Lionsgate Wins Horror Spec Script ‘Mother Land’

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorLionsgate-owned Starz said the season premier of Power Book II: Ghost, the first new series in the ‘Power Universe’ from executive producers Courtney A. Kemp and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, drove a handful of records for the platform.Subscriber acquisition rose 42% in the first week after the Sept.

Emmy Awards this weekend. HBO's limited series Watchmen, which explores the legacy of white supremacy and systemic racism in America, a subject that has only become even more relevant since the show aired, ended up the big winner this year, walking away with four awards, including the top prize, Program of the Year.

Peter White Television EditorBeastie Boys Story, released by AppleTV+ in April and nominated for five Emmys, tells the story of the band that was formed in 1978 by Adam Yauch, Mike Diamond and Adam Horovitz.The film, directed by long-time collaborator Spike Jonze, was not your usual rock doc.

Kevin Spacey faces a new legal battle after being sued by two men who allege he sexually assaulted them as 14-year-olds in the 1980s.Actor Anthony Rapp, best known for his work on TV series Star Trek: Discovery, first made allegations against Spacey in October 2017, leading to the two-time Oscar winner effectively being banished from Hollywood.In a lawsuit filed in New York this week, Rapp alleges that Spacey invited him to a party at his Manhattan apartment in 1986.While there, Rapp alleges,

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Gugu Mbatha-Raw (The Morning Show), Kiernan Shipka (Mad Men) and Riverdale’s Cole Sprouse are attached to star in Blood Ties, a drama based on a Nathan Heller article in The New Yorker.

Spike Lee and David Byrne aren’t an obvious pairing. While the former’s oeuvre, for the most part, features unflinching stories about Black life in America, the latter became a hero to white college-educated teens everywhere.

Ann-Marie Corvin While the pandemic has reduced film festivals’ capacity to showcase new work, an all-singing all-dancing Spanish-Italian number has been selected for two.“Explota Explota” (“My Heart Goes Boom!”), the assured debut feature of music promo and commercials director Nacho Álvarez, will receive an RTVE Gala Screening at the San Sebastian Festival next week and has also made the selection for the Toronto Festival’s market screenings.Set in dictator Francisco Franco’s Spain during the

If there ever was a year for the Toronto Film Festival to open with a musical pep talk for Americans, surely 2020 is it. American Utopia, the concert film of David Byrne’s 2019 Broadway show, directed by Spike Lee, provides a spark of optimism in the era of COVID-19 and civil unrest.

A.D. Amorosi With each album since 2011’s “Finally Famous,” rapper Big Sean has run from the chipper insolence of youth (and away from being a Kanye protégé) into the arms of ruminative adulthood and all of its blessings and curses.

Regardless of your thoughts about Michael Jackson’s legacy in light of the accusations of sexual abuse and assault with underage children, it appears his music is still striking a chord with a generation that is finding themselves surrounded by racism and violence, seemingly on a daily basis. And one of Jackson’s music videos is being re-edited to reflect the modern times by the original director, Spike Lee.

During his yearly Brooklyn MJ Block Party, Spike Lee paid tribute to Chadwick Boseman after his tragic passing. As you probably know, the Black Panther actor had been secretly battling cancer for the past four years.

Spike Lee has shared a new version of the video for Michael Jackson’s ‘They Don’t Care About Us’ to mark what would be the star’s 62nd birthday.The acclaimed director was behind the camera for the two original videos for the track – one shot in Brazil and another set in a prison.The new visuals for the ‘HIStory: Past, Present and Future’ track incorporate footage from 2020’s Black Lives Matter protests from locations around the world, including Rio De Janeiro, Helsinki, Atlanta, Cape Town, and

Spike Lee and Christopher Nolan would seemingly be examples of two filmmakers that are very different in their styles and yet have both become iconic enough that one name is all you need to describe them, with “Spike” and “Nolan” adequate enough. And yet, according to one actor that has worked on high-profile films with both, there are some major similarities that make them great at their jobs.

Dave McNary Film ReporterLionsgate, Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen are developing the horror film “Mother Land,” based on the spec script by Kevin Coughlin and Ryan Grassby.Lionsgate bought the project in a competitive situation. Levy and Cohen will produce through their 21 Laps banner.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorLionsgate has picked up Kevin Coughlin and Ryan Grassby’s horror spec Mother Land in what we hear was a competitive situation. 21 Laps’ Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen are producing.Billed as a timely and high concept piece, Mother Land centers on a family who has been haunted by an evil spirit for years.

Montblanc is making moves with Spike Lee, Taron Egerton and Chen Kun.