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A trailer for an apparent new biopic titled “American Dream: The 21 Savage Story” dropped on Monday, starring Donald Glover and “Stranger Things” star Caleb McLaughlin at different stages of the titular rapper’s life.

The trailer says that the previously unannounced feature will hit theaters on Independence Day, with the film’s accompanying album and soundtrack coming this Friday. Tara Razavi and Udeorji produced. Watch the trailer above.

The clip was directed by Stephen Glover, Jamal Olori, Fam Udeorji and Luis Perez and written by Olori and Stephen Glover. It was produced by Tara Razavi and Udeorji. The clip also features Natasha Lyonne, Gail Bean, Druski, Jabari Banks, Chad Lindberg, Victoria Pedretti and Young Mazino, plus new music by 21 Savage.

In 2019 by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) incarcerated 21 Savage (real name: Shéyaa Bin Abraham-Joseph) during their Trump-initiated crackdown on undocumented citizens. Savage was born in the U.

21 Savage has unveiled the trailer for his upcoming biopic, titled American Dream: The 21 Savage Story, in which Donald Glover and Stranger Things star Caleb McLaughlin will both play the rapper. Watch it below.

According to a press release, the clip shows three generations of 21 Savage “in the heat of a personal crisis” while doubling as a music video for a brand new song from the artist.

American Dream will cover 21’s infamous 2018 arrest by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), which revealed that he was actually born in the UK before moving to Atlanta and making his name there as a rapper.

At the time, 21 Savage’s lawyer said he “never hid his immigration status from the US government.” During an interview with Good Morning America, 21 noted that his arrest came shortly after he criticized Trump’s extreme immigration policies with his song “a lot.”

The movie was co-directed...

21 Savage has unveiled the trailer for his upcoming biopic, titled American Dream: The 21 Savage Story, in which Donald Glover and Stranger Things star Caleb McLaughlin will both play the rapper. Watch it below.

According to a press release, the clip shows three generations of 21 Savage “in the heat of a personal crisis” while doubling as a music video for a brand new song from the artist.

American Dream will cover 21’s infamous 2018 arrest by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), which revealed that he was actually born in the UK before moving to Atlanta and making his name there as a rapper.

At the time, 21 Savage’s lawyer said he “never hid his immigration status from the US government.” During an interview with Good Morning America, 21 noted that his arrest came shortly after he criticized Trump’s extreme immigration policies with his song “a lot.”

The movie was co-directed...

Although Dominique Fishback was initially approached for a supporting role in Prime Video’s darkly comedic horror-comedy Swarm, created by Janine Nabers and Donald Glover, she knew upon reading the script that she was destined to play its lead character, Dre.

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Coming off of projects like Judas and the Black Messiah and Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, she said today during a panel for Deadline’s Contenders TV, moderated by Destiny Jackson, she was looking for a project that was going to “excite” and “challenge” her. She recalled telling Glover during one phone conversation: “I don’t want to even catch up to my own self as an actor. I don’t even want to know what I’m going to do next. I want the opportunity to stretch beyond what I’ve been used to,...

Donald Glover is opening up about Gilga, his production company headquartered in Ojai, California. One of the projects that have people buzzing is a short film created by Malia Obama, the eldest daughter of former President of the U.S. Barack Obama and former First Lady of the U.S. Michelle Obama.

“The first thing we did was talk about the fact that she will only get to do this once,” Glover told GQ magazine in an interview. “You’re Obama’s daughter. So if you make a bad film, it will follow you around.”

Glover says he’s been mentoring Malia throughout the process and his creative partner at Gilga, Fam Udeorji, weighed in about the former First Daughter adding, “Understanding somebody like Malia’s cachet means something. But we really wanted to make sure she could make what she wanted—even if it was a slow process.”

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Donald Glover, through his new production company Gilga, is working with Malia Obama on her first short film.

The actor-writer-producer teased the collaboration with former President Barack Obama’s daughter and a writer on his new Amazon series Swarm, in a GQ magazine cover story published online Tuesday. During the conversation, Glover shared that in addition to backing her new project, he’s also mentoring her.

“The first thing we did was talk about the fact that she will only get to do this once. You’re Obama’s daughter. So if you make a bad film, it will follow you around,” he said within a larger discussion about his company’s content ethos.

Glover’s longtime collaborator and creative partner at Gilga, Fam Udeorji, who was also a producer on Guava Island and EP on Swarm, added that the team ultimately wanted to support Obama in whatever she wanted to do.

