Thruline Entertainment Names Talent Manager Ashley Franklin Partner

Alongside his brother, Jordan and other recognisable faces like Perry Kiely from the iconic dance troupe, Diversity, Ashley Banjo has become quite the national treasure. From his performance at the Royal Variety show following their 2009 Britain’s Got Talent win to his current place on the Dancing on Ice judging panel - even his MBE - the 34 year old has come a long way in terms of his career.

Glen Powell is in talks to co-star opposite Daisy Edgar-Jones in Twisters, a new chapter to the 1996 box-office hit for Amblin Entertainment and Universal Pictures. Lee Isaac Chung is on board to direct from a script by Mark L. Smith. The film will be co-financed by Warner Bros.

Former The Apprentice contestant Luisa Zissman has been enjoying a holiday in Thailand, and in a set of snaps shared on Wednesday, the entrepreneur was seen living her best life on a horse in the middle of the ocean. Smiling at the camera on horseback wearing a slinky green bikini, she captioned the post: "Happiest when……" People flocked to her comments to say how amazing her trip was looking, with one user writing: "The best feeling ! [two smiling face with three heat emojis]".

Katie Price has avoided her bankruptcy court hearing for a fifth time, after jetting back from Thailand where she enjoyed an extended break with some of her children and on-off boyfriend, Carl Woods.The glamour model and mum of five, 44, had been due to attend a hearing over her £3.2m debt repayment at the Royal Courts of Justice today, but it has been pushed back once again, to 7 July this year. Katie was declared bankrupt for the third time in November 2019 after failing to repay a debt of £3.2 million. The hearing was originally supposed to take place in June 2022, but was postponed until February of this year.

Variety’s Miami Entertainment Impact list will be celebrated April 13 at the Miami Entertainment Town event, presented by City National Bank. CEO The Latin Recording Academy   Abud’s appreciation for Miami is multi-layered.

EXCLUSIVE: Molly Hurwitz has joined Thruline Entertainment as a literary manager.

Manchester United midfielder Zidane Iqbal has joined the same agency that represents Erik ten Hag.

Ashley Roberts looked stunning as she wore a tiny blue bikini during a sun-soaked holiday with Amanda Holden sharing a sneak peek inside her luxurious hotel in Hollywood.The former Pussycat Doll and Heart Radio presenter took to Instagram on Saturday to share a series of snaps from her holiday with the latest consisting of sun loungers and selfies. In the first photo, she candidly looked away from the camera as she sat casually on a sun lounger under an umbrella with her hair in a grip claw for a casual yet glam look.

A bond like no other. Austin Butler and Ashley Tisdale have formed a friendship that’s lasted more than a decade.

Anthony Joshua will be hoping to return to form on Saturday night, with American Jermaine Franklin his opponent at London's O2 Arena.

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has closed an exclusive multiyear first-look film deal with Imagine Entertainment. In making Amazon its new movie home, co-founders Brian Grazer and Ron Howard will give Amazon first look on narrative features and documentaries Imagine intends to produce.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Organizers of Thailand’s Suphannahong National Film Awards on Friday evening reversed an earlier rule change that had caused several filmmakers to call for a boycott. Earlier this week it emerged that a recent rule change effectively disqualified independent or low-budget titles. The criteria stipulated that, to qualify for nomination, movies must be shown in cinemas (direct to streaming titles do not qualify), must have had a release in at least five regions or big cities, and attract audiences of at least 50,000 spectators. At least, one local media report said that the rules were introduced in 2019. But the change had little impact in the intervening years due to low levels of film production.

Thailand’s government has doubled the cap on its production incentive to THB150M ($4.4M), while an increase in the cash rebate it offers to 30% is also being considered.

wcinkala pmc-editorial-manager Variety announced Thursday the programming for its second annual Miami Entertainment Town lunch, to be held on Thursday, April 13, in Miami. The event, in partnership with CN Bank, celebrates the growing entertainment and media industry based out of Miami and recognizes those profiled in Variety’s Miami Entertainment Impact Report. At the celebration, Ronald Day, President of Entertainment and Content Strategy for NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, and Karen Barroeta, Executive Vice President of Production and Development Telemundo Global Studios, will participate in a keynote conversation with Rodrigo Nieto-Galvis, Entertainment Banking Team Leader at CN Bank Miami. The conversation will be centered around Telemundo’s strategy and around music and original programming based out of Miami.

Global brand events veteran Diana Ruiz has been named Executive Vice President, Experiences and Design at Fox Entertainment, the media company announced on Wednesday. She will report to Fox Entertainment and Fox Sports Chief Financial Officer, Jeff Acosta. “With more than 20 years in the global events arena, Diana possesses considerable, proven creativity, discipline and operational excellence,” said Acosta.

A young dad-of-five has tragically died after a horrific motorbike crash during a dream trip to Thailand.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Online story platform Wattpad and Thai media firm GMMTV have joined forces to adapt digital comic “My ID Is Gangnam Beauty!” for TV. The show will begin production this summer and be known as “Beauty Newbie” when it begins airing on GMMTV in early 2024. The adaptation will follow Liu, a young woman who feels the need to get plastic surgery, and Guy, who is seen as having a perfect face. The show asks whether, in a world that judges and criticizes based on appearance, romance can blossom between two people who see themselves so differently?  The underlying webtoon by Maenggi Ki has been viewed 1.4 billion times and has a significant following in Thailand, where Korean culture is popular and beauty pageants remain a mainstay of mass TV.

Season 3 of “The White Lotus” will reportedly take place in Thailand.

Anthony Joshua will face Jermaine Franklin in London on Saturday night, with his first fight at the O2 Arena since 2016 as he hopes to bounce back from successive defeats to Oleksandr Usyk.

 will reportedly be set in Thailand, according to multiple outlets that have sources close to the HBO production. The reports come after creator Mike White made several comments about setting a new installment somewhere in Asia, following Maui, Hawaii, in season 1 and Sicily, Italy, in season 2. «I think it’d be fun to maybe go to a whole different continent.