American Black Film Festival Unveils Lineup for Digital Fest

Outfest is going online. Los Angeles' LGBTQ film festival is shifting to a virtual event this summer due to the COVID-19 pandemic with a roster that includes more than 160 films including 35 world premieres, 10 North American premieres and four U.S.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefPowered by Chinese streaming technology, the New York Asian Film Festival will this year move from the real world to the virtual. With strong focuses on women filmmakers and Korean movies, the 19th NYAFF will run Aug.

In a world where Black Lives Matter protests are still happening in the streets of some of the biggest cities in the US, now is probably the perfect time for Hulu to release the upcoming comedy series, “Woke.” READ MORE: ‘Mangrove’ Trailer: Steve McQueen’s Latest Features Letitia Wright In His ‘Small Axe’ Anthology Movie As seen in the trailer for “Woke,” the show follows the story of a Black artist, Keef, who has made a name for himself as a cartoonist that always tries to “keep things light”

imitating artists like Neil Young, Dave Matthews and Bob Dylan.Plus, Fallon’s band, The Roots, were at the top of their game that evening, doing challenging renditions of Miley Cyrus’ “Party in the USA,” which completely evaded McConaughey but which Fallon guessed immediately,” and Three Dog Night’s “Joy to the World,” which McConaughey hummed along to but still ended up bested by Fallon’s quick recall.Also Read: Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers Honor 'Absolute Legend' Regis Philbin and His 'Contagious

Seth Rogen has scripted and starred in any number of movies that have pulled inspiration from his life, but he says, the HBO Max time-travel farce adapted from a short story by Simon Rich, is perhaps the story he relates to most.The film stars Rogen as Herschel Greenbaum, a ditchdigger living in a fictional Eastern European country circa 1919.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVThe long-gestating American Song Contest series is getting close to fruition and is now targeting a debut during the holiday season 2021.

Tina Knowles, is calling on American  to hire more people of color on their creative team.In a new post shared to her Instagram on Tuesday, Knowles praised the British version of the fashion magazine for appointing Edward Enninful as their first Black editor-in-chief in 2017. He previously worked as a contributing fashion editor for American in 2006.«Kudos to this wonderful Man Mr.

Also Read: 'An American Pickle': Seth Rogen Falls Into a Vat of Pickles and Meets His Own Great-Grandson in HBO Max Trailer (Video)It opens in 1919, in black and white and in the fictional Eastern European country of Schlupsk, where Herschel Greenbaum is a ditch digger whose shovel keeps breaking and whose wildest dream is to one day be able to afford seltzer water.

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds have had to wrestle with a difficult question: Why, when the couple got married in 2012, did they choose to do on the grounds of place inextricably linked to slavery, to the point that its website boasts it was once named the “#1 Plantation in the Charleston Area” by USA Today? Eight years later, Reynolds finally has an answer: They saw the venue on Pinterest.

Also Read: 'The French Dispatch,' 'Soul' Make the Cannes 2020 Lineup As Festival Reveals the Movies It Would Have ShownAs previously announced, Spike Lee’s film “David Byrne’s American Utopia,” a document of Byrne’s Broadway show, will be the opening-night film on Sept. 10.

Peter White Television EditorPopstar Alicia Keys is to exec produce a feature-length documentary about six iconic African American female entertainers for PBS.American Masters: How It Feels To Be Free will tell the story of Lena Horne, Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone, Diahann Carroll, Cicely Tyson and Pam Grier and how they challenged an entertainment industry deeply complicit in perpetuating racist stereotypes, and transformed themselves and their audiences in the process.The doc, which will air in

The American frontier drama “The World to Come,” the Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren comedy-drama “The Duke,” Gia Coppola’s “Mainstream,” and the Shia LaBeouf and Vanessa Kirby drama “Pieces of a Woman” are among the films set to premiere at the Venice International Film Festival in September, the first major event of its kind since the coronavirus pandemic forced the cancellation of large gatherings worldwide, organizers said Tuesday. The selections for the 77th edition, which launches Sept.

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Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterThe online fest will bring the energy and magic of the live fest as it spotlights the best of independent Black cinema, studio premieres, conversations and panels, along with virtual networking events.

Ryan Reynolds has the quirkiest ways to promote his gin brand. With every advertisement, he blows our minds and leaves us in splits.

HBO's Spike Lee–directed filmed version of David Byrne’s American Utopia Broadway stage play is set to open the virtual Toronto Film Festival on Sept. 10, fest organizers said on Tuesday (July 22). David Byrne's American Utopia features the Talking Heads frontman and 11 musical artists from around the world performing songs from the 2018 album American Utopia, as well as songs from Byrne's Talking Heads and solo catalog.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorThe Toronto Film Festival is to open with Spike Lee’s filmed version of David Byrne’s hit Broadway show, American Utopia.TIFF will this year be a mix of physical and online screenings with a much-reduced industry presence due to coronavirus.American Utopia hit Broadway in the fall of 2019 and was a hot-ticket through February of 2020. Lee shot the production during its Hudson Theatre run and the concert film will debut on HBO this fall.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and Media“American Utopia,” a filmed-version of David Byrne’s hit Broadway show, will be the opening night presentation of the 45th Toronto International Film Festival. This edition of the annual Canadian gathering for film lovers is unlike any of the previous 44 iterations.