Lizzo is keeping her eye on the prize amid her messy ongoing lawsuit.
09.08.2023 - 16:29 / deadline.com
Andrea Riseborough and Domnhall Gleeson are to star in a Channel 4 drama series created by Mad Men’s Victor Levin.
The duo are leading Alice & Jack, the first major casting for Riseborough since the To Leslie Oscar controversy earlier this year.
The pair play the title characters in what distributor Fremantle described as a “love story for the ages.” Logline adds: “When they first meet they’re bound by a connection so powerful it seems nothing can break it, but will their path lead them to a place of happiness and togetherness? Or will life and their own emotional complexities get in the way.”
Alice & Jack brings together major production companies in Academy Award-nominated Groundswell Productions, Italy’s De Maio Entertainment and I Am Ruth maker Me + You Productions. Fremantle is handling global sales.
“The only work I’ve wanted to watch and do since the pandemic is work about connection and love, and work with a sense of humour,” said Gleeson, prior to the SAG strike. “Alice and Jack keep coming back to each other because they can’t help themselves – they find in each other something that they don’t have on their own.”
Fremantle Global Drama CEO Christian Vesper added that the show provides a “flawless combination” of “love and comedy.”
Levin is creator and writer and Juho Kuosmanen, who co-wrote and directed 2021 Cannes Grand Prix co-winner Compartment 6, is co-director. Hong Khaou (Lilting) directs the second block of the series. Executive producers include Levin, Riseborough, Gleeson, Kuosmanen, Richard Yee and Krishnendu Majumdar for Me + You Productions, Michael London and Shannon Gaulding for Groundswell, Lorenzo De Maio for De Maio Entertainment, Rebecca Dundon and Hilary Martin for Fremantle. Tracy
Lizzo is keeping her eye on the prize amid her messy ongoing lawsuit.
Asake has played his first UK concert since the fatal crush at his gig in Brixton last year, and started the show off by paying tribute to the two fans who were killed.The tragic event took place at his show at London’s O2 Academy Brixton last December and saw two fans – Rebecca Ikumelo and Gaby Hutchinson – lose their life after there was a crowd surge at the venue.An investigation by the Metropolitan Police is still under way and, following the incident, the South London live music venue had its licence under review by Lambeth Council and has remained closed since.A 21-year-old woman also remains in critical condition in hospital after being caught in the crush, and police continue to appeal for information.Now, the Nigerian singer-songwriter and Afrobeats star has returned to the stage for his first live UK show since the event, and paid his respects to the victims.The returning gig took place in the city’s O2 Arena last night (August 20) – a venue which has four times the capacity compared to Brixton. Asake, whose real name is Ahmed Ololade, arrived on stage approximately an hour and 20 minutes later than planned and kicked off the show with a three-minute tribute poem to Ikumelo and Hutchinson.Backing performers dressed in white walked into view, before he appeared on stage, with flowers as a spoken word poem was recited in the background.“Up at 02:30 thinking Gaby Hutchinson could be me,” the poem read (via The Independent).
It might have taken place in New Jersey, but Jack Antonoff and Margaret Qualley's Long Island wedding couldn't have been more Hollywood. Jack, 39, and Margaret, 28, were forced to call in help from the authorities, after hundreds of die-hard Taylor Swift fans flooded the area, having realised the singer would be in attendance.
Paris Jackson has shared a brand new track called ‘Hit Your Knees’ – check it out below.The track was co-written and produced by Linda Perry as part of her EqualizeHer program, which aims to tackle gender inequality in music production.Jackson and Perry met at a live event for the program in October 2022, and led to working together on the track.‘Hit Your Knees’ is Jackson’s second new track of 2023, following February single ‘Bandaid’.Check it out below.Of her new music, Jackson said: “This is the type of music I used to dream of making myself when I was 14 discovering Nirvana and Pixies for the first time.Of ‘Bandaid’, she added: “Lyrically it’s the most raw and vulnerable I’ve ever been in any of my songs.“It’s the first track I’ve truly let loose and yelled on in the studio, which you can hear in the third chorus, and I feel like that’s why it had to be the title track for my next record.Jackson released her debut solo album ‘Wilted’ in 2020. Reviewing the album, NME wrote: “‘Wilted’ feels caught between the twee folksy pop of Paris Jackson’s previous releases with The Soundflowers and the bewildering alt-rock icon she may become.“As a musical introduction, it’s enthralling, inconsistent and, at times, excellent.
Footballer Jack Grealish has been labelled so sweet by fans after a gesture following his win at the Super Cup final.The Manchester City star, 27, was lining up with the rest of his teammates to collect their medals following a penalty shoot out win in their game against Sevilla. However, the star was seen holding up the line as he stopped to chat to a visually-impaired girl and shake her hand as UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin waited to greet him.
