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Zack Sharf When asked on “The View” this week about filmmakers slamming superhero movies (directors such as Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and more have criticized Marvel films for disrupting exhibition), Marvel Cinematic Universe stalwart Samuel L. Jackson said “it’s easy” for directors to do so “only because people aren’t going to see their movies.” Jackson has been a fixture of the MCU for almost 15 years as Nick Fury, a character he’s next bringing to television on the Disney Plus series “Secret Invasion.”“Movies are movies,” Jackson said about directors criticizing Marvel films. “Those are the movies that I went to see when I was a kid.

The harrowing final messages sent by a Russian soldier to his mother have revealed the devastating reality of war-torn Ukraine.

Kilmarnock's fine Ayrshire Derby victory sent them top of the cinch Championship pile for the first time since December 3 – and Derek McInnes is desperate to stay there.

Want to hit back at Kanye West‘s bullying and harassment? Living well is the best revenge, and that’s what Pim’s Instagram debut is all about!

Malina Saval Associate Editor, FeaturesThe theme of fathers and sons runs through the films of Venezuela-born writer-director Lorenzo Vigas, whose 2015 debut drama “From Afar,” which focuses on a troubled middle-aged man and young hustler in Caracas, won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. In Vigas’ latest film “El Caja” (“The Box”), which screened Thursday at the 39th annual Miami Film Festival, this motif continues to resonate — and on a global scale.“El Caja,” which revolves around a young boy in Mexico City longing for a father figure — a desperate search with deadly consequences — could be the prototype of how a dictator such as Vladimir Putin rises to power, Vigas pointed out.“We are always trapped in our obsessions,” Vigas told fest attendees during a Q&A that followed the screening.

set of his AMC show “Better Call Saul.”The 59-year-old actor sat down with NBC “Today” show host Willie Geist to discuss his “shocking” July 2021 health scare in a candid interview set to air Sunday. He explained that doctors clarified he had a “heart incident” and not a heart attack, explaining his “widow-maker artery was completely blocked.“That’s why it’s called the widow-maker, ’cause you die when that happens. But I went down.

this work grind.The spicy star of “Jersey Shore” and its spinoff, “Family Vacation,” has jetted back to Las Vegas for a third stint with the legendary Chippendales male strippers — and he recommends the gyrating gig to all men out there.“The Chippendales crowd is probably the No. 1 place to meet women on Earth,” he told The Post of his latest, monthlong residency of weekend shows at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, which kicks off Friday, March 11, and ends April 10.

will spend the next 150 days has faced hundreds of lawsuits over the years, with inmates alleging overcrowding, violent treatment and not enough protection against other inmates.In the past few months alone, a person behind bars accused the jail of forcing him to share a cell with someone who had tested positive for the coronavirus.And in a different lawsuit filed earlier this year that was obtained by The Post, another inmate accused corrections officers of using “excessive force” on him to the point where he “lost consciousness.”“When I came back I was face down in a pool of my own blood with a gash on my forehead,” the man said in the initial complaint, filed on Jan. 13, 2022.

Orville Peck’s new music video features some impressive cameos.

Kim Kardashian made her romance with Pete Davdison Instagram official Friday, sharing two photos with the comedian. Kardashian, 41, included two photos featuring Davidson, 28, in a multi-photo carousel on her personal Instagram. One photo showed Davidson lying back into Kardashian's lap while the "Saturday Night Live" star looked up at the "Keeping up with the Kardashians" star as she seemingly leaned in for a kiss.

A lawyer for Halyna Hutchins' family called Alec Baldwin's arbitration demand an attempt to "avoid liability and accountability" for the cinematographer's death. Brian Panish of Panish, Shea, Boyle & Ravipudi Law, who represents Hutchins' husband Matthew, told Fox News Digital the only action that ended the production of "Rust" was Halyna Hutchins' death at the hands of Baldwin.

Shawn Levy is reportedly in negotiations to direct the third chapter in the “Deadpool” saga.

Instagram has been banned in Russia by government regulators after parent Meta Platforms eased rules in Ukraine banning violent content on the social network.

