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J. Kim Murphy administratorAnimation Is Film has announced the winners of its fourth annual film festival.
The organization has awarded the grand prize, its top honor, to “Flee.”Written and directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen, “Flee” follows the story of Awin Nawabi, an Afghan refugee who is suddenly forced to face life-altering effects of a secret that he has kept for 20 years. Neon is distributing the film.“In the touching and innovative documentary ‘Flee,’ Jonas Poher Rasmussen takes great
.Prince Harry reflected on his time serving in the military. On Wednesday, the Duke of Sussex honored veterans at the 2021 Salute to Freedom Gala at New York City’s Intrepid Museum ahead of Veterans Day in the U.S.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Chris Stapleton was the big winner with six trophies including song and album of the year and Luke Combs claimed the biggest prize with entertainer of the year at the Country Music Association Awards on Wednesday night.Stapleton won song and single of the year for “Starting Over” and album of the year for his record of the same name.
Nolfi, whose writing credits include “The Bourne Ultimatum” and “The Adjustment Bureau,” will write the script based on true events. The film will follow three former special forces soldiers who jump back into battle alongside their Afghan counterparts on a last-ditch rescue mission to save allies and their families as the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in August.
Big news stories always tend to find themselves turned into films and TV shows eventually. And when the evacuation of the American military in Afghanistan became headline news this summer, mainly for how it was seemingly mishandled, it became clear that someone in Hollywood would quickly jump on it.
The European Film Academy has announced nominations for the 34th European Film Awards which will be handed out in Berlin on December 11. Julia Ducournau’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner, Titane; Florian Zeller’s 2020 drama and double Oscar winner The Father; and Jasmila Zbanic’s Quo Vadis Aida?, which was nominated for an Oscar at the 93rd edition, are tied with four mentions each.
crawl into his mouth.)And while the more dangerous, ugly creatures were more fun, they did have to convince some of the higher ups. “A lot of executives would say to us, ‘A snake? Snakes aren’t huggable.
Prince Harry, 37, will attend the Veterans Day event in New York and will hand out five prizes to forces heroes. Harry served two tours himself in Afghanistan but he is banned from wearing military uniform when he attends the event as he was stripped of his honorary military titles when he stepped down from royal duties and moved with his wife, Meghan Markle, 40, to California.
Rebecca Davis editorFilm scholar and former director of Taiwan’s Film Archive Huang Jianye is set to chair the jury for the 58th iteration of the Taipei-based Golden Horse Awards, the festival said Wednesday.The awards are now heading into the third year without participants from China after a controversial awards speech in 2018 included mentions of Taiwanese independence.
Kenneth Branagh’s autobiographical drama Belfast and Philip Barantini’s single-take title Boiling Point both lead nominations for this year’s British Independent Film Awards with 11 nods a piece.
Back in September, Chris Pratt seemed to upset the entire internet by announcing that he is going to voice Mario in a new “Super Mario Bros.” animated film. And just when it seemed like the internet was ready to move on, the actor goes and stakes his claim to another beloved character, Garfield, and the internet continues to be baffled.
Guardians Of The Galaxy actor has officially been cast as the titular lasagna-loving cat in a new movie from Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson’s Alcon Entertainment.According to the Hollywood Reporter the script for Garfield is being written by David Reynolds (Finding Nemo) and the film is directed by Mark Dindal (Chicken Little).
Chris Pratt has signed on to voice the title character in a new animated Garfield film from Alcon Entertainment, Alcon co-founders and co-CEOs Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson announced today.
Women in Animation has set Rebecca Sugar, Marko Dješka’s short film All Those Sensations in my Belly and the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative as the recipients of the fifth annual WIA Diversity Awards, which are being presented as part of Spark Animation 2021.
We are forever sad to know the days of Comedy Central’s “Key & Peele” are long gone and both Keegan Michael-Key and Jordan Peele are off doing bigger, better projects. However, Netflix is getting the duo back together for a new film, “Wendell & Wild.” And since the film isn’t scheduled to arrive until 2022, the streaming service has decided to tease “Wendell & WIld” in a pretty unique way.
Naman Ramachandran “The Forgotten History,” by celebrated Afghanistan filmmaker Roya Sadat (“A Letter to the President”), is one of 20 projects from 11 countries chosen for India’s Film Bazaar virtual co-production market.Being produced by Sadat’s women-centric collective Roya Film House and Spain’s Alba Sotorra Cinema Productions, the project previously participated at the Hong Kong – Asia Film Financing Forum and the Hong Kong International Film & TV Market.The market line-up of stories will
Katie Price has told fans she takes 'full responsibility' after her horror drink-driving crash.
When the documentary, “Free Solo,” arrived and wowed audiences, many people were shocked to learn just how fearless climber Alex Honnold is, and how it might be attributed to some sort of physical issue in his brain.