Actor John Saxon best known for his work in horror movies such as Nightmare on Elm Street and starring opposite Bruce Lee in Enter the Dragon died on Saturday of pneumonia in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He was 83.
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RIP. ‘Gone With the Wind’ Olivia de Havilland Dead at 104
Olivia de Havilland. © copyright John Mathew Smith 2001 Olivia de Havilland, two-time Academy Award winner and star of “Gone With the Wind,” died on Sunday from natural causes in her sleep at her home in Paris. She was 104.
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Sasie Sealy’s Dark Comedy ‘Lucky Grandma’ Out August 11
Sasie Sealy’s Lucky Grandma will be available on Blu-ray and DVD August 11. Starring Tsai Chin (The Joy Luck Club), this darkly-humorous action heist comedy has been a hit with critics and audiences alike.
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Venice International Film Festival Pre-Opening Night Film: ‘Molecole’
Venetian director Andrea Segre’s (Io sono Li, La prima neve, Il pianeta in mare) documentary Molecole (68′), made in Venice during the coronavirus lockdown, will be screened on the Pre-opening night of the 77th Venice International Film Festival. The pre-opening night screening will take place on Tuesday, Septemeber 1st, in Sala Darsena (Palazzo del Cinema) at the Lido.
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49 films to Compete at 26th Sarajevo Film Festival
Sarajevo Film Festival 49 films will compete for the Heart of Sarajevo awards at the 26th Sarajevo Film Festival. The Festival’s four competition sections – for feature, documentary, short and student film – will feature 29 world, 6 international, 2 European, 11 regional and 1 Bosnian-Herzegovinian premieres.
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Werner Herzog’s Documentary ‘Fireball’ to Premiere on Apple TV+
Werner Herzog “Fireball,” a new feature documentary film directed by acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog and professor Clive Oppenheimer will premiere around the world, in over 100 countries, on Apple TV+.
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Montclair Film Festival Reschedules 2020 Edition
Montclair Film announced that the 9th Annual Montclair Film Festival, originally scheduled to take place May 1-10, 2020 before being postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, has been rescheduled for October 16th through 25, 2020.
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Watch Keanu Reeves in ‘Ted & Bill Face the Music’ Official Trailer
Think time travel, rock and roll, and destiny, and you get Bill & Ted Face the Music, releasing on demand and in theaters September 1st.
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Watch The Trailer for Barbara Kopple’s ‘Desert One’
Forty years later, one of the most daring military rescue attempts in U.S. history is coming to the big screen in the acclaimed documentary feature Desert One from two-time Academy Award winner Barbara Kopple (Harlan County USA and American Dream) will be released on Friday, August 21st. The documentary feature recounts the April 24/25, 1980 thrilling attempt to rescue 52 U.S. citizens who were taken hostage by Iranian revolutionaries in Tehran.
