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On The Scene: MGK, Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas, Jessica Chastain, and More Attend Premieres at Tribeca Festival

by Sydney Hargrove
written by Sydney Hargrove

New York City’s iconic Tribeca Festival continued yesterday, with more films unveiling for excited audiences and star studded red carpets. We kicked off the day in Tribeca with the red carpet for Penélope Cruz’s newest film, Official Competition.

Starring Cruz and Antonio Banderas, the film follows José Luis Gomez as an incredibly rich business man, as he’s reached a point of stagnancy as he celebrates his 80th birthday. He comes up with a plan to create his greatest achievement; an award winning art film. Without so much as reading the book he’s purchased the rights too, he brings Cruz’s character Lola on board as an unbalanced and precocious director who has a very particular vision for the film. The two main stars of the film, Felix and Ivan, played by Antonio Bandares and Oscar Martínez, could not possibly be more different, and combined with Lola as a director, Luis is in for a crazy ride.

The highly anticipated film was celebrated yesterday with Cruz, Bandares, the cast and producers walking the red carpet before attending a screening and panel.

 

Later in the day, we were greeted by the incredible Jessica Chastain as she took to the same red capret to unveil her newest film, The Forgiven.

Written and directed by John Michael McDonagh, the film stars Chastain and Ralph Finnes as a lavish married couple on vacation in the Sahara desert. What starts off as a trip as picturesque as their lifestyle quickly takes a turn for the worse as they accidentally kill a young boy. However, they seem to view the incident as a minor inconvenience as opposed to a life altering tragedy. The film itself seems to stand as a conversation on humanities differences and discrepancies, in addition to how money and status can change a person. Chastain does an incredible job of conveying in her performance.

Not only was her performance in The Forgiven showstopping, her red carpet look was as well. Chastain wore a Louis Vuitton menswear inspired black gown, competed with a white tie. The look was a bold contrast from her custom Gucci pink gown that she wore while presenting at the 75th annual Tony Awards on Sunday.

Colson Baker attended the North American premiere afterparty for Taurus. He starred in and executive-produced the film and contributed an original song to the soundtrack as Machine Gun Kelly.  Additional cast, including Maddie Hasson and Demetrius ‘Lil Meech’ Flenory, Jr. (Euphoria, BMF), as well as Brooklyn-based writer and director Tim Sutton were in attendance. The afterparty was presented by Rivulet Media and Built By Gamers.


Learn more about Tribeca Festival here! 

 

Additional celeb sightings from LA:

 

Kaitlynn Carter (The Hills), Jessica Belkin (Pretty Little Liars), Angela Rummans and Tyler Crispen (Big Brother), Hannah Chaddha (Big Brother) Kyra Lizama and Will Moncada (Love Island) and Damian Powers (Love Is Blind) and many more, along with a bevy of influencers such as Loreen Hwang, Samantha Gutstadt, Kendra Reads and Michelle Wozniak, Jesse Montana and more, celebrated CBS’ “GHOSTS” ongoing immersive “Summer of Ghosts” by paying tribute to the shows character Hetty with the launch of “Hetty-quette: A Book of Etiquette” at The Ripped Bodice, on June 16th, ahead of the sitcom’s second season this Fall. 
In celebration of the show’s society woman from the 1800s, Hetty, CBS invited fans to the launch of “Hetty-quette: A Book of Etiquette” at The Ripped Bodice, on June 16th, in Culver City, CA.  Kicking off their in store experience, Gilded Age – dressed brand ambassadors drew guests to the “Hetty-quette” book display to briefly explain her wisdoms and were presented with their own copy of her fine literature. As fans took in the experience, they were transported to an era long gone by the musical sounds of classical harpists, a calligraphy artist to personalize their “Hetty-quette” book and received free book vouchers to shop 10 curated novel selections for each of the shows characters.  After checking out with branded GHOSTS freebies, guests commemorated their “Hetty-quette” experience with a staged Gilded Age themed photo booth opportunity worthy of all social media shares.  
Photo credit:Startraksphoto.com / Michael SimonOn social credit @Startraksphoto 
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ON THE SCENE: ART BASEL MIAMI 2021

by Sebastian Cintron
written by Sebastian Cintron

“Art Basel is the leading global platform connecting collectors, galleries, and artists,” according to the official website’s about section.  “Art Basel’s Initiatives strive to create unique artist-led experiences and strengthen local art scenes.”

