Metallica donate £40,000 to homeless charity based near Download Festival site

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Los Angeles-based Syrian director and producer Sam Kadi, who helmed the doc “Little Gandhi” about the life and death of young Syrian peace activist Ghiyath Matar and produced the Oscar-shortlisted animation film “Lamya’s Poem,” has signed for representation with management company Bohemia Group. Kadi’s first feature was the 2012 indie immigrant drama “The Citizen,” starring Egyptian actor Khaled Nabawy as a Lebanese immigrant who wins a green card through the U.S. lottery system and arrives in New York to claim his documents on Sept. 10, 2001. The drama, also starring Cary Elwes, then follows the protagonist’s hellish 10-year path to citizenship in post-9/11 America, including his detainment by homeland security and his deportation trial.

Prince William launched his new homelessness initiative with help from another beloved British celebrity: Geri Halliwell, otherwise known as Ginger Spice.

Glastonbury Festival on Friday, Foo Fighters took the Pyramid Stage for a surprise appearance that marked the band’s first appearance at the English extravaganza since 2017.It was also the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band’s first full show in the UK since the death of their beloved drummer, Taylor Hawkins, in 2022.Although there were rumors that the ChurnUps were actually the Foos, it wasn’t confirmed until a tweet about an hour before their set.“You guys knew it was us the whole time, didn’t you?” said Foo frontman Dave Grohl. “It’s nice to see your faces again.”And then Foo Fighters launched into an hour-long set that included hits such as “All My Life,” “Learn to Fly,” “The Pretender” and “Best Of You” as well as short covers of Metallica’s “Enter Sandman,” Black Sabbath’s “Paranoid” and the Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage.”“We’ve only got one hour so we gotta make sure we fit in all the songs we can,” said Grohl. The set included a slow, stripped-down version of “My Hero” that many felt was a tribute to Hawkins, who actually received an official dedication on “Everlong.”But he wasn’t the only dearly departed loved one that the Foo Fighters remembered at Glastonbury.

While some parents couldn't bare the thought of taking children to Glastonbury Festival, one Manchester mum has headed to the event with four of her children.

A troubling update has been released by the Northeast division of the United States Coast Guard with regard to the missing OceanGate Expeditions submersible.

The French film Le Colosse aux Pieds d’Argile and UK-Australia series Ten Pounds Poms took the top fiction prizes at the 62nd annual Monte-Carlo Television Festival, which were handed out Tuesday in Monaco. See the full winners list below.

Ben Croll “The Fragile Colossus,” “Ten Pound Poms” and “The Seed” ruled the roost at this year’s Monte-Carlo Television Festival, with the three programs collecting two prizes each at a small-screen showcase that ran June 16 – 20 in the Monaco capital. Produced by Make It Happen Studio and Shoot Again Productions in partnership with TF1 France, telefilm “The Fragile Colossus” took home Monte-Carlo’s Golden Nymph for best film and the special jury prize. The French drama follows a one-time rugby star (played by soccer player-turned-actor Eric Cantona) confronting his history as a victim of childhood sexual abuse, and is based on the life and memoires of rugbyman Sébastien Boueilh.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Speaking at Monte-Carlo Television Festival Sunday, cast members from the fantasy series “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” expressed their feelings about the racist trolls who objected to the Prime Video show’s diverse and inclusive casting when it first launched. Last month, Ismael Cruz Córdova, who plays the Elven warrior Arondir, told Variety that Prime Video provided an on-set therapist to help the actors deal with the racist backlash against its casting. He revealed it wasn’t just attacks on social media. “My phone got hacked. I had bank account attempts of being hacked. My PayPal got hacked. My friends got messages. I got death threats. I got things mailed to me. People found out my address. It was a lot of that,” Córdova recalled.

Ben Croll Running the Monte-Carlo Television Festival since 2012, Laurent Puons has always tried to look ahead. From his embrace of streamers and digital platforms back in 2017 to his growing emphasis on diverse formats, the festival director sees his summer showcase as a bellwether event for the wider television industry – and what the industry could use right now, in Puons’ view, is flexibility.  “There are already so many festivals today dedicated to series,” Puons explains. “But Monte-Carlo follows a wholly different concept. We’re a home for all kinds of content, and one of the only festivals with both fiction and factual competitions. And when you see what’s broadcast on platforms like Netflix and Amazon, [you need to cover that full range.]”

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Best-selling novelist and showrunner Harlan Coben kicked off the 62nd edition of the Monte-Carlo Television Festival Friday with an expression of solidarity with the striking members of the Writers Guild of America, of which he is a member. Coben, the co-showrunner and executive producer of Prime Video series “Harlan Coben’s Shelter,” which opened the festival with the world premiere of its first episode, said he wouldn’t be taking part in the promotion of the show at the festival to demonstrate his support for the strike. Standing on stage alongside Monaco’s Prince Albert II, the festival’s honorary president, Coben said: “I am just going to say I am supporting the Writers Guild of America, my union, that is striking right now, so I am not going to participate in any of the question and answers, and none of the media – I’m just here for the prince, and will introduce you to the wonderful cast who will take over for you.”

