Month: May 2024

Saturday Night Live tackled the college campus pro-Palestinian protests by taking aim at high education’s high tuition costs and questionable payoff. Rather than tackle the Gaza issue itself, SNL instead went with the POV of parents, featuring a spook of a NY1 talk show roundtable of parents concerned about their children taking part in the
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Police in riot gear cleared yet another encampment on the campus of the University of Southern California early Sunday morning. Reports indicate as many as 100 protesterspitched tents and erected banners at Alumni Park, located at the center of the university. Witnesses said officers moved in around 4 a.m. and quickly dispersed the protesters. A
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Olivia Cooke (Sound of Metal) and BAFTA Award winner Jamie Bell (All of Us Strangers) have signed on to lead Italian filmmaker Nathalie Biancheri’s latest pic Takes One To Know One.  Cornerstone has international rights to the pic and will co-rep the US with CAA Media Finance. The pair will launch sales at Cannes. Billed
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Producer Patrick Sobelman and Ariane Toscan du Plantier, director of Cinema Distribution France and International at film and TV company Gaumont, have been voted in as president and vice-president of France’s César Academy. Their mandate begins on July 16 for two years. Sobelman was previously vice-president of the César Academy alongside outgoing president Véronique Cayla.
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Matteo Garrone‘s Oscar-nominated drama Io Capitano triumphed in Italy‘s David di Donatello film awards on Friday evening, winning best film and best director. The film about the trials and tribulations of two Senegalese teenagers as they try to make it to Europe via the Sahara desert and the Mediterranean Sea, also won best producer for
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