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Ben Croll Paris, Hong Kong and L.A-based sales company All Rights Entertainment has picked up worldwide rights for “The Defects,” a 3D animated sci-fi comedy that drew significant buzz as this year’s Cartoon Movie, which ran from March 5 – 7 in Bordeaux. Directed by Federico Milella (“The Fairy Princess & the Unicorn”) and produced by Luxembourg-based Fabrique d’Images (“Luis and the Aliens,” “Tally Ho!”), the family adventure will enter production later this year with budget of €10 million ($10.9 million) with an intended 2027 delivery date.

Ed Meza @edmezavar Organizers of the Ibero-American Animation Quirino Awards on Friday presented 25 finalists as part of the Malaga Film Festival’s Mafiz-Spanish Screenings Content Animation Hub section. The 25 works from seven countries will compete in 10 categories at the seventh edition of the Ibero-American Animation Quirino Awards, taking place on May 11 in Tenerife.

Paul O'Grady's final TV appearance has been confirmed and will air to mark the first anniversary of his death. The TV star, fondly known for his drag queen persona Lily Savage, passed away "unexpectedly but peacefully" at his Kent home in March 2023.

Joe Leydon Film Critic For audiences of a certain age, it might be amusing, or maybe even disappointing, when, early in “The Ballad of Davy Crockett,” the eponymous hero skins a raccoon to fashion a bandage for a serious leg wound, rather than to make a hat of the sort famously worn by Fess Parker when he played the character in enduringly popular Disney miniseries and movie spin-offs. Maybe this is writer-director Derek Estlin Purvis’ way of winking at the audience.

Michelle Keegan has already been seen slipping into her bikini as she gave a little update on her life recently. The actress appears to have been enjoying a bit of downtime after kicking off the year with a bang by starring in Netflix drama Fool Me Once.

Jordan Moreau The world of “Pokémon” is evolving with “Pokémon Horizons: The Series,” a show with two brand new protagonists after Ash Ketchum finally caught ’em all and became the very best, like no one ever was. After 26 years with Ash as the face of its anime series, “Pokémon” introduced Liko and Roy in “Horizons,” which began airing in Japan last year and is now available on Netflix in the U.S.

Alex Ritman Production banner FlipNarrative, set up by Waleed Zuaiter — the BAFTA-nominated star of “Baghdad Central” and “Gangs of London” and Oscar-nominated producer of “Omar” — has optioned the rights to Shannon Chakraborty’s latest novel “The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi,” with plans to develop it into a multi-season series and gaming platform. The book — the first in a trilogy being published by Harper Voyager — is a swashbuckling high seas adventure following a notorious Muslim pirate captain who has survived backstabbing rogues, vengeful merchant princes, several husbands and an actual demon before retiring to a life of piety.

Check out this brand new trailer for the upcoming genre piece The Strangers: Chapter 1, the new feature in the hit...Sony Pictures has landed one final trailer and three posters for its upcoming action comedy adventure, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. The film...Netflix has unveiled a trailer for The Beautiful Game, a new movie set for the streaming service soon.

Poor Things is released on Blu-ray and DVD on 25t March from distributor Elevation Sales. From filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and producer Emma Stone comes this incredible tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter (Emma Stone), a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr.

Thrill seekers are getting the chance to trail run, kayak and mountain bike their way through spectacular landscapes in Greater Manchester this summer.

Michelle Williams and Jenny Slate have started production on their new FX limited series.

One Piece is coming back!

Fern Britton said she joined Celebrity Big Brother for a new adventure - and not to 'spill the beans' on her former colleague Phillip Schofield. The hit reality show relaunched on ITV on Monday night (March 4) after six years away.

Ben Croll Originally developed as an eight-episode series, the WWI-era adventure “Lucy Lost” will instead hit the silver screen now that Paris-based powerhouse Xilam Animation has retooled the project as a feature. “Klaus” alum Olivier Clert has boarded as co-writer and director, joining BAFTA-winning screenwriter Helen Blankman for a seaside family tale adapted from “War Horse” author Michael Morpurgo’s 2014 novel “Listen to the Moon.” Xilam has shared this first-look with Variety ahead of the reformatted project’s pitch at Cartoon Movie in Bordeaux.

Ben Croll Feats of derring-do, bouts of inspiration and a hearty show of strength for Nordic animation are but three of many motifs underscoring this year’s Cartoon Movie, which runs over March 5 – 7 in Bordeaux. For this year’s 26th edition, the European animation sector’s flagship co-production and pitch forum will spotlight 55 overall projects while welcoming north of 800 industry delegates, with many making inaugural visits.

Mark Wright has been flooded with the same comment as she posted a rare snap of himself and his wife Michelle Keegan promoting his brand. The former TOWIE star started up gym wear brand AYTEE7 back in 2022 which vowed to cater to all shapes and sizes.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Rolling off “The Three Musketeers,” Pathé and Dimitri Rassam’s Chapter 2 (a Mediawan company) have unveiled the teaser and poster for their next period epic, “The Count of Monte-Cristo,” starring Pierre Niney (“Yves Saint Laurent,” “Black Box”) in the title role. Based on Alexandre Dumas’ literary masterpiece, the film tells the story of a young man, Edmond Dantes, who becomes the target of a sinister plot and is arrested on his wedding day for a crime he did not commit.

