Public Enemy just performed together for the first time in over five years!
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Beyond Fest 2023 gets underway in LA next week, with all sorts of genre world premieres. Among the line-up at this year’s fest? Alan Scott Neal‘s “Last Straw,” an off-kilter take on the home-invasion thriller starring “American Horror Story” actress Jessica Belkin.
READ MORE: Fall 2023 Film Preview: 60+ Most Anticipated Movies To Watch In the new thriller, Belkin stars as Nancy, a waitress terrorized by a group of masked attackers while working the late shift at a roadside dinner. Continue reading ‘Last Straw’ Teaser: New Thriller Updates The Home Invasion Premise At Beyond Fest 2023 at The Playlist.
.Public Enemy just performed together for the first time in over five years!
Aramide Tinubu The 2023-24 fall television season has launched, and amid the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, the broadcasters’ lineups are anything but typical. In an average year, network writers’ rooms usually open in late spring, enabling shows to go into production by midsummer for a late September launch. This schedule allows enough episodes to be completed leading up to the holidays.
EXCLUSIVE: Meta and Alphabet will pull back from news distribution in more countries if forced to pay for content, the CEO of leading Canadian public network CBC/Radio Canada has predicted.
Sofía Vergara is in charge.
Halloween creeps toward us, networks and streamers are launching their spooky programming to scare you. From new movies like the upcoming video-game adaptation “Five Nights at Freddy’s” to new reality series like the Kristen Stewart-narrated gay ghost-hunting show “Living for the Dead,” there’s something for every ghost and ghoul. “A Really Haunted Loud House” – (Nickelodeon, Sept. 28) Based on the “Loud House” franchise, this new movie follows Lincoln Loud who, with the help of his sisters and best friend Clyde, must save Halloween when the Loud house is attacked by new kid Xander and his followers.
Sophia Scorziello editor Herbie Hancock and Erykah Badu are set to headline Penske Media Company’s second annual LA3C culture and creativity festival. The three-day event will take place from Nov. 10 to Nov.
Lana Del Rey, Boygenius, Carly Rae Jepsen and Maggie Rogers headline the weekend.Other acts such as Lizzy McAlpine, Tegan and Sara, Fletcher, Alex G, Peach Pit, Mt. Joy, NME cover star Hemlocke Springs and more will be performing at the fest throughout both days.
Indie pop singer Frankie Bird is back with her third new song of 2023 and it’s a special one!
Naman Ramachandran Blue Finch Films has boarded worldwide sales on horror-thriller, “Last Straw,” set to have its world premiere at the Sitges Film Festival before making its way to Beyond Fest next month. Written by Taylor Sardoni, “Last Straw” pays homage to the pressure cooker genre films of the past and aims to present a raw and unrelenting twist on the home-invasion thriller. The story revolves around a young waitress working the late shift alone at a rural roadside diner.
With colder days now on the way, many beauty buffs are ready to swap from tropical summer fragrances to more sensual, woody scents suited to autumn and winter. But perfumes can prove expensive, and few are suitable to wear in the daytime to the office, and in the evening for nights out, meals and dates.
Sophia Scorziello editor Beyond Fest genre film festival returns for its 11th edition with a full slate of premieres and acclaimed classics from Palme d’Or winner “Anatomy of a Fall” to the Michael Mann hit “Manhunter.” James Cameron is set to make an appearance for a special edition screening of “The Abyss” followed by a special tribute to Roger Corman, along with appearances by Mann and Guillermo del Toro. “Our goal this year was to go bigger while also exposing audiences to new filmmakers who represent the future,” said Evrim Ersoy, Beyond’s head of programming.
The 2023 Beyond Fest lineup is set. America’s biggest genre-focused festival is returning this month with a 55-film slate that includes a Roger Corman career celebration, special screening of The Abyss with James Cameron, the world premiere of Legendary’s It’s a Wonderful Knife and much more.
Joe Otterson TV Reporter The Streaming Era began with a promise of nurturing shows without fear of ratings pressure and quick cancellations. Of course, that was a lark. Soon enough, the streamers began slashing shows as quickly and brutally as any Nielsen-obsessed broadcaster, and they were all flooded with same complaint: “The streamers just cancel everything! Nothing gets more than a season anymore!” How true is that really? After all, the streamers are looking for hit shows, just like traditional networks.
Omar And Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird, an upcoming documentary chronicling the relationship between The Mars Volta and At The Drive-In bandmates Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodríguez-López, has been announced.Yesterday (September 13), Cloud Hill Films released a trailer for the upcoming film, which also tells the story of both bands, explored here through footage captured by Omar Rodríguez-López over the last couple of decades.The official description for the film reads: “A film that charts the artistic and personal relationship between two era-defining artists, Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala (At the Drive-In/The Mars Volta), told almost entirely through hundreds of hours of self-shot footage filmed by Omar over the last 40 years.”Watch the trailer for Omar And Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird below.Omar And Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird will premiere at the Raindance Film Festival in the UK on October 28. Further information surrounding the film’s release elsewhere has yet to be announced.The trailer and news of the documentary came ahead of The Mars Volta’s US tour kick-off in Minneapolis on Wednesday, September 13.
Megan Thee Stallion has pulled out of this year’s Global Citizen Festival.A statement was shared by Global Citizen Festival on their official X/Twitter account that read: “Due to an unforeseen scheduling conflict, Megan Thee Stallion will no longer be available to perform at the 2023 Global Citizen Festival.”The rapper’s announcement of departure came 11 days before the day of the fest. Global Citizen Festival 2023 is set to take place at the Great Lawn in New York’s Central Park on Saturday, September 23.Other acts set to headline are Ms.
Nicki Minaj is giving fans a first listen at a new song off of ucpoming album!
Doja Cat is taking over the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards stage!
Elon Musk and Grimes have welcomed their third baby together. The news comes just days after it was revealed that the singer and the Tesla CEO were having co-parenting issues following the singer’s now-deleted tweet, where she seemingly referred to their new son named Techno Mechanicus.GRIMES SHARES CO-PARENTING STRUGGLES WITH ELON MUSK: ‘LET ME SEE MY SON’ELON MUSK AND GRIMES ON VACATION WITH THEIR KIDS: ARE THEY BACK TOGETHER?Online users had mixed reactions about the name of their third baby, as his nickname is “Tau.” And while the pair have yet to comment on their new baby and their co-parenting arrangements, journalist Walter Isaacson revealed that the pair expanded their family, in the upcoming biography of Musk, which is set to be released on September 12.When it comes to the name, It seems like Grimes was partially inspired by one of her Instagram posts from March 2021.
It’s interesting how the Venice Film Festival has gone from one of the festivals of the fall festival season to arguably the best film festival in the world now, even overshadowing Cannes in recent years thanks to the fact that Netflix now avoids the Croisette for the most part because of France’s theatrical laws and save their Oscar contenders for the Lido. Venice has had an amazing run, arguably since 2017 when Guillermo del Toro’s “The Shape Of Water” won the top prize and then went on to win the Oscar for Best Picture, which has happened one more time since with “Nomadland” and several key Oscar contenders since).
We’re recapping all of the renewal and cancellation decisions made by The CW this year.