Malta Showbiz Latest News and Updates

Bring Me The Horizon have announced a release date for their next original single, ‘Strangers’, after they previewed it live last month.The song was first revealed during a DJ set the band performed on the first night of their own Malta Weekender festival. Similar to much of the band’s recent studio material, the version of the song they played featured loud electric guitars and thrashing drums.That may not be the version they officially release, however: in a new teaser video, the song has seemingly been converted into a much more restrained ballad.

Spain’s drive to consolidate as one of the world’s foremost big shoot locales, Shooting Locations Marketplace has confirmed dates for its second edition which will run over Oct. 20-21, taking place once again at the Feria de Valladolid, an hour’s train ride north of Madrid.The Marketplace looks set to repeat its original format which welcomes first and foremost location scouts, as well as producers, line producers and representatives of film commissions in and outside Spain.Revolving around one-to-one meetings, where commissions and service companies present potential shoot destinations to location managers, the Marketplace also features panels and presentations analysing industry trends as well as success stories and factors that tip the balance when picking one destination over another.

Starting over. Captain Sandy Yawn is adjusting to all new department heads during season 7 of Below Deck Mediterranean — and the newcomers don’t make it easy on motor yacht Home.

D12 rapper Bizarre has spoken about the time Suge Knight stopped by 50 Cent‘s ‘In Da Club’ video shoot in an attempt to intimidate the G-Unit head honcho.Speaking to Math Hoffa on My Expert Option, Bizarre recalled how things changed for him and the rest of the Shady/Aftermath artists once 50 signed to the roster in June 2002.“Shit definitely changed like how we was moving,” Bizarre explained. “We was in some shit.

50 Cent has announced that Akon, Fat Joe, and Trina will perform at his ‘Green Light Gang’ entertainment experience in Malta.Heartless Crew, Jeremih, DJ Premier, Remy Ma, and So Solid Crew are also among those slated to perform alongside the G-Unit head honcho, who will headline the event, which takes place September 22 – 26.Teaming up with travel, music, and technology company Pollen, 50 has curated a series of events on the Mediterranean island. The four-day, four-night festival will include after-dark parties, cruises, and an outdoor cinema for screenings of the rapper’s hit STARZ TV series Power.“Turning up the heat, bringing OGs to #GreenLightGangMalta,” the rapper shared in a tweet which included the list of performers and a video announcement.“What’s up Malta it’s your boy 50 cent,” he said in the video.

Ever fancy staying in your very own Lallybroch? Well, you now can.

Naman Ramachandran The Walt Disney Company’s streamer Disney+ will be available in 42 new countries and 11 new territories this week following the launch on Tuesday in Greece, Turkey and countries in Central Eastern Europe, including Poland, Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic and Croatia. Tuesday’s series of launches follow the arrival of the service in South Africa on May 18 and across West Asia and North Africa on June 8.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentCharades (“I Lost My Body”) has boarded “Clara Wants Some Chicken,” an animated feature directed by Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach (“The Girl Without Hands”) in the run up to this week’s Annecy Animation Festival.Produced by Dolcevita Films (“A Son”) and Miyu Productions (“Plethore de Nords”), “Clara Wants Some Chicken” will be presented in the work-in-progress section at Annecy.Comedy-laced, the animated feature follows a loving mom, Paulette, who feels guilty after unfairly punishing her daughter Linda and would do anything to make it up to her. She sets off to make a chicken with peppers, even though she doesn’t know how to cook.But how will she find a chicken on the day of a general strike? The heartwarming mother-daughter tale also touches on overcoming grief through the plot involving the recent death of the young girl’s father.

“Jurassic World Dominion” is upon us.Billed as the last installment in the “Jurassic” “era” (because surely there will be more films), this latest entry in the franchise that began with Steven Spielberg’s masterpiece “Jurassic Park” back in 1993, is bigger and more dinosaur-stuffed than ever. “Jurassic World: Dominion” unites the two halves of the saga, as well – with newer characters like Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) and Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) partnering up with legacy characters Alan Grant (Sam Neill), Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) and Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum).

It’s been nearly 30 years since a rampaging T-Rex shut down Jurassic Park, and in Jurassic World Dominion (★★☆☆☆), the latest sequel in the rebooted franchise, apparently that same T-Rex is still raising hell. But the mighty Tyrannosaurus is no longer confined to the world’s most uninsurable theme park. At the conclusion of the previous film, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, dozens of dinosaurs were set loose on the U.S.

also the worst. Running time: 146 minutes. Rated PG-13 (intense sequences of action, some violence and language).

K.J. Yossman The adaptation of T.M. Logan’s novel “The Holiday” has an exclusive trailer and a U.S.

