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Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentFollowing its recent launch in the U.S., Viaplay has acquired domestic rights to Erik Poppe’s “The Emigrants” from REinvent International Sales.Produced by SF Studios, “The Emigrants” is a big-budget epic drama based on Vilhelm Moberg’s story about Swedes who left misery behind for a new life on the other side of the Atlantic in the mid-19th century. The film’s cast includes Lisa Carlehed (“In Your Arms”) and Gustaf Skarsgård (“438 days”), who star opposite Sofia Helin, Lena Strömdahl and Swedish pop sensation Tove Lo.REinvent International Sales has also closed deals for former Yugoslavia (MCF Megacom), Czech Republic and Slovakia (Film Europe) and Hungary (Vertigo).Helene Aurø, REinvent sales and marketing director, pointed out that “The Emigrants” will be one of the first films shown by Viaplay’s newly launched US platform.

Thursday’s episode of Jersey Shore brought the Family Vacation to a brand new destination: the spirit world!

Winter Storm Kenan, which meteorologists are describing as a “bomb cyclone,” is dominating the Northeast from as far south as Delaware into New Jersey, up the Eastern seaboard to the top of Maine.

EXCLUSIVE: ScoreG Productions and Super Channel are pleased to announce that they have teamed up to release a revealing three-part true-crime docuseries, Thunder: The Life and Death of Arturo Gatti, a chronicle of the original “blood and guts warrior” and his illustrious career with never-before-seen evidence surrounding his mysterious death.

NEW YORK -- Rarely have past and present mingled in a documentary the way they do in “Descendant,” a nonfiction account of the last known ship to bring African captives to the American South for enslavement.Margaret Brown's “Descendant," which recently premiered at the virtual Sundance Film Festival, chronicles the discovery of the ship, a 90-foot-long wooden schooner that was secretly burned and sunk near Mobile, Alabama, after it was used to illegally take and enslave 100 Africans on a trip across the Atlantic in the mid-19th century, decades after the international slave trade had been outlawed.“Descendant” closely documents the finding of the Clotilda, which was confirmed in 2019. For locals, it's a long overdue affirmation of a long-obscured history that for a century was little spoken of.

Oh, baby! Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Nick Jonas announced the birth of their first child after keeping the pregnancy news quiet.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorWith her just-released “Caprisongs” mixtape and a fresh affiliation with a new label, Atlantic, British singer-songwriter-producer FKA Twigs ups the ante on her eerily experimental sound and intimately nuanced lyrics and goes big. That’s not only because the genre-jumbling, multi-octave performer has invited brand-name featured guests such as Jorja Smith and the Weeknd to the party that is “Caprisongs.” Rather, it’s because the Gloucester, U.K.-born artist — real name Tahliah Barnett — is having any kind of party at all.The bottom line on Twigs has long been that her most ambitious music was deeply emotional and uncompromising.

DEALSUniversal Music’s Polydor has signed Crawlers to a new record deal. “It’s been incredibly exciting watching them grow over the past year”, says co-President Tom March.

More than 100 people from across the globe have applied to run a Scottish guest house - on a tiny island home to just 15 people.

NJ Gov. Phil Murphy has signed legislation to expand tax credits for digital media production as part of a push to draw new business to the state following his incentives for film and television.

Shoppers will be able to get their hands on onions that stop amateur cooks from sobbing over the chopping board from next week.

Guided By Voices have cancelled two upcoming New Year’s Eve shows as a result of the recent surge of COVID-19 cases.The band were due to play Atlantic City on December 30 and New York City’s Brooklyn Made on December 31 but those dates will no longer go ahead, as confirmed by a statement on Twitter.They wrote: “Due to unforeseen circumstances, and out of an abundance of caution with the recent spike in COVID-19 cases, we unfortunately need to cancel the upcoming shows in Atlantic City on

Focusing on his work. Following James Kennedy and Raquel Leviss‘ decision to go their separate ways, the musician is putting all of his energy into his job.

taxes to Atlantic City, Atlantic County and the school system.Known as the PILOT bill, it is intended to help the casinos recover from the coronavirus pandemic by reducing large increases in such payments that would take effect if the bill is not passed.“Failure to pass the PILOT legislation will have a further detrimental impact on the land-based casinos, which are still recovering from this unprecedented pandemic,” the Casino Association of New Jersey, the casinos' trade group, said in a

Aretha Franklin undoubtedly deserves to be remembered as the “Queen of Soul.” The late musical icon, who died following a battle with pancreatic cancer in 2018 at the age of 76, garnered a whopping 18 Emmy Awards in her illustrious career spanning soul, jazz, pop, R&B and blues.

