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Nata Metlukh spent years hand-drawing every frame of the 10-minute film about a data engineer who cannot stop multitasking, and it's already picked up two festival prizes.
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Nata Metlukh spent years hand-drawing every frame of the 10-minute film about a data engineer who cannot stop multitasking, and it's already picked up two festival prizes.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Apple TV has renewed Slow Horses for an eighth season, adapting Mick Herron's Clown Town, just as Season 6 premieres and fresh off the show's Emmy win for directing.

Indian social media is swamped with AI-generated photos styling users as 1980s-era cricketers, whites and wooden bats included, using a simple ChatGPT prompt technique that needs no editing skill at all.

Sebastian Stan has compared The Batman: Part II to The Godfather Part II in a new Variety interview, praising Matt Reeves's approach while conflicting reports continue over which villain he's actually playing.
A federal jury found Lil Durk not guilty on all counts in his murder-for-hire trial over a 2022 shooting that killed Saviay'a Robinson near LA's Beverly Center, ending a years-long case.

Donnie Darko heads back to US theatres for a three-day 25th anniversary event this October, restored in 4K with filmmaker Richard Kelly introducing each screening. No Indian dates have been announced yet.

A new ranking of the last 20 years' best thrillers puts The Raid: Redemption and Shutter Island near the top, with the South Korean drama No Other Choice also making the cut.

A reunion documentary marking Band of Brothers' 25th anniversary is trending high on HBO Max, part of a wider run of WWII content, from theatrical releases to a 20-episode History Channel series, doing well this year.

Jimmy Kimmel and ABC are negotiating a new deal, but Disney executive Debra O'Connell has reportedly asked the host to cut costs on a show that runs close to $100 million a year.

Josephine, starring Channing Tatum and Gemma Chan, has moved from Sundance's Grand Jury Prize and audience award straight into a TIFF premiere drawing praise for its unflinching approach to a child witnessing sexual assault.

Secret Lives of Mormon Wives stars Jessi Draper and Jordan Ngatikaura have officially finalised their divorce, TMZ reports, six months after Jordan filed and both began seeing other people.

Lady Gaga has reportedly welcomed her first child with fiancé Michael Polansky, according to Page Six and People, though details on the baby's name, sex or birth date remain unconfirmed and recent marriage rumors are still unverified.

Netflix has cancelled Ransom Canyon after two seasons, and star Minka Kelly has posted a farewell message to fans and crew, while co-star Josh Duhamel has stayed silent so far.

Lady Gaga has reportedly welcomed her first child with fiancé Michael Polansky, according to Page Six, after paparazzi photos surfaced from San Francisco. The couple has stayed silent on details so far.

Joey King is back in theatres with Practical Magic 2, and the reunion with a childhood collaborator has fans revisiting her marriage to director Steven Piet, who she met on The Act in 2018 and married twice in 2023.

Netflix has axed Ransom Canyon after two seasons, with Deadline citing a steep ratings drop. Minka Kelly posted a farewell video thanking fans, days after showrunner April Blair had teased plans for season 3.

Noah Reid, best known as Patrick from Schitt's Creek, will guest star on Sheriff Country season two as Dr. Hudson Henshaw, with an option to headline CBS's in-development medical spinoff Edge Med.

Lady Gaga has welcomed her first child with fiancé Michael Polansky, according to Page Six, after the pair were photographed with a newborn in Northern California. Neither has confirmed the baby's name or birth date.

Brian 'Nashville' Duckworth, longtime vocalist of West Virginia's Taylor Made Band, has died at 56. His family has not disclosed a cause of death. Burial is set for September 14.

Jeremy Thomas, the producer who brought The Last Emperor, Crash and Sexy Beast to screen across a five-decade career, died peacefully at home in Oxfordshire on September 11, surrounded by family.

Brian Hickerson was detained but not arrested after a chair-throwing brawl at a South Carolina bar with his brother Zach, and accused Greenville police of leaking details about girlfriend Hayden Panettiere's death.

Maria Sharapova presented Elena Rybakina with the US Open women's singles trophy on Saturday, twenty years to the day after Sharapova won her own title at Flushing Meadows in 2006.

Emily Atack held a second, star-studded wedding to Dr Alistair Garner in the Spanish town of Mojacar and found herself apologising to locals blocked from their own streets during the celebrations.

Reality TV patriarch Steven McBee Sr., star of Bravo's McBee Dynasty, is back home in Gallatin, Missouri after an early release from federal prison over a crop insurance fraud case.