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SFFILM announces 2020 Documentary Film Fund winners

Erik Anderson September 3, 2020

SFFILM Makers’ Non-Fiction Post-Production Fund Awards a Total of $80,000 to Four Projects SFFILM today announced the four winners of 2020 SFFILM Documentary Film Fund grants totaling $80,000, which support... Read More

Trailer: Julianne Moore and Alicia Vikander as feminist icon Gloria Steinem in ‘The Glorias’

Erik Anderson September 3, 2020

Journalist, fighter, and feminist Gloria Steinem is an indelible icon known for her world-shaping activism, guidance of the revolutionary women’s movement, and writing that has... Read More

The past isn’t dead in new trailer for ‘No Time to Die’

Erik Anderson September 3, 2020

Bond, bombs and babes are in order for one of the most action-packed 007 trailers in ages. In No Time To Die, James Bond (Daniel Craig,... Read More

Emmy Predictions: Lead Actress in a Drama Series

Kevin Jacobsen September 3, 2020

At the 2010 Primetime Emmy Awards, presenter Edie Falco bluntly proclaimed that all six men nominated for Best Lead Actor in a Drama Series deserved... Read More

12th African American Film Critics Association awards (AAFCA) get April 2021 date

Erik Anderson September 2, 2020

The African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) will hold its 12th Annual AAFCA Awards honoring outstanding achievement in film on April 7, 2021, it was... Read More

Cooper Hoffman, son of Philip Seymour Hoffman, is the lead of Paul Thomas Anderson’s ’70s drama

Erik Anderson September 2, 2020

Cooper Hoffman, son of the late Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, has been confirmed as the lead of the new film by Paul Thomas Anderson,... Read More

TV Film Review: ‘Coastal Elites’ is a witty and dark satire with a star-studded cast that zeroes in on pandemic and political fears

Zofia Wijaszka September 2, 2020

The world is tired – exhausted from the pandemic, the constant fear for our lives, and the future’s uncertainty. One group is exceptionally weary, frustrated,... Read More

Briarcliff Entertainment picks up Khashoggi’s assassination doc ‘The Dissident’ for US release (Trailer)

Erik Anderson September 2, 2020

Briarcliff Entertainment announced today the acquisition of domestic distribution rights to The Dissident, the highly anticipated film from Bryan Fogel (Academy Award-winning director of Icarus), and today... Read More

TIFF: Joel Edgerton, Marion Cotillard, Vanessa Kirby, Alessandro Nivola to star in Brady Corbet’s ‘The Brutalist’

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TIFF: Joel Edgerton, Marion Cotillard, Vanessa Kirby, Alessandro Nivola to star in Brady Corbet’s ‘The Brutalist’

Erik Anderson September 2, 2020

Protagonist Pictures will launch international sales at the Toronto International Film Festival; CAA Media Finance to handle US rights Golden Globe nominee Joel Edgerton (Boy... Read More

First look at Netflix docuseries ‘Challenger: The Final Flight’

Erik Anderson September 2, 2020

The explosion of the Space Shuttle: Challenger on January 28, 1986 rocked the world. The doomed mission held the first African-American astronaut (Ronald McNair), first... Read More

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