Charli XCX turns mattress saleswoman in the “Hot In It” video

Guy Lodge Film Critic Six decades into a career of over 40 films, the last thing you might request of a new feature from 92-year-old documentarian Frederick Wiseman is that it surprise us. Yet after a run of expansive, richly process-oriented observations of mostly American institutions and communities, his new film, “A Couple,” upends expectations of his work in what feels an almost mirthfully perverse number of ways. For starters, it’s laser-focused on just one person, not a heaving collective of human labor and activity. It’s short — very much so, in fact, barely stretching past an hour. Also, lest we be burying the lede, it’s not a documentary. Wiseman’s first ever narrative feature sees him collaborating with French actor-writer Nathalie Boutefeu on a biopic of sorts: a portrait of Leo Tolstoy’s anguished wife Sophia, dramatizing her marital dissatisfaction and psychic pain with with a lyrical, literate ear.

EXCLUSIVE: Emma Roberts (Madame Web) will exec produce and star in Space Cadet, a new rom-com from Stampede Ventures, which enters production this month. Also now aboard the film from writer-director Liz W. Garcia (The Lifeguard) is Prime Video, which will distribute it internationally.

Charli XCX has postponed her gig in Brighton tonight (August 31) as part of the National Lottery and the Music Venue Trust’s Revive Live tour due to illness.The singer was due to play the Concorde 2 venue tonight for the fundraising tour, which was launched in 2020 in an effort to help UK grassroots venues survive post-COVID.In a statement yesterday (August 30), Charli said she was suffering from a stomach bug and would keep fans updated on her wellbeing ahead of the show.She said: “Guys I’ve had a stomach bug for the last 48 hours since I woke up the day after Reading fest. It’s been brutal.

true-crime docuseries,, is back with a second season as it continues to expose the truths about NXIVM, the wellness group revealed to be a sex cult and Ponzi scheme founded by Keith Raniere. And in the trailer for the upcoming episodes, co-founder Nancy Salzman, who pleaded guilty to multiple charges of conspiracy for her involvement in the organization, speaks out on camera for the first time since her arrest. “Imagine you spent 22 years trying to build something, but everybody thinks it’s the devil’s work,” says Salzman, who has since been sentenced to three and a half years in prison. According to HBO, the new season of is “set against the backdrop of the federal trial of The United States against Keith Raniere… It follows the legal and emotional journeys of the group’s founders, supporters and defectors as new evidence and stunning revelations come to light, while federal prosecutors and defense attorneys battle with opposing views of justice in a case caught in the national spotlight.”The trailer also shows footage of NXIVM supporters standing outside the prison where Raniere was held while he awaited trial, where he faced charges of sex trafficking, forced labor conspiracy and racketeering.

Dixie D'Amelio's lips are sealed. When ET's Rachel Smith spoke to the 21-year-old social media star at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday, Dixie wouldn't comment on if the rumors swirling around her mom, Heidi D'Amelio, and sister, Charli D'Amelio, are true.«I cannot confirm or deny this information,» Dixie told ET, «mostly because I don’t know, actually.»Rumors about the dual D'Amelio castings began to circulate last week, with several outlets reporting that the mother-daughter duo would both be joining the show for its inaugural season on Disney+, and would be competing against each other over the course of the season.While Dixie is staying mum about the DWTS reports, she was quick to shut down any speculation that there's any sibling rivalry between herself and Charli.

Earlier in the week, it was announced that Millennium Media’s reboot of the 1985 fantasy action flick “Red Sonja” had started shooting. However, the big reveal in that update was that the studio had quietly switched out director Joey Soloway (“Transparent”) and lead actress Hannah John-Kamen (“Ant-Man & The Wasp”) for director M.J.

Making it personal! Charli D’Amelio and mom Heidi D’Amelio have joined the cast of Dancing With the Stars season 31, Us Weekly can confirm.

Manori Ravindran International Editor Soumya Sriraman, the former BritBox CEO who joined Amazon to lead its Prime Video Channels business in the U.S., is stepping down after two years at the SVOD. Sources indicate the executive is still at Amazon but will be leaving imminently for another role elsewhere. Sriraman is best known for her work pioneering the best-of-British streaming service BritBox in the U.S., where she is based. The SVOD launched there in 2017 and quickly reached 250,000 subscribers in one year. By the time Sriraman departed, in October 2020, the service had more than 1.5 million subscribers. The successful U.S. launch allowed joint operators BBC Studios and ITV to expand the brand to other markets, including Australia and Canada.

