Spain’s The Mediapro Studio Pacts with BBC Studios on Enid Blyton ‘The Famous Five’ Series

Amazon‘s gamer-centric streaming outlet Twitch is laying off 500 staffers, CEO Dan Clancy told employees in a memo this morning.

Indie studio XYZ Films has renewed its financing pact with Finish-based fund management company IPR.VC. 

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Just after Spaniard J.A. Bayona’s Oscar-shortlisted “Society of the Snow” opened on Netflix to a massive 55.8 million hours watched over Jan. 4-7 – the second best bow ever in watching time for a non-English Netflix movie – ICEX Spain Trade & Investment, the country’s powerful export and inward investment board, has unveiled a new deal with Parrot Analytics.

Most of Hollywood might be in need of a breather from talking about the consequences of AI after the topic dominated most industry conversations for the better part of last year, but SAG-AFTRA is still looking for ways to keep its members protected as the tech advances.

Lady Gaga has teased fans by sharing photos of herself in the studio, hinting that new music is on its way.The popstar confirmed that she was spending time in the studio, taking to her official Instagram account to share two brand-new photos, with the first one of her standing in front of a microphone and a drum kit behind her.The second photo shows more of the room including a guitar and tambourine on the couch. Gaga captioned the post with emojis consisting of a black heart and music notes.A post shared by Lady Gaga (@ladygaga)Fans immediately took to the comments section to share their excitement over the ‘You And I’ singer working on new music.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer SAG-AFTRA signed a deal on Tuesday with an AI voiceover studio that sets terms for the use of artificial intelligence in video games. The union announced the deal with Replica Studios on Tuesday at CES in Las Vegas. Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, the union’s executive director, said that the terms include informed consent for the use of AI to create digital voice replicas, as well as requirements for the safe storage of digital assets.

Amid a lengthy contract negotiation with the video game industry, SAG-AFTRA has inked a deal with Replica Studios regarding the use of AI digital voice replicas in video games.

K-pop girl group (G)I-DLE have teased their upcoming return with their second full-length studio record, ‘[2]’.Today (January 8) at midnight KST, the five-member act released a mysterious poster and a new logo animation video for their upcoming full-length studio album. Titled ‘[2]’, the record will arrive on January 29 at 6pm KST.(여자)아이들 2nd Full Album [2]2024.01.29.

Reese Witherspoon has been spotted enjoying a night out with her son Deacon Phillippe.The 47-year-old Legally Blonde star keeps her family life fairly private and her children are rarely put in the spotlight. But the mum-of-three headed out with her 20-year-old son to a glitzy Vanity Fair pre-Golden Globe party on Saturday, 6 January.The Oscar winner was all smiles with her son by her side in Los Angeles, at the luxury Bar Marmont at Chateau Marmont.The mother and son were in good company, as they brushed shoulders with other famous faces including including Tobey Maguire, Helen Mirren, Kathryn Hahn and Nicolas Cage, at the event. Deacon looked dapper in a navy suit, with a black trim, paired with a white button-up shirt.

As DC fans know all too well, there’s another cut of David Ayer’s “Suicide Squad” dubbed the “The Ayer Cut,” a longer, much darker version of the theatrical version that the filmmaker himself has basically disavowed (henceforth known as #TheAyerCut for the purposes of this article). Given the release of “Zack Snyder’s Justice League,” his very different, much darker version of the Joss Whedon directed “Justice League,” DC fans have been clamoring for an #AyerCut film, and it’s been discussed on social media for years.

The AI metaverse technology and content company Futureverse has launched Readyverse Studios. Co-founded by Shara Senderoff and Aaron McDonald, as well as novelist Ernest Cline and Dan Farah, the venture will get underway with a partnership with WarnerBros Discovery to bring the Ready Player One franchise to the metaverse across web3. It’s based on the Steven Spielberg-directed 2018 film, adapted from Cline’s novel and produced by Farah.

Reese Witherspoon is officially single again.

He is one of the four McGann brothers and has been a familiar face on out TV screens, including the likes of Emmerdale, for years. But Stephen McGann is probably best known for playing Dr Patrick Turner in BBC One's Call the Midwife.

The Mediapro Studios has boarded Nicolas Winding Refn‘s reimaginging of The Famous Five.

Similar to how Daniel Craig was vocal on his press tours for recent 007 films that No Time to Die was his swan song as James Bond, Jason Momoa has been casting great doubt that he’s coming back as the fishy superhero, Aquaman.

It has just about 30 years since NBC’s hit television show Friends debuted to rave reviews and became an instant hit.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Leonine Studios, one of Germany’s leading film and TV companies, has set up Leonine Animation Studios together with Hans Ulrich Stoef and Jo Daris, the managing directors of Toon2Tango. The three partners will each contribute their shares in Toon2Tango to the new division on Jan.

Though 2023 has been a rough year for Marvel Studios, it’s not like the studio is giving up and shutting down shop. There are still an absolute ton of new projects on the horizon for the biggest franchise in cinema history, and one, relatively small, branch of this massive cinematic universe is the animated series that are being produced.

Mark Wahlberg, he’s embracing the unavoidable. The actor and former singer turned 52 in June, and he’s ready to play the roles that accurately represent his age.Wahlberg has a new film coming out on Apple TV+ on December 15, called The Family Plan.

Strictly Come Dancing star Bobby Brazier has apparently 'banned' a relative from coming to watch him in the studio because of a feud.The EastEnders actor, 20, who is partnered with professional dancer Dianne Buswell, is competing in the semi-final on Saturday and his dad Jeff Brazier, brother Freddie and step-mum Kate are likely to be watching on in the audience. But, ahead of the show, it's been claimed that Bobby has only had his immediate family supporting him in the studio throughout the series due to a long-running argument between Jeff and his grandmother Jackiey Budden, his late mother Jade Goody's mum. A source told the Sun: "There is a lot of friction between the Brazier side of the family and Jackiey for several long-standing reasons.