Halle Bailey Is Once Again Serving Icon at The Little Mermaid UK Premiere

Aussie filmmaker Warwick Thornton joked that Cate Blanchett “elbowed” her way into his crafty sixth feature, The New Boy, as he introduced the pic at Deadline’s Cannes Studio shortly before its festival premiere.

Toni Collette has described working on Mafia Mamma as "one of the best experiences of (her) life". During an interview with IndieWire, the 50-year-old actress discussed playing the lead in the new action comedy, which follows a regular suburban mum who unexpectedly inherits her late grandfather's mafia empire in Italy. "The experience of making it was the most joyous of my career," Toni told the outlet.

Kiefer Sutherland has joined the cast of Clint Eastwood's new movie 'Juror No. 2'. 92-year-old actor and filmmaker Eastwood will direct the upcoming movie for Warner Bros and Sutherland is set to star alongside Nicholas Hoult and Toni Collette, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

A spinoff you could sink your teeth into. The CW series Legacies, which ran from 2018 to 2022, featured characters from both of its predecessors, The Vampire Diaries and The Originals.

Jessica Kiang The interlinked names of the lovers have an unusual power in Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s haunting, halting  “Banel & Adama.” They play over and over as a whispery lullaby on the soundtrack. They cover the sheets of paper on which Banel (Khady Mane) compulsively writes their names, like a schoolgirl practicing cursive on the name of her crush. There’s an innocence to it at the beginning, as though Banel, whose strange mind we mostly occupy, is simply delighting in the sound and shape of their togetherness. But that’s when “Banel & Adama” is a love story, and before it descends, a little too hesitantly but with a subtly seductive power nonetheless, into drought and madness and maybe, cosmic retribution. The sun-and-superstition-soaked tale of an African girl contending with fate and folk tradition has some precedent in Rungano Nyoni’s excellent “I Am Not a Witch.” But here, as the bright imagery begins to hint paradoxically at creeping darkness, we can no longer be sure that witchcraft is not exactly what is at work. 

A pretty penny. The British government has revealed the total cost of executing Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral.

A belligerent thug launched a vicious attack on a fellow-train passenger after being told to keep it down. Michael Ovenden, 43, later claimed he 'hadn't been in a fight since primary school'.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Lily Gladstone’s career is about to forever change at the Cannes Film Festival thanks to the world premiere of Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon,” in which she stars opposite the director’s longtime muses Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro. During an interview as part of the Kering Women in Motion talks at Cannes, Gladstone admitted it’s near impossible not to think about how “Flower Moon” may impact her career. She first broke through in Kelly Reichardt’s 2016 movie “Certain Women,” which premiered to instant acclaim out of Sundance Film Festival. “You can’t not [think about it], right?” Gladstone said. “I anticipated I would be way more nervous. I am just grateful I get to be here doing all of this. I do think about whatever this attention, but it’s to be shared. It’s not to be hoarded or boasted.”

Elizabeth Wagmeister Senior Correspondent Cate Blanchett debuted her latest acting role in “The New Boy” at the Cannes Film Festival this week, but the Oscar-winner wouldn’t mind staying behind the camera a bit more. “I’m always trying to get out of acting,” Blanchett said. “I’ve been trying to stop acting my entire professional life.” Speaking at her Kering Women in Motion talk at Cannes, in conversation with her producing partner, Coco Francini, Blanchett said that her recent producing work behind the camera “feels an extension, for me, of my work as an actor.” “I remember an Australian film director saying to me really early on in my career that I had to stop taking small roles,” Blanchett recalled. “And I said, ‘Why?’ I said, ‘That was the most interesting role.’ I didn’t want to play the lead. I want that one.”

in a and a 100-carat diamond necklace, Dua Lipa has moved on to the .On May 19, attended the premiere of The King of Algiers (Omar la Fraise) wearing an asymmetrical cutout black gown with Tiffany Edge earrings and a matching bracelet, with her hair pulled up in an elegant updo with freshly cut bangs styled across her face for dramatic effect. Even more noticeably, Dua Lipa chose the occasion to make it red carpet official with her new beau, French director Romain Gravas. Lipa and Gavras were previously spotted together during Paris Fashion Week but declined to make their relationship official—until now. It is no secret that Lipa has earned herself fashion icon status, and the artist regularly wears trending looks, both on the red carpet and via her wardrobe-envy-inducing Instagram account, posting snaps of herself wearing looks by young designers and houses of the moment.

Kate Middleton is the queen bee!

Beyonce and JAY-Z just bought themselves a picturesque view of the Pacific Ocean — and, on a clear day, quite possibly heaven — after reportedly dropping a whopping $200 million for an opulent compound in Malibu.

With events like Parklife just around the corner, festival goers are on the hunt for the perfect affordable and stylish outfit. Primark has just launched a new collection of bucket hats, glittery tops and colourful accessories just in time for festival season.

