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Asian-American cinematic milestones tend to challenge the model-minority myth. The over-achievers in Better Luck Tomorrow turn to crime, Harold and Kumar seek stoner munchies and the gay young protagonist at the center of Spa Night finds both academic accomplishment and the American Dream hopelessly out of reach. There’s a defensiveness inherent to those films, which seem to assert, “We’re not all dutiful, high-achieving rule-followers.” And to be fair, doing hours of math problems or complying with parental whims isn’t exactly movie material.

Or maybe we’re wrong. As director Debbie Lum (Seeking Asian Female) illustrates with her new film Try Harder!, which competes in ...

Asian-American cinematic milestones tend to challenge the model-minority myth. The over-achievers in Better Luck Tomorrow turn to crime, Harold and Kumar seek stoner munchies and the gay young protagonist at the center of Spa Night finds both academic accomplishment and the American Dream hopelessly out of reach. There’s a defensiveness inherent to those films, which seem to assert, “We’re not all dutiful, high-achieving rule-followers.” And to be fair, doing hours of math problems or complying with parental whims isn’t exactly movie material.

Or maybe we’re wrong. As director Debbie Lum (Seeking Asian Female) illustrates with her new film Try Harder!, which competes in ...

In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Louisiana country singer Willie Jones is releasing his poignant new song “American Dream,” recorded during the midst of Black Lives Matter protests this past summer.

“Proud to be a black man/Living in the land of the brave and the free,” Jones sings during the song’s chorus. “Yeah I’m all American/And that American dream ain’t cheap.”

Jones veers away from the personal in the anthemic song, highlighting the patriotism of centuries of black Americans fighting for equality. “Some...

In any other inauguration week in Washington, D.C., the city would be filling up with people in a festive atmosphere. Celebrities would be flying in, some in private jets, to take the stage for a pre-swearing in concert at the Lincoln Memorial. Cher recalled that when she attended in 2009, “People, strangers I didn’t know were running around Georgetown hugging and kissing, and they were so thrilled because we were going into a new direction.”

The pandemic and, more recently, significant security threats have forced a vastly scaled back inauguration, limiting personal action and, in the case of the fenced up National Mall, any people at all.

Instead, the inaugural committee of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris has come up with a slate of virtual programming this week, including Sunday night’s We the People Concert, that featured Cher, James Taylor, Ben Harper, Barbra Streisand, Will.i.am, Fall Out Boy and DJ Cassidy,...

While moviegoers cope with being shut indoors, HBO Max has a film that could have you feeling even more stir-crazy. “Locked Down” sequesters audiences for nearly two hours with an unhappy couple (played by Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor), who vent for a time, before hatching a plan to steal a huge diamond from Harrods. While hardly the antidote for confinement, it’s a creative response to the limitations Covid has placed on the world — which extends to how the film was shot, with big names like Ben Stiller and Ben Kingsley supplying cameos via Zoom.

With plenty of indoor time ahead on this long holiday weekend, why not fill it with a new movie or two? Amazon has timed the Prime Video release of Regina King’s acclaimed “One Night in Miami…” to Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The film — which imagines a 1964 reunion of old friends Cassius Clay,...

As a cinematographer, if you spend the bulk of your career shooting classy big-budget productions for Hollywood heavyweights, it’s conceivable that you might occasionally get a B-movie hankering: Even gourmet chefs crave the sloppy pleasures of a Big Mac now and then. Janusz Kaminski gets the urge rarely, it seems, but when it strikes, he takes to the director’s chair. Back in 2000, Steven Spielberg’s trusty Dp made an ignominious helming debut with “Lost Souls,” an incoherent occult horror that wasn’t even the tasty kind of trash. Two decades later, things haven’t overly improved with “American Dream,” the noble-sounding title of which does little to dignify the dingy exploitation exercise lurking below: a thriller in which the American pursuit of happiness is no match for the dogged chase given by ticked-off Russian mobsters.

The relative novelty of Kaminski’s attachment in this capacity superficially distinguishes “American...

Attending summer camp is a joyous time for many kids. For filmmaker Jim LeBrecht, it was life-changing.

Born with spina bifida, LeBrecht first attended Camp Jened in upstate New York in 1970. The Netflix documentary Crip Camp, which he directed with Nicole Newnham, reveals how Jened allowed kids with disabilities to be themselves.

“Boy, it was really an incredible place,” LeBrecht says at Deadline’s Contenders Documentary awards-season event. “For the first time I really felt like I had freedom…I was simply there to have a wonderful time with some incredible people.”

Many of those people, their consciousness raised at Jened, went on to play leading roles in the nascent disability rights movement. One of them was camp counselor Judy Heumann.

“[The film] really shows how we as disabled people were able to gain our voice and that was because we lived in the same bunks, we shared fun and serious moments,...

American Dream Official Trailer — Janusz Kaminski‘s American Dream (2021) movie trailer has been released Lionsgate and stars Michiel Huisman, Luke Bracey, Nick Stahl, Agnieszka Grochowska, Elya Baskin, Samantha Ressler, Mark Kubr, Kelly Mantle, Lindsay Seim, Mike Jerome Putnam, and Jeanne Simpson. Crew Duncan Brantley and Mark Wheaton wrote the screenplay for American Dream. [...]

