How ‘Spin’ Director Manjari Makijany Channeled Her History for Disney Channel’s First Movie With an Indian American Lead

Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein — Indiana viewed himself as a hard-edge painter in league with only the artist Ellsworth Kelly. While artists like the famously self-promoting Warhol got retrospectives that toured the US and Europe, Indiana brooded that he wasn’t better known. He was given a show at the Whitney Museum of American Art on one floor, but he wanted the whole museum — and would have preferred MOMA, at that. “This artist had the reputation for being reclusive.

Candyman director Nia DaCosta has become the first Black woman to debut at number one on the US box office chart.The reimagining and sequel to the 1992 horror flick earned $22.3million (£16million) in its opening weekend in US and Canadian cinemas.

EXCLUSIVE: DistroTV, one of the largest independent, ad-supported streaming platforms in the world, is launching ‘DistroTV Desi’, which will offer more than 15 premier South Asian channels.

In a first for the US version of Dancing With The Stars, dancer, singer and  YouTube personality JoJo Siwa will be part of the first ever same-sex dance  team to compete on the show. While Siwa is making history for the USA version, same-sex couples have  been featured on other international franchises of the show, including Italy,  Israel, Ireland, and Denmark (where Jakob Fauerby and Silas Holst took  home the Mirrorball trophy).

Naman Ramachandran BAFTA-winning Welsh director Philip John, whose credits include “Downton Abbey” and “The Good Karma Hospital,” will direct “Arrangements of Love,” the sole Asian project selected at the Toronto International Financing Forum, which sits alongside the Toronto film festival.The film is an adaptation of the bestselling 2004 novel of the same title by Indian author Timeri N.

Anna Marie de la Fuente In its continued bid to explore new fiction content, Spain’s Mediacrest has joined forces with Chilean shingle Maria Wood Prods.

The Gotham Group announced today it has signed model, writer, director and transgender advocate Geena Rocero.

Social commentator Fran Lebowitz, known for being an endless source of witty and pointed observations about American life, has accrued a lot of fans over the decades. None bigger than filmmaker Martin Scorsese.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentMimi Plauché, the artistic director of the Chicago International Film Festival, has been named Knight of the Order of Arts and Lettres from the French Minister of Culture, Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin. Plauché will receive the honorary distinction, one of the four ministerial orders of the French Republic, at a gala event held on Sept.

EXCLUSIVE: Stephanie Hsu (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) has joined the cast of the untitled comedy that Crazy Rich Asians scribe Adele Lim is directing for Lionsgate, in her feature debut.

USA Today on Friday. “It gave me great joy to dance at his wedding and receive his news upon the birth of my Grandson Leo.”Tarantino on the podcast “The Moment” from “Billions” co-creator Brian Koppelman said that as a kid he often got in trouble from his single mother whenever he spent time writing screenplays instead of studying for school, and one tirade in particular got under his skin.

The Santa Barbara Film Festival on Thursday said that it has hired longtime film critic and programmer Claudia Puig as its programming director. The hire means she will lead the curation for the 2022 edition of the festival, which recently set March 2-12, 2022 dates for its 37th edition.

Laetitia, the first French series to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, is heading to HBO.

Dev Patel discussed the showbiz industry after shooting to fame for his work in the 2008 film “Slumdog Millionaire”.

“Stillwater” director Tom McCarthy is responding to Amanda Knox’s recent criticism of the film, which she says appears to be “loosely based” on her life.

Amanda Knox made headlines this week after she noticed how the new movie Stillwater was eerily similar to her own life story.