What to stream this week: Billy Joel sings, Dora explores and 'Food, Inc. 2' chows down
This weekโs new streaming entertainment releases include a sequel to the powerful documentary โFood, Inc.,โ Dating expert Patti Stanger has a new TV show on The CW and โDora the Explorerโ gets a reboot on Paramount+.
What's streaming now: Jamie Foxx, Offset, Musk, 'Frasier' returns and Nicholas Cage as a vampire
This weekโs new entertainment releases include Offsetโs sophomore solo album, the return of โFrasierโ starring Kelsey Grammer, and Jamie Foxx and Tommy Lee Jones leading the crowd-pleasing courtroom drama โThe Burial."
What to stream this week: Foo Fighters, 'The Idol,' LeBron James and 'American Gladiators' doc
This weekโs new entertainment releases include an album from Foo Fighters and some lost songs by the late Kenny Rogers, a new gritty HBO series from โEuphoriaโ creator Sam Levinson called โThe Idolโ starring Lily-Rose Depp and The Weeknd.
New this week: Taylor Swift, 'Descendant' and 'Ghostwriter'
This weekโs new entertainment releases include albums from Babyface, Arctic Monkeys and a Taylor Swift original, a documentary about the last known ship to bring African captives to the American South for enslavement and โDoc Martinโ gets a proper farewell on Acorn TV.
'Elvis,' 'Top Gun' tie for box-office crown with $30.5M each
Baz Luhrmannโs Elvis Presley biopic โElvisโ shook up theaters with an estimated $30.5 million in weekend ticket sales, but โ in a box-office rarity โ โElvisโ tied โTop Gun: Maverick,โ which also reported $30.5 million, for No. 1 in theaters.
Movies love a comeback story. This summer, it's their turn.
Hollywood is bringing out some of its biggest and most reliable players for the 2022 summer movie season, which unofficially kicks off this weekend with the help of Marvel and Disneyโs โDoctor Strange and the Multitverse of Madnessโ and runs through the end of August.
James McBride among those honored by Center for Fiction
NEW YORK โ Author James McBride and editor Chris Jackson were among those honored Thursday night by the Center for Fiction. Jackson, whose authors range from Ta-Nehisi Coates to Bryan Stevenson, was given the Medal for Editorial Excellence Award. Jackson runs the One World imprint of Penguin Random House. The Center for Fiction awarded its First Novel Prize to Raven Leilani for โLuster,โ the story of a young Black woman's affair with a married, middle-aged white man. Finalists included this year's Booker Prize winner, Douglas Stuart's โShuggie Bain.โ
Ethan Hawke tapes audio edition of acclaimed novel 'Gilead'
NEW YORK โ When she learned that Ethan Hawke was working on a special audio edition of her acclaimed novel โGilead,โ Marilynne Robinson's response was to get a better idea of who he was. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2005, โGileadโ is the first of four Robinson novels set in a rural Iowa community in the 1950s. Hawke has recorded an abridged narrative of โGileadโ that was commissioned by Manhattan's 92nd Street Y and can he heard Oct. 19-29 via www.92y.org/gilead. โIn โGilead,โ the Reverend John Ames contemplates โgrace as a sort of ecstatic fire that takes things down to essentials,'" he said. โGilead' is a great American novel, and Ethan Hawke is a great American actor."
Influencer culture skewered in Gia Coppola film at Venice
Actress Maya Hawke, left, and director Gia Coppola pose for photographers upon arrival at the premiere for the film 'Mainstream' during the 77th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)VENICE Coronavirus lockdowns have kept most U.S. filmmakers and actors away from the Venice Film Festival, but Gia Coppola and Maya Hawke have brought a bit of todays America to the Lido with Mainstream, a skewering look at YouTube and influencer culture. And thats what feels so good about being here: that everyone is working together really, really well and respecting each other, she told The Associated Press on Saturday. The film explores the underbelly of influencer culture and the constant need to get attention from strangers on social media. The morals for me are that all that glitters is not gold, and community and connection is really important, Coppola said.