Electric Picnic festival delayed three weeks to allow for vaccine rollout

How Will Festival-Goers Stay Safe? This year’s festival was always going to be a wild card thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, which only two weeks ago seemed blissfully in the rearview mirror of domestic industry players. The global outlook, however, began dialing up caution over COVID-19’s Delta variant – which is now the dominant strain in the U.S.

It’s that time of year again, though a little delayed. Following the cancellation of the 2020 Cannes Film Festival last year, thanks to the global pandemic, Cannes is triumphantly back this year with a whopper of a line-up, And it’s one that’s perhaps overflowing with things that were due to appear at the festival last year (Wes Anderson‘s “The French Dispatch,” Paul Verhoeven’s “Benedetta”) and instead were held for an entire year by the filmmakers and producers.

Two days before the start of the much delayed, and anticipated, Cannes Film Festival, the town awoke to a rainy, muggy Sunday with little action on the ground. And while the skies cleared later in the day, it remained difficult to discern the festival vibe. Apart from at the Palais proper, there’s no sign of the promotions we’re used to seeing here. That goes for posters adorning hotels or piers for any film, regardless of provenance.

Fortnite in a £1m (1.5m USD) charity tournament.Gamers Without Borders is an online esports festival that sees casual and professional players participate in a multi-week campaign to raise money for charities. The current fundraiser is a nine-week event raising money to distribute COVID-19 vaccines.Chance The Rapper and Dele Alli will join the third elite series tournament, which begins on Thursday, July 1.

Almost every blockbuster film from 2020 was delayed at some point due to COVID. So, it’s not unique that Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” was a victim of release date juggling, which saw the sci-fi epic’s original release date of November 2020 turn into December 2020, then finally October 1, 2021.

Jordan Moreau The wait for “Dune” just got a bit longer.Warner Bros. has delayed the sci-fi epic by three weeks, putting it at Oct.

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Alli Dore, took to Instagram Monday to share that she is expecting her first child with boyfriend Benny Thompson.

Here comes the Below Deck Sailing Yacht baby boom! Nearly one month after Dani Soares gave birth to her first child, her costar Alli Dore announced her pregnancy news.

It is tempting and totally incorrect to put Jamie Adams’ “Love Spreads” on a shelf next to Alex Ross Perry’s “Her Smell”: Both films center on petty, personal rifts expanding between members of all-women rock bands, and the former at first appears, like the latter, concerned with toxic lead singers cursed with too much ego after tasting success.

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.

Another shot at love. Two years after losing his wife, Michael Allio is competing for Katie Thurston’s heart on season 17 of The Bachelorette.

It has been one year since Auli’i Cravalho came out.

Maccabees frontman Orlando Weeks has shared the first taster of new material from his upcoming second solo album.

The Producers Guild of America will present “Producing During Unprecedented Times: Reflections from Today’s Leading Producers” at the 60th Monte-Carlo Television Festival that starts this weekend.

There is no shortage of films about the difficulties of being an artist. But when you have a film about the creative difficulties of being a musician that features a cast led by Alia Shawkat and Eiza Gonzales, suddenly it doesn’t matter if the premise seems familiar.

Writer, director and producer Darren Star will receive the the 60th Monte-Carlo Television Festival’s Honorary Golden Nymph, an award that honors renowned professionals for their extraordinary contributions to the entertainment and television industry.

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.