‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ Box Office Launch Grows to $100 Million-Plus

Ed Meza @edmezavar Madrid-based Latido Films is partnering with the organizers of the new genre-focused Fantastic Pavilion at the Cannes Film Festival’s Marché du Film on a new award that will offer international distribution to selected Spanish-language Iberoamerican films. The prize will also provide theatrical release in Latin America for winning titles. News of the prize comes as plans for the Fantastic Pavilion, one of the major innovation of this year’s Cannes Film Market, are beginning g to emerge, based on a undeniable market reality: Elevated genre films and thrillers, if they are shaped by an auteurist vision, are proving to be among the surest sellers on the international market and genre is embraced by a new generation of young filmmakers who are often creating artistically ambitious films of substance, sometimes dealing with urgent gender and social issues.  

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent After securing major distribution deals at the EFM, Luc Besson’s next film “Dogman” starring Caleb Landry Jones, is now eyeing a launch in the festival circuit this fall, Variety has learned. The movie’s French release, initially planned for April 19, has been pushed to the fall to allow distributors to prepare a coordinated global release after a launch at an A-category festival. It would mark the first Besson-directed movie to open at a festival in decades. His wild space opera movie “The Fifth Element” was the opening night movie of the 50th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in 1997. Besson’s first film since his 2019 actioner “Anna,” “Dogman” is rumored to mark a return to form for the French director. Based on the trailer which we saw before the Berlinale, the film will be closer to some of his early work, notably “Subway,” “Nikita” and “The Professional” which were character-driven movies with a darker edge.

Zendaya “just closed a big re-negotiation,” according to new reports regarding her salary.

Hoda Kotb‘s absence is causing concern.

Billy Bragg has announced a new box set to mark his four decades in music, ‘The Roaring Forty’ – find all the details below.The singer-songwriter and left-wing activist is due to release the career-spanning collection on October 27. Its deluxe CD version will comprise 14 discs, with the vinyl edition coming as a 3xLP (40 tracks) or a single ‘primer’ LP (13 tracks).According to a press release, the 300-song CD box set is made up of Bragg’s 12 studio albums to date as well as a host of non-album singles and B-sides, session tracks, rare live recordings, collaborations and previously unreleased material from the past 40 years.It also boasts a large format book containing images of 40 significant objects from the musician’s career, including his debut NME cover, the hand-tinted flyer to his first solo gig, the original lyrics to ‘A Lover Sings’, the Red Wedge manifesto, his membership card to the Smokey Robinson & The Miracles fan club, along with with commentary from Bragg himself.In a statement, Bragg recalled of first starting out: “It seems like just the other day that I was handing John Peel a mushroom biryani and asking him to play my first record.

Alec Baldwin is facing yet another legal battle after the Rust shooting!

Police have launched an urgent search to trace a man who vanished from a Scots town four days ago.

Former Manchester United defender Gary Neville has warned Manchester City that Erik ten Hag's team will continue to be a threat to them after their Carabao Cup victory over Newcastle.

Logan Paul will be making an appearance at next week's taping of Raw. The 27-year-old social media mega star will be entering the squared circle to face off with WWE star Seth Rollins.

Corriere Della Serra).As Mixmag notes, Renè was a much-loved DJ and staple act in Ibiza during the early 2000s. Born in Rome, he began DJing during his teenage years and later moved to Riccione north of San Marino where he played at nightclubs including Titilla, Peter Pan and Cocoricò.In 2000, Renè relocated to the White Isle to further pursue a career in music.

Michelle Keegan may be a big star on the small screen but she still has strong views when it comes to her snack choices. And there's one thing that she appeared to need to get off her chest.

