College Football Shakeup: Big 12 Athletic Conference Adds Four New Teams

death Friday at 96. Mayor Eric Adams, 62, was one of the first politicians to honor the legendary singer, taking to Twitter to write: “A working-class kid from Queens, Tony Bennett, sang our song to the world.

Moviegoers already knew that Todd Haynes‘ “May December” would open the 61st annual New York Film Festival this Fall. But now another North American premiere will happen in NYC.  Sofia Coppola‘s “Priscilla” will be the festival’s Centerpiece on October 6 before it hits theaters later that month courtesy of A24.

Mike Birbiglia’s got stories.The popular comedian is known for weaving narratives into his act to create moving one-man shows about marriage, fatherhood, aging and everything in between.Now, he’s on the road either a) testing new jokes or b) refining his “Old Man And The Pool” material for its West End run in London set for late August.All we know is the best way to find out is live.And you can — especially if you’re in New York or New Jersey.Birbiglia, 45, is slated to headline at Levittown, NY’s Governors Comedy Club on Saturday, July 22 and then at New Jersey’s Stress Factory on Thursday, Aug. 3 and Saturday, Aug.

Film at Lincoln Center has teed up Sofia Coppola’s Priscillaas the Centerpiece selection for the 61st New York Film Festival.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla” has been tapped as the Centerpiece selection for the 61st New York Film Festival. The biographical drama about the wife of Elvis Presley will make its North American premiere at Alice Tully Hall on Oct. 6. “Priscilla” centers on the life of Priscilla Ann Wagner (“Mare of Easttown” actor Cailee Spaeny) and her life and love affair with the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll (“Euphoria” breakout Jacob Elordi). It’s based on the 1985 memoir “Elvis and Me” by Priscilla Presley and Sandra Harmon and follows her early years as a teenage army brat stationed in West Germany to her arrival at Graceland, which became her home and prison.

The next season of HBO’s Hard Knocks will focus on the New York Jets, but the team’s new quarterback, Aaron Rodgers, is less than thrilled about the situation.

Prime Video has released several first-look images for Marnie Dickens’ Wilderness, from Firebird Pictures.

Harry Styles' Love On Tour shows may be ending but fans will still have a chance to see him all around the world — in wax! Madame Tussauds announced seven new wax figures in honor of the «Golden» singer that will be placed in London, New York, Hollywood, Amsterdam, Berlin, Singapore, Berlin and Sydney. Each figurine will pay homage to some of the 29-year-old entertainer's most iconic looks and will feature poses showing off the GRAMMY winner's personality. Six of the figurines went on display on Monday. In New York City, Styles' statue rocks the rainbow bodysuit from his headlining set at Coachella.

The New York Jets aren’t happy that they’re being showcased as part of HBO’s series, “Hard Knocks.”

Katie Holmes is staying active. The director and actress was photographed in New York wearing a comfortable and sporty outfit after completing a workout. Celeb-approved summer dress: Katie Holmes, Jennifer Lopez, Kendall Jenner, and moreKatie Holmes stuns in crocheted dress at the opening night of ‘Like Water For Chocolate’Suri Cruise and a friend enjoy summer in New YorkHolmes was wearing a white T-shirt, some black Fanka leggings and white sports shoes.

Naman Ramachandran Six teams owned by top global sporting bodies are participating in the inaugural Major League Cricket (MLC) tournament in the U.S., which kicked off on Thursday. The Los Angeles Knight Riders team is owned by Shah Rukh Khan’s Knight Riders Group, which also operates teams in the Indian Premier League (IPL), the Caribbean Premier League and the U.A.E.’s International League T20 (ILT). The MI New York team is owned by billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Mumbai Indians, which also operates a team in the ILT. The Seattle Orcas is owned by the GMR Group, which also has IPL and ILT teams. India’s Chennai Super Kings IPL franchise owns the Texas Super Kings, while the San Francisco Unicorns and Washington Freedom are owned by Australia’s Cricket Victoria and Cricket New South Wales respectively.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer The CW network has nabbed the exclusive broadcast rights to 50 Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) college football and basketball games each season. The deal is good through 2026-27. The Nexstar-owned broadcast acquired the rights from Raycom Sports, who sublicenses the rights from ESPN. Raycom Sports will produce all games for The CW. Per the CW, the first of its 13 ACC football games, a face-off for the Pittsburgh Panthers and Cincinnati Bearcats, will air on on Saturday, Sept. 9. Games will continue airing every Saturday throughout the season in the afternoon and in primetime.

