Concordia Studio Taps Ash Sarohia As EVP Of Scripted Film & TV

State Pension provides essential financial support every four weeks for 12.6 million people across the UK, including around one million living in Scotland. This regular payment of up to £185.15 per week for the Full, new State Pension or £141.85 per week for the basic old State Pension (Category A or B) is available for those who have reached the UK Government’s eligible retirement age, which increased to 66 for both men and women in October 2020.

Emmerdale star Roxy Shahidi has revealed she previously refused to film scenes in her underwear for the ITV soap. The actress, 40, who portrays Leyla Cavanagh in Emmerdale, recalled the moment on Steph's Packed Lunch on Thursday, sharing how she was reluctant to take part in the scene, where she was due to be wearing just her bra and pants.

Eva Longoria is ready to celebrate her 48th birthday! The fan-favorite star is known for her successful career in Hollywood, representing Latinos with her talent on TV and film, as a producer, director and actress.

At the start of this year, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) said that it expects to complete the correction exercise into State Pension underpayments for two groups of women by the end of 2023. The Pensions Minister Laura Trott MP said the exercise for those on CAT BL and CAT D should be completed by the end of this year, but it could run through to late 2024.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s Nike drama “Air” is heading to Austin, Texas. The movie will screen to the public for the first time at SXSW as the festival’s closing night film on March 18. Currently on the SXSW website, there’s a TBA under the Closing Night Special Screening at Paramount Theatre at 6:30 p.m. Amazon is releasing “Air,” which centers on real-life Nike shoe salesman Sonny Vaccaro and his pursuit of basketball phenom Michael Jordan, in theaters on April 5. According to the film’s logline, “this moving story follows the career-defining gamble of an unconventional team with everything on the line, the uncompromising vision of a mother who knows the worth of her son’s immense talent, and the basketball phenom who would become the greatest of all time.”

A red carpet faux pas. Kate Hudson had to correct a reporter who told her she’d previously won an Oscar during a pre-ceremony interview on Sunday, March 12.

Eva Longoria is gracing the red carpet!

Biopics, especially those that err on the side of mainstream and are helmed by a major studio, can and do go wrong. From bad casting to lacking scripts, to directorial faux-pas and even sensational stories that muddle the truth, the world has had its fair share of flawed glimpses into the lives of history’s most compelling people.

There can be no doubt why Searchlight Pictures was excited to bring Flamin’ Hot, the true life story of the man known as the ‘godfather of hispanic marketing’, to the screen. Premiering today at SXSW, the life story of Richard Montanez — a high school dropout from a struggling Latino family who worked as a janitor in a Southern California Frito-Lay factory for 10 years — is, at its heart, really a Rocky-style inspirational tale perfect for the Hollywood treatment. He eventually realized the American dream and rose to one the highest ranks of the company,

Sony announced on Friday that they will release the starry Craig Gillespie film Dumb Money on the GameStop short squeeze of 2021 on October 20.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been accused of “incompetence” and sending out incorrect information about the State Pension age by Labour’s Andrew Gwynne. The Denton and Reddish MP called for justice for women born in the 1950s who have been affected by changes to their State Pension age.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Kuwaiti-born writer-director Zeyad (also known as “Z”) Alhusaini, whose action movie with comedic undertones “How I Got There” recently won the audience award at Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival, has joined United Talent Agency for representation in all areas. The groundbreaking film about two best buddies from childhood, named Salem and Asad, who stumble upon a gun shipment and try to seize this opportunity to get rich quick is set entirely in the Persian Gulf. “How I Got There” provides a relatively realistic glimpse of Kuwait’s present-day melting-pot of cultures, and its underworld of gun-running mercenaries, gangs, and terrorists, plus the local rap scene.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Saudi Arabia’s Film AlUla, the entity looking to attract international productions to a sprawling area of desert and giant boulders that boasts an ancient city, is forging fashion world ties. The film commission for the swathe of northwest Saudi Arabia roughly the size of Belgium that also comprises a lush oasis and vast sandstone canyons, is launching an initiative called AlUla Creates involving use of an eco-friendly studio and the possibility of tapping into development funds for projects by female directors at the intersection of film and fashion. AlUla Creates has partnered with the British Fashion Council and with Saudi actress Mia Al Zahrani (“The Perfect Candidate”); British filmmaker and creative director Alec Maxwell – founder of digital platform Kloss Films whose clients include Bulgari, Stella McCartney, and Carolina Herrera –; and fashion models Helena Christensen and Eva Herzigova as “ambassadors” to promote the platform, according to a statement.

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions has confirmed that a review of the State Pension age is “under way”. Mel Stride MP told the House of Commons that he will consider a wide range of evidence, including two independent reports, to assess whether the “rules on pensionable age remain appropriate”.

Sarah Ferguson is loving this new version of herself.

EXCLUSIVE: John Boyega has been set to star in sci-fi romance The Freshening from director Cathy Yan (Birds Of Prey), we can reveal.

Sarah Ferguson claimed she “hasn’t really met” Meghan Markle - after the Sussexes said it was the Duchess of York who taught her to curtsy. Fergie, the mother of Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, made the comment in a recent interview. But the statement appears to be in direct contradiction to claims by Prince Harry, 38, and Meghan, 41, who recalled having drinks with the Duchess of York at her home, Royal Lodge in Windsor.

Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, is opening up about her special friendship with Lisa Marie Presley. ET's Rachel Smith spoke with the duchess at Alice's Tea Cup in New York, where she shared how her late friend helped her in a «dark moment.»«When I was really in a dark moment, she sent me an airline ticket and said, 'Come to Hawaii and I'll pick you up from the airport, and I'll drive myself.' I thought, 'OK.' Never in her life has she driven to the airport.

The latest figures from Social Security Scotland show that at the end of February, 2022 there were 124,081 people living in Scotland receiving additional financial support through Attendance Allowance. Across Great Britain, there are now more than 1.5 million people over State Pension age getting either £61.85 or £92.40 each week through the benefit.

EXCLUSIVE: Jesse Garcia (Flamin’ Hot) will star opposite Eva Longoria and George Lopez in the Disney+ film Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.