AMC Entertainment shares surge as chain nears deal to avoid bankruptcy

Manori Ravindran International EditorAustralian soap opera “Neighbours” is going off air after 37 seasons.The embattled series has been under threat of cancellation ever since its primary funder, U.K. broadcaster Channel 5, pulled the plug in early February.

Christopher Vourlias Denis Ivanov, the Ukrainian producer of critically acclaimed films including Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy’s “The Tribe,” Sergey Loznitsa’s “Donbass” and Oleh Sentsov’s “Rhino,” has penned an impassioned letter against Russia’s war in Ukraine, describing it as a “genocide against Ukrainians” and accusing the Russian military of war crimes.In the letter, Ivanov gave his full-throated support to a boycott on Russian films, demanding “no more ‘business as usual’ with Putin’s Russia.”“I think some festival selectors, film professionals and cultural managers just do not get what is happening in Ukraine,” he wrote, in light of an ongoing campaign by the Russian military that has escalated in recent days. “This war of aggression by the Russians has turned into a war on independence and a war for values and rights.

EXCLUSIVE: Australia’s Stan and 9Network have commenced production on Bali 2002, based on the terrorist attacks on the nation’s tourist hotspots 20 years ago, with distributor Banijay Rights launching at yesterday’s London Screenings showcase.

Two Falkirk landscapers have travelled to Ukraine to help people flee the country while it is under attack from Russia.

Mitski has performed ‘Stay Soft‘ from her new album ‘Laurel Hell‘ on Jimmy Kimmel Live.In the clip the singer-songwriter choreographs her performance with hand gestures, dancing and other theatrics. Watch it below.The musician is currently on tour in support of her sixth album, which NME hailed in a four-star review as her “grandest music yet”.In other news, Mitski has requested that fans stop filming “entire songs or whole sets” at her shows.She took to Twitter last month to post a “note” in which she asked audience members to be considerate about their mobile phone habits at gigs.“Hello! I wanted to speak with you about phones at shows,” she began.

Kate Garraway was forced to change the name of her new BBC show after spotting an unfortunate problem.

Neighbours is to be cancelled after 37 years with producer Fremantle unable to secure an alternative funder for the show.

Pixies have returned with their first new music since 2020 – listen to ‘Human Crime’ below.The song follows the band’s 2020 single ‘Hear Me Out‘ and their latest studio album, 2019’s ‘Beneath The Eyrie‘.In the new single vocalist Black Francis (real name Charles Thompson IV) reflects on an old relationship: “Went by your place/ There was nobody there/ At the cocktail lounge/ Someone else was in your chair.”It’s comes with a music video that’s directed by Pixies bassist Paz Lenchantin, which was filmed at the San Pedro abandoned bunkers and Santa Monica’s Gold Diggers Bar in LA.“The storyline is loosely based on an ‘inside joke’ between Charles and I about going on tour,” Lenchantin explained in a statement. “How we go through a door from our reality state into the altered state of becoming and being a Pixie.”Meanwhile, Pixies were due to release their ‘Live In Brixton’ box set in January, but the release was delayed until the end of last month.The eight-disc collection documents the group’s four sold-out reunion shows that took place at London’s O2 Academy Brixton in June 2004.

ITV has announced plans to launch a brand new streaming service later this year.

EXCLUSIVE: Production on Netflix’s Nailed It! Halloween was permanently suspended a day after crew members went on strike to secure a contract with IATSE. The walkout happened midway through filming the eight-episode Halloween arc of Nailed It!‘s seventh season.

The next phase of ITVs digital strategy is here as the network launches a streaming service called ITVX that will air shows months before they arrive on linear, while posting impressive revenue and profit growth and record advertising spend.

A ‘money-motivated’ off-licence owner tried to hide a stash of illegal cigarettes and vapes in his car as police and trading standards officers raided his shop.

Russian tycoon Alisher Usmanov's superyacht has been seized amid the ongoing war in Ukraine.

Lanarkshire Women In Business is running a month-long programme of online “impactful events” for female entrepreneurs.

A 42-year-old massage therapist based in Ipswich has pleaded not guilty to assaulting two men during therapy sessions. Trigger Warning: This story has details of sexual assault, which might be distressing to some readers. For 24 hour crisis support and suicide prevention call Lifeline on 13 11 14. For Australia-wide LGBTQI peer support call QLife on 1800 184 527 or webchat.The massage therapist is facing charges of sexually assaulting a 19-year-old man and a 41-year-old man in November 2020, the Courier Mail reported. According to the prosecution, the 19-year old visited the therapist twice and the alleged sexual assault occurred during the second session. The complaint by the 19-year-old victim says that during the treatment, the massage therapist groped his penis around five to six times. During the same session, when the complainant was lying on his stomach, the massage therapist continued to massage the top of his thighs and repeatedly touched the victim around the outside of his anus with his finger.According to the complaint filed by the 41-year-old man, he had visited the massage therapist for help with chronic muscle spasms after a spinal injury.

After weeks of planning and preparation World Book Day is here again.

The axe of Neighbours has officially been confirmed much to fans' dismay.

I can't stop saying Tönka. Similar to how Gunna has encouraged people to start living a more P-friendly lifestyle, Yeat has created his own language full of umlauts that has me wondering if January and Shmunktobër are the same thing.

Twenty Five Twenty One star Kim Tae-ri has tested positive for COVID-19, delaying production for the drama.Kim’s representatives at Management mmm confirmed in a statement to MK Sports yesterday (March 2) that the actress had tested positive for the COVID-19 virus last week and is currently undergoing self-quarantine.“Before filming for her drama, Kim Tae-ri used a self-test kit as a precautionary measure, and when she received a positive result, she underwent PCR testing right away,” Management mmm wrote, as translated by Soompi. “On February 26, her test results ultimately came back positive.”Kim’s agency also went on to clarify that the actress is double-vaccinated against the virus, and had “immediately halted all scheduled activities”.

AMC has given out a series order to the musical anthology dramedy “National Anthem,” with the cabler giving the series an initial eight-episode order.

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AMC Theatres is not ready to roll credits on American moviegoers amid the coronavirus pandemic.

AMC bosses won’t be pulling a controversial episode of Mad Men, featuring blackface, from the network in an effort to maintain “historical authenticity”.According to the Los Angeles Times, the episode in question – season three’s My Old Kentucky Home – will be shown in its entirety, along with trigger warning ahead of the programme, warning it contains “disturbing images related to race in America”.“One of the characters is shown in blackface as part of an episode that shows how commonplace racism was in America in 1963,” it reads.