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Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe Locarno Film Festival will be honoring Matt Dillon with a lifetime achievement award, a mini-retro of his films, and an onstage chat.Dillon’s career as an actor and director will be celebrated by the Swiss fest dedicated to indie cinema during a ceremony on Aug. 4  in the 8,000-seat Piazza Grande outdoor screening venue, followed by an onstage conversation the next day.Tribute screenings will comprise  Gus Van Sant’s “Drugstore Cowboy” (1989) featuring Dillon’s powerful performance as a “dope fiend,” as he calls himself, who steals pharmaceuticals in Portland drugstores, and “City of Ghosts” (2003) which Dillon co-wrote, directed, and starred in alongside James Caan, Gerard Depardieu, and Stellan Skarsgård.

Writer/Producer/Director Theodore Melfi has a different take than those who think independent filmmaking is becoming an endangered species, and in fact he tells me right now we are in “a golden age of independent film”. That may be one of the reasons he is bullish about both films he has at this week’s Tribeca Festival in New York City – independently produced movies he is helping shepherd along. On Corner Office which stars Jon Hamm he is an Executive Producer, and on American Dreamer he is the screenwriter as well as a producer of the comedy that stars Peter Dinklage, Shirley MacLaine, and Matt Dillon. Both are for sale and the bottom line is Melfi truly believes the audience will dictate whatever the perfect form of distribution is, whether it be theatrical, streaming, digital VOD, or a combination of all three.

EXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment has acquired North American rights to the political satire Land of Dreams, directed by Shirin Neshat and Shoja Azari, which is making its North American premiere in the Spotlight Narrative section of the Tribeca Film Festival in June. The global indie distributor has slated the film for a day-and-date theatrical release in 10 of the top 20 markets—including in Los Angeles and New York—this fall. (Watch a new trailer unveiled today by the company above.)

The Batman makes its debut at Number 1 on the UK’s Official Film Chart.

The Tribeca Festival has unveiled its 2022 lineup of 109 feature films from 40 countries and 88 world premieres including  Joachim Back’s Corner Office starring Jon Hamm and Somewhere in Queens, directed by Ray Romano starring Romano and Laurie Metcalf.

Rupert Friend and Patricia Arquette are hard at work on their upcoming Apple TV+ comedy series High Desert!

a post published on his official Twitter account. “Our beloved friend Mark Lanegan passed away this morning,” the tweet read. “A beloved singer, songwriter, author and musician he was 57 and is survived by his wife Shelley.

Rob Lowe will celebrate 32 years of sobriety in May – and he’s never been more grateful. "I'm happy I lived the life that I lived because I have no regrets, but I was super ready to coach Little League, carve pumpkins on Halloween, read books and serve hot lunch on Wednesdays," the actor told People magazine in this week’s cover story. "I really, really loved every minute of it." "Up until I turned 26, I spent all my time investing in my career," the 57-year-old shared.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe Patricia Arquette-led Apple comedy series “High Desert” has added six new cast members, Variety has learned.Matt Dillon (“Wayward Pines,” “Crash”), Rupert Friend (“Homeland,” “Death of Stalin”), Weruche Opia (“I May Destroy You”), Brad Garrett (“Everybody Loves Raymond,” “Fargo”), Bernadette Peters (“Mozart in the Jungle,” “The Good Fight”) and Christine Taylor (“Search Party,” “Zoolander”) will all star alongside Arquette in the half-hour series.The series follows

Apple TV+’s comedy series High Desert is adding to its cast.

Actor/director Matt Dillon started going to Cuba in the 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet Union. He and his fellow vinyl-hungry friends would stay up late drinking and hunt for hidden gem albums, at times driving over two hours away to rifle through a particular record store stash that magnetized them.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentMatt Dillon (“The House That Jack Built”) and Charlotte Gainsbourg (“Antichrist,” “Nymphomaniac”) are attached to star in Fred Garson’s “An Ocean Apart,” a period drama about the romantic affair between French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir and American writer Nelson Algren.The film is being developed by French producer Olivier Delbosc at Curiosa Films, which is presenting Xavier Giannoli’s Venice competition player “Lost Illusions” and Yvan Attal’s “Les

Matt Dillon for his work in films such as and and. What you might not know is that he's also a Latin music aficionado, a subject he explores at length in his documentary, .«I've never lost my passion for music, especially Afro Cuban music,» Dillon tells ET.

