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“We’re talking about an industry that was led by perhaps one of the biggest predators to walk the planet, Harvey Weinstein,” says the former NBC correspondent as he blasts A24’s fictionalized take on his controversial career.
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The Toronto-based feature debutant discusses inspirations from the legendary Robbie Müller and 'The Wrestler' for Wayne Wapeemukwa's Locarno-premiering film and the creative use of infrared light.
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WorldPingAmazon’s Prime Video is promising to make English-language dubs look more natural by using AI to sync up the way the actors’ mouths move on screen.
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WorldPingAmong medieval hand-held farming tools, the sickle is your best bet for reaping.
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The band's first new song since 2022 is a sweeping epic that's oh so very them…
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WorldPingJohn Oliver is back to help out Comic Relief Live. The Last Week Tonight star will host this year’s event, which takes place at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage on Monday, October 19.
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WorldPingOn the heels of this summer’s darker, more dour and reflective, deliberately meditative, if bloody new take on the Robin Hood legend, The Death Of Robin Hood with Hugh Jackman portraying the famous icon’s last days, comes another film set in the same…
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WorldPingThe full trailer for Prime Video’s Carrie is here. From showrunner Mike Flanagan, all eight episodes of the TV show adaptation will arrive Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026 on Prime Video.
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In THR‘s new series, the Oscar winner and NBA All Star also get deep on faith, frustrations and fearlessness: “When you played, you wasn't trying to be cool, make friends, none of that. You was like, 'I'ma put my shoulder through somebody‘s chest if I got to.
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The violent historical drama about the 14th-century Peasants' Revolt also features Jamie Bell, Stephen Dillane, Katherine Waterston, Cosmo Jarvis and Thomasin McKenzie.
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The digital content creator and former Capitol Records A&R exec now finds himself at the intersection of popular culture, music and fashion.
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Roy Wood Jr., Zarna Garg and Mary Beth Barone are set to perform at the Oct. 19 Carnegie Hall benefit.
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The official trailer for the series adaptation, releasing Oct. 7, gives a glimpse of how the series will expand King's story and bring "new depth and complexity to its beloved characters."…
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Daniel Kwan and Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s CCAI Are launching a new dynamic web site to define AI and its impact…
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WorldPingGordon Bay Cottage is officially taking reservations. Airbnb is opening up the historic Muskoka property featured as the exterior of Gordon’s lakeside home in “Sterling Point” for three limited stays this October. Beginning Sept. 15 at 9 a.m.
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WorldPingA “Naruto” panel featuring Japanese voice cast members and a Studio Pierrot producer will take place at New York Comic Con this year, with Viz Media promising new franchise announcements and first-look footage. The panel will run Oct. 10 inside the Jacob K.
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The charges comes five years after a Guardian exposé where 20 women accused the actor of groping, sexual misconduct or bullying.
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WorldPingClarke has been charged with offences including sexual assault. BBC News has asked him for a comment.
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WorldPingBritish actor, filmmaker and “Doctor Who” star Noel Clarke has been charged with multiple sexual offenses including sexual assault, voyeurism and exposure. As reported by the BBC, on Wednesday the U.K.
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With attacks on corporate leaders at record levels, entertainment, media and tech chiefs now command security details that rival heads of state. And the tab is climbing fast.
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WorldPingNoel Clarke, the British actor who starred in Doctor Who and Kidulthood, has been charged with a series of sexual offenses by UK police.
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Ostensibly a tribute to the late Bernardo Bertolucci (1941-2018), the one-time giant of Italian cinema whose star has waned somewhat in recent years, Luca Guadagnino’s 426-minute docu-essay — nearly twice as long as Alex Gibney’s Musk — is the endura…
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WorldPingEXCLUSIVE: Isabelle Huppert looks quite the gangster in a behind-the-scenes image of her in Yann Demange’s crime family thriller Lineage, which was unveiled today by The Veterans as it gears up for a sales push at TIFF.
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WorldPingEllen Burstyn, an Oscar, Tony and Emmy winner for projects like ““Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore,” “Same Time, Next Year” and “Political Animals,” marvels that she’s still able to act as a nonagenarian.
