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The spots debuted today, asking ABC viewers to support 'The View' and its local stations amid an FCC review of its licenses.
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Netflix has spent upwards of $18 billion annually on content, and according to US-Canada scripted series head Jinny Howe, that’s not changing any time soon. Howe spoke to an industry crowd las wee as she held a keynote conversation at the Banff World Media Festival. “Our volume is not slowing down,” she told the audience, […]
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“Boyhood,” the Oscar-winning coming-of-age drama filmed over 12 years by Richard Linklater, will return to theaters nationwide for its 12th anniversary. “We started filming this 24 years ago,” Linklater says. “The way life chugs along, you look up and it’s been 12 years since the movie came out and it’s kind of crazy. But the […]
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Disney wants to bring another element into its ongoing squabble with the Federal Communications Commission: its fans. In a new campaign that launched Monday, the entertainment conglomerate urged the audience tuning into “The View” to offer public comment as the company grapples with unorthodox pressure from the Trump administration. The Federal Communications Commission, led by […]
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Hillary Clinton is still very unhappy with the results of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Despite winning the popular vote by nearly three million votes, the former secretary of state and first lady lost the electoral vote — and thus, the presidency — largely thanks to the ex-reality star and real estate scion carrying three […]
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Moshe Kasher has been diagnosed with tonsil cancer, the comedian revealed on Instagram. “Three months ago … I found a bump on my tonsil,” Kasher posted on Sunday. “It was cancer, which did not rule so hard.” Kasher, a stand-up comic who recently appeared in “The Pitt,” was in Savannah, Georgia, at the time, working […]
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Adam Wexler, who launched fantasy sports operator PrizePicks, has launched unscripted production shingle EightState Studios, with an eye toward creating original series and documentaries. First up, the company is working on an untitled eight-episode live unscripted competition series set to premiere Aug. 11 on YouTube. The project, which also comes from Deviants Media Studios, will […]
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"Nine lives, zero f***s."
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Tim Roth, Sofia Carson and Kate Beckinsale are among the top talents booked to attend the upcoming ninth edition of the Filming Italy Sardegna Festival, which will be held June 25-28 on the island of Sardinia. Roth, who most recently starred in “Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man” and “Seven Snipers,” is expected to make the […]
The Guardian Culture
‘I thought I could regain some power by writing a celebration of debauchery that was so brazenly sexual it would infuriate the people who insulted me’Nancy Boy was about reclaiming the homophobic insults that were hurled at me every time I went out because I had long hair and wore eyeliner and nail polish. I’d walk into a bar and people would react vociferously, or guys would think I was a girl then get really aggressive when they found out my name was Brian. I thought I could regain some power
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It took Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood more than a decade to follow acclaimed 2015 album “Junun.” A musician died. A pandemic intervened. And then there were the visas. “Ranjha,” released last month via World Circuit/BMG, reunites Greenwood with Israeli musician Shye Ben Tzur — who divides his time between Israel and India — and their […]
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Film sales and finance outfit Global Constellation has closed a first raft of sales on Cannes breakout animated comedy “Jim Queen,” which will be screening at the Annecy Intl. Animation Film Festival. Following its buzzy premiere in Cannes’ Midnight Screening slot, the film has sold to Italy (I Wonder Pictures), Benelux (O’Brother), Germany (Capelight Pictures), […]
The Guardian Culture
Rapping in Spanish used to be a hard sell – but the Puerto Rican star is making the Latin American community visibleAt the Seven Sisters Latin Village in north London, construction is under way.The market, which has become a centre for the British Latino community and has fought off a long battle against redevelopment, is paying homage to the biggest Latino star on the planet: Bad Bunny (real name Benito Martínez Ocasio). Continue reading...
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The Meta-owned company is going decidedly retro by experimenting with time-honored video formats with its creators.
Hollywood Reporter
In his first interview since switching teams from Netflix, Tony Zameczkowski shares Disney's strategy across the Asia-Pacific region and why the company will always "run its own race."
Hollywood Reporter
Chalamet teased a "new movie announcement" on his Instagram story over the weekend ahead of the news out of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival.
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The Mark Twain prize ceremony is set to air on Netflix July 21.
Variety
Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy are returning to the world of Judith Kerr’s “Mog” picture books for Channel 4’s animated special “Mog’s Bad Thing.” Cumberbatch will reprise his role as Mr Thomas opposite Foy as Mrs Thomas while “Bridgerton’s” Adjoa Andoh also returns as the narrator alongside Amelie Law as Debbie and Teddy Skelton as […]
The Guardian Culture
The Grange festival, Northington, HampshireDavid Alden’s blackly comic Kafkaesque production has a strong cast whose lively performances were not always matched by the Early Opera Company in the pitThe year 1724 found Handel at the very height of his popularity. Giulio Cesare, written for a handpicked cast of the finest singers, may lack the psychological depth of Tamerlano, the year’s other premiere, but rarely had the composer come up with such an infectious score. A gung-ho tale of colonial c
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AI firm Utopai Studios and the Chinese production company Huace have teamed up for a fully AI-generated adaptation of the Chinese literary classic “Journey to the West,” the first project in their strategic partnership. “Journey to the West: The Lost Five Hundred Years“ will explore the “untold origin” story of how the 1592 mythological book’s protagonist […]