The Malta Film Commission is launching a Mediterranean-focused film festival building on its growing position as a key international shooting location.
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ex-wife and current business partner are hoping to even the playing field for those lacking industry connections who still wish to pursue professional arts. The platform aims to be an inclusive and all-encompassing place for artists to share their reels, auditions and related work product for those doing the hiring, while also presenting opportunities for intermingling among folks within different parts of the overall creative community.
“Hollywood is in serious need of a shakeup, and Holly is the answer to a more collaborative environment where we partner with agencies, studios and other industry players to provide more access for talent and more diverse content for viewers,” Terrence Howard said. Billed as a “LinkedIn meets Instagram for talent,” Holly aims to democratize the talent pool amid a business that has become increasingly nepotistic and connections-driven.
The Howards will begin an equity-based crowdfunding round Friday. The service will be completely free for talent, at least for now.
Those on the other side of the proverbial wall, like studio executives, talent agencies or production companies, will have to pay a subscription fee for access to the talent pool. While revenue will theoretically be earned via subscriptions, one hope is that the service will eventually generate in-platform artistic collaborations which would themselves generate revenue. The company is working on several tentative features, including potential equity crowdfunding capabilities that will enable talent, fans and folks from the industry to invest directly into television and film projects and a marketplace designed to help talent find legal services, talent management, rights and identity management and more.
The Malta Film Commission is launching a Mediterranean-focused film festival building on its growing position as a key international shooting location.
Naman Ramachandran The Malta Film Commission is launching the first-ever Mediterrane Film Festival, a new annual event dedicated to celebrating film and creativity. Running from June 25-30, the festival will take place at Valletta, Malta’s capital, and other locations across the country The festival aims to serve as a platform for Malta to continue building its film brand image worldwide and attract more film business to the islands. Prominent films shot in recent years in Malta include Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon,” Terrence Malick’s “The Way of the Wind” and Colin Trevorrow’s “Jurassic World Dominion.” The program, which will be revealed during the Cannes Film Festival, will showcase films from each of the MED9 (an alliance of nine Mediterranean and Southern European Union member states: Croatia, Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain) nations. Screenings will be accessible to the public, and the featured films will be in the running for various awards.
Chris Appleton is a very happy husband.
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, 41, who worked as an actress before marrying Prince Harry, will be represented by global talent agency WME, which counts her close friend among its A-list clients. Tilda Swinton, Sir Patrick Stewart, and Helena Bonham Carter are also on the books.“Film and television production, brand partnerships, and overall business-building will be explored,” reveals , which first broke the news of the signing.
You star Lukas Gage and celeb hairstylist Chris Appleton managed to pull off a Vegas wedding that was both intimate and A-list, officiated by none other than Kim Kardashian. After , the pair quickly announced an engagement, and while in Vegas for an event, found time to tie the knot.
Lukas Gage and Chris Appleton tied the knot over the weekend with some very special guests in attendance.
Carol Burnett was feeling the love ahead of her 90th birthday special. celebrates the legendary icon's storied career on her birthday and features a slew of A-list friends, performers and colleagues, such as Bernadette Peters, Katy Perry, Julie Andrews, Cher and more, as they pay tribute to Burnett. The beloved icon sat down with ET's Nischelle Turner ahead of Wednesday's two-hour special, which was filmed in March at the Avalon Hollywood in Los Angeles, where she reflected on the joyous celebration in her honor.«It was wonderful and embarrassing at the same time. It was so sweet and loving and I had so many good friends there and I was so touched by everything they said,» Burnett said in the exclusive sit-down interview. «You're going to have my chum, Julie Andrews, next to me.
People reports that the White Lotus actor and his celebrity hairstylist beau did obtain a marriage license in Clark County, Nevada.During the awards ceremony at the Beverly Hills Hotel, Kim Kardashian presented Appleton with the hair artist of the year award.The reality TV star took the opportunity to make a joke about her friend.“I’m so happy he’s in a relationship right now and that it’s out there,” she began, having cut him off to launch into her short monologue. “Because I’m so tired of all my girlfriends and guy friends asking me if you’re available, and who my hot guy is who is always with me.”A post shared by Chris Appleton (@chrisappleton1)Page Six reports that Gage and Appleton may have secretly gotten married at the Little White Chapel in Las Vegas over the weekend.The report claims they wed in front of only half a dozen guests, including Kardashian.
