Next month’s Tribeca Film Festival will close with a still-untitled documentary produced by comedian Dave Chappelle about the issues confronting a rural Ohio town in 2020.
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EXCLUSIVE: AMC Networks’ RLJE Films has taken North American rights to the Elijah Wood and Luke Kirby dramatic thriller No Man of God, based on real transcripts and conversations between serial killer Ted Bundy and FBI agent Bill Hagmaier. The deal for the Amber Sealey-directed feature went down ahead of the pic’s Tribeca Film Festival premiere in June. The pic is now scheduled to hit theaters in August.
In 1980, Bundy (Kirby) was sentenced to death by electrocution. In the years that followed,
Next month’s Tribeca Film Festival will close with a still-untitled documentary produced by comedian Dave Chappelle about the issues confronting a rural Ohio town in 2020.
“The Donut King” (2020)From filmmaker Alice Gu, “The Donut King” traces the twisty, unexpected journey of Cambodian refugee Ted Ngoy, who arrived in California in the 1970s and, through a mixture of diligence and luck, built a multi-milion dollar donut empire up and down the west coast.After escaping the brutal Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, Ngoy started a new life in America as a church custodian and eventually parlayed hard luck and opportunity into the opening of his first donut shop in Orange
Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentVice TV has announced investigative doc “VICE VERSA: College $ports, Inc.,” exposing the allegedly exploitative relationship between the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and student athletes.The 90-minute “VICE VERSA,” for which Vice is launching a trailer (above), is hosted by former Olympian and NCAA athlete Jeremy Bloom and will premiere on Vice TV in the U.S.
Ethan Shanfeld The American Cinematheque announced that the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica will reopen on June 10.The theater will celebrate its reopening with a special advance screening of Jon M. Chu’s movie adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical “In The Heights” on June 10, followed by a showing of Edgar Wright’s documentary “The Sparks Brothers” on June 14.
Ireland has become quite the breeding ground for A-list Hollywood productions as of late, Enchanted 2 has just kicked off and now Elizabeth Banks has the most unexpected project lined up.
Last year, we had Matt Damon, then Amy Adams and Patrick Dempsey have touched down and now Modern Family star, Sarah Hyland has arrived on our shores. The American actress is currently filming a new fairytale series in Ireland.
© NETFLIX Halston Netflix: Where is Halston filmed The majority of filming for Halston took place on location in New York, US. In 2020, Ewan McGregor, who portrays Halston was spotted on Fifth Avenue, Manhatten filming scenes for the drama.
EXCLUSIVE: IFC Midnight has taken North American rights to Sean King O’Grady’s debut genre feature We Need to Do Something ahead of the pic’s Tribeca Film Festival world premiere in the Midnight Section.
A common issue with coming-of-age films is the lack of realism. Typically, these films are written and directed by folks that are well past the age that is depicted on screen.
Christopher Vourlias Colombia’s Germán Arango and Ana María Muñoz, the director-producer duo behind Hot Docs International Spectrum competition title “Songs That Flood the River,” are prepping a host of new documentary and fiction features focused on race, gender, violence and resistance in the South American nation, Variety has learned.Arango is developing “MC Silencio,” a Medellín-set musical drama in which the young resist and fight paramilitary aggression through hip-hop, and “The Man With
Ted Nugent claims that systemic racism does not exist in the US.In a new video posted by the conservative rocker and his wife Shemane, he described “systemic racism” as a “lie”.“There is no systemic racism. It’s a lie.
Ted Nugent tested positive for coronavirus last month one week after performing maskless at an event in Florida.The US guitarist and singer revealed his coronavirus diagnosis in a video message to his fans on April 19.
Girl In Red made her US TV debut last night (May 3), appearing on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon.The Norwegian indie-pop star – whose real name is Marie Ulven – performed her track ‘Serotonin’, which appears on her debut album ‘If I Could Make It Go Quiet’, remotely on the show.Ulven’s performance began with the musician by herself, singing to a camera from an industrial, quarry-like location, before moving inside to a blue-lit space where she was joined by her band.Watch Girl In Red’s
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefAward-winning Chinese sci-fi novel “Folding Beijing” will move into production as a movie later this year, following a green light from mainland China studio Wanda Film.The film, titled “Folding City” is to be helmed by Josh Kim, the Korean-American director who previously made a splash with adolescent drama “How to Win at Checkers (Every Time)”. The film was selected as Thailand’s Oscar contender in 2015.