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Stephen “tWitch” Boss is opening up about the positive values instilled in him by his boss, Ellen DeGeneres. The 37-year-old dancer and television personality has been the resident DJ on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” since 2014.

Maddie Phillips is one of the stars of the new Netflix series Teenage Bounty Hunters, which just launched on the streaming service.

Erik Pedersen Managing EditorAnother live festival bites the dust. The American Film Institute announced Tuesday that its annual AFI Fest will go virtual as COVID-19 continues to affect Los Angeles.AFI officials detailed the decision to the Los Angeles Times.  Instead of its September in-person premieres, AFI Fest will feature virtual events in October.

The Toronto Film Festival has unveiled plans for drive-in and "open air cinema" screenings on the city's waterfront to offset reduced capacity at its only two indoor movie theaters set for the Sept. 10-19 event.

Mark Schilling Japan CorrespondentThe Tokyo International Film Festival  (TIFF) will host physical screenings for its 33rd edition, which is currently scheduled for Oct. 31-Nov.

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterIFC Films Unlimited, the streaming arm of IFC, has expanded to Canada.It will be made available on Amazon Prime beginning Wednesday. Customers can subscribe directly to IFC Films Unlimited for $5.99 CAD per month.

The Writers Lab, which supports women screenwriters over 40 with mentoring from leading filmmakers, has unveiled its mentors and 12 participants and their projects for a first-time virtual 2020 edition. The screenwriting program, backed by Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, and Oprah Winfrey and New York Women in Film and Television, has as 2020 mentors producers Anne Carey, Susan Cartsonis, Shruti Ganguly and Mary Jane Skalski.

its statement. The Trump Administration has been weighing whether to ban or force a sale of TikTok over concern that ByteDance may be sharing data of American users with the Chinese government. Microsoft says it will continue talks with ByteDance and will decide whether or not to complete the sale by September 15.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaLayoffs have hit Legendary Digital Networks, a spokesperson for the company’s corporate parent Legendary Entertainment confirmed to Variety.The cuts are to eight full-time positions, representing 30% of the staff, according to sources. The layoffs are across the division’s marketing, production and sales teams.

Emmy nominations were announced, Catherine O'Hara realized she didn't have her castmates' numbers, should the next morning warrant a congratulatory text message or two. «I had an old 4S and as soon as I came across the border to Canada, Apple killed my 4S,» she says, launching into the story.

Drew Barrymore hosting her own talk show, it’s officially happening sooner than audiences may have thought.On Tuesday, July 28, the actress, 45, shared a video via Instagram announcing that the show’s website is now live and that the talk show will premiere in the fall.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterFrightFest, the UK horror festival that was forced to move online this year because of pandemic disruption, has unveiled a lineup for its 21st edition (August 27-31) including seven world premieres.The event opens with the UK premiere of Sky Sharks, which features Nazi zombie-piloted airborne killer sharks.World premieres include Logan Thomas’s There’s No Such Thing As Vampires, Patrick Rea’s I Am Lisa, Ruben Pla’s The Horror Crowd, G-Hey Kim’s Don’t Click,

“Red Dwarf: The Promised Land” is launching on BritBox and ET Canada has your exclusive look.

Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin have hit the road! The couple, who have been quarantined predominantly in Los Angeles and in Justin’s native Canada, are taking a trip across the country. A source close to the pair told HollywoodLife exclusively that they will be living on his tour bus while he writes new music. “Justin and Hailey are already back on the road. They’ll be there for the next few weeks living on his tour bus driving and exploring all over the country,” the source said.

With its increasingly absurd number of delays, “The New Mutants,” fast becoming the “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” of superhero movies, has again returned to prove that it actually exists. A large push at this year’s virtual edition of the San Diego Comic-Con that included a screening of the opening few minutes.

Friends reunion special.Production on the one-off episode was delayed as studios across Hollywood shut down earlier this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.Speaking in a new interview, Schwimmer, who played palaeontologist Ross Geller for 10 seasons, has given fans an update on the plans for the highly anticipated reunion.“We’re hoping it will be able to convene and shoot it in August, but the truth is, we’ll do it when we all determine it’s safe to do so,” he told Entertainment Weekly.

Also Read: Third 'Conjuring' Film Gets September 2020 Release Date“As I was going up the stairs, I reached the point where it felt as if a force of water [was] coming against my chest, almost like a waterfall,” she said in the clip, explaining her initial feeling inside the haunted home. “It was the worst feeling.

Naman Ramachandran Following a storm of criticism over ambiguous diversity and funding criteria, Canadian government funding org Telefilm revealed on Monday an Equity and Representation Action Plan designed to overhaul its internal system.The plan consists of several action points and strategies to achieve them.