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‘Finding Emily’ Review: The Working Title Romantic Comedy Gets a Fresh, Funny GenZ Makeover

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. […]

DAZN Will Acquire EverPass in Bid to Expand NFL Sunday Ticket

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 […]

Independent Talent Group Launches Creator Studio With Hire of Deborah Turness

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 […]

Venice-Selected ‘Agata the Writer,’ Starring Mia Wasikowska, Boarded by MMM Film Sales (EXCLUSIVE)

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 […]

How Dolly Parton's glamorous career transcended stereotypes – video obituary

Dolly Parton was one of the greatest singer-songwriters in country music and a pioneer for women throughout her career. The Guardian US's deputy arts editor Owen Myers reflects on a career and legacy whose impact transcends generations Dolly Parton dies aged 80 after cancer diagnosis Celebrity tributes pour in for Dolly Parton: ‘a gift to the world’ Continue reading...

GameSquare Pivots Livestreaming Measurement Service Stream Hatchet Into Creator Marketing Analytics Platform (EXCLUSIVE)

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 […]

Photos: Thousands join Spain’s La Tomatina festival for epic tomato battle

Over 20,000 participants hurled 165 tonnes of tomatoes in Buñol's streets during Spain's famed La Tomatina festival.

Canada to hit U.S. with retaliatory tariffs. And, remembering music legend Dolly Parton

Canada has announced it plans to hit the U.S. with countertariffs that mirror its actions "dollar for dollar." And, remembering the legacy of country star and icon Dolly Parton, who died at 80.

COL Group, CP Group Strike 360-Degree Partnership to Grow Thailand’s Short-Form Drama Industry

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’ Renewed for Season 2 at Disney+ and Hulu

“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 […]

Kremlin says CIA chief met Russian counterparts, not Putin, in Moscow

The Director of the CIA John Ratcliffe held ​talks with Russian intelligence officials during his visit to ​Moscow ‌on ⁠Tuesday but did not ‌meet President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin ⁠said on Wednesday. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov ​said it was also too ​early to say ​whether such contacts ​between the two countries' intelligence ​agencies could help improve US-Russia relations.

America unites in mourning for Dolly Parton

Americans of all stripes united to grieve the death of country music legend Dolly Parton, offering a rare moment of agreement as presidents of both parties joined entertainment and business giants in paying her tribute. The singer, who was 80, was long heralded as one of the few celebrities that everybody loved. President Donald Trump announced the lowering of flags across the United States for a week, calling…

'Truly unique': Dolly Parton, music star, actor and beloved figure who spanned generations

Dolly Parton, the country music icon whose soaring vibrato vocals, poignant songwriting and sparkling costumes defined her rise from a log cabin in the Tennessee mountains to the height of stardom and acclaim, has died in Nashville. She was 80 years old. Known for her curvy physique, massive blond wigs and skin-tight outfits that served her self-deprecating wit, she was among the most beloved personalities in music…

Max Olesker: Making the Cut review – up close and personal account of comic’s religious conversion

Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh This show about Olesker’s lengthy journey to becoming an Orthodox Jew in order to marry his partner is both elegant and nuanced ‘I would do anything for love,” Meat Loaf sang, “but I won’t do that.” Max Olesker would, if his solo show Making the Cut – based on his memoir – is any guide. It recounts the comic and writer’s conversion from liberal to Orthodox Judaism, a process required so he…

Italy’s RAI Cinema International Boards Edoardo De Angelis’ ‘The Fire Within You’ Ahead of Venice Launch, Reveals First Clip (EXCLUSIVE)

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 […]

The rise of ‘biogossip’: Rachel Cusk’s Natalie Portman novel is the latest in a delicious literary lineage

The much-discussed Life of M is the latest in a lineage of celebrity satire that spans from Virginia Woolf to The Devil Wears Prada In Rachel Cusk’s new novel, Life of M, the famous actor protagonist participates in an event at a book store after hours. The actor, M, is joined by “a writer of some renown” and a fashion model who possesses “some vague self-absorption”. A brand sponsored the affair. I spent literal…

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Embraced across divides, Dolly Parton leaves a lasting legacy

Throughout her lifetime, Dolly Parton worked to build a better world, while becoming inextricable from the American imagination. She was embraced by fans across gender, race and class, embodying a mythology typically inaccessible to even the most influential historical figures. It is one of her greatest legacies: to take what you have and help someone with it.

