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Spain’s tourism industry is urging the country’s government to remove all entry requirements for UK visitors as the summer holiday season is underway. It comes as France was the most recent country to remove all Covid rules for Brits last week.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentOne year after she dazzled at the Cannes Festival, winning its Golden Eye for best documentary for “A Night of Knowing Nothing,” Payal Kapadia’s fiction debut “All We Imagine as Light,” has attracted the most potent production partner support of any project introduced at this year’s Locarno Match Me!“Night’s” producers. Petit Chaos’ Thomas Hakim, Julien Graff  in France and Ranabir Das (also DP and editor on “Night”) at India’s Another Birth will produce “Light.”Also on board, confirmed early July, is Oliver Pere at Arte France Cinéma.  Further co-producers take in Zico Maitra and Aastha Singh (Chalk & Cheese, India), Frank Hoeve (Baldr, Netherlands), Gilles Chanial (Les Films Fauves, Luxembourg and, in the latest addition to partners, Denise Lee and Roberto Minervini (Pulpa Films, Italy).

Naman Ramachandran Bertelsmann’s Luxembourg-based media giant RTL Group, which owns Fremantle, has declared revenue of €3.26 billion ($3.35 billion) for the first half of 2022, a growth of 9% from the corresponding period in 2021.The RTL Group has interests in 56 television channels, eight streaming services and 36 radio stations. The group’s content business, Fremantle, is one of the world’s largest creators, producers and distributors of scripted and unscripted content, including “American Idol,” “Britain’s Got Talent” and “The X Factor.” Revenue at Fremantle was up 8% to €983 million.Adjusted group earnings before interest, taxes, and amortization (EBITA) for the group was up 3.7% to €501 million, “despite more challenging macroeconomic conditions and higher streaming start-up losses,” RTL said in a statement.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentVenice Film Festival artistic director Alberto Barbera will soon unveil the lineup for the fest’s upcoming 79th edition, which will open with Noah Baumbach’s “White Noise.”“White Noise” stars Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig and Jodie Turner-Smith, and is based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Don DeLillo. The film, which will screen in competition, also marks the first time a Netflix film has landed Venice’s opening slot.Elsewhere, Luca Guadagnino’s “Bones and All,” starring Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell as cannibal lovers on a road trip across America in the 1980s, is among other titles strongly believed to also be set to vie for a Golden Lion.U.S.

Have you HEARD the news? Fans who can’t get enough of Johnny Depp in the wake of his legal victory over Amber Heard can now buy a ticket to his next show.

Johnny Depp has issued a major career announcement after winning his defamation trial against his ex-wife Amber Heard. The Pirates of the Caribbean actor is heading back out on tour with his Hollywood Vampires bandmates.

Thania Garcia Johnny Depp is headed to Europe for an overseas tour with his band Hollywood Vampires, which includes rock luminaries such as Joe Perry, Alice Cooper and Tommy Henriksen.The supergroup had previously canceled a tour back in March because of pandemic-related obstacles. “We kept trying to make it happen, but unfortunately due to the uncertainty of COVID-19 travel restrictions, it is just not possible,” they wrote in a statement at the time.Now, the group plans to reunite with fans in Germany and Luxembourg for a scheduled six shows.

Instagram on Wednesday, revealing that the tour will commence in Germany and Luxembourg. “The Hollywood Vampires are BACK!! We’re coming to Germany & Luxembourg Summer 2023,” the rocker wrote.Tickets will go on sale on June 27 at 11:00 a.m.

Directors Amandine Fredon and Benjamin Massoubre take home the top prize for their animated film Little Nicholas–Happy as Can Be at the annual Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France. 

Naman Ramachandran The Walt Disney Company’s streamer Disney+ will be available in 42 new countries and 11 new territories this week following the launch on Tuesday in Greece, Turkey and countries in Central Eastern Europe, including Poland, Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic and Croatia. Tuesday’s series of launches follow the arrival of the service in South Africa on May 18 and across West Asia and North Africa on June 8.

Vicky Krieps says, a bottle of Evian in her hand, her hair hidden beneath a pink baseball cap and a brown shawl wrapped theatrically around her neck. “It was like being dropped out of an airplane onto a different planet, or surviving a shipwreck. ” The Luxembourg-born actor is describing her life in the aftermath of Phantom Thread, the 2017 Paul Thomas Anderson film that put her toe-to-toe with Daniel Day-Lewis, as the waitress who becomes muse and lover to his society dressmaker.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentCharades has closed a raft of deals on “Little Nicholas: Happy as Can Be,” an animated feature which world premiered at Cannes in the Special Screenings section and will go on to compete at Annecy festival. Directed by Benjamin Massoubre and Amandine Fredon, “Little Nicholas: Happy as Can Be” is based on author René Goscinny and New Yorker cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempé’s popular children books from the 1960’s which have been translated into than 30 languages.

Brad Pitt is prepared to take Angelina Jolie to court, Fox News Digital can confirm. Pitt, 58, accused Jolie, 47, of intentionally seeking to "inflict harm" on him by selling her interest in the former couple's vineyard, Château Miraval.The "Moneyball" actor claimed Jolie sold her interest in the vineyard without his consent, something they had previously agreed was a requirement.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood actor recently filed documents in the Los Angeles County Superior Court. The has been at odds regarding the wine estate since their nearly five years ago.The exes, who spent 12 years together, bought a vineyard and château in the south of France in 2008. The Mr.

Paolo Nutini’s new album ‘Last Night In The Bittersweet‘.The legendary filmmaker is reportedly credited on the album’s opening track ‘Aftermath’, which features a sample of a passage from his 1993 film True Romance.A source told The Sun: “Paolo likes to make all of his music himself, but to have Tarantino’s name credited on your track is pretty cool.”Nutini previously sampled Charlie Chaplin’s speech from 1940’s The Great Dictator, which he used on 2014 song ‘Iron Sky’.Last month, the Scottish singer-songwriter announced his first album in eight years for a July 1 release. With it he shared two new songs ‘Lose It’ and ‘Through The Echoes’ and also unveiled another single ‘Shine A Light’ last week.Nutini was one of the support acts for Liam Gallagher’s Knebworth weekender last week alongside Kasabian, Fat White Family and others.

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Paolo Nutini has shared another track from upcoming album ‘Last Night In The Bittersweet’ – check out the anthemic ‘Shine A Light’ below.The track follows on from ‘Lose It’ and ‘Through The Echoes’ which were both released last month to announce Nutini’s fourth album, the follow-up to 2014’s ‘Caustic Love’.‘Shine A Light’ is an upbeat slice of arena-ready pop which is perfectly timed, since Nutini will headline TRNSMT and Victorious Festival this summer, and later this month he’ll perform two large outdoor shows in Bristol and Belfast. He’s also set to support Liam Gallagher this weekend at one of his two Knebworth shows.Listen to ‘Shine A Light’ below: Nutini’s ‘Last Night In The Bittersweet’ is released on July 1 via Atlantic Records.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentEmpreinte Digitale, the thriving Paris-based production company behind Disney +’s “Parallèles,” has hired Thomas Saignes, a well-established producer whose track record includes “Bad Banks” and “Parlement.” Joining from Cinétévé, Saignes will be in charge of producing drama series and one-offs for streaming services and traditional TV channels, as well as spearheading Empreinte’s international co-productions.Saignes, who is based in Paris and lived a number of years in Montreal, Canada, has been actively involved in the financing and co-productions of films and series with international and European partners, notably Benoit Jacquot’s period movie “Farewell, my Queen.” Prior to Cinétévé, Saignes worked at the Luxembourg-based company Iris where he was involved in the ZDF-Arte series “Bad Banks” which Federation sold around the world. During his tenure at Cinétévé, Saignes collaborated with veteran producer Fabienne Servan-Schreiber and was a driving force behind several ambitious series, for instance Noé Debré’s political satire “Parlement” whose season 3 will soon launch on France Televisions; as well as the French-Italian series “Survivors,” and “Cuisine Interne,” an upcoming crime show set in the world of French gastronomy.

Marta Balaga In Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk’s Cannes title “Pamfir,” marking his feature debut, the carnival is fast approaching. His protagonist (Oleksandr Yatsentyuk) finally returns home, ready to do better this time. But when his child runs into trouble and there is no money, as always, there is no way but back.With Indie Sales on board and produced by Bosonfilm, “Pamfir” is a co-production between Les Films d’Ici (France), Madants (Poland), Quijote Films (Chile), Mainstream Pictures (Ukraine), Wady Films (Luxembourg), Moderator Inwestycje (Poland), Studio Orlando (France) and Soilfilms (Germany).“This carnival, malanka, is specific to western Ukraine.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorLeading arthouse sales company the Match Factory has acquired the rights to “Bachmann & Frisch,” a biopic about the radical Austrian writer and poet Ingeborg Bachmann, directed by Venice Golden Lion winner Margarethe von Trotta. The film stars Vicky Krieps — who appears in two Cannes Film Festival films this year, “Corsage” and “More Than Ever” — as the poet, and Ronald Zehrfeld (“Barbara,” “Phoenix”) as her partner, the Swiss writer Max Frisch.The pickup follows the international sales success for the Match Factory with Von Trotta’s “Hannah Arendt” in 2012.

Suede have shared a new montage of clips featuring songs from their 1996 album ‘Coming Up’, including what appears to be an unknown track.The short clip, which you can view below, sees snippets from ‘Trash’, ‘Beautiful Ones’ and ‘Saturday Night’ before a screen of interference features a couple of seconds of the unknown song. It is unclear whether it is new material or a previously unreleased track.The band are currently touring ‘Coming Up’ across Europe with a date pencilled in at Barcelona Razzmatazz tomorrow night (May 19) before they head on to Tomavistas 2022 festival in Madrid the following night (May 20).They will play further shows in Luxembourg (May 22) and Brussels (May 23) later this week.Coming up…-SuedeHQ pic.twitter.com/O90SMZ7G1y— Suede HQ (@suedeHQ) May 18, 2022The band recently released a new photojournal called So Young: Suede 1991-1993.The journal, which was compiled by drummer Simon Gilbert, documented his arrival in the band in 1991 through to 1993, when the group’s self-titled debut album reached number one.Speaking about the project at the time, Gilbert said: “So Young is the book that’s been in my head for over 30 years.

Paolo Nutini has announced details of a new UK and European tour – get your tickets here and see the full list of dates below.The Scottish artist returned last week with two new songs and news of his fourth studio album ‘Last Night In The Bittersweet’, the follow-up to 2014’s ‘Caustic Love’.Nutini has now announced a UK and European tour in support of the LP, with a pair of live dates in Ireland in August joining a run of dates that run from September through to November.The tour will visit the UK from October 22-November 1, with gigs in Manchester, London, Birmingham, Hull, Edinburgh and Aberdeen.Fans who pre-order ‘Last Night In The Bittersweet’ by 3pm on Monday (May 23) will receive exclusive access to a pre-sale for tour tickets, which opens at 9am on Tuesday (May 24).

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentLondon-based Alief has closed North America and French-speaking territories on Icelandic spoof “Cop Secret.” In North America, “Cop Secret” has scored a platform release with Epic Pictures. Extralucid Films has acquired France, Monaco, Luxembourg and French-speaking Belgium and Switzerland.The writer-director feature debut of Hannes Thor Halldorsson, Iceland’s national soccer team goalkeeper, “Cop Secret” will bow in select theaters in North America on July 8 then on VOD on July 12.Alief’s Brett Walker and Miguel Govea are at the Cannes Film Market to continue the international roll-out of “Cop Secret,” which is already impressive. Territories closed take in Japan (AT Ent), Korea (Movement), Taiwan (CCE) and Spain (Twelve Oaks).

Glorious Goodwood around the corner, but first comes the King of the Classics in the form of the Epsom Derby. The ups and downs of getting a horse ready for the unique tests of the one mile, four furlong Group 1 Classic at Epsom are almost as undulating as the course itself. No need for a place on one of the open top buses on Epsom Downs, let Planet Sport do the work.

