Andy Lewis

Dec 4, 2024 | theankler.com | Andy Lewis

There always has been the air of mystery around director Terrence Malick. His first two films — 1973’s Badlands, which made stars of Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek, and 1978’s Days of Heaven, which featured a young Richard Gere — established him as one of Hollywood’s most promising new auteurs. It was followed by a nearly two-decade fallow period in which he made no movies and disappeared from the public eye. Those years became the source of his legend as an enigmatic genius.

Oct 19, 2024 | theankler.com | Andy Lewis

Today’s Ankler Rewind comes from Andy Lewis, writer of The Optionist, a weekly newsletter about available IP on the market. Connie Chungbecame a young rising star on TV news in the 1970s, breaking big stories on George McGovern and Richard Nixon and delivering one Watergate scoop after another while working out of CBS News’ Washington D.C. bureau. Though the nation’s capital is an industry town, nothing still quite prepared her for life in another one, this time on the left coast.

Jul 31, 2024 | theankler.com | Andy Lewis

Andy Lewis authors The Optionist newsletter about available IP, and recently wrote for The Ankler about JD Vance and Hillbilly Elegy as well as the Academy Museum’s Hollywoodland exhibit about the Jews who invented Hollywood. It was the best 21st birthday present one can imagine. In 1928, Carl Laemmle Jr. celebrated that milestone with an early gift from his father, Carl Laemmle, Sr., the founder of Universal Pictures: Senior made Carl Jr. Universal’s head of production.

Jun 26, 2024 | letterboxd.com | Mitchell Beaupre |Annie Lyons |Andy Lewis |David Lewis

On June 20, 2024, actor Kiefer Sutherland took to social media to share words on the passing of his father, Donald: “With a heavy heart, I tell you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has passed away. I personally think one of the most important actors in the history of film. Never daunted by a role, good, bad or ugly. He loved what he did and did what he loved, and one can never ask for more than that.

Jun 1, 2024 | theankler.com | Andy Lewis

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