Continue reading: American Dream (2021) Movie Trailer: Michiel Huisman & Luke Bracey borrow money from vicious Lone Shark Nick Stahl...

"You want me to kill Him?" Lionsgate has revealed an official trailer for a crime thriller titled American Dream, arriving on VOD at the beginning of January. This is actually the feature directorial debut of Oscar-winning cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, who was still is Steven Spielberg's regular cinematographer for years and years (he even recently filmed West Side Story with him). Strange we've never heard of this before now! The film is about two young American entrepreneurs who face a Russian mobster's vengeance after they cut him out of a business deal. American Dream stars Luke Bracey and Michiel Huisman, with Nick Stahl, Agnieszka Grochowska, Samantha Ressler, Ed Metzger, and Kathleen Gati. This doesn't look particularly unique, another mobster vs entrepreneurs story with all the usual tropes. Fire it up. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Janusz Kaminski's American Dream, direct from YouTube: Academy Award winning cinematographer Janusz...

A Dutch actor and an Australian actor play two American brothers fighting for the “American Dream” in a gritty crime thriller directed by Steven Spielberg‘s longtime cinematographer Janusz Kaminski. Fittingly, the movie is called…American Dream. But don’t let the irony of the lead actors’ countries of origin stop you from watching the newly released trailer for American Dream below. American […]

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Collider is home to the exclusive premiere of the trailer for American Dream, directed by Steven Spielberg's longtime cinematographer Janusz Kaminski. This is the second feature film from Kaminski, who previously made his directorial debut with the 2007 Polish drama Hania. Kaminski is more widely known as the cinematographer on some of Spielberg's biggest movies of the past three decades, including Schindler's List, War of the Worlds, Minority Report, and the upcoming West Side Story. American Dream sees Kaminski directing a gritty crime drama story co-written by Duncan Brantley (Leatherheads) and Mark Wheaton (The Messengers). The …...

Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon’s Apple TV+ anthology series “Little America” will debut on the streaming service in January, Apple said on Thursday. Along with that news came the bigger announcement that the show had already been renewed for Season 2.

Inspired by the true stories of immigrants featured in Epic Magazine, the entire eight-episode first season of “Little America” will drop on Jan. 17 on Apple TV+. According to Apple, the series “goes beyond the headlines to bring to life the funny, romantic, heartfelt and surprising stories of immigrants in America.”

The Universal Television-produced anthology series is written and executive produced by Lee Eisenberg, who serves as showrunner, and executive produced by Nanjiani, Gordon (“The Big Sick”), Alan Yang, Sian Heder, Joshuah Bearman (“Argo”), Joshua Davis (“Spare Parts”) and Arthur Spector (“The Shack”). Heder also serves as co-showrunner alongside Eisenberg.

Also Read: M Night Shyamalan and 'Servant...

Apple has renewed its immigrant anthology series “Little America” for a second season before the first has even debuted.

The half-hour series hails from Lee Eisenberg and “The Big Sick” writers Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon. It is based on true stories from Epic Magazine. It explores the funny, romantic, heartfelt, inspiring, and surprising stories of immigrants in America.

“Star Trek” alum Zachary Quinto is set to star in episode 4 of the first season titled “The Silence,” playing a character named Leonard. Apple has also revealed that Jearnest Corchado, John Ortiz, Angela Lin, Kai To, Sophia Xu, Shaun Toub, Shila Vosough Ommi, Eshan Inamdar, Priyanka Bose and Conphidance will all play parts in various episodes.

“The Office” alum Eisenberg is writing and executive producing the series along with Nanjiani and Gordon. Eisenberg serves as co-showrunner along with Sian Heder, while “Master of None” co-creator Alan Yang is also among the executive producers.

Is the end nigh for Jack Black? Or more specifically, Jack Black’s film career? I didn’t mean to give the impression he’s faced with some kind of impending doom; though the bread truck comes for us all in the end.

The star’s days on the big screen may well be numbered, and that’s according to the man himself. His newest film, Jumanji: The Next Level could even be his last, if his latest interview with Balance is anything to go by:

“Well, I’ve got another Tenacious D record that I’d like to make. Maybe one more movie. I’m kind of enjoying the idea of early retirement. Not so early. I’m 50. I’ve been saying for a long time that this is the last movie. We’ll see. I can’t really say what my next thing is because it’s too early; it’s a jinxer.

It is not easy to sit through 209 minutes of this magnificent mobster-piece. After all, we don't love mobsters as much as Martin Scorcese, who has had a life-long passion for the trigger-happy outcasts who, for reasons of perverse pride and honour and subverted masculinity, love to shoot their victims in the face.

In the face of it, "The Irishman" is Scorcese's final farewell to those immigrant hitmen who ruled suburban America in the 1950s. It is a fabulous farewell, seething with an unexpressed rage, brimming over with the director's love for his outlawed characters and their family affairs, all arranged in a spiral that threatens to tumble down in a rush any moment but miraculously manages to stay in place.

