Film, TV & Video Game Tax Credits Generated $3.2 Billion Worth Of Extra Spending In France From 2017 to 2021 – EY Consulting Study

‘Colin From Accounts’ Bags Trio Of Wins At Logies

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Australia’s annual celebration of TV this weekend named Sam Neill as the country’s most popular actor for his role in courtroom drama series “The Twelve.” The Foxtel and Binge show was the numerical winner on the evening in a tie with Binge’s “Colin From Accounts.” Both shows picked up a trio of awards.Sonia Kruger was named Australia’s most popular TV personality for her roles on “The Voice,” “Dancing With the Stars” and “The Masked Singer.”Gold Logie for most popular personality on Australian TV: Sonia Kruger, “The Voice,” “Dancing with the Star” and “Big Brother,” Seven Network Bert Newton Award for most popular presenter: Tony Armstrong, “A Dog’s World” with Tony Armstrong, ABC Silver Logie: Most popular Australian actor: Sam Neill, “The Twelve,” Foxtel & Binge Silver Logie: Most popular Australian actress: Kitty Flanagan, “Fisk Season 2,” ABC Graham Kennedy Award for most popular new talent: Amy Shark, “Australian Idol,” Seven Network Most popular drama series, miniseries or telemovie: “Home and Away,” Seven Network Most popular entertainment program: “Gogglebox Australia,” Foxtel & Network 10 Most popular current affairs program: “Australian Story,” ABC Most popular comedy program: “Have You Been Paying Attention?,” Network 10 Most popular reality program: “MasterChef Australia: Fans & Favourites,” Network 10 Most popular lifestyle program: “Travel Guides,” 9Network Most Outstanding AwardsSilver Logie: Most outstanding actor: Patrick Brammall, “Colin from Accounts,” Binge Silver Logie: Most outstanding actress: Harriet Dyer, “Colin from Accounts,” BingeSilver Logie: Most outstanding supporting actor: Thomas Weatherall, “Heartbreak High,” Netflix Silver Logie: Most outstanding

So this ‘Barbie’ film then, that’s a thing isn’t it? I ran some checks over the weekend and can definitely confirm, a thing it is. There’s a soundtrack too, of course, and that had quite an impact on the UK singles chart on Friday.In the week following the release of the film and ‘Barbie: The Album’, six tracks from the record were sufficiently streamed to appear in the UK Top 40, three of them in the top five.Billie Eilish’s ‘What Was I Made For’ is at number three, Dua Lipa’s ‘Dance The Night’ is at four, and Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice’s ‘Barbie World’, complete with a little bit of Aqua, is at number five.That’s Aqua’s first appearance in the top five in 25 years, the Official Charts Company told us on Friday.

Manchester United have agreed a major extension to their kit deal with Adidas worth at least £900m.

EXCLUSIVE: Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment has acquired UK distribution rights to the Ben Kingsley and Ezra Miller pic Dalíland alongside docs RoboDoc – The Creation of RoboCop and Hollywood Dreams and Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story. All three titles will debut on the Icon Film Channel.

Sony has removed the highly anticipated Spider-Man: Beyond The Spider-Verse from its release schedule, according to reports.Per Variety, Sony has delayed multiple movies like Kraven The Hunter and a sequel to Ghostbusters: Afterlife, while completely removing Beyond The Spider-Verse from its roster, effectively delaying the already-in-development film indefinitely.Beyond The Spider-Verse was originally scheduled for release in March 2024, but was halted due to the ongoing writers and actors strike in Hollywood. According to reports from Variety, the film’s voice cast were unable to complete dialogue recording before the strikes commenced and union’s work stoppage orders kicked in.According to Variety‘s report, a revised release date is expected to be announced in “the coming weeks”.The Aaron Taylor-Johnson-led Kraven The Hunter has also been pushed back from October 2023 to August next year, while the sequel to Ghostbusters: Afterlife is being delayed from December 20, 2023 until late March 2024.Meanwhile, films like Venom 3 and Bad Boys 4 have received their first release dates.

Former Hollyoaks actress Gemma Atkinson has shared a cheeky video of herself and fiancé Gorka Márquez just a week after they welcomed their second child. In the clip, which was posted to her Instagram Story, Gemma can be seen standing next to Gorka, 32, as he puts his arm around her. However, the Strictly Come Dancing pro’s motive wasn’t so innocent as she goes from looking quite content to unimpressed as he reaches down and squeezes her breast.

