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EXIT Festival organisers have announced a new NFT collection ahead of this year’s main event.The collection, which will start minting at this year’s Tomorrow conference on May 14, will include headphones featuring EXIT’s first logo from 2001 in 3D as well as the Tribe gift collection, intended for the earliest members of the the festival’s Discord community.Owners of EXIT’s NFT art will also have the opportunity to hang out with some of EXIT’s headliners this year, as well as being granted exclusive access to the Dance Arena stage and secret parties at hidden locations across the festival site.For more information on the NFT collection, as well as how to purchase and mint, head here.Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds will headline this year’s bash at the Petrovaradin Fortress in Serbia from July 7-10, alongside acts which include Calvin Harris, Napalm Death, Jax Jones, Honey Dijon, Maceo Plex, ZHU, James Arthur and Marky Ramone. You can view the full line-up so far below.Getting closer to #EXIT2k22 and our stellar acts! Let's welcome @Noisia_nl & other #XBass names joining @CalvinHarris, @nickcave, @IGGYAZALEA, @JamesArthur23, @maskedwolfmusic, @BB_BORISBREJCHA, @MaceoPlex, @sepulturacombr & more! On 7-10 July at https://t.co/sNb0VZlM8W! pic.twitter.com/CPH5HsY0C5— EXIT Festival (@ExitFestival) April 22, 2022Tickets are on sale now and can purchased here.

EXCLUSIVE: U.S. production company Catalyst Studios is launching with a slate of female-fronted projects that will be repped for sales by Highland Entertainment Group.

A post shared by The Locust (@the_locust_official)A post shared by Justin Pearson (@justinpearson31g)Serbian joined The Locust in 1998, playing guitar on the band’s eponymous debut album that year. He switched to drums in 2001, a role he continued to play in the band up until his death.

Juan Mata has agreed with Nemanja Matic's controversial comments that Manchester United's 1-1 draw with Chelsea was an improvement following their recent run of form.

Juventus have entered the race to sign Serbian midfielder Nemanja Matic when he leaves Manchester United this summer - according to reports. The 33-year-old started for United against Chelsea on Thursday night but confirmed plans to depart Old Trafford earlier in the month.

Roy Keane was less than impressed with Manchester United midfielder Nemanja Matic in his post-match interview after the 1-1 draw with Chelsea.

Nemanja Matic has admitted that Manchester United's players are "not happy" with how this season has unfolded.

Kristine Simsone “Samuel’s Travels,” directed by Latvian/Armenian filmmaker Aik Karapetian, has been acquired by HBO Central Europe. The deal was signed by the Copenhagen-based LevelK, who picked up international sales rights on the film in September, according to Film New Europe.

Novak Djokovic is not happy with Wimbledon.

Anna Franklin “Utama,” the debut feature from Bolivian filmmaker Alejandro Loayza Grisi, won best film in the Glocal Images International Competition section of Cyprus Film Days Intl. Film Festival, according to online news service Film New Europe.

Ralf Rangnick may look to make two changes to the side that defeated Norwich City in Tuesday's trip to Anfield.

Steven Seagal. The martial arts star isn’t exactly a ubiquitous presence on the late-night talk show circuit. The action hits of his heyday don’t festoon the banners at the top of Netflix.

Manchester United fans are split over the reports regarding the future of midfielder Nemanja Matic.

season 9 of , Jibri — who's currently living with his parents in South Dakota to save money — says he and Miona haven't discussed finances and it's obvious the two aren't even remotely on the same page.Jibri is a musician and met Miona, a makeup artist, while touring in Serbia with his band, The Black Serbs. Miona, who is set to arrive in a matter of days, has dreams of living in Los Angeles and bluntly tells Jibri that she doesn't want to live in South Dakota.«I don't know what's the nicer way to say this, but, if I wanted a small city life, I could have stayed just here in Niš and live that type of life,» she says.

Jessica Kiang The solar eclipses of 1961 and 1999, both observable in Serbia, bracket the events explored in the lyrical imagery of Nataša Urban’s debut feature-length documentary. But because life so rarely arranges itself neatly along a defined timeline, they do it imprecisely, blurring over a little at either edge, the way memories do.

Fox Sports, which will broadcast the 2022 World Cup in the U.S., has set the schedule for the 64 matches it will carry between November 21 and December 18.

Manchester United legend Nemanja Vidic has named the defender he believes to be the best centre-back in the world.

Tom Epperson and his wife Stefani Ames are leaving town, heading to Santa Fe in early May—another player from the movie era of the 90’s and early 2000’s soon gone.

Manchester United have reportedly been told the price they will have to pay for Lazio's Sergej Milinkovic-Savic as he becomes 'ready' for a move.

Focus Features has picked up Of An Age, the second feature by writer/director Goran Stolevski.

Lise Pedersen “The Eclipse” by Nataša Urban has picked up the top Dox:Award at Copenhagen Intl. Documentary Film Festival.It was awarded at a ceremony in the Danish capital, which opened with a homage to Ukraine – where fest organizers announced they would be screening Daniel Roher’s “Navalny” in theaters across the nation immediately after the festival to show “that there is another Russia.”“The Eclipse” was competing with 11 others for the top award – half of them had their world premiere at the fest, part of no fewer than 76 world premieres during the event.Focusing on the events of Aug.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterDean Devlin’s new Syfy series “The Ark” has found its core cast members as production gets underway, Variety has learned exclusively.Christie Burke, Richard Fleeshman, Reece Ritchie, Stacey Read and Ryan Adams will all appear as series regulars in the show, which is now shooting at PFI Studios in Belgrade, Serbia. The show was first announced back in January.“The Ark” takes place 100 years in the future when planetary colonization missions have begun as a necessity to help secure the survival of the human race. The first of these missions on a spacecraft known as Ark One encounters a catastrophic event causing massive destruction and loss of life.

EXCLUSIVE: Jason Patric (Wayward Pines), Keli Price (The Hyperions), Jack Kesy (Sheroes), Penelope Ann Miller (Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story), Perrey Reeves (Paradise City), Tiffany Hines (Magnum P.I.), Casper Van Dien (All American) and Academy Award nominee Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler) are set to star in Murder at Hollow Creek, a new action-thriller from director David Lipper (Wolf Mountain) that is on the cusp of wrapping production.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorDisney Plus confirmed launch dates — and pricing — for the 42 countries and 11 new territories across Europe, West Asia and Africa.Disney’s flagship streaming service will bow in South Africa on May 18, followed by all other countries listed in June (see below for dates and pricing). The media conglomerate earlier this year announced plans for summer 2022 expansion to countries including Turkey, Poland and the United Arab Emirates.The countries set to get Disney Plus are: Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Bahrain, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Latvia, Lebanon, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Malta, Montenegro, Morocco, North Macedonia, Oman, Palestine Territories, Poland, Qatar, Romania, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Vatican City and Yemen.

Manchester United are to face a 'big battle' for Lazio midfielder Sergej Milinkovic-Savic, according to reports.

SKOPJE, North Macedonia -- Eight men have been charged in connection with an antiquities smuggling case in North Macedonia, where ancient artifacts were dug up in illegal excavations across the country to be sold to foreign buyers, the prosecutor's office said Friday.The alleged illegal excavations and sales occurred in 2020 and 2021. The eight were arrested in September 2021 following police raids on their homes and other properties connected to them in 10 locations in the southwestern town of Bitola and the northwestern town of Tetovo.During the raids, police seized a large number of artifacts, including ancient figurines and jewelry, as well as firearms, metal detectors and computer hard drives.The public prosecution office said in a statement the two main suspects allegedly led dozens of illegal excavations beginning in May 2020 to supply buyers in Albania, Croatia, Greece, Serbia, Turkey and the United States.Six of the eight are under house arrest while the two suspects believed to have been the organizers are in custody.