Malia Obama is staying in the Donald Glover business. As part of a new GQ cover story on the “Atlanta” creator, Glover revealed that his newly-created production company, Gilga, is developing a short film with Malia Obama, the eldest daughter of Barack and Michelle Obama. GQ confirmed Malia is “creating” the short film. It’s unconfirmed at this time if Malia will direct the project.

Malia already has experience working with Glover as part of the writer’s room of his buzzy Amazon Prime Video series “Swarm,” which debuted March 17 on the streaming platform. Malia had a writing credit on the show’s fifth episode, “Girl Bye,” alongside series co-creator Janine Nabers.

As part of the GQ cover, Glover reflected on how he is mentoring Malia in the entertainment world. “The first thing we did was talk about the fact that she will only get to do this once,” Glover said.

From Janine Nabers and Donald Glover, Prime Video’s new series “Swarm” follows Dre (Dominique Fishback), a young woman whose obsession with a pop star takes a dark turn.

The series premieres March 17, and you can watch the full official trailer below. We’re getting vibes of Stephen King’s Misery from this one, filtered through today’s modern lens.

“Swarm,” set between 2016-2018, follows Dre (Dominique Fishback), an obsessed fan of the world’s biggest pop star who sets off on an unexpected cross-country journey.

The series is said to be inspired by Beyoncé and her rabid fanbase.

Starring Dominique Fishback, the series will also feature guest stars Chlöe Bailey as Dre’s sister, Marissa, and Damson Idris as Marissa’s boyfriend, Khalid. Additional guest stars include Rickey Thompson, Paris Jackson, Rory Culkin, Kiersey Clemons, and Byron Bowers.

Janine Nabers serves as showrunner and Donald Glover directed the pilot.

The pantheon of art about parasocial relationships is filled with hits, from Martin Scorcese’s “The King of Comedy” to Stephen King’s “Misery” to Eminem’s iconic hit “Stan,” which inadvertently created a whole new term for obsessive fans. Now, Donald Glover is making his own contribution to that canon with “Swarm,” a horror comedy about the scary world of pop music fandom. The full-length trailer for the upcoming Prime Video series has been released by Amazon.

“Swarm” stars Dominque Fishback, best known for her role in “Judas and the Black Messiah,” as Dre, a young woman who runs a stan account for the world’s biggest pop star, who — similar to Beyoncé’s Beyhive — has a fanbase known as “The Swarm.” Set in between 2016 and 2018, the show sees Dre, lonely and lost, embark on a cross-country trip that causes her to slowly lose her sanity and engage in multiple bloody murders.

When the teaser trailer for Swarm dropped earlier this month, I had many questions.

The initial footage took a less is more approach to leave potential viewers to fill in the blanks about the concept.

With the debut of the full-length trailer, it's clear Swarm is on a mission to showcase the dark side of stan culture.

From co-creators and executive producers Janine Nabers and Donald Glover, Swarm, set between 2016-2018, follows Dre (Dominique Fishback), an obsessed fan of the world's biggest pop star who sets off on an unexpected cross-country journey.

Prime Video revealed that the series is the Opening Night TV Premiere at the SXSW Film & TV Festival in Austin, Texas, on March 10.

Swarm will then premiere all episodes on March 17 exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.

Based on the official trailer, the series is a horror-thriller with some comedic elements.

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Culver City, California—February 10, 2023— Today, Amazon Studios released the teaser trailer for the new series Swarm, premiering all episodes on March 17 exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. From co-creators and executive producers Janine Nabers and Donald Glover, the series stars Dominique Fishback as Dre. Swarm is set as the Opening Night TV Premiere at the SXSW Film & TV Festival in Austin, Texas on March 10.

Janine Nabers serves as showrunner for the series and Donald Glover directed the pilot.Stephen Glover, Fam Udeorji, Steven Prinz, and Michael Schaefer serve as executive producers. Dominique Fishback also serves as a producer. Swarm comes from Amazon Studios and Gilga.

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The first look at Donald Glover’s Swarm has arrived, and it’s sure to leave viewers buzzing with curiosity about the horror-thriller series.

Amazon Studios released the teaser trailer for the Atlanta creator’s next TV show, which he co-created with Atlanta writer Janine Nabers. Swarm, which will first make its world premiere at the upcoming SXSW festival, releases on Amazon’s Prime Video March 17.

