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WorldPingMaureen Lipman, the BAFTA-nominated actress known for her work in The Pianist, has hit out at co-star Gerard McCarthy after he quit their Soho Theatre play over her pro-Israel stance.
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WorldPingGerda Taro was only 26 when she became the first female photojournalist to be killed on the battlefield. It would be decades before her true contribution to the artform was acknowledged.
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The Toronto-bowing movie, directed by John Madden based on a Paul Mayhew-Archer script, also features Monica Dolan and Rory Kinnear.
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WorldPing“Kung Fu Soccer,” directed by Stephen Chow, topped China’s 2026 summer box office with RMB2.315 billion ($344.4 million), as the overall summer season reached RMB12.498 billion ($1.86 billion), up 4.
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WorldPingThe club says sales of the shirt almost doubled after it was worn by Fontaines D.C frontman Grian Chatten.
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WorldPingEXCLUSIVE: Paris-based MMM Films has acquired international sales rights for Ukrainian director Mykyta Gibalenko’s drama Camouflage and released a first clip for the film ahead of its world premiere in Venice parallel section Giornate degli Autori.
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The singer admitted that when she sees a photo of the actress sometimes she thinks, "Oh, that's a picture of me"…
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WorldPingIndian star Trisha Krishnan is leading Panorama Studios’ first Tamil-language production, a psychological horror directed by Raja Krishna Menon.
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WorldPingEXCLUSIVE: Denmark’s Lunderskov Magic, the UK’s CMG Productions and producers Nicole Finnan and Allan Sperling have teamed on a scripted series about a Danish criminal who became a war hero and American frontier legend.
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WorldPingSamy Burch’s adaptation of an Arthur Schnitzler novella sees Dafoe’s ageing poet embraced by a younger cohort of capricious hipsters.
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The period road movie, the debut fiction feature from Pauline Julier and Nicolas Chapoulier, premieres in the Venice Days program, using a historical lens to examine the origins of the world we inhabit today.
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WorldPingThe Zurich Film Festival will fete Julianne Moore with its Golden Icon Award. She will accept the award in person in Zurich, accompanied by Jesse Eisenberg, who directed the Academy Award winner in The Debut.
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The global trek will hit the U.K., Europe, and North America before wrapping in November…
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WorldPingEXCLUSIVE: Irish production company Great Island has optioned Clíodhna O’Sullivan’s bestselling romantasy novel Her Hidden Fire for a young adult series adaptation.
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WorldPingDoug Ellin, the creator and writer of Entourage, has said that he does not recognize Debi Mazar’s claim about being fat-shamed on the HBO series’ “toxic” set.
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WorldPingA backstage peek at the reunion tour and a new film from Burning director Lee Chang-dong are among this year’s most anticipated – plus offerings from Danny Boyle, Luca Guadagnino, Martin McDonagh and more Danny Boyle’s movie, adapted by James Graham…
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WorldPingThe attacks changed the world as we know it – and now, 25 years on, this heartbreaking Netflix film shares 9/11 recordings and memories from the bereaved that stop time in its tracks It is 25 years since two planes, sent by Osama bin Laden as the hea…
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WorldPingThe 22nd Zurich Film Festival will honor Julianne Moore with the Golden Icon Award for her “extraordinary career” and her performance in her new film, “The Debut.” She will be accompanied in Zurich by “The Debut” director Jesse Eisenberg.
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The Italian screen legend plays a solitary illustrator thrown into battle with his unruly five-year-old grandson in the feature adaptation of Domenico Starnone’s novel.
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WorldPingAmong the 15 projects participating in the upcoming San Sebastián Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum is “The Rehearsals” (“Los Ensayos”) by Argentina’s Celina Murga, best known for her Martin Scorsese-executive produced dramas ‘The Freshly Cut…
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WorldPingDeep sorrow mingles with illicit desire in this potent novella, the follow-up to a 2006 story about an isolated family in the Catalan mountains Twenty years ago, Colm Tóibín published a steadily desolating novella set in the high villages of the Cata…
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WorldPingHe started in the Harry Potter films and has since become ubiquitous, playing every type of character: romcom leads, evil villains, comical idiots. He even starred in a Taylor Swift video. So how does he stay so under the radar?
