Manchester one of the first cities to host ‘friendship festival’

Coming-of-age drama Good Girl Jane, written and directed by Sarah Elizabeth Mintz, took the Tribeca Festival Founders’ Award for Best U.S. Narrative Feature on Thursday while its star Rain Spencer won for Best Performance at the fest, which announced its winners ahead of wrapping this weekend.

EXCLUSIVE: BCDF Pictures has acquired film rights to Elena Armas’ 2022 New York Times bestseller The Spanish Love Deception, tapping Peter Hutchings (The Hating Game) to adapt it for the big screen.

Co-produced by Amazon Studios and Legendary Television, the eight-episode first season of Night Sky debuted May 20. Led by Oscar winners Sissy Spacek and J.K. Simmons, the sci-fi adventure ended with a shocking finale, leaving room for the possibility of another season.

EXCLUSIVE: Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell are attached to star in an untitled wedding comedy that will be scripted and directed by Nick Stoller. He directed the upcoming Universal Pictures comedy Bros, which Judd Apatow produces, and which Stoller co-wrote with Billy Eichner. UTA is handling the auction and there are multiple offers on the table for the package. Witherspoon is coming off the Apple TV+ series The Morning Show, and Ferrell last starred in Eurovision and is filming the Barbie movie.

Comedian Jerrod Carmichael, who came out earlier this year in his much-praised HBO special Rothaniel, had some words for fellow stand-up Dave Chappelle about the latter’s stances on gender, trans rights and cancel culture.

South Lanarkshire Council has signed up to the Fair Tax Declaration and will endorse the principles of the pledge.

A man has been charged after a car exploded into flames in Glasgow following an alleged early morning crash.

As summer approaches keen gardeners may be gearing up the hoses to keep things lush and green.

A young Scots couple, who were trolled when they got engaged at Parklife, say they are now eyeing up Bora Bora as a possible honeymoon destination after the kind-hearted festival boss gifted them the special treat.

Ange Postecoglou admits he can barely believe he’s about to boss in the Champions League.

Austin Butler is undoubtedly the man of the hour and talk of the town.MORE: Austin Butler is unrecognizable as Elvis PresleyThe actor has been making waves left and right, red carpet after red carpet, and his latest promotional visit was to none other than Today studios, where he chatted with the one and only Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager.Opening up to the co-hosts about his journey to embody the iconic singer and his efforts to portray him as accurately as possible, he also revealed a shocking – and heartbreaking – connection the actor and the rockstar have.WATCH: The Elvis trailerJenna was the one to make the revelation, telling Austin: "One thing that you and Elvis have in common, a heartbreaking thing, is that you both lost your mothers at 23."She went on to ask him: "How did that inspire you to get into this role?" which led him to explain how hard he found it at first to become Elvis rather than just an impersonation of him.He detailed the pressure and distance he felt from the late star, saying: "It's that thing where when you first look at Elvis he feels so much larger than life, and you look at him like a god-like figure or a caricature of Elvis."A post shared by TODAY with Hoda & Jenna (@hodaandjenna)The heartbreaking revelationRecalling some of the tapes he attempted to film of himself to share with his director, he admitted he wasn't satisfied, saying: "I fell into that, the first month when I was trying to work, where I'd tape myself and I watched it back and I just saw an impersonation, and I just couldn't send it to Baz."MORE: Lisa Marie Presley mourns late son BenjaminMORE: Kaia Gerber and Austin Butler's hottest style momentsHowever, everything changed when he learned about the connection they had over

Nick Jonas has praised his wife Priyanka Chopra for being his "rock" during their daughter's 100-day stay in neonatal intensive care.MORE: Priyanka Chopra shares throwback baby photograph as fans get emotionalThe Jonas Brothers star has shared how his actress wife "was a rock the whole time and continues to be," adding: "I'm grateful to have a teammate in Pri."WATCH: Priyanka Chopra shares heartwarming family videoThe couple announced the birth via surrogacy of their daughter in January but on Mother's Day in May Priyanka revealed that Malti had spent over three months in hospital.Speaking to People, Nick added that what the pair had shared on social media at the time was to convey their feeling of "gratitude, obviously, to have our baby home, but also for each and every person that was a part of her journey in the hospital".MORE: Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas' baby daughter's name revealed three months after birthMORE: Priyanka Chopra shares rare childhood photograph as she marks emotional day"It was eye-opening in a lot of ways," he said."It was really important that people know that whatever their journey is or whatever challenges might come up, you're not alone. The power of social media is that it connects us all and makes this very big world a little bit smaller." Nick and Priyanka welcomed their daughter in January Their post was shared with fans in May.

lawsuit, filed Wednesday by James Wahl and Timothy Wahl in Los Angeles Superior Court, states, “On November 9, 2021, ABC officially denied Plaintiffs’ requests for religious exemptions to the Covid Vaccine Mandate. It gave no reason for its decision, except to say that the company was ‘unable to conclude that you are prevented from receiving the Covid-19 vaccine due to a sincerely-held religious belief, practice, or observance.'” The document also calls the firings “unconstitutional.”The complaint goes on to state, “ABC does not have the authority to force a medical treatment on its employees against their will.

