Claire Denis, Shaka King, Abner Benaim Wow at IFF Panama, Costa Rica Wins Top Prizes as Fest Stands Strong

Manchester United youngster Amad is making winning matches on the training ground something of a habit, it seems.

2021 may have been The Pandemic: Part II for many people, as we experienced yet another year of being cautious when you leave the house, as to not get sick.

Keeping Up with the Kardashians confrontations between Kim, Khloé, Kourtney, Kris Jenner, and Scott Disick. During the episode aired in May 2017, Kourtney’s ex and father of her kids joined their annual family vacation to Costa Rica and snuck a woman named Chelsea on the trip.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today unveiled its shortlist of 15 films that will advance to the next stage of voting in the International Feature Film category at the Oscars. Notable among omissions is Julia Ducournau’s Titane, the entry from France which won the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or — becoming only the second movie directed by a woman to scoop that prize.

NEW YORK -- Anne Rice, the novelist whose lush, best-selling gothic tales, including “Interview With the Vampire,” reinvented the blood-drinking immortals as tragic antiheroes, has died. She was 80.Rice died late Saturday due to complications from a stroke, her son Christopher Rice announced on her Facebook page and his Twitter page.“As a writer, she taught me to defy genre boundaries and surrender to my obsessive passions,” Christopher Rice, also an author, wrote.

Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins over a famous recording session in 1956.Tracks that emerged from this session included ‘Love Me Tender’, ‘Don’t Be Cruel’ and ‘Paralyzed.’On Gotta Have Rock and Roll, the piano is described as “The most important piano in rock and roll history” and notes that this is the first time in history that the piano has been up for auction.It reads: “Offered here for the first time ever, is the iconic ‘Million Dollar Quartet Piano’ – the Sun

Jacob Roloff is a new dad! The former  star has announced that he and his wife, Isabel Sofia Rock, welcomed their first child together.Roloff took to Twitter to share the news on Monday in a simple post that celebrated the new addition to his family.«My wife is a superhero, my son is an angel and all nurses are saints,» he tweeted.

Aleem Khan’s After Love dominated the 2021 British Independent Film Awards, winning six prizes in total including Best British Independent Film.

Anna Marie de la Fuente In Panama to shoot “The Stars at Noon,” French auteur Claire Denis (“Beau Travail,” “High Life”) spoke at an IFF Panama fest panel about shooting the film in Panama and her hallmark “instinctive” filmmaking.With her were her two male actors, lead Joe Alwyn (“The Favorite”) and rising Panamanian thesp and former wrestler Nick Romano (“Kimura”), who plays a key secondary role.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Launched in 2015, IFF Panama’s rough-cut sidebar Primera Mirada has proved a vital launch pad for Central American and Caribbean films in post, providing that all-important impetus towards their final completion.A jury led byDiana Sánchez, Marcelo Quesada and Paula Gastaud along with head curators, festival director Pituka Ortega Heilbron and IFF Panama industry head Karla Quintero, selected five projects out of 13 applications this year.Reflecting on the criteria they

Anna Marie de la Fuente Throughout the pandemic that has ravaged Central America, the region’s most prominent film event, the Panama International Film Festival (IFF Panama), has forged on virtually in its continued bid to bolster local projects and talent.To mark its 10th anniversary this year, a smaller hybrid edition kicks off on Dec. 3 with “Plaza Catedral,” Panama’s submission to the Oscars, and wraps Dec.

Martin Dale ContributorJust months prior to its world premiere, young “Plaza Catedral” actor Fernando Xavier de Casta was shot to death. The prescient portrayal of a society fractured by violence is Panama’s submission for this year’s Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent“Now, we’re producing over 100 projects, we’ve calculated we’ll be working on nearly 130 projects next year to supply both our platform networks,” The Walt Disney Company LatAm’s Leonardo Aranguibel commented at a Ventana Sur panel on Tuesday.How can Disney try to ensure quality at such a massive production levels? “We look for the best talents, not only in front of the cameras but also behind,” Aranguibel answered.Most streaming platform execs

Get away from the cold weather this winter with a trip to the Igloo Beach Lodge in Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica!

Regina King wraps her braided hair around her in this gorgeous shot from her cover story with As If magazine.

Zoë Kravitz got a night out this week.