Month: February 2024

“Game of Thrones” author George R.R. Martin first mentioned back in 2020 that there was once a plan to end the HBO series with a film trilogy designed for movie theaters instead of just another normal season of television. In a new Wall Street Journal profile, showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss confirmed this was
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In what is shaping up to be a muted weekend at the box office, Sony and Crunchyroll’s “Demon Slayer Kimetsu no Yaiba -To the Hashira Training” earned $1.8 million in Thursday previews, while Lionsgate and Kingdom Story Company’s inspirational drama “Ordinary Angels” picked up a paltry $285,000. The weekend’s other new release, Focus Features’ comedic
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The latest “The Walking Dead” spinoff, “The Ones Who Live,” premieres on AMC Feb. 25, reuniting Andrew Lincoln’s Rick Grimes and Dana Gurira’s Michonne for the first time since 2018 and Season 9 of the long-running zombie show. But the two aren’t the only familiar “Walking Dead” faces stepping back into the fray, with sometimes-ally-sometimes-foe
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The first step with any new MGMT album is finding your bearings. In the years since their 2007 breakthrough album “Oracular Spectacular,” the duo’s discography could be characterized by its almost allergic aversion to following the success of such generation-defining anthems as that album’s “Kids,” “Electric Feel” and “The Youth.” The band’s fifth album, “Loss
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“Money Heist” star Úrsula Corberó is set to join Eddie Redmayne and Lashana Lynch in Sky and Peacock’s reimagining of “The Day of the Jackal,” Variety has learned. In the series, which will drop later this year, “Cabaret” actor Redmayne will play elusive assassin The Jackal while “No Time to Die” star Lynch takes on
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During Friday’s Q4 earnings call, David Zaslav, Warner Bros. Discovery’s CEO, said that James Gunn‘s “Superman: Legacy” will start filming next week. Gunn posted the first picture of the full cast on Instagram yesterday, writing, “After the table read with the #Superman cast. Eve, Mr. Terrific, Superman/Clark, Otis, Lex, producer Peter Safran, Jimmy, Metamorpho, Lois,
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Warner Bros. Discovery narrowed its fourth-quarter loss by a significant margin as cost reductions and reduced content production caused by last year’s Hollywood labor stoppages helped it maneuver around a 14% decline in advertising sales and other onerous conditions for traditional media companies. The owner of the TNT and TBS cable networks, the Warner Bros.
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Indian media giant Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEEL) is setting up an advisory committee in the wake of recent allegations about the company’s financial transactions. In 2023, Indian regulator Securities and Exchange Board (SEBI) barred MD-CEO Punit Goenka and ZEEL chair emeritus Subhash Chandra from holding management positions in listed companies while it carried out investigations into
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Mubi has bought “Dahomey,” a highlight of this year’s Berlinale competition and directed by Cannes prizewinner Mati Diop (“Atlantics”), for North America, Latin America, U.K., Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Turkey and India. The feature film is represented in international markets by Films du Losange, which negotiated the deal with Mubi. “Dahomey” marks the sophomore outing of
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FILM FESTIVAL Restored classic films from Ernst Lubitsch, Stanley Kubrick and Roman Polanski are among eight older titles set to play at next month’s Hong Kong International Film Festival. Lubitsch’s 1920 farce “Kohlhiesel’s Daughters,” will be presented with a live music accompaniment by the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble. And, despite rumors to the contrary, Kubrick’s
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In a milestone move, Sony Pictures Television has unveiled “La Academia,” its first Spanish-language scripted series filmed in Spain for Prime Video and 3Cat. “La Academia” is produced for Sony by Brutal Media, commissioned out of Sony Pictures Television’s international production group. SPT is distributing the series worldwide. A scripted young adult drama series which
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Within his deal at Netflix, Tyler Perry has found room to flex his narrative muscles, mixing his familiar brand of comedy and melodrama with other genres. “A Jazzman’s Blues” applied Perry’s usual formula to a 1930s period setting. Before that, his first film for the streamer, “A Fall from Grace,” found him trying his hand
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“A True Novel,” directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, manga-inspired “Issak,” written by Itaru Mizuno (“Double Booking”) and “4 Blocks” Richard Kropf, look like potential highlights at this year’s Co-Pro Pitching Sessions, the centerpiece at Series Mania’s Forum, as its projects expand ever more their geographic compass, here welcoming their first titles co-produced by Japan.   They are joined by
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Fremantle’s Norwegian banner Monster, behind hit TV shows “Exit,” “Furia” and “Pørni,  will be bringing to Series Mania Forum’s Co-Pro Pitching Sessions ‘The Odesa Wrestlers’, which has received development coin from Norwegian pubcaster NRK. Celebrated Norwegian podcaster Joachim Førsund and star actor Thorbjørn Harr (“Vikings”, “22 July”, “Sex”) are making their debut as co-creators, with
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Amsterdam-based Big Blue is set to produce the upcoming series “Kiss My Feet,” alongside Finnish company Helsinki-filmi.   Selected for Series Mania’s Forum Co-Pro Pitching Sessions, the six-episode drama is created by Daan Gielis and Mark Van De Grift, loosely based on their own experiences.  In the show, successful marketer Max finds himself in a spiritual
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Slovakia’s explosive political drama “Our People” will head to Series Mania’s Forum Co-Pro Pitching Sessions in March.  Produced by Jakub Viktorín and Tomáš Hrubý for nutprodukcia and written by Miro Šifra, it will be directed by Tereza Nvotová.  The miniseries, inspired by tragic real events, depicts the killing of investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his
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Tokyo-based global advertising giant Hakuhodo Inc. is further expanding its India footprint. A year after acquiring a majority stake in leading Indian brand and entertainment agency group, MA&TH (Marching Ants & Trigger Happy) Entertainment Network Private Limited, Hakuhodo is launching Trigger Happy Studios. The new entity will produce, market and distribute feature films, digital content and international co-productions
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A new cohort of emerging content creators have been selected for the second edition of Hoorae and Walmart’s “Black and Unlimited” digital development program. The program aims to provide content creators from diverse backgrounds with the necessary resources, membership and exposure to “unlock their full potential and pave their way to success.” The new class
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