TUI cancels more holidays to Sri Lanka as Foreign Office warn against all but essential travel

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentKeshet Interntional (KI) has scored a raft of deals across its slate of foreign-language dramas, including the action-packed procedural series “Blue Moon” and the coming-of-age comedy-drama “Dreaming of England.”KI closed a multi-title deal with AMC Networks International for its channels in Spain and Portugal for “Blue Moon,” “Dreaming of England” (“Sommaren 85”), as well as “Pørni,” Monster Scripted’s heartwarming Norwegian hit show which was created by and starring Henriette Steenstrup for Viaplay. The pact with AMC Networks International includes pay TV and subscription-based VOD rights on all three seasons of “Blue Moon,” as well as “Dreaming of England” and the first two seasons of “Pørni,” for the group’s channels in Spain and Portugal.

Naman Ramachandran The Walt Disney Company’s streamer Disney+ will be available in 42 new countries and 11 new territories this week following the launch on Tuesday in Greece, Turkey and countries in Central Eastern Europe, including Poland, Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic and Croatia. Tuesday’s series of launches follow the arrival of the service in South Africa on May 18 and across West Asia and North Africa on June 8.

Ryanair passengers could face further disruption this summer as cabin crew threaten to strike amid a dispute over pay.

Cristiano Ronaldo‘s little ones are getting bigger! The athlete celebrated twins Eva and Mateo with a sweet tribute as they turned 5 years old.

Cristiano Ronaldo’s mother couldn’t help but burst into tears as she watched her son produce another masterclass for Portugal.

EasyJet cancelled more flights on Sunday, as travel mayhem across the country continued for thousands. People flying to and from the UK faced more disruption, with flights being cancelled by easyJet and Wizz on Sunday (June 5).

With the summer holidays approaching soon and with it being the first COVID restriction-free summer since start of the pandemic, many people are excited to be heading abroad. The last few weeks have seen people take advantage of half term, as well as the extended jubilee bank holiday to travel abroad.

Rio Ferdinand has revealed how Cristiano Ronaldo has changed since first signing for Manchester United under Sir Alex Ferguson nearly 20 years ago.

Princess Eugenie and her husband Jack Brooksbank are said to be splitting their time between Portugal and the UK after the father-of-one landed a new job. Jack, who has been married to Eugenie since 2018 and shares one year old son August with the Royal, reportedly has a new job with American entrepreneur Mike Meldrum in sales, marketing and promotion for the exclusive CostaTerra Golf and Ocean Club in Lisbon.The resort is currently being developed, with the aim of erecting around 300 houses. With his new job in mind, Eugenie, 32, and Jack, 36, are now thought to be splitting their time 50/50 between the UK and Portugal.

Black Eyed Peas, Pitbull, Sting and more artists will perform in an ancient volcano crater for the inaugural Atlantis Concert for Earth event in July.Scheduled to take place in Azores, Portugal on July 22 and 23, the nonprofit concert for global conservation will feature headliners the Black Eyed Peas and Pitbull, as well as supporting acts Stone Temple Pilots, Sting (in a virtual performance), Bush, Mod Sun and Girlfriends. The concerts will be hosted by Nicole Scherzinger, who will also put on a special performance.The two-day concert will take place inside the Sete Cidades Massif volcano, which last erupted in 1880.

Real Madrid have now reportedly shortlisted Manchester United megastar Cristiano Ronaldo as one of their targets following their failure to lure Kylian Mbappe to the Bernabeu.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentMaquinitas, a program of Latin America film market Ventana Sur, is teaming with Mexico’s Grupo Mórbido to launch Let’s Spook, a new showroom for fantasy/horror video games in development in Latin America, Spain and Portugal.The news comes as the Mórbido Film Fest has confirmed dates for this year, plus its move into the Web 3.0, NFTs and the Metaverse.For Let’s Spook, Maquinitas and Mórbido are sending out a call for applications, which will run from June 1 -Aug. 15, to video game developers and programmers from Ibero-America looking to promote and enhance their genre projects.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorThis year, Global Accessibility Awareness Day falls on May 19. And Netflix is using the occasion to announce major plans to expand the global translations of its audio descriptions and subtitles for customers who are blind, deaf or hard-of-hearing.The streamer will expand audio description (AD), subtitles for the deaf or hard-of-hearing (SDH) and dubbing in more than 10 additional languages throughout the year starting this month — so that more Netflix members with disabilities can experience shows and films made in another country in their local language. That’s not the norm in the entertainment industry at large.Netflix is starting with French, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Italian, and expanding from there to Asian languages including Korean and Japanese as well as European local languages.

Manchester United fans have been championing the name of Bruno Fernandes after Premier League season statistics based on the number of chances created were released.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentKinology has dropped the trailer for “Alma Viva,” the feature debut of French-Portuguese actor-turned-filmmaker Cristèle Alves Meira which is world premiered today Cannes’ Critics Week. The Paris-based sales banner already hosted a press and industry screening for the film today and earned some strong reviews. “Alma Viva” follows Salomé, a little girl who returns to her family village nestled in the Portuguese mountains for the holidays.