Sum 41 have announced a new ‘Does This Look All Killer No Filler’ UK/European tour for 2022 with Simple Plan supporting – see the dates below and get your tickets here.The two bands have been touring the US together in 2022, and will reunite on the road in September and October.“We’ve been having such a great time on our tour with Simple Plan in the States and cannot wait to bring the party over to Europe,” Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley said in a statement.“We’re so excited to celebrate the anniversaries of some of our favourite albums along with other hits and favourites with you on the “Does This Look All Killer No Filler” tour!”The UK/EU ‘Does This Look All Killer No Filler’ tour kicks off in Stuttgart on September 20, heading through Europe before concluding with a massive London show at Alexandra Palace on October 21, the only UK gig of the run.Sum 41 will be heading to the UK next month ahead of the full tour, playing the Leeds (June 3) and Hatfield (June 4) legs of Slam Dunk Festival.See the full list of dates for the ‘Does This Look All Killer No Filler’ UK and European tour below and get your tickets here for the London date.

TikTok star Sam Ryder, who will represent the UK at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, has announced a new set of European tour dates – check them out below.Tickets for the shows will go on sale to the general public on Friday (May 13) at 9am local time. You can get tickets for the concerts here.The tour will kick off in Germany on October 12, before heading to Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Italy and Spain.Check out Ryder’s full EU tour dates here:OCTOBER12 – Burgerhaus Stollwerck, Cologne, Germany14 – Debaser Strand, Stockholm, Sweden16 – Parkteatret, Oslo Norway17 – Lillie Vega, Copenhagen, Denmark19 – Columbia Theater, Berlin, Germany21 – Gruenspan, Hamburg, Germany24 – Grand Salon, Brussels, Belgium25 – Alhambra, Paris, France26 – Melkweg (Old hall), Amsterdam, Netherlands28 – Den Atelier, Luxembourg30 – Freiheitshalle, Munich, Germany31 – Papiersaal, Zurich, SwitzerlandNOVEMBER6 – Circolo Magnolia, Milan, Italy8 – Sala La De Apolo, Barcelona, Spain9 – Sala Mon, Madrid, SpainRyder, who co-wrote his Eurovision song ‘Space Man’ with the Grammy-winning songwriter Amy Wadge and Max Wolfgang, recently said about Eurovision: “Having been a fan of Eurovision since I was a kid, I am so honoured to have been presented with the opportunity to sing at an event alongside some of Europe’s most talented creatives, performers and songwriters.“I hope to sing my head off in a way the UK can be proud of, and to showcase a song I wrote with my friends last summer makes the whole experience even more special.

The UK could host Eurovision 2023 even if we don't win this year, despite the odds tipped in favour of Essex hopeful Sam Ryder. Britain has provided a stage for the competition eight times in its 66 year history, stepping up to the plate when other countries were unable to do so. So if Ukraine - who are currently favourites at the bookies - win, it's highly likely that we'll host it for them due to the aftermath of Russia's invasion.

Marta Balaga Paris-based Celluloid Dreams has boarded Antonio Lukich’s upcoming feature “From Ukraine to Luxembourg,” currently in post-production and aiming to premiere in the fall.The Ukrainian director debuted in 2019 with “My Thoughts Are Silent,” a dramedy about a sound recordist asked to record animal sounds from Western Ukraine. But here is the catch: his mother decides to join him. The film was awarded a Special Jury Prize at Karlovy Vary’s East of the West section.In “From Ukraine to Luxembourg,” starring Ramil Nasirov, Amil Nasirov, Natalia Gnitii and Liumyla Sachenko, two twin brothers have to deal with the disappearance of their father.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentStarzplay has acquired Stephen Dunn’s reimagining of groundbreaking British series “Queer as Folk” for a slew of territories including the U.K., several continental European countries, and Latin America. The Peacock-produced reboot of the Russell T. Davies series from the ’90s about three clubgoing men in Manchester’s gay village, has been acquired by the streaming service for Belgium, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Latin America, Luxembourg, Spain, Netherlands, the Nordics and the U.K.The eight-episode show will premiere in the U.K.