European Studio Mediawan Partners With Laurent Zeitoun’s Good Hero

Brent Renaud, an acclaimed filmmaker who traveled to some of the darkest and most dangerous corners of the world for documentaries that transported audiences to little-known places of suffering, died Sunday after Russian forces opened fire on his vehicle in Ukraine.

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The Rolling Stones have teased a new tour in the UK and Europe.In a new video posted to Instagram this morning (March 11), a map of the UK and Europe was dotted with the Stones’ iconic logo, which lit up over several locations – including London.They captioned the post: “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking” – see it below.A post shared by The Rolling Stones (@therollingstones)Back in December, The Rolling Stones played an intimate London show in celebration of their late bandmate Charlie Watts. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood, as well as former bassist Bill Wyman, were all in attendance at Ronnie Scott’s in Soho, along with a number of Watts’ family and friends.Longtime Stones drummer Watts died at the age of 80 last August, prompting a huge outpouring of tributes from the music world and beyond.

Phoebe Bridgers has announced a new run of live shows as part of her ‘Reunion’ tour, including her first full UK tour dates since 2018.The singer-songwriter kicked off the US leg of her ‘Reunion’ tour last September, following the release of her 2020 album ‘Punisher’.Today (March 7), she’s unveiled more US dates as well as gigs in Canada, Europe, and her first UK and Ireland dates in almost four years.Beginning in Phoenix, Arizona on April 13, Bridgers tour will cross over to the Atlantic on June 20 for a show at Fairview Park in Dublin, Ireland. She will then take in Glasgow and Birmingham, followed by her previously announced Glastonbury performance, before heading out to mainland Europe.Bridgers will then come back to the UK on July 22 for Latitude Festival and couple of dates in Manchester and London; she will close out the tour with a few dates back in the States.“See you soon,” she wrote, sharing the dates on Instagram.Tickets go on sale at 10am GMT on Friday (March 11).

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Michael Kosser Adapted from “Let Your Love Flow: The Life and Times of the Bellamy Brothers” by David Bellamy, Howard Bellamy, Michael Kosser. DarBella PublishingThe Bellamy Brothers, one of the most successful and celebrated brother duos in country music, with millions of records sold and decades of sold-out gigs on the road, always knew who they were and where they came from. Before they hit No.

Shalini Dore Features News EditorWriter-director Geeta Malik’s “India Sweets and Spices” is set in the milieu of the Indian community in a New Jersey suburb, where the wealthy families with their weekend parties look down on the working-class fellow South Asians. The pic opened at Tribeca last year and played in theaters and will be on Hulu after March 8. This interview was edited for clarity and space.Where did you get the idea for this film from? Did you go to these kinds of parties?I went to these kinds of parties very often as a child.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentHulu has acquired U.S. rights to “Fireheart,” Anton’s ambitious animated family feature directed by Laurent Zeitoun (“Leap!”) and Theodore Ty (“Kung Fu Panda”) with a voice cast headlined by Olivia Cooke, William Shatner, Laurie Holden and Kenneth Branagh.The deal was negotiated with Hulu by CAA Media Finance and Anton’s Cécile Gaget on behalf of the producers. “Fireheart” will debut on Hulu’s streaming platform in the U.S.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentMediawan (“Call My Agent!”) has signed a strategic partnership with Laurent Zeitoun’s production company Good Hero to co-develop and co-produce original international TV series and feature films.Based in New York and Paris, Good Hero was launched by Zeitoun, an independent producer whose credits include “The Intouchables,” “The Death of Stalin,” “Ballerina” and “Fireheart” (pictured). Zeitoun is working with Gregory Ouanhon, the banner’s CEO and producer.

Death on the Nile (★★☆☆☆) miscalculates from the start, marching into a mystery Christie herself showed no interest in exploring: the origins of Hercule Poirot’s trademark mustache.Director and star Kenneth Branagh, helming his second Christie adaptation following the 2017 hit Murder on the Orient Express, digs into a black-and-white, WWI-set prologue that firmly establishes Belgian sleuth Poirot as the film’s romantic hero.Christie’s sturdy plots and colorful characters certainly invite inventive reinterpretation, but it feels misguided making this or any Poirot story more about the man solving the mystery, than about the mystery that Poirot must solve.The sprightlier 1978 version of Death on the Nile, directed by John Guillermin and scripted by Sleuth playwright Anthony Shaffer, struck a more satisfying balance between the famous detective and the cast of suspects all harboring motives for murder.That whodunnit boasted a lineup of eccentric legends — Bette Davis, Angela Lansbury, Maggie Smith, David Niven, and, of course, Peter Ustinov as Poirot — inhabiting Dame Agatha’s larger-than-life characters while swooning about in Anthony Powell’s Oscar-winning ’30s-era costumes.The result was gloriously camp, as much as it was wickedly intriguing.

produced another PR liability for the studio in the interim. That said, “Death on the Nile” is projected by independent trackers for an opening between $11-13 million. That would be less than half of the opening of its predecessor, “Murder on the Orient Express,” which opened to $28.6 million in November 2017 and in its previews made $1.6 million.

Seth Rogan totally gets why many people don’t care about Hollywood stars giving themselves a pat on the back. The actor revealed that he sympathized with people who won’t be tuning in at this year’s Oscars.The Academy Awards, known as the movie industry’s biggest night of the year, has experienced a drop in viewership over recent years. "I don’t get why movie people care so much if other people care what awards we give ourselves," the "Pineapple Express" star told Insider on Thursday.