‘A New Kind of Wilderness’ Review: A Grieving Family Returns to Civilization in a Heartsore Documentary

Ethan Shanfeld If there’s something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call? Bill Murray, who suits back up as Peter Venkman in “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire,” out March 22. Murray isn’t the only franchise favorite to return for the chilly sequel, which sees the Big Apple covered in ice after an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force. His fellow original Ghostbusters — Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson and Annie Potts — are back for “Frozen Empire,” and so is Slimer, aka “The Mean Green Ghost,” who returns with a vengeance.

‘Kinda Tour’ which will take James Murphy and co. to Oregon, Washington, Minnesota and Illinois.Prior to the brief run, the electro icons will headline a trio of shows in Mexico and then at Salt Lake City, UT’s star-studded, indie-tastic Kilby Block Party.As of late, it seems like the short tour route has become the group’s modus operandi.Last year, the band played a dozen shows at venues all over New York City hitting Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens.“I thought these guys don’t leave New York,” a cartoon disco ball on the tour announcement poster, joked.And now that they finally are, you can grab your tickets as soon as today.Although inventory isn’t available on Ticketmaster until Friday, Feb.

EXCLUSIVE: Ella Hunt, Emily Fairn and Kim Matula have joined Sony Pictures’ SNL 1975, which will be directed by Jason Reitman and is based on the real-life behind-the-scenes accounts of Saturday Night Live‘s opening night. Hunt will play Gilda Radner, Fairn will play Laraine Newman, and Matula will play Jane Curtin. The original screenplay is by Reitman and Gil Kenan.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor PBS and ABC News were among the top winners at the duPont-Columbia Awards, some of the top honors accorded each year to audio and video reporting done in the public interest. The 15 award winners of 2024 were announced Thursday during a special ceremony. The awards have been administered since 1968 by Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

“shrink the budget to fill their pockets.” During this unprecedented work stoppage, employees got an unlikely supporter when Baldwin — who has gotten into frequent physical altercations with the press — showed up to talk to and support them. NPR joked about him showing up, and sure enough, he did. “And for the listeners.

the Hollywood Reporter, Minhaj’s deal to take over “The Daily Show” after Trevor Noah’s departure was “all but done by late summer.” However, after the New Yorker published an article alleging that Minhaj, 38, exaggerated — and lied about — some of the autobiographical stories in his stand-up, he lost this “all but done” gig. Stewart, 61, was the host of the Comedy Central satirical news show from 1999 until 2015.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Paramount Global doesn’t feel it needs Carnegie Hall to make its point to Madison Avenue. The New York owner of CBS, the Paramount movie studio and the Nickelodeon kids-cable outlet plans a second year of individual meetings with media buyers and advertisers for its outreach during the industry’s “upfront” sales market, and will not return to the more formal, glitzy presentation that has long been a staple of the period.

Many other Republican candidates have suspending their campaigns this cycle, but Florida Governor Ron DeSantis‘ exit inspired some pretty biting and snarky reactions today, coming from other politicos and some celebrities.

Donald Trump‘s campaign refused to agree to let an NBC News correspondent travel with him on New Hampshire campaign stops today as the designated pool reporter, leading to access being cut off for the day.

Addie Morfoot Contributor In “Union,” documentary filmmakers Brett Story and Stephen Maing follow the Amazon Labor Union (ALU), a group of current and former Amazon workers as they attempt to unionize Amazon employees working at a facility in Staten Island, N.Y. The directing duo chronicles just how excruciatingly hard it is to form a workers’ union in America — especially at Amazon.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief First-time mainland Chinese director Lin Jianjie (aka JJ Lin) makes a splash this weekend with the premiere of his “Brief History of a Family.” Asking questions about family in the era since the end of China’s ‘One Child Policy,’ while also borrowing genre tropes such as the idea of the intruder and blood, it is a polished and ultra-modern fable that sees a teenage schoolboy ingratiate himself into another boy’s family.Variety spoke to biologist-turned-filmmaker Lin on the eve of his Sundance debut.How did you get from zero to making your first feature?[After graduating in biology] I did two short films at film school. I went to Tisch Asia, which had a campus in Singapore. We also had an exchange program with Tisch in New York.

It all seems so idyllic at first and sensible, too. Mother of four Maria Gros Vatne narrates the opening minutes of “A New Kind of Wilderness” as the documentary shows videos and still photographs of her husband and kids romping through Norway’s unassuming fields, streams, and woods.

EXCLUSIVE: Just across the East River from Manhattan, New York’s newest purpose-built film and TV production facility is slated to open this spring.

Modern Family star Ed O’Neill has recalled how nearly ended up joining the mob before landing his role on the Emmy-winning ABC sitcom.The actor starred as Jay Pritchett on the 11-season series, which ran from 2009 until 2020.Appearing on former co-star Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s Dinner on Me podcast on Tuesday (16 January), O’Neill said that when he cut from the National Football League’s Pittsburgh Steelers in 1969, he didn’t know what to do with his life and could have easily been pushed into organised crime.“Youngstown [Ohio] was not a good place to live for opportunities. Really, there was nothing there for me,” the Married…with Children star said. “The only thing that I had that I could’ve done – and thank God I didn’t – was organised crime because I had friends in organised crime.”O’Neill recalled how his childhood friend Jim took him to a fancy restaurant, where they met with a bartender whom Jim bribed for information on someone he was looking for.“We left and [Jim] said, ‘You can do this kind of stuff for me, you know, I’ll protect you, I’ll give you easy stuff.

Marta Balaga Norwegian documentary filmmaker Silje Evensmo Jacobsen wanted to follow a family living the dream. Instead, she witnessed them going through a nightmare. “Maria Vatne had this blog called ‘Wild+Free’ and I was fascinated by it.

Getting impatient for Kenneth Lonergan to get his act together and make another great movie? Ghostlight should scratch that itch and more besides, being a funny, intelligent and yet at times almost unbearably sad movie that takes a searing family tragedy and spins it into a riveting redemption story that, while a little predictable in the more familiar second half, somehow never hits a false note. Although technically an ensemble piece, with a lovely cast of supporting players whose thespian antics will ring a bell with actors of all generations, it rests squarely on a powerhouse performance from Chicago stage veteran Keith Kupferer, whose career must surely about to enter a whole new phase, perhaps to the fill the void left by the late, great Brian Dennehy.

BreAnna Bell ABC News Studios has teamed up with Neon and Network Entertainment to announce “Brats,” a feature-length documentary that focuses on the stars who came to be known in the ’80s as the famous Brat Pack. Told with the help of director and former Brat Pack member Andrew McCarthy (“Pretty in Pink,” “St. Elmo’s Fire”), the director hits the road 30 years later, reuniting with several members of the Brat Pack crew including Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Jon Cryer, Emilio Estevez asking each member what being apart of the Brat Pack meant to them.

EXCLUSIVE: BET+ has ordered a New Orleans-set spinoff of Carl Weber‘s The Family Business, with Brandon T. Jackson set to star.

FX has set a March 29 premiere date for Spermworld, a documentary feature on the unregulated online marketplace for sperm, produced by The New York Times and Edgeline Films.

The Motion Picture Association has renewed chairman and CEO Charles Rivkin‘s contract for another three-year term.