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9 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news »

Vivica A. Fox will be the first African-American actress to play the president of the U.S. in a feature film, and here, debuting exclusively at The Hollywood Reporter, is the first image of her taking on the role.

Fox stars in sci-fi film Crossbreed, which is centered around a group of retired military war heroes who are sent to retrieve an extraterrestrial being from an illegal medical facility using its DNA to manufacture weapons. Fox plays the president, who was a colleague of the team leader and handpicked him to lead the retrieval mission.

In the first image from the »

- Rebecca Ford

18 January 2017 1:58 PM, PST | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »

The annual trek to Park City, Utah has already begun for the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, which runs Jan. 19 until Jan. 29. Peter Dinklage, Larry Wilmore, and Gael Garcia Bernal are among those named to the juries in this year’s competition. The awards will be handed out on Jan. 28 in a ceremony hosted by “The Daily Show” alum Jessica Williams.

In between all of the prizes and premieres, stars and film aficionados endure the cold temperatures with help from the city’s pop-up party scene, featuring swag, drinks and exclusive dinners.

Thursday, Jan. 19

Après Ski Festival Kick-off Rooftop Party – 4 to 8 p.m.

An Artist at the Table – 8 p.m.

The annual benefit kicks off the first day of the festival with director Jeff Orlowski set as keynote speaker. The private cocktail reception and dinner follows the premiere of “An Inconvenient Sequel” at the Eccles Theatre.

Friday, Jan. 20

Village at the Lift

AtTT takes over this year’s village that runs from Jan. 20-22, showcasing DirecTV in the Cabin, Audience in the Café and Jeff Vespa’s WireImage Studio. This year’s winter escape from the cold features beverages and light fare from notable Japanese restaurant Nobu, along with high-speed internet. »

- Mannie Holmes

33 minutes ago | Filmmaker Magazine - Blog | See recent Filmmaker Magazine news »

During its development, production or eventual distribution, what specific challenge of communication did, or will your film, face? How did you deal with it, or how are you planning to deal with it? The biggest challenge was working concurrently with an author who was profiling the same subjects but in a different medium. Print and film lend themselves to different ways of storytelling. The flood of information constantly coming at us from the author, with so much color, complexity, and detail, took time to sort through and evaluate in terms of what was best suited to film. We sometimes suffered […] »

- Filmmaker Staff

33 minutes ago | Filmmaker Magazine - Blog | See recent Filmmaker Magazine news »

It took a team of four seasoned documentary DPs to capture the stories of Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman. Shot in Montana, Kansas and Louisiana, the film documents the lives of three men (the titular rancher, farmer and fisherman) who act as environmental conservationists in their respective fields. Directors Susan Froemke and John Hoffman have the action unfold in a vérité fashion, which stresses the land and the people who work it. Among the DPs they hired for the project were Bob Richman (An Inconvenient Truth), Buddy Squires (The Central Park Five) and Thorsten Thielow (30 for 30). Below, these three cinematographers discuss the unique challenges […] »

- Filmmaker Staff

1 hour ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »

Michael Moore, Robert De Niro and Alec Baldwin were among the public figures leading an anti-Trump rally in New York on the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration. The event was organized by Greenpeace and the liberal activist organization MoveOn and was held outside the Trump International Hotel on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.

Read More: ‘An Inconvenient Sequel’ Filmmakers on Al Gore and Fighting Climate Change in the Trump Era — Sundance 2017

Robert De Niro began his remarks on a lighthearted note, reading out tweets that he said Trump would likely be writing in the middle of the night. “‘De Niro’s career is a disaster. He was passed over for ‘Godfather IV’ and “Magnificent Seven. Pathetic!’ Another tweet: ‘De Niro should give back his Oscars. Voting was rigged!’”

De Niro then changed his tune, however, turning his focus on things that Trump has actually said. “He’s a bad »

- Graham Winfrey

2 hours ago | Filmmaker Magazine - Blog | See recent Filmmaker Magazine news »

During its development, production or eventual distribution, what specific challenge of communication did, or will your film, face? How did you deal with it, or how are you planning to deal with it? Axolotl Overkill is about a 16-year old girl, but was never supposed to be the typical coming-of-age odyssey that shows a teenager who struggles with the world just to find her place in it in the end. We always felt like we needed to do something different and to really make it relatable to how a young person feels – instead of showing her from the outside and […] »

- Filmmaker Staff

2 hours ago | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »

In the U.S, Danny Boyle’s 1996 film “Trainspotting” was an arthouse hit and perhaps even a cult classic, but in the U.K. it was a phenomenon. Adapted from Irvine Welsh’s best-selling novel, it was a generation-defining bit of pop culture, a firecracker of a film which felt like the start of a new New Wave of British filmmaking, with one of the most beloved and best-selling soundtracks ever, and even a marketing campaign which stood alongside Tony Blair, Liam Gallagher and Geri Halliwell’s Union Jack dress as the key icons of so-called Cool Britannia.

Continue reading Danny Boyle’s ‘T2: Trainspotting’ Starring Ewan McGregor Is A Nostalgic But Messy Sequel To The ’90s Classic [Review] at The Playlist. »

- Oliver Lyttelton

3 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »

It’s hard to imagine “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power” having a happy ending. The follow-up to 2006’s Oscar-winning climate change documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” includes Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton in the U.S. presidential election, a result that some environmentalists view as disastrous for the future of the planet.

Read More: Sundance 2017: Check Out the Full Lineup, Including Competition Titles, Premieres and Shorts

But 10 years after former U.S. vice president Al Gore frightened audiences with his slideshow of photos, charts and reams of data bluntly displaying the impacts of the global climate crisis, “An Inconvenient Sequel” finds a surprisingly optimistic Gore working tirelessly on his mission of spreading awareness about both the impacts of global warming and the concrete solutions humans can take to avert disaster.

“It’s just astounding how both absolutely devastating it is in terms of where we are with the environment, »

- Graham Winfrey

3 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »

Whether an artist rejects or accepts an invitation to perform at Donald Trump’s inauguration – or cancels their performance days before – the news makes headlines. Now, Chrisette Michele is in the spotlight for confirming that she would be singing at the president-elect’s special day.

The singer has been receiving backlash from fans, including Spike Lee who “was sorry” to hear that she would be performaning on Friday, January 20. The director posted a picture of Michele on Instagram, writing that he was no longer considering using her song in his upcoming Netflix series “She’s Gotta Have It.”

“Good Morning folks. I was sorry to read that ‘sistuh girl’ is singing at Donald Trump’s inauguration (and to use his favorite word: sad),” Lee wrote on Thursday morning. “I was thinking about using Chrisette’s song ‘Black Girl Magic’ in my Netflix series ‘She’s Gotta Have It’…Not anymore. »

- Liz Calvario

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