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Nigerian singer Ayra Starr has been named among the artistes billed to perform at the 2027 edition of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Read More: https://punchng.com/ayra-starr-to-perform-at-coachella-2027-in-us/

EXCLUSIVE: Bridgerton star Adjoa Andoh is swapping Shonda Rhimes’ regency wonderland for an ITV detective drama. Andoh is creating her first drama series, Protect and Serve [working title], with Time scribe Helen Black. Andoh will play the lead, DI Araba Dadzie, a cop, mother and daughter. Araba is in the squeezed middle of her life, […]

‘Inji Vellam’ continues Mani’s acclaimed collaboration with Oscar-winning music composer AR Rahman

Javier Bardem, Rosalía and Lukas Haas are also starring in the film from director Alma Har’el.

Lionsgate has acquired the North America and UK distribution rights to “Wet,” director Alma Har’el’s latest film, from Fifth Season and 193, A Legendary Company. “Wet” features an all-star cast, which includes Connor Storrie, Rebecca Ferguson, Odessa A’Zion, Javier Bardem, Rosalia and Lukas Haas. Production is set to begin in 2027, while further details surr

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate has acquired North America and UK distribution rights to Wet, an audacious new film from award-winning writer-director Alma Har’el (Honey Boy, Lady in the Lake), from Fifth Season and 193, a Legendary Company. The film is set to star Heated Rivalry’s Connor Storrie, Dune and Silo star Rebecca Ferguson, Marty Supreme’s Odessa A’zion, […]

Action drama-thriller “Unguarded,” the second movie as a director of Mario Casas, toplined by Mario and Óscar Casas as underground bare-knuckle MMA fighters, will be brought to market by Film Factory Ent. at this week’s AFM. Film Factory will handle international sales. International star Mario Casas (“The Invisible Guest,” “Cross the Line,” “Bird Box Barcel

The indie studio acquired U.S. and Canadian theatrical rights to the millennial rom-com, which premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival and co-stars Tom Welling, Megan Mullally, Lola Tung and Garrett Wareing.

EXCLUSIVE: Justin Long (Dodgeball) and Katy Mixon Greer (American Housewife) will star with Banks Pierce (The Pitt) in family film Slater’s Gold. Also starring are Kate Wilson, Henry Heffernan, Keith Rushing, Brooke Lyons, Harrison C. Thomas, Todd Terry and Glenn Morshower. The film from writer, director and lead producer Micah Lyons (Bad Men Must Bleed) […]

On the 30th anniversary of the Heaven’s Gate tragedy — the infamous mass suicide involving members of a Californian religious cult — a film detailing the story is hitting cinemas. “The Leader,” a true crime cult thriller starring Vera Farmiga, Tim Blake Nelson and Jim Parsons, has been picked for U.S. distribution by by Dark Sky Films, […]

Emmy-winning Paradise star Julianna Margulies will headline an MGM+ series based on a novel by Daisy Goodwin, the British writer behind ITV/PBS Masterpiece show Victoria. MGM+ will adapt Goodwin’s 2011 book The American Heiress into an eight-part romantic comedy of manners, set during America’s Gilded Age and England’s Victorian era. The series is a FilmNati

Set to open in early December, the 270-seat Soi Stories will feature 11 Thai food concepts, including two popular Bangkok eateries making their Singapore debut, with dishes expected to cost between S$6 and S$14.

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a buzzy one. Leah McKendrick, fresh off her Netflix smash Voicemails For Isabelle, is set to direct thriller Delulu, in which she’ll also star alongside Pretty Lethal and West Side Story star Maddie Ziegler. McKendrick has also written and will serve as an executive producer on the project which heralds from XYZ Films […]

Highland Film Group has released the first look image of thriller “The Black Demon: Atlantis.” The shark survival actioner stars Jack Kesy, pictured above, in a sequel to “The Black Demon.” Kesy plays undercover DEA agent Jerry, who arrives at offshore fortress prison Atlantis in the Pacific Ocean after his operative mysteriously disappears while investigati

Fantastic Fest award winner “Bloody Tennis,” starring Sandra Guldberg Kampp and Golden Globe nominee Helena Zengel, has sold to several further territories, ahead of its market premiere this week at the American Film Market in Los Angeles. Nikias Chryssos’ English-language horror film has been acquired in the U.K. and Ireland by Blue Finch, in Turkey […]

EXCLUSIVE: Obscured Releasing has acquired UK distribution rights to Straight Circle, starring real-life twins Elliott and Luke Tittensor of House of the Dragon, with Neil Maskell. The film is the debut feature of British writer-director Oscar Hudson, who has previously directed music videos for Radiohead, James Blake and Bonobo. Straight Circle will have pr

Vídeo mostra menino de 4 anos pedindo ajuda a porteiro após mãe ser morta no litoral de S O juiz que converteu em preventiva a prisão de André Luiz Coimbra Oliveira, de 33 anos, afirmou que o homem demonstrou “frieza estarrecedora” e “desprezo absoluto pela vida humana” ao matar a companheira, Nayara Carolina Justino dos Santos, de 38 anos, em São Vicente, n

