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Our newest Best Supporting Actress Oscar-winner, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, looks to have her next project in view. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the star of “The Holdovers” will join a new musical from director Michel Gondry and producer Pharrell Williams. The project is said to be based on Williams’s youth in Virginia Beach in the 1970s. (I hope we get to watch his very tall hat grow.) IMDb has the title of the film listed as “Atlantis,” but this is unconfirmed by THR.

The screenplay is written by Martin Hynes, whose previous writing credits include “Toy Story 4” and “Stealing Harvard” (and also playing George Lucas in the legendary short “George Lucas in Love”), and Steven Levenson, whose musical credits include “Dear Evan Hanson” and “tick, tick…Boom.” Kelvin Harrison Jr., recently seen in “Chevalier” and “Elvis” is believed to be starring, and IMDb lists Andre 3000, Mary J. Blige,...

New year, new month, new titles to watch at Prime Video! The streamer has kicked off January 2024 in fashion with plenty of classic titles that were released on the first of the month, including 2007’s “No Country for Old Men” and Quentin Tarantino’s hit “Pulp Fiction,” but the best is still yet to come this month, including Lula Wang’s highly anticipated miniseries “Expats,” the A24-produced adult animated musical comedy series “Hazbin Hotel,” and much more.

Check out The Streamable’s picks for the best of January, and continue below for everything coming to the streamer this month!

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The new action-thriller comedy stars Kaley Cuoco as Emma, a suburban New Jersey woman with a wonderful husband, two kids, and a secret life as an assassin for hire.

Zorro and Expats are the big shows coming to Prime Video in January. The former is what Amazon are calling a “bold reinterpretation” of the classic hero El Zorro for 2024. Starring Miguel Bernardeau as Diego de la Vega and Renata Notni as Lolita Marquez, it’s definitely an intriguing-sounding action-adventure series, with a ten-episode first season based on the iconic character originally created by Johnston McCulley all the way back in 1919.

Meanwhile, upcoming drama series Expats is based on the bestselling 2016 novel The Expatriates by Janice Y. K. Lee, and follows “the vibrant lives of a close-knit expatriate community” in Hong Kong. Nicole Kidman has been known for picking the right kind of shows to lead in the past, so let’s hope this is another banger for the actress, who is also on board as an executive producer here.

Here’s everything coming to Amazon Prime Video and Freevee this month.

When Dave Chappelle greeted the audience at the newly reopened Radio City Music Hall on Saturday night, surveying a crowd of nearly 6,000 mostly maskless people — who were required to show proof of vaccination at the door — after the world premiere of his new documentary “David Chappelle: This Time This Place,” he did not mince words. “What a shit year it was,” he said. “I’m so sorry if you lost someone, or lost something, during this pandemic.”

It was an acknowledgement of the big picture in the midst of a lively scene, and a natural extension of the movie. “Dave Chappelle: This Time This Place,” which was listed as untitled until the moment the opening credits rolled, captures Chappelle’s extraordinary 2020 efforts to hold a series of outdoor comedy shows in a cornfield near his home in the small town of Yellow Springs, Ohio. As his ambition grew and virtually...

On Thursday night, the Hollywood Pantages was set to not throw away their shot and follow through with the opening night run of Hamilton which was part of the Pantages-Dolby Theatre “Broadway in Hollywood” lineup. However, after Governor Gavin Newsom called for a moratorium on large gatherings due to the coronavirus outbreak, the opening night of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony-winning musical has been suspended. The suspension will run through March 31. Refunds have already been initiated. In addition, New York has suspended performances.

The announcement for the L.A. suspension was made on the “Broadway in Hollywood” website:

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At the direction of Governor Gavin Newsom, performances of Hamilton at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre will be suspended beginning...

French director Michel Gondry’s career might be as nonlinear as his 2004 head-trippy love story Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind. In the years since winning a best screenplay Oscar for the Jim Carrey-Kate Winslet mind-bender, he tackled a Dave Chappelle sketch comedy documentary (Block Party), a Seth Rogen-led studio tentpole (The Green Hornet) and an animated conversation with Noam Chomsky (Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?). Though the trajectory may appear haphazard, Gondry says there's a through-line: he is always directing “something really personal.” In the case of Green Hornet, he first

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Wyclef Jean performed Tuesday night for the first time in a decade at the Brooklyn Bowl in New York City. The singer last performed with the Fugees at Dave Chappelle’s Block Party in 2006. Jean gave an energetic set dancing and bringing fans up on stage to show their moves. The set included included some […]

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Chicago – In this special HollywoodChicago.com Hookup, we’ve partnered with the first-annual CineFest Backlot Block Party from Cinespace Chicago Film Studios! The music and food festival features more than 30 bands (including Bret Michaels, Blue Oyster Cult and Quiet Riot) as well as Chicago’s most popular sweet and savory food trucks!

