Tribeca To Kick Off With Indoor-Outdoor World Premiere Of ‘In The Heights’

Roughly six months after longtime "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek died, an executive producer on the show is speaking out about the process of finding his replacement.  Trebek died in November of 2020 at age 80 after a lengthy and public battle with stage 4 pancreatic cancer.The late star made good on his promise to continue hosting the show as long as he could, with a handful of episodes in which he hosted continuing to debut after his death.

The 2021 Tribeca Festival will host the world premieres of a number of upcoming TV series, including Peacock's Dr. Death, Starz's Blindspotting and the second season of OWN's David Makes Man.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaUtopia has acquired worldwide rights to David Gutnik’s “Materna” ahead of the film’s in-person debut at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival.The movie looks at four women, whose lives intersect during an incident on a New York City subway.

She misses him too. Jean Trebek is speaking out for the first time about how it felt to lose Alex Trebek, her husband of 30 years.

November death of her husband, Alex Trebek. The pair tied the knot in 1990 and shared two children. Now, in her first televised interview since the host's death, Jean, 56, opens up about what it meant to both her and the TV personality to get the support of his fans during his cancer battle. Jean speaks with Savannah Guthrie for the NBC News special,, and a preview clip of the interview was featured on Wednesday's show. «I think right now, talking with you, I'm good,» she says.

Jean Trebek is opening up for the first time in an interview with NBC News following the passing of her husband Alex Trebek.

One of our most anticipated films of the year? “Italian Studies,” the collaboration between Academy Award-nominated actress Vanessa Kirby “Pieces of A Woman“) and Adam Leon, the indie filmmaker behind the American indie writer/director behind acclaimed films like “Gimmie The Loot” and “Tramps.” And we’re fortunate enough to unveil the exclusive first-look image from the film.

Tonight on the Oscars, Disney songwriter and Mary Poppins Returns star Lin-Manuel Miranda showed off a new trailer for the upcoming feature adaptation of his Tony award winning musical In the Heights from Warner Bros.

The line-up for the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival line-up was announced yesterday, and now the promotion begins. One title that already has a release date and release schedule is actor, writer, and director Josh Ruben‘s “Werewolves Within,” which IFC Film is releasing later in the summer.

The Tribeca Film Festival on Tuesday revealed its 2021 lineup, with 66 films spanning three competition sections as well as the annual event’s Viewpoints, Spotlight, Midnight, Movies Plus, and Tribeca Critics’ Week sections.

Kacey Musgraves has a new record coming, and there’s a new label partnership forming just for the release!

The Tribeca Festival is set to open its 2021 edition by turning the lights up on Washington Heights. The in-person New York event will kick off June 9 with the world premiere of Warner Bros.' In the Heights at the United Palace theater in Washington Heights, the neighborhood where the story is based.

This year’s Tribeca Film Festival is expected to be very different than previous events. Not only is it the 20th anniversary of the festival, but it’s also the first year the event will be held outdoors in multiple open-air venues, providing the chance for audiences to experience a film festival in person in the age of COVID.

NEW YORK -- The big-screen adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda's “In the Heights” will kick off the Tribeca Film Festival on June 9, two days before the film opens in theaters and begins streaming.Set in New York's Washington Heights, Jon M.

Also Read: Tribeca Film Festival Heads Outdoors With In-Person Event in JuneLast Month, the Tribeca Film Festival announced it was going ahead with its 20th-anniversary edition this June, moving screenings to outdoor venues and becoming the first major U.S.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter“In the Heights,” a movie adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hit musical, has been tapped to open the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival.The festival’s opening night screening will be held on June 9 at the United Palace theater in Washington Heights.

The highly anticipated movie musical In the Heights will be released in theaters in June and the first reactions from early screenings are in!

Emiliano Granada Swiss doc company Lightdox has just acquired world sales rights to documentary “Little Palestine, Diary of a Siege” Abdallah Al-Khatib’s debut, co-produced by Films de Force Majeure and Bidayyat for Audiovisual Arts, premieres in Vision du Réel’s platform on April 21 in  its main International Feature CompetitionA Lebanon, France and Qatar co-production, the film follows the lives of Palestinian refugees living in the district of Yarmouk in Damascus, Syria.

Emiliano De Pablos Toronto-based Syndicado Film Sales has acquired international sales rights to lyrical Venezuela-set road-movie “Un cielo tan turbio” (“So Foul a Sky”), the sophomore feature by Spanish-born filmmaker Álvaro F. Pulpeiro (“Nocturno: Ghosts of the Sea in Port”).The film world premieres on April 24, competing in the Next Wave section at the Copenhagen Intl.