Central Asia’s ‘Children of Independence’ Win Festival Plaudits, Look to Grow Nascent Post-Soviet Screen Biz

Melbourne City want to take flop Celtic star Marco Tilio back to their club on loan when the Australian transfer window reopens. Celtic reportedly paid £1.5million to land the winger from Melbourne City this summer, where he won three A-League titles in a row.

Central Cee has paid homage to streetwear culture in his new song and only release of 2023, ‘Entrapreneur’.The single takes a look at the rapper’s journey to the top as well as the hectic schedule he has had for the past two years. The song features a nod to Cench’s and Dave‘s huge hit ‘Sprinter‘ with the lyric “Toyota Yaris to Urus”, illustrating how far he has come‘Entrapreneur’ has a strong theme of fashion and streetwear culture, with Central Cee speaking on clothing lines and selling tees.

Central Cee has shared "Entrapeneur," his first solo release of the year. "Entrapeneur" comes with a video showing the U.K.

EXCLUSIVE: Actor Lior Ashkenazi has boarded Israeli-American filmmaker Matthew Mishory‘s Mosolov’s Suitcase, exploring the life and legacy of Ukrainian, early Soviet era, avant-garde composer Alexander Mosolov.

charged with involuntary manslaughter in January. However, special prosecutors Kari Morrissey and Jason Lewis announced the state was dropping Baldwin’s charges in April as “new facts” had been revealed that required further investigation.

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Norma Barzman, a prominent screenwriter who was blacklisted due to her involvement with the American Communist Party, died Sunday at her Beverly Hills home, according to a social media post from her daughter Suzo Barzman. She was 103.

Alec Baldwin had to be escorted by police through the streets of New York after being confronted by pro-Palestine protesters.The actor was seen walking by the demonstration near West 29th Street on Monday (December 18) when he was approached by the protesters opposing Israel’s military attacks in Gaza against Hamas.In footage of the incident, a protester asks Baldwin: “You work for Hollywood. Do you condemn Israel?”In response, Baldwin replied: “You’ve already got your mind made up… because I’m in Hollywood? Well, you ask stupid questions.

There’s a lot to take in and even more to process in American-Armenian director Michael Goorjian’s ambitious period piece: What he’s tilting at here is not beyond the realms of comedy, as Armando Iannucci proved with his 2017 jet-black satire The Death of Stalin. But tone is crucial, and Amerikatsi has a waywardness that too often undermines its intent — there’s a lot that works here and so much that doesn’t. There are moments that are sensitive, thoughtful, and really quite moving — in an elegant, silent-movie way — but the framing is so dark in its humor that many viewers may never make it to them.

Kate Middleton has spent some of her time in the lead up to Christmas visiting a baby bank to help out the staff, alongside her royal children.

Christopher Vourlias Siberian-born entrepreneur Arsen Tomsky is not your typical tech mogul. The CEO of the California-based technology company inDrive got his start far from Silicon Valley, when he designed a ride-hailing app in his native Yakutsk to compete with the cartels that controlled the local taxi industry.

The Central Florida Tourism Oversight District Board, the group that now oversees a swathe of central Florida where Walt Disney World sits, slammed the Bob Iger-led media giant for almost three hours straight over what its experts called decades of self-dealing outlined in an audit. Members, not surprisingly, voted to approve the report. 

Surprise! Filmmaker Steven Soderbergh has another new secret project in the can, his second in half a year. His latest, never publicly announced, is a mystery thriller called “Presence,” which will make its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2024.

Earlier today, the lineup was finally announced for the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. Once again, Sundance has cemented itself as the premier festival in the U.S.

It’s officially the holiday season and producer Jennifer Klein brought Hollywood stars together for her annual festive party this past weekend!

The Princess of Wales arrived at St Thomas's Hospital in Central London today (Tuesday, 5 December) to open the new Children’s Day Surgery Unit at Evelina London. Kate, who has been Patron of the organisation since 2018, has previously made a number of public and private visits to meet staff members and their young patients and has praised the important work they do.

Disneyland Resort today released its calendar of special events planned in 2024. For a quick look at the highlights planned at both Disneyland and Disney California Adventure for next year, see the graphic below released by Disney. For details on each event, read on.

Christopher Vourlias The first edition of the Alternativa Film Project wrapped with an award ceremony this weekend in Almaty, the cultural capital of Kazakhstan, with filmmakers from Central Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific region being feted as part of a new initiative launched by the California-based tech company inDrive, best known for its ride-hailing app. The event marked a successful close to what organizers hope will be an ongoing non-profit initiative aimed at supporting emerging filmmakers from under-developed film industries.

Janine Stein “Tiger Stripes”, the opening film of this year’s Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF), was “kind of a joke that became something very, very close to me and ended up being this film,” Malaysian filmmaker, Amanda Nell Eu, said during Thursday night’s opening ceremony. Speaking to a packed theatre before the screening, Eu said her inspiration had been puberty mixed with her sense of humor.

The Match Factory has posted a raft of deals for Michel Franco’s drama Memory, starring Jessica Chastain and Peter Saarsgard, who won the Coppa Volpi for Best Actor in Venice following its world premiere there in September.