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All week long, “American Idol” fans have been voting in our poll that asked whether Noah Thompson deserved to win Season 20. Their answer is overwhelmingly “yes,” with 50.41 saying the soft-spoken 22-year-old country singer from Kentucky deserved his spot on the show’s winners list. As for the other finalists, 31.05 of viewers thought HunterGirl should have prevailed, while 18.54 of fans believed Leah Marlene was the rightful champion. Do you agree or disagree with those poll results? Sound off down in the comments section.

Noah Thompson is now the 13th male to win “American Idol” after Season 2’s Ruben Studdard, Season 5’s Taylor Hicks, Season 7’s David Cook, Season 8’s Kris Allen, Season 9’s Lee DeWyze, Season 10’s Scotty McCreery, Season 11’s Phillip Phillips, Season 13’s Caleb Johnson, Season 14’s Nick Fradiani, Season 15’s Trent Harmon, Season 17’s Laine Hardy and Season 19’s Chayce Beckham.

The seven females to claim victory are Season 1’s Kelly Clarkson,...

As predicted, the 20th season of “American Idol” ended with Noah Thompson winning the coveted title. The soft-spoken 22-year-old country singer from Kentucky beat out runner-up HunterGirl and third place finisher Leah Marlene during the three-hour season finale, which aired live coast-to-coast on Sunday, May 22 on ABC. He now becomes the reality TV show’s 20th overall champion — see the winners list. If you missed the star-studded episode, read our minute-by-minute live blog to see how Noah Thompson wins “American Idol” 2022. But did voters get it right? Vote in our poll below.

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The night began with the Top 10 singers performing the tune “Good Feeling” with Flo Rida on a rooftop. Each of the three finalists then sang a Bruce Springsteen song and an original tune for America’s votes. Leah Marlene took on “Cover Me” and “Flowers,...

Andrew Woolfolk, who played saxophone for Grammy-winning R&b band Earth, Wind & Fire during its 1970s and early-’80s heyday, has died after a long illness. He was 71. Ewf’s Philip Bailey announced the news on social media.

“Great Memories. Great Talent,” the singer wrote about Woolfolk. “Funny. Competitive. Quick witted. And always styling. Booski… I’ll see you on the other side, my friend. See the Instagram post below.

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Woolfolk played with Earth, Wind & Fire when it was among the biggest R&b acts in the country, joining the group in 1973 and playing on its gold or platinum albums from Head to the Sky to 1983’s Powerlight and beyond. The group scored eight consecutive Top 10 albums from 1975-81, including the chart-topping That’s the Way of the World and live set Gratitude.

Earth, Wind & Fire also had seven Top 10 pop singles during that era,...

Actress Brittany Snow announced that rapper Scott Mescudi, better known by his stage name Kid Cudi, has been cast in her feature directorial debut ‘September 17th’. In an interview with Variety about ‘X’, the horror film that Cudi and Snow star in together, the two shared their excitement about continuing to work together, reports variety.com. […]...

Brittany Snow announced that Scott Mescudi, better known by his stage name Kid Cudi, has been cast in her feature directorial debut “September 17th.”

In an interview with Variety about A24’s “X,” the horror film that Cudi and Snow star in together, the two shared their excitement about continuing to work together.

“I can’t really speak to it too much, except that Scott’s doing a part in the movie, so that’s cool,” Snow said.

“I couldn’t believe that she wanted me in it,” Cudi said. “She had told me about the movie while we were on set [for ‘X’], but she never asked me to be in it. I was like, ‘Maybe she’s waiting to see how [‘X’] turns out.’ It’s gonna be awesome. Really great script.”

“I was watching Ti [West, director of ‘X’] a lot during filming of this,” Snow said. “And I think that something that I...

It’s time for the last dance(s) on “Dancing with the Stars” Season 30. The final four couples will face off for the final time on Monday with two routines — and in a twist, one of them is not their favorite dance of the season.

Instead, the remaining four pairs will perform a fusion dance of two styles in addition to their highly anticipated freestyles before a couple is crowned. Three of the four fusions feature the cha-cha, with Amanda Kloots and Alan Bersten the odd ones out. Probably could’ve gotten a bit more variety in there.

See the full list of dances below.

Amanda Kloots and Alan Bersten: Viennese waltz and paso doble fusion (“Never Tear Us Apart” by Bishop Briggs); freestyle (“A Sky Full of Stars” by Coldplay)

Cody Rigsby and Cheryl Burke: paso doble and cha-cha fusion (“Free Your Mind” by En Vogue); freestyle

Iman Shumpert...

Comedian Demi Adejuyigbe has released the latest, and what will sadly be the last, of his September 21st celebration videos, set, of course, to Earth, Wind and Fire’s “September.”

Adejuyigbe made the first of these videos in 2016: A clever one-minute skit where he danced around his home in a “Sept. 21st” T-shirt (with “That’s today,” written on the back) to a remix of “September” he’d made where the only vocals were the first line — “Do you remember, the 21st night of September?” — chopped and repeated. With each year,...

