Natalie Portman Feted At Deauville; ‘My Mum, Your Dad’ Euro Deals; Sky-Channel 4 F1 Agreement; Fremantle Drama Promotion — Global Briefs

Explosions in the Sky have announced a new album called End. It’ll be their eighth studio LP, and their first in seven years, following the release of 2016’s The Wilderness.

Richard Ashcroft has recreated the music video for The Verve’s ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony’ for Sky Sports. Check out the clip below.The singer recreated the visual accompaniment to the 1997 hit for a Sky Sports promotion of Formula One, and filmed the clips a couple of days before last week’s British Grand Prix 2023 kicked off.Instead of walking the streets of London as in the original video, Ashcroft is seen performing the track around the UK’s Silverstone Circuit, which hosted the first British Grand Prix in 1948.

Erika Jayne wants to let Kyle Richards explain her marital woes with Mauricio Umansky.

Zoe Saldana made a major change to her hair after rocking waist-length tresses for years.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Todd Haynes’ soapy romantic drama “May December,” starring Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore, will open the 61st New York Film Festival. The movie is scheduled for Sept. 29 at Alice Tully Hall with the director and cast expected to attend in person. Following its NYFF premiere, “May December” will be released theatrically on Nov. 17 before landing on Netflix on Dec. 1. “May December,” which centers on a scandalous age-gap relationship, premiered in May at the Cannes Film Festival to rave reviews and sold to Netflix for $20 million. Moore and “Riverdale” star Charles Melton play Gracie and Joe, a married couple with a 20-year age gap. Their relationship sparked a national tabloid scandal because Joe was just 13 when the two fell in love. Decades later, their union is put to the test when Portman’s character Elizabeth, a popular TV actress, travels to Georgia to study the life of Gracie, whom she’ll be playing in a movie.

The Big Apple is back on Bravo with the return of The Real Housewives of New York City. Following a complete overhaul of the cast, Season 14 introduces a whole new set of women to The Real Housewives franchise, a whole new intro and fresh taglines.

Another scandal has hit Bravo and this time it landed on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

EXCLUSIVE: Vince Vaughn (Bad Monkey) will topline Nonnas, an original comedy that Stephen Chbosky (Wonder) has been tapped to direct for Fifth Season (80 for Brady), 1Community (Just Mercy) and Madison Wells (The Eyes of Tammy Faye).

Lacey Chabert is dropping hints that Haul Out The Holly 2 is indeed coming!

EXCLUSIVE: Over the past six months, Banijay UK boss Patrick Holland has set about overseeing the spend of a “substantial” amount of the super-indie’s £50M ($63.6M) Growth Fund, striking deals with the likes of James Norton, Kitty Kaletsky, Oscar-winner Kevin Macdonald and experienced execs Tommy Bulfin, Kim Varvell and Chris Sussman, amongst others.

Bad Girls Club alum Natalie Nunn doesn't seem to mind being name-checked in songs.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Sky and Warner Bros. Discovery have announced a renewal of their multi-year content and platform agreement in New Zealand, securing Sky as the continuing home of HBO, Max Originals, Warner Bros. and Discovery. WBD says that the deal keeps open its options on how and when to launch the HBO Max streaming service in the country. The agreement includes a continuation of Warner Bros. Discovery’s eight channel portfolio (Discovery, Discovery Turbo, Living Channel, TLC, ID, Animal Planet, Cartoon Network and CNN International); current and future seasons of HBO series such as “House of The Dragon,” “The Last of Us” and The White Lotus; returning series “True Detective: Night Country,” “Euphoria” “Game of Thrones,” “Sex & The City,” “Chernobyl”; Max Original series including “Peacemaker” and “The Flight Attendant,” future Warner Bros. blockbuster movies and a library titles including the “Harry Potter,” “Lord of the Rings” and “DC Universe” movies.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Nata­lie Port­man will be honored at the 49th edition of Deauville Amer­i­can Film Fes­ti­val, which will bestow her with its Deau­ville Talent Award. She will attend a screening of her new film, Todd Haynes’ sex scandal drama “May Decem­ber,” at the festival, which runs from Sept. 1 to 10. Among her career highlights, the festival singles out her performance in Darren Aronofsky’s “Black Swan,” for which she won an Oscar in 2011. She was also an Oscar nominee for Mike Nichols’ “Closer” in 2005 and Pablo Larraín’s “Jackie” in 2017. Other standout roles the festival pointed to were her performances in “Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace” in 1999, Anthony Minghella’s “Cold Mountain” in 2003, and Kar-Wai Wong’s “My Blueberry Nights” in 2007.

Prepare yourselves for this upcoming season of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills because Bravo fans are apparently getting all the juicy details into Kyle Richards and Mauricio Unmasky’s relationship drama!

The White Lotus actress Sabrina Impacciatore is set for Call My Agent‘s second season on Sky Italia.

Natalie Portman hugs it out with Lea Seydoux while arriving on the front row for the Christian Dior Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2023/2024 show during Paris Fashion Week on Monday (July 3) in Paris, France.

Haute Couture Fashion Week has kicked off in Paris and the stars are out. 

A sequel to the British holiday film Your Christmas Or Mine? has been greenlit at Amazon, with stars Asa Butterfield (Sex Education) and Cora Kirk (Prey for the Devil) signed on to return.

Dua Lipa has announced the third season of her popular At Your Service podcast – featuring the likes of Billie Eilish and BLACKPINK’s Jennie Kim.On the podcast, the Grammy Award-winning singer has chatted with many iconic guests, including a famed conversation with Monica Lewinsky, who she spoke to last season about women’s rights.The first episode of the new season of Dua Lipa: At Your Service drops today (June 30) – with the singer sitting down with Chicken Shop Date host Amelia Dimoldenberg. Other guests promised on the podcast this season are Billie Eilish, BLACKPINK’s Jennie Kim, You star Penn Badgley, drag superstar Sasha Velour and relationship expert Esther Perel.“I have had the privilege of learning from so many incredible individuals and sharing their remarkable stories over the course of the first two seasons of At Your Service,” said Dua Lipa said.

The producers of Babylon Berlin have confirmed the drama will get a fifth season, despite partner Sky Deutschland pulling out of commissioning in the country.