The music and food festival, which celebrates film and TV projects that have been shot in Chicago, takes place this weekend on Aug. 28, 29 and 30, 2015. The festival is located on the grounds of Cinespace Chicago Film Studios, which is one of the largest film and TV studios outside of Hollywood. Each HollywoodChicago.com winner scores a weekend pass valid for all three days! Winning passes will be available at CineFest will call under your name.

To win your free CineFest weekend pass courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just get interactive with our social media widget below. That’s it! The more social actions you complete,...

Rick Famuyiwa's Sundance hit "Dope" sent critics over the moon with its fresh new take on what's been called "the post-hip hop generation." While that label is up for debate, it's impossible to deny the other inventive hip hop inspired films that have led up to this moment. With the film opening in select theaters this weekend, we've decided to round up nine of the best hip hop inspired movies to date.  Read More: Watch: Experimental 'Dope' Trailer Teases Vibrant Coming-of-Age Story "Dave Chappelle's Block Party" (2005)Musicians and comedians have always had a kind of symbiotic relationship -- at least that's what Dave Chappelle has come to believe, and he does a good job of convincing us in his 2005 concert documentary film, "Dave Chappelle's Block Party." Chappelle teamed up with Michel Gondry to film the block party concert he organized in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, with a line...

James Brown finally got the biopic treatment this weekend with the release of Get On Up, starring Chadwick Boseman as The Godfather of Soul himself.

What’s most intriguing about the cinematic treatment of Brown’s life – both on- and off-screen – is that so much of it took place in front of a camera. In fact, Elvis Presley aside, it’s hard to think of a more physical performer that spent so much time being captured on film in the early days of the rock n’ roll/rhythm and blues era.

Brown’s popularity rose and sustained itself for so long that it’s often easy to forget that while he was a fixture well into his more funk-driven days of the 1970s alongside the likes of George Clinton, he got his start as a contemporary of Little Richard.

By time 1964 rolled around and The Beatles and The Rolling Stones...

Coinciding with the ten-year anniversary of Dave Chappelle's Block Party, the man himself will perform a string of five shows at New York City's Radio City Music Hall in June. Then he'll team up with the Roots, Busta Rhymes, DJ Premier, Janelle Monae, and Erykah Badu for three additional shows at the same venue. Everything is, naturally, already sold out. (But we're sure you can swing a way to find tickets if you really try.)...

Two highly unique minds converge in Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?, the latest from whimsical visionary Michel Gondry, who aptly subtitles his film, “An Animated Conversation with Noam Chomsky.” In the works for four years, this self-explanatory project from the artist behind Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Dave Chapelle’s Block Party, and a veritable library of music videos is a charming and markedly low-tech doc that literally illustrates the insights of Chomsky, one of the greatest thinkers of our time. Ever-fascinated by the depths of the human brain, and ever-faithful in dressing his films with cartoon-like touches, […]...

Two highly unique minds converge in Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?, the latest from whimsical visionary Michel Gondry, who aptly subtitles his film, “An Animated Conversation with Noam Chomsky.” In the works for four years, this self-explanatory project from the artist behind Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Dave Chapelle’s Block Party, and a veritable library of music videos is a charming and markedly low-tech doc that literally illustrates the insights of Chomsky, one of the greatest thinkers of our time. Ever-fascinated by the depths of the human brain, and ever-faithful in dressing his films with cartoon-like touches, […]...

Few filmmakers stretch the genre spectrum quite like Michel Gondry, whose directorial resume includes an Oscar-nominated romantic drama (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), a superhero blockbuster (The Green Hornet), a hip-hop concert film (Dave Chapelle's Block Party) and an episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!. Gondry leaves it up to his imagination, following his dreams and obsessions down whatever path they pave. His latest film is both unexpected yet perfectly fitting to the colorful auteur's sensibilities. Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? is a documentary on scientist/linguist/political activist/writer Noam Chomsky, whose Renaissance Man philosophies mesmerized Gondry. The

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Mad Decent Block Party, Edm impresario Diplo's now-annual traveling dance circus, kicked off in Calgary last Friday and will be criss-crossing the continent for much of the remaining summer.

