Creative film

“The day of freedom has become a day of closure. “ Lamented Andrew Lloyd Webber so much when he revealed on Monday – the same day all remaining lockdown restrictions were lifted across England – that he was shutting down his West End musical Cinderella after an actor tested positive for COVID-19. The theater manager did nothing to blame the ...

EXCLUSIVE: In an intriguing partnership that signals the continuing trend of high-profile international collaborations in the film and television industry, Japan’s leading multiplatform entertainment company Nippon TV is teaming up with London-based premium media company Envision Entertainment to form a common list. The first will be a series inspired by the successful Japanese series Double booking, and a pair of ...

Authors and university professors Samantha N. Sheppard and JE Smyth were named Academy Film Scholars on Monday 2021 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The grant, presented annually by the organization, is awarded to established academics whose projects focus on one aspect of film and the film industry. The Academy’s Education Grants Committee will award Sheppard and ...

MILAN – Can a meeting on a film set lead to a love story? Yes, according to Wim Wenders and Salvatore Ferragamo. The acclaimed director and the luxury brand have teamed up to create the Florentine label’s fall 2021 ad campaign, promoting the latest collection designed by former creative director Paul Andrew. More from WWD True to the futuristic vibe ...

“Space Jam: A New Legacy” reworks the core 1996 “Space Jam” storyline, replacing Michael Jordan with LeBron James and giving the plot a 21st century twist. This time, LeBron recruits Bugs Bunny and the rest of the Looney Tunes to play basketball against a team of monsters created by the uncontrollable computer AI Al G. Rhythm (Don Cheadle) to save ...

The documentary “Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain”, which opened on Friday, is an angry, elegant and often extremely emotional chronicle of the TV star’s life and its impact on those close to him. Directed by Morgan Neville, the film portrays Bourdain as intense, self-disgusting, relentlessly driven, supernatural charismatic, and – in his life and in his death, by suicide, ...

Game of thrones Star Peter Dinklage is stepping up the television side of his production company with a first deal with eOne. Estuary Films, which Dinklage directs with David Ginsberg, has entered into a multi-year agreement with the Sharp objects producer to develop television series for broadcast, cable and streaming. Brad Saunders, TV director and former HBO executive, will oversee ...

A trio of music icons and a legendary racehorse are among the subjects of 10 projects that will receive $ 2.3 million in documentary production funding from Screen Australia. Of those earmarked for funding, eight will be supported through the Producer program and two through the commissioned program. They include documentaries on John Farnham, Ruby Hunter and Archie Roach, as ...

(CNN) – Disney has finally returned to its jungle cruise after being criticized for years for the attraction’s controversial portrayals of indigenous people. In January, the company announced it would rethink the classic jungle cruise, in which a skipper transported visitors along a waterway while making funny jokes and commentary. One of the sites visited by visitors involved a scene ...

Daveed Diggs made his Broadway debut when his rapper friend and colleague Lin-Manuel Miranda hired him on a show as the Marquis de Lafayette and a very sassy Thomas Jefferson. Diggs won a Tony and a Grammy for those performances, and he could add an Emmy nomination for the movie version of “Hamilton,” which premiered on Disney + last year. ...