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TNT is launching a second night of professional wrestling with AEW: Collision, a live, two-hour, in-ring show, which will debut June 17 and air Saturdays. The announcement was made Wednesday by Kathleen Finch, Chairman and Chief Content Officer, US Networks Group, Warner Bros. Discovery, during the company’s 2023 Upfront presentation at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Addie Morfoot Contributor “I of the Water,” one of 20 projects presented at Hot Docs’ marquee market event, the Forum, has won the First Look first prize of Can. $50,000 ($36,700), one of four pitch prizes announced Wednesday at the festival. Kimberlee Bassford’s “I of the Water” focuses on acclaimed Samoan writer Sia Figiel’s hidden past of sexual abuse and journey toward healing. The film is produced by Bassford, Marilyn McFadyen, Vilsoni Hereniko, Leanne K. Ferrer, Cheryl Hirasa, and Linda Goldstein Knowlton. The second First Look prize, worth Can. $15,000, was awarded to Kenya-Jade Pinto “The Sandbox,” a Canadian production with a vague tagline: “Your future is being written in the sand.” The doc is produced by Shasha Nakhai, Kenya-Jade Pinto, Jennifer Baichwal, and Rich Williamson.

Michael Fassbender stars in the upcoming comedy-drama film which is based on a true story, Next Goal Wins.

McKinley Franklin editor Start your engines, because it’s time for yet another TV adaptation of a popular video game. Peacock has released the first teaser for its new action-comedy series “Twisted Metal,” which will premiere on the streamer on July 27 with all 10 episodes. “Twisted Metal” is based on PlayStation’s car combat video game series of the same name. In the games, players control deadly demolition derby vehicles and destroy each other in a hellish Twisted Metal tournament. The games include a cast of crazed characters, the most famous of which is a serial killer clown known as Sweet Tooth who drives an ice cream truck. In the trailer, he appears briefly at the very end. The first look gives fans a glimpse into the reimagined “Twisted Metal” landscape plagued set to Len’s “Steal My Sunshine.”

Fans of Disney and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson have a big reason to celebrate this week. In Disney's annual shareholder meeting, led yesterday by CEO Bob Iger, Johnson was featured in a special pre-recorded message to announce the big news that the 2016 hit "Moana" is going to be revived in an upcoming live action remake.

A live-action reimagining of Disney Animation’s 2016 hit Moana is in early development at Disney, Dwayne Johnson revealed Monday. The announcement came in a pre-recorded message from Hawaii as part of Disney’s annual shareholder meeting led by CEO Bob Iger.

“Australian Survivor” contestant Simon Mee today tweeted – then hastily deleted – some insight about just how tough life can be for those playing the game.Simon responded to a fan’s meme about the show with some behind-the-scenes goss, revealing that life on the beach in Samoa can get very “Lord of the Flies.”One brief scene in a recent episode of the reality series saw fellow contestant Gerry angrily chastise Simon about where he’d placed the tribe’s firewood in the camp.It was a surprising outburst from the usually mild-mannered rescue pilot, so far one of the game’s most softly spoken players.As fans shared the moment online, Simon – forever on the bottom this season, but somehow still in the game as it enters its final stages – explained that the blow-up was a symptom of bigger issues, as players jostled to keep their spot in the game’s fragile hierarchy.Simon said that “Survivor’s” rudimentary sleeping arrangements, in which players huddle together for warmth under a makeshift shelter (with – if they’re lucky – a tarp to keep the rain out), revealed “a lot about the pecking order of the tribe.”“Gerry slept in the middle of the shelter with the blanket every night. But when he collected fire wood, he stacked down the end of the shelter,” he wrote.“Which also happened to me by bed.”In a follow-up tweet, also deleted, Simon revealed that he would have to move the firewood any time he wanted to make space for himself in his less protected area of the shelter.Former player and “Survivor” megafan Matt Tarrant responded to the tweet, saying it was “legit true” that players should “never sleep on the edge of the bed at camp” if they wanted to stay in the players’ inner circle.“Aww thanks Matt,” said Simon.

After two “Thor” movies and taking on Nazi Germany in 2019’s “Jojo Rabbit,” what’s a film project Taika Watiti could do to spice things up? How about a sports movie about undergods that the director deems as “basically the “Cool Runnings” of soccer”? Enter “Next Goal Wins,” Waititi’s new film out next April, about the true story of an American Samoan soccer team who went from one of the worst teams in the world to an elite squad.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic SPOILER ALERT: The following review contains mild spoilers for “Black Adam.” It’s kind of a cheat, casting someone as massive as Dwayne Johnson to play a DC superhero — or antihero, in the case of “Black Adam,” an action-packed, adolescent-skewing standalone that presents the swole Samoan star as a nearly invincible global threat. Black Adam is basically an A-bomb in human form, whose emergence from a 5,000-year lockdown calls for emergency intervention by the Justice Society of America, or “JSA,” which dispatches four glorified bench-warmers to contain the situation: Hawkman (Aldis Hodge, gruff), Atom Smasher (Noah Centineo, doofy), Cyclone (Quintessa Swindell, colorful) and Doctor Fate (Pierce Brosnan, the standout, even if his character reads like a second-rate Doctor Strange).

Tyson Fury v Deontay Wilder trilogy fight will go down in folklore for its brutality, the five knockdowns, and of course the ludicrous sex fantasy of one of the Top Rank ring girls.That's right, Tianna Tuamoheloa, a familiar face at ESPN boxing shows, was one of the those to wow fans on that now notorious night in Las Vegas. The boxing beauty is a native of both Samoan and African-American descent - and rose to prominence after winning Miss Nevada USA in 2019.But ahead of the Fury v Wilder clash, which ended with 'The Gypsy King' retaining his WBC and Ring Magazine titles, Tuamoheloa wasn't just turning heads for her looks.