Sophia Scorziello editor Michael Jackson accusers Wade Robson and James Safechuck got approval from a California appeals court Friday to take their abuse claims to a trial. In a 3-0 ruling, the appellate court found that Jackson’s companies can be held accountable for Jackson’s alleged misconduct, reversing a lower court decision. “Plaintiffs had every right to expect defendants to protect them from the entirely foreseeable danger of being left alone with Jackson,” the justices wrote.
A California appeals court ruled Friday that two men who accused Michael Jackson of sexually abusing them as children can resume lawsuits against companies owned by the estate of the late singer.
Migos rapper Quavo has released his second solo album, Rocket Power, which includes two tracks with his late bandmate Takeoff.
Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music The wide reach of Clarence Avant, who was widely known as “the Godfather of Black Entertainment” and died Sunday at the age of 92, was evident from the range of people paying tribute to him on social media after his death was announced Monday morning. His influence spanned music, entertainment, sports, politics and beyond. Within just a couple of hours, former President Bill Clinton, the Rev.
James Bay has shared a new single called ‘Goodbye Never Felt So Bad’ – you can listen to it below.The anthemic track marks the first material from the singer-songwriter since his third album ‘Leap’, which was released in 2022.“‘Goodbye Never Felt So Bad’ is a song about how crazy it can feel to say goodbye,” Bay explained in a statement.“There’s rarely ever anything good about it. I say goodbye to the people I love constantly; it comes with the territory of my work. I’m always travelling.
Ariana Madix and Tom Sandoval have reunited. On Aug. 8, the exes were photographed together for the first time since filming for season 11 of started in late June.
The outgoing Chair of BAFTA has used his exit interview to urge writers, actors and studios to “come together to find a fair, equitable solution,” while pointing to gains required in “hidden areas” of diversity.
Oscar-nominated producer Bill Pohlad has a long history of aligning himself with auteurs on award-winning fare—from Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain to Terrence Malick on the Palme d’Or winning The Tree of Life to Steve McQueen’s Oscar Best Picture winner 12 Years a Slave, and getting financially behind them with his River Road Entertainment banner. We talk with Pohlad on Crew Call today about his third career feature as director, Dreamin’ Wild, based on the New York Times Steven Kurutz article about the Fruitland, WA-based Emerson brothers whose dad literally bet the farm (mortgaging it to the tune of $100K) on the duo’s singing talents in the 1970s, and built them a studio. They didn’t make it initially — not until 2008 when the album they made some near 40 years prior, “Dreamin’ Wild,” was discovered by a record collector in Spokane, Jack Fleischer, and championed fervently. The record’s single “Baby” ultimately became a cult hit when it was covered by Ariel Pink in 2012. Casey Affleck plays Donnie Emerson, the aorta of the songwriting duo, who grapples with the mid-life crisis of finding some facet of fame, when all seemed forever lost.
Austin Majors has been revealed.The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner lists the cause of death for Majors — full name Austin Setmajer-Raglin — as «fentanyl toxicity.» The actor was best known for his role as Theo Sipowicz, the son of Dennis Franz's protagonist, Detective Andy Sipowicz, on the long-running crime drama Majors died on Feb. 11, his family announced via.
Austin Majors, who gained fame during his childhood for his role on "NYPD Blue," died from fentanyl toxicity, Fox News Digital can confirm. The place of death was listed as residence, and the manner was "accidental," according to the records shared by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner. A spokesperson for the LA County Medical Examiner told Fox News Digital the case remains open.
residing in a homeless housing facility in LA.Franz, 78, praised Majors for being a “joy to work with” in a testament penned to the fallen actor’s website. “He never has lost his enthusiasm to be on the set. He just loves coming to work,” wrote Franz.
Austin Majors‘ cause of death has been revealed.
A major road in Manchester city centre has been sealed off by police this afternoon following a serious crash.
Fast-paced, adrenalin-pumping docuseries that shine the “blue light” on our 999 services have never been more popular. And Emergency, which is filmed in London, is back to capture all the drama as it follows the stories of seriously injured patients and the people – consultants, ambulance response teams, doctors, nurses and therapists – helping to save their lives. The series focuses on the work of the London Major Trauma System, a network of trauma units, air ambulances and medics set up in the wake of the 2005 London terrorist bombings to provide specialist care for critically injured patients.
just competed for the first time since from the gymnastics team finals and other events at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, which took place at in the summer of 2021. At the time, Biles was experiencing a condition called ,” which caused her to lose track of where her body was in the air and made it dangerous to compete, though she still secured the bronze medal on the balance beam.After a two-year hiatus, she returned to the beam at the Core Hydration Classic in Illinois on August 5, scoring a 14.8 for that particular event.