Tampopo will be doing a brand new South-East Asian inspired brunch for the first time, starting next week. And it will be trialling it for half price until the end of June.

EXCLUSIVE: Double 3 Media Group’s production of supernatural thriller, The Movers, is about to roll cameras on May 22 with Jena Malone, Terrence Howard, Tom Everett Scott and Christopher Lloyd, Deadline has learned.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter A familiar face is back on the Croisette. Well, kind of… Tom Cruise may not be attending this year’s Cannes Film Festival, where “Top Gun: Maverick” premiered in 2022 to massive fanfare, but the star’s presence is enduring in the South of France. For festival attendees, it’s impossible to miss the giant LED screen outside the famed Carlton Hotel, where a trailer of “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1” has been playing on loop all week. It’s designed to hype up movie lovers for the seventh installment in the globe-trotting franchise, which has no affiliation with Cannes, but debuts theatrically in July. “We’ve had this location for years because it’s at the heart of the festival action,” says Marc Weinstock, Paramount’s president of worldwide marketing and distribution. “Cannes is a renowned festival with global reach, which is why we chose to screen ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ there. It’s the perfect setting to showcase a Tom Cruise movie.”

Gemma Owen has been praised by fans and her social media followers after becoming an ambassador for a charity which funds research into the prevention and treatment of blindness and eye disease. The Love Island star and daughter of football legend Michael Owen, 20, has taken up the position as a way to honour and support her brother, James, who was diagnosed with a rare genetic eye disease when he was just eight years old.

There is only one Goddess of Pop — and she needs just one name: Cher.

Blur have spoken about recording their surprise new album ‘The Ballad Of Darren’.The 10-track LP, was announced earlier this week and is the band’s first since 2015’s ‘The Magic Whip‘. It was produced by James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Foals, Depeche Mode) and recorded at Studio 13 in London and Devon.Speaking in a press conference at Colchester Castle ahead of their gig at the town’s Arts Centre last night (May 19), all four members opened up about the recording process of their ninth studio album.“There were moments of utter joy,” enthused bassist Alex James. “The new song we open with [‘St Charles Square’] I just thought, ‘Oh my God, we’ve pulled it back’.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Pape Boye’s Black Mic Mac, a recently launched banner championing African and Middle Eastern talent, is kicking off a strong first roster of projects including “Let the Earth Burn” from Sundance-prizewinning Sofia Alaoui and “The Bridge” creator Måns Mårlind. “Let the Earth Burn” is a six-part series following Kenza, a recent graduate of the police academy working in a remote station nestled in the Atlas Mountains. Surrounded by misogynistic colleagues, she starts investigating on the disappearance of some shepherds’ children. Alaoui’s credits include “So What if the Goats Die,” which won best short film at Cannes and Sundance in 2021, and “Animalia,” which won the Grand Jury prize at this year’s Sundance. Mårlind is one Europe’s best-known series’ creator with credits including “Midnight Sun” and “The Bridge” and “Shadowplay.” The film is produced by Barney Prods. and co-produced by Black Mic Mac. Other projects on the outfit’s slate include the female-powered thriller “Three Cold Dishes,” which revolves around teenagers who were sold into the sex trade who then set off to take their revenge. The movie will be directed by Asurf Oluseyi and is produced by Ifind, Alma Prods., Asurf Films and Martian Network. Black Mic Mac is repping sales in addition to co-producing.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter “The Zone of Interest,” writer-director Jonathan Glazer’s searing Nazi drama about the banality of evil, became the talk of Cannes Film Festival after its debut on Friday night. But the director admits he didn’t know the story he wanted to tell before the cameras were rolling. “You never really know why you tackle and subject. It’s an ever-evolving journey,” he said at Saturday’s press conference for the movie. “It wasn’t one particular moment that I knew I was going to make this film. When I started the process, I didn’t know what perspective we were coming from.” In the end result, “The Zone of Interest,” which is loosely based on the 2014 novel by Martin Amis, tells the story of Rudolf Höss, a Nazi commandant who designed and built Auschwitz. It also looks at his relationship with his wife Hedwig, as they create their dream life directly next door to the concentration camp. In crafting a portrait of the Holocaust, Glazer says he conducted an “enormous amount of research” to capture the divide between the Höss family’s mundane domestic dramas and Auschwitz, which lies on the other side of the garden walls.

READ MORE: EastEnders legend is 'coming back from the dead' as another mega-star makes his returnShe learned that 18-year-old Freddie Slater was raking it in by selling feet pictures online, which inspired her to give it a go. Initially, like Freddy, Stacey only set out to take photos of her feet. But it wasn’t long before she was being pressured to take more raunchy pictures of her figure.

Hayes, West London, went from surviving a horrific road accident in childhood to enjoying daredevil stunts like dangling off cranes with one hand. But on April 27, without any warning, he was found lying face down on his bedroom floor. Liam’s devastated mum Eve Hennessey, 46, told MyLondon they still do not know what caused him to pass away that day.

