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Issue Date: 04/16/2025 | Click headlines for full story, pics, video or to comment
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Tribeca Festival Sets Feature Film Lineup, Which Includes Medley Of Music Stars
The 2025 Tribeca Festival will feature a medley of music stars, including Billy Joel, Miley Cyrus and Eddie Vedder, in its 24th edition. The annual New York festival, which in 2022 dropped “Film” from its name, unveiled the lineup Wednesday. The festival, which runs June 4-15, kicks off with the premiere of “Billy Joel: And
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Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan Discuss Their Reteaming For “Sinners” and Upping The Ante
Ryan Coogler was the one who convinced Michael B. Jordan he could be a movie star. That was 13 years ago on “Fruitvale Station,” Jordan’s first time leading a feature film and Coogler’s first time making one. And it was the start of an enviably rich creative collaboration that would take them from the Rocky
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Nate Bargatze will host the 2025 Emmy Awards
Stand-up comedian Nate Bargatze will host the 77th Emmy Awards, CBS announced Wednesday. One of the most popular stand-ups currently working, Bargatze will emcee the Sept. 14 ceremony at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. While the Oscars have found success with Conan O’Brien, set to return in 2026, and the Golden Globes with returning
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Biscuit Filmworks Adds Florence Poppy Deary To Its U.K. Roster For Commercial Representation
Florence Poppy Deary has joined Biscuit Filmworks’ U.K. directing roster for her first career commercial representation. Deary is an award-winning writer, animator, and director working in film and commercials. Inspired by human nuance and universal truths, she seeks to capture life’s bizarre realities through her acerbic, observational animations and live-action projects. An emerging British comedy
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Actor Michelle Trachtenberg died of complications from diabetes, says NYC medical examiner
Actor Michelle Trachtenberg died as a result of complications from diabetes, New York City’s medical examiner said Wednesday. The office said in a statement that it amended the cause and manner of death for the 39-year-old New York City native following a review of laboratory test results. Trachtenberg, who was known for “Gossip Girl,” ”
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Review: Director/Co-Writer Andrew Ahn’s “The Wedding Banquet”
Two gay couples decide to embark on one fake straight marriage to get what they need in Andrew Ahn’s modern update of “The Wedding Banquet.” Min (Han Gi-Chan), a young artist from an extremely wealthy Korean family, wants to stay in the U.S. longer to be with his boyfriend Chris ( Bowen Yang ) and
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Weinstein’s lawyers want him hospitalized instead of in jail during #MeToo retrial
Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers asked a judge on Wednesday to allow the ailing ex-studio boss to spend his nights at a New York City hospital instead of jail for the duration of his #MeToo rape retrial. Weinstein’s lawyers made the request as jury selection resumed for a second day. The 73-year-old disgraced movie mogul arrived in
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Wink Martindale, the genial game show host and an early TV interviewer of Elvis Presley, dies at 91
Wink Martindale, the genial host of such hit game shows as “Gambit” and “Tic-Tac-Dough” who also did one of the first recorded television interviews with a young Elvis Presley, has died. He was 91. Martindale died Tuesday at Eisenhower Health in Rancho Mirage, California, according to his publicist Brian Mayes. Martindale had been battling lymphoma
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