‘MLK/FBI’ Director Sam Pollard Teams With ‘Summer of Soul’ Producers On Negro League Doc ‘The League’

Olivia Rodrigo’s seemingly unstoppable debut Sour returns to Number 1 on this week’s Official Irish Albums Chart.

Nathalie Stutzmann, the French-born contralto turned conductor, will succeed Robert Spano as music director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra starting with the 2022-23 season and become the second woman to lead a major American orchestra.The 56-year-old agreed to a four-year contract, the orchestra announced Wednesday, and she plans to spend 10 weeks annually in Atlanta starting in 2022-23.Marin Alsop was the first woman to head a major American orchestra as music director of the Baltimore

Sam Ray, the Baltimore-born musician who performs as Ricky Eat Acid and American Pleasure Club (f.k.a. Teen Suicide) is in intensive care following an asthma attack.

Fresh from blowing open the London Film Festival with his irrepressible Netflix title The Harder They Fall, director Jeymes Samuel came to Deadline’s Contenders Film: London today for a lively panel with his leading man, Jonathan Majors. Set in the American West around the turn of the last century, the film stars Majors as outlaw Nat Love.

NEW YORK -- A revival of David Mamet’s “American Buffalo” with Laurence Fishburne, Sam Rockwell and Darren Criss was in rehearsal when the pandemic closed Broadway theaters. Now it's planning a return back with the same starry cast.The Neil Pepe-directed production on Friday announced its intention to return to the Circle in the Square Theatre next year.

The Broadway revival of David Mamet’s American Buffalo starring Laurence Fishburne, Sam Rockwell and Darren Criss – postponed from 2020 due to the Covid shutdown – will open at Circle in the Square Theatre on Wednesday, April 14, 2022, two years to the day after its original target.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorDespite opening in London’s West End first, and having been written by Italian playwright Stefano Massini, “The Lehman Trilogy” is ultimately a New York saga.“It’s an American story,” says set designer Es Devlin, who has created a slowly rotating masterpiece: an 800-square-foot glass box that sits at the center of the stage, for the tale of the demise of the Lehman brothers, which bows Oct. 14 at the Nederland Theatre.

Disney+ has given a straight-to-series order for “American Born Chinese,” with “Shang-Chi” director Destin Daniel Cretton attached.Cretton will direct the series and will executive produce alongside Kelvin Yu, Melvin Mar and Jake Kasdan. Yu will write and serve as showrunner.

Neon presents Julia Ducournau’s Titane, the lauded Palme d’Or winner set to test a stressed specialty market even as Messrs. Venom and Bond crash into wide release this weekend and next. The edgy, high octane French tale about a woman with a metal plate in her head and an automotive fetish hits 562 screens in top 10 top North American markets.

Squid Game director Hwang Dong-hyuk has discussed the show’s global popularity and why he thinks it became so successful.In a new interview with Yonhap News Agency, the South Korean filmmaker opened up about the Netflix original series’ immediate success. Squid Game was released on September 17, and has since become the first South Korean series to top the US Netflix chart.“It’s just a surprise.

Outlander star Sam Heughan says he would pretend to be an American in order to get roles Stateside because he was so broke. The Scots actor would make up stories about his background and family history when he was penniless and living in Los Angeles.

EXCLUSIVE: The Gotham Group has signed Indian director, writer and producer Pan Nalin, whose latest feature Last Film Show was well-received at Tribeca this year.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and Media“Hold Your Fire,” Stefan Forbes’ gripping new documentary, details a tense standoff between police and four young African American men at a sporting goods store in Brooklyn, N.Y. Though set in 1973, the issues that Forbes’ film probes, ones of racism, police brutality and gun violence, remain fiercely urgent.

Aly Raisman is opening up about how she's doing after the emotional testimony she gave before senators last week about the sexual abuse she and other U.S. gymnasts suffered by former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar.