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Frank Moreno, who was known for screening films at Cannes for Roger Corman’s New World Pictures to purchase and distribute in the United States in the 1970s and 1980s, died Wednesday in Florida. He was 82 and died after a brief battle with cancer, according to his daughter.

PBS’s Frontline has acquired a 9/11 documentary from Leaving Neverland director Dan Reed after the film was originally commissioned by UK broadcaster Channel 4.

Manori Ravindran International EditorXYZ Films has boarded action thriller “Yakuza Princess,” starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Japanese-American singer Masumi. The film will be shopped to buyers at the European Film Market (EFM) in early March.XYZ will sell worldwide rights save Latin America for the English-language feature, directed by Vicente Amorim, whose previous film, “Motorrad,” screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2017.

Liz Phair has released ‘Hey Lou’, her first new song in two years.The American singer’s latest effort is a heartfelt homage to both Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson and comes accompanied by a video that features puppet versions of both iconic artists.While the track itself features references to Anderson’s seminal classic ‘O Superman’, Phair says it is a behind-closed-doors look at their famous relationship.“Have you ever wondered what love looks like for your favorite celebrity couple behind closed

French In Motion Sets Up In LAEXCLUSIVE: French In Motion, the non-profit that brings together French and American professionals from the film and TV industry is launching a new chapter in Los Angeles. Headquartered in New York with an existing chapter in Washington DC, the org supports international co-productions and collaborations between France and the United States through its partnership with the Gotham Film & Media Institute and has been doing so since 2016.

President Joe Biden will participate in a CNN town hall next week in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, answering questions from Americans as the nation struggles to contain the coronavirus pandemic and jumpstart a troubled economy.

Paris Hilton testified about her “traumatizing” alleged abuse as a teen at Utah’s Provo Canyon School on Monday, February 8.

Also Read: 15 Times 'The Simpsons' Predicted the Future (Photos)The hornets are threatening the United States’ food supply as the hornets target bees, the most important pollinator of food crops. The hornet, which is native to East Asia, was first found in the United States in September 2019.During the COVID-19 pandemic, an entomologist at the Washington State Department of Agriculture went on a mission to locate the hornets with a team of experts and bee enthusiasts.

The Miami Film Festival is set to go ahead with a hybrid 2021 edition in March with physical theater and online screenings amid the pandemic. The Festival's March 5-14 run this year will open with an in-theater world premiere of Edson Jean’s Ludi — about a hardworking and exhausted nurse chasing the American Dream in Miami's Little Haiti neighborhood — and close with the debut of Jayme Gershen’s Birthright.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorCheech Marin is one of the foremost collectors of Chicano art in the United States. The comedian, best known as one-half of Cheech & Chong, has a collection that’s so highly regarded that the city of Riverside, just outside Los Angeles, is set to open the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art, Culture & Industry of the Riverside Art Museum in the fall.

Marina has shared a brief preview of what appears to be the melody of an upcoming track, and announced an Empress Of remix of her November single ‘Man’s World’.The artist shared the news on social media, along with artwork depicting herself, Empress Of, and Brazilian pop star and drag queen Pabllo Vittar, who features on the new version.The remix will arrive this Thursday (February 4), a month after a separate remix by American pop trio MUNA was released.Coming Thursday.

You don't find subjects much more disarming than Rita Moreno, whose seven-decade career on stage and screen is described in Mariem Pérez Riera's celebratory documentary as both the essence of the American Dream and the tenacious attainment of it despite dispiriting obstacles. "You must never really believe anything about your fame and all that kind of bullshit," says Moreno with characteristic unfiltered charm.

Ed Meza @edmezavarNew York-based non-profit distributor Cinema Tropical has acquired North American rights to Brazilian documentary “My Darling Supermarket,” the debut feature by Tali Yankelevich.Cinema Tropical plans to release the film in virtual cinemas starting on Feb.

Caroline Framke Chief TV Critic“The Long Song” knows what an audience might expect from a period drama airing on the BBC, as it did in the UK in 2018, or under the PBS Masterpiece banner, as it will in the US starting on January 31. The camera, helmed with a steady hand by director Mahalia Belo, pans across still life scenes of porcelain curios and rumpled silks in a manse surrounded by gently swaying palm trees.

Marin Ireland has taken the lead role in Muslimah, Jamil Munoz’s debut feature for indie producers and film financiers Dweck Productions and Vanishing Angle. The indie drama will see Ireland play Diana, an American convert to Islam who moves to upstate New York with her young son, Nabil, after the events of September 11th, 2001.

Jedward were quarantining with American Pie actress and Celebrity Big Brother housemate Tara Reid at her LA home, but it turns out we were WRONG as an even stranger celeb crossover has come to light.Yep, in news that has left us flabbergasted, Joe Swash once shacked up with Baywatch icon Pamela Anderson.The unlikely duo lived together for a TV special called Pamela Anderson: My Week With Joe, which was filmed following the former soap star’s winning stint in the I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of

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Jamie Dornan (A Private War) has been tapped as the lead of The Tourist, the six-episode limited series from Fleabag production company Two Brothers Pictures.

Bill Clinton to Oprah Winfrey, are mourning the death of Larry King. His broadcast interviews with world leaders, movie stars and ordinary Joes helped define American conversation for a half-century.

mourning the death of Larry King. His broadcast interviews with world leaders, movie stars and ordinary Joes helped define American conversation for a half-century.