Fantasporto Chiefs Beatriz Pacheco Pereira and Mário Dorminsky on Spotting Rising Talent in the World of Fantasy

A Scottish regional accent has been named the hardest in the world to emulate by language experts.

Coming out of the weekend, and with Sunday’s actuals and Monday’s numbers included, there are new global milestones to celebrate for the two major Hollywood titles currently in release.

and Jenna Dewan, who famously met while dancing their way across the screen in Step Up, has also taken to the art, but with a surprising twist: She's an Irish step dancer. In fact, 10-year-old Everly has an “Ireland obsession,” as her mom revealed via Instagram on St.

With a solid offshore hold, Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two is closing in on $500M globally. The overseas weekend brought in $51.2M across 73 markets, a 40% drop versus last session (-37% excluding China). The international box office cume through Sunday is $289.4M, and worldwide the running total is $494.7M. The latter figure means the film has already surpassed Villeneuve’s 2021 Dune worldwide.

Scotland is to be battered by a fresh deluge of rain as new weather maps show more downpours are on the way.

Love Island stars Zachariah Noble and Molly Marsh have split after seven months together.The pair, who met on the ITV2 dating show last summer, have remained "extremely close friends" and insist they "wish nothing but the best for one another". A rep for both of them told The Sun: "Love Island’s Molly Marsh and Zachariah Noble have made the decision to end their relationship in the last week.

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Margot Robbie is celebrating the launch of the new book Barbie: The World Tour with her stylist and fashion collaborator Andrew Mukamal!

A mum and daughter completely transformed their lives after agreeing to try and lose weight together. Liz Stratchan began avoiding social gatherings due to feeling self-conscious about her size, while her eldest daughter Cheryl Fowler burst into teaers after stepping on the scales at a medical appointment.

One of Scottish Labour's rising stars has revealed that she was "raised by the SNP".

untimely death of Thomas Kingston, the husband of Lady Gabriella Windsor, 56th in line to the British throneThe financier, 45, was found dead Sunday evening at an estate in the Cotswolds, England, with a gunshot wound to the head. The death is “not being treated as suspicious.”Kingston wed Lady Gabriella — who is the second cousin of King Charles — in 2019 following a six-year courtship.

Suede‘s Brett Anderson has released a cover of the Echo & the Bunnymen’s classic ‘The Killing Moon’ as part of a new project.Anderson has worked with Paraorchestra and their founder and artistic director Charles Hazlewood on ‘The Death Songbook’, a collaborative 12-track album featuring original compositions and “re-imagining iconic songs exploring love, loss and transcendence” by artists including Depeche Mode, Suede and Japan. The album includes guest features by Nadine Shah, Gwenno, Seb Rochford of Sons of Kemet and Adrian Utley of Portishead.Paraorchestra is the world’s only ensemble consisting of both professional disabled and non-disabled musicians playing an unconventional mix of traditional orchestral, acoustic, and electronic instruments and using assistive technology.‘The Death Songbook’ will be released on April 19 via BMG.Check out Anderson’s cover of ‘The Killing Moon’ below:Our mate @BrettAndersonHQ of @suedeHQ has just released a stunning version of ‘The Killing Moon’, the lead track from the new full-length album, ‘Death Songbook’ by Paraorchestra with Brett Anderson and Charles Hazlewood (featuring Nadine Shah and Gwenno) is available now! pic.twitter.com/cZnzmiYTv1— Echo & the Bunnymen (@Bunnymen) February 29, 2024“The Death Songbook was an idea Charles came up with during the bleak days of lockdown.

EXCLUSIVE: Beta Film‘s Crown-esque high-end drama series Maxima has sold to networks in Lat Am, Israel and across Europe.

Having faced silence from their owners for almost two decades, Manchester United fans sense change is coming.

EXCLUSIVE: R.F. Kuang‘s bestselling fantasy novel Babel is in the works for the screen. Independent studio wiip (The Mare of Easttown, The Summer I Turned Pretty) has optioned the novel for television/film adaptation with Temple Hill Entertainment (Twilight) producing.

Love Island All Stars has come to a close, with the series being criticised by fans for not having many actual 'All Stars' in the cast. However, some former Islanders have revealed that they were supposed to be on the show but didn't end up entering the villa, each for various reasons. While some are upset, others don't seem too bothered.

Robert Carlyle has shared his delight after The Simpsons included a nod to Trainspotting.The actor famously played the role of Begbie in the 1996 Danny Boyle film, which is based on the novel by Irvine Welsh.In the recent Simpsons episode Ae Bonny Romance, which originally aired in December, the family journeys to Scotland to find Groundskeeper Willie, learning that the Scottish character is about to get married.In one scene, audiences are shown an airline called “Planespotting”, with the plane including a picture of Carlyle’s character Begbie on its tail.My life is complete.. https://t.co/SqFOWq07J2— Robert Carlyle (@robertcarlyle_) February 25, 2024Responding to a fan pointing out the reference on X (formerly Twitter), Carlyle wrote: “My life is complete..”.As well as the nod, the episode featured the voices of actors Karen Gillan, David Tennant and Paul Higgins.Meanwhile, Trainspotting star Jonny Lee Miller, who played Sick Boy, recently suggested he didn’t fully capitalise on the film’s success.“It’s not something that bothers me,” he told The Guardian.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor The Match Factory has revealed multiple distribution deals for two Berlinale competition titles: German director Matthias Glasner‘s “Dying,” which won the festival’s Silver Bear for best screenplay, and Russian director Victor Kossakovsky‘s documentary “Architecton.” “Dying,” which stars Lars Eidinger, Lilith Stangenberg and Corinna Harfouch, also picked up the Guild of German Arthouse Cinemas and the Berliner Morgenpost Readers’ Jury Award. Variety‘s review describes the film as “a profoundly affecting exploration of life and loss.” The Match Factory closed deals for the film in France (Bodega Film), Italy (Satine Film), Benelux (September Film Distribution), Norway (Selmer Media), Poland (Aurora), CIS (Provzglyad), Ex-Yugoslavia (MCF MegaCom Film), Hungary (Cirko Films), Greece (Cinobo), Romania (Freealize), Taiwan (Andrews Film) and South Korea (Pancinema).

Three months after SAG-AFTRA ended its long and bitter strike against the studios, guild president Fran Drescher took a glamourous and humorous victory lap in front of some of her most notable members Saturday at the SAG Awards.

Three of Hallmarks biggest actors – Andrew Walker, Paul Campbell, and Tyler Hynes – were asked if they would ever leave the network for other ventures.