New Gen Latin American Projects ‘Three Bullets,’ ‘Pantasma’ Top Locarno’s Open Doors Awards, As New Latino Mindset Builds

Give it to ‘em, they’re “Worth It”!

Bad Bunny is getting his fans all fired up again.

HBO and Max have been making a lot of decisions lately, including 2 renewals in the past 7 days!

The One Chicago franchise has some of the best TV shows on the air right now: Chicago Fire, Chicago Med, and Chicago PD.

“Barbie” is still the queen of the box office as the Greta Gerwig-directed comedy continues to attract viewers throughout the world.

Jade Goody's mum has shared her sweet reaction to her grandson, Bobby Brazier, appearing on Strictly Come Dancing. Jackiey Budden has said that it will be just like watching her late daughter on screen when Bobby steps on the dance floor later next month.The 64 year old explained that she is "over the moon" by Bobby's latest adventure, and explained that Jade loved the BBC dancing show. Bursting with pride, Jackiey told The Mirror: "I’m over the moon, and he’s just stepped in his mum’s shoes — he’s in Jade’s trotters.

Cardi B has made an intriguing revelation that will captivate her fans and the music world. The chart-topping artist recently said she won’t release more music collaborations.

Wincing in pain, Helena Abrahams reached for her favourite piece of jewellery and gently placed it inside a box.

Is Meghan Markle preparing to restart her acting career?

Summer may be drawing to a close, but the blockbusters of the season are still basking in box office glory. To wit: Greta Gerwig’s Barbie is poised to become the highest-grossing Warner Bros movie of all time globally on Monday. Through today, the worldwide estimate is $1.34B, meaning just $1M separates it from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 to attain the record.

Score one for the good guys.

Jessica Simpson is sick and tired of talking about weight – whether it be about hers or anyone else’s in the world!

Royal worlds are converging!

, available now, the 36-year-old singer recently shared a stunning nude photo of herself standing in a picturesque river with her hands covering her most intimate places. Kesha also placed a tiny image of her album over her breasts, , “The only thing I have on is my album.”Kesha released the aptly named album amid her nine-year legal battle with Lukasz Gottwald (aka Dr. Luke), which began in October 2014.

Millie Bobby Brown is opening up about her fiancé Jake Bongiovi.

King Charles has showered his grandchildren with special gifts over the years, and with no expenses spared, the youngsters have certainly received some rather lavish birthday and Christmas present over the years.The King has five grandchildren - Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis from Prince William, and Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet from Prince Harry. He is also the step-grandfather of Queen Camilla's five grandchildren -Lola and Freddie Parker-Bowles and Eliza, Gus and Louis Lopes.

Coronation Street star Tony Maudsley has left fans stunned by his weight loss transformation.Tony, 55, has been playing the resident funeral director George Shuttleworth on the ITV soap since 2020, and recently fans have noticed that he has shed some pounds.They took to social media to compliment the actor, remarking on how good he looked. Underneath a photo of Tony with his co-star Gareth Pierce, who plays Todd Grimshaw on the soap, one person commented: "Looking very trim Mr M," while another asked: "How did you shed weight?" Since arriving on the Cobbles, George has become one of the street's most loved characters.

Much-loved vocalist Florence Welch has opened up on the life-saving surgery she was forced to undergo last week after having no choice but to cancel some of the shows of her Dance Fever tour.The Florence and The Machine frontwoman explained to her 2.2 million Instagram followers today (Sunday 27 August) that she'd gone under the knife for a health concern she wishes to keep private for the time-being. In the post, the continued: "I'm so sorry that I had to cancel the last couple of shows.

The celebrity world is full of unexpected connections and surprise friendships - and the reasoning behind one of arguably the most peculiar kinships has today been revealed, leaving fans baffled. Despite being just 12 years old with The Only Way Is Essex premiered on ITV2 in 2010, Stranger Things actress and global talent Millie Bobby Brown has become extremely pally with much-loved reality star Mark Wright.

Tyga and Blac Chyna are going to war over their child, King Cairo!

Black people are still almost twice as likely to be stopped and searched by police in Greater Manchester - as local leaders condemned the use of the 'humiliating' policing tool.

The funeral details have been released for 'adored' teacher and ex-Olympic swimmer Helen Smart after her sudden death on a family trip to the Lake District.

Cinema chain VUE will be offering families and film-lovers the chance to bag themselves discounted tickets to see the likes of Barbie, Blue Beetle or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for one day.

JoJo Siwa is opening up about some important people in her life. The 20-year-old “Dance Moms” alum took to Instagram on Thursday to share pics and videos with her “Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test” co-stars, Tyler Cameron and Nick Viall.

Steve Harvey is owning it after a tweet issued by someone on his social media team stirred up controversy due to its negative tone.

Duran Duran has revealed that the reason he quit the band was due to “creative” reasons, and was “not personal”.Taylor played with Duran Duran on-and-off between 1980 and 2006, and was set to reunite with them last year when they were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, but a setback in his treatment for stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer forced him to miss the occasion.The musician, 62, has now opened up about his reasons for quitting the new wave band after decades of rumours about feuds, sharing that it was “creative, not personal”.In a new interview Classic Pop magazine (via MusicNews), the guitarist said that it “bugged” him that the band brought in a wider circle of people for 2007 album ‘Red Carpet Massacre‘, which was produced largely by Timbaland.“I couldn’t do the Timbaland album, because it just didn’t move me,” he said. “I was saying to the others, ‘Why do we need this?’“There’s so much talent in that band, I never felt the need to bring other people in to write with Duran.

