Spike Lee has shared a “love letter” to New York in the face of the coronavirus pandemic with New York New York, a three-minute short film soundtracked by Frank Sinatra’s classic Big Apple ode. Filmed on grainy Super 8, the first two minutes of the short travels from Brooklyn to …
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Spike Lee will direct a film version of David Byrne’s American Utopia Broadway show, due out later this year. Deadline reported Friday that production companies Participant, RadicalMedia, Byrne’s Todomundo, Lee’s Forty Acres and a Mule Filmwork, River Road Entertainment and Warner Music Group will produce the film version of the …
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There’s a crisis at the Oscars this year — and it’s not about #OscarsSoWhite or #TimesUp, though those inclusion issues still deserve attention. Let’s call this catastrophe #OscarsSoMoney. It’s a year in which the Academy seems less interested in the quality of films than in the numbers they can attract …
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