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Pulitzer-finalist podcast network Radiotopia from Prx today announced three new podcasts joining the network, including Never Post hosted by Mike Rugnetta, the emotional investigative show, Proxy with Yowei Shaw, and an ongoing compendium of audio masterworks, Selects, created by Room Tone and hosted by Mitra Kaboli.

Also this spring, Hrishikesh Hirway of Song Exploder releases a new conversational series, Key Change, and Normal Gossip from Defector Media will be hosted by Rachelle Hampton. The political history talk show This Day in Esoteric Political History will also present topical historical perspectives under the banner of This Day with new episodes hosted by Jody Avirgan, Kellie Carter Jackson, and Nicole Hemmer.

Upcoming podcast releases include the following:

Podcasts Detail Available now - Never Post hosted by Mike Rugnetta (new episodes every other Wednesday) - An engrossing magazine show of interviews, reporting, and roundtables, host Mike Rugnetta guides listeners through why the Internet...

Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt’s sci-fi adventure “The Electric State” has landed on Netflix, and it serves up a poppin’ playlist and an electrifying soundtrack.

The film is directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, and was written by Christopher and Stephen McFeely. The film is based on the book by Simon Stålenhag, and also stars Ke Huy Quan, Jason Alexander, Woody Norman, Giancarlo Esposito and Stanley Tucci, as well as Woody Harrelson, Anthony Mackie, Brian Cox, Jenny Slate, Hank Azaria, Colman Domingo and Alan Tudyk.

Here’s the official description of the series: “An orphaned teen hits the road with a mysterious robot to find her long-lost brother, teaming up with a smuggler and his wisecracking sidekick.”

Check out the film’s full playlist below.

Tom Petty —”Mary Jane’s Last Dance” The Clash — “I Fought the Law” Danzig — “Mother” Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch — “Good Vibrations” Judas...

“Superman” filmmaker and DC Studios co-chief James Gunn sat down with reporters last week to offer status updates on all things DC alongside his co-chief Peter Safran, and one golden rule emerged: They’re not rushing into anything.

Gunn said he’s bringing key lessons in franchise building from his time at Marvel to DC Studios, with a strong focus on script quality over release dates and building a connected universe that still allows for standalone stories.

Gunn directly referenced his experience making the “Guardians of the Galaxy” franchise noting how initial skepticism on the first film turned to success: “‘Guardians’ came in. Suddenly, everybody’s like this movie is going to be Marvel’s first bomb. This can’t work, nobody cares. What is a raccoon? How is a raccoon ever going to talk to Thor?” Gunn said.

“And then that went the way it did,” he added, addressing chatter over DC’s revamp.

The channel will not feature live races, but will have a wide selection of NASCAR content.

It’s been a big week for Tubi when it comes to announcements of new sports content. The free streaming service has already surprised many in the industry by announcing that it would broadcast Super Bowl Lix in February, but now it has a trumpeting deal with one of parent company Fox’s most important partners as well. Tubi has announced an agreement with NASCAR to roll out a new free ad-supported streaming TV (Fast) channel in the coming days, the first ever for the racing circuit.

Key Details: The NASCAR Channel will launch on Tubi on Wednesday, Jan. 29. Classic races, re-airs of the previous season’s races, and more content will be available. The channel will be free to stream 24 hours a day with or without a Tubi account. Watch Now Free TubiTV.

Angelina Jolie hit the Lido today, ahead of the world premiere of Pablo Larraín’s Maria Callas biopic, Maria. Speaking with the Venice Film Festival press corps this afternoon, the star said that embodying the legendary opera singer gave her a “new relationship” to the term “diva.” The word “comes with a lot of negative connotations… I think (Callas) was one of hardest working people, who didn’t hurt anybody.”

Maria, a creative imagining and a psychological portrait of the eponymous legendary opera singer, takes place in the 1970s near the end of Callas’ life. It’s a story about a woman who lived from the ’20s to the ’70s, burning her voice and her life by doing what she loved.

This is the third portrait of a famous woman as seen through Larraín’s lens, following 2016’s Jackie and 2021’s Spencer, both of which also premiered in Venice.

On Wednesday,...

“Maria,” the third in Pablo Larraín’s biopic trilogy after “Jackie” and “Spencer,” stars Angelina Jolie as Greek-American soprano Maria Callas, drifting in the last week of her life on a diet of downers and a stream of self-absorption. Callas died of a heart attack in 1977, three years out from her last singing appearance, though the film sees Jolie as Callas rehearsing for an imagined performance that will never come due to the state of her voice — and for a camera crew, dreamed up in a fog of pills, led by Kodi Smit-McPhee.

