Canal+ Ups Stake In Viaplay To 29% As Scandi Outfit Rubberstamps Recap Program

Strictly Come Dancing star Vito Coppola claims he made a photography error with winner Ellie Leach after she and co-star Bobby Brazier were snapped leaving a hotel together.

Ha! It’s one thing for an audience member to mix two actors’ names up while watching the opening credits and wondering how the heck baby Tom Holland is in 2001’s Gosford Park. It’s quite another for the accounting department to make that mistake!

​​Viggo Mortensen To Attend Glasgow Film Festival 

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Tom Hollander is a British actor known for performances in “Pride & Prejudice,” the “Pirates of the Caribbean” films, “The White Lotus” and “The Night Manager,” the latter of which earned him a BAFTA Award. What he isn’t is Tom Holland, the 27-year-old superstar who plays Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. During a recent appearance on “Late Night With Seth Meyers,” Hollander remembered the one time his agency mixed him up with Holland via an email, sending the Marvel star’s box office bonus was mistakenly sent to the British thespian.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Veteran Italian film executive Claudio Rapino, prominent producer Andrea Iervolino and entrepreneur Pietro Peligra have teamed to form film and TV distribution and development company Maestro Distribution, which will launch from the upcoming European Film Market in Berlin. Rapino (pictured left), a former head of acquisitions and sales at top Italian companies including Leone Film Group, Notorious Pictures and Koch Media Italia, will head Maestro, which plans to buy and theatrically distribute up to 10 international feature films a year.

Netflix has promoted Carolina Leconte to replace Roberto Stopello.

EXCLUSIVE: With Anyone But You having just crossed $100M at the global box office and Top Gun 3 chatter lighting up the internet, Hollywood man of the moment Glen Powell has found his next project in the shape of thriller Huntington from Emily The Criminal writer-director John Patton Ford.

Viaplay‘s Central and Eastern European production division Paprika Studios has exited the Scandinavian media group.

Omid Djalili Launches Production Outfit

Before the MCU‘s “The Avengers” took over the silver screen, a different “The Avengers” held sway over TVs in the UK. And Studiocanal hopes they might replicate the sensation of the original series with a reboot.

EXCLUSIVE: Iconic 1960s television series The Avengers is getting a remake.

Following the success of the official opening season of Aviva Studios, Factory International has announced a captivating line up for its 2024 spring programme at the city's landmark venue.

Naman Ramachandran June Givanni, film curator, writer and programmer of African and African diaspora cinema and founder of The June Givanni PanAfrican Archive, will be presented with BAFTA’s Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema award at the BAFTA Film Awards in February. The award is presented to an individual or organization that has made a significant and inspiring contribution to film through a particular project or work – with focus on recognizing work that might not otherwise be eligible in BAFTA’s competitive awards categories.

Viaplay is targeting double-digit profit margins in five years’ time following the recapitalization program that it hopes will end months of strife, although it has once again downgraded financials for the coming year.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent European production powerhouse Mediawan has bought a majority stake in Misfits, the prestige U.K. company whose anticipated documentary “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story” will play at the Sundance Film Festival.

Salma Hayek is remembering her late Grown Ups co-star Alec Musser after news of the actor’s death at the age of 50.

With more snow on the way, drivers are being warned of a motoring error that could result in a seriously damaged vehicle.

‘The Repair Shop‘ Outfit Ricochet Signs Damon Pattison

TMZ, revealing that he died on Friday (January 12) at his home in Del Mar, California. At the time of publishing, Musser’s cause of death has yet to be announced. Musser has also shared numerous reports of Musser’s death on her Instagram stories.“RIP to the love of my life,” Press wrote in a series of Instagram Stories, which also included photos of them throughout their time as a couple.

Alec Musser has sadly passed away.