Anthony Chen Breaks the Ice With a Tale of Disillusioned Youth in China

Professional footballer Declan Rice, who has captained West Ham United, is gearing up to make his next move in football.The 24 year old will be sold this summer with the likes of Arsenal, Manchester United, and Bayern Munich taking a keen interest in the midfielder who has quickly shot to football fame. But off the pitch, Declan, 24 is supported by his longtime girlfriend, Lauren Fryer who has an impressive following of her own.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Vice TV is once again expanding its “Dark Side” franchise with a new spinoff that should hit close to home for millennial audiences in particular: “Dark Side of the 2000s.” Premiering July 18 at 10 p.m., the 10-episode season will cover aughts subjects including the radio wars between Howard Stern and Opie & Anthony, “TRL,” the rise of TMZ, Lindsay Lohan, Charlie Sheen’s “Two and a Half Men” conflict, “Jon & Kate Plus 8,” “The Bachelor,” Siegfried & Roy and men’s lifestyle magazines, or “lad mags.” Per its official logline, “From outrageous shock jocks to record breaking reality TV, and the rise of celebrity gossip to the downward spiral of a child star, ‘Dark Side of the 2000s’ delves into the decade’s untold histories, revealing dark secrets and personal insights from the people who witnessed it all first hand.”

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Someone’s got his beach body ready! Chad Michael Murray showed off his awe-inspiring abs in a video shared by his wife, Sarah Roemer.

Ben Croll Academy-Award winner Vicky Jenson, Cartoon Saloon co-founder Nora Twomey, “Nimona” graphic novel creator N.D. Stevenson, Paramount Animation chief Ramsey Naito and acclaimed animator Anna Ginsburg will leave outdated paradigms in the dust at this year’s Women in Animation World Summit at the Annecy Intl. Animation Festival. Organized in collaboration with LGBTQ+ media advocacy organization GLAAD, the seventh annual WIA World Summit will run as a daylong symposium on Monday, June 12, heralding new leadership, calling for creative risk-taking and celebrating diversity – in terms of stories told and those who tell them – with a number of panels and conversations united under a shared banner called, ‘Break the Box: Redefining Gender and Leadership.’

Katherine Tulich “The Office” comedy franchise will see middle management led by a woman for the first time in an Australian version that will play on Amazon’s Prime Video. Australian comedian and actor Felicity Ward (“Wakefield,” “The Inbetweeners 2”) will portray Hannah Howard, the MD of packaging company Flinley Craddick in “The Office Australia.” In a post-COVID plot twist, Howard gets news from head office that her branch will be shutting down and that staff will have to work from home. She goes into survival mode, making promises she can’t keep and launches outlandish plots in order to keep her “work family” together. The Australian adaptation is the 13th iteration of the show that was originally created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. Other international retreads have included those in France, Canada, Chile, Israel and the Middle East.

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Katie Price has been spotted breaking the law once again as she misused her eldest son Harvey’s disabled parking badge on Monday. Katie’s fiancé Carl Woods parked his black Inifniti car in a disabled space, where Harvey's blue badge was put to use as the family headed out for Katie's birthday meal in Brighton.The blue badge for the use and benefit only of the person to whom the badge has been issued. Katie, 44, and Carl, 34, hopped out of the car along with her children daughters Princess and Bunny and son Jett.

Anthony Chen’s well-regarded Mainland China-set “The Breaking Ice” has found favor with multiple European and Asian buyers in the few days since its Sunday premiere as part of the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard. The film narrates a love triangle story among China’s lost youth generation and is set in the middle of winter in Yanji, a town that is heavily populated by ethnic Koreans. It is headlined by a star-studded Chinese cast of Zhou Dongyu (“Better Days”), Liu Haoran (“Detective Chinatown” franchise) and Qu Chuxiao (“The Wandering Earth”). “The Breaking Ice” has been newly licensed to Challan for release in South Korea, Trigon-Film for Switzerland, One From the Heart for Greece, Tucker Film for Italy and Edko Films for Hong Kong.Rights sales are handled by Rediance, Mainland China’s leading indie sales company, which reports that addition territory deals are currently being negotiated.

Chinese actress Zhou Dongyu, who is in Cannes with Anthony Chen’s Un Certain Regard title The Breaking Ice, has had a fairytale career trajectory. 

