Norwegian director Vegard Dahle’s zombie comedy “Grandmonster” won the top Outpost award and a post-production services award at Fantasia Festival’s prestigious Frontières Co-Production Market, which handed out six awards at its closing cocktail party on July 25. The film, about an American dropout who unwittingly triggers a zombie outbreak in a remote Norwegian nursing home
This event is the latest in a series of strange and worrying examples of AI agents going rogue. In recent research, the UK’s AI Safety Institute (AISI) found that cutting-edge AI models are so obsessed with completing tasks that they “cheat” on tests to achieve their goals. AISI’s research came with this worrying warning: “A
Paramount+ multi-camera comedy “Crutch” ends after just one season. Variety has learned. The series, starring Tracy Morgan in the title role, originally debuted on Paramount+ in November 2025. News of the series ending comes as no surprise, given that it failed to find a significant audience upon its debut and considering Morgan’s commitment to other
A forest fire near Madrid is “beyond the capacity” of firefighters to contain it, Spanish officials have warned, after three fires west of the capital merged into a single blaze. Spain’s government has declared a national emergency after fires got out of control in several areas near Madrid, prompting the evacuation of at least 30,000
Middlesex, Durham and Leicestershire joined Nottinghamshire with two wins from two in the One-Day Cup by winning their respective matches on Friday, while champions Worcestershire and Kent started their campaigns victorious. The matches don’t come much better for all-rounders than the one enjoyed by Josh de Caires, who produced top List A figures with bat
Donald Trump says the United States will launch an investigation into the European Union and threatened to impose new tariffs over fines imposed on some of the largest American technology companies. It comes days after the European Commission fined Google €890 million ($1 billion) for operating in a way that excluded competitors from its services.
