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Rupert Grint is reprising his iconic role as Ron Weasley after 15 years. The actor is set to join the cast of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” on Broadway from Feb. 2 to May 30, 2027. He will play an adult version of Ron in the play, which centers on the next generation of […]
The camera was rolling when the Gallaghers made up. An upcoming Disney+ documentary on Oasis has captured the moment Liam and Noel Gallagher reconciled after 15 years without contact, Angela Jain, head of content for Disney+ EMEA, revealed Wednesday at the Edinburgh TV Festival’s Spotlight on Disney+ session. “This is the story of two brothers […]
Nile Rodgers & Chic will headline the 20th annual gala for DKMS, a top non-profit organization fighting blood cancer and blood disorders. The black-tie event at will take place at Cipriani Wall Street in New York on Thursday, October 15th. The evening’s programming includes a live concert from Rodgers — a cancer survivor as well […]
“Love Island” and “The Traitors” star Maura Higgins has a new gig: hosting Disney+’s upcoming reality series “Blind Date.” The iconic British dating show, which ran from 1985 to 2003, is being revamped by the streamer for modern audiences and promises to be “bigger, better and bolder than ever,” according to a press release. “As […]
BritBox has unveiled the official trailer for “Agatha Christie’s Tommy & Tuppence,” a modern take on the beloved detective duo starring Antonia Thomas and Josh Dylan. The six-part series is the first contemporary English-language TV adaptation of Christie’s “Tommy & Tuppence” stories, set in present-day London and starring Dylan (“Buccaneers,” “Mamma Mia 2”) as Tommy […]
“Emily in Paris” will take its final bow on Christmas Eve. Netflix set a Dec. 24 premiere date for the series’ sixth and final season and released new photos, including a look at the show’s latest adventure in Greece. As reported by Variety in April, Emily’s (Lily Collins) life and work will take her from […]
Meta will pay a record $17.1 billion — and implement broad child-safety reforms on Instagram and Facebook — under a nationwide settlement with 26 state attorneys general, including California’s Rob Bonta. The agreement, subject to court approval, resolves claims by the state AGs that Meta designed Instagram with addictive features, knowingly exposed young users to […]
Gary Oldman received the Edinburgh TV Festival’s Global Icon Award on Wednesday and, unsurprisingly, spent much of the time in an on-stage conversation discussing his most famous — and current — TV character. “For the last six years, I’ve had the pleasure of inhabiting Jackson Lamb, a man who has single-handedly lowered the public’s expectation of personal […]
The big-screen romantic comedy is unfashionable enough these days that it tends to come dressed up in at least one of two ways: with a quasi-absurd high concept (see this summer’s “One Night Only”) or draped in enough ironic quote marks to make clear that the filmmakers are rolling their eyes right along with you. […]
Unrivaled, the women’s three-on-three basketball league, announced that its Series C fundraise has surpassed an initial $100 million target and is now oversubscribed — valuing the league at $650 million. The funding round was led by Ten Pillars Sports Fund, backed by UC Investments, which manages the University of California system’s investment funds. Other participants […]
Streaming-sports purveyor DAZN has struck an agreement to buy EverPass Media, the distributor of licensed sports properties to commercial establishments like hotels and bars. In doing so, DAZN will pick up the commercial arm of the NFL’s popular “Sunday Ticket” package, and expand its U.S. foothold, while working to bring content distributed via EverPass to […]
U.K. agency Independent Talent Group is launching a creator studio to be headed by Deborah Turness, who has joined as president of Independent Talent Studio. Most recently, Turness was CEO of BBC News and Current Affairs and a member of the BBC board, and previously served as president of NBC News in the U.S., CEO […]
French sales company MMM Film Sales has acquired the international rights to “Agata the Writer,” starring Mia Wasikowska, which will have its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival in the Venice Days section, in competition. The Australian film is directed by filmmaker and artist Kuba Dorabialski, and is produced by Alex White, best known […]
