Janet W. Lee American Black Film Festival creators Jeff and Nicole Friday will launch Social Justice Now Film Festival, which will run from Oct.
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Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Seoul Searching director, Benson Lee, is set to direct 20th Century Studios’ Untitled K-Pop feature film from Scooter Braun’s SB Projects and Epic Magazine.Story follows a young Asian- American college student from the U.S. who becomes a top competitor on South Korea’s toughest k-pop competition show and chases her dreams of becoming a K-Pop star, despite the disapproval of her family.Elyse Hollander is attached to write.
Janet W. Lee American Black Film Festival creators Jeff and Nicole Friday will launch Social Justice Now Film Festival, which will run from Oct.
The first trailer for David Byrne's "American Utopia" has been released. The upcoming production is a filmed version of the Broadway show – a la "Hamilton" – featuring Byrne's music from throughout his career, according to Entertainment Weekly.The film is directed by Spike Lee.
Spike Lee’s concert film adaptation of David Byrne’s American Utopia has landed.In the one minute clip, Byrne narrates over a montage of his roving musical ensemble gyrating, shouting and marching across the stage.
Later this fall, Spike Lee is teaming up with musician David Byrne for a brand-new film, “American Utopia,” and it’s unlike anything you’d expect from the Oscar-winning filmmaker. As seen in the new teaser for “David Byrne’s American Utopia,” the new project is a filmed version of Byrne’s acclaimed Broadway show that featured new musical performances of his own solo songs, as well as many from his time with the Talking Heads.
The American Film Institute and Universal Pictures are partnering on a week-long AFI Movie Club event, “Black Stories Matter.” Following the recent collaboration honoring Spike Lee and his film Do the Right Thing, the series will spotlight Lee’s BlacKkKlansman, Jordan Peele’s Get Out, Malcolm D. Lee’s Girls Trip, Jeff Nichols’ Loving and F.
Constantine Maroulis has nothing but kind things to say about Lea Michele.
Former American Idol contestant and Rock of Ages star Constantine Maroulis is weighing in on the rumors about Lea Michele after having encountered her early on in her career while she was off-Broadway with Spring Awakening.
What a sight to start this week with! The King: Eternal Monarch actor Lee Min Ho has been giving fans glimpses of his whereabouts via his Instagram account lately. The South Korean actor previously teased he was the sets of shoot.
Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has picked up the North American distribution rights to Eytan Fox’s Israeli drama Sublet with a plan to release the movie in 2021.The deal was negotiated by Greenwich’s Ed Arentz and UTA Independent Film Group on behalf of the filmmakers.The movie, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, stars Tony Award-winning and Emmy-nominated John Benjamin Hickey and features the debut of Niv Nissim. Sublet
Variety welcomed as a “charming, humorous debut.” “American Night” turns on the sometimes fractious dynamics between movie animal actors and their wranglers. Among a trio of titles from young Colombian directors, neo-noir documentary “Anhell69” is Colombian Theo Montoya’s first feature, after his short film “Son of Sodom” was chosen for the Cannes 2020 Official Selection.
Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Management and production company 42 (The Courier) is teaming with fledgling LA-based label A-Major Media to develop and produce Megan Chan Meinero’s play Good Fortune for film. New York playwright Chan Meinero is writing the adaptation.Mary Lee, previously head of film at Justin Lin’s Perfect Storm Entertainment, is producing for A-Major, which she set up last year year to champion Asian-American voices in film and TV.
There are no two ways about the fact that Lee Min Ho is one of the most handsome Oppas in South Korea right now. The King: Eternal Monarch star has left us weak at our knees time and time again with his roles.
Spencer Lee to the added role of Asia Pacific President.In his current position, Lee oversees territories including Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, India and The Philippines. With the addition of his new role, he will also oversee South Korea, which is the sixth largest music market in the world, according to the IFPI, and which peermusic says is now its third largest territory in terms of revenue.Peermusic has long had its eye on the South Korean market.
Spike Lee, George Lucas, Frank Marshall, Martin Scorsese and AFI chief Bob Gazzale pay tribute to Tom Pollock, the former chairman of Universal Pictures, who died Saturday night at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles following a heart attack. Pollock, who was 77, also served as chairmanof the American Film Institute and co-founded the Montecito Picture Co.
DEALSMojo Music & Media has acquired a 50% stake in the catalogue of Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen. “I’d almost given up on the chance of finding a publisher who actually knew all my songs and had a vision for how to keep them alive for another 1000 years or so”, says Nielsen, not completely understanding how copyright terms work.
Unlike many of its fall film festival brethren, this year’s Telluride Film Festival was forced to cancel instead of hosting an in-person and/or digital event. Unfortunately, unlike Venice, TIFF, and others, Telluride finds itself in the unlucky position of happening in the United States, where COVID-19 is still a major issue and continues to spike all across the country.
A new poll is inviting fans to vote for 100 Best Face of 2020. The Special Awards' poll has nominated numerous South Korean and international actors and singers for the title.
NEW YORK -- What do Ernest Hemingway, Muhammad Ali, Benjamin Franklin and Leonardo da Vinci have in common? All are getting the Ken Burns treatment in the next few years. The PBS documentarian said Tuesday that he has eight projects in the works, half of them in-depth looks at the four personalities.
Especially in his most recent works, which have increasingly taken on the qualities of essay film in their use of archive and metatext, Spike Lee has always been interested in how the history of American film and racism intersect.