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There will be exhilarating entertainment for all when renowned international ballet star Carlos Acosta brings his world-class dance company The Lowry.

Heidi Klum and Tom Kaulitz headed in to Hollywood on Wednesday to watch rocker John Mayer perform. Klum, 48, and Kaulitz, 32, frontman for the group Tokio Hotel, hit the red carpet at the Hollywood Palladium for SiriusXZm and Pandora's Small Stage Series. They were just a few of the celebs in attendance, with Vanessa Hudgens spotted with her baseball player boyfriend Cole Tucker, Paris Jackson, Olivia Culpo and more.

Heidi Klum and Kelly Rowland both matched the black carpet while attending the premiere of Moonfall!

EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights to the public health documentary The End of Medicine, executive produced by two-time Oscar nominee Rooney Mara and Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix, with plans to release it in theaters and on digital and VOD platforms this summer.

Johnny Marr has revealed that he was so excited about working on the No Time To Die James Bond theme that he had to call his mum.In addition to working with Billie Eilish and her brother/producer Finneas on the theme song, the former Smiths guitarist wrote the soundtrack for the 25th big screen outing for 007 with his longtime collaborator and soundtrack legend Hans Zimmer.Speaking to his friend, writer and broadcaster Jon Savage in the latest issue of Rolling Stone UK, Marr discussed playing the famous Bond riff on guitar for the No Time To Die theme.“That really was a highlight,” he said, laughing. “When I did it, I went and phoned my mum, ‘Guess what I’ve just done, Mum!”He also talked about how working with Zimmer on the scores for both No Time To Die and Christopher Nolan’s 2010 action sci-fi Inception changed his writing and inspired a more cinematic type of production.“I’d say that working with Hans has brought that in,” he told Savage.

The deals keep coming at the 2022 Virtual Sundance Film Festival. MUBI closed the docu Free Chol Soo Lee, including North America, and Warner Bros is negotiating a near $7 million WW rights deal for the Tig Notaro/Stephanie Allynne film Am I Ok? to place the film on HBO Max. The Lauren Pomerantz-scripted film stars Dakota Johnson, Sonoya Mizuno, Jermaine Fowler, Molly Gordon, June Diane Raphael, and Sean Hayes.

Naman Ramachandran In a new series, Variety catches up with the directors of the films shortlisted for the International Feature Oscar to discuss their road to the awards, what they’ve learned so far, and what’s taken them off guard.Maria Schrader, an Emmy winner for directing the Netflix series “Unorthodox,” is also a Berlin Silver Bear winning actor for “Aimée & Jaguar” (1999). Her latest feature “I’m Your Man” follows a scientist (Maren Eggert, “Giraffe”) who agrees to live for three weeks with a humanoid robot (Dan Stevens, “Downton Abbey”) designed to make her happy.

Lia Maiuri, who handled publicity for NBC’s daytime drama Days Of Our Lives in her previous position at NBCU, has been named Director of Communications for the show’s producer, Corday.

EXCLUSIVE: Tim McInnerny (Notting Hill, Blackadder) has signed on to star alongside Murray McArthur (Wonka, The Northman), Cameron Ashplant (Gentleman Jack), Tilly Keeper (EastEnders), Jenet Le Lacheur (Cinderella) and Brian Webster in the thriller Marooned Awakening, which is in production on the island of Guernsey.

Johnny Marr has responded to an open letter from his former Smiths bandmate Morrissey in which the latter asked the former to stop talking about him in interviews. Short version: I don’t think it’s worked.This all seems to have been triggered by that recent interview in which Marr said that he was still friends with all the people he’s been in bands with over the years “except for the obvious one”. That being Morrissey.

Josh Duhamel is opening up about how he proposed to now fiancée, Audra Mari.

Morrissey has issued a statement in which he’s asked his former Smiths bandmate Johnny Marr to stop mentioning him when giving interviews.In a post on his Morrissey Central website, the controversial singer-songwriter wrote: “This is not a rant or an hysterical bombast. It is a polite and calmly measured request: Would you please stop mentioning my name in your interviews?”“Would you please, instead, discuss your own career, your own unstoppable solo achievements and your own music? If you can, would you please just leave me out of it?”Morrissey continued: “The fact is: you don’t know me.

Whoopi Goldberg fired back at Bill Maher over comments he made in his Real Time monologue Friday evening, including, “I don’t want to live in your paranoid world anymore — your masked, paranoid world.”

Bari Weiss revved up a fierce debate about our return to normalcy in a COVID-19 world.On Friday’s episode of “Real Time With Bill Maher,” Weiss articulated what many Americans are feeling: a searing fatigue with the seemingly endless COVID restrictions that have led to an alarming mental health crisis among our youth, saying that pandemic-related rules will be “remembered by the younger generation as a catastrophic moral crime.”“I’m done. I’m done with COVID,” she said, noting that early in the pandemic she complied with every recommendation. “I sprayed the Pringles cans that I bought at the grocery store, stripped my clothes off because I thought COVID would be on my clothes.

Judy Murray OBE and the team behind her ITV show encouraging girls into sport visited Manchester as part of its mission to encourage girls into sport.

More than 400 cases of a new Covid-19 sub-variant have been identified in the UK, as health chiefs describe it as a 'variant under investigation'.