Naman Ramachandran After a hugely popular debut in 2022, National Cinema Day is coming again to the U.K. Over 630 venues have signed up to participate in the event on Sept. 2, offering tickets from £3 ($3.75) across the day.

Time was, Hollywood filmmakers would regularly travel to China in support of their movies, attending premieres and holding Q&As to drum up buzz in the massive box office market. The pandemic halted that ritual — until this week when Christopher Nolan became the first major Hollywood filmmaker since Covid to stroll a red carpet in China as his Oppenheimer was premiered at Universal Studios’ CityWalk IMAX theater in Beijing, followed by a stop in Shanghai for more screenings and fan interaction.

It has been an anxious summer in Burbank, Bristol and the rest of the Disney-ESPN empire thanks to ongoing cutbacks, movie box office disappointments and strategic uncertainties. Disney stock recently sank to a nine-year low.

Soccer superstar Lionel Messi sure knows how to make a Broadway entrance.

Bob Barker is exiting quietly from Hollywood. Longtime publicist Roger Neal has said that, in accordance with his client’s wishes, there will be no public services.

A man tragically died after falling from a high-rise apartment block in Stretford on Saturday night (August 27).

Florence + The Machine‘s Florence Welch has revealed that she has undergone “emergency surgery” that “saved my life”.The band had to cancel a pair of recent shows at the Zurich Open Air and Rock en Seine festivals “on medical advice,” and Welch has now explained the reasons to fans on Instagram.“I’m so sorry that I had to cancel the last couple of shows,” she wrote, explaining that it is unrelated to a broken foot that caused the postponement of a UK tour at the turn of the year.“My feet are fine, I had to have emergency surgery for reasons I don’t really feel strong enough to go into yet but it saved my life.”Welch went on to add that she will go ahead with the final two shows of the band’s world tour behind 2022 album ‘Dance Fever’ in Lisbon and Malaga next week (September 1-2).“Suffice to say I wish the songs were less accurate in their predictions,” she added. “But creativity is a way of coping, mythology is way of making sense.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent LOCARNO — Brazil’s Pandora Filmes, one of the country’s premier independent distributors, has secured Brazilian distribution rights to “Tomorrow’s Rain”(“Amanhã Já Não Chove”), a Portuguese portrait of bourgeois malaise which was brought onto the market last weekend at the Locarno Festival’s Match Me! Pandora Filmes’ distribution slate takes in “Parasite,” “The Man Who Sold His Skin,” and “R.M.N.” Set up at Lisbon’s Omaja and Brazil’s Capuri, which cut the deal with Pandora, “Tomorrow Rain” marks the fiction feature debut of Portuguese director-producer Bernardo Lopes at Omaja, a 2021 Portuguese Film Academy Sophia Award winner for his short “Moço.” Produced by Lopes and Eduardo Rezende, “Tomorrow’s Rain”will star José Pimentão, who played Ramiro in Netflix’s “1899,” and João Nunes Monteiro, a Portuguese Film Academy Sophia Award winner best actor award winner for “Mosquito” in 2021 and best supporting actor winner last year for “The Tsugua Diaries.” Written by Lopes and Francisco Mira Godinho, who together co-wrote and co-directed TV mini-series “Lugar 54,” an Omaja production for Portuguese public broadcaster RTP, “Tomorrow’s Rain” depicts one summer day in the life of a crumbling family at the peak of the Portuguese financial crisis of 2012. “‘Tomorrow’s Rain’ is a feature fiction family drama that makes an urgent portrayal of a marginalized southern Portuguese region during the 2012 financial crisis, from the POV of a decadent bourgeois family that suffers from a tumor in the form of a secret, consuming them until the day of their inevitable end,” Lopes told Variety.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent LOCARNO — Costa Rica’s Juli Films has boarded Nicaraguan Gloria Carrión’s “Pantasma,” building production partner backing for one of the most ambitious titles at a talent packed Locarno’s Open Doors Projects Hub. A stop motion doc-feature, the film will narrate how the Sandinista-Contra War of 1982-1989 in Nicaragua forced Félix, a 17-year-old revolutionary, to become an adult in the battlefield, “Pantasma” is now set up at Costa Rica’s Caja de Luz, Carrión’s label, and Juli Films, whose credits also take in documentaries “Songs from Bosawas” (2014) and “Patrol” (Mountainfilm Festival, 2023).

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Following Montreal’s 2023 Frontières Market, New York sales agent Visit Films has scooped world sales rights to “Booger,” headlining “Strawberry Mansion” star Grace Glowicki and produced by Ley Line Ent. and Neon Heart Ent., behind “Everything Everywhere All at Once” and “Shiva Baby” respectively. A sometimes excruciating genre bending and blending body horror comedy about intense early adult friendship and grief at its loss, “Booger” is wrapped in a tale of supernatural transformation.