Maisie Peters and Matt Maltese have teamed up for a new version of the former’s recent single ‘Cate’s Brother’, which you can check out below.‘Cate’s Brother’ came out last month and follows Peters’ 2021 debut album ‘You Signed Up For This’. It lands as the singer-songwriter is midway through a UK and European stadium tour in support of Ed Sheeran.“Matt became Cate’s brother and I can think of no one better suited to the job we are excited for u to hear it,” Peters wrote on Instagram.Listen to the Taylor Swift-referencing ‘Cate’s Brother (Matt’s Version)’ below.Maisie Peters signed to Ed Sheeran‘s label Gingerbread Man Records for her debut album.“Signing to Gingerbread is a dream come true,” Peters said in a statement.

A man was escorted off a Scots Ryanair flight by police after he became aggressive mid-flight.

Mark Wright and Michelle Keegan were forced to spend their wedding anniversary apart last week when work commitments took them to opposite sides of the globe. Eyebrows were raised when Michelle, 34, headed to the airport with several large suitcases a week before the couple’s seventh wedding anniversary on 24 May. Suggestions were circulating that she was flying to Australia to film the upcoming BBC period drama Ten Pound Poms.

Bring Me The Horizon hosted their own festival in Malta this weekend, and Saturday night (May 28) saw them play a special “throwback” set – see footage, setlist, reaction and more below.Curated by the band themselves, the Malta weekender also hosted Bullet For My Valentine, Nova Twins and Beartooth among others, and earlier in the festival, the band debuted a new song called ‘Strangers’ during a DJ set.During their Saturday night throwback set, the band were joined by a host of special guests and performed rare old tracks that they haven’t played live in over a decade.After the set began with the first live performance of ‘Liquor & Love Lost’ since 2008, the band were then joined by Spiritbox’s Courtney LaPlante for ‘Chelsea Smile’, Beartooth’s Caleb Shomo for ‘Antivist’, Malevolence’s Alex Taylor for ‘Pray For Plagues’, While She Sleeps‘ Loz Taylor for ‘Empire (Let Them Sing)’ and more.Watch footage of the performances and see the full setlist below.alligator blood.@bmthofficial x @staticdress pic.twitter.com/ltlk6VLox6— Static Dress (@staticdress) May 28, 2022Chelsea Smile with Courtney of Spiritbox Bring me the horizon Throwback Set in Malta 2022 pic.twitter.com/Ai6uNGFmph— bring me the horizon stan for lyfe (@bmthstan4lyfe) May 28, 2022Can’t believe I met Oli Sykes in the day and then saw him performing Pray For fucking Plagues & Diamonds Aren’t Forever in the evening, what a genuinely unreal dayActually speechless (probably cos my voice is now fucked) #BMTHMalta pic.twitter.com/2NUjNSmdOS— ss (@SamwhereNow) May 29, 2022EMPIRE.@bmthofficial @LOZWSS @whileshesleeps // BMTH MALTA WEEKENDER // 28.05.2022 pic.twitter.com/VuLYgoSCFq— josh //

Bullet For My Valentine have unleashed a brand new single titled ‘Stitches’ – check it out below.Previously only available in Japan, the blistering new track is taken from the upcoming deluxe edition of the Welsh metal band’s 2021 self-titled album.‘Stitches’ follows the release of ‘Omen’, which will also appear on the new version of ‘Bullet For My Valentine’, alongside three other new tracks: ‘No More Tears’, ‘Step Out From Inside’ and ‘This Means War’.“I can’t bow to all your little insecurities/ I’m picking out the stitches that you gave me/ Cut a little deeper, try and hurt me/ I’m picking out the stitches of your hate,” frontman Matthew Tuck sings on the song’s chorus.You can check out ‘Stitches’ below:Bullet For My Valentine recently announced that they’ll be heading out on the road next year, with some UK tour dates scheduled for winter.The run of shows will kick off on February 27, 2023 at Cambridge Corn Exchange, and will make stops in Bristol, Liverpool, Newcastle, Glasgow, Leeds, Birmingham and more before wrapping up in London at the Roundhouse on March 11.

