‘Port Authority’ Star Leyna Bloom on Working With Martin Scorsese and Appearing in Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Issue

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorProject Angel Food’s upcoming telethon, “Lead With Love 2021,” will include appearances by “Batwoman” star Javicia Leslie, Jamie Lee Curtis, Maria Shriver and Matt Bomer.

The musical animals of “Sing” are back.

Unlike some of the other anniversary reunions at this year’s Tribeca Festival, which had to go virtual out of an abundance of (almost) post-pandemic safety, Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro couldn’t attend their Sunday night “Raging Bull” screening because they were out of town – in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, shooting their adaptation of David Grann’s book “Killers of the Flower Moon.” But Scorsese also wasn’t going to settle for some glitchy Zoom recording, so on Saturday night, in front of a

The Tribeca Festival wrapped Sunday night, its last event a retrospective screening of Raging Bull with a video (pre-recorded) of Leonardo DiCaprio interviewing Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro about the iconic 1980 film. The director called it, “the culmination of everything I had desired it to be.”

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorAmazon is thinking outside the box for ways to promote its new sci-fi action movie ‘The Tomorrow War.’ Literally.For the first time, Amazon will be branding its shipping boxes to promote an Amazon Studios film. The boxes will be used in the United States, Canada, Brazil and Australia beginning Friday, June 18.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorNo doubt playing a serial killer could really mess with one’s psyche. Just ask Tahar Rahim.The actor portrays real-life 1970s French murderer Charles Sobhraj in Netflix’s eight-episode “The Serpent.” When they first began shooting, he thought he was able to leave the work behind him when he went home at the end of the day.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorVice World News is launching a news series about trans issues from around the world.“Transnational” will feature trans correspondents reporting stories from Mexico, the United States and the United Kingdom. The series will premiere on June 24 on Vice’s YouTube channel and social platforms.“When trans people watch this show, we want them to feel seen.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorJonathan Majors had just come from a boxing session with his trainer when he joined me for an interview for Tuesday’s episode of “Just for Variety.”I couldn’t help but wonder if the workout was to prepare him for his upcoming work in the next “Ant-Man” movie or the third “Creed” to be directed by Michael B. Jordan.

Taxi Driver, Fran Lebowitz has said.Lebowitz, who was the central focus of Scorsese’s latest Netflix docuseries Pretend It’s A City, told the LA Times about the filmmaker’s regrets about his 1976 feature.Describing the filming schedule for the series, Lebowitz explained that the release was postponed due to Scorsese’s edit on The Irishman, and teased that the veteran filmmaker favours a longer editing process.“I guarantee you if they had not taken it away from him, he would still be editing Taxi

If bon mots were bonbons, Fran Lebowitz would be Willie Wonka.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorDemi Lovato is celebrating Pride Month by designing a face mask with Richfresh’s Henry to celebrate and support the non-binary community.The mask is included in a limited-edition four-pack of masks, available starting Monday, which also feature butterfly and UFO designs.Lovato revealed in May that they identify as non-binary.“Not only has my life been a journey for myself, I was also living for those on the other side of the cameras,” the

Happy Mondays‘ Bez & Rowetta have joined forces with a selection of famous faces to record a new version of ‘Vindaloo’ to mark the start of Euro 2020.Danny Dyer, Two Pints Of Lager… star Will Mellor, Paddy McGuinness, Keith Lemon and original Fat Les member Keith Allen have also come together for ‘Vindaloo Two’, with all proceeds from the track going towards to the charity NHS Charities Together.While remaining largely faithful to the 1998 track, the ‘Vindaloo Two’ video also sees the gang being

Leyna Bloom is a star, but she lives by the moon. «It was a full moon literally last night,» she tells me by Zoom from her Brooklyn apartment.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor“Crazy Rich Asians” author Kevin Kwan didn’t have to look far for role models when he decided to be a writer. His aunt was a journalist in his native Singapore at The Singapore Monitor.“At the time, it was a new newspaper.

While gems like “Lingua Franca,” “Tangerine,” and “Pose” have given face to transgender women of color through open, real love stories, trans romance movies are still in short supply. Director Danielle Lessovitz, a queer woman, attempts to expand that scope with her film “Port Authority,” starring Fionn Whitehead and Leyna Bloom.