Catfish and the Bottlemen fans have been left in shock after it was confirmed the band would be headlining Leeds and Reading Festival next year.
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Christopher Vourlias When Roma actress-turned-director Alina Șerban reflects on her life, rising from an impoverished background in Bucharest to become an acclaimed and groundbreaking force on stage and screen, she describes it as “an urban Cinderella story.” A review from one of her first stage shows, she says, sums it up best: “Roma actress beats the odds.” As a multi-faceted artist, Șerban has dedicated her life and career to reframing the narrative about her marginalized community. Now she’s developing her feature-length directorial debut, “I Matter,” a deeply personal story about a young Roma woman studying to be an actor who, faced with the threat of being kicked out of her orphanage, must suddenly confront the reality of making it through life on her own.
“I Matter” is among the projects being pitched this week at the Crossroads Co-Production Forum, which takes places Nov. 5 – 9 during the Thessaloniki International Film Festival.
Written and directed by Șerban, it’s produced by Ada Solomon of Bucharest-based microFILM, whose recent credits include Radu Jude’s Locarno winner “Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World” and his 2021 Berlinale Golden Bear winner “Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn.” “I Matter” is based on the 2021 short of the same name, whose festival run included New Directors/New Films, the prestigious fest organized annually by Film Society of Lincoln Center and New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). In it, a poor but promising Roma student is forced to overcome her insecurities and fears while also dealing with racism and prejudice at a Bucharest theater school.
Catfish and the Bottlemen fans have been left in shock after it was confirmed the band would be headlining Leeds and Reading Festival next year.
The Bear, Only Murders In The Building, and Futurama have all been given the green light to move ahead with more seasons, not every show has been so lucky.Shows cancelled so far in November 2023 join the likes of The Great, Gossip Girl, Big Mouth, One Of Us Is Lying, Snowpiercer and many more in having their time on screen come to an end. The cancellations have affected programmes across the board, from traditional network television to streaming-only shows.After just one season, Netflix has decided to call it quits with this animated series that saw a cartoon version of the King (voiced by Matthew McConaughey) swap music for the life of a spy.
Now that the strikes are over, Margot Robbie and the cast and crew of Barbie have officially launched their awards campaign!
Heather Morris is opening up about her murder mystery podcast, her former Glee costars, and Beyoncé and Taylor Swift!
J. Kim Murphy Dua Lipa is “ready to start the next chapter” after launching her single “Houdini.” The three-time Grammy winner shared her excitement to release new music while speaking on the red carpet at Variety’s Power of Women Presented by Lifetime on Thursday evening. A new album is expected sometime next year, though no official release plans have been announced.
Friends co-star Matthew Perry.Cox, who released a joint statement with her Friends co-stars shortly after Perry’s death, has now posted her own personal tribute on Instagram (November 14).In the post, the actor shared a clip from the sitcom where Chandler (Perry) and Monica (Cox) hook up for the first time – explaining how Perry encouraged her to add a “funny line” for the live audience.“I am so grateful for every moment I had with you Matty and I miss you every day,” Cox wrote. “When you work with someone as closely as I did with Matthew, there are thousands of moments I wish I could share. For now here’s one of my favourites.“To give a little backstory, Chandler and Monica were supposed to have a one night fling in London.
Monica and Chandler are forever in our memories. Courteney Cox, who portrayed Monica opposite Matthew Perry‘s Chandler on Friends has shared an emotional tribute and an outtake of one of her favorite moments from the iconic sitcom.
Christopher Vourlias Sofia Exarchou’s “Animal” won the Golden Alexander at the 64th Thessaloniki Film Festival on Sunday, marking the first time in 30 years that a Greek film took home the top honors at the country’s longest-running film event. Exarchou’s sophomore feature, which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival, was praised by Variety’s Jessica Kiang as “a poignant portrait of life amid the sequins and the seediness of a Greek resort.” The film follows a group of entertainers at an all-inclusive island resort preparing for the busy tourist season who are forced to wrestle with the dark reality that the show must go on as the sultry Mediterranean nights turn violent.
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Iman Vellani and Nia DaCosta are surprising fans at a screening for their new movie The Marvels!
