Emagine Entertainment, Inc. announced the Juneteenth Film Festival to benefit the UNCF (United Negro College Fund) on Monday.

ROYAL OAK, Mich. – Emagine Theater has rescheduled its Juneteenth Film Festival for this month after it was cancelled this summer “due to theatre closures, per the government mandate," according to officials. The film festival will be from Oct. 16 through Oct. 22 at Emagine Royal Oak. The theater will be closed on Monday, Oct. 19 and Wednesday, Oct. 21. According to Emagine Entertainment Inc., tickets for the festival are $10, and 100 percent of net ticket proceeds will benefit United Negro College Fund (UNCF). The rescheduling comes days after theaters and performance venues were able to reopen on Oct. 9.

ROYAL OAK, Mich. Shrine Catholic High School and Academy is finding a different way to offer remote learning with the help of Emagine Theater in Royal Oak. Students will alternate in person and remote learning so that 50 percent of the student body will be in the building on any given day. The school reached out to Emagine Theater for a creative solution. Students on a remote learning day, who need a supervised environment, will be able to go to Royal Oak Emagine for the day. Now they can drop their student at Emagine at 6:45 a.m. and theres Shrine staff waiting for them.

ROYAL OAK, Mich. Emagine Royal Oak has postponed its Juneteenth Film Festival after they said Emagines chairman, Paul Glantz, was given a letter from the Attorney Generals Office threatening to bring criminal charges against him if the film festival proceeded as planned. The film festival was to benefit the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) and has been indefinitely postponed. The second festival stie is in Minneapolis, MN and is expected to still hold a festival. To our friends at UNCF, we continue to believe in the benefits this Film Festival can bring to the community. The Royal Oak show will go on at a later date.

ROYAL OAK, Mich. Emagine Royal Oak will be opening this Friday for a film festival showcasing Black actors, directors and writers. Tickets are $10 and after royalties $6.50 of each ticket will go to the United Negro College Fund. Emagine Chairman Paul Glanz anticipates the film festival will go for a week. READ: Heres everything thats reopening today in Michigan after COVID-19 shutdownThe idea is to help some wonderful people at the United Negro College Fund, its a great charity, Glantz said. READ: List of Michigan pandemic executive orders that are still active

ROYAL OAK, Mich. - The new Motown documentary, "Hitsville: The Making of Motown," is premiering tonight at Emagine Royal Oak. It focuses on the period beginning with the birth of Motown in Detroit in 1958 until its relocation to Los Angeles in the early 1970s. The film tracks the unique system that Berry Gordy assembled that enabled Motown to become the most successful record label of all time. Smokey Robinson, Martha Reeves and The Jacksons family are among the star-studded cast. Copyright 2019 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit - All rights reserved.