Blackpool Zoo welcomes 'very special arrival' as baby orangutan is born

A trio of docs and a wider-than-usual run for a Vertical Entertainment thriller populate a specialty weekend with fewer new openings as theaters stick with Asteroid City and devote screens to Indiana Jones and Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken. Call it jittery Friday as the indie community like the rest of Hollywood awaits news from SAG-AFTRA as the guild’s contract is set to expire tonight.

The producers of Babylon Berlin have confirmed the drama will get a fifth season, despite partner Sky Deutschland pulling out of commissioning in the country.

Blackpool town centre could see the construction of more offices as the council initiates negotiations to attract further investment to the resort. Earlier this year, work commenced on a £100m seven-storey office block on King Street, to accommodate over 3,000 civil servants starting from 2025.

Manori Ravindran Executive Editor of International Sky Deutschland, the German arm of Comcast-owned pay-TV operator Sky, is pulling out of scripted originals from 2024, Variety can reveal. Staff were notified of the surprise move by Sky Deutschland boss Devesh Raj on Thursday morning, local time. Variety understands that the entire scripted originals team will eventually be disbanded, though shows that have already been commissioned and are in production, such as post-apocalypse drama “Helgoland 513″ and “Das Boot” Season 4, will finish filming. Any projects in development will be “put into turnaround,” as per another internal note from Sky Studios CEO Cécile Frot-Coutaz, also seen by Variety.

Jesse Armstrong and Danny McBride will have some individual independence to celebrate this holiday weekend.

Ryan Gosling has touched down in Toronto for the Canadian promotional run for “Barbie”.

Netta is back, and it’s “Everything”!

Nicole Scherzinger is one happy lady after saying yes to her partner Thom Evans. The soon-to-be bride shared the photo of the special moment he proposed on Instagram Tuesday with her 5.8 million followers. “I said yes,” she wrote with a ring and black heart.A post shared by Nicole Scherzinger (@nicolescherzinger)The couple was vacationing in Hawaii when Evans got down on one knee.

Blackpool Pleasure Beach bosses have blamed a 'payroll oversight' after finding themselves in the spotlight for breaching minimum wage regulations.

Nathan Kress and his wife, London, are new parents once again.The star took to Instagram on Tuesday to introduce the world to his newborn baby boy, Lincoln, with a slideshow post featuring a number of heartwarming family photos.«Rapid-fire life update! 1.

Sofia Vergara is welcoming summer. The Colombian actress shared a photo on Instagram showing off her excitement for the hot weather in a black bikini. Inside Sofia Vergara’s stunning Los Angeles homeSofia Vergara takes scientific approach with her new makeup line infused with SPFSofía Vergara lanza una nueva línea de bellezaA post shared by Sofia Vergara (@sofiavergara)The post shows Vergara on her stomach as she wears a black bikini and takes a selfie.

did lose the Civil War, at the time, the Union was led by President Lincoln’s Republican Party, while the pro-slavery Southern states were Democrats. The shift in party platforms was helped along when Harry Truman introduced a pro-civil rights platform in 1948, which led to several Democrats abandoning the party to become the “Dixiecrats.” Meanwhile, the Republican Party employed what became known as the “Southern Strategy” to appeal to white voters by amplifying racism.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Warner Bros. Discovery is negotiating to sell around half of the storied Warner studio’s film and TV music-publishing assets for approximately $500 million, three sources confirm to Variety. The news was first reported by Hits. While it is unclear exactly which assets are on the table, one source says that the rights to “slightly less than half” of the catalog, with a price of around $500 million, are likely to go to a major label, with Sony said to be in the lead. The catalog is believed to include music from such films as “Purple Rain,” “Evita,” “Sweeney Todd,” “Rent” several “Batman” films and many more titles, as well as songs included in iconic films such as “As Time Goes By” from “Casablanca” — iconic titles to be sure, but again, it is unclear exactly which rights are in play. Top attorney Allen Grubman is said to be overseeing the deal for Warner Discovery CEO David Zaslav.

After the success of last year’s Elvis, another movie about the music icon is in the works — but his estate is reportedly not happy about it.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Musical tag-teaming doesn’t have results much more fruitful than what came about when the showrunners of “A Small Light” picked Ariel Marx to compose the score for the limited series and Este Haim to serve as executive music producer. Neither Haim nor Marx was in a position to take anything about the job lightly, given that the eight-episode series for National Geographic and Disney+ tells the story of a Dutch woman, Miep Gies, who helped hide Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis. Yet, in their very separate roles, both found ways to bring musical light or even levity into a drama that inevitably skews toward tension. Este Haim took on the EMP job for the first time with “A Small Light” after previously scoring or co-composing “Maid” and “Cha Cha Smooth” — on top of her day job as one-third of the rocking sister trio Haim. For “A Small Light,” she produced episode-ending covers of songs from the first half of the 20th century, performed by Angel Olsen, Moses Sumney, Kamasi Washington, Sharon Van Etten with Michael Imperioli, Remi Wolf, Weyes Blood, duet partners Orville Peck and King Princess, and her sister Danielle.

Cynthia Littleton Business Editor Jim Osborne is a product of the mailroom. The veteran talent agent, who has been named CEO of the newly christened Independent Artist Group, got his start in the representation field the old-fashioned way — by working his way of out of the ICM mailroom and assistant pool. Osborne has spent the past dozen years at APA, rising to partner in 2015 and to president in 2020. As of today, he advances to the top post, as APA combines into a new entity with Dennis Arfa’s music touring powerhouse Artist Group International. The deal brings such superstars into the fold as Billy Joel, Metallica, Smashing Pumpkins, Linkin Park and the Strokes, and was orchestrated in part by investor Ron Burkle and his Yucaipa Co. (which owned Artist Intl. and invested in APA in 2020).

Lindsay Lohan is celebrating her love.

The consolidation in the talent representation space continues. Agency for the Performing Arts and music touring agency Artist Group International (AGI) are merging, with the combined full-service agency rebranded as Independent Artist Group (IAG). APA President Jim Osborne is being named CEO of IAG, with Dennis Arfa, founder and CEO of AGI, as Chairman of the Music Division of IAG. Former longtime APA CEO Jim Gosnell will serve on the board of AGI alongside Osborne and Arfa.

, Zooey Deschanel is returning to TV as a network star who decides to enter the fitness industry in the third and final season of. Only ET has the first look at Deschanel in character as Kelly as well as other new images of Rose Byrne as Sheila Rubin and Dierdre Friel who plays Greta Hauser in the half-hour Apple TV+ dramedy from creator and executive producer Annie Weisman. According to Deschanel, «Kelly is like Sheila’s shadow side and she challenges her on every level. She’s her frenemy, her foil, her obsession,» the actress tells ET.

Paramount+ crime-thriller Bargain, Prime Video’s absurdist comedy I’m a Virgo and Greek infertility dramedy Babython were among the awards series winners at last week’s Seriencamp in Germany.