‘Godzilla x Kong’ Trailer: The Two Iconic Monsters Team Up to Battle Colossal Threat in ‘The New Empire’

It’s been an eventful 2023 for international TV and film. As the strikes shut down Hollywood and streamers retrenched from the mega-spends of the Covid era, shows and movies from far and wide came were already in demand like never before, as viewers look to new countries for inspiration. Call it the Squid Game effect, or whatever you want, but neither subtitles nor geographical boundaries are an impediment to content getting seen any more. Here, we run down each Deadline International journalist’s top pick from the year, for the most part avoiding spoilers (there are some though, so this is a fair warning). You’ll find big-ticket U.S. fare, Japanese anime, restaurant TV dramas and Australian newsroom stories among our eclectic selections.

Edgar Ramirez and Mandy Moore are opening up about their awaited new TV show. The pair star in the second season of “Dr. Death,” an anthology series exploring real life stories of surgeons and doctors that have been convicted of notorious crimes.

Megan Thee Stallion has teamed up with Reneé Rapp on a new song called ‘Not My Fault’ – listen below.The Houston rapper and actor/singer Rapp recorded the track for the upcoming Mean Girls movie musical, in which the latter portrays Regina George. She previously took on the role for the Broadway adaptation of the 2004 film.‘Not My Fault’ begins with a sample from the original Mean Girls movie.

Emmy winner and Oscar nominee Glenn Close has been tapped to portray the legendary Harper’s Bazaar editor-in-chief Carmel Snow in Apple TV+’s The New Look. The streamer revealed the news today along with two first-look photos of Close as the character. You can see them below. The role marks the first reunion for Close and The New Look creator Todd A. Kessler since their collaboration on the acclaimed series Damages.

Communications firm The Lippin Group has created a new management structure and elevated three company veterans to the position of managing director.

Neighbours, the returning soap that has been playing elsewhere (Channel 5 and previously the BBC in the UK, has been released by its new home – streamer Freevee.The series will return to screens on 18 September, with new episodes releasing daily, Monday-Thursday, at 7 a.m. BST, on Amazon Freevee in the UK and the U.S.

Jack Black made a surprise appearance at the Jonas Brothers‘ concert in New York last night (December 9), to perform ‘Peaches’ from The Super Mario Bros. Movie.The track, which is sung by Black’s character Bowser in the movie, entered the Billboard Hot 100 earlier this year.During the intermission at last night’s show at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, Black came onstage dressed as Bowser and sang Peaches live.

The Darkness have paid tribute to the late Shane MacGowan at a recent show in Dublin by leading the crowd through a sing-along of The Pogues’ signature song, ‘Fairytale of New York’. At the band’s show at Dublin’s 3Olympia Theatre on December 3, they performed the cover towards the end of the set, with frontman Justin Hawkins singing minimally, frequently pointing the microphone towards the crowd as an invitation to lead the sing-along, against sporadic guitar accompaniment.The band posted a clip of the performance on X yesterday (December 7), writing: “Thanks for the sing-a-long Dublin.

Viewership for the fourth Republican debate fell since the last event, drawing more than 4 million for Nexstar’s NewsNation and its simulcast on The CW.

EXCLUSIVE: Kimiko Glenn, the actress best known for her award-winning work on Netflix’s acclaimed series Orange Is the New Black, has signed with Artists First for management.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Humorist and writer Andy Borowitz has gotten the axe from the New Yorker after 25 years of writing for the magazine, as part of a larger wave of cost-cutting and layoffs at parent Condé Nast. Borowitz announced that the New Yorker was dropping his long-running Borowitz Report satire features because of “its financial difficulties.” In a post on Facebook, Borowitz wrote, “IF I MAY BE SERIOUS: Because of its financial difficulties, The New Yorker has been forced to cut costs. As a result, it has decided to stop publishing The Borowitz Report.

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with Kelly Fremon Craig‘s adaptation of Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, which marks the first time a book penned by YA icon Judy Blume has made it to the big screen.

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, the new Warner Bros. and Legendary epic coming to cinema screens next year.

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire – watch the trailer below.Taking place after the events of 2021’s Godzilla vs Kong, The New Empire will see the two titular titans teaming up to take out a common enemy. Little is known of their new foe, though the newly released trailer offers up a new look at a Kong-like creature seeking to claim Kong’s throne.In the trailer below, Kong’s new home of Hollow Earth is under threat from a seemingly older and meaner creature, leading to the return of Godzilla to help out his new ally in King Kong.Besides the colossal team-up between King Kong and Godzilla, the pair also show off new appearances, as Kong dons a mechanical arm while Godzilla now sports a pink glow across its spine.

The Godzilla x Kong movie is on the way and the trailer just premiered!

While Marvel, DC, and “Star Wars” take up most of the headlines in franchise filmmaking, one of the more consistently successful franchises in modern blockbuster filmmaking is Legendary’s Monsterverse, which comprises all things Godzilla and King Kong in North America (Toho still releases “Godzilla” moves in Japan). Coming straight off the heels of Apple TV+’s successful “Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters,” TV limited series (which is more of a prequel anyhow), next up in the film universe via Warner Bros.

Two areas of Greater Manchester have been named as some of the worst places for fly-tipping in the entire North West region last year.

One of Manchester Airport’s lounges has been named among the worst in the UK according to a study by consumer group Which?. The Manchester Terminal 1 Escape Lounge received a score of just one and a half stars based on secret inspections.

Emmerdale's beloved Matthew Wolfenden, known to many as David Metcalfe, might be taking a break from the soap world to spend quality time with his rumoured new love interest Heather Scott Martin.This comes after his split from former co-star and wife Charley Webb. Matthew, who has been a regular on Emmerdale since 2006, recently said goodbye to the show, leaving many fans heartbroken.

The New York Film Critics Circle kicked off the annual year-end deluge of critics’ honors by announcing their best of 2023 today and the big winner was Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of The Flower Moon” which took Best Film. Christopher Nolan won Best Director for “Oppenheimer” while Celine Song’s “Past Lives” won Best First Film.