Catholic Protesters Congregate Outside ‘Benedetta’s’ New York Film Festival Premiere

Naman Ramachandran Actor, writer, director and trans icon Isabel Sandoval wants trans characters in film and TV to be layered, complex and multidimensional.Speaking to Variety during the BFI London Film Festival, where she is the president of the first features jury, the Philippines-born, New York-based Sandoval said that a lot of studios and producers relegate trans characters to the periphery.“It’s important that when you do have trans characters and trans narratives in your films or TV

Benedict Cumberbatch revealed the biggest challenge of playing a American rancher in his new film was learning how to roll a cigarette with one hand while sitting on a horse - as he walked the red carpet at its UK premiere. The actor plays a domineering bully who responds with mocking cruelty when his brother brings home a new wife and her son in western drama The Power Of The Dog, which is Oscar-winning director Jane Campion's first film since 2009.

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are looking so in love!

Selome Hailu editorPeacock announced that “Psych 3: This is Gus” will premiere on Nov. 18.A spinoff of the USA Network detective comedy “Psych” and a sequel to “Psych: The Movie” and “Psych 2: Lassie Come Home,” the new film will see fake-psychic detective Shawn Spencer (James Roday Rodriguez) and his friend and partner Burton “Gus” Guster (Dulé Hill) investigate the double life and estranged husband of Gus’ fiancée Selene (Jazmyn Simon).

EXCLUSIVE: 7th & Union, the drama directed by Anthony Nardolilloa that follows a Mexican boxer looking to save his family, has won the Best Narrative Feature (U.S. Cinema) prize at the 25th annual Urbanworld Film Festival.

Jordan Moreau The New York Film Festival premiere of “The Lost Daughter” was a homecoming for Maggie Gyllenhaal, seasoned actor and now first-time director thanks to her new psychological drama.“My great-grandparents came to New York as immigrants. My grandparents were born in the Bronx.

EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights to The Shuroo Process, a comedic drama directed by Emrhys Cooper. Fiona Dourif, Donal Brophy, Tommy Dorfman, Cooper, Rainey Qualley, Olivia Sui, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Jeff Hephner and Cornelia Guest lead the cast of the pic, which will now hit theaters and on-demand day-and-date November 24.

announced in March that she would be stepping down from the Sundance Institute by the end of the year. Vicente’s last day with TIFF will be October 31, and her time with Sundance will begin at the start of November and will work between Park City, Los Angeles and New York City.

After three years as the Executive Director and Co-Head of the Toronto International Film Festival, Joana Vicente is heading to the Sundance Institute as their new CEO. She will start her new job at the beginning of November, splitting her time between Sundance’s office in New York, Los Angeles and Park City, UT.

Benedetta has been picketed by Catholic protesters.The film, which follows a novice nun in the 17th century who joins an Italian convent and has a love affair with another nun, debuted at the Cannes Film Festival a few months ago.Premiering at NYFF yesterday (September 26), protesters that appeared to be from the group American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property, labelled Benedetta “blasphemous”.“We vehemently protest the blasphemous lesbian movie Benedetta, that insults

Steve Bloom After skipping a year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Global Citizen Live Festival made its return bigger than ever, staging events in eight cities, from New York to Los Angeles to Mumbai, on Sept. 25.The organization’s flagship concert in New York City — where GCF has taken place since its inception in 2012 — drew a crowd of more than 60,000 fans to Central Park’s Great Lawn.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, made a joint appearance at the Global Citizen Festival in New York on Saturday.

The 59th annual New York Film Festival kicked off Friday night with back-to-back world premiere screenings of Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth as the Frances McDormand, Denzel Washington-starrer met with loving applause at Lincoln Center’s full Alice Tully Hall.

The stacked roster of major awards favorites and international headliners would be impressive in any normal, mask-less year. Here are five of the hottest titles at NYFF, which takes place Sept. 24 to Oct.

Addie Morfoot ContributorAfter going entirely digital in 2020 due to COVID-19 concerns, the New York Film Festival is returning to its Upper West Side home starting today. The 59th edition of the festival, running from Sept.

Last spring, as Covid-19 vaccines began rolling out and movie theaters and other venues reopened, organizers of the New York Film Festival were pretty sure they wouldn’t be forced back to the drive-in.

NEW YORK -- A movie year of fits-and-starts, delays and reversals has sometimes been difficult to track. Knowing just where and how a new movie premieres has become a sport of its own.