Cargo Film Snaps Up U.S. Rights to Sundance Contender ‘Once Upon a Time in Venezuela’

By Anthony D'Alessandro

Victor Cruz was “really emotional” after the death of Kobe Bryant last month, but he can always reflect on his fond memories of the late NBA champ.

It wouldn't be Super Bowl weekend without an appearance from Pop of the Morning's own Victor Cruz!

The stars of Doctor Who don't need any Time Lord tricks to read each other's minds. When Jodie Whittaker, Mandip Gill, and Tosin Cole stopped by TV Guide's New York studio in January, we challenged them to guess Doctor Who terms in a game of Taboo. Even though the most obvious clues were off limits, they still breezed through it in less time than it takes the Doctor to land the TARDIS.

From left: Margaret Qualley wears a Louis Vuitton coat and top; vintage earrings from Pilgrim New York; stylist’s own ring. Mikey Madison wears a Gucci dress; Jennifer Fisher earrings.

In today’s film news roundup, DreamWorks Animation hires a Sony vet, indie comedy “Kombucha Cure” gets cast, “Siempre, Luis” gets sold and Women In Film names new board members.

“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” and “Game of Thrones” have taken home two of the major Artios Awards from the Casting Society of America.

New York pop artist Harloe moves on from a lingering relationship in the new visual for “Crush on You,” premiering exclusively on Billboard today (Jan. 29).The Grammy-nominated songwriter, who has previously penned hits for Kelly Clarkson, Charli XCX and Robin Schulz, spins her own personal journey into an engrossing exhibition in the Tyler Cunningham-directed video with a passionate, choreographed dance that embodies the tense interplay between partners slowly drifting apart.

On a night when the Recording Academy pulled out a tribute to Prince, country music partied like it was 1992 at the 62nd annual Grammy Awards. Tanya Tucker, who attended the ceremony at New York's Radio City Music Hall in '92, pocketed the first two Grammys of her career at Los Angeles' Staples Center on Jan.

Inventor Nikolai Tesla is more popular today than when he died penniless in a New York hotel in 1943. Back then, he was the futurist who swore he could summon unlimited, clean, wireless electromagnetic energy from the earth — a neat idea, but surely coal and oil were fine.

Writer-director Radha Blank’s coming-of-age-in-your-40s tale is a love letter full of more love letters. It’s a love letter to the people of pre-gentrified Harlem (she’s a New York native), to old-school hip hop, to struggling artists, to young people with big dreams and to black women who dare to live life out of the box.

In “The Glorias,” Julie Taymor’s pinpoint timely yet rousingly old-fashioned biopic about the life and times of Gloria Steinem, the legendary feminist leader is portrayed by four different actresses at four different stages of her life.

Two years ago, American Civil Liberties Union executive director Anthony D. Romero told The New York Times Magazinethat “most of our support came from people who have been with us since we challenged Nixon.

A big year for the Berlin Film Festival, the 70th edition of the Berlinale will open with Philippe Falardeau’s anticipated “My Salinger Year,” headlined by a powerful female duo, Sigourney Weaver and Margaret Qualley.

By Denise Petski

By Denise Petski

Johnny Flynn has been cast opposite Andrew Scott in the upcoming Showtime series based on Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley novels.

New York’s Governors Ball has announced the lineup for its 10th annual festival, and it’s a wide mix of styles, genres and eras: Missy Elliott — making her first major NYC performance in over a decade — Tame Impala, Stevie Nicks, Vampire Weekend, Solange, Miley Cyrus, Flume, Ellie Goulding, H.E.R., Swae Lee, Rufus Du Sol, Portugal. The Man, Foals, Summer Walker, Jon Bellion, Khruangbin, Carly Rae Jepsen, Maren Morris, Of Monsters and Men, Milky Chance, Bleachers, Banks and many more.

Seth Meyers has incurred the wrath of the leading officials at the Catholic League after joking about a bizarre attack at a Brooklyn church.