The coroner’s report on the January death of The Bachelorette competitor Clint Arlis confirms that the 34-year-old died as a result of suicide. That, according to multiple outlets who say they obtained the official document.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorHusband-and-wife team Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez are no strangers to writing musical earworms. They’ve won Oscars for “Let It Go” from “Frozen” and “Remember Me” from “Coco” and an Emmy for “Agatha All Along” for “WandaVision.” Now they’re reuniting with friends and family, penning “You Are the Music” for the Apple TV Plus animated comedy “Central Park,” which returns to the streamer March 4.Songwriters Elyssa Samsel and Kate Anderson (Kristen’s sister) invited the duo to write a song, and it was an offer they couldn’t turn down.

BRAVE Tom Parker is now using a wheelchair after treatment for his inoperable brain tumour has left him too weak to stand. The Wanted singer, 33, was shown sitting in the chair on his bandmate Max George's instagram account.

Grimes’ highly-anticipated sixth studio album has been compared to seminal releases by both Smashing Pumpkins and Beyoncé.During a conversation for a new cover feature with Vanity Fair, interviewer Devin Gordon noted that the upcoming “space opera”-themed album, ‘Book 1’ was Grimes’ “‘Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness’ with a hint of ‘Lemonade’.”In the interview, the yet-to-be-released track ‘Swan Lake’ is mentioned along with its lyrics “Despite all my rage/I am still just a doll in a cage” an ode to the Smashing Pumpkins’ track ‘Bullet With Butterfly Wings’ and to Grimes’ teenage hero Billy Corgin.In comparing the album to ‘Lemonade’ the writer shared that ‘Book 1’ was “partly inspired by a theory of [Elon] Musk’s: that she’s a simulation.”Grimes told Vanity Fair: “We keep having this conversation where E’s like, ‘Are you real? Or are we living in my memory, and you’re like a synthesized companion that was created to be my companion here?’ ”She added: “The degree to which I feel engineered to have been this, like, perfect companion is crazy.”The cover story also revealed that Grimes and Musk have had a second child together.“Whatever is going on with family stuff, I just feel like kids need to stay out of it, and X is just out there,” she told Vanity Fair.She continued: “I mean, I think E [Musk] is really seeing him as a protégé and bringing him to everything and stuff.… X is out there. His situation is like that.

SINGER Rihanna is set to launch her lingerie brand on the stock-ings market — potentially adding $1billion to her wealth. The Umbrella star is in talks about floating her racy knicker range Savage X Fenty.

CORONATION Street fans are in tears after Abi Franklin named her newborn son - and decided to fight for him. The mechanic - who is played by actress Sally Carman in the ITV soap - had no idea she was pregnant before she gave birth high on drugs.

THE One Show viewers got more than they bargained for tonight when Bryan Adams dropped the F bomb on live TV. The rocker let slip a swear word on the family show, forcing hosts Alex Jones and Ronan Keating to apologise to viewers at home.

Alanis Morissette unveiled details earlier this week (March 9) of a UK and Ireland tour. Tickets are available here.The dates are those rescheduled for the 25th-anniversary celebrations of her acclaimed album ‘Jagged Little Pill’.

The CEO of Walt Disney is addressing the company’s “painful silence” on the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which is due to become law in Florida.

EastEnders star Toby-Alexander Smith is set to become a full-time dad after he departed the BBC soap as the villainous serial killer Gray Atkins. As viewers watched on in shock as the evil character was finally arrested and taken away by police, the actor has also revealed his reasons for choosing to bow out of the soap after three years. Toby, 31, welcomed a beautiful baby girl named Bonnie with his Emmerdale girlfriend Amy Walsh, 34, just after Christmas.

Made In Chelsea star Tiffany Watson celebrated her upcoming wedding to fiancé Cameron McGeehan on Thursday night at an intimate “first” hen do with her family. The former MIC star, 28, wowed in a white lace suit for the occasion where she was joined by sister Lucy Watson, 31, and their mother Fiona at La Famiglia restaurant in London.

