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Joe Otterson TV ReporterFX has ordered a limited series exclusively for Hulu from Steven Knight with Elisabeth Moss set to star, Variety has learned.Titled “The Veil,” the show is described as a thriller that explores the surprising and fraught relationship between two women who play a deadly game of truth and lies on the road from Istanbul to Paris and London. One woman has a secret, the other a mission to reveal it before thousands of lives are lost.“We’re excited to continue our partnership with Steven Knight on ‘The Veil’ and thrilled to have Elisabeth Moss sign on for the lead role,” said Nick Grad, president of original programming at FX. “Steven’s scripts are riveting and no doubt will showcase Elisabeth’s exceptional talent.” Knight is writing and executive producing “The Veil,” with Moss executive producing under her Love & Squalor Pictures banner.

FX has ordered The Veil, a new limited series thriller for Hulu from Steven Knight and starring Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid’s Tale). 

Manori Ravindran International EditorThe directors of hit Turkish biopic “Bergen,” Mehmet Binay and M. Caner Alper, have signed with CAA for representation.“Bergen” tells the story of 1980s Turkish pop singer Bergen, who grappled with a violent husband that hired someone to pour nitric acid on her face and later shot and killed her.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentA Turkish biopic about 1980s pop singer Bergen, who grappled with a violent husband that hired someone to pour nitric acid on her face and later shot and killed her, is becoming a sleeper box office hit across West Asia.The potent female empowerment film, titled “Bergen,” follows the singer’s meteoric rise from cello player to becoming Turkey’s “Queen of Arabesque,” all while struggling with a partner hellbent on sabotaging her career. The pic is helmed by Turkish directorial duo Caner Alper and Mehmet Binay, who are known for works driven by civil liberties and gender issues such as the 2015 drama “Drawers,” about a teenage girl’s sexuality.Upon grossing a substantial $10 million-plus intake at Turkish cinemas, “Bergen” is now scoring brisk box office returns across Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Lebanon and Oman.

Herbert L. Kloiber’s Night Train Media has acquired scripted distributor Eccho Rights from Korean giant CJ ENM, with Eccho Co-Founder Nicola Söderlund retiring.

READ MORE: 'I tried the London pizza restaurant where they serve by the slice that's also really cheap and I need to tell everyone about it' If you're not a fan of celebrity chefs, you will be soon. However, for those who love top notch food and Michelin-starred dining, then you're in for a treat. Prior to my visit, I was staying in a holiday cottage in a tiny nearby village called Rock.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorPaolo Genovese’s “Superheroes” will be the opening film of the 56th Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival on July 1, while George Miller’s “Three Thousand Years of Longing” will close the festival on July 9.“Superheroes” is a romantic film that briefly introduces us to the carousel of joys and fears of a couple brought together by chance.

The Whitworth Gallery is to host a free two-day outdoor music and arts festival in August. Black Gold Arts will celebrate the work of local and national black artists across everything from music and dance to fashion.

Ekin-Su's inevitable autobiography. Either that, or we want to subscribe to her inevitable podcast, which in our minds will be called Ekin and the Exes; each week she'll invite a different celebrity ex/fling on to her show in the name of drama and our earholes shall LIVE.To clarify, neither of these things are confirmed, but if Ekin-Su's manager is reading this, let's talk - we've pretty much mapped out her whole post-show business plan.If Ekin-Su wanted to go down these routes post-Love Island, she most definitely could; after all, this reality queen not only exhales drama like carbon dioxide, but her little black book of celebrity flings/links appears to be well, not so little.In the past few weeks, the model and actress, who splits her time between London and Istanbul, and her dating history have been making more headlines than a certain Geordie hair goddess did in 2010.

Jane Park reckons she is proud of the cosmetic surgery she's had on her backside because "guys love it". The Scots EuroMillions winner had the ultimate clapback for an online troll who had a go at her appearance this week.

She’s the bombshell to end all bombshells, who wasted no time in launching herself at the guys after she strutted into the villa last week, leaving the girls seething in her fabulous wake.And Love Island’s Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu is no stranger to stealing all the screentime, after honing her craft on Turkish soap operas. The 27-year-old Essex star – who boasted more than 350k followers on Instagram before she even joined the show – told the islanders she’d spent the past couple of years starring in soaps in Turkey, and even played a serial killer.But heat can reveal her acting career began in a slightly less glamorous way, with a role on budget reality show Lancashore.

A family with a young child had to shell out £1720 on new flight tickets to Manchester after their Easy Jet flight home from their package holiday in Egypt was cancelled leaving them waiting around for over eight hours.

Love Island contestant Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu looks unrecognisable in throwback photos from her university days. The 27 year old actress, who divides her time between London and Istanbul, has already caused a stir since her entrance on Wednesday (8 June). And in photos exclusively obtained by MailOnline, a 17 year old Ekin-Su is pictured in a white bikini and sash while competing in a Miss Ireland beauty pageant in 2012, looking very different following surgery.

