll take any Brechtian reference." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

During and after The Hateful Eight press conference, I brought up Sam Shepard's God Of Hell to Tim Roth and Bertolt Brecht's Pirate Jenny to Quentin Tarantino. Elmore Leonard's Forty Lashes Less One and a Jack White song as Daisy's theme came back in a response. Earlier, Quentin stopped to chat about his costume designer Courtney Hoffman, who was Christoph Waltz's personal costumer in Django Unchained. Yves Montmayeur's Guy Maddin doc, The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Maddin, which won Best Documentary on Cinema in Venice, ended with Lotte Lenya singing Pirate Jenny and the "ship with eight sails" coming for revenge.

Tim Roth on God Of Hell and Oswaldo Mobray in The Hateful Eight: "Wow…. I think just that duplicitous nature of the character." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

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The Hateful Eight cast Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Seven of The Hateful Eight joined Quentin Tarantino for a press conference in New York - Bruce Dern (General Sandy Smithers), Tim Roth (Oswaldo Mobray), Demian Bichir (Bob), Michael Madsen (Joe Gage), Kurt Russell (John Ruth), Jennifer Jason Leigh (Daisy Domergue) and Walton Goggins (Chris Mannix). Samuel L. Jackson (Major Marquis Warren) was absent.

Quentin Tarantino on The Coachman's hat: "The pompoms were my idea."

During and after the press conference, I brought up Sam Shepard's God Of Hell to Roth and Bertolt Brecht's Pirate Jenny to Tarantino. Earlier, Quentin strolled by as I was getting coffee in the Waldorf Astoria Starlight Roof. He stopped to chat about his costume designer Courtney Hoffman, who was Christoph Waltz's personal costumer in Django Unchained. When I inquired about the mini-pompoms dangling from the brim of the coachman's hat, he beamed. "The pompoms were my idea,...

Starting today, all eyes are on Tribeca Film Festival -- not only for the debut of many of the year's buzziest flicks, but for their emerging It Girls (and guys), too. But this festival's one to watch isn't a screen starlet at all but rather 29-year-old costume designer Courtney Hoffman, whose work can be seen in three films, including Palo Alto, Gia Coppola’s directorial debut based on James Franco's 2010 book of short stories that stars Emma Roberts and screens on April 24. The triple-threat designer has cut her teeth under some of the biggest costume designers in the

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