Nine Products to Help Put Your Freshest Face Forward This Spring
The Right Stuff is a monthly checklist of the newest gear, innovations and experiences that we think you need to know about. Previous editions have looked at what you need to usher in spring, how to spend your bonus, and the gear to keep you fit whatever the weather.
This time around, we've rounded up nine products that will help you put your best face forward.
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Business Wire
15-05-2025
- Business Wire
Filmmakers Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck to Bring #1 NY Times Bestselling Author Taylor Jenkins Reid's Upcoming Novel
HILLSBORO, Ore. & LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LAIKA has tapped filmmakers Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck (Captain Marvel, Masters of the Air) to adapt and direct a live action film based on the novel Atmosphere (Pub 6/3/25; Ballantine Books) by #1 NYT bestselling author Taylor Jenkins Reid (Daisy Jones and the Six). LAIKA's President, Live Action Film & Series Matt Levin made the announcement today. The book is a sweeping romance between two pioneering female astronauts breaking into NASA in the early days of the shuttle program in the late '70s/early '80s. While the principal characters are fictionalized, the historical context and authenticity of the world-building is grounded in the spirit of films like Apollo 13, The Right Stuff, and Gravity. The epic story is set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program and shows the extraordinary lengths we go to in living and loving beyond our limits. Atmosphere is a LAIKA production in association with Circle M+P. Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck are screenwriters and directors. Producers are Travis Knight, Matt Levin, Boden & Fleck, Taylor Jenkins Reid and Brad Mendelsohn. Jeremy Kipp Walker is executive producer. 'We couldn't be more excited to team up with three boundary-pushing creative voices on this very special film,' said Levin. 'From books like The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo to Carrie Soto is Back, Taylor Jenkins Reid always captivates us with rich, emotionally complex characters and she is in peak form with Atmosphere. There are no better filmmakers to adapt Taylor's story for the screen than Ryan and Anna, who throughout their amazing careers have crafted deeply human stories set against canvases of stunning cinematic spectacle. We can't wait to see them bring Taylor's world of Atmosphere to life." Taylor Jenkins Reid (subject of this week's TIME Magazine cover story) is the author of the New York Times Bestselling novels Carrie Soto Is Back, Malibu Rising, Daisy Jones and The Six and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, as well as One True Loves, Maybe in Another Life, After I Do, and Forever, Interrupted. Her books have been chosen by Reese's Book Club, Read with Jenna, Indie Next, Best of Amazon, and Book of the Month. Daisy Jones and The Six was adapted as a limited series on Amazon Prime, garnering nine Emmy Award® nominations and two wins. Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck are an Emmy®-winning Director/Writer/Producer duo with over two decades of collaboration, spanning a wide range of genres. Their latest film, Freaky Tales, is a genre-blending action comedy that premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. With roots in documentary and independent film, Boden and Fleck are also known for co-writing and directing the billion-dollar box office hit Captain Marvel. In 2006, Boden and Fleck made their feature debut with the award-winning film Half Nelson starring Ryan Gosling, who received an Academy Award® nomination for his performance. The film also won Movie of the Year at the AFI Awards, received Spirit Award nominations for Best Feature, Best Director, and Best Screenplay, and won Best Film, Director and Breakthrough Performance at the Gotham Awards. Next, they wrote and directed the independent film Sugar, an introspective sports drama following the life of a talented Dominican baseball player, which won Movie of the Year at the AFI Awards and received a Spirit Award nomination for Best Screenplay. In 2010, Boden and Fleck wrote and directed It's Kind of a Funny Story for Focus Features starring Keir Gilchrist, Zach Galifianakis and Zoë Kravitz. Mississippi Grind starred Ryan Reynolds and Ben Mendelsohn, who received a Spirit Award nomination for Best Actor. In television, Boden & Fleck directed and executive produced the Emmy Award-winning limited series Mrs. America starring Cate Blanchett for FX. Other recent work includes Masters of the Air, executive produced by Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, and Gary Goetzman for Apple TV+ and Criminal, to be released later this year, which Boden & Fleck directed and executive produced for Amazon Studios. Circle M+P executive produced Prime Video's Daisy Jones & The Six, based on client Taylor Jenkins Reid's bestselling novel, alongside Hello Sunshine. The breakout series debuted at No. 1 on Prime Video's Top 10 list in the U.S. and went on to receive nine Emmy nominations, winning two. Additionally, the company is known for executive producing the worldwide hit franchise, The Walking Dead. Reps: Taylor Jenkins Reid: WME, Park Fine & Brower Literary Management, Circle Management + Production, Jill Fritzo Public Relations and law firm Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher. Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck: WME, Entertainment 360 and law firm Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner Auerbach Hynick Jaime LeVine Sample & Klein. Circle M+P: Behr, Abramson, Levy & Johnson LAIKA: CAA About LAIKA LAIKA was founded in 2005 in Oregon by President & CEO Travis Knight. The studio's five films: Missing Link (2019), Kubo and the Two Strings (2016), The Boxtrolls (2014), ParaNorman (2012) and Coraline (2009) have all been nominated for the Academy Award® for Outstanding Animated Feature. Kubo and the Two Strings won the BAFTA® Award for Best Animated Film and received an additional Oscar® nomination for Visual Effects. Missing Link was awarded the Golden Globe® for Best Animated Film. LAIKA was awarded a Scientific and Technology Oscar® in 2016 for its innovation in 3D printing. LAIKA is currently in production on its next animated film Wildwood. The studio is developing the animated feature films The Night Gardener, from an original idea by Bill Dubuque, creator of the hit series Ozark, and Piranesi, based on the NYT bestselling novel by Susanna Clarke. LAIKA's Live Action subsidiary has a range of projects in development including feature films based on the action thriller novel Seventeen by screenwriter John Brownlow and an original script Crumble, written and directed by Brian Duffield (Spontaneous) with Phil Lord and Chris Miller (Spider-verse films) producing. Oscar®-nominated screenwriter Jon Spaihts (Dune) will write and make his directorial debut on an untitled original live action film project.
