Nigerian Producer Mo Abudu on Striking Netflix’s First Multi-Title African Deal: “As a Continent, We've Remained So Quiet” (Exclusive)

Jimmy Kimmel grilled “Bachelorette” Clare Crawley during her appearance on his talk show on Thursday night — and her answers have the TV host totally perplexed. Kimmel’s wife, Molly McNearney, appeared earlier in the show to give him the scoop on Crawley’s season, but her account doesn’t exactly line up with Crawley’s.

In a video from 2018, a woman stands at a busy traffic intersection in Tehran, takes off the headscarf mandated by law and waves it in protest. As we see in the stirring documentary Nasrin, other women follow suit in the next weeks.

Jimmy Kimmel grilled Bachelorette Clare Crawley during her appearance on his talk show on Thursday night — and her answers have the TV host totally perplexed. Kimmel's wife, Molly McNearney, appeared earlier in the show to give him the scoop on Crawley's season, but her account doesn't exactly line up with Crawley's. As McNearney explained — and ET learned in August — Crawley's time as Bachelorette ended roughly two weeks into filming, after she fell for one of her contestants.

Ed Meza @edmezavarGaumont Germany is bowing its first major production this month with the premiere of the historical action series “Barbarians” on Netflix.The six-part miniseries promises to take viewers to the blood-drenched Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, in which Germanic warriors halted the northward advance of the Roman Empire in A.D.

Moments ago, Netflix dropped a Teaser Trailer for Mank, one of their prime awards vehicles for 2020. An epic looking film, it certainly seems like it will stand out from the pack, especially when movies of this size and scope have almost entirely shifted into 2021 and even 2022, due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

Peter White Television EditorDownton Abbey star Joanne Froggatt is to front a Hitchcockian thriller for Spectrum Originals and ITV.The two networks have ordered Angela Black from Fleabag producer Two Brothers Pictures.The six-part drama, which marks the L.A.’s Finest broadcaster’s first international co-production, was written by Two Brothers founders Harry and Jack Williams.Froggatt, who also starred in ITV and Sundance drama Liar plays Angela, a suburban housewife whose seemingly perfect life

Jake Kanter International TV EditorCharter Communications’ Spectrum Originals and ITV are co-producing a Hitchcockian psychological thriller in which Golden Globe-winning Downton Abbey star Joanne Froggatt will play a victim of domestic abuse.Produced by Fleabag maker Two Brothers Pictures, the six-part series features Froggatt as Angela Black, a woman with an apparently idyllic life, who is actually being tormented by her husband, Olivier.Angela is approached out of the blue by Ed, a private

Die-hard Selena Quintanilla-Pérez fans won’t have to wait much longer to see the beloved Tejano music icon’s story come to life on Netflix!

Naman Ramachandran Netflix has acquired world rights to French director Just Philippot’s Cannes Critics’ Week 2020 Label horror thriller “The Swarm.”Written by Jérôme Genevray (“Vieux con”) and Franck Victor (“Philosophie”), the film is set in rural France. It stars French actress Suliane Brahim (“The Specials”) as a single mother who is struggling to get her grasshopper farm off the ground until she discovers her livestock thrive on human blood.

Codie-Lei Eastick as his fellow mouse pal Bruno, who was undoubtedly one of the best things about the original film. The screenplay for The Witches is by Robert Zemeckis who has worked on everything from Forrest Gump to Back to the Future so expect a new family classic.

Guardian notes, many obtained through colonization or plunder by "explorers." (See: the Benin Bronzes, the Koh-i-Noor diamond, and the Parthenon Marbles, among many others.) The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are delighted to share new photographs of their family with @DavidAttenborough.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorEXCLUSIVE: Virgil Films & Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Nasrin, a documentary about activist Nasrin Sotoudeh narrated by Oscar winner Olivia Colman.Sotoudeh is a human rights activists and an outspoken leader of Iran’s women’s rights movement. Last week, she cited serious health concerns in ending a six-week hunger strike in Evin Prison, where she has been serving a nearly four-decade sentence.

Prince George by veteran broadcaster and naturalist David Attenborough, who found the fossil during a holiday on the Mediterranean island in the 1960s.Culture Minister Jose Herrera said he will “get the ball rolling” to bring back the tooth to be exhibited in a Maltese museum.“There are some artifacts that are important to natural heritage which ended up abroad and deserve to be retrieved,” he told the Times of Malta.The fossil, believed to be around 3 million years old, belonged to an extinct

David Attenborough may have given Prince William and Duchess Kate ’s son Prince George a shark tooth, but Malta’s culture minister wants it back.“There are some artifacts that are important to Maltese natural heritage and which ended up abroad and deserve to be retrieved,” Jose Herrera told the Times of Malta on Monday, September 28.Herrera went on to tell the outlet that the tooth should be in a local museum, and he planned to “set the ball rolling” to get it back. His comments came two days

Netflix deal.Abudu’s production company EbonyLife becomes the first African production company to close such an agreement with the streaming giant.“The conversation started months and months ago, we’ve been talking about it for ages.

Naman Ramachandran Netflix shows “Criminal U.K.” and “Delhi Crime,” UFA’s second season of “Charité,” and the second season of HBO Latin America’s “The Bronze Garden” are the nominees in the best drama category at the International Emmy Awards.Vying for best actress are Glenda Jackson for “Elizabeth is Missing,” for which she has already won a BAFTA, Yeo Yann Yann for “Invisible Stories,” Emma Bading for “Play,” and Andrea Beltrão for “Hebe.”Nominees for best actor are Billy Barratt for

Last spring, the global coronavirus pandemic had the Toronto Film Festival organizers grappling over some big decisions: go virtual or remain an in-person festival this September. So TIFF co-heads Joana Vicente and Cameron Bailey in May turned to Randy Lennox, president and CEO of Canadian media giant Bell Media, to help take TIFF past that fork in the road to where Hollywood and its audiences increasingly live: online.