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Michel Dimopoulos, former director of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, has died. He was 74.

St George’s Day is approaching and, as ever, it’s the opportunity to celebrate all that is quintessentially English, from Sunday roasts to village greens to singing Jerusalem, to incessant rain to our wealth of excellent cheeses.

Regal parent Cineworld has decided to terminate the marketing process for its businesses outside of the U.S., UK and Ireland. Although it received offers from “a number of prospective counterparties,” the proposals “did not meet the value level required by the group’s lenders,” the exhibition giant said today. The so-called “rest of world” businesses include cinemas in Israel, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania.

Keanu Reeves has been photographed kissing girlfriend Alexandra Grant on the red carpet in an unusual display of affection from the couple. Keanu, 58, and Alexandra, 50, were snapped snogging while out in Los Angeles to celebrate the Museum of Contemporary Art Gala.

Keanu Reeves and his girlfriend Alexandra Grant packed on the PDA in their latest red carpet appearance.The loved up couple locked lips in front of the cameras as they attended an event to celebrate the Museum of Contemporary Art Gala in Los Angeles on Saturday. Keanu, 58, and and his partner, 50, both dressed to impress. Alexandra dazzled in a red Carolina Herrera dress and affectionately leant on her movie star boyfriend as they posed together.The couple are believed to have first met in 2009 before going becoming official in 2019.

I’m currently sitting in a garage as my car is getting looked at, so, a bit like waiting at the barbers, I’ve been scrolling on my phone. A story about the infamous Andrew Tate popped up, claiming he had 6 million Twitter followers. I was a tad surprised he was on Twitter, to be honest.

The secret world of modern witches will be revealed in “Coven”.

Joey King is welcoming a new member to her family!

South Park takes aim at Andrew Tate in the show’s season 26 finale.Tate, a former professional kickboxer who amassed millions of followers on social media through misogynistic content, is under arrest in Romania over allegations of human trafficking and forming an organised crime group. He has denied the allegations.In South Park episode Spring Break, Tate is depicted as “toxic masculinity coach” character Alonzo Fineski who is revealed to be a wanted sex trafficker.Tate responded to the depiction on Twitter, writing: “When I will be proven innocent, I look forward to help create the greatest South Park episode of all time.”All episodes in season 26 are available in the UK on Paramount+, which can be streamed through Amazon Prime Video.

EXCLUSIVE: Dekanalog has picked up North American rights to the Sarajevo competition title Men of Deeds, the latest feature from Romanian filmmaker Paul Negoescu.

recently freed from Romanian jail after a sex trafficking arrest, appeared on the comedy show as “toxic masculinity coach” Alonzo Fineski. In the episode, which aired Wednesday, Fineski pulls a gun on Randy Marsh after the character disrespected several strippers in his employ. Marsh counters by saying that he was attempting to show his sons a good time.

South Park which poked fun at him.The animated comedy’s latest episode, ‘Spring Break’, featured a character called Alonzo Fineski with notable similarities to Tate, with a shaved head, faded sunglasses, and a habit for smoking cigarettes. The character is a “toxic masculinity coach” that is later revealed to be a wanted sex trafficker.In the episode, Alonzo is told: “I think I need to explain something to you.

Andrew Tate has shared a video with a cryptic message for his followers after being released from prison, and placed under house arrest. 

Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have both been released from prison in Romania after appealing their detention.

Naman Ramachandran Disney+ is set to take viewers on a journey through Tudor England with its latest series, “Shardlake.” Based on the internationally acclaimed Tudor murder mystery novels by C.J. Sansom, the four-part drama is set in 16th century England during the dissolution of the monasteries. The series will follow the story of Matthew Shardlake, played by Arthur Hughes (“The Innocents,” “Then Barbara Met Alan”), a lawyer with an acute sense of justice and one of the few honest men in a world beset with scheming and plots. Shardlake works for Thomas Cromwell, played by Sean Bean (“Time,” “Game of Thrones”), the dangerous and all-powerful right-hand man to Henry VIII.

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Oti and Motsi Mabuse have became regulars on our screens over recent years, with the sisters both going on carve out impressive careers in TV. Motsi, 41, is best known for being a judge on Strictly Come Dancing while Oti, 32, was previously a professional dancer on the BBC One show and is now a judge on Dancing on Ice. The sisters are now appearing on ITV's DNA Journey together, with their moving episode seeing them head to South Africa to find out more about their family connections.

