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A political exploration gift-wrapped in a coming-of-age drama, Lakshmipriya Devi’s debut feature “Boong” follows its lively titular schoolboy on an adventure along India’s militarized eastern border. In search of his missing father, Boong (a firecracker Gugun Kipgen) helps paint a portrait of modern Manipur, the isolated Indian state neighboring Myanmar, at a time when violent […]

The Emmys brought an average 6.87 million viewers to ABC on Sunday night, a 54% rise in total viewers from the record-low 4.3 million who tuned into the most recent ceremony on Fox at the start of this year. In the key adults 18-49 ratings, the telecast averaged a 1.02 rating, up 17% from 0.87 […]

Director James Cameron has purchased the rights to Charles Pellegrino‘s upcoming book “Ghosts of Hiroshima,” which will be published by Blackstone Publishing in August 2025 (the 80th anniversary of the bomb’s dropping in 1945). Cameron will combine and adapt “Ghosts” and Pellegrino’s 2015 book “Last Train From Hiroshima” into a single film, which he will […]

Donald Glover is set to return as “Star Wars” fan-favorite Lando Calrissian in a movie he’s developing for Disney and Lucasfilm alongside his brother and frequent collaborator Stephen Glover, and all Donald Glover wants to do is to bring the fun back to the “Star Wars” franchise. “I just want it to be fun,” he recently […]

Theirs is a love without name in “Bound in Heaven,” when the connection between Xia You (Ni Ni) and Xu Zitai (Zhou You) is so primal that neither bother to introduce themselves to one another until after spending a night together. Details like these can seem besides the point in Huo Xin’s torrid adaptation of Li […]

End a long weekend of NFL thrills with even more NFL actions on “Monday Night Football.” For Week 2, two conference rivals go head-to-head as the Atlanta Falcons (0-1) face off against the Philadelphia Eagles (1-0) at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Monday, Sept. 16. The game kickoffs at 8:15 p.m.