Spike Lee will receive the lifetime achievement award for distinguished achievement in motion picture direction from the Directors Guild of America. The group announced Lee as the recipient of the organization’s top honor on Wednesday morning. “Icon. Trailblazer. Visionary. Spike Lee has changed the face of cinema, and there is no single word that encapsulates […]
NBC News is going to get out of Washington in January of 2022 so it can figure out who will be coming to Washington in 2024. When Chuck Todd appears on MSNBC’s “Meet The Press Daily” Wednesday and Thursday, he will do so from Georgia, where he will meet Georgia officials and candidates for office, […]
Apple TV Plus has released a teaser trailer for “WeCrashed,” its upcoming limited series about the rise and fall of real estate startup WeWork and the couple who headed the company. The footage also comes alongside a newly announced premiere date of March 18. “This isn’t a place for people to punch in and out,” […]
On October 22, the Las Vegas Festival Grounds will host the Live Nation-produced emo festival When We Were Young. It’s headlined by Paramore and the reunited My Chemical Romance. The lineup also includes Jimmy Eat World, Bright Eyes, Avril Lavigne, Dashboard Confessional, Thursday, Car Seat Headrest, the Wonder Years, Wolf Alice, AFI, Taking Back Sunday, […]
Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac has signed on to produce a new musical drama series called 13 Songs with Fox, Variety reports. The show follows an aging rock star who seeks out his band after being diagnosed with terminal cancer. Fleetwood will serve as an executive producer, contribute “creative ideas” and music to the series. […]
Beach House have shared five more new songs—the latest quadrant of their 18-song full-length Once Twice Melody. Listen to Chapter 3—“Sunset,” “Only You Know,” “Another Go Around,” “Masquerade,” and “Illusion of Forever”—below. The band announced Once Twice Melody in November, sharing Chapter 1 with the news before releasing Chapter 2 at the beginning of December. […]
Andrew Garfield revealed on this week’s episode of the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast that protecting his return as Peter Parker/Spider-Man for “Spider-Man: No Way Home” meant he even had to lie to his former “Spider-Man” co-star Emma Stone. Garfield and Stone starred together as Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy in the Marc Webb-directed “The Amazing […]
“The Fear Index,” starring Josh Hartnett, and the third season of iconic Israeli series “False Flag” will both screen at the Berlinale Series Market Selects, whose lineup was unveiled Tuesday. The latest from “The Crown” producers Left Bank Pictures, Sky Original “The Fear Index” is billed as a fast-paced, gripping Frankenstein-style parable on the dangers […]
CBS News is placing new emphasis on streaming video, luring an executive from The Wall Street Journal to oversee the broadband news venture once known as CBSN. The ViacomCBS unit hired Anthony Galloway, who had been overseeing a range of audio and video initiatives at the News Corp.-backed broadsheet, as its new senior vice president […]
The things you hear when you’re alone. Walking through Mount Royal or other wooded areas you might notice a branch break. As much as I value my alone time and the subtle things you can pick up around and within yourself in those moments, a certain loneliness and anxiety permeates the quiet at some point. […]
Rosa Lee Hawkins, the youngest member of the 1960s girl group the Dixie Cups, died during surgery in a Florida hospital this past Tuesday (December 11), The New York Times reports. The cause was internal bleeding, according to The Times. She was 76. Rosa Lee Hawkins formed the Dixie Cups in high school with her […]
Tindersticks have announced the new compilation Past Imperfect – The Best of Tindersticks ’92 – ’21, set to arrive on March 25 via City Slang. As the title suggests, the album collects the band’s work since its 1992 inception, and there is also a new song called “Both Sides of the Blade.” Watch the video […]
STREAMING Revered Indian actor and filmmaker Kamal Haasan (“Papanasam”) will return as the host of “Big Boss Ultimate,” a Tamil-language version of the “Big Brother” format. Five seasons of “Bigg Boss Tamil,” hosted by Haasan, were broadcast on Disney’s Star Vijay channel and streamed on Disney Plus Hotstar. “Bigg Boss Ultimate,” however, will be a […]
DAZN Group has rejigged its leadership structure, appointing Shay Segev as its sole CEO. Segev joined the sports streamer in June 2021. Prior to DAZN, he was the CEO of Entain, a FTSE 100 company, which he grew from a small entrepreneurial business in 2016 into a market leader with a capitalization of £10 billion. […]
After the shock revelation on Sunday that U.K. Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries is planning to freeze the annual licence fee, which is the primary source of income for the BBC, the corporation’s bosses will continue their efforts to secure investment. In an email sent to BBC staff on Monday, BBC director-general Tim Davie and chair […]
