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A live virtual party in honor of actor Harry Belafonte’s 94th birthday will be held on Sunday, February 28th at 7:00 p.m. Et.

The event will feature performances and appearances from Common, Danny Glover, Chuck D, Bernie Sanders with his wife Jane, Stacey Abrams, Aloe Blacc, Tamika D. Mallory, Rev. Al Sharpton, Jackie Cruz, Aja Monet, Mysonne the General, Diane Nash, Carmen Perez-Jordan, DJ Carisma, Bryan Stevenson, Kerry Kennedy, Matt Post, and more.

Proceeds from the Gathering for Harry will benefit the non-profit group the Gathering for Justice,...

Carter & June, the action comedy from the producer of ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ hits theaters and digital platforms on May 18th. Check out the new trailer:

Freestyle Digital Media, the recently-acquired Digital Film Distribution division of Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios, has acquired the domestic rights to Carter And June, an action/comedy heist film directed by Nicholas Kalikow (Concrete Blondes). The film was produced by Sean C. Covel (Napoleon Dynamite), Diane Richey and Kyle Roper, with Rob Warren Thomas, Matt Post and Kalikow writing the screenplay. Carter And June stars Michael Raymond-James, Samaire Armstrong and Timothy Omundson, while The Doors guitarist Robby Krieger composed original songs for the soundtrack. The film will be available in theaters and on digital platforms on May 18th, 2018.

The deal was negotiated by Dan Fisher, VP of Acquisitions of Freestyle, and by Jack Campbell, President of Octane Entertainment on behalf of the filmmakers.

Inventive blackmail schemes,...

In today’s film news roundup, Jacqueline Bisset has joined “Honey in the Head,” Freestyle Digital buys “Carter and June” and the editorial employees of Nickelodeon Animation Studio have unionized.

Casting

Jacqueline Bisset is set to join the cast of “Honey in the Head” opposite Nick Nolte, Matt Dillon and Emily Mortimer, Variety has learned exclusively.

She will play the mother of Mortimer’s character, and likes to playfully flirt with Nick Nolte’s character whenever she has the opportunity. “Honey in the Head,” the English-language remake of the 2014 German drama “Honig Im Kopf,” will start production in May in Germany, Italy, and the U.K.

The original movie, produced by Barefoot Films, was directed by and starred Til Schweiger as the son of a retired veteran suffering from Alzheimer’s disease who convinces his widowed father (played by Dieter Hallervorden) to move in with him. The film, co-produced and distributed by Warner Bros.

New York filmmaker Matt Post reminds us that high school hiearchy is as important as canned-fruit pyramids in his new feature film 'Super Spree'.  The film follows supermarket employee Billy as he gets the revenge all high school underdogs always dreamed about. What it's really about:  "Billy, a supermarket errand boy, combats butchers, cashiers, and his lazy boss, in an undying effort to complete his workload. His positive attitude towards the job takes turn for the worse when his enemies refuse to let him finish his hardest assignment to date, create three canned-fruit pyramids.  I originally wrote the film as a satire on the bullying that has come into prominence as of late. It pokes fun at the status quo and the high school hierarchies and shows what ultimately happens to most of those people as life goes on; the little guy wins, becomes enlightened, blossoms, etc." What...