EXCLUSIVE: Kev Ban is jog John Logan's untled horror project at Blumhoe and will also serve as an executive producer alongsi executive producer Stt Turner Schofield. The movie is a LGBTQIA+ empowerment tale set at a gay nversn mp and stars Theo Germae.
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- ‘THEY/THEM’ REVIEW: KEV BAN MCL THROUGH GAY CONVERSN SLASHER
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HE HAS CRANKED OUT ENDLS FLICKS SCE, AND, 2013, TRANSNED TO FULL-TIME TELEVISN STAR WH THE EERIE CRIME SERI THE FOLLOWG. BAN IS MARRIED TO ACTRS KYRA SEDGWICK. HE'S ALSO THE SPIRATN BEHD THE POPULAR POP CULTURE GAME SIX DEGRE OF KEV BAN.EARLY LIFEBAN WAS BORN KEV NORWOOD BAN ON JULY 8, 1958, PHILALPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA TO URBAN PLANNER/ARCHECT EDMUND BAN AND TEACHER AND SOCIAL ACTIVIST RUTH HILDA HOLM. HE IS THE YOUNGT OF SIX CHILDREN. HAVG THE LL TO ACTG AT A YOUNG AGE, BAN ATTEND THE PENNSYLVANIA GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS, THE MANNG STREET ACTOR'S THEATRE PHILALPHIA AND THE CIRCLE THE SQUARE THEATRE SCHOOL NEW YORK CY'S GREENWICH VILLAGE.MOVI AND TV SHOWS'ANIMAL HOE,' 'FOOTLOOSE'BAN BTED TO MOVI AS AN ROTC T AND ATERNY PLEDGE THE 1978 EDY NATNAL LAMPOON'S ANIMAL HOE. HE WENT ON TO ROL THE HORROR CLASSIC FRIDAY THE 13TH (1980) AND DER (1982), ALONG WH THE SOAP OPERA GUIDG LIGHT AND THE STAGE PRODUCTNS OF 40 DCE — WHICH TED HIM AN OBIE AWARD — AND BROADWAY'S THE SLAB BOYS. THEN ME A PART WH WHICH THE ACTOR WOULD FOREVER BE ASSOCIATED: AS REBELL CY TEEN REN MCCORMACK, WHO WAG WAR AGAST A SMALL TOWN FOR BANNG ROCK MIC AND DANCG, 1984'S FOOTLOOSE. BAN WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED FOR HIS CHARACTER'S OVER-THE-TOP DANCE SCEN.'A FEW GOOD MEN, 'THE RIVER WILD,' 'APOLLO 13'AFTER FOOTLOOSE ME A STRG OF MEDCRE MOVI FOR BAN, CLUDG QUICKSILVER (1986) AND SHE'S HAVG A BABY (1988). HE ENJOYED MORE SUCCS WH THE HORROR FILMS TREMORS AND FLATLERS 1990, BEFORE PLAYG A GAY HTLER OLIVER STONE'S JFK THE FOLLOWG YEAR. SUDNLY, THE ACTOR FOUND HIMSELF A SLEW OF MEMORABLE MOVI, -STARRG WH WHAT SEEMED LIKE EVERYONE HOLLYWOOD: A FEW GOOD MEN (1992), WH {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}JACK NICHOLSON AND TOM CISE; A GOLN GLOBE-NOMATED ROLE THE RIVER WILD (1994), WH MERYL STREEP; APOLLO 13 (1995), WH TOM HANKS; AND SLEEPERS (1996), WH SEAN PENN, TIM ROBBS AND ROBERT DE NIRO.'WILD THGS,' 'MYSTIC RIVER,' 'THE WOODSMAN'FOLLOWG THE SEXUALLY TGED NEO-NOIR WILD THGS (1998), BAN RETURNED TO HORROR FARE BY HEADLG STIR OF ECHO (1999) AND HOLLOW MAN (2000). HE DISPLAYED HIS PENCHANT FOR PLAYG DARK, TROUBLED CHARACTERS THE CRILLY ACCLAIMED MYSTIC RIVER (2003) AND THE WOODSMAN (2004), THE LATTER ALSO FEATURG HIS