UK Theatres Can Reopen On August 1

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Tylor Norwood’s (The United States of Detroit, Paper Tigers) documentary Robin’s Wish has landed at Vertical Entertainment. The company has acquired the North American distribution rights to the feature that chronicles the late Robin Williams’ final days and, for the first time, focus on his fight against a deadly neurodegenerative disorder known as Lewy Body Dementia.

Boris Johnson has announced that face coverings will be mandatory in UK cinemas from next weekend.In a Downing Street briefing held earlier today (July 31), the Prime Minister also stated that face masks will be compulsory in museums, galleries and places of worship from August 8.It comes after Cineworld launched a petition back in June in order to make face coverings compulsory amidst the coronavirus pandemic.

More shows will close and not reopen and more theatres will go out of business, the chief of the Society of London Theatre and UK Theatre has warned.

Following in the wake of similar announcements by AMC Theatres now that more concrete cinema release dates for new films have been decided (mainly “Tenet”), Regal Cinemas, has announced that it will begin to reopen its U.S. locations starting from August 21.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterFrightFest, the UK horror festival that was forced to move online this year because of pandemic disruption, has unveiled a lineup for its 21st edition (August 27-31) including seven world premieres.The event opens with the UK premiere of Sky Sharks, which features Nazi zombie-piloted airborne killer sharks.World premieres include Logan Thomas’s There’s No Such Thing As Vampires, Patrick Rea’s I Am Lisa, Ruben Pla’s The Horror Crowd, G-Hey Kim’s Don’t Click,

If there is one movie that has been creating quite a lot of buzz in the media, it is definitely Tenet. The release date of Christopher Nolan’s much-awaited thriller had been postponed owing to the COVID-10 pandemic that hit the entire world.

A petition demanding a review of the sentence handed to a hit-and-run driver who killed Robyn Fryar has been backed by almost 5000 people. Shaun Gatti was jailed for just five years and three months after mowing down the 15-year-old schoolgirl in Paisley on July 7, 2019.

It’s the same cycle that has played out over and over again this summer. COVID-19 numbers don’t go down.

Fabio Acosta began his career in 2002, when he joined EMI Latin in Miami as an assistant to Lucas Piña, who at the time was the label's director of radio and promotion. From that platform, Acosta went on to launch his own independent radio promotion company, Akela Family Music."I worked with lots of artists, many number ones," he said.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorDave Grohl has spoken out in defense of teachers as the Trump administration continues its “daunting and evermore politicized question of reopening our schools in the coronavirus pandemic.”In the first audio version of the Foo Fighters founder’s “Dave’s True Stories” series, Grohl — whose mother (pictured with him above) was a public school teacher — says:“Every teacher has a ‘plan.’ Don’t they deserve one too? My mother had to come up with three separate lesson

Zelda Williams is honouring her dad, Robin Williams, on what would have been his 69th birthday.

According to Variety, the news was announced by Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Oliver Dowden via Twitter. “The U.K.’s performing arts sector is renowned across the world and I am pleased that we are making real progress in getting its doors reopened to the public with social distancing,” Dowden said in a statement.“From August indoor theaters, music venues and performance spaces will safely welcome audiences back across the country,” he said.“Delighted indoor

Theatres, music venues and indoor performance spaces will be allowed to welcome back live audiences from next month, the government has confirmed.Boris Johnson announced the news today as the UK reaches the fourth step in the government's five-stage roadmap.Audiences will be permitted to return from August 1, but must adhere to social distancing measures.Performers will also have to maintain social distancing at all times.The announcement is a major step forward for the arts industry, one of the

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorOn July 9, the same day that Live Nation Entertainment was sued by a furloughed executive claiming race and gender discrimination, the company’s CEO Michael Rapino posted an open letter to employees across the world promising greater diversity in the years to come, along with a $10 million investment to “focus on developing, promoting and hiring Black and underrepresented talent.”With 2025 as a target date, the document pledges to double the overall percentage of

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorOn July 9, the same day that Live Nation Entertainment was sued by a furloughed executive claiming race and gender discrimination, the company’s CEO Michael Rapino posted an open letter to employees across the world promising greater diversity in the years to come, along with a $10 million investment to “focus on developing, promoting and hiring Black and underrepresented talent.”With 2025 as a target date, the document pledges to double the overall percentage of

As we’ve written about dozens of times already, cinemas in the US are facing an existential crisis right now and the COVID-19 pandemic is only adding to this issue. Even without a global pandemic forcing theaters in the US to close for months, the theatrical exhibition business has suffered over the past several years as people just find other things to do other than visit cinemas.

frog has been discovered hiding inside a bunch of bananas by stunned staff at an Asda supermarket. The globe-trotting amphibian, which is believed to be a banana tree frog, managed to hitch a ride from Colombia to the shop in south Wales.

Up to 65 per cent of permanent staff working at the St Ann’s Square venue could lose their jobs due to the ‘monumental’ impact of the Covid-19 lockdown.