Malaga Work in Progress Unveils Lineup, with Latest From Laura Ferrés, Agustin Toscano, Aquí y Allí

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Global streaming operation Netflix is forecast to spend $1.9 billion on local content in the Asia-Pacific region this year as group revenue from the region accelerates to 12%, according to a new report. The content investment spending figure represents a 15% hike. Netflix will grow revenues this year by 12% year-on-year to exceed $4 billion compared with 9% growth in 2022, says a new report published on Monday by Media Partners Asia.

live performances during the telecast. (Among the performers: David Byrne, Son Lux and Stephanie Hsu and Rihanna.) The list of presenters released Thursday also included Emily Blunt, Jonathan Majors, Questlove, Glenn Close, Ariana DeBose, Jennifer Connelly, Samuel L.

EXCLUSIVE: A musical stage adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, originally co-created in 2006 by Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical director Matthew Warchus, is headed to the English countryside.

A complicated history. Teresa Giudice‘s daughters were once close to their uncle Joe Gorga and his wife, Melissa Gorga, but the siblings’ ongoing feud has seemingly caused tension among the younger generation.

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment Writer One of Austin’s hometown filmmakers is bringing his next movie to SXSW. Director Robert Rodriguez will screen a work-in-progress cut of his crime thriller “Hypnotic,” starring Ben Affleck, for fans at the SXSW Film Festival in the Texas capital on March 12. In the film, written by Rodriguez and Max Borenstein (“Godzilla vs. Kong,” HBO’s “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty”), Affleck plays a detective who is investigating a series of inexplicable crimes while searching for his missing daughter, whose disappearance is somehow involved with a secret government program.

EXCLUSIVE: For Banijay Asia’s Deepak Dhar, 2023 is shaping up to be one of the busiest in a three-decade career in Indian media. Not only has he just launched The Night Manager India on Disney+ Hotstar and is delivering several scripted and unscripted shows, he is also working to position India has Banijay’s Asian production hub.

Callum McLennan Laura Ferrés’ “The Permanent Picture” has been acquired by Be For Films. The deal is announced a fortnight before the film screens at Malaga WIP where it ranks as the most buzzed of the section’s titles.  The debut follows Ferrés success with short “The Disinherited,” which won the 2017 Cannes Critics’ Week Leica Cine Discovery Prize, in addition to grabbing Goya and Gaudi gongs. It depicts the director’s own father reluctantly facing the end of the family business. “The Permanent Picture” is produced by Spain’s Fasten Films, in co-production with Le Bureau (France), and Volta Production (Spain).

“Oh, it’s wonderful to be here in the town of East Palestine, not a great name,” said the James Austin Johnson portrayed Donald Trump tonight kicking off Saturday Night Live. “I’m here and I brought hats, cameras and hats” he added after taking a swipe at Joe Biden for visiting the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv and Volodymyr Zelenskyy earlier this week and had a visit from his own legal troubles.

Standard General’s proposed acquisition of Tegna faces new doubts as the FCC sent the merger to an administrative law judge, as the agency took issue with the transaction’s potential to raise consumer prices and result in job losses.

Dionne Warwick and Dolly Parton formed a friendship decades ago and, in the years since, have communicated over the phone and via FaceTime, but only recently met in person for the first time.ET was on the set of Parton's soundstage in Nashville, where Warwick and Parton were filming the music video — produced and co-directed by Warwick's son, Damon Elliott — for their duet, «Peace Like a River.» The music video and the new track drop Friday.It came as quite a shock when Warwick answered «right here» after being asked if she remembered the first time they met.«For me, yeah,» Warwick tells ET's Rachel Smith.«Yeah, 'cause somebody said, how long have you known Dionne?» Parton asked rhetorically.«We had spent time on the phone. We had done the FaceTime thing and we looked at each other,» Warwick continued, «but this is the first time I've had the pleasure to give her a hug.»Parton said she was excited on the ride over to the soundstage with Warwick because, at last, they were able to make this legendary meetup happen.«I was so excited this morning because when I was riding with you, somebody asked how long have you known Dionne.

Once upon a time, Melissa Joan Hart and Ryan Reynolds had a little bit of magic between them.

The full rundown. Melissa Gorga detailed what really happened when her husband, Joe Gorga, ran into Joe Giudice in the Bahamas — and she denied that the reunion was staged.

Melissa Joan Hart and Ryan Reynolds are the celebrity couple that could have been. During the latest episode of the  podcast, the 46-year-old actress opened up about the time she spent with Blake Lively's husband during their teenage years on the set of movie, which was released in 1996.On-screen, Reynolds played Hart's love interest, Seth, and the actress admitted to having eyes for him while he starred on fellow Nickelodeon show,, alongside Chris William Martin, a.k.a.

season 13 of .In ET's exclusive sneak peek at Tuesday's all-new episode, tensions boil over at guys' night, as Joe Gorga and Louie Ruelas put on quite the show for their bros. The two are at odds over how Louie and Teresa Giudice, Joe's sister, are handling their wedding plans. First, Teresa announced on  that Joe's wife, co-star Melissa Gorga, would be a bridesmaid in her wedding.

Setting the record straight. Melissa Gorga explained why she deleted a comment on Gia Giudice‘s Instagram account after her niece slammed her uncle Joe Gorga.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief The Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema has unveiled its 85-title lineup for the edition that starts later this month (February 28 to March 7, 2023). Elements include a 10-film competition section, a 10-film documentary film section, a tribute to the Turkish director Semih Kaplanoglu; a thematic section “Asian Diaspora Cinema” offering a panorama of works by directors from Asian countries living in exile; and a Philippines cinema sidebar. Fiction films in competition include: Azerbaijan’s “Cold as Marble,” by Asif Rustamov; China’s “In Our Prime,” by Liu Yulin; Korea’s “A Letter from Kyoto,” by Kim Min-ju; India’s: “Behind Veils,” by Praveen Morshhale; Iran’s “No End,” by Nader Saievar; Mongolia’s “The Sales Girl,” by Sengedorj Janchivdorj; The Philippines’s “Feast,” by Brillante Mendoza; Singapore’s “#LookAtMe,” by Ken Kwek; and Vietnam’s “Memento Mori: Earth,” by Marcus Vu Manh Cuong. The president of the jury is Lee Yong-kwan, president of the Busan film festival.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Growth of premium video services in Southeast Asia accelerated in the second half of 2022, to reach 48.4 million paid subscriptions, according to a new report. But the same analysis sees growth slowing and costs accelerating. The latest report from Media Partners Asia, “SEA Online Video Consumer Insights & Analytics” shows 48.4 million paid online video subscriptions at the end of 2022 in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. The full year saw 11.8 million net new customers, with 7.3 million of that total coming in the second half, including 4.6 million in the fourth quarter. Indonesia accounted for half of the increase.

It’s time for Ursula to emerge from the ocean depths.

Halle Bailey shared a new teaser for her upcoming film, on Wednesday, 100 days ahead of the film's theatrical release.

It’s been a while since Disney released a live-action remake exclusively in theatres. Whether that’s a good or bad thing is up to the audience, but Rob Marshall’s “The Little Mermaid” marks Disney’s first theatrical-exclusive live-action remake since Jon Favreau’s “The Lion King” was released in 2019.