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The upcoming episode of “Frontline,” titled “Hurricane Helene’s Deadly Warning,” promises to be a gripping exploration of America’s struggle with climate change. Set to air on Tuesday, May 20, 2025, at 10:00 Pm on PBS, this episode delves deep into the devastating impact of Hurricane Helene and what it reveals about the nation’s preparedness for natural disasters.

Viewers will witness how Hurricane Helene served as a stark reminder of the increasing vulnerability of the United States to climate-related storms. The episode will feature interviews with experts and firsthand accounts from those affected by the hurricane. It aims to shed light on the systemic issues that have left communities at risk and the urgent need for better planning and resources.

As the episode unfolds, it will examine the broader implications of climate change and how it exacerbates the intensity and frequency of storms. This timely discussion is crucial as the...

The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has revealed its nominees for the 46th annual News & Documentary Awards.

The nominees for outstanding live news program include ABC World News Tonight With David Muir, The CBS Evening News With Norah O’Donnell, CBS Mornings, Good Morning America, NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt and Top Story With Tom Llamas.

In the best documentary category, nominees include American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders, The Commandant’s Shadow, The Grab, Hollywood Black, Mammals, Queendom, The Sing Sing Chronicles, The Sixth and The Truth vs. Alex Jones.

This year, the awards will be presented in two ceremonies: News will take place June 25 and documentaries will take place June 26, at the Palladium Times Square in New York City.

The News & Documentary Emmy Awards honor “programming content from more than 2,200 submissions that originally premiered in calendar-year 2024,” according to NATAS.

“We are thrilled to recognize the extraordinary talent and relentless...

Andy Muschietti, the director of the horror adaptation It (both chapters) and the terribly underrated Mama, is the showrunner of the upcoming Stephen King miniseries It: Welcome to Derry. Even though it's edgy to say that it's a Stephen King show (it's not exactly based on one of his books), per Muschietti's comments, we could be on the right track.

Muschietti, who's also working as a producer and director of four of the series' nine episodes, spoke to Radio Tu about Welcome to Derry and expanded on which stories will be told in the series. The series takes place in 1962, 27 years before the events of Muschietti's movie It, and it follows several residents of the town of Derry being terrorized by the evil entity that comes out every 27 years to feed itself.

While It: Welcome to Derry is clearly inspired by the source material and will even feature the return of Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise,...

Outsider Pictures has struck a deal with Berlin-based international sales agent Picture Tree International for U.S. distribution rights to a pair of Scandinavian dramas, “Stormskerry Maja” and “The Missile.” Both films will get limited theatrical runs next spring.

Outsider Pictures, founded and headed by Paul Hudson, has found success with several Scandinavian films in the past, such as “Adam’s Apples” and “Helene.”

“Although the main focus is on Latin and Spanish cinema, we remain open to good films from anywhere in the world,” Hudson explained to Variety.

“‘Stormskerry Maja’ is that classic ‘they don’t make them like this anymore’ film,” the Outsider boss said before alluding to the film’s tremendous local box office success; “Half a million Finns can’t be wrong.”

A logline for the film reads: “A young girl in the harshest corner of Earth. Death, war, and love shape the girl into a modern woman.

90 Day Fiance star Angela Deem is getting a lot of attention following her latest appearance. She’s back on social media after a quick break following Hurricane Helene’s devastation, which affected Georgia. Angela has been silent about her legal battles with Michael Ilesanmi as well, and it seems she’s putting more attention into herself today. Keep reading to see her clip getting love from a famous rapper.

90 Day Fiance: Was Angela Deem Affected By Hurricane Helene?

Angela previously took to TikTok to share updates following Hurricane Helene. According to the 90 Day Fiance star, she and her family are “making it” even though it was “hard.” She went on to say that she’s grateful to be alive with all the devastation of the hurricane. The reality TV personality also thanked the helpers who came across states to help the victims.

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Two of the families associated with the Duck Dynasty cast got caught in the path of destruction caused by Hurricane Helene. Al and Lisa Robertson, and Zach Dasher and his family, were all caught in Black Mountain, North Carolina when the storm hit. They opened up about their experienced on the latest episode of their “Unashamed” podcast. Here is what they had to say.

Lisa & Al Robertson Get Trapped By Hurricane Helene

Hurricane Helene proved itself to be a force as it ripped through the Southeastern United States at the end of September. Some people close to the Duck Dynasty family found themselves trapped in the storm.

Al and Lisa Robertson were in the Black Mountain region of North Carolina when Helene hit. On their “Unashamed” podcast, he said that they “got caught flat-footed” by the hurricane, which dumped more than 40 trillion gallons of rain in the Southeast.

“It hit...

Miranda Lambert has always been an advocate for animals. Recently, she donated a huge chunk of change to help animals in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. So, what else do we know about this generous donation from the singer?

Lives Will Never Be The Same In The Aftermath Of Hurricane Helene

If you have been keeping up with the news in any capacity, it has been impossible to avoid the news of all of the tragedy that Hurricane Helene left in its wake. More than 200 lives have been lost as a direct result of this natural disaster. This is in addition to properties, businesses, and livelihoods that were also in the path of destruction.

North Carolina saw the highest death toll among all of the states Hurricane Helene ravaged through. Along with Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, and more, there has been significant damage and loss of life since Helene first caused havoc,...

90 Day Fiance celeb Angela Deem recently gave her many fans an update following all the damage from Hurricane Helene. Is the controversial TLC star okay in the aftermath? What did she say?

Hurricane Helene Leaves Path Of Damage And Death

For anyone who has been keeping up with Hurricane Helene updates, the natural disaster left damage and death in its wake. The latest reports say that the death toll is above 200, with many still searching for survivors, as others try to put their lives back together in the aftermath.

While the majority of the deaths were in North Carolina, several other states took a lot of damage, including Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas. In addition to regular civilians, many people are curious about their favorite celebs in those areas, including how they are doing since everything went down.

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Ginger Zee calmed concerns from fans as she bravely covered Hurricane Helene!

Helene devastated parts of the East Coast, once it made landfall on September 26, 2024. Many national and local reporters have been keeping residents up to date with the storm’s conditions and damage.

Ginger is the chief meteorologist for ABC News, and she was on the ground offering regular updates about the hurricane and its effects! Despite her regular posts, many viewers have been concerned for her wellbeing.

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The weather reporter revealed that she was traveling to Florida to begin covering Helene in an Instagram post on September 25. She also provided a warning to residents in Tennessee, Georgia, western South Carolina, and western North Carolina.

Ginger later posted a selfie video, speaking about how the storm was moving. She also warned people in neighboring states to prepare.

Slayer guitarist Kerry King has announced a 2025 North American tour with his eponymous solo band.

The 28-date trek kicks off January 15th in San Francisco and February 22nd in Los Angeles, hitting Toronto, New York City, Dallas, and Las Vegas along the way. Municipal Waste and Alien Weaponry will provide support.

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A Live Nation ticket pre-sale begins Wednesday (October 2nd) at 10 a.m. local time using the code Tempo. General ticket sales start Friday (October 4th) at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster.

“Getting back on the road for the first time in five years wasn’t exactly like riding a bike, that’s for sure,” King said via a press release. “I’ve never had that much time off, but the first tours with my new band — in the UK and Europe, and then in America with Lamb of God and Mastodon — were all total blasts.

Teen Mom star Jenelle Evans offered a tongue-in-cheek "thank you" to Reddit users after spotting a thread about whether Hurricane Helene impacted her house.

Jenelle first came to fame on MTV's 16 & Pregnant back in 2010, and remained active in the Teen Mom franchise until she was axed in 2019.

However, back in May, the New York Post's Page Six reported that Jenelle was returning to reality TV for Teen Mom: The Next Chapter.

For obvious reasons, reality TV stars can't really disclose too much information about where they live, but Jenelle is from the coastal town of Oak Island, North Carolina.

As of late August, she'd reportedly started planning a move to Las Vegas where she was seen partying back in July but reportedly hadn't left her home state yet.

Hurricane Helene first made landfall late on September 26, battering a swath of southern states in the ensuing days.

Take Two Studios, the recently launched Finnish production banner, has enlisted industry veteran Sara Norberg as partner and COO.

