With just a month left before the festival was set to celebrate its 19th edition this past April, Tribeca was forced to postpone its mid-April dates when Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced a ban on all gatherings of more than 500 people. In the following days, the festival made available “a mix of programming online that celebrates and promotes creators,” including a selection of projects from the Tribeca Immersive Cinema360 VR programming, N....
The Festival, which had the honor of welcoming back in-person audiences, concludes on June 20. The top honors in feature films went to “The Novice,” “Brighton 4th,” and “Ascension.” Chanel James and Taylor Garron won the Nora Ephron Award and a $25,000 prize for “As of Yet.” The award, created nine years ago, honors a female writer or director embodying the late filmmaker. “It’s been a challenging time for filmmakers, storytellers, and actors, and we’re so proud to honor the perseverance and dedication many of them displayed while working through the many obstacles that arose as a result of COVID-19,” said Cara Cusumano, Tribeca festival director, in a statement shared with press....
Earlier: After launching an investigation into “Justice League” star Ray Fisher’s claims that director Joss Whedon and producers Geoff Johns and Jon Berg “grossly abused their power” on set, Warner Bros. issued a statement on Friday. Fisher first made accusations against Whedon, who helmed reshoots and post-production on the DC tentpole, back in July. He tweeted that Whedon’s “on-set treatment of the cast and crew of ‘Justice League’ was gross, abusive, unprofessional, and completely unacceptable” and that Johns and Berg enabled their collaborator....
“Warners has entertained broad audiences generation after generation,” she said. “2021 put that reputation and some of those relationships to the test. Warner Bros. Pictures is back here on this stage at CinemaCon, today, having held to its word to start 2022 with renewed focus and commitment to theatrical exhibition.” Coming off the strong theatrical performance of “The Batman” ($760 million worldwide), which waited 45 days before HBO Max, Warners seemed to prove the National Association of Theatre Owners’ new favorite mantra: “Simultaneous release is dead as a serious business model....
On Monday, AMC Entertainment’s AMC Preferred Equity units began trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol APE. The acronym doubles as a nod to an inside joke among the Reddit users who bought up AMC stock during the troubled times of the early pandemic, possibly saving the theater chain from going under. On Friday, as a thank you/means of raising funds, AMC issued one preferred equity stock unit for each of its 560....
For starters, Eilish had just suffered her first major breakup. And while touring allowed her to sublimate that hurt into serrated electro ballads while thousands of other teenagers sang along in full-throated support — the crowds helping to diffuse Eilish’s overcharged emotions — a recent ankle injury during a show in Milan had taken that outlet away from her when she needed it most. It was almost as if her sawtoothed vulnerability had been twisted into her ultimate weakness....
But the highest showing for a new release is #2 at Apple TV for Woody Allen’s “A Rainy Day in New York” (MPI). Its VOD showing comes three weeks after a token theatrical run, more than a year after it opened in most of the world, and after his latest, “Rifkin’s Festival,” premiered overseas. Right now is something of an intermission period before a slew of studio releases, including several from Universal and Focus that recently opened in theaters, break ground with short interval window between play on screens and in homes....
