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Angelique Jackson Ever since “Nine Days” filmmaker Edson Oda won the Sundance Film Festival’s Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award in January 2020, the prize has been a great boost of confidence whenever a little imposter syndrome syndrome kicks in.“I keep it on another table so I can see it,” Edson tells Variety over Zoom, pointing at the trophy, which is just off camera.

Well, if you were hoping for a peaceful, loving resolution to the growing rift between Bam Margera and the rest of the Jackass crew… don’t hold your breath.

Bam Margera — a skateboarder and television personality best known as one of the original stars of MTV’s “Jackass” series — he claims it’s the entities he’s now suing.Margera, 41, filed a lawsuit on Monday against a number of names including longtime co-star Johnny Knoxville, director Spike Jonze and Paramount — alleging that he was wrongfully terminated from the forthcoming installment of the “Jackass” film franchise, “Jackass Forever,” that’s out on Oct.

Bam Margera has filed a lawsuit against Johnny Knoxville, Spike Jonze and Paramount over his exclusion from Jackass Forever.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterBam Margera filed a lawsuit on Monday against Paramount, Johnny Knoxville and director Spike Jonze, alleging that he was wrongfully fired from the upcoming fourth installment of the “Jackass” film franchise.Margera, one of the stars of the original TV series and the subsequent films, was fired last fall, after allegedly testing positive for Adderall, violating the terms of a “wellness agreement” he signed with the film’s producers.Margera has been in and out of

Saturday Night Live‘s Chloe Fineman, Curb Your Enthusiasm‘s Jeff Garlin and The Middle‘s Troy Metcalf have joined Damien Chazelle’s 1920s Hollywood epic ensemble Babylon for Paramount.

Johnny Knoxville and the “Jackass” guys had their prime moment of cultural relevancy about twenty years ago after the TV show first premiered on MTV. Since then, there have been three feature films, each one more commercially successful than the last.

While movie lovers are already buzzing with excitement when it comes to Oscar-winning director Damien Chazelle's next titled Babylon, the ode to Hollywood's golden age, the Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie starrer is now jam-packed with additional star power.

Damien Chazelle‘s upcoming Babylon movie has added even more stars to the cast!

Damien Chazelle doesn’t make small films. Even his breakout film, “Whiplash,” is small in scale but features massive performances.

For many feature filmmakers, music videos provide a sort of proving ground early in their careers. Folks like David Fincher and Spike Jonze really made a name for themselves in the realm of music videos before leaping into feature films.

Arcade Fire and Canadian composer Owen Pallett have announced that they will finally release their score to Spike Jonze’s 2013 movie Her for the first time.The collaboration between the two acts provided the musical backdrop for Jonze’s Oscar-nominated dystopian drama, which starred Joaquin Phoenix, but it was never properly released digitally or physically.The soundtrack, which was nominated for Best Original Score at the 2014 Oscars, will now arrive on digital, vinyl, and cassette formats on

It’s been a good few years for Margaret Qualley. Breaking out in “The Leftovers,” she’s since caught the eye of Spike Jonze (“Kenzo World“), Quentin Tarantino (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood“), Netflix (“IO” opposite Anthony Mackie), FX (“Fosse/Verdon“), Tim Sutton (“Donnybrook“), Claire Denis (the not-yet-shot, “The Stars At Noon“) and has amassed a nice little career for herself that has come close to peaking yet.

Documentary+, the non-fiction streamer from You Cannot Kill David Arquette studio XTR, has unveiled its launch slate.

Dave McNary Film ReporterJamie Bell and Margaret Qualley will portray the legendary dance pair Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the biopic “Fred & Ginger” for Amazon Studios and Automatik.Bell and Qualley will also produce.

While Beyoncé, Taylor Swift and others dominated the Grammy Awards nominations announced today, a number of names more associated with the film and TV worlds also made the cut. Among those vying for statuettes on Music’s Biggest Night next year are Jerry Seinfeld, Tiffany Haddish, Meryl Streep, Rachel Maddow, Jeopardy! GOAT Ken Jennings and Spike Jonze.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorHer Oscar winner Spike Jonze has boarded Sony Pictures Classics upcoming early 2021 release as an Executive Producer. Additionally, SPC has also acquired the rights in Asia, Israel, Turkey and the rest of Europe, making it a worldwide release for the label.