Korea’s DRX Signs Strategic Partnership With Indonesia’s Nuon to Expand Gaming and Entertainment Ties (EXCLUSIVE)

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 […]

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‘I just give from my heart’: how Dolly Parton’s philanthropy focused most on helping children

Parton put her millions behind causes she believed in – from Covid vaccines to the Imagination Library, which sends children around the world a free book every month Dolly Parton dies aged 80 | Celebrity tributes | A life in pictures Parton’s peerless career turned country music cliches inside out Share your tributes and memories of Dolly Parton In 1991, Dolly Parton made an startling offer to every seventh and…

Netflix’ Latest Marketing Mash-Up Pairs Stella Artois With ‘The Gentlemen’

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,” […]

Tributes pour in after country music legend Dolly Parton dies – latest updates

Legendary country singer died surrounded by loved ones after being diagnosed with cancer, her team says; Beyoncé, Taylor Swift and Dionne Warwick lead tributes Dolly Parton dies aged 80 Celebrity tributes A life in pictures Parton’s peerless career turned country music cliches inside out Share your tributes and memories of Dolly Parton Our picture editors have collated Dolly Parton’s life in pictures: In the UK, top…

Oscars: Japan Selects ‘All of a Sudden’ for International Feature Race

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 […]

Motherhood Horror Film ‘Vagina Dentata,’ ‘From The Eclipse’ Director Nataša Urban, Boarded by Romanian Partner Manifest Film (EXCLUSIVE)

“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 […]

‘It destroyed me’ – your top true crime TV shows of all time

From influencers gone (really, really) bad and the outrageous Joe Exotic to the greatest reveal in television history – here are Guardian readers’ favourite real-life documentaries and whodunnits I watched the BBC’s Unsolved: The Boy Who Disappeared when it came out and Damien Nettles, its subject, still pops up in my mind sometimes. It’s a comprehensive, empathetic and gripping investigation into a case I had never…

Vidio Teams With ReelShort for First Indonesian Short-Drama Partnership

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 […]

Serena Williams, Carlos Alcaraz fall in US Open mixed doubles quarterfinal

Star pair lost to Cobolli and Bencic, who will play married partners Elina Svitolina and Gael Monfils in the semifinal.

LevelK Boards Haugesund-Bound Norwegian Psycho Thriller ‘Anathema,’ About Repression, Denial and Collective Madness (EXCLUSIVE)

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 […]

Passage by Colin Thubron review – mortality and memory in a gem of a novel

A terminally ill woman makes a final trip to Egypt in an exquisitely wrought portrait of end-of-life reckoning Virginia Woolf said of Middlemarch that it is one of the few English novels written for grown-up people. In the shallow and infantilising age through which we are living, Colin Thubron dares to assume that his readers are adults. Passage is a very beautiful, very moving, authentic work of art. Hardly more…

‘An act of resistance’: Baltimore’s holdout homes – in pictures

Ben Marcin’s stunning photographs show lone houses, derelict homes and makeshift camps that stand as epitaphs to past lives and offer insight into how Americans on the margins live Continue reading...

From Jolene to Islands in the Stream: Dolly Parton’s 10 best recordings

The late star created some of the most beloved country and pop songs in American music Alexis Petridis on Dolly Parton’s peerless career that turned country music cliches inside out Dolly Parton – a life in pictures Country music legend Dolly Parton dies aged 80 – latest updates The death of Dolly Parton today at age 80 has the world mourning one of America’s most beloved entertainers: a generation-spanning…

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Amanda Kernell Is More Interested in ‘Liberation Than a Curse’ as Her Third Feature ‘Brace Your Heart’ Debuts Trailer (EXCLUSIVE)

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 […]

TV tonight: the search for the murderer of Northern Irish journalist Lyra McKee

A documentary series gains impressive access to the detectives who have been hunting for the killer since 2019. Plus: Mark Gatiss returns as a bookish postwar sleuth. Here’s what to watch this evening 9pm, Channel 4 The 2019 murder of the journalist Lyra McKee in Derry was a grim reminder that, while the Troubles are in abeyance, it’s still a stretch to describe them as being over. Filmed across seven years, this…

Eqva Q2 2026 slides: margin recovery starts amid profitability push

Earnings call transcript: Eqva lifts revenue in Q2 2026 as margin recovery starts

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‘We met Princess Margaret and she was paralytic!’ My wild life onboard the Adam and the Ants Antmania rollercoaster

With their twangy sound, madcap outfits, lusty yodelling and pirouetting pirate frontman, the band became global superstars almost overnight. But, as their guitarist Marco Pirroni recalls, the thrill ride soon hit the buffers ‘The essence of pop is, one, brilliant fucking songs – and the rest is sex, subversion, style and humour. And that was us.” So Adam Ant told me in 1995, describing the reconstructed Adam and…