Tuesday October 22nd
Tribeca Film has partnered with Kanopy and Kinema to stream the label’s catalog of independent films featured at top festivals. Tribeca is the first festival to license films with Kanopy and Kinema.
The first collection of films under the Kanpy deal includes 2022 Tribeca Festival Best Narrative winner “Good Girl Jane.” “Mary Heilman: Waves, Roads, Hallucinations,” “A Bronx Tale,” “In Her Name,” and more. New label releases are also available at Kinema, including favorites like “Listen Up Philip” and “My Awkward Sex Adventure.”
Kanopy is a streaming educational library that works with public libraries and universities to feature content without pay or commercials. Kinema is a direct-to-consumer platform that delivers live screenings to audiences on demand, either in person or virtually. These work through the “Pay What You Wish” feature.
Glenn Close receives AARP Adult Film Career Achievement Award
Glenn Close will be honored with a Career Achievement Award from AARP Magazine on January 11th.
Earlier this year, Close starred in the horror film “The Deliverance,” directed by Lee Daniels. She also has roles in the upcoming Knives Out film series, Wake Up a Dead Man, Ryan Murphy’s new courtroom drama All’s Fair, and more than half a dozen TV shows and movies. is also scheduled to appear.
“I feel like I’m still 35 years old, if not younger, and I’m so honored to receive the AARP Adult Film Career Achievement Award,” Close says. “I love making films for adults and others, and I am deeply grateful for the inspiration and support of those I have worked with for over 50 years. Thank you, AARP, for this wonderful honor. Masu.”
AARP’s Movies for Adults has been dedicated to presenting movies “by adults, for adults,” as the organization says, for more than 20 years. This is done in favor of the 50+ audience, which seeks for movies and TV shows to resonate with older viewers.
Frameline digitally restores and re-releases queer romance ‘High Art’ at SFMOMA screening
The 1998 queer romance “High Art” has been restored and is scheduled to premiere on November 2 at SFMOMA’s screening at the Phyllis Wattis Theater, presented by Frameline Restorations.
The film was digitally restored by the Academy Film Archive, the UCLA Film & Television Archive, and the Sundance Institute. Frameline is a nonprofit organization supporting the world’s largest and longest-running LGBTQ+ film festival. Lisa Cholodenko’s directorial debut, High Art, premiered at Sundance in 1998 and won the Waldo Salt Screenplay Award.
The film stars Ally Sheedy, Radha Mitchell, and Patricia Clarkson. The film follows the story of Sid (Mitchell), a young deputy editor at a photography magazine, and Lucy (Sheedy), a once-famous retired photographer. They both live with their respective long-term partners. Sid lives with her Manhattanite boyfriend, James (Gabriel Mann), and Lucy lives with Greta (Clarkson), a heroin-addicted German actor. “With its keen look at art, self-indulgence, and addiction of all kinds, high art is as powerful and impressive as it was in the ’90s,” says Frameline.
Restored versions of High Art are distributed by Strand Release.
October 21st
Laika Studios hires Chris and Justin Copeland to develop animated features
Animation company Laika Studios (“Coraline,” “Kubo and the Two Strings”) has hired Chris and Justin Copeland, known as the Copland brothers (“Batman: The Killing Joke,” “The Avengers Assemble”), to develop the animated feature. ) was adopted.
The brothers have previously worked together on “Invincible”, “Batman: Gotham by Gaslight”, “Batman: Soul of the Dragon”, “Reign of Superman”, “Spider-Man”, “Ben 10: Omniverse. ”
The Copeland Brothers are represented by Jason Burns and Strahan Dixon at UTA and managed by Jairo Alvarado at Redefine Entertainment.