Don’t call it a comeback, since it wasn’t quite that.

Journey Perform ‘Don’t Stop Believin” at NYC ‘Homecoming’ Show

On Saturday evening, the long-awaited “We Love NYC: The Homecoming Concert” in New York’s Central Park became an unintentional metaphor for the ongoing pandemic when the all-star show was shut down and later cancelled less than halfway through by a vicious rainstorm. Amid confusion over whether the concert would continue, more than 60,000 concertgoers were told to exit the park before they’d had a chance to see headliners like Paul Simon,...

One day after releasing their reimagined version of “You Want My Love,” beloved funk-soul group Earth, Wind and Fire hit the Central Park stage with Babyface and R&b singer Lucky Daye to perform the song live at New York’s We Love NYC: The Homecoming Concert.

“This project has been fantastic to work on,” Babyface said earlier this week. “We really wanted to bring a tremendous, iconic song that is unmistakably Earth, Wind & Fire into the contemporary world of Lucky Daye. The goal was to create a reimagined version...

Premiering back at Sundance Film Festival in 2020, it’s not surprising there’s been a wait to see Worth, written by Max Borenstein and directed by Sara Colangelo. Picked up by Netflix timed to the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the drama follows Congress-appointed attorney Kenneth Feinberg (Michael Keaton), who runs the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. Along with his firm partner Camille Biros (Amy Ryan), Feinberg quickly produces a formula by which to calculate what each victim’s loved ones are owed. While Charles Wolf (Stanley Tucci), a community organizer mourning the death of his wife, enters the picture, their plans get complicated. Ahead of a September 3 debut on Netflix, the first trailer has now arrived.

Dan Mecca said in his Sundance review, “Watching Keaton and Tucci go at each other in a handful of scenes is worth the price of admission. Here are two of the best actors we have,...

On Friday, June 4, Multiple Sclerosis (Ms) advocate and Center Without Walls founder Nancy Davis welcomed guests to the Rose Bowl for the 28th Annual Race to Erase Ms Gala: Drive-In to Erase Ms.

Earth, Wind & Fire perform onstage at the 28th Annual Race To Erase Ms

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For the second year in a row, this legendary event was held at the iconic Rose Bowl Stadium for a night of celebration and fundraising under the stars. The evening raised over $1.4 Million to benefit the Race to Race to Erase Ms and its Center Without Walls program, a collaboration of top Ms research centers working together as a team on ground-breaking research with the goal of treating and, ultimately, finding a cure for Ms.

The event opened with a Spring/Summer 2021 runway show from Hollywood-favorite fashion brand alice + olivia by Stacey Bendet.

Brooklyn R&b singer Yaya Bey has released The Things I Can’t Take With Me, an EP following last year’s full-length Madison Tapes and preceding an album in the works. “[The album] is going to be about the journey home to self,” Bey explained in a statement. “But on the way, there’s all this shit I gotta let go of.”

The EP is her fourth release in five years and her first with Big Dada, the revamped imprint of British label Ninja Tune. The Things I Can’t Take...

HBO Max will not remove Woody Allen movies from its streaming platform, despite HBO now airing its four-part documentary series “Allen v. Farrow.” The show examines Dylan Farrow’s accusations of sexual abuse against Woody Allen, which has left many viewers puzzled over how HBO could air the series while also streaming six of Allen’s movies on HBO Max. The Allen movies now available to stream are “Scoop,” “Broadway Danny Rose,” “Shadows and Fog,” “Radio Days,” “Another Woman,” and “September,” five of which star Mia Farrow.

“These titles will remain available in the library to allow viewers to make their own informed decisions about screening the work,” HBO said in a statement to The Wrap.

HBO’s decision to continue streaming Allen’s films drew ire from many industry voices on social media, with Ernest Media Empire journalist Ernest Owens writing on Twitter, “White privilege is letting Woody Allen...

HBO says that six Woody Allen films available for streaming on HBO Max will remain on the service after some online called out the streamer for hosting those films alongside the new docuseries “Allen v. Farrow.”

“These titles will remain available in the library to allow viewers to make their own informed decisions about screening the work,” HBO said in a statement to TheWrap.

“Allen v. Farrow,” which premiered Sunday on HBO and for streaming on HBO Max, examines Dylan Farrow’s accusations of sexual abuse against her adopted father Allen. Others online then noticed that six films, including five starring Mia Farrow, are all available on the streamer. While the films aren’t prominently displayed or promoted, the films available for streaming through HBO Max for those looking for them are “Scoop,” “Broadway Danny Rose,” “Shadows and Fog,” “Radio Days,” “Another Woman” and “September.”

“White privilege is letting Woody...

