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Hulu and Disney's new documentary Road Diary features never-before-seen details and footage about Bruce Springsteen, otherwise known as "The Boss". Road Diary offers viewers a behind-the-scenes look at the rehearsal process leading up to Bruce Springsteen's current world tour with the E Street Band. The tour began on February 1, 2023, in Tampa, Florida, and is set to conclude on July 2, 2025. Road Diary features a great soundtrack full of live performances.

Road Diary initially premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2024. The documentary is directed by Thom Zimny, who has shot many of Springsteen's other documentaries such as Bruce Spingsteen's Letter to You (2020) and Springsteen on Broadway (2018), music videos like "Radio Nowhere" and "Western Stars", and several live concert specials. Despite Springsteen's age, he announced that he has no plans to stop touring with the E Street Band anytime soon.

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Warning: Spoilers ahead for Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.

Hulu and Disney's new documentary Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band reveals never-before-seen details and footage about the legendary singer/songwriter. A native of Freehold, New Jersey, Bruce Springsteen is one of the most prolific American singers, songwriters, and rock n roll artists who has ever lived. He established the E Street Band for the recording of his debut album Greetings from Ashbury Park, N.J. in October 1972. The E Street Band originally consisted of Garry Tallent (bass), Clarence Clemons (saxophone), Danny Federici (keyboards), Vini "Mad Dog" Lopez (drums), and David Sancious (keyboards).

Road Diary offers views a behind-the-scenes look at the rehearsal process leading up to Bruce Springsteen's current world tour with the E Street Band. The tour began on February 1, 2023, in Tampa, Florida, and is set to conclude on July 2, 2025. Springsteen was...

After a lifetime of performing, Bruce Springsteen paused touring when the pandemic hit. But we all know the New Jersey native was born to rock. His latest documentary film, Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band, directed by Springsteen’s longtime collaborator and Emmy and Grammy winner Thom Zimny, picks up with the now 75-year-old and his E Street Band’s return to rehearsals ahead of their 2023–2024 global trek, and includes personal interviews and rare archival footage. But the moment that left Zimny the most thunderstruck was that first show back, in Barcelona, which is shown in the doc. “The crowd overpowered the sound of the band. They sang along, not to every lyric, but to every nuance of the music. By the end of that Barcelona concert, everyone had tears in their eyes,” Zimny says. “It’s something that I’ll never forget.” Below, Zimny writes in his Road Diary.

When Bruce Springsteen stands onstage, staring out at the crowd, or with his head bowed, and cocks his guitar behind him, that’s a pose that’s now as iconic as the young Abraham Lincoln holding an ax over his shoulder. It’s a mythic image of American nobility. In “Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band,” we follow Springsteen, in his first concerts since the pandemic, as he reconnects with his fabled band and they rehearse for six days and go out on a tour that will take them from the U.S. to Europe, from 2023 to 2024.

All of this is intercut with grainy footage of Bruce performing in the ’70s and early ’80s. At this point, we’re so accustomed to the older, statelier Bruce that when we see some of the earlier clips, it’s almost shocking to register just how much he moved around onstage.

The Beach Boys are back.

The seminal American band, responsible for such tunes classics as “Wouldn’t It Be Nice,” “Surfin’ U.S.A.” and “Good Vibrations,” originally consisting of brother Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love and friend Al Jardine, are getting the feature-length rock doc treatment. And with good reason – the story of The Beach Boys, a band known for their sunny disposition, is fraught with tragedy, disloyalty and acrimony. But all of that pain went into their music, creating something simultaneously euphoric and melancholy. And it will all make for a very juicy documentary – just in time for summer!

When does “The Beach Boys” come out?

“The Beach Boys” premiered Friday, May 24. Just in time for the long Memorial Day weekend, the unofficial kick-off to summer.

Is “The Beach Boys” streaming or in theaters?

“The Beach Boys” is streaming exclusively on Disney+.

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Disney+ and Hulu have set a new Bruce Springsteen documentary for an October premiere.

“Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band” will follow the band’s 2023-2024 world tour, featuring footage from band rehearsals and backstage moments, conversations with Springsteen as he develops the setlist and archival clips of the E Street Band. The project is intended to complement Springsteen’s existing body of autobiographical works, which includes the memoir “Born to Run,” the live performance (and documentary) “Springsteen on Broadway,” and the films “Western Stars” and “Letter to You.”

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The documentary is directed by Thom Zimny, the longtime Springsteen collaborator behind “Western Stars” and “Springsteen on Broadway,” as well as music docs “The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash” and “Willie Nelson & Family.” Zimny also produces alongside Springsteen, Springsteen’s manager Jon Landau, Adrienne Gerard and Sean Stuart.

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America loves biopics about its most famous musicians; 2022's "Elvis" was a smash hit that turned Austin Butler into a star (as seen by his amazing turn as Feyd-Rautha in "Dune Part Two").

If The King is a movie star, it was only a matter of time before the Boss became one — and that time is now. 20th Century Studios and Disney will be producing the first Bruce Springsteen biopic, "Deliver Me From Nowhere." The film (adapted from the 2023 book of the same title by Warren Zanes) chronicles the making of Springsteen's sixth album, 1982's "Nebraska." Biopics are generally best when they don't try to cram a subject's whole life into a couple of hours, so that's a good sign.

Scott Cooper will write and direct "Deliver Me From Nowhere." Jeremy Allen White, currently starring on "The Bear," is in talks to play Springsteen; look and energy-wise, there's no better casting in Hollywood right now.

Exclusive: Fresh off success with the acclaimed docs Sly and Willie Nelson & Family, respectively chronicling the lives and careers of Sylvester Stallone and the iconic same-name country artist, Thom Zimny has signed with Artists First. The production and management company will look for opportunities to help the filmmaker showcase his talents in the narrative feature world.

An Emmy and Grammy Award-winning director, producer and editor, Zimny co-directed Willie Nelson & Family with Oren Moverman. The project marked the first authorized doc on the life and career of Nelson, premiering at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival before debuting on Paramount+.

Examining Stallone’s decades-long through Hollywood, the Zimny-helmed Sly debuted on the streamer after closing out TIFF last fall. Up next for the multi-hyphenate is The Beach Boys, a doc on the beloved surf rockers, co-directed with Frank Marshall for Disney+, which will be released later this year.

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In “Sly,” director Thom Zimny captures a side of Sylvester Stallone seldom seen. The 95-minute docu exposes a relatable, vulnerable man who is often thought to be the movie characters he made iconic — Rocky Balboa or John Rambo.

Born in 1946, Stallone grew up in New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen with little money and a father who might have hated him. Zimny’s docu reveals that the fraught upbringing turned out to work in Stallone’s favor when it came to Hollywood. The star’s background not only drove him to be a success, but also inspired many of the roles he made legendary.

Unlike many celebrity docus, “Sly” isn’t a valentine to the star as much as a retrospective of the Oscar-winner’s unlikely, but highly successful 50-year career.

Variety spoke to Zimny ahead of the Netflix premiere of “Sly” on Nov. 3.

I’m sure many filmmakers...

In months leading up to her billion-dollar Mattel success “Barbie,” Greta Gerwig famously revealed some of the film influences behind her work. Now, the practice is set to continue in her role as guest artistic director for the 2023 AFI Fest, which takes place in Los Angeles Oct. 25–29.

The Oscar-nominated writer-director revealed Tuesday the five films that are going to be part of her specially curated festival sidebar: Tim Burton’s “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure,” Bob Fosse’s “All That Jazz,” Emeric Pressburger and Michael Powell’s “A Matter of Life and Death,” Vincente Minnelli’s “An American in Paris” and Wim Wenders’ “Wings of Desire.”

Gerwig will introduce select films herself, notably “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure,” which screens at the Tcl Chinese Theatre on Oct. 26 at 6 p.m., two months after the death of its star and cowriter Paul Reubens.

Additionally, AFI Fest has added a few new titles to the lineup,...

“Sly,” director Thom Zimny’s documentary about Sylvester Stallone,” will be the closing-night presentation at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival, TIFF organizers announced on Tuesday.

The film, which will be released by Netflix, will have its world premiere on Saturday, Sept. 16 at Roy Thomson Hall, at the conclusion of the festival that will begin with Hayao Miyazaki’s “The Boy and the Heron.”

