Fremantle Names CEOs For Italian Producers Wildside & The Apartment

Manchester United will have a new-found optimism for the season after their dramatic FA Cup victory over Liverpool.

Elon Musk is opening up about ketamine use.

Chaka Khan’s Meltdown Festival, which is taking place in June this year. The annual contemporary music festival is set to take place between June 14 and June 23 and the Southbank Centre confirmed in January that Khan would be curating this year’s edition. Khan herself will be playing two shows at the festival, including a greatest hits set on the opening night at the Royal Festival Hall, and a performance of her 2004 album ‘ClassiKhan’ on the closing night, where she will be joined by the Black-led Nu Civilisation Orchestra.

Shakira is looking back at her relationship with Gerard Pique.

The upcoming sports streaming service from ESPN, Fox & Warner Bros. Discovery has found its boss.

Paramount+ may have culled a raft of international originals last month but UK commissioning appears to be continuing apace.

. So, when someone said, “John Cena, would you be willing to present the for best costumes naked for a bit?” I can only assume he responded something along the lines of, “Heck yeah!” Because that is what he did.The moment began with host Jimmy Kimmel reminding the audience of an important piece of Oscars history, when a real live streaker interrupted a presenter during the 1974 ceremony. According to the bit, Cena was then supposed to run on stage to recreate the moment.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor TikTok, the massively popular video app owned by Chinese internet giant ByteDance, apparently has an ally in Donald Trump. The former U.S. president expressed opposition to a national ban of TikTok not for, say, First Amendment reasons but because such a move would likely boost the fortunes of Meta’s Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

EXCLUSIVE: Boxing great and entrepreneur Saul “Canelo” Alvarez will serve as an executive producer on the film, The Long Game, which earned the SXSW Narrative Spotlight Audience Award in 2023. The feature, directed by Julio Quintana, opens in theaters nationwide on April 12.

Rachel Weisz and Polly Stokes are taking their slate to Fremantle.

The National, Jorja Smith and Róisín Murphy set to headline.The three-day event is due to take place at the Curraghmore estate in County Waterford, Ireland between August 1-4. Tickets go on sale at 9am next Monday (March 11) – you’ll be able to buy yours here.“We welcome music lovers, mavericks, creators, families and curious minds alike for a weekend of exploration, escapism, and togetherness,” reads an official description of the festival.Today (March 7) organisers have shared the first 50 names for All Together Now 2024.

EXCLUSIVE: It was on the set of Sky and HBO’s We Are Who We Are where Lorenzo Mieli asked Francesca Manieri, a feminist screenwriter, to pen a TV series about Rocco Siffredi, the infamous hardcore porn star. Initially, she could barely believe it. “I laughed,” she recalls. “I was sure he was joking.”

EXCLUSIVE: Napoleon star Vanessa Kirby will reunite with The Crown’s Benjamin Caron on a movie based on Willy Vlautin’s 2021 novel The Night Always Comes, about a working-class woman in the Pacific Northwest who embarks on a 24-hour quest to call in old debts and raise enough money to keep a roof over her head. 

Thinus Ferreira Guest Contributor Producing successful Black female-fronted comedy in South Africa is no joke but Black female producers and writers Reabetswe Moeti-Vogt and Zoe Ramushu are determined to bring about change in front of and behind the lens. Their film “Real Estate Sisters” screened this week at the 6th Joburg Film Festival in South Africa.

Alex Ritman Well-established Italian producers Mario Gianani and Lorenzo Mieli — who left their Fremantle-owned banners, Wildside and The Apartment, respectively, earlier this year — are returning to the growing TV and film powerhouse with their new scripted outfit. The duo — who co-founded “The Young Pope” and “My Brilliant Friend” production house Wildside in 2009 before Mieli exited to set up The Apartment, which was behind the recent hit “Priscilla” — are yet to reveal details of their new company.

Prince Harry has lost a legal battle.

The fourth season of Hulu’s acclaimed comedy series “Only Murders in the Building” keeps getting more and more intriguing. Meryl Streep is already back for a second go around and Molly Shannon and Eva Longoria were recently announced as new cast members.

It's no secret that Melanie Brown has been on a roller-coaster journey in recent years - from a 10-year emotionally abusive marriage to Stephen Belafonte – abuse which he denies - to subsequent drug abuse and suicide attempts. But when OK! caught up with the Spice Girl, she's here to tell us that she has risen from the ashes. “I was living a lie for 10 years.

Love Is Blind: The Reunion is nearing its premiere!

EXCLUSIVE: America Ferrera‘s hot streak continues, as the Barbie Oscar nom has been set to executive produce and star in Naked by the Window, a series adaptation of the book by Robert Katz, which has landed at Amazon MGM Studios for development following a bidding war.