TRNSMT festival announced on Wednesday that classic love song singer Natasha Bedingfield will be on the main stage line-up at Glasgow Green this July in their 'Valentine's treat' to Scots revellers.
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Rafa Sales Ross Guest Contributor Tamara Tatishvili is going full steam into her first edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, which runs Jan. 25 – Feb. 4, following her appointment as the head of the festival’s funding arm, the Hubert Bals Fund.
She started full-time in early January. “I will use the festival to connect to professionals outside of IFFR, hosting informal think tank meetings with industry professionals, producers and sales agents within a close environment to see what their observations and ideas are, and how this could feed into the future thinking strategies of Hubert Bals Fund,” she tells Variety. She went on to emphasize the importance of festivals from a funder’s point of view.
“Festivals are key platforms to connect the stories funds help create to audiences. Audience engagement is a key topic. Funders and producers believe films need to be made to reach audiences.
It’s how you create impact and how you make people understand the world a bit better.” The Hubert Bals Fund was founded in 1988 and named after the festival’s first director. In the three decades since, the fund has supported filmmakers such as Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Radu Jude and Lucrecia Martel. Recent festival hits supported by the fund include Amanda Nell Eu’s “Tiger Stripes,” Wang Bing’s “Youth (Spring)” and Rodrigo Moreno’s “The Delinquents.” Three HBF-backed films are playing this year’s IFFR: Elene Naveriani’s “Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry,” Toma Selivanova’s “Dolomite and Ash” and Julia De Simone’s “Praia Formosa.” Tatishvili comes into the position as the former director of the Georgian National Film Center and the current head of studies at Medici, a training and exchange forum for decision makers of
.TRNSMT festival announced on Wednesday that classic love song singer Natasha Bedingfield will be on the main stage line-up at Glasgow Green this July in their 'Valentine's treat' to Scots revellers.
UPDATED: The companywide layoffs at Paramount Global on Tuesday impacted about 20 employees at CBS News, including correspondents Catherine Herridge and Jeff Pegues, several sources said.
Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Anyone imagining that a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction could be the thing that finally bring the Gallagher brothers together for an Oasis reunion has been disabused of that notion by Liam Gallagher. The singer posted a series of social media messages expressing his contempt for the institution, along with some ongoing disdain for his brother, Noel.
Liam Gallagher has taken aim at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in a new string of social media posts after Oasis made the nominees list for 2024.This year’s Hall Of Fame nominations came out yesterday (February 11), with Ozzy Osbourne, Mariah Carey and Sinead O’Connor also making the list.“Fuck the Rock n Roll hall of fame its full of BUMBACLARTS LG,” Gallagher wrote on X/Twitter today (February 12) in response to the news.The former frontman also told a user who was planning on voting in the fan ballot to not “waste your time”, adding that “as much as it’s appreciated it’s all a load of bollox”.Fuck the Rock n Roll hall of fame its full of BUMBACLARTS LG x— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) February 12, 2024Don’t waste your time Rkid as much as it’s appreciated it’s all a load of bollox— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) February 12, 2024Another X user asked the artist how he instead felt about his 2018 NME Godlike Genius Award, to which LG replied: “I mean cmon you can’t be turning things like that down.”He was also asked if his views had changed at all since 2021, when he said he “wasn’t interested” in the idea of Oasis one day being inducted to the Hall Of Fame.
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“The View” to bring two formerly feuding co-stars together.Jon Cryer appeared Friday on the daytime talk show and revealed it’s where he and his “Pretty in Pink” costar, Andrew McCarthy, turned over a new leaf. “He and I famously did not get along when we were shooting ‘Pretty in Pink,'” Cryer, 58, reminisced to the ladies of the ABC talk show. “It was because there was tension,” he explained.
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Olivia Attwood, who first found fame as a contestant on the third series of Love Island in 2017, has slammed one of the Islanders on its brand new spin off show, All Stars. To recap, last night's episode saw the current contestants sitting around the fire pit together in their couples when they decided to play a cheeky game of truth or dare. Season six's Callum Jones was one of the Islanders to cause a rift during the game, as he revealed how many people he'd slept with since he split from his ex – and now co-star – Molly Smith in September 2023.
