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The Nashville Film Festival (NashFilm) has Wednesday announced its full film program, including special presentations, official selections, and more for its 55th edition, running September 19-25 throughout the city. The selection includes more than 150 films, including 47 feature-length titles and more than 33 U.S., North American, and world premieres. As previously announced, a special opening night double-feature will include “Devo” and “Revel Country,” with “This Is a Film About the Black Keys” closing the festival.

Following the special opening night double-feature screening on September 19, additional notable festival presentations include: Netflix’s “Will & Harper” stars Will Ferrell and his friend Harper Steele, who recently came out as a trans woman, on a road trip to process this new phase of their friendship; Apple Original Films’ “The Last of the Sea Women,” a documentary produced by A24 and executive produced by Malala Yousafzai, follows an extraordinary band of feisty grandmother warriors as...

After corresponding with incarcerated women in her Kansas hometown, Grammy Award-winning rocker and activist Melissa Etheridge finds the inspiration for a new song, using the letters and her connections with the Topeka Correctional Facility residents to, through the healing work of music, start a conversation about incarceration, grief, trauma, healing, and redemption. Directed by Brian Morrow and Amy Scott, the two-part docuseries "Melissa Etheridge: I'm Not Broken" premieres on Tuesday, July 9 on Paramount+. You can watch the new docuseries with 7-Day Free Trial of Paramount Plus.

How to Watch "Melissa Etheridge: I'm Not Broken" When: Tuesday, July 9, 2024 Where: Paramount+ Stream: Watch with a 7-Day Free Trial of Paramount Plus. About "Melissa Etheridge: I'm Not Broken"

Directed by Brian Morrow and Amy Scott, "Melissa Etheridge: I'm Not Broken" follows five female residents from the Topeka Correctional Facility, a women's prison in Etheridge's hometown of Topeka, Kansas, as they write letters to the two-time Grammy-winning rockstar.

Melissa Etheridge brings hope and music to the Topeka Correctional Facility in a powerful new two-part docuseries I’m Not Broken. The Grammy winner was touched by letters from residents of the women’s prison. Etheridge, who lost her son Beckett Cypher to opioids, connects with five from the facility and learns about their respective journeys including how they’ve battled addiction, generational trauma, and grief. The project also delves into how they’re healing and are working to find redemption while incarcerated. Etheridge grew up a couple of blocks from the prison in Leavenworth, Kansas. The documentary chronicles the months leading up to a concert at the prison, which includes performing a song she wrote called I’m Not Broken. Before the premiere, we sat down with directors Brian Morrow and Amy Scott about the making of the powerful two-part film. Paramount+ I know you’ve worked with Sheryl Crow before.

Find your next movie night picks this month on Paramount+!

This month, make a note of the streaming premiere of the 2023’s “Memory,” starring Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard, arriving on the first of the month exclusively for Paramount+ with Showtime subscribers.

Paramount+ will also add over 100 film titles to its collection this month, including “Boyz N' The Hood,” “Grease,” “Trainspotting,” and everything in between. Like “Memory,” many of the titles are only available with a subscription to a Paramount+ with Showtime plan, but you can sign up for the tier with a seven-day free trial ($11.99 per month after the trial period).

On the TV side, among the Paramount+ Originals joining the streamer’s library this month are the two-part music and activism docuseries “Melissa Etheridge: I'm Not Broken,” the final season of “Kamp Koral: Spongebob's Under Years,” and more.

Ready to watch? Find out everything coming to Paramount+ in July,...

Netflix Announces Premiere for Zack Snyder’s “Twilight of the Gods”

The gods are smiling down at Netflix, where Zack Snyder’s highly anticipated “Twilight of the Gods” has set its premiere date.

The all-new Norse mythology-centered animated series from the “Rebel Moon” director is set in “a mythical world of great battles, great deeds, and great despair” where the mortal king Leif is saved on the battlefield by the iron-willed warrior Sigrid, with whom he falls in love. On their wedding night, they survive a wrath of terror from Thor that ends them and a crew of crusaders on a mission for vengeance.

Watch the date announcement video for “Twilight of the Gods” below:

The voice cast will be led by Sylvia Hoeks, Stuart Martin, Pilou Asbaek, John Noble, Paterson Joseph, Rahul Kohli, Jamie Clayton, Kristopher Hivju, Peter Stormare, Jamie Chung, Lauren Cohan, and Corey Stoll, among others.

“Twilight of the Gods...

Melissa Etheridge prepares for one of the most emotional and powerful shows of her life in the new trailer for her upcoming two-part docuseries, I’m Not Broken, airing July 9 and 10 on Paramount+.

