Coachella Festival Reverses Mandatory-Vaccination Policy

Dylan Penn stuns in a red hot dress for the 2021 SCAD Savannah Film Festival on Friday night (October 29) in Savannah, Ga.

Kodi Smit-McPhee suits up in a sharp red ensemble for the 2021 SCAD Savannah Film Festival on Tuesday night (October 26) in Savannah, Ga.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorTravis Scott has unveiled the lineup for his third annual Astroworld Festival, taking place in his Houston hometown on Nov. 5-6, and like the rapper himself, it’s far-reaching and full of surprises, ranging from Lil Baby and SZA to Bad Bunny and Tame Impala to Earth Wind & Fire.

Naman Ramachandran Teemu Nikki’s Venice and Antalya winner “The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic” won the Golden star for best film at the 5th El Gouna Film Festival in Egypt, which wrapped Friday. The award carries a cash prize of $50,000.The film’s lead Petri Poikolainen won best actor, while Maya Vanderbeque, the young star of “Playground,” won best actress.

Naman Ramachandran Yomna Khattab’s “Fifty Meters” (Egypt) was the big winner at the CineGouna Platform, the El Gouna Film Festival’s industry arm created to support and empower Egyptian and Arab filmmakers and help them find artistic and financial support. This year, the CineGouna Platform disbursed awards worth $300,000 across 13 projects in development and seven films in post-production.

Coachella festival looks to have confirmed that Swedish House Mafia will perform at next year’s event.The Californian festival, which returns in April after a two-year delay owing to the coronavirus pandemic, has already announced Rage Against The Machine and Travis Scott as headliners.

Mad Cool Festival have added 32 more acts to their 2022 line-up, including Florence + The Machine, Queens Of The Stone Age and Haim.The Madrid event has also confirmed that it is expanding to become a five-day festival next year, running from July 6-10, 2022.Mad Cool, which was cancelled in both 2020 and 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic, had already announced the likes of Muse, The Killers and Metallica on their bill for next year.The festival has now added 32 more names to their 2022

Naman Ramachandran Palestinian filmmaker Said Zagha was turned away by Egyptian authorities in Cairo on his way to the El Gouna Film Festival to pitch his new project.The U.K. permanent resident has a Jordanian passport that indicates he is of Palestinian origin.

Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya and Jason Momoa are ready for their big movie debut!

K.J. Yossman When a friend told director, writer and actor Missy Malek about a real-life group of disabled drug dealers operating in London, Malek instantly knew she had the makings of a film.“The second I heard it, I was like, ‘Yes, yes, amazing.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Aurora and more have been announced for Øya Festival 2022 – see the full line-up so far below.The event returns to Tøyenparken in Oslo, Norway between August 9 and August 13, having cancelled its 2020 and 2021 editions due to the coronavirus pandemic. Ticket information can be found here.Norwegian artist Aurora, who announced her new album ‘The Gods We Can Touch’ today (October 14), had been scheduled to perform at both of the scrapped festivals.

the Guildford Games Festival committee confirmed that the event will return this year.The digital festival will take place on December 3 and will be streamed on Twitch, while a physical awards ceremony will take place on December 2 and will be supported by Glowmade, Liquid Crimson, Renaissance PR, Stellar Entertainment, and Supermassive.This year’s Guildford Games Festival will also be supported by headline sponsor Media Molecule along with Microsoft, Em3, Guildford Borough Council, Charles

Naman Ramachandran A massive fire that broke out at Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival on Wednesday is now under control, organizers have confirmed.Shortly after the fire broke out, dramatic videos of the incident were posted on social media. Watch: A massive fire has broken out in the main hall of the El Gouna Film Festival site in Egypt, one day ahead of the opening ceremony, according to local media reports.

to Coachella’s Instagram said Tuesday afternoon.AEG, which also produces the Stagecoach country music festival among other shows, announced in August that it would require proof of vaccination for all attendees and staff entering its venues, theaters or festivals beginning October 1, 2021. At the time, COVID-19 cases were skyrocketing in the U.S., primarily in states run by Republicans, and driven by the highly contagious Delta variant and a mainly-right wing movement opposed to vaccines.

Coachella and Stagecoach have made some big changes to their upcoming music festivals amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

reversal from an August announcement by AEG Presents, the live events company behind Coachella, that said beginning Oct. 1 all ticket holders to their events must be vaccinated.“We have come to the conclusion that, as a market leader, it was up to us to take a real stand on vaccination status,” Jay Marciano, chief operating officer of AEG and chairman and CEO of AEG Presents, had said at the time.“Just a few weeks ago, we were optimistic about where our business, and country, were heading.

Coachella and its sister festival Stagecoach have amended the events’ entry policies, so that attendees are no longer required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.The change in policy was published on both festival websites.