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A new announcement may reveal when Doctor Who will release its three 60th Anniversary specials on the BBC and Disney+.

Following the climax of the BBC's centenary special of Doctor Who, "Power of the Doctor," David Tennant is back to piloting the Tardis for a trilogy of specials to celebrate the show's 60th Anniversary, after which he will be replaced by Barbie and Sex Education star Ncuti Gatwa for Season 14.

The 60th Anniversary specials trilogy - "The Star Beast," "Wild Blue Yonder," and "The Giggle" - will be the first in a new deal to bring Doctor Who to Disney+ outside the UK and Ireland, where it will continue to air on BBC One and Player.

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Melbourne, March 29 (Ians) Teenage batter Phoebe Litchfield has been rewarded for her recent white-ball form by winning a place in Australia’s 15-player squad for their Ashes tour of England.

Australia will play one Test match, three T20Is and three ODIs in the multi-format women’s Ashes series, to be held in England from June 22. The Meg Lanning-led have held the women’s Ashes since 2015 and won by 12-4 margin in 2021/22 at home.

Litchfield, the 19-year-old batting prodigy, who caught attention by hitting back-to-back half-centuries in her first two ODIs against Pakistan in January, is the only addition to the Australian squad who secured a record-extending sixth T20 World Cup title in South Africa in February.

“Following the success of the side at the recent T20 World Cup, the focus now turns to the exciting challenge of retaining the Ashes away from home. We’ve been fortunate to...

The Royal Festival Hall will host red carpet galas.

The BFI London Film Festival (Lff) will hold its red carpet galas at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall for the first time during its 2021 edition (October 6-17).

There will be no red carpet screenings in London’s West End, and previous gala venue the Odeon Leicester Square will not be used at all by Lff.

The Royal Festival Hall will host the opening and closing night galas, eight headline galas and a number of major special screenings. The capacity will be 2,700 seats.

The BFI Southbank will host the Lff’s competitive strands,...

Dubai, June 8 (Ians) The International Cricket Council (Icc) on Tuesday nominated Pakistan's Hasan Al), Praveen Jayawickrama of Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh's Mushfiqur Rahim for the Icc Player of the Month for May award in recognition of their performance in all three formats of the game.

In the women's section, Kathryn Bryce of Scotland, and Ireland's Gaby Lewis and Leah Paul were nominated for the honour.

Based on the votes received from fans, who can choose their players on www.icc-cricket.com/awards, the Player of the Month in men's and women's sections will be announced.

Ali took 14 wickets in two Tests against Zimbabwe recently while Jayawickrama bagged 11 wickets at 16.18 on his Test debut to bowl host Sri Lanka to victory in the second Test against Bangladesh in Pallekele. These were the best match figures by any Sri Lankan bowler on Test debut.

Rahim played one Test (in Sri Lanka) and...

Exclusive: Matthew Goode has been tapped to play Robert Evans, the legendary producer and studio executive, in the upcoming in Paramount+’s limited event series The Offer. Miles Teller recently was set to play producer Albert S. Ruddy, replacing Armie Hammer in the role.

The Offer is based on the Oscar-winning producer Ruddy’s experiences of making the iconic 1972 film that Francis Coppola directed and adapted with Mario Puzo from Puzo’s bestselling novel, starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, John Cazale, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton and Talia Shire. Evans oversaw the studio during the films production and gave the sign-off in green-lighting the pic.

Robert Evans Dies: ‘Chinatown’ Producer Who Ran Paramount During ‘Godfather’ Years Was 89

The 10-episode event series is written and executive produced by Nikki Toscano, who also showruns, and creator and Oscar- and Emmy-nominated writer Michael Tolkin. Teller and Ruddy...

Stars: Abbi Butler, James J. Fuertes, Katie Gunn, Les Parker, Sean Ramey | Written and Directed by Bob Giordano

The Odds sits alongside movies like Buried and Elevator which have a set of characters (or character) in one small setting for the entirety of the movie. In The Odds we see a man and woman sat opposite each other at a table in a small room from pretty much the first minute to the last.

I actually like these types of movies. Having that singular setting and a limited amount of characters means that the film has to rely on great performances and/or a great script if it wants to excel. The characters here are sat at the table to play a game. Well, at least one of them, the woman. She is hoping to win $1 million dollars in a pain endurance ‘game’ that is being filmed seemingly for people to put bets on.

A New Legacy is rightfully being compared to Ready Player One and the Lego movies after Warner Bros. dropped the first Space Jam 2 trailer. The 2018 big adaptation of Ernest Cline's 2011 novel had a huge amount of Warner Bros. cameos for fans to geek out on, but the Space Jam sequel may contain even more cameos from even weirder parts of the studio's vast vault, as evidenced by the short trailer. Prepare for multiple viewings of the Space Jam 2 trailer.

Tunes vs. Goons. Watch LeBron James and Bugs Bunny in the new trailer for Space Jam: A New Legacy. In theaters and streaming on HBO Max* – July 16. #SpaceJamMoviepic.twitter.com/7KOEPJP06i

— Space Jam: A New Legacy (@spacejammovie) April 3, 2021

The Iron Giant makes a return in the Space Jam 2 trailer, looking a lot like it did in Ready Player One. He's joined by King Kong, who is...

Join our newsletter to get more stories like this Presently, the Orion Cinema Network (Ocn) seems to be “taking it easy” with their K-dramas. Known mostly for both crime and thriller melodramas, their current lineup for the 2018 to 2019 swing season is doing okay. However, they are not the powerhouses like last year’s Voice 2 and Player. But now we have more news of Ocn getting back to the swing of things with two Hallyu stars signing on for an upcoming K-drama. Nana of Orange Marmalade and Jang Ki-Yong of Come and Hug Me were recently cast as main […]

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In 1962, two filmmakers met in a room at Universal Studios to discuss (what else?) cinema. Those directors were François Truffaut and Alfred Hitchcock. (Providing assistance was French-language translator Helen Scott.) Together, they talked for over 50 hours, poring over every film the old master ever made. In 1967, Truffaut published what has universally come to be known as an essential text, titled Hitchcock/Truffaut, which contains rich and detailed transcripts of the extraordinary conversation.

Filmmaker Kent Jones‘ documentary about this historic meeting of the minds is now out, which inspired The Film Stage to look back at some of the forgotten, overlooked, and underrated films from these two beloved directors. The following ten titles contain all of the nuance, mystery and joy that we’ve come to expect from Hitchcock and Truffaut, with many overlapping themes and stylistic sensibilities.

Please enjoy the list, and don’t forget to suggest your own favorites in the comments.

There are two upcoming movie musicals that, for a long time, I've wanted to make into motion pictures, should someone with money be willing to give me the funds to make them -- Into The Woods and The Last 5 Years. I'm both nervous and excited to see how directors Rob Marshall and Richard Lagravenese, respectfully, have interpreted the material I hold so close to my heart. I am especially nervous for Into The Woods, given Marshall's less than impressive track record. If someone is going to screw up something I cherish, it should be me. Of course, there are far more than two musicals I have a deep connection to. Some have already been made into films, like Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Les Miserables, but there is a vast collection of musicals I have thought could make fantastic films, but have never been made.