Film Academy Launches Conversation Series on Race and Gender Equity

Tributes have been flooding in to honour Chadwick Boseman, who passed away on Friday at age 43 after a years-long battle with colon cancer.

Game of Thrones suffered for their art. Or, at the very least, they were forced to face down heat exhaustion while the men on set had a bit more help. In late August, Clarke alongside director Paul Feig as part of the Edinburgh International Television Festival.

Get Duked! is an anarchic horror comedy where three Glasgow teenagers – Dean (played by Rian Gordon), Duncan (Lewis Gribben) and aspiring hip-hop artist DJ Beatroot (Viraj Juneja) are packed off to the Scottish Highlands on a mandatory Duke of Edinburgh expedition to atone for burning down a school block (after attempting to flambé a turd).

The sale - on the 15th September - is not only the first ever hip hop auction at Sotheby’s, it’s the first at any established auction house. But hip hop hit the big time in the 1970s not too long after traditional rock music, which has already had many prestigious auction sales around the world.

Dennis Hopper’s infamous directorial follow-up to “Easy Rider,” is a counterculture touchstone in its own right, even though it wasn’t given a national release for decades after its short-lived 1971 bow. Even longer in coming: a soundtrack album.

Tyrese Gibson, one of Hollywood’s most notable Black performers as an actor, singer and songwriter, has a heavy heart in the wake of the shooting of Jacob Blake, was shot seven times in the back by Rusten Sheskey, a police officer in Kenosha, Wis. while his children looked on in an SUV.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentThierry Fremaux from the Cannes Film Festival, José Luis Rebordinos from San Sebastian and Carlo Chatrian from the Berlinale are among the eight artistic directors of the main European film festivals who will be attending the opening night of Venice. The inaugural evening of the 77th edition of the Venice Film Festival will take place Sept.

FKA Twigs has shared a new video for her ‘MAGDALENE’ track ‘Sad Day’, directed by Hiro Murai, best known for his work on Atlanta and collaborations with Donald Glover.The accompanying short film was “co-conceived” by the pair and directed by Murai. It’s the first music video the filmmaker has been involved with since his Grammy Award-winning clip for Glover’s video for the Childish Gambino hit ‘This Is America’ back in 2018.The video for ‘Sad Day’ was filmed in Twigs’ hometown of London.

Mark David After barely a month on the market, the fastidiously restored and carefully updated John Kelsey House in Pasadena has sold for its full asking price of nearly $4 million, offering further evidence of not only the desirability of mid-century modern gems but also the remarkable resilience of the real estate industry, which continues to keep its head above water despite an economy in the doldrums due to nationwide political unrest and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.Tax records show the sellers are a couple of inveterate architecture and design aficionados (just take a look at their lively and pedigreed furniture collection!) and the new owner, who will steward the pristine property thought its next phase, is film and television

The incomparable Tracee Ellis Ross, 47, graces the cover of ElleMagazine's inaugural State of Black Beauty issue and was interviewed about the art of Black hair by actress Kerry Washington, 43.Just a few days after their Zoom chat, both stars went on to hos back-to-back nights of last week's virtual Democratic National Convention.Tracee opened up to the Scandal star about her own journey with natural hair which led to the creation of her company, Pattern Beauty, a hair care line specifically designed for curls.

Elizabeth Wagmeister Senior CorrespondentAs drama continues to unfold on the set of “The Bachelorette,” the team behind the hit show continues to keep the mystery alive.Marketing materials for the upcoming season were released on Thursday by ABC, showcasing leading lady Clare Crawley — but not Tayshia Adams, who has been reported to have swapped in as the new star of the season halfway through filming, as production is underway.Though rumors have been swirling that Adams replaces Crawley mid-season, the key art features Crawley solo.

Sam Smith seems to have a new flame judging by the amount of PDA in these photos!

SAM Smith was seen kissing new boyfriend Francois Rossi in the street as they went to the pub for a cosy date. The 28-year-old singer snogged the designer in the street in North London, where the Oscar-winner has a £12million mansion.

Rebecca Rubin News Editor, OnlineAcademy Museum creative director Peter Castro is under investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department for sexual assault, Variety has confirmed.“We have been informed of the investigation involving alleged conduct by a museum employee outside of work. We are aware that the alleged conduct did not occur at the Academy or the Academy Museum and that the accuser is not affiliated with either,” an Academy Museum spokesperson said in a statement.

Roman Polanski is the acclaimed director of such Oscar-winning films as “Rosemary’s Baby” and “The Pianist”, but he’s also a fugitive from justice after fleeing the U.S. in 1978 rather than face a possible prison sentence for charges of sexually assaulting 13-year-old girl.

The nonprofit organization founded by American Black Film Festival creators Jeff and Nicole Friday, Film Life Foundation, is launching a new fest with that the founders say will “will merge art and activism to drive today’s necessary conversations forward toward lasting social and political change.” The Social Justice Now festival, which will run Oct. 21-25, is being built with the help of Endeavor Content, Michael B.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe Venice Film Festival’s Virtual Reality section is going entirely online this year, but expanding its scope via a platform and also a satellite network that will make it accessible worldwide.In normal times the competitive sidebar launched in 2017 by co-curators Michel Reilhac and Liz Rosenthal – who put Venice ahead of the curve in the VR arena – was held on the Lazzaretto, a tiny island a stone’s throw from the Lido that was a leper colony in the 15th century.

Janet W. Lee American Black Film Festival creators Jeff and Nicole Friday will launch Social Justice Now Film Festival, which will run from Oct.

Radha Blank shows off her writing, directing, producing and acting chops in the first trailer for Netflix'sForty-Year-Old-Version. The Lena Waithe-produced comedy features writer-producer Blank in her directorial debut — a personal ode to the stories sparked by adversity and dreams unfulfilled.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentAbel Ferrara will be awarded the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award at the Venice Film Festival.Ferrara, who is based in Rome these days, will be handed the award honoring an artist’s original mark on contemporary cinema during a ceremony on Sept. 5 prior to the screening of his latest doc titled “Sportin’ Life.” The doc is described in a Venice statement as an “intimate and lush” look at his own life.It’s Ferrara’s “world refracted through his art – music, filmmaking, his collaborators and inspirations… his partner Cristina Chiriac and their daughter Anna, their life in the eternal city, Roma… as the corona virus descends and paralyses the world,” the statement said.

Oscar winners Kate Winselt, Jennifer Hudson and Glenn Close have joined Daisy Ridley in the all-female voice cast of Baba Yaga, an immersive VR animated film that will premiere at the Venice Film Festival next month. In the VR experience, viewers enter a haunting fairytale world, joining their sister Magda (Ridley) on a quest to heal their mother (Close) by entering an enchanted forest (Hudson) to obtain the cure from the enigmatic witch, Baba Yaga (Winslet).