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]]>The list of artists set to perform at Coachella 2018 in four months was revealed Tuesday. The festival’s official Twitter account broke the news, posting the full lineup of artists.
Headlining the festival are The Weeknd, Beyoncé, and Eminem. After pulling out of last year’s Coachella due to her pregnancy, Queen B will hit the stage on April 14 and 21. The Weeknd and Eminem will take the stage on April 13 and April 20, and April 15 and April 22 respectively.
Many other artists are included in the lineup like HAIM, the Man, Post Malone, Vince Staples and more.
Bey’s is one of the more anticipated performances of the festival with speculations of a possible Destiny’s Child Reunion, however, nothing has been confirmed about her performance except the dates.
No doubt the lineup is getting music lovers excited, check it out below!
— Coachella (@coachella) January 3, 2018
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]]>The festival was first launched in 1995 as an alternative to Sundance. From Jan. 19 to 25, the audience will get the chance to see 18 movies, 10 of which are world premieres, two N. American premieres, and four U.S. premieres.
Below is the list of competition features:
NARRATIVE FEATURES:
Birds Without Feathers
(USA) World Premiere
Director: Wendy McColm
Screenwriter: Wendy McColm
Desperate for human interaction, six emotionally damaged individuals risk self respect, shedding their disillusionment in a last grasp for happiness. A cruel-world comedy populated by struggling Instagram stars, Russian cowboys, Self-help gurus and more, their lives collide and crash in astounding ways.
Cast: Wendy McColm, Lenae Day Cooper Oznowicz, William Gabriel Greer, Sara Estefanos, and Alexander Stasko
Charlie And Hannah’s Grand Night Out
(Belgium) World Premiere
Director: Bert Scholiers
Screenwriter: Bert Scholiers
Two Girls. One Night. Magical Candy Consumed. Twenty-somethings, Charlie and Hannah, find themselves strolling through the city as events take a wildly surreal turn. Transported to a trippy galaxy, filled with cosmic wisdom and contradictions, the pair learn to realize the search for love can take many forms.
Cast: Evelien Bosmans, Daphne Wellens, Patrick Vervueren
Fake Tattoos
(Canada) US Premiere
Director: Pascal Plante
Screenwriter: Pascal Plante
Shy Theo finds himself unexpectedly kicked in the heart by a punk-rock romance on his 18th birthday as Mag bursts into his life for a rollicking encounter. Set against a backdrop of music and mayhem, this coming-of-age tale, explores the thrashing fragility of summer love as life choices and separation loom with no true answers in sight.
Cast: Anthony Therrien, Rose-Marie Perreault
Fish Bones
(USA) World Premiere
Director: Joanne Mony Park
Screenwriter: Joanne Mony Park
Hana, a Korean immigrant on winter break, is caught between worlds. While struggling to find peace with her conservative mother and the expectations surrounding her future, Hana finds herself falling for Nico, a tender and affectionate Latina music producer.
Cast: Joony Kim, Cris Gris
Human Affairs
(USA) World Premiere
Director: Charlie Birns
Screenwriter: Charlie Birns
This richly earnest drama follows Geneviève, a surrogate who must reckon with her ambivalence about the pregnancy and her precarious feelings for the parents-to-be.
Cast: Dominic Fumusa, Kerry Condon, David Harbour, Julie Sokolowski
Lovers
(Denmark) US Premiere
Director: Niels Holstein Kaa
Screenwriter: Magnus B. B. Lysbakken
In the streets, parks and cafes of Copenhagen, a triptych of love stories come to vivid life. Framed with a superb naturalism, these tales through the seasons tackle the ever rising tide of loneliness and self-doubt that can come in the face of new love.
Cast: Marie Mailand, Niklas Herskind, Nina Terese Rask
M/M
(Canada, Germany) World Premiere
Director: Drew Lint
Screenwriter: Drew Lint
Wayward Canadian, Matthew, crushed by the isolation of being new to Berlin, turns his sexual desires toward Matthias that spiral into a dark fixation of assumed identity. Soon, this obsessive power struggle between the two, careens toward brutal passion and violence in a bid for dominance.
Cast: Antoine Lahaie, Nicolas Maxim Endlicher
Rock Steady Row
(USA) World Premiere
Director: Trevor Stevens
Screenwriter: Bomani Story
Demented chaos rules this bizarro-world college campus where the reigning gang-frats target a freshman, who dare crosses their path. Trapped between a blaze of twisted ‘Mad Max’ style power games, he shrewdly plays both sides, fueling apocalyptic-sized battles that escalate to ensnare the school Dean who’s coming unglued.