To celebrate the upcoming July 26 Toronto date at Fort York, Mad Decent's local DJ/producer Grandtheft has put together a field-filling mix that ranges from crate-dug club-bangers to Kanye and Missy remixes to his own banging productions.

"I wanted to put together an hour of mostly brand-new music that I love right now, high energy stuff that reps the vibe of the Mad Decent Block Party," Grandtheft tells HuffPost Canada Music. " But, as always with me, I threw in all different kinds of club music. Also haaaddd to throw in the Africanism classic 'Block Party.' I've never played a block party without playing that!

The Toronto Mad Decent Block Party features Major Lazer, Zeds Dead, RiFF Raff, Grandtheft, A Tribe Called Red,...

Things have been quiet on the Dave Chappelle front since the comedian walked away from his Comedy Central sketch show in 2005 and starred in Michel Gondry’s 2006 docu Dave Chappelle’s Block Party, save for scattered stand-up appearances over the years. Now he’s set to co-headline the 13-city comedy tour Funny Or Die Presents The Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Festival from August 23 to September 22, alongside Flight of the Conchords. Al Madrigal, Brody Steven, Chris D’Elia, Demetri Martin, Hannibal Buress, Jim Jefferies, John Mulaney, and Kristen Schaal are also scheduled to perform on the Live Nation tour. Check out Funny Or Die‘s video announcement and tour stops: Date City Venue Fri 23-Aug Austin, TX austin360 Amphitheater Sat 24-Aug ... Read More »...

Steve McQueen didn't make the list but Fassy still loves him (as do many of our contributors)Amir here, to bring you the first edition of Team Top Ten, a communal list by all of Film Experience’s contributors that will sit in for our regular Tuesday Top Ten list once a month. For our first episode, we’ve decided to rank the best new directors of the 21st century. These are all directors who have made their first film after 2000. (Short films, TV and theatre work didn’t render anyone ineligible. Only feature length fiction and documentary films were considered.)

I had a blast compiling the 18 lists of our contributors to arrive at the final ten because their submissions were incredibly eclectic and surprising. I’d made a bet with myself that Steve McQueen (Hunger, Shame) would top the list, and lo and behold, he failed to make the cut altogether,...

Michel Gondry has given us The Green Hornet, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Science of Sleep, Be Kind Rewind, Dave Chappelle’s Block Party and Human Nature. His films, while at times having trouble with their narrative, have always been able to produce a visual flair that rivals that of the old silent Buster Keaton films. Here, however, while offering hints of that visual flair, is a film with almost no narrative and little flair to be had. The We and the I is set on the last day of school and shows us the long bus ride that a group of students takes on their way home from school. We are a fly on the wall in this bus as we see relationships strengthen and disappear over the film’s runtime. The thing about high school, and more importantly about high school students, is that they’re all children. Films...

A few years ago, I wrote a post ardently pleading for the come- back of the concert film. I argued that if squeaky-clean teeny-bop singers-as-products like Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers could top the list of the five highest-grossing concert movies of all time (adjusted for inflation, the top film on that list would still be Woodstock), then surely an artist like, say, Lady Gaga might blast those same box-office records to smithereens. More to the point, a concert movie actually aimed at people over the age of fourteen might now have a chance to make a cultural splash.

Here’s an Archive of every TV Recap we’ve ever done here at Bwe.tv, organized by show and season, for Breaking Bad, Lost, The Walking Dead, Game Of Thrones, Mad Men, The Office, Teach: Tony Danza (essential), American Idol, The Real Housewives, Boardwalk Empire, and Top Chef. Feel free to read them at your recap-needing leisure, or all right now in a row (mini photo-spoilers): Breaking Bad Breaking Bad Season 4: Episode 1 – “Box Cutter” Episode 2 – “Thirty-Eight Snub” Episode 3 – “Open House” Episode 4 – “Bullet Points” Episode 5 – “Shotgun” Episode 6 – “Cornered” Episode 7 – “Problem Dog” Episode 8 – “Hermanos” Episode 9 – “Bug” Episode 10 – “Salud” Episode 11 – “Craw Space” Episode 12 – “End Times” Episode 13 – “Face Off” Lost Lost Season 4: Episode 1 – “The Beginning of the End” Episode 2 – “Confirmed Dead” Episode 3 – “The Economist” Episode 4 – “Eggtown” Episode 5 – “The Constant” Episode 6 – “The Other Woman” Episode 7 – “Ji Yeon” Episode 8 – “Meet Kevin Johnson” Episode 9 – “The Shape of Things to Come” Episode 10 – “Something Nice...

