Variety Honors Hong Kong’s Long-Distance Runners at NYAFF

NEW YORK (AP) — A controlling R. Kelly barred his live-in girlfriends from watching a documentary series that portrayed him as a sexual predator and kept watch over them during an interview with Gayle King, one of the women testified Tuesday at the R&B singer's sex-trafficking trial.

NEW YORK -- A controlling R. Kelly barred his live-in girlfriends from watching a documentary series that portrayed him as a sexual predator and kept watch over them during an interview with Gayle King, one of the women testified Tuesday at the R&B singer's sex-trafficking trial.If “Surviving R.

Every year, the New York Film Festival welcomes “the season’s most anticipated and significant films” to take part in its Spotlight section. And though 2021 has been a really odd year (much like 2020) for the film industry, the Spotlight section for this year is truly stacked with some great picks.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaIn 2010, Hank Morris, a big-time political consultant and powerbroker, pleaded guilty to involvement in a pension fraud pay-to-play scandal.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaGroundbreaking works by John Carpenter, Mira Nair, Melvin Van Peebles, Nina Menkes and Michael Powell will be featured in the Revivals lineup of the 59th New York Film Festival.

Jamie Lang Survey says!… Hong Kong is getting its own “Family Feud” remake as Fremantle and TVB team to bring a local format of the historic game show to the island’s airwaves. Local broadcaster TVB will host the show on its TVB Jade Channel starting Aug.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla “Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service,” by Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post investigative journalist Carol Leonnig, will be getting the silver screen treatment.

NEW YORK -- Amanda Gorman can still remember when she was just another young poet trying to find her voice.Gorman and Penguin Random House have established the Amanda Gorman Award for Poetry, a $10,000 prize for public high school students who submit the best original work.“As someone who found my love of writing at a young age, I want to continue to foster that same love in the next generation of great poets," Gorman said in a statement Thursday.

André Braugher has joined Universal-Annapurna-Plan B’s feature adaptation of New York Times bestseller She Said about Pulitzer Prize winners Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey’s investigative journalism into movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s history of sexual assault, which led to his conviction.

While probably the two biggest announcements at this year’s New York Film Festival have already been announced, with the premieres of Joel Coen’s “Tragedy of Macbeth” on Opening Night and Pedro Almodovar’s “Parallel Mothers” closing out the event, it appears the folks at NYFF still had some tricks up their sleeves as we now know the full lineup for the fall festival.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVNicole Byer, the Emmy-nominated host of Netflix’s unscripted baking-comedy competition “Nailed It,” is getting her first hour-long stand-up comedy special on the streamer.The currently untitled special will be filmed at the Gramercy Theatre in New York on Sept. 5 and will premiere later this year.“I’m so fucking excited to do this.

said on CNN’s “The Handoff” podcast, which he co-hosts with fellow CNN host Don Lemon. “I’m looking forward to it.” Cuomo said he would be spending the week at his home in Long Island with his family.New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Tuesday that Andrew Cuomo was found to have violated laws, created a hostile work environment, harassed staffers and even retaliated after being publicly accused.

Nas has shared the tracklist for his new album ‘King’s Disease II’, which features a collaboration with Eminem.The New York rapper announced the record – the follow-up to 2020’s ‘King’s Disease’ – last week, and will release it this Friday (August 6) via Mass Appeal Records.Taking to social media today (August 3), Nas revealed the back cover for the incoming LP, which features a 15-song tracklist.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaPedro Almodóvar’s “Parallel Mothers” has been tapped as the closing night selection of the 59th New York Film Festival. The melodrama, which reunites the Spanish auteur with one of his greatest cinematic muses, Penélope Cruz, will make its North American premiere October 8 at Alice Tully Hall.

Kristen Taekman is showing out. The former "Real Housewives of New York" star, 44, was photographed on Monday wearing a bright green one-piece while spending time poolside at a friend's home in Long Island, New York.

After being announced earlier this month, a street block in Long Beach, New York has officially been renamed to honour the memory of the late MF DOOM (real name Daniel Dumile).The prestigious honour was granted to the rapper after extensive lobbying from Dr. Patrick C.

King Princess has teased her next album, calling it a “legendary” album that she’s “super proud of”.The New York-based singer released her debut album ‘Cheap Queen’ back in 2019, and is already readying its follow-up.Speaking on Audacy’s New Arrivals with Bryce Segall, King Princess said work on her second album is all written and almost into the mixing stage.“I came out with a really legendary album I’m super proud of,” she said. “I’m done writing.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaEva Marie Saint is particular about one thing.“It’s Eva Marie, not Eva,” she says with the trademark lilt, the one that melted the likes of Marlon Brando and Cary Grant in such classics as “On the Waterfront” and “North by Northwest.”“I don’t want to embarrass you,” she adds to her temporarily flummoxed interviewer.