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    LA Film Fest’s Closing Night Film: Matt Spicer’s “Ingrid Goes West”

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    A scene from "Ingrid Goes West"
    LOS ANGELES --

    The LA Film Festival, produced by Film Independent, the nonprofit arts organization that also produces the Film Independent Spirit Awards, announced that the closing night (June 22) film will be Matt Spicer’s Ingrid Goes West starring Aubrey Plaza, Elizabeth Olsen, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Wyatt Russell, Billy Magnussen and Pom Klementieff from distributor NEON. 

    Additionally, there will be a June 17th world premiere gala screening of Ric Roman Waugh’s Shot Caller starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Omari Hardwick, Lake Bell, Jon Bernthal, Emory Cohen, Jeffrey Donovan and Benjamin Bratt. Shot Caller is being distributed by Saban Films. Also just announced are the films in the Premiere and Buzz categories, as well as the Film Independent Member Screening of Jeff Baena’s The Little Hours starring Alison Brie, Dave Franco, Kate Micucci, Aubrey Plaza, John C. Reilly and Molly Shannon, from distributor Gunpowder & Sky. USA Network will also screen the West Coast premiere of series The Sinner starring Jessica Biel, Bill Pullman and Christopher Abbott at the LA Film Festival.
     
    The LA Film Festival takes place June 14-22, 2017 headquartered at ArcLight Cinemas Culver City, with additional screenings at ArcLight Hollywood, ArcLight Santa Monica and more. Festival passes are on sale here. 
     
    Closing Night Film
    Thursday, June 22, ArcLight Culver City
    Ingrid Goes West, dir. Matt Spicer, USA, Los Angeles Premiere
    Ingrid Thorburn is an unhinged social media stalker who moves to LA to befriend her latest obsession, the boho chic social media influencer, Taylor Sloane. 
    NEON will release Ingrid Goes West on August 11. 
     
    Gala Screening of Shot Caller
    Saturday, June 17, ArcLight Culver City
    Shot Caller, dir. Ric Roman Waugh, USA, World Premiere
    A newly released prison gangster is forced by the leaders of his gang to orchestrate a major crime on the streets of Southern California.
     
    Buzz (8)
    Non-competitive showcase of curated favorites from other film festivals.
    The Big Sick, dir. Michael Showalter, USA, LA Premiere
    Bill Nye: Science Guy, dir. David Alvarado, Jason Sussberg, USA, LA Premiere
    Lady Macbeth, dir. William Oldroyd, UK, LA Premiere
    Maudie, dir. Aisling Walsh, Ireland/Canada, LA Premiere
    My Friend Dahmer, dir. Marc Meyers, USA, LA Premiere
    Patti Cake$, dir. Geremy Jasper, USA, LA Premiere
    Keep the Change, dir. Rachel Israel, USA, LA Premiere
    Whitney: Can I Be Me, dir. Nick Broomfield, Rudi Dolezal, USA, LA Premiere
     
    Premieres (10)
    World premieres of fiction and documentary films featuring noteworthy talent. 
    The Bachelors, dir. Kurt Voelker, USA, World Premiere
    CounterPunch, dir. Jay Bulger, USA, World Premiere
    A Crooked Somebody, dir. Trevor White, USA, World Premiere
    The Female Brain, dir. Whitney Cummings, USA, World Premiere
    Humor Me, dir. Sam Hoffman, USA, World Premiere
    The Keeping Hours, dir. Karen Moncrieff, USA, World Premiere
    Living on Soul, dir. Cory Bailey, Jeff Broadway, USA, World Premiere
    The Song of Sway Lake, dir. Ari Gold, USA, World Premiere
    Submission, dir. Richard Levine, USA, World Premiere
    Sun Dogs, dir. Jennifer Morrison, USA, World Premiere
     
    Film Independent Members Screening
    The Little Hours, dir. Jeff Baena, USA, LA Premiere
    A young servant fleeing from his master takes refuge at a dysfunctional convent in medieval Tuscany.
     
    Additional Festival Event
    Friday, June 16, ArcLight Santa Monica
    The Sinner, West Coast Premiere
    The Sinner follows a young mother who commits a startling act of violence, which launches an inverted and utterly surprising crime thriller whose driving force is not the “who” or the “what” — but the “why.”
    The show premieres August 2 on USA Network.

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    Supreme Court Allows Multibillion-Dollar Class Action Lawsuit To Proceed Against Meta

    Friday, November 22, 2024

    The Supreme Court is allowing a multibillion-dollar class action investors' lawsuit to proceed against Facebook parent Meta, stemming from the privacy scandal involving the Cambridge Analytica political consulting firm.

    The justices heard arguments in November in Meta's bid to shut down the lawsuit. On Friday, they decided that they were wrong to take up the case in the first place.

    The high court dismissed the company's appeal, leaving in place an appellate ruling allowing the case to go forward.

    Investors allege that Meta did not fully disclose the risks that Facebook users' personal information would be misused by Cambridge Analytica, a firm that supported Donald Trump 's first successful Republican presidential campaign in 2016.

    Inadequacy of the disclosures led to two significant price drops in the price of the company's shares in 2018, after the public learned about the extent of the privacy scandal, the investors say.

    Meta spokesman Andy Stone said the company was disappointed by the court's action. "The plaintiff's claims are baseless and we will continue to defend ourselves as this case is considered by the District Court," Stone said in an emailed statement.

    Meta already has paid a $5.1 billion fine and reached a $725 million privacy settlement with users.

    Cambridge Analytica had ties to Trump political strategist Steve Bannon. It had paid a Facebook app developer for access to the personal information of about 87 million Facebook users. That data was then used to target U.S. voters during the 2016 campaign.

    The lawsuit is one of two high court cases involving class-action lawsuits against tech companies. The justices also are wrestling with whether to shut down a class action against Nvidia.... Read More

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