Month: May 2021

New York City-based global documentary film sales agent Cargo Film & Releasing has nabbed world rights, excluding Denmark and Sweden, to Mads Hedegaard’s feature length documentary debut “Cannon Arm and the Arcade Quest,” which premiered at last week’s CPH:DOX and plays this week at Hot Docs. The feel-good film centers on Kim Cannon Arm, who
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Solomon Sounds, ne Solomon Sobande, the former manager of the late rapper and songwriter XXXTentacion, has joined Capitol Records as senior vice president of A&R, reporting to Capitol Music Group (CMG) chairman and CEO Jeff Vaughn. Sounds is tasked with signing and develop artists for the company’s flagship label. He’ll be based out of New
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Ever since Disney purchased Lucasfilm in 2012, audiences have  created a plethora of new “Star Wars” content. The sequel trilogy — 2015’s “The Force Awakens,” 2017’s “The Last Jedi” and 2019’s “The Rise of Skywalker” — wrapped up the main storyline of the Skywalker Saga. Standalone films “Rogue One” and “Solo” explored specific stories within
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TikTok, what would we do without you? The app is now the go-to place to discover Amazon treasures—butt-lifting leggings, retro sunglasses, Gossip Girl-ready pleated skirts, to name a few—and if you’re someone who always has their eyeballs glued to their FYP, you’re aware that the it-pieces are consistently changing. Right now, it’s all about the
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For the launch of Michael B. Jordan’s “Without Remorse,” the team at Amazon decided to go big. The e-commerce giant and streaming player coordinated more than 100 drone deliveries to veterans and military families, celebs and influencers in 11 countries and 14 markets across the globe. It’s the kind of effort, one that spanned time
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UPDATED: Reddit, the popular internet discussion site, encountered broad technical issues Tuesday, as thousands of users worldwide reported problems accessing pages for about an hour. Problem reports for Reddit began to spike just before 2 p.m. ET, according to uptime-tracking service DownDetector.com. More than 40,000 users in the U.S. alone had submitted error reports to
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Baz Halpin, the music touring creative director who founded Silent House 11 years ago, announced an ambitious expansion Tuesday, with his brainchild to now be known as Silent House Group and expanded into three separate companies — Silent House Studiios, Silent House Events and Silent House Productions. Key hires in the expansion include Mark Bracco
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“Big Sky” has been renewed for Season 2 at ABC. In addition, series executive producer Elwood Reid will take over as showrunner for Season 2. His past credits include “The Chi,” “The Bridge,” “Hawaii Five-O,” and “Barkskins.” He takes over running the show from series creator and executive producer David E. Kelley. Season 1 is
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America’s most notorious (and beloved) outlaw and gunfighter is getting the silver screen treatment. Premium cabler and MGM subsidiary Epix has greenlit a “Billy the Kid” drama, written and executive produced by “Elizabeth,” “The Tudors” and “Vikings” scribe Michael Hirst. The hourlong eight-parter starts production this June in Calgary, with a series premiere slated for
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United Talent Agency has promoted more than 100 employees across 30 departments, marking its largest-ever class of promotions. The promotions — which encompass employees at all levels of the company and across multiple global offices — come from departments including business affairs, comedy touring, corporate communications, corporate services, culture & leadership, digital talent, emerging platforms,
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Here are the top trailers for movies coming to home video in May 2021! What will you watch? Watch All the Best New Trailers from April 2021: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLScC8g4bqD44Zf6j6ZFy36ZCssBW18X8-&cmp=MCYT_YouTube_Desc 00:00 Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street 02:11 Locked In 04:03 Initiation 05:36 Paper Spiders 07:26 Long Weekend 08:27 French Exit 10:36 The Killing of
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AB + DM Christian Serratos likes to make people cry. Fortunately, the actress’s most recent project, the second installment of Netflix’s Selena: The Series, offers ample opportunities. In one scene from Part 2 (premiering today), Serratos, who plays the iconic Tejano singer, is laying down vocals for “No Me Queda Más” in a recording booth
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“I May Destroy You,” “Small Axe,” “Ted Lasso,” “The Good Lord Bird” and “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” are among this year’s entertainment nominees for the Peabody Awards. The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors on Tuesday announced this year’s nominees for entertainment, documentaries, news, podcast/radio, children’s & youth, public service and arts. A total
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YouTube has again turned to big-name entertainment personalities to anchor its latest slate of ad-supported originals. At its Brandcast Delivered event for advertisers Tuesday, YouTube announced an unscripted series with Will Smith following his latest fitness journey and a new docuseries with Alicia Keys premiering this summer. The video giant also announced the third and
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Netflix is about to introduce one of Mexico’s most legendary fictional families to the English-speaking world with “We Are the Nobles,” a new U.S. film adaptation of Mexican sensation “Nosotros los Nobles” (The Noble Family). Eight years ago, Gaz Alazraki’s family comedy became a certified blockbuster, and still ranks as the second highest-grossing Mexican film
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A year marked by the coronavirus pandemic, economic turbulence, and widespread protest has given increased urgency to conversations about racism, social justice, and inequality. That, in turn, is forcing the documentary world to rethink the traditional ways of doing business, according to industry leaders. “You can’t completely blow everything up, I don’t think. We have
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Known as a producer of award-winning Canadian documentary and narrative films, a showrunner and, more recently, as the cofounder of Canada’s newly minted Black Screen Office, Jennifer Holness is chatting up her feature-doc directorial debut, “Subjects of Desire,” this week at Hot Docs where it screens in Special Presentations. In an interview with Variety before
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