Roxane Gay’s Graphic Novel ‘The Banks’ Gets Film Adaptation

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterThe New York Latino Film Festival (NYLFF) has set their lineup for their forthcoming hybrid edition of its fest which will take place September 14-20.In the wake of the pandemic, many festivals have either canceled or pivoted to an entirely virtual program. NYLFF is one of the Latinx-based film fests that have continued with plans for their annual fest — with the appropriate changes.

Jordan Moreau “Call Me by Your Name” director Luca Guadagnino is moving to TV with “We Are Who We Are,” and the upcoming HBO drama has released its first trailer on Sunday.The limited series stars Jack Dylan Grazer, Chloë Sevigny, Alice Braga, Kid Cudi and Jordan Kristine Seamon, who makes her acting debut in the series.The eight-episode show explores the upbringing of 14-year-old Fraser Wilson (Grazer), who moves from New York to a military base in Veneto, Italy, with his mothers, Sarah

Debra Messing announces, having logged onto the video chat service a solid five minutes before our interview was set to start. «I'm always early!»The apparently perennially punctual actress is sitting in her New York home, earbuds in, ready to talk about her next chapter, which kicked off when she closed the last one by saying goodbye to Will & Grace for the second time in April.

The New York Film Festival has added the world premiere of Sofia Coppola's On the Rocks, which sees the filmmaker reunite with her Lost in Translation star Bill Murray in a comedy about a father-daughter duo played by Murray and Rashida Jones, to its lineup. The A24 and Apple Original Films title joins a number of other high-profile titles in the Spotlight section at 58th annual event, presented by Film at Lincoln Center.

Moments ago, the New York Film Festival announced their new Spotlight section. For this 58th incarnation of the festival, a very unique one already, which will focus largely on outdoor and virtual screenings, NYFF is opening to try this approach, which will include sneak previews, gala events, screenings with live elements, and other more.

Dave McNary Film ReporterSofia Coppola’s “On the Rocks,” centered on a father/daughter duo played by Rashida Jones and Bill Murray, will world premiere at the New York Film Festival as part of its new spotlight section.“On the Rocks” will be released in October by A24 and Apple TV.

Lisa Cortés and Liz Garbus, USA, 2020, 102mAll In: The Fight for Democracy is an invigorating and rigorous primer on the history of voter suppression in the United States, an insidious and still persistent reality in our nation.

The Mothers. The novel, which she began writing while still an undergraduate at Stanford, became a New York Times Bestseller and was optioned by Warner Bros., with Kerry Washington signed on to produce.

NEW YORK -- The author and educator Kleaver Cruz has traveled the world asking the same question: “What does Black joy mean to you?” Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books & Media announced Monday that Cruz has adapted his “Black Joy Project" into a book of the same name. “Black Joy Project,” which does not yet have a release date, will combine images and essays into what Cruz has called the vital use of joy as a path to resistance.

Peter White Television EditorMany of the late-night shows have started to return to the studio following the COVID-19 production shutdown.However, Samantha Bee outlined her show’s own challenges with returning to its New York studio.TBS’ Full Frontal With Samantha Bee shoots in the CBS Broadcast Center on West 57th Street in New York – the same studio that HBO’s Last Week Tonight and Showtime’s Desus & Mero shoot in.Since March, the show has been filming from Bee’s house in the woods in upstate

Amanda N'Duka pmc-editorial-managerEXCLUSIVE: Annapurna has tapped Janicza Bravo, the writer and director behind the forthcoming Zola, to write and direct a series adaptation of Ian Parker’s New Yorker article A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions, which has Jake Gyllenhaal attached to star.Published in February 2019, Parker’s story explores the complex life of former book editor Dan Mallory, whose debut psychological thriller, The Woman in the Window, written under the pseudonym A.J.

Nellie Andreeva, Denise Petski HBO Max has given a pilot order to Verbatim, an anthology series from Brett Weiner (Honest Trailers), Ben Stiller’s Red Hour Films and Left/Right Productions.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ordersCreated and directed by Weiner, Verbatim is based on his New York Times Op-Docs digital series. It tackles actual events with all dialogue taken from primary sources and presented verbatim.

Marisa Roffman When Mike Makowsky decided to tackle the mid-2000s Roslyn Union Free School District embezzlement scandal for the screen, he wasn’t entirely sure how to navigate the story.Makowsky, who went to school in the district and met one of the key figures, Frank Tassone, as a child, visited his former high school and spoke to a few teachers there.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Management and production company 42 (The Courier) is teaming with fledgling LA-based label A-Major Media to develop and produce Megan Chan Meinero’s play Good Fortune for film. New York playwright Chan Meinero is writing the adaptation.Mary Lee, previously head of film at Justin Lin’s Perfect Storm Entertainment, is producing for A-Major, which she set up last year year to champion Asian-American voices in film and TV.

Author Brit Bennett has had quite the whirlwind summer. Though her novel, The Vanishing Half (Riverhead Books), arrived while the country was in the midst of a pandemic, the author's new release became an instant sensation.

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have been "getting along" after they took a family vacation to work on their marriage following recent troubles.Kim Kardashian and Kanye West were spotted arriving in Miami on Sunday, days after they started a vacation in the Dominican Republic.

was delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, which shut down production on the show in mid-March.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: After optioning the screen rights, Greenland and The Night House producer Anton has tapped rising U.S.