Maggie Gyllenhaal's 'Best Summer Ever' Musical to Open ReelAbilities Film Festival (Exclusive)

Leo Carax's “Annette,” starring Marion Cotillard and Adam Driver, will open the 74th Cannes Film Festival on July 6, festival organizers said Monday.“Annette” is Carax's first English-language film and the French director's anticipated follow-up to his celebrated, surreal 2012 film “Holy Motors.” Set in contemporary Los Angeles, “Annette” stars Driver and Cotillard as a glamorous couple — Driver plays a stand-up comedian, Cotillard a famous singer — whose first child is “a mysterious girl with

Well, the race to summer and Cannes is on. Legendary filmmaker Leos Carax returns to Cannes with his first feature film since the critically acclaimed “Holy Motors” (2012).

festival announced Monday.Carax, who caused a sensation nine years ago with his competition entry “Holy Motors,” returns to the Croisette with his first English-language film, which will screen on July 6 to open the pandemic-delayed festival.

Annette, the new movie from Leos Carax and his first in the English language, has been set as the opening night for the 74th Cannes Film Festival.

This year’s Tribeca Film Festival is expected to be very different than previous events. Not only is it the 20th anniversary of the festival, but it’s also the first year the event will be held outdoors in multiple open-air venues, providing the chance for audiences to experience a film festival in person in the age of COVID.

NEW YORK -- The big-screen adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda's “In the Heights” will kick off the Tribeca Film Festival on June 9, two days before the film opens in theaters and begins streaming.Set in New York's Washington Heights, Jon M.

Also Read: Tribeca Film Festival Heads Outdoors With In-Person Event in JuneLast Month, the Tribeca Film Festival announced it was going ahead with its 20th-anniversary edition this June, moving screenings to outdoor venues and becoming the first major U.S.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter“In the Heights,” a movie adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hit musical, has been tapped to open the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival.The festival’s opening night screening will be held on June 9 at the United Palace theater in Washington Heights.

The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has unveiled most of the titles for its 50th anniversary event, announcing the features, shorts, and experimental films that will screen across the Netherlands from June 2 through June 6. Rotterdam is holding a hybrid festival to celebrate its half-century.

The Sundance, Berlin and Cannes Film Festivals, along with numerous human rights and film industry groups, have called for the immediate release of Tatsiana Hatsura-Yavorska, the director of the Belarusian Watch Docs Festival, who was imprisoned April 5 for alleged anti-government activity.

The third annual Earth Focus Environmental Film Festival, and the first to take place virtually in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, kicks off tonight through April 23rd from Southern California flagship PBS stations, PBS SoCal and KCET, along with national independent satellite network Link TV, with the West Coast premiere of Playing With Sharks, the extraordinary life story of pioneering scuba diver Valerie Taylor who has dedicated her life to exposing  the myth surrounding the fear of sharks.

Also Read: Tribeca Film Festival Heads Outdoors With In-Person Event in JuneAlanna Brown’s “Trees of Peace,” about four women thrown together during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, won two awards, the Panavision Spirit Award for Independent Cinema and the ADL Stand Up Award.Other prizes went to Eduardo Crespo’s “We Will Never Die,” Henrik Ruben Genz’s “Erna at War” and Michael Webber’s “The Conservation Game.”The winners:Audience Choice Award: “Alaskan Nets,” Jess HarasimowiczBest Documentary Award:

The Beatles, or legendary lyrical duo OutKast — it’s a “So Fresh, So Clean” sweep for the rhymers from Atlanta. With Twitter as the digital battlefield, cyber-soldiers of the OutKast army beat back troops in the Beatles brigade with hard-hitting arguments supporting their stance that the “ATLiens” are the greatest group of all time. The drums of better band war were sounded by a now-viral retweet from OutKast’s official Twitter account which read: “When society admits OutKast is better than The

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Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterWavelength, the award-winning company behind films like “Feels Good Man” and “Farewell Amor,” has named executive Lee Beckett as vice president and head of production for its film division.Lee will work closely with Wavelength founder and CEO Jenifer Westphal and president Joe Plummer to further the label’s mission to “tell great f***king stories.” In her new role, Beckett will manage the day-to-day operations for Wavelength’s in-house productions and work to

Also Read: Olivia Colman to Star in Maggie Gyllenhaal's Directorial Debut 'The Lost Daughter'Mendes will also reunite on the film with cinematographer Roger Deakins, who won his second Oscar on the continuous, unedited look of Mendes’ war film “1917.”“I have long been an admirer of Searchlight and the dynamic way they have produced and released some of my favorite theatrical releases of recent years,” Mendes said in a statement.

Charli XCX and Tove Lo is in the works according to Charli, who calls it “the best music ever.”The pair previously linked up on 2017 track ‘Out Of My Head’, which appears on Charli’s ‘Pop 2’ mixtape.Taking to Instagram, Charli discussed how the pair have been in the studio together in Palm Springs, California, and spoke of the music they’ve created.“[Tove Lo] and i have been out in Palm Springs writing songs together for a week (tested and safe) and we been making the best music ever!!!!!” she

critically-acclaimed film opens the 13th Annual ReelAbilities Film Festival running virtually through May 5 - according to THR. The 43-year-old Oscar nominee and the 50-year-old Golden Globe nominee portray a TV reporter and her cameraman in Best Summer Ever.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorThis year’s Outfest Fusion QTBIPOC Film Festival will include 10 feature and 41 short films.Among the feature titles are “All Boys Aren’t Blue,” “Caught,” “Crystal Diaries,” “Chosen Fam,” “Forgotten Roads,” “Kapana,” “Ma Belle, My Beauty,” “Nowhere,” “See You Then,” “Summertime” and “Unapologetic.”The shorts include “Mariam,” about a young Arab American amateur drag queen, and “God’s Daughter Dances,” the story of a trans woman in South