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Everything you need to know about The Exorcist TV show
After years of sub-standard movie sequels, can Fox finally deliver a worthy follow-up to the 1973 horror film, The Exorcist? Academy Award-winner Geena Davis stars in the show, alongside Alan Ruck, Ben Daniels, Alfonso Herrera, Brianne Howey, Hannah Kasulka and Kurt Eqyiawan. Read More…
Geena Davis: Why She Decided To Take Part In Fox’s ‘The Exorcist’ Series
t Fox’s portion of the TCAs, Geena Davis (Angela Rance) tells Access Hollywood what made her interested in taking part in Fox’s upcoming series, “The Exorcist.” And, how different will it be from the 1973 iconic horror movie? Watch Video…
The Film Industry’s Problem Of Gender Inequality Is Worse Than You Think
So can the industry’s problem of entrenched gender inequality be fixed? It can, according to Geena Davis, Oscar-winning actress, advocate, and founder and chair of the nonprofit Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. In a recent NBC News article, she said: “When the needle moves on onscreen representation for the first time in seven decades, that will be historic. It’s the one area of great gender disparity that can be fixed instantly. We can absolutely fix it overnight, the next TV show — the next movie can be gender balanced.” Read More…
‘The Exorcist’ TV Producers Explain the Connections to the Iconic Film
Davis, the founder of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, noted that the producers were well aware of the extensive work she has done to combat sexist Hollywood practices and stereotypes in the media. “When I was first approached, they were very earnest about letting me know” that they wanted her feedback and input, Davis said. Half the show’s writers and two of its directors are women, she noted, and she also said that the arcs of the female characters were, in many ways, the dominant parts of the story. Read More…
How Mark Osborne got ‘The Little Prince’ to the big screen, with a computer animated twist
While working with his writers, Osborne drew inspiration from a variety of sources, including research conducted for the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, which convinced him to make his lead character a girl. Having had two strong female characters in “Kung Fu Panda,” Osborne assumed his body of work was a step in the right direction in terms of gender parity on screen, until the institute pointed out that there were 20 male characters in that film. Read More…
Fox Screens New ‘Exorcism’ Pilot at Comic-Con
“The Exorcist” is ba’ack. On Friday, Comic-Con fans got the first look at Fox’s TV adaptation of the 1973 horror film, which premieres in the fall. The audience was treated to the entire first episode following the panel, which included showrunner Jeremy Slater and cast members Geena Davis, Ben Daniels, Alfonso Herrera, Briannae Howey and Hannah Kasulka. Read More…
Geena Davis, 60, radiates youth as she shows off her svelte physique in curve-hugging frock at Comic-Con
She’s been an on screen siren since the 80s. And Geena Davis proved she’s still got it when she hit the press line for FOX’s TV series The Exorcist at Comic-Con in San Diego on Friday. The 60-year-old Oscar winner radiated youth as she showed off her svelte physique in a curve-hugging frock. Geena’s statuesque figure looked stunning in the chic tight black and white design. Read More…
The Exorcist is ready to scare a new generation with Comic-Con trailer
Seminary school probably doesn’t prepare a person for this. Ahead of its Comic-Con panel on Friday, a new trailer has been released for new FOX series, The Exorcist, and it promises a lot of scares. The new iteration of the 1973 film, which is considered one of the scariest of all time, follows two priests as they tackle a family’s terrifying case of demonic possession. Showcased in the trailer is Father Tomas (Alfonso Herrera), a “rising star,” who at first is skeptical of Angela Rance’s (Geena Davis) claims that a demon is trying to take her daughter. Read More…
Special preview screening of the full first episode of The Exorcist
See a special preview screening of the full first episode with stars Alfonso Herrera(Sense8, The Chosen), Ben Daniels (Flesh and Bone, House of Cards), and Academy Award and Golden Globe winner Geena Davis (Commander in Chief, Beetlejuice, The Fly) and writer/producer Jeremy Slater (Fantastic Four). Widely regarded as the greatest horror movie ever made, Academy Award-nominated The Exorcist terrified audiences around the world. Now, more than four decades later, The Exorcist returns as a contemporary psychological TV thriller on FOX this fall, following the story of two very different priests tackling one family’s case of terrifying demonic possession. Read More…
How Geena Davis Is Increasing Jobs For Women In Hollywood
Geena Davis is back on television in FOX’s new series The Exorcist. Davis has been active in fighting for more opportunities for women in Hollywood, both in the stories they tell and the people who make them. She created The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media to promote more female characters in film and television, and more women working behind the scenes. In 2013, Davis wrote an editorial in The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment Power 100 issue suggesting that screenwriters change several characters in their scripts to women, and specify that crowd scenes are made up of 50% women. Not a bad suggestion, at all. Read More…
