U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team Take the 2023 ESPY Awards Stage to Receive Arthur Ashe Award for Courage

Peter Moffat is forging a TV adaptation of UK journalist Jonathan Freedland’s The Escape Artist with Mood production outfit Bonafide Films.

The UK and Ireland’s true crime specialists have teamed to form an association that establish best production practices in the genre.

The moment Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse hit the theaters fans wanted to see more of Miles Morales. Miles, aka Spider-Man, stole the hearts of fans with a fresh new take on the Spider-Man franchise. We had to wait five years to see what happened in Miles’ next journey, but Across The Spider-Verse somehow topped the first movie! With a cliffhanger ending, anticipation for the third movie is now at an all-time high!Many fans are worried that the writer’s strike may interfere with Beyond The Spider-Verse’s March 29th, 2024 release.

Former Grange Hill actor George Armstrong has sadly passed away at the age of 60, as tributes for him flooded in.

The Cleveland Cavaliers have had their pick of some of the top talent in the past few NBA drafts. Being a rebuilding team they had a lottery pick for about four years straight. Selecting solid players such as Darius Garland and Evan Mobley were no-brainers for the Cavaliers.

The Cleveland Guardians have had a very up-and-down first half of the 2023 MLB season. It is safe to say that this is not the way many thought Cleveland would be at the top of their division. After last season’s “Guardiac Kids” to now being a game under .500 halfway through the season.

Reddit user said regarding the show’s fate.The WGA is a labor union that represents writers for movies, television, documentaries and most forms of recorded media, who have recently been on strike to advocate for improved streaming royalties and protections against AI taking their jobs. Fellow confused “Jeopardy!” fans responded to the show’s uncertainty online.“If the strike continues into the fall TV season, there won’t be any Jeopardy! at all,” another worried fan responded in the thread.A few fans suggested that the showrunners rerun questions from old episodes, but others rejected the idea.

“American Idol” winner Iam Tongi apologized after he forgot to remove his hat while singing the national anthem.Tongi took the field for the special moment on Monday at the 2023 MLB Home Run Derby at T-Mobile Park in Seattle. The musician won the 21st season of “American Idol” in May.“First try at singing the National Anthem. So nervous that it was in front of such a huge crowd.

K.J. Yossman Big Zuu, the BAFTA-winning chef, TV host and grime artist, has inked a development deal with Banijay U.K. Zuu, who is also known as Zuhair Hassan, signed the deal under his production label Big Productions, which specializes in factual, comedy entertainment and music content including cooking show “Big Zuu’s Big Eats.” Zuu co-founded the label with managing director Matt Dodds and creative director Alex Gilman. The company is planning new comedy and factual entertainment formats, scripted, documentary, and live event shows as well as a focus on new talent and new voices on both sides of the camera.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer A SAG-AFTRA strike appears to be imminent, as talks with the studios have concluded without a deal or an extension. The union’s contract officially expired at midnight. In a statement, the union said that the negotiating committee had voted unanimously to recommend a strike. The union’s national board is expected to meet Thursday morning to call a strike, which would immediately halt scripted film and TV production by the companies represented by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. Fran Drescher, the president of SAG-AFTRA, said in a statement that the AMPTP’s responses to its key issues were “insulting and disrespectful.”

Naman Ramachandran Leading true crime specialist indies have teamed to launch the Association of True Crime Producers (ATCP) in the U.K. and Ireland. Avalon, First Look TV, ITN Productions, Monster Films, Peninsula Television, Phoenix Television, Rare TV, Revelation Films, Title Role and Woodcut Media, have formed the ATCP, a non-profit association, to establish best practice guidelines for the genre. They have set clear guidelines, which put victims and their families at the centre of the production process and aim to enhance current best practice in duty of care. The member production companies will meet regularly and have committed to ensure that all members conform to the highest ethical standards and support the continuing integrity and success of true crime production. The aims of the initiative are being communicated to the broadcast industry, victims’ groups, and other representative bodies to ensure that all parties involved in true crime content are aware of the association’s pledges.

The friendship dynamic between Hollywood stars Matt Damon and Emily Blunt shines not only on the silver screen but also when cameras aren’t rolling. Damon, 52, and Blunt, 40, star in Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated war drama "Oppenheimer" and told Fox News Digital what it’s like to also live in the same building. Blunt, who’s married to John Krasinski and has two daughters with the actor — Hazel, 9, and Violet, 6 — said "it’s the best" having "The Bourne Identity" star under the same roof.

