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Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor SPOILER ALERT: This contains spoilers from “Swagger” Season 2, now streaming on AppleTV+. As Reggie Rock Bythewood was gearing up for AppleTV+’s second season of “Swagger,” the filmmaker was thinking about how to elevate the series and take it to another level. One film that came to mind was Sam Mendes’ “1917” and how cinematographer Roger Deakins had shot the film and presented it as if it were one continuous long shot. The series follows a team of basketball players inspired by NBA star Kevin Durant and in the latest “maze,” as Bythewood calls it, the team down to six players, Jace (Isaiah R. Hill), Phil (Solomon Irama), Musa (Caleel Harris), Drew, Royale (Ozie Nzeribe), and Nick (Jason Rivera) head to Maryland’s Youth Facility, a detention center for young offenders for a game. “I thought about ‘1917’ and the entire film is shot as if it were one shot. So, Cliff Charles, the D.P., and I talked about doing one that way,” says Bythewood.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor From an Olympic figure skater to a historical queen, with a villainous vixen and a doomed Hollywood starlet, Margot Robbie is running the gamut of wide-ranging roles in movies. To celebrate the opening of Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie,” where Robbie plays the toy doll alongside co-star Ryan Gosling, Variety ranks her 10 best performances of her career so far.

J. Kim Murphy Jamie Foxx has shared a statement with fans, providing his first comments on his April hospitalization following a sudden medical complication. Details on the actor’s condition had been scarce through weeks since, but Foxx vows that he’s “coming back and able to work” in the new video. “First of all, I want to say thank you to everybody that’s prayed, man, and sent me messages. I cannot even begin to tell you how far it took me and how it brought me back. I went through something that I thought I would never ever go through,” Foxx states in the video, posted to his Instagram on Friday evening. “I know a lot of people were waiting, wanting to hear updates. But, to be honest with you, I just didn’t want you to see me like that, man. You know, I want you to see me laughing and having a good time, partying, cracking a joke, doing a movie or television show. I didn’t want you to see me with tubes running out of me and trying to figure out if I was going to make it through. And to be honest with you, my sister, Deidra Dixon, and my daughter, Corinne Marie, saved my life. So to them, to God, to a lot of great medical people, I’m able to leave you this video.”

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor In 2020’s “Tenet,” Christopher Nolan blew up a 747, and for his latest feature, “Oppenheimer,” he recreated the Trinity Test without using visual effects, opting to find a way to do it in-camera instead. “Obviously, we couldn’t make an explosion the size of the actual explosion so we used trickery,” cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema explains, and no, they didn’t detonate a real atomic bomb. The ten-minute sequence capturing the first-ever successful atomic bomb detonation came together through many experiments. It was a given that Nolan would do the scene in-camera. “We’re suckers for this absolute depth of resolution that IMAX give us,” van Hoytema says. “But when you go to VFX, you have to scan it, and the moment you do that, it loses half of its resolution.”

Tony Bennett‘s wife Susan Benedetto paid tribute to the late singer after he died Friday in New York. He was 96.

and , but that hasn't stopped the 31-year-old pop star from breaking out the perfect wedding guest dress.In celebration of her friend Paulina Char's birthday, recently shared two Instagram Stories of herself in a shimmering gold dress with an asymmetrical off-the-shoulder strap and flirty ruching at the waist. She kept the jewelry minimal, opting for one set of oversized statement earrings, pulling her hair back into a sleek bun to draw attention to the golden baubles.

Heavy rain has battered Greater Manchester over the last 24-hours. A month's worth of rain was forecast to fall over this weekend across parts of the UK, with a yellow weather warning for rain issued for over Sunday (July 23).

I was one of the first people to watch Oppenheimer in 70mm IMAX and it honestly blew me away.

Hibernian boss Lee Johnson says he expects Manchester United defender Will Fish to join his club on a season-long loan next Saturday.

A few thousand fans made the trip to the impressive National Stadium to watch the players train today, it’ll be a full house when they face Yokohama F Marinos tomorrow.

