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Manchester City are plotting a sensational move for Atletico Madrid star Joao Felix, according to reports.

Jamie Lang Los Angeles-based Outsider Pictures has picked up North American rights to the award-winning Brazilian stop-motion feature “Bob Spit: We Do Not Like People,” this year’s Best Film winner from Annecy’s Contrechamp section for innovative and outside-the-box toon features and the Best Animated Feature at the Ottawa International Animation Festival.Outsider is currently planning an Academy qualifying run for the film.São Paulo-based Coala Filmes impressed early on with their claymation

Jonathan Cohen Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder and his new solo band The Earthlings will embark on their first tour in early 2022, beginning with Feb. 3-4 shows at New York’s Beacon Theatre.

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Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaEven when COVID-19 finally, happily and at long last becomes a thing of the past, the distribution shifts it helped usher in across the movie business may be here to stay, Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Chapek said on Wednesday.“We know that we’re in a time of flux,” Chapek told analysts on a conference call shortly after the company reported its quarterly results.

Courtney Barnett has shared a cruisy new single titled ‘If I Don’t Hear From You Tonight’, announcing alongside it a suite of tour dates for her native Australia.Leaning further into her folk and country influences, the new track shines with twangy lead guitars and soaring vocal harmonies, a dry and punchy bassline thumping along in the background.

is here and it's even more gaudy than the first one! Just try to take your eyes off of Lady Gaga, who plays Patrizia Reggiani in the star-studded film.

J. Kim Murphy administratorMGM has offered another peek at “House of Gucci,” releasing a new trailer for its upcoming star-studded drama.Set to the alluring beat of “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” by the British pop duo Eurythmics, the new trailer features the first meeting between socialite Patrizia Reggiani (Lady Gaga), accompanied by her husband Maurizio Gucci (Adam Driver), and the lavishly wealthy Italian family.

EXCLUSIVE: Smosh, the longtime supplier of YouTube comedy videos, has hired its first CEO.

Next week on Coronation Street, Kevin Webster has a shocking wake-up call when he stirs from his slumber on the sofa to find his missing fiancée Abi Franklin standing in the living room.

The Queen has been less than impressed with her grandson Prince Harry this year. Hours after Harry and Meghan Markle’s explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey, Her Majesty responded to the couple’s allegations saying, ‘some recollections may vary’.

NEW YORK -- Fresh off his turn as James Bond, Daniel Craig has his next project lined up and its also got plenty of blood being spilled.Craig will return to Broadway in 2022 as Macbeth in a revival of Williams Shakespeare's tragedy, with Ruth Negga making her Broadway debut playing Lady Macbeth.“Macbeth” will play the Lyceum Theatre starting March 29, 2022, with an opening set for April 28. Tony Award-winner Sam Gold will direct.

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terrorism were “part of our lives at this time in history” and would remain so for some time. Speaking on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on New York, the Glasgow-born head of the security services said the covid crisis had not diminished the threat.

Jamie Lang Banijay has announced that its French scripted label, Endemol Shine Fiction, is rebranding as Shine Fiction and has already signed several important development deals under the new banner.

is here! Just hours after character posters for the upcoming film were released, MGM dropped the trailer — and it's just as enticing as we'd all imagine. Just try to take your eyes off of Lady Gaga, who plays Patrizia Reggiani in the star-studded film.

is here! Just hours after character posters for the upcoming film were released, MGM dropped the trailer — and it's just as enticing as we'd all imagine. Just try to take your eyes off of Lady Gaga, who plays Patrizia Reggiani in the star-studded film.

is here! Just hours after character posters for the upcoming film were released, MGM dropped the trailer — and it's just as enticing as we'd all imagined. Just try to take your eyes off of Lady Gaga, who plays Patrizia Reggiani in the star-studded film.

Jamie Lang The Mediapro Studio is teaming with “The Department of Time” and “Isabel” creator Javier Olivares to develop a new bio-series about former Spanish King Juan Carlos I in the style of Netflix’s “The Crown,” according to a report by Spanish paper El País and confirmed to Variety by The Mediapro Studio.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaQuiver Distribution isn’t a major name in the entertainment business, but that is gradually changing as the Canadian entertainment company has managed to snag a series of notable projects and used the pandemic to bolster its library of content.Launched in 2019 by former eOne executive Berry Meyerowitz and former Lionsgate Films president Jeff Sackman, Quiver enjoyed success with the release of the Kevin James comedy “Becky” and “Crisis,” a thriller

health conditions. Canada's reopening has gone slower in the United States and Europe.

