Deadline Studio at Sundance 2020 – Day 4 – Steven Yeun, Dee Rees, Kyle Maclachlan & More

The 2020 BRIT Awards took place tonight (February 18) at London’s O2 Arena. Among the winners were Neneh Cherry’s daughter Mabel, Foals, Stormzy, Lewis Capaldi, and Tyler, the Creator, who thanked Theresa May in his speech. Check out the full list of winners below.

Nicky Jam is an engaged man! The Puerto Rican artist took to social media Saturday morning (Feb. 15) to share the big news.With a set of photos and videos, the “X” singer made the announcement to his fans across social media.

After premiering her latest filmThe Last Thing He Wanted at Sundance, Dee Rees has chosen her next project: a remake ofGeorge Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess.Rees will write and direct the musical, which follows Porgy, a disabled black street beggar living in the slums of Charleston, as he attempts to rescue Bess from a violent love and drug dealer.Gershwin's opera is an adaption of Dorothy and DuBose Heyward's play Porgy, which is itself an adaptation of the Heywards' 1925 novel.

An immersive political documentary that might be useful as a glass half-full/half-empty personality test, Ramona S.

Seamlessly meshing classic scary movie tropes with the more profound horror of real-world conflict zones, His House represents a harrowing but bracingly creative feature debut for British writer-director Remi Weekes.

Andy Samberg time-loop comedy “Palm Springs” broke sales records (by the cheeky sum of 69¢), and “Taylor Swift: Miss Americana” inspired a mini mob scene at an otherwise star-starved Sundance. But in the end, the film that defined the 2020 edition of America’s most important indie-movie showcase was a #MeToo revenge thriller called “Promising Young Woman.”

A throwback to grungy-edgy youth movies from the late 1980s-'90s — like the ones Gregg Araki used to make, but with a more mainstream-friendly warmth underneath all the sneering — the lo-fi feature Dinner in America offers up a rom-com for stoners.

It’s the final countdown! After months of regular season games and exciting playoff matches, the Kansas City Chiefs will face off against the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LIV on Sunday, February 2.

A gritty coming-of-age drama, Charm City Kings introduces viewers to a dirt bike scene where Baltimore’s young people have honed a sports-like showmanship and sense of community over the last 50 years. Directed by Angel Manuel Soto with a script from Sherman Payne and a story penned by Barry Jenkins, Chris Boyd and Kirk Sullivan, the film is based on the documentary 12 O’Clock Boys from director Lotfy Nathan.

Fresh out of Harvard, 23-year-old director Lance Oppenheim quickly dispenses with any facile or reductive ideas about aging gracefully in his first feature-length documentary,Some Kind of Heaven, a look inside the nation’s largest retirement community.A so-called “fountain of youth,” as one resident describes it in the darkly upbeat film, Central Florida's The Villages is home to over 130,000 residents who can choose to fill their ample free time with thousands of activities, everything from

Chante Herries (2nd 2019 Runner Up), Belinda Qaqamba Ka-Fassie (Miss Drag South Africa 2019), Laylah Zokufa Khan (1st 2019 Runner Up) Pic: Mkhululi Thobela

By Brandon Choe

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.

Most immigration stories are similar in a broad sense but distinctive in the details, which is certainly the case withMinari.A rare look at a Korean family trying to adapt and make a go of it in, of all places, 1980s Arkansas, Lee Isaac Chung’s autobiographical feature is warmly observant, gently humorous in the vein of Ozu and not shy about the awful strain the struggle places on the adults in the family.

Stars looked gorgeous on the 2020 GRAMMYs red carpet. 

The alluringly elusive Peter Pan has a knack for attracting gifted filmmakers and then biting them on the keister — Steven Spielberg's Hookand Joe Wright’s aptly namedPanwere both overproduced and under-imagined embarrassments.

The battle lines of territorial masculinity are drawn with compelling psychological complexity in Summer White, in which a 13-year-old boy impatient to become a man grows increasingly hostile to the presence of his single mother's new partner in their lives. Mexican director Rodrigo Ruiz Patterson establishes a domestic situation of almost unhealthy mutual emotional dependency and then ruptures it with the arrival of an outsider whose kindness and generosity make him even more of a threat.

Gwen Stefani spoke on the 2020 Grammy Awards red carpet where she credited her “favorite person,” Blake Shelton, for saving her life as they dodged questions about getting engaged in the future.

In mid-February 2017, shocking news began breaking on broadcast and online outlets worldwide: Kim Jong-nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, had been killed in an audacious public assassination at Kuala Lumpur’s international airport.

The faces in Saudi Runaway are blurred, with one exception: the documentary's subject and (cameraphone) cinematographer.