Entertainment
Entertainment Industry Expands Global Reach
NBC Sports is leveraging the World Cup to promote Premier League matches. Meanwhile, Raindance Film Festival and IMGN have partnered to support independent filmmakers with a new film fund and development hub. The Costa Rica Film Festival features notable international films focusing on Afro-Caribbean cinema and female directors.
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Variety
The Costa Rica Film Festival kicks off next week with a program featuring major festival hits such as Carla Simón’s “Romería,” Bi Gan’s “Resurrection,” Diego Céspedes’s “The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo,” Ulrike Ottinger’s Isabelle Huppert-starring “The Blood Countess” and Lucrecia Martel’s “Land
2026-07-16 11:54 UTC
Variety
The Raindance Film Festival has unveiled a new partnership with Israeli AI creative development platform IMGN, launching an initial £10,000 ($13,394) film fund to support independent filmmakers alongside a dedicated development hub tied to the Raindance Script Competition. Announced at the 34th Rain
2026-07-16 11:57 UTC
Variety
NBC Sports hopes to keep the nation’s summer of soccer alive, harnessing the interest in its World Cup telecasts on Telemundo and Peacock for its annual focus on Premier League play. NBC Sports and the league on Thursday launched “Find Your Match,” a shareable, interactive 11-quest
2026-07-16 12:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Cooper & Fry are heading to the U.S. after streamer BritBox snapped up the British crime drama. The show has performed well on Paramount-owned broadcast network 5 in the UK and now has a U.S. home. BritBox has snagged Season 1 of the show for U.S. and Canada, while Netflix has taken s
2026-07-16 12:00 UTC