Edouard Waintrop Joins Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival as Artistic Director (EXCLUSIVE)

Both British and American embassies in the United Arab Emirates are receiving backlash online from conservative Emiratis after raising the rainbow Pride flag alongside their own national flags in celebration of Pride Month in June.The UAE still criminalises same-sex relationships.

Bitchin’: The Sound and Fury of Rick James,” part of the Tribeca Film Festival, when the movie stopped with 40 minutes still to go.“We will now pause for 15 minutes to watch the fireworks,” an announcer said. Huh? Cannes has never shot off pyrotechnics during a Lars von Trier debut. (Perhaps they should.)The surprise display was Gov.

Chris Willman Music WriterA new documentary series from AXS TV, “If These Walls Could Rock,” will explore some of the most beloved music venues in the country, ranging from the storied intimacy of the Troubadour in West Hollywood to the scenic splendor of Colorado’s Red Rocks amphitheater, the network announced Tuesday.The series premieres July 7 at 8:30 p.m. ET/5:30 PT, with new half-hour episodes scheduled every Wednesday through Aug.

IFC Midnight has boarded U.S. rights to UK genre pic Burial.

Networks and streamers are setting special programming to celebrate Juneteenth, the holiday commemorating the emancipation of those who had been enslaved in the United States. More specifically, Juneteenth marks the enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in the last Southern holdout state, Texas, on June 19, 1865.

The Red Sea International Film Festival (RSIFF) has announced Edouard Waintrop as its artistic director ahead of the inaugural edition in November, 2021.

In his tweet commemorating Beatty, “Karate Kid” star Ralph Macchio called “Network” one of the “greatest screenplays and films of all time” and commended Beatty’s monologue towards the end of the film as “ahead of its time.” In it, Beatty as Jansen gives a booming sermon to news anchor turned raging talking head Howard Beale for using his TV show to get his viewers to shut down his network’s merger with a Saudi conglomerate, putting the network in danger.

Hillary Clinton and estranged wife of disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner, has a memoir coming out this fall.Abedin's “Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds” will be released Nov.

Another early morning, another early announcement from France. As promised by the organizers previously, new titles have been added to the Cannes Film Festival, nine of them in total.

Andrew Barker Senior Features WriterTaking place across outdoor venues in all five boroughs of New York City, the Tribeca Film Festival will celebrate its 20th anniversary June 9-20, screening a bevy of features, shorts, TV series, podcasts and games in what is being billed as the first major in-person film festival to take place in North America since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.Managing all the logistics to mount a proper in-person festival despite such circumstances would be a tall

EXCLUSIVE: The Tribeca Film Festival kicks off in earnest later this week and one of the indisputable highlights of this New York-centric fest as far as I am concerned is a new documentary having its sold out World Premiere on June 15 and chronicling a certain Southern California musical legend.

Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas are paying tribute to their dear friend, Mansour Ojjeh.

It’s been essentially over a year without in-person film festivals. Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, the SXSW, Cannes Film Festival, and Tribeca Film Festivals were all canceled last year.