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Jury selection continued on Day 2 of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial in New York. Nearly 50 potential jurors have been questioned over the last two days, with slightly more than half remaining in the jury pool and the rest excused for various reasons. The potential jurors include a middle school physical education teacher, […]

Lemonada Media, a podcast network that produces and distributes shows from partners including Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, inked a deal to sell a majority stake to European podcast company PodX Group. Terms of the deal aren’t being disclosed. The acquisition will mark the first entry by PodX Group, based in Stockholm, Sweden, into the U.S. […]

A$AP Rocky is ready to stand up and lead. During a video interview with Variety, where Rocky played “New York or Not New York,” the actor and rapper was asked about embattled New York City mayor Eric Adams. Among Adams’ numerous controversies was skepticism that he even lived in NYC at the time of his […]

NBC is making a nostalgia-fueled drive to the hoop to tout the return of the NBA to its airwaves in the fall of 2025 after more than two decades. In the latest move, NBC Sports announced that it will use an AI-generated voice of former narrator Jim Fagan, who died in 2017 at the age […]

Bob Pisani, who has delivered news to CNBC viewers for about a decade from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange — making him a regular presence for market watchers — plans to leave his role in early May. “While we’ll certainly miss seeing him in his usual role, I am glad to share […]

Film Factory Entertainment has announced its worldwide acquisition of the upcoming horror feature “Evil Dress” (“El Vestido”), co-directed by Jacob Santana (“Reversion”) and Frank Ariza (“El Continental”). The psychological horror feature stars Spanish Academy Goya-winning actress Belén Rueda (“The Orphanage,” “The Sea Inside”) in a central role that explores maternal fear, generational trauma and supernatural […]

Adrian García Bogliano’s Mórbido production “Talking to a Stranger,” starring Gigi Saul Guerrero, and the awaited “The Muglur,” set up at Paulina Villavicencio’s “Huesera” production house Disruptiva Films and Sound, feature among seven titles packing out the Cannes Film Festival’s Blood Window showcase, unspooling at its Marché du Film May 15.  Also making the cut […]

European streaming service SkyShowtime has revealed the cast and the first look images for its upcoming Swedish six-part original series “Where the Sun Always Shines,” shot on location in Mallorca and premiering exclusively on SkyShowtime on Nov. 10. The show, created by director, writer and actor Felix Herngren (“Solsidan,” “Bonusfamiljen”), stars Claes Månsson, Suzanne Reuter […]

London-based sales, finance and production company Protagonist Pictures has launched a boutique label on the eve of Cannes. Announced by Protagonist CEO Dave Bishop, Protagonist Picks will be led by industry vet Isabel Vars and, according to the company, will be focused on “bringing distinctive and bold projects to wide global audiences” and whose “nimble […]

“Black Adam” and “Aladdin” star Marwan Kenzari and “The Monkey” and “Orphan Black” star Tatiana Maslany have begun principal photography on romantic comedy “Any Other Night,” directed by Dutch helmer Michiel Ten Horn from a script by Patrick Whistler. The international coproduction comes from producers Mike MacMillan of Lithium Studios (“In Cold Light,” “Mobile Homes”), […]