Perhaps once regarded as a quirky, whimsical visualist known for his eye-popping music videos (Bjork, Beck, White Stripes) and his often pop-surrealist indie films ("Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind," "The Science of Sleep"), French filmmaker Michel Gondry has really challenged the boilerplate concept of who he is as an artist in recent years. He's taken on a tentpole super-hero film ("The Green Hornet" starring Seth Rogen), made a stylistically unadorned and deeply personal, yet unsentimental documentary about his aunt ("The Thorn In The Side") and another superficially quirky mainstream comedy that's actually quite a sincere tribute to the joys of community ("Be Kind Rewind").

Community, fraternity and a sense of belonging are themes that go as far back as 2005's "Dave Chappelle's Block Party" (in of itself a communal event) and these social motifs are definitely present in his latest effort, "The We & The I," which recently premiered in...

Michel Gondry used to have a style that was easy to pigeonhole. His "Science of Sleep," "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and past music video collaborations with Bjork, The Chemical Brothers and Daft Punk suggested a magical, expansive style that took place just left of center.

But now comes "The We And The I," a simple, honest look at a bunch of Bronx high school kids taking the bus home from school. The film will premiere at Cannes, and the trailer was just released via Bleeding Cool.

In 2010 he told Cinema Blend that this film was about his own experience as a high-schooler, and "the phenomenon of people, how different they are in groups and large numbers, and how they become more interesting and complex when they are in smaller groups."

He also said it would be about "a group of school kids who travel into the future by...

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Of course Tony Stark makes more money than his colleagues! Thanks to some profit participation and the fact that he's Marvel's most "repeat player," Robert Downey Jr. is currently the highest-paid Avenger, according to Heat Vision.

Get more acquainted with the man who's played a mutant ("X-Men: First Class"), a sex addict ("Shame"), an android ("Prometheus") and even Carl Jung ("A Dangerous Method"). Michael Fassbender graces the cover of the June issue of GQ, though you can read his interview online before the magazine hits the stands on May 22.

Is it getting hot in here? If the first steamy pic from Brian De Palma's "Passion" starring Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace got your temperature rising, then this new batch of images on display at The Playlist may have you running for a cold shower.

By Vaughn Schoonmaker

In today’s world of music entertainment, it's often easy to associate musicians and bands with a genre, even if the artists like to mix it up every now and then. Kids These Days, a seven-member band of teenagers from Chicago, have defied my ability to do this.

Three of the band's members dropped by MTV News recently while in town for a show to give us a chance to understand what lies behind their unique jazz-meets-alternative rock-meets-funk-meets-soul-meets-hip-hop-meets-pop sound.

"Traphouse Rock" vocalist and keyboardist Macie Stewart specified. "That's what we call our music. We just started jamming in [guitarist] Liam's basement. I don't think we ever consciously said let's put this all together, jazz, soul, rock. I think it just kind of came through because that's what we listen to, that's what we're a part of, and that's what came out in our playing."

I found myself contemplating...

Petrified, nervous, insecure, scared … None of these are words fans of Erykah Badu would associate with the neo-soul songstress, whose captivating musical stylings seem unflappable and effortless.

But they're all various ways Badu describes her experience making "Re:Generation," a fascinating new Grammys-produced music doc that pits five producers (Mark Ronson, DJ Premier, Skrillex, Pretty Lights and The Crystal Method) with the task of dabbling in five extrinsic genres (jazz, classical, rock, country and soul, respectively).

Badu, along with Yasiin Bey (a.k.a. Mos Def), Trombone Shorty, Zigaboo and more, were recruited for Ronson's jazz squad, where they had just hours to conceive a track for a performance that night. The celebrated crooner gives us a candid take on her "Re:Generation" encounter, delayed acting career and more.

So how did you get involved in "Re:Generation"?

They asked me to do it. And I said "Hell yeah," because it's an honor to be amongst Mark Ronson,...

