She doesn’t even have to try! Kaley Cuoco was effortlessly sexy at the Based on a True Story premiere in Los Angeles on Thursday, June 1 .
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The winds of change are sweeping Iran as the ‘Woman Life Freedom’ protests, provoked by the killing of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini last September, continue. Here, four Iranian disruptors talk about their struggles, their acts of solidarity for the pro-democracy movement, and their hopes for the future of their country.
Marjane Satrapi, who was 9 years old when Ayatollah Khomeini came to power in 1979, recalls taking to the streets with her politically active parents to protest against the imposition of the hijab. “My mum went to demonstrate, and I went too, and so did my dad,” recalls the graphic novelist and filmmaker. “He was one of the very few men; they didn’t understand at the time that women’s rights are society’s rights.”
Satrapi’s parents sent her to Europe to study as a teenager and encouraged her to make her permanent home there. Satrapi captured these experiences in the graphic novel series Persepolis, which she turned into an animated feature in 2007. Having lived in exile in Paris since the early 1990s, Satrapi has often received threats and slurs from the regime over her work.
“I’ve been called a liar and a spy. I’ve learned in life not to be scared,” she says. “It’s not that you don’t feel fear; you feel the fear, but then you decide whether you care about it or not. It’s not that I’m fearless or careless but there are kids in my country who are being shot and they are 17 years old, while I have lived for more than half a century.”
Satrapi recently organized a flash mob in front of the Iranian embassy in Paris in solidarity with five Tehran teenagers who were arrested for posting a TikTok dancing to the Rema and Selena Gomez track “Calm Down”. She is also working behind the scenes with a team of young
She doesn’t even have to try! Kaley Cuoco was effortlessly sexy at the Based on a True Story premiere in Los Angeles on Thursday, June 1 .
Tina Turner never got to meet her grandchildren or great-grandchildren before her death, according to reports. A representative for the music legend confirmed that she died “peacefully” at her home in Switzerland aged 83 on May 24. The Proud Mary hit-maker had long been battling high blood pressure and kidney failure and passed away from natural causes.
Arctic Monkeys' biggest UK and Irish tour to date stops off in Manchester this weekend as the Sheffield rockers head to Emirates Old Trafford for two massive gigs. Due to the size of the event there will be tight security and a number of guidelines for gig-goers to keep in mind when heading to the cricket ground.
Selena Gomez and Edgar Ramírez are part of the Bey hive! The Mexican-American singer and actress and the Venezuelan actor were seen together at Beyoncé’s Renaissance World Tour concert in Paris. Although it is unknown how the two met, Elle Magazine reported that Selena is starting principal photography for French director Jacques Audiard’s new musical crime comedy Emilia Perez, which also stars Karla Sofia Gascón and Zoe Saldaña.It was reported by Variety that the film’s production was delayed by scheduling conflicts, and while it seems both Selena and Zoe had been busy with other projects, the pair began shooting this Spring.Selena Gomez’s to host two new cooking shows in the Food NetworkGloria Estefan shares her feelings about being inducted into the Songwriter’s Hall of FameBeyoncé brings out Blue Ivy to perform in front of 80,000 people in Paris, FranceDespite being unknown if Edgar is involved in the project, speculations of him being part of the highly anticipated crime comedy cast began circulating.
Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” production team actually had to engineer the 65mm black and white Imax film created for the production in order to shoot the movie.A new behind the scenes featurette, “Oppenheimer – Shooting For Imax,” breaks it all down. Watch the embed below.“How are we going to do it? Because 65mm black and white was a format that didn’t exist,” cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema said.
Ariana Madix and Raquel Leviss came face-to-face in the same room for the first time since that “Vanderpump Rules” cheating scandal was revealed during the season 10 reunion that aired on Wednesday.
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Beyoncé's concert on Friday.
The stars shined bright in the City of Light for Beyoncé’s concert on Friday. The celebrated songstress hit up Paris for a stop on her Renaissance World Tour, and a slew of A-listers came out to watch the show.
Taylor Swift is making moves for an Official Singles Chart takeover this week with a three tracks from the newly-released Midnights (The Til Dawn Edition) heading for the Top 10.
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Through the rollercoaster years when Tina Turner broke free from her abusive marriage and went solo to conquer the world, she could always rely on her personal assistant Eddy Hampton Armani.
Christopher Vourlias What’s in a name? For the Congolese Belgian rapper-turned-filmmaker Baloji, whose directorial debut, “Omen,” bows in the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section on May 22, it’s a question that poses itself whenever flustered immigration officials inspect his passport at the airport in Congo. “Always the same question, every time,” Baloji tells Variety. “Do you know what it means?” In the pre-colonial era, baloji meant “man of science” in Swahili, but the word became corrupted by Christian evangelists during the years of Belgian colonial rule. Today it is more akin to a man of occult sciences and sorcery. “Some people of faith do not dare to say my name in public for fear of invoking evil spirits and the suspicions that may accompany it,” the director says. “In such an animistic culture it is equivalent to being called devil or demon in the West.”
BOYNEXTDOOR have released a music video for their new single ‘One and Only’.Today (May 26), the six-member group dropped a music video for ‘One and Only’, one of three tracks from their upcoming debut project ‘WHO!’. The song was co-written and -produced by Block B’s Zico, the founder of the boyband’s label KOZ Entertainment.In the new music video, the BOYNEXTDOOR members head out for a day at the mall, where they go shopping for vintage clothing and perform the song in the middle of an atrium.
Ready for round three! Claire Holt and her husband, Andrew Joblon, are gearing up to welcome their third child — and the actress is showing off her baby bump in style.
Addie Morfoot Contributor Corporate consolidation, along with shrinking publicity budgets and streaming services’ willingness to bury their own content, have made film festivals and series increasingly desirable to documentary filmmakers who are not only seeking distribution, but also to those nonfiction helmers who have found a platform for their work. The rocky landscape has made the competition fierce for a slot at not only top-tier festivals, but also regional film events like New York’s Rooftop Films’ Summer Series. Over the course of the last year, Rooftop Films president Dan Nuxoll received 3,500 film submissions for the nonprofit organization’s 27th annual Summer Series, which kicks off on May 25. Only 23 feature films and seven shorts were accepted. (Not all films have been announced.)
Suranne Jones is back with a star-studded drama on ITV, which was inspired by her dreams.
Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” stars Harrison Ford in his final performance as the swashbuckling fedora-wearing adventurer, a legendary role he’s played in five films across 40 years. But he says he is officially ready to retire the character. “Is it not evident?” the 80-year-old actor joked at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday’s press conference for the action-adventure. “I need to sit down and rest a little bit.” In returning to the character for one last time, Ford expressed a desire to see “a completion of the five films.” He added, “I wanted to see the weight of life on him. I wanted to see him require reinvention. I wanted him to have a relationship that wasn’t a flirty movie relationship.
pic.twitter.com/qlCGYgc2eYThe actor, turning 81 in just under two months, was moved amid the seemingly positive response to the fifth and allegedly final “Indiana Jones” movie. Released by Walt Disney, Lucasfilm’s latest actioner comes courtesy of not Steven Spielberg but director James Mangold, who has some experience helming acclaimed “one last ride” franchise installments like Hugh Jackman’s “Logan.” While “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” debuted at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, that was just days before its global Memorial Day weekend theatrical release.