Dark Red Horror launches a campaign for The Night Courier on Seed&Spark starting February 15, 2021. Filmmakers Tabitha & Mason McDonald, from award-winning films “September” and “By Sunrise” have assembled an excellent team with Emily Tynan McDaniel and Drez Ryan leading the charge along with Jennifer Trudrung, Paul Gregory Clark, Maximillian Koger, Nicholas Byers and …

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Italy’s expanding production company Groenlandia — the shingle behind ITV’s “Romulus” skein and recent Netflix Italian original film “The Incredible Story of Rose Island” — is launching a groundbreaking new unit dedicated to women directors and writers.

Called Lynn, the new female-driven label is a first for Italy. They have partnered on a feature film with Amazon Studios and on another movie with Rai Cinema.

Projects in various stages in the Lynn pipeline comprise romantic comedy “Blackout Love” (pictured), toplining rising Italian star Anna Foglietta, who served as master of ceremonies at the 2020 Venice Film Festival.

In “Blackout Love,” which is being directed by first-timer Francesca Marino, Foglietta (“Perfect Strangers”) plays the coach of a female volleyball team whose love life is disrupted by the arrival of an old flame. Shooting started in December on the pic, which is being produced by Lynn with financing from Amazon Studios.

Lynn has...

Picture Tree International has acquired international rights to Danish director Lisa Jespersen’s feature debut, the comedy drama “Persona Non Grata” (Hvor Kragerne Vender), and will introduce the film to buyers at the upcoming Nordic Film Market, after its launch in Nordic Competition during the online edition of Goteborg Film Festival this week. Variety has been given exclusive access to the trailer.

The film follows Laura who has distanced herself from her family in the countryside, and moved to Copenhagen to live the bohemian lifestyle as a writer. When she is forced to return home to attend her brother’s wedding, she discovers that he’s about to marry her worst childhood enemy Catrine. Laura realizes that Catrine has taken over her place in the family and is now ready to do anything to get it back.

Jespersen studied film directing at the National Film School of Denmark, and has...

Sting will compile an array of collaborations from over the years into a new album, Duets, out November 27th.

The 17-song set features previously released tunes like “It’s Probably Me” with Eric Clapton, “Desert Rose” with Cheb Mami, “Don’t Make Me Wait” with Shaggy, “Whenever I Say Your Name” with Mary J. Blige, “Fragile” with Julio Iglesias, and “My Funny Valentine” with Herbie Hancock. The collection will also feature more recent tunes, like “Little Something,” with Melody Gardot, plus one new song, “September,” which Sting recorded with the famed Italian singer,...

Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s “Wap” fended off a challenge from Justin Bieber and Chance the Rapper’s “Holy,” maintaining the Number One spot on the Rolling Stone Top 100 Songs chart. Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s single earned nearly 26 million streams.

Bieber and Chance the Rapper were responsible for the only major chart debut this week — the next new song to arrive on the Rs 100, Keith Urban’s “One Too Many,” landed at Number 35. Other than Bieber’s arrival, the Top Ten on the Rs 100 remained...

As she prepares to release her new album Daughter on Friday, Lydia Loveless has shared the heart-wrenching single “September,” featuring Laura Jane Grace on vocals.

Co-directed by Loveless and Michael Casey, the video features a woman waking up on her birthday and lighting a candle on a single cupcake. “Happy birthday, make a wish,” Loveless sings across a piano. “I know this is isn’t really how you wanna celebrate it.” She’s encountered by a raging alcoholic in a mask and departs the house — where she encounters a happier relationship.

Less than a week before the 21st of September, Earth, Wind & Fire have shared a bouncy new 2020 remix for their beloved 1978 single “September.”

Along with the new remix by producer Eric Kupper, the legendary R&b outfit also uploaded an updated version of their “September” music video. In the 42 years since its release, September 21st — the date mentioned in the opening lyrics of “September” — has become an unofficial funk-pop holiday dedicated to the Earth, Wind & Fire track.

“When I first heard the mastered final mix of ‘September,’ at our private...

Our 100th Guest! Comedy icon Martin Short joins us to discuss a few of the movies that made him.

Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

Innerspace (1987)

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)

On The Waterfront (1954)

To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)

Terms Of Endearment (1983)

Moby Dick (1956)

The Exorcist (1973)

King Kong (1933)

A History Of Violence (2005)

A Song To Remember (1945)

Some Like It Hot (1959)

Annie Hall (1977)

The Oscar (1966)

Sleeper (1973)

Bananas (1971)

City Lights (1931)

September (1987)

The Harder They Fall (1956)

Bad Day At Black Rock (1955)

Reservoir Dogs (1992)

Schindler’s List (1993)

Kiss Me Stupid (1964)

The Ox-Bow Incident (1942)

The Bad And The Beautiful (1953)

Ben-Hur (1959)

Spartacus (1960)

The Ten Commandments (1956)

The Night of the Hunter (1955)

The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

The Graduate (1967)

Klute (1971)

Blow-Up (1966)

Blow Out (1981)

The Godfather (1972)

The Godfather Part II (1974)

The Godfather Part III (1990)

Burn! (1970)

Reflections In A Golden Eye (1967)

Grease 2 (1982)

The Conversation (1974)

Back To The Future (1985)

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Exclusive: Actor Stephen Dorff has signed with ICM Partners, returning to the agency he has had a long association with.

