Fri 10 June 2022: Mark Ruffalo, an award-winning Hollywood actor, has signed a petition protesting PayPal’s refusal to give services to Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. “Paypal operates in Israel’s illegal settlements—but is refusing to provide service to Palestinians in Gaza and West Bank, in direct violation of UN guidelines,” the 54-year-old tweeted […]
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Muslims protesting outside Cineworld Bradford on Monday evening against the screening of the film. Sun 05 June 2022: In Blackburn, a demonstration was staged against a film that is believed to incite “Shia and Sunni tensions.” The Lady of Heaven is a British film directed by Eli King and written by cleric Yasser Al-Habib. Filming […]
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Thu 02 June 2022: The historical epic ‘Samrat Prithviraj’, which stars Akshay Kumar in the titular role, has been banned in Kuwait and Oman. The film tells the story of king Prithviraj Chauhan, who fought valiantly to protect India from the merciless invader Muhammad of Ghor. A senior trade source on conditions of anonymity said, […]
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Tue 31 May 2022: Iran on Monday rejected as “biased and political” last week’s award at Cannes for a film about a serial killer who targeted sex workers in an Iranian Shiite shrine city. Iranian Zar Amir Ebrahimi won the best actress award at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday for her performance in the […]
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Sat 28 May 2022: A film set in the working class suburbs of the northern French city of Boulogne-sur-Mer has won the top prize in the Un Certain Regard competition at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday. The Worst Ones, directed by Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret, explores the challenges of street casting, telling the story of […]
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Fri 27 May 2022: Superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan was today cleared of all charges in the drugs case over which he spent 22 days in a Mumbai jail last year. Shah Rukh Khan is “very relieved”, said senior lawyer Mukul Rohatgi, who represented Aryan Khan in court and secured bail for him. […]
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Thu 26 May 2022: Ray Liotta has passed away. The winner of the Emmy Award was 67 years old. Goodfellas actor died peacefully in his sleep in the Dominican Republic. He was engaged to Jacy Nittolo and father to Karsen Grace, 23, with his ex-wife Michelle Grace. He was best known for playing mobster Henry […]
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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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