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As Lollapalooza gets into full swing, one name was removed from the weekend lineup amid heavy rain. On Friday, Lil Uzi Vert’s performance at the 35-year Chicago music festival was canceled ahead of headliner Charli XCX’s set “due to weather issues,” according to a message projected at the stage…

The opening night of Lollapalooza proved too hot to handle for some as audience members reportedly passed out from the heat during Lorde’s headlining set. On Thursday night, the 2x Grammy winner briefly paused her performance to check on fans near the stage who were losing consciousness, calling…

Obsession director Curry Barker, Gary Oldman and Mattel Studios President and Barbie producer Robbie Brenner have joined the Visionaries and Dialogues talks program of Toronto's rebooted TIFF Market. Oldman, who will be in Toronto for the premiere of the sixth season of Apple-backed drama Slow Ho…

EXCLUSIVE: Celebrating its fifth year, NewFest has named the recipients of its 2026 New Voices Filmmaker Grant. On Thursday, the New York LGBTQ film festival named emerging filmmakers Georgia Krause, Star Amerasu, Deborah Devyn Chuang and AJ Dubler & Carmela Murphy as this year’s honorees, each…

EXCLUSIVE: Swiss filmmaker Barthélémy Grossmann has signed with Artist International Group (AIG) for management. Grossmann’s latest feature, Father Joe, written and produced by Luc Besson, will make its world premiere at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival. The action thriller stars…

With less than six months before the Sundance Film Festival cuts the ribbon on its new home, Boulder, Colorado, the event is hard at work, working with city and local officials, revitalizing cinema venues and bracing for the arrival of what typically attracts 85,000-plus attendees. “It’s a more…

The first round of TIFF Tribute Awards are being bestowed this year to The Invite actress Penélope Cruz, filmmaker Lee Chang-dong, Misty Green actress Rosalind Eleazar, CODA Oscar-winning filmmaker Siân Heder, and French actress Isabelle Huppert. Cruz has two titles at this year’s fest —La Bola N…

This year's London Film Festival will open with Elsinore, a feature based on the life of the Scottish actor Ian Charleson, starring Andrew Scott and Olivia Colman.  The film will screen at the Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall on October 7, with cast expected to attend. StudioCanal will…

Multihyphenate Georgia native Danny McBride is set for a hero's welcome when he attends the state's Rome International Film Festival (RIFF) in November. The festival, based in Floyd County's biggest city, will present the The Righteous Gemstones writer and actor with its 2026 Flannery O’Connor…

The New York Film Festival unveiled the world premiere of Tony Gilroy's Behemoth! starring Pedro Pascal as the Centerpiece selection at its upcoming 64th edition. Pascal plays Alex, a cellist picking up the pieces of a fractured life in the Searchlight Pictures drama. A former child prodigy…

The Ukraine War, life without sight and an imaginary world where births have ceased are among the subjects of the ten films competing in the third edition of the Reply AI Film Festival which returns to the Venice Film Festival in September for its award ceremony. The finalists, which were…

EXCLUSIVE:  Rome-based sales company True Colours has boarded Norwegian-Kurdish director Halkawt Mustafa’s drama No Paradise If You Are Killed by a Woman ahead of its world premiere Out of Competition at the Venice Film Festival in September. Avan Jamal stars as a female Peshmerga sniper who…