“Maria” frames Callas as a survivor through childhood and failed relationships and into her last days, though in the film’s present, she’s frightfully thin and eliciting worries from her Paris house staff (Pierfrancesco Favino and Alba Rohrwacher). Both abet and confront her dependency on methaqualone and other pills and make for an upstairs-downstairs dynamic in the screenplay.

Angelia Jolie is “La Divina.”

The Hollywood star swept into Venice, Italy, on Thursday to walk the red carpet for the world premiere of Maria, which sees her transform into history’s greatest opera singer, Maria Callas. Directed by Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain, the movie tells the beautiful but tragic story of Callas’ final days in Paris in the 1970s. Netflix picked up Maria for the U.S. ahead of its Venice premiere.

“There’s something about people like Maria Callas, but also Angelina Jolie — these women have a physical presence on a stage, in front of a camera or even just in a room, and you feel the enormous amount of humanity they carry,” Larrain said in a statement provided to press in Venice. “There was no struggle for Angie to be Maria Callas and carry that weight, as she already has it.”

When asked how she most identifies with Callas,...

Happy birthday, Father David! This year, your special present is a race against time to stop a man from killing himself and his family! (And oops — we tossed the receipt, so you can’t return it.)

Meanwhile, Sheryl, of all people, kicks in a gift of her own: a major leg up for Team Good in the impending apocalypse. And the fact that her actions make Leland’s life a whole lot harder? Icing on the birthday cake.

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A Stranger Things season 5 script tease reveals the chilling opening scene, setting the tone for the final season. Fans get a sneak peek into the mysterious and ominous atmosphere that awaits in the upcoming season. Despite delays due to strikes, the Stranger Things writers' room is back at work, building anticipation for the highly-anticipated final season.

A Stranger Things season 5 script tease reveals the very first moments of episode 1. The fiercely-anticipated final season of Netflix's immensely popular series has been heavily delayed due to the dual writers and actors strikes. Since the WGA strike officially ended in September, the Stranger Things writers' room has resumed working on season 5's scripts while sharing various teases on social media. However, filming won't be able to commence until the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike is over.

Today, the Stranger Things Twitter account shared the opening excerpt of the script which reveals the very first...

Lightbulb Film Distribution has unveiled trailer for the new British, Ewan McGregor-narrated, documentary, ‘Speed is Expensive: The Philip Vincent Story.’

The doc brings to the screen one of the most dramatic stories in automotive history – the rise and fall of designer Philip Vincent.

His motorcycles set more speed records during the 1940s and 50s than any other manufacturer. Some models now sell for over $1 million and owners include Brad Pitt and Ryan Reynolds.

Yet when Vincent passed away in 1979, he was largely unrecognized, penniless, and living in council housing in West London.

The feature documentary includes interviews with Jay Leno, Paul Simonon (The Clash) and the late John Surtees, and has won numerous festival awards.

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The doc will be released On Digital & DVD in the UK & Ireland from September 25.

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Origins is a recurring series giving artists a space to break down everything that went into their latest release. Today, Chris Shiflett takes us through “Damage Control,” the latest single from his upcoming album, Lost at Sea.

Foo Fighters guitarist Chris Shiflett has revealed his newest solo record, Lost at Sea, will be out October 20th via Blue Élan Records. Along with the announcement, Consequence is exclusively premiering his new single, “Damage Control.”

Lost at Sea was recorded primarily in Nashville with producer Jaren Johnston of the Cadillac Three. Other collaborators on the album include fellow guitarists Charlie Worsham, Tom Bukovac, and Nathan Keeterle. See the artwork and tracklist below.

Featuring a laidback tone, shuffling rhythm section, and country rock embellishments, Shiflett has affectionally dubbed “Damage Control” as “Ska-mericana.” An amalgamation of the songwriter’s stylistic interests, Shifflet points to acts like The Clash as one of the primary influences...

The Hummingbird (Il Colibrì) director Francesca Archibugi with Anne-Katrin Titze on Dancing Barefoot: “That Patti Smith song is very important to me.” And The Clash’s London Calling: “It does belong to Marco’s (Pierfrancesco Favino) story as a boy …”

Francesca Archibugi’s The Hummingbird with songs from Patti Smith, Billie Holiday, and The Clash, stars Pierfrancesco Favino (in Andrea Di Stefano's The Last Night With Amore at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival), Nanni Moretti, Bérénice Bejo, Laura Morante, Kasia Smutniak, Benedetta Porcaroli, Fotinì Peluso, Azzurra Di Marco, Francesco Centorame, and Sergio Albelli Is the opening night selection of Film at Lincoln Center and Cinecittà’s 22nd edition of Open Roads: New Italian Cinema.