Bring Me The Horizon debuted a new song ‘Strangers’ in a DJ set at their festival in Malta. Listen below.In a clip posted to Twitter today (May 27), the British quintet can be seen performing the unreleased track to the audience at the ‘Bring Me The Horizon & Friends’ event, which kicked off yesterday and will run for four days at Malta’s Gianpula Village.In the videos below, see the band play ‘Strangers’ and teach the crowd its lyrics, which go: “We’re just a room full of strangers / Looking for something to save us / Alone together“.BRING ME THE HORIZONS NEW SONG STRANGERS!!!! First heard in Malta!!!! #bmth #bmthmalta #bringmethehorizon pic.twitter.com/2iJWGd4xAB— True_SCHU in MALTA for BMTH (@True_Schu) May 26, 2022Curated by the band themselves, the Malta weekender will also host Bullet For My Valentine, Nova Twins and Beartooth among others.Bring Me The Horizon’s last solo release was their 2021 song, ‘DiE4u.’ That single was the first to be lifted from BMTH’s forthcoming album, a follow-up to their multi-part 2020 EP,  ‘Post Human: Survival Horror.’In an interview with NME in 2021, Bring Me The Horizon frontman Oli Sykes said the band was “working on parts two, three and four” of ‘Post Human,’ before assuring that they’d “get songs out as soon as [they] can”.The unreleased track arrives after a more recent album tease in May, when Sykes revealed that “we’ve been working on [‘Post Human Part Two’] for about a year now.”“We’ve got lots of music, we’re just being quite picky about what we want to release.

EXCLUSIVE: AMC Networks has acquired North American rights to Monsieur Spade, a one-hour drama starring Clive Owen from The Queen’s Gambit co-creator Scott Frank and City On A Hill showrunner Tom Fontana. Black Bear Television also has joined as the series’ studio and will deficit finance.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterA juicy new documentary about the life and public battles of late real estate mogul Leona Helmsley is currently in production, Variety has learned exclusively.  The film will contain never-before-heard tapes of Helmsley and her archrival Donald Trump, as well as “smoking gun” evidence that will question the tax evasion case brought on her by Rudy Giuliani in 1988.Helmsley was an icon of the “greed is good” era, an owner of luxury hotels and condominiums who left behind a $5 billion estate (which famously included a $12 million trust fund for her dog, a Maltese). Branded the “Queen of Mean” by the New York tabloids for her acid tongue and regal air, she was a bitter rival of Trump — who once called her “a disgrace to the industry and a disgrace to humanity in general.” Of Trump, Helmsley once reportedly said: “I wouldn’t trust him if his tongue was notarized.” Trump notoriously tried to snatch the crown jewel of Helmsley’s property portfolio, the Empire State building.Indie studio Gunpowder & Sky has boarded the project from Filmbank’s Keith Robert Patterson (HBO’s “All About Ann”), who will direct and produce.

Needing to put herself first. Emma Heming has been a pillar of strength for husband Bruce Willis amid his recent aphasia diagnosis — but she forgot to take of herself in the process.

All in the family! Demi Moore celebrated the start of the 2022 Cannes Film Festival with a throwback snap of her ex-husband Bruce Willis — and the memory earned Emma Heming Willis‘ seal of approval.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaA trio of veteran film financiers and producers are launching a new venture.Joe Simpson, Simon Williams and Jonathan Bross are teaming up on Ashland Hill Media Finance, a film and TV financing venture, backed by an alternative investment fund with assets under management of $1.85 billion. From its offices in Santa Monica and London, Ashland Hill expects to close upwards of 25 deals in the next 12 months, with plans to further expand its operations beyond the U.S.

A British holidaymaker is fuming after having to abandon his holiday in Malta to fly back to the UK to pick up his missing luggage. Keen scuba-divers, Kevin Openshaw and David Ayre, had booked a two-week diving holiday in Malta through EasyJet and were looking forward to spending a week diving off Malta's shoreline and exploring some of the deeper wrecks from the Second World War.

K.J. Yossman Brilliant Pictures have unveiled first look images from upcoming shark thriller “Deep Fear” starring “Gossip Girl’s” Ed Westwick and “House of Gucci’s” Madalina Ghenea. The company is launching worldwide sales in Cannes.In the first images, Ghenea is pictured in her diving gear underwater (above) and huddled with Wetwick on the top deck of a ship (below).

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Prime has quietly picked up domestic rights to UK boxing movie Prizefighter: The Life Of Jem Belcher.

50 Cent has announced that he will be hosting an entertainment experience like no other this summer in Malta.Teaming up with travel, music, and technology company Pollen, the G-Unit head honcho will curate a series of events on the Mediterranean island from September 22-26, 2022.Known as the ‘Green Light Gang’ experience, this one of a kind getaway will be anchored by a headline performance from 50, along with “other top artists” who will be announced soon.“Come get lit for the first ever 4 day/ 4 night #GreenLightGang experience in Malta,” 50 tweeted about the event. “I’m coming through September 22nd – 26th, and bringing some of the OGs.”50 will host a wide range of other activities for guests during the weekend, including after dark parties, an outdoor cinema screening of his hit STARZ TV show Power and more.You can sign up for early access for the event now, with accommodation bundles priced at £499 (basic package), £529 (standard), and £609 (premium).

