‘Dune’ Wins Top Award From Cinema Audio Society

GOGGLEBOX fans were in tears tonight seeing the cast break down weeping over emotional hospital scenes. Show favourite Jenny Newby was sobbing and new dad Pete Sandiford welled up seeing a mother and daughter heading in for surgery at The Royal Free.

Britney Spears can’t wait to walk down the aisle with fiancé Sam Asghari, and she also can’t wait to step into her wedding dress! As Brit has noted, Versace designer Donatella Versace is set to craft the perfect look, so the 40-year-old is already meeting up with Italian designer for ideas. “Look who came to visit … these 2 bad bitches are up to no good

MAISIE Smith showed off her moves once again - but the Strictly Come Dancing's judges probably wouldn't approve this time. The EastEnders actress, 20, wore a corset crop top as she danced about in a raunchy new TikTok video.

Channing Tatum is in a good mood while arriving on the set of Magic Mike 3 in London, England on Friday (March 25).

Good news: Hayden Panettiere is “okay” after she and her boyfriend Brian Hickerson were caught on camera engaging in a fight outside of a Los Angeles restaurant.

EXCLUSIVE: Sue Naegle is leaving Annapurna after five and a half years at Megan Ellison’s film and TV company, most recently as Chief Content Officer, overseeing film as well two divisions she has been instrumental in launching, television and theater. Naegle’s departure is said to be amicable and she is expected to focus on producing, including a number projects she put in development while at Annapurna.

EXCLUSIVE: Ralph Adriel Johnson (Law & Order: SVU) and Brian Miskell (Sharper) are set for heavily recurring roles opposite Jesse Eisenberg in FX’s Fleishman Is in Trouble, a limited-series adaptation of Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s bestselling debut novel, which will stream on Hulu. Lizzy Caplan, Claire Danes, Adam Brody and Joy Suprano also star.

EMMERDALE has been hit by a new racism row after a security guard was fired. It followed claims that he had insulted a group of Chinese tourists and ranted about the Qur’an.

MASTERCHEF fans were astonished tonight as Gregg Wallace broke down in tears during an emotional moment on the revamped cooking show. Retired beautician Pookie, from Solihull, started sobbing after being told she had made it through to the next round of the show.

Machine Gun Kelly’s new record was released today, March 25th. “Mainstream Sellout” is his sixth studio album, and it was made in partnership with Travis Barker, a mix of punk-pop reminiscent of the era of Blink-182 and Avril Lavigne. It also features a couple of surprising cameos, among them, Pete Davidson.Why Machine Gun Kelly fears his ‘stable life’ will have a negative impact on his songwritingBritney Spears has no idea who Pete Davidson and Scott Disick areThe cameo appears on “Wall of Fame (Interlude)” which features a conversation between Kelly, Davidson, and Casie, Kelly’s 12-year-old daughter.

Cable TV outlet Black News Channel has abruptly shut down after two years on the air, and just after hitting new viewership highs during this week’s confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson.

EXCLUSIVE: Mather Zickel (Better Things) will star alongside Olivia Applegate, Clé Bennett, Zoé De Grand Maison, Nicholas Logan Sam Trammell and Jessica Frances Dukes in Michael Patrick Jann’s Western horror film Organ Trail for Paramount Pictures, which has wrapped production.

Lisa Armstrong has shared a romantic love letter from her boyfriend James Green as fans gushed that her man 'was a keeper'.The Strictly Come Dancing makeup artist, who recently showed off matching tattoos with her beau, shared the sweet note to her 145,000 Instagram followers from her man. Lisa, 45, who met electrician James just before the first Covid-19 lockdown in 2020, woke up to an adorable note on Friday 25 March and posted a snap of the letter to her social media account. The note read: "I've gone for a run.

Anna Marie de la Fuente The Málaga Festival Industry Zone (MAFIZ) wrapped Thursday, March 25 with a slew of awards parceled out to productions from across Spain and Latin America. Several projects by women filmmakers dominated the event, which kicked off on March 21.Spanish documentarian Carla Subirana’s fiction feature debut, “Sica” made off with three private-sector plaudits, including the Aracne post-production cash prize of €20,000 ($22,000) as well as the REC and Abycine awards, comprising participation in their respective industry labs.Backed by Alba Sotorra’s Cinema Productions, Galician firm Miramira, Spanish pubcaster TVE and Catalonia’s TVC, the coming-of-age drama turns on 13-year-old Sica who waits by the Costa da Morte, a Galician fishing shoreline, for the sea to give up the body of her fisherman father who perished at sea. Other Work in Progress (WIP) awards went to documentary “Of Books and Women,” by María Elorza of Spain and “Nothing” (a working title) by Brazil’s Adriana Guimaraes.“Of Books and Women” offers a glimpse of various women and their relationships to books, one keeps a Franciscan library in a junk room, the other nearly breaks her finger on her bookshop shelves.

Sasha Urban editorPublicists for “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and “Ted Lasso” won the top awards at the 59th annual ICG Publicists Awards luncheon at the Beverly Hilton Hotel Friday.Director Francis Ford Coppola, who recently received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, was also honored with a lifetime achievement award in honor of the 50th anniversary of his film “The Godfather.” In his speech, Coppola called out Russian president Vladimir Putin and the war in Ukraine, saying, “It breaks my heart … what is happening in the world, this absurd reality of this world today, and I can’t not speak about that.”Each year, the International Cinematographers Guild awards honors the best in film and television publicity. This year’s awards luncheon was helmed by Paramount Pictures publicist Tim Menke and unit publicist Sheryl Main.

