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Annika Pham Talent-driven doc sales outfit Rise & Shine has boarded “Fire Fire Fire” (“Feu Feu Feu”), the feature debut of Swiss rising voice Pauline Jeanbourquin (“Dusk”), due to world premiere in the national competition strand of Nyon’s Visions du Réel docu festival. Variety has had exclusively access to the international trailer. The poetic and captivating coming-of-age story of a young girl with healing talents, is produced by high-profile Geneva-based Close Up Films, credited for the 2023 Swiss Oscar entry “Thunder” and as co-producer of the Oscar-nominated “I Am Not Your Negro.” “I enjoy working on first features, meeting a new voice, exploring and questioning what it means to direct, figuring things out together.

Jack Dunn Robert “Robin” MacNeil, co-anchor and co-founder of PBS NewsHour, died April 12, PBS announced. He was 93 MacNeil died Friday morning of natural causes at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, his daughter, Alison MacNeil, told the New York Times. Following their coverage of the 1973 Senate Watergate Hearings, MacNeil co-founded the predecessor to the PBS “MacNeil/Lehrer Report” in 1975 with fellow anchor Jim Lehrer.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has been renewed for a fourth season ahead of the show’s Season 3 premiere which is slated for 2025 and currently in production. Additionally, the previously announced fifth season of Star Trek: Lower Decks will serve as its final. New episodes of the final season, currently in production, will arrive this fall.

Carlos Aguilar Two parallel but inevitably intersecting stories make up Italian-born director Marco Perego‘s debut feature “The Absence of Eden,” a strikingly shot and superbly acted immigration drama. But for all its commendable on-screen elements, it’s the screenplay that Perego co-wrote with Rick Rapoza that falls short, traversing overly familiar and rather sordid tropes related to a divisive political issue.

Rebecca Rubin Senior Film and Media Reporter What can Disney say to cinema owners except “you’re welcome“? After all, the studio is revisiting the island of Montunui, where “Moana” takes place, a lot sooner than movie theaters were expecting. Earlier this year, the studio announced a surprise sequel to the 2016 animated feature for release on Nov.

Rebecca Rubin Senior Film and Media Reporter Disney is welcoming the king of the Pride Lands back to Las Vegas. The studio unveiled a stirring, all-new trailer of “Mufasa: The Lion King” on Thursday at CinemaCon, the annual convention for movie theater owners. “Mufasa: The Lion King” is expected to focus on the early years of the eventual ruler of the animals, as well as his menacing younger brother Scar.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic Reviews will have to wait till the Cannes Film Festival kicks off on May 14, but it’s not too early for a critic to weigh in on this year’s lineup — or how it looks on paper, at least, and what the selection might say about the state of things. At the top of the press conference, festival director Thierry Frémaux noted that last year would be a tough edition to top.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Daniel Radcliffe was treated to an unexpected moment during an appearance on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast alongside his “Merrily We Roll Along” co-stars Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez. Podcast host Josh Horowitz played a clip from his Alan Rickman interview in 2016, which Radcliffe had never seen before. Rickman and Radcliffe were co-stars for a decade in the “Harry Potter” film series.

The cast has been revealed for Rihanna‘s new Smurfs movie!

Carolyn Giardina Chris Hemsworth, the voice of a young Optimus Prime, and Brian Tyree Henry, the voice of a young Megatron, got an enthusiastic welcome at CinemaCon as they introduced a first look and 3D scene from “Transformers One,” Paramount‘s animated origin story based on the Hasbro toys. “This origin story is how they transformed from brothers in arms to sworn enemies,” said Henry from Las Vegas on Thursday. In the clip, Optimus Prime, Megatron and their friends “proven worthy” are given their powers to transform — and awkwardly get accustomed to using those powers.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Dave Bautista and Eric Nam are set to headline the voice cast for the upcoming “Avatar: The Last Airbender” movie in development at Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Studios. The film’s working title is “Aang: The Last Airbender.” The news was announced during Paramount’s slate presentation at CinemaCon. Joining Bautista and Nam in the voice cast are Dionne Quan, Jessica Matten and Roman Zaragoza.

Carolyn Giardina Three-time Oscar-nominated director Chris Sandlers and Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o previewed unfinished footage of DreamWorks Animation‘s “The Wild Robot” at CinemaCon — what Sandlers says took inspiration from Disney classics and Hayao Miyazaki’s work, resulting in an original virtual style that he described as “a Monet painting in a Miyazaki forest.” Based on Peter Brown’s book, the story follows Roz, a robot voiced by Nyong’o, who is accidentally marooned on an uninhabited island. There, the city robot meets and learns from the animals in her new environment. In this rich world, a fox meets and advises Roz.