With Love Island well and truly underway, the Majorcan villa is set to welcome a couple of new contestants through its doors as two bombshells prepare to make their debut on the reality TV show. On Tuesday, the popular ITV2 programme revealed that Afia Tonkmor and Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu were set to appear on our screens Meanwhile Wednesday’s episode showed a glimpse of the newbies on a date with Islander Liam Llewellyn. But before the pair make their onscreen debut, it’s likely that they’ve been busy preparing for their stint in the villa.

Love Island 2022 villa and this bombshell promises to deliver the DRAMA this season.Ekin-Su entered the villa on day three alongside 25-year-old lounge host, Afia Tonkmor. The pair are set to take two of the boys on dates TONIGHT.

Chloe Ferry was left in tears of devastation after she was removed from her flight to Los Angeles on Wednesday.The 26 year old updated her followers about the nightmare scenario as she filmed herself with boyfriend Johnny Wilbo while sat stranded at Istanbul airport, where they’d planned to travel to America from. Appearing teary-eyed, Chloe revealed on Instagram Stories that they had not sorted out their visas beforehand and so were stopped from flying. She said: “We were both absolutely buzzing.

Former goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel could not resist biting back at Jamie Carragher after the latter aimed a dig at Manchester United following Saturday's Champions League final between Liverpool and Real Madrid.

Christopher Vourlias Zeynep Atakan, the producer of Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Palme d’Or winner “Winter Sleep,” has come on board to co-produce and handle international sales for “Hilal, Feza and Other Planets,” director Kutluğ Ataman’s follow-up to his 2014 Berlin Film Festival player, “The Lamb.”The film begins soon after Turkey’s September 1997 coup, when Hilal and Fatma leave their Muslim town near the Turkish capital, Ankara, to study at the state university in Istanbul. A new law bars Fatma from entering the campus if she wears her religious head scarf.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentTurkish screenwriter and director Emin Alper, whose dystopian drama (“Frenzy”) in 2015 made a splash in Venice and who more recently helmed hit TV series “Aleph” about two detectives on the trail of a dervish-turned-serial killer in Istanbul, is in Cannes for the first time with incendiary drama “Burning Days” screening in Un Certain Regard.It’s about a young and earnest prosecutor named Emre who gets pulled into corrupt populist politics while investigating a murder and forms a bond with the owner of the local newspaper.Alper spoke to Variety about how “Burning Days” reflects the rise of authoritarian populism and mounting homophobia, and not just in his country. ExcerptsOver the past years I’ve been surprised to see that similar things are happening around the world. We experienced Trump, for example.

When ranging out of Mad Max territory, George Miller’s films are highly diverse and unpredictable in nature, and never has this proved more the case than with his time-traveling, narratively far-ranging new drama, Three Thousand Years of Longing. In this Cannes Film Festival competition entry, the director delves back into old texts to examine the nature and power of legendary stories that have endured for centuries in a way that is both sharply creative and a bit off-putting; the film begins on quite a high, only to slowly deflate as it works its way toward its modern-day ending.

Zack Sharf George Miller electrified the Cannes Film Festival with “Three Thousand Years of Longing,” his first directorial effort since “Mad Max: Fury Road.” Miller’s latest, starring Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba, earned a six-minute standing ovation after its world premiere at Cannes’ Palais theater.A love letter to storytelling and its tropes and parables passed down through history, “Three Thousand Years” follows a solitary academic (Swinton) and a burdened genie (Elba) she finds in a bottle in the markets of Istanbul. His history unfolds in the stories of those who had found him before.While his memories were relayed in dazzling ancient locations with heavy special effects, half of the film is spent in a hotel room (the same that Agatha Christie lived in when she wrote “Murder on the Orient Express,” a bellhop tells Swinton).

The eventful new trailer for George Miller’s “Three Thousand Years of Longing” has been released.

The upcoming movie Three Thousand Years of Longing has debuted its first trailer, minutes before the film premieres at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival!

Wilson Chapman editorSeven years after the critically acclaimed “Mad Max: Fury Road,” George Miller is back in the director’s chair for the epic romance film “Three Thousand Years of Longing.”Based on the 1994 short story “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye” by English writer A. S. Byatt, “Three Thousand Years of Longing” stars Tilda Swinton as Alithea, a brilliant scholar who encounters a Djinn (Idris Elba) imprisoned in an urn.

George Miller is distracted. Five minutes into our meeting, he begs forgiveness to take a quick call. And then, on an iPad tilted in his direction, the filmmaker watches as a camera feed from the Australian outback offers him a live view of a pre-shoot for his next feature, Furiosa. His supervising stunt coordinator and second unit director, Guy Norris, whose work with Miller stretches back to 1981’s Mad Max sequel The Road Warrior, is already shooting sequences for the new film.

ISTANBUL -- A Ukrainian singer and former Eurovision song contest winner appealed to Turkey’s president on Monday to save Ukrainian fighters from the besieged city of Mariupol amid Russia's war.Ruslana, whose song “Wild Dances” catapulted her to No. 1 in the music contest in 2004, spoke at a news conference in Istanbul.

