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The Venice Film Festival has said they are bound and determined to do their event this year, even in light of the continuing Coronavirus pandemic. Now, the second wheel in the traditional Fall Festival Trifecta that launches awards season, Telluride, has sent an email to all, indicating that they intend to move ahead and hold

Breaking News Stephen Jackson is at the forefront of the fight for justice in the killing of his friend George Floyd … saying he’s going to do whatever it takes to make sure the officers are convicted. The ex-NBA star revealed this week that he’s known Floyd for more than 20 years … saying they

With social distancing requirements apt to give a boost to virtual reality, especially in public places like theme parks, Lucasfilm and Oculus VR specialists are joining forces for a new Star Wars attraction. Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge is an original story that will include multiple styles of gameplay and difficulty settings, according

The latest trailer for Season 4 of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and its Warzone multiplayer mode have teased the arrival of the much-awaited Kriss Vector submachine gun to the game, among other things. Season 3 of Modern Warfare began back on April 8, 2020, and with each season lasting only around eight weeks, Season

EXCLUSIVE: Streaming platform MUBI has acquired multi-territory rights to Xavier Dolan’s Cannes 2019 drama Matthias & Maxime. Curated arthouse service MUBI has acquired the VOD and TV rights in the U.S., UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, LATAM (excl. Mexico) and India. The film will debut on the service in those markets – where it hasn’t had

France’s movie theaters will be allowed to re-open from June 22, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe announced this evening. This is earlier than expected, as French Culture Minister Franck Riester said this week that cinemas were eyeing a July 1 re-start. The decision was made in concert with the industry, Philippe said in a televised address,

Harvey Weinstein may be behind bars for rape, but charges against the disgraced producer continue to emerge with four women today filing a sexual abuse lawsuit in New York that includes an underage assault. Also naming the once Miramax-owning Walt Disney Company and Bob Weinstein as defendants, the jury trial seeking suit in New York

In the instance of The Lovebirds, Issa Rae’s Leilani and Kumail Nanjiani’s Jibran witness a murder and are later framed for the crime. The couple flee the scene scared the police will not believe their story, in part due to their race. When the couple was initially given the script, it wasn’t catered to their

EXCLUSIVE: A Star Trek: Voyager reunion broke the Stars In The House single-episode fundraising record, drawing donations totaling $19,225 for The Actors Fund’s efforts to assist entertainment professionals in need during the COVID-19 pandemic. The previous Stars In The House record was set by a Glee reunion episode that raised $13,910. Watch the Voyager reunion

New York City actor and writer Miguel A. Nunez Jr. is best known for his role as the out of work basketball player Jamal Jeffries — who dons drag and takes on a female alter ego to infiltrate the women’s WUBA professional basketball league — in the gender-bending 2002 sports film “Juwanna Mann.” Miguel A.

EXCLUSIVE: A BBC insider has told us the decision to reprimand Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis yesterday was “weak and embarrassing.” In a blistering attack, the well-placed BBC news source, who works on one of the corporation’s flagship shows, said, “BBC bosses couldn’t have handled this situation any worse. Rushing to judgement in order to hang

According to developer Ebb Software, their upcoming next-gen title, Scorn, is going to be an Xbox Series X exclusive to maintain parity with the PC version. Inspired by the nightmarish works of artists like H.R. Giger and Zdzisław Beksiński, Scorn features disturbing visuals and thrives on its horrific sensibilities. Story and gameplay details are being kept

EXCLUSIVE: The parents of Sarah Jones are calling on the DGA to kick Randall Miller out of the guild after learning that he recently directed a new movie, Higher Grounds, in Serbia and Colombia last summer — this despite the special conditions of his probation after he spent a year in jail for the death of

Few artists can say they’ve surmounted social-distancing obstacles as magically as Portuguese illusionist Helder Guimarães. The impact of social distancing on the performing arts needn’t be re-stated here: In one way or another, most installments of Deadline’s Coping With COVID-19 Crisis series have dealt with just that topic, as performers – or those aspiring to

This is especially important for those working on Scream 5 to keep in mind, and in the case of hiring Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett on their own, it works. However, as Ready or Not co-writer Busick is one of two writers working on this sequel’s script, this team-up feels even more prone for success.

