On June 12, 1963, civil rights leader Medgar Evers, 37, was shot and killed outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi. In 1665, England installed a municipal government in New York, formerly the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam, and appointed its first mayor, Thomas Willett.
The big screen master of horror James Wan is producing an Arachnophobia remake, based on the 1990 horror comedy film directed by Frank Marshall, Deadline has confirmed. The original movie centered around a species of South American killer spider that crosses the U.S. border in a coffin.
It's that time of year when Jaws starts popping up into public consciousness. Audiences adore Steven Spielberg's mega-successful suspense thriller, where a police chief , an antsy oceanographer , and a curmudgeonly shark hunter chase an unstoppable, great white shark that keeps munching up beachgoers of a New England tourist town.
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should," warns Jeff Goldblum's character, Ian, in the classic film, Jurassic Park . But in the case of Australia's entry into the great space race, there are already people in the nation's capital asking exactly that.
If you enjoyed Netflix original movies such as The Kissing Booth, Dude, and Candy Jar, you're more than prepared to like Alex Strangelove. "The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty.
The latest horror drama from A24 fits with the distributor's genre-blurring pictures, particularly The Witch , as well as other modern arthouse horror, from Lars von Trier's Antichrist to Jennifer Kent's The Babadook to Darren Aronofsky's Mother! . Like those films, Hereditary is partly a throwback to '60s and '70s horror, but it also shows a clear influence from classic family dramas while also just following the distinct and disturbing filmography of Ari Aster , for whom this is his feature debut.
Glenda Jackson has won the 2018 Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play for THREE TALL WOMEN. Glenda Jackson most recently played the title role in Shakespeare's King Lear at The Old Vic , for which she won both the London Evening Standard Award for Best Actress and the Critics' Circle Award for Best Shakespearean Performance.
Before winning his first Tony Award, "Angels in America" star Andrew Garfield said outside the ceremony that theater "has to be political." Co-star Nathan Lane called his character in the play, Roy Cohn, "Dr. Frankenstein to the monster we have in the White House."
A Fox News host has accidentally referred to the highly anticipated summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as a meeting of "two dictators." "Fox & Friends" co-host Abby Huntsman made the comment on Sunday as TV footage showed the Republican president landing in Singapore for a summit with Kim on Tuesday.