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The Toronto, New York, Telluride and Venice film festivals, knocked sideways in their planning by the coronavirus pandemic, have unveiled a joint statement that commits the long-time rivals to cooperate and not compete for film titles and awards-season bragging rights in the fall. "This year, we’ve moved away from competing with our colleagues at autumn festivals and commit instead to collaboration.

Also Read: Sundance 2021 to Extend Beyond Utah, Be Held in 20 Cities Nationwide and OnlineAll four festivals take place within a month and a half of one another in the fall, and they’re the first stepping stone on the road to the Oscars, which for 2021 has already delayed its ceremony to late April.Venice is meant to take place Sept. 2-12, Telluride runs from Sept.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe Venice, Toronto, Telluride and New York Film Festivals have joined forces in an alliance that will see the prominent fall events, all positioned six weeks from each other, collaborate rather than compete in a spirit of post-pandemic solidarity.The statement announcing this alliance provides scant details of what concrete form it will take, beyond saying that they “are offering our festivals as a united platform for the best cinema we can find.” But

Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorThe Venice Film Festival this morning said that the 77th edition will go ahead from September 2-12 with certain changes owing to sanitary protocols imposed by the COVID-19 crisis.

LONDON — Netflix said on Friday it will continue to stream the Polish film “365 Days” amid calls for its withdrawal including by British singer Duffy who said it glamorized “the brutal reality of sex trafficking, kidnapping and rape.”

Duffy has penned an open letter calling out Netflix CEO Reed Hastings for the "irresponsible" decision to stream the film 365 Days, after sharing her own harrowing experience of being drugged, kidnapped and raped, which led to her "hiding" for years.

Singer Duffy has reportedly penned an open letter to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, criticizing the platform for its "irresponsible" decision to stream the controversial film 365 Days.

The BFI London Film Festival finds itself experiencing many of the issues that are plaguing the 2020 festival circuit. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many events to close this year and with the fall shaping up to be only a slight bit better than the spring and summer, events like the LFF are having to adapt.

Thanks to films like “Mad Max: Fury Road” and “Atomic Blonde,” Charlize Theron has positioned herself as one of the most badass actresses in action films today. And she hopes to keep that trend going with the upcoming Netflix action film, “The Old Guard.” As seen in the new trailer for the film, “The Old Guard” follows Theron as the leader of a mysterious group of immortal mercenaries that has stayed under the radar for hundreds of years.

A standard during the start of a cinematic calendar, the Sundance Film Festival takes place in Park City, Utah, each and every January. Now, 2021 seems a long way off, but the fest is already starting to plan for how the latest edition of Sundance can still go on.

Newly-installed Sundance Film Festival director Tabitha Jackson is pushing ahead with her event's 2021 edition, but is weighing physical and digital options for the festival amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Anthony D'Alessandro, Dominic Patten Sundance Festival Director Tabitha Jackson unveiled today in an open memo to the Sundance community what the 2021 Festival is bound to look like in the continuing COVID-19 environment.While recognizing that there’s still no vaccine, that many are unable to travel, yet socially distanced gatherings are permitted in Utah and other states, Jackson outlined what will be a current two-pronged approach in adapting the Robert Redford-founded event to the current

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaThe 2021 edition of the Sundance Film Festival will include a combination of virtual screenings and physical events, a hybrid model that is growing increasingly popular during the coronavirus pandemic.In a note to staff, Tabitha Jackson, the newly minted festival director, acknowledged the difficulty of hosting the Park City, Utah event next January when it’s unlikely that a vaccine for COVID-19 will have been discovered and widely disseminated.

 lacking in the trailer.In the words of Graham Norton in the film: ‘Okay, so not as bad as we expected.’Considering the amount of effort gone into capturing the Eurovision properly, we shouldn’t have doubted it would be done well but when it comes to Will Ferrell humour, it can be hit and miss.Thankfully, he is a fan of the song contest (his wife is Swedish and introduced him to it) and even attended the show on a number of occasions as ‘research’ for the film.The attention to detail he and

The Office creator Greg Daniels has announced a blackface scene in the hit U.S. comedy has been edited out.

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentA group of 18 leading film festivals has kick-started a campaign to persuade film festivals running online editions to use geoblocking technology to protect the commercial potential of the films, and the ability of other festivals to stage local premieres of the films.The campaign, led by Thessaloniki Intl.

festival announced Thursday.The romantic comedy, written and directed by Allen, stars Elena Anaya (“Wonder Woman”), Louis Garrel (“An Officer and a Spy”), Gina Gershon (“The Insider”), Sergi López (“Pan’s Labyrinth”), Wallace Shawn (“Marriage Story”) and Christoph Waltz (“Inglourious Basterds”).Allen shot the film last summer in and around San Sebastian, a town located in the mountainous Basque region of northern Spain.

very lacking in the trailer.In the words of Graham Norton in the film: ‘Okay, so not as bad as we expected.’Considering the amount of effort gone into capturing the Eurovision properly, we shouldn’t have doubted it would be done well but when it comes to Will Ferrell humour, it can be hit and miss.Thankfully, he is a fan of the song contest (his wife is Swedish and introduced him to it) and even attended the show on a number of occasions as ‘research’ for the film.The attention to detail he and