Dorff is coming off starring turns on the most recent installment of HBO’s True Detective opposite Mahershala Ali and as the title character in the drama series Deputy, which aired on Fox for one season, with Dorff cast in one of the biggest talent deals of the 2019 pilot season.

Dorff’s feature credits include Blade, Public Enemies, World Trade Center, Cold Creek Manor, The Power Of One, Cecil B. Demented, I Shot Andy Warhol and Somewhere. He will next star as Mma fighter Cash Boykins in the David McKenna-penned Embattled, which is finalizing a distribution deal.

Multiple projects are in various stages of development through his La Costa Productions including a Twa Flight 800 miniseries in the works at eOne TV from David McKenna, with Dorff executive producing.

Dorff,...

To close out its first, albeit unorthodox episode since the coronavirus pandemic put everyone in lockdown mode, Saturday Night Live enlisted cast members past and present for a moving tribute to Hal Willner, an acclaimed music producer who had been with the show since 1980.

Willner, who in his work for SNL selected the music used in sketches, died on April 7 at age 64, after being diagnosed with symptoms consistent with those caused by Covid-19.

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Hal Willner with Paul Shaffer and Ralph Steadman at the For No Good Reason reception, hosted by Sony Pictures Classics' co-presidents Tom Bernard and Michael Barker at Red Bull Studio in 2014. Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Film music producer Hal Willner has died in New York on Tuesday, April 7, at the age of 64 from symptoms consistent with the coronavirus. His film credits include Oren Moverman’s The Dinner, Joseph Cedar’s Norman: The Moderate Rise And Tragic Fall Of A New York Fixer, Laura Israel’s Don’t Blink - Robert Frank, Martin Scorsese’s Gangs Of New York, Wim Wenders’ The Million Dollar Hotel with Bono, Brian Eno, Jon Hassell, and Daniel Lanois, John Hillcoat’s Lawless with Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, and Robert Altman’s Short Cuts. Willner put together Tom Waits and Keith Richards in the recording studio and recently completed work on a Marc Bolan tribute album.

His...

Film industry veteran executive and producer Pamela Abdy has been named president of MGM Motion Picture Group, three months after Jonathan Glickman departed the post.

MGM Film Group chairman Michael De Luca made the announcement Tuesday. Abdy will oversee development, production and post-production for all MGM and Orion films, reporting to De Luca.

De Luca, the Oscar-nominated producer of “The Social Network” and a former executive at Sony and New Line, joined MGM in early January in the newly created role.

“I have long admired Pam for her exceptional abilities as both a studio executive and producer – both critical jobs in our industry and ones that she has handled with the utmost skill, taste and talent,” he said. “She is among the very best and we are all beyond thrilled that she will be joining the MGM team as we steer the studio into the future.”

Abdy said, “I am...

Sara Bareilles is dancing to the burst of pure joy that is Earth Wind & Fire’s 1978 mega-hit, “September,” and she’s doing so because she’s no longer infected with the coronavirus.

“I had a very mild case of Covid and am counting my blessings for that… I am totally fine and fully recovered,” the Waitress star wrote in an Instagram story. “Couple of rough days but I promise I’m fine.”

“Please enjoy how good my dancing has gotten with all this practice time,” the text continues as she...

The spread of Covid-19 is boosting a trio of songs across Latin America this week: Mister Cumbia’s brassy “La Cumbia Del Coronavirus,” Kaseeno’s hard-charging “Coronavirus,” and Yofrangel and Fraga’s darting “Corona Virus” are performing well on the Spotify viral charts in multiple countries.

This is both bizarre — who needs yet another reminder of the deadly pandemic sweeping the globe? — and entirely characteristic of modern listening habits. When almost everything is easily accessible, a surge in musical interest can come from anywhere. Literal-minded fans who keep a close...

Fans of ’70’s music should take notice – Santana and Earth, Wind & Fire are going on a joint tour soon. Santana is known for such songs as “Oye Como Va” and “Smooth,” while Earth, Wind & Fire is known for such songs as “Let’s Groove” and “September.” The two bands announced the tour together, […]

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Hulu is out with its list of all the content that’s coming and going to the streaming service in February.

Highlights include the series premiere of Zoë Kravitz’s “High Fidelity” reboot, coming on Valentine’s Day, in which she stars as a record store owner in a gentrified Brooklyn neighborhood, revisiting past relationships through music and trying to get over her one true love. Her character was played by John Cusack in the 2000 film, and both are based on Nick Hornby’s 1995 novel of the same name.

There is also a new episode of “Into the Dark” titled “My Valentine,” which will be released on Feb. 7, in which a pop singer’s ex-boyfriend and manager steals her songs and gives them to his new protégé.

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Season 1 of Hulu Original “Utopia Falls” comes out Feb.

