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The full cast of the upcoming second season of Nine Perfect Strangers has been revealed!

President Joe Biden arrived at LAX late on Friday afternoon to kickoff a weekend of fundraising, starting with a Hollywood-centric event hosted by designer Michael Smith and James Costos, the former U.S. ambassador to Spain.

There were a bunch of Hollywood A-List stars in Saudi Arabia today for the closing night gala of the 2023 Red Sea International Film Festival!

Stranger Things season four aired between May and July 2022, but fans will be waiting a while for more episodes as filming hasn’t even started on the fifth and final season.

Kelela has shared the full track list for the remixes version of ‘RAVE:N’ today (December 7) – check it out below.Earlier this year, Kelela followed up her 2017 debut album ‘Take Me Apart‘ with sophomore album ‘Raven’. NME’s four-star review said: “In a debut album which was all about breaking down, ‘Raven’ reminds us of what it means to be put back together.”The Remixes will be released on February 9 and include a wide range of collaborators including Shygirl, Yaeji, Liv.e, BbyMutha, LEECH and others.‘RAVE:N, The Remixes’ was described in a statement as “a transcending fusion of mashups and sounds, reimagined from the original ‘Raven’ album alongside her musical partner in crime Asmara.”Kelela has also today shared the album’s featured single ‘Closure’ from featuring an accompanied visual directed by Yasser Abubeker which you can watch below. You can also check out the full tracklist below: ‘RAVE:N, The Remixes’ track list is: 1. ‘Raven’ (Agazero Remix feat. Bbymutha)2. ‘Contact’ (Karen Nyame KG Remix)3. ‘Closure’ (Flexulant x BAMBII Remix feat. Rahrah Gabor + Brazy)4. ‘Holier’ (JD. REID Remix feat. Shygirl)5. ‘Bruises’ (SUCIA! Remix)6. ‘Washed Away’ (Ethereal Remix feat. Liv.e)7. ‘Far Away’ (DJ Swisha Remix)8. ‘Raven’ (TYGAPAW Remix feat. Rochelle Jordan)9. ‘Sorbet’ (LSDXOXO Remix)10. ‘Divorce’ (DJ Manny Remix)11. ‘Fooley’ (LEECH Ambient Queen Remix)12. ‘Missed Call’ (KYRUH Remix)13. ‘Happy Ending’ (A.G Remix)14. ‘Let It Go’ (NGUZUNGUZU x DJ GAY-Z Remix)15. ‘On The Run’ (River Moon Remix feat. ThugPop)16. ‘Enough For Love’ (TAYHANA Remix)17. ‘Enough For Love’ (Yaeji heart+beat Remix)18. ‘Divorce’ (Loraine James Remix)19. ‘Far Away’ (DJ LHC Remix)20. ‘Far Away’ (SUUTOO His Eye Is On the Raven Remix feat. Ms. Carrie

Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2024 is just around the corner!

Lynne Spears is doing whatever it takes to mend her relationship with her daughter Britney Spears.

Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes are breaking their silence about their alleged affair — claiming they actually did not cheat when photos of them surfaced during a romantic getaway in November 2022.“To be clear, we were outed as being in a relationship,” Holmes, 50, said during the Dec. 5 premiere of their self-titled podcast.“But everyone else thought we were being outed as adulterous, being outed as cheating on our spouses and it wasn’t the case,” he continued.

True Detective. The new season is subtitled ‘Night Country’ and is heading to HBO Max in the US in the new year.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent In bigger picture terms, the major highlights of Ventana Sur were a masterclass by Cannes head Thierry Frémaux and an impromptu speech by San Sebastián director José Luis Rebordinos, heads of the most important film festivals in the world and Spanish-speaking world, supporting the continued existence of INCAA. There words came after Argentinian President elect Javier Milei had vowed on the campaign trail to shutter Argentina’s state-backed film-TV agency if voted into power. In industry terms, never has Ventana Sur, Latin America’s most important film-TV market, been this big, its final attendance numbers sky-rocketing to 4,300, some 30% up on 2022, beyond even the wildest expectations of organizers, Cannes Marché du Film and the INCAA.

