Madonna has brought her tour to a close with a free concert on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, in front of a reported 1.6million fans.
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Ben Croll Running April 24 – 28 at Paris’ Forum des Images, this year’s NewImages Festival will focus on bridge building, looking to foster connection and bolster partnerships between new media creators and legacy institutions. “We really want to bring the XR industry closer to the cultural sector of museums and theaters, really anything that could be a future showcase for immersive works,” festival director Michele Ziegler tells Variety.
“While a few distributors now specialize in this, there is still much work to do convincing cultural decision makers to invest in new media. We have much to mediate and explore.” To that end, Ziegler and her team took a dual track, curating a 15-project competition with an eye toward audience accessibility and a seven-title out-of-competition showcase united around a shared theme of cultural transmission.
Spanning five continents, eight countries and a wealth of immersive approaches, many competition titles traverse memories and dreamscapes, accenting historical weight in the Holocaust doc “Letters From Drancy,” intimate connection in the multi-user experience “Traversing the Mist,” and personal disability in the ash-tinged exploration of aphasia “Emperor.” Meanwhile, titles like “YUKI MRcade Mode,” “The Tent” and “Gargoyle Doyle” find AR/VR experiences imbued with the rogue spirit of independent gaming. When curating this 15-project competition from 140 submissions, Ziegler and her team focused above all on ease of use – testing out each experience with a selection committee that included several immersive neophytes.
“We needed the non-expert point of view,” Ziegler explains. “It was essential have input from people who don’t go to Venice Immersive or to SXSW, because our mission is
.Madonna has brought her tour to a close with a free concert on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, in front of a reported 1.6million fans.
Emily in Paris fans have complained as Netflix confirmed its fourth season will air in two parts.
Emily In Paris season four has been revealed, as Lily Collins shares an update on the show.The rom-com drama series, starring Collins as an American marketing executive who movies to Paris, debuted in 2020.Now, the fourth season is scheduled for a staggered summer release, with Netflix splitting it into two five-episode parts. Part one will premiere on the platform on August 15, with part two following on September 12.Season four will see the return of Collins in the titular role, as well as many of the main cast, including Ashley Park and Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu.Season four will pick up after the events of Camille and Gabriel’s misbegotten wedding, and will revisit Emily’s romantic dilemmas, as she works with Gabriel for a Michelin star, while Mindy prepares for the Eurovision song contest (according to press).The show’s writer and creator Darren Star has spoken on the upcoming series, teasing even more details of its plot, and this season’s varying locations: “Emily finds herself with a busy travel schedule in Season 4 of Emily in Paris.
Season four of Emily In Paris will land later this year, Netflix has revealed.
Emily in Paris is returning for season four this summer and Netflix just dropped some big news about the upcoming episodes.
The fourth season of Emily in Paris will hit Netflix in two parts, debuting on August 15 and September 12.
Selome Hailu Netflix has split the upcoming fourth season of “Emily in Paris” into two parts, premiering on Aug. 15 and Sept. 12.
Lily Collins is continuing to film her hit Netflix TV show Emily in Paris…but this time, we’re getting brand new set photos with her new co-star, Italian actor Eugenio Franceschini!
Snapchat parent Snap Inc. made a flurry of announcements during its NewFronts presentation to advertisers, including team-ups with Issa Rae and Live Nation as well as the launch of an in-app sports channel.
Lily Collins is in the middle of filming season four of Emily in Paris and fans can’t wait for new episodes of the fan-fave series!
Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Lily Collins is in Rome to shoot a portion of “Emily in Paris” Season 4, which wrapped filming in France last week, she announced on Instagram. The hit Netflix show started shooting in January in Paris ahead of the Olympic Games, which will kick off on July 26, for which the French capital is now in final preparatory stages. Collins on Saturday posted a photo of herself and Ashley Park, who plays Mindy Chen on the comedy series, which a caption that said: “Next stop: Rome!” Incidentally, Season 4 is shaping up to be a big one for Mindy who is reportedly headed to Eurovision.
Ben Croll Prosecutor-turned-immersive storyteller Victoria Bousis has seen the often-separate strands of her professional lives converge in unexpected ways as she’s toured her recent project, “Stay Alive, My Son.” Using Cineplay – a mix of cinema with gameplay mechanics – the immersive experience adapts the memoires of human rights activist Pin Yathay, allowing users to embody Yathay’s story of heartbreak and hope through the Cambodian genocide. After premiering out of South by Southwest and playing Venice Immersive, “Stay Alive, My Son” showcased at this week’s NewImages Festival in Paris and was recently selected for Annecy’s VR competition in June.
EXCLUSIVE: The Doris Duke Foundation is pleased to announce its continued commitment to uplifting Muslim stories through a $1 million grant to Sundance Institute. Through a three-year commitment, the grant establishes the Building Bridges Fellowship and Completion Fund. The fellowship aims to provide financial and creative resources, mentorship, and support to filmmakers, producers, and other creators focused on telling Muslim-related stories while also offering community and network support with other creatives in the industry.
Paul Forman has an exciting new role!
Ben Croll In many ways, “Letters From Drancy” has hewed a prestigious if unremarkable path. The VR doc premiered at last year’s Venice Immersive before additional festival slots at the BFI London Film Festival, South by Southwest and now the NewImages Festival in Paris. In other ways the title is all too uncommon – as it was one of three films commissioned by the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, where it is now on permanent display.
Paris Hilton is ready to introduce the world to her daughter! Finally!
claimed America as his home in new paperwork in which he declared that his “new country/state” was now the “United States.”Now, respected photographer Arthur Edwards, who has been photographing the royal family since 1977, has weighed in on Harry’s new homeland, saying the decision to turn his back on the UK has left the Firm unimpressed.“[The loss of] Frogmore was a very small part of it, probably an excuse when he left the UK to make his home in North America,” Edwards told The Sun.“By signing this document saying he’s now a resident of the US, he’s probably burnt his bridges but I live in hope. I loved working with him.
Sia just dropped her brand new song “Fame Won’t Love You” featuring Paris Hilton!
Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent It was in the land that took “Liberté, égalité, fraternité” as its motto that women were first allowed to participate in the Olympic Games, in 1900. This summer, the French capital will come full circle as it hosts the first-ever gender-balanced Olympics. From politicians to business titans to cultural leaders, the most powerful forces in Paris are aligning to make the three weeks of the Games a showcase for the modernity of France.
Netflix has announced the start of principal photography on action thriller Ad Vitam led by French star Guillaume Canet.