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Following Kendrick Lamar’s recent Super Bowl Lix halftime show, many fans believe singer Carrie Underwood should headline the next show.

Lamar performed at halftime of the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles championship game, with mixed reactions from viewers.

He featured various songs from his catalog during his set, emphasizing his Drake diss record, Not Like Us, and multiple tracks from his 2024 studio album, Gnx.

In addition to Lamar, Sza joined him on stage for several songs, including their duet Luther and All the Stars.

Several of this year’s halftime show moments went viral, including Serena Williams performing a crip walk dance on stage.

Now that the show is over, Underwood’s fans believe she’d be perfect as headliner for the 2026 Super Bowl due to her association with the NBC network.

Fans suggest Underwood as the next Super Bowl headline act

Soon after Fox’s Super Bowl coverage concluded,...

The Champion, or El Campeon, is a new Spanish sports drama film on Netflix that follows the same old pattern of setting out to tell a grand football story and failing terribly by the end. The plot follows a young Spanish wonderkid, known as Diego, who faces a professional crisis at the moment because of his arrogance and hot-headed temperament. After getting banned from upcoming games, and with his job at a prestigious football club at stake, Diego has to go through sessions of psychological evaluation against his wishes. Unfortunately, the world of fictional football films is still quite outweighed by bad and superficial presentations, and The Champion is not too different either, even though it aims quite high.

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Set in Spain, The Champion uses a sort of hybrid scenario to tell its story, as in, the teams and the league are all real,...

Netflix has a couple of major series airing all or part of their final seasons in July 2024. The hit Spanish drama Elite is set to premiere its eighth and final season in full this month with one final mystery (July 26), Vikings: Valhalla is setting off on one final adventure with its third season (July 11), and Cobra Kai is also entering its swan song era with the first part of its final sixth season arriving on Netflix July 18.

The most notable movie offering this month is Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (July 3). Thirty years after his last case, Eddie Murphy returns as the titular detective Axel Foley, teaming up with old pals Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) and Taggart (John Ashton) to uncover a conspiracy and keep his daughter Jane (Taylour Paige) safe.

Here’s everything else coming to Netflix this month. Note that Netflix marks its international offerings with that respective country’s two-letter country code.

Summer 2024 has officially begun, and as the weather starts to heat up this July, so will Netflix‘s streaming catalogue. From the highly anticipated return of “Cobra Kai” to the sixth season of the hit reality show “Too Hot to Handle,” Netflix is giving viewers lots to binge as they attempt to escape the summer sun.

Eddie Murphy is revising his iconic role of Detroit detective Axel Foley in “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F,” 40 years after the original “Beverly Hills Cop” film debuted. “Simone Biles Rising,” a four-part documentary about the olympic gold-medalist, is set to release some time this July — just in time for her return to the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.”Receiver,” another sports docuseries to follow last year’s “Quarterback,” will star NFL players like Davante Adams (Las Vegas Raiders) and Justin Jefferson (Minnesota Vikings).

Along with new content, Netflix is adding loads of family classics such...

Released in 2021, Pokémon Evolutions is an Ona miniseries created to celebrate the Pokémon franchise's 25th anniversary. The show's central gimmick was that each of the show's eight episodes would tell a story from a different region of the Pokémon world. The episodes were also be released in reverse order from the newest region to the oldest. Thus, episode one focused on the then-new region Galar, and the final episode focused on Kanto, the area featured in the original games.

What made Pokémon Evolutions so fascinating is that many episodes approach their stories uniquely, breaking away from the standard storytelling style Pokémon often uses. Alas, some of these experiments worked better than others, leading to a fascinatingly variable experience.

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Laetitia Casta will soon appear on the big screen as the former wife of an abusive southern Italian man whom she is accused of murdering in the thriller “A Dark Story,” directed by Italy’s Leonardo D’Agostini.

In “Dark Story” the French star, whose recent credits include “The Crusade” directed by her husband Louis Garrel, plays Carla (first look image above), the ex-wife of Vito Semeraro, a banker who beat her when they were together and is the father of her three children. She is accused of murdering him a few years after they split up.

Italian sales company True Colours is launching sales in Cannes on this psychological noir that marks the sophomore feature by D’Agostini whose 2019 debut drama “The Champion” – a soccer dramedy about a young male soccer star and a shy academic who becomes his tutor – sold widely via the same outfit. Andrea Carpenzano stars in “Dark Story” alongside Casta.

