Conecta Fiction: Mexican Panel Debates Future of the Telenovela and the Impact of AI

With thousands of Hollywood actors and writers on strike, some are wondering how reality TV will be affected.

Acclaimed anime director Hayao Miyazaki’s latest film, The Boy And The Heron (aka How Do You Live?), hit Japanese theatres on Friday, July 14 with no advance publicity apart from a title and a poster. 

Gkids has acquired North American rights to Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron, the Japanese maestro’s latest feature which Toho is releasing today in Japan as Kimitachi wa Do Ikiruka (How Do You Live?). The Boy and the Heron is now the official international title. This all-rights deal marks a continuation of Gkids’ long-standing relationship with the Miyazaki co-founded Studio Ghibli; Gkids will release the original story written and directed by Miyazaki theatrically laster this year.

The epic bets placed by HBO and Amazon with House of the Dragon and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, so frequently compared since the series’ debuts last year, is in the spotlight once again with the unveiling of this morning’s Emmy nominations, which saw HOTD in the lead at a tally of eight.

NME about his new documentary Squaring The Circle, which focuses on Hipgnosis, the art studio behind iconic album sleeves from Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Wings, and more.From their psychedelic debut album artwork for Pink Floyd’s ‘A Saucerful Of Secrets’ in 1968 to their dissolution in 1983, Hipgnosis – which consisted primarily of Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell – created some of the most striking cover images in rock’n’roll history.Now, the company behind Pink Floyd’s famous ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’, ‘Wish You Were Here’ and ‘Animals’ covers, as well as equally memorable images for Led Zeppelin, Wings, 10cc, Peter Gabriel and many others, is the subject of the new, feature-length documentary. The film includes interviews with Paul McCartney, Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel, and other key players and is set for a cinematic release on Friday (July 14).NME spoke to Corbijn about the new documentary, the power of Hipgnosis and their turbulent journey from down-at-heels hippies to rock art heroes.“Po came to Amsterdam and asked me to be the man making the documentary about Hipgnosis.

, , , : The Princess of Wales, or Kate Middleton, surprises us again and again with ways to embrace different hairstyles while still maintaining royal protocol. It’s why “Kate Middleton hairstyle” has become such a popular Google search term as a source of inspiration.

Andrea Evans, the two-time Daytime Emmy nominated actor who rose to fame in the 1970s and ’80s as the troublemaking teen Tina Lord on the ABC soap One Life To Live, died Sunday of cancer. She was 66.

In the early days of her career, Heather Locklear was the platonic ideal of a blonde bombshell, idolized by fans real and fictional.

The Sopranos, The White Lotus, Goodfellas or any movie or TV show I’ve been in.“Thank you Supreme Court for allowing me to discriminate and exclude those who I don’t agree with and am opposed to. USA! USA!”A post shared by @realmichaelimperioliIn response to his own post, the actor added that “hate and ignorance is not a legitimate point of view” and “America is becoming dumber by the minute”.Speaking to Variety, Ben Platt (Pitch Perfect) described the ruling as “backwards”.

Sex And The City star Kim Cattrall has given an update on the future of her character Samantha.After Cattrall said in 2016 that she would never play her character Samantha again, it was teased last year and confirmed last month that Cattrall would return as the character for a cameo in season two of spin-off show And Just Like That.Speaking to Today about the cameo and Samantha’s future, Cattrall said: “This is as far as I’m going to go, [but] I don’t think I’ll ever say goodbye to Samantha.“She’s like a lot of other characters that I’ve done over the years. I get very emotionally attached and protective of my characters.

