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Crunchyroll announced that the Hindi, Tamil and Telugu dubs of the upcoming Gachiakuta anime will air on the same day as its Japanese dub premieres.

According to the announcement, all three regional dubs will start streaming on the platform from July 6, 2025.

Check the trailers for the regional dubs below:

Hindi Dub trailer for Gachiakuta Tamil Dub trailer for Gachiakuta Telugu Dub trailer for Gachiakuta

Gachiakuta follows Rudo, a young outcast framed for murder and exiled into this wasteland known as “The Pit.” After surviving his descent into this new world, he now must fight to survive against monstrous Trash Beasts while navigating a brutal world hoping to return to his home and seek vengeance.

The anime adaptation is being handled by Bones Film with Fumihiko Suganuma at the helm. Hiroshi Seko is in charge of series composition, whereas Satoshi Ishino is serving as the character designer and chief animation director.

If you were sad to see The Hunting Party‘s super-cool, super-secret, subterranean prison get blown up in the NBC drama’s first minutes, know that series lead Melissa Roxburgh shares your pain.

“I know!” the actress laments in the TVLine video Q&a above, after I myself grouse over the loss of The Pit. “I think it’s expensive,” she said of the largely computer-rendered set. “I think that’s the reason they had to blow up the thing and get it out of the way. But I thought it was so cool.”

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The doctors are in on Max! The streaming service's new procedural medical drama series The Pitt made its premiere on Thursday, Jan. 9 with its first two episodes.

In the new series, Emmy Award-nominated ER star Noah Wyle plays Dr. Michael "Robby" Rabinavitch, the lead of the emergency room at the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Hospital. He leads his seemingly overworked and understaffed team throughout one 15-hour shift in The Pitt's 15-episode first season. Similarly to 24, each episode takes place in a single hour.

Here's how Max describes the series in the official synopsis:

"The Pitt is a realistic examination of the challenges facing healthcare workers in today’s America as seen through the lens of the frontline heroes working in a modern-day hospital in Pittsburgh."

Based on the synopsis, you can tell The Pitt isn't your average medical drama series. It's a bit different to the most popular of the genre on the small screen,...

The allegorical simplicity of Netflix’s The Platform makes it brilliant—a sequel seems antithetical. Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s The Platform 2 needlessly complicates the original’s food-fighting take on hierarchical class governance. Religious iconography influences heavy-handed zealotry, while callbacks and returning characters feel out of place. Gaztelu-Urrutia’s expansion feels redundant and over-explained,...

Released on Netflix in March of 2020 (unbelievably perfect timing for a movie about people confined to an inescapable prison whose design pits insatiable self-interest against the public good), Spanish filmmaker Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s “The Platform” is an anti-capitalism allegory whose obviousness is its greatest strength. Like so many streaming hits, the genre exercise resonated because its high-concept premise told a compelling story unto itself.

The film’s most and only memorable character is “The Pit” where it takes place, a narrow concrete tower (or “Vertical Self-Management Center”) with a large square hole in the middle of each floor — a hole just large enough to fit the massive smorgasbord of food that’s lowered down the building’s 333 stories each day. The two inmates on the top floor are treated to a royal banquet, but only a few errant scraps remain when the movable feast reaches the 50th level below them...

The following contains spoilers for Star Wars: Visions Season 2, Episode 8, "The Pit," now streaming on Disney+.

The second season of Star Wars: Visions features vivid worlds that fit nicely into the galaxy far, far away. The civil rights allegory "The Pit" by LeAndre Thomas and Justin Ridge shows the Empire at its coldest and most corrupt. Yet, Star Wars is a story of hope, and that's why Livy's kyber crystal turned blue at the end of the short.

"The Pit" is one of two stories in Season 2 about the kyber crystals that powered both Jedi lightsabers and the Death Star. A group of Imperial prisoners are sent to mine the valuable resource in a classic, Star Wars desert wasteland. That this kyber goes to the nearby city they build, and not a Death Star project, suggests the Stormtroopers are part of the Imperial Remnant that rose after Return of the Jedi.