"The Irishman" is not only Scorcese's longest film, it is also his most verbose and emotional mobster movies. The last half an hour is in fact amongst the most brilliant...

33rd Israel Film Festival in Los Angeles, November 12th — 26th: Sold-Out Opening Night Gala

Six-time Academy Award winning producer Arthur Cohn and producer Sharon Harel-Cohen receive festival honors.

Incitement has its U.S. premiere

It looked like every Jew in entertainment attended the Opening Night Gala. It was the first time Opening Night was completely sold out a week in advance to a capacity crowd of over 900 guests at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills.

The packed audience greeted the evening’s host, Israel FilmFestival Founder/Executive Director Meir Fenigstein, with a standing ovation in recognition of his outstanding leadership of the Festival for over three decades.

Standing ovations continued as six-time Academy Award-winning producer Arthur Cohn received the 2019 Iff Lifetime Achievement Award from actress Rosanna Arquette and when WestEnd Film Chair and producer Sharon Harel-Cohen was presented with the 2019 Iff Achievement in Film Award by Avi Lerner, Chairman/CEO,...

American History X and The Incredible Hulk actor Edward Norton has been out and about promoting his new neo-noir crime film Motherless Brooklyn which he wrote, produced and directed. And as you might imagine, it was only a matter of time before someone brought up his role in director David Fincher's 1999 adaptation of author Chuck Palahniuk's seminal novel Fight Club, co-starring Brad Pitt as the (seemingly) one and only Tyler Durden. It seems that, after all these years, Norton has finally figured out why the classic originally stumbled at the box-office.

Norton reveals this about Fight Club and its less than savory plight at the box office before becoming a huge cult hit on home video.

"I think there was a reluctance on the part of some of the people who were actually marketing it, to embrace the idea that it was funny, and honestly, I think they felt indicted by it.

As titles like Jojo Rabbit, Parasite and Judy continue to slay the specialty box office and gain awards season momentum, more titles are throwing their hats into the ring. This week, the Mihal Brezis & Oded Binnun-directed The Etruscan Smile starring award-winning actor Brian Cox and produced by three-time Oscar winner Arthur Cohn.

Documentary Gay Chorus Deep South will be in limited release so it can qualify for award season contention before its nation wide expansion. In addition, Tom Cronin’s docu The Portal looks to bring a meditative stillness to the world while the indie Inside Game puts a spotlight on the great NBA betting scandal of 2007.

Also opening this weekend in the specialty space is American Dharma, which includes an interview between Errol Morris and divisive figure Stephen K. Bannon. In a conversation that spans over 16 hours, we see a portrait of the former White House Chief Strategist.

The Governors Awards (Honorary Oscars) will be held on October 27th, 2019 with director Lina Wertmüller, actress Geena Davis, director David Lynch, and actor Wes Studi celebrated. We'll be discussing each of them.

by Eric Blume

The decision to give David Lynch an honorary Oscar this year is among the Academy’s smartest and most inspired choices. Lynch’s movies are so singular, so not-conceived for commercial consumption, that he was never likely to gain enough popular majority to actually win as Best Director. But he has garnered three nominations over the years: 1980’s The Elephant Man, 1986’s Blue Velvet, and 2001’s Mulholland Dr. Each of these films contains stunning and memorable images, a feverish sensibility, a subversively compassionate worldview, and a mastery of storytelling... even when the story feels incomprehensible.

Mulholland Dr truly merits the term overused word "masterpiece". Lynch is in complete control and it’s a film that...

If you still have chills from Miley Cyrus and Shawn Mendes's Grammys duet, get excited, because there's more where that came from. The 26-year-old singer just announced that her new album, She Is Miley Cyrus, will be dropping on Nov. 23. During an Instagram Live, Cyrus also showed fans the tracklist for the album, which includes collaborations with Mendes and Cardi B, as well as songs from her She Is Coming Ep.

"My record is called She Is Miley Cyrus. She does not represent a gender. She is not just a woman. She doesn't refer to a vagina," Cyrus explained to Elle back in July. "She is a force of nature. She is power. She can be anything you want to be, therefore, she is everything. She is the super she. She is the she-ro. She is the She-e-o."

See the full tracklist for the upcoming album below.

She Is...

Drama to open in Us theatres on December 6, ahead of Apple TV+ launch in January 2020.

Apple has stepped up its awards campaign for The Banker starring Anthony Mackie and Samuel L. Jackson which will get its world premiere as the closing night gala at AFI Fest on November 21.

The digital titan recently unveiled theatrical distribution plans for the film and a couple of other potential awards contenders before their debuts on the Apple TV+ streaming platform, which launches on November 1.

The Banker will open in Us theatres on December 6 ahead of its debut on the platform in January 2020. Former IMAX...

Apple is kicking off its foray into film by playing ball with Hollywood. The tech giant on Friday announced theatrical release dates for its first three films, coming this fall.

First comes the company’s acclaimed wildlife documentary “The Elephant Queen,” which will open in theaters on Oct. 18 before landing on Apple’s Apple TV+ streaming service Nov. 1.

The documentary, which Apple describes as “a genre-redefining film,” follows Athena, an elephant matriarch who will do everything in her power to protect her family when they are forced to leave their watering hole. “The Elephant Queen” is a story of love, loss and coming home, and is a timely love letter to a species that could be gone from our planet in a generation.

