MPA Hires Kelsey Moore As VP Of State Goverment Affairs In Southeast Region

MPA Hires Kelsey Moore As VP Of State Goverment Affairs In Southeast Region

Kelsey Moore has joined the Motion Picture Association as vice president, state government affairs for the southeast region. Moore will represent the MPA before state legislatures, regulatory agencies and executive branch figures, as the trade association advocates on such issues as production incentives. She reports to Kathy Bañuelos, senior VP of state government affairs at…

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AI actor Tilly Norwood to star in first movie

AI actor Tilly Norwood to star in first movie

Controversial AI actor Tilly Norwood will star in her first movie, a comedy drama called “Misaligned.” The film portrays Tilly as an AI being with “no real body” and lived experience but with access to everyone else’s, according to Particle 6, the London-based company behind Norwood. Norwood drew intense ire from many Hollywood actors last…

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Sky-ITV Merger: Five Things You Need To Know About The “Historic” Deal

Sky-ITV Merger: Five Things You Need To Know About The “Historic” Deal

Sky’s planned £1.6 billion ($2.1 billion) takeover of ITV is an unprecedented coming together in British media, establishing the UK’s biggest commercial broadcaster. The two companies aim to complete their union next year, creating what they described as a British “streaming champion,” even if their respective businesses are tied up in legacy linear television networks.…

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Rain Spencer & Ariana Greenblatt To Star In ‘Little Five’ Film

Rain Spencer & Ariana Greenblatt To Star In ‘Little Five’ Film

EXCLUSIVE: Rain Spencer (The Summer I Turned Pretty) and Ariana Greenblatt (Barbie) have been set to star in the new feature Little Five, from Anne Hathaway‘s prodco Somewhere Pictures and Pigasus Pictures. Ian Samuels will direct from a screenplay by Gillian Williams and Paul Shoulberg. Additional casting and production details will be announced in the…

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‘The Odyssey’: Crowds Gather For World Premiere In London With Christopher Nolan, Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway & Robert Pattinson Set For Red Carpet

‘The Odyssey’: Crowds Gather For World Premiere In London With Christopher Nolan, Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway & Robert Pattinson Set For Red Carpet

Star spotters descended on London’s Leicester Square ahead of the world premiere for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey with Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson and Lupita Nyong’o and Charlize Theron among those due to hit the red carpet. Expectations are running high for Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s epic poem starring Damon as…

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White House Blasts Smithsonian History Exhibits For ‘Radical’ Activism

White House Blasts Smithsonian History Exhibits For ‘Radical’ Activism

The Trump White House issued a report over the weekend blasting the Smithsonian‘s National Museum of American History for being captured by “radical, activist ideology” — claiming, among other things, that it’s become “anti-white,” pro-“illegal alien” and pro-transgender. The museum — which features everything from the original Star Spangled Banner, first ladies inaugural gowns and…

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Misan Harriman On His Documentary Project ‘Shoot The People’

Misan Harriman On His Documentary Project ‘Shoot The People’

There’s an interesting flair to the work of the British documentarian Andy Mundy-Castle. In White Nanny Black Child (2023), he traces the legacy of Britain’s so-called farming experiment, where thousands of Black children from West Africa were adopted by white English families between 1955 and 1995, only to face widespread abuse and prejudice. The film…

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Volkswagen CEO faces acid test from unions over swingeing job cut plans

Volkswagen CEO faces acid test from unions over swingeing job cut plans

The plans will include significant cost reductions, the four plant closures and roughly 50,000 extra job cuts, sources say Published Mon, Jul 6, 2026 · 10:45 PM [LONDON/BERLIN] Volkswagen CEO Oliver Blume faces perhaps the biggest test of his leadership this week: persuading the German carmaker’s supervisory board to accept painful job cuts and factory…

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