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Prince William and Kate Middleton are facing “their duties as equal partners”, a royal expert has claimed. On Tuesday 20 November, the pair were all smiles when they joined other members of the Royal Family at Buckingham Palace to view artefacts from the Royal Collection alongside President Yoon Suk Yeol as part of the South Korean president’s state visit to the UK.

The Kills have announced details of a tour across the UK and Europe, set to kick off in 2024. Check out ticket details below.The newly shared run of live shows will see the duo – formed of Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince – hit the road in celebration of their latest album ‘God Games’.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent After expanding into the U.K., the U.S. and the Netherlands, Paris-based leading unscripted production banner Satisfaction is set to gain ground in Spanish-speaking markets.

Wasia Project have shared an exclusive playlist to accompany the launch of this week’s NME Cover.The duo – comprising siblings Olivia Hardy and Will Gao – appear on The Cover this week (November 20) as we renew our commitment to supporting emerging talent across the globe on a weekly basis. Every week, a rising artist will feature on The Cover, and the full interview with Wasia Project can be read here.To celebrate, the band – who make exploratory, beautiful jazz-pop inspired by the classical training of their youth – have curated a playlist including some of their key inspirations, including Solange, Beach House and Sade.

Rafa Sales Ross Guest Contributor It took director Ariel Kuaray Ortega almost two decades to be able to tell a story he’s heard throughout his entire life: the strange tale of Canuto, a man who mysteriously transformed into a jaguar and then died a tragic death. The resulting film, “Canuto’s Transformation,” had its world premiere at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, where it took the award for best film in the Envision Competition and the outstanding artistic contribution award.

Naman Ramachandran The Council of Europe, home of Eurimages, has revealed the four series co-production markets which have been selected to host the 2024 Series Co-Production Development Awards. Conecta Fiction and Entertainment (Spain), CineKid (Netherlands), TV Beats Co-Financing Market – Industry@Tallinn (Estonia, and NEM Zagreb (Croatia) have been chosen by a panel of independent experts to present the awards valued at €50,000 ($54,325) each.

Andrés Felipe Cabrera spoke EXCLUSIVELY with HOLA! USA to share behind-the-scenes details on how he and his team are helping the Miss Universe 2023 candidates highlight their natural beauty with classic and timeless tools.Cabrera, a Miami-based entrepreneur and founder of MUBA Cosmetic, has been the official makeup sponsor of the pageant since 2020. Recently, he and his team chose this year’s contestants Camila Avella of Colombia, Mariana Downing of the Dominican Republic,Rikkie Valerie Kollé of the Netherlands, Athenea Pérez of Spain, and Antonia Porsild of Thailand to star in a photoshoot and beauty video themed Appetite for MUBA “Eat, Sleep, Do Makeup & Repeat.”From the InterContinental San Salvador-Metrocentro Mall, the official hotel residence of this year’s pageant in El Salvador, Andrés Felipe Cabrera shared insights on how much time the pageants have to get ready before the finale and which Miss Universe 2023 contestant has had a top-notch skincare regimen and therefore has the best canvas to work with.In Miss Universe, we do not use trends because they are beauty queens; they are girls who need to enhance their beauty, and that is why we do not change faces.

Manchester City's injury crisis is growing, with Matheus Nunes becoming the fourth player to withdraw from international duty in as many days.

It’s that time of the year when Manchester city centre transforms into a Christmas wonderland. The Christmas Markets are finally up and running, welcoming hordes of shoppers to buy food, drink and presents from the picture perfect wooden huts.

Rafa Sales Ross Guest Contributor Five years after opening the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam with his feature debut “Kabul, City in the Wind,” Afghanistan-born, Netherlands-based filmmaker Aboozar Amini returns to IDFA to present his latest, “Kabul, Year Zero,” at the festival’s industry section, Forum. The choice to return to IDFA was an obvious one to Amini and frequent collaborator Jia Zhao of Silk Road Film Salon, who is co-producing “Kabul, Year Zero” alongside Julia Niethammer for Chromosome and Heejung Oh for Seesaw Pictures.

