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Barunson Boards Indonesian Horror Feature ‘Zona Merah: Dead City’

Barunson Boards Indonesian Horror Feature ‘Zona Merah: Dead City’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Barunson E&A, the Korean production banner best known for backing Bong Joon Ho’s multi-Oscar winner Parasite, has boarded Zona Merah: Dead City, a feature film adaptation of the hit Indonesian horror series Zona Merah.  The Seoul outfit will handle international sales on the project, produced by Indonesia’s Screenplay Films, and launch it at the upcoming Cannes Marché alongside Inherit, the new horror feature from Thai hitmaker Banjong Pisanthanakun. The deal extends Barunson’s ongoing push into Southeast Asian cinema, as the Korean company continues to assemble a portfolio of saleable genre titles from the region. The original Zona Merah debuted as an original series on Vidio, the Emtek Group-owned platform that has emerged as Indonesia’s leading domestic streamer. Set in the fictional town of Rimbalaya, the show follows Maya as she searches for her missing younger brother Adi amid a rapidly spreading zombie outbreak, racing to find him before authorities seal off the area as a “zona merah,” or red zone. The series became one of Vidio’s biggest hits, drawing more than 34 million views and a surge of …

Why my Raspberry Pi boards suddenly cost as much as a laptop now – and I’m not surprised

Why my Raspberry Pi boards suddenly cost as much as a laptop now – and I’m not surprised

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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways RAM prices are soaring due to AI demand, driving up Pi costs. Two Raspberry Pi boards can now cost as much as a laptop. AI data centers are fuelling RAM shortages, impacting consumers. It’s no exaggeration to say that RAM prices are skyrocketing, driving up the cost of products that rely heavily on memory. One product category that’s been hit particularly hard is the Raspberry Pi single-board computer.  Once celebrated as a low-cost solution for hobbyists, the price of Raspberry Pi boards has now soared to the point where two 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 boards will cost you as much as a new MacBook Neo. Also: The Flipper One may be the ultimate Linux PC for hackers in 2026 – and I’m excited So, what’s going on with RAM prices? What’s causing the RAM price surge? Most industry experts blame AI data centers as the main culprit. G.Skill, a well-known RAM manufacturer, issued a statement last year explicitly citing “unprecedented …

End of advisory boards gives Whitehall ‘monopoly on wisdom’

End of advisory boards gives Whitehall ‘monopoly on wisdom’

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More from this theme Recent articles Most behind-closed-doors meetings that once analysed plans for the future of schools have already been canned, Schools Week can reveal, as ministers prepare to scrap the controversial gatherings entirely.  One regional advisory board has not assembled in the past 14 months, prompting one leader to note that some groups “have essentially ceased to exist”.  But, with the meetings – which are designed to inform officials on the decisions – due to end this month, the government has been warned that it risks handing civil servants a “monopoly on wisdom”. Mark Boylan, a Sheffield Hallam University professor of education, said: “Whatever the issues with the composition of advisory boards in the past and the lack of representation of community schools, at least they were senior leaders who understood how schools work, the process of transferring schools, supporting schools. “The regional officers do not have really detailed, close local knowledge of all the schools in their region – nor could they.”  Rulings ‘in isolation’ Advisory boards consist of current and former academy bosses …

Severance Producer Boards Sequel to Nigerian Netflix Hit Black Book

Severance Producer Boards Sequel to Nigerian Netflix Hit Black Book

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Nicholas Weinstock, the Emmy-nominated producer of Severance, is on board to produce The Black Book 2 – Old Scores, the sequel to Editi Effiong’s 2023 Nigerian revenge thriller that smashed records worldwide. The original Black Book, made for just $1 million, hit no. 3 on Netflix‘s global charts in 2023, ranking in the top 10 in more than 69 countries and racking up more than 20 million views worldwide. It stars Richard Mofe-Damijo as Paul Edima, a former hitman and deacon, who takes revenge after his son is framed and killed by a corrupt police unit. Weinstock’s Invention Studios is producing The Black Book 2 along with Effiong’s Anakle Films. Effiong returns as writer and director on the sequel. The feature picks up where Black Book ended, with Paul Edima continuing his assault on the corrupt system. A blurb for the film says the second installment will “delve deeper…into themes of justice, redemption, and societal unrest in contemporary Nigeria.” “The Black Book showed us that local stories can spark global conversations,” said Effiong, in a …

