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Cinespia Creative Director Talks Providing “Escapism” & More For Angelenos With “The City At Its Most Intense”
Cinespia creative director Navid Sinaki spoke to Deadline about this weekend's screening amid recent protests against ICE raids.
Ahead of Saturday’s sold-out 30th anniversary screening of Paul Verhoeven’s NC-17 cult classic Showgirls(1995), Sinaki opened up about the “revelatory responsibility” of choosing a film that will attract 4,000 guests to a cemetery lawn. Gavin Newsom condemned Trump in a fiery speech, lambasting the “brazen abuse of power by a sitting president [that] inflamed a combustible situation, putting our people, our officers and even our National Guard at risk.” Newsom’s sharply-crafted words prefaced a federal judge’s Thursday ruling that Trump “return control of the California National Guard” to the governor, a decision that was quickly overturned by an appeals court ahead of a June 17 hearing on the matter.
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