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Randy Manis is known for Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), The Ides of March (2011) and Kill Your Darlings (2013).
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Mar 10, 2020 · New film by CSL’s Randy Manis tells an entertaining story inspired by former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. Ben Platt in a scene from Run This Town. Rob Ford served as mayor of Toronto for four years...
- Former City Councillor Joe Mihevc
- Toronto Star Investigative Reporter Kevin Donovan
- Allison Smith, Publisher of Politics Today
- Ricky Tollman, Writer and Director of Run This Town
As a longtime city councillor, Joe Mihevc says the film focuses on Ford's salacious side but misses what attracted voters. While Mihevc was no fan of Ford's politics, he says the mayor wasn't mean-spirited to his staff, as portrayed in the movie. Mihevc says the Rob he knew was quite shy. "He would have been the guy who when he got into a room woul...
In the real world, it was Toronto Star reporters Kevin Donovan and Robyn Doolittle who first viewed the video of Ford smoking crack. But you won't find them in the new film. Instead Ben Platt plays the character Bram, who gets a tip when he answers a random phone call. "The first time I watched it I felt angry that they had taken that licence and e...
Allison Smith was reporting on provincial politics in 2013 and 2014 and she remembers watching the pack of reporters chasing Rob Ford. She says the film gets some of the little details right, such as how reporters would reverse-engineer the mayor's social media to construct a daily schedule of events. One of her problems with Run This Townis how it...
Tollman says it would have been irresponsible to write the film using journalists' real names. He says there are a lot of reporters with integrity who worked on the Rob Ford story, but that is not his movie. Tollman says part of his inspiration was seeing the frustration of his brother, who studied journalism and spent his time updating a news craw...
Feb 28, 2020 · Run This Town's writer/director Ricky Tollman, left, with producer Randy Manis. (David Leyes photo) The wildly anticipated movie Run This Town follows three millennials struggling to find their place in the world against the backdrop of the Rob Ford scandal that engulfed Toronto in 2013.
Apr 29, 2018 · Next to Tollman sat Randy Manis, 47, an entertainment lawyer who, after two decades of labouring in the shadows of the industry as a distributor and dealmaker, is in the midst of increasing his...
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producer. biography, photo, best movies and TV shows, instagram, news, birthday and age. «The Gymnast», «Suze» (2023), «Run This Town» (2019), «Random Acts of ...
