RAI Acquires Animated Series ‘The Adventures of Paddington,’ ‘Esther’s Notebooks’ from Studiocanal

Allen Maldonado (Sneakerheads, The Last OG) and Shadow of the Tomb Raider video game franchise alum Earl Baylon have joined the voice cast of Netflix and Legendary’s Tomb Raider anime series. It is based on the Square Enix action-adventure video game that has spawned comic books and three feature films, with a fourth on the way.

Despite the dark clouds surrounding Manchester United's managerial situation the transfer merry-go-round continues to spin with the Reds reportedly eyeing moves for Federico Chiesa, Franck Kessie and Nicolo Barella.

Jamie Lang Kids First will collaborate with Amazon Kids Plus on a new original kids’ program set in the Hello Kitty universe titled “Hello Kitty: Super Style!” The new series is being produced with a global audience in mind, and will be made available in major territories around the world, including the U.S. Paris-based Watch Next.

Tim Burton was a proud dad, as he posed on the red carpet with his son Billy Ray, 18, and daughter Nell, 13, at the Rome Film Fest on Saturday October 23. The 63-year-old director and his little ones were attending a “Close Encounters” salute to his films at the Italian movie festival. The director seemed very happy as he stood with both of his kids (plus their dog!) around his arms.

Tim Burton just made a very rare appearance on the red carpet with his two kids!

Manchester City are 'active' in the race to sign highly rated Fiorentina striker Dusan Vlahovic as they continue to search for a new goalscorer.

The CW is continuing to look abroad to solidify its schedule.

Did you think a talking tree and gun-toting racoon were weird Marvel characters? Well, how about a Japanese snow monkey that dresses in a suit and becomes a world-class assassin? Yeah, we’re talking about one of the strangest Marvel creations, Hit-Monkey. As seen in the trailer for Hulu’s new animated Marvel series, “Hit-Monkey,” the deep-dive superhero is literally a monkey who is also a hitman.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentItaly’s RAI Com, which is the sales arm of Italian state broadcaster RAI, is scoring sales to key territories on Gabriele Mainetti’s “Freaks Out,” following the genre-bending film’s launch in competition at Venice.Mainetti’s lavish historical fantasy set in 1943 Rome, where four “freaks” who work in a circus are left to their own devices when the Eternal City is bombed by Allied Forces, has been sold to Metropolitan Film for France and to The Klockwork

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentEuropean pay-TV platform Sky will unveil an Italian adaptation of French hit series “Call My Agent,” and thriller series “Europa,” directed by German filmmaker Oliver Hirschbiegel, who helmed the Oscar-nominated “Downfall,” at an event Friday at the Rome MIA Market.The Italian “Call My Agent” remake is being produced by Palomar, the Rome-based company controlled by France’s Mediawan, which originated the hit show set at a Parisian talent agency

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentViacomCBS International Studios and Italy’s expanding Minerva Pictures have teamed up on “Miss Fallaci Takes America, a high-profile TV series about the 1958 journey to the U.S.

Christopher Vourlias SMF Studio, the venerable Russian animation house, and leading publisher Bubble Comics are partnering on a new series based on the comic book “Coolics” which they’ve premiered at Mipcom this week.Created by creative producer and SMF Studio director Alexandra Bizyaeva, Bubble’s editor-in-chief Roman Kotkov, and creative producer Evgeniy Eronin – a scriptwriter on the animated feature film “Major Grom: The Plague Doctor,” which was released by Disney in Russia earlier this

Courtney Barnett has released ‘Smile Real Nice’, a new track the Australian singer-songwriter has penned for Apple TV+’s animated adaptation of Harriet the Spy.“I don’t wanna be / You don’t wanna be / We don’t wanna be told what to do,” Barnett declares in the scrappy new song’s opening verse. “No I won’t cut my hair / And I’ll wear whatever I like!”‘Smile Real Nice’ serves as the opening theme for the new series, which will premiere on the streaming platform on November 19.

Starting October 21, all 26 episodes of space western action-adventure series Cowboy Bebop will be available on Netflix as the streamer has acquired the rights to the original anime. This announcement comes weeks before the live-action Cowboy Bebop series premiere. 

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe Northern Italian city of Turin will host the upcoming 66th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest in May 2022, Italian state broadcaster RAI has revealed.Turin — which hosted the 2006 Winter Olympics and will be hosting the upcoming Nitto ATP Tennis finals in November — beat out Milan and Rome, among other Italian cities, in the bid to be chosen by the European Broadcasting Union as the first Italian city to host Eurovision after more than 30 years.