EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights to Hello Sunshine’s documentary Fair Play, based on the New York Times bestseller of the same name by Eve Rodsky, slating it for release in select theaters and on demand on July 8th.
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You’re absolutely wracked with guilt at “Hangmen” — from laughing so hard at the many, many inappropriate jokes. A crude sight gag near the end had me practically dry heaving. That nonstop naughtiness is what makes Martin McDonagh’s killer satire the best new play on Broadway by a green mile. Two and a half hours, with one intermission.
At the Golden Theatre, 252 West 45th Street.The Brit’s comedy, which opened Thursday night at the Golden Theatre, is a heaping scoop of jaw-droppers and taboos — albeit with a sophisticated takeaway about the justice system — that’ll make wimps clutch their pearls for dear life. The rest of us can’t help but chuckle at the macabre madness.Take the unusual main characters: an executioner and a maybe-murderer. The show is set in 1965 England, just as hanging (their preferred method of capital punishment) has been outlawed.
A year after the final offing, Harry (David Threlfall) — a famous hangman — now owns a pub in the north and is a local celebrity for stupid, old drunks. They flock to see the man, who dryly estimates he supervised 233 killings, like he’s Lady Gaga at Joanne’s Trattoria. Says one doddering old fool: “I don’t even like the pints here, but they’ve got a hangman.” That impolite, possibly immoral premise shakes you awake.
If an American student wrote a play like this one about the death penalty at an Ivy League school, they’d probably get expelled and then banned from Twitter. But McDonagh is the Flying Wallendas of playwrights: he’s addicted to risk, irresistibly confident, and more often than not, reaches the end of an impossibly high tightrope victoriously.His “Hangmen” takes place during an odd anniversary for Harry.
EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights to Hello Sunshine’s documentary Fair Play, based on the New York Times bestseller of the same name by Eve Rodsky, slating it for release in select theaters and on demand on July 8th.
Met Gala is a time to celebrate the best in art, design and collaboration. It’s also a time to lightly poke fun at some celebrities’ more ‘adventurous’ looks and hilarious moments from the night with memes. For last year’s Met Gala, themed 'In America: A Lexicon of Fashion', several A-listers including the likes of Gigi Hadid and Billie Eilish oozed Hollywood glamour, while others opted for more risqué ensembles like the ‘naked’ dress, courtesy of Kendall Jenner and Zoë Kravitz.
Christian Guardino put his own spin on the “Lion King” classic “Circle Of Life” on Sunday’s “American Idol” Disney Night episode.
Costume Institute’s two-part exhibition exploring the depth and diversity of American fashion. While 2021 strived to exemplify “American independence,” this year’s complementary theme — “In America: An Anthology of Fashion” — is all about “gilded glamor,” promising extravagance and a “white-tie” sensibility.“Dust off Edith Wharton’s ‘Age of Innocence’ and ‘The House of Mirth.’ The 2022 Met Gala will ask its attendees to embody the grandeur — and perhaps the dichotomy — of Gilded Age New York,” reads Vogue’s deep-dive into the event’s theme.
LIVE – Updated at 11:28We are just hours away from the 2022 Met Gala, which will be the first time fashion’s most-anticipated event will take place on the first Monday in May in two years. Last year, the Met Gala took place on 13 September and the year before, it was cancelled due to the pandemic. Usually, around 600 celebrities are invited to mark the glitzy event in their social calendars, but this year and last, the numbers are closer to 400.
It looks like Katie Holmes has a new man in her life!
“We’re telling a story about New York, which if you take a 10% cross section of New York, you are going to get all people from all walks of life, from all faiths, and we needed to do that justice,” DMZ showrunner Roberto Patino says of the decision to look at the periphery of the acclaimed comic for its March 17 launching HBO Max adaptation.
Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentBrut, an official media partner of the Cannes Film Festival, is breaking new ground by partnering with Emily Yang, a celebrated digital artist known as Pplpleasr, to release 75 Cannes-themed non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on May 2. The proceeds will benefit the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative.The values-driven digital startup, whose backers include James Murdoch and François-Henri Pinault, is building the operation, named “75 Producer Pass NFTs,” to help make the film industry more inclusive to young female creators.“After teaming with the global video game franchise Fortnite to put Cannes in the metaverse, we’re excited to have the Cannes Film Festival brand activated for greater good and launch this pioneering NFT-fundraiser with Pplpleaser who share the same values as us,” said Guillaume Lacroix, who co-founded Brut with veteran producer Renaud le Van Kim in 2016.
), “BARDO” will enjoy a theatrical release on a global scale later this year including in Mexico, its country of origin, as well as the US, Canada, UK, Italy, Spain, Germany, Argentina, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, Japan and Korea, among many more before debuting on Netflix.Iñàrritu previously worked with cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki on his last two films to Oscar-winning effect.“BARDO” stars Daniel Giménez Cacho and Griselda Siciliani. In addition to Khondji, the film features a below-the-line team that includes production design by the Oscar-winning Mexican designer Eugenio Caballero (“Pan’s Labyrinth”) and costume design by Anna Terrazas (“ROMA”).Netflix previously released noteworthy titles like Alfonso Cuaron’s “ROMA,” Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” and Adam McKay’s “Don’t Look Up” in theaters before the films were available to stream on Netflix, and for Iñárritu’s first Netflix feature it appears he’s being given a similar rollout strategy – although it’s unclear if “BARDO” will have an exclusive theatrical window or if the film will release on streaming and in theaters on the same day.This is Iñárritu’s first film since 2015’s “The Revenant,” which earned him a Best Director Oscar on the heels of 2014’s “Birdman” which won Best Director, Picture and Original Screenplay.
EXCLUSIVE: Sirens, a rock doc about Beirut all-female thrash metal band Slave to Sirens, will get a theatrical run after Oscilloscope Laboratories bought the North American rights.
Breaking Bad co-star and “best friend” Bryan Cranston is his newborn son’s godfather.During an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday (April 19), the actor announced he and his wife Lauren recently welcomed their second baby together, a son named Ryden.When asked if Cranston had met his son yet, Paul said: “He has met the baby. I asked Bryan on his birthday if he would be our baby’s godfather.”After joking that Cranston rejected the offer, he added: “No, he’s very excited, very honoured.
A new play by Anna Deavere Smith about tennis icon Billie Jean King is in development, with Marc Bruni (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical) set to direct. A reading in August is planned as part of the New York Stage and Film 2022 Summer Season.
Donald Trump at the start of Mike Bartlett’s play “The 47th,” an audaciously Shakespearean take on recent and future U.S. politics.The title of the play, running at London’s Old Vic Theatre, refers to the next president of the United States.
It is a story steeped in action and intrigue, but is it true?
HOLA! USA had the opportunity to attend the red carpet and talk to several stars, including Kaley Cuoco.Cuoco revealed to our publication that among her favorite onset memories are all the pranks the crew did to her. “I’m a prankster, but also I encouraged the set to be pranking me,” she says. “So I got pranked literally weekly.
Montserrat Caballe, one of the greats of 20th-century opera, is being remembered on what would have been her 89th birthday. Nicknamed “La Superba”, the Catalan singer began her career in Switzerland, Germany and Austria before becoming a superstar on the world stage. She made her American debut in Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia at Carnegie Hall in New York City on 20 April 1965, replacing the pregnant Marilyn Horne and earning a 25-minute standing ovation.
désolé. Or, perhaps, NYC should apologize for booking it.The woeful touring dance show, which opened Monday night at the Broadway Theatre, does not belong whatsoever where it’s currently situated.