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Netflix Sets Australian Drama Series ‘Apple Cider Vinegar’ About Wellness Industry Fraud
Netflix is boosting its Australian slate with a limited drama series titled Apple Cider Vinegar, which tells the story of a notorious scam in the health and wellness industry. Produced with Australia’s See-Saw Films and Picking Scabs, the show will be directed by Jeffrey Walker (The Artful Dodger, Modern Family) and co-star star Kaitlyn Dever, Alycia Debnam-Carey and Aisha […]
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Josh Duhamel, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Rick Hoffman and Aidan Gillen Join Action Comedy ‘London Calling’ (Exclusive)
Transformers actor Josh Duhamel is re-teaming with Canadian director Allan Ungar for the new action comedy London Calling, joined in the cast by Game of Thrones star Aidan Gillen, It actor Jeremy Ray Taylor and Rick Hoffman (Showtime’s Billions, USA Network’s Suits). Duhamel, who starred in Ungar’s 2022 crime thriller Bandit, alongside Elisha Cuthbert and […]
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More Media Megadeals in 2024? Top Accounting Firm Thinks It’s a Good Bet
This year saw a slowdown in terms of media and telecommunications sector dealmaking, but there are signs of a recovery in M&A activity, top accounting and consulting services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers said in a Wednesday report. Deal talk has returned to the sector with a vengeance, driven by recent talk that Paramount Global and its parent […]
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“You Pay to Play”: A Major Showdown Over Funding Streaming TV and Movies Is Underway in Canada
U.S. streaming giants were already in an uncomfortable position after Canada reined them in with first-time spending obligations to support the production of homegrown movies and TV series. But as 2023 ends, the country’s TV and telecom regulator is at odds with American streamers over how much cash they are now obligated to fork over […]
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European Parliament Votes Not to Ban Geo-Blocking for Film and TV — For Now
The European Parliament on Wednesday followed the advice of its film and TV industry and did not ban geo-blocking for films and TV content across the European Union. Last week, more than 600 film and TV companies from across Europe, as well as representatives of Hollywood studios, sports leagues, film festivals and film and TV […]
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Swedish Film Awards Nominations Unveiled
The Swedish Film Institute on Wednesday announced the nominations for the Guldbagge (Golden Bug) awards, Sweden’s top film prize, with politics taking center stage among the feature contenders. Axel Petersén’s Shame on Dry Land, a neo-noir set in the world of online gamblers who fled Sweden for refuge in Malta, lead the pack with 9 […]
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Netflix Unveils Release Date for ‘Damsel,’ Starring Millie Bobby Brown
Good news for those suffering from Stranger Things withdrawal: Netflix has dated its new Millie Bobby Brown film. Damsel, a fantasy feature from Spanish director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (28 Weeks Later), sees Brown playing a dutiful damsel who is selected by her queen to marry a handsome prince. But the dream turns into a nightmare […]
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Berlinale Forum Unveils First Films for 2024 Festival
The Berlinale Forum, the Berlin Film Festival’s avant-garde sidebar, has announced the first 8 films confirmed for its 2024 line-up. The 8 films come from 8 different countries, reflecting the Forum’s global reach and a broader push towards greater diversity in it’s line-up. New Forum head Barbara Wurm, who took over running the Forum section […]
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Ozzy Osbourne Says Reality TV Shows Today Are “Not the Real, Real Reality”
Ozzy Osbourne said reality television today is very different than it was when his family’s MTV series The Osbournes was on the air. In an interview with Spin magazine, published online Tuesday, the Black Sabbath frontman said that “what they call reality TV now is really not reality.” “What they do now is kind of scripted […]
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Sacre Bleu! European Critics Share Wrath for U.S. Actors in ‘Ferrari’ and ‘Napoleon’
Ridley Scott’s Napoleon and Michael Mann’s Ferrari are facing allegations — surprising for two films focused on straight white male protagonists — of cultural appropriation. French and Italian critics have taken offense at the directors’ decisions to cast American actors to play national icons — Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon Bonaparte, the general who became French […]
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Shirley Anne Field, Actress in ‘The Entertainer,’ ‘Alfie’ and ‘Saturday Night and Sunday Morning,’ Dies at 87
Shirley Anne Field, the British leading lady who starred alongside Laurence Olivier in The Entertainer, Albert Finney in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, and Kenneth More in Man in the Moon — all in 1960 — has died. She was 87. “It is with great sadness that we are sharing the news that Shirley Anne […]
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Dennis Ruh Out as EFM Director After 2024 Market
The shake up at the Berlin Film Festival has begun. Just hours after former BFI London festival director Tricia Tuttle was named to take over from Carlo Chatrian and Mariëtte Rissenbeek as the new head of the Berlinale, Dennis Ruh, director of Berlin’s European Film Market (EFM) is out. Ruh on Tuesday confirmed he will […]
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