David Bowie once wore during his famous introduction to the 1982 adaptation of The Snowman is now available for purchase.The brand NotJust Clothing revealed their Christmas collection, featuring The World of The Snowman™ branded items. Some of the items include a festive jumper, scarf and blanket inspired by Raymond Briggs’ iconic and best-loved picture book, The Snowman, which was first published in 1978.The legendary scarf – which is priced at £19.99 – was inspired by the one seen on Bowie which he wore in his own attic during the filmed introduction to The Snowman when the animation was first broadcast in the US.For years fans of the beloved Christmas animation have searched for the garment, with Bowie’s own son, Duncan Jones, rediscovering the original scarf last year.Brian Harding, who produced Bowie’s introduction for the film, shared the story behind the scarf in an X/Twitter thread upon Jones’ discovery.“The Scarf was knitted by the lady in the accounts department of TVC, the production company who made the animation.

The Smile have revealed details of their brand-new album, Wall Of Eyes. The album is the second from the trio (Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood plus drummer Tom Skinner) and follows their 2022 debut A Light For Attracting Attention.

Rafa Sales Ross Guest Contributor Roger Ross Williams is having quite the year. So far, the Oscar-winning director has released his first fiction film, Amazon Studios’ “Cassandro”; the HBO documentary “Love to Love You, Donna Summer”; AppleTV+ docuseries “The Super Models”; and Hulu miniseries “The 1619 Project.” Joining Williams’ impressive output this year is Netflix’s “Stamped From the Beginning,” an adaptation of the eponymous bestselling book by Ibram X. Kendi about the history of racism and anti-Blackness in the U.S.

Luh Tyler, the star of The Cover this week on NME, has compiled a playlist to accompany the feature – listen to it below.The Tallahassee-raised artist is on this week’s (November 13) edition of The Cover, a renewal of NME’s commitment to supporting emerging talent across the globe on a weekly basis. Every week, a rising artist will feature on The Cover – you can read the interview with Luh Tyler in full here.To celebrate, the rapper has shared a playlist titled ‘Relaxing with Luh Tyler’, and it features the 17-year-old’s recent single ‘I’m Him’, alongside tracks from Billie Eilish, Skilla Baby and Michigan rapper Veeze.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Rise and Shine World Sales has acquired In-Soo Radstake’s “Selling a Colonial War,” which world premieres in the International Competition section of documentary festival IDFA in Amsterdam. “Selling a Colonial War” looks to encourage the Dutch government and society to accept responsibility for their actions as a colonial power in Indonesia – and especially their actions when fighting a war in Indonesia after the country declared independence in 1945. The Dutch government still refrains from using the term “war crimes” to describe their actions as this would have great impact on calls for reparation.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Deckert Distribution CEO Liselot Verbrugge is to launch a new company as the German sales agency prepares to wind down its operations in 2024, with founder Heino Deckert moving fully to production. Verbrugge is attending IDFA documentary festival this week, where the Sundance awarded film “Against the Tide,” one of the agency’s bestsellers this year, is playing in the Best of Fest section. Amsterdam-based Verbrugge joined Deckert at the start of 2019 as head of sales and acquisition, starting with the roll out of double Academy Award nominated “Honeyland.” She took over the reins of the company as CEO two years ago.

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Christopher Vourlias A middle-aged man grappling with his thwarted ambitions grows obsessed with a beautiful young woman. The fallout threatens to unravel the fraying seams of his precarious, frustrated life in Stergios Paschos’ “The Last Taxi Driver,” which world premieres in the main competition this week at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival.

tribute to the late Friends star Matthew Perry.The Unley in Parkside found itself in hot water after introducing an $18 cocktail named the “Chandler Bing” in honor of Perry, who tragically passed away at his Los Angeles residence on Sunday.The cocktail, composed of Southern Comfort, peach schnapps, cranberry juice, fresh lime, and sugar, was introduced as the “cocktail of the month.”The pub’s Instagram post featured a caption that read: “A tribute to our sarcastic king.

Christopher Vourlias Fifth Season has nabbed global distribution rights to the Greek teen drama series “Milky Way,” an eight-part coming-of-age story centered on an unwanted pregnancy that’s written and directed by Vasilis Kekatos, who won the Palme d’Or and the Queer Palm at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival for his short film “The Distance Between Us and the Sky.” Produced by Foss Productions in association with Play2Place and in co-production with Greek broadcaster Mega TV, “Milky Way” was the first Greek series ever to compete at Series Mania, where the edgy drama invited comparisons to HBO’s “Euphoria.” The show, which is set to launch in Greece Nov. 2 on Mega and Vodafone TV On Demand, will premiere its third episode Nov. 10 at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival.