BBC Commercial increased EBITDA by 17% to £267 million ($357.1 million) in the 2025/26 financial year, returning £377 million ($504.2 million) to the BBC as direct-to-consumer services and products, led by “Bluey”, drove growth despite a challenging market. Revenue was flat at £2.2 billion ($2.94 billion), with growth in some areas offsetting declines in others.
Ellen Burstyn, whose credits include “The Last Picture Show,” “The Exorcist” and “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore,” will receive the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival. Film Festival, the festival said Tuesday. The festival’s artistic director, Alberto Barbera, described Burstyn as “an actress of rare intensity and truth,” adding
Linnea Berthelsen, best known for playing Kali Prasad/008 in the second and final season of Netflix’s smash hit “Stranger Things”, will make her UK stage debut in “Darkling” at London’s Bush Theatre. The solo play is presented by Actors Touring Company and co-produced with Bush Theatre. Described as “an epic story of a life devastated
Cinema Guild has acquired the North American distribution rights to Hong Sangsoo’s “Nowhere to Lay My Eyes.” The film will have its world premiere at the 79th Locarno Film Festival in August. “Nowhere to Lay My Eyes” follows Sanghee (Kim Minhee), who visits her mother on Jeju Island with her brother after 10 years of
Fandango Sales has embarked on Sergio Castro-San Martín’s “The Chilean” ahead of its world premiere in Locarno. Set in 1976, the film follows Chilean miner Aldo Marín as he flees the Chilean regime to Turin, where he meets Luciana, a doctor who performs illegal abortions. But his attempt to rebuild his life is threatened by
TV Time, the popular movie and TV tracking app whose pending closure has prompted more than 25,000 users to file a petition against its closure, it is restarting. One of the app’s original founders, Antonio Pinto, says he’s creating a new TV show tracking app, Bingers, that will try to rebuild TV Time’s best features
