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Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent The Cannes Screenplay List, an initiative backed by the talent platform Wscripted in partnership with MUBI, will be back for a third edition at the Cannes Film Festival’s Marché du Film. An international jury comprising filmmakers Mounia Meddour (“Papicha”, “Houria”), Funa Maduka (“Waiting for Hassana”), and Camille Griffin (“The Silent Night”) will sift through submitted feature scripts from women and non-binary writers. The final List of top scripts will be presented to producers during during the Cannes Marché du Film, in collaboration with MUBI.

The Broadway revival of Sweeney Todd is officially open!

In a Broadway season that might be remembered for a lovely, pared-down minimalism – the intriguing starkness of A Doll’s House with Jessica Chastain, the less-is-more near-concert-style presentations of Into the Woods and Parade – director Thomas Kail’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street will stand out for, among many other attributes, its full-on, unabashed ambition. A prodigious theatrical event that aims for greatness and achieves it, this revival of the Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler masterpiece is not to be missed.

Stephen Sondheim’s horror-musical in which throats are gruesomely slashed and cannibalism is positively hilarious. 2 hours and 45 minutes with one intermission. At the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, 205 W.

Paulina Porizkova is feeling reflective on what would have been her late ex-husband Ric Ocasek’s 79th birthday. Porizkova posted a photo from a family vacation with their sons, Jonathan, 29, and Oliver, 24, and shared her thoughts in the caption. "This pic is from our last vacation together, when I still hoped my marriage would survive," she wrote.

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Busted's Charlie Simpson, Matt Willis and James Bourne are set to celebrate wo decades in music with their 20th Anniversary Greatest Hits Tour later this year.

Alyssa Farah Griffin was notably missing from The View on Wednesday, March 22. Moderator Whoopi Goldberg started off the daytime talk show by addressing the reason the conservative co-host was not on the “Hot Topics” table.

With the now very real threat of indictment looming over twice-impeached former President Donald Trump, Republicans are once again circling around him and defending him — including Nikki Haley. And considering she’s actively campaigning against her former boss, Alyssa Farah Griffin was baffled by this move Tuesday on “The View.”To kick off the day’s Hot Topics, the hosts played a supercut of GOP figures supporting Trump, including Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley. “When you get into political prosecutions like this, it’s more about revenge than it is about justice,” Haley said.

Amazon is laying off another 9,000 workers as job cuts in the tech sector expand at a time of growing economic uncertainty. It follows cuts last fall and early this year.

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran producer Stratton Leopold (Mission: Impossible III) and filmmaker Dax Phelan (The Other Side of the Wind) have teamed up to produce a new currently untitled limited series based on an infamous 19th-century prison escape known affectionately as The Catalpa Expedition.

Michael J. Fox gushed about his wife Tracy Pollan on Tuesday, saying she "gives" their family "everything we need." "Any good in our family, anything good that we do, comes from her," Fox told People magazine at the SXSW premiere of his movie "Still: a Michael J. Fox Movie" on Tuesday.  Pollan added she thinks listening to each other and knowing when to give the other one space has helped make their 34-year marriage last.  "I think we really listen to each other, we are there for each other when we need each other," Pollan said.

Valentina Paloma, the 15-year-old daughter of Salma Hayek and François-Henri Pinault, made her first Oscars appearance on this year’s champagne carpet. She joined her mother at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, who was there to present an award.

Paulina Porizkova is single and ready to mingle. The 57-year-old supermodel opened up about her dating life and a few relationship struggles she’s had in the past, including having "trust issues."She revealed she’s been turning to a relationship book, "Us" by Terrence Real, for guidance on how to navigate the dating world. "I thought, 'The next man I meet where I feel like the potential for a relationship is going to go somewhere, I'm going to make them read this book before we get anywhere for real,'" Porizkova explained on "The HollywoodLife Podcast."   "And so, I can say, I've just handed that book up to somebody." Although the supermodel, who is from Czechoslovakia, did not name the person she is dating, she did reveal the relationship is still "in the early days." "We had the most amazing conversations about ourselves and where we are going — what we want," she said.

In 2020, Steven Soderbergh’s “Contagion” became much more than just a vision of a potential future. As the COVID-19 pandemic dragged on, viewers pointed to how much the film’s writer Scott Z.

In 2020, Steven Soderbergh’s “Contagion” became much more than just a vision of a potential future. As the COVID-19 pandemic dragged on, viewers pointed to how much the film’s writer Scott Z.

Paulina Porizkova called out her critics on social media after a recent steamy photo post. The supermodel posted a picture of herself on Monday posing in black lingerie with a red sweater that she "knitted" herself, joking about being a "grandma" by a fireplace.

Paulina Porizkova is taking a stand against her haters.

EXCLUSIVE: The Disney+ film Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day has added Paulina Chávez (The Expanding Universe of Ashley Garcia, Fate: The Winx Saga) and Rose Portillo (Zoot Suit, The Exorcist II) to its cast, joining previously announced stars Eva Longoria, George Lopez, and Jesse Garcia.

Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves McConaughey had quite the scare this week!