Turkish film actress and ex-mayor Fatma Girik dies aged 79

FX has set its cast for Retreat, a limited series from The OA creators Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij. Oscar nominee Clive Owen (Closer, The Knick) Harris Dickinson (Beach Rats, The King’s Man), Alice Braga (Queen of the South, The Suicide Squad), Jermaine Fowler (Coming 2 America, Judas & the Black Messiah), Joan Chen (The Last Emperor, Twin Peaks), Raul Esparza (Law & Order: SVU, Candy), Edoardo Ballerini (The Sopranos, Dinner Rush) Pegah Ferydoni (Turkish for Beginners, Drama Women Without Men), Ryan J. Haddad (The Politician, Hi, Are You Single?) and Javed Khan (The Bay, Gangs of London) join Corrin in the series, along with previously announced Marling.

Naman Ramachandran Protagonist Pictures has closed multiple deals for several key territories on Sundance selection and Berlin Film Festival competition title “Call Jane.”Territories sold include DCM for Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Umbrella Entertainment for Australia and New Zealand, Mis.label for Scandinavia, Eagle for Italy, Shaw for Singapore and Empire for South Africa.Directed by Phyllis Nagy, the Oscar nominated writer of “Carol,” the film stars Elizabeth Banks, Sigourney Weaver, Kate Mara and Chris Messina. The film follows Joy (Banks), a traditional 1960s housewife who unexpectedly falls pregnant and finds the Janes, an underground abortion movement led by Virginia (Weaver).

Katie Price's family warned the former glamour model against going under the knife again as her children "don't like it".The 43 year old underwent further surgery last week in Belgium and was pictured with a massive bandage around her head and two black eyes as she returned home. At the time, a source told OK! that the decision was made in a bid to feel "young and fresh" for her new venture on X-rated subscription platform OnlyFans after she launched her account in January. Last summer, Katie also flew to Turkey to have full body liposuction, eye and chin lifts and a Brazilian bum lift.

Italy an ancient statue of the goddess Athena, to be displayed in a Sicilian museum for four years in return for Italy's long-term loan to Athens of a fragment of the celebrated Parthenon Sculptures.The late 5th century B.C. headless marble work was discovered during excavations near the Parthenon Temple, dedicated to Athena, goddess of wisdom, on the Acropolis and belongs to the Acropolis Museum.Greek Culture Minister Lina Mendoni, who travelled to Palermo’s A.

The Real Housewives of New Jersey star Jennifer Aydin, 44, is not living by the phrase “no regrets,” at least when it comes to her plastic surgeries. During the Season 12 premiere, the reality TV star debuted a new nose job and chin implant that she got done while visiting family in Turkey. While she seemed to have a good attitude about the surgeries during the episode, underneath it all, she wasn’t thrilled with how she looked afterward.

He’s the rising star at the forefront of brand new ITV drama No Return. But the actor who plays Sheridan Smith’s on screen son Noah also has a very famous family behind the scenes. Actor Louis Ashbourne Serkis, who stars as the teen accused of sexually assaulting another boy while on holiday with his family in Turkey, is the son of Hollywood star Andy Serkis and Bridgerton actress Lorraine Ashbourne.

DEALSSony Music Publishing has signed Dagny to a worldwide publishing deal. “I’m super excited to be joining the wonderful Sony Music Publishing family”, she says. “I’m especially happy they share my vision of continuing to develop my artist career as well as helping me progress as a songwriter for other artists”.CCS Rights Management has signed a sub-publishing agreement covering its home country of Canada with Irish publisher Bardis Music Company.

Katie Price has been seen with full head bandage after undergoing an eye and brow lift.The 42 year old was seen with the bandage and bruising under her eyes as she left her rented home in Surrey holding two of her dogs on Wednesday afternoon. Mum of five Katie has always been open about the surgeries she’s undergone, including multiple boob jobs, liposuction and a Brazilian bum lift. She also shocked fans last year when flying to Turkey for multiple procedures, afterwards explaining that she was scared she’d “die” on the operating table.