Chris Appleton and Lukas Gage are married! The hairstylist and the actor tied the knot in Las Vegas on Saturday, a marriage license obtained by ET shows.The duo said «I do» at the Little White Chapel in front of six guests, including Kim Kardashian, according to , who first reported news of the nuptials.After they tied the knot, Appleton jetted back to California to attend The Daily Front Row's 7th Annual Fashion Los Angeles Awards. At the ceremony, Kardashian, who was joined by her eldest child, 9-year-old North, presented Appleton with the Hair Artist of the Year award.«I also want to say thank you to Lukas,» Appleton said during his acceptance speech, «for being my rock and making me feel like I'm perfect when I know I'm not.»The whirlwind weekend came the same month that news of Appleton and Gage's engagement broke.
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Malaysia-based content group Vision New Media has promoted Min Lim to the newly created role of group CEO. She reports to founder and chairman Beng Teck Lim. Poh Lin Ho, who had been with Vision Plus Entertainment for nearly 40 years, latterly as its CEO, is stepping down from the business. Lim, who is currently head of production at group production business Double Vision, will now take responsibility for all content creation and distribution activities, plus the group’s extensive post-production, dubbing and subtitling services. She will also oversee Square Box Pictures, the group’s theatrical distribution arm, as well as long-standing television distributor Vision Plus Entertainment.
Bill Hader is content with closing the chapter on .The star of HBO's outgoing dark comedy kicked off the fourth and final season at Sunday's premiere event at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, where he spoke with ET's Denny Directo about feeling satisfied that he and the writers were able to end the show on their terms.«Oh yeah, it feels good,» Hader said. «It's nice to write, 'The End,' on the thing, but it's going to be sad to say bye to everybody.
Tim McGraw, the country music star whose acting career has hit a new gear lately with roles in Yellowstone and prequel 1883, is launching his own media company with backing from Skydance Media.
Taika Waititi projects. Yes, they're still happening, though it's still very much unclear exactly as to .ET's Ash Crossan spoke to Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy at the event in London, and she essentially reminded fans that no project is ever completely dead in Hollywood. When asked about the Lando series and Waititi's project, Kennedy said they're undoubtedly still in the works.«Oh yeah, all that's underway,» she told ET.
US Weekly, Lukas Gage and Chris Appleton are secretly – or perhaps not so secretly, at this point – engaged. The news comes just a few weeks after the couple confirmed their romantic relationship in the first place.Rumors about their romance had been swirling for months, and Appleton finally confirmed their relationship during a recent appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show.“I’m very happy [and] very much in love,” Appleton stated during his time on the daytime talk show, which took place just this March.
Lukas Gage and Chris Appleton are reportedly set to take their relationship to the next level.
Lukas Gage and Chris Appleton are taking the next step in their relationship. The 27-year-old actor and 39-year-old celebrity hairstylist are engaged, ET has confirmed. According to a source, the star told friends he and Appleton “got engaged” around the time they were in Mexico together in February. This news should come as no surprise to fans as the men have both publicly expressed how in love they are in recent interviews. «I think this mane needed to be tamed. I also needed to be tamed,» Gage quipped while on when he was asked about his relationship with Appleton.
somewhat controversial “You People” earlier this year and in 2021 co-starred in Adam McKay’s Oscar-nominated disaster movie “Don’t Look Up.” He also recently announced that he wouldn’t be promoting his own movies anymore.Hill is also collaborating with Apple Original Films on an upcoming Grateful Dead biopic directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewsk, where Hill would play Jerry Garcia and produce the film with Dines. (It’s unclear whether this will be Scorsese’s next movie after “Killers of the Flower Moon,” starring Leonard DiCaprio and Robert DeNiro, also for Apple.)Reeves, of course, is enjoying the enormous success of “John Wick: Chapter 4.” He’ll appear as the character, at least one more time, in next year’s spinoff “Ballerina.” Apple Original Films have been on quite the roll lately; they won the Best Picture Oscar for “CODA,” have just released the terrific “Tetris,” and have some exciting projects coming this year (not just “Killers of the Floor Moon”), including Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon,” Michael J.
Scots who have always dreamed of pop stardom can now record and release their own music with a brand new app.
Marta Balaga Norwegian animation “Pesta,” directed by Hanne Berkaak, will head to the Frontières Platform in May. Directed at genre film professionals, the event is organized by the Fantasia International Film Festival with the Cannes’ Marché du Film. The film, set in 1349 during the outbreak of the Black Plague, will see two teenagers, Astrid and Eilev, fighting for their forbidden love among the apocalypse as Astrid, a nobleman’s daughter, struggles with her growing desire for “the outcast heathen.” Granted development funding from the Norwegian Film Institute, “Pesta” is produced by Mikrofilm’s Tonje Skar Reiersen and Lise Fearnley. It’s also named after a shadowy figure from Norwegian folklore, a personification of the plague itself.