Andrea Berloff brought the horror and trauma of the 9/11 terrorist attack to the silver screen in 2006 as the writer behind “World Trade Center,” starring Nicolas Cage and Michael Peña. In 2015, she showcased N.W.A’s rise to success in “Straight Outta Compton,” earning an original-screenplay Oscar nomination and striking a cultural chord in the hip-hop community and beyond. Most recently, she made her directorial debut with “The Kitchen,” featuring Elisabeth Moss, Tiffany Haddish and Melissa McCarthy as 1970s housewives who become mobsters after their gangster husbands get locked up.

What were you most scared of when you wrote “World Trade Center”?

I had to adhere to the truth of what happened to the two men that I was working with. I think more than anything, when I set out to tell a true story, the position is “Motto: First do no harm.” When you’re working with real people...

In “The Kitchen,” writer-director Andrea Berloff’s three women anti-heroes flip the mob-movie script when they take control of the criminal racket that runs the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood in ’70s New York. But one gangster-film hallmark remains omnipresent: violence.

While Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, and Elisabeth Moss participate in dismemberment, blood, and graphic gun violence, Berloff said she took lengths to portray those brutal acts in a less-glorified light.

“I was very conscious about how I was creating the violence,” she said at a post-screening Q&a in Los Angeles this week. “I did not let the women go to firearms training because I wanted them, when they held the guns, to look awkward. I didn’t want the guns to look cool.”

Berloff also opted to crank the volume of the gunshot sound effects, which she hoped would make the audience jump.

“I wanted you to notice the gunshots going by,...

Tiffany Haddish, Melissa McCarthy and Elisabeth Moss are married to the mob and fall into dangerous territory when they decide to take matters into their own hand in the first trailer for Warner Bros.’ “The Kitchen,” which debuted at CinemaCon on Tuesday.

In the trailer, the three women play wives of top New York gangsters, who continue to operate their husbands’ rackets after their men get locked up in prison.

“Just to be clear,” McCarthy says in the trailer. “Now, we run this neighborhood.”

Also Read: Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish to Star in New Line and DC's 'The Kitchen'

After debuting the footage, director Andrea Berloff took the stage with Haddish and McCarthy, and explained that she wanted to direct the mob drama because she was ready to show women in a world that we don’t often see them in.

What drew Haddish to the project,...

Julie Adams, best known for her role as Kay Lawrence in the beloved 1954 monster movie Creature from the Black Lagoon, passed away on February 3. She was 92. Adams' son Mitchell Danton revealed that the actress died early Sunday morning in Los Angeles.

Her many other credits included the Elvis Presley-starring Tickle Me (1965) , Dennis Hopper's film The Last Movie (1971), the TV show Murder, She Wrote (1987-1993), and the Oliver Stone-directed World Trade Center (2006).

Adams' soap opera roles included Paula Denning on Capitol (1982-1987), Arlene Beevis in Beverly Hills, 90210 (1993) and Mrs. Damarrs on Melrose Place (1999).

Those who have paid tribute to Adams include Patton Oswalt and director Guillermo del Toro, whose Oscar-winning film The Shape of Water was clearly influenced by Creature from the Black Lagoon.

"I mourn Julie Adams passing," wrote del Toro on Twitter. "It hurts in a place deep in me, where monsters swim."

"Julie Adams has returned to the Black Lagoon,...

Creature From the Black Lagoon star Julie Adams, an actress who, like Fay Wray and Evelyn Ankers before her won the hearts of classic Hollywood monsters and then generations of devoted fans, died Sunday in Los Angeles. She was 92.

Adams’ death was confirmed on her official website.

Where Wray perched atop the Empire State Building with King Kong and Ankers ran through fog-shrouded forests pursued by The Wolf Man, Adams secured her place in horror iconography underwater, notably an indelible scene in the 1954 Creature during which the actress, in a one-piece white bathing suit, swims atop the lagoon water as the creature known as the Gil-Man mimics her moves some feet below. The imagery would be echoed in countless films thereafter, memorably in both Jaws and 2017’s The Shape of Water.

“I mourn Julie Adams passing,” tweeted del Toro today. “It hurts in a place deep in me, where monsters swim.

“United 93” (2006)

Paul Greengrass took a straight, fact-based approach to tell the story of the passengers who tried to take back the plane.

“World Trade Center” (2006)

Oliver Stone‘s drama told the events from the perspective of first responders.

“Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” (2011)

Stephen Daldry‘s adaptation of the Jonathan Safron Foer novel followed a kid who lost his father in the attacks.

“Reign Over Me” (2007)

Adam Sandler played a man who was still struggling five years after the attacks killed his wife and daughter.

“Remember Me” (2010)

The Robert Pattinson drama stirred controversy by having a twist ending that culminated in the 9/11 attacks.

“The West Wing” (2001)

Creator and showrunner Aaron Sorkin wrote this special episode, about a fictional terrorist attack, and it aired just three weeks after the attacks.

“Third Watch” (2001)

This drama about New York City first responders remembered 9/11 with a non-fiction episode, followed by two episodes putting...

