Sundance Film Festival: London has revealed that “Zola” and “CODA” will be among the 2021 lineup, when the festival returns to Picturehouse Central next month. “CODA” — an acronym meaning “Child of Deaf Adults” — features Marlee Matlin (“The West Wing”) and 19-year-old Emilia Jones (“Locke & Key”) navigating their relationship, while “Zola” is based
Month: June 2021
The BBC has pulled the plug on long-running medical drama “Holby City” after 23 years. In a statement, the corporation hinted that it was bringing the program to an end in March 2022 in order to foster new programs across the country. Earlier this year, the BBC unveiled a six-year plan that will see the
Lars Mikkelsen (“House of Cards”) and Nikolaj Lie Kaas (“Riders of Justice”) have joined the cast of Lars von Trier’s cult classic hospital series “The Kingdom.” The third and final season of the series, which began in the 1990s, will be shooting until the end of the summer. Von Trier has already reunited several members
Sheffield DocFest is spotlighting and celebrating Black British screen culture this month with a Retrospective titled “Films belong to those who need them – fragments from the history of Black British Cinema.” The Retrospective brings together a wide and diverse range of films that have been largely overlooked and undervalued in film history and criticism.
Fresh off their debut feature documentary “Davos,” Daniel Hoesl and Julia Niemann have lined up a number of new projects, among them a new film to be produced by Ulrich Seidl. Hoesl has completed the script for the narrative feature, “Vikinger,” a satire about an Austrian billionaire family with a penchant for hunting. Hoesl and
Jodie Foster will receive the Honorary Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. She will also be the guest of honor at the opening ceremony, at which she will receive the tribute. The honorary prize was previously given to Jeanne Moreau, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jane Fonda, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Manoel de Oliveira, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Agnès Varda and
Fresh off their debut feature documentary “Davos,” Daniel Hoesl and Julia Niemann have lined up a number of new projects, among them an upcoming series for HBO Max and ZDF. Produced by Berlin-based Komplizen Film (“Tony Erdmann“), “Fck My Heritage” (working title) is set in an elite boarding school and follows a group of students
The U.K.’s Film and TV Charity has relaunched its Looking Glass Survey, two years after the 2019 survey revealed a mental health emergency in the industry. In the ensuing period, the industry has dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic and the continued effects of systemic discrimination, bullying and harassment. The charity is calling on everyone who
Netflix’s party-minded “Carnaval” has a lot on its plate, tackling everything from influencers, the toxic nature of their business and the complexities of making and maintaining female friendships in that industry. Set against the revelry and pageantry of Brazil’s Carnival celebration, director Leandro Neri’s lighthearted romantic comedy delivers hijinks and a few sweet sentiments about
The creepy fascination for shamanism that continues to exist in modern-day Thailand and Korea will be on full display this summer in “The Medium.” The film is now confirmed for a July commercial release and may be in line for a midnight screening berth in a major festival. Korean distributor Showbox is gearing up for
Bo Burnham’s newest Netflix release isn’t so much a comedy special as it is a tapestry of musical musings about privilege, identity, living through the lockdown and being a newly-30 millennial. Released on May 30, “Bo Burnham: Inside” was written, directed, shot and edited by Burnham during the COVID-19 pandemic. The special is a continuation
China has shuttered a portion of cinemas in top movie-going province Guangdong after what reports said may be the country’s first community outbreak of the Indian COVID-19 variant. Reports did not state exactly how many cinemas have been affected. The theater closures come days after U.S. cinema chains, including AMC, Regal and Cinemark announced they
The California Senate on Tuesday approved a bill that encourages film and TV productions to diversify the entertainment workforce. The bill creates an incentive for productions to hire the graduates of a new training program. The program, called the Career Pathways Training Program, is expected to launch in the coming year, with the aim of
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Sacrament,” the series finale of “Mare of Easttown.” HBO’s “Mare of Easttown” almost did not end with Mare (Kate Winslet) finally ascending into the attic, where her son died by suicide. “We said, Does it feel like we’re doing two endings? Do we really need
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EXCLUSIVE: Daytime Emmys Skip Lifetime Achievement Awards for a Second Year in a Row The Daytime Emmys will once again be produced as a virtual event for 2021, and that’s why the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has decided to skip naming any lifetime achievement awards again this year. Inside the org, the