Zimny previously came to Cannes with two Bruce Springsteen movies, “The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town” in 2010 and “Western Stars” in 2019. His other films include “Willie Nelson & Family,” “Elvis Presley: The Searcher” and “The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash.”

“Sly” covers both Stallone’s career, including the huge hits “Rocky” and “Rambo” and the recent TV series “Tulsa King,” and his personal life from his rough childhood in New York City to now.

“Stallone’s story is one of perseverance,...

After a two-hour-plus main set that slammed home themes of mortality and impermanence and the way of all flesh, Bruce Springsteen reemerged on Madison Square Garden’s stage Saturday night, April 1, for his usual lengthy encore, and announced “something special for New York City.” He pointed over at Soozie Tyrell, who began a dead-on recreation of one of rock’s few canonical violin melodies, over piano from all-time-great arpeggio purveyor Roy Bittan. They eased the E Street Band into the 11-minute-long, 48-year-old mini-rock-opera “Jungleland,” played and sung with enough muscle...

Willie Nelson is many things – he’s a country music legend, a Texas icon, an outspoken activist and one of history’s most famous tax evaders. At 89, Nelson’s life so far has been colorful and gloriously overstuffed that it probably wouldn’t fit into a single documentary. That’s why “Willie Nelson & Family,” which just premiered at Sundance, isn’t a movie exactly, but an episodic independent series about his singular life and his music. TheWrap spoke to the series’ directors Tom Zimny and Oren Moverman at Sundance about how the film came together and finding their groove as filmmakers. “It was a great journey,” said Zimny.

Zimny, who has directed a number of Bruce Springsteen films, including 2019’s theatrical release “Western Stars,” and Moverman had never worked together (but Zimny had stuck him in the audience of one of the Springsteen movies) but it is clear from...

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are launching a long-awaited world tour in February 2023 with a run of U.S. arena shows. Dates and cities for those concerts have yet to be announced. Check out brucespringsteen.net for ticketing information.

“After six years, I’m looking forward to seeing our great and loyal fans next year,” Springsteen said in a statement. “And I’m looking forward to once again sharing the stage with the legendary E Street Band. See you out there, next year — and beyond.”

The musicians will...

Nothing is confirmed at the moment, but it seems quite likely that Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are planning to tour Europe next year. The rumor mill went into overdrive during Thanksgiving week that dates were about to be announced, and fans even spotted an advertisement at a German bus stop for a June 10, 2022 show at Deutsche Bank Park in Frankfurt, Germany. But this all happened right as news of the Omicron variant surfaced, which seems to have delayed the announcement.

The band has been off the road for nearly five years,...

Willie Nelson is participating in a docuseries about his life, “Willie Nelson and Family,” with production said to be already “well underway” on the project from Blackbird Presents and Sight Unseen Pictures. The co-directors of the “definitive” multi-part series are Thom Zimny, best known as Bruce Springsteen’s regular filmic collaborator, and Emmy winner and Oscar nominee Oren Moverman.

Nelson, 88, is described as an enthusiastic participant in the project, opening up exclusive access to his archives and encouraging friends and family to take part in a series that’s already been filming in Austin, Nashville, Los Angeles, New York and Maui.

The country music icon’s manager, Mark Rothbaum, developed the project in collaboration with Keith Wortman, the founder-ceo of Blackbird Presents.

The latter company specializes in films and TV shows about music legends and in recent years has produced projects for or about artists like Merle Haggard, Gregg Allman,...

Bruce Springsteen was presented with the Woody Guthrie Prize Thursday night, May 13th, and during a Q&a with Guthrie’s daughter Nora and Grammy Museum Executive Director Robert Santelli, Springsteen casually mentioned that he has a new album in the works. “California was an enormous influence on some of my most topical writing through my ‘90s, 2000s and even now,” he said. “We have a record coming out soon that’s set largely in the West.”

Nothing else is known about the album, but Springsteen has been unusually productive...

