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True Colours has also done robust sales on its sales slate.

Marco Martone’s Competition title Nostalgia has sold to key territories for Italian sales outfit True Colours ahead of its premiere on Tuesday, May 24.

The film has gone to Ama Films for Greece, Leopardo Filmes for Portugal and Stars Media in the former Yugoslavia. Palace Films has Australian rights while Medusa is releasing in Italy on May 25.

True Colours has also sold Marco Martani’s She’s The One, to Selecta Vision for Spain and AvJEt for Taiwan, and Shariff Nasr’s debut feature El Houb to Uncork’d Entertainment and...

Exclusive: Deadline has your first look trailer at Cannes competition title Nostalgia, directed by Italian helmer Mario Martone.

The story follows Felice Lasco, played by Pierfrancesco Favino, who returns to Naples after living for many years in Egypt to visit his elderly mother whom he had left suddenly when he was still a boy. It’s his first time back since he left the bustling port city for Egypt some 40 years ago. When it becomes clear that Naples represents for him a life that is now lost and that he should return home as soon as possible to where he came from, he is pinned down by the invincible force of nostalgia.

The film, which is being sold by Italy’s True Colours, sees Martone return to the Cannes competition section 27 years after his adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s Troubling Love played on the Croisette in 1995. The Naples native also...

Exclusive: Avi Federgreen’s Indiecan Entertainment is launching a genre-focused distribution arm, hot on the heels of releasing Junta Yamaguchi’s time paradox comedy Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes.

Red Water Entertainment will serve as a home for genre cinema from around the world, focused on bringing North American audiences high-quality cinema with no language or regional barriers.

It will work primarily in the horror, science fiction and action genres, but will release films from the vast spectrum that the term ‘genre’ encompasses. “There’s a lot of wonderful genre cinema that never sees the light of day in North America, and I’m excited to help some of these films find the audiences they deserve,” said Federgreen.

Red Water’s launch slate comprises six diverse films that will release late this year. They are Stefano Lodovichi’s The Guest Room (aka The Room; Italy), John Farrelly’s The Sleep...

‘Wonka’, ’Downton Abbey: A New Era’ and ’Dungeons & Dragons’ are among the contributors.

Films shooting in the UK in the past year have contributed a record high of £1.4m to the ScreenSkills Film Skills Fund.

In total, 66 productions paid £1.4m for the year concluding at the end of March.

Productions are encouraged to contribute 0.5 of UK production spend into the fund. The cap was £61,000 for 2021/22.

The previous record was £1.08m in 2019/20, with a slump to £474,000 in 2020/21 when production was halted by pandemic lockdowns.

Contributors included Wonka (Heyday Films, Warner Bros), Downton Abbey: A New Era, Dungeons & Dragons (Paramount Pictures...

Kino Lorber is planning a theatrical release in North America for late 2022.

German sales powerhouse Beta Cinema has announced multiple deals on its Second World War drama The Forger, which will be screening in the Cannes Marché following its Berlinale premiere last February.

The film has sold to North America (Kino Lorber), Australia and New Zealand (Palace Films), China (Huanxi Media Group), Hong Kong (Edko), Taiwan (Moviecloud), Spain (Vercine), Former Yugoslavia (Discovery) and Scandinavia (Future Film).

Kino Lorber is planning a theatrical release for late 2022, followed by a digital rollout on all platforms including Kino Now.

The Forger is written and directed by Maggie Peren,...

Altitude is handling international sales and will release the film in the UK and Ireland.

Martin Scorsese is to narrate an as yet untitled feature documentary on British filmmaking duo Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, with David Hinton directing.

UK-based sales outfit Altitude is handling international sales and will release the film in the UK and Ireland.

The film is produced by Nick Varley for Ten Thousand 86 and Matt Wells for Ice Cream Films. Martin Scorsese will executive produce.

It is financed by BBC Film, and the National Lottery and Scottish government through Screen Scotland.

Powell and Pressburger were responsible...

Toni Servillo stars in a Genovese film for the first time.

Paolo Genovese’s The First Day Of My Life, starring Toni Servillo, and now in post-production, has sold widely for Italian sales outfit True Colours, following the European Film Market.

The film has been acquired for Benelux (Paradiso Entertainment), Taiwan (Swallow Wings), Israel (Nachshon), former Yugoslavia (Stars Media), Finland (Future Films) and Portugal (Outsider Pictures).

The First Day Of My Life is an adaptation of Genovese’s novel of the same title. about a group of individuals who meet a stranger, played by Servillo, at the worst moment in their lives.

I’m a fan of the Life is Strange franchise and have been since the very first episode of the first game was released back in January of 2015. The first game, the Before the Storm mini-game and Life is Strange 2 were all, in my view, fantastic games with wonderful stories and well-drawn characters. When news dropped that Life is Strange: True Colours, the third full-length game in the franchise, was going to be released, I was excited. So, was the excitement worth it? Does the game live up the hype? Is it as good as the others that preceded it? Let’s talk about that…

Life is Strange: True Colours follows the story of Alex Chen, a young woman who moves to a new town, Haven Springs, to live with her brother and begin a new life, or try to. She’s been through the foster system and children’s homes,...

Italy’s True Colours has taken sales on two new titles that it will introduce to international buyers at Rome’s Mia Market: “Prophets,” an Isis-themed drama by Alessio Cremonini (“On My Skin”) and “A Breath of Life,” a doc about a 97-year-old Italian transsexual woman named Lucy, who is among the few survivors of the Dachau Nazi concentration camp.

Both films are in post and will be presented as works-in-progress at Mia, the first in the “What’s Next Italy” section, the latter during Mia’s “Italian Doc it Better” session.

“Prophets” toplines Italian A-lister Jasmine Trinca (“Fortunata”) as Sara, an Italian journalist kidnapped in Syria by Isis while working on a wartime news report in 2015. She is held in captivity in the midst of a training camp by Nur, a young fighter, wife to a soldier of the Caliphate. Nur’s strong will to proselytize along with the...

Newly-appointed Screen Australia head of First Nations Angela Bates is taking an ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ approach to the role, insisting her focus is on furthering the strides made by her predecessors.

Bates, who first joined the department in early 2019 as development and investment manager, had the opportunity to work closely with previous head Penny Smallacombe, who vacated the position in May after more than six years.

Speaking to If, she said she would draw on the five strategic pillars identified in The Next 25 Years, a strategy that Smallacombe developed in consultation with filmmakers and industry stakeholders during the department’s 25th anniversary year in 2018.

“I’m not trying to reinvent the wheel here,” she said.

“There are five key pillars that underpin The Next 25 Years strategy – Indigenous storytelling, identifying stories and talent, developing talent, connecting talent, and advocating for indigenous representation and leadership.

“I...

Palace Films buys two for Australia.

Palace Film has acquired Australian rights to a brace of Italian films from Rome-based True Colours: Mario Martone’s Venice 2021 competition title The King Of Laughter, starring Toni Servillo, and Paolo Genovese’s upcoming comedy drama Superheroes.

True Colours has also sold The King Of Laughter to Leopardo Filmes for Portugal, Betafilm for Bulgaria and Stars Media for the former Yugoslavia territories. Film Movement earlier acquired North American rights.

Additionally, Superheroes has sold to L’Atelier d’Images for France and to Cinelibri for Bulgaria. It will be released in Italy at Christmas by Medusa.

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In Italian director Francesco Lettieri’s “Lovely Boy,” which is the closing film of Venice’s independently run Venice Days section, a rising star of Rome’s never before depicted trap music scene gets sucked into a spiral of self-destruction.

“Lovely Boy” is the sophomore feature by Lettieri, who made his debut with “Ultras,” a drama about Neapolitan soccer hooligans that plays worldwide on Netflix.

Both “Ultras” and “Lovely Boy” were lead produced by Rome’s Indigo Film, best known as the shingle behind Paolo Sorrentino’s Oscar-winning “The Great Beauty.”

The Rome-set pic tells the story of Nic, aka Lovely Boy, a talented trapper who has a tattoo on his face and performs in tandem with his friend Borneo la Xxg. As their popularity rises he gets sucked into a spiral of drugs and self-destruction and swiftly reaches breaking point. The only way he can come to terms with...

Rarriwuy Hick leads the ensemble cast of Bunya Productions’ drama True Colours (formerly Copping It Black), now shooting in the Northern Territory’s Macdonnell Ranges for Sbs and Nitv.

The four-part series stems from an original concept from Arrernte singer-songwriter Warren H. Williams, who also stars, and co-creator, writer and director Erica Glynn.

Hick plays Detective Toni Alma, assigned to investigate a suspicious car accident in Perdar Theendar, the Indigenous community she left as a child and has had little to do with over the years. The beauty of Indigenous art and the sometimes-devious practices in the global art market take the detective on an epic hunt for a killer.

Starring alongside Hick are Luke Arnold, Erroll Shand, Emilie de Ravin, Trisha Morton-Thomas, Ben Oxenbould and Miranda Otto.

The series will also include a range of fresh faces such as Kumalie Riley, Kurt Abbott, Sabella Turner, Natalie Peperill, Warren ‘Wazza’ Williams,...

Italian sales company True Colours has secured a seven-title slate of pics premiering in Venice across various sections, including Mario Martone’s competition entry “The King of Laughter” and high-profile doc “Django and Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained,” in which Quentin Tarantino talks about the influential Spaghetti Westerns director.

Martone (“Capri Revolution”), who is a Lido aficionado, will once again vye for the Golden Lion with “King of Laughter,” a drama about Neapolitan theatre luminary Edoardo Scarpetta, played by Toni Servillo (“The Great Beauty”). Italy’s 01 Distribution will release the film in Italian theaters in September.

Another Venice competition title that True Colours is handling –– in this case in tandem with Rai Com –– is “Freaks Out,” the new genre-bender by Gabriele Mainetti, known for off-kilter 2016 superhero pic “They Call Me Jeeg.” Mainetti’s latest is set in 1943 Rome where four “freaks” who work in a circus are left to their...

Spolight on the new projects from Rai Com, Latido, TrustNordisk and more.

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Comedians, the new film by Gabriele Salvatores, headlines Rai Com’s market slate. The completed film is based on the play of the same name by Trevor Griffiths and is produced by Indiana with Rai Cinema. It features a cast of aspiring comedians preparing for their big night.

Intramovies is kickstarting sales on the Dutch drama Love In A Bottle, produced by Levitate Film and directed by Paula van der Oest, whose credits include Zus & Zo. It is a lockdown love story that unfolds over FaceTime. The...

Sales sister company Parkland Pictures has sold ’23 Walks’ to US.

Parkland Entertainment has acquired UK-Ireland distribution rights to Italian horror title The Nest from director Roberto De Feo from True Colours.

The film is produced by Milan-based Colorado Film Production and Vision Distribution, with Vision handling Italian rights and Alfa Pictures distributing in Spain.

Parkland is aiming for an autumn release, with the format yet to be confirmed.

The Nest debuted at the Locarno Film Festival in 2019, going on to play Sitges and Thessaloniki later that year.

It portrays a rural mansion dominated by a heartless matriarch, who goes to...

U.S indie distributor Film Movement has acquired North American rights from Italian sales company True Colours to Palestinian director Ameen Nayfeh’s drama “200 Meters,” about a Palestinian construction worker who takes huge risks to cross the West Bank wall to reach his hospitalized son.

In September, “200 Meters,” which marks Nayfeh’s debut, launched from the Venice Film Festival’s Venice Days section, where it won the audience award. The pic was praised by Variety critic Jay Weissberg for “drawing out how one man’s story is a reflection of a collective experience.” “200 Meters” subsequently scooped the best actor prize at Turkey’s Antalya Golden Orange fest for protagonist Ali Suliman and other awards at the El Gouna Film Festival in Egypt.

Suliman (“Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan”) plays the Palestinian construction worker named Mustafa, who is separated from his family on the other side of the wall in the West Bank.

Since True Colours launched in 2015, it has rapidly doubled the size of its lineups to roughly 20 titles per year, while continuing to carefully curate distribution strategies for each film and made lots of global inroads.

The company is known among Italian producers for transparency and providing rapid sales reports, while foreign buyers like working with execs “because they always make things easy,” says Nicolas Zumaglini, head of content at prominent Latin American distributor Telefilms, who notes that “they have definitely helped spread Italian cinema in the region.” As for True Colours giving cinema Italiano more global reach, the most poignant recent example is “Il Testimone Invisibile” (“The Invisible Witness”), a remake of Spanish thriller (“Contratiempo”), directed by Italy’s Stefano Mordini. “Invisible Witness” is the European title that’s scored the highest gross at the Chinese box office, roughly $5 million, since movie theaters re-opened in China post-pandemic.

The True Colours...

Carol Arthur, an actress known for appearing in Hot Stuff, Intrepid and Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles and the widow of Dom DeLuise has died. She was 85.

The actress died Sunday at the Mary Pickford House at the Motion Picture & Television Fund senior home in Woodland Hills, the retirement center confirmed.

Born in Hackensack, N.J., in 1935, Arthur kicked off her acting career in 1971 as Christina in David Swift’s television series Arnie. After Making It and Emergency!, came her time as Harriett Johnson in Brooks’ Oscar-nominated comedy Blazing Saddles. In the film, starring Gene Wilder and Cleavon Little, Arthur’s Harriett expresses “extreme displeasure” towards Little’s Sheriff Bart in a strongly worded letter.

“The fact that you have sent him here just goes to prove that you are the leading asshole in the state,” Harriett reads to an approving crowd. She also has a famous line when Little was...

When rising music star Layne Price heads home to Nashville for New Year’s Eve to break her writer’s block, she discovers that sometimes you find inspiration—and love, with a little mystical intervention—where you least expect it, in the charming, holiday RomCom, I Hate New Year’s.

Available for streaming Dec. 4, “I Hate New Year’s” will be avaible on demand everywhere, as well as on the Tello Network.

Filmed in Nashville, I Hate New Year’s stars actress/singers Dia Frampton (runner up in the inaugural season of The Voice and lead singer of the band Meg & Dia) and Ashley Argota (The Fosters, Lab Rats, Broadway’s The Lion King), as well as groundbreaking actress Candis Cayne (The Magicians, Grey’s Anatomy, I Am Cait, Elementary, Dirty Sexy Money) in a magical, dual role.

Featuring a soulful, high-energy, original soundtrack from award-winning composer Emer Kinsella, with five...

According to our recent Gold Derby poll results, many music fans hope that Melissa Etheridge will be inducted in 2021 for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She is the top choice, receiving 29% of support from our voters in a poll asking which overlooked female artist most deserved induction next.

The person with the next most votes was Oscar, Grammy and Emmy winner Cher with 16%. Up next were Tina Turner and Pat Benatar tied with 13% each. See the complete results for all 12 ladies below.

SEEGolden Globes 2021: Cher is your overwhelming choice to receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award

The Hall of Fame committee continues to be criticized for its lack of female inductees over the decades of its existence. Whitney Houston posthumously joins the 2020 induction class later this year in a delayed ceremony on HBO.

The previous year had both Janet Jackson and Stevie Nicks be inducted at the 2019 ceremony.

Whitney Houston posthumously joins the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame later this year in a delayed ceremony on HBO. Her family waited a long time for to finally be recognized by voters. There are still quite a few female artists that have also been patiently been waiting their turns. Vote in our new poll below about which female rocker deserves induction in 2021.

SEERock and Roll Hall of Fame 2020 inductees: Depeche Mode, Doobie Brothers, Whitney Houston, Nine Inch Nails, Notorious B.I.G., T-Rex

The previous year had both Janet Jackson and Stevie Nicks be inducted at the 2019 ceremony. Both ladies had been snubbed for years and finally got their due at this year’s ceremony. In fact, Nicks became the first woman to be inducted twice (along with her band Fleetwood Mac) even though many men have had multiple inductions.

During their speeches, both Jackson and Nicks mentioned that...

This weekly feature is in addition to TVLine’s daily What to Watch listings and monthly guide to What’s on Streaming.

With more than 530 scripted shows now airing across broadcast, cable and streaming, it’s easy to forget that a favorite comedy is returning, or that the new “prestige drama” you anticipated is about to debut. So consider this our reminder to set your DVR, order a Season Pass, pop a fresh Memorex into the Vcr… however it is you roll.

More from TVLineFall TV 2020: Your Handy Calendar of 80+ Season and Series Premiere DatesHallmark Channel's 'Countdown to Christmas'...

ABC News is launching a series of reports on racial justice and reckoning, with Nightline devoting its show to the Turning Point banner over the next month and other segments featured across network shows and platforms.

The Turning Point series will kick off on Nightline on Tuesday.

As an example, Nightline will feature special animations narrated by Whoopi Goldberg of The View, with a a look at reparations, what they would look like and the impact they could have in cities like Asheville, Nc. That city is enacting reparations statutes.

Marie Nelson, senior vice president of integrated content strategy for ABC News, said in a statement, “Over the past few weeks and months, there has been a fever pitch echoing across the nation for this country to combat and undo its hundreds of years of systemic racism and inequities. With these special ‘Turning Point’ reports our viewers will see our...

Palestinian drama is led by ‘Jack Ryan’ and ‘Paradise Now’ star Ali Suliman.

Rome-based True Colours has secured international sales rights to Palestinian drama 200 Meters, which is set to receive its world premiere in competition at Venice’s Giornate degli Autori.

The feature has also secured distribution in the Middle East, where its release will be handled by Film Clinic Indie Film Distribution, the Egyptian firm run by producer and Cairo International Film Festival head Mohamed Hefzy.

200 Meters marks the feature debut of Palestinian writer-director Ameen Nayfeh, previously best known for his documentary shorts, and will play in the independent...

Palestinian drama is led by ‘Jack Ryan’ and ‘Paradise Now’ star Ali Suliman.

Rome-based True Colours has secured international sales rights to Palestinian drama 200 Meters, which is set to receive its world premiere in competition at Venice Days.

The feature has also secured distribution in the Middle East, where its release will be handled by Film Clinic Indie Film Distribution, the Egyptian firm run by producer and Cairo International Film Festival head Mohamed Hefzy.

200 Meters marks the feature debut of Palestinian writer-director Ameen Nayfeh, previously best known for his documentary shorts, and will play in the independent sidebar of the...

International buyers can view the trailer at the virtual Cannes market.

Italian sales outfit True Colours has picked up Edoardo Falcone’s I Am Santa Claus and is screening a trailer to international buyers at this week’s virtual Cannes market.

I Am Santa Claus is a comedy starring veteran Italian comedian Gigi Proietti as Santa Claus and Marco Giallini as a thief just out of jail. The two go on a journey of self discovery together. The film is now in post production and will be distributed in Italy by Lucky Red around Christmas 2020.

It is produced by Lucky...

The first work by Austria’s Evi Romen, described by the director as "modern Alpine Neorealism”, will feature in True Colours’ line-up at the virtual market. We’re delighted to present the film poster, exclusively revealed to Cineuropa, accompanying Evi Romen’s Why Not You, a title which True Colours will be touting alongside other movies at the Cannes Film Festival’s Marché du Film (22-26 June). Currently in post-production, the film is produced by Bady Minck and Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu alongside Austrian firm Amour Fou, in co-production with Gregory Zalcman for Belgian group Take Five. Distribution in Austrian cinemas will be handled by Polyfilmverleih, with national broadcasting company Orf helming the small screen arrangements. Born in Bolzano, Italy, in 1967, Romen lives and works in Vienna where she attended the city’s Film Academy, graduating in cinematography and editing before going on to assemble numerous feature films, documentaries, children’s films and TV films and series.

Sometimes a show comes along and manages to find a special place in viewers’ hearts. Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist is one of those shows.

For 12 episodes, Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist Season 1 has sung viewers its heart songs and proved why it deserves to sing them for many more.

With network shows, it is almost impossible to predict who will make the cut after their first season, but if there is one show that truly deserves it for the 2019-2020 season, it is this one.

We can usually define freshman seasons of shows as a work in progress. It's a time for actors to settle into their roles, for writers to find their voices and for the audience to get to know a new world.

It isn’t often that a show gets everything right, right out of the gate. Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist is one of those exceptions.

When Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist first premiered,...

The Kitty is just one of two women still in the running on season 3 of “The Masked Singer.” She and the rest of the contenders compete on “A Quarter Mask Crisis: The Quarter Finals,” which airs on May 6. The Kitty is sitting pretty after her performance last week of “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” by Marilyn Monroe. That over-the-top number had the four judges singing her praises.

That was a welcome change for the Kitty from the previous week when she ended up fighting for survival in the smackdown against the Banana. She won with her soaring vocals on “Unstoppable” by Sia. That song was more suited to her voice than the one that put her at risk of elimination: “True Colors” by Cyndi Lauper.

The Kitty is one of the strongest singers on the show. She shone in her first outing with her version of “Dangerous Woman” by Ariana Grande.

The Top 17 artists performed on “The Voice” live (sort of) on Monday, May 4 (full recap here). And now eight of them will be going home for the results show on Tuesday, creating a Top 9 for next week. Here are the songs that were chosen for the performance show Monday evening for competitors from Team Kelly Clarkson, Team Nick Jonas, Team John Legend and Team Blake Shelton:

Thunderstorm Artis for Team Nick singing “Summertime”

Allegra Miles from Team Nick singing “New York State of Mind”

Arei Moon from Team Nick singing “Finesse”

Roderick Chambers from Team Nick singing “Lost Without You”

Michael Williams (Knockout winner) from Team Nick singing “Sign of the Times”

Zan Fiskum from Team Legend singing “Blowin’ in the Wind”

Mike Jerel from Team Legend singing “All My Life”

Mandi Castillo from Team Legend singing “Corre”

CammWess from Team Legend singing “Ain’t No Sunshine”

Megan Danielle from...

Francesca Mazzoleni’s “Puntasacra,” Francisco Bermejo’s “The Other One” and Nick Brandestini’s “Sapelo” scooped the top prizes in the three major sections at Switzerland’s Visions du Réel prize ceremony Sunday night, held online as the whole of the documentary festival.

Major plaudits in the festival’s main International Feature Film Competition also went to Markku Lehmuskallio and Johannes Lehmuskallios “Anerca, Breath of Life,” Afsaneh Salari’s “The Silhouettes,” Mo Scarpelli’s “El Father Plays Himself” and José Permar’s “Off the Road.”

The Audience Award, one of the key prizes for distributors,was nabbed by Chines-German feature “Mirror Mirror on the Wall.”

Acquired by Italy’s True Colours for world sales, “Puntasacra” won Visions du Réel’s top Sesterce d’Or la Mobilière for a doc feature that portrays the resilient inhabitants of the last triangle of habitable land at the mouth of the Italy’s Tiber...

My own private tribute to Italy and friends in the business.

We were so lucky in the Berlinale that no one seems to have contracted Covid 19. But my heart goes out to those returning home to lockdown. During this time of Corona, backward looks are common along with thoughts of those we love and need to connect with. All that may serve a purpose in redirecting our paths toward more important and even urgent ends when we return to a new normal.

One of my backward looks goes to 2009 when I attended Rotterdam Film Festival…part of this festival included a workshop for four chosen upcoming film critics. I needed someone to help me write articles and asked the four if any could help me. Two responded to my request but only one followed up with me after Rotterdam. Gaetano Maiorino and I thus became acquainted; he wrote a book...

The Kitty proved she really does have nine lives on “The Masked Singer.” She made it into the final six competing on April 29 by winning her smackdown against the Banana last week. She was “Unstoppable” after singing that Sia hit and the Banana peeled back his mask to reveal rocker Bret Michaels. The Kitty ended up in trouble when the four judges and studio audience were not won over by her cover of the Cyndi Lauper classic “True Colors.”

That song was not suited to her powerhouse vocals. The Kitty shone earlier in the competition with her rendition of the Celine Dion power ballad “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now.” She was a stand-out in her first appearance with her version of “Dangerous Woman” by Ariana Grande. She followed that up with covers of country hits “Mercy” by Brett Young and “Mama’s Broken Heart” by Miranda Lambert.

We are inching ever more closely to the finale of the third season of “The Masked Singer.” Another contestant has been eliminated from this contest and now we are left with the Final 6 who will fight for the Golden Mask over the next several weeks. To mark this momentous point in the season, we’ve ranked the remaining six in order of who’s most likely to win. Do you think these are in the correct order? How would you rank them? Get a closer look at each of the six remaining celebrities in our photo gallery above.

Since our last power ranking another three singers have been sent home. In the first episode of the Super 9, we saw the hunky future tight end for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Rob Gronkowski, revealed as the performer behind the White Tiger. The next unmasking showed that the feisty Kangaroo was none other than model Jordyn Woods.

This week on “The Masked Singer,” it was “a smackdown between two mammals, one amphibian and an appealing fruit” … sue me, I quoted from the open. Nick Cannon sparkled, literally, in a glitter tux as he introduced guest panelist Sharon Osbourne. She even noticed his shiny duds, I just wish his clothes fit better, but I digress. It was the Frog vs. the Kitty up first, but who is that kitty cat? Below, we analyze the clues.

See Bret Michaels (‘The Masked Singer’ Banana) unmasked interview: ‘I’ve never had such a great time’ and ‘Banana fans are awesome!’

Kitty claimed she has the strategy of kindness — and that she’s about to show her true colors tonight! Well she did sing Cyndi Lauper’s signature tune “True Colors.” The kitty commanded the stage with a lovely alto and an amazing stage presence in that cat ballroom costume. She’s...

The Masked Singer is really gonna keep trying to make “Battle of the Sixes” happen, eh? Ok then.

This week’s episode was the lead-up to next week’s Top 6 showdown, which meant that Banana, Kitty, Frog or Rhino was going to be sent packing at the end of the hour. When the evening was over, Masked Singer voters (if that’s even a thing) weren’t feeling the peel: Banana wound up getting sent home.

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Heading into this week’s all-new episode of “The Masked Singer,” Banana was in danger of being peeled from the competition as he had the best odds of being eliminated. This country rocker took the stage alongside Frog, Kitty and Rhino for a pair of face-offs and an epic smackdown, but how did it all play out Wednesday night? And did panelists Robin Thicke, Nicole Scherzinger, Jenny McCarthy, Ken Jeong or guest judge Sharon Osbourne correctly guess this week’s secret identity?

SEEAre ‘The Masked Singer’ celebrity contestants lip-syncing or singing live?

Below, read our minute-by-minute “The Masked Singer” recap of Season 3, Episode 12, titled “The Mother Of All Final Face Offs, Part 2,” to find out what happened Wednesday, April 22 at 8:00 p.m. Et/Pt. Then be sure to sound off in the comments section about your favorite costumed celebs on Fox’s reality TV show, the judges’ dumbest guesses,...

It is also putting three planned theatrical releases on hold until later in 2020.

UK distributor Parkland Entertainment has revealed plans to release a raft of new titles onto digital platforms early, including three new acquisitions, as cinemas remain closed nationwide due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Astronaut, starring Richard Dreyfuss, was set to be released on 65 screens on March 20 – three days before theatres shut their doors – but will now be available to rent and own from digital platforms on April 27.

Documentary Camino Skies will be released as a premium VOD title on Curzon Home Cinema from May 8, the original theatrical release date,...

As the world as we know it changes around us, one thing that everyone seems to be turning to escape our harsh reality is television. 

Not only is escapism important right now to lessen the anxiety we all feel, but a sense of hope for better days is always justified.

We gathered together a list of certain episodes of television for you to watch that instill positivity and never fail to remind us that everything will be okay.

"Jake and Amy" - Brooklyn Nine-Nine

While many weddings and other events are being canceled or rescheduled because of Covid-19, it's hard not to feel disappointed when plans do not go as imagined.

And that is exactly what happened on Brooklyn Nine-Nine Season 5 Episode 22.

Almost everything that Jake and Amy had scheduled for their wedding day went up in flames because of bomb threats, a destroyed veil, and so on.

However, they...

Sales also secured on ‘The Goddess Of Fortune’, ‘Once Upon A Time… In Bethlehem’ and more.

Rome-based sales company True Colours has secured deals on a raft of titles out of the Efm, led by Sergio Castellitto’s romantic drama A Bookshop In Paris.

The film, starring Castellitto and Berenice Bejo, has pre-sold to Taiwan (Andrews Film), Poland (Aurora), Benelux (Paradiso), former Yugoslavia (Stars Media), Sweden (Studio S Entertainment), Finland (Future Film), Denmark (Another World) and Israel (Nachshon).

The romantic drama, now in post-production, marks the last screenplay written by the late Ettore Scola and has subsequently been adapted by Castellitto and novelist Margaret Mazzantini.

Director Castellitto also stars in the film alongside Berenice Bejo.

Sergio Castellitto’s romantic drama A Bookshop In Paris has been acquired by True Colours as the Rome-based sales company arrives at the Efm with a reshuffled team.

Castellitto also stars in the film as an antiquarian bookseller living in Paris whose life revolves around his love for rare books and his paraplegic daughter. But his life changes when he meets an exuberant young woman, played by actress and Berlin international jury member Berenice Bejo. The cast also includes 2018 European Shooting Star Matilda De Angelis.

True Colours will begin sales of film,...

Musical TV shows are a controversial corner of TV land.

As an avid lover of the genre, I am on the edge of my seat each time they announce a new one, hoping and praying that it won’t be a corny, hot mess.

Over the years, many musical TV shows have come along, each with varying degrees of success. This year, though, we got one that may be the answer to all of our prayers.

Has Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist perfected the musical TV show? Join us as we discuss why it just might have.

Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist is the new kid on the block, but it came out of the gate swinging. Even after just Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist Season 1 Episode 1, it already seemed to have found just the right mix of everything that makes a musical show effective.

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Vision Distribution, the Italian theatrical distributor jointly operated by pay-tv operator Sky Italia and five prominent Italian production companies, is expanding into international film sales with a new company called Vision Distribution International, to be headed by veteran sales agent Catia Rossi.

The new sales company will launch at the Berlin fest’s European Film Market in February.