#90. The We and the I Director: Michel GondryWriters: Gondry, Paul Proch and Partizan's Jeffrey GrimshawProducers: Raffi Adlan and Georges BermannDistributor: Rights Available The Gist: There is no official synopsis yet, this is pieced from interviews @ ThePlaylist: Gondry’s team interviewed participants from youth programs at The Point, Go Girl, Bronx Defenders and area high schools, asking them to describe important moments in their lives, then to act out these stories, improvising short sketches. This centers on a group of school kids who accidentally travel into the future to discover another machine that keeps people younger. "It's about the group effect, how people in groups transform when the group is dislocated, because everyone jumps out of the bus at different times, there is a smaller group and how the relationships evolve."...(more) Cast: Non professional actors. List Worthy Reasons...: Combine the faux individual and group filmmaking inventiveness in Be Kind Rewind,...

New York — Amy Winehouse had written all the songs that were to appear on her third album. She even picked out song titles.

But music producer Salaam Remi said the soul singer, who died over the summer, was not rushing to release that new material, instead planning to drop a jazz album first with a "supergroup" including ?uestlove of the Roots.

"She had written down everything she wanted to do," Remi said Tuesday.

Only two of the tracks Winehouse wrote were recorded and appear on her compilation album, "Lioness: Hidden Treasures," out Dec. 5 in the United Kingdom, and a day later in America.

Winehouse died from accidental alcohol poisoning at age 27. Her body was found at her London home July 23.

Remi, who worked on the singer's two albums, "Frank" and "Back to Black," produced most of the upcoming CD, saying Winehouse was a perfectionist when it came to composing music.

By Zachary Swickey

Thanks to the lyrical abilities of rhyme-spitters like Lil Wayne, Kanye West and Jay-z, the rap game is alive and well in 2011. Weezy is reportedly on track to sell around 850-900k copies of Tha Carter IV, and Watch the Throne is one of rap’s most talked about albums ever (not to mention it’s pretty damn good). With such astute rappers in today’s fast-paced music world, it’s easy to forget some of the past heavy-hitters.

Some rappers inexplicably lose their luster or disappear from the public eye altogether, but occasionally they revive their careers from the grave. Take Dr. Dre, for example. The Doc released the legendary hip-hop album The Chronic way back in ’92, but his career was basically nonexistent for most of the mid-to-late 90s. That is until he met a lanky white boy from Detroit named Eminem. Finally, seven years later...

Doug E. Fresh in concert at Budweiser Superfest Presents: Jill Scott's Summer Block Party at Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City. Photo copyright Claudio Uema / PR Photos. Anthony Hamilton in concert at Budweiser Superfest Presents: Jill Scott's Summer Block Party at Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City. Photo copyright Claudio Uema / PR Photos. Jill Scott in concert at Budweiser Superfest Presents: Jill Scott's Summer Block Party at Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City. Photo copyright Claudio Uema / PR Photos. Anthony Hamilton in concert at Budweiser Superfest Presents: Jill Scott's Summer Block Party at Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City. Photo copyright Claudio Uema / PR Photos. Anthony Hamilton in concert at Budweiser Superfest Presents: Jill Scott's Summer...

Trailblazing the way for more rap documentaries just as A Tribe Called Quest did for its genre’s musical potential, Beats Rhymes & Life is a passion project by first-time director Michael Rapaport that goes deep into how important the quartet was during the ’90s. As heard in both underground and mainstream rap acts today, the influence of the group (who included members Q-Tip, Phife Dawg, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, and Jarobi White) is still prominent.

I sat down with first-time director Rapaport and Atcq member Phife Dawg to discuss the group’s influence on modern culture, the small existence of rap documentaries, the excitement of rap music in the ’80s, and more.

Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest opens in Chicago on July 15.

There’s a lot of talk in this documentary about respect and influence. Is that an important component to musical history? Are financial numbers equal,...

Rapper has been undergoing radiation to treat the thyroid condition.

By Gil Kaufman

Missy Elliott

Photo: Astrid Stawiarz/ Getty Images

For a while, Missy Elliott was everywhere you looked. The rapper/producer released a string of offbeat smash hits and landmark music videos in the late 1990s and early 2000s that stretched from her breakthrough single "The Rain" in 1997 to 2001's "Get Ur Freak On" and 2002's "Work It." But after a couple of softer-selling efforts in the mid 2000s, Elliott seemed to fall off the radar.

Now the increasingly reclusive Mc has explained why her long-promised comeback album, Block Party, has been so long in coming and where she's been for the past three years. The 39-year-old Grammy winner told People magazine that she's battling the autoimmune disorder Graves' disease. "You live with it for the rest of your life," Elliott said.

Elliott released a statement after the People...

