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Anna Tingley “Nickel Boys,” RaMell Ross‘s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2019 novel, opened New York Film Festival’s 62nd edition on Friday night. The historical drama, which received rave reviews out of Telluride in September, marks the Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker’s narrative debut. On a muggy, overcast evening in the Upper West Side, Ross and the film’s stars — including Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor and Daveed Diggs — walked the carpet at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall before introducing the film to the nearly-packed theater.

RaMell Ross, who directed Nickel Boys based on the Colson Whitehead novel, believes the prolific writer gave his blessing to the film adaptation.

UPDATED, 2.00 AM PT: One person has died in Florida and there have been two confirmed deaths in Georgia, after Category 4 Hurricane Helene slammed into the U.S. southeastern coast overnight, with winds gusting at 140 mph at its height.

As Hurricane Helene barrels through Florida, the state’s theme parks are responding.

Police have apologised to a woman who was strip-searched 'based on almost nothing' - but have refused to discipline any officers.

Four men have been charged in relation to an alleged three-month crime spree across Cheshire.

Close to 40 AMC, Cinemark and Regal multiplexes are closed throughout Florida as the state braces for Hurricane Helene to hit landfall as a Category 4 with a force of 130 mph.

EXCLUSIVE: Josh Levy has joined Amplified, the management/production company launched earlier this year by Industry Entertainment’s Adam Levine, Brandy Rivers and Michael Hepburn, as a literary manager.

Dave Navarro has called a fan wearing a Taylor Swift shirt to a Jane’s Addiction show “fucking punk rock”.The guitarist resposted an old clip from an August 29 show played in Tampa, Florida, where Jane’s Addiction performed at the MidFlorida Credit Union Ampitheatre.In the clip, Navarro kneels down to peer at an gig-goer’s shirt, which quotes Swift’s 2014 hit ‘Blank Space’ on its back: “So it’s gonna be forever / Or it’s gonna go down in flames“.Navarro then tells the Swiftie: “I apprerciate that you don’t give a fuck and wore a Taylor Swift shirt to our show”.He doubled down on the sentiment in the caption on his Instagram: “The whole time I was thinking, “How is this guy wearing a Taylor Swift shirt to a Jane’s show?” Then, I was like, “Fuck it, be who you are!“Fucking punk rock, brother!”A post shared by Dave Navarro (@davenavarro)Jane’s Addiction recently made headlines when singer Perry Farrell and Navarro fought on stage during a show.In video footage taken by fans, Farrell appeared to start the fight by attempting to punch Navarro. The fight was quickly broken up and the lights went down following the scuffle.The band would later go on to apologise to fans, cancel the remainder of their US tour dates and announce a hiatus, with Navarro suggesting the band may have come to a close.Meanwhile, Farrell’s wife Etty posted a statement on Instagram saying the singer was taking time to “reflect and heal”.“We are taking a bit of time to ourselves, to reflect and to heal,” she wrote.

A fan favorite from Extreme Makeover: Home Edition has sadly been killed.

Well, if there’s anyone we never expected to hear from again, it’s Brian Laundrie.

Major League Baseball has scheduled two crucial late-season games between the Atlanta Braves and New York Mets as Hurricane Helene barrels toward the Florida Gulf Coast and south Georgia. The two wild-card hopefuls instead will play a doubleheader Monday — one day before the MLB Playoffs start.

It’s with a heavy heart that we have to tell Outlaws fans about the passing of our former guitarist Freddie Salem….Posted by Outlaws on Monday, September 23, 2024The late guitarist and vocalist left The Outlaws in 1983 after the group were dropped by Arista Records. He had initially stepped in to replace original member Henry Paul, who departed the line-up in 1977.However, Paul remains a current member of The Outlaws following numerous stints in the band.

One of hip-hop's richest and acclaimed artists, Sean 'P Diddy' Combs, has been plunged into legal hot water.

A Florida police officer has been fired from his position after claiming he “accidentally” shot his girlfriend.

Kodak Black has called out Donald Trump for accusing Haitian immigrants of “eating pets,” saying he “ain’t taking no Haitian slander” from the former US president.Trump is currently the Republican presidential candidate in the forthcoming election. In a recent debate with the Democratic option Kamala Harris, he repeated rumours that “illegal” Haitian immigrants in Springfield are “eating the dogs” and “eating the cats”.

Smartmatic will not be able to collect punitive damages in its upcoming defamation trial against Newsmax should a jury rule in its favor, a Delaware judge ruled today.

Jhené Aiko is continuing out on the road!

Piranha 3D director Alexandre Aja has revealed that Quentin Tarantino was pitching him ideas for the movie before he started filming.The cult horror comedy was released in 2010 and is set on the waterside resort Lake Victoria, where an underground tremor releases hundreds of prehistoric piranhas into the lake, causing carnage.The film was helmed by French director Alexandre Aja, and in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Aja has said that he met with the Pulp Fiction director a number of times ahead of the making of the movie.“I’ve met with Quentin a few times, and one of the times, we had dinner together in Paris right before I was going to make Piranha 3D,” Aja said. “So I was pitching him all the scenes, and he was pitching me other things that he was thinking about, so I knew how much he loved these types of movies.”Tarantino would go on to be an outspoken fan of another of Aja’s creature features, 2019’s Crawl, a film that sees killer alligators preying upon a family in Florida during a hurricane.“My friend Eli Roth called me to say, ‘Hey, Quentin watched [Crawl] and really loved it’,” Aja continued.

