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Programming from several countries, including Australia, Canada, France, Italy, Ireland, New Zealand, and UK. AMC Networks chief Josh Sapan told The Hollywood Reporter that Acorn TV has "among the lowest churn" among major services owing to its focus as well as viewers' "dedication and affinity" for its content.

Giant Leap Accelerator has officially launched its first 12-week developmental program that will focus on cultivating new Asian/Pacific American (APA) stories, Variety has exclusively learned.Over the course of the 12-week program, eight emerging AAPI writers will be mentored by seven television and film writing veterans. Each writer will meet with their dedicated mentor once a week to elevate the scripts, create pitch materials and set up pitch practices. Giant Leap Accelerator was co-founded by DJ Jiang and Brian Yang as a one-stop shop for new AAPI writers with the hope of bringing their screenplays into production in a streamlined and hands-on approach. Milton Liu was brought on as the executive director of the program. The Writers Guild of America also serves as a partner to the program...

The long-awaited Academy Museum’s opening on Sept. 30 is getting closer, and it has announced that timed advance admission tickets will be available beginning on Aug. 5 at 9:00 a.m. Pt. The museum will also be offering free admission to visitors 17 and under after reaching a milestone from supporters and the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation, whose support is in honor of Academy Museum Honorary Trustee and former AMPAS president Sid Ganis...

Quentin Tarantino  said he thinks boutique cinemas “will actually thrive in this time” — and then announced his purchase of the Vista Theatre in Los Feliz, with plans for it to open around Christmas. It won’t be a revival house — we’ll show new movies that come out where they give us a film print, we’ll show new stuff. The Vista is like a crown jewel kind of thing. So it will be the best prints, we’ll show older films, but they’ll be like older films where you can hold a fortnight engagement.”...

Beginning with the 2022 theatrical slate, all Universal film content will be available exclusively on Peacock as a part of their Pay-One window. The deal will bring Universal, Focus Features, Illumination, and DreamWorks Animation titles exclusively to Peacock no later than four months after their theatrical debuts. Beginning in 2022, Peacock will also premiere original films developed and produced exclusively for the streaming platform...

“The Velvet Underground” director Todd Haynes said one of the biggest challenges of making his first feature documentary, was bringing Lou Reed to life on screen.“We used his voice from archival material a lot, but to keep having his presence be sort of imbued into the film I think was the biggest one of the challenges.” Haynes and the rest of the panel at a press conference in Cannes which included producers Christopher Clements, Carolyn Hepburn, Julie Goldman and Christine Vachon and editor Adam Kurnitz, also discussed how the film was shot between Haynes’ last released feature project, “Dark Water,” and edited during lockdown. Kurnitz was tasked with turning over 600 hours of archival footage taken from Reed’s widow Laurie Anderson, the Museum of Modern Art and New York Public Library, into a more digestible feature. “It sounds arduous but it’s fantastic to actually go spelunking to find all this stuff because you do know that it’s decaying, wherever it is,” said Clements. “And so when we decided to make a movie, you’re also participating in preserving this material for archives in the future and that’s part of what making documentaries and doing this kind of research makes very, very satisfying.”...

In October 2022, fans of the James Bond franchise will celebrate the 60th anniversary of Dr. No first being released into theaters – first playing in the UK on October 5, 1962. However, as we wait for No Time To Die to finally make its way to the big screen, there’s still time to celebrate another milestone related to that very special birthday. As it turns out, this week marks the 60th anniversary of the formation of EON Productions, the company that first brought Bond, James Bond to the big screen. Celebrating this crucial piece of trivia, the official 007 Instagram honored today’s big occasion with a video that shows clips from the first 24 James Bond movies. It’s a feat that was possible thanks to producers Albert “Cubby” Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, who teamed up with a mutual interest in bringing Ian Fleming’s espionage hero into theaters around the world...