The most popular artists, songs and albums of the month, 3 month, 6 months and year [#1-#48]

A grandson of Marvin Davis, the onetime owner of 20th Century Fox, is embroiled in a family dispute over an investment in Palantir Technologies, which is due to go public next week. Davis, a Denver oil wildcatter, bought 20th Century Fox in 1981 and later sold it to Rupert Murdoch. He died in 2004. His […]

African heroes, the plunder of the Amazon, death-defying mountain climbers and 19th-century spiritualists were just some of the subjects filmmakers are tackling in new projects pitched on Thursday at San Sebastian’s Lau Haizetara Documentary Co-Production Forum. The forum offers the opportunity to present new docs to commissioning editors, potential funders and industry experts. Fourteen projects […]

Aldis Hodge will soar as the DC Comics superhero Hawkman in the New Line production of “Black Adam,” Variety has confirmed. The actor — who most recently starred in “The Invisible Man” and won acclaim for his upcoming performance as Jim Brown in “One Night in Miami” — is in negotiations to join the film, […]

Early September’s Venice Festival celebrated the restart of cinema theater attendance. Opening six days after Venice ended, as second-wave COVID-19 forced parts of Madrid back into semi-lockdown, 2020’s on-site San Sebastian Festival, normally a convivial, festive event, was a more sober affair as Europe’s industry calibrated the cost of the pandemic. More bullishly, industry leaders […]

A singular entry in San Sebastian’s prestige New Directors section this year, Grigory Kolomytsev’s “Chupacabra” was put through its Ikusmira Berriak residency program in 2019. “Spikes protruding from its sides, a dog-like snout, a massive jaw and large fangs, a species unknown to modern science, a bloodthirsty beast  that hypnotizes its victims, bites into their […]

The American Film Institute announced an annual scholarship to producers from communities that are underrepresented in the entertainment industry. On Friday, AFI established the Thomas P. Pollock Endowed Scholarship Fund, named after and in memory of the institute’s chair emeritus Thomas Pollock, who died in August. The fund was established in collaboration with members of […]

As with any obsessive fan of niche interests, the sneaker fanatics of “Sneakerheads” spend much of their time defending their diehard love. Their hunt for the perfect sneaker, the rarest edition, the sentimental favorites that got away isn’t about the shoe itself, really. It’s about the thrill of the chase, and anyone or anything that […]

Music great Dave Brubeck is considered one of the pioneers of cool jazz, so it’s fitting that the late pianist’s Wilton, Conn., estate, which has just gone on the market for $2.75 million, is every bit as cool and eclectic as the man who had it built way back in 1963. Sited on a woodsy […]

Universal Studio Group is set to shoot three high-end TV series, “Young Rock,” “Joe Exotic” and “Irreverent,” in Australia over the next 18 months. “Young Rock” from Universal Television, “Joe Exotic” from UCP and “Irreverent” from NBCUniversal International Studios’s Matchbox Pictures will shoot at Screen Queensland Studios in Brisbane, as well as surrounding locations in […]

Ask yourself: What do the words “Black Power” signify to you? That’s the question several of the Mangrove Nine — nine Black activists arrested when a public demonstration against London police harassment on Aug. 9, 1970 devolved into an incendiary example of the very thing they were protesting — put to each and every one […]

Married and musical duo Tanya Blount-Trotter and Michael Trotter Jr's second full-length tackles topics of jealousy in relationships gone wrong and one of Michael's lowest moments.

Watch "Shovel," the new music video by Walker County.