Syracuse University 2011 Block Party Celebration

Story by Michael Aaron Gallagher of StayFamous.Net

Tinie Tempah (who is best known for his song “Written in the Stars”) performed at the 2011 Syracuse University Block Party event at the Carrier Dome. The concert, which was organized by University Union, drew nearly 15,000 fans and also featured performances by Bob Marley’s youngest son, Damian Marley (“Welcome to Jamrock”), Nas (“Hate Me Now”), and Kid Cudi who stars in Mark Wahlberg’s new HBO comedy series, “How to Make it in America.”

Tinie Tempah performs at the 2011 Syracuse University Block Party.

Photo by Michael Aaron Gallagher. All rights reserved.“It was an amazing turn out,” said University Union president Andrew Beyda. “It’s not all about the numbers but when you get such a high turnout it speaks to the fact that we are addressing what students want to see. Block Party is a tradition...

News on the march!

This is the first time I’m hearing of this. I literally just got this press release in my inbox.

The gist of it? They’re calling it Bounce – the 1st-ever 24/7 broadcast TV network created exclusively for African Americans; behind it are Ambassador Andrew Young and Martin Luther King III who are founders; also on the team are Rainforest Films co-Founders Rob Hardy and Will Packer; former Turner Broadcasting executives Ryan Glover & Jonathan Katz; former Sony Pictures Television executive Jeffrey Wolf; the new network will launches this fall;

Major motion picture licensing deals are in place with NBCUniversal Television, Sony Pictures Television, Codeblack Entertainment and Image Entertainment, which will net nearly 400 titles.

Target audience for the network which will broadcast 24/7, is African Americans primarily, between the ages of 25-54; programming will included a mix of theatrical motion pictures, live sporting events, documentaries, specials, inspirational faith-based programs,...

Bradford Film Festival

Honouring its status as the world's first Unesco "City of Film", Bradford's festival brings over 100 features from around the world, including several premieres. But the city stays true to its industrial roots by going for quality of manufacture over glitziness of packaging. Guests include familiar names like Terry Gilliam, Timothy Spall, Claire Bloom and Werner Herzog (by satellite), but the emphasis is more on unexplored territory. A focus on genuinely indie Us cinema could dig up some gems (like Aaron Katz's Cold Weather), there's all-day horror (with the suggestively titled Hobo With A Shotgun), and a subversive tribute to film provocateur Amos Vogel. The closest you'll get to glamour are Woody Allen's You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger and Woody Harrelson-led post-Iraq drama The Messenger, or the 70mm-plus epics celebrated in the popular Widescreen Weekend.

National Media Museum, Wed to 27 Mar

The Beat Generation: Hip-Hop On Screen,...

Band From TV, the celebrity charity band that consists of stars such as Teri Hatcher, James Denton, Hugh Laurie, Greg Grunberg, Adrian Pasdar, Scott Grimes, Bob Guiney and others – will perform at a special Neighborhood Block Party on Wisteria Lane, the actual set where Desperate Housewives is filmed.

The charity party will raise money for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and will allow you to explore the neighborhood where the show is filmed, enjoy an old-fashioned barbecue from a stonefire grill, take part in a silent auction and rub shoulders with celebrities.

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Fab Fotos: Justin Bieber's Shoe Store Shopping Spree!

Before he chopped off his hair, Justin Bieber was focused on another part of his body -- his feet!

TooFab has learned the singer/superstar went on a serious shopping spree for new shoes this weekend -- and picked up six pairs of new kicks at the Sportie La All-Star Weekend Block Party benefiting the Un Foundation's Nothing But Nets organization.

While at Sportie La, one of the guys who worked there told Justin that Supras were the hottest shoes they had right now -- and Bieber tried on a pair while telling him "Yeah, and who do you think made them big? I've been wearing these for 2 years now!"

Justin ended up taking home two pairs of Supra Skytops -- one white and one black, both size 8 -- plus a pair of ...

Before he chopped off his hair , Justin Bieber was focused on another part of his body -- his feet! TooFab has learned the singer/superstar went on a serious shopping spree for new shoes this weekend -- and picked up six pairs of new kicks at the Sportie La All-Star Weekend Block Party benefiting the Un Foundation's Nothing But Nets organization. While at Sportie La , one of the guys who worked there told Justin that Supras were the hottest shoes they had right now -- and Bieber tried on a pair while telling him "Yeah, and who do you think made them big?  I've been wearing these for 2 years now!"  Justin ended up taking home two pairs of Supra Skytops -- one white and one black, both size 8 -- plus a pair of Vans Sk8 Hi and three pairs of kids shoes. We're told Bieber took time to meet with...