Many British tourists will be taking their first holidays in the Schengen area of the EU since Brexit this summer. Coronavirus restrictions have been relaxed in countries across Europe and airlines are laying on extra services to cope with demand.

Spain has confirmed that Covid-19 travel rules will remain in place for UK flyers until May 15.

IDK and Kaytranada have joined forces with Denzel Curry on a new single, ‘Dog Food’ – listen to the track below.The new release follows last month’s collaboration between IDK and Kaytranada on ‘Taco’ (April 10), while Curry has previously teamed up with the Maryland rapper on ‘ONCE UPON A TIME (FREESTYLE)’.As reported by Stereogum, both ‘Taco’ and ‘Dog Food’ will be included in a new IDK EP due out this Friday (May 6) titled ‘Simple’, which sees Kaytranada covering production duties.“When it comes to paper, that’s the shit that I require/ When it comes to power, that’s the shit that I desire,” Curry raps on the new track. Watch the video below.Last week (April 28), Kaytranada announced that he’ll be doing a second headline show at O2 Academy Brixton this summer.The two-time Grammy-winning producer will head to Europe in June for a run of shows in Germany, Malta, Netherlands, France and Italy.The announcement follows the release of his recent single ‘Iced Tea’ and last year’s ‘Intimidated’ EP, a three-track project that features guest appearances from H.E.R., Thundercat and Mach-Hommy.Curry is also set to perform at O2 Academy Brixton tomorrow night (Wednesday 4).

Anna Franklin Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby will start shooting next week in Malta on Ridley Scott’s film “Kitbag,” about Napoleon’s rise to power. Polish cinematographer Dariusz Adam Wolski is lensing, according to Film New Europe. Phoenix, who plays the French emperor, and Kirby, who plays his wife Josephine, arrive in Malta this week, according to Times of Malta, quoting sources in the local film industry.

Kaytranada has announced that he’ll be doing a second headline show at O2 Academy Brixton this summer – get tickets here.The two-time Grammy-winning producer will head to Europe in June for a run of shows in Germany, Malta, Netherlands, France and Italy.He announced last week that he would be performing a gig at O2 Academy Brixton on June 19. Now, due to “phenomenal demand”, Kaytranada has confirmed that he will play a second date on June 25.The announcement follows the release of his recent single ‘Iced Tea’ and last year’s ‘Intimidated’ EP, a three-track project that features guest appearances from H.E.R., Thundercat and Mach-Hommy.He also joined forces with IDK earlier this month for a new track called ‘Taco’, the first single to be released from the Maryland rapper’s upcoming new album ‘Simple’.See Kaytranada’s second London show announcement below.

Voters will soon be hitting the polls on May 5 to have their say in who they want to represent them in their local council.

Kaytranada has announced that he’ll be heading to London this summer for a headline show at O2 Academy Brixton – get tickets here.The two-time Grammy-winning producer will head to Europe in June for a run of shows in Germany, Malta, Netherlands, France and Italy. The UK date takes place on June 19.The announcement follows the release of recent single ‘Iced Tea’ and last year’s ‘Intimidated’ EP, a three-track project that features guest appearances from H.E.R., Thundercat and Mach-Hommy.He also joined forces with IDK earlier this month for a new track called ‘Taco’, the first single to be released from the Maryland rapper’s upcoming new album ‘Simple’.See Kaytranada’s European tour announcement below; buy tickets for the London date here when they go on sale on Friday (April 22) at 10am.european tickets on sale friday 10AM GMT at https://t.co/VbJ8FbMPxa pic.twitter.com/WfsVd0ymf0— KAYTRA (@KAYTRANADA) April 20, 2022Kaytranada was recently announced as one of the openers for Swedish House Mafia’s upcoming tour.The Scandinavian dance trio – comprising Axwell, Steve Angello and Sebastian Ingrosso – released their long-awaited debut full-length ‘Paradise Again’ last week (April 15).The group will be heading out on a world tour this summer in support of the album, with Alesso, Zhu, Vintage Culture, Grimes, and Kaytranada confirmed as opening acts at various dates.

A Stand Up for Ukraine event taking place Saturday saw $4.6 billion in grants and $5.5 billion in loans pledged for humanitarian efforts being undertaken by Ukraine and other European countries, UN agencies and grassroots organizations to support all those impacted by the Russian invasion.

A picture says a thousand words. Bruce Willis’ wife, Emma Heming Willis, shared the first photos of the actor since announcing his aphasia diagnosis.