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Dame Judi Dench has said her upcoming film Allelujah speaks to the “debt we owe” NHS staff. The veteran actress, 87, stars in the story about surviving old age alongside Absolutely Fabulous star Jennifer Saunders and Harry Potter’s David Bradley. Based on the stage play by Alan Bennett and written by Call The Midwife screenwriter Heidi Thomas, the film was directed by Sir Richard Eyre.

Kat McNamara has revealed new show Walker Independence is "more dangerous" than Jared Padalecki's Walker.Exclusive: 9-1-1's Oliver Stark opens up about vulnerability and why it's okay to cryThis is very much a women-focused CW show with dramatic music, marginalized voices getting center stage, and a love triangle.WATCH: Trailer for Walker: Independence Set in the late 1800s, Walker Independence is an origin story of The CW series Walker, itself a reboot of Texas Walker Ranger. It follows Abby Walker, an affluent Bostonian whose husband is murdered before her eyes while on their journey out West. When Abby finally arrives in the town of Independence, where her husband was set to be Sheriff, she encounters diverse residents who all have their own secrets.

The long-in-the-works feature adaptation of the hit video game Five Nights at Freddy’s has found a director and is headed toward “an early 2023 production start,” according to an announcement from Blumhouse, which is producing.

Jimmy Fallon had an ‘80s-themed Tonight Show, inviting some of the biggest stars of the era. Aside from the guests, which included Jennifer Beals from “Flashdance” and Ralph Macchio from “The Karate Kid,” Fallon also invited the band Modern English and some appropriate wigs.Jennifer Lopez and Jimmy Fallon will publish bilingual children’s book ‘Con Pollo’Demi Lovato shares hilarious backstage moment at The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonBeals talked about her iconic role in Flashdance and how the movie’s emblematic poster was influenced by her washing her favorite sweatshirt wrong. “I had my favorite sweatshirt from high school and I put it in the dryer for too long and at a really high heat so the neck part shrunk and I couldn’t get my neck through it.

Steve Alten, author of Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror and Meg: The Trench, has optioned an original football movie, Mr. Irrelevant, to producer David Rubenstein (1917), and his partners Ken Atchity and Scott Becher of Win-Win Partnerships (formerly producer/director NFL Films).

EXCLUSIVE: The Geena Davis-founded Bentonville Film Festival has nailed down its dates for 2023, with the event that spotlights underrepresented storytellers set to unspool June 13-18. Like this year’s edition, an on-demand streaming portion will run through the following week that will include selections from its competition lineups.

On Nov. 9 at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, an ensemble of actors will read selected scenes from the winning scripts.The 2022 winners are:Jennifer Archer (Springwater, Ontario, Canada), “Into the Deep Blue”Nick Bennet is rebuilding his life after the death of his mom, a DUI, and mandatory grief counseling.

Woman In Film, Los Angeles said Thursday that that She Said producer Dede Gardner, star Carey Mulligan and New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey will be honored next month at the 2022 WIF Honors. They join a recipient list that already includes the bestowing the group’s Crystal Awards to Abbott Elementary creator Quinta Brunson, The Woman King director Gina Prince-Bythewood, and Don’t Worry Darling writer and director Katie Silberman and Olivia Wilde, respectively.

greeted with accusations of Islamophobia after its Sundance premiere from several Muslim and Arab filmmakers, Meg Smaker has told The New York Times that very few festivals have chosen to screen her film while she has struggled financially to promote it. “I don’t have the money or influence to fight this out,” Smaker said. “I’m not sure I see a way out.”“In my naïveté, I kept thinking people would get the anger out of their system and realize thisfilm was not what they said,” she added.

When September rolls around, it means one thing for many of the top filmmakers in the world – time to hit the road. Venice, Telluride and Toronto come in rapid succession, to the point of overlapping. But for documentary filmmakers eager to showcase their work, there’s another important stop to make in September: the Camden International Film Festival in mid-coast Maine.

On Thursday’s “The Tonight Show,” host Jimmy Fallon had a string of jokes that showed just how baffling a claim it is that Donald Trump could declassify documents just by thinking about it, as the former president told Sean Hannity in a now-viral interview Wednesday. Fallon also joked that such a gaff will only help Florida governor Ron DeSantis’ presidential prospects for 2024.

The Black List has finalized the names of the six writers that will be part of their 2022 Feature Lab and will partake in a hybrid workshop that will include virtual sessions culminating in an in-person weekend intensive in Los Angeles.

Olivia Wilde is looking stunning on the red carpet!

FINAS) has partnered with the Singapore Film Commission (SFC), the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) and Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) for the inaugural Malaysian Development Lab for Fiction Feature Films (mylab). An incubator program for scriptwriters, directors, producers to work on developing scripts and film projects under lectures and the guidance of regional and international experts in scriptwriting, directing, producing, distribution, and markets and festivals, mylab focuses on projects at an early stage of development, with a team of scriptwriter, director and/or producer attached, targeted at regional or international audiences. It aims for each project to deliver a package of script, budget, financing plan, dossier and pitch-ready materials at the end of the program.

The Locarno film festival will shift to gender-neutral acting categories with its 76th edition set to run August 2-12, 2023.

Monday night being Emmys night, Jimmy Fallon still put on “The Tonight Show” – and had some big headlines to cover in his monologue. That included Donald Trump’s request that the government help pay for the special master he specifically requested.

Global anime destination Crunchyroll will release the anticipated One Piece Film Red in the U.S. and Canada on Nov. 4.

A first-time host. Kenan Thompson will make his debut as the 74th annual Primetime Emmy Awards host on Monday, September 12.