Viggo Mortensen, Director Peter Farrelly Reteam on New Skydance Film (EXCLUSIVE)

Ramin Setoodeh New York Bureau ChiefYes, there’s Gus Van Sant, Pedro Almodovar, Lee Daniels, Gregg Araki, Kimberly Peirce, Lisa Cholodenko and Dee Rees.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorWithin two weeks of David France reading an article in The New Yorker about the persecution of LGTBQ people in Chechnya, he was on a plane headed to Moscow.It’s there that he first met the men and women who are featured in his new documentary “Welcome to Chechnya,” which premieres Tuesday on HBO.

The beloved 1987 film The Princess Bride is getting a quarantine-style reboot for the new streaming service Quibi. Starting on June 29, Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas – plus a star-studded cast of players – will begin releasing chapters of the movie remake everyday for two weeks.

A New York City judge has dismissed a claim by Donald Trump's brother that sought to halt the publication of a tell-all book by the president's niece. In a ruling handed down on Thursday, Judge Peter Kelly said the Surrogates Court lacked jurisdiction in the case.

Mackenzie Nichols Staff WriterFrequent testing, stricter cleaning procedures, and social distancing are part of a new set of production guidelines released Wednesday by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo as the Empire State looks to resume shooting movies and television shows.In March, productions and movie theaters shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic, grinding one of the state’s top industries to a standstill and leaving thousands of people, from actors to directors to lighting technicians,

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David Robb Labor EditorMichelle Byrd has been named associate national executive director of the Producers Guild of America. She’d previously been the PGA East’s managing director, and will remain based in New York.

Savannah Guthrie and Al Roker are together again! The “Today” show co-anchors reunited in person on Tuesday’s episode, both reporting live from Hudson, New York.

Scott Soshnick David and Simon Reuben, who amassed a fortune investing in real estate, technology companies and leisure, are exploring a bid for the New York Mets, people familiar with the matter told Sportico.The brothers, who were born in India and moved to London as teenagers, have a combined net worth of about $14 billion — built on one of the largest portfolios of retail, office and residential properties.The brothers are likely drawn to the team because of the real estate development

Savannah Guthrie and Al Roker are together again! The show co-anchors reunited in person on Tuesday's episode, both reporting live from Hudson, New York.Guthrie appeared on the show first, teasing to Hoda Kotb, who was in the show studio, that she was «bringing the fun» while reporting from upstate New York. Guthrie proved her point when the camera zoomed out to show Roker standing near her, while still adhering to social-distancing guidelines.«I told you I was bringing the fun.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticI’ll never forget the one time I got to talk to Joel Schumacher, the fluky, baroquely skilled, stylishly protean Hollywood filmmaker who died Monday at 80. It was June 1985, and I was one of the journalists attending the New York press junket for “St.

Joel Schumacher, the flamboyant journeyman director who counted Brat Pack movies and the Batman franchise among his varied output, has died at the age of 80.

Filmmaker Joel Schumacher passed away Monday in New York at the age of 80.

NEW YORK -- Joel Schumacher, the flamboyant journeyman director who dressed New York department store windows before shepherding the Brat Pack to the big screen in “St. Elmo's Fire” and steering the Batman franchise into its most baroque territory in “Batman Forever” and “Batman & Robin,” has died.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerAlan Metter, the director for the 1980s pop culture films Girls Just Want To Have Fun and Back To School, died on June 7, according to the New York Film Academy, where he taught. Details on the cause or location were not provided.Metter was born in Sharon, Mass., on Dec.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerAlan Mettler, the director for the 1980s pop culture films Girls Just Want To Have Fun and Back To School, died on June 7, according to the New York Film Academy, where he taught. Details on the cause or location were not provided.Metter was born in Sharon, Mass., on Dec.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorWomen in Film Los Angeles on Wednesday launched Hire Her Back, an initiative to call on entertainment companies to continue to seek gender and racial equality in their hiring as the the industry looks to return to film and TV production after the COVID-19 shutdown.Key to the initiative is the Hire Her Back Fund, a partnership among WIF, New York Women in Film & Television and Women In Film and Television Atlanta to provide grants to women in the industry

NEW YORK -- Stressed out while working at a bank in New Zealand, Junelle Kunin began searching for music paired with teachings from the Dalai Lama to calm herself down and allow herself to focus. But she couldn’t find it online.