O'Farrell's 'Hamnet' wins book critics award for fiction

Annika Pham Zurich-based First Hand Films has snapped up the Norwegian documentary “Trust Me” – about a Justin Bieber concert fraudster.

A month after sparking rumors of a breakup, Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez are back together—and according to a source who spoke to Hollywood Life, the couple are now focused on “doing their best to work things out.”

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Parasite distributor Neon has come out on top for North American rights to Ryan Gosling package The Actor, the next movie from Anomalisa director Duke Johnson. We hear the pre-buy is in the mid 7-figure range.

ticketed live performances have returned to New York City after more than a year of dark, locked-up venues and out-of-work actors, creatives and staff. However, what’s onstage today — like our waistlines — looks a little different from the art form we waved goodbye to on March 12, 2020.

Bunim-Murray is having a “full-circle” moment, according to new boss Julie Pizzi, following the launch of The Real World Homecoming: New York on Paramount+.

NEW YORK -- James McBride's latest honor for the novel “Deacon King Kong” is a real New York story.McBride's fictional snapshot of a Brooklyn neighborhood in late 1969 has won the inaugural Gotham Book Prize, given for outstanding writing about New York City.

Are things heating up between Timothee Chalamet and Lily-Rose Depp again?

NEW YORK -- Ron Nixon, global investigations editor at The Associated Press, has won the first-ever News Leader of the Year award from the News Leaders Association.Nixon's investigative team produced an award-winning series on labor abuses in the palm oil industry.

LOS ANGELES -- The latest member of the “Law & Order” franchise has a familiar face playing a familiar character, but producer Dick Wolf says he’s switching up the storytelling.NBC’s “Law & Order: Organized Crime” stars Christopher Meloni as New York police detective Elliot Stabler, the role he played until 2011 on “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.”Unlike the largely self-contained episodes of its “Law & Order” relatives, the new drama shifts from one criminal syndicate to another in

Evelyn Sakash, an Emmy-winning production designer who was known to be a hoarder, has been found dead under a pile of garbage in her New York City home. She was 66.

Also Read: G Gordon Liddy, Watergate Scandal Operative, Dies at 90Sakash’s TV and film credits include “Orange Is the New Black,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” 1990’s  “Mermaids,” 2014’s “Still Alice” and and 2003’s “Between the Lines,” for which she won a Daytime Emmy Award.Sakash’s sister, Ellen Brown, told the New York Daily News she didn’t want her sister to be remembered for how she was found.“She had a full life,” Brown said. “She was so extraordinarily talented.

Alamo Drafthouse was riding high.The Austin, Texas-based theater chain had managed the difficult feat of expanding its footprint nationally, popping up in major metropolises such as New York and Los Angeles without losing its indie spirit. Its unabashed love of all things cinema, menus crammed with craft beer and locally sourced snacks, and themed events with A-list talent like Wes Anderson and Rian Johnson made Alamo the envy of the exhibition industry.

Hockey great Mark Messier wants fans to know he had a lot of help on his path to the NHL Hall of Fame.

NEW YORK -- Hockey great Mark Messier wants fans to know he had a lot of help on his path to the NHL Hall of Fame.Messier's memoir “No One Wins Alone” will be published in October by Gallery Books, a Simon & Schuster imprint.

Spiral: Book of Saw has just been released – check it out below.The forthcoming film, the ninth installment in the Saw franchise, stars Chris Rock, Samuel L.

an obituary published Friday by the New York Times. Lundberg did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for confirmation.Neither the cause of death, nor where McMurtry passed away, are immediately known.McMurtry was best known for his anti-Western work, or stories that focused on demythologizing the romanticism of the American West.“I’m a critic of the myth of the cowboy,’’ the native Texan reportedly said in an interview 1988.