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Geek Tyrant
29-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
Sebastian Stan and Leo Woodall Set to Star in Justin Kurzel's BURNING RAINBOW FARM — GeekTyrant
Sebastian Stan ( Thunderbolts ) and Leo Woodall ( The White Lotus ) are teaming up for Burning Rainbow Farm , the latest project from filmmaker Justin Kurzel ( The Order , Macbeth ). Based on the nonfiction book by Dean Kuipers and adapted for the screen by Tommy Murphy ( Holding the Man ), the film dives into the real-life story of Tom Crosslin and Rollie Rohm, a couple in rural Michigan who build a peaceful, pot-friendly utopia called Rainbow Farm. 'When the two run afoul of local authorities and their young son is taken from them, a standoff ensues leading to one of the largest and most dramatic sieges America has ever seen.' Kurzel said in a statement: 'Burning Rainbow is a love story about two outliers who raise their middle finger to hate and declare 'This is who we are, and we dare you to take it from us'. I'm excited to create this loveable and courageous couple with Sebastian and Leo, their union will be one to remember.' Stan, fresh off his Oscar-nominated turn in The Apprentice , is also currently riding high with Thunderbolts* , which has pulled in over $173M worldwide. Woodall, meanwhile, continues his rise with recent work on Prime Target , One Day , and Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy . Source: Deadline
Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Cannes Film Festival Workers Launch Fresh Call To Action Over Precarious Working Conditions
Cannes Film Festival staff are among a collective of French cultural workers who have launched a fresh call to action over what they have described as their precarious and unfair working conditions. In a statement shared today, and available to read in full below, advocacy group Sous Les Écrans La Dèche: Collectif Des Précaires Des Festivals De Cinéma (which translates to Under The Screens, The Waste: The Collective of Precarious Workers at Film Festivals), writes that their attempts to gain contractual rights like unemployment and retirement benefits have been 'abruptly blocked.' The group is calling on all French workers to organize and demand action at next week's Cannes Film Festival. More from Deadline Sebastian Stan And Leo Woodall To Star In Justin Kurzel's 'Burning Rainbow Farm' For Rocket Science Sebastian Stan & Leo Woodall Set For Justin Kurzel's 'Burning Rainbow Farm' Cannes Unveils Cinéma De La Plage Line-Up Featuring Terrence Malick's 'A Hidden Life', Billy Wilder's 'Sunset Boulevard' & Nanni Moretti's 'Palombella Rossa' The group's main objectives are the same as we reported ahead of last year's Cannes Film Festival, during which they executed a series of small demonstrations. They want to be included in France's unique unemployment insurance program for entertainment workers and technicians. Known as Intermittence de Spectacle, the scheme supports entertainment workers on short-term contracts with an unemployment benefit when they are between jobs or projects. The payments are funded through taxes paid by employers. Due to quirks in the regulations, many workers at French film festivals have long been excluded from the unemployment benefit. Instead, they are hired and handed flat short-term contracts. The collective is campaigning to be included in the scheme, citing the inherent seasonal nature of the work. Following last year's Cannes demonstrations and a year of organizing, France's four major unions (CFDT, CGT, FO, and CFTC) and FICAM, which represents the management of France's film festival, drafted a pact to finally include festival workers in the scheme. However, the unions failed to reach a final agreement with UNEDIC, the French government agency that regulates unemployment insurance. 'After a year of intense efforts, we are baffled and indignant,' the group writes in their call to action. 