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Call it coronavirus couture. Tilda Swinton is taking the humble face mask to high-fashion heights at the 2020 Venice Film Festival, where nose and mouth coverings are required as part of the event’s pandemic-era precautions — as are temperature checks and social distancing. At the festival’s opening ceremony on Wednesday, the 59-year-old Oscar winner hit …

Cate Blanchett is breaking fashion’s cardinal rule at the 2020 Venice Film Festival this week. The actor, who is the festival’s jury president, is re-wearing old gowns, and for good reason. On Wednesday, she hit the red carpet for the event’s opening ceremony in Venice, Italy, in an Esteban Cortazar “Stingray” midnight blue shimmer jersey …

Fans of novelist Roxane Gay’s Twitter feed have most likely heard her discuss her “nemesis,” occasionally in the plural. On Wednesday, Gay named Tyler Perry as one of them. “One of my nemeses is a billionaire now,” Gay, 45, tweeted early Wednesday morning. By the afternoon, she decided to name names, replying to her own …

At no point during Casablanca does any character say, “Play it again, Sam.” Oh, you knew that already? Well then. Here are 10 other facts about Casablanca, which premiered in New York City on November 26, 1942. A roundup of the less usual suspects, you might say. 1. THE ORIGINAL AUTHORS SIGNED AWAY THEIR RIGHTS. …

He’s not a fan. Earlier this week, Bella Thorne bragged to the LA Times that she was working with “The Florida Project” director Sean Baker on a movie about her experience of joining the Web site OnlyFans. But Baker said on Friday that it wasn’t true. “I would like to make it clear that the …

“The X-Files” is getting its own animated comedy spin-off. Fox is developing “The X-Files: Albuquerque” from Rocky Russo and Jeremy Sosenko, writers of Comedy Central’s “Brickleberry.” The new iteration is an animated series about an office full of misfit agents who investigate the X-Files cases too wacky, ridiculous or downright dopey for Mulder & Scully …

Netflix has issued an apology for releasing a poster for an upcoming movie that online petitioners said sexualizes children. The streaming giant plans to release “Cuties,” a French film about a young girl who joins a dance troupe, on Sept. 9. The premise of the film, which features the young cast members dancing seductively, has …

More than 30,000 people have signed a petition asking Netflix to remove “Cuties,” a movie they claim sexualizes children. The film, which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, premieres on the streaming service Sept. 9. The trailer was released earlier this week on YouTube. It has a TV-MA rating from Netflix. “Eleven-year-old Amy starts …

EXCLUSIVE: After earning some of the best reviews of his acting career for “The Way Back,” Ben Affleck is ready to make his return behind the camera, and he looks to have zeroed in on his next directing job. We are hearing that Affleck has signed on to direct “The Big Goodbye” for Paramount, an adaptation …

After it was forced to scrub this year’s edition due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Tribeca Film Festival has announced it will return in 2021. Next year’s festival will run from June 9 to 20 in New York City. “We look forward to celebrating the 20th anniversary and to honoring what our founders Jane Rosenthal …