Screen Engine Launches Online Word-of-Mouth Screening Platform Amid Theater Closures

Christopher Vourlias Throughout the anxious weeks leading up to the opening night of the 19th Transilvania International Film Festival, as the coronavirus pandemic continued to spread across Romania, government officials began to impose a series of increasingly rigorous safety protocols that cast the festival’s viability in doubt.

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Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterFormer Live Nation New York president Anthony Makes has launched Brooklyn Made, an independent concert promotions company.  According to the announcement, the 30-year industry veteran is “looking to redefine what it means to be a 21 st century music company” and will operate out of his home in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y.“After having a front row seat to everything that was happening in the corporate concert promotion world, I really felt now

Dade Hayes Finance EditorThe Metrograph, the four-year old New York City arthouse that established itself as a tastemaking film venue before being knocked sideways by COVID-19, has launched an ambitious online expansion.Metrograph Digital will debut on Friday and will be available to anyone nationwide through an online membership program. For existing Metrograph members, there is no extra charge.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorLily Cornell Silver, daughter of Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell and the group’s former manager Susan Silver, launches her IGTV series “Mind Wide Open” today (July 20) in honor of her late father’s 56th birthday.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterA federal judge has upheld a state order closing movie theaters in Michigan, rejecting an owner’s claim that it infringed on his First Amendment right to hold a Juneteenth film festival.Emagine Royal Oak, a theater in the Detroit suburbs, sued Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and two other state officials on June 22, arguing that the state’s order amounted to an unlawful prior restraint on speech.But in a ruling on Thursday, U.S.

Guy Ritchie has teamed with Creative Access, the Brit organization offering support for people from under-represented backgrounds to get into the creative industries, to launch a new diversity initiative providing paid film internships. Called Set Access, the initiative — which will be initially open to young Black candidates from disadvantaged backgrounds — aims to eventually establish a talent pool of at least 250 interns from under-represented groups over a five-year period.

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Queen Elizabeth II, who is reportedly an avid gin fan.Per a press release from the charity, which organizes the opening of the main royal palaces and their accompanying stores to the public, the libation is aptly titled Buckingham Palace Gin.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterAfter delaying its 2020 edition due to the pandemic, Sundance’s London offshoot will return August 7-9 in an online form for a scaled down version. The event will present three features from this year’s Park City festival: Alan Ball’s Uncle Frank, Zeina Durra’s Luxor, and Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine’s Boys State, which won the Grand Jury Prize: Documentary in Utah this year.

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Get Layd has been the No. 1 album on Apple Music Nigeria since its release in May.“I have always used Apple Music, seeing my favorite artists on playlist covers and features but here I am looking pretty as Apple Music’s first Africa Rising artist,” said Lay in a statement.

Michelle Money’s 15-year-old daughter has been making up her studies following her March coma.“This kid aced her math course online that she had to make up since she was in the hospital!” the Bachelor alum, 38, captioned a Monday, June 29, Instagram Story video of the teenager holding a box of Nike tennis shoes.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterFilm and content financier BondIt Media Capital is teaming with Brian Presley’s P12 Films to back a slate of five features.The two companies said the deal would cover original stories and adapted content. P12 produced The Great Alaskan Race, which Presley directed and starred in, set in 1925 and telling the tale of a group of brave mushers who travelled 700 miles to save the small children of an Alaskan town.

food firm is launching a new service that will excite foodies across Scotland - online pakora making classes.Sheetal Revis, who runs The Pakora Explorer and created Scotland's first pakora drive-through, was inspired to create the new series of online events after doing a FB Live cooking demo with her mum at the start of lockdown went down a storm with her fans, she said:  "The Pakora Explorer came onto the Scottish Street Food scene in 2019, to the best of our knowledge we are the only street

Kevin Connolly is launching a podcast network. The actor-director known for playing the character E on Entourage has partnered with audio advertising firm Dax to launch ActionPark Media.

Naman Ramachandran Screen Ireland, the government development agency for the country’s screen sector, has launched a €1 million ($1.12 million) COVID-19 Production Fund, designed to partially offset additional production costs associated with implementing the newly published film and TV production guidelines (see link).Productions funded by Screen Ireland can apply for up to €75,000 ($84,600) per project.The Irish government has set out a phased return to normalcy in its document “Roadmap for

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe Asia Pacific Screen Awards, the annual Asian film prize ceremony that has been held in Brisbane, will have to find a new venue before this year’s event in November.The Brisbane City Council and its offshoot Brisbane Marketing have notified the organizers that they will not be able to fund the event in the next financial year, which runs July to June, due to the impact of the coronavirus on the city’s finances.