The Lighthouse, the indie UK production co launched by former BBC Studios scripted chiefs Hilary Salmon, Radford Neville and Nick Betts that is backed by Sky Studios, has landed global TV rights to Juno Dawson’s YA book trilogy Clean, Meat Market and Wonderland. Clean, about a teenage girl’s battle with heroin addiction and stint in

Breaking News This looks AWESOME!! The Miami Dolphins have announced they’re converting Hard Rock Stadium into a drive-in, outdoor theater … so you can watch live events, movies, etc. from your CAR!! And, the mock-up photos look pretty cool! “[Hard Rock Stadium] will now feature both an open-air and drive-in theater that will showcase select

HBO Max is finally throwing the “on” switch, culminating a multi-year, $4 billion journey to join the direct-to-consumer streaming wave. The service’s launch just after midnight ET on Wednesday is the last of five major streaming debuts, an unprecedented multibillion-dollar infusion that has upended traditional organizations and strategies. Apple TV+ and Disney+ arrived last November

The new season of Selling Sunset has so many big surprises to drop and shocking revelations to disclose. The top trending news is that Heather has moved on from her Hockey player boyfriend (who decided to move to Sweden to proceed with his career) and has started a dating new guy, Tarek El Moussa who

As France awaits official updates that are expected to come later this week with regard to the re-opening of restaurants and perhaps fewer restrictions on travel, Culture Minister Franck Riester reiterated today that cinemas are eyeing a July 1 re-start. Speaking to France Info, Riester said the government is mulling dates to re-open cultural venues

Dominating headlines in the UK this bank holiday weekend was the revelation that Dominic Cummings, chief advisor to PM Boris Johnson, had taken a 260-mile trip while his wife was displaying coronavirus symptoms. Fellows politicians and journalists, as well as much of the public, were incensed by what appeared to be an overt breach of

Warrior Execution is key. On the paper, 2011’s Warrior could’ve been a tepid, familiar sports/family drama with a cookie-cutter story and expected beats. But Gavin O’Conner’s tender, visceral, effectively grounded film is a bonafide winner, notably in how it brings out the goods with its lead actors, including Joel Edgerton, Nick Nolte, and Tom Hardy.

Former Vice President Joe Biden stepped out in public for the first time since mid-March on Monday to lay a wreath at a veterans’ memorial in Wilmington, Delaware. Both he and wife Jill wore black masks. The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee has, in recent months, made public statements from the basement of his home. Biden

Cardi B‘s body now plays host to a massive new art installation … because the ink has just dried on her insanely colorful back tattoo. Cardi showed off her latest handiwork, which she says took months to complete, with a special shoutout to the tattoo artist. The piece traverses Cardi’s entire backside, from the top

Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s drama series Hollywood on Netflix has received mixed reviews from critics across the board. While some praise the show for its stylistic re-imagining of Hollywood history, others criticize it for its unrealistic take on the struggles of minorities in old Hollywood, and for being a misguided attempt at writing an alternate history. Murphy and Brennan’s series

While the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival was forced to cancel its 55th edition this summer amid the coronavirus, the event plans to screen 16 films at 96 theaters across Czech Republic from July 3-11. Cinemas in the market opened earlier this month, though not the major circuits and with a ban on concessions. The

Here’s another notable theatrical release to hit PVOD due to COVID-19: Focus Features’ Jon Stewart-directed political comedy Irresistible. Originally scheduled for a May 29 theatrical release, the Steve Carell-Rose Byrne-Chris Cooper movie now will play in homes starting Friday, June 26. Irresistible will be available for the 48-hour rental price of $19.99 on such platforms as Amazon,

The governor of Italy’s Veneto region, Luca Zaia, said today that the Venice Film Festival will go ahead as scheduled in September. Dates are September 2-12 for the Lido event which would mark the first major film industry gathering not recently postponed or canceled amid the coronavirus pandemic. There has been no official word from

Could this mean we might see more superhero movies breaking the chain and killing off major heroes? Not likely, as Wolverine and Iron Man’s deaths were exceptions to a rule that’s very hard to break. Instead, we should probably be asking ourselves who’ll play Wolverine in the MCU now that he’ll eventually be recast. It’s