Malia Obama's New Stage Name Revealed After Sundance Film Festival Debut

It was meant to be a wholesome image to celebrate Mother’s Day in the UK, but a photo of Kate Middleton and her children has ended in controversy for the Prince and Princess of Wales.

Caroline Brew editor The Overlook Film Festival, which takes place from April 4 to April 7 in New Orleans, La. at the Prytania Theatres, has announced its initial 2024 lineup. The horror festival will open with Neon’s “Cuckoo” and close with the world premiere of Universal Pictures’ “Abigail.” The lineup includes 43 films — 20 features and 23 shorts — in addition to four live presentations and five immersive experiences.

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Machine Gun Kelly has changed his stage name to mgk.The rapper – real name Colson Baker – recently changed the name of his profiles on different streaming services such as Spotify and YouTube as well as his X/Twitter account to mgk – the initials of his pseudonym Machine Gun Kelly.According to a biography on the talent First Avenue, the musician revealed that he “got the name Machine Gun Kelly because of my rapid-fire delivery when I was 15 and started doing shows.”His most recent single ‘Don’t Let Me Go’, which arrived on February 21, was the first release under his new moniker of mgk.A post shared by colson xx blonde don (@machinegunkelly)Last year, speculation of a name change arose when Baker’s comments and online activity suggested that he had started going by “machine”.It came after he was previously asked by comedy duo Chad and JT at one of his shows to change his name in a video. During the show in question the pair held up a sign that read, “Change your name!!!”“I have no idea what that sign means,” he replied on stage at the time.“We want you to change your name.

Machine Gun Kelly is proving brevity is the soul of wit!

Machine Gun Kelly is stepping out for a bite to eat.

Malia Obama. The eldest daughter of Barack and Michelle Obama recently came under fire after she premiered her first short. The film, titled “The Heart,” premiered at Sundance Film Festival, with her name listed as Malia Ann.

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Malia Obama is enjoying her life in Los Angeles after premiering her first short at the start of the year. The daughter of Barack and Michelle Obama was photographed looking stylish and she grabbed some dinner with a group of friends. Michelle Obama talks about embracing a new stage of parentingThe Obama family enjoys dinner with Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson in GreeceMalia was spotted at “Petit Trois,” a French restaurant in Los Angeles, where she met up with some of her girlfriends.

Martin Scorsese was at the Berlinale this week for the first time in a decade. His presence to collect an honorary Golden Bear was a reminder of the festival’s glories of yesteryear.

Ernst Lubitsch, Stanley Kubrick and Roman Polanski are among eight older titles set to play at next month’s Hong Kong International Film Festival. Lubitsch’s 1920 farce “Kohlhiesel’s Daughters,” will be presented with a live music accompaniment by the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble. And, despite rumors to the contrary, Kubrick’s first feature, “Fear and Desire,” has been preserved intact and will play at the festival with nine minutes of previously deleted footage.

Amanda Seyfried looked stunning at the Berlin Film Festival!

a resurfaced clip produced by Sundance in which she describes the movie, Malia dropped her globally recognized last name and is credited on the project as Malia Ann.Malia described “The Heart” as “an odd little story, somewhat of fable, about a man grieving the death of his mother after she leaves him an unusual request in her will.”She studied filmmaking at Harvard University as a visual and environmental studies major and landed a job as a writer on Janine Nabers and Donald Glover’s Amazon Prime series “Swarm,” which premiered in March 2023.Still, fans on X, the platform previously known as Twitter, were conflicted about Malia, who lived in the White House during her dad’s two presidential terms from 2009 to 2017, seemingly trying to distance herself from her famous moniker. “Nepo baby strikes again,” one hater tweeted on Wednesday.

Oof! Malia Obama‘s start in Hollywood isn’t going so well!

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent The Locarno Film Festival has formed an advisory board for its industry side and recruited a roster of top indie industry figures including former Amazon Studios film executive Ted Hope, Bobby Allen, who is senior VP of content at Mubi, and former European Film Market chief Beki Probst as members. Locarno’s industry advisory board will be headed by Nadia Dresti, the former head of the prominent Swiss indie cinema event’s market side who has been with Locarno intermittently for roughly 30 years with an interlude for a few years as head of marketing for Fox Switzerland.

EXCLUSIVE: Martin Scorsese is returning to the Berlin Film Festival tomorrow for the first time in a decade. The cinema legend, currently on the awards circuit with latest epic Killers Of The Flower Moon, will be feted with the Berlinale‘s highest honor, its lifetime achievement Golden Bear.

Rooney Mara is hard at work promoting her new movie La Cocina at the 74th Berlinale International Film Festival on Friday (February 16) in Berlin, Germany.

When Australian writer Lily Brett published her novel Too Many Men in 2001, critics marvelled at the light, comic tone she had managed to strike in a novel about the lasting impact of the Holocaust, passed down from one generation to the next. Families have their customary jokes; they squabble over the dinner table; they may be funny characters but, underneath it all, there is a consciousness of pain. That’s not an easy balance to strike, as a writer or as an actor.

Cillian Murphy and Matt Damon are stepping out for the premiere of their new movie!

Glasgow Film Festival (GFF) has revealed the stars who will be joining them for their 20th anniversary, including Viggo Mortensen and Maxine Peake.