Exclusive: Sonar Entertainment has set Michael Shamberg’s MASproduction to a first look deal for television and digital platform content. The announcement was made today by Thomas Lesinski, CEO, Sonar Entertainment and Michael Shamberg.

Shamberg brings several projects to the table under the new deal. They include adaptions of two best-selling books: Am I There Yet?: The Loop-de-loop, Zigzagging Journey to Adulthood by Mari Andrew and A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution by Jennifer A. Doudna and Samuel H. Sternberg.

In Am I There Yet? writer/illustrator and Instagram sensation Mari Andrew uses essays and illustrations to capture the feelings and comical complexities of millennials. In the journey toward adulthood, it is easy to find yourself treading the path of those who came before you. But what if you don’t want to walk a worn path? From creating a home in...

The actor who played Nicolas Cage's brother in World Trade Center has been arrested on assault charges.

Wass Stevens, 45, who starred alongside Cage in the 2006 film, also works as a doorman in New York and on Wednesday was detained by police and charged with attacking a man outside Manhattan hotspot Avenue.

Stevens - real name Mark Wasserman - has been charged with assault and possession of a weapon after he allegedly beat a 24 year old student with the metal end of velvet rope after refusing him entry.

Peter Pak was taken to the city's St. Vincent's Hospital in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

He tells New York Post gossip column PageSix, "He was very condescending. We started cursing at each other and arguing. He lifted the rope and tossed the end metal part at my face. My head cracked and I fell to the ground. I had to go to the hospital for a Cat scan. There was no internal damage but I had huge blaring headaches."

But Stevens' lawyer, Sal Strazzullo, says: "Wass is 100 per cent innocent. He was released on his own recognisance, without bail, which I think shows you the weakness of the case. There wasn't even a corroborating statement from the victim at the court hearing."

Stevens has appeared alongside Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler and in Richard Gere's upcoming movie Brooklyn's Finest. He has also had recurring roles in TV's Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Ugly Betty.

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Elizabeth Banks is going from the world of adult films to the White House.

The actress, who recently wrapped shooting Kevin Smith's "Zack and Miri Make a Porno", is in final negotiations to portray Laura Bush in "W," Oliver Stone's biopic on the life and presidency of George W. Bush.

Josh Brolin already is on board to play Bush in the biopic, which begins shooting in late April in Shreveport, La.

Stone wrote the screenplay with his "Wall Street" co-writer Stanley Weiser.

Moritz Borman, who worked with Stone on "World Trade Center" and "Alexander", is producing, as is Jon Kilik.

Beverly Hills-based QED International is financing and handling sales.

Banks, repped by UTA and Untitled, next appears opposite Eddie Murphy in the comedy "Meet Dave" and then opposite Aaron Eckhart in "Meet Bill".

Paramount has promoted Kimberly LoCascio to senior vp production, visual effects.

LoCascio will continue to oversee all aspects of visual effects development and production for films released by the studio as well as those released by MTV Films and Nickelodeon Movies. She also will oversee feature animation and specialty projects, including 3-D.

"Now that VFX has become a key part of almost every film, I feel very fortunate to have Kimberly's depth of experience and proven track record of delivering groundbreaking effects here at Paramount," said Mark Bakshi, the studio's president of feature production management, who made Tuesday's announcement.

She is overseeing the visual effects on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Star Trek, G.I. Joe, Nowhereland and Love Guru and also worked on The Spiderwick Chronicles, Cloverfield and World Trade Center.

Before Paramount, The Spiderwick Chronicles was a freelance visual effects producer on such films as Demolition Man, Waterworld and The Chronicles of Riddick. She began her careen in visual effects at Industrial Light + Magic.

Oliver Stone, who has made films about the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the presidency of Richard Nixon, will next turn his attention to George W. Bush.

Josh Brolin is attached to play the president in the project, titled Bush.

Stone is looking to secure financing for a script by Stanley Weiser, who co-wrote Wall Street with Stone and who also penned the 2003 telefilm Rudy: The Rudy Giulianai Story.

Stone hopes to begin production on Bush as early as the spring in order to release the film by the fall election. But securing financing in the midst of an election cycle in which even the Republican candidates for the presidency are distancing themselves from Bush could present a challenge if the film is to be completed before Bush fades from the scene.

Moritz Borman, who served as a producer on both Stone's Alexander and World Trade Center, and John Kilik, another of Alexander's producers, are on board to produce.

Kilik also was to have produced Stone's My Lai massacre film Pinkville, which United Artists put on hold in November, citing the need for further script revisions, though skeptics also suggested that the company lost confidence in the politically themed project after the boxoffice failure of Lions for Lambs.

Woody Harrelson is reteaming with Oliver Stone in the director's Vietnam War drama Pinkville for United Artists.

Harrelson joins Bruce Willis and Channing Tatum, who already have been cast in the mystery drama based on the infamous 1968 My Lai Massacre, in which upward of 500 people -- mostly women, children and the elderly -- were killed by U.S. soldiers. The massacre ended up being a turning point in the war.

