Cannes Weighing Pre-Festival Virtual Market Screenings

Andra Day, Vanessa Kirby, Frances McDormand and Carey Mulligan, all of which have serious form when it comes to red carpet dressing, even in the age of virtual ceremonies (see this year's Golden Globes). Side note: McDormand's 2019 Oscars Birkenstock moment - she wore yellow slides with Valentino couture - is very on brand for 2021.

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Ab workouts and 8 months pregnant? Seems like the two don’t go together, but Married to Medicine’s Dr. Simone Whitmore thinks it’s A-OK. The OB-GYN sat down with Us Weekly to chat about Bachelor Nation’s Krystal Nielson’s maternity workouts and gave advice on how to keep up with your fitness while pregnant. Watch the latest episode of Moms Like Us with hosts Christina Garibaldi and Stroller in the City’s Brianne Manz to see what the doctor had to say. 

Spike Lee, who was set to lead last year’s jury for the Cannes Film Festival that was ultimately cancelled by the pandemic, will preside over this year’s jury instead.

Margot Robbie and John David Washington are getting ready for another day of filming!

Relative unknown Mexican actor Diego Calva has nabbed a career-changing role and will now join Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt in Babylon, the drama set in the Golden Age of Hollywood that Damien Chazelle is directing for Paramount. Rising actors Jovan Adepoand LiJun Li will also be on the call sheet as part of the ensemble when cameras roll this summer in Los Angeles.

Fashion obsessed? You’re going to want to read on!

It is truly beginning to feel like we’re in a time loop. It was only a year ago when the Cannes Film Festival announced that Spike Lee would be the Jury President for the film festival.

The nominations for the 2021 Producers Guild Awards were announced today and something we noticed was that Margot Robbie was left off the list, despite her movie Promising Young Woman receiving a nomination.

Margot Robbie is spending a late night on set with her co-stars!

Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland has admitted that he lied to investors who pumped millions of dollars into the infamous Bahamas event.McFarland made the bold admission in an unauthorised interview from behind bars with radio host Jordan Harbinger for the Dumpster Fyre podcast – which has landed him in solitary confinement.McFarland is currently serving a six-year sentence at the Federal Correction Institution in Elkton, Ohio after pleading guilty to multiple counts of fraud, including for

Fyre Festival could’ve been criminally fun. In a new jailhouse interview, incarcerated party organizer Billy McFarland admitted that he lied to the investors who put millions into funding his notorious 2017 luxury retreat failure — but blamed an impossible timeline for the scam he’s now doing time for co-organizing. “I think the biggest mistake before I went awry was just setting an unrealistic time frame for the festival,” McFarland, 29, told Jordan Harbinger in an unsanctioned interview which

EXCLUSIVE: In what is an ever-evolving picture, Cannes Film Festival is looking to set up a three-to-four day “pre-screenings” event in May or June in response to industry demand.

All aboard the love cruise? Below Deck Sailing Yacht’s Captain Glenn Shephard revealed whether he thinks Georgia Grobler will get an invite to former castmates’ Paget Berry and Ciara Duggan’s wedding.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe Tokyo International Film Festival and its accompanying TIFFCOM market will this year be held as hybrid editions combining real world and online activities. Both activities have set dates for 2021 that are largely back at their traditional time of year.The festival will run from Oct.