Netflix‘s EMEA chief has described his Los Gatos overlords as “very hands off” when it comes to content strategy outside the U.S.
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Now that we're virtually in the summer holiday season, it is time to hang up the usual winter uniform of jeans and joggers for dresses that keep us cool while remaining effortless stylish. River Island always has a great selection of frocks to give any wardrobe a much-needed refresh, but there is one dress in particular that we've spotted that would make the perfect addition to your dress collection.
Whether you plan to wear it to a wedding, on holiday, to the office or even to a casual garden BBQ, the Beige Graphic Puff Sleeve Swing Midi Dress is guaranteed to be a hit. The gorgeous print is the definition of summer and wouldn't look out of place on a luxury holiday to the Italian coast.
What's more, it looks like a much more expensive designer version for a high-end label. In fact, the budget-friendly number shares many similarities to this £2,650 dress from Dolce & Gabanna's latest collection with the luxury online fashion retailer, Mytheresa.
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River Island's Beige Graphic Puff Sleeve Swing Midi Dress features a whimsical all over graphic print like Dolce and Gabbana's Capri Printed Silk-Blended Midi Dress. Both dresses share a cream base with fun prints of seashells, emblematic of summer. Luckily, it doesn't share a similar price point, coming in at just £55.
It has been designed with a V-neck with short puff sleeve, cut to a midi length. Midi dresses are universally flattering on women of all body shapes and sizes, as well being an appropriate length for both formal and
Netflix‘s EMEA chief has described his Los Gatos overlords as “very hands off” when it comes to content strategy outside the U.S.
Martin Scorsese is set to shoot a new film which will see him return to the small town from where his family originated.The filmmaker is reportedly working on a documentary about ancient shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea. The documentary will take Scorsese to Polizzi Generosa, a small town on the island of Sicily, where his paternal grandparents were born.Currently untitled, the film is reportedly based on research by archaeologist and professor at Cranfield University in England, Lisa Briggs.
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Jon Burlingame Music for drama can take on various styles and colors, as demonstrated by three of this year’s most talked-about miniseries. Jeff Russo spent two and a half years thinking about, and composing, the score for “Ripley,” Steven Zaillian’s eight-part thriller about a sociopath (Andrew Scott) who finds the high life in 1960s Italy worth killing for. “Every piece of music I wrote was related to Tom Ripley,” Russo (an Emmy winner for “Fargo”) says of the Netflix series.
Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Shooting has begun on the fourth season of Beta’s hit series “Sisi,” which follows the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. Variety has been given the first exclusive pictures from the set of the new season, which will comprise 24 one-hour episodes. Dominique Devenport and Jannik Schümann reprise their roles as Sisi and Franz, while Sven Bohse (“Dark Woods”) returns to direct the new season.
Is this the year that England finally bring it home? Will Scotland get out of the group stage at an international tournament? Will Italy defend their title?
Love Island has shown us the cast who are set to burst into the villa on Monday night - but some are still convinced there could be a curveball on the way. Among the theories doing the rounds with just days to go until the ITV series returns is the theory that a newly-single Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu is about to return as a bombshell.The rumours started when she posted a series of large numbers on her Instagram page with many trying to figure out whether they related to a stint in the villa.
Following the success of the first celebrity version last year, the likely list of contestants for a new series of Celebrity Race Across The World has been unveiled - and it is set to be a journey with a host of exciting personalities limbering up for an epic trek.The BBC show will see celebrities, each with their chosen companion, heading off on a thrilling voyage, leaving their first class tickets at home and having to rely on boats, trains, taxis and buses to get to each checkpoint destination. Rumours suggest that we'll be seeing model Kelly Brook and her husband, Jeremy Parisi embarking on the journey.
On the Road AgainThe New York institution Shakespeare in the Park is taking a break this year while the famous Delacorte Theater in Central Park undergoes renovations. But the Public Theater, which produces it, will still tour a bilingual, 90-minute musical version of the Bard’s “Comedy of Errors” to locations around the city as part of its Mobile Unit program.
Leo Barraclough International Features Editor The Match Factory has finalized global sales for the Cannes competition title “The Substance,” directed by Coralie Fargeat and starring Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley and Dennis Quaid. The Match Factory has sold to Italy (I Wonder Pictures), Spain (Elastica Films), Scandinavia (Nonstop Entertainment), South Korea (Challan), Hong Kong (Golden Scene Company), CIS (VLG.FILM LTD.), Ukraine and Baltics (Adastra Cinema), Taiwan (Catchplay), Australia and New Zealand (Madman Entertainment), Poland (Monolith), Greece (Feelgood Entertainment), the former Yugoslavia (MCF Megacom), Bulgaria (Beta Film) and Romania (Independenta Film 97).
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Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Rolling off its buzzy world premiere at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard, Oscar-nominated Icelandic filmmaker Rúnar Rúnarsson’s poignant drama “When The Light Breaks” has sold to a raft of territories. Represented in international markets by The Party Film Sales, the movie has been picked up for Italy (Movies Inspired), Switzerland (Xenix), Norway (Arthaus), Denmark (Ost for Paradis), Finland (Cinemanse), Hungary (Vertigo), Greece (Cinobo), Israel (New Cinema), Poland (Aurora), Turkey (Bir Film) and Baltics (Estofilm).