FKA twigs’ most recent album was 2019’s Magdalene. Last year, she shared “Don’t Judge Me” and “Measure of a Man.” Read the 2019 cover story “The Sacred and Profane Genius of FKA twigs.” Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. 01 Ride the Dragon Written by Pablo Diaz-Reixa, Lewis […]
Jack Antonoff brought his solo project Bleachers to Saturday Night Live last night (January 15). The band performed “How Dare You Want More” and “Chinatown” on the SNL stage. Roddy Ricch—the originally scheduled performer—was replaced after a COVID-19 exposure. West Side Story’s Ariana Debose hosted, and Freddie Gibbs stopped by for a musical sketch with […]
Nick Cave has announced a forthcoming documentary titled This Much I Know to Be True depicting his creative partnership with longtime collaborator and Bad Seed Warren Ellis. The film “captures Nick Cave and Warren Ellis’ exceptional creative relationship as they bring to life the songs from albums Ghosteen and Carnage,” Cave posted on his official […]
Iranian-born, France-based actor Golshifteh Farahani, who was nominated for a Cesar for “The Patience Stone,” played in Ridley Scott’s “Body of Lies,” and now stars in the Apple TV Plus drama “Invasion,” will feature alongside Marion Cotillard and Melvil Poupaud in the cast of Arnaud Desplechin’s “Brother and Sister,” Desplechin tells Variety. The French auteur […]
Cinétévé Sales, the global distribution branch of Paris-based production banner Cinétévé, has scored a raft of international sales for non-fiction projects presented at this year’s Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Paris. Among the titles brought to market at this year’s edition – the first to welcome film and television buyers under the same roof – include a […]
Rising production-distribution player Miam! Animation seems primed for a breakout year in 2022 as the French multi-hyphenate presents its first series produced in-house – using industry trendsetting technology – to buyers, while beginning work on its first international co-production on a project for WarnerMedia. Launched in 2016 as a socially engaged development and distribution outfit, […]
Jack White has shared another new song. This one’s called “Love Is Selfish” and it appears on his forthcoming album Entering Heaven Alive. Check it out below. Entering Heaven Alive, which arrives on July 22, is the second of two albums that White plans to release this year. He’s also set to issue Fear of […]
Six people were hospitalized following a mass shooting outside of a rap concert in Eugene, Oregon on Friday night (January 14), reports NPR. One of the wounded victims is currently in critical condition and undergoing surgery. The incident occurred at 9:30 p.m. local time in the parking lot of the WOW Hall, a concert venue […]
Rachel Nagy, best known as the singer of the Michigan garage rock band the Detroit Cobras, has died, her representative confirmed to Pitchfork. No cause of death was given. Detroit Cobra’s label Third Man eulogized Nagy on Instagram, writing, “In both her voice and personality, Rachel Nagy was the perfect balance of tough badass and […]
“Italian Studies” begins on that most minor, familiar but nonetheless disorienting of social embarrassments: You run into a person who knows you, but you cannot for the life of you remember them. For most of us, it’s a simple slip of the memory. For London-based writer Alina, confronted with a blank space in her brain […]
To shoot “The Hand of God,” Paolo Sorrentino returned to his roots and did a lot of things backwards. “After 20 years of filmmaking I was perhaps a bit tired of the spot I was in,” he says. So in tackling the autobiographical story — which brought him back to his native Naples two decades […]
The battle over how Hollywood studios share profit with talent and creatives has been raging since the invention of movies. The current tensions have ratcheted upward due to the advent of the streaming wars and the new business models the deep-pocketed players have developed. While Disney recently settled a compensation spat out of court with […]
Brockhampton announced today that they are going on an indefinite hiatus. They’ve canceled all of the 2022 world tour dates they announced last year. The band’s representative noted that Brockhampton have only three more live show commitments: the O2 Academy Brixton in London on February 7 and both weekends of Coachella 2022. “They invite their […]
Babyface Ray has shared his video for the new song “Dancing with the Devil.” The single is from his upcoming album Face and features Pusha T and Landstrip Chip. Check it out below. Face will be the Detroit rapper’s first project since last year’s Unfuckwitable EP. It’s out on January 28. More recently, Babyface Ray […]
Kanye West—now known as Ye—and the Game have teamed up for numerous collaborations over the years. They’ve teamed up for 2005’s “Crack Music,” 2007’s “Wouldn’t Get Far,” 2012’s “Jesus Piece,” and 2015’s “Mula.” Now, they extend their history with another new single. Listen to “Eazy” below. In “Eazy,” Ye raps about parenting and his pending […]