Matt Dillon is looking great in Venice!

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorVariety has been given exclusive access to the trailer for Shirin Neshat and Shoja Azari’s satirical, surrealistic film “Land of Dreams,” which opens the Horizons Extra section of the Venice Film Festival. The filmmakers won the Silver Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival for their first feature film, “Women Without Men.”“Land of Dreams” stars Sheila Vand, Matt Dillon, William Moseley and Isabella Rossellini.

UPDATED with corrected information (see below): Whoopi Goldberg, Matt Dillon, Mia Farrow, Liam Neeson, Diane Keaton, Mark Hamill, Nick Nolte and George Takei are part of an an all-star lineup of SAG-AFTRA members who have endorsed Matthew Modine for president of the union, and Joely Fisher, his running mate, for secretary-treasurer.

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Danny Glover, Matt Dillon, Danny Pudi and Michelle Mylett joined the cast of American Dreamer, the Paul Dektor-directed dark comedy that has just gotten underway in Vancouver. The actors join Peter Dinklage, Shirley MacLaine and Kim Quinn on the Ted Melfi scripted film. Dinklage, David Ginsberg, Quinn, Melfi and Dektor are producing along with Flying Firebird.

Money Heist is rated certificate 18 Takers is an exciting action and adventure film from 2010 directed by John Luessenhop. The story line involves a group of bank robbers whose multi-million dollar pan is interrupted by a determined detective.

In a world seemingly overrun with streaming services, if you’re a fan of this website and the films we cover, we highly recommend you check out MUBI. Much like The Criterion Channel, MUBI is a service that will appeal to film fans that are looking for something, uh, more than just the latest Adam Sandler slapstick comedy or the most recent superhero film.

On Saturday night, the Global Down Syndrome Foundation held its first-ever virtual fundraising event, raising $1.9 million via its 12th annual Be Beautiful Be Yourself Fashion Show.

Goop podcast and talk quickly turned to their best, or rather, worst on-screen kisses.Kate was the first to reveal her pick but not before absolutely slating all of her former co-stars by saying: ‘You know, I feel like I kind of haven’t had the best kissers.

Fall 2019 had at least two female-led astronaut films hitting the fall film festival circuit at the same time. Noah Hawley‘s “Lucy In The Sky,” starring Natalie Portman, crashed down to earth in a blaze of negative reviews.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterEXCLUSIVE: There have been many male-centered films about astronauts, but director Alice Winocour is here to change all of that with her drama Proxima.

Kaleem Aftab “It’s really a film about friendship,” says Matt Dillon, about “The Great Fellove” [El Gran Fellove], his documentary chronicling the musical career of Cuban scat singer and showman Francisco ‘el Gran’ Fellove  and the recording of his last album, “Fellove & Joey.”“The whole thing started because of my friendship with bandleader Joey Altruda and our shared love of Cuban music,” says Dillon.

Matt Dillon holds hand with Roberta Mastromichele while attending The Great Fellove premiere during the 2020 San Sebastian International Film Festival held at the Victoria Eugenia Theater on Tuesday evening (September 22) in Spain.

Kaleem Aftab Actor and filmmaker Matt Dillon has released two clips from “The Great Fellove” [“El Gran Fellove”], a long-gestating documentary chronicling the musical career of Cuban scat singer and showman Francisco ‘el Gran’ Fellove and the recording of his last album. The film is world premiering at the San Sebastian Film Festival and is being sold by Nick Shumaker of United Talent Agency.It is Academy-Award nominee Dillon’s second feature film in the director’s chair.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentBraving COVID-19, Spain’s 68th San Sebastián Film Festival bowed on-site on Sept. 18, launching a somewhat slimmed edition that maintains, however, all its main sections.