Amazon Orders ‘Paper Girls’ Graphic Novel Adaptation To Series

While the US festival season has been in a bit of disarray since SXSW was canceled back in March, it appears that some events will actually take place before the end of 2020, led by the New York Film Festival in September.

Also Read: Steve McQueen's 'Lovers Rock' Set as New York Film Festival Opening Night Film“We’ve been watching New York filmmaker Azazel Jacobs for more than a decade, since his film ‘Momma’s Man’ screened in our New Directors/New Films festival in 2008,” New York Film Festival director Eugene Hernandez said in a statement.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaAzazel Jacobs’s “French Exit,” the story of a New York socialite who jettisons her old life for a new one in Paris, has been selected as the closing night feature of the 58th New York Film Festival.The film, which stars Oscar-nominees Michelle Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges, will make its world premiere at the festival, which is expected to be a mixture of physical and virtual events due to the coronavirus pandemic.

I Hate Suzie is about a celebrity photo hack, was thrust into the limelight in the 90s due to her music career when she was just 15."Let's put it this way, I wouldn't have wanted to be a famous pop star now," she told The Sunday Times' Culture magazine. "The social media element of it all is terrifying because it's continuous, it's in your bed, next to your bedside table every night."In my pop career there were moments that were horrible to experience as a teenager, but they came and went.

Billie Piper thinks social media is "terrifying". The 37-year-old singer and actress started her career as a teenager when she released her debut single, 'Because We Want To', at the age of 15, and has now said she would hate to be "a famous pop star" now, because social media has amplified the "horrible" elements of fame.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: AMC has optioned the rights to Sorcerers, a novella by co-writers Maurice Broaddus and Otis Whitaker and featuring illustrations by internationally renowned artist Jim Mahfood, with plans to adapt it into a series.The short story is a psychedelic urban fantasy about a 30-year-old man from Harlem who comes into his own as a hip hop-inspired sorcerer. It follows Malik Hutchins, the black sheep to one of the most successful families in Harlem.

Mackenzie Nichols Staff WriterA 27-year-old Tyra Banks was elated when she landed the role of Zoe, the no-nonsense bartender in “Coyote Ugly.” Although there weren’t high expectations for the movie, which starred a cast of mostly unknowns who play rowdy dancers at a seedy bar, the movie became a sleeper summer hit for Touchstone Pictures, grossing $60 million domestically on a $45 million budget.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerAmazon Studios will release the documentary All In: The Fight for Democracy to select theaters on September 9 ahead of its global launch on Prime Video on September 18.

Dave McNary Film ReporterAmazon Studios has set a September theatrical release for the Stacey Abrams voting rights documentary “All In: The Fight for Democracy.”The film will be released on Amazon Prime Video on Sept. 18.

Free from the grip of the empire of Disney, it seems that Oscar Isaac is branching out a little in his new projects. Legendary Comics’ Comic-Con@Home panel Thursday featured Oscar Isaac talking about a new graphic novel he’s involved in developing: titled “Head Wounds: Sparrow.” The project comes from Isaac, Bob Johnson, and John Alvey, who have been friends since childhood, and was inspired by a dream of Johnson’s that came following his diagnosis with stage 4 non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Oscar Isaac is stepping into the world of graphic novels.

A little more than a year ago, it was revealed that Amazon had started development on a TV series based on the best-selling comic book series, “Paper Girls” from creators Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang.

series commitment at Amazon last July. It comes as part of Vaughan’s multi-year overall deal with Legendary Entertainment.Here is the synopsis for “Paper Girls”: “Paper Girls follows four young girls who, while out delivering papers on the morning after Halloween in 1988, become unwittingly caught in a conflict between warring factions of time-travelers, sending them on an adventure through time that will save the world.

Will Thorne Staff WriterThe paper girls’ next time travel destination is a future television show.Amazon has given the greenlight to a series based on “Paper Girls,” the sci-fi graphic novels written by Brian K. Vaughan and illustrated by Cliff Chiang.

Rebecca Davis editorBritish Hollywood director Simon West has been ordered by a Beijing tribunal to return $200,000 in directors fees to Chinese firm Hongmaisui HMS Entertainment in a legal dispute over an unmade 2014 film.HMS filed the case with the Beijing Arbitration Commission back in 2016, after the production was derailed by difficulties in procuring a visa for West that left him unable to enter China for pre-production at the scheduled time.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorAt his Friday news conference, California Governor Gavin Newsom ordered counties on the state’s coronavirus watch list to shut down school campuses this fall, at least to begin the school year. The 30 counties on the list — which include Los Angeles and most of Southern California — must switch to virtual instruction only.