‘The Witcher’ prequel series ‘Blood Origin’ confirmed for Netflix

Ryan Reynolds and Mark Ruffalo are attending a special screening of their new Netflix movie!

Dua Lipa has kicked off her Future Nostalgia Tour!

A cosmetics executive was caught drink-driving home from a work colleague's leaving party.

An Oldham GP practice has lost its contract to treat patients after years of spiralling problems including a fraudster manager who swiped £580,000 to feed her gambling habit.

A report detailing a drastic increase in anti-Semitic hate crimes in Greater Manchester has 'shocked but sadly not surprised' the Jewish community.

Everyone in Manchester has an Afflecks story.

Former Celtic keeper Packie Bonner believes Aberdeen have every right to feel aggrieved over the award of Jota's winner during the 3-2 thriller at Pittodrie.

Wishaw boss David Dunn has urged the community to back them as they try to climb the West of Scotland League Conference C table.

Happy Ange Postecoglou praised his Celtic side for making it 20 games unbeaten in the Premiership and insisted there is still plenty more success to come from his table-toppers.

Ross ‘The Boss’ Montgomery insists chats with world number one Gerwyn Price will help him in his quest to improve after an impressive PDC bow.

Shotts boss John McKeown says his side are in a good position as they head into the final straight in the West of Scotland Conference A title race.

Staff at an Ayrshire nursery have been praised for their “consistently warm” and “nurturing” approach to the children under their care.

Anna Marie de la Fuente It’s a new dawn for Chile’s audiovisual industry. When Gabriel Boric, Chile’s youngest (at 35) and most left-leaning president since Salvador Allende, was elected in December, his pledge to more than double the state’s contribution to the arts was greeted with great fanfare.After all, Chile’s prodigious film output this past decade has been remarkable despite the scant public support it has received.“If everything we have achieved in the last 10 years was done with so little money, imagine what we can achieve with an increase in audiovisual funding!” says Constanza Arena, executive director of Chile’s film promotion org, CinemaChile.In recent years, Chile has triumphed at the Oscars, starting when Pablo Larraín’s “No” was nominated for international feature in 2012, and culminating in an Oscar win for Sebastian Lelio’s “A Fantastic Woman” in 2017.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Key Chilean projects being moved at this year’s European Film Market:AlisDirectors: Clare Weiskopf and Nicolás van HemelryckCasatarántula produced this Chile-Colombia-Romania doc along with Pantalla Cines and Defilm. Produced by Alexandra Galvis and Radu Stancu, it world premieres at Berlinale’s Generation 14plus sidebar.

Emiliano De Pablos Barcelona-based Filmax has picked up international sales rights to psychological thriller “Girl Unknown” (“La desconocida”), the sophomore film by Spanish director Pablo Maqueda (“Dear Werner”).The film is based on the hit play “Grooming,” penned by Paco Bezerra, which has been adapted in more than 10 countries. Filmax is launching the film with a first promo at the European Film Market.Produced by Spain’s Elamedia Estudio, La Fragua Producciones and Fórmula Cine, “Girl Unknown” shot on locations in Madrid and Albacete, and is currently in post.Maqueda, Bezerra and writer-producer Haizea G.

Christopher Vourlias Two-time Berlinale prize winner Małgorzata Szumowska (“Body,” “Mug”) will write and direct “The Gambler Wife,” a revelatory portrait of novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s wife Anna Snitkina, to be produced by Russia’s Hype Film, Variety can reveal.Adapted from Andrew D. Kaufman’s book “The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky,” the film tells the story of the courageous woman who saved the life of the Russian literary icon and, as the first Russian woman to found her own publishing house, became a pioneer in the country’s literary history.Ilya Stewart of Hype Film (“Petrov’s Flu,” “Persian Lessons”) will produce in collaboration with Polish production company Nowhere.

