Live from the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood for the 2024 Dances With Films: LA Film Festival - with 8 Gala Closing Night Movies: World Premieres, West Coast Premieres, and LA Premieres!
On this show Entertainment Today's TV Producer will take you down on the arrivals orange carpet for interviews with the Actors, Producers, Directors, and Writers of these movies.
A very good movie that we can recommend if you enjoy Comedy Horror movies is "Mother Father Sister Brother Frank" which had its WEST COAST Premiere (From CANADA). The entire audience was laughing as they kept being surprised and shocked by the plot twists of this horror movie!
The basic plot is: The Jennings family couldn’t be more painfully suburban, but when asshole Uncle Frank crashes their weekly Sunday dinner with a nasty surprise, murder turns up on the menu. Can the Jennings’ overcome secrets and dysfunction to learn that, the family that slays together, stays together? It stars: Mindy Cohn, Enrico Colantoni , Melanie Leishman, Iain Stewart, Juan Chioran, Sharron Matthews, Izad Etemadi, Matthew G. Brown, Chad Connell, and is Produced by: Michael Lomenda, Matt Schichter, co-producer Johnathan Sharp, and the Writer/Director is: Caden Douglas.
When I was watching this movie I kept looking at the actress who plays the role of the mother, and she looked familiar, but I could not remember her name until I saw the end credits! For those of you that remember the hit Comedy/Family TV series from the early 80's : "The Facts of Life" that ran for 9 seasons on NBC, that starred in one of the leading roles: Mindy Cohn as Natalie Green - when she was in real live just a little girl, so it was hard to recognize her now as a grown-up 58 year old woman starring in the role of the mother in this movie! This "The Facts of Life" alum Mindy Cohn is in the midst of a career resurgence 45 years after her iconic sitcom premiered. The actress is starring in the new Apple+ television series "Palm Royale" alongside Kristin Wiig, Laura Dern and Ricky Martin. Mindy Cohn really helped to make this movie both funny and a real horror!
This show also starred: Lisa Whelchel, Kim Fields, Nancy McKeon, Charlotte Rae, Mackenzie Astin, and in other roles an unbelievable long list of a "Who's Who" of actors from other hit TV shows and movies: Cloris Leachman, Alex Rocco (The Godfather) Eve Plumb of The Brady Bunch, Lois Nettleton, Gary Coleman,Todd Bridges, Conrad Bain, and Dana Plato all from "Diff'rent Strokes;" Richard Moll (Night Court), Mayim Bialik (Blossom), Seth Green, Juliette Lewis, Zsa Zsa Gabor, John Astin (The Adams Family), Richard Dean Anderson who was the star of MacGyver, Jermaine Jackson believe it or not of the Jackson 5 Brothers!, Kenneth Mars, Kenneth Tiger, Jean Smart, Moon Unit Zappa, Nehemiah Persoff, Tom Dreesen, Penelope Ann Miller, Dick Van Patten (8 is Enough), the singer Fabian, Jay Johnson, Bill Macy (Maude), Ja'net DuBois, Timothy Stack, Anne Jackson, Chuck McCann, Singer Bobby Rydell, Johnny Dark, Richard Grieco, David Spade (SNL), Molly Ringwald, and even the legendary TV & Movie star George Clooney!
DANCES WITH FILMS: LA FILMMAKERS
Among DWF: LA’s lineup of 232 films, including 38 narrative features, 17 documentary features, 25 television and streaming pilots, and 152 short films (101 narrative and 20 documentaries, 13 KIdz section, 18 Downbeat/Music), are an impressive number of films (117!) making world, international, North American, or U.S. premieres. That number includes 24 narrative features, 10 documentary features, 69 narrative shorts, 22 documentary shorts (including Downbeat), and 15 pilots which will have world premiere screenings at Dances With Films.
Along with a lineup of films overflowing with invention and innovation, Dances With Films’ short films also are spiced with several recognizable faces and names: Jane Fonda, Russell Goldman’s Burn Out, which is executive produced by Jamie Lee Curtis and stars Tommie Earl Jenkins, Eli Vidis Newman’s Concrete, which stars four-time Oscar nominee Ed Harris, Kestrin Pantera’s Dr. No Means No, which stars comedy duo The Sklar Brothers, and Breeda Wool (The Walking Dead), Mike Harris’ Mecánica, which stars Haley Joel Osment, and Olivia Sandoval(Fargo), and Danny Farber’s Thoughts and Prayers, which is executive produced by Amy Poehler, and finally: the World Premiere of "Max Dagan" which stars: Rob Morrow, Zachary Gordon, Michael Madsen, Rob Brownstein, Lindsey Dresbach, Lisa Roumain, and Comedians and Actors Jeff Ross and Jay Mohr.
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