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Ben Croll Marion Cotillard will star as Coco Chanel in “Rencontre(s),” an immersive, interactive, and multi-sensorial project that whisks participants back to Paris of the Roaring Twenties. Making its world premiere as part of the Venice Film Festival’s recently rebranded Venice Immersive showcase for new-media projects, the pop-history experience mixes live elements with 2D animation and XR embellishments to retrace the creation of Chanel No 5. Variety debuts the teaser here (below). Commissioned by Chanel and produced by Paris-based studio Atelier Daruma, the 15-minute immersive experience puts participants into the shoes of Ernest Beaux, the Russo-French perfumer who created the iconic elixir for the fashion icon. Voicing an animated version of Coco Chanel in both English and French, the Oscar-winning actress plays the designer at the height of her Queen of Paris fame, as a 38-year-old doyenne and magnetic pole for the city’s modernist and avant-garde scenes.

Princess Diana has had a meaningful impact, not just throughout her life, but also following her tragic death at 36. Inspiring new generations, the beloved icon left a lasting legacy.It was late August 1997, when Princess Diana prepared to start a new chapter of her life, after a challenging divorce and a new relationship on the horizon with film producer Dodi Fayed, it seemed brighter days were coming for her.However, on August 31 an unexpected tragedy would take place, as the couple left the Ritz Hotel in Paris en route to Fayed’s apartment after midnight, as “nearly 30 photographers were waiting outside.”Two more occupants were in the vehicle, driver Henri Paul and Trevor Rees-Jones, who was part of Fayed’s security team.Pursued by paparazzi, the vehicle crossed Place de la Concorde and entered the Pont de l’Alma tunnel.

Sir Elton John has paid tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales, on the 25th anniversary of her death, saying: “You will always be missed.” The 75-year-old veteran musician, who was close friends with the princess, shared a photo on Instagram of them laughing together to commemorate the occasion. Diana, the mother of Prince William and Prince Harry, was 36 when she was killed in a car crash in Paris on August 31 1997.

Prince Harry has revealed the adorable way that his son Archie honours his grandmother, the late Princess Diana - who tragically died in a car crash in 1997. Whilst Harry, 37, and 41 year old Meghan Markle's eldest child Archie is now three years old and attending pre-school in California, where he resides with his parents and younger sister Lilibet, Harry has revealed that one of his first words as a baby was "grandma".

The 25th anniversary of Princess Diana's death will be "traumatic" for her sons Prince William and Prince Harry, a royal expert has claimed. Wednesday marks quarter of a century since Diana, her partner Dodi Fayed, and the driver of their car Henri Paul died following a crash in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris. Although the anniversary will be tough for her two sons every year, Jennie Bond notes how heightened interest around the event will be "particularly difficult" for them to deal with due to the significance of it being 25 years.

Princess Diana's fatal Paris car crash was not an accident and there were "still many unanswered questions surrounding her death", according to reports.

Meghan Markle’s latest revealing interview is thought to be overshadowing the 25th anniversary of Princess Diana’s death, royal insiders say. The former Suits star spoke out against the royal family's Instagram policies amongst other things in a lengthy interview with New York magazine’s The Cut on Monday 29 August.The Duchess of Sussex also claimed that Prince Harry has “lost” his relationship with his father, Prince Charles — and revealed how “happy” she was to finally leave the UK.The Duke and Duchess of Sussex moved to Canada when they first departed UK soil but have now settled in Montecito, California.

It remains to be seen as to whether Prince William and Prince Harry will meet up when the Sussexes visit the UK next month. But royal biographer Andrew Morton has told OK! that their late mother Princess Diana would be desperate for them to reconcile. Ahead of Diana's anniversary on 31 August, Andrew says she would be pained by the current rift between her sons.

Jaime Winstone has said playing a young Peggy Mitchell in a flashback episode of EastEnders will be an “amazing milestone” that “bookends” her journey with Dame Barbara Windsor. The matriarch of the Mitchell family was played by Dame Barbara for more than two decades after she joined the long-running soap in 1994 and became its biggest star, with her iconic catchphrase: "Get outta' my pub," when her character landlady of the Queen Vic. Dame Barbara died in December 2020 aged 83, after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease, which she was diagnosed with in 2014.

