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Muse Entertainment - Muse Entertainment News. B. C. Actor Was Camping With His Family When He Picked Up A Best Actor Award Barry Pepper won an Emmy Award Sunday night, but wasn’t there to pick it up. He had a previous commitment — a family vacation.“We’re in the mountains,” he said by cellphone Monday.

It’s an annual trip that I plan, so I didn’t want to break that commitment.”As it turned out, he got the best of both worlds: a great day in the foothills of the B. C. Rockies, plus the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Mini- Series or Movie. Watch Seal Team Eight: Behind Enemy Lines HDQ. He didn’t watch the Emmys on TV, but got the news soon enough.“We were watching a herd of elk that had just crossed us on the road,” he relates.“We were out hiking and when I got back to the vehicle I saw a message on the phone. It was about eight or nine at night; it was a nice way to cap the day, for sure.

Seeing some Rocky Mountain elk, having a glorious day in the mountains, and then to get that message, that was pretty nice.”The 4. Campbell River native received the Emmy for his portrayal of Bobby Kennedy in The Kennedys, a miniseries that stirred up a lot of controversy in the U. S. The series drew flack from the Kennedy family, was dropped by the History Channel in the States, then was alternately praised and savaged in the American press.“It was understandable that the critics were as polarized as they were in the United States, because politically the U. S. is totally polarized,” said Pepper.“So the critics were either Democratic or Republican in their views, and they either loved it or they hated it. Some of the reviews said things like ‘ham- fisted hatchet job,’ and other reviews said ‘the best thing ever put on television.’“At that point I just stopped reading,” he laughs. There’s just no winning that one.”Pepper sees his win as a vindication for the production.“It’s such a cool validation for so many people that worked on that production,” he says.“It was a gruelling, challenging project: to have it recognized this way, with the Canadian Geminis and now with the Emmys, it makes me feel very, very good for all the people who were involved, that worked so hard.”Pepper may not be as famous as Tom Cruise, but he has quietly assembled quite a resume. He burst onto the Hollywood scene in 1.

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God- fearing sniper in Stephen Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan, received a Golden Globe nomination for his portrayal of baseball great Roger Maris in 6. Clint Eastwood in another Second World War film, Flags of Our Fathers. He landed a role in the Coen Brothers remake of True Grit by making them a demo reel of his character Ned Pepper; made a great bad guy in Casino Jack; and appears in an upcoming film by the legendary director Terrence Malick. He is quite proud of The Kennedys.

He spent months getting Bobby’s accent down, and brought in Oscar- winning makeup artist Christien Tinsley to help him transform into a reasonable facsimile of the iconic politician.“We sat down and went through all the photos we could find of Bobby, analyzed his face and figured out how we could adjust my features prosthetically,” he said.“And then hired a tremendous dialect coach by the name of John Nelles. You bring in the right people and they make you look great.”Pepper hasn’t had any feedback from the Kennedy clan about his performance, and probably won’t. But he came out of the experience with tremendous respect for Bobby Kennedy.“I admire the fact that he spoke from his heart,” he said.“He was one of the very few politicians I’ve ever heard speak with such genuine emotion and honesty about subjects of love and compassion, freedom and equality. It was such a difficult time in America .. Americans but people all over the world. He really stood by those values, and lived and died fighting for them.“It was such a refreshing thing to study, and to hear those speeches, and to understand who the inner man was.

He was a really remarkable human being, and I think he would have made an extraordinary president, had he lived.”Not a standard Hollywood answer, but Pepper is not a standard Hollywood actor. He may have a house in L.

A., but he’s a British Columbian to the core. His family has been in B. C. for generations: his great- grandfather built the first log cabin and log schoolhouse on Denman Island in the 1. His family spent five years sailing around the South Pacific when he was a child, then returned to Denman, where he grew up.“It was sort of a mixture of hippies and farmers and artists,” he said.“It was a really interesting place, very eclectic. One of those neighbourly kind of places where nobody locks their doors. There’s no police, no dogs with collars, everybody’s kids are welcome in everybody’s house.

