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Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard will be among the guests at Slano Film Days, which runs June 16-20 in Slano, a small coastal town in Croatia. Other guests at the event include directors Paweł Pawlikowski, whose “Ida” won an Oscar, and Ruben Östlund, a two-time Palme d’Or wi

Thailand’s Creative Economy Agency (CEA) is launching the Bangkok International Content Market 2026 (BICM2026), one of the country’s first dedicated international marketplaces for film, series, and animation, set to run July 20–22 at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center i

Bari Weiss, editor in chief of CBS News, on a staff call addressed the termination Scott Pelley, a longtime presence at the news outlet who was ousted from “60 Minutes” Tuesday after he engaged in a tenacious confrontation with the new executive producer of the newsmagazine. Weis

Universal’s first theme park and resort in the U.K. — unveiled early last year and set to be one of the biggest theme parks globally — now has an official name, plus a financial commitment described by the British government as “one of the largest ever investments in the U.K. tou

The official trailer for Eli Roth‘s “Ice Cream Man,” has been released. The slasher film will be released on Aug. 7 in 2,000 North American venues. The trailer shows a group of children descending into madness after buying ice cream. In one clip, they looming over sleeping parent

“Scary Movie” will contend with another scary movie, A24’s breakout horror hit “Backrooms,” for No. 1 at the domestic box office. Paramount and Miramax’s R-rated “Scary Movie” is aiming for $45 million to $50 million from 3,400 North American theaters in its opening weekend. Para

Jennifer Aniston and Lisa Kudrow — friends since, um, “Friends” premiered more than 30 years ago — are thrilled to see each other, especially because it’s been so long: a year and a half, according to Kudrow. She’s been busy working on “The Comeback,” for which she and co-creator

John D. MacDonald’s novel “The Executioners” has been adapted for film twice as “Cape Fear”: first in 1962, starring Robert Mitchum, and again in 1991, starring Robert De Niro and directed by Martin Scorsese. The latest adaptation, an Apple TV series created by Nick Antosca, is p

Over the past decade, YouTube Music’s “Foundry Class” has become a trademark of quality for independent artists, and the 24 artists who make up this year’s class is no exception. The artists range from the U.S. and the U.K. to Poland, Korea, Brazil, Morocco, India and elsewhere,

Having recently been instrumental to Arsenal’s most successful campaign in more than 20 years, soccer star Bukayo Saka — one of the most gifted British footballers playing today — is getting the documentary treatment. “Bukayo Saka: The Time is Now” has been unveiled less than two