The Amazon Studios and Gilga series stars Dominique Fishback as Dre, a young woman whose obsession with a pop star takes a dark turn. The brief yet haunting teaser trailer introduces Dre, as she is shown in several unsettled and disjointed scenes, amid a buzzing sound, as a question is asked over and over: “Who is your favorite artist?”

The SXSW logline for Swarm reads: “Murder. Sex. Music.” The series has been described as revolving around a Beyoncé-like figure.

Glover recently described the...

“Swarm” has a release date. The Prime Video dramedy co-created by Donald Glover will premiere March 17, the streamer announced Friday. And along with the release date comes the show’s first teaser, which you can watch now above.

Co-created by Donald Glover and Janie Nabors, the series premiere of “Swarm” comes one week after the Opening Night TV Premiere at the SXSW Film & TV Festival in Austin, Texas, on March 10.

Set between 2016 and 2018, the story follows a Beyonce-like pop star’s super fan who experiences a life changing event and heads out on a cross-country journey.

The teaser starts off with Dre, played by Dominique Fishback, in an apparent possessed state, rocking back and forth as we hear a loud bee-buzzing sound in the background. Then a creepy voice asks ‘Who’s your favorite artist?”

Cue various disjointed scenes of Dre in her room, in what appears to be a hospital lobby,...

If music is a tool that helps viewers gain a better emotional understanding of what they’re watching, then “Atlanta” wielded the songs on its soundtrack like a tricked-out Leatherman with 19 distinct uses (including three different types of can opener). Music playing such a significant role shouldn’t be surprising for a series whose protagonist, Earn Marks (Donald Glover), is managing the burgeoning rap career of his cousin, Alfred “Paper Boi” Miles (Brian Tyree Henry). But that music had a versatility tailored to match “Atlanta,” a show where a harrowing trip to a showbiz house of horrors and a genuinely touching tribute to an animated classic were equally at home.

The needle drops on “Atlanta” often do more than one thing at a time: Informing the show’s specific sense of place, revealing what characters are feeling in ways that add to the actors’ expressions, giving the audience a poetic...

A show about a down-on-his-luck college dropout and his rapper cousin navigating the music industry as the latter’s star rises; created by a multi-hyphenate who, at one point, was a full-time rapper himself; set in what many might argue was the rap capital of the United States for most of the past decade…

You’d think Donald Glover’s FX series “Atlanta” would be a cakewalk for song placements — license a few Migos, Young Thug and Gucci Mane tracks and call it a day — but music supervisors Jen Malone and Fam Udeorji are anything but paint-by-numbers.

While musically, the series pays ample homage to its titular hometown, the pair has worked closely with Glover and the rest of the show’s writers room throughout its four-season run — coming to an end in November — to establish a musical palette that simultaneously reflects Atlanta while also expanding far beyond the city limits.

The International Documentary Association revealed nominations for the 2019 Ida Awards, with Neon landing three films in the Best Feature competition, including “Apollo 11” and “Honeyland,” which led the field with three nominations, as well as”The Biggest Little Farm.” “Honeyland” will also collect the Pare Lorentz Award, while Neon’s “Amazing Grace” landed a Best Music Documentary nomination. (The film qualified for the Oscar last year.)

For the first time, the Ida will present an award for Best Director and, notably, all of the nominated films in that category are directed by women. “We felt the need to more clearly acknowledge the creativity and bold directorial vision that is behind many of the films we are privileged to consider,” said Ida’s Executive Director Simon Kilmurry.

First awarded in 2001, the Ida gives the Courage Under Fire Award to documentarians who display conspicuous bravery in the pursuit of truth, putting freedom of...

The International Documentary Association revealed nominations for the 2019 Ida Awards, with Neon landing three films in the Best Feature competition, including “Apollo 11” and “Honeyland,” which led the field with three nominations, as well as”The Biggest Little Farm.” “Honeyland” will also collect the Pare Lorentz Award, while Neon’s “Amazing Grace” landed a Best Music Documentary nomination. (The film qualified for the Oscar last year.)

For the first time, the Ida will present an award for Best Director and, notably, all of the nominated films in that category are directed by women. “We felt the need to more clearly acknowledge the creativity and bold directorial vision that is behind many of the films we are privileged to consider,” said Ida’s Executive Director Simon Kilmurry.

First awarded in 2001, the Ida gives the Courage Under Fire Award to documentarians who display conspicuous bravery in the pursuit of truth, putting freedom...

The nominations are out for the 35th annual Ida Documentary Awards. Ten films are vying for the Best Feature nod, and the group has added a Best Director category for the first time — and all of those nominees are women.

One of the female helmers, For Sama director-producer Waad Al-Kataeb, is set to receive the Courage Under Fire Award. That honor is presented to documentarians displaying conspicuous bravery in the pursuit of truth.

“Back in Aleppo, I had no option but to fight the fears and horrors of this war through filming my experience both as a mother and as a female filmmaker,” Al-Kataeb said.

Read the full list of noms below.

“The Ida Documentary Awards recognizes excellence in nonfiction storytelling across a range of forms, and all of this year’s nominees and winners illustrate that documentary storytelling is one of the most vital art forms today,” said Simon Kilmurry,...

“American Factory,” “Apollo 11,” “For Sama” and “The Edge of Democracy” have scored multiple nominations for the International Documentary Awards.

“Advocate,” “Honeyland,” “Midnight Family,” “One Child Nation,” “Sea of Shadows,” and “The Biggest Little Farm” also received nods. The 35th Annual Ida Documentary Awards will be held on Dec. 7 at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles.

For the first time, the Ida will present an award for best director and all of the nominated films have female directors.

“The Ida Documentary Awards recognizes excellence in nonfiction storytelling across a range of forms, and all of this year’s nominees and winners illustrate that documentary storytelling is one of the most vital art forms today,” said Simon Kilmurry, executive director of the Ida.

The Ida also announced that its Courage Under Fire Award will be presented to Waad Al-Kateab for the film “For Sama,” recounting her life in Aleppo, Syria. It won...

The nominees for the 2019 International Documentary Association (Ida) Awards have been unveiled, with several of this year’s most high-profile docs in the frame. Scroll down for full list of nominees.

For the first time, this year’s ceremony will feature an award for best director, with the five films nominated all directed or co-directed by women: The Edge Of Democracy (Petra Costa); Advocate (Rachel Leah Jones and Philippe Bellaiche); American Factory (Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert); Honeyland (Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov); and For Sama (Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts).

Neon is the most represented distributor in the best feature field with three nominations. Netflix has two of the films in the category (American Factory and The Edge Of Democracy), while Amazon has one (One Child Nation).

This year’s Courage Under Fire Award, which recognizes documentarians who display “conspicuous bravery...

Films directed or co-directed by women dominated the nominations for the 35th Ida Documentary Awards, which were announced on Wednesday by the International Documentary Association.

All five films nominated in the new Best Director category — “Advocate,” “American Factory,” “The Edge of Democracy,” “For Sama” and “Honeyland” — were directed or co-directed by women, as was “One Child Nation,” which joined those films in the Best Feature category.

Also nominated in the top category: “Apollo 11,” “Midnight Family,” “Sea of Shadows” and “The Biggest Little Farm.”

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The nominations, which were made by committees assembled by the Ida, mean that “American Family,” “Apollo 11,” “The Biggest Little Farm,” “Honeyland” and “One Child Nation” are now the only nonfiction films to have received nominations by the Ida and the Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards and included on Doc NYC’s list...

When Donald Glover announced back in April that he was releasing an hour-long music video starring Rihanna and Letitia Wright, the internet pretty much lost its mind. “Guava Island” premiered at Coachella before streaming on Amazon Prime two days later, and throngs of Glover superfans fell in love with what the multi-hyphenate called “one of my favorite projects I’ve ever worked on.” Amazon has just released five new behind the scenes videos introducing some of the talented dancers, musicians, and actors that helped make “Guava Island” so special.

“At its best (or maybe just its most accessible), art is ingenuity,” Glover said in a statement. “I had the pleasure of experiencing this spirit of ‘making what you must with what you have’ collaborating with Cuba’s talented and abundant artists over the course of filming ‘Guava Island.’ The artist’s endeavor has always been the manifesting of an idea,...

Childish Gambino is about to die.

It’s still unclear what, exactly, that means. The next Childish Gambino album, which has been repeatedly teased as the project’s last gasp, could simply be the death of a moniker; it could mean the end of Donald Glover’s music career entirely. Fam Udeorji, Gambino’s longtime manager, is absurdly calm about this, and won’t let on what any of it means.

“I don’t know if you want to hype a death up,” he says. “It’s more so this chapter is over.

