Nobelist Wole Soyinka to honor Henry Louis Gates at PEN gala
NEW YORK — Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka will be attending this fall's PEN America literary gala, flying in from his native Nigeria to help...
Spanish film festival shifts to gender neutral awards
MADRID — Spain’s San Sebastián International Film Festival announced Tuesday that its acting awards will this year be gender neutral for the first time.
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Documentary examines troubled past with Confederate statues
NEW YORK — Perplexed by America’s controversial relationship with Confederate monuments, “The Daily Show” correspondent CJ Hunt saw potential for what he thought would...
Spielberg’s Amblin to make several films a year for Netflix
NEW YORK — Steven Spielberg, a filmmaker synonymous with big-screen enchantment, has set a new deal with Netflix in which his production company, Amblin...
SAG Awards will return in February 2022 with 2-hour show
LOS ANGELES — The Screen Actors Guild Awards are returning to a two-hour format for its 2022 edition, which will air the last weekend...
15 months later, Radio City reopens with Dave Chappelle
NEW YORK — Fifteen months after shuttering for the pandemic, New York's Radio City Music Hall reopened its doors Saturday for the Tribeca Festival...
‘The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard’ hits top mark at box office
LOS ANGELES — “The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard” struck the top box office target.
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NSA to NSO: NY filmmakers explore circles of surveillance
BERLIN — American filmmaker Laura Poitras, known for her award-winning 2014 documentary on former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden and his revelations about the...
Review: Kevin Hart shows range in tearjerker ‘Fatherhood’
Kevin Hart can make us laugh and cry, it seems, even if the vehicle was practically engineered to bring on the waterworks. In “Fatherhood,”...
