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Day 4 coverage from the virtual European Film Market
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‘There’s Excitement, There’s Panic’
Movie theaters in New York City, battered by the pandemic, are scrambling to reopen after yearlong closures.
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‘F9’ Postponed for the Third Time, ‘Minions’ Sequel Pushed to 2022
Universal Pictures is pumping the brakes on the latest “Fast and Furious” entry. “F9,” which was slated to debut over Memorial Day weekend, has pushed back its release date once again. But fear not…
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TV Academy Hires Diversity Consultant to Analyze Practices and Create Action Plan
The Television Academy has signed a deal with diversity consulting firm ReadySet to evaluate the organization’s inclusion and representation practices. The announcement comes as another awards-giving…
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Women Lead International Streaming
Female executives have ramped up local productions to boost streamers' international expansion as global competition heats up.
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‘Debris’
NBC's new alien drama "Debris" evokes "The X-Files" and "Fringe" with intriguing mysteries and some decently spooky moments.
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‘Punky Brewster’
Soleil Moon Frye has always had the ability to capture audiences.
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‘It’s a Sin’
Russell T Davies' new series takes us to the London of the 1980s.
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‘Amend’
Will Smith leads a six-part seminar on the 14th Amendment, a primer in equal rights.
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‘Coming 2 America’
In the three decades since "Coming to America," the comedy has come to signify so much more to fans than this follow-up seems to recognize.
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‘Boss Level’
Joe Carnahan's film could almost be a satire of how action heroes (and audiences) see the same thrills over and over again.
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‘Chaos Walking’
Doug Liman delivers action with a high-concept hook -- we hear everything the characters are thinking -- that quickly wears out its welcome.
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‘Raya and the Last Dragon’
"Blindspotting" director Carlos López Estrada joins "Big Hero 6" helmer Don Hall in this action-driven shot at updating the Disney formula.
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Foo Fighters’ ‘Medicine at Midnight’
Dave Grohl promised an album you can groove to, and he delivered with Foo Fighters' latest, "Medicine at Midnight."
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Zayn’s ‘Nobody Is Listening’
Former One Direction member Zayn Malik embraces an intimate, less-pop type of R&B for his third solo album, "Nobody Is Listening."
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Eminem’s ‘Music to Be Murdered By – Side B’
Eminem stays within his comfort zone, for better and for worse, on "Music to Be Murdered By – Side B," his second album release in 2020.
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Paul McCartney’s ‘McCartney III’
Paul McCartney returns to the idea of a true solo album with "McCartney III," a quarantine record where DIY randomness is part of the charm.
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‘The Comeback’
Ben Ashenden and Alex Owen's riotous West End comedy "The Comeback" is a triumph, but London theater closures stopped it in its tracks.
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‘Death of England: Delroy’
Starring "Hamilton's" Michael Balogun and performed on the eve of England's second lockdown, the play is sure to be seen again.
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‘The Last Five Years’
This smart revival of Jason Robert Brown's musical plays in a London theater cleverly redesigned for COVID-era safety.
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‘The Outside Dog’ & ‘The Hand of God’
Kristin Scott Thomas and Rochenda Sandall headline two Alan Bennett monologues, which even under social distance pack a punch.
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Berlin Film Festival
By any terms, Berlin’s 2021 European Film Market will deliver its smallest pre-sales market in years. COVID-19 has put back productions, created distribution bottlenecks and provoked huge uncertainty about cinema theater re-openings.