GameSquare is rebranding its gaming and esports-focused livestreaming measurement platform Stream Hatchet into Hatchet, which it describes as “the first full-service creator matching and brand marketing analytics platform built for marketers looking to engage in youth culture with an emphasis on gaming.” As part of the revamp, Hatchet, which counts Electronic Arts and NASCAR among […]
COL Group and CP Group are teaming on a partnership aimed at building up Thailand’s short-form drama business, linking creative training, local content production and distribution under a single initiative. The deal centers on a talent incubation program the two firms will run jointly with an academic institution in Thailand, aimed at connecting new creative […]
“Alice and Steve” has been picked up for a second season at Disney+ and Hulu. The comedy — which airs on Disney+ in the U.K. and Ireland and on Disney+ and Hulu in the U.S. — follows Alice (Nicola Walker), who is devastated when her best friend Steve (Jemaine Clement) starts dating her 26-year-old daughter […]
Inigo Montoya isn’t putting down his sword just yet. Almost 40 years after Mandy Patinkin expertly parried and jousted his way to defeating the six-fingered man in the beloved 1987 film “The Princess Bride,” the actor is returning to the world of foils and sabers after being tapped to serve as USA Fencing’s first-ever honorary […]
“Under Salt Marsh” is returning for a second season at Sky. The crime drama has been greenlit for an “as-yet-untitled second chapter” with Rafe Spall reprising his role as Detective Eric Bull, Sky announced on Wednesday. The six-episode season will pick up as Detective Bull “moves to a remote Scottish mining village sinking under the […]
RAI Cinema International Distribution has acquired world rights to Italian director Edoardo De Angelis’ dark tragicomedy “The Fire Within You” ahead of its Venice competition launch. De Angelis, a native Neapolitan, broke out on the festival circuit at Venice in 2016 with the Naples-set conjoined twins drama “Indivisible” and subsequently opened the festival in 2023 with […]
With Emmy voting drawing to a close, Stephen Colbert has thrown his support behind Jimmy Kimmel in the newly revamped outstanding cariety series race, even though Colbert’s own late-night show is competing in the same category. In a video posted on social media, a bearded Colbert appears sitting outdoors on a windswept coastline with a […]
The BBC has lifted the chaotic lid on “Tall Tales and Murder,” its upcoming dark comedic drama from “Love/Hate” creator Stuart Carolan and co-created with Emmy and DGA award winning “Veep” director Chris Addison. First announced last year and shot in Ireland, the wild-sounding six-part series mixes what the synopsis describes as a “Bonnie and […]
Korea’s DRX Corp. and PT Nuon Digital Indonesia signed a strategic partnership in Jakarta to expand gaming and entertainment ties between Indonesia and Korea, starting with an entertainment festival called DRX Homefront Indonesia and a joint game publishing initiative between the two countries. The agreement pairs DRX’s esports, content production and fan engagement experience with […]
Netflix has what looks to be a great show set to launch, but you can’t see the program on its flagship streaming service. The company plans to take over the history Marlborough Pub in London between September 3 and September 5, when it will outfit the place much like its comedic action series “The Gentlemen,” […]
Hamaguchi Ryusuke’s “All of a Sudden” has been selected as Japan’s entry in the international feature category at the 99th Academy Awards, the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan (Eiren) has revealed. The selection marks the second time a Hamaguchi film has represented Japan in the category, five years after “Drive My Car” won the […]
The Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM), the market of the Busan International Film Festival, will present InnoAsia 2026, its program built around the intersection of film and emerging technology. This year’s participants include Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kling AI, Google DeepMind and Alibaba Group, alongside a range of other technology and content companies and […]
“Vagina Dentata,” the new film from Norwegian filmmaker Nataša Urban, whose “The Eclipse” won top honors at CPH:DOX in 2022, has been boarded by Manifest Film. The Romanian outfit will co-produce “Vagina Dentata,” a genre-bending exploration of motherhood and postnatal depression that will be pitched at this week’s Nordic Co-Production Market in Haugesund. Produced by […]
