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Jordan Moreau Earl Cameron, one of the first major Black actors in British cinema, died on Friday at his home in England, his representative confirmed to Variety. He was 102.Cameron was born in Pembroke, Bermuda, on Aug.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorFunimation, a leading provider of anime content, plans to expand its streaming service to Brazil and Mexico this fall, offering select subtitled and dubbed anime series in Spanish and Portuguese.The company, an independent joint venture between Sony Pictures Entertainment and Japan’s Aniplex, already operates globally, with nine offices in six countries.

If it wasn’t for the coronavirus pandemic the Wimbledon Tennis Championships would be on right now. That’s right, the season of bright white shorts, strawberries and cream and manicured lawns would be well underway, as it was supposed to have began on 29 June.

Jamie Foxx is going through a “process” to prepare for his role as Mike Tyson in the forthcoming biopic Finding Mike.The Oscar-winning actor has already begun to transform his body to match the former boxer’s physique, but Foxx’s former trainer-turned-stylist told Britain’s The Sun newspaper the journey is as much about his mental state as it is his physical strength.Explaining the star will need to go into a “dark hole” mentally to portray Tyson, Jack Manson insisted his pal has what it takes

Jake Kanter International TV EditorStarzplay has acquired the second season of Ramy Yousseff’s Golden Globe-winning comedy Ramy for the UK, Austria, Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland. The streaming arm of U.S.

Moss Side, which sought to address employment inequality in Manchester and help train black women for office-based work.

DEALSWye Oak’s Jenn Wasner has signed her Flock Of Dimes solo project to Sub Pop. Available right at this very moment is new EP ‘Like So Much Desire’.APPOINTMENTSFormer MD of Warner Chappell UK, Mike Smith, has been named Global President of Downtown Music Publishing. He replaces, well, no one.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorSTX has snapped up worldwide distribution rights to genre pic Run Rabbit Run, which will re-team Elisabeth Moss with The Handmaid’s Tale director Daina Reid.STXfilms will directly distribute in the U.S., UK and Ireland with STXinternational now aboard for international sales at the Cannes Virtual Market.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: As the Cannes virtual market gets underway, Warsaw-based sales co New Europe has finalized key territory deals on two of its major titles.Disco, which played Toronto and San Sebastian last year, has been bought for North America and UK by 1091.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorComcast-owned pay-TV company Sky has signed a new carriage deal with Discovery in the UK, Ireland, Germany and Australia.The “long-term” agreement means that Discovery’s channels will continue to be available on Sky and its streamer Now TV, while in the UK and Ireland, Discovery’s streaming services such as MotorTrend will also be accessible through Sky.

When Maria Teresa Kumar was nine years-old, she became a citizen of the United States along with her mom. The pair had immigrated from Bogota, Columbia, after her mother fell in love with and married an English teacher working there. The new family then moved to Sonoma, California.

We need a pronunciation lesson. Elon Musk and Grimes’ baby’s middle name is just as complicated as X Æ A-12. Well, because it’s almost exactly the same. According to X Æ A-12’s birth certificate, which was obtained by TMZ, the infant’s middle name is AE A-XII, so just a couple numerals different than his first.

Grimes and Elon Musk made a slight tweak to their newborn son X Æ A-12’s name on his birth certificate.The infant’s first name is X on the certificate, obtained by TMZ. His middle name is AE A-XII since birth names in California have to follow the English alphabet, excluding numbers and special signs.The “Delete Forever” singer, 32, gave birth to her first child and the entrepreneur’s sixth on May 4.

TMZ, the couple had to make further alterations when they realised birth names must be limited to the English alphabet – no numbers or special signs – in the state of California.According to California’s rules on names, on birth certificates they must use “the 26 alphabetical letters of the English language” but can include some punctuation marks like apostrophes and dashes.Finally, they settled on X AE A-XII Musk, with first name X, middle name AE A-XII, and Musk as his surname.The couple

Jake Kanter International TV EditorMaria Kyriacou, the president of ViacomCBS Networks UK and Australia, has been named as the new chair of Britain’s Creative Diversity Network.Kyriacou succeeds Jill Offman, who left ViacomCBS earlier this year, and will lead the organization until the end of 2020, helping it promote diversity and inclusion in the UK television industry.Kyriacou said: “I look forward to championing the vital work that CDN is doing at a time when actionable diversity and