Mattea Roach, the queer ‘Jeopardy!’ semifinalist

Daniel Albaladejo Robles Growing up on the island of Tenerife at a time when pursuing a career in animation and film was out of bounds, Albaladejo moved to Madrid to study both subjects at the Madrid Film School. His first jobs were on children’s series “Jelly Jamm,” “Pocoyo” and “The Amazing World of Gumball.” His VFX credits include “Game of Thrones” and “A Monster Calls” at El Ranchito in Madrid. “For the past few years, I have focused on storyboarding or animation, working as a freelancer for various studios, including Las Palmas-based Amuse,” he says. He recently worked on animated docu pic, “Mariposas Negras,” and is now collaborating on a U.K. series under wraps. AMDLF

Behind the tragic story of Anne Frank and her family, there is an oft-unsung hero who risked her life to protect them in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.

Two brothers, who are part of a notorious criminal group referred to as 'The Family', are fighting to hold on to a luxury house years after they were locked up.

Peter Caranicas Deputy Editor The Los Angeles Greek Film Festival, an annual showcase that brings films and filmmakers from Greece, Cyprus and other countries in the region to the United States, announced the winners of its 2023 Orpheus Awards at a ceremony on Sunday night at the Silver Screen Theatre in the Pacific Design Center. Toplining the honors: “Listen,” directed by Maria Douza, which won for best fiction feature film. “Iman,” helmed Corina Avramidou and Kyriakos Tofarides, took home the special jury award for best film, and Panos Koutras won the best director award for “Dodo.” Spiros Jacovides won an honorable mention for best director for “Black Stone,” and Efthalia Papacosta was awarded the best performance trophy for “Listen.” “Black Stone” also won the audience award for feature film, and an honorable mention for best performance went to Stephanie Atala for “Iman.”

Manchester City have qualified for the UEFA Super Cup after beating Inter Milan 1-0 in the final of the Champions League on Saturday night.

Film and television writers from around the world will be picketing and rallying Wednesday in support of the Writers Guild strike, which is now in its 39th day.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter The CW is set to become the first U.S. broadcaster to air the hit Biblical epic series “The Chosen.” The three existing seasons of the series will begin airing on the network on July 16 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. It will continue airing in that timeslot throughout the rest of the year, with the Season 3 finale scheduled to air on Christmas Eve. A fourth season of the series is currently in production, with seven seasons planned. News of the series finding a U.S. broadcast home comes less than three weeks after it was announced that Lionsgate had acquired the sub-licensing distribution rights worldwide for the series. It hails from creator, director, and producer Dallas Jenkins. The show tells the story of Jesus, played by Jonathan Roumie, through the eyes of his followers.

The Pride Atlas by Maartje Hensen takes you on a written and visual journey through 500 of these queer spots, so you can add them to the bucket list of your next trip. Design The Pride Atlas is designed and organized beautifully.

Pink is already having a stellar 2023 after scoring her fourth UK Number 1 album in February with TRUSTFALL. The bop-packed album increased her tally of Top 40 singles to 38 after Never Not Gonna Dance Again and the Fred again..-produced TRUSTFALL peaked at Number 19 and Number 14 respectively.

Selome Hailu The Native American and Indigenous Writers committee is “one of the smallest committees in the Writers Guild, but [with] one of the loudest voices ever” according to its vice chair Aiko Little — which was evidenced by the turnout of some 100 picketers who joined the NAIWC for a strike event in front of Walt Disney Studios on Wednesday. The NAIWC’s Disney picket was the most recent of a string of of WGA strike events over the past several weeks that have gathered writers from specific marginalized backgrounds — Trans Takeover Thursday, for example — to highlight how current working conditions are affecting them while celebrating storytellers from their communities.

If you grew up in Greater Manchester, there's a good chance you will have memories of being packed off to Center Parcs for a family holiday.

Making their own Fight Club. The highly anticipated queer comedy Bottoms follows two high school girls who try to hook up with cheerleaders by starting a self-defense group.

Prince William, Kate, Princess of Wales and Princess Beatrice, demonstrating the strength of the ongoing friendship between the British and Jordanian Royal Families. In turn King Abdullah II and Queen Rania, Crown Prince Hussein's parents, were in attendance both at the King's Coronation in May and Queen Elizabeth's state funeral last September. Here Express.

sharing an anti-Nazi quote, with fans accusing him of fascism and intolerance.Morello, who has played guitar with the rock band for more than three decades, posted the quote to his Twitter page Wednesday. “German saying: If 9 people sit down at a table with 1 Nazi without protest, there are 10 Nazis at the table,” the post read. While the quote was unattributed, it clearly claims those who politely engage with people who demonstrate hateful behavior are complicit in their bad acts.

attended the royal wedding of Crown Prince Hussein of Jordan and Rajwa Alseif on May 31, and . Kate wore a floaty, blush pink maxi dress to the Islamic ceremony, which was held in Amman, Jordan, per . A pattern of intricate embroidery decorated the gown's bodice and gave it texture, with additional embroidered detailing on the cuffs of her long and slightly puffed bell sleeves. She finished the Cinderella-esque look with her signature shiny brown waves parted to the side and statement drop earrings.

Inside Jeopardy! podcast, executive producer Michael Davies divulged that Roach — who uses they/them pronouns — has “never” studied for the trivia series.The 24-year-old had lost to fellow victor James Holzhauer during the “Jeopardy! Masters” tournament on May 24, placing second.Roach’s mom Patti had been in the audience during the broadcast and Davies recalled what she said at the time.“[Patti] told me that Mattea spends zero time, and has spent zero time ever practicing for this show,” the EP explained.“They don’t learn trivia, they don’t read trivia books, they don’t sit on the floor in the children’s book department like James,” he said, referencing that Holzhauer used to read kids books to study.“Everything they know is from reading, sitting in front of the TV, reading newspapers and being in front of intelligent people,” Davies revealed.He then noted how Roach’s parents “were so involved in that, and get so much credit in their broad liberal arts education.”“It just shows their potential,” he said.

At Tuesday night’s world premiere of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, there was a huge sigh of relief from the mass of animators inside Westwood’s Regency Village Theater: The $100M-budgeted sequel to the Oscar-winning 2018 animated movie Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, was done, having completed post-production literally just 10 days ago after a five-year trek to the screen which included a Covid delay due to the backlog in post-production houses. Starting today abroad, and into Thursday in U.S./Canada, the continuing adventures of Miles Morales will see the light of day in what is expected to be a $150M global opening.

Camila Cabello got her sweat on at a gym in Soho on Monday. The Señorita singer, 25, wore white shorts with a drawstring waist, a cropped white tank top and black trainers. Her raven hair is swept back into a ponytail and she is wearing brown sunglasses.

Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello continue to heat up rumours of their rekindled romance.

Taylor Swift on Friday surprised Swifties by bringing out Ice Spice to perform her «Karma» remix at her Eras Tour at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.The crowd got quite the treat, as it was the first time the duo performed the track together on stage. What's more, fans in attendance also got a first-look at the remix's music video, which was released wide later that night.