Frontières, the genre-focused industry initiative, has named Annick Mahnert as its new executive director, following the recent departure of former chief Lindsay Peters. Mahnert will steer the org through its upcoming event, the International Co-Production Market, which will still take place July 23-26 but in a virtual form due to the global coronavirus disruption. The market
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Ricky Gervais has condemned celebrities “complaining” about being in isolation in the midst of the novel coronavirus pandemic. The 58-year-old comedian told U.K. tabloid the Sun on Monday that he “never wants to hear people moaning about nurses again” and commended front-line health-care workers who are part of the U.K.’s National Health Service (NHS). “These
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Sam Raimi has now officially confirmed that he’s directing Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, a horror-oriented sequel that will release on November 5, 2021. The sequel was originally set for release on May 7, 2021, but the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in production being pushed back and the release date being delayed. “I
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According to NHS statistics, postnatal depression affects more than one in 20 women within a year of giving birth. In Little Disasters, Sarah Vaughan takes on the unspoken, often stigmatised occurrence of postnatal depression and its potentially devastating effects. Liz Trenchard is senior registrar in paediatrics at St Joseph’s Hospital in West London. Pragmatic, no-nonsense,
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The Japanese guitarist, composer, and inventor Ryo Kawasaki has died, his daughter confirmed on Facebook. He was 73. Between pioneering the jazz fusion field in the 1960s and ’70s and issuing house music singles in the ’80s and ’90s, Kawasaki helped develop the earliest waves of guitar-synth technology alongside Korg and Roland. He also developed
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Newly unearthed audio recordings reveal how Bloomberg News spiked a 2013 corruption investigation into the Chinese Communist Party over fears it would damage the company’s rapport with the regime, attempting to silence its own journalist, Mike Forsythe, and his spouse through nondisclosure agreements. While Mike Bloomberg faced intense scrutiny during his ephemeral but expensive presidential
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Will Smith’s rarely seen first child Trey is a DJ and refreshingly not involved in the famous part of his dad’s life. SUBSCRIBE: http://po.st/TMZSubscribe About TMZ: TMZ has consistently been credited for breaking the biggest stories dominating the entertainment news landscape and changed the way the public gets their news. Regularly referenced by the media,
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It’s official: next week’s 18th episode of Empire’s sixth season, airing on April 21, will be the hip-hop family drama’s finale for the foreseeable feature, and quite possibly a series finale. In separate statements, Empire creators/executive producers Lee Daniels and Danny Strong addressed the abrupt ending of their show due to the coronavirus pandemic while
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Hand sanitizer stock, like that of kettlebells and toilet paper, has been pretty inconsistent since the pandemic hit. As stores quickly ran out of Purell, well-known luxury brands, like Aesop became the fallback for anyone who could afford the cost. Now, even the high-end fancy hand sanitizers are gone. These days, if you want hand
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Sadiq Khan may be the Mayor of London but behind the headlines and news briefings, his experience of the current pandemic isn’t dissimilar to ours. Like so many of us, Sadiq is adjusting to life working from home and trying to keep his mental health in check… all whilst doing an extraordinary job as our
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Cannes Film Festival finally has admitted that its 2020 edition, which had been moved from May to late June, won’t happen then either and is unlikely to go ahead “in its original form” due to the coronavirus outbreak. But that’s not the end of the matter. Organizers said today they still hope to salvage something
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