Canadian ‘Jeopardy!’ Champ Mattea Roach Wins 21st Game

EXCLUSIVE: Entering the second week of the Cannes Film Festival, Sony Pictures Television has snapped up multi-territory Latin American rights to FilmSharks’ Amor Bandido, with Raymond Murray’s CineNova Releasing taking U.S. rights.

Christopher Vourlias Russia may have been cut off from much of the international film community, but here at Cannes, members of the country’s media business are quietly trying to line up deals.Nearly three months into the war in Ukraine, the leadership of the film festival has spent its opening week fielding questions about its stance on Russia. Festival chief Thierry Frémaux, for instance, was grilled over the inclusion of competition title “Tchaikovsky’s Wife,” a movie with financial ties to Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich.

 reunites the beloved sprawling ensemble cast that make up the extended Crawley family and their many household staff members, there is one performer notably absent from the new film. Matthew Goode, who joined the franchise as Henry Talbot in season 5 and later wed Lady Mary (Michelle Dockery), sadly is nowhere to be seen onscreen despite previously returning for the franchise’s first film.Goode's absence, however, doesn’t come as a total surprise given that he has not appeared in any of the trailers or images leading up to ’s theatrical debut.

Mrs Tilly's tablet is to be sold in Canada after confectionary bosses secured a deal with three supermarket giants.

K.J. Yossman Rudyard Kipling’s “Kim” is set to get an animated feature adaptation by Indian filmmaker Ketan Mehta.Mehta’s animation studio, Cosmos-Maya, will co-develop the film alongside Irish animation studio Piranha Bar. Mehta (“Sardar,” “Mangal Pandey: The Rising”) will direct.“Kim” is a story about Kimball O’Hara, AKA Kim, a savvy street kid turned child spy in colonial-era India who becomes an apprentice to a Shaolin monk.

Lannister on HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” has joined Kiefer Sutherland in “Rabbit Hole,” Paramount+ announced on Tuesday. The original series from CBS Studios stars Sutherland as John Weir, a master of deception in the world of corporate espionage, who is framed for murder by powerful forces with the ability to influence and control populations.Also joining the cast are Meta Golding (“Empire”), Enid Graham (“Mare of Easttown”), Jason Butler Harner (“Ozark”), and Walt Klink (“Arctic Circle”).

“Out of the Corner,” that her then-boyfriend said he didn’t think she would get the coveted part of Frances “Baby” Houseman on the night before her audition in 1986.“He said this odd thing, as if to reassure himself, like he wasn’t aware he was using his ‘out loud voice,'” Grey wrote, recalling him saying: “‘I don’t know what I’m worried about. There’s no way you’re gonna get it.

Deepa Mehta Toronto-based filmmaker Deepa Mehta has been making films since the 1970s, including the Oscar-nominated “Water,” part of her elements trilogy; “Bollywood/Hollywood” and “Funny Boy.” Her TV credits include “Yellowjackets,” “Little America” and “Leila.”As an immigrant to Canada from India, I felt “seen” twice in my life. And both those moments, ironically, were diametrically antithetical to each other.It was my first foray into North America as a young newlywed documentary filmmaker. I missed my home and family, had no work, couldn’t get the fuss about ice hockey and was frankly surprised at the general questions thrown my way by well-meaning, educated young and old white folk.

Mattea Roach spoke about all the important things in a recent interview, like what the “Jeopardy!” bathrooms were like and whether she got to take any pens home from the show.

here, and here. And see Schmidt’s latest screed below.The idea that is unhinged to respond to insanity or that it is the response that spreads the insanity is an extremely stupid idea. It is what has crippled an able President and turned him into a senile cartoon with an approval level in the 30’s.

Canadian unscripted producer Sean Connolly has set up his own production business and tied up a multi-year strategic deal with compatriot firm Great Pacific Media.

Mattea Roach had a great run on “Jeopardy!”.

Canada’s most successful “Jeopardy!” contestant scooped up another win Wednesday night, further cementing her spot as one of the TV quiz show’s all-time greats.

Naman Ramachandran “Rocketry: The Nambi Effect,” the directorial debut of acclaimed Indian actor R. Madhavan (“Alai Payuthey,” “Tanu Weds Manu”), will have its industry premiere in Cannes as a market screening.India is the country of honor at this year’s Cannes Film Market.Madhavan plays the role of Indian scientist, Nambi Narayanan, a former Indian Space Research Organization scientist and aerospace engineer known for developing efficient liquid fuel engines and who became embroiled in a spy scandal.

PRAGUE -- Meda Mladkova, a Czech arts collector, patron and historian who was an impassioned promoter of Frantisek Kupka and supported artists in communist Czechoslovakia while she was in exile behind the Iron Curtain, has died. She was 102.The Kampa Museum, a modern arts gallery that Mladkova created in the heart of Prague, announced she died on Tuesday.“Meda, although she lived a large part of her long life abroad, was always a great patriot and loved the Czech nation,” the museum said.“All her life she believed in the idea: ‘If culture survives, the nation will survive,’” said Jiri Pospisil, the chairman of the museum’s board.Mladkova, born on Sept.

Reigning “Jeopardy!” champion Mattea Roach represents a new generation of the quiz show’s all-star players.

The Directors Guild of Canada BC’s strike deadline has now passed. Asked if the guild is on strike, a spokesperson told Deadline that “the answer isn’t as simple” in British Columbia, where in 2008 the BC Labor Board imposed safe harbor agreements upon the industry to provide for labor stability during collective bargaining. In any case, film and TV production continues unabated in the province.

Matthew McConaughey indulges in foods with tons of carbohydrates? The actor’s wife, Camila Alves McConaughey, took to social media to share how the Serenity star and their 13-year-old son Levi are obsessed with the South American starchy tuberous root. The Brazilian-American model, designer, and mother of three shared an Instagram video showing how her yuca fries disappeared from the plate she was holding.

shared a tweet Monday promoting their article about Roach’s win, writing: “The 23-year-old lesbian tutor from Toronto has amassed a total of $320,081, the most by a Canadian contestant in ‘Jeopardy!’ history.”The phrasing elicited some angry responses from fans for explicitly pointing out that Roach was part of the LGBTQ+ community. “Is her sexual orientation really relevant here?” one asked.“This is such a weird tweet,” another said, with another chiming in: “Agreed… the wording is so horrible.”Is her sexual orientation really relevant here? https://t.co/HJAV0d70TQ“Try this: Congratulations to Mattea Roach, Canadian tutor, for her amassed sum of $320,081, the most won by a Canadian contestant in ‘Jeopardy!’ history,” one person chimed in.Another penned: “And somehow, in all the coverage of Mattea here in Canada, not once has her sexuality been mentioned…because it doesn’t have anything to do with her success on ‘Jeopardy!’”“I will so enjoy the day when posts highlighting someone’s sexuality are a thing of the past.