Rooney Mara and  Joaquin Phoenix  reportedly welcome first child. The baby’s name pays tribute to late brother River Phoenix, director Victor Kossakovskys said at the Zurich Film Festival this weekend.Mara and Phoenix, met while filming Spike Jonze‘s Her in 2013 and went on to film Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot, Dominion, and Mary Magdalene together.

Peter White Television EditorBeastie Boys Story, released by AppleTV+ in April and nominated for five Emmys, tells the story of the band that was formed in 1978 by Adam Yauch, Mike Diamond and Adam Horovitz.The film, directed by long-time collaborator Spike Jonze, was not your usual rock doc.

another film with a knotty plot out this week, this one was fun to untangle.Kaufman started taking on directing duties with 2008’s “Synecdoche, New York,” and his relative simplicity here compared to the stylings of his previous collaborators Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry allows magic moments to pop out of nowhere.He makes “Ending Things” into a screen version of the immersive off-Broadway play “Sleep No More,” whisking us into seemingly normal rooms in which otherworldly scenes hazily play

Arriving at Reading Festival 2009 with £20 spending money, I quickly learned my lesson. The following year, in 2010, I had the far more impressive sum of £50 in my pocket.

In May of 2012, musician, artist, rapper, filmmaker, and political activist Adam Yauch (MCA) passed away after a battle with cancer. His influential group, the seminal hip -hop trio, The Beastie Boys, essentially died on the same day too.

Broken Record podcast, when Beastie Boys Mike “Mike D” Diamond and Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz reunite with Rick Rubin, who was their friend, producer and cowriter of their epochal 1986 debut album “Licensed to Ill.”And since Horovitz and Rubin hadn’t spoken in more than 20 years (not out of anger, but just because they simply hadn’t), it not only has the joyfulness of reuniting with an old friend, it almost amounts to an oral history of the group’s early years: touring with Run-DMC and Madonna,

It earned three Oscar nominations and countless fans but Spike Jonze’s 1999 film “Being John Malkovich” could not initially count John Malkovich among them.

By Jem Aswad

It’s impossible not to feel good when Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz and Michael “Mike D” Diamond are talking. The two living Beastie Boys lightly ribbing each other, reminiscing, making bad jokes, and showing goofy photos of their teenage years—as far as nostalgia goes, this is about as warm and fuzzy as it gets.

Under the radar. Rooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix have kept their romance relatively private since they were first linked in 2016, but their flame has still burned bright.

Update: As of Tuesday (March 17), the doc's release date has been postponed to a later date, TBD.

By Dino-Ray Ramos

A new, intimate, and personal look at the Beastie Boys is coming to Apple TV+.

The Beastie Boys are in full effect in the first official trailer for the upcoming Beastie Boys Story documentary, directed by their longtime pal and collaborator Spike Jonze.The nearly three-minute preview opens with some classic glimpses of B-Boys videos and live performances, before turning to early days footage of the group -- including then-drummer and later Luscious Jackson member Kate Schellenbach behind the kid -- with Ad-Rock (Adam Horovitz) and Mike D (Michael Diamond) explaining that

Apple TV+ has debuted the full trailer for their upcoming feature-length Beastie Boys documentary Beastie Boys Story. The film is directed by Spike Jonze and has to be one of my hotly anticipated streaming releases in the coming months.

They join major companies such as Netflix and Facebook to pull out of the event

Beastie Boys, Ozzy Osbourne, and Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have canceled their scheduled appearances at this year’s South By Southwest festival in Austin due to the ongoing threat of coronavirus.

Here is a very brief taster for the upcoming Apple TV+ documentary Beastie Boys Story which comes to the new streamer later in the year.

Three months before the Spike Jonze-directed Beastie Boys Story documentary hits Apple TV+, the first trailer dropped on Monday (Jan. 27).