‘No Time to Die’ Tops Studios’ TV Ad Spending

Congratulations are in order for Taylor Dye!

Congratulations are in order for Taylor Dye!

Marks and Spencer’s have married its famous Percy Pig sweets with pancakes for a delicious Shrove Tuesday dish.

Come May 16, it will be 10 years since metal icon Ronnie James Dio died after a battle with stomach cancer at the age of 67. His widow and manager, Wendy Dio, tells Billboard that “sometimes it feels like 10 years or longer; sometimes it seems like just yesterday.”Some consolation comes from the enduring impact of the vocalist's solo heavy metal work and with such bands as Black Sabbath and Rainbow.

Comcast-owned European pay TV giant Sky's Sky Studios production arm and Fremantle’s The Apartment, one of the production firms behind The New Pope, on Wednesday unveiled a multi-year drama development and production partnership.Financial terms of the deal weren't disclosed. Under the agreement, Sky Studios will provide development funding for a minimum of three shows alongside a commitment to produce.

Sky Studios and Italy’s The Apartment, the Fremantle-owned production company headed by Lorenzo Mieli, have forged a multi-year development and production partnership that marks Sky’s first agreement of this type outside the U.K.

Fans will get a peek inside the life and times of legendary rocker Ronnie James Dio, thanks to BMG. The media company announced on Tuesday (Feb. 18) that its next film will focus on the rock icon, marking the first documentary to be fully authorized by his estate.

Harry Styles was mugged at Knifepoint during a night out in Hampstead, London. A source close to Harry told The Sun that the Adore You singer was stopped by a man in the street who pulled out his knife and demanded he gives him all the money he had.

LeBron James will continue to make Kobe Bryant proud.

It seems like so much has happened since made everyone long for the simpler days, but it's only been one month since People magazine confirmed the news. After nearly nine years together, Vanessa is flying solo this Valentine's Day and is taking time to celebrate herself.

In this week’s edition of the Variety Movie Commercial Tracker, powered by the always-on TV ad measurement and attribution company iSpot.tv, Paramount Pictures claims the top spot in spending with “Sonic the Hedgehog.”

Sziget returns to Budapest in early August

After premiering her latest filmThe Last Thing He Wanted at Sundance, Dee Rees has chosen her next project: a remake ofGeorge Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess.Rees will write and direct the musical, which follows Porgy, a disabled black street beggar living in the slums of Charleston, as he attempts to rescue Bess from a violent love and drug dealer.Gershwin's opera is an adaption of Dorothy and DuBose Heyward's play Porgy, which is itself an adaptation of the Heywards' 1925 novel.