Cast: Heston Horwin, Diamond White, Logan Huffman, Isaac Alisma, Allie Marie Evans, Larry Miller, Peter Gilroy
Songs in the Sun
(Denmark) US Premiere
Director: Kristian Sejrbo Lidegaard
Screenwriter: Allan Hyde, Kristian Sejrbo Lidegaard
Off the coast of Denmark, young Anna discovers she is the only lifeline to ailing childhood friend Julie and Sonja, Julie’s apathetic mother. Over the course of one momentous afternoon, Anna will learn the healing power of belief and myth-making in everyday living
Cast: Emma Sehested Høeg, Charlotte Munck, Victoria Carmen Sonne
The Starry Sky Above Me
(France) US Premiere
Director: Ilan Klipper
Screenwriter: Ilan Klipper, Raphaël Neal
Bruno is happy to live out his days luxuriating in the existential highs and lows only a brilliant literary mind can appreciate. But when his loved ones seek to intervene with the help of a psychiatrist, Bruno’s bohemian lifestyle may in fact be the perfect anecdote to the colorless, PC lives they didn’t know they hated.
Cast: Laurent Poitrenaux, Camille Chamoux, Marilyne Canto, Alma Jodorowsky, François Chattot, Michèle Moretti, Frank Williams
DOCUMENTARY FEATURES:
Circus Ecuador
(Ecuador, USA) World Premiere
Directors: Ashley Bishop and Jim Brassard
James and Ashley travel to the jungles of Ecuador to make a documentary about a school being built for an indigenous community only to discover that the community may or may not be involved in aliens, gold smuggling, human trafficking, and murder.
Freedom for the Wolf
(Germany, USA)
Director: Rupert Russell
From Hong Kong to Tunisia to Bollywood, people are fighting against elected leaders dismantling freedom and democracy. These seemingly disparate international stories are cohesively tied into what is happening in the US to reach some very compelling conclusions.
Ingrid
(USA) World Premiere
Director: Morrisa Maltz
An intimate look at a woman who left her life as a successful fashion designer and mother in Texas to become a reclusive hermit, immersed in nature, focused solely on creating art.
Instant Dreams
(Netherlands) North American Premiere
Director: Willem Baptist
An essayistic quest for the secret of instant film, the magic appeal of Polaroid and what that tells us about the fascinating relationship we have with the photographic image.
Man on Fire
(USA) World Premiere
Director: Joel Fendelman
Grand Saline, Texas was a sleepy, unremarkable town–until a white preacher lit himself on fire to protest the town’s racism in 2014.
MexMan
(USA) World Premiere
Director: Josh Polon
Germán is a young artist and filmmaker struggling to complete his first feature film and express his undying love to a girl, while secretly living at an airport and trying to stay sane.
Mr. Fish: Cartooning From The Deep End
(USA)
Director: Pablo Bryant
This personal documentary follows a controversial political cartoonist as he struggles to provide for his family and stay true to his creativity in a world where biting satiric humor has an ever-diminishing commercial value.
Sunnyside
(Belgium, Netherlands) North American Premiere
Director: Frederik Carbon
On a seaside mountain in Northern California two old friends (one a visionary architect and the other an influential sound artist) dream, talk, live, and create.
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]]>Earlier this week it was confirmed that Swift will perform at the Capital FM Jingle Bell Ball which happens on December 9-10. Swift will headline the event on December 10. Some other performers in the festival’s lineup are Rita Ora, Dua Lipa, Craig David, The Script, and more.
Swift is about to release her sixth studio album Reputation on November 10. On Tuesday she released the official track list of Reputation on Instagram. Her announcement came immediately after similar images of the album have leaked on the internet.
The Grammy winner didn’t mention the leak but caption the post as, “3 days until #reputation.”
There are 15 songs in her album, including a song called End Game in which she collaborated with close friend Ed Sheeran and rapper Future. Other song titles are “I Did Something Bad,” “Don’t Blame Me,” “Delicate,” “So It Goes…,” “Getaway Car,” “King of My Heart,” “Dancing With Our Hands Tied,” “Dress,” “This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things” and “New Year’s Day.”
The sixth studio album was executive produced by Swift herself and producers include Jack Antonoff, Max Martin and Shellback, all of whom contributed to her previous album, 1989.
According to AP, pre-orders for Reputation exceeded 400,000 units, doubling the pre-order numbers for 1989 a week before its release, while it became Target’s most pre-ordered album of all time.
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]]>The list of artists set to perform at Coachella 2018 in four months was revealed Tuesday. The festival’s official Twitter account broke the news, posting the full lineup of artists.
