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Deadline reports that 'Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band,' which will premiere tonight at the Toronto Film Festival, has been acquired by Magnolia Features.

Variety reports that the Mill Valley Film Festival will honor actor Robert Pattinson in October. He's being honored for his performance in upcoming drama 'The Lighthouse.' 

Seattle-based synth pop project Watch Clark is releasing 'Couch', the third full-length album. Featuring 12 tracks written from September 2017 to July 2019, the first of these to be previewed is the lead track 'Choose'.

David J (Bauhaus, Love and Rockets) presents 'Migena And The Frozen Roses', a new single that features The Brian Jonestown Massacre frontman Anton Newcombe on keys, synth, percussion and programming and spoken word by Italian actress Asia Argento.

Variety reports that Brad Pitt has teased a 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' miniseries in a recently released New York Times profile.

In the midst of its eighth Ibiza season at DC-10, Jamie Jones' world renowned event series Paradise returns to Brooklyn on Saturday, September 21 from 6pm-4:30am to close out the summer for its only New York event of 2019. Featuring one of the event series' biggest takeovers to date with three stages of musical programming, the day-into-night event will see a heavyweight lineup of beloved Paradise regulars and exciting new debuts from house and techno's finest DJs. Handpicked by Jamie Jones, Masters at Work, Lee Foss, Alan Fitzpatrick, Octave One (live), wAFF, Cuartero, Rebūke, and more will play across The Brooklyn Mirage, The Great Hall, and The Kings Hall at Avant Gardner. As Jamie Jones' only New York appearance in 2019, the globe-trotting artist will up the ante with a rare, second 'techno only' set in The Great Hall. A globally in-demand party series that has regular sold out events at Amsterdam Dance Event, Barcelona's Off Week, The BPM Festival, Miami Music Week, and Tomorrowland, Paradise New York is not to be missed.

Variety reports that a drama starring Matt Damon will be released on November 6, 2020. Tom McCarthy directs the currently untitled script. 

Acorn TV features the DVD debut of the limited-edition collection MIDSOMER MURDERS: John Barnaby's Top Ten on September 17, 2019. Specially selected by star Neil Dudgeon, who stars at DCI John Barnaby, these 10 standout episodes from the fabulously macabre detective drama are presented here in a collectible limited edition set with witty and revealing anecdotes about the show's production. The DVD 6-Disc set features the 10 episodes with the bonus commentary, plus 20 Things to Do in Midsomer… Before You Die documentary, and an exclusive set of 4 Midsomer postcards ($99.99, Amazon.com). Called a “glorious streaming service… an essential must-have” (The Hollywood Reporter), Acorn TV is North America's most popular and largest streaming service focused on British and international television.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, actress Lily James is in final talks to join period drama 'Dig,' also starring Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes. 

Today, Hulu released the official first look for upcoming drama series Reprisal from the executive producer of The Handmaid's Tale. The series stars Abigail Spencer, Rodrigo Santoro, Mena Massoud, Rhys Wakefield, Madison Davenport, Gilbert Owuor, David Dastmalchian, W. Earl Brown, Craig Tate, Wavyy Jonez, Shane Callahan, and Rory Cochrane. Reprisal will premiere all episodes Friday, December 6th only on Hulu. 

Variety reports that singer Nicki Minaj will retire from music to focus on her family.

'A Wedding and a Murder' premieres on Monday, September 9 at 9pm ET/PT on Oxygen.

Variety reports that Janice Min has left new streaming service Quibi, which plans to launch in April of 2020. She is one of several executives to leave the company in the past several months. 

Cigarettes After Sex will return with their anticipated sophomore album - Cry - on October 25th via Partisan Records. Recorded during night time sessions in a mansion on the Spanish island of Mallorca, the album is a lush, cinematic meditation on the many complex facets of love - meeting, wanting, needing, losing...sometimes all at once. Listen to album highlight “Heavenly” now.

LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL Music & Arts Festival expands the festival experience with a premier DJ lineup at its Fergusons Downtown stage, featuring renowned West Coast DJ collectives We the Beat, Collective Zoo and Headliner Music Club (HMC). From Friday, Sept. 20 to Sunday, Sept. 22, Fergusons Downtown stage will feature eclectic styles of music, bringing an immersive sonic experience to the Downtown compound from 5 p.m. to midnight.

Audio Network Limited, one of the world's largest independent creators and publishers of original high-quality music for use in film, television, advertising and digital media, continues its focus on technology by partnering with Musiio to explore the power of AI to improve customer service and delivery.

This October, America ReFramed, the public television series from American Documentary, Inc. and WORLD Channel, introduces audiences to three young Americans helping to change misconceptions about people living with intellectual disability and integrate classrooms and workplaces across America with Intelligent Lives by Dan Habib. Narrated and executive produced by Academy Award-winning actor Chris Cooper, the documentary tells the stories of Naomie, Micah and Naieer, each living with an intellectual disability and — with the support of family, friends and colleagues — navigating the workforce, college and high school, respectively. Through the story of his own son Jesse, who defied naysayers and proved that IQ tests should not determine a person's potential, Cooper takes viewers through the history of IQ testing and disability rights in the U.S., and looks toward what we as a society can do to help make our world a more inclusive place for everyone. Intelligent Lives premieres on Tuesday, October 22, at 8 p.m. ET during ET (7 p.m. CT/ 9 p.m. PT) during National Disability Employment Awareness Month.

OneBeat, a cultural exchange initiative of the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs produced by Bang on a Can's Found Sound Nation, is among the world's leading music diplomacy programs.  From September 16 - October 12, 2019, twenty-five innovative and socially engaged musicians from seventeen countries, ranging from Algeria to Cuba to Madagascar to the United States, will participate in an intense month of musical collaboration, public performances, installations, pop-up events and workshops. 

UK distributor Journeyman Features will release this clever film across all VOD/Digital platforms in more than six languages as it crisscrosses the globe from Australia to Zimbabwe beginning on Tuesday, September 17th, 2019. A true anti-romantic comedy, we join the characters where a romantic comedy would typically end with the classic prototypes: charming noncommittal guy and shrewd wary woman who's witty banter (instantly brings to mind a modern day Rosalind Russell & Cary Grant), lead all signs pointing toward the expected outcome. Then everything gets tossed. And gets real. As the men and women of “Toss It” battle for the stakes they set out to get, the story stealthily reveals that the real relationship skirmishes are among the women.

On Friday, September 13th, Little Lamb Recordings will release HARD PASS, the debut comedy album from New York's Katie Compa. Katie is a woman who knows what she wants, or more importantly, what she doesn't want, and is more than happy to let us know exactly why. 'Hard Pass' was recorded in front of a live audience at the legendary Duplex in Greenwich Village. Katie is based in New York City and her particularly brilliant brand of deadpan sarcasm has earned her recognition at San Francisco Sketchfest, the Brooklyn Comedy Festival, and stages throughout the country and around the world.