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EXCLUSIVE: The 44th annual Mountainfilm festival has announced its first wave of film titles and festival highlights. Festival-goers can look forward to more than 120 films as the festival takes over Telluride's majestic box canyon Memorial Day weekend, May 26-30, 2022. The festival will include 31 features and nearly…

It's Oct. 1. Give it a week. Check the headlines, message boards, and online gossip. If the film awards and festival circuit hasn't run smack into a Covid cluster by then, we can all breathe easier. Hollywood will have blazed a trail past the pandemic. Unintentionally—because, let's face it, show business has never…

On the eve of the Season 2 premiere for its 20-time Emmy nominee Ted Lasso, Apple sent a note to attendees announcing it will require “proof of full-vaccination and a negative Covid-19 test.” The email read in part, “Due to the recent increase in the Los Angeles Covid rates, all guests and personnel attending the…

The coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc across the film calendar with Sundance, Toronto and London the latest festivals to announce hybrid events featuring physical and online activity. Below we rundown the current status of some of the key upcoming festivals and markets in the next six months; this list…

EXCLUSIVE: Orlando von Einsiedel, whose short doc The White Helmets picked up the 2017 Academy Award, is teaming with National Geographic to launch a series of short films celebrating Nobel Peace Prize Laureates from around the world. The five docs will launch on Nat Geo's YouTube channel on May 20. Three are making…

The coronavirus continues to wreak havoc on the film festival calendar. Cannes had to give up on its June-July dates last week and a plethora of smaller events have cancelled this spring and summer. Here’s an update on the status of five of the biggest remaining festivals on the schedule. It’s fair to say there…

With the 43rd annual Toronto International Film Festival ending tonight, and the Venice and Telluride fests now firmly behind us, it is time once again to take the pulse of the nascent Oscar race. Surprisingly there were no total disasters in terms of who is expected to be in the running, but clearly, some did better…

The Toronto Film Festival gets things rolling tomorrow with the announcement of movies for its 2017 fest, and we are hearing that films with such stars as Jake Gyllenhaal, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Holland, Kate Winslet, Idris Elba, Andrew Garfield, Frances McDormand, Margot Robbie, Bryan Cranston, Kevin Hart, Woody…

Talent flows from God, or whatever mysterious force passes for such. But an artistic career is born of hopes, dreams, accidents and existential choices that conspire to make something special of the talented. For Barry Jenkins, the decidedly special writer-director of Moonlight, a controlling accident was the location…

EXCLUSIVE: Roadside Attractions is closing a deal to acquire the U.S. and Canadian rights to Though The Wall, an Israeli comedy that just premiered at the Venice Film Festival and then made its U.S. debut at Telluride. The film got strong reaction at both fests, and it is a 2016 nominee for an Ophir, the Israeli…

Opening day at the 43rd Annual Telluride Film Festival was one for the guys, at least in terms of awards buzz for the Best Actor Oscar race. Sully had its first screening Friday night and immediately drew lots of talk for star Tom Hanks who was so unfairly passed over in recent years for superb, if subtle…

EXCLUSIVE: Among world premieres unspooling this weekend at the Telluride Film Festival is a harrowing new documentary Finding Oscar, which is produced by Frank Marshall and executive produced by Steven Spielberg in association with the USC Shoah Foundation. The docu directed by Ryan Suffern will have its first…