Prince Harry's relationship with his older brother Prince William has 'still not recovered after Oprah', a royal expert has claimed. The Duke of Sussex, 37, who has ruled out returning to the UK for Prince Philip's memorial but 'hopes to visit the Queen as soon as possible', gave a bombshell interview alongside his wife Meghan Markle with Oprah Winfrey which aired in March 2021.

Camila Cabello is opening up about her rich heritage in an open letter she shared with fans on social media.

Ariana DeBose is celebrating two projects at the 2022 AFI Awards!

Jamie Lee Curtis is done hiding her body, and it's never felt more liberating.The 63-year-old actress posted a picture on Instagram dressed in character as the IRS auditor Deirdre Beaubeirdra for her new film, . She's seen like never before in the picture posted Thursday, and that was intentional for Curtis, who said she had been sucking in her stomach since she was 11.«In the world, there is an industry — a billion-dollar, trillion-dollar industry — about hiding things,» Curtis wrote in the caption. «Concealers.

Tender Bar, ya know?In case you forgot what Ben Affleck looks like these days, here is the recently revived couple on the red carpet for :And here's another angle that looks like the video:So, what do we think, folks? Cameo? He made a memorable appearance in the “Jenny From The Block” …is this the sequel? Let's go with yes. It's just more fun that way.By By By By More from GlamourSee More Stories© 2022 Condé Nast.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorSymone D. Sanders will take over the 4 p.m. weekend slot on MSNBC as the NBCUniversal-owned network continues to bolster opinion programming over hours devoted to straight news reportage.The former media strategist, who has helped two prominent Democrats in presidential campaigns, will kick off her first show on Saturday, May 7, at 4 p.m.

Jon Burlingame editor“Turning Red,” Pixar’s latest animated adventure, posed some pretty big musical challenges: it’s about a 13-year-old girl, obsessed with a boy band, whose Chinese ancestry literally looms large as she turns into a giant panda when her emotions spin out of control.It demanded a trio of world-class talents: Grammy winners Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell for the songs and Oscar, Emmy and Grammy winner Ludwig Göransson to compose the score.That such high-profile talents were available and eager to contribute to “Turning Red” says a lot about the music-friendly reputation of Pixar, which has won five music Oscars (including last year’s “Soul”) and 11 more nominations for either song or score since the original “Toy Story” in 1995. Tom MacDougall, president of Walt Disney Music, conferred with director Domee Shi — whose personal coming-of-age, mother-daughter conflict story inspired “Turning Red” — and reached out to all of them in 2019, before production on the film began.MacDougall had been a fan since Eilish’s early hit “Ocean Eyes” and was impressed, he says, “by the breadth of the territory that their songwriting and performing covered” ever since.

Zack Sharf Zoe Saldaña revealed in a new interview with Entertainment Weekly that her former management team “discouraged” her from using her real name once she landed her first major acting role in the 2000 teen drama “Center Stage.” The actor stressed that her team was not trying to be malicious at the time. Saldaña starred in the Nicholas Hytner-directed drama as Eva Rodriguez, a smart aleck dancer from Boston.

Separate tales of a woman and a man in the midst of a mid-life crisis were the big winners of the 2021 Guldbagge Awards, Sweden's top film honor. Henrik-Schyffert's Run Uje Run an autobiographical dramedy starring Swedish comedic musician Uje Brandelius as a man confronted with a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease, took best film as well as best actor and best screenplay for Brandelius.

Naman Ramachandran In today’s Global Bulletin, Facebook News launches in the U.K.; Paul Feig begins Netflix shoot in Belfast; Storyglass hires Steve Carsey, Laura Jones joins Blink; The TV Foundation bows Black talent podcast; Conecta Fiction sets dates; Enact invests in post outfit Evolutions; and Locarno sets Alberto Lattuada retrospective.Social media giant Facebook is rolling out Facebook News, an aggregator within the Facebook app that features news from hundreds of national, local and lifestyle outlets in the U.K. The new platform goes live from Tuesday.Partners for the service include Channel 4 News, Daily Mail Group, DC Thomson, Financial Times, Sky News and Telegraph Media Group.