Guy Ritchie Sets New Film ‘Wife and Dog,’ Again Set in World of British Aristocracy, With Black Bear Launching in Cannes (EXCLUSIVE)

Fans went into a frenzy when it was reported pop sensation Harry Styles and actress Taylor Russell called time on their blossoming romance - just 14 months after the pair started dating.The heartthrob - known for his chart-topping hits and former One Direction fame - and Bones And All starlet Taylor were an item for over a year. Dating rumours first surfaced last March when they were photographed together on a romantic walk and were then later spotted when Taylor attended Harry's Love On Tour concert in Vienna from the VIP area in July.

Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentRichard M. Sherman, two-time Oscar winner who collaborated with brother Robert B. Sherman on the songs for “Mary Poppins,” “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” and the enduring Disneyland tune “It’s a Small World (After All),” died Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills due to age-related illness.

We’re getting the first look at Liam Hemsworth as Geralt of Rivera in the upcoming fourth season of The Witcher as he takes over the role played by Henry Cavill in the series’ first three seasons. See the image of the two side-by-side as the character above. Check out the first-look footage below.

Been Stellar have shared their affectionate new single ‘Pumpkin’ and announced a 2024 UK and European headline tour.The fourth and final single to be released prior to the release of the band’s debut album ‘Scream From New York, NY’ is an intimate and soft track inspired by a visual the band’s frontman Sam Slocum had.“This song is somewhat of a sonic departure for us — it’s definitely more subdued,” said Slocum in a press release. “There was a point when we weren’t totally sure it would make it onto the album because of that.

Saudi backed 3SIX9 Studios launched here in Cannes today with the promise of “bringing Hollywood to the Kingdom.” The new film and TV outfit has four co-founders and had four projects to talk about in Cannes.

Refresh for latest…:  After starting early offshore release on John Krasinski’s IF last weekend, Paramount expanded the imaginary friends film to another 56 international box office markets this session. The overseas frame was worth $20M, bringing the international running cume to $24M. With domestic’s $35M debut, the worldwide total is now $59M.

Brad Pitt reportedly based his Snatch performance off a character from 1990s British sitcom Father Ted.The Bullet Train star sat down with JOE back in 2019 alongside his Once Upon A Time In Hollywood co-star Margot Robbie, where he discussed taking on different accents in roles.Firstly discussing his Irish accent in The Devil’s Own, Pitt talked about playing a Northern Irish IRA member living in Belfast, saying: “That was probably more extreme.”He added: “But there is a real music to Northern Ireland that I click into, that I kind of adored.”Pitt then brought up his performance in Guy Ritchie’s 2000 crime comedy Snatch, in which he played an Irish Traveller named Mickey.Speaking on the role, Pitt said: “And I’m told my ‘Pikey’ – do we still use that word? – accent was pretty good.”He then explained: “Which is amazing, because I was going off a performance of a guest star on a Father Ted episode,” to which the interviewer and Robbie both responded: “Really?”Pitt explained: “Yes. And then a friend of mine, who said ‘I never can understand what they’re saying’.

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Kenneth Branagh looks to have found his next director outing as well as landing an top tier star to lead the film as sources tell Deadline Emmy and BAFTA winner Jodie Comer is set to star in Branagh’s new film The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde, which he wrote and will direct. The film is being described as a contemporary psychological thriller but logline is being kept under wraps. The independently financed film will begin production in August in the UK.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent New films by Julio Medem, Alejandro Amenábar, Alberto Rodríguez, Isaki Lacuesta, Jonas Trueba and Oliver Laxe join a brace of smart thrillers in a rich Cannes lineup from Spain. “8,” (Julio Medem) Medem (“The Red Squirrel,” “Julia and Sex”) returns towhat he does best: a love story transcending time and space and a poetic critique of recent history, according to sales agent Latido Films. “Fariña’s” Javier Rey and “La Mesías” Ana Rujus star as the lovers.

