By Bruce Haring
21.04.2020 - 19:11 / variety.com
By Brent Lang
Executive Editor of Film and Media
With most theaters closed, Neon will launch “Spaceship Earth,” its upcoming documentary, on an innovative patchwork of drive-in theaters, pop-up projections, and on demand.
The indie studio will roll out the film on May 8, at a time when the bulk of cinemas are expected to remain shuttered due to the coronavirus pandemic. The film will be immediately available on digital platforms such as Apple TV, Amazon, and Hulu. But Neon isn’t giving up
By Bruce Haring
It doesn’t get much stranger than, the fascinating new documentary about the unbelievably true story of eight strangers who spent two years quarantined inside a man-built replica of the Earth’s ecosystem called Biosphere 2. The experiment, which started in 1991, became a worldwide phenomenon at the time as fans and the media alike kept daily track of life inside the dome, where these volunteers faced life-threatening problems and criticism from the scientific community.
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Nicola Sturgeon has unveiled a strategy which aims to suppress coronavirus in the coming weeks and months.
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With a new act making their debut on the K-pop scene roughly every two days, entering this multibillion-dollar industry is never easy but becomes all the more tricky in a global pandemic.Since the December conclusion of the singing-competition show World Klass, the debut for boy band TOO has been actively in the works for months. After the TV program whittled 20 participants into a 10-member lineup, the promising band with an already established fanbase has been in preparation mode.
There seems to be a lot of debate about when our lives will, or should, go back to normal. Protesters are feeling like prisoners who are forced to stay inside their homes, while other seemingly more responsible Americans are voluntarily staying indoors to protect themselves and those they care about. I’m sure these types of conversations permeate most households, but here in my new abode, different debates are much more intense, at least to a 5-year-old.
By Jennie Punter
Neon — home of Oscar winner Parasite — said Tuesday it will release Matt Wolf’s Sundance Film Festival documentary Spaceship Earth on a multitude of platforms on May 8, including any cinemas that might remain open amid the coronavirus pandemic. “Neon has never released a film without the benefit of theaters and Spaceship Earth is no exception to that rule,” Neon founder and CEO Tom Quinn said Tuesday in a statement.
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