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The 68th edition of Spain's San Sebastian Film Festival gets underway tonight with the world premiere screening of Rifkin's Festival, Woody Allen's latest movie. The filmmaker was unable to jet into the fest due to ongoing pandemic disruption, appearing at the opening press conference via video link from New York…

Kate Winslet said she is “grappling” with regrets over working with film directors Woody Allen and Roman Polanski, both accused of sexual misconduct with minors. In a candid Vanity Fair interview with Julie Miller, Winslet admitted, “I have to take responsibility for the fact that I worked with them both. I can't turn…

EXCLUSIVE: Home entertainment specialist Signature Entertainment releases 90-120 movies every year, making it the UK’s most prolific independent distributor. Recent releases have included Mr. Jones and The Peanut Butter Falcon. Upcoming on the slate are Liam Neeson actioner Honest Thief, Jamie Dornan-Anthony Mackie…

The 68th edition of Spain's San Sebastian Film Festival will open with the world premiere of Woody Allen's latest movie Rifkin's Festival, which shot in the town last summer and takes place during a fictional edition of the fest. Rifkin’s Festival stars Elena Anaya, Louis Garrel, Gina Gershon, Sergi López, Wallace…

Spike Lee says he was “wrong” to defend Woody Allen against “cancel” culture. In a Friday interview on New York City radio station 710 WOR's "In the Morning” program, Lee discussed Allen’s fall from grace with hosts Len Berman and Michael Riedel. "I'd just like to say Woody Allen is a great, great filmmaker and this…

Rifkin's Festival, the upcoming Woody Allen pic starring Elena Anaya, Louis Garrel and Gina Gershon, has been picked up by Spanish distribution outfit Tripictures. The movie tells the story of a married American couple who go to the San Sebastián Film Festival. They get caught up in the magic of the festival, the…

"I'm working in the outhouse again." That's how Ben Hecht, the fabled screenwriter, used to describe toiling in Hollywood. "And the nitwits are still in charge," he assured his friends. Hecht wrote terrific movies like Scarface and Notorious but he hated studio chiefs, and it was mutual. His name came to mind last…

Although his latest film remains hidden from public view, Woody Allen's memoir finally was published today and, while its first printing quickly sold out, the book exhibits the same absence of order and discipline that has haunted both his films and his personal life. Indeed, it has re-ignited a predictable torrent of…

Remember when, in a pre-Coronavirus world, it was a hot button issue as Hachette signed up to publish the Woody Allen memoir Apropos Of Nothing, and then rescinded that plan after staffers staged a walkout and Ronan Farrow swore off the publisher of his bestseller Catch and Kill, prompting Stephen King to declare his…

Author Stephen King is once again stirring the bubbling cauldron of the Twitterverse with a controversial stance. King, who found himself in hot water in January when he made remarks about diversity and the Oscars, has again raised some eyebrows with an online position. This time, it was a complaint about Hachette Book…

UPDATE, 2:10 PM: The daughter who has accused Woody Allen of molesting her decades ago is “in awe and so very grateful” to protesting staffers of the publisher set to put out the Oscar winning director’s now canceled memoir. Just over an hour after Hachette Book Group announced it had axed Allen’s April 7 set Apropos o…

(UPDATED with statement from Hachette) Just over a month before an imprint of Hachette Book Group is set to publish Woody Allen's memoir, dozens of employees of the company staged a walkout in New York City today. With staffers emptying out of the 6th Avenue offices this afternoon, the move to the streets comes after…