“Who the hell is Bruce Springsteen?” I thought. Dashing out the stage door of a late-night Broadway show to beat the blundering crowds back in 2019, violin case in hand, I stepped onto the uptown C train for a swift escape out of midtown Manhattan. As I scrolled mindlessly through email, a message caught my attention: My colleague was requesting musicians to record with Bruce Springsteen — later to be disclosed as a live album recording of Western Stars. Not recognizing the all-American legend and turned off by the Jersey shoot location,...

If the pandemic hadn’t happened, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band would be gearing up for a huge world tour right now. Still, he’s primed to be busy in 2021. “I have some projects coming up this year that I won’t tell, because it’s gonna be a secret and then a big surprise. But I do have things to keep me busy this year that I’ll be doing that should give the fans something to bide their time with, you know?” he said on Sirius...

Bruce Springsteen’s fans are among the most passionate fans in all of music. Thom Zimny should know — he was one of those fans, until he got the opportunity to become a collaborator. The filmmaker has worked with Springsteen on several music videos, co-directed last year’s Western Stars, and directed the new documentary that accompanies [...]

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Bruce Springsteen inducted manager Jon Landau into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the rare honor of receiving the Ahmet Ertegun Award, which is reserved for songwriters, producers, record company executives during the virtual ceremony aired on HBO Saturday night).

Springsteen talked about first coming across Landau’s work as a rock critic, years before they met. “One of my first recollections of Jon Landau was his trashing of the Blues Project in Crawdaddy,” Springsteen laughed. “I was thinking, ‘Who does this guy think he is?'”

Springsteen’s segment — which was produced by director Thom Zimny — shone a light on Landau, and included insight from label mogul Jimmy Iovine, who was Springsteen’s engineer in the mid-1970s, Jann Wenner, who published his work for a decade in Rolling Stone, and Jackson Browne, whose “The Pretender” album was produced by Landau.

With this, he becomes one of...

“It’s snowing! It’s snowing!” The man gleefully exclaiming this meteorological fact is watching tiny flakes begin to fall on the ground. Seconds before, he was telling the group of folks milling around the room to gather ’round (“Gen-tle-men, congregate!”) with all the authority of a general assembling the troops. Then he glances outside a large picture window, and suddenly, this rugged-looking seventysomething turns into a 10-year-old kid. “Last night I was sitting outside ’til nine o’clock, sitting on my front porch by a fire. Now it’s snowing.

Bruce Springsteen released his 20th studio album, “Letter to You,” on October 23. It’s his first time recording with the E Street Band since “High Hopes” in 2014. So what do critics think of the beloved rock musician’s latest set?

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As of this writing the album has a MetaCritic score of 89 based on 16 reviews counted thus far, 15 of them positive, one of them somewhat mixed and none outright negative. Springsteen is no stranger to critical adulation, but that score currently makes “Letter to You” the Boss’s highest-rated album of new material since MetaCritic has been keeping track.

Reviewers are saying the collection “delivers something very close” to “the electricity of live music,” with Springsteen and his band recording the songs together live in the studio. It’s “one of the warmest and most reassuring records of his career,...

If anyone knows Bruce Springsteen, it’s filmmaker Thom Zimny. The two have been collaborating for 20 years, from video shorts to retrospective documentaries like “The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town,” before moving his cameras into a New York theater for “Springsteen on Broadway.” Their latest collaboration is “Letter to You” (now streaming on Apple TV Plus), an intimate step inside Springsteen’s Jersey recording studio as he recorded his album of the same name. Zimny was there to capture the magic as the E Street Band recorded an album mostly live in the studio for the first time since 1984.

The director spoke with Variety about their collaboration, filming “Letter to You” and working with the Boss, remotely, during the lockdown.

Your relationship with Bruce dates back 20 years. How has that relationship evolved given you’ve been working on all these projects with him, most recently “Springsteen on Broadway,...

Director Thom Zimny has become Bruce Springsteen’s historian of sorts at a time when the veteran rocker is increasingly willing to engage with his own history. In a string of films beginning with “The Promise” in 2010 and more recently including “Western Stars,” the filmed version of “Springsteen on Broadway” and now the new documentary “Bruce Springsteen’s Letter to You,” Zimny has showcased both Springsteen’s performances and his ruminations on his life and career.