Luisa Lattes (Bérénice Bejo) with Marco Carrera (Pierfrancesco Favino)

Other highlights include Roberto Andò’s Strangeness with Toni Sevillo (Paolo Sorrentino’s Oscar-winning The Great Beauty), as Nobel Prize-winning playwright Luigi Pirandello, Salvo Ficarra,...

The fever surrounding this year’s Cannes Film Festival finally broke on Tuesday evening as the 76th edition kicked off in the South of France by hosting Johnny Depp and his opening-night film from Maïwenn, Jeanne du Barry.

There’s wild anticipation every year ahead of the official rolling out the red carpet in front of the Palais des Festivals, but this year’s hype hit another level given the swirls surrounding both the actor and the filmmaker, who also stars as the favored mistress of 18th century monarch Louis Xv, played by Depp. The film, Depp and #Cannes2023 all were trending topics on Twitter by early Tuesday afternoon as debates continued to rage — online and off — over the film’s inclusion in the lineup.

Depp arrived at precisely 7 p.m. with slicked-back hair, ponytail and sunglasses in a Dior by Kim Jones tuxedo, flanked security detail while he signed...

Before she became an A-list movie star with an Oscar and a Marvel role to her name, Brie Larson gave an unforgettable supporting turn in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Larson is now known for playing Carol Danvers, aka Captain Marvel, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and for winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for her powerful performance as a kidnapped mother in the 2015 drama Room. But prior to her big break in the 2013 indie gem Short Term 12 and her memorable role as Jonah Hill’s love interest in the 2012 action comedy 21 Jump Street, Larson stole the show in 2010's Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.

Released in 2010, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World was the first big-budget Hollywood production helmed by Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy director Edgar Wright. Although Scott Pilgrim bombed at the box office on its initial release, it has garnered a huge cult following in the years since.

Today it was announced that Ben Affleck’s Air, from Amazon Studios, Skydance Sports, Mandalay Pictures, and the first project from Affleck and Matt Damon’s Artists Equity, will premiere in India exclusively on Prime Video on May 12 in English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam.

Air has been praised by audiences and critics alike, currently boasting a 92% “Certified Fresh” Tomatometer rating and a 98% verified audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, and an “A” CinemaScore.

From award-winning director Ben Affleck, Air reveals the unbelievable game-changing partnership between a then-rookie Michael Jordan and Nike’s fledgling basketball division, which revolutionized the world of sports and contemporary culture with the Air Jordan brand. This moving story follows the career-defining gamble of an unconventional team with everything on the line, the uncompromising vision of a mother who knows the worth of her son’s immense talent, and the basketball phenom who would become the greatest of all time.

Welcome to another edition of Deadline’s International Disruptors, a feature where we shine a spotlight on key execs and companies outside of the U.S. shaking up the offshore marketplace. This week we’re talking with British indie film veteran Phil Hunt, who is the founder of a raft of companies including production outfit and film financier Head Gear, international sales business Bankside and, more recently, New Zealand and Australian distribution genre label (Yet) Another Monster Company.

Phil Hunt is not a conformist. From the moment he burst onto the British independent scene more than two decades ago with his microbudget productions Fast Food and Chunky Monkey – the former starring a young Gerard Butler and the latter an off-beat black comedy about a loner with a penchant for Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and Julie Andrews – it was clear that this was a guy who was not going to...

Bret Easton Ellis’ latest novel “The Shards” goes where only Bret Easton Ellis could possibly go: back to 1981 Los Angeles with a 600-page book, largely unedited, that’s mostly about himself.

That’s partly because the main character is named Bret, a nihilistic, 17-year-old, bisexual San Fernando Valley trust-fund prep-school brat who’s writing a book called “Less Than Zero.” Yes, this is literary-horror autofiction from the author of that aforementioned 1985 debut and shocking postmodern novels like “American Psycho.”

“The Shards” is also a more-or-less direct transcript of the Patreon serial Ellis launched in late 2020, and its unwieldiness means it’s well-matched for a long-form, flashy series adaptation at HBO. As IndieWire has confirmed, “The Shards” is now being set up at the premium cabler with Ellis as the sole writer while executive producing with Nick Hall (Emmy-winning executive producer on “The White Lotus”) and Brian Young (an executive producer...

The ongoing war in Ukraine adds a timely resonance to Nenad Cicin-Sain’s documentary about the underground art and music movement that sprung up in Sarajevo during the 1990s Bosnian War. Not that it was needed, since Kiss the Future would have the same power anytime in a world perpetually marked by armed conflict. This moving and inspirational film premiering at the Berlin Film Festival also boasts a commercial hook in the form of the band U2, who figure prominently in the proceedings via both archival footage and contemporary interviews with members Bono, The Edge and Adam Clayton.