While on the surface it may have seemed that Diana, Princess of Wales, led a charmed existence, her short time on Earth was never easy. After enduring a turbulent upbringing, in which her parents’ marriage bitterly broke apart, she fell into a hasty union with the Prince of Wales which eventually left her feeling miserable and alone.

Princess Diana sold at auction Saturday for a whopping £650,000, or around $763,700.That's a huge sum, considering the folks over at UK-based Silverstone Auctions told the  they wouldn't be surprised if the car sold for just over $100,000. According to the outlet, the 1985 Ford Escort RS Turbo was Diana's car of choice when she owned it from 1985 to 1988.Fun fact: Diana preferred to drive herself around town whenever she met up with friends or went out shopping.

Princess Diana was famous for being a trailblazer when it came to the causes she supported and her cutting-edge fashion - but she also bucked royal trends with Princes William and Harry's births. Until Prince William came along in 1982, every direct heir to the British throne had been born at home. Her Majesty the Queen welcomed Prince Charles via Caesarean at Buckingham Palace, where the Buhl Room was converted into a 'miniature hospital'.

Princess Diana was planning to move to America without her sons weeks before she died, one of her former bodyguards claims. Mail Online says Lee Sansum tells in his memoir, ‘Protecting Diana: A Bodyguard’s Story’, the royal was on the verge of telling paparazzi of her plans in a bid to protect princes William and Harry from the spotlight as they holidayed with her and Dodi Al-Fayed in St Tropez in July 1997. Lee said: “She said to me, ‘There is nothing I can do in the UK.

Diana’s death in a Paris car crash 25 years ago next Wednesday — Aug. 31, 1997 — resonated with so many people around the world.“I think people just felt she was like family, that she cared,” Emanuel told The Associated Press. “They felt close to her because you knew every detail of her life.

EXCLUSIVE: Basil Iwanyk’s Thunder Road Pictures has optioned the original contemporary supernatural spy thriller, Enigma, from scribe Kat Wood.

Annika Pham Former Oslo Pictures CEO-producer Dyveke Bjørkly Graver and producer Andrea Berentsen Ottmar have set up their own shop, Eye Eye Pictures, Variety has learned.The Norwegian producers were both behind the Cannes-winning and double Oscar-nominated “The Worst Person in the World” by star Norwegian director Joachim Trier. The Nordic romcom, released by Neon in the U.S., earned Renate Reinsve a Cannes Festival best actress award in 2021.Besides Trier, Bjørkly Graver and Berentsen Ottmar have brought another visionary Norwegian auteur to Cannes: Kristoffer Borgli, whose satire “Sick of Myself” world premiered at the festival’s Un Certain Regard strand this year.

British actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson (“Tenet”) is no stranger to comic book roles. He first made big waves in the U.S.

Princess Diana's former bodyguard Ken Wharfe has revealed that the late mother-of-two would have sympathised with her son Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle's decision to quit royal life.SEE: 14 adorable photos of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's son ArchieWriting exclusively in this week's issue of HELLO!, Ken – who has teamed up with author Ros Coward to write Diana: Remembering the Princess ahead of her 25th death anniversary this month – reflected on the Sussexes' 2020 decision to step back as senior royals.WATCH: Royal household's HR policies improved after Meghan Markle bullying claims"I believe she would have the utmost sympathy for Harry and Meghan's predicament," Ken, who worked with Diana from 1988 to 1993, the five most turbulent years of her marriage to Prince Charles, wrote.PHOTOS: 7 times royal children sweetly kissed their parents in publicREAD: Prince Harry and Meghan's son Archie looked adorable on playdate with George, Charlotte and Louis"As a newcomer to the royal family, she would understand the difficulties Meghan has faced as an American divorcée, a powerful, experienced woman in her own right, from a mixed heritage – but she would be instrumental in bringing that around to a state of acceptance and as an advantage to the monarchy." Princess Diana's bodyguard believes Harry will 'be back in some shape or form one day'He added: "It's sad that people keep writing Harry and Meghan off – but I feel he'll be back in some shape or form one day, and Diana would have been great at helping with this.

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