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Todd McCarthy: In Cannes, Empty Beaches And Empty Screens
Whales can be seen spouting offshore, wildlife is coming back, the sea is loaded with fish and dolphins are cavorting in the port of Toulouse. But the movies screens of Cannes are empty at a time when the film world's attention is normally fixated on the cascade of cinema that annually overtakes the South of France in…
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Annecy International Animation Film Festival Sets Lineup For Online Edition – Update
UPDATED with lineup: The annual Annecy International Animation Film Festival has unveiled its 20-film competition lineup for its 2020 online edition, after its originally scheduled fest June 15-20 was canceled given the current coronavirus pandemic. It now is running June 15-30.
The event takes place each summer in…
Cannes President Pierre Lescure Talks Festival Label & Tie-Up With Venice
The Cannes Film Festival was originally due to kick off last night on the French Riviera, but as with many other industry events amid the coronavirus pandemic, it was ultimately canceled.
Still, organizers expect Cannes 2020 to live on in some ways later this summer, notably with a presence at the Venice Film Festival…
Todd McCarthy Laments Missing His 50th Cannes; Expects Many Of The Films To Wait Till 2021 Festival
Editors’ Note: Todd McCarthy recently wrote about his layoff from The Hollywood Reporter. To commemorate the sense of collective loss we all feel for the 2020 Cannes Film Festival that would have started tomorrow but had to be scratched for safety reasons like everything else because of the COVID-19 pandemic, McCarthy…
NY Film Fest Still Exploring Live Elements For Fall Edition, Unveils Program Changes
Organizers of the New York Film Festival, one of the signature cultural events in a city hit harder than anywhere in the world by COVID-19, say they are still exploring in-person elements for the 58th edition this fall.
Delivering some combination of live and digital experiences is still the ultimate goal, Film at Linc…
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By Dade Hayes
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Fortnite Sets Steve Aoki, deadmau5 For Friday Concert, Announces New Audience Size Milestone
Fortnite is celebrating a milestone in audience size, and has set the next edition of its onsite concerts.
DJs Steve Aoki and deadmau5 are expected to headline Fortnite's latest in-game concert this Friday night. They arrive as the game has announced it has an
Fortnite said it crossed 350 million registered…
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By Bruce Haring
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AFI Docs Announces Plans For Online Film Festival, ‘Boys State’ Will Open Event
The American Film Institute’s annual documentary film festival will be online this year, the latest event to be reimagined in the face of the coronavirus crisis, and it will open with the project Boys State.?
The festival will run from June 17 to 21, and films will be available to view on DOCS.AFI.com. The festival…
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By Ted Johnson
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Nuclear War On ABC & A High-Strung ‘Romeo And Juliet’-Style Melodrama Highlight Two Promising Tribeca Sales Prospects
EXCLUSIVE: For all intents and purposes, the Tribeca Film Festival wrapped last week with the announcement of winners in various categories. Of course there?was?no live Tribeca this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, but the festival went ahead as virtually as it could by creating an Extranet where some of the…
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By Pete Hammond
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Tribeca Film Festival: Netflix’s ‘The Half of It’, ‘The Hater’, ‘Socks On Fire’ Among Award Winners For Postponed 2020 Edition
This evening, Tribeca Film Festival revealed the Jury-selected winning titles from the 19th annual confab, which was forced to postpone its originally scheduled April gathering in response to the global health crisis. Top honors went to Alice Wu’s Netflix coming-of-age dramedy The Half of It, which picked up The…
Locarno Film Festival Cancels 2020 Edition
The Locarno Film Festival, a significant stop on the summer European festival calendar, has canceled its 2020 edition due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
The decision was made following the Swiss government’s decision to extend its ban on events exceeding 1,000 people through August. The festival had been set to…
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By Tom Grater
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France: Timetable For Cinema Re-Openings In Flux, Festival Ban Extended To September, Pro Soccer Season Axed
French movie theaters will not be allowed to re-open when the country begins to lift its national lockdown May 11, while a ban on festivals and events that draw more than 5,000 people has been extended to September. That includes professional sports, and notably the effective axing of the 2019-2020 local soccer…
Tribeca And YouTube Join Forces For ‘We Are One’ Online Film Festival With Lineup Fed By Cannes, Venice, Toronto And More
With the film festival calendar thrown into chaos by COVID-19, Tribeca Enterprises and YouTube are teaming up to present a 10-day streaming event drawing from 20 global fests, including Cannes, Toronto, Sundance and Venice.
The online showcase, dubbed We Are One: A Global Film Festival, will kick off on YouTube on May…
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By Dade Hayes
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