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The deals keep coming at the 2022 Virtual Sundance Film Festival. MUBI closed the docu Free Chol Soo Lee, including North America, and Warner Bros is negotiating a near $7 million WW rights deal for the Tig Notaro/Stephanie Allynne film Am I Ok? to place the film on HBO Max. The Lauren Pomerantz-scripted film stars Dakota Johnson, Sonoya Mizuno, Jermaine Fowler, Molly Gordon, June Diane Raphael, and Sean Hayes.

ISTANBUL -- Turkey’s president has ordered that steps be taken against media like TV programs that are deemed contrary to Turkey’s “fundamental values.”Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a circular posted Saturday on the Official Gazette, said the decision aims to eliminate the harmful effects of television programs with foreign content that have been adapted in Turkey and to protect Turkish culture.All precautions would be taken against productions that negatively affect the family, children and youth, through Turkish laws and the constitution. Children and youth will be protected from “messages conveyed through certain symbols,” the decision stated, without elaborating.Turkey’s media watchdog, the Supreme Council of Radio and Television, already has wide-ranging powers, and can fine media or order temporary blackouts for television channels that are mostly critical of the government for violating Turkish values.

including here at TheWrap), but has drawn fire on social media for the fact that the film calls the men “terrorists,” and because the filmmaker herself is not Muslim. One typical tweet by writer Jude Chehab of Turkish news website TRT World says: “When I, a practising Muslim woman say [the film’] is problematic, my voice should be stronger than a white woman saying it’s not.”Smaker, who spent five years making the film, told TheWrap that the movie challenges assumptions about people Americans regard as terrorists, while also offering a never-before-seen perspective into the men who embraced the ideology of groups like al Qaeda.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentNaples-set young adult series “The Sea Beyond,” which depicts the world of a juvenile jail in the crime-ridden Italian city, is scoring a slew of international sales prompted by its phenomenal ratings on pubcaster RAI.Germany’s Beta Film, which is selling the show about kids behind bars produced by Rome-based Picomedia and RAI Fiction, has inked deals with WarnerMedia Latin America for HBO Max, Sweden’s free-to-air channel TV4, cabler HOT for Israel, and streamer Blu TV in Turkey.The deals mark a rare case of an Italian young adult series traveling abroad.Set in a youth detention center overlooking the bay of Naples, “The Sea Beyond” depicts a world populated by kids apparently without hope, “given that they mostly belong to [the Camorra] organized crime syndicate that Naples is known for,” said Picomedia chief Roberto Sessa, who added that the show also has “all the color and vitality of that city.” Instead, “It’s like the flip side of ‘Gomorrah’ in that it gives a sense of hope,” Sessa noted, because “there is light at the end of the tunnel for these kids.”Sessa also pointed out that they took some poetic license by making the youth penitentiary a place for both men and women who get to interact “with all the relationships and passions that stem from this.”The jail warden is a woman named Paola Vinci, played by Carolina Crescentini (“Bastards of Pizzofalcone”).Directed by Carmine Elia, Milena Cocozza, and Ivan Silvestrini, “The Sea Beyond” is now at its second season which debuted on RAI in mid-November 2021 both on the pubcaster’s linear RAI 2 channel and on its RAI Play streaming platform.It has become a minor phenomenon in Italy because it’s the first show that proved a

Manori Ravindran International Editor“Golda” director Guy Nattiv has joined the Oscar-shortlisted short film “The Criminals” as executive producer.Written and directed by Serhat Karaaslan, a Kurdish director from Turkey, the film centers on a young couple in a small Turkish town looking for privacy. Shortlisted in the live-action short category for the 2022 awards, the film uses genre to discuss the way an oppressive society pushes its civilians to police each other, ultimately turning sex into a subversive act.“The Criminals” is produced by Laure Dahout through her French production company Tiresias Films.

Love Island star Hannah Elizabeth has revealed the results of her new nose job.The 31 year old blonde beauty has been sharing the details of her journey along the way, as she opened up on heading abroad to Turkey for the procedure.The 31 year old reality star, who took part in the first series of the sun-soaked ITV2 dating show, underwent her rhinoplasty in Istanbul. Having carefully chosen her surgeon for the operation, Hannah shared pictures and spoke to her fans from her hotel room in the European country, recently posting images of her bandaged-up face. In one snap, she showed off her face post-surgery, and the star was still covered in bandages on her face as she embarked on recovery.