The company was created last October by three of Finland’s top media executives, Eero Hietala, Lasse Koskinen and Ilkka Hynninen. Hietala and Hynninen previously co-founded Aito Media, where they produced the series “Almost True” and “Pirjo,” half-hour comedy “Mother-in-Paw” and procedural crime drama “Lakeside Murders.”

Norberg, who has over 20 years in the entertainment industry, previously oversaw Finland’s Helsinki International Film Festival for six years. She’s joining Take Two Studios from Cinematic, a Finnish film and TV banner where she worked as CEO and executive producer. While at the company, she spearheaded the production of Aku Louhimies’s action thriller “Omerta 6/12,” which ranks as Finland’s biggest-budgeted production ever. The movie was released in local cinemas in November, while a spinoff series will premiere on CMore later this year.

Due to Covid-19 cinema lockdowns or restrictions, box office in the Nordic region plummeted in 2020 year-on-year by 64% in Sweden, 57.6% in Iceland, 57% in Norway, 54% in Finland, and 47% in Denmark.

The dearth of new U.S .tentpoles, combined with strong domestic titles such as “Another Round,” allowed homegrown movies to punch all-time record market shares in Denmark (50.4%), Finland (41.1%) and Norway (35.6%).

The biggest U.S. hit across the Nordics was Disney’s “Frozen 2,” which continued to perform strongly in early 2020 after its Christmas 2019 opening.

Denmark: The Year of ‘Another Round’

Thomas Vinterberg’s Oscar contender and 2020 champion “Another Round” figured among a handful of national titles that saved the Danish cinema year and mitigated Covid-19’s impact on cinemagoing.

National box office sank 47% to Dkk 630 million ($101 million) off 7.2 million ticket sales in 2020. This compares to 13.2 million admissions for a gross box office value of Dkk 1.18 billion ($190 million) in 2019, according to preliminary data...

Picture Tree International has acquired international rights to Danish director Lisa Jespersen’s feature debut, the comedy drama “Persona Non Grata” (Hvor Kragerne Vender), and will introduce the film to buyers at the upcoming Nordic Film Market, after its launch in Nordic Competition during the online edition of Goteborg Film Festival this week. Variety has been given exclusive access to the trailer.

The film follows Laura who has distanced herself from her family in the countryside, and moved to Copenhagen to live the bohemian lifestyle as a writer. When she is forced to return home to attend her brother’s wedding, she discovers that he’s about to marry her worst childhood enemy Catrine. Laura realizes that Catrine has taken over her place in the family and is now ready to do anything to get it back.

Jespersen studied film directing at the National Film School of Denmark, and has...

Berlin-based Picture Tree International, which is participating in this week’s Ventana Sur, has announced a swathe of deals on its sales slate, including a pact with HBO for U.S. rights on Mexican comedy “Go Youth,” which premiered locally at Morelia Film Festival recently.

Carlos Armella’s movie tells the intertwined stories of four teenagers struggling with the absurdities of life and rebelling against the adult world.

“Enfant Terrible,” selected for Cannes Official Selection this year, has added to previously announced sales with a deal with Encripta for all Latin America. The film, directed by Oskar Roehler, is about the life of German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Deals have been closed for Norwegian romantic comedy “Diana’s Wedding” – Charlotte Blom’s bittersweet tribute to love – with Limelight for Australia and New Zealand, HBO Europe for Eastern Europe, and Ads for Hungary. Pti has received offers for the film from the U.

Chloé Zhao’s drama, shot by Joshua James Richards, also picked up the Fipresci Award.

Nomadland cinematographer Joshua James Richards was awarded the Golden Frog at Poland’s EnergaCamerimage International Film Festival on Saturday (November 21).

The US drama, starring Frances McDormand and directed by Chloé Zhao, also won the Fipresi award. Nomadland is a strong awards season contender and previously won the Golden Lion at Venice and People’s Choice audience award at Toronto.

The 28th edition of the cinematography festival, which took place entirely online this year, closed with Andrew Levitas’ Minamata and an honorary award for the film’s star,...

Finnish cinematographer Rauno Ronkainen is continuing his collaboration with director Antti J. Jokinen with the action films “Omerta 6/12” and “Omerta 7/12,” based on Ilkka Remes’ popular novel “6/12,” and starring “BlacKkKlansman’s” Jasper Pääkkönen. The films are shooting in Estonia.