Ventana Sur’s coveted Paradiso WIP Award, made up of a $10,000 cash prize, went to Brazil’s “The Cuban Doctor.” Its director, Bernard Lessa, reflected on the significance of the award: “It’s a very important initiative and a partner in the cause of Brazilian cinema,” he said, as he expressed his joy at receiving the accolade. Lessa’s story turns on Akin, a Cuban doctor working in Brazil during former President Jair Bolsonaro’s controversial tenure, who faces political headwinds while he’s simply trying to do his job with the respect and kindness his patients deserve.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Habanero Film Sales has snapped up documentary “I Trust You” (“En vos confio”) from Juan Pablo Gugliotta and Nathalia Videla Peña’s Magma Cine (“The Distinguished Citizen,” “1976”) in one of the more significant of multiple deals struck at a hectic Ventana Sur (VS) in Buenos Aires. Directed by Agustin Toscano, whose “The Owners” and “The Snatch Thief” participated in Cannes’ Critics Week and Directors’ Fortnight sidebars in 2013 and 2017, respectively, “I Trust You” follows former nuns Susana and Nélida who have been incarcerated at the Tucumán Women’s Prison since 2006, accused of a crime they insist they did not commit.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Mexican Rigoberto Pérezcano’s “Lovers Fare Goodbye,” a poignant, exquisitely shot tale of star-crossed young love dominated prizes at Primer Corte, Ventana Sur’s key arthouse pic competition. The prize and dozens of others were announced Friday at Latin America’s most important film-TV mart-meet.

Tate McRae is revealing the tracklist for her sophomore album, Think Later!

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent BUENOS AIRES — In one of the first deals to close at this week’s Ventana Sur market, Spain’s Latido Films has boarded “Lo Que Quisimos Ser,” written-directed by Alejandro Agresti, produced by Fernando Sokolowicz at Aleph Media, and Gastón Duprat, who have teamed as producer and co-writer-director on “The Distinguished Citizen,” “The Man Next Door,” and “The Artist.” “Lo Que Quisimos Ser” marks the latest film from Agresti, one of Argentina’s most international talents best known for a Hollywood sojourn which saw him directing Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves in “The Lake House” and writing Argentina-set, English-language “No somos animales,” with John Cusack. Of his Argentine film, “Valentín” weighs in as a big-hearted coming of age tale of a cross-eyed and very lonely young kid.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Colombian sales and distribution company Doc:Co is venturing into the global sales arena with its first international pick up, Chilean-Colombian co-production “Otra Piel.” The debut feature documentary of Patricia Correa, “Otra Piel” is co-produced by Colombia’s Romeo, 235 Digital and Sonata Films alongside Chile’s Cine Matiz, founded by producer Gabriela Sandoval who co-runs another, more established label, Storyboard Media. The doc revolves around Miguel, who at 38, is not just a taxidermist but also an accomplished hunter.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent It’s proving a huge and busy Ventana Sur in terms of deal announcements, both sales deals and most especially co-pro pacts across the several hundreds of titles now platformed at Ventana Sur. If you haven’t been able as yet to read the first two Variety Dailies, or haven’t seen them in your inbox, just click on the photos to access Variety’s Ventana Sur Daily One and Two: Variety Ventana Sur Daily One, Monday Nov. 27, 2023 Variety Ventana Sur Daily Two, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023 Enjoy!

Holly Jones “Lonely Hearts,” the highly-anticipated third feature from Brazil’s Berlinale-winner Caru Alves de Souza (“My Name Is Baghdad”), named among 10 Next Gen Talents to Track from the country by Variety in February, and a pair of additional homecoming narratives from burgeoning creatives, Uruguayan director Paula Botana’s“The Burned Women” and Dora Gomez’s “Blanca” out of Paraguay, are among the titles selected for Ventana Sur’s 2023 Punto Genero pitching sessions. Histories unearthed and intimate interpersonal relationships are dominant themes in the remaining selections with films like Argentina-Spain co-production “Brücher.

Callum McLennan Milena Times’ debut feature “November” joins two further titles from Brazil as part of Primer Corte and Copia Final, Ventana Sur‘s pix-in-post industry showdown. It participated in various development guises including BrLab – Audiovisual Project Development Laboratory in 2017, and as a finalist for the Cabíria Screenplay Award, also participating in Cabiria Lab 2020. Fully funded at both state and national levels in Brazil, “November” is a testament to the burgeoning film industry in the country.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Madrid-based Sideral, a production-distribution-sales label launched by Spain’s Elamedia Estudios early this year, has boarded Uruguayan Ventana Sur-Blood Window project “Capital Variable,” the feature debut of Uruguayan helmer-scribe Marco Caltieri. Elamedia Studios CEO Roberto Butragueño will produce the thriller/dark comedy with Sideral’s Paola Botrán and Uruguay’s Clara Charlo of To Je To serving as executive producers. Sideral will be handling international sales on the project, which was pitched at genre forum Blood Window at Ventana Sur, the preeminent annual film-TV market in Buenos Aires, co-organized by Cannes Festival and Marché du Film and by Argentina’s INCAA film institute.