Kaytranada, Finnish superstar ALMA and Swedish-Finnish singer-songwriter Markus Krunegård have joined the main festival’s roster, along with other additions to its Backyard stage.Check out Flow Festival’s full line-up – complete with the latest additions – below.New additions to Flow Festival’s Backyard stage are Arp Frique and Coco María, who join previously announced acts Nooriyah, John Gómez, Kampire, Renata Do Valle, Awesome Tapes, HabibiFunk, Zakia, Gop Tun, Lil’ Tony, Ocean People, Marc Fred, Maria Wesander, and Dj Mojo.Previously announced performers for Flow Festival 2023 include Blur, Wizkid, Lorde and Christine & The Queens, FKA twigs, Caroline Polachek, Suede, Devo, Shygirl, Jockstrap, Moderat, Tove Lo, Amyl & The Sniffers, Kelela, Eris Drew b2b Octo Octa, Folamour, Jyoty, Kerri Chandler, Chaos In The CBD and more.The iconic Balloon 360° stage – which already had its line-up revealed in May – includes Horace Andy, Balming Tiger, DOMi & JD Beck, Meshell Ndegeocello, Alogte Oho and His Sounds of Joy, Nala Sinephro, Esa’s Afro-Synth Band, Kamazu, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Olli Ahvenlahti, Tumomo & Markus, Verneri Pohjola, Ne Galakktiset, Kaisa’s Machine, Elsi Sloan, Sonia, and Valtteri Laurell Nonet.Tickets for Flow Festival 2023 are on sale now – you can purchase yours here.

Jessi has opened up about her friendship with Psy after leaving the latter’s K-pop agency, P Nation.Jessi recently made an appearance on rapper Dumbfoundead podcast series, Fun With Dumb. During her appearance, the singer spoke about her admiration and current friendship with Psy after leaving P Nation in 2022.“No matter what, even though I left P Nation, whether it was for good or bad, I still have my loyalty with Psy oppa,” she said.

Contract negotiations between SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP broke off tonight, and the guild’s national board will meet Thursday morning to formally approve the launch of a strike.

Margot Robbie has seen what fans are Googling about her and has some thoughts about it.

YG Entertainment have fallen amid uncertainties over BLACKPINK‘s contract renewals.Yesterday (July 12), South Korean news outlet Munhwa Ilbo reported that BLACKPINK member Lisa had yet to come to an agreement about a contract renewal with YG Entertainment. It also alleged that Lisa was unlikely to renew her contract with the K-pop agency.Soon after the report, YG Entertainment responded in a statement, saying that “contract renewals are currently under discussion”, though it did not specify which members it was referring to.On the same day stocks of YG Entertainment, listed on the Korea Exchange, fell over six per cent by the end of trading day, closing at ₩74,300.

Tomorrow X Together (TXT) have opened up about working with the Jonas Brothers on ‘Do It Like That’.In a new interview with Billboard, the members of TXT spoke about their experience working with American boyband Jonas Brothers for the new single ‘Do It Like That’.Yeonjun revealed that the song was recorded in May, during the US leg of the boyband’s ‘Act: Sweet Mirage’ world tour. “I had personally been a fan of their music growing up and even practiced with their music as a trainee, so it felt surreal to be working with them,” he said.Meanwhile, Beomgyu added that the Jonas Brothers had been “incredibly welcoming from the moment we met”.

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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Wanda Investment, a subsidiary of the privately-owned Chinese property giant Dalian Wanda, has sold an 8.3% stake in Wanda Film Holding for RMB2.2 billion ($306 million). Wanda Film, which is listed on the Shenzhen stock exchange, operates China’s largest circuit of multiplexes and retains a stake in Hollywood producer Legendary Entertainment (“Dune”). The buyer is Lu Lili, the wife of Shen Jun, the controller of East Money Information, a financial data platform, Wanda Film said in a regulatory filing this week. The share sale appears to be a move to raise finance for Dalian Wanda and Wang Jianlin, the politically-connected former army officer who built one of China’s largest property empires and from 2012 mounted a seven-year campaign to own a large chunk of Hollywood.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Sakamoto Ryuichi, the Japanese film composer and music supervisor who died in March, has been posthumously named as the recipient of the Jecheon Film Music Award at the 19th Jecheon International Music & Film Festival (Aug. 10-15). Sakamoto won Academy Awards and Golden Globes for his score for “The Last Emperor” and has other credits including “The Sheltering Sky,” “Railroad Man,” “The Revenant,” “Call Me By Your Name” and “The Fortress.”Abrai Joji from Commons the music label established jointly with Sakamoto, and Yutaka Toyama from Promax, which had produced Sakamoto’s concerts since 1986, will visit the festival. Additionally, a tribute concert will be held on Aug. 12 at the Jecheon Stadium.