Dan Futterman is showrunner of Showtime’s “American Rust,” now filming in and around Pittsburgh.
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Dan Futterman, writer, executive producer and showrunner on Showtime’s “American Rust,” currently filming around the region, first came to appreciate Western Pennsylvania when he shot a small role in the locally-filmed 1992 movie comedy “Passed Away.”
“It’s not a great movie but I had a lot of time on my hands and I got to explore a bit and it’s an incredible city and surrounding area,” Futterman said by phone Tuesday while at the “American Rust” production office at 31st Street Studios in the Strip. “I drove down South along the Monongahela River and the drama of the drop-off to the water in some places and the bridges and the rolling hills, it’s just really gorgeous.”
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Grey s Anatomy is just days away from saying goodbye to another longtime cast member, but Jesse Williams Jackson Avery is poised to get a much happier sendoff than Giacomo Gianniotti s DeLuca earlier in Season 17. The latest episode saw the return of Sarah Drew as April Kepner for the first time since Drew was written out in Season 14, delivering a Japril reunion that set up Williams departure as Jackson as something positive. His big farewell episode is on the way, and I find myself wondering: could Sarah Drew make a surprise reappearance before the final credits roll?
Every ’90s Blockbuster Movie Ranked
Thirty years on, the 1990s has solidified its stature as one of the magical decades in filmmaking, much like how we view the ’30s and the ’70s. Precisely, this Gen X-decade pulled together the Hollywood studio power of the ’30s and the groundbreaking creativity of the ’70s, crocheting commercialism and art into the movie behemoths we speak of in legend as the ’90s blockbuster which we’ve now ranked all by Tomatometer!
First off, in putting together this list, we didn’t want no scrubs: We defined the ’90s blockbuster as any film that made over $100 million at the box office movies that had people literally lining up around the block to spend their easy-earned cash. (The economy was booming after all.) This, of course, ushers in all those films synonymous with ’90s blockbusterism, including
Paramount+ will launch in Australia on Wednesday, 11 August 2021 at $8.99 per month.
The new streaming service from ViacomCBS Australia & New Zealand will place 10 All Access and feature content from Showtime, BET, CBS, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount Pictures, the Smithsonian Channel and Sony Pictures Television. Teasing over 20,000 episodes TV and movies they include
The First Lady, Dexter, Anne Boleyn, Leonardo,
The Godfather, Mission: Impossible and
PAW Patrol.
Amongst the local titles will be Season 2 of Five Bedrooms starring Kat Stewart, Stephen Peacocke, Doris Younane, Roy Joseph, Katie Robertson and Hugh Sheridan, leaping into the property market having lost their first communal home at auction. It is yet to confirm if this will be the full season at launch.