Bane has appeared in two different Batman movies, each one giving him a different backstory from the one in the comics, and a theory gives an explanation for these changes. Batman has been adapted to the big screen various times, along with some of his most famous adversaries from the comics, and some of these have followed the Caped Crusader on more than one version. Such is the case of Bane, the only villain credited as having “broken the bat” after defeating Batman physically and mentally.

Bane’s big screen debut was in Joel Schumacher’s Batman & Robin, in 1997, where he was played by Michael Reid MacKay before the character’s transformation into a villain and by WCW wrestler Robert “Jeep” Swenson once he transformed into Bane. Over a decade later, Bane was once more brought to the big screen in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises, now played by Tom Hardy,...

Returning to Sundance, where her debut feature Circumstance premiered in 2011, Iranian-American writer-director Maryam Keshavarz enters the festival’s U.S. Dramatic Competition with a crowd-pleasing quasi-autobiographical comedy-drama, The Persian Version.

A multi-generational family tale that spans roughly 60 years, two continents and assorted cultures from traditional Muslim families to queer New Yorkers, this lively, likable, if somewhat on-the-nose work grabs viewer attention with fourth-wall-breaking monologues, jocular explanatory graphics, and tightly choreographed dance numbers to vintage American and Iranian pop songs. The expansive ensemble is led by Layla Mohammadi playing the director’s alter ego Leila and Niousha Noor as her immigrant mother Shirin, who, in the manner of classic melodrama, clash but learn to respect one another by the end after secrets are revealed in extended flashbacks.

The film’s present tense is somewhere in the early 2000s, its locus Brooklyn, downtown Manhattan and Jersey City, where protagonist and sometime narrator...

With her tart direct address, Leila makes a cheeky protagonist in “The Persian Version,” a Sundance-blessed dramatic comedy about the wide rift between an immigrant mother and her Iranian American daughter. Layla Mohammadi and Niousha Noor portray Leila and her mother, Shirin. They also carry the weight of writer-director Maryam Kesharvarz’s third feature, which braids comedy and tragedy, vibrant aplomb and thoughtful soberness.

In 2011, Kesharvarz made her directorial debut at the Sundance Film Festival with “Circumstance,” winner of that year’s audience award for dramatic feature. Set in Tehran, that LGBTQ-hued film focused on a well-to-do Iranian family dealing with their sexually rebellious daughter (and Daddy’s girl) and a son who recovers from drug addiction by replacing it with a fresh mania for fundamentalist ideology. “The Persian Version” moves between the present and the past and shuttles from New York to New Jersey to a rural outpost in Iran,...

TollywoodHelmed by debutant Ahishor Solomon, action-thriller ‘Wild Dog’ is inspired from various terrorist attacks that have taken place in India in the past. Tnm StaffTwitterOne of Nagarjuna Akkineni’s most critically acclaimed Tollywood movies in recent times, Wild Dog was released on Ott platform Netflix on Thursday. Sharing the news on Twitter, Netflix India wrote, “The action is just over the mountain and it's coming in at high speeds! #WildDogOnNetflix.” They also shared a poster featuring Nagarjuna and Saiyami as Vijay Varma and Arya Pandit respectively. The movie is streaming in four languages on Netflix including Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada. The action is just over the mountain and it's coming in at high speeds! #WildDogOnNetflix@iamnagarjuna @ahishor @MatineeEnt @MusicThaman @deespeak @SaiyamiKher @Deonidas @ActorAliReza @pasha_always@mayankparakh19 @onelifeitiz #PrakashSudarshan pic.twitter.com/RMhN3HKAam— Netflix India (@NetflixIndia) April 21, 2021 Helmed by debutante filmmaker Ahishor Solomon, the film hit the big screens...

Manali, Nov 6 (Ians) Telugu superstar Nagarjuna has completed shooting for his upcoming film, Wild Dog. The filming is on at Manali, Himachal Pradesh, and on Friday, Nagarjuna took to Twitter and shared a few pictures with the cast and crew of the film.