Cameroon coach Rigobert Song has denied the suggestion that he has fallen out with Andre Onana after he was dropped for the crucial Africa Cup of Nations win over Gambia last week.
Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic A lineup of about two dozen stars will salute Paul Simon at this year’s annual Americana Music Association pre-Grammys event, happening at the Troubadour the night before the big ceremony, on Feb. 3.
Love Island star Molly Smith was absolutely fuming following tonight's instalment, 26 January, as a huge bombshell was dropped by her ex-boyfriend Callum Jones. The group were having a cheeky game around the fire pit after a couple of days of arguments and drama, and they had to transport a card around the group using only their lips with each other. They then started playing dares and things were really heating up for the islanders, as all bets were off once the snogging began.
We guess Caroline Manzo is truly, really, officially done with Bravo — because she’s now starting a legal war with them! The Real Housewives of New Jersey alum
Most of the lawsuit from Real Houswives star Caroline Manzo claiming Brandi Glanville sexually assaulted her during the Morocco filming of Girls Trip can bee summed up in an alleged outburst from the RHOBH alum: “Shut up! This is my vacation, Bitch. I’ll do what the fuck I want!”
Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Country superstars Morgan Wallen and Eric Church are part of a team that has acquired the Field & Stream brand, with plans to start a music festival and even publish a semiannual print edition, on top of maintaining the website and retail opportunities. Previously, Field & Stream assets had been split up as the venerable print magazine went digital-only, with Recurrent coming to own the brand’s ongoing media and Dick’s Sporting Goods having picked up the retail side. The group fronted by Wallen and Church has picked up both sets of assets and is putting everything back under one roof, reps announced Thursday.
Former Love Island star Shaughna Phillips has hit back after she was accused of being “bitter” about her ex Callum Jones. Shaughna, 29, and Callum, 27, had a brief romance during series six of the ITV2 dating show in 2020. But she was savagely dumped after he re-coupled with Molly Smith, which led to Shaughna’s iconic catchphrase “congrats, hun.” Now, Shaughna has been targeted by online trolls, who have claimed she needs to “move on”.
Previous claims that William and Kate aim to take on Prince Andrew’s home are “overpriced” according to reports.
Rosalia and Jeremy Allen White continue to spend more time together. The two were photographed having an informal dinner in Los Angeles, and looking happier and more in love than ever.Why people think Gene Wilder is Jeremy Allen White’s grandpaRosalia reunites with Hunter Schafer after rumors about an alleged romance last yearThe couple was photographed having dinner at a Mexican restaurant. For the occasion, they both dressed informally, with Rosalia wearing a black coat and matching shirt.
Diego Ramos Bechara editor GLAAD has announced the nominees for its 35th annual GLAAD Media Awards, with Variety earning two nods for outstanding online journalism (Michaela Jaé Rodriguez Calls Out The New York Times’ Anti-Trans Coverage & Advice for Trans Youth) and magazine overall coverage. Other nominees include “All of Us Strangers,” “And Just Like That…,” “Bottoms,” “The Color Purple,” “Deadloch,” “Despierta America,” “Everything Now,” “Fellow Travelers,” “Heartstopper,” “Kokomo City,” “The Last of Us,” “Our Flag Means Death,” “Red, White and Royal Blue,” “Rustin,” “Sin Huellas,” “Ted Lasso” and “Yellowjackets.” These are a total of 310 nominees across 33 categories.
Green Day surprised commuters in New York last night (January 16) with a busking performance that featured Jimmy Fallon.Ahead of their intimate gig at the Irving Plaza on Thursday (January 18) and the subsequent release of their new album ‘Saviors’, Green Day were in town, where it was previously teased that they would be doing something special for The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon, though they’re not scheduled to appear on the show.Word of a potential impromptu gig quickly began making its way around the internet, and commuters at the Rockefeller Center subway station took to social media to share images of musical equipment and cameras being set up on the platforms.Who are these guys? pic.twitter.com/H8I5ZAupEB— Green Day Inc. (@GreenDayInc) January 17, 2024Fans then began sharing footage of the band arriving in costumes, flanked by Jimmy Fallon, who joined the trio to perform all six songs of their setlist.