was moving from the page to the small screen, the creative team felt the pressure to get everything just right. Like the book, the limited series adaptation of Daisy Jones & the Six, produced by 's Hello Sunshine, tells the story of an L.A.-based rock band in the '70s as they rise to superstardom. The group is helmed by the wild, charismatic Daisy Jones (), loosely inspired by Stevie Nicks, who leads a life where chaos and glamour walk hand-in-hand.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Music Box is unveiling the trailer for “Revoir Paris,” a French drama boasting a Cesar-winning performance by Virginie Efira. The movie, which bowed at Cannes’ Directors Fortnight and played at Toronto, will have its New York premiere on June 23 at Film at Lincoln Center and IFC Film Center. A meditation on healing, the film tells the story of Mia (Efira), a married translator who survived a mass shooting in a Paris restaurant, and feels haunted by the trauma, yet unable to recollect memories of the tragic attack. Determined to reconstruct the sequence of events and reestablish a sense of normalcy, Mia finds herself repeatedly returning to the bistro where the shooting happened. In the process she forms bonds with fellow survivors, including banker Thomas (Benoît Magimel) and teenager Félicia (Nastya Golubeva). Efira, who just won a Cesar Award for her role in the film, stars opposite Magimel, the Cesar-winning actor of “Pacifiction,” as well as Grégoire Colin (“Both Sides of the Blade”) and Golubeva (“Annette”).

A man lay down on a driveway following a night out with friends and died after being run over by a car.

Ghost frontman Tobias Forge and Def Leppard vocalist Joe Elliott have spoken to NME about working together on their collaboration ‘Spillways’, as well as their morning spent together in an Irish pub and why Måneskin are proof that the rock revival is real.‘Spillways’ originally featured on Ghost’s 2022 album ‘Impera’ but earlier this year the theatrical rockers released a reworked version featuring the Def Leppard icon. Speaking to NME, Elliott described it as “this big love-in.”He has been a fan of Ghost since the release of 2015’s ‘Meliora’ after being introduced to them by band Phil Collen and really loved ‘Impera’. “I played the shit out of Ghost’s music on my [Planet Rock] radio show, and then we saw that they had been bigging us up in the press,” said Elliott.Forge then revealed that a lot of ‘Impera’ was actually inspired by Def Leppard.“I’ve always been a fan but with this album, I really looked at their songwriting,” he said.

Shakira is not holding back.

Two fraudsters carried out a voucher scam affecting hard-up families. David McSherry, 33, and Susan Paterson, 24, conned victims in Glasgow’s Gorbals who believed the pair had actually been helping them.

Sober ravers are on the hunt for a man they call ‘bongo boy’ who vibed with revellers in a Manchester club last weekend. Organisers ‘are on a mission’ to track him down as they have a proposition for him as a thank you for entertaining partygoers.

A man has died following an explosion at a recycling centre in Perth.

Concerns are growing for a young East Kilbride man who hasn't been seen since Sunday night.

The former owner of the recording studio and community centre where cult comedian Frank Sidebottom made his hilarious music has described plans to bulldoze the building as ‘a tragedy’. Plans have been submitted to Trafford council asking permission to demolish the former Riddings Community Centre in the Timperley area of Altrincham in order to build five homes.

AMC Theatres announced the upcoming launch of its new supermarket line of microwave and ready-to-eat popcorn, which will be exclusively available at Walmart starting March 11, the day before the Academy Awards. The AMC popcorn will be available in classic butter, extra butter and lightly salted flavors, with microwave boxes being sold at an MSRP of $4.98 and ready-to-eat bags being sold at $3.98.

Kendrick Lamar, Caroline Polachek and Weyes Blood are among a host of new names to be announced for Roskilde Festival’s massive 2023 line-up.The festival will return to Denmark between June 24-July 1 this year, with the list of headliners including Blur, Queens Of The Stone Age, Christine And The Queens, Rosalía and more.Now, a host of new names have been added to the bill including headliner Lamar. Joining him, Polachek and Weyes Blood will be Special Interest, Code Orange and more.Roskilde Festival’s head of programming, Anders Wahrén, said of the announcement: “This announcement features some of the most vehement vocalists and powerful performers right now, acts whom in each their own way convey hope, meaning and change.

Pet Shop Boys‘ Neil Tennant wrote and sent to the late Janice Long in the ’80s has been discovered at a record shop in Altrincham, Trafford.As BBC News reports, the frontman thanked the Radio 1 DJ for playing the synth-pop duo’s debut single ‘West End Girls’ in the note, which was found in a 12-inch vinyl edition of the track.The letter is dated “12 April, 1984” – three days after the song was released.Tennant, who worked as a journalist at Smash Hits at the time, provided some information on how he and bandmate Chris Lowe had recorded ‘West End Girls’ with producer Bobby Orlando after meeting him in New York.“We’ve now recorded over half an album and are due to go back to New York quite soon to finish it,” he continued in the unearthed letter.“Anyway, hope you like the 12″ I’ve enclosed and thanks for playing ‘West End Girls’ on Thursday. As far as I’m concerned, you’re now an honorary Pet Shop Girl!” See an image in the tweet below.A letter written by Pet Shop Boys star Neil Tennant, thanking Radio 1's Janice Long for playing the band's debut single (“West End Girls”) in 1984.