The union publicists who worked on behalf of the publicity campaigns for Sony’s Spider-Man: No Way Home and Apple’s Ted Lasso took home top honors today at the 59th annual International Cinematographers Guild’s Publicists Awards. See the full winners list below.

French hip-hop series Le Monde de Demain has scooped the Grand Prize at the Series Mania International Competition.

AT&T has firmed up more details of its spinoff of WarnerMedia, which is poised to combine with Discovery in a $43 billion merger.

Lise Pedersen Among the filmmakers taking center stage at the Copenhagen Intl. Documentary Film Festival’s financing and co-production platform, CPH:FORUM, is China’s Jialing Zhang with her new project “The Total Trust” (a working title).Her previous doc, “One Child Nation” (pictured), which she produced and co-directed with Nanfu Wang, picked up the Grand Jury Prize in Sundance in 2019.Shot in China, “The Total Trust” explores the Chinese government’s digital social control system – the most sophisticated in the world – and the effect it is having on the population.Its producers say most of the filming is complete and they will be seeking to fill the €350,000 ($385,000) funding gap out of the film’s total budget of €1 million ($1.1 million) at CPH:FORUM.

Katcy Stephan If you’re on TikTok, chances are you’ve heard a remix by London-based duo Altégo — in just one year, they’ve racked up 1.4 million followers, 4 billion plays of their sounds on the app and scored a Top 40 hit. In their videos, 23-year-old twin brothers Michael and Lucas Fernandes-Pense energetically mash up two popular songs, providing the soundtracks to many a TikTok thirst trap (you may even notice several of their sounds on Variety’s own TikTok profile).  Their secret sauce may be their strong relationship with their devoted followers, as they take daily requests for what their next medley should be — leading to everything from a sexy mix of Jennifer Lopez and Drake songs to an off-the-wall (but shockingly catchy) combination of “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” from Disney’s “Encanto” and Doja Cat’s “Woman.”  They rose to prominence on TikTok in May 2021 with a popular mashup of Lil Nas X’s “Montero” and Daddy Yankee’s “Gasolina.” “It was the first time we started seeing loads of people using our sounds,” Michael tells Variety of the video, which has over 500,000 views. turn this up and break ur headphones IDC it SLAPS #mashup #fyp #montero #lilnasx #gasolina #daddyyankee #slippingthroughmyfingers ♬ Gasolina X Montero by Altégo Music – ALTÉGO After months of growing their following, the brothers hit it big in the final days of 2021 by uploading “Toxic Pony,” a remix of Britney Spears’ “Toxic” and Ginuwine’s “Pony.” They didn’t expect this to be their biggest hit: “Sometimes you make something like, ‘Well, this could be like a big sound,’” Michael says.

Oscars?That’s the big question as Hollywood prepares to celebrate itself on Sunday. Organizers are taking precautions to prevent the 2022 Academy Awards from being a super-spreader, as other awards shows and film festivals have proven to be in the pandemic era. Attendees will have to show two negative PCR tests and be fully vaccinated in order to attend the festivities.

Marta Balaga Netflix and Arte’s musical show “Le Monde de Demain” (“The World of Tomorrow”) took the top prize in the International Competition of television festival Series Mania at the event’s awards ceremony Friday.The series, created by Katell Quillévéré, Hélier Cisterne – both also directing – Vincent Poymiro and David Elkaïm, takes a look at the birth of the French hip-hop movement in the 1980s. Made with the collaboration of Laurent Rigoulet and the participation of Kool Shen, JoeyStarr and DJ Détonateur S, it was described by the organizers as “a personal chronicle about a Parisian suburban youth reaching adulthood, claiming its own space in a new France, a country to reinvent.” In the acting categories, Michelle De Swarte was noticed for her role in the U.K.’s “The Baby,” produced by Sky, HBO and OCS, while Israeli actor Yehuda Levi impressed the jurors with his performance in “Fire Dance,” a Yes TV, Firma Productions and Kuma Studios production about an 18-year-old girl falling for a much-older married son of their ultra-Orthodox community’s leader.“He had to be charismatic in a manly way,” helmer Rama Burshtein-Shai told Variety ahead of the series’ premiere.“Levi, a very big star here in Israel, is so talented.

Khloé Kardashian is taking a page out of her sister Kim Kardashian’s style book, rocking a monochromatic look with some leather gloves and futuristic sunglasses.On Wednesday, March 23, the former Keeping Up With The Kardashians star was spotted at Nobu in Malibu for a Good American x Revolve event. For her latest outing, the Good American co-founder wore an all-denim ensemble--paring a minidress with a plunging neckline and halter straps with a denim duster coat.

Hailee Steinfeld just discovered something shocking.

SAFIYYA Vorajee has shared a painfully honest and open video about her baby girl Azaylia following her death last year. Safiyya and partner, Ex On The Beach's Ashley Cain, have been mourning the loss of their daughter, who died aged eight months following a battle with cancer.

Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorAhead of Sunday’s Oscar ceremony, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences sent a letter Friday updating COVID protocols for those attending the event.The updates follow a number of COVID cases attributed to the BAFTA awards last week as well as an uptick in the BA.2 variant in the Los Angeles area over the past few days. The BA.2 variant is 30% more contagious than the Omicron variant, according to L.A.

Tom Hanks is continuing his streak of crashing weddings.

Champagne fountains, professional dancers, glammed up dogs, poutine and a who’s who of Bachelor Nation – Kaitlyn Bristowe and Jason Tartick are planning the wedding of the year in Nashville, Tennessee.

Shinji Aoyama, the Japanese film director, writer and composer known for the film “Eureka,” which won him two prizes at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, died March 21 in Tokyo after a battle with esophageal cancer, according to local reports. He was 57.Aoyama made waves in the international film community when he premiered “Eureka” at Cannes.