Disney+ has announced a slate of Asia originals for the second half of 2023, including Korean dramas Moving and The Worst Of Evil and the latest project in its collaboration with Hybe, BTS Monuments: Beyond The Star.
20.06.2023 - 15:07 / deadline.com
Sheffield DocFest is on the rebound.
The 30th edition of the prestigious all-documentary film festival in the North of England just wrapped, witnessing a 17 percent increase in attendance by international and U.K. delegates over last year (2,550 delegates vs. 2,188 in 2022). DocFest is under new leadership, with Annabel Grundy appointed managing director in November 2022 and Raul Niño Zambrano joining as interim creative director last year. Shortly before the start of this year’s event, Niño Zambrano was appointed to the creative director role on a permanent basis.
Speaking with Deadline, Niño Zambrano drew a distinction between this year’s event and the preceding one.
“Last year was kind of the first one after the pandemic times. There were also train strikes, so there were a lot of things going on,” he said. “We had not announced yet last year the new leadership team — really having a creative and a managing director. I think that has given a really good signal, like, ‘Oh, we are settled.’”
Unsettled would be a way of describing DocFest in 2021 after festival director Cíntia Gil resigned “as a result of artistic differences over the present and future direction of the Festival with the Board of Trustees,” according to a board statement at the time. Shortly afterwards, the programming team said they had been unceremoniously let go, although DocFest later allowed them to reapply for their positions.
This year, under mostly sunny skies and warm weather, the festival welcomed 37 world premieres, 20 international premieres, 10 European Premieres, 47 U.K. Premieres and 8 retrospective films. “It was the festival’s most innovative documentary offering yet,” Sheffield said, “which, in addition to films, included a theatre
Disney+ has announced a slate of Asia originals for the second half of 2023, including Korean dramas Moving and The Worst Of Evil and the latest project in its collaboration with Hybe, BTS Monuments: Beyond The Star.
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Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic The current backlash against queer and trans people, led by a vivified cultural right, may have come as a surprise to younger people who assumed their rights and protections wouldn’t backslide. For this potential audience most of all, “Last Call,” a rigorous yet emotionally vivid documentary series on HBO, will come as a startling depiction of all-too-recent history, and a call to stand united in the face of a world’s worth of threats. Produced by, among others, recent Oscar nominee Howard Gertler (“All the Beauty and the Bloodshed”) and directed by Anthony Caronna, “Last Call” tells a set of stories that tend to begin at a piano bar. In the early 1990s, a cohort of gay men, often in culturally forced heterosexual marriages and living their true lives only after dark, frequented various drinking establishments in New York City; time and again, one of this set would turn up not merely dead but dismembered, in a sort of brutal testament to antigay feeling.
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“The Perfect Find” than the narcissistic label, which stemmed from Tia Williams’ novel of the same name.Darcy offers the story’s protagonist Jenna Jones (Gabrielle Union) a job after Jenna goes through a very public breakup and firing, but she and Jenna go way back — mainly as nemeses. Once Jenna meets Darcy’s son Eric Combs (Keith Powers), the two cannot stay away from each other, and it’s only after they kiss that Jenna learns Eric is Darcy’s son.“I loved the old villains of 90s nighttime soaps, so I would say that that kind of started there, but I also wanted people to be treated to her humanity as well,” Torres told TheWrap.
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massive layoffs at the network, TCM host Dave Karger and other colleagues spoke out for the first time to express heartache and frustration over the losses in leadership. “My goal (and I know the other hosts agree) is to try to be a stabilizing and familiar presence in the months ahead,” Karger tweeted Friday, noting the feeling of uncertainty following Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav‘s move to fire 25-year veteran Pola Changnon and others.Karger wrote that he is “beyond heartbroken.” “A note to our passionate TCM viewers: It’s been a tough week to say the least and I’m beyond heartbroken that we are losing so many brilliant colleagues who are also dear friends.
