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New Blumhouse Paranormal Horror Movie Coming from John Ridley

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After winning the Academy Award for 12 Years a Slave, creating critically acclaimed television series American Crime, and directing the incendiary documentary Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992, celebrated filmmaker John Ridley is heading into horror. Per the Blumhouse 2020 fan event, Ridley will be writing and directing an as-of-yet untitled paranormal horror film for the genre studio — based on a terrifying, timely true story.

The story was written up in a Saleah Blancaflor article called “Project Poltergeist,” and details the strange, haunted occurrences that took place in a 1960s New Jersey public housing project, and how they affected the family of young Ernie Rivers. Ridley will use the genre film to examine the systemic, real-world issues embedded within the paranormal activities. As he explained in a statement, “This is an incredible true-life narrative of a young man dealing with horrors – both paranormal and racially

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Blumhouse announces new Insidious film, to be directed by Patrick Wilson

Get ready to step back into The Further. Blumhouse announced today that the company will make a fifth Insidious movie.



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The new entry in the horror series will be the directorial debut of Patrick Wilson, who plays the haunted Josh Lambert in the Insidious films. Scott Teems wrote the script based on a story by franchise co-creator Leigh Whannell. The cast will include Wilson and Ty Simpkins, who plays Lambert’s son Dalton in the movies. The film will pick up 10 years after the last installment, as Dalton begins college.

“I’m honored and thrilled to be at the helm of the next Insidious installment, which will provide an amazing chance to unpack everything the Lamberts went through a decade ago, as well as deal with the consequences of their choices,” said Wilson in a statement. “Directing the movie is both professionally and personally

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Borat fundraiser for film’s black grandmother raises $110,000

Over $110,000 (£85,000) has been raised in support of an unwitting star of Sacha Baron Cohen’s new mockumentary, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.

Jeanise Jones, 62, was recruited for the film that sees Kazakh journalist Borat playing pranks on US citizens.

She features in several scenes after being asked to babysit the fictional daughter of Cohen’s infamous character.

Following the film’s release last week, her church pastor set up a crowdfunding page for fans “to say thank you”.

Pastor Derrick Scobey said Ms Jones, who was hired from the congregation of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Oklahoma City, had recently lost her job of 32 years due to the coronavirus pandemic.

On the crowdfunding page, Mr Scobey said the movie’s producers had asked for a “black grandmother for a small role in a documentary”.

During filming, Ms Jones was tasked with looking after Borat’s daughter, Tutar, who was played by actress Maria Bakalova.

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More sex assault charges filed against adult film actor Ron Jeremy

LOS ANGELES — Prosecutors said they have filed seven additional sexual assault counts against adult film actor Ron Jeremy, which together with previous charges carry a maximum sentence of more than 300 years in prison.

The seven new counts, filed by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, involve six women and go back to 1996, the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.

They add to other charges previously filed against Jeremy, 67, whose real name is Ron Jeremy Hyatt. If convicted on all of the more than 30 counts, Jeremy faces a maximum possible sentence of 330 years to life in prison, the district attorney’s office said.

The new charges include three counts of forcible rape, two counts of forcible oral copulation and one count each of sexual battery by restraint and assault with intent to commit forcible digital penetration, the district attorney’s office said in a statement Wednesday.

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New Arab Women’s Film Collective, Rawiyat – Sisters in Film, Launched

Filmmaker and journalist Dorothée-Myriam Kellou has announced the creation of a new collective, Rawiyat – Sisters in Film, at the El Gouna Film Festival.

Speaking on the “Women’s Empowerment Through Film” panel at the festival, Kellou said: “The English name is Sisters in Film, and the Arabic name, Rawiyat, is the feminine term for storytellers. There are nine of us who are co-founders of the collective. We had all recently gone through the emotionally wrought and financially draining experience of making our first film. And we realized that it would be very hard to do a second film, without more emotional and financial support.”

The group, which will be headquarters in Paris and Tunis, was founded by Naziha Arebi (Libya/U.K.), Yasmina Chouikh (Algeria), Danielle Davie (Lebanon), Myriam El Hage (Lebanon), Kellou (Algeria/France), Dina Naser (Jordan), Erige Sehiri (Tunisia), Lina Soualem (Palestine/Algeria/France) and Kawthar Younis (Egypt).

They have created a manifesto,

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Los Angeles Film Critics Association to Honor Norman Lloyd, Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Harry Belafonte

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association has announced director-screenwriter Hou Hsiao-Hsien and songwriter Harry Belafonte as recipients of this year’s career achievement awards, and Norman Lloyd as the recipient of its legacy award.