Netflix unveiled its slate of Polish-language series and films due to hit its service in 2023 in a “See What’s Next” event in Warsaw on Tuesday.

Since arriving in Poland in 2016, the platform has steadily ramped up production of local content and has gotten behind 40 original local Polish films and series to date

The 2023 offering is topped by eight Polish features, including four new titles: Kiss, Kiss!, Phenomenon, Soulcatcher and Squared Love Everlasting, as well as three series Absolute Beginners, Infamy and Feedback, about an alcoholic former rock star and adapted from the Polish best-seller of the same name by Jakub Żulczyk.

Spanning romantic comedies, thrillers and sci-fi and coming-of-age dramas, the feature slate taps into a raft of popular local acting talent.

Kiss, Kiss! features top actor Mateusz Kościukiewicz as a womanizer who decides to test his powers of seduction by pursuing a woman who is...

When Sylvester Stallone wrote "Rocky," he was a poor, struggling actor living in a crappy apartment with a baby on the way. After he completed the script, Stallone refused to sell it until the studio agreed to cast him in the lead role. It was a huge gamble for a no-name actor and first-time screenwriter, but it paid off in the end.

Stallone's story about the underdog southpaw was a huge hit with audiences and became one of the most popular sports movies ever. After four decades, five sequels, and three spin-offs, it's clear that audiences still connect with the story of Rocky Balboa, but is his journey all that original? Well, no.

There's a long and rich history of underdog stories in literature, film, music, and even certain religious traditions, so it could be argued that rooting for the underdog has become something of a reflex for humanity. Stallone...

Carrie Underwood emerged from “American Idol” as one of the biggest country-pop crossover successes of the 21st century. But what are the very best songs of her career? Scroll down to see how we rank her all-time greatest hits. There are a lot to choose from, so what do you think of our selections. Did we leave off any of your favorites? Let us know below in the comments, and join all the discussion here with your fellow music fans.

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Underwood broke out in 2005 when she competed in — and won — the fourth season of “Idol,” and though not every champion from that singing competition series has achieved lasting success in the music business, Underwood has ruled in the music industry for years. She has won seven Grammys, more than any other “Idol” alum, and to date she’s the...

With more and more viewers tuning in to international television shows and movies on streaming,Israeli based company Adapt Entertainment has found a way for the programming to speak to everyone — literally.

The company’s founder, Darryl Marks, says fans often complain about how poorly a show or film is dubbed. Adapt’s technology combines AI and visual effects to seamlessly convert movie dialogue into English and other languages.

Most recently, the tech was used for the English transfer of Maciej Barczewski’s film “The Champion” — about a prizefighter who must win his matches to survive in Auschwitz — set for a U.S. release later this

year. Barczewski calls the technology a “game changer.” The original movie is in Polish and German; the director wanted to film in English but didn’t have the budget to do so.

Mike Seymour, the film’s VFX supervisor and Adapt’s technical adviser,...

When Adapt Entertainment CEO Darryl Marks bought the domestic rights to the Polish Holocaust drama “The Champion,” he hoped that he could help the film’s story reach a wider, English-language audience. But he told the film’s director that his plan would involve using visual effects and A.I. to seamlessly convert the movie into the English language. “He said, ‘I think it would be great because I wanted to do the movie in English and had no money to do it,” Marks recalled director Maciej Barczewski telling him. “Just don’t make my guys look like monkeys.” While “Parasite” and “Squid Game” have changed the landscape for how English-language audiences consume international content, Marks believes the digital technique they utilized on “The Champion” could become a template for how to take international cinema to the next level. Adapt now trumpets the “The Champion” as the first complete feature...

Banijay has acquired control of Italy’s expanding Groenlandia Group, which is a producer on ITV’s “Romulus” skein and made recent Netflix Italian original film “The Incredible Story of Rose Island,” among other titles.

The Rome-based company, headed by directors and producers Matteo Rovere and Sydney Sibilia, has been steadily growing since its founding in 2014. Besides “Romulus” — both the film and the TV series which Rovere directed, and “Rose Island,” helmed by Sibilia, Groenlandia’s recent output also includes Leonardo D’Agostini’s widely exported soccer comedy drama “The Champion,” starring Stefano Accorsi, and Ludovico De Martino’s actioner “The Beast,” co-produced with Warner Bros. and now streaming globally on Netflix.

