Whistler Film Fest Fetes 20 Years of Spotlighting Homegrown Canadian Content

Following the blow-up-the-Internet finale of “The Mandalorian” on Friday, creator, writer, director, and showrunner Jon Favreau, did the beginning of his victory lap on Good Morning America. And he answered some of the questions many had about the finale (which we’ll try not to spoil here and won’t mention, you know who).

The Locarno Film Festival has named Markus Duffner as the new head of its industry program Locarno Pro. He will be joined by Sophie Bourdon as deputy head.

In a tight Oscar race in the International Film category, Thomas Vinterberg‘s celebrated “Another Round” is increasingly looking like an easy bet for a nomination. The Venice Film Festival drama swept the major honors at the 2020 European Film Awards including European Film, Director (Vinterberg), Actor (Mads Mikkelsen) and Screenplay.

announced that it would no longer film and share the most intimate (and carefully crafted) moments of their personal lives—at least, in the form of their eponymous E! series. “It is with heavy hearts that we’ve made the difficult decision as a family to say goodbye to Keeping Up with the Kardashians,” Kim Kardashian wrote on Instagram.

“There’s a fragment of cosmic blood in this synthetic analog…” – Max Fist. Feel free to read that again.

Kaleem Aftab The Cairo International Film Festival scrapped the red carpet and press conference for Egyptian filmmaker Islam El Azzazi’s debut feature and competition film “About Her” after a number of sexual misconduct allegations were made against the director and surfaced in the hours before the film’s world premiere this week.The first of the allegations against the director was submitted anonymously to Daftar Hekayat, an Arabic blog that shares stories of sexual violence survivors in their

Kaleem Aftab British film “Limbo,” a wry refugee drama, directed by Edinburgh-born director Ben Sharrock and produced by Spain’s Irune Gurtubai, won the Golden Pyramid for best film at the Cairo Film Festival on Thursday.Told in a pleasing deadpan style, “Limbo” recounts the story of a Syrian musician, played by the BIFA nominated rising star Amir El-Masry, who is placed on a Scottish island when awaiting his request for asylum to be processed.

Ann-Marie Corvin With the success of Netflix’s Egyptian horror series “Paranormal” and a slew of streamers such as Viu and OSN seeking locally produced originals, the TV market in Egypt is set to undergo rapid change.In response, Cairo International Film Festival’s TV Pitch Market, part of the festival’s Industry Days program and now in its second year, joined forces with Middle East Media Initiative (MEMI) to shape 11 TV projects into a “pitchable” form this week.MEMI, a University of Southern

Glasgow Film Fest Opener & Closer The 2021 Glasgow Film Festival is partnering with 22 cinemas across the UK to reach audiences that are not unable to travel to the event due to the country’s tiered lockdown system. The fest will open on February 24 with the UK premiere of Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari and will close on March 7 with the UK premiere of Suzanne Lindon’s Spring Blossom. Each of the 22 partner cinemas will show both the opening and closing titles.

Alex Stedman News Editor, Variety.comIn his new indie film “Archenemy,” Joe Manganiello steps into the shoes of a man who claims he was a superhero — but his character, Max Fist, isn’t the sort of guy who’d make Superman proud.Instead, he’s an alcoholic, drug-addicted homeless man who claims he’s been stripped of his powers after being hurdled through time and space by his titular archenemy, Cleo (Amy Seimetz).

Jimmy Fallon and Andrew Rannells are saying “Good riddance” to 2020 with an epic musical.

Bleachers have teamed up with recent collaborator Bruce Springsteen to perform their song ‘Chinatown’ together.Jack Antonoff and co. filmed the full-band performance on the roof of Electric Lady Studios in New York City.Watch the band and Springsteen play ‘Chinatown’ below:Bleachers and Springsteen released the collaborative single last month.

We all know the story: Girl walks into a bar. Boy sees girl. Girl sees boy. Boy goes to talk to her. Girl notices his date?

Malina Saval Associate Editor, FeaturesRunning from Dec. 11 through Dec.

Take That alongside Gary Barlow, Mark Owen, Jason Orange and Howard Donald and now, 25 years after breaking hearts across the world when he went solo, Robbie Williams is launching a brand new band. The 46-year-old has joined forces with Australian songwriters and producers Flynn Francis and Tim Metcalfe for the group, and although they don’t yet have a name, the trio have been hard at work in the studio and already have songs to release.

Jimmy Fallon’s Jason Bateman impersonation could use some work.

The cinemas are finally reopening and we cannot wait to include some activity in our ventures outside.

Christopher Vourlias As a young, Black woman growing up in Soweto, the sprawling township built by South Africa’s apartheid government on the outskirts of Johannesburg, Lala Tuku had dreams of making movies. But after making inroads into the local industry in the mid-2000s, she found her path to the director’s chair blocked.