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- Friday, January 15, 2021 - 2:45pm
"Parasite" director Bong Joon Ho has been selected as jury president of the 78th Venice International Film Festival, organizers said Friday. The Oscar-winner will preside over seven jurors to hand out the festival's top awards, including the... "Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil" Named SXSW Film Fest's Opening Night Headliner
- Friday, Jan. 15, 2021
Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil, directed by Michael D. Ratner, has been named the opening night headliner for the 28th annual SXSW Film Festival which runs virtually from March 16-20...
TRAVERSE32's Brett Henenberg Navigates The Worlds of Entertainment, Advertising
- Friday, Jan. 15, 2021
Brett Henenberg leads all elements of TRAVERSE32’s domestic and international film, television, and content productions. Recently launched by IPG Mediabrands, TRAVERSE32 is an independent...
Sundance Preview: Directors Reflect On Their Feature Documentaries
- Friday, Jan. 15, 2021
Bring Your Own Brigade, Rebel Hearts and Cusp are among the select field of documentaries set for the upcoming Sundance Film Festival.
The filmmakers behind them...
Directors Share Insights Into "Nomadland," "Minari" and "Promising Young Woman"
- Friday, Jan. 15, 2021
Chloé Zhao is among this year’s leading Oscar contenders as writer-director of Nomadland (Searchlight Pictures). Last month she earned Best Director honors from both the New York and Los...
Cinematographers & Cameras: Lensing "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," "Waiting for the Barbarians"
- Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021
A tale of two cinematographers--one whose feature is currently in the Oscar conversation across varied categories, the other already a two-time Academy Award winner with professional achievements...
TV "Box Office": Consciousness Of Streaming
- Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021
On January 29, director John Lee Hancock’s psychological suspense thriller The Little Things, starring Academy Award winners Denzel Washington, Rami Malek and Jared Leto, is scheduled to...
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- Thursday, January 14, 2021 - 8:15pm
Media mogul Oprah Winfrey will have a biographical documentary released on Apple TV+. The streaming platform announced Thursday a two-part documentary focusing on Winfrey's life. The project will chronicle 25 years of American history through the... Super Bowl Ad Preview: The Impact of the Pandemic
- Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021
What a difference a year makes. Fox sold out ad inventory for the 2020 Big Game back in November 2019. Fast forward to today, well into January, and CBS still has commercial slots open for Super...
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- Thursday, January 14, 2021 - 3:15pm
Filmmaker Tyler Perry and the Motion Picture and Television Fund are being honored with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Thursday. The group that puts on the Oscars decided to give the award...