As an attorney and retired NYPD Inspector, I’ve been told some stories in my day. This one lands someplace between "Beowulf"and Monty Python.  So let us now uncover these mysteries, hidden deep in the tale.  As we’ve all heard by now, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex (wasn’t he recently banished from the realm or something?) are claiming that on Tuesday night, after leaving an event in Manhattan’s midtown, they were pursued by paparazzi in a "near catastrophic" car chase that went on for two hours.  A high-speed chase.  In midtown Manhattan.  For two hours.   With an NYPD escort.

two sequels). “XO, Kitty” is busier than the simply plotted “To All the Boys,” for better and for worse, but, fans of the films — or viewers hankering for a cute (and very tame) romcom – should find plenty to enjoy and it’s helmed by Jenny Han, who wrote the books on which “To All the Boys” is based.Kitty, now 17, and with her older sisters off in college (they appear in the show in the form of text messages), is ready for her own adventure.A hopeless romantic, she convinces her father (an under-used John Corbett) to send her to the Korean International School of Seoul– which has the overly on-the-nose acronym “KISS.”It also conveniently happens to be her late mother’s alma mater.

Jamie Laing and Sophie Habboo have given fans and followers a first glimpse at their stunning wedding at a luxury five-star hotel in Spain as the final preparations for their Big Day get underway.The Made In Chelsea stars are set to say "I Do" for the second time in a glamorous ceremony at a Marbella resort after first tying the knot in a lavish ceremony in Chelsea last month.The couple actually met on the show back in 2019 and viewers and fans watched their relationship develop on-screen as they quickly became one of the programme's favourite couples. Over time, their relationship grew stronger and stronger and Jamie, 34, popped the question in December, 2021.The couple then launched a podcast, Nearly Weds, with new episodes released every Monday in the run up to their weddings, which offer fans an insight into the stresses, and amazing moments, involved in the wedding planning process.

Another one bites the dust. "Wheel of Fortune" fans slammed the game show after an unlucky contestant didn’t solve a bonus puzzle correctly.  During a bonus round this week, "Wheel of Fortune" player Cesar took a stab at the challenging puzzle.

Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag believes 'four or five' members of his squad could win the club's Player of the Year award this season.

Jonathan Glazer’s first directed title in 10 years, The Zone of Interest, shows an aspect of the Holocaust never seen, that from the POV of the Nazis who lived outside the Auschwitz camp, building dream lives of their own.

Barcelona midfielder Frenkie de Jong has admitted that he did have a 'situation' with club president Joan Laporta last summer amid Manchester United's plan to bring him to Old Trafford.

The star of Disney’s big-budget live action remake of The Little Mermaid, due in theaters on May 26, says seeing a black mermaid on screen when she was younger would have “changed my whole life.”

Jessica Kiang It is unlikely that this Cannes will yield many characters as strikingly well-drawn as Cléo (Louise Mauroy-Panzani), the star of Marie Amachoukeli’s small but acutely affecting Critics’ Week opener “Ama Gloria.” Over the course of an efficient 84 minutes, Cléo changes and resists change, she learns and rejects life lessons, she befriends and betrays. She is funny, somber, silly, conniving, shockingly selfish and shiningly pure, sometimes all in the space of an afternoon. She is six years old.  Cléo, a bundle of personality under a tangle of hair and pair of thick glasses, lives in Paris with her affable widower Dad, Arnaud (Arnaud Rebotini), but is raised mostly by her beloved Cape Verdean nanny Gloria (Ilça Moreno Zego). Their relationship is close as a goodnight kiss, and obviously mutually adoring — witness the exchange of incandescent smiles when Cléo sees Gloria waiting at the school gates. So it’s a heavy blow to both when Gloria has to return to Cape Verde following the death of her mother. Gloria’s own daughter Fernanda (Abnara Gomes Varela) is already a young woman, and pregnant with her first child. But her son César (Fredy Gomes Tavares) is still a kid, and now needs the motherly supervision that Gloria has spent many years lavishing on Cléo. 

There are three points and potentially millions on the line as Hearts and Aberdeen get set for a Tynecastle battle for the ages.

A young mum who died after a disturbance in Edinburgh was left "crumpled on the ground and covered in blood", according to an eyewitness.

Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp have confirmed the details of their upcoming ‘Sunday Lunch Rock Party’ tour – check out dates below.The pair started sharing covers of well-known rock and pop songs in 2020, with Willcox later explaining that she was trying to help husband Fripp get through the COVID-19 lockdowns. They shared their most recent cover at the end of last month, reworking Joan Jett‘s ‘Bad Reputation’.Speaking to NME in 2021, Willcox said that she was hoping to take their Sunday Lunch series “a lot further”.

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