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Apple TV debuted the gripping trailer for "Star City," the highly anticipated new space race drama that expands the world of "For All Mankind," from award-winning creators Ben Nedivi, Matt Wolpert and Ronald D. Moore. The bold, eight-episode alt-history series will debut globally on Apple TV with two episodes on Friday, May 29, followed by one new episode every Friday through July 10...

Elden Ring may have just broken an A24 record. Based on mythology, backstory, and world-building by Game of Thrones creator George R. R. Martin, Elden Ring began life as a hit video game from studio FromSoftware and director Hidetaka Miyazaki. Now, filmmaker Alex Garland is set to write and direct an adaptation of the 2022 game for A24, and the project just got a major update. Elden Ring has now entered production in the UK. The A24 film is said to feature a production budget of well over $100 million, making it the company's most expensive movie to date by a significant margin, beating Marty Supreme's (2025) reported $70 million budget. Filming is set to take place over the course of roughly 100 days. This theatrical bet from A24 follows the massive success of the Elden Ring video game. Chronicling the player character's attempts to restore the mythical Elden Ring in order to bring peace to the Lands Between, the game has sold over 30 million copies and received over 400 Game of the Year awards. The latter figure makes it one of the most critically acclaimed games in history...

The United States is the world's largest market for African storytelling content — accounting for 8.7% of global demand — followed by the U.K., South Africa, Canada, France, Brazil and China. Other key findings from the study — conducted for NNAF by Parrot Analytics and touted as the first of its kind — include the fact that non-English-language African stories represent 28% of global audience demand, but only 16% of available supply, "revealing a clear structural gap within the global streaming ecosystem," the report says. So there is room for growth. In the U.S. Black American women consume Black-led content at roughly six times the rate of the U.S. general population, "making them the single most predictive audience segment for crossover success," the report said. In terms of titles, "Black Panther" achieved the No. 1 peak both domestically (in the U.S.) and globally; proving "the global breakout potential of African-inspired storytelling," the report said. "Sinners" achieved No. 1 peak domestic demand and top all-time demand "within the cohort," meaning within people who already had a taste for African storytelling content. The Ryan Coogler-directed film, which won four Oscars, was praised in the report for "its genre-blending storytelling and cultural allegory."...

The $111 billion deal that would see Paramount Skydance swallow up Warner Bros. Discovery took another step closer to reality Thursday after WBD shareholders overwhelmingly voted in favor of the merger. But the pact isn't over the finish line — and a new batch of Hollywood A-listers including Robert De Niro, Sofia Coppola and Holly Hunter have signed on to an open letter opposing the Paramount-WBD combination, citing the threat of lost jobs, higher costs for consumers, and fewer TV shows and movies. As of Thursday morning, the letter had 4,194 total signatories after launching on April 13 with 1,000 names. Organizers said the list of film and entertainment industry union members, actors, and directors includes more than 75 Oscar winners and nominees. The group is hoping to sustain opposition the Paramount-Warner Bros. deal, which is still pending approval by regulators in the U.S. and Europe — and could be subject to litigation seeking to stop the merger by state attorneys general...

John Powell, the two-time Academy Award nominee for his work on How to Train Your Dragon and Wicked, is set to score Illumination's Minions & Monsters. The move reunites the music meister with Illumination, for whom he composed the score to 2023's Migration and 2012's The Lorax. Coming out of the Despicable Me movies, which is the biggest global animated franchise in history, Minions & Monsters in the third spin-off that focuses on the  excitable small, yellow little creatures that seem to only exist to serve an evil master. Powell began his career writing music for commercials and assisting composer Patrick Doyle before moving to the U.S., where he was mentored by Hans Zimmer and worked alongside Stephen Schwartz on the songs for The Prince of Egypt. His first film was John Woo's Face/Off. His numerous credits range from The Bourne Identity and Mr. and Mrs. Smith to Solo: A Star Wars Story and Don't Worry Darling on the live-action side and from Kung Fu Panda and Bolt to the Ice Age movies on the animation side. He is noted for having written more music for animation than any modern composer, 25 in all (and counting)...

The Malta Film Commission is putting the pieces together for a fourth installment of its Mediterrane Film Festival, set to take place on the island's capital city of Valletta from June 21-28. The film program will expand from three to five strands: Big Screen Competition featuring the best of mainstream cinema, Mediterranean Competition featuring new cinema from the Mediterranean region with a spotlight on local stories and talent, Mare Nostrum for films with an environmental message, Best of the World for new cinema from around the world to Malta and Malta Focus for specifically local films (shorts and features) that highlight island talent. Also on the horizon will be screenings followed by filmmaker Q&As that will take place at Valletta's Embassy Cinema, events at two outdoor screening venues, Upper Barrakka Gardens and Fort Ricasoli Counterguard, and other custom programming, panels and masterclasses from boldfaced names. Previous speakers include filmmaker Mike Leigh, editor Yorgos Mavropsaridis, Oscar-winners Nathan Crowley and Rick Carter, filmmaker Catherine Hardwicke, casting director Margery Simkin, and blockbuster filmmakers Jon Watts and Jake Schreier...

Bernard Loiseau, the iconic French chef who served as an inspiration for Pixar's Ratatouille, is set to get the biopic treatment. Chi-Fou-Mi Productions, the Paris-based production company behind such French box office hits as Beating Hearts (2024), The Stronghold (2020) and Dog 51 (2025) is working with the Loiseau's family on a feature film inspired by the life and legacy of the chef, famous for his three-Michelin-star restaurant La Côte d'Or, which turned the Burgundy village of Saulieu in a world-renowned gastronomic destination. Thomas Lilti, a French director known for his films and TV series about doctors and the medical profession, including Irreplaceable (2016) and Hippocrates: Diary of a French Doctor (2014)) is attached to direct. Chi-Fou-Mi, a Mediawan company, will produce together with Lilti's 31 Juin Films. Loiseau was cited as one of the main inspirations for the character of Auguste Gusteau in Ratatouille, the chef who dies of a broken heart after a scathing review by food critic Anton Ego leads to the loss of one of his stars...