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01/11/2020

Too soon? 👀

These snapshots are from Michael Bay's pandemic thriller “Songbird" and it's creepier than ever. The newly released trailer shows Alexandra Daddario, Demi Moore, KJ Apa and more set in a world trapped in lockdown for four years due to a mutated strand of coronavirus called COVID-23.

A few months ago, "Songbird” was announced as the first film to be made in the wake of Los Angeles’ COVID-19 lockdown.

What do you think of the first pandemic thirller film? 👇

31/10/2020

Hands down one of 2020's best. 👑 If you love a compelling period drama with intelligent writing, a character study, and beautiful cinema aesthetic, then this show is for you. ♟️

THE PLOT: Based on Walter Tevis's fictional novel of the same name, this limited series set in the 1960s follows the life of an orphan chess prodigy named Beth Harmon from childhood to her early adult years as she progresses to become the world's greatest chess player while struggling with emotional issues and with drug and alcohol dependency.

31/10/2020

The collab we all need. 💛

30/10/2020

It's Friday! What are your plans this Halloween weekend? 🎃

👉 Marriage Story (2019) – A beautiful yet devastating look at the struggling relationship between a stage director and his actor wife through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal and creative extremes.

👉 Begin Again (2013) – A film about a chance encounter between a disgraced music-business executive and a young singer-songwriter new to Manhattan which turns into a promising collaboration between the two talents.

29/10/2020

just released the first trailer for Ramin Bahrani's starring Adarsh Gourav, Rajkummar Rao, and Priyanka Chopra Jonas (who also produced the film along with Ava DuVernay). 🎬

Based on the New York Times-bestselling novel of the same name, the darkly comic film explores themes of poverty, corruption, and class struggles through the story of its protagonist, Balram Halwai, and his "rise from a poor villager to a successful entrepreneur" in modern India. It will be released on in 2021. 🙌

29/10/2020

Maisie Williams is back in her first major TV role since Games of Thrones ended. ⚡

"Two Weeks to Live" is an action-packed British dark comedy who escapes being sheltered in the wilderness with her doomsday-prepping mom (played by Sian Clifford) in order to get revenge on her father's killer. This exciting new show premieres in the U.S. on on Nov. 5. 📺

28/10/2020

Weekly Artist Spotlight: Sofia Coppola ⭐

🎥 Whether acting on screen or directing behind the camera, Sofia Coppola has been involved in the film industry as the offspring of one of the most well-known writer-directors in the 20th century, Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, The Great Gatsby, Apocalypse Now).

🎥 Coppola found her true niche not in acting, but in filmmaking. She has a unique ability to tell a basic storyline in an intriguing way and follows a theme of lost souls trying to figure out their place in the world. From slow camera movements to close-ups, Coppola knows how to involve us in the moments of her characters’ lives.

🎥 The snippets are from her film “Lost in Translation” (2003) earned her an Academy Award for her original screenplay (making her the first woman ever to be nominated and winner in the category) and three Golden Globe Awards.

25/10/2020

YES. This marks the first Native American family drama developed for network television. 🙌

As reported by Deadline, the potential series chronicles the "lives, loves and loyalties of a sprawling Indigenous family struggling to control the future of their tribe against outside forces and themselves."

24/10/2020

"Dance magnifies Audrey’s emotional landscape and brings a heightened sense of drama and theatre to the film, as well as a rich visual language which has not yet been used in a documentary."

'Audrey,' a documentary about one of history's most stylish and elegant women, will offer an intimate portrait of the iconic star. With never-seen-before footage, as well as interviews with her son, Sean Hepburn Ferrer, and Givenchy’s former artistic director Clare Waight Keller, this documentary digs deeper beyond her fame and explores her difficult upbringing, the traumas of her past, and her passion for helping others. 💛

23/10/2020

Up for something mind-boggling? 🤯

👉 Black Swan (2010) – Nina Sayers, a committed ballerina, struggles to maintain her sanity after winning the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake."