In the buzzing atmosphere of Tribeca’s Storyteller’s Panel, a great conversation between two long-standing peers, Billy Porter and Idina Menzel took place. Their friendship, born out of shared experiences in musical theater, spans several decades, revealing a mutual respect between them.

HBO is doling out $100,000 to national, regional and local LGBTQ+ organizations featured as locations in the third season of its Emmy, Peabody and GLAAD award-winning unscripted series “We’re Here.” The six recipients include PFLAG Fort Worth, MS Capital City Pride, Pride of Southern Utah, TriVersity Pride Center, Equality Florida and Lambda Legal.The show follows Caldwell Tidicue (Bob the Drag Queen), “Eureka” D. Huggard (Eureka O’Hara), and D.J.

One week on since Caleb Miligan’s plan to steal Kim Tate’s fortune was rumbled by the entire Dingle clan, it’s safe to say that the long-lost son of Frank Tate and Faith Dingle hasn’t been the most popular person in the Emmerdale village. Who could blame them, when the scheming businessman had lied to his relatives, forced his gay son to marry Kim’s pseudo daughter-in-law and even thrown his brother’s farm under the bus as part of the deal.

Naman Ramachandran International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has appointed former BFI London Film Festival director Clare Stewart to the position of managing director, taking over from Marjan van der Haar. Stewart was most recently interim CEO at Sheffield DocFest and commences in the role at IFFR on June 21. IFFR has a dual leadership structure where the managing director and festival director oversee the commercial and creative elements of the organization respectively, working in partnership. Stewart previously consulted with the IFFR board of directors in 2021 in its first phase of re-evaluation prior to her joining DocFest, with a focus on the IFFR program structure and content strategy.

Bring Me The Horizon headlined Download Festival last night (June 9) with a brand new live show to announce new album ‘Post Human: Nex Gen’.Following on from their “triumphant, hard-won victory lap” at Reading & Leeds Festivals last year, Bring Me The Horizon returned to Download for the first time since 2014 yesterday and were joined onstage by Nova Twins and Evanescence‘s Amy Lee.Before the band took to the stage, the band teased the long-awaited follow-up to 2020’s ‘Post Human: Survival Horror’ before a two-minute video introduced the band’s evolved stage show and a new, ambitious narrative involving murderous A.I. and a mysterious cult, The Church Of Genxsis.

Residents have been left fuming after the noise coming from a rock and heavy metal musical festival left their walls "rattling" - from the next county 15 MILES away.

wearing flip-flops on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival last month, Jennifer Lawrence is setting the record straight about the fashion statement that had the internet abuzz.«Ok, thank you for bringing this up. I would really like to straighten this out,» Lawrence told ET's Nischelle Turner while promoting her new film,  alongside co-star, Andrew Barth Feldman.

Tribeca Film Festival — an event that he founded in 2002 — with a three-day celebration.While the 79-year-old’s birthday is actually on Aug. 17, the festivities will go down from Sept.

Robert De Niro and girlfriend Tiffany Chen enjoyed a night out at the annual Tribeca Film Festival on Wednesday.The pair walked the carpet for the premiere screening of  during the opening night of the festival, at OKX Theater in New York City.The stars rocked much less formal fare than when they hit up the Cannes Film Festival last month, with the two-time Oscar winner wearing a black blazer and a charcoal grey polo shirt.Meanwhile, Chen — who gave birth to the couple's daughter, Gia Virginia Chen-De Niro, on Apr. 6 — wore a long, light brown cardigan sweater over a black dress.De Niro recently sat down with ET's Rachel Smith and opened up about making his red carpet debut with Chen at the Cannes Film Fest, at the premiere of his new movie, Killers of the Flower Moon, and said, «It was great.»«Yeah.

Download festival is right around the corner — with promising weather being predicted for the rock event. Check out the forecast below.This year’s festival — held at the Donington Park in Leicestershire — will see rock and metal heavyweights including Metallica, Slipknot and Ghost take to the stage, as well as Alter Bridge, Bring Me The Horizon, Architects and many more.Those lucky enough to attend this year’s edition, taking place from Thursday June 8 to Sunday June 11, are set to have almost ideal weather waiting for them, as it seems the wellies may not be necessary.See the latest forecast according to BBC Weather below.Thursday, June 8: Cloudy intervals coming up to sunny weather by midday, with temperatures peaking at 18° and lows of 9°Friday, June 9: Sunny all day but with a chance of moderate winds, with temperatures reaching 19° mid-afternoon, and the lowest being around 9°Saturday, June 10: Cloudy intervals with a slight chance of rain for the morning, then a sunny afternoon with highs of 22° and lows of 11°Sunday, June 11: Sunny and clear skies throughout the day, although a slight chance of showers in the early afternoon.