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The "best" and "friendliest" university locations in Scotland have been named.

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo hopped on a broomstick and flew over to Paris, France to attend the Opening Ceremony of the 2024 Olympics.

We've been flying to holiday destinations for over 100 years, but the art of aviation is still shrouded in a considerable amount of myth and mystery. Generated by fear, gossip and lively imaginations, the internet is rife with tall tales and alarming assertions.

Naman Ramachandran Equity, the U.K. performing arts and entertainment trade union, has issued a statement of solidarity in response to SAG-AFTRA’s video game strike. The U.S.

Naman Ramachandran Veteran filmmaker Shekhar Kapur, recently appointed as festival director of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), has unveiled plans to expand the 55-year-old Goa-based event’s scope. Plans include the launch of a Waves, a technology-focused companion to the main festival. Kapur was appointed on July 24 as festival director for IFFI’s 55th and 56th editions.

An annual list of the 'World's Greatest Places' has been revealed - and one of Manchester newest landmarks has made the cut. American news magazine TIME has unveiled its 2024 list, which highlights 100 'extraordinary' destinations to visit and stay.

Apple TV+ has debuted a first look at their upcoming new documentary event K-Pop Idols!

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer SAG-AFTRA went on strike against major video game publishers Thursday, following more than a year and half of stalled negotiations. Per the union, the video game companies included in the strike are: Activision Productions Inc., Blindlight LLC, Disney Character Voices Inc., Electronic Arts Productions Inc., Formosa Interactive LLC, Insomniac Games Inc., Llama Productions LLC, Take 2 Productions Inc., VoiceWorks Productions Inc., and WB Games Inc.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Kim Fields has signed with Independent Artist Group (IAG) for theatrical, literary and directing representation, Variety has learned exclusively. Fields continued to be represented by Art Rutter, founder of Critical Mass Management, who also serves as her producing partner, and JCPR.

A shop selling second-hand school uniform is to re-open in Stockport. The pop-up shop in the Merseyway shopping centre will re-open in August ahead of the new school year.

Terrifier 3 below.Unveiled last night (July 24), the first look at Terrifier 3 sees Art go on a killing spree during Christmastime. While the extent of his kills remains under wraps, we get glimpses of the psychotic killer clown chopping up his newest victims before the camera cuts away.

Dumfries and Galloway has 17 business, events and individuals shortlisted for this year’s South of Scotland Thistle Awards.

Terrifier 3 is coming this Halloween season!

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent France’s Wrong Films, behind Sofia Alaoui’s Sundance Jury Prize winner “Animalia,” a sci-fi drama, is prepping another Arabic-language genre movie, David Arslanian’s feature debut “Thaoura,” which is set in Lebanon’s 2019 public protests against its worst economic crisis since 1850. “Thaoura” will be introduced by Wrong Films’ Mathilde Warisse to potential partners at the Locarno Film Festival’s Match Me!, which runs Aug.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor The third annual Vashon Island Film Festival has announced its slate for the event set for Aug. 8-11. Located off the coast of Washington State, the island festival will screen 12 features and 10 shorts, pllus three local projects.

Hulu and Disney+ have released the key art for Only Murders in the Building Season 4. The artwork teases the Hollywood storyline while celebrating the guest stars set for the season.

EXCLUSIVE: Popular comedian and podcaster Tim Dillon has been set to return to Netflix this fall with a new, unscripted, talk show-style special that will focus on America’s current events.

The inaugural World Culture Film Festival kicks off in Los Angeles Thursday, a four-day event “dedicated to showcasing films that inspire, educate, and celebrate diverse cultures.”

Addie Morfoot Contributor When Gary Hustwit took his latest documentary “Eno” to Sundance in January 2024, he wasn’t riddled with anxiety about whether or not the doc about musician Brian Eno would find distribution. The odds were undeniably against him: Scoring a big studio deal as an independent filmmaker is, these days, like winning the lottery.

Many will remember it as The Refectory, and more recently it was a Miller and Carter. But now an iconic building at the heart of Wilmslow has been transformed into a lavish new Browns Brasserie.

An upcoming horror film is so terrifying that even those working on the film have struggled to stomach it.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Venice Film Festival competition title “Harvest,” directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari, is one of three films at the festival to be represented for sales by the Match Factory as well as being produced or co-produced by the company. The other two are “Edge of Night,” the debut feature by German-Turkish director Türker Süer, screening in Horizons Extra, and “Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass,” an animated film by the Quay Brothers, playing in Venice Days.

