Christopher Nolan and Steve McQueen sign letter appealing for cinema funding amid pandemic

When the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Kansas City Chiefs square off at Raymond James Stadium on Feb. 7, there'll be no shortage of stars on the field thanks to A-list QBs Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes and an entertainment lineup that includes halftime performer The Weeknd, national anthem duet team Jazmine Sullivan and Eric Church, poet Amanda Gorman and Miley Cyrus, who's headlining the NFL TikTok Tailgate event.

Naman Ramachandran Steve McQueen, currently riding a wave of global acclaim for his BBC/Amazon anthology “Small Axe,” will executive produce two Black-themed documentaries for the BBC.“Black Power,” which originated from an idea McQueen had while filming “Small Axe,” will examine how the Black Power movement came into being in the late 1960s and fought back against police brutality and racism.The films features rare archive of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Stokely Carmichael’s activities in

Steve McQueen is to executive produce two documentaries for the BBC that were conceived while shooting Small Axe. One will examine Black power in Britain, while the second film investigates how Black children in the 1960s and 1970s were disproportionately sent to schools for the so-called “educationally subnormal.”

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterVariety will host a virtual 10 Directors to Watch and Creative Impact Awards event with the Palm Springs International Film Society on Feb. 26 at 10:00 a.m.

Peyton Manning is ready for the Super Bowl, which is still on the calendar thanks to the NFL’s safety protocols amid the ongoing pandemic.

In the early 2000s, every moody teenager prided themself in being able to explain the plot of “Donnie Darko,” Richard Kelly‘s metaphysical film starring Jake Gyllenhaal about a kid who befriends a mysterious figure who tells him he has 28 days to save the world. Now, in a new oral history of the film, Kelly reveals that the notoriously confusing timeline in “Donnie Darko” was made clearer with the help of a certain Christopher Edward Nolan.

In the early 2000s, every moody teenager prided themself in being able to explain the plot of “Donnie Darko,” Richard Kelly‘s metaphysical film starring Jake Gyllenhaal about a kid who befriends a mysterious figure who tells him he has 28 days to save the world. Now, in a new oral history of the film, Kelly reveals that the notoriously confusing timeline in “Donnie Darko” was made clearer with the help of a certain Christopher Edward Nolan.

entire slate of 2021 movies simultaneously in cinemas and on HBO Max.Now, in a new article in the Wall Street Journal, a source reportedly “connected to the matter” has claimed Nolan is said to be so disappointed with their “hybrid distribution strategy” that he looks set to bring their 18 years of collaborating together to a close.The Wall Street Journal wrote: “After spending years as a top Warner Bros.

Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly has said he received one key piece of advice from Christopher Nolan ahead of the film’s release that made the time-travel classic easier to follow.Kelly’s 2001 film reached its 20th anniversary this week (January 19), and to celebrate the landmark Kelly took part in a new oral history of the film.In the piece published on The Ringer, Kelly said that it was Nolan and his wife Emma Thomas’ idea to include the parenthetical title cards below the date every time

Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterSick days dropped at East Ayrshire Council during the pandemic.Between April 1 and October 11, 2020, the number of days taken off work per employee was three on average.

When the news was released that WarnerMedia decided to shift the entire 2021 Warner Bros. film slate to a day-and-date deal with HBO Max and theaters, the reaction from filmmakers came quickly.

Tenet in Mumbai, a city that left a huge impression on him.He told India’s IANS news agency that he plans to film more in the country and work with actors there. “I really had a tremendous experience,” he said of shooting Tenet in Mumbai.

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coronavirus pandemic.The letter, which appeared in The Sunday Times, was organised by Phil Clapp, Chief Executive of the UK Cinema Association.

A lot of the discussion surrounding Christopher Nolan last year was how he wanted to release “Tenet” in theaters to help provide a spark for the industry to hopefully bring people back to cinemas and help resuscitate an industry that has been hit incredibly hard since the pandemic began.

The Sunday Times, saying that cinemas are now 'on the edge of an abyss' due to the devastating effect of the coronavirus pandemic. Bar a brief period of reopening for some screens over the summer, as lockdown measures in the UK were eased, the vast majority of cinemas were closed for most of 2020.

More than 40 key figures from the film industry have written to UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak calling for more support for UK cinema, which they say is “standing on the edge of an abyss” as a result of the pandemic.

Naman Ramachandran More than 40 prominent U.K. film industry figures, including “Tenet” director Christopher Nolan and “Small Axe” filmmaker Steve McQueen, have written to U.K.

Last January, long before the coronavirus pandemic crippled the country — and Hollywood — the CW gave straight-to-series orders to its two strongest contenders for a pilot pickup, Superman & Lois and Walker. Four months later, the CW handed straight-to-series orders to two more projects, Kung Fu, which had shot some pilot footage before the March industrywide production shutdown, and The Republic of Sarah.