A transgender rapist who raped two women while still a man has been jailed for eight years.

When it comes to confidence, Manchester City's 18-goal winger Carlos Borges isn't short of any. Nor is he lacking in ambition, with a domestic and European double in his sights.

Lorraine Kelly surprised ITV viewers when she was mysteriously forced to drop out of her hosting duties last minute.The beloved presenter, who was swiftly replaced by Ranvir Singh for three days last week, has confirmed she fell ill with norovirus, which saw her turn a "greenish putty colour" moments before she was due on-air.In the video below, Lorraine opened up about her contracting the virus, and how one particular star became the perfect remedy.I've been doing breakfast TV for almost forty years, but last week was the first time ever I had to be sent home from my work!I felt a bit queasy in the car on the way in but thought I would be OK once I had some breakfast and a quick coffee. Sadly, when I was in our morning meeting I went a sort of greenish putty colour and thought I was going to pass out.Worried that it might be a bug I could pass on, we all agreed (reluctantly) that I should go home.I was so disappointed as I'd obviously done all my homework for the show and was really looking forward to it.

Perth and Kinross is proving itself to be quite the powerhouse in the wedding industry.

Andrea McLean has issued a health update as the former Loose Women star awaits results after “being poorly for so long”. Andrea, 53, took to Instagram yesterday, Monday 27 February, as she opened up to her 301,000 followers about the “absolute exhaustion” she’s felt in recent months. “Things I did to fill my cup this week, that weren’t to do with work…” she began her post.

A man accused of attempting to rape a teenage girl in woodlands in Tameside has been found not guilty.

Pink claims the biggest Trending track in the country this week with TRUSTFALL.

Tomorrow X Together (TXT) have unveiled a special new version of their ‘The Name Chapter: Temptation’ B-side ‘Happy Fools’.On February 28, the K-pop quintet dropped the new version of ‘Happy Fools’ via their official YouTube channel alongside a special clip of the group performing the track.The new version of ‘Happy Fools’, which was first released as part of their January mini-album ‘The Name Chapter: Temptation’ and originally featured Coi Leray trades the American rapper’s verse for a new self-written rap by member Yeonjun.“Don’t wanna do my thing, I won’t regret it / I’ll be the laziest Superman so follow me / The pleasant taste of laziness / Is very sweet / A dream-like guilty pleasure is right in front of me,” they sing in the chorus.The new video is part of TXT’s ongoing ‘2023 Dream Week’ event, which will lead up to their upcoming fourth anniversary as a group on March 4. The boyband have already released a string of special content, including rehearsal videos from their 2022 ‘Act: Love Sick’ world tour.Last week, TXT released a re-make of the 1990s song ‘Goodbye Now’ by South Korean music duo 015B in collaboration with Naver Webtoons for the upcoming finale of Love Revolution, an original comic series on the platform.The new collaboration arrived just a month after the release of ‘The Name Chapter: Temptation’, which was led by the title track ‘Sugar Rush Ride’.

Love Island’s Casey O’Gorman and Claudia Fogarty called an end to their relationship on Monday night and fans are now begging the producers to stop airing their storyline. Sunday's episode of the show saw new bombshell Rosie Seabrook, 24, steal Casey, 26, from Claudia, 28, in a dramatic recoupling after the two went on a date together.

We’ve had the wolf cut, we’ve had the mullet, and now the latest trend in shaggy bedhead hair is taking over Pinterest – the octopus cut. Pinterest predicted that the octopus cut would become one of the biggest hairstyle trends of the year amongst Gen Z-ers following the success of the wolf cut last year.The latest celebrity to undergo a major hair transformation is Emily Atack, who took the plunge and her trademark long blonde locks into a much shorter and edgier chop.

Sctos presenter Andrea McLean has revealed that she's been bedridden 'for days' as she opens up about her ongoing health issues.

Luke Shaw has his eyes set on more trophy triumphs this season and has revealed the Manchester United players have already turned their attention to ensuring they advance to the next round of the FA Cup on Wednesday.