‘Thunder Point’: Sullivan’s Crossing Team on Robyn Carr’s Next Series

‘Thunder Point’: Sullivan’s Crossing Team on Robyn Carr’s Next Series

After the massive success of Canadian romantic drama series “Sullivan’s Crossing” — which was recently renewed for a fifth season — Fremantle, Bell Media and Reel World Management knew they’d found a rare partnership. “Within the first year of ‘Sullivan’s Crossing,’ you’re kind of dating,” Michela Di Mondo, Fremantle’s executive vice president of distribution for … Read more

Electronic Arts Makes Push for Ad Dollars Tied to Sports

Electronic Arts Makes Push for Ad Dollars Tied to Sports

Electronic Arts, the maker of interactive sports gaming favorites like Madden NFL and EA Sports FC, wants to get in on a different kind of contest: winning dollars from advertisers focused on sports. The videogame giant has launched EA Advertising, a new platform it hopes will lure advertisers who are increasingly putting their marketing money … Read more

The Kratom Civil War Is Heating Up, and MAHA Has Picked a Side

The Kratom Civil War Is Heating Up, and MAHA Has Picked a Side

A decade ago, kratom advocates fought a surprisingly successful campaign against a proposed Drug Enforcement Administration ban that claimed the obscure Southeast Asian plant posed “an imminent hazard to public safety.” They won bipartisan allies from Bernie Sanders to Rand Paul, and helped create a billion-dollar industry out of kratom, which has pain-relieving effects they … Read more

Shanghai Film Festival’s SIFF YOUNG Names Nine Filmmakers for 2026

Shanghai Film Festival’s SIFF YOUNG Names Nine Filmmakers for 2026

SIFF YOUNG, the filmmaker discovery-and-incubation program backed by the Shanghai Film Bureau, has unveiled its class of 2026 – nine talents selected from 59 applicants spanning directing, producing and screenwriting. The five directors named are Bai Xue, Su Biao, Teng Congcong, Wang Tong and Xu Lei. The three producers are Hu Jing, Titi and Xie … Read more

Restored ‘Peking Opera Blues’ Gets 4K Dolby Atmos Show at Shanghai

Restored ‘Peking Opera Blues’ Gets 4K Dolby Atmos Show at Shanghai

Tsui Hark‘s “Peking Opera Blues” returned to the big screen in a new 4K Dolby Atmos restoration, with the remastered version screening at the 28th Shanghai International Film Festival. The event was backed by Italian jeweler Bvlgari, which partnered with SIFF on the initiative. The restoration was carried out by Bologna-based film archive L’Immagine Ritrovata. … Read more

How Apple Is Making Your Older iPhone Run Faster and Stay Alive Longer

How Apple Is Making Your Older iPhone Run Faster and Stay Alive Longer

Your aging iPhone will feel a little more responsive once you download iOS 27 later this year. At least, that’s Apple’s claim. At its developer keynote at this year’s WWDC, the company said its next mobile operating system update brings several platform stability improvements that will make older devices, as far back as the iPhone … Read more

Roger Cook Dies: BAFTA-Winning Investigative Journalist Was 83

Roger Cook Dies: BAFTA-Winning Investigative Journalist Was 83

Roger Cook, the trailblazing investigative journalist best known for fronting U.K. network ITV‘s current affairs show “The Cook Report” in the 1980s and 90s, has died. He was 83. Cook’s family confirmed the news in a statement. “Alongside a distinguished and award winning career in journalism, Roger was first and foremost a beloved husband and … Read more