UK government removed Spain from its list of countries safe for travel following a surge of confirmed cases in the country.
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2020 has been a year of forced evolution for the film industry, thanks in large part to the COVID-19 pandemic. Theaters have shut down.
Films have halted production. And film festivals have been canceled or gone digital.
For Fantasia International Film Festival, the upcoming film event focused on international and genre pictures, the choice faced was to either evolve or cancel. And that has led to Fantasia greatly altering its presentation of this year’s selections but still allowing for the
.UK government removed Spain from its list of countries safe for travel following a surge of confirmed cases in the country.
Ava Duvernay has added her tribute to beloved U.S. politician and civil rights icon John Lewis, following his death on Friday (July 17, 2020).The congressman lost his battle with cancer, aged 80, and now moviemaker DuVernay is among the politicians and presidents paying their respects.Posting photos of herself with Lewis on Twitter, the director of 2014 movie Selma, which featured actor Stephan James playing the late activist, wrote:Dear Congressman.
John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentLess than a month after re-opening on June 26, Barcelona’s cinema theaters have been forced to close once more as part of a stay-at-home rollback by the Generalitat, the government for the Catalan region.Announced on Friday, July 18, and in place from Saturday, the mandated shutdown is fiercely contested by Barcelona area town halls, adding to a nationwide debate about just how safe it is to go to the cinema.In radical contrast to Barcelona’s
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Britney Spears‘ mother, Lynne Spears, is requesting to be included in decisions made about her finances.
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A private funeral service for Dame Vera Lynn will take place on July 10, it has been announced.
BMC Medicine, said: "We estimate specific pressure points where COVID-19 demand is likely to outstrip the baseline local supply. "This again includes rural areas in Wales as well as the north east and south west of England where high expected hospitalization rates combine with relatively low bed capacity.