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Season 2 of Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender retells the story of what happened to Zuko's mother, but makes one big change.... Read more
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SMP songwriters were recognized across 27 of ASCAP's top-performing R&B, hip-hop and gospel songs of the past year. Source... Read more
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Rising Mexican animator Luis de la Rosa, who took credits on works such as Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and My Little Pony: The Movie, has died in an accident while attending the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France Local newspaper Le Dauphine Libéré reported on Friday that a young... Read more
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By Melanie Goodfellow
Pandora bets on a major horseracing constitutional precedent to strip the MLC of its constitutional authority to sue. Source... Read more
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Stranger Things‘ signature father-daughter duo is back! Netflix has given a straight-to-series order to a father-daughter espionage thriller starring Stranger Things‘ Millie Bobby Brown and David Harbour from Adolescence co-creator Jack Thorne, A24 and studio-based producer Joe Hipps. With the high-profile project featuring key auspices of two of Netflix’s biggest... Read more
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By Nellie Andreeva
Building the Band is hanging up its microphone. Netflix’s music competition series, which was best known for filming with Liam Payne shortly before his untimely death, has been canceled after just one season. Netflix declined to comment, but a source confirmed the cancellation, which was first reported by The Sun... Read more
1 hour ago
By Jake Kanter
EXCLUSIVE: Arthur Langlie (A Complete Unknown), Riley Dandy (Things Will Be Different), Oliver Stark (9-1-1) and Madeline Weinstein (Mary Page Marlowe) have signed on to star in Cut Your Teeth, an indie psychological thriller marking the feature directorial debut of Samuel Goodwin, which counts Daredevil: Born Again‘s Aaron Moorhead among its producers. Cut... Read more
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By Matthewgrobar
EXCLUSIVE: Five Nights at Freddy’s and Shadow & Bone star Freddy Carter has been set to star with Lulu Wilson (Annabelle franchise), Mark McKenna (The Tourist), Stelio Savante (Sarah’s Oil) and Jeremy Gauna (1923) in sci-fi horror film Do Not Open. Jada Jay, Diletta Guglielmi and singer-songwriter John Ford Coley... Read more
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By Andreas Wiseman
Warner Bros.’ “Supergirl” had a soft start last night and combined with Wednesday screenings. Craig Gillespie’s take on Superman’s cousin brought in $7.8 million domestically, and just over $13 million worldwide. An absolutely entertaining superhero movie, “Supergirl” — starring Milly Alcock in the title role — starts with a disadvantage.... Read more
2 hours ago
By Roger Friedman
MS NOW will move to taped podcast and other content in the post-6 p.m. ET hours on weekend nights, as the network points to success with a content agreement with Crooked Media. The network said that The Weekend: Primetime will end on Saturday, with co-anchor Antonia Hylton moving to the... Read more
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By Ted Johnson
There’s another installment of The Monster of Florence on the way at Netflix. Production has begun on a three-part miniseries that follows the initial four-part series of the Italian crime mystery drama from Fremantle’s Wildside and AlterEgo. Stefano Sollima will once again direct the series he created alongside Leonardo Fasoli.... Read more
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By Jesse Whittock
EXCLUSIVE: Marc Resteghini, an executive producer of Young Sherlock and a former Amazon Studios executive, has been named board chair of the Nantucket Film Festival. The fest, which focuses on screenwriting and storytelling, wrapped its 31st annual edition earlier this week on the island off the Massachusetts coast. Resteghini succeeds... Read more
3 hours ago
By Dade Hayes
EXCLUSIVE: Social media star and presenter Grace Keeling ‘GK’ Barry will officially front a soon-to-launch BBC documentary about controversial online forum Tattle Life. GK Barry: Toxic Gossip will see the podcast host exploring the forum, which allows users to post about social media stars, creators and influencers. The BBC plans... Read more
3 hours ago
By Jesse Whittock
The final episode of The Bear Season 5 (which is also the final episode of the show) found a subtle, sweet way to pay tribute to previous guest star Rob Reiner.... Read more
4 hours ago
This month’s roundup features books all feature compelling and engaging reads for any summer/winter vacations.  The post Rights Roundup: Engaging Reads and the Power of Art appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.... Read more
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By Erin L. Cox
In June, BCBF rounded out its world tour by visiting New York, Beijing, and Annecy to promote the rights trade in children's publishing and invest in cross-media promotion. The post Bologna Children’s Book Fair’s ‘Grand Tour’ Continues to Build Opportunities appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.... Read more
4 hours ago
By Erin L. Cox
