We Are One: YouTube Film Festival’s Full Schedule Includes Talks From Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Soderbergh & More

Back in February, we learned that Ewan McGregor was one of the A-list actors joining the upcoming stop-motion animation version of “Pinocchio” from filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. However, at the time, it wasn’t clear which role the actor would voice.

Sometimes a film will play at a festival and almost immediately get a theatrical or digital release. However, what often happens is that an indie film plays a variety of festivals and it takes a little while for it to land distribution.

On Sunday (May 31), as protesters took to the streets for another day against police brutality, Kirk Franklin went live on Instagram in his studio with Fred Hammond, Bishop T.D. Jakes, Tamela Mann, and Marvin Sapp to infuse some inspiration into the day.

The much-awaited Cannes Film Festival which happens around May every year was cancelled this year owing to the Coronavirus pandemic. Indian celebrities like , , and others who usually walk the red carpet for brands also did not get to put down their best fashionable foot forward.

The CW has acquired an Italian thriller series starring Patrick Dempsey and is now shifting around its previously announced fall 2020-21 broadcast season schedule to accommodate it.

By Peter White

The selections for the 2020 Cannes Film Festival have been announced despite this year’s live event being cancelled.

«What are next year's Oscars going to look like?» It's a question the industry, awards forecasters and armchair pundits alike have been wondering as release schedules are scuttled and film festivals are canned amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

A bit earlier today, in lieu of the actual fest (canceled due to the Coronavirus pandemic, of course), the Cannes Film Festival announced what their Official Selections would have been. Of course, these movies won’t actually be playing at Cannes, but they will be showing at other festivals around the world over the next handful of months (barring a resurgence of COVID-19, obviously).

Despite growing concerns about the global pandemic, an industry that’s still in lockdown, and festivals being canceled left and right, the 2020 edition of the Telluride Film Festival will still go on as planned over Labor Day weekend.

By Pete Hammond

By Todd Spangler

What cinephiles have missed most this spring are the cries of “hon hon hon!” — the bitchy sound of French laughter — bellowing from the Côte d’Azur.

Thierry Fremaux doesn’t just help run the Cannes Film Festival. He’s also one of the heads of the Lumière Film Festival that happens each fall.

The recurring Film Twitter joke that made the rounds when quarantine first started, was uber-prolific filmmaker Steven Soderbergh (the ‘Oceans,’ trilogy “Out Of Sight”) had likely already made a few films in the weeks that had passed. And that’s basically turned out to be correct.

Shane Carruth remains a rare figure in the cinematic landscape. His major achievements: “Primer” and “Upstream Color”—are idiosyncratic and unique in their execution and deconstruction of the sci-fi genre.

While it didn’t have the same cultural momentum and buzz that previous works of his have garnered in the past, Michael Moore’s new doc, titled “Planet of the Humans,” has still found itself a fair bit of controversy.

By Dave McNary

By Dino-Ray Ramos

A global online film festival will bring together 21 of the world’s biggest celebrations of cinema, including Cannes, Venice, Sundance, Toronto and the BFI London Film Festival.