Wowee Zowee: Alex Ross Perry Directing Movie About Indie Slackers Pavement

A father of seven literally missed out on the opportunity of a lifetime after a canceled flight prevented him from receiving a heart transplant.

PREGNANT Stacey Dooley fans have rushed to defend her after she was cruelly mum-shamed. The TV star and her boyfriend Kevin Clifton are currently expecting their first child together - and have been busy nesting ahead of the birth of their baby.

Scots hairdressing icon Rita Rusk has died at the age of 75.

Bad Bunny delivered 25,000 gifts to children at the Roberto Clemente Coliseum in Puerto Rico on Tuesday.The singer, 28 - whose real name is Benito Martinez Ocasio - donned a yellow balaclava hat instead of a Santa hat as he spread the holiday cheer in San Juan. The rapper grew up in Almirante Sur in Puerto Rico. Earlier this month, his fans were turned away from his Mexico City concert after yet another issue with distribution giant Ticketmaster. Good Bunny! Bad Bunny, 28 delivered 25,000 gifts to children at the Roberto Clemente Coliseum in Puerto Rico on TuesdayThrough his foundation Good Bunny, he held the annual charity event to provide children from his native country with gifts of arts, music, and sports.  The foundation wrote on social media that the day of gift-giving was a success - full of magic and Boricuan tradition.The Un Verano Sin Ti singer sported a casual look for the charity drive that he has done in previous years.

Christo Grozev, the investigative journalist featured in the Navalny documentary, has been put on Russia’s “wanted” list.

LIAM GALLAGHER celebrated Christmas Day in style with his fiancée Debbie Gwyther. The former OASIS rocker hired the rooftop at London private members’ club The Ned for a boozy festive knees-up with his nearest and dearest. And to make sure they were suitably well oiled, insiders told me The Ned called in extra kegs of Guinness and bottles of port.

The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has released a Christmas-themed video comparing the fight against Russia to the 1988 Bruce Willis-starrer Die Hard.

Three weeks after filing a restraining order against an alleged stalker, Rachel Bilson and her ex-fiancé Hayden Christensen brought their eight-year-old daughter Briar Rose to his native Canada for the holidays on Tuesday.The Vancouver-born action star and the LA-born O.C. alum - both 41 - were warmly greeted at the Toronto Pearson International Airport by his mother Alie Nelson.On December 1, The Blast reported that a Los Angeles County judge issued a temporary restraining order against a Georgia man called Clyde - who believes Rachel is his 'pregnant future wife' - to stay 100 yards away from her family.

EXCLUSIVE: Famke Janssen (X-Men franchise) and Rose Williams (Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris) will topline Locked In, a contemporary psychological thriller from Netflix, which is currently in production in London and the UK. Others in the cast include Alex Hassell (Violent Night), Finn Cole (Animal Kingdom) and Anna Friel (Monarch).

AMC Networks is throwing everything it’s got at Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches.

Filmmaker Alex Ross Perry is not the type of artist who aims to find mass appeal with his work. His films, typically, aren’t the most approachable features in the world.

Super sub Ali Crawford netted a quick-fire double to send the 398 travelling St Johnstone fans crashing from their seats in the Highlands.

Call it the COVID effect: 2022 has been a year of directors returning to their past and reinterrogating it. Alongside prominent works of autofiction like James Gray’s “Armageddon Time” or Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans,” there’s a less conventional but no less revelatory work that also emerged this year: Mark Pellington’s “Going All the Way: The Director’s Edit.” Note the semantics of the title.

Brittney Griner is grateful to be home!

EXCLUSIVE: Dutch docs indie Scenery is lining up a feature about a Ukrainian refugee ballet company.

Taking a look ahead to 2023, Gower Street Analytics is projecting global box office to hit $29B, repping a 12% gain on 2022 should this year remain on track for approximately $25.8B. The London-based firm estimates 2022 receipts stood at $23.6B as of December 10. 

EXCLUSIVE: Legendary Entertainment and AfterShock Media have closed a deal for a feature adaptation of the latter’s graphic novel Party & Prey from creators Steve Orlando & Steve Foxe, in a competitive situation. Patrick Brice (Creep) has been tapped to direct from a script by Rob Forman (iZombie). 

The official trailer for Spinning Gold has dropped and it explores the rise of Neil Bogart as the founder of Casablanca Records. Watch the preview in the video posted above.

The Berlin Film Festival has unveiled the first titles selected for its Panorama section at the upcoming in-person edition that takes place February 16-26. (Scroll down for the full list)

Tyler Perry is slated to direct an upcoming Netflix movie titled Six Triple Eight, which chronicles the only all-Black, female troop in World War II, the 6888th battalion.The 53-year-old director's upcoming film, his fourth for the streaming service, comes from an adaptation from a story penned by Kevin M. Hymel for WWII History Magazine from Sovereign Media.The upcoming film from Perry - a close friend of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle - tells the tale of the unit, which consisted of 855 women who bravely enlisted not knowing what the task at hand was, Deadline reported.