Amazon Prime brought Lagos to NYC for an exclusive screening of their first original African movie: “Gangs of Lagos”.
The Knockturnal had the honor of attending “The Crossover” premiere at the Hollywood Athletic Club. “The Crossover” is the television adaptation of Kwame Alexander’s novel-in-verse. Alexander won the 2015 John Newbery Medal and a Coretta Scott King author honor for his work, and serves as the executive producer and showrunner for the new series. “The Crossover” follows Josh (Jalyn Hall), nicknamed “Filthy”, and Jordan Bell (Amir O’Neil) throughout their middle school experience while they figure out how to balance their social life, school, and basketball. The teenagers are coached by their dad (Derek Luke), a former professional basketball player.
Few things are more subjective than one’s feelings about being trapped inside of a musical, and in Appletv+’s hit musical comedy Schmigadoon, Cecily Strong’s Melissa and Keegan Michael Key’s Josh find themselves in this exact dilemma.
The Celebrity Web3 VIP Experience, held at the Hollywood Museum during the Outedge Web3 Conference, was a star-studded event that helped to promote the Web3 movement to a wider audience. Attendees enjoyed a tour of the museum’s collection of classic movie memorabilia, as well as conversations with some of the biggest names in crypto. The event was headlined by Darcy Donavan, who spoke about her new crypto venture.
The McKittrick Hotel, home of the infamous interactive theater experience Sleep No More has added a new attraction to its lineup—the National Theater of Scotland’s play and Drama Desk Award-winning production of The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart.
At Christie’s modernist Midtown headquarters, LongHouse Reserve stepped into new educational territory, hosting an inaugural Larsen Lecture with architect and designer Kulapat Yantrasast of WHY Architects.
Underrepresented creators generated original work for the network through the groundbreaking HBO Max and Warner Bros Discovery Animated Shorts Program. The artists received inspiration from the prompt, “What’s a story Only You can tell?” During the year-long program, program participants learned about the animation industry.
Warner Bros. celebrates its 100-year anniversary with Candlelight Concerts at the iconic and historic Warner Bros. Studios lot in Burbank, CA.
This week, we’ve learned a new way to channel our anger at the Triangle Loft in NYC!
On April 3rd 2023, NYU Hosted their Annual Tisch Gala at the Ziegfeld Ballroom after 3 years of Covid Epidemic and its spikes and flows. A lovely night filled with the biggest names from NYU Alumnus, staff, teachers and students coming together to honor and celebrate the Mother and Son Honorees: Alum and Guggenheim Fellow Hank Willis Thomas (‘98) and MacArthur Fellow and chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at Tisch Dr. Deborah Willis.