Kino Lorber Swoops on Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Title ‘1976’ (EXCLUSIVE)

A heartbreaking loss. Actress Mary Mara died at age 61 on Sunday, June 26, after an apparent drowning.

The film was acclaimed for its rich visual style of sensual cinematography that never feels vulgar or exploitative of the couple in question. It can be seen plainly in the trailer, which shows Hermes and Betta passionately kissing inside a pink bathroom filled with balloons, a parade of bodies in lingerie on a runway and one man even trying on a black g-string.

Jon Burlingame editorArtie Kane, Grammy-nominated pianist and composer of film scores including “Looking for Mr. Goodbar” and “Eyes of Laura Mars,” died Tuesday at his home on Whidbey Island, north of Seattle, Wash.

Next week, Castlefield Bowl will welcome thousands of music fans back to Manchester as the 2022 edition of Sounds of the City gets underway. Each year, the open-air music extravaganza brings together some of the biggest names in rock, indie and pop - and this year is no exception.

Paramount+ has just launched in the UK and the streaming service is a host to movies, TV shows, and documentaries produced under parent companies Paramount Pictures and Viacom CBS.

EXCLUSIVE: Joe Pickett is bulking up its cast for season two.

ditched the DC world for the Marvel Cinematic Universe and he claims he doesn’t know a thing about it.The English method actor will next be seen in the MCU’s “Thor: Love and Thunder” and recently revealed to Total Film that he had no hesitations about taking on another superhero role after starring in Christopher Nolan’s “Batman” trilogy. “Absolutely not, no,” he said.

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has an exclusive track from Ariel Marx’s score for Candy, which is set for digital release via Lakeshore Records tomorrow.

EXCLUSIVE: Zeitgeist Films and Kino Lorber have acquired North American rights to Eva Vitija’s documentary Loving Highsmith, which takes as its focus Carol and The Talented Mr. Ripley author Patricia Highsmith. Zeitgeist will release the film theatrically this September.

Ms. Marvel directors Adil El Arbi and Billal Fallah have spoken out regarding the new Disney+ series’ review-bombing shortly after its premiere on June 8.The show sees Iman Vellani play Kamala Khan – the MCU’s first Muslim and South Asian superhero – a Pakistani-American teenager based in New Jersey who becomes the titular Ms. Marvel.The show’s IMDb page has been inundated with seemingly baseless one-star reviews, dragging down its overall rating to 6.5 within a day of its release.

Feel good film guru! Bill Abbott made Hallmark Channel the go-to hub for all-things holidays for 20 years before his departure in 2020 and launching GAC Media in 2021.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitts’ ongoing custody battle following their 2016 divorce, fans are more invested than ever in the lives of their children. Together, the former couple share six children: Maddox, 20, Zahara, 16, Pax, 17, Shiloh, 15, Vivienne, 13, and Knox, 13.

The sixth full moon of the year will take place later today. Almost a month on from May's super flower blood moon phenomena, this particular full moon will also be a larger supermoon and thus appear larger and brighter.

Sofia Richie will one day walk down the aisle with her millionaire boo Elliot Grainge. The daughter of Lionel Richie searched for love with celebs like Justin Bieber and Scott Disick before finding the right person. They were first spotted in January 2021, went official in April, and after a year, they confirmed their engagement on April 20, 2022.

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has an exclusive track from Dustin O’Halloran and Herdís Stefánsdóttir’s score for The Essex Serpent, which is set for digital release today via Lakeshore Records.

Angelique Jackson In its 26th year, the American Black Film Festival (ABFF) is more star-studded than ever, with a robust lineup of Black film and television stars and creators.After two years of COVID-related pivots, the festival returns to South Beach in Miami for a five-day engagement full of special screenings, panel discussions and events celebrating the Black film and television community. Among the talent joining ABFF festival ambassador Issa Rae, who will debut her new HBO Max series “Rap Sh!t” at the festival are Chanté Adams, Yahya Abdul- Mateen II, Kenya Barris, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Ben Crump, Michael Ealy, DeVon Franklin, Kasi Lemmons, Judge Greg Mathis, LisaRaye McCoy, Kyla Pratt, Trevante Rhodes, Kendrick Sampson, Robin Thede, Judge Lynn Toler, Susan Kelechi Watson and Salli Richardson Whitfield, among many others.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentKino Lorber has acquired North American rights to first-time Lebanese director Mounia Akl’s timely drama “Costa Brava, Lebanon,” which launched positively last year from Venice.“Costa Brava” provides an acerbic take on Lebanon’s waste management crisis and its turbulent political landscape and combines the country’s strife with the global climate crisis. The darkly comic drama pairs Oscar-nominated Lebanese star and filmmaker Nadine Labaki (“Capernaum”) and Palestinian actor Saleh Bakri (“The Band’s Visit”) as a couple who has moved from Beirut to live idyllically in the mountains, until one day the government decides to build a garbage landfill right beside their house.