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UPDATED with latest winner: The Palm Springs International Film Awards said Wednesday that The Power of the Dog director Jane Campion will receive the Director of the Year Award on January 6 at the annual gala to kick off the Palm Springs Film Festival. Campion joins previously announced recipients including Penélope…

AFI Fest on Monday announced the films that received this year's awards, with Clint Bentley’s Jockey from Sony Pictures Classics and the Tommy Oliver-directed Juice Wrld taking the narrative and documentary Audience Awards, respectively. The Grand Jury Award winners for Live Action and Animated Short will be eligible…

The ATX Television Festival will finally return to in-person programming after being virtual the last two years. The event dubbed “TV Camp for Grown Ups” will run June 2-5, 2022 in downtown Austin and marks the festival’s first return to in-person programming since 2019. There will also be a virtual option…

UPDATED Nov. 14: A nine year-old boy died on Sunday after sustaining injuries from Travis Scott’s Astroworld concert in Houston, according to Houston Mayor Sylvestor Turner. Ezra Blount was in a medically induced coma shortly after receiving injury to his heart, lungs and brain after being trampled at the Houston…

UPDATED: Today Ben Crump, the lawyer best known for his representation of the family of George Floyd and Trayvon Martin, announced at a press conference that he and other attorneys filed a lawsuit on behalf of 90 people who attended Travis Scott’s Astroworld festival. Nine people have died as a result of injuries…

EXCLUSIVE: Continuing the acclaim they have been receiving since King Richard debuted at the Telluride Film Festival over Labor Day weekend, Will Smith and Aunjanue Ellis have been named recipients of the 37th annual Santa Barbara Film Festival’s Outstanding Performers of the Year Award. This is the first of several…

As host of NBC's public affairs program Meet the Press, Chuck Todd generally can't stray far from D.C. But for part of this week, anway, he's venturing to the other coast. "We're going to Hollywood," Todd told viewers in a promo for the Meet the Press Film Festival at AFI Fest, a showcase of "the best issue-based…

An array of the most acclaimed documentaries of the last 50 years bear the stamp of one singular talent: Joan Churchill, filmmaker and cinematographer. Her first credit, in 1970, came as a camera operator on Gimme Shelter, the classic documentary about the Rolling Stones at Altamont directed by the Maysles Brothers…

The Red Sea International Film Festival has set the lineup for its inaugural edition which runs from December 6-15 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The roster includes 138 titles from 67 countries and will open with MGM's Joe Wright-directed musical romance Cyrano. The film previously played Telluride and Rome among others…

EXCLUSIVE: Few recent festival launches have garnered as much chatter as the Red Sea International Film Festival, Saudi Arabia’s first ever film festival. Film festivals are largely seen as liberal spaces, but Saudi Arabia is among the more culturally conservative and politically repressive countries on Earth. So how…

UPDATED: The father of an Astroworld Festival victim whom authorities could not identify has now stepped forward and claimed his son. Axel Acosta of Washington was identified by Edgar Acosta, his father. He told Houston television station KPRC-TV that when he saw a photo from the Harris County Institute of Forensic…

Travis Scott, the rapper and organizer who attached his name to the Astroworld Festival in Houston, has spoken out again about the tragic incident that claimed eight people’s lives and injured hundreds. Scott gave his first on-camera statement in a video posted to his Instagram account late Saturday night. “I’m…