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Spike Lee will be honored at the 61st Chicago International Film Festival, festival organizers announced on Tuesday. The director, 68, will be in attendance at this year’s fest for “An Evening with Spike Lee” on Oct. 24. He will be presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award, “recognizing an auspicious, bold and visionary collection of films…
Iranian Diaspora Filmmakers Celebrate Khameneis Death: Everybody Is Extremely Happy the Dictator Is Dead
Iran‘s large community of diaspora filmmakers has broadly come out in support of the U.S.-led attacks that resulted in the killing, on Saturday, of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. In public statements and across social media, Iranian filmmakers are celebrating Khamenei’s death and the international intervention they see as striking a blow against Tehran’s…
Oscar Movies May Have a New Role: Political Therapy
While attending an awards season event recently, I found myself hearing a sonnet familiar to any of us who have toiled on the Oscar circuit. “I wish it was over already,” the person said. And though that’s a slightly strange thing to say in October — like bemoaning how the oral surgeon hasn’t finished the…
TikTok U.S. Deal to Close Next Month: Oracle and Silver Lake Confirmed in Buyer Consortium
The TikTok sale is officially happening, with a consortium of American investors set to take over U.S. operations of the video platform next month on Jan. 22, 2026. The deal means that TikTok, the fast-growing social video platform that upended the strategies of competitors like YouTube and Meta Platforms Inc., will have a new joint…
CMA Awards 2025: The Complete Winners List
Ellla Langley and Lainey Wilson were the big winners at the 59th annual CMA Awards in Nashville on Wednesday night, as Wilson — who also served as emcee for the evening, took home the big award for entertainer of the year and for album of the year for her fifth album Whirlwind. Langley, meanwhile, won…
‘KPop Demon Hunters 2’ Is Officially on the Way – But It Will Be A While
KPop Demon Hunters 2 is officially on its way, with Netflix closing deals with the animated hit’s directors, Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans, and Sony for the sequel, sources confirm to The Hollywood Reporter. Talent deals are still being finalized, however. Bloomberg, which first reported the news, suggests the sequel will arrive in 2029 –…