Based on the 2004 memoir Fools Rush In by Bill S. Carter, who also wrote the screenplay and provides frequent onscreen commentary, the film revolves around the nearly four-years-long Siege of Sarajevo by the Bosnian Serbs. As a result, its inhabitants were essentially trapped, including many young people who were intent on reaffirming...

Spain’s Bendita Films (“The Clash”) has scooped international sales rights to twisted and suspenseful production “The Uncle” (“Stric”) ahead of its market screening at the Toronto Festival.

“We’re thrilled to represent the brilliant debut feature from David Kapac and Andrija Mardešić, a captivating, oppressive thriller with humorous notes that will surely surprise international audiences with its unsettling atmosphere and inventive narrative structure,” stated Luis Renart, CEO-sales & acquisitions at Bendita Films.

Written and directed in tandem by Kapac and Mardešić, the project garnered a special jury mention in July at the Proxima strand which has replaced East of the West at the Karlovy Vary Festival. It marks the first feature effort for the Croatian duo who’ve previously paired to create several festival-showcased short films, including post-war noir comedy “Iris.”

“The Uncle” is a near-claustrophobic depiction of a Yugoslavian family in the late ‘80s as they hastily prepare to gather for Christmas Eve dinner.

Don Letts with music producer and 99 Records founder Ed Bahlman on Singers & Players War of Words (99-002 LP) and Adrian Sherwood’s label: “I mean all the early On-u stuff is absolutely essential.”

In There And Black Again: The Autobiography Of Don Letts (Omnibus Press) we learn the fate of a screenplay (“inspired by Linton Kwesi Johnson’s Five Nights of Bleeding”) bought by the adventurous producer Michael White (Gracie Otto’s The Last Impresario) and its connection to Franco Rosso’s Babylon, co-written with Martin Stellman, starring Brinsley Forde, and a soundtrack put together by Dennis Bovell (The Slits Cut producer). Martin Scorsese, The Punk Rock Movie, Robert De Niro, The King of Comedy, Jerry Lewis, and The Clash shows at Bonds also have a link to Don Letts.

Music producer and 99 Records founder Ed Bahlman met Don Letts at The Roxy 45 years ago and was invited by Bernie Rhodes...

“Monos,” an unsettling thriller about teenage soldiers that one critic described as “like ‘Lord of the Flies’ in hell,” has won the award for best film at the BFI London Film Festival.

Mati Diop’s “Atlantics,” which premiered in Cannes, took home the prize for best debut feature, while “White Riot,” about a 1970s reggae protest movement, was named best documentary. The awards were unveiled Saturday, on the eve of the festival’s closing.

Directed by Alejandro Landes, “Monos” premiered at Sundance. To an evocative score by Mica Levi, the Spanish-language film follows a group of teenage soldiers and their hostage, an American doctor, as they retreat farther into the jungle.

“‘Monos’ is a stunning cinematic achievement, marrying dynamic visuals, faultless performances and groundbreaking storytelling,” director Wash Westmoreland (“Colette”), the president of the official competition jury, said. “It’s a masterpiece.”

The jury also awarded special commendations to Sundance title...

There can’t be many pairs of hands as safe as Don Letts’s when it comes to music knowledge. A cultural polymath who has been front-and-centre of the music scene for over 40 years – as a musician, DJ, radio presenter, Grammy Award-winning music video and film director. Letts was one of the key figures in the introduction of reggae to the punk movement, working particularly closely with The Clash.

He’s returned to reggae, celebrating his first love with a series of podcasts for Turtle Bay, and in his latest Reggae45 podcast, he has zeroed in on reggae’s place in Jamaican cinema. “With this episode Don takes the term soundtrack from a literal point of view, delving deep into the world of film and how the sound has a parallel connection with the story on the screen.”

The Citizen Kane of Jamaican cinema is Perry Henzell’s 1972 crime thriller...

She’s the rapper that flipped off the camera at the Super Bowl. She’s the political activist that is critical of America. She’s the pop star that had a hit featuring kids singing the chorus layered over gunshots and a sample of The Clash’s “Straight to Hell.” Music critics and fans knew of M.I.A. starting with her breakthrough album Arular in 2005, but it wasn’t until her song “Paper Planes” was featured in the 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire (it went on to win Best Picture) that the general public became aware of the Sri Lankan artist which led to an unconventional radio hit. And with that came a series of controversial performances, music videos, and interviews, that all culminated in a 2012 Super Bowl halftime show alongside Madonna. Yet, for all of the headlines, articles, and think-pieces labeling the artist as an enfant terrible, many were more obsessed about...