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Brad Pitt, a front-runner for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar this year, will receive the Santa Barbara Film Festival’s highest honor, the Maltin Master Award, on January 22 at the Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara. Already a SAG, Golden Globe and Critics’ Choice nominee for his performance in Quentin Tarantino’s Once…

EXCLUSIVE: AMC Networks’ genre streaming service Shudder has acquired rights in North America, the UK and Ireland to Scare Me and La Llorona. The deals come ahead of both films landing at the Sundance Film Festival next month. Scare Me, written and directed by Josh Ruben in his feature debut, is a comedic thriller…

South by Southwest has unveiled a new batch of keynote conversations and featured speakers for their forthcoming tech-film-music confab which will take place March 13-22, 2020. CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King will hold court in a Keynote with Bumble CEO and Founder Whitney Wolfe Herd, and Blackstone's Global Head…

Sundance has unveiled titles for the Indie Episodic, Shorts, and Special Events sections of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, which runs from January 23-February 2 in Park City. Highlights include world premieres of documentaries on Hilary Clinton and Lance Armstrong in the Special Events lineup. Among the projects…

Sao Paulo went Onward at CCXP on Saturday as director Dan Scanlon of the forthcoming Pixar film featuring the voices of Tom Holland, Chris Pratt, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Octavia Spencer took the dais at the pop culture confab. The animated pic may be set in a visually stunning fantasy world where unicorns roam the…

During the CCXP Amazon Prime Video panel, Star Trek: Picard was featured but the titular Captain was nowhere to be seen. However, the legendary Sir Patrick Stewart sent a video to the crowd in Sao Paulo apologizing for his absence saying that he was honored to reprise the role of Picard and excited to share the show…

ABC’s Once Upon a Time may have ended on May 18, 2018, but the fandom for the fairytale series is alive and well — especially at CCXP in Sao Paulo. The crowd was chanting “Lana!” Lana! Lana!” before the show’s star Lana Parrilla stepped on the stage. They had to wait a little longer as a video of Parrilla’s greatest…

No one is confirming it yet, but the 2020 Sundance Film Festival could include a superstar jam between Taylor Swift and the Go-Gos. Both the chart topper and the legendary L.A. band have documentaries on their lives and careers that will be among the premieres at the Park City-based confab starting next month. Headed…

Robert Redford may have declared this year that he's stepping back from the Sundance Film Festival, but it turns out the semi-retired Oscar winner will be back on screen at the Utah jamboree kicking off next month. In a jam-packed lineup of 118 films, Redford’s Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia star joins Riley Keough…

The 26th edition of the Slamdance Film Festival has set its slate for the films in the Narrative and Documentary Feature Film Competition programs as well as the lineup for their Breakouts section. The fest will take place in Park City, Utah January 24-30, 2020. As the fest "by filmmakers, for filmmakers,” this year’s…

AFI Fest said Friday that I Am Not Alone, Garin Hovannisian’s documentary about the 2018 Armenian revolution, won this year’s feature film Audience Award, topping the list of prizes given for the annual festival that wrapped its run last night in Hollywood. The festival also said today that it will hold its 2020…

Sometimes it is the announcement of an award that is more important than the actual award itself, at least to Oscar campaign strategists who covet landing precursor honors for their contenders as they like to get that information out in order to make Academy members aware these people are already winning stuff, so…