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WorldPingIt comes after the network conducted a review amid a "rapidly changing media landscape".
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WorldPingToby Kebbell has joined the cast of Prime Video’s upcoming U.K. crime thriller series “Dirty” from “Bridge of Spies” writer Matt Charman.
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WorldPingCole Haan is putting Christian Slater and Jenny Slate in its shoes for fall. The footwear and accessories brand has tapped the two actors to star in “Comfortable Anywhere,” its fall 2026 global campaign, which rolls out Wednesday morning.
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WorldPingSoho theatre, London A dance teacher for toddlers dreams of bigger things in Julia Grogan’s frantic one-woman show The mind of a performer, hungry for her big break, is cracked open in Julia Grogan’s one-woman follow-up to her drama Playfight.
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WorldPingDissident Russian director Ilya Khrzhanovsky, who is at the Venice Film Festival with competition title “DAU” countered claims by Ukrainian officials that the film has Russian state links and took a clear position on the ongoing war.
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WorldPingHong Kong screen veterans Law Kar-ying and Paw Hee-ching have been cast to lead “The Grand Tribute,” a Cantonese opera drama written and directed by Sri Kishore, the filmmaker behind 2021’s “My Indian Boyfriend.
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WorldPingThe former Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader overcomes criticism of stunt casting for her Chicago debut.
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WorldPingEXCLUSIVE: A series of live-to-film concerts of Wicked and Wicked: For Good, with film screenings accompanied by a live symphony orchestra, will officially premiere at Radio City Music Hall on January 23, 2027, with a special preview set for January…
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WorldPingJosh Baker is the journalist behind the BBC’s smash hit I’m Not a Monster.
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WorldPingDespite the city’s backdrop of deprivation and racism, vibrant nightclubs and daring artists thrived – but after No 1 success for the Real Thing, why was the scene ignored?
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WorldPingFormerly based above a Notting Hill pub, the theatre earned a reputation for radical plays with new talent yet had a 100% loss of Arts Council England funding in 2022 The Gate theatre in London, which has punched above its weight ever since it was fo…
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WorldPingChannel 4 has announced the deepest round of layoffs in its 43-year history.
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WorldPingIn new film The Heart of the Beast, the A-lister’s bond with his loyal mutt proves crucial.
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WorldPingNetflix’s How to Ruin, Seriously Single and Disaster Holiday franchises are getting new editions as part of the streamer’s latest South African slate.
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WorldPingJohn Malkovich has canceled a planned performance in Israel next year over what he described as the publication of an unauthorized press release to announce the show. Malkovich was scheduled to perform The Music Critic in Tel Aviv next year.
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WorldPingThe 62-year-old actor was arrested by police at a petrol station forecourt in July 2026…
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WorldPingA 30ft crater opened up outside the actor's home in Malibu after heavy rain in Southern California.
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WorldPingEXCLUSIVE: The BBC’s new director general ordered the UK broadcaster’s news division to assess its coverage of Jason Arday after the academic died by suicide last month.
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WorldPingHistorically a new Grand Theft Auto game inspired controversy around violence – but this time people are getting exercised about its romance There was never any doubt that Grand Theft Auto VI’s extended look would elicit a viral reaction from the internet.
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WorldPingDamilola Orimogunje is set to make a small piece of African cinema history this week in Venice, where he will become the first Nigerian filmmaker to debut a feature in the Giornate degli Autori competition with his sophomore directorial effort, Dear Ajayi.
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WorldPingIn HBO’s gripping new docuseries A Killer Story, a crusading couple become convinced that woman accused of murder is innocent A man and a woman are murdered in cold blood inside their Topeka, Kansas bedroom under cover of darkness in 2002.
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WorldPingFilmmakers describe the gig as a "hugely emotional" experience that took Noel Gallagher by surprise.
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"I've never seen one person work so much and fix so little," the host quipped…
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WorldPingCulture is part of how we rebuild communities – these awards by the Freelands foundation recognise organisations promoting creativity and opportunity at grassroots level If politicians are serious about rebuilding our communities, they need to recogn…
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