Brazil hero Cafu insists he was always sure Casemiro would shine in the Premier League following his transfer to Manchester United last season.

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Lana Del Rey left her "Summertime Sadness" on the West Coast to serve the All-Star special at a Waffle House in Alabama. The 38-year-old singer traded in her trademark vintage threads for a classic blue uniform to serve guests at a Waffle House location in the Florence area.

Chrissy Teigen and John Legend are enjoying a night out.

Kim Kardashian, LeBron James, Serena Williams and David and Victoria Beckham were the celebrities who traveled to Fort Lauderdale, Florida for the big game.Messi, wearing his iconic No. 10 jersey, made his debut in the second half of Inter Miami FC's game against the Mexican league's Cruz Azul in the 2023 Leagues Cup tournament at DRV PNK Stadium.

Rangers extended the hand of friendship to Germans pals Hamburg then swept them aside with minimum fuss as they stepped up their pre-season preparations with a 2-1 win.

While “The Walking Dead” may have come to an end after 11 seasons, the zombie-apocalypse drama has spawned plenty of spin-offs set within the show’s ever-expanding universe, with more on the way.

Follow OK! on Threads here: https://www.threads.net/@ok_mag James Jordan has revealed he was in trouble with his stunning wife Ola after he made comments about her "walking around naked all the time", following her recent weight loss.The former Strictly Come Dancing stars managed to shed a combined 6.5 stone together, after both struggling with weight gain during lockdown. And with Ola now feeling more confident in herself, she's been showing off her new figure in some entertaining videos, including her doing the shopping in her underwear.

Follow OK! on Threads here: https://www.threads.net/@ok_mag Celebrity Gogglebox's Gregg Wallace broke down in tears on Friday night as the star-studded cast watched a heartbreaking diver accident. During the latest episode, Gregg, 58, as well as his famous co-stars such as Clare Balding, were left emotional as they watched The Deepest Breath.The Netflix documentary, released earlier in July, sees deep safety diver, Stephen, lose his life to save his girlfriend, Alessia, in heartbreaking scenes as she attempted to tackle one of the most dangerous dives in the world. In the documentary, Alessia says: "He rescued me, but I couldn't rescue him" to which it then showed the last photo of the couple together in the water as he risked his life to save her.

Two people were arrested after a raid at a house on Friday morning (July 21) with thousands of pounds of cash, Class A and C drugs, plus mobile phones seized.

The incredible transformation of Stockport town centre looks set to continue with two well-known high street chains preparing to open new stores.

A boy racer who filmed himself driving at speeds of over 120mph before crashing into and killing a pregnant mum is one of those locked up in Greater Manchester this week.

Michelle Keegan has given fans a glimpse of her rare night out in Manchester after sharing some snaps with her followers on Instagram. The former Corrie star, who played Tina McIntyre in the ITV soap from 2008 to 2014, took to the social media platform to document her evening at one of the newest restaurants in the city centre.

Georgia Stanway’s penalty helped a disjointed England overcome Haiti and make a winning start to their World Cup campaign.

Seal‘s ‘Kiss From A Rose’, covered by Metallica frontman James Hetfield.In recent months, a whole host of artificially generated cover versions have been shared online, seeing famous artists cover hit songs not in their traditional wheelhouse.Recently, we’ve been treated to The Beatles ‘covering’ The Beach Boys and a controversial ‘cover’ of Hole’s ‘Celebrity Skin’ by Kurt Cobain.The ‘Kiss From A Rose’ cover with vocals from Hetfield is as unexpected as it sounds, and sees Seal’s soulful voice replaced by Hetfield’s trademark bark.Hear the AI creation below.The most infamous AI-created music to come out so far, though, is an AI-generated “lost” Oasis album that was released earlier this year.The eight-track ‘AISIS’ album was developed by indie band Breezer, who created their own tracks over lockdown before adding an AI take of Liam Gallagher’s vocals over the top.Described as an “alternate reality concept album”, it came about after the band got “bored of waiting for Oasis to reform.”Responding to the record, Liam took to Twitter to confirm he’d listened to a couple of the tracks and they were “better than all the other snizzle out there.” He went on to call the project “mad as fuck” before adding that his AI vocals sounded “mega”.Speaking to NME as part of the ongoing In Conversation series (watch above), Noel Gallagher then had his say on the AI-generated album.“These fucking idiots have clearly got too much time on their hands and too much money that they can afford the technology to fucking piss around doing that for a laugh,” said Noel before revealing that he was “saving up for the technology myself.”“Then I’m just gonna dial it in to some computer and fucking churn it out when I’m 73.

