Independent Film & Television Alliance Elects Eight To Board

When COVID-19 first emerged as a global threat, it was truly a "novel" coronavirus. It did not resemble the typical coronaviruses, like the common cold, that regularly circulate.

Dave McNary Film ReporterThe Traveling Picture Show Company and GiGi Films have cast Tom Pelphrey as con man Jason Derek Brown in “American Murderer,” alongside Ryan Phillippe playing the FBI agent tasked to hunt him down.Idina Menzel and Academy Award nominee Jacki Weaver have also been cast. AFI alumnus Matthew Gentile wrote the script and will direct, with principal photography commencing in Salt Lake City.

EXCLUSIVE: Inside Out has teamed with OUTtv to launch “Out On Set”, an online database of LGBTQ2 (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Two Spirit) film crew and creative talent within North America. Industry professionals in North America will be able search, post opportunities and message talent within the database.

The Native American Media Alliance has partnered with Netflix to establishthe Native Americans in the Entertainment Industry COVID-19 Relief Fund, which will provide over 200 grants in the amount of $2,000 to eligible Native people in above the line and below the line positions who apply.

This year’s Brit List of best unproduced scripts is topped with twelve recommendations by Amy Guyler’s TV comedy-drama The Jude Problem from The Man In The High Castle producer Headline Pictures.

Also Read: See Johnny Flynn as David Bowie in First Look at Unauthorized Biopic 'Stardust'For better and for worse, “Stardust” grapples with those issues as it follows a 24-year-old Bowie on a promotional tour through the United States in 1971, accompanied by a long-suffering Mercury Records publicist named Ron Oberman.Johnny Flynn plays Bowie, Marc Maron plays Oberman, and the point of director and cowriter Gabriel Range’s film is to trace the seeds of Bowie’s breakthrough character, Ziggy

On the eve of Thanksgiving, Joe Biden asked Americans to remember “we’re at a war with a virus — not with each other,” while Donald Trump once again refused to be thankful for a chance to go quietly into the Presidential night.

Brad Pitt is giving back to families in need. The 56-year-old actor spent a day handing out boxes of groceries to low-income families in South Central Los Angeles last week.Pitt, dressed down in jeans, a white T-shirt and black-and-red flannel, dutifully continued his volunteer work as paparazzi snapped pics.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterA French court has ruled that Clint Eastwood is not allowed to testify in the trial of an alleged Islamist gunman who opened fire while on a Thalys train travelling through Europe in 2015.Moroccan national Ayoub el Khazzani is facing life in prison if found guilty of plotting to kill passengers aboard the train from Amsterdam to Paris in August, 2015.

Gabby Barrett and Cade Foehner‘s love story is like something out of a rom-com! The pair met in 2018 when they were thrust into the spotlight on Season 16 of American Idol. Although Gabby insists it wasn’t love at first sight, they got to know each other throughout filming, and their relationship quickly went from strength to strength. In 2019, Cade popped the question and they said their “I do’s” just a few months later.

Gabby Barrett cradles her baby bump while walking the carpet at the 2020 CMA Awards on Wednesday (November 11) at the Music City Center in Nashville, Tenn.

"TV movie" and "nuclear annihilation" aren't readily linked concepts, and they certainly weren't back in the movie-of-the-week heyday of 1983, when ABC took a gamble on the decidedly downbeat The Day After. The Kansas-set drama, an unflinching depiction of the aftermath of an atomic conflagration, aired Nov.

Alexandra Del Rosario Associate Editor/Nights & WeekendsFor many Americans, Joe Biden’s election victory meant change and possibility after four years under President Donald Trump.

Jimmy Fallon performed a comic twist on The Cure‘s ‘Friday I’m In Love’, marking the end of an exhausting week for US citizens with the line: “It’s Friday, I think it’s done.”Speaking on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on November 6, as it was becoming increasingly apparent that Joe Biden would reach the 270 electoral college votes required to defeat Donald Trump and become US President-elect, the host also riffed on the the incumbent’s refusal to concede the race.Showing footage of Trump