BAFTA Diversity Scheme Under Fire After Actress Says She Was Called "Exotic Talent"

Taylor Nolan addressed where her head was at when she penned the offensive tweets that resurfaced last month.

Naman Ramachandran Sony Pictures Films India has tapped emerging local talent to spearhead its burgeoning Bollywood slate, while simultaneously making moves to aggressively grow its Hollywood footprint.The studio has handed Aakash Bhatia (Amazon series “Inside Edge”) a feature directorial debut with “Looop Lapeta,” the Indian adaptation of “Run Lola Run,” starring Taapsee Pannu and Tahir Raj Bhasin.

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As the delayed awards season inches closer, the BAFTA awards is all set to go live on Sunday night in London. This year, the BAFTA nominees are a diverse group of personalities ranging from actors to filmmakers to casts.

KWAN, the largest talent agency in India, is relaunching itself as Collective Artist Network as it continues to push into new fields.

EXCLUSIVE: The second season of Disney Junior’s animated mystery adventure Mira, Royal Detective is set to debut April 5 at 5pm EDT on Disney Junior and DisneyNOW, with a new episode airing every Monday for eight weeks after.

Naman Ramachandran BAFTA has said it is taking seriously the allegations of racism levelled against its Elevate scheme by actor India Eva Rae and will investigate the matter urgently.Rae, whose credits include Channel 4 series “Maxxx” and “On the Edge,” was a participant in the 2019 diversity-themed program, which included a 21-member cohort of actors from underrepresented communities.She told the BBC that a casting director — a meeting with whom was set up as part of the program — had

BAFTA has responded to criticism from an actress on its diversity scheme Elevate that she faced racist comments and was not given appropriate disability support.

It was recently reported that actor Johnny Depp requested a retrial back in December for his 2020 libel claim against The Sun over an article calling him a “wife beater" although the UK court has now denied his appeal. The justices, James Dingemans and Nicholas Underhill said the earlier court hearing was “full and fair” and the trial judge’s conclusions “have not been shown even arguably to be vitiated by any error of approach or mistake of law", via Indian Express.

CNN reports that India currently allows women six weeks of leave after a miscarriage.) Following the ruling, Andersen tweeted that she's “proud to have made a change for good.”She told the New York Times, "I felt that it would give women the confidence to be able to request that leave if it was required, as opposed to just being stoic and getting on with life, when they knew that they needed time, physically or psychologically, to get over the grief." While the estimates that roughly two out of

Back in a 2016 interview with Hindustan Times, Jodie Foster had revealed that back in the 1980s when she was in her 20s, she had visited India for a month which was "one of the most life-changing trips that I have ever taken in my life." Recently, during a video roundtable interview with Bombay Times, to promote her latest outing The Mauritanian, the two-time Oscar winner couldn't stop gushing about India one more time.The question posed to Jodie was when she plans to come back to India and what

EXCLUSIVE: MGM is in advanced negotiations for a multi-territory pre-buy of writer-director Zach Braff’s feature A Good Person, we can reveal.

Matt Groening is standing behind “The Simpsons” character Apu, despite recent debate. 

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.A Paisley curry house has delivered more than 140 Indian meals for hard-working hospital staff.Indian Scene, on Glasgow Road, has been busy during lockdown delivering takeaways to customers.And they’ve also been making sure hospital staff have been well fed with three deliveries to the Royal Alexandra Hospital of delicious food – all for free.Owner Sandy Sanghera said for their final lockdown delivery they

Nothing makes Britney Spears more happy than when she puts on a song and dances around the marble foyer in front of her living room. The 39-year-old loves to share the videos with her fans via Instagram, but she got criticized about her body’s form by none other than former Dance Moms star Abby Lee Miller, 55.