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Manori Ravindran International EditorAMC Entertainment is selling off nine of its Baltic theaters in a €65 million ($77 million) deal.The company said Monday that it has signed a deal to sell nine venues across Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia — cinemas AMC took on as part of its $929 million acquisition of Nordic Cinema Group in 2017.

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorAMC Entertainment said Monday it’s agreed to sell its nine theaters in the Baltic region (Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia) to UP Invest for €65 million (about $77 million) as it continues to shore up its balance sheet.The move follows a capital raise and debt restructuring July to bolster liquidity and strengthen its balance sheet, said CEO Adam Aron.

Jay Weissberg Ever since Thoreau published “Walden” in 1854, the eponymous pond has taken on a life far more metaphysical than geographic, appropriated by writers wanting to give a name to their own special place where life at some point in the past had the potential for time-stopping splendid isolation.

Ben Croll Set in Lithuania at the tail end of Communist rule, Bojena Horackova’s “Walden” offers a bittersweet look at a group of youths on two sides of a generational change.Selected as a part of Cannes’ ACID sidebar and making its world premiere at the  Locarno Film Festival, the film follows its withdrawn protagonist Jana across two timelines – both as a 17-year-old who falls in with a roguish crowd as she prepares to go west on a student visa, and then as middle-aged woman who has returned

Christopher Vourlias The Lithuanian Film Center will present five classics of Lithuanian cinema in the Locarno Film Festival’s online screening room as part of Heritage Online, the festival’s recently launched, first-of-its-kind platform that will serve as a database of films that premiered prior to 2005.A highlight will be “The Girl and the Echo,” by Arūnas Žebriūnas, which won the Silver Sail when it screened in Locarno in 1965 and will be launched in French cinemas this autumn, along with a

missing farm worker who police feared had been murdered has been found alive living rough in hidden woodland shelter almost five years after he vanished. Ricardas Puisys was 35 when he was last seen at the Nightlayer Leek Company, where he worked in Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, on September 26 2015.

Japanese diplomat who helped thousands of Jews flee Europe in the early years of World War II has been extended an economic lifeline by people in Japan, officials said Friday. The memorial museum in Lithuania's former capital recounts the story of Chiune Sugihara, who was a vice-consul diplomat based at the Japanese Consulate in Kaunas during 1939-1940.

UK was omitted from the country’s list of destinations for safe travel.

Do you have a coronavirus related story? Email [email protected] heading directly to the Republic of Ireland will have to self-isolate for 14 days after the UK was omitted from the country’s list of destinations for safe travel.The Irish Government revealed that travellers from 15 countries will not be subject to the fortnight rules on quarantine when arriving in the country.Malta, Finland, Norway, Italy, Hungary, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Cyprus, Slovakia, Greece, Greenland,

coronavirus pandemic - with European holiday destinations like Italy and Greece on the list.

Travis Scott has teased a forthcoming joint album with DJ Chase B, titled ‘Escapism’, on the latest episode of his show, .wav Radio.In addition to the album announcement, Scott and Chase B premiered a handful of tracks lifted from the record. The previews included two tracks featuring Big Sean, titled ‘Zen’ and ‘Lithuania’, in addition to collaborations with Don Toliver on the track ‘Cafeteria’ and ‘White Tee’ with Young Thug.

Travis Scott is making 2020 his year.

Rangers target Terem Moffi has indicated he would be open to a move this summer - but admits he'd prefer to go to France or Spain. The 21-year-old Nigerian has enhanced his burgeoning reputation with four goals for KV Kortrijk since his £150,000 move from Lithuanian side Riteria in January.

VILNIUS, Lithuania -- J.D. Salinger, the American writer best known for his 1951 novel “The Catcher in the Rye,” was honored Friday with a sculpture featuring a rye field near the Lithuanian village where his ancestors lived.

Snatch star Jason Flemyng was among Londoners cheering for Lithuanian opera singer Edgaras Montvidas as he gave an impromptu performance to raise money to support frontline NHS workers.

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Federation Entertainment has sold the fifth season of Eric Rochant’s hit espionage thriller series “The Bureau” to Germany’s Joyn Plus, the streaming service of ProSieben group.

The Vladimir Romanov era is remembered by Hearts fans for a multitude of reasons - many right and many wrong.

This weekend, a desert-based music festival, called Dawaran, will be welcoming party-goers with glamping, EDM tunes, food stalls and more. 

Former Hearts owner Vladimir Romanov has delivered a bizarre interview aboard his own personal submarine, claiming he came close to buying Liverpool while at the Tynecastle helm.