Harrelson will play Col. Henderson, the conflicted officer in charge of the task force that committed the massacre.

Mikko Alanne wrote the script. Production is set to begin next year, with MGM distributing.

Willis will portray William R. Peers, the real-life Army general who investigated the incident. Tatum will play Hugh Thompson Jr., an Army helicopter pilot who aided the villagers and later testified against the soldiers.

Michael Pena, who appeared in Stone's World Trade Center and plays an Army Ranger in Afghanistan in Robert Redford's Lions for Lambs, also has been cast.

Oliver Stone is in final negotiations with United Artists to direct Pinkville, a Vietnam War drama based on a true story set to star Bruce Willis and Channing Tatum. Michael Pena is in talks to play the third lead role.

Willis will play William R. Peers, the real-life Army general who investigated the infamous 1968 My Lai Massacre of Vietnamese civilians. About 350-500 people -- mostly women, children and the elderly -- were killed by U.S. soldiers.

Tatum will portray Hugh Thompson Jr., an Army helicopter pilot who helped stop the killing by flying between the attackers and the My Lai villagers, rescued survivors and later testified against the soldiers.

Pena is in talks to play Capt. Ernest Medina, the tough commanding officer of the troops responsible for the massacre who was charged in the crimes but ultimately found not guilty. Pena appeared in Stone's last film, World Trade Center, and is in Robert Redford's upcoming UA drama Lions for Lambs.

UA is in talks to finance the $40 million project, set for production next year and distribution through MGM.

Oscar-winning movie director Oliver Stone will make a political television commercial demanding the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq. The World Trade Center filmmaker - who served as a private in the Vietnam War - will film American service personnel for the forthcoming advertisement, supported by the MoveOn and VoteVets organizations. Stone says, "America needs to listen to our servicemen and women. We have leaders in Washington who say they're 'supporting our troops' - but the people who suffer most from their policies are the troops themselves," said Stone in a statement.

Clint Eastwood will be honored as Filmmaker of the Year at the 54th annual MPSE Golden Reel Awards, set for Feb. 24 at the Beverly Hilton.

The Motion Picture Sound Editors also will recognize Richard L. Anderson, who has worked as a sound editor on such films as Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Color Purple, Madagascar and Flushed Away, with the Career Achievement Award.

The MPSE also announced nominees for the Golden Reel Awards, which acknowledge the year's best work in dialogue & ADR, effects & foley, and music.

For domestic feature, dialogue & ADR, the nominees are "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," Flags of Our Fathers, World Trade Center, The Last King of Scotland, Letters From Iwo Jima, Apocalypto, Little Miss Sunshine and The Da Vinci Code.

For domestic feature, effects & foley, they are Dead Man's Chest, Flags, Blood Diamond, Iwo Jima, WTC, Superman Returns, Mission: Impossible 3 and The Prestige.

In feature animation, effects & foley, the nominees are Cars, Happy Feet, Over the Hedge, Flushed Away, The Ant Bully and Ice Age: The Meltdown.

For feature film music, the nominees are Apocalypto, Dead Man's Chest, Babel, Children of Men, Click, Lucky Number Slevin, The Proposition and Bobby.

For musical feature, the nominees are Dreamgirls, "Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny," Copying Beethoven, Take the Lead and A Prairie Home Companion.

The foreign features nominees are Casino Royale, Pan's Labyrinth, Babel, Children of Men, United 93, Curse of the Golden Flower, Slevin and The Black Dahlia.

The Golden Reels also include categories for TV, direct-to-video, special venues and computer entertainment.

Michael Peña (Crash, World Trade Center) has joined Tom Cruise, Robert Redford, and Meryl Streep in the war drama Lions for Lambs. Peña will portray an Army ranger stationed in Afghanistan whose injury behind enemy lines sets off a sequence of events involving a congressman (Cruise), a journalist (Streep) and an idealistic professor (Redford). Redford will direct the MGM production, the first under Cruise's reign at the studio. Matthew Michael Carnahan wrote the screenplay. Filming is expected to begin soon.

Paramount Pictures has officially confirmed that president Gail Berman  is leaving her post.

Brad Grey, Paramount chairman and CEO, announced Wednesday afternoon that Berman has exited her job, effective immediately. A reorganization of the studio's production structure will be announced shortly, the studio said.

Berman, who joined the studio in May, 2005, had a hand in a number of films, including "Nacho Libre", "World Trade Center" and the recently released "Freedom Writers", that marked the beginning of a turnaround at Paramount. But the former television executive -- she came to Paramount from the Fox Broadcasting Co., where she had been president of entertainment -- found the transtion into the film arena a rocky one.

Grey said, "Gail's dedication in the last 18 months has been invaluable during this important and historic time at Paramount. We respect and appreciate her contributions in reshaping the direction of Paramount Pictures."