Boards are too critical to only think about when crises hit

Boards are too critical to only think about when crises hit

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Across England, governing boards provide the stability, scrutiny and long-term thinking that organisations rely on. The evidence is clear: where governance is strong, leadership is better supported, organisations are more resilient and improvement lasts. In many ways, governance in schools and trusts has never been stronger, with more skilled and diverse boards and greater confidence among governors and trustees. Yet often it goes unrecognised. The system overall continues to treat governance as secondary. It is under-utilised where it should be central; tolerated where it should be treasured. Fewer trust scandals doesn’t mean governance is perfect In the early years of multi-academy trusts, governance was firmly in the spotlight. Ministers, inquiries and the media focused on failures and lessons learned. As boards improved and major crises became rarer, the conversation gradually faded. I am by no means mourning the lack of high-drama governance failures, but we shouldn’t confuse silence with safety. When we stop actively examining if things are not right, we stop preventing failure. Cross-sector evidence shows that even the most sustained, principled organisations can …

Moms vs. culture wars: How suburban women flipped school boards

Moms vs. culture wars: How suburban women flipped school boards

Published by Sam Flores

This story was originally reported by Nadra Nittle of The 19th. Meet Nadra and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. President Donald Trump’s approval ratings are underwater a year into his second term, amid voter frustration over the economy, immigration enforcement and foreign-policy tensions. A Quinnipiac poll released last week found that just 37 percent of registered voters approve of his job performance. The signs of discontent are clear in Democrats’ success edging out Republicans in special elections since Trump’s return to the White House — and in the progressive candidates who won school board races last November. A recent analysis by Red Wine & Blue, a left-leaning network of over 700,000 suburban women working to influence politics at the grassroots level, found that 62 percent of candidates it labeled as “extremist” lost their elections. Meanwhile, 71 percent of the candidates it characterized as “common sense” won competitive school board races in states like Ohio, Virginia and Pennsylvania, which remains a key battleground in 2026. Two-thirds of those winners were challengers, …

US Military Boards Sanctioned Oil Tanker in the Indian Ocean After Pursuit From the Caribbean

US Military Boards Sanctioned Oil Tanker in the Indian Ocean After Pursuit From the Caribbean

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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. military forces boarded a sanctioned tanker in the Indian Ocean after tracking the ship from the Caribbean Sea as part of an oil quarantine meant to squeeze Venezuela, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday. Hegseth vowed to eventually capture all those ships, telling a group of shipyard workers in Maine on Monday that “the only guidance I gave to my military commanders is none of those are getting away.” “I don’t care if we got to go around the globe to get them; we’re going to get them,” he added. The Trump administration has seized seven tankers as part of its broader efforts to take control of the South American country’s oil. Unlike those previous actions, the Aquila II has not been formally seized and placed under U.S. control, a defense official said. Instead, the ship is being held while its ultimate fate is decided by the U.S., according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss ongoing decision-making. The Aquila II is a Panamanian-flagged tanker under U.S. …

Harper Steele Boards Trans Doc as Executive Producer (Exclusive)

Harper Steele Boards Trans Doc as Executive Producer (Exclusive)

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Emmy-winning comedy writer and producer Harper Steele has boarded the Berlin-premiering feature documentary What Will I Become? as an executive producer. A co-production between ITVS and Deep Dive Films in association with Storylens Pictures, the film explores the vulnerability of the transmasculine community by delving into the personal experiences of directors Lexie Bean and Logan Rozos — making their directorial debuts — while intertwining the stories of two young trans men who died by suicide. “Homecoming king Blake Brockington and the soft-spoken Kyler Prescott were poets, musicians, and community advocates. This film traces their joys and challenges, their tragic deaths and resulting media attention, and the larger aftermath within their communities,” says a plot synopsis. “[It] also uplifts resources that affirm trans boys and the LGBTQIA2S+ community to provide an understanding of suicide-prevention practices. What Will I Become? asks why the transmasculine community is particularly vulnerable to living briefly and dying quietly.” Executive producer Steele is best known as the former head writer on Saturday Night Live and subject of 2024 Netflix doc Will & Harper, in …

Peace boards and technocrats won’t stem out Palestinian resistance | Israel-Palestine conflict

Peace boards and technocrats won’t stem out Palestinian resistance | Israel-Palestine conflict

Published by Sam Flores

Last week, just as Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip intensified, United States presidential envoy Steven Witkoff announced on social media that the “ceasefire” is entering its second stage. In the following days, the administration of US President Donald Trump unveiled the makeup of a foreign executive committee and a peace board that will oversee the provisional administration of Gaza composed of Palestinian technocrats. This setup reflects the wishes of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that neither Hamas nor the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority (PA) would be involved in Gaza’s future. Although the latter is mentioned in Trump’s “peace plan”, it supposedly first has to carry out a set of unnamed reforms to have any role in Gaza. What this means in reality is that Fatah, too, can easily be blocked from returning to govern the Gaza Strip with the excuse that these vague reforms have not been carried out. The problem with the present setup and Israel’s insistence on “no Hamas, no Fatah” is that they reflect a profound ignorance of the fabric of Palestinian …