#Bentonville Film Festival Sets Dates for 2025 Event and Launches New Creator Summit

#Bentonville Film Festival Sets Dates for 2025 Event and Launches New Creator Summit

The Bentonville Film Festival has set the dates for its 2025 event and announced its inaugural BFF Creator Convergence: Amplifying Voices and Ventures summit. The 2025 edition of the festival, which is produced by BFFoundation, a nonprofit organization focused on promoting underrepresented voices of diverse storytellers, will run from June 16-22 in Bentonville, Arkansas. The…

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#‘Fairyland’ Review: Emilia Jones and Scoot McNairy Negotiate Spiky Father-Daughter Ties in 1970s and ’80s San Francisco

#‘Fairyland’ Review: Emilia Jones and Scoot McNairy Negotiate Spiky Father-Daughter Ties in 1970s and ’80s San Francisco

‘Fairyland’ Review: Emilia Jones and Scoot McNairy Negotiate Spiky Father-Daughter Ties in 1970s and ’80s San Francisco Told from the perspective of a young girl raised by her single gay father to be a woman who is “strong and tolerant and not afraid of this world,” Fairyland reveals the intensely personal nature of its origins…

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#Phyllis Carlyle, Influential Talent Manager and ‘Accidental Tourist,’ ‘Seven’ Producer, Dies at 80

#Phyllis Carlyle, Influential Talent Manager and ‘Accidental Tourist,’ ‘Seven’ Producer, Dies at 80

Phyllis Carlyle, Influential Talent Manager and ‘Accidental Tourist,’ ‘Seven’ Producer, Dies at 80 Phyllis Carlyle, the onetime casting director who managed the careers of Willem Dafoe, Geena Davis, Melanie Griffith, Andy Garcia and John Malkovich and produced films including Seven and The Accidental Tourist, has died. She was 80. Carlyle died Sept. 14 in Encino…

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#Geena Davis details ‘bad’ first meeting with Bill Murray

#Geena Davis details ‘bad’ first meeting with Bill Murray

“Geena Davis details ‘bad’ first meeting with Bill Murray” Geena Davis is opening up about her not-so-glamourous first experiences with Bill Murray while making the movie “Quick Change” in 1989. The 66-year-old actress included the pair’s audition meeting in her upcoming memoir “Dying of Politeness,” claiming that the now-72-year-old Murray allegedly greeted her in a…

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#’Thelma and Louise’ celebrates 30 years with a drive-in

#’Thelma and Louise’ celebrates 30 years with a drive-in

“#’Thelma and Louise’ celebrates 30 years with a drive-in” Still in the driver’s seat “Thelma and Louise” turning 30 this year was just commemorated with a charity drive-in viewing in LA. Its Susan Sarandon raised funds for a food bank. For Geena Davis it was her Institute on Gender in Media. Geena: “We’ve stayed friends. We saw the movie…

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