The film is centered around a show Etheridge played at the Topeka Correctional Facility in Kansas, as well as the bond she formed with five incarcerated women there. The women had all sent Etheridge letters, and the musician used them as inspiration for a song that also drew on the death of her own son from opioid addiction.

Melissa Etheridge in ‘Melissa Etheridge: I’m Not Broken’ (Photo Credit: James Moes / Paramount+)

Grammy winner and activist Melissa Etheridge shares her work with women who are incarcerated in the two-part documentary series Melissa Etheridge: I’m Not Broken. Directed by Brian Morrow and Amy Scott, the documentary series will premiere later this year on Paramount+.

“I’m excited for audiences to join me on this powerful journey and hear these remarkable stories filled with pain and struggle but also hope and healing,” stated Etheridge. “I hope that this docuseries shows viewers the challenges that women face in our prison system while also serving as a resource to those who currently are struggling.”

The docuseries is produced by Jonathan Lynch for Shark Pig Studios, with Etheridge and BMG Films’ Kathy Rivkin Daum and William Kennedy executive producing. Additional executive producers include Deb Klein for Primary Wave Music, and MTV Entertainment...

“Melissa Etheridge: I’m Not Broken,” a docuseries focusing on bonds the singer forms with incarcerated women over addiction issues that have affected their lives, will hit Paramount+ later this year, the network announced Thursday.

The two-part series will follow Etheridge as she writes a new song inspired by her communication with five women locked up at a prison in her Kansas hometown, the Topeka Correctional Facility. The anthem she writes for them is inspired by letters coming from the prisoners discussing their issues with substance abuse, among the other things that brought them there — a topic that Etheridge is fully engaged on, having lost her son to opioids in a headline-making tragedy four years ago.

“I’m excited for audiences to join me on this powerful journey and hear these remarkable stories filled with pain and struggle but also hope and healing,” Etheridge said in a statement. “I hope...

Academy Award- winning actor Matthew McConaughey has joined Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) and Visit Myrtle Beach for a new public service announcement (PSA) that raises awareness about the importance of funding cancer research.

Matthew McConaughey, Stand Up To Cancer Team Up For Powerful PSA

The campaign features McConaughey narrating poignant memories and milestone moments for a family that frequently visits the beach. Viewers follow along as the family’s daughter grows up and the father experiences a cancer diagnosis. Through their story, the PSA illustrates the one thing every person impacted by cancer craves: more time.

“It is inevitable that this disease will affect us, our friends or family at some point in our lives. SU2C innovations lead to better cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment, which means that we can help save lives now,” said Sue Schwartz, SU2C co-founder. “We are so appreciative of the support...

Sheryl Crow’s earliest musical memory begins in the backseat of a powder blue Plymouth Station Wagon. Only three years old at the time, she was being driven by her parents into the heart of her hometown’s commercial district when, fortuitously, Petula Clark’s “Downtown” came on the radio. Young Sheryl sang at the top of her lungs the whole way home.

It was the beginning of a lifetime of music that’s followed Crow from those simpler Kennett, Missouri origins to the height of musical superstardom in the 1990s, 2000s, and on through to today. When Crow speaks about those formative years now, it’s with affection for her hearth and kin, her parents’ musical tastes, and their encouragement for her to play piano for friends. But her favorite early singing memories of that time?

“It was really the quiet times when I could go sit at the piano by myself,...

Showtime’s Sheryl Crow music documentary Sheryl will premiere on the channel Friday, May 6, with a new trailer now available.

The documentary, directed by Amy Scott and charting what Showtime describes as Crow’s “hard-fought musical career battling sexism, depression, perfectionism, cancer, and the price of fame,” has its world premiere tonight at SXSW.

Sheryl is told through present-day interviews with Crow, behind-the-scenes verité on the road and in her studio, never before seen archival footage spanning 20 years of touring, and interviews with close colleagues Keith Richards, Laura Dern, Joe Walsh, Emmylou Harris, Brandi Carlile, and others.

The Showtime premiere date was announced today by Vinnie Malhotra, Executive Vice President, Nonfiction Programming, Showtime Networks Inc. The film is produced by Brian Morrow and Jonathan Lynch for Shark Pig, Van Toffler for Gunpowder & Sky, and Scooter Weintraub. Executive producers are Floris Bauer, Barry Barclay, David Gale and Vinnie Malhotra.

In conjunction with the documentary premiere,...

