Silent era movie icon Anna May Wong is now a different kind of star. Starting Monday, her image will appear on new quarters, making her the first Asian American to appear on US currency.
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Anna Marie de la Fuente Location shooting is underway for “Finding Love in Sisters,” which features a cast with about one million followers apiece on social media: Puerto Rican-born Laura Carmine, Miami-based Marielena Dávila and U.K. model-actor Nick Hounslow. “Finding Love in Sisters” follows drama “Finding Love in San Antonio,” co-produced by leading indie production shingle BTF Media and L.A.-based American Cinema Inspires (ACI), which teamed up last year to develop and produce films with predominantly U.S. Latino talent. Written by D.F.W. Buckingham (“Finding Love in San Antonio”) and helmed by Jeff Day (“Midway Love”), the romantic drama centers on Esperanza (Carmine), a successful lawyer whose dream life is showing some cracks. Her mother suggests she visit their hometown of Sisters, Oregon to get recharged but she chooses to stay at her job. When Esperanza’s mother dies, she returns home, although she is wary of reuniting with her two sisters, Caridad (Dávila) and Faith (Valentina Izarra), after so many years apart.
Drama is being filmed entirely in English in Kentucky, which stands in for Oregon. A diverse cast including Ricardo Burgos, Mireya Kilson and Victor Drija complete the cast. “’Finding Love In…’ represents a series of films featuring strong, empowered and confident female figures who are willing to overcome life’s circumstances to achieve their goals,” said ACI President Chevonne O’Shaughnessy. For Francisco Cordero, CEO of BTF Media and co-producer of the film, reflecting Hispanic culture in the U.S. is vital in addressing a community that makes up the largest minority in the country, now at 19%. “It is important that there is audiovisual content that brings us closer to our values and customs to
Silent era movie icon Anna May Wong is now a different kind of star. Starting Monday, her image will appear on new quarters, making her the first Asian American to appear on US currency.
BravoCon 2022 brought out the network's biggest stars for three days of non-stop fan fun — and ET capped it all off with a one-on-one chat with the maestro himself, Andy Cohen.Speaking on stage at the Manhattan Center's Hammerstein Ballroom, where he filmed a week's worth of episodes over the weekend, Andy offers up a «State of the Union» to ET. Read on for a city-by-city breakdown of where things go from here for the first ladies of Bravo.The ladies of the 90210 were some of the first to hit the main stage over the weekend, with one 'Wife -- Lisa Rinna — walking out to boos from the crowd.«The truth is, I love that our fans are so passionate,» Andy remarks.
Married At First Sight UK fans couldn't help but hold back their amusement at hearing Chanita Stephenson throw shade towards Whitney Hughes and Matt Murray's on-screen kiss. The contestants faced experts Paul C Brunson, Mel Schilling and Charlene Douglas for one last time on Tuesday 18 October's episode of the programme, which sent many tongues wagging across social media.
Park Chan-wook is one of the most acclaimed filmmakers of the past 20 years. He’s also one of the rare South Korean filmmakers who has broken through the foreign-language barrier to become a recognizable name throughout the world.
Keke Palmer is ready to hop into a nun's habit if she gets the call!The star spoke with ET's Matt Cohen at the 2022 Newport Beach Film Festival Honors, held at the Balboa Bay Club in Newport Beach, California, on Sunday, and opened up about Whoopi Goldberg's recent comments about wanting Palmer to co-star with her in the planned .«Yes!» Palmer declared, before belting a few notes of «Joyful, Joyful.»«I'm ready! Your girl is ready for the part!» she declared. «Come on!»During a recent appearance on Comedy Central’s with host Charlamagne Tha God, Golberg shared that she has a list of people she would love to see come in to join the cast for, including Palmer, Lizzo, and Nicki Minaj.«I want everybody,» she declared.
Andy Cohen is single and ready to mingle.
