Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Winners: Iraqi Film ‘The President’s Cake’ Clinches People’s Choice Audience Award

Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Winners: Iraqi Film ‘The President’s Cake’ Clinches People’s Choice Audience Award

[ad_1] Iraqi director Hasan Hadi’s first feature The President’s Cake has won the second edition of the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight People’s Choice audience award. New York-based Hadi has tapped into his own childhood in southern Iraq in the 1990s, growing up under the regime of President Saddam Hussein and the socio-economic crisis provoked by international…

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Ryan Pinkston, Anissa Borrego, Arianna Davis & Taylor Dunbar Join ‘Stumble’ NBC Comedy Pilot

Ryan Pinkston, Anissa Borrego, Arianna Davis & Taylor Dunbar Join ‘Stumble’ NBC Comedy Pilot

[ad_1] EXCLUSIVE: Ryan Pinkston (Young Rock), Anissa Borrego (Ths Is Us), Arianna Davis and Taylor Dunbar round out the series regular cast of Stumble, Jeff Astrof and Liz Astrof’s single-camera cheerleading comedy pilot for NBC. They join reviously cast Jenn Lyon, Taran Killam, Jarrett Austin Brown and Georgie Murphy. Written by the Astrof siblings in…

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Hollywood Commission Opens Key MyConnext Workplace Misconduct Resource To All Production Workers

Hollywood Commission Opens Key MyConnext Workplace Misconduct Resource To All Production Workers

[ad_1] EXCLUSIVE: The Hollywood Commission is expanding a key component of MyConnext, its workplace safety resource center and reporting system, to all entertainment industry workers for the first time. The organization, led by Anita Hill, Cindy Holland, Alan Jenkins, Kathleen Kennedy, John Landgraf, and Nina Shaw, announced Thursday that the MyConnext Ombuds Office — a…

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Missi Pyle, William Jackson Harper & Elizabeth Marvel Among New Additions To Tim Blake Nelson’s ‘The Life And Deaths Of Wilson Shedd’

Missi Pyle, William Jackson Harper & Elizabeth Marvel Among New Additions To Tim Blake Nelson’s ‘The Life And Deaths Of Wilson Shedd’

[ad_1] EXCLUSIVE: The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd, the new prison break thriller written and directed Tim Blake Nelson, has added six to its cast, including Nelson himself. Others newly aboard include Missi Pyle (Captain Fantastic), William Jackson Harper (The Good Place), Elizabeth Marvel (Presumed Innocent), Grant Harvey (The Accountant 2) and Devyn Tyler…

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Beverly D’Angelo, Brittany Curran, Joey Lawrence & Courtney D’Angelo Join Romance ‘The Heart Brake’

Beverly D’Angelo, Brittany Curran, Joey Lawrence & Courtney D’Angelo Join Romance ‘The Heart Brake’

[ad_1] EXCLUSIVE: Beverly D’Angelo (National Lampoon’s Vacation), Brittany Curran (The Magicians), Joey Lawrence (Melissa & Joey), and Courtney D’Angelo (Fade to Black) are set to star in Abstracct Creative and MarcoBox Studios’ The Heart Brake, from director Lance Smith. Set to enter production outside Nashville in July, the indie romance centers on Julia Winters, who…

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