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Here's the debut trailer for Netflix thriller Extraction, starring Chris Hemsworth as a black-market mercenary who is hired to rescue the kidnapped son of an imprisoned international crime lord.
Sam Hargrave, stunt coordinator on Captain America: Civil War, is directing the movie. Joe Russo, of Marvel fame, wrote the…
Jeffrey Katzenberg’s Quibi launched yesterday amid as much fanfare as can be expected during a global pandemic.
The decision to launch amid the headwinds of COVID-19 wasn’t a straight forward one, Katzenberg admitted during an interview for podcast Recode Media yesterday.
When asked whether he and CEO Meg Whitman…
The BBC has announced plans to host a coronavirus telethon on April 23, bringing together its two charity partners, Comic Relief and Children In Need, for the first time.
Produced by BBC Studios, The Big Night In will go live for three hours on BBC One and aims to cheer up the nation by spotlighting stories of…
The Edinburgh TV Festival is the latest casualty of the coronavirus pandemic after organizers announced that the event will move online.
The Edinburgh TV Festival was due to take place on 26-28 August, but the physical conference will be “reimagined” as a digital event for the industry, with key sessions taking place…
Canada-based WildBrain Television has named Katie Wilson as VP Channels and Curation. Wilson joins from Corus Entertainment where she spent six years as Director of Programming. Based in Toronto, Wilson will be responsible for content and providing editorial direction across WildBrain’s Family Channel, Family CHRGD…
Discovery has today launched the “biggest ever” rebrand of its six UK free-to-air channels: Quest, Quest Red, Really, HGTV, Food Network and DMAX.
The new-look showcases Discovery’s ad-funded streamer Dplay and was created by an in-house team at the company, based on a rebrand of Dplay Nordics by Red Bee…
Organizers of the Melbourne International Film Festival confirmed today that the event will be cancelled this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The event's 2020 edition had been scheduled to run August 6-23, meaning this is one of the earlier decisions being taken by a festival. Yesterday, Munich, the…
Two former senior executives at 21st Century Fox and the former co-CEO of Spanish media firm Imagina have been indicted by the U.S. Department Of Justice over their alleged role in a bribery scheme of FIFA officials in exchange for broadcast and marketing rights.
The New York filing charges Hernan Lopez, the former…
The SAG-AFTRA Foundation's COVID-19 Relief Fund has distributed $1 million in emergency assistance to members in need, foundation president Courtney B. Vance said Monday night in his second "fireside chat." The fund has another 3,000 applications for assistance that it's processing.
"We appreciate your patience as…
As it faces up to the huge coronavirus challenge, exhibition giant Cineworld has suspended payment of its 2019 fourth quarter dividend of 4.25c per share and upcoming 2020 quarterly dividends in a bid to “conserve cash wherever possible”.
The Regal-owner also announced today that executive directors will defer payment…
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is in action, even if the rest of us aren’t. In a clip from tonight’s episode, the CBS late-night host does some revisionist history that involves Charlton Heston, a burning bush, the coronavirus — and, of course, Tiger King.
Starting off with a CNN report about how some churches are…
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle might have resigned as royals, but the couple has no trouble staying in the news.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex had planned to use SussexRoyal as a branding tool for their global endeavors, but that idea was pooh-poohed by Buckingham Palace. Now they have settled on a moniker for their…
