TimesTalks And HBO Announce Year-Long Sponsorship For ScreenTimes Series

TimesTalks, The New York Times live conversation and performance series, is pleased to announce HBO as presenting sponsor of the ScreenTimes series. Over the course of the year-long sponsorship, ScreenTimes will showcase 12 high profile pre-release screenings, coinciding with key studio release dates in late spring, summer, fall, and the year-end holiday awards season. Each screening will be followed by a conversation with the top creative talent from that film, moderated by veteran New York Times contributor Logan Hill.

On June 21, ScreenTimes will present a pre-release screening of the Sundance and SXSW sensation, "Sorry to Bother You" followed by a conversation with director Boots Riley and actor Lakeith Stanfield. This event will take place at Florence Gould Hall starting at 7:00PM EST.

"Now in our 20th year, we are thrilled to collaborate with HBO to further enhance the TimesTalks signature brand of innovative programming and intimate conversations between the best creative minds of our time," said Libby Panzer, executive director, NYTLive consumer events.

ScreenTimes events take place at The TimesCenter and various screening spaces in New York City. The post-screening Q&As are also live streamed and archived on TimesTalks.com and TimesTalks YouTube channel.

More information about TimesTalks can be foundhere. Previous installments of ScreenTimes include "The Beguiled" followed by Q&A with director Sofia Coppola and Kirsten Dunst, "Ingrid Goes West" with Aubrey Plaza, Elizabeth Olsen and writer-director Matt Spicer, "I, Tonya" followed by Q&A with Margot Robbie and director Craig Gillespie, "Wonderstruck" followed by Q&A with Julianne Moore and director Todd Haynes, "Call Me By Your Name" with Timothee Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg and director Luca Guadagnino, "The Shape of Water" followed by Q&A with director Guillermo Del Toro and "Tully" with Charlize Theron and director Jason Reitman.

About TimesTalks
TimesTalks, The New York Times live conversation and performance series, pairs New York Times journalists with the most creative and seminal figures in the fields of film and theater, art, music, literature, innovation, and fashion. In 2018, TimesTalks celebrates its 20th anniversary. For the past two decades, TimesTalks has provided a platform for engaging and spirited discourse among the most iconic and culturally relevant creative voices of our time, paying particular attention to those using the cultural arts as a lens for change.

About HBO
HBO is one of the most respected and innovative entertainment brands in the world, serving iconic, award-winning programming to 142 million subscribers globally. A subsidiary of Time Warner, Inc., HBO is the world's most successful pay TV service with an extensive array of programming that includes some of the most notable titles to be on television including Game of Thrones, Big Little Lies, Westworld, The Sopranos, Sex and the City, Band of Brothers, and The Wire. In the United States, HBO and sister network Cinemax are available across multiple platforms including HBO On Demand, Cinemax On Demand, HBO GOand MAX GO, as well as HBO NOW. Internationally, HBO branded services, including television networks and the standalone streaming product HBO GO, are available in more than 70 countries across Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. HBO and Cinemax programming is also sold in more than 150 countries worldwide.

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