Also Read: Apple's Movies Will Hit Theaters Weeks Before Its New Streaming Service (Report)

Directed by Emmy and Peabody Award-winning wildlife documentarians Victoria Stone and Mark Deeble...

Apple on Friday announced theatrical release dates for three films set to premiere in theaters this fall followed by a drop on the company’s streaming service, which launches November 1. The Elephant Queen will open in select cities on October 18 followed by a streaming date of November 1 on the first day of the AppleTV+ service. The documentary, acquired by Apple at the 2018 Toronto Film Festival, is directed by Emmy- and Peabody-winning wildlife documentarians Victoria Stone and Mark Deeble and narrated by Chiwetel Ejiofor. It follows Athena, an elephant matriarch who will do everything in her power to protect her family when they are forced to leave their watering hole.

Hala, which Apple acquired out of Sundance this year opens November 22 in select theaters with a streaming date set for December on AppleTV+. The drama, directed by Minhal Baig, follows a high school senior, Hala (Geraldine Viswanathan), who struggles to balance...

"Sonny, are you going to turn on me?!" Samuel Goldwyn Films has unveiled an official trailer for an indie crime thriller now titled Obsession, the latest from Croatian filmmaker Goran Dukic (of Wristcutters: A Love Story). This has gone under a few other titles including Ruthless or American Dream, but now they're releasing it this fall with this Obsession title. The film is about an out-of-work mechanic, played by Mekhi Phifer who, after saving an older man and befriending him begins to fall for his mysterious wife. The older man has plans to build a motor sports park, and his wife puts together a plot to murder him and rob him of his riches. Also starring Elika Portnoy, Brad Dourif, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, and Kerry Cahill. Looks like an old school love affair crime caper, with a racetrack heist and murder and everything thrown in. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Goran Dukic's Obsession,...

Mark Wahlberg is in negotiations to take over Chris Evans’ role in Antoine Fuqua’s action thriller, “Infinite.”

Evans, who signed on to the pic in February, was unable to continue with the project due to scheduling issues.

“Infinite” is based on D. Eric Maikranz’s novel “The Reincarnationist Papers,” which centers on the Cognomina, a secret society of people who possess total recall of their past lives. A troubled young man haunted by memories of two past lives stumbles upon the centuries-old society and decides to join their ranks. Ian Shorr are adapting the story for the screen.

The Paramount film will be produced by John Zaozirny alongside Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian at Di Bonaventura Pictures. Rafi Crohn is the executive producer.

“Infinite” is set to bow Aug. 7, 2020, with production scheduled to begin this fall.

Wahlberg most recently appeared in the Paramount comedy “Instant Family” and longtime...

In 1926, Polish-born immigrant Lillian Alling decided either that she was done with New York City or it was done with her, and set out to take the long way home. Traveling on foot, she crossed into Canada at Niagara Falls, headed for Alaska, and continued her epic solo trek along the Bering Strait toward Russia. She was never heard from again. Alling’s story is a grimly remarkable one that has inspired multiple novels, historical studies and even an opera; by now, it ought to have made for a remarkable film. “Lillian,” the first narrative feature by celebrated Austrian docmaker Andreas Horvath, isn’t quite it, but neither does it tell quite that story. Reimagining Alling’s journey as a present-day trans-American odyssey, it retains the sad, aloof mystique of its true-life inspiration, but despite the topical resonance of an immigrant escape narrative set in Trump’s hostile America, Horvath...

You wouldn’t say that Saturday Night Live had an off year per se — any season that gave us the sight of Adam Driver crushing stuffed birds with a cane is not a complete flaming trash-heap of a failure. But there was a certain sense of SNL fatigue that started to hit around the halfway point of Season 44; you began to dread the inevitable big-political-story-of-the-week opener, the fake music videos, the surprisingly weak meta-monologues and beaucoup celebrity cameos. It was an odd year out, with the usual dominating forces (God bless you,...

When the last truck rolled off the assembly line of the General Motors factory outside Dayton, Ohio, filmmakers Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert were there to film it, documenting the end of a certain American dream, along with the unemployment of more than 2,000 people — down from 6,000 in more prosperous times. That was December 2008, and the resulting 40-minute short, HBO’s Oscar-nominated “The Last Truck,” served as a kind of elegy to “late capitalism” that couldn’t possibly have foreseen the next chapter of the story, which would become their feature-length follow-up, “American Factory,” snapped up by Netflix shortly after its Sundance premiere.

In “American Factory,” the co-directors have a very different story to tell about the fate of the Gm plant, which was reborn via an unlikely savior: In 2014, Chinese investor Cao Dewang bought the building and reopened it as Fuyao Glass America, manufacturer of windshields and auto glass. The...

Jordan Peele’s horror thriller Get Out was a massive success, so expectations for Us are at an astronomical level. Lupita Nyong’o is getting massive praise for her work in the feature, but there have been divisive early reactions. Some moviegoers view Us as another brilliant effort from Peele while others have given a rather lukewarm [...]

