Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Indian filmmaker and TV personality Karan Johar has become the first Indian director to receive the Variety Vanguard Award, recognizing industry leaders who have significantly contributed to the global entertainment business. On Saturday, Variety’s executive editor of film and media, Tatiana Siegel, handed Johar his award at the third edition of the Red Sea Film Festival, followed by a career-spanning conversation. The director-producer-TV host came out of a seven-year directing hiatus with the highly successful “Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani.” The pause, the filmmaker says, was due to his busy schedule as head of the production company Dharma Productions and the host of “Koffee With Karan,” one of India’s longest-running and most popular talk shows.
Norma Percy Making More ‘Putin Vs The West’; Trevor Noah’s ‘LOL South Africa’ Sets Cast — Global Briefs
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Norma Percy Making More ‘Putin Vs The West’
Veteran filmmaker Norma Percy is producing two additional episodes of her seminal Putin vs the West documentary series for the BBC and Arte France. Zinc Media’s Brook Lapping and Les Films d’Ici are attached to co-produce Putin vs the West: War (working title) , which will cover Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine, the proceeding war and the response from the West. The first three episodes explored Putin’s relationship with the West, from the invasion of Crimea to the brink of its wider invasion of Ukraine. “As we always do, we will take viewers behind the scenes to show how and why the crucial decisions were made, and what it was like for Ukraine’s President Zelensky, Britain’s Prime Ministers and Western leaders as they struggled against Putin’s invasion without provoking World War Three,” said series producer Percy. European pubcaster SVT, VPRO, NRK and DR are also attached to the new episodes, with BBC Studios Distribution taking international sales rights.
Trevor Noah‘s ‘LOL South Africa’ Sets Cast
Trevor Noah’s South African version of reality competition LOL: Last One Laughing for Prime Video has set its cast. Nomzamo Mbatha, who starred in Coming 2 America, and Tumi Morake (The Honeymoon) have been cast in the six-part series and will be joined by Celeste Ntuli, Glen Biderman-Pam, Jason Goliath, Thando Thabethe, Lasizwe Dambuza, Moonchild Sanelly, Robby Collins andMojak. They’ll compete against each other by trying to keep a straight face while simultaneously trying to make the others laugh. The winner gets a cash prize for a charity of their choice. Prime Video has remade LOL in numerous territories around the world after it first launched in Japan. For Noah, the
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The Partnership: How Making ‘Nyad’ Employed The Documentarian Skills Of Chai Vasarhelyi And Jimmy Chin & Evolved Their Marriage Too
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Universal Wants More ‘Jason Bourne,’ Hires ‘All Quiet On The Western Front’ Director, But Matt Damon Not Yet Attached
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Trevor Noah To Narrate & EP ‘The World According To Football’ Docuseries At Showtime
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My favourite Ninja air fryer that made me ditch my oven and 'crashed the website' is the lowest ever price for Amazon Black Friday
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‘Renaissance: A Film By Beyonce’ Hopes To Pull In More Than The Single Ladies With $20M+ Opening
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Matthew Libatique Talks ‘Maestro,’ Hanging Out With “Icon” Steven Spielberg On Set & How Bradley Cooper Has Become “Quite The Director” — Camerimage
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Tom Morello says there’s “no room for Anti-Semitism” when criticising “horrific war crimes in Gaza”
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To Save the MCU, Marvel Needs to Destroy It — or Maybe Just Make More Things Like ‘Loki’
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The Rolling Stones have “plenty more material”, promise to make albums until they “drop”
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