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A screening of Netflix’s Lord of the Flies, an innovation talk with NBCUniversal Entertainment Chief Business Officer Liz Jenkins, and a panel discussion with NBC drama writers are among the additional programming Series Fest has announced for its 12th season. The festival will be held from May 6th to 10th at the Sie FilmCenter in Denver. The newly announced program will also include a screening and Q&A of the drama series “Spartacus: House of Asur.” A trailer for Little House on the Prairie followed by a conversation with the series’ creator. There will also be a screening of the first…
Three Thai feature projects, including a World War II drama from Beautiful Boxer director Ekachai Weklongsam, will be unveiled to industry buyers and programmers at the 11th Cannes Thai Pitch, to be held at Village International’s Thailand Pavilion from May 18-19. The initiative is supported by Thailand’s Ministry of Culture and Department of Cultural Promotion and aims to connect Thai filmmakers with potential investors, co-producers, financiers, sales agents, distributors and festival programmers. Meetings for all three projects will be coordinated by producer Raymond Fasanavirangoon. Ekachai’s The Weight of Ashes, co-produced with Monticha Masanukroh, takes place in Bangkok in 1944, after…
NFL reporter Chrissy Floyd celebrated Deanna Russini’s retirement from The Athletic after she was spotted spending time with married coach Mike Vrabel at an Arizona resort. Floyd tweeted on Tuesday, along with Russini’s resignation letter: “You told me to hand in this or you’ll get fired instead. Don’t hit the door on your way out.” “We know who you really are and what you’ve been up to all these years,” she insisted. “It has a huge negative impact on women who have played sports the right way.” NFL reporter Chrissy Floyd congratulated Deanna Russini on her resignation from The Athletic…
After opening new offices in Mexico, Brazil and Argentina this year, Netflix is now turning its attention to Colombia. Francisco Ramos, Netflix’s Vice President of Original Content for Latin America, attended the 65th Cartagena Film Festival (FICCI), where he introduced four major initiatives aimed at strengthening the country’s audiovisual industry and gave a sneak peek at Season 2 of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Netflix’s most ambitious series in the region. “For us, telling stories in Colombia is just the beginning. We want the experience of producing on a large scale to leave a positive impression on the creative industry,…
Billy Crystal recalled the last conversation he had with Rob Reiner before he was stabbed to death in his Los Angeles home last December. “We had spent the night before together talking about our careers together,” the comedian said on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” on Tuesday. “I met him in 1975 when I was a guest star on ‘All in the Family’ playing his best friend. It was a good year for me…and we continued to do that all these years,” Crystal recalled. The “When Harry Met Sally…” star recalled a time at Conan O’Brien’s Christmas party when…
Fresh off his triumphant return to the Oscars, Michael B. Jordan visited CinemaCon to show off his latest directorial effort, a clever remake of The Thomas Crown Affair. A glimpse of Jordan’s project was shown at the annual movie theater owners convention. The project is the third big-screen adaptation of the story of a billionaire who uses his lazy hands to orchestrate a massive art theft. The original 1968 version starred Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway. Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo released a remake in 1999. Distributor Amazon MGM Studios cold-opened its CinemaCon presentation with a trailer, showcasing Jordan in…
Welcome back, Rick Moranis. The beloved actor reunited with his “Spaceballs” co-stars Wednesday to celebrate the classic film’s upcoming sequel, making a triumphant return nearly 30 years after leaving Hollywood. The 72-year-old made another appearance at Amazon MGM Studios’ CinemaCon 2026 presentation in Las Vegas to promote Spaceballs: The New One. Rick Moranis (pictured with Daphne Zuniga at CinemaCon 2026 on Wednesday) reunited with his Spaceballs co-stars on the red carpet. Getty Images of CinemaCon The “Ghostbusters” star (who appeared with Bill Pullman on Wednesday) appeared with cast members at Amazon MGM Studios’ CinemaCon 2026 presentation in Las Vegas to…
Kirk Acevedo, a working actor who has starred in Marvel (‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’) and DC (‘Arrow’) franchises and films such as ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ and ‘Insidious,’ has opened up about the challenges of being a middle-class actor since the pandemic. Acevedo appeared on the March 23 episode of Ryan M. Perez’s podcast, Actor’s Despair, and talked about how Hollywood’s “middle class” is being “squeezed out.” “2021 is here and I’m going to be on some TV shows, just going over there and going over there. That would have saved me. That’s not working. I’m still in…
Alexia Nepora and Adriana de Moura support Lisa Hochstein. “Real Housewives of Miami” stars showed up at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in Miami on Wednesday morning to support Lisa, who turned herself in after facing criminal charges. Nepola exclusively told Page Six on her way to prison that the entire situation was “very sad and unfortunate.” “RHOM” stars Alexia Nepola and Adriana de Moura (above) showed up at a Miami jail to support Lisa Hochstein, who turned herself in on criminal charges. BACKGRID of MiamiPIXX/VAEM / Page 6 Nepola (the black man in the photo above) told Page…
“Project Hail Mary” and its $525 million global box office gross were no fluke, Amazon MGM Studios vowed Wednesday night as it placed a stack of James Bond novels in Las Vegas. The technology monolith’s film division took to the main stage at CinemaCon, an annual gathering of movie theater owners, to announce its upcoming film slate and assert that the company is very serious about the $1 billion it plans to spend annually on theatrical films. Who is the opposite? It was thinly veiled that it would be Apple, and possibly Netflix, with Mike Hopkins, head of Prime Video…