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Naman Ramachandran Andrew Scott, David Tennant and Sophie Okonedo took home the acting prizes at the 33rd U.K. Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards. Scott won best actor for “Vanya,” a one-man Chekov adaptation which saw him play eight different characters in conversation with each other.

Months after the post-Super Bowl parties in Vegas, Jason Kelce has put the luchador mask back on! 

Anna Marie de la Fuente Moved from its usual December berth last year, the 12th Panama International Film Festival (IFF Panama) runs April 4-7, replete with new industry activities and double the number of films since its previous edition. True to its mandate to serve as a showcase for Central American and Caribbean cinema, the festival’s program this year includes a bevy of acclaimed films from the region, including two Panamanian Indigenous-themed features, “Bila Burba” and “God is a Woman.” Recent years has seen the growing international recognition of pics from the region, with Nelson Carlo de los Santos becoming the first Dominican – and first Latin American – filmmaker to snag the best director Silver Bear at the Berlinale for his drama, “Pepe.” Costa Rican director Antonella Sudasassi Furniss’ sophomore feature, “Memories of a Burning Body,” clinched the Audience Award for best fiction film in the Panorama section of the A-list German festival.

Trabzonspor boss Abdullah Avci has reportedly "approved" a bumper contract offer for Rangers star John Lundstram in a bid to tempt him to Turkey this summer

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Jason Arrow will reprise the role of Alexander Hamilton as the hit stage musical “Hamilton” returns to Australia later this year. The production will play a limited engagement at the Sydney Lyric Theatre from July 30 through to the end of October, 2024. Sydney is the only city the production will play before leaving Australia. The original Australian “Hamilton” premiered at the Sydney Lyric Theatre in March, 2021, before touring to Melbourne, Brisbane and New Zealand, concluding in June. “We know we have so much unfinished business left with Sydney and we can’t wait to get back to “Hamilton’s” original Australian home.

Jimmy Kimmel left his usual late-night beefs off the Oscar stage tonight, ignoring Trump, Santos, Aaron Rodgers to focus entirely on Hollywood’s big night, with only one not-so-veiled political jab included in a mostly gentle opening segment.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor The 8th annual Crunchyroll Anime Awards just concluded in Tokyo — with “Jujutsu Kaisen” Season 2 wining a total of 11 honors, including the top prize of anime of the year. Crunchyroll revealed the winners during a live ceremony Saturday, March 2, featuring celebrity presenters and musical performances.

Aventura.This May and June, Romeo Santos and his legendary bachata group are joining forces for their ‘Cerrando Ciclos Tour’ (“Closing Cycles”) one last time before officially parting ways.“This year, there is something I must accomplish and conclude,” Romeo Santos shared via social media.

Dahomey. The Golden Bear, the first to be awarded to a black filmmaker in the festival’s history, is about the return of 26 royal treasures of the Kingdom of Dahomey from Paris to their country of origin, the present-day Republic of Benin.MUBI has acquired the rights to the film for both the UK and the United States, among other territories.On the night Diop had the following to say when she collected her award:Kenyan-Mexican actor Lupita Nyong’o was president of this year’s jury.Elsewhere, the runner-up prize, the Silver Bear Grand Jury went to Korean filmmaker Hong Sansoo’s Yeohaengjaui pilyo (A Traveler’s Needs), while the Silver Bear Jury Prize was awarded to Bruno Dumont’s L’Empire.Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias scooped the Best Director award for Pepe, while the two main acting awards went to two performances in the English language.

Guy Lodge Film Critic The Berlin Film Festival drew to a close with tonight’s awards ceremony, with French-Senegalese director Mati Diop taking the Golden Bear for her documentary “Dahomey.” Full report to come; full list of winners below.

Winners have been announced at the 74th Berlin Film Festival, with Dahomey by French-Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop scooping the coveted Golden Bear prize as the best film of the festival’s International Competition. Scroll down for the full list of winners, which were revealed Saturday evening at the Berlinale Palast.

Marta Balaga In “Pepe,” Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias tells the story of a very special hippopotamus. Or rather, he allows the hippopotamus to tell the story himself. “Pablo Escobar brought three hippos to Colombia back in 1981.