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The title Framing John DeLorean can be taken at least two ways – framing as in setting someone up for a fall, and framing as in putting in context. This new trailer for the film, making its world premiere at the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival, illustrates how directors Don Argott & Sheena M. Joyce intend to accomplish the latter.

Combining archival footage with a more traditional biopic approach featuring Alec Baldwin sporting massive, jet-black eyebrows and a mop of gray hair, Framing John DeLorean is the first feature film about a man whose name dominated headlines in the 1980s. Here’s how Sundance Selects describes it: “For the first time, Framing John DeLorean recounts the extraordinary life and legend of the controversial automaker, tracing his meteoric rise through the ranks of General Motors, his obsessive quest to build a sports car that would conquer the world, and his shocking fall from grace on charges of cocaine trafficking.

Marvel TV and ABC Studios are developing an hour-long live-action series, for the Disney+ streaming service, written by Allan Heinberg ("Wonder Woman"), showcasing the "Women of Marvel":

"...the new Disney streaming service will feature limited live-action TV series...

"...based on 'Marvel Cinematic Universe' characters...

"...including an all-female superhero team featuring lesser known Marvel Comics' characters..."

Characters in consideration include 'Shannon Carter' aka 'American Dream', the niece of 'S.H.I.E.L.D.' agent 'Sharon Carter'...

...'Alison Blaire' aka 'Dazzler'...

...'Rachel Leighton', aka 'Diamondback'...

...and 'Melissa Gold' aka 'Songbird'.

Heinberg will executive produce the new female series with Marvel TV's Jeph Loeb.

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More "Women Of Marvel" Here...

Chicago – With 2018 in the rear view mirror (finally), it’s time in this first week of 2019 to reflect on what was, with the 10 Best Films of 2018… as selected by Patrick McDonald, the Über-Critic of HollywoodChicago.com. The list includes docs, animated films and even superheroes, along with the snooty film critic fare that’s always ripe for the watching.

Last year (now switching to first person), I began breaking down the films ranked 25th through 11th, with the option to click on the highlighted titles for reviews or associated interviews… 25th - Sorry To Bother You, 24th - Leave No Trace, 23rd - Shoplifters, 22nd - BLACKKkKLANSMAN, 21st - Cold War, 20th - First Reformed, 19th - We The Animals, 18th - You Were Never Really Here, 17th - The Rider, 16th - Mary Poppins Returns, 15th - Vox Lux, 14th - Eighth Grade, 13th - Isle Of Dogs, 12th - Ballad Of Buster Scruggs,...

In today’s film news roundup, Ansel Elgort is going to high school, “Rockaway” gets a release, and “Suspiria” producer Bradley Fischer is honored.

Casting

Ansel Elgort has come aboard to star in the drama “The Great High School Imposter” for Participant Media and Condé Nast Entertainment.

The project is based on a Daniel Riley GQ Magazine article published this year about Artur Samarin, a young Ukranian man who posed as a teenager so he could be adopted by a childless couple in a small Pennsylvania town and became the top student in his high school. Saramin was five years older than he claimed. His adopted parents turned him into the authorities.

Mike Makowsky is adapting the script. Jeremy Steckler of Condé Nast Entertainment is producing. Makowsky, Elgort, and Emily Gerson Saines will be executive producers. Robert Kessel and Jonathan King are overseeing for Participant.

Elgort starred in “The Fault in Our Stars...

"If you come from that ghetto, all you got is a dream." Showtime has unveiled a trailer for a documentary film titled American Dream / American Knightmare, which will be premiering on the streaming TV service later this month. The film delves deep into the life and storied exploits of iconic Death Row Records co-founder Marion "Suge" Knight Jr., as well as the volatile and highly influential era in gangsta rap he presided over. It's said to be an inside look, with actual stories from Suge himself, about the rise and fall of Death Row Records, and what's next for the future of rap and hip hip. There have been a great number of docs recently on the rap music scene, and its history, mostly found on Netflix or other TV channels in addition to festivals. This looks comprehensive and honest. Trailer (+ poster) for Antoine Fuqua's doc American Dream / American Knightmare,...

Hugh Davidson, Rachel Ramras and Larry Dorf have set their next project post Nobodies. Fox has put in development Buffalo Wings, a half-hour animated comedy from the Groundlings alums and 20th Century Fox TV.

Written by Davidson, Ramras and Dorf, Buffalo Wings is about two Canadian brothers who do not follow the rest of their flock when they fly south. When their hypothesis is wrong and they almost freeze to death, they must take refuge in Buffalo, NY, where they begin to live life as immigrant refugees. This series explores what it is to be a refugee and to fall in love with this country while pursuing the “American Dream” from every possible angle.

Davidson, Ramras and Dorf executive produce. 20th Century Fox is the studio.

The three most recently created, executive produced and starred in comedy series Nobodies, produced by fellow Groundlings alums Ben Falcone and Melissa McCarthy, which...

Fox has given a script commitment to “Buffalo Wings,” a new half-hour, animated comedy series about “immigrant refugee” birds, from “Nobodies” co-creators Hugh Davidson, Rachel Ramras and Larry Dorf.