WIFE, SEDGWICK. BAN THEN RETEAMED WH HIS OTHER HALF AS DIRECTOR OF LOVER BOY (2005) AND WENT ON TO A PROMENT SUPPORTG ROLE FROST/NIXON (2008).'TAKG CHANCE,' 'X-MEN: FIRST CLASS'THE ACTOR EARNED STRONG REVIEWS FOR PORTRAYG A U.S. MARE WHO RETURNS THE REMAS OF A FALLEN SOLDIER THE 2009 DRAMA TAKG CHANCE, RULTG A SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARD AND THE FIRST GOLN GLOBE W OF HIS REER. HE ALSO IMPRSED AS THE VILLAO SEBASTIAN SHAW X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (2011), AND FOLLOWED WH THE LARGELY WELL-RECEIVED ROMANTIC EDY CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE (2011), THOUGH A RETURN TO IC BOOK-SPIRED MAYHEM R.I.P.D. (2013) FELL FLAT.'THE FOLLOWG,' 'BLACK MASS'THE YEAR 2013 ALSO SAW BAN EMBARK ON HIS FIRST SMALL SCREEN STARRG ROLE WH THE FOLLOWG. HE PLAYED RYAN HARDY, A FORMER FBI AGENT TRYG TO REPTURE A SOCPATH WH A CULT OF GROUPI, DURG THE THREE-SEASON N OF THE CRIME DRAMA. BACK ON THE BIG SCREEN, THE ACTOR NTUED WH THE THEME OF LAW ENFORCEMENT BLACK MASS (2015), ABOUT THE CRIMAL ACTIVI OF MOB BOSS JAM "WHEY" BULGER, AND PATRTS DAY (2016), ABOUT THE 2013 BOSTON MARATHON BOMBGS.'I LOVE DICK,' 'CY ON A HILL'BAN'S NEXT TV ROLE WAS PLAYG AN ARTIST-WBOY WHO BE THE MUTUAL FATUATN FOR A HBAND AND WIFE THE OFFBEAT EDY I LOVE DICK. HE SRED THE THIRD GOLN GLOBE NOMATN OF HIS REER, THOUGH THE SHOW FAILED TO GET PICKED UP FOR A SEND SEASON. UNTERRED, BAN RETURNED TO SCRIPTED TV THE FOLLOWG YEAR SHOWTIME'S CY ON A HILL, AS A VETERAN FBI AGENT FORCED TO ACMODATE AN AMB NEW BOSTON DISTRICT ATTORNEY. THE ACTOR THEN MA HIS FIRST BIG SCREEN APPEARANCE FOUR YEARS ALONGSI AMANDA SEYIED THE HNTED HOE HORROR FLICK YOU SHOULD HAVE LEFT (2020).MARRIAGE TO KYRA SEDGWICKBAN AND SEDGWICK MET WHILE DOG AMERIN PLAYHOE'S PRODUCTN OF LEMON SKY 1987, AND MARRIED THE FOLLOWG YEAR. BAN EVEN DIRECTED SEDGWICK ON OCSN, CLUDG SEVERAL EPISOS OF HER SERI THE CLOSER. THIS LONG-STANDG CELEBRY UPLE HAS RAISED TWO KIDS TOGETHER – TRAVIS (B. 1989) AND SOSIE (B. 1992) – AND OVERE MAJOR CHALLENG, CLUDG LOSG A SIGNIFINT AMOUNT OF MONEY TO BERNIE MADOFF'S PONZI SCHEME.SIX DEGRE OF KEV BANIN THE MID-1990S, FOLLOWG THE SUCCS OF THE STAGE PLAY SIX DEGRE OF SEPARATN, A GROUP OF LLEGE IENDS TRODUCED THE SIX DEGRE OF KEV BAN BOOK AND PARLOR GAME, WHICH TASKS PARTICIPANTS WH LKG THE ACTOR TO OTHER HOLLYWOOD STARS THE FEWT NNECTNS. ALTHOUGH HE CLAIMED TO HAVE BEEN "HORRIFIED" BY THE IA AT FIRST, BAN EVENTUALLY BEME A FAN OF THE GAME. IN 2007, HE BEGAN AN ONLE NONPROF VENTURE PALIZG ON THE NAME, .THE BAN BROTHERS BANDWHEN NOT ACTG OR SPENDG TIME WH HIS FAY, THIS CELEB MAK FOLK-ROCK MIC WH HIS BROTHER MICHAEL BAN, AN EMMY AWARD-WNG POSER. THEIR BAND, THE BAN BROTHERS, RELEASED THEIR EIGHTH ALBUM 2018. THIS OUTLET FS BAN'S NOVATIVE SI WAYS ACTG DON'T. "I DON'T CREATE THE MOVI I'M ," HE TOLD 2012. "WHEN TO MIC, 'S MY CLOTH, 'S MY GUAR, 'S MY VOICE, 'S MY SONG."{BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS
