Tim Burgess, Self Esteem and The Murder Capital lead 2021 line-up of new Sheffield festival Get Together

Leonardo DiCaprio and Meryl Streep will lead what appears to be the most star-studded cast since Ocean’s Eleven.Adam McKay has assembled an ensemble of A-list talent for his Netflix comedy Don’t Look Up – a film that already had Jennifer Lawrence, Cate Blanchett and Rob Morgan attached.Jonah Hill, Timothee Chalamet and Himesh Patel are also on the call sheet for the forthcoming film.Ariana Grande, Kid Cudi, Matthew Perry and Tomer Sisley have also signed on to make appearances.McKay has been

Tim Burgess has compiled a playlist featuring every artist that has featured so far in his ongoing series of ‘Tim’s Twitter Listening Parties’.Launched back in March as the UK went into coronavirus-enforced lockdown, the regular listen-and-tweet-along online event sees bands and artists tweeting through a playback of one of their classic albums and interacting with fans.Now approaching its seventh month in operation, Burgess announced last night (October 14) that he had compiled a dedicated

Jason Derulo has been added to the line-up for next year’s Rock In Rio Lisbon event.The festival, which was due to take place over two consecutive weekends over June 20-21 and 27-28 this year, was postponed until 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.Many of the initially confirmed acts have been carried over to 2021, including Post Malone, Liam Gallagher Foo Fighters, The National and Black Eyed Peas.Next year’s event will now be held on the weekends of June 19-20 and June 26-27 with Derulo

Michael B. Jordan and Black Lives Matter co-founder Opal Tometi have unveiled the line-up for their virtual Social Justice Now Film Festival (SJNFF).The new initiative is set to launch with the Black Panther star and the activist as co-ambassadors and on Monday (October 12, 2020), organizers for the event announced the socially conscious productions they plan to screen.The documentaries 40 Years a Prisoner and Freedia Got a Gun will be featured while original films Us Kids, Reefa, and SNCC,

here.Film Life Foundation is the festival organizer, with Coalition Partners to include ABFF Ventures, Endeavor Content, One Community, and Outlier Society.

Angelique Jackson Michael B. Jordan’s award-winning films “Just Mercy,” and “Fruitvale Station” will serve as opening night screenings for the inaugural Social Justice Now Film Festival (SJNFF).Both films will play on Wednesday, Oct.

Dino-Ray Ramos editorThe Film Life Foundation’s inaugural Social Justice Now Film Festival (SJNFF) has unveiled its robust program including its spotlight screenings including the documentaries 40 Years A Prisoner from HBO, Us Kids, and SNCC executive produced by Pharell Williams as well as I Am Other. and the narrative feature REEFA.

The Charlatans’ Tim Burgess has penned an article for The Guardian with one specific reader in mind – UK Chancellor Of The Exchequer Rishi Sunak. I’m not sure Sunak is likely to be a Guardian reader, but nonetheless, Burgess takes aim at his suggestion earlier this week that, because of COVID, musicians should start thinking about giving up on their dream and re-train for another job.Sunak, of course, denies that he said any such thing.

Tim Burgess has written an open letter to Rishi Sunak to argue for stronger support for arts workers in Britain.The Charlatans frontman and solo artist sent a note to the Chancellor of the Exchequer today (October 8) to counter implications made by Sunak to ITV News that people working in the arts and other industries will have to look for “fresh” employment opportunities to weather the storm of the coronavirus pandemic.In an open letter published by The Guardian, Burgess accused the Chancellor

this year’s celebrities ahead of the new 2021 series.Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby will once again return to present the show alongside the expert panel of Torvill and Dean, John Barrowman and Ashley Banjo, who are all to resume their roles as judges.The 12 celebrities taking part were announced in full last week, with the professionals joining them now confirmed.

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorJerry Seinfeld gave a shout out to Netflix for helping shift perceptions of comedians — and their paydays — as he and Steve Martin trash talked the genre-snubbing Oscars.“I think for a long time, and actually until Netflix, comedians were just not as important, not as valuable, not considered major artists or real artists.

Despite the current Covid regulations, we’re still finding ways of going out and enjoying ourselves where we can. From bottomless brunches with girlfriends to coffee catch ups, we’re all doing our best to keep ourselves positive, and not sure about you but a new purchase always puts a mid week smile on our faces...

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business Editor“I’m getting some pretty meaty offers in the past few days that I am going to attribute to Loy Cannon,” said Chris Rock, who plays the head of the eponymous Cannon crime syndicate in the fourth season of Fargo.“Yeah, I am ready to do more stuff like this. More meaty roles,” the standup comic-actor-director announced at the New Yorker Festival in a Tuesday night virtual session.

Dune has been delayed until late 2021.The sci-fi epic was set to be released this December, however it will now be almost a year until it hits cinemas.According to Collider, the film will now be released on October 1, 2021. They cite studio Warner Bros’ recent decision to delay Wonder Woman 1984 until Christmas Day as one of the reasons for the new date.The first trailer for the adaptation of Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel was revealed last month.

The COVID-19 has crippled the performing arts, leaving countless actors out of work. A new ad campaign for Verizon-backed all-digital wireless service Visible is putting a set of New York City actors to work and on center stage —literally — by helping to shine a spotlight on the crisis.

Beatles scholar believes they have solved a decades-long mystery of the inspiration behind John Lennon‘s ‘Grow Old With Me’.The song was released a month before the legendary artist was shot dead in December 1980, and it was known to have been influenced by a film about baseball that Lennon saw during a visit to Bermuda earlier that year.Kenneth Womack told The Observer he had watched dozens of films before realising that the key inspiration was A Love Affair: The Eleanor And Lou Gehrig Story, a