Frederick Wiseman on the life of American institutions

The American Film Institute on Friday unveiled the establishment of a Black Production Fund in partnership with AMC Networks. Funds will provide grants to Black students in their second year of education at the non-profit conservatory.

Foo Fighters appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night (October 15) to perform an acoustic version of ‘Learn To Fly’.It comes ahead of this weekend’s (October 16-18) #SOSFest which will see the band take to the stage together for the first time since the beginning of quarantine at the Troubadour in Los Angeles.Put on in support of the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA), the three-day virtual festival will see 35 artists performing from 25 venues across the US, with proceeds going to

Bobby Bones is returning to this season as the show's in-house mentor. The 40-year-old radio personality and producer previously appeared in the role last season, offering contestants professional industry advice as they progressed in the competition.Bones will be joining previously announced judges Katy Perry, Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan on the ABC competition series. is set to return in 2021.

Christopher Vourlias New series “Lafayette” will be presented this week at the Mercato Internazionale Audiovisivo (MIA), the film and TV market taking place in Rome. Variety spoke to the show’s producer Nicolas Deprost, CEO of the French production outfit Wild Horses, and writer, Oscar winner David Franzoni (“Gladiator”), ahead of the market.

Katy Perry has returned to the set of American Idol for the first time since giving birth.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaDaniel Loeb is calling on the Walt Disney Company to suspend its dividend and reinvest the money in acquiring and producing new content for its streaming services At the same time, the Third Point hedge fund chief argues that Disney should take more of its upcoming blockbusters and place them on Disney Plus, suggesting that streaming services and not theatrical exhibition are the future of movies “Just this week, Regal Cinemas shuttered all its US

American Horror Story star Sarah Paulson has said season 10 of the show could focus on aliens.Responding to a fan theory that Ryan Murphy’s anthology series will take a look at extraterrestrial beings in the next season, Paulson has said: “It’s possible”.In a new interview with Harper’s Bazaar, Paulson said: “I plead the Fifth… everyone’s gonna think that’s me confirming it!“I just think it’s possible, how about that?” she added. “I think that is… possible.

Love Island's Justine and Caleb are the winning couple for Season 2! Caleb found himself with the envelope containing the $100,000 grand prize and had the choice of either keeping the money and walking away single or splitting the prize and keeping the girl. Caleb, of course, agreed to split the money with Justine and remain coupled up.

American Dreams, directed by Tamilla Woodard, invites its online audience to participate as viewers of the nation’s “newest game show sensation,” where the ultimate prize for contestants is citizenship to the great U.S.A.Three hopefuls, from Palestine, Pakistan, and Mexico, try their luck and test their knowledge, while the live audience decides which of them earns the right to become a citizen.

American Murder: The Family Next Door, premiered on September 30, and it already has the internet floored. If you're unfamiliar with the case, here's a brief explainer: In 2018, 34-year-old Shanann Watts and her two young daughters went missing in Frederick, Colorado.

Love Island. Justine and Caleb have been crowned the winning couple for Season 2 of CBS' summer dating reality series, and we couldn't be happier.

Love Island USA, which aired daily at 9/8c on CBS and is currently available to stream on CBS All Access. The new season, which is set to wrap with a dramatic finale on Wednesday, Sept.

Unfortunately, American Horror Story won't premiere in 2020, but we can hope for it to come out next year. There’s no set date yet, but if everything goes according to plan, we'll probably see a new season in September or October of 2021.

Jenny Popplewell’s true-crime documentary “American Murder: The Family Next Door” takes place in the kind of neighborhood where you can imagine somebody saying, “You don’t expect this sort of thing to happen here.” The corner of Frederick, Colorado we see in the movie is one of those sparkling new suburbs where the lawns and paint jobs are CGI bright and nothing much ever seems to happen, until it does.

Eli Countryman The American Film Institute announced an annual scholarship to producers from communities that are underrepresented in the entertainment industry.On Friday, AFI established the Thomas P. Pollock Endowed Scholarship Fund, named after and in memory of the institute’s chair emeritus Thomas Pollock, who died in August.

The world needs something to lift its spirits. 2020 has been rough, to say the least, with a global pandemic leaving so many people tragically dead, political turmoil in governments around the world, and civil unrest as systemic racism becomes headline news.