E! News”: “I’m glad that Adam is singing and not speaking.”“Because every time he speaks, he says really stupid stuff,” he added.“When he was a coach on the show, I’ll still say he was hands down the worst coach of anything that I’ve ever seen in my life,” the “Austin” crooner quipped.As for whether or not he’s sad to leave, Shelton noted that the ending is “kind of a blur to me.”“On the way over here today, I was just thinking about this whole chapter of my life,” he sighed. Shelton’s last broadcast was on May 23, and Gina Miles was crowned the winner of “The Voice.”Host Carson Daly gave Shelton a sweet tribute during the night, saying onstage that there was “not a dry eye in the house.”After Levine — who exited the show in 2019 — sang “Middle Ground,” Shelton raced up to the stage and gave his old pal a big hug.

Blake Shelton is saying goodbye to -- and the show had some surprises up their sleeve to send him off on Tuesday's live finale!Original coach CeeLo Green kicked things off with a medley of '80s hits, featuring cameos from former winners and Team Blake members, including Cam Anthony, Wendy Moten, bodie, and Chloe Kohanski.Later in the show, host Carson Daly celebrated Blake as the GOAT of The Voice, hanging Blake signature jean jacket from the studios rafters, with numbers celebrating all of the country star's winning seasons.EPICCCCC @blakeshelton send-off performance by @CeeLoGreen, @bodielovesyou, @CamAnthony, @WendyMoten, and Chloe Kohanski ❤️‍

Blake Shelton is saying goodbye to -- and the show had some surprises up their sleeve to send him off on Tuesday's live finale!Original coach CeeLo Green kicked things off with a medley of '80s hits, featuring cameos from former winners and Team Blake members, including Cam Anthony, Wendy Moten, bodie, Chloe KohanskiThe season 23 coaches were also on hand of course, as Blake, Kelly Clarkson, Niall Horan and Chance the Rapper prepared to take the stage to perform with their Top 5 artists: Gina Miles, NOIVAS, D. Smooth, Sorelle and Grace WestET spoke with Blake ahead of last week's live semifinal show, where he opened up about making the decision to leave the competition after 23 seasons and a record-setting nine wins.«I'm excited.

In 2013, filmmaker Anthony Chen’s first feature, “Ilo Ilo,” won the coveted Caméra d’Or at Cannes. Centered around the inseparable bond between a 10-year-old Singaporean boy and his Filipina nanny, Chen’s full-length debut deployed a specific lens — a family weathering the 1997 Asian financial crisis — to tell a universal story exploring the nooks and crannies of our shared humanity.

You’d expect a movie called “The Breaking Ice” to be cold and Anthony Chen’s gentle drama about three isolated young people finding moments of connection definitely stays away from passionate and heated statements. But it’d be a mistake to think that Chen’s restraint comes at the expense of feeling, because “The Breaking Ice” is one of the most beautifully evocative films to screen during the first few days of this year’s Cannes Film Festival.A luminous “Jules and Jim” riff with a stunning visual design and a real purpose to its apparent aimlessness, “The Breaking Ice” screened on Sunday in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes, bringing the Singaporean director back to the festival where he won the Camera d’Or for “Ilo Ilo” in 2013, and also appeared as part of the COVID-era anthology film “The Year of the Everlasting Storm” in 2021.“The Breaking Ice” begins with a fascinating shot of workers cutting ice blocks from a frozen lake.

Robert De Niro and Tiffany Chen have attended their first formal event as a couple.

In 2013, filmmaker Anthony Chen’s first feature, “Ilo Ilo,” won the coveted Caméra d’Or at Cannes. Centered around the inseparable bond between a 10-year-old Singaporean boy and his Filipina nanny, Chen’s full-length debut deployed a specific lens — a family weathering the 1997 Asian financial crisis — to tell a universal story exploring the nooks and crannies of our shared humanity.

When it comes to McDonald's, most people have a favourite. But if that's the Chicken Big Mac you may well be sorely disappointed after the fast food giant pulled the burger off the menu once again.

While Southeast Asian films have premiered at the Cannes Film Festival many times before, and even won the Palme d’Or, there’s an energy around the region this year that we haven’t felt on the Croisette at previous editions. 

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic “The Voice” has not been much concerned with current Broadway voices until now. That’ll change in a big way with this coming Monday’s episode, which will feature a show-stopping number from “Shucked” — marking the first time a song from a currently running Broadway show has been featured on the long-running singing competition series. The song is “Independently Owned,” a major nightly showcase for Tony nominee Alex Newell. It’s been cited as the rare example of an original Broadway musical having its first and possibly biggest standing-ovation number come in the middle of the first act… and it’s a testament to “Shucked” as a whole that the production doesn’t feel like it’s going downhill from that early barn-burner.