Jo O'Meara has welcomed a new addition to her family.The S Club 7 star, 43, has shared with fans she has rescued a dog from Romania. She posted a video to Instagram, revealing the news to her 46.7k followers and documenting the moment she met her new dog, a seven-year-old Pekinese called Sisi.The caption read: "So today something amazing happened ! The wonderful @victoriapearcewriter told myself and @cindylazarus about a little girl who needed rehoming , she was a street dog in Romania and then was rescued by a wonderful lady , but sadly things changed and she needed to be rehomed." She continued: "It's taken her 3 days of travelling through Europe to get to this point , along with others , who have been fostered and adopted , the second we see the picture it was already a done deal And we knew she was coming to live with us ! "She is the sweetest girl And Wilson And Wilma have adapted to her already ! The work the @thek9angels are doing is just incredible, I am truly honoured to be a part of something so wonderful and rewarding ! "Welcome to the family little sissy our actual K9 Angel #adoptdontshop," with angel and black heart emojis.

Eurovision 2023 Semi-Final running orders have been revealed – check it out below.The 2023 Eurovision Song Contest will take place at the M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool from May 9-13, with Mae Muller set to represent the UK with ‘I Wrote A Song’.The UK city was announced to stage the contest on behalf of Ukraine, after organisers deemed the country unable to host the event due to the ongoing war with Russia.You can find all the songs that are entered for this year’s competition here.This week, Eurovision shared the running order for the Semi-Final shows, which take place on Tuesday, May 9 and Thursday, May 11.Norway will kick off proceedings for the first Semi-Final, closed out 15 acts later with a performance by Finland. The second event is set to be opened by Denmark, with Australia hitting the stage last.We got #Eurovision2023 Semi-Final running orders ✨➡️ https://t.co/V1tz85qvRD pic.twitter.com/hSjYqudp6j— Eurovision Song Contest (@Eurovision) March 22, 2023The Big Five participants – France, Germany, Italy, Spain and United Kingdom, which make the biggest financial contributions to the contest – along with Ukraine, automatically qualify for the Grand Final.Check out the full schedule below.First Semi-Final Eurovision 20231. Norway2. Malta3. Serbia4. Latvia5. Portugal6. Ireland7. Croatia8. Switzerland9. Israel10. Moldova11. Sweden12. Azerbaijan13. Czechia14. Netherlands15. FinlandSecond Semi-Final Eurovision 20231. Denmark2. Armenia3. Romania4. Estonia5. Belgium6. Cyprus7. Iceland8. Greece9. Poland10. Slovenia11. Georgia12. San Marino13. Austria14. Albania15. Lithuania16. AustraliaMeanwhile, Eurovision final 2023 tickets sold out in just 36 minutes.Tickets for all nine shows including the live Grand Final went on sale

His brood could have been even bigger. Nick Cannon revealed that there’s one former flame he regrets not having a baby with: Christina Milian.

Emiliano De Pablos Confirming the increasingly strong interest by international buyers in Spanish animated features, Pink Parrot Media has scored a bevy of key European pre-sales on upcoming Spanish family adventure toon film “4 Days Before Christmas,” led by deals with Splendid in Germany and Kaleidoscope in the U.K. Produced by Spain’s 3Doubles Producciones and Capitán Araña with Canada’s PVP Media, directed by Steve Majaury and Andrea Sebastián, “4 Days Before Christmas” was one of the five noteworthy animated works in progress presented at this week’s Malaga Film Festival–Spanish Screenings to the international industry.  The film has also been acquired by Voxell por CIS territories, GPI (Baltics), FMA (Former Yugoslavia), Kinoswiat (Poland), Front Row (Middle East), Just Ent. (Benelux), Romania (SC Idea Films), Nos Lusomundo (Portugal) and Scandinavia (Angel Films).

A man from Manchester found guilty of facilitating people smuggling is a wanted fugitive, police have revealed.

EXCLUSIVE: Cinema Guild has acquired North American rights for Belgian director Bas Devos’s film Here which won best film in the Berlin Film Festival’s Encounters section last month as well as the Fipresci prize.

