Everything Everywhere All At Once, the upcoming sci-fi adventure pic from directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert—who are collectively known as Daniels—will open the 29th SXSW Film Festival on March 11, South by Southwest Conference and Festivals announced today. The film making its world premiere in Austin centers…

The 2021 AFI Awards top 10 list is out, and it’s top heavy with films from big-name directors. Steven Spielberg, Guillermo del Toro, Denis Villeneuve, Paul Thomas Anderson, Jane Campion, Joel Coen and Adam McKay all have movies that made the cut. Another boldface name, Lin-Manuel Miranda, also showed up on the list…

In recent years, composers Aaron and Bryce Dessner have found a unique challenge in Cyrano, scoring musical adaptations of the classic 1897 Edmond Rostand play Cyrano de Bergerac first for the stage, and then for the screen. Bryce says that when Erica Schmidt first approached him and his brother to work on her stage…

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered citizens to work from home if possible, made masks mandatory in certain indoor venues and is introducing “Covid passports” as a form of entry. Delivering a press conference in the last few minutes, Johnson said the dangerous Omicron variant is doubling infections every…

EXCLUSIVE: Future Of Film Is Female (The FOFIF), the NYC based non-profit dedicated to amplifying the work of all women and non-binary filmmakers, announced its Fall 2021 Short Film Fund recipients. Founded in 2018, The FOFIF awards grants three times a year with partner companies, Heard City and Nice Shoes, to offer…

EXCLUSIVE: Actor, stand-up comedian and bestselling author Damon Wayans has signed with CAA. The four-time Emmy nominee starred just last night opposite Kevin Hart in ABC’s live staging of Diff'rent Strokes, as part of its Emmy-winning series, Live in Front of a Studio Audience. He played Willis Jackson, the role…

EXCLUSIVE: Malcolm Goodwin (Amazon’s upcoming Reacher, The CW’s iZombie) has been tapped to lead The Great Wall of Warren, an indie dramedy from writer-director Victor Hawks, which also stars Kirby Bliss Blanton (Project X), Vanessa Curry (Behind The Trees), William “Big Sleeps” Stewart (Coffee & Kareem), Ester Tania…

EXCLUSIVE: Comedian, actor and host Hasan Minhaj today announced the launch of his production company, 186K Films, as well as For the Culture, a new film he’s set to produce and star in for Amazon Studios, which he’s scripting with long-time collaborator Prashanth Venkataramanujam. Minhaj founded 186K Films with…

EXCLUSIVE: RadicalMedia is teaming with the Jerry Garcia Family LLC and Red Light Management on the Jerry Garcia feature documentary, directed by Jerry Garcia's longtime collaborator, Justin Kreutzmann (Let There Be Drums!)  The announcement comes on the heels of RadicalMedia producing the critically-acclaimed, SUMMER…

The African American Film Critics Association said Wednesday that it has selected Netflix’s Western The Harder They Fall, King Richard, Respect, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Passing, Belfast, Who We Are, House of Gucci, The Power of the Dog and West Side Story as the group’s Top 10 films of the year. The AAFCA will reveal…

EXCLUSIVE: Jason Eisener (Dark Side Of The Ring) is helming Kids VS Aliens, a sci-fi horror that follows what happens when aliens attack a house party. Principal photography has wrapped on the pic, which reunites the team behind 2011 cult horror hit Hobo with a Shotgun, with Eisener directing from a script co-written…

EXCLUSIVE: Sicario and Traffic star Benicio Del Toro is teaming up with L.A.-based Exile Content Studio to develop a slate of scripted and unscripted TV projects from emerging creatives. The partnership will look to support talent from Latin America and the U.S. Hispanic market who are working on Spanish- and…