Oscilloscope Laboratories To Showcase SXSW Short Films With Return Of #SupportTheShorts Streaming Event

Oculus has announced that it will be hosting its first ever gaming showcase this month.The news was announced via the official Oculus blog on April 12.

Is Bravo gearing up to launch a new Real Housewives franchise? After Jana Kramer sparked speculation that she was filming The Real Housewives of Nashville, a source exclusively told Us Weekly that while cameras were rolling, there is no official order for a reality show — yet.

If you follow former Little Mix star Jesy Nelson on Instagram, you’ll know that she’s been embracing her natural curls over lockdown. But it looks like the star has decided to switch up her style for spring, as this week she unveiled a brand new hairstyle – and shared the results with her 7.7 million followers.

The Met Gala, New York’s annual extravaganza of celebrities and fashionistas, will return live and in person this year to launch a two-part exhibition on American fashion, one of which will include the involvement of yet-to-be named film directors in the staging of the exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Emilio Mayorga “Agus and Monsters,” “Mironins” and  “The Triplets” feature among five projects to be highlighted by promotion board Catalan Films at a Partner Content Showcase on April 12 focusing on animation, a burgeoning TV asset in Catalonia.

Ellise Shafer administratorBuckingham Palace has announced the plans for the funeral of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who died on Friday at the age of 99.According to the Associated Press, Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, is set to return to the U.K. to attend the funeral, which will be held on April 17 at Windsor Castle.

Mourning together. Queen Elizabeth II is “heartbroken” over the death of her husband, Prince Philip, especially as the royal family continues to navigate their recent public drama.

Annika Pham New York-based boutique distributor Juno Films has acquired North American rights to the intimate and compelling Norwegian documentary “Seyran Ates: Sex, Revolution and Islam,” featuring Turkish-German feminist lawyer and one of the first female imams in Europe. The deal was brokered by DR Sales ahead of the film’s world premiere at the San Francisco Intl.

We’re only in April, but 2021 has already turned into a big year for filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai. Not only has a number of his films been digitally restored in 4K and added to The Criterion Collection in a recent box set, but this year marks the 30th anniversary of the creation of Jet Tone Films, the filmmaker’s production company.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticThose who typically scope the Academy Award-nominated shorts programs hoping to win the Oscar pool will have a particularly tough time of it with this year’s animated roster, as the options are wide-ranging but lack a clear frontrunner. A few of the talents have ties to Pixar, though only one short was actually developed at a studio, while the other four are far more personal, independent expressions with little in common, least of all technique.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticLaw and order, and the lack thereof, were impossible to ignore amid last year’s “defund the police” protests, and the same tensions are reflected in the Oscar-nominated live-action shorts lineup. Some of the entries predate the George Floyd killing, while another was shot in direct reaction to that tragedy last summer; two more were made abroad, on opposite sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, touching on themes that transcend borders.

EXCLUSIVE: Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired U.S. rights to the genre-bending look at the life of musician and trans culture icon Billy Tipton in the documentary No Ordinary Man directed by Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt. The film production and distribution company founded by the late, great Adam Yauch of Beastie Boys also acquired the U.S. rights to Jeanne Leblanc’s suspense-drama Les Nôrtes (Our Own).

Glastonbury Festival will return this year in the form of a new live streamed event. Organisers behind the popular festival announced details of its Live at Worthy Farm event - a live streamed concert that is set to take place on May 22.