Headlining the festival are The Weeknd, Beyoncé, and Eminem. After pulling out of last year’s Coachella due to her pregnancy, Queen B will hit the stage on April 14 and 21. The Weeknd and Eminem will take the stage on April 13 and April 20, and April 15 and April 22 respectively.
Many other artists are included in the lineup like HAIM, the Man, Post Malone, Vince Staples and more.
Bey’s is one of the more anticipated performances of the festival with speculations of a possible Destiny’s Child Reunion, however, nothing has been confirmed about her performance except the dates.
No doubt the lineup is getting music lovers excited, check it out below!
— Coachella (@coachella) January 3, 2018
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]]>The post Slamdance Film Festival Unveils Competition Lineup appeared first on OMG Check It Out !.
]]>The festival was first launched in 1995 as an alternative to Sundance. From Jan. 19 to 25, the audience will get the chance to see 18 movies, 10 of which are world premieres, two N. American premieres, and four U.S. premieres.
Below is the list of competition features:
NARRATIVE FEATURES:
Birds Without Feathers
(USA) World Premiere
Director: Wendy McColm
Screenwriter: Wendy McColm
Desperate for human interaction, six emotionally damaged individuals risk self respect, shedding their disillusionment in a last grasp for happiness. A cruel-world comedy populated by struggling Instagram stars, Russian cowboys, Self-help gurus and more, their lives collide and crash in astounding ways.
Cast: Wendy McColm, Lenae Day Cooper Oznowicz, William Gabriel Greer, Sara Estefanos, and Alexander Stasko
Charlie And Hannah’s Grand Night Out
(Belgium) World Premiere
Director: Bert Scholiers
Screenwriter: Bert Scholiers
Two Girls. One Night. Magical Candy Consumed. Twenty-somethings, Charlie and Hannah, find themselves strolling through the city as events take a wildly surreal turn. Transported to a trippy galaxy, filled with cosmic wisdom and contradictions, the pair learn to realize the search for love can take many forms.
Cast: Evelien Bosmans, Daphne Wellens, Patrick Vervueren
Fake Tattoos
(Canada) US Premiere
Director: Pascal Plante
Screenwriter: Pascal Plante
Shy Theo finds himself unexpectedly kicked in the heart by a punk-rock romance on his 18th birthday as Mag bursts into his life for a rollicking encounter. Set against a backdrop of music and mayhem, this coming-of-age tale, explores the thrashing fragility of summer love as life choices and separation loom with no true answers in sight.
Cast: Anthony Therrien, Rose-Marie Perreault
Fish Bones
(USA) World Premiere
Director: Joanne Mony Park
Screenwriter: Joanne Mony Park
Hana, a Korean immigrant on winter break, is caught between worlds. While struggling to find peace with her conservative mother and the expectations surrounding her future, Hana finds herself falling for Nico, a tender and affectionate Latina music producer.
Cast: Joony Kim, Cris Gris
Human Affairs
(USA) World Premiere
Director: Charlie Birns
Screenwriter: Charlie Birns
This richly earnest drama follows Geneviève, a surrogate who must reckon with her ambivalence about the pregnancy and her precarious feelings for the parents-to-be.
Cast: Dominic Fumusa, Kerry Condon, David Harbour, Julie Sokolowski
Lovers
(Denmark) US Premiere
Director: Niels Holstein Kaa
Screenwriter: Magnus B. B. Lysbakken
In the streets, parks and cafes of Copenhagen, a triptych of love stories come to vivid life. Framed with a superb naturalism, these tales through the seasons tackle the ever rising tide of loneliness and self-doubt that can come in the face of new love.
Cast: Marie Mailand, Niklas Herskind, Nina Terese Rask
M/M
(Canada, Germany) World Premiere
Director: Drew Lint
Screenwriter: Drew Lint
Wayward Canadian, Matthew, crushed by the isolation of being new to Berlin, turns his sexual desires toward Matthias that spiral into a dark fixation of assumed identity. Soon, this obsessive power struggle between the two, careens toward brutal passion and violence in a bid for dominance.
Cast: Antoine Lahaie, Nicolas Maxim Endlicher
Rock Steady Row
(USA) World Premiere
Director: Trevor Stevens
Screenwriter: Bomani Story
Demented chaos rules this bizarro-world college campus where the reigning gang-frats target a freshman, who dare crosses their path. Trapped between a blaze of twisted ‘Mad Max’ style power games, he shrewdly plays both sides, fueling apocalyptic-sized battles that escalate to ensnare the school Dean who’s coming unglued.