Austin, TX – Filmmaker Troy Duffy will be in attendance at SXSW to debut Boondock Saints for YooStar2, the movie-karaoke game for Microsoft Kinect.

If you’re a fan of Boondock Saints, and are planning to attend SXSW, you’ll definitely want to stop by Booth 1009 to star in your own scene with the direction of Duffy himself. Actor David Della Rocco will also be there, to add some colorful commentary for those brave enough to try the movie-karaoke game on the YooStar2 stage.

Currently, one Microsoft Kinect demo kiosk will be available for fans to play, featuring three scenes from the first Boondock Saints film. Duffy, and Della Rocco will guide all those who participate in their favorite scene. A Photo Booth will also be setup to make the memories last.

Special celebrity appearances are expected to be daily at the festival (Mar 14-17— Mon, Wed, Thurs 2-4pm and...

I remember growing up in the 90s. ABC and CBS had Tgif night. CBS called theirs the CBS Block Party. Shows like Boy Meets World, Full House, Step By Step, Sabrina The Teenage Witch, Family Matters, Norm, even Two Guys And A Girl all became staples of my childhood. By early 2005, ABC had stopped actively promoting the Tgif name, and dropped the Tgif block in the fall of 2005 completely.

Now, new ABC programming chief Paul Lee has said that he believes in the multicamera sitcom form (He set out to prove it while at ABC Family with Melissa & Joey, which has done pretty well for the cable channel) and that he is mulling a return of ABC’s Friday Tgif sitcom block, especially with all the sitcoms he has ordered for the future.

He is certainly backing his words up with comedy pilot orders that have skewed heavily towards multicamera comedies so far,...

'When I see those shows, it's unbelievable,' Guetta tells MTV News of fellow dance-music superstar's success.

By Akshay Bhansali

David Guetta

Photo: MTV News

In the February issue of the U.K. dance-music magazine Mixmag, veteran producer Tiësto is named the Greatest DJ of All Time, a title bestowed upon him by fans voting in a poll that began back in September. According to Mixmag, hundreds of thousands of clubbers were asked to vote and debate 35 DJs, each one nominated by big names in dance music. Some 80,000 votes were collected, and King Tiësto emerged with the crown.

That Tiësto should be considered the Greatest DJ of All Time should come as no surprise to dance-music fans, given his relentless touring schedule. Just last year, his Kaleidoscope Tour spanned 15 months, seeing him play 175 dates across six continents and performing for more than a million people. He was nominated for two...

Anddd hitting theaters this week is The Green Hornet, directed by Michel Gondry, written by/starring Seth Rogen as 2011's Britt Reid. We've talked about it plenty and featured numerous trailers and posters, but there's one more that arrived via IMPAwards, a rad mega-sized banner, that I thought would be fun to kick off the week. It has nothing more than the Black Beauty itself smashing through the wall and into the logo (in 3D!), but I'm sure it looks pretty damn cool 30 feet tall on some billboard/wall out there. As there's nothing else good opening, I suggest seeing Green Hornet this weekend, it's tons of wacky, ridiculous fun. The Green Hornet is directed by visionary French filmmaker Michel Gondry, who (in addition to numerous music videos and commercials) previously directed Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Science of Sleep, Dave Chappelle's Block Party and Be Kind Rewind.

From surrealism to documentary, from pop videos to superhero romps, Michel Gondry's career is impossible to pin down. He talks life, death and film-making

Michel Gondry strides into the restaurant, his darting eyes taking in everything around him. You can sense antennae twitching within his jumble of brown-and-grey curls. He turns out to be an expansive, good-humoured talker. If anything, he's almost too aware: his wavelength seems prone to interference from other people's transmissions. "Ugh, they are too loud," he huffs at one point. "This guy is making me lose my concentration," he complains later as another man loiters nearby.

The 47-year-old Frenchman is best known as the director of some of modern cinema's most deliriously loopy fantasies, from the surrealist tearjerker Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, to the sticky-back plastic dreamscapes of The Science of Sleep and the slacker slapstick of Be Kind Rewind. But he spreads...