Kelly Osborne has been very active on social media since returning last month after taking an extended break from it, and fans have been delighted – until now.MORE: Kelly Osbourne reveals utter devastation following tragic lossOn Wednesday night, Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne's daughter posted a very controversial picture onto her Stories, showing a pizza covered with peas.WATCH: Kelly Osbourne's emotional update on her sobriety journey"If you don't put peas on your pizza... you ain't living!" she wrote alongside a picture of a Margherita pizza completely covered in them.READ: Sharon Osbourne announces huge TV news amid Whoopi Goldberg suspensionRELATED: Sharon Osbourne breaks silence as Whoopi Goldberg is suspended from The ViewMinutes later, the 37-year-old began resharing her friends' opinions on the matter, and it's clear they were all very taken aback by her suggestion.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorGlobal Screen has secured a presale of the female-led drama “Lost Transport” to Menemsha Films for the U.S. and Canada ahead of the European Film Market in Berlin.Inspired by true events, the film tells the story of the final days of World War II when German soldiers abandon a deportation train, leaving the fate of its occupants in the hands of advancing Russian troops.

Tom Hanks, Gerard Butler, Evan Rachel Wood and Rosamund Pike headline projects being brought onto Berlin’s virtual European Film Market.Just how large its top-tier offers may be is, and the volume of deals, are still open for debate.“Very compact,” Constantin’s Martin Moszkowicz said mid-last week of the EFM, which swelled somewhat thanks to a flurry of title announcements on Feb. 4, followed by a steady trickle of big unveils.“The EFM does not look like it will have the comparable volume of the AFM,” Mister Smith’s David Garrett said.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentFrançois Ozon, the prolific and provocative French director who won the Berlinale’s 2018 Golden Bear Award with “By the Grace of God,” is returning to the festival with “Peter von Kant” which will world premiere on opening night. A twist on Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s cult film “The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant,” Ozon’s movie has Denis Menochet playing the tormented filmmaker, opposite Isabelle Adjani, who stars as his muse. Like the original film, “Peter von Kant” is about a film about love, jealousy and domination.

J. Kim Murphy Hollywood Teamsters Local 399 have voted in favor of ratifying a new three-year contract with the industry’s major employers.

The January transfer window signings at Bolton Wanderers have made a big difference at the club and standards have been lifted, defender Will Aimson believes.

Spotify-exclusive podcast The Joe Rogan Experience this week, both on-stage and during an episode of the podcast itself.Rogan’s podcast recently prompted protest from the likes of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Graham Nash and Nils Lofgren, with the musicians pulling their catalogues from the streaming platform.Young sparked the exodus late last month, when he requested his music be taken off Spotify, citing the platform “spreading false information about vaccines” and specifically targeting Rogan.It came after hundreds of scientists and medical professionals asked Spotify to address COVID misinformation on its platform, sparked by comments made on Rogan’s podcast – calling the host’s actions “not only objectionable and offensive but also medically and culturally dangerous”.In response, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek said that, while the platform wouldn’t be severing ties with the controversial figure, they would be adding content advisories to podcast episodes which discussed COVID-19, directing users to their dedicated information hub.Rogan himself addressed the boycott on Instagram, telling fans: “I don’t always get it right. I will do my best to try to balance out these more controversial viewpoints with other people perspectives so we can maybe find a better point of view.”Shortly after, Rogan found himself embroiled in controversy again when songwriter India.Arie shared a video that compiled instances the podcast host had used the N-word on his podcast.

PENTAGON’s Yeo One will be temporarily halting his scheduled activities after sustaining injuries in a car accident.The K-pop idol’s agency, CUBE Entertainment, released a statement earlier today (February 10) announcing that Yeo One would be absent from the group’s upcoming activities, as well as updating fans on his condition following the incident.“On the early morning of February 9, while returning home after wrapping up an individual scheduled activity, [Yeo One] suffered a car accident from the vehicle of a drunk driver,” CUBE Entertainment said, as translated by Soompi. CUBE Entertainment noted that the singer visited the emergency room and received medical treatment immediately after the accident, but had proceeded with the planned live broadcast of Idol Live School: Homecoming Day on the day same day due to “a diagnosis of minor symptoms and Yeo One’s personal strong will”.[공지] 안녕하세요. 큐브 엔터테인먼트입니다.

