Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford and his wife Kelly almost didn’t end up together… because she was hooking up with his teammate!!
05.06.2024 - 12:11 / deadline.com
Stars including Keira Knightley, Emerald Fennell and Gemma Chan have called for extra funding so that the UK’s new bullying and harassment reporting body for the film and TV industries can launch on time.
The trio are three of 25 to have signed an open letter to the creative industries seeking a “final commitment to the creation of the CIISA, the new independent standards authority designed to keep our creative industries safe and to secure your support to this essential part of the ecosystem that is currently missing.”
Others to have signed include Cara Delevingne, Carey Mulligan, Rebecca Ferguson and Naomie Harris. The letter with signatories can be found below.
The body was first mooted three years ago in the wake of the Noel Clarke allegations, which he denies, by Time’s Up UK, but funds have been slow to come by. CIISA has said that it will only be able to launch at the end of this year, its target date, if it receives more from the broadcasters and lead bodies in theater music and film. All British broadcasters and Sky have already donated.
CIISA’s prospectus indicates that running costs would be around £1.5M ($1.9M) in its first year, rising to just more than £2M the following one.
Today’s letter said: “So many of us in this industry would have loved to have an objective outside body that we could go to for advice, for mediation and in the very extreme circumstances, that we might need some outside body to hold people accountable for the bad behaviour or bad practices that sometimes happen on our sets, on our stages, behind the scenes.”
It added: “CIISA recognises that not everything can be solved with just one intervention but as bullying and harassment claims in the industry continue abound, we believe it
Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford and his wife Kelly almost didn’t end up together… because she was hooking up with his teammate!!
Love Island's Jack Fowler has called for airlines to ban nuts after suffering a terrifying allergic reaction mid-flight.The 28 year old TV star, who is severely allergic to nuts, needed urgent medical attention upon arriving in Dubai when he went into anaphylactic shock after eating airplane food that contained cashews. Despite alerting the flight crew twice about his life-threatening condition, he was served a meal that put him in danger. Recounting the terrifying ordeal to his Instagram followers, he explained how even after being extra cautious, he was given a chicken curry aboard his flight that unknowingly put him at risk.
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Joe Leydon Film Critic If you’re going to set your movie somewhere in the intersection of two worlds fraught with danger — say, bull-riding competitions and hardcore crime — it’s always a good idea to cast actors who look and sound comfortable, and credible, in both places. There are quite a few things to admire in “Ride,” director Jake Allyn’s suspenseful drama about a rodeo family driven to extremes while trying to pay their young daughter’s medical bills.
It’s not So Long, London for Taylor Swift just yet!
Sherrie Hewson is back on our screens having joined E4 soap Hollyoaks as Martha Blake, an evil granny who is determined to protect her two unsuspecting granddaughters from their uncle Jez. While Sherrie has had so many roles over the years that have made her a household name, there's one character that she's desperate to reprise - hotel manageress, Joyce Temple-Savage in Benidorm. For five series, Joyce ran the Solana hotel - she was bossy, sassy and a lot of the time clashed with her guests.
Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI).The campaign has called for the boycott amidst the ongoing developments in the Israel-Palestine conflict, which recently saw Israel carry out an airstrike operation in Rafah. The airstrike was estimated to have killed at least 37 people between May 27-28, according to The Associated Press.They also reported the attack caused several tents to catch fire, killing more residents in Rafah, which is home to thousands of displaced Palestinians from all over the Gaza Strip.Now, music organisations, labels and promoters such as Dark Entries, Techno Queers, Dweller, Noise Not Music, Night Slugs, 8-ball community, Gold Bolus Recordings, NYC Noise, FIST and many more have committed themselves to the boycott.PACBI is an offshoot of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS), which was behind the huge wave of drop-outs from The Great Escape and Latitude Festival this year.
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Jack Dunn The Newport Beach Film Festival will return to London Feb. 13 2025 for its U.K. Honors, recognizing outstanding work by British and Irish actors across film and television.
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EXCLUSIVE: Global TV and film studio Sister is gearing up for a string of projects to hit the small and big screens and today might well see the launch of its most daring.
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