Sundance Doc ‘President’, About The Fight For Democracy In Zimbabwe, Gets North American Deal; Thandiwe Newton, Danny Glover Exec-Produce

Katie Song Gravitas Ventures, a Red Arrow Studios company, acquired North American rights to the documentary “Lady Buds,” directed, produced and written by Chris J.

EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Charli XCX: Alone Together, a documentary that follows international pop star Charli XCX as she records an album during the pandemic with online input from her fans.

Little Simz has unveiled a string of North American tour dates, celebrating the release of her recent album ‘Sometimes I Might Be Introvert’.The ten-stop tour will be spread across May next year and include performances in Portland, San Francisco, Toronto, Los Angeles and New York, among other locations. It will follow on from the rapper’s UK tour between October and December, and her European circuit kicking off in January.

Jordan Fisher, who was playing the title role in Dear Evan Hansen on Broadway when the Covid pandemic shutdown hit in March 2020, will return to the role when the musical reopens at the Music Box Theatre Dec. 11.

Lesli Linka Glatter has been elected president of the DGA at the guild’s biennial convention, held today at DGA national headquarters in Los Angeles. Glatter, who was the guild’s 1st vice president, is only the second woman ever elected president of the DGA. Martha Coolidge held the post from 2002-03. Twenty-two men have served as president, going back to the guild’s founding in 1936.

EXCLUSIVE: Streaming service ChaiFlicks has acquired North American rights to three Israeli series from Shtisel and Fauda outfit Yes Studios.

Leading US genre festival Beyond Fest has set a slate of programming comprising 39 features ahead of its return to theaters between September 29 and October 11.

Gkids has nabbed North American rights to Takayuki Hirao’s indie anime pic Pompo the Cinephile, and will release both the original Japanese-language film (titled Eiga Daisuki Pompo-san) and a new English-language version in U.S. theaters early next year.

Jamie Lang The Guadalajara Film Festival (FICG) will close this October’s rescheduled in-person festival with the first two episodes of Netflix’s animated event series “Maya and the Three” from daytime Emmy-winning director Jorge Gutierrez (“The Book of Life,” “El Tigre”).“Having ‘Maya’ premier at my beloved FICG, in the capital of Mexican animation, is a dream come true!” Gutierrez told Variety after the announcement was made.FICG released details outlining the full program for this year’s

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAlthough Dua Lipa had the misfortune of dropping a party album just as the pandemic was starting, “Future Nostalgia” became one of the biggest albums of the past 18 months — and she’s finally announced North American arena tour in support of the album, for next year.The tour makes 28 stops across the U.S., including her first-ever headline show at Madison Square Garden in New York City and the Forum in Los Angeles.

Dundee street after a man was allegedly spotted with a weapon during a street fight. Emergency services raced to Yeaman's Lane around 9.50am after an altercation between two men.

LADbible–but only in the right part. The actress revealed that she was forced to reject a particularly underwhelming role in such a film. “I was offered a role playing someone’s mum who just dies,” Newton told LADbible.

British actress Thandiwe Newton has been making a career tackling genre projects with roles like Maeve in HBO‘s “Westworld,” the female lead in John Woo‘s “Mission: Impossible 2,” “The Chronicles of Riddick,” Guy Ritchie‘s gangster comedy “RockNRolla,” “Interview with the Vampire,” and now reunites with “Westworld’s” Lisa Joy for the new feature, “Reminiscence.” READ MORE: ‘Solo’: Thandiwe Newton Says Val Wasn’t Supposed To Die In The ‘Star Wars’ Spinoff & Calls The Death “A Big, Big Mistake”

Thandiwe Newton has revealed that she’d love to star in a superhero movie.

Thandiwe Newton is interested in attaching herself to a superhero movie now that film’s in the genre are offering more.

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Kacey Musgraves has announced a string of North American tour dates for 2022 in support of her forthcoming album ‘star-crossed’.The musician will make her return with the follow-up to ‘Golden Hour’ next week (September 10).Next January, Musgraves will then hit the road in the US and Canada, kicking off the tour in St Paul, Minnesota on January 19 and continuing on to a final show in LA on February 20.

Next week, Kacey Musgraves will share star-crossed, her new album and follow-up to the Grammy-winning Golden Hour. Her recent single "justified" has a hook that demands to be sung along to, and you could easily imagine the album's title track opening up a spellbinding concert — just in time, Musgraves has shared a batch of North American tour dates in 2022.

Thandiwe Newton looks so chic while heading to an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!