Cast: Heston Horwin, Diamond White, Logan Huffman, Isaac Alisma, Allie Marie Evans, Larry Miller, Peter Gilroy
Songs in the Sun
(Denmark) US Premiere
Director: Kristian Sejrbo Lidegaard
Screenwriter: Allan Hyde, Kristian Sejrbo Lidegaard
Off the coast of Denmark, young Anna discovers she is the only lifeline to ailing childhood friend Julie and Sonja, Julie’s apathetic mother. Over the course of one momentous afternoon, Anna will learn the healing power of belief and myth-making in everyday living
Cast: Emma Sehested Høeg, Charlotte Munck, Victoria Carmen Sonne
The Starry Sky Above Me
(France) US Premiere
Director: Ilan Klipper
Screenwriter: Ilan Klipper, Raphaël Neal
Bruno is happy to live out his days luxuriating in the existential highs and lows only a brilliant literary mind can appreciate. But when his loved ones seek to intervene with the help of a psychiatrist, Bruno’s bohemian lifestyle may in fact be the perfect anecdote to the colorless, PC lives they didn’t know they hated.
Cast: Laurent Poitrenaux, Camille Chamoux, Marilyne Canto, Alma Jodorowsky, François Chattot, Michèle Moretti, Frank Williams
DOCUMENTARY FEATURES:
Circus Ecuador
(Ecuador, USA) World Premiere
Directors: Ashley Bishop and Jim Brassard
James and Ashley travel to the jungles of Ecuador to make a documentary about a school being built for an indigenous community only to discover that the community may or may not be involved in aliens, gold smuggling, human trafficking, and murder.
Freedom for the Wolf
(Germany, USA)
Director: Rupert Russell
From Hong Kong to Tunisia to Bollywood, people are fighting against elected leaders dismantling freedom and democracy. These seemingly disparate international stories are cohesively tied into what is happening in the US to reach some very compelling conclusions.
Ingrid
(USA) World Premiere
Director: Morrisa Maltz
An intimate look at a woman who left her life as a successful fashion designer and mother in Texas to become a reclusive hermit, immersed in nature, focused solely on creating art.
Instant Dreams
(Netherlands) North American Premiere
Director: Willem Baptist
An essayistic quest for the secret of instant film, the magic appeal of Polaroid and what that tells us about the fascinating relationship we have with the photographic image.
Man on Fire
(USA) World Premiere
Director: Joel Fendelman
Grand Saline, Texas was a sleepy, unremarkable town–until a white preacher lit himself on fire to protest the town’s racism in 2014.
MexMan
(USA) World Premiere
Director: Josh Polon
Germán is a young artist and filmmaker struggling to complete his first feature film and express his undying love to a girl, while secretly living at an airport and trying to stay sane.
Mr. Fish: Cartooning From The Deep End
(USA)
Director: Pablo Bryant
This personal documentary follows a controversial political cartoonist as he struggles to provide for his family and stay true to his creativity in a world where biting satiric humor has an ever-diminishing commercial value.
Sunnyside
(Belgium, Netherlands) North American Premiere
Director: Frederik Carbon
On a seaside mountain in Northern California two old friends (one a visionary architect and the other an influential sound artist) dream, talk, live, and create.
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]]>The post Taylor Swift Announces UK Comeback Gig and Releases The Official Track List of “Reputation” appeared first on OMG Check It Out !.
]]>Earlier this week it was confirmed that Swift will perform at the Capital FM Jingle Bell Ball which happens on December 9-10. Swift will headline the event on December 10. Some other performers in the festival’s lineup are Rita Ora, Dua Lipa, Craig David, The Script, and more.
Swift is about to release her sixth studio album Reputation on November 10. On Tuesday she released the official track list of Reputation on Instagram. Her announcement came immediately after similar images of the album have leaked on the internet.
The Grammy winner didn’t mention the leak but caption the post as, “3 days until #reputation.”
There are 15 songs in her album, including a song called End Game in which she collaborated with close friend Ed Sheeran and rapper Future. Other song titles are “I Did Something Bad,” “Don’t Blame Me,” “Delicate,” “So It Goes…,” “Getaway Car,” “King of My Heart,” “Dancing With Our Hands Tied,” “Dress,” “This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things” and “New Year’s Day.”
The sixth studio album was executive produced by Swift herself and producers include Jack Antonoff, Max Martin and Shellback, all of whom contributed to her previous album, 1989.
According to AP, pre-orders for Reputation exceeded 400,000 units, doubling the pre-order numbers for 1989 a week before its release, while it became Target’s most pre-ordered album of all time.
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