“Letter to You,” which will premiere on Friday on Apple TV+ to coincide with the release of the album of the same name, marks the first time that Zimny took his cameras into the recording studio with Springsteen, who made the album in four days last fall with the musicians in his E Street Band. Spurred in part by the death of George Theis, who recruited a teenage Springsteen into his first band, the Castiles,...

Bruce Springsteen. The Boss. This man’s musical talent, experience and sheer determination has undoubtedly touched many people’s lives. He has influenced many artists and, above all else, makes you dance, laugh and cry along to his music. This isn’t the first look into this man’s life and creative processes we have had. Much like Western Stars, Letter to You another sweet nugget of this man’s storytelling through his music and this one guys, is for us.

With never seen before behind the scenes footage, director Thom Zimny beautifully captures The E Street Band in all their glory giving us a true insight into the live, 4 day recording of the album Letter to You. Immediately, a somber tone is set. We are mainly in black and white here but such a stylistic choice only compliments the passion, love and friendship that emerges from the screen, you...

Remember back in the 1980s, when MTV still played music, and several artists started turning their music videos into “mini-movies”? The relationship between music and film has evolved a lot since then, and you now find several artists promoting their new projects with feature-length movies. After making one last year for his album Western Stars, [...]

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The trailer for “Bruce Springsteen’s Letter to You” has arrived, and it promises a film that, besides being a making-of about his forthcoming album with the E Street Band, is in some ways an unofficial sequel to “Springsteen on Broadway,” with plenty of voiceover from the man about his feelings on music and brotherhood.

“I’m in the middle of a 45-year conversation with these men and women I’m surrounded by,” Springsteen is heard saying about the E Street Band, who joined him in his home studio in New Jersey for a mostly live-in-the-studio rendering of his new songs.

“I started playing the guitar because I was looking for someone to correspond with. And after all this time I still feel that need to talk to you,” the singer says, addressing the film’s audience.

“Our years of playing together have created an efficiency in the studio. Ideas tumble around the room.

Over the past half a century, Bruce Springsteen has played down-on-their-luck working men, wide-eyed youngsters growing up too quickly, local-circuit rockers who can only dream of playing stadiums, Cadillac ranchers tearin’ up the highway for cheap kicks, and on and on in his songs. Although he was playing roles in his songs, the same sense of hope for the future and desire to live a simpler life has connected his characters since the beginning, and those threads have only become more apparent as time has gone on. Now on his 20th album,...

"We're having fun! One, two..." Apple TV has released an official trailer for Bruce Springsteen's Letter to You, yet another new Bruce Springsteen documentary film coming up (in addition to Western Stars from last year). Bruce Springsteen's Letter to You captures Springsteen recording "Letter To You" live with the full E Street Band, and includes final take performances of ten originals from the new record. Written by Springsteen and directed by his frequent collaborator Thom Zimny, the film is a tribute to the E Street Band, to rock music itself and to the role it has played in Springsteen's life. Throughout the film, Springsteen shares his thoughts and feelings behind "Letter To You" and puts the new music into the context of his entire body of work. In that way, it's the next piece in the autobiographical series that began with the memoir Born to Run, continued with ...

The Boss is back, and he’s bringing the band with him this time. Americans could use a little pick me up right about now, and nobody unites America quite like Bruce Springsteen. Fans of the rock legend will soon get a behind-the-scenes look at Springsteen’s creative process in the documentary film, “Bruce Springsteen’s Letter to You.” The feature-length film arrives the same day as Springsteen’s new album “Letter To You,” and features full performances from The E Street Band, in-studio footage, never-before-seen archival material and a deeper look into “Letter To You” from Springsteen himself. Apple Original Films has released a teaser trailer alongside the announcement.

Written by Springsteen and directed by his frequent collaborator Thom Zimny, “Bruce Springsteen’s Letter to You” captures Springsteen recording “Letter To You” live with the full E Street Band and includes final take performances of ten originals from the new record.

Apple TV Plus will premiere the documentary about the making of Bruce Springsteen’s “Letter to You” on Oct. 23, the same day the album is released, the streaming service announced Monday.

