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Middleburg Film Fest Sets ‘La Bola Negra’, ‘Behemoth!’ & ‘Being Heumann’
Two weeks ahead of the 14th Middleburg Film Festival, additional programming has been announced.
On Thursday, the Virginia festival announced Siân Heder’s Being Heumann will serve as the Closing Film for the festival, which runs from Oct. 15-18, with Netflix’s La Bola Negra set as the Friday Spotlight and Tony Gilroy’s Behemoth! has been set as the Sunday Spotlight.
Being Heumann casting directors Adam Caldwell and Bernard Telsey will be in attendance to recieve the Special Achievement in Casting Award and participate in a post-screening Q&A. La Bola Negra‘s Guitarricadelafuente will accept the International Spotlight Award for his performance in the film and his original song “La Nieve”, participating in the Composers & Songwriters panel. Meanwhile, Gilroy will be on hand for a Behemoth! post-screening discussion.
Other honorees at this year’s Middleburg Film Fest include Wild Horse Nine writer/director Martin McDonagh receiving the Director Spotlight Award, Ray Gunn‘s Brad Bird with the Spotlight Animation Award, Seth Rogen with the MFF Artistic Achievement Award for The Invite and Tangles, Rosalind Eleazar receiving the Breakthrough Actor Award for Misty Green, and more.
Also part of the 14th edition of the Middleburg Film Festival are the annual Songwriters & Composers Panel and a special Masterclass with Toy Story 5 production designer Bob Pauley, as well as conversations with Give Me the Ball! subject Billie Jean King and Everybody Digs Bill Evans star Bill Pullman.
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Following Robert Kraft‘s campaign against Macklemore, Zach Bryan made a statement with his performance at Gillette Stadium.
During Friday’s stop at the Kraft-owned venue for his With Heaven on Tour, the Grammy winner stepped onto the stage with a “Free Palestine” shirt after Kraft and other venue owners pressured Ed Sheeran to drop Macklemore from his tour over his outspoken support for Palestinians.
With another performance scheduled at the Massachusetts venue on Saturday night, it remains to be seen if Kraft will pull the plug.
The show comes after Ed Sheeran was forced to cancel his Gillette Stadium shows last weekend amid a nor’easter headed for Boston, despite caving to Kraft’s demands.
Sheeran dropped Macklemore from his tour last month amid an outcry around the opener’s “Free Palestine” onstage remarks. Opting to remain publicly neutral on the issue, Sheeran subsequently released a statement saying it was the “promoter’s decision” after Kraft assembled several of the tour venues to give him an ultimatum.
Following the statement, fellow tour openers Finneas, Aaron Rowe and Lukas Graham dropped out of the tour, along with Sheeran’s backing band Beoga.
Meanwhile, Macklemore announced the Free Palestine Tour last week, which is “supporting the Palestinian people and movement,” running 10/26-10/30 in Dublin, Paris and London. He since gave an update that the tour “sold out immediately.”
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With the world premiere of Behemoth!, Pedro Pascal is praising Tony Gilroy for the intimate drama.
During a Q&A after the film’s premiere screening at the New York Film Festival, the Golden Globe-nominated actor admitted he thought Gilroy was “gonna be kinda mean” before they worked together.
“You have created this complex Jason Bourne-like puzzle over something that is so intimate and so healing this mysterious way,” Pascal told Gilroy in a video shared by NYFF. “And I didn’t think it was gonna come from him, you know what I mean? This intimidating intellectual … you know, I thought you were gonna be kinda mean. And you thought I was gonna be a dork.
In Behemoth!, premiering Dec. 4 in theaters, Pascal stars as cellist Alex Serian, a former child prodigy who returns home to Los Angeles to compose film scores and reconnect with his family.
Written and directed by Gilroy, the Searchlight Pictures film also stars Olivia Wilde, Eva Victor, Will Arnett, Hank Azaria, Margarita Levieva and Matthew Lillard.
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As the Paramount-Warner Bros merger goes through, Bill Maher has a message for his new Skydance bosses.
On Friday’s episode of Real Time, the comedian pleaded with the Ellisons not to listen to their pal Trump’s criticism of him now that they own his show’s longtime home HBO.
“The merger went through. Paramount now owns Warner Discovery, which owns HBO, which owns my ass,” he said during his opening monologue. “Whoever owns me now, don’t believe what Trump is tweeting about me. Did you see what he said about me this weekend? He said my ratings are so low, ‘it’s just sad.’”
Maher continued, “You know what, Mr. President? Your insults don’t bother me. Make up whatever shit you want about me, just don’t mention I went to Cornell.”
On Wednesday, a federal judge cleared the way for the $110 billion deal to close, approving the settlement between Paramount and a group of state AGs that filed an antitrust lawsuit to block the Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition.
CEO David Ellison revealed on Friday that the combined company will now be known as Skydance, under which Paramount and Warner Bros. will supposedly remain individual entities.
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