For many this election season is already filled with a combination of dread and dismay, but the second season of Breaking Bread may calm some nerves in an anxiety ridden environment. Appearing on Bloomberg Originals, the show features host Alexander Heffner dining and chatting with politicians on both sides of the aisle in a casual […]
Warner Bros Discovery’s 2024 Paris Olympic Games plans are building momentum. WBD has revealed plans for “wall-to-wall” coverage of the Olympics, which begin later this month in the French capital. Eurosport will show the games across 47 markets in 19 languages through Max and Discovery+ and on most of its television channels. This will total […]
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Cillian Murphy’s latest project, Steve, is wrapping production this week in the UK. Murphy stars in the reimagining of Max Porter’s novel Shy, and also produces under his Big Things Films banner with partner Alan Moloney. Netflix greenlighted the film in collaboration with Big Things back in February and will distribute globally. […]
Zaid Abu Hamdan has begun principal photography in Jordan on new film Boomah (The Owl), which is being positioned as an Arab world thriller with a similar gritty edge as City of God, Gomorrah and La Haine. Boomah marks Jordanian director Abu Hamdan’s second feature after his critically acclaimed female focused drama Daughters of Abdul […]
EXCLUSIVE: Philippa Nicholl is joining Creativity Capital from Great Point Media where she spent the past two years as an associate in their investments team. At Great Point Media, she worked in project management, tax credit administration, and creative financing solutions including on film and TV projects such as Channel 5’s Finder’s Keepers, Mikko Mäkelä’s Sebastian (pictured […]
Influential German producer Max Wiedemann has said the likes of OpenAI and Google need to let content owners share in the upside created by new artificial intelligence tools. “You have to let the rights holders participate in your productivity gains,” he said, before suggesting a body similar to those found in the music business could […]
German producer Nico Hofmann has unveiled a slate of projects he is working up as part of a partnership with Beta Film. Veteran producer Hofmann left UFA Film to strike out on his own, partnering with longtime collaborator Jan Mojto, CEO of Beta Film, and Beta Film/Intaglio Films producer Jan Wünschmann earlier this year. The […]
Kevin Spacey will be honored with the Nations Award for Lifetime Achievement at a special gala evening in the historic southern Italian town of Taormina in July. The organizers said The Usual Suspects and American Beauty Oscar winner will also give a short on-stage performance at the event, taking place on July 21 in Taormina’s […]
EXCLUSIVE: More partners have joined ARD’s German political thriller series Dangerous Truth (Das Zweite Attentat). Munich-based distributor OneGate Media and Bravado Equity, a subsidiary of Eric Welbers’ Bravado Media, have boarded as global distributor and gap financier, respectively. They join co-production partners EIKON Media, WDR and ARD Degeto Film along with Deal Productions (Stargazer, Tamara) in Luxembourg […]
BTS stars Jimin and Jung Kook will return to the spotlight in Disney+’s travel reality show Are You Sure?!, which premieres August 8 on the platform. Filmed immediately after Jung Kook’s viral performance on Good Morning America in July 2023, Are You Sure?! follows the two youngest members of BTS as they spend time unwinding […]
Carol Vorderman, the maths genius and political activist who was on Countdown for 26 years, will deliver this year’s Alternative MacTaggart at the Edinburgh TV Festival. Vorderman’s speech will precede the publication of her first book, Now What? On a Mission to Fix Broken Britain, and she has become a voice in the political landscape […]
Pakistani star Fawad Khan and Bollywood actress Vaani Kapoor are set to star in an untitled rom-com that will shoot entirely in the UK. The rom-com will tell the story of how two broken people come together by a stroke of luck and end up helping each other and ultimately falling in love. Filming is […]
Peter Farrelly’s ‘Balls Up’ With Mark Wahlberg & Paul Walter Heads To Queensland Peter Farrelly’s Amazon MGM Studios and Skydance-backed action comedy Balls Up, starring Mark Wahlberg (The Family Plan) and Paul Walter Hauser (The Instigators), has set the Australian state of Queensland as its principal shooting location with cameras beginning to roll this month. Screen Queensland CEO Jacqui Feeney announced the shoot […]
EXCLUSIVE: Webtoon Entertainment CEO Junkoo Kim has said listing on Nasdaq will bolster efforts to adapt the company’s IPs into different formats and increase opportunities to collaborate with global partners. The company closed its first trading day at $23, marking a 9.5% increase from its IPO price of $21, with the company’s market capitalization hovering […]
EXCLUSIVE: Supernatural horror-comedy is not a genre one necessarily associates with Bollywood, but Munjya, starring Sharvari and Abhay Verma, looks set to topple those expectations, and the pic has now entered the hallowed ‘100-crore (1 billion rupees) club’. The sleeper hit is the latest instalment in the Maddock Supernatural Universe (previous films are Stree, Roohi, Bhediya) and focuses on […]
Katherine Heigl recalls the controversy surrounding the Emmys after allegedly turning down a nomination for her work on Grey’s Anatomy. The 27 Dresses star made an appearance on Shannen Doherty’s podcast, Let’s Be Clear, when the topic came up. “I don’t know any person except for you that turns down an Emmy nomination,” Doherty said, […]
In her first TV interview since Donald Trump was found guilty, Stormy Daniels said that she was subject to harassment and threats after testifying in the New York hush money trial. Speaking to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, Daniels said that when Trump was found guilty, “for that brief moment it was worth me testifying because at […]
The U.S. men’s national team’s 1-0 loss to Uruguay in the final round of the Copa America soccer tournament drew an average of 3.78 million viewers Monday on Fox Sports 1. The total marked the most-watched non-World Cup soccer game in network history, FS1 said. The loss in the final game of group play eliminated […]
Keke Jabbar, a reality TV personality from Love & Marriage: Huntsville, has died. She was 42. LaTisha Moore Scott, a cast member on the OWN reality series and Jabbar’s cousin, shared a post on social media. “At this time we are asking for RESPECT, and PRIVACY in our moment of grief, while we process this […]
Ryan Reynolds is having fun promoting Deadpool & Wolverine and, in his latest tease, channeled Taylor Swift. The actor shared a new Deadpool photo on his Instagram Story showing the Marvel superhero’s back in the middle of the forest. Swifties were quick to notice the similarities to Swift’s Evermore album cover. Reynolds even added Swift’s […]
Travis Kelce is done with reality TV and recently revealed that he turned down an opportunity at Netflix. In a recent interview, the Kansas City Chiefs tight end talked about his upcoming television projects and was asked if he had been approached to star in the docuseries Receiver. “After Pat did it, I did get […]
Joe Biden blamed his bad debate performance last week on a busy travel schedule in the weeks leading up to the matchup with Donald Trump. At a fundraiser tonight in McLean, VA, Biden said that he “wasn’t very smart” for “traveling around the world a couple of times” before the debate, according to a pool […]
Ryan Reynolds is reprising his role of Deadpool in Deadpool & Wolverine, but amid the Disney and Fox merger, the actor thought he would never be able to play the superhero again. In a new interview, Reynolds opened up about why he feared not donning the Deadpool costume again. “I didn’t know if I’d ever […]
Kate Winslet was feted before the European premiere of her film Lee at the Munich International Film Festival and told the packed crowd about starring in, and producing, the movie about war photographer Lee Miller. Taking the stage to accept the Festival’s CineMerit award, Winslet said that the release of Lee had been put back. […]
It is hard to believe it has been 40 years since Eddie Murphy first exploded onto the screen as one of his signature characters, Axel Foley, in 1984’s Beverly Hills Cop. But even if that 22 year old is now 63, he is still on the beat and doesn’t miss a beat all these years […]
