Toronto: Film Fest Heads Talk Finding New Audiences Online Amid Pandemic

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has won Heads of State, a pitch package designed to re-team John Cena and Idris Elba, who star in the upcoming The Suicide Squad sequel at Warner Bros. The project was sold after a Zoom pitch presentation with the actors, screenwriter Harrison Query, and the producers (The Safran Company’s Peter Safran and John Rickard).

The Nordic Film Festival, the largest Scandinavian film showcase outside Europe, has unveiled the lineup for its mostly virtual 6th edition from Oct. 15-20 in New York.

The 64thBFI London Film Festival said Friday that George Clooney will speak during an exclusive Screen Talk event. The actor and filmmaker will discuss "his illustrious and varied career, as well as his latest feature The Midnight Sky," which Netflix will release in December.

NEW YORK -- A new report on racial representation on New York stages has found that little has been changing — there remains an over-representation of white actors, writers and directors.The annual study, “The Visibility Report: Racial Representation on NYC Stages,” from the Asian American Performers Action Coalition, analyzed the 18 largest nonprofit theaters as well as Broadway companies in New York City during the 2017-18 season.Over 61% of all roles on New York City stages went to white

"We've become a good place to launch your campaign and make sure Oscar and Emmy notice," says Chuck Todd, the moderator of NBC's Meet the Press, host of MSNBC'sMTP Daily and NBC News' political director, as we discuss the upcoming fourth annual 'Meet the Press Film Festival at AFI,' a documentary shorts focused sidebar of the American Film Institute's AFI Fest, which will be all-virtual this year and run from Oct. 15 through Oct.

Ava DuVernay will be among the big names joining this year's 64th BFI London Film Festival industry program, which promises to focus on "key learnings and experiences that have emerged during a tumultuous and historical 2020, a year in which creatives seek new ways to collaborate across fractured media, cultural and social landscapes." Talks and panel events will explore themes arising from the coronavirus pandemic, changing business models and "demands to tackle systemic bias in the cultural

The 64th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express on Tuesday unveiled its lineup of Screen Talks and events that will be available for free via YouTube and the fest's social channels, including sessions withLetitia Wright and Riz Ahmed. Among filmmakers, this year's virtual event will feature the likes of Michel Franco, Miranda July, Tsai Ming-liang, Christian Petzold, musician and performer David Byrne and artist Es Devlin discussing their careers.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVNetflix has picked up freshman CBS series Evil and Unicorn.In an unusual deal, CBS TV Studios, which produces both series, has licensed their first seasons to Netflix in advance of the shows’ upcoming second seasons on CBS. Evil and Unicorn will make their Netflix debut on October 1.The agreement is for one year and not exclusive, with the first seasons of drama Evil and comedy The Unicorn continuing to stream on CBS All Access.

The BFI London Film Festival, in partnership with American Express, is introducing a new works-in-progress showcase as part of its industry program. In what is designed to become an annual event, the festival will present projects for film, TV and immersive platforms by U.K.

Naman Ramachandran The BFI London Film Festival has added a new, annual works-in-progress showcase as part of its industry program, and has invited seven projects to participate, including two featuring “Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker” and “The End of the F***ing World” actor Naomie Ackie and “ZeroZeroZero” actor Andrea Riseborough.The showcase features works made for cinema, television and immersive platforms by U.K.

Christopher Nolan's Tenet jumped the $200 million mark at the international box office over the weekend, but continues to struggle domestically without such major cities New York and Los Angeles in play. Warner Bros.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterThe 68th edition of Spain’s San Sebastian Film Festival gets underway tonight with the world premiere screening of Rifkin’s Festival, Woody Allen’s latest movie.The filmmaker was unable to jet into the fest due to ongoing pandemic disruption, appearing at the opening press conference via video link from New York.

Todd McCarthy Watching Lovers Rock is akin to going to see Romeo and Juliet and only staying through the first act, to departing a basketball game after the first quarter, to sipping the soup and skipping the rest of the meal. A mere wisp of a thing, Steve McQueen’s 68-minute feature, the only fictional section of a five-film anthology called Small Axe about London’s West Indian community between the late 1960s and 1980, steeps you in the atmosphere and music of the latter date.

Regina King's directorial debut One Night in Miami has been added to the 2020 BFI London Film Festival, this year taking place mostly virtually as the event adapts to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The Amazon film —which bowed in Venice (making it the first by a Black female director to screen at the festival) —is set to screen on Oct.

Greenland is delaying its Sept. 25 release amid the ongoing challenges facing the domestic box office due to the COVID-19 pandemic, including continued cinema closures in Los Angeles and New York City.

really long year), Macy’s set off small, five-minute fireworks in each New York borough throughout the week, leading up to a finale over the Empire State Building — all in front of zero spectators,” the company said.Also Read: NY Times' 'The Daily' Podcast Has Doubled Downloads Since Last Year to 4 MillionNBC has the official TV rights to both Macy’s events.

VENICE, Italy -- Chloe Zhao’s “Nomadland,” a recession-era road trip drama starring Frances McDormand, won the Golden Lion for best film Saturday at a slimmed-down Venice Film Festival, which was held against the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic.Zhao and McDormand appeared by video from the United States to accept the award, given virus-related travel restrictions made reaching the Lido in the Italian lagoon city difficult if not impossible for many Hollywood filmmakers and actors.“Thank you

John David Washington moved back in with his dad, Denzel Washington, amid the coronavirus pandemic — but he wasn't just there to relax. During an interview with 's guest host Samuel L.

Chloe Zhao’s “Nomadland”, a recession-era road trip drama starring Frances McDormand, won the Golden Lion for best film Saturday at the Venice Film Festival, held against the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic.