Sony Pictures Classics Takes Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s ‘Violette’

Sony Pictures Classics Takes Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s ‘Violette’

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired Jean-Pierre Jeunet‘s Violette in the U.S., Latin America and Southeast Asia repping the distributor’s fourth collaboration with the French filmmaker after Amelie, The City of Lost Children and Micmacs. Violette stars Leïla Bekhti (Once Upon My Mother, Maria Montessori), Matthias Schoenaerts (Rust and Bone, The Danish Girl) and Melvil Poupaud…

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Russell Brand Found Guilty of Rape, 3 Counts of Sexual Assault

Russell Brand Found Guilty of Rape, 3 Counts of Sexual Assault

Russell Brand’s legal battle has reached a conclusion. On Nov. 5, a London court found the 51-year-old was convicted on one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault. After deliberating for over eight hours, according to multiple outlets, the jury found Brand guilty of raping a fan in 2009 after meeting at one…

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James D’Arcy, Jonathan Pryce & Lena Olin Board ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ As Sky Series Casts The Vanger Family

James D’Arcy, Jonathan Pryce & Lena Olin Board ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ As Sky Series Casts The Vanger Family

EXCLUSIVE: Sky’s Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series has cast the Vanger family. An ensemble of heavyweight actors has joined the Stieg Larsson adaptation including Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes, Slow Horses) as Henrik Vanger, James D’Arcy (Oppenheimer, VisionQuest) as Martin Vanger, Lena Olin (Nine Perfect Strangers, The Housewife) as Isabella Vanger, Camille Cottin (Call…

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Russell Brand Found Guilty Of Rape

Russell Brand Found Guilty Of Rape

Russell Brand has been found guilty of rape. After two days of deliberations, the jury at London’s Southwark Crown Court delivered a verdict on all counts, finding the Forgetting Sarah Marshall star guilty of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault. He was found not guilty on two other counts of rape…

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US’s STEM workforce a national security and econom

US’s STEM workforce a national security and econom

American students are often described as falling behind the world in science and math. The reality is more specific. The top students are declining, and the students at the bottom are falling even further behind. And the gap between them is growing wider every year. This is not a ranking problem. It is a systemic…

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Europe’s Stoxx 600 hovers near all-time high; tech lags

Europe’s Stoxx 600 hovers near all-time high; tech lags

Published Thu, Nov 5, 2026 · 09:37 PM [BENGALURU] Strong mining gains led European shares higher on Thursday (nov 5), with the benchmark just shy of hitting a record high, while technology shares lagged as investors weighed the implications of a Democratic sweep in the US midterm elections. The pan-European Stoxx 600 index rose 0.7…

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