Toronto Film Festival plots in-person, digital edition

Black Widow is making history with its box office earnings and the film has now clinched a massive opening weekend collection of USD 80 million in the US as reported by Variety. It's the highest debut ever since the pandemic.

Marvel's first release since the pandemic began, Black Widow is already setting records at the box office. After Vin Diesel's F9 provided the much-needed boost to the box office amid the pandemic-hit business, Scarlett Johansson's superhero film is now making a bigger impact with its strong start at the box office.

COVID-19 cases per day, according to the event’s boss.Cannes general secretary Francois Desrousseaux has denied rumours of a “cluster” of cases at the event, which is running from July 6-17 in France.Speaking to Variety, Desrousseaux said: “Out of several thousand people getting testing here on a daily basis, there are an average of three cases per day.”All guests who aren’t double vaccinated or are travelling from abroad, including from the United States, and countries on France’s ‘orange’ list

Zero Contact has become the first feature film acquisition for Vuele, a recently launched viewing and distribution platform for non-fungible tokens (NFTs).The film will premiere as an NFT on the global platform, which launched last month as a joint venture between the film’s US producers, Enderby Entertainment, and financial technology company CurrencyWorks, according to Screen Daily.Vuele states it is the first direct-to-consumer platform to offer users exclusive, limited edition film and other

EXCLUSIVE: Storyboard Media has sold North American rights for horror Lair to Hunt For The Wilderpeople and American Animals distributor 1091 Pictures.

Parkinson’s disease. After suffering from the disease for over five years, the filmmaker was confirmed dead by his wife on wednesday, who said he died in his sleep at his apartment in New York City.

EXCLUSIVE: European arthouse sales force The Match Factory and ICM Partners are teaming up to jointly represent four films playing at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorA24 has taken all North American rights to “Lamb,” which world premieres on May 13 in Cannes in the Un Certain Regard competitive sidebar. Jan Naszewski’s sales agency New Europe Film Sales confirmed the A24 pickup on Monday.

The American Film Market is set to return as a physical event in 2021, following the Covid-impacted 2020 edition that was forced to go virtual.

Naman Ramachandran The American Film Market (AFM) will return in November as an in-person event, organizers have confirmed.“I want to let you know that plans are well underway for an in-person AFM this year, taking place November 2-7.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaThe Toronto International Film Festival is ready to welcome audiences back to in-person premieres and screenings after COVID-19 forced the 2020 edition of the annual celebration of movies to unfold largely online.This week, TIFF announced that while it still plans to show films virtually for press and film executives who can’t travel to Canada because of travel restrictions or other concerns, it will return to showcasing movies at some of its most

EXCLUSIVE: The just-concluded Tribeca Festival, which offered signs of the industry and culture bouncing back from the coronavirus pandemic, drew solid crowds both in person and online, according to new data from organizers.

Coldplay performed their latest single ‘Higher Power’ on The Tonight Show in the US last night (June 16), with the band receiving guest backing vocals from host Jimmy Fallon.The track was originally released on May 7, with its accompanying music video only dropping last week.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentKino Lorber has acquired all North American rights to the Amos Gitai Film Collection, comprising 22 films by the award-winning bold Israeli director of Cannes’ Palme d’Or contenders “Kippur,” BAFTA-winning “Kadosh,” and “Free Zone” with Natalie Portman. Gitai’s latest film, “Laila in Haifa” (pictured), which featured Israeli and Palestinian actors, world premiered at Venice in 2020.

Networks and streamers are setting special programming to celebrate Juneteenth, the holiday commemorating the emancipation of those who had been enslaved in the United States. More specifically, Juneteenth marks the enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in the last Southern holdout state, Texas, on June 19, 1865.