Rapper Freddie Gibbs was arrested shortly before a concert at Le Rex in Toulouse, France, on Thursday in connection with an alleged rape that occurred in Austria last year, French news source La Depeche reports. According to La Depeche, 33-year-old Gibbs, who was born Frederick Tipton in Gary, Indiana, attended a hearing on Friday and is being held in custody "pending his extradition to Austria." (People was unable to reach Toulouse authorities for comment.) Austrian news source Vienna Online confirmed that Austrian authorities had called for Gibbs' extradition. "We have requested his transfer," Nina Bussek, spokeswoman for the Vienna prosecutor's office,...
- 6/4/2016
- by Andrea Park, @scandreapark
- PEOPLE.com
Rapper Freddie Gibbs was arrested shortly before a concert at Le Rex in Toulouse, France, on Thursday in connection with an alleged rape that occurred in Austria last year, French news source La Depeche reports. According to La Depeche, 33-year-old Gibbs, who was born Frederick Tipton in Gary, Indiana, attended a hearing on Friday and is being held in custody "pending his extradition to Austria." (People was unable to reach Toulouse authorities for comment.) Austrian news source Vienna Online confirmed that Austrian authorities had called for Gibbs' extradition. "We have requested his transfer," Nina Bussek, spokeswoman for the Vienna prosecutor's office,...
- 6/4/2016
- by Andrea Park, @scandreapark
- PEOPLE.com
Desiree Akhavan to head First Feature Competition jury; Jarvis Cocker to host annual awards ceremony.Scroll down for competition titles
The 59th BFI London Film Festival (Oct 7-18) has revealed the full line-up of its competition juries and announced that presenter and Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker will host this year’s awards ceremony on Oct 17.
The jury for the Sutherland Award for the First Feature Competition includes:
Desiree Akhavan, director/screenwriter (Appropriate Behaviour) (president)
Clio Barnard, director/artist (The Selfish Giant)James Kent, director (Testament of Youth)Allen Leech, actor (The Imitation Game)Kate Muir, film critic, The Times
The jury for the Grierson Award for the Documentary Competition includes:
Mark Cousins, director (I Am Belfast) (president)
Brian Woods, producer (The Dying Rooms)Charlie Phillips, head of docs, The GuardianAlex Cooke, filmmakerIain Forsyth, director (20,000 Days on Earth)Jane Pollard, director (20,000 Days on Earth)
The jury for the Lff’s first Short Film Competition includes:
Daisy Jacobs, director...
The 59th BFI London Film Festival (Oct 7-18) has revealed the full line-up of its competition juries and announced that presenter and Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker will host this year’s awards ceremony on Oct 17.
The jury for the Sutherland Award for the First Feature Competition includes:
Desiree Akhavan, director/screenwriter (Appropriate Behaviour) (president)
Clio Barnard, director/artist (The Selfish Giant)James Kent, director (Testament of Youth)Allen Leech, actor (The Imitation Game)Kate Muir, film critic, The Times
The jury for the Grierson Award for the Documentary Competition includes:
Mark Cousins, director (I Am Belfast) (president)
Brian Woods, producer (The Dying Rooms)Charlie Phillips, head of docs, The GuardianAlex Cooke, filmmakerIain Forsyth, director (20,000 Days on Earth)Jane Pollard, director (20,000 Days on Earth)
The jury for the Lff’s first Short Film Competition includes:
Daisy Jacobs, director...
- 9/23/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Official competition to include Cary Fukunaga’s Beasts Of No Nation and European premieres for Jonás Cuarón’s Desierto and Johnnie To’s Office.Scroll down for competition titles
The full line-up for the 59th BFI London Film Festival (Oct 7-18) has been unveiled this morning, including the titles set to compete in its four competitions.
The festival will screen a total of 238 fiction and documentary features, including 16 world premieres, eight international premieres, 40 European premieres and 11 archive films including five restoration world premieres. The line-up also includes 182 live action and animated shorts.
As previously announced, the festival will open with Sarah Gavron’s period drama Suffragette, starring Carey Mulligan, and will close with Danny Boyle’s biopic Steve Jobs, starring Michael Fassbender as the home computer pioneer and Apple co-founder. Both are European premieres.
Further headline galas at the festival will be Todd Haynes’ Carol, Jay Roach’s Trumbo, Scott Cooper’s Black Mass, John Crowley...
The full line-up for the 59th BFI London Film Festival (Oct 7-18) has been unveiled this morning, including the titles set to compete in its four competitions.
The festival will screen a total of 238 fiction and documentary features, including 16 world premieres, eight international premieres, 40 European premieres and 11 archive films including five restoration world premieres. The line-up also includes 182 live action and animated shorts.
As previously announced, the festival will open with Sarah Gavron’s period drama Suffragette, starring Carey Mulligan, and will close with Danny Boyle’s biopic Steve Jobs, starring Michael Fassbender as the home computer pioneer and Apple co-founder. Both are European premieres.
Further headline galas at the festival will be Todd Haynes’ Carol, Jay Roach’s Trumbo, Scott Cooper’s Black Mass, John Crowley...
- 9/1/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
We’ve reached the point in the Project Runway season where Nina Garcia has stopped firing insulting buckshot directly into contestants’ faces, choosing instead to slip them sweet and subtle poison. “That gown has a lot of potential,” she said to this week’s auf’d designer, leaving out her mental note that it would take a month in Badgley Mischka’s workshop to bring said potential to the surface. Or take the way she cooed this vague compliment — “she knows how to make clothes in her sleep” — subtly playing up Michael Kors’ previous comment that one of the designer...
- 10/14/2011
- by Michael Slezak
- TVLine.com
Tim Bagley and William Shatner in a scene from the $#*! My Dad Says pilot.
CBS does not immediately spring to mind when it comes to the inclusion of gay characters, not only because the network received a “failing” grade from GLAAD last summer in a study of Glbt-inclusivity in prime time, but also because CBS has found a winning formula that’s anything but edgy. Crime dramas and middlebrow comedies dominate the network’s top-rated schedule (CBS is No. 1 in households and No. 2, behind Fox, among viewers ages 18-49 season-to-date).
So it was surprising to hear CBS Entertainment president Nina Tassler sound a note of embarrassment at last July’s Television Critics Association press tour and at the same time announce plans for improvement.
“We're adding a few [Lgbt] characters to this season because we're very disappointed in our track record so far,” she said in response to a question from AfterElton.
CBS does not immediately spring to mind when it comes to the inclusion of gay characters, not only because the network received a “failing” grade from GLAAD last summer in a study of Glbt-inclusivity in prime time, but also because CBS has found a winning formula that’s anything but edgy. Crime dramas and middlebrow comedies dominate the network’s top-rated schedule (CBS is No. 1 in households and No. 2, behind Fox, among viewers ages 18-49 season-to-date).
So it was surprising to hear CBS Entertainment president Nina Tassler sound a note of embarrassment at last July’s Television Critics Association press tour and at the same time announce plans for improvement.
“We're adding a few [Lgbt] characters to this season because we're very disappointed in our track record so far,” she said in response to a question from AfterElton.
- 12/1/2010
- by Rob Owen
- The Backlot
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