It’s T-R-Y time! To mark the start of the Rugby League World Cup, we’ve teamed up with William Hill to give you a £2 free bet.The home nation games start today, with England kicking off the tournament against Samoa at St James’ Park at 2.30pm.

fight under the AEW banner between ROH World Champion Chris Jericho and Bryan Danielson was the major attraction of AEW Dynamite's first appearance in Canada.Another title fight for the All-Atlantic Championship between Pac and Orange Cassidy was one viewers were waiting for as well as a clash between wily wrestling veteran Billy Gunn and Swerve Strickland.READ MORE:WWE 'given hands-off warning by rivals AEW after top star is approached' for returnBeing accompanied to the ring by Canada's own Christian Cage, the physically impressive Luchasauras dominated his former tag team champion partner 'Jungle Boy' Jack Perry early in the bout.Both men were close to securing victory several times in the match before Perry was flattened by a chokeslam and was subject to a Burning Hammer, which secured the victory for Luchasauras.Winner: LuchasaurasIn the first tag-team action of the night, ROH Television champion Samoa Joe and TNT champion Wardlow portrayed good chemistry in their early dominance of Nick Comoroto and QT Marshall.The result was never in doubt as WarJoe made quick work of their opponents to demonstrate just how dangerous they are as a tandem.Winners: WarJoeSwerve Strickland made every bit of his youth count as he came up against a battle-tested Billy Gunn as the former DX member saw his knee become a target of Strickland.Gunn has been and will always be a fighter as he attempted to turn the tide of the match before Strickland caught him with a flatliner and ended the match with a Swerve Stomp.Winner: Swerve StricklandTo stay up to date with all the latest news, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters here.A trilogy for the ages between two titans of the wrestling world.ROH World Champion Chris Jericho faced

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson has said him running for President Of The United States Of America is currently “off the table”.Johnson has been speaking about becoming President since 2016. First he said he “wouldn’t rule it out” before saying he was seriously considering running for office in 2020.

No plans to run. It looks like The Rock isn’t running for President. Dwayne Johnson sat down with Tracy Smith for an upcoming interview on CBS Sunday Morning to clear up the rumors that he’s running for office for 2024.

KJ Apa has been named a Samoan chief in a traditional ceremony. The New Zealand-born Riverdale star, whose father is Samoan and a matai (chief) of his village in Samoa, revealed to his Instagram followers that he had officially received the Samoan chief title of Savae before village elders in a ceremony. KJ, 25, shared a photo of the ceremony held in the village of Moata’a, located on the island of Upolu in Samoa.

KJ Apa has officially become a Samoan chief following a traditional ceremony.

KJ Apa has been made a Samoan Chief in his home village. The 25-year-old actor is New Zealand-born but is half Samoan on his father's side and has been honoured with the title of chief in the village of Moata’a and took to social media to promise that he will "serve" his family and village. Alongside a photo of himself kneeling in the traditional ceremony known as a saofa'i, he wrote on Instagram: "O la’u fautuaga - o le a ou tautua i le tatou aiga ma le tatou nu’u.

KJ Apa is now a Samoan Chief!

Commonwealth Games medal despite having a population of just 1,600 people.Boxer Duken Tutakitoa-Williams stopped Cook Islands' Michael Schuster in the second-round of their clash on Thursday evening. In doing so the heavyweight earned a place in the semi-finals, which guaranteed him at least a bronze.That means South Pacific island country Niue has been able to clinch its first medal across any sport throughout its history in the games.

wrestling fan, it's fair to say that they'll mention one of three things.The first is the ridiculous ambulance siren noise that used to accompany him down to the ring during his time with WWE.The second is is ungodly big biceps – which saw him earn the nickname Big Poppa Pump.READ MORE: Impact Wrestling's Josh Alexander had ear pinned to head after it 'exploded'But it's the third that would top pretty much everyone's list, wrestling fan or not, with the birth of "Steiner Math".And in honour of the big man's 60th birthday, it's time to take a trip down memory lane to 2008.Steiner had made a name for himself in WCW in the 90s, and WWE for a short period in early 2000s.Having joined Impact Wrestling – or TNA Wrestling as it was known then – in 2006, he had developed a reputation for being utterly bizarre when it came to speaking on the microphone.There was no doubting his in-ring ability, which at one point was one of the best in the business, especially when it came to wrestling as part of a tag team with brother Rick.But it became somewhat of a thing for Scott to pick up a microphone and the watching audience to be left confused and baffled by what they had just heard.In May 2008, Scott was due to face Kurt Angle – who was later replaced by Frankie Kazarian – and Samoa Joe at the Sacrifice pay per view with the TNA World Heavyweight Title on the line.But a few weeks beforehand, he was due to team with protégé and then-X-division champion Petey Williams in a tag team match against Kurt and Joe.And when asked for his thoughts backstage in a live interview, he came out with one of the most infamous speeches in all of wrestling history, which has now been dubbed “Steiner Math”.He ranted: "You know they say that all men are

Ready to release a Marvel movie (“Thor: Love & Thunder”), writing a “Star Wars” movie, acting in and overseeing HBO’s “Our Flag Means Death,” executive producing FX’s “What We Do In The Shadows,” and more that gets added all the time, Taika Waiti is hyper-busy. He’s so busy that he even directed a little indie movie that everyone has forgotten and has been sitting on the shelf for two years.