Ronkainen and Jokinen previously worked together on three film: “Purge,” which brought Ronkainen the second of his three Jussi awards, period romance “The Midwife,” and most recently Laura Birn-led biopic “Helene,” about to take a bow at the EnergaCamerimage Film Festival in the main competition.

The “Omerta” films, which will be followed by a TV series, follow a secret unit of European special forces and their international operations, set in the near future and kick-starting with an attack by Serbian terrorist group.

Unlike in some other action thrillers “the world we are trying to show is not realistic,” Ronkainen tells Variety. The films could even be compared with nightmarish operas,...

China has struggled to get viewers back into cinemas this week, but the Shanghai Intl. Film Festival (Siff) has found a way to break through: screen all eight of the “Harry Potter” franchise films in a row, with limited seating due to Covid-19 distancing measures, and watch the public duke it out for the privilege to attend.

They must be doing something right in their selection, however: the festival sold 108,000 tickets in the first ten minutes of online sales. That contrasted with only slow box office in commercial cinemas which resumed operating on Monday.

Siff is set to run July 25 to Aug. 2 with an eclectic selection shown in a mix of screenings with a live audience, outdoor viewings and online streaming.

More than 400 films will screen in 29 designated cinemas, including Jordan Peele’s “Us,” a 4K restoration of “Apocalypse Now,” and “1917,” the only studio film new to Chinese audiences among the various offerings.

Film festival is scheduled for July 25 to August 2 with Shanghai TV Festival taking place August 3-7.

Shanghai International Film Festival (Siff) has confirmed that it will go ahead in a hybrid physical and virtual format, but mostly without overseas guests, from July 25 to August 2.

It will be immediately followed by the 26th Shanghai TV Festival (Stvf), which will be held August 3-7.

The news comes as Chinese authorities announced that cinemas in low-risk regions will start to reopen today (July 20). Chinese cinemas have been closed since January 23 as part of measures to contain the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic.

Shanghai has not...

Only this week officially confirmed as going ahead, the Shanghai International Film Festival has announced some of the first titles to be selected.

The festival will run 25 July to Aug. 2 combining a mixture of theatrical screenings in front of live audiences, outdoor screenings and online streaming. It will include a conference series known as the Golden Goblet Forum, its International Film and TV Market, a Belt and Road Film Week, and the Siff project market.

Cinemas in China only begin to operate from Monday 20 July. And the festival will be expected to play its part in minimizing the spread of the coronavirus. There will be no festival guests from overseas and tickets will only be sold online, starting from July 20 through vendor Taopiaopiao.

The first nine titles announced for the Golden Goblet competition section include: “Feel Your Memories,” from Italian director Cristina Comencini; “Helene,” a biopic about Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck directed by Antti Jokinen,...

Berlin-based Picture Tree International (Pti) has acquired global sales rights to Leander Haussmann’s highly anticipated East German laffer “A Stasi Comedy.”

Set in the early 1980s, the film centers on East Germany’s infamous state security service, the Staatssicherheitsdienst or Stasi, and young agent Ludger, played by David Kross, who is sent to infiltrate the counterculture scene in East Berlin’s Prenzlauer Berg district, home to artists, bohemians and free-thinking radicals. Decades later, Ludger is confronted with the possibility of his secret Stasi past coming to light.

Written and directed by Haussmann, “A Stasi Comedy” is the third installment in the celebrated filmmaker’s East German-themed comedy trilogy that began with “Sonnenallee” (“Sun Alley”) in 2000 and followed with “Nva” in 2004.

“After 30 years, it should be finally allowed to laugh about the Stasi,” Haussmann said.

“A Stasi Comedy” is produced by Ufa Fiction in co-production with Constantin Film, which is...

Directed by Antti Jokkinen, the biopic is about Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck.

Picture Tree International has boarded sales for Antti Jokinen’s Finnish drama Helene.

Picture Tree plans to screen the film for buyers at Goteborg’s Nordic Film Market and at Berlin’s European Film Market, with a festival premiere coming later in 2020. The film was previously touted as a work in progress in Haugesund in August 2019.

The biopic is about Helene Schjerfbeck, a Finnish painter who lived a quiet life in the countryside with her elderly mother. The film covers her life from 1915-1923, when an art dealer...