BY JEREMY KAY AGC International has closed major territory sales here in Cannes on Eden, Ron Howard’s all-star survival thriller and potential awards season contender which is tipped to land a Venice world premiere slot. A multi-territory deal with Amazon Prime Video includes the UK & Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, France, Scandinavia, Spain, Latin America, Japan, South Korea, South Africa, India, Turkey, West Indies, and Asia pay-TV. Jude Law, Ana de Armas, Sydney Sweeney, Vanessa Kirby, and Daniel Brühl star in the story based on an unsolved mystery in the Galapagos which explores the lengths people go in pursuit of happiness. Rights have also gone in: Germany (Leonine); Italy (Italian International Film); Middle East (Selim Ramia); former Yugoslavia, Polan...

BY MATT WEBB MITOVICH The following contains spoilers from the May 19 episode of CBS‘ CSI: Vegas aka the Season 3 finale aka unplanned series finale. In its unplanned series finale, CBS’ cancelled CSI: Vegas featured a final, brilliant bit of bravado for lab boss Maxine Roby. Abducted at gunpoint last week by, it turns out, the true mastermind of the AI robot-manned operation — a Saudi spy (played by Faran Tahir) whose people had infiltrated Truman Thomas’ operation, and recently offed the tech titan — Maxine bought herself some time by pointing out that the DNA hacking method was “sloppy.” After all, the text encoded within the DNA revealed itself to Maxine and her team, after which they were able to locate the hidden lab. Before be...

Meredith Jacobs  [Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the CSI: Vegas series finale “Tunnel Vision.”] CSI: Vegas wraps its three-season run by closing out one case and introducing a new one. The robotics case is closed after Max (Paula Newsome) is abducted—to make synthetic DNA for foreign intelligence—and Chris (Jay Lee) ends up in the hospital due to his exposure to a nerve agent. The good news: Max is rescued (her own doing, and with help from the others). But then the final moments tease a new serial killer in Las Vegas, one who has been killing in the shadows. Below, Newsometakes us inside the finale Talk about your reaction to the cancellation and how it’s been looking back at playing Max sincePaula Newsome: First of all, it was a sur...

By Anne McCarthy The 49th season finale of “Saturday Night Live” opened with James Austin Johnson as Donald Trump speaking at the barricades of a Manhattan courthouse, in a nod to Trump’s ongoing legal woes amid his presidential campaign.  During the sketch, Johnson as Trump spoke about his “weird and depressing” state at the courthouse, saying, “I don’t like being in court because they say very mean things about me as I’m trying to sleep.” (It was reported that Trump fell asleep in court during proceedings.) He goes on to say, “Now that my defense is supposed to begin on Monday, I would love to testify; I’m not afraid to testify at all, I’m just not going to out of fear.”  He continues to say how he doesn’t want to go back to the White House, “But it appears people...

ByArya Vaishnavi X-Men ‘97, this year's most highly anticipated animated show, concluded its first season with the finale episode that aired Wednesday, May 15. The Marvel show is the direct continuation of the beloved X-Men: The Animated Series, which ran from 1992 to 1997. As the series took superhero fans on a nostalgic ride, fans can't help but demand another season. So, will there be a Season 2? Here's what we know so far: Will there be an X-Men '97 Season 2? The show, which follows the events after the death of Professor X/Charles Xavier, was greenlit for another season before it even debuted on Disney Plus. During Marvel’s First Animation Panel in July 2022, it was announced that X-Men ‘97 Season 2 was already in the works. As showrunner Beau DeMayo wa...

ByHT Entertainment Desk Cannes Film Festival 2024: Kiara Advani, Aishwarya Rai, Aditi Rao Hydari and other Indian celebs will soon be seen walking the red carpet at Cannes 2024. Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah actor Deepti Sadhwani has already walked the red carpet. So has Shark Tank India judge Namita Thapar. On day 2 of Cannes 2024, she attended the premiere of Chris Hemsworth-starrer Furiosa A Mad Max Saga. Also read | Cannes Film Festival: Kiara Advani, Aishwarya Rai, Sobhita Dhulipala, Aditi Rao Hydari, Indians set to dazzle this year On Wednesday, Namita shared a bunch of photos of herself as she made her Cannes debut wearing a mint green gown with leg slit and a long train created by Lebanese fashion designer Elio Abou Fayssal....