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With Cineworld and Picturehouse cinemas temporarily closed in the UK from this past Friday, Cineworld Group CEO Mooky Greidinger has written to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson asking the government to reinstate the furlough program that benefited employees under the exhibition giant’s previous COVID-imposed closure, while also suggesting other measures to aid the industry. In
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The New York Film Festival wrapped tonight, and its closing-night film, French Exit, is a winner that firmly places Michelle Pfeiffer, a three-time past nominee, back in the heart of the Best Actress Oscar race. She tops an aces cast that is sublime in every way in an absurdist comedy that is surreal, dark, witty,
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There has been some concern by industry insiders that the family film may have gone the way of the dinosaurs during the pandemic, particularly as Disney has taken its marquee theatrical releases Mulan and Soul to Disney+. Some of those maneuvers stem from polling which shows that families aren’t entirely ready to head back to the box office
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EXCLUSIVE: As the creator of Watchmen, V For Vendetta and many more celebrated comic series, Alan Moore is one of the industry’s biggest names, but his frosty relationship with the film adaptations of his works has been well documented. After some very public dissatisfaction with previous endeavours (see The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen), he now
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EXCLUSIVE: The Hawai‘i International Film Festival (HIFF) has unveiled its lineup for its 40th anniversary of the festival which will be a hybrid of in-person and virtual screenings. This marks the fiest time that HIFF will be accessible to audiences across the nation. The fest will focus on Hawai‘i-made films and Kanaka Maoli filmmakers and
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Kenobi, the highly-anticipated Obi-Wan standalone series for Disney+ centered on actor Ewan McGregor’s return to the Star Wars universe, is set to start shooting in March, according to its star. The confirmation comes about a month after McGregor revealed a slightly less specific timeline, letting slip that Kenobi would shoot sometime in spring. Currently planned as a one-season-only event series, Kenobi will
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The Justice League is DC’s greatest team of superheroes ever formed, uniting the likes of Wonder Woman, Superman, Batman, The Flash, and so many more. And in the highly anticipated nine-issue series Justice League: Endless Winter, comic fans will finally get to see the formation of the very first ancient Justice League. The Justice League: Endless Winter series makes
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American poet and former U.S. Poet Laureate Louise Gluck was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature Thursday, the world’s highest literary honor, “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal,” said the Nobel Committee. She is the first American woman to win the prize since Toni Morrison in 1993
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Adam Sandler’s latest movie with Netflix is a Halloween-themed comedy packed with his funny friends, such as Kevin James, Steve Buscemi, Rob Schneider and Maya Rudolph, just to scratch the surface here. Sandler himself plays Hubie Dubois, a goofy resident of Salem, Massachusetts who is bullied by the denizens of his spooky town, but nonetheless
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UPDATED, 9:44 AM: Netflix continued to drip out The Witcher first-look photos. Here’s Anya Chalotra’s Yennefer. PREVIOUS UPDATE: Netflix has released further stills from Season 2 — this time offering a glimpse at a “fierce new look” for Ciri. Below is Freya Allan in character. PREVIOUS: Netflix has just dropped the first look at Henry
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EXCLUSIVE: You Cannot Kill David Arquette, the SXSW doc chronicling actor Arquette’s extraordinary life and return to professional wrestling, has been picked up for UK distribution by Blue Finch Films. The company has also acquired the project’s international sales rights ahead of the AFM. The deal sees Blue Finch expand into the sales arena for
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