Jenna Ortega is so expertly cast as Wednesday Addams in Netflix’s hit series that it’s impossible to imagine anyone else in the role. However, that was almost the case.

dropped on Netflix, the series rocketed its way to the top, becoming the No. 1 show in 83 countries and the second most-watched English-language show in Netflix history. But as far as Jenna Ortega is concerned, she never envisioned that kind of success, let alone being a part of it.The 20-year-old actress tells  that when the opportunity first came up to star in the series, she wasn't too excited about the role.

Christopher Vourlias For the millions of people who have sexual characteristics that don’t neatly fit into the typical definitions of male or female, life is a constant struggle against misconceptions, biases and cultural norms that, from the moment of birth, attempt to fit us into the box that defines our sex — and, often, how we’ll be perceived for the rest of our lives. To explore that conflict, veteran Romanian actor Tünde Skovrán — making her directorial debut — traveled to South Africa to follow two intersex people with parallel but divergent lives: Sharon-Rose Khumalo, a beauty queen who suffers an identity crisis after finding out she’s intersex, and Dimakatso Sebidi, a male-presenting intersex activist who is in many ways Khumalo’s polar opposite.

Recovering Rangers star Ianis Hagi's international comeback has been put on hold after Romania left him out of their Euro 2024 qualifiers later this month.

EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based Alpha Violet has posted fresh sales on Mexican director Lila Avilés’s family drama Tótem, which world premiered in competition at the Berlinale to acclaim in February.

EXCLUSIVE: The Gifford Media Group has acquired film and TV rights to Harvard-trained physician-turned-novelist William Maz’s Cold War thriller The Bucharest Dossier from Oceanview Publishing.  

Wednesday would mean she couldn’t appear in the latest season of You.The actor was believed to be returning to You for season four, however, her lead role in fellow Netflix show Wednesday meant she was effectively barred from getting on set. Filming the show during the pandemic meant that it wasn’t easy for Ortega to leave Romania, where the Addams family spin-off was being shot.“I was devastated,” she said of the situation in a red-carpet chat with Entertainment Tonight.

EXCLUSIVE: The Match Factory has unveiled a slew of deals for German director Christian Petzold’s Berlin Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize winner Afire.

Andrew Tate might be the most outlandish of them all. Not only are they claiming to be the controversial influencer, but they're also saying they've escaped from custody and they’re offering their own version of Tate’s “Hustlers’s University”. Of course, the real Tate is currently being held in the country on suspicion of human trafficking and organised crime in Romania.

Jenna Ortega wished she had been able to return to play Ellie Alvarez in the latest season of Netflix’s ‘You.’ The 20-year-old actress revealed to Entertainment Tonight that she really wanted to return to the show, but was in the middle of filming ‘Wednesday’ in Romania and was not able to travel back and forth.“I was devastated,” Jenna said during a recent interview, while attending the SAG Awards on Sunday. She also said that she was looking forward to being back on set as she had a good time playing Ellie last time.“Easily one of my favorite sets that I’ve ever, ever been on.

The competition winners of the 73rd Berlinale are about to start rolling in as the festival draws to a close Saturday evening.

King Charles is showing his support for Ukraine once again.

Ilker Çatak’s ‘The Teachers’ Lounge’ Wins Europa Cinemas Prize In BerlinIlker Çatak’s The Teachers‘ Lounge has won the Europa Cinemas Label as Best European film in the Berlinale’s Panorama section. The award was voted on by a jury of four exhibitors from the Europa Cinemas network consisting of Marius Bălănescu (Cinema Victoria, Cluj-Napoca, Romania), Will Fitzgerald (Pálás, Galway, Ireland), Tanja Helm (Cinematograph & Leokino, Innsbruck, Austria) and Ola Starmach (Kino Pod Baranami, Kraków, Poland). Members of the Europa Cinemas network will receive a financial incentive when they program the film, ensuring it a wider release. “The Teachers‘ Lounge is an intense and very well-made drama set in a German primary school. The film explores key subjects like the prevalence of bureaucracy in schools and issues of race and class, but above all, it is a compelling rollercoaster of a drama,” read the jury statement. The title is sold internationally by Brussels-based Be For Films and produced by Ingo Fliess for Munich-based if…Productions.