‘The Quiet Girl’ Debuts, ‘RRR’ Revs Up, ‘Navalny’ Returns For A Week As Oscars Approach – Specialty Preview

Former Love Island stars Chloe Burrows and Millie Court have once again reunited as they jetted off to sunny South Africa ahead of the Love Island final. After landing in Cape Town, the besties, who met on the hit dating show last summer, made good use of their close proximity to the Stellenbosch wine region and went tasting one afternoon, where the pair were joined by TV presenter AJ Odudu, 35.

Becoming, the South African reality series spotlighting the transgender and queer community, has returned for a second season on Mzansi Magic.

Following Morgan Freeman’s onstage appearance at the 2023 Oscars, viewers took to Twitter sharing messages of concern over the actor’s glove worn on his left hand.

The grand finale of Winter Love Island 2023 is set to take place this evening and host Maya Jama has been busy getting prepared in South Africa. Maya, 28, will reveal whether Ron Hall and Lana Jenkins, Kai Fagan and Sanam Harrinanan, Tom Clare and Samie Elishi or Tanya Manhenga and Shaq Muhammad are the winning couple of this year's series on Monday 13 January live from Cape Town.

John Travolta will always be Hopelessly Devoted to Olivia Newton-John.

the Oscars In Memoriam montage on Sunday night.The segment, which was introduced by a teary-eyed John Travolta who lost his “Grease” co-star Olivia Newton-John and longtime friend and co-star Kirstie Alley, included a performance of “Calling All Angels” by Lenny Kravitz.Fans took to social media to slam the snubs, with others noting that Leslie Jordan, Tony Sirico and Tom Sizemore were also noticeably absent in the televised tribute. Following the end of the segment, the Academy directed viewers to its website for a longer list, but fans were still angry about omissions.

2023 Oscars on Sunday.Will Smith didn’t return to violently clobber Chris Rock. He couldn’t.

“We’ve come a long way that two men can share an Oscar,” joked Academy Awards host Jimmy Kimmel after the commercial break following Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s win for Best Director for A24’s Everything Everywhere All at Once.

As Alexei Navalny’s wife and daughter attend Sunday’s Oscars to honor Daniel Roher’s nominated documentary “Navalny,” his daughter, Dasha, delivered a touching message to her imprisoned father on the red carpet.“I miss him and I love him and we’re doing everything we can to get him out,” Dasha Navalnaya told TheWrap on the Oscars red carpet. “I’m just honored to be here to represent the Russian people who are fighting against authoritarian regime in the country and to get my dad out of prison.”While Roher admits attending the 95th Academy Awards feels “amazing” and represents a “terrific honor,” the director of the Best Documentary Feature nominee confirmed he is thinking of Navalny and that the Russian dissident is “with [him] in spirit.” “I don’t lose sight of the fact that I’m here because Alexei Navalny, the leader of the Russian opposition, is sitting in the Gulag six and a half hours outside of Moscow,” Roher told TheWrap.

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban are all loved up!

“Triangle of Sadness,” paid tribute to the late actress Charlbi Dean ahead of the 2023 award show.Dean died last August at a New York City hospital after getting bacterial sepsis. She was 32.The South African actress starred as the lead character, a spoiled influencer named Yaya, in “Triangle of Sadness,” which is up for awards in three categories tonight.“She was a trouper, a very easygoing, cool person,” Hemmendorff told the Hollywood Reporter in an interview ahead of the ceremony.Reflecting back on making the Ruben Östlund-directed movie, Hemmendorff said that Dean immediately came to his mind when they were casting the film. “So we got a hold of her and asked her, ‘Would you come to Sweden for two days because we are not going to give you a role if you don’t do a real casting with Ruben at our office,'” the producer explained.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, subject of the Oscar-nominated documentary that bears his name, remains imprisoned outside Moscow, and thus unable to attend the Academy Awards tonight. But he will be represented at the ceremony by his closest family members.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Oscar voting is kicking off, and 366 films are vying for the Academy’s attention for best picture, in addition to their selections in their respective branches. One important note to Academy members: Fill out your ballots in full. Every Academy member votes for best picture, outside of their respective branch association. For best picture, the member is invited to list up to five films in preferential order. In the days of paper ballots, there were horror stories of voters writing the same film five times on their entries, but those days are gone with electronic voting. However, listing five films is crucially important based on the Academy tabulation methods, which involves a lot of math. As we remain in the final year of the “sliding scale,” where the results can produce any number of nominees between five and 10, simply put, all lines matter.

A single mum with cancer given just months to live is desperate to spend her final days in her native South Africa.

Shout! Studios presents The Magic Flute by Florian Zigl, executive produced by Roland Emmerich, at 325 theaters with expansion likely. A reimagining of the Mozart opera, it follows a present-day teen sent from London to the Austrian Alps on singing scholarship at the legendary Mozart boarding school. There, he discovers a century old forgotten passageway into the magical world of Mozart’s famed opera.

You’ve heard of single-setting thrillers, “127 Hours,” “Buried,” etc., but “On A Wing And A Prayer,” a new Prime Video film, is a bit of a twist on the genre and centers on a family on a vacation flight that turns deadly when the pilot has a heart attack and dies and the husband, a sort-of recreational flier who has a little bit of basic flying training, is tasked with safely landing the plane and rescuing his family from danger.

They’re back. RLJE Films presents Stephen King reboot Children of The Corn by Kurt Wimmer on 500+ screens. A remake of the 1984 classic kid-slasher-horror film about children possessed by a demonic spirit in a dying cornfield, with bloody, rampaging results.

Lainey Wilson and Piper Perabo, has been an incredible experience, and they both feel there's a whole lot of story to tell.Wilson and Perabo both walked the carpet at this year's Billboard Women in Music awards gala in Los Angeles on Wednesday, and they spoke with ET's Diedre Behar about their time on the hit modern Western and rumors that it might be coming to an end.«It's been crazy, you know, I feel like I learned something about myself that I didn't even know,» Wilson said of her time on the show — which also marks the country singer's acting debut. «I feel like I just I love being creative, whatever that means, and diving in head first.

Lainey Wilson and Piper Perabo, has been an incredible experience, and they both feel there's a whole lot of story to tell.Wilson and Perabo both walked the carpet at this year's Billboard Women in Music awards gala in Los Angeles on Wednesday, and they spoke with ET's Diedre Behar about their time on the hit modern Western and rumors that it might be coming to an end.«It's been crazy, you know, I feel like I learned something about myself that I didn't even know,» Wilson said of her time on the show — which also marks the country singer's acting debut. «I feel like I just I love being creative, whatever that means, and diving in head first.

Love Island's Ellie Spence has taken to her Instagram to show off her new hairdo after having revealed the insights on being on the show. Ellie, 25, entered the villa as a bombshell on day ten of the show alongside Spencer Wilks, and soon chose to couple up with Ron Hall, who was with Lana Jenkins at the time. However, she was dumped two weeks later along with Jordan when the two was picked as the least compatible couple by the viewers.