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If you’re hoping to see Tenet at your local drive-in movie theater on September 3, you might be out of luck.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterIt looks like Donald Trump is really leaning into his past as a reality TV show host.

Jordan Moreau Two former producers from NBC’s “The Apprentice” are helping plan the 2020 Republican National Convention.According to The New York Times, Sadoux Kim and Chuck LaBella are both former “Apprentice” producers who have joined the team planning the RNC for next week.The two producers have consulted on the video production for the convention, the use of both live speeches and pre-taped videos and its focus on non-politicians, according to Politico.

The Independent Gamer is a curated roundup of news from indie gaming, landing here every other Friday. From new games, to podcasts and books about games, to game-focused conferences, the month of August is continuing on a high note around the world.

Andrew Cuomo can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

R Kelly’s manager Donnell Russell has been charged with threatening to open fire on a premiere screening of the ‘Surviving R Kelly’ documentary in New York in 2018. The threat caused the event to be cancelled at the last minute.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorThe New York Film Festival has finalized its main slate of 25 films and expanded the dates of this year’s event in order to accommodate drive-in screenings.The 58th edition of the festival will start a week earlier than it had planned, on September 17, and run through October 11.

NEW YORK -- “MacGruber,” a parody skit on “Saturday Night Live” that became a movie, is coming back to the small screen. The NBCUniversal streaming platform Peacock said Monday that Will Forte will once again play the mullet-haired hero for a new half-hour series.

Leah Remini isn’t done coming for Tom Cruise!

Former Scientologist Leah Remini is commenting on Tom Cruise‘s relationship with his daughter with Katie Holmes, Suri, 14.

MTV Video Music Awards are shaking things up once again. A MTV and Barclays Center spokespeople tell ET in a statement on Friday that they have decided not to hold the annual awards ceremony at Brooklyn's Barclays Center amid safety concerns.«The 2020 VMAs will be held on Sunday, August 30th and pay homage to the incredible resiliency of New York with several outdoor performances around the City with limited or no audience, adhering to all state and city guidelines,» the statement reads.

Looking forward to watching An American Pickle this week? The one where Seth Rogen falls into a vat of pickles in 1920 and wakes up in modern day New York? Chances are you haven’t been looking forward to it for too long, since the trailer only dropped at the start of July. You might have also missed Unhinged, the Russell Crowe road-rage thriller and the first new film to reopen cinemas along with Eva Green’s astronaut drama, Proxima.

Robert F. Kennedy’s granddaughter Saoirse Kennedy Hill died at age 22 of an overdose on Thursday, August 1.According to the New York Times, emergency responders were called to the family’s Hyannis Port, Massachusetts compound at approximately 3 p.m.

Conde Nast, is trying to renegotiate or get out of the lease on its headquarters at 1 World Trade Center, sources tell Variety.The one-time, all-powerful media empire — which includes such prestigious magazine titles as The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and Vogue — decamped from its longtime home at 4 Time Square in 2014.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmFilm at Lincoln Center has set the Steve McQueen-directed Lovers Rock as the opening-night film of the 58th New York Film Festival. The film will be making its world premiere, and the festival is going heavily into the work of McQueen, who became the first Black filmmaker to win the Best Picture Oscar for 12 Years a Slave.Lovers Rock is part of his Small Axe anthology, which comprises five original films by the director.

NEW YORK -- The coronavirus pandemic took a toll on Comcast in the second quarter as movie theaters closed, theme parks shut down and advertisers cut back. The company reported Thursday that its NBCUniversal TV, film and theme park divisions, as well as its Sky unit in Europe, all suffered steep drops in revenue in the April-June quarter.

NEW YORK -- What do Ernest Hemingway, Muhammad Ali, Benjamin Franklin and Leonardo da Vinci have in common? All are getting the Ken Burns treatment in the next few years. The PBS documentarian said Tuesday that he has eight projects in the works, half of them in-depth looks at the four personalities.

Amidst backlash against a drive-in show by The Chainsmokers, New York's Gov. Andrew Cuomo has called for an investigation into the event by the New York Department of Health.