Venice Film Festival Virtual Reality Section Moved Online Will Travel Globally

Charlie Kaufman is unlike any other creative force in the business. One only needs to look at his resume and you’ll see, both as a writer as well as a director, that he’s a singular talent.

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).

Pride as an important occasion in the calendar.Since the announcement, bosses behind one of the country’s biggest Pride events have been working tirelessly on an ‘alternative’ Pride held virtually.The event, taking place over the August Bank Holiday weekend, will feature a virtual parade, discussion panels, live performances, and a host of other surprises to ensure the party is still able to go on in some form.Speaking to the Manchester Evening News, Mark Fletcher, Chief Executive of Manchester Pride, said getting to this point has been a long time coming.“While we were hoping the situation would change and for some miracle vaccine to come along, we had to make the decision to postpone Pride in order to keep people safe,” Mark says.“But I

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.

Nicole Byer has been named the host of the upcoming 2020 Creative Arts Emmy Awards.Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Television Academy will hold the event in a virtual presentationover five nights from September 14-19.The 33-year-old actress and comedian - who is the Emmy-nominated host of the Netflix bake-off competition Nailed It! - will hold down the hosting duties for all five shows. Host with the most!! Comedian and pure ray of sunshine Nicole Byer will host this year's digital version of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards.

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

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.

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.

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).

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterA judge on Tuesday denied Roman Polanski’s request to be reinstated to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, finding that the organization behind the Oscars had a right to expel him in May 2018.Polanski sued the Academy in April 2019, alleging that he had been thrown out without any warning and without a fair process. Polanski fled the United States in 1978, after pleading guilty to the rape of a 13-year-old girl.

WWE fans have been left outraged after an image of what appeared to be a Klu Klux Klan rally was displayed on their virtual fan wall on the latest edition of Monday Night Raw.

Dave McNary Film ReporterAllan Rich, who was blacklisted in Hollywood early in his career and later found his niche as a versatile character actor in hundreds of roles, died on Aug. 22 at the Lillian Booth Actors Home in Englewood, N.J.