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I’M A Celebrity bosses have put the camp on high alert after a horde of venomous snakes were captured around the site.  Expert handlers on the hit ITV show have snared bagfuls of the poisonous Eastern Small-eyed and Red-Bellied Black serpents - just a few feet away from where the celebrities are sleeping.  The venom from Eastern Small-eyed snakes can cause long-term muscle damage and kidney problems while untreated bites from Red-Bellied serpents can prove fatal.  Meanwhile the site team have also placed warning signs around the camp in New South Wales to remind the crew to remain calm if they stumble across the slippery reptiles. An insider said: "There have been loads of sightings around the camp and they are likely to become agitated if they are disturbed.

Most romance films typically center around young love and growing old together. Less common are stories about finding love at an older age or simply being older and in love.

Thinking of actors and actresses who appear in a myriad of films in small but memorable roles, Dale Dickey quickly comes to mind. “Hell or High Water,” “Winter’s Bone,” “Palm Springs,” “Super 8,” and “Iron Man 3,” that’s to name just a small handful of the supporting roles she has had throughout her career.

Naman Ramachandran The U.K. premiere of “Good Luck To You, Leo Grande,” directed by Sophie Hyde, will open this year’s Sundance London (June 9-12), with lead actors Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack in attendance.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterThe small and powerful Sundance drama “A Love Song” has found worldwide distribution in Sony’s Stage 6 Films and Bleecker Street, Variety has learned exclusively.The acclaimed two-hander about love, loss and loneliness is led by Dale Dickey (“Winter’s Bone,” “Hell or High Water”) and honorary Academy Award winner Wes Studi (“Hostiles,” “The Last of the Mohicans”).The film, sitting at 93% Fresh on critic aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, marks the writer-director debut of Max Walker-Sliverman. Bleecker Street will release the film to domestic theaters this summer, while Stage 6 is currently charting the international release strategy.Dickey plays Faye, a wanderer who stations herself at an idyllic \ campsite in the Colorado Mountains – cooking simple meals, retrieving crawfish from a trap, and scanning her old box radio for a station.

Yellow wildflowers in the dusty brown dirt, multi-colored rolling hills, and a green-blue lake set the stage for writer-director Max Walker-Silverman’s debut feature film “A Love Song.” A rumination on love found and lost, it’s also a hymn to the beauty and wonder of Walker-Silverman’s native Colorado. Cinematographer Alfonso Herrera Salcedo shoots the film with the hazy, yet hyper-defined colors of an old picture postcard.

If ever there was what we can affectionately call a “Sundance movie” , it is A Love Song, a micro-small, actor-driven heartfelt drama set in the rural west mountainous region of Colorado from first time feature writer/director Max Walker-SIlverman. Premiering in the NEXT section of the Sundance Film Festival tonight this is a deliberately paced look at two lonely lives of former childhood friends now leading a seemingly nomadic existence in the aftermath of grief over the loss of their individual spouses as they forge a tentative reunion that might – or might not – lead to romance, even as they have reached their senior years.  In an odd way it is the perfect companion piece for last year’s Best Picture Oscar winner, Nomadland , a movie also set in the sparse surroundings of the Southwest and focusing on a particular character, now alone , heading out on the road following the end of the life she once knew. It probably is no accident that a key producer here is Dan Janvey, who was one of the producers of Nomadland as well.