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Tribeca Festival to Honor Bruce Springsteen With Harry Belafonte Award
The Tribeca Festival will honor Bruce Springsteen with its 2026 Harry Belafonte Voices for Social Justice Award in an event that will include a conversation with longtime friend Bono and tributes from Robert De Niro and Patti Smith.
The Belafonte Award, established by late Tribeca chief content officer Paula Weinstein, is given to artists who use their platform to advance equality, dignity and human rights.
“There are few figures who embody the spirit of Tribeca’s Harry Belafonte Award more fully than Bruce Springsteen,” said Tribeca Festival co-founder and co-chair Jane Rosenthal.
In addition to the Springsteen honor, Tribeca on Tuesday announced world premieres of Katy Perry concert film The Lifetimes Tour — Live From Paris, followed by a conversation with Perry, and Tony Kaye’s Humpty Dumpty X, exploring the director’s creative journey in the wake of directing 1998’s American History X.
Additional highlights from the talks, reunions and retrospectives lineup announced Tuesday include a 25th anniversary screening of Bridget Jones’s Diary, followed by a conversation with director Sharon Maguire and star Renée Zellweger; a 30th anniversary screening of Bound, followed by a conversation with director Lilly Wachowski and stars Gina Gershon and Joe Pantoliano; a 50th anniversary screening of Taxi Driver, followed by a conversation between Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese; and 20th anniversary screenings of Daft Punk’s Electroma and Small Town Gay Bar.
Additionally, the Festival will host talks between Sean Penn and Kaitlan Collins, after last year’s planned conversation was canceled, and one with Este Haim.
The Festival also recently announced its NOW (New Online Work) slate, after becoming the first major film festival to open submissions to social media creators. This year’s selections include And They Were Roommates, a New York rom-com series; Shanked, a country club workplace comedy; BK Coffee Shop, a Gen Z satire; VHS Dates, a found-footage comedy about dating in the ‘80s; Sideline Archive, exploring forgotten stories through sports memorabilia; That’s That on That, portraits of uncredited architects of Black history; Retache, bilingual stories and resources for people returning to Mexico from the U.S.; 15 Second Film; Mechanical Pencil, coming-of-age stories rooted in ‘90s Black cinema; and Taylor Cassidy.
The 2026 Tribeca Festival is set to run from June 3-14 in New York. More information about this year’s festival is available here.
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Prime Video Sets Access Doc Series On Peter Crouch & Abby Clancy
Cameras are going behind the scenes on the lives of Peter Crouch and Abby Clancy.
Prime Video has greenlit access doc series The Crouches, which will follow former footballer-turned- broadcaster Crouch and his wife, model and content creator Clancy, over a year.
The show, which is the second docu-series Prime Video has unveiled today at the Edinburgh TV Festival, will follow the couple as they prepare to move to a new home in need of renovation to accommodate the 6″7 Crouch. It also sees Crouch set off for the World Cup, leaving Clancy with their children and a building site, with Clancy looking to redress the power balance of their relationship as she turns 40.
Workerbee, which is part of Banijay UK, with Rick Murray, Ben Hirsch, Ben Mitchell and Demi Doyle the exec producers. Charlotte Taylor is the series producer and Simon Draper the series director.
This marks the second time Crouch, who played for clubs such as QPR and Liverpool before his career in broadcasting, has worked with Prime Video after That Peter Crouch Film in 2023.
“I absolutely loved making That Peter Crouch Film, so much so that this time I’ve somehow managed to drag Abbey and the whole family into it,” he said. “It’s a bit scary as it’s warts and all, but I’m sure you enjoy laughing with us – probably at us.
“There will be a lot of chaos and probably a few moments we’ll regret letting the cameras see, some ups and some downs, but it will be us. Our life should be lovely, calm and simple… it is not. Watch out Kardashians we are coming for you.”
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Prime Video To Adapt Stephen King Short Story ‘Crouch End’
Prime Video has greenlit a six-part limited series based on Stephen King’s Crouch End short story.
The series will also be titled Crouch End and produced in the UK. The official synopsis reads: “London never sleeps deeply, and its dreams are uneasy. When global movie star Doris Freeman bursts into a London police station claiming that strange phenomena are behind the disappearance of her husband, police inspector Ted Vetter must investigate whether she’s telling the truth, whether she could be a murderer, or whether there’s something even more chilling at play…”
The series will be adapted by Paul Tomalin (Bodies) and directed by Tom Shankland (Berlin Noir, The Serpent). The series producers will be Mammoth Screen (Hercule, The Serpent) and Fifth Season (East of Eden, Severance). Executive Producers are Paul Tomalin, Tom Shankland, Damien Timmer, Rebecca Keane and Ben Irving.
“I’ve been a Stephen King super-fan forever,” Shankland said in a statement.
“The chance to work with this great team and bring his utterly brilliant London mystery to life is beyond exciting – Crouch End will be cinematic, original and thought-provoking in equal measure.”
Nicole Clemens, VP of International Originals at Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios, added: “Stephen King is one of the defining storytellers of our time, and we’re thrilled to bring his Lovecraftian tale to life in London with Crouch End. Paul Tomalin brings a singular, character-driven vision to the series and, paired with Tom Shankland at the helm, plus the first-class production teams at Mammoth Screen and Fifth Season, this show will grip audiences worldwide with its visceral crime thriller and supernatural mystery.”
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Cercamon Boards John Trengove’s Toronto-Bound ‘The Smell Of Apples’
EXCLUSIVE: Cercamon has acquired international sales rights to South African director and writer John Trengove’s Apartheid era drama The Smell of Apples and released a first trailer ahead of its world premiere in Toronto.
Based on Mark Behr’s eponymous 1993 Booker Prize-nominated novel, the film follows a young boy growing up in a white utopia in Cape Town in the 1970s at the height of the racial segregation imposed by the Apartheid system.
On the surface his family leads a charmed life, but the complex family drama will expose the brutality beneath the idyllic façade.
“John Trengove has made a film of remarkable precision and emotional force,” said Sébastien Chesneau, Founder and CEO of sales company Cercamon.
“Through the intimate story of one family, The Smell of Apples exposes how violence and ideology take hold behind the façade of an idyllic world. It is bold, unsettling and deeply human cinema, and we are proud to bring it to international audiences as it begins its journey in Toronto.”
Trengove previously made waves with The Wound, which debuted at Sundance in 2017 before making it onto the nomination longlist for the Academy Award for the then Best Foreign Language Film category in 2018.
In between times, Trengove has also directed Berlinale-selected toxic masculinity drama Manodrome, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Adrien Brody, as well as episodes of Cape Town-set crime show White Lies.
New film The Smell of Apples is produced by Eric Abraham and Jack Sidey at Portobello Productions), Cait Pansegrouw at Cadence) and Frank Hoeve at BALDR Films.
It is the second South African film produced by Abraham and Sidey at London-based Portobello Productions, whose credits include the Academy Award-winning films Kolya and Ida.
“Cercamon are the perfect fit for The Smell of Apples,” said Sidey. “They grasped the film’s nuance and emotional impact from the very first conversation, and we’re confident their expertise and formidable reputation will carry the film to a global audience.”
The Afrikaans and English-language film will premiere in TIFF’s Platform section, giving it a potential pathway to the Best International Feature Film race at the 99th Academy Awards. Under new Academy Awards rules, a non-English-language winner of the main TIFF Platform award will be eligible for consideration in the category.
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