The 10-episode second season of the Max Original adult animated series Velma from Warner Bros. Animation debuts Thursday, April 25.

CinemaCon attendees got an extended clip from Illumination’s Despicable Me 4 at Universal’s presentation Wednesday in Las Vegas.

EXCLUSIVE: Norman Reedus is going to have a busy year.

BBC Breakfast viewers were quick to express their concern for show hosts Jon Kay and Sally Nugent during Wednesday’s broadcast (10 April) when the pair appeared to be battling with “croaky voices” while trying present the flagship morning show. Both presenters greeted fans tuning in at home to the latest news and updates hitting the headlines, while Nina Warhurst delivered the business news to anyone heading off to work.

Marta Balaga And the winners are… Pan-African non-profit Ubongo and footage and data visualizations library Open Planet. The two organizations picked up MIP SDG [Sustainable Development Goals] awards at MipTV on Tuesday. Adopted by all UN member states in 2015, the SDG Awards’ 17 goals are a call to action to boost the economy while tackling climate change, improving healthcare, and ending inequality.

Carson Daly and his wife Siri Pinter have been together for nearly 20 years and they’ve learned that one secret to a healthy relationship has been to sleep apart some nights.

Good Times is back in a new way.

A teenager with a ‘history of severe self-harm’ was told his life was a ‘car crash’ by a psychiatrist involved in his care in a 'stretched' mental health unit, an inquest has heard.

Lewis Hamilton is reflecting on a missed opportunity.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Jackie Chan marked his 70th birthday on April 7 by telling people not to worry about his health after some photos of the acting icon looking old with grey hair circulated online recently and sparked concern among his fans. Chan wrote in an Instagram post that any photo of him looking much older than 70 is just him in character for a new movie. “Not so long ago, a lot of friends saw some recent photos of me on the internet, and they were all concerned about my health,” Chan wrote in the caption.

She shot to international stardom at the age of 12 thanks to her astonishing soprano voice, selling millions of records worldwide in a stellar career which has seen her perform for popes, princes and even presidents. But Charlotte Church’s fame came at a price. Now, as the Welsh singer-songwriter, actress, presenter and activist launches a new podcast reflecting on the people and place which shaped her, she’s revealed the dark side to her enormous early fame.

Jack Dunn The Los Angeles LGBT Center, the world’s largest queer-serving nonprofit organization, has announced that “Wicked” star Cynthia Erivo as well as artist Mickalene Thomas and Muna will be honored at the Center Gala on May 18. The annual benefit, taking place at the Shrine Auditorium, is held to celebrate LGBTQ+ voices as well as to raise crucial funds for community services.

Manchester United's injury list was added to on Sunday afternoon as Marcus Rashford was forced off in the second-half of the 2-2 draw with Liverpool.

Tom Hiddleston is opening up about the future of Loki.

Rachel McAdams is voicing her thoughts on The Notebook musical!

Vanessa Feltz has been left to tackle the chaos caused by Storm Kathleen at her Cork holiday home.

An anorexia survivor who weighed just four stone at her lightest hopes to become a personal trainer after turning her life around in an incredible recovery.

One of Bradley Cooper‘s collaborators is opening up about a project that they did together.

Jack Dunn Derek Cianfrance, director and co-writer of “The Place Beyond the Pines,” told IndieWire at the New Directors/New Films festival that Bradley Cooper almost bowed out of the production after receiving a rewritten script. Just before principle photography began, Cianfrance brought in screenwriter Darius Marder to rewrite “every word” of “The Place Beyond the Pines.” Cooper was not pleased with the changes to his character, a police officer who kills off a compassionate thief (Ryan Gosling) at the film’s halfway mark.

Jack Dunn “Hire different.” That was the challenge posed to the entertainment industry by Judi Uttal, president of the Orange County Aspergers Support Group, at the inaugural Autism in Entertainment Conference on Friday morning. As head chair, she welcomed in a colorful audience of over 100 skilled neurodivergent filmmakers, ready and willing to take their shot at show business. “You are the cream of the crop,” Uttal stated in her opening remarks.

Philippe Clement has revealed he’s so engaged with Old Firm rivalry rules that he accepts resuming a friendship with Gordon Strachan is off limits.

Gender-critical activists faced off with counter-protesters over gender identity issues and women's rights in Edinburgh this afternoon, with both sides making their voices heard.

Kurt Cobain‘s daughter Frances Bean Cobain is sharing a message on the 30th anniversary of her dad’s passing.

Taylor Swift is making sure her Swifties are prepared for The Tortured Poets Department!