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Riot Games has announced that it has raised £4.1million ($5.4million) from several of its games to provide financial aid to humanitarian organisations that are working to assist victims of the Ukraine conflict.Between March 5 and March 12, Riot Games collected all proceeds from battle pass sales in Valorant, Legends Of Runeterra, Teamfight Tactics, and Wild Rift. The profits were set aside to be donated to humanitarian organisations in Ukraine amid the ongoing invasion by Russian forces.This also included profits from the Bee skin line released for League Of Legends.

Susanna Reid was left stunned when one of the show's reporters revealed what had happened as he chatted away to a Hollywood A-lister.

Storm Reid is loving life as a USC student!

EXCLUSIVE: Jacqueline Obradors (Promised Land), Jon Beavers (Licorice Pizza) and Ruth Righi (Sydney To The Max) are set as leads opposite Scott Bakula, Anna Wood, Oluniké Adeliyi and Cress Williams in NBC’s drama pilot Unbroken (working title). They also join previously announced series regulars Delon de Metz, Amanda Payton and Shian Tomlinson in the project from New Amsterdam executive producer Shaun Cassidy and Universal Television.

Storm Reid. Dressed in a lemon yellow feathered LaPointe outfit, the  star could not be missed on the carpet as she stepped out to attend the annual ceremony on Thursday in celebration of Black women. «I feel like erasure is still a big thing in the world and especially in Hollywood with women and furthermore with Black women,» she told ET's Matt Cohen. «So to have an event that represents us, celebrates us and I get to be on a red carpet and sit in a room full of Black women who have paved a way for me and have made it possible for me to stand right here, that's incredible, so I'm just so glad and so thankful to be here.»When she's not on the red carpet, Reid can be found on-screen playing Gia Bennett, Rue's younger sister on While the explosive second season recently ended, a third is on the way — but that's all Reid knows about it.«They won't tell me a single thing.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterA Chinese visual effects and animation studio filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging that it is the victim of two American swindlers who forged documents, impersonated the CEO, and conned investors out of $234 million.Base FX, headquartered in Beijing, states that it was duped into trusting the two men — Remington Chase and Kevin Robl — over the course of several years, in which they engaged in several financing arrangements and a joint venture in Malaysia.However, over the last year and a half, the company has discovered that the men were using the relationship as a lure for investors, who were deceived into signing over $234 million, in what they thought were loans and investments in the company and its projects. Base FX alleges that Chase and Robl forged the signature of the company’s CEO on investment documents, created fake entities and bank accounts, had someone pretend to be the CEO in calls with investors, and set up a fake office for the company in Pasadena, Calif.

Lou Reed and John Cale’s ‘Songs For Drella’ album has been found – and it’s coming to streaming.Lachman believed that the original negatives were long lost until he unearthed them while researching Todd Haynes’ 2021 documentary film The Velvet Underground.Now, Songs For Drella will be available to stream exclusively on MUBI in the UK and Ireland from April 17. The concert film shows former The Velvet Underground bandmates Reed and Cale perform songs from their song cycle tribute album to their former manager, Andy Warhol, who died three years prior to the joint album’s release in 1990.Lachman – known for his chief photography roles on several of Haynes’ films including Far From Heaven and Carol as well his own directorial work (Ken Park, In The Hearts Of Africa) – is noted in press material as producing an “intimate” and “minimalist” film portrait.“Lachman’s camerawork reflects the elemental, stripped-down qualities of the album, with close-ups beautifully conveying the deep, fractious history between Reed and Cale,” reads part of the concert film’s description.‘”Drella’” was a nickname used for legendary pop artist Warhol by Reed and Cale (the name is a synthesis of Dracula and Cinderella).

This 90 Day Fiancé family just got bigger! Jorge Nava’s girlfriend, Rhoda Blua, gave birth to their second baby on Tuesday, March 22, Us Weekly exclusively confirms.

In May 16th 2001 Joana Rodriguez, 25, was just settling into life with a newborn.The beautiful young mum had given birth four days ago, to a son called Ray. Yet that night, three men came into her home, beat up her partner and kidnapped her and her newborn son. Later that day her lifeless body was found in the trunk of a car.

A man has died after a crash involving his motorbike and a car which led to a busy main in Salford being sealed off for hours.

Susanna Reid was forced to make a rare on-air correction during the latest edition of Good Morning Britain following a comment from a guest.

Liz Truss has been accused of double standards over the Prime Minister's trip to Saudi Arabia amid the global fuel crisis.

K.J. Yossman Canadian animation studio Mercury Filmworks has appointed Guillaume Dubois as their new vice president of production.Dubois, who will report to Mercury Filmworks’ founder and CEO Clint Eland, will manage current and future productions including work-for-hire and original IP.

The Oscar-winning indie studio behind such movies as Moonlight and If Beale Street Could Talk, has secured a $225 million equity investment to fund its strategic growth plan.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaA24, the indie studio behind “Moonlight” and “Uncut Gems,” announced an equity investment of $225 million, which it says it will use to invest in and expand its production and distribution operations. Stripes serves as the lead investor for the round and Stripes’ Founder, Ken Fox, will join A24’s board as part of the investment. Neuberger Berman, on behalf of client funds, co-led a group of investors in the round.

Prince Harry has been seen wearing a cowboy hat as he attended a rodeo in Texas over the weekend despite his wife's animal rights activism.The Duke of Sussex, who taught his wife Meghan Markle a private royal tradition for her first meeting with the Queen, was seen at Stockyards Rodeo event in Fort Worth, Texas, on Saturday 5 March. In a photo obtained by several publications, including the Daily Mail, Harry could be seen dressed down in a casual outfit as he donned a grey-green T-shirt with a khaki-coloured cowboy hat as he enjoyed the show.The snap, which has since been deleted on the original account, was re-posted by Omid Scobie, who co-authored Finding Dreem, on Twitter.

EXCLUSIVE: Dorian Missick (Shirley), Pamela Reed (Outside In), Amanda Warren (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) and Jim Klock (The Underground Railroad) will round out the cast of Prime Video’s The Burial, which is currently in production.

A royal surprise! Prince Harry left his Montecito mansion to attend a rodeo in Texas.