Focus Features Celebrates ‘Kajillionaire’ Filmmaker Miranda July With Virtual Retrospective

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Alexandra Del Rosario Associate Editor/Nights & WeekendsThe celebration of Columbus day has become highly-debated as more people have started to understand the Italian explorer’s unintentional discovery of America as one that exploited and led to the killings of large Native American populations.

Chris Willman Music WriterThe idea of a U.S. film festival sticking to its dates in 2020 with a fully programmed, all-physical, non-virtual slate of screenings? It might seem beyond possibility, but then, the suspension of disbelief is particularly accentuated at L.A.’s annual Beyond Fest, which programs “genre” films every fall at the American Cinematheque’s Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood.

Joe Biden's team agreed to the updated safety terms, but almost immediately, President Donald Trump said in an interview with that he would skip a virtual debate, and hold a rally instead.Following Trump's refusal, Biden's team suggested pushing the debate back a week, reports, saying, «Joe Biden was prepared to accept the C.P.D.'s proposal for a virtual Town Hall, but the president has refused, as Donald Trump clearly does not want to face questions from the voters about his failures on Covid

There was no fancy quiche this year for the top money managers in Hollywood, but that didn't stop The Hollywood Reporter from celebrating the industry's Power Business Managers at its annual event, albeit virtually.

Pete Hammond Awards Columnist/Chief Film CriticIn a letter sent to “the TCM Classic Film Festival Community” today. Turner Classic Movies has confirmed that , due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic, their live and in person Four Day Classic Film Fest which normally takes place in April in  Hollywood is formally moving to a virtual format in 2021.

An acclaimed novelist, performance artist, and independent filmmaker, Miranda July is a genre of her own—quite literally—this week on Be Reel. LISTEN: ‘Best In Show’ At 20: Christopher Guest Invented The Community Theater Of Bizarro Docs Before It Became Reality [Podcast] We’re searching for answers to this alienation human condition in the just-released “Kajillionaire” (2020), “Me and You and Everyone We Know” (2005), and “The Future” (2011).

A Miranda July film is very much its own thing. With only three features under her belt, the filmmaker has carved out a niche in the film industry that very much belongs to her and her alone.

Gina Rodriguez and Evan Rachel Wood star in the queer love story Kajillionaire. The film is written and directed by Miranda July and is her first feature in nearly a decade.

How much quirk is too much quirk? That question is one that everyone has to answer for themselves. That being said, there’s always a point at which things go over the top and a film stops being enjoyable.

Miranda July film, “Kajillionaire” — which Focus Features bought after the Sundance Film Festival this year, seemingly a lifetime ago, and which will hit theaters Sept. 25 — Evan Rachel Wood plays Old Dolio, the third in a trifecta of scam artists.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentCreative Artists Agency (CAA) has signed João Paulo Miranda Maria, writer-director of “Memory House,” the only Latin American feature chosen for this year’s Cannes Official Selection.In further news, Miranda Maria is preparing two new feature films, one his English-language debut, with Rodrigo Teixeira’s Sao Paulo-based RT Features, producer of Luca Guadagnino’s “Call Me By Your Name,” James Gray’s “Ad Astra” and Karim Aïnouz’s “The Invisible

Miranda July doesn’t seem to have fair-weather fans. There are those who are obsessed.

We've been blessed, of late, with excellent movies about families of grifters. There was Hirokazu Kore-eda's gloriously heartfelt “Shoplifters,” about a makeshift clan of small-time thieves whose familial bonds run at least as deep as DNA.

Whirlwind romances. The shortest celebrity marriages show that sometimes, it just doesn’t work out. Britney Spears, Pamela Anderson, Jennifer Lopez and Drew Barrymore are a few stars who are included in the “shortest celebrity marriages club.”

A PSA urging the television industry to do more to create an all-inclusive environment aired during Sunday night’s Primetime Emmy Awards. In the star-studded 60-second PSA titled "See All,"stars including Lin-Manuel Miranda,Billy Porter, Isis King, Daniel Dae Kim, Nicole Scherzinger andJamie Chung called on industry leaders to make a greater effort toward fair cultural representation in programming and advertising.

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Jamie Foxx is celebrating his daughter’s first-ever Emmy win.

Jamie Foxx is celebrating his daughter, Corinne Foxx!