Rattled by Pandemic, Protests, Nigeria’s Film Industry Looks to Rebound

Duchess Kate releasing the findings from her "5 Big Questions" survey, which focuses on the early years sector and the under 5s, in particular. A press release called the research "a milestone moment for her work on the importance of early childhood in shaping the rest of our lives and broader societal outcomes." The survey impressively collected more than half a million responses.To deliver her keynote speech, Kate Middleton wore a pink suit from Marks and Spencer.

Johnny Flynn says some David Bowie fans think the idea of his new biopic of the star is “offensive”.Flynn stars as the Thin White Duke in Stardust, and recently admitted that the film is “potentially going to get a lot of flak”.Asked if there had been any negative feedback so far by Exclaim, Flynn said: “It’s pretty much as I as I expected. I mean, there’s the Bowie fans, who don’t want you to fuck with their idea of David.

The Duchess of Cambridge delivered the keynote speech at The Royal Foundation's Forum on the Early Years, joining the event via video conference.The forum coincides with Duchess Kate releasing the findings from her "5 Big Questions" survey, which focuses on the early years sector and the under 5s, in particular.

Channel 4 Orders Follow-Up To Influential Princess Diana Film Channel 4 has commissioned Blink Films to make a follow-up to its explosive documentary on Princess Diana’s infamous Panorama interview with the BBC in 1995. The revelations in Blink’s first film, Diana: The Truth Behind The Interview, have sparked an independent inquiry at the BBC to get to the bottom of whether Diana was coerced into the Panorama conversation by reporter Martin Bashir through forged documents and misinformation.

Kaleem Aftab Simone Bitton, a Paris-based, French-Moroccan director whose work has primarily concentrated on the history and cultures of North Africa and the Middle East, makes her debut in the Masters section at IDFA—arguably the most prestigious of the documentary festival’s strands—with the world premiere of “Ziyara.”Bitton herself has mixed feelings about the accolade, as she makes quite clear. “I don’t consider myself a master,” she says.

Also Read: See Johnny Flynn as David Bowie in First Look at Unauthorized Biopic 'Stardust'For better and for worse, “Stardust” grapples with those issues as it follows a 24-year-old Bowie on a promotional tour through the United States in 1971, accompanied by a long-suffering Mercury Records publicist named Ron Oberman.Johnny Flynn plays Bowie, Marc Maron plays Oberman, and the point of director and cowriter Gabriel Range’s film is to trace the seeds of Bowie’s breakthrough character, Ziggy

NFL defensive star) in “The Ogun,” a man who brings his teenage daughter to Nigeria to find a cure for the rare genetic condition that he passed on to her.

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12 Years A Slave, which told the story of slavery in the country.Asked by Homeland’s David Harewood in the Guardian why British Black actors frequently have to go to the US “in order to further their careers”, McQueen responded by saying the UK industry “didn’t care enough”.“That’s it, really,” he said. “The people in positions of real power and influence higher up in the industry didn’t care enough.

Steve McQueen has commented on the British film and TV industry’s failure to embrace its Black talent.The 12 Years a Slave director made the comments ahead of his groundbreaking new film series, Small Axe, premiering on BBC One on 15 November.When asked by David Hare of Homeland fame, in a Guardian piece, why British Black actors continue to have to look to America in order to further their careers, McQueen said of the UK industry: “Because they didn’t care enough. That’s it, really.

Also Read: Colbert: Trump Is 'Like a Toddler Too Hopped Up on Sugar to Go to Bed' With Bogus Fraud Claims (Video)From there, Fallon and Smyth traded lyrics.

If you read enough posts on this website, you will begin to understand that many of us are huge fans of David Fincher. Of course, that’s not unique to us, at all.

While scores of major players in Hollywood keep their focus on the U.S. election, a number of celebrities are spotlighting two crises overseas: one, the armed conflict between ethnic Armenian and Azerbaijani forces over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh; the other, protests against ongoing police brutality in Nigeria.

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Tenet.The time-travelling epic, released in August in the UK but staggered to reach cinemas later in the US, grossed nearly $350million (£269million) at the global box office.Commenting on the future of the film industry and the takings for Tenet, Nolan told the Los Angeles Times that the numbers might be used to “draw the wrong conclusions” under the current climate, as cinemas were shut in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco when the film was released.“Warner Bros.