There are constantly cast shakeups happening at ABC’s General Hospital and we have the latest updates for you!

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer Jacob Scipio is headed back to the “Bad Boys” universe. Actor Scipio, who most recently starred opposite Pedro Pascal and Nicolas Cage in the meta adventure “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,” will reprise his role as Armando Aretas – the estranged son of Will Smith’s Miami-Dade police detective character Mike Lowery. Scipio is getting a narrative upgrade from his debut in 2020’s “Bad Boys for Life,” we hear, as the script will see him play the main antagonist in the action film led by Smith and Martin Lawrence.

Nick Knowles, the familiar face we've seen on our screens for over 30 years, is best known for hosting the heartwarming show DIY SOS. Over the years he's secured himself an impressive net worth and is said to have earned more than Nick Grimshaw and Fiona Bruce.The TV presenter is currently starring in The Mighty Mississippi which sees him take on challenges across the world.

SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains light spoilers for “Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.” When it comes to Final Fantasy and Square Enix, Naoki Hamaguchi has seen it all. Having started as a real-time visual effects renderer back in 2006 with “Final Fantasy XII,” Hamaguchi has since spent the last 18 years at Square Enix, slowly rising through the ranks — promoted installment after installment, working as the lead cutscene programmer, main program, project leader and finally co-director of game design/programming of “Final Fantasy VII Remake,” alongside Tetsuya Nomura and Motomu Toriyama.

Marta Balaga Imagine “Deal or No Deal” set on an exotic island, with its 13 participants facing extreme challenges, testing their limits and literally crawling through mud. Except you don’t have to – it’s already here. “What if the Banker had a private island and decided to put his contestants through an extreme game to find one winner? The craziness of the idea is, I think, what we and NBC rallied around,” says Sharon Levy, CEO at Endemol Shine North America.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter “The Last of Us” Season 2 has added four new cast members, Variety has learned. Danny Ramirez (“Top Gun: Maverick,” “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier”), Ariela Barer (“How to Blow Up a Pipeline,” “Runaways”), Tati Gabrielle (“You,” “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”), and Spencer Lord (“Riverdale,” “Family Law”) have all joined the hit HBO series’ second season.

Annika Pham Danish sales outfit DR Sales, attached to the Sundance Grand Jury Prize winning doc “A New Kind of Wilderness,” has boarded another high-quality Norwegian documentary – “Phantoms of the Sierra Madre” by the multi-awarded Håvard Bustnes (“Raging Grannies,” “Golden Dawn Girls”). The epic and self-reflective film, made in partnership with the Mescalero Apache Tribe, is due to world premiere in the main DOX:Award competition of Copenhagen’s CPH:DOX festival, running March 13-24. Bustnes, Christian Aune Falch and Torstein Parelius are producing for Norway’s Upnorth Film, in co-production with Finland’s Napa Films.

Joe Swash has joked it 'should be illegal' as he put out a potential new plan for himself and Stacey Solomon following their latest hilarious adventure. First, the former EastEnders star was left gushing over his youngest child, daughter Belle, after a weekend trip with his wife and their brood.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem has been confirmed for 2026.The action-animated adventure from director Jeff Rowe and writer-producers Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg was a critical success on its release last year and now a sequel has been green-lit.According to a new Paramount release slate, the follow-up to Mutant Mayhem will arrive on October 9 2026.Director Rowe is expected to return alongside the actors who played the turtles (Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Nicolas Cantu and Brady Noon) and April O’Neal (Ayo Edebiri).At the end of the first film, a return was also teased with the appearance of villain Shredder.Speaking to Empire last year, Rowe explained the villain must prove more menacing than Superfly – the villain from the last film.“The one thing I can say without spoiling anything is, [Shredder] needs to be 100 times scarier than Superfly – who is a credible villain, he’s dangerous, he’s strong, he seems like he could mess the Turtles up,” he explained.“Shredder needs to be that, just significantly more. It’ll be really interesting to see these fun-loving characters go up against something that maybe they can’t stop.”In other news, the soundtrack to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem proved a hit with viewers last year.It featured a wide collection of East Coast hip-hop songs, including hits from Vanilla Ice, DMX, A Tribe Called Quest, and many more.

TV legend Dave Myers, one half of the Hairy Bikers, spent his last days with his best mate and "brother" Si King before his sad death at 66.

EXCLUSIVE: Former The Outpost star Jessica Green is returning to the CW for her second series at the network, as a series regular in The Librarians: The Next Chapter,  a spinoff of the fantasy adventure series, from writer and executive producer Dean Devlin.

Melinda Messenger has ended her engagement with her fiance, Dr Raj Joshi, six months after he proposed. The former Page 3 model, 53, reportedly called off the wedding after disagreements about their lifestyle.