Per the logline, “Buffalo Wings” centers around two Canadian brothers who do not follow the rest of their flock when they fly south. When their hypothesis proves wrong and they almost freeze to death, they must take refuge in Buffalo, New York, where they begin to live life as immigrant refugees. The series explores what it is to be a refugee and to fall in love with this country while pursuing the “American Dream” from every possible angle.

Davidson, Ramras and Dorf will write and executive produce the in-development project, which hails from 20th Century Fox.

Also Read: Ratings: Fox Scores With Another Winning 'Thursday Night Football' Game

ICM Partners reps Davidson and Ramras, alongside Loan Dang at Del Shaw Moonves Llp.

At Deadline’s The Contenders Los Angeles today, Annapurna Pictures showed off two dramas from their impressive awards-season slate, and a unifying concern emerged: The American Dream, and the ways it has changed over time. While members of the privileged class have bent it into a new, baser shape, for those less fortunate, it’s often denied altogether.

The first of the two films at hand was Adam McKay’s Vice, his follow-up to The Big Short, which took on the 2008 financial crisis and won McKay the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. One of the later entries of the season (and mostly still shrouded in mystery), Vice examines the political rise of Dick Cheney (Christian Bale), a Washington insider with big pockets, who became the most powerful Vice President in American history under George W. Bush.

In conversation with star Amy Adams, who portrays Lynne Cheney, and Deadline’s Dominic Patten,...

A few nights before Will Hoge left for tour, he got out the iron and some letter decals, and started pressing T-shirts.

“One of them said ‘Nikes Over Nazis,'” he tells Rolling Stone, sitting at an East Nashville sandwich shop a few hours before his bus is supposed to hit the road. “I did another that said, ‘Will Trade Racists for Refugees,’ and, the other day, [artist and SiriusXM radio host] Mojo Nixon called me the ‘Tennessee Troublemaker,’ and that’s probably my favorite thing that anyone has ever said about me.

Now that he’s done ruining “Star Wars” obsessives’ childhoods, Rian Johnson has chosen to wreak havoc on another fandom: LCD Soundsystem. The filmmaker, who delights in crushing nerds’ dreams and definitely isn’t just a director trying to do good work, has helmed the video for the beloved band’s song “oh baby.” He’s aided in that devious scheme by Sissy Spacek and David Strathairn, and for now the clip is only available to stream on Tidal, but you can avail yourself of a truncated version below.

Featuring a teleportation device and described as “a devastatingly romantic journey of discovery, tragedy and eternal love,” the video accompanies LCD Soundsystem’s 2017 album “American Dream” — their first since they disbanded in 2010. “My goal would be that it works as a video for the song and the song works as a good soundtrack of the film. Rather than a video that serves the song,...

Marvel TV and ABC Studios are developing an hour-long live-action series, written by Allan Heinberg ("Wonder Woman"), showcasing an all-female team of Marvel Comics' superheroes:

"...the new Disney streaming service will feature limited live-action TV series based on 'Marvel Cinematic Universe' characters including 'Scarlet Witch', with the all-female superhero team featuring lesser known Marvel Comics female characters..."

Characters for consideration include 'Shannon Carter' aka 'American Dream', the niece of 'S.H.I.E.L.D.' agent 'Sharon Carter'...

...'Alison Blaire' aka 'Dazzler'...

...'Rachel Leighton', aka 'Diamondback'...

...and 'Melissa Gold' aka 'Songbird'.

Heinberg will executive produce the new female series with Marvel TV's Jeph Loeb.

Click the images to enlarge...

LCD Soundsystem covered the Chic standard “I Want Your Love” as part of a Spotify Singles session released on Wednesday.

The group segued into Chic after roughly six minutes of “Home,” which closed out the 2010 album This Is Happening. LCD Soundsystem’s guitarist played choppy approximations of Nile Rodgers’ graceful fretwork, while the bassist boiled down Bernard Edwards’ iconic riffs into something meaner and more rugged. The vocalists sneaked into “I Want Your Love” from an unusual angle — instead of leading with the title phrase, they vamped through “what am I gonna do,...

Gavin Rayna Russom and Nancy Whang will embark on a joint DJ tour as the Ladies of LCD Soundsystem this fall. The two members of the James Murphy-fronted dance outfit will play 16 dates, starting October 18th in Salt Lake City and ending roughly six weeks later in Los Angeles. Additional shows will be announced at a later date.

Russom and Whang plan to pick local performers, focusing on women and non-binary musicians, to open each of their dates. In addition, the two plan to donate $1 from each ticket to the Rape,...

A single mother suffering from bipolar disorder begins to entertain dangerous fantasies while working as a live-in caretaker of an unsold model home. The debut film from director/writer Patrick Cunningham transports us to a surreal world of barren promises where the American Dream becomes the American Nightmare. Following in the cinematic lineage of Kubrick’s The …

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The American Dream is a conceit that’s woven into the fabric of the country: Anyone can come to the U.S., and through hard work and diligence, accomplish anything they set out to do. It’s also almost a complete fabrication, as evidenced by the fact that the majority of the wealth in this country is controlled by an…

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As reality competition series go, America’s Got Talent is a bit of a rare bird. Launching its 13th season late last month—with Season 12 up for Emmys consideration—Simon Cowell’s NBC series has been on the air since 2006, and only continues to increase its viewership over time.