"Heading home after wrapping up my work for #WildDog !!feeling sad as I say good bye to my talented team and the Himalayas!! #manali," Nagarjuna captioned the post.

Responding to his post, actor Ali Reza wrote: "Nag sir, It was lovely working with you. As actors, we have a lot to learn from you. A king not only in cinema but at heart. Going back home with memories. Will miss all the fun! Hope I get a chance to work with you again in future."

Directed by Ahishor Solomon, "Wild Dog" also features Sayami Kher and Dia Mirza.

Nagarjuna will also be seen in the Hindi film "Brahmastra", starring Amitabh Bachchan,...

Actress Sneha Ullal, best known for playing the love interest of Salman Khan in the 2005 release, Lucky: No Time For Love, will be seen in the upcoming thriller show, titled Expiry Date.

The web show revolves around two couples and extra-marital affairs that they are involved in. The show also features Tony Luke, Madhu Shalini and Ali Reza.

"I am super thrilled to be making my digital debut. The audience should expect that punch of suspense in every episode. My character is extremely bossy and knows her way around things. She is going to be the trouble maker for sure," Sneha said.

Directed by Shankar K Marthand, "Expiry Date" will premiere on Zee5 on October 2. --Ians/sim/vnc...

TVRahul was declared as the winner after he won the most number of votes from the audience, closely followed by television anchor Sreemukhi.Tnm StaffPopular playback singer Rahul Sipliganj has emerged as the winner of Bigg Boss Telugu 3, the reality TV show hosted by Nagarjuna Akkineni. He has taken home a trophy and the grand prize of Rs 50 lakh. Rahul was declared as the winner after he won the most number of votes from the audience, closely followed by television anchor Sreemukhi. Besides the duo, the top five contestants included Arun Sandesh, Baba Bhaskar and Ali Reza. Around seven crore votes were said to have been cast by the public for the final episode. Actor Chiranjeevi made a special appearance for the grand finale of the show, which also saw the arrival of other popular actors like Catherine Tresa, Anurag Kulkarni, Srikanth, Raashi Khanna and director Maruthi among others. Former...

Bigg Boss TeluguThe season 3 of the reality TV show premiered on July 21, 2019 and is being hosted by Nagarjuna. Tnm StaffBigg Boss Telugu Season 3 is coming to an end on Sunday, 105 days after it was launched, with a grand finale scheduled to happen on Sunday evening. As per reports, Megastar Chiranjeevi will be the Special Guest at the grand finale of the show. Though not officially confirmed, Chiranjeevi is expected to announce the name of the winner of the third season of the reality show and present the trophy and the prize money to the title winner. The grand finale will also be star-studded with popular actors like Catherine Tresa, Anjali and Nidhhi Agerwal performing dance for the viewers. “It’s going to be a night of celebrations. The viewers will get to see mesmerising dance performances of these three starlets under the supervision of choreographer Suresh Varma. They will perform...

EntertainmentThe show has Nagarjuna playing the host in the third season and premiered on Star Maa amidst controversy.Tnm StaffThe third season of the Telugu reality show Bigg Boss kick-started on July 21 on Star Maa amidst controversy. The show began with much excitement with actor Nagarjuna being the official host. After two successful seasons anchored by actors Jr Ntr and Nani respectively, Nagarjuna welcomed all the 15 contestants into the Bigg Boss house constructed at the Annapurna 7 acres studio, a property owned by Nagarjuna himself. The 15 contestants in the house are familiar faces belonging to the film and television industries and social media. To the surprise of Bigg Boss fans, this season also has a celebrity couple amidst the other 13 contestants in the house. After much speculation on social media regarding the season's contestants, here are the final 15 participants who have made it to the third season of the show. One...

