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Banijay Appoints Factual Drama Chief
Banijay UK is doubling down on factual drama. After eight years running Eva Longoria: Searching for Spain producer Dragonfly, Richard Bond is leaving the indie but remaining in the Banijay stable as Creative Director, Factual Drama. In the newly-created role starting next month, Bond will build a slate of factual drama commissions, working with scripted…
Read MoreThe 33 Most Popular Amazon Finds This Month: Celeb-Loved Skincare, Face Lift in a Jar & More Viral Finds
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Read MoreKeppel appoints ex-DBS CEO Piyush Gupta as deputy chairman from Jul 1
[SINGAPORE] Keppel has appointed former DBS chief executive Piyush Gupta as deputy chairman and non-executive independent director of its board, effective Jul 1. Gupta will also be appointed a member of the nominating committee, remuneration committee and the board sustainability and safety committee in July. He recently retired from his role as DBS CEO in…
Read MoreHelen Hunt To Receive Taormina Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar and Golden Globe-winning actress Helen Hunt will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at Italy’s Taormina Film Festival in June. The celebrated American actress has won one Academy Award, four Golden Globes, and four Emmy Awards across her career. She clinched a Best Actress Academy Award and Golden Globe in 1998 for…
Read MoreInternet obsessed with teacher’s way of stopping students cheating on test
Internet users have praised a teacher’s unconventional way of preventing students from cheating on a test, all with the help of ChatGPT. In a now viral Reddit post, user Jake_Corona explained the difficulties he’d been having with students “blatantly copying their neighbor’s multiple choice quizzes.” The English teacher did what he could to perturb the…
Read MoreGillian Anderson To Be Feted At Munich Film Festival
The Munich International Film Festival will hand its honorary CineMerit Award to Gillian Anderson during its upcoming edition, which runs from June 27 to July 6. Anderson will be handed the awards during a ceremony at the Deutsches Theater, where the German premiere of her latest film, The Salt Path, will take place. “Gillian Anderson’s…
Read MoreDonald Trump’s Tariffs Deemed Unlawful & Blocked By Trade Court; White House Appeals Instantly
The Court Of International Trade has blocked Donald Trump‘s global tariffs policy, for the time being. A trio of judges at the Manhattan-based trade court ruled that Trump’s use of emergency law to impose the tariffs was not legal. The ruling stated the power to regulate trade and commerce lay with Congress and that simply…
Read MoreMadeleine Hunt-Ehrlich’s Buzzy Festival Breakout ‘The Ballad Of Suzanne Césaire’ Set For UK Release Via T A P E Collective
EXCLUSIVE: T A P E Collective has acquired UK rights to The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire, the feature debut from visual artist and filmmaker Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, and will release the film in cinemas from July 18th. Based in part on the essay Surrealist Refugees in the Tropics by Terese Svoboda, the film explores the life…
Read MoreMonte-Carlo TV Festival Director On This Year’s Line-Up, Robin Wright & Opening The Doors To YouTube Talent
Monte-Carlo readily conjures up images of casinos, super-yachts and motor-races. It also gathers the great and the good of the TV world each June for a Festival focused on both industry and audience. Against its glamorous backdrop, the Monte-Carlo TV Festival’s Executive Director Cécile Menoni said this year’s 64th edition will be “a reflection of…
Read MoreWhat are private markets, and what risks should investors take note of?
[SINGAPORE] Private markets have grown increasingly popular in recent times in South-east Asia, with Singapore accounting for 45 per cent of the private equity market in deal value and volume in 2024. Earlier on Mar 27, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced that a proposed framework for retail private market investment funds is in…
Read MoreJudith Light On Artistry, Activism & Global TV & Mireille Dumas On The Vital Role Of Documentaries: Monte-Carlo TV Festival Preview
Judith Light and Mireille Dumas are headed to Monte-Carlo. The duo will be in town to head up, respectively, the drama and documentaries juries at the Monte-Carlo TV Festival. Ahead of time, they sat down with Deadline and discussed their hopes for their sections, and, more generally, the worlds of drama and factual programming. Judith…
Read MoreFoxconn to soon announce second Japanese auto partner, chairman says
The Apple supplier’s interest in working with Japanese car makers comes as they face growing competition from Chinese brands Published Thu, May 29, 2025 · 01:45 PM [TAIPEI] Taiwan’s Foxconn will soon announce a second Japanese auto partner, Chairman Young Liu said on Thursday (May 29), as the company best known as Apple’s main iPhone…
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