Tribeca Festival to Open With World Premiere of 'In the Heights'

EXCLUSIVE: Heather McGhee’s New York Times bestseller The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together is getting the audio series treatment.

NEW YORK -- Billie Eilish completed the third stop of her massive tour, and was just two days away from headlining Madison Square Garden, before she had to cancel the trek because of the coronavirus pandemic last year.Now she's returning to New York City as one of the headliners of the Governors Ball Music Festival this fall.Founders Entertainment announced Tuesday that Eilish, A$AP Rocky, J Balvin, Post Malone, DaBaby and Megan Thee Stallion will perform on Sept.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorBillie Eilish, Post Malone, Megan Thee Stallion A$AP Rocky, J Balvin, Da Baby and many more are scheduled to perform at the 10 th anniversary edition of Governors Ball, New York’s largest music festival, on the weekend of Sept. 24-26 at the the Citi Field complex in the city’s borough of Queens.Other top-billed performers include Rufus Du Sol, Ellie Goulding, Leon Bridges, 21 Savage, Young Thug, Phoebe Bridgers, Portugal.

EXCLUSIVE: All the Streets Are Silent, a documentary portrait of the skateboarding and hip-hop scenes in New York in the late-1980s and early ’90s, has been acquired by Greenwich Entertainment.

Twitter below:The time has come for the event of the SUMMER. ☀️ #InTheHeightsMovie pic.twitter.com/fCoYZkDK9APrior to his smash hit “Hamilton,” Miranda made a name for himself on Broadway with this Tony-winning musical about Usnavi, a resident of Washington Heights in New York who dreams of a better life.

EXCLUSIVE: Magnolia Pictures International has acquired worldwide and U.S. sales rights to the comedic feature, Queen of Glory, which will make its world premiere at the 20th Tribeca Film Festival in June.

A line in one of Snoop Dogg’s new songs implies that he smoked marijuana with former President Barack Obama. The hip-hop artist recently released a new album, "From Tha Streets 2 The Suites," and a line from the track "Gang Signs" has many people wondering if the rapper publicly revealed he got high with Obama.  The lyric in question goes: "Still sippin’ gin and juice while I’m smoking marijuana / I bet you never blew with Obama," the New York Post first reported.

© @Copyright HELLO! Hello! Magazine Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle are expecting another baby this summer and we're all thrilled for them here at HELLO! Their son Archie Harrison is now 23 months, and while the couple are thoroughly enjoying parenthood, they haven't had an easy time over the past year. In July 2020, the Duchess revealed she had suffered a devastating miscarriage following Archie's birth. Writing in The New York Times in a piece titled The Losses We Share, Meghan told

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorThe New York ReelAbilities Film Festival has announced a selection of exclusive events and speakers to accompany its 13th annual ReelAbilities Film Festival programming.Highlights include the pilot reading of “Disgraced” with Julie Klausner (“Difficult People”), Shannon DeVido (“Best Summer Ever”)  and Alex Scordelis (“Difficult People”)The festival’s closing night will also feature the subject of the film “Not Going Quietly,” activist Ady Barkan, along with the

The 2021 Tribeca Film Festival has revealed its feature-film lineup, highlights of which include the world premiere of Hulu's Ilana Glazer starrer False Positive and the New York premiere of Sony's based-on-a-true-story, Depression-era football drama12 Mighty Orphans.

The Tribeca Film Festival on Tuesday revealed its 2021 lineup, with 66 films spanning three competition sections as well as the annual event’s Viewpoints, Spotlight, Midnight, Movies Plus, and Tribeca Critics’ Week sections.

The attendees of the ill-fated Fyre Festival are finally getting their payday.

NEW YORK -- The big-screen adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda's “In the Heights” will kick off the Tribeca Film Festival on June 9, two days before the film opens in theaters and begins streaming.Set in New York's Washington Heights, Jon M.

The 20th edition of the Tribeca Film Festival, taking advantage of its timing as the city and film business emerges from the pandemic, will open June 9 with the world premiere of In the Heights.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter“In the Heights,” a movie adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hit musical, has been tapped to open the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival.The festival’s opening night screening will be held on June 9 at the United Palace theater in Washington Heights.

Fyre Festival made headlines four years ago for being “the world’s biggest flop” – now, a court has put a price on the nightmare: approximately $7,220 (£5,225) apiece. The $2m (£1.

The US Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York has approved a $2 million class-action settlement for ticket-holders to the ill-fated Fyre Festival.