Tag: films
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Jason Kelce will host a late-night show on ESPN that films in Philadelphia
Move over Jimmy Kimmel, there’s a new late-night talker in town — in Philadelphia, that is. Former Philadelphia Eagles star Jason Kelce announced that he will host “They Call It Late Night with Jason Kelce” on ESPN during an appearance on Thursday’s episode of ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” The Super Bowl champion said the hour-long…
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‘Rust’ director says film’s premiere is ‘bittersweet’
More than three years after the fatal shooting on the set of “Rust,” the film made its debut Wednesday at the Camerimage Film Festival in Poland. “It’s bittersweet,” the film’s director, Joel Souza, said in an interview after the premiere. “I think we would all have preferred that the movie was finished a long time…
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New York Film Festival returns with a post-strike lineup of inventive, queer, star-studded films
After last year’s industrywide strikes rendered cinema-going a bit less exciting, film festivals have been returning in full force the past few months, renewing excitement around filmmaking at large. Following a summer of star-studded events in Cannes, Venice and Toronto, the 62nd annual New York Film Festival opens at Lincoln Center on Friday for 17…
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GLAAD finds overall decline in LGBTQ representation in major studio films
GLAAD, the LGBTQ media advocacy organization, has released its 12th annual Studio Responsibility Index tracking films released during 2023. Despite “a huge increase in LGBTQ characters who were front and center in their own narratives,” the study found the number of films with LGBTQ characters dropped in 2023. The survey looked at 256 films from…