The documentary reunites Springsteen with Thom Zimny, his longtime filmmaking partner. Zimny takes solo credit on the new film after sharing directorial reins with the musician on their previous joint effort, “Western Stars,” a rendering of a concert performance of the album of the same name that debuted with a theatrical run last year. Their most celebrated teaming remains “Springsteen on Broadway,” a filming of Springsteen’s legit one-man show that went to Netflix in 2018.

The new film captures Springsteen at work with the E Street Band in a tight time frame as they recorded “Letter to You.” It’s being described as the first time the singer has worked with his veteran band in a mostly “live in...

Bruce Springsteen’s Letter to You will stream on Apple TV+ on October 23rd, the same day as the Letter to You album’s release. The documentary chronicles the five days Springsteen and the E Street Band spent in his Colts Neck, New Jersey, studio to record his new album late last year.

The atmospheric, black-and-white documentary, directed by Thom Zimny, shows the band learning, arranging, and recording the songs on the album and captures the members’ decades-long friendships — including a now-poignant toast to a tour that’s nowhere in sight.

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will be the subject of another documentary film called “Bruce Springsteen’s Letter to You” that will premiere on Apple TV+ the same day as the Boss’ latest album of the same name.

“Bruce Springsteen’s Letter to You” will drop on Apple TV+ on Friday, Oct. 23, coinciding with the release of the album, and the film will be a verité look inside Springsteen’s creative process and the making of “Letter to You.” It will also feature full performances from the E Street Band, in-studio footage and archival material that dates back to Springsteen’s early days as a rock star.

“Letter to You” follows last year’s “Western Stars,” which Springsteen directed himself along with his frequent collaborator Thom Zimny. Springsteen wrote the new documentary and Zimny directed, and the film is intended as a tribute to rock music and the...

Apple TV+ will stream Bruce Springsteen’s Letter to You documentary on Oct. 23, which is the same day that the 20-time Grammy winner’s new album with The E Street Band Letter to You arrives. Letter to You is Springsteen’s first studio album recorded live and together with the E Street Band since 1984’s Born in the U.S.A.

The project is the next piece in Springsteen’s autobiographical series that began with the memoir Born to Run, continued with Springsteen on Broadway and advanced through his film Western Stars. The doc takes a behind-the-scenes look at Springsteen’s creative process with full performances from The E Street Band, in-studio footage, and never-before-seen archival material. Bruce Springsteen’s Letter to You also captures Springsteen recording “Letter To You” live with the full E Street Band, and includes final take performances of ten originals from the new record. Both...

Columbia Records will release Bruce Springsteen’s new album Letter to You on Oct. 23, according to Rolling Stone. The 12-track album is the first to feature The E Street Band since High Hopes in 2014. As an introductory salutation to his 20th studio LP, Springsteen released the title-track lead single “Letter to You.”

“I love the emotional nature of ‘Letter to You,’” Springsteen said in a statement, via Rolling Stone. “And I love the sound of the E Street Band playing completely live in the studio, in a way we’ve never done before, and with no overdubs. We made the album in only five days, and it turned out to be one of the greatest recording experiences I’ve ever had.”

This is the first time Springsteen has performed with the E Street Band since The River 2016 tour. The music video shows the band working in Springteen’s home studio in New Jersey.

Bruce Springsteen will release Letter to You, a new rock album recorded live in his New Jersey home studio with the E Street Band, on October 23rd. The title track is also the first single and is available now.

“I love the emotional nature of Letter To You,” he said in a statement. “And I love the sound of the E Street Band playing completely live in the studio, in a way we’ve never done before, and with no overdubs. We made the album in only five days, and...

As we wade deeper into the uncertain waters of isolated living, the list of movies and TV shows you haven’t seen already may be starting to dwindle. But fear not, quarantine content consumers — HBO is out with its list of everything new coming to the streaming service in May, and there are lots of fresh options to keep you entertained this month.

Popular movies like “BlacKkKlansman,” “Crazy Rich Asians,” “Jaws” and “School of Rock” are all arriving Friday, May 1. Plus, the director’s cut of “Little Shop of Horrors,” “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” and “The Art of Getting By,” to name a few.

