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CNCO is ready for its «sensual» new era.The Latino boy band is entering a new phase of its career following Joel Pimentel's departure in May.

Broadcaster Nexstar Media said Friday it’s buying The Hill, a leading purveyor of Beltway news, for $130 million as it expands in digital content.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaScreen Media has acquired “The Green Wave,” a sports documentary that tells the incredible story of one coach’s impact on a high school basketball team. “The Green Wave” will premiere exclusively on Crackle Plus.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaGaspar Noé’s “Vortex,” an acclaimed meditation on mortality told entirely in split-screen, has sold to Utopia.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaJeff Daniels is ready to welcome audiences back to Broadway.The producing team behind “Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird,” a box office juggernaut that already ranks as the most successful American play in Broadway history, unveiled a new video on Thursday intended to celebrate the return of the Great White Way after a year of pandemic-related closures.

Matthew McConaughey is opening up about how he got the lead villain role in Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Matthew McConaughey went to great lengths to be cast in 1994’s “Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation”.

EXCLUSIVE: Shout! Studios and Abramorama are teaming on North American rights to Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster, the Thomas Hamilton-directed feature documentary about the life and career of the horror movie icon. Abramorama will release the pic in a limited theatrical run on September 17.

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Morgan Freeman (Million Dollar Baby) and Yellowstone star Cole Hauser have been set to lead action-thriller Muti from writer-director George Gallo (Bad Boys) and producers Iervolino & Lady Bacardi Entertainment (Waiting for the Barbarians).

Manori Ravindran International EditorRingside Media, the investment arm of Newen-backed indie Ringside Studios, has bought out Lionsgate’s stake in veteran TV executive Steve November’s Further South Productions.The London and Brighton-based Further South was founded by former Lionsgate executive November, who was previously creative director of the studio’s U.K. TV division.

DENVER -- The creators of the irreverent animated television series “South Park” are buying Casa Bonita, a quirky restaurant in suburban Denver that was featured on the show.Matt Stone and Trey Parker said in an interview with Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Friday that they had come to an agreement with the current owners of the restaurant, which closed to diners in March 2020 as the pandemic took hold.

Angelique Jackson Gerard Butler’s next flight is about to get more crowded, as the star’s upcoming action-thriller “The Plane,” adds five to its cast.Remi Adeleke, Haleigh Hekking, Lilly Krug, Joey Slotnick, and Oliver Trevena have signed on for the Lionsgate movie, joining Butler and previously announced stars Mike Colter, Daniella Pineda, Kelly Gale and Yoson An.Butler stars in the film as commercial pilot Brodie Torrance who, after a heroic job of successfully landing his storm-damaged

wrote about how Nicolas Cage’s “Pig” only looks like he’s about to turn into John Wick and go crazy on a bunch of bad guys, but his latest film “Prisoners of the Ghostland” actually goes there and then some. “Prisoners of the Ghostland” is the next film from action auteur Sion Sono, and it casts Cage as a bank robber sprung from prison and tasked with rescuing a wealthy warlord’s missing adopted granddaughter.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorCelebrity chef Matthew Kenney is expanding his plant-based culinary empire to meal delivery. XFood is a collaboration between Kenney and e-commerce company PlantX, of which he is culinary chief officer.“Our goal is to always reach as many people with plant-based options as possible,” says Kenney, who launched the first of his many vegan restaurants almost 30 years ago.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaIFC Films has acquired North American rights to “Huda’s Salon,” a drama written and directed by Hany Abu-Assad, the award-winning filmmaker behind “Paradise Now” and “The Mountain Between Us.”The film is described as a “feminist thriller,” one that unfolds against the backdrop of geopolitical conflict. It follows Reem, a young mother married to a jealous man, who goes to Huda’s salon in Bethlehem for a haircut and an attentive ear.

Rachael Leigh Cook and Matthew Lillard are looking back at filming their iconic teen movie, ET's Lauren Zima spoke to the pair ahead of the film's reboot,, debuting on Netflix on Aug. 27, and they spilled some behind-the-scenes details. Cook and Lillard appear in the reboot, though not as their original characters, art nerd Lainey Boggs and reality star Brock Hudson.

Sterling K. Brown is attached to star in action thriller, Coyote Blue.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaSaltbox TV, a new ad-supported streaming service for older adults, is launching a talent series dubbed “Silver Stars.”The show will put a fresh spin on a formula popularized by the likes of “America’s Got Talent” and “American Idol” by focusing on contenders who are all over the age of 65.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentTwo on-the-rise directors, Maria Perez Sanz (“Karen”) and Maddi Barber (“Land Underwater”), have signed on to direct episodes in “Present,” a singular exploration by Spain’s Garde of a new generation of women artists, both cineastes and writers, who broke out last decade.Part of a broader literary-film project, “This Is Not a Poem” (“Esto no es una poesía”), “Present” (“Presentes”) is being introduced to potential co-producers and distributors by

Will Packer Productions and Mo Abudu’s EbonyLife Studios are teaming to develop an untitled project, based on Evan Ratliff’s Bloomberg article, “The Fall of the Billionaire Gucci Master.”