Sylvester Stallone is joining forces with blockbuster king Michael Bay for new action thriller Little America.
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By Dino-Ray Ramos
Associate Editor/Reporter
Without a doubt, Bruce Lee is a martial arts icon. He’s a cinematic fixture in pop culture and in the new documentary Be Water premiering at Sundance on January 25, filmmaker Bao Nguyen touches on his role as martial artists, but he goes beyond that and paints a picture of Lee’s impact in Hollywood during the ’60s, his trailblazing role as Asian advocate and an American institution.
Prior to Be Water, Nguyen directed the 2019 docuseries We
Sylvester Stallone is joining forces with blockbuster king Michael Bay for new action thriller Little America.
Now that Michelle Obama, 56, and Barack Obama, 58, are empty nesters, they are finally “seeing each other again.” That’s what Michelle, former First Lady of the United States, confessed to her friend Oprah Winfrey, 66, as she sat opposite the talk show host at the Brooklyn stop of Oprah’s 2020 Vision: Your Life in Focus tour on Feb. 8.
By Matthew Carey
Laura Dern finally brought one home for the family.
J Lo sang a section of Springsteen's 'Born in the USA' during the Super Bowl show
Gene Reynolds, the prolific director, producer and writer who was a driving force behind such socially conscious television series as M*A*S*H, Lou Grant and Room 222, has died. He was 96.Reynolds died Monday at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, the DGA announced.Reynolds started out in Hollywood as a child actor at MGM in such movies as Boys Town (1938).
As a dignifying corrective to the demeaning portrayal of Bruce Lee on the Green Hornet set in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which let's face it, basically made him the butt of a white he-man joke, Be Water has value. But as a survey of the life and legacy of the hugely influential martial arts game-changer, Bao Nguyen's slickly packaged, engrossing bio-documentary for ESPN feels less than definitive.
Gabby Barrett won the hearts of country fans and beyond on Season 16 of American Idol in 2018. But as soon as the show was over (she placed third behind winner Maddie Poppe and runner-up Caleb Lee Hutchinson), she quickly realized that TV success didn’t necessarily translate to the real world.“It was actually really hard to get a record deal after American Idol,” Barrett admits to Billboard.
Even Meghan Markle feels like a fraud sometimes.
"Pinch me. This couldn’t have worked out better for this project," Byrne says.
Spike Lee has signed on to direct a film adaptation of David Byrne’s American Utopia, Deadline reports. The feature-length version of Byrne’s hit Broadway show is slated for a 2020 release, and will be executive produced by Participant alongside Byrne, Lee, and others. The film will be produced by Byrne’s Todomundo and Lee’s Forty Acres and a Mule Filmworks production companies, as well as RadicalMedia.
Spike Lee has signed on to direct a movie based on the Broadway show “David Byrne’s American Utopia” with Participant acting as lead financier and executive producer.
By Mike Fleming Jr
Samantha Bee and Ivanka Trump publicly complimented each other this week, nearly two years after the comedian’s controversial insult directed at the president’s daughter in 2018.
After Oscars'snub of female filmmakers for best director, Kenyan director Wanuri Kahiu urged Davos delegates to buy cinema tickets to support women directing movies in Hollywood and worldwide."If there's a female director and you want to see more female-directed films, buy tickets. Do it for the data.
The former first lady of the United States Michelle Obama is celebrating her birthday today. The former President of the United States, Barack Obama has shared an adorable post to make sure that the world knows that his wife Michelle Obama is a star.