EXCLUSIVE: When Plan B’s Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner handed RaMell, the visual artist and filmmaker, Ross Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Nickel Boys — the story of Black boys beaten, tortured and worse at a notorious state-run reform school in the Florida Panhandle — he knew he was being asked to bring his vision to the table, and not what he calls Black “trauma porn.”

Donald Trump is opening up about his future in politics after this year.

according to court documents obtained by TMZ.Diaz said the rapper, whose legal name is Daniel Hernández, forced her to undergo cosmetic surgeries against her will.The 22-year-old Dominican rapper, who professionally goes by Yailin La Más Viral, is seeking $1 million dollars in damages from Hernández and wants the court to block him from sharing more pictures of her.Diaz said she ended the toxic relationship in August after learning about Hernández’s alleged theft and fraud.He retaliated by posting sexually explicit pictures and videos of her on the X app without her consent. The posts have been deleted, but Diaz claims she is still suffering.The “Fefe” singer, 28, denied the allegations, and said he helped Diaz out when she was broke. He was shocked that she would claim that he stole from her.“All that jewelry is mine .

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer Paramore’s Hayley Williams spoke out against Donald Trump and Project 2025 during the band’s performance last night at the iHeartRadio Music Awards in Los Angeles, encouraging attendees to use their vote to make their voices heard. Williams made her feelings known while the group was performing “Big Man, Little Integrity.” “Project 2025 is Donald Trump‘s playbook for controlling and punishing women, poor people, people of color, and the LGBTQ+ community,” said Williams.

The Premier Sports Cup takes centre stage as the dream of reaching Hampden comes into focus.

Donald Trump-themed shooting targets being sold on eBay just days after an attempt on the ex-president's life appear to have been removed following complaints.

Animal welfare organisation PETA has urged Ant McPartlin and Dec Donnelly to end their partnership with travel firm TUI over its promotion of "marine abusement parks". Presenting duo Ant and Dec, both 48, have worked with TUI on several occasions, including through the now-rested ITV show Saturday Night Takeaway.

Lupita Nyong’o looks pretty in blue while attending a screening of her new movie The Wild Robot held at CMX Cinemas Dolphin 19 on Wednesday (September 18) in Miami, Fla.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large “The Chosen” creator Dallas Jenkins has launched 5&2 Studios and has unveiled a slate of projects in the works — including an animated series, an unscripted show with Bear Grylls and a multi-season take on the story of Moses. According to 5&2 Studios’ mission statement, the indie studio plans to “produce Bible-inspired stories through uniquely human and authentic storytelling and audience engagement.” Jenkins was set to announce the new studio and his upcoming programming plans — as well as the roll out of the final two seasons of “The Chosen” — during this weekend’s “ChosenCon” in Orlando, Fla.

Well, just when Matt Gaetz thought he was off scot-free, arrogance and greed may have gotten him right back into hot water. Not even his arrogance though… Let’s dive in and we’ll explain.

Shawn Mendes may be in Rio right now, but he was in Miami earlier in the week and some new photos from that getaway have emerged!

Shohei Ohtani is continuing to earn his status as one of the best baseball players of all time and his latest accomplishment will likely hold a place in record books for a long time.

Be Ready When the Luck Happens,” (out Oct. 1), per People, Ina shared that when she was 16, she visited her brother Ken at Dartmouth College. While on campus, her mother asked Ken to fix her up with a classmate.“I’d dressed in my best blue skirt, my favorite blue-­and-­white wool and angora sweater, the new blue Pappagallos that I’d bought with my own money so my mother couldn’t refuse to buy them for me, and a blue grosgrain ribbon in my hair,” the renowned chef wrote in her book.Of course, Jeffrey ended up spotting his now-wife of 56 years on campus, but soon found out there were other ingredients added to the mix that evening.

Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Fresh off her Emmy win, “The Bear” star Liza Colón-Zayas is hitting the campaign trail for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. Colón-Zayas, as well as “In the Heights” star Anthony Ramos, will join Gov. Walz at a rally focusing on Latino voters on Sept.

Security was called to a report of potential explosives at a Donald Trump rally in the latest safety scare for the former president. On Tuesday, September 18, an explosive device was reported outside Nassau Coliseum on Long Island, New York.

A woman who sold everything to go on a dream trip around the world was banned from a cruise after her private WhatsApp comments emerged.

Emiliana Betancourt Ryan Murphy, the prolific TV producer behind “American Horror Story” and its many spinoffs, is back with another of his infamous, real-life murder dramas. This storyline follows Aaron Hernandez, the NFL tight end who appeared to be on a straight path to the Hall of Fame when his career was cut short by a murder conviction and a one-way ticket to a maximum-security prison in Massachusetts. “American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez” stars Josh Rivera as Hernandez, Patrick Schwarzenegger as Tebow and more celebrities playing the real-life athletes and people involved with the case.