For the creative team and the stars of The CW’s The Republic of Sarah, the drama is all about highlighting normal people who do the extraordinary.

Naman Ramachandran Leading Indian studio Yash Raj Films’ Yash Chopra Foundation has launched a vaccination drive for Bollywood industry personnel.YRF chair and MD Aditya Chopra has made available the sprawling premises of its Mumbai studio for the drive, which began Tuesday. The first phase is expected to inoculate 4,000 workers with the aim being to vaccinate all 30,000 members of the Federation of Western India Cine Employees.

NEW YORK -- “The Lehman Trilogy” was able to make only four preview performances on Broadway before the pandemic shut its doors. Now it plans to return to tell the story of an American financial giant's downfall with a new cast member.Stefano Massini’s play about what led to the collapse of Lehman Brothers — adapted by Ben Power and directed by Sam Mendes — will add Adrian Lester, replacing Ben Miles, and joining Simon Russell Beale and Adam Godley.

So no one told you Twitter was gonna be this way. As the highly-anticipated "Friends: The Reunion" dropped on HBO Max Thursday, the buzzy throwback begs an unpleasant question — would this beloved ’90s sitcom get away with its jokes in the modern days of cancel culture? Unlikely.

Olivia Rodrigo's latest music video is fiery beyond belief. On Friday, one week ahead of the release of Rodrigo's debut album,, the 18-year-old singer released her third-ever single, «Good 4 U,» along with the pop rock song's revenge fantasy-filled music video.In the video, Rodrigo plays a high school girl who's out for revenge after her ex moved on with someone else.

Naman Ramachandran The Hindi-language film industry, popularly known as Bollywood, is displaying its resilience after being hit by yet another COVID-enforced pause.India is currently in the throes of the pandemic with 330,000 new COVID-19 cases everyday, with upward of 2,200 daily deaths. The western Indian state of Maharashtra, home to Mumbai and Bollywood, is amongst the worst hit with more than 67,000 new daily cases and 568 deaths.

Chris Willman Music WriterYola, the powerhouse singer who was nominated for four Grammys — including best new artist — on the strength of her 2018 debut album, has announced plans for a follow-up due this summer, “Stand for Myself,” and released a new music video, “Diamond Studded Shoes,” to preview it.“Stand for Myself” will be out July 30 and again be produced by Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys, whose independent imprint, Easy Eye Sound, is Yola’s label home.

Eureka Productions has been on a roll recently, picking up orders for series such as a Magic Mike competition series at HBO Max and an adaptation of 1980s videogame Frogger at Peacock.

Feature films could be the next big untapped market for unscripted reboots. HBO Max is making a reality competition series inspired by Magic Mike and now Sony is looking at its movie library.

Former Discovery commissioner and co-founder of Say Yes To The Dress producer Half-Yard Productions Abby Greensfelder is on a mission to create more female-led stories in the non-scripted space.

How do you turn the latest crop of social media influencers – many with tens of millions of followers – into traditional television stars? That’s been the question that networks and producers have been asking for years.

Britney Spears, and her fans are hoping it won’t be long before she’s back in control of her own life. Recent adjustments to her conservatorship are said to have made the singer more confident of gaining her freedom, and a source close to the 39 year old tells us the first thing she’s planning to do is to jump on a plane and get away.“All she wants to do is retreat to some far-flung paradise for a year or two with Sam [Asghari, her boyfriend of four years],” a source says.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaBleecker Street has secured North American rights to “The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52,” a new documentary from Joshua Zeman. The film will be released in theaters on July 9.

Mark Schilling Japan CorrespondentFollowing his win of the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at the recently concluded Berlin Film Festival for “Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy,” 42-year-old Hamaguchi Ryusuke suddenly finds himself catapulted to the directorial front ranks in his native Japan.It’s not that he’s exactly obscure there: Hamaguchi’s 2018 romantic drama “Asako I & II” was selected for the Cannes competition while his 2015 breakthrough, the five-hour-plus drama “Happy Hour,” won a group best

Jamie Lang In today’s Global Bulletin, “The Prince of Egypt” musical plans its return to London’s West End, BBC Arts unveils a slate of TV and radio adaptations for its Lights Up festival, Festival MiX Milano rebrands as MiX International Festival of LGBTQ+ Cinema and Queer Culture, Mip Cancun announces 2021 in-person market dates and details, and Telefilm backs two new features in Canada.Following the latest U.K.