Samuel W. Alderson is the genius who made dummies smart. The California inventor parlayed a knack for tinkering in his old man’s sheet metal shop into a gift for making highways safer here in America and around the world. A prolific producer of cutting-edge military hardware in World War II, Alderson is most famous as the father of the crash test dummy. In scientific circles, these objects are known as anthropomorphic test devices — a more accurate indication of their robust capabilities. "Sam Alderson was driven by a passion to save lives by using crash test dummies that produce data [that] engineers use to design safer vehicles," Chris O’Connor, president and CEO of Humanetics, a company founded by Alderson with headquarters in Farmington Hills, Michigan, told Fox News Digital.
Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent IFC Films has acquired North American rights to Cecilia Miniucchi’s “Life Upside Down” which stars Emmy-award winning actor Bob Odenkirk (“Better Call Saul”), Radha Mitchell (“Pitch Black) and Danny Huston (“21 Grams”). The movie world premiered at Venice in the Giornate degli Autori sidebar. IFC Films will release the film in select theaters and VOD on Jan. 27 and will stream exclusively on AMC+ in April 2023. “‘Life Upside Down’ is a romantic comedy following three couples, connected by friendship, love and work, who are each stuck in their respective homes in Los Angeles during the beginning of lockdown. Finally forced to face their spouses, friends, lovers, and eventually themselves head on, their lives turn slowly but surely upside-down.
Michaela Zee editor “Americana Dream” has started production in Louisville, Ky., with all key roles cast in the forthcoming indie musical film. New Orleans-based singer Maggie Koerner will play Billie Carton, starring opposite Nashville-based music artist Sam Varga in the role of Lucky Fontana. “With this amazing cast of real-life Americana music artists, we are on an exciting creative journey that will seem both familiar and completely unsettling to the millions of people around the world who watch reality TV music competitions,” said director and co-writer Ate de Jong. The cast of “Americana Dream” also includes singer-songwriter Stephan Said as Ray Pursell, jazz vocalist Carly Johnson as Precious Blue, AJ Haynes as Lee Post and Michelle Malentina as Gabe. DJ Bombshell, Sylvia Walters, David Domine and Ian McConnell will play supporting roles in the film.
Kelly Clarkson is of course known for her incredible singing voice, but she’s also made herself a household name for her down-to-earth demeanor, humor and honesty.
Olly Murs couldn't be happier in life right now, especially after getting engaged to Amelia Tank this summer. But his happy-go-lucky spirit hasn’t always painted an honest picture of how he’s felt in the past. As he returns with his first new music in four years, the singer, 38, has confessed that his "cheekiness" was a facade while he was single, and away from the spotlight he felt really "quite lonely" underneath it all.
A 2022 Boston Beer brewing master has been crowned. Baltimore, Maryland-based brewery Checkerspot Brewing Company has been named the winner of Samuel Adams’ 11th Brewing the American Dream experienceship. Checkerspot will make its first appearance as Boston Beer’s newest champion at the Great American Beer Festival this weekend in Denver, Colorado.
This fall, tip your basket to William Blaxton when you pluck a plump apple from a tree, bob for apples on Halloween or cherish your grandmother's amazing apple pie on Thanksgiving. Reverend Blaxton, among other claims to fame, planted the first seeds that would fuel a pioneering nation and give apples an image of all-American wholesomeness.
Environmental Progress founder Michael Shellenberger is sounding the alarm on President Biden's "woke green energy" agenda for threatening U.S. security.
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Hong Kong multi-hyphenate Peter Chan Ho-sun is far too intellectual to call himself an “arms dealer,” as Sony Pictures has in casting itself as an unattached supplier to streaming platforms. But politeness and Bob Dylan references aside, Chan’s new company, Changin’ Pictures, aims to become a major independent purveyor of premium Asian TV content for the streamers. The company is using this week’s Busan International Film Festival as its launchpad and will unveil the first five series of its 20-title pan-Asian slate. Chan’s thesis is that global audiences are hungry for Asian content but have not been able to access it easily under legacy film and TV distribution systems. With streaming making everything accessible everywhere, and audiences no longer balking at subtitles, quality Asian drama can and will travel.