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FG inaugurates committee to roll out electric buses for civil servants

The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HCSF), Olumuyiwa Enitan Abel, has inaugurated a nine-member committee to drive the implementation of the Renewed Hope Mass Transit Bus Scheme for Federal Civil Servants. The committee is…

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Sacha Baron Cohen To Star In Quentin Tarantino’s ‘The Popinjay Cavalier’ West End Stage Play In 2027

Sacha Baron Cohen To Star In Quentin Tarantino’s ‘The Popinjay Cavalier’ West End Stage Play In 2027

Sacha Baron Cohen will star in an upcoming West End production of Quentin Tarantino’s stage play The Popinjay Cavalier, Deadline hears. According to sources close to the project, Cohen will portray the title character when The Popinjay…

Former DreamWorks & MGM TV Exec Brian Edwards Teams With Alpha Film Founders To Launch Time Zone Capital

Former DreamWorks & MGM TV Exec Brian Edwards Teams With Alpha Film Founders To Launch Time Zone Capital

EXCLUSIVE: Former DreamWorks and MGM TV exec Brian Edwards has joined Alpha Film & Television founders Jon Hamm and Zack Sherman and finance investor Jaan Bains to launch a new global financing outfit dubbed Time Zone Capital. The company…

Cinema Guild Takes North American Rights on Ted Fendt’s ‘Foreign Travel’ Ahead of New York Film Festival Launch…

Cinema Guild Takes North American Rights on Ted Fendt’s ‘Foreign Travel’ Ahead of New York Film Festival Launch…

Indie distributor Cinema Guild has acquired North American distribution rights for Berlin-based U.S. director and literary translator Ted Fendt’s “Foreign Travel” that will have its North American premiere at the New York Film Festival…

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A Moody Wolverine Lets His Claws Do the Talking

Battles are blindingly fast-paced in Marvel’s Wolverine, in which the superhero teams up with Jean Grey and Sabretooth.

The New York Times

Jake & Logan Paul Land Fight Competition Series At Hulu & ESPN From Wheelhouse & MVP

Jake & Logan Paul Land Fight Competition Series At Hulu & ESPN From Wheelhouse & MVP

EXCLUSIVE: Jake and Logan Paul are coaching a new generation of fighters. The brothers, who are YouTube stars with various experience in boxing and wrestling, as well as courting controversy, have landed a fight competition series at Hulu…

‘Avatar: Seven Havens’ to Release Three Episodes Per Week as ‘Last Airbender’ Sequel Series Drops New Trailer

“Avatar: Seven Havens” will drop its first season in batches of three episodes per week. As previously announced, the new entry in the “Avatar: The Last Airbender” universe will debut on Oct. 9 on Paramount+. Now, Paramount has confirmed…

‘The Trial of Alec Baldwin’ Trailer

A trailer has been released for Oscar-nominated director Rory Kennedy’s long-awaited documentary, “The Trial of Alec Baldwin.” The film, which follows the actor after the accidental on-set shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in…

Virginie Efira to Receive Mill Valley Film Festival’s Screen Artistry Award for ‘All of a Sudden’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Virginie Efira to Receive Mill Valley Film Festival’s Screen Artistry Award for ‘All of a Sudden’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Virginie Efira will receive the Mill Valley Film Festival (MVFF) Award for Screen Artistry at the festival’s 49th edition, organizers announced. The actor is honored for her performance in “All of a Sudden,” which screens at the festival…

Lee Pace on Romancing Sandra Bullock in ‘Practical Magic 2,’ Life as a Gay Leading Man and His 6-Foot-Five Star Power

Lee Pace on Romancing Sandra Bullock in ‘Practical Magic 2,’ Life as a Gay Leading Man and His 6-Foot-Five Star Power

The first scene Lee Pace shot in “Practical Magic 2” required plenty of prosthetic tattoos — and zero wardrobe. “I’m lying on this bed, naked,” Pace says with a laugh, “and the two of them come into the room and do some magic.” In the…

Amalie Næsby Fick on Toronto-Bound ‘What Lies Between Us’ and Challenging Viewers

Amalie Næsby Fick on Toronto-Bound ‘What Lies Between Us’ and Challenging Viewers

Variety has been given exclusive access “What Lies Between Us” (“Dobbeltfejl”), selected for Toronto’s Discovery section and one of three short-listed Danish pics to become Denmark’s Oscar entry. The feature (formerly known as “Good…

Emmys 2026 Party Guide With Katherine LaNasa, Quinta Brunson and Richard Gadd

Emmys 2026 Party Guide With Katherine LaNasa, Quinta Brunson and Richard Gadd

Television’s biggest night of the year is almost here. In other words, let the partying begin. The festivities kick off with Gold House’s One House Toast to the Emmys as well as the Creative Coalition’s Humanitarian Awards dinner. Agencies…