Berlinale 2020: European VODs Innovate to Stay Afloat in Streamer Wars – Variety

Seth Hirsch returned on Friday (March 13) to unleash his first single of 2020, "Bread Basket." Hours later, the Cincinnati, Ohio, native premiered the frenetic visual for the track on Billboard.Hirsch gets back to his Queen City roots after spending the last year in Los Angeles.

Carlos Santana is the latest musician to cancel concerts because of public health concerns and performance restrictions due to the growing coronavirus outbreak.

"I now have two hands – I am so excited"

Mark Hamill just found a new hero outside of Star Wars. The Hollywood actor known as Luke Skywalker in the popular movie franchise has been a huge admirer of Florida resident Bella Tadlock.

The Force is now part of Bella forever.

Venturing inside the impressive National Cycling Centre, in east Manchester, is a humbling experience.

Global film and TV executives, including “Elizabeth” producer Alison Owen and “Shakespeare in Love” producer David Parfitt, have spoken out about Harvey Weinstein’s guilty verdict, calling it a “seismic” victory that will bring about immutable change.

Three distant mountains; three chatty encounters between long-acquainted women; three comically tiresome intrusions from self-important men shot only from behind. Prolific South Korean arthouse staple Hong Sangsoo has dealt in playful, internally rhyming triplicate before, but never with such a gently sardonic female focus, and seldom as straightforwardly as in his airy, charming Berlin competition trinket “The Woman Who Ran.” (Spoiler alert: No women run.)

Animation feature “The Journey,” co-produced by Saudi animation studios Manga Productions and Japan’s Toei Animation, has struck a deal with Dubai-based exhibitor Vox Cinemas for theatrical distribution across the Middle East and North Africa.

For the past decade, Ethiopia has boasted the world’s fastest-growing economy, and its new reform-minded government seems determined to harness that growth to transform an already vibrant creative sector.

Hundreds of rare and vintage film posters including a number from the Star Wars and Indiana Jones series will go up for auction in the UK next month.

The Doha Film Institute has added French auteur Claire Denis and Oscar-nominated cinematographer Phedon Papamichael (“Nebraska”) to the lineup of star talent who will act as mentors for the Qumra Masters program during its upcoming Qumra event dedicated to fostering fresh Arab film fare that is opening up to TV projects.

FilmOne Entertainment, the Nigerian distributor and production company, has gone into production on the first movie to cash in on the $1 million film fund it launched with China’s Huahua Media and South Africa’s Empire Entertainment in December.

Bernie Sanders is now projected to win the Nevada caucus.

There has always been a place for humor in rap, with a lineage reaching back to the Beastie Boys’ debut album or 2 Live Crew’s raunchy records in the eighties. The caveat for “funny” rap being that if you go the humorous route, you need to have your bars land right, and to do so with your own, unique style. Otherwise, you risk coming off clownish. Against all odds, Minnesota’s Yung Gravy deftly walks the tightrope, and sticks the landing (most of the time).

There has always been a place for humor in rap, with a lineage reaching back to the Beastie Boys’ debut album or 2 Live Crew’s raunchy records in the eighties. The caveat for “funny” rap being that if you go the humorous route, you need to have your bars land right, and to do so with your own, unique style. Otherwise, you risk coming off clownish. Against all odds, Minnesota’s Yung Gravy deftly walks the tightrope, and sticks the landing (most of the time).

Saudi Arabian film director Mahmoud Sabbagh, who made a splash with groundbreaking romcom “Barakah Meets Barakah” and black comedy “Amra and the Second Marriage,” roughly a year ago became president of Saudi’s Red Sea International Film Festival, the kingdom’s first full-fledged festival and market.