Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaGroundbreaking works by John Carpenter, Mira Nair, Melvin Van Peebles, Nina Menkes and Michael Powell will be featured in the Revivals lineup of the 59th New York Film Festival.
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Anna Marie de la Fuente As if coming out of the closet were not daunting enough, Canadian filmmaker Robbie Lemieux amps up the fear factor in his feature debut, “Fester.”A participant in the Frontières Co-Production Market, run by the Fantasia International Film Festival alongside Cannes’ Marché du Film, “Fester” is not your average coming-out story.“Writing ‘Fester’ was essentially a way to process why it had been so difficult for me to come out.
I also wanted to tell a story about someone who
.Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaGroundbreaking works by John Carpenter, Mira Nair, Melvin Van Peebles, Nina Menkes and Michael Powell will be featured in the Revivals lineup of the 59th New York Film Festival.
EXCLUSIVE: We have learned first that Netflix has set the cast for their adaptation of Annie Barrows’ New York Times bestselling book series Ivy & Bean and that is Emmy Award Nominee Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Emmy Award Winner Jane Lynch, Pretty Little Liars‘ Sasha Pieterse, Oscar nominee Nia Vardalos, Garfield Wilson, Jaycie Dotin and Marci T. House.
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André Braugher has joined Universal-Annapurna-Plan B’s feature adaptation of New York Times bestseller She Said about Pulitzer Prize winners Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey’s investigative journalism into movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s history of sexual assault, which led to his conviction.
Ring the Alarm! New Beyoncé is on the way!
New music from Beyoncé is on the horizon. Queen Bey, 39, gave a rare interview as the cover story for Harper’s Bazaar‘s September ICONS issue, where she revealed that she has new tunes coming out soon following a minor reprieve from music amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Anna Marie de la Fuente Set for its world premiere on Aug. 11 at the Fantasia Int’l Film Festival in Montreal, Uruguay’s “Ghosting Gloria” (“Muerto con Gloria”) presents a genre mash-up of comedy, romance and some spicy paranormal encounters with a poltergeist.Guido Rud’s FilmSharks snapped up worldwide sales and remake rights to the pic in June last year.
The red carpet is set to be rolled out on Thursday night's edition of Love Island - but will a night in front of the big screen bomb at the box office? In scenes to air tonight, Jake lets the Islanders know that they will be getting the luxury of a movie night as he reads out the text: "Islanders, Tonight we are treating you to a night at the pictures.
Capcom has lifted the lid on the final character that’s coming to ‘Street Fighter V’ and also revealed the release dates for Oro and Akira, but the headline news is definitely that there’s a brand new character called “Luke” coming to the game.
WKXW/NJ101.5.Vanderpump, 23, was known “in Trenton and across New Jersey as a fierce LGBTQ advocate,” the LGBTQ rights group Garden State Equality wrote in a Facebook post, vowing to “fight to bring justice to Shai and her loved ones.”According to The Trentonian, police responded to a report of a shooting at a residence in the unit block of Kelsey Avenue, in the city’s Pennington/Prospect neighborhood, around 4:40 a.m on Friday, July 30. Upon arrival, they found Vanderpump shot in the face.
Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and Media“Pose” star Jason Rodriguez is partnering with his longtime manager Ricardo Sebastián to form a new talent agency with a mission to elevate BIPOC, queer and trans creative talent. The new company has been dubbed Arraygency and will be based in New York City.
Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaPedro Almodóvar’s “Parallel Mothers” has been tapped as the closing night selection of the 59th New York Film Festival. The melodrama, which reunites the Spanish auteur with one of his greatest cinematic muses, Penélope Cruz, will make its North American premiere October 8 at Alice Tully Hall.
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Anna Marie de la Fuente Ever since Steven Spielberg’s career-launching blockbuster “Jaws” broke out in 1975, the world’s obsession with sharks has not slackened.
Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaEva Marie Saint is particular about one thing.“It’s Eva Marie, not Eva,” she says with the trademark lilt, the one that melted the likes of Marlon Brando and Cary Grant in such classics as “On the Waterfront” and “North by Northwest.”“I don’t want to embarrass you,” she adds to her temporarily flummoxed interviewer.
Poppy is set to release a new track called ‘Flux’ later this week.The Massachusetts singer-songwriter, who released the surprise EP ‘Eat’ last month, teased the arrival of a new project on social media earlier this week.Taking to her official channels again today (July 28), Poppy posted a brightly coloured clip depicting a cartoon baked treat character, whose eyes spin before vomiting.In the caption, Poppy revealed that a song titled ‘Flux’ will be arriving this coming Friday (July 30).
Sean Penn recently made headlines refusing to return to the set of “Gaslit” until all of the cast and crew have been vaccinated. MGM Studios have seemingly capitalized on this media attention surrounding Penn, as they’ve released a brand new trailer for his latest directorial effort “Flag Day” that the studio scooped up during the Cannes Film Festival.
Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaJane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog” has been tapped as the centerpiece selection for the 59th New York Film Festival.The film stars Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons, and Benedict Cumberbatch and will be released by Netflix. The streamer has awards ambitions for the Western, a historical drama that unfolds on a Montana cattle ranch in the 1920s.
PAISLEY DAILY EXPRESS: Live news as it happensProvost Cameron said she is hoping schoolkids will benefit hugely from the Renfrew twinning, with a ring-fenced exchange fund set up specifically for trips to twin towns.She added: "This is not just about politicians having a jolly and I want people to know that.
Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaThe Thane of Cawdor is hitting the Upper West Side.Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth” will make its world premiere as the opening night film of the 59th New York Film Festival. The update on the William Shakespeare’s classic tale of sound and fury stars Denzel Washington as the title character and Frances McDormand as his scheming wife.