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Jamie Lang This year’s 74th Edinburgh International Film Festival will host the European premiere of Nicolas Cage’s latest flick “Pig,” the debut directorial feature from award-winning editor Michael Sarnoski (“The Testimony”). Edinburgh Festival and Cage have a long and amicable relationship.

Naman Ramachandran Former Disney, DreamWorks and Twentieth Century Fox executive Tim Erickson has been named executive VP of brand Peanuts Worldwide, reporting into Eric Ellenbogen, CEO of WildBrain, the majority owner of Peanuts. Working together with the family of Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz, WildBrain’s content and management teams and brand co-owners Sony Music Entertainment (Japan), Erickson will be responsible for sustaining a strategy supporting brand marketing and leveraging new

October 2019, Smith told TheWrap exclusively about the story for “Clerks III,” saying it was inspired by the director’s own heart attack from 2018 that led to his inspiring comeback. “Randal has a heart attack, decides that he came so close to death and his life has meant nothing.

Jamie Lang Beyond Rights has kept the momentum going in distributing the popular property show “Love It or List It,” announcing two new versions being produced in Finland and France. In France, M6 licensed the format and is now in pre-production on its own version, while Finland’s Rabbit Films is producing an initial 10-episode run for broadcaster Nelonen, set to premiere Aug.

Jamie Lang Channel 4 in the U.K. have commissioned Flicker Productions to produce “Football Trolls” (working title), an hour-long documentary on the relationship between social media, racism and soccer, hosted by former Newcastle and Tottenham midfielder-turned BT Sport pundit Jermain Jenas.

Jamie Lang The TV Foundation, an umbrella charity of the Edinburgh TV Festival supported by YouTube and Screen Scotland, is partnering with Louis Theroux on Looking for Louis, a new talent search venture to seek out the next generation of investigative documentary filmmakers. The search is being executed at Theroux’s Mindhouse Productions in partnership with The TV Foundation and Amazon Prime Video and supported by The TriForce Creative Network.

Fans of Justin Bieber are coming to the singer’s defense after a video showed him in a seemingly heated moment with his wife, Hailey Baldwin, in Las Vegas. In the clip, reportedly filmed after a surprise appearance by Bieber with Diplo at the XS nightclub at the Wynn on Saturday night, the "Peaches" singer, 27, can briefly be seen with Baldwin, 24, in the midst of his entourage, animatedly exchanging words.

Naman Ramachandran Dating app Tinder is teaming with Netflix as the official casting partner for Indian dating reality show, “IRL: In Real Love,” produced by Monozygotic.Swipe cards will appear in between Tinder members’ stack of potential matches, and if they swipe right on the in-app casting call they will be redirected to a registration page.“Tinder is thrilled to partner with Netflix to offer this generation’s hopeful romantics a chance to go after a flame that can’t be put out,” said Taru

Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin's recent Las Vegas outing seemed to have been an exciting one as the couple headed to a nightclub accompanied by their friends including Kendall Jenner among others. Although, not long after their club outing, a video of the duo went viral on TikTok, which claimed to have the Peaches singer "yelling " at his wife according to netizens.

Jamie Lang Sunday night’s Euro 2020 final, in which Italy beat England on penalties, was the U.K.’s most-watched TV event in over 20 years with a peak viewing audience of 30.95 million viewers and an average audience of 29.85 million.

Naman Ramachandran The producers of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” Sonia Friedman Productions, Colin Callender and Harry Potter Theatrical Productions, have confirmed that the two-part multi award-winning production will resume performances at the Palace Theatre in London from Oct. 14.After over a year and a half of shutdown due to the pandemic, rehearsals for the West End production will begin in August.

Jamie Lang Over the weekend, the La Biennale di Venezia launched its new Biennale Cinema Channel in collaboration with Italian streamer MYmovies, offering up a streamable selection of films which have featured in previous editions of the Venice International Film Festival but which are not currently available elsewhere in Italy. The channel drops with an initial library of 36 titles which featured in various sections of the festival between 2007 and 2020.

Hailey Baldwin, 24, and Justin Bieber, 27, were all about the PDA on their latest vacation! The happily married couple were recently photographed sharing a loving kiss while taking a yacht trip along the Mediterranean while wearing colorful summer outfits. The model showed off a yellow and white striped bikini top under a loose orange overshirt and white pants and the singer wore a blue T-shirt with a yellow smiley face, from his clothing line Drew, and yellow shorts.

Bee Gees member Barry Gibb was pictured stepping out in Miami in a rare public outing on Tuesday.  The 74-year-old was spotted running afternoon errands in his adopted hometown with wife of 51 years, former beauty queen Linda Gray.

Jamie Lang Channel 4 and Sky in the U.K.

Jamie Lang “A staggering 20.6 million of you watched England’s victory on BBC One last night,” tweeted “Match of the Day” host and English soccer legend Gary Lineker on Wednesday as the viewing numbers from Tuesday night’s UEFA European Football Championship round of 16 match between England and Germany came in.

Naman Ramachandran “The Crown” stars Olivia Colman and Lesley Manville are among a host of British creative industries personalities calling for a levy on gadgets, the proceeds of which would to towards supporting the U.K. creative sector.“As a coalition of creators and performers we support the Smart Fund, a new scheme that could help to bring cultural and economic renewal to the whole of the U.K.

Jamie Lang The British Film Institute (BFI), in collaboration with skills body ScreenSkills and other industry bodies, has launched a strategic review designed to develop long-term solutions to tackle the current and emerging skills needs of the screen industries.

Jamie Lang Discovery Plus will tap into South America’s largest customer base when it launches in Brazil this September.