Remaining the United States’ number one show of the summer over the last 12 years, America’s Got Talent hit an average of 16 million viewers per episode in Season 12, with almost 3 billion views registered across social media platforms. A true global phenomenon, Agt has been sold in 184 territories worldwide, with over 70 versions of the show produced around the world.

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“Relief” runs as part of the 9th edition of the Bagri Foundation London Indian Film Festival, that runs at 15 cinemas, across London, Birmingham and Manchester, from 21st June to 1st July, with 27 films, including features and short films, in competition. It is the largest South Asian film festival in Europe. Buy your tickets via this website, at respective cinema box offices: http://londonindianfilmfestival.co.uk/

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Netflix has said it will spend upwards of $8 billion annually in programming costs. Granted, some of that goes to acquisition of previously produced content — but CFO David Wells has said Netflix will produce as much as 700 originals worldwide this year. That’s a lot of TV.

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Last year, Netflix went all in with stand-up comedy, managing to talk Jerry Seinfeld, Dave Chappelle and Tracy Morgan into doing their first specials in years. This year, they’ve already done the same with Chris Rock, Ricky Gervais and coming soon, Ellen DeGeneres. But it’s still an incredible amount of comedy to wade through. We’re here to help, ranking each special from worst to best.

Harith Iskander – “I Told You So”

Malaysian comic Harith Iskander endlessly pats himself on the back just for landing an international stand-up special. He asks, what am I going to wear on stage? How should I do my hair (he’s bald)? Should I call my special, “The Funniest Comedian in the World?” Check out my hot wife! Throw in some pointless crowd work and a hacky rimshot, and this is just painful.

Fakkah Fuzz – “Almost Banned”

Another Malay comedian, Fakkah Fuzz’s standup is strictly limited to differences between Malaysians and people from Singapore, which would be even more reductive if international audiences had any idea what he was talking about.

James Acaster – “Repertoire”

The pale, scruffy haired London comic James Acaster has not one, but four stand-up specials on Netflix. They’ve been framed as part of a comprehensive series, each color-coded and with a supposed theme. But after kneeling down for 15 minutes as a “loophole” to avoid actually starting the show, his childhood life story quickly unravels into goofy nonsense. He’s wacky, off-kilter and unusual, sure, but who has the time?

Katt Williams – “Great America”

Is Katt Williams even telling jokes anymore or just pimpin’? His cranky exuberance feels awfully tired when aimed at Trump. He’s performing to a Jacksonville, Florida crowd (and he unwisely opens with material that only plays to that room) that likely is pretty split politically, and his bland observations barely cut left or right.

Ricky Gervais – “Humanity”

Ricky Gervais’s special is called “Humanity,” but it’s all about him. Not ashamed of comparing himself to Jesus to start the show, Gervais spends the remainder of his time scoffing at his critics and explaining away already bad and tasteless jokes about Caitlyn Jenner he made at the Golden Globes years ago. “People get offended when they mistake the subject of the joke with the actual target,” he says, writing off any online backlash as just a misunderstanding. Inflating his ego is part of what you’re paying for with Gervais, but this is irritating even for him.

Rachel Feinstein – “The Standups” Episode 4

Neurotic, overly personal, loud and far too familiar to be surprising, Rachel Feinstein’s routine falls into cliche awfully quick. Why so many accents? And wow, you have parents who are bad on Facebook too?

Gad Elmaleh – “American Dream”

Gad Elmaleh’s material is inoffensive and pleasant, but rarely surprising. Some of his weaker gags can be boiled down to, “Americans tip like this, and French people tip like this.” He’s smart at deconstructing language. But what should’ve been fresh for Elmaleh, his first special entirely in English, results in some recycled gags about “em-pha-sis” and French doors from his 2017 Netflix special.

Gina Yashere – “The Standups” Episode 2

Gina Yashere observes that most people in Hollywood think black women look either like Halle Berry or Precious. Yashere is neither, a Nigerian woman from London, and she’s uniquely funny. But you wish her material would focus more on her own life rather than on clichéd, outdated observations of American culture. One joke stops just short of insights about why racism is far subtler in Britain and defaults to an easy swipe at the South. “I treated Alabama the way white people treat Africa the first time. Wow, they have cars and shoes and s—,” she says. And how many times does she have to sing the “Team America” theme song?

Brent Morin – “The Standups” Episode 5

Brent Morin is that bro who dominates the conversation at a party rattling off a story you lost track of hours ago. He’s got great little callbacks and one-liners and a hilarious observation about how if you’re a white guy, how flattering it is to be complimented by a black or gay guy. But is he still doing that butler impression of his Uber driver? How did he start complaining about bread at Italian restaurants? What’s a “sunshine hand?”

