25 Most Anticipated 2021 Sundance Film Festival Premieres

Note: With the coronavirus pandemic delaying production on several shows, several of our picks below come with an asterisk, as delays could push premiere dates past 2021.  Premieres Thursday, Jan. 7 on NBCIn recent years, NBC's must-see Thursday night sitcoms have been coming in bits and pieces rather than a full-fledged block, but two people who have been huge parts of NBC's glory days of yore — Cheers' and The Good Place's Ted Danson and 30 Rock's Tina Fey — are hoping to build a foundation

EXCLUSIVE: NewFilmmakers Los Angeles and the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science (AMPAS) will kick off the New Year celebrating emerging Israeli filmmakers and talent with a virtual film fest.

Elizabeth Hurley recently reunited with her family just in time for Christmas, having spent the past few months in Riga.And The Royals actress looked to have had an amazing time over the festive weekend, looking as glamorous as ever during the celebrations.MORE: Elizabeth Hurley leads celebrity Christmas photos in red bikiniTaking to Instagram on Boxing Day, the model posted a series of pictures from an at-home photoshoot. VIDEO: Elizabeth Hurley exercises on the beach in a bikiniIn the images,

Note: With the coronavirus pandemic delaying production on several shows, many of our picks below come with an asterisk as we don't know for sure that they'll be out in 2021.  Premieres Thursday, Jan 7 on NBCIn recent years, NBC's must-see Thursday night sitcoms have been coming in bits and pieces rather than a full-fledged block, but two people who have been huge parts of NBC's glory days of yore — Cheers' and The Good Place's Ted Danson and 30 Rock's Tina Fey — are hoping to build a foundation

The Locarno Film Festival has named Markus Duffner as the new head of its industry program Locarno Pro. He will be joined by Sophie Bourdon as deputy head.

Another year comes to a close, another overlong, ahem, thorough most anticipated list from your friends at The Playlist. This time, we’re talking television and yes, there’s a lot of TV to deal with.

What was reported earlier this week has come true—the 2021 Berlin Film Festival is going virtual in March with a (planned) in-person “celebration” in June. This hybrid strategy is something that differentiates it from the upcoming Sundance Film Festival and this year’s TIFF and Venice festivals.

The year 2020 kept us far away from cinema halls and some production houses had to stop work mid-way due to the Covid 19 pandemic. This meant that some of the year's most-anticipated releases were held back as theatres across several countries shut down.

At one point, the 71st Berlin Film Festival was planning on being held as planned. An in person festival, held in February, was always a long shot, but hope sprung eternal.

With 2020 basically canceling much of the film festival season, or at least forcing many to go digital, the hope was that 2021 would be different. Well, COVID-19 doesn’t care about what the film industry wishes would happen.

Another year comes to a close, another overlong, ahem, thorough most anticipated list from your friends at The Playlist. This time, we’re talking television and yes, there’s a lot of TV to deal with.

down from 118 in 2020 — as it made plans for a nearly all-virtual event from Jan. 28 to Feb.

Earlier today, the Sundance Film Festival revealed its full program for the 2021 incarnation of the fest. Obviously, it won’t be taking place solely in Park City, Utah, as the COVID-19 pandemic is still impacting the industry in a major way.

A Questlove-directed documentary about the other major music event of the summer of 1969 and documentaries about the creators of Sesame Street and the coronavirus pandemic in China are among the 72 feature films debuting at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Organizers on Tuesday unveiled a robust and diverse slate for the festival, which will be largely virtual due to the pandemic.The festival will kick off on Jan.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticThe Sundance Institute announced a smaller, more focused lineup for the upcoming 2021 Sundance Film Festival — down to 72 feature films from last year’s 128.

Also Read: Sundance Film Festival Goes Virtual, But Also National With Screenings in 24 StatesThe slate of 140 films is fewer than usual for Sundance, but the festival itself was shortened to seven days from its usual 11-day run.As usual, Sundance will present a small number of films on opening night, which is Jan. 28.

The 2021 Sundance Film Festival is going to be different than any other previous version of the event. Due to its winter schedule, this year, the American festival was able to come in right before COVID-19 took hold in the US and canceled a bunch of other film events in 2020.

I’m not telling you anything you don’t know. Aside from the election result, Trashfire 2020™ was a shitty year.

Kaleem Aftab The Cairo International Film Festival scrapped the red carpet and press conference for Egyptian filmmaker Islam El Azzazi’s debut feature and competition film “About Her” after a number of sexual misconduct allegations were made against the director and surfaced in the hours before the film’s world premiere this week.The first of the allegations against the director was submitted anonymously to Daftar Hekayat, an Arabic blog that shares stories of sexual violence survivors in their

Kaleem Aftab British film “Limbo,” a wry refugee drama, directed by Edinburgh-born director Ben Sharrock and produced by Spain’s Irune Gurtubai, won the Golden Pyramid for best film at the Cairo Film Festival on Thursday.Told in a pleasing deadpan style, “Limbo” recounts the story of a Syrian musician, played by the BIFA nominated rising star Amir El-Masry, who is placed on a Scottish island when awaiting his request for asylum to be processed.