👉 I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020) – A young woman travels with her new boyfriend to his parents' secluded farm and comes to question everything she thought she knew about him, and herself.

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23/10/2020

Elle Woods is coming back! 🎀🏛️

17 years after 'Legally Blonde 3,' MGM and Reese Witherspoon's production company Hello Sunshine is releasing Legally Blonde 3 in May 2022.

22/10/2020

Artist Spotlight of the Week: Nahnatchka Khan

"For immigrant families, television is what connects you to American culture, but it's also what makes you feel like an outsider." – Khan in an interview with

A television writer, a producer, and a daughter of Iranian immigrants, Khan is a groundbreaking creator who changes the game for how immigrants are depicted on the small screen. She was behind ABC's well-received Asian-American family sitcom "Fresh Off The Boat" as showrunner, as well as the director of the hit rom-com "Always Be My Baby," with its success leading to more projects with the popular streaming platform. 🙌

With her comic wit and unique eye for storytelling, she has much to offer the cinematic community and we can't wait for what she does next.

21/10/2020

Storytelling is power. 🙌

Her newly launched production company, 7th Sun, which she runs with her mother Keri Shahidi, the 22-year-old will work with ABC to develop and produce stories from underrepresented communities that focus on "projects that touch upon themes of history, heritage, culture, and joy." 💛

20/10/2020

Who else is excited for the time we see celebrity-filled films hit the big screens again?

We're particularly stoked for his star-studded film from and Adam McKay (Vice, The Big Short, Step Brothers) entitled 'Don't Look Up' – a comedy that follows two low-level astronomers who warn mankind of an approaching asteroid that will destroy Earth. ☄️

Stars will include Leonardo DiCaprio (his first feature in a film produced by !), Cate Blanchett, Timothée Chalamet, Ariana Grande, Matthew Perry, Kid Cudi, Jonah Hill, and more! 🤩

17/10/2020

How did Blackpink become the biggest K-Pop girl band on the planet? 🌎

Caroline Suh's documentary, "Blackpink: Light Up the Sky," is an intimate look into the girl group that has taken over the world. While it tracks the group from their early years to being the first female Kpop group to perform at Coachella in 2019, it also gives us a glimpse of each individual member as opposed to the whole pre-designed package, sharing their stories against the backdrop of home videos and early competition footage.

You can watch the much-awaited documentary premiered on . 😉

Have you seen this documentary? Would love to hear your thoughts below! 👇

15/10/2020

Anya Taylor-Joy's range. 💯

She is set to play Furiosa's (Charlize Theron) younger self for George Miller's "Mad Max: Fury Road" prequel. Chris Hemsworth and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II are also set to star in the film!

In an interview with the New York Times, George Miller revealed that he had been looking for a young actress in her 20s to play the role. He previously considered using de-aging technology to keep Theron to play the part again. 🎬

13/10/2020

Gal Gadot is playing a real, historic wonder woman this time – as the legendary ancient queen, Cleopatra. 🌟

With Patty Jenkins as the director, Gadot herself announced the news of her upcoming film on Twitter and expressed her excitement with telling Cleopatra's story "through women's eyes, both behind and in front of the camera." 🙌

07/10/2020

of the Week: Alice Wu

Alice Wu did not begin as a filmmaker. She was 28, well into her software engineering career, when she knew she wanted to make movies.

Her first film “Saving Face" (2004), which was produced by Will Smith, was a spontaneous product of a night class in screenwriting she took at the University of Washington. Little did she know that her first film would ultimately influence a new generation of Asian-American actresses and directors (Fun fact: Awkwafina even had a poster of it in her room and described it as the first film that spoke to her as an Asian-American!)

15 years later, she released her only other film, The Half of It (which you can watch on ), which arrives in a much different environment for Asian-American writers and directors – one of the many changes “Saving Face” helped create. As an Asian q***r filmmaker in Hollywood, Wu is determined to bring more Asian faces to the big screen and offer a refreshing take on the American identity.

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