Mon 23 May 2022: While Netflix has acknowledged that it is rapidly losing paid members, data analytics firm Antenna has revealed that in the first quarter of this year, the subscription platform experienced 3.6 million cancellations in the US, its most mature region. Netflix lost nearly one million dollars in each of the first and […]
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Tue 10 May 2022: The Kashmir Files, a controversial film on the exodus of Hindus from the Kashmir Valley in the 1990s, has been banned by Singapore, which has cited concerns over its “potential to cause enmity between different communities”. The film has been assessed to be “beyond” Singapore’s film classification guidelines, news agency PTI […]
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Tue 10 May 2022: The famous 1964 silk-screen portrait of Marilyn Monroe by pop artist Andy Warhol has sold for $195 million, making it the most expensive 20th-century artwork ever sold at a public auction. Following her death in 1962, Warhol painted a series of portraits of the actress, including Shot Sage Blue Marilyn, which […]
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Sun 01 May 2022: Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie has arrived in Ukraine as the war continues in the region, according to the images shared on social media on Sunday. Jolie, a special envoy of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees — a UN agency mandated to aid and protect refugees – was seen visiting the […]
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Wed 20 April 2022: An award-winning film telling the story of the Turkish-German mother of a survivor of the US’ notorious Guantanamo Bay prison camp this month hit Turkish theaters as part of the Istanbul Film Festival. Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush tells the real story of a Turkish-German mother’s fight to get justice […]
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Tue 12 April 2022: The Indian film Beast, due to be released tomorrow, has been banned in Kuwait and Qatar after government disapproval of the film’s reportedly stereotyped depiction of Muslims as terrorists and a few dialogues against Pakistan. The Tamil-language film, described as an action-comedy starring Thalapathy Vijay and Pooja Hegde, features Vijay as a […]
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Mon 11 April 2022: The latest chapter in Hollywood star Johnny Depp’s legal battle with ex-wife Amber Heard kicks off on Monday as a US defamation trial begins over allegations Heard made about domestic abuse. Depp, 58, has sued Heard for $50 million, saying she defamed him when she penned a 2018 opinion piece in […]
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Sun 10 April 2022: Mimi Reinhardt, who drew up lists for German industrialist Oskar Schindler that helped save hundreds of Jews during the Holocaust in World War II, has died, according to the Times of Israel newspaper, citing her family. She was 107. Anadolu Agency reported that as Schindler’s secretary, Reinhardt was in charge of compiling names […]
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Sat 09 April 2022: Soap opera actress Kathryn Hays, who was known for her decades-long role as Kim Sullivan Hughes on As the World Turns, has died. She was 88. The actress, who also played a part in the hit series Star Trek, died on March 25 in Fairfield, Connecticut, according to TVLine. A cause of death has […]
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Sat 02 April 2022: Will Smith has resigned from the Academy after slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars – but what does that mean for the actor? The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) is the organisation that sets the nominations and ultimately decides the winners at the Oscars each year. There are […]
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