Tribeca Film Festival Announces Plans For In-Person Event In June

As the American sports series Big Shot aired its first episode, people could not stop talking about the show’s touching storyline. Starring John Stamos, in the lead role of Marvyn Korn, the show focuses on the relationship a couch has with its players.

Good Deed Entertainment’s genre label Cranked Up Films has acquired U.S. rights to American Badger, an action film written and directed by and starring stunt veteran Kirk Caouette (X-Men, Fantastic Four, Mission to Mars). It is set for a digital and VOD release on June 15.

John Corbett will be reprising his role as Aidan Shaw in the reboot of Sex and the City, he has confirmed.The 59-year-old starred opposite Sarah Jessica Parker, playing her character Carrie Bradshaw's one-time fiancé, in the hit US show from 2000 to 2003.

John Cleese mocked "The Simpsons" actor Hank Azaria’s recent apology for the Apu character by jokingly apologizing for past Monty Python sketches.  Azaria found himself at the heart of controversy in 2017 when a documentary sparked a conversation about him, a White person, voicing the Indian-American character Apu Nahasapeemapetilon on the show since 1989.The actor appeared on the "Armchair Expert" podcast recently where he apologized and expressed how much guilt he feels to have negatively

Joe Biden over his delay in raising the cap on refugee admissions.The talk show host addressed the status of the United States Refugee Admissions Program on Last Week Tonight, per the Hollywood Reporter, commenting on Biden’s promises to reverse Donald Trump‘s policies which drastically reduced admissions rates.“The US used to be a world leader in how many refugees we accepted, but this fucking guy,” Oliver said on Sunday (April 11), pointing to a photo of Trump, “not only slashed the admissions

Borderlands film.The news was first reported by Deadline Hollywood on Monday, April 12. Commander Knoxx, who will be a “key character” in the upcoming film, is the daughter of General Knoxx, who first appeared in the Secret Armory Of General Knoxx DLC for the first Borderlands game according to Game Informer.Commander Knoxx will be portrayed by Indian-American actress Janina Gavankar, who is perhaps best known for her role as Iden Versio in Star Wars Battlefront II.

Parasite director Bong Joon-Ho recently opened up about Asian hate and called on his fellow filmmakers to speak out and use their medium to respond to the racism and hate directed towards Asian and Black communities. “I’m far away in Korea and I have to see everything in the news from an outsider’s perspective, but as someone who is a part of mankind, as a person, it’s quite fearful to watch the hate crimes against Asian-Americans and the BLM movement,” Bong shared during a virtual masterclass

John Oliver went after President Joe Biden on Sunday's Last Week Tonight over his failure to keep his promises related to the United StatesRefugee Admissions Program. TheRefugee Admissions Program is intended to help people from other countries who are fleeing persecution and have applied for resettlement in the United States.

The Met Gala, New York’s annual extravaganza of celebrities and fashionistas, will return live and in person this year to launch a two-part exhibition on American fashion, one of which will include the involvement of yet-to-be named film directors in the staging of the exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh passed away on April 9, 2021. The Duke's death has come as a shock to many and has certainly left those who knew him and were close to him in mourning.

Cannes Film Festival from moving forward with its plans to host an in-person event in early July.Cannes’ artistic director Thierry Fremaux is in active discussions with U.S.

The 2021 Outfest Fusion QTBIPOC (Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous and People of Color) Film Festival is set to honor I May Destroy You icon Michaela Coel with the Fusion Achievement Award while The United States Vs. Billie Holiday star and Oscar nominee Andra Day will be honored with the James Schamus Ally Award on April 17. The hybrid fest will take place April 16-20.

Milo Ventimiglia sent Jimmy Fallon‘s wife Nancy a very interesting photo!

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorThis year’s Outfest Fusion QTBIPOC Film Festival will include 10 feature and 41 short films.Among the feature titles are “All Boys Aren’t Blue,” “Caught,” “Crystal Diaries,” “Chosen Fam,” “Forgotten Roads,” “Kapana,” “Ma Belle, My Beauty,” “Nowhere,” “See You Then,” “Summertime” and “Unapologetic.”The shorts include “Mariam,” about a young Arab American amateur drag queen, and “God’s Daughter Dances,” the story of a trans woman in South

Angelique Jackson Film and television producer Will Packer will serve as the jury president for the 2021 American Black Film Festival (ABFF).The annual festival celebrates its 25th anniversary this year with a hybrid model, with live events held Nov. 3-7 in Miami Beach, Fla., followed by a week of virtual events on abffplay.com (available from Nov.

The Tribeca Film Festival will have in-person screenings, something no North American fest has done since the start of Covid-19.