Stephanie Davis treated herself to a boob job for her 29th birthday after body changes during motherhood left her feeling low.The former Hollyoaks star flew out to Turkey in April with 25-year-old boyfriend Joseph and has returned with a newfound confidence after her DD op, liposuction and veneers. In a raw and emotional interview, Steph shares her journey exclusively with OK! VIPs, detailing how Joe was her rock during and post surgery.

Stephanie Davis has gushed over her boyfriend Joe Mckaloray after the star appears to have been rushed to hospital. Joe, who’s been dating Stephanie for a few months now, worried her fans after he shared a snap of him holding the 29 year old’s hand as she wore a hospital bracelet. Since sharing the concerning post, Stephanie has posted a series of images of some beautiful flowers she has received, as well as photographs of them together as she branded her beau her “absolute rock”.

Manori Ravindran International EditorCAA has signed Tolga Karaçelik, the Turkish director of Sundance-winning film “Butterflies,” for representation in all areas.Based in Istanbul, writer-director Karaçelik is one of Turkey’s top film creatives and has previously been profiled by Variety. His films “Ivy,” set aboard a stranded cargo ship, and “Butterflies,” a dark comedy prompted by the death of his late uncle, both premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.“Butterflies” went on to receive the Park City, Utah festival’s Grand Jury Award in 2018, making Karaçelik the first Turkish director to win the prize.After first getting a law degree in Turkey, Karaçelik went on to study filmmaking in New York before eventually returning to Turkey to film his debut feature “Toll Booth” (2010), about a Turkish toll-station worker with a vivid imagination.

Amber Heard from Aquaman 2 is nearing its goal of three million signatures as the defamation trial brought by Johnny Depp continued. Amber Heard in Jason Momoa-starred Aquaman The DC sequel, in which Heard stars as Aquaman’s (Jason Momoa) love interest Mera, concluded shooting earlier this year, with director James Wan confirming the film was wrapped up in January. Aquaman 2 is scheduled for release in March 2023.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentTurkish producer Cigdem Mater, known on the festival circuit for backing arthouse titles such as the 2013 Venice competition drama “Sivas,” has been arrested and sentenced to 18 years in prison on trumped-up charges, along with other activists, in connection with the 2013 Gezi Park anti-government protests.Mater, who is also a journalist, was incarcerated on Monday in Istanbul at the conclusion of a trial during which Turkish philanthropist Osman Kavala, who was already in custody, was sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of “attempting to overthrow the government” of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan by allegedly financing the protests.Mater and six other activists are accused by the Turkish court of supporting Kavala and being behind the protests that were prompted by construction of a mall in an Istanbul park. The protests snowballed and grew into nationwide anti-government unrest.

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount+ has given a formal series green light to The Turkish Detective, an adaptation of Barbara Nadel’s CWA Silver Dagger Award-winning novels featuring Detective Inspectors Cetin Ikmen and Mehmet Suleyman. Haluk Biligner (Baba), Ethan Kai and Yasemin Kay Allen (The Usual Suspects) have been tapped to star in the series, set in modern-day Istanbul and produced by Miramax and leading Turkish production company Ay Yapim, in association with VIS, Paramount’s international studio. Filming is set to begin this month in Istanbul. The Turkish Detective is slated to debut globally on Paramount+ in 2023.

The Associated Press reported.Kashoggi was killed in 2018 at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, where the U.S. resident was picking up documents to marry his Turkish fiancee.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentProminent Turkish sales company Global Agency, which brought milestone TV series “Magnificent Century” to the world, has more recently been scoring with formats, such as their singing talent show “Good Singers” that has been a primetime hit on TF1 in France.Now the Istanbul-based company is at MipTV with a new singing show called “Beat Me If You Can,” which is already a hit in Saudi Arabia where Saudi broadcaster SBC has just commissioned a second season.“When I established Global Agency 15 years ago we started with formats,” says Global Agency chief Izzet Pinto. During its first two years his company was actually just a format distributor.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe Turkish TV market is being shaken up by the arrival of more U.S. streaming platforms, which are driving up production costs, but also providing a new burst of opportunity for talent, content creators and producers.Netflix, which launched in Turkey in 2016, is the country’s streaming market leader when it comes to subs — said by insiders to be just shy of 7 million — and in terms of its local originals’ output.Disney Plus, which is expected to bow this summer, is busy mounting multiple Turkish productions that are still being kept under wraps, while HBO Max just entered the market and is also active in production.Amazon Prime Video is also expected to start churning out Turkish originals in 2023.

Russia's deputy defence minister has announced that Moscow has decided to "fundamentally cut back" operations near Kyiv. The Ukrainian capital and the city of Chernihiv will no longer be the core focus of Russian operations as the nation attempts to "increase mutual trust" in talks aimed at ending the fighting, he said.