TV shows arriving throughout the month include the premiere of limited series “I Know This Much Is True” starring Mark Ruffalo, out May 10, and the season finale of HBO’s dark comedy “Run” starring Merritt Wever and Domhnall Gleeson, out May 24.

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May isn’t quite summer yet but it is usually time that the networks start wrapping up their newest shows and preparing for a relatively fallow summer period. Since HBO isn’t a network, it has no such business model. But May sees the winding down of some HBO blockbusters all the same.

While there are some notable new releases for HBO in May 2020, the bigger story might be the things that are ending. Westworld concludes its third season on May 3 while new series Run wraps up on May 24. Thankfully the film losses in May aren’t too bad for HBO, unless the Agent Cody Banks saga drives a lot of traffic.

The most notable TV premiere in May is I Know This Much is True, a book adaptation starring Mark Ruffalo. This is a very bleak story coming along at a bleak time in history but perhaps those two things will cancel out.

The latest release in Bruce Springsteen’s ongoing live download series is a show he played with the E Street Band at Long Island, New York’s Nassau Coliseum on May 4th, 2009. This was the first leg of the Working on a Dream tour and it features many live rarities including “Kingdom of Days,” “Rendezvous,” “The Wrestler” and a cover of the 1967 Soul Survivors classic “Expressway to Your Heart.” The show marks the only time Springsteen has ever played it live.

Early in the show, Springsteen spoke about the connection...

“Ford v Ferrari ” won the top prize, Sound Editing (Effects and Foley), at the Golden Reel Awards bestowed by the Motion Picture Sound Editors (Mpse) on Sunday. One of its Oscar rivals for Best Sound Editing, “1917,” picked up Dialogue & Adr.

“Parasite” continued its winning ways with the guild and claimed the Foreign language prize. “Rocketman” won the musical race, “Jojo Rabbit” nabbed the musical underscore award and “Toy Story” took animation.

Fans of the other three Oscar nominees for Best Sound Editing– “Joker,” “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” and “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” should not be too disheartened. This guild’s track record at predicting the eventual winner at the Academy Awards is spotty. Last year, all five of the Oscar nominees for Best Sound Editing numbered among the Mpse contenders. Eventual Oscar winner “Bohemian Rhapsody” did not contend in the category equivalent — Sound Effects and Foley.

Welcome to the last day of the decade. As we move from 2019 to 2020, it’s time for my annual look at year’s best and brightest. Yes, today I’ll be giving out some personal awards, revealing my top ten list, and basically just putting a final bow on the year. 2019 is about to end, so why don’t we go out with a bang? Let’s get started with the end of the year rundown folks! As always, below you will be able to see both my picks for the very best movies of 2019 as well as the best performances of the year. In terms of the films, I’ll be doing a top 30 list again, with a dozen honorable mentions, just because (I like including as much as possible on these lists…we know this by now). The same will go for the performances I’m keenest on,...

At a time when leaders spout lies and cries of “fake news” put reputable media outlets in doubt, audiences showed an astonishing appetite for nonfiction filmmaking. This year, more than 15 documentaries crossed the $1 million mark in theaters, ranging from high-profile concert films (such as Bruce Springsteen’s “Western Stars” and “Bring the Soul: The Movie”) to powerful human interest stories (“Maiden” and “The Biggest Little Farm”). Revolutionary “The Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson pushed the boundaries of the medium yet again, bringing fresh dimension to century-old World War I footage in his 3D doc “They Shall Not Grow Old”, while high-frame-rate eco doc “Aquarela” changed the way we look at water. All told, it was an incredibly strong year for documentaries, amid which Variety film critics Peter Debruge and Owen Gleiberman singled out these 10 as their favorites.

1. “The Hottest August”

When you think of climate change documentaries, chances...

Read more from Variety’s Directors on Directors, in which filmmakers praise their favorite movies of the year, here.

“My soul was not at peace with God.” Edward Norton’s beautifully realized neo-noir, “Motherless Brooklyn,” wrestles with this condition throughout its duration. His hero is an unlikely gumshoe with Tourette’s syndrome, compelled to solve a mystery and avenge a loss, and Norton’s warm, compassionate performance brings the soul to this wonderful film.

