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European Union. Prime Minister Jean Castex has announced the move in a desperate bid to stop the spread of new variants of the coronavirus.

Veteran RTÉ reporter Tommie Gorman has announced his retirement after 41 years.

Jessica Pope, the co-executive producer of Netflix’s The Last Kingdom at Carnival Films, has joined Sweden’s Mopar Studios as its creative director and head of development.

Starzplay Launches On France’s Canal+ Starz’s streaming service Starzplay is launching in France on Canal+. The streamer will be made available to all Canal+ Series subscribers at no extra cost and will be stocked with shows including The Great and Ramy.

Bella Hadid and Cara Delevingne are back on the runway!

Timothy Spall (Mr. Turner), Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water) and Sean Harris (Mission: Impossible – Fallout) have joined Kristen Stewart in buzzed-about Lady Diana biopic Spencer, which is now filming in Germany.

The immensely popular and talented Irish soprano Cara O’Sullivan has died at the age of 59.

A moment of reflection. Graham Bunn shared new details about his former relationship with ex Chrishell Stause.

Naman Ramachandran Despite a 2020 blighted by COVID-19, German broadcasting giant ProSiebenSat.1 Group posted revenues of €4.04 billion ($4.91 billion) and adjusted earnings of €700 million ($850.9 million) for the full year, according to preliminary, unaudited figures.In the third quarter of 2020, the group had targeted revenues of approximately €3.85 billion ($4.52 billion) for the full year, with an EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization) of €650 million

famous red guide had promised that no three-star chefs would be demoted as the health crisis rages, with food fans unlikely to book tables anytime soon. Many chefs fear French authorities will keep restaurants closed for several more weeks if not months, following a lockdown last spring and another imposed since October.

She's been enjoying an extended trip to her homeland as she shoots the latest season of her show Germany's Next Top Model. And Heidi Klum was seen pressing on with her duties on Monday, as she joined the cast and crew at the Mall Of Berlin in Berlin-Mitte.

Ed Meza @edmezavarStienette Bosklopper of the Netherlands’ Circe Films and Meike Martens of Germany’s Blinker Filmproduktion have boarded “Do Fish Sleep With Their Eyes Open?,” the latest film from director Nele Wohlatz, whose 2016 documentary hybrid “The Future Perfect” won best feature in Locarno.The co-production partnerships add European support and financing muscle to an Argentine project produced by Buenos Aires’ Ruda Cine, which has already attracted a Brazilian partner, CinemaScópio.In

Slumdog Millionaire star Freida Pinto is set to star in and executive produce Spy Princess, a limited series based on Shrabani Basu’s Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan, the definitive biography of Noor’s life, from writer Olivia Hetreed (Girl With a Pearl Earring) and Red Room Films.

Mariah Carey has opened up about her racial identity and the complexities of being a female musician in a male-dominated industry during a recent podcast. Carey - best known for her five-octave vocal range - is of African-American, Afro-Venezuelan and Irish descent, and spoke about how her heritage has informed her racially ambiguous appearance in an episode of Questlove Supreme's weekly podcast (January 13).

Ben Croll Reflecting on a heretofore-unseen existential threat, the film distributors and exhibitors speaking at a round-table presented as part of UniFrance’s Rendez-vous With French Cinema on Tuesday echoed a shared refrain: To ensure a robust return to normal, whenever that time might come, industry actors needed immediate financial relief.Moderated by industry analyst Michael Gubbins, the panel brought together distributor Enrique González Kuhn (Caramel Films), exhibitor Edna Epelbaum

The European Shooting Stars, an annual list of the top 10 new acting talents coming out of Europe, unveiled its 2021 roster on Tuesday.

Also Read: Liam Neeson to Star in Action Thriller 'Memory' From Director Martin CampbellWhen young Miguel (Jacob Perez) and his mother Rosa (Teresa Ruiz, “Narcos: Mexico”) have to flee Mexico because Rosa’s brother has stolen money from the cartel (glug), they cross the Arizona border into the soon-to-be-foreclosed land of cattle rancher Jim (Neeson).