'My Big Fat Fabulous Life' Season 11 Trailer: Whitney Tearfully Mourns Her Mom and Finds Her Half-Sister

Whitney Way Thore is giving fans a peek at her late mom's burial site. On Thursday, the star posted a video of herself visiting the mausoleum where her late mom, Barbara «Babs» Thore, is interred.In the Instagram video, Whitney showed Barbara's final resting place, which featured a plaque that dubbed the late TLC star «America's Mom.»«Loved by her family and adored by millions,» the plaque read. «The love of my life, my sweetheart for 45 years.

yet.«It's the craziest season we've ever had. And, you know, the saddest obviously, because I've always thought that my mom was really the star of the show,» Whitney tells ET's Deidre Behar about the upcoming 11th season. Season 11 of the hit TLC series begins with her beloved mother, Barbara «Babs» Thore's, funeral, giving the viewers a chance to publicly grieve alongside Whitney, her father, Glenn, and brother, Hunter.While the family knows that's what Babs would have wanted, many users online have pushed back against their decision to broadcast the service.

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline can reveal the international trailer for Roman Polanski’s ensemble dark comedy The Palace ahead of its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival in September.

The UK spends a lower percentage of its GDP on financial support for disabled people and sick workers than any other country in north-west Europe, the SNP has claimed.

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Estonia has selected the Sundance prize-winning doc Smoke Sauna Sisterhood as its entry for the Best International Feature Film category at the 2024 Oscars.

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American hardcore punk band Turnstile have been forced to postpone a huge sold-out gig at O2 Victoria Warehouse just hours before the show was due to take place.

Marta Balaga The hype is real: Ali Ahmadzadeh’s “Critical Zone” (“Mantagheye bohrani”) has picked up the top Golden Leopard at Locarno. It has been a bumpy ride for the film, set in Tehran over the course of one lonely night and described by the fest as “a hymn to freedom and resistance.” As reported by Variety, Iranian authorities have been pressuring Ahmadzadeh to pull it from the Swiss festival – arguing it was shot without permission – and with the director himself banned from leaving the country. “Instead of actors, I worked with real people.

Oliver Tree has announced a handful of UK and EU dates in the autumn as part of his ‘Oliver Tree Presents Alone In A Crowd’ tour.The tour will kick off in October with shows in Australia and New Zealand. From there, the European leg will embark on November 1 in Paris and then Luxembourg on November 2.

Whitney Way Thore is addressing the criticism against her. One day after it was revealed that season 11 of will feature footage of Barbara «Babs» Thore's funeral, Whitney took to Instagram to defend her family's decision to allow cameras to capture the somber occasion.

Marta Balaga You can approach old classics just like new films, argued participants during Locarno’s Heritage Monday panel. “I talked to an exhibitor in Paris and they don’t consider repertory cinema to be different from contemporary cinema. They are collapsing both models into one and it’s very interesting,” said K.J.

John Bleasdale Guest Contributor “The Vanishing Soldier” is a coming of age story, as breathless as its protagonist: the kind of film that will make cinephiles of seventeen-year-olds. Which is one of the reasons that Dani Rosenberg, the film’s 43-year-old director, is delighted to be in Locarno, where the film, sold by Intramovies, is screening in main competition, and has just got a trailer, and poster, shared in exclusivity with Variety. “We had options for other festivals,” Rosenberg told Variety at the Swiss fest.

Marta Balaga It was a good day for female filmmakers – and documentaries – at Locarno Pro, with “Mother Vera” by Cécile Embleton and Alys Tomlinson winning the Creativity Media First Look Award on Sunday at Locarno’s pix-in-post competition, dedicated this year to the U.K. Dedicated to a young Orthodox nun, “Mother Vera” shows her turbulent past and fragile future as she faces inner conflict after 20 years as a monastic.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor Jamie Lee Curtis doesn’t pretend to know when she thinks the SAG-AFTRA strike will end. “I have no idea,” the Oscar winner told me Thursday morning at Project Angel Food’s groundbreaking ceremony for The Chuck Lorre Family Foundation Campus in Los Angeles. However, Curtis says she remains “hopeful” that the actors union and AMPTP can find common ground.” “I’m hopeful that we can all see all sides.

Salma Hayek’s dog Lobito is all grown up! The pooch even has his driver’s license. On Wednesday, the animal lover shared a hilarious video of the beautiful white Swiss Shepherd behind the wheel of her SUV.A post shared by Salma Hayek Pinault (@salmahayek)Hayek loves animals and has over 30 pets, including dogs, cats, alpacas, parrots, chickens, fishes, horses, geese, rabbits, hamsters, one owl, and more.

Roland Emmerich’s upcoming gladiator series Those About to Die has been picked up by Prime Video across Europe.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Prime Video has acquired the Ancient Rome gladiator drama series “Those About to Die” in multiple European territories. The show is directed by “Independence Day” helmer Roland Emmerich and Marco Kreuzpaintner. The 10-episode first season will debut exclusively on Prime Video in Germany, the U.K., France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Ireland, Poland, Turkey, Andorra, Monaco, Luxembourg and Belgium.

Taylor Swift is quite the “Lover” after gifting truck drivers on The Eras Tour with $100,000 bonuses.

Marta Balaga Starring Deva Cassel, Laura Luchetti’s “The Beautiful Summer” (“La Bella Estate”) has bowed sales and a trailer, ahead of its world premiere at this week’s Locarno Festival. In a first deal to go down for sales agent True Colours, Palace Films has swooped on distribution rights to Australia and New Zealand. Xenix Filmdistribution will release in Switzerland “The Beautiful Summer,” which is loosely based on Cesare Pavese’s novel.