Vision Distribution was set up in 2016 when Sky joined forces with ITV-owned Cattleya, Fremantle’s Wildside, Lucisano Media Group, Palomar, and Indiana Production which are among the country’s leading production outfits, to create an innovative content alliance and a theatrical distribution arm for the Italian unit of the pan-European paybox now owned by Comcast.

They are now Italy’s 4th largest domestic distributor, and the 8th overall, with 26 titles released in 2019, four of which among the top ten grossers at the Italian box office last year. Vision Distribution has a...

Ever wish you could hear other people’s thoughts? Well, as Zoey Clarke can attest, that power has more drawbacks than you might expect.

Played by Suburgatory’s Jane Levy, Zoey is the introverted coder at the center of Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, which made its NBC debut on Tuesday night. (The show will settle into its regular Sundays-at-9 time slot beginning Feb. 16).

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Cyndi Lauper duetted alongside a diverse group of artists that included Marilyn Manson, Henry Rollins, Kesha and Perry Farrell at the singer’s annual Home for the Holidays benefit gig Tuesday, held this year at Los Angeles’ the Novo.

The bright yellow mohawked Lauper and Manson teamed for a lengthy rendition of the shock rocker’s “The Beautiful People,” with Manson opening the performance with a sinister take on Lauper’s hit “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.” Lauper also joined Rollins for an intense, keytar-heavy version of the Black Flag classic “Rise Above.

There’s no question Hulu wants to get its viewers in the Halloween mood — the streaming service will add a fresh slate of horror movies to its collection once October hits. In addition to watching Jigsaw psychologically torture victims in “Saw,” “Saw 2” and “Saw 6,” audiences will also be able to see the original Hill House in the 1963 thriller “The Haunting.” For those in the mood for a classic, horror favorites from Alfred Hitchcock will also become available come Oct. 1, including “Rear Window,” “Psycho” and “The Birds.”

Anticipated Hulu Originals will also premiere this coming month. Season 2 of “Light as a Feather” will launch on the streamer on Oct. 4, while “Looking for Alaska,” based on John Green’s best-selling novel of the same name, will premiere on Oct. 18.

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60 Days In: Season 5

Alien Encounters: Season 2-3

American Pickers: Season 19

Basketball Wives La: Seasons 1-5

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Amazon Prime Video has confirmed that five original shows will be debuting new episodes on the streaming service in September. Among these are the first seasons of the groundbreaking animated series “Undone,” which will be available in both 4K and Hrd, and the German import “Chris Tall Presentes,” an unscripted series starring the comedian. Another animated series, “Niko And The Sword of Light,” returns for a sophomore season. And “Transparent” will sign off with a sung finale.

The Amazon original film “Late Night” will start streaming justt a few months after its successful theatrical run. Mindy Kaling both wrote and starred in this wry look at the world of TV, with Emma Thompson stealing scenes as the beleaguered host of a failing talk show.

Below is the full schedule of everything that is coming to Amazon Prime Video in September 2019. Unlike Netflix, Amazon does not disclose the shows and movies...

Amazon is out with its list of new additions coming to Prime Video next month, and you’ll want to mark your calendar for the epic musical finale of “Transparent,” coming Sept. 27.

“Chris Tall Presents…” — the first unscripted German Amazon Original which features six episodes of the comedian performing stand-up and introducing his friends as guests — will premiere at a date still to be determined. The same is the case for “Family Man,” a new Amazon Original series which, according to the streaming giant, tells the story of a middle-class man who works for a special cell of the National Investigation Agency.

Other Prime Originals include the first seasons of “El Corazón de Sergio Ramos,” about the Spanish soccer player, and the animated series “Undone.” “Rango,” “Legally Blonde” and “Saturday Night Fever” are among some of the already released movies that will now be available on Prime.

Cher and Tina Turner are your top choices for induction into the 2020 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Those results from over 1,000 people worldwide are from our recent poll offering you 12 female artists that have been overlooked by voters in recent years. See the full results below.

Lady rockers have had a hard time getting inducted many years, but the 2019 ceremony had both Janet Jackson and Stevie Nicks finally getting in. In fact, Nicks became the first woman to be inducted twice (along with her band Fleetwood Mac) even though many men have had multiple inductions. If Turner gets the call for induction, it would be her second time as well after a selection with ex-husband Ike Turner in 1991.

And here are the results for our recent poll about overlooked bands, which was won by The Doobie Brothers. Look for a male artist poll in the near future.

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