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Middle East crisis live: US blockade of strait of Hormuz begins as Hezbollah urges Lebanon to pull out of talks with Israel

Vance accuses Iran of ‘economic terrorism’; Hezbollah says it will not abide by agreements that result from talks in the US US starts naval blockade of Iranian ports after deadline passes South Korean president Lee Jae
Myung has said rising tensions around the strait of Hormuz make it hard to be optimistic about the fallout from the Iran war, warning that high oil prices and supply-chain strains are likely to persist for some time. Lee
told a cabinet meeting on Tuesday the government should treat prolonged disruption in global energy and raw materials markets as a given and reinforce its emergency response system. For the time being, difficulties in...
‘Young Sherlock’ Renewed For Season 2 At Prime Video; Guy Ritchie Returns To Direct Opening Ep

Season 2 of Young Sherlock is afoot. We teased the greenlight was likely last month and now Prime Video
has confirmed it is happening with an official Season 2 order. Guy Ritchie will return to direct the first
episode of the upcoming season. The Sherlock Holmes origin story has been a big hit for Prime […]
House Republicans Step Up Scrutiny of ActBlue Over Foreign Donations

Three Republican-led committees, responding to a New York
Times report this month, accused the Democratic fund-raising
organization of withholding documents from a subpoena request.
Charlie Chaplin’s ‘The Kid’ Gets Vertical Makeover on U.K. Microdrama App TattleTV (EXCLUSIVE)

U.K. microdrama platform TattleTV – billed as the country’s first dedicated app of its kind – has adapted Charlie
Chaplin’s 1921 feature “The Kid” for vertical mobile viewing, making the silent-era film available exclusively to U.S. audiences. The
technology works by generating new image data to fill a vertical frame rather than sacrificing the original […]
Asif Kapadia, Andrew Haigh, Otto Bathurst & Dozens More British Directors Sign Open Letter Urging Streamers To Negotiate On Residuals: “You Know The Value We Bring – Now We Need You To Show It”

EXCLUSIVE: British directors including Asif Kapadia, Andrew Haigh and Otto Bathurst have signed an open letter venting frustration at
the streamers for failing to engage over residuals. The just-published letter organized by Directors UK comes more than 18
months after the trade body threatened to withhold its members copyright from the streamers if they didn’t […]
Motorola sues social platforms and creators over posts, raising speech concerns in India

Motorola is suing dozens of content creators and
social media platforms including Instagram, X, and
YouTube over posts it alleges are defamatory.
‘The Terror: Devil in Silver’: AMC Drops First Trailer for Third Season of Horror Anthology Series (TV News Roundup)

AMC+ and Shudder have revealed the trailer and key art for “The Terror: Devil in Silver,” the third installment
in the horror anthology. The six-episode limited series will debut on May 7 on AMC+ and Shudden, with new
episodes airing weekly. The series will then air on the AMC linear channel later this year. From […]
Mark Ruffalo Added To Cory Booker “Spotlight” Hearing On Paramount-WBD Merger; David Ellison Will Not Attend — Update

UPDATED: Mark Ruffalo will speak via Zoom at Sen. Cory Booker’s “spotlight hearing” on Wednesday on Paramount’s proposed merger
with Warner Bros. Discovery. Booker also had invited Paramount CEO David Ellison to testify, following up on previous letters
asking him to appear. But as was reported on Tuesday, Paramount informed Booker that Ellison could not […]
Iran War Live Updates: Iran Threatens Retaliation Over U.S. Blockade

Iran’s armed forces said they would attempt to expand their
influence over sea lanes beyond the Strait of Hormuz
if the U.S. military continued to block Iranian shipping.
Adelaide Film Festival Goes to Cannes Lineup Includes Ukrainian War Portrait, Ecuador Indigenous Doc and Victorian Wilderness Thriller (EXCLUSIVE)

What is Australian independent cinema making of the wider world right now? Five answers are set to emerge at
the Cannes Film Festival next month, where the Adelaide Film Festival Goes to Cannes program will present works in
progress to international buyers and programmers. The selection is notable for its geographic reach. Dan Jackson’s documentary […]
Richard Kind on Returning to Max Bialystok in Mel Brooks’ ‘Producers’: ‘He’s a Heinous Man Who Is Loved’

Richard Kind is back in the fraudulent theatrical agency business. Twenty-two years after playing Max Bialystok on Broadway following
Nathan Lane in the role, the veteran actor has brought the character to the West End for the first
time, starring in the revival of Mel Brooks’ “The Producers” at London’s Garrick Theatre, where the production […]
How A Convicted Sex Offender Tricked His Way Through The World Of UK Theater: “I Was Terrified Of Him Because Of The Level Of Betrayal”

EXCLUSIVE: Carlette Norwood was sat next to her colleague in a car when she discovered he was a convicted
sex offender. Norwood runs an award-winning independent theater in Birmingham, UK, and had hired the man she then knew
as Ryan Jay as a technical director one year prior, in 2024. Everything had checked out. Jay […]
Hugh Bonneville To Narrate ‘The Hound Of The Baskervilles’ Podcast Series For Noiser

EXCLUSIVE: Hugh Bonneville has narrated a podcast version of Sherlock Holmes story The Hound of the Baskervilles. The first
episode of the nine-part audio series from podcast network Noiser lands on April 27 with Paddington, Downton Abbey and
Twenty Twenty-Six actor Bonneville reading from Arthur Conan Doyle’s original story, which first published 125 years ago […]
Gregg Sulkin To Guest Star In ‘Wizards Beyond Waverly Place’ Conclusion As Fan-Favorite Mason Greyback

EXCLUSIVE: Wizards Beyond Waverly Place is bringing back a fan favorite from its predecessor for the upcoming four-part conclusion.
Gregg Sulkin will guest star, reprising his fan favorite role as Mason Greyback from the original Wizards of Waverly
Place, Deadline can reveal exclusively. No word yet on exactly how Mason will play a role in […]