Jack Antonoff has elaborated on his issues with Damon Albarn in a new interview, following the latter’s controversial comments about Taylor Swift two weeks ago.The producer and Bleachers frontman was recently a guest on The What, a podcast hosted by broadcaster Brad Steiner, to promote his upcoming appearance at the 2022 Bonnaroo Festival. During the conversation, however, the topic of Albarn was raised when Antonoff and Steiner got into a discussion on songwriting.Albarn, best known as the frontman of Blur and Gorillaz, was interviewed by The LA Times last month to promote his recent solo album ‘The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows’ and his upcoming shows in the city.During the interview, Albarn falsely claimed that Taylor Swift doesn’t write her own songs, and that co-writing “doesn’t count” towards being called a songwriter.“Obviously, it’s completely absurd and everyone knows that,” Antonoff said during the podcast with regards to Albarn’s comments.“You’re talking about one of the greatest songwriters of our generation who has her name as the only name on many songs.

Full House star passed away last month aged 65.Saget was found dead by authorities in a Florida hotel room on January 9, the day after he had performed a stand-up comedy set in Jacksonville. While no cause of death was shared at the time, the sheriff’s office noted no signs of foul play or drug use had been found.In a new statement shared by Saget’s family, authorities had confirmed he died as a result of head trauma.

The universe of “The Witcher” is expanding again.

Netflix has announced “The Witcher: Blood Origin,” a limited series from “The Witcher” universe.“Blood Origin” will be a six part, live-action limited series, and a prequel to the streamer’s series “The Witcher.” Set in an elven world 1200 years before the world of “The Witcher,” the show will chart the origins of the very first Witcher, and the events that lead to the pivotal “conjunction of the spheres,” when the worlds of monsters, men, and elves merged to become one.The series is slated to shoot in the UK, though cast and a specific date has not been revealed.Declan de Barra will act as executive producer and showrunner and Lauren Schmidt Hissrich will act as executive producer.

It looks like Netflix are going all-in on building their “The Witcher” franchise, before production on the second season has even warmed up the streaming service has already announced an animated tie-in film from the animators behind “The Legend of Korra”, and today announced that it’s doubling down with a prequel series: “The Witcher: Blood Origin.” A six-part, live-action limited series, and a prequel to the hit Netflix series, “The Witcher”, “Blood Origin” will go to an elven world 1200 years before the main series, to tell the origin of the very first Witcher, and the events that lead to the pivotal “conjunction of the spheres,” when the worlds of monsters, men, and elves merged to become one.

Witcher limited series. The Witcher: Blood Origin will be a six-part, live-action prequel series that will explore the history of this multiverse, long before Geralt of Rivia (Henry Cavill) was slaying monsters facing his destiny.Set in an elven world 1,200 years before the events of The Witcher, Blood Origin will reveal the story of the very first witcher and the events that led to the Conjunction of the Spheres.

Netflix has announced The Witcher: Blood Origin, a limited series from The Witcher universe which will serve as the show’s prequel!

Andreas Wiseman International EditorNetflix has announced The Witcher: Blood Origin, a limited series from The Witcher universe.Blood Origin will be a six part, live-action limited series, and a prequel to the streamer’s series The Witcher. Set in an elven world 1200 years before the world of The Witcher, the show will chart the origins of the very first Witcher, and the events that lead to the pivotal “conjunction of the spheres,” when the worlds of monsters, men, and elves merged to become one.The series is slated to shoot in the UK, though cast and a specific date has not been revealed.Declan de Barra will act as executive producer and showrunner and Lauren Schmidt Hissrich will act as executive producer.

an anime film called “The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf.”Also Read: 'The Witcher' Season 2 to Resume Production in AugustDeclan de Barra will executive produce and serve as showrunner on “The Witcher” prequel series, with “The Witcher” showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich also executive producing. Additional executive producers include Jason Brown and Sean Daniel from Hivemind, and Tomek Baginski and Jarek Sawko from Platige Films.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorNetflix announced “The Witcher: Blood Origin,” a limited series set in “The Witcher” universe, which will tell the backstory of the Elven civilization before its fall — and reveal the lost history of the very first Witcher.“Blood Origin,” to be shot in the U.K., will be a six part, live-action limited series, and a prequel to Netflix’s hit series “The Witcher.” No casting details were announced.Set in an Elven world — 1200 years before the world of “The Witcher” — “Blood Origin” will tell a story lost to time and the events that lead to the pivotal “conjunction of the spheres,” when the worlds of monsters, men, and elves merged to become one, according to Netflix.Declan de Barra (above left) will act as