While Missing Cinemas, Festival Programmers See Silver Lining in Online Screenings

Family and friends of missing person McKenzie Raymond are appealing to members of the public after McKenzie was last seen on Thursday night in Marrickville at 6pm. Family and friends have not heard from McKenzie since then and are concerned for thei mental wellbeing, following messages sent to their sister prior to her disappearance.Speaking with Star Observer, their sister Chelsea explained that they had “sent a message suggesting suicidal intent.

Family and friends of missing person McKenzie Raymond are appealing to members of the public after McKenzie was last seen on Thursday night in Marrickville at 6pm. Family and friends have not heard from McKenzie since then and are concerned for her mental wellbeing, following messages sent to her sister prior to her disappearance.Speaking with Star Observer, their sister Chelsea explained that they had “sent a message suggesting suicidal intent.

Cannes director Thierry Fremaux is probably best known as the vocal leader of one of the biggest film events each year. However, he’s doing the publicity rounds nowadays to hype up his new book, “Judoka,” about his time learning Judo.

Ellise Shafer administratorThe 36th Santa Barbara International Film Festival is planning to screen its slate via two beachside drive-in theaters.The festival, taking place March 31 through April 10 at Santa Barbara City College, will include more than 80 film screenings.

NY PopsUp, a months-long festival starting February 20 that is billed by organizers as a model for how live performances can return amid Covid-19, has set details for its high-profile inaugural edition.

I did), you will see genius (I did), but you generally won’t see the highly anticipated mega hits found in Toronto, where “Joker” and “Hustlers” premiered. At Sundance, you’re just as likely to encounter “Call Me by Your Name,” a rapturous love story, as you are “Swiss Army Man,” a little-known flick in which Daniel Radcliffe pals around with a farting corpse.

When the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, the city’s largest film festival, gets underway February 17, it will look a little different from previous seasons. It’s a virtual event, save for some drive-in screenings, but the LGBTQ content is still abundant.

For the first time in recent memory, the Sundance Film Festival recruited just three members each for its competition juries. Even in the context of a virtual festival, that might have been a mistake after one film dominated the Dramatic category winning four awards.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterProducer Joel Silver has officially settled his long-running dispute with Canadian billionaire Daryl Katz, six years after the two went into business together.Silver exited his namesake company, Silver Pictures, in 2019, but the two sides continued to wage a legal battle in arbitration.

Andie MacDowell is owning her natural hair colour, thanks to the pandemic.

Reinventing a popular monster myth is central to Sean Ellis’ new horror film “Eight for Silver.” In this adaptation, the creature feature points a jagged mirror back to humanity and establishes itself on Hammer’s sturdy gothic foundations. The film’s stars, Boyd Holbrook and Kelly Reilly, recently spoke to The Playlist about the Sundance selection as well as the major projects in their future.

‘The Drifters’ Lands DistributionEXCLUSIVE: Starcross Entertainment’s latest feature The Drifters has been boarded for international sales by Media Luna and UK distribution by Central City Media. The film will have a virtual cinema release on April 3 and will be on demand from April 5.

Sean Ellis’ “Eight for Silver” is one of those movies that starts off so well, that shows such promise, that its slow unraveling feels less like a disappointment than a betrayal. It’s a Gothic horror picture that seems to set itself up as ambitious and intelligent, only to succumb to the most tiresome tropes and lazy shortcuts of the genre’s lesser efforts.

As the stock price of movie theater giant AMC Entertainment surged on Wednesday, the private equity firm Silver Lake used the volatility to its advantage. In 2018, Silver Lake,invested $600 millioninto AMC via a debt offering due in 2024.

announced Wednesday that the 2021 edition will move from its regular late-May spot to early July, when the seaside Côte d’Azur averages a balmy 86 degrees.The summery change-up comes days after the French government announced plans to vaccinate its entire population against the coronavirus by August. Cinemas there remain closed through at least the end of January.Last year’s festival was canceled outright due to the pandemic, though cases at the time had subsided in France.

What has been hinted at and speculated about for weeks now is official — the 2021 Cannes Film Festival is officially no longer a spring event, as it moves into the middle of summer over concerns about COVID-19. According to the event’s organizers, this year’s Cannes Film Festival is no longer going to happen in mid-May and will instead begin on July 6, running until July 17.