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K.J. Yossman Ukrainian director Stanislav Kapralov (“Let It Snow”) was in the middle of pre-production for a new film — a Hollywood project with U.S. actors and a U.S.

K.J. Yossman Organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest have said they will not prevent Russia from participating this year.

K.J. Yossman Prime Minister Boris Johnson has confirmed the U.K.

K.J. Yossman Graduates of Netflix’s first ever Documentary Talent Fund have launched their short films.Ten U.K.-based filmmakers were chosen to receive £40,000 ($54,000) as well as mentorship and access to production workshops covering legal, creative, HR, production and finance in order to create a short film with the brief of “Britain’s Not Boring And Here’s a Story.”The ten films received their premieres in London on Wednesday evening and will be livestreamed on Netflix’s 21.9 million strong TikTok page at 7pm GMT on Feb.

K.J. Yossman Prince Andrew has reached an out of court settlement in respect of his sex assault case.The case was brought against the prince, who is also known in the U.K.

K.J. Yossman Actor Janet Montgomery (“This is Us”) and producer Tricia Small (“Salem”) have teamed with Blackbox Multimedia on a female-led period crime drama written by “Dracula” scribe Cole Haddon, Variety can reveal.Billed as a female version of The Godfather trilogy, “Aqua Tofana” was co-created by Montgomery and Small, who will also executive produce the high-end television series, which is set is 17th-century Italy.

K.J. Yossman On Tuesday, Ariana DeBose, Harris Dickinson, Lashana Lynch, Millicent Simmonds and Kodi Smit-McPhee were announced as the 2022 nominees for the BAFTA EE Rising Star Award.Nominees are selected for demonstrating “exceptional talent in film over the past year.” Previous winners of the award have included James McAvoy, Eva Green, Tom Hardy, Kristen Stewart, Tom Holland, Letitia Wright and Micheal Ward.The award, which is in its seventeenth year, is the only BAFTA honor to be decided by the general public, who can vote for their favorite online.Just hours after the nominations were unveiled, DeBose and Dickinson sat down with Variety to discuss their nominations.Congrats on the nominations! How are you feeling? DeBose: I’m just thrilled that I get to be here in London to celebrate this nomination and celebrate all of my fellow EE Rising Star nominees, because I am very well aware that every single one of them is massively talented and I find them all incredibly inspiring.Dickinson: Wonderful, thank you very much.

K.J. Yossman British pop singer Anne-Marie has landed a cameo in Pixar’s upcoming animated feature “Turning Red.”Anne-Marie will voice Lauren, a friend of lead character Mei’s in the film.“Turning Red” tells the story of 13-year-old Mei Lee (played by Rosalie Chiang) who sometimes turns into a red panda when she gets too excitable – a quirk Mei has to contend with along with hormones, high school and her slightly overbearing mom Ming (played by “Killing Eve’s” Sandra Oh).Joining Anne-Marie as Mei’s friends are Ava Morse, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan and Hyein Park while Addison Chandler plays Devon, Mei’s secret crush.Also lending their voices to the film are Jordan Fisher, Grayson Villanueva, Josh Levi, Topher Ngo and Finneas O’Connell who will play pop band 4*Town.

K.J. Yossman Less than a month after opening, the West End production of “Cabaret” starring Eddie Redmayne and Jessie Buckley has been forced to postpone at least two performances.On Wednesday, the production canceled showings of its matinee and evening shows after a member of the backstage company tested positive for COVID-19.“Despite extremely robust measures being in place, a member of the backstage company tested positive for COVID-19 this morning,” the production posted on Twitter.

K.J. Yossman The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain (WGGB) has unveiled the shortlist for its annual awards, with nominees including “Promising Young Woman” scribe Emerald Fennell and “Succession” writer Lucy Prebble, who’s been nominated for her Billie Piper series “I Hate Suzie.”The awards, which will be handed out on Feb.

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K.J. Yossman Actor Alec Baldwin has given his first in-studio interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos following the tragedy that occurred on the set his movie “Rust” in October.The actor sat down on Tuesday with Stephanopoulos, who described the one hour twenty minute discussion as “raw” and “intense.”“I’ve done thousands of interviews in the last twenty years at ABC,” Stephanopoulos said during this morning’s GMA.

K.J. Yossman Fictional detective Ellery Queen is set to make a return to television – this time as a woman.Incendo and BlackBox Multimedia have optioned the TV adaption rights to the collection of novels and short stories in which Queen, originally written as a male character, appears.The two companies will co-develop and co-produce a modernized, high-end scripted series in which Ellery will be changed to female.

K.J. Yossman David Tenant’s upcoming series “Around the World in 80 Days” hasn’t yet hit screens but producers are so confident in the show they’ve already greenlit a second season, with Ashley Pharoah (“Life on Mars”) returning as showrunner.

K.J. Yossman Actor-turned-director Wendy Morgan was devastated when she was forced to miss the West Coast premiere of her directorial feature debut, “Mercy,” last month at the Awareness Festival in Los Angeles due to America’s ban on flights from the U.K.The ban, introduced by the Donald Trump administration in March 2020, meant that passengers couldn’t fly directly from the U.K.

K.J. Yossman Director Sara Sugarman is set to replace Jonas Åkerlund on “Midas Man,” the biopic of The Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein, Variety understands.“Midas Man” tells the story of Brian Epstein, the man who is considered responsible for launching The Beatles into the stratosphere.

K.J. Yossman Journalists and producers with experience at some of the U.K.’s top outlets, including The Economist, The Times of London and the BBC have formed a new podcast and IP pipeline, Blanchard House.The company has already secured $1 million seed investment and set up a partnership with “The Shrink Next Door” podcast journalist and presenter Joe Nocera.

K.J. Yossman Eon executive James Higgins, who spent over thirty years at the James Bond production company, has died, his family have confirmed.

K.J. Yossman Director Michale Boganim explores her father’s role in Israel’s own Black Panther movement in her new Venice documentary: “The Forgotten Ones” (“Mizrahim, Les Oublies de la Terre Promise”).The 1950s movement sprang from the Mizrahim community – Jews who were ethnically cleansed from North Africa and the Middle East – who sought refuge in Israel.

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K.J. Yossman Director Douglas Mackinnon, whose credits include “Doctor Who,” “Sherlock” and Neil Gaiman’s “Good Omens,” still recalls the moment he realized that London was no longer the center of the universe in terms of U.K.

K.J. Yossman Irish singer-turned-television host Ronan Keating has received “substantial damages” and a public apology from News of the World publisher News Group Newspapers (NGN) over claims his cellphone was hacked over three decades.NGN also agreed to pay Keating’s legal costs and undertook not to “access or attempt to access Mr Keating’s private information by unlawful means” in the future.“Mr.

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K.J. Yossman Women in Animation (WiA) has released a featurette during Annecy Film Festival highlighting the valuable work of its mentorship program.The 14-minute video sees testimonies from both mentors – including animation writer Aydrea Walden, Alice Goldstone of Sony Pictures Animation and Pixar Animation’s Becki Tower – and mentees, many of whom have built portfolios and even gotten their first jobs after participating in the program.

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K.J. Yossman Locksmith Animation has tapped Simon Otto to direct their adaptation of children’s book series, “That Christmas,” written by acclaimed screenwriter and director Richard Curtis (“Four Weddings and a Funeral”).Otto is a Visual Effects Society (VES) Award-winning Head of Character Animation, story artist, character designer and director.

K.J. Yossman Locksmith Animation has found a new CEO in Natalie Fischer, the former COO of Illumination Entertainment.She will step in as Locksmith co-founder Sarah Smith exits the company to pursue her own creative endeavors.