Indonesian streaming platform Vidio has partnered with ReelShort, the microdrama platform owned by Crazy Maple Studio, marking ReelShort’s first entry into the Indonesian market. Hundreds of ReelShort titles will become available on Vidio starting Sept. 1. The content will stream through a dedicated Short Drama tab, accessible to subscribers on Vidio’s TV Extra, Platinum, Platinum […]
Copenhagen-based sales and aggregation outlet LevelK has boarded the Norwegian psycho-thriller “Anathema” by promising directing duo Ea Johanne Sandberg and Alpha Nord. One of 21 projects in development to be pitched today at the Nordic Co-Production Market in Haugesund, “Anathema” is being shepherded by the seasoned Janne Hjeltnes (Netflix’s “Royalteen,” “Midsummer Night”) and Anne Borgaard […]
In her upcoming third feature “Brace Your Heart,” Amanda Kernell follows a survivor, not a victim. “We’re all different, and some people who experience really difficult things can’t recover. But there are others who survive and find there’s light on the other side,” she told Variety. Kernell, known for “Sámi Blood” and “Charter,” is also behind […]
The cast of “Heroes” got together to celebrate the life of their co-star Hayden Panettiere, who died on Aug. 16 at 36 years old. “A ‘HEROES’ reunion to celebrate the life of HAYDEN was deeply emotional,” series star Jimmy Jean-Louis wrote on X, sharing photos of himself with his former castmates. “There was sadness in […]
Taylor Swift shared a touching tribute to the late Dolly Parton after the iconic singer-songwriter’s death on Tuesday. “A world without Dolly doesn’t feel possible, real, or right,” it reads. “But because of the eternally generous way she spent her time on this earth and the countless lives she changed for the better, her legacy […]
Jane Fonda has released a statement in support of Mark Ruffalo after Paramount slammed the four-time Oscar nominee as “antisemitic” for a recent post denouncing Larry Ellison’s ties to Israel and David Ellison’s planned merger with Warner Bros. “Especially as a Jewish American, I find it deeply troubling to see false accusations of antisemitism used […]
Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird wrote in an op-ed for The Daily Wire that she is suing California for leading the charge in the lawsuit against the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger. “California is once again trying to be the country’s regulator. And once again California is defying common sense to raise costs around the country,” Brenna […]
Ariana Madix has had a meteoric rise as a host — one that landed her an Emmy nomination this year. After a guest-hosting gig during the fifth season of the summertime dating show “Love Island USA,” she officially took over the reins for the sixth season in 2024. Two years later, she has wrapped Season […]
Taking the spirit of the “Paranormal Activity” films and turning it into a scare-‘em stage experience could have been a terrifying trip for its creators, too. After all, horror isn’t exactly a Broadway staple and producers have mostly given up that particular ghost. But the franchise — Oren Peli’s indie film was originally shot in […]
“I called Taylor Sheridan to ask him just for some meat for the event. Taylor said, ‘I’ll only give you the meat if I can come cook it.’ And Taylor Sheridan shows up to cook.” Guy Fieri is reminiscing about a 2023 fundraiser he held for Maui fire relief that made $1.7 million for restaurants, […]
Luis Castro, Trish Reilly and Barry Wilkinson will be honored at the third annual MacGuffin Awards. The Property Masters Guild aims to highlight and elevate the craft of the Property Master by raising awareness, fostering collaboration among craft artisans, educating its members and inspiring future generations of Property Masters. The honorees, recognized for their craftsmanship, […]
It’s the end of the world as we know it in “The Dog Stars,” and everyone feels — well, not fine exactly, but, you know, fine? Alive, hanging in there, taking it one day at a time. Things could be better, which goes without saying in the aftermath of a flu pandemic that has wiped […]
Disney+ has set a November premiere date for “The Remarried Empress,” a 10-part Korean drama adapted from the Naver Webtoon series of the same name, which has drawn nearly three billion views to date. The show centers on Empress Navier and Emperor Sovieshu of the Eastern Kingdom, whose marriage unravels after Sovieshu falls for a […]
Netflix has confirmed production on “The Shooter” (working title), an action-noir series that pairs Lee Jung-eun with Kim Moo-yul, marking Lee’s first outing in an action role. Lee’s turn comes on the heels of “My Daughter Is a Zombie,” one of South Korea’s top-grossing films of 2025. Kim joins her fresh off “Teach You a […]