Xavier Dolan Teases Multiple Projects Including A Mini-Series, A Period Horror Film & A Social Drama

Angelique Jackson Regina King is not only bringing history to life with her film “One Night in Miami,” she’s making history of her own.After becoming the first Black female director to have a film at the Venice Film Festival, King and her cast reunited at the Toronto International Film Festival to celebrate the movie’s early positive reviews.

Connections are everywhere, whether we like it or not. The very principle of missing out on the electronic kind of social influence plays out in the new film “Save Yourselves!”.

Ford v Ferrari co-writer Jason Keller will make his directorial debut helming the feature film La Sombra (The Shadow) for Sherborne Media Finance and Paprika Financing. Keller will direct the crime drama from his own original screenplay as the island of Puerto Rico becomes a battleground and one man takes on a powerful local gang after his brother is kidnapped.

Welcome, Upper East Siders! It's time for some more juicy details to spill in regards to Gossip Girl reboot that takes place eight years after the events of the original series which starred Leighton Meester as Blair Waldorf and Blake Lively as Serena Van Der Woodsen. While the OG cast making possible guest cameos in the reboot is up in the air, one cast member who is returning in Kristen Bell who voiced Gossip Girl.

DJ Erick Morillo has been found dead in Florida, police have said.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe 77th Venice Film Festival kicks off tomorrow, with Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Matt Dillon, and France’s Ludivine Sagnier among international stars expected on the social-distanced red carpet that will open the first major post coronavirus physical film event packed with plenty of symbolic significance.Just as the release of Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster spy thriller “Tenet” is now considered a post-pandemic turning point for exhibitors, Venice

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic“Critical Thinking” is one of those up-from-the-streets high-school competition movies where just mentioning the true story it’s based on kind of gives the game away. Set in 1998, it’s about the five chess wizards from Miami Jackson High who became the first inner-city chess team to win the National Championship.

Dave McNary Film ReporterMONDAY, AUG. 31Shailene Woodley and Julie Bowen have joined the cast of Jenna Ortega’s high school drama “Fallout,” which has been shooting in Los Angeles.John Ortiz, Will Ropp, Maddie Ziegler and Niles Fitch are also starring in “Fallout.” Megan Park is directing from her own script about Ortega’s character dealing with the emotional fallout from a school tragedy.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Shailene Woodley (Big Little Lies), Julie Bowen (Modern Family), John Ortiz (Kong: Skull Island) and Will Ropp (The Way Back) have joined Jenna Ortega (You), Maddie Ziegler (West Side Story) and Niles Fitch (This is Us) in high school drama The Fallout, which wraps its four-week LA shoot this week.As we revealed earlier this year, actress Megan Park (What If) has written and is directing the feature about high schooler Vada (Ortega) who navigates

In a world filled with people looking for the latest hot take, it’s not actually shocking to say that social media is a great tool that has turned into one of the most terrible inventions of the modern era. A technology that could be used to unite people from all walks of life and all countries around the globe has deteriorated into a fake news machine with people constantly arguing.

Xavier Dolan might be, at heart, our Millennial Melodramatist. With multiple premieres at the Cannes Film Festival, including two Jury Prize Award wins, a keen eye on mothers and sons, and an expressionistic approach to queer desire, there’s an inherent selfishness to the director’s filmography that augments and texturizes each film and gives it a distinctive feeling, even if he (knowingly) cribs images and ideas from film history.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorIdris Elba is to step back into the boxing ring for a BBC Two series, in which he will provide seven disadvantaged young people with lessons in discipline, focus and determination by putting them through an experimental boxing school.Idris Elba’s Fight School is a four-part series produced by Workerbee, the Banijay-owned producer behind Quibi series Elba vs.

Peter White Television EditorAs Project Blue Book, Knightfall and Vikings all come to an end, History is looking to recalibrate its scripted strategy towards limited dramas and mini-series.Rob Sharenow, President of Programming at A+E Networks, called returnable scripted series a “fraught path” for the company given the competitive nature of the marketplace.Speaking on a panel session, moderated by Deadline, at the virtual Edinburgh International TV Festival, Sharenow highlighted the performance

Warner Bros. and DC Films have faced some major major setbacks with their DC Extended Universe.

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Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorCalifornia Governor Gavin Newsom announced on Wednesday that the state will be issuing new guidelines for reopening businesses in the state.“We’re working with local health officers all up and down the state,” said Newsom.

Sun Kil Moon frontman Mark Kozelek has spoken out to “unconditionally” deny a series of sexual assault allegations made against him.Three women made claims of sexual incidents in an article published by Pitchfork last week.The publication said Kozelek had failed to respond after he was contacted for comment over a space of several months.Discussing the allegations for the first time, Kozelek said in a statement: “It is important that I publicly and unconditionally deny that I engaged in the

Sun Kil Moon‘s Mark Kozelek has allegedly been accused of sexual assault by three women.According to Pitchfork, one of the women allegedly assaulted, Sarah Catherine Golden, a Los Angeles mental health specialist, has claimed that after a Sun Kil Moon show in November of 2017 she went back to Kozelek’s hotel room.WARNING: This article contains details some readers may find upsettingThey report allegations by her that she went to smoke on the balcony while Kozelek took a call in his room, and