‘Fuori’ Review: Valeria Golino Exudes Humanity In Mario Martone’s Refreshing Biopic Of A Struggling Literary Pioneer – Cannes Film Festival

‘Fuori’ Review: Valeria Golino Exudes Humanity In Mario Martone’s Refreshing Biopic Of A Struggling Literary Pioneer – Cannes Film Festival

[ad_1] Literary biopics are hard to pull off, and even harder to market (1995’s Total Eclipse missed a trick with “Leonardo DiCaprio IS Arthur Rimbaud!”). Even well-known U.S. writers tend to be the domain of the indie world, resulting in films as respectable but hardly lucrative as Capote (2005), Kill Your Darlings (2013) and Shirley…

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Live Nation Adds Trump Confidant, Kennedy Center Head Richard Grenell To Board Amid DOJ Antitrust Lawsuit

Live Nation Adds Trump Confidant, Kennedy Center Head Richard Grenell To Board Amid DOJ Antitrust Lawsuit

[ad_1] Giant Live Nation has named Richard Grenell, an close confidant and ally of President Donald Trump recently in the headlines for slamming Les Misérables actors and Lin Manuel Miranda, to its board of directors. The ticketing and concert promotion juggernaut and venue owner unveiled its latest director in the midst of landmark antitrust lawsuit against…

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Sterling K. Brown’s ‘Washington Black’ Limited Series Gets Premiere Date At Hulu

Sterling K. Brown’s ‘Washington Black’ Limited Series Gets Premiere Date At Hulu

[ad_1] Hulu has set a July premiere date for Washington Black, the Sterling K. Brown-fronted adaptation of Esi Edugyan’s novel. The series, which received a straight-to-series order, will launch with all eight episodes on Wednesday, July 23 on Hulu in the U.S. and Disney+ internationally. Based on the bestselling novel of the same name, Washington Black follows…

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Former Kennedy Center President Decries Trump Team’s “Malicious Attempt To Distort The Facts” About Finances During Her Tenure

Former Kennedy Center President Decries Trump Team’s “Malicious Attempt To Distort The Facts” About Finances During Her Tenure

[ad_1] When President Donald Trump hosted the board of the Kennedy Center at the White House on Monday night, the adviser he selected to lead the institution, Ric Grenell, spoke briefly of what he characterized as a “fraud” in the way that the finances of the institution were previously handled. But the person who Grenell…

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Mario Martone’s ‘Fuori’ With Valeria Golino Gets 7½-Minute Ovation At Cannes Premiere

Mario Martone’s ‘Fuori’ With Valeria Golino Gets 7½-Minute Ovation At Cannes Premiere

[ad_1] Mario Martone‘s Cannes Film Festival Competition title Fuori had its world premiere Tuesday night at the Lumière Theater, earning a 7 1/2–minute ovation. From a script by Ippolita Di Majo and Martone, and starring Valeria Golino as writer Goliarda Sapienza, Fuori is inspired by Sapienza’s 1983 autobiography L’Università di Rebibbia (The University of Rebibbia)…

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Corbin Bernsen To Star In Thriller ‘Laura Louise’ From Duane Edwards

Corbin Bernsen To Star In Thriller ‘Laura Louise’ From Duane Edwards

[ad_1] EXCLUSIVE: Corbin Bernsen (Your Friends and Neighbors) has signed on to star in Laura Louise, an indie thriller directed by Duane Edwards. Laura Louise follows Edward Brannock (Bernsen), a retired postal worker thrust into the center of a reopened missing person’s case. When new evidence surfaces decades after a teenage girl vanished, Brannock faces…

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