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EXCLUSIVE: On the eve of the American Film Market, Protagonist Pictures has boarded international sales on Jay Baruchel starrer The Stunt Driver. UTA Independent Film Group is representing the U.S. rights. Above is a first look image of Baruchel (This is the End) and Ed Helms (The Hangover) in…

Paddington Bear’s meeting with a BBC News journalist appears to have captured the imagination of fans after the marmalade-loving mammal made his debut in a West End musical. The bear, played by two different actors, had an encounter with David Sillito on stage at the Savoy Theatre, leaving BBC…

Charlotte Moore has made her first statement hire since quitting the BBC to join The Crown producer Left Bank. The new Left Bank CEO has hired Baby Reindeer exec Matt Jarvis as an Executive Producer and Acting Creative Director, covering Sian McWilliams' maternity leave. Reporting to…

Music streamer Spotify saw third quarter operating profits grow a cool 28%, as its paying subscribers hit 281 million. Operating income posted at €582M ($669M), well above the guidance of €485M, with revenue up 7% at €4.27B. Total active monthly users (MAUs) came in at 713 million, up 11%…

Dick Cheney, the influential Vice President to George W. Bush who was a central figure in the invasion of Iraq, has died. He was 84 and died due to “complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease,” according to his family. A statement from his family quoted by press said Cheney died…

The BBC has been accused by a “whistleblower” of selectively editing Donald Trump’s January 6 speech to make it appear as if the president was encouraging the 2021 Capitol riot. A former external adviser to the BBC board took issue with a 2024 episode of Panorama, in which edits were made to…

Joel Edgerton will be awarded the Camerimage Film Festival's Actor’s Award during this year's event, which will run from 15 Nov to 22 Nov.  Born in Blacktown, New South Wales, Edgerton's career began on the stage. His first on-screen performance was on TV. He starred in the Aussie series The Secr…

EXCLUSIVE: Vegan chef Julius Fiedler has become the latest big name in the content creation world to land representation. Fiedler aka Hermann has signed with Diving Bell Management, the London agency that reps the likes of Good Girl’s Guide to Murder author Holly Jackson and has a content deal…

EXCLUSIVE: Don McGregor is set to land the top global TV distribution post at Paramount, we understand. The move would reunite the veteran sales exec with his former NBCUniversal colleague Kevin MacLellan, who is President of Global Content Distribution and International Media at…

EXCLUSIVE: Tessa Thompson as Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler in filmmaker Nia DaCosta's sublime Hedda is a woman in charge of her own destiny. Studying literature would've been a whole lot more fun if this voluptuous, 1950s-set re-imagining had been included on my school's curriculum. In fact…

Rowan Athale's biopic Giant, starring Amir El Masry as British-Yemeni boxing champion Prince Naseem 'Naz' Hamed, will open the fifth edition of Saudi Arabia's Red Sea International Film Festival. The news was announced at a press conference in the festival’s home city of Jeddah on Tuesday, as…

The Australian government has introduced content quotas on global streamers. The rules require Netflix, Prime Video and the other global streamers with more than one million Australian subscribers to spend 10% of their total Australian expenditure – or 7.5% of their revenues – on local…