SOVIET SAGA Stockard Channing and Michael Praed will star in the world premiere of “The Gates of Kyiv” at the U.K.’s Theatre Royal Windsor. Written by Ian Kelly and directed …
MALAYSIA FESTIVAL SELECTIONS The Malaysia International Film Festival (Miffest), which runs July 21-28, will open with horror film “Indera” by local director Woo Ming Jin and starring Shaheizy Sam and …
SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY London Theatre Company will stage a new production of Shakespeare‘s “Richard II” at the Bridge Theatre. Nicholas Hytner directs, with Jonathan Bailey starring in the title role. …
CANNES-DO The imminently upcoming Sydney Film Festival has added eight titles that premiered at Cannes to its lineup. They are: Guan Hu’s “Black Dog”; Mohammad Rasoulof’s “The Seed of the …
BOLLYWOOD STARS SHINE BRIGHTLY Deepika Padukone, who made her Bollywood debut with “Om Shanti Om” (2007), has topped IMDb’s list of the top 100 most viewed Indian stars of the …
ROMANTIC REUNION India’s Zee Studios has set a late November theatrical release for “Dhadak 2,” a romance film challenging societal norms. The film is a sequel to 2016 hit “Dhadak,” …
ISLAND VIEW The Taipei Film Festival has set “A Journey in Spring” as the Taiwan flagbearer in its international competition section. Directed by Peng Tzu-hui and Wang Ping-wen, the film …
THE RETURN Actor Abhishek Bachchan (“Ghoomer”) is returning to producer Sajid Nadiadwala’s “Housefull” film franchise, one of the biggest hit Bollywood comedy film series of all time. The franchise began …
FREE STREAMING Freely, the new free streaming service backed by Britain’s public service broadcasters (PSBs) that delivers live TV over broadband, has launched. The initiative is from Everyone TV, the …
FROM ON DEMAND TO LINEAR Asian TV channels operator Celestial Tiger Entertainment and myTV SUPER, the OTT platform of Hong Kong’s Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) are to launch PopC, a …