Columbia Pictures has debuted the first teaser poster for Michel Gondry's The Green Hornet with Seth Rogen and Jay Chou. This poster was first found on the Nycc showfloor by Latino Review, then officially unveiled by ComingSoon. I'm actually impressed, this is a very sleek design, I like the symmetry and logo in the headlines, it's pretty cool for an early teaser poster for this movie. We haven't seen an official Us trailer since the first one debuted back in June, but I'm sure Sony/Columbia is gearing up some big marketing soon enough. Check out the first Green Hornet teaser poster below and let us know if you're impressed by it, too. The Green Hornet is directed by visionary French filmmaker Michel Gondry, who (in addition to numerous music videos and commercials) previously directed Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Science of Sleep, Dave Chappelle's Block Party...

Law and Order’s Mariska Hargitay attended a very special charity event in Central Park, NYC, last weekend.

Set in the context of Central Park in New York City, The Ultimate Block Party forged a partnership between non-profit organizations and large corporations to demonstrate how free play and playful learning build skills central to the workplace of tomorrow. Families with children from 2 to 12 were able to visit a number of stations that combined playful activities and mini-master classes with some of New York’s best architects, musicians, artists, CEOs and engineers.

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Singer Justin Bieber is being honored at the fourth Annual Variety's Power of Youth event Oct. 24 at Paramount Studios, it's dubbed the "World's Greatest Block Party."

This year's event celebrates a select group of outstanding young entertainers chosen to receive the Variety's Power of Youth Philanthropy Award, recognizing their efforts and contributions to philanthropic and charitable causes.

Along with Bieber, this year's honorees include rapper/actor Bow Wow (Education Through Music -- Los Angeles), "Wizards of Waverly Place...

August Miklos Friedrich Hermann snuggles in for a story between parents Mariska Hargitay and Peter Hermann at Sunday’s Ultimate Block Party, held in New York City’s Central Park. August, 4, is the only child for the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit star and her husband.

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Beyonce Knowles has crashed a block party in West Orange and participant excitedly welcomed her. In a newly-outed video, Beyonce, in her white T-shirt and black leggings, is seen dancing with some locals who all dance to the same moves.

According to a tag line which follows the posted video, the locals' excitement occurred on the same block where the mother of Beyonce's husband Jay-z lives. The "If I Were a Boy" hitmaker and Jay-z were at that time visiting his mother.

Beyonce Knowles released her latest album "I Am...Sasha Fierce" in November 2008. Beyonce is reportedly currently working on her new record. Producer Los Da Mystro recently hinted that the 29-year-old singer/actress may debut her new single in October. Beside the fact that Ne-Yo will be involved in the album, other details about it are not yet available.

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• Tiff Bell Lightbox was opened to the public on Sunday. There was a huge Block Party held to celebrate the opening, which included a performance by K’nann and free cupcakes.

• Reviews are in for Clint Eastwood’s latest Hereafter starring Matt Damon. Not exactly his strongest film to date, critics are not too fond of the “laughable coincidences” and the “facile” letdown of an ending. There are however many positives about the film:

Variety: “An uneven but absorbing triptych of stories concerning the bonds between the living and the dead, the 80-year-old filmmaker’s latest feature is a beguiling blend of the audacious and the familiar…”

The Hollywood Reporter: “The film never is less than intriguing, right from its tour de force opening sequence, and often full of insights into why people long for answers, sometimes with great urgency…”

Screendaily: “It is good to see Clint Eastwood trying something very different.

The world premiere of Bruce McDonald’s rock ‘n’ roll saga, Trigger, will be the inaugural film at the Tiff Bell Lightbox this Sunday. Comprised of a strong Canadian cast including Molly Parker, Don McKellar and Sarah Polley, the opening film tells the story of a rock duo who reunite after their band call it quits. Coincidentally, “a surprise musical performance from one of Canada’s hottest global superstars” will be performing at the free Block Party on the day of the screening. Check out the first trailer below:

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Check out some of the major events, and major celebs, who will be out Sept. 10 for fashion’s biggest night!

Fashion’s Night Out is all about throwing money into the fashion industry but, let’s be honest, for most it’s about the chance to grab some drinks and food while rubbing elbows with a slew of models, designers, and celebs. So whether you want to see a Gossip Girl, sing karaoke for Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, play Bingo with Rachel Zoe’s assistant Brad Goerski or decorate cupcakes with Karlie Kloss, there is something for everyone on Sept. 10!

Lanvin (815 Madison Ave., NYC) : Play Bingo with Brad Goerski while entering to win a Lanvin bag!

Piperlime (93 Mercer St., NYC) : Die with Rachel Zoe as she offers styling advice at the pop-up store!

Armani (717 Fifth Ave., NYC) : Learn how to strike a pose with model Bar Refaeli!