EXIT Festival has confirmed four new names for the 2022 event, with Iggy Azalea, Afrojack, Alok and ATB all playing the main stageThe four-day Serbian festival takes place between July 7-10 in the Petrovaradin Fortress. Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds and Calvin Harris have both been confirmed as headliners with the likes of Bury Tomorrow, Coach Party, Napalm Death and The Undertones also playing.Early Bird tickets are currently on sale from £73 with one-day tickets to see Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds also available from £29.

Cristiano Ronaldo has sent a rousing message of encouragement to his Portugal teammates as they look to qualify for December's Qatar World Cup.

Christopher Vourlias Taskovski Films has acquired world sales rights to Nataša Urban’s “The Eclipse,” which has its world premiere in the main DOX:AWARD competition at the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (CPH:DOX).Focusing on the events of Aug. 11, 1999, when most of Serbia’s population barricaded themselves in their homes and nuclear bunkers in fear of a total solar eclipse, the film uses the rare natural phenomenon as a metaphor for a nation’s unclean conscience about the consequences of its political choices.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeFormer Propagate president Greg Lipstone is making the move over to oversee American Song Contest Inc. as its president and COO, just days before the ambitious NBC competition series launches on March 21.An offshoot of the long-running global phenomenon Eurovision, “American Song Contest” will attempt to try something similar in the United States, via song writing and performer competitors representing 56 U.S.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentApple TV Plus and Amazon Prime Video have both pre-bought “Puffins Impossible,” a spinoff of the animated short form series “Puffins” voiced by Johnny Depp, who is reprising his role as Johnny Puff. The 18-episode show, which is currently in production in Serbia, is being made by Andrea Iervolino and Monica Bacardi’s ILBE outfit via their Iervolino Studios and Serbia-based company Archangel Digital Studios.The “Puffins Impossible” showrunner is Peter Nalli, who also made “Puffins” and “Arctic Friends.” These five-minute short form series originated from feature film “Arctic Dogs,” which was released theatrically in 2019 and became popular on Netflix. Iervolino and Bacardi acquired all spin-off rights of the animated characters from the pic.

Christopher Vourlias The intense shelling had already commenced when Greek photojournalist and documentary filmmaker Giorgos Moutafis arrived in Irpin, a suburb of Kyiv that lay in the path of Russia’s relentless military advance across Ukraine.It was in the midst of the chaotic evacuation on March 13 that Brent Renaud, an American filmmaker and journalist, was killed after he and his film crew were shot at by Russian troops. Moutafis appeared on the scene just minutes later.“When we arrived in the city, we saw the rescue team evacuating the bodies.

Christopher Vourlias Since its inaugural edition at the 60th Thessaloniki Film Festival in 2019, the Meet the Future program has offered a look ahead to the next generation of emerging film talents set to make waves in Greece, the wider Mediterranean region and beyond.After training the spotlight on up-and-coming documentary filmmakers from Serbia, who presented five projects in post-production to industry guests at last year’s Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, the focus shifts this year to Georgia, a country that’s seen its cinema profile rise in recent years on the strength of directors including acclaimed docmaker Salomé Jashi, whose arresting feature “Taming the Garden” (pictured) played in the Sundance World Cinema Documentary Competition.Yianna Sarri, the head of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival’s industry arm, Agora, considers herself “one of the biggest fans of Georgian cinema for many years now.” “They make beautiful cinema,” she said, adding that she had “this [Georgian focus] in mind for a very long time.”In collaboration with the Georgian Film Center, Thessaloniki presents five up-and-coming Georgian documentary filmmakers who will present their next projects during a special Meet the Future showcase on March 15.Here are this year’s participants:

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentHBO Max International head Johannes Larcher is set to give a keynote address at MipTV, the international TV showcase which will make a comeback as in-person market in Cannes after going virtual due to the pandemic. Larcher will discuss the launch of HBO Max, the WarnerMedia-owned streaming platform, in 61 territories worldwide.

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Manchester United have reportedly identified the 'heir' to Paul Pogba, with Lazio midfielder Sergej Milinkovic-Savic once again being linked with an Old Trafford switch.