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Movie chain Alamo Drafthouse will open its fourth NYC location July 22 in Staten Island. The nine-screen, 893-seat theater includes the Flying Guillotine, a kung fu-themed collaboration with Wu-Tang Clan founder RZA that’s part bar and part martial arts museum.

Lexi Carson Born Eugene L. Kay, also known as “Dusty,” a writer and Emmy-nominated producer whose credits include “Entourage,” “Roseanne” and “Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman,” died on April 10 in Summerlin, Nev., following a brief illness, his long time collaborator and friend Bill Nuss announced. He was 69.

EXCLUSIVE: Just across the East River from Manhattan, New York’s newest purpose-built film and TV production facility is slated to open this spring.

Talking Heads have recalled some of the earlier shows in their career including a performance at a pizza parlour and a chain restaurant called Beefsteak Charlie’s.The band marked their second public reunion while appearing as guests on the Late Show With Stephen Colbert. The rock veterans – comprised of drummer Chris Franz, frontman David Byrne, guitarist Jerry Harrison and bassist Tina Weymouth – made their first public appearance together in over 20 years earlier this month.

The future site of Manhattan’s first purpose-built film and TV soundstages has added two blue-chip backers, private equity firm Blackstone and real estate company Hudson Pacific Properties.

Robert Halmi’s Great Point Studios has partnered with Spain’s Grup Mediapro to form Phygital FX offering expansive production services and led by Mediapro veteran Mario Sousa.

It isn’t just the proximity to New York’s top-shelf production community. It’s also the scale.

Robert Halmi’s Great Point Studios has acquired Hudson Scenic, a Tony-nominated builder of set designs, custom fabrication and automation services for theater, film, TV and theme parks with credits ranging from Hamilton, Hadestown, Aladdin and The Lion King to the Times Square Ball.

Lionsgate will be the key tenant with naming rights to a major new studio project in Newark, New Jersey being built being by Robert Halmi and Fehmi Zeko’s Great Point Studios.

NEW YORK -- Dozens of notebooks, scripts, speeches, drafts of letters, artwork and even signed baseballs owned by the late playwright Neil Simon have been donated to the Library of Congress. The collection offers offering historians and researchers access to the creative process of American theater’s most successful and prolific playwright.The collection includes about 7,700 items documenting the evolution of Simon's plays and screenplays, including “Barefoot in the Park,” “The Sunshine Boys,” “Brighton Beach Memoirs” and “Lost in Yonkers.”The donation will be officially announced at a special event with actors Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker — both currently starring in a Broadway revival of “Plaza Suite” — and Elaine Joyce, Simon’s widow on Monday night at the Library.

Jay Binder, whose more than four decades as a prominent Broadway casting director included finding just the right talent for such productions as The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast and Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, among many others, died peacefully today at his home. He was 71.

Lionsgate Studios in Yonkers is set to cut the ribbon formally next month on a project announced in 2019 and delayed by Covid that, when finished, will be one of the largest modern-built production campuses in the Northeast. It’s not technically in New York City but only a half hour away and, along with planned expansions by other developers, will help ease the metro area’s ongoing soundstage crunch in a global boom of content production.

died April 9 at White Plains Hospital after a heart attack, and was given a public sendoff at the Barclays Arena in Brooklyn on Saturday — but will be laid to rest before only friends and relatives an undisclosed location.The private service, scheduled for 2:30 p.m., will be live-streamed on his YouTube channel and by BET.DMX grew up in the School Street public housing complex in Yonkers, but it is unclear if the service will be in his home city.The rapper’s public memorial service Saturday saw

Legendary rapper DMX is set to be remembered in a touching memorial, attended by his family and close friends. The New York native, who grew up in Yonkers, will be memorialized as a loving father and incredible visionary in the music industry at the April 24 memorial, held at the Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn. The service comes just a few weeks after the legendary rapper died on April 9 at the age of 50.

YouTube channel.Organizers did not release details about who would be performing or speaking at the service.A bright red coffin — it was unclear if DMX was actually inside — was carried into Barclays on a massive monster truck that roared from Yonkers — where he grew up as Earl Simmons — to Brooklyn in a two-hour procession of hundreds of motorcyclists and ATVs.It was a fitting send-off given the “Ride or Die” rapper’s influence on street racing culture.Traffic stopped along Brooklyn’s Flatbush

legend DMX is stopping traffic one last time Saturday as a funeral procession is underway from Yonkers to Brooklyn, where thousands are expected to turn out for the rapper’s memorial service.The procession began at around noon in Yonkers, where the rapper whose real name is Earl Simmons grew up, shutting down traffic en route to the private service at Barclays Center at 4 p.m.“Yonkers Ave at CPA, incl surrounding roadways and thruway ramps, will exp intermittent street closures, lane

Haley Bosselman editorBrooklyn’s Barclays Center will host a public memorial for DMX on April 24, the rapper’s manager confirmed to TMZ, although attendance is destined to be far below normal arena levels if current COVID-19 protocols hold.A private funeral service will take place the following day at a New York City-area church, TMZ also reported.

DMX gave it to ya one last time.In an eerie twist of timing, “X Moves” — a new track by the “X Gon’ Give to Ya” rapper — dropped just hours before his passing on Friday at 50.

led to his death at 50 on Friday at White Plains Hospital — to his run-ins with the law, he had fallen from the heights that had once made him one of hip-hop’s biggest stars.However the New York native — born Earl Simmons in Mount Vernon and raised in Yonkers  — was as talented as he was troubled. He made his name battling in street circles and had an infamous battle with Jay-Z back in 1993 before the two were famous.

Mark Blum has died from complications due to coronavirus at age 69, multiple outlets report.

By Greg Evans

Mark Blum, a veteran stage actor who also appeared in dozens and dozens of movies and TV shows, has died due to complications from COVID-19, aka the Coronavirus.

The Alamo Drafthouse chain has abruptly closed its theaters in Brooklyn and Yonkers amid the coronavirus epidemic.