Month: July 2019

July 8, 2019 3:42AM PT BBC Studios has invested in Quibi. The production arm of BBC Studios recently won its first commission from Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman’s soon-to-launch shortform video platform, for nature series “Fierce Queens. The company has now also taken a small stake in the business. BBC Studios confirmed the deal. “We
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Camsing International, the Chinese firm that has owned the late Stan Lee’s Pow! Entertainment since 2017, has revealed that its founder and chairwoman Lo Ching has been detained by mainland Chinese authorities. The company’s shares crashed by more than 85% on Monday morning. Camsing revealed Lo’s detention in a filing to the stock exchange in
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Czech-born Milos Stehlik, an award-winning film critic and commentator for National Public Radio station WBEZ and the film curator, founder and artistic director of the pioneering media arts center Facets Multimedia in Chicago, died Saturday of cancer. Stehlik founded Facets in 1975, screening hard-to-find international and independent films in a Chicago Lutheran church. When the
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Veteran Writers Guild of America member William Schmidt is challenging incumbent WGA West President David Goodman in the upcoming election, citing complaints with Goodman’s handling of the bitter standoff with Hollywood agents. Schmidt, whose credits include “Yellowstone,” “Outsiders” and “Charmed,” told Variety that he disagrees with Goodman’s leadership regarding the directive for members to fire
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Sony’s “Spider-Man Far From Home” is off to a heroic start overseas, crossing $395 million in ticket sales during its first 10 days of release. The comic book adventure, starring Tom Holland as the web-slinging hero, is nearing the $600 million mark worldwide, with ticket sales currently at $580 million globally. In North America, “Far
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Check out the official Mulan Teaser starring Yifei Liu! Let us know what you think in the comments below. ► Sign up for a Fandango FanAlert for Mulan: https://www.fandango.com/mulan-2020-219442/movie-overview?cmp=MCYT_YouTube_Desc Want to be notified of all the latest movie trailers? Subscribe to the channel and click the bell icon to stay up to date. US Release
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Dylan Leiner, executive vice president, acquisitions and production at Sony Pictures Classics, has called on filmmakers and distributors to work more closely together, following decades when middle-men had sought to keep them apart, and challenged filmmakers to be more entrepreneurial. Leiner, speaking at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival about sustainability in the movie biz, said
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Cameron Boyce, the actor known for starring in the Disney Channel series “Jessie” and the “Descendants” TV movies, has died. He was 20. Boyce died due to an “ongoing medical condition,” his family said. “It is with a profoundly heavy heart that we report that this morning we lost Cameron,” his family said in a
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“If you believe you’re a citizen of the world, you’re a citizen of nowhere,” said Theresa May near the beginning of her ill-fated premiership of the United Kingdom. An ugly, insular attempt to shame migrants and multinationals across the European Union, the term “citizen of nowhere” has since been claimed with defiant pride by many
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July 6, 2019 4:22PM PT Legendary R&B singer Stevie Wonder is taking a break from touring to undergo a kidney transplant. Wonder shared the news Saturday during his set at the British Summer Time Hyde Park music festival in England, explaining that he would still be performing in three more shows before undergoing the procedure
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