Oscar Campaigners Flock To Queens Drive-In As In-Person Screenings Resume Citywide Ahead Of Ballot Deadline

New York City's entertainment scene was officially jolted out of the sleep it succumbed to last year when Pose took over the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Centeron Thursday night for the world premiere of the FX show's third and final season. The screening marked the first major in-person red carpet event to take place since the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown began last year.

EXCLUSIVE: All the Streets Are Silent, a documentary portrait of the skateboarding and hip-hop scenes in New York in the late-1980s and early ’90s, has been acquired by Greenwich Entertainment.

On June 2, 2018, FX premiered Pose, a drama that put the spotlight on the ball culture of New York City in the ’80s. The series created by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Steven Canals made television history with the largest number of transgender actors in series regular roles for a scripted series. In addition, it put narratives of LGBTQ people of color front and center in a way that hasn’t been done before — and actress Mj Rodriguez was the moral center of it all.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorESPN examined the 1990s Chicago Bulls in a celebrated documentary series and probed the fortunes of the 1970s New York Yankees in a serialized drama. Now the sports-media giant has big plans for the New York Mets.ESPN Films plans to release “Once Upon a Time in Queens,” a four-part series on the 1986 Mets, later this year on both ESPN and ESPN Plus.

After going virtual last year over COVID concerns, New York Comic Con is slated to return as an in-person event at the Javits Center this October. The cosplay-filled shindig, Oct.

The 2021 Tribeca Festival, which announced its full lineup earlier this week, has unveiled a selection of 46 short films from 20 countries in narrative, documentary and animation.

By Melissa Verdecia always knew she wanted a baby, but as a dancer with , she also knew getting pregnant would mean significant time off from a career that depends entirely on her body. It was easy to postpone—after the next tour, she told herself, or when she got a coveted role.Then, in March 2020, Ballet Hispanico stopped all in-person operations when New York City entered its .

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorIn a sign that red carpets may slowly be returning to the entertainment landscape, FX and 20th Television are throwing a glamour-filled premiere event for the third and final season of “Pose” on April 29.The festivities at the Rose Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City will feature a 200-foot red carpet for socially distanced media outlets. Interviews will be conducted with eight feet between talent and journalists.

When Judy Heumann—one of the main subjects of the Oscar-nominated documentary Crip Camp—was five years old in the early 1950s, her mother tried to register her for kindergarten in New York City. The staff took one look at Judy, who used a wheelchair as a result of polio, and denied her.

The trailer for The Woman in the Window finally debuted ahead of next month’s premiere on Netflix!

Shalini Dore Features News EditorThe  Oscar-nominated live action shorts come from filmmakers based in the U.S., U.K, and the Mideast. They all center on the human desire to be seen as people.Doug Roland and Susan Ruzenski Roland’s entry into the deaf-blind community came through a chance meeting about 10 years ago with a man holding up a sign asking for help to cross the street late one night in New York City.

Evelyn Sakash, a veteran production designer and scenic artist who won a Daytime Emmy for PBS’ Between the Lions and worked on films, including Still Alice and Mrs. Winterbourne, was found dead Tuesday at her New York City home. She was 66.

National Geographic Documentary Films has picked up Matthew Heineman's COVID-19 documentary The First Wave from Participant and Our Time Projects. Heineman directed and produced the feature film about frontline workers at one of New York City’s hardest-hit hospitals, Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, during the first four months of the pandemic last year.

As New York City continues to reopen amid ongoing COVID-19 vaccination efforts, the 20th anniversary of the Tribeca Festival has revealed how it plans to be the first major film festival held in person since the pandemic.

The Tribeca Film Festival is moving ahead with its 20th-anniversary edition this June, moving screenings to outdoor venues and becoming the first major U.S. film festival held in person since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.As part of the festival, outdoor screenings will be held in all five New York City boroughs using portable 40-foot LED screens that will travel to different venues; community screenings will be included as part of the program.

Bethenny Frankel is more than just a TV housewife. The former "Real Housewives of New York" star has become a household name not just for her several years as a full-time cast member on the Bravo series.