“Alone Together” makes its world premiere at the 2022 Tribeca Festival.

The Hollywood Reporter first reported the news.A rep for Marvel Studios had no comment.

The Jennifer Hudson Show– which premieres on September 12 – and will air on Fox Television Stations, Hearst Television, Sinclair Broadcast Group, TEGNA, Nexstar Media Group, Scripps Media, and several other networks. Hosted by the multi-talented Jennifer Hudson, the new talk series has been fully cleared in over 95% of the U.S. Hudson, a two-time GRAMMY Award-winning singer, an Oscar-winning actress, and an Emmy Award-winning producer, Jennifer Hudson recently became the youngest female EGOT winner in history with her win as a producer for A Strange Loop, at this year’s Tony Awards.Alongside Hudson, the highly-acclaimed team of Mary Connelly, Andy Lassner and Corey Palent will serve as executive producers as well as showrunners.

celebrating and highlighting the stars who reside all across the LGBQIA+ spectrum this Pride Month. While gay, lesbian, and trans celebrities are often spotlighted by various entities during this time, those who fall outside of strict gender boxes are often overlooked, disregarded, or simply unrecognized.

More than meets the eye. Kim Kardashian may have hinted at how tumultuous her relationship with Kanye West was — but the reality star isn’t ready to share all the details just yet.

he Daily Beast, the newly filed incident happened on Feb. 2 at a downstairs neighbor’s home in Greenfield.The neighbor is in a band with Whitney Suters, a musician who is close friends with the troubled actor.The night reportedly took a turn when the child’s mother mentioned she was doing some traveling with “her tribe” of people, which Miller found to be cultural appropriation.

Carrying on. After 70 years on the throne, Queen Elizabeth II is still trying to stay active, despite dealing with some “frustrating” mobility issues.

Rachel Lindsay and Bryan Abasolo have babies on the brain! In a conversation with ET, Abasolo gushed about his relationship with Lindsay and their future plans together. The pair met and got engaged on Lindsay's season of in 2017, and tied the knot two years later.«We have a new house, we have our dogs, we have everything we could ask for and kids definitely coming in the future,» Abasolo told ET. «We're just loving life right now.»The couple's marital bliss comes more than a year after Abasolo made the move out to Los Angeles to be with Lindsay.

Jesse Williams and his ex-wife, Aryn Drake-Lee, after the  star went to court requesting she not block or interfere with his custodial time with their two children.According to legal documents obtained by ET, Williams wants his custodial time with his two children — Sadie, 7, and Maceo, 6 — to remain intact between 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, June 28 until 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, June 30.

Jennifer Lopez isn't thinking about her ex-fiancé, Alex Rodriguez, much at all these days. The 46-year-old former MLB player was recently spotted kissing 25-year-old model Kathryne Padgett in Italy, and a source tells ET that Lopez «wishes him the best.»«Jen is focused on herself and doesn't even think twice about A-Rod or his current love life,» the source notes of the triple-threat star, who is once again engaged to Ben Affleck.

From Tisch to Top Gun. Miles Teller made his major film debut one year after graduating from NYU’s School of the Arts and went on to star in movies including the Divergent series and Fantastic Four.

Brotherly love! Christina Hall (née Haack) shared an adorable snap of her sons, Hudson and Brayden — and their relationship just keeps getting cuter.

Representation matters. Although the world of reality dating shows focuses overwhelmingly on heterosexual couples, there are some series that have challenged that norm.

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Kyle Richards is often praised for putting the real in Real Housewives, and when it comes to owning up to cosmetic tweaks, the Bravo star doesn’t make any exceptions.

The deeper the MCU gets into Phase 4 of its movie universe, the more and more it expands. And now it gets a little bit larger, as another Disney+ show starring a new Marvel hero is in development.

“It was a wild ride,” exclaims 2x Primetime Emmy nominated Grace and Frankie production designer Devorah Herbert about the final season of the Netflix/Skydance Jane Fonda-Lily Tomlin series.

Jack Johnson has dubbed his new collaborator Blake Mills “one of the greatest guitar players alive right now”.The US singer-songwriter is gearing up to release his eighth studio album, ‘Meet The Moonlight’, which is released June 24 via Brushfire/Republic Records. During a recent interview he talked about working on the record with producer Blake Mills.“I really, really can’t say enough about the guy, Blake,” Johnson told Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1.