Chris Daughtry and his family are mourning the sudden loss of their 25-year-old daughter Hannah.

A prominent Bill Cosby accuser filed suit Thursday against the actor over a 1990 hotel room encounter in Atlantic City, New Jersey, before the state’s two-year window to file older sexual assault claims expires.

Bill Cosby accuser filed suit Thursday against the actor over a 1990 hotel room encounter in Atlantic City, New Jersey, before the state's two-year window to file older sexual assault claims expires.Los Angeles artist Lili Bernard told The Associated Press she was prompted in part by Cosby's recent release from prison.

SAG-AFTRA and National Public Radio have agreed on a new nationwide contract covering 521 NPR employees including hosts, correspondents, newscasters, reporters, announcers, editors, producers, research, archive and data strategists, and news app developers and designers.

Inspiration4 crew wrapped up the first all-civilian privately-funded trip to orbit and plunged back to Earth Saturday, dropping out of a hazy sky for a picture-perfect sunset splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean near Cape Canaveral.Suspended under four large parachutes, the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule settled to a gentle, on-target water landing at 7:06 p.m. EDT to wrap up a 71-hour three-minute voyage.«Inspiration4, on behalf of SpaceX, welcome home to planet Earth,» SpaceX radioed.

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Anne Hathaway and Jared Leto juggle a lot of kids in between them as they take over The Shores at Atlantic Beach on Monday afternoon (August 16) in Atlantic Beach, New York.

Mandy Moore is getting her little boy acclimated to the ocean at an early age. The beloved actress and singer, 37, took to Instagram on August 12 to share an adorable pic of five-month-old Gus dipping his feet in the water. The This Is Us star held onto her mini-me son, as he donned a pair of floral shorts and a white bucket hat, and dipped his tiny feet into the water. “Baby’s first dip in the Atlantic,” she captioned the post, adding the funny hashtag “#thisisgus.”

wrote in the Atlantic that “we all need a civics lesson” and admitted his statement earlier this week was kind of harsh. “I’ll admit, calling people schmucks and saying ‘Screw your freedom’ was a little much, even if I stand by the sentiment.

Pillow Queens have revealed that work has begun on their second studio album.

Taylor Swift reportedly sent a letter and painting to a pair of Irish paddleboarders after they were lost in the Atlantic Ocean for 15 hours.As Independent.ie reports, cousins Ellen Glynn and Sara Feeney had their inflatable boards swept out to sea by a strong wind one night in August last year.

Taylor Swift has written a letter to two Galway paddleboarders who sang her songs while lost at sea in the Atlantic Ocean.

on Twitter: “I normally avoid these refs… but WOW.

sharks ate her sailing team members one by one after a freak storm caused their boat to overturn in the middle of the night. 24-year-old Deborah Scaling-Kiley spoke of how the killer creatures ploughed into the side of their life raft and consumed three of her friends in the Atlantic Ocean incident.It took a matter of hours for hundreds of sharks to start circling them after her fellow crewmate Meg sliced open her leg as the crew of five were plunged into the depths of the water.

Lamar Odom has signed a new Celebrity Boxing deal. The 41-year-old former basketball star will be fighting again on October 10 and is currently looking for an opponent, Celebrity Boxing founder Damon Feldman told TMZ Sports.

When the skilled dramatic actor Caroll O’Connor took a comedic turn as Archie Bunker in “All in the Family” in 1971, critics noticed the layered performance. Looking back decades later, Ronald Brownstein wrote in The Atlantic: “‘All in the Family’ commanded national attention to a degree almost impossible to imagine in today’s fractionated entertainment landscape.

EXCLUSIVE: Abacus Media Rights has boarded international distribution on Savage Waters, the feature documentary about a mission to find and surf a spectacular big wave in the Atlantic Ocean.

Jessica Shalvoy “I don’t know when it will be safe to sing arm in arm at the top of our lungs. But we will do it again, because we have to,” wrote Dave Grohl for the Atlantic in May of 2020 when things were looking especially bleak.

Lamar Odom, 41, was victorious over Aaron Carter, 33, after the two celebrities took part in an intense boxing match on June 11. The former NBA player knocked out the singer after he attempted to take him down with as many punches as possible in 2 rounds of the match, which took place at Showboat Hotel in Atlantic City, NJ. Despite the disappointment for Aaron, who went down halfway through the second round of the fight, they both hugged out it at the end and all seemed well.

Lamar Odom emerged victorious from his Celebrity Boxing match against Aaron Carter in Atlantic City Friday night, with the former NBA star knocking out the singer in the second round