There’s barefoot dances and farmers markets, very Canadian west coast.”After high school he moved to Vancouver and studied acting. He eventually moved down to L. A., but also keeps a place in B. C.“I’m a bit of a hippie gentleman farmer,” he said.“I have an orchard and a big organic garden, and I live on the ocean, so I fish and I hunt and just raise my family the way I was raised. It’s a real striking contrast to Los Angeles.”Raising his family the way he was raised means bypassing an awards show for a family vacation.“We woke up today, and some of the higher mountains around us are all kissed with snow, capped with snow,” he said.“It’s beautiful — the elk are bugling, the coyotes are howling at night.

It’s just beautiful. We camped on an alpine lake and there’s ducks and geese flying in here .. We’re so blessed to live in B. C., aren’t we?”By JOHN MACKIE, Vancouver Sun.

Media Rights Capital'Ozark' Was Most Popular Streaming Show This Summer, According To New Audience Metric. By Michael Schneider. A few months ago, a Netflix exec mused to Indie. Wire that he was actually surprised that the streaming service’s viewership data hadn’t leaked out. Plenty of Netflix insiders know exactly who’s watching what, and when.

Yet, the streaming giant has managed to keep its ratings under lock and key. Accurate data remains a mystery to even top- level Hollywood execs outside of the Netflix bubble. That’s starting to change, as more services chip away at the facade of Netflix ratings. Parrot Analytics has made headlines recently with its proprietary “Demand Expressions” metric, which looks at a variety of factors in determining a digital program’s popularity. And according to a new study revealed exclusively to Indie. Wire, the Jason Bateman drama “Ozark” led the pack among all streaming shows over the past 9. Demand Expressions” measures audience demand for a title — including streaming, social media, blogging, file sharing, blogging, comments and other sources.

The measurement is weighed by importance, which means a stream or download take precedence. As for the Parrot Analytics data, the company shared the top 1. United States over the past 9. Netflix easily dominates the roster. The sleeper hit “Ozark” actually topped the charts, while CBS All Access’ “Star Trek: Discovery” was No. Netflix’s “Stranger Things,” which remains popular even before the launch of Season 2.

Hulu makes an appearance with Emmy winner “The Handmaid’s Tale,” but as has been discussed recently about the lack of buzz surrounding Amazon Prime’s programming, none of that service’s shows make the top 1. Visit the article at Indiewire. Ozark’ Renewed for Season 2.

By Joe Otterson“Ozark” has been renewed for Season 2 at Netflix, Variety has learned. Like the first, the second season will consist of 1. The series follows financial planner Marty (Jason Bateman) and his wife Wendy Byrde (Laura Linney). Without warning, Marty relocates the family from the suburbs of Chicago to a summer resort community in the Missouri Ozarks after a money laundering scheme puts him in the crosshairs of a Mexican drug lord. Bateman directed multiple episodes in addition to serving as an executive producer.

Chris Mundy executive produced and wrote for the series. Bill Dubuque and Mark Williams created the series and also executive produce. The series is produced by Bateman’s Aggregate Films in association with Media Rights Capital for Netflix. The series has received mostly positive reviews, with Variety‘s Sonia Saraiya writing: “ The taut thriller veers close toward storytelling pitfalls that other prestige dramas have made — strippers, money laundering, infidelity, a sex tape, bags of cash, barrels of acid — but deftly avoids falling into the bleak soup of bloated streaming dramas about a tortured male soul. Ozark’ so carefully guides the audience through the story that it is one of the most compulsively watchable debuts of the year — a crime story that is part- thriller, part- caper, and endlessly surprising.”Netflix also recently renewed freshman comedy “GLOW,” which is a fictional account of a real all- female wrestling TV show from the 1.

That renewal came on the heels of the cancellation of the drama series “Gypsy” starring Naomi Watts. Read the full article of Variety. Baby Driver Zooming Past $1. M At Domestic B. O. By Anythony D'Alessandro.

