Group of drunk swimmers pulled from sea near Blackpool Tower in early hours of morning

AMPAS CEO Dawn Hudson on Friday assured members in an email that the Academy Museum opening is still on schedule for September 30. She also said the museum at the beginning would be operating at 50% capacity during business hours, and masks will be required for all indoor spaces. Of course the Academy is emphasizing safety measures in light of the continuing pandemic and Delta variant surge which continues to wreak havoc with show-business-as-usual.

Alexander Durie “The Man Who Sold His Skin” and “Coda” stood out among films which picked up awards at the closing ceremony of the 49th Norwegian International Film Festival Haugesund. For the festival’s grand reopening to the international market, after a restricted 2020 edition due to the COVID-19 pandemic, attendance surpassed pre-pandemic levels with an all-time-high number of industry accreditations for the event which ran Aug.

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Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentNENT Group, Scandinavia’s leading streaming company, has ordered “Ida Takes Charge,” a dark comedy series based on Kjersti Halvorsen’s acclaimed debut novel by the same name. The eight-part show, which shot this summer in Oslo, is directed by rising Norwegian filmmaker Rikke Gregersen, whose 2018 short film “Dog Eat Dog” won a Student Academy Award and a special jury prize at the BAFTA/LA Student Films Awards.

The long-awaited “Ray Donovan” movie has received an approximate air date.

The long-awaited “Ray Donovan” movie has received an approximate air date.

EXCLUSIVE: Candidates backed by Fran Drescher in local SAG-AFTRA elections are racking up impressive wins as early results from around the country continue to come in. Candidates that her Unite for Strength slate deem “Drescher-friendly” already have won in Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston-Austin, Miami, the Missouri Valley, Portland, San Francisco, the Twin Cities and elsewhere.

Aberdeen. The 18-year-old was reportedly assaulted around 12.55am last Tuesday on Bon Accord Street in the Granite City.

Annika Pham Powered by its famed partners, Oslo-based Motion Blur, one of Norway’s top producers of commercials, features and TV shows, has never been that busy with projects both on home turf and in the U.S.That activity in part rolls off the pulling power of the company’s pedigreed partners: “Karate Kid” helmer Harald Zwart; “Kon-Tiki” and “Pirates of the Caribbean-Dead Men Tell No Tales” co-helmer Espen Sandberg: and producer Espen Horn (“The 12th Man,”, “Amundsen”).Minority shareholder SF

Alexander Durie After a stellar year picking up awards at Berlin, South by Southwest, Edinburgh and Melbourne, “Ninjababy” continued its prize-winning streak at Norway’s top plaudits for national movies, the Amanda Awards.

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who played Black Canary in last year’s “Birds of Prey,” is attached to star.Misha Green, best known as the showrunner of the supernatural series “Lovecraft Country” on HBO, is writing the script.Black Canary, aka Dinah Lance, is a fantastic hand-to-hand combatant who comes from a family of crime fighters. Her father, Larry Lance, was a police officer, while her mother (also named Dinah) was the original Black Canary.

Kelly Clarkson could have never dreamed up the impact American Idol would have had on her life when it premiered back in the early aughts.

When Britney Spears said she was “not even close” to saying all she needed to say about her time under conservatorship, we couldn’t have seen this coming.

As we first told you, Sony’s fourthquel Hotel Transylvania: Transformania was heading to a streamer.

NBC will likely never admit it, but the Comcast-owned network must be so relieved that the Tokyo Olympics are finally over.

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How does someone document the onset of a pandemic? Director Nanfu Wang found herself tasked with that very question; her response is the Sundance 2021 selection “In The Same Breath.” The documentary is an unflinching look at Wuhan during the COVID pandemic’s earliest days. It’s a portrait of how one city confronted the unknown while also focusing on the human toll that is sometimes forgotten.