Venice Film Festival: Calm Before The Storm As The Covid-Proof Festival Gears Up

Where to begin with “Freaks Out,” a Nazisploitation fantasy caper with circus trappings and a tin-ear for taste. The puzzling thing about Italian director Gabriele Mainetti’s feature set in 1943 in German-occupied Rome is that, rather than embracing tastelessness a la John Waters, it guns for earnestness despite not having a thoughtful bone in its body.

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coronavirus cancellation of its 2020 music festival.The event in question was cancelled on December 5, 2019, when Moogfest announced that its 2020 festival would not go ahead for “logistical reasons”.A civil suit was filed on August 11 by UG Strategies (UGS), the marketing and event production firm that organised Moogfest 2018 (per Pitchfork).UG Strategies claimed that Moog had wrongfully terminated a licensing agreement for UGS to manage Moogfest in 2018, allegedly agreed to extend through to and including 2020.

John Turner, a veteran of the nonfiction world and creator of Netflix crime series Dirty Money, has been appointed head of documentaries for Imax.

The Amazing Race is set to return to CBS this season.

NBA star Stephen Curry’s Unanimous Media and Netflix are teaming for Black Brother, Black Brother, a feature based on Jewell Parker Rhodes’ book.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals upped its campaign this week against Paramount’s forthcoming Jackass Forever. In a letter to Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Kimberly Abourezk and L.A. City Attorney Mike Feuer, PETA Cousel Caitlin Zittkowski wrote that the film’s trailer contains “scenes apparently involving cruelty to animals.”

Kilmarnock three years after they were banned following complaints by locals.In May 2018, East Ayrshire Council allowed Bonnyton Thistle to lease the pitches, but only for youth teams, after the community complained about the behaviour of older users.The football club had taken up an additional lease and built an artificial pitch at Townholm, but were still using the Bonnyton pitches.Among the complaints were "the noise of balls hitting the fences, light pollution from the floodlights, the conduct of players, the noise of players shouting while playing matches."Now, following talks between the football club and Bonnyton Community Council, the cabinet is set to approve the trial easing of restrictions on Warwickhill Grass Football Pitch,

Marta Balaga Dedicated to the story that shook up Poland in 1983, when high-schooler Grzegorz Przemyk was beaten to death by militia, Venice’s main competition entry “Leave No Traces” is not your usual historical movie, argued helmer Jan P. Matuszyński during the press conference.“I see parallels between the case of Grzegorz Przemyk and the case of George Floyd,” he said.

Kelly Clarkson is reflecting on her crazy 2020.

Kate Garraway put on a brave face as she hit the National Television Awards red carpet solo on Thursday night.

Art Metrano, who played the officer Ernie Mauser in two Police Academy sequels and was a familiar face on episodic TV before a serious injury sustained in a home accident derailed his career in 1989, died of natural causes yesterday at his home in Aventura, Florida. He was 84.

coastline near Kirkcolm where he has been walking for 35 years. Armed with essentials, including his phone and suitable clothing, he never suspected he'd be left in a life-threatening situation.

Paying tribute. Prince William and Prince Harry are both set to appear to honor their late grandfather Prince Philip in an upcoming BBC documentary.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVCBS announced that “Big Brother: Celebrity Edition” has been renewed for a third season that will premiere in February 2022.“Big Brother: Celebrity Edition” Season 3 will once again be hosted by Julie Chen Moonves and feature a to-be-announced group of celebrities living together in the “Big Brother” house where they will be filmed 24/7 (which viewers can watch via the live feeds on Paramount Plus) and compete for a grand prize.No information is yet known on the amount of the prize money in this upcoming third season of “Celebrity Edition,” nor whether it will go to the celebrity that wins or a charity of his or her choosing.

When it was originally announced that Quentin Tarantino, famed director of films such as “Pulp Fiction,” “Reservoir Dogs,” “Inglourious Basterds,” and more, would be working with Paramount on a new “Star Trek” film, people were either confused and worried or completely excited by the prospect. Of course, it doesn’t appear that the studio is actually moving forward with Tarantino’s vision of what a “Star Trek” film could look like, and according to Roddenberry Entertainment CEO, that’s not a bad thing.

Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!Deontay Wilder is so fiercely protective of his children that any future boyfriends of his two daughters will have to go three rounds in the ring with the Bronze Bomber to prove their worth.The former WBC heavyweight champion is currently training and preparing for his eagerly-anticipated bout with Tyson Fury next month in what will be the third fight in their brutal trilogy.Wilder, who has five children, is particularly protective of his two daughters and his eldest is now 16 years old.The boxer has thrown down the gauntlet to any potential boyfriend - and they will have to be particularly brave to do so. “I've got great kids, I have no problems,” Wilder told the PBC Podcast.

EXCLUSIVE: Yellowstone and Fifty Shades franchise actor Luke Grimes has signed on to star in the sci-fi-thriller Hello Stranger, with April Mullen (Wander) slated to direct from a screenplay penned by Ryan Christopher Churchill.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentParis-based MPM Premium has scored further major territory sales on Sundance Festival hit “The Pink Cloud,” closing Korea, China and Taiwan on a title which now plays at the Toronto Industry Selects market.These sales add to deals for North America – with Blue Fox Entertainment – Switzerland (Trigon), Russia (Russian World Vision) and Brazil on one of the stellar Latin American feature debuts of the year, directed by Iuli Gerbase, part of an exciting young generation of confident women Brazilian filmmakers who are bursting through to recognition abroad.

So the world is on fire and a global pandemic well into its “my God, is this still happening?” phase rages on. Among the slightly less critical consequences is another level of intricacy added to the Academy Awards’ most byzantine and unpredictable category — best international feature film.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterDirector Jonas Pohen Rasmussen was initially reluctant to make an English-language version of “Flee,” his animated documentary about a refugee who escaped his home in Afghanistan as a child to safety in Denmark. But Rasmussen thought a star-studded voice cast could help shed an important light on struggles similar to those of the film’s central figure, Amin Nawabi (a pseudonym).A Hollywood agent suggested he connect with “Sound of Metal” star Riz Ahmed and “Game of Thrones” actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, both of whom empathized with Amin’s harrowing journey and ultimately narrated the doc, in theaters Dec.