Marlon Wayans – “Woke-ish”

This is Marlon Wayans’s first ever stand-up special in a three decade career, and yet you know what you’re getting with him. It’s fun, raunchy and stupid, and it isn’t long before he crosses more than a few lines, thus his special’s title “Woke-ish.” Like Gervais, Wayans also has a tone deaf Caitlyn Jenner joke. “I ain’t seen a white chick that ugly since me and Shawn did the f—in’ movie!” But you might consider sticking around for his impression of Designer’s “Panda” or an amusing, if stereotypical, bit about white people going through customs to earn the privilege to say the N-word.

Joe List – “The Standups” Episode 1

White guy insecurities, childhood name calling and nearly 10 minutes about being awkward at the gym are a dime a dozen, but Joe List does it justice with a deadpan delivery and relatable awkwardness. List’s best story is about how as a kid, a girl said his big forehead looked like a “fivehead.” Yeah, that’s a pretty good burn.

Kavin Jay – “Everybody Calm Down”

The best of the three Malaysian comedians, Much of Kavin Jay’s charming material comes at the expense of his weight. But he acknowledges he’s not playing just to the room he’s in. “In Asia, parents use [my weight] to discipline children,” Jay says. “In America, I’m a medium.” At one point he even talks to some New Yorkers in the crowd. “I don’t know where that is. And now you know how that feels.”

Greg Davies – “You Magnificent Beast”

“The more upset you are, the funnier I find it,” Greg Davies says to someone in his crowd. This Welsh comic takes glee out of telling charming stories about his parents and his childhood before turning them disgusting. He has one routine about getting a giant teddy bear as a kid. He named it BT, like the alien Et. Aww, how sweet. He makes us think that’s the end of the story before revealing that as a teenager, “I f—ed that bear.” He couldn’t go out with friends because he was “too busy knocking the back end out of it!”

Fred Armisen – “Standup for Drummers”

Every word out of Fred Armisen’s mouth sounds like the start to some absurd, rejected “Portlandia” sketch, and I love it. Armisen is literally performing to a room full of people who know how to drum (Green Day’s Tre Cool pops up in the audience). Isn’t putting together a snare so annoying? I know! Sometimes his observations may genuinely be for an audience of one. But anyone will love his mini impressions of accents around the country and drumming impressions of Ringo Starr, Keith Moon, U2’s Larry Mullins Jr., Stewart Copeland and Meg White.

Tom Segura – “Disgraceful”

Those who want a replacement for Louis C.K. in the schlubby, cynical and brutally honest middle-aged white guy department can look to Tom Segura. But Segura isn’t trying to challenge social norms in the way C.K. used to; he’d rather troll people in the parking lot or talk up how great it is to never have to leave the house. One of his best gags makes a smart comparison to show how future generations will never understand how hard it once was to buy weed. Pigeons used to deliver messages? Are you crazy?

Aparna Nancherla – “The Standups” Episode 6

At first, Aparna Nancherla stands out as a socially awkward goofball, her cartoonish voice enhancing silly anxieties like what to say to a pilot upon leaving a plane. But she soon hauls out a PowerPoint presentation and brilliantly manages to translate Internet humor to the stage. Nancherla deconstructs emojis that look like a “multicultural boy band” or bullet points she grabbed from a Ted Talk random name generator, and she does it all in a deadpan weirdness that should make her a star.

Todd Glass – “Act Happy”

Todd Glass has put together a truly strange and subversive hour of comedy. More performance art than strictly jokes, Glass has a big band playing only public domain songs to put a button on his ironically hacky gags. He’s playing to a tiny room of 75 people, but he’s giving rants and monologues that he presents as larger than life, even asking the sound guy to give some reverb on his voice. The band taunts his “bragging” and the audience seems to be in on the joke. He even twice busts out into “song,” singing a time-killing anthem that he wrote in case he didn’t have enough material. But I could watch him for hours.

Chris Rock – “Tamborine”

For his first special in nearly a decade, “Tamborine,” Chris Rock immediately comes out swinging. His practical takes on the shootings of black kids, gun control and poverty are vintage Rock. But his material now reflects his middle age. You may disagree with some of his more Millennial-bashing takes, but he shows remarkable candor and great wisdom when he addresses his divorce and what it takes to keep a relationship going. The secret is to approach it like a tambourine player in a band. “You play that motherf— right!” Rock sure does.

Kyle Kinane – “The Standups” Episode 3

Kyle Kinane may be from my hometown of Addison, Illinois, but that’s not the only reason I can relate. His material has been bleak in the past, but in this set he speaks to the moment with insightful material about why he’s still recycling in the face of an apocalypse, Kurt Cobain’s Christmas album and a theory that the Ku Klux Klan has a great chef (“same outfits, different hats”). His finest gag takes full advantage of the pulse of the country and even plays on knowing he was taping this in advance for Netflix: “What if by the time this airs, there’s no mass shooting,” he asks. “This is America.”

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Two-time Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple is set to be honored at the 2018 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.

Kopple, who won Oscars for Harlan County, USA (1976) and American Dream (1991), will receive the Outstanding Achievement Award at North America's largest doc festival in Toronto. She will also receive a retrospective of her work and take part in an informal conversation.

"Barbara is a documentary force whose limitless ingenuity and passion have led her to create some of the most memorable, provocative and illuminating films of our time,” Shane Smith, director of programming for Hot Docs, said Wednesday...