The creative process that would eventually lead to the critically acclaimed Atlanta began, inadvertently, with a former child actor, porn star and viral rapper. In 2013, Abella Anderson was the center of adult entertainment, Danielle Fishel was years removed from playing Topanga on Boy Meets World, and Trinidad James was still running off “All Gold Everything” fumes. They all starred in Clapping for the Wrong Reasons, the visual prelude to Childish Gambino’s 2013 album Because The Internet.

The short film was the brainchild of a pre-Grammys, pre-Emmys, pre-Golden Globes Donald Glover...

Donald Glover will be an Emmy contender this year after all. With “Atlanta” on hiatus, the superstar wasn’t expected to be in the running for an award in 2019 — until Amazon grabbed the rights to “Guava Island,” the musical film he shot with Rihanna.

Because “Guava Island” will premiere on Amazon Prime Video first, that makes the film eligible for an Emmy — and the streamer is expected to submit it for outstanding variety special (pre-recorded), in addition to writing, directing, and multiple below-the-line categories, all in the variety special field.

Glover’s frequent collaborator Hiro Murai directed “Guava Island” in Cuba, while Stephen Glover wrote the film (based on a story by Royalty). Murai, of course, is an executive producer on “Atlanta” and has directed multiple episodes (starting with the pilot), in addition to videos such as Childish Gambino’s “This Is America,” while Stephen Glover is an executive producer...

We’ve been hearing teases for months, but ahead of Childish Gambino’s set at Coachella this weekend, fans who aren’t out in the desert will still be able to stream “Guava Island,” the movie that Gambino and Rihanna filmed in secret.

“Guava Island” was shot in Cuba and stars Donald Glover (a.k.a. Childish Gambino) and Rihanna in a tropical thriller set in an island community, in which Glover’s character, a local musician, is determined to throw a music festival on the island. Letitia Wright of “Black Panther” fame and Nonso Anozie also star.

Teases for the movie started as far back as last year when Glover and Rihanna were spotted together in Cuba in leaked set photos. Glover then premiered a trailer for “Guava Island” at his Pharos Festival in New Zealand in November, which also leaked onto Twitter in a fan-shot video. In recent weeks,...

Fans of Donald Glover’s musical alter ego Childish Gambino who aren’t also Amazon Prime customers will still be able to watch his new film when it premieres this weekend — for a while at least.

Amazon announced Wednesday that “Guava Island,” Glover-as-Gambino’s mysterious new film, will stream free at www.amazon.com/guavaisland for the first 18 hours after its debut Saturday April 13 at 12:01 a.m. Pacific. It will be available exclusively to Amazon Prime Video subscribers after that time.

The film will also stream one time only at Twitch.tv/primevideo at 5 p.m. Pacific on Saturday — one hour before the free window on Amazon elapses.

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Directed by Glover’s frequent collaborator Hiro Murai and written by Stephen Glover, “Guava Island” also stars Rihanna, Nonso Anozie and “Black Panther” breakout Letitia Wright. Little...

Get ready to escape to the paradise known as Guava Island. Amazon announced today that the New Regency Film Guava Island starring Donald Glover, Rihanna, Nonso Anozie and Letitia Wright will launch globally at 12:01 am Pt April 13 on Amazon. For those who don’t have Amazon — you’re in luck. The film will be available for free on the streaming platform for 18 hours until 6 pm. It will also stream on Twitch starting at 5 pm.

The film, directed by Glover’s frequent collaborator Hiro Murai (who is producer and director of Atlanta and multiple Childish Gambino music videos) is set to premiere at Coachella before Childish Gambino’s performance. The film will be available in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide at Amazon.

“I’m really humbled having the opportunity to present something this timely and timeless. Between Rihanna and the people of Cuba, this is one of my favorite...

For fans that didn’t get enough Donald Glover during his Friday headlining performance at Coachella, Amazon Prime Video is dropping his latest film, “Guava Island,” just after his set.

Amazon Studios announced Wednesday that New Regency’s “tropical thriller” “Guava Island,” starring Glover, Rihanna, Nonso Anozie, and “Black Panther” star Letitia Wright will drop Saturday, April 13 at 12:01 a.m. Pt and will be available to stream for free without an Amazon Prime subscription at http://www.amazon.com/guavaisland until 6 p.m. Saturday.

“On Guava Island, a local musician is determined to throw a festival for everyone to enjoy,” reads the film’s description.

“I’m really humbled having the opportunity to present something this timely and timeless,” said Glover. “Between Rihanna and the people of Cuba, this is one of my favorite projects I’ve ever worked on.”

Glover’s “Atlanta” collaborator Hiro Murai directed the film,...