Screen Media's David Fannon on Why the Indie Film Sector Will Survive: "People Want Quality Content"

“The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” has returned to the studio, minus the audience, after filming from Fallon’s home during the COVID-19 shutdown.

couple Syngin and Tania have reached a crossroads in their relationship. On Sunday's episode of Syngin bluntly admitted to Tania that he doesn't know if he wants to settle down in America with her, despite her desire to have children and plan their future together.Viewers previously saw Syngin's struggles after moving from South Africa to Colchester, Connecticut, to be with Tania — whom he connected with after they met at a bar while she was traveling to his country — during season 7 of.

how and where he’s been memorialized. In the Bay Area, for example, George Washington High School is named after our first president, even though Washington during his lifetime, and the region didn’t become part of the United States until a half-century after his death.That’s why, this month, I helped launch a to rename San Francisco’s George Washington High School after its most distinguished alumna—the iconic poet, author, and activist Maya Angelou.

A new film from action director David Leitch is always worth keeping an eye on. In a relatively short time, thanks to “John Wick,” “Atomic Blonde,” and more, the director has proven himself to be one of the best genre filmmakers working today.

Ruth Negga was raised in Limerick, Ireland before moving to London to study and then onward to Los Angeles. However, it wasn’t until London that the actress said she really experienced racism.

Will Thorne Staff WriterQuibi is making a series about fake news and its impact on the 2016 presidential election.The short-form content platform has issued a series order for “Clickbait” (working title), which tells the true story of a group of Macedonian teenagers who made a fortune creating fake news in the run-up to the 2016 election. “Clickbait” will explore the profound effect their work had on the American election and on their own lives.

Netflix's newest adaptation of 's series of beloved novels about a group of t(w)eenage friends who run a baby-sitting enterprise in Stoneybrook, Connecticut.

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.

Jill Goldsmith A restart for film and television is bearing down but looming uncertainty around COVID-19 insurance has the business on edge.Pandemic insurance disappeared in March. Three months later there’s still no viable alternative to put many independent producers back on a path to completion bond backed financing.

Fernando Sulichin is used to doing things differently. The veteran producer and CEO of New Element Media has established a reputation for working with maverick auteurs — Oliver Stone, Sean Pean, Abel Ferrara, Michael Winterbottom, Larry Clark, Harmony Korine — and finding creative ways to get films made that don't fit the industry's cookie-cutter models.

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.

It's not just millions and millions of common folk that are fans of the iconic series, Friends, but even celebrities can't get enough of the beloved classic. In case you were living under a rock, Friends aired from 1994-2004 and made household names out of Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer.

Justin Kroll Film ReporterSpyglass Media and Paramount Pictures have joined forces to co-produce the relaunch of “Scream,” sources tell Variety.The latest installment, in which David Arquette is set to reprise his role as Deputy Dewey, will be directed by “Ready or Not” filmmakers Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett.Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett will work with fellow members of filmmaking group Radio Silence, James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick. Project X Entertainment’s Vanderbilt, Paul

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorFreestyle Digital Media has acquired U.S. rights to Divos!, a high school comedy directed by Ryan Patrick Bartley.

Depeche Mode are set to stream their LiVE SPiRiTS concert film in its entirety next week via YouTube.Performed in Berlin as part of the Global Spirit Tour, the 2018 show features sporadically in the group’s acclaimed SPiRiTS in the Forest documentary which is coming to DVD/Blu-Ray on June 26.To celebrate the home release, Depeche Mode have teamed up with Live Nation to bring the full LiVE SPiRiTS gig to YouTube next Thursday (June 25).

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Archstone Entertainment will launch world sales on superhero indie film The Hyperions at the upcoming Cannes virtual market.Writer-director Jon McDonald’s previously announced action-comedy sees Cary Elwes (The Princess Bride) star as Professor Ruckus Mandelbaum who in 1960 invents the ‘Titan badge’, which gives humans superpowers. He creates an unusual family of superheroes who rise to fame and prestige.