Christopher Nolan has revealed that he sneaked his mother, his wife and three of their children into the back of an IMAX theatre in New York on the opening night of his film Oppenheimer.Speaking to Variety, the director explained that he wanted to experience the authentic reactions of a paying audience to his film at the AMC cinema in Manhattan’s Lincoln Square.“I usually don’t want to go,” Nolan said, “But the minute I’m there, something magic happens.”Nolan continued that he felt the tension rise as the film built towards the first detonation of the nuclear weapon assembled by the film’s titular protagonist. “It was a remarkable experience to be there,” Nolan reflected.
Jaden Thompson MTV Documentary Films’ “The Eternal Memory,” directed by Maite Alberdi, will exclusively debut on Paramount+ in the U.S. on Nov.
Stranger Things) and a hit movie franchise (Enola Holmes), has her own beauty line (Florence by Mills), is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, and is to the . And while some might call her a girl, we call her a .In her speech at this year's awards, which took place in New York on November 7, Brown reflected on her acting journey as well as the women who inspire her, including Coco Gauff, fellow honoree and the soccer players of England's Lioness Club. And yes, the guy she likes: Jacob Bongiovi, the son of rock star Jon Bon Jovi and his wife of 34 years, Dorothea Hurley.Our Global Woman of the Year is building an empire.
Netflix has dropped a video preview of the upcoming stage play “Stranger Things: The First Shadow,” which begins performances this month in London.“We were in the middle of breaking Season 4 with our writers, and we started going, ‘OK, well, there’s definitely more story to tell here,’” says Ross Duffer, who co-created the sci-fi series with his brother, Matt, in the featurette. “We wanted to tell an original story set in the ‘Stranger Things’ universe.”The all-new tale, written by series writer Kate Trefry, will be a prequel — so don’t come looking for Mike, Will, Dustin, Lucas or Eleven — partly about young Hopper and Joyce, played on the streaming show by David Harbour and Winona Ryder, respectively.Those roles will be taken on at the Phoenix Theatre by Oscar Lloyd and Isabella Pappas.
While domestic abuse can often include violence, this doesn’t always mean physical harm. In some instances, it can appear, from the outside, to be entirely 'invisible' – but that doesn’t mean it’s not happening. Emotional abuse can happen to anyone, with high-profile women such as Reese Witherspoon, Mariah Carey and Fearne Cotton all having spoken out about it.
It’s been another very busy week in the world of pop culture!
SFFilm’s 9th Annual Doc Stories festival is getting underway, featuring a distinguished lineup of Oscar-contending nonfiction films.
Liam Gallagher has shared his verdict on the long-awaited “final” song by The Beatles – revealing that he finds it “heartwarming”.The track in question is the song that Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have been working on over recent months, which stemmed from a demo tape recorded by late bandmate John Lennon.Titled ‘Now And Then’, the project was completed with the help of AI – which helped to lift Lennon’s vocals off the demo recording – and is being described by the band as being the “final” ever song to feature all members of the Fab Four.Both McCartney and Starr have been teasing the upcoming project for months and also shared a short film last night (November 1), which documented the history behind the track and how it came together. It is set for a worldwide release today at 2pm GMT / 10am EDT / 7am – marketed as a double A-side with their 1962 debut UK single, ‘Love Me Do’ – combining their first single with their last.Now, ahead of its official release, former Oasis frontman and Britpop icon Liam Gallagher has taken to X/Twitter to share his thoughts on the song, and told his followers that he found it to be an emotional listen.“Now n Then [is] absolutely incredible biblical celestial heartbreaking and heartwarming all at the same time,” he wrote in an initial post this morning.
Emmerdale star Christopher Chittell has played the iconic character of Eric Pollard for almost 40 years, making him the soap's longest-serving actor. Christopher, 75 first joined the hit ITV soap in June 1986 and his first scenes aired in late September of that same year. It's no surprise that over the years the actor has been at the heart of some major storylines, including most recently, a devastating diagnosis of Parkinson's disease.
Friends is one of the most successful television shows of all time.Created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, the sitcom about a group of friends living in New York turned its core cast into worldwide stars, including Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer.The show ran for ten seasons between September 1994 and May 2004. During its run, Friends was nominated for 62 Emmys, and won Outstanding Comedy Series in 2002.In 2021, the show’s cast returned for a HBO special titled Friends: The Reunion, hosted by James Corden.At the time of writing (October 31), all ten seasons of Friends are available on Netflix UK.Alternatively, you can buy seasons through Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV+.