Romola Garai, Elizabeth Karlsen, Cheryl Dunye, Tilusha Ghelani to Mentor Writers Lab U.K. & Ireland, Participants Revealed (EXCLUSIVE)

Right at the beginning of The March On Rome, a special screening in the Venice Days section of the Venice Film Festival, Mark Cousins draws our collective gaze to a piece of graffiti saying that cinema is most powerful weapon of all. It isn’t clear — to me, anyway — whether that joyful proclamation dates back to 1922, when Benito Mussolini led a Fascist march from Naples to Rome, or to some other eruption of historical optimism. Cinema isn’t as powerful as all that — if it were, Fascism would have been clobbered to a pulp by Chaplin, Lubitsch and all the other filmmakers who lampooned its vainglorious leaders. But images do matter. They certainly mattered to Italian Fascism.

Amanda Holden and Geri Horner have joined millions of proud parents across the UK today celebrating GCSE results day. There were exciting scenes at schools around the country today as teenagers discovered the results of their hard work throughout a difficult year. Holden, 51, and Halliwell, 50, couldn’t have been more delighted for their children as they received their GCSE results.

Ireland Baldwin wants to make clear that she’s busy and productive.

“Wildwood” is getting wilder.The latest stop-motion animated feature from LAIKA, based on the series of novels by Colin Meloy, lead singer for The Decemberists, and illustrator Carson Ellis, is assembling a murderer’s row of vocal talent. The studio announced that Carey Mulligan, Mahershala Ali, Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Jacob Tremblay, Awkwafina, Angela Bassett, Jake Johnson, Charlie Day, Amandla Stenberg, Jemaine Clement, Maya Erskine, Tantoo Cardinal, Tom Waits and Richard E. Grant.“Wildwood” will be directed by LAIKA President & CEO Travis Knight (who last helmed “Kubo and the Two Strings” and also directed “Bumblebee”) from a script by Chris Butler (a genuine LAIKA stalwart, who directed “ParaNorman” and “Missing Link”).

Eastenders' Cheryl Fergison, known for playing Heather Trott on the long-running show, has shown off a glam new look with a series of snaps posted to Instagram. The 56 year old actress was attending a 1940s weekend, and she looked the part in a flower printed midi-dress with simple black shoes and a black handbag, with a bandana knotted into her brown hair.

Ireland Baldwin is taking a bold step with her hair, by shaving it all off.

A BBC star defended Love Island's Tasha Ghouri after Laura Whitmore made a dig at her wine knowledge. Laura, 37, sparked a backlash when she tried to mock Tasha on Saturday Kitchen.The Irish Love Island host jokingly made a dig about Tasha on Matt Tebbut's BBC daytime show, Saturday Kitchen.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeLiz Meriwether never got around to asking Amanda Seyfried if she was a “New Girl” fan. Meriwether, who created the long-running comedy, is also behind “The Dropout,” starring Seyfried. But Meriwether says she stopped talking about the show when too many people told her they didn’t even have a TV.

Naman Ramachandran Vertigo Releasing has acquired Phyllis Nagy’s “Call Jane,” starring Elizabeth Banks and Sigourney Weaver, for U.K. and Ireland distribution.The film explores the true story of the Janes, an underground collective of women, who in Chicago during the 1960s, came together to secretly provide nearly 12,000 women and girls with safe and secure abortions.

EJ Panaligan editorThe Native American Media Alliance announced the selection of six fellows for the 5th Annual Native American Feature Film Writers Lab, a talent development program that boosts the careers of Native American writers.The six fellows of the fifth annual Native American Feature Film Writers Lab are:The initiative comes in partnership with Comcast NBCUniversal, A+E Networks and the Cherokee Nation Film Office. The Writers Lab is an annual program for talented, aspiring screenwriters who, for over the course of ten weeks, will develop a new screenplay, meet with partner industry organizations and receive creative guidance on their scripts from literary professionals.

The Native American Media Alliance announced today they have selected six fellows for the 5th Annual Native American Feature Film Writers Lab, a talent development program that boosts the careers of Native American writers.

tiff.net.The full list of new additions:TIFF DOCS“752 Is Not a Number,” Babak Payami | Canada“All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” Laura Poitras | USA“Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On,” Madison Thomas | Canada“Casa Susanna,” Sébastien Lifshitz | France, USA“Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudovic Reels,” Mila Turajlic | Serbia, France, Croatia, Montenegro“The Colour of Ink,” Brian D.

Two wide studio releases will hopefully prevent this summer from reaching another low at the box office after last weekend’s $67.3M. If there’s one movie that’s going to pull ahead, sources are betting on Crunchyroll’s Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero. That distributor has proven in a short amount of time that they can draw a great deal of anime fans in a Friday through Sunday span. The Tetsuro Kodama directed animation movie is looking at anywhere from $12M-$15M, ahead of Universal’s genre lion-stalking film, Beast, starring Idris Elba; that pic hoping for at least double digits.

It should not be a stretch to say that the United States is currently in a state of cognitive disarray following the overruling of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court.