Indie ‘Where Sweet Dreams Die’ Sets Cast; Rom-Com ‘They/Them/Us’ Wraps Shoot During COVID-19; Danny Trejo & More Star In ‘The Shift’ – Film Briefs

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaThe 58th edition of the New York Film Festival is unlike any of the previous 57 iterations. Coronavirus restrictions on public gatherings forced the festival’s organizers to overhaul their usual approach to highlighting the best of cinema.

The actress set to play Ms. Marvel for Disney+ and Marvel‘s new show has finally been found after a “long and hard search.”

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Janet W. Lee On Thursday, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the representation of people of color in media.

Daniel Dae Kim originally did not intend to testify in front of theU.S. House Committee on the Judiciary about diversity in the media— but one House vote last week changed his mind.

Alexandra Del Rosario Associate Editor/Nights & WeekendsPresident Donald Trump said during an Ohio rally Monday night that the COVID-19 virus “affects virtually nobody.” But with more than 200,000 Americans dead due to the coronavirus, Seth Meyers questions the president’s lack of concern.“I’m sure those people died just to make you look bad. I heard they were deep state Antifa terrorists paid for by George Soros to stop breathing.

Late night personality Stephen Colbert is getting in on helping Americans get out and vote with a newly launched state-by-state resource guide, which the Late Show hostdebuted during his Tuesday night show. Titled "Better Know a Ballot," the nonpartisan voter information campaign aims to eliminate the confusion around getting registered to vote and casting a ballot in the upcoming 2020 presidential election with its series of informational videos.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorLifetime has set the cast for The Christmas Setup, its first holiday movie with a lead LGBTQ storyline, and A Sugar & Spice Holiday, its first movie centered on an Asian American family.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticThere’s a distracting practice in American cinema of casting actors who are already well into their twenties to play teens, although “Holler” contains one of the few examples in recent memory where an age difference of nearly a decade, while noticeable, works to the film’s advantage. Ruth, the resourceful Ohio high school student at the heart of writer-director Nicole Riegel’s raw-wound debut, has been forced to grow up too soon.

Mark David With her oldest of four daughters off at college and her deported and newly minted ex-husband out of the picture (but still trying to stay pop culturally relevant while living in Italy), “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” star Teresa Giudice has put her giant Towaco, N.J., mansion on the market at just under $2.5 million.This in not the first time Giudice has attempted to sell the leafy 3.75-acre suburban spread that’s about 25 miles (and at least and hour’s drive) northeast of

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: In the early 20th century, an impoverished teenage Italian cobbler sailed from Naples to America to seek a better life. He settled in Southern California, and became Hollywood’s go-to shoemaker during the silent era.