OpenBook shares insight into May 2026 book sales across fiction, nonfiction, and children’s titles, with insight into what books by foreign authors are also selling well. The post China Bestsellers, May 2026: Screen Adaptations Drive Book Sales appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.... Read more
4 hours ago
By Erin L. Cox
Fresh off an Academy Award win earlier this year for the stop-motion short The Girl Who Cried Pearls, the National Film Board of Canada returned to the Annecy International Animation Film Festival with another distinctly personal animated story. This time, however, the celebrated Canadian studio traded the aesthetics of fairy... Read more
4 hours ago
By Destiny Jackson
Here is Deadline’s annual list of premiere dates for new and returning TV series. Updated daily, the roster covers hundreds of broadcast, cable and streaming programs debuting throughout 2026, many still listed as TBA (to be announced). It includes series premieres, season debuts, shows returning from hiatus and some one-offs... Read more
5 hours ago
By Erik Pedersen
Hello again, Insiders. The heat was on literally and figuratively this week as the Annecy International Animation Festival and Cannes Lions took place under a scorching sun in Europe. Jesse Whittock here to guide you through the best of it. Sign up to the newsletter here. Animated In Annecy Studios... Read more
5 hours ago
By Jesse Whittock
As Pixar basks in the success of Toy Story 5, it has unveiled first work-in-progress footage for theatrical short Loving Dory, directed by Lou Hamou-Lhadj (Borrowed Time, Win or Lose). The new work – tapping into the Dory and Nemo waterverse – sees Dory enjoy an unexpected dalliance with a... Read more
5 hours ago
By Melanie Goodfellow
Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Zootopia 2 has roared past the $1 billion threshold at the global box office, achieving the massive milestone in just 17 days. This phenomenal pace makes it the fastest-ever billion-dollar earner among all animated MPA releases and all PG-rated films. It follows Disney’s Lilo & Stitch... Read more
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By Robert Lang
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By Podnews LLC
Participating stores will collect the records for recovery partner Virterras Materials to assess for potential material recycling. Source... Read more
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EXCLUSIVE: Scott Adkins (The Rip) action-thriller Irish Dog has pre-sold ahead of its projected fall shoot. The film has been acquired for German-speaking Europe by Tiberius Film, Eastern Europe by MediaSquad, MENA territories by Front Row Filmed Entertainment, Italy by Plaion Pictures, and India and SAARC territories by Dimension Pictures.... Read more
6 hours ago
By Andreas Wiseman
Today in Cord Cutting Today for June 25, 2026 we take a look at some of the biggest stories in the world of cord cutting including: Cable TV is Getting More Expensive Again. Did you know Luke has a second YouTube channel? Subscribe to it here: https://www.youtube.com/thebreakdownwithluke Another DIRECTV Price... Read more
6 hours ago
By Cord Cutters News
EXCLUSIVE: In 2024, Dexter’s Laboratory creator Genndy Tartakovsky pitched the President of Adult Swim an idea for a show live on stage at Annecy. Last year, we revealed that the show, Heist Safari, was in development, and today we can tell you it has been greenlit, now titled Heist Brothers.... Read more
6 hours ago
By Max Goldbart
Cuban-American star William Levy is staying in business with Spain’s Secuoya Studios. The Montecristo and Camino a Arcadia actor and producer struck with the Spanish-language production giant, and is immediately in development with a scripted series and a feature film that Levy will both star in and executive produce. William... Read more
6 hours ago
By Jesse Whittock
The BBC has acquired Ghosts Australia, which will sit alongside the British and American versions at the UK pubcaster. The eight-part series from BBC Studios Australia Productions stars Tamala (Cleverman, Nowhere Boys) and Rowan Witt (Totally Completely Fine, Book Of Mormon) as the couple who inherit a dilapidated country manor... Read more
6 hours ago
By Jesse Whittock
In the series, disgraced FBI agent turned security expert Matt Wolfe (Harbour) is drawn back into the world he left behind when his estranged daughter, Rebecca (Brown) - now an FBI agent determined to follow in his footsteps - vanishes on a mission, forcing him to return to a field... Read more
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The film stars Jack Reynor, Laia Costa, May Calamawy, Natalie Grace, with Veronica Falco´n.... Read more
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"Heist Brothers" is a new high-octane animated action comedy from Emmy Award-winning creator Genndy Tartakovsky.... Read more
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The feature-length documentary explores the extraordinary journey of tennis GOAT Novak Djokovic, who began playing on the hardscrabble courts of Serbia and rose to become the most accomplished champion in the history of men's tennis.... Read more
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Health checkups, a stormy wedding and an overdue journey to the past: The twins are ready to confront life's big questions - and each other.... Read more
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