Monthly Archives: March 2012
Jennifer Beals in Widow Detective, a new pilot for CBS
Jennifer Beals and Paula Marshall are set to co-star opposite John Corbett in the CBS drama pilot Widow Detective, written by David Hubbard, produced by CSI maven Carol Mendelsohn and directed by Davis Guggenheim.
Widow Detective centers on Denny Brennan (Corbett), a decorated police detective who, after losing three partners in the line of duty, becomes surrogate husband, lover and father to their families. Jennifer and Paula will play two of the widows. Jennifer Beals will play Lainey, the sexy, wry-humored owner of a San Fernando valley hair salon whose LAPD detective husband was partnered with Denny and died on the job. Married again but about to be amicably divorced, Lainey knows Denny the best out of all the wives, and has the best shot at a real relationship with him. Paula Marshall will play Jill, a restaurateur and the mother of three daughters who has accepted Denny’s willing participation in her family with relief, gratitude and love (and occasionally annoyance). Source Deadline.com
Eriq La Salle (ER) is also to guest in the pilot as a friend to John Corbett’s character.
Widow Detective is for the CBS’s fall lineup 2012 schedule.
This is Jennifer’s latest project together with a web series (WIGS) with director Jon Avnet and the indie film The Lord Of Vinyl
Jennifer Beals to star in Jazz film ‘Lord of Vinyl’
Jennifer Beals is set to topline and produce the indie jazz pic “The Lord of Vinyl,” which will mark the directorial debut of Dennis Bartok, who wrote the script and will also produce with Patrick Cunningham (“Martha Marcy May Marlene”).
Pic follows the bittersweet life and comic despair of a lonely 40-something Angeleno who’s obsessed with jazz and hides from the disappointment of the world inside the beauty of music. He unexpectedly finds himself exploring the possibility of new love with an unhappily married post office worker (Beals) just as he attempts a reconciliation with his estranged 11-year old daughter, now living with his ex-wife and former best friend.
A major plot point of the pic involves the possibility of a single surviving recording by the enigmatic “godfather of jazz,” New Orleans musician Buddy Bolden, who inspired Louis Armstrong before he died in a Louisiana mental hospital in 1931.
Pic aims to be the definitive movie for this generation about the love of jazz, which past films such as “Round Midnight” and Clint Eastwood’s “Bird” have also explored.
Bartok previously wrote and produced Lionsgate’s anthology horror film “Trapped Ashes,” which screened at the Cannes and Toronto film fests in 2006.
Cunningham is coming off an Independent Spirit Award nomination for producing Fox Searchlight’s “Martha Marcy May Marlene” with Chris Maybach and Borderline Films. He recently produced Sean Baker’s “Starlet,” which premieres at SXSW this month.
Article from Variety
Could Jennifer be back in Castle?
Andrew W Marlowe, creator of the tv series Castle, tells TVGuide about Jennifer Beals’ character Sophia: “I always knew that she was going to be the bad guy and we were going to kill her in the end. But I also know that in any sort of CIA-inspired story, nobody is ever really dead for certain, I like to have my cake and eat it too. It’s all depending on where our storytelling takes us and assuming that Jennifer had a good time and wants to come back and play with us.”
Source: TVGuide