XYZ Films and CAA Media Finance inked a deal with Samuel Goldwyn Films for U.S. rights to “Kill Me,” a murder mystery comedy film from writer-director Peter Warren starring Charlie Day and Allison Williams. A theatrical release is planned for Spring 2027. The official logline for “Kill Me” reads, “Jimmy (Day) didn’t try to kill […]

EXCLUSIVE: I, Robot and Dark City filmmaker Alex Proyas is taking over directing duties on Cortés, the historical epic starring Oscar nominee Antonio Banderas as Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés. Filming began in Paris and Spain a few weeks ago with French filmmaker Paul Mignot announced at the time as helming the project. Proyas has subsequently […]

I'm not sure Exterminauts is different enough from Helldivers 2. Behaviour Interactive, the team most famous for Dead by Daylight, told me during a roundtable discussion with the press that the idea of what has become Exterminauts was swirling around in the studio for a decade, with the game being roughly "half" done when Helldivers 2 launched in February 20

Menschen, die dem Sammelkartenspiel »Magic« verfallen sind, gelten als süchtige Nerds. Was fasziniert sie so daran? Unser Autor hat versucht, dem Geheimnis näherzukommen.

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Der chilenische Oscarpreisträger Sebastián Lelio ist tot. Als Regisseur und Restaurantbesitzer ließ er sich immer wieder von seiner Wahlheimat Berlin inspirieren.

Die Stadt Zürich soll in ihren Liegenschaften fix 20 Prozent Alterswohnungen bauen. Dieser Vorschlag löst das zentrale Problem auf dem Wohnungsmarkt jedoch nicht.

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If you grew up in the 80s and early 90s, you may have listened to freestyle music, also known as Latin hip-hop, born after the disco era that dominated the airwaves from New York to Miami, Los Angeles, Texas, as well as Philly and Boston, to name a few areas. Among the genre’s biggest fans […]

Adam Driver opened up about why he said yes to playing Mister Sinister in the “X-Men” reboot after turning down many Marvel movies over the years. “I was a big fan [of ‘X-Men]. I mean, I was a fan of the other things too, but this one felt like the right time,” Driver said during […]

Amazon, it seems, cannot get enough “Melania.” And at this moment, they feel like the only entity for whom that’s true. The company has announced its plan to release a two-part documentary series about First Lady Melania Trump on Nov. 20; this follows on the stilettoed heels of their feature film documentary, “Melania,” released in […]

'The Odyssey' star would've played John Bennett, a role that went to fellow Boston native Mark Wahlberg.

Matt Damon still can’t get “Ted” out of his head. Damon confirmed he passed on starring in the 2012 comedy as the foul-mouthed teddy bear’s best friend, John, who was later played by Mark Wahlberg “I don’t want to live with the regret, but I can tell you that I passed on ‘Ted’ and I’ve […]

The Rockford Files, NBC’s upcoming reboot of the 1970s series, is getting a special preview on Jan. 2 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT, immediately following the network’s NFL telecast. The drama starring David Boreanaz will have its time slot premiere on Thursday, Jan. 7, at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Deadline revealed in May that The […]

EXCLUSIVE: Halloween season may be over, but Sony Pictures isn’t done adding to its already stacked cast for another spooky feature. Sources tell Deadline that Nicholas Galitzine is in final negotiations to play Ichabod Crane in Hollow opposite Sydney Sweeney. The film also stars Belmont Cameli and is based on filmmaker Lindsey Anderson Beer’s forthcoming […

In the classic, New York-set rom-com, Jack Whitehall and Zoë Kravitz are a newly engaged couple whose wedding plans are upended when their parents, played by Halle Berry and Colin Firth, fall for each other.

Ahead of the American Film Market, Studio Dome has snatched up worldwide sales and distribution rights to “Out of Order!,” a legal comedy starring Brandon Routh, Brooke Shields and Luis Guzmán. Guy Jacobson directed and co-wrote the film with Megan Freels Johnston. An official logline for “Out of Order!” reads, “A lawyer trying to turn […]

Launched in 2010, ‘Tamizh Padam’ is a spoof comedy franchise that parodies popular Tamil cinema tropes and characters

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The legend of Robin Hood is set to be given a new retelling in “The Lie of Sherwood Forest,” launching at the upcoming AFM with Logical Pictures International and Protagonist Pictures handling sales. The film — coming from German production company augenschein and beginning production on Nov. 9 — is being directed by Patrick Vollrath (“7500,” “Subversion”) [

The feature debut of Max Korman, whose grandfather commissioned the architectural icon's final building, gets its international premiere at Tallinn, a nod to Kahn's birth in Estonia.