Groenlandia also comprises Ascent Films, founded and managed by Andrea Paris, who will keep operating in the shingle, in which it has had a majority stake since 2014. Ascent is an incubator shingle focused on identifying and establishing new talent.

Loco Films, the Paris-based world sales and production company, has unveiled the trailer for Yulia Trofimova’s feature debut “The Land of Sasha” which is premiering today at the Berlinale, in the Generation 14plus strand.

“The Land of Sasha” tells the story of an indecisive 18-year-old struggling to pursue his desire to become a painter as his mother urges him to choose a safer career path. The sudden appearance of the boy’s estranged father complicates things further. But when Sasha has an unexpected encounter with an unusual girl called Zhenia, he realizes he has no choice but to finally grow up.

“The Land of Sasha” was produced by Katerina Mikhaylova and Konstantin Fam for Moscow-based Vega Film. The young director said she has always been inspired by Paul Thomas Anderson and Noah Baumbach, and watched “Francis Ha” many times while writing the script.

Trofimova said the film was a...

Chiara Bellosi, whose first work, “Ordinary Justice,” launched from Berlin’s Generation 14plus section in 2020, is back with “Swing Ride” (“Calcinculo”) about an overweight 15-year-old named Benedetta pining for attention in an Italian province where she falls in love with the skinny non-binary Amanda.

A key difference between the two films is that while “Ordinary Justice,” which examined the lives of two families on opposite sides of a murder case, originated from a deeply researched screenplay that Bellosi wrote, “Swing Ride” — premiering in Panorama on Feb. 13 — stems from a prizewinning script proposed to her by Carlo Cresto Dina, her producer, who also discovered Alice Rohrwacher (“Happy as Lazzaro”) and is known for nurturing the cream of Italy’s new cinematic crop.

“It’s a very different process; it was the first time that I had to start from a world that didn’t germinate from me,” said Bellosi about working...

Italy’s Vision Distribution has boarded Berlin Panorama title “Swing Ride,” directed by Chiara Bellosi, and will launch sales at the upcoming EFM on the pic about an overweight teenager named Benedetta who is pining for attention.

“Swing Ride” (“Calcinculo”) is a dark fable set in a small southern Italian town portraying the friendship between Benedetta, played by newcomer Gaia Di Pietro, and the skinny non-binary Amanda, played by Andrea Carpenzano whom Benedetta decides to follow in her “stray world,” as the director puts it in her notes.

Described by Bellosi as depicting an unusual friendship and the experience of empowerment, this coming-of-age film follows Bellosi’s first feature “Ordinary Justice,” which examined the lives of two families on opposite sides of a murder case and launched from Berlin’s Generation 14plus section in 2020.

Both pics are produced by Carlo Cresto Dina’s Tempesta which discovered Alice Rohrwacher and is...

If your household isn’t wall-to-wall Elf for the entirety of this month, then a) that must be nice and quiet. Can I come and stay? and b) you must be on the look-out for some alternative film options. Find them below in our handy guide to what’s premiering daily on Sky Cinema in the UK in December. Yes, there’s Christmas fare, including something about an animated cow, Mel Gibson playing a gun-toting Santa Claus, and two Sky Original festive films Last Train to Christmas and A Christmas Number One, but there’s much more besides.

Our highlights include monster mash-up Godzilla vs. Kong, Lin-Manuel Miranda musical In the Heights, excellent Thomas Vinterberg drinking drama Another Round (Mads Mikkelsen’s closing scene is worth the price of admission alone), and The Suicide Squad, which needs no introduction round these parts. There’s also the Peter Rabbit sequel for...

“My Brilliant Friend” star Margherita Mazzucco is set to play Saint Clare of Assisi in Susanna Nicchiarelli’s new feature film “Chiara” which will conclude the director’s trilogy of female biopics also comprising “Nico, 1988” and “Miss Marx.”

Nicchiarelli’s portrait of the 13th century saint born into a wealthy family who at age 18 became a nun after hearing St. Francis preach is being produced by the director’s regular producers, Marta Donzelli and Gregorio Paonessa’s Vivo Film, with Rai Cinema and Belgium’s Tarantula.

Italian actor Andrea Carpenzano (“The Champion”) is also set to star.

“The strength of Chiara’s story lies in her modernity: after all, we are talking about an eighteen year old who, although in a very different context from ours, fights for her dreams,” Nicchiarelli said in a statement. “I am convinced that his story can also speak to the girls and boys of today,...