‘Lord of the Rings’ Owner Embracer Facing Restructure, Lay-Offs, Games Studio Closures; Appoints Interim COO

Mads Mikkelsen stars opposite Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny playing Nazi scientist Dr. Jürgen Voller. The actor recently opened up about the roles that he likes to play opting to play “losers” on-screen versus “cutie pie” characters.

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While figures at Manchester United insist the Premier League's profitability and sustainability rules limit their spending power in the transfer market, external sources maintain the biggest obstacle to Erik ten Hag sufficiently strengthening his squad remains the club's owners.

Emily Osment is a bride-to-be! The 31-year-old alum took to Instagram on Sunday to announce that she's engaged to Jack Anthony.Osment shared the news alongside a stunning shot of her unique ring, which features two stones sitting side-by-side. In the pic, which was taken at Yosemite National Park, she holds her hand up as her fiancé stands in the background.She also shared a photo of two pins that featured solo shots of the bride and groom as children. Anthony's pin, that showed him wearing a cowboy hat, included the words «Will you marry me?» Meanwhile, Osment's pin, which featured her in a white dress, read simply, «Yes!»«This magical, beautiful, kaleidoscope of a person asked me to marry him this weekend,» she wrote alongside the pics.

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K.J. Yossman Embracer Group, the Swedish gaming conglomerate that snapped up the rights to “Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit” in a surprise deal last summer, has finally revealed how much it paid – and it seems like they got a bargain. The Karlstad-headquartered company has confirmed it spent SEK 4.2 billion – $395 million at today’s conversion rates – to acquire Middle-Earth Enterprises from the Saul Zaentz Company last August. At the time the deal was announced, Embracer and Saul Zaentz declined to say how much the “Lord of the Rings” holding company had sold for. But estimates at the time projected the rights – which include worldwide rights to films, video games, board games, merchandising, theme parks and stage productions – were worth up to $2 billion.

Sweden’s Embracer paid nearly $396M for the rights to the Lord of the Rings franchise.

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The White Lotus season three has been greenlit by HBO and we have all the info you need to know about the cast as of right now.

Kraven The Hunter starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson – check it out above.Directed by J.C. Chandor (A Most Violent Year), the film serves as an origin story for the Marvel villain and is the fourth installment in Sony’s Spider-Man universe, following Venom, Venom: Let There Be Carnage and last year’s box office flop Morbius.While the character is typically portrayed in the comics as simply being a renowned game hunter, the film adaptation appears to add lion blood dripping into his wounds as part of his origin story.

Prince Louis adorably stole the show again on Saturday 17 June as he pulled a series of animated faces at the Trooping the Colour.The young royal, five, was joined by siblings Prince George, nine, and Princess Charlotte, eight, as he sat in between them in the carriage. Also in the carriage was the trio's mother, Kate Middleton, and Queen Camilla, who is colonel of the Grenadier guards, as they followed behind the King in a carriage.

As with any big royal event, especially at the moment in the early days of King Charles' reign, there is much anticipation in the lead up to this weekend's Trooping the Colour. It's the first time the new monarch has marked the occasion since he was crowned, and it's the first time since the late 1980s that the sovereign will carry out the inspections on horseback, after his mum the late Queen chose to travel on a horse and carriage.

Fantasy on TV was once the preserve of teen-skewing shows like Xena and Hercules, until Game of Thrones made things bigger but bloodier with its blockbuster eight-year run. Now, however, the genre is expanding in unexpected ways, typified by Amazon’s The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power. Where we might have expected another adaptation about obviously good folk fighting clear evil, the show that emerged offers a look at power, obsession and conflict set thousands of years before J.R.R. Tolkien’s foundational text. After Thrones (and its own prequel), it is a coming-of-age for the genre, proof that fantasy is capable of offering subtlety and complexity as well as large-scale adventure.

Rachel Seo Gavin Casalegno is entering his wrestling era. “The Summer I Turned Pretty” actor has joined director Ash Avildsen’s “Queen of the Ring,” his reps confirmed to Variety. “Queen of the Ring” follows the story of WWE Hall of Fame-inducted wrestler Mildred Burke, a world champion who broke glass ceilings throughout the course of her career from the 1930s through the 1950s. Casalegno will play the teenage version of Joe, Burke’s son. The cast also reportedly includes Emily Bett Richards (“Arrow”) and Josh Lucas (“Ford v Ferrari”) as Burke and her husband and business manager, Billy Wolfe. Marie Avgeropoulos (“The 100”) and WWE’s Charlotte Flair and Liv Morgan also star in the film. Avildsen (“Paradise City,” “American Satan”) will direct based on a script he penned. The film is inspired by Jeff Leen’s book of the same name.

An undisclosed number of the company’s 17,000 employees will be let go and certain game projects will be paused or outright terminated, along with other efficiency and overhead-reduction efforts that will take place in phases between now and March 2024, Wingefors said Tuesday.Embracer published an open letter explaining the news alongside a standard press release.“I am asking all our managers to lead and act with compassion, respect, and integrity,” Wingefors wrote in the open letter, following the layoff announcement. “Throughout each phase and wherever possible, we will work to ensure that affected team members receive information first.

The Pot au Feu” has been acquired by Sapan Studios and IFC Films for domestic distribution. Produced by Olivier Delbosc and based upon Marcel Rouff’s novel “La Vie et la Passion de Dodin-Bouffant, gourmet,” the picture is set in late 19th-century France and concerns a relationship between an esteemed chef (Benoît Magimel) and his personal cook (Juliette Binoche), who is also his lover. The catch is Eugénie refuses to marry her employer and lover so, to win her over, the chef does something he has never done before and cooks for her. To film cuisine in an unprecedented fashion, the director called upon Pierre Gagnaire as Culinary Director to prepare the food prior to filming.

Layoffs and closures are imminent at Lord of the Rings IP owner Embracer Group as the Swedish outfit unveils a restructure that will focus on “cost savings, capital allocation, efficiency and consolidation.”

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Joe Scarborough was on a tear on Monday morning, raging over those who are still defending former president Trump amid that second indictment. Among those on the receiving end of Scarborough’s ire was The New York Post, after they ran a headline ending in “What About the Bidens?” on their front page.In full, the front page headline of Monday’s New York Post read “Trump was indicted but … WHAT ABOUT THE BIDENS?” It featured images of both President Biden and his son Hunter, and opinions from House speaker Kevin McCarthy and Post columnist Miranda Devine, complaining about a “double standard” (despite the fact that there is in fact an investigation ongoing into the classified documents found at President Biden’s homes).“Listen.

Hold on… did Kendall Jenner just go blonde? We can’t quite believe it, but just days after sister Kourtney ditched her platinum locks and returned to her signature dark shade, it seems like Kendall has decided to find out if blondes really do have more fun. Although not quite as dramatic as some of her sisters’ icy blonde makeovers, it seems supermodel Kendall has experimented with a subtle balayage style, opting for natural looking lighter ends whilst still keeping her roots and top layers her natural dark brunette shade.