Charli XCX and AJ Tracey have been announced by Reading & Leeds Festival as replacements for Måneskin and Jack Harlow.Earlier this week, the festival organisers released a statement saying they were “saddened” after it emerged that Måneskin and Harlow had pulled out of this year’s festival in order to attend the MTV VMAs.Harlow had been due to perform alongside Arctic Monkeys on Leeds Festival’s final day, with Måneskin appearing before Rage Against The Machine on Reading’s closing day (August 28) – the same day as this year’s VMAs in Newark, New Jersey.“We are working on some exciting replacements to join Arctic Monkeys, Dave, Bring Me The Horizon, The 1975, Halsey, Megan Thee Stallion, D-Block Europe, PinkPantheress, Joy Crookes, Fontaines DC, Bastille, Willow, Wolf Alice, Glass Animals, Hybrid Minds and many others at Reading & Leeds Festivals this August Bank Holiday weekend, watch this space!” R&L organisers said in their statement.The festival organisers have now announced that Charli XCX and AJ Tracey will be the acts replacing Jack Harlow and Måneskin on the line-up.You can see the amended line-up here:6 DAYS TO GO

British actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson (“Tenet”) is no stranger to comic book roles. He first made big waves in the U.S.

Clayton Davis From Marvel’s Bucky Barnes to Hulu’s Tommy Lee, Sebastian Stan has played a wide range of characters, quietly climbing the charts as one of our most exciting actors in Hollywood. With 20 years in the business, he’s worked with directors such as Craig Gillespie, Ridley Scott and Jonathan Demme, along with stars like Meryl Streep, Jessica Chastain and Daniel Craig.

Clayton Davis Dustin Hoffman is one of the most versatile actors to ever grace the silver screen. Homegrown in Hollywood, the Los Angeles native has steered a career that has spanned over seven decades and brought forth some of the most vivid character creations in cinema history.To commemorate Dustin Hoffman’s 85th birthday, Variety ranks the 13 best performances of his career.Hoffman broke through as Benjamin Braddock, a 21-year-old who is seduced by an older married woman (Anne Bancroft) in Mike Nichols’ “The Graduate” (1967).

Landon Barker and Charli D'amelio's romance is heating up! He took to his Instagram story over the weekend to share a loved-up photo of them with the caption «my (red heart emoji).»Landon, who is the son of Travis Barker, and the famed social media star confirmed their relationship in June of this year. Last month, ET caught up with Charli at The Players Party cohosted by Michael Rubin, MLBPA and Fanatics where both she and Landon were in attendance. «He's just very sweet,» Charli told ET when asked what she likes most about her new beau, before detailing what it's like to have her personal life be made so public.

Charli D’Amelio and Landon Barker are going strong as a couple!

Gallery: 'I'm a fraud! Oh god, they're on to me! I'm a fraud!'?The stars who suffer from Imposter Syndrome (BANG Showbiz)She told Vogue: "I know that the world is full of women who can’t afford to go to a gym or feel self-conscious about being in a gym or can’t go to a gym because they have a young child. So doing it in the privacy of their home was an answer for that. "I’d like to claim that I’m a brilliant, strategic businesswoman.

The White Lotus season 2 is happening—and Jennifer Coolidge’s delightfully spacey heiress Tanya McQuoid will be .On August 3, revealed that Mike White’s razor-sharp satire about ridiculously privileged guests at an impossibly luxurious resort would be back, presumably with more dissatisfied CEOs, terrifying twentysomethings, and raging general managers, this October. The announcement was accompanied by the first still from the new season, which sets the tone for the hilarity that is sure to ensue: an image of Coolidge’s Tanya pouting serenely while wearing bug-eye sunglasses and a sugary pink dress, her blonde curls wrapped up in a matching chiffon scarf.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.The acting legend is the only series regular to be reprising her role as the show shifts from the fictional White Lotus group’s property in Hawaii to an equally spectacular one in Sicily, where a new set of insufferable visitors will feud with its beleaguered staff members.

Rina Sawayama has shared the music video for her latest single ‘Hold The Girl’.The Ali Kurr-directed visuals show the pop star stuck in a time loop within the bounds of a 19th century farmhouse until she finally breaks free.Press material describes the video as a “metaphor for Rina’s emotional breakthrough in therapy, which sparked her to write the song” for her second album of the same name, which is released on September 16 (pre-order here).Speaking about the new single, Sawayama said: “’Hold the Girl’ was the first song I wrote for the record at the end of 2020 – I had gone to therapy and had a revelation, so I decided to write this song…that was the start of it. I was crying before going into the studio to write about it.”The song follows recent singles ‘Catch Me In The Air’ and ‘This Hell’.

Charli D'Amelio's 18th year is off to a sweet-smelling start. The TikTok star, who celebrated her milestone birthday in May, has recently launched her first fragrance, Born Dreamer — an appropriate title for the teenage social media sensation. «I now have a signature smell, but the way it smells on me is different than it smells on my best friend,» she told ET's Denny Directo, «and I feel like that adds its own little uniqueness and individuality to the fragrance, but also to each person and I really love that about it.»For fans interested in a whiff, here's what you can expect from the scent: «I would say the pear, jasmine, a little bit of the musk, just all together -- it's very clean,» Charli said. «I'm definitely a big fan of the top notes, so I notice myself reapplying a lot throughout the day because that pear is just, you really can't beat it, and it's a little sweet, but not too sweet.