SAG-AFTRA has released a statement projects that are allowed to film during the strike.

On hearing the school bell or wolfing down the last mouthfull of your tea, we couldn't wait to go outside and play with our mates as kids.

Saw franchise, is back for Saw X.Lionsgate Films has released the first trailer for the highly anticipated tenth entry in the Saw franchise, which is shaped around the return of Tobin Bell’s iconic portrayal of John Kramer between Saw and Saw 3 films.Watch the intense and unnerving trailer for Saw X above.Saw X will be set in between the events of Saw and Saw 2, and tells the story of Kramer’s quest for revenge against the doctors who pretended to cure of him cancer, leading to his eventual death in Saw 3.An official synopsis of the film reads: “a sick and desperate John travels to Mexico for a risky and experimental medical procedure in hopes of a miracle cure for his cancer – only to discover the entire operation is a scam to defraud the most vulnerable. The infamous killer returns to his work, turning the tables on the con artists in his signature visceral way through devious, deranged, and ingenious traps”.Besides Tobin Bell’s John Kramer/Jigsaw, Saw X will also see the return of series veteran Shawnee Smith, who plays Amanda Young, Kramer’s protege.

It's no secret that Barbie is the film of the summer, from catchy songs and fun fashion, to a star-studded cast and enchanting storyline, it's all anyone can talk about. But it seems that our columnist Peter Andre has his own personal 'connection' to the film. In an exclusive chat with new, the dad-of-four revealed that he has an unknown link to the star of the movie, Margot Robbie, and it's a lot closer to home - for him anyway - than you might think! He said: "Margot Robbie, who plays Barbie, is not only a fellow Aussie but is a Gold Coast girl – which is where I’m from, too.

J.K. Rowling, the pen name of Joanne Rowling, was born on this day in history on July 31, 1965. The British author is the creator of the wildly popular and critically acclaimed Harry Potter book series, about a young sorcerer-in-training, as Britannica.com and other sources note.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief “Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms,” the first part of Wuershan’s big-budget “Fengshen Trilogy,” topped the mainland China box office for the second weekend and expanded its week-on-week haul by 35%. ‘Barbie’ also showed signs of resilience in a market where it opened a week earlier in a disappointing fifth place. “Creation of the Gods I” grossed $57.6 million.

Andrew Garfield is weighing in on participating in more Spider-Man movies.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer SAG-AFTRA has found itself defending its decision to give the green light to more than 100 independent productions to film during the strike. Many members, including Sarah Silverman and Viola Davis, have publicly suggested that working under an interim agreement would undermine the strike. Silverman went so far as to call it “scabbing,” though she walked back her criticism after speaking to union leadership.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief There is female empowerment in Korean cinemas, but it is coming more from local characters, than global hit “Barbie.” Female-led crime action film “Smugglers” dominated the weekend at the South Korean box office and pushed aside “Mission: impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” which had headed the chart for the previous two sessions. “Smugglers” earned $9.31 million between Friday and Sunday, according to data from Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council (Kofic), giving it a nearly 54% market share. Over its full five opening days, the film has built up a cumulative total of $13.1 million.

Teresa Giudice is looking back on an awkward encounter with “Modern Family” star Sofía Vergara. 

SAG-AFTRA tonight responded to criticism of its interim agreements, saying that they are a “vital part of our strategic approach to these negotiations and to the strike.” The interim agreements allow truly independent projects to film during the strike as long as they agree to be bound by the terms of whatever deal the guild eventually reaches with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.

Red Rooms won a leading three awards including Best Feature at the 27th annual Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal, with the thriller Femme taking Best Director for Sam H. Freeman & Ng Choon Ping and Outstanding Performance for Nathan Stewart-Jarrett. See the full list of winners below.

EXCLUSIVE: A second major transatlantic drama series on the Lockerbie bombing terror attack is in the works — this time at the BBC and Netflix.

in London over the past couple of weeks.I'm not quite sure what that means, but it might have something to do with recent trip to her homeland. Though she was born in London, Lipa grew up in the country of Kosovo, not far from her parents' native Albania.

