Redbox & Red Sea Take Global Rights On Frank Grillo Action Pic ‘King Of Killers’

The stars and sun seemed to have aligned on blue carpet at the 2022 edition of the Film Independent Spirit Awards.

EXCLUSIVE: In the wake of AMC CEO Adam Aron’s announcement during a recent earnings call that he’s raised ticket prices specifically on The Batman, there are some studio executives and producers who are miffed.

Mila Kunis hasn’t forgotten where she came from. The actress and husband Ashton Kutcher have launched a fundraiser on the GoFundMe site to provide humanitarian aid to Ukraine. In just one day, the fundraiser has accumulated pledges of $9.3 million.

Selome Hailu Maggie Burkhead, Katie Giarla and Mina Baban have each been promoted vice president of TV development at Endeavor Content. All three are based in Beverly Hills and work across the studio’s streaming and cable content while managing partnerships and joint ventures in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Scandinavia, Latin America, Korea, India, West Asia and North Africa.“Katie, Maggie and Mina have all played integral parts in building Endeavor Content’s TV studio.

EXCLUSIVE: Taskmaster, the quirky British game show, is taking another swing at the U.S. market with its own global streaming service.

The Toronto International Film Festival won’t be rolling out the red carpet to organizations, official delegations and media outlets supported by the Russian state.

EXCLUSIVE: The excitement surrounding Steven Knight’s upcoming big-budget BBC war thriller Rogue Heroes has ramped up another notch with buyers in Europe, Canada and Australia acquiring the drama.

SAG Awards took over Santa Monica, California to honour the best in film and television over the last year. And Canada was well represented, with The Handmaid's Tale star Amanda Brugel looking absolutely breathtaking in a flowing white gown.

Naman Ramachandran U.K. broadcaster ITV has commissioned real-life drama “Stonehouse,” from “A Very English Scandal” writer John Preston, directed by BAFTA-nominated Jon S. Baird (“Stan & Ollie”).

Lamorne Morris and Hannah Simone are reliving their time on “New Girl” alongside Zooey Deschanel as hosts of the iHeartRadio podcast “Welcome to Our Show”. The stars catch up with ET Canada, touching on everything from on-set gags and take-home props, to the Cece-Winston friendship and the episode Morris wrote amid police violence against Black citizens in the U.S.

ITV Studios Strikes Major CBC Content Deal

NBC’s “New Amsterdam” returns from its Winter Olympics hiatus Tuesday (Feb. 22) at 10 p.m. — as fiery surgeon Dr.

Jamie Lang “Transplant,” Canada’s most-watched drama series, will be back for a third season at CTV, produced by Sphere Media in association with CTV and Universal International Studios, a division of Universal Studio Group.Season 3 will shoot in Montréal, with Hamza Haq returning as protagonist Dr. Bashir Hamed, a Syrian refugee who fled to Canada where he now practices medicine.

Fitness progress! Eleven weeks after welcoming her baby boy with Tristan Thompson, Maralee Nichols is proud of her body.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefCritically-acclaimed Australian series “The Newsreader” is set to air in 80 additional territories, following a string of rights sales deals organized by Entertainment One. The six-part show was licensed to the BBC (U.K.), Arte (France and Germany), RTE (Ireland), Viaplay (the Nordic and Baltic regions, Poland and The Netherlands), Cosmo (Spain), Filmin (Portugal and 2nd window in Spain), Now TV (Hong Kong), Telus (Canada) and NBCUniversal International Networks & Direct-To-Consumer (Latin America).Starring Anna Torv and Sam Reid, “The Newsreader” centers around the frantic, busy heart of a commercial TV newsroom set in the 1980s, while following the relationship between an ambitious young TV reporter and the star female news anchor.

Naman Ramachandran BBC Studios, the commercial arm of U.K. broadcaster BBC, has promoted Rebecca Glashow to the newly created role of CEO, global distribution.

Naman Ramachandran Kino Lorber has acquired U.S. rights to writer-director Ajitpal Singh’s debut feature, “Fire in the Mountains,” which premiered in the World Dramatic Competition of the Sundance Film Festival in 2021.A powerful feminist tale set in a tourist homestay in the Himalayan foothills of northern India, the film centers around a woman (Vinamrata Rai), the sole breadwinner of the household, who scrimps and saves for her son’s medical treatment, while her alcoholic husband believes that an expensive shamanic ritual is the answer to all their woes.The film is produced by Alan McAlex and Ajai Rai of prolific Indian arthouse producers Jar Pictures alongside Mauli Singh and Amit Mehta.

Coronation Street's Sam Aston has a lookalike in the making... thanks to his son.

BritBox Tells Story Of Modern British Cinema

Those theatrical motion picture studios earning Oscar Best Picture nominations today will put their best foot forward at the box office, and increase the cinema footprint of their contenders in an effort to capitalize on their success and raise the pics’ profiles.