Iron Maiden mascot Eddie is getting a Funko Pop! NFT

A principal at a St. Catharines school is facing backlash from parents.

Smokey Robinson is detailing his bout with coronavirus that, he says, nearly took his life after he was hospitalized in December. The Motown legend, 81, told the Daily Mail that his battle with COVID-19 was "touch and go" and that he wasn’t sure he would ever sing again after the virus "took [his] voice" for a spell.

Christopher Vourlias Greece’s Argonauts Productions has boarded “Forough: A Lonely Woman,” a biopic about iconoclastic Persian poet Forough Farrokhzad by BAFTA-nominated director Tina Gharavi (“I Am Nasrine”), ahead of its presentation in the co-production forum of Rome’s MIA market.The film follows the short and controversial life of Farrokhzad, a feminist icon who in the 1950s and ‘60s found a way to tell her story in an Iranian society not yet ready for the uncomfortable truths of female

Bindi Irwin welcomed her first child, Grace Warrior Irwin Powell, back in March. And on Monday, the 23-year-old conservationist shared an adorable photo to Instagram of her little girl 'talking' to the family dog Piggy.

Iron Maiden fan, who allegedly shared photos of herself paying homage to the group using the school’s social handle. The “concerned parents” say the post’s affiliation to Iron Maiden demonstrates “satanic imagery”.Sharon Burns is the principal of Eden High School in St.

Every so often, a film truly becomes banned, typically due to content that is so violent and/or sexual that censors are scared to allow the film to be shown to the public. Back in the late-‘70s, Iran banned the film “Chess of the Wind” not because it is so racy that it was a danger to the public, but instead because the film dared to show people morally unscrupulous people during a time when the theocratic country was scared of showing such three-dimensional people.

EXCLUSIVE: Eric Nicks, who has worked with the likes of Busta Rhymes, LL Cool J, and Foxy Brown, has teamed up with Dorothy Toran and Leslie Farrell’s Lauren Grace Media to develop a range of music television projects.

Metallica have announced a new set of Funko Pop! figures to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their 1991 LP ‘The Black Album’.The band’s fifth studio album reached the milestone back in August.

Bahman Ghobadi, the exiled Iranian filmmaker who has won prizes at Cannes, Berlin, San Sebastian and many other international festivals, has penned a letter to the Film Academy saying, “It would be great if we could have one representative from exiled artists.”

Not one and the same! Although Benji Madden and Joel Madden are twin brothers, Cameron Diaz doesn’t consider them as similar as others might, revealing in a new interview why she isn’t attracted to her husband’s brother.

Ben Crump, who, in representing the family of George Floyd, became a household name and among the most powerful voices in the Black Lives Matter movement, urged guests at the Black Music Action Coalition (BMAC) Music in Action Awards gala to “raise your voices in beautiful harmony and continue to give voice to those who have no voice.”Crump joined seven fellow honorees for the inaugural event, recognizing significant contributions to social justice, change, and/or equity over the preceding year.

Marta Balaga Pop singer Kikka, a.k.a. Kirsi Hannele Viilonen, who passed away in 2005 at just 41 years old, will finally get her due in the upcoming biopic being produced by Helsinki’s Komeetta.

Will Tizard ContributorThe spectacular rise of green-haired Finnish pop star Alma has inspired one of Finnish Film Affair’s most buzzy documentaries in progress, “Alma – Who Am I?” Finnish director and actor Pamela Tola spoke to Variety about her film.

Irina Shayk and Bradley Cooper's daughter isn't a fan of the paparazzi. Shayk covers the debut issue of Highsnobiety's , and tells the magazine how she and her 46-year-old actor ex explain the photographers to their 4-year-old daughter, Lea.«Sometimes my daughter is scared -- she sees the paparazzi from miles away,» the 35-year-old Russian model says.

NEW YORK -- Three imprisoned Iranian dissidents will be honored next month at Pen America's annual gala.The literary and human rights organization announced Thursday that writer-filmmaker Baktash Abtin, novelist-journalist Keyvan Bajan and author-critic Reza Khandan Mahabadi are this year's recipients of the 2021 PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award.

Iron Maiden have scored their highest charting album ever with ‘Senjutsu’ on the Billboard 200.The album landed at Number Three in the charts after shifting the equivalent of 64,000 album units.They previously peaked at Number Four with their last two albums – ‘The Book of Souls’ and ‘The Final Frontier’.In total, ‘Senjutsu’ is Iron Maiden’s 15th Top 40 charting album, of which four have hit the Top 10.It comes after the metal veterans were narrowly beaten to the Number One spot in the UK albums

Alissa Simon Film CriticSet in 1978, in a Kurdish village high in the mountains, Iranian horror entry “Zalava” pits rational, scientific beliefs against superstition and groupthink, a theme that carries a lot of resonance just now. At the same time, it  sports a sly sense of humor before edging into tragedy.