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Disney+ will spotlight Season 3 of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” at Italy’s Lucca Comics and Games Festival, where stars Walker Scobell, Leah Sava Jeffries and Aryan Simhadri, and the show’s co-creator and executive producer Jonathan E. Steinberg, and executive producer Dan Shotz will be on hand for a dedicated panel presentation that will include […]
A federal judge has ordered the White House to immediate reinstate access to CNN, MS NOW and Politico journalists, after President Donald Trump summarily banned them last Friday. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly of the D.C. Circuit, a Trump appointee, granted the news orgs’ motion for a temporary restraining order in the lawsuit they filed […]
Tenzing Norgay was the first person to summit Mount Everest alongside Edmund Hillary. The Apple Original film “Tenzing,” opening Zurich Film Festival, reframes the story of that first ascent. “It’s often reduced to a familiar shorthand: Hillary conquered Everest, assisted by a Sherpa. But Tenzing had more experience on Everest than anyone else on that […]
Louise Kennedy, the author of Trespasses, says everyone "should give anything they fancy a lash".
It wasn’t just a sea breeze and late summer sun which brought a sense of new airs and targeted optimism blowing through the San Sebastian’s 2026 Creative Investors’ Conference. For four years, CIC, co-organized with CAA Media Finance, has insisted on upsides and opportunities in drastic post-COVID and post-peak TV downturn. 2026 presented one clear […]
SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain – Paco Rabal worked with Luis Buñuel, Michelangelo Antonioni and Carlos Saura, made more than 200 films and built a career spanning Spain, France, Italy and Mexico. In “200 Lives, Paco Rabal,” the Spanish screen legend gets one more role: Narrator of his own life. Directed by Vanesa Benítez, the documentary world […]
The premise of Argentina’s Ricardo Darin’s latest feature, “Therapy Done Right” (Lo dejamos acá”), world premiering at the San Sebastian Festival, is deceptively simple: A pragmatic psychoanalyst loses faith in conventional methods and starts pushing the boundaries with his patients. Everything seems to be going well until a writer (played by Diego Peretti), struggling with […]
For director Mikel Gurrea’s latest he didn’t have to travel far in search of a story. “I live in Barcelona’s district of Sants and, having done my previous film in the woods, this time I wanted to find fiction at my doorstep,” Gurrea told Variety of “Saints,” picked up for international by M-Appeal. “So I […]
Top Bollywood star Ranbir Kapoor carries a bullet wound in a new image from Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s upcoming feature “Love & War,” in which he stars alongside Alia Bhatt and Vicky Kaushal. The image places Kapoor at the wheel of a vintage turquoise convertible. He wears sunglasses and a white short-sleeved knit shirt, his hair […]
Dentsu has struck a partnership giving clients in the Americas access to a broad swath of anime and manga intellectual property owned by Japanese publisher Kodansha Ltd., including “Attack on Titan,” “Ghost in the Shell” and “Blue Lock.” The agreement positions Dentsu as the central point of contact for brand marketers looking to tap into […]
Hanna Bergholm’s Finnish horror film “Nightborn,” starring “Compartment No. 6” lead Seidi Haarla and Rupert Grint, won best film at the inaugural edition of the Freyas, also known as the Nordic Film and TV Awards. Accepting the award at the gala ceremony at Helsinki’s iconic Finlandia Hall, Bergholm said, “The most important thing is how […]
Spending on video content in seven major markets across Asia is expected to climb to $15.1 billion in 2026, according to Media Partners Asia’s “Asia Video Content Dynamics 2026” report. Streaming and local film account for nearly all new spending as television budgets shrink. The study covers India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and […]
Thirty-nine years after the beloved NBC series premiered, Netflix is reopening the gates of the fictional, historically Black Hillman College with “A Different World.” Created by Felicia Pride and executive produced by Debbie Allen (who helmed the first version of the sitcom), the bold and brilliant reboot follows Deborah Wayne (an outstanding Maleah Joi Moon), […]
Her heavy metal performance trumped nine other finalists, including magicians and even a robot crew.
The London production, which has been running for 10 years, will reopen next month as a one-part show.
Issa Rae received the Entertainment Entrepreneur of the Year Award at Variety’s L.A. Power of Women event on Wednesday in Beverly Hills. The award was presented by U.S. Bank senior executive vice president Courtney Kelso and honored the Emmy-nominated actress, writer, producer and entrepreneur. Rae created, executive produced and starred in HBO’s “Insecure,” which ended […]
Jennifer Hudson, Pearlena Igbokwe, Melissa McCarthy and Sharon Stone were the guests of honor at the starry Variety Power of Women presented by Lifetime event in Beverly Hills Wednesday night, during which the musician, executive and actresses were commended for both their outstanding accomplishments and their dedicated commitment to a number of key causes. The […]
Sean Gunn has proclaimed himself “retired” from doing the on-set motion capture for the fan-favorite “Guardians of the Galaxy” character Rocket Raccoon. The actor explained that he feels he’s aged out of standing in for the Marvel character due to the physical demands of contorting himself into the shape of the small animal on a […]
Miki Núñez and Nil Moliner, among the prominent names of the concert of Los40 on Friday at Bogatell beach
Two festivals in Madrid bring together women readers and authors of a genre driven by digital communities looking for new meeting spaces
