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Tribeca 2020 Lineup Includes Chrissy Teigen, Sean Penn and DMX Films
A film from Chrissy Teigen and Malcolm Gladwell and documentaries about Sean Penn and rapper DMX are set to make their world premiere at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival, which announced its lineup of premieres and in-competition titles on Tuesday.The 19th edition of the festival runs from April 15-26 in New York, and features 115 films, including 95 world premieres, from 33 countries selected.“Fries!” from producers Teigen and Gladwell will make its premiere at the festival, as will “Citizen Penn
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Spinal Tap reunite for comeback gig at Tribeca Film Festival
The flower people broke like the wind on Saturday night in New York, as rock legends Spinal Tap reunited for a comeback performance for the Tribeca Film Festival.
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Sarah Jessica Parker on What Women of Different Ages Think of the Word ‘Ambition’
At a Tribeca Film Festival screening, Sarah Jessica Parker told the Cut that there’s “almost a generational thing at this point” between women who actively describe themselves as ambitious and those who don’t.
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Robert De Niro Still Backs Vaccine Doc Axed From Tribeca Film Festival
De Niro also said that his wife Grace Hightower noticed a change in their son Elliot, who has autism, after being vaccinated. The Tribeca festival, which De Niro co-founded, pulled screenings of 'Vaxxed: From Cover Up to Catastrophe’, made by the discredited former gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield, following a backlash and threats of boycotts. “I as a parent of a child who has autism, I’m concerned.
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Robert De Niro Defends Tribeca Festival Screening Of Anti-Vaccination Documentary
UPDATE: in an about-face, De Niro has now pulled ‘Vaxxed’ from the Tribeca Film Festival - details here. ‘Vaxxed: From Cover-Up To Catastrophe,’ an anti-vaccination documentary directed by a discredited doctor, is set to screen at New York’s prestigious Tribeca Film Festival - much to the chagrin of some critics. “In the 15 years since the Tribeca Film Festival was founded, I have never asked for a film to be screened or gotten involved in the programming.
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Taxi Driver 40th Anniversary Reunion Plans Announced
Having originally opened in February 1976, ‘Taxi Driver’ remains one of the most acclaimed and controversial films that De Niro and director Martin Scorcese have ever made. In honour of its 40th anniversary, New York’s Tribeca Film Festival (of which De Niro himself is one of the founders) will host a screening of the classic, followed by a talk with the principal cast and crew. After the screening on 21 April, Scorcese, De Niro, writer Paul Schrader and co-stars Jodie Foster and Cybill Sheppa
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How Pregnancy and a Cancer Battle Helped Shape Olivia Wilde's New Drama
Shortly after joining the cast of Meadowland, which premiered on Friday night at the Tribeca Film Festival, Olivia Wilde received two major pieces of news: She was pregnant, and writer-director Reed Morano had cancer. It was mid-2013 when Wilde signed up for the drama, in which she plays a mother grieving over the disappearance of her young son. The pregnancy news came first, and instead of looking for another actress, as often happens in a business that requires a filmmaker to strike when the