Lady Gaga has been spotted in Paris, France ahead of this week’s Olympic Games’ opening ceremony, where she’s been rumoured to perform – find out more below.Yesterday (July 22), the pop star was spotted waving and blowing kisses to fans in Paris, further fuelling speculation that Gaga will be performing at the opening ceremony later this week (July 26).ITS HAPPENING LADY GAGA X OLYMPICS IS UPON US pic.twitter.com/Tu2Dsr7W39— Candid (@he_so_candid) July 22, 2024One post on X also claims that Gaga arrived at her hotel “after rehearsals” for the opening ceremony.Lady Gaga and her boyfriend Michael Polansky return discreetly to their hotel in Paris after rehearsals for the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games. pic.twitter.com/4oKbkEPEhj— CineScoop (@Cinescoop7) July 22, 2024Per Uproxx, the rumours first began swirling on July 11, when social media noticed that Thomas Jolly, the artistic director of the opening and closing ceremonies for the 2024 Summer Games, recently followed Gaga on Instagram.To further stoke the flames, the official Olympics account teased someone disguised in a black hood and chrome accessories with the Olympic flag draped around their shoulders to promote the opening ceremony.This time next week… ⏰@Paris2024#OpeningCeremony pic.twitter.com/9fQNFq2RPj— The Olympic Games (@Olympics) July 19, 2024To date, there has been no official confirmation of Lady Gaga’s involvement in the Paris Olympics this year.This isn’t the first time the singer has been linked to the Olympic Games.

Caitriona Balfe, the star of the smash-hit show Outlander, has been frank about the rocky start to her acting career while embarking on an intriguing new project beyond the Starz network saga.

Ethan Shanfeld In Netflix’s “Skywalkers: A Love Story,” Russian rooftopping couple Ivan “Vanya” Beerkus and Angela Nikolau mount some of the world’s tallest skyscrapers without a safety net — breaking laws, deceiving security guards and running from authorities in the process. If it were a scripted movie, some of it would feel too unrealistic. In climbing Malaysia’s Merdeka Tower — which, at 2,227 feet tall, is the second-tallest structure in the world after Dubai’s Burj Khalifa — Beerkus and Nikolau pull off the ultimate heist with the ultimate stakes, while ignoring orders from director Jeff Zimbalist.

Kaya Scodelario and her ex-hubby Benjamin Walker are seemingly trying to rekindle their romance after they were spotted at an art gallery event in the Maldives this weekend - five months after they called it quits.The former lovebirds - who share two children and had been married for eight years before their split - attended the unveiling of the latest collection of artwork by Sassan Behnam-Bakhtiar at Patina Maldives on Sunday. Kaya, 32, and Benjamin, 42, said 'I do' in December 2015 and have a seven year old son and two year old daughter together.The pair looked cosy as they posed under the palm trees of the dreamy Maldives hotel in the dedicated gallery space to attend the private view of sustainably-sourced exhibition, Life Energy.

RaMell Ross’s Nickel Boys will be the Opening Night of the 62nd New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall on September 27, the fest’s parent organization, Film at Lincoln Center, revealed today.

Regency‘s historic Westwood Village and Bruin Theaters are closing this week on July 25 as their leases comes to end according to reports.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief After years of project markets and multiple rounds of Asian grant funding applications, Vietnamese horror-comedy “Don’t Cry Butterfly,” is confirmed to have its world premiere in competition at the Venice Critics Week. Its backers have unveiled a first poster image. Written and directed by Duong Dieu Linh, the Hanoi-set film follows a housewife who uses voodoo to try and get her cheating husband fall back into love with her, but instead invites a mysterious presence into the house.

The inaugural SXSW London, which will take place across at least 20 venues in the Shoreditch area of east London, has set 2025 dates of June 2 – 7.

Selena Kuznikov Donna Berwick, a costume designer who worked on films including Spike Lee’s “Da 5 Bloods,” “Donnie Darko” and more died, July 14 of breast cancer. She was 66. Berwick was nominated for best contemporary film by the Costume Designers Guild for her work on “Da 5 Bloods,” a Vietnam War veterans drama starring Delroy Lindo, Chadwick Boseman, Jonathan Majors and Clarke Peters.

Cheng Pei-Pei has sadly passed away.

Cheng Pei-pei, the Chinese-born martial arts actress who starred in Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, has passed away at the age of 78, her family announced on Friday.

Variety today (July 19), Cheng had long suffered from a degenerative brain disease and has donated her brain to medical research.Best known for her high-octane martial arts films, Cheng’s breakout role was in 1966’s Come Drink With Me by director King Hu. She spent the majority of the following decade or so starring in several significant Hong Kong action films — she then stepped out of the spotlight after 1974 when she moved to California to raise her family.After a handful of roles in the 1980s, she resumed her acting career, starting with 1993’s Flirting Scholar.

Christopher Vourlias The 45th Durban Intl. Film Festival kicked off Thursday, as the world celebrated the birthday of freedom fighter and South Africa’s first Black president Nelson Mandela, with a rousing defense of hard-won personal liberties and an insistence that the art of cinema remains “as vital as ever.” “As we celebrate 30 years of democracy and with this 45th edition of Durban Intl.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Cheng Pei-pei, the Chinese-born action film icon who starred in Ang Lee’s Oscar-nominated “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” and King Hu’s seminal wuxia feature “Come Drink With Me,” has died. She was 78. Cheng, considered a pioneer of martial arts roles for female actors, died in the San Francisco Bay Area on Thursday.