Jungle have shared a new track called ‘Back On 74’, along with a unique, interactive music video – watch it below.The pop duo will release new album ‘Volcano’ on August 11, and it was first previewed by the single ‘Candle Flame’.The ‘Back On 74’ video is touted as a ‘music video art gallery’, with an ever-changing range of 10,000 images changing on each view.When viewing the video – created with WeTransfer – fans are able to download any of the images, with another then automatically taking its place for others to see.Watch the video here.“I think for Jungle, it’s actually really the most honest record we’ve made,” the band’s J Lloyd told NME of ‘Volcano’.“In my head, I see us as like Daft Punk or Chemical Brothers – that sort of duo that makes electronic music. But we’ve always had this soul side and this love for soul music, so it’s always been a little bit more song-based.

Harry Styles once sang, “I live for you, I long for you, Olivia,” so maybe we shouldn’t be surprised that he got the name permanently tattooed on his body.

Dennis Harvey Film Critic It’s become increasingly common to lend genre films some semblance of emotional depth by having their protagonists burdened from the start with profound grief or loss. That is especially the case with “Aporia,” producer Jared Moshe’s third feature as writer-director. Its variation on a particular kind of fantasy premise (often involving time travel) underlines the familiar wisdom of “Be careful what you wish for,” as the ability to alter tragic past events only ends up complicating the present for our main characters.

Hugh Grant Being Cast as Oompa Loompa in New ‘Wonka’ Film Criticized by Actor with Dwarfism

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual contender.

series of posts on X, the app formerly known as Twitter, Blaire Erskine, a staff writer for “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” recalled how, at first, some guests initially found he sounds funny — but soon let their annoyance be known.“Finally went to see ‘Barbie’ last night and the girls in front of me did this the whole movie lmao,” wrote the comedian alongside a video. In it, the jester-in-questions phone screen shone an apparent library of “fart sounds” with “over 1,000 farts.” “Sorry I should have clarified that the girls were in fact grown women,” said Erskine in a follow-up post.

Mark Labbett enjoyed a lavish night out with his girlfriend Hayley Palmer as they celebrated her birthday.

Harry Styles seemingly showcased some new ink during a boat trip in Bolsena, Italy this week.

Follow OK! on Threads here: https://www.threads.net/@ok_mag Stacey Solomon shared a beautiful snap of her returning home to her children after she had been away working. The 33 year old mother of five, took to social media to share the emotional picture of her hugging Belle, Rose and Rex, along with the family's two dogs - and she looked happier than ever.

Follow OK! on Threads here: https://www.threads.net/@ok_mag Barbie movie fans have been left in disbelief after they discovered that one of the film's characters was actually a real doll. Greta Gerwig's box office record-breaking film features a handful of discontinued Mattel dolls, such as Growing Up Skipper, who is played by Hannah Khalique-Brown. As demonstrated in the film, Growing Up Skipper is unique because her breasts grow if you lift her arm.The character only appears long enough in the film to explain her interesting function to the humans and Stereotypical Barbie, played by Margot Robbie.

Drew Barrymore had a surprising defense for that infamous breakup scene from Sex and the City!

Paris-SG are expecting an "insulting" offer for Kylian Mbappe from Real Madrid, according to a report.

Hugh Grant's casting in the upcoming prequel,, is being criticized by actors with dwarfism.In the trailer for the film, which was released earlier this month, Grant is seen as an Oompa Loompa, the name Roald Dahl used for the group of diminutive factory workers in his 1964 novel .While it's not clear if any actors with dwarfism are featured in the upcoming film, Oompa Loompas were played by actors with dwarfism in two previous films based on Roald Dahl's book.In a new interview from the BBC, George Coppen, an actor with dwarfism, said he believes the role should have been given to an actor with the condition. «A lot of actors [with dwarfism] feel like we are being pushed out of the industry we love,» Coppen told the outlet.He continued, «A lot of people, myself included, argue that dwarfs should be offered everyday roles in dramas and soaps, but we aren't getting offered those roles.

near Tom Sandoval, doesn't mean she'll film with Tom Sandoval. Based on new footage of the cast shared by , is keeping her promise not to interact with the 40-year-old man that with their 28-year-old costar, .

Ferne McCann delighted her followers with a heartwarming video of her daughter Sunday cuddling her newborn sister Finty. In the adorable sisters moment, the footage shows Sunday gently stroking Finty's back and kissing her as Finty snoozes soundly. Alongside the cute clip, Ferne wrote: "Sisters.