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Pete Holmes, Lewis Black, Alfie Williams & Ryan Kiera Armstrong Befriending Feature Drama ‘Friend Thing’
Deadline has reported that the indie feature drama “Friend Thing” has assembled its principal cast, with Alfie Williams (“28 Years Later”) and Ryan Kiera Armstrong (“The Lowdown”) taking the lead roles. Comedians and actors Pete Holmes, Lewis Black and Adam Ray are set to co-star. The film is being produced by Society, the production company…
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Figma acquires team behind a vibe-coding app
Figma has acquired the team behind Bud (formerly Orchids), a Y Combinator-backed vibe-coding and AI agent platform, as it seeks to expand beyond design and move coding and prototyping closer to its core canvas. The move matters because it signals Figma’s ambition to become a broader product-building tool, letting teams turn ideas into working apps…
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‘Love and Other Words’ Adaptation Set With the Newly Formed Magic Hour Entertainment (Exclusive)
Magic Hour Entertainment, the newly formed production company led by Max Siemers and Tanner Anderson, is to adapt Christina Lauren’s popular romance novel Love and Other Words into a feature film, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively reported. The move signals the launch of a production banner dedicated to romance, modern dating and romantic comedies, and…
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The ‘G-Wagen of golf carts’ could be the ideal second car
A Lisbon-based EV start-up called Amble has unveiled the Amble One, a premium, street-legal open-air electric buggy pitched as a household’s ideal second car rather than its main vehicle. Founded by alumni of Apple, Audi and e-bike firm Cowboy, the company is positioning the compact vehicle as an antidote to increasingly large, fast and overpowered…
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iRobot made a non-robot floor cleaner
iRobot’s new floor cleaner isn’t a robot at all.
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Gina Jones enters a crime-family romance in JuVee and Universal drama Pawn
Viola Davis and Julius Tennon’s JuVee Productions has signed a first-look deal with Universal Global Television (UGT), under which the company will develop projects for the studio across all platforms. The arrangement marks a new chapter for JuVee, which has previously held television deals at eOne, Amazon and ABC Signature, and reflects a continued push…
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EasyJet’s board has surrendered too easily to US bidder
The Guardian’s financial columnist Nils Pratley argues that easyJet’s board has given in too readily to a takeover approach from Castlelake, a US private investment firm active in aircraft financing and leasing. After rejecting three earlier offers as fundamental undervaluations and dismissing a fourth at 650p as “substantial”, the board reached an “agreement in principle”…
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Meta launches Pocket, an app for making games with generative AI
Meta has released Pocket, a Google Play Store app that lets users create and share small interactive games and mini-programs using generative AI, simply by describing what they want in a prompt. The launch matters because it signals a strategic pivot at Meta towards AI-generated content and away from the traditional, human-made virtual reality games…
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Shark Tank names MrBeast and Mindy Kaling among season 18 guest investors
American entrepreneurship series “Shark Tank” has confirmed its roster of guest investors for its eighteenth season, which returns to ABC and Hulu in the autumn. The new guest sharks include YouTube star Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, alongside “The Office” actor Mindy Kaling and former NFL player J.J. Watt. Their arrival adds notable star…
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Marie Sheehy Promoted To EVP Corporate Communications For WME Group
WME Group has elevated longtime communications executive Marie Sheehy to EVP, Head of Corporate Communications. She oversees all communications strategy and operations for WME Group, which includes the WME talent agency, IMG Licensing and Pantheon Media Group, and serves as WME Group’s lead spokesperson. Sheehy has been with the company for more than two decades.…