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Manchester United loanee Jadon Sancho has been told to help Borussia Dortmund win the Champions League this season for club legend Marco Reus.

Overmono have announced a ‘Pure Devotion’ world tour that will take place across five dates in autumn 2024. See all the details below.The Welsh electronic duo, made up of brothers Tom and Ed Russell, had already been confirmed for an extensive list of festival appearances for the summer, and they will now be adding major shows across the globe to their schedules.They will begin at Brooklyn’s Paramount on October 4, before heading north to Toronto’s Opera House the following night.

There has been royal baby joy for Prince Gustav and Princess Carina of Denmark as they have welcomed their second child - a daughter - via surrogate. Gustav - who is Queen Margrethe's nephew and a cousin of King Frederik X - and Carina both 55, have been together for more than 20 years and married in Germany two years ago.The couple spent years fighting a strict inheritance rule set by the Prince's Nazi grandfather in the 1930s, which prevented them from marrying.The couple welcomed their son, Prince Gustav Albrecht, via a surrogate in the US last year and were both present during the birth.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Morgan Freeman will receive the Crystal Nymph Award at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival, which runs June 14-18 in Monaco. Freeman will receive the award at the opening ceremony from Prince Albert II of Monaco, in recognition of his television career.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Studio 100 Intl., in collaboration with Germany’s Caligari Film and Studio Isar Animation, and Spain’s 3 Doubles Producciones, is to produce action-comedy CGI movie “Dougie Dolittle.” Targeting a core demographic of 8-12 year olds and a family audience, the movie is planned for delivery in the fourth quarter of 2026. Studio 100 Film is handling global sales and will introduce the film at Marché du Film in Cannes.

Jeffrey Katzenberg is a man known for choosing his words very carefully most of the time, and tonight the WndrCo boss was pretty candid when it came to Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

After debuting early last weekend, Universal’s The Fall Guy expanded to 78 overseas markets during its sophomore session, adding $25.4M for a running total of $36.9M at the international box office. That’s in line with Bullet Train and above The Lost City at the same point in release. Globally, the David Leitch-directed action romance is at $65.4M. 

BBC's Beyond Paradise has returned with a bang, and it's the show's stunning filming locations that have left viewers amazed. From the stunning seaside town to the grand stately home, the locations have proven to cause a distraction among fans.The spin-off from Death in Paradise, which follows Humphrey Goodman and his team as they crack new cases, has been a hit since its 2023 debut.The first series reportedly pulled in a whopping eight million viewers, leading to a second series.The series revolves around detective Humphrey (played by Kris Marshall) and his fiancée Martha Lloyd (portrayed by Sally Bretton) as they juggle their relationship and consider fostering children in the fictional Devon town of Shipton Abbott.The upcoming series promises a slew of intriguing cases, including a missing teacher and a train death, alongside the potential closure of the local police headquarters.

Borussia Dortmund sporting director Sebastian Kehl has confirmed the German club will attempt to keep hold of Manchester United winger Jadon Sancho in this summer's transfer window.

AURORA has added two extra shows in Dublin and Edinburgh to her upcoming UK and European tour – see all the dates below. The Norwegian alt-pop singer is preparing to release her new album ‘What Happened To The Heart?’ in June, after which she will be playing a string of shows around the continent in September and October.

new 65-foot, giant hot dog sculpture that landed in Times Square this week.Buckle up. Because these sculptors, Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw, have delivered a meat manifesto.Their titanic sausage is apparently meant to “examine consumption, capitalism, class and contemporary culture,” Times Square Arts’ website amazingly reads.A kooky press release added this epic Wiener of the World will expose “the patriarchy of meat-eating.”That must be why every day at 12:30 p.m., the installation lifts off the ground, angles up to sky and becomes a confetti cannon.

Cabaret is back on Broadway with unbridled decadence and immersive glory. Certain musicals are constructed so well that, even if they are cast with mediocre performances or if the production value is low, they still hold.Cabaret stands as one of the indestructible.This might explain why the original sixties production has been revived and reinvented so many times on both sides of the Atlantic.

Frank Warren believes Tyson Fury will 'do Oleksandr Usyk at his own game' and warned fans about reading too much into the British fighter's performance against Francis Ngannou last year.

Glastonbury Festival has clarified whether or not punters can expect the Euros football matches to be shown at this year’s instalment.The has been some debate from music lovers over recent years on whether or not the Worthy Farm festival should broadcast football matches for punters attending the event over the summer.Generally, organisers have opted against the decision, although some exceptions have been made in the past.Now, with the Euros in mind, the festival has shared a statement discussing the stance it will be taking for the 2024 edition.“Should England or Scotland’s men’s teams qualify from the group stages of this summer’s European Football Championships in Germany, their matches in the Last 16 of the tournament could take place on the Saturday or Sunday evening of this year’s Festival,” read a post on the festival’s website.“In previous years, we have endeavoured to show notable matches on big screens where possible, particularly on days before the main stages have opened.“However, with England and Scotland’s Last 16 matches potentially clashing with headline sets at this year’s Festival, the decision has been made that – as in 2014 and 2016 – should England or Scotland qualify from their groups, their Last 16 matches will not be shown at the Festival.”The post continued, explaining why they have shared the news so far in advance, and sharing their best wishes to the teams.“It won’t be known until the week of the Festival whether or not England or Scotland will actually play a match during the Festival.

Former Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel would reportedly be open to a return to the Premier League amid uncertainty over Erik ten Hag's future at Manchester United.

Max Gao SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers from “With So Little to Be Sure Of,” the sixth episode of the final season of ABC’s “Station 19.” Boris Kodjoe is ready to start his next chapter. Since wrapping production last month on the final season of ABC’s venerable firefighter drama “Station 19,” the 51-year-old actor — who rose to fame in the early aughts in the Showtime drama “Soul Food” — has set his sights on broadening his horizons.

Fawlty Towers.Confirmation of the new incarnation of the beloved comedy came in February, when Cleese revealed he had written a two-hour play based on three episodes from the series – ‘The Hotel Inspector’, ‘The Germans’ and ‘Communication Problems’.The production will debut at London’s Apollo Theatre on May 15, nearly five decades after the first episode was filmed at the BBC Television Centre in December 1974. Tickets can be found here.And now, Cleese has said that the slurs from the original version of ‘The Germans’, which he co-wrote with Connie Booth, will be taken out of the new adaptation.In one scene of the original, the army veteran Major Gowen uses the N-word when referring to a Caribbean cricketer, and another racial slur to describe an Asian cricketer.At the press conference launching the stage show, Cleese said: “Those scenes where the Major used a couple of words you can’t use now, racial slurs they would come under, we took them out.”“There’s always a problem with comedy that you deal with the literal-minded,” he continued.

Naman Ramachandran Some of the Sony Music Group‘s top European artists are backing a voter participation campaign. Sony has launched what it describes as a “non-partisan campaign,” titled Your Voice, Your Power, Your Vote, to encourage voting in the June European Union elections, with a focus on young people and underrepresented groups.

EXCLUSIVE: Venezuelan Filmmaker Jonathan Jakubowicz, best known for Resistance and Hands of Stone, has signed on to direct the feature Cottonwood for Eric Paquette’s Meridian Pictures. 

Naman Ramachandran The London West End stage adaptation of “Fawlty Towers” will be free of racial slurs, creator John Cleese has said. “Fawlty Towers – The Play” is based on the classic 1975 sitcom and is written by Cleese and Connie Booth and adapted for the stage by Cleese. Cleese, who co-wrote the original 1975 TV series with Connie Booth and starred as Basil Fawlty, has written the two-hour play based on three of the original TV episodes – “The Hotel Inspector” and “The Germans” from Season 1 and “Communication Problems” from Season 2.

Succession’s Kieran Culkin in the Storyteller Series segment.The festival will also feature anniversary celebrations of some of the most iconic films and TV shows, including two long-time collaborators teaming up with an iconic hip hop artist.Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro will join rapper Nas in conversation about Mean Streets, as the crime drama film celebrates its 50th anniversary. Nas is also set to introduce a screening of the hip hop drama Beat Street in its 40th anniversary.Tribeca will also feature a reunion to celebrate the 25th anniversary of The Sopranos, seeing members of its cast and crew reunite for the conversation.A new documentary about the acclaimed crime drama series, titled Wise Guy: David Chase And The Sopranos, will premiere at the festival.In other news, Nas recently announced details of a new UK and European tour to celebrate the 30th anniversary of his iconic album ‘Illmatic’.The rapper will kick off the European leg of the tour in Helsinki on October 22, wrapping up at the Stadthalle Offenbach in Germany on November 8.He will then tour the UK, starting with a slot at O2 Victoria Warehouse in Manchester on November 10, before stopping at Edinburgh and Wolverhampton.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor David Wnendt, the German director behind controversial coming-of-age movie “Wetlands,” Hitler satire “Look Who’s Back” and teen crime drama “Sun and Concrete,” is once again pushing boundaries with his next feature film project. Backed by distributor-producer Constantin Film and with Seven Elephants lead producing, Wnendt has embarked on the feature film adaptation of the award-winning novel “Athos 2643” by Nils Westerboer. Wnendt, who will both write the screenplay and direct the theatrical film, promises an “emotional and spectacular experience that will take the audience into the vastness of outer space,” according to a press statement.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Paris-based international sales and production company Totem Films has revealed its production slate, with projects by Nastia Korkia, Vytautas Katkus, Ernst de Geer and Anna Roller. Totem brought together the directors and writers of the projects they are developing to take part in a Script Circle in Berlin, led by consultants Françoise von Roy and Franz Rodenkirchen. Totem partners Bérénice Vincent and Laure Parleani said that the production companies they are working with, Garagefilm, TamTam and Kalekone, were “enthusiastic about this collaborative idea, so were the directors and scriptwriters.” They added: “It is very nurturing to have a mix of different personalities, countries and backgrounds.

Jadon Sancho left pundits purring with his first-half display against Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League semi-final first-leg tie on Wednesday.

Manchester United's slim hopes of qualifying for the Champions League next season have been ended partly thanks to the performance of Jadon Sancho.

Kate Winslet‘s Lee finally has a debut teaser trailer.

One of Chorlton's most legendary spots is set to give away free Frankfurter sausages this week. The first 100 people through the door at Electrik will be able to claim their Wurst to celebrate the bar's new food collaboration with a German food vendor.

A dad-of-two who was 'the life and soul of the party' sent a devastating message to his girlfriend moments before he died. Kevin Sholicar 'laughed and joked with everyone', according to his dad, John Sholicar.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor European Film Promotion has revealed the participants for its Producers on the Move program, which runs before and during the Cannes Film Festival. The promotion and networking program, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary, brings together 20 of Europe’s most promising producers.