Tribeca Film Festival: Jennifer Lopez to attend Halftime screening; Robert De Niro-Al Pacino to have fun Heat

A Jennifer Lopez documentary, a Heat reunion and a chat with chart-topper Taylor Swift are among the many highlights of this 12 months’s Tribeca Film Festival which opens in New York on Wednesday.

Lopez herself is scheduled to attend the screening of Halftime, a movie concerning the singer and actor’s profession which kicks off the 20-year-old annual occasion.

Further down this system, competition co-founder Robert De Niro will reunite together with his Heat co-star Al Pacino and director Michael Mann to have fun the 1995 crime drama’s place in movie historical past.

“It was a movie I worked hard on. Michael Mann is a very particular director. He wants things done a certain way and rightfully so … and that’s what makes the movie special,” De Niro instructed Reuters. “I’m happy to share it with the festival audience and to get a few of us together.”

Best of Express PremiumPremiumPremiumPremiumPremium

Rapper Lil Baby will take the stage after the premiere of his film Untrapped, as will Machine Gun Kelly after the screening of his characteristic movie Taurus.

Swift, former tennis champion John McEnroe and civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton will all be discussing their very own movies at Tribeca Talks occasions.

The June 8-19 competition will display screen some 110 characteristic movies from 40 nations, together with documentaries on abortion, reparations, and freedom of the press.

“We curate a lot of our films with an eye towards the larger audience,” co-founder Jane Rosenthal instructed Reuters. “You might learn something that you wouldn’t if you’re just watching talk TV and people are yelling at each other. So, it gives an audience an opportunity to listen and see a point of view in a different way.”