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WorldPingSince it was launched nearly 36 years ago, IMDb has served as an online directory of TV shows and movies and the actors who appear in them. Now Amazon-owned IMDb is adding “Digital Creator” as a new professional category on both IMDb and IMDbPro.
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WorldPingEXCLUSIVE: Jenny Slate (Dying for Sex) has been tapped as the female lead opposite Dylan O’Brien in the Hulu comedy pilot Lex.
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WorldPingEXCLUSIVE: The Toronto Film Festival is stacked with music-themed documentaries this year – films on the Pretenders and Chrissie Hynde, Thai pop star/actress Lisa, singer Darlene Love, and the alt-country band Chaparelle among them.
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WorldPingEXCLUSIVE: When Erik Feig launched The Arena, an independent studio focused on the creation of global franchises in event action and more, a Keanu Reeves collaboration seemed inevitable. And now, it’s coming to pass.
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WorldPingEXCLUSIVE: Sumerian Pictures has acquired U.S. and Canadian distribution rights to dark comedy Chili Finger, which premiered at SXSW and stars Judy Greer, Sean Astin, Bryan Cranston and John Goodman.
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WorldPingThe joke’s over: “Jackass: Best and Last” will be available to stream on Paramount+ on Sept. 24. After the film’s theatrical release on June 26, the decades-long saga of pranks and tomfoolery is finally coming to an end.
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WorldPingThunder Road Films founder Basil Iwanyk and partner Erica Lee have partnered with Lit Entertainment Group founder Adam Kolbrenner to launch a new media company, TR/AK.
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WorldPingEXCLUSIVE: Director Paul Feig in the early stages of planning a heist. Paramount Pictures is in early talks with The Housemaid director to mount a follow-up to the 2003 film The Italian Job.
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WorldPingThunder Road Films’ Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee have partnered with Lit Entertainment Group’s Adam Kolbrenner to launch TR/AK, a new media company centering commercially ambitious and original film and television for global audiences.
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Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee's film label and Adam Kolbrenner's management-production firm are teaming to create a new banner, TR/AK.
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The channel's third collaboration with the NFL is set to premiere Oct. 17.
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WorldPingEXCLUSIVE: Upscale Media Films, which is making a suite of vertical shows with Hartbeat, is formally launching as a full-service production company for the microdrama market.
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WorldPingUPDATED with final trailer: The final trailer for Warner Bros’ Digger starring Tom Cruise was released Thursday. Watch it above. The pic, a political satire from Alejandro G. Iñárritu, is still gearing up for its October 2 theatrical release.
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WorldPingEXCLUSIVE: AB2 Media Group and Abramorama have acquired North American distribution rights to One More Time, the Telluride world premiere documentary about a trio of well known New York theater players tackling Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, a play they’v…
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"Novig is just sports. So they wanted to show just sports,” Sweeney says in the ad as she goes nude while posing with a variety of sports equipment including footballs.
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WorldPingEvery awards season has a film that dares you to look away. This year it’s carried by a nine-year-old girl.
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WorldPing“The Pitt” will be honored by Cedars-Sinai with the Hollywood Leadership Award at its upcoming Sunset Soirée gala.
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In partnership with Hydro Flask and UMG, this special drop is inspired by his recent album, Chuck Timely & the Hourglass…
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WorldPingAcademy Award-nominated French animation studio Xilam Animation has inked a wave of presales for the latest content from its line-up of iconic comedy franchises during the Unifrance Rendez-Vous, contradicting the sales slowdown announced by France’s…
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"If I'm lyin', I'm dyin'," bassist says of new book Funked Around, Found Out out next spring…
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After spending 11 years on Taschen's 10-pound 'Arnold,' editor Dian Hanson reveals what she unearthed about the star — including his favorite movie, his compulsive collecting and his uncanny impression of someone eating potato chips.
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For now, the scheduled events (which don’t include the film cast) account for screenings of Wicked: Part One only, while separate showings will be hosted for Wicked: For Good…
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Baker's last solo album, Little Oblivions , arrived in 2021…
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WorldPingWhoopi Goldberg shut down dissent from the audience at The View after audible boos were heard following a mention of Republican Sen. Ted Cruz.
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WorldPingSteven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day will begin streaming exclusively on Peacock October 9, the streamer announced today.
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WorldPingNetflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos used the Paris premiere of “Call My Agent! The Movie” to underscore the streamer’s importance to France’s entertainment industry amid a regulatory battle over the country’s investment obligations and release window.
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WorldPingEXCLUSIVE: Netflix is doubling down on dating. The streamer has ordered Love At First Sight, which comes from Age of Attraction producer Velvet Hammer Media, its latest move in the popular dating genre.
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WorldPingFox Corp.’s bid for streaming platform Roku is undergoing review by the Justice Department, with the U.S. agency requesting additional documents related to the proposed deal. On Tuesday, Sept.
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On Imperfections , the Israeli singer is reclaiming her voice — one vulnerable pop song at a time…
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"Some things aren’t meant to be fixed,” the transgender model and activist says in the "Born to Disobey" campaign from the Spanish label that critiques artificial intelligence.
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Band also releases short film with the songs "We Are Torn Wide Open" and "Mirror Deep" featuring Blackfeet Nation members…
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The agreement is the first season-long TV deal for the women's hockey league.
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WorldPingBeehiiv, the creator platform that has gained traction through associations with independent journalists such as Oliver Darcy and Joanna Stern, unveiled an expansion of its Media Collective, a roster of journalists who have turned to the company to h…
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WorldPingIt’s just a couple of days before Jeff Goldblum is getting ready to head to London to host the Season 2 premiere of “SNL U.K.” on Sept. 12. “I’m a big Anglophile,” he tells me on a Zoom from Italy, where he and his wife Emilie are enjoying a summer vacation.
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The Swiftiephylus species are found in Australia — but that shouldn’t stop them from getting global fans, just like their namesake…
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The son of Tim Herlihy follows the son of Steve Higgins out the Studio 8H door after five seasons.
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Football superfans from Alice Cooper and Melissa Etheridge to Breland and Bret Michaels predict how their favorite teams will fare…
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The searing drama, premiering next month on Starz, was made entirely with British money — and Cumming says it couldn't have gone any other way: "I doubt anything like this will be made in America for some time, sadly."…
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Silicon Valley founders and CEOs are the next wave of big screen villains in buzzy projects tackling Zuckerberg, Musk, Holmes and Altman.
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A chat with Peter Levin, founder of venture firm Griffin Gaming Partners, on Hollywood's forays into the trading card business and how he curates his own 500,000-plus card collection.
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Forget decorations and costumes: People are lining up to shop Halloween countdown calendars from retailers like Williams Sonoma, Etsy, and more…
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WorldPingPeriod instruments are miles away from retro affectation, and as two Proms this week will show, can actually bring historical music up to the moment Nostalgia. What a kick. And what a commercial boon for the music industry.
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WorldPingOnce hailed as the future, even the likes of Google, Sony and Microsoft have struggled to make streaming games fun, fast or affordable • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox?
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With a new album out as This Is Lorelei, he’s making sense of his newfound position as someone who gets covered by MJ Lenderman and Cameron Winter…
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WorldPing‘The black cloud emerged from a grate in the street. I guess something underground was on fire.
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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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WorldPingIt comes after the network conducted a review amid a "rapidly changing media landscape".
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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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