- KEV BAN RUNS A KILLER GAY CONVERSN CAMP NEW TRAILER FOR BLUMHOE SLASHER PIC ‘THEY/THEM’
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‘THEY/THEM’ REVIEW: KEV BAN MCL THROUGH GAY CONVERSN SLASHER
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HE HAS CRANKED OUT ENDLS FLICKS SCE, AND, 2013, TRANSNED TO FULL-TIME TELEVISN STAR WH THE EERIE CRIME SERI THE FOLLOWG. BAN IS MARRIED TO ACTRS KYRA SEDGWICK. HE'S ALSO THE SPIRATN BEHD THE POPULAR POP CULTURE GAME SIX DEGRE OF KEV BAN.EARLY LIFEBAN WAS BORN KEV NORWOOD BAN ON JULY 8, 1958, PHILALPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA TO URBAN PLANNER/ARCHECT EDMUND BAN AND TEACHER AND SOCIAL ACTIVIST RUTH HILDA HOLM. HE IS THE YOUNGT OF SIX CHILDREN. HAVG THE LL TO ACTG AT A YOUNG AGE, BAN ATTEND THE PENNSYLVANIA GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS, THE MANNG STREET ACTOR'S THEATRE PHILALPHIA AND THE CIRCLE THE SQUARE THEATRE SCHOOL NEW YORK CY'S GREENWICH VILLAGE.MOVI AND TV SHOWS'ANIMAL HOE,' 'FOOTLOOSE'BAN BTED TO MOVI AS AN ROTC T AND ATERNY PLEDGE THE 1978 EDY NATNAL LAMPOON'S ANIMAL HOE. HE WENT ON TO ROL THE HORROR CLASSIC FRIDAY THE 13TH (1980) AND DER (1982), ALONG WH THE SOAP OPERA GUIDG LIGHT AND THE STAGE PRODUCTNS OF 40 DCE — WHICH TED HIM AN OBIE AWARD — AND BROADWAY'S THE SLAB BOYS. THEN ME A PART WH WHICH THE ACTOR WOULD FOREVER BE ASSOCIATED: AS REBELL CY TEEN REN MCCORMACK, WHO WAG WAR AGAST A SMALL TOWN FOR BANNG ROCK MIC AND DANCG, 1984'S FOOTLOOSE. BAN WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED FOR HIS CHARACTER'S OVER-THE-TOP DANCE SCEN.'A FEW GOOD MEN, 'THE RIVER WILD,' 'APOLLO 13'AFTER FOOTLOOSE ME A STRG OF MEDCRE MOVI FOR BAN, CLUDG QUICKSILVER (1986) AND SHE'S HAVG A BABY (1988). HE ENJOYED MORE SUCCS WH THE HORROR FILMS TREMORS AND FLATLERS 1990, BEFORE PLAYG A GAY HTLER OLIVER STONE'S JFK THE FOLLOWG YEAR. SUDNLY, THE ACTOR FOUND HIMSELF A SLEW OF MEMORABLE MOVI, -STARRG WH WHAT SEEMED LIKE EVERYONE HOLLYWOOD: A FEW GOOD MEN (1992), WH {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}JACK NICHOLSON AND TOM CISE; A GOLN GLOBE-NOMATED ROLE THE RIVER WILD (1994), WH MERYL STREEP; APOLLO 13 (1995), WH TOM HANKS; AND SLEEPERS (1996), WH SEAN PENN, TIM ROBBS AND ROBERT DE NIRO.'WILD THGS,' 'MYSTIC RIVER,' 'THE WOODSMAN'FOLLOWG THE SEXUALLY TGED NEO-NOIR WILD THGS (1998), BAN RETURNED TO HORROR FARE BY HEADLG STIR OF ECHO (1999) AND HOLLOW MAN (2000). HE DISPLAYED HIS PENCHANT FOR PLAYG DARK, TROUBLED CHARACTERS THE CRILLY ACCLAIMED MYSTIC RIVER (2003) AND