The new heads of the Hollywood Film Festival say they don’t care if celebrities walk their red carpet. It doesn’t matter to them if the movies at their festival have premiered elsewhere. And good reviews? Whatever.
“See good. Do good. Feel good.” That’s the mission for this month’s revamped festival, which will run from Sept. 23-27 at the ArcLight Hollywood. And, yes, you read that correctly: The festival is getting a revamp. Again.
Just last year, film fest veteran Jon Fitzgerald acquired the Hollywood Film Festival from Carlos de Abreu -- a Portuguese entrepreneur who founded the festival in 1997 but seemed to otherwise have few ties to the movie business.