Richard Linklater’s latest film Hitman has started production in New Orleans and ShivHans Pictures and Monarch Media have boarded the project as co-financiers, AGC Studios announced today.
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th century.Author and New Orleans native Fatima Shaik is the granddaughter of an immigrant Bengali merchant named Shaik Mohamed Musa who, as was not uncommon when Indian men uprooted to segregated America, married a local African-American woman and blended into a welcoming Black community. Fatima never knew her grandfather — he died in 1919 before he could see his three children grow up — but she also grew up with little sense of her Indian heritage outside a treasured hookah of his that was lost in the Katrina flooding.Katrina’s devastation, which took loved ones of Fatima’s, spurred her to better understand a piece of her family tree that felt like an unfilled space, and in the documentary “The Bengali,” from Kolkata-born filmmaker Kavery Kaul, we’re with Fatima as she travels for the very first time to India to trace her grandfather’s existence, and hopefully to meet new relatives.
But the trip might also clarify family lore that nobody ever confirmed: in making a life for himself in New Orleans, did grandfather leave behind land he owned?What sounds like a heartfelt journey of discovery is, however, not as deeply affecting as one would wish. It comes off as more of a wandering travelogue that only hints at richer insights into the bridging of cultures, preferring the comfort of an established trajectory to what seems, in bits and pieces, to have been an intriguingly uncertain quest.There’s also an untapped awkwardness to Kaul’s participation as director and companion, a role which obviously shifted from an attempt to capture her subject’s culture adjustment, in a semi-staged, semi-vérité-style, to actively helping her protagonist find Shaik’s home village of Khori and conducting interviews separately with the
.Richard Linklater’s latest film Hitman has started production in New Orleans and ShivHans Pictures and Monarch Media have boarded the project as co-financiers, AGC Studios announced today.
Beyoncé stars in an irresistibly energetic new ad campaign for Tiffany & Co.
Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos are teaming up once again!
EXCLUSIVE: The Favourite director Yorgos Lanthimos and Searchlight Pictures are looking to stay in business with each other as the studio is greenlighting his next film AND. Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe and Margaret Qualley are set to star. With a script developed by Element Pictures and Film4 and penned by Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou, the film is produced by Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe of Element, along with Kasia Malipan and Lanthimos.
Yorgos Lanthimos‘ follow-up to 2018’s “The Favourite,” “Poor Things,” doesn’t even have a release date yet, and news about his next movie is already here. Deadline reports that Lanthimos teams up with Searchlight Pictures for the fifth time with “AND,” and the film stars much of the same main cast as “Poor Things.” READ MORE: ‘Bleat’ Trailer: Emma Stone Stars In A New Yorgos Lanthimos-Directed Short Premiering May 6 In Greece “AND” sees Emma Stone, Margaret Qualley, and Willem Dafoe return to work with Lanthimos again, just after finishing up “Poor Things.” Joining them is Jesse Plemons, Plot details are being kept under wraps, but the film starts production next month in New Orleans.
Margaret Brown entranced audiences at the Sundance Film Festival with “Descendant,” her documentary about the historic discovery of a lost slave ship in 2019. The movie made such a splash at Sundance that it won a Special Jury Prize.
Jennifer Lopez is adding one more achievement to her resume. The 53-year-old has become the new global ambassador for Italian lingerie brand Intimissimi, in an effort to introduce the growing brand in the United States.The company signed the deal with the Hollywood star, making Jennifer the name face of Intimissimi, with general manager Marcello Veronesi explaining that they have an ambitious growth plan that has been slowed down during the last years, following the coronavirus pandemic.Sandro Veronesi, the company’s CEO, revealed that the brand is aware of the differences between European and American markets and audience.“We want to grow a lot and we also want to understand better the taste and the preferences of the American public because the two markets are different and the competitors are different,” he shared.Jennifer is known for having a unique and eclectic style, previously explaining that she kept “that mix of toughness and sexiness” after growing up in “New York, in the Bronx.”“It was very Latin, big hoops and eyeliner, and that stayed with me,” Jennifer said.
we pay a flippin’ fortune to be stuck inside a dingy remake of “Death Wish” that’s actually far freakier than most of the camp antics “AHS” creator Ryan Murphy has ever dreamt up.Jessica Lange as a mental patient singing “The Name Game”; Kathy Bates chewing scenery as the severed head of a New Orleans witch; Sarah Paulson shrieking on election night 2016 as she watches the news — cute, fun, silly.Compared to previous seasons “Asylum” and “Coven,” New York is a hellhole — five boroughs in the nine circles where major crime has soared 36% and one rotting onion costs $2 while an ever-present haze of pot smoke hovers like graveyard fog on “Scooby Doo.” Our city is awash in actual, palpable dread and tourists are afraid to come here. We should change the famous lyric to “Start spreading the mace!” Indeed, there’s enough material in our foul city for an entire “AHS” spin-off series. Random subway shovings have become so common that the city is planning to install plastic dividers on some platforms, and the uptick in underground incidents has spurred Gov.