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New York Post
26-04-2025
- New York Post
New Kids on the Block star Jonathan Knight let fans ‘kidnap' him on tour
This New Kid was Kid-napped. Being on the road 360 days a year took its toll on New Kids on the Block star Jonathan Knight — so while he was on tour, he would ask fans to take him away from all the madness. 'Back in the day, I used to let fans kidnap me. I would always find somebody who was a little older who had a driver's license. You're walking through the venue or they're outside a fence and you're like, 'Hey, what are you doing? You want to take me somewhere?'' he told The Post. Advertisement 'I would jump in their car and we'd disappear. My manager used to get so mad because he was always afraid that I wouldn't get back in time.' Knight, 56, a Boston native, said he 'needed some self care to just deal' with NKOTB's tour schedule at the height of their fame in the '80s and '90s. 4 Jonathan Knight was 16 when he joined New Kids on the Block. Alamy Stock Photo Advertisement 'It was nuts. Our manager and our record company, they just pushed you. Being a young kid just not even really knowing who you are as a person, we really had no time outside of our career to figure out what life is all about. And I think that that's sad,' he said. The beloved boy band formed in 1984 and achieved superstar status in 1988 with the release of their second album 'Hangin' Tough' — and to date, have sold over 80 million records worldwide. 'You're not prepared for the level of success we had, ever. There's nobody there to coach you. It's either sink or swim and you could just become really f–ked up and do stupid things … or you could just deal with the stress and the craziness and get through,' he said. 4 New Kids on the Block formed in 1984, split in 1994 and then reunited in 2008. Courtesy Everett Collection Advertisement In 2000, Knight revealed he suffered from generalized anxiety, and in 2011, he came out as gay — both of which he kept hidden during the band's first run, from 1984 to 1994. Although it would have been easier to open up about those topics now, he still doesn't wish he was a young performer in today's world. 'That's probably the only two things that would be cool, but I actually wouldn't want to be an artist nowadays,' he said. 'When we would go out to a nightclub and stumble out maybe a little tipsy or drunk, there was no TMZ or people filming and it just gets broadcast for millions of people to see.' Advertisement Knight, the oldest of his bandmates — who include his brother Jordan, Joey McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg and Danny Wood — was the first to leave the group in 1994 when he was 25, before they officially split that same year. 'I remember going home and I was in a eight bedroom, six bathroom house that I bought and looking up and down the halls like, 'Okay, now what the hell?'' 4 NKOTB will kick off their The Right Stuff Las Vegas Residency in June. Austin Hargrave The guys reunited in 2008 after a 14-year hiatus and 'it's funny that we've been back together now longer than we were in the first go-around,' Knight noted. As he preps for NKOTB's The Right Stuff Las Vegas Residency, which starts on June 20, Knight looked back on the band's heyday — and all the memorabilia created for them. 'There was so much cheesy stuff … slippers and marbles and puzzles. In the moment, we were like, 'This is so stupid.' But now that I'm older, I'm like, 'It's kind of cool. There's my face on a pack of bubblegum.'' 4 Jonathan and Jordan's mom Marlene had an eBay sale of the band's memorabilia she collected. Alamy Stock Photo His mother, Marlene, collected double the amount of New Kids items since two of her sons are in the group. Advertisement 'She had so much stuff in her basement and a couple of years ago, I was like, 'Mom, just get rid of it, it's taking up too much space.' So she had a big eBay sale.' He has no idea how much she earned from it — he's just content the clutter has dissipated. 'I didn't ask. I was just happy that now when I go in her basement, I can walk around and not have to scoot by a Donnie doll or trip over a Joe doll.'