The first-ever edition of AfroBerlin put Africa in the spotlight at the Berlin Film Festival and in one key session asked how festivals, streamers, and the wider industry can — and should — support films and filmmakers from the continent.

Christopher Vourlias Africa’s growing screen industries are making their mark on the global stage, with three titles in the main competition at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, but how to unlock the continent’s still-untapped potential was a question on the minds of many at a conference hosted on Saturday by the European Film Market. A partnership between EFM and Prudence Kolong’s Stockholm-based consulting firm Yanibes, AfroBerlin was launched to give a platform to filmmakers from Africa and the diaspora and “to find a place where they can share stories and experiences and be heard,” said Kolong, who also organizes the Cannes Film Festival’s AfroCannes industry showcase.

A longtime daytime drama favorite is joining General Hospital.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor In case you didn’t know, animation directors are also auteurs. According to Yahoo Finance, the global animation market reached more than $400 billion at the end of 2023. That was up from $391 billion one year before.

Lindsay Lohan has set her next movie, and it’s a Netflix rom com!

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Lindsay Lohan and Kristin Chenoweth will star in the Netflix romantic comedy “Our Little Secret.” Stephen Herek is directing the film, which follows two resentful exes (Lohan and Ian Harding) who are forced to spend Christmas together after discovering their current partners are siblings. Lohan will reunite with her “Mean Girls” co-star Tim Meadows, as well as star alongside Jon Rudnitsky, Chris Parnell, Dan Bucatinsky, Henry Czerny, Katie Baker, Ash Santos, Jake Brennan and Brian Unger. It’s unclear who anyone else is playing in the cast.

Lindsay Lohan (Mean Girls) and Kristin Chenoweth (Schmigadoon!) have been set to star in Our Little Secret, a new holiday film that Stephen Herek (Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure) is directing for Netflix.

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER “Blue Bag Life” — Lisa Selby (Director), Rebecca Lloyd-Evans (Director, Producer), Alex Fry (Producer) “Bobi Wine: The People’s President” — Christopher Sharp (Director) [also directed Moses Bwayo] “Earth Mama” — Savanah Leaf (Writer, Director, Producer), Shirley O’Connor (Producer), Medb Riordan (Producer) “How to Have Sex” — Molly Manning Walker (Writer, Director) “Is There Anybody Out There?” — Ella Glendining (Director) ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY “Anatomy of a Fall” — Justine Triet, Arthur Harari “Barbie” — Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach “The Holdovers” — David Hemingson “Maestro” — Bradley Cooper, Josh Singer “Past Lives” — Celine Song ADAPTED SCREENPLAY “All of Us Strangers,” Andrew Haigh “American Fiction,” Cord Jefferson “Oppenheimer,” Christopher Nolan “Poor Things,” Tony McNamara “The Zone of Interest,” Jonathan Glazer FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE “20 Days in Mariupol” — Mstyslav Chernov, Raney Aronson Rath “Anatomy of a Fall” — Justine Triet, Marie-Ange Luciani, David Thion “Past Lives” — Celine Song, David Hinojosa, Pamela Koffler, Christine Vachon “Society of the Snow” — J.A. Bayona, Belen Atienza “The Zone of Interest” — Jonathan Glazer ANIMATED FILM “The Boy and the Heron” — Hayao Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki “Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget” — Sam Fell, Leyla Hobart, Steve Pegram “Elemental” — Peter Sohn, Denise Ream “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” — Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K.

All Saints‘ Shaznay Lewis has shared her newest single ‘Miracle’, marking her first solo release in 20 years.The track is a blend of pop and R&B and sees Lewis sing: “And you’ll find me / Rising where we fall / In a sunlit dream / Where nobody has been before / And it’s like nothing that you’ve seen / I can explain it all / No timе to be cynical / Right now, we need a miracle”.Speaking about the track in a press release, Lewis said: “‘Miracle’ was a journey, a relentless writing process between Emily Phillips and me. We pushed each other, we changed it a lot, and when I finally listened to it I realised it was a love song to myself, about the person I’ve been for the past 25 years and where I am now.”She continued: “It’s a message of encouragement to return to my love of writing with self-esteem, and confidence in the way that made me happy.”‘Miracle’ serves as a re-introduction to Lewis who enjoyed huge success as a member and lead songwriter of the all girl pop group All Saints from the early 00s.

