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Selome Hailu Amazon Prime Video has picked up the QCode podcast “Last Known Position” for a TV adaptation with Gina Rodruguez set to star and executive produce.The podcast is a scripted project also starring Gina Rodriguez and charts the fallout of a brand-new, state of the art American commercial jetliner vanishing on its maiden voyage over the Pacific. The ensuing air crash investigation discovers evidence of a creature of the deep that may have been responsible.

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon is lining up a TV series adaptation of QCode mystery thriller podcast Last Known Position and has set Jane The Virgin star Gina Rodriguez — who starred in the scripted pod — as lead actress and executive producer.

S.S. Rajamouli’s RRR, a huge hit when it opened in March, is dipping back into the U.S. market in a novel and, so far, successful bid by distributors to expand the reach of the Telegu period drama beyond the traditional audience for Indian film.

devours the most pornography on the planet, “Deep Throat” still got the shaft as it looked to return to theaters for its 50th anniversary this year. Banned, protested and subjected to numerous obscenity trials after its 1972 debut, this week’s worldwide premiere for the 4K restoration of “the Golden Age of Porn’s” magnum opus initially had a hard time booking US theaters.“Europe is much more receptive to us. We couldn’t find a venue that was comfortable showing the film, and we even had a couple cancel on us at the last minute.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe freshly restored 50th anniversary edition of “The Godfather,” with director Francis Ford Coppola in tow, is set to open Italy’s Taormina Film Festival on June 26.Paramount’s latest restoration of what is arguably one of the greatest films of all time, conducted under Coppola’s watchful eye, will be kicking off the eastern Sicilian fest in its spectacular 8,000-seat ancient Greek theater in the shadow of the island’s active Mount Etna volcano.The 50th edition of “The Godfather” was released in U.S. theaters in February to robust box office results and subsequently played in the Cannes Cinema de la Plage section, though Coppola wasn’t in attendance.“Having the master Francis Ford Coppola inaugurate our 68th edition fills us with pride and joy,” reads a statement from Taormina’s trio of artistic directors, Francesco Alò, Alessandra De Luca and Federico Pontiggia.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe Taipei Film Festival has named prolific writer-director-producer Kevin Chu (aka Chu Yen-ping) as the recipient of its Outstanding Contribution Award. During the 1980s and the 1990s, Chu made many popular memorable commercial films and discovered several promising new actors — Chu wrote the script of “Never Too Late to Repent” and won the best screenplay award at the Asia Pacific Film Festival. After that, Chu made this directorial debut, “The Clown and the Swan,” which was a critically-acclaimed box office success in which comedy actor Hsu Pu-liao established his name.

Indie distributors, grabbing a frame between Top Gun: Maverick and Jurassic World Dominion, are out with a handful of decently wide releases for the specialty space including Neon’s Cannes title Crimes of the Future (127 screes), IFC Midnight thriller Watcher (764) and Roadside Attractions’ WWI period piece Benediction (87). Sony Pictures Classics launches Phantom of the Open in four theaters in NY and LA.

Kate Aurthur editor“If I may get a little graphic, the minute the fingering in the kitchen happens, people didn’t know what was coming next,” says Michael Patrick King.Indeed! King — the longtime “Sex and the City” executive producer, who runs “And Just Like That” for HBO Max — thinks the show’s fifth episode was a turning point for viewers on the matter of Che Diaz (Sara Ramírez), who became a divisive presence among the show’s fandom. During that episode, titled “Tragically Hip,” Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) gets hip surgery, and has to rely on her friends to take care of her during her recovery.

Marshall Tucker Band has been playing at the highest level of the music scene since forming in 1972 and 50 years after coming together, Doug Gray – a founding member of the original Southern rock band – is "feeling good" as the group continues performing sold out shows. "I've been working my butt off for this 50th year, going to United Talent Artists (UTA) and I thought [it] was going to be difficult being an older band," Gray, 74, told Fox News Digital.

couldn’t bring herself to kiss a woman.The actress, 56, made the revelation in an interview with Variety on Wednesday, declaring: “Even though she was only really interested in men, I think that Miranda had many other queer and frankly, lesbianic qualities about her.”Nixon — who identifies as queer and has been married to wife Christina Marinoni since 2012 — added: “I think for a lot of gay women…. she [Miranda] was a stand-in for the gay women we didn’t have.”The “Sex and the City” series ended back in 2004 with Miranda married to bartender Steve Brady.

Kate Aurthur editorWhen “And Just Like That” showrunner Michael Patrick King approached Cynthia Nixon to discuss what her character Miranda Hobbes’ trajectory would be in HBO Max’s “Sex and the City” revival, he asked her whether she wanted Miranda to be queer. After all, Nixon herself came out in 2004, and has been married to Christine Marinoni since 2012.“I was like, ‘Sure, why not!'” Nixon recalled saying.

“I don’t know the lines,” utters a nervous and sweat-drenched diner in the new trailer for the 4K restoration of surrealist master Luis Buñuel’s 1972 “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.” With a screenplay co-written by French novelist, screenwriter, and actor Jean-Claude Carrière, Buñuel’s film plays out like a blistering bad dream, featuring continuously interrupted dinners, interconnected dream sequences, and left-wing terrorists, and that’s not even the half of it.

A Dumbarton nursery celebrated their 50th birthday in style.

laid out its final case, telling the jury that Heard’s stories of abuse and sexual assault were the fabrications of a “deeply troubled” person bent on destroying the “Pirates” actor’s reputation and career after their tempestuous marriage went sour.But Rottenborn suggested to the jury that The Washington Post op-ed at the center of the case was protected by the First Amendment – even if there were no proof that Depp committed any of the horrifying physical and sexual abuse she alleged during the six-week trial.“You can weigh this case … by determining that those statements are true and protected by the First Amendment,” Rottenborn said. “If Amber was abused just one time, then she wins.

Liev Schreiber is making a very rare public appearance with girlfriend Taylor Neisen!