Letterboxd has been acquired by Tiny, a Canadian holding company, in a deal that values the popular social site for film fanatics at over $50 million. Letterboxd was founded in 2011 by two entrepreneurs in New Zealand, Matthew Buchanan and Karl von Randow. It recently topped 10 million registered accounts, after seeing a particularly sizable surge during the COVID pandemic, […]

Allegra Cole looked so different in her 40s. The 53-year-old, a famous curvy model and influencer, used to have a much more conservative look. And that's probably because has a strict Mormon background. Allegra was working as a piano teacher in Orange County, USA, when she decided she wanted to do something for herself. As well as embracing a more […]

Netflix has partnered with the Handy Foundation, an organization that connects below-the-line workers to job opportunities in the entertainment industry, on a new program focused on representation among assistant editors and production coordinators. Netflix and the Handy Foundation began piloting this program in 2022, helping train and identify talent for potential job opportunities on Netflix projects. Among the programs where […]

LEGENDARY footwear chain Clarks is closing another store in a further blow to UK high streets. The retailer, which has more than 300 stores, has confirmed it'll shut for good at High Street in Newcastle under Lyme by the end of 2023. It comes after Clarks announced that it'll pull down the shutters in High Street Inverness before the end […]

The cast for Argylle is truly wild, but it's a cat who steals the show! The trailer for Argylle just dropped, featuring a star-studded cast putting quite a twist on the spy genre. From director Matthew Vaughn — of the Kingsman franchise — comes the story of a spy novelist who is unwittingly pulled into the real world of espionage. […]

The BFI and Film4 have selected what has been described as nine “high-budget” short film projects that will receive cash funding in the first round of awards from their Future Takes short film fund. Each selected filmmaking team is set to be awarded between £55,000-£90,000 to create their projects. The nine greenlit projects will shoot between September 2023 and spring […]

Hope springs eternal, but perhaps not for professional football in the Spring. The USFL and the XFL, two football leagues that were revived in recent years in a bid to bolster the sport during the NFL’s off-season, have decided to merge. The new entity will “establish best-in-class operations based on the most recent seasons of both league,” the two sports […]

While “Barbie” may have been a huge opening salvo in Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz’s plan to turn toy brands into media IP, it’s just the beginning of a versatile long-term strategy that will extend far beyond the cinema to TV and gaming for the likes of “Monster High” and “Hot Wheels.” That was Kreiz’s message at his keynote Q&A at […]

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