We’re learning the cause of death for Taylor Swift fan Ana Clara Benevides Machado, who passed after falling ill during Swift’s November 17 Eras concert in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Benevides died of heat exhaustion, according to a forensics report obtained by The Associated Press.

There’s a Chopped marathon happening tonight and we have some info that fans of the Food Network show might want to see.

Jack Axelrod, the actor who played the role of Victor Jerome on General Hospital, has died. He was 93.

Biggest Single-Day Domestic Box Office For A Foreign Live-Action Film, according to Screen Rant.It is also the Largest Domestic Debut For A Live-Action Japanese Film and the Second-Highest Debut For A Live-Action Foreign-Language Film Ever.Moviegoers are raving about the film, which slithered its way to the No. 2 spot in the box office on Friday, according to IMDB’s Box Office Mojo.“I believe the hype, the hype is well worth it.” said Miguel Santos, 46, a technician from Jersey City who caught the flick at the Times Square AMC.

Thania Garcia Ahead of his first concert in Brazil, Peso Pluma recruited Brazillian singer Anitta for a sultry new reggaeton single called “Bellakeo.” On Thursday, Peso released the song’s dark and sensual official music video featuring Anitta and a crew of dancers dressed in all black performing a ritual on a man. In “Bellakeo,” which loosely translates to being sexually aroused or flirtatious, Peso and Anitta sing about their yearning for seduction.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor The “Barbenheimer” craze continues with Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” being named among AFI Awards 2023 top 10 best films of the year. Netflix led studios with two movies making the list — Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein biopic “Maestro” and Todd Haynes’ black comedy “May December.” With an eclectic mix of critically acclaimed and consumer friendly titles, the list of top movies also includes films by newcomers (Cord Jefferson’s “American Fiction” and Celine Song’s “Past Lives”), veterans (Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” and Alexander Payne’s “The Holdovers”) and stylish visionaries (Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things” and Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K.

South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference and Festivals has announced the addition of Keynotes Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert and the third round of Featured Speakers for the 38th edition of its annual Conference, which celebrates the convergence of technology, film, television, and music. SXSW takes place March 8-16, 2024 in Austin, Texas. Kwan and Scheinert, collectively known as DANIELS, are a directing/writing duo who have been working together in music videos, television, and film for over a decade, many projects premiering at SXSW. Their most recent film Everything Everywhere All At Once had its world premiere opening night of SXSW 2022. The film has won 7 Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay.

Taylor Swift‘s longtime publicist Tree Paine took a rare move into the public spotlight last night to slap back at a claim by Instagram gossip account Deuxmoi that the Eras Tour star and former beau Joe Alwyn had some sort of non-legal marriage or commitment ceremony several years ago.

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.

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, the follow-up to Sony, Sony Pictures Imageworks and Marvel’s groundbreaking Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse which won the Animated Feature Oscar in 2019.

Ana Clara Benevides after learning that the 23-year-old Taylor Swift’s fan died from extreme heat at an Eras Tour show in Rio de Janeiro. A week after her untimely departure, the singer extended her condolences to the family by inviting them to her concert in São Paulo.A photo circulating on social media shows Benevides’ family standing next to Taylor while wearing matching T-shirts featuring Ana Clara’s face.A foto inteira de Taylor Swift com o pai, a melhor amiga e os familiares de Ana Clara Benevides.

, the fan who died shortly before Swift's show in Rio de Janeiro earlier this month.On November 26, Benevides Machado’s loved ones arrived at Swift's final Brazil tour stop in São Paulo. There, the family of five seemingly had the chance to meet Swift and that was later shared widely on X along with a clip of them enjoying the show from a VIP tent at at Allianz Parque stadium.The reunion took place only nine days after Benevides Machado’s death.

Coronation Street star Paddy Bever was flooded with messages by his co-stars as he celebrated his 21st birthday. The actor, known for playing Max Turner in the ITV soap, marked the special occasion on Sunday (November 26).

One week after Ana Clara Benevides Machado tragically spent her final moments at a Taylor Swift concert, her family is honoring her by attending a show.

Travis Kelce is a big ol’ shoulder for Taylor Swift to cry on.