If you ask around though anyone will tell you it pretty much feels like it’s LA and New York crowds coming together with the tropical backdrop that is Miami. A chance to mix and mingle, attend fabulous parties, discover emerging artists, and do so all in the name of art.

Of course, The Knockturnal was on the scene in paradise city where we got to stop by the Zadig & Voltaire + Cultured event. Taking place at Zadig & Voltaire’s Miami Design District location, the celebration honored the brand’s philanthropic partnership with the L.A. Dance Project. Andrew Warren, RHOSLC’s Brooks Marks, and Gaia Matisse (great-great granddaughter of late artist Henri Matisse) hosted the event.

Special guests in attendance included Montana Tucker, Devon Windsor, Austin Mahone, Blake Gray and Michelle Salas among several others. Sips were had courtesy of ultra-luxe tequila brand Cincoro Tequila and their Miami inspired cocktail menu.

Devon Windsor attends the Zadig & Voltaire Art Basel event in Miami Beach, Florida

While, it’s no surprise fashion has infiltrated the Art Basel scene, the film landscape has also made it’s way into the event/ basel party circuit with an exclusive pop-up put together by Universal Pictures and Stella Artois. The private rooftop party took place at the notorious Soho Beach Club Miami to celebrate the release of the upcoming film The 355. 

DJ Amrit hands down understood the assignment and gave the crowd some latin music mixes to bop to. It’s Miami after all!  Specialty cocktails were flowing (obvi) and the most delicious appetizers were passed around. Cannot confirm or deny but suspicion that night was they were from Cecconi’s downstairs. Do I need to say more? You already know the hors d’oeuvre‘s were automatically a hit. My personal favorite were the truffle honey whipped ricotta crostinis. *Insert gasping emoji.* That’s how good they were.

In attendance model Charlotte McKinney, influencer Charly Jordan, and dancer Montana Tucker amongst more lovely guests. No sightings of Jessica Chastain, Penelope Cruz, or any of the stars of the film, but that’s okay because we can watch them on the big screen once the film hits theaters January 7th.

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On The Scene: Penélope Cruz, Milena Smit and Cast talk ‘Parallel Mothers’ At NYFF closing night [Video]

by Sydney Hargrove
written by Sydney Hargrove

After an exciting, beautiful, art filled two weeks, Film at Lincoln Center concluded its 59th annual New York Film Festival (NYFF) on Friday night. Their final event was a showing of Pedro Almodóvar’s new film, “Parallel Mothers.”

Starring Penélope Cruz, the film tells the story of Cruz’s character Janis, a middle aged photographer, and the adolescent Ana, a young woman desperately trying to work through the many traumas of her life. The two women meet for the first time in a hospital room, both about to give birth to what will be their first children. Two women, from such different worlds, each suffering from their own rough patches in their lives, with wildly different feelings on the world they are about to embark on.

Meeting again at different points in their lives, the twists and turns in Janis and Ana’s stories are far from over. With so many small paradoxes leading up to one massive twist, this film is truly visionary and will have any viewer on the very edge of their seat the whole time, you never truly know what’s coming next. I couldn’t imagine a better film to end the festival on this year. We talked to the cast and the director of this brilliant film on the last night of NYFF’s pink carpet! Check out the full conversation above!

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Check Out ‘The Brothers Grimsby’ Trailer

by Catherina Gioino
written by Catherina Gioino

What’s the best way to test out a mattress? I mean, you’re going to hopefully spend a third of your life on it and you’re gonna need it for rest and whatnot.

Well obviously you test it out at the mattress store in only the best way possible—by doing what you would do at home on it there in the store.

That’s what Sacha Baron Cohen and Rebel Wilson do in the trailer for The Brothers Grimsby, a new comedy film that was written by Cohen as well as Phil Johnson and Peter Baynham. Directed by Louis Leterrier, it stars Cohen, Wilson, Mark Strong, Isla Fisher, Annabelle Wallis, Penelope Cruz and Ian McShane. It is a comedy spy action film.

Strong plays Agent Sebastian Grimsby, the brother of Norman “Nobby” Grimsby (Cohen), who is the world’s greatest spy, and the two must team up together in an hilarious tale to save the world from extinction.

The film will be released on March 4, 2016 by Columbia Pictures (after moving from Paramount Pictures). You can watch the hilarious trailer below full of gun shots, explosions, men in black, cool virtual reality glasses, and of course, some good old love making in the mattress store while the employee watches.

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