Paramount will keep its chin up high amid the whole Sony and Skydance takeover headlines and keep the summer box office churnin’ with the John Krasinski directed Ryan Reynolds family movie, If, which is hoping to hit $40M; this is after Disney’s overperformance with 20th Century Studios’ Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes which posted a $58.4M opening.

In a big deal that closed in the days leading into this week’s Cannes market, Apple Original Films has landed worldwide rights to Tenzing, the new package we told you about last week starring Tom Hiddleston and Willem Dafoe.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer Neon, the Oscar-winning distributor of “Parasite,” is getting back in business with “Titane” director Julia Ducournau. In one of the first big rights deals of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the studio announced it has acquired North American territories for Ducournau’s “Alpha.” Plot details were not immediately disclosed, except that the film will be “genre-defying.” Neon previously released Ducournau’s acclaimed “Titane,” which won Cannes’ highest honor, the Palme d’Or, in 2021. She is only the second woman director to do so, following Jane Campion for “The Piano.” “Alpha” will star Golshifteh Farahani (“The Patience Stone,” “Paterson”) and Tahar Rahim (“The Mauritanian,” “A Prophet”).

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large At the NBCUniversal upfronts, they saved the best for almost last: “Late Night with Seth Meyers” host Seth Meyers hit the Radio City Music Hall stage to throw out a few quips before introducing NBCUniversal ad sales chief Mark Marshall. Meyers came out swinging: “Hello and welcome to the NBC upfronts. If you’re looking for the Fox News upfronts, that’s happening outside a lower Manhattan courtroom,” he said to chuckles.

slugged in a random attack in Kips Bay last week.The 66-year-old “Boardwalk Empire” actor was sporting bruises and a swollen chin while shooting a commercial in Soho on Saturday.Buscemi could be seen in photos taken over the weekend chatting with crew members along Mott and Prince streets around 5:25 p.m.It was his first public appearance since the broad-daylight attack on Wednesday, when a deranged brute walked up to the Brooklyn-born actor and slugged him in an unprovoked attack — with his attacker still on the loose, the NYPD told The Post.“Steve Buscemi was assaulted in Mid-Town Manhattan, another victim of a random act of violence in the city,” the actor’s publicist said in a statement Sunday.

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. “I’m really busy.” This is the first thing Busy Philipps tells me as we sit down to chat. When I tell her I’m impressed with her jam-packed schedule, she immediately agrees: “I’m impressed as well.” Philipps and I are sitting in a bare-bones Chelsea loft on an early afternoon in March.

Alex Ritman Prestige indie banner See-Saw Films (“The King’s Speech,” “The Power of the Dog”) are lining up a biopic of Tenzing Norgay, the legendary Nepalese-Indian mountaineer who summited Mount Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary in 1953, becoming one of the first men to stand on the top of the world. Variety has learned that “Tenzing” will star Tom Hiddleston as Hillary and Willem Dafoe as the English expedition leader, Colonel John Hunt. A search is currently underway to cast the lead role of Norgay.

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning producers See-Saw Films (The King’s Speech) are gearing up on Tenzing, about the inspirational life of Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and his summit of Mount Everest in 1953 alongside fellow outsider New Zealander Edmund Hillary.

The Office is to begin filming this summer.Peacock announced today (May 8) that the new, and as yet untitled, series will not be a reboot, as per previous rumours, but will be instead set in the same universe as the US version of the hit show. It will feature a new cast and have its own storyline.The US Office – a reboot of the British mockumentary series starring and created by Ricky Gervais – ran for nine seasons from 2005 to 2013, and followed fictional paper company Dunder Mifflin in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Olivia Rodrigo will tour Asia and Australia for the first time in her career, the singer announced Wednesday. Rodrigo has added nine international dates to her massive “Guts” world tour for a total of 82 shows globally. The new dates kick off Sept.

Gleeson has previously terrorized Carrell onscreen (in Hulu’s “The Patient”). The show isn’t returning to Scranton, Pennsylvania.