Netflix and Brazilian Tourism Board Embratur Announce Cooperation Agreement to Boost Film-TV Tourism in Brazil
#politics #brazil #television #cinema #tourism
https://variety.com/2025/film/global/netflix-embratur-invisible-city-love-is-blind-brazil-1236414200/
Looking for some literature-based entertainment for the summer? LitHub lists the best book adaptations to stream, including the movie of "Bonjour Tristesse" by Françoise Sagan, Season 2 of Edith Wharton's "The Buccaneers," (the first season of which passed us by), and a new TV series based on YA novel "We Were Liars."
Jimmy Kimmel on Trump pardoning the Chrisleys: ‘He has a soft spot in his heart for fraud’ https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/may/29/jimmy-kimmel-trump-pardons #Late-nightTVroundup #Television&radio #JimmyKimmel #Television #TVcomedy #Culture #Comedy
"Being the Ricardos 2" but it's Nicole Kidman as Lucille Ball as she argues with executives to save Star Trek during the day and sweeps the studio at night after Spock has gone home. You know it makes sense.
Brazil Emerges as Free Ad-Supported Streaming Television Powerhouse, Set to Soon Become Its Second Biggest International Market in the World
#politics #brazil #economy #television
https://variety.com/2025/film/global/rio2c-omdia-fast-channels-omdia-rio-keynote-2025-1236410608/
Rio2C’s Industry Pitching Captures a Brazil Intent on Remembering the Forgotten, Its Slaves, Extraordinary Artists and an Emblematic Guerrilla Fighter
#brazil #cinema #television #animation
https://variety.com/2025/film/global/rio2c-industry-pitching-standouts-titles-trends-1236410596/
There are still CRT deals to be had if you’re patient enough! #crt #television #monitor #gaming
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people be like “yoo my old favorite show is getting re-aired!!”
dude. it’s a cash grab. they’re so out of ideas that they’re defiling graves for money and milking cows to the bone and then some. i get that you liked the show but don’t encourage this behavior.
#television
Rob McElhenney Reveals the Inspiration Behind Frank’s Infamous Couch Scene on ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’
Ronald Grump's plan to raze Sesame Street to build a Grump Tower on ours ruins.
This is the real reason Trump wants to cut PBS funding.
Conan O'Brien credits his young fans for helping him get through losing 'The Tonight Show'
If you’ve read the Murderbot books, is the show fairly similar to them?
I liked the thoughtfulness and humour of the first episode. Of course a robot would be utterly perplexed by certain human customs.
So I’m wondering if I should read this series as I make my way through the show or wait until after the final episode airs (whenever that may be). 
https://www.alojapan.com/1275643/miraculous-creator-zag-to-launch-new-company-in-japan-with-former-toei-animation-boss-kanji-kazahaya-on-board-as-coo-exclusive/ ‘Miraculous’ Creator Zag to Launch New Company in Japan With Former Toei Animation Boss Kanji Kazahaya On Board as COO (Exclusive) #actores #actrices #celebridades #cine #directores #estrellas #hollywood #Japan #JapanNews #news #Noticias #peliculas #Series #television Zag, the independent animation studio founded by Jeremy Zag, “Miraculous” co-creator and producer, is opening an outpost in Japan and has appointed former Toei Animation boss Ka…
Knowledgeable Producers and ‘Unprecedented’ Government Incentives Turn Brazil Into a Burgeoning Co-Production Power
#politics #brazil #cinema #television
https://variety.com/2025/film/global/historic-government-investment-boosts-brazils-co-production-1236396170/
‘The Gardener’ Is a Great Pop-Goth Spanish Murder Series https://www.allforgardening.com/1292998/the-gardener-is-a-great-pop-goth-spanish-murder-series/ #garden #gardener #gardening #NetflixInc #television #TheGardener(TVProgram)
There’s a new genre of TV shows, comics and board games in Taiwan. Inspired by what happened when Russia invaded Ukraine, producers, writers and artists are imagining a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Elaine Lin and Clara Preve wrote about this for @timkmak’s Counteroffensive.
https://www.counteroffensive.news/p/taiwan-imagines-what-happens-the
It’s interesting how closely the actors who play characters on TV & in film become associated with their characters. I think this is an artifact of the age of photography, film & video. After all, Hamlet is a well-known & beloved character. No one gets upset when it’s not Olivier.
#StarTrek now has at least 3 different actors (counting back to TOS) playing Kirk & Spock, including SNW & Prodigy, if I’m not mistaken (probably am). It hasn’t spelled the end of the franchise, as far as I can tell, especially since the passing of Nimoy.
#StarWars seems to have a hard time letting go of original actors. Tem Morrison & Hayden Christensen will have work into the 22nd century if they can hang on that long. Lucasfilm has notoriously produced pretty remarkable results with AI (Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker in "The Book of Boba Fett"), though I believe another actor played him in S2 of #TheMandalorian. And in #RogueOne & #TheRiseOfSkywalker, other actors were cast to play #Tarkin & #LeiaOrgana. Notably Billie Lourd, Carrie Fisher’s daughter, who played Lt Connix in the ST, played a younger Leia, with a helmet, in a training flashback.
I recall a remark on Twitter about the #JamesBond franchise. George Lazenby played JB in only one film: “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.” In part this was because he was not well received by the audience as a replacement for Sean Connery. But he successfully destroyed the idea that Bond had to be played by Connery & paved the way for Roger Moore to own the role for a generation, or at least until Remington Steele had gone off the air.
Though Abrams Trek has a mixed reputation in the fandom, it successfully broke the TOS cast barrier & paved the way for some of the new material on P+.
Star Wars is more conservative than Star Trek. Maybe that’s why fans have a harder time letting go. When Carrie Fisher died, I thought: Can’t they just cast someone else in the role? But the fandom would show up at Skywalker Ranch with pitchforks. I thought: Isn’t there anyone else with the fan cred to be Leia? Maybe Natalie Portman? Or Pernilla August? These actors played Leia’s mother and grandmother, respectively. Surely Portman is actor enough to play a character a bit older than herself. Leia (not Fisher) died around 54. I think Portman was about 40 when they were making TRoS.
It’s still hard to see the fandom letting go until they successfully release, say an OT remake with new cast or something. Until there’s a series about Luke Skywalker’s temple post-Endor starring Sebastian Shan (once rumored to be playing Luke in the Mandoverse) or something like that, I fear we’re in for deepfakes & de-aging technology for a while.
https://www.alojapan.com/1264326/hokkaido-gals-are-super-adorable-manga-gets-omnibus-release-from-seven-seas/ Hokkaido Gals Are Super Adorable! Manga Gets Omnibus Release from Seven Seas #Actors #actresses #celebrities #directors #Films #Hokkaido #HokkaidoNews #hollywood #movies #news #stars #television #TV #北海道 Another mighty batch of licenses joined the Seven Seas Entertainment lineup this week, including omnibus editions for Kai Ikada’s Hokkaido Gals Are Super Adorable! manga. The first is due out in two-in-one form this December. The rest of the…
What TV show always shows up on ‘best ever’ lists but just doesn’t belong?
