American Film Market Says 300 Exhibitors, 1000 Buyers Already Aboard For Online Edition

Documentary filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi says that the purpose of her latest film was to "take the temperature of how people feel about America today." Judging by the alarming footage on display in American Selfie: One Nation Shoots Itself —premiering Friday on Showtime — the country is suffering from a high-grade fever.

Former White House National Security Adviser Michael Flynn endorsed Republican Rep. Doug Collins in his campaign for U.S.

Johnny Flynn, who stars as David Bowie in the forthcoming biopic Stardust, has said that the film might not please all fans of the late singer.Flynn lost two and a half stone for the film, which follows Bowie travelling across the USA in 1971, shortly before he saw widespread acclaim by reinventing himself as Ziggy Stardust.The film does not contain any original David Bowie songs, which Flynn told The Guardian will mean “we’re potentially going to get a lot of flak from the Bowie army.”Flynn,

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is changing the game with its latest venture.

The American Film Institute on Friday unveiled the establishment of a Black Production Fund in partnership with AMC Networks. Funds will provide grants to Black students in their second year of education at the non-profit conservatory.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerAnthony Chisholm, whose long career spanned Broadway, film and television, died today at age 77.

While many people really think of Paul Bettany as Vision in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, given that’s the bulk of the film work he’s done over the past half-decade, we tend to forget that Bettany is just one of the most versatile actors working today and has been for years.

American Pie debuted when I was in fifth grade, and like Blink-182 and South Park before it, the high school sex comedy quickly ascended to the pantheon of raunchy, outrageous and forbidden content that was immediately gobbled up and then regurgitated ad nauseum by every tween in my elementary school.

Bobby Bones is returning to this season as the show's in-house mentor. The 40-year-old radio personality and producer previously appeared in the role last season, offering contestants professional industry advice as they progressed in the competition.Bones will be joining previously announced judges Katy Perry, Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan on the ABC competition series. is set to return in 2021.

Dr. Anthony Fauci is firing back at the Trump Administration after the premiere of their brand new campaign ad, which used his comments about the United States’ COVID-19 response “out of context”.

Manori Ravindran International EditorGrasshopper Film has picked up North American distribution rights to Paul Felten and Joe DeNardo’s “Slow Machine,” ahead of the film’s premiere at the 58th annual New York Film Festival this week.Set to release theatrically next year, the film is billed as a “miniature epic” of paranoia, espionage, subterfuge, music and performance on 16mm.

Katy Perry has returned to the set of American Idol for the first time since giving birth.

Battered by the pandemic and growing political headwinds, Hollywood’s business prospects in China are becoming bleak.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterLovecraft Country actress Jamie Chung has been set at the next ambassador and spokesperson for HBO’s fifth annual Asian Pacific American Visionaries (APAV) short film competition.  Previous ambassadors have included Executive Producer of Cinemax’s Warrior Shannon Lee, Insecure’s Sujata Day, Westworld’s Leonardo Nam and Silicon Valley’s Jimmy O. Yang.

American Horror Story star Sarah Paulson has said season 10 of the show could focus on aliens.Responding to a fan theory that Ryan Murphy’s anthology series will take a look at extraterrestrial beings in the next season, Paulson has said: “It’s possible”.In a new interview with Harper’s Bazaar, Paulson said: “I plead the Fifth… everyone’s gonna think that’s me confirming it!“I just think it’s possible, how about that?” she added. “I think that is… possible.

American Dreams, directed by Tamilla Woodard, invites its online audience to participate as viewers of the nation’s “newest game show sensation,” where the ultimate prize for contestants is citizenship to the great U.S.A.Three hopefuls, from Palestine, Pakistan, and Mexico, try their luck and test their knowledge, while the live audience decides which of them earns the right to become a citizen.

Chadwick Boseman will receive a special tribute during the virtual American Black Film Festival.The actor, who lost his battle with colon cancer at the age of 43 in August 2020, will be honored with a retrospective that includes his movies 42, Get On Up, and Marshall.“We truly appreciate WarnerBros, Universal Pictures, and Open Road Films for providing these three films in support of the Chadwick Boseman retrospective,” ABFF Ventures president Nicole Friday said in a statement.

Unfortunately, American Horror Story won't premiere in 2020, but we can hope for it to come out next year. There’s no set date yet, but if everything goes according to plan, we'll probably see a new season in September or October of 2021.

The American Black Film Festival has unveiled plans for a Remembering Chadwick Boseman Film Retrospective on Oct. 3 and 4, via its newly launched streaming platform ABFF Play.