Oscars add Questlove, Richard LaGravenese, dream hampton to production team for 93rd Academy Awards
The Oscars show producers Jesse Collins, Stacey Sher and Steven Soderbergh today announced 14 key members of the production team for the 93rd Academy Awards,... Read More
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2021 San Francisco Film Festival (SFFILM) lineup: 57% female-helmed, 57% by BIPOC filmmakers
103 Films to be shown online and at drive-in screenings for the redesigned 64th edition of the longest running film festival in the Americas The lineup... Read More
Issa Rae secures five-year, multi-platform deal with WarnerMedia
Projects to be developed with Rae’s HOORAE media company Today, WarnerMedia announced a five-year overall deal with Issa Rae, extending their relationship with the Emmy-nominated... Read More
Afrofuturism: Blackness Revisualized Film Festival begins March 26, will be free via ALL ARTS
Curated by Black futurist artist Celia C. Peters, this festival celebrates the boundlessness of Black imagination through 10 films from across the diaspora starring Sterling K.... Read More
Focus Features to release Timur Bekmambetov thriller ‘Profile’ theatrically this May
Focus Features has acquired the worldwide rights to the thriller Profile, a Berlin Film Festival sensation from Timur Bekmambetov, the director behind the intense Angelina Jolie-led thriller Wanted.... Read More
Glenn Weiss returns as director for the Oscars
The Oscars show producers Jesse Collins, Stacey Sher and Steven Soderbergh announced today that veteran director Glenn Weiss will return to direct the 93rd Oscars. ... Read More
2021 Oscars: How Andra Day (‘The United States vs. Billie Holiday’) or Vanessa Kirby (‘Pieces of a Woman’) could be the 13th Best Actress winner to be the lone nominee from her film
Over the course of Oscar history, 12 leading ladies have scored the Best Actress trophy as the only nomination from their film. This year, not... Read More
Focus Features sets November 2021 release for Kenneth Branagh’s coming of age story ‘Belfast’
Focus Features will release Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast on Friday, November 12, 2021 in theaters domestically. Written and directed by Academy Award nominee Kenneth Branagh (Hamlet), Belfast is a poignant story of love, laughter and loss... Read More
SXSW Review: Mari Walker’s ‘See You Then’ is a truthful, intimate discussion on broken relationships
SXSW Review: Mari Walker’s ‘See You Then’ is a truthful, intimate discussion on broken relationships
In our current climate, honesty seems to be lost in the average conversation. Today’s human beings feel as if they bring up any subject, eggshells... Read More
Academy Award nominee Shaka King named Honorary Chair of 2021 Film Independent Spirit Awards
$75,000 in grants given by Premier Sponsor Genesis Motor North America Film Independent has named filmmaker Shaka King (Judas and the Black Messiah) as its... Read More
2024 Camerimage Film Festival: Danish Oscar Entry ‘The Girl With the Needle’ Wins Golden Frog 
Interview: ‘Gladiator II’ Cinematographer John Mathieson on Reuniting with Ridley Scott and Continuing the Legacy and Lore 
Interview: Alan Menken and Glenn Slater on Creating the Songs and Score for ‘Spellbound’ and the “Perfectly” Cast Rachel Zegler 
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