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Busan’s Asian Contents & Film Market Names Japan 2026 Focus Country for Producer Hub
Busan’s Asian Contents & Film Market has chosen Japan as the 2026 Focus Country for its Producer Hub, a networking programme linked to the Busan International Film Festival. The selection will bring 10 Japanese producers to Busan in October to pitch projects and seek international partners, reflecting Japan’s growing role in Asian film and television…
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Indian actor’s video with endangered gibbon sparks investigation
Indian wildlife officials are investigating after Tamil actor Vikram posted, then deleted, a video showing him cuddling and playing with an endangered lar gibbon. The inquiry will determine how the animal came to be at a private home in Chennai and whether legal requirements for its possession or transfer were met; officials have not alleged…
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Amazon is using Twitch to train generative AI
Twitch, the livestreaming platform owned by Amazon, introduced a setting allowing creators to prevent their channel content being used to train Amazon’s generative AI models. The setting was enabled by default, meaning creators had to opt out rather than explicitly agree. Twitch says material potentially covered includes livestreams, video-on-demand recordings, clips, highlights, stream chat, and…
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Netflix remake of My Brilliant Career praised as modern period drama
Collider’s review praises Netflix’s remake of *My Brilliant Career* as a persuasive modern period drama that successfully revisits Miles Franklin’s 1901 novel. It says showrunner and co-writer Liz Doran preserves the original’s tension between social expectations and women’s independence, while using contemporary music and a more energetic style to make the series feel accessible without…
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We have been staring at Phil Foden for close to a decade – how well do we actually know him? | Jonathan Liew
Jonathan Liew argues that Phil Foden enters a defining Manchester City season under new manager Enzo Maresca, after nearly a decade in the spotlight without a settled understanding of his best role. Having succeeded under Pep Guardiola, Foden’s adaptability has been an asset, but it has also left him something of an enigma; Maresca’s demanding…
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The “lovely” genre Keith Richards never got tired of: “Wide-open”
Seeing eye-to-eye on everything. The post The “lovely” genre Keith Richards never got tired of: “Wide-open” first appeared on Far Out Magazine.
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‘I’d never watched the Olympics’ – Evans on gymnastics fame
Ruby Evans has described how competing at the Paris 2024 Olympics unexpectedly brought rapid public attention, while reflecting on her growing status as one of British gymnastics’ rising stars. The 19-year-old says she manages negative social-media comments by refusing to engage with them, and her resilience was evident when she recovered from disappointment in the…
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A-level results Sheffield – your guide on what they mean and what happens next – thestar.co.uk
The Sheffield Star published a guide for A-level results day on 13 August 2026, aimed at the thousands of students in Sheffield receiving their grades. The article explained how results can affect university, college, training and employment plans, and directed readers towards the key places to check on the day: their school or college for…
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Hellcat review – woman imprisoned in camper van in nasty survival horror
Hellcat is a survival horror thriller in which Lena, played by Dakota Gorman, wakes injured in the back of a speeding camper van and must work out how to escape. The review finds its opening tense and effectively unpleasant, using the confined setting and a mysterious voice to create suspense, though it suggests the film…