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The agent would call him every few weeks to get him to sign with Endeavor.
Hollywood Reporter
The IDL's 2026 regular season has four events left: New York, Vancouver, Sydney and Seoul.
Variety
Fast-rising Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Laufey has signed with United Talent Agency for global representation in all areas, the company announced early Monday. UTA will work to secure opportunities across live touring, media, filmed entertainment, brand partnerships, and more. The signing comes as Laufey — whose fusion of pop and traditional jazz has introduced a decade-sold style […]
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Imax China is preparing to dedicate the vast majority of its nearly 800-screen network to Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” when the film opens in mainland China on Aug. 14, with CEO Daniel Manwaring telling Variety that audience anticipation for the release “is going to be enormous.” “I’m expecting a very large majority of our entire […]
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Bayreuth festival theatre, BayreuthAlexandra Szemerédy and Magdolna Parditka’s production swaps 14th-century Rome for an abstract near future in an over-busy staging . Jennifer Holloway’s Adriano is a standout in a strong castIt was Adolf Hitler’s favourite opera – and thus vital to a historical chapter that Germany’s Bayreuth festival long preferred to avoid. But Rienzi has finally arrived at Wagner’s symbolic HQ, opening the 150th anniversary season as an exception to the festival’s rigid cano
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Carly Simon has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. The 83-year-old singer-songwriter, best known for her 1972 hit “You’re So Vain,” revealed the news on Monday in a statement (via The New York Times). “So many people have written to me, kindly wondering about my relative silence, asking how I am and what I have been […]
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The debut from Scandinavian outfit Dead Astronauts promises shooting, survival, and, in a shake-up to the genre, seeds that terraform its pristine world right before your eyesThe wilds of the sub-Arctic north: towering pine trees, flashes of psychedelic-yellow lichen, and a sun that never wholly sets during the summer months. This land is gorgeous, yes, but also unforgiving, yet in Haex (pronounced “hex”) you have an unusual tool at your disposal to make it a little more hospitable: a cube that
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Flexing its muscles as one of the biggest new kids on its film industry block, Spain’s ISII Group has gone into production on “Amor de Dios” headlined by “The Orphanage” star Belén Rueda and produced by ISII banner label Inefable Productions. The news comes as ISII Group distribution-sales house Deep Com Roots has sold “Summer […]
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Mexican actor, director and producer Diego Luna will be feted at the 32nd Sarajevo Film Festival, which runs Aug. 14 to 21. Luna will receive the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo in recognition of his “outstanding career and indelible contribution to cinema.” The festival will screen “Ashes,” his latest directorial feature, which premiered at the Cannes […]
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"It's been many years since I've wanted to go to Sarajevo," said the 'Andor' star.
Hollywood Reporter
The pact, an extension of a 2025 global licensing agreement, spans 26 new series, led by 'Yumi's Cells Season 3', 'Filing for Love' and 'The Legend of Kitchen Soldier.'
Variety
Now in its 15th year, Locarno’s think tank StepIn will debate “Power, People, Data and the Future of Film.” “Last year, StepIn focused on one of the defining qualities of independent cinema: the willingness to embrace risk. One of the strongest conclusions from those discussions was that playing it safe is rarely the smartest strategy,” […]
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Royal Albert Hall, LondonLucas and Arthur Jussen brought fun and energy to Poulenc’s Concerto for Two Pianos, and John Adams’ Harmonium was monumental and moving in the City of Birmingham Orchestra and Chorus’ Prom under their chief conductor Kazuki YamadaAmerican minimalism can punch and thrill, hypnotise and slow your pulse, but how often does it make you laugh? What a brilliant idea, then, from Kazuki Yamada and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra to pair John Adams’ formative 1980 epic
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Speaking to the Dish podcast, it is unclear which films he was referring to, though the Spider-Man and Odyssey star said he was ‘super proud’ of both of thoseSpider-Man and Odyssey star Tom Holland says that some of his films are “shit” and that people “shouldn’t” see them.Holland was speaking on the Dish podcast and was asked by co-hosts Nick Grimshaw and Angela Hartnett about his experiences promoting his movies. Holland responded by saying: “When you’re doing press for movies that you’re real
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Prime Video will globally premiere “Vadhandhi – The Mystery of Mani” this August, the streamer revealed, bringing back its Tamil-language original suspense thriller franchise for a second season. Andrew Louis, who created and wrote the first season, returns to write and direct Season 2, with Pushkar and Gayatri overseeing the project as creative producers under […]
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Maryam Ebrahimi’s documentary about a home for survivors of the war in northern Syria is tender, gentle and incredibly movingSpeaking over footage filmed at the funeral of a female army commander, documentary-maker Maryam Ebrahimi notes that it’s the first time she has seen women carrying a coffin in the Middle East. As they move through crowd of mourners, she adds: “Their sisterhood amazes me.” Ebrahimi is talking about the women of Rojava, the Kurdish-led autonomous socialist region in norther
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Suing his record label and sick of being a sex symbol, the singer spent 1992 working on the Trojan Souls for stars including Aretha Franklin and Bryan Ferry. Now, newly released studio footage shows him in his creative primeWham! special: read Andrew Ridgeley on their bizarre 1985 trip to ChinaThe George Michael album that never was began in defiance and ended in grief. It was 1992. Mired in a toxic dispute with Sony Records, Michael chose to keep busy and declare his independence by making an a
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Prime Video India and Korean powerhouse CJ ENM have signed a multi-year distribution deal that will add more than 100 Korean titles to the streamer’s Indian lineup over the next two years. The agreement covers 26 new titles from CJ ENM alongside a broader slate drawn from the studio’s existing library, and extends the companies’ […]
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Bill Oddie, the English comedian and conservationist known for hosting wildlife programs including BBC’s “Springwatch,” has died. He was 85. Oddie’s agent, David Foster, confirmed his death in a statement to BBC News on Monday, calling him “the country’s best-loved birder.” Foster continued: “Bill was a multi-talented celebrity — wildlife presenter, broadcaster, comedian, writer, songwriter, […]
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A high-quality pirated version of the summer’s hit movie was leaked on Elon Musk’s X platform and viewed more than 3m times before being removed A leaked copy of The Odyssey has been taken down from Elon Musk’s X platform but only after a post flagging it gained millions of views.A high-quality pirated version of the film went viral at the weekend after an account linked to it saying “Someone uploaded ‘The Odyssey’ full movie on X. Can you believe it?”. The post flagging the film was viewed more