Barbara O. Jones Dies: Actress In The Independent Black Cinema Was 82

Marta Balaga The “Mavka” franchise is just getting started. Ukraine’s FILM.UA Group is now developing a live-action film based on the character already spotlighted in “Mavka. The Forest Song,” Variety has found out.

“When we leap into the unknown, we prove that we are free,” says Cesar Catalina, the futuristic architect at the beating heart of Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis (to give it its full title), a mad eco-sci-fi blockbuster some 40 years in the making. Catalina says it several times, and it’s one of the more succinct aphorisms that he spouts in a script that is stuffed with seemingly random literary allusions from the likes of Petrarch, Crassus and Marcus Aurelius to Goethe, Shakespeare, H.G. Wells and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Watching Anthony Mann’s The Fall of the Roman Empire and eating cheese afterwards would be the only way to replicate its fever-dream grandeur, a series of stunning images, carried along by the loosest of plots, that pontificate on the self-destructive nature of humankind, the only species capable of civilizing itself to death.

stars look like they forgot that filming for Hulu's hit show wrapped in 2019 in this cute new video that has quickly gone viral.The duo, who starred as Connell and Marianne in the wildly successful adaptation of Sally Rooney's novel of the same name, were caught exchanging glances while sitting in the same front row at the Gucci cruise 2025 show at the Tate Modern in London on May 13. It's a classic case of a missed connection: Mescal looks at her, she catches him looking away, he looks back just as she's turned her attention elsewhere… Mescal laughs sheepishly when they finally acknowledge each other, and it's cute and flirty and aren't they just adorable silly goofy sweeties!But that's not even the best part of the seven-second clip.

Stacey Solomon has joked that she is 'here for the comments' after her husband shared a photo of his daughter's lunch box once again. The doting dad, who has a teenage son Harry, shares Rex, 4, Rose, 2, and Belle, 1, with Stacey and is also step-dad to Stacey's two children Zachary, 15, and Leighton, 12, has been running a 'lunch diaries' series on social media.

Busted! A cop has been fired after being seen in an adult content creator’s NSFW video… In full uniform!

Susan Backlinie, whose gruesome death in Jaws scared millions from swimming in the ocean, died Saturday at 77 in her home in Ventura, CA.

A notorious gang enforcer with a history of violence and crime which spans Europe helped source grenades and a firearm for his boss after his stash house was raided.

MC5 drummer Dennis Thompson, the last surviving original member of the influential group, died Thursday morning at MediLodge of Taylor, where he had been rehabilitating following a heart attack in April. He was 75.

Met Gala was on Monday, and people are still discussing the famous and fashionable event. The biggest names in entertainment, fashion, and sport gathered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, and there were many viral moments.This year’s theme was “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion,” the dress code “The Garden of Time,” inspired by J.G. Ballard’s 1962 short story under the same name.

Harry J. Pappas, whose Pappas Telecasting Companies was at one time the largest privately-held commercial television broadcast group in terms of household coverage in the United States, died on April 24 in Reno, according to The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences San Francisco/NorCal chapter. He was 78.

Trevor Horn before recording the opening of ‘Slave To The Rhythm’.The British actor, best known for his roles in Deadwood, Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and John Wick, shared details about the meeting in a recent interview with The Guardian.Speaking about the producer, who worked with artists including Seal, LeAnn Rimes and Frankie Goes To Hollywood, McShane said: “I’ve known Trevor forever.”He shared how the meeting began in a restaurant: “I was having fish and chips back in 1985 with my wife in Notting Hill Gate.

Whoops! Sounds like Prince William and Princess Catherine almost ruined King Charles III‘s coronation!

NOTHING was off limits during the roast of Tom Brady… Not even his divorce from Gisele Bündchen!

Bernard Hill died early on Sunday morning, his agent Lou Coulson confirmed. No cause has been given.

Annette Badland, the 71-year-old actress known for her role as Mrs Fitz in Outlander, has expressed her delight at being able to portray a Scottish character and honour her mother's heritage.

Edgar Lansbury, a Tony Award-winning producer and younger brother of actress Angela Lansbury, died Thursday at age 94 at his home in Manhattan, according to his son. No cause was given.

Former NBA player Darius Morris, who started a playoff game for the Los Angeles Lakers and played for four other NBA teams, has died at 33. The cause of his death has not been disclosed.

The crest you see embroidered onto Manchester United’s suit jackets has a Latin inscription.

Lindsay Lohan left quite an impression on Dennis Quaid when the two worked together on "The Parent Trap." During a recent interview with People, Quaid played the game Drawing from Memory, during which he was challenged to answer questions with a drawing. When asked to draw the infamous torn picture of him and Natasha Richardson that Lohan's characters carry around in the film, he couldn't help but praise the actress.

Richard Tandy, who played keyboards for Electric Light Orchestra on all of its records since 1972 including the Top 10 hits “Evil Woman,” “Telephone Line” and “Don’t Bring Me Down,” died Wednesday. He was 76.