The Peoples Improv Theater has announced the full lineup for its second annual NYC Improv Festival, presenting more than 80 improv comedy teams on two stages at the Pit for four nights, March 20-23.In addition to New York-based groups and Pit house teams like the Faculty, the Baldwins, and Body Heat, this year’s festival features improvisers from L.A., Chicago, Boston, Toronto, and even Sweden.Headliners include Threat (Matt Donnelly, Rebekka Johnson, and Jim Festante), Centralia (Kevin Scott, Jay Rhoderick, and Matt Higgins), Baby Wants Candy, and Pit founder Ali Farahnakian, as well as “special guests” to be announced.And according to Toby Knops, the Pit’s associate artistic director, “Improv fans will also have the opportunity to get on stage and perform every night of the festival” at shows like Improv Jam and Improdrome. The Pit has scheduled a series of special one-day workshops for performers to hone...

“If you’re in the comedy world, you go to festivals,” says Ali Farahnakian, founder and owner of the Peoples Improv Theater in New York. “And you know what it’s like to be at a bar in a festival town where it’s all comedians. You’re in a room surrounded by comedians and improvisers, with that feeling like, ‘Wow, it’s just us! It’s all us!’ ” Farahnakian hopes to recreate that environment every night at Comedy Bar NYC, his new venue on West 29th Street in Manhattan that is scheduled to open in late November. As he talks, he tours the interior of the still-under-construction space, where a long, wide, 50-foot-bar dominates the front. The rear seating area boasts an elevated stage and projection screens, and windows and skylights along the back wall have been restored and opened. Above the restrooms, a red “On Air” sign illuminates.

The New York Comic Con will soon be upon us. Here is our first bit of information we have recieved about the panels and signings from the Cartoon Network and Adult Swim. That means that shows like Robot Chicken, The Venture Bros., Eagleheart and much more.

Here is a description of the con from www.newyorkcomiccon.com:

New York Comic Con is the East Coast's biggest and most exciting popular culture convention. Our show floor plays host to the latest and greatest in comics, graphic novels, anime, manga, video games, toys, movies, and television. Our panels and autograph sessions give fans a chance to interact with their favorite creators. Our screening rooms feature sneak peeks at films and television shows months before they hit either big or small screens. And with dedicated professional hours, New York Comic Con is a market place, bringing together the major players in the entertainment industry.

Rockets, satellites, nanotechnology, and aerospace advancements will also be on display this weekend in Syria. A Nobel Laureate's take: "Iran is like the fire underneath the ashes."

Iran is showcasing its technological might starting this weekend during a 5-day tech expo in Syria, the first time the event has been held outside of Iran. The move has some calling it the country's attempt to display to the West its tech prowess, as it continues to advance nuclear power development.

The expo is not unexpected--they've held previous shows before, but this is the first time it's being held outside Iran and it comes at a time when the country has been ramping up its technological know-how. A supercomputer is just one of Iran's latest developments--this week, Iran's Research Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology also announced two new gamma radiation sites.

"Eighty five to ninety percent of nuclear energy includes peaceful...

Remember the famous late Mohd Rafi’s evergreen song, ‘Kya Hua Tera Wada’ or ‘Tum Kya Jano Mohabbat’, where one handsome boy sings these songs. He is Tariq, cousin brother of actors Aamir Khan and Faisal Khan. He was during those considered the hottest guy every girl would dream of marrying. He gave three biggest musicals hits of all time in Yaadon Ki Baraat, Zakhmee and Hum Kisi Se Kum Nahin. Last week we caught him at the grand launch of Ali Reza’s Sheesha Sky Lounge, Andheri. He was seen with his wife in good mood but no one recognized.

Now its grandeur, it’s spacious and more vibrant. New outlet of ‘Sheesha Sky lounge’ has been launched recently in the heart of Andheri. Ali Reza, the owner of the lounge has now brought Sheesha to your neighbourhood. The lounge is known for its ambience, hospitality and cuisines.

Many celebs showed up to grace the launch. Indian beauty Sayali Bhagat looked super fit in her brown outfit. “Good food and the ambience is something that brings me here. I liked the low seatings of the place which is very comfortable unlike formal dinning table and also it is close to my house”, she vouches..