Martin Scorsese Co-Directing David Johansen Documentary for Showtime

NEW YORK -- The 45th Toronto International Film Festival will be a much diminished event this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, but it has an opening-night film. Spike Lee's filmed version of David Byrne's Broadway theatrical concert “American Utopia” will kick off the largely virtual fall festival.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorWarning: This interview contains spoilers about tonight’s series finale (Ep. 11 of season 5, “Iunne Ennui”) of NBC/Warner Bros. TV’s Blindspot. After FBI big baddie Madeline Burke (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) poisoned herself in episode 9 in front of Tasha Zapata (Audrey Esparza), the Blindspot gang were left with another dangler: Ivy (Julee Cerda), Madeline’s henchwoman, who left a canister of the zip bomb somewhere in New York City.

The New York Times reported Wednesday that a 12-hour hostage situation ended after a gunman demanded, among other things, Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky endorse the documentary, which he did in a now-deleted post to his Facebook.“Everybody watch the 2005 film ‘Earthlings,'” Zelensky said in a post to his Facebook.The documentary, directed by Shaun Monson and narrated by Phoenix, uses hidden camera footage that captures animals suffering and being abused for scientific research or as part

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorTo get to the center of the story of documentary “Father Soldier Son,” about a single dad raising two boys while fighting in Afghanistan, editor Amy Foote locked herself in a bubble for two months poring over 10 years of footage.Journalists-turned-filmmakers Catrin Einhorn and Leslye Davis make their feature debut with the doc, now streaming on Netflix.

Erik Pedersen Managing EditorJonathan Oppenheim, an Emmy-nominated documentary editor who cut such films as Paris Is Burning and Sister Helen along with P.O.V. and Frontline entries for PBS, has died.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorUpdate: Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they’re scheduling Michael Covino’s The Climb for a New York City and Los Angeles opening on Oct. 9.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Imagine Documentaries and Emmy-winning director/producer R.J. Cutler have teamed up on a new true crime four-part docu series that pulls back the curtain on New York’s most infamous jewel thief, Jack Roland Murphy.Cutler is writing it and will direct.

reportedly expand its stake from 5% to 50%, giving it a huge influence over more than 850 AM and FM stations, from New York City's Z100 to Los Angeles' Alt 98.7."This deal is on an even larger scale than the Ticketmaster and Live Nation deal," Steven Madoff, a music-business attorney, said earlier this year, referring to the merger that allowed one promoter to take over much of the live-music business a decade ago.Broadcast companies have struggled through an advertising downturn throughout the

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David Lee Roth fears Van Halen’s touring days are over because Eddie Van Halen doesn’t want to hit the road again.Reports suggest the guitar great is still recovering from a series of health woes, and now the group’s singer tells The New York Times it’s looking more and more unlikely fans will see the act live onstage again.“I don’t know that Eddie is ever really going to rally for the rigours of the road again…,” the Jump hitmaker says.

Brooklyn Beckham has reportedly popped the question to his actress girlfriend Nicola Peltz.The 21 year old son of power couple Victoria and David Beckham is said to be “smitten” with his 25 year old girlfriend after isolating with her in New York, America. David Beckham’s son Brooklyn is understood to have been dating Nicola for seven months and has now decided to take their romance to the next level.

Friends.The actor famously played Ross Geller for all 10 seasons of the sitcom, and will return for an upcoming unscripted reunion special.In the last few years, the New York City-based comedy has been called out for the lack of racial diversity in the casting.Now, Schwimmer has revealed that he thought it was “wrong” for the show to lack representation of other races especially because NYC was so multicultural when the show was filmed between 1994 and 2004.Speaking to Entertainment Tonight, he

Saturday Night Live viewers thought Colin Jost took up guitar lessons during quarantine when the instrument unintentionally guest-starred on the first at-home Weekend Update. But in an interview with The New York Times published today (July 8), he blamed his fiancée Scarlett Johansson for the fluke."Scarlett had that guitar forever and it was in the quarantine," Jost said during the interview.

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Joe Otterson TV ReporterFX and Hulu have partnered to launch the documentary series “The New York Times Presents.”The show hails from the team behind FX’s “The Weekly.” The new show will present standalone documentaries on major stories via the journalists at the New York Times.“The New York Times Presents” will feature 10 individual documentaries that will air on FX and on Hulu on Fridays at 10 p.m. ET/PT.

New York Dolls.Showtime Documentary Films announced today (July 7) that Scorsese will co-direct with Dave Tedeschi, with whom he’s also worked on documentaries such as the Bob Dylan film No Direction Home and The Rolling Stones-focused Shine A Light.According to Rolling Stone the new film will cover Johansen’s upbringing on Staten Island, his move to New York’s East Village as a teenager in the late 1960s and his time in the New York Dolls, as well as his work in the 1980s under the alter-ego

next project is a Showtime documentary about New York Dolls frontman David Johansen.The as-yet-untitled doc will cover the many facets of Johansen’s career — from his childhood in Staten Island to fronting the flamboyant ’70s-era New York Dolls to his evolution into Buster Poindexter, to his blues work with the Harry Smiths in the ’90s to the present day.“I’ve known David Johansen for decades, and his music has been a touchstone ever since I listened to the Dolls when I was making ‘Mean

At this point, if you’re a fan of Martin Scorsese, then it should be no surprise that the filmmaker has yet another rock documentary up his sleeve. And also not shocking, the doc is about an NYC-based group, this time tackling the iconic band, the New York Dolls and its frontman, David Johansen.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorShowtime Documentary Films and Oscar-winner Martin Scorsese are teaming on a new documentary about glam-punk pioneer David Johansen, the frontman of the New York Dolls. Emmy nominee David Tedeschi will co-direct with Scorsese.Scorsese and his team already shot Johansen earlier this year at New York’s Café Carlyle.

David Bowie helped to "save" him after his famous stage invasion of Michael Jackson during the 1996 Brit Awards.The Pulp frontman walked onstage during Jackson's performance of Earth Song leading to his arrest where he was held by police on suspicion of assault.The singer said in a statement released at the time that his actions were "a form of protest at the way Michael Jackson sees himself as some kind of Christ-like figure".Cocker, 56, explained to The New York Times: “There was an accusation