The LUX prize will be seriously revamped in order to become a truly pan-European cinema award, the EP press service reported. From now on it will be called “LUX - the European Audience Film Award”, and will be jointly awarded by the European Parliament together with the European Film Academy. In the new format five nominees will be competing for the award each year.

The 46th Deauville American Film Festival opened on Friday, with jury president Vanessa Paradis among the stars on the red carpet. But amid the Covid-19 pandemic, and with many American filmmakers and actors unable to attend, this year's is perhaps the most unique edition of the festival in its long history, FRANCE 24 reported.

The Venice Film Festival, to be held from 2 to 12 September, issued virus safety guidelines on, as organisers hope the oldest such event in the world can maintain its international swing while remaining infection-free. The 10-day festival in the legendary Venice Lido is likely to be one of the festival's most atypical, given the masks and social distancing necessitated by the lingering threat of coronavirus, the AFP reported.

The American frontier drama “The World to Come,” the Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren comedy-drama “The Duke,” Gia Coppola’s “Mainstream,” and the Shia LaBeouf and Vanessa Kirby drama “Pieces of a Woman” are among the films set to premiere at the 77th edition of Venice International Film Festival, organizers said on Tuesday.

While the cinema drive-in may have gotten a boost as lockdowns gradually come to an end amid the COVID-19 outbreak, in Paris film fans can now munch on their popcorn watching a movie from a boat on the river Seine.

This month, Goethe-Institut in Sofia provides its backyard to cinema lovers. This new initiative, called Backyard Cinema - HOFKINO, aims to present some of the most interesting contemporary German film productions, covering various plots and genres of the contemporary German fiction and documentaries.

California will allow film, television and music production to resume from 12 June if conditions permit after months of lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, the governor's office said Friday.

From an empty movie theater in Paris, organizers of the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday announced the films that would have played at there in May had it not been canceled by the pandemic.

The Venice Film Festival will go ahead as scheduled at the beginning of September, Luca Zaia, the governor of Veneto region around the Italian city confirmed on Sunday as the spread of the new coronavirus in the country slows.

With cinemas closed in large parts of the planet, people around the world have resorted to drive-ins and Netflix parties for watching TV shows at the same time as friends in efforts to keep the shared screen lit up despite social distancing.