Robert Hogan, the TV actor who appeared in over 100 primetime shows, has died. He was 87. According to his family’s announcement in the New York Times, Hogan died due to complications from pneumonia at his home in Maine on May 27. He had been living with vascular Alzheimer’s disease since 2013. Born in Jamaica,
Sean “Diddy” Combs has teamed up with Salesforce to launch Shop Circulate, which the announcement describes as a curated digital marketplace that allows consumers to discover and buy products exclusively created and sold by Black entrepreneurs. The platform’s goal is to provide Black businesses with a platform to reach global audiences and empowers consumers to
This week is off to a record-breaking start for both Olivia Rodrigo and Taylor Swift, two of pop’s leading singer-songwriters. Rodrigo’s debut album, “Sour,” which released on May 21, debuted at the top of the Rolling Stone album chart for the week of May 21-27. With 302,100 total album-equivalent units, the 11-track record scored the biggest
Pride Month kicked off today, and all month long, television studios and networks — from NBCUniversal to Here TV — will celebrate and amplify LGBTQIA+ voices and stories. Throughout the month, “Today” will cover Pride celebrations and feature guests including Bowen Yang, Indya Moore and Angelica Ross. NBC News will air “Transamerica,” a special that
The May 30 finale of “Mare of Easttown” drew four million viewers across Memorial Day Weekend, with nearly three million viewers Sunday night on all HBO platforms, marking a series high for the WarnerMedia premium cabler’s linear and digital outlets. The series stars Oscar, Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actress Kate Winslet from creator Brad Ingelsby
Just ahead of its 27th festival, the annual Palm Springs International ShortFest announced its 2021 lineup that will showcase nearly 300 films from June 22 to 28. “As we collectively move toward this next stage together, we feel a strong sense of gratitude to share the 2021 edition of ShortFest in person,” artistic director Lili
After a punishing 14 months for the movie theater business, some sense of normalcy was restored last weekend with the release of director John Krasinski’s “A Quiet Place Part II.” The Paramount Pictures film opened ahead of Memorial Day with $48 million at the U.S. box office, the best showing since the onset of COVID-19.
Taylor Swift has been cast in director David O. Russell’s next film at New Regency. She joins an A-list ensemble that includes Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, John David Washington, Rami Malek and Zoe Saldana. Russell, the filmmaker behind the Oscar-winning movies “American Hustle” and “Silver Linings Playbook,” is directing the film from his own script.
Here are the top trailers for movies coming to home video in June 2021! What will you watch? Watch All the Best New Trailers from May 2021: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLScC8g4bqD47SOaIDpe1B4hBOwGdy9EZh&cmp=MCYT_YouTube_Desc 00:00 Spiral: From the Book of Saw 02:16 Profile 04:47 Grace and Grit 07:11 Operation: Rainfall 08:42 Rogue Hostage 10:38 The Misfits 13:15 Anything For Jackson 14:52
Sophie Turner has joined the cast of the HBO Max series “The Staircase.” Turner joins previously announced cast members Colin Firth, Toni Collette, Parker Posey, Juliette Binoche, and Rosemarie DeWitt. The eight-episode series is based on the docuseries of the same name as well as various books and reports about the case of Michael Peterson
Check out the official The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It Trailer! Let us know what you think in the comments below. ► Buy Tickets: https://www.fandango.com/the-conjuring-the-devil-made-me-do-it-2021-223487/movie-overview?cmp=MCYT_YouTube_Desc Want to be notified of all the latest movie trailers? Subscribe to the channel and click the bell icon to stay up to date. US Release Date: June
Arlene Golonka, a veteran character actor best known for playing Millie Swanson on “Mayberry R.F.D.,” died Monday in West Hollywood, Calif. She was 85. Her niece Stephanie Morton, said she had been suffering from Alzheimer’s. “She lived and breathed being an artist, being an actress was who she was born to be,” said her niece,
The past year has demonstrated, more than ever, just how essential essential workers really are. So why is it still so rare to see television shows that feature them as main characters? There are, of course, numerous shows that feature nurses and other medical professionals in prominent roles, but one would be hard-pressed to name
Melissa Barrera has been cast in the lead role of the Netflix drama series “Breathe.” Variety exclusively reported that the series had been ordered at the streamer back in February. Barrera will star as Liv, a razor-sharp Manhattan attorney who finds herself profoundly out of her comfort zone when her small plane crashes in the Canadian