A few hours ago, the Producers Guild of America threw a bit of a monkey-wrench into the awards season works. Giving out their Producers Guild Awards, the top prize went to Green Book, shooting that controversial film to the front of the Oscar race. The PGA voters always catapult their winners towards Best Picture at the Academy Awards, so it was expected that this would occur here too. Well, it probably has, just with a movie that wasn’t the presumptive top tier with producers. Guess that wasn’t the case, so we need to re-evaluate things a bit. I’ll try to make sense of it all below! PGA went with Peter Farrelly’s Green Book over what seemed like more likely choice in Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born and Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma. Green Book wasn’t even necessarily considered next in line, as an upset...

“Green Book” has won the top prize at the Producers Guild of America Awards, meaning we have an official Best Picture frontrunner. Often seen as an Oscar bellwether, the PGA Awards’ top winner has matched up with that of the Academy 20 times since the Guild started giving out awards — including last year, when “The Shape of Water” won both.

Avail yourself of the full list below, with winners in bold.

Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures

“Black Panther” (Producer: Kevin Feige)

“BlacKkKlansman”

“Bohemian Rhapsody” (Producer: Graham King)

“Crazy Rich Asians”

“The Favourite”

“Green Book”

“A Quiet Place”

“Roma”

“A Star Is Born”

“Vice”

Outstanding Producer of Documentary Motion Pictures

“The Dawn Wall”

“Free Solo”

“Hal”

“Into the Okavango” (Producer: Neil Gelinas)

“Rbg”

“Three Identical Strangers”

“Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”

Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures

“Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch”

“Incredibles 2”

“Isle of Dogs...

Last year’s Producers Guild Awards told us which movie — “The Shape of Water” — would win the Oscar for Best Picture weeks before the Academy Awards. In fact 20 of the previous winners of this important prize have then gone on to Best Picture victories.

For the 30th annual PGA ceremony slated for Saturday evening, January 19, at the Beverly Hilton, we already know that the top choice will be at the very least a major front-runner for this year’s Oscar. Could it be a blockbuster like “A Star Is Born,” “Bohemian Rhapsody” or “Black Panther”? Or maybe a critical favorite such as “Roma,” “Green Book” or “The Favourite”?

Seepga Awards predictions: ‘A Star Is Born’ will be reborn with a Best Picture win

We’ll have the actual champs indicated below with an ** immediately after they are announced. Here is the full list of nominations for the 2019 PGA Awards in...

The Producers Guild of America hands out its awards on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2019. That is three days before the academy announces the nominations for the Oscars. While the PGA ceremony is not televised, it is an important stop on the road to the Oscars.

The PGA Awards has an enviable track record at presaging the eventual Best Picture winner at the Academy Awards. The guild and the academy have agreed on 20 of the most recent 29 Best Picture champs, including last year’s double winner. “The Shape of Water.”

Since both groups expanded the Best Picture category, the PGA has predicted 70 of the 81 of the Best Picture nominees over the past nine years. Last year the guild went seven for nine in previewing the Oscars line-up: “Call Me by Your Name,” “Dunkirk,” “Get Out,” “Lady Bird,” “The Post,” “The Shape of Water” and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.” The other four guild nominees were “The Big Sick,...

Weekend debuts are minimal as the film industry’s gravity heads north to the Toronto International Film Festival, though some roll outs hope to fill a narrow vacuum of new specialties in the marketplace ahead of the coming fall onslaught. Sundance premiere, Hal, about Oscar-nominated filmmaker Hal Ashby boasts an impressive roster of stars talking about the director behind classics such as Harold and Maude, Shampoo and Being There. Oscilloscope opens the doc exclusively in New York today before heading to L.A. next weekend. Music Box Films is rolling out French drama-mystery The Apparition, which it first viewed in the European Film Market coinciding with the Berlinale in February. And Uncork’d Entertainment is spearheading the stateside launch of South Africa’s Five Fingers for Marseilles, which it picked up out of Toronto last year, heading out Friday in a day and date release.

Also notable is that Ethan Hawke...

“The world needs more Hal Ashbys,” says Oscilloscope’s Dan Berger.

Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired North American rights to Amy Scott’s documentary Hal following its recent world premiere at Sundance.

O-Scope plans to release the film theatrically this year after negotiating the deal with Cinetic Media on behalf of the filmmakers.

Hal Ashby is widely regarded as one of the great overlooked directors and was responsible for Harold And Maude, The Last Detail, Shampoo, Coming Home, and Being There, among others.

Scott’s portrait accesses rare archival footage, personal letters and audio recordings to reveal the artist who frequently clashed with the Hollywood machine.