THE WOODSMAN (2004), THE LATTER ALSO FEATURG HIS WIFE, SEDGWICK. BAN THEN RETEAMED WH HIS OTHER HALF AS DIRECTOR OF LOVER BOY (2005) AND WENT ON TO A PROMENT SUPPORTG ROLE FROST/NIXON (2008).'TAKG CHANCE,' 'X-MEN: FIRST CLASS'THE ACTOR EARNED STRONG REVIEWS FOR PORTRAYG A U.S. MARE WHO RETURNS THE REMAS OF A FALLEN SOLDIER THE 2009 DRAMA TAKG CHANCE, RULTG A SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARD AND THE FIRST GOLN GLOBE W OF HIS REER. HE ALSO IMPRSED AS THE VILLAO SEBASTIAN SHAW X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (2011), AND FOLLOWED WH THE LARGELY WELL-RECEIVED ROMANTIC EDY CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE (2011), THOUGH A RETURN TO IC BOOK-SPIRED MAYHEM R.I.P.D. (2013) FELL FLAT.'THE FOLLOWG,' 'BLACK MASS'THE YEAR 2013 ALSO SAW BAN EMBARK ON HIS FIRST SMALL SCREEN STARRG ROLE WH THE FOLLOWG. HE PLAYED RYAN HARDY, A FORMER FBI AGENT TRYG TO REPTURE A SOCPATH WH A CULT OF GROUPI, DURG THE THREE-SEASON N OF THE CRIME DRAMA. BACK ON THE BIG SCREEN, THE ACTOR NTUED WH THE THEME OF LAW ENFORCEMENT BLACK MASS (2015), ABOUT THE CRIMAL ACTIVI OF MOB BOSS JAM "WHEY" BULGER, AND PATRTS DAY (2016), ABOUT THE 2013 BOSTON MARATHON BOMBGS.'I LOVE DICK,' 'CY ON A HILL'BAN'S NEXT TV ROLE WAS PLAYG AN ARTIST-WBOY WHO BE THE MUTUAL FATUATN FOR A HBAND AND WIFE THE OFFBEAT EDY I LOVE DICK. HE SRED THE THIRD GOLN GLOBE NOMATN OF HIS REER, THOUGH THE SHOW FAILED TO GET PICKED UP FOR A SEND SEASON. UNTERRED, BAN RETURNED TO SCRIPTED TV THE FOLLOWG YEAR SHOWTIME'S CY ON A HILL, AS A VETERAN FBI AGENT FORCED TO ACMODATE AN AMB NEW BOSTON DISTRICT ATTORNEY. THE ACTOR THEN MA HIS FIRST BIG SCREEN APPEARANCE FOUR YEARS ALONGSI AMANDA SEYIED THE HNTED HOE HORROR FLICK YOU SHOULD HAVE LEFT (2020).MARRIAGE TO KYRA SEDGWICKBAN AND SEDGWICK MET WHILE DOG AMERIN PLAYHOE'S PRODUCTN OF LEMON SKY 1987, AND MARRIED THE FOLLOWG YEAR. BAN EVEN DIRECTED SEDGWICK ON OCSN, CLUDG SEVERAL EPISOS OF HER SERI THE CLOSER. THIS LONG-STANDG CELEBRY UPLE HAS RAISED TWO KIDS TOGETHER – TRAVIS (B. 1989) AND SOSIE (B. 1992) – AND OVERE MAJOR CHALLENG, CLUDG LOSG A SIGNIFINT AMOUNT OF MONEY TO BERNIE MADOFF'S PONZI SCHEME.SIX DEGRE OF KEV BANIN THE MID-1990S, FOLLOWG THE SUCCS OF THE STAGE PLAY SIX DEGRE OF SEPARATN, A GROUP OF LLEGE IENDS TRODUCED THE SIX DEGRE OF KEV BAN BOOK AND PARLOR GAME, WHICH TASKS PARTICIPANTS WH LKG THE ACTOR TO OTHER HOLLYWOOD STARS THE FEWT NNECTNS. ALTHOUGH HE CLAIMED TO HAVE BEEN "HORRIFIED" BY THE IA AT FIRST, BAN EVENTUALLY BEME A FAN OF THE GAME. IN 2007, HE BEGAN AN ONLE NONPROF VENTURE PALIZG ON THE NAME, .THE BAN BROTHERS BANDWHEN NOT ACTG OR SPENDG TIME WH HIS FAY, THIS CELEB MAK FOLK-ROCK MIC WH HIS BROTHER MICHAEL BAN, AN EMMY AWARD-WNG POSER. THEIR BAND, THE BAN BROTHERS, RELEASED THEIR EIGHTH ALBUM 2018. THIS OUTLET FS BAN'S NOVATIVE SI WAYS ACTG DON'T. "I DON'T CREATE THE MOVI I'M ," HE TOLD 2012. "WHEN TO MIC, 'S MY CLOTH, 'S MY GUAR, 'S MY VOICE, 'S MY SONG."{BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS
I know lots of people who've been straight and turned gay; I know lots of people who've been gay and turned straight. On December 24th, 2019, Swartz Creek, Michigan — a suburb about 20 mut southwt of Flt — Kev Ban, a 25-year-old hairdrser, head out to meet a guy he met on Grdr, the datg and hookup app for predomantly gay, bisexual, and transgenr men.
KEV BAN RUNS A KILLER GAY CONVERSN CAMP NEW TRAILER FOR BLUMHOE SLASHER PIC ‘THEY/THEM’
He was planng a move to Chigo to be closer to iends, and part of a more diverse gay muny. Among other thgs, he said, the datg scene for gay men was basilly non-existent. When Ban vised Nguyen Chigo, the two partied the cy’s gay district, Boys Town, and Ban vowed to move to the cy.
He suggted that had his client not been a gay man, the suatn would have been treated differently. Is bee ’s jt gay guys dog stuff a basement?
Blumhoe’s new slasher “They/Them” (the slash is pronounced) turns the very real horror of gay nversn therapy to a bloody nightmare. He enjoyed more succs wh the horror films Tremors and Flatlers 1990, before playg a gay htler Oliver Stone's JFK the followg year.
KEV BAN NS A VERY CREEPY GAY NVERSN THERAPY MP TRAILER FOR HORROR FILM THEY/THEM
" A masked maniac is stalkg the habants of a gay nversn therapy mp They/Them (out Augt 5), the directorial but om Gladiator and The Aviator screenwrer John Logan.
KEV BAN DRAGGED FOR UPG HORROR MOVIE ABOUT GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
Ban also prais director John Logan and the "brilliant" ia of rporatg relevant social mentary to ntemporary horror fare: "He told me he wrote this bee he was horrified by the ia that gay nversn is still somethg that's gog on this untry.
Ban met Latunski on Christmas Eve 2019 after the two allegedly nnected on Grdr, a datg app for gay men. The news outlet scrib Ban's latt project as "a LGBTQIA+ empowerment tale set at a gay nversn mp. After the credible mercial succs of Jordan Peele's Get Out 2018, studs realized the potential goldme settg a horror/thriller flick wh the niche of an dividual's experience wh systematic jtic like racism or homophobia.
But Twter ers have pecially taken issue wh the way Ban and Logan's upg project clar self to be an "empowerment tale" while beg set a lotn as historilly harrowg as a gay nversn mp. One fan wrote, "do we rly need this, every time there's a big time gay film s always somethg horrible happeng to why do a queer empowerment film have to be set at a nversn mp".