EXCLUSIVE: Biotech entrepreneur Jonathan Lim, M.D. is moving into the realm of film production and financing with the launch of City Hill Arts.
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A student from Cheetham Hill will travel to ISIS-occupied cities in Iraq to film a documentary. Zain Ullah, a Law and Criminology student at Manchester Metropolitan University , is set to visit places in Iraq that were once occupied by or are still occupied by terrorist group ISIS.
He is making a documentary about life after the Second Persian Gulf war, nearly 11 years on since the end of the war.
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Lasting from 2003 to 2011, The Second Persian Gulf War, also known as the Iraq War, was a largely U.S.-British invasion of Iraq, on the pretext that dictator Saddam Hussein was building weapons of mass destruction.
Troops managed to topple Saddam Hussein's regime and an end to the war was declared by the U.S. in December 2011.
On his trip to Iraq, Zain will be talking to residents who have lived through the invasion about how it has impacted their quality of life. He is set to visit Baghdad and Tikrit, which is the former capital of ISIS. Zain, 20, told the M.E.N.: " I am hoping to go to Iraq at the end of July. My documentary will examine the invasion of Iraq and how people coped with it.
"I will be visiting communities andasking local people to share their personal accounts and their lasting memories under the regime. Some of the cities that I will be visiting are still occupied by ISIS, whilst other cities are no longer occupied by them.
"I want to highlight the violence committed against the Shia Muslims in Iraq and the brutal rise of ISIS, as well as the U.S. withdrawal, and how it still affects residents today. I will visit key places such as the Republican Palace and Firdos Square, where the American army invaded and
EXCLUSIVE: Biotech entrepreneur Jonathan Lim, M.D. is moving into the realm of film production and financing with the launch of City Hill Arts.
Privacy is important to Christina Haack.
Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav and other top execs are meeting with employees in a town hall this morning on the Warner lot in Burbank. It’s the first large-scale staff meeting since last Friday’s close of the $43 billion merger.
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav brought out the big guns during his address to the new company at its first global town hall for employees Thursday.The newly merged company brought out its most famous employee, Oprah Winfrey, to moderate the event and to help introduce Zaslav to Hollywood.Winfrey is a longtime supporter of the media mogul, who has championed the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) — a cable channel jointly jointed by Warner Bros. Discovery and Harpo Studio — alongside her since its launch in 2011.
ESX.io).ESX, a project being developed by Proxima founder Ryan Kavanaugh, is designed to allow users to invest in film projects and trade in and out of a film’s potential upside. “Skill House,” which Stolberg will write and direct, stars TikTok celeb Bryce Hall in a dark satire of social media and influencer culture, exploring how far people will go for online fame.
closed on Friday.Zaslav’s travel agenda will take him to WarnerMedia’s global headquarters in New York on Monday, Warner Bros. offices in Atlanta on Tuesday, WarnerMedia/HBO offices in Culver City on Wednesday, and concluding with a town hall at WarnerMedia offices on the iconic Warner Bros. Studios lot in Burbank, according to the individual.
Hall said on Twitter. “But first I need to pay tribute to my colleagues Pierre and Sasha who didnt make it that day.
The hello tour for the Discovery and WarnerMedia merger is set to begin as early as Monday, Deadline hears, with multiple meet and greets planned across the country that will culminate with a town hall later in the week.
Former Flip or Flop star Christina Hall is set to headline a second series for HGTV. The network has given a six-episode order to Christina in the Country (working title), a Tennessee-set spinoff docuseries of her Christina on the Coast. Additionally, HGTV has ordered additional episodes of Christina on the Coast which drew more than 23 million viewers and ranked as a top 5 non-news/sports cable program among key demos in its last season, per Nielsen.
Christina Hall is coming right back to HGTV!
Mitski has announced details of new UK and Irish tour dates for this summer, ahead of an imminent, sold-out run of dates.As announced last year, the singer-songwriter will tour new album ‘Laurel Hell’ in the UK and Europe later this month, ending on April 29 with a London gig at Brixton Academy.Mitski will touch down in the UK on April 21 for gigs in Bristol, Leeds and Glasgow before visiting Dublin, Manchester and London. You can find tickets here.
Christina Haack and realtor, Josh Hall, are officially married. The star and Hall’s marriage news comes less than a year after they were first spotted holding hands back in July 2021.
LONDON -- June Brown, who played the chain-smoking Cockney matriarch Dot Cotton on the British soap opera “EastEnders” for 35 years, has died. She was 95.The BBC, which produces the show, announced Brown’s death on Monday.