Construction Begins in Kazakhstan on a World-Class Film Studio for a Movie Starring Jackie Chan

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://timesca.com/construction-begins-in-kazakhstan-on-a-world-class-film-studio-for-a-movie-starring-jackie-chan/

Turning Animal Farm Into a Kids Movie Is Peak 2026 Brain Rot

I genuinely don’t know who needs to hear this, but Animal Farm is not a kids story.* Like… at all. This isn’t some misunderstood children’s fable that just happens to have animals in it. It’s a brutal political allegory about corruption, propaganda, betrayal, class struggle, and the slow, horrifying transformation of revolution into tyranny. The “cute farm animals” are literally stand-ins for real-world historical figures and systems of power. And somehow, in 2026, someone […]

https://jaimedavid.blog/2026/04/07/22/42/11/analysis/jaimedavid327/10472/turning-animal-farm-into-a-kids-movie-is-peak-2026-brain-rot/

Melissa Gilbert denies being ‘naive’ or ‘complicit’ in standing by Timothy Busfield despite sexual abuse claims https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/07/melissa-gilbert-abc-interview-timothy-busfield #UsCrime #NewMexico #UsNews #UsTelevisionIndustry #FilmIndustry
Melissa Gilbert denies being ‘naive’ or ‘complicit’ in standing by Timothy Busfield despite sexual abuse claims

The actor whose husband is charged with child sexual abuse says she believes his ‘side of the story’ is ‘the truth’

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‘Coke and booze didn’t help my creativity’: Joe Eszterhas on his wild times – and his supernatural, anti-woke Basic Instinct reboot https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/apr/07/joe-eszterhas-basic-instinct-reboot-flashdance-jagged-edge-showgirls-hunter-s-thompson #Film #Culture #JoeEszterhas #FilmIndustry #EmeraldFennell #SharonStone
‘Coke and booze didn’t help my creativity’: Joe Eszterhas on his wild times – and his supernatural, anti-woke Basic Instinct reboot

He was the screenwriting colossus behind Flashdance, Jagged Edge, Showgirls and more. Now clean, ‘Hollywood’s Shakespeare’ talks about today’s scared studios, his refugee trauma – and taking acid with Hunter S Thompson

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It hosted Kidman and Luhrmann, now famed regional cinema is up for sale
By Brooke Tindall

It's the cinema good enough for Luhrmann, Jackman and Kidman, and now this North Queensland icon is up for sale after 64 years.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-05/bowen-summergarden-cinema-for-sale-after-64-years/106526224

#Movies #FilmIndustry #ArtsCultureandEntertainment #PopularCulture #BrookeTindall

It hosted Kidman and Luhrmann, now famed regional cinema is up for sale

It's the cinema good enough for Luhrmann, Jackman and Kidman, and now this North Queensland icon is up for sale after 64 years.

Melissa Gilbert defends husband Timothy Busfield as actor faces child sexual abuse charges

The former Little House on the Prairie star said husband was ‘last person in world who would hurt a child’

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ICYMI: 651 million tickets: what the 2025 box office really tells marketers: The People Platform's 2025 cinema report shows 651M tickets sold, a 9% rise driven by attendance not price - key data for audience targeting and media planning. https://ppc.land/651-million-tickets-what-the-2025-box-office-really-tells-marketers/ #BoxOffice #CinemaReport #AudienceTargeting #MediaPlanning #FilmIndustry
651 million tickets: what the 2025 box office really tells marketers

The People Platform's 2025 cinema report shows 651M tickets sold, a 9% rise driven by attendance not price - key data for audience targeting and media planning.

PPC Land
Sask. movie theatres to set their own film warnings as province scraps age-based ratings
The province's Film Content Information Act, taking effect April 1, ends mandatory government approval. Each theatre will be required to write and display their own content description instead of the familiar age-based ratings.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/sask-scraps-age-based-ratings-mandatory-classification-movies-9.7144762?cmp=rss
James Tolkan, known for his roles in Top Gun and Back to the Future, dies aged 94

Tolkan, known for portraying authoritarian figures, died ‘peacefully’ in Lake Placid, New York, his agent said

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