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Fremantle is finalising a studio deal near Atlanta for Season 25, making Idol the second big music competition show to quit California for cheaper incentives this year.
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Fremantle is finalising a studio deal near Atlanta for Season 25, making Idol the second big music competition show to quit California for cheaper incentives this year.

Nani's period action drama The Paradise is set for a wide US theatrical run, with 150-plus Cinemark, 145-plus Regal and 208-plus AMC locations confirmed so far ahead of its release next week.

Brahmamudi's latest episode sees police storm a lodge and arrest Madan and Swathi on morality charges, sending the family into chaos even as Raj and Indu patch up an old betrayal.

Ahaana Krishna and cinematographer Nimish Ravi confirmed their wedding on social media after weeks of speculation, revealing they tied the knot on September 13 in Thiruvananthapuram following a ten-year friendship.

Apple TV has renewed Slow Horses for an eighth season, per Deadline, just as season six premieres September 16 with Gary Oldman's Jackson Lamb facing assassins hunting his crew of disgraced spies.

While AI apps churn out identical 80s-style portraits across Instagram, cinephiles are turning to KG George's 1982 Malayalam thriller Yavanika, starring a young Mammootty, for the genuine texture of the era.

Amanda Seyfried and Thomas Sadoski have ended their marriage after nine years, telling People they'd been separated for a while and that the split works for their family.

Quentin Tarantino has written a novel version of his 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' spinoff, timed to arrive between the David Fincher sequel's IMAX release and its Netflix debut in December.

Suhana Khan's theatrical debut in King, opposite father Shah Rukh Khan, is being weighed against Ahaan Panday's Saiyaara, which holds three records for a post-COVID star kid debut, per Koimoi.

California-based Ukrainian animator Nata Metlukh has released her hand-drawn short 'Off-Time' online, a decade-long project about a data engineer undone by his own obsession with multitasking. The film has already won at Fantasia and Bulgaria's Golden Kuker festival.

Zack Snyder's The Last Photograph premiered at TIFF to a rough online reception. Talking to Variety, the director said the discourse around him personally, not the film, is driving most of the criticism.

Suriya and Jyotika renewed their wedding vows on their 20th anniversary in an intimate Christian ceremony, with children Diya and Dev taking part. Jyotika shared the video on Instagram with a note about imperfect, real love.

Dancing With the Stars Season 35 opened with a two-night, gender-split premiere on ABC, each episode ending in an elimination, as the show adds an after-party and settles into its Tuesday slot.

Kelly Osbourne opened up on the We Need to Talk podcast about her permanent estrangement from sister Aimee, calling their bond one of the hardest parts of her life and ruling out any reconciliation.

Cars' 20th-anniversary re-release has pulled in $10.4 million over ten days in North America and sits under $1 million short of overtaking Mufasa: The Lion King's domestic total, per Koimoi.

American Idol is leaving Los Angeles for the Atlanta area after 25 years, its producer Fremantle confirmed, joining a growing list of shows fleeing Hollywood for cheaper states and countries.

Ritu Arya reprises MI6 agent Zara Taylor in Apollo Has Fallen, the follow-up to Paris Has Fallen, alongside Tewfik Jallab. The eight-episode thriller hits Lionsgate Play on September 18.

Dancing with the Stars kicks off Season 35 tonight with a record 16-celebrity cast, including the first Olympic and Paralympic champions to compete in the same season, plus returning pros Witney Carlos and Val Chmerkovskiy.

Runner, starring Alan Ritchson and Owen Wilson, opened worldwide under $10 million against a $35-45 million budget, per Box Office Mojo, and now needs roughly $87-112 million globally just to break even.

Matunga's flower merchants are marking 54 years of their Ganesh festival with roughly ₹10 lakh worth of flowers alone, changing the pandal's décor four times across 12 days, starting with Lord Vishnu in Anantashayana.

Sidharth Malhotra visited Mumbai's Lalbaugcha Raja pandal with producer Ektaa R Kapoor ahead of The Vvaan: Force of the Forrest trailer launch, seeking blessings during Ganesh Chaturthi before the thriller's promotions ramp up.

A Chembur Ganpati pandal marking its golden jubilee has decked itself out with Avengers figures, from Iron Man to Deadpool, days before Avengers Endgame: Encore returns to theatres on September 25.

Avengers: Endgame – Encore has sold 45,000 tickets in its first five days of advance booking ahead of its September 25 India release, per Koimoi, setting up a chase for Baahubali's re-release record.

HBO has cast Rafe Spall as Arthur Weasley, plus Molly Hewitt-Richards as Moaning Myrtle and Jasper Ambrose as Colin Creevey, for Season 2 of its Harry Potter series, currently shooting in the UK.