He also wrote, produced and directed it and the piece burns with the quiet fire and emotionally all-in stakes of a real auteur passion project. It’s both gorgeous to watch and a treasure to listen to. And take it from me, as someone who has made a career performing in the thing he writes while directing the rest of the band and producing the sound too … it ain’t easy to wear all those hats...

Knives Out impresses in China, delivers $71m worldwide bow.

December 2 Update: After last weekend’s record $358m global debut, Disney’s Frozen 2 retained its worldwide box office crown in style thanks to a $251.9m weekend haul that propelled the running total to $742.1m after 12 days.

Lionsgate’s murder mystery Knives Out debuted strongly on $70.9m worldwide, earning $13.6m in China.

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Updated: Fired up by muscular holds and robust debuts in Russia, Italy, and Australia, Frozen 2 generated a confirmed $166m from international markets to climb to $453.2m, putting the half-billion target within reach by next weekend.

Knives Out impresses in China, delivers $71m worldwide bow.

December 2 Update: After last weekend’s record $358m global debut, Disney’s Frozen 2 retained its worldwide box office crown in style thanks to an estimated $249m that propelled the running total to $738.6m after 12 days.

Lionsgate’s murder mystery Knives Out debuted strongly on $70.9m worldwide, earning $13.6m in China.

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International

Updated: Fired up by muscular holds and robust debuts in Russia, Italy, and Australia, Frozen 2 generated a confirmed $166m from international markets to climb to $453.2m, putting the half-billion target within reach by next weekend.

Who didn’t make the cut when the 2020 Grammy nominations were announced on Wednesday morning, November 20? Scroll down to see noteworthy names, songs and albums that missed out in the top four general field categories. And check out the list of nominations here.

Taylor Swift wasn’t completely absent from the general field as she was a couple of years ago when her “Reputation” was snubbed everywhere except Best Pop Album. She did show up in Song of the Year for “Lover.” However, the album of the same name was left out of the race for Album of the Year, and “You Need to Calm Down” was missing from Record of the Year. “Calm Down” did pick up a Best Pop Solo Performance nom, though, and “Lover” is up for Best Pop Album.

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The 2020 Grammy nominations will be announced on Wednesday morning, November 20, at 8:20am Eastern (5:20am for those of you on the west coast). So who will make the cut when the recording academy announces their picks? Scroll down for our official predictions in the top four general field categories, listed in order of their odds with our projected winners highlighted in gold. These odds are based on the combined predictions of more than 2,500 users who have made their forecasts here in our predictions center. You can make or update your own predictions until just before the announcement.

One of the year’s biggest success stories has been the ascent of Billie Eilish. She may not be old enough to vote yet (she turns 18 in December), but she’s the odds-on favorite to win all four general field categories, which would make her only the third artist ever to achieve...

A total of 159 documentary features have qualified in the Oscars’ Best Documentary Feature category, the Academy announced on Tuesday.

Last year, 166 documentaries qualified. In 2017, a record 170 made the cut.

All of the films are now available to members of the Documentary Branch to stream on the Academy’s secure members website. The films have been placed there over the last six months, with 23 added to the site in June, 24 in July, 26 in August, 19 in September and 62 in October and only five in November.

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Each member is randomly assigned 20% of the films as mandatory viewing but is free to see any additional films beyond those that are assigned. A preliminary round of voting will produce a 15-film shortlist, with a second-round narrowing those 15 to the five nominees.

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“Apollo 11” was the big winner at the fourth annual Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards on Sunday in New York City.

The film took home the award for documentary feature, as well as editing for Todd Douglas Miller and score for Matt Morton. “Apollo 11” was also honored with archival documentary and science/nature documentary prizes.

There was a tie for director between Peter Jackson for “They Shall Not Grow Old,” and Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar for “American Factory.” “They Shall Not Grow Old” also brought home the award for innovative documentary. “American Factory” nabbed the prize for political documentary.

The inaugural D. A. Pennebaker Award, formerly known as the Critics’ Choice lifetime achievement award, was presented to Chris Hegedus, Pennebaker’s longtime collaborator and widow. Michael Apted received the landmark award in honor of his “Up” series.

The ceremony, hosted by “Property Brothers” star Jonathan Scott, was held at Bric in Brooklyn.