Douglas E. Richards Book Series ‘Mind’s Eye’ Gets Film Franchise at Kodiak Pictures (EXCLUSIVE)

Roku, picks up weeks after the events of the season 2 finale of Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist, when Zoey's beau, Max (Skylar Astin), suddenly discovered he also had the power to hear people's innermost heartsongs. But this being set during Christmastime and all, Zoey (Jane Levy) spent most of her time frantically preparing to recreate the Clarke family traditions for their first yuletide season without their beloved patriarch, Mitch (Peter Gallagher).

The Modern Music Masters book series has launched its seventh title: Paul Weller - The Solo Years.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorMunich-based sales agency Global Screen has sold crime drama “Dark Woods” to streaming service Walter Presents for the U.K., where it’ll be shown on Channel 4’s All 4 platform, and across the Nordic Region, via C More.The drama, which was produced by ConradFilm and Bavaria Fiction on behalf of NDR and ARD Degeto for Das Erste, was the most-watched show on ARD’s catch-up service in Germany this year, and was the German TV Award winner.Julia Weber,

Gabrielle Union is absolutely slaying the red carpet with her look at the 2021 The Fashion Awards!

Manori Ravindran International EditorAlmost anyone over 30 has owned a Nokia phone at some point in their lives, but not many people know that the iconic brand was created at a Finnish company formerly specializing in rubber boots.Once the world’s biggest mobile manufacturer at the turn of the 21st century, the company was nearly wiped out of the smartphone market by Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android well before 2010, and ultimately sold its handset division to Microsoft in 2013.When news

Lady Gaga got tearful as she performed her final show with Tony Bennett in CBS special, One Last Time, which aired on Sunday. The glittering concert, which was held at New York City's Radio City Music Hall in August, brought the curtain on iconic swing singer Tony's 75-year recording career , as well as his 10-year working relationship with Gaga.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentStarring Pablo Larraín regular Alfredo Castro, Chilean-Spanish writer-director Theo Court’s “White on White” (“Blanco en Blanco”) has been acquired for distribution in North America by Outsider Pictures.The deal follows on the film’s world premiere this September at the Venice Film Festival’s Horizons sidebar, where Court won a Silver Lion for the section’s best director and a film writers’ Fipresci Prize.

‘Mr. Landsbergis’ Wins At IDFA

K.J. Yossman “Shakespeare in Love” star Simon Callow has joined the cast of indie heist movie “The Pay Day,” Variety can reveal.Callow, who has also appeared in fare as varied as “The Witcher,” “Four Weddings and a Funeral” and “The Phantom of the Opera,” will play an “eccentric crime boss” in the caper.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefSam Neill (“Jurassic World: Dominion,” “Thor: Love and Thunder,” “Palm Beach”) heads the cast of crime drama series “The Twelve” marking his return to Australian TV series after a prolonged absence.The series, which will begin production in Sydney next week, is the flagship title of the 2022 originals slate being assembled by Australian pay-TV and streaming group Foxtel.

NEW YORK -- For 50 years, the fixed narrative had the Beatles' “Let it Be” recording session as a miserable experience with a band where members were sick of each other, sick of their work and in the process of breaking up.The nearly 8-hour, Peter Jackson-produced documentary culled from film and recording outtakes of those sessions instead reveal a self-aware band with a rare connection and work ethic that still knew how to have fun — yet was also in the process of breaking up.The “Get Back”

Ben Croll While their most recent doc “The Rescue” continues its festival and award-circuit run, directors Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin have been at work in the edit suite prepping their next big-screen effort – a decades spanning love story mixing business, philanthropy, and the great outdoors.Aiming for a mid-2022 launch, the still-untitled doc will follow the complicated relationship between conservationist and climber Yvon Chouinard, founder of apparel brand Patagonia, Douglas Tompkins,

Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross twice refused to say if he has confidence in Boris Johnson amid Conservative sleaze rows.

Natti Natasha is a natural.The Dominican singer, whose real name is Natalia Gutiérrez, opens up like never before in her Amazon Prime docuseries,. One of the more intimate moments is diving into her relationship with fiancé Raphy Pina.For those familiar with the singer, is a rewarding insight into her life over the past year.

The Scottish Tories have issued a defiant snub to Boris Johnson by removing their opposition to drug consumption rooms.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentLux Vide, the Italian company behind high-end series “Medici” and “Leonardo,” has scored international sales on high-concept smaller cop show “Blanca” featuring a blind policewoman specialized in an analytical listening and decoding technique that helps her solve tough cases.The six-part “Blanca” has been sold by Lux to M6, which is France’s number two terrestrial network, and to Spain’s top linear channel Telecinco, ahead of the show’s Nov.

#MeToo movement helped Lana Wood speak the truth about her late older sister Natalie Wood’s alleged sexual assault by actor Kirk Douglas in 1955.Lana, 75, dropped the bombshell news in her memoir “Little Sister: My Investigation into the Mysterious Death of Natalie Wood,” which hit bookshelves Nov.