Kim Cattrall is making her return to the  universe. After previously disavowing , the actress revealed that she has a cameo on the second season of the spinoff series, shocking fans and prompting her co-stars to speak out.Cattrall will reprise her beloved character, Samantha Jones, for the first time since the 2010 film,  The main question on everyone's mind is how showrunner Michael Patrick King convinced her to return, and if she's still embroiled in drama with her former co-star and lead, Sarah Jessica Parker.While the alleged feud came to light just a few years ago, it has fascinated fans ever since and led to her character being written out of the show — although not killed off — when  was picked up in 2021.In light of the unexpected casting news, ET is looking back at the years-long public drama between Cattrall and Parker to examine when things went south, and what both actresses have said about the headline-grabbing drama ever since.When was shooting its final season, Cattrall sat down for a chat on the British talk show,, and vented a bit about the financial elements that led to the show ending after six seasons. Cattrall claimed at the time, «I felt after six years it was time for all of us to participate in the financial windfall of . When they didn’t seem keen on that I thought it was time to move on.»King also claimed, in an interview in August 2018, that tensions ran high between the stars of the show — Cattrall, Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis — from early on in the series.

their $280,000 purchase but said that was all the more reason for them to push forward with their nostalgic grand scheme. The “Bupkis” star said he has seen detailed computer mock-ups of plans for the ferry’s interior during an appearance on Seth Meyers’ “Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers” podcast.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor The casual Oscar observer might wonder how some of the 398 new members invited to join the Academy’s ranks qualify for the honor that includes Oscar voting rights. From Taylor Swift to Warner Bros-Discovery CEO David Zaslav, it’s not always obvious how the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences decides who to invite as next year’s class of new members. Oscar winners are automatically invited to join the ranks after their big moment, so Billie Eilish was therefore eligable after she won the Oscar for the James Bond song “No Time to Die” (2021) with her brother Finneas.

“Favàritx,” “Border Station” and “Death in the Andes” won some of the biggest prizes on offer at the seventh edition of Conecta Fiction & Entertainment, the Spanish TV co-pro and networking forum which hit its final straights Wednesday evening with its now traditional prize awards ceremony.  The announcements were preceded by an exclusive premiere of “Time Zone,” a new entertainment format created by Spain’s Zeppelin and Endemol Shine Nederland, a Banijay company, which is set to bow on HBO Max on July 14.   Written by Zebina Guerra and Jorge Yúdice, “Wellborn Family,”  a comedy presented by Spain’s Fundación SGAE, walked off with the biggest award of the night,  a development contract at Spanish pubcaster RTVE. 

The Super Mario Bros. Movie” and “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” have generated massive business, the kind that would have been impressive in pre-COVID times. And movies like “Cocaine Bear,” “Scream VI” and “Evil Dead Rise” have been solid mid-budget hits, selling tickets in the spring and winter months when cinemas are hustling to keep seats filled. Overall, the domestic box office stands at $4.35 billion, a 20.7% improvement over where ticket sales clocked in at the same point in the pandemic-blighted 2022, according to Comscore. So things are getting better, and there are several promising films on the horizon such as “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” and “Barbie” that could prove to be big summer hits.

Like a disastrous first date where there’s still something there (that zsa zsa zsu, perhaps), season two of “And Just Like That…” proves that everyone deserves a second chance. In its first ten episodes, back in 2021 and 2022, the “Sex and the City” reboot was grating and clumsy, full of cringe-inducing dialogue and misguided attempts at relevancy, absent everything that made the original series a must-watch for generations of women.

Brett Hadley, who starred as Genoa City police detective Carl Williams for more than a decade on the CBS soap opera “The Young and the Restless”, has died. He was 92.

The Young and the Restless, has died. He was 92.Hadley died Wednesday, according to a Facebook post from his friend, Mary Ann Halpin. «He has been my friend since I was 19 [y]ears old. We were in an acting class and were the bad kids in the class.

Ariana Madix and Katie Maloney have navigated the world of Vanderpump Rules and beyond side by side.

US soap The Young And The Restless, where he played police detective Carl Williams. His close friend, photographer Mary Ann Halpin, confirmed the news this week ‘with a heavy heart. ’Taking to Facebook, she announced she had said ‘goodbye to my sweet friend Brett Hadley.