"From my days on Broadway to my time at Regency Television and Fox and then Paramount, my passion has always been creating exciting entertainment," Berman said.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- The third Dubai International Film Festival ended Sunday with a ceremony for the inaugural Muhr awards.

Oliver Stone, on hand to receive the DIFF Salute for his contribution to cinema and present a screening of his World Trade Center, gave away the prizes to young Arab filmmakers. "It is hard to make films in the Middle East, but cinema can help bridge those divisions (within society)," Stone said. "This is a good attempt to reach out."

Actors Richard Gere, Robin Tunney, Adriana Barraza, Terrence Howard and Mos Def, Arab film personalities and Dubai royalty also were in attendance. The entertainment highlight was Jumana -- a multimedia play projected onto towering sand dunes and water screens.

Algerian feature "Barakat!" (dir: Djamila Sahraoui) took the festival's $50,000 first prize, while Lebanese film Falafel (dir: Michel Kammoun) earned silver and Moroccan entry "Why? O'Sea" (dir: Hakim Belabbes) took third place.

Said DIFF chairman Abdulhamid Juma: "Although a film festival's job is to showcase and not fund films -- as it causes a conflict of interest -- we are supporting regional cinema because there is no state financing available."...

NEW YORK -- In what chairman Marshall Fine described as "a dogfight" between United 93 and The Queen, Paul Greengrass' Sept. 11 drama was named best film Monday by the New York Film Critics Circle after a four-round tiebreaking vote.

Stephen Frears' Queen earned the most awards, including best actress for Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II and best screenplay for Peter Morgan. Forest Whitaker took home best actor honors for his portrayal of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland.

" 'United 93' was really a dark horse," Fine said. "A lot of people avoided seeing it because of the subject matter. It was one of the most harrowing films of the year."

The chairman added that its runoff with Queen was the first he had experienced in his 17 years with the organization. He said that this year's other big Sept. 11 drama, World Trade Center, wasn't a factor in the voting.

Martin Scorsese was named best director for The Departed, the film that ran third among the critics' favorites. Amy Berg's Deliver Us From Evil won nonfiction film, George Miller's Happy Feet won animated film and Ryan Fleck's Half Nelson won best first feature.

In one of the most surprising votes, Jean-Pierre Melville's French World War II drama Army of Shadows won foreign-language film; it was made in 1969 but wasn't released domestically until this year. Pedro Almodovar's Volver and Cristi Puiu's Romanian drama The Death of Mr. Lazarescu were the runners-up.

Newcomer Jennifer Hudson took home the supporting actress award for her much-discussed screen debut in Bill Condon's Dreamgirls, and former child star Jackie Earle Haley (The Bad News Bears) won supporting actor for his portrayal of a sex offender in Todd Field's Little Children. Guillermo Navarro won the cinematography award for Guillermo Del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth.

Larry Charles' Borat won no awards but had a strong second runner-up showing for both Sacha Baron Cohen as best actor (after Ryan Gosling in Half Nelson) and nonfiction film (after Michael Apted's 49 Up). The latter award is notable because the film, despite its reliance in improvisation and the unknowing participation of nonactors, has four credited writers.

NEW YORK -- In what chairman Marshall Fine described as "a dogfight" between United 93 and The Queen, Paul Greengrass' Sept. 11 drama was named best film Monday by the New York Film Critics Circle after a four-round tiebreaking vote.

Stephen Frears' Queen earned the most awards, including best actress for Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II and best screenplay for Peter Morgan. Forest Whitaker took home best actor honors for his portrayal of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland.

" 'United 93' was really a dark horse," Fine said. "A lot of people avoided seeing it because of the subject matter. It was one of the most harrowing films of the year."

The chairman added that its runoff with Queen was the first he had experienced in his 17 years with the organization. He said that this year's other big Sept. 11 drama, World Trade Center, wasn't a factor in the voting.

Martin Scorsese was named best director for The Departed, the film that ran third among the critics' favorites. Amy Berg's Deliver Us From Evil won nonfiction film, George Miller's Happy Feet won animated film and Ryan Fleck's Half Nelson won best first feature.

In one of the most surprising votes, Jean-Pierre Melville's French World War II drama Army of Shadows won foreign-language film; it was made in 1969 but wasn't released domestically until this year. Pedro Almodovar's Volver and Cristi Puiu's Romanian drama The Death of Mr. Lazarescu were the runners-up.

Newcomer Jennifer Hudson took home the supporting actress award for her much-discussed screen debut in Bill Condon's Dreamgirls, and former child star Jackie Earle Haley (The Bad News Bears) won supporting actor for his portrayal of a sex offender in Todd Field's Little Children. Guillermo Navarro won the cinematography award for Guillermo Del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth.

Larry Charles' Borat won no awards but had a strong second runner-up showing for both Sacha Baron Cohen as best actor (after Ryan Gosling in Half Nelson) and nonfiction film (after Michael Apted's 49 Up). The latter award is notable because the film, despite its reliance in improvisation and the unknowing participation of nonactors, has four credited writers.