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Karen is going Hollywood … with an upcoming suspense thriller starring Taryn Manning!!! The “Orange Is The New Black” star just signed on to play a “Karen” on the big screen … in a story about a racist, entitled white woman in the South who terrorizes her new African-American neighbors. Sound familiar? The movie, from
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After being forced to pivot entirely online last-minute due to a COVID spike, Bosnia’s Sarajevo Film Festival is coming to a close and has unveiled its prize winners for this year’s edition. A jury chaired by Michel Hazanavicius and featuring Berlinale director Carlo Chatrian, actress Jadranka Đokić, director Srdan Golubović and the Morelia Film Festival’s
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Pressing on with plans to hold its physical edition September 18-26, Spain’s San Sebastian Film Festival has unveiled the line-up for its Zabaltegi-Tabakalera section, the competitive strand that does not mandate any style or length standards. There are 10 features and nine shorts present this year. The feature length projects include South Korean filmmaker Hong Sang-soo’s
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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti says he has authorized the shutoff of utilities at a home in the Hollywood Hills where several large parties were held in violation of the city’s COVID-19 social distancing orders. Garcetti said the city’s action comes after multiple warnings from law enforcement were issued. Garcetti wrote on Twitter: “Today I
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The Alamo Drafthouse is ready to safely open its doors to select theaters around the country starting August 21, it said Tuesday, with additional theaters opening the following week. The Austin-based dine-in theater experience will also be the first place to see Bill & Ted Face the Music. On August 26, the Drafthouse will exclusively
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Mediatonic, developer of recent smash hit Fall Guys, has warned fans about a scam about allegedly bringing the game to mobile devices. Fall Guys released on the August 4th for PC and PlayStation 4, and only those two consoles. It’s hard to overstate the success of Fall Guys. The bombastic battle royale pits players against each other in
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If you look at the credits behind the exhaustive and exhausting new documentary Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies, you can get a pretty good idea of what’s in store. Director Danny Wolf is best known for his docu Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time. Among screenwriter Paul Fishbein’s claims to
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With more Emmy nominations that any other show this year, HBO’s Watchmen has become the one to watch, literally and figuratively. “A lot of people did not watch Watchmen when it actually aired so they are watching it now while they are quarantining or while they are isolating,” Regina King said during Deadline’s Contenders Television:
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EXCLUSIVE: Vice Studios has hired Alex Moore, the CEO of the two-time Oscar-winning company Grain Media, to the newly-created role of vice-president of non-fiction in the UK. Based in London, Moore will build Vice Studios’ slate across factual, factual entertainment, formats, documentaries, and features. He reports to UK creative director Yonni Usiskin. During his five-year
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Tickets for early showings of Christopher Nolan’s Tenet will go on sale this Friday. Nolan has become one of Hollywood’s biggest directors over the last several years, and the mystery surrounding Tenet only heightened the general interest in his latest project. The movie stars John David Washington and Robert Pattinson, and the plot is still largely a
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Geena Davis’s inclusive Bentonville Film Festival has unveiled its jury prize winners for their sixth annual festival. The fest, which was a hybrid of in-person and virtual events, had its most diverse festival to-date with over 70 films where over 80% were directed by women, 65% BIPOC and 45% LGBTQIA+. Isabel Sandoval’s Lingua Franca took home
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Refresh for updates The top grossing titles at the weekend domestic box office, were straight from Canada with Paramount’s SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run landing the No. 1 spot with $900K from 300 locations per the Melrose Ave studio with $345K on Friday, and $300K on Saturday, -13%. SpongeBob Movie, along with Trolls: World Tour, have been the only
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