Todd Hayes’ May December will open the New York Film Festival on September 29, organizers said today.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Todd Haynes’ soapy romantic drama “May December,” starring Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore, will open the 61st New York Film Festival. The movie is scheduled for Sept. 29 at Alice Tully Hall with the director and cast expected to attend in person. Following its NYFF premiere, “May December” will be released theatrically on Nov. 17 before landing on Netflix on Dec. 1. “May December,” which centers on a scandalous age-gap relationship, premiered in May at the Cannes Film Festival to rave reviews and sold to Netflix for $20 million. Moore and “Riverdale” star Charles Melton play Gracie and Joe, a married couple with a 20-year age gap. Their relationship sparked a national tabloid scandal because Joe was just 13 when the two fell in love. Decades later, their union is put to the test when Portman’s character Elizabeth, a popular TV actress, travels to Georgia to study the life of Gracie, whom she’ll be playing in a movie.

Mindy Kaling is now speaking out about Reneé Rapp leaving The Sex Lives of College Girls ahead of the premiere of Season 3.

The New York Times is disbanding its sports desk and will rely on greater use of The Athletic for daily coverage.

Guy Lodge Film Critic You have to admire the moxie of authors and filmmakers who set their science-fiction spectaculars in the very near future, essentially confronting viewers with what may seem a pretty outlandish forecast for their own lives. Those that pull it off present us with possibilities resonant enough to ponder, even when they’re too far-fetched to actively fear: So it proves in “Restore Point,” a sharp, high-shine sci-fi outing from the Czech Republic, in which earthly life after death is routine, a cellular rather than spiritual matter. Set in an unspecified (though Czech-speaking) central Europe in the year 2041, director Robert Hloz’s whopper of a calling-card debut may offer a more credibly subdued, budget-constrained visual of the mid-21st century than the lavishly built “Blade Runner 2049” — unless we’re in for a drastic design (r)evolution over the course of the 2040s — but its ideas are sky-high in concept. Marrying glossy mainstream genre aesthetics to probing, elaborately conceived speculative storytelling, this is a notably ambitious and auspiciously well-realized first feature for Hloz: the kind that appears to be flaunting his capabilities for even bigger international and Hollywood assignments.

Dr. Frank Field, the first meteorologist in New York television news and later a presenter and commentator for network programs on science, space, and medicine, died on Saturday in Florida. He was 100.

for years, following Oklahoma and Texas’ decision to eventually leave the Big 12 in favor of the Southeastern Conference. The Big 12 will operate with 14 teams for the 2023-24 season, with Oklahoma and Texas set to exit at its conclusion — a year earlier than the teams originally intended. Officially official.

Man, we feel like a concert.Country icon Shania Twain, midway through her sprawling North American ‘Queen Of Me Tour,’ is stopping into New York for three huge gigs at Bethel’s Bethel Woods Center For The Arts on Monday, July 3, Syracuse’s St. Josephs Health Amphitheater on Saturday, July 8 and finally New York City’s Madison Square Garden on Tuesday, July 11.And if you want to see the “Still The One” singer live, we’re happy to report that there are unbelievably affordable last-minute tickets available.At the time of publication, we found tickets going for as low as $20 before fees for her Bethel show.That “impresses us much.”Sorry, we couldn’t help ourselves.Tickets were a bit more expensive for Syracuse and New York City Twain concerts starting at $100 and $60 before fees, respectively.