Mindriot Entertainment Sets ‘Father Figure’, A Feature Project Partly Based On The Life Of Notorious FBI Hacker Bryan Seely

Selome Hailu “Bridgerton” had a predictably massive week on Luminate’s weekly viewership rankings, landing as the No. 1 streaming original for June 14-20. In the first full week of availability of Season 3’s last four episodes, the season was watched for 3.1 billion minutes.

Love Island 2024 is shaping up to be another drama-packed series, from celebrity bombshells to tense recouplings.The latest series of the hit ITV2 dating show is well underway, with Islanders beginning to form connections and fall for one another. The reality show has introduced some new twists for the 2024 series, such as Love Island's first ever famous bombshell, in the form of ex-TOWIE favourite Joey Essex, 33, and new dates, including an overnight stay away from the main villa.

Angelique Jackson Denzel Washington is one of the most prolific Black actors of all time. But the two-time Oscar-winning actor, director, producer and humanitarian is also a proud husband and father — a point that was well made during his career retrospective conversation at the American Black Film Festival (ABFF) on June 15.Denzel Washington’s latest producorial effort, the Netflix film adaptation of August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson,” sees him working with members of his family, including his sons Malcolm Washington, who co-wrote and directed the film, and John David Washington, who stars.“After about two weeks [on set], I went home. I was like, there’s really nothing for me to do here, I’m just in the way,” Denzel Washington said of watching his son Malcolm Washington work.

It may only be June 18, but the Toronto International Film Festival is ready to reveal some of its world premiere slate. This morning, TIFF announced six films that will make their debut in the Great White North.

Thunderstorms are set to batter parts of the UK thoughout Tuesday putting a dampener on our summer spirits.The Met Office has issued several weather warnings for areas across Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cumbria, and the East Midlands. The weather warnings are in effect for a solid 10 hours, starting from 11am until 9pm tonight.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor The ongoing struggle to elevate animated features to the same level of best-picture recognition as live-action films will undoubtedly resurface by year’s end. This time, the spotlight will be on Pixar‘s highly successful sequel, “Inside Out 2,” a film that could bring joy and success amid a dark cloud hovering around Hollywood studios. With debut director Kelsey Mann taking over from Pete Docter, the second installment follows Riley (Kensington Tallman) during her teenage years.

British holidaymakers dreaming of a new life in Greece have been cautioned about a "shock" they might face, with the advice to "get used to it." Those relocating to Greece as expats have encountered a "weird" issue, according to one expat.

A swimming pool building is part of plans to create a shared house for ten people in Prestwich. Plans submitted to Bury Council in the past week show the intention to convert the property on Grosvenor Street in the a 10-bed house of multiple occupation (HMO).

EXCLUSIVE: Ketchup Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Ozi, Voice of the Forest, an animated feature produced by Appian Way Productions, Mike Medavoy and GCI Film, which features a voice cast led by Amandla Stenberg.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Mediawan Kids & Family is unveiling a raft of prestige animated feature projects at the Annecy Film Festival, including “Meow-woof” by Louis Clichy (“Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion”) and “Twisted” by Lino DiSalvo (“Playmobil”). Emmanuel Jacomet, who worked for over a decade alongside Aton Soumache and Dimitri Rassam on high profile IP’s such as “The Little Prince,” “Miraculous Ladybug” and “Playmobil,” took over the film division of Mediawan Kids & Family under a year ago with the ambition to develop a mix of mainstream franchise-based projects and auteur-driven 2D titles.

Ethel Cain has criticised the behaviour of some fans at her live shows, saying that they shouldn’t have to “fight for their life just to hear some music”.The US singer-songwriter wrapped up the UK and European leg of her 2024 ‘Childish Behaviour’ tour with a performance at The Roundhouse in Camden Town, London last night (June 10).She is also scheduled to support Mitski at All Points East in the capital and make an appearance at Electric Picnic in Ireland this summer.Ahead of yesterday’s London concert, Cain shared a statement on her Instagram Stories in which she reminded ticketholders of gig etiquette and how to treat one another in the audience.“Hi all! Just wanted to reiterate before tonight’s show in London that it is extremely important to me that you all respect each other both in the queue and once in the venue,” the musician began.“I very much hate hearing that anyone attending our shows walked away with a negative experience because of bad behaviour in the pit. Barrelling to the front, slapping people’s hands away when I reach for them, verbally insulting people, it’s all just not very nice.”Cain continued: “I come and I play these songs because I love them and I would hope the reason you’re coming is because you love them also.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic In “The Freshly Cut Grass,” there’s a scene that captures how people who’ve been married for a while, and are in the thick of raising children, can snipe at each other in dog-whistle ways that mean nothing and everything. Pablo (Joaquín Furriel), a professor at an agronomy college (he basically instructs his students about dirt), says that he thinks his teaching job is “shitty.” But his wife, Carla (Romina Peluffo), has no job at all (and is up for an interview), so she takes his comment as an insult. She snaps at him, then apologizes and lays her head on his shoulder; we think their snit is over.

The second season of We Are Lady Parts, the riotously enjoyable all-female U.K. Muslim punk sitcom begins with the band at the show's heart on a sold-out tour and fighting off affectionate fans. Things have changed for Lady Parts, whose rise from scrappy DIY beginnings to something approaching success formed the arc of the first season when it debuted in 2021.

Orange rail tickets could become extinct within half a decade, the region's biggest train operator claims. Northern says the tickets, which contain a magnetic stripe, are likely to be 'something of a museum exhibit' in as little as five years.

Maya Hawke has admitted that she is “comfortable with not deserving” the life she has because of her parents’ background.The Stranger Things actor and musician is the daughter of Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman and emphasised that her relationship with them is “positive” which “supersedes anything anyone can say about it”. She has also worked with them, having starred opposite her mother in The Kill Room and was directed by her father in the drama Wildcat, both of which came out last year.“Deserves is a complicated word,” she told The Times.

interviews with three of Brown’s sisters. Brown’s murder, along with the murder of Ron Goldman, set the stage for the “trial of the century” as Brown’s ex-husband former NFL player O.J. Simpson stood trial for the crime.

Addie Morfoot Contributor In the upcoming Lifetime docuseries “The Life and Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson,” audiences will get to hear from O.J. Simpson‘s ex-wife Nicole, who was found murdered alongside Ronald Goldman in 1994 outside her Brentwood condominium, in ways most viewers have not before. Most of the nation associates her voice with the 911 call she made in October of 1993 to tell a dispatcher that Simpson had broken into her home.

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Thirty years after Nicole Brown Simpson’s murder, her sister Denise Brown has gathered friends and family to reflect on her legacy for “The Life and Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson.” The four-part docuseries premieres on June 1 and 2 on Lifetime, but cable-cutters can stream the doc online through a variety of live TV streamers such as DirecTV Stream, Hulu + Live TV and Sling TV. The doc doesn’t sensationalize the crime or the “trial of the century,” in which Brown’s ex-husband, O.J.

EXCLUSIVE: Famed fantasy writer George R.R. Martin has unveiled the first still from the set of The Summer Machine, a short film that we’re told will be part of a new anthology series produced by Martin. Check the image out below.

EXCLUSIVE: Producer Daniel Bekerman, whose Donald Trump movie The Apprentice just premiered in competition at Cannes to strong notices, has set his next feature Knight’s Camp, a dark comedy starring Judy Greer (13 Going on 30, Ant-Man) and Sophia Lillis (It, Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves).