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Ronaldo, Vaughn Team for Soccer Agent Drama
Cristiano Ronaldo and Kingsman director Matthew Vaughn are producing a TV series called "Day 1s" about a fictional UK soccer agent, starring Damian Lewis, with Ronaldo also taking an on-screen role.
Littler to Face Everyday Players in Netflix Live Darts Event
Netflix will air 'Beat Luke Littler,' a live darts event on 30 October where the 19-year-old world champion takes on 20 everyday players competing for a £501,000 prize, with open regional heats in Lon
Charli xcx portrait joins National Portrait Gallery
A Harley Weir portrait of Charli xcx has been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery in the same week her new album "Music, Fashion, Film" leads the UK midweek chart.
George Michael's Lost Trojan Souls Duets Footage Released
Andros Georgiou, George Michael's childhood friend, is releasing 90 minutes of unedited footage from the 1992-93 sessions for "Trojan Souls," Michael's never-completed duets album featuring intended c
Millions see leaked copy of The Odyssey movie on X
A high-quality leaked copy of Christopher Nolan's *The Odyssey* circulated on X, drawing millions of views before takedowns, as Universal moved swiftly to protect its intellectual property amid the fi
Glitched into empty space: why video games are obsessed with the Backrooms
The Backrooms aesthetic didn't emerge from nowhere—a 2019 4chan post sparked it, but video games have been exploring impossible, empty spaces through noclip glitches and liminal-space design since at
Up in the Air Cast Real Fired Workers — It Still Resonates
A personal essay argues that Jason Reitman's 2009 film "Up in the Air" remains the author's go-to feelgood movie, crediting the director's decision to cast real recently-fired workers alongside George
Cumberbatch, Cumming, Wong Urge UK to Block Paramount-Warner Merger
Benedict Cumberbatch, Alan Cumming, and Benedict Wong co-authored an op-ed urging UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy to block Paramount’s $111 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, warning of cultu
Nearly 20 Georgia O’Keeffe works to go on display in UK for first time
The Courtauld Gallery will stage 'Georgia O'Keeffe: Ghost Ranch' in October 2027, bringing together nearly 20 works — most never before shown in the UK — that explore the New Mexico property that shap
Charli XCX Drops 'Music, Fashion, Film' B-Sides on iTunes
Charli XCX released an extended 'Music, Fashion, Film (B-Sides Edition)' on iTunes, adding three previously physical-only tracks to streaming for the first time.
Korea Box Office: Na Hong-Jin’s ‘Hope’ Holds Firm at No. 1 as Market Slows
Na Hong-Jin's sci-fi thriller "Hope" dominated the South Korean box office for a second consecutive weekend with $5.5 million, capturing 66.8% of a market that sharply contracted to $8.2 million from
Netflix India Boss Monika Shergill Eyes Global Format Adaptations After “Captive Reality” Series ‘Lock Upp’ Hits 50 Million Hours
Netflix India VP Monika Shergill announced plans to localize Netflix-owned unscripted global formats for Indian audiences while revealing that captive-reality hit Lock Upp has amassed 50 million hours
Nicola Coughlan, Paapa Essiedu and More Join Celebrity Auction to Raise Money for Students in Gaza
UK charity Phoenix Space is launching a 10-day celebrity auction on July 27, featuring personal items from over 20 actors and musicians to fund scholarships for Gaza students accepted at British unive
Ridgeley Recalls Wham! China Tour, Lost Anderson Film
Andrew Ridgeley revisits Wham!'s pioneering 1985 China trip — the first by a Western pop act — in a new documentary built from 20-plus hours of previously unseen archive footage, including Lindsay And
Furious: Disney+ Crime Thriller Fuels Female Rage
Furious, an eight-episode Disney+ crime thriller from creator Elizabeth Meriwether, follows an FBI agent investigating a female serial killer who is targeting members of a sex trafficking ring, with t
Sean Astin pushes AI law as SAG-AFTRA chief
Sean Astin, now leading SAG-AFTRA, is pushing federal AI likeness protections while weighing a possible return to Middle-earth and reflecting on surviving child stardom.
The Rapture Review: Apocalyptic Drama Lands Amid UK Heatwave
The Guardian reviews the first two episodes of Channel 4's five-part adaptation of Liz Jensen's 2010 novel "The Rapture," a climate-anxious psychological thriller whose apocalyptic premise now feels e
Force of Nature review: climate crisis as spectacle
Force of Nature, a six-part climate documentary narrated by Andrew Lincoln, is reviewed as a late-90s Hollywood disaster-movie spectacle that frames animal victims as 'heroes fighting back,' though it
Industry star David Jonsson to play Black Panther in Marvel sequel
British actor David Jonsson, 32, has been announced as the new Black Panther in Marvel's third film, cast as the grown-up son of the late Chadwick Boseman's T'Challa.
Oona Doherty: Leather Jacket review – dancers delight in their hard sweaty work
Choreographer Oona Doherty premiered 'Leather Jacket' at Bold Tendencies in a Peckham multi-storey car park, where eight dancers stripped from leather jackets to underwear and worked through a 45-minu
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