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WorldPingThe comedian’s new Friday night series will be set in a working pub, with his aunties working the bar and celebrities doing shifts as managers. Or it will be if he can only get his licence … Joe Lycett sits in a pub, an untouched pint in front of him.
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WorldPingGuy Ritchie’s crime caper is back with the usual hijinks, swearing and men shaking their fists.
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WorldPingA frantic journey across London on foot provides a lot of exercise for Gal Gadot, but not much reward for viewers, in “The Runner.
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WorldPingAt a some KRW70 billion ($51 million) across two seasons, “Made in Korea” ranks among the most expensive K-dramas ever made. Season 2 premieres six episodes on Hulu and Disney+ Sept.
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The U.S. actress will be joined by Jesse Eisenberg, who directs her in his latest film 'The Debut,' at a ceremony in Zurich, Switzerland.
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WorldPingVictor Miller, the screenwriter behind Friday the 13th, has died. He was 86. Miller’s son Ian confirmed his father had died on Monday, August 30, but didn’t reveal the cause of death.
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The couple shared the happy news on social media…
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WorldPingDanny Booko and Nia Sanchez Booko are leaving “The Valley” after three seasons with the Bravo reality show. “We wanted to share a quick update that we will not be returning to ‘The Valley,’” the couple wrote in a joint statement posted to Instagram.
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Fanduel says it reported the bets to Massachusetts gaming authorities, with Simmons telling his podcast listeners Tuesday that he made a mistake.
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WorldPingVictor Miller, the screenwriter behind the horror classic “Friday the 13th,” died on Monday in Alameda, Calif. He was 86. Miller’s death was confirmed to Variety by his son, Ian.
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The 'Saturday Night Live' star said the difficulty of learning how to ice skate for the hockey film made him rethink his career path when he was younger.
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The couple appeared on three seasons of the Bravo series.
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The Apple-owned platform is the latest service hit by streaming inflation.
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"It’s a prosecuted case with a conviction, and so there’s justice," Greg Kading tells Rolling Stone in his first interview since Duane Davis was convicted…
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Following the conclusion of the tour, Grande plans “step back” from public life…
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WorldPingNo more commutes to Santa Clarita for the cast of The Valley, as Danny Booko and Nia Sanchez are leaving the Bravo reality series after three seasons. News of Sanchez and Booko’s departure comes as Season 4 ramps up production.
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The topic will be discussed further on season 16 of 'The Real Housewives of New York City,' which Radziwill is starring in.
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WorldPingChris McKenna is opening up about his exit from ABC’s General Hospital after joining the daytime soap in 2025. The actor played Jack Brennan, replacing Charles Measure starting in February 2025.
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A claim of financial hardship from the singer who signed to Interscope for a reported $11 million is under fire as his murder case moves toward trial.
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WorldPingA day after endorsing a bipartisan move for a federal film and TV tax incentive, Donald Trump is doubling down on the initiative.
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WorldPingDavid Byrne wrote a song about the world’s richest man. The Talking Heads frontman wrote and performed an original song for “Musk,” Alex Gibney’s sprawling documentary reckoning with Elon Musk, Variety can exclusively reveal.
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WorldPingApple set a pay package worth $58 million for new CEO John Ternus, who formally took the reins from longtime chief executive Tim Cook on Tuesday.
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WorldPingThe rock band invite us into the studio to talk about the unexpected "third act" of their career.
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WorldPingHard Knocks gives an inside look at how NFL teams gear up for football season, and this year, the HBO and NFL Films docuseries featured the reigning Super Bowl champions, the Seattle Seahawks.
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WorldPingBenedict Andrews’ intense, interval-free mashup of ancient and modernist classics is a show of two halves The Electra bit of the title refers to the Sophoclean tragedy of a daughter trapped in a cycle of vengeance, the Persona part to Ingmar Bergman’…
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The singer's new lawsuit claims she is "the victim of a calculated blackmail campaign"…
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