Interview: Hungary’s U.S. Ambassador Blasts Anti-LGBTQ Crackdown

William Earl Weeks after delivering anti-strike comments during a fan convention, actor Stephen Amell was spotted on the picket line in New York on Friday. Wearing a black “SAG-AFTRA Strong” and carrying a sign, Amell was on the other side of the country from his former “Arrow” costars and creative team, who struck together in front of Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank during a planned reunion picket.

Matt Rife are no laughing matter.The popular comic announced his mega ‘ProbleMATTic World Tour’ in June and fans all over North America scrambled for tickets to his 250+ shows on the 2023-24 run.Now that the dust has settled, we’re here to sort through the rubble and help you find the best prices to catch the crowd work-heavy headliner live in Atlantic City, NJ.From Aug. 18-20, the 27-year-old is headed to Ovation Hall at Ocean Casino Resort for five huge shows.After review, it appears the best price on tickets is $122 before fees on Vivid Seats.If that’s a little outside your budget, we recommend refreshing this page — it’s very possible that prices drop as we inch closer to showtime.For an encore, Rife is scheduled to hit New York City’s Radio City Music Hall for six (!) shows from Feb.

Arthouse Crunch Over the last decade, theatrical arthouse markets have imploded soufflé-like. “We used to make 5,000 admissions per title, now the target audience is 500,” Peter Bognar, at Hungary’s CinefilCo, told Variety at Locarno. So, to close the gap and move hopefully into a little upside, having tapped subsidies and local TV pre-buys, producers are looking ever more to overseas public-sector coin, channelled via international co-producer partners.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Ji.hlava Documentary Film Festival has revealed to Variety the projects that the participants of its 2023 Emerging Producers program are working on. The producers were asked to deliver an elevator pitch for their projects. Every year since 2010, the festival has selected 18 up-and-coming producers of documentary films (17 European and one representing a non-European guest country), which are then provided with educational, networking and promotional support.

Chris Noth is speaking out in his first interview since getting slammed with several allegations of sexual assault! As Perezcious readers know, the actor’

A guest on Antiques Roadshow was left dumbfounded when he was told the true value of a charity shop find.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are moving into film production, with reports that they have purchased the screen rights for a bestselling romantic novel.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor SPOILER ALERT: This contains spoilers from “Shortcomings, now in theaters. When Ally Maki received the script for Randall Park’s “Shortcomings,” she read it in one sitting and knew she had to be a part of it. Whether it was just to audition or land the role, “I’d be happy to just perform that piece, the opening which was a nine-pager,” says the actor, who has appeared in shows including “Wrecked” and “Hacks.” Maki ended up landing the role of Miko, who is in a complicated relationship with her boyfriend, Ben (Justin H. Min) which slowly disintegrates when he is caught surfing porn on the internet, and Miko takes a leap, accepting an internship in New York.

Cristian Muñiz, the firstborn of Dayanara Torres and Marc Anthony, just finished his studies at New York’s Parsons School of Art and is now enjoying a much-needed break. At 22, he’s already making significant progress in his career as an artist and illustrator. He’s spending some quality time with his girlfriend, Kylie Jane Marco, in a beautiful beach destination, which is a perfect place for a romantic getaway.Kylie, who graduated from college in May, shared a glimpse of her outing with her boyfriend on social media.

Strictly Come Dancing star Anton Du Beke has revealed his father stabbed him when he was a young man due to his career choice.

A professional dancer who performed as part of an all-queer dance troupe was stabbed to death over the weekend at a gas station in Brooklyn. And now, his friends are sounding the alarm that he was attacked because of his sexual orientation. O’Shae Sibley, who wa

Drake revealed the number one thing he looks for in a lady as he recently hit Starlet’s Gentlemen’s Club in New York.

Brad Pitt is reported to have paused production on his Formula One film, to show support for the SAG strike.

Casey DeSantis has addressed the critics that call her “Walmart Melania” and “America’s Karen.” Since her husband Ron DeSantis gained a national presence, Casey’s outfits have become a trending topic, with her looks appearing to reference fashionable first ladies like Jackie Kennedy. In an appearance on “Fox & Friends,” DeSantis addressed her critics.Melania Trump releases NFT collection celebrating Apollo 11Who is Ron DeSantis’ wife Casey DeSantis?"One thing that the corporate media did get right about me, I do shop at Walmart," said DeSantis. "I think it's interesting, and you probably can sympathize with this, when they come after you and they're just calling you names.

Two San Diego residents checked out nearly every single book in their library’s Pride Month display, claiming that such materials shouldn’t be available to children.Across the nation, conservative groups have pushed to ban books that discuss LGBTQ issues from libraries and schools, often arguing that they are pornographic or obscene merely because they depict LGBTQ identity.This attempt to stoke culture-war flames in San Diego backfired, according to The New York Times, ending with an outpouring of community support for the library in the form of increased monetary and book donations. As soon as The San Diego Union-Tribune reported on the protest, new copies of the checked-out books began to arrive at the library.

The Hollywood Vampires haven’t had an easy time of it in Europe lately.

Marie Amachoukeli’s Ama Gloria has won the Best International Film Prize at the 40th edition of the Jerusalem Film Festival, running from July 13 to July 26.

The Sarajevo Film Festival has unveiled its official selection for this year’s edition, with Elene Naveriani’s Cannes Directors’ Fortnight title Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry among the titles playing in Competition.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Forty-nine films will compete for the Heart of Sarajevo awards at the 29th Sarajevo Film Festival, which runs in Bosnia and Herzegovina from Aug. 11 to 18. The Feature Film Competition will present 11 titles, with two world premieres, one international and five regional premieres. World premieres include “Europa” from Austrian-Iranian filmmaker Sudabeh Mortezai, whose credits include 2018 Venice Days entry “Joy,” the Best Film winner at London Film Festival, and “Macondo,” which competed for the Golden Bear at Berlin Film Festival in 2014. The other world premiere is “Medium,” from Greek director Christina Ioakeimidi, whose debut feature was “Harisma” in 2010.

For a woman to be a successful politician, she must not know what a gun is, but know how to fire one; must glow in the dark, but in a totally nonradioactive way; and, simply put, must be Beyoncé — this we know from a popular 2019 New Yorker article.Two election cycles in the House of Representatives since that piece was published, U.S. Rep.