'Many of us had eked out a meagre living all year, stretching thin salaries and compensation even thinner, hoping that the predicament was in the process of being solved.' The letter continues: 'Hundreds of us are waiting for the administrative process to be completed. Likewise, dozens of festivals are waiting to be able to offer employees who work for them only intermittently an appropriate job contract. This is a second call to action for all workers. If workers cannot earn a decent living from the jobs they do at festivals, how will the festivals keep going?' Sous Les Écrans La Dèche includes 300 film festival workers from across France, including staff who work on the Cannes Official Selection, the festival's Marché du Film, and parallel sections of Directors' Fortnight and Critics' Week. The Sous les Écrans la Dèche movement has some high-profile supporters. French filmmaker Justine Triet wore the group's bright red pin on her suit lapel as she walked the red carpet for Palme d'Or winner Anatomy Of A Fall at Cannes in 2023. Payal Kapadia was wearing the same pin as she debuted All We Imagine As Light on the Croisette in 2024. Reall the full Call To Action below: One year ago, we mobilized to obtain better working conditions and, notably, to regain 'intermittent employee' status for thousands of French film-festival workers. We wish we could announce that our voices had been heard. True, the first step towards organizing our branch has been taken. But the 'intermittent employee' status that would entitle us to unemployment and retirement benefits remains out of reach Last year, after the Cannes Film Festival, the Ministries of Culture and Labor and the CNC notified us that our demand for 'intermittent employee' status had been denied. They said that we could obtain the right to this type of job contract only after we drafted an appropriate collective bargaining agreement and submitted it to the government. An official was appointed to expedite matters. He mediated six months of negotiations between festival workers, trade unions, festival organizers, and government agencies. The four major trade unions (the CFDT, CGT, FO, and CFTC) and the management of the festivals, represented by FICAM, applied themselves to drafting an amendment covering 'Film and TV Festivals,' to be appended to the collective bargaining agreement existing for ESCE (Entreprises au Service de la Création et de l'Événement: Services Required for Staging Events and Shows). After 6 months of talks, the amendment was signed in December of 2024 by all of the parties concerned. Management was represented by the FICAM, the SYNPASE, and LEVENEMENT; labor, by the following unions: F3C, CFDT, CGT Spectacle, SPIAC – CGT, SNRT- CGT Audiovisuel, and SNAJ – CFTC. The goals sought by all the parties were to define and structure the film and TV festival sector, and to establish job definitions and pay scales. These specifications would make it possible not only to regulate periods of employment, but also, and especially, to set up unemployment compensation for temporary or 'intermittent' festival workers. A list of the job titles eligible for intermittent status had to be defined. These titles would then be integrated into List 4 of services required for the staging of creations and events (Prestation au service de la création et de l'événement), part of Appendix 8 of French unemployment insurance legislation. Our livelihoods, endangered by 2021 unemployment insurance reforms, would no longer be so precarious. On April 5, 2025, the General Labor Authority approved the branch agreement, with a publication in the legislative record. Throughout the process, we had been assured by unions, management organizations, and government representatives that modifying the list of job titles would merely be an administrative formality. On May 1st, the amendment was therefore extended to all film and TV festivals. At this point, only one hurdle remained. Film and TV festival workers would regain their 'intermittent worker' rights as soon as List 4 of Appendix 8 of the unemployment insurance laws was updated. On April 23, the list of trades was submitted to the UNEDIC, the French government agency that regulates unemployment insurance. However, at this meeting, the parties involved failed to reach an agreement. As a result, festival workers' access to intermittent status was abruptly blocked for the foreseeable future. After a year of intense efforts, we are baffled and indignant. Many of us had eked out a meagre living all year, stretching thin salaries and compensation even thinner, hoping that the predicament was in the process of being solved. Hundreds of us are waiting for the administrative process to be completed. Likewise, dozens of festivals are waiting to be able to offer employees who work for them only intermittently an appropriate job contract. This is a second call to action for all workers. If workers cannot earn a decent living from the jobs they do at festivals, how will the festivals keep going? Best of Deadline 'Poker Face' Season 2 Release Schedule: When Do New Episodes Arrive On Peacock? Everything We Know About Celine Song's 'Materialists' So Far 2025 TV Series Renewals: Photo Gallery
Perth Now
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Sebastian Stan and Leo Woodall to star in Burning Rainbow Farm