The Edgar Wright- directed action movie ballet will break the $1. M threshold by tomorrow according to rival estimates. Baby Driver, made by Sony/Tri. Star, Working Title and Media Rights Capital to the tune of a net production cost of $3. M, has been a breath of fresh air at a summer box office given its originality amid a litter of Nth franchise sequels, many of which have fallen short of providing any gas at the B. O. (take your pick: Alien: Covenant, The Mummy, Transformers: The Last Knight, etc.).

Baby Driver is a clear example of Sony Pictures motion pictures group chairman Tom Rothman’s mandate at the studio: Make ambitious, original fare at a reasonable price so that there’s plenty of upside. In addition, Baby Driver is a big win for Hannah Minghella’s Tri. Star Pictures. Much like Jordan Peele’s Get Out before it, what Baby Driver proves in this streaming age, is that audiences will drive to the multiplex to watch riveting, original, lower budget fare. Just because a film is considered niche and risky, doesn’t necessarily mean it should just be destined to home audiences. On the opposite end of the spectrum, we have another brilliant summer film like Netflix’s $5. M- plus budgeted Okja, which despite its grand launch at the Cannes Film Festival, isn’t continuing to generate great buzz because it’s been shackled to the small screen. The way that Wright coordinates car chase sequences with punctuating sound and the rhythm of hard rock songs like Queen’s “Brighton Rock” or Jon Spencer Blues Explosion’s “Bell Bottoms” is something to behold on the big screen, not a 7.

K television. Top this off with Ansel Elgort and Lily James’ smoldering chemistry, and you have a movie. Sony has been great about putting its below the line contenders out there during awards season, and Baby Driver should be in the mix.

Currently, Baby Driver is playing at 8. M this weekend (and if it doesn’t clear $1. M by tomorrow, then it will on Monday). In the pic’s seven weekend run, Baby Driver has averaged a - 3. Sony is currently planning to take the movie wide again during the weekend of Aug. Worldwide, Baby Driver stands at $1. M. Sony started the engines on this movie back at SXSW with a marketing/publicity campaign led by Danielle Misher, EVP of Tri.

Star marketing. Baby Driver earned great reviews and slotted a 1. Rotten Tomatoes score before opening, and leveraged that in their trailers. Damon Wolf, the head of creative advertising for Tri. Star, led the charge on creating the high octane, retro- style promos for the film with colorful vintage design posters and award- winning million- plus- view trailers (Best Action Trailer at 2. Golden Trailer Awards). From the onset, Baby Driver has been Wright’s highest grossing title of his career both on an opening and running total basis. He hatched the feature from an idea he formulated years ago.

Originally, the industry saw a $2. M take for Baby Driver in its five- day opening, but the pic trumped expectations during an Independence Day stretch with $2. M, and $3. 9M in its first week of release. According to Com. Score/Screen Engine, Baby Driver, rated R, drew mostly males at 5. Read Full Article At Deadline.

Breaking Bad Fans Have Found Their New Fix In Jason Bateman–Starrer Ozark. Rotten Tomatoes By Andrea Reiher August 4, 2. Have you heard about Ozark?

It’s Netflix’s latest original drama, and after a somewhat quiet debut on July 2. The series, which currently has a 6. Tomatometer, stars Jason Bateman as Marty, a financial advisor who has been laundering money for a drug kingpin.

When his partner is caught cheating the business, Marty uproots his family to move the operation to the scenic Ozark Mountain region of Missouri, where they struggle to fit into this brave new world. Fans are comparing it to movies like Pulp Fiction and No Country for Old Men, but the biggest comparison it’s getting on social media is to the Bryan Cranston Emmy- winner Breaking Bad. But the show is more than standing on its own, with fans praising the writing and direction. Bateman actually directed four of the 1. Fans are on board for this darker, twistier Bateman, who in recent years has mostly been known for his work on Arrested Development — and some fans enjoy imagining that Marty is really just bizarro Michael Bluth.

Fans are expecting Bateman and the show to get at least one (if not several) award nominations for its writing, acting, and directing.