a shooting took place at a campground near to the Washington EDM festival, which resulted in two deaths.It was then revealed that suspect James M. Kelly is an active member of the US Army based at Joint Base Lewis McCord in Washington state.Kelly is being held on two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of first-degree assault, and one count of first-degree assault domestic violence.According to local outlet KHQ, Kelly told police that he arrived at the festival on Friday (June 16) and set up camp with his girlfriend, and took mushrooms before going to the festival on the Saturday.Kelly added that he began to have hallucinations of an apocalypse and proceeded to retrieve his gun from his vehicle and load it and begin shooting.
a shooting took place at a campground near to the Washington EDM festival, resulting in two deaths.The festival was being held at the Gorge Amphitheatre in Washington when police were alerted to an “active shooter” in the nearby campground on Saturday, where many festival attendees were due to stay, while artists were performing at the festival.A police conference later in the evening reported that officers had “pursued (and) closed-in on the suspect” but they continued to “fire randomly into the crowd” before being apprehended (via Variety).Now, local news outlet ABC7 reports that the suspect has been confirmed as 26-year-old James M. Kelly, an active member of the US Army based at Joint Base Lewis McCord in Washington state.Kelly is being held on two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of first-degree assault and one count of first-degree assault domestic violence.After the festival, Insomniac Events founder and CEO Pasquale Rotella issued a statement following the tragic events.“On behalf of the entire Insomniac family, we extend our heartfelt thoughts and condolences to the family, friends and loved ones of the victims.
interview with the Associated Press and earlier in a tweet first announcing his decision, the longtime figure at the conservative news network said he was exiting the talk show due to “a growing tension that goes beyond editorial differences.”“It has been a rocky ride but it has also been an exhilarating adventure that spanned quite a few years,” Rivera said on Wednesday in an interview with The Associated Press. “I hope it’s not my last adventure. Rivera, who joined the program in 2022, will remain with the network as a “correspondent at large.” His last appearances on “The Five” will be June 29 and June 30.
Black Mirror returned with five new episodes in 2023.Created by Charlie Brooker, the dystopian anthology series is known for its satirical swipes at society’s relationship with technology. The show originally began on Channel 4 in 2011, before shifting over to Netflix from season three onwards in 2016.In the show’s sixth season, an episode titled Beyond The Sea follows two astronauts Cliff (Aaron Paul) and David (Josh Hartnett) on a deep space mission, who catch up with their life back home through replica androids.Directed by John Crowley, the episode also stars Kate Mara, Rory Culkin and Auden Thornton.As confirmed to NME, the countryside manor where Cliff and Lana live with their son Henry was filmed in the seaside town of Whitstable, Kent during last summer’s heatwave.
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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief French pay-TV giant Canal+ is to take a significant minority stake in successful Asian streaming firm Viu. It could end up becoming its majority owner.
Kevin Costner wants Christine Costner out of their home. In court docs obtained by ET, the 68-year-old actor claims that his estranged wife will not move out of their southern California home, despite a prenup stipulation that requires as much. Christine has replied in her own court filing, also obtained by ET, requesting more time to respond to Kevin's demand that she relocate.
the tragic shooting at Washington’s Beyond Wonderland festival.The incident took place at the Gorge Amphitheater on Saturday (June 17), and local police were called and alerted of an “active shooter” on the Beyond Wonderland festival grounds. The shooting resulted in the death of two attendees and left others injured.
shooting incident that took place at the Beyond Wonderland festival in Washington on June 17.The electronic music festival was held at the Gorge Amphitheatre in Washington this past weekend saw its second day (June 18) cancelled after police were alerted to an “active shooter” on June 17. The shooting resulted in the death of two attendees and further injured three others.Now, Rotella has taken to social media to share an update on the events transpired, while adding that investigations are underway on how the shooting managed to take place.“On behalf of the entire Insomniac family, we extend our heartfelt thoughts and condolences to the family, friends and loved ones of the victims.
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