WarnerMedia, AT&T Team With Ghetto Film School to Launch Short Film Challenge for Young Creators

On July 1, as COVID-19 cases in Los Angeles began to surge to their highest numbers since the city issued stay-at-home orders in March, the University of Southern California (USC) alerted its students that all fall undergraduate classes would move online.

LOS ANGELES -- Acclaimed actress Glenda Jackson will launch the 50th season of PBS’ “Masterpiece” drama showcase next year. The film “Elizabeth is Missing,” with Jackson as a woman in search of a vanished friend even as she copes with dementia, will air Jan.

Writing and recording music during a global pandemic is a challenging proposition even for those artists who are lucky enough to have a streamlined home studio and a robust means of distribution. Puerto Rican rapper MalaCara has had more obstacles to hurdle.

Naman Ramachandran Netflix is investing in Broke And Bones, a new production company from “Black Mirror” co-creators Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones.Brooker is the writer and creator of the dystopian series, which began life at U.K. broadcaster Channel 4 before moving to Netflix.

Neil Young has said that he is now considering suing Donald Trump over the US President’s use of his music at political rallies as criticism grows over the White House’s response to protests in multiple American cities.Young, of course, is one of a plethora of musicians who have – in the past – criticised Trump’s use of their music at his political events.

The finalists will attend the online ceremony on August 13.The winners will be announced during the live streamed event hosted by Radio 1 DJ Gemma Cairney streamed on Young Scot’s YouTube channel.Now in its 14th year, the awards highlight the amazing achievements of young people across Scotland.Winners will join a prestigious rollcall including actors such as Karen Gillan and Martin Compston, alongside world class athletes including Sir Andy Murray and Olympian Laura Muir.Louise Macdonald OBE,

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Prince William is lending his voice to a new short film.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorIn about a month, director Kevin Macdonald will sit down to review around 500 hours of the best video footage submitted by YouTube users from around the world and then make a movie from the contributions — all captured on one day: Saturday, July 25, 2020.The film project, “Life in a Day 2020,” comes 10 years after the original YouTube-commissioned documentary, which Macdonald also directed.

Jimmy Fallon and Will Arnett tried — and failed — to play a game of “Hey Robot” during Thursday’s “Tonight Show”.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorAn influential group of British Parliamentarians has called on the government to set up an emergency film and TV production insurance fund to help get cameras rolling again across the UK.In a report on the impact of coronavirus on the UK’s cultural sectors, the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee said that without an insurance solution, efforts to get shoots back underway are “doomed to failure.”The MPs said: “Government must address

Did you know that there was a Dawson’s Creek spin-off series? Young Americans was a short-lived series that debuted almost exactly 20 years ago and it sadly only had eight episodes.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorCharlize Theron is gobsmacked.Even she can’t wrap her mind around Netflix’s prediction that her new movie “The Old Guard,” Gina Prince-Bythewood’s Netflix adaptation of the graphic novel of the same name, will reach out 72 million households in its first four weeks.“It’s pretty nutty, right?” says Charlize Theron, who stars as the leader of a small group of immortal mercenaries.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and Media“American Utopia,” a filmed-version of David Byrne’s hit Broadway show, will be the opening night presentation of the 45th Toronto International Film Festival. This edition of the annual Canadian gathering for film lovers is unlike any of the previous 44 iterations.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Sony Music Latin has partnered with Tiger Turn Productions for the feature music documentary Fandango at the Wall.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Take a trip inside historic Parisian art museum the Louvre as it re-opens following an unprecedented four-month closure with new short film Rusted Caravaggios, which comes from Egyptian-American filmmaker Sam Abbas.Based in Paris during the lockdown, Abbas, whose credits include features Alia’s Birth and The Wedding, jumped at the opportunity to film inside the iconic venue when a rare opportunity presented itself at the re-opening, when minimal

Teachers at Broxburn Primary School set pupils a challenge during lockdown to record the number of steps they take around their house, garden or as part of their daily exercise.They wanted to see how far the school could walk ‘around the world’.Their first goal was to walk to London by Easter before they made it to Dover then on to Paris and Florence.And by the last day of term they had made it to Rome.Headteacher Lisa Davies said: “We are so proud of the children for taking part in this

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticRichard Gladstein, longtime exec producer on Quentin Tarantino films and two-time Best Picture Oscar nominee, has been appointed executive director of Brooklyn College’s Barry R. Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema.Located at Steiner Studios in Brooklyn’s Navy Yard, the Feirstein School was established in 2015 and is considered the nation’s only film school operating on a working studio lot.

silver screen sequel.The Crawley family’s story isn’t finished just yet and here is what we know so far about the Downton Abbey film sequel.The beloved upstairs-downstairs drama triumphed at the box office becoming Focus Features’ highest-grossing film of all time, breaking Brokeback Mountain’s 13-year-record, according to Deadline.In April, Downton producer Gareth Neame said they were committed to making the Downton Abbey film sequel providing that could bring ‘all the elements’ back.‘We don’t