Sebastian Stan and Leo Woodall are to star in 'Burning Rainbow Farm' The 'Thunderbolts*' actor and the 'White Lotus' star will lead the cast of Justin Kurzel's upcoming thriller, which is based on a true story about a gay couple in rural Michigan. Sebastian will play Tom Crosslin and Leo has been cast as his partner Rollie Rohm, and the story sees their idyllic marijuana-growing home, Rainbow Farm, disturbed when they have their young son taken away from them after running afoul of local authorities. A five-day stand-off ensues, leading to what is described as "one of the largest and most dramatic sieges" involving the police and FBI ever seen in America, which took place in 2001, just days before the 9/11 terror attacks. Tommy Murphy has written a screenplay based on a book by Dean Kuipers. Director Justin said in a statement: 'Burning Rainbow is a love story about two outliers who raise their middle finger to hate and declare 'This is who we are, and we dare you to take it from us'. 'I'm excited to create this loveable and courageous couple with Sebastian and Leo, their union will be one to remember.' Meanwhile, Sebastian can currently be seen as James 'Bucky' Barned in 'Thunderbolts*' and recently explained his performance was inspired by Clint Eastwood's 'Unforgiven' character, retired gunslinger William Munny. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, he said: "I feel like the hardest era for Bucky, for now, has passed. "I always thought of Clint Eastwood in 'Unforgiven' when I was broaching this movie. It's sort of like the older guy that's been there, done that; so 'take it from me kid' kind of thing, that's where the sense of humor was coming from. "But it'll be interesting to see how people feel about Bucky this time around." The actor - who has played Bucky Barnes since 2014's 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' - added it was good to explore the anti-hero dynamic of the character alongside his 'Thunderbolts*' teammates like the Red Guardian (David Harbour), Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), John Walker (Wyatt Russell) and Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen). He explained: "It's always funny when there's that dynamic with people like these characters, right, because technically, are they villains? Are they heroes or not, where do they stand? "It's what [his character] Bucky Barnes is essentially, he's always been trying to figure it out and they are too." 'Thunderbolts*' - which also stars Lewis Pullman, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Olga Kurylenko - follows the mismatched team of former villains and anti-heroes who band together for a covert mission, only to discover they've been set up and must fight for their own survival.
Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Sebastian Stan & The White Lotus Star to Lead Crime Movie Burning Rainbow Farm
Academy Award nominee Sebastian Stan (A Different Man, The Apprentice) and Leo Woodall (The White Lotus, One Day) have officially been tapped for the leading roles in the upcoming crime drama titled, Burning Rainbow Farm. The movie is based on a real-life police standoff between a gay cannabis activist couple and the Michigan police force. 'The film is set to tell the story of Tom Crosslin and Rollie Rohm, two gay cannabis activists who met in the early 1990s and set up the peaceful, pot-friendly utopia Rainbow Farm in Michigan, a site that was once listed by High Times magazine as 'fourteenth on the list of twenty-five Top Stoner Travel Spots in the world,'' reads the official synopsis. 'But the pair ran afoul of local authorities and, when their young son was taken from them, a police standoff ensued that would lead to one of the largest and most dramatic sieges America has ever seen.' Burning Rainbow Farm will be directed and produced by Justin Kurzel from a screenplay written by Tommy Murphy, based on Dean Kuipers' 2006 book of the same name. It is produced Nicole O'Donohue and Alexandra Taussig for Thirdborn, Adam Shulman of Anonymous Content, Alix Madigan of Mad Dog Films, and Justin Lothrop and Brent Stiefel of Votiv. 'Burning Rainbow is a love story about two outliers who raise their middle finger to hate and declare 'This is who we are, and we dare you to take it from us',' Kurzel said in a statement (via Variety). 'I'm excited to create this loveable and courageous couple with Sebastian and Leo, their union will be one to remember.' The post Sebastian Stan & The White Lotus Star to Lead Crime Movie Burning Rainbow Farm appeared first on - Movie Trailers, TV & Streaming News, and More.
