‘Independent Lens’ Fall Slate Includes ‘TikTok, Boom,’ ‘Hazing’ (EXCLUSIVE)

A rescue helicopter scrambled to save two hikers who were scaling a steep ridge in Glencoe this weekend.

A handful of smaller films will start to test audience enthusiasm for movie theaters without big tentpoles. It’s been a rocky summer for specialty releases, and an uphill climb as arthouses emerge from Covid jitters with franchise films sucking up oxygen and screens. But superheroes are on hiatus.

Riding first class? Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker just flew on a commercial plane. The spotting comes a week after reports emerged that her sister Kylie Jenner used her private jet for 17 minutes.

It's finally here, Little Monsters. After some pandemic-induced postponement, Lady Gaga has kicked off The Chromatica Ball tour.

It’s a “Modern Family” reunion.

A man has been rushed to hospital after falling from a high window onto the pavement in Greenock.

Keeping it cute! Azah Awasum and Melvin “Cinco” Holland Jr. are in good spirits after their elimination from The Challenge: USA during the Wednesday, August 3, episode.

EXCLUSIVE: Kristen Konvitz has joined UTA as an Agent in the Independent Film Group division. She will work from the agency’s Los Angeles headquarters, reporting to Partners Jim Meenaghan and Rena Ronson, who serve as Co-Heads of the Independent Film Group. 

Gordon Cox Theater EditorAfter nine seasons on the hit TV series “The Blacklist,” actor Amir Arison’s next step is starring on Broadway in “The Kite Runner.” Which is pretty surprising for a guy who’d decided he was done with theater.Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below:“I didn’t want to do much stage anymore,” Arison recalled on the new episode of Stagecraft, Variety‘s theater podcast. Prior to “The Blacklist,” he’d appeared in several Off Broadway productions, but, he says, “I remember just depleting myself completely and not [being] sure if the rewards outweighed the toll.”The opportunity to star in “The Kite Runner” first came to Arison in the weeks before “The Blacklist” had been picked up for its 10th season, so he was low-key looking for a job.

TikTok has filed patents for “TikTok music”, suggesting that the video sharing platform has a music streaming app in the works.As uncovered by Insider [further reporting via The Verge], ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, filed a trademark application in May with the US Patent and Trademark Office. It follows a “TikTok Music” trademark that was filed in Australia last November.According to the filing the service would let users purchase, play, share and download music.

Matthew Koma is offering Candace Cameron Bure a slight correction.

LF SYSTEM have done it – locking in a straight month at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart with their breakthrough single Afraid To Feel.

PewDiePie is getting a lot of (well-deserved) criticism for this!

The Toronto International Film Festival is back this year.