Spielberg, Aniston, Witherspoon help unveil Apple's original streaming content, Apple TV+

This post has been updated with all the details from Apples big unveiling. And he was right. Thats why Ive joined forces with Apple. Credit: Michael Short/Getty Images The first episode features Edward Burns as a World War II pilot. have a go at think about the world this way: heard, touched, smelled, sensed. The series is penned by Steven Knight and directed by Francis Lawrence. Without sight, will it change who I am?...

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 149 words · Jennifer Oliver

Spike Lee pays tribute toDo the Right Thingon Oscars red carpet

Spike Lee is using his moment on the Oscars red carpet to make a nostalgic fashion statement. We gotta make a choice, the filmmaker said to PEOPLE and EWs J.D. Heyman and Lola Ogunnaike on the Oscars carpet, in the video above. Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Which ones it gonna be? he asked, making his own choice by dropping the HATE hand to his side. Its a tale of good and evil, Radio Raheem says of his jewelry in the film....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 150 words · Patricia Brown

Spike Lee says Best Director nod forBlacKkKlansmanwouldn't have happened without #OscarsSoWhite

On Feb. 24, winners will be crowned at the91st Academy Awards. Keep checking back atEW.comthis week for spotlights on contenders in all the major categories. For me, its not interesting and its not complex. David Lee/Focus Features ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Good morning, Mr. Lee, and congratulations! [Note: Brown was also nominated in the Documentary Feature category in 1980.] Why do you thinkBlacKkKlansmanwas the one that resonated with voters finally?Well, lets be honest....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 160 words · Tina Mitchell

Spike Lee slams 'motherf—er' Donald Trump for not denouncing KKK in fiery Cannes speech

We must rediscover the bonds of love and loyalty that bring us together as Americans, Trumps speech continued. We look to our leaders. They give us direction to make moral decisions, in trying times, he continued. Credit: Sebastien Nogier/EPA Pool/Getty Images We cant be silent. Its not a black, white, or brown [problem], its everybody. We all live on this planet, and this guy in the White House has the nuclear code....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 78 words · Ian Bailey

Spike Lee won't comment on Boots Riley drama: It can only 'dilute the message of my film'

By doing so, Lee believes it’ll only further “dilute the message” of his film. “Well, I’m not going to comment on that,” Lee said when prompted. I’m not going to say that. Credit: REX/Shutterstock; Griffin Lipson/BFA/REX/Shutterstock I mean, we need police." Lee famously got into aspat with Clint Eastwoodfor leaving out black soldiers from two of Eastwood’s war films. Now, Lee continued his new approach. Adam Driver plays Flip Zimmerman, Ron’s recruit to assist the undercover operation of a lifetime....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 113 words · Amy Riley

Spike Lee'sBlacKkKlansmanis set in the '70s but exposes our current rot: EW review

Spike Lee has never been what youd call a subtle filmmaker. His implement of choice is the cudgel rather than the scalpel. Its easily the directors best movie since 2002s25th Hour. Credit: David Lee/Focus Features The gambit may be on the nose, but its artful and it works. After all, his story is just as repellent. BlacKkKlansmanis essentially a tense (and occasionally hilarious) sting-operation procedural. But Lee isnt trying to observe niceties or be coy....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 96 words · Tina Porter

Spike Lee, Jean-Luc Godard films join 2018 Cannes Film Festival competition lineup

Godard, whose last narrativeGoodbye to Languagealso debuted at Cannes, returns to Cannes this year withThe Image Book. Nothing but a revolutionary song. A story in five chapters like the five fingers of a hand." Credit: Lou Rocco/ABC via Getty Images; CHRISTOPHE D YVOIRE/Sygma via Getty Images As it stands, Netflix which had two films in competition last year is not represented in the lineup. PerDeadline, he also noted that Netflix is “welcome in Cannes....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 135 words · Matthew Larsen

Spinal Tap's Derek Smalls shares the legendary band's untold stories

But he couldnt replicate the botanical success with other flowers. I tried a black carnation and it just didnt work, he explains. So I gave it up. Credit: David Corio/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Hes still bitter aboutThis Is Spinal Tap The hatchet job? Smalls says when the 1984 doc comes up. He still seethes over one particular scene where Tap is shown to be unable to find the stage. Ninety-nine-point-one-nine-nine percent of the time we found our way to the stage, he fumes....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 238 words · Lauren Cain

Spirit Awards honors Oscar nominees and snubs

Aubrey Plaza hosted this years Spirit Awards, taking pointed digs at the Oscars throughout heropening sketchand monologue. This year is a special year, she said. she quipped on stage as the audience cheered. Tommaso Boddi/Getty; Chelsea Lauren/Variety/REX/Shutterstock (2) Im proud to be in this room and with these people, she added. I really thought it was on the beach under a white flapping tent. Its so wonderful that this movie about two cranky, untrustworthy, lonely, gay alcoholics got made....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 114 words · Sheila Collier

Spiritualized's new album,And Nothing Hurt, had its songwriter hurting

Now I can listen to music again. Spiritualizeds latest effort was just that an effort. J. Spaceman, saysAnd Nothing Hurttook too long to make. Andrew Toth/Getty Images He started it with a producer and ended up making most of it solo. I went looking for producers. And he didnt have the funding for the album he wanted. A Ray Charles vibe. Disappointment hangs over this record, he told EW slowly over the phone....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 128 words · Ashley Valencia

Spoiler ban lifts!Avengers: Endgamestars share videos from the top-secret set

On Wednesday, Evans dropped more behind-the-scenes videos from a certain lake-side scene. It involved mariachi singers and Hemsworth dancing about in his Thor beard. her friends from work said. Also getting in on the fun are Elizabeth Olsen (Wanda Maximoff) and the directors themselves. These folks havent been able to talk aboutAvengers: Endgame, even as they were promoting the film. But the Russos designated Monday, May 6, as the time to allow spoiler talk… within reason....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 119 words · Adam Martin

Spoiler Room: Scoop onArrow,Grey's Anatomy,Once Upon a Time, and more

Want scoop on your favorite shows? If you want spoilers on a specific show, send Qs to my Twitter:@NatalieAbrams. What can you tease about Anatolys return onArrowthis season? Credit: Robert Falconer/The CW; Eric McCandless/ABC; Jack Rowand/ABC Anatoly is this weird grey area of a guy that he loves and respects too much. Whats next for Japril this season onGreys Anatomy? SafaeI feel for the Japril fans right now, but their future is looking pretty murky....

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 519 words · Sandra Yang

Spoiler Room: Scoop onArrow,Once Upon a Time,The Blacklist, and more

Want scoop on your favorite shows? If you want spoilers on a specific show, send Qs to my Twitter:@NatalieAbrams. Anything on Snowing forOnce Upon a Time? Credit: Jack Rowand/The CW; Jack Rowand/ABC via Getty; Will Hart/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Do you have any early scoop on theArrowfinale? Oliver is going to pay a price that he hasnt really paid before, Ramsey says. Expect Sinclair an absolute magician to try and craft a plot to trap Ian Garvey once and for all....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 366 words · Elizabeth Flores