Broadway business was off about 13% last week (from the previous week and from last season at this time) – maybe Halloween Saturday pulled away some attention? – with total box office for the 33 shows hitting $29,572,284. Attendance for the week ending November 1 was 251,700, down 4% from the previous week and 9% […]

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Automotive enthusiast-centric interactive streaming platform Driven has unveiled its initial original programming slate beginning with “Art of Speed” starring renowned engine builder Tom Nelson. First announced last December, Driven comes from car-enthusiast co-founders including longtime producer Michael George, “Top Gear USA” host Tanner Foust and “Gran Tu

Olivia Rodrigo is getting in the holiday spirit. The pop star will release her first-ever Christmas song, titled “Take Me Home (4 Christmas),” on Thursday at 5 p.m. PT. The track will be accompanied by a music video starring Rodrigo alongside “Sex and the City” star Cynthia Nixon and “Saturday Night Live” breakout Ben Marshall. […]

EXCLUSIVE: Principal photography has wrapped on satirical horror comedy Get Off Your Phone, the feature directorial debut of Chelsea Frei (The Paper). Frei wrote the screenplay and stars alongside Oscar nominee Maria Bakalova (The Apprentice) and Jon Rudnitsky (Saturday Night Live). The film “follows Daniela (Frei), a canceled influencer who retreats to rura

Lionsgate is bringing “The Housemaid” to the London stage, with an adaptation of the Amanda Seyfriend/Sydney Sweeney-starrer set to bow next fall in Richmond. Described as a “seductive psychological thriller,” it will be based on the novel by Freida McFadden and Paul Feig’s 2025 feature film adaptation, which starred Sweeney as troubled young woman Millie […

From hosting the world’s first feature film to defeating a freeway plan to protect its native bushland, this ordinary outer-eastern pocket hides a remarkably rebellious spirit.

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EXCLUSIVE: Woody Harrelson is backing his first short film. The multi-hyphenate has boarded Mary the Widow, writer-director Ryan Noufer’s live-action short, as an executive producer. It’s the first time he’s EP’d a short, joined by Jack Piatt (The Singers) and Kevin McCormick. “Mary the Widow is a special kind of film. It doesn’t waste a […]

“Kuch Kuch Hota Hai,” Karan Johar’s first film as director, starring Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol and Rani Mukerji, will screen at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2028 to celebrate its 30th anniversary, with Johar set to attend. Johar received the invitation earlier this week at a meeting he hosted at the Mumbai offices of […]

Kathryn Ferguson’s IFTA-winning short film features original music by Bastille’s Dan Smith and cinematography by two-time Oscar nominee Robbie Ryan.

Korean sales company Finecut has sold Journey There, starring The Umbrella Academy‘s Justin H. Min, to multiple territories. The Seoul-based company has also closed further deals on Hong Sangsoo’s Locarno film festival awards winner Nowhere To Lay My Eyes. Journey There has gone to Japan (KDDI Corporation), Taiwan (Andrews Film), Mongolia (Izagur Media) and

Matthew Weiner is no longer involved with the drama series “The Chairman” that is currently in development at Peacock, Variety has learned exclusively from sources. The project was first reported to be in the works at the streamer less than a month ago, with Eddie Murphy attached to star. According to sources, creative differences between […]

Krafton and Netflix today announced a live-action TV show based on PUBG, and it will star Emmy-winner Donald Glover. In fact, Glover will not only star, but also direct, write, and executive produce the show, along with his brother, Stephen Glover, as writer and executive producer. That's all Krafton had to say in its announcement, so it sounds like early da

Netflix is developing PUBG, a live-action series adaptation of Krafton’s bestselling battle royale game. Emmy winner Donald Glover will direct and star in the adaptation, which he is writing and executive producing with his brother Stephen Glover. Also executive producing are Michael Schaefer for Neon TV, Fam Udeorji for Gilga, and Taeseok Jang and Sujin […]

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EXCLUSIVE: Amazon is developing Whiskey Matriarch, a drama series starring and executive produced by Academy Award nominee Taraji P. Henson, sources tell Deadline. Reps for Amazon declined comment, and plot details are being kept under wraps. The series sold to Amazon competitively after being set up at Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Gr

EXCLUSIVE: Production has wrapped on under-the-radar “Gen Z music thriller” Dead At 27, starring Selma Blair (Cruel Intentions), Sierra McCormick (American Horror Stories), Logan Miller (Escape Room) and Dylan Playfair (Letterkenny). The film will feature acting and music from recording artists Iann Dior, Tommy Genesis and Kya (Bludnymph) Hansen. K. Asher Le

Oscar-nominated star Eric Roberts is leading the first vertical drama to be revealed from Alon Shtruzman and Scott Einbinder’s nascent Hollywood outfit New Short Media. Created by Gev Miron and Charlie Parker, It’s My Party and I’ll Die If I Want To will be released as both an episodic vertical series and feature film intended […]

In a long career, she was best known for starring opposite Jane Curtin in “Kate & Allie,” a 1980s sitcom about two divorced women raising three children in New York City.