Vanessa Hudgens To Be Feted With Luminary Award At HollyShorts; Zach Cregger, Lana Condor Also Among Honorees

EXCLUSIVE: Vanessa Hudgens will be feted with the Luminary Award at this year’s HollyShorts Film Festival. Zach Cregger, Lana Condor, Miguel, Alexandra Shipp and Jim Cummings will also receive accolades at the short film fest. The honors will be given out at the HollyShorts opening night award ceremony on August 13. “It’s a real honor […]

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‘The Odyssey’ Conquers $1 Billion At WW Box Office, Soon To Be Christopher Nolan’s Best Ahead Of ‘Dark Knight Rises’

This year’s embarrassment of riches at the global box office continues, for we can tell you today that Universal’s Christopher Nolan feature take of Homer’s The Odyssey has crossed the $1 billion mark at the global box office. The pic will soon become the 2x Oscar winner’s highest grossing movie ever, overtaking the $1.085 billion-grossing […]

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Caron Creighton On Capturing The Fight To Save Northern California’s Largest Homeless Encampment With Her Debut Feature ‘Wood Street’

The Wood Street encampment in Oakland, once Northern California’s largest homeless encampment, was demolished in 2023, displacing an estimated 300 residents.  The eviction process was protracted and followed a series of complex legal battles led by residents of the encampment, who organized as a collective to advocate for their rights. Caron Creighton, a Bay Area-based […]

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Pragda Snags Nicolás Pereda’s ‘Everything Else Is Noise’ Ahead of Toronto and New York Film Festival Premieres (EXCLUSIVE)

U.S.-based Pragda continues its foray into all-rights theatrical and digital distribution with the acquisition of North American rights to Nicolás Pereda’s latest pic, “Everything Else Is Noise” (“Todo lo demás es ruido”) ahead of its debuts at the Toronto Film Festival (TIFF) and the New York Film Festival (NYFF). This marks the second pick-up from […]

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X Games League Sticks The Landing On Summer Season With Big U.S. Audience Pop

EXCLUSIVE: The action sports team-based era seems to be paying off, as the inaugural summer of X Games League events pulled off an impressive debut over the last several weeks across Sacramento, New Orleans, and Chiba, Japan. The summer season’s events managed to reach 18.3 million viewers in the U.S. across ABC and ESPN, which […]

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TIFF Midnight Madness Lineup Includes ‘Hope’ Special Screening & Replay Of Fest Acquisition Hit ‘Obsession’

Last year, the TIFF Midnight Madness section made a big splash on the map with Focus Features’ mega $15M acquisition of Curry Barker’s Obsession which turned into the most successful film festival pick-up at the B.O. with close to half billion at the B.O., and this year the film festival is bringing back the pic […]

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