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In 2019, Rose Glass announced herself to the world with the phenomenal Saint Maud. The film was an immersive character study of one lonely woman clinging to sanity in the wake of a personal trauma. Audiences loved Saint Maud with a common thread across all reviews being how hard it was to believe that it was only Glass’ feature debut. This year Glass returns with her second film, Love Lies Bleeding, which just debuted at Sundance. Whereas Saint Maud made a star out of lead Morfydd Clark, Love Lies Bleeding is set to do the same for Katy O’Brian.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Kristen Stewart‘s domination of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival continued at the Variety Sundance Cover Party presented by United Airlines, where Stewart was honored for her starring roles in two big festival premieres: “Love Me,” a post-apocalyptic romance film in which she stars opposite Steven Yeun, and “Loves Lies Bleeding,” an A24-backed crime thriller in which she played a reclusive gym manager who falls for a local bodybuilder. “It’s hard to get here,” Stewart told Variety at the party about returning to Sundance, where she has premiered more than a dozen movies throughout her career. “Not because it’s an established and elite film festival, but because it supports marginalized voices.

Love Island has been a launching pad for many reality TV stars, and one memorable couple from the show's inaugural season is Jon Clark and Hannah Elizabeth. While they didn't emerge as winners, their engagement on the show captivated viewers. Here's a look at what happened to Jon and Hannah after their Love Island journey.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic On the most literal level, Sam and Andy Zuchero’s “Love Me” is about the relationship between a buoy adrift at sea and a satellite circling the earth. The eccentric rom-com takes place in a time after humans have gone extinct, when the surviving machines’ only references are a massive hard drive’s worth of data combed from search engines and social media sites.

PARK CITY – Whatever your thoughts on Sam and Andy Zuchero’s “Love Me” few will dispute that for an independently financed film it’s a unique and creative achievement. At least a third of the movie is CG animation, another third is motion capture animation, and the final portion is live action.

Set in a post-human world, Love Me, directed and written by Sam and Amy Zuchero and starring Steven Yeun and Kristen Stewart, unfolds as an unconventional love story between two inanimate objects. These entities stumble upon each other in the digital realm and, through the remnants of human knowledge, adopt new identities in hopes of evolving their relationship.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Netflix has acquired “Ibelin,” a documentary that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Benjamin Ree (“The Painter and the Thief”) directed the film, which centers on a Norwegian gamer named Mats Steen, who died of a degenerative muscle disease at the age of 25. According to the official logline, “his parents mourned what they thought had been a lonely and isolated life, when they started receiving messages from online friends around the world.” “Many of my favorite documentary films and series of all time have been distributed by Netflix,” Ree said in a statement.

Maya Jama reportedly "blames herself" for the death of her late boyfriend Rico Gordon, who was tragically shot dead at the age of only 21 when he went to visit the ITV Love Island presenter in Bristol.

She may have first appeared on Love Island back in 2018, but Georgia Steel is heading into the villa for second time in a bid to turn heads and find love as part of Love Island All Stars. Georgia has previously been unlucky in love after a footballer-turned-catfisher swindled the 25 year old out of £32,000. Medi Abalimba, who at the peak of his career signed for Derby County for £1.2 million in 2009, met Georgia in April 2019 while at a London nightclub and the pair embarked on a six-week romance during which he lied to her about his true identity.

Liberty Poole and Jake Cornish first found fame in 2021, when they both appeared on the seventh series of Love Island. During their time in the villa, Liberty, 24, and Luke, 26, struck up a relationship that - to viewers at home - looked to be the real thing. For the majority of the season, their partnership continued to get stronger, however, they shocked fans when they suddenly called it quits four days before the final.They then stunned their fellow cast mates when they decided to walk from the show altogether.

Love Island’s Mitch Taylor has revealed that he has a 'game plan' to get him to the final of Love Island: All Stars. The 28 year old gas engineer from Sheffield appeared on Love Island in the summer of 2023, but he stirred up strong reactions from viewers, who accused him of 'gaslighting' Abi Moores, amongst other things.

Liberty Poole and Jake Cornish took part in the seventh series of Love Island in 2021 and formed a relationship while in the villa.The two coupled up on the first day and remained together for almost the entire season. However, four days before the final, they decided to split and walk from the show before announcing their break up to the rest of the cast.

Love Island star Mitchel Taylor has spoken out about claims that he made homophobic comments at an event which came to light last year - revealing that he lost a number of business opportunities as a result.The reality star, who is making his TV comeback on Love Island: All Stars, faced accusations in September that he had been "abusive" to a homeless man and called "homophobic" following an alleged incident at a Space NK makeup event. Mitchel, 27, denied the accusations in a statement on social media and explained his side of the story, however he was dropped by his management team shortly afterwards. Speaking about the claims ahead of entering All Stars, Mitchel said that he was "never worried" about being "cancelled" by the public as he was "never homophobic".

Chris Taylor is among those returning for a second chance at love in the Love Island villa for the show's All Stars series. Since his last stint in the villa Chris has garnered a huge social media following on Instagram and TikTok, and made an appearance in the recent Barbie film, which starred Margot Robie and Ryan Gosling. Ahead of the show's launch, Chris spoke to OK! and other press about his hopes that Margot will be among those watching the show, as she is known to be something of a Love Island superfan.

Love Island All Stars cast member Toby Aromolaran has admitted he's nervous about the prospect of losing his job by appearing on the brand new series, which launches Monday 15 January. Toby, 24, who was a runner-up on the 2021 summer series of the original show, broke up with his ex-girlfriend Chloe Burrows in October 2022. Since then, the reality TV star has concentrated on his football team and various TV appearances, but is now worried he could lose his spot on the squad.

Omar Rudberg and Edvin Ryding are back for the upcoming third season of Young Royals and Netflix just debuted the first look photos!

Demi Jones made it to the final of Winter Love Island back in 2020 and now she's returning to the popular dating show for the highly anticipated spin-off, Love Island: All-Stars.

Georgia Harrison is returning to Love Island for the ITV spin-off All Stars, with the series three contestant looking for a man to film TikToks with. However, the reality personality has admitted that she signed up for the show after facing a difficult year fighting her ex-boyfriend Stephen Bear in court. Stephen was sentenced to 21 months in prison in December 2022 after uploading CCTV footage of himself having sex with Georgia without her consent.

Love Island winner turned musical theatre actress Amber Davies, 27, is taking a break from the West End to compete on Dancing on Ice, and admits that she turned to her ex-boyfriend Kem Cetinay for advice as he did the show in 2018. “I text him a couple of times. He just said, ‘It’s all about confidence,’” says Amber, who broke up with Kem shortly after they won Love Island in 2017.

Former Love Island star Georgia Harrison has been spotted in South Africa ahead of the launch of Love Island All Stars.The spin-off show kicks off on Monday, 15 January, with a host of former Love Island stars entering a villa for a second chance at love. Georgia, 29, appeared on Love Island in 2017, and her now being in South Africa suggests that she's set to be on Love Island All Stars.