Spike Lee to Get American Cinematheque Virtual Award Honor

Joe Biden‘s US election victory.Biden was called as the next President of the United States earlier today (November 7) after days of vote counting finally saw him eclipse the 270 electoral college votes needed to win the race and defeat current President Donald Trump.Footage has now emerged on Twitter of Lee leading a street party in Fort Greene, wearing a mask and spraying champagne over revellers.“Spike Lee is drinking champagne in the middle of the street in Fort Greene LMAOOOOO,” a tweeter

David Byrne and Spike Lee’s American Utopia has finally set a release date in the UK.The filmed version of Byrne’s smash-hit Broadway show premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, and then screened at London Film Festival last month.Universal will be releasing American Utopia on VOD services from December 14, in light of the coronavirus restrictions facing cinemas at the moment.The show played at New York City’s Hudson Theatre on Broadway from October 2019 to February

Chrissy Teigen is paying tribute to her late son, Jack. The model and best-selling author took to Twitter on Saturday to share a couple of updates with fans following her pregnancy loss earlier this fall.

Spike Lee did not take kindly to the recent comments made by President Trump's adviser Jared Kushner concerning Black people being successful in America.

"God willing we'll all be back working together," said Spike Lee as he accepted the Trailblazer Award on Saturday during a virtual presentation of the 7th annual Location Managers Guild International Awards. Lee saluted location managers, saying without them, "I would not be able do what I do" as he rarely shoots on sets.

HollyShorts Film Festival — an Oscar-qualifying event now in its 16th year — is going virtual this year, scheduled for Nov. 9-15 and showcasing 418 short films.

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage, and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

Janet W. Lee In today’s TV news roundup, ABC released a trailer for the fifth season of “American Housewife,” and Apple TV Plus is making the “Helpsters” Halloween special available for free.ABC will debut its five-part docuseries, “Our America: Living While Black,” during the network-owned television stations’ newscasts from Oct. 19 to Oct. 23 and premiere the hourlong documentary on Oct. 24.

It doesn’t matter what a film’s plot is about when it stars such incredible actors such as Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan. Whenever you see actors at that caliber headlining a film, tickets are automatically sold.

David Byrne‘s acclaimed American Utopia live show is set to return to Broadway in New York City next September.Byrne’s stage show/“rock spectacle” is a live adaptation of the artist’s 2018 solo album ‘American Utopia’, which NME previously praised as “the best musical experience on the planet”.This week’s premiere of the Spike Lee-directed HBO release of American Utopia has been accompanied by the news that the show intends to return to the Broadway stage on September 17, 2021.The show had

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticDavid Byrne’s American Utopia will return to Broadway next fall. Producers announced today that the critically lauded production will hit the stage Sept.

David Byrne‘s American Utopia is free to watch online tonight (October 14).The film of the Talking Heads frontman’s Broadway smash will be streaming on BFI Player as part of the 2020 BFI London Film Festival.American Utopia is a live recording of a Broadway performance of the show at the Hudson Theatre in New York City, itself a modified version of Byrne’s solo album of the same name released in 2018 via the musician’s label Todo Mundo.The show sees Byrne performing alongside 11 musicians,

Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week.MOVIES— Broadway is dark and most concert tours have been abandoned, but you can still feel the thrill of being inside a packed house in “ David Byrne’s American Utopia.” Spike Lee's concert film of Byrne's acclaimed stage show debuts Saturday at 8 p.m. on HBO and HBO Max, and it may be one of the best films of the year.

Ever since the pandemic darkened theaters earlier this year, sending the entire performing arts world into a catastrophic state of limbo, we’ve seen all manner of creative virtual substitutes: Digital dance seasons, clever musical mashups, a live-captured version of “Hamilton.”Many of these have been good, some great. Yet none have truly matched the visceral experience many of us crave so profoundly: live performance, in a theater.

David Byrne and Spike Lee have shared their fears over the forthcoming US presidential election.The pair, who recently teamed up for a film version of Byrne’s show ‘American Utopia’, have said they fear Donald Trump could get a second term despite Joe Biden being ahead in the polls.Byrne said: “I’m scared about the election.

Da 5 Bloods' Spike Lee has opened up about working with late actor Chadwick Boseman, and how his passing has since changed the director's interpretation of his character in the Netflix movie. The filmmaker said he was "in shock" when he found out that the Marvel star had died of colon cancer on August 28, and that he and his wife immediately rewatched the acclaimed war drama after they learned the news.

Chadwick Boseman, especially because he never thought the actor was battling cancer on the set of his latest Netflix movie ‘Da 5 Bloods.’The Oscar winning director casted the actor for his last movie and revealed Boseman never discussed his diagnosis, “he did not look well, but my mind never took that he had cancer,” referring to scenes in the movie that were shot in Thailand, “It was 100 degrees every day.

Chadwick Boseman was a soldier until the very end.