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The nickname Mr. Irrelevant really exploded in awareness for football fans when Brock Purdy, the last overall NFL draft pick in his class, became the San Francisco 49ers’ starting quarterback — and one of the highest-paid players in the league. But another player before him also got that nickname and made an impact in his…

Haiwaan box office collection day 2: Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan reunited on screen after Tashan with Haiwaan. The film, directed by Priyadarshan, is a Hindi remake of the Malayalam film Oppam. The film reunites Akshay and Saif after 17 years, following their other collaborations such as Main Khiladi Tu Anari, Aarzoo, Tu Chor…

He began performing stand-up comedy at clubs around his native Vancouver at the age of 13 — around the time him and his buddy Evan Goldberg would write the first draft of “Superbad” — before featuring in the Judd Apatow shows “Freaks and Geeks” and “Undeclared,” also serving as a writer on the latter, all…

Whatever spell conjured by the witchy Owens sisters, played onscreen by Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman in two “Practical Magic” movies, wasn’t powerful enough to lure audiences to theaters.

Hollywood Ventures Group (HVG), Canadian film finance and production outfit Big Picture Cinema Group, and Morocco’s Pink Sheep Productions are teaming up to bring bestselling Moroccan crime thriller “The Final Bet” to the big screen. 

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Here’s a challenge: adapt a lauded, Olivier- and Tony-winning play that has played the West End and Broadway, toured around the world, and been adapted into over a dozen languages into a feature film. Wait, stop, add in this: The original play is a one-woman show, essentially just one heart-stopping monologue, that has to be…

Nicholas Weinstock, executive producer of the Apple TV+ series “Severance,” has boarded “Tongue,” an Indian fantasy-horror feature written and directed by Krishnarjun Bhattacharya and starring Sayani Gupta.

Production: Executive Producers are Academy Award-nominee Alexander Rodnyansky, Jason Sarlanis, Sam Linsky, Stuart Manashil, Michael Kupisk, Tamer Mortada and Leslie Greif. Produced by AR Content, who optioned Nixon’s book, Big Dreams Entertainment, and Aroma Studios in association with WatchIt. Crew: The series is created by Daniel Stiepleman and Jonathan Wakeham, and written by Leslie Greif, Graham…

Cinematographer Adam Pietkiewicz has been dealing with patchy internet over the past few days. He and his crew have been sailing on the Baltic Sea and have finally docked at an undisclosed location in northeastern Poland. In a few weeks, Pietkiewicz will attend the Toronto International Film Festival to accept the VarietyTIFF Artisan Award for…