The 1975 is officially “blacklisted” from Malaysia after frontman Matty Healy openly defied the country’s draconian anti-LGBTQ laws while headlining a musical festival in Kuala Lumpur.

Happy Birthday, Prince George! The second in line to the British royal throne is celebrating a milestone birthday on Saturday, July 22. The son of Prince William and Kate Middleton turned 10, ringing in the occasion with a brand-new portrait, which was released on Friday.

Tony Bennett's wife Susan Benedetto paid tribute to the late singer after he died Friday in New York. He was 96.Susan took to Bennett's verified Instagram account and posted a moving message to the fans, friends and colleagues «who celebrated his life and humanity and shared their love of him and his musical legacy.»She added, «And as sad as today has been for all of us we can find joy in Tony's legacy forever.» The sweet message was signed by Susan and the couple's son, Danny.

New details are emerging about Ariana Grande‘s love life!

Ariana Madix is addressing all of the talk about her Vanderpump Rules co-stars.

J. Kim Murphy Greta Gerwig’s hot pink fantasia “Barbie” and Christopher Nolan’s intricately bleak historical drama “Oppenheimer” are both putting up box office openings to remember. In a summer movie season that has largely failed to keep spirits up, two bona fide blockbusters are showing that everyone can be a winner. But the more winning winner between the two — the number one movie in North America — is Warner Bros. Discovery’s “Barbie.” After scoring $22.2 million on Thursday, the highest preview ticket sales of the year, the big screen bonanza about Mattel’s ubiquitous doll kept the superlatives going on Friday, adding another $48.2 million from 4,243 theaters. That’s a $70.5 million total — the biggest opening day of the year, blasting past the $51.8 million earned by “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” in June.

Angelique Jackson “Barbie” director Greta Gerwig loved playing with Barbies growing up, so when the time came to bring the world’s most famous doll to the big screen, she was well-versed in Barbie lore and infused the Margot Robbie-starring movie with tons of pink plastic (and fantastic) details. “There must be thousands of B’s everywhere because they also have like designs in the carpet,” Gerwig told Variety on the pink carpet at the world premiere in Los Angeles. (She’s not kidding — we spotted the cursive “B” everywhere, on the dreamhouse walls and patterned on the windows.) Asked which “Hidden B” Easter Egg is her favorite, Gerwig played coy. “I can’t tell it. But I know it,” she teased.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor Busy Philipps has good reason to believe in psychics. “I’m psychic,” the “Freaks and Geeks” actor says during an appearance on the July 24 episode of the podcast “Ghosted! by Roz Hernandez.” What? “Well, I think I’m very intuitive,” Philipps explains. “But sometimes I just know things are going to happen. I sort of just see things in the future and then I have a lot of really psychic connections with people.” If that’s not enough bizarreness for you, “Ghosted!” host Hernandez says she and her best friend, “A Million Things” star Sam Pancake, once came face-to-face with a murderer while housesitting for Philipps. “You and Sam thwarted the murderer from coming to my home,” Philipps said.

While Scheana Shay’s Vanderpump Rules allegiances raised eyebrows after she posed for a photo with Tom Sandoval, her costar Ariana Madix is clearing the air.

Asda shoppers can bag a free cinema ticket just in time for a weekend of blockbusters.

As the home of the Curry Mile, Manchester has long been known for its wide choice of Indian and South Asian restaurants. While the not-quite-a-mile strip of restaurants on Rusholme’s Wilmslow Road now tends towards more Middle Eastern cuisine, there are still plenty of gems to be found there like Mughli and Sanam - the oldest on the whole stretch.