“In light of the challenges that 2020 has presented, we are particularly thrilled to be expressing our profound admiration this year for our esteemed honorees,” said LAFCA president Claudia Puig. “In addition to our two brilliant career achievement winners, it’s an honor to create an award worthy of an inspirational figure in time for his 106th birthday.”

A leading figure in Taiwanese cinema, Hsiao-Hsien has received several international prizes, including the Golden Lion at 1989’s Venice International Film Festival for “A City of Sadness,” and selected best director for “The Assassin” at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015. He has written and directed a slew of films, including “A Time to Live and a Time to Die,”

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Mindy Kaling to star in film adaptation of Jennifer Weiner’s Good in Bed for HBO Max

HBO Max is getting into Bed with Mindy Kaling.



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The Never Have I Ever co-creator will produce and star in a film adaptation of Jennifer Weiner’s acclaimed debut novel, Good in Bed. Liz Sarnoff (Lost, HBO’s Barry) will pen the script for the film, which HBO Max will release.

The semi-autobiographical Good in Bed follows a plus-size, up-and-coming journalist in Philadelphia grappling with shaky self-esteem, a newly out-of-the-closet mother, an absent father, and a broken heart after a breakup. Over an eventful year, she befriends a movie star, weathers public humiliation, finds true love, and learns to accept herself and her life in all its imperfection.



Mindy Kaling smiling for the camera: Mindy Kaling will produce and star in a film adaptation of Jennifer Weiner's acclaimed debut novel, 'Good in Bed,' for HBO Max.

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Mindy Kaling will produce and star in a film adaptation of Jennifer Weiner’s acclaimed debut novel, ‘Good in Bed,’ for HBO Max.

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Film Capacitor Market Will See High Demand for Polyester Film Capacitors During 2020-2024

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Technavio has announced its latest market research report titled Global Film Capacitor Market 2020-2024 (Graphic: Business Wire)

This report provides a detailed analysis of the film capacitor market by type (polyester film capacitors, polypropylene film capacitors, PTFE film capacitors, and others), application (AC applications and DC applications), and geography (APAC, Europe, North America, South America, and MEA). Also, the report analyzes the market’s competitive landscape and offers information on several market vendors, including Cornell Dubilier Electronics Inc., Hitachi High-Technologies Corp., KEMET Corp., NICHICON Corp., Panasonic Corp., Suntan Technology Co. Ltd., TDK Corp., Vishay Intertechnology Inc., WIMA GmbH & Co. KG, and XIAMEN FARATRONIC Co. Ltd. Increasing requirements for medical-grade capacitors is a key trend in the global film capacitor market which will lead to significant market growth. Film capacitors are widely used in the development

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Peyton Manning delivers takedown of Tom Brady game film

Tom Brady and Peyton Manning had one of the greatest on-field rivalries in the history of sports.

Manning’s not letting it die just because he’s retired.

Manning, a showman, is probably still on your TV on Sundays as much as Brady is, if not more. And he’s keeping the fires burning with Brady five seasons after his last football game.

Manning needles Brady on Gronk throw, 4th down

Brady is having a remarkable age 43 campaign in his first season with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. But Manning wants to make sure we’re not getting too carried away with praise and did a segment on his ESPN+ show “Detail” he titled “Do you think Tom was throwing to Gronk?”

In it, he questioned whether Brady actually intended to make a great throw in a Week 6 win over the Green Bay Packers or whether in fact he just got bailed out

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‘Borat’ babysitter didn’t know the film was satire but didn’t feel ‘betrayed’

Borat had us all fooled, even some of his castmates.



a person standing in front of a building: Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat Sagdiyev in the new "Borat" sequel. (Amazon Studios)

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Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat Sagdiyev in the new “Borat” sequel. (Amazon Studios)

A couple of the fictional Kazakh journalist’s victims have stepped forward over the last few days. Perhaps none felt more hoodwinked than Jeanise Jones, the 62-year-old grandmother who played the unwitting “babysitter” in Sacha Baron Cohen’s new movie, “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.”

“Yes it was me in the Borat movie,” Jones wrote on Facebook. “I was recruited to be in a ‘Documentary’. At ABSOLUTELY NO time did I know this was a satirical comedy movie and that I was being ‘setup’ so to speak.”

The New York Post reported Monday that Jones said in an interview that she felt “betrayed” by the film, but Jones disputes that.

“’Betrayed’ never came out of my mouth. I don’t know where they got that from,” Jones told Variety

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