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Staff at French state broadcasting companies France Télévisions, Radio France and France Media Monde were due to strike today in protest of government plans to phase out the TV license fee which traditionally finances their services. From early morning, 24-hour cable news channel France Info was re-running feature…

After temporarily shuttering amid a surge in Covid cases last March, China's Shanghai Disneyland will reopen to the public this week, management at Shanghai Disney Resort said today. Ticket sales and annual pass reservations resume from tomorrow and the park will then return to operations on Thursday, June 30…

Canadian-born comedian Nick Nemeroff passed away suddenly on Monday at age 32. His family and agency announced the news late Monday. No cause of death has been given. Nemeroff, who made appearances on Conan and performed at Just for Laughs in Montreal, was a Juno Award nominee in 2021 for his comedy album, The Pursuit…

Endemol Shine India CEO Abhishek Rege is leaving his post after 15 years with the company. The exec will work closely with his successor, who has yet to be named, during the transition.   Rege joined Endemol in 2007 as Head of Commercial and Legal, and was elevated to Chief Operating Officer in 2012, then CEO in 2017…

The Cherokee Nation and its film office are celebrating the premiere of Land of Gold and the first production of its kind to be filmed at the tribe's studios and state-of-the-art virtual soundstage located in Owasso.  The film, directed by award-winning filmmaker Nardeep Khurmi, debuted at the Tribeca Festival in New…

Only Murders In The Building celebrated its Season 2 premiere with a Los Angeles celebration hosted by stars Steve Martin, Selena Gomez, and Martin Short. The trio spoke to Deadline on the red carpet about how the series dives into their respective characters’ family life all while trying to solve the mystery of who…

Mary Mara, a character actor known for her work on Nash Bridges, ER, Law & Order: SVU, Nip/Tuck\ and dozens of other TV shows and films, drowned Sunday in the St. Lawrence River in Cape Vincent, NY, according to New York State Police. She was 61. A State Police press release says Mara was found in the river Sunday…

The season one finale of Disney+/Lucasfilm’s Obi-Wan Kenobi drew a five-day Wednesday through Sunday audience of 1.8 million U.S. households, which is 20% higher than the Wednesday through Sunday five-day pull for The Book of Boba Fett finale, which clocked 1.5M U.S. households. The data comes from Samba TV, which…

Jim Henson's Creature Shop animatronics and visual effects studio, based in Los Angeles, has teamed with Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company to produce life-size puppets for the RSC's stage adaptation of legendary Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki's 1988 hand-drawn classic My Neighbour Totoro. The RSC's most ambitious…

Christian Bale wouldn't mind taking on the role of Batman, again. The actor told Screenrant that he would slip on the Batsuit again but on one condition: Christopher Nolan returns as director. Bale starred in Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy from 2005 to 2012 and played the superhero in Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and T…

Nick Zano (DC's Legends of Tomorrow) and Shelley Hennig (Teen Wolf) are set as the leads of Obliterated, Netflix’s hourlong action comedy series from Cobra Kai creators Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg and Josh Heald as well as Sony Pictures Television. Written by Hurwitz, Schlossberg and Heald, the eight-episode Oblite…

UPDATE, with cause of death Andy “Fletch” Fletcher, keyboard player and founding member of the British band Depeche Mode, died after suffering an aortic dissection while at home on May 26, the band said in a statement on Instagram today. The cause of death was disclosed by the band at the request of Fletcher’s family…