Channel Tres has shared the second single from his debut studio LP, Real Cultural Shit. “No Limit” drops two-and-a-half months ahead of the album’s scheduled December 8 release via GODMODE, and two months behind the project’s announcement and the arrival of its lead single, “Just Can’t Get Enough.” Both of the songs released on RCS’ cycle thus far have celebrated the roots of house music, but “Just Can’t Get Enough” and “No Limit” spread in distinct directions.
Post Malone was scheduled to perform to in Boston, Massachusetts tonight (September 24), but cancelled the show after he was taken to hospital for excruciating pain.In a statement shared to social media, the rapper (real name Austin Post) explained that he “woke up to cracking sounds on the right side of [his] body”, likely stemming from the brutal fall he took in St. Louis last week.
“Karamo,” just two weeks ahead of its Sept. 19 premiere (weekdays at 1 p.m.
New Order and Pet Shop Boys kicked off their joint North American tour over the weekend – see footage, pictures and the setlists from their opening night below.The British synthpop titans’ tour got underway at Toronto’s Budweiser Stage on Saturday (September 17) following delays due to the COVID pandemic.The Unity Tour’s revised dates include guest DJ Paul Oakenfold and take in an additional date at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center in New York. Head here for any remaining tickets.New Order opened their set on Saturday with ‘Regret’ and wrapped with a cover of Joy Division‘s ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’.Pet Shop Boys, meanwhile, opened with ‘Surburbia’ before closing with ‘Being Boring’.
Oscar-winning director Laura Poitras will be guest of honor at the 35th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), running from November 9 to 20.
Moment of frustration. Tom Brady is apologizing for an emotional outburst that took place during the recent game between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the New Orleans Saints.
Scott Bakula is setting the record straight on why he is not involved in NBC’s Quantum Leap reboot and shuts down any speculation that he may reprise his role on the sequel, which premieres this coming Monday, Sept. 19.
Dinner and drinks with a view! Hotel Hendricks has it all – with the new and improved Isla & Co and Daintree Rooftop bar, it is an obvious NYC hot spot.
Mystikal could face a life sentence if he’s found guilty of a rape charge.The rapper, real name Michael Lawrence Tyler, has been indicted by Louisiana jury on charges of first-degree rape from an alleged sexual assault that is said to have occurred at his Lousiana home in late July.If found guilty, the 51-year-old will face a life sentence under state law. The rapper, who remains in custody at the Ascension Parish Prison without the possibility of bail, hasn’t publicly denied the charges.His lawyer Joel Pearce told reporters of the recent charges.
Kourtney Kardashian, Kelly Ripa and Tom Brady marked the poignant occasion with heartfelt tributes on social media.SEE: Catherine Zeta-Jones reveals heartache after loss of 'a real family member'Their posts honored the 2,977 innocent people who died in 2001, including 340 firefighters and 72 police officers, and over 25,000 injured. The series of coordinated terrorist attacks against the USA saw two planes crash into the Twin Towers in Manhattan, while a third hit the Pentagon, just outside Washington DC.
Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic “Causeway,” starring Jennifer Lawrence as a U.S. Army soldier recovering from injuries that are physical, mental, and spiritual, is the furthest thing from a genre film. Yet it belongs to what I’ve come to think of as a genre: the slow-burn non-verbal indie gloomfest. In saying that, I don’t mean to make light of the subject. Lawrence plays Lynsey, a member of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers who returns from Afghanistan after riding in a vehicle that was struck by a bomb, which caused her to have a cerebral hemorrhage. At the start, she’s seated in a wheelchair, waiting for the home health-care worker (Jayne Houdyshell) who’s going to look after her as she undergoes rehab. Tentatively, Lynsey starts to walk, but for a while she struggles to bathe, drive, remember things. The brain injury has smashed and weakened her; she’s a person in fragments.